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Dans nuv be-fiippofed equal, and
this rout ih >ulj have cr Git for car
rying letters, whofc portages would
amount to the last mentioned him :
taking into view the produce cl tort
Sioddert and several other i.uall ot
ficers which it accommodates. By
the arrangements r.f this office, the
mail should be conveyed from this
city by Athens to New-O’leans in
levcnteen days, and from hence by
way of Ncfhviile, in Ter.neffee, in
twenty four and a half days; and
tin actual performances do not ma
teri.Jiy diit r from the fume pro
portion—lienee the nine taken to
rranlinit intelligence is seven and a
hail days ! is by the Athens than
bv ;hc Nrtflivilie route.
Ail which is refp.dml’y submitted
Gil); <>; Gr \Kgiiß.
Pc-t Master General.
TANARUS; c p7ft neuter general, in obedience
to a result u of the Home of R: -
presenta lives, passed, on the zoth
instant respectfully reports :
The ma s may be- carried with
f ne inci \d. I ixpedirion from this
pi tee to R ile! .*h the I ‘it of govern
ment of North Carolina, by puriu
ing the Or bans p-.ft road to the
foutli ol the river Roan kc and go
ing from thence to Raleigh, ; t a
probable cite;-.ah.J expuice <>f lev
fctfi hundred and dlar. per annum, but
th ivnefit arising fioni this increai
eil xped.ucii v. ill be very li.Cv.i Gu
ei able.
t he mail which is no.v eiirht £:
o
an haii ..ys in going from this
place to Columbia, the li.it of go
vernment in S iuth Carolina, may
be lent there in five o.a’.s !>v puifu
itig tiie Oil .-ans r ad n tL fomh
of Salisbury. North ( tdina, ;nd
going fre ::i thence to Columbia, ;;t
a probabh inc eased exp: nee of Sen
Julia re per annum.
the niait is now c?rr‘t and to Mil
!cdgcville the feat cf government in
Georgia, on the main post road in
15 days, and in 8-12 cays by the
Oi l am road ; and it may be lent
to Milledgeville in 7 1-2 days, with
a probable increased txpence of 2co
dollars per annum.
i he lum of eleven theufand four
hundred dollars which was appro
priated for opening and improving
the Orleans p<.ft road, between
Georgia and N. Orleans has been
principally expended ; & the whole
of it would have been expended
sass autumn, had it not been for the
intervention cl tin Indians.
All which is rdpeclfully fuhmir
•cd. Gideon Granckr,
Pest Mss ter Genera!.
&ncparte has lately divorced his
wife in due form and ceremony
—-hat we thin!, the following do
cuments greatly tclipfe the em
peror’s pro.\edings, ie lave him
far in the bacK ground, They
are copied from a Now-England
paper, ami fh-.w how much tet
ferihefeil.iagiare u. mag .and there
than in France.
Amcrhas: Watchman.
A DIVORCEMENT.
Deut. ?:xiv. 1,2, 3,4,
“ When u man hath taken a wife
md inarri- c\ ! r , and flic find no
favor in hi* eye ~ then let him write
her a bill of divorcement and fend
her away, and fi;e may he another
man's wiit ; and if the latter give
her a bill nl divorcement and fend
he away, her former hufbaud may
r.of take her again to be his v.-ife,
lor that *s abomination before the
Lord.”
I. Cc*\ v” 1-J.fi 1
“And ti c woman which hath an
hull)and that Ivlievtlli not, and he
be pleated to dwell with her, let her
not leave him. But if the utibe-
depart, let Ivn depart; a
brother or filter is not under bon
dage in such case, but Cod hath
called us to peace.
Par son field, March 1810.
Krone all men h these press nis :
1 hat Ezekiel Harper, ol Lime
rick, and his wife Betley, ol Par
fonficld, have dilTulved their mar
riage covenant by mutual agree
nici.t, on account ol fume unhappy
differences which have ariftn be
tween them, and b ing of lueh dif
ferent ciifp.ns that they cannot
live happy together, they take rhis
method to certify that they have di
vinct’d thetefclvec, diflolving their
marriage, ike ;mJ w h-.reas ail con
radfs are hiiiJin., it agreed to by
the lrie att of b :h parties, there
fore they confide r this divorcement
to aniwer the law. to all intents hi
pur poles, as fully and flronglyas if
the court had done it.
FZPKII-.1. IIARPr.R,
BITKfcY Harper.
Attest —Stephen Swett, Nathan
iel Ames, jr.
And I the f.*id Ezekkl Harper
agree, that the laid Betley, former
ly my wile, shall cohabit, live wiih,
and marry as [non as fne pleafcs;
i .id ! the laid Harper, bind and ob
ligate myfelf to pay her the lum of
five hundred dollars, if 1 ever lue
her c.r the court or edfc where for the
fame: and I the said Harper, trive
this my receipt in full of :,Il de
mands or claims on her prop rty or
pti forever. &c. and I do ht re
l-.v bind myfe-lf not to vit.t her, nor
knowingly come to any house or
place where she doth or may refiJe,
but she may dispose of both at her
f'leafure, as if (he never had been
married, die.
Ezekiel llarrfr.
Signed, fealeJ and deiiveud in
pretence of us, Stephen Swett, Na
thaniel Anv?s,jr.
ARI.iNG I'ON
SHIPP Shi: A RISC.
• The sixth anniversary of the Ar
lington Sheep Shearing wa- cele
brated in M. ndav lalt the SOfh ult.
I he bauin fs of the day picveiitcd
so )Ri‘g’- a company Iron: attending,
as had bar, expected. Apparent
ly, rib- ut 1 . r ,n persons were pit lent
Thi fli w comnunccd at half p iff
twelve, and the Cups wer- adjudg
ed to Daniel M. Chichefler, arid
John C. Scott, Eqs. for the be ft
Tub and be fl pair of ewe lambs of
one year old. During the shew a
Fair -was held, for the sale of Do
nieltic Fabrics, and many were fold,
at good prices. A ball of woollen
yarn, exquisitely spun, £: weighing
a pound, was ibid for the enormous
price of four dollars.
At 5 o’ch’ik the company ad
journed to dine under the tent of
Wafningron. This venerable can
vals, commemorative of the revo
lution, and its immortal hero, was
extended by using its various parts
(many of which by their tattered
appearance denoted their Jong and
arduous service) to contain a table
of about an hundred feet in length.
The portrait cf the departed chief,
graced the upper end, & the whole
was hung w,;h the well earned
Laurel of fame.
,
There was imported into Liver
pool, in the quarter ending in
, March, 1310, 40,770 bags of cot-
U o iv mnr.b R p.ublii.vu
Reflections on the Grave ! I
I * “Here is the l ilt Huge of life’s
journey: Hire- is the collecting
rendezvous of fullering nioitals: —
Here is a lase retreat from th* bar
bed fiialts of malice, from pointed
perils and from inifery** rod : Hi re
after noble and ignoble views ; af
ter every ardtnr wiffi; alter puriu
ing every flattering object, we find
the (>bji Cl of diem all. Here, from
hrvile bondage, and opprtffion’s
irrn hand, rdls the wretched Ne
gro whom chance had made a slave;
here he forgtts his galling Ita'c, 8c
with his lordly tyrant flaps equally
accommodated Here the oppres
sor and the opprefled moulder to
gether. Litre lleep the meanly la
ving, and riotous profule. Here,
proftrare in uuft, lay the degraded
rdies of fearing mortal; ! Remem
ber, rhen, the transient vilions of
tern dial greatness j arid aCt so as to
be prepared to pay the mou cntaiy
loan of Heaven's great lender.”
AN ACT
To extend the time for locating Vir
ginia military land v. art ants, and
for returning the surveys thereon
to th. Secretary oj the Department
of War .
BP. it enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives of ike V. S.
of America in Congress mumbled,
1 hat the officers and soldiers of the
Virginia line on continental tflab
lifhmcnt, their heirs or tffigns enti
tled to bounty lands within the tract
leferved by Vi.cima, between the
little Miami and Sci*ta rivers, for
fatisfyi- g the legal bounties to her
officers arid fcldicrs upon continen
tal eft:hliftrneiit, fnal! be allowed a
further term of five years, fVom
alter the f jfTngt of this ad, to ob
tain warrants and complete their lo
cations, and a further term of levrn
years, from and after the palfage of
tins act as alorcfaid, to return their
fuiveys and warrants, or ctrtitied
copies of warrants, to the office cf
the Secretary of the War Depart
ment, any thing in any former ad
to the contrary notwithstanding,
provided that no locations as aLrc
faid within the above mentioned
trad flm!l aftei ;In- p fling, of this
ad b- made on tracts of land for
wh ch patents had previously been
ifFucd or which had been previously
fu veyed, and any patent which
nuv neverthtltls be obtained foi
land located contrary to the provi
sions of t!:is fediot l , fliall be consi
dered as null aud void.
The documents refpeding our
foreign relations, recently commu
nicated to Ccngrefs, prefetit lome
gle.itns of hope that the two great
belligerent powers are at kngth a
bout to awake to a more corred
perception of their true inferefts.—
Our readers will recoiled that
France has steadily juftified her Ber
lin decree, as a retaliation for pre
vious violations of neutral rights by
Great Britain, and that Great Bri
tain has as invariably juftified her
orders in council as retaliatoiy of
the Berlin decree; while each go- j
vernnit it has ail alciny avowed its
readinels to refeind its edids, provi
ded its enemy would in the firft in
ftauce let the example of revocation.
We have not ceaftd to protest a
gainst the weaknels of this defence
by urging that neither belligerent,
in retaliating on the other, pofllffed
the just pow er to prostrate the rights
of an hor.eft unoffending neutral.
But oui renionftranee, though tm
anfwerabiV, ha? proved unavailing.
The lexers of general AHnftrnrg
an>l Mr F nkruy to the ba r
of state flitw that the fincei. , ..f
boih governmtnffc is bk ly to be
loon put to the tefL l ince has
unequivocally declared her rcadi
nels to rdcind her Berlin decree,
in case i .ngland pr<*Vi<>afly r< vukc
her [proclamation ) blockades of
France, and Mr. Pinkney has ad
drefled lord Wei lei] y on tli-- lub
jedl, whole aniwer may ; * exp< did
by the fohn Adams. 11 lu< hbl < le
ad es and ;> not tiow < xtft, and tt'c Bri
tiffi government ftvall officialv ‘ay
so, France will be bound in • nor
to revoke her B din decree; with
that decree the pretext l ,1 the oi
de:s in council will be renu v*d,
which, as (■ on as r- vok and. v’ ill It id
to (he rcp-.il of the Mil.;- vc-t',
thus it vo'viog the den” ii*i'n if
n.arlv the wfioie f. >1 ic of rdific
tion and violation of neutral com
merce.
It lurh British blockades s‘s an
terior date to the Beilin dm ‘ ] till
txilf, the Britifti governmiir
bound by every dictate of juf‘‘ce,
as well as regard for her own ;■ ligh
ted word, iiulantly to withdraw’
them, when fht is made d.llirctiy to
perceive that they are the owly e::-
ifting cauie of the French edids
now in foice.
If. then, England either revoke
her blockade orders, of date anteri
or to the Berlin decree, r.r formally
declare that none Inch exist. and
France refufps to revoke her Bet.in
decree, ftie will flat, i felf-roneenm
ed brfoie the world as the violator
of neuMal rights, if, on tr -t’ r
l and, England refutes to take t: : s
step, after so fair an offer, fin- v ill
ft and in the artiiade of ih ori in;: I
aggressor, and muff be ”i.w-d as
an inexorable oppress ;r, who, un
der talfe pretexts, L aiming a dead
ly blow at our maritime exigence.
In tither event wc can be atro
lois to decide which government is
to be viewed as moll hostile :r> us.
Rational biteHsgcaeer.
FOREIGN NEWS.
Boston, April 2 G.
Import art t L.tellry me.
A gentleman who ar; vu! it. town
iall evening,from the Vn. yard, has
communicated the foil..wing arti
cle of intelligence:—
‘‘Saturday, April 21, bit. .°9,
.56, capt. Foster was bi ought too*
by a gun from a fchoona with a
French broad pendant flying a* her
main-top-mast-head. She enquir
ed how tar she was from lain!, .* \
how Block Island bore —fid., flic
was 29 dkys out, from Bordeaux,
bound for N. York, with dilputch
es for government —that a treaty
had been concluded between Eng
land aud America—as fne was un
der way, could not ask her any
more queflions. ‘I he captain and
crew appeared to me to be Ameri
cans, and all the orders were given
m Lnglifh.
April 23.
Latest from England.
Ship A* 1, arrived in the outer
harbor yesterday, in 28 days from
Liverpool. Papers to the 2.5 th
March have been received at the
Exchange Coffee house ; they have
little to fay on American
are barren of important intelligence.
A passenger (fates-
The frigate John Adam?, f..i!< and
from Cowes ‘be 22d Manh for
Havre, whtte ftie expeff'd t ■ fb p
but one day. It is laid she has ca