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SAVANNAH, (Georgia,) printed ry
Mn THE ELECTORS OF CHAT HA El |
■ COUNTY,
I Intending to be a candidate at tnr
Broaching eleaion far SIdEA IF F
■‘this County, 1 now appnfe toy te
■ - citizens thereof, pledging my felt
K£nth&A dtfdaargeaf the duties
■ the office. —I (hall be thankful Jot
■eif fu Stage
I JOHN EPPfNGER.
■ August 25 5 2
■0 THE ELECTORS OF CKATSM
I COUNTY,
■TF announce myself a Condi a‘e for
■ JL SHERIFF, at the ensuing EL cl, cn
shall feel grateful to such of my Fel
mw-Cmens, as may honor vie with their
Miff, rages.
W 9 j. F. OATS.
I sept. 11 57
( i3* JOSEPH DAVIS offers
■infeU a candidate for the office or
ft nonor, at the ensuing ele&ion, and
■blicks the fuffrages of his Jhilow-citt -
■cns. Aug aft 18 40
I THE SUBSCRIBER,
■ ACQUAINTS the Cltisem cf Savmtmi ?.ad
B'-.e Electors of Chatham County generally, thit ii?
he a Candidate, at th; enimug Eit&icm for ihc
■act of CORONER.
1 M. WHITLEY.
■ Aaguft 38 £3
I MOUNTIN'ON SCHOOL.
HAS some doubts concerning the import
■/'a of the word LODGING has btsn
Wtxkf-.ssi’d irv ■s&pr’-’mvkd have perisred th
mtommuidcation intimating the opening of
mtke Grammar School at Mount-Enon ; t\
mtuhhc are respectfully informed, that u
mpnly intends Bid, Bedding and Washing t
17 ‘kg terms of tuition, and hoarding bang at
■ the low rale of one hundred dollars per aa
mpun. exclusive of the above mentioned par -
Wtitulars. The public ore further informer-
Mtke Grammar School is now open jo> t‘<-
Mrcception of Scholars.
1 Those Pointers who have been kin,
Wenoitgk to mention in their columns tie
allud'd to zvill confer a ■
by inserting this explanation.
I September 10.
I FREE CHILDREN STOLEN.
STOLEN from the subscriber, in Wake
County , near the Fisk dam Fil'd, on
IHe use river, the 21 s nstant, THREE
[GIRL CHILDREN of color, ffree
| borr\f viz. the eldest named Polly Valeri -
\iine. and is remarkable for having a la-gr
tumor on her breast, which has been lanced;
the next eldest Susan B nnet Valentine ;
the youngest Rebecca Hurt Valentine, The
eldest aoout 1,5 years old. the next eldest g
years old next January, the. youngest g
years old January, past. They have very
soointh skin, dark mulatto color ; the two
young'st very sensible. It is supposed that
some dishonest person has taken them off
for the purpose of selling them as slaves.~
Eytry per to-’w 0 can give information to
the printer hereof so that lean get my
children again, will be thankfully received
besides malting any satisfaction 1 am able to
do ',. NANCY'VALENTINE.
Raleigh, ( A J.C.J August 27, 1807.
*T
For Sale,
On a credit till the first of January.
A PLANTATION on the Louisville
roaa, fiitren miles from Ssv<*jin.>h, con
taining fifty acres of good well tiinberer 1
pint land, twenty-five of which arc n w
ttiKicr cultivation and gooff fence, weii
adapted to the culture of corn and cotter,
inown as one cf the befit Hands o t the
toad for a tavern.—For trims ot fair, aj>-
V ’y *0 the hiblcribcr a this Office.
WILLIAM WIGGINS,
Augufl <2£ £4
ISj, < 9
■ üblfc
FRIDAY-,
DECISION
In the Prize Court of Vice-Admiralty
cf 3 rmuda.
Bermu da, July 25.
The Rosanna, Mall , master.
WJThis was a fchconer, (laden win a
cargo of city goods and Vinous oth t
articles, together with a confiderablc
quantity of iron in bars) which, tn ‘he
piofecution of a voyage from Balti
more to Laguira. r n on the rocks off
the Weft End ot hole Klands, and
was afterwards brought into poir,—
Some time afterward*, it being cH(co
vered of what her car ,0 confided,
troth veffd and cargo v;ete iiz by
order of his excel!- nvv ’he go • ’ nor,
and proceeded a gain ft in tin cure
A claim was given for joint U > . icil,
of Baltimore, a citiz >o( t e Ift ;-rd
Stat so; America,as theproprietor >i
both vest: 1 and cargo.
The (ingle ground taken in mppori
of the seizure was, that the vuffi ! was
engaged in carrying articles c . :.va
oand of war, to the colony of -he ene
my,
After the hearing, his honor the
fudge refered the bar iron, which
conformed a part of the cargo, to the
ordnance ft ore keeper and the mailer
builder of the king’s naval yard, to re
port their opinion upon us quality and
the purposes tor which it was paiMfcu
lariy calculated. i heir cerulicate
nurported that the ir n, from its-qua
•ftty; and the dmienlinns and the nu.h
bet* of the bats wa.i, m their opinion,
calculated, arid probably destined lor
hoflile purposes.
This report was excepted on the
part of the claimant, and the excep
tions argued; and this day the court
•gave the following
JUDGEMENT:
The qu Ition I have to decide in
fhis’eaufe is, whether thirty tons ot
ron in 13 <0 bars, from q 4 est an inch
;> one inch and a quarter iquare, go
ing from the United States to the’
Caraccas* in an American veflel be
contraband.
I (hall fir It cormder authorities.—
‘.Grot-ius divides the articles of neutral
1 trade into three daffies, one of them
immediately ufeful in war : one of no
rife at all : and one of a doubtful or
double nature. As to the lirlt, it is
clear, ih-.it whoever {applies them be
comes an encmv hiniihli.
With the second, we have nothing
to do.
But th* third has been the lubjedl of
iminite difeuffiion.
Amonglt thde things which are of
a doubtful'-nature airct a e utetul both
in peace and war, he enumerates as
examples, 4i Navesy ecqites Navibusas
cintd 1
His grand rule, however is, that in
judging of articles of a doubtful or
double nature, we must he guided bv
the bate of the war, “ Dtsltnguenchis
belli statin,”
But he make no enumeration of the
articles. The nfecellity ol the cale
will, according to his opinion, juftffy
the irueraepung any f ippiies whatever
lb the enemy, if the ilate of the war be
luch, as to make them ol conleqtience
to onr defence. 64 Sub one re restitu
tions, nisi aha causa ac. edat. ‘
B} nke r(h oe ckcondcmns thofew hi c h j
are adapted to the purposes of war; ‘
nor does u make any aifFerence, ac
cording to * im. whether or not, they
may be other wile ufuu!, lie rejects j
the diftinkliou of Grotiu 5 , concerning
double or doubtful nature, as leading
to cndlefs contvoverfy*;/ and pronoun
ces to be contraband, all things which
serve the purposes of war; et sive in,-
struvind.a bellied sin, sive materia,
\perse bell ■ apta but nat materia ex
I qua rud belie apto-ri possit .” A nice
to draw s particularly as
3> nkfi'dUieck attempts not yo aIE it U‘; ?
by any enumeration.
Heirseccius and Touch hold, that
all materials, which can be converted
| into inftrumerits of war, may be just-y
prohibit, eri.
Vat:.:! fpep.k.; more diffufe’y j his
wot-Is arc these : 44 v henever lan &t
war with a nation, both my fafety and
weiiar- prompt me to deprive ir, as far
,u- p diiblfc, ci every thing, which may
.-• able kto hurt or re hit me. Here
.--e law of oecdiity (hews it-s Jorce.- —
A <h;, law warrant me on occakon to
le : £e what belongs to another, ffiall n
iikewife warrant me, to (top every
- in-*, reiam’o to war, which neutral
; i utio are carrying to my enemy ;
;even-’ i. fiiould by taking such mea
-1 (urt, fender all these neutral nations
my enemies, l had better run the ha
za~ , than iuffer him, who is actuallv
at Wei* with me, to be thus freely sup
plied, to the gren increase of his pow
er. It is therefore very proper, and
very Dstable to the law of nations,
which disapproves of multiplying the
causes of war; not to conlider thole
fetzr.resof the goodsOt neutral nations,
’as acts of hi>ft .fity.
Commodities particularly of and n
war, and the importation of winch to
in enemy is probibnted, ar ceiled
contraband goods. Such as arms,
military and na -la! stores, timber, hor
ses, and even previhons in certain
junftures, when there are hopes of re
ducing th- enemy dv fa trine.” Here
igain we find the rule o’ Grotius a
depted. JJistinguendus belli status.”
41 A nation (continues Vatic!) that,
without, any other icoiive limn the
profjpt- and of gain,iscmployed in iirtngth
ening my enemy, without regarding
dow far I may fuffer, is certainly Jar
from being my friend, cad gives me a.
: right to confidei and treat it as the as
soc; “ of rr.y er.ctny.’’
Such are he fentiracr.ts of Vattd,
the reate ft. champion sos neutral lights
of all the regular jurisprudents or the
Sift and preceding century.
I use the term regular; tor it would
be loft time to conlrdef ihe wild theo
ries of forrm later writer, to controvert
the absurd optuidns of flub iter, to re
concile the contrsditetons of bchlegs!,
or evert to notice the vtie correlpoud
encc of the French min titer Genet. ;
We come now to conuder under
w hat head iron is to be ranked.
iron, wrought into aoineftiu uteri
tils, is clearly innocent; wrought into
inliru nerus of war clearly contraband;
but here v/e have it in the bai, capa
ble of having it woiked into th. mofi
opposite forms ; Itke hemp, which
may be wove into lacks lor gram, 02
fails for ships ; which may be (pun
into common twine, or twtftcd into ca
bles for ships of war. Still, however,
iron, is fii materia, per se, bel!oapia,”j
as Ufo, 4 ‘ materia, ex qua quid beilo j
aptari poflif.” It lias alio been called
by very high authority, * i con
traband.”
Bar Iron then, being of such doubt
ful and ambiguous use, the quantity
and dimentions of the bars, an i the
paJticuUr ilate of the port of deftina-
is! i Tr- elligencer.
OCTOBER s, *Zo 7a
Normas M’Lx an h? William E. Barnes,.
tion, afford the criterion, to enable us
to determine on the legality of or ille
gality cf transporting u to the enemy ;
(For, whether, at the native produce
of the country which exports, it Would
be entitled to any farther favor or not*
is of no moment here, as u is not pre*
tended to he American iron.)
The f.rft point Z referred to the
j MfTer Builder and Ordnance Store
j keeper j and there can bo **. bond*
; from their Certificate, but this iron
j may be fauly Calleu a naval ami
! tary store,
j Now, that iron when so formed, b
: to be considered as contraband, mey
be clearly inferred, from the case of
the Rengende Jacob, lft Robinson ;
other Wile, v/het real an could there be
for {ending the matter to the inflec
tion of the officers of the king’s yards?
The United States ihemfeives, seem
aware, that unwroUght iron may be a
in lome cases, considered contraband,
and therefore excepted it in their trea
ty with Great Britain, which trca.v
would undoubtedly protect the preferie
cargo, were it in lorce.
But a treaty is concluGve to the yr*
ties contra6ting only, so long as it con
unres in lorce, and no longer; nor
can a treaty between any two nations.,
affebt a third, for nations are only to
be governed by what is established bv
general iaw, unless where they agr*
to the contrary. Go the second pointy
namely, the particular Hate of the port
>f deftiuati an. It i 5 ho secret that the
Carrac.as are mei.aced from many’
Not only the forces of G
iintain ready to attack this colo
ny, bui a to:tradable expedition nor
long ag >, failed from the port of New-
York, toi the p'.vpofe qt freeing the
trom the bpaniih govern
ment; that this expedition did no:
•nett with fuccel’g wc km.-tv well, bdn
whether or not, the ohjed of it, is al
together abandoned, is more iftan f
can fay; At any rate, the executive
ofihe colony y trsoft or ought to be?
very much on ihe alert, arid i doubc
1 not, but every exertion is now making
there to put the pffee in a state ct
complete defthee, both by sea and
land, Whether (hips of War are builc
there, I am not informed, but I fup
poie they may be armed and fitted, or
at least repaired and fitted there.-o-
Whu then is the highly probable des
tination of this iron, not affigrted, buc
all of the fame delcription, so far ex
ceeding in quantity, what fee ms neces
iftry (or plantation purposes and the
rearing of the Cocoa Nut ? Why meft
surely 10 military and Nav.l use; and
if so, is it notfubjed to confiscation ?
Clearly it is. This was the dittinc
tion of Sir William Scott,in the judge
Magaretha. And if Cheeses, under
such circutnftances, cculd be adjudg--
ed contraband : Iron which has
been accounted one of the clrief finev.a
ol war, must affiureciiy be so.
Ode rfunark i lhall not admit 2
which is that though the claimant had
fuftieient time, betv/een the produc
tion of the certificate, and the last
hearing, to file <my affidavits he might
think proper; either refpedting the
quality ot the iron, the purpofc lor
which i: was particularly adapted, or
likely to be applied, or the actual itate
of the port, at which it was to be de
livered ; he has altogether negleded
to do so, and I nauft impute this neg
ie6t to’ his having nothing fatssf&ftory
to alledge, and not to any disregard to’
his cwo interests. I rejebl the c)ai^
[No. 63.]