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[Vol. 11. No. 52]
THE INTELLIGENCER.
tB PUBLISHED ON TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS
By NORMAN M‘LEAN,
ON THE BAY,
SIX COLLARS PER ANNUM, PAYABLE ONE
HAL” IN ADVANCE.
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For NEW-YORK,
P’ -Vik”'*’ The Basque NIX 0 A r ,
John Bown, mnfle'.
jjfig&SS&Z*. Vvi’l sail in 10 days.
For freight or pafagr, apply o:i board, or to
St urges, iiuriouvhs &. Butler.
September SO 51
THE SUBSCRIBER
BAS Off KANIi TAR PBLLOiriNG ARTICLKS,
Which he will fell low for cash, at his Store
opposite the Market and next door to Mrs. Rice.
Gentlemen's long broad Cloth Coats & Coatees
Ditto a few excellent Surtouts
Cailimers and Cloth Pantaloons
1 A fevr of the full quality Great Goats
Ditto Ditto Englilh Ha f s,
ALSO,
A few suits of Summer Xflntlnng.
Orders for Negro Clothes can be supplied at a
{hurt notice.
JOHN BARNES.
Market- Sonar e.
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NOTICE.
TIIK tuhscriler intending tc le absent fnm
tins state for a few weeks, has appointed Mr.
GEORGE IV. BARNES his Attorney ehs
ting his absence . CHARLES MACHIN.
August 5 S5
For Sale at this Office ,
The fallowing BLANKS, which are neatly prin
ted an excellent Paper.-
MERCHANT* ENTITIES, different triads
M a NUPEc-TS, c reign .-.ad Coalting
BILLS of tXi H NG’3
SH \MENS’ <U-‘ l it I P.-’
DFEOS ot CO.YVEY.nNCB
MORI GAGES
POWERS of ATTOTNfV
PRINMCES INDENTURES
BILLS of SALE
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NOTICE.
AIL p-rfm ’irving any demands tgair.fl the
estate < t oLOUGH vUthBERT, ?Ar. ‘.NNK
CUihBERI or Dr. JAVUS CIJ t HBi’-PT, wiil
feud i their rentt tto CH.sRt LsH ARRIS, Efq.ef
S-vaimah, or or hrore tse I eth dsy fjuyneit, as
ti i- pxipufeii then to dcvn'e the 1 fine and .Ittaia
letter. v.
WILLI tM MF.IN,
JOHN RI'QUEEN,
Executors of the Eltate Sr Jas. Cutiibert.
April 15 3
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N 0 TIFICA 770. V TO
TAX COLLECTORS and SHER
IFFS.
THE Collectors for the year ISO 7,
ancl those for the s ear 180 b,
who are si ill in arrears, are Notified-,
that until tht 10th day of November
next will be allowed them to make
final settlements of their Accounts. —
Such Collectors as had :t not in then
power to get their Insolvent Lists cer
tified by the Grand Juries, at the Spring
Circuit of the Superior Courts, wiii
do well to avail themselves oi the op
portunity which will be afford'd ior
doing so at the ensuing tail Circuit;
lor executions will assuredly issue
immediately after the day above menti
oned, arrunst those whose accounts arc
-not then closed.
The Sheriffs* to whom executions
against collectors have been already
forwarded, arc required to report to
u "-> -nthout delay, the proceedings
which have been Wnd. tWeon.
GEO. R. CLAYTON,
Treasurer.
Treasury Offer, Georgia, ?
fliUe-ijevdle, 11/4 Jutj* 1803. ) 30
PUBLIC . IN TELLIGENCER.
REFLECTIONS ON THE EMBARGO.
Which l,ns hern sulfitutcd hy the United States
flllr*™) f fr,° r , C roclamn,wm °f Wr >
all the Ennis and Honors of Hos hilly.
BY CLEMENT C VINES, e, q of St Chrittopher
{Taken from a Pampbls! pulli/hedin that Island.)
(COKCLUDSD.)
Non importation acts have atfo
bcen ‘cforted to by the United States
of America, is a means of compelling
other countries to abllain from af
fronts and injuries But non impor
tation icts can never obtain the pure
and unallayed approbation, which is
nect Garily attendant on embargoes,
firictiy and ibfolutely limited to the
vessels and productions of the nation,
which imposes them. B cattle these
atts have fr ih. ir objects the com
modities and articles of commerce of
other dates. They are direttly level
ed at property, which does not be
I°ng to the country, that pafiei and
enjoins a conformity with the law ;
Thev are encroachments on the do.
minion, which every person and eve.
ry nation i> entitled toexerctfr over
what is its own. The principles of
rigid jultice and moral ablteinious
nefsaie violated, whenever such acts
are found or enforced. Cut embar
goes do not. in the flighted degree,
interfere with the absolute powci, m
herrnt in every one of difpoiing as he
thinks (it of whatever is hi*. No m
fringement of jufiice, no departure
from morality, no deficiency in res
pebt even, for the owuerfhip of oth
ers esn be imputed to embargoes
guarded and confined in the manner
preferibed by the United Siatcs o’
America,
And yet how severely sve incur em
bargoes felt by the nation, which can
not raifi* a shadow of complain! against
their impositions, or mod rigid en
forcetnent ? Mow severely are they
felt hy the overweening arrogant na
tions of Europe, who boad of their
manufactures, their revenue, their
commerce and their prosperity- Vain
and delusive prosperity, which lang
uiflies and fades away the indant a
plain, hardwm king, honed people rc
fufc o uphold and feed it with th*;r
coarfr, undervalued, indtfpenfablr
productions. What is the worm
of a!! th*r. your looms furnifh, howe
ver elegant. beautiful, delicate, even
to transparency driicatc it may prove P
What isth* worth of ail, that vourar
ttficer* furnifb ; vs hen gold and filvrr
are the mateu.li upon which thru
{lull and ioduftrv work, and I fee I and
glass, by lh'it fkiil and industry, an
rendered no Ids valuable and coftlv
than gold and filvrr ? What is the
worth ot your inlaid and cabinn
work, you* varntlhes, bright and po
lished as minors, or your mirrors the
mud beautiful of decorafions, that
multiply d'Corati<>ns and beauties
wherever they are placed? What i
this catalogue of fpfi-ndor, b tlliancy,
pride ami boad worth ; unle Is Ame
rica wtll barter for it their pitch and
rar. her rice, her flour, her Corn and
cotton? Denied this barter, what is
the worth of your (hipping and sea
men, your trade and commerce, your
dock yards, and all who labor in your
docks P Denied this barter, you may
no doubt poflefs luxuries and fuper
fluities ; but then you will want nc
ceflaries and fufcliltenceA
The wifdoai and efficiency cf the
embargo, which the United States of
Aintnca have impnfed on their own
(hipping and productions, as a means!
of compelling other nations to reiradt
their aggressions, and nifcke atonement
* In the year I°oo, the corn mer.l snd dour
rs America refeued from famine the poor of (
Great Britain and Ireland. ‘■
SAVANNAH, FRIDAY, Octou er 7, 130S.
’ for their injuries, maybe further i!
luGrated hy confidently its operation
and effect on a particular country.
To ft left Great Britain for this pur
pose would perhaps be highly gratify
mg, as welt as {atijrattory and con
vincing; because Great Britain pos
h fles ample sources of wealth, com
merce and manufactures than any na
tion upon earth; because she deems
Hedelf the molt powerful and unafTail
shle ; because file derides the relent
ment, which she provokes, and sets at
defiance the retaliation which she
merits.
What a gratification and triumph
it afford every right-minded,
jult man toobferve this haughty, full
(raught, overflowing, ocean girt ern
porium, this mtfireE and tyrant of the
leas, humbled and bowed down be.
foie an unafuming, moderate, fenfiblc
people, whose affairs and bufinrfs,
whole quiet, regular and oidinary
employments she has interfered with
and interrupted, restrained, control;!
ed, and ordeied them not to puriue
in every quart rot the globe.
Yv ben Great Britain visited the
neutrality, arid insulted the indepen
dencyoithe United btates of Ameri
ca, the grcaiclt evil, tlrat fbe appre
hended, was a war with the people,
whom she had affiomed and outraged.
Neither the moft profound nor the
nr:lt comprehenfivc of her politici ins
ever imagined, that the inconvenien
cics and diflrefg, the unmitigated fuf
ferings of an embargo, wt>uld pctplex
her government and afflitt her people.
Had war been declared by the Uni
ted States of America, nuinherlefs
are the conlolations and advantages,
the fubjefts ot congratulation and
triumph, which would have been en
joyed by Great-Britain.
Notwiihftanding a war, every ffiip
?id vefli | poffi-ffed by the Americans,
would have been equipped f r fra,
freighted with the productions of the
United States, and difpatrhed to some
place or country, where tt was proha
hie, or even pofnble, that an advanta
genus market might offer for ii l -cr
go. Every port irt the Span (fi c',*o
t.tcs and of France* every port in ei
ther of ihe mother countries, every
port in the Gi.rm.in ocean, the Baltic,
the Mediterranean sea, and die Indian
ccan, would have held our irrcfilit
hie allurements to .an enterprising and
adventurous people, who have en
countered the perils, -ind fought she
profits of commerce in every direc
tion, in which our wind blows. Not
a fingic merchant throughout the Uni
•ed States of America, would have
pofleffed felf-command and determi
nation enough todifeharge his sailors.
lay up his veiled, and interdict his
fpecubtions from reflecting on (he pe
rils which surrounded, and the losses
which awaited them ; from compar
ing Ihe trifling chances of fucc Is with
the multiplied hazards of tnifearriage,
attendant on their nrolecution. the
ocean wrtidd have been covered wi h
their (hipping, their sea men and the
productions of their country. And
111 three years their (hipping would
have rotted in (he poris, and their lea
rn e 1 would have rotted in the jails ol
Great Britain and her colonies; while
the captured productions of the Uni
te! States would have afforded en
abundant supply cf neceffarics and
conveniences to the people, whom it
was their hope to endeavor the in
convenirncies ands offering of warfare,
to render jult and 1 quitable to other
nations.
, . rr .uat the enu
t is now n diltrefs and fuf
mrratiorj.^h
would have been entail
<s otj jhc United States of America
>y the events and confeq lences of 9
war, Ihould be brought inu> the fi a i s
and weighed again!! the tottes, diltrefs,
and lufftnngs, under which they | a !
her in consequence of the impofi.ioa
and reftrainis of the embargo.
1 o the embargo is tinputable a to
tal want of employ m. nt for their
(hipping, a Difficulty and deficiency
ot employment for their (eamen. a | U
of profit on their commercial capu.L,
witn glutted markets and inadequate
prices for the produttions of ih.-ir
fi'tl. It is, however, much more tor
the advantage of the Unit and Staten
that their ihipping should be unem
-1 ployed lor a time, than taken from
and ablolutelv loft to them forever
Iby the captures of the enemy. J ( j s
; much more to thnr advantage, rh at
| thttr seamen should experience diffi
jcultv and deficiency of employment
in their own country; than that they
fliould endure the affiittion and nufe
fV of imprisonment in a foreign land :
L is much more for their advantage,
that the profits of their commercial
capitals would he loft than the capi
tals thdmfelves should be in unfuc
cefsfuh (peculations: and it is mm f*
more for their advantage that the pro
duQionsof their foil should glut their
own markets at a depreciated value,
than supply the markets of their ene
mies, at their full value; in (he hands
of their cultivator ; but at a ruinous
price in the hands of the merchant,
who purchaSed and exported them,
It cannot he doubted ih< n. but th.:t
the confeqitences of a war would be
much more detrimental and diltres
lingto the United States of Ame-ica,
than the confequencesof an embargo.
But tne advantages resulting to the
enemy from the pro! cution of a war,
mult r>e further noticed t*. detnonftrate
how intiGken and injudicious a mea
lurr tiie an'iuuciation of hoftibues
would prove.
1 • , >
A declaration of ws- hv the United
States of America, would hat e c xci
ted in Great Brpatn such a fptrit of
hope, activity, ami euterpnzr ; it
would have opened such a held for
hufinds arid employment it would
have turnifhrd (uch means otticqdifi.
don and profit : tt Would hive occa-
fuch an influx of aitic’r*, at
-11 times in requelf, bid at the prefi-nc
tune of the greatest value in the Bii
ttfh markets and of he greatest conse
quence to the Briti'fi nation : it would
have afforded such materials for ga
zettes extraordinary : such a riitai!
and catalogue of brsliiaut afciions and
glorious achieveroen a, that every fool
and every knave in the three king
doms would have ioudlv applauded
the svifdom, and cheerfully contribu
ted to the exegenccs of government.
None but the wife and the good would
have deterred their frlfifhncfs, and ex
ecrated their projects.
In the ale of a war the equip
ment of privateers agamft the Ameri
cans would have become a buiinefo
for the nation. All thoft whse ca
pital* snd vi ifrls had been occupied
in the American trade, Would have
found employment for both, for their
{hips as letters of marque, and for
thrtf funds in fitting out letters of
marque, to erthoy the traffic, in whicti
they were accudrtmed to participate.
Their sailors too by adopting a cha
racter of holtifity would have placed
themlelvrs in a fituatton to obtain a
livelihood. And as armed v* ffej* re
quire a greater number of hand* than
an rchao , *“cn" cnlflc manufacturers, who
I—a oeen thrown out of employment
by an embargo would h-ve found
employment and support on board
private (hips of war.
From the lame lourc# and by the
lame meaus have bsea 4er;Tcd
[Wni No. 170]