People, 1821-06-13

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.VOL. 1.] N E V V - L O N D O N , ( C O N . ) W E D N E S D A Y , J U N E 13, 1821. [ N o . 15...
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New Goods.
FINANCIAL RFPORT.
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offers for sale on the most reasonable
terms, a general assortment of
GROCERIES,
WHICH ARE WARRANTED OF THE FIRST
QUALITY, AND CONSIST, IN PART OF
THE FOLLOWING ARTICLES VIZ
C O G N A C BRANDY,
O L D S P I R I T S,
W. I. RUM, >-PURE.
H O L L A N D GIN,
A M E R I C A N do.
M A D E I R A ,
S I C I L Y MADEIRA,
L I S B O N .
T E N E K I F F E ,
MALAGA and
P O R T
H Y S O N ,
Y O U N G HYSON,
H Y S O N SKIN,
. S O U C H O N G , and
B O H E A ,
L O A F )
L U M P and > SUGARS,
B R O W N S
Box and C a s k R A I S I N S.
C o f f e e , P e p p e r , P i m e n t o , Nutmeg?,
L o r i l l a r d ^ s C u t T o b a c c o,
V i r g i n i a P l u g do.
C u t and W r o u g h t Nails,
O l i v e Oil,
P u r e w i n t e r s t r a i n e d L a m p Oil,
C o a r s e and fine Salt,
L o n d o n and P h i l a d e l p h i a P o r t e r,
. L e t t e r a n d W r i t i n g P a p e r , by t h e ream,
H a t s , S h o e s , Whips, &c. itc.
jiLSO,
A OENARAL ASSOETMENT OF
Crockery^ Glass ^
Earthen Ware.
April 4. 5tf
Wines.
TEAS,
Superior quality.
New Store.
TH E s u b s c r i b e r offers for sale a t h is
s t o r e in t h e S o u t h p a r t of t h e city,
a n e w supply of
GROCERIES,
CONSISTING I>F
R U M ,
B R A N D Y ,
G I N ,
W I N E S .
M O L A S S E S ,
T E A S ,
L o a f , Lump, and
B r o w n S U G A RS
Crockery Ware^
Very cheap, and a small supply of
\ RAISINS,
i C O F F E E ,
I R I C E ,
I T A B L E S A L T,
I W h e a t and Rye
I FLOUR, per
I barrel,
1 C O R N & M E A L .
April 1.
ANSON S M I T H.
5
Isaac Shepafd
OFFERS FOR SALE
"I bis. Brown Sugar, and
v F JO Connecticut R i v e r Gin,
First quality,
ALSO,
A f ew bags of Green Coffee.
Mav 1 9
Pap
H A R T F O R D
er Hanging
A N D B R U SH
3Ianufactory.
Th e subscriber has c o m m e n c e d t he
m a n u f a c t u r i n g of P a p e r Hangings
and Brushes, n e a r l y o p p o s i t e t h e C o u r -
a n t Office, w h e r e may be had a supply
of P a p e r and Brushes of e v e r y descrip-t
i o n , a t t h e N e w - Y o r k p r i c e s . Country
m e r c h a n t s will find it for t h e i r interest
t o c a l l . , A . J A N E S .
Cash p a i d for HOG'S BRISTLES.
f l a r t f o r d , May 1.—10
94 986,21
78.01'5 5
! diffen ii
Fo the House of Representatives.
The Committee of Finance respectful-ly
Report —
In order to compare the expenditures
of the last year with those of oiher years
it will he npcesitary to premise,— rhat the
ordinary expenses defrayed by the Treas
nry, daring the year ending 10th 4pril
•818, were $100,020,97
Fur the ye.-r ending tOth A-pril,
1819, ezciui^ive of ibe
debenture of the conven-tion
which framed the Con-stitutinn,
For the vear ending 31st
March. 1820,
The avails of the ta« on th
Hstt of those years have been not tar fron.
torfy'iix thousand dollars, annually. Tht
disbureroents daring the two year<« flr-'
named, may be taken as he averai^e a
mount of the Annaal expenses for several
years preceding ihem, and the sums«realiz-ed
by tav, during those years, may be
taken as the averase avails of the annual
tax durina: the «ame period
The ordinary ex^ense^ of the Govern
ment defrayed at the Treasury during the
year endii'g the 31st March, I82i, were
^63 679 51 ; this of rourse does not include
a payment of $7,687.50, made daring the
year to the Baptist trustee-, that sum being
a part of the funds heretofore appropri.
tfd to the different denominations of
Chnstiaos. The avails of the State Tax,
reaiizpd during the last year were about
thir'y-Jive thousand dollars. This sum al-though
nearly one fourth less than the tax
of former years, added to what the Treas-ury
has received from Bank .Stock divi-dends,
and from other sources of revenue,
has been sufficient to meet all demands,
having a balance to the credit of the state
of SlSj77^u
It will be perceived by the foregoing
exhibit, that the demands on the Treasur>
dunng the last year, have been upwards
fourteen thousand dollars Itss, than du
ring the year ending in Mareh, 1820, up-wards
of thirty-one thousand dollars less
than during i h e year ending in AprrI 1819
and upwards ef thirty-six thousand dollars
lesif than during the year ending in April
I;8I8.
Notwithstanding the reduced expendi-tures
of the last year, as contrasted ivith
former years, the Committee flatter them-ttc*\!
ertfcTTtttre-iteuimiJ u:; re^lu-T
for the current vear, will be still further
diminished. They found this opinion on
the fact, tliat the act of the last Session
reducing the compensation of Members of
the General Assembly, could not by the
terms of it operate until the present year ;
and the act relative to State Paupers, pas
sed at the same Session, could only oper
ate upon six tnonlhs of the last year, be-cause
the accounts of the Treasury offict-are
made up in March annually. Both
of those acts will have an important bear-ing
upon the disbiii scments of the current;
year.
Should the School Fund dividends equal
those of the last year, and the Treasury
be consequently relieved from advancing
any thing to schools, other than what is
derived from the Fund, of which tljere is
every probability at present, the ordinary
expenses for the curre«t year will not
probably exceed $63,500, and may be es-timated
as follows, viz.
For salarie-s g9,S81
" debentures of the Gene-ral
Assembly, 14,000
Excess of receipts over expenses$ 1 147.3(5
To the above balance of $1,H7.36
may safely be added the sum of £8 000,
which the coromittee have included ip
their estimate of expeHses as an allowance
f t schools, in ca!>« the Schottl Fund divi-dends
should tie diminished there being
no probability (hat the satneV>il be want-ed
from the treasury for that purpose, as
esti mated in the report of. the commis-sioner
of the School Fund, and aoceptcd
by I' i< house so that thetbal-ince after
mi-et n^ the ordinary expeqte, of the year
may be fairly estimated at 147 36*
Ii will be I eiceived that the Comm>ttee
have not in thfir estimate df receipts for
<he current year, included the div dends
•rrising on Bank Stock owned by the state
' hese dividends which wBI^ during the
vear, amount to about $ I T',OdO. have been
»'<»r two or -hree years past,, appropriated
towards defraying the current expenses ot
the slate But the Comoiittee are of o
pinion, that as a portion of the permanent
funds belonging to !he stat& was applied
tow.trds the ,'^ppnses of thp^late war, and
as a consideri pie part of thie war debt, in*
curred against th;;; National uoveru>iieot,
has been by the act of October, 1810, ap-propriated
to the encouragement of Liter-ature
and Religion, i would be advisable
that some portion of the ^i^vidends accru-ing
on Bank Stock, be glc^ually applied
in purchasing other stocks^^iil the perma-nent
funds of the state areonade equal to
what they would have been if the events
above alluded to had not taken place.
To secure, however, the Treasury a
gainst any contingencies, the Committee
would recommend that so much of the
Bank Stcck dividends as sirall be received
before the first of December next, be ap-propriated
towards the civil list expenses,
and that the residue be l e l l t o be invested
in other stocks, pursuant t&an existing re-solve
of the General A-yi^hly. A re-solve
to appropriate the dividends w hich j
shall be reci'ived before this first of De- j
cember, to the expenses or the civil list, j
is herewith submitted; as it also a resolu.
tion to raise a tax of o i e d ^ t on the dol-lar
of the assessment list <^1-820.
Respectfully submitted'
Per Order, K. I. INGERIOLL, Chairman.
tPfi.
kpril ^ t h pub-from
a lettei
jlitan nation
"CirOTa th-was
sent from
" judicial expen-ses,
" contingent ex-penses,
" support of State
Faupeis,
" Newgate Prison,
" Quarter Master
General Depart-ment,
12 500
6,000
.5,000
0,000
616
^553,500
Iq case the School Fund from
any acci<ient, should not divide
for the current year the amount
expected ; add to the above esti •
mate a farther sum for the use of
schools to be advanced by the
Treasury of ^8,000
making 1,500
To meet the above estimate of expendi-tures.
the following sums, exclusive of
Bank Stcck dividends, which amount to a-bout
$i 7,000 may be relied upon, viz.
Cash in Treasury, gi3,177,26
Balance of Taxes, 89 40
Interest on funded .debt, 4 980,70
Duties on writs, 4.500
Ditto on licences, 4,500
Avails of Courts, for-feited
bonds, tie. 2,000
making ^29,257,-36
A tax of one cent on the dollar,
on the assessment list, will
meet the deficiency 4* yield 33,400
fotal receips detivable from
the above sources, 02,647,36
Deduct estimated amount of
expenses, 61,500
GENERAL
^ The London Courier
lishes the iolloiving pass:
oCQen. Pepe to the
written aaierior toTiis
\eapolitan territory. It
Paris in manuscript, to the editor of tin
Courier, who affects to doubt its authen-ticity.
" Neapolitans ' ! am almost ashamed t'
call you countrymen, after a!l you havi
done and all f have suffered. 1 have nn
language to express the detestation in
which 1 hold the conduct of those who
nave guided your councils in the late e-ventfui
period, or the disgust I feel at the
baseness of your conduct on every occa
sion when the enemy made his appear
ance. You fled, you deserted, you sub-mitted,
and submitted upon the terms of
the conqueror ; and this, too, in the face
of all your protestations, of all your pre-tended
enthusiasm for liberty and inde-pendence.
Had you made a stand when resis-tance
was so possible, and victory so pro-bable,
how different would have been your
situation and mine—how different the si-tuation
of the civilized world ? The
flame of Liberty would have spread from
the peninsula of Italy into the north, and
those very governments that were thf
means of your subjugutioo, might them-selves
have been compelled to grant a con-stitution
to their subjects It is not I on
ly who am disappointed it is all mankind
—all a^en who have a spark of generosity
in their bosoms ; and, let me add that, e-ven
amonij yourselves, I know there are
many who bitterly grieve over past events
that never can be remedied or recalled.
The opportunity is past and all Europe
thrown a century back in the acquisition
of freedom by your treachery and pusil
animily."
" That I am an exile is nothing. I am
content to sufler, and would gladly suffer
much more, could I beneiit that land in
which I WHS born. I have done my du-ty,
and that is alone the consolation that is
left me."
The following account from tbe Salem
Register, of a revolution, and a counter
Revolution, beats that of Piedmont '' all
h'jllow," as the saying is.
In connexion with the recent revolution
in Uio Janeiro, we publish the following
extract of a letter dated from a gentleman
at Fayal. dated April 18, 1S21, relating to
commotions in other parts of the Portu-guese
dominions.
Fayal, April 18, 1821.
" You will doubtless have heard of the
political changes of Madeira, and St. Mi-chaels,
which have declared *'or the Con
stitution of Portugal, and have deposed
those officers who refused to sanction their
proceedings—among that number is the
Governcr ofSt. Rlichaelsi who has been
sent to Lisbon I understand that he was
the only dissentient on the island-—every
thing there is condacted with ordiT and
concord An unfortuoate attempt was
made at r e r c e i r a , where, yoa will recol
lect, the Governor General of the Azores
reside^, and maintains 1200 regular troops
I he troops were suborned by the former
General Araujo, who during his adminis-tration,
had incurred the hatretf of almost
every ind vidual on the inland. This man.
Hided by a very small party, obt ined pos-session
of the forts and proclaimed the
Con.<«titution—and such wan the enthusiasm ,
that notwithstanding the hatred most peo-1
pie bore to the chief instigator, they cor-dially
entered into it. The reigning Go
vernor, General Stockier, finding him>elf
deserled by the troops fled from the city
to a tokvn called Yrayo, wher^ ther6 is a
fortress; the town contains a regiment of
militia : here he hoped to form a party and
regain his ascendancy. In this expecta-tion
he was disappointed, and finally was
compelled to capirulate and consider
himself as a private citizen.—For three
days Araujo held the reigns and pro-ceeded
to organize a government ; but on
the night of the 3d of April, at 11, P, M
while those persons who composed the
new government were deliberating io
council, held at the Palace, situated in
Fort bt. Sabastian, the soldiers, with no
officer among them above a sergeant, com-menced
a furious bombardment of the Pa-lace,
with field pieces, loaded with grape
shot, nd musketry ; those within implo-red
the Bishop to shew himself at the ;
window, and endeavor to appease the fury
of tbe soldiers, conceiving that they would
have more consideration for him than for
any other person—this he declined, con-sidering
the peril too great, a.-.d recom-1
mended the Governor General as chief o f
the military, to make an attempt to haran-gue
them and finding that they must all
perish if something vy as not done to put a
stop to the firing, he advanced to the wiii-
.low with two lights, and before he could
utter a syllable was shot through the head
.As soon as it was known that Araujo was
killed,tbe soldiers ceased firing,& although
they committed divers outrages on the
persons who had been accessary to the
revolution, yet there was no Airther rfu.
sion of blood.
The troops immediately reinstated tbe
ottier General, declared for the former
jrder of things, and renewed the oath of
iidelit^ to the King. It appears that Gen.
\vaii 0 ilcceivetl his ttoops by not com-plying
with the promises he had matte
ihem, of increasing their p.iy, &c. There
are twenty-seven prisoners, among them
some of the principal persons of the place
Affairs were in a very unsettled state by
I he last accounts, there being no subordi-nation
among the troops, and I fear it will
nut end there ; should another attempt b'*
made, of ivhich 1 have little doubt, there
will be a great deal of Mood shed.
" This is one of the fruits of the King's
delay to accept and approve of tbe meas
ures adopted in Portugal.
fVhig and Tory.—Dr Johnson, dispu-ting
with Dr. Crowe upon who was the
first Whig, the latter, finding himself a lit
tie puzzled, " I see, sir, (said Johnson,)
that you are even ignorant of the head of
your own party; but 1 will tell you. sir,
the devil was the first Whig; he was the
first reformer; he wanted to set up a re-
Torm in Heaven Dr. Crowe calmly re-plied,
" I am much obliged by your inform-ation,
and I certainty did not foresee that
Tou would go so far back for your authori
ty ; yet I rather fear that your argument
makes against yourself—for if the devil
was a Whig you have admitted that, while
he was a whig, he was in Heaven, but you
have forgotten that the moment he got in
to hell he set up for a lory.*'
O U R P O L I C Y.
T h e following l e t t e r was w r i t t e n b y a
g e n t l e m a n who f o r m e r l y held a distin-guished
post u n d e r t h e general govern-ment,
and now occupies a prominent
s t a t i on in one of t h e s t a t e governments.
Accident p r o c u r e d us a sight of it, and
as its s u b j e c t is one of t h e g r e a t e s t in-t
e r e s t to us, we begged permission to
publish it, and obtained it. We ear-n
e s t l y call t h e a t t e n t i o n of our read-e
r s to t h e sentiments c o n t a i n e d in i t—
t h e y are in themselves of immense
weight, but t h e y a c q u i r e i r r e s i s t i b l e au-t
h o r i t y f r om t h e s o u r c e f r om w h i c h t h ey
spring. They w e r e not imbibed since
t h e question was last brought before
C o n g r e s s ; the author is a veteran
s t a t e s m a n , and his opinions a r e the de-l
i b e r a t e result of a long life of political
r e f l e c t i o n , which he has spent almost
e n t i r e l y in t h e service of his country.
A simple opinion f r om such a man, is
worth whole volumes of that kind of
d e c l a m a t i o n t o which we a r e subjected
i a m o d e r n times.
Pittsburg Gaz.
F e b . 17, 1821.
S i f - r l have to acknowledge and
t h a n k you for t h e Report of t h e Com-m
i t t e e of M'lnufactiires on t h e various
memorials praying for, aud r e m o n s t r a -
t i n g against a n i n c r e a s e of t h e d u t i e s on
i m p o r t s , " and I can assure you, that I
am not more entirely satisfied of the
t r u t h of the demonstrations of Euclid,
t h a n that the i n t e r e s t s of Agriculture^
Manufactures, and C o m m e r c e , a r e not
only compatible with each o t h e r , but
s t r i c t ly c o r r e l a t i v e.
T h a t a n y intelligent m e r c h a n t s should
h a v e imagined that t h e i r i n t e r e s t s would
be a d v a n c e d , by p r e v e n t i n g t h e i n c r e a se
of vendible commodities, or c o u n t e r -
a c t i n g t h e indiii^trious pursuits of their
c o u n t r y m e n , was not t o have b e e n ex*
p e c t e d ; and the fallacy of such en-d
e a v o r s and opinions, is visibly demon-s
t r a t e d by t h e actual condition of New*
E n g l a n d . In t h e ancient s t a t e of Mas-s
a c h u s e t t s , n e c e s s i t y has c o m p e l l e d such
numbers of t h e p e o p l e t o beceme me-chanics
and manufacturers, t h a t most
of t h e productions of t h e i r soil a r e con-sumed
or employed at home, and of t he
e x t e n s i v e and lucrative fon>i:{n com-m
e r c e of that state, prdbably not one
f o u r t h p a r t is d i r e c t l y s u p p o r t e d by t h e ir
a g r i c u l t u r e . Here t h e inconveniences
of t h e present period chiefly a r i s e f r o n|
t h e stagnation of external markets, gind
f r om t h e vibrating and constantly de-c
l i n i n g prices of commodities, which
c h e c k industry, discourage e n t e r p r i z e,
i n c r e a s e t h e burden of d e b t s , a n d a r r e st
t h e circulation of captial. Here ia
c o n s e q u e n c e of t h e f r e e d om and equal-ity
of o u r institutions, t h e whole COIQ^
munity is indissolubly c o n n e c t e d . Man-u
f a c t u r e s and t h e a r t s c a n n o t b e d e p r e s -
sed below t h e level of other interests,
but must all flourish or all d e c l i n e in a
common ratio.
Nor could it h a v e been f o r s e e n , tha^
t h e p l a n t e r s of t h e s o u t h e r n s t a t e s would
h a v e d e e m e d it a wise policy t o o p p o se
measures t e n d i n g to e n c o u r a g e tl^o suc-cess
of d o m e s t i c a r t s a n d m a n u f a e t n r e s.
I f any c i r c u m s t a n c e p e c u l i a r to their
condition, (of which they a r e t h e best
j u d g e s ) dissuade f r om s u c h encourage-ment
among themselves, they ought,
for t h a t v,ery r e a s o n , t o b e t h e m o r e d e -
e h o a s in stimulate, a p p r o p r i a t e , and
p r e s e r v e t o t h e m s e l v e s all t h e b n n ^ ts
of t h e home m a r k e t . They must k n ow
t h a t whatever contingfDt advantages
r e s u l t f r om t h e s t a t e of foreign markets
a r e secured to t h em by that a r t i c l e of
t h e C o n s t i t u t i o n which r e s t r a i n s COQ.
greiis f r om imposing duties on e x p o r t s.
T h e y must have p e r c e i v e d that foreign
m a r k e t s c a n n o t be a c q u i r e d o r p r e s e r v -
ed by c o e r c i o n . Their e x p e r i e n c e has
e v i n c e d t h a t t h e s e m a r k e t s a r e fluctua-t
i ng a n d uncertain, both in p e a c e and
war, and t h a t t h e sale of t h e i r most val-u
a b l e staples is daily e n c o u n t e r i n g in-c
r e a s i n g obstacles, f r om t h e c o m p e t i t i on
of rival productions and t h e r e s t r a i n t of
f o r e i g n governments. A speedy con-t
r o l a n d e x c i t e m e n t of t h e h o m e m a r k et
and a p a r t i a l d i r e c t i on of t h e s e States
t o n ew a r t i c l e s of c u l t u r e , adapted to
t h e i r soil, c l i m a t e and situation, would
s e em t o afford t h e most effectual r e m e -
dy for t h e s e evils.
But t h e condition of t h e c e n t r a l re-gions
of t h e United States, which have
b e e n r e c e n t l y s e t t l e d , ..and upon which
a g r e a t p r o p o r t i o n of o u r e n t i r e p o p u l a -
t i o n is l o c a t e d , more imperiously t h an
any other, demands the u n r e m i t t ed
vigilance of Congress. It is t h e order
of nature, that agricultural pursuits
must p r e c e d e those of a r t s a n d manu-f
a c t u r e s . To t h e former, t h e people
w e r e till lately almost exclusively di-r
e c t e d , no less by t h e liberal prices of
p r o d u c e , t h a n by t h e a m p l e supplies af-f
o r d e d by t h e i r fresh and f e r t i l e soil.—
But when they p e r c c i v e d t h e perilous
s i t u a t i o n in depending upon e x t e r n al
supplies for many of t h e necessaries
and most of t h e comforts of civilized
life, and, by efforts of unexampled en-e
r g y and intelligence, were p r e p a r i ng
t h e means of e s c a p i n g f r om danger
when c o m p l e t e success a p p e a r e d to be
a s s u r e d : — a n d when t h e y w e r e e x p e c t -
ing t o r e a l i z e t h e reward of patriotic
e x e r t i o n s , they wore attacked, under
t h e mask of p e a c e a n d friendship, b y an
enemy against whom they could make
no resistance. Their establisements
w e r e s u b v e r t e d ; t h e i r a g r i c u l t u r e not
m e r e l y depressed, but o v e r w h e l m e d;
t h e i r e n t i r e p r o p e r t y dislocated by con
fiscations, which would have disgrac*
a military c o n q u e s t ; still worse, all ^
d e s o l a t i o n was, by t b e heartless 'P®*^
who inflicted t h e i n j u r y , i m p u t e d tf ."J®
imprudeme of the sufferers, To^''"'
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