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4m rnuM tat Virginia aroos. * %" cf Mr^dACKson, the British ATmistet., Mr. Jackson, lhe British minister, has arrived in-Hamp:on hoods. '-f . If - j 4i In our present circunistades, it is an impor tant ccnsidcnilioti, wbat should be the conduct <>f our government ? oti the reception of this minister. ■ . . \Vc have been Tong amused with embassies. In the, present situation 9f this country, when our commerce is shut out lirom all paiu of the world, under the depreciation which the pro duce of our agriculture must necessarily un dergo, if we suffer eursehes to be amused by protracted uegociaiions ; the .resources of our country will continue to dioriuish, if uut finally become enfeebled.' KittratP Association. « It is really lamentable,says Knox, in iris excellent moral essay*,- “ to observe, in many families, tbe aged parent slighted and neglect ed, and, like an old-fashioned piece of iuriu- tnre, or useless lumber, thrown aside with con tempt.” . To the disgrace of human nature be it said, that this observation is too well founded. It is applicable to every age of the world, and sel dom has a society existed, so virtuous as not to afford many examples of ns truth. Strange, indeed, that so many should despise a situation in whxi» ail expect to be placed at some fu ture-time. . Ought we not rather to endeavor to make' it respectable, comfortable and "happy -—ought we not rather to smooth the lurrow of age wtthlhehand of kindness ; to calm its ir ritability by. affectionate attention ; to prevent War is even preferable to that state ofapa- re g r p| 0 f past happiness by present comfort, ' lUy, when the national spirit continues to eva porate, awl when the enemy has leisure to sow division in our country by applying to the pas sions or cupidity of those among us who are disaffected to the government. Avc we sure that these are hot the real mo tives-of the -English ministry in sending the present ambassador i And ate we sure that his tocgociaiion shall not be directed to inis object! We know this is a game that England has play ed on other countries ; and we are not. as yet and supply the loss of youthful enjoyments, an ticipaiions and sensibilities, by the pleasing consciousness of being loved and venerated. Should we not act thus towards oug parents, that our sons may'act in like manned towatds ourselves ?—Should 1 despise the weakness and decrepitude ol my father^ should 1 not vene rate his brow, deeply furrowed by cave ibr my wcliare; should 1 contemn the mother Who has anxiously protected the imbecility of my childhood, or refuse when in my power, to rusuicd dial her piflulhy is AO strongi,. lavor - light up with smiles that eye, wbkhhsdt|atcb of this countiy, dial she wo,ml ba uwwiii.ng to c j or/2r t h c slumbers of my infancy, beea wet- pai it once more in practice'. V ' ted with sympathy, ofjny suffering, ar,jj|»k.eo- Wickham, tti March, 1796, was carrying on C( j w jth f Cars of my uncertain -prospects ip fife ; a negnciatio.-) with l-’rattce, witilsi be was at the w hal right should I have to expect better treat- a.inte time tampering with one of her generals,; nr.ent when time shall have brought thednto a through a Swiss bookseller, about betraying her ‘ fi^e situation.? 1 know that all men will readi- away ; and sowing disseiilious in the most tier- jj agree with mein thcseldeas ^ that. oilmen tile provinces of her eptpire. When pressed will acknowledge the title of old age- to vene- ott the subject ot negociatton, he declared, that j ration; and that our parents have a clajtn to he was not au;ho» :scd to make any agreement, J our unceasing attention : for the world h^ts al- bn only to transmit answers to his government.; ways condemned the ingratitude of children, '1 be French government was duped ; nis nut- ■ and j,as always been loud in commendation of cbinalions su.ceedctl; the catastrophes of Ly- filial piety. i:o:.s, Toulon, and Marseilles followed : and it was only the recal of Pichegru, that alone pre- teircd the army that fie commanded from be ing betrayed -to the prince of Cuticle oi to general \V u rimer. ' The Eiigltsh minister Majmsbury arrived in Paris on the 24.it of October,* the same year.— "Heproposed that the beUigeieuis should yield up I'espccttvcly ihc conquests they had made d.it.Ug the war. Upon being asked.it lie was authorised to treat foi his allies, tie answered i . the negative. After some time, at.c) after man? equivocations, upon being pie&scd lor bis p-»wei» to treat for a separate peace, he was fi -cedto confess that he bad out any. Whilst lie amused tbe -French government by sending couriers backwards and forwards, he attained his objects. The ministerial party were victo rious at the pending election, the loan was fined up, and he departed. Letcvery':friend to his country ask himself, hit not the present ambassador a similar pur pose ? Is his object to sow dtssention and scat ter fire-brauds among the adherents of a delu ded .faqtiqn in this country ? and, unhappily, there is much combustible maieriuls for such aspurpnse. May it not be to prop the declining popularity of tfic present ministry; to encou rage speculators la the proposed loan; or to propose final postulates to our government, to which she must return an answer at the mouths - of cannon Those who remember Constantinople and Gtpenhagen, will understand me. Nelson ne gotiated thus with Denmark and with Russia : Aud Jackson, Who has learned and" practised similar lessons of diplomacy, are we assured t'tat he will not ncgociate in a similar mauner ? but the expedition has another object. It is destined against the island ot Walcheren, or to a.sist the Spanish patriots. Be it so. But was not the expedition that captured Buenos Ayres first destined for the Cape of Good H *pe i and may not a fleet, after being successful in the German ocean or the Bay of Biscay, be destin ed to bombard some town in the United Slates *■ on the Atlantic ? la such actuation, when we have every thing The many know how to praise or disapprove; but only the few, how to act. Virtue is so com manding, that those are compelled to ad mire it. who do not posess it ; and vice and in gratitude are so despicable, that the vicv.ts and ungrateful will never acknowledge tfieir. exis tence in themselves. Who would not be an gry at the charge of ingratitude, yet how many at e ungrateful i Who would acknow ledge his contempt for a parent, yet how. mu- tty feet it But, let us consider age uncon nected with us by tbe ties of blood; let us view it unbiased by the strong power of natural affection. *Tis true that many old persons, from their light and frivolous conduct, draw on themselves the disrespect of the young, yet age, in itseff, is venerable without any accom panying quality to render it so. There is. there can he,, no object so commanding as a great man in the last stages of life. In his presence, we feel an awe we scarcely know how to account for j pur feelings depress us ; we are weighed down by,? something we know not what. Bellisarius, at the bead of his vic torious army ; Bellisarius adored by the peo ple; was not as great, co«nro,andio£» 1 or awful, as tie blind, ducripid, out-cast Ueltisarius This feeling is excited even by inanimate ob jects. Who could approach the ruins of Tad- mor ; who could view-the fallen grandeur of Rome ; who could tread Amidst the silence oi Athens, and not feel this-overwhelming sensa tion ? Age always exhibits on its brow a so lemn lesson tq the young. “ That beauty of person, of which you arc so proud ; that vigo> of body, of which. you boast; that activity, which you so much delight in ; will leave you in time, and you most and will become *as t am—bow'd down, nerveless and deci epid.” A solemn lesson indeed to the vain and young ; a prophecy which a few short years will certain ly verify. Experience is the companion of age, and lew old persons will be found, from whom some useful instruction may not be obtained. A disrespect for age is an unpromising fea ture in a young man's character.'*' As the worst and least promising pupils wiilbe found to despise a good preceptor; so, on the con- to fear from a perfidious enemy, th'ei e appears ; ti ary. no good man will ever be induced to b a one only pla.tk for our salvation. i neglect or contemn his parent. Indeed;, so in cur government should ask Mr. Jackson on ’ timately at e veneration for age and virtuous Ills arrival is he authorised to make reparation for the attack on the Chesapeake : to ienounce the impressment of seamen under the Ameri can flag ; with the principle of paper blockades: and to recognise our tight of neutral trade ? If not. no time should be given to Ins machinations to operate: Let us at once take a determined attitude; lei him be dismissed ; let the coun try be put in a state of defence ; and lei us piepare for the alternative of honorable war, or the recognition of our rights from the British government. > War, ^tough it may produce temporary los ses to individuals, cannot- finally be so destruc- principles connected, that no man, who would treat age with disrespect, could salely be in. trusted with power in a republic. SI DNEY. ■ :x:— We understand, that on Wednesday, the 16'h August, a criminal ptosecution was entered against Ambrose H Grant, master of the sloop Anselmo, of New-London, from Kingston (J.) and late from Havanna, (which had just come up from the Lazeretlo) for perjury, in not hav ing true answer made to the Lazereito physi cian, and quarantine master, on the question abuut the port of departure and places touched at. Also, against William Johnson, freighter of tire to the country at large, as a continuance in 4he vessel, and passenger therein, forjuying the present policy- Tbe preach*, system of ex- knowingly seduced said contain (an ignorant, **^— •*-- ' c but to ail appearance a well meaning many, to the pe> jury aforesaid. Both were by estate warrant brought before Richard Reosbaw; esq.’ justice of the peace, in the county of Philidel- phia, and about noon captain Grant was com mitted for want of bail. At five in the ' after- elusion from the general commerce of the world, by the discouragement that it must ne cessarily give to agriculture, will be an impedi ment to our increasing population. The mea sure must therefore be of a temporal y nature, and if we must have war, we should begin the struggle whilst our strength is unimpaired, and ‘ noon both defendants, with the prosecutor, met not when the body politic is quite exhausted i at the above office of investigation, when two and ready to sink beneath its own efforts. > material witnesses on the case, appeared by We know indeed that war is calamitous to subpoena. As these were transient persons, individuals: but when a gangrene threatens the vital parts, no man is unwilling to have the limb amputated: when a town is besieged, no milita ry man scruples to bum the suburbs to save the garrison.——E—ka. : Notice. All pe: *ons having demands against the es tate of Richard Wayne, esq. deceased, an requested to render them properly attested, t( ms .subscribers; and those indebted, to mak< immediate payment, to Vik , George Anderson, > , . Richard M. Stites. ‘ ors ’ July 18—r85 . . _ the justice required of them security for their appearance in two hundred dollars each. Capt. Grant being destitute of resource in point of finding bail, mortgaged, conditionally, his sloop aforesaid to the said Wm. Johnson, in order to- secure him in becoming Bail for captain and witnesses. Thus were all relieved from con finement. They are to appear atthe next court of quarter sessions, for toe county, to be held on the 3tl Monday in September next. We sincerely hope that by this example all ill-intentioned navigators, will be daterred fiom a; tempting the like dangerous violation of a law, the benevolent object of which is uncea singly directed towards preserving and secorinp he health and prosoerity of the port and dty of Phlbdclnhh.—fiapcr. V; - * ■ V- COLOMBIA,<9. c.) September t. At a public meeting of the citizens of Co lumbia And its vicinity; held at the court-house on Monday the 4th September, 1809, for the purpose of taking info consideration our rela tions with. respect to G feat-Britain, capt. Robert Hails was requested to take the .chair, and John M. Creyon appointed secretary. John J. Chap pell, Claiborne Clifton, Benjamin Haile, Tho mas Hutchinson, and Simon Taylor, esqr*. were appointeda committee to draft resolutions expressive of the' sense of tbe meeting. With out further preliminary, tbe committee retired and returned soon afterwards with the follow ing report: FROM THE BOSTON <fUH0N;tT.£. Federal "patriotism” the cause ’/ Cert "rg’a i- . - ^duplicity. ; ’ > >*, i The late faithless, procedure of the British government- towards the United States, has ex cited much speculative enquiry in this country. From various circumstances,-it spears ttiy evident, that secretary Canning furnished Mr. Erskine with a double set of instructions. - (jne set, dated January 23, which he has published in England, was issued on the supposition that the United States would soon revolt from their government. The othcr t upon which Mr. Eis- kine really acted; Canning had evidently «q£- “ The committee appointed to draft resolu- firessed. . . * ' tions expressive of the sense of the citizens of: Mr. Canning, conscious of the necessity of Columbia and its vicinity, respecting our pre- supplies from this country, had recoutse to sent relations with Great-Briiain, in observing fraud and duplicity to ebuin them. From the history of the United States, arc presented leading the American newspapers, and observ- witb a scene of ipodetation and justice towards-ing the town meetings held by the patrir.ttb,’* all nations which they conceive must command ■ federalists to countenance and support the vio- the approbaiioo ot every candid mind) and to* lation of ihe embargo laws-~thei^ resolutions N wards Great-firitaiu, marked with the sternest for *»arresting and pitniohing" the officers of equitv, even bordering on concession. Unit- i government—the ’organization of the patriotic ed by political occurrences, as the twtKgovern- - 4, Sii vet* Greys,” who nobly'pledged themselves meats have been, it would seem that the voice sjto he ready a* a-moment’s warning to murchin of her ministers, as well as the collected mass opposi tion to government, Mr. Canning natu of her subjects, on motives of hiterest, indepeu- rally concluded, that the United States were. 4 or “*'■■■ soon would be in-a state of -actual rebellion. Under this conviction, be wrote the instructions which he has since laid before the British par liament as those given to Mr. Erskine. These were tobe presented to bur government by Erskine, if the,situation of the country would all the councils of a great .nation. .loutit. But if the Picltcrirgjtmto had not been “ She. baa instructed Mr. Erskine, her recog- able, under the hypocritical mask oi patriotism, nized public minister, to enter into arrange- to excite a civil war in-the United States,'ihe dent of principle, would call aloud for a -strict adherence to jastice and to honor. But it is with the utmostconcernthatweareconstrain- ed to observe, on her part, a total abandon ment. of.every, principle.af reciprocity, and an utter disavowal ale vet y rule which should guide meats with the United States, relative to the revocation of her orders in council, and the re peal of out embargo and non-intercourse laws ; and when done, she has trifled with our govern ment, and rejected them upon flimsy preten ces, merely with a .view to decoy our mer* • chants, and to filch the resources of oUr nation; other set was to be acted upon; for Mr. Can ning found that it was absolutely necessary to obtain the repeal of the embargo^r a certain time, (no matter by what means) that Engbnd might obtain supplies. < .* < It is not reasonable to conjecture, that affairs have fallen out precisely as Canning intended ? to the total disregard of her honor, her faith , If lhe *f the country would Warrant it, and her justice. She has murdered our cili- *f l f ie British faction had succeeded ny their.nef- zens, impressed our seamen, and attacked our , .ferious designs, we were to be insulted with the public armed vessels within our own jurisdic- propositions contained in secretary Canning s tion; and our. remonstrances have been respon- j dispatch of the 23d January, in which it re'quir- ded only by a justification of the right, and a ! et ^ l ^ at we should “ renounce, during the pre bestowing of additional favor?, upon \Yhitbt aenl war » l ^ c pretensionioF carrying-on in time apd Brukly, their vile perpetrators. She has i war trade with French colonies, h°*n tequired our merchants to purchase licences i wllich wc were excluded during ume of peace. 1 ’ 0 trade to certain ports, and captured their ves- | And, that «* t,.-cat-Britain, for the purpose, of sels without any just authority, and condemned } securing the operations ot the embargo, and of tnem as prizes ; exhibiting in this last struggle I Bw bona fide intentions of America to prevent for dominion, a paradoxical system, disgraceful ^ er citizens from trading with f ranee; mid the - - - - - - powers adopting and acting Wider the French dectees, is to be con side redjas bei ng at liberty to capture all such American vessel's as may be found attempting to trade with the ports of any of these powers The situation of the country did not warfont this degredation. The “ patrrotic” exertions of the federalists in town meetings aS&e'mbfed, had not proved altogether successful. Mr. ‘ Erskine accordingly acted upon those* instruc tions which were calculated for fieacable times. Mr. Canning,, however, by this unprecedented act of duplicity, has accomplished the object he intended. If the contemplated rebellion could not be excited, and the instructions 'of January 23. could not be acted upon, he unquestionably meant that the settlement should be mt.de at. it was; and, after sufficient quantities of su/ifiltea had arrived in England to disavow the adjust ment 1 even to the barbarians of the Mediterranean, together with a long catalogue of other ernor- tnities. Under the sanction of her despotic rule, force is national justice, interest national honor i and has thus given us a sacred pledge, that we w,n expect no other faith than that which has been experienced by -Denmark and the Ot toman Porte. “ In enquiring into- the source of this perfidi ous policy, we are directed to her present min istry, where we find in a Canning, all the sub terfuge, oppression and baseness of a Bute and .t North ; and discover (he same spirit which prompted the latter, during their adminiatra- qons, to &un at our- cjitii-o subjugation, now stimulating the former to attempt to reduce us dgain to a state of dependence. ” In the faith of a government whose conduct is stamped with such glaring injustice and high banded oppression, ruled by a minister so no- onous for his infamy, we think no reliance can be placed, but apprehend that every attempt to arrange will result in evasions, or that every .-egociation will be broken .with the act that seals it; we tReiefore recommend the follow ing resolutions: : 1st. Resolved, That we have lost all confi dence ih and respect for George Canning, esq. rite British minister for foreign affairs; that we find in him neither honor, integrity or veraci ty, ai.d that it is the opinion of tbis meeting, that we can no longer entertain a well grounded hope of amicable and honorable adjustment of bur differences with Great-Britain, at least whilst he rules her cabinet. . : 2d. Resolved, That in these times of difficul ty, union is more than ever necessary, and that we will hold both tfiqse who shall attempt to divide the people, and (hose who shall attempt to justify the late conduct of Great-Britain, as inimical to our government, and place them in the same rank with the old lories. “3d .Resolved, That we-have entire confi dence in the vittue, the wisdom and patriotism of government, and that we, in support of what ever measures may be adopted for redre ssing our grievances, do pledge our lives, our for tunes and our sacred honors.” The foregoing resolutions being first, read fo information, were again read, clause by clause, and unanimously agreed to.. Tbe secretary was 'hen ordered to publish the proceedings of tbis meeting in Messrs. Faust’f Gazette, and prepare a fair copy of tbe same, and-transmit it to the president of tbe United -States. - “ " ‘ John M. Creyon, secretary.* Timothy Pickering and George Canning were on Monday night last hung and burnt in effigy before the court-house, amidst the firing of cannon and the univcrsal huzzas of a vast con course of people, who attended with lighted candles, and marched with these personages through the town, with martial music, and a triangular transparent lantern, representing three Eagles and the 17 United States, support ed in front of the cart in which they were drawn. After which tbe people dispersed with the ut most regularity. Regimental Orders. An Election is ordered to be held at the Theatre, in the dty of Savannah, on the 21st instant, at 10 o’clock a. m. for a Captain to the command of the first company in the first bat talion, first regiment, Georgia Militia, in the room of captain Clark, deceased. By order of J PeT-ricoNE, major com'dt. first regiment, Georgia Militia. Peter N« Brir.smade, > September 7—107 * * ’ Xdjutiuit. Blessed effects of Federal Resolves /—We are informed that the resolutions of the Newbury- port u Silver Greys and of the town of Glou. cestet, are pasted up in the custom-house at, Copenhagen—and that the master of a vessel, belonging to Cape-Ann, lately condemned in Denmark, was referred to those resolutions when complaining at his loss—Essex Register f NEW TORT CRY. The tories have brought out a new strain, and shout most manfully of “ American in French prisons.” But not a word, all the while, of Americans in British dungeons. And wi»y should they speak of the latter l Old Geotge. butters their bread; pays them for scribbling and enables them to go to market. Tlte histo ry of Bonaparte’s kidnapping Americans is briefly this: British vessels under American- colors with forged papers, engage in a contra band trade—they that are caught in the fact, the ships and cargoc* are sequestered, and the crews are incarcerated. Now, you will remark, that they are not put on board French ship*, to fight the battles of Fiance, but in French pri^ sons on land, where they are maintained with out labor at the cost of the French empire. In this respect, Bonaparte is more merciful than some other nations; for Spam absolutely, set da every person detected in contraband'trade its the mines; and he is less cruel* than tbe British, because be does not compel them to fight-for - him. But we defend him fiot i lf he'has Seiz ed but one solitary American, and unlawfully confined him, he merits all oUr resentment anci ' indignation. Our desire is solely to call the public attention to a very plain distinction in the case. France seizes our countrymen when those country men are employed in an illegal trade: whilst the British sieze our eeatnen when engaged in a lawful traffic, with lawful papers, on board bona fide American bottoms and, do you n>a,k, sir:’to the tune af-soxr.e* thousand souls, crhmmed between the decks of a. ship, like negroes in' the hold of a. guinea- trader. Not a word of all this, do you observe, in tbe federal prints; those precious vehicles* whose editors, like monsters with one eye, cam perceive none of the manifold villanics .of the English.—Baltimore fidfier. Among the articles saved front the effects ot the fire which destroyed Govern Gat den Thea tre, not the least remarkable is the cap of liber ty* which used tobe suspended over the heati cf the chairman of the beef-steak BitiB.' Tins curious relic, which was presented to tf:c‘ cfob by the celebrated John Wilkes, wes dug out <>r thsr remajnsoa Saturday*, without having ic- ceivcd the slighter injury.* A very br*;bgtid-, ron belongit g to the club, whtcK’is tfcgfy. a ceu ury oh , hgi :..’so fceer. recouped.