Augusta chronicle. (Augusta, Ga.) 1806-1817, August 30, 1806, Image 2

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SCHIEDAM, Jure 14. It stems that the King of Sweden has de manded a categorical anfwerfrom the King of Prufits, whether or not he chufe to evacuate the Lauenherg territory ? He' has had an anfvver, which, -if not deemed fatisfaftoty, is to be enforced by the immediate march of the troops which have been fu long destined to that (ervice. It is generally affected, that the Emperor Napoleon ha? demanded.an indemnity forhis ally Ihe King of Bavaria, in ronfirqucnce of lb' protracted fiay of the French troops in his dominions, by sreafon o( lha Ruffians occu pying Ciitaro, LONDON, June u. Veftcrdyy Mr. Fox brought forward h>s promifedr jolutiun rcfpeftirgthc Have trade, frtrr a fpce h offome length, in which Mr, fox pointed one the rezfons which had in duted him to bring forward the prefenf mo tion, concluded by moving, “ that the Hdufe, ednfidering the (H’ve trade, cobs contrary to the principles of j iftlce, hcm.-miry, and found policy, will, with all practicable expedition, take effbftual measures for the abolition ot the fa id trade, in tuch manner and at such period as might be more definable.*’ Gone nils Tarleton and Gifcoyne, and Lord Caftlcmagh, fpokeftrongly against the icfolittion. On a division there appeared— Ayes 114 —Nays 15 —Majority of 99 for Mr. Fox’s motion. Mr* Fox afterwards gave, notice, that he should, inafevy days, move for leave to Wing in a (hort bill, confuting the Have trade to the ftttps already employed for the present season ; and early in the crjuing ttfiion he should bring in a bill for the general and total abo lition of the trade at a certain period, Mrjdty, bcfbcching him to acfoptYiieh mea fu*e» for cftahlifhtng the heft means, to con cert with foreign powers, for the abolition r f the African (lave trade ; and ; (Turing his Ma jesty that the house would take a deep ime reft and concern in bringing such arrangement to the fulled cff.it, 1 bis motion was also agreed to, > The D ike of Bmnfwick, by,an order da ted the 91b May has directed the levy of 60,004 dolfs. for thcfupportdf the Pruflian troops in Hanover, The new Germanic conffttution is the production of Bacher, the French Change dc AfKdrs. The King and Qjcen of Prussia had on the 3 I inst. left Potldam l for Pyrraout, from whence they proceed to Hanover. The differences between Sweden and Prus sia arc likely to be loon sdjufted under the 1 mediation of the Ruffian Ambaffader, M, D. Alopeqs. NEW YOUK, Auousr 7. A letter from Arnltcrdam, ot tnc dth of June, fays, “ the (hip General* Eaton, Brown, from New-York, is just arrived (he was fint away from the Texel by a Bri tish man of war, and oidcrcd for the Downs on the afiihof May. The admiral on that fta’ion rcleafed the vefft! immediate)', and endorfrd the (hip’s rcgiller, thus—“ That the bl 'ckade men ioned by the captain of the man of war who warned him off, was tnoneom t and that he was permitted to pro cad for chc Texcl. 22T2T5SC EXPEDITION OF MIRANDA. [ The flLnxjirg Dtprjlhaniy taken before 'judge Tac’.madgb, in the frji proceed, ings of the United States vs. Smith & Ogden, afford :nueh information refpeci —*~a—» — ~yruTTT. —- r ; 0 their agencj in it ;] No. 2. ogden’s deposition. jyi/lriß, oj iVe-t u-lork, to <t vit —Samuel G. Ogden, of thecity oi Ncw.Yoik, mer chant, sworn to make true ar.fwcrs touch ing a certain expedition fitted out and fail ed from this port in the Leandcr, deposes, that Col. Smith had no particular agency in lilting out the (hip Leandcr, cir procuring the cargo—this deponent did that himfelf. Col, Smith & Gen. Miranda were frequent ly together j William Armstrong was the principal agent of this deponent in procuring certain articles of the cargo of the (hip, and in getting the men on board. There were pikes, cannon and cutlasses, for the rife of the (hip, onboard. Gen. Miranda is gene out in the fliip as passenger merely ; is bound to a place, as he, this deponent, ■ thinks, in latitude between 10 and iy, N. and longitude beiwccn 60 and 75, W,~ Gen. Miranda was to land, as was intended, either upon an island or on the Spaniflt Main, within that latitude and longitude. That the men on board were at liberty to aft or not to aft in any enterprise with G.n. Miranda, as they (h ntld agree ; or to land with the Gen. t*ta! or net to land, at their pleafme. Gen. Miranda was b*rn, as he onderftood, in the province of Caracas, and he thinks in the town of Carr.oca?, where he had a great number of friends. That Gen. Miranda (hewed this deponent a great number of pa pers in the Spanish language, the fubftancc .* s * le him, were assurances &cm hi* friends at Carraccs, that they would nffift him in any views he might have when he arrived there j they were papers recent and old, and fotne of them verV recent, and aooftly received by General Miranda while, in Europe—that General Miranda came here from London, &brought withhima lelterof credence on Daniel Ludlow, of this city for 800 K ficriing, which fom thisdoporcnt received trout Mr. Ludlow for General Mi f&nda. Th? engagement between this deponent and Gen. Miranda, is—that the Leander lhall carry what she bason board to the port of destination, and the captain of the (hip is there to receive, for this deponent, in ca(h, its price, and the amount of the outfits, and two Kindred per cent, advance on the amount of the cargo and outfits ; the veftel is there* topiocceed to Jacquetnel, and with the ca(h to purchcfc a return cargo of coffee. The deponent has several bids on London, drawn by Gen. Miranda, to the amount of aoeol. fferling—me on Nicholas V<n bittart and John Turnbull ; theothersen Trinidad, to the amount of 5000!. ftcrlir.g, cn Joseph Lambert and William Brown, merchants ; for which he is to give Gen. Miranda ere dit when paid. This deponent (atih the a meunt of the cargo on board the ihip Lean er is about 40,000 dollars, the outfits he eftirnpies at 30,000 more, Gen, Miranda is at liberty to receive or not to receive the cargo when it arrives at the port of destina tion. The estimated amount to be received there was about 217,000 dollars. i This deponent farther faith, that General Miranda went to Walhingtcn not long be fore he failed, and, as he underlined, was introduced to the officers of our government j and this deponent ur.derftood from General Miranda, that he had several interviews with the Prefidenc and Mr. Madison, and converged, among other general topics, tv'uh them on the fuhjeff of the filiation of South America, and the cpprtfiion of its inhabi tants. That from convcrlations between this de ponent and General Miranda, th.s eopencht underload the Leander was to land her car go and Gtn. Miranda near the town of Carracas, in the province of C aracas, so 1 iA^iw« 5 52 he understood- was about five hundred men. '1 hit deponent under flood from Gtn. Mr ran. da, that he was on good terms with the B/i -tifli government, and that that government was difpefed to promote and fecorid his views upon the Span iff) Main. The (hip’s cargo was luroifhtd at the requeff, and according to the directions, of Gen, Miranda ; and (he is expend to return in all the month of March, and net expefltsd to ffay at the port ot her dellinalion rr.OiC than about a fort night, What arms were on board th« Lcai.dcr when (he faneci ? Anfwcr bv thiidep i.ent. Pistols, pikes, muficets, and cannon, cUtlnfl s or fabres, and bayonets ; this deponent docs nor re coiled of any other arms on hcaid. | There were between ere th ee hundred 1 pistols, bought of various persons in the ci ty ; about lour orfive thousand pikes; be. tween five and fix hundred m fk ts ; between thirty and forty cannon in the hold, among which were two brnfs pieces, four pounders and carriages for all the cannon ; not so ma ny bayonets as mu(kc*ts j the cannon was pro cured from Gen. Stevens’s corps, Ellis and Shnw, Ripley, Center & Co. and Bernard Halt—fen or twenty tons of cannon balls, one half’s ton of mu fleet halls, one bund red and fity quarter calks of powder, bought of Low and Wallace, and Jonathan Ogden; about one or two dezen (addles and biidles, blue cloth jackets, and Ruflia (heettng trow, .furs, luch as are worn in the Weft". Indies, made by Mr. Well man, about a thousand or fifteen hundred in numbci ; the quantity of articles, aims, and 1 q .ipcnenls, were pur chased according to the advu-c ot General Miranda—all the above articles this depo nent believes were put on board before the vtflel dropped down to the Narrows, and so the belt ot this deponin '* knowledge, recojleclton, and belief, the above warlike articles were defiguedly emitted to he enter, ed in their proper name in the captains m.m. ildl of the veffVl’s cargo.; this deponent does fuppofc from bis knowledge of the exptdi. tion, that there was to he lome arrangement among the men on board (he Leandti as to subordination or rank after that arrival to their deftinaticn. Did net you under ft and from gen. Miranda that it was his ohj: ft to heave elf the yoke of the present Spamlh Govern raent from the iiihabiiaets of the country to which he was bound ? This deponent answers that he underdo- d his object was to relieve the people from cp. pit (Son, but did not onfieiftand how this w s to be tffkfted by him, and does fupp< f e the above warlike articles were intend'd as at x. iiiiiries in est fling ihat objefl, 1 his depo. r.cnt further faith, that he was introduced to General Miranda by Col. .William b Smith as he rccolk&s. SAMUEL G. OGDEN. Swcrn the iff dny cfMauh, iBcs, before me, Matthias B. Talmarge, PHILADELPHIA, Avgust 4. The following statement, to which wt call the particular attention of our readers, is published at the retried of the fupercareo cl the Orion j ** v Ship Orion, Arnold, failed from the Lie of Krace May 2, tBc6. At 6 P , x.'parted with the pilot, and immediately after ob served a fail in chafe of us. Suppoftng it to be one of the Britilh (hips of vrar cruviing on this ftution, and not wiping to be detained, hauled clafe by the wind. At 11, fee fired three (hot at us. At 4 a. m. the wind being light, (he came up with us, and fired four (hot; we immediately hove to ; after which they fired several vollics of* foiaU armes into us, which, fortunately, did no harm. They then hailed ns, and ordered the captain on board, with his log-book and papers, at the fame time using the moil - , s _ . . i■> <, . i• v ; .. .. , f./ \ ; > 1 abusive When eapf. Arnold got along fide,i he was told 10 return, as they bad sent their boat on boaifl of us, with a lieutenant and purser; who rumaged the ship’s hold/ and by far exceeded their captain in ahu(c. They examined the (lap's papers, and then ordered the captain and Cupercafgo on board their fnip* {which proved to be the Britifls frigate La Psyche, capt. ,) the latter to receive five dozen at the gang-way, for quizzing his maje/iy’s cjicets, as they termed it. On r arriving on board, the supercargo teas ftiown the main mail j and, after much abuse, was, with the captain, ordered below cn the gun-deck ; we were obliged to hand 1 a confidera- i , ble while half-leg deep in wa:er, the fri gate having carried her lee-guns under water 1 during the chafe—at length we heard feme one fay, “ you firs; jump up here, God damn you !” Soppofing they tr.eant the failers, we ftded (till, although urged by the rentry to afeend—until wc heard a thundering voice pronoucc, “ I mean those damn’d Yankee rascals.” When on deck, we wore asked, “ how we dare run-away from his majesty’s (hip /' and if we did not “know it was duty of every Yankee rafeal to lewerhis topfajls when within fight of the Britilh fhg." The captain enquired particularly of his lieutenant 'whether his /hot had killed any of the damn’d rebels ; and on being anfwertd in the negative, said, he was firry Jor it ; and wished that a cannon, (hot h?d taken o(F the head of that damn’d internal Yankee fcoundiel, pointing to capt. Arnold. Our papers were then returned us by the lieutenant, telling us their captain cenfider cd us rco contemptible to admit us to his presence, although at the time he was f;cn d:,'g by us, ana i!:rcamJrg wrist he would do us if ever wc gave his mujrjij’s /hip ano ther chafe of 90 miles, or attempted to quiz his officers. . - HABEAS CORPUS. As some foHcitude has been exprefied con cerning the commitment cf the editor of this paper to prison, on Thurlday forenoon, cn a (bate warrant, issued by the mayor—we think it proper barely to (bate, that (be editor was brought up at five o’clock the fame evening before the chief jufticc ; when, the attorney general (M'Kean) being ahfenr, the hearing was postponed to 3 o’clock on b riday evening (yelberday) and after hearing M r . W. Franklin on the part of the editor and the attorney general JVHCean on the part of the Chevalier Yrujo—the chief jus tice pollponed the decision on the habeas corpus ro Mondiy next, at 10 o’clock In the morning. Aurora, tSJJ-1. 1 \JS CHARLESTON, Au#trsr 20. Capt. Collins, of the (hip Atftic, arrived at this port yelberday, in 68 days from the River Plate, informs us, that a few hours after failing, he fell in with a Britilh fqmd. ran of 8 (hips of war, and was boatdrd by* the Diadem, captain King, The squadron was under the command of Sir Home P pham, from the Cape of Good Hope, and was dcfii. ned to aft against Montcvido. Capt. Webber, arrived at Boston from isotterdam, which place he left the 13th of June, informs, that Louis Bonaparte had arrived at the Hague, accompanied by a numerous and (plenciid retinue, and was to be proclaimed King the next day. Great preparations had been made for the corona tion j and the sum of 2,500.000 guilders ordered to be raised for the purpose of ren dering the dbahlifhment worthy the nation and the illulirious prlkce appointed to rule over tbenir : The Richmond Enquirer takes lie following notice of a publication in the Rtf H ORLD, a paper lately farted at E rank forty in Kentucky . “ It) developing of the Span. ’fo djpjciation, they have not htfifatsd to arraign fevcral men of the highdb (banding in the weftern dare to alter c that “ a majority of the rfpflab/ inhabi tants then rdidtng in the hate, arc said to have combined fur the purpose, of placing the • udiem territories under the dominion cf Spam,” They have implicated Judge Wal. hire, now of the court of Appeal? ; and Mr. John Brown, member of Congress from Ken. ru. ky. But the principalcharafter at whom f! ev have aimed their accusations, is gene r d Wilkinson the present Governor per L uifiana ; whom they represent as an intriguing and ambitious adventurer j as a man (ond of show, *nddevoid of fmcerity ; as the earliefi tool, and the great lecder cf this Spanifn con {piracy. * The accusations, here insinuated, ate of too furious a nature to be lightly believed or hastily developed- Whilit it' is therefore our duty, to keep ourfelvcs open for the ex amination or the evidence it is not Jess our duty, to wait for its developement. We dir.ll contequehtly fofpend the publication of this cllay, until we car determine from the testimony which (hall be hereafter adduced, whether ir is worthy of feriaus notice. In the mean time it may be proper to fubmic what teems to be tfee evidence for and agaiit these allegations. Com* A letter of Mr. The most aiftive e- Brown to judge Mu- itor of the “ World, ter, published in the is John Wood, who Kentucky Gazette of being almost a (Iran. , 7 8 9* ger to Kentucky, may have become the . credulous dopeof the An appeal to an ra ,a exaggexated fa- intereulngcorrerpon- lies, dcncefaid tohave ta- thr tyVd is :ken place between t/eforiozta tari j .14 Gen. Wa{Kington & notorious I’tiQay Colonel Matfhal!, of the armin'*'r> -03 which is said to be of John 'ALms, 1 * at present in t{ie p«f ftffion of Ger. John Maifhall of this city. An appeal to feve- ITc ws« rnce ar as. ral living charafters, fftant Editor ot tic patticulaily toGov- Virgini: Gaz> ue, ernor Greenup ; r.n federal paper <t tl is interfilingccnverfa- rity, anti is n v >p e ticn, between whom Editor (fa repullu i and ore of the edi- r.a, paper. L 4 tors is here deferibed.” * * Hell's Weekly Mcficrger of J rorrv y 2, (3 London paper of about ten ytatsflai oit.v| I’ays “ the faie of the last number of t}« Weekly Meflengcr was ten thvjaid Jmt hundred atid ffp,” It is fold t« r rtaty motley at feVen pence halfpenny fleilii£ # producing weekly absut 526!.—and arrest ly, 16,95zl- —equal to 74,340 dollars The Star and Morning Chronicle, aie the mod produftive papers in Lendon ; e f each are iflued about 500 O per day, 30 cc© per week, 1,560,000 per year, which a fix, pence each is 39,000!, rr 173,333 (*dlais 4 In the U. States, bed pqy hat tvt • picvi-2 the bane of newspapers, vt bereas ft European editor as pnntiually jeceives ids try as a miller does his toll. Never have weoh ferved, in a paper from Europe, language bearing the frrrUefl Tefemblarce to what follows ; “ All pefons indebted to the editor if this Gazette, are earn>Jilj rtqtuflti to male immediate payment /’* Prov, paper. From the Tstm-ow Thus American, Sir Win. If 1 k.ley, when governor U Vir ginia, in 1671, in a letter to the lords of the committee cf the colonies, alter dating that there were near 50,000 persons in iho colony—adds, “ I thark God there areno free fchocls, no t printing, & I hope we (ball not have them thele hundred years-lor learning has brought difebedi nee and here, fy, and ft,Os into the world, and printing has divulged them and libels ag-,i„ft (f;c government. €:d keep us from both ! xsxtraß of a letter from crept, John Herd, jun. of the JehooNer Caroline, oj AUxan, dr] a y dated PORT SPAIN, (Trim.) July 8. ** On the 21 ft of June, in far. 14. lory. 58, was boarded by two Freruh lice of battle fliips, who took from us about .'43 barrels of flour, all the beans and cheek, rul the greater part of the hams, and never gw us the serape cf a pan k?i ihcu,.’* Forgciies to an imtncnfe amount a*"? (PA to have been committed in this ci!‘ [Phila delphia] and the principal after is sod tr. *ic Mr, Robert Morrk~~and that he his fLd a Aurora, The Prcfldrnt of the United S‘a f (S 1 "-s appointed Peter Curtbnius, ,r.. rfbd cf the diftritt of New.Yotk, ih John Sxartwout, \hid. Captain Toby, of the Eliza, left New. I Orleans the iSth July, st which time that I city enjoyed uninterrupted health. L isa'fo I flared, that a first broke out in the fuht;r! s I of New. Orleans, about the 15th ult. wluclt I coofurntd feverai houses and notes, together I with about 350 hlids. tobecco, ic© bales 1 co ton, a quantity of flour, Bcc. principally I belonging to the traders from the weflerrt 1 country . This loss is eflirnated at between I 40 auo 50,000 dollars.— l'hih.’eL Iphiapap, I From the Medical hJ Agricultural Regfier, | The following mode of curing butter, I It- 1 lieve \v,s praftifed firft in the pant* of I Udney, in Great Britain. I LaKe two parts of the bed common fa’*, I one part cf fagar, and one part cffalt pet; » a beat them up together, and blend the white 1 < oiwplvitcly; take one ounce ot this coup >- I ft ion for every fifteen ounces of hum r, I w'oik it up well into the tnafs, and dole ic I up for ui'e. I ihe above by feme is used in this proper. I fion ten ounces of fait to four ou,.c.s cf I clean sugar. I The fly]lowing is the commendation y’v, | en of this mode of praftke in the iennjpU I •van:a Farmer : ■ I t‘ f Lhe butter cured with this mlx'u c I appears cf a rich marrow confidence, ?rd a fine color, and never acquires hatdnefi, nrr i takes fait jit eats as sweet after being Fpt I thne years as atfifl. It mufl be noted, | that butter thus cured requires to fiand | three weeks or a month before it is fit to ■ be uled ; 'it it be looncr opened the falls ar© | not pcrfeftly blended With it, and sometimes I the coolmls of the nitre will then be per- I cetvcd, which totally diiappears aiier wards,” 'this mixture will not cofl trera thn * about one cent by the ounce, which k fuf- I ficient For coring one pound of butter.- I Country farmers, is not this worth yeim if* I tom ion !• As much To as Iweet butter Is bet- I ter and bears a higher pries then that rrhich * is ftreng and- frowy. Btfides, it s>&u<3s u> I the dairy woman a fettled rale, in sit epere- I tier, which, in the way i: ts tfuslly p r nc- 1 tifed, it is done without rule or uniloxrjuy. W i cannot but think, were people to adc; f ■ the mode here recommended, they wci m soon-be convinced of the importance i-t ■ Everyone knows the fuperioriry of ire - 1 S prefer?ed by a propertkn of .laitpcttc and ■