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.41118 R ICA. Naw You. Jaw. 15.—About the time the Dela ware, which arrived yetterday, failed from the Cape of Good Hope, a (hip under American colours ar rived at that place, and fent her boats Arne for pro. 'limns. The Governor, fufpe6ing her to be an Eng lith veffel, feized ree men that manned the boats, and put them in confinement. He, however, gave a let ter to Captain nurse, of the Delaware, addreffed to the Captain of the fufpeaed veffeL Rating, that if the was really American (he was at liberty to enter the port. Captain F. delivered the letter, and found the was an Englifh (hip, called the Jefferfon, former. ly the Rattlefnake (loop of war, from Rio de la Pta• ta, where fhe had been about two years. Captain F. further Rates, that a Britilb fleet was daily expelled at the Cape, when probably a very important change would occur in the fituation of that place. Information, which we believe•may be depended on, has been received in town, that Emperor Ds :- SALINE s has made a treaty, or at leatl is negotiating, and likely to make a treaty, with the Englilb, for fupplies for his ifland from Jamaica. Attempts, we underfland, were made on Friday evening to fet fire to the College, and to the Metho dill Church in Duane-Rreet. The Truftees of the College, in confequence of the attempt to fire that building, refolved, at a meeting on Saturday, to ap point a watch to guard the place. It is alto laid, that attempts were made the fame evening to let fire to the Mechanic Hall, and the Brick Church. The trial of Judges Shippen, Yates, and Smith, is progrctling a: Lancaßer.—On Tuefday lag the Court of Impeachment being opened, and the accufed having appeared, with their Counfel, Imola sou. and DALLes, Mr. BOILEAU, Chairman of the Managers, delivered a long fpeech, embracing a num ber of authorities in fupport of the profecution. The Sill part of the fpeech is detailed in• the Aurora of Friday, and occupies four columns. Only three wit teas out of 23, had been examined on Wednefday. A duel was fought on the tith ult. between Gso. STROTHiII. Efq. and JONI, M. LUCHIT of Louilville, (Ken.) On the exchange of the third fire Dr. L. was mortally wounded, and expired in a few roitutes. Captain MATCH ITT, who arrived at Boßon on the lath January, froni Jamaica, Rates, that the Eng lilh had fent a third expedition againtl Mucca, and entirely dellroyed the fettlement, with all the pepper it contained. Colonel Butte, as a preparatory meafure to his trial, in confequence of his duel with General HA MILTON ' has declared his intention of vacating his feat in the Senate pro tospae. A bill is now going through Congrefs, to almoft interdkl out trade with St. Domingo. Whether France be at the bottom of it, we know not certainly, but it appears it will almoft flarve the black Emperor Dassault's. The merchants are Hill in arms againft the bufinefs, and firong remonftrances are prefeuted againft its being carried into effet!, by the different Chambers of Commerce. Jueoma BosAraars and his Lady Hill continue at Baltimore, after repeated attempts to fail to Spain. It is afferted, on the authority of the mallet of a trading velTel arrived it Wilmington in the beginning of January, in t 8 days from Jamaica, that ply/ions to his failing he law a Proclamation of the Governor of Jamaica, prohibiting the entry of all American veffels into that ifland after May nest. This we are inclined to confider as a mifreprefentation or miftake. Jas. 21.—N0 news of importance is received from St. Domingo by the arrival yefterday. Every thing there is quiet. and indicated a well-regulated Go. vernment. The Emperor Dessausts was at Aus. Cayes when the Leander failed. We learn by this flip that an American veffel was lately captured by the French, who, after murdering the American people, put a crew on board to carry her into port ; The was, however, recaptured by a Britifh veal. When the Reward (arrived at Salem) left Boor bon, there was an embargo at the IRe of France, which took place on the 17th Augult, an Englifb fquadron of two 74's, two frigates, and a corvette,' under the command of Admiral Osaottia, having appeared off that place ; two of which were Rationed o Roderigue, and the others cruized to windward in fight of Mauritius ; it was expelled the embargo would continue a confiderable length of time. Ncu Ira' rails were not prohibited by the fquadron from going into Mauritius. One of the Company's (hips, taken by the fquadron under the command of Admiral Limo's, was dile°. vered by the cruizers clofe in (Lore, going into Mau ritius, but was cut off by one of the frigates before !be could gain the port ; feveral coaßing vefrels have been taken, and either burnt or funk by the Englith. Two large (hips, the Upton Cattle, owned by Som., Focus, and Co. of Bombay, and the Qu een Charlotte, with cargoes of fugal., grain, etc. captured by the fquadron under Admiral Limns, arrived at Bourbon a few days before the failing of the Reward. Was informed by the Captain of a French veffel, at Bourbon, from Mozambique, that there was an Ame rican (hip of fix or goo tons at that place, which fail ed from the Southern States, or River Mifliflippi ; that the Captain, officers, and moll of the crew, had died there ; a Lieutenant, then lick on (bore, the gunner, and eight or ten men, were all that remain. ad : the fpecie was on (bore, and they would not per. au:t it to be removed. All Orange veffels which come to load direely at the file of Bourbon mug embark their cargoes at St. Dennis—the ;nitration of the Adminifkrators Gent rot being formally oppofed to their going into the dif forerit roads of the illand to charge their vac's. Jam. zs.—Among feveral other veffels, Abort on Long Nand, caftward of the Hook, is Paid to be the Britilh frigate RIVOLUTIONAIRR, from Hampton Roads. At any rate, as Mr. Ewitic, confignee of tht. brig Kilmore, arrived yeflerday from London derry, informs, a large vac' of war mull be afliore irrthat quarter, as the report of the guns fired in dif trers was fo tremendl an as could have proceeded only from very heavy ordnance. Jaw. BURR ICU, of the (hip Hazard, arrived at Salem from the IRe of France, infosms,that Admiral Limois had taken three Englilh (hips, Paid tb be valuable, and arrived with them, a few days previous to his failing, at Grand Fort. The Englith fquadron that had been Rationed off the Ifle of France for two months, difappeared the sd November, in eonfequence of which the embargb was taken off, and permithon given to fail. LBW the bu again( Charal his IA attemi It it tradin of Jar to bit of Jan velfris inelini St. DI there vernm Cayes Chip tt the F people The WA Wh bon, t which Wadi under appeal oft Rc in Ile would tral ve One under vered ritius, The col been t Tsr SMITH Charlc by the Bourb Was it Bourb cican I 'ed [rot that tl died t gunne ad : tl ito:t it An the 11] Sienna melte' ittent jAn Long Brititi Road! tht br decry, itutha tress from JAN arrive Admi tb be pectic (quad for ts conk( permi DUTCH ?AMIS. HAGVII, Fill. ry.l--The Note from the s•ate Di reaory to the Legiflative Body, relative to the opi nions delivered by the Members Van Ralik and de Lange Van Wyngaarden, on the impolt which was lately decreed, is worded as follows, viz. Tat STATE DICICTOILY OF THE 'ATAVISM REPUBLIC, TO THE LSOISLATIVI BODY OF r“ a B•TATIAll CON MOHWII•LTH. Hague, Feb. r, Citizens—ln tracing the hißory of all ages, we learn, that as much as the concord and good under- Handing between thole to whom the execution of :he higheft authority is committed, have always been the corner-Roues of commonwealths, fo much has the eitcord and clafhing of the fame powers undermined the edifice of Rates, and haflened their overthrow. Our brave anceltors were convinced of this truth, and woeful experience has demonnrated, in our country, the fatal effeds of contrary maxims. It was then rea tenably to he expeded of thole, whole duty it is to take particular care of the welfare of the Rate, and of the concerns of the people, that they would not have exaggerated or mifreprefented the fatal and cri tical Rate of the country, by diffeminating fufpicion, litife, confufion, and difcord ; but, on the contrary, that they would have endeavoured to defend it, by the exercife of true patriotifm, laying slide all private fen , tinsents and unfounded oppofitions ; but, to our for row, we have lately experienced the contrary, by the publication of the opinions delivered by your fellow members, the citizens Van Hallett and de Lange Van Wynaarden, in your clofe Affembly, nn the Peti tion for the year :805, fent in by us, and the prop°- , fition founded thereon for a provilional contribution. ' We fhall not examine how far your laid Members may be juftified for making public, by the prefs, their opinions, given in a dole Affemblv (for their filence leaves no doubt of the opinions, which have appeared in their names in the public newtpapers, being really their own) I fince we readily leave to your wifdom to pronounce judgment thereon, we confine ourfelves fold, to their contents. We cannot conceal from you, that the tone and tenbc have greatly amazed us, and are in no ways compatible with the regard and decency which the Members of the two higheft con- Rituted Powers of the State owe to each other. We very readily acknowledge, that it is not, perhaps, clearable, that all the Members of a Government fhould think alike and with unanimity of all affairs relative to the management of the concerns of the country and of the people ; but we alto know, that although a man's fentiments may and ought to be delivered with manly expreffions and power of ar gument, yet this gives no right for bi inging for ward general, vague, hazarded, and, above all, un plowed accufations and infinuations againß one of ' the highelt conflituted powers of the State. It is this, and nothing elle, we have teen beaming through the opinions of the two Members of your Affembly. —We all of us, as well as you, are thoroughly con vinced of the truth, that the extraordinary conttibu tions and impolls, with which the inhabitants of the country have been for fo many years, and Itill are, loaded, are very heavy, and almoft unbearable; but we know, and you cannot dcny it, that a con currence of the molt fatal circumftances, and the confequences of the moll dila boos wars, in which the Stale has been involved, render their a paramount neceffity. There accufations and inlinuations, more over, are not only levelled at the State Direetory, but more efpecially at the Legiflative Body, as prin cipally running on °Neils which have been approved by it ; befides that, they are to general and Minute of proof, we could not fuppote they could ori- , inate with perfons who appear to value themfelves r ior a fervent, and (as they pretend) difinterefted love of their country. We may auk with confidence, has not the State Directory endeavoured to difplay other means of providing for the deficit in the exigencies of the State, which to them appeared more uniform and lets oppreßive But which of yOu have thought proper to alledge the impradicability, or at lean the exceffive difficulty, as a ground of refufal, without any other, better, or fitter, and at the fame time lets oppreffive means being communicated to us, ei ther in the reafons for the refufal, or in the confer. ences held thereon ? which filence, on your part, caufed the old way of contribution to prevail, of the propriety of which you have fhewn yourfelve: con vinced by its approval. We arc not ignorant that fairings are necellary, and that without them, let us do what we will, the. State mon be 101 l ; but we all; are any eltential favin s poffible at thisairai ? Are not many expences infeparable confequences, not only of 'the prefent order of things, bat alto of ar rangements, which, having flowed from the changes in the Connitution in 1795, mutt Rill take place ? Many expences, and certainly of no trifling nature, the State Diredory found ellablifhed, and they mull continue, according to the prefent regulation of the State, which (upon what grounds, we confett i , we do ,not comprehend) is called a connitutional anax chy. What the State Diredory has Paid, relative to the imperious necellity for contenting to the extraor dinary petition, with its confequences and appurte nances, was, and remains true ' • and, - although the Diredory bas revoked the propofition made in a note of the 7th January laft, yet the premifes of that let ter are not canceled thereby, and it has never been admitted that it contained any thing derogatory to jour Aftembly, which never can be or has been our intention, whereof we hope the majority of your Al tenthly is convinced. " The State Diredory, confining of men, who may fail, and mull fail, as long as they are men, is very far from afferting, that it could not have erred ; but furely, if it erred, it did fo with a good inten tion, and will always be found ready, whenever miltakes or .errors are difclofed to its view in a proper and fit manner, to redrefs and amend the fame. And being convinced of this, it cannot pats by unnoticed, the accufations and infinuttions dif played in the opinions of your aforefaid Members ; but owes to itfelf, to your Affemhly, and to the Na tion, to take it up; and finds iffelf obliged (without entering into an ample detail for the purpofe of re futing thole opinions) to infift, that your aforefaid Members, Van klaftelt, and De Lange Van Wyn gaarden, be fummoned by you, to Rate the ravings they alluded to, not in general expreflions, but expli citly, and with diftindion of the objeds; and to prove their accufations and infinuatiens agaioft the Directory, to enable the State Diredory, by a dal cloture and notification-x. 4 the 3faifierial intri:guei, in pleteing with as Amin of !is State, to aid coodigo pnnifhtnent on the guilty, if there be any. If they do this, the fail Citizens will be indeed men well de raving of their country : but if they neither can nor will do this, the Direllory is obliged (far from rank ing them with the true friends of the country, with out whofe difinterelted zeal and co-operation, all endeavours to rave it would long fince have proved fruitlefx), to confider them as belonging to that dais of men, who, far from loving their country, prefer, on the contrary, lillening to their own paf lions and private views, rather to increafe the public danger, by their hazarded, unproved, and undefined accufations and indications, under the talk of love to their country and of zeal for the good of the peo ple, than to contribute, by an !wadi co operation, to its welfare, and thus to recover that country, by joint exertions with thofe to whom it is really dear, from the brink of ruin. " Health and Refpetft. 7 stew. By order of the Dircdtory, C G. HULTMAN." Tile above Note is pot into the hands of the Mem bers Bath, Van Laan, Siderius, and Vander Menlen, to be taken into confidcration by the Affem• bly, how far the tame may form a point for delibe ration. PARL!AMENTART PROCEEDINCiS. HOUSE OF COMMONS, WEDNESDAY, FEB. 27. RN•RFSSOROUON. Mr. WHITE appeared at the Bu, and prefented the N. lowing Reduced Lift of the Members ebofcn to try the merits of the Petition front certain Elea.ors of the Borough of i‘llard borough. Lord Henry Petty Sir W. Milner, But. ' Robert Adair, Efq. Vikount Ebrington Lord Vifcount Boyle Lord 01;fulitone Lord I .ovaine • Sir Robert Lawley, Bart. Thomas Tyrwhitt, Efq. Henry Holland, Efq. Thomas Foley. Efq. Hon. G. H. L. Dundas Lord W. Ruffell IMMINCES. Hon. Charles Grey Hon. Charles L. Dundas. MtLIT•RY DEFENCE. Mr. WHITBREAD Made a few obfervations on the provifions of the Army of Referve AO, previous to a motion, with which he concluded, for v An Account to be hid on the table of the Number of Mcn deficient under the Army of Referee Ad, on the 29th of June, 111:4."--Agrced to Mr. WHITBREAD then moved for "An Account of the Amount of the Deficiencies in the Regf mentor of Militia, diftinguifhing between the Original and the Sup plemeNtary Militia Regiments." —Agreed to. He moved alai for " An Account of all Bounties paid by Para Officers, under the s6th chapter of the Aft of the 44th of the prefent King." After a few words from Mr. Pitt and Mr. Sheri• dan, the motion was agreed to. Mr. WHITBREAD moved afterwards for " An Account of all Penalties allulXcd by cider of the Quarter Seffion4, under the Paid Ad." The Hor.. Member then obferved, that by the ika all penalties were to be levied by feparate rates. He therefore moved for An Account of all fuels teparatc Rates as had been levied in any parith, as far as they could be made up." Sir J. BUXTON though, the principle of the mo. tion a good one; but doubted whether the motion itfell were pra&icable. The motion was agreed to. Mrr WHITBREAD moved for " Copies of all Circular Letters aticlreiTed by any of his Ma jelly's Priucipal Secretaries of State to the Lieutenants of Coun ties, tripeeling the Execution of the before-mentioned Adt."— Agreed to. Mr. SHERIDAN moved for . . " An Account of the Number of men railed under the Addi tional Defence Ad, up to the Weft period to which fuch an 'Ac count could be Made out." The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER raid. that as there was already an Account made out to a very late period, he thought that the Hon. Me mber had better word his moti4,a fo as to call for the returns lime that time. Mr. SHERIDAN accordingly amended his mo lion, and it was agreed to. Lord ARCHIBALD HAMILTON moved for • _ " Copies of al; Letters fent by the linfpeiStor General of the Army of ?eternise. to any Perfons appointed by him to of ft the Lieutenants of Counties in the Execution or the 14d A&" The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER laid, that the copies of all letters of the defcripticn; could not furely be in the contemplatiOn 'of the Noble Lord, but rather, he thould fuppofe, the 'gene ral inkalions conveyed in them. Lord A. HAMILTON agreed to amend his mo. tion, by taking out the words " all Letters," and in ferting in its room " General Infiruaions. The motion was then put and carried. MIDDLIIIX NLICTION. Mr. CREEVEY obferved, that the Committee appointed to try the &It Petition on the Middlefex EleCtior, now fitting, having continued rather longer than was expeEted, and being likely to fit fome days longer, 'he therefore thought it would appear right tl:at the Houfe fhould defer the confideration of the f,cood Petition till the remit of the proceedings of the Committee was known ; becaufe, if it thould turn out that Sir Francis Burdett were feated, then unqueltionably the fecond ground of Petition would be abandoned. He fhould therefore move, that the further confideratien of the fecond Petition be drier red till Thurfday, the z6th of April next, as it thould alfo be recollefted, that the circuit commenced on Monday, fo that the prole:Clonal Gentlemen would be taken out of town. He concluded by moving, fir ft, to difcharge the prefent order, which was agreed to: the other motion was then made and carried. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER moved to adjourn the confederation of the conduit of the Sheriffs in the bufinefs of the Middlefex Eke. tion preceding the !aft till Friday next.—Agreed to. WAYS AND MSANS. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQJER °blessed, that he could with the Horfe Duty Bill to be now read a fecond time, and to go into the Committee on Friday next. It was alfu his inten tion to move an inftrudion to the Committee to em power them to divide the Bill into two Bills, fo that the 'agricultural part of the propofed tax might be open to dirculfion, independent of the reit of it. A Ilion converfation acrofs the table took place between Mr. Fox and the Casticet.tott of the Ex- OttEckyxs, refpeding the time for makin g o bj e cti ons to the tax on agricultural horfes ; and after mutual explanation, Mr. Fox wifhed it to be recollected, that the firs opportunity of objection would be in the Committee. The Bill was accordingly read a fecond time, and committed for Friday. The CHANCELLOR of the Excnsossa then moved the intlruaiop to the Committee, of which he bad before given notice.—Carried. Ent HOME POPHAM. Mr. GREY role, and after alluding to a notice of an Honourable Friend of his (Mr. KINNAIRD, thel. • abfent from town) refpetling certain additional pa pers concerning Sir Home Popham, olderved, that there were feveral other papers wanting. He there foie moved for a An Account of all Re pairs,_c. O. • the Romney, when fitted out In September and Oclokr, iSoo, and the capence attending the fame." After a few words from Mr. W. DICKINSON, the motion was agreed to. Mr. GREY tren moved for 0 An Account of all Repairs or Alterations of the Malts and Hull of the Romney, in the Months of Odober, November and December, tam, together with the expellees of the fame."— Agreed to. He then moved for The lateft Report of the Survey or Elimination of the Scr.- fible, and the Expence of the Repairs of ,goo, with the mow., of the Stores furnifhed to the Paid Ship."—Agreed to. Alfo, " An Account of all Repairs dove to the Romney act Senftble, and other Ships under the comnt.nd of Sir Hotue Po:. ham, and of all Stores furnithed to the laid Ship,, partteularr.• I the Separate Expences of each Ship, atui Amount of Stuns. Agreed to. Mr. GREY then moved for "An Account of all Repairs done to the Romney, and th other Ships under complai' of Sir Home Popham, at the Cape cr . Good Hope, and of all Stores fumilhed at that Port, particular: ring the Q2 , antlty and Expctice for each Ship. '—Agreed to. Mr. GREY then moved likewife for ,“ An Account of all Naval Stores bought in the Red Sea, &c. for the raid Ships "—Agreed to. Alfo, " For the Entriesand Dircharges. /ie. to and from the dif ferent Ships, with the Dates and the Names of the Skips of Mr. D. E. Bartholomew."—Agreed to. Alfo, " Fur a Copy of the Order of the Admiralty, refpedlirg the Laid D. E. Bartholoincw."-.-Agreed to. He then moved, " Fo: an Account of thentoe of Service of the Paid D. E. Bar. thojomcw, captain!' any Broad Fes. that might have been placed before his name, previous to his being apprehended and reilored to the ferric e." Sir W. BURROUGHS objected to the word "ap. prehended." He thought it was too hurtful to the feeling`, and fhoold therefore prefer " taken up," or any other expreffion. Admiral MARKHAM contended, that as Bar tholomew never was difcharged from the fervice at the time he left it, he could not be confidered as a man impreired. He therefore mull be of opinion thae " apprehended" was the molt proper word to be made tile of in this inflance. The orders fent to Sir Home Popham were to turn over all the Officers of the Romney. Why he did not do fo, remained for him to (hew. Mr. GREY raid, he had no will to make ufe of any word that might be unneceffarily hurtful to the feelings of any perfon ; but the whole of the eaquiry might be objeted to on much the fame grounds. Mr. STURGES BOURNE faid, that tome cir• cumfiances relating to Mr. Bartholomew, made past of the defence of Sir Home Popham before the Ad miralty and that Houfe. Mr. GREY obferved, with refpe& to the objeetioa to the word he bad ufed, that Bartholomew did ac tually belong to the Navy at the time he had abfent ed himfelf from fervice ; that notwithßanding the order of Sir Home Popham, he was on &ore, and on this being heard and cpnfidered, the Lieutenant of the prefs-gang took him, and carried him back to the fervice to which he belonged. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER Paid, there could be no doubr of the fait, that Bartho lomew was taken by the prefs gang. Would it not therefore be the better way to ufc thofe words in de fcribing a fat which came the neareft to the trait[ anion ttfelf ? Why not fay, taken by a prefnang, and carried to the Nore ?" Sir HOME POPHAM Paid, he would relate the tratifaftion to the Houfe as well as he could. It had bees &flirted by the Gallant Admiral oppofite, that he had orders to turn over all the petty officers; now, he believed, the order was to difcharge the crew.... He had brought home with him a number of Officers, many of whom, on arriving here, went on more t 9 their different connedrions for their recreation. Ho believed the eircumltance was mentioned at the time to Lord Keith; he was then under the eye of a commander in Chief. They were all paid up their wages to the time of hauling down the pendant. Mr. Bartfolomew could not be a deferter, nor be con& dered as fuch, fence he was afterwards made an Aging Lieutenant in his Majelly'. !hip Inflexible, of ' which the Commanding Officer was very well known to Lord St. Vincent ; and furely would not have been, in that cafe, fo treated, had he been for a mo• ment confidered in the light of a deferter. Mr. GREY mentioned, that it appeared to be, upon a confideration of citcumflances, that the or der was given. Sir HOME POPHAM laid, that Mr. Bartholo. mew was treated jut} the fame as the other midthip men, and had Lie money paid up. He was treated in common with all the other officers, and the crew were turned over to other !hips. He was himfelf un der a Commander in Chief, when the Officers, many of whom were known to Members of that 'Lac, went to their different conneeions.- Admiral MARKHAM fait:, that according to the fpeech of the Baronet, it would be thought Mr. Bar tholomew was Come young Gentleman known to many Members of that Houfc, inflead of what he ap peared to be on entering the fervice, a landman, and afterwards becoming an able-bodied feaman. • The SPEAKER. (poke to order, and the motion was then put, amended according to the fuggetlica of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and cart ird. Mr. GREY was furry to trefpals further on die Houfe, but he begged to prefent a petition front Captain Mitchell, complaining of the fake reprefcr t..- lions made by Mr. Bartholomew, affecting the ch t• ratter of Captain Mitchell, the fubflance of which Lc had alfo tranfmitted to Mr. Madden, and praying the Houfe to grant hi:n an opportunity of vindicating his charaaer from the allegations he complained t, either by calling him to the bar of the Houfe, or b;" fuch other mode as to the wifdom of the Houfe thould teem fit, The Honourable Member con cluded by moving, that the petition be laid on the table.—Ordered. Mr. GREY then moved " For • Copy of the Affidavit and Letters referred to in the Petition he had prefented from Captain Mitchell."—Ordertd. Mr. W. DICKENSON moved " For a Copy o the Cc.rtfficate of Mr. )3artholomew's having puffed his Examination for a Licutenant."—Ordered. Alfo, " For an Extract of the Molter of the Entu rpri7e, re lative.to Mr. Bartholomew's bring taken by the Prefs•gang."— Ordered. • Mr. CANNING moved " For Copies of Corrdposidence between the Admiralty, ar the Board of Naval Enquiry, (.41 the st.l , j , it ei the Paperiff iii 1