THE GEORGIA JOURNAL. VoL. I. MILLEDGEVILLE, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1809. No. 7- I'UBLISHr.D BY SEATON GRANTLAND, (printer TO THE STATE,) ON JI'.F- IT.RCON STREET, OPPOSITE THE NORTH END OF THE STATE-HOUSE. I TERMS THREE DOLLARS PER AN NUM, ONE HALF TO BE PAID IN AD VANCE. ADVERTISEMENTS WILL BE TAHNK- FULLY RECEIVED, AND PUBLISHED < AT THE CUSTOMARY PRICES. States is at this moment in an unset- depreciations on our commerce, and tied and distressed situation, is a faetjissued orders hostile to all neutrals, none will doubt. The cause too may be found without great difficulty in seeking it—but how to temove it, is so question not so easily answered.jit now is, in the utmost state of em- The unsettled state of Europe ren-jbarrassment. Professors of Artificial Law. f The professors of artificial law hfrt’e always walked hand in hand with the professors of theology. As {heir end, in confounding the reason of man, and abridging his natural freedom, is exactly the same, they have adjusted the means to that end in a way entirely similar. The di vine thunders out his anathemas with more noise and terror against the breach of one of his positive institu tions, or the neglect of some of his trivial forms, than against the ne glect or breach of those duties and commandments of natural religion', Which by these forms and institutions lie pretends to enforce. The law yer has his forms, and his positive institutions too, and lie adheres to theirt with a veneration altogether as religious. The worst cause cannot be so prejudicial to the litigant, as his advocate’s or attorney’s ignorance or neglect of these forms. A law suit is like an ill-manged dispute, in which the first object is soon out of sight, and the parties end upon a matter wholly foreign to that on which they began. Jn a law-suit the question is, who has a right to a certain house or farm ? And this question is daily determined, not upon the evidences of the right, but ders it extremely difficult to establish comiherce on any solid basis—but the jealousy which Great Britain en tertains of us, is perhaps the great est obstacle wc have td contend with. On her manufactures and commerce it is more than probable that our commerce would at this day he free and unshackled, instead of being as How are we to he relieved from ly. If we are right, it originated from the jealousy of England at our being she depends for her existence, and permitted a free commerce with the she sees with pain that we are her colonies of France—from which the rivals, not immediately in her m:i- United Staves were no doubt much nufactures, but in her carrying tradejbenefitted, and owing to the war in ol which she is more tenacious, bc-jEurope, we acquired a more exten- cause she knows that there she is sive commerce with almost .every most vulnerable. England, whetHer.port in that part of the world* anil on sound policy or not we will not of course a great augmentation of pretend to say, has, since the time of our tonnage. Cromwell, been building her strength| To check this growing wealth, and on the power of her navy, and thro’jincreaseof power jn the United States, the influence of that navy extending'more than to injure her enemy', have the secretary, who shall be obliged to reimburse said proprietors out of w this state of distress is the questjoiytJw .property so seiised om iifof value potHta^ .wlikh are consequenri.il -up- —rut a We ought to “ look at itlair- sufficient lor the purpose.—^Aurora, on the chapgea meditated. Nothing her commerce, till they have become, so connected that the one cannot ex ist but by the support of the other. To supply seamen for her ships of proprietor or proprietors of said ves sel and cargo, to seize orl property of equal value wherever it may b. found within the United States, be longing to any individual, of that na tion, and make return of the same to From Beil's (London) Weakly Ahs- senger. There is every reason to believe .hat peace has cither actually been jigued between Austria and France, or that ail the articles have been so >ar proceeded upon, that nothing re mains but to arrange sem • ni'mr IRELAND'S MUSIC AND SONG. The following words to the favor ite Irish tune, of “ The Black Joke,” were written by T Moore at the dawn of what was called the Spanish revo lution. The fate of Spain is noun de cided. A Bonaparte sways its seep tre and commands its wealth and strength. Every shadow of doubt has passed away, and with them has ig is in fart so absurd as the speculati ons of some of the daily papers up on the apparent delay cif this defi nitive treaty', as if half nearly three parts of the Austrian monarchy could be ceded, and what remains Like a new form, in a day or a week. The main points we may rest assured are agreed upon, or Bonaparte would not have hung off, when every thing is in his power; nor would the Aus- I'in.ivu uira> j miiu whu uiviii ikio *^ ei p uui n uuiu uiu departed all of anxiety and feeling trians have executed the articles of which throbbed in our pulses, as to the struggle. The cause, however, is the same, and the rights of the na tion are unimpaired. Violence may rob and armies may conquer, but the immutable and eternal principles ol Truth, remain unchanged and un- hangcal>1 e.——Democratic Press. (Here follow other remarks, which we take the liberty to omit—-to induced the horrid and unjustifiable deprauations Britain has committed On us. Could she destroy' the com merce of the United States she vain- war, a nursery must be supported— ly imagined she would increase her her commerce is made that nursery, own—the addresses of her ship own- therefore every flag that flies, or ship ers, and West Iodic's merchants, are that floats on the ocean, she imagines'proofoLanis— uMl ih* tnOfe effoctuvome ut the verse*;) interferes with her interests. Means', lly tb secure all the commerce of| I. must therefore be devised to embar-the West India to themselves, at an rass if not destroy it. On this prin- immense expence to the nation, they ciple it is, that England at the first have made the conquest of almost e- dawn of the French revolution, in- very possession in that quarter, be- terrupted our commerce to and longing either to France, Holland, from the French colonies, and soon'or D enmurk....thus aiming to pos- after that which we had with FranceJsess all, they pr- oably will defeat The treaty of Mr. Jay' obtained us their object, and afford us the means little redress for the injury we hadjof relief sooner tiian we otherwise sustained, and from the principles oivsliould have obtained it. It is true which that little redress an l co.open-jour commerce to the West Indies sation were made, we had an assur-lhas been highly beneficial to us, and Sublime was the warning which Li berty spoke, And grand was the moment when Spaniards awoke Into life and revenge from the con queror’s chain ! Oh, Liberty ! let hot this spirit have rest Till it move, like a breeze, o’er th waves of the West, the armistice, and have evacuated Gratz, if they were meditating the renewal of hostilities. So far there fore may be depended upon....that in the course of a very short time we shall receive the definitive treaty, and that its effect will be to rtrider' Austria one of the secondary' povv-' era of Europe. The emperor may yet.be allowed to wear the shadow 1 of » crown f but-if Bonxparte-'-livb, Europe will be filled with his fami ly of kings. The war, under the auspices of England, assumed a character which Bonaparte will not easily forget or "irgive ; it was rendered personal to himself; the cause of legitimate kings, as they were called, against an usurper. The emperor of Aus tria will now have reason to rue this folly ; Bonaparte has hence adopted Give tlie light of your look to cach'd as a maxim, that his best security sorrowing spot, • ance that for the future our commerce :gave employ to a vast amount oil Nor, oh, be the Shamrock of Erin upon the observance or rn g.ect °‘L. ou ]j p u;s f r ce from interruption.jtonnage....the want of employ foi some forms ol words in use in ‘ h . u Relation we were dis-Jthis tonnage is the cause of great appointed—for in consequence of 1 par* erf our present embarrassnien't. our increase of commerce, new mo-jWe say a great part, but not all....for gentlemen of the robe, about which there is even amongst themselves such a disagreement, that the most experienced veterans in the professi on can never be positively assured that they are not mistaken. Let us expostulate with these learned sages, these priests of the sa cred temple of justice. Are we judges of our own property ? By no means. You then, who are initia ted into the mysteries of the blind fold goddess, inform me whether have a right to cat the bread I have earned by the hazard of my life, or the sweat of mv brow ? The grave doctor answers me in the aninnathe. wor \j saV e w hat was carriedjpeace takes place in Europe The reverend serjeant replies m the „ i: u , '„:n „ negative ; the learned barrister rea sons upon one side and upon the o- ther, and concludes nothing. What shall I do? An antagonist starts up and presses me hard. I enter the field and retain these three persons to defend my cause. Mv cause, which two farmers from the plough could have decided in half an hour, takes the court twenty years. I am, however at the end of m v labor and have, in reward for all my toil and vexation, a judgment in my fa vour. But hold—a sagacious com mander, in the adversary’s army has found a flaw in the proceeding. My triumph is turned into mourning. I have used or instead of and, or some- mistake, small in appearance, but dreadful in its consequences, and have the whole of my success quash ed in a writ of error. I remove my suit ; I shift from court to court ; I fiy from equity to law, and irom law to equity; equal uncertainty attends me every where : and a mistake in which I had no share, decides at once upon my liberty and property-, sending me from the court to a pri son, and adjudging my family to beg gary and famine. I am innocent, gentlemen, of the darkness and un- 1 certainty of your science. I never darkened it with absurd and contra dictory notions, nor confounded it with chicane and sophistry', lou have excluded me from my havitig a ny share in the conduct of my own cause ; the science was too deep for me ; I acknowledged it ; but it was too deep even for yourselves ; you have made the way' so intricate, that you arc yourselves lost ini it. I on tives were devised for the interrup- a large quantity' of tortnage is now tion of it, and the capture of ounidle that would be employed in car vessels was re-commenced...the com- rving the produce of our own soil to plaints and remonstrances rif our go-[Europe, but from the embarrass vernment are too well known to re-irients arising from our West Incli quire notice here ; from 1770 to ihisjcommerce, and the carrying of the day, we have never ceased to havclproduce of those islands to Europe, just cause for complaint ; from that] Will it not then lie for the interest day- to this, we have obtained nojof the United States, at once to re- real redress, nor is it probable wejlinquish the commerce, say the cav- ever shall, so long as England actsyving of the produce of the West upon her past and present system—Indies to Europe....It will be voltm- which could she accomplish wouldjtarily doing to-day tfThit we .by force tend to annihilate all the commerce|shaU be obliged to do so soon When on through the medium of her ports leach nation will resume its commerce which would give to her shippinglwith its colonies, and naturally ex- a decid' d preference. On this prin-elude us, p.'s well as all others, from ciple was her navigation law found ed, and on this principle it is still upported. II she sometimes relax es in it, it is from a double motive— to distress her neighbours and ag grandise herself. Thus we have seen her capturing honest neutrals, a participation m it—:s is tnc case with England at this day. We will readily grant, that if nc could obtain a right by- treaty of * free trade with the colonies of the different powers in Europe, 8c the pri vilege to carry- to them in Europe the when destined to a port of her ene- produce of said colonies, that we my—yet granting licenses to tier merchants, to purchase and carry the verv identical cargo, to the port it was first destined, and bring from the same enemy’s port, a cargo, the us make a virtue ol necessity, and re might receive in payment,as we have of late been permitted to do. It would be highly advantageous to us. But as we cannot look for that, let produce of the country. Yet a neu tral, returning home with a similar cargo, would, if interrupted, be con demned as lawiul prize—thus ma king every' thing lawiul which she has power to do. No nation ever made more use of neutral commerce than the British, yet she would arbitrarily restrict all other nations from the same right, or indeed, deny all rights to neutrals, except they tended to their own im‘ mediate advantage. That the different nations of Eu rope should feel alarmed, and resent this stretch of power and thirst alter an absolute dominion over the seas, is not to be wondered at; and neu trals so long as there was a neutral nation in Europe, for not resenting, because suspected by the belligerent who opposed Great Britain, with a view to rouse them" to rentment, artd shppbrt their neutrality—decrees re stricting their commerce to France were issued—the commerce of the United- States also' Suffered on this * principle,- arief was by them justly err, and you punish me for your er -j jti - ted ;F L p r ^ tr .j r ] t ' e England,ad rors. Burk's Vindication of Natu‘GW,, thc * ral Society. That the commerce ttiitt'ed the Wrong sht hid done us jand like England made compensation linquish that commerce which has given rise to our difficulties* and by confining our commerce to the pro duce of our soil, take awav all pre tence from every power in Europe for interrupting our trade under pre tence of enemy’s property ; and let us declare, at th'e same time, we will not be interrupted in our voyage, and will resist any nation that may at tempt to do it. That we will sup port our neutrality, and trade freely with all the world, exchanging our produce for theirs. That we will not be interrupted in our voyage, and will resist any nation that may attempt to do it. That we will sup port our neutrality,' and trade freely with all the world, exchanging out produce lor theirs. That we will shew no partiality for cither, nor take any part in their disputes. That the merchant ships of every nation shall be freely admitted to our ports, while wc are admitted to theirs—but that as'they restrict us, so will we restrict therrt. That should any nation cap tuve a vessel, proof of such capture being lodged with the Secretary ol State, together with ah attested ac count of the expcnce, he shall be au- forgot While you add to your garland the olive of Spain. II. If the fame ofour fathers, bequeath ed w ith their rights, Give to country its charms and to home its delights ; . .If Deceit be a wound and Suspi cion a stain ; Then, Ye men of Iberia ! our cause is the same ; And Oh ! may his tomb want a tear and a name Who would ask for a nobler, a holier death Than to turn his last sigh into victo ry’s breath* For the Shamrock ol Erin and Olive of Spain. Ilf. Ye E lakes and Q'Dor.ncIs, whose fa ther’s resign’d The green lulls of their youth among strangers to find Tiiat repose, which at home they' had sigh’d for in vain, Breathe a hope that the magical flame which you light, May' be felt yet in Erin, as calm and as bright ; And forgive even Albion, while, blushing- she draws Like a truant, her sword, in the long slighted cause Of the Shamrock of Erin 8c Olive ol Spain. IV. God prosper the cause !—Oh ! it cannot but thrive While the pulse ol one patriot heart is alive, Its devotion to feel and its fights to maintain Then how sainted by'sorrow its mar tyr’s will die! The finger of glory will point where they lie ; While, far from the footstep of Cow ard or Slave, The young Spirit of Freedom shall shelter their grave Beneath Shamrocks of Erin’ and Olives of Spain. is to have no kings on the conti nent but those of his own creation. Jerome, Joseph, the duke of this and the duke of that, are not made kings merely upon their own account; they are part of the system of Bona parte, according to which he is about to hedge and encirc le France by feu datories of his own family. In this manner all Europe is cemented into one system, and every prince has an interest to defend him, who in turn supports them all. "of the- Unite#—and hnd not'England renewed her!ihorised to grant a warrant to the London Paragraphs.' ON A LATE POLITICAL DUEL. What will our country next befall : Its prospects are inviting: Our Gj:n urals are retreating all, Our Privy-Council fighting. Mr. Canning, it is said, presented his front very aukwardly' to his oppo nent. The wound we understand, is not exactly in the thigh, as the Wi dow IVadman would say. ’TIS A PITY. On Wednesday, all the people said, “ That Canning certainly was dead Ah ! then what said the city ? A tenth part sadly shook their head, And shat?fog sigh’d, and sighing said, Alas ! it is a pity ! But wlien on Thursday this was found To be a rumour without ground : Ah ! then what said the city ? The other nine parts shook their head And deeply sigh’d, and sighing said, Alas ! it is a pity. London paper. POLITICAL DUELS. Mr Wilkes fought, in succession, Lord Talbot and Mr. Martin, in de fence of his principles. Mr. Willi am Adam fought Mr. Fox, in con sequence of some reflections cast by the latter, on the intimate connection of the former w ith Lord North, dur ing the American war. His Koval Highness, the Duke of York, fought Col. Lenox, now duke of Richmond, in consequence of the latter having given the health of Mr. Pitt in the •ompanv of certain personages of the lloyal Blood, during the violence of the debates'upon the Regency'. Mr. Tierney fought Mr. Pitt in conse quence of a squabble in the House of Commons, in the course of which, the Speaker having stated that the House would wait for the explana tion of Mr. Pitt, that Gentleman in stantly replied, ‘ l The House will wait a great while, if it waits for any explanation from me.” Nolle ness of Character. Men have existed who had the courage and nobleness to refuse the alluring blandishments of an impe rial crown. When Francis and Chari es, of France and Spain, were exerting every effort of their mighty power to gain the elevation of the Emperor of Germany, the Electors icglected both to offer it to Frederic fluke of Saxony, to whom history has
