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.; i.' - r FIPOLCOVS DECR AGMS?' BRITISH COMM , . RUE. Private 1 tuts have hien this day received from Itotterd int. Jatad she 7th inst. which contain mom. intersatisszinforma.isie re.pea ng Else appl:cation of t!..e aba.e Decree. ram 11.1 r; lined questions, put by .he Presid i ett, of .114,C,....trt of Prize Cau , es at Pits to the Empero- ( I v Pren:h. and the an swers s'oreq to .am-. .htw that .very !fling the ove•tr of F•ance to .5 1, will be rigidly en- Mac J, tl cut r•ff every len I of commut.i:atihn h• Me -1 this cnuntry and thJse countries under Freud. QUESTIONS, ANT If TI PIiti.DRNT of TOR COURT Of 'alit CitWM. •T T•RIS TO TNS Smrastoa lst Vh, vet tr.es.• s ruul be any Utopia:es so the Decree of thi 11s: tierv,iber, iu favour ,f awls !Neutrals as, by their Trin.y t e ski 4 a fatr trade in the privilege •.1 ueut,. beau a io to say, yerails gam to or from Maud, ~ftls carters? ANSWER. T .at, as vs, rie•!rea connate. a.. Exeeptioas, there shall be Sow ma b iu its auVicati.m. QIJESTION. •••.Ifltether Neuual to hotfoot, altould aE-, be too LI ItaS:e t , ) Ili.caU ut, u .11 the wh plea of ,1t.,, b evi.ttc, e•3l by etre* of weattltr, or capture, entered a &i- Weblats ANSWER. Tbis must be soliend en he (pier for future conoklerattoo. • QUESTION. Vhothet out half at the confiscated property should, in all C4IC4, be a l spro .ritted kneads ituleoutifying French s a g ..., by B rush tpoluttions ! Answered s the nairnwiee TLE DAUDANALLES. r The following letter was brought by the Piedra, Capt l'soLLure, which arrigei at Plyotoeth List ws>•k, wan di,patches front Lord Cotunowooo : . Off the Dazdaseils t Aug. 30. " arrived at Nabs on the 19th ult. and de again on the 21d, wilt the ships mentioned in my list, wish a fine wild, for the Archipelago, continue•' till we got off the island of Ceri gst,o, when it came round from the eastward, and ws - •ere nbijgei, the remainder of our way to Te n• ••••>. te turn to windward, at which place we at. sive* , 111 th? 9th inst. after a tedious passage of reeve thitv week. , wnrcing through the numerous pas , apes bstweeo the islands We found lying in t he R '8 ' 41116 Ma n" Y'S "P Qwen, Rear Admiral MARIIM: /fear, and 1111s4s : and the Hsvald and sloops. of the Das iamiles, watching the Moti thr -e sail of Turkish line of battle ships, six trii.atts.•.id several small vessels of war. 41 rhe Russian s lua iron. under th-• cnm 'nand of Vice-Admral Stet sne, the senior dig nacei, and Rrar-it _Mika! GRII9.COMMOdOrIi Iat4•TIM hav ing Jed some stmt. ago, consisting of six ships of the line, were et mins with our squadron. an.l two ships of the line. off re ledos. Th-y were all on the point of sailing for the anchorage of the Dar danelles, the morning we hove in sig It. The Rus ?lans, a't.T having withdrawn their troops. de stroyed every thing of subsistence on the island of Teneiss ; the Turks )ended five thousand men, and the mhabitants. aster placing themselves tinder the proteftios of the Russian 111 lg. revolted, and turned to the enemy. The Russians soon got the better of then, and oblig al every one to quit the 1.1 ind, excepting a few, wit tm they took •plisontrs, sad employed undct mining the fat and batteries. The Turkish squadron, which accom• pani. d the small craft, with troops, were engaged by the Russian fleet, who took one line-If-battles ship, and destrogpd two frigates. Tile Island i now reduced to nothing but the mete s ail, and the scattered alt over with ruins. which presents a horns' speaosie. especially the dead bodies lying about without covering on t'oem. Tenedos is immediate! opposite to where old Troy stood, about seven matt the Rita, s. " We weigh..d in the morning of the 12th. in concert wish the Ilnscian s iundrom end ar rived at :his alchnrage on the 15th. A Messen ger of the Poi to went on board the i:i Ca 3, and corn inunicatioi.s took place between him and our Am lisssador (Si, Arriius @Act r), and boon after be tween the Rus.ien and ours: much correspondence has passed be:ween them since. " Ships at anchor of the DaSsnerice :—Oceau, Lord Cal. lingeonit; Q wen, ItravAdrairel Mania; Repulse. Causing., lituntaguir, Ms•s, hurl, Hvalr, Ph:Natal, Deligl.:, and Zl.et•a. Tiva Kent rs surveying the wet of Shiro; top. Sys horse itesandeing Putt, Tr,., in Innte,••••• if either eC them I. fit ta sheir,r fie • sitsartio.a. The Thetis it cruising in 11.. Culebra. SW MI lea j the Woad oat anchor ..fr Teneilea ; sad the riOive ir jiryt hove in'sight from off tirisms. " We shall drop down to TeneJns perhaps to.swer row, it bi-ivg the hest anzborage. Admiral MARTIN will sh.ft his thig to the Compri the first faviusrable opportunity. We have been here 3 weeks, and no person is yet appointed by the Suisun:: PORTE to - tor the re-establishment of peie-. one shculd meet our Ambassador ;Cassie on *Visursd sy last; accord a And his Suite went in, in the ibid. him, and thq reititaint aganribe LOX DON, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 20. Captain dominos, of Shields, arrived in the River, on Friday evening, from Cronstadt. He states, that he sailed from that port on the 29,h last, not mere titan half loaded, in consequence of an intimation from Mr. Bouicsa, the confidential agent of the British fasftory at St. Petersburgh, that a general embargo upon British vessels would be immediately laid on. Mr Boor• ca, who i. said to aft generally for all the British merchants who trade with Russia, made a similar communication to the other vessels at Cronstadt, amninting to thirty thre:, al; of which were using their utmost endea vours to get away. An ;lumens: boom was coo strufted for the port of Cronstadt. Government, however, have not received an ac count of any embargo having been laid, or being about to be laid, upon British ships in the Russian ports. Government have received dispatches from Co penhagen, which state, that the whole of the Danish Navy was ready to sail for this country on the 15th ; of cow., its arrival may be expeaed in the course of a few days. A gentleman is arrived in town who left Copen hagen on the 23d ult. wider commir of the Astrca frigate, Capt. Donnas, wi.h 6G sail in company, ef which 14 were transp3rts, and 5 bomb-tenders, all laden with naval stores, and 45 detained Danes. The &meths sailed two days before, with about 23 sail more cf detained Danes. The transports have brought to Deptford the materials of two of the Da nish line-cf-battle ships, which were taken to pieces. He left the Ley./es and Tezei, and 36 sail of trans ports, lading with naval stores, and 30 sail getting ready to be laden. The whole of the transports lying there are about 350 sail; the battering train had been all embarked before be left the place, and the intention then was to embark the troops on the Ist inst. Ten thousand of the troops were to embark in the Danish ships (which were all to be filled s►ith spars and stores) to help to work them to England. Nothing but public property was touched; a quantity of iron which was lying in the Dock-yard, being claimed as private property, was liven up. There was no idea of our keeping pos session of Zealand when he left it; the Admiral and Officers were using the greatest exertions to leave it at the expiration of the six weeks. Sir SA m. Hoon memarcled at the dock-yard, to embark the stores, ecc. There was no interruption to our people going into Copenhagen, which they had done fur some time, to purchase provisions. Mr. Coccus (brother to Sir Gaaaae CuLLta a) is the agent for the whole ) 1 tl•.e Danish ships. Three Russian sail of the line, three frigates and a store-ship, newly fitted, from Archangel, anchored At Elsineur on the 2.2.1, going up the Baltic. We yesterday tore the mast. off the Proclamation for the meal of British seamen now employed in foreign service. We she Yrei that it might be called. with more propriety, an Official Declaration of the adjustment of our dispute with America.—The Courier of last night afft.tls to be quite facetious urn this subjea. It says, " from the tenor of the Proclamation. sir es* celled that oar difirruees with Aererieo will net lead to • war—lased too never iwa veva the Awn irons. ia spite of their riotewe and close, arassid hatcr.i • coated each as." Now really this trifling tivi co grave a subjell is too moth for suf ferance. T::e Americans will not Lazard a contest will tic! Why should they They must indeed be very •find of war to quarrel with us maw ; we have conceded every thing that they could reasonably ask ; we have recalled Admi ral Banc ci.sy ; we have renn•inced all claim to a right to visit ships of war; and, in the visit of met• chautmen, we hue enjoined our cruisers to observe the greatest possible nsederation and e Ch• se three questions embraced theindiel American complaint ; and the Aileen they would quarrel with us, must now the if some new round. But we are now told by the Treasury Journals, that " Government never did claim the right of searching neutral ships of war, as it could not be carried into effea with out aff irding perpetual grounds of rapture with Neutral States ; that if the claim of searching ships of war were enforced, the consequence would be, an English gun-brig would have a right to bring-to a neutral ship of the line, or even a whale fleet, and to order the crew or crews of the whole to be turned up, to enable the Captain of the gundbrig to search for deserters ; and as we could not advance such a claim on our own part, without allowing it to others, our ships of war must, of course, submit to the same species of examination from Neutrals." We do not pretend to know what Government really thought upon the subjeta, but we cannot forget how stoutly and man fully the Treasury Journals maintained this right, and with what foul and virulent calumny they loaded all those who presumed to question it. We do not condemn Ministers for renouncing this claim of right. but we condemn those who represent,sl them as determined to maintain it, and, in so doing. have had them out to the world as at once feeble and furious, as vain braggarts and boasters. The third point (we mean the injunftion to our cruisers to condoa themselves with propriety in the search of tnerchantme.s) is noticed in a way that w.uld in duce a cursory reader to conclude the so' jed formed no part of the dispute, while in fa& it is a very m terial one. The right to search ships of war is a new subjeft of complaint ; the affair of the Chr sapectie is, we believe, the first instance, and the insignifi cance of the American navy did not promise to fur nish many opportunities for its recurrence for some time ; but the complaints of irregularities exercised by our cruisers in the search of merchantmen, have been loud, general, and of long standing. The American newspapers have teemed with them for years, and the American Government has repeatedly remonstrated against them. These complaints existed in the late Administration, and yet we have not heard of any redress granted by the late Ministers, though they have been reproached with a culpable forbearance in their condult towards America, by the very men, who, it now appears, have conceded every thing to America. Nothing official has transpired, to enable the pub lic to form an opinion respelling the result of the proffered mediation of Russia, to negotiate a peace between this country and France ; but some persons think that this friendly office has been transferred to Austria, and that steps are at this moment taking to carry it into execution. No accounts have been received from L's Son of a later date than the 7th instant. One letter of that date states, we understand, that the populace had broken out into aas of riot on the preceding day ; the objea of it was to prevent the sailing of the Por tuguese ships, and the emigration of the Royal Fa mily. The Police is said so have shewn no very great inclination to check or put down the rioters. It is said,that such of our countrymen as are leaving Portugal, and have any property to dispose of, are obliged to accept one half the purchase money in Government paper—if so, the grievance must be most severely felt by the Englishmen, not only on account of the decree, inserted in our last, with re gard to the suspension of the payment of iniaad bills, but because Government paper has fallen from 16 to 40 per cent discount. The Portuguese people are in the last letters de. eeribed as unfriendly, or rather hostile. to the English. Admiral Pt , IV II is reported to have been ordered to quit his station of Cadiz, and proceed to the Tagus. The Re/Ia brig, Lieutenant ACOTT, arrived at Portsmouth, on Saturday, from Monte Video, with triplicates of the dispatches from Gen.Warr rroce and Admiral MURRAY, which the Sera - ell brought home. Colonel Durv, of the 88. h Regiment, the Hon. Colonel A. CADOGIAN, of General WHIT t- Locxes stair. and Captain %Voir i woo sa, Do. puty Quarter•Maater General, came home in her. The Kona left Monte Video on the 3d of August, and Rio Janeiro, on the 17th. Admiral ST I OILING. in the &odor', of (5 guns, Captain Wanaso, railed at the same time from Monte Video, for the Cape of Gond Hope, having the 47th Regt. Col. BACIIVS, for the Fast Indies ; and the 87th Regt. Sir E. Bur Lae, for the Cape of Good Hope, under convoy. The Woo , siich stare-ship, Capt. BEAU( Oat, had arrived in tl.e River Plate, from Plymouth, laden with provisions, which were originally intended for the army, but not being then ;wanted, she sail. ed for the Cape, The gist division of our troops , . had aspharked, and were to sail foe England liew days after the Mee They consist of Light Dragoons. Lieutenant Cololl , l Urn,/ Oath, 95th, (Ist battalion) and three eons,ianies the 21 baitabon of the 95th. The Ra4unaSle,' Captain Rowsay. and the Thfi lie frigate, tain Su 0 , Were to come with them. Sch. 36th, 45th, the Artillery, and Artillery vets, are to come in the Second Division; - remainder of the army, with G. Woirl were to be the last division, and may be , home in about two months hence. All the are to come home, except the two regiments Ailed with Admiral S nation. 'the prisoner , with Gen. BIREZFORD are so far up the that it is not expected they can arrive at Video within the time stipulated for cur leave South America. Ccl. Ktvczon , of the hinters, and Major laosinorsoca and Capt. mason, of the sash, who were badly *QUI!, were doing well. The Koha put into Rio Janeiro with Dirp to the VICIROT of fisazic, at • which place Agra Castle East Indiaman was lying io ado state, leaky, and great part of her valuable obliged to be landed, completely spoiled. Hi JCSTY'S ship B'jdo, C immodure KING .tn from New South Wales, had put in there in and sailed for England, after refitting. A, STIRLING, in the Marin, of 64 guns, G.: *Veatch, Leroueter. and Proutter, gun.brigi with a cont.)) , 'of transports, with tra,:ps Monte Video, for the Cape again. The fa:, ships are leaving daily. The Rota was eh, the Western Isles, by a large French irigal brig, which :hewed Spanish colours. The which His MAJESTY'S sh:p Pbois4ne left containing nearly two thousand lttters, frith were put over, and n..7.1r1y cut overboard, heavy squall and thick weather came on, and lucky mancearre she made her escape. Great content prevails at Monte Video with the merch, sailor, and soldier; all is bustle to embark. of our brave soldiers that were wounded had s, the climate being bad for wounds. A convoy r 2 brigs, under a frigate, to the north of the v tern Isles, were steering E.S.E. supposed % be the Newfaindlrnd convoy, hound to and the Mediterranean, :4 F..: rtrong wied. The account of .a mutiny having broken , board the .14scos frigate, and of the m'atineers epon their t►ial at IlaVas, reoe upon the of a private letter from that 4ity, the truth of is become very questionahle. Government received dispatches from Halifax of a later date, several days, Kit they are pertcaly silent upon . subjeet. If so important an event had occurred there as a mutiny on board a frigate, in which or silty m.:l were concerned, it undoubtedly have been mentioned in the accounts transmit the Admiralty. At all events, therefore, i disagreeable occurrence has taker. place on the jazon, it has been greatly exaggerated. Yesterday morning the Duke of YORK mai business with His M are st v ; afterwards, lii Jasry, the Duke of Volta, Princesses SOY HI souse*, and AMILIA, accompanied Ls , Tattoos, Generals FITZROY and CAIIT4. and Col. TA V Loa. rode in Windsor Great Pay returned at twelv.: o'clock. Mr. MONROE has not left this country as erroneou►ly stated ; that gentleman transaBed mimeos at the Foreign Office, on Saturday. Rosa will, we understand, accompany bim Plymouth. The reported promotion in the 1•1,4vy, we stand, only extends to sto h ()dicers is the , Expedition, as are recommended by Admix GAM SIM Sir Jane B. WARREN took leave of the ralty Board, yesterday, pi evinus to his departure, assume the command of the squadron on the .° rican station, Admiral Bea tacos'. Circular letters were issued, last night, summon. ing a Cabinet Council. for two o'clock. tilis the Diane frigate, from the West Indies, rivrd at Portsmouth. The Devest,h, Puavis, from Dublin, for Op,r to, was captured on the 3d inst. and carried iota Corunna. Sir }footmen Sown, Bart. K.G. the Hon. E-t. India Company's Resident at Bagdad. arrtyrJ Portsmouth. on Friday, to take his passage in t. Svphore, Capt. DAVI U. for the Persian Gto A letter from Altona, dated September 3" pounces tie conclusion of a treat and Denmark. in consequence WITT& is to enter Holstein to Private intelligence adds, that tered the Danish territory. at t men. This and the manifesto t. Resit •. upon his tardy communic: of the Treaty of Tilsit ro his sul the most itteresting articlrs in pers. A Paper of yesterday, says, u Catholic Bishop of Cork, is at to the Duke of PORTLAND. has always been remarkable for hi have been invited horn Ireland t for the purpose of consulting him beard with the intereAs of the Cat moored, that Ministers intend early in the next Sessions, that pa posed by Lord Howlett, to whit) exprested his so/111141mm to aster conclude a treaty toi It was agreed, th It °I at the Dardanelles C inely eir AIITHUR Oat so op, ma hign - - +gland in a tbr 17,h tiro, 38th, napanies of tuncile, ate, Car. tem. 1.%, tillery ; and the ircLocatt, to espeeted the troops cots whirls °nets taken le c , nintt s, at Mu:Lte le tercel tn t the :qt. MAC- wounded, Dispatches place tie chstreised able cargo fits M s. in ti.itteii. A dm' r ti coneab.'e s rigs, sailed sops frt.ra m: r, hint chased of ;re, and a he pack , t, ft behind, ith sinkers, when a , and by a Great dis. nserchant, k. Many had died. .convoy of f the Wes. ed them to a) Portugal wind. :en out on ricers being e authority h of which ment have et date, by upon the occurred which ritzy Idly would ismitted to le, if any e on board d. transafted ,liis Ma- )l.l4lA, Au- by Laiy t Park, and as has been Isaded Un- •day. Mr. him from we under - the Baltic Admiral he Admi• parture, to the Am.- :. summon. this day. dies, is a• • for nem.. September 30th, ;m- -eaty between Francs e of which IL ISA. :0 assist the DAM. he has aSually en- the heaJ nt 40,000 of the Empc:c; at nicatioa of the tet rri• subje&s. are am( vg the last foreign "Dr. MoYstot, the Bulstrusle, on a si.i: Tl.is prelate, ts!•J his loyalty. is sa(J by the Noble Deis. m upon subj.as Catholics. It is la- -1 to hying part of the p.,-- rhsch His Nl,:ssir int." --- *cr , same evening to the fleet. Sir AWEIWO, bad a conference- with Ism set. Pa 31,4. at the Coale. You WI have heard, long ere this reaches yoni that a ?Ciee has been concluded between France snit Russ' ; Admiral Sir+ I 4VIN has rec ived (side , from his Court o cease all hostility against the Turks, he his, in coNsecoence„ solved wi:b his squadron down to Ttssedos. TM Seabees, has been very fortunate in prizes; she took in less than a mont'l, eighteen vessels. The American brig Pests leeks cleared for Copenh sgen, bound to Marseilles. laden with nil. lias been con.temned to her. A Ra gusa° brig has also been coademned to her, laden with !sari& and bass rope. from Carthagena to Leghorn—she has bean s great annoyance to the trade of the enemy ; but I am sorry to say, that Lieut. B Yowos and two men were killed, and Lord Joists Hay, a midshipman. lost his left arm, by being fired at from a batsery of one gun, when nursuing some small coasting vessels which took shelter uAier the land, and which it was found im. possible to bring out." THE BRITISH PRESS.