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THE GEORGIA JOURNAL.
VoL. I.
MILLEDGEVILLE, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1809.
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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
