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VOL. VII No. 45 ]
To Country Merchants.
The Subscriber being desirous of
Selling Off,
how offers his Stock in Trade confiding of a
choife afloriment of
DRY GOODS
And a fupolv of GROCERIES at Co/} and
Charges, and on liberal terms of payment if ap
plication is made earlv.
AUGUSTUS MOORE.
March 20. (37)
NOTICE.
THE fublcribers having entered into Co
partnerfliip, intend to tranfaft
Commission Business,
UNDER THE FIRM OF
BELCHER (A PHELPS,
And offer their services to the public in that
line.
William belcher.
CHARLES P. PHELPS.
Wm* BELCHER, takes leave to inform his
friends in Georgia of the above mentioned
connection, and refpeafuily foiicits their pa
tronage in all agency business.
Boston, Sept.-2. (, 4 , y )
The Subscriber,
Respectfully informs the Pubiic,and
particularly the Lumber Cutters on the Sa
vannah River, that he has taken the commo
dious and exteufive
Lumber Yard,
Together with the Wharf, Stores, &c. former
ly occupied by Col. Ambrose Gordon,
WHERE HE INTENDS TRANSACTING THE
Lumber, bast or age and Commijfion
Business,
J° r r such P e| ff°ns as may fav or him with
their patronage ; and flatters bimfelf that the
uniform attention and punaualitv which he
means to observe, will not only leave no room
nlL C fT- P i a £'’ bUt g ' Ve 3S K eneral and com
p ete fattsfaAion, as the state of the market and
his own constant exertions will admit.
Those who may have occasion for his fervi
b?nches of ,he FACTORAGE
BUSINESS, (for the tranf'aflion of which he
has as iunabic stores as anv in Savannah) may
that their interest will not be negleo-
William Cook.
Savannah , Sept. 19. (iijtf)
just received;
And For Sale by the Subscribers,
20 Hhds. Prime MUSCOVADO SUGAR
6 do. belt GREEN COFFEE.
Which they offer for Pale on the mod reduced
prices, for cash or produce.
M‘Kinne fA Co.
February 13. (32)
NO T 1 C K
THE Cnpartnerfliip of Thomas Barrett
and William M. Cowles, under the
hrm of Thomas Barrett & Co. is dissolved
this day by mutual consent. All persons in
debted thereto, are folicitccl to make payment,
and those that have any demands again!) the
concern, will render them in to Thomas Bar
rett, who is authorifed to fettle the fame.
Thomas Barrett.
William M. Cowles.
March 20.
NOTICE.
APPLICATION Will be made to the next
Court of Ordinary, to be held in and for
tne County of Richmond, on the firft Tuef
day in June
the efiate of Andrew Innes, ticceafed, at which
time an accurate Statement, and Settlement up
to that time of the estate of laid deceased, will
be rendered.
JAMES BEGGS, Adm'r
, Mlv 8 _ 4t (44)
~~N OTIC E.
A LL persons having claims against the Ef
lx ra ' e °f she late Col. Robert Watkins, are
1 requeded to render them, in form, and time,
prefaced by law.—All those who are indebt
ed to the Estate are requeded to make payment
to
Elizabeth M. Watkins, Adm'x.
Anderson Watkins, Adm'r.
January 2. (26)
FOR SALE.
A THREE dory BRICK BUILDING on
Broad-dreet, Augusta, with a large lot
of ground and valuable improvements.—For
terms apply to Doftor Anderson Watkins.
George Watkins.
February 27. (3
FOR SALE or HIRE.
A HEALTHY, likely HOUSE WENCH,
19 years old—want of employment in
duces the proprietor to part with her. EnA
quire at the Augusta Boek-fttie.
March 6. (35)
i
THURSDAY, MAY 15, 1806.
Mrs. Chatfield,
HAVING lately returned from Charleston,
wishes to inform the Ladies of Augulla,
and its Vicinity, that Ihe has on hand of the
newest fafhions, a general atfortment of F AN
CY ARTICLES, which will be fold on mod
erate terms.
Bonnets of different kinds and of the new
ell fafhions,
Caps do.
Picket Cambrick and Muslin,
Ditto Gloves and Shawls,
Cords, Taflels and Buttons,
Feathers and Flowers,
A variety of Ribbons and Crape,
Gold, Silver, and Silk Shoe Bows,
Lace Cloak Paterns
Coral Beeds, and Blown ditto.
March 13. (36)
Harriot Bond,
(at a. waterman’s store.)
Has Received a Fresh Supply of
Leghorn A
Willow & [bonnets ;
Silk )
Beaver Hats and Feathers,
Artificials, fAc. (Ac.
January 23. (20)
Mrs. Wilde,
Has just received in addition to her forma fio c k of
MILLENARY,
The following Faftdonable Articles , viz.
FEATHERS and Flowers, Silk, Silver rncl
Cotton Trimmings, Pic NV, S k, and
Leather Gloves, Crape Muslin and Lace Caps
and Turbans, Dress Bonnets, Plufli, Straw,
Chip, Pimento, Leghorn and Silk Bi.nne's and
Hats. All kinds of fiik and silver Buttons and
Trimmings, Cords and Taflels, Spvglafs do.
Gold and Silver Embroidered Handkerchiefs
and Sleeves, Sattin Cloaks, Lace Cloaks and
Spencers, Ribbons, Modes, Sattins and Be
longs, Manilla Muslins. Plain and Worked
Mullins, Laces, Veils, &c. &c.
February 20. (33)
FINAL NOTICE.
THE Subscriber finding no attention paid
by his debtors to his repeated applications
for payment, informs them that all his cut
(landing debts will be put into the hands of an
Attorney at Law for coileftion next Coun,
uniefs previously fettled.
‘ WILLIAM KENNEDY
May i. (3 43 )
NOTICE.
THE Subscriber intending to le ve he
state for a few months, has "ed hit
Honor Judge Willfon, M. George •< g -h,
and Mr. John M Kinne, his lawfv' Attorney’s
during his absence.
THOMAS GARDNER.
_May *1 (t 43-
~N~O T I C E,
THE Copartnerfliip of VVm D. fiuvkLY
C ft Co. having expired on r) fi ft day of
February lad, all persons indebted to N: laid
concern, are earnestly requeded, to call and
fettle their accounts with Mr. Bunkly, who
is authorifed to fettle all accounts.
William D .Bunkly.
Ap»il 25. 30
BRIGADE ORDERS’
A VACANCY having been occasioned in
the Richmond County Regiment of
Militia, by the removal of Lieutenant Col.
James Fox, from the County An Eledton
to fill such vacancy, will he holden at the
Court-House in the City of Augusta, on Fri
day the 3 oth of May next, in purloance of the
Milita Law pafTcd at Louisville, the 10th of
Dehember 1803.
By order of Brigadier Gen. Tnos. Glascock
F. WALKER, Aidecamp.
May i. (43)
ffcT A Gentleman who has been in
the habit of teaching the Languages, Arts and
Sciences, for more than twenty years, wishes
to be engaged in the fame imployrnent.—En
quire at the Augusta Book Store.
March 13. f 36)
( * The Commissioners of the
Wafliington Academy Lottery, have given no
tice that they will commence the drawing in a
few days.
V TICKETS in the above Lot
tery to be had at the Augusta Book- St or f .
March 20. 37,
{Tjf The Subscribers to the LIFE
OF WASHINGTON, may receive the 4th
Volume, by applying at DoAor Murray’s
and paying the advance for the fifth and lad
volume.
fc/* The GEORGIA JUSTICE
OF PEACE, may be had at the AUGUSTA
1 BOOK-STORE; and in Louisville of James
Meriwether, Esq. and at the Surveyor-Gener
al’s office.
Congress of the United States.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Thursday, March 6.
BRITISH AFFAIRS.
Debate, in Committee of the whole on the fate of
the union, on Mr. Gt egg's resolution for a non
importation of Britijk Goodt.
Mr. JOHN RANDOLPH’S
SECOND SPEECH.
Mr. John Randolph. Mr. Chairman, 1
did .'xpeft, on coming to the houie this
morning that the friends of the refulution un
der ditcuflion, would have brought forward
feme arguments to fliew (what they had stu
diously avoided) —that the abililty to coerce
Great Britain is within the coropais of this
nation’s power ; that this power ought now
to be exerted, and that the proposed meai'ure
is equal to the dtfired effeft. It behoves them
to oemonftrate ali this, uefore they ask for our
ft pport. I did not come down to the house
with the expedition ofhftening to a gross mif
’eprefentation of my expreftions vefterday j
'note and defultcry as I allow them to have
l ten—much lets was I prepared to hear such
misrepresentations from the lips of aged men,
whom I have treated with invariable and guar
mu r. fprft—between whom and myfelf there
.. . i r.g r xtlled a political iriendfltip—real on
u. ■ ■<*•!, apparent on theirs. I did not indeed
ex, -ct to bear particular expreflions, uftd by
me in lie ardor of debate, broken and culled
fro m their conne&tng members, and mutilated
and tortured into meanings, which cold-blooded
malice alone could have deviled. A’ir, in this
*a,v of proceeding (without intending any
, r* sane companion) the Bible itfelf may be
made to preach atheism, to declare that there
is no God, “ The fool saithin his heart, there is
no God.” Taken together, it is inspired wil
dom : riifmember it, it is impiety.
It has not beer, denied, by any member on
this floor, that the carrying trade—that the
commerce and navigation of these dates ought
to be protected. The only question is quo
modo ? Have you the ability to protest them
by war, and are they of lY.ffirienr value to jufli
fy ihe expenle rs ;uth protection. We fay
no ; they cannot ; lor so dear defence, rich
as they may be »t above all, they cannot
repay us for the 1 of our conditution. It is
above all price. .ve j> larther; we affirm
that trade is now protedkd by the mod efli knr
within our power, by difcrimin.ting
duties, laid by the • otes of southern men, and
yet, fir, we are threatened with schism, with a
didblution of the union, if we do no 1 adopt
particular fydems, deviled by chance, begotten
of ignorance or imbecility! Are these thr
mild and conciliatory plans and idea* of which
gentlemen boalt ? Is this mildness ? Is this
conciliation ? Is this peace > The gentleman
from Pennsylvania (Mr. Smilie) with a face
of wondrous importance, tells you, that, by the
conditution, we have power to raise and main
tain armies, to build and equip navies ; from
which he draws the inference that (under what
ever c ircumltances, I suppose) we mud aftual
ly do what the conditution allows. And yet
■hat gentleman, in former times, voted with us
again!) armies and navies! Let him judify
himfelf tl he can, upon his new principles ? I
repeat it—if the unjust aggressions of a foreign
nation, if indignity and insult, abroad, are al
ways to produce war, the gentleman was crim
inal in refilling to support the adminidration in
1798. Yes, you were then compelled to drain
Use cup of humiliation to its very dregs. Did
he put 1 hat cup by ? Did he vote’ for fleets and
armies, or a fulpenfion of commercial inter
course with France? What was the French
edition of the laws of nations then ? Tim a
bale of Britifli manufafture (without any ques
tion of enemy’s oroperty) fhouid fulijedt to
seizure and cmHemnauon. And what was the
Britifli dr.f. 'ne in 1793? That France was
(with ui >". ep of the pen) in a state of siege
and I lo«.'. do, and that American fl ».r, See.
fhu;..(l 1; Te carried there at ail. And yet
agaiuft t .le principles and pradticts, prt.pode
ro . and injurious as they were, we did not go
to war—at leaf) that gentleman was oppokd
to such war (it war it tr.ay be tailed) as was
wa^eci.
But whilst I acknowledge the carrying trade
to be valuable to a certain extent, I mud, un
lels I abandon every pretension to the charac
ter of a politician, aft on exilluig circumdan
tes, on things as they are, not as I believe they
ought to be. In casting about, the firft thing,
(or one of the fird) to be cotifidered is revenue.
Atmoft wtinle revenue is derived from
commerce ; that is, from the dom-ftic con
famption of impods from abroad. How much
tomes from the carrying trade ? Your state
ments, lam told, fay 800,000 dollars. But if
our whve consumption were imported in
foreign bottoms, tne impost would exceed its
preknt amount bv 11 or 1200.c00 dollars. J
warn gentlemen againfi a mtfrepreftnration of
this LA. Am I therefore desirous to gain this
increase at the expense of our navigation ? Far
from it. It wouid be to kill the goose that lavs
the golden eggs. But what is this branch of
the carrying trade, for which gentlemen would
lacriricc nut only our whole navigation and
commerce, but the agriculture and conditution
of the country ? Look at this trade which is
to be guarded at every nfk, and the men who
follow it. Do they carry your produAs abroad,
and bring back goods for home consumption ?
No, they plunge their hands into your pockets
for drawback—during this very leffion they
[WHOLE No. 357.
t hrenten to plunder the treasury of millions by
a bill happily arretted on its pailage. If our
fair trade is not protected, how comes it that
it has grown ith a rapidity before unheard of
in any age, unknown in any nation ? That
growth has been nourilhed by proceXing du
ties, fottered by our neutral petition. Wc are
the real friends of your navigation. It has
grown beneath the (bade of diferiminating du
ties— flour idled in the lun- thine of the neuiral
cnaraXerj with the hrft blight of maratime
war it dies.
I am accused too with stigmatizing the mer
chants of the United States. I deny the
charge. Evary profeflion and calling of hu
man life is disgraced by unworthy members.
The law ha 3 ns pettifoggers, the church its
hypocrites, medicine and politics too fir, have
their empirics—and if there be two profelfions
in the world, which can be feleXed for a tend
endency todevelope the pre-exifting germ of
imperfection planted in our nature, they are the
profellion of the lawyer and the occupation of
the trader. And wherefore ?—Becaufe they
open the w ide field of temptation. The »if.
elt prayer that ever was or can be devised for
human infirmity, is that which teaches us to
deprecate iuch trials—“ Wc beseech thee, lead
us not into temptation !” What is the f»X }
Whilst we boalt of our honor on this floor
our name has become a by word among the
nations. Europe, and Paris ef'pecially, (warms
v ith pieudo-Americans, withAngloand Gallo.
Americans, and American French and Englifli
who have amafled iinmenfe fortunes by tra
ding in the neutral charaXer, by setting it up
to auction and felling it to the bed bidder.
Men of this deferiptiou— ftriplings, without
connexions or charaXer, have been known
to buy rich vcfl'cls anti their cargoes, in Am
sterdam and Antwerp, and trade with them
under the American name, to the Indies. Neul
tral charaXer has constituted one of the best
remittances for colonial produce, or the goods
which purchase it 5 and the trade in this com
modity of neutrality has proved a rnoft lucra
tive branch of traffic. This it is that has
funk and degraded the American name abroad,
and fubjeXed the fair trader to vexatious lev»l
ureatul detention. But lam alked, if W e (hall
lubmit to a tame and dastardly abandonment
of our rights ?—and by those, too, who have
made a cowardlv (urrender of our best interests
and our honor when we were well able to have
maintained them. I beg leave to reply to this
q teftion by asking another.—Are you prepare J
to affe.r them ? To go all lengths to enforce
them ? In what coufilts true dignity f I n
vaporing in the newspapers ? In printed hand
bills and refoiutions ? Or in taking ground
which you can and will maintain—which no
change of fortune (hall com pel I v>u to defer: ?
Aut nunquam tentes , autpcrfi.ee. Does the gen
tleman want a trauflation ? Here is one truly
American “ Stick or go through." This
is true dignity : can he give a better definition }
And what constitutes talfe dignity ? P.ayinp
the part of a bobadil—bullying England, and
truckling to Spain—l beg pardon, there is no
Spain bullying England and truckling to
France.—This you have done—you know it.
When gentlemen tell us of their w iiiingnefs
to pubiith our proceedings, why do they not
dear the gallaries and off the injunction
of secrecy f Let their private vote correspond
with their public profellion. And let me tell
the gentleman from Pcnnfylvania, (Mr. Smilie)
that I would rather have his vote than his
speech at any time. Whq would suppose, if
he bad not averred it, that he held silence and
good sense in such high-refpeX,—that he pre
ferred the calm decisions of quiet wisdom, to
the tffufions of empty garrulity.
The gtntlemau from New York has fold
us, that after the call of the Executive for firm
mealures, he did not expeX this opposition.
And does he call this a firm measure ? What
would have been a firm measure? An embar
go. That would have gone to the root of the
evil. But that, fir, would not have suited
your prorcus politicians. There could have
been no evafmu of that. But your slippery
mercantile eels can fl de over er under this pro
vision, and leave the whole burthen of fuffer
ing to fall ou the planter, the farmer, and the
real American. The whole revenue (w C are
told) derived from commerce Who pavs
it ultimately but the confumei, and with as
large a profit on the merchant’s advance of the
duties (often a mere advance of credit) as be
receive* from any other part of hi, capital.
Thele new ideas of firmnefs are either above
or below my comprehension. AuJ because
we are anxious to fee the public dot paid off,
and the true interests of the nation maintained,
because we wiii not abandon t<« plough, and
struggle to reflrain Executive influence, we are
charged with hoflility to all commerce, with
inieofibility to the honor of our country.
When our doors were fliut—his L no breach
of confidence—one of my colleagues called
for the reading of a meflige from the Prcfident,
soon after he came into office. It was the
rnoft severe and cutting satire that ever man
liffened to. I fay it was bitic» satire on your
proieedings, then and now. It recommended
the application of our refourcer to a speedy dtf
charge of the public debt, a rigid adherence to
fpecific appropriations—tying down executive
officers to the letter of the Jaw, reftriXiug them
to the literal objeXs and amount of our appro
ptiations. What is the commentary ? In time
of peace (for I fruft no one will call this wind
mill attack on Tripoli -war) the expenditures
of the navy department (so far from each item
of exptnee being limited by the lpectfi-: ap
propriatien for that objeX) have exceeded the
