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AMERICA. PEOCLAMATION BY THE ?RESIDENT Or THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. " Whereas great and weighty matters, claiming the confideration of the Congress of the United States, form an extraordinary occaitnn for convening them, I do, by thcfe prcfents, appoint Monday, the Bth of October next, for their meeting, at the city of Wafh• ingtnn, Hereby requiring their relpe6live Senators and Reprefentatives then and there to affemble in Conzrei, in order to receive fuch communications as may then be made to them, and to confult and de termine on fuch meafures, as, in their wifdom, may be deemed meet for the welfare of the United States. In teflimony whereof, I have caufed the Seal of the, United States to be hereunto affixed, and figned the' fame with my own hand. "Done at the city of Wafhington, the 16th July, in the year of our Lord. 18 -1, and in the 28th year of the Indepen dence of the United States. (Signed) " T. Jursasow. By the Prefident, " J. MADDISON, Sec." WASHINGTON, JULY 15..—" Sir—the Treaty con with France by Mr. Mowaoa was received tali evening by the Prefident. The conditions for which France ceded Louiliana to the United States are is,zoo,coo dollars ; r i,000,c00 are to be paid in New Stock, to be ailed by the United States. bear ing fix per cent. interell—the balance to be applied to the payment of American merchants, to whom France is indebted. The accuracy of this flatement may be depended upon, except the odd fum above t 5,000,000, in which I am not certain whether my memory ferves me. YOUTS. JAMES D. WESTCOTT," NEW YORK, Juts , 14.—Captain AVERY, Who ar rived here yell:N.1;1y, in twelve days from St. Tho mas, inform!, that poiitive accounts have been re ceived there of the blockade of Guadaloupe by an Englifh lquadron, and that war was declared at St. Thomas againft the Spaniards. • Captain *HERON, V/40 arrived in the fame veffel, informs, that Tortola was full of Danifh which had been fent in by Britifh cruizers. From our Philadelphia correfpondent we are in formed of a letter from Curacoa, of the 35th June, which Oates that a few days previous thereto, the I Britifh (loop of war Suer a U put in there with a prize, fuppofed to be engaged in a contraband trade ; and • that at the moment the Su R IN •St was on the point of fishing, a Dutch Government frigate received orders to prevent it ; fhe was accordingly (topped, boarded by Dutch Officers, and confidered as a prize. It was expetted that this aft of the Dutch would induce the Britifh to attack Curacoa. We are lorry to learn (lays the Baltimore Federal Gazette) that the claim of our State upon Great Britain, for provincial funds lodged in the Bank of England before the Revolution, has lately come be ("re the Chancellor of the Kingdom, and a judg ment given againa us. Our demand was for about 250,0001. flerling, or 1,100,0000 dollars. Captain Kiso, of the brig Rockland, arrived here yetterday in eight days from Cape Francois, informs, that on the t ft inflant, off Cape Nichola Mole, a Behalf 74gun (hip fell in with a French frigate, from Aoz Cayes, and fired a broadfide into her, which killed fevenseen and wounded twenty-two. The fri gate returned a few (hots, and ran into the port of Cape Nichols Mole, the 74 chafing her, and con d., sluing a heavy fire. In confiquence of the renewal of hoffilities an cathares had been laid on the Nip r ins for Come days. I'he brigands were embodied at a (bort distance, but the inhabitants were without any apprehenfion of an attack. They were in daily es- Whitson of a blockade by a Britifh fleet, which was the cafe at Martinique. Two French 74's, and three frigatis were at Cape Francois. Another account dated Cape Francois July 3, lays " ()attic aft infant a brill took place between an Englifh 74 and a French frigate, between die Mole and Gonaives. The 74 (hewed her colours, and fired a cannon at the frigate, notwithilanding which the frigate continued her route. 'File 74 fired a fecund that, the frigate then liiffed np towards the 74, who fired a broadfide, which. fortunately for the frigate, went over her. The frigate then, by a tdtilful mameuvre, got under the 74's fierm poured a broadfide into her, damaged her poop confiderably, .ad away her miter) marl, and killed a number . people. The 74 cealed firing, and the frigate made her efeape into the Mnle. This is all we know of war, having ken no Manifefto from either party." Jucr 15.—Difpatehes were received from the A mericantilinifters at Pat is on Thurfday preceding.— They were brought by Mr. Hun ars, of Baltimore. as confidential bearer. and contained the Treaty ligned April 30, which conveys Louifiana to the United States. The extent of the territory ceded is defined by a general reference to the Treaty by which Louifiana was ci:Jcil to France. The terms are, If, t,sso,ooo dollars to be paid to Prance in 6 per cent. Hock within three mnr.ths after the exchange of rata. fications and the delivery of riffefilon. 2J, An af fumpfit of the debts due and captures provided for ender the Convention of September 30, !Soo, be tween the United States and the French Republic, which are to be liquidated by Commiffioners at Path, and paid at the Treafury of the United States on drafis from their Minifter at Paris. The alfumplit is not to gn beyond 3,75c,c00 dollars, arid it is con ie!tureil that the amount of the debts and claims aill fall (bort of that (urn. " 3d, French and Spanifli veffels and merchan• dizes dire Elly from their own ports (the merchandizes king of the refpeelive countries) are to pay in the Pots of the ceded territory for a period of twelve years, no higher duty than is paid by American Ci tizens, and this is nut to be extended dur ing that period to any other foreign nation. After that period France and Spain are to enjoy, within the ports of the ceded territory, the privileges only of the moll favoured The Treaty is to be ratified, and the ra.ifications exchanged withir. fix months from its data. It is underliond that the ra tification of the FI/$T CONSUL is on its way to the United States. Immediately after the ratification of the Treaty poffeflii n is to be delivered. The inha bitants of Lonitiana are to be ilicorporated with the United States as ion as can confidently with the conflitution 4 the United States be eftefted; and in the mean time are to be fecLred in their liberties,l property, and religion. JULY 22.—Letters received the day helot: by l• howler Nancy, inform them, " that the racrdh.rys , at the Havennah having rernonftrated to the ipargh Court, on the conalutt of the Intendant, as having been injurious to the interefts of commerce, an or• der had been Wiled for his fecal, with infiruaions to I ' remain in office until the arrival of his fucceffor.— Irritated at this mark of difgrace, the Intendant feized upon molt of the American veffels (many of which were under Spaniih colours) condemned them and their cargoes, and threw feveral of their cap tains into prifon. He was expe&ed to take his de parture for Spain in about two weeks. Eight or ten Engin gentlemen were at the Havanaah, preparing to clear out with all poffible difpatch, though it was not officially known there that hollilities were re• newed in Europe. It was very fickiy at the Havan. nab." A new infurance company is to be efiablifbed in Philadelphia, to be called the Marine Infurance Com pany. The Direaflors of the Bank of Pennfrlvania have eflablitbed a new Bank and Difcount Office, in the borough of Pittfborough. A Lexington Paper rays, " We are warranted in afferting, that our Indian neighbours are difpofed for peace. We have mere to fear the confequences of the • behaviour of our frontiermen, than the hoftilities of the Indians. A Gentleman dire& from Natches, in. ' forms us, tkat a band of robber, (white men) infea the country between the Indian towns 4-nd the fettle ' ments, and are generally painted and dread like the Chodaws." may A; 15,00 1 1. i . mem( NE , i. rived mas, +'h ceivec Engld Thom Cal inforn 1 4 ' which Fro forme $ which Britifl forilo ! that a I failing in pre hy D was e. the 131 We Gant Britai EngL • fire LI tnent 250,0 • Cat yeller that c Nita! Aar ( killed eta i Cape sluing of ho 1 ring 1 I at a (1 any al peat the ea • frigati And fays: an E . Mole li and f which a fecn 74. M the fri • &ilful a broi 1 , carried s ' of ped made of Will Jut . , met is They a. COI !toed United define Loa ""Si 1 ' ' Hock ficatio fumpf ender tween which and p. drafLs is not je!lnti fall fl, ii i dines ' 10. iug pllts years, tizens, itig th i I that 1 1 I the pc of the i ratifie mond tificat United the I'i bitant. Unite( conflit i the mi proper JUL• 1. boon I i - la— WEST INDIES., &yarrow, JAMAICA, JULY 1. —The nate of mer cantile affairs and credit here is at its lowers ebb.— Indeed, you can have no idea of the diftrening fitita tion of the commercial part of this community—the merchant, the planter, and the faElor, alike fufpi clans of each others aith and integrity, have com pletely deflroyed all kind of confidence in bufinefs ; while, to add to the general difafter, each returning packet never fails to bring out attachments from home, which end in the ruin of what confidence, and a little patience, might otherwife have fared. The 1 natural confequence of lush harfh and impolitic pro ceedings, therefore, is a general diltrun. You may from this flatement form an idea of our fituation, and the inference to be drawn from it is, that we are in a gate of bankruptcy, which, exclufively of a few hordes, is too much the Cali. To account for the original calla of all thefe difeners would be difficult. It began towards the end of 1800, and :las ever fince that time diltreffed the mercantile ioterell, overturn ,ed credit, and flopped the operations of trade.— , Under fuch cireumllancec, it will not be an eafy 'matter to rellore the city to its former credit and opulence. The Corporation, who only began their fundinns in January lan, have already been of conliderable fervice to this city. AVliolefome local laws have been enafted, nuifences removed, and •trticular attention to eleanlinefs grit* enjoined ; fa that this hitherto devoted place promiles at length to be healthy, and will, in all probability, be only fubjed to fuch difor ders as are peculiar to all Wen India climates. _ We experienced, at the commencement of this year, two (mart (hocks of earthquakes, which, as they took place uithin five days of each other, created confidetable alarm, although the inhabitants are pretty well accuftumed to t hu fe dreadful vifitations. —This brings to my recollraion the account of the great and terrible earthquake which dellroyed the town of Port Royal in June, 1692. It is reported, that not many years ago, the roofs of lime of the houfes that were (wallowed up, on that occafton, were •ifibie in the harbour of Port Royal ; and that a vefel, having can her anchor too near to the fhore, in weighing it, adually drew tip fume of the rafters entire. An extraordinary circomGance took place at the time of this earthquake —This was the mira culous and providential efcape of a man of the name of Louis Galdy. At the great (hock he was (wal lowed up in the earth—thrown up by a timed one, fell into the lea, and, wonderful to relate, laved himfelf by fwimming. But the infcription on his tomb (tone, which have fern, will much better ea plain what mull appear to you almoft incredible. It runs thus: " Here lies the body of Louis Galdy, Efq. who departed this life at Port Royal, on the 22d day of December t;79, aged 8o years. He was burn at Montpellier, in France, but left that country for his religion, and came to fettle in this ifland, where he was fwallo" , d up in the great earthquake in the year 5692, anti, by the providence of Goo, was by another (hock thrown into the fea, and mira• culoufly laved by fwimming until a boat took him Hp. He lived many years after in great reputation, beloved by all who knew hint, and much lamented at his death." His Majedy's brig the HUNTER, about a week ago, arrived at Port Royal, exprefs from Great Rritain, with di'patehes to the Governor and the Admital, defiling the latter to bring in and detain all French and Ditch veffels till farther orders. The HUNTER broulht in a French fhip which the fell in with a. the approached the Weft India 'flan& ; and yetlerday morning three vefrzls mare have been fent into Port Royal, all French. One of them is a v er y I fine floop of war. Tite fituation of affairs in St. Domingo feems to he, for the French, dreadful indeed ; their fable op. ponents having, according to fome accounts, difpor felled th-m of every hold, except the Cape and Je. rernie. It is even reported, that, lince the warlike appearance of the time', the handful of troops that were there, have evacuated there places, a..! thereby given up all hopes of ever recovering the Colony.— Thus, that emancipation which the authors of the French Revolution granted to the laves of Saint Domingo, has, as was expeaed, been the ruin of one of the hneft and richen iflands in the world. The plan which ...ONAPARTE adopted for the recovery of this Colony, was as ill adviied as the emancipation had been before impolitic. To have had fc.me chance of focceediag in fo hazardous an enterprise, would have been to have fent a powerful army of veterans, who would have Rood tht climate ; and not new levies, confining of young men, from i 8 to Ea years of age, the molt critical period in hot countries.— The number of the French army in Saint Domingo, I am credibly informed, never etteeeded 20,000 men. If Bocaraerc thought it convenient to have a few thoufands killed off, 1.4 fending them to that Ifland, it has proved the brit field of aelion he could pofEbly fend them to, for, I will venture to fay, that very few indeed will ever iLturs to thcir uativc country.. GIRMAKT. HAMMON, AUGUST I6.—The number of car penters who have been decoyed by the French from this place to Hanover, for the purple of building flat bottomed boats on the Elbe, amounts to full two hundred. The dittreites of the City are daily accts• mulating. The Amflerdam letters of this evening contain a counter projeft, laid to have been made by the Bri tifls Cabinet, to ferve as a bath of peace, under the Ruins's Mediation. The purport bf this projea is reported to be of the following tenor : s. The Bauvian Republic it to form an entirely independent. State. 2. The Helvetic Republic Mali enjoy the fame Independence. 3. The Eleclorate of Hanover Gall be refteira to its legitimate Sovereign, in fiatm 1110 before t►e invaflon. 4. The French &all evacuate every State of Italy, except Pint. moat 5. The King of Sardinia Stall bc Fully indemnified for tbs late of that country. The Batavian Citizen SCRIM E Lpstim tuck is to go to Paris, not as Dutch Ambaffaclor, but in the capa city of a Commiffiniter General. Yellerday the birth-day of BONA? *ITC was cele brated throughout the Electorate of Hanover with truly Afiatic pomp. SARDANATALUS could not keep a more fplendid Court than MORTIE It does at Hann. ver. The guns at Hatburgh, facing the City, were fired from four in the morning till fun fet. MORTIIR is ferved in the Eleaoral Palace of Ha nover by the fame perfons who were menial fervants to his Royal Highnefs the Duke of C AMBRIDGE.— His Eiighnefs, at his departure, having generoufly paid them their wages fur feveral months in advance, the French General has thought properto put them in requifitinn to ferve him till that time gratir ! By letters from Berlin, of the 13th init. Count HAUGWITZ, the Prime Minitler, has quitted that ca pital, and retired to his Oates, by order of his Sove reign. The King of Praia received difpatches from Peterfburgh on the each init. which occaGoned a con ference with the Minifter of State, Count Sem ULEM• BURG, which lailed more than two bouts. LONDON. THURSDAY, AUGUST 2s. Yetterdly bring a Holiday, no bnfinefa was done at the Stock E:change. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE 0 CLOCK 3 per Cent. Reduced, 53 i 54 f 1-3 per Ccnt. Coutols, 53 if 1 thunium. 7 1 i i tie. We have received New York papers to the tad July. 1:om which we have prefented ample extracts. They (late that our force in the Weftern hemifphere has blockaded Gaudaloupe, a circumtlance extremely probable, as that dhoti, it was known, was to be the next objet of attack after Tobago. We may loon expel to hear of its furrender. Accounts were received yetterday from our fleet off Hcfroet, flating, that the French Government have made a demand for four hundred gun boats, to be immediately fupplied for the troops intended to be fcnt againll this country. The French are increafing their force considerably at the Helder and the Brie!, from an apprehenfion of an attack being made upon that quarter by a Bi itifh force ; but this is not the only motive for there movements—they dint-A the Dutch, who feel themfelves fo much abufed, inflated, and oppreffed by their fraternifing tyranti, that the very name of Bo AAAAAA I is execrated among them.— The whole French force in Holland at the prefent moment is e(imated at 45.000 men. Difpatches were received yellerday horn Admiral Coarwaseis. The fleet was all well off Brett. This morning we received the Following letter from on board one of the veffels off Boulogne. It pre feats the Lama news from that quarter : " OFT 20VLOG/12, AVC• 23. " The enemy continue, with unremittcd labour, employing every moment which the fire from our veffcls allows them in building either a round tower or a pier, for I have not yet been able to make nut which, off the village of Ported. They are alit) bufy ereCting writ ks in many other places in the neighbour- hood of Boulogne, for the purpfe, as is fuppofed, of proteeting the flo.illa which is to rendezvous there, if they facceed in efeaping our Hying fquadrons, which will be no eafy matter ; for we can keep the fea in any weather in which their boats dare attempt to navigate. Notwithflanding their perfevering labour, the work go on but flowly, as we annoy them by night and by day,- when perceived at their opeta tions. If the fire be kept up againa them as it has been for fome days pall, it will be a long time be fore they can fic:fh their works. You, at home, are right in prep-ming to give the'cnemy a hearty reception ; for with an inveterate foe we ought to he prepared at all points. Be affured, however, yon have nothing to fear unlef, indeed our fleets were to be dellroyed by fome uncommon hur. ricane ; for depend upon it, if B attempts to e• ors the elitcb,• while our !Lips can keep the fea, his force will be Co much fhattered and difheArtened, long before he reach our (bores, that he will be able to make no impreffion on them." We have received Paris Journals to the 2111 inclufive. In the Moniin.r there is an admitTion that the French coatis are not quite fafe from the Faith. They are in fear of fpies I and a mighty boaß is made of one a& of julticc in liberating an individual un ;Oily arreßed. They mention the capture of three EngliOs merchantmen, near Triefie ; and a report of a French frigate having captured an Englifh onc. The Turkifh empire hems tottering in every quar ter. The rebel AZDUL Wac HMI is again in force, and Passa•aa Ocs.ou 011C4 more fete the Ottoman forces at defiance. In addition to all this, Franey has ord:red the GaAs O SEIGNIOR to prohibit Englift, (hips from entering his ports, and even to prevent their parting the Dardanelles! French 5 per cents. 55 fr. 40 C. and for la Vend. year 12, 52 fr. 25 c. Ntts, AUG. tB.—The prefent circumflances have obliged Government to double its vigilance on our coatis, and fuch meafures have been there taken that no fpy or contriver of trouble can land from Eng. land on our chores, without running the rifquc of an almoft inevitable amfiation. In confequence of this fevere vigilance, John Harvey Chrifiie, an Englifh. man, was lately arrefted and carried before the Firft Permanent Council of War of the isth Military Di vilion, charged with being a fpy. But having prov. ed his innocence in regard to the crime of w hich he was accufed, he was di(charged on the 9th by au unanimity of fuffrages. Thus, notwithftanding the jail refentment with which the French are animated againft a Govern. mene guilty of fo many and fo great offences towards us—notwithßanding the danger of prejudices, to which the Rate of hoftility might give rife between the two nations, jultice preferred its afcendency, and the facred rights of innocence were refpelled to an enemy, as they would to a Frenchman—Morinur. Atm u sr 20.—A (mall privateer of Ancona, corn. mended by Captain Muzzor.orre, and manned with from 25 to 30 men, which had never before been at fca, has taken near Triefte three Englifh valets, laden with hemp, fulphur, and raw filk, from the Levant. The privateer on dcfcrying them hoifled Turkith co lours: when within reach the Captain ordered them to come on board and (hew their papers. They im. mediately hoifled oat a boat and went on board. The Captain then hoifted hir colours, and after attefling them by firing a gun, captured the three Englifh veffels, which made no refinance, though in force and men they were nearly equal to the privateer, and though they carried more guns and heavier metal. Thefe prizes are valued at 30 or 4 0,0c01 . Reeling. The Englifh party at Triale are the more humbled as the Captains of theft three (hips being there, at the time when war was declared, had fent for a band of mufic, and had tellified their joy in a molt inde• cent manner.—Monilevr. CONSTANTINOPLE, JUNG 28.—The victory gained by the Pacha of Damafens over Abdul Wechab, bas ' not been followed by thole happy confequences which were expected. According to the lag intelligence that rebel having received numerous reinforcements, again advanced and took pciffelfion of Mecca. The Porte is going to let on foot two formidable armies ; one of which is deftined to combat the pretended Caliph in Arabia I—the other is to aft againft the hordes of brigands which lay wage Turkey4n Europe. There preparations require great expence, and, unfortu nately, cur finances were never in fo bad a Rate. The war which has broken out between England and France, places the Porte in a very embarrafling fi nation. We are allured that it has been already required to forbid Engtifb (hips to enter its ports. and even to prevent them piffing the Dardanelles, hit smut, Jute at.—On the sth three Amerizan frigates, with a cutter, a tranfport, and a frill 'Fri politan prize, arrived here: they failed from Naples, in order to join four other American valets, with which they will return to their Ration before Tripf. It is ieported here, that a French frigate, after main, taming a furious conteft with an Englifh frigate, in which the was almolt totally difmaiied, fucceedell in boarding the enemy, and getting PtiffefLon of her after a dreadful carnage. BRUSSILS, Auct. is generally expelled here, that when the Come Coeur'. pays a vifit in the att. tumn to the departments on the left bank of the Rhine, and vitae the lea coafts, as well as the troops deßined to compofe the grand army, he will take up his ref:- denee in this city, that he may be on the (pot, to direfi in perfon the military preparations making againft England. COPENNAOIN, Avo. 2.—A, letter front Gibraltar, dated'June 30, flares, that two Danifh (hips the Em, manuel, Captain RYLAND, and the Vifes-Steen, Cap lain Naas, which the Englifh had taken and carried into that port, have been releafed on a remonfiranc, made by the Danish Conful. It is hoped, in confe• quence of the Refit orders ifued by Lieutenant Ge neral Timor, the Lieutenant Governor, to all the Englifh privateers cruising in that neighbourhood, that neutral (hips will in future be fate from their infillts and vexations. Ss istaw, Juev 25.-e0 body of the troops of Pafil wan Oglu has entered Wallachia and forrounded the intrenchments of Bucharcß. This fuelden inva• fion•has furprifed every body, but the reafon affigned by Paffwan Ogles, is Rill more allonifhing. It is, he lays, so avenge the death of a cure, whom he Oa• hilted in that quality in the village of Zefniczef. is Wallachia, and to get the head of his murJer,r. We did not expedl tb fee a Turk take up arms its favour of a Catholic Pi iell. SYCTTGAID, AUGUST tr.—They talk here of the urea of two Ruffian Emitiaries, who were emit I vowing by magnificent prornifes, to induce the inha bitants of Suabia to leave their homes, in order to fettle in the Ukraine. Other Emißaries have pea,' unmolefted through Wurtemberg, from which they enticed from 6o to go individuals for the fame pun , pole. The Elector of Heffe cail has permitted his relation. CH•RLYS of He& beret known in France than in our Cantons, to fettle in the (mall town r Fritzlaw ; and bas eren granted him a peak*, oa condiaca that he never appears at Curd.