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dMERICA. CIRCULAR. Treasury Department, Mif 14, 11110. eta—You will herewith receive a printed copy of an Act con cerning the commercial intercourse betweeu the United States :nd Great Britain and France and their dependencies, and for usher purposes. The instructions formally given respecting the execution of provisions of a similar nature, being applicable to the two firs' section+ of the Act, it is only necessary to observe, that the exclusion from the harbours or waters under the Jurisdic tion of the United States embraces, (subject only to the ex ceptions made by the Act) every description of British or French armed vessels, whether public or private, and whether sailing with or without a commission, authorising the capture of v Ist's. All other restrictions'on the commercial intercourse with F:Ance or Great Britain, not previously repealed, have expired QI: the tst instant. I am, &c. (Signed) ALBERT GALLATIN. NEW YORK, JUNE t. Mr Jackson, the British Minister, left this city on Saturday afternoon last. in the Experiment, arrived at Hudson on Monday evlnin, , , and on the morning following proceeded into the interior for Northamp ton. Massachusets. We learn, that the latest accounts from France in the hands of Government are of the most gloomy complexion. Mr. Armstrong certainly returns, lea ving Mr. Russel Charge d'Affaires. A new Minister is coming out, but Government is aot apprized of his object. The National Intilligencer, speaking of the delay which occurred in G: eat Britain between Mr. Pinck ney's first interview with Marquis Wellesley, and that Nobleman's ...tn:wer to his note, says The delay was unequivocally foreign to the original cause.— There were others : existirg state of parties in England. od. The poli•ical divisi,ns among us. " Separately or collectively these causes dictated the stately and measured answer of Marquis Wellesley. We know that the present English Ministry tot tered to dissolution, at the very moment it drew its first breath, and that it has ever since been exposed to the severest paroxysms, of which the Parliament has been the theatre. _ 1{ iii state of mixed infancy and dotage, it was all important to avoid any thing like a rupture with America. In the midst of a wide spread defeat and discomfiture of the British arms, when every ray of hope was quel died in the fatal bogs of Walcheren, and the right arm of British power paralized by the rapid disappearance ot specie, and the consequent de e .reciation of paper-currency.—When . added to all this, so great was the demand for grain, as to have rendered necessary the licei,cing of vessels trading to France, which at one time amounted to about 500, lying the River Thames, it was not fiolilic to add to her enemies, or increase her difficulties. The Non- Intercourse Act still enjoyed a nominal existence, and rnigt:t be enforced. At any rate the apprehension of s , .ch an event might have thrown a weight into the advorse scale, which, added to that already in it, might have been fatal to the reigning party." The divislont in America are thus glanced at, and lastly the hate of conduct pursued by France towards that country, which is alledged to have had considerahe influence on th" British Government.— The article, which fills three columns, concludes thus : " The tart is, that the disposition of the French Government shortly after underwent a considerable change, and that a period was put to the relaxation ot her edicts. Had that Government on the other hand assumed either the attitude of marked hostility or marked tiiend-hip towards us, it is highly probable that Britain would have seen it to have been her policy to grant us, without delay, all we asked." ?ROM THE NATONAL INTELLIGENCER OF MAY 28. The int - on:1:160n recently received from France is of such a complexion as to give increased interest to the Arrival of the John Adams. By her k is proba ble that a fuller, perhaps a conclusive indication of the temper of the French Government will be re ceived. We shall then probably be enabled to de cide whether, bad as the existing state of things with her is, the prospect is not that they will • ge..w worse instead of better ; and whether tl:e time is not at hand when every American vessel entering the ports of the Continent of Europe will be. condeznned? whether, in fact, any trade to the Continent can be carried en with safety ? We would not wish to paint the dangers of the Commercial World in exaggerating colours ; but it is a truth which neither can nor ought to be disguised, that the whole foreign horizon borders with dangers. The numerous private letters received from every part of Europe under controul of Bonaparte corrobo rate the tenor of the official documents in our last P. , per, and are commentaries which cannot be mis tak,er on the Note of the Duc de Cadore. Our vessels are every where seized, not by the mu nicipal authority, or confOrmably to the usual forms of judicial proceedings, but by the strong arm of mi litary power ; not in detail, but in mass. A gene ral condemnetion follows, and by on; tremendous sweep millions are carried into the public coffers. In many ports all tl.is was done, not merely without no tice, but in ditect violation of solemn assurances of protection ; aid frem Denmark, unfortunate Den mark' we are threatened with the lawless depreda tions of a swarm of privateers. Such are the outrages committed on our rights, which, it would seem, floW from the mandates of the f'''s•cli Government, contemporaneous with the note 1 1 ::e Dec de Cadore. Whet prospect there is of beelg released from them may be best ascertained from the note itself. This paper, it will be observed, is no light or hasty exposition of the sentiment of the French Government. It purports to be a written an swer given to the verbal overtures °Lour Minister.— 1 : That th e P res id ent o f the Un i ted States may t h e '"er how the friendly iamtions of France towards tile United States, and her favourable dispos.;:ions to American commerce." It is consequently written to prevent all mistakes, and we might perhaps add, to silence all hope of any change for the better. " If then," says the note, after going into some detail, " the Minister of America can enter into an engagement that the American vessels will not sub- Sit to the Orders in Council of November•lBo7, nor to any decree of blockade, unless the blockade should be n'al, the undersigned is authorised to cone clude every species of convention tending to renew the Tee of Commerce with America, and :n which a I the measures proper to consolidate the com merce a - ld the prosperity of the Americans shall be ptov'ded for." 'l'm only construction that can be put upon this iS.egsttage that if America will actually make war upon England, France will make a treaty with her; For France knows that, short of goin; to war, we have done every thing to resist the British Orders in Council, and proclamation blockades; that we have imposed an embargo, passed a non-intercourse law, and prohibited English armed vessels from entering our waters ; and that we have offered to her to con tinue the two - last prohibitions, so far as they affected England, if she would rescind her edicts; more than this could not have been done, unless we had actually made war on England. This then, is the end at which France aims ' • and this her lime Oa nom for respecting our rights. And, because we do not take this step at her dictation, we are reproached with a want of " just political views of honour and of energy." The blood that was spilt in atchieving our liberties is called up in judgment against us, and we are told, that we " ought either to tear to pieces the act of our inde pendence, and to become again, as before the revolu tion, the subjects of England, or to take such mea sures as that our commerce and industry should not be tariffed by the English, which renders us more de pendent than Jamaica, which at least has its assembly of representatives and its privileges !" But, supposing it possible that we could be so base, as at the mandate of any foreign Government to be driven into war with its enemy, what would be the effects ? The trade with England, we all know, would be lost. Is it certain that we should retain that of the Continent, as our indemnity ? So far from this being certain, is it not most likely that France would then impose the same restrictions on our trade to the Continent, that she now does upon that of her allies ? Prohibit rt altogether, or only so far authorise it as comported with her own interest. For our own part we do not hesitate to say, that the time has come, when every patriotic and prudent man among us should cease to flatter himself with justice, much less friendship, from either of the Belli. gerents ; when the Government should take firm and permanent ground, and the people by their industry and enterprize, make themselves independent of Eu rope. England and France have both the same ob ject in view—in the fury of their animosity against each other, they are totally regardless of the rights of neutrals, and, if they possess the power, they will not leave a neutral plank on the ocean. Although the retrospect is fruitful of painful feel. ing, we are irresimibly carried back to the proud and commanding attitude in Which the embargo, tha! much abused measure, placed us. Not a day passes without confirming its wisdom, and illustrating the penetration and foresight of the illustrious character that recommended it.- It was worthy of him wh. had so splendid an agency in achieving our indepen dence, to interpose th.s shield for its protection against new and fearful perils. However, amidst the squab bles, its policy may be questioned, and the motives of its authors vilified, when the petty feuds of the day are forgotten, it will'ieceive the reward of an unpre judiced posterity. But the Embargo and Non-Intercourse are gone, and our merchants are now left to manage their con cerns in their own way. If then a wide spread ruin overwhelm them, let them not complain of their Go. vernment ; the f elk will be their own, and they must submit to it Nr i hou t murmur. They have rejected every saint:lly restraint imposed upon them ; they have deruanded a pet feet freedom. They now have their wish. We shall rejoice, if this freedom adds to their prosperity, and much more so, if it conduces to the prosperity of the nation. The gratification will be the livelier for its being unexpected. SWEDEN. The following extract of a letter from Stockholm, dated June '24 gives some further particulars of the late commotion in that capital : " The funeral procession of the CROWN PRINCE ar rived here yesterday. It was led by Count Axel Fersen, in a carriage drawn by six horses. An im mense assemblage of people had collected. No symp toms of riot or outrage were observable until tile corpse had reached New-street (Nygatan), when the populace began to hiss and shout at the Count, who did not seem to suppose that the indignity was directed to him, but on a stone being thrown into the carriage, the Count Tout his head out of the window, and if I may judge from his gestures, which were too significant to be mis taken, set the mob at defiance. This exasperated them to such a degree, that they discharged a volley of stones at the coach,one of which struck the Count in the face. The Count immediately ordered the postillions to stop, jumped out of the coach, and with great difficulty reached the nearest house. At that moment Baron Sil vesrsparre, the Adjutant-General, arrived, and on de m.inding the cause of the riot, the general exclamation Count Fersen has murdered the Crown Prince. Si . versparre then told them that the King had ordered him to declare that the Count should be arrested and tried. The moil then huzzaed, and began to disperse. The carriagehad in themean time advanced a little, and stopped in the square. In half an hour after the Count came out of the house, and in approaching the car riage, the mob suddenly rushed upon him, tore the star from his coat, pelted him with stones, and mur dered him : ! So ferocious were the assassins, that they tore the clothes off the body of the CGunt, and ex posed his naked corpse in the street. The Life-guards came up ; the people were told to disperse—but in vain ; they pelted the officers, &c. used the most threatening and abusive language respecting the Queen anti Countess Piper, and became more and more outrageous. The soldiers fired, and a great many were shot. The Council of State assembled. Countess Piper, sister of Count Fersen, was arrested, as well as Mr. Rossi, Principal Physician of the de ceased Crown Prince, and sent to the fortress of Wax holm. The insurgents on being informed of these proceedings, and that Count Fabean Fersen had re signed' his office as Lord Chamberlain, the public tranquillity was somewhat restored. In the night the, mob attack':d Count Ugglas's house and broke all the window, but did no further damage. To-day cannons are planted in the squares ; and orders have been issued for several regiments to march with all . possible eipedition to the capital. It is somewhat remarkable that Count Fersen, who had resided several years in France, and was, from the elegance of his rm.nners and etraordinary a great favourite at C ourt , Was the a ccomplishments, person who, in the habit of a coachman, drove the unfortunate. Louis XVI. and his Queen from Paris to Varerinei;Wheie they were arrested in thei r flight." CANIVIBALL Yesterday advices were received front the ship City of Edinburgh, at the Cape, the Captain of which re lates a horrible event respecting the Captain and crew of the Boyd, TnomsoN, at New Zealand, in October last. It appears, that whilst the Boyd was at Botany Bay, the Captain met with one of the two Chiefs who govern the Island of New Zealand, of the name of Tappohee, and:agreed with him to purchase some ' timber, to take home to England. As soon as the voyage would permit, the ship arrived at the Island ; • and the Captain being introduced to the Chief, who had got home bef or e him, was promised the timber in two days. In the mean time the Captain was invited on shore, and attended the Chief with part of the ship's company in the boat. Nothing particular transpired ' on this occasion ; but the Chief returned on board the ship, attended by a number of canoes, full of men-- They were permitted to examine the ship, as a matter of curiosity. Tappohee, the Chief, was treated with great respect; and having continued on board some time, he got into his boat, for the purpose, as it was supposed, of meeting the Cap:ain of the ship, who, he said, had gone to see the timber. Instead, however, ! of leaving the ship, he gave a yell, which was a signal for the massacre of the whole ship's company. There were about thirty in all, twenty of them they tore l'mb from limb, and regaled themselves upon the flesh of the unfortunate victims. About ten of the men, to save their lives, climbed the masts, and two women passengers, and a lad, raft down below ; the Chief hailed the men, and tojd them, that they had got all they wanted, having plundered the ship ; and that if they would come down their lives should be spared. The deluded men obeyed, and fell, like their com rades, a sacrifice to the inordinate and brutal appe tites of the cannibals. The two female passengers and the boy were taken on shore, and their lives spared, but the ship was burnt. The Captain and men on shore were never heard of. The rival Chief Paai, situated at a different part of the island, heard of the affair, and expressed his sorrow on the occasion to the ' Captain of the City of Edinburgh, who was at the island for timber, and prepared to accompany him with an armed force to release the woman and the boy, in which they fully succeeded, and the latter are now safe on board the City of Edinburgh, at the Cape. [The following interesting Article is copied from the Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser, published by Au thority.] THE FEJEE IsLaanas.---On the 7th of October last, which was shortly after the arrival at the Fejees of the Favourite, Captain Campbell, Mr. Thos. Smith, his second officer, was unexpectedly made prisoner by the natives, with seven others of the ship's company, and remained nine days in captivity ; during which in:erval he experienced and witnessed horrors, from his narrative of which the following account is accu rately deduced : It begins with stating, that on the 7th of October he went from Sandal-wood Bay round to the Bay of Highlea, with three boats in quest of Sandal-wood, one of which, the ship's long-boat, he commanded ; another, a whale-boat, was under the command of a Mr. Lockerby, formerly chief officer of the American ship Jenny ; and the third under Mr. Graham, who had fortunately returned laden to the vessel in time to escape the calamities that fell upon the former two. At Highlea he heard that BULLANDAM, the chief of the district of Buya, was expected with a force to make war upon the Island of Taffere or Taffcia, and it was the intention of the Highleaus to aid his enter prize. The next mottling the two boats prepared to return to the vessel, but were cut off by Bullandam's fleet of canoes, 140 in number, orderly advancing in a semicircle, and finding it impossible to pass them, it was considered advisable to bear up to the fleet, hoping by such display of confidence to preserve the lives of the crews. When within hail they were or dered to advance ; but the whale boat was prevented by a large canoe bearing down, and running aboard, cutting her in two. Mr. Lockerby and the crew were picked up and made prisoners, and Mr. Smith and the long-boat's people were made prisoners likewise. The captors were about to dispatch some of the people with their spears and clubs, but were prevented by the chief commanding the canoe, until the superior chief should be consulted. When presented to Bullandam,l he proposed to employ them in his intended assault aaainst TatFere, in which he proposed to himself much assist nce from their muskets, and seemed much dis appoirred when informed that the powder was spoilt, and the guns useless. He had no wish, however, to . commit any personal injury on his prisoners ; but, on the contrary, shewed some attention to Mr. Smith, wlinni he respected as an officer, and generally in vited to accompany him when he went on shore, al . ways endeavouring to sooth his apprehensions, and quiet his solicitude of returning with his companions to the slip, by an assurance,that as soon as the island of TaGre was subjugated, and its inhabitants de stroyed, he would employ all his subjects in procuring wood kr the vessel, to which they should be returned in safety. On the 11 di of October, the junction of forces being thoroughly arranged, an immense fleet of ca noes sailed from Highlea for the expedition, and hav ing a fresh head wind, the canoes were set to windward by poles, at the rate of three knots an hour. At night this formidable armament came to, round the north east part of the island ; and Bullandam took Mr. midi on shore, to pass the night with him ; his night .guard consisting of ten men armed with spears and arrows. _ _ _ _ _ . _ . Early on the morning of the 12th the whole of the army returned to their canoes ; which on a signal from Bullandam set forward in complae order ; and at about three in the afternoon the &et anchored abreast of a village in Taffere, the van coming to close action with a fleet belonging to the island. The attack was math with arrows at a distance; and as the canoes of Taffere maintained their posi tion, they soon closed, when a desperate and stubborn conflict with spears commenced. The islanders, however, at length gave way to numbers very far superior, and to escape an otherwise certain destiny, all leaped into the water and swam towards the shore, from which a division of LULLANDAM'S fleet was en deavouring to cut them off. The canoes were taken possession of, with only one captive, an unfortunate boy, who being presented to the releadess chief, was ordered to be slaughtered, as it was his determina tion frac not a single lde should be spared. This ruthless sentence was immediately .executed with a club, throe blows from yak!) the youthful sufferer endured, and then elpfred :—.the body Was afters- rd. given into the charge of an attendant tel be roasted for the Chief and his principal associates. The hor. tors that immediately succeeded the defeat the most sensible imeginatian can but faintly represent. A massacre was determined on ; and as the men had escaped the fury of their conquerors by flight, the women and children became the chief object of search —on which mission a can o e was di s patched, and tins happily the fatal discovery was very soon made. On a signal from. the shore numbers landed, and a hut was set fire to, probably as a signal for the work of destruction to commence. Within a cluster of mangroves the devoted wretches had taken sanc tuary ; many might undoubtedly have secured - them. selves by accompanying the flight of their vanquish• ed husbands and relatives, could they have consented to a separation from thei;helpless children, who were no less devoted then themselves. A dreadful yell was the forerunner of the assault ; the ferocious mon. • sters rushed upon them with their clubs, and without regard to sex or infancy, promiscuously butchered all. Some wha still had life and motion were treated as dead bodies, which w...re mostly dragged to the beach by one of their limbs, and through the water into the canoes ; their groans were disregarded, and their unheeded protracted sufferings were still more hurtful to the feelings of humanity than even the ge neral massacre itself had been. Among the slaughtered were some few men whose Age perhaps had prevented their fUght ; but in feet, so sudden and so dreadful wac the consternation that succeded the defeat of ti:e unhappy natives of Taffere, as no doubt to paralyse the minds of the wretched creatures, when prom' t consideration could alone be serviceable to their de plorable condition. The conquerors appeared to an ticipate with inordinate delight the festival with which this sad event had gratified their horrible expectation. Forty two bodies were extended on one platf arm in Bullandam's cenoe ; and one of these, a young fe. male, appearing most to attract his attention, he de ; sired that his second in command would bay.; it laid by for themselves. The Tafferians being wholly defeated and dispers ed, the island was taken possession of by Bullandam's forces, which were very numerous. This principal Chief invited Mr. Smith on shore, as he seemed in clined to shew him favour ; and Mr. Smith declares it to be one of the most beautiful places he had ever seen ; the houses, in number about a hunch ed, ranged on the declivity of a hill, intersperied with cocoa -nut, bread-fruit, and other trees, and each house defended with a wall of piled stone. The buildings were, how ever, all set fire to by Bullandam's order ; and Mr. Smith,becoming solicitous fur his release, was inform ! ed by the Chief; that as soon as all the victims were devoured, he should be set at liberty with his compa nions. The dead bodies were got into the canoes, and the whole fleet left Taffere on their return to the main island ; where many others joined in the horrible festivity, which was conducted with rude peals of ac clamation. Mr. Smith was on this occasion also taken on shore by the great Chief, and here had again to experience a detestable spectacle. The bodies had been dismembered of their limbs, which were sus pended on the boughs of trees in readiness for cook ery ; and afterwards part of a human leg was offered to Mr. Smith, who had never broke his fast for five days. The offer he rcjected with abhorrence ; and upon his captors appearing astonished at the refusal, he gave them to understand, that if he eat of huaian flesh lie would instantly die. They were satisfied with this excuse, and continued their abominable se• verity the w:iole night. On the 1.5t1 , , the Chef in the canoe that captured Mr. Smith's boat applied to Bullandam for the pri soners, and the long boat, in order to return them to their ship, declaring his intention to demand three whale teeth and twelve hatchets for their ransom, but this proposal was not then attended to. Twenty or thirty men then arrived at the place of rendezvous, leach bringing a basket of human flesh half roasted, which mode Mr. Smith learnt they took to pre serve it. The day of deliverance at length ap proached from a captivity the most afflicting, from a 'diversity of cause, that man could be exposed to; and after enduring it nine days, and totally fasting, he was at length turned over to the charge of the chief of Niri, with orders to demand the ransom for himself end six of his companions. But previous to. quitting the voracious party, a new incident of cruelty occurred :—One of the unfortunate inhabitants of Teller.: had swam from his distressed island to the main, but was perceived as soon as he gained the shore, and was in consequence pursued by a multi tude, armed - with bows and arrows, spears and clebs —the pursuit terminated with the life of the wretched fugitive, whose body presented a new source of ezul. Cation and cannibal festivity. On the 16th Mr. Smith was restored to his over joyed s hip m ates, with all his companions except two, one of whom was Mr. Lockerby, who were afterwards indebted for their rescue to a determined perseverance ' in the Captain, his Officers, and purple, which was highly creditable and meritorious. Mr. Smith, Mr. Lockerby, and all the others, had been repeatedly oats the very point of assassination, to which these people seem to possess no kind of repugnance whatsoever, but on the contrary, it appearing their chief object of delight. Their determined obstinacy in effecting every Idling they attempted can alone be equalled by the ex traordinary precision of their arrangements, which are planned methodically, and executed with an cargo. andcalmness that surprise even an European ; with strength al body they possess a thorough contempt of danger, and a heedlessness of pain. Their present conqueror, Bullandam, has already become terrible, . an] bids fair to possess himself of the sole soveieignty of the islands. But though 'implacable and sangui nary in his resentments, yet we we assured that in his disposition strong traces of kindness were perceivable towards all except the enemies of his arms. These people are very avaricious, and from the foregoing account must be considered insatiably cruel. Their numbers, no lesithen the leadi ig trai:s in their character, render them 14ruidable to an hicompetent i l ie r r tis t p o ec b t e s n i o t l b e t s •c s e c n a l u es . in aloe which are t l na.. v.., of powertt o l e d n s h t o y a f o l d f n e v t fe e , n i s , c s s g s a t o r t d t b 0 1 l a r t g: indeed the less daugerous, as they are less powerful and numerous. Yes - erd .y evening the Worcester Mail was detained near two hoars beyond its usual time of stare the White Hone Cellar, in Piccadilly, cm P' the axletree breaking. Ling, VuaL of