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THE FRIEND AND MONITOR.
Three dollars per annum.)
V OLUME I.j
DOMESTIC.
From the Al xamlria Herald.
THE NATIONAL DEBT.
Several of our friends having
expressed a wish to fee a correft
statement of the national debt, to
gether with its increase since the
declaration of war we addressed a
letter to a friend at Washington,
who has politely favored us with
the information ; we rejoice there
fore that we have an opportunity
of correcting so many falfe afler
tions which have lately been made
in the neighboring diftrifts by the
opponents of the government,
where it has unblushingly been told
.to the people that it exceeded one
hundred and forty millions.
Extra'cl of a letter from a gentleman
in ‘Vashington, to the editors , *
dated March 7, 1815.
“ Ihe pressure of business has
thus long delayed an answer to
your enquires touching the nation
al debt, the navy, and the internal
improvements occasioned or accel
rated by the war. The fame cause
will necefiariiy prevent drift accu
racy in my statements ; but there
will be no material inaccuracy in
them. The comments on the
fafts, you muff yourfelf supply.
On the lst of J any 1790,
shortly after the com
mencement of gen.
Washington’s admin
istration, the national
debt was Dollars 72,137,301
At the commencement
of Mr Adams* ad
thiniflration. in *97,
the pub'ic debt, hav
ing increased up
wards of eight mil
lions was 1). 80,634,028
Atthecommencemcntof
Mr. Jefferfon’sadmin
iftration, in 1801, the
debt amounted to D 80,000,107
At the commencement
of Mr. Madison’s ad
ministration, iq 180 ft,
the debt having been
diminished or paid off
by the republicans to
the amount of near
30miilions,was only 63,732,000
During Mr. Madison’s
administration, about
12 millions more of
the debt have been
paid off and the old *
national debt at this
time amounts 0n1yt039,905,183
It thus appears, that while the
federal adminillration increased the
public debt, the republicans have
extinguished more than forty two mil
lions of it, besides having purchased
Louisiana, the brilliant theatre of
Ameaican glory, and destined to
be the great emporium of the wes
tern commerce and wealth.
The debt created by the
war, as afeertamed at
the treasury amounts
to 68,733,112
But this has happened in a moft
momentous and extensive war, of
nearly three years* duration, against
all the power of the British empire,
PUBLISHED (weekly) BY JOHN K. M. CHARLTON.
WASHINGTON, (Geo.) FRIDAY, JULY 21, 18 15.
a great part of the time. It is a
faft, too, worthy of remark, and
which (hews the ceconomy of re
publicans, that the expenses of G.
Britain in the year 1813a solitary
12 months, were 415 millions of
dollars, more that fix times the a
mount of the whole expenses of
our three years* war !
But this is not all. When the
war commenced, we had a navy of
only 20 vessels, of all sizes, below
60 gun (hips ; we had none of that
class, nor any 74’s. Now we have
a navy ofßl (hips; among them
are three 74*s, nearly ready for sea;
two 90 gun ships at Sackett’s Har
bor : one 60 gun ship there ; one
frigate and fourteen other ships ;
10 fine frigates and 31 corvettes,
sloops, brigs and ketches, ready for
sea; besides 19 vessels on Lakes
Erie and Champlain a g r eat part of
them the splendid naval aiftories on
thole Lakes It is to be observed,
that the Lake fleets in the poflinle
event of anew war being provok
ed by England, will be of as much
importance as the i'quadrons of the
ocean.
It is possible juftiy to appreciate
improvments occasioned or accele
rated by the war. In the single
article of doinelfic manufactures
alone, the war has added, ip solid
wealth to the nation, tea times the
the amount of the expenses which
that war produced to the treasury.
We can now supply ourselves if we
had a mind to flop importations,
with all the necessaries and many of
the comforts and luxuries of life,
( from our domestic manufactories.
In addition to all this, we have
gained in Europe a name in arms
and valor, which will be our great
est security againlt future aggress
ions, and command the admiration
of posterity to the latest period of
time. We have had our national
character flrengthened and eleva
ted :—our union and republican in
stitutions consolidated and confirm
ed. Fhefe advantages, that wealth,
this character and reputation have
been gained under the aufpicies of
a Jefferlon and a Madison.
Extrad of a letter from a gentleman
on St Simon’s Island to another
in this city , dated 18 th June ,
1815
“ Since I wrote you this morn
ing, I have, by a fortunate acci
dent become possessed of the “ Lon
don Times,** of the 25th April last,
containing an advertisement offer
ing a reward for the apprehension
of the villain Woodbine, on a
charge of felony He passed St.
Simon’s a few days ago, on his way
to Savannah, by water. A com
plete defeription of him is to be
found in one of the Edinburgh Re
views of 1812, (his person &c)
He has left in Weft Florida three
hundred ■ - - well organized, with
eight pieces of cannon. I’he
source from which 1 have my infor
mation I pledge myfelf to you to
be authentic—l am not warranted
to mention names. In the name
of our abuled and insulted country,
I call on you to use all means in
VIRTUE, LIBERTY, AND SCIENCE.
your power to cause this scoundrel
to be arrested and sent to his own
country in irons—in this case I
think that “ vigor beyond the law”
ought to be exercised. Our south
ern property will not be worth
holding, unless moft energetic steps
are taken to repress the insidious
attempt of our inveterate enemies,
the British ”
Savannah Republican.
4
From the “ London Limes,”
April
African institution
SLAVE TRaDE,
PERJURY, OULLAWRY.—
Oh hundred Guineas Reward.
WHEREAS, at the Assizes, &
General Seflion of Oyer and Ter
itviuer, h olden at the Castle of Ex
eter, the 18th of July, 1812, a Bill
of Indictment for PERJURY,
committed in a certain proceeding,
instituted in the High Court of Ad
miralty, touching the employment
of a certain Ship or vessel, called
the Gallicia, in the Slave Trade,
- was, at the instance of the Direft
ors of the African Institution. pre
ferred, and found against GEO.
WOODBINE, otherwise called
Jorge Madersilva, who acted
as Super Cargo on board the said
ship or vessel at the time of her
capture, by H.s Majesty’s ship
Amelia, off me coast ot Africa, in
the year 1811; and the said
George Woodbine, otherv.ife Jorge
Maderfilva, not having appeared to
the said indiftment, lie hath since
been Out-lawed by due courie of
law. Notice is therefore, hereby
given, That whoever fliall appre
hend the laid George Woodbine,
otherwise called Jorge Maderfilva,
and cause him to be lodged in the
Cattle of Exeter, or any other of
His Majelfy’s Gaols in England,
shall receive a REWARD of ONE
HUNDRED G UINEAS from the
Directors of the laid institution.
Per order, THO. HRRISON,
Secy.
African Institution , Sujfok street ,
Charing cross , March 21, 1815.
Good.—' ldle Legislature of Mas
sachusetts, have counted the votes
for Governor, given at the late
eleftion. The result is, that the
federal votes are FIVE THOU
SAND FOUR HUNDRED and
FIFTY TREE LESS THAN
LAST YEAR ! So much for the
violent attempts of Massachusetts
federalifm, to create confufion, and
flop the wheels of government, in
an awful and momentous crisis.
Under the old, corrupt, profligate
■ and immoral tyrannies of Europe,
there is a point of fufferance, be
yond which the people wilL not
bear, as we have seen in France;
and under the free Republic of the
United States, there is un point of
: violence in opposition, beyond
which we rejoice to believe the
people will not go. We need not
fear, but our republican institutions
will yet (land for ages, supported
by a free enlightened yeoman
ry- ‘ ;
Albany Register*
(Payable half yearly.
The American Soldier. —ln the
battle of Niagara, colonel Jeffup
fufpefting that his troops had ex
pended nearly all their cartriges
passed along the rear of the line to
make enquiry as to the faft. Sev
eral folcjiers who lay mortally
wounded, fome of them actually in
the agonies of death, hearing the
inquiry, forgot for a moment, in
their devotion to their country,
both the pain they endured and
the approach of death, and called
out each one for himfelf. “Here
are cartridges in my box, take and
distribute them among my com
panions. ’*
A soldier in the line exclaimed
to his commander, “ my musket i3
to pieces.”—His comrade,
who lay expiring with his wounds,
at the distance of a few feet, re
plied in a voice scarcely audible,
“ my musket is in excellent order
—take and use her.”
It is no extravagance to assert,
that an army, of such men com
manded by officers of correspond
ing merit, is literally invincible.
United States* Revenue. —The re
ceipts at the custom house in New-
York, we nnderftand, will amount
to two millions of dollars for the
months of May and June, and pro
bably continue at a million a month
throughout the year. At this pro
portion, the whole receipt of the
United States within the yea. tnuft
be thirty or forty millions. .
Columbian .
tt pj- ee Trade and Sailor’s Rights/*
From New Orleans, June 3.
On Tuesday fifty four lqure rig
ged vessels came into our port. —*
The river was aftually covered with
canvass. Let Europeans carry on
their deftruftive wars, but be it our
duty to cultivate peace without par
tiality for or against any of the bel
ligerents. All Europe with great
sangfroid looked on and permitted
us to fight England single handed.
Now in* turn, let us look on and
fee them cut one another’s throats,
while we can snugly eat the apple
pic.
■•an <*>• mm in■—l 1 ■
One Blue Blown Out!
New Hampshire Lcgslature.
Wednesday, June 21. The
committee appointed to take into
consideration the papers transmitted
by his Excellency the Governor re
lative to the Hartford convention,
reported—
“ I hat it is unnecessary for
this Legislature to take any or
der concerning them ”
Which report was concurred in
by the House and Senate.-—Both
Federal.
Yankee.
A private letter mentions, as
one of the reports in circulation in
Europe, that the allied powers had
requested Bonaparte to return to
Elba within ten days; and that Bo
naparte, in answer, said, “ he des
tined that retreat for the refiJenco
of the king of Pruftia.”
Baltimore Federal Gazette
[Number 29.
