observance of the acknowledged laws of civilized assuming positions, at variance with reason, justice nations, or at least have protected the persons and and the public law, in consequence of which further property of our citizens from outrageous violence, negociation becomes idle and vain: it only remains I was therefore not without emotions of astonish- for the constituted authorities of the union to guide ment and indignation that they saw the two greater the destinies of a numerous, brave and powerful belligerent European powers, at one and the same nation, by marking out its future course. That in time, set at defiance the public law of nations by doing this they may rely with confidence on the commencing a wanton unprovoked attack upon the support of New Jersey property and persons of our citizens on the high Be it resolved by the legislative council and general seas. This indignation was increased by the insults assembly of the state of New Jersey, That at this im offered to an enlightened nation in pretexts assigned portant crisis in our national concerns, the govern as the causes of this violence. The danger and ment of New-Jersey entertain a full and periect inpolicy of waging war against all Europe at once confidence in the wisdom and integrity of the prejustified the course pursued by the general govern-sident, the senate and house of representatives of ment of remonstrance, negociation and commer the United States of America-and hereby most cial restrictions. It has now become a subject of solemnly assure the national government, that some consolation that one of the great belligerent New Jersey will readily accord in any measures nations has receded from her hostility, ceased to which it may, in its wisdom, think proper to adopt violate our neutral rights, made assurances of future for the redress of national wrongs. That they cor amity and the observance of the laws of nations, dially approve the recommendation of the president and thereby left America a single antagonist to con- of the United States to both houses of congress, tend with one against whom she has already mea- admonishing them to put the nation in armor. That sured her strength. in case the government of the United States shall In contemplating the evils inflicted on our coun- eventually determine to resist by force the lawless try by Great Britain, the legislature of New-Jersey aggressions committed by the British nation on the disclaim bringing into the calculation the injuries persons and property of our citizens, this legisla suffered by the revolutionary war, these having been ture, in behalf of themselves, and the citizens of magnanimously buried in the treaty of 1783. Nor do New-Jersey, whose representatives they are, pledge they take into account the alledged instigation of the themselves to the nation to render to the general savages to hostilities on our frontier settlements, the government all the aid, assistance and support in facts not being officially ascertained and declared; their power, and will with readiness, perform all the they leave out also the insult to the American flag the duties required of them in the prosecution of in the attack on the Chesapeake frigate, that having a war undertaken for the common defence and been amicably adjusted; nor would they at this general welfare. time think proper to complain of the refusal of Resolved, that his excellency the governor be re. Great Britain to accede to the desires of the civiliz-quested to transmit a copy of the foregoing to the ed world, of ameliorating the evils of war, by adopt-president of the United States, with a request that ing as a rule, that free ships make free goods. Even he would be pleased to communicate a copy to each if the controversy between the two countries arose branch of the legislature. solely out of the interruption to our carrying trade, Resolved, That his excellency the governer be although they consider the trade founded on a per- also requested to transmit a copy to each of our fect indisputable right which ought never to be senators and representatives in congress. yielded by treaty, yet policy might suggest the propriety of sleeping over the injuries arising from the deprivation of the exercise of this right for a time. But the two following causes of complaint on which America and Great Britain are at issue, are of so unquestionable a nature as to leave no doubt or hesitation on the mind: First, the abominable practice of impressing native American seamen, while in the pursuit of a lawful commerce, forcing them on board their ships of war, and compelling them under the lash to fight against nations with whom we are at peace, and even against their own country. Burr Mill Stones. Some months ago, I had the pleasure to announce To those that are personally acquainted with the Second. The depredations committed on the legitimate commerce of America, it being now openly avowed by the British government, that an American built ship, owned by the citizens of the United States, navigated by native American seamen, laden with goods the growth or manufacture of the United States, not contraband of war, bound to a belligerent port, which is neither invested nor blockaded, is subject by the orders of the British goverament to seizure and condemnation, both ship and cargo; the ruin of individuals, and the destruction of com. It is now some months since we took the liberty merce, evidence the rigid execution of these orders. to request the public to suspend their opinion of the This flagitious conduct of the rulers of Great Georgia Burr Stones until an opportunity had been Britain needs no comment; it is too notorious to be offered by experience to test their value. We now denied, too palpable to be susceptible of explanation, have four pair of mall stones made from the Geor and too attrocious for palliation or excuse. The angia Burr's in the mills we work, and have supplied swers to the reasonable remonstrances of our go- our other pairs to different millers at this and other wernment have only added insults to injuries, byl places; and we have no doubt that if the proper care is taken in selecting them at the quarries and be what they may, whether their submission to the in making them up, they will be found adequate to intruder have been affected or sincere, the whole all the wants of the country. The quarries are said weight of their sanction was given to his authority, to be very extensive. One only objection can be and the nation at large is the more to be admired made to them that they are too soft; but if taken for its general insurrection: because these men to out of the earth and exposed to the air as the French whom it had been accustomed to look up as the Burr's are, we believe they will be found in no re-most enlightened and patriotic of its chiefs-had spect inferior to them, and in some circumstances apparently sold themselves to Joseph Bonaparte. they are much superior to the French. Brandywine Mills. WM. POOLE & Co. History Of the Invasion of Spain by Bonaparte. ABRIDGED FROM THE MOST AUTHENTIC SOURCES. CHAPTER VIII. (CONTINUED FROM FAGE 328.) An address was voted to Joseph. It was in the basest strain of adulation. They spoke of the resolution which he had announced of governing only for the happiness of Spain, as "a resolution worthy the monarch, whose fame was spread over the universe, as a model of gentleness and virtue-who constituted the delight of the people whom he governed, and whom he left in tears, because he went to bear away his virtues in another land." At the third sitting (June 20) the constitutional statute for Spain was presented by order of Napoleon Bonaparte, who is ambitious of the fame of a legislator While the peasantry of Spain were thus manfully as well as that of a conqueror. On the seventh, the struggling for their liberties, the grandees were act- ceremony of accepting this constitution was pering a very different part in Bayonne. This city formed, at which another speech was addressed to once belonged to England, and was, for a considera Joseph. A few days before this mockery took place, ble time, the residence of her favorite hero, Edward he had abdicated the crown of Naples. Provithe black prince. It is remarkable that he there dence," said he in the proclamation which he adreceived the visit of Pedro, the exiled king of Cas-dressed to the Neapolitans, "Providence whose tile, who requested his assistance in the re-conquest designs are inscrutable, having called us to the of his kingdom and from that place the English throne of Spain and the Indies, we have found ourforce marched which did restore him to his throne. selves in the cruel predicament of withdrawing ourIt was now the residence of Joseph Bonaparte. selves from a people who had so many claims to our Here he received a deputation of the grandees of attachment, and whose happiness was our most Spain, with the duke del Infantado at their head, gratifying hope, the only object of our ambition." who expressed their lively joy at presenting them-With that impious hypocrisy which belongs to selves before his royal person. His presence, they kings, he appealed to the searcher of all hearts, to said, was necessary to the re establishment of their witness how reluctantly he left them, for the purcountry. The grandees had at all times distinguished pose of accepting another kingdom. But to insure themselves by their fidelity towards their sovereigns, their future comfort, he presented them a new conand that fidelity he would now experience from stitution of the latest fashion, which Napoleon apthem. He answered by assuring them of his espe proved and guaranteed. Some weeks elapsed before cial protection, and declared that it was his inten- the people of Naples were informed of the name of tion to rule only by virtue of the laws. Deputations the prince, to whom the emperor had committed from the different councils, and from the army, the charge of rendering them happy. Murat at were ready also with their homage and their flattery. length, (July 20) who was now recalled from the -The serene brother of the great Napoleon, they scene of his proscriptions to Bayonne, announced told him, deserved to be his choice on this im- to them that the crown had been ceded to him by portant occasion; for he united in his person the his brother-in-law, conformably to the decrees of sublime qualities by which thrones are supported Divine Providence; that he had assumed the title and strengthened. "Your majesty," said these of Joachim Napoleon, by the grace of God, and the sycophants, constitute a part of the family destined constitution of the state, king of the two Sicilies, by Providence to govern. The fame of your deeds and grand Admiral of the empire, and that he should has stretched itself over the Pyrenees and spread appear in the midst of them with the queen Caroitself over all Spain.” One thing which passed at line, his august spouse, and the prince royal, Achilles this audience is especially worthy of notice; Joseph Napoleon. Such, however, was his fear of his said to the deputies of the inquisition, that other new subjects, that one of the first measures of his countries allowed of different forms of religion, but reign was to revive a law prohibiting the manuhe considered it as the felicity of Spain that she facture of arms without permission from governhad but one and that the true one. ment, and to pass a decree compelling gunmakers to register the name of every man who bought a musket, and forbidding any person to carry arms without an especial license. A national assembly had been convened at Bay. onne, to do homage to Joseph, and receive from him a new constitution. Of 150 summoned, not more than ninety attended. Don Miguel Joseph Joseph, with a suite of about one hundred carriages, de Aranza, the president of the body, pronounced entered Spain by Irun (9th July) two days after he an empty declamation,-in which he congratulated had received homage from the Junta at Bayonne. the venerable meeting on the pleasing and honora- When he reached Bergama, a deputation sent from ble task in which they were engaged, and exhorted St. Andero, while the French were in possession them to offer their individual benefits on the altar of of that place, appeared to solicit his forgiveness their country, in order to raise a simple and great and ratify the submission of their townsmen, a few monument, in place of the gothic and tottering hours only before those townsmen recovered their structure of their former government. For the feelings of some of this convention, irony and sarcasm could not have employed language of kdener reproach. Let the motives of their conduct liberty. Deputations also from Guipuscoa and Alava were ready with their compulsory homage. At Vittoria he was proclaimed; all the troops were under arms when he entered that city, and the inhabitants were compelled to receive him with the not in Portugal, was fain to fall back himself, and forms of rejoicing. On the evening of the 20th he provide for his own safety; and Blake, whom the reached Madrid, all the troops being under arms, defeat at Rio Leon seemed only to have rendered a necessary part of the parade. He had previously more formidable by displaying his talents, and obbeen crowned king in the city of St. Sebastian on taining that reputation which he merited, was ready the ninth inst. Instead of the rejoicings usual on with the Gallician army to co-operate for deliversuch occasions, the most sullen silence prevailed ance of the capital, and might not improbably cut during the coronation. The general reception he off the retreat of the French court unless it were met with is detailed in the following letter, dated speedily effected. The French force at Madrid from that city July 11. "Last Saturday, at half would perhaps have been sufficient to have defeated past one in the afternoon, arrived here a person of all these hasty levies had the contest been with these the name of Joseph, and found a city deserted by only; but the inhabitants of the metropolis were nine-tenths of its inhabitants, who fled before his ready to rise upon them at the first favourable occa. arrival to shun his sight. There was not a single sion, and take vengeance for their murdered brethren. individual who returned the bows he made in his On the 29th July, says the Oviedo Gazette of 2d coach, and no shouts were heard but those of a August, it was reported that Joseph Bonaparte woman in the market-place, who, on his passing was marching, and that all the troops in the city by, exclaimed, long live Ferdinand VII." This were following him. He intended to start in the entry resembled the funeral of a poor deceased in dusk on the 30th. The carriages were harnessed the hospital. A certain Urquijo complained of and repaired to the court of the palace, but the this conduct, but no attention was paid to his com-coach-men and mule drivers, and most of the atplaints. The constituted authorities received him tendants of the private carriages, had disappeared. with the respect which is due to a foreign prince, He was therefore obliged to wait until the following and told the Urquijo, that they could not controul day, when he departed on horseback, being unable the sentiments of the people. On the 10th he was to put the carriages in motion. Before he went he again proclaimed at Vittoria, and under circum-took all the horses, mules and harness from the sta stances not more flattering. Every possible means bles and sold them for the lowest price. He forced were taken, therefore, to prepare the metropolis open the public treasury and the bank, putting the for his reception in a more flattering manner, and people in the greatest terror, from the apprehension to keep down the spirit of the people. The publica- of a general pillage. At two in the morning of the tion of news from the provinces was prevented by 1st Aug. a cannonade was heard, which though at the severest measures; and, if any of the patriots' first was taken for a fatal signal, was in fact but the manifestoes found their way to Madrid, to print, precursor of the brightest and happiest day that ever copy, read, or listen to them, was declared and shone upon Madrid. Before the French left the punished as high treason. A proclamation was city, they seized upon the regalia and the crown forged in the bishop of St. Andero's name, recom-jewels, burnt the gun carriages, spiked the cannon, mending the people to receive with gratitude, the threw two hundred barrels of powder into a pond, king and the army who were come to regenerate and, generally, destroyed all that they could not them. The proclamation of Joseph took place take with them. When the inhabitants of Madrid on St. Iago's day; the grand standard-bearer and saw themselves delivered from the horde, they re his son effected their escape from the capital, and turned thanks to the supreme ruler of events, and thus avoided the degradation of appearing in such assumed as a badge the portrait of Ferdinand. a procession. Nothing indeed could be more strik. Spain had no sooner risen in arms against the ing than the contrast between this day and that on Bonapartes, than the attention of the British gowhich Ferdinand made his entrance as king; then, vernment was directed to the Spanish troops, who, the streets swarmed with the population of the having been marched under false pretences into the whole surrounding country; then, all the zeal and northern parts of Germany, were now stationed in authority of the magistrates were necessary to re- the Danish Islands. There the emperor thought he press the popular enthusiasm :-now, what few had secured them, the court of Denmark being dis. demonstrations of joy were made was procured by posed to act with subserviency to his will, partly authority, the officers going from door to door to from its attachment to France, and partly from a call upon the inhabitants. deep-rooted feeling of hatred towards Great Britain. The houses were just sufficiently decorated to The Paris journals (Aug. 12) had published that preserve them from the military commission to these troops had taken the oath of allegiance to Jowhich they would otherwise have been exposed.-seph with universal enthusiasm. No man who The money which was scattered among the popu- knew the Spanish character-no man, indeed, who lace, lay in the streets where it fell, for the French knew any thing of human nature, believed this falsethemselves to gather up; and the theatres which hood; on the contrary, when this oath was propowere thrown open to the people, were left to be sed, far as they were from Spain, with no probabi filled by Frenchmen. lity, scarcely with the hope of returning to it,-igJoseph seems to have halted at Vittoria till he norant of the spirit which had manifested itself there, received intelligence of Bessieres' victory at Rio and surrounded by French and Danish troops, who Leco, and to have advanced to Madrid in full con- were equally hostile to the cause of the patriots, they fidence that the French would be equally victorious planted their colors, formed a circle round them, in all parts of the Peninsula. The first news which and there swore on their knees to be faithful to their reached him after his arrival was of the defeat and country. The difficult task of opening a commusurrender of Dupont. St. Andero had been reco-nication with their commander, the marquis de la vered by the patriots, Moncey had been put to Romana,* and endeavoring to bring off their troops, flight before Valentia, Lefebvre, after sustaining a repulse, was in vain attempting to subdue Zara The marquis was kept in profound ignorance of goza;-meantime two victorious armies, one from the events that had taken place in his country, and Valentia, and one from Andalusia, were advancing various attempts had been made on the part of the towards Madrid. Bessieres, instead of being able, British government, to communicate the tidings to as he had hoped, to march to the assistance of Juhim, and to devise means for his escape with the was entrusted to rear-admiral Keats, one of the ments could be concerted without exciting suspi ablest and most distinguished officers in the British cion, prepared as the French officers and the Danish service. The main body of these troops were with government were to expect some such attempt, and the commander in chie upon the island of Funen, after the manner in which the Spaniards had ex some were in Jutland, some in Zealand. A smaller pressed their abhorrence of the usurpation of their body in Langland. It was proposed by the British country. A premature execution of the plan beadmiral (Aug. 7) that those in Funen should secure came necessary, and Romana, accordingly (9th themselves in a peninsula on the north side of the August) took possession of Nyborg. Admiral island, from whence if necessary, they might be Keats had hoisted his flag the preceding day, in the removed to the small island of Ramsoe. The Danish Superb, off that town; and as soon as the Spagunboats would be rendered inactive if the Spanish niards entered it, he dispatched a letter to the gogeneral had it in his power, and should think it pro-vernor, informing him, that notwithstanding the per, to seize on the town and port Nyborg, but state of war between England and Denmark, it was this measure admiral Keats thought might endanger his wish to abstain from every hostile act, provided the safety of the troops in Zealand and Jutland, by no opposition was made to the embarkation of the inducing the Dines to act hostilely, when they Spanish troops. While this was going on, he must otherwise might be disposed to wink at, or make no necessarily co-operate with those troops, and, conserious efforts to impede, the quiet removal of the sequently, communicate with the town of Nyborg; Spaniards. There was little hope that any negoci but the strictest orders had been given to all under ation for their peaceable departure would be success-his command to observe the utmost civility towards ful, but immediately after the movement should the inhabitants. If, however, the Spaniards were have commenced, a declaration of the unoffending opposed, he must, however reluctantly, take meaobject in view, might thus, he thought, be ad-sures which might occasion the destruction of the vantageous. The troops in Zealand, it was propo town. sed, should attempt to force their way to the penin sula near Corsoir, where it seemed likely that they stances: but an armed brig and a cutter which The Danish garrison had yielded to circummight be able to defend the isthmus till they could were moored across the harbor, near the town, rehe removed to the neighboring island of Sproe.-jected all the pacific offers both of the Spanish geneThose at Frederisca, in Jutland, were to seize ves-ral and the English admiral, and even all the resels, and endeavor to unite with their countrymen monstrances of their own countrymen; such small at Funen; but if the troops in Langland were strong vessels and boats as could be collected were sent enough to feel themselves in safety, it would be bet-against them and they were taken. It had been ter to land all the others there, from whence they the special care of Romana, that no act of hostilicould be transported at leisure. ty should be committed by his men, except such as were absolutely necessary to secure their emtroops under his command, without effect. At barkation. Some of them, however, irritated at length a Swedish clergyman was found, in whose the obstinacy with which the English were opposed, good sense and enterprising disposition, the firmest fired a few shots at the Danish ships before they confidence could be placed. This gentleman, dis struck. Admiral Keats now addressed a second guised as a low and travelling tradesman, went by letter to the governor, telling him, that, as his enthe way of Heligoland, and having overcome many trance into the harbor had been opposed, it was obstacles with the utmost patience, prudence and evident that he was bound by no absolute law or fortitude, at length arrived at the place where the usage to respect the property of the inhabitants.— marquis and his troops were stationed. Having as The Spanish general had occasion for some of the certained the person of the marquis he was obliged small crait in the port; unless the masters and to watch incessantly for an opportunity of address-crews would assist them in equipping and naing him, without exciting the suspicion of the nu-vigating them, it might not be in his power to merous spies by whom he was surrounded. The ve secure them from injury; if they would, he pledgnerable agent at last was obliged, as if by accident, ed himself, after the short service for which they to jostle the marquis in the street, in order to attract were required should be ended, not only to secure his attention. Having done so, he apologised, as if them from injury, by every means in his power, ignorant of the person whom he addressed, and but also grant them passports to return in safety. concluded with offering to sell him some excellent Accordingly a great part of the artillery, baggage coffee. The marquis treated this offer with con and stores, were embarked on board such vessels tempt, and signified that he supposed he was talking as were in the ports; the troops amounting to 6000, to a smuggler. The minister, however, persevered were taken on board, and landed upon Langland; in recommending his coffee, and in the course of and a convention being made between Romana and the conversation, found means to intimate that he the governor of that island, in which the latter was not a smuggler but a gentleman. "We'll soon agreed to supply the Spaniards with provisions, see that," said the marquis, and then asked him if they, on their part, absta ning from hostilities. he could speak Latin. The minister answered in Above a thousand troops from Jutland effected their the affirmative, and a conversation ensued, appa escape in the manner proposed, and joined their rently about coffee, as the gestures of both were countrymen while at sea, Another thousand had calculated to deceive all who might observe them. arrived at Langland. One regiment in Jutland was The marquis was then duly informed of every thing too distant, and too unfavorably situated, to effect that had occurred in Spain, of the assistance the its escape; and two in Zealand after having fired British government had rendered, of their readi upon the French general who commanded them, ness to adopt any measure that might be thought and having killed one of his aides-du-camp, were practicable for effecting the rescue of himself and overpowered and disarmed. Nothing could exceed his troops, that they might join their countrymen the joy of those who effected their escape,-the in resisting the French in their attempts to enslave them. It was scarcely possible that these various move regiment of Zamora made a march of eighteen Danish (equal to eighty two English) miles in twenty-one hours. This regiment which made this surprising exertion for the sake of returning to this occasion, expressing its astonishment at what their own country, to maintain its independence, it called the treachery of the Spaniards, and charg w one of those which the French papers describing them with having violated the most sacred dued as discovering the greatest attachment to Jo-ties! That court was therefore the first to give its sanction and support to the usurpation of Spain. (TO BE CONTINUED.) sep The court of Denmark issued a proclamation on Official Papers. Accompanying the Secretary of the Treasury's annual report. (See page 229.) Statement of the amount of the public debt on the first of April, 1801, and on the first Debt on 1st April, 1801. Six per cent. and deferred, unredeemed, of January, 1812. Principal. I Interest. Three per cent. outstanding Five and a half per cent. 1,817,500 Four and a half per cent. 176,000 Eight per cent. (including 800 dollars over issued) 6,482,500 Navy six per cent. 12,657,700 711,700 863,218 50 Temporary loans, viz. at six per cent. 2,010,000 2 at five per cent. 1,400,0005 3,440,000 The reimbursement of principal for 1812, will be 1,569,900 65, thus : 1,547,481 56 675,000 2,222,481 56 |