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I beautiful partner of bin bosom, whom he lately " permtted not the winds of" summer * to visit to., roughly," we find her shivering, at midnight, the winter banks of the Ohio, and mingling her .ears with the torrents that (rote as they fell Yet t. is unfortunate man, thus deluded item kis interest cr. J his bappiness—thus seduced from the paths of inctocenee atid peace—thus confounded in the toils triieh were aeliberately spread for him, and over whelmed by the ma.tering spirit and genius of ano ther—this man. thus ruined and undore, and made to pliy a subordinate part in this gland drama of guilt and treason—this man is to he called the prin cipal offender; while he, by whom he was thus pldaged and steeped in misery, is comparatively in. uneent , —a mete accessory. Sir, neither the hornan heart nor the human understanding will hear a per- Teruo]• 4o moostrons and absurd; so shocking to the son' ;su revolting to reason. 0! no Sir, there Isis no man who knows any thing of this affair, who does not know, t!.at. to every body concerned in it, Aaron Burr was a, the , sun to the planets which sur round barn; he bcutid them in their respedive or bits, end gave them their tight., their heat. and their moues. •Let him not. then, shrink from the high destination which he bas courted; and having al ready ruined. Blannerhassett in fortune, charafier, end happiness, for ever, attempt to finish the tragedy by thrusting that itl•tated man between himself and punishnstnt. 4111 r RICA. sisw-voan, stet. 5. Capt. Cladding, of the brig Industry, arrived TM terday morning in days horn Bourdeaux, states, that army sf 40,000 men were at Bourdeaux, ready a march against Portugal, to compel that Government to shut their posts against the English; and that an American sloop of war had arrived at L'Orient, i.s two days from England, with dispatches to the American Ministers at Paris. A Inter from a well-informed American, Says Ta o jostex Castile!, residing in France, dated Paris, Augtsat 8, lso7. says--.. , You may place reliance upon the fatt, that Bonaparte will now turn his ato tension to the acquisition of ' ships, commerce, and colonies.' All the dock-yards in the empire are in great allivity, particularly at Antwerp, where there is an immense collation of ship timber. lam told, he is determined to annul Mr. Jeffersson's famous Louisiana purchase, and, you may depend, that that Legion, and the island of Cuba also, will be ceded lw Spain to France; and that Spain will be indent uified in PortugaL" ocr. 7. OCT. G. A paper printed at Chilicothe (Ohio) Sept. I% says—." We step the press to state, that General Worthington and Colonel 111'Arthur, who were sent out by the Governor to ascertain the disposition of the Indians in the neighbourhood of Greenville and Fort Wayne, have this morning returned, accom panied by several chiefs and an interpreter, who will, it is supposed, attend at the court-house on to mnrrow, for the purpose of bolding a talk with the Governor. No hostile intentions could be disco vered among the Indians." CCT. 8. Extra& of a letter from Richmond, dated Sept. %th :--t. On Monday, the 23th, Colonel Burr was very sick, and unable to attend. On Tuesday, the 29th, the whole day was t.iken up in the exami nation of General Wilkinson. DUELS. A duel was lately fought in Beaufort, South Ca rolina, between Mr. Arthur Smith, aged 22, and Mr. Thomas Hutson, aged 23. They were both wounded, and both died the same evening. TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORFOLK AND PORTS- " lies . MOUTH HERALD. " I perceive in your paper of this day, a communication stating, that e a meeting had taken place between Doetor Stark mid Captain Gordon, in censequence of a dispute on the subjea of Commodore liiwron's conduit. Several shots were exchanged without effect. The affair terminated in the Dec. tor's receiving a wooed in the arm ton Lieut. Crane, the friend of Captain Gordon r " It is obvious that the intent:oft of the author of that piece, was tis iniury my reputation, and that too in a mean slid dap. tardy way; for although what he slates is troth, be has not spited the cause or my bring. It is as follows " There was a partu:i.lar stipulation between 'the parties. which was communv::ated ro the gentlemen when they took thegrer.ind, that if either of them fired, before they should re. ceive the word, the fried erf the geatlcroan Fred on, should irarnertistely rheas ►te.. Dr. Stark fired before tke word, and I d&I my ciaty. WriOtg, Sir, is not oty prnfe.smn. I have or wish to he negogee in newspaper ocntectiems. Should any thing further kie published on this sutnret, 1 Iv.rpe the authors will add their ■amen. " As tt• communication was made throuzh your raper, I expect, mat have no doubt, you will Dace the pantie to stye the a place. Sir, your obedient sorrier, 4. W. M. CRANE. " L'al.t•J gales Frigate Chesspezice, 114th Sopt. 1807." FROM THE NORFOLE HER/.1.1). " Me. O'Connor, ft Slff....As the (nand of Dr. Stark, in Lis affair with Opt. Gordon, I conceive it u,y city I. rtmove any uLteveurable ,impression that the statentvi.t A Lieut. Cline slay have mode on the polite. r. We agree as to the st.insiest,s‘ that if either of the prin.;•als fired betore the wont was g.ven, the fiiend of the getallman fire) on, had the t•tililege .1 showing • Bat 11 ,1 1 am rn,firbst that Dr. Stalk AM tint firs anti: the word was fitOhr.l; It was .1 petard or tan before cs:,-t. (;,,rd ,w ttiS. • ~:i077 flied before the ernrd'w.Lieut. Cf 2114 then levelled his pistol and shot at friend, at the same time streaking In the most insulting manner. Can any person suppose for .a urn inetit, that a mean who had stood six fires before, would at tempt to take such an advantage at the seventh ? No, Sir, it cannot be &edited. Besides, Captain Gordon might have re tained his fire so as to take better aim. I shall now leave the public to julge between the parties, premising, that when Dr. Stalk recovers horn lire wound, a full and cand.d statement of facts shall be laid before Mean. I am, Sir, " Your obedient wriant, "Norfolk, Sept 28,1107. " A. J. M'CONNICO." SALZSI g OCT. 2. Arrived ship Elise:, of 500 tons, Captain James Cook, from Sumatra, the rh of April touched at St. Helena, where recent intelligence from England had excited apprehensions of an immediate war be. tween that country and America, so that some in tention was manifested of detaining the Americans there, till I urther intelligence. Captain Cartwright, of Nantucket, who was there in a Boston schooner, was so alarmed at this intimation, that he set sail without permission, and was fired at from the fort, but got off clear. ...~, to eery one, that it ' min 4 promote the Interests ennfided to you, to water either of these rivers. Moths' stated thus touch, I can only leave you to fellow the dictates of your *on pus deuce, auuring you, that I shall endeavour to send you sew advice: by the first of December, or sooner, if any fayourat4 change takes place. "J. M. FORBES. Consoled' the Uuiteti States of America." " List of articles permitted to be imported into Hausburgh, with Certificate of Origin, signed by the French Consul, at the place of shipment I... Timber, masts, iron, copper, hemp, sail cloth, or ravens-duck, Raw, cordage, pitch, tar, wheat, rye, barley, oats, oatmeal, pease, beans, t ice, flour, cheese, butter, wine, Wendy, tallow, candles, salt, potash, flan-seed, madder, turnipaeed, linseed oil, hemp-nil, whale and other fish oils, fish-glue, mats, horse hair, hogs'-bristles, saltpetre, yellow wax, bed-feathers, caviar, and hooey. All 01111 r articles are, for the present, totally prohibited." 1 SPAIN. Copy of a Decree issued from the Palace of San Lorenzo, on the 30th ult. and addreued to the Governor of the Council ad interim : " C R. " God, who watches over hit creatures, does not permit the consummation of atrocious deeds, what the intended victims arc innocent—Thai his omnipotence has tared me from the most unheard of catastrophe.--My people, my subjects, all know my Christianity and settled habits. They all love me, sad I receive from all of them proofs of their veneration—such es the conduct of • parrot calls for front his children I lived persuaded of this felicity, and devoted to the repose of my family, when all unknoien hand discovered the most atrocious and unhetud of comp racy, which was tarried en in my own Palace, against my person— My life, which has so °flee been in danger, woo too leeg, in the eyes of nos successor, who, infatuated by prejudice, and alienated from every principle of ehristiauity that my paternal care and love had taught him, had entered into a project to dethrone me. Informed of this, I thought proper to inquire personally into the truth of the fact, and surprising kiss in sty room, I found in his poeseeslon the cypher of his correspond mice, and of the instreittione he had received from the vile esmspiratore. " In ceinsequenee old& dismsevery, I immediately convoked the Governor and Council, in order that they might snake the necessary inquiries; and the result as bee. the detection of several malefacters, whose iraprisornsent I have ordered ; as also the arrest of my ton at his residence. This is an additional aggravationoi the affliction I labour under; bet however painful teeny failings, It must be submitted to, as it is of the utmost Importance to the suppression of tech a conspiracy. At the same time that I direct the publication of this affair to my sub jects. I cannot avoid expressing to them the resin by white I am agitated ; bet that regret will be alleviated by the demon strstions of their loyalty. " Yea will take the proper measures to have this Decree circulated in doe (urns. CHARLES R. " By command of His Majesty. I transmit this Decree to your Excellency, io ardor that it may be duly promulgated. "Signed by the Mioistors, and addressed to all Vice roys, &c. &cc." AMERICAN COMMERCE. Copy of the Circular Letter addressed by the Consul of the United States, at Hanshurgh, to the Masters of American ships, bound to that port t.•••• 111•141UPION, wov. 4. 1807. " At the request of the Merchants here, dealing with the 'United States, I hare issued the annexed Circular Inittuflions to the Matteis of such of our ships as may be bound to this city, and have aloe sent over to Heligoland an Agent, who will remain there Arc some months, in order to communicate such further information as I End it expedient to convey to our countrcosen passing that island. You, Sir, will make such use of these circumstances as the interest of our commerce may point nut to your known seal and discretion. " I am, very respectfully, your most obedient servant, " I. M. FORBES." " W. Lyman, E.g. Centel of the United States of America, &c. London." A WERIC AN CONSUL•TS, II 41ININUION, NOV. 4, 1607. " TO MISTERS OR AMERICAN SHIPS SOUND TO HAMBURGH: " In the present unprecedented crisis, such greet awl almost daily changes tabs place, and the measures el the Belligerents, affecting commerce, are put into such immediate operation, 'hat It is impossible lee the most prudent, with the best inten tions, to avoid the injuries which, on every side, lay in wait for lair ucutral trade. " h is, therefure, by no means my intention to assume any s eontroril in the destination of your skip, but merely to state such facts as it is important you should know. In this soca . sere my own *pinion has been fortified by these of the most respedable Merchants here in connection with my country, espressod to me its their written request. " The French Custom•kouse Officers, or Douaniers, with out any official intimatlon to the Foretgn Agents here, have, Pllllll time sees, in sirtue of an Imperial Decree, applied the commercial regulations and laws of France to the trade of this city, and, without any exceptions, require certificates of °glen, signed by the Frimeli Consul at the place of shipment, fur all mucks attenipmd to be introduced here. In addition to the inconveniences which the p.o opt awl unexpected execution of :tis measure presented, with.n a few days, • new wrier of the Irrenei Emperor has interdicted, in the mom rigid manner, the navigation of tho Elbe an 4 Weser, to all ships, whether going or:coming; and sot consequence of it the American ship Julius Henry, taming from Baltimore, has been seised, the cargo has beets sequestered, the ship hos been liberated, but without any freight, and must remain under an embargo, of which the tern' THE BRITISH PRESS. LONDON, THURSDAY. Ncoramotft 16. Recent accounts from the Continent afford ground to believe, that Boviarma is determined to force America to take a decided part in the war, either on the side of Great Britain or Fiance. At oue of his Levees, a short time since, he declared publicly to General AK fast nom°, that he would not admit of any neutral, in the war ; and he added, " You may tell your employers, that they ma join with England if they please ; sut it is my clet..rmi nation to exterminate those proud islanders from the face of the earth !" The three most prominent features of the political article which we copied yesterday from the Mundear, are the Declaration of War, by Austria, against England the evacuation of Alexandria by the British Troops i and the threatened Dethrone ment of the ROYAL Fxurcv of Portugal. An opinion appears to prevail, that the Dispatches which Prince STAIIRZIWKO lately received by the Flag of Truce, announced to him the de termination of the Austrian Government to enter into the Confederacy against this country. This eonjeaure, though plausible, is, we have reason to think, ill-feunded. His MAJ err 's Ministers have not, we believe, received any notification of any such intention on the part of Austria, except from the article in die Afcmagur. That Austria has deter. mined to make common cause with Fiance, appears to be a question that admits no doubt. However prodigal the Alsniteer may be of calumny and abuse, we have never known it to misrepresent ouch so grossly as to assert an mat of this chiral:ter, if there was no foundation for it. But while we admit the fait, we may fairly discredit the motives assigned for it by the French official paper. The alleged motives are, the refusal of England to accept the proffered mediation of Russia, and the Expedition to Zealand.—lt would be strange indeed, if events like these were to give such a new and extraordinary direction to the Aus trian Councils. Russia might indeed take offence at the refusal at her proffered mediation. She might construe it as implying a suspicion of her honour, her power, or her impartiality. Russia, however, has not yet betrayed any symptoms of anger er hostility at this refusal ; and why Austria should take up the cudgels for a power which ap pears so much more able to fight her own battle, is not very easy to reconcile with her reduced and humbled situation. The Copenhagen Expedition, the other determining motive, for here the writer in the Moniker, hire one of our own great poli ticians, wishes to have ', two strings to his bow," is still more improbable. Austria a under great obligations to Russia, for her support in the lay war with France, and might be disposed to evince her gratitude, by shelving a quick sense of any indig nity offered to her friend ; but between Denmark and Austria there was no tie or connettion. As well might Austria have resented our attack open Alexandria Sr Buenos Apes. She could only take offence at the inherent obarader and principle of the adt, and not at its consequences or relations. But who will believe that Austria, after witnessing fifteen years of revolution and Crime; after seeing every principle of right and juaice violated by force and ambition; and every nation in Europe insulted, degraded, revolutionised, or extinguished ; who, we ask, wiU believe that Austria, thus schooled in calamity, would be struck with horror at the attack upon Zealand, as a thing so new, horrible, and extraordinary, and consider it a fair, just, and necessary cause of war t There is nut one politician in Europe who will give Austria credit for such quick sense of wrong, and such romantic gallantry. This conduct of Austria will be justly imputed to the overwhelming influence of France, to the temptations which she has held out, and the threats which the has made. It is, no doubt, one of the stipulations of tnr Treaty con cluded at Fontainbleau, between Austria and France, on the 91st of !)Huhn last, negotiated, on the part of the former, by the Grand Duke of Wu amito. England, however, is scarcely tangi ble to Austria. Her new enemy can carry on no warfare except againt her commerce, and probably the whole of her hostility will amount to nothing more than shutting the ports of Trieste sad Fiume against British trade and manufaaures. The se cond prominent point in the article in the Monikur, we mean the evacuation of Alexandria, is only what we had a right to eipefl. It was, we believe, the result of orders for that purpose from Govern. merit. Ministers certainly could never have 'nein: to retain possession of Egypt. Had such been their intention, they would have reinforced the garrison of Alexandria. Eke thousand men were wholly incompetent to the purpose. A Ministerial paper of yesterday appears, however, to consider this an excellentfiade tc, the undeaaking. It says, "We have got back our troops safe from Egypt. and that is a matter of sincere congratulation 1"--• The opinions of those great men who are now sup. posed to influence, if not dint% public affairs, has strangely varied with reaped to Egypt.—Not many years since it was represelted by Lord MCI.. Vll Le ax the, key to India, the possession of which, by France, would lead to the rain of the British Empire. This place, however, once so valua'he, does not now appear to Ministers to be worth keep ing, and no obstacle now remains between Bo- Naas", ars and that which has been so often re presented as the wish nearest to his heart, and the first objeft of his ambitious. The threatened dethronement a the ROT•L FAMILY of PORTUO•t. is an event for which the public mind was not so well prepared, as the evacuation of Alexandria. That the attack on Cepenhagea by England should bean atrocious crime, and the seisure of the British shipping at Lisbon, by Portugal, a laudable or just undertaking, would be absurd to argae, the principle in both cases being the same. Had there, how ever, been any distinelioa, and had Portugal been guilty of an error, an oversight, or a violation joff' right, in permitting the escape of the English ship. ping, her decree, shutting ber ports againatEngland. and making common cause with France, ought to have insured her forgiveness. Here, then, as in the case of Austria. the alleged cause is not adequate to the effedl. It is merely a pretence, a veil to cover an °Neff, the deformity of which, if dis tin My seen, must excite horror and disgust. II faftthe revolutionary tide which lately covered the north, is now upon the reflux, and setting in strong upon the South. In a short time it will sweep away Spain and Portugal before it. We have give* in a preceding cohrtap a Daltaa of the King of Spain, denouncing his sots, the Prince of Asru ZIAS, as a principal in a Conspiracy against his life. It is obviously a plot of the Prince of Ps•cs, aided by French intrigue, for a tevola tionary purpose. It it said that the Pattie& is to be brought to trial on the 2d of next mouth. We have received New York Papers to the 9th, and Halifax to the 29th last. Piey contain nothing of any interest with respect to the relations between this Country aad America. The apprehension of an attack from the Indians, hassubsidel. Generals ARMSTRONG and M.Aarn um, who were sent to ascertain their disposition, have reported that they have mot any hostile intentions. Colonel Boas's case was not decided at Richmond, on the 30th of September. The practice of duelling continues to gain ground in America. The affair of the Chew pea he has produced one of an extraordinary kind, between Capt.Goatiou and Doctor Sr au, in which the latter was bred at and shot by the Stroud of the Captain. The introdudion of sill colonial produce is abso lutely prohibited at .Hamburgh. as appears by a Circular Letter, frost the Consul of the United State•. at that city, to the blasters of Americas vessels. The letter is given in a preceding column. The Telegraph, yesterday, aneoanced the arrival in the Downs of a convoy from Plymouth, 'warted by His MAJ AST T'S sloop Hamm. Sir J. B. WARREN arrived iu town, yester.liy, at the Admiralty, and had a long interview the Board. Dispatckes were received. yesterday, at t::e Admiralty, from America. Mr. Wool). of Baltimore. has arrived in town. as Consul hum the State of Maryland, for the pus. . pose of regulating the trade between Great Britain and that State. Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the East•lndia House, when the undetmeotioned Car tains were sworn into the command of their respe,:• tive ships, viz. Ceram William Maxwell, Calcutta; awl William Fa.•- fax, Hugh Ing' , e, fur Mathis anal kiengal. The ship Ifiartheimberland was taken up. sad Et tihned for Madeira, Madras, and Bengal. The squadron of Admiral KIATSI still conti.: nucs at St. Helen's. As th•t wind has continbo adverse. there has been no opportui.ity of memoir. ing whether it means to sail, or '.mum there resJy for a start upon fresh intelligence or instrueliaor. We understand that there will be a strong edpu• 'Noll at the ensuing Eleaioa for Common Council. Welbrook Ward stalls aunt ACW Candidates. 104 Cordvrainers, live.