Norfolk gazette and publick ledger (Norfolk [Va.]), 1809-03-24 00:00:00

NORFOLK GAZETTE AND PUBLICK LEDGER.  SINT HIC ETIAM SUA PRÆMIA LAUDIS
[VOL. V.]
FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH 24, 1809.
NO. 101.]
For CHARTER. The Fine Copper Fastened Ship POCAHONTAS, Christopher Tompkins, Master; burthen 380 tons or 430 hogsheads, ready for the reception of a cargo. Apply to Wilson & Cunningham. March 18.
For CHARTER. The fine new Brig FRANKLIN, Holder Tallman, Master; burthen 200 tons, now in complete order for the reception of a cargo. Warren Ashley. March 18.
For Sale, on our wharf, 15000 bushels blown SALT, principally afloat.
 6000 ditto Coarse ditto,  320 sacks ditto. Liverpool, filled.  136 bags St. Domingo COFFEE,  7 hds. do. SUGAR,  44 bbls. do. do.  63 hds. St. Kitt's SUGAR,  87 bbls. do. do.  56 hds. do. MOLASSES,  52 hds. Jamaica COFFEE,  24 do. do. SUGAR,  121 bags PIMENTO,  380 boxes brown Havana SUGARS,  23 bags do. COFFEE,  27000 feet MAHOGANY,  5 ton LOGWOOD,  3 do. BRAZILETTO,  100 half crates QUEEN'S-WARE,  well assorted  10 hds. Havana MOLASSES,  10 pipes L. P. MADEIRA,  20 cases superior CLARET,  5 puncheons old Jamaica RUM. 
Domestic.
 1000 hogsheads TOBACCO,  100 barrels PORK,  100 do. TAR,  100 do. PITCH,  200 do. Superfine FLOUR,  50 do. WHISKEY,  UPLAND COTTON. 
C. & F. Whittle, Who offer for Charter, The Ship ELIZA, burthen 420 hogsheads Tobacco. March 16.
THE SHIP WILLIAM P. JOHNSON, Peter Le Breton, master, burthen 400 hogsheads tobacco, is offered for Charter, will be ready to receive a cargo in three days. Apply on board, or to Christopher Fry. March 6.
FOR SALE. A fine new Pilot-Boat SCHOONER, of 100 tons burthen, will finish rigging in a few days. ALSO,
THE HULL AND SPARS, of one about the same size, of similar construction. ALSO,
A full built SCHOONER, of 125 tons, or 1100 barrels; the above vessels now lying at Gosham's wharf. ALSO,
A New Pilot Boat SCHOONER, of 120 tons burthen, now on the stocks, will be launched in a week. ALSO,
A VESSEL, of 240 tons, of very superior materials and construction, building in Mathews, and can be launched in three weeks. For terms apply to Wilson & Cunningham. March 6.
FOR CHARTER, The Ship CLEOPATRA, John Johnson, master, burthen 376 tons, and will be ready to receive a cargo in a few days. This Ship is almost new and remarkably well built—Apply to the master on board, or the subscriber, William Pennock. Who has still unengaged,
The Ships Jane, Industry, and Courtney. And offers for Sale,
10,000 cubick feet of Pitch PINE Savannah TIMBER, 23 to 35 feet long, and 12 to 15 inches square. 50,000 Rough Hogshead STAVES, 17,500 Drawn Pipe do. 10 Casks TOOKS and THIMBLES, 16 Hogsheads very fine Old TOBACCO, and 28 Boxes Castile SOAP. March 5.
For Sale or Freight to New-York, The fine new Pilot built Brig PATRIOT, Richard Pitt, Master, burthen about 200 tons, now ready to receive a cargo. For terms apply to Wilson & Cunningham. February 23.
FOR SALE, The Schooner LYDIA, Burthen about 1000 barrels, and The Brig NANCY, Burthen from 1500 to 1400 barrels. Both of these vessels are well found; the former now ready to receive a cargo, and the latter will be in a short time.
Silk, Cotton, Woollen Dying and Scouring. FRANCES BENIANS, The widow of the late Francis Benians, deceased, respectfully informs her late husband's customers and the publick in general, that since his death she continues to carry on the same business with neatness, punctuality, and dispatch, at the Parish-House in the county of Norfolk, within two miles of the Borough. All orders left at the house of Thomas Knight, Hair-Dresser, Concord-Street, the late residence of Francis Benians, deceased, will be thankfully received, and punctually obeyed, where the charge of any article wanting to be done will be made known. March 22. 3
PATENT ILLUMINATORS, OR Sky-Lights for Shipping, &c. Giving a more general Light than the common Sky-Light, with one half the expense; and are equally applicable to the state-room, steerage and forecastle, as in the cabin—they are neither liable to break or be damaged by the common traffic of the deck. Apply to E. Sturtevant, Agent. March 10.
THE SUBSCRIBER Wishes to Sell, and will Sell or Rent on moderate terms, That very excellent Wharf and Lot, in the town of Gosport, at present occupied by William Smith; the Wharf, Ware-Houses, and Dwelling-House are all in good repair. Thirteen Lots in the Town of Suffolk; And the following Property in Norfolk, Two good Fire-Proof Warehouses on the Eastern side of Commerce-Street, Nos. 4 and 6. Two Dwelling-Houses and Lots on Boush-street, in good repair, and very pleasantly situated. Apply to John Granbery. September 14.
Spanish Consul's Office Norfolk, March 16th, 1809. THE Chevalier de Foronda, charge d'affaires ad Consular General from his Catholic Majesty Ferdinand VIIth to the United States, informs the Merchants and others whom it may concern, that the Spanish Consuls are authorised to grant to American vessels papers and documents, which are indispensably requisite to obtain admission into the following Islands and ports, viz. Puerto Rico, St. Jago de Cuba, Havanna, La Guaira, Maracaibo and St. Augustine de la Florida. Don Antonio Argote Villalobos, Consul from his Catholic Majesty Ferdinand 7th, &c.
FOR SALE, 40 pun. choice old Demarara RUM, 200 hogsheads MOLASSES, 150,000 wt. Muscovado SUGAR, 200 boxes Havana brown SUGAR, 80 do. do. white do. 6000 bushels Exma and Cadiz SALT, 150 sacks Liverpool do. 30 cases GLASSWARE, consisting of Tumblers, Decanters, and Wine Glasses, 15 crates QUEENSWARE, consisting principally of Plates and Dishes, 480 pieces CHECKS and LISTADOES, 40 boxes CASTILE SOAP; 14 bales CORKS, GIN in cases, and Gosport RUM. James Young. March 16.
For Sale, A float, 705 barrels Superfine } FLOUR, 345 do. Fine } 644 bushels BRAN, SALT loose and in sacks, by A. Maclure. March 3.
VIRGINIA BANK STOCK. WANTED TO PURCHASE, VIRGINIA BANK STOCK, For which Cash will be given. Application to be made to the SECRETARY of the MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY. JOHN GRANBERY, President Office of the Marine Insurance Company of Norfolk, Dec. 14.
Landing on Commerce-Street Wharf, the Cargo of the Spanish Brig General Palafax, from Havanna, 280 boxes brown Havanna SUGARS, 17 hds. } 35,000 wt. best Green Coffee, 637 bags } And a few boxes SEGARS—For Sale by MOSES MYERS. February 27.
FOR SALE In our Ware-House, where the largest vessel can come alongside, 15,000 bushels of CORN, 2000 do. do. white, 30 bales Cotton. Also, 4000 bushels coarse SALT, 120 sacks Ground Alum do. 45 hogsheads old Antigua Rum, 40 hogsheads do. do. A few cases excellent Port Wine, Coffee in hogsheads, Madeira Wine, 45 crates Earthenware, Tobacco from several inspections. GEO. MURRAY, & Co. September 9.
WANTED TO PURCHASE, VIRGINIA BANK STOCK, For which Cash will be given. AND FOR SALE, A few cases LINEN.
MACKINDER & WHITE, Offer for Sale for Cash or approved Notes, 2,500 barrels NAVAL STORES, 3,500 bushels coarse SALT, 2,500 bushels INDIAN CORN, 1,250 barrels Superfine FLOUR, 120 Bales Georgia Upland COTTON, 28 do. New Orleans do. 100 barrels Smithfield and Carolina PORK, 54 crates well assorted EARTHENWARE, 40 chests and 20 boxes Hyson & Young Hyson TEA. —ALSO— A general assortment of Dry Goods. September 27.
WITH to inform those, with the management of whose business I have been entrusted, as well as the Merchants of Norfolk and others, who may have occasion for my services, that I have fixed my residence at Farnham Church in Richmond County, for the purpose of practising Law in the counties of Richmond, Northumberland and Lancaster. I occupy the house which formerly belonged to Peter Temple, Esq. the most eligible situation in the Northern Neck for an Attorney, as well on account of its contiguity to the clerk's office, as its central situation, being nearly equidistant from each court-house. These circumstances render the situation peculiarly advantageous to conduct the business of those, who have extensive collections which they wish to be speedily made, in any of those three counties. It is so usual for persons offering their services to the publick, to make promises of fidelity and attention which are never performed, that I deem it more proper to dispense with professions of this sort, and to suffer the community to judge by my conduct whether or not I be worthy of confidence. Any communications addressed to me at Farnham, Virginia, will be promptly attended to. Caleb B. Upshur. Feb. 15.
Landing on Commerce-Street wharf, from on board the British Brig Point Shares, from Havanna, 239 boxes SUGARS, 87 hogsheads } Prime Muscovado Sugar, 14 barrels } 112 bags GREEN COFFEE—For Sale by Moses Myers. March 3.
REMOVAL. The Subscriber informs his friends and the publick that he has removed his Saddle and Harness Manufactory, from No. 22, to No. 11, Church-street, where he continues to make all kinds of SADDLES, COACH and GIG HARNESS, CAPS and HOLSTERS, and generally all other articles belonging to his profession. He returns his thanks to his friends for the encouragement he has received, and hopes from the superiority of his work, to merit a continuance of their custom, and from the publick he expects that additional encouragement (only) which superior workmanship deserves; and he warrants the workmanship of all articles made in his shop to be far superior to any done in Norfolk, and at least equal to any in the United States. As the times have become difficult, it will be necessary for the future, that the cash should come when the work goes out in all cases; the total impossibility of collecting outstanding debts renders this regulation is dispensable, it will therefore be strictly adhered to. JOHN SIMPSON. March 10.
German Linen for Exportation. NIEMEYER & VON KAPFF, OFFER FOR SALE At their Warehouse in Water-Street, at the corner Maxwell's wharf, for cash, or approved paper only. 54 packages of German Linen, consisting of
 140 pieces Osnabrigs, } Entitled to Drawback.  60 pieces Ticklenburgs,  500 pieces White Rolls,  200 Heddens,  80 pieces Hessians, 
ALSO, 1 case Platillas, } 1 case Table Cloths, 1 case Shirt Linen, } 1 case Bed-Ticking. 1 case Sheetings, ALSO, 40 pieces best Russia Canvass, } 700 Straws 1-2 pt. Tumblers, 65 do. Topgallant Duck, } 30 doz. do. Decanters, 8000 Coffee Bags, } 380 pieces excellent Oil Cloth, 3,500 Gunny Bags, } 310 pieces Paper Hanging, 90 boxes best Spanish Segars, } 3 cases Port Wine. 50 boxes English Pipes, And at their Store in Main-Street, a great variety of Cutlery and Fancy Articles. Apply as above. Nov. 9.
FLOUR. FOR SALE, BY JOHN GRANBERY, AT HIS WARE-HOUSE ON COMMERCE-STREET, A small quantity of very excellent New Flour, in barrels and half-barrels, now on hand, fit for family use, and a regular supply expected from the Columbia Mills—Richmond inspection. CASH given for good new flour barrels and half-barrels. Nov. 9.
NOTICE. As I am obliged, by the low state of my health, to decline carrying on business, I will sell my STOCK on hand, consisting of SWEETABLE GROCERIES, which will be an attractive property the attention of any person wishing to commence the Grocery business, as I am inclined to sell the whole or considerable terms. The purchaser will take the Store now occupied by me, at a reasonable rent from Mr. John McPhail, which as well calculated for a Grocery business, being fitted for a Store and Dwelling-House, and inferior terms stand in this place. I earnestly request those indebted to me to settle their accounts as soon as possible, so as to enable me to discharge my debts. ANGUS MARTIN.
TAKE NOTICE, That we have applied to the President and Directors for the renewal of SINE NOTES of the Bank of the United States, at Norfolk, the one money whereof is lost, viz. B. No. 4082, dated Philadelphia, 22 June, 1800—dolls 50 C. 3320, dated Philadelphia, 24 June, 1800 do. E. 727, dated Philadelphia, 6th Jan. 1804 do. F. 819, dated Philadelphia, 6th Jan. 1804 do. F. 922, dated Philadelphia, 6th Jan. 1804 do. F. 1688, dated Philadelphia, 6th July, 1804 do. payable to Robert Taylor, or bearer, at the Office of Discount and Deposit, at Norfolk. A HANDSOME REWARD will be given to any person who may have found the counterparts of the above Notes, and will deliver them to us. MACKINDER & WHITE. March 10.
BANK NOTES LOST. R. No. 805, U.S. Office Discount and Deposit, Norfolk, payable to Robert Taylor, President, or bearer, and dated 7th October, 1808, for dolls. 100 S. 842, ditto 7th October, 1808, for 100 G. 901, ditto 6th January, 1804, for 50 Dollars 250 I do certify that the Notes mentioned in the foregoing list, were on the 6th instant enclosed by Mr. Warner L. Wormeley, under cover, sealed with the initials W. L. W. on red wax, and directed to "Doctor Elisha Hall, Fredericksburg," which the latter was put into the package for Fredericksburg, which was made on the very night; but the mail not arriving, the bundle (after Wormeley's request) remained until this morning, when the package was opened and put into the postbag, which was, in the presence of Mr. Wormeley, locked and delivered to the carrier. John Chew, P. M. URBANNA, 26th February, 1809. Middlesex, ss. JOHN CREW, this day made oath before me, in duplicate for said county, to the truth of the above certificate, in due form. Given under my hand the 24th March, 1809. Henry Heffernan. Any person to whom the above Notes, or any of them may be offered, is requested to stop them, and give information to Mr. Warner L. Wormeley, of Urbanna; Dr. Elisha Hall, of Fredericksburg; or Warren Ashley. March 6.
Phenix Fire Office No. 13, MARKET-SQUARE, NORFOLK.
INSURANCE UPON SHIPS. NOTICE is hereby given that the following premiums only, will henceforward be charged by this company for insurance from fire upon Ships, Vessels, and all Water Crafts, and also upon Cargo on board, in the seaports and rivers of Virginia and North-Carolina.   One month  12 1/2 cents per $100    Two do.  20 do.    Three do.  23 do.    Four do.  30 do.    Five do.  35 do.    Six do.  40 do.    Seven do.  45 do.    Eight do.  50 do.    Nine do.  55 do.    Ten do.  60 do.    Eleven do.  65 do.    Twelve do.  70 do.   The above premiums will be charged for any sum not exceeding 40,000 dollars in one risk; but a separate sum must in all cases be specified on the ship and another on the cargo. Richard Taylor, Agent. Dec. 22.
FOR SALE, The CARGO of the Schooner Cervo, D. Mourande, Master, from St. Jago de Cuba, COFFEE, in barrels and bags, of the first quality, SEGARS, in boxes— New Landing at Commerce-Street Wharf. John Granbery. January 23.
NOTICE. The Partnership of T. & W. A. ARMISTEAD is hereby dissolved by consent of parties. The settlement of accounts devolves on W. A. ARMISTEAD, who is authorised to grant discharges, and on whom all persons having claims against the Firm, are requested to call. January 5.
A. Armistead and George Kelly, have entered into Co-partnership. Their business will be conducted under the Firm of ARMISTEAD & KELLY. January 16.
For Sale, by the Subscriber, 50,000 weight of Navy BREAD, 20,000 Superfine Pilot, do. 3,000 Ship do. 230 quarter barrels CRACKERS. Also, 400,000 well burnt BRICKS, 2,000 bushels STONE LIME. Stephen Harris. PILOT BREAD of superior quality for family use. Feb. 19.
Richard Jeffrey & Co. No. 22, Main-Street, corner of Mark-Street, have just received from London, per the Ship Planter, An assortment of MEDICINES, of the best quality. Alfe, a few hundred weight reboxed Salt Petre, Hardham's Snuff, No. 5, and 27, in 1-2 and 1-4 pound canisters, Violet, Eau de Cologne, Windsor and Shaving Soap, Royal Salt Crown Lozenges, Touch Lozenges of superior kind, Washed Liquorice, &c. They have on hand, and are in daily expectation of receiving from Alderfer, all kinds of GLASS WARE, suitable to Apothecaries. MEDICINE CHESTS for ships and family use.

ADDRESS To the People of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Fellow-Citizens, The legislature of Massachusetts have found themselves impelled by the existing crisis, and by the importance of a large portion of their constituents, to depart from the sphere of their ordinary duties, and to bestow their serious consideration upon subjects which belong to the constitutional jurisdiction of the national government. In this course which they have with great reluctance thought necessary to adopt, they have not been unmindful of the rights and powers of that government, nor of the dangers incidental to an habitual interference of the state legislatures in the great concerns of the nation. They are deeply impressed with the importance of supporting that government as the bond of an union, which experience has shown to be capable of producing the highest measure of national felicity. They are aware of the embarrassment which may be created in times of peculiar publick excitement, by unreasonable expressions of discontent by individual states. And they readily concede, that a government depending upon the confidence of the people to be enabled to do right, must have the power sometimes to do wrong; and that a sincere approbation of wise measures, should be accompanied by a magnanimous indulgence for the errors which are incident to human nature. When the national administration ceases to possess the confidence of the people, it will lose confidence in itself; and from the want of this will always follow a deficiency of energy and stability indispensable to its success.
A system of measures especially respecting negotiations with foreign nations, must not be assailed by the rash and petulant opposition of a particular state, before its object and bearings are discovered. If a legislature, yielding its dignity to the suggestions of impatience and discontent proceeding from partial and interested sources, will undertake to decide upon questions exclusively of national cognizance, disturbance and confusion must ensue, both in the general and state governments; and such conflicts, when they become frequent, can terminate only in a dissolution of the union.
It is with a solemn apprehension and dread of this deplorable event, and with a most anxious solicitude to avoid any precedent which may have remotely tend to produce it, that the legislature of Massachusetts have been influenced in all their deliberations. The caution and forbearance which are naturally imposed by these considerations, would have restrained them under circumstances not absolutely imperative, from expressing their opinion upon the measures of our national rulers. They would have endured great sacrifices of interest; they would have acquiesced in great violence to their own views of national policy; they would have concealed their fears and suppressed their indignation, if the calamity in which the country is wantonly involved did not threaten absolute ruin in its consequences, and forbid delay in the expression of their feelings. But they have been compelled to enquire for themselves, what can be done, when the whole community which they represent seems itself oppressed, and its local and permanent interests forever endangered; when the administration, through pride of system, from a misapprehension of the interests of the country, or under the influence of a hostile disposition towards one nation, or an undue partiality to another, adopts and deliberately adheres to an infatuated policy, which arrests all the operations and disturbs all the relations of society, and, by sapping the foundations of individual prosperity, drives a whole people to despair!
In this extremity the legislature has endeavoured to conform to unexpected circumstances, and to the claims of their constituents upon their affections and duty. Endeavouring to divest themselves of passions and prejudices; protesting in the sight of God the sincerity of their attachment to the union of the states, and their determination to cherish and preserve it at every hazard, until it shall fail to secure to them those blessings which alone give value to any form of government; and confident that under a wise administration it will always be adequate to this object; they have arraigned the measures of our national rulers, not with a spirit of animosity, or a desire to expose them to obloquy and disgrace, but with a simple view to stop their career in a course of measures to which it is physically as well as morally impossible for the people of this commonwealth much longer to submit. The most important results of legislative deliberation upon these subjects, will appear in two reports of a committee of the house of representatives, in another report of a joint committee, and in a remonstrance to congress; all of which are laid before the publick. A candid examination of these documents will probably satisfy our constituents that less could not be done consistently with the claims of our fellow-citizens, nor more without authorising a forcible resistance to acts of congress; an ultimate recourse so deeply to be deprecated, that the case which might justify it should not be trusted even to the imagination, until they actually happen.
While the legislature insist upon their right, in common with all other lawful assemblies of their fellow-citizens, to express their opinion of publick measures, and feel it to be their peculiar duty, as the immediate guardians of the rights of their constituents, to warn them of all unconstitutional acts and usurpations of the national government; and while they, at the same time readily acknowledge the expediency of exercising this right, ought to be restricted to cases of great national emergency, it is but justice to themselves to demonstrate that the present state of this commonwealth is within this obvious exception.
The towns which have already presented petitions to the legislature in their corporate capacity include nearly one third part of the taxable property of the commonwealth, and many of them are towns which, at the commencement of the political year, were the supporters of the present administration and are now represented by its friends. To this number must be added those who have not petitioned, but whose representatives, with a full knowledge of the wishes of their constituents, have concurred in the measures of the legislature; and the minorities in other towns which still adhere to the administration. Thus it is certain that an immense majority of the people of Massachusetts, may be considered as before the legislature, describing the miseries and grievances of their situation, and requiring their interposition to obtain relief.
The language of the petitions from various quarters, and from all classes of the people, exhibits an affecting picture of the publick distress. The merchant on the sea has abandoned his enterprise, and the trader in the country has abandoned his business, his debts and his credits. The ship-owner beholds his silent and certain ruin of property, sufficient to carry on the principal trades of the world. The work-shop of the mechanic is deserted, and the ship-builder is without employment. The produce of the farmer has fallen in value; while all the articles for which he depends on foreign nations, have risen to a price which places them beyond his reach; and this addition will now be aggravated by an unprecedented addition of duties. The creditor from necessity presses on his debtor, and the debtor beholds his property sacrificed at half its value.
All these accumulated evils have been more particularly felt in the eastern part of the commonwealth, where by the accumulation of foreign commerce, and the aggregate amount of the coasting trade, a
hardy people, who enjoyed competence and looked forward to affluence, have been involved in the deepest and most aggravating distress, while their lumber is left to rot on the banks of their rivers.
These existing evils are greatly aggravated by a prospect of the future. The habits of the world change and conform to circumstances. The nations that have hitherto been dependent on us for any portion of the necessaries of life, have learned that no dependence can be placed on supplies from a people whose experiments or prejudices may at any moment make them their victims. They have learned a secret highly injurious to us, that our commerce is not essential to their permanent welfare, and that nature has furnished them with advantages which will enable her to dispense with all such of our exports as they have hitherto considered of the first necessity. Hence if this system is longer continued, when the liberty of the seas shall at last be restored to us, we shall find ourselves mere vagrants on the ocean, and excluded from ports of whose commerce we once enjoyed the monopoly. The old channels of trade will be crowded with the ships of other nations; foreign markets will be supplied by the produce of their own fields and fisheries, and foreigners will be their own carriers. Even France, grown desperate by the necessity which her own tyrant imposes on her, feeds her own colonies, and receives their produce in her own ships. But if trade should unexpectedly be opened to us and excite our enterprise, the whole machinery of commerce is so disordered, that years cannot restore it to its former activity. Old relations and connections have been dissolved and are to be renewed. The credit of our merchants abroad is to be re-established, and the main-spring of navigation to be restored. Our mariners have been driven by want and distress into foreign service, and are now fighting the battles of other nations, to escape perhaps in an honorable death the inglorious servility and humiliating dependence of helpless poverty. All these evils are aggravated by the consideration that they have been but useless sacrifices to a ruinous experiment, and that they are the result of measures as unavailing in their effect upon foreign nations as unequal in their operation on our own country.
Such is the faint outline of the situation of this people, as described by themselves in their various petitions. It is the more painful, as it comes into contrast with the unparalleled prosperity which immediately preceded it under former administrations, and which an observance of their policy would still have ensured to our country.
The suspension of commerce, although the immediate cause of publick distress, is also to be regarded as the effect of a departure from the system of Washington, and of hostility to those who pursued his politics and enjoyed his confidence.
The limits of this address will not permit a minute examination of the principles of the first administrations, nor of a detailed comparison of them with those of the present. It is, however, undeniable, that the period of the two former administrations was the golden age of America; and such was the impulse given to the publick prosperity, that it continued to influence the first periods of the present administration, notwithstanding the errors and deviations which were destined by a slow operation to reduce the nation to its present state. Yet it is not perceived, that our present rulers have been called upon to encounter greater difficulties and embarrassments, arising from the state of the world, than those by which their predecessors were encompassed. France violated our commercial rights, insulted our government, and availed herself of every art and intrigue to entangle us in alliance with her; but we escaped, and preserved our peace, our commerce and our honour. The spoliations of Great-Britain on our commerce, excited resentments in the publick mind, and demanded redress, which was obtained by negotiation, and our useful and lucrative connexion with that country was still maintained.
Whatever are the motives which may be presumed recently to influence the conduct of those respective nations towards the United States; it is probable they were then of the same character and description as at present. The sympathy of the people in the French revolution was general and ardent; their irritation against Great Britain, feverish and violent; yet under the pressure of these external circumstances, combined with rebellion in the heart of the country, without the benefit of example to guide, or experience to confirm its measures, the new government was enabled to preserve peace at home, and with half its present resources, to prepare, for war, and command respect abroad.
By what fatality has it then happened, that the prosperity of our country has experienced this fatal reverse?
A full and satisfactory reply to this inquiry would lead to a review of the whole history of our government, from its commencement to the present time, and is therefore not to be expected in a brief address. But a respectful attention to the complaints of the people requires that the principal causes should be at least suggested.
The first of them is to be found in the love of power and the pride of system, which, united to the spirit of party, have been exerted to secure to one portion of the union a controlling influence over the other. The people of the United States may be classed under three general descriptions; the agricultural, the planting, and the mercantile interests. The first includes the farmers of those states who cultivate their own lands by the hands of freemen. The second comprises the planters of the southern states who cultivate their lands by slaves. The last may be considered as including the merchants, seamen, mechanics, manufacturers, and all who are connected with or dependent upon trade and commerce. The interests of these three classes are naturally favourable to each other, and may be easily so combined by a wise government as to be instrumental in promoting the prosperity of all, and the greatest attainable degree of national strength; or they may be so severed by a weak and partial administration, as to render each a prey to jealousies, strife, and unnatural competitions, which will be equally ruinous to all.
The mercantile class are the principal proprietors of the active capital of the country, and their welfare is inseparable from the success of commerce and navigation.
This class is proportionably the most numerous in the eastern states; considering them as one section of the country, the interests of the farmer and merchant are, from usage and ancient relation, as well as from the nature of things, so blended and connected, that the one has scarcely less advantage from the success of commerce and navigation than the other. This cannot be affirmed with the same precision in regard to the planting interest. To this class commerce is also essential, but to a less importance whether their commerce be carried on by the navigation of their own or of a foreign country. A small proportion only of ships and vessels is owned by their merchants. On the contrary, an immense portion of the wealth of the northern section of the union consists in shipping. For example, in the year 1805, the aggregate tonnage of the United States, was eleven hundred and forty thousand three hundred and sixty-eight tons. Of which Massachusetts owned four hundred twenty-five thousand nine hundred and forty-eight tons, including upwards one fourth of the whole coasting vessels, more than one third of the whalemen, and nearly six sevenths of the cod-fishermen. No nation has ever presented a successful navigation without it.
naval force; but as such a force would naturally augment the strength and wealth of that part of the union in which it should be built and manned, it would be an easy task to inspire the planting interest with a jealousy of such an establishment, and to inculcate upon them a belief in the plausibility though fallacious theory, that commerce, like agriculture, must protect itself. This jealousy once excited is naturally ripened into hostility, and extended to those men and states that are principally concerned in commerce. The farmer who lives in a commercial state, becomes at first the dupe of these prejudices, and deceived by the similarity of names, believes his interest to be the same with the planter's and lends his aid to weaken the commercial system. Thus the planting interest obtaining an ascendancy throughout the union, is enabled to aggrandize itself, and give laws to the nation.
The great Washington, considering himself the father of the whole people, was incapable of giving countenance to the jealousies arising from these causes. He was the avowed friend of commerce, and the advocate for its protection by means of a navy.
For the sake of commerce, he concluded a treaty with Great Britain, amid the clamours of opposition. He patronized banks and monied institutions, as indispensable to the general welfare; and felt that the interest of each class, and the power and wealth of each state were for the benefit of all. His successors adopted his system, and urged to the utmost of his power the provision for a naval establishment.
Far different has been the policy of the present administration. Under it we have seen the spirit of party and of hostility to the interests of navigation burn with redoubled ardour, and all attempts to protect them abandoned. The navy has been permitted to go to decay, and the commercial treaty with England to expire. The New England farmer has been wheedled into a belief that he has no greater interest in the success of navigation than a Virginia planter. The doctrine has been propagated, that the commerce which cannot protect itself is unworthy of protection. That in time of peace, when no danger exists, it must be used as a source of revenue; but in the time of war it must be abandoned, and those engaged in it must betake themselves to other pursuits—and finally, that it is not an object of protection, but an instrument of coercion.
Ostentatious displays of the payment of the publick debt have created a delusive popularity, which has led the administration to presume upon their power to coerce the commercial states at their will and pleasure. They have proscribed and displaced all who would have dared to give them true information, and thus shut up the avenues to a just estimate of the interests and feelings of this people. They have been deceived by men who were themselves either ignorant or deceived, and they have arrayed the people against each other in an attitude highly dishonourable to the nation, and menacing consequences at which every patriot citizen must tremble.
Another capital defect in the present system, will be found in the total omission to estimate properly the danger and state of our foreign relations.
There has been no period since the French revolution, that it has not been pregnant with danger to the peace of this nation. Our collisions with the belligerent powers have been necessary; and we have been in several years repeatedly on the eve of a war with Spain. During the whole term of Mr. Jefferson's administration; the revenue from commerce, owing to the immense capital that had been accumulated under the auspices of his predecessors, was yearly augmented; yet the appropriations for national defence have been truly contemptible.
Our harbours have been constantly exposed to the smallest naval armament. No establishments have been made for naval or military instruction; no serious preparations for a state of war. Every important object has been sacrificed to the pretence of diminishing the publick debt—the merit of which is hardly a theme for exultation, when it is considered that the whole amount of the reduction of the debt, since Mr. Jefferson's administration, is not equal to the additional revenue for the same time, beyond that of the preceding administrations. This false economy and unwarlike attitude has probably produced to degrade us in the estimation of Europe, and expose us to outrage and insult.
(To be concluded in our next.)
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Liverpool Blown SALT, on board the Ship Highlander, for sale on accommodating terms, taken from alongside. Robert Dickson.
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THE PUBLICK LEDGER. TO SHIEW THE VERY AGE AND BODY OF THE TIMES, HIS FORM AND PRESSURE. FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH 24, 1809.
We are authorised to state, that WILLIAM MAXWELL, Esq. is a candidate to represent this Borough in the next General Assembly.
We had expected intelligence of more importance from Spain, than appears to have been received by the brig Batavian, arrived at New-York. This vessel left Rochelle the 14th of January, the latest Bulletin received at Rochelle before her departure was the 19th dated at Madrid the 13th December. The mail goes from Bordeaux to Rochelle in one day, and intelligence from Madrid can reach Bordeaux in 5 or 6 days, consequently the information from Madrid might have been to the 6th of January, yet there was nothing in the shape of authenticity later than the 13th of December.
The information respecting a battle between the French and English armies, on the 12th December near Madrid, was not credited even in France, in fact it deserves no credit, because our readers will remember that information from Sir John Moore and Sir David Baird's armies, had been received in England as late as the 19th December, at or near Zamora, one hundred and fifty miles from Madrid.
If any conclusion is to be drawn, from the information received at New-York, it would be unfavourable to Buonaparte, or certainly that he had gained no advantage from the 13th of Dec. to the 6th January, or it would have been announced at Rochelle before the 14th January.
We repeat that delay, will be the salvation of the Spanish cause; indeed the success of that course has already been demonstrated, by comparing the result of the present campaign in Spain, with those against Austria in 1805, and Prussia in 1807—In less than six weeks after passing the French frontiers in each of those campaigns, Buonaparte had obtained the memorable battles of Austeritz and Jena, defeating the united forces of Austria and Russia, at the former place, and those of Prussia at the latter. In short Austria and Prussia, were subdued—In the case of Spain, Buonaparte entered it about the first of November, and what has been the result? Let any one compare the French bulletins, and we will find a very different result indeed, from the campaigns of Austria and Prussia.
TRADE TO HAYTI. The detestable subserviency of Mr. Jefferson and his party to the views of France, is strikingly manifested by the construction given to the non-intercourse, in designating the dependencies of the belligerents. The Haytian nation is as independent a people as any on the globe, and deserve well to be esteemed so, as they are the only people who have effectually resisted the arms of the European scourge. The French government itself by a formal proclamation, which is entitled to as much respect as the treaty of peace wherein the king of England acknowledged the American colonies to be independent, recognized the people of Hayti as free.
They have bravely fought and defended their freedom, until they have driven from their island every myrmidon of France. Why are we not permitted to trade with them? At present the king of the customs declines an opinion as to their independence, but reserves to himself the right to decide hereafter. He awaits the pleasure of his imperial highness of France. Gen. Whiskers, has no doubt given Mr. Gallatin to understand, as he did upon a former occasion, that the emperor, as his master, would not consent that the United States should trade with Hayti.
It is forgotten that some few years back, Mr. Jefferson made his congress pass a law to prevent a trade with St. Domingo, because gen. Turreau, said Buonaparte did not wish the United States to have intercourse with that colony. His majesty has been so much taken up with the continental wars of late years, that he has had no time to bestow his thoughts upon St. Domingo. He is now to be asked if he considers the Haytians as his subjects. Be his decision, as it may, it will be acquiesced in.—He declared all England blockaded, and the congress of the United States, immediately passed a law to legalise the act, and carry its provisions into complete execution. If we may judge from past events, were the United States to be declared colonies of France, it would be politely assented to. Extreme cowardice betrayed by a false construction of a law will deprive our merchants of the most profitable trade which they can carry on with any of the West-India islands.—Fed. Rep.
State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. The committee to whom were referred the memorials, petitions and resolutions of the towns of Providence, North Providence, Cumberland, Barrington, Warwick, East Greenwich, South Kingston, Exeter, Richmond, Hopkinton and Westerly, and to whom was likewise referred the petition of one hundred freemen of the town of Smithfield, beg leave respectfully to REPORT,
That these petitions, memorials and resolutions all point to the embargo system, so rashly adopted and so pertinaciously persevered in by the present administration of the United States as the principal and prominent cause of their privations, their sufferings and their complaints. The Freemen of the towns who have addressed these representations to this assembly, form a very large portion of its constituents, and they have undoubtedly expressed the opinions and the feelings of the majority of the people of this state. Your committee conceive that it would indeed be singular, if the people of this state, so peculiarly and so eminently commercial, should not deplore and deprecate the annihilation of commerce.
That it would be a paradox in the history of the human mind, if a people, who from the foundation of their governments have ever heretofore manifested the most warm and zealous attachment to civil liberty, should regard with indifference its extinguishment. It would betray an ignorance of their true interests, if they did not esteem the "more perfect union of these states," as it is declared and provided for in the Federal Constitution, as the parent and perpetuator of their political prosperity.
That it would be a reflection on their discernment and sagacity, if they did not foresee, that the dissolution of the Union may be more likely and as speedily effected by the systematic oppression of the government, as by the inconsiderate disobedience of the people. That the people of this state, as one of the parties to the Federal compact, have a right to press their sense of any violation of its provisions.

authority, to interpose for the purpose of protecting them from the ruinous inflictions of usurped and unconstitutional power.
From an attentive perusal of the aforesaid petitions, memorials, and resolves, your committee are clearly convinced, that the people of this state are averse to any foreign war, unless that war be just, necessary and unavoidable. Or situation is exposed beyond comparison, more than any other section of this immense country; our ports and harbours, so convenient for naval stations, though neglected by the present administration, would (as the histories of former wars evince) immediately attract the attention and facilitate the progress of an invading foe; and our capital towns, and the whole line of our defenceless coast, would exhibit a scene of plunder, bloodshed and desolation.
The people are more decidedly averse to and more loudly deprecate a war with Great Britain, not that they are insensible to the wrongs and injuries they have suffered at her hand, or expect any favour from her friendship, as distinct from her interest—not merely because her means of aggression are more formidable, and our prepared means of resistance less, but because it is apparent, from the public diplomatic communications, between that country and this—that another attempt made in the spirit of peace, to procure peace, would be crowned with success, and that by a negotiation, fairly and firmly conducted, the just neutral rights of this country could still be established and secured.
Their alarms on this subject are the stronger, as a war with Great Britain evidently implies and would inevitably produce an alliance with France. This consequence is not denied, and the design is by some avowed. France would introduce into our country her generals, her tactics, her artillery and her armies, and what would be more fatally dangerous, her diplomatic skill, her deceptive policy, her deluding and fascinating arts—and if the resistance of a brave people, with a happier fortune than that of so many other nations, should save our liberties and beloved political institutions from being buried under the trophies of a splendid and victorious despotism, yet the secret venom of a foreign political influence would circulate in our systems, influence our party animosities, and finally dissolve and destroy our national constitution. These remarks your committee conceive fairly represent the spirit of the memorials, the petitions and resolves, referred to them for consideration—they think they have not mistaken the meaning of the people. Your committee conceive it unnecessary to enter into detailed reasonings to show that the embargo laws in many of their provisions are oppressive, tyrannical, and subversive of constitutional rights; this is done with convincing clearness in many of the petitions and memorials themselves, and with great ability in the report of a committee adopted by the legislature of Massachusetts, and which has been communicated to the house of representatives, and has likewise been referred to this committee.
The committee has, however, attentively examined the several acts of congress laying an embargo, and especially that passed on the 9th of January last, to enforce the same.
They have likewise deemed it their duty cautiously to examine the various publick documents illustrative of our foreign relations, and on a review of the whole matter, they deem it their duty to present the resolutions which follow to the consideration of the general assembly—sensible that though no remedy, at once adequate and immediate, can be administered to the severe and numerous grievances under which the people labour, yet that nevertheless it will be consolatory and satisfactory to them to know, that their representatives sympathise in their sufferings, are true to their interests, and prompt and determined in the assertion and protection of their undoubted rights and liberties.
Resolved, That the several acts of the congress of the United States laying an embargo, by the permanent interdiction of foreign commerce, and by the numerous and vexatious restrictions upon the coasting trade, do, in the opinion of this general assembly, infringe upon the undeniable rights and privileges of the good people of this state.
Resolved, That the act of congress of the 9th January last, enforcing the several embargo acts, is, in many of its provisions, unjust, oppressive, tyrannical and unconstitutional.
Resolved, That to preserve the union, and to support the constitution of the United States, it becomes the duty of this general assembly, while it is cautious not to infringe upon the constitutional and delegated powers and rights of the general government, to be vigilant in guarding from usurpation and violation those powers and rights, which the good people of this state have expressly reserved to themselves, and have ever refused to delegate.
Resolved, That a committee be appointed and instructed to prepare a suitable remonstrance, addressed to the congress of the United States, expressive of the feelings and opinions of this general assembly on the several subjects of complaint in the aforesaid petitions, memorials and resolves—and praying the repeal of the aforesaid obnoxious and oppressive laws, and that congress will, in their wisdom, devise efficacious measures for the preservation of the peace of the United States—and that said committee report the same at the next session of the general assembly.
Resolved, That his excellency the governor be requested to transmit copies of the foregoing report and resolutions to the president of the senate and the speaker of the house of representatives of the state of Massachusetts, and to the governor of the state of Connecticut, and to the legislatures of such other states as have manifested, or may manifest a disposition to concur with us in the adoption of constitutional measures for the preservation of the union of the states, and for the removal of the political evils under which we are now suffering.
By order of the Committee, WILLIAM HUNTER.
House of Representatives, March 4, 1809.
By order, THOMAS BURGESS, Clerk.
In the Senate—read the same day and concurred.
By order, SAMUEL EDDY, Sec'y.
A true Copy: Witness, SAMUEL EDDY, Sec'y.
Ayes and Noes on the preceding resolutions: In the Senate—Ayes 7; noes 4.
In the House of Representatives—Ayes 35; noes 28.
From the National Intelligencer, March 20.
From the dispatches brought by the Union, it is distinctly ascertained, we understand, that the British orders in council will be extended to our trade with Russia and Denmark precisely as to our trade with France.
Dispatches have been received by our government from Paris to the 27th of December; the contents of which do not, we understand, indicate any change in the conduct of the French government towards us.
It is said, that the French and Russian couriers, charged with the proposition of peace to the court of London, arrived at Paris on the 4th of December, with a peremptory rejection of the terms offered.
In the information we have been able to obtain
French cabinet, under existing circumstances, to relax its decrees against neutral commerce. We would, indeed, rather infer that it is actuated by kindred feelings with the British government, which would seem from the preceding information, to be heightening, instead of mitigating, the rigour of her orders.
The Paris papers, which we have received down to the 27th of December, do not add much to our former stock of intelligence, excepting the revolutions in Algiers and Constantinople, an account of which is subjoined. The bulletins of the army of Spain are given to the 19th inclusive, which shall be given in our next. The 17th is dated Madrid, Dec. 10th; and states that "on the 6th inst. the duke of Istria set off from Guadalajara. He caused the whole road to be beaten, from Saragossa as far as Valencia and took 500 prisoners as well as a great deal of baggage. At Baxtan, a battalion of 500 men was surrounded by our cavalry and cut to pieces."
"The army of the enemy having been beaten at Tudela and Catalayud, and abandoned by its generals, as well as part of its other officers and a great number of soldiers, was reduced to 6000 men."
"On the 5th, at 12 o'clock at night, the duke of Istria gave orders to gen. Montrou to attack a corps which protected the flight of the enemy's army. That corps was closely pursued and we took 1000 prisoners. It was attempting to reach Andalusia by the way of Madridengo, and it appears that it was forced to disperse in the mountains of Cuenca."
An account is then given of the continued operations of the siege of Rosas. Then follow several intercepted letters from officers in the Spanish army, portraying in terms of anguish its defeat and ruin, and the dreadful consternation spread through the country. Castanos's army is said to be reduced from 60,000 to 10,000.
The 18th bulletin is dated Madrid, Dec. 11th, and contains nothing of consequence.
The 19th bulletin bears the date Madrid, the 13th of Dec. The emperor Napoleon was at that time residing in the country, at the distance of half a league from Madrid, enjoying the fine weather, which seemed like spring. No account is given of the situation of the English forces, or of any important engagements with the Spaniards. The most material military event is the surrender of Rosas to the French on the 6th Dec. by which 2000 prisoners were made. The capitulation stipulates that they shall be prisoners of war, and be sent to France. Madrid is represented as perfectly tranquil.
There had been two municipal meetings of the burghers, clergy and nobility; at which the Corregidor had addressed and informed them, that he had had an interview with the emperor, who had told him, "that their fate would be happy and prosperous, if the inhabitants frankly adhered to the constitution and sincerely acknowledged Don Joseph Napoleon for their lawful king; but that otherwise Spain would become a province of France." [It is said, that a rumour prevailed at Paris that Joseph was to be made king of Austria!]
The deputies, in consequence, agreed "humbly to implore his imperial and royal majesty to grant that the capital might be favoured with the presence of the king [Joseph] as that city as well as all Spain was to enjoy the greatest advantages from his government."
On the 11th the same petition was signed by deputations from the nobles of the parishes, and all the corporations of trades in the city.
The Paris prints are full of imperial decrees issued at Madrid; one of which announces a general pardon to all Spaniards who shall within one month have laid down their arms, excepting by name a few distinguished persons, whose lives and property are forfeited; another dismisses the members of the council of Castile as cowards and is unworthy of being magistrates of a brave and generous nation; another abolishes the tribunal of the inquisition; another reduces the number of convents existing in Spain to one third, and permits the regular ecclesiastics, who wish to live as secular clergy, to leave their convents, and who shall receive a pension; another abolishes all feudal rights; another suppresses the barriers existing between the several provinces.
All these, as well as other decrees, are closed by an imperial address to the people, in which, Napoleon, after representing the good he has already conferred, or still has in reserve for them, concludes as follows:
"But if all my efforts are useless, and if you do not answer my confidence, it will remain to me only to treat you as a conquered province, and to place my brother upon another throne. I will then put the crown of Spain upon my own head and I shall know how to make it be respected by the wicked; for God has given me the strength and will necessary to surmount all obstacles."
PHILADELPHIA, March 15. A DILEMMA.
John Smith, esq. Marshal of the District of Pennsylvania, who will have to execute the process of the District Court in Olmstead's case, is also a major of militia in Pennsylvania. Mr. Smith, a short time since, received orders from gen. Bright, to draft and embody a portion of the militia "to protect the rights of the state, in this case," or in other words, to resist himself!
The pamphlet this day published, containing "the whole proceedings in the Case of Olmstead and others vs. Rittenhouse's Executors," will be received by the public with great satisfaction. The circumstances of this important subject are to be collected with greater safety from the documents than from any digest or abridgement of the case. In a matter of so great moment, and which may terminate in a violation of the peace of society, every one will be desirous of forming his opinion from the best authorities, and they are to be found only in the proceedings themselves.
The committees of the senate and house of representatives of the state to whom the message of governor Snyder, on this subject, was referred, have reported in favour of opposition to the decree of the supreme court of the United States, and from the temper of the members of the legislature, we cannot but conclude these reports will receive the approbation of the respective branches of the assembly to which they have been made. Resistance of the process of the court of the United States, by arms, will then inevitably follow, and this state be again involved in civil war. As the constituted authorities of the state are so regardless of its peace, the remedy is only to be found among the people, and from them we confidently expect it. It does not require the aid of a lawyer to satisfy us, that obedience to the orders of the governor of the commonwealth, in resisting the marshal of this district with arms, while executing the process of the court of the United States, is treason.
We particularly invite the attention of the community to this subject, and recommend their perusal of this publication, as they may be called on, in a very short period, to decide between the state of Pennsylvania and their country at large.
N. Y. YORK, March 15. By the arrival of the brig Batavian, in 60 days from Rochelle, the editors of the New-York Gazette have received from an intelligent passenger the following important particulars: The letter-bag not being delivered last night, deprives them of the news
British officers. The miraculous escape and singularly acquired passage of the Batavian, is stated under our Marine Head .
Joseph Buonaparte was again crowned king at Madrid about the 8th December. And the emperor had addressed a proclamation to the Spaniards, saying, that the Almighty had given him the power to rule Spain, and that if the Spaniards did not comply their blood should pay for their disobedience. That if they would not accept of his brother as king, he would take the throne himself, and give him another kingdom. In this proclamation he offers a pardon to all Spanish officers (except about four, whom he names) that would lay down their arms. But we are happy to learn that not one of them chose to accept of his offer.
We further learn, that the troops which Buonaparte took into Spain consisted principally of Germans, Poles, and Hollanders, who marched reluctantly into the country—and that Buonaparte was very suspicious of Austria.
Buonaparte had left Madrid, and it was reported that he was on the frontiers of Portugal.
News was received at Rochelle, on the 12th January, that there had been an engagement in Spain, which was said to have taken place about the 18th December, and it was reported that 15,000 of the English had been killed, and 15,000 taken prisoners. This story, however, say the passengers in the Batavian, was not even believed in France. It is certain that the account was not confirmed on the 14th (two days after) when the vessel sailed.
In the course of a few days colonial produce had risen 15 per cent. at Bordeaux, in consequence of accounts received from America.
On the 14th of January the day the Batavian sailed, there were at anchor in Rochelle harbor, 4 ships of the line and 2 frigates, with troops on board, ready for sea, destined for Martinique; but they were blockaded by a force nearly as formidable. They were, however, determined to slip out the first opportunity.
The dispatches by the Batavian are from general Armstrong at Paris. They were given in charge of capt. Bunker, passenger, by capt. HALEY, who arrived with them at Rochelle on the 21st December, with orders, that in case he vessel was captured by a British cruiser to destroy the dispatches. But capt. B. when captured (see Marine head) did not think proper to obey his instructions, and has brought them safe.
American vessels could not clear out of France without giving bonds not to break the American embargo!
The British officer of the Comet frigate, (mentioned in our marine department) informed a friend of ours, that off Rochelle, he read a London paper of the 9th of Jan. in which it was stated, that sir Arthur Wellesley's expedition to Spain was abandoned. That an expedition of 12 sail of the line and 4 frigates were fitting out at Portsmouth for Buenos Ayres—that Ferrol had been taken by the French the beginning of January—that the British troops at Corunna were about to spike the guns and abandon the place—that the British army was retiring towards Vigo, where were 50 transports and 4 frigates to convey them home—and, that the Spanish coast was lined with French troops.
The Comet, spoke a cutter in the channel, and was informed, that admiral Mitchell had fallen in with the TOULON FLEET, took two ships of the line, and sunk two others.
The above is given as we received it—it is confused, and somewhat contradictory—if a conclusion may be drawn, it is, that Buonaparte has seen more trouble in Spain than he anticipated.
FRENCH BULLETINS. We have received Paris papers to the 27th of December, containing French Bulletins Nos. 17, 18 and 19. The last is dated at Madrid the 13th Dec. It appears by the bulletins that no battle had been fought after the entrance of the French army into Madrid.
VIENNA, December 9. The court gazette contains the following intelligence from Constantinople.
"On the 14th, 15th, and 16th November there was a revolution at Constantinople accompanied with some bloody scenes; a superior number of the Janissaries attacked the Seims. When the Grand Vizir Baraictar saw that his enemies were triumphing, he set fire to his magazine of gun-powder, and blew himself up. The deposed Sultan must also have been killed."
"The 16th November, a great part of Constantinople, the ships of the Porte and the Hippodrome, were a prey to the flames."
"10th—The part of the New Grand Vizir Mustafa Baraictar is terminated. Since the 29th of July last, the day on which Selim the III. was murdered, and Mustafa his successor was dethroned and shut up in the Seraglio, Mustafa enjoyed an unbounded power, and governed the Ottoman empire under the name of Mahmud II. whom he had raised to the throne. His intrepidity, joined with the strong and vigorous measures which he took, re-established order and tranquility throughout all the provinces. He kept the Pashas in obedience, wrested from the Janissaries, who had so often arrogated to themselves the right of raising and deposing the Sultans at their pleasure, their ancient privileges; and he was firmly resolved upon putting the whole Turkish army by degrees upon the footing of European troops, by disarming them into the Nizami godud. The difficult and dangerous part of a reformer among a people who detest all novelty and every thing foreign, has cost him his life. A courier who arrived here on the 8th from Constantinople, has brought the following news:
"On the 14th November, all the arts (regiments) of the Janissaries, reinforced by those which were encamped in the environs of Constantinople, rose and fell upon the Seims and partisans of the Grand Vizir. They fought in all the streets of Constantinople. The Seims for a long time, made a vigorous resistance, but were at length overpowered. The next day the Janissaries scaled the high walls of the Seraglio. The Grand Vizir cannot be found. Mustafa IV. was confined in it, to be strangled; and in order not to fall alive into the hands of his enemies, he blew himself up with gun-powder, of which he always kept a large provision in his palace."
"The 16th, when the courier set off from Constantinople, every thing was in the greatest confusion; a violent conflagration was spread through the city; and during the whole of the following night, the courier perceived in the horizon a light from which it might be concluded that even at that time the fire was not yet extinguished."
"It is not positively known what is become of the Sultan Mahmud; on the 16th different rumours were about concerning him."
This news immediately raised the price of cotton, because it is possible, and even likely, that under the present circumstances, merchants will no longer enjoy the same liberty as formerly for the conveyance of goods.
[Journal de l'Empire.]
ALGERIA, Nov. 28. Extract of an authentic letter, brought direct to Marseilles by an American vessel.
For some time past the greatest tranquillity reigned in this country. The return of the troops from Constantinople to Algiers, had not occasioned the disturbances that were apprehended; but it was a de-
of the month, at ten o'clock in the morning, the officers met in their barracks, and after a short deliberation, they sent a deputation to the palace of the regency for the purpose of killing the Dey Achmet-Pacha. Upon arriving at the palace, the deputies desired the guard and all persons belonging to the Dey's household to withdraw, under pain of sharing the same fate which was reserved for him. This menace produced the desired effect; every one withdrew. The Dey fled to a terrace of his palace; he reached the roof of a neighbouring house, and his assassins pursued him from house to house, and overtook him upon the roof of a Jew's house, where they killed him with a musket shot, as he was passing from one habitation to another. They cut off his head, and threw his body into the street, after having horribly mutilated it.
Immediately after this bloody execution, the assembly assembled for the purpose of electing and proclaiming a new Dey. Their choice fell upon a certain Aly, surnamed Kojia, who during several years was guardian of a mosque. This resolution was terminated in less than two hours. Nobody was opposed, except the father of Achmet-Pacha, his wife and his first Biscary. These three individuals were thrown into prison. The alarm, which at first was general throughout the whole town, because the people were ignorant of the intention of the assassins, was not of long duration. At one o'clock in the afternoon, the consuls of the foreign powers repaired to the palace in order to consult with the new Dey. I myself attended this audience with many other spectators.
The following are the causes which are assigned for this sudden revolution:
During the three years of his reign, Achmet Pacha had made away with a great number of Turks of the first distinction, who were members of the regency, and with much more considerable number of the inferior class. He appeared to have formed a design of weakening and perhaps even of destroying the authority of the Turks, in order to secure the power of the Moors. The fears which were entertained upon this score, multiplied, especially when he was seen to favour the escape of his Dragoman, a relation of his wife's, who fled to Gibraltar with a great treasure, after having committed crimes, the least of which would have sufficed to excite the Dey to cause a Turk to be strangled.
All the individuals who formed the ministry of the former Dey, except the minister of the marine, were banished to Bled, a town in the interior of the country, 25 miles from Algiers. On the day of his installation, Aly formed a new ministry, the members of which he took from among the lower classes of the army. They were all men without education, and without the least personal consideration. The public rumour soon accused them of living divided among themselves the spoils of the dismissed ministers, which spoils according to custom, ought to have been confiscated for the publick treasury. These suspicions brought on a second revolt, which broke out on the 11th of this month.
The soldiers loudly demanded the expulsion of the new ministers, and appeared at the same time disposed to sack the town. All the shops were shut, and all the doors barricaded. The Divan, who were assembled in the palace, at length contrived to make an arrangement with the mutineers, by virtue of which the new ministers were dismissed, banished and replaced by more worthy ones.
On the morning of the 16th Nov. there was general alarm, it was generally rumoured that the soldiers had resolved upon pillaging the town, on account of their not having received the pecuniary gratification which is usually given to them at the accession of each new Dey. The Divan being again assembled, stilled this storm; nevertheless we continue here to live in a state of the greatest uneasiness.
[Journal de l'Empire.]
Gazette Marine Memoranda.
New-York, March 15.
Arrived last evening, the brig Batavian, 60 days from Rochelle, with some furniture for Gen. Moreau, and packages of dry goods, to the captain and passengers—vessel to V. F. Petre—having escaped from Rochelle on the night of the 14th January, between the forts and a French squadron of 4 ships of the line and 2 frigates, with troops on board, ready for sea. Jan. 16 was boarded by the British frigate Comet; they took out all the Batavian's crew except the captain and cook, including passengers, and put on board an officer and 6 men, and ordered her for Plymouth. The next day, off Brest, the rest of the passengers of the Batavian, with the captain, cook and steward, (8 in number) retook the brig. On the 26th Feb. was again taken by the British letter of marque ship Islam, capt. George Keese, from Barbados bound to Liverpool, they put on board 4 more men to assist the other prize crew in carrying the brig into Bermuda; but on the 1st inst. in lat. 30, long 63, the captain took the vessel into port! Left only one American vessel under seizure. [Passengers in the Batavian Mr. Walker, Mr. Coehls, lady and child, Madam Montalbebo, captains Brown, Bunker, and Lindsay—Messrs. Lessa and Duval, were taken on board the Comet frigate.]
PORT OF NORFOLK AND PORTSMOUTH.
CUSTOM-HOUSE—ENTRIES.
Sloop George, Williamson, Alexandria. Ship Mary Ann, Myer, Liverpool. Brig Androscoggin, Corran, Liverpool. Ellen Henry, Butler, Amelia Island. George, Cox, St. Bartholomew's. Nancy, Barclay, ditto. Sch. America, Whitbie, ditto. Nancy, Matlock, St. Jago de Cuba. Sloop Venus, Boush, ditto.
Frisbee's Packet will sail for Baltimore on SUNDAY next.
COTTON at AUCTION.
On Wednesday 12th April next at 10 o'clock
at Pennock's Stores in Gower
463 bales COTTON, for the benefit of the owners, underwriters or others, and including the Cargo of the Ship Equator, Captain Jackson, from Charleston, damaged by fire, and now on board the ship, and to be sold as the remainder of the cargo, per order of the captain. March 20.
Green Coffee and Loaf Sugar.
20,000 lb. choice Green COFFEE,
8,000 do. ditto ditto ditto ditto
For Sale by
Donaldson, Thornburn & Co.
March 18.
300 bbl. Alexandria sup. FLOUR