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- • • • I . . DEFENCE OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS. THE CLASSICAL JOURNAL, No. XV. Pr. 6a. justrublfsbed, contains a DEFENCE of PUBLIC SCHOOLS—Mr. P. KNIGHT'. PROLEGOMENA IN HO k'sfEßUM—An Account of the CLASSICAL, BIBLICAL, and ORIENTAL r.u.s. in the BRITISH MUSEUM; besides **va riety of BIBLICAL and,CLASSIpAL CRITICISM. Sold by Smaawoon and Co. and all other Booksellers. AMERICAN P4PERS. NEW-YORK EVENING POST, JULY 17. SIR. SECRETARY MUNROE'S ARGUMENTS. The National Istelligencer received this morning, in an editorial article, expresses great pleasure at the ar guments of Mr. Munroe, attached to his answer to Mr. Webster's resolutions. • As to the facts stated, the Administration Editors are willing they should rest in peace, as they re flect no credit on the Executive : and had not the ar guments been added by way of supplement to the facts, the supporters of the Administration. Could not have had a word to say in defence of their friends.— To spew that the arguments are as much against the Administration as the facts, we will examine a few of - them. The Secretary, to prove the declaration of the French Government of the sth of August, 1810, such an act as our Government and the Bri tish ought to have regarded, says " It was communicated by the Emperor through his higheit official organ, the • Secretary of Foreign Affairs, to the Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States at Paris. It is impossible to conceive an act mote formal, authentic, or obligatory, on the French Government than that alluded to. Does one Go vernment ever ask or expect from another to secure the performance of any duty, however important, more than its Official pledge, fairly and fully expres sed ? Can better security be.given for its performance? Had there been any doubt on this subject, the con duct of Great Britain herself, in similar cases, would hive completely removed it. The whole history of her diplomatic intercourse with other Powers, on the subject of blockade, is in accord with this proceeding of the French Government. We know that when her Government institutes a blockade, the Secretary of Foreign Affairs announces it to the Ministers of other Powers at London ; and that the same form is observed when they are revoked. Nor was the au thenticity of either act, thus announced, ever ques tioned." Here is an argument which appears to knock dawn every thing before it. But Mr. Secretary has forgot ten to remember one very important circumstance in this business, which, if brought into the account, will make his argument like Hudibral: gun— " Recoil, and kick the owner over." The British Government never institutes a blockade without first announcing it in the Court Gazette, the vehicle through which all pubPc acts are promul gated, and giving notice to all her Officers, that they may conduct themselves accordingly. Mr. Secretary has not pointed out to us an instance when the British Government has instituted a block ade, or have revoked a blockade, and notified the same to a Foreign Minister, when no notice ol it had been given to her Officers to carry it into effect. Supposing the British Government had sent a note to our Minister at London, stating that the Orders in Council were repealed as respects the United States, and suppose no notice of this revocation had been published in The London Gazette, nor in any shape given to the British naval commanders; but so far • from it, the Government had, in a public instrument, declared to the world, thak the Orders were the funda melit..l laws of the land, anti would never be revoked, and had issued additional instructions to her cruizers ti enforce them against American vessels with re doubled vigour : and suppose our vessels had been taken, condemned, and burned by the British cruizers, wherever they could Sind them, avowedly under the Orders in Council, notwithstanding thepretended re pealing note—would our Government in such case, have considered such a revocation as satisfactory ? Worrld they, with all these facts staring them in the face, have had the assurance to present such a note to Bonaparte, as a complete repeal of the British Or ders in Council ?. - We could expose many other of the Secretary's arguments which are, at least, as futile as the above ; but what signifies disputing, at this time of the day, ahout the Orders in Council, which are now acknow ledged on all hands to be satisfactorily revoked. The Orders cannot now be considered as the objects of the war; and the long arguments of the Secretary are as useless, as respects the situation of the country, as would have been so many columns relative to the tax on tea, which produced the revolution. If the war has any object now, it is that of im pressment ; and on this subject we have the evidence ' of Mr. Muttroe himself, that it might have been sa tisfactorily settled in - 1806, had the men who then ruled the nation teen willing to have settled it. Frizscrt Lovr.—Under the Boston head of our marine news will be found another proof of the re spect and good usage which the Officers of our loving t friend Napoleon are in the habit of bestowing on our citizens. This conduct is another proof of the revo cation of the Berlin and Milan Decrees, and presents a powerful motive for the steady and vigorous prosecution of I our war against Gr ea t Britain. PORT OF BOSTON, MIS 14. Arrived the brig Commodore Barry, Capt. Negos, of Philadelphia, forty-two days from Cadiz. Off Cape St. Vincent's was boarded from the French pri vateer schooner Lyon, Capt. Bassin ; had his papers strictly overhauled ; and by Captain Negos producing an old paper, that contained the names of several pa. roled prisbsieis of war, thin were put on bbaid of Mai on his outward-bound passage by the Governor Tomkins privateer, of New Yerk, which by chance he happened to have on board, was permitted to pro ceed, after plundering the cabin of nearly all his small stores, and otherwise ill-treating him, by several times striking him with a sword, which was broken over his back. The privateer put five Irish prisoners on board' of him. The Commodore Barry was boarded in lat. 42. 30. tong. 54. by the Bellerophon, 74.) and Crescent fri gate, from Halifax, bound to Newfoundland) treated • very politely, and permitted to proceed. • • PRBNCII PAPERS. COPENHAGEN, SEPTEMBER 14. We continue to receive favourable intelligence from our auxiliary corps. Our cavalry have sabred and overthrown the Cossacks wherever they have met them. The letters of marque delivered by the Governor of Norway have been declared vatic), and the priva teers have received permission to take prizes in the Sound and upon the Swedish coasti. Since the com mencement of hostilities, they have brought in three prizes richly laden. We are assured that Admiral Hope so much dreads the effect of the new fusees, invented by the Danish Captain, Schumscher, that he has threatened all upon the. Danish coasts with fire and the sword, if our flotillas make use of them against them.l The price of colonial products continues to fall.— Persons born in Sweden are, by virtue of a Royal Edict of the 7th instant, enabled to enjoy their pro perty, after having taken an oath not to keep up any communication either with Sweden, or any other Power at war with Denmark. Those who ftfuse to take this oath will b? sent to appointed places, to be placed under the superintendence of the police. A sequestration is to be placed upon the cargoes and other property belonging to Sweden., The Prussian- Envoy, Count de Dohna, has set out with his family for Sweden. MUNICH, SEPTEMBER 18. The disloyal wait which the enemy endeavoured to carry on against us by endeavouring to cause an in surrection in the Tyrol, will happily not be attended with any effect. All the promises, all the seductions of a foreign Power ; all the threats of a banditti which she has taken into her pay, have fallen Wore the language, at once firm and moderate, which Ge neral Wrede and the Bavarian Authorities have ad dressed to the Tyroleans. We have accounts from Inspruck of the 13th, 14th, and 15th ; all agree in stating, that the greatest tran quillity is continued to be enjoyed, and that the in cendiary proclamations of Speckbacher have not pro duced the least effect. VERONA, SEPTEMBER 14. The'Austrians appeared for an instant at Lorinzen, and afterwards marched upon Mollebach, but a company of voltigeurs belonging to Bousante's divi sion repulsed them after killing many men. The enemy has with him some bad subjects, who were driven from the Tyrol ; and among others, one called Cisentuken, formerly a public-house keeper, who, in 1809, committed all kinds of brigandages ; but the attempts which they have made to cause an insurrection - on the part of the people have been fruitless, and the detestable revolutionary protects which the enemy liLd have wholly failed. There is not on the Tyrol a single place which ' has shewn the least desire to revolt against the legi timate authority. AUGSBURG, SEPTTMBER 17. A boat which had about 150 persons on board, upon the Lake of Constance, was sunk through the imprudence of the boatmen. The number of those which perished are stated at thirty, the others were saved. The Papers ccntain many accounts of Damages done in Germany And Italy by the overflowing of the rivers. On the 14th, in the evening, the three last arches of the bridge at Munich over the Elster, fell, and with them a greAt number of people.— The number supposed to be lost is estimated at nearly one hundred. COPENHAGEN, SEPTEMBER 6. Yesterday was published here the Danish Decla r.ition of War agatnst Sweden. It is conceived in the following terms: " DECLARATION. " From the-moment when peace was concluded at Jonkoping between Denmark and Sweden, his Majesty has made efforts, equally sincere as constant, to maintain friendship and good understanding with that neighbouring State; but at the same time he could not avoid seeing that the Swedish Govern. ment, far from being animated with the same sen timents, had, but too frequently, given proofs of a different disposition. " By the treaty of Jonkoping, Sweden was obliged to keep from her coasts ships of war and cruizers of the enemies of Denmark. They, however, continued nit only to detain Danish ships quite close to the coasts of Sweden, but even seized sonic of them in Swedish ports. Rarely did she deign to reply, never did she afford any remedy to the reiterated com plaints of the Danish Government, relative - to the losses which resulted from that state of things to the commerce of D.:nmark and Norway. " In this mariner the Swedish coast in the Catte gat remained after the peace, with respect to the Danish navigation—in the same hostile position as it WAS during the war. " The declaration of war, which the Swedish Go. vernment allowed itself to be persuaded to issue against England, produced in this respect no altera tion whatever; and after the re-establishment of peace with Great Britain, the dangers which awaited Danish navigation were extended to all the Swedish coasts. The Danish navigator might have expected to find himself sheltered from all attack, from all capture on the part of the enemies of his nation upon the coast of a friendly and neighbouring nation. He must have believed that a Government which con stantly makes a parade about its liberty and inde pendence would have been disposed, had it only been out of consideration for its own dignity, to maintain its territorial rights. et." But the Danish sailors were but too-frequently deceived in their expectations, when, in the moment of danger, they sought protection and succour on the Swedish territory, where the enemy's armed boats securely waited for an easy prey. Spoiled of their property, and often pursued by the enemy even upon the Swedish continent. regret for their losses alone remained for them; but at the same tune their just, indignation was awakened at seeing the Government of that neighbouring State dispense with granting iliac protection which they had a right to expect. " The stipulation in the treaty of peace of Janke ping, which states that all property of the respective subjects of the two States, which, after the rupture, had been placed under sequestration, should be re :toted, was executed on the part of Denmark without any delay, and with the most scrupulous euctuess. • In Sweden, on the contrary, they have still retained the property of several Danish subjects. The fre quently renewed applications, in order to obtain it or value, produced but frivolous subterfuges, or promises of indemnification, which they have hitherto vainly hoped to see realised. " Sweden did not confine herself to giving those proofs of dispositions so little friendly towards Denmark. • • id Already by a treaty concluded at the commence ment of last year between the Courts of Petersburgh and Stockholm, and which has since been confirmed at Abo, Sweden 'was assured of the assistance of Rusbia for the execution of the plan then fixed for seizing the kingdom of Norway. With the same in tention a similar treaty was concluded afterwards between Sweden and Great Britain. " But, before coming to open hostilities, she wished to make trial of more moderate, but not less insidious ways. " By insidious proclamations, which from time to time wcre conveyed from •Sweden •to Norway, she endeavoured to seduce the inhabitants of the latter kingdom, and withdraw them from the dominion of their legitimate and hereditary Sovereign. " At the same time, a great number of ships, laden with grain for Norway, which had been succes sively dispatched on account of the Danish Govern ment and several individuals, were retained in Swe dish ports, where they had been obliged to take shel ter, either on account of distresses, or to avoid the enemy's cruizets.• All the representations made against a measure, violent in itself and atrocious by its consequences to the inhabitants of Norway, were entirely ineffectual. " As a reply, the Swedish Government made use of the pretext so little applicable to - the shipments of grab in question—that the exportation of grain was prohibited in Sweden. We could not misunderstand the object of the obstacles thrown in the way of pro visioning Norway. It was by hunger that she wished to compel the Norwegians to submit to the dominion of Swedert, The Swedish Government, relying upon its powerful Allies, was 'not even ashamed to propose to his Majesty to cede Norway for other countries of which Sweden is not in possession, and which she neither can, nor never ,ought to expect to be able to freely dispose of. " Not being able to attain its object, either by treacherous propositions, to which threats were fre quently joined, or by their reiterated attempts to in duce the Norwegians to betray their duty towards their Sovereign, the Swedish Government manifested its bad humour by the suspension of Ministerial rela lations between the two States. " His Majesty's Cliarge d'Affaires was ordered to withdraw from Stockholm, and the Swedish mission at Copenhagen was recalled. The Danish Consul- General at Gottenborgh was also sent back. Shortly after, the Swedish Government suppressed all corn. munication between the two States. In this manner Sweden had already broken off all friendly relations with Denmark —access to the Swedish States was shut to all Danish subjects. " ft did not stop there—the ordinary course of the post between Denmark and Norway through Sweden, stipulated for by treaties, was interdicted ; Swedish ships were ordered not to 'pay the duties of the Sound, although his Majesty, by virtue of treaties anteriorly concluded with Sweden, and again confir med by the treaty of Jo n k o pi ng , bad the most incon-1 testible right to them. 44 But it was not enough that in this manner Swe dish vessels should be dispensed by their Government in fulfilling the obligation of paying the duties of the Sound ; armed Swedish ships have 'even employed force to prevent the vessels of other nations from pay ing those duties. " At last, a Swedish officer of the marine declared by writing to the King's Governor at Bornholm that he had orders to seize all the vessels bearing the Da nish flag, and interrupt the communication between Christiansoe and Bornholm. A short time after ,an Officer of the Royal Marine, ret urn i ng f rom Born holm to Copenhagen, was stopped in the open sea by a Swedish brig, and conveyed to Ystadt, from whence he has not yet returned. " The Swedish Government having in so many ways not oily dispensed with fulfilling every duty of good neighbourhood towards Denmaik, and having suspended all communications which in general sub sist between neighbouring countries and states, be tween which a reciprocal ,good understanding ex ists ; but having openly broken the peace between the two states, both by causing considerable losses to the King's subjects, and besides, in making with his Ma jesty's enemies engagements tending to the subjec tion of Norway, his. Majesty sees himself, although with regret, forced to have recourse to arms to re pel by torte every ulterior result on the part of a Go vernment which for •a length of time has exercised hostilities against the Danish States, and against the King's subjects. is necessary orders in this respect have al ready been given to the Chief of his Majesty's Army and Marine. " Never was defensive war more just—never did a Government give greater proofs of forbearance and patience in deferring to have recourse to arms, to maintain the safety of the State, and protect the pro perty of its subjects. " Necessity alone could induce his Majesty to take a resolution repugnant to the sentiments of his heart; but they must necessarily give way to the duty of de fending the States and subjects which PROVIDIDICS has confided to him, against perfidious and unprovo ked attacks on the part of a Government whose hos tile plans against Denmark the whole of Europe is acquainted with. •4 His Majesty, who always relies with confidence upon the immovable fidelity and constant attachment of a cherished people, was not willing to purchase a shameful and precarious peace by the sacrifice of his brave and loyal Norwegians. But he sincerely wishes that the Swedish Government, by repairing the wrongs done to his Majesty's subjects, and by adopt ing and pursuing pacific principles may give occa sion for re-establishing between the two nations that good understanding which is alone adapted to their reciprocal interest. " . 4 Anne at Copenhagen, SeptembeiS,lBl4", HELIGOLAND *AIL. HAMBURGH, SEPTEMBER 21. The Russians and Swedes have already shown themselves on the other side of the Elbe, and after an affair which took place near Dalenberg, two Ger. man milts distance from . Luneburg ; and where they nearly cut to pieces a corps of 5000 French troops, have entered Luneburg ; only General Pecheux him ' self, with about 200 men, escaped. The .General has arrived here. It is reported that the Hoper battery is taken by the Russians; but this is, however, not quite certain. General Cotten is dispatched in haste with a parr of the troops to Haralberg. Yesterday still more of the Prince of Eckmuhl's corps again arrived here, and who are going the same road, so that we may very shortly look to a battle taking place there. What is to become of us GOD only knows. We are under great apprehensions for our city ; for voluntarily they will not quit it. TUE FOLLOWING ORDER OP THE DAY lIA3 JeZT APPEARED : • " Zarenthein, Sepetuber 19. el Marshal Prince of Eckmuhl conceives it a duty to acquaint the 13th corps with an event which has• occasioned us some loss, but which covers with glory the active part of the .50th division, commanded by the General of Division, Pecheux. • This General had received orders to pass to the left bank of the Elbe with four battalions of the :;..1 regiment of the line, and one of the 105th, six pieces of cannon, and 80 horse, to keep in check the troops which the enemy had passed to the left bank, a:r act according to circumstances. • a This General was attacked on the lGth about !iron near Dalenberg, by farces five times as many as his. Surrounded on all sides, and fired upon by a numerous artillery, the six cannons having quickly been put hors de service, by the enemy' s artillery, very superior in number, General Pecheux, obligel to make head on all sides, and obliged to support more than twenty charges, without any of his battaliims having been penetrited, opened himself a passage and - brought back all who had not been placed hen de combat. • The troops preserved their eagles and the honour of arms ; they, as well as their chiefs, merit the highest eulogiums." AL.TONA, SEPTEMBER 19. All communication with Wcklenburg is stopped. SIC ILr. 4 Letters from Palermo, of the 2d of August, men tion the commction which had taken' place in that city a fortnight before, as the first explosion of a powerful conspiracy, whose leaders are busily em ployed to subvert the Government, and to undermine the British interest in that Island. By practices within the principal gaol, they had nearly succeeded in !eta ting loose a considerable gang of iksperate murderers upon the peaceable community, when they marched the rabble in a body to the barracks, with the no less obnoxious view than to seduce the Sicilian and Italian soldiery. Meat, maccaroni, provisions of all sorts, stolen from die venders, cloaths and money, were proffered to the soldiers. They were told “ they were ill paid, worse fed and cloathed, so that they had nothing to do but join the people who were th e i r friends, and would abundantly supply all their wants." It is but too well known that such proposals have been accepted more than once, to the subversion of kingdoms. The soldiery, however, remained true to their duty ; and it appears from the accounts which have been received, that to their exertions, un der the command of General M.Farlane, Palermo is greatly indebted. The accounts go on stating, that there was every reason to fear other, and still more serious disturbances would break forth, unless proper means were taken, and speedily too, to support our own measures, as well as the Sicilian Government. —A French party, which the presence of Lord W. Bentinek and of a large detachment of our f irces awed into dissimulation and retirement, had, it seems, emerged from their holes and corners, since Lerd William's departure, and since this force was reduced to an inconsiderable number. Through a great deal of quackery and impudence—through corruption— and possibly through some inattention on the part of Abe Sicilian Ministers, many of those disaffected people had been ushered into the new House of Commons, as Representatives, while not only in this same House, but more particularly in the House of Peers, the men belonging to the old Court-party were at their old Pame again, flattering whi c h ever p art y ( ra bbl e or rince) might be most likely either to promote their fortunes, or to suffer them at least, as a set of privi. leged beings, not to pay their taxes. These two de scriptions of people had entered, it appears, into an offensive alliance. A Parliament was assembled early in July, for the dispatch of business, and espe cially to provide ways and means—those granted by the last Parliament being limited so extend no farther than to the Ist of September. Bin the allied factions were mustering an irresistible majority in both Houses. —Every motion introduced or supported by the Go. vernment was systematically negatived ; and so little regard for the English was shewn, that even a mo. tion for a vote of thanks to the Prince Regent and the British nation, after it had excited a scandalous scuffle in the Commons between one of the leaders of the trench party and another Member, was not car ried by a majority greater than four or five votes.— Such was the state of affairs and of pasties at Paler mo, in the beginning of August. The Sicilian Mi.. nisters who were friendly to us, and had been appoin. ted under our auspices, had thought it neces.ary to tender their resignation to the hereditary Prince; and though it had been accepted, and several days had elapsed since his Royal Highness had appoihted a new Ministry, still the same spirit, inimical t us and to that Government prevailed in the two Houses— still no steps were likely to be taken towards the granting of those supplies, without which it Was hard to say how the Sicilian Government could suppytt itself after the Ist of September. The cause of all this is to he traced to the absence of LorJ Wen. Ben tinck. Those at home who . persuaded themselves that the Queen having been prevailed on to leave Sicily, the whole danger was uter i hue been eV' giously mistaken.