wilmington gazette x . ■ ■ , — ii ■■ i .■» ■!■! mmmtmmmmmtmet publisftef wr.f.kly by allmand hall — ■— tuesday november 6 1804 t ol till a n9 tfimr.f molls rsn dine fr the subscribers to the wilming ton gazette nre informed that on the 3 1st of december ensuing the 8th year'i subscrip tion will become due and than heir accounts will be brought up to that period and pre sented for payment those wlvt live at a distance are solicited to inclose the amount they owe which wtfl si'.brtry be mide known to them hy post after the first of january 1 80s subscrip tion to the gazette will be three dollars a year if paid in advance or fotir dollar's payable as usual ....... advertisements wi he inserted ar usual at 75 cents a square for the first week and 50 cents a square for each cominuince a discount of 25 utroenf will he made to subscribers who advertise hy tne year to those who are acquainted with the la bour and expences of newspaper priming and the present enormous ra^t of livinp in avil ; mington i would presume it inuece'ssary to j aay any thing on the propriety of this altera tion in the terms of subscription ; tb others | however it may he proper to observe tiiat i tiie present expence of printing and circula ting the gazette is at the lowest cornputa • tion 120a i hilars a year exceeding by one third its original expence which must be paid in actual cash and to meet this demand there is u subscription of but 1s00 dollars from which may be deducted at least 25 per j cunt forbad debts — hence it is evident that i the present proceeds are unequal to tf*e • imbur-*ements to sustain the gazette on such ternri9 would be unwise in its proprie tor and could not be desired by its patrons i take this opportunity to acknowledge my i self indebted to those of my subscribers and | other cmstomers who have been punctual and i honest in llieir dealings ; but 1 cannot a^ree j with a certain honorable writer,'that i am un der obligations to those who refilse to pay af i ter being indulged for several year's,or to those who under specious promises of payment ungenerously withhold from me the rewards of from three to eight years labour the iazette will he continued to its pre sent subscribers on the proposed terms un less countermanded by the first of jf.nuary next subscriptions are taken by the year only transient persons and an order to discontinue the gazette after the commence ment of a new year cannot he complied with until the end of that year all m and it all priiiting-offier nov 6 180 '■ ii *■*■■■■*■■ .'■■*"' the wi'mington subfcriptiorl h nce'5 will commence on thtirflny the 22.7 of november next f-eefir any horfe mare or gelding nt fjiowt : fl day three miie heats the bffl tw cf three — three ye old nttgt to cany 86/a ; f.ur vears old do tapfb t five years old do 114'b fix years old do liqlb ; fevtn years tld do 1 tola '; two years old do catches id day — two milt heats is nkwe tdday — one mile he ft carry ctttc'es the firfl day's pu fe h tn thirds of a f'tbf.ript'on ef about 640 dinars f the f \ cend jay's pu ft is the femd'tiiyji onet'nd ' there f ; and tli fafl ttaf'i pi'irfe or fat'ep j ji k 1 is t'ne e'dr since money of the tht et day's rat ing i uf ich is - 15 fai/.ir f r the ; fi'jl day ic hilars fat ihe yccond day and 4 djl.ri for tic 3d tliiv wilmington qcio-er jg 1804 pt the siilfcribtrs tn the twiltnhtg'sn rj.es arc inform d thai the orioihal fuh fcript'on it drpfl-d ivith the jttbfcriter for the purpift of-coldiflion 9 bi period for paying lh fm.ek.is i irrat'yylapfed — // be came due on the if inff j ' fe vol's do not wilh iheir ninvs returned to the winners l-nmediitlrly sif'er ihe rue for jit purpoje if being i gully compelled to prr f r,n a tn/itrtcl which it hey haw voluntarily enured into muff pay their fubfertptions iefo'rt that peri td : all maud if all tti/mingtth ofloter 29 1804 will be sold • . , voaes tin caun-hftufr in wilmington on fhvi-i.lay the fifteenth of november next ; a traft ot land sltjatlj on the east'side of long-creek at tl.e flndgr containing six hundred and f-hiriy-eiglit acres or thereabouts with the im provements thereon also one other tract itdj lining the aforesaid tract containing five hundrta acres or thereabouts with the improve ments t/ureun known by 1 he name of the mulber ry plantation — — also tvso fratts on the wtst side of lang-creek adjoining timothy jlludv.-c-iit f.sq'rs land containing six hun drcd and h\rty acres each 10 sati.fy sundry txexttsions in my hands against william iwud morth john allan coroner iniroi-g'in sept 7 1*04 i 2t alier ilu nature of the cafe which otis i not at all ilei'ci j even upon the peace if i 7 u 3 n - r i on any incalvrc or event fib i feqncnt thereto the convenience of thi ' belligerent powers might adopt new li mits or bellow new namfes at tiifiretioii on tcrritinic uninhabited by civilized niah but thefe new and lemporarv regulations always fubjetft to ihe mutation of fortune cannot be urged againft a definite princi pic eflablifhed upon a pre-cxillii.g llaic of i.hofe countries ; and which thofe fubfc quent changes never confiant nor confis tent in theiiifcivcs could neither alter | nor abrogate ', spain by the joint operation of i c r ! own force and our came ixi to pofleflion • ot f be whole of florida and l--m.li.akj j arcordingio its ancient limits a pai j ties in ttie war france and ihe p niter i oiates confented to hct p<r*teffiv it iiule j tfrritoties '; but that ttjwft lit neither a icr j fed the pre-e'xiftin fafli » h relation to • he original qofli-flion bv frai ct \ i.o did t prevent mpain from recti toiidat.|,ig florida wi*h louifiana ha sp**iu cho fen o to have done , thefe confederations th n lead to the true ground or i liar upon which sheet f fion of loi.ifiana was made by spain to france the terms of whuh arc iha colony nr province of lntiil.;ina with i|,i fa.ne xtcnt that it u«fti!.*llv ha in the hands i.f sp.-in at it had when fr.ttrc p'jj'.fle'dii t in fe word ii fliould h paine uly remembered are tfta nftt'dl m the ireatv of s 1 dcfcr.fo df tlie ill oc 4 o|,fr i3c concluded between spain and 1 lancf v liicli was confirmed and ctifor i d hy arotl'cr maty of ihe 2ilt of march i so i ; and uiiiier the opera ir*n f thefe.lreaiies it was lhat fiat ce transpi red ihe fovereigniy of louifiaiva to us ami in ihe ixptcfs winds " jloiiifla'i vuth the fame extent as it had whenfrance politlletl ii ii is our right lo claim and to niairitain i which y the help of god . vetrult our government are determined toilo 1 he queftion thin would fecm to bz v-haiwas the c stent of loiiifijfia whcii vtznvipjf'iffedit ? a fliall knoial.'ilge only of lie enmities and jeafoufies wj).lch prevailed tor 30 year before our revolution between vh-s rival powers of france and england is requi red to be atle to arrive at a epirect obiti-i ion oh ihis fnbjcfl the french had formed a very fplendid pro dt of empire which was to embrace the iv hole ran^e of onr welicrn lal-.es from canada to the mifliflippi the britifti perpetually ca villed at the french inroads on their terri tory ; and llieir difputcs and ftrata^e-ms to circumvent each oilier wrte incctunt until theconqueft of canada by the bri tifh annihilated ihs hopes of france iri that quarter only to leave their fucci-f fdrs in purfuit of the tjtlufions which france liaii raii'cil to captivate heir atabinon tlio i reucli dcfcriher iheir boundary of canadj hy a line drawn u ong the wd lern wafers ihtough t fie fbuih weft ang c ot lake of huron thence into michigan and thence dowr the luiho.s to lie mi hi - fi.ini 5 com-irehcudiiig all 10 the weliw.*tr<j 1 in cuna '.'. i the nejjo iations of m bnlty and mr 1 pitt ur ihis fi'hj'.c't in f]6l extiihit a^jif i pic'inrc of pciluicai wickidiu-fs ; a-i.d coiialtlerltig what has fince happened the folly ut both negocialiout — 11 i na tions ! however tl.efe documents and ihe pa pers of m vandrepft and gnvt-rnor pow al place the qiieftipn concerting r t.ftent of l iiijiana whin trance p-pffed ",'* put of all queftion , the french miniftef in hi firfl general memoir propofed that all which did not belong to canada ftiou'd appertain to louifiana and that louifiana mould be confldered at extending to the frontier of virginia the brftifli miriifler on the other hand declares he cannot fubmit to this that only what lies weft 0 the illinois biit what lies weft of the oh o fha'l be qa ! nada ! nay more that fome other conn trie as ilcfctihcd bul by the word inter mediate fhall form a neutral barrier even admiiing them to have betni pre vioniiy included in louifiana '.' the french mini'fer gave in his olti matnm on the 17th augult followed by a note on the 18'h in which he agree to the propolnion concerning a neutral intermediate territory " between canada and louifiana as alfo between w^j-a ami louiliana ," and fixes ihe boundary of louifuna at the river pcrdido thebritilh minifter however iejethit this proportion and upon this extraoiju from the aurora spanish aggressions i\o iy the feeond propofnion of the letter from madrid that spain conquered the country ealt of the mifliflippi in 1780 nd was confirmed in the pofleflion by 1 lie pence of 1783 may de admitted in i.iful ett latitude ; but what doe this y touts ; docs thin conqutft frofa the britilh bye the bje with the aid of americans hew lhat the trench did no pre iouf / poffefs that country ? doe ft prove wlnt wens or what were not the boundaries of lou ifiana under the kicncli ? in a word docs , it prove anyone lad upon which the otief tion nf the limits of louisiana at all de 1 pend } i - the rnw-'e if n aunt of ihis proportion is that an thufe countries before 1712 « sic ull r,il!cd florida 1 hat crozat i gave the name ol louifiura to part of the , country ihe limits f which r ver have n arriira'c'y ile fined tu this hour — thai fran'ce puffi-iled the countries of j lpuifiana and florida until the fecret j convention of pardo ot november 1 762 1 when fhe conveyed to spain a part of i thofe count ncs on both fid.s if ihem'ffis | 0'ipi ami that thi remainder was by the i 7'h article of the treaty ot 1 76 ceded to ! gn.,i biitain and lhat spanifh force i combined with an american foicc ex i pelted ibe britift in 1780 this is ihe whole value ofthe fijopofi ; ion it neither fuit.es limi'l nor dc tines j the extent of one or another terrifory i'i it could amount to any ibin il uot.ld a mount 10 more than is pre t-i'deil in be a j vd for while tie biiiilh poffuted the i lorida during our revolution lliry did not confine themfelves 10 ihe provincial boundaries which thev hart.orfjkifta y fijr n in 1763 but cic tended i he ir rile over the country a far as natchez antl celled iliat well fjbrida which jiad betoie been known bv tlie name ot florida in common with louifiana aid by the name ul louifiana atier il had been i&t.iedto crozat and fettled by him tlie queftion ihen wholly defer ds it'p 1 on a coiftcl examination of the import j apd value of the third proportion of the madrid latter — which is to be found more fully cxfirelted in this paragraph : " i 1700 we spam conquered from great-britain all the country eaft of the mniilfippi then d vidtd into e and vv florida which toii'miells were confirmed j to its by the definitive treaty ot peace of 1783 it is here lo be obftrved lhat weft ftoiida has ever fince retained that name and formed no part of louifuna as ori ginally ceded by ft knee to spain ; hut ha yng been conquered by the latter it re roamed a feparate government as when urder the dominion of englanil and inde pendent of louifiana in poflelhon of a governor appointed by tl.h crown who was ina curiam degree as willasthe p vtrnor cf louifiana dependant on tii go vernor of havanna thisarticle merits difcu ffiori and the firlt queftion to be examined is wheih'vr tlie incidents rd a war the capture oi a country a temporary retention am ; , f,,l f.qtieni expulliim of any power can give validity lo the a*>.*s of the invader after his exp-iwiun ? the import of the third pr pofition depends tipon the aflirm.nive but what are ihe real merit ? biitain ■ ad tuken pofleflion of the country of fltiid vvitlia view to the annoyance of spain i.ewly embaiked in the war of our reioliiiioii and 10 create fuch adiverfion ot our force on the fotnh as would wea ken our refinance towards the centre ol ihe union spain had wilh us then a common inicrtlt ; he had cuba anil her part of st domingo to protedt againft fhe cruizers of ihe britifh which hovered in the bays of apalachee and mobile ; ffi e had to protect her frontier of mexico from britifh ambjtion ; and we had toco operaie in ftlf defence wiifi sin ally be come of fame importance tons fioin the hi'flility which the had experienced from our common enemy by common ef forts we fucceeded and it no longer be came a coifideraiion whether the conve nience which had dictated the peace of 63 and the fecret ctflion of 1762 till prevail ed or not ; it was not tor the name of the country but its poluliion theoufting i of he britifh was made ; and that the j country fliould during the remainder of i the war do no more than adopt rhe fyf i tern of governmciu ptactilcd by iheir pre | deccftors was in the ordinary nature of . things fo ucfettlcd that the peace of 1783 transferred the i florida to spain we apprehend does bo t i allmandhall has tor sale tke rollowinc books & stationary wilmington nov 6 180-t hutton's logari-thsms — — ■— conn sections simpson do , ,, elements of euclid reid's essays on the intellectual and active powers of man stewart's elements of the philosophy or the human mind ■ priestley's lectures on history and general polity golaj.ui'li'sxxtural history f.ordan's tistoiyol'tlie vneiicanrevolution jefferson's notes on virginia the life of hubert lord dive zimmerman on solitude oldca-ulc a remarks on the kworjr of eng iund ; 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