Star. — London, England, 1807-08-21 00:00:00

! I • AMER IC./. NEW YORK, JULY ts. Captain Westmont!), of the fehooner Weymouth, arrive 1 here yellerday trim Richmond, informs, that en Fri ;Ay morning he was boarded in Hampten Roads by a heat from his Biltannie M Ihip Bellona, sod treated no!itely. The officer of the I eat engaired fir news, and informed Captain W. that the Prefi lent's proclamation had been received the day lief ire, anti was in hopes that in a few days all clifnu ec would be fettled. The fame evening Captain W was hoarded off Cape Henry by a boat from the Melanwnis (which frigate, and theTtiumph. 74, h3l drnpned down tier, days lief ire)—th-y alked frit f ime !violi', which Captain W. was obliged to relife giving them. They Rated that they a etc wnch in want of frefh prnvifi in that they had plenty of water and fait provifions—and that the. flips' crews were getting the feurvy. On Captain Weymouth's enroiriog what they had done with the lea men taken out of the Cherapetk, and if they were Engliflimer, the officer anfaered that they were dif. trihured among the fleet, and that they were Ameri• cans ; taut they had received the King's bounty, and fignecl the (hip's papers in England ; that they had run off with the Captain's pinnace, but had no offi cer in the boat, as has been reported. !Rom THE HeIRE''LR PUBLIC LEDGER n? JULY 8. " Our left noticed the correfpondence between Captain D inglas and the Mayor of our Barough.— We are now enabled to prefent our Readers with the folinisioz •enort made to the Mayne, together with the kennel letter of Captain Daualas alorratk, Julys, doe. 4 SIR. In purfnanee of your reetell, I thus day went down to the Eritifh ft:inaction Is ;wag b Hampti n R ads. for the putt) fe of delivering the letter with which I was charged to Captain D iuglas. On arriving alongfule his (hip, the Belton*, I was invited on board and received by Captain Douglas himrelf at the gang vay. and conduCted to his cabin, where I found of fembled all the Captains of the fqtradron. I imme. informed Limn, that you had veQerday receiv ed a letter from Lim, the anfwer to which I had been ;eerie:led to deliver, and placed it in his hand. He read the letter very attetrively, and then handed it to Captain Hardy. from whom it patted to the other Captains ir, fueeeflion. When they had al puttied ir. Cain D tnglas obfervei to me, " I prefume, Sir, yati are accpiaintei with the contentsof Iris let ter." I toll him I was perfcElly fn. He then Rated that his letter muff have been mil - apprehended, that it contained no ex weft rf menace which he recol lected, and that it certainly was not his intention to tire. langtt age v.itich.c odd be c inftrued to convey fuck i]eas. He referred to Captain Hardy, fat ing that he Lail (hewn him the letter reyioufly to its being fent, and hal iequeard Iris opinhin as to its fentimen's.— Captain fl IT dy a snowed with Cap( tin Dcuglas in the opinian and a'tjeCts of the communication. I then remarked to 'hem the particidar expleffinns in the letter, shish I conflicted as the language of threat, :I'd adverted to the citcumflance of the words It imme !iatelv annulled" heire underfcored. He ft.itl, that this uridetrc ring muff have been t!o e by lis clerk, vii.littia his direClian, and had efcaped l.!s tilifer vatien ; hut again affitred me, upon his Yonnur, that if any e xprefilon in the letter wore the Prrearance of a threat, it was not to be fu under- I' nod, ' Captain D mai is nest adverted to the ennclurion of the letter, in v. hich the alternative of peace or war is left to hirrifelf. He (*aid upon this fithjeCt, that he lad no orders to commit any aet of }inanity, aid that there was no min from whofe intention or willies Inch an (die& was more ternote—that he was anal Cgs to prefer ye the relations Of amity which had ezilled betieeen the two G ,vernments, and that no at of bit (h ffild tend to interrupt their harmony, unlefs he was orcleied by his function to perform Inch acts, in which cafe, as an o ffi cer, he mini do his duty. He repeated, however, that he had at prefent no Inch orders, nor did he ezpeCt to receive inch. He Rated that he had it in his charge I te erally, to guard his The, and thole under its piraefli in, from infalt or atrin:t of any kind, and that this in all Ilitrationa he mu tt oorrie itionably do ; but that any further meat 4nre Ire wAs not at prefent aiithnrifed, nor was it his ins•ittion to take. I here Hated to him the many intolting menaces which had been c immutiticated its Noif lk, as c ming Info him. He politively denied ever having n tered any fucti—declared, if they had be - n uteri by any 'if his officers, that they were unau. thorizerl, and difapploved of by him. remarking, at the fame time, that he hoped all who knew him would do him the i jhice to believe, that lie was not in the habit tit rifiag tine language of threat. He here too again referred to an the officers to fay, if they had ever 'ward hint at any time, even while fpeaking confiden• tially to them, to utter filch ezpreffions, and they tuti;ted declaring that they had not. • A deftiltnry convocation then tnrk place between Captain Douglas, the other Capraiirs, and myfelt, which continued nearly an hoist, in the mule of which inane remarks were made, which had no reference to the firlijea of your letter, or were in any way mince ted vitt) it. Thefe, Sir, I have already communicat ed to your fell, and to all my fellow citizens, with 'whom I have converted upon this fithjetl ; but as they are ant coaneeeil with the fubjelt of your letter, I Fir dame it would he tinneceffary again to detail them bete. Ir, the c ittrfe of this crinverfati in I &feinted ' in t h em . as we ll as I was able, the fentiment which uaivercally prevailed through ut the effitritt y at this time, the rattle from a herice it preeeeded, and the 'effsals it would produce, piovidcd any effort on their Ivan !Tumid b: made to op p . fe the public refolves, las in intercourfe or fupplies. I explicitly declared, thit we had as yet received nn authority from our Oia re tnnterit to proceed to acts aggreffion, but t h a t sae were authorized, and were prepared for i!tfc flee, and for the protection of muleteer. and J on i art y ; to pr aye which, ?placed :11 the hand- of t ' a , tail, ilnatzlto an extraB from the letter of y er ror Ca ell m Brigadiet General Mathews, which 1 had made for that pturfe. I concluded by warn. j -g hint again net to fend any of Iris officers or people n funre, fit tl'at if he dii, the arms of the civil an t r, I did tot believe, would be able to prnteB them trr.ra the `vsitgeance ot an enraged penple—that ahis might le ist tin contCepiences which might p flibly he yet aver ted ;'and i( tie was lineete in the rent's. vents he bad eipS effect, he would be anaiiinst pe• (riot IL.ch :e:ulti. Captain Douglas and all the Cap- aim declared, that they were aware of the prefent Hate of the public feelings, and deplored the circitni. dances which had excited it—that they did not intend to expofe any of their people to the refenrmant of ours, which they could conceive wat highly it:filmed —that as to lupplies they did not want any at prefent, but when they did, they fltruld not attempt to pro ewe them in any way which would excite the oppo. fition of the citizens of this country. • Upon the fubje& of intercourfe, he did not ca pe& to bald any with the pe"ple of this country, nor, was there any occafion for it. lie only wilhed to he permitted freely to cornmonicate with the accredited Officer of his G vernment here, who had been for mally received and recognized by our Executive, and whole funaions he prefumed none but the Govern• ment had the right to put down. As to the parti. colar manner in which this communication might be carried on, it was a matter quite indifferent to him. He had no objeflion to that being regulated by nue felves, in any Ns..iy which is judged proper, and that he would certainly put fue the rnide which might be ftiggefted as .rioff agieeable to us, provided the chan nel of communication was kept free and open. To this I dated, that I had no authority from any perfon to enter into any engagement with him ; hue that as an individual I would flare, that the letters he had forwarded under cover to you had been lately deli vered, and that therefore, 1 prefumed any other dif. patches of a like kind would he treated in the fame way. But upon this fribje6l, I could only refer him to you and your affociates for information. He then (fated that he would to day write an anfwer to your letter, which he would forward as before, and I left his (hip, Captain Douglas again repeating the fub. (lance of what I have already hated. From the moment I approached the Bellona, to that on which I left her, my treatment from Captain Douglas, and all his Officers, was marked by as much attention, politenefs, and refpea, as any genie man ever received from others. My particular friend Mr. James Taylor, jun. accompanied me nn hoard the Britifh (hip, for reafons that will at once fugeetl themfelves to you, when you remember the delicate and embarraffing fituation in which I might be phi. ced. He remained on board the whole time with me. and was a witnefs to every thing which palled. I have read to him this communication, Sir. in rude' to afccrtain if my recolletlion was corral, and he accords with me in every ilatement here made. I have forwarded a copy of thi. letter to the Go vernor of Virginia, and to the Federal Exectuive, believing that at this time it is the duty of every ci tizen to keep his Government well Informed of every thing which may be ufeful. I arn..refpeElfully, Sir, your molt obedient fervant, (Signed) 6 L. W. TAZEWILL.9 ' To Richard E. Lee, Erti. Mayor of the Borough of Norfolk.' s His Majefty's (hip &Wins, Hampton Roads, the 6th July, t goy. • Sir—l have the hnn.,tir to Acknowledge 'he re ceipt your letter if the 4111 itilLint, in Anio/er to mine of the preceding (lay, regretting that the B: i tifh Consul might be reamed t his powers. As every circomliance :dative to the above corn muni:Ation WAS f,fully dilcdred in prefence of the gen:ler:nen deptt ed by the magifiracy of Norfolk, at. hearers i f your ...ifpatch, 1 have only in addition to remit k, that, as far a , lam individually concerned. every exertion fhall be uled that can, confidently with the honour and dignity of the Britifh Rig, tend to an amicable let minati-n. I have the honour to be, Sir, your obedient humble fel !Ant, (Signed) • Jo s. DOUGLAS' • To Richard E Lee, Efq Mayor of the Borough of Norfolk, Virginia." _ _ - THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. FRIDAY, AUGUST at. PRICE OF STOCKS • niIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK: cog mousy 641 —for AuguA Sat —Omnium, par—Red. 04 63 3 pa C. Navy 66f —l. sch Bilk par. Is. pr. PRICE OF STOCKS YESTERDAY. 3 p. Ct. Red Ann 6,f India Bonds is dif. par 3 per Ct Cons 62ii5 N xcil , q. Bilk, par 2S. diE 4 prr Cent. 8 i ii. Uranium + pre. c Cs Navy, 944 I Confols for acc. 6211 L°ll -• Ann. 18 1-16 1 1 WEST INDIES. By the Venerable, Captain Law TAS• from Barba• does, arrived at Liverpool, the following letter has been received, dated from " BARBADOES. JULY is. 0 Admiral Comeau!' difpatched his Malcity's chip Ehmistca to Surinam, from Antigua, on the 2111 June, to take the trade from thence : the had not arrived on the 3oth. Thireen fail were ready: they will be el - cored to this ifland by the Domialca, and from hence by the ARA 2, to England. 4 . The following French privateers, viz. l'Erneuf, of 14 guns, and 123 men, and l'Eclair, of 14 ditto, and 95 ditto, are cruizing 6o miles to windward; the Alert, of 22 guns, and 215 men, was cruizing on the 14th June in lat. 26. long. $5. The Jena and Duquefnc, of i 6 guns, 130 men, are to fail from Guadeloupe, on the 24th inliant, in company.'" • AMERICA. We have received New Yolk Papers to the 16th ult. The intelligence contained in them is, we are happy to Rate, rather of a fatiofaeLny nature. A perfon, derted by the Magiftracy of Norfolk, waited upon Commodore Dotrot.as, to obtain lime expla nation from him on the fubjeti of his letter to the Mayor o f that town, and to :rice:lain whether it was his intention to recur to hoilile proceedings. The anfwer of Captain Dot:cats; was as temperate and conciliwing as it could rflibly be. The report of the pc:fon deputed will be found in the preceding part of this paper; and it will be feen,from Commodore DOUGLAS'S fecund letter, that the rumours refpc&- ing the bombardment of Norfolk, t' generally cir culated in the United States, were wholly unfounded. He lifclaims any intention of reforting to :negates of a hoLiie charaeter. DANISH MAIL. This morning arrived a Mail from Tonningen, bringing Hatuburgh and Altona Papers to the 16th inftant ; but no dit'patches fir our Government, and even no letters to the Foreign Minifiers were received by this conveyance, a circumftanee which has excited confiderable furprize at the Government offices. We underaand, mrreover, that the letters fent from this country to Tonningen by the mail of the th, have been returned this morning. We are at prefent unacquainted with the caufe : but it is pro bable that the Br itifh Agent has quitted that place. The face of affairs in Denmark teems to be Come. what changed from the pacific afpea they teemed to have affumed towards this country. As before Rated, Admiral Garman had allowed the Danes five days (from the Jodi to the 15th) to confider of the pro prkty Gf allowing the Brititk forces to occupy Co- penhagen and the furrounding country; we do not know what anfwer was returned by the Danes, but the molt vigorous preparations were immediately made to refitt the landing of the Bririth troops. The batteries were inhantly manned, the guns loaded, military commanders fent for from all parts of Den mark, and every poffible arrangement made to repel holtile attack. By an article to the Aiwa Papers k appears that Mr. Jacitsom, in his audience with the PRINCI Korai., at Kiel, officially called upon Denmark to declare for one party or the other, as from the via lent meafurts adopted by France towards this calm try. the neutrality of De -mark could no longer be resognifed. His Royal Highnefs is faid to have re ceived Mr. Jacasos with the greatell coolnefs, and the anfwer he gave was that of a high fpirited and independant Soveieign. 14e laid " that t)enmark would confider every Power as her meaty, who attempted to riot/ire H6IL M F uTRA• CITY." roe P.oice ;lot oitly left KO, as it is faid, with a !it'll deterrtun4tion not to furrender the Daniih Navy, or eld!flil a finale Engin (*oldie,- into Copen hagen. His Royal Higintels arrived at Copenha4en on the n) .ruing of the I 11/4 inftant, and his pretence is laid to have infpired joy and confidence into all ranks. When the laR accounts left Denmark, ttie Danes were labouring, with redoubled energy and vigioir at their batteries, and in the equipment of their fleet : in the mean time they admit that our fl:et completely invells the ;Rand of Zealand. Mr. JACKSON was Rated to he at Hufum, on his return to England, the object of his million boring thus completely 1. fled. • We have now to look with redoubled anxiety to the conduit of our Naval and Militaty Commanders t l in the Baltic Expedition, We true} that not a tingle moment will he unneceffatily confumect in negocia. tion. Danger and contempt are attached to doubt and irretolution ; and if the Danes are allowed eight days longer to improve and inerrafe their fortifications, and embody and organize the popula on 1.1 the capi tal and the Mani stn which it is rlttlAted, the force which has been fent into the Baltic will perhaps hardly be equal to the talk of reducing them. They have now the Prince Royal at their fusel_ and with the Danes, as with cuirith fobjeas, we prefume the Royal Name is a tower of Itrength. The following letter from Elfineur is not the lean alarming proof of the great probability of hotlilities between this country and Denmark ; e. Ea SINFUIt, AUGUST rt. " Some of the merchant veffels b dto Copy)• hagen and the Bade, have been ordered by the Commander in Chief of die Brititb Fleet, to remain here until further tit dets." COPENHAGEN. AUGUST R. Of the Fir ii Divdi , n of the EnglA Fleet which has pafTed the Sound, and fever.4l fail of which hive been teen from this city, a p.tt has re , urned, and a part h 36 anchored ne..r the Ifle of HAvean. This trivia tn confliis of the follfming (hips; Ships Guns Commanders Prince ot Wilms S Ad. GA Mat R. COM. in Chief 7 /Calif in MACKE! , 2.111 4 Admit Atmore, ad in corn. Pompec ' 4 l. await* I)Aciess 0.'11,11,0 r Sir 94111011 L HOOD Centaur 74 a Cenral,' " ' Spu err • • 74 ---- Stomata Bruufsvick . - 74 — 7 -- Guavas Goliah . 74 Puos+ Diziwor • 0 4 CAleratLL Ruby 64 Du A Pia Cambriap 38 The Surseillante, of 38, (the frigate in which Mr. Taylor arrived) the Thunderer of IS, F ur y / 4 12, Zebra of 12, Veluvius of to, I-141cyon, end Sappho - . of 16, Tutbulenr, and Sphinx of t 4, Combatant of 22, two (loops, the Yarmouth and Goodtaill, and a bomb ketch. The fleet pallid the fortrefs of Cre. nenburg on the 33, faluting and receiving in return the falute of the fortrefs. • Should any inadmifflble demands be made on the part of the Engli(b, our oppnfition to them will be at once patriotic and determined. Sir H0)12 POPHAM is expetied here tomorrow, to negotiate. The atnifh fleet is by no means completely fitted our, but every preparatinn for defence is making. COPENHAGEN, AUGUST it. Lail night we received an Eliafette from Keil, and immediately after all the Generals and Admiral s afrembled, and early in the mnroing orders wer e given to mount and map the batteries of nur port, and workmen were ordered to alembic at Holm, and moment our liming batteries, flatbottomed boats and ►etfels of defence are all lying out in the road, or proceeding thither. The road &etching to El's. neur is occupied by cavalry, and the garrif of Cronenburg has been rtinforced ; in (port, all need. Cary preparations are made to repel a hoftile attack. • Whether fuch an attack will be made, and whe►her the Engli(h have really the intention to commit her. tilities with this country, remains yet uncertain. In the mean time the Prince Royal unexpeeedly arrived here this day at noon, to the great joy cf the inhabitants, and immediately hanened to the Holm. The Engin fleet is (kill lying atanchor about three or four miles from this place without haring under• taken any thing. It is very lirong, a chain of frigates and cutters stretches from the fleet pall this city, through the Great Belt into the Baltic. Mr. Taylor ib (aid to have fet out for Keil. HAMBURGH, AUGUST ts. According to the laft accounts from Schlefwig, the Englifh (hips were Rationed quietly round the ifland of Zealand, and did not appear to intend to comn.i: hoßiliries. The fears which their unexpefled ap pearance had occafioned are much diminifhed, and it is hoped that the honourable neutrality which Denmark has hithetto maintained will be refpated by all powers. The two Princes of Oldenborgh are arrived in Schlefwig, from England. There is a report, that, acc , nding to the lareft advices from London, the Cabinet of Sr. James'► has fent other orders to the Commander of the fleet in the Sound. ♦oGUST 15. Mr. Thornton, Royal Britilh Mini(ler at the &ells of Lover Saxony, and Mr. Ceckburne Englifla Con ! ful, have both left Altooa for England. ALTONA. AUGUST 14. Letters from C 4 pe►.hagen of the gth inflant Rate, that the Ctown Prince was houtly expeCled there from Kiel. At the latter (lace Mr. jackfon had an suclience of his Royal Higbee's, to demand- 7 f , Whether Denmark intended to decl . ►re for or againfl England as its neutrality, owing to the violent meaftires ad• pted by France, could no longer be acknowledged." • The Pt ince is Paid to ban. declared that he would confider every Power as his enemy that fit.uld attempt to violate his neutrality. In the evening of the fame day (the Bth) he let out for Copenhagen. The britifls men of war, v ith the troop flips, form a complete line of circumvallation r"und the Ifland of Zealand. Some div:limis have alto entered the Great and Little Belts. Admiral Keates, with four fail of the line and tome frigates, paired the B 4 on the 4th innant. between Copenhagen and El 4? Deur there were on the Bth eighteen fail of !be ling betides frigates : in fart the Englifh fleet forms a tele• I graphic line from Copenhagen to Keil aetween the Ifland of Sisltholm and the Swedifla coal% two Englifb frigates and tome fmaller veffels are etrri;ing. Qn the 6th two Englilh frigates and two brigs palled Copenhagen for the Baltic, fuppofed for st. fined; burgh and Memel. The Dapifh beet remains in the fame Bate as be. fore, and up to this day no preparations of defence had been made by the Governors. The Englith nee; receives plenty of fupplies s fur which they pay ready money. This afternoon an ancient commercial bottle here received advice by Etlafette, from Swllfund. Roliotic) that the French had been repulfed, with great l •fs, in two attempts to take that place by affault, the beginning of this week. STETTIN, AUGUST tr. According to the lad letters from Swinemunde t two Englilh brigs and one Swediflt are cruizing off the ccraft, which frequently approach the beach ntufket (hut, and keep up a heavy fire on every military pull they fee. Danifh bottoms only are permi►ted to enter ; a:l others are obliged to apply for palrpotts from the King t f Sweden. ZURICH, JULY 28 M. Moutloa, Chancellor of the Helvetic Confedty• raj, is to proceed to Paris ; whither loon of er, M. Dc Wattanville, late I..andamman, is to follow him on a particular PRIVATE LrrrEits. A.t.toaa, Aucrust ta.—By the IA advice; from Slefssig, the Englifh fhips continued quiet in their fhb tion rr.und Zealand, and did net Teem to intend any hoflilitie,. The apprehenfions excited by their Linea peCted appearance arc much Wrested, and it i, lir ped that Denmark's neutrality, fo hrmourably Mahn/Ski• eJ, will every where be refpreed. IiAMBURGH, AUGUST 14....• The hopes contained in the above are firengtherred by the letters from Copenhagen, received here yeflerday, which Pate, that every thing remains there as before, there heibg no figns of ho'llility on one fide, nor meafrires of defence on the other. Many flatter 'Lem elves that the pretence of the Englifh may be a means of ena bling Denmark to maintain its neutrality, as France mutt fee that Denmark cannot declare itfelf againft England ; and if the French enter Holftein, they mar expea the Englifh immediately to take poiefion of Cronenhurgh, and of the Danifh fleet. Others are not Co fanguine, and fear it will be kw pnfiible for Denmark to be inaCtive ; nor i. it likely the Englifh will let their troops remain a ny lunges on board the traniports. 1 i We have here now 60cto men, =My Sparta. 1 1 who behave very well ; more, it is laid, are CO