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Rational 9umton.r
FROM THE AURORA.
, NEUTRAL' COMMERCE. '
; c,P 1 1 tn not surpri2cd, that the re
n. ncws frora France has excited a va-
' cf opinion and' emotions, in the
ds of the inhabitants of our comincr-
! cities. No man of sense could have
an-tcipatcd joy at such an event as
ti.V restoration of amity with France,
rn those who appUuded the violation
cfthr aws. the submission to foreign li
cences, and to paper blockades, and who
ciHcd for the unfurling of our Oag a-
rt'-r.st it impcnai stanaara ; no one
Jofld have supposed that "Jhe British
fSrry in America wou'd rejoite ar the
lie ict of France, which of all measures
tatt l naparte could adopt, is best cal
culated to tet the profession. aod pro
ches publicly made by Britain, and ex
r 1 it emissaries from the shores of A
ctric3. Evtry lover of his country
sculd hail s auspicious, that measure,
which has rreated such consternation and
pairing fear amongst our wors. ene
curs-
And as his is the way in which this
r?irhjsbeen received by the British
rirtj," who c-n wondet that they are
taiiiy ei gaged in disseminating surmi
ses and doubts tespecting the motives
Mch pnxluced the measure, the nature
cf hc revr-cation, and the c nse qu nces
ofourconBdence? To endeavor to frus
Lte those endeavors, and to place the
sub'ct ftirly before the public, are my
Do ires, for n questir g ynu to permit
rce to express my sentiments through
Ik ratdium of the Aurora.
In discussing these 3 points, I pre
sume, I shall h-ivc sufiicicnt scope for
exresiirg my opinions :
1. What is the nature of the revoca
tion of her'decrees, by France ?
2. What will Britain do I
3. What sh-11 we do ?
In discussing any particular part of
tie ubjct of our diffVrrnces with the
Ullipt rents, it is impossible to avoid a
consideration of these truths : 1st. that
Briain first began to harrass ncu'rals
rid had an interest in doing to, which
France had not : and that France did
not retaliate, although int rested in the
prosperity of neutrals, and after long
sc fa ring and the desertion of neutral
rights by neutrals themselves ; 2d. that
Iiutain has always injured neutrals, up
on the ground of allcdgetl right ; and
tlut France has injured neutrals upon
the gruond of an allcdged sacrifice by
neutrals of their tights and their use to
their enemy and injury to their friends.
And 3d. that altnough the aggressions
frcm willingness on one side and from
a retaliatory policy r-n the other, were a
like unm-tifiahle. the former were uni
firmly more gross in their nature and
extent.
Thtse tru'hs were so well unders:o d
in 1J07 8. when the embargo law was
enacted, that the penal" ies or restric
tions imposed upon Britain, were ne
cessarily more severe than those impos
ed up n l iance ; for in consequence o!
the daily impressment of irtir seamen,
the attack upon the Chesapeake, the
murder of Ptarcc, &c. B itish armed
vessels were forbidden to enter ourports,
hi!t French amed ships were not pro
l.ibited, the ships of France not having
violated our ports, not having rouidcred
cr impressed any of our citizens, nor in
sulted our territory or flag.
This discrimination w.is pretested a
irainsi by Britain ; in January, 1 803, Mr.
Hose complained of it, and dccUrcd he
would offer no reparation until i was re
moved ; but our government ery hono
rably and firmly refused to change this
riscrimination, alledging that France
had not justified so harsh a measure as
the exclusion of its ships.
Nothing had been done by France from
1797, to March 1809, to warrant any
change in this lesolution of our govern
rnent ; the executive had determined to
abide by the principles oftxact justice ;
Ut secret intrigue, and that intrigue ex
tending itself into the executive coun
cils, baffled all these dignified and con
sistent purposes, and the same congress,
which repealed the embargo law, passed
an tcton tbc 1st of March, 1309, con
taining this section.
MSeo3. Adbc it further evacttd. That from
and after the 20th day of May next, the, en.
trance of re haibors ard wateisof the United
States and the lerritores thereof, be, anl the
ae ate hereby interdicted to all ahips or ves
!s sailing ucder the flag of Great-Untain.or
fxnee, or owned in whole or in part by any,
ct:un ct subject of either ; vesseU hired,
chartered cr employed. by the government of
( either ctuntry, for the sole purpose of carrying , '
. I . !
leuerg or ajspaicnes, as aaso vessels lorceti in jj
by distress, or by. the dangers cf the sea, only ! 1
excepted ' And if arty ship or vessel sailing (
un'aer tte'flag'oG Britain or France, or own- '
ed in whole or in part by any citizen or subject
of either, and not excepted as aforesaid shall,
a Iter the said 20th day of May next, anive ei
ther w:th or without, a cargo, within the li
mits of the U. States cr of the territories there
of, such ship or vessel, together with the cargo,
if any, which may be. found on board, shah be
r" 1 . . . 1 it 1
xortenea, ana may dc seizca ana conaemneain
any courr of the U. States,
There can be no doubt, but that the
same unaeen influence which procured
the repeal of the embargo, obtained the
enactment of the ybove law in fact it
was by the law, of which the ib vt is
the 3d section, that the cmb.it go was re
pealed Nothing bad occurred, on the
pari of France, to induce Congress to re
sort to this measure ; nothing had oc
curred to w :ken the frar.k but tempe
rate; arguments of Mr. Mudtbon. in Jan.
lbOS, agdmst placing Fr nee, who had
committed no wrong,ScBriiain,wh j had
exceeded all prec- dent in oU'iage, un
der an equal penalty ; yet this 1,. w pass
ed, and uS it now appears without any
previous notifications 10 France, that htr
vessels would be seized if they tn tercel
out ports ?
. It was in conscqu' nee of 'his law, the
principle of whit h Mr. Madison had du
clared to be unjustifi .ble, that Fiance r. -sorted
to confiscation ; her Kmuagt
was this Without giving any wert:
mgi you subjected French vessels enter
ing your ports to condemnation your
vessels, upon the same principles, arc
now subjected to s- quest ration, without
warning." Yct,whilst I must leprobate
this step taken by France, i cannot but
condemn the depar ure from the system
so well defended by Mr. Madison in his
correspondence tvi.h M . Hose, and by
Ml Pmkr.ey, who it is to be supposed
implicitly followed the ins; 1 uct ions w hich
he rectived fr m the Departmctil ol
State, in his conespondence with Mr.
Canning.
Thus affairs remtmed, condemning
on both sides, from the 20: h May, 1808,
until the 1st May 1810 when in 'he spi
rit of vacillation and imbecility, the law
of March, 1809, dbove quoted, was re
pealed, and an act passed, of which the
following is llie matrrial section;
Sect 4 And be if further enacted, That iu
case either Great Uritain or France shall be:
fore the 3d day of March next, so revoke or mo
dify her edicts, as that they shall cease to vio
late the neutral commerceof the United States,
which fact the Pies dent shall declare by pro
rlamation ; and if the other nation shall not,
within three months thereafter, so revoke or
rndif) her edicts in like manner, then the 3rd,
4:h, 5th, 6ih, 7th, 8th, 9:h, lO h and 18th c
tions of the art, entiiled "An Act to interdict
the Commercial Intercourse between the Uni
ted States and Great Br tain and Frar.ce and
their dependences, and for other purposes,"
shall, from and after the exp.ration ol three
months frcm the date of the prcilamation a
foresaid, be revived and hare full force and ef
fect, so tar as relates to the dominions, colonies
and dependencies of the nation thus ret using or
neglecting to revoke or modify her edicts in the
manner aforesaid, and the restrictions imposed
by this act, shall, from and titer the date ct
buch proclamation, cease and be d continued,
in relation to the nation revrkir g or modifying
her decrees in the manner aforesaid '
This law re-established or uuthori ed
intercourse to and fiom both the belligc
rents, but it holds out a temptation to
each in this sense. 44 You ptofets a de
sire to revoke' such orders or decrees as
injure American commerce and infringe
American rights ; if you will put your
professions into practice if you Bri
tain, will repeal your orders we will re
sist France by ceasing all intercourse
whatever with her, a d by maintaining
it wiih you alone until France shall do us
justice if you, France, will rtvoke yur
dccrces,we will resist Britain by ceasg
to trade with her, and by maintaining
intercourse with you alone until Britain
shall do us justice."
By the correspondence of Mr. Pink
ney with the Marquis Wellesley , we
find England indisposed to this step ;
and France has been the first to accept
the proposal her language thro'Cham
pagny is emphatic and cannot be misun
derstood. "The decrees of Berlin and Milan arc
revoked, and th-y will cease o be in
force from the 4th Nov'r next, it being
understood that in consequence of this
declaration, the English shall, as thty
have, declared they would, revoke their
nrrltrs in 1 onncil.nrl 1 enounce the nrin-
jciples of blockade which they hav at
tempted to establish ; or, that the Uni
: ted St ves, conformably to the act of Con-
' grtss which you have just communicated,
shall cause their rights to respected
jjby the English . .
Vet, plain as these declarations and
principles are. naturally as they arise out
of the measures and laws to which they
refer,attempts have beesi made to induce
abelitfthat tht tJ. States must go toaar
with England, in case of her refusal to
injure the fulfilment df this promise of
France. That no such conclusion is
warranted, every man pf judgment must
discern ; we promised to discriminate a
trade with such bellgerent as should not
respect our rights, and maintain inter
course wtth the belligerent which should
respect them. ,
Ei'her, therefore, Britain must now,
as she has so often expressed her wil
lingness to do, revoke her oiders (and
'enounce the new system of blockade,
which is a palpable violation of our neu
ral rights in the meaning of the law' of
May, 1810, pbovt quoted) or we must
fulfil our engagement made in the face of
he world, 10 break otT aH intercourse
1
with htr and maintain it with France.
There is v.o neeo condition lobe fulfil
led ; moreover, the proposition accept
ed is our own, and we have only to do
what, in the language of our own law,
we have pledged ourselves to. do.
And thus, at last, the crisis has arri
vedThere is no longer any need of
lo"g letters, no of new ministers, nor of
confidential co-versation diplomatic
subtlety and eticjuette,; sophistry Sc sus
pense, must ivc way to plain languagt
and prompt action Will you or will
you not, Great Brit- in, leave unmolest
ed the neutral American trade to all the
poi ts in Euiope n't actually block 'der?
W hav now come backNo first princi
ples If you will respect our righ s wt
will trade with you, and allow you to
trade with us if you will not, we shall
absolutely abandon all sort of inter
course with you ; we will, as our Ijw
declares, condemn such of yc ur vessels
as shall enter our pons, and we will, as
we are bound by our law and promise to
d , maintain our trade to France : and
if y u will still determine upn outrage,
we will (tho reluctantly) resort to rtta
lia ion by every means which the justice
and usage of civilized society have sanc
tioned, and experience has proved to be
effectual."
Such is the language that our go
vernment is b-und to speak : whenever
Mr. Madison shall receive an oflirhl
notification of the revocation of the
French decrees, he will be no'und t shut
iur ports against her vessels, to prevent
our own from entering her ports, to seize
her properly and her subjects, if she
continues to seize our property and citi-z-nc-
; nd to maintain our intercourse
with Fiance.
On the first of Novembt r next, every
Ftencb Decree, infringing our rights, unit cease.
We have no new conditions to fulfil
nothing more is expressed in the letter
of Ch.impagny, than that we do, as we
said we would, that is, "cause our rights
be respected by the Engli: hcon,forma
hly to the act" of M y 1, 1810. If we
shall not fulfil the promise made in thai
law, in cise of necessity, thr-n of course
France will no longer be bound by her
engagement But as the sense of the
nation has been alrtady sufficiently ex
pressed on the acts of the 16th Coiigres,
honor, interest, and sound policy, com
mand us to cairy our promises into ef
f ct, like an honest and independent
nation and as the virtue of the Peo
ple will, no doubt, oblige their Repre
sentatives to do their duty, I have not
ihesmallest doubt but thatwe shall here
after enjoy the great advantages of a
trade to the European Continent if
Britain wil permit us, or if iue use tbe meant
ux possess and compel her to permit us.
And here 1'reach the 2nd and 3rd
points of enquiry, hut must defer no
ticing them till my next.
SIDNEY.
EDUCATION.
WE are much gratified at the opportunity
which we have of making known ro the
Parents and Guardians of Children, thatwe
have engaged the Kev'd JAMES THOMSON
from Virginia, as Principal Teacher io'; the
Washington Academy. From the speci
men which we have had of the progress of the
Students in Literature, during the last session,"
we feel no hesitation in saying, that we believe
that very general satisfaction will be given to
those who may send their Children or Ward 3,
as Students in this institution. The next ses
sion will commence on the 1st of October.
For the Board of Trustees,
SLADE PEARCE,
Sept. 20, 1810:
N- B. We' are permitted to give notice to
Parents and Guardians, at. a distance, that Mr.
Thomson will take a few Scholars as Board
eri in his Family,'
3W6
BOOK-BINDING.
SAMUEL COMBS iff Co.
HAVE established a Book-Bindery in the
front part of the Minerva Office where
Mr Boylan lately kept his Book Store. 1
SAMUEL, CuMBS hasconducted a Binde
ry for Messrs. Somervell Sc Govirad ot Peters
bur, and is emboldened to say that he, is
complete master of the Business. The Mer
chants of Raleigh and the adjoj; irg towns can
be furnished w.th LEDGEUS, JOURNALS
and DAY-B(vOKS, made cf goc$ thick Pa
per cf ar y size. Clerks of Courts can be sup
plied with RECORD BOOKS And Old
Books w:Hbe re-bound in handsome avd dura
ble covers, op the shortest notice-, 't The pr Ces
for all kinds of Work will be as lovv as at Pe
tersbiirg and Richmond.
Gentiemen coming to the Courts and Gene
ral Assembly, will afford opporunities for or
ders from a distance Orders for re bii di g
Old Bocks, &c received by D M'RAE, Post-'
Master, FayetteviUe.
75 tf Sept. 20.
Var4ent0n Fall Races
WILL commence on Thursday the 15th cf
November next. , ..
First Day A sweepstake, under the Direc
tion of the Prrprietor.
Second Day, the Jockey C!ub Purse-for the
whole Amount of tfte Subscription say ab ai
40 Subscribers, ten Dollars each Three miLf
heats Entrance Thirty Dol'ars 1
Third Bay, the Proprietor's Purse, $250
Two mile heats Entrance $20 The Money
for this Day's It ace to lehuug up before start
sng-
Tbe Joll(ming weights to govern Three
Y ars dd, 851bs.-F in- Ye rs old, lOOIbs.
Five Years old, 110 lbs Six Tears old, 120
lbs. Seven Years old, & upwards, 126 lbs
3 lbs. allowed Mares and 'Geldings.
The Entries to br made wih the Proprietor
on the evening previous to each Day's Race,
before sunset .
Stables and Litter will be furnished for Race
Horses gratis.
BALLS fdrnished each night of
the Races; And every attention pad to the
accommodation of 'hose who may put up at the
Proprietor's Tavern.'
Toll, as usual, to be collected at the Gate.
W A K FAT.KENER,
Proprietor qf the Course
Warrenton, Sept. 1, 1810. ; 76. 6r '
THE PERSON RACES,
? NATHANIEL NOHFLEE T's Track,
will commence the first day of November
next.
The 1st Day Two tni!e heats, free for any
Horse, Mare or Gelding.
The 2d Day Mile heats, free for any Horse,
Mure or Geldng. vJ
The first Dray's Purse will be worth about
glOO The 2d Day's Purse will be wokh a-
b'-ui 75.
1 he 3d Day A. Subscription Race for two
Year Olds, at 10 Entrance, where due attend
ance will be given by
NATH. NORFLKET,
Sept 30, IS10 ' 76 4t
State of North-Carolina.
HERTFORD X.OUN1T.
Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions, August
Term, mo'
Peterson Gurley, agent fcr P Brown, PVff. I
vs
Josepn Spikes, Defendant.-'
Original Attachment.-
Returned ' Levied on a Tract of Land sup
posed to' belong to Joseph Spites, lying m
Hertford County, &c." '
IT having been made appear to thie Court,
that the Defendant above, resides without
the Siate l'herefore, Ordered, that N- i cl- (by
way of advertisement in the 'Rateigh Register
for six weeks) b; given the said Jrsephthat
unless he appear at the next Term of this
Court, to be fvolden at the Cour -house in Win
ton, on the fourth Monday of November liext
replevy and plead, that udgment final will be
entered up against him.
75 Teste J F. DICKINSON.
Eloped or Taken away,
From the Haw Fields in Orange County, on
on Monday morning las, J
A NEGRO WENCH, about 22 year oM,
jTJL named AUce, bout 5 feet 7 inches high
She is very black, has a djmpie in her chin, is
full eyed, has ;wo scars on her right shudder ;
is slim bu-.lt, and supposed to be pregnant.
She had on at the time nothing but a- Petticoat
and a Shifr. , 1
As the Wench has never been in the ahit
of funning away, the Subscribe- is of opinion
that she did not noWrunaway And hej is the
more confirmed in this belief by observing- a,
fresh track of shod herses, or. that day (2rtrt
of August) in an unusual place near bis dwell-
ng
It may he proper to state, thai the Subscri
ber, several years ago, made a deed ot gift of
this his only. Slave to his Daughter by a for
mer wife, reserving to himself the use of heT
doling his life-time : that his Daughter has
been twice married ; and that he has some rea
son to suspect that her present Husband, John
or Isaiah Pugh, may have taken off tbe Negro
with an intention of disposing of ber, uncer
the Deed of Gilt above referred to.
Jf any Person shall stop the said Hegro,
lodge her in Jail and give Notice to the; Sub
scriber, soths he may get ber again, shall re
ceive, if in the County of Orarige, TEN DO L.
LARS REWARDt or if in a distant Conniv,
Twenty Dollars. JOHT PUG II.
i Orange CotjTjty,Scptf 1, 1810, v 72 -
JPII VJ ATT, Sc. Co
COACH
rf. .t4 .U Um wLU WTrt nn Fav- .
.T! etteVifle Street, formeiTcpied bf Mf. v;fvjK?
rying on tirteir Business in all ijr various braT!crt.
e's, they flatter tliemselves Ihatfrorh tlir perfect
knowledge oflhe Business atid adeterminatkm
not to deliver any Work , bur what they caxi '
warrant. theylwil merit' every encouragement
which a liberal public may be disposed, to coti-.;
fer. ' : . flS. tf
A Tin-Plate Worker v- :
X J ocLD doubtless find the City of Raleigh; :$f
Vt an eligible Situation for his Business
Besides the consumption of theCity, there, arc
a camber f)f Tin Carts constantly travelling in ;
this part of the State, whjnse; cwners are under
the necessity of going to Petersburg or iovste
distant m.arket for tbeir supplies. ' ' ,
J NOTICE ."-...
' To Farrriets and Millers
Is hereby given tbyt I have just ret eireil front
FbiUidcipbia. tiao ;(f MivertEvans!) 0
PATENTi?D SCRtiW-MTLLS
A Perpendicular and horizontal form; in cast
iron metal of the hardest temper-; rl have
carried the screws to the public armory ffc r the ,
inspection of gentlemen, farmers ardmilra
who desire to use them, where Lcari 'Wye
thers cast for sale. The Screw Mills j)f either ,
form, will be sold at the moderate -price of 65
Dollars, including the patent fee of twenty
dollars. These Sciew Mills have been found
northwardly, where theV are much in usei ,tb
be a very profitable machine ; to vfafnvers,in ,
breaking the r.orn 'and cobh together, tp ena-
ble their stock to consume the whole substance
with ease and benefit. It has been scerj&irrd
that two barrels of corn and cobb brtJcentpge-- :..;;.v-'
ther by. these screws are fully equal. to three . Jj '
barrels given in the' usual way . Also, for 4 T '. '
breaking .Piaster ot fans in small umbs; For
grinding in mills for manure;; Alsbthose Who
are in the habit of of distijlihg spjrks, may ex
tract an additional quantity frorn' '.corjitand
obb broken together If j must lackRow
ledged by all that stoC! wuld not eat tfVe cobb
by decrees as they generally do, were it xxotfvr
the nourishment they receive fron? jV The
screws may be put in motion from a mill at'
1 small exnence, and farmers may Vive them mo
tion oy a crarK similar to akgrinost.pne 1 ne ;f i?
Tiatpnrf rit thse sf reis hn -inthrrK! mf hi :
agent, to make such alterations in the construe-
tions as to grind small hominy, 6ut' these altern
ations mustvnot ufi' ct thie two grand, principles
of the invention. Having had some experience '
cf mill operations, I will choose boltUtg cloths'
fcr millers the best in this rrarket. JThe plib
lie ma)- be assured I will serve them tvuh plea
sure, and hope to share the?rcQmmshds; which
will be punctually attended! to by their most Q
bed,enr JOHN moody; (,
Agent for O.Evans in Virginia jSc all the SouthernStateji .
" Richmond, Aug. 22, I8ll.. - '' " 6 75;
We, whose names'.' are: hereto subscribed,
have exarriined and inspected two Screw Mills, ia
or Corn and Plaisrer breakers, ssrid to be invent
ed by Mr. Oliver Evans, cf Philadelphia, Sent '
to the care of Mr. John Moody of hs city, &
according to7 our opinions we think these Ma
chines will aswer the purples intended Arery
well and be utef ul to . the public and' we
r 1 ! . ' .
nreeiy recommena tnem- , -
j payoR. ;i
G W. SMITH,
Richmond, Sept. 7. JNO. STAPLES,
5T I have got a set of moulds made to cast
the peipendicular Screw, j Gentlemen jmavibe
bpplcd ar the Armory with tha kind new
1 he Moulds for the Horizoiftal Screw wilj
soon be made. ; J. MOODY: ,
.Direct i0n how to-set the Screw Mifls to woriin
Grist Mills-, or to work ihevaBy band. .-
The Perpei-dicular Screw . Mill j stajnd's.'gDt ' "j
on the Mill Stones, and is attached tathe cock
head of the spindle' of a mill stone by a tpjn- l
die made of wrought irorrfcoupled to the'lower "
oa ot the 5crew. - Jne. wopper is Jet into two
es or iimoeT,neie,t,wp pieces are screwed
theide6 of two nosts. one on arhi
s the HJ1PPer Is also screwed dowti tk ilw
me pieces -1 nat emorace itr-you must- krioW "
uiai,uic siuiics tun me frjgnt way to suitlhe
Screw ' : ', ' ""'V:;i; U;-"rXi': I
The Horizomal Screw 'Mill i set between
twevp-eces, one each aide of two posts.--- -Screws
go through . these1 pieces,'artd thrpugh"
the Screw Mil Hopper, wah four Screw-bolts
to hold it firm to Its placet Thicte, in a;
Grist Ml!, must have is tngi' by wheels'
frcm the end cX the, Screw, ami may stand in
any direction fronvthe stor.es above as, conve
nient. The broken Corn and Cobb, - or Plais
ter, may be conveyed ;in a spont to thejsroftea
to grind to anyfineness wanted' for Sttjck Dia.
1 t . . . ' l .i ;
VI manure, i nis screw tnajr be pbc in
M
motion by a Hand Break; arid a fly Wheel of '
end of the creV, whicjw.li enablene per X ' -i "A
son tobreakjthe substances, ai steel Uorninv "Vt
'lO wantcd at "yantation i destitute of ' '&
W
aujrvvvorKs, or n may havernot,ori bv one1
Dy the ut.hty oi these Macl.tn,
which will highly gratify-their: ".
. Mbstb't St very humble Serv
Richmond; Sept 17. ' ' 1 J-VMOdD Y.
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