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colle&or for the diftricf of Portf
mouth, and who Uwc .f. iTvred
a lofs of property by ti e late
conflagration at thar place, (hall
be, and they hereby are allowed
to take up, or have cancelled,
ah oonds heretofore given for
duties as-afortfaid, upon giving '
tb 'hc Paid colic ft or new bonds,
with b>r~ or mote (arctics, to
die fatisfaftion of faicl colleftor,
for the (urn's of their former
bonds refpeftively, .payable in
twelve months from fcrtd after
the day of payment fpccifled in
the bonds to be taken up or can
celed as afore faid ; and the faid
colleftor is hereby authoiifed
and direfted, to give up and
4 cancel, all fuch bonds upon the
receipt of others as deferibed
in this aft ; which laft mentioned
bonds (hall be preceded with, in
all refpefts, like other bonds
which are taken by colleftors,
for duties due to the United
States: Provided however, that
nothing in this aft contained (hall
extend to bonds which had fallen
due before the 26th day of De
cember lad.
Nathaniel M A CON,
Speaker of the Ht ufe of
Reprefentatives,
Aaron Burr,
Vice-Prefideni of the United States
and F ref dent of the Senate,
Approved, Feb. 19, isoj.
'J homas Jefferson,
Prefdent of the United States.
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WASHINGTON, March 14.
(official.)
Tranflation of a letter from the
Marquis de Cafa Trujo , to the
Secretary of State,
Wcjhington , March 10, 1803.
Sir,
When you reprefented to me
towards the end of November
lad, that the port of New-Or
leans had been (hut againd the
citizens of the United States,
without the alignment of any
equivalent place of depodt for 1
their merchandize on the banks
of the Mifliffippi, according to
the dipulation in the 22d arti
cle of the treaty of amity, com
merce and navigation, between
the king my mader, and the
United States, I did not hefltate
to declare to you, that I confi
dered this meafure as flowing
folely from the midaken zeal of
the Intendant of Louifiana,
without the approbation, and
even without the knowledge of
my court —I well knew the fin
cere defirc of the king my maf
ter, to live in peace and harmo
ny with the United States; as
I alio knew well the (crupulous
good faith with which the Spa
niih government fulfills the en
gagements which it forms, par
ticularly when they arc founded
on the folemnity of a treaty.
I have now the fatisfaftion of
informing you, that my (lift opi
nion has been verified, and of
declaring in the mod pofuive
terms, that the proclamation of
die Intendant is an aft purely
jjcrfonal, without the fanftion,
i r.J even without the know
ledge of his Catholic Majefty.
In reality if the proclamation had
appeared here in an entire ftatc,
no doubt could lave taken
place as to the frurce of this
proceeding; but the operative
through the United States, *iie
.■preamble introducing it, having
been probably without defign,
omitted.
I heve therefore the honor to
communicate herewith, an en
tire and correft copy of the
afordaid proclamation ; and by
the cxprtdlons which 1 have
underlined, it will be clearly
fern that the arrangement was
abfolutely pcrlonal, and has
originated in the faculties which
the Intendant fuppofed to be in
cident to his (itnatron.
This aflertion is not merely
founded on the obvious infe
rence from thefe cxprefllons.
The Intendant himfeif declares
it to me in the mod direct terms,
in a letter of January 151 b,
which I have juft received fiom
him, and the Governor of the
province confirms the fame
thing, with the fame folemnity
in another letter of the fame
dice. Neither the one nor the
ether difpute the rights of the
citizens of the Weftern States
to a place of dcpofit on the
Spanifh banks of the Milfiffippi,
but the Intendant thinks that
the term of three years allowed
(or the purpofe at New-Orleans
having expired, and much pie
judiceto the ro)al intertft hav
ing been experienced from its
continuance in this city, it was
incumbent on him to fufpend
the depcfit there, without ven
turing to take on himfeif the af
fignment of another equivalent
place; not becaufe he doubted
the right of inhabitants of the
United States thereto, but be
caufe it appeared to him to be an
aft exceeding his authority, and
which he ought to leave to the
royal determination of our So
vereign. The Governor of
Louifiana faw the fubjeft under
a point of view more correft in
my judgment, and more favou
rable to the inhabitants of the
United States.
From the whole, it refults
that tiie fufpenfion of the depo
ne not being an aft of my court,
and no perlon even disputing
the right of the American citi
zen in the cafe, I (ball now take
upon mjfclf to adopt meafures,
which mud enfurc to the Unit
ed Stares, the enjoyment of all
the rights ftipulated in the 22d
article of the treaty, on the ar
rival at New-Orleans of the
difpatches which will be for
warded under this date.
From the American Daily Ad
vertifer.
Mr. Povlson,
Have not the Britifh govern
ment employed men, at the
ride of confinement during life,
in the mines of South America,
and a great expence, to obtain
three or four living Cochineal
infefts for their Weft-India lf
lands ? If it is of fo much im
portance to them, would it not
be worthy the notice of in
-1 dividuals of our Southern
States*—whole climate and pro
ductions arc natural for this fpe
cics of inltfts ?
In addrdling you Sir, I hope,
| through the medium of your
1 ufcful paper, you will inform
: them, that Georgia peflefs in
1 abundance this fine colouring
i w)c liLIT fhf-vvn rm*
1 73 Major Craddock, on "he ,
beach or the liule Illand of Sc. j
Simons, cn the under Tides of '
the lower leaves cf the plan:
they vulgarly call the large
Prickly ‘Pear.
Whilft fpeakirg of Georgb,
it would not be amiTs, by the
fame means, to give them ano
ther hint, that may be of Tome
confequence to them, as well
as every clafs of citizens. I
have fecn immenfe quantities
of cotton left to rot on the
(locks—Would not this fine
cotton, with that which is an
nually condemned and burnt,
be more than fufficient to fup
ply the whole United Stares
with a white flrorg paper fiefor
printing or writing—Rags are
Icarce, and require much labour
to reduce them proper for this
ufeful manufacture, whereas
bluffed corton wants only gin
mng. Making this idea public,
for the good of my fellow
countrymen, (an ideal have had
thirteen years pall) I hope the
government of the United
States will not grant a patent to
any for the exclufive privilege
or tiling this valuable, though
heretofore ufelefs article,
I remain Sir, your’s, &c.
R. PEAL.
LOUISVILLE,
WEDNESDAY April 6, 1803
Married, on Sunday evening,
the 27 th ulr. Ahner Hammcnd , ;
efqutre, to Mils Sarah Dudley ,
both of this place.
Died, at his plantation, near
this place, on Monday, the
28th ultimo. Col. Themes Me
riwether.
Died, on the evening of the
the 23d ult. Mr. James Mickle
jvhn.
CIRCUIT JUDGES.
Thefc men, in their late peti
tion to congrefs, have di (played
the full extent cf their patrio
tifm. 1 hey have told the pub
lic, in alm( ft fo many Words,
tc we are patriots who love good
placed at our hearts.” Their
folicitude fer the fafety of the
conftitution, is evinced by their
anxiety for the continuance of
their Salaries, and the preserva
tion of their places, T hey
might as well have Paid in their
memorial— <c we, vour humble
petitioners,having been well pro
vided for, by our midnight ap
pointments, as being lately in
the receipt of comfortable fab
rics, as the reward cf fervent
attachment to the power that
made us* finding curfclvcs un
expectedly deprived of our liv
ings, and cc impelled to refort to
cur former preft (Hons for the
means of cur fupperr, do there
fore humbly lupplicate your
honors, to take into cor fidera
ticn cur hard and difire fling
cafe, end to make fuchprovi-
Hon for cur hcncrclle cafe and
independence , as we have merited
by cur zealous fuppert cf the
Federal imeuft.” '1 his lan
guage would have been more
ay 1 1 update, 21 d far mere hi no
-1 able, than the filly arc! ludicrous
prept fnicn cf a} pointir g aibi
k ira-crs. to fe-rie the cent: overly
between the nation and a.doz
en oil banded judges! q Fs
would, indeed, have be en a me ft
dignified mode of procedure on
the parr of our national iegifla
ture, they would have laid to
the petitioners—“ We have re
pealed a law, by which you arc
deprived of ycur falaries. You
fiy that the repeal was irncon
flitutional, and that you
yet to receive them. Now as
we are not the proper judges
in this hufmefs, we will therefore
cc leave it out to men,” whether
we have dene wright or wrong,
or whether you are entitled to
receive your falaries cr
Suppcfe a bar room arbitration
had been appointed for this
purpofe. Would the nation,
have been one party and ti
judges the other ? Or would
the members cf congrefs, in
their individual capacities, have
entered into the rule on one
fide, and bound themfelves tc>
fulfil the award. This learned
propofition, of thefe learned
gentlemen of the law, is fopreg
nant with folly y that it is impef
fible to handle it with any de
gree of fenoufriefs. If there had
been any doubts before, of the
expediency of lopping off this
excrefcence upon the judiciary
fyftem, they will at once be re
moved by this infallible indica-.
tion of its fickly and diibrdered
habits. Whatever may Be the
neceffity of having a circuit
court hereafter, it will, at any
rate, be a fubjedt of congratula
tion, that the former judges have
been removed.
If the office was not fuper
ftuous, it will yet be admitted,
that the officers were incompe
tent, and unqualified for their
duty.
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It is painful to fee that the
fame bale and tory fpirit which
prevailed in England during the
French revolution, is now re
vived, and kept alive in this 1
country, by the devoted flaves
and agents of the fame perfi
dious and jealous government.
The fathers cf the French re
volution, panting for the free
dom and (.mancipation of their
country* —of the human race,
were coolly and deliberately
ebufed and libelled by the hire
ling and profiituted prints o t
Great Britain and Ireland—Eve
ry effort was made by the balb
governments of thole countries,
to degenerate the character- —•
the views and intentions of men,
who afted firm principle and
difregarded gold.
It is with difguft we look
back at the period, when the
fir ft men in the world were held
up to contempt and popular
odium, by the bloated and pam
pered fycophants cf a profli
gate ancl extravagant ccurt, ban
krupt in honor, virtue, morali
ty and chaftity, wifhing to im
pede on the nation, by the me
retricious charms of a nobilit,V>
created by their derelidhcn ot
principle, and devotion to the
j everlrftirg enemies of equality
) and freedom.
The page of biflery will bit m
; with thefe vile records, anc pop
teriiy fha.ll be afhanted oi ht
fathers. The cay cur
will ccmc, when men v- 1 L