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• 111 AMERICAN PAPERS. (From the Baltimore Ferlrral Repuilicau, July 27.) • RUPTURX WITH MIL FOSTER. It is at length ascertained, through the bilellkgencer (we may say officially) that Mr. Foster's negociation has terminated in the manner which every intelligent politician, both sides the water, must have anticipated. Our Readers will recollect, that long anterior, and , subsequent to the Minister's arrival, the opinion has been uniformly maintained in this Journal, that no terms which England could offer, consistent with her own honour and security, would be acceded to by the Executive. The idle tales circulated at various periods, and under the most. specious forms, of Colonel Monroe's amicable and pacific temper towards England, ha►e constantly been regarded as mere stale tricks to dupe . and mislead the credulous and unwary. The sacri fices of consistency and and principle readily assented to by that Gentleman, the interview at Monticello which preceded and led to his promotion, and his verbal and written declarations of an unqualified ap proval of Mr. Madison's system, left no room to doubt his determination to co operate cordially in the established system of hostility to England, and par tiality for France. The conductors of some Gazettes Were artfully impregnated with the absurd notions, which it suited the jugglers of Washington to disse minate through their local agents and retained mis sionaries, and in spite of the strongest concurrent circumstances, they have insisted on the probability of a favourable termination to the new mission, and the equal improbability of .a rupture with Mr. Foster. Such an idea being extensively meant to subserve elec tioneering purposes, while •it was resisted by past events, and the actual state of things notoriously exis ting, it was to be presumed that independent, saga cious journalists would not be induced to lend them selves to the sinister views of men who have never failed to deceive and disappoint all who have reposed confideace in their veracity and honourable intentions. We will merely say, that a becoming expectation has been formed, that the experience now gained will pre ♦ent a repetition of those idle and absurd speculations which answer no other purpose by their propagation than to encourage a recurrence by those who origi nate them, to the arts of fraud and deception. It appears by the official Gazette of Government, that the preliminary points upon which the rupture has taken place are the Orders in Council and the English blockade of May 1806, whilst it admitted that Mr. Foster had removed the obstacle in the way of adjustment created by that blockade. Let us examine the views of our Government with regard to this blockade, entertained before the pro mulgation of the false proclamation, the consequent Non-Importation Act, and Serrurier's fatal Embassy. We shall find, that until lately, a construction was given to that measure, and a version adopted no ways presenting what has since resulted in an unsuperable obstacle to an adjustment. The ground assumed by Mr. Foster is precisely that which Administration had itself taken in a former at tempt to effect an arrangement upon the same point. The British Minister commenced the negociation by starting at ti.e very source of our grievances. Suppo sing a removal of the cause alledged as the ori.lination of our commercial embarrassments would render ad justment certain, lie evidently proposed to withdraw the obnoxious blockade. It being the pretext and jus tification of the Berlin Deciee, it was just to expect '-mand a consequent repeal of that edict—the not be said. With what 61110 then is it dr of Mr. Foster to take the fact for granted promise the honour and interest of his And yet the negocicion with that Minister has been broken off upon this point. His conduct is adjudged to be contumacious, and he will be accused of wilful blindness and obstinacy for not seeing and admitting what notoriously does not exist. But notwithstanding our very upright. just, and impartial Administration have succeeded in effecting a rupture upon the point of the blockade of 1806,, there exist proofs, furnished by themselves, of their having long since abandoned this point, and viewing it as merged in the greater point of the Orders in Council of 1809. The ensuing extract establishes the fact : and 1 I MR. SMITS TO MR. - " June 5, 1510. " Among the considerations which belong to this subject, it may be remarked, that it might have bees reasonably expected by the United States, that a re peal of the French Decrees would have resulted from the Order in Council of April, 1809. This Order expressly revoked the preceding Orders of Novem ber; 1807, heretofore urged by France in justification of her Decrees, and was not only different in its ex tent and in its details, but was essentially different in its policy." France is here clearly and unequivocally placed upon the footing of the aggressor. Great Britain, by her acknowledgment, having revoked her Orders of 1807. by the Order of 1809, France is stripped of every excuse for continuing her retaliatory Decrees ; but did she gratify the " just expectations of Govern ment ?" It will not be said. And yet our Govern ment requires of England to sanction the falsehood set up by Mr. Madison, and proceed in the negocia tion as if France had actually and bolt file revoked her decrees. There exists still further documental proof among the archives of state, explaining the kind of revoca tion alone to be accepted from France: MR. SMITH TO MR. IPINKNEY. " July sth, 1510. " If the British Government should be disposed to meet in a favourable manner the arrangement ten dered, and should ask for explanations as to the ex tent of the repeal of the French Decrees, which will be required, your answer will be as obvious as it must be satisfactory. The repeal must embrace every part of the French Decrees which violate the neutral rights guaranteed to us by the law of nations, &c. is We may here demand of the executive whether any repeal has been obtained, much less such as is required by the above instructions ? Has France promulgated any edict, verbal or written declaration, if such would suffice without the formality of law be ing to it, defining the extent of the repeal ? What do we know of the extent of the pretended repeal, further than the mere liberation of some half dozen inconsiderable vessels ? What security has been given to " our neutral rights guaranteed by the law of na tions ?"—We see neither indemnity for the first, nor security for the future. We have been penuriously rewarded by the release of less than .4200,000 value in vessels and cargoes, in return for the heavy confis cations in our own ports, under the Non-importation Act operating retrospectively on American and Eng lish property. This is all that has been done or will be done by' the Great Napoleon,' who imagines Ee hasnicely baited another trap for our mercantilegulls." We close our remarks with one other extract, which we give without comment : and den,- - MR. SMITE TO MR. ARMSTRONG. Order in Council would then he withdrawn , which would.take away the foundation of the Milan Decree. " November 2, tat s. " You will herewith receive a printed copy of the In this order and arrangement of time, all the ob. Proclamation, &c. You will, however, lest the French noxious edicts would in turn be disposed of. But Government understand that this has been done on no ! our 'Government explicitly requires that Mr. the ground that the repeal of these Decrees does in- Foster, presuming against evid..nce and undeniable volve an extinguishment of all the Edicts of France, fact, should proceed upon the err o n eous an d inad actually violating our neutral rights, ate. It is to be miscible concession that the Berlin and Milan Decrees remarked, however, that in issuing the Proclamation were already lona . fide repealed. it has been presumed that the requisition contained in Let us see how these points have been heretofore that letter, on the subject of the sequestrated pro regarded by Administration. perty, will have been satisfied." EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM MR. ARMSTRONG TO MR. SMITH, DATED PARIS, JAN. 28, 1810. NEW YORK, JULY so. " In conformity to the suggestions contained in . The British Orders in Council alone (says the Na your letter of Ist Dec. 1809, 1 demanded whether , if ttonal Intelligencer), exclude us from an extensive Great Britain revoked her blockades of a date ante- and lucrative trade to France. rior to a decree commonly called the Berlin Decree, PROOF IN POlNT.—[Fret the Aurora of yesterday.] bis Wiest) the Emperor would consent to revoke the We have received letters from Bourdeaux, of the said decree ? To which the Minister answered that, dates between the 17th of May and the 11th of June, OG. the only condition required for the revocation, by inclusive ; the former are duplicates of originals not his Majesty, of the Decree of Berlin, will be a pre- before received, from which we make the following vious revocation by the British Government of her extracts : blockade of France, or part of France (such as that " The ship Ann, which lately arrived here, entered from the Ellie to Brest), of a date' anterior to that as a French ship, though she had no French licence; of the aforesaid decree, and that if the British Go but it is supposed she had a double set of papers.— vernment would then recall the Orders in Council, She was admitted to enter on the 2d of May, with which had occasioned the decree of Klan, that decree other vessels mentioned in the annexed abstract; had should Also be annulled." she a French licence, she would have been admitted It is manifest, although Administration has re- 14 days after her arrival. peatedly admitted by the strongest implication, that ~ The Henry, of and from Baltimore to St. Sheba& France was hrst to be resorted to as the aggressor, tian's, burden 971.2 tons, Captain Jacobs, with a in applications to ibtain a repeal of the edicts against cargo of 60 tons of tobacco, put into this river on die neutral c(atinierce, they have hitherto considered 28th of December, 1809, in distress; the vessel and themselves bound to proceed in the mode suggested cargo were then seized by the custom-house, and to by Mr. Foster, ci utd such a concession be obtained bacco sold. By an Imperial Decree of the 25th of from England. They have gone one very essential April, 1811, this schooner and the proceeds of the point further, and required the only kind of proof cargo have been ordered to be restored to the owners, deemed sufficient and admissible of the repeal of the or their agents here, on condition of exporting silk French Decrees, which is designated in th e f o ll ow i ng goods for the amount. The Decree states, that dui 'extract : property is restored in consequence of the magnani- i MR. SMITH TO MR. ARMSTRONG, JUNE 5, 1810. mous and benevolent conduct of Captain Jacobs, in G. It the French Government should accede to the ', having assisted, in August, 1809, 250 French passer. overture contained in the Act of Congress (Non In- ! i gers in distress, flying from assassination in the island tercouse Law), by repealing or su modifying its de. of Cuba.' ores as ' that they will cease to violate our neutral 1 Among the vesssels not yet (17th of May) admit • xighti, you will, if necessary, transmit the repeal pro bed are . heady Authenticated , to Mr: rial;ney, by a special mes- ! - The New Orleans packet, of New Tort, which arrived on stinger," &c. • • 1 the 14th of November from Gibrakar, where part of her cargo • By this it appears Government, prior to the period t i s , ta k e Proclamation, required positi ve' his been sold. Th ner Friendship, of andfrom Baltimore, which arri t issuing -.est of the repeal of the, French decrees as entitling Got' tesbergh. • . . ilriti! - - . of is. ?root o. - . of - _ Oleiri to a repeal of the 4. itish Orders. It was never. The brig Calypso, of New York, which arrived at L'Orietn in . (IMAM ,bat taitglAnd would proceed to repeal unle s s 1801, wilt re she was seised, has been restored to the owners. I of was furnihd hence the ex p li c it i se—nstructions pro The following is a list of American cargoes, ad 'tolnitted on condition of exportin French merchandise General Armstrong, to obtain and to transmit aut,:ent.cated.' to t he amount, twattlirds of w h ich to be silk goods to Mr. Yinkney the ' rePeal PrPliellY h ; • AT porapraoz. And what prAy is twain by proper authentication, I licbooner Liberty, of and from Insibdelphla. 'but a tprrsial and snlenin.reioeation, in the legal and pig Fcinale and schooner 4eolapta, of tad from &hi - SLOW:it:led MOO 4dsred by all Governoiepy in . - tschooner Soon and Emmeline and bet Weer, of w4 km" cn.itting or tescimliOlt trt*l.? Was this authentica:ed rkiludelPbia- . Opts .i oLsotioed and lent to Mr. pi n k ney 1. Has, it Boy Airrt,.of aod from Nowbtirypert. • . . Schooaer /Sad, of btarblehead;froila 411114 Lfo4 sinOn pk;ailWa kr kW GoVel - AMcla ? It Will liPbeialrr 14414,0111111/10113, .....% . 0. . ' • • 4 I :i• / ' he two last vessels were admitted some time age, or those parts of their cargoes which were composed of products of the soil of the United States ; by the late orders the remainder ,of the cargoes, consisting,l of coloniAl produce, have been admitted. AT 11/11•41/1". Ship Ann, of and from New Yurk. AT CROISIC, DIPAITIIILNT 01 LOWII 1.0111. Schooner Globe, of Baltimore. Schooners Sally and Adventure of Marblehead. AT CIVI fA MINT 01 10115. Schooner Ana Grielo, of Newhaven, Irons New Yurk. Ship Hero, from Boston. The following vessels have arrived in the waters of the Garonne. with French licences : Schooners Marlins, colphln, and Vest* of Baltimore, front New York. Brig Ptak', of New York, from Dunkirk, In ballast ; she has also an English as well u a French I•cence. Brig Anna Maria, of New York, but last from London, In bal- Int ; this vessel has both an English and a French 11111111. The following are with French and English names at Bayonne: Schooner Spencer, of Philadelphia, from New York; and the schooner Purse, from ditto. _ _ THE EVENING STALL departmeftts, and to prevent the latter from Lei% troubled on account of editions of the aforesaid work► which they may have published anterior to the re• union, and ruinous disputes between them—upon the report of our Minister of the Interior, our Council of State agreeing, We have decreed, and do decree as falows Aa r. I. Edhietis primed wirier to the Ist of January.lsll, in the Departments of the Vitt, Moth, and SOrts NotiNary Divi sions, of works printed in France ulterior to the sar.•e epoch, and constituting a part of private literary property, shall not be con sidered counterfeit, provided they are stamped before the Ist of i January nest. 5. Cereqesetty--Itlitere, Printers, sail all Booksellers, or others, in auy way trading hi Books in the aSeve-tlesixtrated De penman., who may be Proprietor, we ►e possevien of any r• them, are bound to declare to the Prefect of their Deparrn,. • the umber of envies they possess 4 the said editions. The il i . firc.s will transmit a copy of these declareturns to our Directet- G,tteral for Bookselling. S. Them copies must be presented, in each Department, at by each Printer or Bookseller, prior to the lit of October, to the Commissioner delegated for that purpose, and the first page k, each of them carefully &tamped; after which they may be (reel sold throughout the Empire: 4. The Booksellers shall be bound to pay the Authors or Pro prietors. the twelfth part the tel.cile of the sepias declared by them to be in their warehouses, or at their disposal, anJ that too every six months, in proportion to the sales they make, which shall he determined by the number of copies that remain of these they produced. S. On the lst of October, the stamps shall be sent back to our for Book-selling, after which time all copit4 of editions, that shall be found without the LONDON. . SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 14. PRICE OF STOCKS THN DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. 11 per Ct. Cons. for money 6151—Ditto for account Of S per Ct. Reduced shut—Navy Spec Cent. Safi 4 per Cent shut—Bonds Ifs. pre.—Omniuro dls. to par. Each. Bills (sd.) is. dis. to is pre.—Diuo (31.1.) 4s. Ss. prem. We this morning received Paris Papers to the 6th instant, from which we make the following extracts : Our Readers will see that they do not contain a single article on the subject of the Peninsula : vamp, will be considered 'parlous ; and those upon Munn sa..y are found, subject to the punishments settled bT the Laws and our Regulations. 6. Our Grand Judge, Minister of Jestice, and our Minister for the Interior, are charged, each to as much as /neatens him. with the execution of the result Decrees, which shall be insert. ed in our Bulletin of Laws. (Signed) NAPOLEON. BERLIN, AUGUST so. Different letters from, Pomerania give us very de- tailed accounts respecting the coasts of the Baltic. It was for some time feared at Stralsund, that the would be interrupted with Sweden, because official information had been received there, that some English frigates, and many brigs, cruized between Stralsund and Ystadt, and gave chace to every vessel they perceived. The departure of the mails were suspended for some time. We have since lard that these ships have left that station, to return by the Sound to. the North Sea; in consequence of which, the Packet boats have been suffered to depart, and the communication between Sweden and Pome rania is entirely free. The ships of war which were seen at the entrance of the Gulph of Bothnia, were stationed there the beginning of last month.--We are still ignorant of their ulterior destination. The re sult of all the reconnoitrings we have been able to make, is, that the maritime force of the English, in the Baltic Sea, is not considerable. The enemy is not in a condition to attempt any bold enterprise, nor execute a disembarkation.—There are no troops on board the ships. The measures of defence are such, though roughly organized throughout Pomerania, as to have nothing to fear. The militia perform regu larly their military duties, and are greatly admired for their excellent discipline. All is tranquil upon the coasts of Mecklenburg ; they are well guarded, and by the precautions adopted. no contraband trade can be carried on. The news which we receive from the Prussian coasts is extremely favourable.—( Gazette de France, Sept. 5.) MILAN, AUGUST 25. To-day being the nativity of her Majesty the Em press and Queen, there was a Court and spectacle at the Palace of Monza. The Ka) al Institute, in the Sitting of the 6th of May last,' voted an Address to his Majesty the Em- . Our advices from St. Petersburgh are to the 18th i. ult. The most important fact of a public nature re lated in them is, that an Agent from Bonaparte had *. `arrived in that capital, to demand peremptorily and 4 : . immediately the repayment of the Dutch Loan. The Exchange fell in consequence • to 14d. and it was thought likely that it would be reduced to 12d. • . It has been mistakingly supposed, that the Empe. ;.. ror of Russia had released what are commonly known .% by the name of the Teneriffe ships. Those set at li- , berty are noticed in the following Ukase, and consist of particular vessels detained since the last year. It ' is.probable that a long time - must elapse before the v owners obtain possession of their goods, from the dif ficulty of providing the security required : IM 'ERIAL UKASE. " After bearing the opinion of our Council and the Minister of Finance, we decree as follows :- 1 "1. Nine cargoes from Gottenbergh, ten from Veld t and the , Was Rebecca from Philadelphia, the origin of which to esepici• ous, shall not be released without previost. gearantee. . 1 "2. Ilse cargo of the /Ade from Angray is aft is be ad. 1 i mittel after the eel& of the amantactunal goods is esserd um been proved not to be English. r • "3. The proposition of the 31mmittee Natasha the prio 1 elms cortiscarloo of 12 cargoes said to have coma took Rio la mire MA ether pasta of the Brealle, is only to be carried into meanies with regard to those owners who wish ter slate for i fundable sididleat proofs. All the rem shall be delkeithely ottediassed. An appeal is allowed. " 4. Per avoiding an unnecessary loss of date we further Dr. erne :-1. That the Cottons-homes are to deliver the gods Into the hands of the owners, on indubitabk security being given to the used value. The security may consist of real pledges, or the guarantee of two bottmo.-2. in ease the owner should wish Ito sell the goods publicly, he may do se—S. Merchaadise sub. fact to decay or injury shall be mid Immediately, sold even if is be without the consent of the owners; Me proceeds shall In dr . posited at the Custom-house, or at the Ike& " July, 1811. (Stasi) The Carlsham ships in SWeden have been brought into jeopardy ; and eleven of them purporting to have Danish and Prussian property on boar 4 have been finally condemned, and on the ground of main taining the “ Continental System." In order that the subject may be more fully under stood, we shall subjoin one of the Acts of Con,/emna tion, with which we have been favoured, for the in. .formation of the merchants : His Majesty the King of Sweden, Heir of Norway, lite. By our most gradous King and Lord, We, the undersigned, Comndsdoners appointed for the nation of all ship loaded with colonial produce at the Beni Carlscrona and C.arishamn, hereby make known as follows : It being in proof, that the cargo, which has been brought hither by the ship s according to the clear anlevideot contents of the documents for ship and carp, has been. shipped at , for account, and to the consignment of and no other facts or circumstances having been alledged, confir med, or proved, either by the Master, or by any ocher person whatsoever: And as hie Majesty, by his Duress et the 4th April, 7th and e2d of May, of this year, has considered colonial produce. in con furrnity with the obligations entered into for maintaining the Cot. tinental system, to be liable to confiscation, the cargo of he In virtue of this Act, has been cnnfiseated and adjudicated to i.is Majesty the King and Crown of Sweden, against which judgment no claim is allowed. This measure (to all appearance an hostile one), it is stated, in letters of the gd inst. has been citla ) td till the present moment, from the dread of Sir James Saumares ; and has been at last enforced, when the season is too far advanced to admit of our inActing any serious injury on the Swedes, by the exertions of peror of France, containing sentiments of regard for his sacred person. His Majesty the Emperor and King was most graciously pleased to receive it, and remitted the following letter to the Italian Institute : " Count Paradis, President of the Institute ! After having recalled Italy to the glory of arms, my care has been to recall it to the ancient honour of the Arts and Sciences. For this end I have given my King. dem of Italy that form which to me appeared most conformable to the progress of Italian literature. " The sentiments which the Italian Institute have expressed for me, are guarantees of its zeal to second my intentions. The present having no other end, pray, M. President, Goa may have you in his holy keeping. (Signed) ' MAMMON." 1 1 1 1 Palace of St. Cloud, June 15, tell. AUGSBURG, AUGUST 14. Since the navigation opened this year, 84 vessels have arrived at the port of Archangel, of which 44 were Americans. The number of ships that entered Cronstadt from the 10th June to 15th July, is SI ;- 1 of which 31 were Americans, and 14 Prussians. VIENNA, AUGUST 29. Letters from the frontiers speak of great move. ments among the Turks, and of important expedi tions which they are on the point of executing. It appears that the Turks place the greatest possible confidence in the Grand Vizier, PARIS, SEPTEMBER 4. Palace of St. Cloud. August 24. _ - " CIA Ka " Napoleon. Emperor of the French, King of Italy, - _ our fleet, part which, amounting to five sail of the Protector of the Confederation of the Rhine, Media. line, under the orders of Rear Admiral Durham, ar rived in the Downs to Thursday, for the purpose, as An account haNfing been given of the state of it is understood at home, of reinforcing the British Printing and vending of Books in the depatments of sluadron off Flushing. 4,1* Hanseatic towns 'of Tuscany and the Roman' Five mil of the line and two frigates came out of Staten—Wishing to reconcile the rights which are the Tezel liftw days ar. but as soon u .hey disco vered our blockading fleet, and alihougi, it consisted of guarantied by our laws and dengue( the l i terary eel, three sail of the line ' yet the Mynueers wets property of authors, with the interests of our subjects ' g em ' wow tams w i t h s pnlis L A. s i de 6 the Bookallers and Printers of the abovegneutioued quatur. ' • _ - • • ~` I 3 1 i 1 kt a