Star. — London, England, 1805-10-24 00:00:00

r THE DISPUTE WITH iIItIERICA 'We have already had occafion to notice, that a 1 very general and vehement indignation prevails in the United States againft the conduft of our crui tcri, and the decifions of our Atinfiralty Courts ; and that the Ambafrador from the United States has prefented a memorial upon the fubjed to our Go vernment. We are told even by forte among our feives, that the complaints of the Americans are but too well founded ; and that indeed fuch has been our hatly violence, that the Americans may be driven to meafures of reprifal. Upon a matter fo important and ferious, it cannot be unfeafonable to confider the nature of the allegations againft us, and which form 1 the perpetual theme of the American declaimers in all their haunts and eomoanies in this country,where. I - the habit of long intereourfe, mutual language, fi::iilarity of manners and former relationfhip, they find themfelves fo much at home, that they are regar ded as a part of our own community, and are per mitted to exercife an influence over both dot politi cal and mercantile affairs, which neither their wif-' dom nor difinterefiednefs entitle them to pofrefs. The States of America are obvioufly placed fo far beyond the immediate dials of European politics,that the American Citizens are enabled to reap adianta ges in trade from the confufion that prevails among the Kingdom's of Ettrope. And our naval fitpetlo city having compelled our enemies to keep their vef felt at home, the carrying trade of their foreign Oa bliffiments is concluded almolt entirely by neutrals, of whom the greareft number are American:. This fyfiern has, therefore, obliged us to adopt a very ri gid fcrutiny of Ainericin vefrels t and it is from the 1 exercife of it that the complaints againft nor eruizers rriginate. But before we afrert the juflite and expe. dienty of the tneafure, let as confider the fad on •hrbiet is is founded. The produce of the enemies colonies is carried by American veffcls, with diffimulated papers,' to the United SULU; it is there landed, and again (hipped fu Europe in American vents with diffimulated rapers. The original intereft in the property remains unchanged, and is, during all this circuitous route, Ain the enemy's. This is a notorious fad, and is as well known in London, as that an immenfe arrear of debt ii (hie by the Citizens of the United States to the merehanti and manufacturers of Britain. In deed it is a trade which we ourfaves prattife; and till very lately, though not at prefent (for reafons which Shall be afterwards mentioned) the greateft part or I nor Mediterranean Commerce was managed under neutral flags. and efpecially under the American. Now, with this indifputable ftatement of a fad fo public, in what conftfts the injuflice of ordering our eruilers to be vigilant towards neutrals, and find in the inveftigation of American cargoes t The fan . tiny uhich we pradife, and which our enemies would alto pradife if they bad the power, and which they do pradife whenever an opportunity occurs, is no thing more in its confequence than an inctinvettience attached to the nature of the employment of neutrals by Belligerents; and which, inftead of being a tub jed of diplomacy, ought to be confidered by the American in the rates of his freights. If it be true, that the American Government has adually been fo 2 impolitic as to interfere in 'ramie-RI matters of trade, and the American A rnbalrador has adually addreffed 4 a memorial to out Miniftry, we mull prepare nut (elves for a revival of the old difcuffion about neu tral bottoms, interlarded with all the infidious fluff and quibble of TALL' TRAM. and his Moral fraternity. The doctrine of neutral bottoms is founded on (Mae fort of analogy which is fuppofed to mall between a Ship and a State ; and beeanfe belligerent nations, (except, indeed, by thofb reftoters of barbarifm, the French) have always refpetted the perfons and pro -1 perty of their opponents refident in neutral countries, 1 it is Whited that the fame refped mould be extended to what may happen to be in the machines that bear the heraldric fymbol of thole countries upon the feas. But the refpe& paid by Belligerents to each other in neutral territory, is not a matter of right, but expe diency, a thing of immemorial cuflom, and no more related to juftice than the Popifh &flattery that pro teds criminals; and its oppofite on the feas is intitled for the fame reafon to the fame deference. Situation only cannot affeFt the intrinfic quality of things ;--- cuftom alone is the preferver of privileges. /The property of a Britifh or a French fubjea remains as intriafieally Britifh or French in a neutral Rate, or a neutral veffel, as in the Britifh orFrench dominions; and the cuftom that proteds it in the one cafe has no letter foundation that the pradice which feizes it in ',.... other. But this is deviating from the point more . uncchately in view : the complaint of the Amer-- 1 1 : ins .againft us, which, if at all to be the fubjed of 1 hicuffion between the two Governments, fince we :lave (hewn that it neceffarily arifes out of the nature 91 the cafe and immemorial ufage, mull be anfwered -vith a complaint by us againft the Americans ; and .71iichever of the two nations chews the greateft tea : ::n for its recrimination, let the other make atone m 7nt. We have no doubt, that independently of DU %mous equivocations, both with refperff to the fulfil ment of the Treaties of Amity and Commerce, and the condud of the American Government and Citizens, with refped to the political interells of this : entry, that a monger cafe of commercial injury :,sight be made out by us. With reference to the influence which American Citizens ppffefs in this country, it .ought to be borne in mind, that the infurance of the world centers In, Lcndon, and that in the community at Lloyd's the Americans ezercife no inconfiderable portion of that influence to which we allude. They are there daily in the habit of effecting infurances, and have hitherto perfuaded many of the Mules writer: to cover their rifle, although a proof of propel, king injured in Britain it admitted by the enemy at an authentication of it being Brit property. Underfianding by the decifion of Sir WILLIAM SCOTT, in the cafe of the Effez, that our cruizers were authorifed to be vigilant and - rigid in the fcrutiny of American veffels, the American Broker: have inlayed in their policies a clanli, by which the Underwriters are /Hole enough to bind theofelver to fettle for a total loft in the event of detention or fekure ly Brito endure. Thus making the policy verbally obliga:ory, but really illegal, it is to be hoped, that the Underwriters will take an early opportunity of afeertaining the point in a Court of Law. The in. fertion of this claufe, where the property infured is not warranted American, is equivalent to a confef lion that it is the enemy's, which cannot by flatute authority be lawfully infured in this kingdom. It would, perhaps, puzzle a clearer head than even Sir WILLIAM SCOTT pOffelieS, CO ay what fhould be Ali& done vith a cargo originally French, but in fured by the claufe referred to, and detained by, any of our cruisers ; for the property, by the infu ranee, becomes Britiih, and belongs to the Under. writers. However, as there points are only touched to thew what ufe the influence of the Americans is applied to in this country, let us fee what are the , confequences that have arifen from it, and whether they may not furnifit our Government with as many reafons to ficcufe the American Ship Mailers of deliberate treachery and perfidy, as the Government of the United States can alledge against the Inlay violence and tyrinn) of the Britith Officers. If the irrafcibilit' of two or three Commanders of Frigates be matter of complaint againfl the one, why may not the profligacy of the Commanderi of merchant (hips be retorted by the other ? It has been mentioned, that till lately we ma naged a considerable part of our Mediterranean trade under neutral colours; and particularly under the American. The American is now univerfally rejelied, becaufe during the 14 fpring and rummer, alrboft every one of the American (hips, loaded by our merchants, or Infured by our Underwriters, fell into the hands of the enemy ; fo uaparalleled was the bad fortune of the American (hips in the Mediterra nran trade, that a fafpicion began to fpring up, at firft as tb the integrity of the deftination of the voyage, but at laft, as eircumfiances unfolded, it cams zrtt that a flrong motive was offered to the American Shipmafters not to lel too fur from the ene-! nty's toe, and the events proved how little able their honetly was to refit} the temptation. Whenever an American veffel, infured or loaded by Britifb fubjeas, WAS carried in by the enemies cruizers, the was im mediately unloaded, the Ship:nailer paid bii fell fr4ht, and his veffel allowed to pals unmolested whenever he defired to go. As the freight was all be cared about, it was good policy to get fo loon and fo svtil rid of a cargo, without the Straights, for which he was chartered to proceed to Italy or Malta. The loffes which both our Underwriters and Merchants fufialned by this perfidious trafficking have been ten times greater than all the aggrelions that all the Britifh cruizers have ever wantonly committed on the American trade. Our Government certainly (hewed great forbear ance in not making an effort to obtain fufficient evi dence of the part which fome of the American Ship =tiers played, in order to demand indrmnificalion from the American fovernment, and the perfons of the offen ders, aJ pirate:. Surely, however, it did not fail to communicate to the American Ambalador a Copy of Admiral Corthrowoon's letter on this fubjeCt. Since the communication of it to Lloyd's, many of the Bro kers who hold the policies on thole veffels who ran into the enemies ports, have hefitated to call for pay. ment of the lots.—Whe■ fo great a caufe of recrimi nation as this exilic, let us not be dunned and pekered with the afilietions which the innocent, unlfrufinz Americans endure from our cruizers—let as alt openly and firmly, and before we prefume to be ge nerous to others, learn to be jolt to ourfelves. At another time we intend to offer Tome reflation: on that obfolete ufage of our Admiralty Courts, the revival of which in the cafe of the Eirex has railed fo much clamouring. The French Official Joutnal of :he t4th, contains an extract from the Emperor of Germany's Proclama tion to the Hereditary States, calling upon them for a contribution in kind of corn and oats. On that part of this document, which complains of the French forces affernbled upon the Tyrolian frontiers, the Mo onteur obferves--" When Anftria, under the pretext of drawing a cordon of troops to prevent a contagious ficknefs, which never exitted, fent an army into the States of Venice, &c. in the whole kingdom of Italy there were not a French regiment, a battalion, or a company.—On the contrary, at that epoch, the whole military force of France was collelted upon the coats oppolite to England. Yet forty days had fcarcely elapfed from the moment that 1 . 50,000 French were embarked in the fl •tills of Boulogne, waiting every inftant for the prowling fcpradrons, Ind a favourable wind, when AO ria, fit ppoting the troops would have failed, had the baknefs to draw the fword ofatt enemy upon a friend, wh fe whole force was engaged in a conflict to which Aultria was a Manger." NAUTICAL INTZLLIORNCL MAILS THIS DAY —Wind S.E. AlOl. DIM AIM DUB. Deb& zi I Hanthurgit r 0 Waierford o 3 Gottesborgh o 0 ' Plazas/cc, Ocr. 21.—Since my fait arrived the Thomas, BURGOYNI, of and for Plymouth, from Swanfea ; the Prince pf Wales. Bassist, for Chicheller and Newhaven, and the Martha, Hot.- LAND, for Portfmouth and Shoreham, both from Waterford. The Hoop Mayflower, May., of and from Bude for Truro, with a cargo of oats, in run ning from the Mount Road, in a gale of wind yef terday morning, between three and four o'clock. (truck on a rock, and drove on &ore ; part of her cargo was Paved at low water, and the vefel was got off next tide. FALMOUTH, OCT. 2r.—Yelicrday arrived his Ma jefty's (hip PHosutx, of 36 guns, Capt. BARER, from the Channel Fleet. This day arrived the Auckland packet, SCHUYLER, with mails, from Lifbon, in nine days. The WaHingham packet was at Lifbon when the Auckland failed, and four fail of the outward bound Lifbon fleet had alfo arrived there the day be. fore the packet failed. His Majefty's (hip Poirot/I informed Capt. SCHUTIAIL that his Majefty's (hip l'Amiaete, on the loth inft. in lat. 41. 43. fell in with the Rochefort fquadron of five fail of the line, one of which was a three decker; it was fuppofed they were bound for Vigo: the POMONE (poke his Majefty's fhip CAMtILA, with a few veffels in com pany, going into Lifbon : it is reported that the out ward-bound Lifbon and Oporto fleets have been captured by the Rochefort fquadron, but it is hoped that Come of them may have efcaped. The Townf. hend packet for Lifbon, is under fail:ng orders.- -Arrived alfo the PrufEan galliot Nordliern, Capt. Scut:L.l - z, from Bilboa, with wool, bound to Briliol, detained by the Betfey privateer, of Plymouth.— Wind S. S. E. blows hard. PLYMOUTH. OcT. 2 a.—Came in the Stag, Captain HEWSON and Xanthus, Captain HUTCHINSON, from Peterlburgh, both with hemp and iron, for the dock yard : French brig Louifa, in ballaß, captured by the DISPATCH, of a 8 guns : CoLeors, of 14 guns, from a cruize, with the lots of her bowfprit, head, and fore-top.mall, having been run foul of at fea by the FELtx, of 14 guns: Ann, Captain PRESCOTT, from Peteriburgh, with hemp, for the lock yard : and Jungfer Charlotte, Captain OTNA, from Riga, with malls, for the dock yard. PORTSINOUTH, OCT. 23.—Arrived the FURY bomb from the Downs, with feveral (hips from Riga, &c. under convoy. Sailed la CHIF FON NA fi ltrate, LORD ELDON, and Dooms of BEDFORD armed (hips, with v . :final and Rotes for Lord NELSON'S fleet. The LIAR Hoop, Capt. LANGFORD, is appointed convoy for Madeira, Africa, and the Weft Indies. DEAL, Ocr. 23.—Remain in the Downs the Mips as per lall.—Wind Eaflerly, blows hard. GitszriocK, Ocr. 21.—The following thins have beat up through the night, viz. Herherts, HERDER.. EOM, from Grenada; Elisabeth, GALT, from ja- . maica ' • Nancy, SERVICE, from Qu ebec; and Mar garet, WEIR, from Jamaica . Th ere are other two in fight, names unknown.—A pallinger (arrived at Port Glafgow) by the Eagle, of London, Captain Kama ' Rates, that a day or two after th e g a l e , by which our late Leeward convoy was feparated, Cap tain CAMBRIDGE, of the Hopewell, informed Captain KING, that he law the (hip Union, in the morning of the gale, with a fignal of dithers flying ; that he hail ed Captain *I 4 4,ILLAN, who anfwcred that his velrel was finking, and pointed to the tea with a trumpet, which he held in his hand, thinking he could not be heard, and at that time was carrying fail to come up with the Commodore. That Captain KING going aboard of tlae Commodore tome time afterwards, en quired if Inch a (hip was feen the day of the gale ; and was informed, that a fhip was feen to bear away before till wind at about four P. M. on that day. °roar° Ft.e ET.—The following is a Lift of the Ships which failed under 'convoy of l'Atmasca gate : Flora, Tulloch ; Young Regulus, Lath ; Mentor, Chriftie t Oporto, Shepheard ; Sedulous, Ingham; Commerce, Petition; Latvia, Cannon ; Three Brothers, Patrick; from London Jupiter, Longford, and Autumn, Raiford, from Portfmoistk ; James, Jones, from Southampton ; Charlotte, Watfon, from Do. •er ; Rdpedt, Cherry; Margaret, Hunter, and Hope, Bailey, from Hull, all bound for Oporto. A letter from Lifbon, of the t tth inft. Faye—'' The convoy from Newfoundland, asvell as the convoy from England, are both off our Bar this evening fome of the velTels are already at Belleau" The Lifbon flips are as follow Betfey, Graham ; Riga Packet, Waterman, nod Dolphin, Sayer, from London; blarau, Week ; Manequi, Dring ; Olive Branch, Davis. from Hull ; Carolus, Ayre, from N,Acc.alle ; Aquilon, Blackburn, from Shield., bound to Lifbon; Nimble, Cud; Gratitude, Rowe, and Mary, Hurdle, from Lifhon and Oporto.—Total 23. Advice was received yeflerday of the capture of the Jenny, Captain SAUNDERS, from Lifbon, with dif patches to Admiral CALDER. »he is carried into Vigo. The Ptolemu•, Grening ; the Helen, Si - in:melt, and feveral other yards, arc on Ihore near Dantzic. The London, for Su►inam, bound to London, has put into Dartmouth having received fome damage. The Barbara, WTA6GART, from Oporto to Leith, was taken by the combined fquadrons on the igth of Auguft, and funk. The Ruby, of Greenock, from Quebec, taken by a Spanint privateer, is retaken by the Dart privateer, and carried into Guernfey. The Anne, (of New York) with a cargo of 520 hkds. tobacco and 45 bales cf cotton, from Virginia to Boutdeaux, was met with at fea a wreck, on the gd infant, by the Diana, Wrsics, from Jamaica, arrived at Brian!, who took on board the Captain and his crew, confining of 30 mar t having been three dart on the wreck. FROM LLOYDS LP% OitimittltivD, Ocr 2,3.—Paired by the ..:kenfield, I%llWe and the Hopewell, Warden, from Jamatc.i; Infer. Mace. front Maffei ; Britannia, Dalrymple, and the een Chat lone, Hacker, frmt Orcnn.la R Haddock, amo, from St. Luck ; Indußry, Duncan, from Trinidad ; I . 4bberts, Gladdon, front H.. • liras ; Siftem, Hartley, from Sortnam; Cove. Myatt. from T 4 bago ; Abraham, Coolest, from Memel ; Juno, Barry, from ga ; Providence and Hannah, Richard( n, from Archangel; tor, Filh ; John, Ray ; Wave, Rmfwood, and the (Net Carolina. Creed, from Petorilturgh ; Ramiro' Rorie, Horwedge, hem Ton ningen ; Amelia , Wagner, d Ihe Autumn, Seeger, from Dant. ale. Sailed the 04tavi4, Collins, fur Cbariciton, and the William, Soul Thy, for Gibraltar. AR ,vest--Off Dover, the Hibherta, ---, from Halinnt—. Off Pottfotoutk, Canada, Park, from Tortola ; Fortitude, Fal coner, from Surinam ; and the Ann, Sutton, from Tobago.—ln the Clyde, Margaret, ( lements, tr. no Tobago—Off Stroenrefs„ King George, Tur.ler, from Hndfon'a Bay, bonnd to London— At Dublin, Piller, —...., from Beneearlo; Robert, the Rod eo , —, from St P •Lriburgh—At Hull, William, Clappi. fall, from Petcriburgh—DlT Bridlington, Ruby, Brown, from Petcrfburgh. The Elbe, one of the Leeward Ifland fleet, which parted convoy the stb September in a gale of wind, p;:t into Loughfwilly on Fri Jay loft. The Captain died at fea a few days after the left Demerara. The Amphitrite frigate, captured by the Donegal, of 52 gun!, is ordered to be furveyed and repaired. Her cabin is confidered as a moil curious piece of workmanfluip, being fitted up for the accommodation fome of the Royal Family of Spain, to take an ex curfion to fea for the benefit of their health. Yellerdzy a Court of DireEtors was held at the Fait India Houf, when the extra Mips lately taken up were thus timed. viz. Sir Wiliam Benfley, for Madras and Bengal; and Experiment. for Bombay and Bengal, to be afloat Bth December. Sovereign, for Maeim* and Bengal; and Expo iment, for Bom bay and Bengal, to be afoat January. Fame and Monarch, for Bombay and Bengal. to be afloat aBth February. _ _ _ And are to fail from Gravefend at the expiration of one calendar month from the above dates. The Cout t adjourned at fix o'clock till tomorrow. EDINBURGH, OCTOBER az. This morning a melancholy accident happened at the New Dock, Leith.—Three labourers belonging to the Aberdeen!hire militia being employed in un dermining fome earth, it fell in upon them before they could make away, by which one of them was killed, atiother had his leg broke, and,the third was feverely broiled. Friday night, about nine o'clock, a fire broke out . in a tenement occupied as a bark miln and hark houfe, by Mr. JOHNSTON, tanner, foot of Havannah-Rreet, Glafgow. It was filed with bark, dried hides /cc. and burnt with great fury for fcv er al hours. hides, eleven the roof fell in with a dreadful crafh. Soon after, one of the fide walls gave way, by which drew Blair and Peter Pettigrew, two of the city fire men, both fine aftive young men, were killed. Their bodies were dug out of the ruins in lets than ten mi. notes after the fall, but both were completely dead. Another roan is laid to be miffing, and fcveral otherit have been feverely hurt. The Magiftrates, Commit. (loners of Police, a party of military from the bar. racks, and the city firemen, with the engines, attend ed on the fir ft alarm, and were indefatigable in their exertions for the prefervatitnt of order n extinguifhing the fire, which was confided to the building where tt broke out. At Ayr fair, lafl week, cloth fold readily at a con fiderable advance of price. The thew of honks was but indifferent ; the demand was great; and good (mart bodes brought high prices. On the 2Clinft. a terpeaable farmer, named Adair, in the neighbourhood 'of Cairn of Lochryan, was driving a cart loaded with wand, when by tome un lucky accident it overkt, and killed him on the fpot. He has left a widow and family to lament his lots. THSATILII COVINT GILIDIN.—Lan night the Comedy called Rule a Wife ad Have a ;lye was :teed at this Theatre. The only novelties which occurred i fince its reprefentation laft feafon, were Mifs Swirls, in the charafter of Fflifosie, and 13611Nar, in the part il of Caeofogo. Efliforia is a charaeler replete with vi i vacity, archnefF, and humour, and was play e d by .. this lady with confiderable effea. Basses. enaaed 1 Carefego hut indifferently —The attraetions of Rugais. 1 time completely filled the houfe at fecond price. , Many who are in the habit of adjuning their watches daily by St. Paul's clock, have been veryszsuch puzzled for tome days paR, to account for their watches going unufuslly ill.—The fain is, the doe* is now undergoing a thorough repair (the firft for there 30 years), and it is only thofe who are in the habit of paffing at nearly the hour at which the hands Rand, that are teized altering their watches. Pintsragam WAG sa.—Abentleman named Mar low, reliding in Wigmore.ftreet, undertook for a wager of 10 guineas to go from Piccadilly to the 13 mile-Rone, and back to Hyde Park Corner, in four hours. He ftarted yefterday morning at (*even o'clock, and arrived at Hounflow at 32 minutes paR eight. He retnrned to the fame place, after touching the mile•Ronc, at 36 minutes part nine, having one hour and 52 minutes left to perform the other so miles.— He was an hour going the next five miles, and was fo fatigued that he retigned the wager, having five miles to perform in 52 minutes. This morning the prifoners in the feveral gaols, charged with telonies, were removed to Newgate, in order to take their trials at the enfuiog feffions, which commence on WednefdPy next at Julace Hall, in the Old Bailey. Wednefday fe'nnight a man nniertook,for a wager, to go on foot 6o times round St. Stephen's Green, Dublin. in 12 hours. He went dole to the foffe in the outride walk, and performed it in ten hours and a half with cafe. It is confidered that he went in the time near fifty Englifh miles. The wager on his own part was but (mall, but a great number of bets were depending. This pedeftrtan is an Italian, who hawks artificial flowers about Dublin. He is a man between 3o and +o years of age, about five feet lots inches high, And rather Hoot made. He flatted at (even in the morning, and finifhed a little bcfr.re half pall five. The concourfe of people which were drawn together was irnmenfe beyond precedent. The fi , ft drawn Ticket next Saturday will receive Twenty Thoufand Pounds. The Lottery will finift drawing next week, and all the Twenty Thonfands are yet in the Wheel. betides other Prizes of Tea ThaufasidPounds s Five Thoufand Pounds, &c. 1111