The recorder, or, Lady's and gentleman's miscellany (Richmond, Va.), 1802-03-27 00:00:00

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RESPECTFULLY informs his Friends, and the Public in general, that he continues to carry on the Clock and Watch-Making Business in Part of the House occupied by JAMES COLLETT, Breeches Maker, where all Orders from the Country will be punctually attended to.
A Variety of Watches, Watch Chains, Keys, Trinkets, &c.
CALEB WILLIAMS.
[Continued from our last.]
BUT I bear you no malice, and I will show you that I am more kind-hearted than you have been willing to believe. It is a strange sort of thing, a vagary you have taken, to stand in your own light, and disoblige all your friends. But if you are resolute to be of, do you see, I scorn to be the husband of a lass that is not every bit as willing as I; and so I will even help to put you in a condition to be free, and follow your own inclinations.
Emily listened to these suggestions at first with eagerness and approbation. But her fervency was somewhat abated, when they came to discuss the minute parts of the undertaking. It was necessary, as Grimes informed her, that her escape should be effected in the dead of the night. He would conceal himself for that purpose in the garden, and be provided with false keys by which to deliver her from her prison. These circumstances were by no means adapted to calm her perturbed imagination. To throw herself into the arms of the man, whose intercourse she was employing every method to avoid, and whom under the idea of a partner for life she could least of all men endure, was no doubt an extraordinary proceeding. The attendant circumstances of darkness and solitude aggravated the picture. The situation of Tyrrel Place was uncommonly lonely: it was three miles from the nearest village, and no less than seven miles from that in which Mrs. Jakeman's sister resided, into whose protection Miss Melville was desirous of throwing herself. The ingenuous character of Emily did not allow her to suspect Grimes of intending to make an ungenerous and brutal advantage of these circumstances: but her mind involuntarily revolted against the idea of committing herself alone to the disposal of a man whom she had lately been accustomed to consider as the instrument of her treacherous relation.
After having for some time revolved these considerations, she thought of the expedient of desiring Grimes to engage Mrs. Jakeman's sister to wait for her at the outside of the garden. But this Grimes peremptorily refused. He even flew into a passion at the proposal. It showed very little gratitude, to desire him to disclose to other people his concern in this dangerous affair. For his part he was determined in consideration of his own safety never to appear in it to any living soul. If Miss did not believe him, when he made this proposal out of pure good nature, and would not trust him a single inch, she might even see to the consequences herself. He was resolved to condescend no farther to the whims of a person who in her treatment of him had shown herself as proud as Lucifer himself.
Emily exerted herself to appease his resentment; but all the eloquence of her new confederate could not prevail upon her instantly to give up her objection. She desired till the next day to consider of it. The day after was fixed by Mr. Tyrrel for the marriage ceremony. In the mean time she was pestered with intimations in a thousand different forms of the fate that so nearly awaited her. The preparations were so continued, methodical and regular, as to produce in her the most painful and aching anxiety. Her heart attained a moment's intermission upon the subject, her female attendant was sure by some sly hint or farcical remark to put a speedy ter-
mination to her tranquillity. She felt herself, as she afterwards remarked, alone, uninstructed, just broken loose as it were from the trammels of infancy, without one single creature to concern himself in her fate. She, who till then had never known an enemy, had now for three weeks not seen the glimpse of a human countenance that she had not good reason to consider as wholly estranged to her. She now for the first time experienced the anguish of never having known her parents, and being cast entirely upon the charity of people with whom she had too little equality to hope to receive from them the dues of friendship.
The succeeding night was filled with the most anxious thoughts. When a momentary oblivion stole upon her senses, her distempered imagination conjured up a thousand images of violence and falsehood; she saw herself in the hands of her determined enemies, who did not hesitate by the most unremitting treachery to complete her ruin. Her waking thoughts were not more consoling. The struggle was too great for her constitution. As morning approached, she resolved at all hazards to put herself into the hands of Grimes. This determination was no sooner made, than she felt her heart sensibly lightened. She could not conceive of any purposes of injustice that might not be perpetrated by him with even more security at present than under any change of her situation.
When she communicated her determination to Grimes, it was not possible to say whether she received pleasure or pain from the intimation. He smiled indeed, but his smile was accompanied by a certain abrupt ruggedness of countenance, so that it might equally well be the smile of sarcasm or of congratulation. He however renewed his assurance of fidelity to his engagements and punctuality of execution. Meanwhile the day was interspersed with nuptial presents and preparations, all indicating the firmness as well as security of the directors of the scene. Emily had hoped that, as the crisis approached, they might have remitted something of their usual diligence. She was resolved in that case, if a fair opportunity had offered, to give the slip both to her jailors and to her new and half trusted confederate. But, though extremely vigilant for that purpose, she found the execution of this idea impracticable.
At length the night so critical to her happiness approached. The mind of Emily could not fail on this occasion to be extremely agitated. She had first exerted all her perspicacity to elude the vigilance of her attendant. This infolent and unfeeling tyrant, instead of any relentings, had only sought to make sport of her anxiety. Accordingly in one instance she hid herself, and, suffering Emily to suppose that the coast was clear, met her at the end of the gallery, near the top of the staircase. How do you do, my dear? said she, with an insulting tone. And so the little dear thought itself cunning enough to outwit me, did it? Oh, it was a sly little gipsy! Go, go back, love; troop! Emily felt deeply the trick that was played upon her. She sighed, but disdained to return any answer to this low vulgarity. Being once more in her chamber, she sat down in a chair, and remained buried in reverie for more than two hours. After this she went to her drawers; and turned over in a hurrying, confused way, her linen and clothes, having in her mind the provisions it would be necessary to make for her elopement.
(To be continued.)

RICHMOND.
SATURDAY, March 27th.
The trade between the United States and St. Domingo, except with Cape Francois and Port Republican, in that island, is for the present suspended.
WASHINGTON, March 20.
The French frigate Bayonnaile has arrived at Baltimore, the captain whereof came on Wednesday to this city. The Bayonnaile left St. Domingo 6 days later than our advices from Mr. Lear.
We learn that the French troops had met with no obstacles to their progress and that Christophe and Dessalines, the two chiefs subordinate to Toussaint, had been taken prisoners.
On the 17th of February, a cessation of hostilities was announced, which was to last for four days, when a general attack of the blacks was to take place throughout the whole extent of the island, unless the blacks submitted.
CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES.
House of Representatives
On the 5th inst. Mr. Thomas made the following
REPORT,
Which was ordered to lie on the table.
The Committee appointed to inquire into the expediency of extinguishing the claims of the United States, for certain balances, which, by the Commissioners appointed to settle the accounts between the United States and the individual States, were reported to be due from several of the States to the United States,
Report
That the following balances were, by the said commissioners, reported to be due from the states herein-after mentioned, to wit:—
   States Dols.     New-York 2,074,346   Pennsylvania 76,709   Delaware 612,428   Maryland 151,640   Virginia 100,879   North Carolina 501,082  
That as none of these states has evinced a disposition to pay any part of those balances, except the state of New-York, who has been credited on the books of the treasury for two hundred and twenty-two thousand, eight hundred and ten dollars, and six cents for money expended in erecting fortifications pursuant to an act of Congress passed the 5th, of Feb. '99 but as it would be unequal to ask a further payment from that state exclusively, and as it does not appear that any measure of coercion can ever be resorted to, a further continuance of the demands against those states, the justice and equity of which they do not admit, will in the opinion of the committee, answer no useful purpose; but on the contrary, is calculated to occasion perpetual irritation and disquiet, as well to the creditor as to the debtor states.
The committee are therefore of opinion, that it is expedient to extinguish the claims of the United States for those balances, and for that purpose report a bill, which is herewith submitted.
As usual, there has been a variety of business before the representatives; but nothing very remarkable. The following particulars appear worth notice.
On the 10th of March, the house of representatives passed a naturalization bill, yeas 50, nays 27. By this bill, a residence of five years only is made necessary to become a citizen of the United States.
On the 11th, Mr. Griswold moved the following resolution:
Resolved, That it is proper to make provision by law towards indemnifying the merchants of the United States for French spoliations, so far as claims for the same have been abandoned by the convention with France. Ordered to lie on the table. Mora in our next.
[In last week's paper, we stated in Remarks on the Speech of Governor Morris, that the positive and practical expence, of collecting the Revenue might be rated at forty per cent. In order to explain, this, and support our claim to accuracy, here follows an Extract from The Prospect &c. Vol 2d. which places the matter in a plain enough light. Instead of sixty six per cent and an half, we had stated only forty per cent; as it is impossible to speak on this head with absolute exactness, and desirable to avoid even the shadow of exaggeration.]
"It has, also, transpired that the expence of collecting the excise and stamp duties, and other internal revenues, exceeds twenty per cent, upon their whole amount. To this expence of twenty per cent, we must add four
per cent more, as the charge of raising the money which collected it.
This makes 24 pr. ct.
Probable rise in the price of the articles taxed, such as a carriage, or a loaf of refined sugar, over and above the real addition of excise, as formerly pointed out in the case of imposts, perhaps 24 do,
Total 48
To this add the hundred dollars actually raised 100
148
For the clear profit which would have been made upon this sum, by the people who pay it, if the money had remained in their hands, we shall estimate twelve and an half per cent. This is very moderate in a country, where the practical interest of money has, in millions of instances, been much higher.. 18 50
In-whole 166 50
Thus, it appears that the internal taxes have not merely been raised at an expence exceeding twenty per cent, but with a real loss to the country of sixty six per cent and an half! The subject does not admit of precision; but those articles of this computation which are purely conjectural, have been stated upon a very moderate scale. For instance, nobody will say that twelve and an half per cent, is an exorbitant or incredible rate of profit, when we see so many men of punctuality who are willing to borrow cash at ten per cent, and when we know, with absolute certainty, that sixty per cent has frequently been paid. In the midst of such deplorable performances, when every hundred dollars of excise are collected at an additional charge of sixty-six dollars and an half, when every shilling is to cost a secondary damage of at least eight pence, it would certainly be most ridiculous to murmur even at the desperate eight per cent loan." Thus far The Prospect .
A summary of the value of the Exports of the United States, from the first of October, 1800, to 1801.
   From New-Hampshire, 555,035   Vermont, 57,267   Massachusetts, 248,705,556   Rhode-Island, 1,832,773   Connecticut, 1,446,216   New-York, 19,851,126   New Jersey, 23,400   Pennsylvania, 27,438,103   Delaware, 662,042   Maryland, 12,834,543   Virginia, 6,483,028   North Carolina, 874,814   South Carolina 14,304,045   Georgia, 1,755,939   Tennessee, 29,430  
Dollars—93,020,813
It appears highly important that the people of the United States of America, and those of in Europe who have property or business here, should attend to the wonderful display of our resources and prosperity, in the official return of the exports of the United States, of the 10th of February, 1802. That report contains the exportations during twelve months, ending on the 30th, September 1801. It exceeds 93,000,000 of dollars, or nearly the sum of 21,000,000 of pounds sterling. The cotton alone is nearly 21,000,000 of pounds weight, though we did not ship a bag of our own cotton at the end of our revolutionary war! Our flour is increased to 1,100,000, bbls. our tobacco 133,000 hds. our Indian corn 1,768,000 bushels, our lumber 200,000,000 of pieces and feet, our beef and pork 146,000 barrels; the bacon, butter, cheese, lard, and candles, above 10,000,000 pounds weight. The most astonishing circumstances are the vast quantity of cotton, and the total amount of the return.
(From the BOSTON TELEGRAPHER, of March 10th.)
MELANCHOLY!
Particulars of the loss of the ships Ulysses , Brutus , and Volusia , all of Salem, obtained from Mr. BLAIR, an officer on board the Ulysses , and who arrived in Salem on Saturday last, from Cape Cod.
"THE weather was remarkably fine, and the wind favorable, on Sunday, February 21st, when the ships sailed from Salem; the two former destined for Bourdeaux, and the latter for the Mediterranean. At sun setting, Cape Ann lighthouse bore N. N. W. 3 or 4 leagues distant, the wind at this time was S. E. a breeze, and all the ships stood to the E. N. E. in company; the ships about this time spoke each other, and upon a consultation between all the captains, it was finally concluded best not to return to Salem, but push out to sea as fast as possible; they therefore stood to the eastward, but made very little progress, as the winds were flattening, and at times, it was nearly calm: Soon after midnight, the weather grew very threatening, and it was found
there was no chance of putting back. At half past 2 o'clock A. M. (Monday morning) the wind veered to the N. E. and it snowed fast, so that the ships could hardly discern each other; and at this time, the ship Volusia separated from the other two. At half past 3 o'clock, capt. Brown spoke capt. James Cook, and it was agreed, as the safest plan, to tack ship to the N. N. W. till day-break, and then endeavour to run out of the South Channel. By 6 o'clock the gale blew excessive hard from N. E. and E. N. E. and the sea run very high; the Brutus now wore ship, and stood to the S. E. under a heavy press of sail; but the Ulysses stood on towards Cape Ann till 1 o'clock, and then wore round, and stood out of the bay, carrying all the time as much sail as the ship could possibly carry. The storm continued with increased violence, and the ships were obliged to reduce their sail in the afternoon. At 3 o'clock, capt. Cook, of the Ulysses , thought he saw the high land of Cape Cod, and immediately wore ship to the westward; the wind was now blowing a furious gale; the weather was dark and gloomy, and the ship could only carry her fore-sail and mizen-top-sails, and they expected every moment to go on shore. One of their anchors was washed away from the bows, and it took them more than an hour to heave it up. At ten o'clock in the evening, the Ulysses struck the bar on the Northern pitch of Cape Cod, and thumped very hard; the violence and force of the winds and waves soon carried away the bowsprit and fore-mast, and these were soon followed by the loss of the mainmast and mizenmast, the boats and every thing upon deck; the crew fled to the cabin for protection; the ship only lay upon the bar a few minutes, drifted over, and soon struck the main gore; here they remained in the ship all night, in the greatest anxiety and distress, expecting every moment would be their last, as the ship bilged, and filled with water, which came over the cabin floor; they fortunately however, remained by the wreck till morning, when the tide left the ship, and they all got on shore, and soon got assistance from some of the inhabitants of Province Town. With respect to the fate of the Brutus , and the unfortunate capt. Brown and his crew, it appears from the best accounts we can collect, that the ship struck about 8 o'clock in the evening, at a place about 2 miles on this side of the lighthouse; she remained some time on the bar, and they lightened her by throwing overboard a large quantity of coffee, when she beat over, and soon afterwards run upon the main beach. Capt. Brown cut away the mizenmast, and next the mainmast; here a dreadful and distressing scene presented, the ship parted in two, and the crew were driven to the hard necessity of getting on shore as well as they could. Fortunately, the mainmast fell on shore, and afforded a sort of ladder, upon which there was a chance of saving their lives. The intrepid capt. Brown offered to lead, and was the first man who got on shore; the two mates followed, and next the men, and all but one got on shore in safety (one man had previously fallen from the fore yard, while reeling the fore-sail, and was instantly killed by the fall.) Finding themselves in a most distressing situation, being cold and wet, and almost exhausted, it was necessary to take some immediate steps for their preservation; and they determined to keep in a body, and if possible to cross the neck of land. Capt. Brown happened to be very thinly clad, having lost a comfortable garment which he held in his hand at the very moment he was leaving the ship, and he soon failed in his strength. Mr. Ruee and the hands assisted as much as they were able, but it was to no purpose; he, however, succeeded so far as to get over to the Western side of the Bay, and there perished, at a place about one mile from Province Town, and between that and Truro: and had the party happened to have varied their course a little to the right or left, it is more than probable that the greater number might have been saved, as they must have come into one of these towns. By this time, which was towards midnight, most of the people began to give out: Mr. Jacob Ayers, the 2d. mate, a very worthy and promising young man, perished: and soon after several of the crew shared the same fate. They kept travelling about; and knew not whither they went, till about 4 o'clock in the morning of Tuesday, they espied the lighthouse; having wandered upwards of 20 miles backwards and forwards in the course of the night; the party was now reduced to five persons only; exhausted and worn down with fatigue, almost frozen to death, they were just enabled to reach a small house, situated in the neighbourhood of the lighthouse, where the inhabitants humanely afforded them every assistance. The fortunate survivors are,
Mr. Thomas Ruee 1st. mate Joseph Phippen, jun. William Rowell, Robert Martin, of Salem; Daniel Potter, of Marblehead.
The bodies of all the deceased people were found the next day, and all decently interred. Capt. Brown was buried at Province Town, and the others at Truro, to which respective places they happened to be nearest.
The schooner John, Harrison , from New-York bound to New-Orleans, missing since the storm of the 22d. ult. is wrecked on Shoal-Harbor, near Middletown, and every foul
which was on board perished. Mr. David Morris (the pilot) and Captain Harrison were found dead on the beach, and another man in the hold. Her foretop-sail, fore-top-gal-lent-sail, main-stay-sail, and two pipes of wine, were found on the beach. It is presumed, that Mr. Morris and the Captain made an attempt to swim on shore, as a twenty dollar note was found in one of Capt. Harrison's socks.
Some time ago there was the highest wind experienced in the town of Augusta, New Hampshire, that the oldest inhabitant ever remembered. It carried with it devastation and destruction, and blew down 17 houses and barns. In the height of one of those hurricanes, the house of Mr. Ephraim Trickey took fire and was entirely consumed, with all his furniture, beds, bedding, and contents, including above 200 bushels of corn, provisions, &c. &c. By this singular and affecting Providence, this once affluent family is reduced to a state of extreme poverty and distress.
PORTSMOUTH, N. H. March 2.
THE STORM.
On Thursday last, the snow began to come down; on Friday it fell in amazing quantities, and by Saturday morning the streets, roads, &c. were nearly impassable. The oldest person in this town has no recollection of so large a body of snow, at any other period. It is nearly 3 feet on a level, and the drifts are from 6 to ten feet depth. The air has felt ever since, as if pregnant by additional snow. Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, we have had more or less, and appearances indicate another heavy storm. The wind blew strong at due east. The swell of the sea was prodigious, and we anticipated melancholy news from the eastern coasts and elsewhere, of shipwreck, loss of lives, &c. The winter of 1755 which preceded the great earthquake, was precisely the same as the present. May the event of providence make a due impression on the serious minds, and prepare us to meet the dispensations of the sovereign will of Heaven,
From the KENTUCKY GUARDIAN.
March 2d.
Sunday evening last, Mr. Griffith (who went some time since to New Orleans) returned to this place, having lost his boat on an island, a short distance above Louisville. Mr. Griffith reports that several boats are stated to have been lost the evening before his was stove, in a heavy gale of wind. Some day last week, a boat loaded with flour, funk, a few miles below this place. By the timely assistance of Mr. Samuel Price, (near whose plantation the accident happened) and the hands on his farm, the cargo was saved; the boat raised, re-loaded, and has proceeded on her voyage. Nothing can more strongly urge the necessity of getting boats insured, than the many and severe losses which adventurers daily sustain.
A letter from Canton to a gentleman in Providence, received by the Lovely Lats , mentions, that in September last the Chinese sea was visited by a typhoon, which occasioned the loss of many junks and fishing boats; the severity of the gale produced an inundation of the low lands, and it was computed that two thousand natives had perished on shore, and eight thousand at sea.
LEXINGTON, (Virginia.)
Wednesday, March 10.
On Wednesday morning the 3d. inst. about three o'clock, this town was alarmed with the cry of FIRE, which proved to be in the Court-house. That building was so far gone, it was impossible to save it. However, through the active and praiseworthy exertions of the citizens, together with the calmness of the night, the flames were prevented from spreading. We cannot hazard an opinion how this house caught; people have different conjectures on the subject.
The fire at Princeton College, mentioned in our last, consumed The College Library and the active of two Literary Societies in the College; the Orrery of Rittenhouse, and the furniture, books, and cloathing of at least half the students of the college, were lost. The Philosophical Apparatus's were saved, it was thought, with little loss; with the house of the Steward, tho' near the College, and in the direction of the flames.
A Mr. Caleb Blake, who possessed about 5000 dollars worth of property, lately hanged himself, in the Province of Maine, for fear of coming to Want.
At Portsmouth, (New Hampshire) before the supreme court, Timothy Call has been convicted of knowingly passing counterfeit Boston Branch Bank Bills of 20 and 5 dollars. Sentence, a fine of 300 dollars and 6 months imprisonment.
The Chemical Society of Philadelphia have offered a medal, to cost 50 dollars, for the

best specimen of clay found in the United States, and fit for the manufacture of potter's ware. It must be superior to that of which common imported queen's ware is made, well situated, and such as can be found in considerable quantity.
The following two articles are copied from a late Philadelphia newspaper.
On Friday night last, a poor washer-woman returning home with ten dollars which she had received, was knocked down and robbed of her hard earned pittance by some villains in the Northern Liberties—And on Saturday night last, about half past 3 o'clock, as Robert Hennie, a shoemaker, who lives in South street, near twelfth, was returning home, he was attacked in Pine street, a little below Pennsylvania hospital, by ruffians, who, with horrid imprecations, commanded him to stand and deliver his money; he answered that he was a poor man, and had little money, but what little he had he would give them willingly, at the same time begging they would not use him ill;—at this instant he received a blow in the face from one of them, and at the same time two of the others struck him with bludgeons from behind, which brought him to the ground; they afterwards gave him several violent kicks on the face and body, and then proceeded to rifle his pockets, from which they took 2 dollars and 7 or 8 cents; with this they retired.
On Friday night, between 10 and 11 o'clock, the following singular occurrence took place in a house in this city—All the family, except a young gentleman and a little girl, had retired to rest; the fire being nearly exhausted, the young gentleman went to the cellar, accompanied by the girl, to split some wood to rebuild it—When in the act, the little girl remarked that she heard somebody at the outside cellar door. The gentleman disregarded her, until he himself heard the door open and the footsteps of a person coming down the cellar stairs, inside of the house, upon which he advanced with the axe in his hand, and there met a man without his hat; with the axe elevated, he demanded the stranger to give an account of himself, and what was his object. The stranger immediately made a catch at the axe and roared out murder! A scuffle ensued, in which, after many severe blows, the intruder succeeded in getting the axe from the gentleman of the house, with which he levelled a desperate blow at his antagonist, which fortunately was averted, the handle only striking the gentleman. This, however, had the effect to stun him, and gave the stranger an opportunity to run out into the street, hallowing as he run, murder! murder! His adversary, however, soon recovering from the blow, made out into the street, and pursued him with the cry of stop thief! In this manner they were both arrested by the watch, and conducted to an Alderman, to whom the gentleman of the house stated the facts as they occurred. The convicted intruder was on the point of being committed, when the master of the house in which the occurrence had taken place, having got out of bed and dressed himself, made his appearance at the Alderman's: To the astonishment of all parties, the gentleman immediately recognized the supposed thief, who proved to be a gentleman lodger in a neighbouring house, and who stated, that he thought he had entered his own house, and observing that the family had gone to bed, he was proceeding to the kitchen to take of his boots, when he met the person with the axe, whom he supposed to be a robber! Each, therefore, thinking the other the intruder, acted as had been stated. Ecclaircissement took place, and the parties returned home to attend to the wounds they had respectively received in the contest.
LATELY MARRIED in New Kent, county, Michael Sherman, aged NINETY-SEVEN YEARS and FOUR DAYS, to the amiable and accomplished Miss Eliza Poindexter, aged FOURTEEN.
ENCOURAGEMENT TO FEDERAL PRINTERS. The Castine Journal, the New London Oracle, the Walpole Farmer's Museum, the New Providence Journal, and the Amberst Village Messenger, five federal papers printed in New England, have been recently discontinued for want of sufficient support! A number more of the same stamp might still be spared without any injury to the public. (N. H. Republican.)
COMPENDIUM OF THE COMMERCE, SHIPPING, AND FINANCES OF GREAT BRITAIN, 1801.
Commerce and Shipping. The real value of imports into Great Britain, in the year ending the 5th of January, 1801, was £ 54,500,000
The real value of British manufactures exported in the year ending the 5th of January, 1801, was £ 39,500,000 The real value of foreign merchandise exported in the year ending the 5th of January, 1801, was £ 16,300,000 Total value of exports £ 55,800,000
Registered vessels belonging to the British dominions and employed in trade in the year ending the 5th of January, 1801, were in number 18,877
Tonnage of ditto 1,905,438
Men employed in ditto 143,661
An account of the value of Imports and Exports of Great Britain, taken at four different periods between the 5th of January 1793, and the 5th of January 1801.
Table with 3 columns: Date, Imports, Exports. Rows for years 1793, 1795, 1797, 1801.
It will appear on inspection of the above account that the value of imports has increased within the last eight years in an almost threefold degree, and the value of exports in a rather increased proportion; consequently the commerce and manufactures of Great Britain, have, by the very means intended to crush them, acquired additional energy.
Finance. The total sum to be raised in Great Britain for the service of the year 1801, is estimated at £ 68,923,970
Table with 3 columns: Item, Amount, Rate of Interest. Includes taxes, repayments, interest on land tax, surplus of ways and means, etc.
Table with 3 columns: Dates, Loans, Rate of Interest. Includes loans from 1793 to 1801, funded debt, unfunded debt.
NOTES ON THE ABOVE. From the accumulation of profit, which this table might seem to evince, several exceptions might be made: 1st, the imports and * Borrowed from the bank of England for six years; without interest, for the renewal of their charter. † For Great Britain. ‡ For Ireland.
the exports for the use of fleets and armies, which afford no profit, but are substantial losses to a nation. 2d. Goods imported for a market, warehoused and re-exported, leaving only a remnant of the duty behind. 3d. Neutral property carried in as prize, and exported on acquittal. 4th. Exports to the British colony, which cannot be called exports to foreign countries.
On the other hand, as a part of the profit made in the colonies, and by British subjects in foreign countries, annually finds its way to the mother country and settles there, the imports compared with the exports may be considered as magnified, when the balance of trade is estimated from the comparison.
According to the statement of the secretary of the treasury, made in pursuance of a standing order of the house of representatives, the amount of duties and drawbacks on goods, wares and merchandise, imported into the United States and exported therefrom, is as follows:
Table with 2 columns: Year, Dollars. Rows for 1798, 1799, 1800.
The statement of the particular articles upon which duties have been received, and for the exportation of which the drawbacks have been paid is too long for insertion.
TO THE FREEHOLDERS OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND.
FELLOW CITIZENS, I HAVE this day, and not until this day, determined to become a candidate for a seat in the Legislature of this Commonwealth, at the next election to be held for the City of Richmond. In forming this determination, I am not conscious of being under the influence, or any motive but a will to render service, as far as I am able, to my country and to you.
Whether this wish, will ever be realized, even to a small extent, is a question, which time only can decide. I can promise nothing but fidelity and attention. It is certain, however, that a period more favorable, for the regulation of our domestic policy, has never occurred. The political contests which have agitated America, engrossed for several years, a large portion of the time and attention, of our General Assembly. These causes have at length ceased to operate. Peace and harmony have returned; but how long they will remain with us, no man can tell. We should avail ourselves, therefore, of the present moment, to prepare, and to adopt such measures, as are best calculated, to "establish justice" to insure the tranquility and to promote the general welfare of the state. To the attainment of these important objects I am willing to contribute, my mite of service.
The publication of a political creed will not, I presume, be expected. My opinions on the great questions, which have been discussed, in the United States, it is probable, are well known. Some of them are in print; to all, I have little doubt, that I shall adhere, through life. The declaration, which I now make, would not have been delayed so long, had I not been under some embarrassment, from causes which, until this day, I did not conceive to be completely removed. With a detail of these causes, it is unnecessary to trouble you. An explanation of them will be found by those, who think them worth knowing, in two letters of this date, from Mr. Smith and Mr. Rind. These letters are in the hands of Dr. J. Poffner.
It is usual for men, who are candidates for the General Assembly, to seek by personal attentions, the favor of those who are to vote. I mean not, absolutely, to condemn this practice. There are times, at which, it may be justified; and there are men, whose situation may render it proper. My purpose is, only to excuse myself, by shewing the necessity for my seclusion and retirement. The Chancery Court is now in session. The district court of Richmond, commences on the first day of next month, and is followed by the Court of Appeals, on the tenth, the district court of Petersburg, on the fifteenth, and the federal court on the twenty-fifth. It will be at once perceived, that preparations for these Courts and actual attendance on them, will leave but a small portion of leisure. If any person shall be of opinion, that in pursuing the system which is here marked out, and which it is my duty to observe, I am influenced by any sentiment originating in a want of affection or respect for the people, he will do me great injustice. But for this error, there is no immediate remedy: time alone can remove it; and time will remove it.
GEORGE HAY. March 18, 1802.
MORE ABOUT THE POST OFFICE.
IN the "Recorder" of the 6th instant, there appeared some remarks on a letter from Mr. Granger, postmaster general, to Mr. Hobby postmaster of Augusta. We therein observed, what indeed required no great sagacity to discover, that Mr. Granger betrayed a disposition to keep up old quarrels. He went out of his way to attack the personal characters of the late administration. Whether these were good or bad, Mr. Granger had no occasion, pretence for thrusting them into his epistle about the dismission of a postmaster. This democrat of Connecticut represented it as improper in Mr. Hobby to have corresponded upon political subjects, with men holding the reins of government. He did not consider them as fit to be trusted with an office under the new administration. In fact, Mr. Granger's doctrine, when pushed to its proper length, amounted to an absolute extinction of the post office. For, if it was criminal in Hobby to correspond with Adams, or Pickering, it was as much so in every other man. We have looked into the post office laws; and we do not find an obligation upon postmasters that they shall not correspond with presidents, or with any body else, upon whatever topics they chuse.
We should not have taken any farther notice of this matter, if it had not been revived by some friend to the post-master general, in one of the late numbers of the National Intelligencer. For this reason, we have resolved to go quite through with the subject.
This letter exhibits a glorious evidence of Granger's attachment to the liberty of the press, about which the republican party have made such a racket! What would Granger have said, two years ago, if he had been turned out of a New England post office, upon the suspicion of his writing letters to Mr. Gallatin? Would not Mr. Adams have been upbraided, in all the democratic newspapers, as worse than a Portuguese inquisitor? Yes! and with some justice, if he had been privy to such a transaction. The sedition act itself, that pitch-pipe of republican indignation, did not extend its talons to private correspondence. Colonel Lyon sent a private letter, which was printed without his knowledge, or intention; and for this, and other crimes of equal magnitude, a member of congress, a man who had served his country, in the last war, a man who had eminently promoted the manufactures of Vermont, was dismissed to a residence of four winter months in a necessary. So much, by the bye, for the independence of a federal judge! But if the colonel's letter had never been published, then he could not have been tried. He could not have had the merit of preventing his constituents from knocking down his jail.
On this ground we affirm that the doctrine of Granger trenches farther upon the freedom of the press than the sedition act ever did. If this republican could arrange circumstances to his wish, if he could persuade or inflame the public to the guilt and madness of the French war trumpeters of ninety-eight, his own expressions prove that we should soon see something much worse than a second sedition act. All persons filling public offices would be directed, under pain of dismission, and perhaps of prosecution, to send their letters, before sealing them, to a board of censors, Take the words of Mr. Granger himself, and then judge if they are distorted:
"Knowing as I did," says he, "that most of the officers under me, from their official stations, had been in the habits of associating and corresponding, as well on policies as on business," &c.—We have formerly printed the passage at full length. On account of this association and correspondence, our present monarch of the post office thinks it necessary to discharge all such culprits "to preserve and maintain confidence in the department." Here is a much more complete and degrading system of intellectual despotism than any thing that was ever thought of by the federal party. And so every new president is to turn out every man that has held an office under his predecessor, for the doctrine amounts to that! A man is not to associate or correspond with his friends, or patrons, upon any subject but what shall be agreeable to the administration, that comes next after that for the time being.
The answer of Mr. Hobby to this part of his indictment has these words:
* William Patterson.

I have heard indeed, the late administration proscribed as a political sect unworthy of public esteem; I now hear it intimated, that to have associated or corresponded with them was improper; and hereafter perhaps, we may be told that it is unjust to live in the same country with them, or suffer them to live in the same country with those, who claim the merit of enjoying exclusively the public confidence. If it was unwarrantable to associate or correspond with the officers of the late administration, it must be equally unwarrantable to associate or correspond with those of the present; and then the heads of departments in the true stile of eastern despotism, secluded from an intercourse with the people over whom they preside, may consider their own opinions as the standard of perfection, may require servile submission to their wills, and may finally proceed to assert, with a high officer of the United States, that any 'disrespect' towards them, or any deviation from the principles they establish, constitutes 'treason and rebellion' against the government."
Mr. Granger says to Mr. Hobby, You are the printer of a newspaper. The latter answers, "I am not, nor was I ever the printer of a paper; nor am I, or was I ever interested in a printing office." It since appears that this is really the case. Hence, the actual crime of Mr. Hobby was that of associating and corresponding with his friends.
Mr. Granger also gives this important information, that "the printers of newspapers ought not to be employed as post-masters, because they have a special interest in suppressing for a time the intelligence forwarded to rival printers, which generates suspicions, mutual recriminations, and party bickerings, unfriendly to social intercourse and civil order. And because they have an uncommon interest in being the right of franking to an extent never contemplated by law, if not, to the destruction of a fellow craftsman. I have therefore refused to appoint a republican printer post-master in every instance where applications have been made, although they have neither been few, nor badly supported."
This part of the letter is rather shallow. If one of the news-printers of Norfolk or Baltimore wishes to get the start of his brethren, and if he does not hold the post office himself, it is still in his power to attempt the purchase of the partiality of the post-master. If he is an honest and honorable man, his probity will not be extinguished by holding this place himself. And the other person, that actually holds it, is quite as likely to be disposed to sell his conscience, as the printer is to be disposed to buy it. You will not employ a republican printer, as post-master; but you take a violent republican, a person that is of course disposed to prefer the printer of his own political party to the printers that oppose it. This comes to much the same thing. If the republican printer himself has not so much influence with the post-master, he can get others of his own opinion to support his applications. Mr. Granger makes a parade about the adoption of this principle of impartiality. That part of his letter we are sorry at being compelled to consider as a piece of gross quackery. He had just before told us that he was to expect every post-master, whose private society and confidential correspondence he did not like, for that the proper extent of his idea. Yet here Mr. Granger is afraid of republicans. A post-master must in future be a sort of neutralized being, a mere caput mortuum , in the scale of life. For, Mr. Hobby shall be turned out, because you are the friend of Mr. Adams. And you, Mr. republican printer, shall not get in, because you are the friend of Mr. Jefferson. Pish!
The republican printers are not much obliged to Mr. Granger for the side wind compliment that he so politely pays them. Before this Novus homo is well warmed in his seat, he takes leave to tell the world that he regards them as hardly, if at all, better than rascals. You are not fit to be trusted, gentlemen!
You are not fit to be trusted with an office, which, in ten, or perhaps twenty cases to one, is not worth an hundred dollars a year! If this be not a faithful version of Mr. Granger's text, the reader has the original before him. Translate for yourself. We are much at a loss to know what Mr. Granger means when he says that a printer if post-master, may convert his privilege of franking to the destruction of a fellow craftsman.
It was to the talents and exertions of republican printers that Mr. Granger became very much indebted for his present office. All other sorts of influence cannot make the best man president, if the whole presses of America have been, for four years, embattled against him. So harsh a reflection, therefore, was at least ungracious, if not ungrateful.
But if republican printers are so formidable to the freedom of the press, federal printers are quite as much so. And upon Mr. Granger's own principle, for we do not profess it as ours, we should be glad to hear why this work of reformation did not begin thirteen months ago? Why was not Mr. Hobby, as well as all other federal post-masters, discharged in March eighteen hundred and one? If the measure is proper now, it was quite as proper then? Very numerous complaints had, for years past, been made against that establishment. Whole bagfuls of letters had been broke up, read, and burnt, on the score of politicks. The Aurora, the Examiner, the Bee, and other newspapers of that stamp, had met with the worst reception. It has recently been proved in one of the courts of this state that the Aurora had, for a considerable time, been regularly stop't by one of the country post-masters, and sold as waste paper! We had this fact from the plaintiff. As the highest pitch of audacity, a letter to one of the republican printers of New England, was not only intercepted but printed, with impunity and with triumph. We must again ask Mr. Granger for what good reason the becom of reformation was so long kept idle, when such flagrant offenders came bolt upright in its way? In England, these fellows would most infallibly have been hanged.
But such examples of justice bear no resemblance to the proscription marked out by Mr. Granger. His doctrine stands in direct opposition to the wishes of the president. Mr. Jefferson has embraced all opportunities of declaring that he shall discharge no person from an employment, on account of his political sentiments. One reason for the present examination of this subject was to vindicate the president from the charge of being concerned with this post office project.
When the king of Ithaca gave battle to the suitors of his wife, he addressed them in these words: Days! To have had your day! This was not very polite; but the language of Ulysses is at least intelligible and manly; and, to the generous mind, the mantle of courage and frankness can, at all times, cover a multitude of faults. In the case of Mr. Hobby, Mr. Granger had no call to write a letter of more than ten words.* But, if his pity condescended to illuminate the slave-holding states with the radiance of Connecticut elocution, he should have assumed somewhat of the
NOTES. * Just before the commencement of the American war, Mr. Fox and Lord North disagreed in the cabinet, and Mr. Fox had his dismissal by a letter in these terms. "Sir, his majesty has made out a new list of the commissioners of the treasury; and I do not observe your name on it."
FREDERICK NORTH.
† In congress, this unfortunate circumstance has often afforded a favorite theme for the exhibition of New England eloquence. It is the fixed and professed opinion of such orators, that a slave-holder is not fit to be the citizen of a republic. To be sure, a great number of the people of New England condemn such things; but the party that likes them is also very numerous. On this head the New England newspapers abound, at this very day, with ungenerous aspersions.
consiscens and simplicity of Homer's hero. He might have addressed the gentleman UNDER ME† in something like the following terms: "You know very well that Mr. Adams put out of office every person whom he suspected as the friend of Mr. Jefferson. The wheel of popularity has turned round, and we are going to serve you, as your party formerly served us. Although not the printer of a newspaper, you have been considered as the dictator of its attacks upon us; and you cannot suppose that we shall patronize our enemies." A letter like this, if not distinguished by prudence, might at least have claimed the merit of firmness and sincerity.
The Washington Intelligencer has an article signed a subscriber, wherein Mr. Hobby's letter is termed insolent . Annexed is an extract of a letter from Georgia, which gives an account of the post-master's interference with the publication of the Augusta Herald. Upon some occasion, Mr. Hobby prevented the insertion of a piece in defence of Mr. Jefferson. After this behaviour, he certainly did and must have expected his discharge. In such a case, Mr. Adams would have seen it back by the return of post. And if Mr. Granger had told Hobby so, there was nothing more to be said. But when we see the supposed contents of private and confidential correspondence objected as a crime, when we see the whole band of republican printers arraigned in the lump, we cannot help reminding Mr. Granger that he had much better let such matters alone; and that if Mr. Jefferson could have foreseen such official pertinacity, Mr. Granger would certainly have remained below stairs .
When Mr. Jefferson succeeded, as president, we had been prepared to hear much calumny and abuse against him. This was a thing to be expected from either side, in case of the defeat of their favorite champion. Such a remark implies no particular censure of the federal party. But there was one accusation which we had not expected to hear, and which made prodigious noise. This refers to Mr. Jefferson's dismissal of certain federal officers. Mr. Adams had carried that matter as far as it would go. Hence, we did not conceive that it came within the compass of human effrontery to complain of such conduct in Mr. Jefferson. We did not imagine that the party would pretend to complain of being served, as the phrase is, with a sip of their own sauce. After all, Mr. Jefferson has done very little in this way; when compared with his predecessor. We should least of all have suspected that the discharge of Mr. Habsberham was to furnish matter of complaint. On the contrary, it was regarded as a very serious grievance that the new president suffered him to continue in office for so many months as he did, after his own promotion. This post-master general had conducted business most wretchedly. It was demonstrable that either he could not, or would not perform his duty. So standing the case, the public are still to learn for what reason he was not discharged instantly upon the accession of Mr. Jefferson. The motives for so much forbearance on the president's part are possibly satisfactory; but they are as yet unknown. We are sorry that the successor of Mr. Habsberham has, in one instance, made so pitiful an outlet. A republican post-master will never gain much honor by disparaging republican printers. Forgetfulness of past favours has always been regarded as a feature of the deepest depravity. In the case before us, most of the republican printers have been of ten times more service and some of them of ten thousand times more service, than Mr. Granger himself. Before his late appointment the world knew nothing about him, but as an unsuccessful candidate for a Connecticut seat in congress. The time has lately been, when republican printers were flattered and courted by members of the present administration; and the period is fast approaching, when they will be flattered and courted a second time.
† Vid. Mr. Granger's letter to Mr. Hobby.
MARENGO, OR, THE CAMPAIGN OF ITALY;
[Continued from No. 56.]
THE activity of all these movements gave to the French army what may be properly considered the initiative, which the genius of Buonaparte knew how to profit by.
The army came to its position before Tortona in columns, by division. The advanced guard quietly surrounded the town. The day passed without any remarkable occurrence. We only learnt, that for certainty the enemy's army had arrived from Genoa, and that its head quarters were at Alexandria.
XXII. Preparations for a General Battle.
On the morning of the 24th Prairial (June 13th), the army quitted its position in the camp of Tortona, and marched towards Alexandria. The advanced guard halted at San Juliano, for the coming up of the army. As soon as it had arrived, the whole army moved on into the plain, in order of battle. All the cavalry marched in a body. We found the enemy at the bridge of the Bormida, whence a feeble attempt was made to dislodge him. Our dispositions sufficiently shewed that we intended to offer him battle; but whether from an irresolution in Melas, whether all his forces were not arrived from Genoa, or that he was not sufficiently satisfied as to our own strength and means, he refused the challenge.
The Consul, with his horse guards, and pieces of light artillery, skirted Marengo. We saw him almost the whole time, at a distance from us, traversing the plain, examining the terrain with attention, by turns profoundly meditating, and giving orders.
The day began to close in, and we had been on horseback from the moment it broke. We had also been soaked to the skin, for none of us, the Consul not excepted, had put on a cloak. We were often obliged to set foot to the ground to stretch and revive our limbs, which had been benumbed by the wet and the uncommon cold.
We were joined by several deserters, and some scattered prisoners which had been taken; among others, an officer of Bussy's legion, wearing the cross of St. Louis. The General questioned them with considerable earnestness. All the prisoners were astonished, when informed that the person they had just been speaking with was Buonaparte.
We passed the night at San Juliano, without disquieting ourselves concerning the morrow.
XXIII. Battle of Marengo.
The 25th (June 14) commenced, and some discharges of cannon by the advanced guard, soon drove away our sleep. All was in readiness presently, and our breakfast was concluded as speedily as had been our supper the over-night. My post was very near the Consul, which highly gratified my desire to see and learn. I can, therefore, assure the reader that I have faithfully retained that which I saw, and that which I learnt on this signal occasion.
At eight o'clock in the morning, the enemy had manifested much vigour of preparations. He touched upon a few weak points, and made certain dispositions in consequence; but his intentions were not fully known at the head-quarters till towards the latter part of the morning. Berthier was the first upon the field of battle. Till this time the various Aides-de-camp had relieved each other in apprising the Consul of the enemy's steps. Numerous wounded soldiers arriving, acquainted us that the Austrians were in force.
* A hamlet of three farms, a league from Tortona, situated at the entrance of the plain of Marengo. The Consul, and the thousand men of the guard, the general staff of the army, and its enormous suite were heaped together in this place, which, the day after, served as the place of ambulance.
To be continued.