Western Sun, Volume 3, Number 22, Vincennes, Knox County, 26 May 1810 — Page 3
THE WESTERN SUN.
VINCENNES, Mar 20, 1810.
The pipers by the lalt mail contain very few articles of any intelligence, all of any moment is detailed below. Benjamin Howard, u appointed governor of LouiOana. Congrtfs adjourned on the firfl day of this month, (May.) PUEMIUMS, Ojfered ly the " Vincennes Society for the encouragement of Agriculture and the Useful Arts." Resolved, Tint for the encouragement cf Domeftic Manufactures the following premiums be, and they are hereby olFered by the fociety for the prcfent year, viz. lit. For the fineft and belt piece of Cotton cloth, of the kind commonly called bummums, fit either for fliirting or (fleeting, fpun and wovin the county of Knox, to be not lefs than fifteen yards in length, find of the width of one yard, fome article of plate of the value of feven dollars. 2d. For the iecond heft fpecimen of the above, an article of plate of the value of live dollars. 3d. For the fine ft and belt piece of woo!Jen cloth calculated for mans apparel, fpun and wove in the Territory, and not lefs than ten yards in length, and of the width of three quarters of a yard, an article of plate of the value of feven dollars. 4th. For the befl and fineft piece of linnet! (lurting, to be woven in a reed of not lefs than 900, manufactured within the county of Knox, and of materials of the growth of the fame, to be not lefs than fifteen yards in length, and not lefs than cmc yard wide, an article of plate of the value of feven dollars. 5th. For the fecond belt fpecimen of the above, an article of plate of the value of five dollars. Resetted , That the pieces of cloth propofed to be exhibited for the above premiums be drpofited with the Treafurer, one day at leaft previous to that on whkh the premiums are to be diftributed ; that he preserve defciiprions cf each, fo that they may be defignated after the decifion of the fociety is made ; but that no 1-bel or other mark be attached to the pieces which may enable the members to defignate the l efpective owner?. Resolved That the above premiums will be awarded on the fiift Tucid.iy of April next. Resohedy That an agricultural book of the value of five dollars be given for the largeft quantity of Hemp Seed which may be railed the prcfent fcafon on a given quantity of gtound, not to belelsthun one
quarter ot an acre.
Extracts from the Journal cf the Vin cenr.es Society for the cru ut jge r.icnt cf Agriculture and the Useful Artsy" at their neciixj cf May '2d, 18 10. Resclvedy That it is conf:dcrcd by the fociety that all thofe perfms who attended the firft meeting at ti e touit loule on the 3:u of Av;ril, K'U'J, arc, a:.d (lull he ccniide: cd men. hci r. thereof, unirf- tiny, or any ot them, fiiill li.ew their ohjectLiia thereto by neglecting to give their n;.;r.fs to the focietv on or before the hr4t Monuav in C):trber next, and that notice thereof be given by publilhirg tl.ij reio'ution lor two weeks in ti e Weitern Si;-'. Oritredy Tint the annual contribution be reduced to one dollar and fifty cent'. Ordered, That the ar.iunl meeting- cl the focietv be cn the f.rlt Tu-fdays in April and September, a:;d the hi ft Saturdays in July and Decern'.. cr. dd:':d. That the contribution fcr the
year I8I0, be paid to the Treafiiter within fix weeks from this day. W. H. HARRISON, President. AncH. B. Paurk, Clerk. THE PRESS GANG. Extract of a letter from capt. Couthouy, to hii wife in Bolton, dated Antigua, March f, 1810. " A few days before I left Liveruool your brother JclVph, bring out in the evening, had the misfortune to be met by a prels gang and was taken into a rendezvous houfe and kept ; he Cent the next morning for me to come to him ; I accordingly went, but to nopurpofe. The captain of the gang fwore that he was" an Iriflunan ;' I contended long with him, but it availed not for me to alfert that he was my brother ; thry wanted men, Sc no matter what they were; all were dragged on board the Piincefs, (the gfuard fllip that lay in the tiver.) When I found he was taken on boaid,T thought no time was to be loll in getting l.im ofT; I immediately went to an attorney, took a writ, then to Court, fwore to a debt of 281 he was indebted to me, then to the water bailiff and got the Giver oar fent on board the princefs to take him, and put him in prifon for the debt ; when the captain oi the princefs law the filver oar, he would not deliver him up ; for laid he, now, he' is in my charge, I cannot let him go until, you take him by habeas corpus from the king's bench in London. I went to my attorney, and afked his advice about it he replied, the habeas corpus will colt you 45l betides other fees. No matter fid I, take my affidavit and fend to London for one. That we effected After the habeas corpus writ came to Liverpool it was ferved on the capt. of the princefs, and the man demandedhe replied, he was willing to give him up as loon as he had received an anfwer from the admiralty ollice judge my trouble the fhip being ready for lea, 1 begged the (hippers to fparc me two days to have his final clearance from London. They granted my rcquefl ; at thr rxpiratian of two days, the wind being fair, infilled on my failing or putting another captain on board, for the fliip could not be detained any longer. Finding no poilihility to get him clear before my failing, 1 went to my attorney, left him 1981 to pay all expences, and to get him clear as foon as pofiible then to mr. Breed, a gentleman of Bollon, who had the goodnefs to take it in hand as 1 was obliged to fail ; he has promifed to intereft himfelf in his behalf. At the time mr. Pitty wasim prelTed thry had on board the Princefs between 30 c AO American mates and fcamen ; two mailers of American fliips have their own brothers imprefl'ed, and had no prnfpect of getting them clear. I have done all I cuuld for him before I left Liverpool, and have U ft the hnflnefs with my friends who will get him dear if poflible. It was with regtctl left him behind"
Latest fro:n England. NEW-YORK, April IS. The (hip Golcouda, capt. Crocker, has arrived oil Sandy Hook, in 33 days from Liverpool, which port Ibe left on the 24th of March. The pftengers and letter hag arrived in town 1 it evening, and the editors of the Mercantile advertifer have received a file of London papers to the 22d of March inclufive, and Lloyd's Hits to the 16th. We Irarn verbally by the pdle ngers, that the United S ates frigate John Adams was to have Ivocrhnd from France on the fame day the Goiconda failed. No change had taken place in the minif try, but l'ucn an event was daily exnected.
j The papers we have received, although
j two weeks later than cur previous -aices
lror London, arc extremely barien ot intciii;'c;icc Lj".dsr.y March 10 A very extraordi' r.ary report was ciiirn t at Qliend U!l Monday. It was cor.lulentlv Itatrd, that the Aulirian princefs, Maria Louifa, the intended bride of Ronaprte, had lied iiv Jil :1cfrom Vienna, ia cider to avoid the rumaZ. Vlz e! ;:emrnt uimour reached Do
ver bv the Pa:vjeii'ju:vU veiTrl ifwiiir.g, capt. Lii.te. Ju:.h 17. A French f-g of truce fro:;! ivusl.MU-, w.th du;;:c hei on !)"atutor government, va4 p-.et at i-ja on ThurU evcr-.irg, i y ' Cherokc gun brig, thr captain r-f which received the difpatche fic;n the Ficiu:. clllccr, and proceeded vnth
them to Dover, wh-re be arrived at nigbt accompied by thr Frenih veffel. Thedcfpatches were yellerday received by govern metit, and are, it is Gid, addrelTcd to the lranfport Hoard. A report prevailed yefterday, that the hearer is M. Duroc, lionaparte's marflial of the pd.ice. and f ivoritc anbalTador ; out, on enquiry, we learn, that there is no truth in this report. Jt was alio rumored, that the difpauhes contained overtures of peace, and the funds juve rifen in confe epirnce from 1 to 1 percent; Tiic cabinet i3 f.ud to luve again become a lcTie ol jirt tug co-itf ntion, in conferjurnve of a difputc which has taken place rrlppcting ti'r appointment of a fuccetTor to lord Mulgr.ve, who retires from the admiralty. I he d'Tire of fome of the minifters to place lord CHlrreagh at the head of tlut department, is reported to have given rife to 4 fertous ditference with their colleagues. A vtiTcl has arrived from Helvoet Sluys in 3 dys. It was mentioned at that port, that Holland was to be united with France, after the expiration of one month, when it was fuppofed that the political and military arrangements for fucb an event would have been completed It is prefumed, that the union in contemplation only applies to the diltrict feu th of the river Maefc. We have information from North Holland, through two channels. By the one we are informed, tint king Louis was daily expected in Am Herd am ; and by the other, which is about 48 hours later, that be had actually arrived in his capital. Notwithstanding however thefe accounts originate in very rcfpecUblr quarters, we cannot altogether plate confidence in them. We have fome further intelligence of the Itate of ffiirs in Ruflia, from a gentleman who has juft reached London. He fays, that all parties whether of the nobles, merchants, tradefmen or p-sfantiy, are difgufted witli the conduct of Alexander. The more fenlible part of the community in
that country apprehend that one of thofc revolutions, fo frequent in that empire, may, under prcfent circumftances, be expected. At the time this gentleman quitted Peterfburgh, a war with France w?s not at all confidered within the verr of probability ; but as he paAc-d through Germany, on his way hither he found that, hoftilities between Alexander and Napoleon vfcre the conflant topic of conVerfation. From the fame fource vVe learn, tjt a rumour was very current of the intention of Napoleon to take polkllion of the Dutchy of HolRein, in total difregard of the rights of the crown of Denmark. That country is, we are told, to be alienated to the duke of Oldenburg, who was to ailign bis own domains to the kingdom of WeHphalia. March 18. The enemy bad not as late as the 1 1th of February taken polTeffionct Alicant. Letters frcm hence contain a (tatement, whit h for the common credit of the American name, we could wilh to attach no belief. It is faid that a correfpondence had been detected between fome Amcricans, rrfidents in Alicant, and the enemy in confequence of which every American hid been fecured and thrown into prifon by order of the governor. The American conful, mr. Montgomery, is faid to have been implicated, and was compelled to (hare the fate of his countrymen. March 19 We have received Paris papers to the 13th, Sc Dutch to the 17th mil.
Jerome Ronaparte has publHhed a proclamation, announcing thr incorporation of the electorate of Hnov r with the kingdom of Wrftphalia, and it is rxp-cted that leveral of the province? created by the emperor Francis will be reftorcd to Au(Vu cn the marriage of his d.'t:ghter to Napcleon. The Dutch papers, v.hich announce thefr territorial charge, all r.ntiiipatr others ct great impoitanrc, a', Y.:y to refult frcm this union ; and indeed it will not furpriiV us to lee Auftrii r rrtruded into Turkey, and nrw plans pif:trtd cn that !;Je againit (Mir poirelbons k; incia, in a very ihcit time. The empref. Maria Louifa was'tyrpected on the I 7 c h inO. at -S'trsiburgh, frcm wf icli li e w to let rut on the following day yeilrr(hy) for G-impaignr . The Mrmtrur r.l the 9th c cntnit-.s a plan rf the fetes and cerenmnie at Iris in bailor of the marriage with the cmpercr. .U;ch ZO. The American i':igate Jchn Adams n ordered o let i :i o-r,..,! : ov.
from Clowes f. r the United Sta-''-
for approval and ratification, if they ba deemed fatisfactory, the provifional term of adjuftment, fuppofed to be concluded between mr. Pinkncy and maiquis Wellef. ley. The vefiel charged with thele def. patches, will, it is faid, firft proceed to Ha. vre, w here the beft informed merchants fup-. pofethatOte Will take gen. Armllrong on board, in order to carry him bome Accounts have been received from Holland, which (tatr, that Bonaparte lud ifl'ued a decree, ordering all American property in France to be cor.Hfcated and fold, and tbo prcducc to be vedrd in the imperial funds, until the nature of the relations between England and the U. S. fhould be afcertained. The fame letters add, that gen. Arm.' Hrong had prefented a flrong remonOrance aginlt this violent Birafure, m which he declared that he could enter into no treaty, nor hold any intercourfe with the French government, until the property confifcated was unconditionally reftored ; and conclud. ed by demanding pafiports. If this intelligence fliould be cohfirmed wemayconfider a rupture between America and France as unavoidable, March 21 The attention of thr public on the continent is fo entirely abforbed by the contemplation of the approaching marriage between Napoleon and the Aullrian princefs, that every other political confideration is fufpended. The rumor of war between France and Ruflia has wholly fuhfided. Letters have been received from Peteifburgh, dated the 3d. inft. Of war there is not the flighted apprehenfion in that capitol. Trade is fomewhat revived, the exdnnge has advanced to 17 and a fraction, and there is a general hope in Ruflia that the reflriction on the trade with G. Britain fo far from being increafed will be relaxed. Private letters have been .received from Spain, by which it appears that Cadiz has not yet been formally attacked, although it is in a flate of complete blockade on th-
Iand fide. At Malaga the French remain in undiflurbed pofleflion. Letters from Oporto to the 2d inft. mention the Knglifli and Portuguefe armies to be in their former politions, without any expectation of coming into early contact with the enemy. The report of Napoleon having infilled on America declaring herfrlf the friend of France or of England is again revived. The neutrality of America we have longr believed to be much longer, impoflible. March 22. Some more fets of Paris papers have reachtd us, hut rot of a more recent date than thofe which had already fupplied us with extract?. If reliance can be placed on an article from Turkey, fir SmL Hood's fquadron had pnfled the DardneII',s. The Porte mult have been threatened with fome formidable preparations on the part of the Ruflhns in the Black fea, to permit the paflfage of our (hip1;. The Tyrolefe infurgents have been driven frcm therr fuprr they had taken in Vienna, and feveral c t them had aflerted by order of the Auflrian government. Thefe papers continue to he occupied at great length with accounts of the the fplendid preparations for the nuptials of Nspoleon, which, it is now underflood will be celebrated at Paris on the 29th infl. Berthier arrived at Vienna on the 4th, and wab to leave it again on the 1 5th with the n-w emprefs The only notice taken of the afTirs of the Peninfula is the removal of king Jof-ph's head quarters from Xcrcs to port St. Mary. Letters from Holland report that Bonaparte has agreed to give the Archduke Charles a kingdom, and the Dutrh are afni l that the Auflrian prince is to he thr fucrf. for of king Louis. If thii fhould prove true, it would he not a little fmpular to fee the general wh'Te army won th' barl- of Aiern, em pi vrd in cnt.irrhv.' French decrees Jainl't I''!.J' d. Ti e report is evitnt!v rrroundlcf. Q'l fr letters of the lGth ftatr, that the immediite return cf kirr Lruis vs prurrWy exptcted ; the fur.c
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