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THE GEORGIA JOURNAL.
VOL. 11.
MILLEIXiEVILLE, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER lb, 1810
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T&Bl.ISHEO BY SEASON GRANTLAND,
(l>R INTER TO THE STATE,) ON JEF
FERSON STREET, OPPOSITE TIIF.
NORTH ESn OF THE STATE-HOUSE.
YERJI8 THREE DOLLARS PER AN
NU.'t, ONE HALF TO BE PAID IN AD
VANCE.
4 DVE-fcTISEMF.NTS WILL BE THANK-
■jrp.&J.T RECEIVED, AND PUBLISED
IE CUSTOMARY PRICES.
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&ale.
On the first Tuesday in January
next, WILL'IiE SOLD, between the
usual hours, in the town of Monticel-
lo, -Randolph county.
One Lot of Land,
No. 105, in the nineteenth District
o!' Baldwin new Randolph County,
levied on as the property of Edward
White, to satisfy an Execution in fa
vor of Abner Magee.—ALSO,
Lot No. 180,
in the nineteenth District of Baldwin
now Randolph county, levied on as
the property of Micajah If. Fretwell,
to satisfy sundry Executions against
Ivim.—ALSO,
Lot No. ISO,
in the nineteenth District of Bald
win now Randolph county, levied on
>as the property of Daniel M'Da-
Tiiel, to satisfy Z. IMagruder’s exe
cutions ; levied on and returned to
*ne by James Wiatt, Constable.
Also, Fraction, No. 220,
in 17th district of Baldwin now
Randolph county, to be sold under
The "present incumbrance ; levied on
as the property of Bouth Wootson
Fitzpatrick, to satisfy Charles D.
"Stewart’s executions ; levied on and
returned to me by John Rimes, Con-
'srtable. ALSO,
One Negro Wench,
named Catv, and her child Clary ;
levied on as the property of Zachc-
tis Phillips, to satisfy two executi
ons against him. ALSO,
About 70 Barrels of Corn,
cn Lot No. 139, 17th district Bald
win, now Randolph county; levied
on as the property of Christopher
Irvin, to satisfy an execution in fa
vor of Lewis Hogg. Property point
ed out by the defendant. Conditi
ons, Cash.
P. Fitzpatrick, Shf.
November 21. 4—>tds.
House of Entertainment.
The Subscriber wishes to inform
his friends and the public in general
that he has added considerably to the
convenience oS his house and stables;
•so that he will be able to accommo
date twenty or thirty gentlemen. He
has removed his Billard Table from
his dwelling house, $: being resolved
on keeping a quiet one and free from
gambling, he hopes to merit the con
tinuance of his friends, and a large
share of the public in general; he is
Supplied with such accommodations
as gentlemen and their horses may
fequire, and on moderate terms.
Samuel Buffington.
"October 3. 49—tf.
For Sale,
i The well-known square of Land,
No. 276 in fifth Wilkinson, on the
river; fifty-two acres cleared under
good fence and in high cultivation ;
contains more high swamp than any
other square or fraction in said dis
trict ; well calculated for corn and
cotter and adjoins Governor Mit
chell's tract, seven miles from Mil-
ledgfevillc. It can he purchased at
•a fair price by applying to WILLIAM
EIFIS'S, near the premises.
November 21 4—4t^I
FOREIGN.
Notice.
NINE month* after date, application
Will be made to the Honorable the Inferior,
court of Walhington countyl^for leave to
fell ISO acres of land, more or left, lying on
Buffala Creek in faid county, belonging to
the eftatr of John Sheivy, dec'd. and to be
fcld for the benefit of his heirs and credl-
ora.
Rebecca Sheivy, Ex’rx.
November SI. 4——mom.
.BLANK DEEDs7
ELEGANTLY PRINTED,
tor Safe at this Office.
Freni Beh% Weekly Messenger, of
September 9.
The election of Bernadotte to the
kingdom of Sweden, is no less ex
traordinary in its causes, thari even
tually it will become in its conse
quences it may lead to effects which
will not only perpetuate the power
of Bonaptfrte, but give it a new force
and character. The best ground of
hope, in the actual condition of af
fairs, was that the power of France
would necessarily fall to pieces ; that
it was attached to the person of Bo
naparte, and moreover, and perhaps
chiefly, that it Was of a nature and
kind which could not reach this
country. Any thing that takes away
this ground of hope, and in any way
diminishes it, adu3 to the gloom of
the future prospect. It is a serious
addition to our calamity, when we
see it striking root, and providing for
its permanence and augmentation.
Louis the 14th thought he had ef
fected much, and Europe was justly
alarmed, when he forced his Nephew
a Frenchman, on the vacant throne
ol the Spaniards, What are we now
to think of the Emperor Napoleon,
who has filled almost every throne
in Europe with his brothers or ser
vants ? Such was the policy of the
Feudal system. It united every one
in the same interest of mutual assist
ance towards their common defence.
The assault of the principal is the at
tack of the whole. Every one de
fends the svhole system as if it were
his own fief. Faith and friendship
may certainly be sufficient securities
for a confederacy ; but interest is in
finitely better.
With respect to the causes of this
revolution, they may be found in the
former and present state Of Sweden
and the Swedish people.
Sweden, like all other northern
powers, possessed a constitution of
comparative Liberty ; the diet was
free, and the king on his coronation,
was sworn to maintain the rights of
the people, and their liberties, as es
tablished by the laws.
Sweden, however, being in the
neighborhood of Russia, who before
the revolution was the most ambiti
ous and restless power in the world,
was continually agitated by a Russi
an party, and it thus required gieat
abilities, and was a work of infinite
difficulty, to keep her in her due po
sition, and. not to have her forced in
to the adoption of whatever Russia
wished.
As a counterbalance to this Rus
sian power, the former kings of Swe
den had recourse to France, who
willingly received her advances un
der the notion that Sweden was the
natural and most suitable check to
Russia and her advancing power to
wards the north of Europe. Swe
den therefore had two parties ; a
French party and a Russian party,
who mutually opposed each other,
and if they had been well managed
might have been so directed as to
work out the public good between
them.
The king, however, deemed him
self to have no kingdom and no
crown whilst he had any difficulty in
governing—whilst he was obliged to
consult the existing parties, and oc
casionally found his «ill opposed,
under the cover of the nghts of the
people and of the diet. The king of
Sweden, however, saw nothing a-
round him but absolute monarchies.
He did not see the king of Denmark
or Empress Catharine perplexed by
the opposition of their people or no
bles. The king of Sweden, there
fore resolved to get rid of this Con
stitution, and render his crown and
kingdom what he saw were the
crowns and kingdoms of his neigh
bors. He had no sooner adopted
this resolution, than he went to
France to consult with the French
ministry and government, the means
of effecting it. The French Minis
ters very naturally concurred in a
measure, which, by emancipating
Sweden from all Russian interests
and connexions, rendered her a more
equal opponent to that ambitious
power ; and thereby, a more efficient
member of the balance of the North.
On his return from Paris, the king
having previously arranged every
thing, called a meeting of the diet,
-i as if on some most important busi
ness. Upon the meeting, which
from the -expectation excited from
the extraordinary summons, was ve
ry full, the Chancellor, in order to
take Up a necessary interval of time,
entered into a long account of the
state of the kingdom. The king
himself entered as he concluded, and
briefly told the diet, that in such a
state of things it was necessary to
alter, or rather do away entirely the
existing constitution ; that the popu
lar liberties only fomented and che
rished parties, which rendered the
sovereignty a burden to him ; th^t
he was resolved, therefore, not to be
less a king than his neighbors, and
had brought with him the scheme of
a new constitution, and a deed of re
nunciation of all their popular rights,
which he required them to sign be
fore he lef. the hall of the assembly ;
he added, that in order to prevent a-
ny riots, he had ordefed the Hall of
the diet tube surrounded by cannon
with lighted matches, and none of
themembeis of the diet would ho
allowed to leave the Hall, or to pass
the guard, till they had signed and
sworn their acceptance and renunci
ation.
What were men to do in this situ
alien ?—It is unnecessary to add,
that the king’s wishes were accom
plished, and the liberties of a brave
people thus forced from them at the
mouth of the cannon.
To the long disgrace of the peo
ple of Sweden, the king ?tas permit
ted to reign two or three years after
this atrocious felony on the rights
of his people. He at length, how
ever, met his deserts, and died under
the blow of one of his subjects.
The late king of Sweden succeed
ed to the throne and new constituti-
n procured by the fraud of his fa
ther, and therefore succeeded to the
popular dislike, or at least indiffer
ence, which such a conduct was cal
culated to perpetuate. To this cause
of indifference the late king soon ad
ded one of personal defence—He a-
dopted the French war, and having
once adopted it, persevered in it to
the manifest ruin of his kingdom, and
in decided opposition to the public
voice -—Had he remained king ano
ther year, Sweden would have been
extinguished as one of the kingdoms
of the north.
Hence the indifference with which
the Swedes beheld the deposition of
this king, and hence the equal or
greater indifference with which they
have beheld, in the election of Berna
dotte, the deposition of his whole fa
mily and the introduction of another.
Such have been the causes of this
tranquil revolution.
As to the consequences, though
they are certainly rather eventual
than immediate, they are not of the
less importance to a state which, as
not of the creature of a day, should
extend its prudence with its natural
duration, and provide for itself more
remotely than is required of an indi
vidual.
These consequences are of two
kinds ; those which affect our com
merce, and those which affect our na
tional safety.
May not Sweden, in conjunction
with denmark, shut the sound against
the English trade ? May she not,
and will she not prevent the supply
of naval stores, of timber, &c.
The most serious consideration
however is that it throws into
the pnwer of Bonaparte a nati
on of seamen, a people born to
the ocean in almost an equal degree
with Englishmen themselves ; it is
not possible that with such resources
France can long want a navy—Hol
land and Sweden in this point of view,
are of infinitely more importance
than all the Italian and Mediterra
nean conquests.
The greatest difficulty of Bona
parte has been to man his navy—
There have been such vast calls on
the population of France to supply
the army, that the fleets of France
when ever they have been able to es
cape out of port, have always been
found insufficiently manned.
A population like that of Sweden,
a Nothern people born on the shore
of the Sea, is therefore of infinite
value to the views of Bonaparte.—
And what we have justly to dread
from this kind of people, so employ
ed, wc may in some degree be ena
bled to estimate, by recalling to me
mory, what infinite trouble the
Dutch gavt us at the commence
ment of the war ; and what has been
the only characterestic reputation of
a Northern people. The name of
Van Tromp is as little forgotten in
England as in Holland.
HOLLAND.
How its incorporation with France
may affect England.
The subject has been handled with
great candor and ability by an En
glishman journalist. Tie views the
consequences to England with live
ly apprehension.—He peceive3 the
naval resources of that country, and
he perceives that they ate to be di
rected by the gigantic intellectof Na
poleon—whose ambition, he says i3
of a higher order than to aim barely
at governing countries. “ What he
aims at, is commanding the world ;
levelling old establishments ; putting
down what ever opposed him; revo
lutionizing the world ; in the accom
plishment of which views he has been
most wonderfully aided by most of
the old establishments themselves.
Indeed he is not so much the leader
of an army as the agent of a moral
principle. To do what he has done,
he must be a great captain ; but if
arms alone had aided him he would
at this day have been, at most, the
commander of a brigade and per
haps not that. He would very like
it, feel humilitated at the tho’t, but
it 13 nevertheless true, that ev<ry
man who views withaphilosophiceye
what is now going on in the world,
looks upon Napoleon os nothing
more than an unconscious instrument
for giving effect to a great pervading
principle.”
He then argues, that the progress
of this principle would continue were
Napoleon cut off to-morrow :—That
the robber is supported for sake of
the robbery-i-the public plunder or
emolument. In Holland, he thinks
that the mass of the people will be
pleased with the change ; for whtn
the English army landed in Zealand
none of the Dutch came to join it.
la Holland, the author imagines
that Bonaparte will makehisgreatest
preparations—for invading England.
The effect, he intimates, of an hun
dred ships of war poured out of the
rivers of Holland, aided bv the Bou
logne flotilla, the Brest fleet, naval
armaments at Rnchfort, Ferrol and
Lisbon, with troops on board ; the
effect of such combination, will not be
to make the English lttugh. And
this combination is “ much less im
probable than was the battle of Wag-
ram, the conquest of Vienna, and
the last marriage of Napoleon.”
Looking at the vast means of their
enemy, the English have certainly
no phantom to combat, but a force
capable of overwhelming them. *
ENGLAND.
Liverpool, Gth Oct. 1810.
The unhappy state in which the
monied and commercial interests of
this country at present stand, has
sensibly affected our prices and caus
ed several forced sales to be made,
which have further depressed our
cotton market. Good Uplands have
been sold at 13d. and we cannot
quote higher than 14d. unless it was
lor a few picked bags of a favourite
mark, for which, perhaps 14 1-2
might be given.
The same remark may be applied
to New-Orlcans, which may be es
timated at 14d a 16d per lb. Until
we have something more decided in
the mercantile world, we can do lit
tle more than quote prices, as vari
ous shocks, which almost every mail
brings, prevent us from forming an
accurate judgment of our future pros
pects. Rice 20s a 21s per cwt; Tar
2G a 27s ; Turpentine 1G a 17s 3d
per cut; Wheat 14 a 14s Gd per 70 lbs.
and Flour 58s a GOs per barrel; Flax
seed has been sold as high as G8s
per hhd. and 70s is expected.
WEST-INDIES.
INSURRECTION IN GAUDALOUPE.
Sr. John’s (Antigua.) Oct. 11.
Accounts from Gauualoupe, we are
sorry to state announce the discove
ry of a Conspiracy to regain the pos
session of that Island for its former
master, Bonaparte. The particulars
are not kn: wn here, and perhaps, for
obvious reasons, are but partially
known even at Gaudaloupe to tl a
mass of the inhabitants; from wb;.c
lias transpired it appears clear, that a
number ol the principal merchant-*
have countenanced this act of trea
son to the British government, an t
for which offence a very considera
ble number of them have received
orders to leave the Colony, w'uhin a
fortnight. The disqovthgyls said to
have been made in cffiSlwjmcnce « f
the apprehension of a youjfg man in
the employ of Elba 3 and Crufts,
of St. Bartholomews, under circum
stances that led to a suspicion of his
being engaged in an attempt to lo>
merit disturbances, in whose posses
sion a number of papers containing
plans, proclamations, !kc» together
with a very considerable sum of mo
ney, supposed to be intended to
bribe the soldiery, were found. la
what manner the insurrection was t ( >
have been conducted we have not
learnt, hut it was evidently the in
tention ol those concerned to have
restored the Colony to the dominion
ol Bonaparte, ii' it had succeeded—
Accounts received some time back
from Mr. Jackson, announce the ar
rival in America of a number of
French emissaries, whose ultimate
destination seems to have been to
sow the seeds of commotion, v here-*
ver there was the least probability
ol success. It is not improbable that
the armaments which have for some
ime past been preparing at Toulon,,
the Scheldt and the Texcl, nave sum :
connection with these treasonable ef
forts
DOMESTIC.
The following Extracts are taken from the-
Communicjt'on of the Governor of North-
Carolina to both branches of the Legislature of
that state, now in session.
“ Such has been the unyielding in
justice of foreign nations, as to ren
der it Indispensably necessary that
the State Governments should pay
the most unceasing and devoted at
tention to the perfecting of that por*
tion of the national force, placed by
the Constitution of the United States
under their authority, for its efficient
organization and preparation for
service. Without this attention pro
perly applied, the General Govern
ment must continue to negotiate fee
bly, or resort to the expensive and
hazardous alternative of raising 1*
large standing force. The States are-
therefore bound, by their respect for
the character and rights of tile nati
on, by their respect and attachment
to the principles of our Republican
Institutions, to place the national
force, the Militia, on a footing to
produce the most imposing effect.—
It is in vain that the government of
the United States have uniformly
acted with the most scrupulous im
partiality between the belligerent na
tions of the world—In vain have
they sought to procure respect lor
our rights, by the most sedulous care
to perform all those offices of friend
ship and hospitality, consistent with
our neutral situation—-those right*
have been disregarded and trampled
upon ; and we may safely say, ne
ver will be respected Init in propor
tion as we show our ability and de
termination to as.sert, and to main
tain and defend them. And from
whatever motives may proceed ti e
late indication of a disposition in
one of the belligerents to relax hit
system of injustice, it is our duty
lie prepared for events. Without
this preparation, the endeavors to
encfcase the wealth of our citizens,
and improve the face of our country,
become criminal, as only adding to
the temptation held out to the ava
rice and ambition of. governments
less scrupulous than our own in the
means of aggrandizement.
“ The education of our youth of
both sexes, as indissolubly connec
ted with the vital principles of cur
Institutions, will deserve an impor
tant place in your deliberations.—•
Those of us who can look hack hut
a few years, must view with heart
felt satrfaction, the multiplied facili
ties afforded at this time for procur
ing a virtuous education, beyond
what then existed among us.—-But
I tryst we shall never consider our
task as finished, until preparation
shall be made, and opportunity affor
ded for the most obscure members
of society to procure such a poi tion
of instruction for their offspring T*