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' - : ttf-. Xt.:fci f ; '' 1 3- poirrtrau,: -i k riOK Tfll AtliXT ItCIITtR. f ' f mhI "v-. COMMENTS. Q9U4 JQipUmatxg Abrur&tU and Jinti-Jtme-I . ncax Doctrixit Timgiy Pielrrinf. Of alltlrc weakness of mm, the am bitioo of legislating aeeras to be the most intoxicating, and unfortunately the most common ; hence those innumera ble collections of contradictory Useless and Arbitrary laws which encumber the archire of almost erer y country. Cal led by the faror of a court or of. a repub lic to the councils of m, nation, every lit tle ephemeral statesman considers him self s a Solon or Lycurgus, and' crowds his thoughts, his dreams or his resent ments into the code of the people'doonv ed to 'submit to his errors; by such men, when Mr. Pickering wss dming v-ith a centrifugal rashness the wheels of. the federal an ministration; when ter ror and extermination had beeome.tbe sign and counter sign of his measures ; when his bosom ftiends.rrprescmatires cf a people distinguished by its philan thropy, were industriously exciting eve ry American citizen, every American woman, every American child, to mur der every Frenchman, every Fretich woman, and every. French child in A merira ; when the men of war of the United States srere degraded into ten ders to the British squadrons, and when unsuspecting -Frenchmen hailing with joy the approach of Americans as friends and brothers, . received carnage and death as a reward for their credulity ; the laws of the United States have been disgraced by statutes destructive of the liberty of the press and the freedom of thought ; air and light have been propo sed to be taxed, naturalization- protrac ted beyond the probable duration of. hu man life, in a new country whose agro nomical and manufacturing policy ought constantly to favor the encouragement of foreign emigration ; and our national legislature have been artfully brought to pass municipal and of course repealable Uws, unnecessarily bordering 00 a re linquishment of a maritime dominion secured and warranted by ancient and modern treaties. - Unable now, to dic tate such irrational. laws, that gentle man, to indulge his legislating pripen &ity, has embraced the law of nations as his hebby-horse, and from the presiden tial chair of the Essex Junto, promul gates under his own authority the tyran 1 ical principles of the British navy, and presents that code of oppression and ini quity, the occasion of so many wars and under which our commerce has receiv ed so many iojuries, as a pattern of hu man wisdom. Such arc his words as recorded in bis XVIth. number. " When a nation ts engage! io war and send out ita armed rtsuli to cnue on the teas, the coraraoa high way of nationa, then the right to c&aie, to hail, to ittptire aa answer, to .bocrd. to t earth, and erestsallr to stuck, ac- crara to the vesacla of the nation at vat, be. date uey have angbt to capture those of their meraj, tor without thea rights a naral war would be oatleaa or rather could opt exits The neutral armed Teasels, on the contrary, teeing her na&n ia at peace with all other nations. pcttettt ncn of theft rirhtt heuzvxe they ore not tcutorj to any cf tie chjettt cf neztrahty and ft act. On the conttary she is bound to a void crery hostile act except is her own. de fence - when unjuatlr attached When she meets a. belligerent armed vessel it u hey duly, if it he (Umaxiedf to xnafcc Jcnown ber setztral . character to prrre&X the shexUinr of innocent blood avd the cvila of wit hazarded by a refo- aal to answer Aa neutral she has ooeru or inconvenience to apprehend by making her neutrality aoown 1 she has 00 light to chase, to hail,aod intm cpon an answer to board and search, becacse she has too right to nuke a capture. ... .... , The French, during their revDlurton- ary lever, had among them a Prussian by the name of Ahacharsts Clocts, who cntiiledlumsclf the orator 6f the human ucc ; and Mr. Pickering,taftcr thisex hibuion of his knowledge, Is equally cn- utiea to tnc tlisuocuoa of a legislator of the seas. He dees riot humble his gentes to sturjy ihe old or the rncdern law of nations; he docs not trouble him self ith the elaborate researches tT ('.rutins or Puffeodorfl" he has even forgotten the old friends of the depart. mert of state, attel and. Professor Martens ; but disengaging himself or all thoie fetters, and considering the mo dem law of nations. as a bubble blown by the pride of Catharine lid. and puf. i'zd up by Napoleon I. he embraces wilU, veneration the regulations and or ders of tbe British navy cn the. high seas as the law of nations, whenever they are favorable, not to his country, but to i;a ancient oppressors. : As an American deeply Interested in the h6obr and dignity of the North A-J rncncanconieucracyiT min.n,vi maritime dominion to be out of the ques tion in the caseriowunder consideration, my mincl revolts at a doctrine evidently designed tb criminalise our navy. I have diligently veiamtned all the diplo matic documents relative to neutral, rights previons to the revolutionary arid convulsive movements whicn have chan ged the old political balance of Europe ; I have Jconsulted the memorable decla ration which the irregularities and exi cesses committed against neutral trade during the war for, the" independence of America, dictated' to Catharine II. the 28th of Fcb'ry, 1780 I have examin ed the several acta of accession to that declaration, passed by the Emperor of Germany, and the kingdoms of Den mark, Portugal, Naples, Jcci and in the face of the United States I must con tradict Mr. Pickerincr upon the fact he o boldly advances, the very reverse of what he asserts being tbe truth. 1 ne most elevated situationof a power in the scale of morality and reason, is without dbubt the neutral aystem 5 it is the prin ciple of justice and moderation persbni fied in a body politic, .and it does not de prive those who adopt it from the natu ral right of self-preservationy which in cludes the power of repelling or antici pating an intended attack or outrage, and olf resorting for the porposesof peace and preservation to all the defensive or prudential, measures which belligerents use for those of ambition or avarice. The right of hailing, chasing, and even searching: in certain cases suspicious vessels, belongs to the neutral , roan of war as well as to the belligerent, and in support of that opinion, I find that by all the declarations and acts of accession of the armed neutrality, those powers bind themselves to prevent- with the greatest severity, their vessels or the vessels of their neutral coo federates, from carrying any contraband articles, subjecting them for that purpose to the visits Sc-searche of their men of war respectively ; but at the same time they solemnly declare that if any other of their merchantmen were taken or insulted by any of the men of war of the belligerents, immediate complaint should be made, and if justice was not , obtained, the most efficacious measures should be adopted to procure satisfaction, hyjnsl reprisal. They bind themselves that if by hatred to those principles either of them was troubled, molested or attacked, they should make ac emmon cause to obtain full satisfacti on of the insult offered to their subjects ; they agree that in no case1 whatever a neutral man of war having vessels under her convoy shall suffer them to be searched or captured, the word of the! commanding officer being sufficient to prove that they have no contraband on board. By the same covenants they all agree that the invariable principles of neutrali ty are, that a neutral has a right to sail on the coasts of a belligerent from port to port, that the neutral (lag covers the property of a belligerent, except such' as are declared contraband by art. 10 Sc 1 1 of the treaty of 1766 between Russia and England, and that no port is understood to be blockaded but when the blockading men of war are situated ao close to the said port, that there is an evident danger to enter it. f These principles, altogether, are de clared by the same powers to be the law of nations with respect t& neutral rights. Nothing more haa been stipulated or provided under tbe form of a public act by those powers with respect to the con duct of their men of war ofr the high aeasy but1 the extreme delicacy with which they forbid them to tuner a mer chant vessel under theirescorttobe in terrupted or taken abows with what in dignity they would have treated the dis graceful English notions of Mr Picker trig,1 and with what wrath the" great and spirited Catherine would have heard that ooe of the captains of her navy, jn a voyage or a cruize to protect her rights or her dominion, had meanljr condescended to let a French or ao En glish otneer interrogate him Jike zn pu Cranny, to knoud aieneefhe came and tuhether Ae was a neutral or a belligerent and in addition to all these impertinent questions to Cre a shot at him as a mark of hi if superiority. ' ! Military custom between men of war cn thc high seas has established as. tbe only confession of nationality, the dis play of colors, en surecl by a. gun fired at a respectful distance to leeward and without a shot 1 and it has been agreed so between their sovereigns they salute, if nnf. th Fivnrh haV fiTert it nm-H dently, they do hot salute at all. . But bow different is the case now in consideration ; the Little Belt was crui sing on our coasts, for -the purpose of disturbing and Interceping.our "com merce and violating our. dominion, in defiance of oursoVereighty, of our trea ties with England herself and of our neutral system. . Sherendered herself highly suspicious in conceal mg her co lors during a jchase' which, was rendered Indispensable bV that irregular conduct! She was liable to be considered as a pi- rat or a smuggter, and treated as such, an'd finally, her firing with a shot at the President, instead of answenbg the pro- per neutral question ot the commodore who 'commanded that frigate if not viewed as a wilfdr hostile act,,rnust be admitted to be one "of thbsensunerable exilted ideas of. hritish supremacy on tHe sea, which a few years more will render as lidic'ulous as the pretension bl the Grand Turk, the Sophy of Per sia, and other bigotted and infatuated Asiatics, to be the masters of the world, and to treat the christians as the neu trals are now treated Dy England. , If the God of reason and peace has not forever deserted the British, shores, we ought to obtain the most satisfacto ry reparation. But how can we expect it, when our own country breeds men capable, in such a crisis t to add domes tic outrage to foreign insult, to call the avengers ot our rights murderers, and to metamorphose tbe first spontaneous act of a dignified peutrality, on the part of the U. States, into a projected war. , It does hot belong to my subject io investigate the ideas of Mr. Pickering, on that projected war, since the limits which I have prescribed to tny comments- are those of diplomatic enquiries ion 'the law of nations, relative to the case of the Little Btlt, and to neutral rights. But as a continuation of tny researches, I will in my next communi cation, examine by what means a pacific and neutral nation may prevent usurpa tion, invasion' and insult, and strength ened by a long and unsuccessful experi ence, it will. appear, as I have observed many years ago, that no neutrality has ever been respected,, but when, H was armed powerfully, by sea and by land ; Because among men, as among; the rest of aoimalised. creation, nothing com mands, respect but fear : whoever has seen a dog defend a bone, ought to have found it out ; and whoever has heard the old adage, if you want peace, pre pare for war, ought Jo have known it: But unfortunately too ofttn in republics the vain energy of language is substi tuted to the efficacious vigor of action. EDMOND CHARLES GENET. . A Citizen cf NemJfori. Prospect Hill, Sept. 4 Frvmt!ie "AuadaA." DETOTIOJ TO TRANCE. v Our administration ia roundly assert' ed by the federal party to be devoted to France, and ready to sacrifice the in terest? and honor of the country to the will of the Emperor of the French. This they assert, is the cause of all our embarrassments, v la this true r Or ts it the false assertion of a party actually devoted to England, and ready to sacri fice our honor and independence to the will of her ministers ? lit is full time that the, citizens of the: United States examine this question 'and that they judge for themselves. Letthem turn back to the instructions given to our minis ters at Paris and at London, and to the offers made to each nation. .Let them look at 'the treaty made with Mr, Ersk ne the proclamation of the President, which followed opening our ports to England, and closing them to France. Let them read over there fusarof ratifying that treaty. These are all so recent that they cannot have slipped the memorythey give the lie. to the assertion of . partiality to France and enmity to England, unless the ab solute submission to the will of a Bri tish ministry js to be considered as en mity to thatcountry. z- Can this party wish ill to confine all our. foreign inter- courseto G, Britain and her allies, and to ceny.admissioOrintp our ports to all other, nations, in conformity to a British tish; mandate? If such Is their desire, and that it is no doubt exists, can the United States, as an indepeodent country, sub- mitio U ? TVU1 they resign their in dependence arxf submit ? Such I. aub mrssioo might pruve : First That there was jno prcdelictioh in favor of France : Second, That there was a strong one in favor of Englabd: And thirdly. That there waso love or regard for this couh- try mat au seqse ot honor had become extinct, and submission wa. its. grave. Is tbe refusal to submit or conform to the .will of the British Ministry, a proof of our administration bcinp: disposed to admit France tq regulate, our commerce with other countries ? I say no, it is cot : ' and the world is convinced we have rejected and remonstrated in the strongest term against every decree of France that interfered with regard to ouir cQmrnerce with1 England or any other country. : and et roe repeat, while we believei the treaty of Mr. Erskine jto be in force, ail commerre with France was interdicted, and, their Vessels forbids un de pain of seizure. and confiscation, to" enter bur harbors. Yet strange, this waa insumcient to satisfy a British ministry further . guarantee was demanded they rnust be.a'utbqrised ; to enforce our law suspecting us of want of wilt to o- beyi-ot the government of power to.en force its laws not submitting to this the treaty . was rejected ; and for hot submitting, a party opposes our govern ment and abuses our executive, r Things have changed and France ac cepts the terms which England rejected; the conditions are the same and this British party; who exulted at seeihjg the Fretich commerce excluded from our ports-are now in arms td force the go vernment to violate their engagements with France, and for repealing the law interdicting British merchandize "into our ports. j - -'j Altho' an act of justice on their part, in ceasing to! interrupt our Commerce with other nations would open our ports to all their manufactures and their ship ping yet this course does not meet the wishes of the British ministers nor their partizans here they for that reason cry out against the administration, ; accuse them of the embarrassment ibUr com merce labors 'under,: and call on them to break faith with France, lay aside our neutral character, and enlist under the standard of Great Britain. Such is their desire ;f and nothing short of this will satisfy the vtnal appetites of those who are sounding in our ears the cry of French. influence Let the people look at this, and they are requested to exa mine for. themselves they will find no thing is offered or promised to France, but what has: been and is equally offer ed to England. The enjoyment of the same privileges they may possess to morrow on the same terms. - The tame terms are held bu t to bdth. In examin ing' into this the" people cannot be de ceived ; and it Is their duty to examine and if, on examination, they find the government and administration' to haye acted rightly they are bound to support them, and silence the babble of faction, ' 1 . - - State Bank of North-Carolina. T' HE State Bank of NortluCarolina having .X i been this day put iota operation, the aiocnnoiacrs pi uic ma dibk arc dvtzdj re ouired to payltbe second Instalment on the aeverat ' threa which they may hol(itfaerei0,in Gold or-Silver to tbeXiahietof the Principal Bank, or to the Cashier of such of the Branch Banks aa thef originally subscribed to, on or be tare tne lotn a ay or wctooer near, j b order tithe Board, - r i W. H. HAYWOOD, Cashr. Cape-Fear LotteryClass III. 1 trip of 1000 is 2 500 3 3a 64, '200 500 1200 -4o do ao do do 9 .200; 100 ,50 20 10 M 6 2000 Prizes. 5000 Blanks. t . 25000. 5525000 5000 Tickets at 55 Only 1 Blanks to Prize. ; STATIONARY; PRIZES ' First diavn Nomber1 r - g50 " Firat dol do after 1000, j 100 First do do do 2000, 200 First doi do) do 3000, 500 First do' ( do do 4000, 1000 Subject to a deduction of 15 percent. "i The drawing will'comipenee in Ualeigh, on 1 the pUt Monday ot Kovemoer next, ana ynu be finished befbrt the rise ofthx A"emb1yv ' The ithprovenent of thf navigation has com menced, and t flitter mj self that i,n 12 months from this datei! it wilt be the greatest iroprove- raent ever made inKonh-Caro4ina f ; - ' . au prizes in ne xsi cu oanes ot tnia lotf lery, will be received in payftent ibi Tickets in thia Oass. j 1 H. BRANSON, PreiY. FaycttevilleiSepul.Uur 1 - r$G 1000 1000 6u0 5000 .3200 4000, 5000 7200 NEW FIRM; v nPHE Snbscriber havingrtalceh his Ytnrng i X Man. RoBERT HAaaxsdV.'into Co part hership, tht'Basiness will mfotntebe conduct ed under the Firm of v4 Their Stock of GOODS is large, and try pect torece?ve in a short, time a fiirther sply which jprill render their Aaaortment very com plete and which they will sell low; fot . Cash, oroa a abort Credit to pnnctoal Cotomers. VV : ' -Wic. GLENDINNING. Jlate&h. Oet. 1, 18U. ' i 3t 23 V ' I 'r?'CrW r;: retjornja 'sineevetlialikf to) his ; Friends and former Customers- for tu favors, and sl)cita m'continiiance of their cns tpm As rny own business ia no w closed, it be corneV necessary ihat: a'- general settlement ahcmld he made-it'is therefore earnestly desi redi that those having open accounts with me wookl coroe foneard as soon as possible, and make payment either by Cash or note ny of them, have been a considerable time due, rT Hfe VAttniaJfe'natfofl of X . the Studentl of the llakigh Academvy win tomihence at the tate Hosse on Monday the 4th of Kovefnber, andebte on the .Friday fplldwingr;- g:P . :t:r P October 3. . 1 ; Jeghi Wahted ) " JJrieraottliaVingif well disposed, likely TV ypong Negro Fellow accustomed to plan tation work, for salef jnay learn bf . a Cash Porchaaerj; on applicatton') the Prihters here- ofw';. -0 - L . W)CEt a gjCKxl Blasmitiwho rnhst . , be'asober,tiidurionaW well recommefided Good vas will be gives " I - SOLOMON SklTH, I - Bryant's Cross Uoads, Northampton j , r Cotimy, Sept. 26.; . ,1 r . ... 3t28 IN f HE GRMA& TOlf AtADEMt -r 1 . . .. . .. 1 k v ' XT 7 ILL be wanted aome; time in November vv next . One who can come welt recom mended, will meet Vr 1th liberal encouragement, . Stokes Couoty, Septi 1811. v ; 5;28 neWgoodsi 1 , . '.. . .. . ... ' HAS jn'st received from New York, a fresh and general Assortment of Goods among which are - . r ,--t, . " Superfine, .Fine and Common Broadcloths, j BbckJ Blue, Bottle and Drah Kerseymeres, Wbfte and Coloured Flannels, Rose and Three Point Blankets, 4 Black; Brown, Purple, & Bottle BombazetOf Calicoes and Ginghams, Velveteens, Thicksetti, and Tabby Velvets, GrandareUs ind Cotton Kerseymeres, ,t w - . Blue and Yellow ankihsVf Nankeenetts and Washington Srripes, Hmnhums, Cotton Shirtings, and Brown HU India Ltitefrrtngs, y. - , ..,;, ;.v (lands. Diapers and Corded prnltks , h Plush and Straw1 Bonheta, -.'4 y- ' ; ! f Men's and Boys' Coarse smd Fine Hats, Women's Blade and SlatcWorsted Stockings,, ditto : Black and. White Cotto - ditto Men's Black and Grey .Worsted ditto' ditto AW hite arB Fancy Cotton , " ditto Wcroen'a liaced t Sleeves, ! ' ; let; Common an4 Patent BraceSj 3 ' Girth in4:StraihmgVVeW w, .,. - ScboltdBookaiClsandPaperi I Chair, Waggon, and Cowakin Whips, Sifters, Hair Brooms and Scrubs irr Brushes, Bed Cordsi PloughT JJines and TiicfRopeii ,,vrAt40iivK4.s$ORTattijroflV . si - pii'is . " y Scythes; SboVebT Drawing liives, FrymJ Pans, Steelyards; Locks, Htngfi Filefnivea and. Forks, C;;.Cro4quTnd Hand Saws, and a ew of Rowland' best Plttadclphta $f ill Poti; Ovens Skillets. Spiders, Tea .Kettles,, Griddles, Andirons Wrough"t and Cut Nails, Bar Iron and Share Moulds, BHstered atidTraf German SteeT, &c A large sappry ct Htent and Mould Shot, and a few kees of Jk imtV biit Mfcnd: Also i wr$5Qj ; ' All. which will be soHota fotjC, ci cx chanbvntryPrc f V. i N. B. As he svdetetmined td.avoid the Cre. diting basinesai and being, unpleasant to re fute, he hopes iW person isirtll aak Jalm? for cre. - : 4t pe Oetor j i t yxiJLCis in znex lovm oj unarm frt ; IT which the Subscriber now lfrea where. 1 on e, ForanrooHHT uwoune aouse. large Store. House, with every other necessary Out House, Garden and" SuUea,vwith a good -Well of Water In the Yard, &c aUnnder roM " repahd weUcakalateo! for a private Family, in ineAxercanivc uuc, wu a ssohss ox .cter- . tainment.,! The situatiop isjiandaome. The terms will., he made easy to the . purehaser Two or three Negroes will be Ukeft in hart payment , For farther partictilarypply to the , Sabscribev on thepremisesv .,:.r 5Sfctb,I811. , - v i . - ... .-: I I. IS iff i m 'v 1 :T
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