NO. 13. VOL. 1.] ASHINGTON, ATURDAY, MAY 25, 1816. [WHOLE NO. 13. PUBLISHED WE.KLY, BY JOEL K. MAD, AT FIVE DOLLARS PER ANNUM. What is now to be done! The fly. has exhausted WHAT AN ORATOR IS NOT. all his rhetoric before; his tropes, and his figures, We have endeavoured, in the sketch hereto- and his warmth, and his theatrical attitudes will fore given of the character of Mr. Dexter, to ex now avail him nothing-further than he has gone plain what we think an orator is: we shall now he is incapable of going; and the jury, if they are endeavour to show what an orator is not. And to take him for a guide, must believe that there here it becomes necessary to distinguish this cha- is no difference between the life of a fly, and the racter from that of a SELF-EXHIBITOR. The latter life of a man. This is called oratory-this is called animal is one, and many such of his species there enlisting the passions in the service of the client; are, who, either on the stage, at the bar, or in while the poor bewildered jury, astonished at the pulpit, is continually forsaking his assumed such an uproar, have forgotten, not only the case, character, his client, or the Deity, for the exhi- but the very names of the parties. We should bition of himself alone. If he is engaged as coun- laugh at Mr. Boscoe, who was both a lawyer and sel at the bar, he considers the facts and circum- a poet, if when he was engaged as counsel at the stances of the case as no otherwise important, bar, he should read a poem of his own composi than as they tend to his individual admiration. tion, instead of undertaking the cause of his To obtain this object, he loads all his ideas with client. This is not travelling out of the way more, metaphoric dialect; he affects a turgid, tempes- than it is to make the cause of the client subsituous, and unnatural warmth; he falls into a pa- diary only to the purpose of self-exhibition. Deroxysm of passion; he brow-beats a modest an- clarations of the speaker's sense of his own intagonist, when the question in controversy may be capacity to address an audience so enlightened, of no more value than a horse shoe. The jury all apologies for his failures in doing justice to his the time are staring with astonishment, and inquir- subject, protestations of his timidity and embar ing what all this unnatural indignation is about. || rassment, of which neither the orator nor the They have utterly forgotten the case, the law, audience believe one word, are but all parts of and the evidence, and are gravely philosophizing the same dirty and grovelling ambition for the on the point, how such a trifling matter can exhibition of self, at the sacrifice of truth, honour, possibly create such a tempest of indignation: dignity, and justice. Such paltry artifices are they are utterly confounded to hear the tolling of only designed ad captandum vulgus, and are toa bell for the funeral of a fly. But the self-exhi-tally beneath the simple but sublime majesty of bitor is forewarned and forearmed on this point: eloquence. Mr. Russel, the Minister of the Unithe stands prepared to prove that the life of this || ed States at the court of Sweden, once declared, insect is of the greatest consequence. He is ready "that no man could tell his audience that he was to show, by a host of authorities, that if a pre- || modest, without possessing an unusual stock of cedent is established by such a decision as would impudence." The passions of man were never put in jeopardy the existence of a fly, it may be made to be hauled into the service of the speaker extended to the human race. Flies and men are with the same rough and boistrous drudgery that frangible creatures, beings of an hour, liable equal- a sailor hoists an anchor. Like the muses, they ly to the devastations of accident, and equally are delicate damsels-they steal into the prethe subject of the grim king of terrors. The sence with a light and delicate foot; but when jury are, therefore, pathetically implored, by the they are seized with the rude familiarity of a love which they bear to their families and friends, Jack-tar, they vanish from the grasp. Much has to save the life of this buzzing insect from de- been said and much written on the subject of struction. This may be called caricature; but eloquence, and particular characters recommendit is not-it is only a practical illustration of the ed for the imitation of an orator. This pernicious self-exhibitor. The animal endeavours to show | advice we conceive to have been the reason why himself; to astonish the jury by what is called and we see so much more affectation, than oratory. falsely denominated, eloquence; to display a zeal A man studies to be something besides himself— and enthusiasm beyond his subject: and this is neither his language, his gestures, his tones, or all that he is thinking about. Now we will sup- even his feelings are his own: they are all the pose that this self-exhibitor is actually engaged as property of another man. The direct and inevitcounsel for a man in a case of life and death.- able consequence of all this is, that the speaker - play's his part with the most ridiculous success; he burlesques his own character, while he caricatures that of another man. In a case where, of all things, affectation is the most to be avoided, our candidate for fame studies to obtain nothing se. TRIBUTE OF GRATITUDE. and sword is executed in a very superior style, by Messrs. Fletcher and Gardiner, of Philadelphia. On Saturday, as previously arranged, the committee proceeded to Fort MHenry, where Col. Armistead still commands and resides, and where Lieut. Webster, being in Baltimore, was requested to attend. Lieut. Newcomb, being at a distance from this city, could not be present at the ceremony. All the military officers and volunteers who had assisted in the defence of the forts, and were at the time in Baltimore, and the citizens who had subscribed the fund for the occasion were invited to witness the delivery of the presents. A number of the citizens of Baltimore, being desirous of presenting some testimony of their gratitude to the brave and vigilant officer who The same flag was displayed which had waved commanded at Fort M'Henry, during the attack during the bombardment, exhibiting, as honourof the British forces in September, 1814, having || able wounds, the rents which it had received from met for that purpose, resolved, that an elegant the fragments of a shell in that time of peril. At piece or service of plate should be presented to 12 o'clock the plate was presented to Col. ArmisLieut. Col. George Armistead; and also, that an tead, with the following address: elegant sword should be presented to Lieut. New- SIR,-The citizens of Baltimore having seen comb, of the United States navy, who had the the great preparations of the enemy to attack the command of Fort Covington, and another to Lieut. city, and being aware that its safety depended, in Webster, of the flotilla, who commanded at the a considerable degree, on the defence of Fort six gun Battery at the same period; the form of M'Henry, viewed with the greatest anxiety the the plate, its devices and inscriptions, and the in-bombardment of that place during the whole of scriptions on the swords, to be such as should be that day, and through the succeeding night of the approved of and adopted by a committee of five 14th of September, 1814: impressed with the gentlemen, who were appointed to carry the re- most lively sentiments of gratitude to you and the solutions into effect. brave garrison under your command, they apThe design for the plate adopted by the com-pointed us a committee to procure and present to mittee as most appropriate, was a vase of the shape and size of the largest bomb thrown by the enemy into Fort M'Henry during the bombardment, being thirteen inches in diameter, supported by four eagles with wings expanded; on one part of the vase is represented a perspective view of the bombardment, the fort with the enemy's ships and bomb vessels arranged in front of it, the "star spangled banner" flying, and the course of the bombs falling whole or in fragments over the fort. The edge of this perspective view is ornamented with appropriate military and naval emblems and devices. "Presented by a number of citizens of Baltimore to Lieut. Col. George Armistead, for his gallant and successful defence of Fort M'Henry during the bombardment by a large British force, on the 13th and 14th September, 1814, when upwards nf 1,500 shells were thrown, 400 of which fell within the area of the Fort, and some of them of the diameter of this Vase." The lid of the vase, forming a part of the globe, is a frustum of about one fourth of its diameter; and the feet of the base, on which the eagles stand supporting the globe, represent a lion's claws. The vase was accompanied by silver canns and ladle, and the whole placed on a large silver stand or tray. you some testimonial of the admiration with which they viewed this gallant and successful defence.In discharging this duty, the committee feel the greatest satisfaction in now presenting to you a piece of plate, bearing an allusion, in its form and devices, to the bombardment; and they beg you to accept it, in the name of the citizens of Balti more. We feel great pleasure in reflecting, that the defence of Fort M'Henry by your brave garrison will long be remembered, and will hereafter have a happy influence in exciting others to imitate their example. The committee beg you to accept the assurance of their highest personal regard, and to assure you of their best wishes for your health and happiness. JOHN E. HOWARD, To Lieut. Col. Armistead. SIR,- The citizens of Baltimore, with the most lively sentiments of gratitude to you and the brave men under your command, during the attack of September, 1814, appointed us a committee to the British on this city, on the 13th and 14th of present you some testimony of it, for your gallant and successful defence of the Six Gun Battery. sincere pleasure in now presenting you with a The committee, in discharging this duty, have sword, bearing an inscription commemorative of the event for which it is presented, and beg your acceptance of it, in the name of the citizens of Baltimore. In common with our fellow citizens, we have pleasure in remembrance of your gallant conduct, and hope it will have a happy influence on others similarly situated, to follow so excellent an example. The committee tender you the assurance of their highest personal regard, and of their best wishes for your health and happiness. JOHN E. HOWARD, ROBERT GILMOR, Jr. To Lieutenant Webster. merchandise imported into the British West-India Islands, or any of them, from the United States, or from colonics in America owned by other forein European powers; and likewise as to the duties on imports and exports to which vessels of the United States are subject in the ports of the British East Indies; has the honour to state, that as the information received by the department, on the subject of the inquiries, since the peace, from public agents, has been very defective, he We should gladly publish the reply of Col. has been under the necessity of resorting to the Armistead and Lieut. Webster to the committee, collectors of the customs, and other respectable if our limits would permit. The City Council sources, within the reach of the department, to have passed resolutions authorizing and directing enable him to comply with the call of the house, the Mayor and the Presidents of the two branches, which produced inevitable delay in making this in the name of the City of Baltimore, to request report. He begs leave further to state, that the Maj. Gen. Samuel Smith, Brig. Gen Stricker, and accompanying tables, numbered 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and Lieut. Col. George Armistead, to sit for their re6, embrace all the information that he has been spective portraits before such artists as may be de-able to obtain relative to the objects of the resosignated, and cause those portraits to be preserved in the chamber of the first branch until a suitable building is procured, or erected, for the accommodation of the corporation. Resolutions of thanks to Gen. Wm. H. Winder and Com. John Rodgers, for their services in the defence of Baltimore, have been also voted by the City Council, and addressed to them by the Mayor. Honour to the brave. lution. It is believed that it is substantially correct, though less particular and precise than might be wished. From these tables it will be seen that the vessels of the United States are excluded from all participation in the trade, by sea, of the provincial or colonial possessions of Great Britain, in America, with the exception of Bermuda and the Bahama Islands, where they are restricted to a very limited commerce, particularly designated in the table numbered 4. It will be moreover The legislature of Delaware have presented seen, that this trade is confined exclusively to Com. Macdonough, an elegant tea service of plate, British vessels, and in most instances to British with suitable devices and inscriptions, and an ele-merchants, and articles of minor value, as regant sword, as a mark of admiration for his gallantry in the battle of Lake Champlain. His trait has also been taken by order of the legislature. The expense incurred by the committee in obtaining the above, was $819 62. por "Honour to whom honour is due." A valuable and very elegant TIME PIECE, of exquisite workmanship, embracing a statute and likeness of the immortal Washington, was lately presented by David Sears and John Parker, Esqrs. of Boston, to his excellency CALEB STRONG, as a testimony for their high respect for the patriot and statesman, who has, during his administration over our State affairs, so wisely imitated the virtues and examples of the man who was "the first in peace, the first in war, and first in the hearts of his countrymen."-Hampshire Gaz. PUBLIC DOCUMENTS. IMPORTS AND EXPORTS. Interesting Message from the President of the I transmit to the House of Representatives a report from the Secretary of State, complying with the resolution of the 17th of February last. JAMES MADISON. April 18, 1816. REPORT. The Secretary of State, to whom was referred the resolution of the House of Representatives, requesting the President to cause to be laid before that house information relative to the duties laid on articles imported from the United States into the British provinces of Canada, Nova Scotia, and New-Brunswick, relative to the duties on articles exported to the United States from the said provinces; the duties laid on goods, wares, and spects both imports and exports. Whether, under the existing regulations in Canada, that trade by inland navigation between the United States and those provinces is confined to British vessels, is not distinctly understood. Respectfully submitted, JAMES MONROE. Department of State, April 17, 1816. No. 1. Information relative to the Duties laid on Articles imported from the United States into the British Province of Canada. On the 29th of May, 1815, the intercourse between the United States and Canada was regulated by an order in council in Canada at that date. This order directs, "That duties shall be paid and collected on all goods and commodities imported from the United States, agreeably to the following tariff, viz. "All kinds of wood and lumber, seeds and Spermaceti, tallow or part wax, 2d. do. Paper of all kinds, 27 1-2 do. Leather, including all hides or skins, tanned or Shoes and gloves of all kinds, 32 1-2 do. Spirits, of American manufacture, 3s. per gallon. No. 2. is nearly all drawn back when the goods are exported to the United States. There are a few articles, however, which are an exception to this rule: rum, if imported into the colony, being to the amount of two thirds of its value, bought with the produce of the colony, pays 20 per cent. and has a drawback of 18. Rum otherwise bought pays 25 per cent. and has a drawback of 22 per cent. Sugar, if purchased as the first mentioned rum, pays 70 per cent. and has a drawback of 59 per cent. All other sugar pays 120 per cent. and It is understood that this tariff of duties was to continue until April, 1815. It is now stated || that the above order in council is no longer in || has a drawback of 109 per cent. Coffee, if purforce; and that the produce and manufactures of chased also to the amount of two thirds of its foreign countries are not admitted into Canada value, with the produce of the colony, pays 2 from the United States; and that all manufactures cents per pound, and has a drawback of 2 cents. or produce of the United States which are admit- Other coffee pays 4 cents, and has a drawback of ed, except provisions, pay a duty of thirty-three 3 cents 9 2-3 mills. Molasses pays 2 cents per and one third per centum. gallon, and has a drawback of 3 1-3 mills. Wines pay 40 cents per gallon, and have a drawback of 34 cents. Gin pays 34 cents per gallon, and has a drawback of 29 cents. Brandy the same duty and drawback. There is, besides, what is called a king's duty on wine from the islands, of 15 dollars per pipe, and from Great Britain and ports in the Mediterranean not French, of 244 cents per pipe. In the year 1815, the government of Nova Scotia laid a duty of a dollar per ton on plaster of Paris landed to the northward and westward of Cape Cod. Recently, a duty of 4 dollars per ton has been imposed by the government of New-Brunswick on plaster of Paris land Information relative to the Duties laid on Articles free. -- Note.-No American vessel is now admitted into Nova Scotia or New-Brunswick. The go-ed in the United States north of Cape Cod. vernors of New-Brunswick and Nova Scotia are empowered to permit the introduction into those colonies, by proclamation, of certain articles.— Such proclamations have been always issued every three months: the last was issued on the 6th February, 1816, aud authorizes British subjects to import into Nova Scotia and New-Brunswick, from the United States, in British built ships or vessels, owned and navigated agreeably to the laws of Great Britain, for the space of three months from the date, the articles mentioned in the preceding table. No. 4. Information relative to Duties laid on Gootts, Wares, Tobago. Note.-Where, in this table, an article of import is stated as "not admitted," it is an inference drawn from the absence of that article in the list of articles admitted. Jamaica. 25 cts. per hundred lbs. 100 cts. per 100 lbs. 100 cts. per 100 lbs. 12 1-2 cts. per bushel: Beans, not admitted. 50 cts. per cwt. 200 cts. per bbl. do. do. do. 100 cts. per bbl. 83 1-3 cts. per 1000. do. Dried and smoked herring, Tongues and sounds, Plaster of Paris, per ton, $1.00 $4.00 Vote. The preceding are the principal articles which are the growth, produce, or manufac ture of Nova Scotia and New-Brunswick, and which are exported from those colonies to the United States. All articles are permitted to be exported thence to the United States, except saltpetre and munitions of war. For the articles exported, which are the products of Great Britain or her other colonies, there is a duty imposed, on their importation into the provinces of Nova Scotia and New-Brunswick, of five per cent. which The imports into the United States from Canada are not very great now, it being cheaper to mport directly from Great Britain. || Horses, neat cattle, and other live stock, 10 per ct. ad val. 25 cts. per bushel. 10 per ct. on the value at the place of importation. Indian corn, 12 1-2 cts. per bushel. 100 cts. per 100 lbs. Rice, 38 cts. per 100 lbs. neat. Rye, not admitted. 12 cts. per bushel. Shingles, not more than 12 inch, "Boston chips," 50 cts. per 1,000. Shingles, more than 12 inch, 100 cts. per 1,000. 100 cts. per 1,000. Staves, red oak, 300 cts. per 1,000 p's. 200 cts. per 1,000. 225 cts. pr. 1,000 pieces. Timber, 450 cts. per 100 ft. At present vessels of the United States are not allowed to import into the island of Tobago any kind of merchandise whatever, nor to go there in ballast and bring away cargoes of any sort. Lumber and provisions have been recently permitted to be imported into Antigua, from the United States, in British vessels. live stock. Fish of all kinds, oil, and the produce of Great Britain can be exported from Newfoundland, into the United States in British vessels only. No. 5. Information relative to Duties laid on Goods, Wares, and Merchandise imported into the British WestIndia Islands, or any of them, from the United States, through Colonies in America, owned by other foreign European Powers, &c. The information received in relation to this point leads to the general impression, that the importation of the products of the United States into the British West-Indies, from other foreign colonies in that quarter, is not at this time allowed. As far as it regards the island of Jamaica, it has been distinctly stated from authentic sources that the governor's proclamation, permitting the importation of the productions of the United States from the Spanish, or other neutral colonies, having expired on the 30th of November last, the importation is prohibited in any other than a direct manner, & that, as will be seen in table No, 3, must be in British vessels only. When the products of the United States were admitted from the other European colonies in America, and Jamaica, the duties were the same as if they had been imported direct from the United States. As to duties laid in the British West-India islands, on goods, wares, and merchandise, other than those of the United States, when imported from colonies in America owned by other foreign European powers, the department of state is not furnished with any information. Information as to the Duties on Imports and Exports The articles usually imported in- Generally speaking, since the peace, vessels of the United States have been prohibited an entry at all into the British West-India Islands. Into Bermuda, which, strictly speaking, is not regarded as one of the West-Indies, vessels of the United States may carry flour, rice, corn, and lumber, upon paying a duty of five and a half per cent. rum, sugar, molasses, and salt, may be exported on paying a duty of five per cent. charges, about 20 dollars. No tonnage or light money. But Bermuda is a mere place of entrepot,|| at which the United States have little or no trade. From the Bahamas, American vessels were, by proclamation of the governor, on the 5th of April last, excluded, unless they resorted to the ports of these islands in ballast, for the purpose of loading with salt; in that case they are required to pay a king's tonnage of two shillings and sis pence sterling per ton, and a colonial tonnage of twenty cents per ton: also, an export duty of a half penny sterling on each bushel of salt. At this time, no kind of salted provisions is permitted to an entry in the Bahamas from the United States. Flour and corn pay no duty. Rice, bread, peas, and lumber, pay a duty of five per cent. if from the United States. There is no export duty on articles exported in British vessels, excepting Brazilletto, which pays one dollar and twenty-five cents per ton. As to the Newfoundland trade, it may be proper to mention, that it is understood to be restricted to the colonies and the mother country by act of parliament, but that licenses are granted by the king's council in Great Britain, permitting certain persons in certain British vessels, to be named in the license, to import into the colony, direct from the United States, bread, flour, corn, rice, and || Naval stores, spars, and wines, which pay Duties. 25 cts. per gal. 20 per ct. ad. val. Note. The preceding particulars have been communicated from one source; from another, a general remark has been made, that all articles from the United States imported into Bengal, are subject to 20 per centum duty, except naval stores, which pay 10 per centum. This duty is paid on a valuation of the articles as they are landed from the vessels. The duty on tonnage is not precisely known. On one hand, it is represented to be not exceeding one per centum on the value of the vessel; on the other, it is said American vessels pay more than double the duties that the English do, both on imports and exports, and double pilotage; and that the British ships in the East-India colonies have an advantage over those of the United States of at least 10 per centum on imports and exports. On the 15th of last September, it is said, new regulations with regard to duties on imports and exports were published in Calcutta, which places British vessels on a still more favourable footing than they were before, compared with foreign vessels. The port charges are alleged to be very expensive at Calcutta, amounting to about two and a half per centum on the articles exported from thence to the United States, exclusive of brokerage and commission, which |