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popi o r t he erited stater, unless a cumin preperdera et the Maria*, ea board the same shall be Citizens of the United st a t es . Considered pid agreed to, and a bill ordered by the Com mittee of Commerce and Manufactures , " The Yational Intelligenter of the 20th ult. gives a avail of the easureich s the foli ow d w it is the substance to by the America s n Legislat mh ure, of w FOREIGN REI,ATIONS. Mr. Macon, from the Committe on so much of the m ess age of the President of the United States as re lees to our Foreign Relations, reported a bill respet t4 the commercial intercourse between the tTnited States and Great Britain and France; and for other purposes. The Ist section prohibits all public vessels belong ;fig to Great Britain or France, from entering the %arbours of the United States, subject to the certain ' recified exceptions. The ‘2d section prescribes the punishment of those shall aid the infraction of this proviiion. The Sd section prohibits all vessels sailing under t : : e flag of Great Britain, or France, or owned in v ,; :o i e or part by any citizen of either, from entering the harbours of the United States. The 4th section prohibits the importation into the u n i t ed States, of goods from Great Britain or Ire land, and France, and their colonies ; or of goods f r om any foreign port which are the growth, produce, or manufacture of Great Britain or France ; unless in vessels owned wholly by citizens of the United S:ates. The above provisions to take immediate effect. The sth section prohibits after the 15th of April next, the importation of goods from Great Britain and France,ancl their colonies, unless imported directly htrefrom. Tie 6th, 7th and Bth sections affix penalties to the iairaction of these provisions. The 9th section authorises the President, in case tither France or Great Britain shall so revoke or stro a-y her edicts, as that they shall cease to violate the r..:tral commerce of the tThited States, to declare the same by proclamation, after which the prohibitions of this act on the commerce of the nation so doing 51;41 cease. The I Ith section repeals the act to amend and con true in force certain parts of the act entitled an act to interdkt the commercial intercourse between the United States and Great Britain and France and their dependencies, and for other purposes. 12th section limits this act to the end of the :sit stssion of Congress. The bill was read a second time, referred to a come rcitt of the whole ; and made the order of the day for Friday next. Mr. MACON ) from the committee appointed to pre pare and report rules and orders for the government the House, reported the same. Referred to the Committee of the whole House, to which was referred ISacoN's motion on the subject of order. We this mcrning received two Cottenburgh Mails. I An article from Constantinople states, that after the battle of Silistria rh Russians applied for an armis tice for two months, which was refused by the vic torious Turks. The Ex-King and Queen of Sweden had arrived at Stralsund, on their way to Switzerland. —The Swedish Papers are still filled with adulatory addresses to the Crown Prince of Sweden, as the Prince of ACGTSTENBURGH is now called. He is pro 4-tains towards Stockholm. TEE PERSI.V Ameassanott--Yestercity was the day appointed for his Excellency to visit the Prince of WALES. Soon after twelve o'clock, hit Royal High ness's carriage and six beautiful bay horses, with new harness, and handsomely decorated with ribbons, the coachman, postillion, and two footmen, in rich state tries, also his Royal Highness's hussar footman in his superb dress, and his Royal Highness's armourer, Mr. BOOTLE, in an elegant dress of green and gold, to his E xcellency's house, in Mansfield-street. His Ircellency was accompanied in the Prince's carriage y Sir GORE OCSELY ; his Excellency's carriage fol- Txcd with Mr. MoRIEn, his Excellency's Secretary, .age, and Master of the Mules. They arrived at (lrleton House at one o'clock. His Excellency en ..7:1 at the west gate of the court-yard, where the -•::trs attended with :heir elegant state liveries. His j l ').7a! Highness's attendants, in their full dresses, were at the grand entrance, to receive his Excellency, • tfi conducted him through the Grand Hall, in which die of the Yeomen of the Guard, and an Usher. 'I his being conduc into the presence of the Prince , Royal Highness ileceived his Excellency with all dignity, affability and elegant manners, for which ke is so highly distinguished. His Royal Highness 4'as accompanied by his Royal Brothers. They were .1 dressed in their regimental uniforms, except the Duke of CLART'NCE, who wore a blue coat ; all their Poyal Highnesses wore the Order of the Garter. His xcellency continued his visit about three quarters of an hour, and then with his attendants, returned in the !me order as they came. Yesterday, about half past three o'clock, as the car t:age of Lady CHARLOTTE Ftscu wa. passing down St. James's -street, the front part of the axle-tree broke, which frightened the horses, their feet getting entan gled with the broken part ; they in consequence set off, and ran away with the coach at full speed, till they came in contact with a post at the bottom of the ~trees, the corner of Cleveland-row. The coachman vas thrown a considerable distance, but was not ma terially hurt. The coach was thrown upon it s side En the f oot pavement. Mrs. Fr ELLANG, her Ladyship's daughter, was got out in great Agitation, but we are nappy to say, she only sustained a few slight bruises. `he was conducted to Lady OM Rion E FINCH'S 4!,art!ments in the Palace. .-..-,.........1, lATTEtt etoi4 Loan tatetritza to tax tARt bk irlleaAte dantetiord House homy te. MY Lcieis—l bait the honotir td add rtss this Let ter b from you,yourLordship, in reply to that which I teceilts d respecting the Petition with which haft are charged. This form of communication I callillV der as most satisfactory to your Lordship ; it is gig best calculated to do justice to the sentiments of son* of the most distinguished advocates of your cause, in that concurrence with whom My decision has been taien. I I must in the first place assure your Lordship, my opinion remains unchanged as to the object of your petition. It would, I think, be an act of undeni., able wisdom and justice to communicate to our fellow- 1 subjects, professing the Roman Catholic Religion,' the full enjoyment of our Civil Constitution. Such it measure, accompanied by suitable arrangements, maturely prepared, and deliberately adopted, would, I am confident, above all others, give strength and union to the Empire, and increased security to its re ligious and civil establishments. Your Lordship is well awur, that on this conviction only have I sup ported it. To those establishments lam unalterably attached ; their inviolable maintenance I have eves i considered as essential to all the dearest interests 1 of my country. But they rest, lam certain, on foun dations much too firm ; they are far too deeply rooted in the affections of that community to which they dispense the blessings of religion, order, and liberty, to 'require the adventitious and dangerous support of partial restrictions, fruitful in discontent, but, for se curity, wholly inefficient. With respect to the present application to Parlia ment, I knew not, except from public report, that such a measure was in contemplation ; or that it was the wish of the petitioners to place their petition in my hands. I have twice already, at the request of the Catholics of Ireland,moved the House of Lords to take this sub ject into consideration. I did not, in either case, think myself responsible for your determination as to the time of agitating the question ; a determination which, in the first instance, J had not suggested, and which in the last I had in my place in Parliament publicly dissuaded. Recent events had in both cases imposed upon me a peculiar duty, not merely for my own honour, but in justice also to your cause, to prove, by my conduct, on the earliest occasion affor ded by yourselves, that no change of public situation, no prejudice, no calumny, no Clamour, could either vary or suppress my opinions on this great national question. This duty I willingly performed. Deeply impresed with the importance of the measures which I recommended, I have spared no sacrifice, omitted no exertion, by which I could con tribute to their accomplishment. And if I could now deceive myself with a hope, that a renewal of my weak efforts, in the present moment, could expedite or facilitate their ultimate success, it would be my highest gra , ification once more to stand forward as the chosen advocate of national conciliation. Circumstanced as this question now is, both in England and in Ireland, it is, on the contrary, my deliberate opinion, that no motion grounded on your petition could, at this time, in any hands, certainly not in mine, be brought forward, without great and permanent disadvantage to its object. This opinion is founded, not only on the present known dispositions of Government and Parliament, but also on the unexpected difficulties which have arisen in Ireland, on the impressions which they may create, and the embarrassments which they unavoid ably produce. It would be an invidious task for me to recapitu late , in this place, the transactions of the last three years, or to discuss the temper and spirit, the lan guage and the conduct of his Majesty's Ministers towards your body ; nor would it become me to cen sure, though I may be permitted to lament, the deci sions of the Legislature. To these two topics it is sufficient briefly to have , adverted. The obstacles which, in the present mo ment, they oppose to any favourable consideration of your cause, and the advantages which they afford to the misrepresentations of your adversaries, are too l obvious to require explanation. 1 Many circumstances compel me to speak to your Lordship at large of the recent proceedings in , Ireland with ; reference both to their origin and to , their consequences. For t his p ur p ose, I must beg leave to recall to your Lord shi p' s recollection, the n grounds on which the consid e r ation of these Petitions has uniformly been recommended to Parliament. — That which you have asked, and which has been sup ported by the greatest Statesmen of our time, now no more, is not in its nature a single or unconnected measure. Its objects are, the peace and happin ess of Iceland, and tire union of the empire, in affection as well as in government. Vain, indeed, would be the hope of accomplishing such purposes, solely by the repeal of a few remaining disqualifications, which, by a strange anomaly, are still left subsisting . amidst the ruins of a whole code of proscription. To impute to you this visionary pretension, has been the artifice of your opponents. The views of your friends have been more enlarged. With the just and salutary extension of civil righ d is to your body, must be combined, if tranquillity asid union be our object, other extensive and complicate ..rrangements. All due provision must be made for the inviolable maintenance of the religious and civil establishments of this United Kingdom. Much must be done for mutual conciliation—much for common safety ; many contending interests must be reconciled, many jealousies allayed, many long-cherished and mutually destructive prejudices eradicated. Such at least have always been my own declared opinions. When this matter was last under the con sideration of Parliament, I had occasion to dwell, with particular earnestness, on this necessity ; I invi ted the suggestions of others for providing for it; and I enumerated several measures which eight years be fore had been in the contemplation of Government, in conjunction with which I then cherished the vain hope of rendering this great service to my country. Among these measures, I pointed out the proposal of vesting in the Crown . an effectual negative on the i appointment of your Bishops. That suggestion had i pieviously been brought f o rward in the House of Commons, to meet the just expectations, not of any bigotted or interested champions of i n tolerance, but , of filen of the purest intentions and most enlightened judgment. Mnc willing to do all justice to the loyalty aye hereafter be gaitedwith a a .. interest, Hostile to the tranquility of your nry, A danger recently Wry much increased by . captiVity and deposition of the Head of your Church, by the seizureschis dominions, and by the declared Intention of that hostile government to as sume in future the exclusive nomination of his succes sors. The suggestion thus opened to Parliament, produced there impressions highly favourable to your cause; it was received as the surest indication of theie dispositions, without which all concession must be nugatory, and all conciliation hopeless. To my mind it had been recommended by long reflectione— It had formed a part of the original conception of those measures as consequent upon the union. It was now again brought forward with the concurrence of the two individuals, from whose opinions those gene rally prevalent among your body might best be in. ferred ; of the agent of the very persons to whose office it related, and a your Lordship, to whom, in addition to every other claim to respect and confi dence, the exclusive charge of the petition had re cently been committed. What I said on the subject, in the House of Lords; was spoken in the hearing of both, and 1 received from both, while the impression was yet recent on your minds, the most gratifying acknowledgments of your satisfaction in all that I had stated. It was never, I believe, imagined by any of us, that what then passed could be binding on the opi nions of the petitioners. The Roman Catholics of Ireland are not a corporate body. They speak through no common organ. Their various wishes and interests, like those of their fellow subjects, can be collected only from general information ; and any opinions, erroneously attributed to them, they, like all other persons, are fully.entitled to disclaim. I learnt, however, with deep and heart-felt regret, the subsequent proceedings which took place in Ire land, in consequence of this suggestion. To discuss the grounds of those proceedings would be foreign from my present purpose. Their effect obviously must be, not only to revive expiring prejudices, but to clog with fresh embarrassment every future consider ation of any of the measures connected with your pe- titions. To myself unquestionably the difficulty of originating at this time any fresh discussion of those easures, does, in such circumstances, appear almost insuperable. Let me not, however, be misunderstood. When I speak of the necessity of combining with the accom plishment of your wishes, provisions of just security to others, I am no less desirous of consulting every reasonable apprehension on your part. To the forms, indeed, of these securities, or to the particular details of the proposed arrangements, I at tach comparatively little importance. A pertinacious adherence to such details, ►n opposition even to groundless prejudice, I consider as the reverse of legis lative wisdom. I look only to their substantial pur poses ; the safety of our own establishments, the mutual good will of all our fellow-subjects, and the harmony of the United Kingdom. That adequate arrangements may be made for ill these purpose✓, consistently with the strictest adhe• rence, on your part, to your own religious tenets, is the persuasion which you have long been labouring to establish, and of which I have uniformly professed my own conviction. Were it otherwise, I should indeed despair. But that these objects may be reconciled, in so far at least as respects the appointment of your Bishops, is known with undeniable certainty. It is proved by the ac quiescence of your Church in similar arrangements under other Governments, by the sentiments which many of yourselves still entertain as to the proposal suggested in 1808, and, most of all, by the express consent formerly given to that proposal, in a decla ration signed by the most considerable of your own Bishops. I see, therefore, in the present state of th;s subject, much unexpected embarrassment, and many difficul- I ties, which renewed discussion, in the present moment, must, instead of smoothing, inevitably aggravate. — There is, however, no ground for ultimate discou ragement. The sentiment of reciprocal confidence, the spirit of mutual conciliation, would surmount far greater obstacles. But nothing, permit me to remark it, can in the mean time be more injurious to your cause, than any attempt by partial and precipitate decisions, to pre- , judge itrseparate branches, or to limit its unreserv ed discussion. No course can be more grateful to your opponents, none more embarrassing to your supporters. To Parliament, when any more favourable con juncture for this discussion shall arise, every infor mation may properly be supplied, every wish impart ed,l every apprehension communicated. There only, by a systematic and comprehensive arrangement of this extensive subject, can all its difficulties be sur mounted, all its relations finally adjusted. To be effective and permanent, such an arrangement must be mutually satisfactory. This is alike the interest of every member-of the British empire, but to none more important than to the Catholics of Ireland. The stability of all your civil rights, both of those which you already enjoy, and of those to which you seek to be admitted, es sentially depends on the tranquillity and harmony of your country, on banishing from it every hostile in fluence, and composing all its internal differences. These opinions I have expressed to your Lordship with the freedom of a tried and zealous advocate of your cause. On these grounds alone have I ever attempted to do justice to it. To have argued it on any other would have been a dereliction of my own principles.. I need hardly add, that by the same principles my present conduct must equally be directed. Should the petitioners continue to entertain the desire con veyed in your Lordship's letter, that I should lay this petition upon the table of the House of Lords ; with that request I cannot hesitate to comply. It would be highly improper to deny to such a body of men the opportunity of submitting, through my hands, if they should so desire it, and at their own I time, their wishes to the Legislature or their coun try. It would be still more inexcusable in A case, where all my opinions and all my wishes are favour-1 able to the object of their application. Qn the measure itself, if any motion respecting it be originated by others, I shall not fail to urge, with unabated ear nestness, all the same sentiments which; I have de- 11.••• • or rna a '1:1 res s:ate! 3. Th Th rev, and 11 ' thee] • Th inirk Th the 0. sans et of ti shall T V. • rout ; to ir d e dept an h rrit for e' Ice of Co 101 •n, • • b. pc A ; a. ba rpc , tic to: k ha 7 pr ffai ad Pr Cti , apl, th , t b e al. n( ecti , L 2$ efit • e Per' it. r. Uni. Jan ohibi• P ° nitt b port M tes • W' ny di ling: .trs or roes' ns ' of 0 6 e ' Cil di • he U O s or =decline t—oValylial al this Or& and Mate itl many circumstances of Noe pecalisttwodeastar pair cause, the mover of arty such . an satisfied, that, by this decision, I s hest prtannti the ultimate success of that gitat work which I haw/ long laboured to accomplish. My reasons for this persuasion I have, I trust* sufficientli explained.— They may be atone:mu, they are at least sincere. To the principle of equal laws, to the object of 11110 dotal conciliation, I ant invariably attached. By me, they sh,dl never be abandoned. But any personal ex ertions which I can make, for purposes of such ines timable benefit to my country, must ever be regulated by that discretion, which I am equally determined in every situation to reserve, unfettered by previous en.a gagements, and the faithful exercise of which my public duty imperatively forbids me to relinquish. I have the honour to be, with sincere respect and re. Bard, my Lord, your Lotship's most obedient humble servant, GRANVILLE. NAVAL INTgLLIGENCIL PALMOUTH, JANUARY 21. Sailed the \valsingham packet for Lisbon; Queen Charlotte packet for the Brazils; and Lord Plobart packet for Cadiz.- = Wind E. PLYMOUTH, JANUARY 22. In consequence of the recent Commercial Decree of the French Emperor s several vessels have antived here within these three days from different pokli in Prance, laden with corn, brandy, Wine, and other pro duce ; two came in this day ( Bremen galliots) under Hamburgh colours, laden as above; anda Pappenburg brig yesterday.—l omitted to mention, that the Hew reux and Swinger were from St. Thomas's, from whence they sailed with a large convoy, but lost the whole before their arrival here ; they experienced -wiry bad weather, and were eleven weeks on the pas sage. Several of the convoy are known to have fallen into the hands of the enemy ; one of them, the brig Brothers, from Martinique l was retaken by the PLO VER, when she took the Santis privateer.—l am in formed that another expedition is on the tapis. Or ders have been received here for all the frigates, gun , brigs, and other small craft, to be got ready for sea with all possible expedition:—Arrived the THRACIAN, 18 guns, Captain Gstaßr from the Eastward ' • and another neutral vessel, w i th grain and brandy from France.—Sailed the DAPHNE, 22 guns, Capt. PIPoN, with two merchant-brigs under convoy for Jersey ; and the COSSACK, 22 guns, Captain DIGBY, with a Messenger, who can* down express, for the north coast of Spain. Half-past Five P. M.—Tht AMETHYST, Captaisi WALTON, is getting under weigh, and will sail this evening for Rochefort. It is conjectured by the stores sent out, that sonar attempt is going to be made either in Basque Roads, Quiberon Bay, or some place in the vicinity, to cut out or destroy some French vessels there. JAN. 23.—Sailed, the AMETHYST frigate, 36 gnus, Capt. WALTON, for the Coast of France ; and the BF.TSEY CAINS tender, for Livetpool.—The Cossaat sailed last nigh for Gijon and Corunna. This afternoon a fire broke out at thelouse of Mr' BILLER, on Stafford's Hill, opposite the old Tele graph Printing Office, which was fortunately gat under, after destroying the interior of the boos& where it commenced, together with the principal part of the furniture. PORTSMOUTH, JANUARY ss. galled the Minerva, I;ll,wcurs, from the Eastward. bound to St. Domingo, Went out of harbour ells ORION.—Wind N. E. JAN. 24.—Arrived theßimrataw sloop of war from the Downs.—Sailed the SHEARAVATtIt and TIIRItIA GANT with a convoy of transports and merchantmen for the Mediterranean, among the former are the London, Hero of the Nile, and - Minerva.—Sailed his Majesty's ship EPIIIKA for Plymouth. YARMOUTH, JANUARY es. Arrived the BRITOMART gun-brig, Captain Hums., and has brought in the Little Mary, an American; with a valuable cargo, bound to Holland. Sailed the LYNX sloop, Captain MARSHAL, for Portsmouth. Remain the Roebuck, Amiable, Exertion, Pincher, Drake, Redbreast; and in the river refitting eight gun-brigs. two armed schuyts, and one cutter. JAW. 24.—Yesterday, after post, artived from Cot tenburgh, with convoy, the MONKEY gun-brig, ansi sailed this morning for the Downs ; and the DRAKE gun-brig on a cruize, also Alert and Prince of Wale, cutters. Wind N. E. moderate. The Charles, Front, from Malta for Hull ; and the And, lir wards, from Villa Joyeuse to Tarragona, are taken by a Itretic privateer, and carried into Algiers. The Ocean and Devaynes East lndiamen got *sound in Bengal River, on the passage to Madras, to 611 up, and had put beano Diamond Harbour to examine if they had teceived damage. Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the East India House, when the undermentioned Commanders took leave of the Court, previous to departing for their respective destinations, viz. Captains Joint Woen, Hugh IngUs ; AQUEIT HAT, /West Jolts R. FRANKLIN, Northumberland; %%ILIA,/ NRIBITT I , Huddart ; D. MACDOUGALL, Tigris; A. HILBERT, Euphrates ; for Madras and Bengal. 'AWLS HAT, Sir Stephen Lushington--Bombay and Madras. tV es. YODTIONI/SIASID ALIRANDIR•—BOIIIbay direct. The following Commanders were sworn into the commands of their respective ships, viz. Captain A. CAMPIELL, Sovereign ; G. Ipireetarts, Indus-is Madras and Bengal. 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