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About Georgia express. (Athens, Ga.) 1808-1809 | View Entire Issue (April 8, 1809)
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
