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button moulds, tabic cloths and nap
kins, fringe and lace, flaxen (ilk arid
leathern gloves and mitts, silk gown
(luffs and other linen, silken, woollen
and leather articles being deemed
likely uu.be excluded, fubßitutes of
cotton have been already made or se
riously thought of, by the BritiTh
manufacturers.
Among the considerations, which
have attended the exilling non impor
tation la.w. ideas have artfen, that with ,
Out any dinentiorv-wIWi foreign nations,
we might render their manufactures ■
and our own, inllrumental to the crc-j
ation, maintenance and extension of
the markets for our cotton wool.
The whifcentfs of cotton goods,, the
capacity of cotton to receive and re
tain many colors, and us fitnefs for
manufactures, adopted to ail leafijns.
promile success to our endeavors to
procure its tncreafed employment in
Europe, in the manufactory of good
heretofore made of Wool, (ilk, flax,
hemp and leather. As to those for
eign nations, who fuppl'y us w:th Ruff,
for cloathing, furniture, &c. it ts in
our power to occalion their employ
ment of cotton wool (of which wc
(apply half their consumption, ot
more) instead of foreign flax, hemp,
wool, and silk, of which we do not sup
ply any part. If wc are to reduci
our duty on goods of cotton, made in
the countries on this fide of the Cape
of Good Hope, to ten per cent, and
to raise the duties on goods from the
other fide of that Cape to twenty-five
per cent, for example, and the duties
on all foreign goods of wool, hemp,
flax, and silk to the fame, it is plain,
that it would contribute to increase the
employment of cotton in Europe, and
to promote the American manufac
ture of that raw materia!, and of our
own fheeps wool, flax and hernp.—
Some of the kinds of rival foreign
goods might, perhaps, be more ad
vanced in duty from the beginning,
such as woollen blankets linen table
cloths, and linen bed tirkens in order
to encourage cotton fubflitutes. It is
supposed that the woollen blankets, in
con Rant ufc in the United States, may
weigh twelve millions of pounds.
The design of this communication,
is to produce general attention to a
fubjed, which has long been very in
tereding, and which the foreign duties
on our cotton, and the various cm
birraffments of the exportation and
laic of it abroad, have rendered it of
the utmod importance. To encour
age manufactures from foreign raw
materials, in the fame way would be a
measure of more doubtful policy.—
They would be, perhaps, to aid man
fa flutes at the expense of the planter
and farmer. But the consequences of
the plan proposed, would be effeftual
lv to affilt our agriculture, by means
of manufactures.
‘1 his proposition bring directed im
mediately towards a manufacture of a
southern production and raw material,
indv be supposed, at firff view, to be
too favorable to the southern planters.
But if the fubjeCt be duly considered,
the plan will be found highly benefi
vial to the farmers of the western, mid
dle and northern Hates. At present it
is a laO, that the production of cotton,
sugar, rice, indigo and tobacco em
ploys so many of onr cultivators in the
laoutli and of their laborers, that they
cannot raite their own bread-fluff,
meat tattle, hotfes and mules. Hence
anics to our iarmccs, in the grain and
t attle Pates, and to our hfhermen, a
good matket for their flour, Indian
corn, btef, pork, hams, lard, butter,
cheese. beer, cider, wlnfky and fifh—
Hence alio a great coalting trade in
Hhefe articles and in cotton, tobacco,
rice, indigo and sugar, for the profit
of the merchants. But the dnpd im
portant confederation to the’farmers
of the weftem, middle and northern
dates is, that the great quantity of the
land and the large number of fuijthern
cultivators and laborers employed in
producing cotton, tobacco, rice, indi
go and sugar prevent that great super
abundance of grain and .cattle, which
I would render it impoflßLle to find'a
‘good market for them. We deem it
profitable to fend our grain to the W
j Indies, fubjefct to full freight, insu
rance and duties ; but we nv.rfi find it
more so to fend them to the southern
Hates at half caffs and charges of the
.fame kind, except duty, from which
they are in the coaditrg trade.
I- have the honor to be, dear fir,
VcArTelpettiul humble fe vast*
Philadelphia, Oft. 10, 1807.
j*
FROM THE AURORA,
An article appeared in Rdf's Ga
zette of Saturday evening, which, from
he nature of the circumstance to which
it relates, we think proper tocqgy and
;o notice.
From the Philadelphia Gazelle.
<c An a£t marked with (insular pre
sumption and arrogance, occurred in
this city yesterday afternoon.’ A Del j
aware pilot, who had been bearded off
the Capes by a British crplzer from
Halifax, and entrufied with; a packet
directed to the British minister, Mr.
Erskine, and endorsed by admiral
Berkley, yesterday reached town. On
his way to deposit it in the pod-office, i
he fell into conversation with a person
opposite the Aurora office,, to whom
he shewed the packet. This person,
upon hearing the circumftattccs, took
poireffion of the packet, and deliver
ed it to the editor of the Aurora, who
has since refufed to deliver it up, aJ
ledgingdhat he had forwarded it to the
President of the United States ! The
pilot has made oath to the etreum
liances of the case. Mr. Erskine is
now in this city.”
“ Mark how a plain tail; will fet 1
them down"—A person whom the ed
itor never saw before nor since, presen
ted a packet, concerning which the ex
planation agrees generally with the a
bove account of its receipt, but differ
ing in fome particulars —lt was dated
to have been put on board an Ameri
can vessel, accompanied by abuse and
menances, if it was not delivered, with
many opprobrious epithets of Yankee
rascal, and the like, by a British armed
ship. :
Why or wherefore this pap-r Ihould
have been brought to the editor, fa
ting quietly in the bosom of his fami
ly, was not to be accounted for. But
it was put into the editor’s hands, and
there remained no other consideration
for the editor how to aft, but that he
Ihould at once defeat artifice, if there
was any mediated—and take care that j
if it was realy no impoßure, the man
should have his mare.” |
The thing looked very suspicious
on its outside ; it appeared to be, and
perhaps may turn out to be, what the
editor fufpcCls, a pamphlet, or a cou
ple of English newspapers; for there
was not even a leal upon it—it was fu
perferibed “ in his Bntannac majes
ty’s service,” and addrefled to the ara
baffador of Great Britain.
Foi Mr. Erskine, as a private gen
tleman, and as the son of the late chan
cellor of England, there can be no
motive for dilrefpeCl or even want of
refpeft. But the editor of this p n P r
has neither the motive nor the mraun l
information, which Mr. Relf has, t
know where the British ambaffaaot
holds his Gccalional i elidenee,
: r But if the editor did know, and ht
did not know until three hours alter
he had dispatched the packet to the
feat of the general government, the
usual and the proper residence of all
ambassadors, yet he should not have
atted otherwise than he has done, and
which he would do to-morrow, with
the knowledge of Mr. Erfkine’o pre
sence, if he should be prefuited with a
packet in the fame way.
That there should be no miflake in
the motives, they shall be very fully,
explicitly, and unreieivedly explain
ed.
It is well known both from the con
duct of the agents and the corrupt ad- j
herents of the Brin sh government, that
the Aurora is particularly obnoxi
ous to them. One of their emissaries,
from his feeling in the affair is a com
petent evidence, has publicly declared
.that the Aurora under the direction of
Tts present editor, has cost the British j
government upwards of a million sterl
ing. This million inult have been
laid out in one way in the U. States,
for it is pretty evident that it hac not
been laid out in promoting the Au
ror a—other primers inult know.
The dedrufiion of the editor, it can
not be doubted, wouid gratify the
government —and whether it is by the
means which Gobbet pointed at :
“ there is no doing any thing with such
a man unless you take his life" —or by j
deft roving his character, and (landing
in society, is not so material to that
government as that it Ihould be done;
they view him as a mere Irishman , and
would give more than forty marks to
remove the {tumbling block-
With this knowledge, the editor
wouid have been indeed a greater fool
than they suppose hirn to be, if he bed
for an instant, hefilated on the mode
of difpoling of the packet.
It was delivered by a person whom
he never saw before —nor since —never
but the once.
It was delivered in a very quefiton
able manner—for it was not the per
son who said he received it that deli
vered it, bu- a person who had receiv
ed it from another.
Aware of the flratagems of the
British, and Rrengthened by the exte
rior appearance of the packet—with
out even a seal, and to appearance
containing eithera couple ofnewfpapers
or a final! pamphlet, the editor could
not forget the use that had been made
of a similar occurrence in relation to
his predecessor—he conceived it to be!
a trick, intended to entrap him—and
tbefe refle&ions arose
Suppose this packet to be a politi
cal contrivance here —
Suppose it to contain something
personally insulting to Mr. Erskine. .
II it was, and we do Rill believe it to
be a trick invented, here, the object
muR be too obvious.
j If it was any thing personally insult
ing to Mr. Erskine, then the very cir-
J cumftance of its pafiing, no matter by
zvhat means , through the hands of the
editor of the Aurora, no doubt the in
tention would be or was to fix the aCI
or authorfhipon the object so obnoxi-j
ous to the liritifh.
There would be no choice of conduft left in
such a situation. The man was questioned if he
had any illegal intercourse, contrary to the pre
sident’s proclamation, with the Britilh armed
ship . rhe reply he made was, that he ivas not
the person lut a relation of his.
The reply made by the editor was, the only
icourfe for you and for me to fend it to the exc
cittive-
Accordingly, it was put under a cover alosg
with a fliort open note to the secretary of
noticing how it was received, and intimating the
editor’s igndrance of Mr. Erfkine’o adtual refl.
dence.
A gentleman not an agent of Mr. Bond a.,
has been Lid—in about three hours afterwards,
called and enquired about it, but the packet had
r been dispatched, and of course was out of t!#
’ power of the editor, but had it been in the pew.
’ er of the editor he would not have ttted c’ijex
| wife ? Because he found it incumbent on him to
, place the government of the country between hy
and the p fit lence of British connection.
’ As to Mr. Erlkiae’s being in this city, the
’ editor d;d hot know it; until informed t! :r ,
. hours after the traufadlion ; if he had known it
under the circumilances in which it reached him*
he would not have trulted to any eejuivoc;
course.
The adherents of the British} government ] llr ,
now the whole advantage of their trick, forfu C l|
we mull ft ill believe it to be. But the trap dij
not catch— they mull try another trick or !t
another turn ; and they had befl request a copy
of she original note of the editor to the secretary
of state. ‘
THE SUBSCRIBER,
Informs the Physicians and Country Merchants,
and the Public in General, that he has R,.
cr'tvd by the Dolphin , via N’etv-Tf.rl, the f 3 l.
lotvirg ARTICLES, in addition to his for.
mer assortment , which he will sell at \\ hole.
Lie or Retail, at very reduced prices, for Cm!:
or his usual credit
ARROW ROOT
Annifeed
A Hum
Aqua Fortis
Antimony
Ailenic
Red Bark
Yellow do.
Pale do.
iQuil
Borax
Barley
1 Brimllone
Balfom
Zolu
Peru
i Honey
. Balm Gilead
Emetic Tartar
Effcbce Burgamot
Lemmon
| - Peppermint
Ait her Vitriol •
Fig Blue
i Flour Sulphur
Cloves
Canthariari
Court Planter, white
and black
Creamtartar
Camphor
Cassia
Cinnamon
Calomel
Castor Oil, common
Hullocks
Cammomile Flowers
Cliing s Lozenges
Church’s do.
Cough Drops
Calcined Magnesia
Copper Scales and
Weights
J Fish Glue
I Fennel Seed
Flax Seed
Gum, Benzoin
Aflaftttidia
Arabic
Hair Powder
Hungary Water
Ivory Black
Jesuit Drop 6
Jalap
Juniper Berries
Lunar Cauftio
Lip Salve
Lancets, crown and
common
Lavender Water
Manna Flake
Mac? Opt.
Milk Roses
Marble Mortars
Nox Vomica
MEDICINE CHESTS,
COMPLETE WITH DIRECTIONS.
D. B POTTEK,
’ Marlet-Sqnnrt.
Savannah,, Nov. C
Nitre
Nutmegs
Nipple Pipes & S'nels
| Oil Jumper
| Vitriol
Mint Pepper
I Cinnamon
Amber
Oil Olive, led table
Orange Peal
Orange Flower Wit#
Opium
Ipecacuanha cr Hippo
Rhubard
Squils
Potafii
Patent Sago
Pomatum
Rofc Waccr
Red Lead
Rotten Stone
Red Precipitate
Salts Tartar
Rochelle
Epsom
Glauber
Senna
Spaage
Scotch Snuff
Macuhoy
Cephalic
Scotch Blue
Soirits Turpentine
... Nitri Dob
Starch
Sealing Wax
Trusses, double & fe*
gle
Shugar of Lead
Windsor Soap
Waft Balls
Ampetating Inftru.
ment3
Cupping do,
Pocket Cases
T urnkeys
Teeth Bfufhas
Parkhurft’s celebrate!
Tooth Powder
Godfrey’s Cordial
Stoughton’s Bitters
Dalhy s Carmater
Turlington Balsam
Botemau’s Drops
British Oil
James’ Fever Powders
Lee s Pills
Dalby’s Elixir
Harlem Oil
Folu Lozenges
Steers’ Chemical Ope
dildoc
Together with the
raail of the fitted
Medicines new in re ‘
pute.