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AUGUSTA HERALD. • r VOL. VII No. 46.] J. Willfon & Nephew, * HAVE JUST RECEIFED, A PARCEL OF Treble Fortified Stills, Os a much superior quality to any ia this place, from 37 to 121 Gallons. ALSO, Genuine Madeira,) Port, Sherry and [WINE. Tenertffe \ Jamaica and Northward RUM, BRANDY and GIN, Loaf and Mui'covada SUGAR, Young Hyfon and Souchong TEA, Belt Green COFFEE, Large Smiths Bellows, Anvils and Vices, Hand and Mill Saws, Shingling and Flooring, Cut and Wrought Nails, Bolting Cloths of thefineft kind, Turkey Red, Hair Powder and Pomatum, Gentlemens firft and second quality flioes, Ladies Leather, Morocco and Kid Slippers, Stone Lime in Barrels. With a number of other articles too extensive for enumeration ; all of which they are deter mined to dispose of at the mod reduced prices, for cash or produce. Ma V Ay JUST RECEIVED. 20 Philadelphia made STILLS', 6 I ons Chair and Waggon Tire, Square and Flat Bar Iron, 20 Bags best Green Coffee, 8 Hhds. Good Sugar, Imperial Tea & Loaf Sugar. DONALD M'IVER. May 15. 4 r. 45. FURNITURE, FOR SALE BY J. STURGES, ALSO, A CARRIAGE AND Pair of Horses. May 15. 45. lUESDAY the fir ft of July next, mill he Sold at the Market-House in this City, A Likely Negro Man, Named Isaac, the property of the late Cel. Robert Watkins, deceased, on a f,tort credit. E. M. WATKINS, AJmr’x. A. W ATKINS, Adm'r. May 15. 4? . 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 EleXon to fill fucli vacancy, will be holdeu at the Court-House in the City of Augusta, on Fri day the 30 h of May next, in purluanee of the Milita Law pa fled a: Louifv-tlle, the loth of Debember ISC3. By order of Brigadier Gen. Thos. Glascock „ F. WALKER, A,decamp. ' M, r (4 1) Book-Binding, IN ALL ITS VARIOUS BRANCHES, CARRIED ON AT THE AUGUSTA BOOK-STORE, WHERE OLD BOOKS are rebound, Merchant’s ACCOUNT-BOOKS, RECORD-BOOKS, and BLANK-BOOKS, Os all deferiptions are made on the fhortefl no tice, in the best manner, and on reafonabie terms. 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 imploymei.t.—En quire at the Augusta Book Store. Marc h >3- (36) HfT* The Commissioners of the Washington Academy Lottery, have given no tice that they will commence the drawing in a few days. - *** TICKETS in the above Lot tery to be had at the Augusta Book-Store. March 20. OpJ* The Subscribers to the LIFE OF WASHINGTON, may receive the 4 th Volume, by applying at DoXor Murray’s ■nd paying the advance for the fifth and last volume. W anted a LAD from 14 to 15 years of age, of refptXable connexions, as an Apprentice at this ofice. To the Merchants of Augusta, and the Upper Country. THE SUBSCRIBER, Having hissrosts at hvi!-fathom holb, in complete order, will receive and store all kinds of produce on very tedu ced terms. Merchants in the up country who fliip their TOBACCO or COTTON to Eu rope, or who wiflt to dispose of it for a for eign market, will find it much to their ad vantage, to direX the Boat?, in which, they fend these articles down the river, to depnfit thematthefe flores, as it is well known that vefiels drawing above eleven feet water, do not take in their cargoes above this place. Here their PRODUCE will be fafely kept, and will be at all times ready for sale or convenient for ihipir.ent—and by storing it here without a previous delivery in Savannah, the delay, danger, trouble and expence of afterwards re moving it in lighters, will be avoided, and the property placed beyond the reach of sc idents bv fire, as no fire is permitted to be used near these Stores, or in any building in the neigh bourhood of them. Tobacco, Rice, Cotton, &c. will be received, weighed, marked, fold, and samples drawn, and sent to the Counting houfes of the owners of the property. For landing, (hipping and storing, one month, per hhd. Tobacco, 50 cents. Each week after the four fit ft, 6 cents per week. For each hale Cotton, landed, (hipped and stored one month, 30 cents. For every week after the four firft, 5 cents per week. Weighing hhd. Tobacco, 2$ cents. Drawing samples from ditto, 50 cents pt liogfliead. Marking Tobacco, Rice or Cotton, and handing lifts thereof, 3 cents per package. Receiving and forwarding eommilfions rn Tales or purchases, at Savannah rates —all which will be attentively tranfaXed, by I. S. D. Montmollin. N. B. Lumber Received and Sold on Commijfton. V? The difference between the 1 above and the eftabliflied Savannah rates on 100 hhds. Tobacco, stored one year, is no lels than 214 dollars—on 100 crfks of Rice, if remaining in (lore one year, would amount to 103 dollars—and on 100 bales Cotton, if stor ed one year, would be 270 dollars. Savannah, May 15. (tf.45) To Country Merchants. The Subscriber being desirous of Selling Off, Now offers his Stock in Trade consisting of a choife aftortment of DRY GOODS And a fupplv of GROCERIES at Co/l and Charges, anti n liberal terms of payment if ap plication is n le early. AUGUSTUS MOORE. March 20. 37 N OTIC E. npHE fublcribers having entered into Co- X partnerlhip, intend to tranfaX Commission Business, UNDER THE FIRM OF BELCHER & PHELPS , And offer their services to the public in that line. WILLIAM BELCHER. CHARLES P. PHELPS. Wm. BELCHER, takes leave to i form his friends in Georgia of the above men-ioned connexion, and refpeXfully foiic.ii their pa tronage in all agency business. Boston, Sept. 2 (14 r ) I he Subscriber, RESPEC 1 FULLY u I vinr ‘b Public,and particularly the Lumber Cu sets • *' the Sa vannah River, that be hi 6 taken the commo dious and extensive Lumber Yard, Together with the Wharf, Stores, Sec. former ly occupied by Col. iMbrc e Gordon, WHERE HE INTENDi TRANSACTING THE Lumber, Faftlorage and Commijfton Busings, For such persons as may favor him with their patronage ; and flatters bimleif that the uniform attention and punXualtrv which he means to observe, will not onl* ’eave no room for complaint, but give as genera! and com plete fatisfaXion, as the state of the market and his own constant exertions will admit. Those who may have occasion so- hi- servi ces in other branches of the FACTORAGE BUSINESS, (for the tranfaXion of which he has as suitable stores as any in Savannah) may be assured that their interest will not be neglec ted. William Cook. Savannah, Sept, rg, (i^f) ~ WEBSTER’S ' Spelling Books, For Sal* at the Augusta Book store. THURSDAY, MAY 22, 1806. Congress of tbe United States. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Thursday, March 6. Mr. JOHN RANDOLPH’S SECOND SPEhCH —CONCLUDED. Hut another gentleman from Peitnfy Ivania (Mr. Smilie) a(ks if it is n»t aftomfhiug that a iiKin, w horn he allows to poflels fente, whom he represents as trembling at the power of Great-Britain, (h mild be making calculations of the future power of France, instead of guar ding against the immediate danger? Sir, France may become a naval power —Great-Brit ain never can be a military one. 1 alk any practical man, if the day can ever arrive when Great-Britain will be able to threaten the fafe ty of the continent of Europe or America, or diftate to either of them. Is it my fault that the gentlemen cannot, or will not fee this, because (as he tells you) fools and madmen can never be brought to believe that the spirit of God hath parted them by, and enlightened the understandings of other men. But to fliew that this is not just cause of war we are referred to the time of the Ihrap atft and the non im portation agreement of 1774, which did not (it leems) produce immediate war. Is there any analogy between the two tales ? We then formed one nation. A man may make » great facrifice to preserve his friend, but when he has loft him, he will (as has been seen to-day) be denounced as the bitterest enemv. The other instances are equally de fective and inapplicable. You may as well gi back to the flood. The fame gentleman enquires, afe you indeed so peaceable towards Et gland, who has trampled upon you and hos tile to France who has offered you no injury ? Wnertfore ? On this occasion I must repeat the old proverb,'tis the flill hog that drinks the twill. She finds it convenient to make a trulerable (talking Itorie, a ftarecrow of Spain. The gentleman enquires how long Great>Briiain has a£ted upon these philanthro pic principles ; this generous benevolent poli cy aferibed to her. But is any man so mtak , or so wicked as to pretend that there is any principle of action between nations except in tut/} f Give Great-Britain the power, and flic will to morrow plav the fame part.—Sir we are not only philanthropes, but politicians; not dreamers and soothsayers, but men of fleflt and blood. ’Tis idle to talk of a sense of jufticc in any nation. Each pursues its fenle of inter est, and if you calculate on their afting upon tny other principle, you may be very amiable, but you will prove a cully. We are afkcd what Great-Britain can do to annoy us. We answer at this moment more than any other nation of the world, because (lie commands the ocean, the foie medium of communica tion between us. But draw her off from that element, and France is not less omnipotent upon it. She is a great military power, and it is because Britain is not, cannot be such a power, that it is impolitic to break her down. Go to war when you will, you must become the ally of France, you will only put off by enh.ncing it, the danger you would guard against. You wiil but clap a tortoilc under vutir elephant. The fame gentleman tells you that the gi. gantic power of France hangs on the brittle life of an individual. But do you believe it? Are you such drivellers in politics as to believe that the fate of luch a military depotilm hangs on the life of one man. If Mahomet 11. had been killed under the walls of Constantinople, would the destiny of the Greek Empire have been changed ? Would not the power have parted into the hands cffnme Solvman or Se lim, the terror of the civilized world ? Shall we abandon prafilke for theory ? In fonte refpedts, we are situated as the fuerffors of Alexander were placed in relation to Rome and Carthage. Here is an iron re public, or call it what you will, that threads tbe liberties of mankind s The government above all others, in Europe, to which our own is most hateful and obnoxious. This is be yond dispute. Does it become us to facilitate its defjgns ? Ido not enquire as to motives, nor will that government care about them. If you give it faculties to effedt its purposes, •hole purposes are obtained so far as depends on you. Is this wife is it proper, is it righf ? Am I asked for my plan? If I meant to adt efficiently, I would have begun with an trti bargo ; I would now do what was done be fore ; I would treat with Great Britain, and for the very reason that 1 would not have treated with her, in the year 1794; for the fame reason that the gentleman, whose refa ction is now under difeuffion, then treated with her, I would not: now he i 3 for war, 1 am for negociatron and peace. And why * Because the (late of nations has finee ureter gone a momentous charadfer, difafterous chan gn> indeed have been eff-fted in the face of things. We often htar of the abuses ami corruptions of the British government; whilst the continental dcfpotifms pass unnoticed arid unregarded. Let us beware of introducing such abuses into our own—we have no farther concern with them. Do gentlemen think worse of the chara&er and motives of Wil liam Pitt than of Robespierre ? and yet, mon fler as he was Robespierre, that cannibal of his own countrymen, was in his day the fob bulwark cf the human race. And whatever be her motives, or profeffions, Great-Britain now (lands exaflly in the place of France twelve years ago. Take her navy out of the way to-morrow, and where are you ? The fecrcta ry of the navy has indeed reported that [ WHOLE No. 358. tiie Ciiefapeake is fit for service, and that the Constitution is in a Bate of thourough repair, but would the real Chesapeake the Up, be fit for use in that cale, and what would be the operation on the a£fual constitution of the United States. Sir, lam opposed to a French war as well as to a war with England. I would treat with England for another reason. I wilh we had not a commercial treaty with any nation whatever. I am to them on principle ; but the principle is already iettied. We have them. By your treaties with her enemies, your are tied up from ta kiogagaitifl them, any l'uch meatures as the one propoled : they are to be admitted on the terms of the mud favoured nation, This is probably one of the principal causes of difgufl to England. Again, flic made an offer to re peal her diferiminating duties, if you would do so too : to trade with us upon even terms. —By mercantile clamour you were deterred from meeting her half way ; moreover, you have refufed to ratify treaties with her, after they had been signed by your own minister. No doubt you had the right to do so. But can you be surprised under such circumliances that a haughty commercial rival has been ir ritated. After your oblations to France, who cannot receive a finglc pound of sugar or cof fee, but under cover of your flag, who is de pendent upon you for fcrvice which she can not render herielf, who is not your rival in commerce, what ci.v you expedt from a jealous competitor in lrad%Vho flands not in need of your navigation—whose every advance to wards a good underflanding has received * mortifying repulse ? Sir you have at this mo ment a negociation pending with Grrat-Brit. ain. have no cause to despair of it* fuccefn ; far otherwise. The plain q.ieftion is, will you wait its issue, or will you, pendente hte, precipitate vourfelf into a measure, which muff put all negociation aside, which must eventuate in war ? If you w ant war there is no doubt that you may have it. Great-b».r aio will not lubmit to all the harofliip* i mifehiefs of war, because you choose to ca it peace. She will prefer open war to war in disguise ; aiid I, fir, have no htfitation in fay ing, that I am for no half measures. Begin that lyllem when you will, war, or disgrace must grow out of it. lam for neither. The gen tleman indeed fays that this, which has been denounced as a war measure, is a mealtire of peace. Let us have no more yuaji wars I be seech you, fir; no half measure; no interme diate stage, but open war or peace. I abhor this political quackery. Give us war or ne gociation : if you resort to the one let us abandon the other. But we are asked if American virtue will so far degrade and dc bafe itfelf as to treat with the old and corrupt government of England. There is a plain answer to this. You have a treaty with her now, with every government, I believe, that would make one with you. But whilst we boast of our virtue, let us beware that our fins are not cast into our teeth. Let us fie how far these punftillios are warranted by the condudt of our own agent*. Look to the management of the convention of Paris, of the jo h April, 1803. You h ve all seen the cale of the New-Jersey, Nicklm ami Griffith’s fltip. It lias created a general sensation ; and yet, what is the fail ? Compared with others, they have almolt nothing to complain of. Bad as that calc is, it is among the Icaft exceptiona ble instances of mifeonduft in your ministry at Paris. It is true Nicklin and Griffith’* claim was cut down, I believe one half, because the fiim appropriated would not otherwise, it was feared, be fufficient to answer all she drafts of chicanery upon it. These men were there fore muldtcd fifty per cent. They are rich merchants, able to make their case known. It has been heard and has rung through the con tinent. There are hundreds of cases even worse than this. The claims intended to be provided for are set aside. Why > Because government has ben represented abroad by unfaithful, diflioneft agents. Have they been called to an account for their condudt .’ Three million seven hundred znd fifty thoufmd dol lars stipulate to be paid, to bona fide American citizens—where have they gone ? Into the pockets of renegadoes, and the bureaux of Par is. Yes, the traders it* neutral charadter have divided the spoil with the harpies of the French bureaux. These are they in whose favour the bills have been drawn on the freafurr of the United btates by their ovn minis ter. Take the case of the Pigou. There was no question, indeed, as to her being American property ; but file was captured flagrante hello (when we were taking the lits furgente and Bcrceau} she was therefore jjooi prize, and condemned accordingly. Yet the decision of the inferior court was reserved by the counsel of prizes, and this case brought within the convention, to the esc.ufion no doubt of bona fide claims for ncutial American prop-rty captured and condemned, and for « hich the convention was intended to provide. This is a specimen of the mode of doing bufi nda at Paris. If gentlemen doubt upon the lubjeift, let them call on the secretary of state, for the correlpondence of the commilfioners. Let them call for John Mercer, one of those commiffionvrs, a man inferior to few in point of talents, in point of charafter to none. Put him to the bar and examine bitn. Painful as it is to me I must defend my prin ciples and those of my friends. Open your flatute book —what doe* it fay ? That the shores and wafers of the bay and river Mobile shall form a diftiift—l brought in the bill my -1 fclf- The executive had informed us, that wc
