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ARGUS-EXTRA. MILLEDGEVlLLE—TUESDAY MORNING APRIL 12, 1808. ^38S^8S8^88888888888S«S8^^<^'.aS888$8885^^8a$$$S$$i8S^^: AND 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.