The National Register. — London, England, 1808-02-15 00:00:00

FEB. 13. wares, and merchandize, either of foreign or domestic gross t:► or manufacture, fishing ve-srls with salt fur their flshiar.: - fares excepted, shall be allowed to depart from any port of tl►e United Slates, or shall receive a clearance until the owner, consignee, agent or factor, shall, w ith the master, give bmal with one or snore sureties to the United States, In a RUM double the value of the vessel and cargo, that the vessel k not destined fur any foreito port or place, and that the said goat! wares, :Lod merchatulihe ♦hall he re-In; ( led in some port of the Litt;ted States See. '2. And be it further enacted, That ii' any ship or vN , AeI shall, during the continuance of the act to which tit is act is a sup plement, depart from any port of the United States without a clearance, or if any ship or sessel shall, contrary , to tin• provi sions of this act, or the act to which this is a supplement, pro ceed to a foreign port or place, such ship or vessel and cargo shall be wholly forfeited ; and if the same shall not he seized", she miner or such ship or vessel sh al , fur every such offence, forfeit and pay a sum equal to double t:ti value of the ship or vessel and cargo, and the master or commander of such ship of vessel, as well as all other persooi concerned in such prol;ibited foreign voyage, shall each respectively forfeit and pay the sum of not more than 20,000 dollar, nor less than 1000 dollars for every such °knee, whether the vessel he seized and condemned G r not. See. 3. And he it further enacted, That the exception made by the act, to which this act is a supplement, in fav our of armed vessels, possessing public commis ions from foreign pow ers, shall apply only to public armed vessels, and shall not be construed to embrace either privateers, vessels having letters of marque, or any other private sinned vessel , : ; but such private armed vessels shall he permitted to depart in the same tnanner, and on the same condition ,, , as is provided for other private foreign ships or vessel,. Dt:c•. al.—This day 11r. Randolph, made — a motion in the llonse of Representatives against General Wilkinson. Ile said, he Should first state certain facts, find those facts would he the ground of his motion, on which he should offer tm argument. — .Mr. It. then t•Csid the following documents 1— . THE NATIONAL REGISTER. TRANSLATION, In the galley the Victoria, Bernardo Molina, Patron, there have been sent to Don Vincent Foich nine thousand siN hundred and forty dollars, which sum, without making the least use of it, oU will hold at my disposal, to deliver it at the moment an erder may be resented to by the American General Don James Wilkinson (end preserve you many years. Nei' Orleans, 20th Jaw, 1796. The BARON nr, CA Ito\ DCLET. To Senor Don Thomas Portell. I certify that the foregoing is a copy of its original, to which I refer. (Signed) THOMAS POKTELL. New Madrid, 21th .T une;l796. A debate ensued, which continued till past five o'clock, al most entirely on the mode proper to he 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 further consideration of the subject was postponed, on motion of Mr, Smiley, till Monday, Jan. 4. vc tuv 2. —The engrossed Rill, Supplementary to the Act lay ing an Embargo, has been read a third time ; and on the question, shall the Bill pass, a division took place—lays 68— s Extract of a Letter. dated W ashington, Dee. 31 , ISO 7 : " This morning an advertisement was found posted up in ditre rent parts of the city, proclaiming John Randolph a prcvari eating poltroon ; signed " James Wilkiuson."—ln the House, this day, Randolph impeached \\ ilkinsmt of being a Spanish pensioner, and said that he had documents and letter, in his pos session (w hich he has had but two or three days) which would fully prose the charge. A motion was made to request the President to in..titote an enquiry into Wilkinson's conduct.— ilkinson challenged Randolph yesterday, and Randolph re plied, that he would nut light him till ho cleared up his cha racter." 110 sroN, Dr,e. 22.—The merchants and dealers in flour and wheat at the Southward, are very severely feeling the first effects 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 week, for 4 0,001 dollars, it is said. BoSTO N I .1A N. 7.—Already are the effects of the embargo so sensibly felt by the labouring classes, that the Corporation of New York were proposing means of employing the eartmen, nsechaaies, and I:llm:irers of that city, so as togice bread to their distressed families, at this iuelemeut season of the year. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. MOUSE OF LORDS, MONDAY, FEB, 8, 1808. 101 The Curates Suspension Bill was read a third time and passed. LORD JrCKI. st,ll 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 docu, ments 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 itt spite of all the efforts of the enemy to depress and injure our trade, that during the year in which his Noble Friend near him (Lord Grenville) was at the head of the Administration, that our exports amounted to the enormous sum of 43 millions; but was sorry to say that they had fallen very considerably since the present Ministers came into office. The Noble Lord then moved, that there be laid before the Bowe an account of the exports and imports into Great Britain during the last three years. distinguishing the amount and value in each year, ending the sth of January 180 b. Lonu G itENVILLE wished to knoWfrout the Noble Secretary of State, whether any Official Communication had been recched respecting a :Nlessao ' r from the President of the United States of America, as to the Ratification of the Treaty concluded by the Commissioners of both Countries. LORD II IWAIISBURr said, be expected to be able to satisfy the Noble Baron to-morrow, or on Weducsday next. COP LNIIMIEN MCP EDITION. DIE DuKr OP NORrOLIi read a variety of motions for copiekt of the Proclamations of Lord Cathcart and Admiral Gambier the representations of the latter respecting the state of the Danish fleet, &c. all of which were severally put . and agreed to. His Grace then moved for copies of any representations 'wale by the British 3liaister at Copenhagen, regarding the intentions of Denmark to surrender her fleet to France ; and of any de mands of explanation addressed to the Crown Prince, I( ith re gard to the secret articles of the Treaty of Tilsit. Ton li:qv is or if - Ei.t.csi.E.E considered the question (tithe Copenhagen I pedition as already decided by the resolutions of Parliament, on the various points connected with that sub ject. Loan HOTCIIIN4OY stated his conviction, that the Crown Prince was determined to persevere ip his neutrality. When the French, in Dec. 1805, v iolated his territory, it was known to every Foreign rtliaister at Copenhagen, that his resolution was, in case of necessity, to abaudon holstein and Jutland, and not a doubt existed of his ability to. preserve Zealand s ith its Navy. lie was convinced, that the attack on Copenhagen was the immediate cause of the war with Russia. That Power had done all that she could do against Frame. In the short cam paign of 11 days, which terminated the war, she had out of an army of 70,000, lost 27 Generals, 1800 inferior officers, and 40,000 men. The enemy had taken the field vv ith, at the lowest calculation, a force of 160,000 eilective troops. lie had oppor tunities ()nudging that peace was essentially necessary to thegx• istence of Russia. Here his Lordship read a statement of two pri vate conversations which he had w ith the Emperor. [ ride the OBIGIN A I. DISQUISITION on his Lordship's eunfererire with the Emperor of Russia,] From the warmth withwhich the Emperor addressed him, he waseonvinced that nothing prevented au imme. diate declaration of hostilities, but that there were two Russian squadrons at sea. Yet what had been the conduct of Ministers? They asserted that Russia was a principal party to the Maritime Confederacy, they permitted one of her squadrons to enter the Tagus, and another to pass through their fleet in the Sound ! They were weak and pusillanimous to the strong, firm and vigo rous to the weak. LORD ll,orKrFarnr justified the Expedition to Zenlatal upon three grounds, Ist, The avowed designs of France ; The impracticability of effectual resistance on the part of Den mark ; and idly, The magnitude of the danger to this country, should the Danish Navy fall into the hands of Bonaparte. For the Motion, Contents 85—P ro x ies 19. Against it, Non- Contents 66—Proxies 31.—Adjourned. ITESD t V, Fray. 9. Counsel were heard in the Irish Appeal, Stafford v. Drew.—. Adjourned. WEDNESDA FED. 10._ _ Mr. Mitford presented accounts from the Customs of Scotland of the quantity of shipping, &c. employed iu the Whale Fishery. Ordered to lie on the tahle.—Adjourned. /