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Extracts rs Foreign Litcllgon e from
the charleston Courier.
‘lie wnlike <lccl*rati*n of the*
Ailio, had emboldened the Royalists
in Fpain, anil it appo’itjs that a division
eftlif. \ ll’ vof lli*- Faith had made an
aiteini lake Madrid by surprise;
hi w! ..11 ail 1 mj>ts bow ever, they in U od.
in the discussion on the address in
reply to the French Kind’s Speech,
tin- Ministers ot Finance (Villele) and
the Minister of Foreign A Hairs, took
ii| no themselves all the responsibility
ol tre speech lieu tho crown ; and
both prol's-ed np'.iiv, tiial I’ ruHce
would art as Frdt.ee: and that she
would ut lay down, on •inns until or
der be restored in Spain. 100 Minister
of Finance observed bow important it
was to France, not only as a point ot
honor, but as a positive interest, that
the dynasty of the Uourbout* should
lint bo shaken at Madrid.
The answer of the Peers of France
to the King's Message, contains this
very significant passage. —“ It be
longed to your Majesty alone to de
liberate on the great cpiestion ol V\ ar
and Peace.’’ This is as much as to
say, we did nut advise, and wc do not
advise.
An injunction has been granted in
England to restrain certain Bankers
there from sending money out ol the
Country, alleged to be for the Peruvian
Government, under what is called the
Peruvian Loan.
Sir Hudson Lowe has directed a
prosecution for a libel, against Dr.
O’Meara.
The celebrated Mrs. Radclifle, author
of the “ Mysteries of Udolplio,” and
many other works of imagination and
genius, died at Pimlico, on the 7th
ultimo.
Extract from Mr. Brougham's
Speech in the Commons. —“ It the
king of France calls on either the
modem Teutones, or the modern
Scythians to assist him in this unholy
war, judgment will that moment go
forth against him and his family, and
the dynasty of Gaul will be changed
at once and forever.”
Sir James Macintosh could not be
silent on the subject of “a war about
t> be commenced, subversive of all the
rights of independent States —subver-
siie of all the laws of nations; a war,
tending to involve all Kurope in gene
ral hostility, and most att’ec
%it\j m’i u * r. * m *••*- t*r~
minions, tin* honor of ids crown, and
the prosperity of his people ; a war
levelled at the glory, the liberty, and
seciujty of Great Britain, more than
iinv other country of the world. The
principle involved in this war,is of it
self a declaration of war against the
character of this country —against all
ii best and noblest institutions—a
slander upon the very title to the
crown —a libel on all the glorious gen
erations of our ancestors. It decla
red the authors of our liberties con
spiiutors against the lwlv right of
k.ugs—made George the IN an usor
per, and King W illiam only the chief
< ; u law less bandit t.”
l.e.u KtlciiObn ugh in his speech in
tie House *d Lords, observed —
‘* Feeling t!i it tlie Allies have in fact |
<ie, lan ! ear against the principles of
jil v v•. ■ ” , i euts, which derived either j
thoi o; if in or their Constitution from
the people-—ieeli.lg that the principles |
- widJi tii e y attack £p;iin, might in j
( ,eii e.H’ret apply to this Country — |
feeling that it was highly desirable for
tlds ( e'.tiitry to maintain its ancient
union with Stutes governed not by
i!j> olute motiareliios.but by wholesome
law.- find liapnv institutions-**he (laird
J\.) proi-'stod that he looked at tlie
went nt the success of France, with
inf •:ij t‘• dr-Uiav.”
1 o Marquis of Lansdown said,!
that lie .chart} foresaw, that with all 1
:!i m.'idmi ki pursue a peaceful pul- 1
;. , —f;i>.(ii- i would inevitably be
jn ed into K.irign wars.
L id Li vi rpool made this significant ]
remark in the course ol liis speech—|
‘ Mei as I dread war as it relates to j
Spain, 1 dread infinitely more its
>!V :s on the future condition of
Fra no if. i if. War, hotvever, is not
uiu.voidr.L e.”
i ,o British Mouse of Commons re
ceived v tli unanimous cheering and
• c, the most seveie invectives
; i't the alls *tl mooardis pronouu
■: <! bv Mr. Brougham and other*. I'he
j.: ■ le* ol Fta.ii r.ppear, with the
-■ l"sive wai mill and expansion of
, ; muse and li illuminate every
i - iiicli they reach. Mr. Brougb
; > s i’ ert h is a model of eloquent
~! iiidigahtit sarcasm —of downright
|< ._• | vit lilferty of thought, and of cias
p tty and taste.
t I.e t riton Markets in Liverpool
1 ad b**ii extensive s.iles hail
1 n made at a very small advance in
i!,i pin*” nl American cottons, and
at • ime ucroased advance on those
o In-* in. K’.cc also had been purchased
uj uui suLs aeie busk.
,?vks nf the last Soslan of Congress.
An act aothoißing an additional
naval force tor t’ue suppression ol
piracy.
Making a partial appropriation for
♦he support of Government, for the
year 1823,
To continue the present mode of
supplying toe army of the Tinted
States.
To enable the proprietors of lands,
holding titles derived from the United
States, to obtain copies < I papers from
tlie proper department, and to declare
the effect of such copies.
In addition to “ An act to continue
in force an act to protect the commerce
of the United States, and punish the
crime of piracy,” and also to make hit
tlier provision far punishing the crime
of piracy.”
Concerning the disbursement of
public money.
To provide for the settlement of the
accounts of Daniel D. Tompkins, late
Governor ot the State of New \ ork.
To divide the State ot South Caro
lina into two Judicial Districts.
An act for laying out and making a
road from the Lower Rapids ol the
Miami of Lake Erie to the western
boundary of the Connecticut Western
Reserve, in the state of Ohio, agreeable
to the provisions of the treaty of
Brownston.
Appropriating moneys for the pur
pose of repairing the public, road from
Cumberland to Wheeling.
Supplementary to, and to amend,
an act entitled “ An art to regulate
the collection of duties on imports and
tonnage,” passed 2d March, 1799, and
for other purposes.
To regulate the commercial inter
course between the UTu.tcd states and
certain British colonial ports.
Supplementary to the acts to pro
vide f.r certain persons e. g .ged ia,
thr land ami naval service ui toe Uni
ted States, in the Revolutionary war.
In addition to the act entitled An
act for the prompt settlement of public
arcntints, and for the punishment of
the crime of perjury.
Making appropriations for the sup
port of government for the year 1823.
To amend an act, entitled “ an act
further to regulate the entry of mer
chandise imported into the United
States from any adjacent territory.”
Making further appropriations for,
the military service of the United
States for the year 1823, and for other
purposes.
To authorize the building of light
l, t I ‘J... 1 - l -i
therein mentioned, and for other
purposes.
For the punishment of frauds com-!
mited on the government of the United
States.
To establish a National Armory on
the Western waters.
To authot izo the purchase of a num
ber of copies of the sixth volume of the
Laws of the U. States.
Amending and supplementary to
“ the act for ascertaining clain sand
tit.es to land in the Territory of Flo
rida,” and to provide for the survey
and disposal ol the public lands in
FI *rida.
Supplementary to an act relating to
the lansoin of American captives o!
the late war.
Making appropriations for certain
fortifications of tiic United States for
tlu* year 1823.
Making appropriations for the mili
tary service of the United States for
the y ear 1823.
Making appropriations for the pub
lic buildings.
Respecting stamps.
Further to extend the provisions of
the act entitled “ an act supplemen
tary to an act entitled an act for the
relief of the purchasers of the public
lands prior to the Ist July 1820.
Vesting in the State of Virginia the
right of tlie United States to all (hies
assessed for non-performance of mili
tia duty, during the. late war with
Great Britain, within said State.
Making the gold coins of Great
Britain, France, Portugal, and Spain,
receivable in payments on account of
public lands.
1 o extend the time allowed for the
redemption of lands sold for direct
taxes.
Extending the time for issuing and
locating military land warrants m the
officers and soldiers of the Revolu
tionary army.
Further to prolong the continuance
of tiie Mint at Philadelphia.
To carry into effect. the ninth article
of the treaty concluded between the
United States and Spain, the 22:1
Feb. IS 10.
To continue in force an act, entitled
“ An act regulating the currency
within the. United States, ol the gold
coins of Great, Britain, France, Portu
gal, and Sp.iin, and the crowns of
France and five franc pieces,” passed
on the 2( tli dav of April, 1816, so fat
as the same relates to the crowns of
France and five franc pieces.
Respecting the punishment of
piracy.
For carrying info efTet* tb* Con
vrntion of Commerce and Navigation
between the United Mates and I 1 ranee,
concluded at \Y ashington on the 24th
June, 1823.
For the erection of a Monument
over the tomb of Kldridge Gerry, late
Vice President of the United States.
RESOLUTIONS.
1. Resolution requiring of the Sec
retary of the Senate and Clerk ol the
House of Representatives an annual
statement of the expenditures from the
contingent fund of the two Houses.
2. Resolution to direct the withhol
dings of the compensation ot certain
Prize Agents.
3. Resolution granting to the Wash
ington Library a copy of the public
documents, laws and journals.
A letter from Canton, cßtted Bth j
November, states that the number;
of houses consumed by fire in that:
citv was not at that time ascertained,!
the lowest estimation is 4(X)0; and
the highest 10,000 houses: and from
24 to 60,000 inhabitants are depri
ved of their homes. One Ameri
can and two English sailors and
several hundred Chinese are stated,
to have perished in the flames.—
Ali the factories, except the Amer
ican Consul’s, are destroyed—the
English East India Company’s loss ■
is stated to be at from two to lour:
millions of dollars in leas, Cotton:
and merchandize of various de- {
scriptions.
Several Americans have sustain-j
ed considerable loss, hut not to a’
serious amount; of the securityi
merchants, Monqua is the greatest
sufferer ; his loss may he from l to
30U,C00 dollars. Sav. Geor.
Prom the Recorder.
AtTiFNa, March 17th, 1823.
dds.srs. Editors :—A regard for
i!ie character of a much injured in
dividual, who at least deserves a
v’erv different treatment Irom the
people of Georgia, Las induced me
to forward to you for publication,
the following papers.
Mr. Secretary Crawford has
been charged with being a (ederal-,
ist in the year 93, and to prove it,j
an Address to President Adams
lias been published, first in his own
state and republished in many of
the o'hers. That u-Ggcss with ns
answer, togrrner wttn the very salts
factory explanation of the Chair- j
man of the meeting, in rela ion to I
the transaction arc now submitted j
to the candor of an enlightened;
community, under an honest confi-j
dence, that it will be received as it!
was meant, not as the effusions of|
party spirit for the support of fede- |
rnlisni, hut as evim ive of that hero-l
ic and high-minded sense of honor,
which then animated those patriot-!
ic young men, having for its object
something more noble than the
bickering cf faction, and which feel
ing, under similar circumstances,l
has since characterized the youth!
of every part of the Union, wheu-j
ever the pride oi the nation or the j
rights ol the government have ei
ther been insulted or assailed. Ifj
the political history of those times!
had been faithfully recollected, ifj
the ardent feelings of the *‘ l ’ young |
men ” who composed that meeting!
had been properly regarded, if the
spirit and temper of the production
had been rightly considered, there
was and is no room to charge any
one of that meritorious assemblage
with any thing hostile to the repub
lican institutions of the govern
ment, or to stamp upon him any pe
culiai cast ot political character.—
But the letter of Maj. Watkins, who,
though differing in politics with
Mr. Crawford, lias always been
Open and candid in his principles,
and whose moral and religious cha
racter is so universally known and
so consistently sustained, will
doubtless place the whole affair in
such a strong point of view, as that
it can now he neither perveretd or
misunderstood.
Independent of the individual
testimony of Maj. Watkins, which
I affirm can be supported by a thou
sand living witnesses, our sister
‘states, who, under existing circum
stances, have aright to be informed
on this interesting subject, will, we
hope, do us the justice to receive
the evidence of the State of Georgia
in ha political character. It is a
fact never doubted, but that this
state has always been decidedly re
publican , so that even in 98, the
commencement of the distinction
of parties, an address to President
Adams, by his own confession “ was
the m re precious as it was unexpec
ted,” and unexpected because the
character of the State was known
to be republican. Now, this Suite,
that has in no instance returned a*
federal member to Con gress, never
for a moment distrusted or even
suspected the politics of \lr*
ford, and gave him a seat m the be
mite of the United States upon,
his first application, without the
usual probation in the other house,
and that too over a worthy republt-:
can member, then holding the sta
tion under an Executive appoint
ment of Governor Milledge, who
every one knows, was a
republican. And this appointmeM
was made in 1807, a crisis, whß
,the political parties reached
their widest point of
and whose operations lor eight suc
cessive years, occupied the coun
cils of the government,in a warfare
as bitter as it was calculated to dis
tract the harmony and repose ol the
nation. Through this dark period
of our history* Mr. Crawford af
forded proof, at least to his own
State, that their confidence was
not misplaced —-andif his integrity,
j abilities and inflexible republican
ism. are such as to satisfy our sister
states, that his pretensions lor the
Chief Magistracy, are not unwor
thy of that high station, and have
not improperly been obtruded upon
, the public notice, they may depend
i upon it, the clamors ot a few to
| the contrary, that his success will;
produce, with becoming modesty!
let it be spoken, a pride and a grati
i fication that will be sensibly, and I
trust not unreasonably felt by nine
tenths of the citizens ol Georgia.
A. S. CLAYI'UN.
Greensboro’ March 11th, 1823.
N jor George Watkins,
Sir—Understanding that you nre
fulls’ conversant with the (acts rela
tive to the Address made to Pre
sident Adams’, in the year 98, in
which you, as Cnairrrlan of the
meeting, and the Secretary ol the
Treasury are said to have taken a
part, and which has recently been
published to charge the latter gen
tleman with being at that time a
j federalist, and knowing that your
■ regard for sincerity, will induce
j you readily to do an act of justice,
: even to a political opponent, I have
i —.r nic ruren.} i yrv| xrv o t iHc iftV
| vor of you to state all the circum
! stances connected with that tran
! saction, its exclusive object, and
! what were Mr. Crawford’s political
’ principles then, and at all times ei
-1 ther prior or subsequent to that pe
| riod. And if vou have the Presi*
( dent’s answer to that Address,
; will you furnish a copy for publi
i cation.
I am very respectfully, \our ob't
servant. A. S. CLAY ION*
Greensboro’, Gn. March 14th, 1823.
The //on. AugUstin S. Clayton r
Sir —Having been already re
| fierred to in relation to anaddiess to
; President Adams, bv the young
1 men of Augusta in 1798, in which
j Mr. Secretary Crawford and my
i self were concerned, 1 feel it my
; duty, not only in compliance with
j your request, but to prevent mis
j construction, to state briefly the
fact concerning it, so far as it in
volves political principles.
The general policy of the then
French government towards the U.
States, had been mainly intended
to involve us in a war with its ene
mies. And after various and fruit
less attempts to accomplish this
object, other plans and most dis
graceful schemes were devised
which now seemed as if war was
inevitable.—ln this situation of
things, President Adams, by a wise
and energetic course, preserved
our neutrality, and was a measure
universal satisfac
tion. And it is well known, that
addresses from every section of our
country uniting the feelings of
both the political parties, were at
that time pouring in to the Presi
dent loudly applauding the firmness
and decision of the administra
tion, in relation to the belligerent
power* of Europe.
The young men who composed
the meeting at Augusta, were of
different political sentiments; and
the committee selected by the
chairman to prepare the address
in question, were also so consider
ed, and consisted of Messrs. Wat.
11. Crawford, Nathaniel Cocke,
Samuel Barnett, Isham Malone and
John McKinnie—the three first of
whom were known as republicans.
In making this choice, the chair
man was influenced by a desire
that the address should manifest
the feelings of Americans , without
regard to the distinction ol political
parties then existing. Ihe draft
reported by the committee under
went some trivial and merely verbal
alterations in general committee—
The transaction in relation to this
address, was previous to those acts
of that administration which seem
ed not to be acceptable to the great
body of the American people.
Viewing things as 1 then and
now do, 1 must in candor say, that
1 cannot conceive bow any part ojj|
ijhe address can be alledged a#
ILmnd for charge of fickleness in
Crawford’s political senti
ments. For my part I have no re
collection, nor has any thing come
to mv knowledge to induce a be
lief, that any change has since,
taken place: On the contrary, that
it has always been considered he
never belonged to what is termed
the federal party ; and such has ever
been my opinion.
The original report of the ad
dress by the committee, together
with the President’s answer, hav
ing been preserved among my pa
nel's, 1 do myself the pleasure to
furnish a copy of each for your pe
rusal, or for publication, as you may
deem expedient.
Dr. Abbott has been pleased to
refer to me as a federalist of 1798,
and still remaining so. Be this as
lit may: To use the :language of
! President Jefferson, it would seem
as if vve were now ” all tederalists,
all republicans.”
Feeling now, and at all times, a
deep and permanent interest in the
welfare ol my beloved country, I
have the honor to bey with semi*
ments jf esteem,
Your most ob’t servant.
GEORGE WATKINS.
Augusta, July 2d, 1793.
To John Adams,
President of the U. States ;
Sir—W hilst clouds darken our
I political horison ; whilst the fero
cious frenzy of the u Terrible Re
public” threatens the United States
with bloodshed, massacres and de
solation, W r e. the young men ol the
citv of Augusta, (ieerti it a duty, in
1 common with our fellow-citizens,
to assure the Chief Executive Ma
gistrate ol our unalterable attach,
fment to our country and its gov
i eminent.
At the commencement of their
revolution, we regarded the French
nation as engaged in a glorious and
i just cause , the support of that no
! iitical liberty, which, unless the
i soul is debused Ly oppression, or
corrupted by avarice, neither na
tions or individuals will resign, but
widi their lives.
Viewing them in this light, we
were proud of tailing France a sis
ter republic; we gloried.in calling
Frenchmen by the endearing appel
lation of brothers. Unwilling to
form a hasty conclusion against a
nation in whose favor, vve were thus
prepossessed, we long wished to
view the injuries and insults offer*
ed by them to the United States;
their contempt of our government,
through the medium of their am
bassadors; their unrighteous and pi
ratical attacks upon our commerce
as the usurped and nefarious acts
of individuals, unsanctioned by
their government.
But by the absolute rejection of
all conciliatory measures, the
French government has avowed
the flagrant violations of our rights
as a neutral nation, and total disre
gard ol their most solemn com
pacts, to have been authorized by
them ; that indiscriminate rapine
and universal empire, instead of
peace and justice, are their objects;
and that no nation can secure their
friendship, without sacrificing itx
national independence.
Although we are attached to the
blessings of peace, and deprecate
the horrors of war, yet we are sen
sible, that self-preservation now
points out a firm and energetic
conduct to our government; vve
view with the highest degree of ap
probation, those measures which
have been pursued by the execu*
tive, lor the preservation of our
national hpnor.
As we enjoy the supreme felicity
of being citizens, of perhaps, the
only genuine, mild, well-balanced
republic, now existing in the world
vve feel a just contempt fora nation
who can brand us wittr the imputa
tion oi being a divided people, and
who presuming on our disunion,
have lelt us the awful alternative,
disgraceful peace, or war.