We undervahd mat M lj ir General
Sin th nas received irders from tlw
C ).n lundcriuXIhitf, to jai nth&tely or
giiune h qua to o raited for hi
, division of the Militia. ' . '
We re ififjrind that M.-. H. RHy,
Ag-'nl for ihisStatc, his recti veil order
to. charier a suitable vejsrl to tra'p.irt
i.n.niilitel one cornpa.iy of 80 men
to New Orleans.. ,
BaK or Capk F'.a.
At an election which took place- yester
day, the following gen lem.-n were
t elected directors ior the ye ir 1809.
Joshua G. Wright, Wm. Giles,
John London, Rjbsrt Mitchell,'
George H inner, ' ' D. Andersoii,
Wm Campbdl," D mean M'Lern,
. A Las tru , . '; J. MMilUti.
J.flradley, ..
. Of whom, J . G. Wright was re-elect-rd
President for the ensuing year. ,
- . In. the observations we'have made,or
.yalfcerthe questions pill, a neccssa- .
rtly arising Iron a perusal of secretary
Gstlatth't communication to senator
Giles, recommen lmtf the proper additi
onal' measures to be adopted by con.,
gre lo l enforce with the greater,
stricm and better success (hat irv
tnendot es'MtMent" ihe EattAaod, w
preitvd.4o the' public view the Inlaw
ing pffoittine K consequence, via. v 1st
that tfrey co itemplitte the increate of the
mtcuUve'i pave and influence, by cloath-.,
ingf him with the wtcwroutaile au'.ha.
ritjr qf Y liit ih H caies of the; pro
priety bf .giving clearances thus, by a
elilat, titt his d'ctt should be received.
trniii'v ne nng.it protract giving to any .
in h finite time, at hi discretion or ca
price, our vessels may be sHbject to a
.' secret embargp in a ldition io the pub
lie oi(e, or at lea l unprofi ably or rain
uiy detained, '.'till the lime for sue-
. cessful speculation wis past; aUo,that
the president' would have an opportu
sii'y ta sanction by a most arbitrary
t -if u.. r: .: .i..: i t -
law, il nil u.nair aiiMlillca lur ibtvt
ite merchant a well as, all Unjust pre
j'ijicc" inn aoiiinnic w inai p'miun
af the mercant-l! in-.rrest whiohliave too
touch inttepenJtnee to tender their iii!t :
hamate to his LxcxLLEKCT I 2 J. That
,. it was an uhjiiitilt stile infraction of the
acknowledged principle- on which wt
hold nr property to say that we shall
not sell a part of it (as in the cast of a
hip owner) without continuing to be
.rrpyttd the ownernf that property!
.(which by selling, we kave put ou')ofth
reach of our control.; und therefore sub
ject to all the penalties of the viola
. lioi) of the embargo acta- -The Secr.
Jary goes nn to declare that sJiip-holdera
should not b allowed toex merate them,
selves from this reapoi'ibiWtfr " un--till
the register and licence of the ve
scl told, shall have been actually sur.
rendered to the collector, and new pa
pers shall have been regularly granted
by tha collector to the purchaser, and ia
every such case of prchae,,a sufficient
bond -that the embargo shall noibe in
. fringed, to be previously , rtquirsd.."
Thus leaving it in the power of an arbi
trary 1 ill-temperod Collector, to delay
sales or prevent them wholly (for if at
the mnirwnt that a vessel ia wanted,
'the requisite papers cannot from legal
r caprtciMitdiincMliies .be procured,
, .thQsale 'msy .be lost) and by this means
through a ruinous and virtually uncon-
atitutionally mode, depreciating the va- ferable !..,-. , , '. , , , 5 ? .,'" '
Iue of property, and infringing those - , Before we conclude these ttrlcturet,
q litahle rules which should ever govern we must do Mr. Gallatin the justice to
its transfer 1 3J. That they corttemplate declare our, opinion, that, in political "
astilloixATEBiacatAsaolr.xicuTivtvlewt and tsgacity, he Is far beyond'
rowwt, which even kecreiary Gallatin
calls - arbitrary po-aer by vesting
tn the president a discretionary autho
rity la self eon any unusual d petit s"
though they may be made in theer?
eiaTac of our wt territories,' irom
country 1" thus establishing a p
tpectet of MASTlAL law among -us.
It this go down and como but into
prttton and it-will nof'fequire the
power of divination to foresee, that tt a
Frecedent it will be followed up, by
irclng dawn every bad and executive
mtasnre by an' argument . much In
pnnt as the hyjoet I We shall oon .
have a iniiiarydis;otiim rule over u,
. . " . r. . . la lha flnuaa mA u.rf TL!.
mmuti urerwliifwwmVBrronty-, wtth-cieariy tne-rneiticaey s 4nemoargt)---'"-'' - p a st-- ' t-Seh'f Henry Denies. AUen, i
. out the least Intention or even the pratti. lawt at they now ttanu tttu as clearly - " ' "V J0 ay jf Bailu
' eatilit, of violating the atiiaeo Lwt. that nothing but additional restrictions," IT L. i.T , V. u J",0."1 m. ,n J, Vntiih Brit AUnis.Umnm
4tb. That, hey propose Wh.taecreLry .h.thest.ted; wnhaaaaatkacknow. wgt tdt and kee
Gallttinttyt."leM.teawiUire. Kgca to n. a.."M cou,u .v. s .y ' 'r--.-. 4.
iret,n hatoratfthoroing,onihe ap. tmng. remaps in ma own mma, no " Z.T: V Jo. S. Ship Mary, Baton, Are
plicatiooofiheeolleciort, an immediats floubtsthe efficacy of even these-antT '.'7" V ..r.T.y- '7 Z 7- Ship tatty W Ltdia. Sutton,
sail of the local, physical force of the if an assertion which has been publicly 'l , ?, West,
. eountrr lr thus establishing a p.irioua and repeatetlly tltributed to him without 7 T1 , T7r. ; 'Ttn' Svedsh Sth'r IsaM'a, Bat,
far however irr or JisiniertsteJ our
p-eeni executive, or pfeiVlett ' erect ''
in ay be, yet,' who that is acq tainted
at all with human nature, bat knows
that it it the nature ot man to encroach,
Kim! ' whenever - rested with arbitrary
pwer, to abuse it. This is the true
ori jin' of tyranny, the more to be guard-
eJ against becaufa the more seductive.
A chief hss and met it our confidence
aid love; in our unbounded confidence
Ik infatuated love we strike off the ne
cessary shackles which had previously
circumscribed the circle of his powcMe
ourchildren.will if we have the happiness ,
ta etcape,what we alone deserve for hav
ing been the authors of it', groan under
a subsequent tyranny from ttis , Very
chief, whom too much power has 'made,
Tain and despoticrbr from bis aticces-,
or, 'possessing less excellence cf heart
and testraint over his actions and re
vellingjiri all " the wild mSs-ruk'; f an
unlimited tviif- Tu return' t 'our
Secretary's letter, we ' woald ask oqf
fellow'titizens If. .they are- prepared to r
give their sanction to a measure which .
wul not allow an unhabbt nucttm bf the
vtsiTATtoit of G9pto plead such tl
siTATtoK in excuse for an. act!' for .
which he .may stand indicted. There
is. a law against assom ; whoever burns
down his own house is severely punish
able by law." Suppose an insurance com
pany, apprehending that persons for
whom they had Insured might frau
dulently urir their own dwellings Jo
come upon them for the insurance, had
'suRicient influence with our executive
" to procure from him a rectmifiendatkn
tothe legislature 10 enact a law, lorbid
ding any person whohas.had hia house
burnt down, to give in evidence of his
innocence or his claim upon his insur
ers, (hat it was done by incendiaries
hostile to him, or that it was struck by
the tightnit.g from heaven, What would
" you thmk of the I What epithet
could you apply Moo strong to mark
, your indignation against your abhor
rence of the cruel tyrant that would ie
Commend it J " Yet fellow-citiaens"
secretrary Gallatin has proposed and
urged that congress should pass a taw,
in order to put an end to all fraud bf
false protests of stress of weather or
hostile capture, that makes the mere
fact of a vessel's cargo going into any
foreign port conclusive evidence of her
v having Vinlated the embartro acta and
.thus become subject to all tho penalties
thereunto attached. Is it credible, that
if a vessel laden with produce should,
coming from Swansborough to this
!ort, be assailed by a privateer fronts
iamished island, putt of her crew put
to death Tor resistance, k the Cargo per
haps Io4 to its owner, the remains of
the crew should, notwithstanding, have
thetr maul A sealed by a congressional
KDtCf, their evidence forbidden to be
taken in a court of justice, and that tha
unhappy owner should find by the mer
ciless tenor of the law, that his ship it
confiscated and the penalty of hit bonds
incurred -or if he has lost by the fury
of s "tempest on the ocean, all his mists,
sails and rigging, and should be driven
at tho-tnercy of the winds and currents
into anv port out of the United Statet, -Ject ' ve uKh raotrnn both our
atill no evidence of this visitation pi .""rcantda and agricuPural fnrnds a
Heaven will he received ir. a court of Kibecomingthedgpeaofintimationt
justice, but hit doom is fixed and hit
t -... l. t 1 i e i .!i in
condemnation crtain. 11 all these hor
rid usurpations on our rights and liber
ties and comforts are necessary to en
force the aatsaioo system, can it,
fellow-citizens, be prudent, be profits
. Lie, be patriotic, be constitutional,, to v
support it U not a repeal of it, even ,
ihouah war be the conacQucnca, pre-"
any other member i the Labiaet and
that his recommending such singularly
odious and tyrannical measures, arises'
from the necessity he was under, to gise
a f ill mnA ailVnuata lnlrp lalha tiuria
- -" " 1. . .
put to him by Mr. (filet 1 that he ttw
any contradiction that we know of, wat
really ottered by him, vis 1 That the
embargo wat a ruinous measore, and
that the people (thereby intimating that
the administration would not do k)
must take it of, then he calculates that
either Congress will he deterred fmm
enacting them, or that the people will
nut lUbmHio them 1 which is not at
v;rincc with j;Wsentlments" end coll,
duct charged to huh, in the Punosyl-
vaniaWuiAry insurrection. But while
we censure when we think it U merited,
d We ahull be 'equally ready to com.
mend when ws believe it tu be deterred.
'Mr. Gallatin ha borne an honorable
testimony to the conduct and decision
of Judge Johnson in the Federal Court
in the case of Gitfc&rist and others, vs.
the Collector, Simon Theus, Esq.In ac
cordance with the act of Congress 'lie
Bays' the court, allowing them t.he rttght
to issue the right ol mandamus, could
not have decided otherwise than they
did; and while he nobly upholds the
independence of the judiciary, he virtu
ally condemtthe supple tool of theexecu-
of the law, who, instead of receiving,
with becoming humility frotil'the Court
inai tNowieuge oi wnicu pm is a gia
rmgly in want, had the insolent pre
sumption to dare to, arraign and con-,
demn and direct the decision of our
highest tribunal of justice in the person
of ont of our best and ablest judges.-
' At a ptoot of tha lharaty tagsciiy of Cajfir
KoaViay, Ka. Auernav Oaaarai of tha United 1
A'atat, w aaducahiawoadeilaldifcavaryoltha
aetor bf tha Letters l Jaaiw" ia the lata
Seiwral Lee. ' ' '
-!-,,. ' ' V
The scMe placed ,n the right A.rk-
Capi. Scoville, who arrived here last
Monday from Martinique, ia Antigua
ndgttsj inform, ushalwhiU
- lay at Martinique, , a Virginia Pilotf
. Boat schooler arrived there with 730
, barrels of Flour, which the captain sold
t for thirty dollars a barrel that while
at Antigua, in the course of four days
only, three vessels came in there with
fu'l cargoes ql flour from Virginia ;
- that he saw- at St. Kilts a Virginia
chooncfr that Itad been at Barbadoet
with a cargo of flour, sold part, and
.thetS tame to Si. Kitts wilhthe rernsin-
der, for abetter market. Is il possible
' that there is aAyipart of the
ie commUniis-
inVirginia so " -worthless" at to be con
cerned in evading the embargo, laws I
aV. Y. Heralds
From the West-Indite. K letter from
Barbadnc dated the 23d of October,
received at Norfolk, mentiona,that thers
1 a glut of provisions and flour in thot
Islands there are rO(K) barrels in the
Barbadoet market i that corn is selling
at 81 strand fish at 2 50 ; and West
" India produce It looking up. ' '
Tha Island of Martinico, it Is said,
bat surrendered to the British forces.
IL. Jtemotat the Embarg$.Mr Bur- '
well, formerly Private Secretary to the
PresiJent of the United Stales, and
mora intimate with him at this time
than any other member of Congress,
with the tingle exception perhaps of
Mr. F.ppes, has declared Unequivocally
that the embargo will be raised before
' the close of tha present Session. Mr.
B. is a man of truth and honor, and un-
i dnubtcdly hat no idea that he whom he
deems his best k greatest friend, would
deceive him upon this important tub-
of ihit sort. Every, breath or rumour
that it blown from this hill of the winds
lias a sensible effect uonn tha markria
fend gives rise to iniquitous speculations.
The truth Is, as Mr. Jrflerson acknow
ledged in Capt Woodward, that the ad
nibistratioD knows met what to do next,
V ( freeman's Journal.
OtmctihttfSUu'tfiQhli) Ken. 17.
u'Tbe bon;'8iutL lluanaoTflir,
'Esq' a federal republican, is elected
-Governor of this tlata by a considera
ble majority, notwithstanding the in
trigues and base deception made use of
to fustrate hit election. ' ' '
eawasssatssa
" A Government of Loxtioni not of Men!"
memorial Irom bdward Livingston
v, .
" -vs w-viiteaos was pro-
dent of the United States, In teuttqvtnte
ewftrfl the siartnal, ty seat of aval.
tolled out three rrgmente 0 militia, and
carried int efiet h forte of arms, ihs
illegal mandate of the President, in off
sittcn to the I'tol judgement of the Court,
and in contempt of a subtauml legal in
junction issued tj the taid Court, enjoin,
tng tht Marshal aat to tarry ,'( ,J(t
the said, unconstitutional er.d illegal" ton
mandof the President I He pray for re-
.lief. - ' " :. .
.... Mr. Stnilie moted that .tjie memo
linl be referred to the Atlornca Gobb,,
ra' ' - .
Tina was obiected to bv Isfawa. r
Gardenier, Key,' and If.lliot, on the
groutid that the Attorney General hiKat
ALRLAux, Riven e decided opinion in-
opposition to the ela 'm oj the memorialist,
i ii m .
PpETICAL GALAXY.
,' - ' - -
Tae followinf Ueiutiful atldrtri to eonju-,1 love '
ii a traafliiiop of (be WtlCa tiili -
p iated in 1 7 .6. ;
Awif let noarht to l.v ditbletiinc '
j, BOtgh, 4ely ti,c huvnty aitt.inf
Nr tfeaauh mUs, aorglooaiy sir
Whit though to grtati of royst dooort,
With pompon 1 titles graee par blood I
We'll bin ia core fublhMtil hooora,
And t ht aobla wa'U be good.
"Our namerwhite virtea thus wt leader,
Will rareeilv foa d whetc 'tit fooke
Aad all (ha greas ones, ihey (hill woadtr.
lv "jr ifw nu.m uuie tola.
i' ' . .
r ''" ;" llh boaatjr,
21 T.Um wt poff.f.. .
withta oar yittanci Uatt,
Ul" "
I dH eh kiad reiuraiag Moo,
K . eiai for - i(h give 1
.
Throagh yoathsadaga , love eacelllag, .
We'll haad and hand together tread
SeUfailirg , faSaall 001 dwclllre,
Aad babct, f wcai.rmiiag babca ear etat.
. Haw Ihosld I love the pret'y creaiaret,
While round my knaei tbcv loudly e!ug.
To tec than look their aioihet'i reatuiei,
To heat Ihess lipfc thaii aaothat's toaua.'
And whaa wl h taTV tlnatrtafpottad,
' - Shall tbiak to iob m ol ar iova t
"' l' ! vuat' d
M " 0o,,, ' aoyi..
If Its la her ieaocence could not Ve lUtti,
aVcsa'e goiog aaked (he stai aoi !(hiii,'d t
, Whoe'er istht I d at, ( Udiss now diasi,
That aga.a ibty (tow ioaoctai.Iaie will . ai.tr
' Aad ibat anlul j to ihiy icia iaw ibt evil,
By iba devil oace usaated, iks; aow umpt tba
. .' aVatil. :
'; lDUOor PLEASASTRT.
Xk m, II . lin .Ann mima I. .1
.(wmitiw.ll IIKWrU
" Voltaif cam epistle. Addressed to borne-
nty, iy irirnu"aid Voltaire. " this
! letter never will be delivered according
; to its direction." .
-
A miserable Poet having presented
composition 10 a friend to peruse was
- told that in the third verse there wat a
, syllable too f w. There may be" tail
the poet, M but read on, I doubt not you
will find some with a syllable too much
. to make up for iu'
An Irishman hsving bought a sheep's
head, ha1 been to a friend for a direc
tiofl to -drest it, at he wat returning,
repeating the method, and holding hia ,
purchase under bit arm, a dot? snatch
ed it and ran away. Now, my dear
joy," taid the Irishman, M what a fool
. you make of yourself I What use will
It be to you, ss you dont know how
, it is to be dressed." ,
MaaaitB. On Atiodsy evening last,
by Hanson Kelly, Esq. Capt. Jama- T.
Ciboo. of the English schooner Del
phim to Mrs. Eleanor Crcighton,ol this
Tewa -.'.' , '
COMKtaiCAtlO.'
Died lately, in Jamaica, Mrs. Muter,
relict of Mr. Robert-Muter, merchant,
formerly a resident in this town.
For Advertisements, kc tee
Supplement. .. .
PORT OP WILMINGTON.
EsTitia
Det. IT, St AV Enterprise, Jotts Kemlerm
J 5, Sth'r Isabella, Bourne, ' Boston
Y.Tmk-
Besio.,
ton, Lu
Joht
York
, Charleston
Boston
Imim, iw
tantas, targo, sugar, trffes and Wastes,
to Hanson Xelly.
Cttiiin
Det. 29, Sth'r Betsey, Holmes, Button
30, Sth'r Eulrrpritfijejtt, AVwern
Jan. 1, Brig Portland, Craotrtt, PhitaM.
phi
A d'.smatlei ship oeleff, wimir t.