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PORTLAND GAZETTE,
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PORTLAND^ PUBLISHED BY ARTHUR SHIRLEY..No. 7, EXCHANGES'! RE El\
No. 11, of VoL XN.~\
MONDAY, JUNE 22, 1812.
[ If hole .T o. 739.
SOLOMON BOYCE,
(f^ON riNUES io receive additional aftort*
meat* of
AMERICAN COTTON GOODS,
from the Faifljry of Wilkinfon, Greene St Co.
near Providence (R. 1) Confiding of Ging
hams, Stripe*, Check*, shirting, Sheeting, Bed
ricking, Sing'e yarn for Warp, ‘2 aud 3 threa
ded white aud coloured Stocking yarn, white
•and Coloured Sewing Cot'on, CV \2fc.
Thefc good* Weing from one of the oldeft
.and bed dtablifiied Factories in America, are
at leaft of equal quality to any made in this
-country —Shopkeeper# aud other# can he tup
plied at the Padlory price*.
JExs&tngf Brtet 6 Ml I , ISlg.
NATHANIEL DAN a, ha* juft received a
frelh fu,’p'y of
W. /. GOODS b GROCERIES,
which he often t r tale ac In# Store,
JC nsm in'i Bitidmg, PREBLE PLACE,
tcarly oppofite Portland Bank—
CONoIoFlNG OF
Cogtnac 3 -ciJy
Napie* do
Americau do.
Old Jamaica Spirits
Old .v Cron Rum
Antigua do
Ho 'auds Gia
American do
Cherry Rum
Sagir Bakers Molaffe*;j bottle
|| Pepper Sauce
||Oat Meal
II Pearl Barley
|| AI moods ike I I'd
||L)o iu iheila
J Ftiberts
II diagbarks
|| Capers
IjOiive Oil per flafk or
Madeira,
Sherry,
l.ilbju,
Vidouia,
Mafliilo,
Port, iff \
Malaga J
Anuiieed
Rote Cordial
Role Water
Cider Vinegar
Hyfon,
Young Hyfon, j
Hyfon Skin, )►
fcou.hoog, Iff j
Boiiea J
Bourbon Coffee
Loaf, Lump,
lUttard facings, j
Sugar HoUle, 1
Havana White, f
Do Brown, Iff
Hew Orleans J
Spauifh C'gars
Che rots
Do per Gallon
jj Preferved Limes
|j l)o Ginger
l WINES || Picked Limes
Tamerinds
i|Rofe, Palm, Wmdfor,
|| Marble, and Bar
jj Soap
y Walh'oalis
|| Starch
|| v t-ufo d Crackers
||Spermaceti, "j Q
^ Was, 1 k
Tea y Mould, 13* J r
|j Dip'd J 2
U Winter and summer
|| prell S^erm Oil
llCheefe ot are lit ft nual
ii
|| Flour
II Clear Pork
IIlad.an aud Rye Meal
|| bacon
|| Fine BLoWU Salt
|| Balk-1 do
4 Welih’s Chocolate No jjtut.y Mats
t kf i
Choco ate lhells
Ri.e
♦ round do
Split l\aa
(singer
Pi meuto
Pepper
Cround do
Irelh Boa Ratifies
Calk do
Suhaaa do
Fruaois
Turkey Figs
'Currants
Gliras
Lemmons
Caraway feed
Canary do
Muftard do
Mallard Ground
Mace
Nutmegs
Cloves
Rea* Cinnamon
C a ffi a
Citron
Kail India Soy
Catlap
Cutry Powder
Cayenne
||Floor tfl* ahoc EruiLes
||Broi .ns
jj Sieves
y^unvii Strainers
||Spice Bitters
I Indigo
5Salt Petre
|| Log vt ood
y Redwood
|| Fultic
jj Flour Sulpher
^Roll Brimllone
|| 3ees-Wax
| Cop per as
||Allum
§Spauifh White
$ J’panUh Red
§Rotten Stour
§ Emery jut poltjhing
$ Powder of dttlerent
qualities
§ Shot of all fizes
5 Flints
§Cot:oa
§Do Yarn
§Bed Cords
$Malt
^Elliots Suuff
§Coiton and Woolen
$ Cards
§ Pipes &e.
-—also
3000 lh« Coffee; I?0 Boxes Bot'led Cider,ol
ihe lirlt Quanty ; Sobbls Cider, fuitable foi
table ure ; ID pipes Cider Vinegar, 10 bb!i
•Strong 8eer ; 10 Groce Bottled Porier; Cul
Nails of different fites, by the pound or calk
Nail platei; Spike and Deck Nail Rods
Scythe and deythe Snca.hj; ihovel* ; Hoe —
aln affortment of Jacklon's Eartheru ware
confining of Pots. Jugs, Flower Pots, Flower
Urns, Walk llafin*, Pitchers, Hfc. 50 Quin
tils tirtl quality Duu Filh ; 50 da Cod do .
50 do Pollock do ; few dirzen waranted Axes
iudes 5ct'e Lea:her, 100 Groce Corks ; Kegs
Virginia Tobacco
The above goods arc of the firft Quality a..i1
wi'l t>e fold on tealonable terms
June l, 18IJ (u)
CXCUAKGE SI REIT)
j_J AS juft rreeved 4 treth fupply of
/!v^»g xi bkh arrtbtfcthiring, v z
True Anderkm’a Pills—Hoopers do,— Cal
omtl—Caatharide*—Cartor— Powdered Red
Biik—Gum Opium—Camphor—Gamboge—
Tragacnth—.Shaved Ifing'ais—London Lanceti
— Oil Am fe—Jo. Pepperment—Powdered
Ipecac— Turkey Rhubarb—Gentian—Va'er
»au—hiTenbal halt of Lemon—Colts foot—
Lozenge.—Je-uit Drops—Harlem Oil &c
Linfcci Oil, boil’d aad unboiTd—-Spirits
/ urPeo me—Copal Varnifli—Japan for dry
ing Powdered Ldbarge—Gum Copal—do
6he)!ac—Ground aod uaground Pat at Bruiite'
—Whir# Walls do—hath Tools—Camel e
Hair Pencils—‘ami Paper—Gold aad Silver
Leaf—Glafs fuiiable for Clock facet—Ccch
r.ea'—Roman Vi:rioi—Indtgo—Allum—Cop.
perxls—Ground Logwood—do. Kedv. ood —
Madder, ike bcc
A few Cade* Red l ead.
Pot *nd Pearl allies couiun’lv for fair.
a:, so—
Jvze 1.
to
WILLIAM LORD,
HAS juft received and now offer* for fa’e
at hi* Bore, head of Green ftreet, an ad
ditional aflorrment of
We’b India Goods, Groceries, &g.
—AMONG WHICH ARE
Cogniac Bramly
Holland Gin
American do.
Old Jamaica Spirits
St. Croix and Antigua
Rum; N . E do
Madera, Sherry, Lif
boo, Port, Vidonia
& Malaga WINES
✓ nnif'erd--Cordials
C der Vinegar
Bit tied Cider
iiyiou, Youug Hyfon,
Hyfon t*kiu, Sou
choug and Bohea
’l'eas
Loaf, Lump, India,
Havanoa white and
brown, and Welt*
Iud a Sugars
Welch’s No 1 aCfi 2
Chocolate
Chocolate Shells
Rice—Grouod do
Pepper—Ground do
Ginger—Pimento
Box and calk Ratlins
Tuikey Figs
Caraway Seed
Canary do—Nu'megs
Cloves—Cinnamon
Cirron--Ca£Qa
Engiifli Mu Bard
Cayeune —Oat Meal
Pearl Early
Cu rant*
Jordan Almonds
Filberts—Callup
Gusve Gelley
Capers—Olive Oil
Pieferve*
Wtndfo; & bar Soap
Wafhballs—Starch
Mould Sc dip’t Candles
Spermaceti do
Spermaceti Oil
Table Salt
Furry iMals
Floor Biullies
Brooms—Sieves
Indigo—Salt Peter
Ink Powder
Spice Bitters
Powder, Shott and
Flints
Log Wood
Red Wood
Fuftic—Allum
Copperals—Sul pher
Rod Bnmftoue
Cotton and wool
Cards—Flour
Corn—Rye Sc Wheat
Clear Fork—Bacon
Coffee—Molaffes
4d, 6d, led and 2Cd
Nails
Bee* Wax
Babery Fallow
Cotton and Cotton
Yarn—Rock Salt
Rotten Stone
Otter—Stone Jugs
Tumblers. -Cheeie
Indian and Rye Meal
White Beans
Syihea—Sythesneaths
Hoes—Filli—Chaik
Shoe Brulhes
Black Ball, See &c
Flie above Goods are of the firft quality
(nd will be fold on reafonable terms.
A4ay IS. (tf)
Watch-Making and Jewelry.
i
'jL^iIE fuhfcribers inform their friends and
the public that they have formed a con
nection in bufinef* under the firm of
WHEATON & DOUGLAS.
I hey ha^e taken the (hop next above the
Gazette Office, in ExchangeJlnety No 10,
(heretofore improved by Godfrey Wheaton,)
where they intend carrying on the huGnefsof
// atchmaking pr Working jewelry,
in the noli modern ftyle.—They manufacture
Go'd Watch Chains, Keys and Seals; Ear
Knobs, Drops, occ. See ; fet all kinds of pre
cious (tones; repair broken Ear Riugs, Watch
i Cbaius, Sec — in fine, every thiug in the line
, of their bufineis will be executed neatly, with
1 defpatch, and on reafonable terms. Come
i and fee -
THEY HAVE FOR SALE,
an aflbrtment of
* Sheffield, Plated Lf Britania Ware :
fuch as Tea Pots, Sugar Dirties, Cream Pots,
i Cand'cfiicks, Tea Caddies, Stc. See. An ele
1 Rant aflfortment of Portable Razors, Defk
Knives, Tortoifie rtisll Combs, Spar Candle
flicks, fsfe,—together with a general affdrt
; rne it of , ''ATCIi FURNITURE,
and a few warranted WATCHES,
Fo*tL*J, Afrit 27. tf
JAMES KIMBALL,
Saddler, Harnejf-Maker, and Chaife
Trimmer,
VTFXT door above the Indian Chief, in
Exchange ftreet, at the fign of the T'uni,
keeps coultaruly on hand a teneral aiTjr.meat
of
i Trunks, Saddles, Llarnejps, Sad
dle-Bags, Portmanteaus, fc.
of good quality, for fale on the molt roafona
j bie terms.
Lilewife—A quantity of very nice
C/* SEAL skins,
with which country Saddlers n.ay be fcppli
ed oa tetms that cannot fail to give fatisfac*
tion.
tV* He manufatflures ihe various articles
in ttic line of his hutmefi in a niauuer that u
wites dutabiliiy with elegance, which purcha
lers are molt refpedfuhy iuvited to cjU a»j
* examine Jar themjeivet. (tf) Ecb 17.
I
Ojc monitor.No. LXXV.
“ Is Satu u.'s i among the Prcphett ?'*
David,* ur-uird by ihe cruel envy ami mnl
h'“ <•! Saul, ti es t refuse to i!*e School of
• lie Prophets ;.t N..ioth, whue Samuel pre
sided. Ins! ca<l ot having recourse lo arms,
lt<* «ee<ts ihe >ulvice juul prayeis ui that man
t t Gxl, who ha<i assured lam ot‘ the .i: one
J ot Israel. Here the blood h nods ut Saui
' pur tie hjkI find him ; hut, behold the pow
er of God! They are turned into lamb.-, f r
“ when the messengers of‘S.*ul saw the coin
pany of j: oj Uet» prophesying, at.d Sunurl
standing »s appointed over them, the sj >.d
ol G.hI wav upon the messengers of S *ul an i
* they also prophesied.” Surprising change
It is g v>d to " Wad at \vi-sdjm‘s gates, *nd
watch at the posts of her doors,*’ f >r there
frequently “ the Lord ccmmmulfc tlie bless
ing,” even upon those led there by curiosi
, ty, yea by mdice. Hardened Saul, uncon
vinced, unsubdued, studs a second, and a
third time. The event however is the same. ,
j They all unite with the inspired company in
' shouting praises to the God of Israel. .At '
length baul, probably suspicious of the fidel
ity of his servants, or charging them with
weakness and enthusiasm, undertakes the
task himself; when lo ! before he reaches
the place he also begins to prophecy, strips <
oil the royal robe, and prostrate on the !
ground tor a whole day and night is con- :
strain'd by supernatural agency to become a
prephet too. Well might the proverbial j
phrase “ I> Saul also among the prophets !“ ;
take its rise hum tins strange tW-.nl.
The phrvse has its point at this day. Men,
carnal and wicked as Saul thrust themselves
into the bosom of the church, and even into
the sacred office. They perhaps obtain gifts,
popularity and success—they ate changed,
but not sanctified. They ape the converts*
t ion of good men, but their hearts approve
not the tilings that ate more excellent
This subject affotds two profitable reflec
tions. It teaches us to consider no r.mn a
chnmian from his words orny. These are
often deceptive. Actions are the only sure
test of integrity. It farther leaches us the
power of God over the hearts of ins enemies,
ruling all things according to his own pitas,
ute, bringing good out d evil, and order out
of con fusion. E.
3!nfcresting political ^©tsccllanp.
FOR THE POIU'L/.XD GAZETTE,
Mr. blllUI.EY,
HAVING perused 4 The American
Annual Register for If96,’* a little tur
ther, I now send you a few more ex
trrets. 1 cJo not wish that they should !
exclude better matter, but they may be ;
published when in your wisdom you
may tninfc best.
“ One reason why this country should
be highly solicitous to augment the
number and protect the lights other;
seamen is the difficulty with which an i
able mariner is lormcd By land, a
man may learn tnc military exercise
in a lew months, and experience, and
tiie example oi veterans will soon make
him a tolerable soldier. But by sea the
case is quite different. Many years
are requisite for accomplishing a skill- J
iul navigator ; and even a common sal j
lor to be moderately useful must be tar
longer in training than a common sol
dier. i bis is tlie reason why it liasal
ways been so hard a task for any na*
tion to become suddenly a great mari
• time power. With abundance of men
j and money, a formidable army can, by
due attention, always be created in two
or three years. But unless a country
; has previously possessed an extensive (
trade by sea, and a trade carried on in
her own bottoms, it is utterly impossi
ble lor her to forma navy. Without
such a trade, no degree of wealth or j
population can raise it. I his explains
the anxiety which Britain has always
discovered to augment the number of
her sailors. Unless she cun support
merchantmen to educate and supply
her navy with skilful mariners, the na
vy itself is ol no value ; and even after
precaution oh this head, she is often
reduced to a distressing scarcity of
hands.
What renders the French so remark* j
ably inferior in naval engagements to
the Btitinu ? It is admitted that their
ships of war are bettei built, than those
of England. It will no longer be said !
as it often has been, that they want
1 courage. The French artillery is the
best conducted in Europe. Were then
we ha\c excellent ships, brave men,
and skilful gunners, J tie only reason
for their bad success is want of good
seamen. The supeiior wisdom, vigi*
; lence, and resources of the new govern
incut [not Bonaparte’s military govern
ment] will in times supply this defect,
but it must require the gradual exer*
( lions of several years. If America has
» a great number of merchantmen in ser
! vice, she can, when necessary, become, i
a formidable enemy onthe ocean. Her |
marine strength in war is exactly pro
portioned to the number of her b. ttoms
in time of peace. II sides, the more
seamen ahe has, the lower other nations
can have, since her shipping perform
the voyages which, it they weie laid up.
would he made by others. Whatever
adds to her strength by sea, weakens
in an equal proportion her rivals or en
emies, and thus a ten 1 d advantage is
gained for the independence and secur
ity t>f the union. On this account her
' mariners, more perhaps than ary other
i class of citizens, are entitled to her pe
culiar protection. Many people have 1
thought that if the commerce of this
1 country should be earned on entirely
1 i
by foreign bottoms, like that of the
Chinese empire, it would be of equal
advantage to the continent, and that
citizens, who now a6t as sailors, might
be as profitably employed as landsmen i
in other occupations. The opinion has
a plausible appearance, but attentive re*
flection will discover its inaccuracy.
In China, labor is ten times cheaper
than here, so that if tea were to grow in
Massachusetts it would be less expen
sive to export it from that empire than
to gather it at home. China is crowded !
with manufacturing towns, and the low
rate of wages makes it impossible lor
foreigners to import manufactures in \
any great quantity. In America, every ;
thing is at present the reverse.”
J. B. i
ROM HIE SPIRIT OF SEVENTY SIX.
John Randolphs Address
IO HIS CONS fl T CENTS.
To the freeholders of Charlotte, Prince-E .ward,
Buckingham and Cumberland,
Follow-C it zens,
1 dedicate to you the following fragment.
That it appears in it* present mutil.Ucd
shape is to he ascribed to the successful u
surpation which has reduced the freertotn of
speech in one branch ot the |American con
gress to an empty name. It is now estab
lished Jor the first time, amt in the person tj
your representative, that the house may, and
w ill refuse to hear a member in his place or
even to receive a motion from him upon the
most momentous subject that can be presen
ted for legislative decision—A similar mo
tion was brought forward by the republican
minority in the year 1798* before these
modem inventions for stifling f. todoni of
debate had been discovered. was discus
sed as matter of right until it wa* abandon
ed by the mover io consequence of addition
al information [the corre pondeuc'* of our
envoys at Parisj laid beh re cong e.-s In the
president. In “ the reign of t rrotu'’the
fathers of the Sedition law had not the hardi
hood to proscribe liberty of free de bate on
't e flo r of congress. This invasion <>f the
puohck libet tics was reserved for self-styled
publicans, who hold your understandings
iii such contempt *s to flatter themselves
diai. you wdi overlook their very outrage
upon die great first piinciples of free gov
ernment in consideration of their profes
sion* of lender regard for th^ p. ivdeges of the
people. Ii is for you to decide whether
they have undervalued your intelligence slid
spiii.,or whether Uiey have to; me d a just
estimate ol your chataeter. You du not re.
quire to be told that the violation of the
rights of h.m whom you have deputed to re
present you is an invasion of the rights of ev
ery man among you, of every individual in
society —If this abuse be sullered topass un
redressed—and the people alone are compe
tent to apply the remedy — we must bid a
dteu to a free^foim of government, fore
ver.
Having learned from various sources that
« declaration of war would be attempted on
Monday nex., vciih closed doers, I dte.ned it
my duly to endeavour by any exercise of my
constitutional functions, to arrest this lu aii
est of all possible calamities, and avert it
from our happy country, i accordingly
made the eflbn of which I now give you the
result, and of the success i f which you will
already have been informed before these pa
ges can reach you. 1 pretend only o give
you the substance of my unfinished argument
The glowing words— th- Language of the
heart—nave passed aw.,y with the occasion
that called them forth, i hey are no longer
under my control. M\ design is simply to
submit to you the views which have induced
me to consider a war wi.h England, under
existing circumstances, as comporting nei
liter with the interest nor the honor of
American people, out as an Idolatrous
sacrifice of both, on the »Uar of French
rapacity, pci tidy, and ambition
France has lbr years pa^t oliered us terms
of undefined commercial arrangement, at the
price of a war with England, which hitherto
we nave nut wumeu n rnness ana virtue to
.eject. That price is now to be paid. We
arc tired of holding on:—and following the
example of the nations of continental Eu
rope ; entangled in the ardficea, or awed
by the power of the destroyer of mankind ;
we are prepared 10 become instrumental to
his projects of universal dominion Before
these pages meet your eye, the iua' repub
lic of the earth wul have enlist d under the
Danners of ihe tyrant and become a part) to
his cause. Tnebloodot American freeman
must How ro cement his power, to a d in str
fl<ng tlie iast stuggles of afflicted nd pe. se
cuu.d man to deliver up in o his hands'lie
patr iots of Spain and Fo. tugal to e;»ra• >li»u
itis empire over the ocean and over li e 1 md
that gave our fore-fathers biitli ; to to: ge
our own chains ! And yet, my friends, we
are told, as we were told in the days i f the
mad ambition of Mr. Adams, “ Tmtt the Jin
gcr of Heaven points to ** Yes, the hi g r
ut heaven dots point to war. 1 points to w.n
as it points to the mansions of eternal mis
ery and torture; as .o a hutting beacon,
warning us of Hint vurlex wnicli we inuy
not approach but with cerum desti action.
It poults to desolated tii iu nd wain-,
us of the chastisement ol '.use nation
who have offended against ihe jus .ce and
almost beyond me mercy ot Heaven. 1*
announces the wra.li to come iij on iho->t*
who u.ig-ateiul for .he bounty of Providence,
ihjt satisfied with peace, hoc-.,, secun .,
• Thi‘ motion was drawn, it is belie v
by Mr. Gallatin* bu nn.vcd by Mr. Spngg,
d daring it to be inexpedient at that time io
resort to war aga.iiat tue Branch Repuouc.
plenty at home, fly, ms it wtie, imo the fa m
ci the Most High J unapt his forbcai .*
ar.ce.
To you, in this piace I am spe*k with
freedom, ami it becomes me to do so ; nor
shall 1 be deterred by the cavils and the
sneers of those who hold as “ foolishness”
all that savours not of worldly wisdom, frrxn
expressing fully and freely those sentiment*
which it lias pleased God, in his mercy, to
engrave upon my heart.
These are no ordinary times—The state
of the world is unexampled—The war oj
the present d*y is not l.kc that of our revo*
Union, or any which preceded it, at least In
modern timt s I is war against the lib*
e<ty and happiness if mi; kind. It la a war
ot which the whole r .re are the vie*
lims, to g"<*tify the p< id nd lusi of power
of a single individual, i csrech you, put it
to your own besoms, h >w far it becomes yoti
as freemen, a-. Christian*, to give your alrt
and sanction to tins impious t-nd bloody war
fare against yuur brethren of the human
family To such among you, if any such
there be, who are insensible to motives not
more dignified and manly than they are in
irinsiCaliy wise, I wcul i make a diflln ot
appeal, I adjure you by the regard which fi
you have for you** own iuumy and p-oper*
ty, for :be liberties and inhert.^pce *d your
children# by all that you hold dear and sac
re , to iaterpose your constitutional power* 1
to save your country and yourselves from a
calamity the issue cf which it is not given to
human foresight to divine
A*k yourselves if you are willing to be
come the virtual a;iies cf Bonaparte ? are
you wilting, tor the sake to anm x»nr v. n^ua
to the Northern S’stes, to submit to t »at
ever growing system of t-xutron, which
sends the European labourer slipperless to
bed ? to maintain by the sweat of your
brow, armies at wlr >e hands you are to
receive a future nw *.er ? Suppose Ccnada
ours. I* there any one among you who
would ever be, in any lespect, the belter
for it ?—the richer—the freer—tie happi
er—the more secure ? And is it for a boon
i.ke tins, that y ou would join in the Warfare
against the libeilies of man m the other
Hemisphere and put your own in jeaparuy f
or is it for the nominal privilege "fa licensed
trade with Fi »n t hut jou would abandon
y u" lucra/»,v ; tr tierce with Great Britain, j
bp. m «.nu l'^rru^.u. nd their Asiatick, Af
rican and Amur «• dependencies—in *
word, wi'hevbfi • • ot hose vast conti
nent:.? That coffii. ce which gives a veot
1 to your tobacco, grain, flower, cotton ; in
short to all your nj. \e pioducts, wbicli are
denied a market in France.
There are not wanting men so weak, as
to suppose that tin . .rebation of warlike
measures is a proof i f pergonal gallantry,
and that opposition to them indicates a
want of that spirit which becomes a triend
to his country ; as if it required more cour
age and patr iot ism to join in the acclamation
of the day, than steadily to oppose one’s
' self to the mad infatuation to which every
people and all governments have, at some
I time or oth’er, gtvtu way. Let the history
i of Phocion, of Agis, and of the De Witts an
! swer this question. My friends, do you.
! exuect to find those who are now loudest in.
t the clamour for war, foremost in the rank?
of buttle ? or is the honour of this nation in
dissolubly connected with the political rep
utation of a few individuals, who tell you
dies have gone too far to recede, and that
you must pay with your rum, tbe price ot
< thiir consistency. My friends, 1 h vc dischar
ged mv du y towards you ; lamely and in'
adequately I know, but the best f my poor
ability. The des >ny of the American peo
tple is in their own hands. Hie net is
| spread for their destruction, d u areenvel
' oped in the toils of French du .ci v and if,
which m.»y Heaven in i s m- c> iovnid, you
i ai d your posterity ate to become hewers of
wood and dnwersot water to the modern
i pharaoh, it shall not be for the w ant ot my
i best ex er ions to rescue you from i^e cruel
I and abject bondage. This sin, at least,
[ shall not rest upon'my soul.
John KandoIph|Oi Roanoke.
May 30th 1812.
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j£torlftf) CongrfS0*..jrir6t 5a>rflto(t*
i HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
TUFSDAY, JUNE 9.
A petition againft war was prefen
1 ted from 2 or 3^0 citizens of the firft
! Congrelfi uial in Pennfylva*
nia.
The refolution tor admitting mem*
bfrs of one branch of Congrefs to be
prefent at the fecret feflions of the
other, was negatived.
A meffige was received from the
Prefident, indofing a farther corref*
pondcnce between Mr. Fofter and
Mr. Monroe The former (till far
ther argues the point, that the french
Decrees are in force, and that what
England requires is reafonable. 1 he
latter llill contends that the Decrees
are off as to America, and that the
Eriglith expciffations are unjuft Mr.
Fofter uated th it the Pri .ce Regent
had given fr.fh and poiiuve orders a.
gain It the im reifinent of native A
merit an iean.en—and w*as ready t<»
rettore ali in his fervice Mr. Mon
roe replied that no diitinc^ion could
be made between native and Itztlurnf
ized feamcn.