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i (enclosed copy of an order passed by his 'Loyal High ness the Prince Regent in _Council, on the 2361 inst. and youlwill call on the President to exercise, with , , out delay, the powers which he possesses, to annul, Iby proclamation, all those restrictive laws which either interdict the commerce of his Majesty's sub jects, or exclude the ships of war of Great Britain from the harbours of the United States. Should any Acts of Congress be in force of a like nature, over which the President has no immediate jurisdiction, you will claim, on the part of your Go vernment, the repeal of such laws at as early a pe riod as circumstances will permit—and if you shouldo deem it necessary, tither from the injurious nature of the particular laws, or from the interval that is likely to elapse before the ordinary meeting of Congress, you will represent to the American Government the importance of assembling. that body at an early pe riod, with a view to this special object. I inclose herewith the-form of an instrument, (Number 1) to be communicated by you to the American Secretary of State, notifying the above mentioned Order in Council, and the conditions, on the observance of which the revocation of the former EAST-INDIA MONOPOLY. Orders in Council with respect to America, is de. Lord GRENVILLE presented two Petitions, (one from the dared to depend—and I am to desire, that in pre. Corporation of Bristol, and another signed by a great opmber of i this instrument, you will declare that period Merchants of the same place,) against the East-India Monopoly, . tenting • led praying for the opening of the Trade to China.—Laid on , within which (upon conference with the American lb, table. I Government) you may deem it proper to require the The Marquis WELLESLEY, seeing his Noble President to perform the acts requisite on his part to ;Friend, the President of the Board of Controol, in annul the restrictive laws in question, his place, was desirous of putting a question to him, I The instrument (No. 2) is to be used in case the on the very important subject to which these Petit. Government of the United States, contrary to our lions related. He was far from wishing to draw just expectations, should refuse to abrogate the above from him any premature disclosure of the plan which laws. Should you unfortunately have occasion to the Government intended to propose, or to raise any make use of this power, whereby the revocation of question which was likely at present to provoke any the Orders in Council will be rendered null and of ediscussion ; but it was highly desirable for those who ' no effect, you will lose no time in making the same had been turning their attention to this important' public, transmitting immediate intelligence to his subject, that the time when it was likely to be brought : Majesty's naval commanders on the American sta. forward should be stated, and that some intimation . tion, desiring the same may be forthwith notified to should be given as to the intended course of proceed- ' the naval officers commanding at Jamaica and in the ing. It might be of great consequence that the ge-West Indies. sera' state of the question should be discussed, and ! You will observe, that the present Order upon the some general view and plan settled and fixed, before face of it, contains an absolute and unqualified revo they came to the details; and he trusted he was not cation of the Orders of January, 18.07, and of April, ' asking too much, when he requested hi s Noble Friend 1809. It was at first in contemplation to make it to inform their Lordships pf the time and course of ' only a suspensive Order for a fixed period, as was proceeding ? I proposed by the American Government in 1809 to The Earl of BUCKINGHAMSHIRE had now Mr. Jackson, with a view to negotiation in the inter -I'ish, nor had Ministers any wish, to withhold from : val upon all subsisting differences. Doubts, however, their Lordships and the Public every information having been suggested whether the powers given by which they could with propriety give on this head ; the ~ Supplement to the Non-Intercourse Act," but he had it from the best authority, that the. Firs- : would authorise the President to issue his proclama- India Company had not yet determined whether theyltion upon a mere suspension of the Orders, it was should or should not petition for a renewal of their ' deemed expedient to revoke the Orders, reserving Charter; and, till this point was determined, his ' the power to restore or modify them upon due notice. Noble Friend must be aware, that it was impossible' This measure has been adopted by the Prince Re po give any certain information as to either of the gent, in the earnest wish and hope, either that the points to which his Noble Friend had referred. But . Government of France, by farther relaxations of its their Lordships might be assured, that the earliest ! system, may render a perseverance oa the part of possible information would be given, and that Mini- Great Britain, in retaliatory measures, unnecessary ; stars were desirous ofibringiug the l matter before Par- or if this hope should prove delusive, that his Ma , liament at the earliest possible period—(Hear, hair,' jesty's Government may be enabled, in the absence from the Earl of Liverpool.) CAMPAIGN IN 111 C PENINF•ULA. lof all irritating and restrictive regulations on either { side, to enter with the Government of the United _ TO EE SOLD, PERPETUAL ANNUITY, or Rent Charge L of One Hundred Pounds per annum,.most ansply secured a large Estates in Wiltshire and Herefordshire. For Psrticu apply to Mr. Tyndale, Solicitor, 34, Montague-place, Rus sqvare. PARLMMEIvTARr PROCEEDINGS. I HOUSE OF LORDS, FEBRUARY 5. .. 11 11/Ir. HoaNaa was beard for the Appellants, in the Appeal pause Craigdallie .. Aikman. Further hearing on Monday. The Earl of Haaawoon was introduced in the usual form, upon acquiring a new dignity, and took the oaths and his seat as flr Earl. His supporters were, the Earl Marshal (Duke of Nor folk), Sari Harcourt, and Earl of Limerick. CATHOLIC CLAIMS. The Archbishop of CANTERBURY presented a Petition dm the Dean and Canons of Windsor against the Catholic Claims.—Laid on the table. The garl of HAREWOOD presented a Petition to the same effect from the Gentlemen, Clergy, and Inhabitants of the Pa rish of Hudderafiel4, in Yorkshire, which was also ordered to lie an the table. _ _ . . . The Duke of RUTLAND presented a Petition, to the same effect, from the Corporation of Weniock, which was laid on the The Marquis of WELLESLEY rose to give no tice, that he intended, on an early day, to call their Lordships' attention to the -Ministerial conduct and management of the last campaign in the Peninsula. He was not then prepared to state any particular day for this question, but he would take an early op. portunity of naming a day, and of stating the gene ral nature of the propo'ition which it was his inten tion to submit - to their Lordships. He thought it right, however, now to give this general intimation. 'some day in the week after next, or possibly Monday fortnight might be fixed upon, if that time would suit the convenience of the House in other respects. ANIERICAN CORRESPONDENCE.. Earl BATHURST stated, that he had in his hands the Papers containing the material part of the correspondence between the Government of this country and that of America. He understood, how. ever, that further Papers on the subject had been called for in another place, and these also he should lay on their Lordships' table on Monday. lie hoped they wctid all be printed in sufficient time to enable the House t ) decide on this subject on Thursday week, On that day, therefore, he should move the consideration of these Papers ' and he now proposed, that the Lords be summoned for that day. The Papers were laid on the table, and the Lords were ordered to be summoned accordingly fur Thurs day week —.Adjourned till Monday. HOUSE OF COMMONS. Mr. W. DUNDAS brought up a Petition from the Lord Pro vost and Magistracy of the City of Edinburgh against the renewa) of the exclusive Charter of the East India Company.—Ordered to fie on the table. Mr. FINLAY brought up a Petition from the Merchants, Tra 4ers, and Manufacturers, of Port Glasgow and Greenock, against the renewal of the East India Company's exclusive Charter.—Or dered to lie on the table. Sir JAMES SHAW brought up a Pea:kr' from the Ship. Owners of the Port of London, in favour of the renewal of the East India Company's Charter.—Ordered to lie on the table. Sir WM. CURTIS brought up a Petition from the Packers of goods in the Port of London, praying a continuance of the ea- Olusive Charter of the East India company.—Ordered to lie on ghe table. Sir I. ACLAND brought up a Petition from the Inhabitants Great Torrington, Devonshire, against the Roman Catholic Iplairus.—Ordered to lie on tba table. Mr. W. DU NDAS obtained leave to bring in a Bill for erect jpg and maintaining a new Gaol ip the City of Edinburgh. The Right Hon. Gentleman also obtained leave to bring in ano ther Bill to amend the 47th of the King, relative to the Regula. tjon of the Corporation of Surgeons in Edinburgh. A person from the Court of Chancery presented at the bar an *count of the number of Causes now pending in that Court.— grdered to lie on the table. Sir J. NEWPORT postponed his motion on the Irish Free Schools till Monday. Mr. ROBINSON brought up a Bill for the extension of the - Copper Exportation Act, which was read a first, and ordered to be read a second time on Monday. The Report of the Committee of Supply was brought up, read, An d agreed to. Mr. W. KEENE moved for leave of absence on behalf of pord Clive. Mr. VANSITTART wished the motion to be deferred until the House should adopt write general rule applicable to ap cases of that description.—Adjourned to Monday. We select the following from a series of docu wents, comprising the correspondence on American airs, since the 20th of May last, which has been printed and laid before the House of Commons ; No. 16. ,IZCOUNT CASTIMIARAGH TO MR. romp, . Foreign Mee, June Rs, ;OIL tp,—You will lose no time in communicating of- Wily to ;he Goveromeat of the ljaited States, the States into amicable explanations, for the purpose of ascertaining whether, if the necessity of retaliatory measures should unfortunately continue to operate, the partirul it measures to be acted upon by Great Britain can be rendered more acceptable tothe Ame— rican Government than those hitherto pursded. The revocation of the Orders in Council has been made to commence from the Ist of August next, when it is presumed tie measure may be tendered for the acceptance of the American Government you will, however, observe, th it a retrospective ef fect is given to the Order from the date of Mr. Rus sell's communication, so that America, if she en titles herself to the benefit of the revocation, will not sustain any disadvantage from the delay which has necessarily occurred in bringing the French Decree under the consideration of his Majesty's Government. You will not fail to observe, that the present Or der in Council revokes the Orders in Council of Ja nuary, 1807, and April, 1809, on so far as relates to American vessels, and their cargoes, being Ame rican property. In any discussion upon this subject, you will be careful not to admit, that the alleged repeal of the French Decrees, in favour of a particular State, can give that State a claimed right to a corresponding revocation of the British Orders in Council. The reasons for this distinction have been fully detailed in former dispatches, and it is only necessary now to remark, that the course adopted towards America, upon the present occasion, are upon a principle of conciliation, and not of obligation. Should any question be put to you, with respect to the existence of the blockade of 1806, adhering to your former language in maintenance of the law. fulness of that blockade, you may acquaint the American Government, that in point of fact this particular blockade has been discontinued for a length of time, having been merged in the general retaliatory blockade of the enemy's ports, under the Orders in Council; and that his Majesty's Govern ment has no intention of recurring to this, or to any other of the blockades of the enemy's ports, founded upon the ordinary and accustomed principles c•f ma ritime law, which were in force previous to the Orders in Council, without a new nonce to Neutral Powers in the usual f o s m. As the British Government cannot doubt that the present measure will immediately lead to an amicable understanding, and to the restoration of intercourse between the two States, it is presumed the American Government will lose no time in sending a Minister to this country, possessed of their entive confidence : the remoteness of America from the events passing in Europe, making it of the utmost importance to the cultivation of a good understanding, that an ac credited Minister, fully authorised to act for them, in the many delicate cases that necessarily grow out of the present state of Europe, and the measures adopted by the Belligerents, should be resident at this Court. The requisition contained in the Order with re spect to the immediate admission of British ships of war into the harbours and waters of the United States, rests upon the fait, that the ships of war of the enemy axe at this moment admitted, those of his Majesty being excluded; and upon the undoubted claim the respective Belligerents have to be placed iq this respect upon the same footing. Should french shies 'as be winded, you arc not to con. FRENCH PAPERS. PARIS, JANUARY Si. His Majesty, on the 18th of January, issued the following decree at the Thuilleties : Art. L—The men and horses offered by the cantons and com munes of the Empire for the service of the cavalry shall be fur ntshrd, viz. the men above 22 years of age, and accustomed to horses, and the horses more than 60 months old, having already been broken, and capable of bring immediately used. 2. The men and horses offered, shall be collected at the chief places of the arrondisetnents : and when the Sub prefect shall have accepted them, they shall be conducted to the chief place of the department, where the Prefect and General commanding shall review them. The tenth of the men and horses shall bP chosen for the Imperial Guards. The Officer appointed to receive them shall give a receipt for them. 3 As soon a 3 they are accepted, the men and horses shall be directed to the depot of the regiments to which they are destined. 4. During the time that the men and horses shall remain in the deparimtnt, they shall be maintained at the expecte, of the department, and undtr the care of the Prefect. 5. As soon as the men and horses shall have been chosen and accepted, and left tke chief place of the department, they shall be maintained at the expense of file Minister at War. 6. The men shall be clothed, equipped, and armeJ, and the horses accoutred by the care of the corps into which they shat enter. 7. The Minister of the War Administration lop make out a tarif of what each Department must place in the military chest, for the clothing, equipping, and harnessing the men and horses offered; and the Minister atWar will make make out a tarif for their arming. These sums shall, in the first instance, be placed in the chest of the Receiver-General of the Department, from whence the Prefect will transmit them to the Councils of Ad ministration of the corps with which the men and horses are to be incorporated. The Minister of the Treasury will give instruc tions for the removal of then funds. 8. The men and horses offered by Corporations and individu als, 'hal also be presented for inspection at the chief place of the department, and they shall be sent to the corps for which the department furnish them. The sums necessary for the clothing, equipment, and arming of the men offered, and for the harness ing of the horses, shall be paid into the chests of the corps into which they shall be incorporated, in the way already stated. 9. The Ministers at War, of the Administration of War, of the Interior, and of the Treasury, are charged with the e;ecution 01 the present Decree. . iular st corresponding exclusion as applied to our's, as necessarily invalidating the effect of the present Order, the grounds on which the measure is taken remaining to be subsequently discussed between the two Governments. I have the honour to be, &c. (Signed) CASTLEREAGH. No. 18. VISCOUNT CASTLEREAGH TO MR. POSTER. Foreign-Ogice July 8, 1 a 12. Slit—Although, from the tenor ci f ? your last dis patches, it appeared to be then probable, that the Congress might recommend to the American Go vernment, the immediate issue of letters of marque and reprisal against both Belligerents, this Govern ment is willing to hope, that a more mature consi deration of the manner in which the Government of France have treated the proposals of the American Minister at Paris, may have so far opened the eyes of the American Government, to the real state of their respective relations with Great Britain and France, as to induce them to pause, before they resort to a measure of such direct hostility to this country. At the same time his Royal Highness the Prince Re fent has judged it expeditnt, that you should be' urnished with instructions for your conduct in such an emergency. The instructions which were forwarded to the com manding Officers of his Majesty's ships and vessels on the American station early in May last, will have already pointed out to them the line of conduct which they were to pursue in the event of the Government of the United States having issued letters of marque sand reprisal against the ships and vessels of his Ma jesty, or of his subjects, in which event, they were directed to proceed immediately to acts of hostility against the ships and vessels belonging to the Govern ment and citizens of the United States. If this unfor-, tunately be the state of the relations between the two countries, when my dispatch arrives, announcing to you the repeal of the Orders in Council, by the Order in Council passed on the 23d ult. ; you will immediately propose to the American Government, that if they will, without delay, recall their letteis of marque and reprisal against l3ritish ships, you will instantly require the Commanders of his Majesty's ships and vessels on the American station, to desist from cor responding measures of war, in order, that not a moment may be lost in suspending, in every part of the world, where the former instructions may even tually be in force, the hostilities between his Majesty's subjects and the citizens of the United States. His Royal Highness's commands have been sig nified to the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, that their Lordships do frame their instructions to the commanding Officers on the American station in conformity with the tenor of this dispatch. I am, &c. (Signed) CASTLEREAGH. PARIS, FEBRUARY 1. The commencement of the year 1813 will be cele brated in the annals of the Great Nation. The move ment (elan) which France has just exhibited, charac terises the apogee of its elevation. The efforts demanded by Government were thought paintul; the nation goes beyond them, and shews, by that voluntary impulse, what the Emperor might ex pect, it circumstances demanded other sacrifices.. — But it is no longer to be feared, that nature will 4611 fight in favour of the enemy. The Russians will no longer find the only auxiliary which has for a mo ment been able to weaken a superiority determined in the mountains of Switzerland, ar.d the plains of Austerlitz and Friedland. Fresh troops, joined to the old ranks, will quickly appear before the hordes of Asia, and drive into their desarts those men, whose savage costume, long beards, and ridiculous customs, cannot nationalize themselves izt the midst of civilization. By a decree of the Emperor Napoleon. dated the BOth of January, the Meeting of the Leg4ative Body is adjourned from the Ist to the 7th of l'rebruary. To-day, after mass, the Diplomatic Corps, &c, were presented to his Majesty. POSEN, JANUARY 14. We fear nothing more from the Russians. They have ceased to follow the Grand Army * which slowly effects its movements. In taking positions at Ma rienburg, Marienwerder, and Graucieetz, it has con. nected its movements with the troops, pf the right.— The army, such as it is, is more th t an sufficient tQ stop the Russians, and make them vepent of every , ulterior attempt. The Duchy of Wariaw wW i ip lbw dap s 1.0111 25,000 Cossacks or Uhlans, well equipped and :nou n . ted, and 60,000 infantry, called Garde Frondero., The intelligence is good from all parts. We live he re without fear of our enemies. The establishing of an entrenched camp at Curter. dorf, near Frankfort, is announced, which is L: the first rendeevous of the troops corning front r► ; interior of the empire. BERLIN, JANUARY ,zo. The King has given orders to inimediately place upon the war footing several new regiments of infar.. try and cavalry. A great activity prevails in air military operations. We are assured his Majesty will shortly set out for Breslaw, and that he will be 2c. companied by the Chancellor airdenberg. NUREMBERG, JANUARY 94. Detachments, more or less considerable, of Frenc4 and half= troops, continue to pass through out tow,„ LEMBERG, JANUARY 15, We learn by the Petcrsburgh Gazettes that to Russian Government is extremely embarrassed tet complete the effective and material of their armies. All the peasants fit to bear arms have been enrolled, and as muskets are in some places wanting, they a; La them with pikes and pistols. Those who hide them. selves to escape the service, are, whea hound. severely batten. At the same time, the peasantry is con:. pletely drained by requisitions : in the Government of Smolenk alone, 400 carriages were required to cen. vey provisions after Kutusoff's army. The Nobil of Kursk, Toula, and Kaluga, have been cbligcd to place themselves at the head of a numerous militi t which is geting ready for service. The Government I exacts from the Nobles money and horses, which they levy on their unhappy peasantry. All the Nobility have been ordered to give iheir own horses ; the re. gular Russian cavalry beirk entirely ruitied, the Cos. sacks alone have succeeded in preserving their horses. The Polish Nobility of the Ukraine have been obliged to furnish a new corps of 13,211 men, which they are likewise to maintain during the war. DANTZIC, JANUARY 19.. Our garrison has been reinforced with P 3,000 men; and the strongest dispositions appear to he been adopted for a vigorous resistance. The fortms is not only well provisioned, but every inhabitant has been obliged to furnish himself with provisions tor a year. Government has assisted the poor families, by sending from gibing a considerable quantity of pro. visions, which were sold to the Magistrates, and dis. tributed to those who wanted them. VIENNA, JAN. 15. It is confirmed by the list letters from Herman. stadt, that a numerous corps of Turkish troop. had proceeded up the Danube to attack Widdin. where Pacha Mollah had concentrated his forces. Another corps which has passed tho Danube at Rudsehuck, is destined to attack that fortress upon the right ba4? of this river. WARSAW, JANUARY 17. M. Boroka, of the 9th cavalry regiment formed ia Lithuania, escaped on the 23d of December from No. vogorod, where he was detained by the Russians as a prisoner of war. He had an opportunity of seeing the Russian army in detail, and found it extremely weak, and almost in complete disorganization. A few days previous to its march to Grodno, which took place at the commencement of this month, there was in Novogorod, a corps consisting of nineteen re; gimeats, which had scarcely 5600 men under arms General Kutusoff had abandoned the command of the Grand Army, which by cold, marches, and sick. ness, was extremely reduced. He has given it to Admiral Tschichagoff, and taken the command of the corps belonging to the latter, which, although reql daced to less than half of its original force, is yet in a better state than the Grand Army. It is said, that Admiral Tschichagoff will not rn main long with the army. They cannot forgive him for having allowed himself to be so completely beaten upon the Beresina. It is announced,that M. Bartley cit Tony will succeed him. Disease makes very great ravages among the Rm. sian troops. Many Generals of rank have already fallen victims ; and among the losses most lamented is reckoned that of the Prince of Holstein Olden• burg, husband of the Grand Duchess Catherine, who died of an hospital fever, at Twer, on the 27th of December last. _ _ This intelligence has reached Prince Schwanzen• berg's corps, which is tranquil in its position of Pul• tusk. -- The Saxon corps, commanded by General Reynier, is at Okemien. There has lately been a trifling skirmish with the Russians. By seeing four regiments of Cossacks, and two regiments of Russian Dragoons, beaten by Saxon battalion of infantry, we are confirmed in the opinion justly established here, that the Russianc , greatly fatigued, now fight worse than they did throughout the campaign. The levies from this Duchy are carried into ere , cation with the greatest success. The light cavalry of Great Poland, already formed as a Cossack corpse manage the lance with as much address as if thel had been embodied for a length of time—distinctive character of the Polander, to become in a short space a soldier equally disciplined as brave ! ARMY OF PORTUGAL. COPY OF A LETTER FROM COUNT REILLE, CONIMANDI% IN CHEIF OF THE AWRY OF PORTUGAL, TO THE 10' NIETER AT WAR. P Valladolid, January 15. 64 Monseigneur—l have the honour to inform yea Excellency, that General Foy having received order to make a reconnoissance upon Astorga, left Bear vente the 22d of December, with a brigade of dri goons, and two battalions of infantry. The eneinj had had at Astorga for a considerable time, a corn pang of miners, who were employed in destroying thl fortifications. General Foy foreseeing that this trNi would save itself at his approach, sent his cavalry ill the mountain road to cut off its retreat, and by thA well combined movement he succeeded in making officers and 90 men prisoners ; he found the PI dismantled ; it can be entered by tweaty breacheid platoons. " On the 31st December, the artillery of theist division met 120 vrell-mounted brigands, at the trance of the village Saint Pedro de la Tara. Capti 4 Guerrier charged them at the head of his smog cannoniers, and some soldiers belonging to the t 0.41 killed six of them, sabred about 20, and took men and 10 horses. 41 XtgadS7 (JAW 12) Creaffal Foy, b.is~g roc 8 4 al