Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page.

alfo \ -. /.nit the following pa- pers'relating to tobacco and o- ther commcivial tranfadUoris in v/hich Gen. Wilkinfon was con cerned Iromthe month of in the year 1788, to the month of in the year 1790, to wit Gi n Wilkinfon* s account cur- rent with Clark and Rees in the hand writing of Phillip Noland, dated the Sth o£ Aug. 178S, j No. 27- Philip Noland’s account of l.des of tobacco dated Sept. T21, 1790, No. 29. Wiikinfon’s account current with Clark & Rees, diated May 1, 1789, cotaiaed in the account book, page SO. Wiikinfon’s letter to Clark & Rcrs, dated May the 20th, 1790, No. 30. Wiikinfon’s letter to Clark and Rees, dated June the 2d, 1790, No 31. Wiikinfon’s h Dun’s account current with Clark and Rees, dated Aug. 29, 1789, and 5th Sept. 1789. with Wilkinlon’s order and Noland’s receipt for balance, No 32- Pniiip Noland’s declaration, dated Sept. 10, 1790. Wilkinfon s accountable re ceipt, Nj. 4. Articles of agreement between Wilkinfon and Dunn Sc Clark fen. Letter from Gen. Wilkinfon to Daniel Clark relative to the • P:ain Talc, No. 2. In making the la ft preceding ftatement, the committee beg leave to remark, that from an ex amination of the fentence of the military court of inquiry, order ed at tne requeft ol Gen Wil kinfon, and of which Col. Bur- beck was Proficient, it appears, that the tobacco tranfactions of General Wilkinfon at New-Or- leans in 1789 and 1790 confti- tuted a mateiial part ol that en quiry, and that a copy ol an ac count current was laid before i he faid court by General Wilkinfon and defignated by No. - and feveral letters accompanying faid account fuppofed by the court to be in the hand writing ol Phillip Noland, the agent of General Wilkinfon. The committee, conceiving that the papers colle&ed by faid court would aid them in their invefligation, made application lor thofe papers to the the Secre tary of War, but were unable to obtain them, they having been taken from the office by Gene ral Wilkinfon, as appears from the depofition of John Smith, chief clerk in the war office. The committee then directed a i'ubpona to General Wilkinfon, rt qniring him to fend or produce nil the papers which had been ufed or collided by the faid court, in obedience to which General Wilkinfon font to the committee a packet of papers which did not contain either the account and letters referred to in tire fentence of the court, or the defence of General Wilkinfon, nor have the committee been a- ble to procure them, and corife- quertly have not had it in their power to compare the accounts herewith exhibited with thefe which were laid before the mili tat - }' court of enquiry. For the further elucidation, refer to Wal ter Jones’s depofition marked W. I. The committee alfofubmit the depofition of Daniel W.Cox, au thenticating the papers to which he especially refers, marked D. W. C. PRUSSIAN DECREE. u We, Frederick William king of Pruffia kr.. “ Although we confidered the meafures taken in confe- quence, of the treaty of Tilfit, llthJunr 1803, which had for their objedt, the e ntire, exclufion ot Fmgltlh commgrce as being fufficient for '.he purpofe for which they were intended, we are now convinced of the con ’.rary, particularly by the mea fures lately taken by his imperial | majefty the Emperor Napoleon, I and therefore are now under , the necefiity of taking new mea fures for the purpofe of impof ing the above. | lit. After the firft day of A- pril next, no veflel which may arrive from any European port, having on board any ot the ar tides prohibited by the conti nental fyflem, (hall be admitted: Drugs (hall alone be exempted. 2d. No produce commonly termed colonial, thp produce of the Ealt or Weft Indies, fiiall be permitted tobc imported from any European port, as it is not to be fuppolcd that any of the continental powers who pofiVfs colonies import more than they want for their own confumption. Colonial and luch other produce who are immediately to inform ur department of loreign re Uiions of luch requifitions, &c as they may have been obliged to make. 8th As refpetts theland trade, ill colonial and European goods fhall as hitherto be permitted to enter from all Hates which we are in amity they mud however be accompanied by a document of the magiftrates of the place poR.potu.-d to the next term of ihe court. There were fome extraordin nry circumftances which led to the difeovery of this murder. It was not cuftomary for the watch to remain out after 12 o’clock ; that night was accidentally an exception ; and their meeting Tinker and Durand both when going and returning is remarlca ble That the body of the boy who mud teftify to their unquef- i Ihould float with 60 weight of tionable origin ; which certrifi cate mull be attefted by our conful—but other goods mud alfo be immediately taxed as is provided in the fifth article. We repeat the threats contain ed in the above-mentioned de cree of 11th of June, 1806, as to all perfons contravening, and thall not only punilb all our fub- je&s, who a ft in oppofition but particularlyour commercial com miffioners who do not follow our inflruflions, &c See. FRF.DRERIC WILLIAM.” Dine in Berlin, March 13, 1810. RALEIGH, (N. C ) May 3. A gentleman who was inNew- bein during the fitting of the Superior court Lft week, has in- as is not European, can only be j Rumed us of a murder which imported direct out of American wa * ate 'y perpetrated there fup pofed by Captain Edward lin ker and Mr. Peter Durand, on a lad about 17 years old. The following is a hiflory of the cafe ports, and out of fuch other Ealt and W eft India countries and colonies with which Fi ance is in friendly inlercourfe. All Eaft _ & Well India produce on board as l ' cce,ved from oui informant, of veffels coming from an Eu- S cvcra ‘ weeks ago capt. linker ropean port fljall be confif'cated. 3d. As in fuch large under- I takings, it cannot be fuppofed that the cargoes are the proper ty of different fhippers, it fhall not be further permitred that fuch cargoes can be entered as being the property of more than one houfe, and for each caigo with Mr. Durand, (his brother in law,) and the lad on board, carried a cargo of fugar and cof fee to Baltimore, which he fold for money He then enfured his veflel with a valuable cargo to Ntwbem, and sailed in ballajl; near the hatters bank he landed the money and funk the veflel by ordv one proprietor can appear ; boring holes in ht r bottom —then (tones faftened to it has alfo been deemed an extraordinary cir- cumftance. Tinker’s conne&ionsareweal- thy and refpeftable. He is him felf rich, but his character has always been a (lender one. From the Albany (n y.) Regifler. OBITUARY. DIED, on the 26th ult. of a galloping political confumption, that fretful, turbulent and un- promifing child of iniquity, named FEDERALISM. Its mo ther was the celebrated beldame, called Britijh Influence. His fa ther, ‘ a many headed monfter,’ called CORRUPTION. It was cherifhcd with the utmolt care and aftVdtion by a congenial fpi- rit, called, “ Finesse”- but af ter ffruggling againft the attacks of diftafe for three days, and notwithstanding its being attend ed by numerous phyficians, who recommended Fijh as a fovert ign remedy, it yielded up its breadth, and lunk to “ eternal deep.”— Its funeral obfequies were at tended ty all who felt inti refled in its ptelervation from the fatal g*afp of that “ tiwr/lrous deity,” againfl whom the prophet JO N AS fo earneflly warned the na tions of the earth ! , The following is a faint outline of the order of prnct flion, &c. mot by was a fool for expofv.g ;J • cloven foot of tbs lii ilijh party in America /’’ I AGO, with a bundle of Hemp under his arm, and a label upnu his breafl, with this infeription— “ The night before Larry tonsJit e,.: ’J,' 1 “ Came let us go hang together /” GF.N JONAS could not be found to attend the obfequies, having been fwallowed by the whale of democracy—and hi* Lieutenant General, who coth. manded the corps of “ choice fpirits’’in the houfe of Affon- bly, was alfo unfortunately ab- fent on this mournful occafion— having fet out on a tour to find the loft and fcattered “ links” of a certain broken “ chain,” the “ breaking” & lofs of which had deprived him of much fletp and many pleafant dreams. ( « Brother VANDERLIP,” however was not abfent. His prefence contributed greatly to keep up the fpirits of this mourn ful “ gang of white cakers!” He delivered a very appropriate eu- logy upon the deceafed, i'uppo- fed to have been compofed lov him by Finesse or Ruck A 'Tuck, and concluded by ex erting the “ gang” to bear with chriftian fortitude the great lofs they had fuflamed. As for him- fclf, he had this confolation, that whether Jonas or Dan iei. fat in the chair of ftate, it would not affeft the price of gingerbread, and that he would fell as many drams as ever! The corpfe was finally depo- fited in the family vault hut immediately became fo offenfive, that Caliban was ordered to dc- ftroy it, by throwing in quick lime. and prove his property. Came up to Newborn, and with 4-h. The examination of the Durand fwore to a protefl that fnips and cargo’s pape rs, log- | thl ‘ was loft in confluence books, the declaration of the a 8 e and bail condition, & captain and crew', remains as be j fore ordered in the power ot the j different comnuffioncrs appoint- 1 ed in our ports for that purpofe; at the fame time for the mere tifidlually preventing all collif funs henceforth all the certifi cates, generally termed certifi cates of origin, fhall he commu nicated to the Imperial French Conful General, Conful or Vice Conful, who may rifide in the port where the veflel arrives — Should the latter obji dl to the entry of the cargoes, the above cDmmiflioners are immediately to report to our department of foreign relations and await the decilion* 5th. All goods and produce not European, {hall upon being landed be* taxed for confumpti on and no difference fhall be made between what is declared to be for home confumption and re exportation, as we are rather willing to deprive ourfelves of the profits which attend tranfits than totxpoie ourfelves to diffi culties and uncertainty of for warding into other countries goods of doubtful origin. 6th. E\ery order and regula tion which our board of trade, police of the port, &c. may if- fue, fhall be immediately exe cuted, and our department of loreign relations have it after wards in their power, upon re- prefentationbeing made to them, to alter or amend in any way they may think proper. Every complaint againft the laws of the PaLL Bearers Monarchy, Treachery, Sedition, Intolerance. Pall Bearers Aristocracy, Apo stacy, Rebel lion, Perse< ution. ftated that the money went to the bottom, and two men were drowned in diving for it. The lad, though evidently tutored, prevaricated, and in fubfequent converfations faid no men were drowned and that he himfelf al fifled to land the money. On Saturday night the 8th ult. a lit tle alter midnight, Tinker, Du rand, and the lad (who lodged at Tinker’s) were hailed by the watch near the wharf. ’1 inker bad a gun and anfwered they were going to fhoot duiks In an hour or two after, they re turned without the boy, & were again hailed by the watch, who enquired for the boy ; Tinker laid he had gene on board a vef- fel. On the 18th ult. the body of the boy was found floating on the river with fixty weight ol ftones faftened to him by ropes, his feet tied, and from appear ances had been (hot in the back —Tinker and Durand were ta ken up ; thefe with many other corroborating circumftances ap pearing in proof, they were com mitted to jail. A few days after, Durand, under a hope of paid on, made, it is faid, a full con- ftflion of the murder. On Tuefday laft Tinker was arranged for trial at Craven Su perior Court, but it was found impoffible to obtain fuch a juryas the law deems impartial. More than 200 talefmen, on being aueftioned, faid they “had for med and expveffed an opinion unfavorable to the prifoner commiflioners are to be made to between twenty and thirty were that department. i challenged by the prifoner, and Berlin, March 15, The following has appeared 7ih In the famemanner where after every exertion during the expeditious meafures are requi- whole day and fummonihg eve- htc, our military, police, &c. are required to obey provifionally ry free holder who could be found, only feven jurors were Chief Mourners, &e. RUCK A TUCH, bearing an empty barrel upon one Ihoulder, ami a hoop pole on the other, ftrung full of blunt adzes with broken handles, fluvered drivers, rotten ftavts and warped head ing ! CALIBAN—bedaubed with printer’s ink for lack of better mourning—in his right hand a fwoard cane to protect him from the ghoft of federalifm—in his left, a handbill, headed with the carricature of the goofe plucker, and containing ihefe words : “ Oh / that l could make a goofs cf the people, and get one good chance to pluck her /” On his breaft a label inferibed—Brooks' cafe, a defperate one'.—And on his forehead another, with this infeription, borrowed from his primogenitor in Shakefpeare— “ And all be turn’d to barnacles, or to apes, “ With foreheads villanous low.” Tc mmy P Blackbeard, bear ing a black flag, inferibed, at the top School Fund report, in the middle Pigttcalcrs memorial, at the bottom, a memorandum to beware, for the future, of leaping in the dark. “ Abraham, the Great, ’ bearing a broken “ ladder” on his left Ihoulder, in his right hand the anfwer to the govei nor’s lpeech, in a black border, and headed with the words ‘ 4 a bad ca'culaticn.” Some two or three hundred file riffs, clerks, jultices, See. com monly called nine months men CQPENH AGEN J ACKSON, bearing a blazing torch in one hand, and the ikull bone of a murdered Dane in the other.— Pickering’s letter to Sullivan fixed upon his breaft, with this the orders of the commiflioners,. fworn, The trial was therefore : infeription at the bottom “ Ti- NEW ENGLAND. Land of the brave, how has thy glory returned, ?c how art thy tranf- greflions blotted out ! Thy coining is as the morning, when the (hades are fcattered—Be thy courfe, like the afeending fun’s, till the daiknefs and the works thereof are no more. Look on her, you that have clothed her in fhame, and behold her come- linefs ! Lo her garments are white, her robes are changed, and (he fittetli down in the circle of her fillers. Defilers but not deltroyers of her honor, foreign hirelings, fa£lionilts, tories, weep and hoivl—All your offerings are delpifed, and deftrutii- on cometh upon you as a whirlwind. American Mercury. TORPEDO EXPERIMENT. Robert Fulton has addreffed a letter to the Members ol Congrefs who voted in favor of the Torpedo bill, apoligizing for his not exhibit ing his experiment before the rifing of Congrefs. He dates as the rca- fon for his delay, that his wifh is to collefl from the officers of the navjf, and others, every plan of defending Ihips & obltru&ingTorpedoes which they may polfefs or can divife, in or der to Ihew by his experiments that they may ad be vsnquiihcd and fur- mounted lie aifures them that eve ry plan of booms, chains, nets, &c. which he has yet fecn, indead of be ing obdructions, will, by a new com bination on bis part, really facilitaV his operations, and enable him to dedroy a veflel with much lefs rife of his men than if die had no fucii tackle. He propofes that his expe riment fhall be made in the harbor of Netv-York, that he may have the benefit of his own workmen ; and i:i piefence of a committee compofed r^ : Oliver Wolcott and Cadwaidrr Col- den, gentlemen of federal politics j Chancellor Livtngdon and Governor Lewis, Republicans; Col. Williams of the Engineers, Mr. Garnet and Dr. liemr., mathematicians ; gen tlemen of luch high refpc£fability Sc acknowledged talents as will pene trate to the truth, and whofe report will fatisfy all parties He hopes, he lays, to lay before the friends ol the bill fuch a report in autumn as | will give them a pleaiure, and induce many good men who voted againlL the bill to become ftietitls and advo cates of.ilie fyflem. Ticn. Tt u: American