Newspapers / The Carolina Federal Republican … / Feb. 28, 1818, edition 1 / Page 2
Part of The Carolina Federal Republican (New Bern, N.C.) / About this page
This page has errors
The date, title, or page description is wrong
This page has harmful content
This page contains sensitive or offensive material
These letter are corroborated by the following. ; v : All the public' papers gave at that time erroneous accounts of me reasons o my ucpanuic num Loogwood The fallowing will establish. the truth. V"; . v My Dear count Las Casas ?Iy heart sensibly feels what you experience. Torn ; from; rae; 16 or 1 days ago, you have been confined in secret, without being permitted to receive any infor mation about me, or , to commu nicate with .any person whatever, either French or EogUab, and e ven destitute of. servants of your own choice." ; ' - --, V Your conduct at ' St. Helena has been like your life honora nle and without reproach I take pleasure in tcUing you so. Here three , fourths of the letter are trantiog.l ; Your company was necessary to me ; you alone could speak and understand English. How many nights have 7 you passed with me in my illness. Howe ver, I advise you, and if needful, I order you, to require the gover nor of this island to .- send ,you to rnnhncnt- H rnnnot refuse this; having no power over you, bat by your voluntary consent. which has placed you under nis authority. Mv heart will re- joice to know that you are on thei way to happier countries. " V Whether you go to England, whetheryou return to yonr couo- try, forget the recollection of the ills which you have oeen made to I suffer. Boast of the fidelity Dearer ? The secret of the rid which you have shewn to the and di will be found in the fact of ev of the entire affection I bear you. ery tailor V growing rich in a few it you should: one aay see my wife and son. salute f them f Em-1 brassez-lesj For more than two I years I have no news of them, either directly or indirectly, Thrse lines are here wanting.1 However, comfort yourself and console my friends. Mv body, it is true, is in the power oi my enemies tneir rage forgets nothing that can satiate I their revenge they kill me by inrhpR tne fnnt mnitrir rt rntifixl reninglc,) but providence is too iiiftt I am aentiKlf 'nf 5t trtnr- mtt this to continue long in the midst oi this consuminir climate, oeprivea ot every tning tnat sup ports life,i f; - v Here three lines are wantin 4 A s there is every ritson to be lieve that you will norbe permit ted to come before yourdeparture, receive my. embraces, the assur ances ot my esteem, and ot ray friendship , Be happy Your affecV NAPOLEON. Longwood, Dec. 1816. The local authority detained at St. Helena, : the original of . this letter, auuwcu oniy mat parv De commun icated which is found here From the National Intel ligencer. The De'il Among the Tailors9 -r.' m f - tl . . rt .... ixciiitt?cii i nere ; is a mighty propensity gro wiu g up, of ate! to netition Conorress for aU ' j new every uuug . W.neiieTer people wan., uu, petuiou uuSl w ;wvvuCuCvC - revoiuuou uiuwmuiwuc ur wiauw of the world, c.rcumscribe.' the lraueu. aJr pu.vu. ?f!"!y I Ste lSS K es to her spouse with some nineteen or twenty children Con gress is called upn to sanction this enormity, by giving a bounty In lands, for the encouragement of all-special breeders. All seem to want exclusive bounties or ex clusive privileges the hatter be titions for a monopoly of hats the shoemaker for a monopoly of shoes and so with almost every Class of tradesmen " Instead "of fairly entering into a competition with foreign manufactures, and beating ttiem put of the market, they probably find it much easier ta acquire, by petitioning - Con gress, the salutafy priviledge of making their wares as bad as pos sible and selling them for any price they please ;; -A; , This is pleasantly tailed mak ing the country i independent, by an approved modern patent meth ud, that is to say by making three fourths of the people; dependent on the other, for almost all the conveniences of life; But I tlont mean to-enter into this eitensive subject. - My. present business is with the tailors, who have, as I perceive, gathered themselves together 4n Philadelphia and most manfully determined to be siege Congress with thimble ; and needle, to pass a law prohibiting the importation of ready made clothes. Now, ready made for eign clothes are already saddled with an immense duty, and yet it passed under my personal obser vation, not four months ago in Philadelphia, that ready made imported English waistcoats, r in every respect equal to those made by our tailors, : were bought by more than one gentleman, Tor less than one half the- price charged by those exceedingly modest peti tioners. ' The same disproportion was observable in coats and pan taloons y'r- ' ;V ' t Nbr, gentlemen, .it ;is worth while to enquire, why such, things are ? .Taxed as every 5 thing is jn England up, to the eyes,, how hap pens it that, with all the cost of importation, : added to a most heavy-duty here, ready, made clothes can be sent to this country ;and sold at half the price'of domestic articles of the same kind ? How 1 .t . - ' - happens it, sirs, that while every material employed in making these cloths, has fallen so; enormously in this country, there should be so little difference in the price ot coats &c. at this time , & when the materials were mty per cent- years ay me moramate usurious profits he exacts from his custom. ers. it is these profits that" they wish to have secured to them, by act of Congress, solely nodoubt on the score of maintaining the independence of their country !- Patriotism, gentlemen, carries a broad mantle like charitv, that! vwb ai icasi one nau tne wues 1 ot selhshness from the broad I glare of sunshine. It is under this Convenient cloak that nponl petition Congress, for the privi- lecre of rendering rhilliona nF rnn. 1 tributary to the inflexible cupidity ot every class of trades- men, or manufactures, as they yuuubc w .cau tuemseivcs, in tnis age of " big words." - Hut, to the point 1 happen to be neither merchant, coblcr, tailor, 1 J -. T l Jl . Kinu. i ueiong to a numerous class of men in this countrv : I mean the people who wear clothes whea they an get them cer tainly no small portion of the com munity, and withal possessing a reasonable clain? to common jus ; r u?f ,4."?c tA"uia snouia succeea in stitching Lon- gress into the folds of this unrea sonabie petition they design to ; present instead of getting them-) selves basted out of the house- i if, I say, they should succeed in their conspiracy against the rights S or men wnat, to use the Ian guage oi a great orator,; among the ancients What will become ! r ll our past posterity wnat. sir will become of our future aaces torswhat wiI, become o th, wearers of capeless skinless coats anH fnnrV xrui wear four waistcoats kthV6acki eaehith broach, and breastpin for- the benefit PBf thcse uweasonable tailors ly Srr, were these men to petition" me. i would answet .with the poet, -' Avaunt, and jquit my sight, M Thou hast no thread and needle in those I paws, . ' 'ijt-'M 'Thattbou dost stitch withal I , ' r r 4 K,AU uiuu we laiugjr muuuucj iweep, ' , f - f With iHtm tf n rl CAMnAiv - . Or dare me to the shopboard with thy R AI1U 0UI UU1-" - ' ir tremoimg i inhibit, then protest me " The very boch of a button hole- i Hence, horrible tailor hence 1' . . V Yours, gentlemen, j Bobby Br eches Tu. - r i against tne oemmoie tnoe ot Jta" diaris,: is notauch as to jrratifv ei - jcuus u economy m , uuouc expenditures. We have seen that a brigade jpf militia was called ; for, aau oruci wu out oy me uovernor .1 A - .1 . . I .. . . - ot Georgia, to march ta the In tldian country, "Its march is delay ed, by the necessity of Erst organ izing jtlis raw force it is impe ded afterwards by various obsta cles, among which is the deficien cy of supplies and the means of transportation ; and now, we learn before it had arrived within reach of an enemy, the militia men com nosinff the bricade are - returning home, their three months' time of service having expired ! x Another brigade had been previously or dered out, and on its way to the frontier; and, before it can be em ployed, it Js probable, its time of service will also have expired. Thus it f re quently happens, when militia are called out for short termsof service, that to march and countermarch is the only ser vice they perform. -- . In expressing our regret at these facts we do not certainly . un dertake to say how the evil 'could, have been avoided, or that it was avoidaoie. oen. oaines, . no doubt, found the hostile Indians in greater force than he had, anti cipated i and, on receiving his representations, it was found ne cessary not only to clothe him with authority to make these ex tensive requisitions, but also to order forth a thousand men , from Tennessee. , 9 . It jgives us pleasure to be able to state, that there is no room for the intimation we have seen in a Georgia paper, that the' general government has neglected to . fur nish the necessary , funds to aid the operation5 of the forces em ployed against the Indians. The Department of war, we have in formed ourselves, has sent to that quarter upwards of thirty thous and dollars for the quarter ; in as ters department : of sixty thou land for the nay department, and of a hundred thousand dollars for the contractors department. ;A m- pie remittances will, no doubt, he made to meet the current expen Ices of the campaign, so 'soon as the military appropriation bill for 1 a m is passea iviean w nue, tne passage of that act has been de llayed by the disagreeing votes of I the two hnnsM nt flnntrrpM; nrin particular clause of the bill. - The differnrtiR lin vl rfpnnrilprl ' One house has already resolved to adhere to its. nround. If the bsnate follows its .example, the wnoie oiu is rejected, and must be originated de novo. NaU Int. ' ,i Exports of the U. StateSi REPORT TO CONGRESS. 16th January, 1818.J Sin I have the honor to trans - statement of the exports of ixa c.-. .u mit a the -United States, during . the year ending the 30th September, 1817. amountinff in value ' on ar- ticlca' w ' Of domestic produce or manufacture, to . S8,3 13,500 Of foreign produce or manuiacture, to . 19,358,069 87,671,566 W"hich articles appear; to have been exported to the following countries, viz. j Bomeiiic. Fcreim. To the northern coun tries of Europe joww To the dominions of the Netherlands. ' ' 3397775 2387543 Do. of Great Britain 41431168 2037074 R- f France Spain ; 9717423 2717395 4530156 S893780 Do. of Portugal, ' AU other : 1501237 . 333586 3907178 5193283 63313500 19358069 I' have the honor ttolbe, verv respectfully, sir, your most obe dient servant. ?i : WM. H.CRAWFORD- The Hon. the Speaker of the , , , 1- llouse of Representatives. " Summary of the Value of export - from each State. STATES SOUKSTXO. FOREIGN TOTAX. New-Hamp. 170599 , 26X25. 197424 Vermont - 913201 - ; ? 913201 Massach's. 5903416 6019581 119279971 Rhode-Island 577911 3728556 , 950467 Connecticut ,574290 29449 , 6u4139 New-York 13660733 5045700 18707433 New Jersey,, 584? t; 5849 Pennsylvania 5538003 3197589, 8735592 I Delaware . 77i - OOSJ 44854 8933930 1768658' Dist.ofColum.li89l02 79556 1 Virginia 5561238 60204 5621442 1 Geonria . ' . S 5.1 0211 ; S7QnriA I Ohio . ; 7749 7749 Louisiana , 8241254 783558 9024812 Territory cf U.Sf 108115 -i , .103115 ; - " ToUl " 63313500 1935S0CD w771562 By a report of the Secretary of the Treasury-of the United Statesi made to the House -"of Represen tatives, on the lG:n January, 1818, it appears that the amount of the tonnage of the States, is as follows, vii. ; k The aggregate amount dFthe : ,: tonnage of the U.Statei, on the Slst December 1815, is ; . stated at , - . . t72l&53 Whereof permanent registered vton- - , ' ' nage, - - Temporary io. do . 9923 1 ,92 . - J .. Totals registered tonnage, '. 800,759,63 rermaneni enroiiea -& licensed tonnage, 501,497,41 f. ; Temporary do. do. '17,529,03 Total enrolled and licen-' sed tonnage, 519,044,62 Licensed vessels tinder 20 r . .v j ' tons, employed in the . coasting trade, 42,185.70 Codftshery, 10,249.66 . - - i - , . v - i- - Total licensed tonnage ,. under 20 tons, 52,432,41. , - l,3f2,218,53, Of this tonnage there own ed Jn Salem, (Mass.) 23,280,10 in Boston 91,899,26 in New- York 171,781,88 in Philadei-1 phia, 7t,093,62in Baltimore I 73,824,28 in Charleston,. (S. . . ' ... ...-(. Carolina) 16,894,36. t IN: SENATE- . Wednesday, Feb.:9. ir, Williams, of renncssee, from thecommittee , on. military affairs, Sported a bill to reduce the staff of the . army, which was ' The President communicatee! to the Senate a letter from 'the Secretary of .War transmitting in pursuance to law. statements of the exnidenture Si application oi an monies maae at tne omces oijthcy not be ielieved from their tne nrst ana sccona auauoroi tne Treasury Department, appropna-1 ted for the contingent expenses of the military establishment, during ms year 1817. ; 5 Mr. Barbour submitted the fol lowing resolution for considera !9a XTrs be instructed to inquire into the expediency tf chanirmffthe mode, of j supplying the troops of the -.united states ' r-::r : T.TkT rV m o.i mlk. linn r- i liii.irni . km v nuuir.t.iinr I ; v.. a.i w ties undertaking- that duty to military law : r - -.o. r- m cases or delinquency. - : be veral bills received their se cond reading. I he proposed amendment to ther.nnlHTliMnn. f anrtinor th of electors, and represent . " P . i - WJa cn ma- I tioS l7of person, postponed I to Wednesday next : and . Wednesday The Senate resumed, in com raittee of.the whole,, Mr. Dagget in the chair the consideration of the bill to provide for thesurvi ving. . ; REVOLUTIONARY PATRIOTS. I The consideration of this ; sub iect again produced a good ; deal of debate,, chiefly, ori i its details , . . - - ... ... t ana propositions-to alter' various features of the bill. 1 he dis cussion was conducted by v Messrs. I Noble Otis Talbot Latocky Bur trill. Etfes. MorriL Goldsbsrousrh I and Vandyke. A motion made by Mr. TalbotUtined leave to sit again. to strike out the words4 who are! or hereafter shall be reduced to indigence and incapable of procu ring subsistence," was decided m the pegative-aye8 I4,noes 18; & The Senate adjourned, HOUSE OF REPHESnMTATI7ES. Wednesday Feb 18. ?Mr Hugh .kelson, from the committee on the Judiciary, re pdrted a bill for the more ; cbnve- nientorRauizationof the Coum frfr,;, .Qf,M v -k- Suoreme Court, shall, from nd after April next, cease to perform the duties oi Circuit Judges ; that i.L.c: - . r..... th Snnrm. Ponrt h-ll Z"S"f l' ZZr Zl 1 fvV"M"w"V W,V Jusw and loin associate justices, when ever vacancies shall reduce it that number ; that this court shall h hnldftn in Mav anrl nV-mhr annually ; that-there be aonointed .r Mw """ - eight circuit judges," to hold cir cuit courts twice a year iCLthe se- verai aistricts, in conjunction with the district judges, ic The Kill was f i ri( A r-rit rrvrv?fr. On motion cf Mr: Slccunb XetoTveot, That Uie Secretly of War appointment of Circuit Judges. Vu -'" "i -nT wm8'vc 7 PVoviding that the Judges oi the "i"1 W-' Ur 8n.d S'ateS tejrequeated to lay tcfore Itiis T7oue in formation whether any of the Pay in of the armies oftlie United States, duriv the late war, have failed to ptrform their duty xn - making their - . retorns and sentlement, and the; names of, the delinquents,' and the ; reason why coercive measures have not been used to compel a performance of that duty. On motion ot Mr. Ldwards Rziolvid That the committee , on the public lands he instructed to enquire in to U)e clpediency of adding to tu land district, established at St; Stephens, in the Alabama Territory, . the lands lately acquired from the Chlckds&V, and Choc taw, Indians, and adjacent to said disq uiet, i - ' '- . ' From the Alex Gcz, of Ftb. 2o FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT AT WASHINGTON. -. Wednesday, Febl 18, 1810. The; house of - representatives; in a committee of the whole. Vea- terday resumed the consideratibd 6f the bill for establishing an uni lorm system bf bankruptcy in the United States. - IVI r. Tyler moved to strike out the first section and after apolo- gizing tor his temerity in attempt ing to step forward in the field of argument in answer to Mr, Hop- Uinson, proceeded to give his tea- a - - - " . . ... sons for opposing the bill, and to encounter some of the positions when had the day before been laid down by that gentleman. ' One principal objection, in his mind, to the bill was; that it conferred bn a particular class (the merch ants) privileges distinct , froni tui ennv-A kv th nth-r r1.', Gf which the union was composed L - and hft te who innnht Kthm battjes of thc dm0Q ?w0 ed its victories r who defended New Orleans ? The auswer, he saidi was, w Every class in. the tommunty.,, If the farmer and , mechanic slibuld by unforseen casualties be reduced to insolven cy, why (ne demanded) should emfcarrassraents-iandwhy should th- he faunrerlhu th m.in. I tr- arlfl :ts l.uiatnrfi ? ih J cnd8aVored to show thatthe; far caer was as subject to -losses and bankruptcy by the failure 6f thb merchant, as was the merchant: himself and he assumed it as a Position that tbc merchant hac! I it in his power to exercise I prudence sufficient to guard hint ingainsi insolvency ior ne mignt m . v lay, by, at homehalf ' his capi tal; and bend no more than the o- ther half abroad in the way of ad venture, v His greatest dislike to the bill was that it would operate most frequently in favor of the bold high- handed dasher, and sel om in lavor of the prudent hon crablc merthaou L. Mr. 1 yierwas fo Untvfd hv TVf fi- Holmes, who spoke for some time against the bill, and was succeeded by Mr. Pindall, on the same side,who endeavored to en counter Mr. Hopkinaon on every ground of, his . argumenu The chief recommendation .possessed" by, these three speeches, (as they I sti uck mej was the modesty or mr. si viers, tnoucn it was not deficient in ingenuity and neat ness, i ransparent sophistry cat- ' ries no recommendation with it to : my mind. v The committee? roe and reported pf ogress & bb- Resp.ecting.the results there is I oow, little ; doubt entertained. The bill will assuredly be rejected A ac growth ot sectional influence I every day becomes more visible- it is scarcely even pretended to be disguised. Of the ultimate: con sequences, whd is so dull in brain as to be , doubtful i When the v fermentation compressed within w V B " u j - - u ; shaU rca,chfed lls htl& thc consiuuuonai noop6,,unanie ta , . ? l"n, who mersofthe The champions of the rev were also 1 the Ira- lulcia W1 M4C w"uuuu, woKll constitution. looking forward to the states havine . I lnnr - trrtU-, .j llirt toi. bW ' -u"1 u, ucsl raauuV lo rcaef iacmT wt"u"Jcr OtS I r-' .L I tore tucy uavr rcacaea ins ursc stage, they disagree, uYiantipa- hi Si CO LU vttWti LilCI . a Li LA TM. i auu ucauiuir wm up uisunitea IOf vor to cross each other's in Ai - m .. ' l r i i what can'be hoped ? AVhy, only ? to ton at the nert inn. nnrl ?r i Sa oy necessity, jney can group.,. i ttiemscivca m parties ox moro con- a
The Carolina Federal Republican (New Bern, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
Feb. 28, 1818, edition 1
2
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75