Newspaper Page Text
W' s
gold or illvcr coin ; , which arc by lattr ma<lc
current or are in actual use and circulation
a . money within the United State 1 ?, every
jteiTon so offending Hnall he deemed guilty of
a high mifdemfcanor, and (hall be imprisoned
not exceeding two years, and fined not ex
ceeding twothoufand dollars.
Sec. 4. And be it further enacted. That
nothing in this a 6l contained, shall be con
ftfiled to deprive the courts of the individu
al States of jurifdidfion, under the laws of
the several ft ucs, over offences made pun
iihable by this aft.
NATHt.. MACON,
Speaker s f the IJoufe of iiej>refentutives •
s/SMITH, 1
P rejident of tree Senate pro tempore.
Approved, April 21, 1 Bp<».
TH : JEFFERSON.
EXTRACTS.
From the Pamphlet, entitled u An Inquiry
into the State of the Nation at the cm.
men cement of the Adminijirationand
fippfed to have been ■written by Lord
Hal! and — London, 1806.
c< But, inffy, the operation of our ma
ritime power upon the naval affairs of the
enemy, lx Tides destroying that part »f his
system which alone it is our interest to in.
jure, confers important benefits upon thole
whom't is our interest to allift. Not only
does the ruin of the French navy, by the
neutral interference, produce thegreateft inju
ry to the government of France, with which
aicne we ought to he at war, without ruin
ing (he peaceable and unoffending inhabi
t i.ifs, whom we fh'duld have no fpile a
g drift ; but it transfers .1 large portion of
commercial wealth, and a capacity of ac
-1 quirtng maritime power, to nations natu
rally allied to on, by blood, by the rela
tions of political inrerefts, ami fey the inter
eourfe of trade. 'The Americans, in par
ticular, with whom our rod extensive and
lucrative traffic is carried on, and whole
friendfhip in a political view we ought to
court, as the only refpeftablc state beyond
the influence of our enemy, are gainers by
the commerce in qoeftion, to an astonishing
degree, both as a mercantile and agricultural
people. How much their commercial gains,
are our gains, need scarcely be pointed out :
neither need we (hew how greatly it is for
the advantage cf England, and the world
in general, that what, the French power
loles ihoald pass into the hands of a state
where no undue bias, either towards fehemes
of ambition, or mcafures of submission to
the common enemy, has ever been (hewn...
a fta'e where Co many circurnftanccs concur
to establish the influence of English princi
ples and connexions ; where the other powers
of the Curpiniii*, without having any
ground for alarm, may always expeft to
find afUftancc. fjnn asaw
nieiTurate wjth its inclinations.
It is in vain, then, to represent the
neutral trade as a complete fccu.ity to our
enemies, against the efTctbi of cur martime
superiority. The injuries which it is our
infeteft to inflift upcJn France, are in no wife
diminiftied by the interference of America
in het commerce. The French ravy is de
stroyed by ours, and the chance of restoring
it, may be cdnltdered as at an end, duiing
the war. The revenue cf France, in so far
as it depends upon colonial produce, we
. might wish to cut erf, but we cannot; for
so long as the French people have a taste for
that produce, and money to pay for it, they
will buy it ; it will enter France, and pay
duties to the government. The commercial
prosperity of France we hpve no interest to
deftijoy ; but if we had, we could nor, and
the transference of the trade to neutral car.
acts, mull always protest it in one way or
another, when a long war, and a total ru
in of their naval force, compels the French
to embrace this last alternative, as the only
chance, that is left of importing and expor
ting commodities,
“ A further ground of objection to the
Americans has been urged with confidcra
ble popular eftl-ft. Their merchantmen, it
foems, ate now manned, in p great degree,
by deserters frojn the Biitrfli navy. While
the emigration of Teamen into their fcrvice
prevents England from putting her fhtps of
war in commission, the Americans are ready
to cftablilh a formidable marine upon the
ruins of ours, for the maintenance of their
difptited claims.—lt happens, however, to
be the neceffhry conference of our situation,
that such an emigration should take place.
The funilarity pf language and manners,
which determines the ordinary coutfr of emi.
gntiob towards America from this country,
has a ft mi Hr effcift upon the emigration of
onr Teamen. The higher wages too, of the
American fcrvice, ami ftiil more, the to.
tal freedom from press-gangs, which it en.
joyS, cannot fail to attract a great number
of men from our merchant vcffcls during a
war. But how can this poflibly g be preven
ted ? No regulation of the government
can alter the mannas of America, nor make
\ our merchant* raise their wages, .-in order
ro retain fabjefts impvefs service.
Nor do we seem willing to abolith that
mode of fupi lying our navy, which would
probably, if coupled with a rife of wages,
have the deft red effect.
It is faicl, however, that wc may in ft ft
upon a tight of fcarching all American vef.
fcls at lea, and imprefiing the Britiftt Tea.
men found in them. Do wc mean, then,
to deny to our Tailors alone, ol all chtffes of
the people, a right to leave the country,
and sock employment in the territories of
friendly powers ? It is hurtful to the com
merce of the country, that artisans fliould
go to Atactica and Russia, and wc have
ft v*- \ •
various taws on our ftatutc took, the fruit"
of a mistaken poire*', framed with a view
of preventing such ao emigration. But no
- ©ne can propose, at the present day, to ex.
tend such prohibitions, and Hill less was it
ever in contemplation to raclaim the artisans
who had afiually gone away and fettled :in
foreign countries. A sailor working in f.\
American (hip, is only in the prcdicamer.
of a farmer cultivating an American plant:,
tion ; Sc the fenrch o( the (hip for the purpcio
of seizing the Tailor, would be an of
violent aggreflion, as the search of the codo.
try for the seizure of the farmer. The only
d;fference between the cases is, that v.' e
happen to have the power in the sow^ r *
and not in the latter.
“ But by going to war with Amerp,
we may prevent the further emigration! at
cur Teamen, acquire a right to rccilm
tbofe who are already gone. By turning
all our vdlels into armed cruizes, i'.d
engaging in an universal piracy, we n.Lht
(fill further enrich ourfelvcs. We havejthe
fir (I mvy and bravest people in the wctld.'
We may take the Tea, as France has fclycd
upon the land ; and thus find our profit in
prefering war with the whole world* to
peace with .a fiogls nation, which has rights
v and advantages repugnant to our fuppdfed
interest. After all, however, laying lief,
tree oat of the question, is it our real iqier
eft to quarrel with the only power which re.
nv,ir..s unhurt by French influence, to lose
our intcrcourfc with the nation best calcula
ted for our commercial relations. 'At this
moment, France and America seem of thetn
felvcs disposed to a rupture ; and pcffibly,
before this time, war is declared by the
United ■ fates againfi Spain, Ought w e not
to think well both of the $ of
the contest, and cf the value of rhc>»oattcr
in dispute, before we abandon so fair an
»ppuM«ni iy oi adding America to the num
ber of our allies. Sc ot eftabliihing our itfiu.
encc there, upon the only durable founditi
on of alliance?, mutual (acrificcs, and mutual
be nefiis ? The trivial importance of all ihat
could be gained by excluding the neutral»
traders ttom the enemy's commerce, has
already been (hewn. No words arc recui.
red to prove, that the blanks occafioncd by
some sailors leaving our service will speedily
be filled up ; that the number of Britilh Tea
men at the end of a given period will be
greater, in confeqirencc of cur breeding for
the American navy, just as the number of
our people is on the whole augmented by
the demand for men, which our colonies
create. We may feel some inconvenience
in the mean ti ne, from the progress it the
enemy’s commerce, and the defertibn ot
our Teamen to neutral, powers. Buit cur
general policy car. never be muddled acton!-
ing to such tempory confidcraticns. Tic
evils Os difficidcifeC, UJ QUciliou are.
idiy «or/cquences or the long war in which
we have been engaged. They arc part of
that fuccedion which the new administration
have Fallen heirs to—a fuccefSon made up
of all the dangers and difficulties, which a
long courfeof inifmauagcmentand misfortune
has accumulated upon the country,”
LONDON, May 7.
SWEDISH BULLETIN.
Head Quarters cf the Swcd ; (h Army of Grifwald,
April 36.
Reports of the 23d, received from adju.
tant-gcneral count Lowcnheilm, announced
that on the 21st the Pruflians has taken pof.
session olTeveral villages in the Macklenburgh
territory along the frontiers of Luenburg.
At Marienftadt their videjttes approached
to within 300 paces of the Swcdidi outposts.
Count Lowenheiln's principal force was then
at Crollzecher and Skenorff. The Swedilh
van guard retained poffcfllon of Marienftadt,
baphicnth.il, bridge ofßuchen, and approach,
es to Lauenburgh and Attlcnburgh.
Ycdcrday baron Glass Rulamb arrived a
courier with b report from count Van Lo.
wenheilm dated Gadcbuch, April 23d. It ,
is dated in his dispatches, that at half past
eight in the morning of the 23d —the p ru f.
dans pal Ted the Launeburgh frontier at Ma.
rienftadt in such force that the Swedilh
troops found it neaffary, after a brave re
sistance to evacuate their polls in the even,
ing. The iofs under count Van Lowen.
heilm con fids of r hussar killed and 8 wcun*.
dcd. she loss of the Prulfians cannot be
related with certainty ; butduring theaftion,
it was observed that a number fell cn their
fide. Count Van Lowcnheilm, has referred
the communication of farther details, (.which
with refpea to the Prulfians will be very am
pie) until his next report* which is every mo
ment expetfled. i 7
In confequencc of the hostilities thus com.
menccdby the king of Prussia, his Swcdi.h
majclty was pleased to ilfuc orders yeSerday
for a general embargo onall Pruflian veficis
in the Swedilh harbors.
BRIDGETOWN, (Bar.) J VKE 7. |
GENERAL Ml RAND.I. "
Tldi celebrated and dillinguiflied officer
an 1 zed here .bis morning on board the A
meriean fhij> Leander captain Lewis, in
company with his Ma jelly’s Hoop of war
Lilly, which fell in with the Leander on the
2-srh c!r. off Grenada. Gen. Miranda,
who had failed from America in January
lad, on an expedition to gtvc freedom and
independence to Soath Ame.ica, touched at
Jdcquemel, and failed again from thence on
the 27th March, in company with the
schooners Bacchus and Bee, and arrived
near Cumana, between Porto-Cavallo
and Lagmra, on Sunday evening, the 27th
April; on the following morning the goad
i ■ .
m
being alarmed, tfie Leander was attacked
by two flout guarda coflas, one a brig of
twenty i z pounders, and the ether a schoo
ner of sixteen iz’s, Loth full of men. The
Leandcr succeeded in beating thefc off; but
the Bacchus and Bee, being in shore, en
dcaouring to land a detachment, were cap
tured, having fcveral confidential officers
on board, in consequence of this disaster,
and the Lcander being in want of water,
general Miranda put into Bcenaire, and
failed from thence ©n the ift inst. intending
far Trinidad, but having fallen in with the,,
Lilly, and receiving feme information from
Capt. Campbell of that (hip, he preceded to
Grenada, and from thence to this Ward,
probably with a view of confuting with cur
xefpeftive commanders on the future execu
tion of his laudable enterprize, in which
every Britilh fubjeft and free government
mull wifti him the amplest fucccfs.
The Bacchus and Bee were two unarmed
pilot boat fchfcop.ers,
NATCHEZ, June 3.
‘ Cowles Mead, Esq. Secretary of the
Mifliifippi Territory, arived in this City,
on Saturday last.
SAVANNAH, July 4.
({ About 5 o'clock in the afternoon,
whilst firing to one of the toasts, Mr. Jacob
Fox, one of their corps, ailing at that time
as Gunner, the field piece was neglefted to
be spurge properly k left feme wad on fire in
v the piece; putting in the b caught
about half war unextinguifhed wad,
whilst h* was ramming it home, and wept
the fpunge ftaff carried off one arm and
one hand, and broke the remaining arm In
three differnt places. Young Mailer Rob
ert Greer was pafiing very imprudently a
bout ten Heps in front of the field piece at
the time ; the spurge ftaff took him on the
left fide and came cut in front, carrying
away with it his heart and feme of his en
trails ? He fell and expired without a groan.
Several of the moll eminent Physicians
• were immediately called to the offiftancc
of Mr. Fox ; they at once amputated his
right arm near the shoulder, a consultation
was then had to save, if possible- the other,
which was so much broken ;-.-thcy, after
mature deliberation, found it neccffary to
amputate the other near the shoulder about
twelve o'clock last night...we yet fear that
notwithstanding every profcflional aid that
may be afforded him, he cannot survive
long, unless the weather fhculd prove more
favorable. Mr. Fox is a young man about
twenty.three years of age and refidcs’ in this .
county fcveral miles from Savannah.
By the Gabriel Duval we have received
Nalfimpapers to tha ift inst. They furniftv
London and Li verpobTircraiJrtrsnfaTlie 14th
May, and Kingston »f the 7th June.
The government schooner Redbridge ar
rived at NafTau on Sunday June 29 --A few
days previous (he had boarded a (hip from
Liverpool for New Orleans, and obtained
Englilh papers to the 23d of May, No
accounts from these had been publiihed when
the Gabriel Duval failed ; but. the report
was, that Great Britain had declared every
port in Europe , from Gibraltar to the Bal
tic, in a blockade. It was also said that
ten Britifli frigates were ordered out, to
cruize on the American coast... -Times.
gCf- Dodor Smelt, molt ref
petHfutly informs Ilia fellow Citizens, that
he is a Candidate for the next Congress, and
also, for. the vacancy that exists in the pre
sent Congress, occasioned by the resignation
of the Honorable Joseph Bryan of Chatham
county.
l une *8» [3 I],
TO LET.
In the rear of the Chronicle Printing O
ffioc in Reynold ttrect, a snug and con
venient tenement; for terms enquire of
R. CRESS WELL.
Juh it. [t»]
NOTICJ,
THEI Subfcribert being appointed to re
ceive the name* of Pcrfcn* in the conn
ty of Richmond entitled to draws in the
Land Lottery under the est ofiffsmbly pas.
fed the 26th of June 1806, give notice,
that they will attend for that pnrpjfe at
Capt. Collins's matter ground on Wcdncf
day the 30th July and Monday the rnh of
Augufl; at Capt. Beal's renfter ground on
Thursday the 31st July and Tucfdav the
izthcfAuguS, at Capt. Wm. M‘Tyre’a
mutter ground on Friday the ift and VVed
nefday the 13th of Aoguft ; at Capt. M*-
Coombs's moftcr ground in HarrMmrgh J>n
Saturday the td and Tburfiky'the 14th of
Acgufl; at Mr, Hzrrifcn's in Capt. Few's
diftaii on Monday the 4th and Fridaay the
15th of Aaguft ; and at the City-Hotel Au
gusta, for Capt. Smyth’s diftridl, on Tucf
day the sth and Saturday the i6th of the
said month of August.
ABSALOM RHODES. ’
MATTHEW FOX.
y**y T 9» ( t n
~Tosr,
I
IN Baldwin on the 6th inst. my Pocket
B.ok, containing a number of pap crs , a
«o,hcrs 01 e t,tue 9 f hand riven bv
13 Williara MicoS far 5
at AuPufLft lhUty ° r iorty dolia,s
hft whfehnT iT ln th= ® onth of March
1 V
AUGUS TAT^^r^T
SINCE our last we have received newsto
the 12 May stem Europe; 9 dxys Inter
than before, nothing cf great moment fetmi
to have taken place on the grand theatre, t*,
cept that the Swedes had been beaten out 0 f
the Hanoverian territory by the Pruffunj
who arefaid to have putfutd the Swedes into
Swedilh Pomerania. The king of Sweden
had laid an embargo on all Prussian ve£fi*; f .
in his ports, and issued a fpirirtd proclaim,
tion against his brother Vtcderick.--Sicily
by the last accounts had not been invaded!;-
the French, but they were making great pre,
pa rat ions for that purpefe—An in!air<(f'P a
is faij to have taken place in Palermo ar( j
the royal family obliged to fly to
The Turkifii provinces appear to be greatly
convulsed—Louis Bamiparte the intended
king of Holland was dangerouily ill at Park
-*-The French and Spaniards have fix
rons at Tea, three of which ate (Confiderabl*
Admiral Berkley fupercedes Whitby en thj
Halifax Ration—it is to be hoped he is net
to fupercedc him also in murder kidnapping £
fpolirtion, on the New-York station.
From Liverpool they write that the co'toa
rati ike 1 had remained Heady —Admiral vflle,
nenve on the 221! of Aptil* dilpatched him.
fell’at Morhix in France—he mull have
been mightily afraid of ihc I title f<llo>iv.~~.
On accountof rifiuv circu.nftances, the grand
military feaft at Paris was postponed from
May till September—Denmark, on eppHca,
fi«n from the king of Frt.ifia to that clLft,
has refufed to Unit her ports against Eng.
land—From Berlin they write that Bor:a«
parte had prtmiud ihc king of Pruflia i 2O) ,
000 men, in case he should be attacked by
Russia—Two conftderabie expeditions were
on the eve of failing from England ; one
for Sicily, and another to the Cape of Good
Hope and the Eaft-Indies—*Nota word about
makirig any diverjion on the continent cf
Europe I
A London print fays that it was finally 1
fettled that Lord Lauderdale was to go out
Governor General to India—he has a line
field before him*—ln Jamaica a number cf
American Teamen have beer, lately life barged
from the British men of war en that station
*—Sir Sidney Smith is said to have deft royal
several Spanish Gun.boat3 at Algefiras, near
Gibraltar—Letters from Detroit cf the. fiift
June, mention that the Indians were pr.'par.
ing to attack that place ; a confiderabletk.
gtte of alarm was spread in the country—Aa
American fliip from the East-Indies burins
advice that the British at the Cape cf Good
Hope, were preparing an expedition againll:
South-Amcrica ; Montevidio was fuppoftd
to be their firft cbjtdi— It was reported in
Lcndon that die famous-Duke cf Dainiwidt,
was coming ever from the king of Prufi?,
(as a plenipo. in order to sdjtift matters be,
ttvecn the two countries—Kir. Adair is B p.
pointed Ambaffador-fr©tn England to Vien
na—General Dc Lancey was called on by
the army ccmmiflloners, t* pay in 93.00 c!.
w’hich he retained of the public nicr.ey—
During the period cf about three j eats ar.cba
half, the expences of volunteer corps in En»-
landarnounted to 5>4co ; ooo pound.-, 26,000
of which had been paid to inf pelting
--hr»m Vienna it would appear that the as.
fair cf Cattara had net been fettled—Tbj
French demanded of that court a pafiage
through Croatia—A war between Refits arc!
Pruflia, it is added, was ccnfidered as ine
vitable—An American by the last a nival
from London, fays that in a converfaliou
with Mr, Monrae, a few days before ha
failed, he underftoed the differences between
the L. States and England would soon be atl
vantageoufly fettled—The Spaniards have
agreed that Mobile should be a place of dept;,
fit for goods brought from the United States
From the fame quat ter we learn that one
thousand American troop had been direfltd
to flatten themfclves at Fort- Adams’—-A
bout the 12th May, a white man ki’.kdart
Indian near Tellico Block-house. Colonel
Meigs was sent to bring the perpetrator to
conviction, and pacify 200 Indians who had
aflcmhlcd to take fatisfac^ion.—On the 50th
Gen. Andrew Jackson and Chirks
Lickinlon, both of Tennessee, fought 3 tin.
el, in which the latter received a ball in the
arm, w hich palled through and entered !;:s
body ; there were little hopes of his recovery.
t-According to the calculation of a Bolton
paper, there is a majority of Republicans in
all the branches of the Legislature ofKUua
chufetts, of fevetity. t<w* —By a letter fro;*
Nachitoches of the <sth cf May, it is pics,
sing to learn that every thing is quiet in#chit
quarter, and that the Spaniards arc frkWiy
drlpcfcd ; their comnvltidets have declared
that they have received orders to treat tk -
Americans with attention and refpeft, and
by all means to cultivate peace nod harms ■
ny with them.—From Barbadoes, whtre
by the bye, Miranda ‘arrived in the I,s«tt?«
dcr, on the xsth ult. a paflenger ''cams t'j
Norfolk, who reports -that he had fern a
letter irom Admiral Cochrane cf the u -•»
informing h:s friend at Barbadoes that Be.-,
aparte had declared war against Denmark ft
Sweden, and that all veifeis belonging
thtie nations were in conlcquence tie’s aei
in theF rencttlflands.
On Monday last the elcdliorf for county k •
ficers took place in Baldwin comity, vt: 'i*
the following peifons were chefim.
7 Canon Sheriff, ».U *
Clptk q£ the superior court, —G f$- •/
Cletk cf the inferior court, ——- Starctw-
Surveycr, and Yeung Coroner.
To Qicw the rapid progress of pun . ■
tn this county, 870 peribr.s
above cicdtioa.