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AMERICA. BOSTON, AUGUST 6. The Prefident wifhes to afcertain the public opinion on the quellion of peace or war, and has hence brought it before the public through the medium of his intebgencer. The queltion is now in difeuflion, and the retult can eafily be predicted. If the attack on the Chefapeake was unauthorifed by the Britifh Government, and fatisfaeory atonement (hall be made us, we (hall not go to • ar to maintain the un jua claim of a right to proteet Britifh fcamen, de• ferters, or mutineers, in their own leas. Your Emmett, Duane', and Cheethams, and all aPfe who have cfcaped from Britifh real or fup. pored opprellion, (and there are many in the fouthern and middle States), will be for war ; but the cape. diency and juaice of the majority of the Union will probably prevent it. Should war refolutions be introduced at the com mencement of the next fell - ion of Congrefs, we can eafily forefee the ground that will be taken by J. Randolph, and we can almoft already hear his thun. der, and fee his lightning diretted to thole great men, ho can as patiently as mules be whipped, cuffed and kicked by the Spaniards, but who become Hotfpurs, jealous of honour, if the Englifh do either. We ate glad to find that the intelligencer has at late given us Come account of the perfons claimed and taken from on board the Chefapeake. There is much reafon to believe they were. feveral of them, native Americans; we hope it will be fo proved, yet it Mould be remembered, that Jonathan Robbins was certainly born in Danbury, ConneCticut ' though he afterwards confeffed himfelf an brifhtnanby the name of Thomas Nafh. Anxious as many of onr Rrong patriots are For a war with England, it ought to be remembered that loch a war, in the prefent Rate of Englifh affairs, in all probability, will not be unpopular with a great part of the fubjeds of that kingdom. While it be hoves us to confider the probable pre firs on both fides, it becomes us to confider the certain injuries on both fides. A uGusT to.—There certainly appear to us to be thong grounds for the belief that war with England has been determined upon by our AdmMittration years fince. Why did Mr. Jefferfon dire& Mr. Mon roe to break off all negociatiun with the Britifh Go vernment, if they would not yield the right to the American Bag, to proted Britifh feamen in the nar row teas, when he well knew they never would do it? Why did he fend back the treaty without fubmitting it to the &nate ? And why is this right of prote&ing Britith feamen coupled with the affair of the Chefa peake ? To make war appears to be occationed by the outrage on the Chefapeake, and not a pre-deter mined affair. We hope there is no French influence in all this. We are told that Government have fentthe Revenge to England, to demand reparation for the outrage on the Chefapeake, by the punifhment of Berkeley or Humphries, unlefs the Britifh Government autho• rile or approve the a& ; demand a return of the feamen taken from the Chefapeake; to demand a, declaration; by treaty, that no feamen !hall in future he taken from any villa; failing under the American Flag ; and ordering the return of our Minitters, ihould any of thefe demands be refnfed. Our Adminiftration have long been determined to obtain, or rather to maintain, the right of fcreening Britifh fubjeas under the American Flag ; and hope to fumed, by coupling this quettion with the late outrage on the Chefapeake. The labials are quite dill ins ; and even if the affair of the Chefapeake be a jua caufe for war, fhould that be fettled, the protec tion of &halt feamen not only is not a juft caufe of war, but will not, molt affuredly will not, be fo confidered by the great mafs of the people. If it be true that thefe demands have been fent to England, with orders for the return of our Minilters, Mould they not be complied with, it is going as tar as the Government can go, to declare war. The Prefi dent well knows that the Britifh will never give op the right of fear thing American met chiantmen in the narrow teas, for their own fohjals. It would ruin their Navy, and their exillente as a Nation; and, moreover, neither jutlice nor policy demand it. FRANCIS. EXPOSITION OF THE STATE OF THE FRENCH EMPIRE. RELIGIOUS WORSHIP. To the members of the Clergy in general the Government has to tellify the higheft latisfaaion ; never did pure manners, a tolerant piety, great dif intereftednefs, a conflant application to their duties, prevail in a higher degree among all ranks of the hierarchy. Inceffantly occupied in the noble tail( ailigned them, the amendment of public and private morals, they are fellable that obedience to the laws is an effential branch both of the one and of the other ; and that of all laws, that which has for its object the defence of the State, is the moil fa. cred ; that it is a law whofe prompt and complete execution is moft ftrongly recommended, both by religious fentiments and the fpirit of patriot ifm. The different religions authorifed in the Empire, maintain an union worthy of the fpirit which is common to them all, and honourable to their Mi- ISRAELITES. From the departments bordering on the Rhine, general complaints have reached the Emperor, re fpeeing the ufury praClifed by certain individuals profefling the Jewifh religion. An invefligation of the fads has proved that the fruit of this ufury would i have entirely confumed the riches and the refoureel of thofe beautilul provinces. The Emperor found it necefrary to calm the jult apptehenflom of Co many L ooufands of farmers : but while he applied a partial and inliantaneous remedy, he formed a, more Tall conception, and of more durable influence ; he be. held, in ancient habits, and in the falfe interpretation of certain points of do&rine, the primary mince of the evil which had excited theft complaints. In order to avoid the necefllty of perpetuating either precautions or punifhments, he refolved to re• generate the manners of a portion of that Oafs, by the concurrence of the whole dais, by the influence of the religious authority to whofe laws it fubmits. The Emperor knew that among the Jews in his dot. aninions there arc great numbers of perfuns whole vpinions arc found, whore Nadal is irreproachable, who would be the firft to deplore the mifbehaviour of their brethren ; and fo far from confounding thefe worthy men with thole who juilly deferve cenfure, he' d called the former to execute the meafures which arc to pave the way to the reformation of the others. A general affembly has been held, and it has planned , the regulations of their police ; a Grand Sanhedrim, an allembly of which the Jews have not, for ages, beheld an example, has proclaimed their religious duties. It has folemnly declared, that the- taw of Motes, inftead of authotifing its adherents to become the inhabitants of a State, without adopting its in terefts, without acknowledging its authorities, with. out obeying its laws, on the contrary prefcribes to them fentiments of attachment to their adoptive country, obedience to all its inftitutions, and the duty of taking un arms in its defence. Ordinances will loon be Kurd to accomplith this great work, to regu- late the exercife of the Hebrew worfhip. This re• form, which will conftitnte an epoch in the annals of the Ifraelites, will furnifh them with a fubjelt of ever tatting gratitude. The feverity deterred by a few indivi.ivals has been the occafion of dilpenfing ings to them all. The fit ft of thefe is, that by pre (crying to them the name of Frenchmen, they will be rendered worthy of that appellation. THE EVENING STA LONDON. BULNOI AYIES —We have received fsveral well-written eom• munications relative to the unfortunate int of our Expedition to South America. But as it is now pretty generally under flood that the contludt of thole who had the fuperintendance of our affairs in that quarter is to undergo a arid inveltigation our Correfpoodents will, theinfelves, fee the propriety of our retraining from aridurcs which might be liable to the imputa tion of prejudging the queftion. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER ss. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK : Confolv, money, 641—for acC. 62,11-omnium, pr prem. Navy S per Cent. 9611 —Exchequer Bilh, par is. pram PRICE OF STOCKS YESTERDAY. 3 per Cen•. Red. Ibut India Bonds, par is. dif. 3 per Cent. Comic:464M Imp 3 per Cent. Sail 4 per Cent. !hut Imp Ann. 7 I 1 16 per Cent Navy Excise. BUIs. par ts. dif Luug Aim. flint Osmium, par Sbort. Aen Ihut Engli lh Tickets. soL 191. India Stuck 274 Cont. fur acc. 62 A molt important State Paper has this day been publifhed. It is a Declaration from his BRITANNIC MAJISTY, (listing the motives which have didated his late meafures in the Baltic. His MAJErry "had received the mon pofitive information of the deter mination of the prefent Ruler of France to occupy, with a military force, the territory of Holftein—for the pnrpofe of excluding Great Britoin from all her accuftomed channels of communication with the Continent ; of inducing or compering the Court of Denmark to clofe the paffage of the Sound againft the Britith commerce and navigation ; and of avail ing himfelf c,f the aid of the Dann Marine for the invafion of Great Britain and of Ireland." 1 The Deelaration then Aim that 66 Already the Army declined for the Invafion of Hoiftein was afferobling on the violated territory of neutral Ham burgh. And, Holaein once occupied, the Mind of Zealand was at the mercy of France, and the Navy of Denmat k at her difpofal." The Declaraticn, which is of confiderable length, Rates in conclufion that 16 Notwithltanding the declaration of war on the part of the Danifh Govern:nen, it (till remains for Denmark to determine, whether war (hall conti nue between the two nations. His Msjelly proffers an amicable arrangement. He is anxious to Ihearhe the (word, which Ire has been mod rcluc tantly compelled to draw. And he is ready to dcrnonftratc to Denmark and to the world, that, hav ing acted folely upon the fcnfe of what was due to the fccurity of his own dominions, he is not defirous, from any other motive, or from any object of advan , tage or aggrandifement, to can y meafures of lionility beyond the limits of the neceffity which has produced theirs." Difpatches were yelterday received from Lord . CAT H CART. A report was loon after circulated, but we believe on no authority whatever, that the popu lace of Copenhagen had put feveral merchants to death, fuppofed to havevbeen moR forward in urging the Governor to capitulate. We have been favoured with the following extrad of a letter from Gottenburgh : “ GOT TENBURGH, SUPT. 13. "By a blefferger.which fails from hence to-day. I have availed myftlf of writir g letters to England. The public difpatches will have informed you of the re?ult of the expedition to Copenhagen, which will, I truft,beattended with the happieft eonfequences ; it will, at leaft, defeat the views'which BONA r MITE had formed, of uniting the fleets of the Northern Powers againft us. Almady the tone of the Emperor of Ruffia is lowered, and it is known hero, that the intended invafion of Swedifis Finland is abandoned by Ruffin. The King of Swings's fleet is to be at the difpufitiou of Great Britain ; fo that all the hopes of BoNAPART a's maritime war arc entirety at an end. 'Thus we ftand on very high ground, to carry on the war, or treat fur peace, without a needfity of feed king either our honour or our integrity. " A eircumftance has come to my knowledge on which I an place the unnnit reliance--it is, that a moR linguist deception was malted (by BONAPARTE OP TALLETRAND. Of both) OD the Emperor of Russia, to refpoft to Turkey, which accelerated the Treaty of Tilfit. That this deception is now pettedly known to the Emperor and the Ruffian Cabinet, is certain ; and I believe by the time this reaches your hands, it will be known to the Brit& Government, and will molt probably have a couilderable influence on the Emperor of Russia's future plans, which, joined to the fuccds at Copenhagen, will perhaps caufc a renewal of koftiiitics or lead to a general peace. This I tan Mire you, the profped of a rupture between Great Britain and Rata has canted in that Em pire great dikontent. I taw a Gentleman of great fortune and in fluence from St. Peterfbuzigh a few days ago, who declared without referee, that fhould the prefect Government of Rolla perfrrere in breaking with England, the Throne itftlfwoolit toter to iti ccnvr The Entprds Dowager, the mother Of Atssitunta. sod the great favourite of the Emprefs CArHIRINI, is looked up to by all good Ruffians; and it was with extreme regret they law ter in ; fluenee on her fon decline as it did ; but the great InWortune was, Ise was at rilfit, and his mother at St. Peteriburgh. Had the been there; the difagneable Treaty never would have bets rat!. 1 lied." In what the writer of the above fides refpefling the Emprefs Dowager, we believe there is feme miflake. It has been generally wide: Rood in this country, that that illullrious perfon was very marked in her oppolltion to the late war with France, and that, as far as her influence went, it was exerted to difpofe the Emperor Ist.sx Allot a to a reconciliation with that power. Since the peace, all her partizans have got into power, and, among the reit, Box Hoy. whofe conchal at the battle of Nitta was Ilible to fo much fufpicion. She is laid to be the de cided enemy of BINNIOSIN. EAST INDIAMEN. Advice' were this day received at the Eaft India Hotta Rating the arrival yellerday of his Majefly's %hip the Ste EDWARD HUGHES off the Ilk of Wight, with the NoarnumasaLast. extra !hip, and Aaoo whaler ; aid that they failed from St. Helena tgth July. The AIRLY CASTLI and LORD HAWrasavair, outward bound, had arrived at St. Helena a few days before the failing of the SIR EDWARD HUGHES. Governor PATTON and Colonel SCOTT, of the King's fervice, are palfengers on board the Ste ED WARD HUGHES. The above information was brought to the India Honk by an OMGer (tom the SIR EDWARD HUGHIs. MAILS FROM THE MEDITERRANEAN. The AUCKLAND Packet, Captain SCHUYLER, in fourteen days from Lifbon, has arrived at Falmouth. On the t ath, the pared a fleet of fourteen fail, (land ing to the N. E. fuppofed to be the Oporto fleet ; and on the 18th the pallid a fleet of forty fail (fince afcertained to be the Mediterranean fleet) (landing to the S. S. E. Before the AUCKLAND failed, the PRINCESS ELIZABSTN, with Mails from this country, had arrived in the Tagus. If we may credit force of the accounts received by this mail, the Portuguese Government has refilled to comply with the demand made by the French, to be paid the fum of four millions of crufades (sowsool.) ; and has exprefTed a determination to embark for the Brazils, if the demand is per filled in. Former accounts Rated that the Portugueze were fitting nut their navy, in confequence of a requifition from the Court of Madrid. The letters by this mail confirm the intelligence that the (hips are not only fitting out, but almoft ready for lea : but they add, that in place of being delivered over to Spain, they are to be employed in tranfporting the Portugueze Government to the Brazils, if they can in no other manner free themfelves from the effeBs of that 1)4- tern of robbery from which they have already fuffered Co much. Ten (hips of the line were ready for lea when the packet failed from the Tagus. The Princefs Elizabeth (2d) packet, Captain' Foattasnat.e, has alfo arrived at Falmouth, with _mails from Malta and Gibraltar, in 24 days from the latter place. By this packet we have received accounts that bird Cot.t.ssawoon failed from Malta the latter end of July, with a (quadrat for the Dardanelles. On the 17th inR. the Princefs Elizabeth, lat. 49. t. long. it. 47. (poke his Majeft's (hips SWIFTSURR and SATURN, with convoy (40 fail) from Gibraltar for England. The packet alfo (*poke his Majeßy't fhip INTRtrio, on her way to England, having General Fox on board, whole arrival we announced yefterday. The Parliament, which Rood prorogued to yeller day. has been further,prorogued to Tuefday the io.h day of November. Mr. MONROE, we underftand, did not embark at Liverpool for America, but is to proceed in the United States veffel Revenge, ft omPortfmonth, with the determination of our Government on the fubjeB of the feamen taken cut of the American frigate. American papers to the t4th ult. have arrived. The inhabitants of Maffachufets do not appear to be quite fo eager for a rupture with this country as thole who live on the banks of the Chsfapeake. We have given Come extraas from a Bolton paper, in which the impolicy of a war with England, and particularly for fuch a caufe as that which is now the fubjea of difcuffion between the two countries, is urged with much ftrength of language and argument. It is reported that the Expedition under General Busman, which was getting ready at Cork, and was expelled to fail in a tew days, has been counter manded, or at leaf% fufpended for the prefent. A day or twos will decide whether there be any truth in this rumour. Difpatches were lag night feat off from the Admi• ratty fur Admiral GAMBIER. The lazaartn, arrived from the Mediterranean, has not brought any difpatches from Lord Cow ac wool), relating to his proceedings in the Archipelago. The fquadron under his Lot dthip's command, con flating of (even fail of the line, left Malta for Tenedos, on the 22d of July. The INTREPID failed from Pa lermo the beginning of Auguil, and left the fleet off Cadiz ' all well, on the ill mftant. Wednefilay the 2d battalion of the 39th Regiment of Foot marched intoWorcetter, and yetierday morn ing continued their route for Bridgewater, in So. merfetlbire. Two hundred and fifty volunteers for bringing es England the Danifh fleet have been fent from the ENTERPRISE, off the Tower, to the Note. A con- Gderable number is to follow itt a day or two. N‘lll7 - ICAL INT.hLLIGENCL Dublin Waterford Malta MAILS-..Wlnd S. W. ARR. DOI AIL DOC 1 1 Oottenbvrgh ot s I t 'lban 1 0 i o Leeward leand • 0 Five fail of the homeward bound Leeward Muds Fleet are arrived at Briliol. The Harry, Captain Hoar, is arrived in the Downs, from Jamaica : the parted from the fleet on the 29th ult. in tat. 42. 54. long. 50. 24.. in a heavy gale and thick weather, which continued fur feveral days, and he fuppofes the fleet is difperied. FALMOUTH, SEPTEMBER ss. Arrived the Ptincefs Elizabeth packet, Captain FOR a ESDALr, with mails from Malta and Gibraltar, in 24 days from the latter place; alto the Auckland packet, Capt. SCHUYLIR, with mails from Lifbon, in 14 days paw. The Princefs Elizabeth packet, with mails from hence, had arrived at Laos. The Pot tuguefe were fitting out all their men of war--to fail of the line were nearly ready for few.—Sailed the Miranda privateer, Snow, on a cruize.—Wind W. • TORBAY, SEPTEMBER 23. This day arrived his Majelly's Baps Vit.Ls Ds PARIS, COLOSSI/S. MONARCH, Sr. GIORGI, Fnv. DROYANT, Comossant. PLANTAGENET, and DRUID. NOUGHT, from off Breft. PORTSMOUTH, SEPTEMBER 14. Arrived his Majelly's [hips SWIFTSURI and Sa voam, with a fleet of tranfports (about a fail) un der convoy, from the Mediterranean ; among them are the London, Tidas. Orlando, Nos. 2, 32, 114. and '35 ; alfo arrived the RACEMORSII, from Guem fey ; and the Aar, from a cruise. Sailed his Ma jelly's 114 RESISTANCE, on a cruise.—Wind W. DEAL, SEPT.I4. Put back, the Remittance, Low, for New York.— Arrived the WRAIMI.F.R gunbrig, from a cruize, and remains In the Downs with the !hips, as per lift; and the Hamilton Moore, M , Cosa, for Chatham. — Sailed the 13Loonuoutingunbrig, on a cruize.—Wind S.W. blows hard, with rain. YARMOUTH, ShPTEMBER 14. Sailed the Havoc, with upwards of 8o volunteers to man the Danith men of wart CRIME& floop of war, with a fleet for the Baltic. Arrived the STAR. LIMO and OBRRON floops of war, and ARCHER * Cow:TART. and VIXEN gun brigs. In the Roads. with the above, Majettic. Roebuck. Meleagar, Qoe• bec, l'Amiable frigates, and Halcyon hoop of war. —Wind S. W. ST. JOHN. (ANTIGUA), AUGUST 6. The homeward bound Fleet failed from St. Chrillo. pher's for Tortola, and thence to Europe, the 28th tilt. under convoy of his Majetiy's (hip Sr. Co RISTOTH ca. The thip Mat ia, fully laden with fugar,two ichooners, and two hoops, were aranded at St. Chriftopher's, on the 26th ult. in confequence of a firing foutherly wind and heavy (well t and we underhand confider. able damage has been done at Montferrat s and other iftands to leeward, from the fame caufe. FROM LLOYD'S LIST. G a ova az ND. Corr. 14.—Paffied by the He. or. Griffith, from Cork ; Samuel, Walker, frorn A rehangel ; and the Dorothy, Adams, from Rlga.—Saikd the Jane, Scott, for Quebec. Aitarveo....At Liverpool, the Collingwnod. Dever, front Riga ; Hamlet, from Bolton ; and the Roden, Barr, from Peterfburgh. At Hull, Dixon, Snowden, from Riga; Elbe, Gales, and Pomona, Nell, from Pettrfburgh. At Bridlington, Thomas, Blambler, from Peter burgh. At Whitby, Lively, Smith, from Gottenburgh. At Jamaica, Mary Ann, M'Ottle, from Africa. At Charletten, Ocean, Malcolm, from the Clyde. At New York, Mount Vernon, Coggeffiall, from London ; and Pallas, Everett, from Liverpool. At Balton, Packet, Trott, from Liverpool. At Hoyhke, Elizabeth, Cook, from Malta. In the Downs, Hedtor, Griffith, from Cork. The VOLAGB (loop of war is ordered to fail from Plymouth immediately, with difpatches to Lord Cott.tmowoon, in the Mediterranean. The TRIDENr, 0164 guns, has undergone a corn• plete repair at Chatham, and Captain CAMPBELL ap. pointed to command her. Captain Mersom is appointed to fuperintend the prifon (hips at Plymouth. DIURY•LANI THEATRIL.m.Addgilha was performed lalt night, in which Mrs. Powsta. reprefented the heroine with andiminifhed fuccefs. It was her firit appearance this feafoa, and fhe was received with great applaufe. The violent paffi'ms and intriguing fpirit of Michael Ducal were well pourtrayed by RAYM * OIIIII • and ELLISTOII performed Lotbair with fpirit and feeling. Mrs. DAPMITB again appeared in the part of Patrick, in the farce of the Poor Soldier, and was extremely fuccefsful in the Congo; in that of 4 4 My Friend and Pitcher" fhe was loudly awed. Al' though the had much more felfpotteaion than on het firft appearknce, the has got much to learn in ation and the bufinefs of the Rage. _ The laft perfon who fuffered the fentenee of the law for defrauding his creditors , by fecreting his ef• leas. was PERROT? ; he was a Mk- mer c e r on Ludgate Hill, the corner of the Old Bailey, and was executed in Smithfield about 5o years ago. A very dreadful accident happened at Failfworth, near Manehefter, on Friday !alt. On receiving the news of the furrender of Copenhagen, feveral men I procured a cannon, in order to fire it in celebration of the event ; but after difcharging the piece moor three times, they at length rammed a large quantil of wet grafs and turf into its muzzle, for the prPtie of canting a louder report, when, melanan l 7 to • relate, the cannon butt, an d killed two men, Wes maiming feveral others. CORM EXCIIII•NO Fp MAI IMAM 11, SEPT. 25 ...TO. day there are not many fie& arrivals of Mesh which is in but middling fupply; this trade retnaiw heavy in fales, and at rather lets price. excepting fee that of Oat quality—Malt likewife--Barley is fox , ' what cheaper—There are (caret any White Few which further advance in rice—Beans of both f °ll A at fraall variation—Oats are in middling (apply, ow this article is heavy (ale s at lover pricer—in Floor bat (mall variation.