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AftGUS.
“Here TRUTH unit tend d reingi,
And dart accost M kings themselves
,..(Jr rulers of tht free."
MILLBDG'feVILLE:
Tuesday, February 27, 1810.
——
MARRIED on Wednefday
the 21 infh by A. M. D ve-
reux.Efq. Mr. Robert Hill,
Merchant of this place, to die
amiable Mifs Lucy Wilkin
son, of this county.
Levi Lincoln having declined
being conftdered as a candidate
for the office' of Governor at the
approaching election, the Re
publicans of Maffachufetts have
nominated Ei.bridgb Gerry
for Governor, and William
Gray for Lieut. Governor of
MafTachufetts.
A letter from one of our Senators
in Congref6 dates, that the mercan
tile gentlemen at Wall ington fay if
the bill concerning commercial in-
tercourfe with Great-Britain and
Ftanie, arid their dependencies, and
for other purpofes’ becomes a law,
Cotton will be from 20 to 25 cents
per pound.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE ARGUS.
Wajbington, 16th Feb. 1810.
Dear tint,
I inclofe a paper of to day—you
find Congrefs has done nothing—!
what it lias attempted in relation to
the two belligerents, is a meafure
almod exclufively fubfervient of the
pure fpirit. It is certain fhe tobacco'
& wheat planters, ft lumber cutlets,
have been doing-well, and that w6
have been doing nothing...things
will go on fo...there is noremedy...
the cottort in te re ft in Congrefs is not
drong enough to open the French
and Dutch pens...we mud wait Voungs eulogium on religion, an
patiently for events, they may be.
propitious to the difinterefted, when
they'happen our turn will come, and
•we may make up in (he day what we
have lod in the year...I write thus
to you Sir, becaufe I believe you are
difpofed to keep our people content
with their condition...you can only
do fo by telling them the truth.
I am RtfptFlfully,
Tour Fellow-Citizen,
G. M. TROUP.
For the Argus,
“there’s something rotten in
THE STATE OF DENMARK.”
acquiefce in thofe difpenfations of an
overruling power, at which we
fometimes iepilie—merely becaufe
we cartnot comprehend the whole
chain" from an imperfedt glimpfe of
a few links in it. For, a' love of
juftice is natural to man. The great
ultation into thofe of mourning and
have extinguidied the torch of free
dom to its lad fpark.”—Lord
Hawkefbury had the profligacy to a-
vow the defigns of England, openly
in Parliament, and to utter his plea-
fure at this accompliihment by the
overthrow of freedom in France;
dollars, 3,003,996,414,36 ccr-.* 7—
A farm worth 100 pounds, it was
proved at the Middlefex meeting,
lad Augud, pays 157 pounds 18
drillings in tythes, taxes, &c. Ml
Her commerce and manufadtu os
are deminiftied. Bonaparte’s occu
pation of Triefte, &c. will check
fwers'well to JuJlict
HerC is firm footing; here is jolid
Rock-,
This can fupport us; all is fea bt-
fides;
Sinks under us ; befiorms, and then
devours.
In thisjreview, which"mild of ne-.
ceflity be very concife, we propofe
to offer nothing ntfw ; it is our pttr-
pofe to recur to fome well edablidi*
ed fa£U, and to revive by recollec
tion what has partly faded from the
memory.
The fangurnary wars of eighteen
! rears duration, it is well known,
lad their origin in tfle ambition of
kings. The confpiracy, planned at
Pilnttz, to dismembered France;
| was, to adopt the language of a de-
| ceafed friend, a crufade agaivfi
< libertyThis project conceived in a
I hellilh fpirit of mifanthropy, has
been proiccuted with diabolical per-
feverance. in 1792, {Britain wan-
| ‘‘ The great objefl of -the war was to ’ her fmuggling trade to the fouth of
| prevent (faid he) the introduction of | Europe.—“ Every mechanic and la
the pernicious principles that were bourer in England is a pauper,”—
To GlDRON Granger, Es$_ Post-
Master General, Washington City.
SIR,
Various unfuccefsfull efforts have
been made by the citizens of this
place to procure the National Intel
ligencer and other papers, bv the , , . , , . . , , , ,
way of the Orleans mail....Latterly t0nl J her peaceful and pro,-
_ f.u : .u* -sr _• „r : perous condition, and acceded to . 1 - -—
rape commhtcd by Meffj Randolph the ‘^y of Pilnitz, determined to France .//i attefts them
and Co. on the republican party of * Ut }. a11 her a £ amft an . unof : ‘ . . rhe wa * on the parchment* fign-
- - - - 1 - - fending nation, then innocently and
then prevalent in France —Thefe
principles being now [1801] mate
rially changed the neceffity of cotin-
uing the conteft no longer, be
came evident.”
'Britain, we know, did conde
fcend, when (he could not help it, to
negociate with the fir ft conful who
had ufufptd the government and o-
vdrtufned the liberties of France.
But, fhartk heaven, her blindnefs and
wickednefs, have led to her punifh-
ment! Out of the afhes of con fum
ed freedom, has arifen an avenger,
wherfcaving fcourged all the enemies
of France on the continent,has turn
ed bis" flaming " fword againft En-
giaiid'fiugly.
England has ever been faithlefs
over her- engagements; and cruel
in the extreme. The hiftory of
her -condu£l in Ireland, India and
America, prove thefe fa&s, incon-
tellibly: her behavior towards
the United States, and born in the
city of Richmond, has gTown into
fuflicient importance to make a Hand
at head quarters. ...This paper is
called and known by the Spirit of
’76. Shortly after its birth it was
afited which of the ’76 Spirits it was
...that there were two of that day,
a good and a bad Spirit; or, a Whig
and Tory Spirit....We republicans
of Georgia difclnim it, and recognize
it only as the bad Spirit...Exercif
Taudibly engaged in modeling their
coflilution Freedom was to have
been baniihed the world ; for, fuc-
cefs againft France, was to have
been the fignal for'affailing America.
Then, had"' Poland, America and
France ftiared the fame undiltin-
guiflied overthrow ! But let us con
fine ourfelves to the traft of I'.n-
glifh perverl’enefs,—a trail which
we cannot lofe; for it is marked
navigation policy of New-F.ngland, \ n * th * ri ^ rs °/ fre ^ en ’ *? u,d
as is almod every one now adopted learn by what fort of legerdemam at
in relation to commerce—the voice
of "agriculture is drowned in the
clamor of the merchant—from the
rep-al of the embargo to this mo-
gr ment, a fyftem has been patched up
'"by which the merchant with trick
and fraud and cunning has been dri-
vifing a profitable trade, not only
whllft every other fpccies of induftry
in our country has been at intervals
depreffed, but at the expenfe of that
fpecies of it, which has been and
mult ever continue to be moft valu
able to us, the cotton cultivation.
During and fince the embargo our
cotton has funk 100 per cent. In
value—this depreciation has been fo
tinifotm, that a fingle beam of hope
his not at any time broken in upon
to cheer and confole us The grower
of tobacco under the non-intercOurfe
and temporary fufpenfion of it, has
been in the receipt of his euflomary
war price, becaufe the northern
ports of Europe were opt n to him—
becaufe in the north of Europe there
is a great confumption of that arti
cle, and becaufe under the partial
fufpenfion Great Britain herfelf
gave every facility to the trade. The
grower of wheat has in like manner
received hi* enftomary price—the
great wheat Tnatkcts have been con-
(Inr.tly, diref tly or indireitly open to
him...the Weft-Inilies, Spain and
Portugal. Sduth-America, G Bri
tain and Ireland, &c &c. but to the
fou'hern cotton planter, every'mar-
ltct which could afford an adequate
demand, has been (hut, except that
ot England, which monopolized the
ai tide ■at afong, and is only waiting
a return of peace, which flie may
command at any rime, to anticipate
us in the French and Dutch markets
at ‘2 or 300 per cent, profit...it is
and has been our intereil to open
the French and Dutch markets....
the Pnft.Office, this paper finds its
way into the Orleans mail to the
exclufion of all others. If this paper
js exclufively the bantling of the
Poft-Office, although we defpife it,
our anxiety for the News will com
pel us to fubferibe for it.
Republicans of Georgia,
POLITICAL MAXIMS.
ed at Amiens, was fearedy cold,
and the it>k hardly dry,"when En
gland mediated 'frefh treachery.
The mala fides, of old Carthage,
feems to have been iffued by tranf-
migration into the cabinet of'En
gland. She refufed to evacuate A-
lexandria and Malta:—In truth,
there was no interval of real peace.
Ettglifb perfidy produced warm re-
nion (trance—a war of words fiic-
ceeded th**'war of artns. : Bona-
twice fent over Mr. Maret with
power to treat. Great-Britain did
not pretend to'have any complaint
The fciencc of politics embraces herfelf, fhe made the opening of the
principles and meafures Principles
are eternal-—meafures may be tran-
fient.
He who deferts to-day a princi
ple which he advocated yefterday, is
too wavering, or too wicked for an
oracle.
He who oppofes meafures" which
he has ftrenuoufly advocated in
fimilar cafes, without offering fub-
ftnntial reafons for altering his opin
ion, ha6 juft enough of wifdom,
virtue and corififtehcy to be the tool
of a party, and wants nothing but
impudence and perfeverance to qua
lify him for a leader.
Ours is emphatically a govern
ment of principles.
Honelt and wife men may, as they
generally do, agree in the leading
principles of our policy, while they
enterritain different opinions of the
meafures propofed for the common
filtered.
All have a right to onpofe mea
fures by fair argument, remon-
Itrance, or refolvcs, till the proper
fun£!ionnrys give them the fan£fion
of laws ; when it becomes our duty
as good citizens to acquiefce and
obey.
Political integrity confifts in an
inflexible adherence to principles—
political wifdom, in adopting mea
fures bed fuited to the emergency
, of the times.
Remote as -we are from the old
Every meafure of the government f world, uneffedled as we ought to be
has had a tendency to keep them
Tout, and efpecially the lalt adopted
by the'Jioufe of reprefentaiives. All
this is uie confequence of the New-
KngUnd navigating and haercantile
fpirit, which is afeendant in our
councils...a fpirit too, which forcing
»tl"> repeal-of the embargo protraiSled
our misfortunes and which permits
iilelf to think of no remedy for na
tional wrongs:- incompatible with the
love of gain....Tims we mufl go on
^oilier dates grow' fat,
ifice every gen-
of avarice.
live and
md hungry
tation of
by its clalhit’g inierefts and its revo
lutions, and having the moft ample
means for independence and happi-
nefs within ourfelves, thfe great
meafures of our policy Ought to "be
Scheldt the pretext. The French
renounced the fcheme, and offered
to leave it to difeufion between Hol
land and Belgium 1 ” But as 4ting
Geoige had told Mr. Pitt, ihat he
“ inuft either refign his place or
make war upon France,” the courfe
was determined. Another excufe
was found at hand “ The Englifli
complained of a refolution of the
French legiflature, undertaking to af-
fift thofe nations who were ftrugling
for their liberties: it was acknowl
edged that Chauvelin (the French
mintfter) voluntary gave the moft re
peated and fati/factory explanations on
this head, in -his official noies to
Lord Greenvill, approved of and
confirmed by the French) executive
council: but, the treaty of Pilnitz
was entered into ; the die was call,
and Chauvelin was difmiffed with
hauteur.”—We will not follow the
event of campaigns ; we undertake
to develope Enghjh Perfidy and i'juf-
tice.
So far had France advanced with
overtures of peace, “that M. Chau
velin, (fays the N A. Regifter of
1796) was authorized, & M.Maret
exprefsly difpached to offer the Bfi-
tifli cabinet their choice of the
French -poffefliom fin the Faff or
Weft Indies as the-price of neutral
ity !” But, wharcould appeafe the
rapacity of a pirate ? What could
calm the belligerent temper of En
gland ? What could change the
purpofes of her obftinale mo
narch ? ftipported as he was by
a band of oligarchs, and fur-
rounded by fupple fycopliants and
the voice of the people is unheard;
with blood; it is marked by repeat- J'p.irte, however, was refolved not to
ed rejections of the olive branch fin- j brook her infidelity His interview
cerly tendered her by France,—ten- I with lord Whithworth, the Britifh
dered with entreaty, and fefuled | ambaffidor at Paris, will never be
with fcorn. “ Three times, (ays an I forgotten. He complained “ that
eminent writer, th<J French attempt- j the treaty of Armiehs, ' inftead of
ed to conciliate Britain: they fent ! being followed by conciliation and
Chauvelin firft with Talleyrand : ■ friendfhip, had been produdive on-
then with Le-Brun ; even after the I ly 0 f continual jealbufy and mif-
comvnencement of hoftiliries, they j truft.”
He complained of “ tlic non-evac
uation by the Britifh government,
of Malta and Alexandria, as they
were bound to do by treftty and
declared, fays Rofcoe, “ that no
confidevation on earth fhould make
him acquiefce) and that of the two
he would rather fee the F.nglith in
poffcffion of the fauxbourg St. An
toine than Malta.” He then advert
ed to “ the abufe thrown out againft
him in the EngliOi print?; but, this,
he faid, he did not fo much regard as
that which appeared in the French
papers publifhed in London. This
he confidered as much mere mif-
chievfius, fince it Was meant to in-
tice the people of France againft
him and his government. He ac
knowledged, that the irhation he
felt againft England increafed dai
ly » & becaufe, every wind -which
blew from England brought nothing
but enmity and hatTed againft him ”
England would not fulfil the Ami
ens treaty. Hoftilities were renew
ed but after the battle of Aufterlitz,
the death oi Pitt, &c. a correfpon-
dence took place between the two
•cabinets —The wifdom and virtue
of Charles Fox gave hopes to the
world : 'he frowned t>n the aJaflin—
I but, he ftood alone. Bonaparte ac-
knowledged-itr honorable conduit,
| though he complained that his cabi-
j net countenanced Georges, &c. his
i deadly enemies. England again re-
and a flavt. for he dare not
quit the foil of his lord, The king
claims his perfon, his labor, and a
great part of his earnings—the law6
forbid his emigration.—He mufl:
fink or fwim with ‘he government
hulk !—Taxation is ftreched as far
as it can go—the annual expenfes &
interefts of her debt exceed 120
millions fterling. We could pity
Old England.—but for her abomi
nable crimes—crimes, which point
to heaven for vengeance •, and which
will attract it from above as fure as
the rod draws down the eleftrtc
fpark.
With all her arts, England cannot
Boat above three yea ^ more ) flie
Hands alone—
“ Single, unpropt, and nodding to her
fall\
She will fink.amidts the cheering
(houts of all nations; for (he has in
jured all. Her laft fignal, will be
for plunder—her laft delirious ex
amination, will be, havoc and war~
Her hiftory, a lift of crimes,—her
epitaph, the curfcs of all the world.’*
IMPORTANT DISCOVERIES.
Lead & Antimony.—Abed of
bre has been dhcovered in the
lower end of this county, which
on trial of Mr Emond, a filver-
fmith of this city, proves to con
tain *Lead and Antimony. At a
time when iiitercourfe with Eu
rope is forbidden, thefe tnetals
are much in demand in this
country, efpeoially in the manu
facture of printing types. Fur
ther experiments will be made*,
and the refult will be publifhed,
Raleigh Minerva.
Wanted to Hire,
A perfon qualified to r.uvfe a
child feven or eight'Months old
—A decent old wriman would
be preferred. 'Enquire at this
Offii e.
Tcb.'^ih, iBIO, 48-tf
EAGLE TAVERN.
The fubferiber refpeftfully informs
his friends and the public io general
that he has purchafed the Houfe
formerly occupied by Major Edwin
Mounger* where he intends to con
tinue his former line of bufine(6 and
hopes, by due attention and induf
try, to merit their patrohage.
Roger Olmstead.
Mfilledgeville, January 9, IS 10
NINE months after date appli
cation will be mabe to the honor
able the inferior Court of Han
cock county for leave to fell Six
Tra&s of Land ; one lying on
BufFalee in faid county, contain
ing 397 acres : Alfo 202 1-2 a-
cres lying in old TVilkifon, fifth
diftrift, joining Jackfon ; Alfo
100 acres lying on Swift Creek
—Alfo 300 acres lying on the
waters of ICegg Creek—Alfo
200 acres lying on the waters of
deadly enemies. England again re- K egg Creek; and 202 1-2 acres
yetted the olive branch ) the conduct i , . OD . , tr , . r , r
of Raffia gave her new hopes, and I **»niS »n Wilktfon when furvey-
matured by the joint wtfdom of the • hungry parafites ? In monarchies,
prefent times and the experience of land, thoug wifdom may cry in the
the paft and made as permanet as 'ftreets, (he cannot approach the pa-
tlte principles' of our conftitution. ilacc.
Bofion Patriot.
From the Baltimore Whig.
A PEEP AT ENGLAND.
In her fearful pn dicament, con-
trafted with our affairs, muft farther
reconci e an American citizen to his
lot: and, if it be apparent that juftice
effetls its own punithment, even in
this world, we will more cheerfully
The end of the war was to reprefs
i the love of liberty in France, and to
prevent its txtenfion through Eu- j crimes
the war was recommenced. En
gland was refolved to be unjuft )
(he fancied peace would put an end
to her piratical fupiemacy and def-
troy her monopoly. She fancied
(he could exift longer by war than
by peace) and fo (lie threw off the
mafle, fpreading pillage and vexa
tion wherever her navy could carry
them; retarding by every means,
the return of peace and juftice.—
Her (ituation is now defperate, and
the weight of her debt is the only
parallel to the magnitude of her
lying in Wilkifon when furvey.
I ed, the real eftate of James Wil-
; kins, dec. Sold for the benefit
of the heirs and creditors of faid
dec*.
William M l Dowell, Tx’r.
Catharine Wilkins, Ex’trix.
June 6, 1809. lO-lmGm
jrope. In that purpofe alone has i
England fucceeded I “That object,
favs the feeling Rofcoe, has been
fuflicientiy accompliflied by the ca
lamities which the Britifh council*
The Englilh national debt, in
January laft amounted to the enor
mous lum of 1676,576,769, a fum,
evceeding in value “ every acre
of land in the kingdom ?” It
have brought uponFrance; calamities ' amounts to three thoufand and three
which have compelled the friends of ’ millions nine hundred and ninety
liberty to change their founds of ex- fix thoufand, four hundred fourteen
Independence.
MY ftud hoife INDEPEN
DENCE, will ftand at the plan
tation of Mr. Hartwell Jones, in
Randolph county, about fix
miles from Monticello, and at
futh other convenient places as;
faid Jones may appoint.
Robert Wynne.
February 13.
A quantity ofi nK
For SM by T. STUBBS.