Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page.

AMEEICan patriot. SA VAXXA fI, Ml Y 29, 1812. Tlie nation has uniformly been disturbed by a clamor for war against Britain from the earliest commence ment of our government, not however arising from the great hotly of the people who are virtuous, but from an unprincipled faction, who are deter mined to plunge the country into con fusion, in order to rise upon its ruins. Already do they intimate that a de claration of war is to silence all op position and to call into service the physical resources of the nation, but these desperate demagogues should know that the people will at all times exnress their sentiments, and resist any tyrannical mandates under the sanc tion of law, which arc violative of the constitution. Those portions of our citizens whose peculiar situations have led them to reflect upon the present crisis, its expected consequences, de liberately and dispassionatiy have, without distinction of party, decidedly expressed their disapprobation of the measures hitherto pursued and now persevered in. They see in their con tinuance nothing hut distress and ruin, and unavoidable disorder and disgrace. They know that the whole system of war measures is predicted upon an ab solute falsehood, arising from subser viency and obedience to the views of “the Incomparable Napoleon,'’ and are w ithdrawing their support from a cause reared upon such a contempti ble basis, by withholding their money and dismissing the despicable authors of their calamities from otliee. Whence then does this clamor proceed ? The orifices from which it so steadily flows, discover a poisonous and cor rupt fountain. The National Intelli gencer, the Aurora, and other leading democratic prints are edited by For eigners, and when we reflect upon the causes which induced some of these men to fly their country, there cannot be a doubt of the motives by which they arc actuated. Lotus also recol lect that altho’ misfortune or an hon orable enterprise have benefited the country by the acquisition of many use iul citizens, yet from causes needless to name, our cities are overflowed bv a species of character, who have im bibed either in the soil of Britain, or from being engaged in the European conflicts against her, an enmity which they introduce among us. ’Tis this hand of men, accompanied by honest and deluded Americans, who are con tinually eefiolng war, and support at least four leading democratic foreign p pers, inundating the country wit!: their deleterious matter. Those prints speak not an American language, but that of French vassal Sage, and finding they command an influence among their fraternity and the unguarded, the gov ernmental demagogues move in unison w ith them, and have the presumption to call the venal clamor of a foreign faction, the voice of a free people. The laws are now habitually prostituted. The most arbitrary as sumption of power is unblushing! y ex ercised by the Executive minions. The mere capricious will of the Whiskey Secretary, is made in exempt the pro perty of foreigners from penalty, while that of our own citizens is plun dered. A ship belonging to Mr. Gir ard, a Frenchman, is admitted to en try without bonds, loaded with Bri tish Goods, directly violating the non intercourse law, at the same moment that American property amounting to upwards of a hundred millions of dol iars is jeopardised in a foreign country and cannot legally be imported, we are threatening with w ar. Shall the laws be set aside by a tyrannical mandate, in favor of a de mocrat and Frenchman ? Shali the most insidious distinctions be set up in favor of a corrupt faction ? Shall such glaring and infamous partiality be pa tiently acquiesed in ? If the laws are set aside in favor of one man, they are no longer binding—all are entitled to the same priviledges. But the :r.:ist .-trasrcir.ary fea ture of this affair is the cargo ‘being contracted for by government. Thus, not content w ith un open violation o( the laws of the country, by an infa mous suspension oi them in favor of a foreigner, but by becoming purchasers of British gobds in this tyrannical man ner introduced, administration have di rectly disregarded their 4 pledged faith’ to hiance, and trampled npon tlic con tinental system. It might at least, however, have been supposed, that if those men, whose sworn duty it is to see the laws executed, are so corrupt as to openly violate them, they would permit the fear of the displeasure, of “ His Majesty” to operate.— But when a temporary purpose is to be committed, neither the sanctity of the laws, nor avowed vassnllage to a ty rant, can have effect. How long w ill the people slumber over such unprin cipled conduct P The democrats in Charleston have lately hung an effigy of John Randolph, Esq. and resorted to their usual chaise °t English gold, &e. to impeach the in tegrily, arid slander the reputation of taut Sirin, patriotic, and intelligent statesman. I his is an evidence of the deep enmity, with w hich an independ ent and undaunted character is viewed, wlio performs his duty to his constitu ents and his country, by opposing the ruinous projects of an unprincipled and corrupt faction. Although Mr. Jeffer son and some few others are well wor thy of (fie treatment which disgraced democracy in Charleston, even then it should he discountenanced, and meet the decided reprobation of every friend to older. Nothing should justify it. The spirit of intollerance in Con gress is now carried to an alarming length. The gentlemen of the minor ity, are incessantly interrupted in im portant debates on the most frivolous pretexts. The interesting debate this day published contains a specimen of the impertinent and contemptible man ner in which the overbearing leaders of the majority defeat irrefutable argu ment. When the gag-law fails to crush the truth, and repress enquiry, then is (he freedom of debate attacked and liarrassed by the most disgraceful artifices. W hen the people through tlieir representatives are prevented from expressing correct sentiment and sound argument, fortified by fact, tlieir liberties and boasted privileges arc lit tle more thun a shadow, and Congress but little better than a factions club of Demagogues. THE VEIL THROIVX OFF. The Copenhagen affair at Amelia, has been en wrapt in a species of mys tery from its commencement. Its true character now unexpectedly appears. Gov. M tehell the immediate agent of administration, acting under their di rect orders, in his reply to captain Williams an United States officer com manding at Pern&ndina, declares, 44 the restoration cr occupancy of the prov ince, deptends on the future decision of the America: government,” and 44 if the force under his command was inode anal* li he would send one sufficient to cempel subjection to the American fag.” Administration, then, thro’ their agent have boldly avowed themselves in pos session of Amelia. Let us view the transaction in its proper light. Poor Madison, and his wretched crew of incurables, who insult the na tion by presuming to fill its highest of fices, without the boldness openly to plunder aforeign nation, unable to de fend her possessions, of one of its co lonies, resorts to the contemptible and degrading trick, f hireiug an agent, for the express and avowed purpose of bribing men to become traitors to their country, and in ease of disappoint ment of this infamous prostitution of the national dignity, to Lire or bribe, or inveigle American citizens, to trans plant themselves into a foreign territo ry, and although from the character of soma of their leaders, a desperate band of plundering banditti, to usurp the name cf Patriots, and assume the au ‘.!• j-;ty cJ .Spanish subjects, in ordei to convey this stolen province, under a request of assistance, to the United Stales. After having secured success to the Patriot:’, through the assistance of the !,;nd and navai forces, whose participation in the disgraceful robbe ry was supposed to be unathoi istfdy although the whole affair was known * l ° originate with administration, and then circulating reports from Wash ington, that it was disavowed, blinding (lie people to the infamy of the trans action by low deception and falsehood, —after this base juggling, tl.e imme diate agent of poor Madison, declares, “ subjection must l>e compelled to the A merican flag,-’ thereby avowing Ame lia to be in possession of the United states. Uow dnl it come in tlieir pos session ? It was not openly seized.—— A robber would be comparatively hon ored, whose necessity compelled him to present a pistol to another man’s breast and boldly demand Ins purse, to the unworthy thief, wlio would sneak be hind another, and pilfer his property, and eluim it as his own. Did the Spaniards themselves transfer it to the United States? Lot the resistance at Augustine, let the resolutions at Fer nandina falsify the assertion, it must then have come into their possession by a transfer of those who invaded the province and called it tlieir own—a transfer from the very men hired for the purpose and protected in the rob bery, hv the authority of administra tion. This is an net altogether of Ma dison sand let its inlamy rest upon him. For turpitude of a truly pit iblc nature, no act cn record committed by an inde pendent nation can equal the Amelia concern ; besides it is alarming to o:ir liberties, for whence did administra tion derive authority to inarch troops out of the United States into a foreign colony, and commit an act of war ? Is the peace of the nation to rest with tlicii arbitrary caprice ? It is to be hop ed the people of these States, will not permit, tlieir honor and thrir prosperi ty to be jeopardised at the will of an unprincipled individual. From v.liat appropriation arc the funds derived, which support the invading rabble ? When loans arc resorted to, in order to replenish an empty treasury, and the people threatened w ith grievous and enormous taxes; is their money to be squandered in securing a stolen pro vince ? It was supposed the fifty thou sand dollars squandered upon a spy was an art of sufficient profligacy, but it is a trifle compared to the work of corruption at the South. To comience the character of this whole affair in a small compass, it is the prolific nurse of traitors andspies, an infamous monster that lives upon robbery and plunder, pollutes the na tional honor, violates the principles of Justice and the Constitution, gorman dises upon the people’s money, and ge nerates bloodshed, confusion, and mur der—an act that will blacken its au thors with eternal disgrace, were they before pure as ermine. POSTSCRIPT. WE stop the Press to announce the arrival of the Brig oßoziMno,cap. Vaii in the short passage of 6 days from New-York, which brings pa pers to the 20th inst. containing the following interesting information, from the New-York Gazette. MOMENTUO US ARRIVAL. THE U. S. sloop of war Hor net, captain Lawrence so long expect ed, arrived at this port last evening, in a short passage of 22 days from Cher bourg. Bhe sailed on Hie morning of tne 27th of April, on the same even ing, off the Isle of Wight, put Mr. Jones, of this city, on board an English pilot-boat, who was bearer of Des patches from Mr. Barlow our Minis ter in France, Mr. Russel, our Charge des Affaires in England. Lieut. Bid dle. of our navy, has come home in the lloraet, with Despatches from Ar. Barlow for Government, and proceeds to Washington immediately. Mr, 11. informs us that there wr t s no uoubt of an immediate w ar between France and Russia; that Bonaparte was still in Paris, but we s on the eve of bis depar ture for th; e armies, as be was to com mand iu parson; that the scarcity of provisions,par licidarlyin Britanny had occasion. U alarming tumults amongst the people; and that the ship Congress, recently captured by the French on her passage from Baltimore to England, bud been taken out, by order of the Government, and carted into the inte rior, and distributed amongst the starv ing and riotous inhabitants. On the subject of our relations with France, we could gather nothing from Mr. Biddle ; but we have no reason to believe, that any settlement has taken place. We did learn, that there had been no recent restoration of American property. The immediate disposition of the cargo of the ship Congress, is a proof, that nothing favorable lias been done. We must however, wait a few days for the Expose of our government. The United States sloop of war Wasp, with Mr. HENRY on board, arrived at Cherbourg on the f>th of April; which was twenty-one days previous to the sailing of (be Hornet— so that fieri sufficient tin Mr. Barlow to answer any communica tions from our government, which may have gone out in her. Mr. Biddle left Paris on (lie 23d of April, and we have files of French pa pers to that date, but they arc barren of news, being silent on the distresses of the French people from the scarcity of provisions, but copious in tlieir de tails of the riotous proceedings of the manufacturers of England. Since the above was prepared for pre-, we have seen a gentleman v.ho came cut in the Hornet, who assures us, that Mr. Barlow has done nothing tow ards a settlement of our differences with France. Fern and in a, 18th May, 1812. Sir,—lt being publicly understood that the United States’ Government in ter.:} to withdraw their troops from this place, and various reports having reached us that the so called Patriots were to receive possession of it. How ever unwilling we may lie to allude to rumors of any kind, we conceive it would be unwise to neglect prepara tion for (lie defence of our lives and property, more especially as no public declaration lias been made by the agent of your Government of bis intention to deliver it to (be former and lawful au thorities. Asa committee appointed by tin Loyal inhabitants of this island anil District, we request you to inform us what is tlm intention of the United States’ Government with respect to the surrender of this place, and if you conceive yourself authorized to give us such information, that you will be pleased to apply to tlio proper author ities without delay. We arc with sen timents of high respect . [Signed] Joseph Arredondo,] Com. loyal Piiinp K. Yonge, J. inhabitant* Sanraoo Cashin, jofA. J. Fernandina, 23d May, 1812. Sir—l herewith send yon a copy of the proceedings of the Loyal inhabi tants of the island and district, and al so a letter from the committee appoint ed by said Loyalists to enpf. Williams, commanding officer of the United States Troops at this place, both of which 1 will thank you to have pub lished in your Savannah papers. On the 17th inst. a party of sixty men from St. Augustine, attacked the com bined army and obliged them to fall back, leaving their camp equipage, forty stand of arms, and all tlieir cook ing utensils behind. Upon Governor Mitchell’s receiving (his information I he proceed immediately to Point Peter, to examine some field pieces that are laying there. lam informed from good authority, he intends sending them to the Combined Camp imniedi di.itely, he has forwarded a considei - ble number of small arms already ; in short, I believe that his excellency is as far in the mud as General Mathews, and I do not believe that be intends giving up the province to (he Spanish Government. Since writing the above, 1 have had the perusal of Governor Mitchell’s re ply to captain Williams, respecting the different communications from the committee of the Loyal inhabitants of this place, the substance of which if not altogether—the words are as fol low: St. Mary's, 2Clh May, 1812. Sir, —I received yours of the 16th inst. covering a letter from the Loyal inhabitants of Amelia Island to you, and so far froen considering it a trouble to receive S’jehcommunications, I con sider it a r,iark of your vigilance in discharging your duty. icr/uslder it unnecessary to make any ad ditions to my former orders, which 1 believe to be plain and explicit aud ex tends to all parties alike, and cannot be deviated from by either you the Pa triots or Loyalists, and as it now de pends on the future decision of the A merican Government, either the res toration or occupancy cf the Province, it would be more becoming the Loyal inhabitants to await the decision of that authority to which they have been so prompt in expressing their Loyalty, than to intermeddle w ith affairs which can only lie decided by tlic regular au thorities of the Province. should you consider the force now under your command as inadequate to suppress disturbances excited by any parly, I will send you a force sufficient to compel submission to the American Flag. 1 urn, respectfully, &e. [Signed] D. B. MITCHELL. Capt. John Williams, Amelia Island. MARINE NEWS, PUR T OF SAVAXX AU. Jt, V‘ H atrr T/u, /Jay, 7H O Ji. ARRIVED, Slup Neptune, Hopkins Providence (;. ,) 6.1 Woodbine, Sterling-, New-Vwk, 1M P.rig- l-.liza land, Wheeler, do g,, Oroaiinoo, Vuil, New-York, 6d Dunning a CUv. Caroline, Wing, Rochester, Cd —-Arrado,.do, Jones; Amelia, 1.) Schooner Minerva, Rhodes, Providence ‘•) ’ 171 Sloop Sciniramis, s*. Majrv’s id CLEARED, tuif.*, America, Rock ms, RhiludelpLia, Auction. TO-MORROW, 50th instant, IHit he Sold in front of the Exchange, Groceries &Dry Goods, Pule to commerce at 11 o'clock-. HOWE & BL'ION, , may 29 lor ALEAAJi DRIJI, Virginia. * Uunc ** sl°p MERCY, 8. Holies, master, will sail Oil Sunday next. For freight or pas sage apply to the captain on board; at 11 ice's wharf, or to cakppntek & cnr.r.NE may 29 n For TBILADEIPMA. ,5,7. The Packet Brig HETTY, ’ ■ • ‘ capt. Skinner, will sail dm 3rd ol June. I ! or freight or passage apply to Jacob idi.f.r & Cos way 39 14 SO"’ On.: Hundred BAGS ci ( 01 IGA wanted to fill up tl:c shin william pj- ith.Niir, for Liverpool, t*, proceed to Bor.ton, end wait the V 1 of the Embargo; also FIFTY Bags can be taken on deck, ami a few cabin passengers, if early application is made to capt Hudson on board, or to JOHN CACNOCi.'AN M -y V 6t 9 %CJ° The fast sailing Packet Bib- ELSINORE, will sail for New-York on Saturday, having handsome acco modations for eight or ten passen gers. Thirv Bales Cotton can h taken cn deck. DUNNING 8: CDAY. may 29 a. trr PERSONS who have not complied with the terms es the Sales, of PEWS in Christ Church, will please call on the subscriber for their titles. JOHN LAWSON. may 20 13 (t T” 1 urtle Soupy A Fine Fat. Green TURTLE will be dressed THIS DAY, at U 0 oleok, by Leah Simpson, r.cxt door to Gunn’s Tavern. Families can be supplied by sending early. May 29 Fur Hale, I7SORTY -FIVE thousand Bricks, _ Fifty Bundles Hay, Madeira Wine, Candies, and tow- Cloth, Received per brig Gustavos, Capt, Grccnough. Apply on hoard, er to HAZE Is KIMBALL, may 29 2t i l Saddlery Store, THE SUBSCRIBER, HAVING purchased the Stock irt Trade cf D. W. Johnson, of fers for sale at the most reduced pri ces for cash only, a general assmt* meat of Men’s and Ladies SADDLES, of al! descriptions : Plated and Brass mounted Harness ; Plated Bridles of all descriptions, Whips, Valoises, Trunks, &c. &e. TIIQ3: JOHNSON, may 29 3v - 1-i Notice. THE SUBSCRIBER’S Business calling u out of tru state, for a short tin,e, has ap pointed Mr. Thomas Johnson his torr.ey in fact. D. T ,V. JOHNSON, i my 29 3w 1*