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Yol. II.)
ATHENS, GEORGIA: PRINTED BY ALEXANDER DONNELL, SATURDAY, JUNE 2, 18x0.
Ire ft the Baltimore Evening Pejl.
A gentleman, whole daily nro
cat bn tends to the acquirement ct
a minute knowledge of the (hipping
belonging to this port, lareiycb
ferved that in the lift of veifels- 1-efc
vz various places in Europe, be
frequently Taw the names of (hips
f’ id to be of Baltimore, which to
knowledge did not be
long there. On mentioning the
■c.ir ivTfftance to other gentlemen
ooff Sung fimXir means of infer
ir.As’ion./vve find the afifertton fereng
ihencd by the 6bfcrvations of all. ‘
This remark merely brings to
r ;ind a notorious faft—to v;it, that
hnsdrtdsj perhaps thoufands, of
Ibitifh vcficls a: failing under the
American fbg, furni(lv:d with A
mcan papers, and claiming thole
privileges from the government cf
France which belong osdy tc* the
b .c;; fide citizens of the United
States as neutrals.
To engrofs the trade cf the con
tinent was the real crude cf the
liridfh orders in council. They
‘’• ere nut intended to operate again ft
Bonaparte, but in favor of die Bri
tish merchant, at the essence of
Ami i•: an commerce : w hat is t here
(cotton, I believe, alone excepted)
which we have font or could fend
to ‘Tt continent which G. Britain
yd!l not permit her own merchants
to..fend ? I know not cf a (ingle
article ; but I re colie ft that certain
London merchants made a repre
fentacicn to lord Each ur ft in favor
of an adherence to the orders in
council, becaufe they prevented the
Americans, f.orn underselling them
(die Brit’fH merchants) in these
.ports of the continent which “ his
in.;: ch ” fi lemnly declared to be
in a fhts of blockade ! If the
blockade we-e nftual, every Brit
ton contra vexing its provifions
a ould be accounted a traitor, and
executed for aiding the enemy', if
caught in the faft—bur,"asdc is, a
s ade to blockaded ports is openly
protected by the government, pro
vided, the trade goes to ben. fit the
Bric fh fubjeft; if an American
ihali carry the fame goods to the
fame place, he will commit a high
crime, and be liable to feizureaud
tonfifeauon.
This is the real point.of view in
which the Brkifh orders in council
fhould be considered ; for fueh, in
lift, is their operation. Can it
u.tn be wondered that the emperor
cf France feis a fpirit of re fen t
roeru on account ct theefrefts they
produce in favor of his rival—and,
wnen (1%. extenfivi! impofi ions are
pra : ifed under our fiig, that the in
nocent fkcuid fome dines iufier with
the guilty ?
The tcry prints arc continual y
tciiirg us of the magnanimity and
j dik e of the Dritifn government.
Where Is it ?- In the murder of our
Foreign Coirresi ident
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GEORGIA EXPRESS.
<c MANY SHALL RUN TO AND PRO, AND ICJf CYCLED GE SHALL BE INCREASED.**
pccpV, Tie iceabh of our cirzer?,
the plunder of cur property, a*d
the proft radon of every moral and
divine obligation ! Heaven forbid
that any true hearted A merman
(halt (peak of the (t magnanimity
and jofiice’* of Bonaparte, aftieg as
he class at preterit—bet u there
not aa powerful’ reafons that he
fiioTcl teize Britifii and American
property in his pints, being unable
to diftinguifo between them, as that
his fa mid teize American
property oa the high teas, bound
to thofe very places their own vef
(els arc permuted to .go dire ft from
their own port?, ad under convoy
of their v; If ls of war ?
We have lately had very alarm
ing reports from continent j we
hi.ve had many Buries with more
authentic appearances, which s u •.■-
ed out to be falfc. Let us for a
moment refleft, that’if Great Bri
tain perfeveres sn her orders in
council for the fake of a trade to
the continent to the exelulion of
t’ e Americans, by force; it can
not be confidered r> extraordinary
that a few paragraph makers fn ‘id I
be hired in London Lo confuse the
urderfiandings of our rn ref-ants by
wife invented fMts calculated to
crevent then from in ter(c rin z wir.h
the Butifli in the ter ports 10 which
access is ns yet permitted. Such
raatntshftuien a A completely- within
the (cope of BAIL ingenuity, cf
which we had among ourfclvts IT me
very handfome fpecimcns in *799
—IBOO. HarpeiT cluer—Mo lie’s
taylor plots
ar-d. tub plots, were of this of
ware, forming a pare of the ma
chinery o( government. How ea*
iy, then is it, for a few inrerefted
per funs in London, intending to
trade to Tonningen, dec. to have a
few articles wven exprtfslv for
the American maiket, and framed
and put together to prevent the A
mericao merchant from
with their contempla'cd bufintfs ?
Within four months pad, we
have received by way of London,
certain and circumfiandal accounts
of the feizure and condemnadon (by
the French) of fis or feven veil’ is
belong’ng to this pore, which have
fince arrived In fafety and ma le
profitable voyages; and mbi we
have information which can be re
lied cn, (for theft: London para
graphs are chiefly intended for com
mercial (peculations) we ought to
red comparatively eafy under u co w
viftion that the liar is not to oe
irufhti
the vanity to belie-ve that
any thing I ecu 1 fay, might induce
a fiftglc individual to rtk his pro
perty abroad, thefc obfervations
(h xuld not appear ; but I think, they
may tend co allay the fsars of fome
whofc property now lies at the mer
cy of thofe who too ofien cf feci
power and forget lignF'—-iniucty
cm do no good in fuch cafes—and
the dtit ‘dikd will (by, (< blcfled is
he who brings conlblation.” judg
ing cf the prefent reports by pail
experience, I am decidedly of opi
nion, the/ are founded on mercan
tile fraud alone, and unworthy of
credit; neverthelefs the truth may
be teid at kfl.
Front the Richmond Enquirer,,
MR. PICKERING.
The extrafts which follow, arc
f-nc for publication by a gentleman
of this flare. We are not author’d
ed *0 communicate the amhor— —
“bur, if Mr. Pickvrirg, in ptrfor,
or fey letter, fiiouki detTiancd* of us
<c the fource from which it flowed,”
we “ arc at liberty to furrender”
his “ name ; and he pledges” him
fclf <s to prove the authenticity of
the extrafts.”
We hand over the following fl n
timerits to the difgu't and conce.rr.pt
of the public. The
which the v breathe 3 gain It the po
-11 cy of J ; ff; r fon a;.ci tvi: id on, and
the illiberal cordli uftior; which they
put upon their meilurer, are. erni
neuflv word y ci the papal head cf
the EiTtx Junto.
Its creed is fuch ti one as an Fng
lilhman or an EnglKh ern Ifury
would profefs. It harps upon the
fame ftrirgs as they £■■■■—chsrgmg
the republicans widi a hatred foe
England, and love for France—
and fereening the former from our
rtfencment, by paiilating her wrongs
an i reprefeming her as our (h ti 1
ag mflthe power of France ? The
whole burthen of the png is, “ a eleje
friendlhip,” alias alliance, wuh
England.
(COPY.)
Extra ft of a letter , dated IFaJhhigtm,
March 30, 18 lo> from the hm.
Timothy Picketing, to bis friend
in Virginia.
“ The prefect condition cf our
country is- deplorable ; the wretch
ed policy of Mr. JefSerfon is the
fource of our fufftrings at home,
ad of He contempt with which we
s-e viewed by all the nations o£
Europe. His fucaflor treads ti
m;dly n his fieps. At;ached, by
eld habits a.- and orech lldtions to
FrauCc, and and ending her piefcnc
tyrant, they, have facrifi.ed Uic in
tereft aid the ho cor of our-country,
by their tame and bafe fubmiffiou
trr his enormous outrages on our
rights apcl our prolperiiy. At the
ftaie time, knowing the flrong in
terefh cf G.ea: Britain to fee at
peace with us, and perfuaded, ! at
dm would puc up wnh ah their
Cdm'emp'ibie bullying, raihrr than
commence a war upon us, thofe two
men have, d.fgraied our govern
ment and cur country, by t:e petu
lant captiousnds and
infincerity in a.ii t .eir
ic.at cr.j with tne B.it.ln
f
vernment. The conduit of our
admirtiftratlon, in the cafe or Mr*
Jack (on, has complied our
gracc. No foreign minlilcr was, I
believe, ever fo wantonly infulred
and injured in any country. Fie
came here with huger powers t ; an
had been entrailed to any of his
predecefibrs j and this our udmm
iflration well kne*.v. He was alfo
a man of much Superior abihths —■
Thefe were rerfons fu/licient, wfei
fueh an adminifiration co brecic
with bins. And the whole of the
intercourse and corrffponderice witii
him appears evidently robe 2 Scene
cf manoeuvring, to find or mnk *
fame pretence for getting nd f
him. The key to the whole Jcf
(erlknian palicy I take to be this—
hatred to England, attachment t
France, a conviction of the 1 dent
ment of Bortaparte, if they iTtle by
treaty cur differences wuh Great
Britain. While they are a war ,
rbat the people at Luge of the U.
States, will not Uipport tut n in
snaking war lidun Great Brku n—rt
the tame fame, the great inicrtlls of.
our country requiring a Lußmenc
of thofe difFerciices, tncy have be- a
iafirufting their rniniiTers, from too
beginning of 1804, and engaged m
a lories of negociacions, aiiwb.l. ! \
have accomplilhed nothing, br;auuj
nothing pr attic able t I mean noth ?
in which England couldpojjib'y ag ‘es,
was ever attempted, t r imen’ dto
be acccimplifiiH. in cne word,
the ruling obj -ft of the Jvfr r! ■ jo;i
pokey, lias been, and or jr.’em. s t:->
be, k keep open our and ‘nil’ s waft
Great Britain, unul the imperial
derpot Should fut jugate that cou -
try, which Mr. ope r
predicled (sod pred’fted, prcfeahl ,
becaufe he wiihed it) iv vir - : r
this time, have been acct.- *;ipl ;h ,
bu: which a dole rr.-r/;fhT lug ; o
commerce with the linked fet, • a
might retard, and pofiTiv vonciuui
to prevent.
“Such is my view of the rn
and their mcafures. I ’n. Sir, witrv
great regard and tlUari, year c: -•
d.er.t ferva :t,
“ Fimothy PicKsr.i.vo.”
NOTES.
The intern ft of (dreM
at tie* e with he ■.
a
curious myde to fliew i•:—uv v G
ment, murders, fpnfea.V vs -'• r
tv a in. ll , tone !’ oo ie
harm, thin France, and ro w-< *
have (howo tm re { rfee--<o.: -
She ha*t thrrA u> ot?r of n
with thu * cfe.nr.Uem, t > l- u <. ■
profits to lur owa mc'woa u. -
we will lubmit f > ail thxG * 1 ro:i
ments, to fee fare, id: will fee at
peace with u -
llatred to England, a'tacbment ti
France. —h the h v-r- r rye ‘NT
ig!))r tnt that ITc d:ft A'c M w
one of the v-c y fi Ig v u fe; -.r u
tliL cry cf French u 1 it.a
(bfo. 102.