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RIF:7 I I 11.- STATE PAPERS. anlassvornsuca OF MR. KING, VMS AMItICAW MINISTRI, WITH LORD HAWXLIISIIRT. Grist Cumberland Place., March s 3, dos. My Lord—The decree of the Vice Admiralty Court of Nafrau, a copy of which is annexed*, con demning the cargo of an American veffel going from the United States to a port in the Spanill colonies, upon the ground that the articles of in- Docent rnerchandize ccimpofing the fame, though &waif& neutral property, ,were of the growth of Spain, having been fanflioned, and the principles extended by the Prize Courts of the Britifh iflands, and particularly by the court of Jamaica, has been deemed fufficicnt authori ty to the commanders of the Otips of war and p rivateers eruifing in thofe fees, to fan upon and capture all American velrels bound to an enemy's colony, and having on board any article of the growth or manufaiaure of a na tion at war with Great Britain. Theft captures, which are vindicated hj what is termed the belligerent's right to diarets his enemy by interrupting the fupplies which his habits or convenience may require, have produced the firongeft and moil ferious complaints among the American merchants, who have teen, with indig nation, a reafon affigned for the capture and con. fifcation of their property, which is totally difre garded in the open trade carried on between the • t Britifh and Spanifh colonies, by Britifh and Spa nifh fubjeas, in the 'very articles, the fupplY of which.byneutral merchants,is unjii Illy interrupted. The law of nations, acknowledged in the treaty , of amitq, cottimerce, and navigation, between the United States and Great Britain, allows the goods of an enemy to be lawful prize, and pronounces thofe of a friend to be free While the United States take no meafures to abridge the rights of Great Britain, as a bellige rent, they are bound to refitt, with firmnefs, every attempt to estend them, at the expence of the equally inconteflible rights of nations, which find their intereß and duty an living in peace with the reit of the world. So long as the antient law of nations is obferied which proteas the innocent metchandife of neu trals, while it abandons to the belligerent the goods of his enemy, a plain rule exills, and may be ap pealed to, to decide the rights of peace and war; the belligerent has no better authority to curtai the rights of the neutral, than. the neutral has to . do the like in regard to the rights of the bellige. rent; and it is only by an adherence to the anti. tin code, and the rejeCition of modern gloffes, that fixed and precife rules can be found, defining the rights, and regulating the duties of independent Oates. This fubjett is of loch importance, and the el , fential interefts of the United States, thole policy is that of peace, are fo - deeply affefted by the doc trines which, during the prefent war, have been let up, in order to enlarge the rights of belligerents, at the cepetice of tho:e neutrals, thht I (hall, with• out loft of time, fubmit to your Lordthip's deration furh farther reflal ion s refpefting the fame, as its great importance appears to demand. In the mean time, as the decifions referred to cannot, from the unavoidable delay which attends the prefecutinu of appeals, be fpeedily reverfed, and as the alai of thofe decrees will continue to be the unjuß and ruinous interruption of the Ame rican commerce in the Weft India fees, it is my duty to require that precife inftruftions (hall, with- out delay, be difpatched to the proper officers in the Weft Indies sad Nova SCOUR, to correet the abides which hare ariten out of thefe illegal de. cotes, and put an end to the depredations which are walling the lawful commerce of a peaceable and friendly nation.—With greatconfideration and , refped, I have the honour to be, your Lordthip's myna obedient, and moll humble fervent, Lord Hawsastroar, &e. &e. RUFVS RISC. nowainc-sraest, APRIL 11, 1801. Sir—l hive the honour to acknowledge the re ceipt of your letter of the iath of left month, and to inform you, that in confequence of the reprefen tattoo contained in it, a letter has been written, by' his Majefty's command,.by his Grace the Duke of Portland, to the Lord Commiffinners of the Admi. ralry ; a ropy of which letter I herewith inclofeto you for the information of the Government of the United States. I have the honour to be, with great truth, Sir, your moll obedient humble fer vent. (Signed) H•WILISSURY. Rvvvs Kiwo, Ef¢ Arc. ace, WPIITIIIALL, MAY 30, 1801. My Lord—l tranfmit to your Lordfhips here with a copy of the decree of the Vice Admiralty Conti of Nalfau, condemning the cargo of an American velrel going from the United States to a port in the Spat:tills Colonies ; and the raid de cree having been referred to the confideration of the King's Advocate General, your Lordfhips will perceive from this Report, an extraft from which I instate, that it is his opinion, that the Cent ence of the Vice Admiralty Court is erroneous, and found ed in a soifapprebenfion or mil-application of the principles laid down in the decition of the High Cours of Admiralty referred to, without attend ing to the limitations therein contained. In order, therefore, to put a flop to the incon veniences arifing from thefe erroneous fentences of the Vice Admiralty Courts, I have the honour fignify to your Lordfhips the King's pleallo e, that a commankation of the doftrine laid down in the laid Report Mould be immediately made by yrair Lordfbips to the fevers' Judges preilding iii them, letting forth whet is held to be the Ltw up. on the Cub) by the Superior Tribunals for their futoreguidanceanddireCtioa. (Signed) PORT LA gm The Lords Canuoiflosters at Admiralty. AAAAA CT OP THII •DTOCATI GE%IIRAL'S as roar, Dario 14•RCII 16, shot. I have the honour to reran, that the fenrence of the Vice Admiralty Con , t appears to m: tr.°• menus, and to be foundcd in a mirapprebenfinn or milapplicatioa of the principles laid down in the • Is the a& of the Aawrican brlgantirta 1,-rmard. carat, G. its ievrte.rteml morn the SAL. am , . Odkra • Sp trd'hTerri parts of that deeifiete of the Court of Admiralty referred to, without attending to the limitations therein con tained. _ . _ The general principle refpeeing the colonial trade has, in the cootie of the prefent war, been to a certain degree relaxed in confideration of the prefent fiats of commerce. It is now diftinetly derltoed, and it has been repeatedly to decided by the High Court of Appeal, that the produce of the colonies of the enemy may be imported by a neu tral into his own country, and may be re-exported from thence even to the mother country of inch colony; and, in like manner, the produce and ma nufaCtures of the mother country may, in this cir cuitous mode,legally find their way to the colonies. The dire& trade, however, between the mother country and its colonies, has not, I apprehend, been recognifed as legal, either by his Majetly's Government or by his tribunals. What is a dire& trade, or what amounts to an intermediate importation into the neutral country, may fome time he queftiun of fome difficulty-- A general definition of either, applicable to all cafes, cannot well be laid down. The quellion mutt depend upon the pat ticular circumftances of each cafe, , Perhaps the mere touching in the neutral country to take frelh clearances may pro perly be confidered as a fraudulent evafion, and is, in effeEt, the dire& trade,but the High Court of Ad rniralty has exprefily decided (and I fee no reafon to eApea that, the Court of Appeal will vary the rules) that landing the goods and paying the duties in the neutral country breaks the continuity of the voyage, and is fuch an importation as legalifes the trade, although the goods be re-fkipped in the fame veffel, and on account olthe fame neutral proprie tors, and b: forwarded for Pale to the mother coun try or the colony. A true copy from the files of the Department of State. Jacob WAGNIR, (Aief clerk. AMSRIC4 WASHINGTON, MAY IL We halts with the lull polfible delay, to eonuounkate to the Public the following important letters refpeding the dirpoti tics of Tripedi and Algiers, received by the eterzetary State. EXTRACT OF A LITTER FROM COL. NVNPIIREYI, TO ThII SECRETARY OF 'TAT!, HATID MADRID, APRIL 14, 1801. " I think I cannot difplay too much , eagernefs in communicating to you, by different convey ances, the news this moment received 17 me from Algiers. I haiku then to tnnfmit copies olCon ful O'Beran's letters to the 6th infant, which , came to me through the department of the Firft Minifler of State of his Catholic Majefty. From the fart of theft letters you will learn, that the Bey of Tripoli having refuted the 'radiation of Algiers, the prefents fent from thence, knd the bills ofCon ful CATHCART, was determin ed upon war.againft the United States, and was fending biscruizers to tea accordingly. It is devoutly to be waited that he may foon - have ieafon to repent this wicked and nth procee.ling at his leifure. As ii is a confider. able time fince Conful CATHCART, (whom I con. fider a very Lithfnl and vigilast pnblio officer) took the wife precantion of giving.extenlive advice of the great probability of this event, I cannot but hope that our unarmed merchant veffels will not be expiated to the hazard of falling into the poireG fion of thote pirates, but that they will rather be de r , tamed in port (however inconvenient or expenfive it may be) until they can be proteCted by armed vcfrels of the United Slates, adequate to the pur pole. On the policy of repelling force by force, and of blocking the fairts of this aggrefror, I can add little to the motives which I have already had the honour to offer. 1 may, however, juft be al lowed to fay, that the circumllances teem more than at any former time to reduce us to the alter dative of having a few frigates and light armed veffels in'the Mediterranean, or of relinquithing our tiade in it. To be at war with one of the Barbary powers, fobjeas our commerce to nearly the fame rifque as to be at war with all of them. To chaflife that haughty but contemptible power, which now dares firil to intuit us by its aggreffion, would certainly terve, not only as a falutary ex. ample to the other particular States, hut it would produce an almoll incalculable effeilt in alleviat. ing our national charatter in the eftimation of all Europe." Algiers, tbs tell of April, dot. Sir—The Algerine corfairs are as yet all in port, and wait the refult of the fecond million to Con liantinople. I hope foniething will come forward (roan the United States before they fail ; if not, I , have my fears. On the infant, I fent to the' Dey, requefling he would permit a fecond letter I to be wrote by his orders n) the Balbaw of Tripo li; be anfwered that his letter had certainly gone fate, and would anfwer the defired sth—this morning at 8 A. M. the Prime Minifter of Algiers font a chiauz or conflable to use, to in. form me that the Americans were in arrears in their annuities nearly three years ; that what has, been fent lately•is very trilling, and that the Dey is not well pleated at this neglea or detention. I anfwered by my dragoman, to give my belt re fpeas to the Pi ; to inform him that in our left lettlement we arranged the annuities for two years and nine months; that one year was confidered by the United States to be omitted ; that we had brought fundry floret fince (in the ,Sophia and Wafhington) which were not counted; that great eom millions of timber and other articles we're wrote for or ordered by the regency on the annuities; that theta articles, I expeded, were preparing in the United States to be thipped for Algiers ; that ode rivers were frozen till March. ant? that by - this time I expeaed Laid articies were thipped, and would of eourfe comae forward fuffi ' cient to anfwer all the requifiee flipulations on the part of the United States, whiCh were due to the rekt-ncy. Ilse Prime Minilier ohferred, that we were much in arrear, more to than is cuaranary t 9 ad mit any natinn ; that he hoped three requitite ar ticles on the annuities would loon arrive at Al giers ; that they were the chains of our friendfhip with the regency. This looks !squally. (Signed) ascea,. D o'sans. Tie Haw. We. Starr., at Liam. *ti t ters, the 6th erAprn, riot. Efteemed Sir-7erlerday I received letters from Conful CATHCART, dated Tripoli, the issth and 26th of February. Die aafhaw of Tripoli has , difreguded the friendly letters and interference of the Etey of Algiers; has rejeeted to receive the pre feats I fent from Algiers. Conful CATHCART Of l'fered to give him bills, &C. to the amount of 35,000 dollars, to pin time to have reference to , the United States; but this was alfo rejeaed. Our treaty is in a manner declared void, and the Bafhaw of Tripoli has fent his corfairs to lea, with an in. tent to capture Americans. He wants war, and he fhould have it. Even ifhe lhould accept oldie bills, I have not money or credit to pay or anfwer them ; furthdr, it would be eitablifbing an example for Algiers and Tunis to make greater demands, and I have no filch powers to a& without a refer ence, on loch a great affair, to the government and Mr. Snit-K. I have fent many important pa. pers on this bufinefs to Mr-M(1111'00M ELY to copy and forward, and am In hurried, that have not time to add more to infbrm you of this impending danger, and to saute you, Sir, of the fincere re. gard and elleem of your molt obedient fervant, (Signed) RICHARD o'slitm. Ham Colonel Hum , at Madrid. The requilite precautions fhould be taken. I have wrote circular letters on this event to the Conful. in Spain, Gibraltar, and Mahon. Copy of this letter you will pleafq to forward to the kie• cretary of State and Mr. Sulrts. Yid!imitate it port with Malay wi”n. Th a• it twofer 4 Wines, thowih rAretarly int! tir:ted Stow. Wit tohdenined by (on f • K.uin bcr. deo.. the time being prededions of thr tart' its Furor, orillootod to the traoLtloni: Es.rirc." LONDON. AN Enacavaa's Addrefa to Sir WILLIAM Dszeier, and Mara Caawar. and Horns', Oa anew tagnotTow Or Monday. THURSDAY, JULY g. PRICE OP STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK: 3 pa Cent. Confols, cz die. 6of ft—Ditto, far opg. 61. Reduced 601--.4,M Cent. Eemf per Cent- 95+ — , New Mu. 951 915.•4[ R. AA zss pick..oll2llllng ICt. PRICE OF STOCKS YESTERDAY. 3 per C. Red. 61 60f Loog And £8 7-26 f 3 per Celle. ConL 60 if Skeet Am. 346 4 per Cent. Or( Sof V* Imp. 3 per Cent. 60 S tKr C Nriy Sisf Giaolumo to gt so P9r Cr JAY. 9 0 1 Cal far Ace. The Aips on the Secret Expedition, which we announced tohave failed from Portfmouth on the 29th ult. put into Torbay, and continued there till Sunday morning 1311, when they proceeded for the place of dellination. No boats were permitted to go on board front the those during their Ray in Torbay. The American papers, which have arrived up to the gd inn. inclufivc, (late, that the Fleet which we announced, a yaw days ago, to be fitting out there, is isaithed. for the McciitcTrainath tq that tife the Barbary States) It was Rated by miftake in tome of the papers. that their Msjerrtas arrived at Weymouth at four in the afternoon-ast Fridarlalt—they did not arrive till after twelve o'clock at night, When their MAJESTIIS and the five ,Princeffes landed. The wind blowing a (mart breeze from the weftward, they were not extiefted that night I the troops were all diftpiffed, and only a few - hagglers, owine to the latspefs of the hour, remained to welcome them. Their Maissri Is walked from the place of landing to Gloucefter Lodge, in apparent good fpirits.—The former report originated in the arri val of the carriages containing Tome of the female attendants, who were inftantly welcomed (by mif take) with a royal falute from the Nor cutter and the batteries. The Efplanade was brilliantly Mu minated.—Thei r Mai sari's, the Princefes, Prince ADOLFHUS, and Princes SOrml• of GLOVCESTia, have twice honoured the Theatre with their pre tence, and intend vifiting it again this evening to fee the Critic. the .taahr. and Morton', Profit-J. Mr. RuGHIS, the Manager, in order to entertain! his Royal Patrons, has engaged a molt excellent Company of Comedians.—The Town is but thinly attended, but is expeeted to be very full towards the ckfe of the enfuing week. Two Battalions of the Fret and Third Regi ments of FoosGuards were reviewed on Tuefday in Hyde Park by his Royal Highnets the Dues of You. ..:The Pawl of WALES reviewed the Fir ft Re giment of Life Guards in Hyde Park at ten (Velvet yefterday morning ; and on Saturday next, he will review both Regiments of Life Guards as a Bri• gade, on Wimbledon Common, at ten o'clock. The Eaft Lothian Yeomanry went into quar ters at Haddington on Monday Ce'nnight. On Monday laft WILLIAM ADAMS, Efq. late • Member for Plynspton, was unanimoully sleeted a Reprefentative for the Borough of Totnefs, in the room of Lord Garnets •Ssysioua. On the fame day Lord Cr-inseam ways_eleeled Member for Plymptort, in the MOM of Mr. ADAM'. Mr. MA I•DayiLL a, Secretary to Mr. Missy. left town on Monday for Dover, on his way to Path to join Mr. Mx tar. Lord Gaon° c Stryssooa is appointed a Caw maroner of Excite. OnMonciey the Duke ed Delmore ta t arrived at Woburn Abbey, to ,joitt Mr. For, and about thir teen otherpoliocal Friends of the Duke of B1191)11). It ill Ibis annual Turtle Feed. Mr. WHIRLS, the tallow chandler of Kenfing ton, who died laft wreck, .has left to an only fon apoopool. The daughter of Mr. Boat. who was nearly chofen Prefident of the United States. was, about fix weeks ago, killed by lightning in Ariserica. Yeßerday a Court of Direitors was held at the Eat India Houle, when the Court voted wool. is the Committee at LLOYD'S, for the relief of tKe Widows and Children of the Soldiers and Sailors who tell in Egypt.—Mr. Joiim CRAIG was (worn ihto the command of the Caledonian ears /hip, deflined to Madras.—The Court adjourned at o'clock till Wednefday next. Itifuricia lA'rELLIO.EAMIE. • MAILS THIS DAY.-Wind S. S. W. •au•c a 001 o H2olbOtgal 2 o Dublin 2 i Ware/ford • Donnighadre s Li!We • FALMOUTH, JULY 6. This day arrived a Anil from Lifbon„ brought his Majelly's packet rimer. ADOLPHUS, which place ibc left on the 23d ult.—The Pitirce WALES and WALSINCIIASE packet; had arrived out, the formtr on the lyth.and the latter on the azd June. The Ynarros frigate arrived on dm 30E11. The packet on her palter (pate the Mun son i e, hound w Egypt with troopt;dl wejl. The Oporto fleet arrived out all well e *Orr couroy of the NUTLE Y. hrothing further was publicly known at Lilo& refpeiting the terms of peace between F rance , Spain, and Portugal. when the packet failed ; but • it was generally believed at Lisbon, that the Por. tuguefc pui ts would be flue againft this Country. —The packet brought 24 paffengers,among whom is a Melfenger from th 4 Portuguqfe Government, who went off immediftely on his landing. Arrived this day, the Aclrsva Excife cutter, Captain Kre Milli Tidal a cruise, aid has brought in whir her two fasuggling•Vdrals with 4go an. kers of fpirita from GuitifeS , ..:Alie Do v cut. Ariti ttdeer of coatirrs from Wales; and the American brig Reward, Capt. Haotett, in a 6 days from Bolton, with a(hes, canon, Ste. far orders ; the latter brings an account that four American frigates and two (loops of war had failed from Bolton for the Mediterranean. Sailed the Arne. rican fchooner Harriet, Mauls, with tar for Drill tol ; and Saanwica tugger with the brig tranfport Supply for Cork, PLYMOUTH, JULY p. Lail evening arrived here the Swedlfh Eah dia Company's fhip Wellergothlan, Captain Lay alre r e Ro3, from Batavia, laden with fagar, cof fee, and pepper, fbr Stockholm, lafi from the Cape 'a Good Hope r the inwnset about five week* ago, by his 1 1 444}e11y% !kip Pt movie, of 18 gums, Caps, !ouvsels, and detained poder the then eaiftm general embargo, but it is tweed, the will now b.. liberated : the ?exoq se Ives on her Torte le the Earl Indies. Sailed the bicTrapuz. of74RIMIs C 414. CrTttt - eseT, tp 111 C SaaWard• witb &et tattler convoy, The Augnfins gun-barge, °item guns, J. Scare leaflet-. in rumiqg put of Catipmer this motnittg s got ashore on the Rockso the c 4,4 04 gpd he dallied pieces. LANCASTER. NEW 4. This morning arrived here, the Ardeer, amis. from Grenada,nnd the Helen, BAYNE. from Am' tips. Captain ',TogaS t ,of the brig Minerva, of Ix/etpod, arrived here oi Mnpaay lett, flaying been cptured on his voyage from Tortola fur LG rerpool, on ti e Both of April, by the Braes. French Slip of war, Captain F. Bete, 0f36 guns, of Cape Clear. The Braare tyrived at Coruna*, on the t3th of May, atter ifnecefsful creste, hav ing mken 15 velfels in about five yleeks. She had only about too men left when the arrived in port. Captain Lvwas and the other prifoners were landp ei on the 14th May, and lays, he afterwards heard that the Braave's crew were all imprelTed Coon af. to he left her. Launched, on Saturday laR, front Mr. 13roekbank's-yard, a fine new thip called 6* Thetis, burthen sgo tons, for the Weft India trade. PROM LLOYD's 'Arr. The Harriot, CN*►ss*st, from London to De• merara, has been taken by a SpAnith pri►ateer, and fince 101 l on the Spanifh main. The El Payfano, Citicav from the Spaniflt Main to Jamaica, is 101 l agar St. Andreas.—Crew drowned. The Orien, M , Laan, from Dublin to Sligo isiolt off the . Orkneys. The Lady Cremorn, (lissom, from Antigua, flruck on her anchor coming into Liverpool, and is nearly full of water. 1 1 The .Letter, Farrell, of Pool, is 101 l attlewfoend land. The Heaor (late Bent), frons Jam= /Jag, . don, foundered near Jamaica crew • The Jupiter, MUIL•TTA, from Cadiptiti Crnz, is taken by the AC ASTO and gates, and carried to - Jamaica. ARRIVED. . At Dublin-vDorgialias, Kaerfoo, from Tortola; idly. from Msrdniatic; and Lord Doomed:gm, -- I , lll = At Newfoundland.—lndalh7, Mattinws, from Poole ; Cerra ...., from Antigua. At Haimmah—Lhrohne, Co a, Mad. At St. Kites—Pals America's, De ds, Fro Philadelphia. At lamales-4deptunc, fistfli2ll; and Porkwermee, from Brinell ;Gran,' Dukc, Irming ; lames, Jamp ; Lard DUD* can, Aiken ; and Bellona, Tharp from Liverpool. At idverpool--Lroo. Murdock, tram Tortola; Thetis. Chunky, front Duminies ; Hindriftio. Finlay; id Lady Adam., lamc fon, from Ph ilx!elp ; Polly, Tracey; and Hs frorn v.* York; Staley. Sweet. from ?WA .e; N ray, Cumnungs ; Hope, spd lard Oak* Burnet. front Oporto. At BrilloM.Atitsr ' diem N w York. Bolton—AYlllisan and 7101. cry, Om, from *rad. At Cow, a—Wittura. Eetrr, front Cliarkflos. At Ncw York—Edward, HaN, from Liverpool. At Cgde.T.Potitona, Ranting and Lander. Sotwart, from Irensda ; mom I kllll6ll/1; Hammy. --••• Min Balthnort ; and Dinn., firetard, from hiewfoundlsod. At Itatiliat'l Wright; asid Harnot, CaLatk, troop At beadotiAgrParsourlbor wow., kilt Sew York. At loietrlot. Dank M. NadOCirsiias.