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MILLEDGEVILI.E, WEDNESDAY, MAY 20, 1812.
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John Mathews, Esq
we are authorised to state, will be a
candidate to represent thi3 county in
the ensuing Legislature.
April -23. 26—tf.
(jff* WE arc requested to an
nounce Capt. /• H. Howard u a Candidate
for the Representative Branch Of the Legia*
Ihture.at the eofuiog cledlioo.
April 9». *7—tf-
ze» the opinion that they will only
be changed with a change of minis
ters. Mr. P. informed those gen
tlemen, that if their government was
convinced “ that the Berlin and Mi
lan decrees wire revoked, the orders
in council would not be rescinded,
they being no longer considered as a
condition for the removal of the or
ders, &c.»
Extract from a letter, dated Dublin,
March 9.
I suppose we shall certainly have
a war with America, as the motion
made in the house of commons by
Mr. Brougham, to repeal the orders
TSotT
ce.
A
DIVISION of the notes and accounts
due the late firm of Irwin Erf Fort
til been this day made'-—perfona indaWed
hands they have
can alcertain into whole
fallen by calling on Doctor Fort, who is au
thorifed to receive payments, and to liqui
date auch accounts as remain unfettled—.
ft is indifpensably necessary that all fums
due the ettateof jared Irwin, dec'd, fhould
be immediately collected.
Archibald Campbell, Adm.
May 9 29-2t
in council, has been negatived by a
majority of 72. I think the Ameri-
lost. Out pf 40 Churches in that
place, two convents only remain
standing. Such is the lamentable
situation of these two places, that it
will be a long time before they can
be reinstated. No business of ^ny
nature is doing. AU the Americans
here will goto Porto Cabello.”
CONGRESS.
0E0RG1A, Baldwin county.
John M’Kenzie came in perfon before me
and being duly fworn, faith that he was in
pofsefsion of two notes of hand given by one
Langfton, (who lives at william Bevins* in
JFilkiofon county) and made payable to John
M'Bryde or bearer—one is to the amount
of 30 dollars, the other 35 dollars, now due,
but do not recoiled the date, the other is
not due, but to bear interelt from the time
the firft one became due } the above notes
were lott or mislaid on the Sth May, 1812,
in Mitledgeville,fo that this deponent cannot
find them. Sworn to before me this cth
May, 1812.
John M’Kenzie.
Francis Jeter, J. P.
ALL persons are cautioned againft trad,
ing for the above notes ; and the maker of
them forwarned not to pay them to any
perfon but myfclf.
John MKenzie.
May 13. * 29-st.
FOAEIGN-
Boston, April 15.
PICTURE OF ENGLAND.
Extract of a letter from a gentleman
in England, to his friend in this
town, dated
Manchester, 17th March, 1812.
“ Of politics I am by no means in
a humour to say much—I will how
ever give you a few particulars rela
tive to the Prince Regent. He has
Entirely, disappointed his friends,
without gaining the good will of his
enemies, by selling himself to the man
he twelve months since declared un
fit for a minister of his majesty’s go
vernment. The starving manuiac
turers have looked up to him as the
saviour of the country, and have pa
tiently waited until he should be
vested with full power, confidently
expecting, when that period should
arrive, an immediate alleviation of
their distresses. But contrary to
the most sanguine expectations, their
hopes are blighted, and no alterna
tives are now left but starvation or a
precarious subsistance on plunder.
The discontents are made known by
general murmur. Riots have already
commenced at Nottingham, Stock-
port, Huddersfield, Leeds and other
places, and it is daily expected they
wilt become general throughout all
the manufacturing towns. Anony
mous letters have been sent to seve
ral of the principal men in this town,
threatening them with destruction,
unless their wages are raised. Pla
cards, signed Ludd, a name they
have adopted, are stuck up at the
corners of the streets, offering a re
ward for the heads of those men,
who have discharged their workmen,
although no longer able to employ
them. They have gone so far in
Huddersfield, as to offer one hundred
Guineas for the head of the Prince
Regent ! An additional military
force has been stationed in many of
t‘he moat turbulent places.
If government do not grant some
relief, I fear the consequence in Man
chester. A repeal of the orders in
council would have the desired effect,
but I see no prospect of that at pre
sent. Mr; Percival’s reply to the
tnttcltrots of Birmingham ap;hori-
cans ought to declare war against
England at once ; they owe it to
their own diguity and to their own
character, no longer to put up with
the tyranny and injustice of England.
Much noise has been made on both
sides of the water, for fixe or six
years, but I hope at.length the Ame
rican's will do something decisive.
Hundreds of petitions have been
presented to the house of commons ;
but the government is so infatuated,
that the prayers of the starving peo
ple are not attended to. I think war
with America would bring England
to her senses. It would destroy
what little remnant of trade she has
still left. And what, I think would
be the greatest blow to her, she
would have no way of supplying her
army in Portugal with provisions.
Mr. Whitbread stated in his Speech
that there was imported into Portu
gal from America, during the last
year, 1,5000,000 barrels of flour, In
dian corn and other articles of pro
vision. If that supply were stopped,
I think that their army would have
soon to quit Portugal.
The Prince Regent has disappoint
ed the expectations of a great majo
rity of the people of Ireland by keep
ing Perceval in office. He has de
ceived his friends. And the Catho
lics of Ireland have found that they
have as little to expect from him as
they had from his father. My opi
nion has always been the same of the
Prince. -He has not deceived me,
and a great many others who knew
his character, and who minded so
much of the Testament as not to put
any trust in Princes.
Curran when he heard of the de
termination of the Prince to keep
Mr. Perceval in office, said, that the
good genius of Bonaparte prevailed
not only in his country, but in this.
By genius, he said, he did not mean
From the Philadelphia Register.
SECRET DEBATE ON THE EMBARGO.
CContmued.)
Mr. MitchiU, of New* York, said,
in viewing political subjects and dan
gers, some are inclined to look thro’
political microscopes which diipin
ished them , others, misled by their
imaginations, look through political
telescopes, and are apt to magnify
and enhance them. He, tar one, was
for viewing our situation with his
naked opticks, for looking at It as it
really is. He could not he consider
ed as less alive to the interests and
happiness of the inhabitants of that
city, respecting whom so much sen-
sibiiity has been expressed, than any
other gentleman. There were his
ihtimate friends, connections, and
what little properly he possessed.—
No one could feel more for their
sufferings under commercial restric
tions, or in case of an assault upon
it by the enemy. And if he was to
consult only his personal sensibili
tie3, they were all in favor of the
people of that county, with whom we
are to enter into a conflict. He has
no prejudice against them. He
there received his education. He
has lived in North and South Bri
tain. From actual residence he
knows them from the Grampion
Hills to Dover. He knows them,
however, to be a proud, overbearing
nation. From former residence,
and also from recent intelligence,
(and that within a few days by late
arrivals) he knows that they consi
der us a 3ort of generation whem
they have a right to despise; Wt
are viewed in this unworthy, degra
ding situation, not on account of our
want of resources or population :
but because they believe we cant
stand together—that we have no con
fidence in ourselves--that we cannot
lead armies into their countries.—
Their ol ject has been, since the year
1800, to divide and distract us, and
to prevent our taking efficient mea
sures. Sir, what has been the cause
of our present condition ? It is well
known, that in 1806, he was made
the organ of his constituents, as other
talent, but good fortune, by which gentlemen were from Salsm and o-
he was enabled to have in an enemv’s
country the best ministry that could
serve his purpose.
I send you two pamphlets written
by a Mr. Shelley, an Englishman, a
son of Sir J. Shelley, a member of
the parliament. T his gentleman has
come over to Ireland for the sole pur
pose of serving the country. His
motives are excellent, but I am fear
ful he will not be able to succeed.
SOUTH AMERICA.
Extract of a letter received per sc/ir
Independence from La Guira.
A few days prior to our arrival,
this town Was almost destroyed by
an Earthquake ; it commenced about
4 o’clock, P. M. on Thursday the
26th March ; its duration was about
4 minutes, and its effects horribly
destructive ; since my arrival, there
have been a few shocks, but no ma
terial damage done. Such is the a-
larm of the inhabitants that the town
is entirely deserted, and they are now
living without the walls, beneath lit
tle tents and huts, which are erected
merely to shelter them from the rain
and heat of the sun.
“ It is not within the compass of
my ability to describe to you the mi.
sery of those people ; fear and des
pair, grief and ruin, have complete
ly overwhelmed them. Parents have
escaped with the less of their chil
dren ; children with the loss of their
parents, and very few without the
loss of their property. Already 500
persons have been found, and the
probability is, that a greater nuna-
ber still remain buried beneath the
ruins. The destruction at Carracas
is much greater ; 2500 bodies have
been thrown upon the funeral pile,
and burned already, and it is suppo*
sed, that from 6 to 1Q|000 souls were
thcr commercial places, to present to
Congress their plaints and wailings,
on account of the grievances they
suffered upon the subject of carrying
colonial produce, and the continuity
of the voyage. The archieves of
this house will prove this. They de
clared they should be ruined if the
British doctrine should be counte
nanced. The government were goad
ed by these applications for relief.—
The government began & continued
with pacific measures, until we have
got into our present situation.
Mr. M. said he would aver, there
was never a time when there was
more internal good, more real prac
tical independence, more what the
heart desired and can enjoy, in any
civilized nation, than we now enjoy.
A population of seven millions—
the arts and manufactures flourishing
in a high degree—Are we then to
be frightened—to listen to the notes
of political screech-owls ? We are
the happiest nation on earth. He
could, to be sure, with a melancho
ly countenance go into any family,
and give a lecture on the weakness
of the flesh, on the calamities of hu
man life, and a miserable exit. But
how much better are ske off than o-
ther people i Our lot has fallen to
us in pleasant places, and we have a
goodly heritage.
He said he recollected when he
was a boy, that he and his compani
ons would get round the fire side
ol a winter’s evening, and talk of
ghosts, ’till they were all afraid to
go to bed—and the lugubrious anti
cipations of the danger of a war with
England, he thought was of a piece
with the childish apprehensions allu
ded to.
With regard to the nation with
whom we are to contend, and whose riitchejfl
prowess is so terrible in the opinio*
of some, he is proud to see gentle
men around him, who dared in 1774-
to enter into the conflict, when we
had a population of only three inilli
ona. He did not think' any one
would be afraid to face a nation
whose head is of such a character—
one who Was, some years since ex
pelled a jockey club, and who was
lately turned out of dpors for his
unworthy conduct to his neighbor’s
wife, (A clapping of hahds.] The
power with which we art to contend,
is not so terrific and aliQighty as is
imagined.
Sir, we have intelligence by the
last mail from the Capes of Virginia,
that the vessels of that nation are
capturing our’s from the Cnesapcake
to France, within two leagues of our
coast, laden with produce of our
own soil, and not contraband pf war.
Mr. M. said he was of. opinion
this measure ought to be accompani
ed with another—with letters of
marque and reprisal. We ought to
let the cannon accompany the flag.
The voice of the cannon ought to
speak the ypice of the nation, under
the stripes of the nation. We
ought to have no party feeling. He
wished the country might be united
—that all petty divisions about Ins
and outs may be put aside and that
an united front may be opposed.
He said he gave his assent to the
measure, less under correctness of
understanding, than from a respect
to the authorities of the country.—
When it came recommended by the
executive, he did not feel proud e-
nough to differ—He therefore yield
ed to what he thought the rational,
proper wish of others. As a repub
lican, he would comply with the opi
nion of the majority.
It is in our divisions, Sc the imbe
cility of our councils, that our eOemy
builds her hopes. He believed that
gentleman who have opposed our
measures, have done it from honor
able motives ; but our measures are
good enough if we are united.—All
we want is to form a phalanx. If u-
nited, the work is done, and we could
take a rank among the nations. But
how are we as a nation ? We cant
even get a national song without de
pending on others. He hoped we
might not verify the observation ol
that illustrious commentator, the
“ Federalist,” that our danger is not
from tyranny in the head, but from
anarchy in the end. He knew that
an embargo would be an unwelcome
prescription ; but is a disagreeable
prescription lor a violent disease to
be rejected ? Are we not told from
high authority, that if thy member
offend, cut it off? He considered this
as an efficient measure. He said we
were living in a land flowing with
milk and honey. It is better to keep
our wheat and flour at home than to
let it go abroad and be taken. He
may be asked, is he willing to with
hold supplies from, and starve the
people of that country ? He would
deliberately answer yes, when by
rescinding their decrees they can su
easily do us justice.
He desired the house to look at
the condition of the island of Bar
bados*—the situation of the planters
who are obliged to substitute beets
for cane. In the most plaintive terms,
they represent their situation as des
perate. They have not a stave for a
rum puncheon. In consequence of
the mortgages on their estates, and
the danger of insurrection of their
blacks, they are reduced almost to
despair.
When you talk of the omnipotence
of that nation, look at their impor
tance. We are as different from
them as angels are from infernal spi
rits.
He knew that this measure is not
desirable per se. Altho’ inconve
nient, it is not to be viewed only as
to its hardships. As connected with
another part of policy, it is very im
portant. He said, in proportion to
his worldly substance, no one pro ra
ta will suffer more by it than him
self. He resided with a patriotic set
of men, who will join in opposing a
noble front, and who are determin
ed to avenge our wrongs.
Mr. Randolph said he had listened
with attention to the observations of
the gentlemen from New York, Mr.
Ur gentleman’s reasons,
*t there is any weight in them, are
in favor of theTUinouB measure now
tinder consideration. When thr.
gentleman'justifies himself in shield,
ng himself under authority, in his
approbation of the measure, he should
have supposed he ought to have
been influenced by the authority of
a respectable geatfcngMi, (meaning
the vice-president) fiat in war, first
in peace, ahd first a the hearts of
his countrymen, within the state of
New-York, who is now insensible to
the distresses of the country. The
gentleman says, we ought to take
our stand among the belligerents*
We cannot take this stand. Wi|
are just emerging from a revolution
--a revolution which was soon suc
ceeded by an European war, which
has been to us like the drainings of
a farm yfcrd, which has enriched us
beyond measure, which has raised
our hamlets and villages to first rate
cities. To this we owe our present
greatness. To this we owe the lan
guage the gentleman h..s this evening
used. Sir* what has been the fate of
those nations who have undertaken
to take their stand among the belli
gerents. They have become like
numbly gun boats, in the wake of
European belligerents. What haa
become cf Prussia ?—she is extinct.
What of Austria ?—she is crippled.
What of Russia ?—she with a terri- '
tory and .population far beyond ours*
has been anxious to take the stand
which the gentleman wishes, but she
dare not. Sir, we may come to the
war under the name of allies, but
we shall be the first servants of those
whose cause we espouse. We may
escape this conflict with honor.—*
What is honor in a nation ? Is it ho
nor to cope with those who are bs
greatly our superiors ? It is our du
ty and interest to wait. He very-
well knew that in times of feverish
anxiety and impotent restlessness no
thing is more irksome than to preach
up patience, and that we ought to
wait for events.
Mr. R. said he did not pay much
regard to the argument, that the bel
ligerents calculate upon our divisions.
It is an old, and if he might be per
mitted to say, a stale apology, calcu
lated by ministers to unite a people.
The charge of the majority, which is
often made against the minority, is
futile. It is rediculous for them to
urge iti The President of the Uni
ted States can indisputably carry hie
measures in Congress, as much sm
any minister ever did. No minori
ty is, or ever has been, of any effect.
All experience proves in lie would
exhort both houses of congress to
follow the dictates of their owfi
minds, and adopt the sentiment of
the gentleman from New-York.—
There is no danger from an opposi
tion. The President of the United
States for fourteen years has beeiy'
omnipotent. The evil has not beeii
from the minority, but from gentle
men not pursuing the dictates of
their own understandings.
Mr. R, then brought to the view
of the house the diminutive trade of
the country to France, and which
has been diminished by her own re
gulations, in comparison with our
trade to all the rest of the world*
He said if we are called upon to re
sist, he would wish to shew our re
sistance where it is important and
necessary. As to the observation of
his friend from N. Carolina (Mr.
Macon) that our only alternative now
is was—that no proposition has been
or could be made as a substitute ; he
said propositions had been made*
and he would pledge his head one
might now be made, if both bellige
rents were viewed with the same
eye by our government. Where, as
ked Mr R. is the reciprocity, while
the armed vessels of one only are
admitted ? As to the existence of
the French decrees, the burning of
our property on the high seas, is
damning proof that they have not
been revoked.
The gentleman from New-Jersey
(Mr. Boyd) the other day proposed
120 days for the period of the em
bargo, which \v::s negatived. If we
agree now to the amendment of 90
(lays, it is a confession that our argu
ment the other day was right, and
ihat those who opposed us were
wrong ; and it confirms the opinion
of the chairman of the committee of