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m the y. fori Commercial Advertiser. LETTER 11. CTIE CITIZENS or THE UNITED STATEn. . atnawaie that as the advocate of <c, I tnay not float in the populat rent, and vet I know that I air. friend of the people. I trust also I nine tenths of this nation, when ay (hall have conGdered the fubjeQ, fc all its natural effe&s and confe fences, will admit that war should, if lib!e be avoided. would not go to war at present. i. Because the war of which we speak uld be hurtful to all claGfes of citi . z. Because the obiefl for which we itend is not of fufneient importance juftify the shedding of much od. jd. Because it will certainly be ob nedj in a few years, without our king a great facrifice of life and afur to fee ure it. , My firft objeDion to war is the ru it would produce, or the damage it uld occasion, to all classes of ufeful *ens. When we confider the im nfe property that is at sea, belong to the citizens of the United States, i the great facility with which the oleos it may be taken, at the very ranee of our harbois, it will readily admitted that war mud produce a neral crash among the mercantile rt of the community. How many >u(and, men, women aud children •uld be reduced to poverty by such a oke, without a morsel of bread to lain life. Our great cities/in a few >nths, would be feenes of defoiation } .Lx :: ‘ rj at.fi .a in “ * nd £ *har vn 5 city, a great proportion of the in. )itants are supported by commerce ne. They mud all fuffer and many them mud starve with out it. lam lto be toid that fome of our (hip: penters might be employed in build - ; privateers, and iotne oilier me inics and camrien might find em yment in the army. They might e a ialutaty march into Canada.—-, is would give poor lupport to a ffa y. CLfxhiidrcm. It is r aw.iar poti>etr'nhrrr ihtiabua ms, or reat proportion of them, into the intry, during the Revolutionary war, 1 thole people submitted to poverty 1 great privations, fur leveral yeau hom murmuring. But they were jiending for all that is-dear to men. ty were contending for peifonal uty and life. The ohjeft ot di(pue .> me what cHFerent at pt rff-nt. f the inhabitants oi'gredrerrres-w*r be the only fttffems by war,'OUr threi. m the country might fubfhu the calamity with less relußantr every citizen in the United dbe affected more <if less by futi) hange in our a Hairs. True it is i fame people among us feenf to be irousof war, though they do not e a cent .about the car;fe of it.— me men flatter them (fives with the ?e of becoming comuisflaries or itra&drs for the arihy, by which ansthey ihiayacquire tiches, w hile the ion is reduced ’o poveity. ‘'Other n there are who cherish a coudant red of England and are delighted h the hope of war. They c6tifidcr l England will fuffer greatly and enot how much wc fuffer with bet. ere is a third clals, fat more nutne <, who being indolent and viefour., e nothing to loft?. Thcle men ate more us for war, becatile among revolutions that may be cauled by r, and the general wreck o! for unfits, y may chance to pick up something. us the moon curler is p sea fed with orn>, because Wncr: a f.hip is wreik he may chance to get iVune of the ft. in the dliirrate of my fellow zens, i Would pay little attention to debres af such vicious individuals, e farmers or. planters in general Uld lujaVjii&icat!) by war in every tof the union. Our citizens in let a I ne clot he and with impound We pay lor ('.’.ole goods by J I exported f.rctluce; but war [ i an o \ tl 4r> our cotmn ‘ice. W? I ;{* then make clushes (oi “ritiffclv'ei go u’khout u:eni. The fti'heiy and tying :r<uk*. by which the l:.aHer ■cs a;c chenliud, mull tejurinate by war. The staple of the Southern Hate muff perish on hand, and the far mer in the middle Hates, finding no fate for his grain, may deep half the day in bed, while his wife Icarus to fpia. 1 have laid nothing about the means bv which war is to he supported. Out duties of import will be reduced to a trifle during the war. The common expences of government, together with all the expences of the war, mull be difeharged by a tax on houfest and lands. How is the farmer to pay his taxes, when he cannot fell his produce ? We have not had more than one far* pie of a land tax and we know in what manner it operated. To this hour it is not fully collefted, although that tax was laid when all forts of produce went to a good market. If I wished that the adtniniftration of Mr. Jefferfon! should become unpopular, I should wish for war and the confequfcnt curse of a land tax. I am next to inquire whether theobjeft of dispute willjufti fy the nation iu courting the calami ties of war. AGRICOLA. From the Repertory . A concise but conclusive argument on the subject of protecting deserters from pub lie ships of rear. I remarked in the Repertory a strong and indeed fatisfa&ory argument up. on richtof search of private, flips for i fit bj efts of belligerents, and as i; nas not bien and I believe cannot be answered, I regret that k has not ap peared m the federal papers efpecial iy as it was very brief, and is upon a point on which our peace is immediate ly .. . ... - . j y wUitVUIIIVV. The following argument against the right to receive and protest -defends Iroin the public fervid of other nations is equally cogent. —Argument No. i. Nations are or ought to he Indepen dent.—Their rights are perfcßly red procal and pe:let!!y equal.— IT one. nation has the right to receive and pro ted delerters from the public fcrvice of another nation, all nations have the fame right.—Now as in every public fer vice of every nation ?he men arc al. ip an d fieq uemly do in i’pite of all the el’angers ‘ which have hitherto atieure.l t’efertion, make it known once tofailors, that every i'o ieign port is a complete and abjointe a fylum in which they cannot be reclaim ed, and it Would not be possible (dr a : fliip of tvar of any country to put into the ports ofany foreign nation even in diHrels. Our finps could no longer enter Gibraltar, or Toulon, or Synv eufe, or Malta, and of courfsr could, not go to the Mctuieu-anean. Wh< n font with difpatchesto France or Great Britain, they would, noi dace, offer ■heir ports- bp{-.tvo : ubd he’ obliged to Kira n:lecsia--~rxy their difpatchcs on shore. Xha,thmger aud absurdity of such a pi incipU'.whicli if it operates at all must operatesquur'y aiul.totbe greatest extent tvenjo. the total abatuio<*fq at . 'pC./lb'ps, proA-klnti. no suelr principle can exist, bo tausv the Id’v at nations K founded in rea son ami mutual convenience, Ar'g’j'tneut 2d. AgiVtn', orant tliat the above argu'tii.-nt proves that it is not law till because imronVi-tcut with pnbiic am] general inures*, that deserters should be protected ;ami oi ctuii te ’ hat men in pub lie srrv>c:e are sacred, and the manner in which ihe sovereign came bv then, cannot in foreign countries be inquired into.— Let ns sc- how tins applies to the U'e dis i pute —W<- c-ct.itctul, that our public flag is [ a protection to all enlisted under it, ami and that ho oilier nation can impure into th? characters oi those on board. Admit tins or any othtr i'X'oiu you pletrsr, stiii ilie tin.', universal and i iimiitcd princ.rplt : is that ail Mat!, in. are equal, aud liavc equal | fighl3. ft we can set up the protection of our flag, so can Great Britain of ii< rs—ls our flag protect:, all tntircd under,it who ever they may be, so and ous hers lint b\ the law o! Nature, Nations, athl by the necessity, lie wiio iias the prior possession uj a thing, has the prior.right—riw J ftisr occtipiun is the nuncr, aid his proper') cannot.be violated wivhout injustice. (A*cat Britain wat the prior pc.ssrsior of both the iitfseitcrs claimed .uui the dvscvtc r*. found Ji tlitrc I.- ( hi eh we odmit) an high tcspeit | <'u'‘ o jm inn: Hags, ii was as imu h due t 1 the flag of U. Britain, thv (nut occupant as i to liit ti-gos America v. fi-<. It a<. quiv-d ;1m sc I mkm) bv unl.-twi id incaus, .. •; pi used iu the aOovc Arguuj.uu t No. i But to 1 lose, tti’.-i arnutm u! to i!te satis* faction ul ivui thinl.iiig m.tu,l' r 1, 5 p' jr u.t* thii gy us ptopen . . u will net be denied that bv the law of hature and tions, the first occupant cannot lawfully bo deprived ot what lie pos*eses; but if he throws the property away, or it being an anitii \\fera natures, it regains it liberty, anv other person in iy take it. Is the de serrion of men in a loreign couutrv etthei a voluntary abandonment of the tove reign or ruch a recaperatio ,/ibertatis (inc, coverv of freedom) 1 hat the first occupant loses his right and any other may lawfully take them ? Answer—Thia is dijproved ab income nientier ab absurd* Wither above Argument | N’o l. If it were necessary to add more, it woiihd be sufficient to say, that in a state of nature, in which nations who have no treaties with each other still remain, ic can not be prevtended that domestic and thtn ed ttniinals, which stray into the inclostlres of another, become the property of the find er. Certainly the right over subjects in public service camfot be more easily divest ed. In both these cases the property remains to the first owner l , toil account of the labor, panis and property he may have expended to acquire them. It is possible that this point will be set tied with Great Britain —She may concede tier rights rather than go to war with us ; but iu the other alternative it is important : e should all understand this question at the present moment when we can reason more coolly than we have don® or may hereafter do. PHILO JUSTITI A. ,• i ~ .. . .. . . ‘ Cfjr locate. Savannah, Nov. 16, 1807. The Le£flttur of this fine fanned s qaonitn, on *! 4th inst. The .Senate made choice of Roaear Wai ioh, Hlq for their Prcfilent , and William lZdsinaoN, Ef'|. Secrefary—nopsentioaof the proceedings, of the lower house. jAtto litwiH, Esq. has been re-eledted Governor. We are informed that the legislature have e’eified Wit LI am H. Cra\v?o and, efq to fill the place of the late Mr. Baldwin, in the Senate of the UuiieJ Sta:ca. Wimiam Bar>ws is re ele<ned Harbor Maf tcr, a(d Dr. WilmaM Cocke HcaJ.h CCcer, of the Port of S.avEiiaah SAVANNAH CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. Monthly Comm ‘tt.-c jar Non/.nber 18qJ. JOHN HOLTON, hi.EAfeER HAND, JOHN HUNTER, and JCSiiPH CARRU rHERS, Efq’ra. Sr-,an County ElcSion for M-tnltrt to th- Ctate I-g'Jtjtvrt John Pray, Senator—Abraham Oindrai, Itiprefen tative. The United States au-h<iat, No. 12. licut. D iter IS. Al*-., • ‘4, —— Bui ler —— Ij, ■■■ Merril Fatted on the tith ul:. for the Belize—destined to cruize in lake P.uitcbattraifl — CrLsntpaper, fj : tMPOIiTANT. V r By Capr. Whipple, of the {hip arrived yes terday in yftdbfirTr.pndoii.We liive Keen favour e:l irith t he’ - TiON—On the day Capt. W failed (ICth Sipr.). ‘the oficisl account at the SURRENDER or COI’EnHA GEN to the BritiHi. was publifhetl in London, and the Tower and Parle Our.s were fired on the occaGon. He states tEat Copenhagen c|pTiulat'ed onyhe Sept, and on the Bth the Brii?FH troops marched into the city—ttulk p; flefiion of the Fltet (confifiing of i8 fail of the llac, anuml-er of frigates and fmilkr v. flels) *ud of the Battery. W. a — ina** i the )6thr the ofScLS*rcount.’ ti t ga,ve it to an officer of a Britflh man ui war, who boutuid him a few days ago. Vjlilliaip Cannon, and.Mounfey Finning, two of the mnXipeer* on hoard the Britifli frigite Jason were c*e tu e! at Ilalif ix on the • 2th u!t Four others, fen teheed to fuffer at the fame lime, were respited, after they had afeemied the platform. A Jrttqr from London of the yth of September, to a refpexfiahlc merchant in this city, states, on the autlio* l it y of Samuel Williams, elq- late Couful of the United States at London, that the answer to Mr. Munro’s contnuioication, on the ful.jcA M the Cliefapeake, was of to fatiatatfto y nature,as tadv away the appreken (ion of war iietween the United States and Great Bri tr. uriefithi* war thould be fought by'this'Country. Fhiicttclphio gafier. C'pt Doan, arrived at tfew York from Bilboa, in forms, that chi the lft of Sepietcher, *to,oco French troops puffed thtougU the ueighLK>u(hue.d of Bilboa, on their way to PorlugaL Y< flerday about one o'clock the French frigate I e Cyl.elle got under weigh front Crane, Iflaiid, with a fliong wiud at W. S,NV. and proceeded to fe®.—She was kit,by the pilot at 8 o’clock iaft uig/it ;bort (ix fcagu-.s to the eaf.W.sid of Cape Henry, going off un dei a ptefs of fail, at the rate of it knots About an hour ;:lt*r lcav.ru; thc.Cyhe’.ie, fp .ke a piloi -who in* I'orsi eil that the Brilith fl.ips were all at lu. set about 6 league* >o ttiefor tiiVTatu and eafiward of tlie Cape. The v.iu4 fhillcd to ticrrli about n.idnight, and Ji*s httn lilowftig very strong ever finer, so that there is every restfotr *o fieri eve the frigate-ha* est sped. ’I hit tur’jiifhes os with an evidence of toe impolicy ot dt pending upon .my other than our owu means for dclrnce Our govcriimtnt 1. me tioic finer ra'culaicd rpun l).?s ftigafe a* a part of the delfti.e of N. rfolk, ami ru)4< ed atmther pars f liar- frti e then -tmpluyed I in c< lif'Jquenctj fiohs-id flic is gone without lta or I tutficc. h* v '"g taken wb.t we uledtu Call FrtnJj ham J We wifE MCNificur a good paff*g to F. auc*.— j Ut. . 6. J Imi'a's-Tn'str— This tml whish ,be engaged tie j pi L'i< etUn thti'ftate by the-tccu&d being bailed to ftmt* trial in tho fta e us Ohio, for a milllemeannr, in pre paring the ir.eans foC a military expedition agioH the dominions of the. king of Spun- And f> after nil tbit mighty f‘lfs, Burr is commuted to ftaod trial upon a charge ot prepariug she m*atis of an expedition to ai tack the dominion* Os Spain, with wfium the United States expected to be at war. To avert this get mil'cfiicf, the conftitntiun of our country n-.-ci , fhtmefully violated, the writ of Habeas Ctirpui f f prndfd Judges insulted and driveo from the feat of juftlce, Counsel imprifom and 4ml treated w.ih cootumct/ and infolehce in the courts of jnftice, for daring to execute their profeffi tial duties ;■ Private citizens ar* reded, their papers examined, their persons seized :in<i deported beyond fra 2p<3p miles at an inclement fa fon;’ Port offices violated hy f-izing and opening all letters, in short every thing (murder and ro'ibery ex* cepfcd) that violence and tyranny could excrcife it* the mrSR rtsJpdficTcOuhtry, has hern perpetrated in this land of lilnirty wit.fi impuuity ! *• Unit Coluts'Jiu hap py laod.!’*+fL “ France has fhip* ajJ wc have Teamen.” Under pfefeut'eitxutnft'inces, if the fltips of France were in another Planet, they could not be less ferviceablc to the tTnitcd States than where they are.— th. PORT OR “SAVANNAH. ARRIVED. ShipAlmtra, Whrj#ple *“ ’ Loudon Schr. Fortune, Denny Boston Columbia, Hawes ditto CLEARED. Ship Dartmouth, Starr New York Schr. Three Friends, Wixiba Boftoa Sloop Ru h, Phi pp< St. Mary’a Delight, Cooper Charlefto® Republican, Brawn ditt® - THE SUBSCRIBERS Beg leave to inform their friends and the public, that they have received by the late arrivals from N York, A general assortment of goods Which they will fell by wholMals and iitau, at reduced prices, for CASH or PRODUCB, AT THEIR STORE, ‘ Oa Tatlok and Scatiiotie* , i Wharf, vis • Cogntac BRANDY—Jamaica RUM N. England RUM—Holland GIN Madeira aWd'Sherry WINES BITTERS in bottle® CORDIALS of all kihds Hyson and-Yoffhg tlysofi TEA Loaf and Iroov’ Sl}fii||l^ CQFF.EE jfo PORK—BEEt MACKEREL—HEBffINGS CODFISH— PIPES Pilot and Navy BREAD SOAP and CANDLES,. Doolittle’s Writing and Wrapping PAPER London MUSTARD TOBACCO and ELGARS CHOCOLATE Coarse and fine CLO ATHING Fancy Silk & Bandanna 11ANDKEKCHIEFS Cotton and Woo-red STO( KINGS Volret CORKS, (<c. THOMSOM & O’CONNOR. ——— ..... I, I just reglived, . By the Luma and Di\v,fronii Nfew Vorx, 1M ADDfn m TO STOCK CM KhUD. Ladies KtU and Morocco SLIPPERS D. I>lat k and colored velvet ditto Men’s fine SHOES arid PUMPS, he. 2000 PAIR of Best quality Negro SHOES, Whfclt will be sold at cost and charges by Taylor & scribner, On th. B'tif, opposite the Exchange. in ■i . mmn i m ■ i i;".'” .... ^i - ‘ SbeLiij’s S-ales. On the firtt Tttesday in December next, WILL BE SOLD, At the'court-heni’ e in Camjdtn county, be tween the hours of ten and thpee o’clooi, ALL rfre improvements of Robert M‘Farlahe, situate .and beif on part of lot Nri. S, in ihe torn of St. M ary’s to satisfy a obthined in favour ‘of'Low arid Graves, against Robeift M'Farline and George Sterfctt. ALSO, ‘ ‘ - One Horse and Chair, and front part of Lot No. 26, in the town of St. Mary’s, to satisfy a judgment obtained in favour ojF Seih Craig & Go. agairist David Lewis. ALSO, Frontpait of Lot No. 4, in the town of St. Mary’s, to be sohl as the property of joseph Dorr, to satisfy a judgment obtain ed in favour of Mear and Main against Joseph Doi r. Conditions cash in half an hour, or the property to be sold again at the purchasers ritk. JOSEPH CREWS, D.s. c. .c St. Mary’s, October 9f. 30 For Sale. ‘ ■ ration on Turtle River Glvnn County, contain* ■ng by old survey 500 ictes ;on the premises are a-very comlortuble dwelling house. Cotton Gin house and Mac hine, with every necessary out building. The largo-A pro portion of this tract is well adapted for the culture of cotton, nnc\ a nan ior Ru e, wuft the plantation rimy ho hired for opy )’<’r 1 2 or 20 prime task able hands, For terms apply to .Mr. 7 houias I.mci tuce, Suvaftniib, or u>rht* subsenber at .Ll.yi -J|.J,.-jiMt. AUfiX’R, t . WY LLY. f?t*j>trntLer 10 14 if, Flank Manifests, for Sale a’ this ojf.ee,