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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