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*K U THE NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE*.
At tlic prospect of the approaching election,
the efforts of puny are redoubled to awaken
the confidence of the people in their govern
ment, to distract the nation, and render useless
the wise measuics which the representatives ol
the .people have adopted.
I .ndless indeed were the task to expose the
v.’ iitness of all and the absolute fallacy of most
ol me grounds on winch the enemies of the
present administration are endeavoring to in
jure it. fine, however, is attended with cir
cumstance* so peculiar, that we deem it worthy
notice.
it will be recollected that Mr. Canning says
in bis speech published in our last “ since the
return of Mr. Hose, no communication has
been made by the American government, in
the form of complaint, or remonstrance, or tm
raiion, or of any deset iption whatever.” From
which expression, considering it as proof irie
fragaWe, sevc al federal papers have made the
ta haul deduction, that no remonstrance has
been made, by our government, on the subject
of the British oiders in council; as appears by
the following extract from the Boston Gazette
of August 22 :
“ They {the people of America) have wit
nessed the groanings of the democratic presses
against the British orders in council, though;
tlay lot got at the same time to tell of the pre- ‘
cedent measures of the French government,]
winch produced these orders—and now they 1
fin] out, that our -oWt* administration, so far
fiom thinking them cither at biliary or’unjusti
fiuble. 01 being desirous of their removal or |
amelioration, that they have never preferred a !
comptaint against them, or required their re
peal. There is something strange in this con
ducl—-it fully warrants the declaration of Mr.
G’u rdemer, “ that there is an unseen hand in all
Hus.”
Can it be possible that any man conversant
in the of his country, can forget cir
cumstances which occuned not mote than four
or five months ago ? However improbable it
should seem, yet such is the case; and what
renders tht circumstance more singular, is the
concurrent tteuthery of memory ol two feder
al editots; tor the Centinel of the same dale,
speaking ol the dispatches said to have been
received per the Isabella, says, “We do not
think they relate to the British orders in coun
cil. lor we are confident the Untied States have
never madr any communication to the cabinet,
Oil the subject of these orders.”
On the 26ih of February last, a communica
tion was made to congress by the president of
the United Slates, commencing as follows: “ I
enclose for the information of congress, letters
recently received from our ministers at Paris
and London, communicating their represen/a
lions against the decrees and orders of Fiance
and Britain,” Ecc. These communications
were inadvertently read with open doors in
one branch of the legislaiute, contrai y to usage.
It was thus ascertained that the spirited aid ar
gumentative remonsttance of \lr. Pinckney,
was dated on the 23 l November, but 12 days
after the date of the orders in council. And
yet these is an Aineiii.au paper which shall
declare, for party purposes, that no rciiion
stiuucc has ever been made on the subject.
While on this subject, we arc induced t no
th e the peculiarity ot Mr. Canning’s language.
It would he derogating ftorn that consistency
and regard io correctness which is supposed
to attach to the p> ime minister of G; cat-lit itain,
to entertain an idea that ii was Ins intention to
convey an equivocal meaning buch howevci
is the effect, if not the intention. Mr. Canning
say s, since the return of Mr. Rose, “no com
indication has been made by the American g>-
ternment whatever,” kc. Now our readers
will recollet t a certain communication from
Mr. Erskine the British minister, to Mr.
M adison, cxpla -atopy of the oiders in council,
under date of iVbtuaiy 28. To this it is well
understood that a luminous anil conclusive reply
Was made by the secretary of state. It cannot
be possible hut that Mr. Canning must have te
ceived t is important paper, if no o her, before]
the 24th of June ; not indeed “from the Ame
rican government,” but front the British minis
ter in America. So that Mr. Canning’s ex
pression, however equivocal its meaning, ntay
be’ literally correct.
Since the above was in type, a friend has
banded us for publication the following com
yifinii a i> n
British orders in council of the 11 th .Vbrem
her.—Notwithstanding all that has been said to
the contrary, and the inference which is drawn
from a late speech ot Mi. Canning in the British
house of commons, it is a fact that the minister
plenipotentiary ol’the United Mates at London,
interposed his objections against these orders
before they signed, on the rumor that
such orders yveie about to be issued ; and that,
afterwards, when published, he made the
most pointed remonstrances against them, in
an interview which he had with the same Mr.
Canning on the 22d of that month. The evi
dence of these facts was communicated to both
h wises of congress at its session, by the presi
dent ol the United States, as is very well an and
v 'ey generally known. It is understood too,
f ‘in the letters of Mr. Pinckney, containing
t'l.u rvic! ncc. tha the. British government ha
con e o the determination of making these o •
do s officially known to this gov eminent
tli ough theii minister plenipotentiary- here :
and it would seem that Mr. Trskine’s letter ol
the 231 of February to Mr. Madison, was ;•
ful ilment of his instructions on that point
Frtin these circumstances, which arc all pub
lic the inference L inesistihle, that Mr. Mudi
so t made tt-o of the organ . vhirh had been select
ed L u t'seif lor conveying to the British gov ern
ment die known and avowed sentiment (with
w ich that of Mr. Pinckncv perfectly coincides
of >'is own government, upon the subject of the
o ders referred to; and it is to he presumed
t .it Mr. T -kine did not fail to cotr nnmicatc
to Mr. Canning a copy of Vr. Madison’s lettci
to mm. It ougbuo be recollected that the ex
planation from him is dated the 23d of Fefcrn
y ; and it is not reasonable to suppose, cunsi
lering the importance ol the subject, that the
answer of the American secretary of state was
long delayed.
It cteariy results from this view of the sub
ject, which, you know, Mr. Printer, is sketched
by a federalist; that the public prints have
abounded in misrcpiesentauon, in ascribing to
the American government a certain degree of
torbearance under the British oiders of council
in question ; and that the speech ol Mr. Can
ning, to say the least of it, is greatly warning
m candor. A.
The tight honorable George Canning (says
the Washington Monitor) whose observations i
with- regard to the relations between the United |
States and Gieat-Britain appear in this day’s I
Monitor, is the British secretary of state for the i
foreign department, and one of the members of i
parliament tor the borough of Hastings. He is j
a man of abilities; having risen to the highest
stations in the government fiom a low “begin
ning, without the factitious pretensions of either
fortune or.family connections.
We dy not view the observations of Mr. Can
ning in any other light than as an excuse to the
English opposition and public for the delay in
the adjustment oi differences betvveea the two
countries, which has been loudly called for by
, the manufacturing and commercial interests
! of the British-empiie, and to silence which
. culls, large false orders have been sent by the
! ministry, through the medium of merchants
’ friendly to its views, to the manufacturing
towns, for supplies for the American market I 1
One expression of the honorable sccrctuiy,
J however, derives a certain degree of import
! unce trom its similitude to the cty ol the oppo- ,
sitton here. “No co.nmuiiicatjui has been !
made by the American government” to that of
Great Britain, since the return of Mr. Rose:
and it is consideicd extraordinary that many j
special messengers had been sent to our mi*;
nister at London without any such comjnuntca- j
lion having been made. Mr. Canning i., too j
sensible a man not to know, that the cabihet of
Washington had gone as far as the people of
the United States would suffer it, when it
ag ecd to rescind the interdiction against Bri
tish ships of war at the same instant that Vlr.
Rose should reveal and verify the atonement
necessary lor the murders in the Chesapeake.
The dignity of this nation could stoop no fur
ther ; and it remained for the cabinet of Lon
don to nieet ours on those equal terms Ire-ore
any further communication could pioceed
from this side of the Atlantic;. It does not fol
low, that because messengers goto E rupee and
to England, that they must necessarily bear
communications to those governments. It is
proper, at all times and at all events to keep up
an intercourse with our ministers there, m or
der to be prepared for any tesult.
Mr. Canning may rely upon it, that the
American government will be governed by con- 1
tingencies ; but they will be such contingents
as relate to itself alone, and not those winch
may depend upon the caprices ol an emperor
or a king.
Important Fact /—-It was proved on oath be
fore the British house of commons, since the
orders of council of November, 1807, that in
surance of American ships and cargoes, to the
continent of Europe, against British rupture on
ly, had risen to 90 guineas on the 1001. steiling,
which is 941. 10s. on the 1001. Such are the fa
tal effects of tliese B.itish orders to coif scale
our property. Yet unwise and wicked men
condemn the embargo, and pretend it is pro
duced by Erench influence. These inconsider
ate oi bad men have much to answer for to
their injured country. They condemn the on
ly means of our temporal salvation, and would
destroy the men who have devised and enacted
those means. —Boston Chronicle.
Why do we impeach the conduct of Britain?
Is the morning song and evening hymn of the
opposition prints. One would think so dan
gerous a question might have been avoided, it
the leflection did not occur that the party from
which it springs is notorious for ftebloncss of j
ntind. Upon what elements, in what sections *
of the globe have the United States been insult- ;
ed, abused and pillaged ? Every voice will an- ‘
swer, 1 on he ocean. ’ And who Is it that com
mands by immense fleets the navigation of the
seas ? Every voice again declares it is “ Great !
Br/tadi.*’ If, then, om injuries be on the ocean, t
and Bi itain commands the ocean by means of j
her navy, against whom shall we complain
.. but against her? Why docs site not render the
, ocean free ?Itis in her power to do so to-mor
, row if she will. It is in vain we erv out against
Bonaparte, who rules the land of Europe, for
. on the land we have net been maUreated ; but
on the ocean our wrongs have originated, and
Great Britain is proudly said to be lire n falress
of the ocean: therefore we impeach huh.—
Washington Monitor.
It is a little singular that the English should
object to Joseph Bonaparte’s wearing the
crow nos Spain on account of his being a fo
reigner, w hen it is a notorious fact that nearly
the whole race of Btitish kings have been so-
I reiguers.— ib.
Extract from Panisaift History of the Ame
rican Revolution, 2d vol. 1634 page.
> March 26, 1780—“ \\ iih the hopes of
relieving Charleston, ciders were given for the
Maryland and Delaware troops to march from
vrt-neral Washington’s head quarters to South
Carolina ; but the quarter-master-general
Timothy Picketing} was unable to put this
detachment in motion as soon as was intended.”
Mav not the capture of Charleston be more
Hilly laid to the charge of the Q. M. General,
than the pre*ent en barrasstnents to the presi
dent Essex Register.
Asa proof of one of the manufacturing eapa
'ter and preparations of Pennsylvania,t mav
V relied on as true, that there are fifty water
wheels already erected, and m operation, on
Chester creek, south west of Philadelphia
Prise. _
TROM THE HgW YORK AURORA^
Federal Delegates.—Our predictions
are verified. ‘1 he conspicuous federalists who
met in jhis city front the different states, have i
at length decided on holding up a federal can
didate lor the presidency. A compromise, we
understand, was rejected with indignation dut -
ing their deliberations ; which, for the piesent
has arrested the hopes of faction. It now re
mains for the republican party to unite—to dis
card personal partialities— to resume their ac
customed vigor—and associate in glorious re- j
sis’ance to the enemies of American liberty.
P. S. The apostate printers of the state, as
they canuot be trusted, are not included in the
<above.
Cullen is still in this city, or we mistake
j the complexion of the columns of the Evening
i Post. j’
It is said Cullen is about to embark for
Charleston with the southern delegates, in or
der to support his friend Pinckney’s election.
Facts.—The day on which the first law lay
ing an embargo was introduced into congress, •
Josiah M
ryland, m i l.< senate chamber, and urged with
great earnosttiess the passing the bill thro’ the
senate as soon as possible ; and appeared much
engaged in its favor.
That the bill passed the senate on the first
day, and was before the liouscof repicsentatives
several days, is well known. The next day, by
1 some new light, >1 is became violently op
posed to the bill, and talked of the withholding
papers—of Erench influence—and the hand of
Napoleon 1
I During the sitting of the supreme court of
the United States at W ashington, M—-—is de
clared in a public company, composed of mem
: bers of congress and two of the judges of the
; supreme court, L —n and J n, that “ the
; “ embargo would be an unpopular measure, ,
I “ abd that (we give bis own words) we will get j
“ governor Clinton into the presidency on the
“ unpopularity of it.”
After the meeting in this city last winter,,
which censured Cheethain for his abuse of the j
administration, be wrote a member of congress I
in these words : (speaking of the withholding !
of information and Freneli influence) “ Strip this ;
“business of all its political bearings, and iet •
“ me know how far there is any truth in (he
“ story of French influence and the withhold
“ ing of papers by the president J”
Uur informant would not have troubled us
with thi's statement, if it was not supposed that
Josiah M rs and Chcetham were moved
by more important cuaracters than themselves.
But he has no doubt that judge L— n can
confirm a part of the facts slated.
P’fderausm —The following extract is tak
en from a lateral prim of last evening We
! find it among many other traitorous elFusions
in the list of series of pieces addressed to the
honorable James Madison. These writings
111 we are to judge by the language J are most
assuredly the pi eduction oi Cullen, tltc Bt itish
emissary, who is tinvv in this city aiding the
cause ot his master and the Junta lately con
vened .iere for the most diabolical purposes :
“ Introduce manufactories, and they will riot
only produce a civil war and requne a greater
navy than would be required to protect com
merce against the depredations of all the world,
but the spirit of resentment, uniting with the
spirit of enterprize, would invite British aid,
and the United Suites would again inevitably
become colonies of England, or the capital of
the kingdom. You may smile at i suggctJ*
tion, but did you know that there were thou
sands who were every day denouncing the
claims you have made upon that nation, as be
ing unjust and unreasonable, and openly ;fo
claring, that it is our true policy to rescind
those claims, take protection under the
British navy, and unite with her against
the EMI’EHOH OF FRANCE.”
It will be recollected, that this was the lan
! guage of Cullen in the October of 1807. Cole
] man denounced the wretch, and the parson
iwunted him hung up on the instant. Yet in
, the short space of ten months after, a writer
< has the hardihood to advocate an “ alliance of
fensive and defensive with Great Britain,” in
the Evening Post.
i Does not the scoundrel writer deserve a suit
of tar and feathers ?
From Portland, August 15.
i “ T was at Portlaiud when they had their
town meeting respecting the embargo. The
request for a town meeting met with about fifty
signers, among whom, it is said, thete was not
a single merchant. I heard the argument in
favor of a petition to the president of the Unit
ed‘Stati'S to take off the embargo. It was urg
ed by several lawyers, that it was enough for
them to know they were in distress ; they had
t nothing to do with the question at sarge, as it
? respected the nation. Much to the honor of
• the principal merchants, they urged that it was
inexpedient to petition the president at this
time, as it might interfere with, and interrupt
the negociations now pending in Europe—and
as nothing had taken place which would insure
safety to our ships on the high seas.
“ The above will not be denied by any ore
who was piesent. A large fleet of federal cir
culars arrived here yesterday, for all parts of
the district of Maine.”
We understand the town of Wenham, at a
meeting called for the purpose, after a lengthy
and pertinent harangue from the honotable
judge Pickering on the subject, vo ed to petition
the president to suspend the embargo— thirteen
(including one unqualified voter) in the affirma
tive, and eight in the nagativs.— Salem Peg.
Norfolk. August 31.
The United States’ ship Wasp, came into
Hampton Roads yesterday ; in coming up this
river, she got on shore near Tanner’s Creek,
and will be obliged to be lightened before she
can be got off. Part of her guns are already
taken out. She will, it is said, receive no dam
age.
Nxw-York, August 2S.
The United States’ brig of war Argus, sailed
from this port on the 24th inst. on a cruise.
By the sloop Industry, arrived at this port
last evening, from St. Croix, we learn that the
Spaniards at Porto Rico, and on the Main, had
declared in favor of Ferdinand ; that all the
Frenchmen were ordered to depart in seven
teen days. On the Alain a great nrany French
men had been massacred. Flour was verv
scarce at Porto Rico, and the Btitish comman •
er at St. Thomas, had sent a supply there.—
At St. Croix and St. 1 hemas, flour was 30 dol
lars per barrel, scarce, and on the rise, in con
sequence of the supply that had been sent to
the Spaniards.
Aug-’st 27.
Accounts received yesterday from Trinidad,
by the arrival of the brig Neptune, state, that
the British frigate Acusta, arrived at the Carac
cas, from Seville, with dispatches fi om the Jun
ta, two days after the French ship charged
with dispatches front* Bonaparte, reached
there ; and while the government were in
council, deliberating on them, the inhabitants
rose en masse , seized the French officer and
ship, hois'.ed the Spanish and English colon*
together, and declared in favor of Ferdinand
VII. and the Seville government.
A gentleman at Gibraltar, in a letter to his
correspondent in this city, dated July 5. says
“We have now received official accounts of
the complete success of the Spaniards in sever
al severe engagements, fought at Savragossa
and Valadolid, all of which have redounded to
the honor of the Spanish arms. lam unin
formed ot the loss on either side, but it is said
to be great. Two French generals arrived,
here this day, taken prisoners in Algarvas*
(Portugal) brought here bv the Portuguese.
Thev will be sent immediately to England.
All Portugal is in arms, cletermired to resist
the encroachments of the Erench. The ship
Rising-Sun, Parsons, will sail from Cadiz for
the United States, in 10 or 12 days.”
September 5.
Accounts from Cam peachy (received by t’n©
Troy) state, that the Spaniards at that place
, have declared in favor of Fetdinaitd 7 h, and
i the cause of the patriots in Spain.
We have authority to s : a’e ; from an aut hen
! tic source, that Bonaparte having arranged lor
] the division ot Tn. key in Europe with A.exan
! der the emperor of Russia, had marched an
army itgo Dalmatia, said to be 50. 000 n en,
That the Turkish government drove every
, Frenchman out of Constantinople, declared war
against France, and dispatched an ambasadorto
London. On the 14th June ‘his ambassador ar
rived in Ciibi altar, and rn the 19ih June he was
waiting for Lord Collingwood’s sending a ship
of war to convey him to London.
More Dispatches. —The briar Aurora,
Pickle, from Havanna, arrived at Philadelphia
on the 26th ult. She had sailed fiom Phila
delphia about 30 days before, to bring home a
cargo ; but returned in ballast, with dispatches
for our government, the purport of which had
not transpired.
Cin.nLF.STON. September 8.
Extract of a letter from a gentleman at
to the F.di or of the Georgetown Gazette, dat
ed August 21.
“ I rode down to colonel Hampton’s yester
day, by invitation, to view his screw press for
packing cotton in Poplar or Wahoo hark. I T. fa
project I had heard of before, but did no- decru
the thing practicable ; indeed, I though; i a vi
sionary scheme. Myself, however, as uc.i as,
u number of other gentlemen, had oc< utar and
satisfactory demonstration, that 276 ■ ,u: T f
cotton can be pressed into a bar), evz ti ix ~(*
bag, the contents of which, in cubic j s
only 14 cubic feet The press u- a , ,! ■ l:
teen minutes in picking the h o; ..
whole operation of puttfag the cr <
press, and screwing it down, ‘.l serving .
cover, and cording thebaic ; and •>: ■■■.„: ,
of the press, may coi sume so nr one hr.ur.
has three of these pt esses, v :cV cr*v h. £; y
dollars a-piece, for the v ‘/manship only.—
The balesare square, look c;- neat i r d .. e
very strong; about four and a half Let long,
two feet deep, and aJrotat cl a half I'e. ‘J lie
bark, ropes, See which compose the cover,
weigh about 12 pounds. He pac es en b a t
cotton, covered in this way, with baric and mats,
for the price of five yards of cottor. baggin
This saves him nine tenths of the expense of
bagging for his cot on ; renders him in ! cud-,
ent of foreign manufactories for that c • icfo
and therefore less susceptible of injury from tl J
embargo. °
“ I likewise took a look at his looms. T’
weave cotton, wool, and the hair of horned
tie, into good substantial cloth. He will n ; 'f’
enough of it this year, he savs, so clothe ; j
negroes. The cloth is twilled, and will be / *
warm and lasting. ‘ ‘
He shewed us a calf of the English 1 ,
five months old. I guess it would weiu' jr f eCt *
200 to 250 pounds ; it has had only half 0 ‘ tlo
■of the dam. He had 35 of this yea:, ire ’ ‘
shorn some time ago; the average vt S ,- ! r
their fleeces was two pounds a-piece. lie like
wise carries on the tanning business extensive
ly. His bark gin, with thirty saws, will teduce
to fine powder three tons of bark a day, he in
formed me ; and the force necessary to work it
is but a two horse power.
“M at ing’s paper-mill goes on well. I ex
pet t, in a short time, he will be able to supply
all the state; at least, the upper part of It, with
that article, of good quality.”
m + mm
We arc able to stale, (says a London paper)
upon the authority of a letter fiom Manches
ter, that in that town, the population of which is
nearly treble that of Hull, there are “ only three
shops licensed to retail spirits; nor are they
suffered to sell tiss than a pint; or to be open
on the Sun ‘..i/s.” About two years ago, the.
writer adds, “many of the publicans opened a
room for the sale of drams ; but the magistrates
gave them notice, that if they did not desist, not
one of them should have his license renewed ;
which of course did away those shops
ther.”