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AMERICAN ADVOCATE. m. xxxiii] FUBLIFHED WEEKLY, ON THURS DAY MORNING, BY GEORGE W. WHEELER # J\tt£S CLARKE, AT THEIR PRINTING-OFFICE, IN TH R (Lowkk) SOUTH-WEST ROOM OF THE OLD STATE-HOUSE AT THREE DOLLARS PER ANNUM— OJ j 5 IV ADVANCE. * ■■■■■ S JEFFERSON b V Be.RioR t U lat \. APRIL TERM, 1816. RULE__NISI. UPON the petition of Jesse Brown, praying the establish* ment of a Receipt in full from one Mordica M’Lain, dated the 3d of April, 1814 —a copy whereof as nearly as can be recollected by the petitioner is annexed to said petitions and pr<. b.ble cause ap pearing to the Court, that the same is lost and ought to be es tablished $ It is therefore ORDI RED, That at the expiration of six tnonths, the said receipt be es tablished unless sufficient cause be shewn to the conttary.—And that a copy of this order be pub lished in one of the public gazettes of this state, once a month for six months, in terms of the rules of Court in such cases made and provided. Extract front the initiates, D. CLARKE, CJk. ” ADMZSISTIUTORS’ SALE. Wilt be sold, on Thursday* the \7tfi Ort&ht.r n. xt, tit tkr plan tat ion of Jonathan Drake., late of Burke county , deceased , Ail the personal property of said deceased; consisting of Hor ses, Cattle, Hogs, Sheep Corn & Fodder, Plantation Tools, House hold St Kitchen Furniture, and other Articles too tedious to men tion. Terms made known on the day of sale.—Sale to be con tinued from day to day, until com* pleated. Judy Drake, Adm'x . Elias Dr*ke, Adm'r , sth Sepe. 1816. w . mfrnET All those indebted to the es tate of Jonathan Drake, of Burke county, dec. are requested to make immediate payment, and those having demands, will ren der them in attested agreeable to law. Judy Drake, Adm'x. Elias Drake Adm'r. Sept. 19,1816. WILL BE SOLdT On Thursday the 24th Oct next, at the plantation of George Franklin, late of Washington county, dec. All the personal estate of said deceased. Among which are Cattle, Sheep, Hogs, Horses, plantation Tools, household h kitchen fur niture, together with a Cotton ma chine. Vaskti Franklin, Adm'x* Jas. W. Franklin, Adn r> Sept. 19, isia LOUISVILLE, THURSDAY , OCTOBER 3, 18 is. From the National Intelligencer. A few vrords will suffi'e to explain the origin of-the following letters. In a late number of the British Quarterly Review, lhre appeared a battfiy abusive attack on the char* ter of eormnoaoro ptjRTRR, tho accomplished hero of the Essex, t his ar ticle we did not uotiee, uor did we copy the comments that had been made on it, because it appeared to us unworthy even of enstig don. Mr. Cobbett, the celebrated British writer, has, through the medium of his Be gisfer, addressed the commodore on this suu iu an article vvhLh we have takvn ih liberty to insert below, as being the ground work of the letter in reply to it. We are pleased at the opportunity of spreading captain Porter’s letter before the public ey e [From Cobbetfs Register, of April 27,] jTo Commodore DAVID POR'i'KK, of the United States’ Navy, Hatley, 27th April , 1810. ! Sir—ln the last Quarterly Review but one, there wi# a very base attack upon you character and conduct. In order to con vince yon, that you ought not to suppose that atl my countrytir.en approved of an h vile publications, I inserted in No. il of. this volume, a letter to the author or e< ho. of that work, whose name is CTm. Gifford I there gave an account of r.hia literary her-' 5 but in mV statement of what he re ceived out of the t ixes, I was.! feud, truiify of ?.□ omission, which I now pro* eed io cor rect I said he bed been awarded with u ssn°-ure of more tL u 3 ‘>ol under th< till of Cleric of ike Foreign Estreats, and h>t be was ti Commissioner of he Lottery. But, I now find thnt he h*s soot er ;* &■'?; that is, ■b* place of “ Paymaster of the Hand of Gentlemen Pensioners,” at 3001. a year. A most suit’ hi-’, office, you will suy for the whipper-in of a set of hired rievj.-i weisi— Wbat py-ti ular Band of pensioners this may he Ido not know. Perhaps the whole Bond may be Reviewers; it so. sir, I leave you io guess what i eh nice the journal ot your celebrated stood iu their hands ’ 1 gave an account in No li ot the con do-t of this writer iu the a*s£ of Peter Pin dar and Anthony Pasqoiu, and alio of the conduct arid character of the judge Kenyon. 1 In short, I Shewed what the baseness of Re viewing really w s, iu England. But, sir, I must Ag in beg of you and your country men and ail foreigners, to keep your eye : steadily fixed upon this feet that Writers like Mr. Gifford, are in this country, ab solutely in pay of the government; that is to say, they five upon the taxes, and of ;< ourse assist in producing pauperism and misery. This is not the ease in your coun try. ‘There a Writer if be get rich, or if Ihe five by the pen, must receive hie in ’ some from the people who voluntarily btiy ; his works. There be need care little about his readers—his payers are the only per sons that he need cure for, gs that he does case for. This writer nulst have known very well how buse it was in him to assault your h tractor jin the manner that he did ; whu a shameful prostitution of talent he was gutl yof j but his mind hud nor many years beau mt*de up to that, and had been seored against ail re-flection# of that sort, j You Mil! naturally ask, how wo can tol -1 crate, how we can endure, how we can ! submit to see our money retied from ikj in taxes, and earned with cur awe- 1 and almost i with our very b*od ; you veil I naturally usk how ne can submit to see our money giveu to a man like this, while we see nearly two million of paupe s overspread the laud— i If, indeed, he hud ever in his whole life time rendered any sort of service to the j country ; if he had served, at any time of his life iu the army, the navy, or io any o ther branch of public business; there might be some excuse tor the heaping ©t these sutns of money on him ; but, to give this mun, who was a few year# ago tutor to lord Bel grave, and who has never been iu any kind of public employ* an income qoai that o* five or six Lieutenants of the Na vy, is, you will say, an aet tor which th employers of this man ought to be hanged, it being neither more nor leas than & rob bery of the people. However, sir, I think I can now defy Mr. Gifford's talent at falsehood and deception as far as relates to America; and if hr continue to deceive the people here, those people are uot to be pitied. lie is one ol those, whose labors, though they tend to keep up the delusion for awhile, will in the end, make the fall of tyranny more complete ami more memorable. I have the pleasure to assure you, thas one, wh. m 1 have heard speak cntl subject, has reprobated ihe towardly am viperous attaek made on you by this sine cure as# iUnt; but, strange as you will think it, very few persons her-’ know that „i< statement which represents the Essex to have been captured by one English ship is a falsehood. There is hardly any one in England, out of the pule of ihe aduii rally, who does not firmly believe thet you were beaten and captured by the fhebe alone J But if you Could kuow the state of oil r press, you would not wonder at this. As to all in liters, relating to the war with America, this nation, generally speaking, are nearly \s ignorant ai are the dogs and horses.— A# far however as the troth has made is way with regard to its exploits, they have received the adrifir tion w.neh is due to diem, and there are many men in Engl ‘hd, i .oaon -st whom 1 am One, who most S.m ere!y i wih you health, happiness and success iv your present important employment of ad ding to the strength of that navy, towards he fame of which you have so largely on tvib ited. We, who entertain these wishes, .re very far from and .siring to gee the power ipd fame of out own country dittti -Lbcd VYe are tor the prosperity and honor of En gland in preference to t?o#c of all tho rest .•f the world But, we by uo ae.nus be .ieve, tb t the overturning s >f your sya Uni of •foverumoat, that tha of lhf> example set by you, w<*a<d teud to tiip pro -ersty and boaor of jSngliud it k iug i;u yossibte for u-. to uve &u id fi a of national ...rosimru-v ;nd honor, not a v ompanied with eat liberty lo short, we are uot be as e no'ji h to oeueve, lb u our urUsperity* ->r miv honor, would be ad van ed by ur cnab'iug 4 g*ag of tyrants, who’ ore couti itial y rob biag uad insaitiog us, to suej /gate you § ,J, therefore, iu every und *ri kiug, whieu does not tend to the abridgement of vbe known t ights of our r'PUalry, and whi h do tend lo to freed'.in power to struggle against md fin illy to despotism, we most cordially wish you Mineess. 1 am, sir, your most bbeiiunit servant, WM. COBBETT. P. S. This Yery minute I have received a letter from agenileintu in Sussex, who* Lnever fc.h s-he pleasure to see iu tiny lii\ ipfoi itiing me that ac:ideut his pot iotO his Linds, nud that he has forw rd and U> in.*, a ‘>art of the gilded ropes, made use of ia i'ic ve isels en aged iu th© e ver oicKiorab U fight on the serpentine river, which ropes i w>. as soon as possittle, rao 4 assuredly send to you. V’erUaps yui mi*.y have fiorsvotien th ? . piece of Naval littery here referred to-- In 1814. w!eu the kings, our attic** were in Ragland, there was a sea-fi ’hi hi mitiio ture contrived, in ordef to give Uiem an i- Idea of our pro w -ss The s eiit* was a large pond in one of the parks near Loudon.--—— !l -re vessels wereerceteb,, gun? pel oa board of them, aud every thisg else done thin was calculated to givs the thing aa air ol reality. . The English Fleet and the Amer ican F&t came to actieu in fifte style J the coni.’s was uucommauly obstimde; but* ! last, pocr Jo/.athan was coinpeiied to hau dowa his “ bits of striped bunting,'’ ado 4< submit to our giiT.a -.u.d ui’goanimeus tars. 9 * At this result of the ’omhit, not Iciis than perhaps two huudrtd thousand vcises msde the air ring w; h huurs of triumph f while at ve-y neatly the s me moment, a whole squadron ©f real English ships were hauling lown iheif eolo s lo an inferior Americn squadron, outrun Glided by commodore M’DonoUfjh, on L ke Ch'tn plain! We who really love our country, do not. think her honored io victories fike that of the Serpentine river s nor, though we are always aoTy to her of any of our fouutrytneo being defeated when we con sider them merely as oi r countrymen, can we lament at their overthrow and humilia tion, when we consider them the tools of despotism, employed in the work of des troying liberty abroad, in order to enable that despotism more firmly te rivet the . hains about our own necks* ToMr.Wm CoBS£YT.B->Ti.Er, Exslakd. Washington, July 29, Isl 6, Sir—Messrs. Gab** St Seaton, edi ors of the National Intelligencer, did me the fa vor yesterday to send in * a copy of No. 17, vol. 30, of your Register, containing a let ter addressed to me, which l rerd with much attention, and felt myself gratified and flat tered by the notice you have taken of me 1 had previously read the Review to which you would h‘ ve drawn my attention, and although uoa< quaiuted with the uauie of the author until it was made known to me by your letter, I was fully persuaded it was the production of oue of those pen sioned writers, who have for some time past been employed to bfteken our national har'aeicr, hoping thereby to make that ol : heir own country app ftr by the contrast more fair. I considered myself u#ed it* this instance only as a gto.iking horse* In th I *. tburse of my narrative I have told some truths and expressed seme fie#!- ipsrs respeetmthe condst 1 and character of British naval officers, whi -li has d r awn oa me their reseutinent, as w- lits that of the Reviewer's. My reasons for me king krowu ’ t‘iose truths, and expressing tkos ,> feelings* h ve uot yet been s-gi f.etoriSy explAiued fy me, and to yoj, *.ir, I give an explana tion, as the first hnd only Engii&l m&i!. wha hos ever, to tny know led e- np p’s and i is disapprobation of that system cf persecu tion which h- s ’.ecu practised S'?uiost me, from the eouunememeut oj hostilities to j the present mornent. I Yen, sir, have seen yoor print* teeming J with abuse against me; you sir, have r . ea my only advoente iu Er eland bv>ve si leiitly burn the iosuiis that bav c been •=> p edon me. although I have see? :n seif hung in ffiey bis dc *ur veoerahle v > ,t*y re spected c!i f magistriie; *• v.** y epi J that oold disgrace and Af inf ivy ha j character of fn ‘• *i 3 hren mo lw n ‘ifu ly | lavished on m? * I h>e bee cov.'ardlv ue i eeived* and b • sel} at a< ked •in the neutrality of * p?r indirtb* wora of a British offi e?. nod v ’.iile he proiegs J *o me gratitude And friendship, I hve been cruelty arrcgi and in my to my coutfiry, while * orfidiug in h f- cr> and ch-*r | aster of 3 g ol’ truce, woutonly Insult dt :in my own feeliti|*s, uiid witnessed‘Ve iu* | suits to w'icb hry brave offi ei> at and me a were subjected, whose wounds and ..nS- r iugs became . ino kery to a cruel audov r* beuring enemy. I, sir, only es pea * e(ij iu e per>cu ions and tD'sults that were iru. terdt and me, i y flight, at the ri-k of u y life* to an open boat. 1 have been, since, vilely traduced ty every petty whelp in tho n* vuf service of your king; I have been declar* cd by yar rdmirsls and by your esptuinis being beyond the pr le of honor—threats have officially been held forth toward rae, nnd scarcely an Erglishmaa ex -ept those iv ho have beeu in my power but 2ia caught the ccotageon. My prisoners heve haa a different opinion of my coodurt and charsc* ;:er, m ill forced to je’.a wi b the throng and osait ta the general ibrrenf of deiamationo Such coi duet on the part of your ptopio UrttduCi.fi feelings of fruenttet n’- in n.nd under su h circumstances it should not have tic aaioned suvprize* that i in some in* stances -fpressed them I have told only ruths, of wbi h let those judge who beat know British officers. I have confined my •.eif to tha ev'ems of myesuise. I have re- Ifeted noae of those events of a domestic na ure, the recollectioa of whi k stafi k cp* a live the of every true American;— i have not told of the or.sluet of admiral Cos khurn, c f the massacres on our fron it rs„ !i(>;* of the vA’ i dU’ rob irries, rap i s* mur* d?rs, &c. vvhi L have been per, e ra.ed try <hn orders and under the eyes of the com* manders in chief 5 hrve told none ettaeso things; I leave this task to some future historian, who vv : die he vu dieaies my char terer will p int in ibeir rne colors ibe heroes of your navy, on whom “ Blt.a* ing honors” have been he peri, for ppu tiaing unequalled croc I ties a;, iust ou* unprotec ted nd unoffending cit 2* us. Your Cock nnd year Anson must Lot escape; they have been maishslh and agiiost me, and ihtiv ashes will b? dis-*dirb'd. The bcußiurd will tell of tin vhonton deshu too of Payts, and of cruellies to his connirymen on tha o f e p <rt, v> bile other pens will to*l of (ho equally wonton destruction of the uaoffeud itng natives on ts;e otlser, uutil Ueavea, pro voked at the innumerable outrages against humanity, consigned this man, who - fives for oil age*,” to the vengeance of an injur ed and justly exasperated people, wbo, by depriving him of his file, gave vo haai his hnmcrtality. ’* he conduct of all may ba strictly semtiniz and, bid those vhe hav© been for a long time your netiAn’s may prove iu the end yonr nation ? g re proicta. You have your-elf given a striking example of the change that may be produ ced in public opinion* by the pen ot a single individual who employs himself iu the search and exposition ot liuift. Wt also pens in this pan of the world, able to vindicate our national character from unjust aspersions, by nvikint; known truths; and the book, entitled the Exposition of the Causes and Character of the late War, is a specimen of what can u® done here iu that, way. It has remained thus long unanswer ed, and we may therefore presume that it is unanswerable. It will be time enough when we receive England’s reply to that paper, to notice the abuse whi h has beeo thrown out against us to the criticism on my Journal. We are in no haste ; we intend i© taka our own time ; and chouid we r ®ldyfi <ll voui heroes shall have their share of notice ; eteft Morgan, whose name hue btea [Vol. I.