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CH ARLES M. PRATT.
SAVANNAH, April 14, 1812 1
Administrator’s Sale.
% JSTILL be sold, before my store,
Tl on FRIDAY, the istli day of
May, at the usual hour, aii the person
'll property of Thomas Harrison, dee.
consisting of Wearing Apparel, House
held and Kitchen Furniture. By or
der of lire administrator.
I>. WILLIFORD, Jhict’r.
May 1 C
’ Notice.
THE SUBSCRIBER
ILIADS it necessary to bring all the
debts due him up to the first o*
January last, to a final settlement; he
has therefore appointed George B.
AMntosh, Esq. his Attorney, to make
collections for him; and all Notes and
Accompts unsettled on the first day of
*une next, will be put in suit.
GEORGE HARRAL.
April 21 8t 3
FOR SALE,
New-York Ale,
ALSO
essence of spruce
IN JARS. .
By J. & G. CHARLTON.
Inay 5 7
Just Received,
to Hilda 4th proof liuni
2 Pipes Cogniac Brandy
6 Do. Spanish do.
15 Pipes Gin
30 Barrels do.
7 Hhds. N. E. Itum
10 Barrels Apple Brandy
40 Barrels Muscovado Sugar
6 Chests Ilyson Tea
10 do. Hyson Skin do.
20 Barrels Crackers
20 Coils Cordage
30 Pieces Russia Duck
200 Boxes Soap and Candles
so Bags Coffee
Pepper, Pimento, &e.
100 Pieces Flag Handkerchiefs
ALSO,
4 Patent Time Pieces
HOWE & DIMON.
May 8 3t 9
At Private Sale.
10,000 lbs Cordage: 2 Hawsers
20 libels Molasses 20 do. Sugar
30 do. N. E. Rum, 20 do. Whiskey
10 pipes Brandy ; 30 bbls Brandy
50 Ids. Apple Brandy
13 hhds West-India Rum
100 bags and 20 bbls. Coffee
30 pipes Gin
49 bbls. Flour
20 chests Hyson Tea
30 bbls. Loaf Sugar
30 boxes Candles
40 pipes Brandy
JHso, mil be exchanged fur Colton.
2 nipes Madeira Wine
200 kegs Gunpowder
6 chests Hyson skin Tea
4 elegant stick bodied Giggs.
DUNNING & CLAY,
may 8. 3t 9
CORN,
For Sale by
‘8 & C. HOWARD.
May 8. at 8
EZEKIEL YARN ELL,
VI 1 the Store lately occupied
by -Messrs. Gray & Hinder, corner of
Hull Street and Hay Lane, offers for , erv
low, for Cash, a good assortment of Dry
Goods, among which are tile following ar
ticles.
Cambric Dimities
Furniture and common do.
Cotton Shirtings,
Do. Cambric,
Do. Huckabacks,
Do. * Diapers,
Fine Irish Linens,
Linen Sheeting,
German Rolls,
Brown Linens,
Flaxen Diapers,
Linen Checks,
Leno and Seeded Muslins,
Imitation Muslins & Mantles,
Furniture and common Calicoes,
Fine white Jean,
Colored Marseils,
Real Madras* Handkerchiefs,
Mock do. &. Pocket do.
Flag Silk, do.
Hu mhums,
Blue do.
Cotton Stockings,
Mens fine and common Beaver
Glovgs,
Lady’s extra long while Kid do.
Black & colored Canton Crapes,
Silk and Cotton Suspenders,
White and yellow Flannels,
Cotton Bedtieks,
N orthe rn Ho m espuns,
Sewing Silks,
Best gilt Coat Buttons,
Threads, ‘l'apes and Needles,
Cotton Umbrellas,
30 Prices Seersuckers,
1000 yds. Tow Cloth.
ALSO,
Fresh Hyson Tea,
Coffee,
Loaf Sugar,
Chocolate by the box or pound,
April 14 121. 1.
Landing,
At Rice's Wharf,
From on board the Sloop Arc
turus, from Frederick sburgh,
Virgina.
1500 bushels Corn,
30 barrels Flour,
50 half barrels do.
10 barrels Pilot Bread,
50 kegs Crackers,
F.r Sale lij
CARPENTER k GREEN.
May S *
SAVANNAH, TUESDAY MAY 12, 1812.
t y
if
The Subscribers
HAVE on hand, and are now
opening, [at their new Store, smith
side oi Johnston s square ] au exten
sive assortment of EUROPEAN, IN
DIA and DOMESTIC GOODS;—
well calculated for the present find
approaching season, which will be dis
posed of at their usual low prices for
CASH, COTTON, or undoubted town
acceptances.
ANDREW LOW, & Cos.
April 14. .
At Private Sale,
10 Ilhds. Fairview Gin,
13 do. and 20 bbls. Whiskey,
5 Pipes India Point Gin,
2 do. Spanish Brandy,
1 Pipe and 2 Bills. French do.
4 Hhds. high flavored 4th proof
Rum,
4 do. and 5 bbls. N. E. Rum.
20 Bids. Philadelphia Beer [fresh]
10 do. Shrub,
2 Pipes Madeira Wine,
10 Hhds. and 5 bbls. M uscovado
Sugar,
12 Chests Ilyson Tea,
20 Bags Coffee,
25 do. Black Pepper,
50 Boxes Soap and Candles,
10 do. Chocolate,
10 Bhls. prime Beef,
23 Kegs Manufactured Tobacco,
5 Ilhds. Glass Ware,
5 Boxes Cotton Cards, No. 8,
100 Pieces Humhums,
2o Pieces Cotton Bagging,
30 do. Tow Cloth,
10 do. Tiekleahurgs,
30 Ke ans Writing Paper,
25 Coils White Hope,
B Boxes Codon Cards,
50 M. white Chapel \eed ! es,
l Small Trunk Cutlery,
Cassimere, Calico, India Bed-
Spreads, Handkerchiefs, &e. &c.
1). WILLIFORD.
May 1. o
FOR ST. MART'S.
.s££. The Packet Sloop CONFJ
DENCE, A. Jones master,
is ready to receive freight, and will
sail the first wind. For freight cr pas
sage apply on board or to
P. H. & T. CRAPON.
May 8 9
The Strong Copper-fasiened
SUIT LYDIA,
Captain Faunam, is daily ex
pected here, and will take
a Freight to New-York —either to he
delivered there, or to wait the event
of the Embargo, and then proceed to
Liverpool, apply (o
JOHN CARNOCHAN.
April 24 4
FOR NEW-YORK,
**r The bri S MARYLAND, N.
JstJLlSuGlift, master, will meet with
dispatch, having a considerable part of
her cargo engaged—for freight, apply
onboard, at M-Kinne's wharf or to
DUNNING & CLAY.
April 21 3
FOR BOSTON,
The Brig SALLY BARKER,
mt* Joshua Hall, Master will
sail in 5 cr 0 days, having one half
her freight engaged, for the balance,
or passage, apply to the Master, or
to * J. EATTELLE.
Who Offers For Sale,
.100 Casks Li nic,
Which will be sold low if taken
immediately from on boar:!.
May i <-
FOR BOSTON
The line and substantial Ship
LKANDEIi, duummokd,
Master. For freight or passage up
ply to the master on board, or to
S. & C. HOWARD.
May 3 ent2
DEBATE IN SECRET SESSION.
House of Rei'rhsEntativlis,
Friday, April s.
Mr. Ernott Saul, that he felt friendly to the
motion of the gentleman from Virginia, (Mr.
Randolph* ■ fliotion to ad journ until Monday)
but that lie could not Vote for it, until lie had
made amotion n hich would for a time at laest
supersede the proposition for a postponement
until Monday. The gentleman from Vir
ginia had grounded his motion on the neces
sities and situation of his constituents. Now
it so bapp ns, .said Mr. Eniott, that so short
a respite will afford to my immediate con
stituents, who arc to suffer greatly by ibis
clibargo, ii it is, uithout further notice or
delay, to bo fixed on the nation'. A sense of
duty, therefore, would compel him to move
that the bill be postponed for a month, ile
represented a large and fertile district,
whose principal export was bread stubs, and
•he quantity now on hand was unusually
large ; the ctiina'e and the season had dc
pril l and his part of the country of a market un
til tiiis time, and if the embargo is laid, it is
evident that it must be attended with
the most ruinous consequ. nc.es. The wound
which the measure would give to the farm
ing and trading interest would be of the
most deadly kind, and his feelings would
not permit him to suffer the bill to pass
without an effort, he was npprchensfifi, an
unavailing effort, to save Ins friends and
constituents from so unlocked for a blow.
While l;c was up, Mr. Ernott said, that, he
would beg the indulgence of the bouse while
lie submitted a few observations.—He was
sensible dial the gentlemen had b. tome i \-
tremeiy impatient, and lie could not but re
collect tilt- determination which had been o
pcnlv avowed by the friends of the measure,
that the bill should be p issed before an ad
journment ; but it engirt to be considered,
that the step we are new about taking is of
vital importance, to the r.a.fon, and niav coru
promit die best interest of tiie country. It
is due to the people we represent, and to cur
selves, tliat we should not hastily, ar.d from
passion, adopt tile measure. Discussion in
stead c!being hunted down should be emitt
ed. Whatever is dure, 1.-t it be done after
due deliberation, ar.d it; on a view of tire
whole ground.
The active support given to the bill by Ids
colleague, Dr. Mitchell, seemed to eail upon
tiie Ni w-York delegation hostile to it ft r an
oppossition equally open and active. Gen
tlemen might otherwise he led to believe,
tha. the measure, if hot altogether agreeable
to the great mass ofour population, will not
be held or oppressive, and that the motives
of the opposition is only to be found in consi
ders 1 ions of party. He protested against any
such inference, as lie did against the opi
nions of his colleague, as coinciding w.tii
tlipse of tiie country at large.
It. was not his intention, o:i this occasion;
to discuss the subject of War with its causes
and consequences. Whenevcrver that im
portant subject w:j brought fainy be
fore the house, he would bo ready to submit
the result of ids reflection:; and he hop ‘d
would be permitted to do it, without, ;.s at
present, being excluded from tiie ey es of the
people and the light of heaven. Whatever
opinions might be, lie v,as willing and anx
ious that his reason should go with them.
He could not, however, refrain from re
marking, that from every tiling he had been
able to collect, the object of the war appear
ed tb be a precarious, U in some degree, a dis
graceful trade, to a small amount, which
must be abandoned to adventurers of foreign
ers, as soon as obtained. One argument for
war, which he had heard used as well in as
out of debate, appeared strange to him. It is
said that the orders in council, which lie at
the very root of the misdeeds of* our foe,
and from which our injuries proceed, are use
less to Great. Britain, inasmuch as with her
navy site can actually blockade every port of
any"importance in France, and may this stop
our trade with tiie continent, and that tlierc
fore, persisting as she dues in her orders,
she shows an insufferable pcrtinaciiy and ob
stincy.
Admitting this to be ti ue, it would Sc-etn
to follow, tlmt we are at all events not to es
sentially benefited even by a favorable ter
mination of her war. It the British navy can
do and will do effectually, v, hat is now done
partially by the orders in ctmncil, the game
does not appear worth a candle. Prudence
and due regal'd to the interest of the country
seems to require of us, we engage in the
comtcmplated war, that we should first sa
tisfactory ascertain the nature, extent and
value of the trade which is interrupted by
the orders in council, and hotv far a change
of measures, on the part of Great Britain,
would open tliat trade to us.
Neither was it his intention to go in the en
quiry, whether this was a war measure, or an
attempt to revive the system of restrictive
coercion, which at l bo- forme:.'period received
the disapprobation of the people, and as he
understood was therefore abandoned It had
struck him, however, that the substitution of
ninety days by the Senate, for tier sixty d.ys
which haa been adopted by the house, ac
cording to tiie recommendation of the Pre
sident, for tiie duration of the embargo, ap
peared in some degree to vary the character
of the embargo is only an actof precaution. It
is a notice to the country, that (lie last step
is about to be taken ; and au advice to tin.
merchant to bring home her property—Now,
if war is to be declared within sixty days, au
embargo may be proper measure, as the time
may be too short to make a voyage out and
in.
But, if the war is to be delayed for nine
tv days, it is obvious ‘bat voyages maybe
made with pertet. security to anil from the
Vvkst-Indies, and to and from tiie European
peninsula. We may, with very great advan
tage to our farmer; u.ai merchants, get rid j
ofour surplus bread atufrs and pro. icons,
and the country e. i! t be better able to bear
•and to carry This consideration
bad produced in’!; Wsome doubt as to tiie ob
ject of the embargo ; but yet he ieit himself
i>o;m i to believe, that by many this was
cotViHcrcd os .. war measure;. Tnc warm and.
NO .9.
open advocates of the bill had declared their
views and determination too explicitly to
admit of mistake; and lie was among them
gentlemen for whom he hud the highest res
pect, and whose declarations Would alwavi
command ins belief. In tiie feW remarks
which he should submit, he Would therefore
go on the ground that this is a war measure,
and intended to be succeeded bv a declaration
of war.
Mr. Eniott said, tliat, as a war measure)
lie thought the contemplated embargo both
premature and impolitic.
The laying of the embargo, Will, in som4
degree, be a pledge to our people and to tiie
World that tvar is to lie commenced before or
at tiie end of the time limited fur tiie durat on
ol tiie embargo, If we fail to inakc war then,
the country v.illfisl itaelfdeceiveilaial trifled
with, and our constituents will believe, that
instead of war. We mean restriction; that to
non-importation we mean to add embargo,
and thus to engage again in the unprofitable
contest, which we fotmcrlv, and I thiak \xrt
wisely relinquished.
Now, is it possible that at the end of sixty
or even . f ninety days, we will be, or can be,
prepared for the War Will it he said, lie
had indued heard it said, tliat We ure to go to
ar, and then provide the means to cam it
on. Thi re is folly, there is madness in such
a course. Is this the Wav in which the good
pet pie of this nation is tr be made to ravor
the unr? fir let it be renumbered, that if
thev au- not With Vs heart and son!, the war
will lie at an end. Are they to tv.ffer if. con
sequence of our want of foresight and pre
caution, attd in the distress thus brought upon
tin in, to bkss the instruments ar.d the means
oi iheii ruin. It is not in human nature; and
am h u ill not be the effect. If a war is com
menced with disaster, as.it must be if com
menced without suitable preparation, it wiii
and with disaster and disgrace. This is a re
sult which no man can view without emotions
of dread.
Me said, that the situation of the import,
ant stale, winch lie had the hatiov in p..rt to
represent, gate him feelings on this aulrect, -
which he vvisi.ed lie could communicate to
gentlemen who came from states it s* exposed.
Nevr-Ycrk has a frontier on Canada, of sever..!
hundred miles, which from the nature of ti:
set'.ieinents, could not protect itself ever,
: gainst a small force; The situation of the
si aboard, and of the city of New-York, was
too well known to require description or com
in. nt. The Bay of New-York was too invit
ing to an enemy, such as we should have in
Grcat-Hrltr.in, not to be occupied speedily ;
and the city, is tveli as tiie flourishing towns
the Hudson, would long be meLnehuiv wit
iks.es against us, if we precipitate,! the
country into a war without preparation.—
The sufferings which inuit follow will ;
once unnerve tiie public mind, and pros*
trate the public spirit.
Gentlemen, he said talked of this tvnr, rot
tir y would of a march on a parade di". Vit -
yv anti conquest had stamped th.'mstltes
so firmly and deeply on their minds, that thn
appeared almost to forget that vie v, ere ti,
li-ve a foe, and might have r. h„ttle. V.’c
may make thee inquests, and obtain victories,
but We ought to refect, that they Will not be
the frolicsof a summer’s day. ’Whehevc-rwe
go to war, we must mee t ‘roops, and vetren
troops; and it is idle to b< t;ve, that tin
will stand for tiie simple purpose of Lciiu- slio’ l .
at by us. They will fight, ar.d if v. c are v,o.
torious, as 1 am bound to qtisli we r.u. be. i.
will be at the expense of much blood.
in looking at our state of preparation, l,i
tiiougiit it would be well also to take a View ci‘
the disposable force of or intended enemy.
Tin re was a necessary relation between titcac
subjects, vfhicb was t.. 0 cbvicus to uuu.-,.
remark or elucidation, it tvas not id” inten
tion to emark on the force which tin Britim
already had in or near-Ilns country, the nun ■
her of soldiers now in theC-nadas or'.’Co .
flcolia, or the number of vus. ls on ;!.<• Vim
rican station. He would ask tiie attention in
the House to o'iu'r facts and other elata. Ii
said, he held in ins hand a return of !i.r .
fective strength of the regular and i. ;li .
forcer, on the 25th of December laid, .
before the House of Commons on the 11th
Bebiuary, by which it appeared that the Hr
fr.ii had abroad 153,0C0 nun, ;u;d a* ho; ■
about £9,090 regulars and 77,f0r militia; fr
latter we know in st ength and disci aline a;
proach the regular forces. It ought to 1 re
ci.llected, therefore, that tin y have alt
organized three ready to their liamLa, to n:re ‘
tins war.
Again, it is said and believed, that ?jr„
tiie last news from this country, the Brio,
guvemmant had directed ail tie ir vi sseis ,
ordinary to be Iminedldviy lilted for sea : ’ - .
put in commission. New, lie had also in l
possession a p;-[)er wliich gave the s ate ..
tiie Britidi navy on the first of January las
from til is it appeared tb'at at that time th- ••
liad in port and fitting 23 snips of the line, c iyh
SO’s, 28 frigates, and otlx-r vessels, ar
ingin all to 162; that there were in c..;,..:
and repairing 70 ships of the line, toiirf .
SV 59 frigates, and other vessels, m all 2:
ar.d there Were building 31 skips of *l;c Ji. : . ,
two BJ’s, 14 frigates and other vessels. In
52. Ti.e magnitude of this floating ton:
and how we might be annoyed by it, was ziit-
Ccirntly obvious.
Am! how, he asked are v.c prepared to ; •
proach, or to meet this formidable foe. Oi. •
tiemeli had sat 1 that tins ought to be lefi i.-
tie; executive, and that, as he had recur
niendea ti.e embargo, ti.ey would trust
him tliat tiie preparation, should be ir. r. a.g
ficient state of forwardness —On th.i subj ,*
every man ought to fr el ar.d net for J.hu-t'i;
Ti.e .subject in aii its bcaritig'i was oue of !;
most heavy responsibility. It Was one :i •
which V.: should be influenced bv u-.il e'sii
tained facts, and not from a corS.icnce in C
! President. We have the fac'r, ai;’l whai ,
they. A commander in chief Was appw ;.
iji January. He wished not to speak of
, .iiici, of his military quaiificatiou", or ‘ *
opinion which is entertained of is iiir.: r •
lerii in this war; but it Is well known t
he !;;s not to this moment accepted ffii ’*
point mem, that in truth he has been, a.. • >
row, balancing between the custom ! •’
and the winy Os the etb'rofSc'rs, ••• ... j