The National Register. — London, England, 1808-02-14 00:00:00

~. THE NATIONAL REGISTER. . 14. wares, and inerchawlize, either of foreign or domestic grow th or manufacture, fishing vessels with salt for their fishing, fares excepted. shall be allow ed to depart from ally port of the United State-, u. shall receive a clearance until the ouner, consignee, agent or factor, shall, u ith the master, give bond with one or • more sureties to the 1 . nited States, in a sum double the value of the vessel and cargo. that the vessel is not destined for any foreign port or place, aotl that the said woods, wares, and therchatalize shall be re-loaded in some port of P- the United States See. '2. Ind be it further enacted, That if any ship or vessel shall, during the continuance of the act to which th is act is a sup plement, depart from any port of the United States vi idiom a clearance, or if any ship or VehSel. Shall, contrary to the provi sioas of timid act, or the act to hick this is a suppietnent, pro ceed to a foreign port or place, such ship or vessel and cargo shall be v% holly forfeited ; and if the same shall not be seized, the owner of such ship or vessel shall, fur every such offence, forfeit an:l pay a sum equal to double the !aloe of the ship ur vessel :end cargo, and the master or commander of such ship or vessel, a:. well as all other persons concerned in such prohibited foreign voyage, shall each respectively forfeit and pay the sum of not more than -..!0,0(10 dollars, nor less than 1000 dollars for every such oftener, hether the vessel be seized and cut:dimmed or hot. _ See. 1. And be it further enacted, That the exception made by the act, to which thi4 act is a supplement, in favour of armed vcssels, pte.r..sint.t - politic commissions from foreign powers, shall apply on 1:: to public armed vessels,And shall not be construed to .embrace either privateers, sessels having; letters of marque, or air. other private armed ves&eis : but such private armed vessels ho p... 1 mitred to depart in the same mantic:. and tin•the COWL lit)11-, us is pro v iilcd for other private foreign ships or vessels. Ure . .I:ty Mr. Randolph, made a motion in the Ilo►,e tif Representatives a g ainst (letter:ll Wilkinson. De said, he should first state certain Cacti, and tho&e fact; would he the ground of his motion. on which he shoot(' offer nu argument.— Alr. It. then read the follow inz documents : IMPERIAL PARLLAIVIENT. HOUSE OF LORDS. oNDAY, 8 , 1808. The Curates Suspension Bill was read a third time and passed. •Lunn A uciti..4x u observed, that previously to the motion which he intended to submit to their Lordships, it was necessary, in his opinion, that they should. be in possession of certain docts. merits and papers relating to the exports and imports of the country for a certain time, for it would appear from the perusal of those papers, when produced, that in spite of all the eiltati of the enemy to depress and injure Our trade, that durifor, this year in which his Noble Friend near him cLord Grenville) mot at the head of the Administration, that our exports anieuut , :d to the enormous sum of .13 mill' • ; but was sorry to say that they had fallen very considerably since the present sllnlstere came into office. The Noble Lord then moved, that there be laid before the House an account of the exports and impnros into Great Britain during the last three years. distinguishing the amount and value in each year, ending the sth of .latonary 1811 d. to RD GnEsrILLL wished to know from the ,:ohle Secretary of State, whether any Official Communication had been received respecting a Message from the President of the United States of America, as to the R.afitieation of the Treaty concluded by tins Commissioners of both Countries. Loup IlAwar3prar said, he expected to be able to satisfy the Noble Baron to-morrow, or on %%ednessiay next. corLmt.ve.r.N ExetorrioN. Tar Ih• Icr ye tonna% read a varlet, or motions fur retries' of the Proclamations of Lord Cathenrt kid 'Admiral nambier representatiow (if dle latter teTetcting th e state of the Danish fleet, of !itch ;were severally put .Ind agreed to. ills Grace then muted fur copies of any representations made by the British M ini.ter at Copl*nliagen, regarding the intentions of Denmark to surrender her ficet to France ; and or any de mantis exptint,tion addresed to the Crown Prince, with re gard to the secret articles of the Tienty of Tilsit. rut.: .11.4t:Qctb v r EI. I,I:iLEI considered the question of the Copenhagen Expedition as already • decided by the resolutions of Parliament, on the various points connected with that sub ject. Loan Ilerritixsys Stated his conviction, that the Crown Prince was determi:ied to persevere in his neutrality. When the French, is Dec. IhUJ, violated hi. territort , it was known to every Foreign Minister at Copenhagen, that his resulutiou was, in ease of necessity - , to abandon Holstein and Jutland, and not a doubt existed or hi. ability to preserve Zealand with its Navy. Me was convinced, that the attack on Copenhagen was the immediate cause of the war with Russia. That P.)wer had done all that she could du against France. In the short cam paign of II dais, nich terminated the war, she had out of an arniv of 10,060, lost 27 Generals, 1800 inferior °dicers, and 40,000 MU. The enemy had taken the field with, at the lowcat calculation, a force of 160,000 ettective troops. He had oppor tunities ofjudging that peace was essentially necessary to thewx istenee of Russia. Here his Lordship read a statement of two pri rate couversations which he had with the Emperor. (I . iiir the ORIGINAL DISQUISITION Un Lordship's conference with the Emperor of Russia.) From the warmth NS itIVW Writ the Emperor addressed him, he w asconvineed that nothing prevented an imme diate declaration of hostilities, but that there were two Russian squadrons at sea. Yet what had been the conduct of Ministers ? Thev asserted that Russia was a principal party to the Alarititne Confederacy, they permitted one or her squadrons to enter the Tagus, and another to pass through their fleet in the Sound ! They w ere weak and pusillanimous to the strong, firm and s igo rota.; to the weak. . LOnD IlAwxrcarnr justified the Expedition to Zealand upon three grounds, hi. The as owed deigns of France ; 2d, The impracticability of effectual re.,istance on the part of Den mark ; and idly, The mapiitinle of the danger to this country, should the Danish Nayv fall into the !midi of Bonaparte. cur the Motion, Contents :is—Proxies IS. AgainA it, `on- Contents 6t3—ProxiesSi.—Adjourned. TVESDtV, rns. 9. Counsel %vete heard iu the Irish Appeal, Stafford v. Drew.— Adjourned. Nt• covvsn y, mat. 10. Mr. Nlitfor.l pre:eeted aecoucts Iron the ettetotip Senthand of the qttantity of shipping, hr. t. lit ployed in the Whale Fishery. Ordered to lie uat the table.—Adj'lu.ued. ANsLATION. In the alles the Victoria, Bernardo Molina, Patron, there have been , cnt to Don Vincent Falch nine thoti..iand six hundred and fort N which -urn, without making: the leas; use of it, gnu %% ill h , Id at my disposal, to deliver it at the moment an order may be pre,ented to son by the American General Dun Jame, W ilkithoo 'Jod pre-erve uu many }ear:. Nei% Orleates, 'Oth Jan. 179 ti. The B tRON DE CA ItONDELET. To Senor Don Thoma, t'urte 11. I certif . ) that the foregoing a copy of it; original, to which I refer. kSigned) Thom ks Po IITEI.I. Nea• Madrid, 27th June, 1796. A debate ensued, IN hich continued till past five o'clock, al most entirely on the mode proper to be pursued, whether to refer the Resolution to a Select Committee of the whole, or to pass it without reference.—No decision was however made. The farther consideration of the subject was postponed, on motion of \l r. Smiley, till Monday, Jan. 4. .1 t rAIt N . '2. --The engrossed Bill, Supplementary to the .A et laving an Litibargo, has been read a third time ; and on the (pie,tiidi, shall the Bill pasF:, a division took place-1 a.)9 Nays '1.2. Us tract of a Letter. dated Washington, Dec. ISOT : " This morning an advertisement was found posted up in difie rent parts of the city, proclaiming John Randolph a prevari cating poltroon ; signed '' James Wilkinson."—ln the House, thi: dac , Randolph impeached Wilkinson of being a Spanish pensioner, and said that he had documents and letters in his pos session (w filch he has had hut two or three day %) which would fully prove the charge. A motion was made to requeit the Pre ideut to institute an enquiry into Wilkinson's conduct.— W ilkinson challenged Randolph es terday, and Randolph re plied, that he would not fight him till he cleared up his cha racter." BOST° N D 22.—The merchants and dealers in flour and wheat at the Southward, are very severer feeling the tint effect, of the embargo; flour has fallen at New York, Alexandria. Baltimore, and other places, to four a four and a-fourth dol lars, and several great failures have already occurred : one at New York, last sleek, for 80,000 dollars, it is said. BosTo y, .1 A N i.—Already are the effects or the embargg , nsibl) felt by the labouring classes, that the Corporatim: ew York were proposing means of eutplu but the cartmen, unties, and labourers of that city, so as t0;.., , .i‘e bread to distressed families, at this luclemebt ocaluu tot* the 'ear. I li o SO %1.1 of \c• ntech; their s . 101