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Norfolk, Qcttteer- - .. A company of 75 l^lPUBLIOAN. OITT riUWTER. star MfiK gum . cacmr. six, m u». •PATABLS '/IF ADVANCE. AlIVEtl T1SBMEJTTS. To ensures publication on the da) advertise ments arc lent, it is indispensable that they shuu d ^e delivered at this office at or before rwun o'clock. This amtngement'is found ne&ssary enable us to get our paper to press in time to have our packets mxle up and din;latched by the first marl; and to serve our town subscribers at an ear. lyhrmr. . •'\ Which was a Frenchman, and tlie crew mostly captain Big officers, wl . \ •* \ x m ^ Biddle in TtH mission, also some ho are to be exchanged for a % blacks from St Domingo. ThiscsptsmtoIdTsy- p»m»t ■«““ j" r f lor thst he would make the damned Spaniard con- |;ke wmberof Spam"tK t , , fern the truth, and would hang him upTorthatptari itaivO. Till* «*H>e fim - son me savaskan aarcaucas. LETTERS FROM E.\ OUi.VD ^£r tract from c. writ oflcturt, written by an A me- • ricim gantena.i while in England 40 hie Jricnd in Savannah. NO 111. »To an A mericanaiccueiomrd to a clearandazure sky, it ia difficult to reconcile comfort anjjjieailh, with auch a canopy as continually hovers over th*i city, as in Manchester, Birmingham, and some 01 her large towns in England. With a thick anr. black smoke which floats in Hie air, which tin people mi.. 1 # nliale; and which ob cures and black 'em prrry vbj> cl* they »etm to etp*nt nce no in convenience; and apparently enjoy as much bealili ' as if they breathed a mountain air. "Man seems to be fitted to live in every climate 'from the torrid zone to the arctic circle: as well in- the burning sands of Arabia a- on The snow capped mountains of Switzerland: <q ally in tli subterraneous dens of Lapland; the rruicrabi smok:-dried huts of Caffraria, New Zealand, a: North America, as in the comfortable habitation of the most polished states of Europe, and Ane Tics. “Pleasure is, in some measure an arbitrary terfh; and it may be considered as the mere ab (traction of pain, or the mbs nee of evil. The vie •or external objects fitted to produce it, is se dnm alike in different minds. Tims one accustom ed to view the beau'ilul plains of Italy, with everv accnmpamng f.-ature, soft amt tranquil; will look with, horror on rugged rocks; roaring cascade: and moun:ains whose sides are eternally surround ed with clouds, and whose summits are covered with the ice of ages. The hardy Swiss would not ezcltange these rude features of nature, with the voluptuous Italian for all .his love-inspirmg scene nor would the Siberian part with hts country c snow and ice, for the mud climate of moie south ■ero regions. ‘It is not then, very surprising that the good folks of Great-Briiain who bav- never been be yond the confines of their small island, should think its climate good—nay, excellent Itisgo .d by comparison: superlatively good when compar ed with that section of Europe which .* involve,: in darkness and snow half the year; or with some of the pestiferous regions of southern Africa, and 'South America;—but it is wretched when placet, in comparison with that of the V States. Hence, ‘I can sometimes scarcely refrain from laughing when 1 hear a Scotchman or an Englishman sat ••this is a fine day,” or “this is a fine morning. 1 ’ because it is not raiping -should, perchance, the sun be shining at occasional intervals at this sea. 'ton of the year, the expression will be “what a lovely day;” although the clouds a> e so thick and numerous as only here and there to affurc a per at the “blue etberial sky ” Seldom, indeei •does the glorious orb of day, shine in full splen dor during the winter mouths, and then hts side way rays are feebly felt. They impart no warmth; and inspire no animation. One accustomed cloudless sky, would, if suddenly translated to the riegiun in which 1 am now breathing an atmos phere of riB'ike, almost think there was, in the 'surrounding darkne-s, some portentous evil, or dreadfal disaster. With more cold titan 1 hav< felt in England, there is as much of the ‘blackness of darkness;” or, to use plain words, so much 'smoke and moisture, as to make it necessary •< (change a shin and cravat every day, and some times even twice a day. “I had heard much of Scotch hospitality, and to far as my observations have extended, I would confirm the opinions I have heard Their neigh- bora, the English—say, it is formed of coarser materials than their own. Perhaps, if there be tree refinement, there is more candor: if (Here it leu •Of the ‘ sumviler in modo,” there is, I am sure Juli at much sincerity. Most of my countrymen awe n nothing to taps rite the hospitality of either people from selfishness; and would say, there i; always under the dinner plate, a lurking interest, anil .nth every bottle of wine a double motive in the uflering. In the great body of manufactures and radesmen this narrow principle is intermixed; and as I told a low-minded fellow in Manchester, Who had been tearing me to visit his warehouse. With the expression, “1 will be glad to see you.* 7 “Yu. like most of your townsmen, your hospi tality is confined to your warehouse, and your politeness extends to their threshhulds.” But there are, in all the large manufacturing towns ol England and Scotland, many who do not carry their interested motives from their compting rooms; and alto gives full scope to the exercis. 'of geurrous feelings. It would be invidious to Single out nami s; but I have engraven on the tablet ot my memory, those of many families and individuals, whose kindness was of that cast, as would make me blush, were 1 for a moment to foster a belief it was all false—mere show, or tinsel No! lam not one of that suspicious tribe who t'.ink more than one half, nay, three fourths of mankind are rogues, and must be treated as su li; And who are always looking out for i -me secret or sinister princi le or action, that prompts them to give a dinner, or offer to a stranger that kind ness which an untutored savage think- it his duty not to withhold. Else the savage man is better, and feels the dun be owes to his fellow more imperative than his civilizeij neighbor I would rattier. I say, increase the sources of my hsppi ness, by viewing always the best side of the hu man character; and t would, therefore, not piy tee daily into the wbys and wherefores. A very long intercourse with the world is not necessary. w;tlt a tolerable judgment, to seperate the wolf from the “wolf in sheep’* cloatbi- p” or to mark the designing k ave from him who e kindness is from the heart, or who thinks his hospitality is a duty. I would rather. I must repeat, be the oc national dupe of an artful villain, than diminish the sources of pleasure, by a suspicious conduct which is at varienee with generous feelings; and the ex ercise or which, on all occasions, like the unwor thy prejudices of Doctor Johnson in his “Jour ney to the Hebrides,” or the jaundiced eye of Doctor Smollrt, in bis Travels on the Continent, would mar all that satisfaction which is • be de rived frum an Intermixture with society both at home and abroad.” [*> bz toxnxrxs.) rxox rat Xssr-TOBK xvxxixg tost*. COMMODORE TAYLOR. On Saturday last, the case of diis person was ar gue,), on a point ol law, in the district court of ■the United Statts, before judge Van Ness Suits had oecn instituted against Dim by the Spanish Consul, 1 o recus er the value of sundry captures made by Taylor, while commanding the privateer eadedvne Patricia. Am. ng the captures m dj, was an American brig called the Qnzella, tin board of ur&ith waa a Spanish gentleman n.mrd Juan Juando. It su stated in some of the affidavits, that after the cap ture this gentleman was examined respecting the oamers-iip of the property, and denied its being Spaffish: dun I ay lor was at (his time sailing in company with • (mail privateer, the oaptaia ol ceived the permission, be did actually put a round bis neck and tied it to one of ifie yards, and then hauled the repe taut, and choked hint until be confessed the ,-ropcrty belonged to bimj upon which, he was let loose, and ley lor tool possession of the vessel- Un the following day, :be Spaniard sent ashore to Santiago and.procure ed g15,000 fur the ransom of lluwproperly, which was delivered to Taylor; watch Sum otmuneyibe libellant now sought to recover in this cause- *fbe judgeJtavmg in the first instance ordered the defendant to be held to bail, be now aypperi to be discharged from the arrest. Tins ^plica tion wn> founded on an affidavit of the defendant himself, stating, he was boro in Bermuda, a tu;> ject t- the king of Great-Briiam, and Dai server, in the BnUsD fleet: that in Idlu, he became a cit izen of Buenos-Ayrc>, and a commander in their naval service: that he was in the United,States in 1816, and there contracted for a vessel tu be lead ed with naval stores, and to be delivered to him out of the jurisdiction of the Uiiiud States: that the veaseUUicd the r’oiir.h of July was accoru- m^ly prewired, and at sea be purchased her dunged her name to Patriots, and put her under -a ttuenus Ayres comou-.iou, which bad been eii trusted to non b. the Buenos Ayres government: that lie veskel was a public arm .d vessel, belong tug to the government of Buenos Ayres, an 1 not priyate property; that he wa> not in an; manner concerned with the fitting out of the v *-el in Bal timore. nor with eidu-ing any ol the crew I', avowed making two of Uic capture-, which were charged against him, and said mat he had Dec roseculcd in Baltimore by the Spanish consu. for the -amc causes ot action. ,ic also produced a c inmission wh.ch had been made > u: in bia- k .and was fii.eu up ui.li me name of :he se.-»-l a .d the signature* of winch were proved by a •■ess. The defendant, al-o made oath, th l since 18,u, IK- had been a citizen of Buenos A, res, and oad not been a citizen of any other state or com, iry winterer. On the part of 1 lie Spanish Consol it- , as pros ed, that the hrig Fourth of-July was bull,, armet. equipped and owned in Baltimore by sundr: me clums of that place and commodore Taylor; that all the crew tre e cnhsied there anu at N-r. folk, in December, lrfi6, and the beginn ng of J ntiary thereafter; dial Taylor sailed m the vessd at that time from Baltimore; that within the ju •■» diet,on of tbe United Mates be hoisted the Butt nos Ayres flag, and changed die name ot the brq from die Fourdi-of July to the Patriots; proceeu- ed on his cruise, made the captures of Spams.-, property complained of, and returned to bal;. more in July, 1817, with the privateer, without isving been at Buenos.Ayres at all. I list aft ; die return of the vessel, a quantity of specie whtc; tney had captured was divided among die ownei in Baltimore. It was shewn that the sale whici uad been made at sea was a mere sham sale; that the real owners were American citizens during tlie whole Ume', and that die government of uue- nos-Ayres bad no interest whatever in the vessel. It wasaleo established Uut the defendant had not Been prosecuted by the Spanish consul in Balt: more, and a certified co, y of an oaui made n, I'ayiur in the custom house in Balumore, dated April Ul, I0I6, was produced, in which Taylor a wears, that he it a citizen oj the United Stutei, vVilmington, Delaware, and tbe sole owner the schooner Hump, tor which vessel he was thei taking out a register. A deposition f Ventura tzquierdo was also produced, staring he had been engaged by tayior, in Baltimore, t. go in the vessel, to write the log-book and do all the other writings of the vessel; that, while to Bal imore Taylor employed him in forging a como i-stoi for the brig—anodier commission which Tayioi had, belonging to another vessel, having been de stroyed in attempting to alter it with vitriol, 1 that it might serve tor the brig Fourth- of-Jul that tbe witue. s wrote tlie commission, another person signed it with the name of the supreme ui rector of dueiioa-Ax respand fay lur sealed.it with in Balumore; and that during tlie cruise herei mentioned, the privateer had no ether commis sion than this one wmch the witness had fabricat ed The point upon which tlie libellant chiefly re lied was that this vessel had been fitted out in tlie United Stales; dial it was a violation of the ncu- .raliiy of ,his Country; that all captures made by such vessels .were illegal am. void, and the partie. concerned in it were all tresspassers, and such were. liable to be proceeded. against .lie courts of tlie United States. That although it is a- general principle that, where a capture i: made at prize no court but the court of tbe cap lur can enquire intu its legality, yet (bat this ca t is jui exception to that rule, the capturing vessels having been equipped ana fitted out in this coun try, and having thereby violated our neuttd rights, and rendered our government liable to ibakt compensation to the biUegerent whose properly was captured by this force. That at all event-: the defendant ought to be held to.bail to givt Bit libtllant an opportunity of appealing to the judgment of. the highest tribunals for their ulti •natv decision, whereas discharging him without bail was the same as taking away thonght of ap peal. v On the part of tlie defendant it was insisted, Uut the captured property not being brough ••’ (bin the jurisdiction of Uie court, it could proceed against the person only; that the ques ituno: domegez was a mere incident o the ques :ion of prise or no prize, and that the court n 1 having Uie principal matter before it, could not determine up in that which only grew out of it Tlie court decided: First—That it had no jurisdiction over prize cases as between .-pain ami her colonies; or Uie colonies and any other power at war, whtre the vessel making the capture was nut htted out of the Untied States Secondly—That were the vessel naking the capture, was alleged to have been fitted ut o' the United States, but was crui-ing on the high 8:as, under the commission and authority of one of ihe belligerents, tbe court would nut interfere, unless the captured property was brought within the jurisdiction of the court. Thirdly—That the court deemed the question of damage! to rest entirely upon the question ol prize or no prize; that not having jurisdiction of the latter, it could nut have any of a matter neces sarily growing out of, and depending upon it— and therefore, that it would nui hold c -mmodore Taylor to bail in the suit instituted against bim for damages; the property not having been ‘urisdictioi brought within the jurisdiction of tbe m urt. MORE PRIVA TEERLYO The privateer La Forluna, already well known for having taken ihe Portuguese ship Monte Alle gro, has also taken the brig Don Joao, Sexto, and put on board her prize-master Woods, and Mur phy as mate. The prize then came near Balti more, and met at tea.with the scli'rHebe, which bv ing laden, he could only put some cotton and hides on deuk, and accompanied her to Balti more. Murphy then steered the vessel to Cape Look-Out. and thence to Beaufort, where the car go ol the said brig was laden on board several small schooners, and by that means dispersed thro' the different ports of the -United Status, (New York, Philadelphia, &c.) The sch'r Jane, which came into New-York,and.was seized by the Por tuguese eon ul general, are believe is laden with-, part of said brig’s cargo. The amount of the car-' go of the said brig is about gW.lMO. It also appears from a patriotic seng com posed by some of the L> Fortum’, poetic bard'., •bat another Poruguese vessel was taken, but was released after being rubbed of every thing valuable. She was called the Venture Felix. JV 7 Gazette, Zaisti. FROMTUE ^PACIFIC. Extract of a letter dated Valparaiso, 5th May, 18.18, to a merchant in New-Yorfc. The United States' sloop of war Ontario, cap. tain Bidtile, returnee, here a few days ago from Lima, with judge Prevutt on board, who accom- trv.and itvs certainly owing to the humane inter- ferenct of captain Biddle and judge Prevost — Bv thf Ontario,- the lota of the bat'le of Maipo wife Tint kntiwn, and which dismayed the citixens of Lias, ss they had been led to believe that tlie amy; of general Osoro would soon reconquer Cbli. as no expense' ha-l been spared in tquip- ptag it- They alone contributed one and a unit nidootis of dollars. The viceroy at Lima treated the officers with marked attention-surrendered, at the firat demand, the Americana who had been so long con6r.ed in prison—and what ia very sin gular, and so highly honorable to captain Biddle, *e gave an order, that the American vessels'then in the ports of Chili might sail, and should not be molested by tlie royal cruisers. How flattering to our national glory, that a smallship, so fiu dis font from the United States, can acc-rapUsh such important t ings: it apeaks more than volumes coo'd do in favor of our gallant and rising navy: and bow galling to the pride of the English wi o •o lately, pretended *0 be indignant at the con duct of the royal squadron then blockading this port, in permitting the Ontario to enter! Com- 01 .dore Bowlts, ofthe Amphion frigate, alleging it was thereby violated, and, in future, that the English should not respect it We now sic this same ves tl returning from Lima w ith American- forced f. om a Spanish dungeon; pa; not otficera to be exchanged, which, in part, isackii wledgiiig their g verntpent; an order In® tbe viceroy that our v.s.elakkpigjit soil frum a blockaded port without dread of molestation from the ro r cruizers; and all Ibl' after this ssme vessel rescued from the guns of the frigate Vcnganza the bt;ig Ariel of Baltimore who certsunlv would have be- - captured. Tli English arc extremely mortifi Bat so much has be, n performed bv a sing le ,loo > o/wai, and particularly as they joked so muc 1 ujien the vessel firat arrived. Tbe day is noi fir distant when we shall .act that Conspicuous irt which nature has destined us to perform; an. those English writ, rs who are paid to vilify our tountry, wi.l sc- that uv do not over-rate *mr re sources: even within the last six years our hope did not anticipate wlut we now witness The go vernment ar. entitled 1 o great credit in sending s hip of war to tnese seas, anil giving the com maud to so distinguished an officer as captaji .liddii. who by his correct c--nduct, commands die respect ol all Independent of all the advan Lges stated, the On'arin’s being in llo'S’ seas has saved a million of dollars to the Uni'ed States If general St. Martin had been enabled to fol low up bis victory, there is no question but Peru must have 'alien; it i- however an event .not far listant. Tlie-e is a great want of tnnney here which paralyzes the operations of the government St Martin is now at Buenos Ay res, supposed .'or tne purpose of obtaining means to advance towards Peru. Tbe patriots have the command of the seas; they have lately received from Eng land a large ship, very far heavier than any which •lie Spanish have in these -eas Only one four'I the cost was paid in cash; they have a long credit us the balance. Arms and ammunition are con. lanriy arriving from England; ndt ed there more than can find a market— -Yhi Advocate. [It will be perceived by tbe following article that the conduct of the’United States towards the Seminole Indian, and more especially as-rtspects the execution of Arbuthnot and Ambnater. ha: -reated great sensation in England. AVe give tlie following, merely to shew the tore and feeliugs the British editors on the subject ] -Edi.o Sa vannah Htpullic-n From the lavei-pool Courier, of August 19. UJY1TED STATES. The war with the Indians, carried on by general Jackson, presents a horritl rbarac tpr forociuus uttrocity. ’Fh“ orders li this omeer, to carry on an externunatiri warfare against the men, is little rrliev uy the exc> ption of the yvmr.cn anti cltil tlrenj fur what must he their lot, whei their natural protectors are tut off? W • an see no means of palliating these bru lal excesses, dishonorable to the office who :s employed in them, even if he is act ;ng under the orders of his government aqtl if he is not, that government is callei upon by the sacredness ofcharactertudisa vow them it, the most expressive mantlet It is really sickening to see a civilized state ntrodoucing a barbarism of feeling an practice among its subjects; cheapenin human life; familiarizing scenes of slaugl: ter, hid enervating the principles of justice ■nil. the sympathies of humanity. Let u •ven suppose that the Indians have bee the aggressors; that they have git en just pro vocation by theirharsh and savage warfare ithen examples of severity are necessary 1'hey may be painful; but,upon ths whole he acts of humanity to th-3 community gen rally- But is extermination necessary? Is a powerful state, with a military lorn at its comma).d, sufficient to overrun the Country, and keep the people, if necessary in entire subjection, under the necessity!.! filling it with universal slaughter? That is impossible, and the conduct of Jackson must, therefore, be in the abhorrence and reprobation of the world; apd if not pun- shed by his government, must fix upon the state itself a dgep and raceless stain. The fact appears to be, that the constant encroachments of the Americans upon the Indian grounds, has excited a hostil spirit among savages. This is not surpris ing. There may be great truth in the fa vourite principle ol the Americans, that the claims of savages to grounds which they can only occupy for hunting,ought not tour rest the progress of civilization. But this maxim rests upon principles which the mind of a savage cannot be expected to compre hend. He argues more directly; he say?. ‘You take away our hunting grounds, you fake away our food; you are, therefore, our erem'ivs.” • To our minds thete is as true logic in this as the other, though the science of political economy may notglaze over with its terms. Unquestionably.no nation has a right to deprive another of the means of subsistence; and till the Indians learn the arts of civilization, hunting i« the only means of furpishing them with the necessaries oflife. The only honorable mode of proceeding in the case is to proceed as William Penn did, and purchase a country. When his is agreed upon,the sava»es retire backwards, and fix their abodes deeper in the wilder ness. . But if to this are added kind and concilatory attempts to introduce agricul ture and the useful arts among them, not only is an enlargement of territory acquir ed, (for 100squareinilesof land cultivated, will better support a tribe of Indians than 1000 of hunting ground—and all the sur plus land is then fhirly thrown into the na tional stock,) but new subjects are ac quired who must,as civilization advances, merge into the mass-of the superior people. :»r.. * . ;r s Little of either, we fear, has been done by (he Americans,and the indiscriminate mas sacre of a helpless people is but a poor apology for the neglect. It is in the na ture of things, that the oppressed arehated because they are injured, and again injur ed because they arc. hated. We fear, that the execution qf Arbuth- aot anti his companion is another atrocity, and which must call for the interference of our government. From the present aspect of the case, Arbuthnot was a res pectable commercial man, not a military character at ail; and from his good nam>- among the Seminole Indains was engaged by them to make some representation of the wrongs they were sustaining from the Ame- ricaits to the British government, their al ly. For this, it appears he has been most barbarously, and in defiance of the law ol nations, put to death. ' A succession ol charges have, of late, fastened themselves upon the character of the United Sates, and we shall be happy if they are able sa-’ tisfactorily to explain them. IMPORTANT MATTERS. London, August W The duke ofClarence ha»declared,says the. Morning Chronicle, that it ishistnttn- tion tu return with the dutchess to Eng land in the course Of a few months, as he ha* the well grounded prospect of her royal highness bringing him a prince nr princess, and it is their mutual wish that tne birth should take place in England. The same paper, which is in luck with its interesting secrets, goes on to state, that the pregnancy of the dutchess of Cam bridge is also announced; but it laments to learn that her royal highness is to be con fined in llanover. This, it continues, can not be acceptable to England, unless it c-iuld be supposed that there is a design of separating tlie kingdom of Hanover from the crown of Great Britain; and that the future sovereigns ot the nation should be b--rn within it. From the National Intelligencer, 6th inti. Tlie governor of »he state of Tennesset has recently published an address to his fellow citizens, assigning his reasons for nut having convened the legislature, in xtra session, audjor having, by a tern porary appointment, filled the vacancy to the representation of that state iu the sen ,.leof the United States, occasioned by the 1 signation of Mr. Campbell. In order justify the preference which, in making that appointment, ho has given to Mr. Ea ton, the governor has published the name -f the persons who have recommend thatgentieuianto his notice. This course though novel, appears to us to be in perfe .ecordance with tee principles of our gov --ftineut. If, in all case* of appointments ■ifice, the recommendations were in life manner published, good rftects, it appears to us, would attend tlie practice, liwould be seen'under what inducements or ittflu eiicea appointments are made; and lette ul recommendation, having some responst bility attached to them, would be v;ranie< with I.-m troll it J. At present, it fieqUeut.- iy happens, that those appointments which prove most unpopular, are backed by th nost numerous and respectable rccom inundations. We find the following article of iotell gence in the Netv-York paper of the 3d instant: “We learn by the commodore Porti from St. Mary’s, that several thousand In diaiis and Negroes had collected in th neighborhood oiSt. Augustine, and becom roublesome to the fiontier inhabitants o Georgia. It was even said that they had encroached So far toAvard St. Mary’s as to render She communication with the south ern borders unsafe.” We are under the impression that muc of the alarm respecting the Indians and ne groes in Florida, is without suificien ground. Oral accounts inform us tha these Indians have been congregated neat St. Augustine, for the purpose of indue ing them to relinquish their title to cer tain unappropriated lands in Florida, ol which it is reported, a pack of speculators re about to possess themselves, by ces sions from Spain, ol the privilege of pur chasing from the Indians. This is tli nount of information recently receivei rum that country; and we have no dnubt (hat the Indians are gathered together about St. Augustine fur that purpose sole ly, though we were, until lately, under a iifierent impression. Su far from med taring hostilities against our borders, daily accounts are received of the lately hostile Indians coining in and suirenilering thein- elvcs at our posts. [Theeditors of tbe National Intelligencer, make rather too light of ihe situation of our frontier and the disposition of the Indians towards our brethren in that quarter. We can assure them that numbers of hostile Indians are now in the vicinity of St. Johns, who have avowed hostile mentions, and that tbe very first change they hare, will put their threats into execution. Un der this impression the frontier people are in con stant dread; and some hare removed away. We have not only “oral” testimony forfwhat we now state: but ocular demonstration also. It is dang- epms in the extreme to hold out the idea of se curity when there is no security. Certainly those within the hearing of the war hoop or the deadly rifle. know their situation much bptter than indivi duals residing seven hundred miles off.]—Editor Sav ainah Republican. In the present demand for specie, and the embarrassments it creates, is there not some reason to regret the limited cepacity of the mint of the United States? The species of coin in demand, is Spanish dol lars, our principal metallic circulating medium. If the capacity of the mint were enlarged, on a scale proportionable to the extent of pur commerce, foreign and do mestic, would it not, within some reason able time, afford a sufficiency of Americ. n coin, for the purposes of a circulating cur rency, of denominations not used for ex portation? We should think it would. Spanish dollars would then be an article of commerce pierejy, and, being *o, the vplne " -v \ V , V ■ b * ■? .Y.VNi * ■ of solvent bank paper would not be affefct* ed by the price which,vss an article of j merchandize, dollar* bear in the market. If we are to maintain a mint, it stands to reason that it should be such an one as is adequate to the. purposes for which it is established, for which it is now quite in sufficient. The mint ought also, by the way, to be removed to the seat of govern ment, its natural scite; an<*t the expira tion of the five years for which the act of the last session continues it at Philadel phia, if not before, we confidently antici pate the transfer of the mint to this city.— Nat. Intel. 5th inst- non Tits sitioiu niTxuiBzxcxa, stir. 50. The accounts which have been lately re ceived fr om that quarter leave no doubt that gen. Aury has estaolished a rendez vous at Old Providence at St. Catalina.— From all that we have seen of the objects of that establishment,. although under mure respectable auspices than that at Amelia Island, we are right glad it is not. made, our borders, and will call fnrnooth er intervention of our government than is necessary to the protection of our own commerce. The temptation held out to those of our citizens who are weary of the dull pursuits of civil life, in the Kingston letter whiF'. we publish to day, are sufficiently setl A-jj tive. Ail who desire to make lucrative' speculations, or who thirst for military glory, will find “encoragement and pro tection uimer the benign auspices” of com. Aury; and < very “honest and upright mart' will be amply remunerated fur his effects^ .nisi servirts.” It is a little remarkable that, in the enumeration of inducements to flock to the standard. of this celebrated rover, the love of liberty, the sacfyPd sym pathy for the struglos of the enthrallei" people for their freedom,finds noplace. We hope the. number of those whom! Aury will attract from our shores, to follow] his fortunes, will be few indeed. The ac counts we have lately had, of tfc progres- of privateering, and its connection wit. i.lfences against humanity and against ou own law,, have not tended to sharpen th -ppetite of liunurable men for adventure: of that description Though the practice were not, for soum political reasons, at the present time ex prcssly forbidden by our laws, we shouh not. tor our part, regard the invostinen of the money or the employment of the en te.-prize of our citizens, in the system ol privateering under foreign flags, as a lau Janie use of funds or ‘ industry. We t!]er incline to think it tends to the inj ot fair commerce, and to the prejudice public morals. It is at least donblft* h*-ther it does not; and being of doubt ft " right, and legally wrong, there is ever reason why our citizens should refrai- frimi it. How far, abstractedly considered, pr vileering under foreign nags is reconciles bte with the duty of a good citizen, vhc find no law ol his country to restrain him, •s a question on which Jherefrias been much difference ot opinion, and (Be solution of which must essentially depend on the mo tives of those who engaged inti*- On this -uliject Vattel says—“Foreigners taking' commissions from a prince to pr 1 tion absolutely .nriocent with them, are guilty of an infamous ,, -y. I he thirst of gold is theironly inducement and however their commission may assuifj; them of impunity, it cannot wash ^w; '. tneir execrable guilt; they Mone ar)F' , cusable who thus assist a nation of v\! the cause is indubitably just, and have taken arms only to defeud themselv f from oppression. They would even d f -erve praise, if the hatred of nppressio -md the love of justice, rather than the f™ •ire of riches, actuated them to gen^ \ effort, and to expose their lives or/fortu. to the hazards of war.” The law or n; Cions is here laid down with a precisim which-shows what has been the opinion t the world in this respect in other timer ; and we do not know that subsequerj circumstances have materially changed it I'lie exception mentioned by Vattel exacts y fits the case of those of our citizen-^ -vhohave engaged in these expedit ionsfroi ’ tlie hatred of oppression, and fromz-al fo ihe sueccess of the cause ol ■ liberty ir South America. That there are tlipsc' whom such motives have influenced, whs have thought themselves even justified it evading the laws of the country to accom plish their views, we hav&lhot the leas !oubt: but far the major part, we fear, o. those who compose the crews of these armaments, and ft | urnish their equipments are influenced by a widely different coni sideratinn; the thirst, not even for militii^ 1 y glory, but for Spanish and Potugu. gold. A ■ We have seen, with deep regret, by re cent disclosures, to what an extent a fe. of our citizens have been engaged, fro or the other of these motives, in privatee. ing expeditions; an extent which we coul not have believed, had not accident deve oped. Of the policy of the law enjoinin. neutrality ori our citizens, and prohibiting the fitting out of expeditions from ou ports, against the commerce of friendl powers, there have been some who hav doubted; but respecting the duty of our ci tizens to observe law, when made, there ca be no difference of opinion. The sam course of argument which would justify violation of that law, on the ground .. mortal right, would equally have excuse tlie violation of our embargo laws, an might even be used as au apology f breaches of our navigation and reven laws. in referring to the recent disclosure- mean to cast no reflections on those whe names have been given to the public having beeo made the subjects of proseci tions by the Poituguese consul general Baltimore. Without pretending to eu V whether those prosecutions will be soft*; ed on tbe ground of national law, we h information which satisfies us, that at le one of them is founded on evident. tied to ho respect whatever. !■