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u&c J eOablifn merits.
H the Senate end [Jars cf Re pm Ant
ctl mss of (be United States.
I now.lay before congrefs a flate
r’ l . Hbri works of defence which
< v. £ht neccifary to pro
: v ‘ infUnce, for the le
<: .1 fVrport towns a.id
. r -an 1 ’he progrefs towards
•:*. co t icp. i'heir extent
U “ii a: 1 to the I'cale of rhe
appropria , v.., and to the circuui
llanees of she feveral places.
Th works undertaken at New-
York, ate calculated to annoy and
endanger any naval force which
fliouid attempt to be before the ci
ty. To prevent altogether the en
trance cf large vtfTeis, a line of
Hocks acrofs the harbor has been
contemplated, and would it is be
lieved, with the auxiliary means ;
ready provided, render that city
fafe againft r.r.val enterprize. The
expence as well as the importance
of the work, render it a fubjeft pro
per for the fpeciai con fide ration of
ccngrefs.
At New-Orleans, two federate
fyflems of r defence a.e nectfirry :
the one for the rivtr, the other for
the lake, which at prefect can give
no aid to cne another. The canal
now leading from the lake, it cont i
nued into the river, would enable
the armed vtfTeis in both ftarions to
uni re and meet in conjunction, an
attack from cVther fide. Half the
aggregate force would then have
rhe fame tft <fl as the whole, or die
f me force double the eflfeftof wh.t
either tan now have. It woo'd ri
fe cost le the vcfllds Rationed in the
Jake, when attacked by a hi crier
force, to retire to a fafer petition in
the river. The lame confederations
of expence and importance render
this alfo a queftinn for the fpecial
decifion of congrefs.
TiIJEFFERSON.
January 6, 1809.
1 he fecrctary of war reports that
tr e following fums have been ad
vanced for the erection and repair
of fortifications, and the conflruc
tion of gun-carriages during the
year 1808.
Dollars •
For N-:W Orleans, 80,378
Georgia, North 6c South-
Caroiira, 204,289
Virginia & Maryland, 111,432
Delaware, Pennsylvania
and N. J'crfey, 5,000
New-York 379> 1 33
Connecticut and Rhode
Iflmd, 11,000
Maflachufetts and Ncw-
Hampfhire, 223,475
. Dollars, 1,014,702
The fecrctary obferves that for
completing the works already com
menced, and for erecting fuch o
thers as have been contemplated or
may be deemed expedient, an ad
ditional appropriation of 450,000
dollars will be r.eceflary, exclulivc
cf the line of block chains, See. a
oroL the harbor of New-York.
Mr. Coles pronounced the pre
sident's having figned the bill for
employing twelve additional reve
nue cutters.
The late Edmund Burke's opinion
cf imprffonment for debt. — This par
a graph ought to be inferted in every
paper, and read by every perjon
throughout the united States , at this
particular moment. —N. Y. Aurora.
“ There are two capital faults in
car laws with relation to civil debts.
One is, that every man is prefumed
Jclver.it A prtjnmpthn, in innume *
fuppjitic:! cf ability and fraud, to le
coerced his liberty , until he make
gayiu.ntC ly this weens in ail cafes
f dvii ivhivcniy, without a pardon
from his or editors, he is to be itnpri-
Joned for ife :—card tons, a inferable
r.djiukcn ini snticn cf artificial feu nee ,
c ‘-iratej to c’> a 4; a oil S it.M a crimi
nal judgment and tofcourge misfortune
or inufchiicn, wi a pumfoment
sold eh the la v dues „ ct irfditl on the
treated crime.
U w
“ ‘i\be next fan is, that irfidling
cf that puni foment, u no! on the opintcn
of an equal and public judge ; but is
referred to the arbitrary diferetien
cf a private, nay, intcrejled, irritated
individual, ids who formerly is, and
ought to be the judge, is in reality no
more tkah a mini // trial, a mere execu
tive infl rurnent cf a private man, who
is at once judge and party. I: very
idea of judicial order is fiibverted by
this procedure. if tie infolvency be
vo crime why is it puntfhed wit is ar
bitrary imprifonment ? ij it lea crime
why is it delivered into privrte hands,
to pardon without diferetien, or to
punfh vd.hcut mercy and without
me i furs? it *
Ji the anterior ‘'.art, but next county.
RULE NISI.
GILES TGMICINS,
vs.
HENDRICK LUMKINS.
X.J POM rhe petition of C. B.
Strong, counlei for the plaintiff, it
is ordered, that urdtfs the find Hen
drick Lumkins pay into die hands
o; the Clerk of the Supericr Court
before the expiration of twelve
iv .nhs the principal, ihrntft, and
coil of hold iw “, the laid Mortgage
to Is and is hereby force Fifed, and
that this ride be inferred in one of
the public Gaze! es of this Race, at
Icrdt once a mor.th for the term of
cne year, or 1 rved on th.e mort
gager, or his fptcial £g n ! , at leaft
fix months bef rt the money 13 di
rected to be paid.
Extra sl from the minutes.
IVM. WILLIAMS, Clk.
Septemb.r 17/.•), 1J -j 8.
N O T I C \L.
Oh! the third Saturday in March
next, at M rticcdlo in t! c county of
Randolph, will he let the
BUILDING OF A JAIL,
cf the laid county, to the loweft
bidder at public auciion—the def
cription and terms made known on
the day.——Alio, a parcel cf loti
newly laid of 4, and z ] \ tl>it have not
complied with the terms of ine for
mer fales cf lots, will be put up at
public auction on the fame dav and
fold under the penalty of the form
er fain.
JOHN MARTIN,
SOLOMON S TRICKLAND.
JOSEPH CARTER,
JOHN CARGIT., &
C. CRAWFORD,
Commijftoners.
January nth, 1809.
A GREAT BARGAIN.
FOR SALE
The tra<st of Land on Chandler’s
Creek, (near the Oconee) Jackfon
County, whereon the fubferiber
now lives; a good plantation is o
pentd U]>on the premifes, cn which
ere good orchards, and the place
well unproved with buildings j it is
a moft excellent ftand for an Indian
and fettletr.ent flore, being dole to
the boundary line.
OWEN J. BOWEN.
December 24, rBcB,
GEORGIA EXPRESS.
Al HENS, FI3 A UAL 7~ 4.
Two mails due from IVafningtcn
City when this paper was put to prefix.
We extra It the fell owing fu ran ary
from Colvin's Monitor, which may
not be uninter efing to cur readers :
Martinique aud Gaudaloupe sre
clofely blockaded by the B ittfh,
who are expected to make a a at
tack upon them.
It is mentioned in the Baltimore
Federal Gazette that Elli.ccrtG va
luable mills, ficuatedon the Freder
ick road, have been confumed by
Pi re.
Judge Tallmage, of the New-
York aiffridt court, has removed
Edward Dunfeomb, efq from tlje
clerkfhjp of that court, and appoint
ed Mr Charles Clinton in hL Lead.
The government fliip Wafp was
a: New Lcndun on the 3 1 ft tilt.
A fmuggling has been feiz
ed by a revenue cutter off V7ind~
n ; : H Poin*-, (Vermont.)
The Albany Gazette and a Keene
(N EJ) paper mention the de
fertion ©f a large number of the U
rdted States’ troops Rationed near
the lines,
The Britifh packet Manchefter,
captain Davis, failed on the 7 .h inft.
from New-York for Falmouth,
(England.)
The French privateer fchr. Su
perior, captain Brevard, of 4 guns
and 80 men, arrived at Charlrflon
on the 23d ult. from St. Domingo
and Martinique.
A fevtre thunderfiorm was ex
perienced at Tolland and at Eafl-
Eladdaro, in Connecticut, about the
middle of December lafb. The
houfe of Mr. Azcl Ciandal was
ftruck at the former place, which
wa.a attended with the death of his
daughter, who had been but a fhort
time married.
The deaths in Philadelphia for
the week ending Jan. 7, 1809, a
mounttd to 33- — 17 aduhs, 16 chil
dren. Six perijhed of the natural
finall pox.
Active mcafures have been ta
ken by his Excellency Governor
of Kentucky, for organizing
the quota of the 100,000 minute
men which that Late is to furnifh.
A corps of artillery, under the
U. States volunteer aci, has been
organized in Ontario county, (late
or New-York.
Ihe hon. Samuel Huntington,
has bren defied governor of Ohio.
The death of John Horn Tooke,
well known in the literary world,
has bren announced ; but has, like
wife, been contradicted.
Recent accounts from Africa ren
der it probable that Mongo Park,
the celebrated explorer cf that
country is not dead.
A bill for the fufpcr.fion of exe
cutions palled the Virginia houfe or
delegates on the y.h Jan.—Ayes
109 —Noes 54.
The federal papers have belied
his excellency the governor of Del
aware, by faying he had refufed to
organize his quota of militia re,
quired by the executive of the Uni
ted States—— Rhe governor is doing
his duty in that refpeefc.
It is Laid Mr. John Randolph,
now a member cf congrefs, will
have a conttfled election at the
approaching choice o: members of
congrefs in Virginia. Mr. William
Du-Val at prefent offers againfl
him, but premifes ro give way to
sny more fuitabie arrangement. —
{4r, Du-Val is an old man—he is
Anew patriotic paper has bc-'r)‘l
recently eflabl-fhed at Windfor,!
Vermont* by Air. Oliver Fainf-I
worth, entitled the c; Vermont Ru I
publican.'’ Iris neatly printed, and I
will be very ufcful in that quarter I
in dfiTcminating correct information I
among the people. 1
Anew and very valuable Coal I
Mins has been lately difeovered in
Rhode IHand, near the new ftone
bridge. Theftratum is fuppofed
to bo of gn at extent c.s well as
depth, and is found to be vv thin
ten feet of the furface cf the ground.
Died, lately, on Pcndbfoot riyer,
Madam, Orcno, Alt. 115 years, re-.
licl of Crone, late chief of die Pe
nobfcoc .Tribe of Indians, who d:ed
a few years fmee, Mi no. She
retained her natural taculties until a
Iliort time before her exit.
Ex trail of a letter from an American
in St. Bartholomews to a rentleman
c J
m Hartford, dated 2sib o Huber,
ißc?>.
Ci How long will che embargo
continue? I allure you it has oe
ftrdjyed >1: buiinefs in the Weft-In
dies ifhnds. Although it cannot
ftarve us, it diftreflea us cxtremdy >
and poverty begins to ft *re all 1.1
the face. The rich can live, fay
at 300 per cent higher thm former
ly—the middling clafs of people
are compelled to foil their jewelry*
furniture, &c„ and which you will
obforve is the Creole’s god. The
poor laboring clafs of people are
differing for bread, they can’t get
ersploy, and are compelled to beg
and fteai.
“ Ism confident that no planta
tion will be v/orth holding in the
Weft-Indies if your embargo’ con
tinues twel /e months longer. lam
yet fully of the opinion, that it was
a wife ilep taken by your govern
ment whether it has had its ck fired
eftlct or not, and I hope it will bu
continued until England and France
will do youjuftice ; ualefs war fu
percedes the neceffity.”
T he ill and of Capri, at the mouth
of the Gulph of Naples, which the
Bricilh took about two years ago*
was lacely attacked by a detach
ment of 2000 men from Naples,
and tsken with the exception of
one fort into which the Britifh com
mandant threw himfelfl All the’
BHtifh magazines,. and nine hun
dred prifoners,. were faid to have
faiien into the hands of ihe French.
iron. T. Amer .
Cn Wedncfday lajl ihe Ccmmifjien
ers of Fortifications accompanied by
colonel Williams and feveral gentle
men from this city and Richmond
county, proceeded to lay (he foundation
fi one of a marble work cn the Beach
near hignal Hill, at Staten’ Ijland
which will mount about thirty heavy
cannon. On this occaficn a faint eof
17 guns was fired, and the work was
named [fort Richmond, in compliment
to the county in which it is fituated.
N. Y. Paper.
French influence.— What are the’
means of French influence in this
country ? None -, the idea is ah-
Jurd.
Britifh influence.— lVbat are the
means cf Britifh influence in this coun
try ? . The following amongst others :
Language, jut if prudence, law books ,
literature \ tones and the defendants
of tcry families ; blood ccnneliions,-
intermarriages ; mercantile capital,
mercantile partnerfhip newspapers,
(Ac. &c. <£c. Thefe irfluer.ees are
interwoven into fociety, and if wet
mean to prefirvt cur independence, de+