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About Columbian centinel. (Augusta, Ga.) 18??-???? | View Entire Issue (Sept. 23, 1809)
i i ■ a- • From a laic London Paper. PROCLAMATION OF DON SANTIAGO LINERS, Viceroy, Governor and Captain-Gene ral of the provinces ofßiode Plata, and their dependencies, Right of the order of St. Juan, &c. “ The GeniusofDiscord accumulates his acts of frenzy, but his fleeting tri umphs have already ceased to exist, and he perceived with shame and rage, that his hopes must yield to the valor ,of the Spaniards. Wavering between guilt and dispair, be multiplies in vain his seductive arts to shake the fidelity and humble the dignity of the Spanish American provinces. His criminal cal culations and ceaseless clash of false hood and truth, form the weak supports of those papers and lying rumours spread by the infamous satellilies of Napoleon. I would condescend to fe rtile minutely those false reports, al though the contradictions with whicli they abound, prove sufficiently that they spring from ignorance and partiality, were I not addressing a people soillus ous as that which 1 have the honor to Command, and did not the unconnect ed, relation of the successes of the en emy, although described in their usu al inflated style, compared with the in telligence which we have received, and to which we may give credit, shew be yond all doubt, the reality of our vict ories, and tiiat Bonaparte and his sa tellities are hastening to the tomb. A thinking man hears with contempt of the entrance of the French at Madrid, because be well knows it will only serve to lengthen the list of our triumphs. What advantage can they reap from th*;ir penetrating into the heart of ani tion where they cannot subsist, and where they have no other alternative than to fall victims to hunger, or sur render to our troops, by whom they are surrounded ? Let us recollect, that when, during the war of succession, the enemy entered Madrid, it proved their ruin. Spain now contends with a single foe ; then, without foreign as sistance, or any othev forces hut its own, it caused Europe, whose powerful kingdoms had sworn its ruin, to trem ble. The numerous armies wnich then entered Spain in every direction, to take possession of Madrid, and the greatest part of the Peninsula, we completely routed and conquered. At this mo ment, when out forces and our resour ces are infinitely superior, what ought we not to hope from our tried and in trepid warriors? What impression ought the miserable and ephemeral success of the French at Madrid to produce on our minds ? Before the middle oflast-January, it has undoubt edly passed away like smoke.—The bent which the political affairs of Eu rope has taken, and the influence of the cabinet of St. James’s over all the world, give us well founded hopes that Austria has broken oft' its diplomatic relations with France, whose frontiers are threatened by a formidable army. The Turks have openly resumed hos tilities against the Russians. England has sent her fleets and armies, and transmitted her energy to Naples and to Holland. In a word, all the kinr # . O doms rise from their lethargic slum bers, and the last victories of our ar mies are the harbinger of liberty to Europe. Our whole nation is united Under the protection of a wise and re gular government. The Spanish and the British empires have calculated their forces and real power, and five and twenty millions of souls shall never yield to the sophistry ot an impostor. This is the true state of things, which will pt rpetuate the honour and the glory of the Spanish name and its im mortal allies. But nos Ayres, March 13, 1809. Very Late and Important. BALTIMORE, Sept. 7. We are informed, that the destruc tive battle of the ‘id to the 6th July was fought nearly on the same ground as the sanguinary conflict of the 21st and 22d May. That the Archduke Charles had constructed numerous batteries to cover all the approaches to the position of his army ; that on each successive day of the battle more and more of the batteries fell into the hands of the French, until at last, the Archduke, having his army reduced to 40,000 men, proposed an armistice, and retire, which was granted, upon his giving up the various important posts on the Da nube. Our informant adds that the Senate of Hamburgh were furnished with details of the bloody contest on the 24th of July, who caused them to * Ke posTishecl in alternate columns in French and German. That the bridg es thrown over the Danube were con structed in a few days by the seamen from Jioiougne; that several Austrian officers of note fell and none of celebrity . among the French, and that although the details of this engagement were published at Berlin by the French Am bassador, yet the Austrian minister was silent on the subject, which was not the case with him after the battle of the 2l*>tand 22d May. The gentleman who gave this information is not a little displeased at those federal editors who have attempted to render his veracity questionable. September 6. Upon an investigation of our Danish papers our translator in iormsUis that that they contain nothing- of moment other than the annexed translations. It ap pears that on the 14th July, the day on which the paper of the 15th was put to press, the last grand ei igagement was not known |of at Copenhagen. The captain j of the Inca informs us that it was j known at the Sylt for at least a | fortnight before he sailed—he had | read the French Bulletin contain y • : mg an account of the engagement j and also the terms of the Armis ; tice. It is more than probable that the emperor of Austria will be reduced to a pettv uotentate •I* v i : m an obscure corner of Europe ; j report says Hungary. We can take no delight in the 1 effusion of human blood, nor j can we be in any wise elated with j the successes of any monarch on! earth. Yet when our very exis-1 tence as a nation is menaced by j the lordly tyrant of'the ocean, die ; stroke of that arm, which is lifted with success to arrest the strides towards universal marine domi-! nation, it can neither impress us with fear nor fill our minds with i illomened dreams about the march of the Corsican usurper. Baltimore Ame. FROM A GERMAN PAPER. From the Danube July 2. They write from Vienna un der date of June 29, that thei French are making preparations | to cross the river, so that a deei-; sive battle is momently expected to take place. From Saxony July 3. The Austrians are driven from Saxony, in which their whole dis posable force never exceded 6,000 men. From our Danish Papers. TRANSLATED FOR THE AMERICAN. On the 28th June the embalm ed body of the duke of Monte bello, in a waggon, with six hor ses passed through Augsburg for Paris, Leipte, July 2. Yesterday passed through this place in great speed, a Persian courier, from i Russia, to the head quarters of : the French Emperor. Copenhagen, July 15. On the 7th of July 10 English vessels of war landed 400 men at Cuxliavcn, and Ritzbuttel of which places they immediately took possession. It is said that . die English have also landed 3 some troops at Bremerlche.— j On the 11th of July 18 English . armed vessels were seen to lay , oil the mouth of the Elbe, appa i rently with troops on board.— - L'hey have raised the fort of ' Ritzbuttle. The Duke of Brnn , iAvick, Oels, is still in Saxonv. ) » FROM ELSINEUR. Notwithstanding our anxious ‘ hopes, that American vessels \ v ith colonial produce, bona fide i the property of American qiti- V zens, would be suffered to trade with us unmolested, which hopes were so strongly manifested tfiat several American vessels have already entered our ports, it ap pears however that \vc have been deceived. American trade at this moment is entirely at an end. Nobody doubts that colo nial produce of the first necessity belonging to neutrals, would have been freely received in our harbours* & would have brought a good price, as the state of the market proves ; it could be w ish ed that American vessels, laden with colonial produce, the prop erty of American citizens, and coming direct from America, would be permitted to visit our ports. Immediately after the embar go in America, was jtaken off, we were told thro’ an English channel rthut 150 vessels were ready with their cargoes to sail from different ports of the United S- bound to the Baltic. We soon after saw several vessels piss, bearing the United States colors, part of them under English con voy, and part otherwise, the lat ter were - brought in by our pri vateers, into different ports of Denmark and Norway. Six ves sels bearing the American flag, have been carried in, we have seen no more of them for these four weeks past. This quick : termination of the arrivals of ; American vessels is easy compre : hended. We entertain no doubt | that there pretended American vessels are nearly connected with the rulers of the Sea, and we are the more induced to believe it so, since the remainder of these spo ken of vessels have ceased to 1 arrive. It is more than proba ble that their near neighbors have advised them to stay at home. September 5. Last evening arrived at this port the brig Inca, Mezick, m 53 days from the island of j Sylt, Denmark, which place he left on the 30th July. We have been favored with a file of Copenhagen papers down to the 15th Ju ly, from which we shall give translations to ; morrow. * Captain Mezick informs that he had read I the French Bulletin giving an account of ave , ry severe engagement between the Emperor Napoleon and the archduke Charles. The French crossed the Danube on three bridges which were previously completed, and, com menced the engagement on the second of Ju ly. The battle continued four days succes sively. The archduke Charles was badly wounded, and fted with 40,000 men into Bo hemia, leaving 60,000 Austrians on the field of battle. The French stated the>r own loss i to be comparatively trifling. On the Bth July, an armistice was concluded for four weeks, and Bonaparte was in possession of all the strong holds in Austria. It was not known ' where the Emperor of Austria was. The j Russians occupied a great part of Gallacia, hut j had not formed a junction with the French. A few English ships of war with 300 troops on board, took possession of Cuxhaven the same day the battle commenced between tbe I French and Austrians, and as there was no j French troops in the myghborhood, were still i in possession, from whence they carried on a ' great smuggling trade with the continent. The Capt. had not heard any thing of the ! grand English expedition sailing, or its desi nation. The Danish government appears very friend ly towards American vessels arriving safely into Danish ports, but their privateers take every American vessel they come across, whether bound to Danish ports or not. Their privateersmen in conjunction with corrupt judges are complete pirates, over whom the government exercises every little control. These privateers generally mount from one to four guns, and with a small force are easily resisted. Out of 100 American vessels so called, ar riving in Russia, 98 had been condemned. The Inca sailed from this port immediately j after the raising of the embargo and arrived j at Tonniugen the beginning of May, from whence she proceeded to Sylt. In consequence of raising the buoys only, two Americans ar rived safe at Tonniugen without getting a shore, and several were lost. The evening before last, the British fri gate D’AtVicame, with Mr. J ackson onboard lying a little below the mouth of the Severn hailed the Inca, to know if she was a priva teer, and being answered in the negative, made no further enquiry. PORTLAND, August 24. From Halifax. —Yesterday ar rived here, the schooner Union, Blanchard, 5 days from Halifax. Air. Robins a passenger informs, that a London packet arrived there on the 9th, immediately after which the gave rnor assemble his council and an order was issued for all American vessels! o depart from the port after the 15th inst. An additional order was after wards issued, permitting the en try of American vessels, with cargoes agreeable to former re gulations, until the 15th of Sept, next. A large ship had arrived from England, with 8000 casks of gumpowder on board, i From the Enquirer. The example of Great Britain may be useful apd tnronraging to us, as A manufacturing nation. To show the ra pid steps which ahe has taken for the last 37 years, in the use and wot king of Cotton, will only be toshowthc improve - ments which may be made in the United States in the same tracks, by the aid of machinery. It, in these points of view, the followiug extract from “ Ob servations on the Cotton trade of Great Britain,” plinted at Glasgow, should not fail to be interesting to ouFelvt*. It may at least, be so, as it shows the present importance of a great manufac ture to the interest of the British em pire. In the year 1765, cotton, as an articleof commerce, was scarcely known in this country. “ A few years afterwards, Mr. Ark wright obtained his patent for working cotton by machinery. “ In 1782, the whole produce of the cotton manufacture did not exceed two millions sterling. “ In 1801, the import of c otton wool into Britain was forly-lwo millions of lbs. and the estimated value of the cut ton manufacture filled) millions ster ling: such was the rapid increase of this trade to the end cf the vear 1801. “ From tiie documents procured, it appears, that the import of this article in 1802, has ne t been less than fifty lour millions ol lbs. and the particulars of the trade are as follows : “ The raw material, when delivered on board the merchant ships, now costs about four million-, sterling. Upwaids of thirty thousam: tons of shipping, arid about two thousand seamen, are con stantly employed in bringing,the cot ton wool to this country, anil in expor ting the goods nsamd'actui td from it. io work the wool into thread, requires a capital in building and muchinuy, to tbe amount of nine millions two hundred and twenty-live thousand pounds; and those buildings and machinery, ate chiefly composed of bricks, slates,glass, timber, lead, iron, copper, tin and lea ther, from most of which, in one shape or other, a considerable duty is collect ed for the support of the stale. “ I his trade gives employment or support to upwards of tight humirecl thousand individuals, and the annual I return of the manufacture is nearly as follows: “ Cost of cotton m the ; countries where ii grows } insurance, freight, other j shipping charges be mcr > chant’s protilt, lbs 4,725,000 | 11 The interest, at five ; percent, upon the capi j talof 9,225,000 lbs. sunk t | in building and machine ry, with 10 percent, for i wear and tear-of ditto. 1,383,000 “ Wages of spinning, value of materials consu med in the process of spinning the cotton into thread, and spinner’spro fit* , 5,1^0,000 “ Value of materials consumed in subsequent manufactures, manulec turing wages, inter st of | capital and profit, lbs 9,000,000 I ins 20,188750 ! Os which sum, at ieasl thirteen mil lions sterling are paid in wages to the natives of Great Britain.” Notice. THE Copartnership of Geo: F. Ran dolph., b“ Co. b iviug this day dis solved .v mutual consent all persons indebted !••• said firm are requested to make ; us mediate payment lu Geo: F. IE no .Iph.um! ail tin.se iving demands are d.sirt 1 to r< m ■ v them in to him for payment. Oi.O: 1. H tXDOLPII, 1-1. T. ■'J V ■ XiX CK. May 27th, ’.Bos'.
