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fVOL. I.J d UCfIfSrA-PRWTEV BY DANIEL STARNES & Co. WEST END OF BROAD-StREFT. Jli PROPOSALS ,y DANIEL starnes & CO. frpWJti'th SJfttiptin a unUjNfm.fsff INTHBCITV OF AUGUSTA, TO Bt ENTITLED Mirror of the limes.' THK universal promulgation of Mth, «nd the genera! deftribution of know kl;ec| »re objects of the firft importance in (.ky country where liberty has lett traces o( her iootftep*, under every government which consults the happinef* of Man.— "Knowledge/’ said tbc Great JLord Bacon •ii !»*«/’ united witb v ' r,ue ” il certainly liberty- Where ignorance reign* there vice triumph* and delpotifm govern*. A* ma become* enlightened authority will he limited A morality restored.—Knowledge dc Tirtue the bafe* of freedom—the one bitruih ui in our rights, the other teache* us our duties; the firft lhews us how to coaftrud the belt poflible form of govern ment, the lad requires us to obey it when con ftruded. his therefore advantageous every where, but in a A (public it is absolutely ne celT.ry, that corrccft information (hou!d be widely diftiifed and esGly obtained: For tlxri 'til the people who govern. Tb-y never intentionally cuoofe had leaders br approve wrong measures, yet they are liable to error —give them true details and they will judge eorre&ly—for on plain grounds the people al ways fonu j*f) opinion: ; whenever they mif takethfir own mtereft ‘tis owing entirely to want of information in the many or want of honelfy in the frw. But extenli-ve political in formaton is not to be acquired without liiuth labour, and few have lcifure to study the Mttna,compare the opinions, & pcrule the pages of J.ncke, Sydney, Gibbovt, Hume & Vattd If an acquaintance with the true priaciplesof government & duties of a citizen could be atqnircd only from huge folios & difrufe treatises, it would be feldonv fought or if fought, the plough, the hatchet, and the saw mud Hand (lilt. Some cheaper and calier means of fatisfying curioGty and procuring information mud therefore be looked lor; and where is intelligence chrapnefs and convenience united with more advantage, than in the closely printed col bmns of the humble News-paper ? Our toimtrymeu appear so well convinced of tbc ufefulnefc of periodical prints, and have h) very liberal'y encounged them, that wc deem it unn< .e' lry to infill on their merit anoalmall hes .ttt to request public pa*t f" M — nappr "fIU, can promise little etcept what atten tion, honesty & indudry can perform. The principles of our Paper, like our own, will be K l '?' T. ,b ' f ““ freedom of oplnt i nwl.mh we claim for ourft V o, we wi(h *ll others to enjoy." Civil and Religious tw? *s* b ' rh right of evr y f h * Jo *.' 11 Dot CX!< “ n< l the fame indulgence J lV | , M ilread X °r deserve. to be a JwX* ® cli * lon and morality will sadca.t r encourage literature our do cithef will j ommuniCat, °ns calculated to »tfh«cd l« b r r<fUfed{ no . hint will be that the law it,* couhtry it j, oecefTarv “'liftS. ** * eith ' r vague nor illatur* will h P J ° fthe State H- Chi , e "'" cb ' p “ bli<b * i *■ ,h *r •W»5r R ° V r ThE T,MES Will b. b"7 P“ bli ' fr»»r»r, wi,h isdiTidual, 1- am,rs,B >f the conduct of to* i« Truth." P 3 Ct ** tr )> **• CONDITIONS. "«&”„™ ET,J,ES - n,bb will b, three ’dvanct. B1 ’ * ,a,d half yearly In W:il be & t hirt v ir , P flrft i,lfertlon 'muatioa. " * half for each edn *££*£' h " de ‘vercd rb Town ’hofefor •!,- "‘ ,r P larCßof and jartiesonef Co the i> J fenrf CCIO(,C ! in to trieZ t tCCi the M^g £t'r? a ' nU ' UU «*M CA ‘ H or COTTON. *0 Harr'i , retn ! ’C ; " t-t'o.a.bc, lip I * *- ll ne, US P"""= Chre,., tr. I r t>« n Sllf-or b r *, . folate ds^rtcd, hifff. * , S.n g ." d Ee «"cl>y Cotton. t. OItI V GALLONS frisk mh key, I ' l ' bv 4 '» he b ‘ n ' i J ohn - 1 MIRROR OF THE TIMES- BRITISH PARLIAMENT. House of Commons. March q. AMERICA. MR. WHITBRF. Ars's SPEECH, Concluded. Rut then we are toll! that the etr\t>argo was determin ed upon by that government be. j fore they were acquainted with the issuing of the orders in council j here. Surely the right honorable j Kcntleman will not now insist upon this j surely in defending thr mea sures of this administration he is not reduced to such a pretext of falshood and misrepresentation.— : With the documents which they { knew to be in existence, and j which are now before us, it iu to i be presumed they will not ven ture to set up such an arbiter, by relying on which heretofore thev have floundered and have been beswamped and be.Stne&red. It it be apparent that Frcr.ch ag grandizement is not limited that the European population has not ri sen, that America has not acquies ced, and that our imports and ex ports have not eiicreased ; if ( say; all those tacts are true, but are still not sufficient to convince min isters, not alone of the failure bat of the ultimate ruin of the course they have pursued, let them look to other authorities, let them dir. ect their view to the numbers of your starving manufactures redu ced to that siate which the honor able baronet (sir Robert Peel) on the Irish distillery bid so justly described when he entreated this house not to aggravate their dis tresses, by depriving them of the very scanty meal which was left. Ido admit, that even by BUC h a system some will be found obtain ing a profit even from the general calamity in the same manner as we know that by the late confla grations, though many are thrown out of bread and employ ment, oth ers are receiving from the Very oc curence, support & additional ear nings. But that can bo ho com pensation tor the sufferings enduf i cd. If you wish to ascertain the extent Os the injury inflicted on this country by these orders, I call upon you to reflect upon the condition of ihc extensive town of Manchester, where out of iorty nine thousand persons employed before the issuing of those orders, afar greater proportion are thrown out ot bread, where of the numer ous cotton mill* which wer c for merly employed thirty two are now idle, and six only at work. Cast j-our eyes to Ireland and behold the state ol its linen manufactures lor the wans of flax.seed. Whtricr can it be supplied l Not from America or from the Baltic. And as to the probability of an advan tageous intercourse with the Brsl l am not so sanguine a* to ex. peel in ihc course, not alone of my «de, but cf many persons in this j houie younger than myself. But suppose that such advantages should arrive much sooner than I *11! induced to believe, what, I i« to be done for the supply j °* lhe l jas *‘ng year, or of the year j that succeeds f Unhappily the evil, ; of «hich the friends' who set round me lor warned the right honorable gentleman opposite have arrived, without convincing ihetu ot the absolute necessity of re tracting their disastrous progress. I Was it not natural to expect* that j when every prediction of ours was iulhiled, & every promise of theirs ! falsified, that tile), without appar- ■ emiy yielding to the opinions of their political antagonists, would have embraced some pho of rx tricaring the country from the ; dangers ih which it was involved by their toxduct i No such thing. I Unappalledby thu ditficulres which j ihev provoked, & elated by a tern j porary success, they disdained : to take advsn'.agf of moment ( ' of that tuctess’ of ib jlttftft by <hr “ hold the mirror us to nature.”- Shakespeare. concessions which the Amercan government 'offered, liideed Under anv circumstances the present ser. van:s of the crown coul(! nor divest ihemselves of that po;uical "m --cour Against America Which secuis to foste r in their breasts. From the i period of their appointment to of i ficc, this sceths to be the prevai | ling feeling which characterized j their conduct towards that nation. < j At the s*me time tdo admit, that or. the unauthorised and Ivan ton attack on the Chesapeake, the secretary for foreign affairs did, as he ought lo do, on a communi- j j c *tio» front the American minis' I 1 ter, declare, that it was an act on- : j authorised, promised i on- But there the propriety ends. A gentleman whom I see in his place (Mr. Hose) was sent to af ford that reparation. Still it was both from the time when he mailed, namely, the- day after the issuing of the order of the 11th of November, and the maoner in which he executed the commission, that any thing but conciliation Was meant.—No in timation was giver! by him to the American government of such or. ders having befeo issued by his ma jesty’s government ; whilst the di rect object ot his mission was un accountably coupled with lhe pro clamation ot the Arnei icau govern ment relative to the interdiction of British ships of war from her domestic waters. Great Briuia, the aggressor in an angravaied at tack upon a neutral power, refuses to enter into a discussion of those means ot reparation which were due lor such an attack, unless as a preliminary America consented to withdraw the very measures of de fence, to which that power had re sorted in her own defence against that very aggression. Couta min isters seriously ex pec t that any j n . dependent power could have BU b. muuc! to such a degrading propo s..,o„ ; Did the right honorable gentleman fancy that he could call ou the American government to crouch at his feet, in .he sam manner as we read of Louis the Hth calling Upon t | lc j <lf Venice . l u adjusting the intricate relation ol empires, wcre Wc tD go late our conduct by a studied attention to etiquette ?--Were na tions, in their adjustment of dif ferences, to advance with mea sured footsteps, as you sir, in mo ving at the head of this house in company Wl th t h ß lord chancel lor, each attentive that the other should not precede him ! Me. thinks d such be the views of pre sent statesmen, it wou j d be bul proper to revive that which prevailed under the the See of Rome, where W cr c four different folding doors for different e.nbas j sat ors to enter at the same time, that one should riot complain ol the precedence of the btliers. I : dismiss this subject with one ob servation, that although for that aggravated arid wonton attack Up pou Chesapeake, Admiral 1 erjcley vva» not only not brought lo trial but immediately dispatch, ed on another command, still w c find the secretary of foreign affairs in that master-piece of diplomacy o( the 23d of September, 1308, finding fault that no overture was made to repeal an interdiction j which was the very effect of this | unauthorised & cruel attack of the j Leopard on the 1 We now proceed to the order of i the 11th of Nov: this drowned! j child, which seems to have no fa- J j ther. The gentlemen opposite will probably answer by referring to the order of the 7th of January prece- s ; ding—l tell them, that it is they ; who raised the superstructure, ; where ho edifice was ftecesjgrv. But the house must recollect, that at the time I opposed that very i order ol the 7th ol jauuary as both ■ Improper and nugaiory. And here again, wc were terrified with tf>e Rertin deeper?. £ n ( | IC | as( session we told you from this side of the house that to contend . that America Acquicsed in that de jcrec. was fslse & untru-, whith is j now fu«iv proved. It is now pro | ve(, » ’baton the issuing of that de j cree by the emperor of France, A ; mria t'td all that she ought to do tn defence of her independent rights. She did every thm£ ne cessary for her object, without be. ing so foolish and insane us this country had proved itself on this very Subject. America took no noticr, of the idle menace, so long j as she felt it ineffectual. She knew ! l, ’e same object had been frequent - j ly held out to inveigle her into hos tility with each of the belligerents, lull the moment that decree was put in torcc against her neutral rights, which was in tue case of the Horizon, general Armstrong immediately demanded a lull ex planation ot its intentions front tne government, accompanied with a remonstrance against the dicision in case of the Horizon. But such decision could be rio motive for the order of the llth of Novem ber, in as much as at the peri od of its issuing no such event was known to his majesty’s min ister. What course did the Ame rican government pursue, when acquainted with the diet si on of the Horizon ? It immediately ordered its minister at Paris to renew his remonstrance, and at the same time put m force its embargo laws against France. Then followed your orders in council, ft wili not now, I believe, be argued, that Ihe American government were not in possession of your orders in council, before the embargo a* gainst Great Britain was passed into a law* That knowledge it had ; and the immediate conse quence was the adoption of the lat'er measure. But what was the most extraordinary feature tn this transaction, was Mr. Rose i sent out as on a mission of fcoti. ciliation, after you had issued these order* was totally silent up on them in his Various communi tmus, for the purpose of adjusting our diff-repce* with Am c rica.~ What other feeling could such a circumstance provoke in the breast of any government, when it learn ed what had taken place here, but that it was the object of this coun. try by a specific mission for con ciliation, artfully concealing other maesures which vitally affected the independence of America, to insult and deceive them ? Added to this, although an official notice was delivered on the 22d Novem ber, by the president to Congress, J that such orders were 2»aucd by the Brit I *!’ government, vet it was hot until ’be 23d of the following February tiiat his majesty’s minis ter to the United States commu nicated the existence of such or ders to the neutral government most interested in their operation. There may, perhaps, exist in the minds of the great statesmen Op posite, some good ground, s o s the delay ; but in every plain view m which I have conjidei«tl t p e #ub jeet, I could find no other mot ,v c than a desire to deceive to i n sult fe irritate America ; and <},j s j a the course of policy which ministers thought proper to adopt towards that country at a time w |, en Ame _ rica was irritated uga', n , t France. ao irritation of which t h e French ! government w* awhr e , as we find 1 in the note of general Champagny ito general Armstrong, a strong | complamt of the inclination anJ | partiality of America'toG Britain. I a partiality to either belligerent i was peremptorily denied b<r the a merican government; & ‘perhaps the vet y best proof /t could afford of its impartiality } t » being accused by both at the same time of being subject to aa undue ioflu cnee to its antagonist* This war, not the first time that such charges were brought against America* [No. xxxni.] MONIXAV, May 29, JBO9. inn w* I IM ■ . g Similar complaints were marie du ring the presidency of the imtnor tal W ashington. The enlighten cd patriot disregarded such acus »- tions—he scouted every partial in fluence, end solely looked tu the interest of his own country.- I now'proeeed to the off?r of Attbri ca, rtiade bj T Mr. Pinkney, to suspend the embargo laws, a rtd its supplements as regards Great Bri tain, provided you repeal your order* »n council as f aT as they re garded the United States. She had continued lies* embargo with firmness St ri!oderatiou. She did however avail herself of a proper opportunity tc make to Great Bri tain a conc« ssiou—a concession which the right honorable gentle man Opposite (Mr. Canning) haa pi uni ply refused, A though oue of us most salutary consequences would baVe beet! to arm ihe mer cliant ships of America against France. What in God's name would you have ? What do you want of America ? Have yoti any defined object in.your policy with that coitritry, and what is it ? The blockade of the continent is raised, the system is broken up a$ harm less and comtemptible j the evil on Which your orders wefre to re taliate its own injustice has disap peared, as the foreign 4 secretary has assured us : vet, in' the same breath lie avows the determination of adhering to this unjust and dig astrous system of retaliation. Whatever consequence* may result from the perseverehce, I am convinced that such a system will descend to posterity as astri. king illustration of arrogance, im becility & political felly on the part of the advisers. Men who could not see whit Mr. Pitt had so frequent )'l Seen before that the Belm, frC cree was a stratagem bn the pa s t of the enemy, ft mere ru se de filter t'e, tending to produce they very effects | >y j Dur j-ctalia ting decrees which he had ineffec tually Hoped to produce by his own. No; even calamity canhbt conquer the perverness ol his ma jesty's governtileht nor can fcotices sion induce them to retrabt their errors. Most Unfortunately; the last cbncCiiion wits niade when the Spanish cause Was forturtatfe and 1e presented l oocs of ultimate success. The right honorable gentlemeri eleva*ed by the temporary prosperi ty, disdained this conciliatory pro posal & expressed the refusal of hit sovereign in a note, which certain ly savoured much of himself (a laiighy) for whether he is employ ed in discussions in this house— whether engaged In pacific over ture* with hostile, or in adjusting difference# with neutral nations in every aefitence & in every point, you are sure to see the author. It is true He possesses all the stores of eloquence that we cannot fail to ad mir* the corruacations of hi* gen ius, and the flashes of his fancy. For my part, when considering the concerns of ftaiions.l would prefer a portion of common sense, for how do all his briliaat qualities tried by that terminate \ They terminate in clouds, m vapour, & in wind; yet even he complains of the tone of Mr Pinkney’s note ; like a joker, who, dislikes io bo joked m return, particularly when ihejoke is against him, he fetlt uoe.,s y under the tone of a com munication. With sir Anthony Absolute io the comedy, the right honorable gentleman cries, « t e Devil ar, you £ passiori ; ; ar «Vou not aa cool as \ **"*-. (Z* l \ Uu sfcngJ In lA that wt t h Murry deference sos he talents a/J acquirement, of the right honbpsbk secretary. I "‘ U * t • r ' ;’ in f ttimating the «bil. c o sta^*f Aen ; n their political contrasted with -adison ot» the* subjet, ( must ex pres* my preference for the#oiid 6l a ale reasoning of the latter, i h*#e