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ARGUS-EXTRA.
MILLEDGEVlLLE—TUESDAY MORNING APRIL 12, 1808.
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IMPORTANT.
Q'he following is r.n extrafl of a
letter from the Honorable THni.
H. Crawford, to his friend in
Hancock county, dated
a Washington March 23, 1S08.
Ydterday we received a
very voluminous communica
tion from the Prefident, con
taining the whole of the com
munications which have paff-
ed between Mr. Monroe and
the Britifh miniftry S: between
Mr. Monroe and Mr. Madi-
ibn from the time he became
jninifter, at that court until; employment of feamen
his return. Alfo the commu- j duce us to the abfolute
nications between him and j of coionie
Thus has ended this id'e
farce carried on for the amufe-
ment of the nation.
From the moment I was
informed, that the orders of
the Britilh council were to be
! executed rigidly, and that Mr.
R. would not be authorifed to
treat upon the modification,
or abolition of thofe orders I
predicted that the million of
that gentleman mud be abor
tive it was certainly futile to
make a parade about the ad- „ , . . .
juft meat of aggreffion which btbmic togreat pn vations;but
had grawn out of their pre-
tenfions to imprefs our fea-
men, when by fubfequent
meafures, they diftroy our
commerce, and of com
ful crifis, big with the fate of
the civilized world, we need
the wifdoni of Mentor, the
ftrength of Ajax and the in
vincible courage of Achillis,
to ward oft'the evils which the
belligerents appear difpoled to
inflidt upon us. I am ftroiiglv
inclined to believe, we have
more need of Mentor, than of
Ajax or Achillias.
retirement from the ftation
which he lately held, & that
the filtered of his family re
quires it alfo; but that if the
fituationot the country fhould.
in the opinion of the admini-
dration, require his fervices,
he wall immediately repair to
any pod which may be af-
figned to. him. I am ex
tremely glad that he has in
this letter adled the part of an
By rigidly adhering to the
embargo, we (hall eventually honed upright republican,
fuffer great inconvenience, & I March 25th.
fubmit to great privations; but j We are dill engaged in
thele fufferings & privations! reading the public documents
may emphatically be diled 1 accompanying the Prefident’a
the price of blood. We mud meffage. I fhall keep this
for a time abandon the ex-j letter open as long as I can to
fe the ! P e ^ atl0n °f fuddenly grow-1 fend it by the Orleans mail,
cr re- * n S r ‘ c b—we mud facriftce which I believe will be more
> p. Uo ; "he pafiion of avarice on the fpmly than the ordinary mail
Great Britain ' lllt T. olf l 5ublic K ood
-tUGdllwUo mill | ui ^uiuuica. vjri Grit ijiudia
•Pinckney, and the Britilh mi by her orders, refufes to per- mul bc coute f to h Y e f. rm -
niftry relative to the affair of mil our veffels to enter any c, P all y "P on „ the produdions
the Chefiipeakc. The com-European port before we en-
munications between Mr. Ma-
difon and Mr. Rofe, and the
communications between our
ininider at Paris, and the
French minidry, together
with his difpatches to the fee.
of date alfo accompany the
Prefident’s atelfagc. Mr.
of our own farms, and fub
mit to be clothed
It is probable that at the
clofe of the reading fome mo
tion may be made from
which the future meafures,
confequent upon the meffage
exported to any other port,
the duty upon exportation
mud alfo be paid. She never
contended for any other pow
er over her colonics, until Hie
Monroe, fince his arrival in attempted to inforce her fyf-
this country has addreffed a tern of internal revenue in the
letter to the Prefident, julli- U S. which produced a fepa-
fying his conduct in figning ration between the two coun-
tlie late treaty, which letter is tries, We are now arrived
alfo communicated to con-
grefs. We have fpent one
day in reading thefe docu
ments, and are now engaged
ter one of hers, and pay the ! lllL l .V uc c j> LUCU ' n p' ida ,
duty of fuch entrance and ^melptm. If peace can be , may be augured. 1 am drong.
then before the cargo can be preserved—rf the devadation Jy inclined to believe that tin
incident to a date of war
if the fhrieks & groans of the j
dying, can be avoided by thefe
facrifices, I fhould defpife 8z
execrate the wretch who
would not voluntarily fubmit
to them without a murmur.
If vvretchednefs fo complicat
ed can be evaded by the mod
rigid adherence to the embar-
the
embargo, aided by a law in
terdicting the entrance of for
eign veffels into our ports,
will be relied upon until the
meeting of Congrefs in the
fall.
March 2fith.
We are dill engaged iu
reading the documents- The
Prefident has received dif
at the mod critical fituation. S°’ “j 3 *? « em P tion chea P ! y patches from Mr. Pinckney,
Shall we adhere to the cm- P urcluC
bargo, or flaa.il we open our March 24-th.
ports, armour veffels, and We are dill engaged in
in reading the remainder of fend them out to Peek their reading the papers accompa-
them. We have not yet read fortune, and wait until we re- nying the Prefident’s meffage
that letter, of courfe I cannot ceive the fhock of war ? Or —I have juft read Mr Mon
date its contents. fhall wc, when we arm our roe’s letter dated 27th Feb.
I fhall Keep this letter open veffels declare war, and au-
Until we get through the read- , thorize them net only to de-
tng and will explain fuch of fend themfelves, but to attack
the papers as may need ex-! our enemies ? Thefe are the
planation, and fuch as are not important queftions which rejected by the Prefident, and
ftcrct. Mr. Role at the thref- ( mud prefs upon the Congrefs a faithful account of the dif-
hold of the negociation dc- of the U. S. I am inclined Acuities with which they had
manded as a preliminary dep, , to believe that the fird will to encounter. Its objeCt ap-
that the Prefident’s procluma- meet the approbation of the pears to be twofold—Id to
tion fhould be revoked. Mr. majority of the members. judify the miniders in fign-
which fay that the tone of the
Britifh minidry is much low
ered—it is faid that difpatche?
have been received for Mr.
Rofe, and have been for
warded to Norfolk for 11110.’“
1808, at Richmond, to Mr.
Madifon. It is an able expo-
fition of the views of the mi-
niders in figning the treaty,
who
HOSE of the citizens
of Hancock county,
have neglected pay*-
ing them, will
notice, that I flnll
the lad time in
pleafe take
attend for
Sparta, ri -
IVTidifon in an able and Ieng-' If we go to war with F.n- ing that treaty—and 2d to tbe 5odl and 11th/of
thy reply attempted to fhow gland, & fhc is by our afflt- {how that the condruCtion put May next.
that this could not be done
confidently with our national
honor or dignity, and requed-
cd the demand ; but propofed
if Mr. R. would difclofe the
nature and extent of the
ance reduced to a date of on fome of its articles by the
humiliation, w'hat fecurity government, are erroneous,
have we that Napoleon will and that a different condruc-
not perfue the fame courfe tion, more favorable to this
which he has anathematized country, is the true conhruc-
in hisadverfary ? On the con- tion of which that inftrument
paration intended to be offer- j trary if we fhould unite with is fufceptible.
ed, if it fhould be thought fuf-
ficient by the government
that then the date of the aCt
of fatisfaClion, and of the re
revocation of the proclama
tion fhould be the fame. Mr.
ft. in his reply bearing date
the 1 7th ind abfolutely re-
fufed to make fuch difclofure
A. Abercrombie,
Tax Collector,
April 8.
Guardian’s Sale.
on the terms propofed, 8: dc- j more ftrongly the chains of
dared his million at an end— ! colonization in which they
took his leave of the heads of have attempted to bind us by
departments, and left the city their late orders of council,
ypfterday on his way to Nor- i In fuch a contes we have every
folk to embark in the frigate thing to lofe, and nothing
which wafted himtocur fhores. 1 to gain. At the prefen event*
England in fupport of her ar- From a full view of the At the market-houfe in the town cf
rogant pretenfions of giving reafons which operated on Sparta, on Monday the of
lav/ to the ocean, we not on- the commiffioners, I think
ly virtually, but dire&ly they were judifiable in fign- j
abandon all ihofe neutral ing the treaty 1 believe the
rights, for which we have nui- expofition given to fome of
formly contended; and be the obje&ionable parts of the joi^^Ca'rfwH^^e^alttL^wc'lve
the iffie what it may, we feal treaty, by Mr. Monroe, will ^onths^creditwm be° Kiven C ihe
our own difgrace, and rivet , be admitted to he the true one purenafer, on his giving bond
— 1 he whole letter appears with approved fecurity (refiding
to be written with candor, & in the county) to bear interest
entirely clear of all afperity, from the data, if not punctually
or wifli to recriminate. In P 31 ^* '
April next,
WILL BF. SOLD,
A LIKELY Negro Woman,
about fifteen years of age,
part of the perfonal property of
the clofe of his letter he fays,
the great fatigue p he has un
dergone, calls for cafe and
Ellington Morgan,
Guardian ,
March 7.