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beraufe we had been injured by 3 An
gle nation. Denmark has ui'ed us
well, nor had we any pretence to
quarrel with Russia. I'be two Hanfe
towns, Hamburg and Bremen, had,
for Pome rime pail, taken off quantities
of our tobacco. What have they
done? They receive our {hipping
with the greatefi friend/hip, and they
take from us hnnienfe quantities of
Weft India commodities, which # we
have brought from thence but cannot
consume.
‘ I come now,’ Paid mr. Smith, 1 to
thb great tumbling block, that is
Britain.’ Common pirates only could
have done worse. But we have not
yet made proper representations to
the court of Britain; cr at lcaft we
have not had time to receive a deciiive
anPwer. By plunging into a com
mercial war, we may. lose that amica
ble redress which we might perhaps
have obtained. Mr. Smith read a
paliage from Vattel tending loa par
tial vindication of Pome of the Britifli
proceedings, with regard to the stop
page of our veflels, when going into
-the ports of France. Because the
Bahama islands harbour a gang of
pirates, are we in revenge to quarrel
with one half of Europe ? Pitch, tar,
tufpentine, wood, and other naval
1 tores were admitted into Britain up
on easier terms from America, than
from any other country. If Britain
should raise the duty upon us, to a
level with that upon other foreign
veflels, it would exclude us from car
rying lumber to that country. New
lumber was particularly advantageous
for the irtcreafe of our /hipping ; for
a (hip load of lumber, which u : d not
cost more than five hundred pounds,
would yield a freight of twelve or
thirteen hundred pounds. He was
no admirer of the Britifli nation. He
had fullered by them. He had fought
againftthem—and when his duty as a
citizen should require it, he was ready
\ to encounter them a second lime—
It was not what Britain might futflr
by” thefc proportions that lay to his
hcari- ; but what America mull f-.iffVr.
lie had been Pent into that honic, nor
to make war upon other coun
tries, but oj serve his own. lie was
confident that the object of these re
solutions, at leaf! a, it regarded drip
ping, would he very foou gained by
America without them. We had a!
ready adopted a regulation, which
was doing the bull nets as fait as poll!
ble. In 1790, the foreign tonnage in
our navigation amounted to one third
of the whole. By the impofiug a duty
of ten per cent, we had in 1792 re
duced this tonnage to one flxth part.
If Britain manufactures to the ex
tent of 52 millions sterling per an
Duin, as has been Paid yefterday> and
if America takes off to the extent of
only two millions, can it be reafonab'y
expected that Britain would break h r
navigation act for the fake of a 26th
<to
part of her manufactures ? She had
long been in the habit of coniidering
this act as efiential to her welfare,
and almost as a part of her conitiiu
tion. The old monarchy of France
had net been friendly to the com
mercial interefls of America. During
the political tempest, which at this
moment convulsed the republic, we
could not expect many advantages.
He had no doubt that they would
come by and by. But here he mu ft
observe, that the propositions over
fliot their profefled end. We are go
ing to tax Britifli manufactures in
favour of the French. But when we
have thus gratuitously given to the
republic all that we had to give, it is
plain that we have no hold upon her
for the security of reciprocal ad
vantages. Mr. Smith Paid lie felt as
sensibly as any gentleman in that home
the weight of our obligntii ns to the
French arms ; and as to Pome part of
her late conduct, he would very
frankly forgive and forget it. We
fell 45.000 barrels of flour to the
Britifli Weft Indie* annually. Britain
only insists-on the right of carrying it
herfelf; except on Pome particular
emergencies, when her ports aie let
open to the veflels of America. Shall
we rifque the loss of so va'ua, hi a cnl
torner by capricious regulations? We
are gradually undermining the Britilh
navigation to this country. The ten
per cent, duty prevents Britifli veflels
from bringing us the commodities of
other nations. We are doing by de
grees what it might be dangerous to
attempt all at once. He was averse
to much regulation cf commerce. It
was well laid by a trader, to Colbert,
leave commerce to the merchants.
Theinduflry of this country will very
soon drive all before it.
Mr. Findley never could think that
this country was quite independent,
till commerce was more so. He spoke
of the alarming influence that had
arilen in Pome of our seaport towns in
favour of Britain. lie controverted
lbnie of the propositions advanced by
mr. Smith, the l.dt fpeakfr, and was
more than once interrupted by that
gentleman for having misrepresented
and misunderstood h in. He (aid that
no member of the house would pre
tend to deny, that the Indians had
been excited and alibied by the Britifli
to cut the throats of our back settlers.
1 here was as little doubt that they
had turhed !o fe rlie Algerines to des
troy our flopping ; and he thought
this a very proper season to retaliate.
Mr. Ames wished that gentlemen,
irifteac! ofindefinit. declamation, would
lay their finger on ea h particular
1 wrong that Britain had done to us.
j He did not know of any particular
advantage that we had derived in
our commerce with France. He
wished to and Countenance a l’pirir of
revenge, and to aka-riain on what
fide the oenefit of our commerce lay,
and wherein they confided. He did
not like unfair companions.
Mr. Nirho as Paid, that he would
not. at this t me of da>, attempt to
detain the house any farther than by
just observing, that the practice of
cornf> n1 ) j>ii bad origin m.-d atiiOng the
gentlemen who appealed the resolu
tions.
1 he committee then rose, reported
pfogreis, and a Iked leave to lit again.
LONDON, November 23.
Yell rday it was confidently re
ported that 80,000 roy|liftb had erect
ed the royal ftaudard near St. Ma'oe-:,
who expected to be joine. by a much
greater number as fonn as a Bri'iih
fleet and araiy fiiall appear oIF the
<oah
A gentleman lately arrived from
F. m e, describe? the spirit of the
royal.fts of Normandy, in language
not a littie flattering to our hopes.—•
1 He flutes their numbers to be incalcu
lable, and that they want merely dis
, cipline, and Haunch leaders, to become
j irreliitible. They are inflamed with
I the moil ruo'ed abhorrence of the
Pariflans, as the murderers of their
king, and the deftroyors of their re
ligion He fpeuks wi h the cleared
conviction, that, if alliftance he time
ly given them* these desperate men
will decide the fate of France.
By our accounts from Paris, it ap
pears that the republicans are weak in
Normandy. The general command
ing in tiiat quarter had only 4000
men to cover Cherbourg, St. Maloes,
and all the places in that quarter
threatened by the royalifcs; and, from
the accounts which we feme days ago
dated as coming from Guernsey, we
are certain that the royalists were in
drength in that quarter. The pro
bability is, that lord Moira will find
St. Maloes in pofleflion of the royal
ids and open for his reception.
The national convention are much
alarmed at the progress of the rot.,
alids—They have ordered 26,0 CO
troops of the army of the north to
march immediately to Normandy, to
oppose them.
, BASSETERRE, January 13.
His majesty’s fliip Ulyfles arrived 1
here yesterday from Barbados, by
which we learn the arrival of the
i fleet under the command of admiral
fir John Jervis, at that ifiand a few
days ago ; it conlifts of the following
, fhqis, viz—Boyne, 98 guns, lir John
l Jervis; Vengeance, 74, commodore
Thump on ; Irreliftible, 64; Veteran,
64; Woolwich, 44; Ulyfles, 44;
Quebec, 32 ; Veluvius bomb ketch,
and between 60 and qo fail of trans
ports having on board 10,000 troops,
under the command of iir Charles
Grey, who came out in the Boyne.
The Rose frigate and Zebra Hoop
of war, parted with the fleet and
went to Madeira for wine.
His honour the commander in chief
has been plealed to order the officers
of his majesty’s customs in this ifiand,
to admit to on entry all neutral veflels
loaded with lumber and provilions,
that is to lay, live flock and Inch as
are already allowed to be imported,
by proclamation from neutral islands
in Britifli bottoms, under the fame
regulations that Britifli veflels are
fubjecl to.
Sr. EUSTATIUS, January 14.
We have jult received an extract
of a letter from the honorable John
Stanley, elq. commander in chief
of the islands of Antigua, Montfer
rar, &c. &c. to the collector and
comptroller of the customs at the
ifiand of Nevis; we have only room at
present to fay, that it authorizes thole
gentlemen to admit such lpecies of
provilions, lumber &t. to an entry,
in neutral bottoms, as have been
heretofore, by proclamation, adinit
ed in Britifli bottoms from neutral
islands.
January 1 7.
Bv a letter from Montserrat it is
pofitivcly asserted, that the news ref
peclivg die capture of the French
fleet is true, confirmed by the arrival
of the packet which is now there.
! SAVANNAH, February 15.
It is aflerted in the Britifli Weft
j Inti'es, rliat lord Howe has captured
I the whole of the French fleet,, which
lie was in chare of, as lately mentioned
—upon what foundation this report
rolls, we are yet to learn ; for not
vvitliftanding we have been favoured
with I'cvera! late Weft India papers,
we find no particulars mentioned on
that head, save the vague and unfatif
factory paragraph copied from the
St Euftatius Gazette, of the 17th u’t
The Britifli Windward lllancfi are
all open to American veflels—how
ever* although they at prelent permit
the ingress ot our veflels, there is no
knowing \\ hen they will fuffer their
egress from thence, as there is now a
general and indefinite embargo laid
on (hipping in general, throughout the
Bri f i(h Windward Islands.
On Tueuiay morning lad, in the
supreme court, came on the trial of
Ephram Oxford, for the murder of
mr. Thomas Gibbons, jun. which
lafled till the evening, when the jury
retired, and in about half an hour re
turned into court with their verdict—
mccnjlaiighier.
Marrif.dJ —John Peter Ward,
efq- to mils Hetty MTntofh, daughter
of general Lachlan M'lntofli—Mr.
Philip Ilfle, to miss Polly Wilk’mgs.—
Doctor Levi Meyers, of George
Town, (S. C.) to the amiable unfs
Frances Minis, second daughter of
the late Philip Minis, elq.
By a gentleman who arrived here,
on Thursday, in the schooner Betsey,
last from St. Euftatia, which ifiand
she left ihe 28th u!t. vve are favoured
with the following,
SHIP NEWS.
T.ijl of American i est Is, laden with American pro
perty. libell'd in St. K.lts.
Brig Mercury, Sill, Windsor, Con, Nov. 21.
Diana, Gardner, New York, Dec. 2.
Bcthiah, Lathrop, Boston, Dec. 7.
Sterk, Holland, Newbury-Port, jaa. 8.
Brig William, Trow, Ncwbury-Port, Jan 1$
Martha and Mary, Staufllui v, B •t.tnore
Hetty, Sullivan Philad. Dec. 19. Jan.lß,.
Schoonerl.ucy, Grant BOIIOIV
Atlantic. M iliall Befton Dec. 2.1.
Charming Sally,Crow ninfliitld,Salem
Sally, Gray, Salem. Jan if. fjan.o.
C.-mmerte, Bouton Fairfield C Jan i
Seaihnvi r,Savage Middletown,C. do.
Alathea,Sprague,Providence, Jan. 17
Ceres, kcbinlon, JStw York, Jan. 1.
Sloop Swallow, Fitch, Norwich, Con. Jan. 19,
Dove, Ilaacs, Baltimore, Jan. IT.
Dove, Hatnpftcad, Wcathersfield, Jan. 12.
Union, Warner, Hartford, Con. Jan. 19.
Dolphin, Cranflon, P.h. Ifiand, Jan. tj,
Fhe above vrjjels and property are at
upwards */152,000 dollars.
American vejjels condemned at Montserrat .
Brig Maryland, Stran, Baltimore,
Schooner Peacock, Blaney, Marblehead
Polly, Stillman, New London
Sloop Bet ft y, Spurr, Charleston
Experiment, Trowbridge, Ncw-Havea
Diligence, Cunningham, Smithlicld
American vejjels libelled at Montserrat.
Brig Lydia, Caiket, Boston
l ‘vo Brothers, Endicot, Salem
Hindi Putnam, Salem
Richmond, Day, Portsmouth
Schooner Rachel, Lee, Manchelkr
I,aura, Pond, New-Haven
Sloop Polly, Lifter, New-London
American vejfels left at St. F.iflalia, fan. 28,
Brig Ann, Slow, New-Haven
Frie-ndiliip, Harden, Old York
George, Smith, New-Haven
Luciclia, Howland, New Bedford
Schooner Argo, Church. Baltimore jf|&
Sally, Smith, New-Haven
Nancy, Ollin, Portsmouth
Betfev, Carl, Baltimore
Price and i.iberty, Glad, New-York
b/oitti of' the coafl
Kitty, Brenton, Wilmington, Del.
Sloop Polly, Balker. New York
Hannah, Crocker, Falmouth
Industry, Shearman, Chartcfton
William, Briggs, Rhode Ifiand
Sailed from St. F.uflatia , January 28.
Brig Triton, Kidgway, Philadelphia
PORT NEW S.
enter e and ixir. jr and.
Flip Jinn, Du'udfm, Si 1 vannub-le- JMar , Jamah*
Brig Jinny, Hoare , Philadelphia
Schooner Let fey, Young, Kingfon ? Jitfiaica
Pl’za, Hugles, A ft* Provident*
Harriet, Coffin Bojlon
Bctfey , Adams, St • b.ufutia
Sloop Ft endjhip, Ylumas, Sunbury 1
L. agle, Pdfs, Char left on
l)ovc, Rogers, Char If on
l iarmOny , M Cdr ‘Jrnck , Philadelphia
P, udcnCr, King, lief on
Greyhound, Miller % Chatlefon
1 -our Coy ms, Latham Sag Harbour 3 A* I*
P zarro, Coffin “Turk's If and
CLEANED OUTIVABD.
Schooner Set fey, Watlington % Hardwick
Relief, St* Vincent % St, Alary
hop Uxbridge Packet, Alooriy Char If on
Four Cousins, Latham , Cb.nlfun
Lively, Shearman, Sunbury
liagU, Ro/s, Cb jr If on
L L s -
On New TOl k or Philadelphia ,
May be had, by aplilvTiiJ-to
Ci. DENISON.
Savannah, February 15, 1794.
WANf ED, ~
Immediately, cr In the cow fc 0} this month,
Ti n THOUSAND white oak and
HICKORY HOOPS, fit for mola/Tes
hogfheails. Anyperfon willing to furflifh that
or a smaller number, may apply to W* Wood
villc, on board the fchoorter Bonira, of Balti
more, at Mr. Alexander Watts’s whirs, whc.
will pay a generous price, in CASH.
Savanna/. Feb. 15, 1794.
N. B. Choice mcC beef, pork, pickled sal
mon, and excellent butter, in firkins, will be
bartered for likely young flavei.
ELIZABETH PASHLEY, i
INFORMS her friends and the public, thaln
Ihe lias just taken a house opposite the’
Hutch church, where she prepofes taking in,
all. kind* of I
NEEDLE-WORK & WASHING, |
which will be executed in the best manner, and I,
on reasonable terms.
Silk fockings STOTFD and made to look nearly 1
as ni ell at new.
Savannah, February 15, 1794. ’
STOLEN OR STRAYED,
FROM the ftibfcriber, on the 2d of January, I
tilt, a bright bay horse, rising nine years )
old, fourteen hands three inches high, has a’
black mane and tail, brtjndfd on the near butt
took with K. A. and on the ofF buttock IJfr
w. |
a heart on one of his shoulders ffuppofed to be.
the mounting one). If stolen, twenty dollars ,*
reward will be paid for the horse and thief,:
or eight dollars for the horse alone, by
EDWARD GRIFFITH, |
ON FHE BAT.
Savannah, February ij, X 794. j