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Federal Gazette & Baltimore Daily Advertiser 1807/07-1807/12 msa_sc3722_2_6_2-0599 Enlarge and print image (5M) |
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HCTAL AGENCY.
Nan*'/,, Oct..30th 180I.
n Commercial Agent of the
e'e at Nautz, to the Ameri
and supercargoes now in this
—I have the honor to inform
. d ly received a lelter from his
je.ieral Arm>trong ministei
y of ths United States at Pa-
he Reiterates his advice, that
M. shipping in this port should
larinru before art a«owed ru^-
eat Britain should take place,
•rations will be made of this
te who may wish it, at the pf-
'ommercial Agent of the U.
Stc.
\V. D. PATTERSON.
so—
any
sylvaniaus
inhabits
¦
kcoi«^
x-«
-s* -
LooV
-ADELPHIA, Dec. 22.
brig Agnes, West, Boston,
., 9 days ; Pilot, Brown, Port-
hr. Nancy, Allen, Newbedford,
-a Adeline, Lyons, Savannah,
3tton 8.
— Brig Eliza, Gilford, Guada-
ft~m-3v Erect, Lake, Curiacoa ; Lt-
7^r is, Norfolk ; Betsey, Baxter,
cjyn--
'or the Federal Gazette.
EWES,
r under the signature of " Fair
i undertaken to remark freely on
_- jtighed "A FaWner,*' published in
fc^-v- ill Gazette oi the 10th instant, on
<=. <-; t of the new road proposed to be
¦x from Wiley's, on the Pennsylvania
^^ S-^chnuick's (late Towson's) tavern,
, ^j. ~%^" tjrk turnpike. Fair Play very art-
's. l,-«« , *>\^-\<3.*-^s tl e commissioners in front and
* v w" _^t»tr*e-s that the Parmer's intention was
infill '^^ those gentlemen. This bold strike
¦*^* v» not avail him. Nothing is farther
^^^^H ••-*-. «e- Farmers' wish than to wantonly
^3, ,_. _"ther of their feelings ; and at the
— *• he hopes that a statement of facts
be deemed offensive - This right
; ises out of the proceedings of the
not
^^^^^_ tiif
s .,11 "
J V '
n
TP*-* , ' t^j, <_ -. 1 c- 1 at \ssi nibly ; they Certal:ly never
Is*5* * ^ tli e IocaYiori by those gentlemen to be
t r,^l canvassed and ratified by the present
^^^^^B •» or- ; eon'Sequenljly, free discussion,
as il is decent, imv-t be advistable.
*T' . ', ,- t:1r> is impression the Farmer has already
' L^- _ ome remarks, which Fair Play has
. ,!-» rntans obviated, excepting wtiere be
*>^ _ t.1' a' ;»'e new r°td from Britten's to
^*7^ .,, viok's " tioess not go over the high
IT-* . ,,,1 m. lich Mr. M'Mechin lives'.'- this is
- .j.».f-i cxp ; but as he immediately acknow-
&• ^j •£-*»& rhat it runs some distance from the
i- ill. and as that distance i? to the
S-3
to
and as
westward" of the Vtraight line from
s to Schmuck's, he gains no advan-
aid VV,^rd of it, thus increasing the distance
tfie-
-___
ti,.;^^^^^^^^^^—, After attempting
^. _*"V>e»"=»uade the r*ommissioners to take of-
t ,iice where none has been designed, Fair
p>.,y t»egins a formal statement respecting
^ e^r location for the joint purposes of res-
„jng their charactersand '' that the subject
"-e understood." First, he ::ays, tht
issioners have laid the road on the
that the overshot road was to have
" from Button's to Schmuck's."
t Overshot road is said to have
Columbians and all between them and Wil-
son's must g9 to the westward of Mr. M'Me-
chin's house on. their was to SladvY. be it
but then Fair Play mast not insist on
benefit which the Columbians, Penu
and Harford county farmers, or
nts of Old Town, are to derive from
road passing by Britton'v, from Wiley's
to Schmuck's ; this is too bare-faced an as-
sertion and the members froiollarf.nai as
well as the Baltirnire city and connty'rhem-
bers Vre hereby p.t on their guard against
it. A very little attention to the following
observations will make this clear to every
one. The commissioners having determined
to include Slade's tavern in their new road
from Wiley's to Schmuck's, the sole questi-
on then is, which is the best and nearest,
and then the cheapest route from Slade's to
Schmuck's. The present road from Slade's
to Schmuck's, passing over Meredith's Ford,
is as short, if not shorter, than the new one
now proposed ; but if straightened, as it is
capable of being, would be considerably
nearer and better than the new one ; and in
point of expence, will bear no comparison.
It would not take one third of the money
to straighten and improve it by Meredith's
that the road by Britton's mills must take ;
besides which, no bridge is necessary at
Meredith's : it is without exception the best
and safest ford over the Great Falls of Gnu-
powder, and most seldom impassable from
freshes ef any other ford over that stream.
How then can Fair Play venture to say that
such numerous and vast interests are con-
cerned in having the road carried to Brit ton's
mills I Wlffch ever road is adopted, the pro-
duce carried on it must reach Schmuck's,
and be thence carried on the York turnpike
through Old Town to the city of Baltimore.
If then dtstance has any thing to do with
it, and it certainly has. Meredith's Ford
ought to be preferred ; and saving unnecessary
public chnrges is certainly proper. The road
by Britton's will not admit of shutting up
the old road. Fair Play says, " there is no
intention of stopping up the road by Mere
dith's :" Why not straighten it then, and
let this one road answer all pubic purposes,
for which it is in every reasonable point of
view the most fit ? Fair Play observes just-
ly .that " it is fortunate that one gentleman,
a member of the house of delegates,lives near
the said route, & will state facts asthey are "
—He well knows ho extremely anxious all
those who are interested in a road from
Bntton's to Schmuck's hare been for a long
time past, to have it carried through the
lands of Messrs, R'dgely and Stansbury, and
so on to Schmuck's, far to the eastward of
Mr. M'Mechen's house, and perhaps maybe
able to account for their pesent change of
sentiment when they now declare, that the
route by the Overshot and to the westward
of M'Mechin's house is the best. ' Fair
Play" has another just observation, viz :—
" It is a great mtsiortune that these small
" partialities do very great mischef, and
" mole hills are turned into mountains, for
" the purpose of misinforming the Legisla-
ture." It is a pity he hasnot been guided by
this sentiment. The Farmer begs leave to
add his lamentations to those of Fair Play.
" Fair Play" gives a grand and intcrest-
FEDERAL GAZETTE.
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 23..
cornr*
«. n^ route
^.e.n laid on
___»X,lair same ~--------.^^^^
n old county road, which having been
tly " turned, at last became neglected
useless." It must seem extiaoruinary
that such a piece of ground should
liiive been chosen by the commissioners,
v^toicri must be supposed to have become
it jie-grlected and us, le.-s," from its unfitness
public road. How can it. be accounted
bee"
fr't-aoeni
a nil
for
t nat
such continued anxiety should have
to obtain a
ck's, if it is
" that the opening
lot road by the present, com
discovered by Mr. BntM'i
froffl Ins mills to Schm
as Fair Play says,
said Ovt
ill be a great saving to the
^^^^^™ ' hbor-
for,
been
react
ti lie.
j-^i-isioners .^_________
county, and accommodate a great nejg]
j^ood °f farmers." Can this be credible,
-svln-n the s;;.; road, th ogb so much wanted.
Ji3-- ¦-' <'> •'if. red to I'e'•tinned and neglected
t;ii u.-,. 1 ¦->,"' though ¦' a county road," too ;
^.ncl when too it is an. indubitable fact, that
jticl>arn Briton, so far Jiom thinking the
Vi-tr-sent location the be?t, has foi a conside
tabl< length of time left no stone unturned
%o open a road down along the Falls, from
•jiis mills passing by Mr Merrynian's Distil-
!',.iy, and thence through the lands of Messrs.
jViclgely, Sianshnry, and M'Mechin, far to
the eastward of the last gentlernafe's house
to' Schmuck's ? Is not this proof positive,
that the present location is not on the best
possible ground from Button's to Schmuck's?
\V ill Fair Play deny, that Richard Britten
did give a decided preference to the route
'till so warmly opposed hy
by the distillery, 'till so warmly opposeu uy
the proprietors of the land, that all hopes
were lost of effecting it ? The commission*
ay bs ignorant of this fact, though it
notorious ; but they cannot have that
era
thorough knowledge of the grounds be
tween Wiley's and Schmuch's, imputed to
them by Fair Play, as they did not
t'md this out ; especially too, as they were
daily attended by many who were well ac-
quainted with tv.'iy inch of the ground,
and had a great desire for a road on that
direction. But notwithstanding all this,
Fair Play, in speaking of the new road,
says, " as far as Britton's mill there is no
objection ;" that is, from Schmuck's to
Britton's ; and also, " it is the most conve-
jeient way they could run from Towsons,
(Schmuck's) to Brittdn's !" This etatement,
¦which is founded on facts, gives good rea-
smito believe that the location from Britton's
to "Schmuck's is not on the best possible
ground that might have been had, and this
•was well known to many who were deeply
interested in the new ro?,d and were dally
•with the commissioners. But perhaps to
save expence, or to obtain consent of par-
ties, the commissioners have thus acted.--
This cannot be admitted without in some
measure giving up one of the most ostensi-
ble grounds 011 which the opening of the
road is founded, the encouragement of the
Columbia trade by a road over the best and
nearest possible ground. It has been iully
•ascertained that the road by Merrynian's
distillery would have been intinitely prefer-
¦*d, if three individuals would have consent-
#d. The commirtioners undoubtedly had
authority to have located the road there if
they had thought proper ; but for consent
-of parties and from economical yi»ws the
ing display of the various publick conveni-
ences erected and to be erected at Mr. Brit-
ton's.—And he at the same time acknow-
ledges that the consent of the levy couit and
ot the proprietors of the lands adjacent to
the old county road, called the Overshot,
has been already obtained to have the said
road viewed, straightened and widened, and
further, that no one has objected to it. Mr.
Britton cannot want the new road by his
works for an outlet to Schmuck's, as this is
the very ground on which the commissorrers
have laid it, and it can hardly be thought
proper to force the York, Lancaster and
Harford trade over a toll or county bridge,
and at an increase of expence and distance,
when probably the present outlets from the
road by Meredith's from Slade's,will furnish
the works with sufficient employment, when
added to that which will be carried from the
" great neighbourhood of farmers," which
F-air Play says, will be accommodated by the
Overshot road. Fair Flay says, four miles
are saved from Wiley's to Schmucks by the
new road ; admitted—but they arc saved en-
tirely bet.' cen Slade's and Wiley's. The
route by Briton's from Slade's to Schmucks,
is not much, if any, nearer than that from
Slade's by Meredith's Ford, and if the latter
was straightened it would be considerably
the shortest—and remember, Fair Play a
bridge whether toll or county, would be en-
tirely out of the question.
Thus all Fair Play's fal lal about people
from Y>>rk, and roads to Wright's ferry, on
Susquehanna, falls to theground. It is there-
fore to be hoped, that the Legislature will
think it necessary, to furnish all those whom
Fair Flay has declared to, be so deeply inte-
rested in the route by Britton's works, v. ith
a far shorteravid safer road, by straightening
the road fr«m Slade's to Schmuck's, by Me-
redith's. Sound policy and ceconomy unite,
in such a measure. The route by Meredith's
will answer every publick purpose by itself ;
whereas, if that by Britton's is adopted, that
by Meredith's must still be kept open. But
if individual interest is to have any weight
on this question, it may fairly be asked,
why several individual interests are to be sa
crificed to benefit one ?
A FARMER.
CC? We issue the Gazette at a>i early hour,
on account of the important news from tlie
seat of government. Advertisements dmited,
will be attended to to-morrow.
CONGUESS.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
{TAKES for the FEDERAL GAZETTE.]
Washington, December 32.
Proceedings this day.
The doors of the house were opened this
morning about half after 11 o'clock ; but
a message was soon afterwards received re-
received from the senate, and they were
again closed for a few minutes. When they
were again opened, the house proceeded to
consider the bill making further appropriati-
ons for the fortification of our ports and har-
bors as reported by the committee of the
whole. Mr. Masters moved that the bill be
again committed to a committee of the
whole for the purpose of striking out " one
million" (appropriated by the bill) and in-
serting fifteen hundred thousand dollars,
Mr. Masters spoke at some length in favor
of the motion. The question was taken on
it by ayes and noes, and it was lost, ayes
35, noes 79. :
The question was then about to be taken
on agreeing to the bill as reported by the
committee of the whole, when Mr. Bacon
remarked that he had a Secret Communicati-
on to lay before the house, and wished the
galleries to be cleared, and the doors to be
closed, which was accordingly done.
The doors were opened in a few minutes,
and the fortification bill was again taken up.
Mr. Cook spoke at considerable length in
favor of larger appropriations. Mr. Sloan
made some humourous remarks in reply to
Mr. Cook ; when the question was taken on
the appropriation of one million for the re-
pair and building of fortifications, and un-
animous!* agreed to.
The bill was then ordered to be read a
third time to-day.
Mi. Thomas reported "a bill supplementary
to the act entitled an act, regulating the
grants of lands, appropriated for the relief
of the relngves from the British provinces
of Canada and Nova-Scotia," which was
read twice and referred to a committee or'thc-
whole to-iiiouow.
Mr. Crowninshield said, that it would be
acknowledged by all, that a prompt com-
munication along our coasts, and from dif
ferertt parts of the interior, would be ex-
tremely advantageous. For this purpose, he
would oiler a resolution for the establishment
of tc/egra/ihs. Their utility had been ex-
perienced in France, Spain and England ;
and he believed that by means of them in
formation might be conveyed from that
house to New-York in four hours. He tho't atieiicTarice
the house could not at this time go into a
more important measure, lie therefore sub-
mitted the following resolution : Resolved,
That it is expedient to authorize the presi- I
dent of the United States to establish tele- '
graphs along the coasts and in such other
situations of the United States as he may
think pioper. Referred to a committee of
the whole tomorrow.
Another confidential message
was received from the senate,
and the doors were again clos-
ed, and remained so until 3
o'clock, when the house, ad^
jouined.
The injunction of Secrecy was
this 'day taken off, and it is
ascertained, that the subject
discussed with closed doors,
was, " A bill laying an Em-
bargo on all ships and vessels
in the ports and harbors df the
United Statej." This bill pas-
sed in the 'home, ayes 82,
noes 44, It.has also p:\ssed
the Senate-, yeas 22, noes 6 ;
and has been signed by the
President. It is therefore A
LAW.
Mr. Cook, from the committee of i7, ap-
pointed to inquire " whether any, and if
any, what description of claims against the
U. S. are now barred by the statute of limi-
tation, which in reason and justice ought
to be provided for by law," reported " a bill
making provision ior extinguishing the
debts due from the U. States," which was
made the order of the day for Monday
next.
AN ACT
Laying an embargo |