Indiana Palladium, Volume 2, Number 52, Lawrenceburg, Dearborn County, 6 January 1827 — Page 1

Mm 3 ft.l iim. iiiumuvfn HL U J 1W EQUALITY OF RIGHTS IS NATURE'S PLAN AND FOLLOWING NATURE IS THE MARCH OF MAN. Barlow. Volume II. LA WRENCEBURGH, INDIANA; SATURDAY, JANUARY 6, 1827. Number 52.

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PRINTED JWD PUBLISHED BY X)n every Saturday Morning.

An able pamphlet has appeared in London ("by authority, we presume," savs the Morning Chronicle) on the dispute? between the United States and Great Britain respecting the boundary line of her North American Colonies. The following passage of that pamphlet, contains general views with which it is well to make the American public acquainted. JVat. Gazette, uIt would really appear to be faintly perceived, or seldom considered, amoug us, how formidable a rival we must one day have to contend with in the United States; how rapidly that day is approaching; and how momentous must be the issue. At so great a distance, and comparatively of minorinterest, little is here observed of the intriguing, ambitious, and imperious character, of a People and Government, who consider every thing they can claim and reach, as already their own, and every thing they cannot, as an injury to be borne only till thev have acquired further strength. h the very terms of a previous concession thev can find subject for fresh demands. With reciprocity forever in their mouths, the can induce us to relax our svstem of Navigation and yield them commercial advantages, which they then refuse or delay to return, and seem to think conduct, which in private life would be thought little consistent with good faith, to be the proof of policy on their part, or of Weakness upon ours. Yet, to whatever subfility they may descend on some occasions, the boldness of their measures on others bears no proportion to the imbecility of their present power, but seems to assume all the importance of their future expectations; and as if thevisi Countries of the VVest were now too little far their increase, or were already but the means ofacquirit.g more; we see them grasping with one hand, the shores of the Gulph of Mexico, and reaching the other, at the Gulf of St. Lawrence; fortifying the mouth of the Columbia, on that side the globe, intriguing aud threatening for a port in the Mediterranean, upon this;at one time, forbidding any nation to colonize the coasts of the Pacific, and dictating, at another, to the new Republics of the South, not to touch the Havana; and now, at last, publicly proclaiming, by the I1esage of their President, that their former submission to belligerent rights can only be remembered with the resolution of never enduring it again. (What is this but to say, that if any nation will go to war with G"eat Britain, they stand ready to join tnem?) Their attempt to seize, their unwillingness to relinquish,

tneir very demand of, tue territory inbuck hot; but, if these are so excellent question, is a striking indication of theiri jn fight, why had we not the sagacilv to present aim, and future measures. For!ce them? In tracing the causes of the

wm uo mey mus cover ine possession oi, - sc allar and inflated a tract, as if

they had not already more vacant landjof her masts froinrr." Thiisa .1 1 i! I l .Aim!

man iney can neonie ior centuries V'nvtnrv r, uA nnr. R,if

but for the injury and insult it must in-ii v - i - . v ... tra .ee once had at the scource of the Kennebec, England at the Pouohscot. and the Americans themselves, in 83, agreed was on tiie South of the St. John's,

incr unan dreai Hmain' surp v hf in..i-i i ? i.i m auuearaiu uounje uue oi emigration

7 ' . - iifr ms in ue aimnuifu io hip .icnnfni., A . . . , i,pn r;imri,.

J ""--u.iij ui uic iiiijuie win ot her being totally dismasted. The I, " 'wv . . LfrnniH-il Vpm not be greater than thp insult nnnn i .1 1 1 ... 1. .I0112 we mieht have a western nresidentJ 01 acquiuai, ici.

, t m ti.i'u'iMiHii is aiso rapiurea oy ine 10s: -J ,. . ' ivl,irh ns ,pPn

r ' ' 41 1,1 tny aigurneni, oy,ot her masts, rmd, because the Ameri-i" ""I " cntUfnrtinn W vrnr h wp rmi h Mran ,,A thn k. u.j 3- . i , t resident s Message not lonfer than sausiacuoii.

. M .wis n,n oimouniea every carronaae on . Rf . " . ;n rptnr.hn thp N.irth VWnr.(TP nf M,w, ,.,,t;. ,k;kt y r . , .. Gov. Ravs Message. Then, when nn m regard to the

-, -"t'M v,inv.n npr ouaripr-aecK ana rorecaTie. nesiocs ; . . . 7 '

is, in point of fact, at the mouth of the Cr ib, Yoa are superior to me in hVht b,etween the 'Stern and eastern states, St. Lawrence. The secret is, that the-f nuM have beaten you had you not !he nuces7 hooks papers Sec. might U Vited States have loog found the Brit- pummelled me half to death, and had I e c,0Ilve?od wllh l,ttlc pense UnA nericao Provinces to lie heavily on not been too weak to return Your blow.." er t,)e Pesent "rrangement, the United

their (lank and rear, and overhang and If is this knocking away of mats di-,3.l;"es Iirsi puise to any concommand their coast. To throw off so! mounting suns, and shattering the hull, eralioi. of moment at her only metrop-cff-ctnal a curb, and still m )re by the that constitutes the elements of suppriori.?0,,s?' and her tomi members, wheth-

i wjMuou oi uiese possessions, to na inemseives oi me superiority or even olj the presence, of the British fleets, in those waters; to get at their mines, to monopo liz, (li fish and timber of America, force themselves into the W. I-uiis, and force A. I 1 . ... . Groat Britain out; these have been their; constant o!)jects, since tlieir first struggle lor independence to the present hour. 1 heir ehorts have as yet been unavailin nor have they for the future, by arms at least, any prospt-ct of better success, in a few years, these Colonies tv ill not contain less than two millions of inhabitants, who, in such a country as America, are not to he conquered; and in the meantime, experience has shewn, that with the protection of Great Britain, they maybe defended f except indeed their natural barriers are conceded by negociation, an j their connexion and communication witU each other separated a&'d lost.' i

Mr. James, author of a British Naval

History, which, as far as it treats of the naval battles between American and British vessels, was o bundantlv refuted, some time ago, in one or more of our public journals, has just published a second edition of his mendacious work. This edition is reviewed in some of the numbers of the Loudon Morning Chronicle for the last week in October, in a spirit of remarkable candour and impartiality. We cannot renst the temptation to copy the following commentary from the Chronicle JVal. Gaz. "Nothing can be more delusive, not to say disingenuou, than Mr. James" sfvle of explaining away the Anerican victo ries oyer us at sea. Oi this subject, we have already mentioned that our author entirely loses bis wonted spirit of candor Most of his arguments make against the cause he wishes to support, arid prove a folly on our part, and an acutenesson the part of the Americans, which justly entail ed defeat upon us, Sl entitled them to the victories they achieved. He tells u that our men of war were badly manned ; and when a captain had contrived to man his ship as a ship of war "ought to be manned, the admiral on the station would pronounce the ship 'too well manned,' and order a portion of her best men to be drafted on board the flag ship, at her moorings, to be idle and worthies?, sending in lieu of them a set of jail-birds, and raw hands, to make those among whom they were going nearly as bad as themselves." If this he true, what does it prove more than, that our admirals betray or don't understand their duty? and of course the enemy are to be praised, for taking advantage of our folly. We are next told that our crews were verv inferior to those of the American ships in gunnery, and nevertheless, the admiralty would allow scarcely any shot fur practising our men, whilst the American admiralty made an allowance adequate to the purpose. We find, moreover, that the Java, captured by the American frigate Constitution hadscarcelx exercised her crew at the guns at all; and when she did exercise them it was with blank cartridges, without any shot. We are then told by Mr. James, and he tells us with -a very strange simplicity, that the Guerrie re's shot, probably from badness of powder, fell short of her opponent,' whilst the American fire was most efficient against the Guerriere. The Guer-j riere's breeehings of her guns were,! moreover, rotten, and broke the euns adrift on being fired. Now, what does all this prove, but egreeiou incompe tence on our part to the management of such atfairs, and dexerit and talent in the Americans? Mr. James tells us that one source of the American naval victo ries was their firing dismantling shot a defeat of our frigates, we find the loss of lho Carrier atlriWod to the-W,,,,.' ri r .lava ranfnrnd nnr r.wt .rfml fmfho . --- ' -p i IIUI lllfll' ' I

shattering her hull.and riisahlimr a crreateasU,rn 1 r" vvas -Iectrd, occupy

rmrtmn nf hr rrPtv k-fn.o th MnnJ nian had materially iuiured her onnonpnt. Tbi i HL-p n no co,;, rt tv a!id succes : and it is h mh v nrnnpriv' for ,i frt inVMfiimtn. fho u,,,, c

riority in order "to counteract it; but to,ln5.?.,,ldI l,ot beart th aPPrace of

trace these honorable causes of victory! I"" u U4!VT ' ie eas ern anu westi nr0,;of;nn nf e z : i , i t c r " s a t cs. ,J e submit the above for

' is ridiculous. The American war form iii in pi i nii iiu- ou Y'T'i lvl 1 1 liar'll, ed a new era in naval actions. The ev cellence of their gunnery, and the effect of their fire, were what we had been totally unused to. In the first action, the jGuerriere lost 78 men killed and wound ed ; in the second, the Macedonian, independent of her masts and ringing being annihilated, had received more than 100 shot in her hull, and lost 36 men killed, and 63 wounded; in the third fight, the Java was equally a wreck, and lost 22 killed, and 102 wounded. This was a style of fighting totally dissimilar to any thing we had ever seen; and such heavy losses on board frigates was unprecedented. Nothing oa record equals

this loss. The Java alone lost more men than any three-decker, on the 1st of June; and three ships together lost more than any four of our three-deckers in that great victor. The losses sustained by these three frigates exceeded our total loss in the great battle of St. Vincent, and the Java lost within two of the numbers killed and wounded, on board the Victor), Lrd Netsou's ship in the battle of Trafalgar. It is in vain to deny the praise due to the Americans for their efficient style of tigutiiig, or to withhold from our seamen, the lortitude with which they bore th- slaughter. Another mode of accounting for the American superiority, is to assert that their crews were partly English. Mr. James brings a curiuu argument to prove this, viz: tint with all the terror on one side, and the persuasion on the other, the Americans could only induce eight of the Guerriere's and three of the Java's crew to enter their service of the Macedonian's men, "seven or eight foreigners, who were tiddlers and trumpeters, with three or four others, represented as Americans were all that entered the American service." It is not a little strange to adduce in proof of the American ships being so prodigiously well manned, that they were so anxious to seduce into their service seven or eight of our fiddlers and trumpeters. But it is said, that the Constitution at the capture of

the Macedonian, had many of Lord Nel son's old seamen on hoard of her guns, and that the crew of one gun was com posed of the former "bargemen of that great cruet. I ins natural! -uggests the inquiry into the cause of such extra ordinary facts. Is it thai the Americans flog less than we do; that they treat their men better, and give them leave to go on shore occasionally; or do they dis tribute prize money more justly than we do? Captain rsrenton tells us, that when the captains of our ships, on one occasion received x -10,730 each, the men received only X1 each, being as abcut 1 to 210. After the great victory of 1st June, Capt. JBrenton further tells us, that "his majesty was graciously pleased to direct" the portion of prize money to each seaman to be j2 2s. After this gracious act of his majesty, cur seamen must he an ungracious set of varlets to go ever to the Americans." The following editorial remark is extract ed frcm the paper printed at Bloomington.Ia. In it the editor doubtless wished to convey some idea to the reader, but ichat it s, is beyond our comprehenson; perheps those acquainted zvith the editor's style can make seuse out of it, tho zvc can not. "We have thought proper to divide the Governor's Message; publish part ol it this week anu the balance next week. A good thine you know should

last as long as possible. It is not impos-- o&ver.yeur, ksq. and Uon. Joseph sible to think that the metropolis of the':G- Swift. In regard to the former, a riuz-ns, might be located west of thei"od Pequi was lately entered by the

AI"'I4"' Moau.a.nnnnd .he Pap, of our - . . A. I i M I4vernn.eni, oe accommoaatea with;'

iiuuqihks noi ornameniea wun marine., ' . -t---., r.-.-.v w . ... . . . innrl immaili'iflif rwif imnn rIc rM-jl no

II is likewise hot impossible to think that! Uw easern capita.1, and the western Pre aenT' occu l"f wrern capital. - .1 A I . . b an uninterrupted water communition .. rusi C,M "s way oi manage 1 1 r rf'l r what people may think of it3 From the Democratic Press. OUR COUNTRY AND ITS DEFENDERS. Last session of Congress Mrs. Decatur, the widow of the late heroic Stei iien Decatur, presented to Congress-, a petition, praying to be remunerated, in part for the services in the Mediterranean, of her husband, by the recapture and destruction of the United States Frigate, Philadelphia. Those who are acquainted with the American Naval transactions in the Mediterranean, know, very well, that they rave character to our Navy, and tnad; an imnrcstion, on Foes

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and Friends, which is indelible. In the making of that character,and giving that impression, no man effected more than Stephen Decatur. He was a head to plan, and an arm to execute. A braver, a more skilful officer, or a more devoted patriot, no service could boat. The widow of this gallant and successful commander, now asks the Representatives of the people, he most faithfully arid honorably served, to bestow upon

her a pittance of the pecuniary value of the property he rescued from the Bar barians; and the rescue of which, he carried the direst confusion into their ranks. From that hour, the name of Decatur struck terror and alarm to their hearts, and from that hour, they have feared and respected the American flag. We hear of but one objection to granting to Mrs. Decatur, the prize money which was purchased by the valor and the blood of her gallant and thrice glorious husband. It is said it ought to have been claimed before. Because our gallant Pennsylvanian was too proud, or too generous, or too patriotic, or too indifferent to money, is that a reason why his widow should not have he r dower? As well might we rob her of the rich inheritance of her Decatur's worth and high renown, as withhold from her the hard earned fruits of hi3 resplendent vic tories. Put the question to Pennsylvania, and her citizens, with one accord, will gladly pour into the widow's lap, the harvest reaped, on the blood stained ocean, by one of those sons of whom Pennsylvania is most proud ! There are tens of thous ands in Pennsylvania, who would rejoice to hear that the representatives of the nation had liberally voted ell that is claimed in the name of Stephen Deca TUR:--of that Pennsylvanian who bore our flag triumphant and aloft on every seaj and wfiose chivalric love of Glory and of! Country, endeared him, and endears his Memory to every patriotic American. The members in the House of Reprc sentatives at Washington, have been quarrelling about precedence! Illinois contends she is as great as Tennessee, and Tennessee is dissatisfied that the state of Maine should be named first in calling up petitions. This appears to be ridiculous enough in itself, but yet gome good may grow out of it. If the states were called according to their existing population, Ohio would be the third; this little circumstance alone would serve as a kind of momento for western claims. It is a pity that our western members had not thought of these things a little sooner. Cincinnati Com Register. J"exo York Trials. Among the persons whose names were implicated in the re cent indictments in the City of New York, for alleged conspiracy to defraud I' - fain money Institutions, were Samuel T ' - ' - .!- 111 r III I I I I I I II 11 f I I w - I . result of a trial of one or two days has int and honorable verdict dered on Thursday last, received with universal e cannot but think, that se trials generally, and even in the origination of the indictments public prejudice, highly excited, has had too influential an operation. This opin ion derives strength from the fact that

two-thirds of the jury that convicted py results were exprcted from the udiou of that some of the citizens implicated, declared' august assembly. Unofficial intelligence, within court, at the time they were impan-'out doubt authentic, announces the arrival of nel!ed,that they were prejudiced against: ljoLlVAR 9t B(Kota on ,be nth of Noven)berthe accused. With such a declaration From ,Lima wp n that the fundamental how could an impartial verdict be exw for Iibu, presented by Bolivae to tbi t.Al n, JLi cjuMrr'un.l -iMorl colleges, has received their wnctioa

1 i ii j r r j I gentleman was challenged for favor, andj excluded from the jury, because he de clared that he had examined the law,&. could find nothing to convict the accused,'

but that he felt satisfied he could renderwork biie the day lasts, and thy sins shall ba an impartial verdict, both on the law andiforeiven tbee. A bill was introduced into tb

the evidence, as it should appear on the trial. Stripped of all he possessed, by the ex

plosion of a company in which he hadpriated for the support of maids, over the ag invested it, consolation is yet left to Gen.jof twenty five. Amen! Amen!! woe to hica

Swift in the reflection that h s charactenwDo vioiaiea me taws oi Dis coumr,.

is redeemed from even the suspicion of reproach in these transactions. National Intelligencer. TO AGRICULI VRJILIS TS. Horses and Oxen M. Dupetitmont, in a late agricultural work, examines the advantages of cultivating land by the labor of horses, and by that of oxen. He concludes that the food of horses costs tTvicc as mush as that of oxen to perform

the same work; that horses have 261 kinds of diseases, and oxen only 47 ; and that the manure produced by a hors will enrich only half as much land as that furnished by an ox. ' . Mod of breaking Steers to the draught in a few days. Let the farmer carefully yoke his steers in a clpse yard or stable and not move them till they get suffi

ciently accustomed to the yoke, so. that they wjH eat their food when yoked; which will be in the course of a day. Let them be yoked again the second dayt and a pair of gentle horse? or. oxen be fastened before them, in which station let them stand until they become familiar with said horses or oxen, which will generally be effected in one day e xcepting the steers should be uncommonly wild, which will occasion a second day's practice after the same manner; and the next day the steers may be. yoked, the hor&es or oxen put before as usual, and let them be fastened to a wagon or any other carriage; they, fearh g the carriage behind them, and being accustomed to the old oxen before, will proceed forward without being whipped or bruised. By the above process the farmer will never fail of success in having good working oxen. From the National Gazette. Philadelphia The Greeks. To the citizens who, feel an interest in the welfare of the oppressed Greeks, pressed by two of the most fell destroyers of the human race, famine; and the 6Word of an exasperated and brutal enemy," it must afford great pleasure to learn that the disposition to furnish them a 6upply of provisions is extending in this city rapidly. Several gentlemen have already pledged themselves for a handscme donation of flour; and one of the most emine. t meichants of this city has given his opinion thata cargo may soon be made up equal to twelve hundred and fifty or fifteen hurs dred barrels of flour. From the United Stales Gazette It is one of the best arts of housekeep ing, to make good coffee black tea being, for thesxj last few months quit out of fashion. In this art, the French it is said, excel, because they understand the exact method of roasting the, berry i and it is to an ignorance of that essential point, that are due the miserable washes that assume the name of coffee upon the breakfast table. The fact isf the cook in order to avoid a too frequent application of her own person to the ef fects of "burning coals," generally contrives to roast, a lot of coffee at a single beat "enough to last awhile;" and according to the true principles of culinary science, it would scarcely be a greater solecism to roast a quantity of oysters for a week's service. Mr. Williamson, a very worthy man. has invented a machine by which the cook may contrive to confine the operation of the fire to the cottee, and spar her own person; which he justly caFculates will bringdown upon him the bles sings of one million of the inhabitants of our nation, that number he thinks being once or twice in each week half calcined at the old method of coffee roasting his plan affords an opportunity of roaming; any desired quantity at a trifling expense of fire, and without any inconvenience to the attendant. The Congress of Colombia is to assemble at Bogota on the 2il of January, and the moat hapand approbation Jiurora. The millennium of matrimony is about com . t n or nilt rh mm of re.lihar.v has nearlr tr mencing in tne &iaie oi iennesse oacneior Legislature of Tennessee to tax Bachelors fifty per cent yearly on all their property for the horrible crime of celibacy, the money to be appro&alem la. paper. A party of Canadians have ascended to the summit of Tuons'ontuan mountain, near the J aques Cartier river, which had never before been visited except by Indians. It is two hundred feet high, and commands a view of the White &. Green Mountains in the United States, and the course of the St. Lawrence for ninety mi lee