Georgia express. (Athens, Ga.) 1808-1809, August 06, 1808, Image 2

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f (■’ run ar,i htjuU tc fall 7 tra. f p>r and >/ utter pervtrfon ana a'w of neutrals, and dejlrulluM of it ir comment end rights. France to lofe aii advantage f ’ neutral fupulits and all ad /autae < f -ito if’ lira’s, & ail advantage of th” revenues ar fing on neutral import and cv urts : and neutrals ‘ve r * j rived at r.ce of all benefits ir •, ;fc j. ;uj V H‘ sand coni imp ■ a*. to o it* J'v-'ich ccn:;nerce. ‘J h • (*;br ! ;.k >f this treaty w< re hto i!tli:; > cuitU r & trade. The v.f.j ; . and meaning of'the t .n!- $ ; March ( ;nd p< >!ltea) in 17pj, ma kby England with Ruf ih; >pain, Fruftu and Auftria, arc k) f t> g, fi> full, 2nd foeorrn rehen five, tut we take all t: * fubfc qncnc retarfi dig tie acts ol France, of-v Min, dd ;a*i, Bayonne, toe. they do not p further ; nor fo far. fr v : inn:l o fd , 17 93, the 7 ; i*r “! p""'rnnr, t took a li rp 3- 1. 1 /fi-r their fuu/l/l ice, Foreign v:,r Hid interna! revolution opprt Id ea Arm at that time, a-d they r und that to;e rp u ovMFmc pow- Titton, Ru{fi:i and Spain, and th : ru to Shoring people of the Ne theriunM, G runny and Spain, all ccurAmed to keep troth them iup ’ pin > o’ pi ovtftons, 0/ land rod fia, b ■ J r A :nf ir ov. too: !k from being fine to France, and by engaging to ufe ail their endeavors i- orcmi! fupplies of bread or any thiagrlfr. being tout to tl at devo ttb country Alarmed, injured, i > od e.d and vitally endangered by thiar.nlav fid violation of cr.-cir rights as belli >, er 3, and by this abide and perverfion of the neutral trade, fup ; cu and right?,’ Fiance, more to fr'ftr. herfilf from ruin than in r£- 1 cnge or retaliation, ordered the .carp ex of the feme ntutruls, thus ir h w’fuilv prohibited their ordinary ti.iuc w ‘ Jv r unblockadcd pom, re oe r. ‘n.d into Juan e ; ed/ as p r :xc, Mr to teed her people and to *. .? fir ■*• th { rices cr the •.•f ocdnaii’.iii.’ If there’wrii an*) thing *Vf hcr v ;• -fb or unkind in t: ■ to', u is pla ■’ 7 .J undeniable, the treaty of England with TANARUS; 1 id her anter or p 26'iccs fu r the j j i cf November pre ceding, brought ic on. France, ] f . to fair neutral trade, and rot feet, tj. nwUtr. Miv of oth r lints L. r.i •.>a n. would have had no ccc . Sonfor this meafure. She had ?. h?ci.r r pht to take the oi neutrals (paying burly for then ) ?•. “rcd :*c* chikirm, than Britain r*d t* prevent the neutrals from in dependent? going to tra-'le in inno cen. goods *> h crane- , in ordei to Farve her. The retro 1.1:ion of fuch a on England,-. (France in ciernnllying the r.cn\ r was agree nb * :o the known lav of nations, the qtn bon is produced fv * ‘ etsUaiirg me furtt of tbs French /, c. f.mcnt ? The anfwer is— Eng* head. She is the cormnbctr of the onginal aggs *. fiions on neurraly, and 1 . .•• :!* of the dttenfive retalia tions o France. In Junl793, England, provok ing me ce.:\ muarcc of fuch me.- lures of V a nee, and avowing it (.o b‘ in n anon oi he March tr aty w th T-d.. ifiued her June orders of counco. to ftop ail * cargoes of ,--js bound in neutral vefTds i'O Fra.-cr. t vas ch>nc to defeat the French liruggles for liberty, and American independent trade and navigation. She had before (tope < eber r.-utrai;, Xiogbind vaunting in thit liiperioricy at ~ which her R- ‘ An treat? give, and which has aggravated r ' lc f3 B c ene- of ebi T.:r e, put tcrfi - c.r ---(k svf j) tc, 1 7 >3. ‘V‘o com pie re her dtl bciare f’ x agairJl neutrals am! ig?inft her h i! gcrent adverik r , Bilra n fecuted a -ndemr.il7 to -er minifiedffcr any order of epun cll, however contrary to the hw of nations, the Comm on law of Eng land or the parliamentary fiatbees. The .6ih fi-cr.rn *1 4he Eigl fii aifl of the t7tfc of June, 1793, in demnifies their miitifiers fur every pofiibl vVAm.r of ru* oni r^ght* ■ and for every p Hbie viola uj of the ufa. es of war among beijige rtnrs unde thofe orders. ‘J hc conftinstion of England was thus changed—J fir.oytci- in order to dtfiroy her cn mv, who is preo nd ed to, be .n a r f ■ gre fi rtri Iu hai jw- Icfs ] defy< u r emy, by a rno- h later decree <jf November, 1807. fii this attempt toddtrc.y an enr nv, neutrals are attempted to be de prived, dosing rhe whole war, of all the pronT En of the law of narom —the : .ar> : l morals. The b?,fe vote of a ‘iuuor Tjarfiment, that an execu tive pr) lama ion of the king of England coofd repeal V .. atTs, was to be realized as toys, or vould be, if we luff r-d", r. Arru-ricans ! Ne ver go r > fea on Rich rm an condi tion?. Probe no v to r e bottom this cancer 0$ your h oor-—-your inters fis- • vour* independ* nee.-—— The her.rt Tu’kcns wi h indignant agitati- ns, v/i\t!. infolent and pernicious of fu< h gofs aggre/lions, baftly li. suits our wrongs by pretending to a teght of retaliation, ‘Tis time for thefts thu gs to end Ihe autumn of 793 exhih ted or? more urols violstu. nof neutral Hghrs bv the Britslh go /efnment. A':i r.fUtr.-l fiij pfies for the- Aencb colonies even of innocent goods deftined to. u blockaded por s to which wt cec.b tr?A by rhe French peace—Am-te < f Ai-yufi, 1784, •<• c* dir toted 11 be feized bv the fecr.'t Oof r of ‘rhe Brirfh king in coorto'l of* fhe 6 h of November, 1793 ; and all Fren h colonhi! pro duce, though neutral p-< p rtv, in l.r vi iT Is ( -V ** a .:s of Eng war irg wuh F aoce, were 10 aumor 3ed to be f 1. and bv the fame ord-T of conn 1 ! Mid and and f potic Britain ! ’ 3 by Inch acts, re pea'rd often i.l! the fumrrer of 1806, that you brought upon your* lelf and upon the mil rai world the B riin decree of rhe 11 th of No vcmb-r, tßc6. Yur Jbbfquent -ids of 1807 nave brought oh cite M* lar iid Bavonne decrt< s, and the American bates, too tfTdtually embarg eel by thefe interruptions 0; netitral trade through your an;- grt (Tions and rhe retaliations of your fi.-er, are rendered forciMv a country tf i ic'flture and rnamtfuns alone. Arm T.ans, cot.fid r for your felvcs the hiftorical irt ihs h-re of ftred ro vour view uk yourfe-ves, whether France, in peace, ever ar reftec! your commerce with Eng land againft French laws, as Eng land did by you fv France in 1702 ? Aflv yourselves, whether it is prov ed on fuch 2u r hcr!fv as that of Ha milton, that France in *7 pc forinu i the pr j:tot or difip.enoberir.g your country, as Briram did ? AO- your feives whether France, in 1*793, a greed with Rufina to aggrefs upon you iri a manner un< by engaging to deprive vouof all com merce with England ? It s very true that France has mad? many ievere decrees, detply afitokmg neutral trade. Heaven knou , that i e do not mean to count~nc.net’ i kancc any wrong - s . k ‘ ■> V ‘ 0 - • ■ trisn. of retaliation upon being an- t e right of me pov.*r at, .ar to draw’ from neutrals thoft be** efits, “-hi :h the other belligerents fab-.t lully t-rces, aid whici the neutral is unwilling or unable to prevent.- This chapter is delicate in the extreme. ’ r s fitter tor men Ir. cor rectly to confiA r, than for ms to ddeufs in this place. *r:s one, 1 owever, wt.ikh emfeienee may net eya It, lot prudence oarlock. *Tis a ti*m- fo examine au confide** all and to aft firmly by the ru'e of t’ght. The wrong doer mull Is brought to a proper enurje , or tis plough and the boe, the anvil and the loom will be our foie employments. —- Commerce is fufpended till Britain ♦*> turns to the law cf nations—she law of morals. * ‘IN 11 then Eng’and and Algiers—-Scotland and Tunis—the un.trd imperial kingdoms of the Bricifii itles ard ;he piratical dates of wretched Barhary rnuft occupy the main. Britons, frown not!- ’ i i.i-your government, who have made tins tmierabie condition of the commercial world. It cannot be c/nctakd—E cam-o be denied. England has made a Tophet of the ocean. She has deft rayed the *• :ide of the wofld by her attempts to monopolixe the whole. She owes her gre??nets’ to the import of mat?rial ,me can no lor.ger procu-e !>y her ii ttrdifted trade— ladnrer flie can no longer fti>— to 3 navigation which has nothing to <o| —to ‘.racie which is amih'-l -tec —to’a nav? which has nothing to conquer—m a lurrounding world, which has Ihut her from us domi nions. jltriscoEa. TO THE PUBLIC. Y r ith deference, the following Cunirr’inicationj are fubmitted to th? co* uration cf the ddieiis* of this flat'. ; and while I deplore the cautos whieh gave birth to them, yet, I viev to is* an Indtfpenfible aft of juft toe Which I owe to my Air and to the Community at large, to give them publicity. MilleJgeviite, July 8, 180$. SIR—-My friend, Lt, Mead, is authorized, in compliance with v ur requetf, to withdraw* my rote* to y- not the 6th irfic.—You will there fore make arrangements with him, to nice: me at a certain dms ar and place, when and where you will give me an opportunity of obtain ing from you that fatisfadion. which the many injuries you have de. e me loudly tail hr, (Signed) H. STORES. li.. &auy. H. Stern, In anfwer to your challenge qf yefterday, for the many imuriev to Edged to be done you, r fienl the following catalogue of obit ft A err, containing as many fictions as there are articles exhibited againfi: the t( fraftion felling comrrfifiion ers, M . and which are deemed com pletely applicable to you: chara&er and present /landing in the tilur.a tion of a large majority of the irr— ]M*fial people of this cornm nitj, a*.i forming’ in my in tod an iefapo rable barrier to a compliance with your requcll; they have hitiierto had a /landing too familiar with the public to furprife you r,ow*with their novelty. Read then, then, 7 his rote has been withdrawn ly a ngte from Mr. Faroe to Ueut. Mead-, both cf which remain in the hands cf Mr. ML Mi linn x for public a* ‘turn, if Mr, Early rcauejls it. iitnc at and : tier ?; if r* . 1 nnocertce, b-rfor! your nrtu to.ure Zeal, ir and fei ( o ta i;*n, hurnes ) a ro r,ik f ttrf ** blood” its an expia.ion of our ‘ F’ rs Fchlicn id. It is a notorious fa ft that you d<d defend the inregri*y of the fraftion fclui * cermntoh rs, from the time that fufpicion be came fir ft attached to their p*u cetdir.gs, un'il articles ofimpercb men: were pr -firred ??. -d :r*. % by the Houfe o ; Reprefsntativrs bee. 16. 1c is a notorious iaft chat you did boaft at the werhh, or In ♦ other words, the rtaliztog of a fo - r fne zc to.uto ii 3. A-id ru u ♦ if there were r. :* receivers there would be nj thieves; canfequi. y can only be teftecl by that o: u * ccmmifii oners. Sec. 3-i. I: to ? to to ihr.t the w.v !e tenor of your converlauon on ‘..fis fubjeft before the Governor, v, to you were in the full tide of fra< .and 1 4 clamour v/as at its ifig eft pitch, tended to diiTu.de nis wave: rg f lales at C..p>. JAiiis's tavern, al kdging tha; “ 1 would yet ho lie wee?—Bit “oeful exp.-rie. . ; teaches the community ta-befic vc that fuch councils were but too ‘ cefsful, and that to jour agency muft principally ( e afcribeci tous iai .- ec’t i-.Ftb*. I A ecu ‘ e. Sec. 4th. Ic is a connuus dc *■ that you have been in the daily a bits of receiving an illegal ar.to dwindling to:e, as Secretary ttoi Executive Depmcfient, vi- v lot ten chts in the tottery ho to I ri, a and .v- appendage of the Gov ernoF<u *■ nu..Ay i d •ft u% rcnuyal only by him, faved you fre • impea-d-ts *c aAt to irh:vg* t . ate*-Ata fdfcoi of the • . W'-^. tur*. , uy. Sec. s:h. T:c t* a notorious r. ‘to ‘ that you dio write a libellous urd 4< Billin ‘gate” produft on, wh'c'* appeared fome time ago in the L •■u ifviilc Gazette, figned, Marcus,' ** in aufv.m * to ’ -e. •; the fradion.a files under the figna ture o: * jack ion,” after you had under Rood that 5 was the rrottf: author of thd? piece in which you endeavor fid tody to affei! my charac-; • tei in a perfo-ia! and an individual M.v_ rr.w # v*F : MT r : .> v c tingyar• - ■•* ! ;■, ths c■ >uh y < frfirdLfiut. Mead, announced that you were ready to and fa vow me as ihn periontherein aimed at ; have you v ;7’ to hi : Tr. . r- ■ [ t chariah I.atnar, Efc*. of tins [ l.r:c, you had the inlblence to declare to my fic?, and juft before the fib.* g of r{ Marcus f> no, that I muto b r j the author of • ’ Jackfon now forfooch, you are willing to give a certificate that I w; s not :hu per ton meant in 14 Mar -uv” prevu. ded I will acc ; urm v ate you in retiL turn, with act rto!’ ate g in; to \ r A validate that valuable and correjjf’ ftatetaent conuto.nf 5 i.- Vl ! ivefEJ§ u.rto • -to? . ip; V *B^ could l thus * ...mml ny co mXryW caufe, and contort in the fane : ft. to receive a ftolto declaration f or? your hand. And why are y c. t duced to this fid dil rritna ? >t r 6h. E :rrfi tis a noto i.ut toft that you been invite-* by ‘ Tfrn Share f through the r. :fi ucn of z ncu , avowing his r. *?,;.•*. * name, 2nd fiiomittirkg to ;0t ; u .!g ----ment whether to afkoi ;iim fi iSU-> nen tor his Mi:'. ire u. on your