Martinsburgh gazette. [volume] (Martinsburgh, Va. [W. Va.]) 1810-1825, 1810-11-09
The CAZET'TE.
Martinsburgh, Nov. 8.

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- The Rev. Mr.. Wilson, will preach
at Tuscarora Meeting. House on Sun
day next, at the usual nour-ln Martins
burSh, on the evening OF the same day
and, On the Sabbath following, at The fall
ms Waters.
The Berlin end Milan Decrees.-Th.
National inteiIigcnceI has CONS out, atlast
With the correspondence between Mr..
Piakney and the Marquis Wellesley, rela.
tive to the repeal of the Berlin and Milan
DEGREES. But these letters appear in i" such
a questionable shape" that we know no,
WHIT to rake OF them. As usual, we have
TIE correspondence between our minister
ana the British government in full exe.p-
png dates, wslcn fer certain purposes to DC
explained hereafter, are withheld. Bot
iion Mc. Armstrong and the French go-
W. have bat a scrap. The Ma
tional Intelhseecer, tina, candid vehicle Of
unlVerSal IN 2rnsation, accounts for the
want OF dates TO these important papers, By
sauPposing the copyise was, as We yankees
say, IL a tearing hurry for these letters
are duplicates. Now that a man should
De IN such 4 hurry as to date his letter
: London" and remember to forget 10 put
doNn" August, &c" is indeed a little re.
matkAblo, but strange things happen low
a.d&ys, and we must suppose 1t Is really so.
here are more mysteries In this affair,
wa!th we cannot so easily account for. We
have but FIVE lines from Mr.. Armstrong on
this asl-impostans subject. Where Is MIR.
Armstrong; letter to Mr.. Pinkncy con.
,ainlEg the official note of the French min.
lister = Was Mr.. Pinkney in such a hurry
that nc forgot to transmit a copy of this let
ter to cur government? We presume not.
And if our government have received it,
why not publish ii! Would it endanger
the personal safety of Mr.. Armstrong to
publish this letter? The Emperor is now
our loving friend, and VIZ presume thatiti is
no, for fear ct irritating him that our rulers
keep back this important document. They
have other reasons for this concealment,
and we hope they are good ones; but We
are sorry to say such conduct looks toe
suspicious. We had hoped the time had
arrived when they would have scorned &c
have useless secrets. There is another de.
feet in these COMMUNICATIONS which might
have been remedied had the administrators
wished to give the people all the informa.
ticn IN their power. If these letters came
without dates, the Secretary of State Ger.
talnlv knows when they came. This iafo..
ton is also wlthholden. But for this toe
our great men may have good reasons -
at any rate, they can tell US it is none OIL
our business, and that good subjects ouahI
to be content with such information as thei,
rulers condescend to give them.
10 attempt to comment or remark or
the nature and tendency of this correspond.
euce, would be at this time presumption
in us. We have so little official informa.
ton on the subject that we cannot scarcely
form an opinion as to the result of this an.
precedented affair. The whole business is
enveloped in mystery, from the first pro-
mitigation Q. the extraordinary letter OF the
Due de Galore in the Monitcur in Paris,
on the 9sh of August last TO the presen,
momcnt. In fact from the seizure of A.
merican property throughout France and
her dependencies in the begiuning of Sum.
mer down to this day, the state of com.
MERGE both in Europe and America has baf
fed all human calculation. But the revo.
e4siun OK the DEGREES aGd orders Of council