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PORTSMOUTH, SOUTHAMPTON, AND LONDON JUNCTION CANAL. Southampton, September 28, 1807. AT a nnmerons and relpeftable Meeting of the Gentlemen of this Town and Neighbourhood, held this day at the AuditHeufe in purfuance of a requifition to take into confid.rat ion the plan of the above mearure, and if approved of, to iuprort the application to Parliament. SAMUEL S. TAYLOR, Efq Mayor. in the Chair. The following Refolutlons were utianimotilly agree., to That a communication between Portfmoutk, Southampton, and the Metropolis, by means of a jundlion of the prefect Nivigations of the Itchen with the River Wcy, or the Bafingftoke Canal, is a oseafure comprehending advantages not Ids evident than inipor Cant, to the interefts of the ioliabitants of the ports in queftion, and of the counties through which the line paffes, than to thcfe of every merchant, manufadturtr, and trader in the kingdom. That the detention by adverb wind, of fhips at fea and in port. bound on voyages to and from the places in queßibn, on public fervice,having been of great and acknowledged inconvenience and detriment to the nation, that the jendtion in queftian will be, in the opinion of this sleeting, the means of effedting a certain and eligible conveyance for Government ftores, mcrchandize, &c. &c by which there evils wilt in future he avoided, and is therefore be come a matter of great public neceffity, at the fame time that it promifes ample eompenfation to the promoters. That the Plan and Eftimate made by Mr. Michael Walker, Engineer, after a full and deliberate furvey taken bytdm in the laft and prefect year, of a line commencing at the Wharf of the River ltchen, at Winchefter, and paffing by the Towns of Alresford, Alton, and Farnham, to the funamit level of the Bafingftoke Ca na!, or to the River Wcy, at Goelalming, appears to this meeting well calculated to anfwer the purpore &lira, and that this Meet ing do approve of the fame. That, for the profecution of this plan, a Subfcription be now entered into for Shares of sod. each, and that a &petit of 21. on each (hare, be forthwith paid into any a the following Bankers : Meffis. Devaynes and Co. Pall Mall. March, Sibbald, and Co. Berner, ftreet. Alex. Davidfon, Noel, Templar, and Co Pall Mall. • Fofter, Lubbocks, and Co. Manfton Houfe tercet. Robarts, Curtis, and Co. Lombard-Preet. ▪ Wire, Bruce, and Co. Bartholomew .Lilt. And the Banks at Soutltan•pton. And that, in order to the fecuring the accompliilimcnt of fo Arca an objedt, and that no obftacle may take place to its comple tion, l'hat 2COO Shares be fubferibed for, or which s per cent. Mall be funded in the Bank, as a permanent/lock, to be under the controul of, and for the benefit of the Siihfcribers. SAMUEL S. TAYLOR, Chairman. Refolved—Thlt the Thanks of this Meeting be given to the Chairman, for his able and impartial condudt in the Chair. NTOTICE is hereby given, that application is in. 11‘ tended to be made to Parliament at the next Scion for an Ad to enlarge the Term and Powers of an AeFt made in the Fourth Year of the Reign of his prefent Mak.fly King George the Thiel, intituled " An Adi for Repairing and WiJet,ing the Road from Workfla, in the County of Nottingham, through the Towns of Gatcforth, Aniton, Afton, Handfworth, and D:anall, to the North Fait end of Attercliffe. in the County of York, where the fame joins the Turnpike Road from Bawtry to Sheffield;" and alto of " another At made in the Tweraty• frith Year of the Reign of his laid prefent Majdty King George the Third, for rn larging the Term and Powers of the fdel I.,ft mentioned Aet," which faid Road paffes through or lies within the feweral Parithes, 'l.o.wnil,ips, or Hamlets of Workfop ae.d Gatetorth, in the Co.inty of Nottingham. and Ardlon,Todwick A lion, N, therthorpe, Afton, Aighton, Handworth, Woodhoufe, liandtworth, Darnall, and Attereliffe, in e , e County of York. WM. SKYNNER, :September 24. 18'4. Clerk to the fruitees. IVLs7 INDIES. BARBADOES, AUGU3T 15. The arcunilati. , n of &kith prifoners of war at Guadalonpe has been immenfe ; and while The Cap. tain General Ernouf manifelts a vindiaive firirit to wards our Naval Commander, by withholding all exchange of prifoners with him, in confecitierce, as he p reten d s , of our Admiral having fent the Adju tant General Hot eon to England, he artfully holds nut to our unfortunate feamen in hi► power the only alternative of a perpetual prifon, or a breach of their all -giar,ce, by entering on board of his privateer.— I: is a fa& which we Rate from good authority, that of 212 Britifh feamen prifoners at Goracialoupe, from eighty to ninety, defpondent of ex.'.:ange, and after being almoft a year in miferable co n f i nement, have recently entered into the enemy's fervice, and are now cr nixing in his privateers againft the fubjeas of their own Sovereign. Colonel Sir "din Wardlaw is a ❑o lefs fufferer hum the malicious fyllem of Er-1 nouf than the meaneft prifoner, and (till rernain: , , after five or fix months captivity, with as little chance. of being releafed or ezcbanged as atiy of them ; and • this tro, notwithflanding tr nth interell has been made by many refpeElable Frenchmen of Guada . loupe, and a memorial from the Mafonic Fraternity of that ifland prefented in hia behalf to the unrelen'. ing, Captain General. We regret tg add alto, that his wounds, as late as the 27th tilt. remained un healed, and his general health much impahed. KINGSTON (JAMAICA), JULY 4. During the fevere Iwrall on Monday afternoon, the (hip Baronefs Lnnguieul, lying off Mefirs. Dick, M'Call and Co.'s wlitaf, unfertunately upfet, and nearly went under water. The crew, with the ex ception of a cabin boy, clung to the fides, and were picked up immediately after : the boy was firppoled to have been drowned, having gone down with the (hip, but happily the lucctediug morning, while cx ertions were making to tight her, he was difcovered at the cabin window, and taken out, quite exhauiled by a boat which was :rafting by. It appears that he had gnt into a fituati'.n where he vas jni enabled to keep his head above water, having a ! . 1 I footing with his feet, and a hold above with his hand, and in that perilous Hate did he remain until fo providetrially laved. There are great hopes the aerie' will be laved, being very light, and every endeavour ufed by cutting away her top maitg, clearing the rigging,&c. jut.y IS.— The rung 13.1 who was In miracu• loully faveJ in the Baronet's Lnnguicul, died yeller day, in cotfequence, it is fukpufed, of the effeas f the late accident which hofel him, as he has sever been perieftly well fince that unfortunate occurrence. Si'. ]AGO 1)E LA VFGA, AUGUST 8. The accounts received by the 1.41 i packet, of he etplot al:ie (tate of the fugar market, are fully con firmrd by ni.tny tales we have Peen, in which the uni I:m.ate fugar planer Ita!, inilead of reapii.g any benefit non% his imatenle eavital, been brc u;4l.t into an accumulating debt, on account if th e nece ir a ,y c o pOes for his ncgrres and ' , la:nation, the net pro. ceet.ls of 'lli, crop not being ft:kicient to meet tittle x• reflect. Such. being the cafe, from ate exorbitarce of the duties on intertiLl n, and the es elution from a foreign market, the min of thi, iflAnd is at hand, tutlefs very c::etey and effeanAl trealure• be adopted to lave it from Lleflruaion. An income tax of half, or two thirds tl:e Let value of the Colo. nip's produce, would he lenity to the prefent lyrlem. which fwallows up every tiring. Ualefs the m o th e , country fine. 'nears of relieving ns . from fuch oppref f t , m , hie wilt realize the ancient fable of Saturn de fttoying hii chi:l; ci ! AMERICA . NEW YORK, AUGUST ie. It will be teen by the report of the City Tapeflew; publifhed this day, that the number Of deaths re ported in the laft week, does not exceed what is ofual at this feafon of the year. 'the difeafes moll fatal, are theft which are common At all featins, and, except the influenza, of which but two have died out of the thoufands who may be fail to be labouring under it, there is nothing that can cache the final left alarm. Rumour, with her ten thoufand tongues, has, we underhand, given us the yellow fever ; but, thank GPIs, we are dill free from even a fymptom of it ; and if, by his providence, we are bleffed with the fame mild weather, which has charaaerifcd the palling feafon, we fhall be under no apprebenfion of its approach. Extra& of a letter from Norfolk, dated Anglia 4: 41 On Sunday laft, the Britifh feamen and officers taken fume time ago at Lynhaven Inlet, were fent on board the Triumph." Lail evening, on parade, general orders were read to the militia and volunteer companies, when all, except Capt. Taylor's company of cavalry, Captain Nellell's artillery, and Captain Reed's Princefs Ann company of militia, were difcharged from further fervice. The companies retained are to be under the command of Major Thomas Newton. EXTRACT OF A LETTPR FROM HAVANNAH, DAMS JULY 10, TO A RESPECTABLE MERCANTILE HOUSE IN THIS CITY. 44 An order was iffued yefterday from the Inten dant to the Colle&or of the Customs, to examine all goads in the Cullom Houle at pt efent, and fuch as may enter hereafter, with inflrudliont, t 3 detain, for the prefent, fuch as may appear to be of Englifli maltufaeluter until further orders. This is the &ft Ilep towards a general prohibition of Englifh manu. faattre ; bat we prefume it hardly porlible that our Government will proceed to extremities, until due entice (hall be given to our merchants, through the Meditim of your new fpapers." " Just( 13. —The order we mentioned in ours of the loth, has been put into execution, and all the Englifh merchandise or manufaflures in the Cullom Houle have been detained, but we apprehend they will be difpatched, and that for lonic time to come their introdalion will be winked at. 'l'his Rep of our Government has its origin in the High Admi ral's order, publifhed in your paper, for we under hand it has not been received here officially ;—but until yonr merchants get further adviccs on this fob jct.}, !hi will do well to fufp:nd their fltipments of Englifli goods." AUGUST tz.—The following letter has been ad dreffed by Captain Barron, late of the frigate Chefs peak, to the Editor of the Public Ledger, at Norfolk : Sir—l have obferved fevetal publications in the Herald, and other print calculated to injure my chat-rats, and !lave &midi it only necelkry to fay, that I have ken them without cui,lidering it my duty to reply, as a Court of inquiry will Moray convoie for the purpofe of inveftigating the al air of the Cherapeak and Leopard ; and, through that channi.l, the public may cape& a eorredt knowledge of fads; therefore any publieltio,: on my part would be 'skids and improper. Something more ful flantial than the mere declarations of the parties concerned will be required. R tfpedfully, I am. Sir, purl, &c. (Signed) Near Hampton, Att,-.111 3. )AWLS s %RION AUGUST I 3. —Genet al Moreau and Lady are now on a party at Balltown Springs ; it is laid they in tend stinting the Falls of Niagara. A letter from Savannah, dated July 17, lays— " By a gentleman juft arrived in [hi. city, in twenty• four days from Penfacola, inform:nit:it has been re• ceived, that Foulch, Governor of that place, had ahfconded to New Orleans, having been dilcovered an accomplice with Burr, in his nefarians felicities againfl the independence c.f this country." AUGUST 14.—There are at prelim 24 gun boats, fully equipped at the Navy Yard in this ;dace, under the command of Commodore Rogers, ash flionly proceed to Wafhington, to bring the frigate United States to this putt. There is a rustrair that a 74 gun (hip will be immediately built hue. The .• eel has been laid, and timbers al in readintl , . for a number of years, fo that the can be c-Mskieel. in a ihort pctiod. The I uiti: ?, proceeds briatl7, and a number of fir ft•raie fearnen have entered this fer viee. Each boat will be censmanded by a Lieute twin—Brod:pet Paper. We learn, from a refpeaable Isurce r that the Narrows are to be immediately fortified. Thia de let tnination will not only pleafe the citizens at large, but will afford more complete fecurity to on: harbour than if fortified in any other place. The Narrows can be made as Itrong, if not fironger, than any place in the world—and though it may colt a mil lion and a half of dollars, it is nothing compared with the benefit which will refult to the United States, and particularly to the growing commerce of this city.— New Tork Gdz.ettc. A gentleman Teem ly from Montreal, informs us, that while there he heard it reported, that the. Go vernment had chartered fix veft:ls for taking down to Q2ebec the cannon and military lyres which were at Montreal, St. John's, &c. and that it was the prevailing opinion there, that it a war broke out between England and the United States, no attempt at defending that province would be made except at Q . l2eliec, where a vigorous and determined hand would be made; and for which purpofe it would be immediately put in the beft poffible flate of defence. He further adds, that when palling St. John's, &c. on hi s wiry hiller, he obfeived the military ext'eme ly holy in the removing of cannon, dec. which he understood were to be fent down to Qxebec with all pollible ,iifpatch.—.4.av Gazette. It is hated in a Pittiburgh Paper, that the Btitifh met chasas at Michilimakinac refute purchaflng any articles c f country produce from the Arneticans, and are preparing to remove their effects from our ten itory. It is further hated, that the difficulties with the Indians on that frontier are fuel', as to ren der it unfale to travel from Citicago, to Detroic by land—ib. AUGUST I 5 R. Taylor. who went down to the Triumph, en public bufineic, returned this mnrraino ; ft• m him we learn. that the Triumph in .he Bay, and the Columbine in the Roads, are the roily Blitifh (hips in our waters. With Captain Taylor, went down the Proprietors of tome negroes that bad got on board the Triumph, where Sir Thomas Hardy detained them until they could be identified and claimed ; bci,pg done, they were delivered to their owners. It is bin jactice in us to Date, that all the gentlemen who have E, .ne dowa on burincfs With Sir Thomas Har (peak in terms of the higheft refpeft for his cbargter, and of the polite attention which he ma• nifells to them.—Norfolk Ledger. FIRS •T CANATIDILIGUA.—The new and valuable mills belonging to Captain Ifrael Chapin, f this town, fituate two miles sari of the Court hnufe, ‘s, cre, on Thurfday night lan, let on fire by fame unkn )wn villainous incendiary, and entirely dellroyed, toge ther with about 500 bulhels of grain, neatly the whole of which belonged to Mr. Henry Chapin. — The damage is eflimated at not lefs than poo dollars. FOREIGN J.%TiLLiGENC'E.• GOTTENEURGH, SEPTEMBER IS. We have acsAunrs to day from Copenhagen, that the Hamburg ails which were due (feven) are ar• rived there, and that we may expert them by the next poi! ; of courfe we may alfo cape& that the Mails from hence will be f)rwarded. Mr. Jackfon, our Milliner, is g"ne to Culde►s, upon a commiflion to the Crown Pri:.ce. Our feamen proceed rapidly in fitting out the Da. nit)) fleet, which will be ready to take its departure for England in a few days, though it i, faid that the Crown Prince has refuted to ratify the ugretrnent made upon that head. BULLETIN. • a Carifcronl. Sr pt 7. '6 His Royal Majelly left yefterday morning, at half pall eleven o'clock, Bergen, for Perth, and there went on hood the Bellona frigate, crmmanded by Major Amer, Knight. At half pall four o'clock in the afternoon, Baron Ellen, Governor General, at- tended his Majelly to the place of embarkation. An Ergli!h frigate, and :In Englith brig of war, which were lying off Perth, filed a relate and manned the yards when his Majetty went on hiard the Bellona frigate, which all manned her yards. The Britifh Envoy, Mr. Pietrepoint, and the C. matander of the Enghth frig tte, came on hoard to pay their refpea, to his Majelly, and afterwards let fail, when the Englifh frigate fainted again, and his Maje ly or &led the falute to he returned with four guns. At a quarter p.tlt (even o'clock at night, the Bellona frigate weighed anchor, with a fair wind and fine weather. They paffed by Bornholm in the night, and early in the morning the coat of Bening Sore in fight. At three o'clrck ' in the afternoon, the frigate dropped anchor in the road r chi. place, and his Royal Nlajelly came on (bore at half pall five o'clock. " Adjutant General Colonel Peyicn arrived three days'ago at Bergen, from Strallund. " Sirce the sth intl. his M.:jetty's illnef% has not undergone any material alteration." BULLETIN. " Catlferona,Sept. 13. " By a retort received yeflerday, by exprefs, tram General Baron Toll, dated the Bth init. his Royal Majelly has been informed, that on the preceding day, the 7th of this month, an agreement was con- chided in Sttalfund, between the laid General and the French General Brune, according to which the Swedish troops ate to evacuate the Ifle of Rugen within ore in-nth, taking with they: ail t 11::: warlike acres and pi of every delci iptiun whatfiever, gun boats, armed (hips, &c. " Both (hips of war and tranfports are row getting ready with the utmoit d;cparch here, as well as at Carlfham and Ylladt, for the conveyance of troops. ' Some of them have already let fail, and will in a few days be tollnwed by the refl. " His Royal Mtjelly is now free from fever, but very weak."—(bat:aursh Gazeit:, er j v. i 6.) LEGISLATIVE BODY, PARIS, SEPT. 9. Sequel of the Sitting of the 8:h (,). temba. M. Maret concluded with fay ing, I , The wink now prefented to you, completes the Commercial Code. Like the Ordinances of L •ois XIV. for which it is to be feibraituted, this Code is futrounded with tro phies if vißory. It is to regulate the commercial tranfaelions of a per.ple, rakolz relations every kind are extended by the alms, by the political nego ciationF, and (fill more, by that ii,flue .ce which a great name eercites over the ow idts in the neigh b trhoo.J of his Empire, of w!toie loose of them h a ve wifhed him their Legated, and others have pin. claimed him their Pi otetiot. In confcquerce of this augmentation of commercial relations between the French pe..ple and the other nations of Europe, the aaion of else Code will not be confined wi t hin t h e limits of France. It may alfo become a law common to the nations, whole interett places them in our fyllem of federation ar.d alliance. Our augult Em. pertir had this in view, when he demanded, that the difpofitions of the Commercial Code lhould he as much as p , .ff:ble in harmony with the .ther Com mercial L-:,;iflations of Europe; when he demanded that all inteeeßs fhould be interrogated ; when, after having confided the original drawing up of the Code to able men, he afterwards had it difeuffed, and conlidered in the Courts of Appeal, in the Tribunals, in the Chambers, and in the Councils of Commerce. We mutt fay, that this difcuffion is honourable to the parties concerned in it. Their foie cbje.t has been to improve a work already recommended to them by its great merits. it The refults of this luminous difenflion formed an immenfe colleelmn. Compiled by the Minifters of Juflice and of the Interior, it was neceffary to ;ma lize all the obfervations which it contained. It be came neceffary to compare them, and out of this macs of information to prepare a code fuited to the wants of commerce and the national intereß. The Com. million inflitrated in the year nine having accom plifhed its talk, confidered itfelf diffolved. Three Members of that Cirmmiffion, M. M. Gorneau, Le Gras, and Vital Roux, Juris-confults and enlightened merchants, full of zeal, and °tong in their devotion to the Emperor, folicited the Minifters for pet million to undertake, at their own expence, the .revilion the code. Thefe Minillers authorifed them. They did more ; they encouraged them. Thee citizens applied therntelves with diligence to the work. They availed themfelves of all the information to be found in the French authors, in the legiflation of other na tions of Europe, and thus enabled his Majetly, in the eth year, to order the printing of the commercial code reviled, which has ferved as a balls for the me ditations of the Minilter of the Interior, and the dif cuflions of the Council of State." M. Maret then read the titles of the Projet. M. Corvetto" Gentlemen, the Commercial Code rites at the fide of the Napoleon Code. New bleflings are going-to be diffnfed over France. While Vittory was marching under the French Eagles, upon the banks of the afiGnifbed Viftula, Commercial Let 11a. an received, in, filence, the imprcrements which , experignct: pointed out. Commerce is going to take a new direaion ; the laws will be in harmony with its wants, with its habits, with its true interefts. Tilde Laws will be fimple and eafy ; they will employ ( e v e . rity only againft fraud. They will anticipate impru dence, corm& mircondat, and foothe misfortune.— But it is time to accelerate thefe bleffings. His Ma_ jelly thinks that the fir ft day of the apprdhchirg year o ught to be diftinguiffied by the epoch of the execu. 1 tiou of the Commercial Code. The time is not far off, Ino doubt, when viaory or peace will again open the leas to nations, and the ordina r y channels en com• merce. The code which you have ad o pte d, will the n beeqme the common htw of Europe." ^ M. Corvetto then read the Prof:4 II 1 The fitting rote. a — THE EVENiNO.4rfAII. LONDON. THURSDAY, OCTOBER r, PRIrT OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT O.NE O'CLOCK: Conf. money 6a4l—ft r ace 6zi—Omeiutn, par to prs. Exch.+ Bills, to par PRICE OF S LOCKS YESTERDAY. per Cent. Red thut Imp. 3 per Cent. 6:14 3 per Cent. Conf. 6aal Imp. Ann. 7 t-t6ths 4 per Cent. Phut Exchefi. Bids, par a as. t 5.4114 S per Cent. Navy OH I Lottery Tickets acL tyls. India Bonds, pa' as.d.d. Conf. far acc. 62} We have already had occafion to (late, that Co. vernment has come to a determination to fend out a Krung force to recover the poffeffions we lately occu pied in &Intl, America. The command of the Fleet, we nndertland, is to be given either to Admital GAMBlik or Sir HOME Poruast—the point is not finally fettled. We are forry in the mean time to announce, tl,•at at another Spanilh fettlement one of our (hips of w.r had made an attempt to cut out two veffels, in which fhe was net only dirappointed but fuffered feverely. The following are the particulars:— " On the 29th of July lan, the CHICHNSTER ) of 44 guns, armed en jute, made an attack on Barraco, a fettlement on the S. E. cad of Cuba, in the cline. tation of cutting out of the harbour two Wen India, men, which had been recently captured, and alfo of dearoying the privateers within it. One Captain, two fubalterns, and too men, were landed; the whole cf whore were either killed or taken, and his Mt. jelly's !hip efcaped with difficulty, with 5 feet water in licr hold, having been hulled between wind and water by the batteries, two of which £red uncles French colours. The troops landed were of the 99th regiment. There are at the above place and St. Jago, dole by, twenty fix flout privateers, mofily manned by Frenchmen, emigrants from Sr. Domingo; and it was by Frenchmen that the formidable tefiflance was made at Barraco." Difpatches were this mooning received from Admi• ral ilsax 'Lay, on the American Elation, brought to Portfmouth by the Cu ttle fchoontr, which failed from Halifax on the 4 , h ult. By accounts receives by this conveyance, we learn that the three deferters from the Melampus, taken out of the Clef. peak, were to he tried in a few days after our accounts c ime away. It appears, by letters and newfpapers from new. York to the 16 . h Auguß, that apprehenfions had betn entertained there of the yellow fever having again made its appearance, but the late papers and letters Rate that, with the exception of a flight order called the Vuenza (which was very general there, at Philadelphia, and indeed over the country) the place was never more healthy. The Trial of Mr. BURR commenced at Richmond on the 3d of Augult, before Judge MARSHALL., ti: Chief Janice of the United States. The two fur• reeding days were occ , rpied with calling over the Jury, and other bufinefs preparatory to the going into the cafe, and the Court adjourned until Mord:4 the loth. Mr. BURR was allowed to remain in the mean time at his private lodgings. The hoftlity of Bon APAR rs purfuesonr commerce to every part of the world within his influence. The impottation of all articles of Englifh manufacture is &jelly prohibited at the Havannah, and the fame meafure will no doubt, be extended to all the Spanifb fettlements. The rage of the American populace againft this Country has very much abated. Ir appears that they would now be fatisfied with tte punifhment of Admiral BERKELEY, and the freedom of their °rips of war from fearch of every defcriprion. There Papers reprefent the gn g lith as afraid of art attack upon Canada, in cafe of a rupture with America.—Preparations were making to put Ql!ell$ in the ben pcffible Rate of defence. We Rated yeflerday the unpleafant intelligence that had been received front Ir,dia. It was at a fete, given by the Lady of Sir Joss CRADOCK, that the Seapnys meant to murder the Britilb Officers. The plot was aircovered by fame perfons who heard the wives of the Seams entreating their hul bands to den from their horrible defign ; in confe• quence of which, the ringleaders were taken into cuUody. We have not been able to learn any farther pr ticulars. In a preceding column we have given extras' frol Paris journals. They are not of fo late a date as the laft we announced, but as they relate to the ref French Commercial Code, they are interettitig• rota oa's orators do not hefitate to call it the Goy rne:cial Code, not of France only, but of the