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and file cannot, with fafety, keep a’ fleet in the Weft-Indies during the hurricane months. Bonaparte will had employment for every soldier! file can raile, and thofefhe may j fend to the continent oi Europe will j become ptifoners. ‘I here never: was an initauce of a government’ conducing itfelf with the rnadnefs j and ignorance the British govern-j merit has done ! This is John Adams's stupendous fabric of human Wild on! That the British government will difov/n giving hoitile inftrußions to Berkeley I have no doubt. It- is the trick of c!d governments to do so when they find thcmfclvcs wrong and pay fnr.-e scapegoat to bear the blame But this will riot be fuflkient. The pretended right of search and the i:n preffment of our featnen mull be a bandbried. Three thousand of them have been impressed by British (hips to fight agiinit France. The Fiencii government has-(hewn a great deal of patience in not, complaining of it, for it is a great injury to her and inuft be redrefud or worse confequcnces will iolkr.v. I have said in the former part o’ this fffay that it is a difficult matter & requires great political wisdom for a neutral nation during a war to form a treaty with one belligerent nation that {hull not commit her with the other. I will now give an infhr.ee of it. In 1794, Washington lent Mr. Munroe as minifbr to France, an ! John Jay to England, and gave them • •contradictory iullrubtions. By the treaty that then exilted between th. United Mates hrtd France, 64 Free ships made free goods.” So that Eng lifh property on board American fhip.s was protected from seizure by France, John Jay made a treaty with England which Washington and the fenat of that day ratified by which free fhtps DSD NO T make free proper ty, and tlj.it French property on board American (hips could be seized by England. This of confcquence reached the free a: tide in the treaty with France, and (he availed herfclf of it, and the United Slates loft the carrying trade of both nations. There | is a jetuitifn in Jay’s treaty, which I fays, that the queition whether free ! ships make free goods (hall be taken in- 1 to confederation two years after the j war. It is now move than two years lirtce that war, and therefore it forms j an item in the matters now to beset-i tied with the Eoghfh government. The British government have been so long in the habit of insolence that ihe has not the sense of feeing when the power of being insolent ceases. She ought to fee the power of France \ by land is far fupcitor to her power atfea. France, by land, can blockade the commerce of England cut of Europe and India, and the English navy can no nothing to prevent it. j Os what use is it to 41 rule the waves," . if you cannot put your foot on fhorc P If it was a come ft for fifheries, the j mo ft powerful navy would decide; 1 bat as it is a Cornell for commerce at land, it is land force that decides, and i navies are out o the question. If the B.hifh government were! wife, ihe would cease the pretended light of feanih, of her own accord,; for it brings her into enrtlef, trouble. It makes ail nations her enemy. Ev ery nation detests the piratical inso lence of England and none more than the United States. The spirit that is I now railed, cannot he appealed until ’j reparation is made for the past, and Iccuritv given for the future. COMMON SENSE. From the ESSEX REGISTER . GENERAL MATHEWS. This Gentleman, who had made so proms-j rent a figure ia the late patriotic transactions at | Norfolk, is a native of the Iflaad of St, Chrifto- ■ p:er‘s. He left the place of his nativity and came to America at an early period of life. The war with Great Britain breaking out foot: after i Lis arrival, he entered into the American army ! and diftinguiflied himfclf for his zeal and enter-; prize. lie Lived till the peace, and alter-varc ;: 1 became a praflitioner of the law. In 1805, for the firfl time fmee his early migration, ha visited his native Isle; where he was received with ( much hospitality and friendly recolle&ion.— ; While at St. Chriffsophers, the French landed & , ! took the I Hand. A contribution was levied up-, jon the inhabitants, of a million of livres, which. jby an erroneous calculation was misunderstood | and supposed to be equivalent to about 500,000 1 pound Lcrling. It was not till within a fiagle j hour cf the expiration of the time given by the French commander, that the error wan difeover ed. Upon explaining the embarrafiVncnt to the French general he at firfl refufed to make any abatement. But on coniulting the Admi ral, they agreed to reduce the requifitiou to a bdut 50,000 pounds currency—but declared they would not make any further re duff ion. Every dollar in the colony was summoned to | complete this sum, but in vain. It was at this i moment, that general Mathews, with a magna nimity beyond all praise, came forward to the fuccour of his fuffering country, and drew upon Paris at his own rifle for about 15,P00 currency, the sum wanted to complete the af j feffment. The French general icpoied the. proper confidence in the good faith cf an Am~r- j is an officer, took the draft, embarked h:s troeps, j and the next day the fleet left the if 1 md. Dar ing this ttanla&iorr, the French Commander complimented general Mathews with a cer.tlnc: at Ins door, aad the general.wore his American uniform ar.-d the iniigr.a cf the order of CLJ:- riatus. After the departure of tht French, the au thorities of the iflir.d expressed the pah he gra titude to general Mathews, for an aft of human itv and couitefr, which will never be forgotten From the Chat lesion C 1 t v Caz et ta . ¥ . No. VIH. Is the claim to impress British seamen ft rn cu hoard American vets the, whether private or ra tional, a right /citadel on th: hr: voj nations > THE right of search cannot be the foun dation of any new fubfia.Uive right ; far that right itfelf is jollified, not as an independent right, but ns sir auxiliary to the rDirts cf Liz lag enemies property , paid gem!:, contraband of j war ; “ because it is the mean Lett adapted to I facilitate the exercise •of thefc rights. —(2 Azuni 202.) The right of search, therefore, exiihng in these cases cannot give it in any eth er case. Tlie case itfelf mud render it ncctffarv and then it will follow ; as without it, the nri..-! i cipa! right cannot be enjoyed or cxercifed. So I far, then, the argument of analogy cannot apply; | nor will it be found to apply, when we corr.-F pare the right claimed, with that of taking en- 1 emies property from on board neutral vc.'fels, { ‘I he latter we have seen, is founded on necessity; j and we have shewn that necessity to be, in its { nature, general and applicable to’ all nations. : Now, is the claim of a billigerent fiaVereign, tn | tsk- his fubjedls out of the vefffls of a neutral I nation, one wh.ch is necessary to nations gene rally, ia times of war between these nations ? ft he necessity to seize all enemies property on board neutral vefiels, is founded on the great importance of commerce, which if permitted to be condufted through the medium of neutral | vefft-ls, would exempt all commercial nations | from the power of their enemies, and render the j hoflil.ty of the latter impotent. As, for in | fiance, if Great-Britain and America were at war, and France were neutral, and America, i were permitted to tranfpoit her produce under the flag of France, and in the fame manner to j obtain the returns, the power of Great-Britain j would be rendered impotent: so, in all cases, j would all maritime power ; because, in every jjnftance, it would be the certain interest, and inevitable policy of belligerents, thus to protedl ! -heir commerce on the ocean. Their carrying trade alone would be vulnerable ; and even what ■ lV “- Btter fuffered, while it partially diminished < the advantages of commerce, would add to the flrength of the nation, by disengaging its ’ Teamen from the merchant’s service, and throw | ing them neceflarily into the navy. It would j never fail to produce the fame effects, and it would affedt all nations alike. But the right claimed by Great-Britain is founded, to take j her own ground on particular and peculiar ne jeefiity. Experience proves this, as iliongly as |it is possible to conceive. Other billigerent na j q° lls have no occasion to mention this claim. | We have no doubt, on board our vessels fome • ‘heir men, but not so many as to afl'edl their service, or to necessitate their reclamation. The unnatural and overgrown naval flrength of Great Britain, which might be increased, with out any enlargement of the principle, so far as to require all the seamen of the universe, as well j 33 a ‘f her own seamen, is the reason principally i this controverfy—ft'he proper and natural li ■ n ’--* s c'f a nation’s power are fixed by iier ordi nary means. If Great-B.itain- were content with these, this controversy would be at an end ; for those would be calculated and founded in this particular, upon the seamen who will be at traded within her national junfdidlion by their habits, by tneir intcrefl, and by their love of country. Bert ihe is not content with these, and. with credit which has hitherto l.cc-n un j doubted, ana which as long as it exists at ail, | will probably know no bounds ; flie has multi j'iied her ihips beyond all proper relation to her j l?amen and other national means, and therefore ihe finds a demand for more seamen than {he or j ; ! !/y °fher nation can cbtain by usual or juflifia i ’’F meefures. ft’o reasonable national ilrength ; no more are necessary, but to man her thousand ! : ’’f s °f W* more arc uccefLry. To attain this end, however, the commerce cf America and the peace of America, and even the filtered of Great-Britain iierff-lf, mull all be fncriuced, 1 unjuilly facrificed. .Tull as necessary to Bona parte are the Spsnifh troeps and the German troops, and all the ten languages which he has by his power and his oppression brought to his alliilancc in tile present continental war, as are to the naval flrength of Great-Britain, the few British seamen who happen to be in our femce. To the conquest of Europe and the subjugation of the civilized world, all those and more, I hope, are necessary to Bonaparte ; and so it is necessary to Great Britain to man a thousand ships of war, that file may ha#e every one of her own fubjecls, though againfl their will, and in violation of our rights peace and indepen- j dence. It therefore appears that this pretended . ! necessity is artificial, unreafofiable, opprqffive | ; and peculiar to Great-Britain ; and for all these i reasons cannot be the foundation of law. There is then no apology between this case, and the 1 case with which it is compared ; because, the j one is founded on what may be denominated, 1 an umverf.il necessity, and the other upon pe- | | culiar inconvenience. But the friends and ad-j j voc..les of this claim may lay, that there arc in j this case, peculiar eircurriflances of hardlhip ; lor that fiont lin.i’arity*-of language, manners and features, their seamen may be withdrawn; from their ferrice and their defence with peculiar : facility. But what does this prove ? ‘That the ! claim is sounded on cpxurrfiit sees peculiar to | Great-B.itain, and unknown, of course, to the law ot i.mljo..s. CiVIS. * G eaf-Bri :::n h-n?, by tie lafiaccount pub.lf,.:d ; • oou. .iuiiu..d, j B'otn. the Lancaster D.mscrat, j Mr. Matthews, THE cultivation cf the grape id this j count 1 y to advantage, has been doubted by ; many, and it is realiy wonderful that fuels mi- j founded doubts Humid have, so generally, dis- i couraged the people cf America from making ; Gic ....... in a ct .e lo h ‘loiv nitcrcilmg and at; the fame time so er.fy and attended with so little i ’ speuce. ft’o reivove these doubts and to ea-1 courage further'trials, I beg ‘-cu will pubfith j jink the followinh fads ; .-i J , , P T 1 | a Here is now growing in tne garden or jo- j feph Cooper, Etq- cf Mev.-lerfcy,- opnofle to the city ol Thdadelpnia, a grapevine tb.it covers; an area ot two thou:aval cnc hundred .and seventy square f it, and is row so loaded with fruit, J s ‘ nt ft is elSintatcd to contain not L.fs than f.rty \ bushels cf gripes j ar.d it probably contains a ! much greater quantity.. From this one vine j Hr. Cooper, luff full, made a lam lof vine ; jar.d this fall, may make a much larger quantity, j This witie was vrade wi.fiout any addition of I sugar 5 and the writer of this paragraph, who i was bred in the Mideira wine , trade, and has i tailed this wine, feels no he fit A;: a in faying, I that it is fupenor to Madeira wine of the fame age; whether it will improve by #'ge, like the Madeira wine, remains to s be (hewn by experi mc-nc. The grape from which it was made, is a native grape of the neighborhood, an 1 appears to be a ipecies of the common chicken grape ; which like that, and the tnc.fl of our late grapes is dillinguiflitd from the European and Afiat :ck grapes hitherto imported into America (esc known among us under the name of Engl:A ■ B'j a P es ) by a very important circumstance, to v, 'ft •’ —A flight frcll deftroysthe foreign grape and decompofts its juice ; while the fume de gree of froft, 2nd even a much greater degree of it, concentrates and enriches the native grape. Ih;s circumstance a film is f long ground to pre sume, that the wine horn it improves by time, even more than that of the Madeira grape.— There is aifo, a further important advantage on the fide of our native grape, lo wit ;—the fruit may be permitted to remain on the vine so late in the fealon, as that the fermentation will not he effedled by too great a heat, ft'he Lifts : here dated are not like the and ftant wonders re. ; kited by travellers, that are too far off to he ex . amined : for this vine (lands within four huu [ cred yards of Cooper’s Ferry op polite to the : ; city, and may he seen for the trifling ex pence Jof ferryage acrcfs the river. They v iff also .: leain, what may greatly sarprife a foreign vig . neron, tnat under the fnude of this vine, there i has this season, been cut a fell crop of grass ! , . 1 liefe fadls ought net lo difeourage the ruff ing ol foreign grapes : for it is now well known 1 that various kinds of the foreign vines will Hand ■ over winters and produce Iruit in abundance. M. From the Philadelphia Gazette, i AMERICAN MANUFACTURES. It would afford us peculiar fatisfatlion were ■ we able to furni'h cur friends, lovers of their • country, with a daily column under this head, ; containing the improvement and increale cf es tabiifhments—the flock, however, though rapid- Iv eacreafing, will net afford that occupancy. For the present we have pleasure in (btiim, from aftual knowledge, that there ha., lately been within the boundaries of this city, a lAv 1 OR\ , winch contains i-.vo Looms for the purpose of m iking Cloth of a ftron? quality’ between Sail Diick and Ruffin Sheeting —in the large 11 of these is made doth feveu y ards wide, aad fueix is the fupetiority oi its machinery, that, me man alone is able to make from SD'to 42 iquare yarus per cay, without mere exertion than at common weaving—the lirll piece containing near 400 yards, was finifixed and cut from tin , abput four weeks flu;;. The proprietor 3 l is in pnffeffion of a mode of applying a rotntoyy metion to Looms of the usual kind ; in the pre. sent instance, however, that operation is uur.e. ceffary. In Europe, so far as our information is correct, two men at Rail are employed in fi, e making of Cloth of this width, who togetkx feldcna produce more than eighteen yards p ri d.iy. The Lefier Loom weaves in a similar manner, Cloth three yards wide of the fame tqxture, which can be, and often is, worked by a boy of 12 years old ; thcjtramp of this Loom dc:3 not require 8 ounces. The object of the Faflory is that of making the patent Floor Cloth or Summer Cax?pets-—. similar with those of Hore's patent, heretoA,-;e 1 always imported—for the perfection cf which ‘it is bed that there should be r.o team ; it. L, ; therefore necessary to weave of this extraordiaa. ry width. ‘ ~ ■ Connected with this bufi.xefs is that cf renov.% ’ ting Woolen Carpet Baizes, which are other. 1 wife of little use ; they can.be done at a fm ill 1 expenie ; they arc coated cm one fide, leaving ! the wool on the other—and giving the adva..- • tnge of a summer and winter carpet—they am ! neat and durable. - BALTIMORE, August 24, 1 We find the Federal Gazette MSduouffy enga* gefii, not only in an attempt to damp the military , ‘pint of the country by endeavoring to perfur.de the people of America that a war would totally rum us, and that the Britifii will yield to our terms, but is attempting to misrepresent i.i the moll fcandaious manner, the fentinxeritsof repub lican writers on the fubjefl, It denounces them :as a “ wfrfaflion” and enemies to peace. ‘The j Course which the friends of the sdminiffratic.i j have pursued, however, is too broad and palpal ] to be jnift|kcn, cr fuccefsfujly veiled by the sni | ficcsof an cd'torial norioiate. It publicans S,av >, | ever since the attack on. the Ciieiape-ke, iavari. j ably mair.t.iiiied.— 111. That Great Britain has been guilty of j marnfoid injuries and outrages upon the neutral : nghts and commercial privileges oft ! e United j States, which injuries and outrages are good j cade of war. j 2d. Bat that war beintr an evil of crest mar'. ; r.ituoe and always to tie avoided whenever with ! honor it can be, the United Staten for the 10. it I time ought to demand Lti:iad!io:i for the part jail'd security for the future. Cd. That if this demand was not compfi.'.l j with, it would be necessary for the United States to law i.e.h measures as would compel G-.at ! Britain to yield to oar just demands. : 4th. And that as the efifis is peculiar and the event uncertain, the citizens ol the United ■, States ougV.t to place then ielves ia a Hate cf j preparation to meet lioftiliucs. in coir.ir.eiit'.ng upor. these pci. its, tlie friends • v ;he adminifti alien have tff.d arguments to 1 Tuew tnat in a war with Britain this country had ; not so much to dread horn the British as was g.- , nerallv imagined, Oe.r refpurczs h tvebeen frr • vi-i.Zfcd, our means nr cmiojanee have Uea ■. weighed, and the mfi.lt Las been pleasing to ev . cry patriot. These arguments, however, ,foun ded as they are upon prcbabhiy of ,var, and net ; brought A: ward as an.fixcitemr.-t to engage ia holiilities, have been denounced as the raonceuv. ; res cf a “xvar faftion, who will urge our govern. , meat to haftffity with or xvUkozt c ousel * Bit , iuridy those who have for years advocated t.cr.ce v.nh 3.1 their a:iit:-..5; thole who opposed Jo ha , Adams’s mad reign of terror ; these who have . invariably deprecated v/aV me.iiures, {lauding ar . inics, navies, taxes, m.d so forth ; are not to have . their cl nrncler stolen from them by those very journals which have roared for war over ar.d o. . v nr again ; wh.ch willed us to engage in holld , E>'-*s with France ar.d with Spain ; which want . ships cf war ar.d loldiers without number, a ,and ! g-oaa and lament ever ;he reduction of ihe iuiti ■ nal taxes, and ridicule the eeo ioti v of the go . ver.:merit It nr y i e emphatic iiy fui-J, that rc; ufcltcans are tl ■ i; lends oi pva.ee, oi commerce, i of agr.culture, of ma:uil r.t'U'es ; fcrcaulc they have always endeavored to aravent war, which is . the feo.urge of them all. But they would not . nv-'-'t the name ol republicans, nor that of rr.eii, , if t.icy could, hire fornu of tlv: ;r utagoait.s, fee their fellow-citizens itapref'fixl, their merchaut , (hips and cargoes seized and coed rnued, their har , be,-.: blockaded, and their brethren murdered, and tnsn in cool, pb!rgnaatic manner, call those V,ar hawks” who deiire renara:: >n and atone-. . indnl and prepare to enforce tiicir demand*. ,j FREE CHiLD‘RE: ; STOLEN. QTOLEN f-om wiser,!:..-, inli'ah k-O County, mar the tiskda n ox f-tess no <, the 2,jt instun , ft u.’E,i t 1 it L Gil.’ L rfi f.pl cj color, f jres yot vz. tht .Id st named Rol y VaLnm ■\t as, and is rnnaJiu Is for ha 1 /j a higt , U lunar oh her breast, tvitih It ns been lanced t ■j ike next eldest Susan U ami Valent, nes ■ j the younjest h ebecca A a Pal .. nn ?. Tht ! -ides; about 15 years old, the v.ext eldest q ’ I ) ears 01 and n:\t finuuy, , or.urest : \ye.ns old Janua,y pas', ft A7h ■ v very ft iOomtk s-iin, da.‘k mulatto cdo-- ; the two : youngest ? try sens b!e, It lS sa <eb s'd ch n ■ some dtshonest p : -s>n has taf ntXm off tor the purpose of sciurgg fiem as slaves leery p'rsoa wrio can -jot in far mxiioa 10 J ‘ydfrtni-r hereof sc ,hxt / r n get my 1 diuJ f f >‘ again, mil be thankiuUtr.cnie'l, ; Making any sat'>sfithc 1 I urn able to do '„ ~ , FA.sC’Y VAI.LNI LV-;, /wO'.q, (fr.j Au^st