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Newspaper
Augusta Chronicle
Location
Augusta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1806
Page
6
Solon denounces Hamiltonian debt doctrine as public blessing and urges voters to reject candidates who pander for favors in elections. He attacks self serving tactics and warns that debt policy reflects true interests, calling for integrity in public conduct and leadership.
The text outlines federal appropriations including 2400 dollars for Hamet Caramalli relief under presidential direction, navy expenditures for 1806 covering pay provisions medicines and stores, and additional sums for Capitol completion and various treaties with Native tribes and relations with Creek and Cherokee nations. It also notes an August 23 Boston dispatch about Paris missions and Spain’s possible cessions.
For ordnance, fifty thousand dollars. For completing the marine barracks, at the city of Washington, three thousand five hundred dollars. Sec. 2. And be it farther enacted That the several ruins herein specifically appropriated shall be paid out of any monies in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. Smith, President of the Senate, pr etem, Approved, April 1806. Th: Jefferson.
A letter from a respectable Hamburg house transmitted a article said to be communicated by the French minister in that city. It outlines expected changes on the continent as of July 2 in London.
A proposed constitutional reorganization would expand Bavaria Wirtemberg Baden and other districts into a Rhine spanning federation under French protection. Switzerland would be split with Baden Italy and France each getting a third. Denmark and Sweden would be excluded from German deliberations while Pommerania and Mecklenburg may join Prussia alongside Austria. The German Emperor would abdicate the imperial title, ruling only his own realms.
The text describes Hamburg, Fay, Hofsein, Bremen and Lubeck forming a federative state under France with the Emperor enjoying sovereignty. Inhabitants to be called the Fraxés as the land of the Franks. Diet of the Empire to be abolished. Saxony not mentioned. Changes take effect immediately and the army to return to Paris for grand festivals soon.
News recounts the ship Rose in Bloom from Charleston to New York foundered off Barnegat on Sunday with forty eight aboard. twenty one perished. Survivors were saved by the brig Swift and later reached port. Accounts detail the rescue, list named survivors, and note the vessel’s perilous voyage from Charleston beginning August 16 amid shifting winds and gale conditions.
Raleigh reports John Page esq former Virginia governor named Commissioner of Loans replacing Meriwether Jones deceased. Unclear if Page has accepted. Also noted are appointments of Dr. Hosack and Dr. McNevin as physicians at the Alms House and Dr. Pascarus as physician to the Jail and Bridewell.
A devoted man tended the sick and exhausted, shared his blanket and clothes, and arranged to bring the sufferers to New York. He and associates ferried the wounded from a ship where they perished after a mishap, while merchants in Philadelphia express confidence in vessel security and Dutch privateer risks.
The Baltimore Telegraph reports rumors of peace between France and England based on letters received from New York. A vessel near the Hook was said to carry word of a settlement, with further news from a packet that arrived in New York and St. Kitts confirming peace talks.
Captain Peas of the schooner Olive Branch arrived from New Orleans on the brig Lady Washington with word that a private schooner carried news of peace. The frigate at St Kitts sent word from England, baring peace info dated July 14, and news spread as ships hurried to Antigua and other British possessions. Local rejoicing followed in St Kitts while Philadelphia and New York papers echoed the report, though some accounts lack authentication.
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