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ATHENS, GEORGIA: PRINTED BY M'DONNELL y HARRIS. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1808.
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FIFTY DOLLARS REWARD.
S FRAYED
TEROM the Public Stable on the
A Okmulgee feme lime in Fe
bruary Jaft, a Chefnut Sorrel Mare,
fix years old, fifteen hands hig h ,
well mad?, trots naturally, was fhod
all round when fhewtnr away—
without artificial marks —her natu
ral marks are, a far in the forehead
forming a fhort dull blaze, with
one or both hind feet white, fome
Eddie fpots on the mounting file.
She wasfoen on the path leading to
Oglethorpe court-houie, and is iup
pokd tc be run eff by fome perfon.
Any perfon giving information fo
that the faid mare is obtained by
the owner (if ftraved) fhall receive
ten dollars—and fffrv dollars if fto
len fo that the thief be brought to
pun? foment.
DENISON DARIffNG,
Agent for the General poll-office.
Athens, Julv a 9, 1808.
BLANK DEEDS
For fale at this office.
GEORGIA EXPRESS.
MAhY SHALL Run to and fro, and knowledge shall EE increased.
WASHINGTON CITY, Ocl.
The following is another mod
important and powerful atteftation
to the wifdom of the Embargo, and
forcibly manifefts the light in which
that mealure is viewed by the moft:
refpedable and beft informed men
at a diftance from the political paf
fions which here diforder every
thing. Mr. Murdock is a nacive
of the ttate of Maryland, where he
was educated, and (pent a confider
able portion of his life in sheefteem
of his fellow citizens. During the
war he ferved with high reputation
in our armv $ ard has fiure eftab
lifoed hitnfelf in mercarui’e l.fe in
London, where he racks among >be
111 off opulent and refpedable rrt r
chants. We add, that his poi.rics,
wdien he refided in the U. States,
were federal.— Nat. Intel.
Ex trad cf a letter from William
Murdock , Efq merchant , London.
Lon dm, July 24. iBcB.
“ With regard to your Embargo,
I think it a wiie meafure, and if it
fliould ire ceHevtred in, it will be
1 J
the means of prtf rvlng peace and
fav?rg America from ruin ; whereas,
if it Ih >uld be taken off before the
otd rs in council and French de
crees are annulled, America will
fuffer, and in the end he ruined,
and wiil furnifo an example cv r
after for any foreign nation to lay
any reftridion they pleafe on your
commerce. If it is righr and law
ful for this country to compel by
her orders in council, all your pro
duce to come here to perifo for
want of a market, and moreover to
tax one of your principal article s
91. per pound before it can be re
exported —-I mean cotton —if this is
to be fobmitted to, it would be far
better for you to become colon fts
again. I afk any one on your fide
who is oppufed to the Embargo,
to point out to m- 3 the and fforence
between a foreign ration compeil
ir g 11 your produce to come to cur
maiker, foert: to tax it before it can
be re-expoited, or to go over to
America and celled the tax before
it can be exported ? There is a
and ffVrence in the mode, but none in
the principle. If one article is lia
ble to be taxed, every other, by the
fame rule, is equally fo.
“ It cannot be denied, that eve-y
country has a right to rtgula e her
own commerce, and lay whanduues
foe choofes : but Die has no right
to order the produce of another
country into her own pors, and
then to tax it before it can go to a
foreign market. The Fren h de
crees arc equally pernicious and ob
jedSonable in principle as the or
ders in council, and both ought to
be refitted with great firinntfs.’ s
October 14.
We have the gratification oflay
irg before our readers another in
ttrcffi g letter from a merchant in
Londom of the ffrft character and
fortune, and principally engaged in
the American trade. The original
is in our poffo ffion, and will be
foewn to ary perfon of reJpedabiii
ty, The name is withheld from the
public by the gentleman to whom it
was addreffod, from motives of deli
cacy, but will, with the letter, be
cheer folly foewn bv application to
the Editor.— Nat. Intel.
I-ON DON,
£f I am favored with yours of the
18th of April. All your drafts
h ive had due refped. James and
York rivers tobacco, fit for theufe
of this country, are up to 10 & 12J.
and will be higher if your embargo
continues murh longer. Maryland*
and common Vfomnias are without
u
price or demand, not befog fit for
this country, and all the continental
ports are fout againff this country
by the French. When all the Vir
ginias are worked up, then the man
ufadurers mutt from neceffity fub
ttitute Maryland’s, and if the em
bargo foould continue fix or eight
months longer, I hope by that time
to run off a cargo of Maryland’s, I
have had by me at 10 or iad. or
more; but ail will depend on the
continuance of your embargo. If
it foould be taken off and the orders
in council, and French decrees
foould remain in force, your tobac
co and other produce muff come
here, or be captured, and in th's
cafe tobacco and moll other arti
cles of your export would literally
foil for nothing, not even the
hripft. In Ibort it would perifo
on hand for want of a demand, for
you are to be informed that net
more than one fixth part cf your
productions are confumed in En
gland, Scotland and Ireland ; and if
there was no opening to export the
other five fixths, it would be good
for nothing, and even the one fixth
that could be confumed would fell
for almoft nothing under the glut
that would be forced in the marker.
If indeed the orders in council aid
French decrees were cancelled with
the embargo that would form anew
cafe, and things would then be as
they foould be. From what I have
learned during the whole courfe of
Mr. jrfferfon’s adminiftration, he
has not done an a<st fo wife and fo
laudable as the embargo ; and I un
derftand it is the leaft popular of any
he has done. I hear it has been
fhamefully evaded. A nominal
embargo is a weak thing, and is
urjuft, becaufe one part of the com
munity benefits to the prejudice of
the other. In fhort, if the embar
go fhould be removed, and the
orders in council and French de
crees foould remain in force, every
man in America that attempts to
trade to Europe will be ruined.”
P. S. “ Aug. 3. Nothing new
in politics or commerce. Not the
leaft demand for tobacco, becaufe
all the continental ports remain fout
againff this country, and are likely
to continue fo. If your embargo
foould be taken off, and the orders
in council and French decrees re
main in force, your country will be
ruined and difgraced forever.”
FROM THE DEMOCRAT PRESS.
SIX MILLIONS OF AMERI
CAN BLANKETS.
A fair and careful < xperiment of
the manufacture of the cotton blan
kets for the life of the hofpi.Ys has
been recently made under a cont-ccb
with the Purveyor’s office. The
daft of biankets attempted by the
office is that denominated st three
point twilled.” They were ordered
to be made of the weight of 56
ounces each, or three pounds and a
half. They have a broad blue
ftripe at each end, with three blue
points, ard meafure 6 feet in length
(or 40 yards for a piece of 20 blan
kets) and four feet and a half in
breadth. The contrail price is
two dollars and a quarter for each
blanket, of the above dimenfior.S
and weight, which will be found
greater than the medium quality of
the Britifh three point twilled wool
len blanket.
The cotton yarn is fpun at the
Fadory of Mr. Jofeph Garlick, and
ihe weaving is executed at the Fac
tory of Mr.—— M‘Ginnis. It is
afeertained that the foortdl upland
cotton will make the beft blanker,
as the fibres are more eafily railed,
without breaking, into a regular and
thick coal of pile by the cards,
which are applied for that purpofe,
as the laft operaron in the rnar.u
fadure. The blankets prove to
be handforoe, firm and excellent
goods, meriting frank acceptance
by the cilice and decided appro
bation.
Seven millions and one half cf
per lons in the United States, at fix
on a medium in each houfe, give nc
the allowance of only five blankets
to a family, the immenle number
of 6,250,000 blankets in preffnt
life in this country. The odd num
ber (50,000) will forve ail the pur
pofos of perfons, who fleep without
the cover of houfes, from the na
ture of their employments and pur
fuits. The remainder will require
2r.700,000 lbs. of thvc cotton, of
which Britifh orders of council and
French imitation obftrud the files.
Ic is refpedfully fubmitted whnher
the duty on woollen blankets foould
not be raifed cn the fourth of July,
to-- per centum, if foreign go
vernments do not appear before th ?
riling of Corgrgfs, to return to the:
rule of the law of nations—the la#
of morals.
It is with pleafure we announce
to the inhabitants of the upper pact
of this Diffrid, that the object :hey
hive had fo much at heart, (Y a--
pening of ICeowee River) : in a
great meafure accomplillv A
boat belonging to Mr. Bowman
has already paffod through (he rtc.v
works which have been ‘H: f at
Portman’s fooal, 3nd arrive.] ay the
mouth of Twelve Mile Rive* ; ard
is now ready to receive fo/r, /ET.;
cf cotton on freight, fo: a :|
There is luflieient wa’ ■ psis
boats carrying n,coov. f
Pendleton (S. gaper.
A Prcjedor in Paris has of r: 5
to conflrud a Prefs capable c
printing 1200 copies of a work n:i
exceeding 24 foeets, in 24 hours
He l kewife announces a prefs c*
pable of Printing yvcco Infers h
12 hours, and anew method of com
po.fufon, much more expedufou
than that now in ufe. —Pur ra.
(No. 25.