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THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. SATURDAY, AUGUST 18. ?RICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK: s per Cent. Cons. money, 68—ace. 6811. S per Cent. Reduced 6913-4 per Cent. 65. Navy 5 per Cent. 99j—Exchequer Bills 2.. to 6s. pr. Bonds 265. pretn.—Omnium dis. PRICE OF STOCKS YESTERDAY. Bank Stock 2620 India Bonds 255. 265. 245. pre. per C. Red. 69Ciii I Each. Bills ?A. 6s. prem. 3 per Cent. C0n5..66411 . Omnium lit die. 4 per Cent. Lottery Tickets £22. 15s. S per Cent. Navy 9911 4 Cons. for acc. 6831 Long Ann. 18 9.161 Monitturr to the 10th instant arrivediast night, the contents of which are extremely interesting. From the Paper of the Bth, we subjoin the Decree relating to the importation of certain articles of colonial pro duce ; and, from that of the following day, a letter t' General Anali tioxa, on the subject of the mis- tnderstanding between France and the United States. We are sorry to be obliged to remark, that neither the Decree nor the Letter contains a single sentence acknowledging, either in fact or in substance, that NAPOLEON has abandoned, or means to depart from his system : on the contrary, we find in both a re-as sertion and vindication of his original principles. The Decree now given differs materially frepi the copy first received, and seems to have emanated en tirely from the Emperor himself. It is true it sanc tions the importation of colonial produce ; but upon an implied, though not an expressed understanding, that the previous laws, whether restricting or regula ting importation, are to be rigidly maintained. The articles imported, if suspected to come from an ene my's port, or to be enemy's property, produce, or ma nufacture, are liable to a strict examination, and to confiscation in case they shall be found to be falsely described. There is no great commercial facility in this. The letter to General ARMSTRONS announces the conditional revocation of the Berlin and Milan Decrees. They are to cease to be in force after the Ist of No v2niber, upon either of these two conditions—that we shall revoke our orders in Council, and renounce the new principles, of blockade ; or, that the United States shall cattle their rights to be resfierted by us. 'The meaning of this is, that we must either renounce the rule of the war of 1756, and limit our rights of sei zure and detention to vessels entering ports under strict blockade ; or that America is to go to war with us, for the purpose of asserting what, in the present maritime code of France, is called the right of neu. trals. There is nothing new, therefore, in this offer of the French Government. The same proposal has been made more than once to the American Minister. Trance has repeatedly declared that she would revoke the Berlin and Milan Decrees, provided we reLcirided our Orders in Council. The British Government, mutatis mutandis, has made the same declaration. Now the only question for consideration is, does this pro pc:4al of the French Minister for Foreign Affairs amount to that kind of absolute renunciation which should induce our Government to re.citid its Orders in Council ? We think not. Nay, NAPOLEON expects more. He has attached to the performance of his part of the arrangement a condition, which must prove very embarrassing to our Ministers ; - namely, that of renouncing those principles of blockade, to the vigorous assertion of which we owe, in a great degree, our maritime ascendancy. Again we are to observe, that the Berlin and Milan Decrees are not de facto d instanter repealed. No, that event is deferred to the Ist of November ; before which time NAPOLEON no doubt expects that our Or ders in Council will have been rescinded (and so spare him the humiliation of having been the first to , give way) ; or that the United States, in consequence of this liberal offer, will have &elated war against this country. The letter, in other respects, is as insidious a com munication as ever issued from the French Govern silent. Its object rather appears to be the encourage.' meta of the war or French faction in America, than the arrangement of a debated point of policy. The sequestration of the American vessels in the French ports, is stated to be a necessary consequence of the measure that followed. We can find no offer here to restore these ships; that, we presume, will depend on the part that the Government of the United States will, in consequence of . this invitation to throw down the gauntlet to us, think proper to adopt. PAnb, AUGUST 7. His Majesty issued on the sth August, at the Pa- .I_ lace of Trianon, the following Decree : n Art I. The duties upon the importation of the undermentioned goods and merchandize are settled as i follow : By metrical quintal : the cottons of Brazil, Cayenne, Surinam, Demerary and Georgia, long staple, 800 francs; levant cottons, t•nported by sea, 600 fr. ; the same by land, through the Offices at Cologne, Cublentz, Mayence, and Strastourgh, 500 fr.; cottons , from all other places, tho>e from Naples excepted, 606 fr.; those from Naples, the old duties. Raw sugar. 300 fr. ; clayesl or loaf sugar, 400 fr ; Hyson teas, 900 fr.; - green teas, 600 fr.; all other , teas, 150 fr.; indigo, 930 fr. ; cocoa, 1000 fr. ; cochineal, 2000 ft. ; white pepper, 600 fr. ; black do. 400 fr.; common cinna moa, 1400 fr.; fine do 2000 fr.; clove-, 600 fr.; nutmegs, 2000 fr. ; mahogany, 50 fr. ; Pernambucco wood, 0 fr.; Campeacily do. 50 fr.; dye woods ground, 100 fr. " Art. IL When the custom-house officers suspect that the declarations concerning the species or quali ties are false, they shall send specimens to the Direc? tor-General of our Customs, who is to cause them the Press is busily at work in the North of Europe i to be examined by Commissaries who have a know.- to convince the people that the projected changes will ' ledge of these branches, attached to the Ministry of . be for their advantage. I Dispatches were this day received by the Airiest' Plymouth from Senegal, which she left the 10th ult. Company, brought by the Morning Star, arrived 4 the Interior ; and who, in every such examination, Some German papers have also arrived by the These dispatches, we are informed, contain some s a . shall be assisted by two manufacturers or merchants, above Gottenburgh Mail. They are filled with de. chosen by the Minister of the Interior. I tails respecting the manoeuvres of the English and tisfactory accounts respecting the safety of this enter. If it, shall appear that the declarations are false, Italian, or rather French flotillas, off the coasts of Prizing traveller. all the merchandize shall be seized and confiscated." 1 i Sicily and Calabria ; but the skirmishes they record 1 AUGUST 9. are not of recent dates. COPY OF A LETTER FROM THE MINISTER or FOREIGN The intelligence from Turkey, brought by the 'Ger. MUNGO PARR. • SPAIN. By accounts received yesterday afterneon from Cadiz to the 22d ult. it appears that an opinion pre. vails there, that the French are about to raise the blockade of the Isle of Leon. The Spanish peasantry are said to have been so extremely active as to have rendered the subsistence and communications of the besieging army extremely precarious. The French before Cadiz arc stated to be only 16,000, a great many of whom are on the sick li►t. and it has been found necessary to erect temporary hospitals for their accommodation. The loss of the enemy by desertion, disease, and by the adventurous spirit of the skirmishing parties, is described as im. mense. man Papers, describes that Empire as being still torn with intestine divisions of various kinds. An epidemic distemper rages with great violence in Bulgaria. STOCKHOLM, JULY so. I informed you in my last that his Danish Ma jest had offered himself as successor to the late Crown Prince, engaging, in the event of his succeeding to the Crown, to make this capital his principal residence. Since then, a paper has been circulated with much in dustry, pointing out the advantages which would ensue from an union of the three Crowns of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. Although the sophistry of this paper should not be too palpable to make it rejected by every good Swede, yet the recent example of the union of Holland to France, and the benefits which have followed in consequence, would be an induce ment, ample enough, for us to resist by every means in our power, a connection so abhorrent to that loyal and patriotic policy which we have ever displayed. CONSTANTINOPLE, MAY so. • The operations -against the Wechabites are about to be pursued with more activity. They have seized upon the island of Bahreim and the town of Zobara, in the Persian gulph, which renders them masters of the Pearl fisheries. But Scherif Hemond, one of the descendants of the Scherifs of Mecca, has advanced from Jemen to Tajet, three leagues from Mecca.— This event is the more important, because it is from Tajef that provisions are procured for Mecca and all the inhabitants of that holy town, whose territory is sterile; and besides this march will greatly facilitate the operations of the Pacha of Egypt, who is to at tack the Wechabites from the side of the Red Sea.— They write from Cairo, that a plan of attack has al ready been agreed upon ; the different Generals have been named ; the son of the Pacha, Fesum Pacha, is to have the chief command. To this end a great number of ships in frames have been transported. EXTRACT OF A LETTER, DATED PETERSBURGII, JULY 7. A very severe ordinance has just been issued, tend ing to prevent the clandestine introduction of mer chandize coming from an enemy's country by means of false documents which the ships carry who are loaded with them. Any one who can prove the ff►l sity of the papers of a ship shall receive as a recom pence the shird part of the value of the catgo. We are at this time examining the papers of 60 vessels from the island of. Teneriffe, now in this port. There have arrived in that of Cronstadt above 200 ships of different nations. COPENHAGEN, JULY 21. A pamphlet has lately been published in Sweden, under the tide To the Scandinavian: ;" the author of winch enumerates several grounds, why the future union of Denmark; Norway and Sweden, under one Sovereign, would be an event productive of signal. advantages to the North of Europe. He also ob serves that the mighty monarch who guides the poli tics of the continent could not throw any obstacle in the way of a similar change. ORBERO, JULY 27. M. Wegelen, of Stockholm, merchant, and Knight of the Order of Wasa, has been appointed Speaker of the States of Burghers, and M. J. Wistin, of Stock holm, Deputy Speaker. PETERSBURGH, JULY 3. Our Court Gazette has now given a detailed ac count of the operat;ons of our army in Moldavia, whereby it appears, that at the storming of Bazard shiek 8000 Turks were killed ; besides the Comman der in Chief, Peglivan, 276 Pachas were taken pri soners ; the number of the latter amounted in the whole to 1657. The loss of the Russians does not exceed 700 men. RELATIONS TO M. ARMSTRONG. " Paris, August 5, 1810. " Sir—T have laid before his Majesty the Emperor and King, the Act of Congress of the Ist of May, extracted from the paper of the United States, which you had transmitted to me. His Majesty could have wished that this Act, and all other Acts of the Ude. ted States that may concern France, had been always officially notified to him. " The Emperor applauded the general embargo laid by the United States on all their vessels, because that measure, if it has been prejudicial to France, contained at least nothing offensive to her honour. It has caused her to lose her colonies of Guadaloupe, Martinique, and Cayenne. The Emperor cid not complain of it. He made this sacrifice to the prin ciple which determined the Americans to impose the embargo, and which inspired them with the noble re. solution of interdicting themselves the use of the sea, rather than submit to the laws of those who wish to become its tyrants. 44 The Act of the Ist of March removed the em bargo, and substituted for it a measure which must have been particularly injurious to the interests of France. 46 That Act, with which the Emperor was not ac quainted for a considerable time after, interdicted to American vessels the commerce of France, whilst it authorized a trade with. Spain, Naples, and Holland, that is to say, with countries under French influence, and denote ced confiscation against all French vessels that should enter the ports of America. Reprisal was a matter of right, and commanded by the dignity of France, a circumstance upon which it was impossible to make any compromise. The sequestration of all the American vessels in France was the necessary re sult of the measure taken by Congress. 46 At present the Congress treads back its steps. — It revokes the Act of the Ist of March. The ports of America are open to French commerce, Ind France is no longer interdicted to the Americans. In short, the Congress engages to oppose such of the bellige rent Powers, as shall refuse to recognize the rights of neutrals. .6 , In this new state of things, I am authorised to declare to you, Sir, th .t the Decrees of Berlin and Milan are revoked, and that, from the Ist of Novem ber, they will cease to be in force, it being under stood that in consequence of this declaration the Eng lish shall revoke their orders hi Council, and re nounce the new principles of blockade which they have attempted to establish;; or that the United States, conformably to the Act which you have just commu nicated, shall cause their rights to be respected by the English. 64 It is with the most particular sat:sfaction that I inform you of this resolution of the Emperor. His Majesty loves the Americans. Their prosperity, and their commerce enter into the views of his policy.— The independence of America is one of the principal titles of the glory of France. Since that epoch, the Emperor has felt a pleaittre in aggrandizing the United States ; and in all circumstances, whatever can contribute to the independence, the prosperity, and the liberty of the Americans, will be regarded by the Emperor as conformable to the interests of his empire." The mast lively joy had been diffused at Cadiz by rime additional communications from Mexico. The persons in authority there, and all their dependants, professed the most profound respect for the Regency and Junta, and the warmest attachment to the parent state. They said, that if money alone were wanted to support her independence, a sufficient supply should be transmitted to answer all her purposes. The documents proceed to state, that from 16 to 20 millions of dollars would be immediately consigned to Cadiz, and that in the whole, sixty millions would be raised, if the ne. cessities of the Government should require assistance to that extent. Some new mines had been discovered, which were extremely productive, and the most ac tive means were employed to extract their treasures. Under a commercial regulation adopted by the Junta of Cadiz, it is now permitted to export to South America from thence, silk and cotton manufactures in Spanish vessels, and for Spanish account. Before, silk could only be exported if of foreign produce, with a certain proportion of the native silks ; and cot tons were wholly prohibited. General o'l)o:emu., according to some letters, has been honourably restored to the chief command of the army of Catalonia. Letters were obtained from Gijon by a transport. which sailed on the 10th inst. On this authority it was said that the Marquisito ( Poaprea) had been under the necessity of abandoning castropol, from whence he crossed the River to Ribadeo, to withdraw into the interior of Galicia. This movement was in conse quence of the return of the enemy to take vengeance upon him for his successful intrusion. His detach ment is stated to be an irregular levy of 5000 infantry and 600 cavalry, and the force of the enemy to con sist of 5000 troops. Thursday, at seven in the evening, a heavy firing was heard on the heights at Dover, in the direction of the opposite coast, which, from the blazes of light discovered at intervals, bad the appearance of being The Dock yards of Antwerp and the Scheldt are said to be abundantly supplied with every species of ship timber from the interior of Germany, vast quan tities of which have been brought thither at an im mense expense by land carriage. Mr. WHITE, Master in the Navy, is appointed su perintending Master of the Port of Chatham, in lieu of Mr. SALSIOND I deceased, and is to have charge of the gun-boats in Hoo Creek. There are but five living out of the number of per formers who trod the Stage with the ever-memorable GARRICK, viz. Mrs. ABINGTON Mrs. KEMBLa, Miss POP I / 1 Mr. O'BRIEN , and Mr. Moony. Tharsday, Mr. John Armitage, a clerk in.the Bank, I (not the person of that name for whose apprehension a reward was offered,) who was taken up on suspi cion of being concerned in forging a dividend warrant, was discharged out of custody, there not being the least evidence against him. Tuesday st'anight, about seven o'clock, William Briggs, a native of Swalwell, 70 years of age, after working a day's work as hammerman at anchors, un dertook to walk thente to Hezham and back again, being a distance of 36 milts, in ten hours, I,r a wager of £5, which he performed in eight hours with the greatest ease, although it rained during his walking 26 mites of the said distance. ST. PETERSBURGH, JULY!!. The papers of the merchant-fleet arrived from Te neriffe are still under examination. The examina tion of the papers of neutrals will henceforth be con ducted by the Treasurer of the Empire, Baron Kasn penh au se. His Majesty has, by a rescript addressed to the Minister of the Interior, appointed a special commis sion to deliberate upon all matters that may be advan tageous to the manufactures of the empire, and par ticularly that of woollens. TRIESTE, JULY 15. Letters from Salonichi, dated about the end of last month, state, that the Porte has issued the strictest orders for an.insmediate levy throughout the whole of the Turkish provinces, of all persons fit to carry arms. The PAchas, under pain of losing their heads, are ordered to take the field with a double contingent ; and what has never happened but in times of the - greatest distress, the Grand Seignior is to resort to the treasure deposited in the Seraglio, in order to j contribute to the expences of the war. _ At Smyrna, Salonichi, and the, other ports of the Levant, the price of cottons is very 1 ow. This morning a Gottenburgh Mail arrived ;--=by the extracts which we have given from the Swedish 'Papers, our Readers will perceive that there is but too much truth in the report mentioned some days Ago in the STAR, of NAPOLEON'S interference in set tling the succession to the Swedish Crown. In addi tion to this piece of intelligence, it is also reported at Stockholm, that the three Crowns of Denmark, Nor way, and Sweden, are to be given to one Sovereign ; who will, of course, be a creature of NAPOLEON'S.— The present King of Denmark is said to have offered himself as a candidate for this triple Sovereignty, and 'THE ARMY. The Oxfordshire Regiment of Militia arrived on Thursday at Little Hampton, from Worthing, in Sussex. His MAJESTY has been pleased to approve the pm• ceedings of the General Court Martial lately held at Maidstone on Robert Chilman, a private in the Bear sted and Mailing Regiment of Local Militia, for dis• obedience of orders and mutinous and improper be haviour, while the regiment was embodied ; by which. he has been found guilty of all the charges, and sen tenced to receive 800 lashes, which are to be inflicted on him at Chatham, to which garrison he is to be searched for that purpose. THOMAS ARCHER, the armourer of the Hants Mi litia, who was tried yesterday, at Exeter, for making an Exciseman's hammer for fraudulently marking hides, (which he was employed to do by a currier, of Kingsbridge), was acquitted. Yesterday, in pursuance of an adjournment on the preceding day, at a General Court-Martial held at Chelsea College, it again assembled, in order fur ther to investigate the charges preferred by Colonel Smith, commanding the 2d Royal Tower Hamlets regiment of militia, against Lieut. Walter William Lewis, belongihg to the said regiment of militia ; when Major-General Turner was called in, who stated, thaton the 17th June he was present atColonel Smith's apartments in the Tower, when Licut Lewis came in, dressed in his regimentals, without his sword, and was desired by his Colonel to take his sword and re turn to his duty ; that he, Lieut. Lewis, in a very ex traordinary manner, refused so to do. On which he, Major-General Turner, advised him to obey his Co. lonel's orders, warning him at the moment of the probable consequences of his refusal. Lieut. Lewis left the room, apparently with a determination not to comply with his Ci.lonel's desire. The next evidence was the Rev. Mr. Robson, of the Lambeth-street Police-office, Whitechapel, who stated, that on the 13th July, when he went to the Office in the morning, he met Colonel Smith there, and on his being informed the reason of Col. Smith's visit, he sent a message to Lieut. Lewis, in the Coat. mercial Road; on which Lieut. Lewis, immediately I came to the Office, and on his arrival there, insisted that Mr. Robson should commit him as a deserter to the Savoy; but he, Mr. Robson, stated to him, that according to the 92d sect. in the Munity Act, he had no such power to commit a commissioned officer as a deserter; his power only related to men agreed as !soldier: ' • and conceiving that Lieut. Lewis, who , bear ing his Majesty's commission, did not come under this I description, he could not comply with his desire. Colonel Smith, it appeared, then ordered Lieutenant Lewis into the charge of Serjeant- Major Hughes,who ► assisted by a party of the '2d Tower Hamlets militia, conducted Lieut. Lewis to his quarters at Deptford. and there he for some time was kept under close ar• rest, having two sentinels placed over him. Serjeant-Major Hughes stated, that on the 12th of July, he secured Lieut. Lewis, and that he conducted him, under the idea of his being a deserter, to Lam beth-street Police-office, oefire the sitting Magistrate, Mr. Cowen, who agreed with his brother Magistrate, Mr. Roasow, that he had no power to commit a com missioned officer as a deserter, therefore he took the Lieutenant's word for his appearance when called upon. The following morning the Serjeant returns' to the office, and conducted the Lieutenant to SA quarters at Deptford. Here the evidence, on behalf of the prosecutiott , being closed, the Court adjourned till Mollify, %Ogg' Lieutenant Lewis will make his defence. A