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COMMUNICATION.
IMPROMPTU.
Says Canning to Pinckney t( our or
ders remain
As long as there fhall he a link in the
chain.”
ct riba!” retorts Pinckney,” is that,
then, your cue ? ✓
I thank you for giving me Jo clear a
view-
A cha n ! very good ; hut take care
wafer Canning,
Beware what egainft our union yon're
■planning,
No chain will we wear—no link can
you rivet
Upon us, no matter what polifh you
give it.
My country loves peace—willJlrivs to
maintain it—
But jor provinces—ah ! never think
to regain it —
Remember Cornwallis—he look'd a
poor devil,
When at Pork- Town we took him—fo
Canning, he civil !
Be civil John Bull! for if we turn
out,
We fhallfaw off your horns and muz
zle your fnout
A letter from the Collector of Pc
r) -bfcot to the Secretary of the
Tre*fury.
Collector’s Office, Diftri’Ct of
Pt nobfeot.
Caftine, Nov. 23, 1808.
Sir,
On the evening nf the \JI of No
vember, 1 had information, that an
Fnglijh v'ffel had come up the Penob
feet bay in the afternoon, in fuch a way
that rendered her very fufpicious ; and
that Jhe had followed a fnall veffel
twenty miles, out of her way, and had
come to anchor, tinder Long Jjlind, a
bout funfet, although foe had a fair
wind, and a fine moon all night. I
went immediately fser her, and found
her in a fmg harbor. She had a
clearance from Per if mouth, New-
Hampjhire, for Nova Scotia—and
was undoubtedly after a load of Mr.
Mafter's four —I made fiizure of the
veffel ( and took her to Caflins that
night J under the ninth fell ion of the
embargo aft.
BeingJenfible that there was a plan
forming a! Buck's town and the ifie
of llaut, and that they were deter
mined to evade the laws by force, 1
went to Buck's-to wn , and placed an
officer on fhore, and put an vffuer on
board a Jhop that was loading under
a permit—the only fufpicious veffel
that was there at that time. The of
ficer on fhore was to give information
to me by. land, in cafe any violence
„ Jhpuld be offered to the officer on board.
1 then proceeded to the lfle of Haul,
and placed five men there with a boat
to guard the fur, If c. there, as I
have previoufly dated, their orders
were to flop any boat or veffel that
Jhpuld come paft thee, that appeared
fufpicious, and to fee that the flour,
ifie. was mt taken away without a
permit—they were armed to defend
them]'elves, and their crisis were to
commence no attack but what was
ftfitlly their duty to do. I then went
to Caflide, and was preparing the
final! fekpener to ervije from the lfle
of Haut to Buck's town, armed as I
fated in my lad—and am jenfible foe
will out fail any veffel that floould at
t nipt to make their cfcape. On the
fotto in/l. on the Sabbath night, the
wind blew fre'h ct North, my officer
at Buck's to wn had turned in abut
v • nine o'clock, and all things were peace
able, he was iwoke by five men, mafk
ed and armed, coming into the cabin 3
an drilling him to be quiet, or they
would bind him ; there were then
thirty or forty men who came down on
the wharf, blacked and dreffed in
difguife, and put on board w a quantity of
flour and f[h, and got her under way ,
and fent her to fa, taking the officer
on board with them, whom they carri
ed down the bay about forty miles,
and landed him ; but at fuch a place
that he could not get any affifiance j
at the fame time thefe men tame cn to
the wharf, there was thirteen men fta
tioned on the bridge, about two miles
from Buck's-tcwn, to prevent my of
ficer cn fhore from giving me informa
tion, and by the time I had received
the information, floe had got ten hours
fiart, and with a j much wind as Jhe
could carry fail to.
On the fame evening there came in
among ft the IJlands, an Englijh fcbco
nerfr om Nova Scotia, with eight men
on board, armed with mujkets and
cullaffes ; and aUer ouifingftve or
fix days am on ft the IJlands, they were
boarded by a boat from Buck's town,
with five men armed with rr.ufk ts,
blunder buffer, and bearding pikes ;
they then took a pilot from fount De
fer/, and proceeded to the lfle of Haut,
all on beard the fchocner, except two
men in the boat, who towed the fichoo
ner into the reach, net far from the
ft ore that contained the flour, ayid came
to an anchor j it was then aboutfeven
o'clock in the evening, and very dark j
the beat was then ordered along fide,
and ten men armed with nine mujkets
and apiftol, all loaded with ball, got
into the boat. She was then ordered
to row on do ore to the wharf, where
the flour was, the beat was dfcovered
by my men, and they prepared them -
fives to ft and their own defence. ‘ 1 he
mafter cf my revenue beat hailed the
boat from the floore, as ftoe was coming
towards the wharf \ and th y anfwer
edfrom Vinal havejj, in this diftriPt.
’lhe officer then ordered thm to row
on fhore. Immediately they rowed up
to him, fprung from the boat, with
their guns cocked, took the officer pri-
Joner at the bows of the beat $ they
then rufhed on the reft of my men j
killed one man and took another pr ifo
- took his gun from him and let
him go j the other two made their cf
cape ■, they took the revenue boat, and
all the other boats on the ifland, as they
thought , and hauled them up and fe
cured them ; they then took the man,
that was fhot, and dragged them into
the water, hauled the fiheoner into the
wharf\ and took one bundled aid ftx
ty barrels, of ficur and rice, and made
fail for fea , with the mafter of the
revenue beat cn beard ; the two men
that made their efcape, veiy luckily
found a beat cn the back fide of the if
land, and came to Caft'ine and gave mt
information. I fent immediately for
the fchocner that we ordered to cruize
from Buck's town to the lfle of Haut,
to report to me from the guard of each
place. She was on her way to Buck's
town, 1 took thirteen men in the fchoo
ncr with me, and put four men into a
Jmallfail beat, to accompany us ; and
we ftartedfor the ifle of Haut, as Jeon
as pcjfible, it was then night, and focn
came on a violent gale of wind , and
the boat has not been heard of fince ;
—and the men are loft btyond all doubt.
IV* arrived at the lfle of Haut the
next morning. I found there my de
puty from Deer Ifie , with twenty men,
who arrived the evening before ; but
the fchocner was gone when they ar
rived ; as they had carried eff one of
my men a prtfener, lthought it my duty
topurfue them, altbuugh it then blew
a very fever e gale of wind I took
into the Jchooner a part cf the men
from Deer lfle, and run over to Fox
Ifland, and came in fight of thefckoo
ner, in what is called Fox Ifland Tho
roughfare j they dijeovtred our colors ,
cut their cables, and got under way
immediately ; we chaced them about
ten miles to fea, when they were ob
liged to fir ike their Englijh colours.
J then ordered my officer (who was on
board) to take the helm, and carry
her into Owls Head for a harbor. —
When we arrived in the harbor, I
went on board and Jecured the men,
and put them down in the hold of my
veffel. And after the Jlorm I pro
ceeded io Caftine, and eight of the men
that went on fhore in the boat, armed
as before ftated , were examined before
ihe hon. Job Nelfon, D. Howe and
Bradfhaw Hall, efqrs. and were com
mitted to goal, for the murder of La
zaro Bagodanovich, an Italian His
body has been found, and the verdibl
of the jury was WILFUfi MUR
DER. This is a correbi flatemsnt of
falls, and nothing exaggerated.
I am, fir,
Very refpefffully,
+ Tour obedient fervant ,
JO Sim HOOK, Lolls ft or.
Hon. ALBERT GALLATIN,
Secretary of the Treafury.
Maxims of the American A immigra
tion.—PeaCe and good will to man.
Under the prefent republican ad
miniftration, laws have been repeal
ed, that prevented the liberty of
fpeech for the protection of our
rights:
A hoft of ufelefs Judges have
been difeharged :
A ufelefs army has been difband
ed :
A ravy improved only by fuch
force as the defer five policy of our
country requires, while England
ftveeps the Teas, and Copenhagen
their neighbours.
More money in the treafury than
when the Oppofiaon had the charge
although 33 millions of our debts
are pad, and a valuable country
purchased, faid by the fame Oppo
fition to be worth one hundred mil
lion of dollars, and nearly as many
lives:
The government about purfuing
the philanthropic plan of improv
ing and beautifying the face of the
country by opening pafftg-s and
communications for us immenfe re
fourccs, by canals, turnpikes and
bridges, and by eftabl fling manu
factories, thereby greatly improv
ing the condition of fociety, and
making us independent of the ty
rants of Europe, in the place of
wafting our lives and money by ufe
!• ‘s wars and dependent alliances,
generally defigned for the extin
gu fhmenr of liberty.
Peace with all the world by the
found policy of leaving Europe to
her own convulfive ilruggks,
rather than interfefe at the expenfe
of our beft blood and independence
in a hopeiefs wkr :
No ufelefs expenfive eftablifo
ments, to drain the people of their
money, nor money hired at 8 per
cent, when to be got at 6, to enrich
the wealthy, and deprefs the poor
and middling Intereft :
No expenfive navies and armies,
created for the exprefs purpofe of
providing penfions and places, for
the lazy children of the rich, to
live at eafe and in luxury, at the ex
penfe of the induftrious farrntr and
tradefman:
No excifes and taxes created to
be wholly confumed by the fame
favorites as collectors :
No defpifmg, but an honeft prac
tical ufe of that economy in public,
which is fo amiable in private life,
and fo well calculated to let every
man be the keeper of his own calh.
No Indian wars created at the ex
penfs of humanity, for the wicked
and ignoble purpofe of keeping a
ftandu.g army in time of peace, as *
a Packer for murderous delinquents,]
and the friends of that corruption in|
a government, which may need the
aid of a bayonet againft: the people
in the txercife of their elective
rights.
But the rare, the valuable, the
g-d-like policy of a Republican
Adminiftracion pouring in the wine f
and the oil of the good SAmariian,
upon the wounds of the lacerated,
innocent, induftrious inhabitants of
our new and* unprotected frontiers,
by teaching the rude and mtrcilef3
fnvage the mvfiery and advantage
of civilization ; that in being a pro
testor, he ! protected; a deft rover
and he is deftr “>yed ; and by this
peaceabl •, this heavenly rJI, have
a wife and virunus admlniftration
given fh : full-ft protection to thofe
defenedefs inhabitants, who were ‘
expofed to th; firft attacks of in
ju ed r r deluded lavag s, who have
too tof n tieen hunted as gam*.
No mock religious eftiohfoments
to ftrengthen the hands of ufbrpa
th n, aid weaken the caufe of true
piety, by promoting the hypocriti
cal pretender, at the expence of the
man of tender confidence, thereby
protecting vice a r and perfecuring vir
tue, buc an honeft, a mar.lv and an
open avowal, that they legiflate noc
for the foul of man but for the in- 4
tcreft of fociety, and have neither
defire, nor authority, to make man
a hypocrite, for the fecurity of their
power.— Columbian * Detect or.
We would propofe to harmonife >
with the Qppofkion by jointly pe
titioning Congrefs to fend a fpecial
envoy ora deputation ccmpofed of
the head of departm-n s to fall prnf
trate at the foot of his rnaj fty’s
rhr ne, kifs h ; s hand cr fent, and
zfk this moft royal lump of Eng
lifii clay to be pieafed to con de
ft end to Rate in general terms the
annual tribute for which h’s majefty
will gracioufty fufft r the American
trade to navigate his high Teas, u
fuady called ih.° highway of *
as his prefent demands amounting
to more than the firft CGit of cargo,
on the article of cotton, makes it
very inconvenient to purfue trade,
even if the embargo was removed 5.
for as the continental powers would
not receive us after paying this lit- *
tie dot cur of fifty dollars to his
rr.jf fty on their account on each
b.tie ef cotton, w in >uid of neceflicy r
be compelled to ftil it at his ports,
and at has prices, which when lefs
than the amount of duti. s would •
often oblige the owner to behold
his cargo burnt before his eyes ac
cotding to the revenue laws cf t
England, after the lofs of his freight
and expences. Here is a market:
for a fample which makes either the
embargo or a lumping tiibuce mo
ncy .’—lbid.
A CARD.—-America and
Cos. take the liberty to inform John
Bull, that they do not like the con
nexion he has formed in trade, and
are refoived to .difeontinue their
fhinments to his houfe, and defire
an immediate ftttlemcnr of all con-
cerns, as they prefer fufpending their
commerce to the imp: Hrons at
tending his new eftabldhtiient, and f
believe that having forfeited the
confidence of all other nations by
his corrupt and bullying practices,
they have mutually agreed to let
him do h : s own bufineft and feed
upon his own corrupt court and
carcafe*.— lbid.
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