The National Register. — London, England, 1808-06-06 00:00:00

• • • • - JUNE 6. THE NATIONAL THE NATIONAL REGISTER. be sir =;=;° l3ll a g " i di, tonbon, to au MONDAY, JUNE 6, 1808. to ou POLITICAL ISPENTS OP THII Wilt. i 1 i.o The American President has published two official docu- of ments on her disputes with England and France. One is cr letter from Mr. ERSKINE to the American Government, on ea the Orders in Council ; the other a letter from M. CIIAM TAGNY to General ARMSTRONG, on the same subject. It seems now almost necessary that America unite either with It England or with France : for the Frenchman's letter as amounts to a command that America shall declare war • against us. It even asserts, that the Emperor considers 41 war to have been " declared from the day on which Eng- it " land published her decrees." But if the Americans b, should not view the matter in the same light, all their yes- it sets, which have yet been sequestered, are to be condemned. co "rhos we ascertain what was long ago suspected, that g BONAPARTE had insisted on America's going to war against b England. Mr. ERSKINE'S letter points out the exceptions which E the Orders of Counci: contain, in behalf of the Americans. ti They arc, by these Orders, allowed to carry on a direct p trade with the Colonieeof France. They are allowed ei- •other to retain the produce of those same hostile Colonies for home consumption, or to bring it to England, and. 'I from hence to re-export it even to France, on the payment ii 'Of such a duty only, as will place French and British cold- t nial exports on the same footing in the Continental mar- kets. Flour, grain, tobacco, the growth of America, they t are allowed to export from hence into France, without paying any transit duty whatever. • • In another communication the President. had laid before '1 • Congresethelast French awl Spanish Decrees against the t Neutral Commerce. To hin - o they are arguments for the a further continuation of the Act of Embargo. There arc also published certain instructions sent to u Messrs. PINCKNEY and MoNROE, on their conduct of the Treaty with Lords HOLLAND and AUCKLAND. As this Treaty was never enforced, the directions respecting it are g scarcely interesting, except as they shew the sentiment that America entertained when they were given. This one thing is remarkable Mr. MADDISON, after instructing the I negociators to procure an exemption of merchantmen from a search for deserters, adds, that an article to the above effect had actually, at a prior period, been acquiesced in by i Lord HAMKESRURY and Mr. ADDINGTON, but had been frustrated by an exception of Lord ST. VINCENT. The disturbances in Spain still continue to occupy the principal part of the public attention. BONAPARTE has at length completed the humiliation both of the KING and of the PRINCE of the Spanish Royal Family ; the Km; hay- ing, in imitation of the PaiNcE, absolutely resigned his power. It is supposed that MURAT, the Grand Duke of Berg, will now become the Sovereign of Spain. Sonic of our cotemporarics hale spoken largely of the advantages that England will derive from assisting. the Spaniards in any attempts to shake off the French yoke. and urged our Ministers to be strenuous and early in al- I ' •fording all possible encouragement and aid to the people of Cadiz; Madrid, and those other places in which a disposi- tion for insurrection is manifested. For our own part we, are not inclined to be so sanguine in our expectations on this subject: it was long ago our opinion, which we did not hesitate to assert, that no efforts which Spain % likely to make will have much effect for the general interests of Europe, or for our palrticular advantage. And how can we do nny good to Spain by the small number of troops which our utmost efforts could collect for her assistance? Would not Buisseawrs be able to bring teat soldiers to '401 , 1 bear upon Jry one shall we have done / Why, we shall have made a powerful :iversion in favour of France. We shall have left our own coasts unguarded, for the sake of helping the Spaniards: and BoNAPARTE, seeing our strength dispersed, which if re tallied at home might defy his efforts, will have an ()our unity of carrying into effect his long nurtured and favou. ,•ite project of an English invasion. We wonder that the i.ditors of the Newspapers have not yet learned the futility these partial and hasty coalitions. Certainly this win try has had the advantage, or .rather, the misfortunes a ,xamples enow upon this subject. One of the Gottenburgh Mails due arrived yesterday. it brings no intelligence of moment, though it has brought as much, and that as favourable as could be expected. •In Gotteuburgh, on the 27th ult. it was understood that 4000 Russians had been captured in Gothland. The .per manent possession of this island by the enemy must have been an unpleasant circumstance to the Swedish Court, as it would have afforded another hostile station to be guard ed against. In Stockholm, on the 23d, it appears, that a general belief was entertained that new advantages had been gained in Finland. From Norway we hear nothing further; and this circumstance, and the pause which our Expedition is making off the Swedish coast, sufficiently in timate that the projects against that kingdom are for the present suspended. Turkey is supposed to have joined France against uc. The insurrection at Constantinople about the end of Murels . is believed to have been one of those insurrections which the Janissaries are so often in the habit of exciting, either to attain their arrears of pay, or to force the Government to make fresh concessions to them.—But the Turkish Go vernment, though it may side with France against us, -will not thereby purchase security from French oppression. The dismemberment of Turkey has long been arranged by the destroyer General, and the moment he has.settled the affairs of Spain,. we shall find him carving out the Turkish roviuces.—Russia is already taking steps to secure 'Mol davia and Wallacia to herself. We understand that a communication was on Friday made to the Lord Mayor by the Lords of the Admiralty ; and it is said, that in the expected event of the surrender of tile fleet at Cadiz, the River Fencibles and others will be allowed to volunteer their services to bring the ships to England. The Ilamburgh Papers arc said to contain a Russian Ukase, resembling the Decree published some time ago in Holland, enacting previsions to regulate the foreign com merce. No ship, whether neutral or otherwise, shall be permitted to sail from a Russian port, without first giving - security that she is not destined to an English port; and the parties will not be released from their bond, until it is legally proved that the vessel has actually arrived at the port for which she cleared out. • Accounts to a late date were received on Thursday from Lisbon. Junot is raisinv b troops by a military conscription in Portugal, which includes every male from 15 to 30 years of - age. The Portuguese. as may naturally be expected, express all the discontent which they dare at this measure. The Ladies of the fugitive Bourbon Family arc expected soon in this country, and the Marquis of Buckingham is constructing additional apartments at Gosfield for their re . option. Louis XVIJI. as the fugitives call him, is at this time on a visit to the Prince of Conde, at Wanstead. Bonaparte has liberated ail the English smugglers from Flushing, where more than four hundred. of them had been detained for eighteen mouths ; and, in consequence, smug gling has recommenced ,on our Eastern coast. On the 6th of April a slight shock of an earthquake wa s exper:eneed in Lisbon ; a most severe shock was felt on the z6m.h of March, in the vicinity of Pignerol, a great part of which town was destroyed. II I le- 4' . REGIST . • !air upon every one ()fours? And in the mean time, what 11 \ ~, ' \\, v )