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tedgement to France, th?.t {he was
equally entitled to the fame right of
searching American (hips coming from
British Dorts, and fending them into
Gaudaloupe for adjudication.
What fay the tones and the British
-pap.trt to this principle.
\Vill they concede the right to both
nations equally ? Will they admit that
France has the right to do what they
allow Britain has the right to do? Will
their prelTes not teem with more a
fcufe of French cruizers, than they now,
do of British , for this privilege of fend-!
ing in for condemnation on suspicion r
Are the merchants of the United States
ready to concede equally to one as to
the ether ? if they are, and Britain
makes an ample apology for maflacre
cf the crew of the ChefapeaJke—the
murder of Pearce —refiitutin of pltrn
dcred property —and release our itn
prehed feamen — We then say , if our
•merchants art purely agreed, then in
jQod’s. rwrife, let them fay that they arc
so willing,and that this imiverfal pow
er of teatrch be fully acknowledged
and let the American people be not
troubled with the complaints of out
merchants if they are willing to fur
render their rights aivJ property too —
let this chi's of citizens take the prod
and the loss to themselves, and no lon
ger reproach the national government
.if they fhoald recognize what the com
plaints themselves juftify.
No? Let every American citizen
take and hold fad the firm ground
which he is now in pofleffion of, and
fur port the adminiftrarion in demand
ing a full remuneration of all our
wrongs—let us never abandon the
light of the flag to protect all that fails
beneath it. Let us borrow an apo
thegm upon which we can (land, anti
kt us never abandon it.
Indemnity for the past t and security
Jcr the future !
Ruufed by the murders on board
the Chesapeake, the federal papers
came forward with all the profeffed
zeal of real Americans, to relent those
murders—it is with regret we have
fecn finee that time, in lome of them,
a cooling off , and fuoferviency to every
tory or hair braned scribbler.
But we once more call to the seri
ous confederation of our merchants,
that if Rich principles are supported
by them —then American vessels w ill
be the prey of every nation in Europe
for every nation will be united against
Britain —Look you to it, who are in
terfiled.
Fran the Charleston Times,
HOW indignant tr.ufi: every true
American fed, when he fees in what an
jafulting fiy’e, Ettglilh Editors men
tion the public meetings in the United
States, in confequene* of the attack
on the Chefapeakc. When they bes
towed the epithet c ‘ mobocracy” on
those who composed these aflembiies,
‘did these hirelings know that they wete
attended by the full characters of the
country ? That the venerable patriots
of ’j‘o appeared at these meetings, and
theie evinced by their conduct, that
they felt it a duty cncc again to {land
forth against Briti/li tyranny ? These
edfcors think it mobdike and imperti
nent in the people ior publifhjng in
resolves, their sentiments of indigna
tion, excited by an acl which grolsly
iniuited iheir country, and wantonly
cut off their unoffending countrymen.
So too our fathers were called rebels,
becauTe they magnanimioully deter
mined not to fubnr.it to be {laves —
These hireling-writers know not (they
cannot know) how to edimate the feel
ings offtectnen on these occasions.
They do know the wide difference
there is between the people of America
arid that unruly mass at home, who, as
their inflrußion may be, either cheer
in triumph a reprelentativc, or hone
him. Our condußt is not regulated
as is the calc in England, by the rule
of pounds, Bulling and pence. Here
the people govern through means of
their delegates, and his proper- theii
fenfs of things fiioald be knownj fin e
I they determine only after due deiibc-
Iration. Is it unknown to these edi
tors, that among the American peo
ple, there is a large proportion of citi
zens, who are as well acquainted with
the bc!> ioierefls of our country, as
their conflitucnts ? It is cur boafi to
fay, that such is the case. These are
the characters who, by their counsels,
direct our mo hoc racy and do lo
without the pay of thousands, drawn
from the hard earnings of their coun
trymen. It was these lovers of their
j country who judged it a prop t season
for Americans to rally beneath the
banners of their country, when Trea
son had dared to raise its horrid front,
and the bloody roirmydons of a form
er opprefTor had C .'.lightered those wr.o
protected them.
OME OF THE PEOPLE.
From Bell’s Weekly MEssEKOtfa, of
August 2, (a Landau Paper-)
Consequence arA Impolicy of a War with America.
The-intelligence of the week has produce:!
one-event upon , which it is .impoiHble.tr> rcSf.it
without a feutiment cf indignation. The in
temperance of one of our -Admirals has Ready
involved us in a war with America. The in
temperance of the party writers at home ha
hurried them not only to approve of the conduit
of oar officers, but to make the unqualified after
tFon, that,a war with America would be an ul
- good—an abfaluts advantage to us.
A war with A meric* an unbounded good !
We really wiih that these advocates for war
would confuilt the merchants of London, Liver
pool and LriHot. They would fuou be com
pelled into other canclufions.
America, fay these advocates, monopolizes
the whole of our Colonial Carrying Trade. This
is a manifeft injury to British Commerce.— In
deed ! Why is it, good friends, that our mer
chants prefer the Americans as carriers to carri
ers of their own nation ? For no other rcafoE,
but because as a neutral, America can afford to
take their commodities at a lower freightage.—
And is not this an iudifpenfable advantage both
to the individual merchant and to the general
commerce of the country ? Are tot ourcommo
-1 dities thus enabled to come cheaper to market,
| and thereby ensure a more certain and morefnee
i C V falg.
j ’ in this point cf view,
the of America is of real benefit
tc the genera! commerce of England.
Eat the Shipping Trade, lay tiic party-writers,
mud proportionately fuiTer—Certainly. But it
will net, we hope, be contended, that the inte
rs (Is of the general commerce are to be facnficed
to one particular branch-—the Shipping or Coun
try Trade.
There arc, indeed, certain advantages, which
are eflcntidl to neutrals, and which r.o Bellige
rent Power fhaald grudge to its neutral neigh
bor, inasmuch as they themselves fully partici
pate in the benefit. Commerce would not only
iangnifh, but, in many refpefts would be totally
extinguifiied, if these neutral mediums were to
be prohibited.
In what manner for example, is it, that our
colonial produce obtains admission into France
and Germany, in difpite of all the re
gulations of the French Emperor? It tPer.ly
through these neutral mediums. In a word,
what America takes in one hand, (lie gives us ten
fold with another, She is above a carrier or an
agent. Her flag covers the Engiilh as well as
the French manufactures. She has no partiality
but that of gain, .and as this may be procured
equally on both (Idea, so will America be found
equally advantageous to both.
If America were to be cut off from the Carry
ing Trade,'fay the Party Writers, the Britiih
merchant would be compelled to employ his own
countryr.-en.
We have already anlwered this argument.—
The employment of the neutral medium is of
benefit to the general commerce, and the interest
of oiie branch, mull not be consulted at the ex>
pence of the whole. The merchants must not
fend their commodities into foreign markets, of a
price amounting to a prohibition of all purchase,
for no other purpose but that they would em
ploy their own countrymen. They must not
pay convoy and afiurance on commodities (fii
gars, for example) which will scarcely pay the
Ample freightage.
A very (hallow obiefticn is here made. These
ccminodilies, fay they, are articles of necefiity ;
the buyers mull have them, and will therefore
pay the price be it what, it may.
, In the firft place, other commodities will en
ter into competion with them, and though not so
good, the difference being more than compenfat
ed'by the inferior priee : will affurediy find a pre
ference.
In the second place, in the circumstance of a
ny advanced price, even the neceffaty buyers
take a lei's quantity than ui'uhl. But this dimin*
ifhed consumption is so much dead loss to the
merchant and manufadlurer. It will not, we
hope, oe contended, that there is any thing in the’
advance of price which can indemnify him for
his dininilhed sale. The advanced price is but
the defrayment of his advanced eaoenfe. If he
add any thing beyond, it is a fucred augmentation
of his profits beyond their natural level, and of
azr.rlt Jttbjecto him tc b? uadsr*i>l4 by tUofs who |
will fell at 2 fair profit- liegams noliunj, tneie.-,
lore, as we have above laid, Jay his -advanced
price, and therefore mud neoetiarily !ofe by ms
dimiuifhed sale.
Such, then, would be the unneceflary effects of
forcing trade into an unnatural channel-—of com
polling our Merchants, in the event, and under
every circumltance, to employ only Bntilh (nip
ping, and disnnfs the neutral medium.
Our commerce would fuffer, and ultimately our
(nipping. We 11mold shortly have more Harps,
but fewer commodities. Tne Ihip-builders would
then have just. canfe of complaint, that had em
ployed their capitals, in building vessels, which
have only to rot in the docks.
The result is, that nothing is to be gained by
a war with America. Ia her carrying trade,
(lie carries for us, and she carries for our enemy.
It would be a r.nnifeft injury to our general
commerce to deprive her ol die former, and with
refpeft to the latter, we should not gain that of
which we should deprive America. V.'e could
not supply her place l>y becoming carriers to cur
enemy ; neither Ihould we nauchdiltrefs tire ene
my by cutting off die means of conveyance—we
should only throw his carrying trade into another
channel—whilst the Danes are neutral, it would
be to no purpcle to cut off the neutral medium
of America.
We might add, that we perhaps gain as mush
on one hand as we lose on the other by this neu
tral’ communication. America carries Engiilh’
manufa&urca *as often at Jeaft as she carries
French. We might aimc.fl fay, that in her
chai-a&er as a neutral trader fire carries feared
any thing clfe blit Engiilh goods.
We have entered into feme and y oil upon this
fiibjeft, as there feenis to be a ft range miscon
ception upon the very fir it principle of political
economy. It is contended, for the fil'd time,
that the merchant will lose nothing by being com
pelled to fell dear ; and that it is a matter of per
fect indifierer.ee in commerce, whether the com
modity reaches its market by- a dire A road, and
therefore at a natural price, or through all the
ob&acles of pofilble interruption, a.d therefore
at a very difp.oportionable and a very unnatural
price.
“ The only difference would be,” fay they,
quoting the words of Mr. Randolph, an Ameri
can Senator, “ that the Americans will have to
give a joe for a commodity, where they formerly
gave a dollar.”
This might pc the difference to faun a man as
Mr. Randolph, who could equally afford to have
the commodity, whether it coil a joe or a dollar.
But it would be very different with refpeft to the
Americans in general. Every one could not
purchase at a joe who pnrehafed at a dollar.—-
Seme would endeavor, therefore, to do without
it, ethers would begin to think of fubflitutes—-
Neccflhy is the mother cf invention. Let us
not drive the Americans to refourees from which
it may be afterwards very difficult to recall them.
PHILADELPHIA, September 18.
Important. —A captain Turns, lately arrived
at the eastward from Alicant, brings the follow
ing* information :—Sometime in the beginning
of June last, an American br"g, the name of
which is not vecolle&ed, but belonging to Nor
folk. in Virginia was pursuing her course in the
Mediterranean, homeward bound. In lbng. CO,
16. E. she was met with by an armed Tunisian
fehooner full rigged and mountiug 14- guns.—
The captain cf the Tunisian hailed the Ameri
can and ordered him to bring tc. The Ameri
can obeyed. Tile Tunisian came along fide,
when her captain and several of the men boarded
the brig with drawn fabves. The fellows howev
er, neither committed nor tfireater.eed violence.
They said they meant r.o harm, but only to do
what was right. They then ordered the Amer
can captain to parade his men on deck, which
being done, the Tunisian captaiu went up to
two of them, who were mulattics, and a iked to
what country they belonged. The American
captain said they belonged to his country. The
| Tunisian aflted how he knew that. The Amer
: ican said they had come with him, like all the
. rest of his men from his country. The Tunisian
replied that would not do that he had heard A
mericans played tricks, that they looked like
Muffulmen with ther beards shaved, that Ihey
were the very far*.; colour and only, be was sure
pretended not to know their own language.-
He said that the Bam aw, his mailer, never let
Muffulmen go a way from him, that they were
MuiTulmen and might be brought back to the
prophet. That eipecially now he mull bring
back, from whatever seas found, his own chil
dren, the followers of the faithful, as he was at
war with Algiers and needed them to fight his
battles, which were all for the prophet’s fake.
The two men were then tafcen out cf the brig
and put on board the Tunifiau, the Americans
not being able to prevent it. The freebooters
said they would go look for more, threw up tht r
caps fiiouted and failed off.
The brig, thus plundered, was left so fbort of
hands, that (he put into Alicant, and was lying
there unable to pursue her voyage when captain
Tumas came away. The affair was much talk
ed of and produced alarm among the Americans
who intended to represent the matter properly to
their government.
RALEIGH, September 24*.
On the 11th inti. a general muiler was held
at Edontor., for the purpose of railing the quo
ta of men from Chowan County by draft or o
therwise, to make up the number of militia re
quired of thi3 State ; when 48 the number re
quired, including cincetc, volunteered their fee
vices*
* On the I Lit luff, the Militia of Edge comb
was called together for .toe put-poie.. £ .f Vj I
127 then, their quota of the number to ’ O . ;B
nifhed by this Hate, when, after a patriotic J
drcfi front Major Balfour, and notice be A- „■
en that such as were disposed to volunteer \l ,!■
Country’s cause nveft advance four paces | n :■
of the regiment after the drum and fife fi a 4 „■
fed the third time, they were immediately i QiI J
by Captain M‘Nair’s Light Infantry, ui lQ .1
played great patnotilm upon the occat: or j
Their example was followed by the whole oft]
Regiment, 13 men only excepted, whonu]
felled their zeal by 3 cheers. A second attemj
was made to draw from the Regiment the pi
men only but SO4- rulhed out of the R
formed and marched after the drum and fjJ
each contending to be firll to revenge their co a J
try’s wrongs, and lots were at lafl cast tc detti
mine who Ihould have the preference. I
CHARLESTON, September 30.
The Isabella failed fiom the Downs on
14th of August—hut brings London papers 05]
ly to the 9th. Verbal accounts from London and
the 13, state. that accounts had that day been
ceived from the Continent—-On the 3Cth JuJvj
the French commenced the Bombardment
Stralftmd—Lord C.4THCART, with the troop;
tinder his command, had removed to Berger.
The la It accounts from the Baltic were, iA
Admiral Gan.? er, with the Biitifti fleet, w*.
at the Cattegat,
Admiral EssinCtok, with the fleet underL
comn?ajsd, was seen or. the kthof August, (tand,
ir.g in for Flulhing.
When the Ifabeia, failed, iofurancecn Amr
icaa prqpei ty could not be effected at thirty 1
cent.
A peftcript to a letter frem London, cT ■
12th cf Augull, fays —“ It is reported, thm’ihtß
Daniih navy has surrendered to the Briti’h Sat*., I
supposed witit theconfent of the Danilh goverr.H
ment.” I
Another letter from London, lintes, that tin-■
would be no Treaty with America, the Britifjß
Ministry refufing to relinqaifh the right of fearc'n-1
ing merchants ships—-The right to feared RLI
tioual fmps was nut contended for. I
I
-Eleftors of Chatham County, I
1 •’ •¥ HE fubferiber a relive of Georgia and sa I
| JL inhabitant of tins County of thirty yean, I
lor the fir ft time solicits your patronage for j. I
D'tbiic office, and offers himfelf a candidate for I
the SHERIFF'S OFFICE, at the eledira I
for County Officers on Monday the 19th inst. I
ANDREW BLLEAN.
October Z 61
CHAMBERS, CHATHAM V%
FERIQiI COIJKT.
j HAMILTON WINN, 1
| wx. maxwell, tab. 3
ON the petition of Will'atn Maxwell, H.T.
Rating that he iu confined for debt, ;•
the suit of Hamilton Winn, by proceft of capias
;?d latisfaciendum, from the Court cf f-fayjr
and Aldermen of the City of Savannah, 1 At
iheis unable to, pay the debt for wh?-:h rrs
confined, or to iupport hiir.felt daring his crca
J finement ; but is willing to deliver up si; hk
; estate, real and personal, for the benefit of his
creditors, and praying to be admitted to the
benefit of the iofolyeiU Debtors Aft cf tf_3
State.
It is ordered, That notice of this applSc
t.on be served upon each ot the creditors -it the
said William Maxwell, and be pubkfhed in one
of the Gazetts of the City of Savannah, t’aat
they may appear at the CoUrt-houfe in the said
City of Savannah, in the County of Chatham,
on the 15th day of October, iflftant, to Lew
cause, if any they have, why the prayer of the
’ said petitioner Ihould not be granted.
JOHN H. MOREL,"! Justices L C.
A. S. BULLOCH, } C. C.
ExtraS from the minutes,
JOiiT. EOLLES, Clerk.
October 3. Qi>
Marshals Sale.
ON the A’" 1 Tuefdiy In V oerebr
next. Will be Sold at tee Sms
Hotife io Louisville, the Idllotviug Me-
GROES, levied on as the property ot Ro
bert Bernard, at the fuu ot iia-ic Hick’,
viz,——Newberry, Newport, Mitchelu
| Plenty, Nancy and her four children— *
j Nanny, Amy, Janu r.d her child. C-ya*
} thia and Dona lei.
P*. WALL, M.D G.
Octt.ber t 64
PAINTING.
Seth 11. Keen,
Informs the Gentlemen of Savannah and puh.it:
in gc.iei'ai, that he carries on the
HOUSE Sc SIGN PAINTING,.
, In the fiiop next door to Dr. John Love’s, ex
the Bay, where sJ4 bttfanefs in his line will be ; -
fended to, when called upon, with drift; attex*
lion.
Groceries will fee takes in’ payment if move
convenient for Ac cm r’oyer.
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