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BOSTON, October 22.
LATEST FROM EUROPE.
The Diana, captain Breck ?
from London, has furnifhed a
fciies of papers to the Bth of
September —fix days later than
before received.
From appearance the war be
tween France and Auftria was
about to recommence with vi
gor, both parties having rein
forced their armies. The French
generals had officially notified
the Andrians, that the armiflice
fhould ceafe on the 1 ith of Sep
tember. The definitive anfwcr
of the Emperor, had not, how
ever, been received at Paris;
and the general opinion was, that
that anfwer would be fatisfadlory
to Buonaparte ; and that the em
peror was defirous to be prefled
by the French, to have a color
able pretence for breaking his
engagements with England.
Some recent meflfages have
faffed between Great-Britain
and France, on the fubjedl of
peace. But the lateft accounts
fiVy they have been rejected by
England, as unequal and unrea
fbnable.
One event is certain, Den
mark and Great-Britain have
amicably adjtilled their differ
ences. The Englifh have re
linquifhcd their captures, and
recalled their fquadrons ; and
the Danes have acknowledged
the right of the Englifh to fearch
their veficls. The Danes had
made immenfe preparations for
war, and had a fleet of eighteen
fail of the line ready for fea.
Several articles in the London
papers of the lateft dates, men
tion the rupture of the Ameri
can negociation at Paris, and of
the preparation making by the
envoys to return : but we have
before us a letter from a very
ttfpeftable gentleman, which
Elly contradict* the London
Element. It is dated
u Lo noon, September 8.
<c A gentleman of my ac
quaintance has this day received
* letter from an intelligent friend
? £ Paris, dated the 2d inftant,
Jp which he expreffes his fatis
btlion with the fair profpetft of
a fuccefsfui iiTue to our negoci-
f lons at Paris. There will be,
. fays, a treaty. This is cer
!aia that the envoys have not
Paris, as reported in the
ughfli papers.’*
charleston, Nov. 13.
cf a letter from a rej
pettalle houje in London , to
their correspondent hcre y receiv
by the MiJJiJftppiy via Vir
&ta.
I London, Sept. 8, 1800.
I 0 We feel it our duty to trou-
WEDNESDAY, Nove m b e a 26, 1800.
LIBERTY' IS OUR MOTTO AND TRUTH OUR GUIDE
ble you with this letter, that you
may recommend to the moll
ferious confideration of the plan
ters a greater care and attention
in the gathering, cleaning and
preparing their cotton for the
Britifh market.
“ The complaints made by
our manufadhircrs are nearly as
follows:
1 ft. The mixing the ftained
and unftained together.
2d. The mixing the white
cotton, and that which is of a
blue or bluiefh caft.
3d. The quantity of dirt and
dull in the cotton.
4th. The number of feeds
and hard lumps and knots in the
cotton.
“ No fault is generally found
with the baggingor the condition
of the cotton, fo far as the pack
ing is concerned, but we recom
mend bags to weigh from 250
to 28olbs. being more handy to
move and lefs liable to expenfe
in repairs. From the flefeft*
above mentioned t]ie London
buyer is afraid A purchafe Geor
gia cotton, without infpeifting
every bag, whereas he is in the
habit of buying the Weft-India
or Brazil, after looking at a few
of the bales; and even when he
does purchafe a large parcel of
Georgia, he is fure to be blamed
by his principal in the country,
for buying fuch mixed parcels j
for this reafon he commonly in
fills on picking, by which means
eflential injury is done to the
whole, and what remains on hand
goes off at a very inferior price.
“ When a buyer comes to
you, the fiift thing he lays to
you is, “ I would rather buy
your Bourbon, Demarary, or
Surinam, if you have any; when
I purchafe them I know what 1
buy, which is not the cafe with
Georgia.”
“ If the Carolina planterthinks
that the trouble of preparing his
cocton nicely is too great, and
therefore refolves to take lefs
pains and be content with a final
ler price, he will find himfelf
deceived, and is not aware of
the evils which will follow, and
which will amount to little lefs
than the ruin of this great ftaple
of the fouthern Hates.
“ So long as the Carolina
planter will prepare his cotton
in the very beft manner for mar
ket, he need fear no competition.
The natural fuperiority is fuch,
that no influx from the Eaft or
Weft-Indies, the Brazils or
Smyrna, can materially aftedt
it—The merchant in Charlefton
does not rely entirely on his cor
refpondent in England, and wait
for his information, but looking
principally to Charlefton and
Savannah, the quantities made
and other local drcumftanccs of
(hipping, &x. offers a price
accordingly j and if the planter
choofes to confign, the conlignee
in England is happy to receive
his confignment, and will be
furc to difpofe of it to advantage.
But if the Carolina planter neg
ledls to prepare his cotton, he
muft be content to be on a level
with other planters in other
parts of the world; the confe
quence will be that the Tale of
his cotton (which would be in
in a great meafure, independent
of the crops of other countries)
muft depend entirely on the prof*
pedis in other parts of the globe,
with this certain difadvantage of
always being artificially inferior
in point of preparation. The
merchants in Charlefton, there
fore, will be afraid to buy—the
conlignee in England will be
afraid to receive confignments,
and the manufadlurer will only
purchafe Georgia, when he can
procure none other.
lc Thus Georgia, and Carolina
will meet with a dull and uncer
tain, inftead of a fure and rapid
fait and that cotton which lias
ufually fetched iBd. and upwards
will not perhaps net more than
one (hilling.
“ Major Butler has been this
year fovery highly commended
for his great (kill and care in
preparing his cotton in every
refpedl, that we recommend
him as a model to all planters.
We are not connedted with that
gentleman, we only repeat the
language of ail the great London
purchafers. We have alfo re
ceived fome very fine parcels,
but it is not fufficient in a nation
al point of view, that a few
planters fhould be fkilful and
attentive in preparing their cot
ton —all fhould be fo, that a ge
neral national confidence fhould
be eftabliffied. If one half or
more are negligent this will in
jure thofe who are ever fo care
ful and adroit.
t( A ftmilar complaint cxifted
inPernambucain the Brazils, and
their cotton was finking very
faft, at length it was refolvcd to
cftablifh an infpedlion, which
we believe takes place previous
to the adlual bagging. This
removed the evil and their cot
tons are bought in proportion to
their quality with avidity and
confidence.
“ We do therefore mod leri
oufly recommend the eftablifn
ment of an infpjdlion, if prac
ticable, and at all events a great
er care and attention. This ad
vice is the refult of fome expe
rience, and much inquiry and
convcrfacion with the different
buyers, and is dilated by a fin
cere and anxious wifh to promote
the profperity of Carolina.”
Extracts from the records of the
treafury, as publilhed by Al
bert Gallatin.
" Increaleof the public debt,
from the id day of January
1790, to the ill day of January,
180c —Nine millions , four hun
dred and fifty-tvso thoufand, two
hundred and fixty-four dollars,
and thirty-eight cents.”
This enormous fum in Spa
nifh dollars, would load two
hundred and ninety-five wag
gons, carrying each one ton
weight. The annual augmen
tation of die debt fince the year
1790, to the beginning of this
year, will annually load twenty
nine waggons with fiivcr, at a
ton w'eight per load.
Is this the profperity that has
been wrung in our ears from
Ncw-Hampfhirc to Georgia?
Is this the refult of that wifdom
in the adminiflration, which has
been trumpeted from almoll
every pulpit in New-England ?
Is this additional load to tiic
public debt, the fruit of what
has been arrogantly filled a neu
tral pofition ?
Where are the members of
congrefs who in their farewell
«ddrei!cs, (xtol the purity and
ability of the prefent adminiflra
tion ? Are thefe yokes about
our necks lome of the good
crops, in the metaphor of Ro
bert G. Harper ! where he fays,
“ If you had an overfeer, who
for ten years together had made
good crops, and kept your
plantation in excellent order,
would you turn him away ?’*
Such crops of filver and gold as
the country is held to pay, may
afford very good pickings for
overfeers; but a continuation
of them will foon dram the land
of every thing valuable, and
bankrupt the owners. Mr.
Elarper again fays, “we know
the prefent adminiflration by the
fuccefs of their actions.” Do
my fellow citizens for a mo
ment let us fearch for this fuc
cefs. Is it in taxing every arti
cle that a man eats, drinks, or
wears, of foreign growth or ma
nufacture, at an average of 20
per cent ad valorem ? Is it to
be found in borrowing money at
8 per cent per annum ? Is it in a
Ramp tax, in a land tax, or in a
houfe tax ? Shall we feek for ic
in the management of exterior
relations ? Is it in the indiferi
midate capture of our velfeis by
the Britifh ? Is it in the proftra
tion of our independence and
character at the court of St.
James’?, by Mf. Kins and Mr,
£No.
