Georgia Argus. (Milledgeville, Ga.) 1808-1816, June 13, 1810, Image 2
"Here TRUTH unlicens'd rcingj,
And dice accost e'en kings themselves
...Or rulers of the free.”
MILL^DGEVILl.E:
WEDNESDAY JUKE 13. IS 10.
The arrangement nf the Mails at
this place is undergoing confhlerable
revo'u’ions Until the regulations
fhrll nfliime a more permanent af-
pcH the day mod proper for the
publication of our paper cannot be
afeevtained—we liave delayed the if
filing of the p.r.us one day on ac
count of the a> rival of t]ie Orleans
Mail.
objeH, of their revolution. The
co.i.motions are ieit as far as Chili,
whole capital, Sr Jago is far foutli
a -. 33 degrees. andprobably extend as
far north. Pofifi in which are the
rich mines, already po(T fled by the
inhabitants of tbe dillricls in arms, is
between Lima and St .lago, about 8
degrees from the lirll and i3 fromth?
lall, It iving a difference of longitude
of not lO degrees from Lima, and
not half of tha* number from St.
Jago. St. Jago is in the latitude of
the Plate river, and not farther from
Buenos \yres than from Potofi. By
thefe pofiiioot we may obtain the re
lative didunces, and judge of tbe op
portunities for co-operation Quito,
in which we heard of the fir ft con
currence of the civil authorities, is
| but a few minutes fouth of the Equi-
j noxial, and has but one degree dif
ference of longitude from Lima.
The route of tbe Orleans Mail, From Trumhez 3 degrees fouth of
which formerly went by A:hens, is j Qai'o. according to Don Ullos, if is
changed and it will now come 'hro’ j 62 leagues to Piura, and from Piurn
Milh*dgeviile.—1 : leaves Auguflae-
very Monday.at 4 a m. and .comes
man was hoard to enquire ivhat effee- i bcfidcs our public and private ttficul-
tua! men fares to ameliorate the condi
tisn of the United States cats oar
on a! IcgJIatitre adopt ?
It was plain that much of the evils
of the day arofe Irom a deadly quarrel
among the great powers of Europe.
Remote, potent.refpetlivcly, beyond
all example, by fca or land, contend
ing for the grcatefl objects in this
lower world—convinced of our un
fit. ikm and unalterable neutrality—
arrogating to themfeives every tiling
by arms alone—the European belli
gerents left us no remedy but one. as !
tivated land , which are a deferred
noli \jloci of incalculable magnitude. A-
m. ricans! Love one another: cuhi
vate your interior: atlid commerce :
be ever ready to defend your altars
and vonr fire Tides: and gratefully
confident an over-ruling Providence,
fo eminently good to our political
family.—National Intelligent er.
From the Bqfton Patriot.
OUR PROSPECT.
By the exchange of the em-
bad as the difeafe — mar in the arms of baigo for t..e non-inttI courie,
cue again/} the ether I and the non inlereourfe for no-
It teems to have been thought by f thing, our merchants have what
the national legitla’ure thar this would j' 0 long required—the liberty
liave ^ been our vsorjl courfe, for no ^ inn /,[ f ,g ff Jt j r calculations in their
own way—and our commerce,
ty wav ol Columbia Court-Houfe,
Warrenton and Sparta, and arrive?
at Mill-dgeville every Tuefday at 8
T ?!. returning, leaves Midedgeville
evefy Wednesday bv 4am at'd ar
rives at Augufl by 8 p. M on n.urf-
day. All tetters, &c deftined for
the caftern part of the Hate mud be
font bv this route Thu arrangement
will enable us to futnidi our readers
in die Ocrnulgee circuit with the
late!! intelligence
Col Troup pa (Ted through this
place lall week on his way to his
plantation in Montgomery county.
From the Lonifviile Gazette.
Messrs. A Day. &t’o
You are nudiorifed to announce
in your G. zettc, that John Forfylh
F.fq. the prefent Attorney-Genetai
of this St ite, is a Candidate for the
Houfe of Reprefeutarives of the
next Congrels of the United States.
It is hoped Mr. Forfyth w : ll receive
the fupport his talents recommend.
A VOTER.
Me ffrs. A. Day & Co.
You are authorized (onnnounre
to the dozen- of Georgia, that Ma
jor Elijah Clark, the prefent Solicit
or General of Ocinulgee Circuit, is
a Candidate for the Houfe of Re
pt efentarive? of the next Corgrcfsof
the United States.
A Friend to Merit.
Meffrs. A Day, & Co.
Thtough the medium of your
Gazette, I beg leave to inform the
cii zensof Georgia, tlrat Bolling Hal!
Efq is a candidate for a feat in the
Houfe of Rep’t fentntives of the
next Congrefs of ihe United S'ates.
A Unifonn Republican.
Mr. Ryan,
IN the lr.fl N° of the
Lonifviile Gazette publifhed by
Meffrs A D.iy & Co 1 obferve
Major Elijah Clarke announced as a
Candidate to reprefent the Hate of
Georgia in the Congrefs of the U
States... And to give tone (1 fuppofe)
to the proclamation, tlie writer very
model! ly affumes die popular figna-
ture of “ A l'riend to Merit.”
Asa fkeptick of the claims which
Major Clark has for uo to public con
fidence, I hope that neither the Ma
jor, nor his friend will think me rude
if I ch dlnnge him to an enumerati
on of Major Clark’s merits.
to I'ruxillo 89 leagues, and thence
Lima n3, giving 264 leagues from
i'ruinbez. Q.nto has 50.000 inha
bitants Fruxillo, in the viceroy-
fir p of Peru, has' 40 000 utd Linn
30 000 and St. Jago 46,000 —Be
tween thefe larger cities are large Sc
rel'petlable eftablifhments, which af-
fitl the communication.
The fympathv which has been cx-
preff d between the inhabitants of
Canada and the United States, we
are afl'nred bv a late writer of travels
in the Canadas is not barely from po-
lirical fiuution The French long I
puff, fled Canada without a great ex
tent of fettlement. When Canada
became fubjelt to tbe Englifli gov
ernment, a free inlercourfe between
fut jells of the fame government was
the expelled event. But it remain
ed for the U States to extend their
fettlements and their pnrehafes to
dieir common improvements. Since
the fettlements have extended in
Vermont and N. York to the lakes,
emigration has not been uncommon
into both Canadas, and th, navigati
on of the lakes from the fettlements
of both nations has been greater than
has been commonly imagined The
fame confequences are feen refpelt-
ing Louifiana, when no longer an
uncultivated wildernefs prevented an
interenurfe, which nor the policy
but the danger it denied to the Eu
ropean inhabitants.
Fffex Rcgifler.
It is faid, that famous Edward
Livingdon. “ Citizen of New York,”
(now of N Oileant) lias bro’t a fuit
againd Thomas Jeffeifon, in the fe
deral court for this didrill ——on
member ever moved a declaration of
war againfl any power.
The people appear to be of the
fame opinion in every date
The Executive government Teem
to liave confidrred no unequivocal
warmeafure as worthy of a fuggeft-
ion by them to the legiflative body
The continuance of nut portions
of army and navy, and of the prepa
rations of arms, the fupport of pub
lie credit, the removal of thefe re
flraints on commerce, which were
laid to be the finews of the na
tion, is left, agreeably fo the
wifli of thofe tnoff intending in
it, without either (hieltl or fpear
to defend it from the rude at
tacks of its devouring foes.—
This much for “ Patriotic Pro
ceedings ”
France and England will now
! make their calculations in their
faid to produce privations that would own way Ev< ry ihing indicates
revolutionize our government, the
exclufion of the marine armies of the
principal belligerents from nur pons,
the provifion for the exclufion Born
our trade of either power, which lltall
continue to npgrefc. ar- foon at- the o-
ther lhall ceafe hi aggrefs. Thefe fe-
veral tilings, fmail as they may be
deemed by fome are more than any
other country has been milling and able
to oppose to the aggrefftons of the two
belligerents. Tliele t ventful times—
our deeply inteieding cafe require
an attentive (urvey of the world—a
calm.confideration,,and fome rational
courfe of adtion, or that mefhould rejl
upon our arnt' upon our fen boat d. and
upon every margin cf our country. In
a leafon lo awful; in a cafe fo deeply
affedting, it is of no confi«erable
moment, that our date phyficians do
not too much— that they do nothing
wrong. In a cafe wherein the world
in arms prefies on this young and
minor country, very little pfitive de-
(fjch’ng thi'ir wives snd tlin-
daughters to put their hand to the
diflaff and clothe themfeives viih
the productions of their own iu-
duftry.
Nrw York, May 15.
Letters bv the Packet Rate,
that Mr. Morrier, one of the
King’s Mcffengers, was on the
eve of departure from England
for the United Stares, with tiff,
patches, fuppofed to be ilupn-
cates of an-arrangement agreed
upon between Mr. Pinkney and
tlte Britifli government.
The prefent government oF
Cait ; n is compofed of 1 8 perfons,
1 eletted by the people, every
houfe keeper having a vote, 11
j are merchants, 2 clergymen,
! lawyers and I a mechanic. (•
The treaty between France
and Sweden, concluded on the
6th January, 1810. at Parts, ra
tified on the 20th February fol
lowing, was communicated by
the minifter of foreign relations
(Duke de Cadore) to the Senate
on the 23d of that month.
The treaty con fids of ten ar
ticles, of which the following,
fays the Moniteur of the 3d, is
one—
“ His Swedifh nnjefty accped3
fully & totally to the continental
■ fyHem ; and binds himfelf ac
cordingly to clofe his ports a«
■ gainft Bii'ilh commerce—not to
admit any Eughfii goods under
plainly enough the courfe which
will be puriued by the former.
Wliiie tbe Britilh orders of
council continue as thuy lv ve
done i n ilually to regulate our
humiliated commerce, and Bri
tilh frau-.l, aided bv American
bafenefs, to iomtify it wiih her
own, it will be treated as an out
law on the continent—and Eng
land will find a double -intereft
in condoling with us the lofs of
boih the counterfeit and genu- whatever flag, and in whatever
me American property. We in
tutn (hill be taught to fympa
thile with every fmuggler and
knave of both nations who prove
u fortunate in their proj. fts of
illicit tr fic. But fince it is our
lot to adl our part in the great
fyftem of fmuggling in which
the comrm rcial world are en-
pends upon ourfelves. Yet a nega- gaged, and to b"Come the de
rive wifdom is left to us. We may puty fmugglers for England, it
refrain from adive folly, infanity & | S to be hoped (h ' will ll;,ve the
crime: from a war of mere lucre: ! g lace to p j ly t hofe, wh in) fhe
a war of ambition : a war of plunder : h , s thus degraded—that (he will
a war of maduels : a war of expence r . n
incalculable and of hazards we cannot | ^‘ lr< P lo P frt y v nc flic turns
eftimate: a vvai for commerce, coft- ! rt pT‘ l tion, and prof ct thofe
i"g more than its profits : a war of
knight errantry, for the bubble repu
tation, to prove that we alone ca t op-
lie ground of Iris having ej< fled him I pr.fe abroad the forces oi Bonaparte,
which Europe cannot oppofe ; & tire
t avies of Britain, which'he fleets of
from the Batture of New Orleans,
while Pilr J. was Fn-fident of the
United States-
are laid at one hundi ed thou find dollars
that John Wickham ha- taken
out the writ, in the name ol E L.—
and that W. Mann, the deputy mar-
fliall, really fat out ycfteidav for
Monricello, to ferve it. The Feder
al Court will fit oil fuclday next—
(o that the re has been no rime loll!
It is diflicult to fay, whether we
(hould feel mod indignation or con
tempt, at this proceeding.
Richmond Enquirer.
We miderfland, on the authority
of a letter from Mr Forbes, Conful
of the U. States at Hamburg, writ
ten at Copenhagen on the 3d of
March lad, ‘Mhat bj a royal order,
privateering was immediately to re
-that his damages I the civil zed world are unable to fub-
His emptv affertion, without proof, commence” There is therefore rea-
or argument amounts to nothing, &
therefore ought in judice, to have
no weight in determining, or influ
encing tbe vote of any reflefling in
dividual.
A Friend to Truth and Ftiquiry
Gcmulgce Circuit, June 7, 18;0.
Secretary Gallatin has made a ve
ry interefling rep -rt on the prog.rofi
cf domedtc manufallures through
out the Union.—He dates, tin : .i pro
ceeds to exceed 120,000,000 dollars
•—highly flattering
All our accounts refpe&ing tlie
interior of South America are con
firmed The dififidution of the Go
vernment of Spain, and the advanta
ges to be lioped from a domeflic go
vernment combine to oblige adeci-
(ive conduit in • favor of their own
independence. The places in which
the commotions have been felt liave
been reported, and the fpirit of the
proclamation which arc to urge the
inhabitants into action, publillies the
firm to fear that the trade cf the IT.
St a tes to the Noith of Europe will
Jiave been put in as perilous a ft'ua-
tion as that to the other parts ol the
Continent. Nat. lnt.
due. Each power at mar trades with
the oilier, as far as it can This is a
new date of things I it right then,
or is it wrong, that \t e alfo trade with
each, as far as we can ? It may be of
fome importance, if it were only to
prove that our privations are not pro
duced bv our own laws and govern
ment It will redore d< medic har
mony bv rendering this tru'h rm.ni
fed It will appeal to the mild, the
fober-minded the cautious and the
wealthy in Europe, that we have a
difpofition, a talent and a good for
tune in our walk of indufhy. econo
my and peace. We fl.all purfue
commerce as far as w? can ; and we
fliail itiercafe that vad aggregate of
120 millions in American manufac
tures, which the Secretary of our
wru> become the willing pimps
oi her lutt.
England has a great o'njcft to
gain—or rather Ihe has gained
it already, unlels our country
find s its latety in thofe fterner
virtues ol its citizens on which
alone our rulers teemed to h ve
relied. America will become
the great war, houfe for the gew-
gaws ot her manuTttuies, the
counterfeit of w hat had once
fome intrinfic value—which file
is now hawking round the world
tor a market. Her fadors and
her creditors inour feaports, will
oe her agents not to fpread her
gold among us but to drain us
ol that already in our poll' flion.
File wholtdale and retail dealer
W *H find alike their account in
Britifli frienofhip.
Every reftrictive barrier is re
moved, and the door is now o-
Ctirfory thoughts on Public Affairs.
individuals and nations aie obli
ged to alt their pans on (lie great
theatre of the world, according to
their poweis and then conditions.
Times and civcumflances impofe ef
fective laws on private men and pub
lic bodies, and never have times and
ciicumdances been more imperious
than in the latter dages of the fiiort,
but eventful oxidence of tlie United
States. Much as we have differed,
however, and many and great as
have been our recent trials, they fink
to nothing, in a fair companion with
the difficulties and the fufferings
which alarm, convulfe & lacerate the
old world
At the commencement of the lad
felfion of Congrefs every true lover
of our country—every wife and good | of three thoufand millions of dollars,
Troafury has recently exhibited to pen for the friend (hip of the
counting room.
I Ihe golden chain made flrong
by avarice and luxury, which
otnds the debtor to the creditor,
may now be extended from Lon
don to our feaports, from our
leaports to every part cf the
country & grappled to the land
ed intertit of America, till the
great body of our yeomanry be
come as compiilant to the “Great
Protrecirefs of the religion, the
liberty and the rights of civilized
nations,” as the mercantile part
ot the community is at this day.
1 fee nothing under heaven to
prevent the commencement of
this golden age-this hying down
cf the American lamb with the
R> it jo lion, but the return of our
yeomanry & mechanics to their
old barbarous habits of fi uga’.ity
•'■ho the uncivilized cuilotn of
the government, the country, and
tlie world. We mud perceive that
we are not lefs profperous than *he
mod fortunateofthe European dates.
Aff'llcd in our accuftomcd inter-
courfe with foreign nations, we fh mil
have more frequent, intimate and
beneficial intercomfe with one ano
ther. Domedic refouTes will be
developed and difplayed. Tlie edi-
mate of th" greatell nvanufalhires of
one nation in Europe in 1786, was
fixty millions of pounds derling.
Ours at 120 millions of dollars is e-
qual to twenty-feven millions of der
ling pounds It is a good eftate
which produces two per ceut.net
income, beyond the maintenance of
the family, the cattle, and all taxes,
improvements and repairs Our ex
ports, fen dores and maintenance of
foreigners here, may he takes at fix
ty millions of dollars per annum giv
' ing at two per cent. ne> profit, a ca
pital in prodiiUive domtffic property
(hips they may arrivi—and to
renounce the perm flion which
the treaty of Fre ierickfhham,
refpe&ing the colonial producti
ons, had left while he prt ferves
only the right of admitting fo
much fait as may be necdiary
lor the ccufumption of the coun
try.”
The Sth article provides, that
France may ufe her right of
j having an entre port at Gotten-
I burgh.
The Dutch are to pny the
I Emperor of France a futn equi
valent to two hundred thoulaud
pound fteriing, for the tempo-
| rary prelervation of their inde
pendence.
May 19
Latcjl from Francs.
Yefterdsy arrived at this port
the faft failing brig Camilla,
capt. Shaler, from St Sebaf-
tians, which port fhe left on
the J ! th of April.
Mr. John Grifwold came out
in the Camilla, bearer of dif-
patches from Gen. Armflrong
to ou. government, and has fur-
nifheo tlie Editors of the Mer
cantile Adver ifer with a file Aif
J'rench papers ancl the following
fummary ol news.
Mr. GriKvol ■ bearer of oif-
patches in the Emilia, left Pa
ris on the 2fith of March. The
Emperor ana lundry members
ot his court at Compeigne, where
the new Krnprels Mari i Louifa,
accoinpantel! by the Prince ^>f
N ufchatel, had juft arrived.—
I he triumphal entry into Paris*
with ihe coronation of the mar
riage ceremonials was to take
place on Sunday, the Jil. April.
I he preparations for this great
event were fplendid beyond ddf-
eription, at\d it was fuppofed the
illuminations and fcafis would
excel m brilliancy thole of any
former period.
Gen. Demotier had been ap
pointed by the Emperor minifier
to the United States. It was
not known whether he was to
fucceed General i urreau, or that
he is appointed to fome I'pecial
million. He had taken paflage
m the Francis, with the Ruffian
Minifter, and was to fail from
Rocnclle for Philadelphia about
the lOiht of April. Xt vut pc-