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DOMESTIC M VNUFACTURES.
The following; particulars respecting the Cot
ton Ma njuttoru at Mcn'J/ttim. in the state ol
New-Jersey, which are copied from a Tienton
paper, are peculiar)’ interesting at the pieseiu
Cienttul period :
o Notwithst anding the extraordinary expen
ses attendant upon.the commencement of nusi
ticss, erecting and alte ing his buildings, uia
cliinery, &cc.— Mr. Ralston calculates tli.at he
a eraged a profit ol 14 per cent, upon Ids uis
b’trscments. This of itself, is not bud ; but
v lien it is considered that his expenditures will
h i ‘ after be less, anti the quantity of work done
Tinich greater, s ill better profits mav be reason
ably anticipated. And we trust that such a
handsome reward will attend his cntei prize, as
will embolden others to lollow his example.—
New-Jersey about ris with excellent cites for
such establishnients. and we hope in a lew
years to see more of them occupied in such
u iefuli honorable and profitable undertakings.
“ Ii is reduced to a certainty, tfiat cotton
goods Can be made as good (it m v safely be
said lie ter) and as handsome in ibis country as
in England, and likewise cheaper. For as the
cotton itself is taken fiom heie there, and the j
goods brought from there here, at a great ex
pellee for freights, insurance, duties, ixc. the ;
saving in these respects by its being manufac- i
tined here, will exceed the saving tbeie by the j
lower pi ice of labour. Mo that nothing is wan- ■
ting to put a stop to the importation of these!
goods from Europe, but the establishment of j
sm h a number of manufactories here us will sa- j
tisfy the demand.
“ Mr. Ralston at present manfactures cotton
flint tun h, dimities , camntnerei , c/irrkn, ntrtj- r, t:d
tickings, eounerpanet, yarn of all sizes, twisted
and untwisted, Sec. Bcc. aid those goods ate in ’
such demand, that he Cun furnisu but a small
part of what is wanted.
The manufacture of coach her, Sic. is also
carried on by Mr. Ralston ton considerable ex
tent, and with good encouragement. This ar
ticle, lor which, a few years ago, we wetu en
tirely depend ant on foreign hands, is now made
i,. this country so weft, and in such quantiles,
as to meet the great and increasing demand. •
“ Thcniunufachire of woollen goods Mr. R *!-j
ston is just eml/d! king in, and has no doubt of
furnishing sin h as may be safely thiown into
the same market with tiie best imported. {
“ 1 he wonderfull clTect of ingenuity, in con- I
strutting labour-saving machinery, is perhaps
no whf a more astonishing than in a cotton luc
tory. In the one we speak of, the cotton is
pick-id broken, carded, formed in rolls, drawn,
jntj threads, spun, reeled, and twisted, all by j
machinery, which machinery is all moved by !
w uter ! Three hundred spindles are employed
at once in spinning, and the other parts of the
machinery in propot tion. In his weave shops, i
Mr. Ralston has introduced the spring shuttle,
the great superiority of which none can imagine
but sucli as see it used, j
The agricultural society of Charleston have
published a statement of the expence of manu
facturing six pieces of cloth in the state of Rhode
Island, from South-Curoli a wool ; from which ,
it appears that a piofit was made of fourteen ■
dollars and forty nine cents on an expenditure
oT 127 dollars, and that had it been made into *
low priced negro cloth the pro lit would have
heel) above thirty dollars. The report adds,
that the A meric an cloth is much superior to*
that imported. j
Ai.kxandria, August 3. j
Two very beautiful sheep, have lately arrived *
at Arlington, horn Smith’s island. They are
perfectly wild, and will not associate with the 1
flock at the (arm, are very tine boned, and run
with great swiftness. The approach of winter >
“ill however domesticate them,and cause them
to seek the protection of man. The fleece is |
as fine as canfbe imagined, and of most delicate I
softness to the touch and purely white. It near- *
ly resembles the famous Spanish wool, except
that the animals wi'l yield three times as great ]
a quantity. The sheep of the island arc shorn j
twice a year, at which times they aie driven ;
into spaces enclosed on t. c one side and bound- ‘
ed by the sea on the other. After shearing thev i
are set at liberty, and rc-nsiiine their native j
•wildness. Ihe extent of the island is such that i
many are never taken, and live to a great age.
l he climate, pasturage, and constant access to
salt, have no doubt greatly contributed to im
ptove the fleece, together with many other
causes, at present not known.
Actuated by a desire to further the cause of
national manufacurc the editor obtained a sam
ple of this most valuable wool, and will be hap
py to distribute specimens to those who may
be passing to a distance, and who feel desirous
cf displaying the manufacturing materials of
their native state. We shall have no objections
toils going further, and visiting the seat of
commercial monopoly, whet eit will convince
th- inhabitants of the old wot id, that we possess
tic means, and will promise to use the mea
sures, to render us indepeudunt of all nations.
The bountiful hand of providence has largely
scattered its blessings lor our use. Industry,
and a sense of wrongs we have received, will ap
propriate the gifts of nature to their proper
purpose, and the American citizen shall proud
lv appear, wholly clothed in the produce of his
native soil.
To tie Editor <f the Richmond Enquirer,
Sih—Having seen in your paper of the 19th
May. an account of the Arlington sheep shear
ing. and supposing that mv lambs were fine.
1 weighed the fleeces of eight o: the choice ewe
lambs, the weights of them so far exceeded
my expectation, that 1 am induced, for the ic
putaiion of my neighlioiiiood, as well as to en
hance the value of my breed of ship, and also
to make one step towards exci.ing a useful
emulation among farmers, to inform you of
the sheep slieai mg at Mount Airy, my resi
dence in Caroline. The weight of flece and
length of wool wc; e as follow :
No. 1 wt. of fleece 7 Length of wool
6 3 4 lb.y t inches
273 4 9
3 5 14 8
4834 JO
5 7 12 8
6 7 8
783 3 9
8834 10
60 1-2
Gross weight of lamb No. 8, after (hearing S9lb.
Fleet of 16 o and sheep weig.vea 63
Ditto of 8 lambs 6 1-2
, 123 1-2
Average 51b. and upwards.
CONCERNS WITH SPAIN.
It is understood we hciicve pretty generally,
thai Hie UitlcrciH.es wtncli produced a collision
between the Lulled .stales ana Spain, u.’c in a
lair train of negotiation and termination, in
I this view wc are disposed to accotd with that
• wise system of poiii y, which obtains by liberal
I explanations ana by reason, the object lor which
| wars are usually Commenced, rather than go to
I war and lesoit to explanation and reason alter
! wards. 1 nis is the best policy at all times, and
j would be pieteiabie even with England, it le
pcatctl experience and reiterated aggressions
■ nail not rendered all hope from reason to deal
with that government tiuitiess.
\\ e are willing even to set aside all conside
rations lor the present, and until the negotia
tion is brought to its close, the courses by
which the vuiioiis misunderstandings and me
naced hostility were produced. In this spiiii
we nonce a recent publication in ihe Hushtng
tun Petit ralist, from which it would appear that
the Spaniards have stopped on the Mobile, a
I vessel going from New-Orleans to Fort Stud
dert, with arms and ammunition belonging, it
iis said, to the United States. Were the lacts
alluded to, true in themselves, and correctly
stated, we should certainly lament the ellects
ot any new collision, tending to distuib the
*■ harmony which Spain and the United States
are reciprocally interested to preserve ; but a
candid examination of the animadversions may
probably place the subject in a very different
light.
] ibe Washington Federalist says :
“ From the moment of the occlusion of the
port of New-Orleans till the piesent moment,
Spain has treated us with uniform insult, out
i rage and aggression.”
! This is not correct: the first instance of well
grounded complaint against the Spw.ia.ds in
j that quarter, was the unauthorised conduct of
| the intendant ol New-Orleans. As soon as
the matter was understood at Mad.id, it was
settled to the satisfaction ot the United .'t tates.
“ She lias withheld from hs a large tract of
territory, which we honestly purchased and
■ paid tor, anti to which we are fairly cntftied.”
i he territory alluded to, it is ptesumed, is
that to the eastward of the Iberville and the
Lakes. As this topic is embraced in the pend
ing negotiation, which promises to be amica
bly settled, and us Spain set up claims and in
■ terpieiauons which opened the path for dis
| pule, it will be time enough to discuss this
| point, when the ljegociution is closed.
I “ She lias entered our acknowledged terri
* tory in ihe night lime, and with an armed lorce
carried oft’ our citizens.”
, 1 his lias been denied by the Spaniards, and
, what is denied ought at east to be clearly es
tablished bclorc it is taken as evidence. The
incident winch appears to have given rise to
1 this complaint, was the arrest of tlie Kemp era,
j “Mcli the Spaniards say was executed agreea
■ bly to the legut aj/‘iluvits token in the Ahs.ii.isip
pi J'erruory, by some mulattoea and American
< ciuzcns. Ihe Spaniards deny taking hold of
j tliem, but when they were wi'huui their own
; limits, vjn the contrary the A em/iers, tite spun-
I iarus say, had previously attempted, in conipa
i ny with many American citizens, to exche an
i insurrection in \\ e-t Florida, and by surprize
i and violence to obtain possession ol the Fort
ol baton Rouge ; lor vvliai purpose, perhaps
recent events may account.
“ Sue lias twice invaded our country, with a
strong mili,ary force, and aid not abandon it
until lntinuuated by an opposing force.”
1 lie event Ucie alluded lo must be the pas
sing ot the Sabine by the .Spanish troops under
Don buiceUon To judge of the nature of this
movement, it is necessary to know something
cl the uistoiy of tne case ; and this is the moie
necessary since the topic of boundary will pro
bably be settled by treaty. The Spaniards al
lege that when France had possession of Lou
isiana the boundaries between them and the
Spaniards, in that quarter, were at kio Hondo ;
and lor prool they refer to a variety of docu
ments ; they dwell particularly on a work of
Yihaaenon, cnti.lcd “ a description of the pro
vinces of Mexico,” printed in that city so early
as the year 1744. 1 he treaty for the purchase
of Louisiana, slating the terms that it was
grounded on the principle of retrocession, the
Spaniards assert a title to the territory which
they had held by actual possession for more
than 120 years, and which they had not receiv
ed Itom trance. Ihe territory between the
eastern bank of the Sabine and Rio Hondo
comes within the description of their claim ;
after the amicable manner in which the truce
took place, the principle of an unsettled ques
tion, oi course, remains for n.egociaucn also ;
and although we offer no decisive opinion on
the tact, yet the result may shew that the Span
iards had at least some plausible pretensions.
Ihe spirit of conciliation which dictated the
temporary agreement with general Wilkinson
for the evacuation of that tenitory until the fi
nal settlement of the pretensions of both pow
ets by negociation, is at least entitled to some
ci edit.
** has seized our citizens in the peacea
ble pursuit of honest business within our own
territory, and under a strict military guard
transported them to one of her distant posts
through a trackless wilderness.”
We presume this refers to the seizure of
three or four persons, during the period of the
movements on the Sabine. Those persons ap
pear to have been taken upon suspicion of be
ing spies—how justifiably or not we cannot al
ledgc : and therefore cannot argue.
“ She has uniformly exacted an exorbitant
duty on the produce ol the American soil, pas
sing from one American port to another, and
those exactions have taken place within the
rightful jurisdiction of the United States.”
I lie duties exacted at Mobile, we should
wish to see abolished, but it must be allowed
that they are not novel, the like were formerly
exacted on the Rhine, and other rivers of Eu
rope which run through territories belonging
to different states, and although they may have
been inconvenient to the American citizens
who have passed up that river, still they are
grounded on the rights of sovereignty, concer
ning which we have above said what we deem
sufficient.
“ She has extended these exactions to pub
lic vessels ol the United States, freighted with
provisions for the supply of their troops on the
Tombigby.”
1 his stands in the same predicament with
the preceding circumstance, with this addition,
that the Spaniards ulledge, that the attempt to
pass and repass has been made without the
previous consent and approbation obtained, or
perhaps ev en claimed from the local authority.
1 his the Spaniards say is only an imitation of
a similar act on our part.
“ e fins refused to let a detachment of our
troops hom one American port to ano
ther, through the waters through which we
wished to pass, and the very fort which enabled
lht;m to enforce the refusal is rightfully our
own, but which they ale suffered unjustly to
detain from us.”
YV hen last winter the governor of Pensacola
wished to go to the relief of Baton Rouge,
threatened, as they atledge, by the conspirators
under colonel Buit, lie requested the permis
sion, for expedition sake, to proceed through
the waters and territories of the United States,
and was preremptoiTly refused. No just com
plaint can exist to be dealt with by others in
the same manner we deal with them ourselves.
Ihe governor ol West Florida, as it might be
exjieeted, afterwards reiustd a passage through
the mobile, which hud been refused lo hnn
through the territory of the United States
when he proceeded to Baton Rouge.
” And now not content with the exaciion of
exorbitant duties, she has seized the whole
cai go of a vessel laden with arms, ammunition
and naval belonging to the United
States.”
YVe have such an account in the newspa
pers- and it may be true or not; but if a vessel
attempted to pass up the Mobile in any m inner
contrary to the regular usage recognized by
both governments, it is perhaps fail to conclude
that perhaps she has been only detained , not to
make a prize of, but to enforce the established
usages ; of which, if we recollect right, there
were some cases before. YVhen the particu
lars of this detention are known, it will perhaps
be found that the accounts in the newspapers
relative thereto, are not perfectly correct.
At all events, among all frontier nations, oc
currences frequently happen of mutual com
plaints, which are objects of arrangement in a
wise and triendiy manner, by the different go
vernments.
As the animadversions have not been dicta
ted with ill-temper, nor with a view to recrimi
nation, blit merely with that of a fair and libe
ial intention, we leave the public to judge for
themselves of the motives which could inspire
so much invective against the Spaniards,in con
sequence ol the supposed detention of a vessel
on the Mobile, and feel so little tor the muf
fler of American citizens, and the insult to our
flag, by a nation that has now several millions
ol our property unlawfully detained, and seve
ral thousands of our citizens in the worst spe
cies of human bondage.
1 owards Spain we feel only the sentiment
that we leel towards all nations, u in war ene
niies, in peace friends.” It after so many years
of misunderstanding, Spain is at length willing
to renew her old .friendship for the United
Stales, the disposition always prevails in the
United States to forget the past in the manifes
tation of friendly disposition, in future. YY'e
have reason to think, that such dispositions
prevail in Spain, and that the issue will be ac
ceptable to both nations.—. Jurora.
CATHOLIC BILL.
FROM COBBETT’s POLITICAL REGISTER
FOR MARCH 21, 1807.
This bill, the introduction of which into the
House of Commons was noticed some little time
back, and which introduction, was, in that house,
received with such general applause, has, it
evidently appears, placed his majesty’s confi
dential “ servants” in an “ unsatisfactory state,”
and as I hear to-day (having, of course, no in
telligence later than that of YY’ednesday) it is
probable they will have resigned their offices
before this sheet can have reached the public
eye. The proceedings upon die bill were
postponed on Wednesday evening by lord
Howick, without any time named for the re
demption of them ; and unless they be icsunt
ed, tl.ere can be, of course, no alternative for
the ministers, but that of resignation or inde
feasuble shame and disgrace. This will be per
ceived by all of them, and some of them, at least
will not submit to everlasting disgrace. Lords
Greenville and Spencer and Mr. YY’indhant
resigned in 1801, along with Pitt and lord Mel
ville, because they could not carry a measure
of the same sort of much larger extent, and all
the other conspicuous members of the present
cabinet have botli since and before, urged the
adoption of that measure. Shame, therefore,
eternal shame, must be imprinted upon the
brow of each of them, if they now retain their
places, without the carrying of this bill. Blit
what do I see in the daily newspapers, about the
cause of stopping the progress of this bill ?
YVhy the writers in those prints assert, in the
most unqualified manner, that the cause is no
other than the king’s disaftprobation of it. YY ell
the king may disapprove of the bid ; but is that
any reason why it should not pass the two hous
es ol parliament? YVhat has the king to do
with a bill, until the moment when it is pre
sented to him for his approbation or rejection ?
All laws, we are told, are to originate in one or
the other of the houses of parliament, and when
a law has passed the two houses, and not a mo
ment before, the king has to take cognizance
of it. This is the language of the constitution
of England; yet, do the writers above-men
tioned boldly assert, that the bill has been stop
ped in its progress by the will of the king alone;
nay, some of them complain that the king, was
not fully enough apprized of all the tendencies of
the bill. So that, according to these write is,
laws originate with the king. If thft* he the
cate, what pretty fables are those which De
Lolme, Paley, Blackstone and others have writ
ten about the constitution of England ; and a
bout those fine checks and balances that exist in
the three branches of the legislative power I
As to the merits of the bill itself, all that I shall
say now, is what I have said before, that, if the
Hanoverians are worthy of being entrusted with
commands in an army stationed in this king
dom, I can see no leason at all, why any class
of our fellow-subjects should be therefrom ex
cluded. But every thing will, doubtless, work
together for good. Only let us be patient and
prudent, faithful and brave, and we shall be a
free and happy people. In the meanwhile I
cannot help, however, indulging for a li tie in
that train of melancholy reflection, into w hich
the intelligence of this event has thrown my
mind, and from w hich it is not in the power of
philosophy wholly to withdraw it. To see my
lord Howick, who was but only the other day
standing up in the old place and in the old man
ner of Pitt, calling upon the house to do this,
and not to do that, in order to preserve its dig
nity ; to see Mr. Calcraft and general Fitzpat
rick, who read so distinctly the several esti
mates that they had to lay upon the table ; their
hair so nicely powdered and their glores so
genteely drawn oft’ from one hand at a time,
while they occasionally press their delicate
fingers upon the table, and gracefully bow to
the honorable gentlemen on the other side, re
ceiving and most richly meriting the thanks of
the smooth Mr. George Johnstone, and his
like ; to see my lord Henry Petty, who backed
and cheered by a daily increasing brood of
“ y°ng friends,” equal in every qualification
to those of Pitt, and anxious like them to prove
their natural attachment to the country, by
drawing their nourishment from her paps, has
brought forth and propounded to the house
such magnificent plans of finance, occupying
a bulk of book larger than the bible ; to see Mr.
YVhitbread, who, after years of study upon the
means of filling the hungry bellies of the poor,
had at last come Forward with his spelling-books
and h s baggage and his bank (lord help us !) for
depositing their fortunes, while Mr. Malthus
was in the lobby with his auxiliary scheme for
the checking rs all population , except that of
placemen and pensioners ; to see the number,
the swarms of new dependants and expec
tants, who were but yesterday, the most blithe
of God’s creatures; to see these, all these,
hurled at once from their enjoyments and their
hopes; to contemplate the confusion in the
daily-press offices, from the uncertainty of the
proprietors and editors, as to which side they
will take; to think, only to think of the quantity
of hartshorn aid ol gin that must be absolutely
necessary to keep up the spirits of disupointed
wives and mistresses. Really it is too much
for one to support without the aid of a gias of
wine, and, accordingly, I have taken one to-day
for the first time since the YY'estmihster elec
tion. . *• Tired at the sound, my genius spieads
her wings,” and Ido feel, I must confess, some
consolation in the prospect of another West
minster election ; for, if the ministry resign,
that is to say, are turned out, I dare say his
majesty, with his usual paternal gooodness,
will afford his loving subjects another opportu-’
nity of choosing their’representatives. TJiis
will be a great good. An unmixed good. A good
indisputable. A good that will make up for many
and many an evil. In this state of mind I wait
with resignation for the arrival of the next lying
news-paper. °
Hanoverians —lt is with great satisfaction
that I have just perceived, that if the news-pa
pers did not delude me with false hopes, these
troops are going abroad to fight against the
T i encli. Ido hope that there will be no contra
ry winds. It is now blowing from the S. YY\ and
that it may continue in that quarter, is my sin
ceie prayer, until these gallant troops come
within reach of our enemy, and have a chance
of dealing him some deadly blows, as a prelim
inary to the re-conquest ’of their own dear
country. How happy they must be at gomg!
YVhat a pleasure it must be to them to have so
fur a prospect of speedily participating ill the