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AMERICAN PATRIOT.
SAVAMMAH, MAY is, isis.
WE learn from Amelia “that the
patriots were still before Augustine, in
the same inactive state, but in great
hopes that they would succede in re
ducing it. Governor Mitchell was at
Amelia, but had done nothing. That
the Governor of Augustine was in dai
lj expectation of a reinforcement of
troops from Cuba, an dth&t he was de
termined to hold out to the last extre
mity, against the patriotic ruble, be
sieging him. The British sloop of war
Sapho was laying at Amelia, but did
not in aiij manner interfere.”
Such is the substance of our infor
mation, and it is certainly of a most
curious nature. For it was understood
the Governor of this state bad receiv
ed authority and instructions to restore
allairs at Amelia to their original con
dition, after having been disavowed by
administration, and has nothing been
vet done ? wlmt business drew hint to
the south unless to produce an amica
ble settlement with the Spanish au
thorities, and is be *o clogged with in
structions that he can not act ? This af
fair so infamous from its very com
mencement, is enwraptin such a studi
ed mystery and obscurity, that it is im
possible to affix to it, its full and un
equivocal character, but the moment
we'cun get a clue to the truth, so as to
enable us to form a correct estimate,
we shall probe it to the quick. In the
mean time it may not be improper to
show the immediate agency adminis
tration had in this affair through Gen.
Mathews, by the following copy of his
gag-law for the inhabitants of Ferdi
nands.
(COPY.)
WHEREAS tVve town of lArnunilina, in
East-Fiorida, did on Hiv 17th (lay of March,
in the year of our Lord 1312, surrender In
capitul-tion to the Patriots, and on the day
ssh-v. inp; was ci ded to the United States,
through Gen. G. Mathews, United States com
missioner, we whose names are hen onto an
nexed, do engage upon onr honor tint during
cur residence in this district of Femandina,
('£ wnl not by word or deed, say or do anv
thing, or act that will militate against the
United States, or this distrk !, and that we
will not aid or a'jet the enemies of the United
States i:i any act prejud cial to their interest.’’
“ r-. rmrdiua, April Ist. 1512.”
IT is highly gratifying to learn
die brilliant success of FCDEUYL
-ISM in New-York ; the result of the
flections as for as known exceed the
most flattering expectations. That
state, from her population and com
merce commands an important and cx
ensive influence, and happy will it be
‘or the prosperity of the Union, if it is
trenuously exerted in the dismay end
iiscomfiturc of Democracy.
Air. POPE has reported a hill in
lie Senate, for the pre tended purpose
if protecting our commerce and coasts,
iut its real desigh is to produce collis
ion with British cruisers, and widen
he unfortunate breach between the
(Vo countries, which it has ever been
he. systematic policy o? the present
action to promote. The instructions
iLieh this bill authorises to be given
® the commanders of the United States
nned vessels are vague and equivocal,
.! will cave ut their caprice anddis
osal the peace of the union. Its prin
ipies are in direct hostility to the law
I'nations, as it justifies seizing and
linging into any port of the United
tates, the public vessels of a sovereign
°wer, upGU a mere suspicion, which
grounded upon fact, would net sane
on the measure. Why is not the
Jaunereial interest left to the guardi
nship cf those, whose situation and
units render them intimately and prae
c-ally acquainted with its advantages
necessities, instead of the inter
!-enee of a person totally ignorant of
: importance and inimical toitspros
erity : nothing is said on the subject
French piracy. The picaroons of
le ‘’loving Fmpercr” are freely ad
dled into our ports, and encouraged
1 their depredations. What consis
sney >J!
‘I HE western representatives
have uniformly advocated a war with
England, and resorted to ever, artifice
to inflame the popular prejudices a
gainst that tiation. They have become
quite conspicuous during the present
tedious and disgraceful session, ant!
have immortalised it by a tissue of the
most contemptible ami iutamous pro
ceedings unequalled in the annals of
any nation. Their measures develop
a policy from the commencement, in
imical to the atlantic states, ami have
systematically persevered in itsiuin
ous career, till at length they have
sacrificed the honor, ami brought the
safety ol the union into the utmost
jeopardy.
1 lie. profits of commerce, are, in a
manner unlimited. The unexampled
prosperity which the country enjoyed
the first few years of ur government,
prove the quick and astonishing rapidi
ty with which its capital is suscepti
ble of accumulating. The enterprise
and industry of the atlantic states had
an extensive field for their display, and
were amply remunerated. They were
rising to an importance and influence
in the union from their population,
their wealth and their commerce, which
excited an enmity and a jealousy blind
ing every other consideration—the gra
tification of which, illiberal and de
grading passions has become a leading
ami primary motive in the overbearing
and destructive measures pertinacious
ly adhered to.
The voice of (he commercial portion
of a truly commercial nation, not only
ought to he heard, but should dictate.
For it represents the great leading in
terests—as upon its success depends
the fate of every other branch of in
dustry. Agriculture cor hi not receive
more powerful encouragement than by
its protection. Does it not know its
own interests, and hy what means its
security and success can be obtained?
Is not its fate that of the nation, w hose
destruction sheds a withering aspect
through the remotest corner of the un
ion? this is undoubted. And when we
behold this great national link and sup
port wantonly restricted and annihila
ted iu open violation of the constitu
tion, with a full certainty of its dis
tressing effects; it can only be accoun
ted for on the principle now boldly a
vowed, of a determination to depress,
or rather to crush one portion of com
munity, in order to promote the attain
ment of personal objects, and the dep
recated pnssiohs of the demagogues of
another.
Thus we see the Representatives of
the western states, together with the
deluded or unprincipled from those of
the Atlantic, not only seeking every
pretext to destroy commerce by tyrani
c-al laws, by arbitrary restrictions, by
refusing it protection, knowing such
measures directly impair the resources,
lessen the influence, and depreciate the
respectability of that section of the un
ion vitally affected in every thing re
lating to it; and this too at the ex
pence o? the national prosperity and
character—but of advocating a war.
predicated upon falsehood, which ex
clusive of the shame and disgrace that
inevitably would attend it, under the
direction of the present wordy warri
ors, would bring the heaviest calami
ties upon the atlantic border, ami utter
ruin upon the northern states, while it
would benefit the western. These men
with Mr. Madison at their head, not
content with mere distress and threat
ened ruin, the unavoidable fruits of
their deprecated projects, have ca
lumniated the character .of those op
posed to them in political opinion, by
dareing to attempt to affix upon them
the stigma of British influence, by the
miserable plot of Henry. The igno
rant and uncultivated men of the west,
whose only qualification consists ini
boisterous vociferation, are the warm
est advoeates for ail these infamous
proceedings, whose inevitable effect
is the destruction cf the atlantic bor
der. They should be narrowly wait li
ed, for let it be recollected that Aa
ron Burr had warm advocates in
Kentucky. Will the people ths per
mit shemSeives to be. led like lambs
(o slaughter ? \\ ill (hey permit ruin
to he heaped upon them through the
arts anil to gratify the views of a few
unprincipled meu? Will they tame
ly look on, seeing the whirlwind of
taction destroying their property and
demolishing their rights to promote
the corrupt views of office hunters?
l’lie measures of the Faction led by
men who disguise the National Coun-
Ci's, whose dark and ignorant minds, hi
tligated by debased and malignant
passions, have involved every thing
into confusion dire, and goaded on by
their marked emnity, systematic op
pression, and aroused from their delud
ed slumbers by their tyrannical cor
ruption, the discerning freemen of enm
nieiVi.il stales to make an awful ant!
determined stand against their hostile
projects and predetermined ruin—these
measures unavoidably being attended
with ‘such a result, the terrapin army
was authorised not with a view of con
quering Canada, of defending our sea
coast, or of intimidating the Italians,
lor no portion of it is yet appropriated
to either of these pretended objects, but
ol repressing the impulse which a love
o! Liberty, a consciousness of thei r
right, and the incitement of every li
gament operating upon the mind, have
induced some states already to evince.
A\ hat further confirms (his the 2(5,000
army is reduced to <O,OOO and the term
ol enlistment from five years to eigh
teen months, when (he approach ol
the moment of action, and the prepa
rations to meet it, which bullying
threats have perhaps induced Cana
dians to make, instead of diminishing
should have increased the quantum o!
force. Every appearance indicates
the true object of the prevailing policy
and the loud note of preparation, to
be, the destruction of the influence oi
commerce, and the intimidation of those
states which would stand forth in its
support, demand its enjoyment, and
oppose the ruin with which its annihi
lation or w ar, would be inevitably ac
companied.
CORRUPT dissipation and pro
fuse waste of the public monies, upon
such creatures as Wilkinson, Henry,
ike. ruinous projects, for instance the
Louisiana purchase, the two million
appropriation, secret service money,
&e. &,e. the destruction of commerce,
by embargo, &c. together with an ut
ter incapacity in our imbecile admi
nistration, to manage the reins of
power, have produced the present la
mentable state of our finances, and
rendered a loan to the amount at least
of eleven millions indispensably neces
sary for current expenee. The expen
diture of upwards of seventeen mil
lions lias been authorised, while the
treasury is empty and accounts yet re
ceived, justify the conclusion, that not
more than one half of the expected
loan will be filled. Congress after
having reduced the 25,000 army to
15,000, must make another lop, or
bring it to a mere shadow to curtail
expenee. They will be without re
sort, and bankruptcy stares them in
the face. Such a situation, so far as
it would thwart their destructive :nen
sures—check their ruinous career, and
teach them the stale of the public pulse,
would be preferable to a full tide of
successful” disgrace and disorder. It
exhibits a singular Species cf confi
dence and boldness, to request a loan
from mercantile capital, for the avow
ed purpose of destroying the small
fragment of our remaining commerce.
The sources from which those funds
were drawn, enabling the payment of
a 11 art of the public debt, were disco
vered and fertilised by the Federal po
licy. ai.J were rendered abortive, the
moment the mad projects of Mr. Jeffer
son could b “ executed, w hich the pre
sent financial stale of administration
fully evinces.
On Monday morning were seen at
Ctiriile Eng. the beautiful phenomenon
of two parhelia, mock suns, in the
Heavens. They were first observed
about ten o’clock, and appeared of
variable brightness u&til near twelve,
when they vanished.
Amazing Consistency.
B hen Congress was in labor with
the monster Embargo, a federal mer
chant accosted a democratic one some
thing in thi. wise—*■ what do you think
of the present measures of Congress?”
File answer was “ nothing could hi*
adopted more w ise or prudent, to Save
our property from the grasp of the Bri
tish tiger.” “ ) am glad you are of
that opinion, said the F®d, as 1 can then
■'•■t your ships crew to help mine down
the I'olomne.” “ Bless y oi.r heart.”
rejoined the demo. ** we are clawing
ott'toe with all cur might.” ,/le.r. Uaz.
Omnioit e . —'l lie frigate John Adams
sunk at Union-wharf yesterday. She
was undergoing some repairs at the
w Imrf. to lit her for sen. The eaulkers
omitted to leave her in a safe, state, and
at the flowing of the tide she filled.
llosion Repertory.
The Board of Direction of the Sa
vannah Female Assyiinn have receiv
ed the following sums, collected in the
different churches :
In the Presbyterian church
on Sunday, the .id instant, $ 406 81 V
In the Baptist church same
day 11 7
In the Episcopal church,
Sunday the tolls, 125 3(j*
8 U)3 37j
They also acknowledge the
receipt of the Grand Jurors
I‘ the Federal court, 27 stj
Total 737 1H?
ITT” The proceedings of (lie “ PAT
RIOTIC LYNCH CLUB” are re
ceived, and shall appear in our next.
Meteorology from Ist. to 14 Lb.
inclusive.
Thermotreti r highest 82° lowest CO, av. 75.
Barometer highest. 30. 48, lowest 29. 95.
Range .5;;.
Prevailing winds, woslv/m-dly 5, easterly 9
There wore 8 clear Jays and G cloudy, cti
four cf which it rained.
MARRIED, on Tuesday evening
lust by (he Rev. Mr. Johnson, Mr.
Wii.usm iivERiTT, of Philadelphia,
to Miss Jane Wiseman, of this city.
“In Jtvwr'jf paths iwy JJiretvr tread,
“ Jtj/ ferlvnc filmed and ly tirtue led.”
the Her. Mr. Johnson, Mr. John J.
Hanleiteh, to Miss Beisey M*Fau*
lane, of this city.
the Rev. Dr. Kollock, Mr. Edward
Bourroin, to Miss Mary Clknoy,
of this city.
the Rev. Mr. Johnson Mr. Sheldon
C. Dunning, Merchant, to the ami
able Mrs. Russel, of this city.
the Rev. Dr. Kollock, Mr. William
W oodbridge, Merchant, to the ami
able Miss Helen Willy.
—-—!•
Departed this life, in Bryan county,
on the 9th inst. after a fe’.v days se
vere ilness, Peter Henry Morel, esq.
aged 55 years. This gentleman was
a native Georgian, and descended from
one of the first and most respectable
settlers of this state. He was fond
of the republic, attached to the consti
tution, and a true friend to liberty
here, or elsewhere. An affectionate
father, a sincere and disinterested
friend. He has left a disconsolate
widow, a large family, and an exten
sive circle ol‘friends and acquaintan
ces to lament his death.
MARINE NEWS,
POII T OF ,Sf AVA MM J 1 if.
High lli ’er This Day, 12A. 55m.
ARRIVED,
Birg George, Hussey, Ktw-fte<lford 7
Sch’r Lydia, Kiel), Boston 11
Victory, Gonim, Baltimore 7
Sloop Delight, Coopt r, Charleston 1
CLEARED,
Brig Sally Barker, Hail, Boston
Scl r. Haiiet Flower, M*Cabe, Plymouth.
Sloop John, Davis E. Island.
The brig America, B. ckius, wus to anil
from Philadelphia for this port the 3i just.
Cap*, Coffin, spc.ke in lt. 49, long. 20 ship
Mary, of Wiscasset, from Charleston, bound
to England, out 4-0 days—all well.
The Cirop. rn •, was to veil from Boston
for this port, on the Bth March.
The brig Arredondo, Junes, arrived cfl
th? bar yesterday, in six days trom Nassau,
(X. P.) “ She delivered her letters, and pro
ceeded. we understand, to Amel's. Cipt.
Jones informed, that the brig Gypsey. from
Uavatma for Boa ion, bad beta recently
\vr eked on Memory key. A schooner,
(where from or where bound, unknown) lad
shared a similar i-tc.
Auction.
THIS DAY, 12th May.
At JVo. 3 Commerce RoWj
GFOceries& Di’y Goods,
ALSO,
A licht second handed CARRIAGE,
with Harness complete.
Sale to commence at It o'clock,
D. WILLIFORD. Auct'r.
May 12
Auction.
OM SATURDAY loth inch
It ill le Sold hi front ts the Exchange,
Groceries &Drv Goods*
kale to commence at 11 o'clock.
HOWE & DIMON, Auct’r
SUU One Hundred BAGS of
COTTON wanted to till up (lie ship
william <§• hvsur, for Liverpool, to
proceed to Boston, and wait the ionio
'.'.l of the Embargo; also FIFTY
Bugs can be taken cn deck, undo few
culiin passengers, if early application
is made to euj't Hudson on board, or to
JOHN CAKXOCIIAN.
Mai 1 1 Gt 9
SO’ ‘ PASSENGERS for Bos
ton ‘‘‘i' s be handsomly accommodated iu
the .asl sailing ship Quincy, to sail on
the t.ith jtist. Apply oil boatd to
eapt. Glover.
S & C HOWARD.
A few bales of Cotton can be ta
ken on deck os freight.
May 7 ~ at 8
G3* Turtle Soup.
A supeih TURTLE will he dres
sed THIS DAYat i l o'clock.by I.enh
Simpson, on the bay. next to Gunn’s
tavern.
IT?” Families can be supplied bv
sending.
May 15
~ T. Beckwith,
Has just received by the brig Goverr.nv
Hopkins, and now offers fir sale at
unusual low prices.
12 < a .cs domestic manufactured Cot
ton Goods
t Ditto ditto superfine Wollen do.
1 Ditto Canton Crapes
100 Reams Wraping ! • ap-'r
<3 Boxes No. 10 Cotton Cards
4 Trunks Dunstable Bonnets
4 Ditto Kid Shoes
2 Buis, .dens lined &, bound ditto
70 Bids. Pilot Breed
1 Ton Cordage
i 5 Pipes Pawtuxet Gin
2 Hhds 4th proof Rum
Coffee Tobacco the. &e.
Lice's wharf.
May 15 si ?()
KILLS
ON Providence (IT I.) For
sale by T. BECKWITH.
May 1 7y j
“"bills
On PROVIDENCE, (R. j.)
At short sight. For snft* by
Christophi r R. Greene.
May 13 at. 10
•
Nan keens.
1000 Pieces long Yellow’ NAY-/
KEENS, for sale bv
J. Caig & R. Mitchell.
May 15 K,
THE SUBSCBiBERS^
T. ? AVING entered into partner,l.iny
£JL lot tie- practice of law in tie
eastern district in the stats o/ Fi-orgia,
tender their services to (be public.
1 heir office is ope>-";l on the ebrner of
Broughton and Bui! streets,
RICH 1). Yd. HAHKRSHA'N
WM. HABER: rtAM.
Pews in Christ Church.
SOME persons inclined to purchase
Pews at the late sales having hern
unavoidably absent, the subscribers ar B
authorised to sell, a! private sale, any
Pews riot exceeding the number of teji.
Fur terms, application to be made t u >
James Johnston, } rr - ,
J. Lawson.
May is 4t ti
RED-LION HOTEL
J\o. 200, Market^Street, within four du'.rs of
S'h Strict , on the South side, and in tin
centre of the Principel Importers, zlc.
george Yoke,
HAYING considerably enlarge,!
this concern, to which, by a i
addition to the building, he ii.-s a'ddeti
a number of Chambers, a lajgs Dining,
room and extensive Stabling-— lnforms
Merchants and Travellers, that he has
it in his power to accommodate them
with a well served up table, good, wived
liquors , —moderate charge's, and tin?
most unremitting attention: in shorty
with every convenience, w hieh he Wat
ters himself, will give satisfaction to
his Friends end the Public.
PhiladHphiii, Aar. 2, Hill. 1