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Exchanged fbr British Currency, upon Ll3eant Tztuas, at WEBB's I.ottery and Irish Exchange Office, 17, Lucks e•street. .4111ER1Cif. We have to tall the attention of our Readers to a most imp portant State Paper connected with oar disputes with America. It is in the farm of a letter from Mr. RUSSELL, the American ` Charge-d'Affaires in London, to Lord CASTLER 11A Gn. in answer totog st ort note from his Lordship inclo:.ing the oonchtioneirepeat of the Orders in Council, agreed to by the British Cabinet last April. Ntr, Rp! s ate: letter most unequivocally chews that the MI& rialto Government at the above period aimed at nothing more than an unconditional repeal of the Oasts in Council prepara tory to a full and amicable compromise of all subsisting differ ences, and we are the more anxious to impress, this drcurnstance tilt our Readers , because it has been whispered that America has mince risen in her dijnands, a rumour which the tetziper and con duct of the jacobinical faction at the head of affairs at Washing ' ten, affords but toe much ground for supposing to belvettfoluitlea... the hallowing is the letter alluded to : • (COPY.) 11R. RUSSELL TO LORD CASTLERZAGII. SS My imito, tf 18, Bentiock-street, 25th April, 1512. SS I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of . ale- note which your Lordship addressed to nus on the 21st of this month, inclosing, by the command of his R.., i.l Highness the Prince Regent, a copy of a Deelarat:on accompanying an Order in council, l‘hich had that day been passed. " It would have afforded to me the highest satis faction, in communicating that declaration and order to my Government, to have represented them as con ceived With a true spirit of conciliation, and with a due regard to the honour and interests of the United : btates. I regret, however, that so far from being able to pet ceive in them any evidence of the arnica. ble sentiments which are professed to animate the councils of his Royal Highness, I am compelled to consider them asap unequivocal proof of the deter mination of his Britannic Majesty's Government to -adhere to a system, which, both as to principle and fact,. originated, and has been continued in error ; and against which the United States, so long as it respects itself and the essential rights of the nation over which it is placed, cannot cease to contend. : " The United States havr never considered It their' duty to enqui:e, nor do they pretend to decide, whe ther England or France was guilty in ielationto the oilier, of the first violation of the public la* of na tions; but they :la consider it their most imperious duty to protect themselves from the unjust operation of the unprecedented measures of retaliation, profes sed by both poWers to be founded on such violation. In this operation, by whichever party directed, the United States -have never for a moment acquiesced, nor by the slightest indication of such acquiescence afforded a pretext for extending to them the evils by which England and Fiance affect to retaliate on each other. Ihey have in no instance departed from the observance of that strict impartiality , which their peaceful position requited, and which' ought to have ;secured to Ilion the unmolested enjoyment of their neutrality. To their astonishment, however, they perceived that both these belligerent powers, under The retrace of annoying each other, adopted and r at. ul practice new principles of retaliation s ..involving the destinction of those commercial and maritime rights which the United States regard as essential surd inseparable attiibutcs of their independence. " Its remonstrances, its restrictions of commercial intercourse, and its 'overtures for accommodation, mere equally addressed to England and France; and if their is Low an inequality in the relations of the United States with these countries, it can only be t ascribed to England herself, who rejected the terms 1 pit fired to both while France accepted them, and who continues to execute her retaliatory edicts on the • high seas, while those of France have there tensed 1,./ Operate. Although aIiVC to ail the injury and =justice of this s) stem, the American Government resorted to no measures to rpi ore it, which were not.of the most pacific and impartial character in relation' to . both the aggressors. • • • 4 S It Great, Prat:tip could not be pirsuaded; by g onsiderations of universal equality, to refrain from adopting any line of conduct, however unjust, for which she might discover a ptecpdent in the*conduct of her enemy, or to abandon an attempt of remotely stud uncertainly annoying that enemy through the immediate and sure destruction of the vital interests * nf a neutral and unoffending state, yet it was conti nently expected that she would be willing to follow : that enemy also, in his return towards. justice„ and, from a resi ect to her own declarations, .'to irotced pat-if:dune with him in the revocation of dui offending . • edicts. This just expectation has, however, been disappointed, and an exemption of the flag of the : United States from the operation of the hierlin and -Milan decrees has produced no corresponding modi -1 fication of the British Orders in Council. On the tontrai y, the fact of such exemption oil the part of Fiance appears, by the declaration and Order in Council oi the British Government on the 21st of this mood:, to be denied, - and the engagement of the • latter to proceed step by step with Its enemy in the wo.k fa repeal and relaxation, pa ; bcdisowned or dis, regarded. • " a q.,t France has repealed her decrees, so far as .thetioncerned the United States, has been estab lished by declarations and fatts satisfactory to them, and which, it was presumed, would have been equal ; .ly satistaitory to the British Government. A tor . :lust and authentic declaration of the French Go vernmen4 communicated to the Minister Pleuipo. aentiasy ot the United States at Paris, on the sth of 'August; 1810, announced that the Decrees of Berlin end Milan were . ro. s toked, and should- cease to ope rate on i& Ist of the succeeding November, provi ded tt.at a cona:tion presented to England, or ano ther condition presented to thr. United States should r ' • ••The act of the sth of August, 1810, emanating from the Sovereign of France, officially communica tedto the British Government, and satisfactorily ex- poUnded and explained by the practical comments of more than eighteen months, is denied to afford con vincing evidence of the repeal of the French De crees, while full proof of their continuance is inferred from a report, which, from its very nature, mnetl contain the mere opinions and speculations of a sob- ject, which is destitute of all authority until acted upon by the body to which it was presented, which' has found its way hither in no more authentic shape than the columns of the Moniteur, and for the pro per understanding of which not a moment has been allowed. " But, even were the value thus assigned to the Report just, it is still difficult to discover what infe rence can be fairly deduced from it incompatible with the previous declarations and conduct of the French Government exempting the United States from the operation of its-Decrees. The very excep tion in that Report, with regard to nations which do not suffer their flag to be denationalized, was un doubtedly made with a rtference to theUnitedStates, ; and with a view to reconcile the general tenor of that Report with the good faith with which it be came France to observe the conventional repeal of those Decrees in their favour. However novel may be the terms employed, or whatever may be their precise meaning, they ought to be interpreted to ac cord with the engagements of tl:e French Govern-. -meat, and with justice and good faith. Your Lordship will, I doubt not, the more rea dily acknowledge the propriety of considering the Report in this light; by a reference to similar Re pens made to the same Conservative Senate, on the 18th of December, 1810, by the Duke of Cadore, I (the predecessor of the present French Minister of Exterior Relations) and by the Count de Simon, ville. In these Reports they say to the Emperori (which proves that such Reports are not to be con; . -iidered as dictated by him) :•••• 4 ‘ Sire, so long al England shall persist in her Orders in CounciF, so long your Majesty will persist in your Decrees," and $e the Decrees of Berlin and Milan are an answer to the Orders in Council. The British Cabinet has, thus to speak, dictated them to France. Europe re ceives them for her code, and this code shall become the palladium of the liberty of the seas."—Surely this language is as strong as that of the Report of the 10th of March, and still more absolute; for there is no qualification in it in favour of any nation : this language has, both by an explanation from the Duke of Cadore to me at the time, and by the uniform con duct of the French Government since, been recon ciled with the repeal of these Decrees, so far as they Concerned the United States. " Had the French decrees originally afforded an adequate foundation for the British order;, and been I continued after these reports, in their full force and extent, surely during a per,od in which above an hundrc-d American vessels and their cargoes have ; fallen a prey tp these orders, some one solitary in stance of capture and contiscaticn must have hap pcued under those decrees. That no such instance has happened since, incontrovertibly proves, either that those decrees were themselves harmless, or that , they have been repealed ; and in either case they can afford no rightful plea or pretext to Great Britain, for these measures of pretended retaliation, whose sole I effect is to lay waste the neutral commerce of Anse tica. With the remnant of those decrees, which is still ,in force, and which consists of municipal regulations, confined in their operation within the proper and up deniable jurisdiction of the states where they are ex ecuted, the United States have no concern. Nor do they acknowledge themselves to be under any poll-. tieal obligation, either to examine into the ends pro posed toe attained by this surviving portion of the continental system, br to oppose their accomplish , . went. Whatever may be intended to be done in re gard to other nations by this system, cannot be im puted to the United States, nor are they to be made responsible, while they religiously observe the obliga tions of their neutrality, for the mode in which belli gerent nations may choose to exercise their power, for the injury of each other. When, however these nations exceed the just limits of their power by the in vasion of the rights of peaceful states, on 'the ocean, which is subject t t o the common and equal jurisdic- 7 7 7 7 tit* of eitest'ions... the United gtates cannot remain indifferent; ' - their States was performed, and their performance , and by quietly consenting to yield up s. rendered absolute the repeal of the Decrees, So far share of this jurisdiction, abandon their mariti me therefore from this repeal dependieg on conditions rights. France has respected these rights by the dis- , in which Great Britain could not acquiesce, it be- continuance of her edicts on the high seas; leavin came absolute, independently of any act of Great no part of these edicts in operation to the injury Britain, the moment the act proposed for the perfor- the United States • and of course , no part in which mance of the United States was accomplished.— they can be suppo sed to acquiesce, or against which Such was the construction given to this measure by they can be required to contend. They ask of Great the United States from the first, and that it was a, Britain, by a like respect for their rights, to exempt correct one has been sufficiently evinced by the sub- them from the operation of her Orders in Council. sequent practice of France. Should such exemption involve the total practical " Several instances of the acquittal of American extinction of these orders, it will only prove that they vessels and cargoes, to which the Dcctees would were exclusively applied to the commerce of the have attached, if still in force against the United United States, and that they had not a single feature States, have, from time to time, been presented to of resemblance to the decrees, against which they are his Britannic Majesty's Government. That these professed to retaliate. cases have been few, is to be ascribed to the few cap- "It is with patience and confidence that the United tunes, in consequence of this repeal, made by French States have expected this exemption, and to which cruizers, and should no other such ease occur, it will they believed themselves to be entitled by all those beowing to the efficacy of this repeal, and to the exact considerations of right and promise, which I have observance of it, even by the most wanton and irre- freely stated to your Lordship. With what disap gular of those cruizers. I pointment, therefore, must they learn that Great Bri g From the Ist of November, 1810, to the 29th Lain, in professing to do away their dissatisfaction, e:- of January of the present year, as appears by a note plicitly avows her intention to persevere itr her Orders which I had the honour to address to the predeces- in Council, until some authentic act hereafter to be sor of your Lordship on the Bth of February last, the promulgated by the French Government, shall de and Milan Decrees had not been applied to dare the Berlin and Milan decrees to be expressly Arnerican . property, nor have kheard that such appli- and unconditionally repealed. To obtain such an cation has since been made. I act can the United States interfere? Would such " But against the authentic act of the French go- an interference be compatible either with a sense of vernment of the sth of August, 1810, and the sub- justice or with what is due to their own dignity ? Can sequent conduct of the Government, mutually, mt. they be expected to falsify the repeated declarations plaining each other, and confirming the construe- of their satisfaction with the act of the sthof August, tion adopted by the United States, a report said' to 1810, confirmed by abundant evidence of its subse be communicated by the French Minister of Foreign quent observance, and by now affecting no doubt of Affairs to the Conservative Senate, is opposed.— the sufficiency of that act, to demand another which Without pretending to doubt the genuineness of that in its form, its mode of publication, and, its import, report, although it has reached this country only in shall accord with the requisitions of Great Britain ? a newspaper, yet it is to be lamented that, as much And can it be supposed that the French Government form and evidence of authenticity have not been re- ' would-listen to such a proposal, made under such quired, in an act considered as furnishing cause for circumstances, and with such a view ! the continuance of the Orders in Council, as an act, " While, therefore, I can perceive no reason in the which by the very terms of those orders challenged i report of the French minister, of the 10th of March, their revocation. _ Ito believe that the United States erroneously assumed the repeal of the French decrees to be complete in re lation to them ; while aware that the condition on ' which the revocation of the Orders in Council is now distinctly made to depend, is the total repeal of both ' the Berlin and Milan decrees, instead as formerly of the Berlin decree only; and while I feel that to ask the.performance of this condition from others, is in consistent with the honor of the United States, and to perform it themselves beyond their power ; your lordship will permit me frankly to avow, that I can - not accompany the cc,mmunication of my Govern ment, of the declaration and Order in Council of the 1 21st of this month, with any felicitation on the pros pect which this measure presents of an accelerated re : turn of amity and mutual confidence between the ' two states. " It is with real pain that I make to your Lordship this avowal, and I will seek still to confide in the spirit which your Lordship, in your note, and in the conversation of this morning, has hecn pleased to say actuates the councils of his Royal Highness in rela tion to America, and still to cherish a hope that this spirit will lead, upon a review of the whole ground, to measures of a nature better calculated to attain its object ; and that this object will no longer be made to depend on the conduct of a third power, or contin gencies over which the United States have no control, but alone upon the rights of the United States, the justice of Great Britain, and the common interests of both. (Signed) JON A. RIASELL." 1 The Rt. Hon. Lord Viscount Castlereagh. THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1. WAR IN THE NORTH. SUCCESSES OF 1 HIE RUSSIANS. Although we cannot positively confirm the intelli gence of the total defeat of the French army on the 15th, yet we are enabled to lay official details, from the Russian armies, before our Readers, from which we cannot but draw the most favourable inferences. In spite of the gasconade of the French Bulletins, the Russians have completely routed all their de tached corps or armies of observation. The defeat Of OVDINOT and of REGNJER has been complete ; while the compbratively minor affairs of Ekau and Mohilow have been such as to teach the French Ge nerals what they may expect when they come in contact with the main body of the Russian army, which is now concentrated at Smolensk, and whither they are cautiously advancing. But while the main body of the Russian army has retired almost unmolested, they have repeatedly in flicted a chastisement on their invaders, so severe as to inspire us with hopes that even a retreat may yet j be resorted to ere they reach Smolensk, where, as it would appear from the Russian Bulletins, a grand i action may be expected. The following ample details relative to the af fairs in the North, are chiefly extracted from the COM. munications brought by another Gottenburgh Mail ;•which arrived last night : RUSSIAN BULLETINS. EPROM TIM PETERSISUROII GAZETTE OF AVGIYST FIRST Bula.gTlN. " Heal-Quarters, Julr fit tf" The first army had taken an import,int position near Witepsk, and, during their march to that posi tion, the enemy did not venture to attack a single corps ; the small skirmishes which happened with the rear guard along the- river Duna, over which our cavalry often swam, to surprise and pick up the enemy's pickle's, - in all instances have proved successful. . , 46 After the arrival of the army at Witepsk, it was requisite to make strong reconnoitring parties, to observe the enemy, and to complete our mOVeMentli for the junct 1.1 tit the vconci army. . II In the night from the 26th to the 270, the COW ... man der-tn-Ch ief received information that the catchy patroles :hewed themselves upon the high road o f Beschenkowitschy ; he ordered Count Osterrn a4 Tolstoi to take, with his corps, the direction of th at road ; but he had scarcely marched three wel l , when he fell in with the enemy's outposts, and tie of them were surprised and taken, but the lbw succeeded in giving the alarm to the enemy's ad. vauced guard, which were almost immediately j motion. One regiment and two squadrons of o to . Guard Hussars charged and threw them into en it , fusion, but, being too hasty in pursuing, 11:sy in with the whole of the enemy's cavalry, by wi ne they were pursued near to Sur infantry, " Count Osterman continued his movements, s a i found the enemy in order of battle at a sossldr~ tance from Ostrowna, and the battle bega n n i t i te cannonade for several hours. On both sid e , the battle was fought with great obstinacy ; th e F rench force was much superior to ours, but the br see , 7th our troops conquered every thing ; we not o n ly re . mained masters of the field of battle, but also pa r . sued the enemy four wersts beyond his own position. 4 , It is obvious, that such an important battle could not be obtained without severe loss on our part._. The loss of the enemy was immense; the King of Naples commanded in person, and, according to the report of the prisoners, the Viceroy of kg / was wounded." SECOND BULLETIN. " Head-Quarters, July 30. a The corps of General Doctorow, who had direr• tions to observe the motions of the enemy in the vicinity of Bischen Kolwitscls, where a part cf their troops were discovered marching towards him, began to make motions, which retarded their progress. It was therefore necessary to suffer them to pass the Duna, in order to join the army which was stationed -th near Witepsk on the left bank of that river. In .01 ,ct I I --- order to perform this, the Commander•in-Chief deemed it necessary to confine him back to these places, where on the 25th instant, Count Osterman had stopped him, with a much mallet force than that of the enemy. Count Konownezyn was order. ed on this service. He replaced the corps of Os. terman, and his division was, the whole of the 26th, continually engaged. Our troops evinced equal valour and constancy. et The enemy did not gain a single foot of ground of them. Lieutenant-General Konowneayn repulsed all their attacks, and did not leave the spot till night, when he received orders from the Commauder-jn. Chief to take the position ordained to him for a ge neral battle. Meanwhile. General Doctorow paurd the Duna, and arrived at the same place. The whale rear-guard came under the command of Major-Ge neral Count Von Pahlen. They were drawn up at ten wersts distance from the head position, and the enemy was repotted to be bearing towards them.— In the interim the Commander-in-Chief received in. telligence by a courier from Prince Bagration, who informed him, that having been advised of the ap.. proach of the first army 7 and fluding Mogileu al ready in the possession of the enemy's troops, alto ed the direction of his march to Fisch, and had taken the road to Moteslaw and Smolensk—that his van guard had, on the preceding flay, had an engage ment, in which Lieutenant-General Rajewsky had [ defeated the van-guard of Marshal Davoust's army, and forced it to retreat a distance of twelve wersts. This intelligence changed the Commander-inthief's first plan, and determined him, instead of giving battle in the vicinity of Witepsk, to march towards Smolensk, and so much the more, as Marshal Da' vouet could take his march thither with his whole i .force, and by the same road. He took this bold de. termination at the very moment when the rear-guard was engaged in the hottest fight—he manoeuvred is the face of the enemy, and drew himself back in three columns. The Commander-in• Chief attributes the good effect of this undertaking chiefly to the ad. suitable disposition of Count Von Pahlen, who, by covering the army, ha's on this occasion shewn proofs of every thing that can be produced by skill and this art of war. Our troops have given wonderful proofs of courage; they have taken advantage of every position ; the borders of the small river Latehepg were defended with such obstinacy, that the enemy lost a number of men in killed. General Von Pah• len likewise understood how to rendez' the smallest defile of utility, and an ambush was laid in a suit able place in the vicinity round Gaponowschlochemaj has, on the march of the 29th, cut up seven French squadrons. a This day the second and third columns hare joined at Poritschye; the first, which goes overLisna and Rudna, covers their march ; General Mom who is only at the distance of two days march, has teceived orders to draw up his corps in the front al ~$ molinske, in order to cover the operations of the first army. Prince Bagration, on his side, 64 01 ' lug with rapid marches towards Smolinsko. M. ',cording to accounts from Lieutenant-General Coat Wittgenstein, he still continues . to hold himself s e Drina ; he 'tate' that Major-General Kilnews ab ° was sent to the other side of the Duna, has attacke d ipe Frepcl4 and made 700 prisoners." ,-. THIRD BULI.ETIN. 1 6 Head-quarters, Murat g• fi According to his Majesty's command, the al" , entrusted to my orders is destined to act separately. In consequence of which Treniained on the banks of