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u: ‘I U .MPf RC;R IjONAPAx'.TF,
Iffutd. at Madrid cn the jib Dee.
S X .. > iV-I Ai V JL'* S ,
You have been blinded by
perfidious men. They have reduc
ed you co take up arms, and drawn
yosi into a and fenltiefs war
fcre. Is there one among you, who
on re He cling for a moment upon
what has palled v. ill nut foon be
convinced that you have been the
tools of the eternal enemies of the
Cos tine nt, and who r n .ice to fee
and fbed the blood or .he Spaniards
aid (he blood of the French ? What
will be the refillr; of a protracted
car: ;:aim ? An unlim/hed war in
the kingdom r and a long anxiety
as t j die fate of your property.
in id's than a month you have
•been delivered up to ail the anguilh
of a popular faflicn.
The defeat of your armies has
been an affair of four, matches un-
A3i- i have entered ..ko Madrid.—
r, tAhe rights of war will auihorife me
to give a terrible example, and to
wain in your blood the outrages a
painri: tne and my nation, i have
on!}’ likened to forgivends.
Theft* men only that are inven
tors tf a:i our evils fhall be punilh
ed. I will foon chace from the
“Tenirdula the Enghfh army who
‘ Xlzvt been fern to Spain, not for
lyr.ur aid, but to influence you with
a falfe confidence and to miflead
you. I hive told you, in rrty pro
clamation of the cd June, that I
would be your regenerator.
To ti>e nohts that have been ee
ded to me t-y the princes oi the 1 aft
dy'naftyy you have added to me the
right of conqueft. Nothing will
cbr.ngi my dilpi fition. I wdl ap
pro*. e of vyliat have been your ge
nerous efforts.
h would tell you th?t your ene
mit have not con fulled your inte
rn ft s : They have di Simulated to
you the true Cate of things. Span
iard:., your deftiny is in your own
bauds. ‘Throw away the poifon
that the ifnglifh Have feat-eaed a
iTiorg you, that your king may be
certain of your love and confidence,
and you fhall be greater and hap
pier than you ever have been. All
tboii who oppofe your ptcfpsriiy
r.rjcl your grandeur I have deftreyed,
and have broken the -hackles which
weighed dnv/n the people. I have
given you a liberal conftituttpn, in
the room of an abfolute monarchy.
1 gr/e you ore: temperate and fuic
able to your babies. It depends on
you to fay whether that confuta
tion final! be you law.
But if all nry efforts are ir.ef
ft dl:ual, and if I find yoJ on worthy
of it y confidence, 1 will treat you
only as provinces conquered and
place my Brother on another throne.
I will put the Crown of Spain on
my own head. I will be re fp e died
even by the worth, for God has
given me the power and the difpoii
tion rfeecffiry ro Surmount ail ob-
Itauk s.
I cur Imperial Camp, at Ma
chid, ych Dec. iSo3.
NAPOLEON.
T\ Tv N E months after dare appli-
X cation will be made to the
inferior Court of Jackfon County,
.-r leave to fell three traits, of land,
v,.> ■—t vo tracts lying on the
North Fork of the Oconee, one or
•widen c ontains Fob acres, the other
icj‘7, one let lying in the 14th dif
rriC of Baldwin No. 64 —to be
fold for the benefit of the heirs and
creditors f Michael Borders, dec.
MARY BORDERS, Executrix.
JOHN BORDERS, fixecu'cr.
July ti, i
GEORGIA EXPRESS.
ATHENS, APRIL 8.
The following is the anjwer of the
P reft dent of the United States to the
addrefs of the left iegift a lure of this
State :
THE addrefs which the Leg:{li
eu re of Georgia, the immediate or
gan of the will of their condiments,
has been pleafed to prefect to me,
is received with that high fatisfacli
on, which the approbation of fo
refpe6table a State is calculated to
lnfptre.
During the unexampled con it ft
which has fo long sfilidted Europe,
which has preftrated all the laws
which have hitherto been deemed
l rcred among Nations, and have fo
long conftituted the rule of their
irttercourie, we had vainly hoped
that our distance from the feene of
carnage, and die invariable juftice
with which we have conducted our
felvfs towards all parties, would
fhield us from its baleful effedlt;
but that commerce indlfpenfably
neceflary, for the exchange of the
produce of this great agriculrural
country for the things which we
want increafed by p. temporary fle
et (lion to the commerce of o: her
Nations, as being ouffelves the
only neutrals, has brought us in
to contact with the lawleis beliger
ents in every Sea, and threatens to
uWolvc us in the vortex of their
con tells.
The privations, from the want
cf a vent for our produce, have been
the unavoidable reftik of the edsdts
of the beligerent powers. Should
the meafure adopted in conk quence
of them, and which meets your
approbation, ftili (kve the lives and
property of our brethren from the
infults and rapacity of thefe powers',
it will be a Animate addition to the
other bent firs clerved frem it. Or.
the othe r hand, fhould our etsjfcar'-
r aliments eventuate in war, lam fa
thered that the State of Georgia will
ze&loufiy emulate her fdhr States
iu fupporcing the Government of
their choice and maintaining the
rights and mtertfts of the Nation (
our foil-'-Gur ihduilr —and but
numbers—with the bravery which
will be engaged in the ceule—can
never leave us without refourccs to
mairiUiin inch a contefl.
To no events which can Ccncefii
the future welfare of my country,
can I never become an indifferert
fpeftator. tier profperity will be
my joy- her calamities rny affllc
tiou.
Thankful for the indulgence with
which my co n du£l has been viewed
by the LegOature of Gec-rgia, and
for the kind expreffions of their
good will, I fupplicate the favor of
Heaven cowards them aou our be
loved country.
THOMAS JEFFERSOF*..
February 3d, 1809.
We are arrived at the rocfl. in
tertiling crifis in the affairs of our
country which has ever been known.
The majority of both houfes of
Congrefs have declared their affent
to.the removal of the embargo :
we know that which is pall, but we
now Hand on. the brink of a preci
pice—one falfe Hep will be fatal.—
In the unpleafant fituition in which
the United States are pdaced by the
lapacityof foreign powers, and the
torturing fufpcnfe into which the
Route of Representatives have
thrown our public relations, —it re
quires a degice-of wifdom and en
ergy never before demanded in our
rational policy to fleer the viff.-l of
Hare la Ely rbrough the gale which
blows from every quarter of the
compais. Thole merchants who
feei deeply inrerefted in their coun
try’s welfare, will a<ft with the ut
mofl caution in waking their pro
perty to foreign ports, but fome,
who have no hope but from a fuc
cefsful fpecuiation, or a fmuggling
traffic, wdii cither hurry the country
into a war, or defpoil others by
t.ncir hazardous voyages. When
the embargo is removed under
C/ ,
whatever reftri&ions, the produce
cf the country v/iil be difperlcd into
every clime and will becoGe ah
ea!y prey to the pirates who have
fo long inNßed the ocean. But
one good tEcft can poffibly follow
the fyftem now it will
teach thole who have been oppofing
the me2fures of the government,
the propriety of the courfe which
has been pur me and, and probably u
nite all parties in fuppert of their
own country. Britilh cupidity du
ring the fpace cf the next three
months, will more effr&ually con
vince tne enemies of the embargo,
than a fleet laden with arguments.
The old proverb will be verified to
their colt Wit bought is bet
ter than wit taught.”— 'Whig.
u o
Britifh accounts are received in
town down rs the 3d January from
which we learn,
That Mr. Canninghad been re
moved from the liaison of mini Her
for foreign affairs; and was. Suc
ceeded by the 30 years deadly ene
my of and of human vir
tue, Dundas, alias Melville,
The news cf a non-importation
law [sad reached England, asd very
lively referuments had been excited
on this lubjcdl > fo that a war again ft
America would not be fo unpopular
in England s formerly.— Aurora.
VFe learn, that owing to a renew
ed indifpofition of the king, of Eng
land, a regency was contemplated,
to cor.fill of the Prince of Wales,
the Queen and the Duke of Port
land. This circumftance was not
publciljr known at London.
North American.
Dec. 27 —Admiral Berkley will
fail in the course of a day or two
from Portsmouth, in the Conqueror
of 74 guns, to take the command on
the eoafts of Portugal.—Sir C. Cot
ton will return fn the Hibernian.
Sum.
New York March 6.
Cap?. Martin of the Swedifh fchr.
Harriot, who arrived here in 21
days horn St. Bartholomews, in
forms us that 2 days before he fa led,
intelligence was received, that the
ifiand of Martinique was taken by
the Britifh, under gen. Prevoft, ex
cepting Fort Bourbon, which the
French had pofllffion of;
It was reported at St. Bartholo
mews. oi the t |th of January ; that
the Enolifti Weft India fleet con
lifted of So fail were totally deftroy
ed by a. French fquadron of twelve
fail of the line. The report re
ceived credence at -St. Bartholo
mews. We have hitherto had ru
mors of the efcape of 12 lail of the
line from Breft which feems to 1 ren
der this Intelligence not fo impro
bable as a, fir It view, it might ap
pear.—New- York Aurora.
Sailed from New- York, cn the 24 tb
lilt, in tbs afternoon, with a fair
wind tbs Di/paicb /hips Pacific'and
NUit tor. for Falmouth and Id Orient.
Nat. Intel.
. PROVIDENCE, March 4.
Extra A of a letter from a member
tf ike Legiflature, now in jfticn at
the town if Eaft Ore -iwuh,
(R. J.J dated left evening.
The General AffeinGv were
engaged yefteroay cn the fuojcctof
the Farmers Exchange Bank in
Gloncelter, and it appears that Mr.
A. Dexter, of Bolton now owes the
Bank between < and 6cc,coo dol
lars j that it has In circulation paper
exceeding 600.000 dollars, and not
above one hundred dollars in fpe
cie j and that fpecies of fraud has
been pradtifed by the prefidenc
thereof and Mr. Dexter, to a great
extent. The bufinefs will occupy
much time, as the afiembly are de -
termined to inveftigate it thorough
ly and lave the State from the igno
miny that would otherwife attach
to it. The prefident cannot be
found.”
From the Waftsington Monitor.
The sir cum ft arcs of Mr. Jejfer
fin's having directed two kegs of cot
ton feed to he font to France in the
veftfel about to he dif patched to that coun
try has opened,a new four ce cf attack cn
him > yeflerddv a grave fen at or rofe in
his place (though Ido net think it
was bis place to do it) and pronoun
ced a vehement philippic on the Preft
deed. He .-endeavoured to fhew that
this cotton feed was meant to he ufed as
an effelhial inflrument to reduce Eng
land, and to elevate France, and
thereby cf courfe to weaken the liber
ties of the U. S. I corf efts, fir, I ant
at a lefs to conceive how this Is to
happen. It is true, I have heard of
grape fleet, and cf muftiardfeed (hot ,
hut ■ never heard before of cotton feed
foot, and f ill beg leave - to doubt its
efficacy . as amunition. But lam told
it is r:o unufiicd thing for men of one
country, who devote a portion of their
time to July eels of generalfezenee and
the ifefill arts , to be made members of
inftitutiens of another, which have for
their cbieCls the Pane benevolent views.
v -y
1 have beard that Mr. J eft erf on, net
long fine tyfent j ever aifdmfk s of wheat
to the agricultural fociety of England,
under the hn-prefp.cn that-fome of them
might be mors dpi to efcape the mill
dew and ruft , which Jo often prove
fatal to ihtir crops in many parts of
that country. He has received, in re
turn, fimilar civilities from thatfocisty „
Mr. Suhivan, an American gentle
man new in France, has obtained from
the national inftitu.te at Paris a ma
chine for [pinning wool, which fr cra
fts milch utility to cur infant manu
factures. There are now in France
feveral Merino freep, which wait the
firft opportunity to be font to this coun
try. When they come, (if net before)
I hc-pc to fee both branches cf cur na
tional legiflature more liberally difpofed
towards the promotion cf ufsful in
ftiiutioiir, & the general amslioratiott
of the condition of mart.
HOMESPUN
Since the three celebrated hlftotical
painters of cur country, IVeft, Coply
and Trumbuf, have attained Jo high
a grade in thn Englifh fohools as to be
ranked by the common corfont cf the
age in the firft clefts of modern arti.fi;,,
we are happy to learn that Mr. Vcm
derlyn, a young man of New York,
is emulating their fame in Paris with
flattering fymplems of Juccefs. .At the
laft annual exhibition his f/ihirs of
Marius on the ruins of Carthage
obtained great applaufo ’ and was
crowned with the medal oi encou
rage men c from the emperor. A Pa
ris journal, tfif Courier de (Europe,
/"peaks cf it m the following terms
<c ‘lbis pasture has procured the au
(< thor a medal ; an honor he merited;
“ for his Marius is full of forUhnent 3