The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — London, England, 1807-09-10 00:00:00

~wr- . IMERIC4. am-roar., avow 3. Yesterday fortnight the Ciesspeeks frigate else towed up into our harbour. Ind, better than a bulk without a mat or shrou . l itaitilitig; and to day we have the pleasure to perceive her completely ready for sea. Great credir is due to Commodore - Decatur and his officers". for the aßivity which he and they have used in preparing this ship fur sea in - so sheet a time, and under very unfavourable car * curnstancvs. Scarcely a day has passed without rain, and Ema days it has never ceased to fain ; we are confident chat with a corninathare of fair wea• Cher, she well be ready for sea four days since. The Washington Paper. diced Jai; tg, "Much error having appeared in the accounts circa.. kted. of what passed between the Government sad Jtfr if.rsktre, in the case of the semen, to nt•tain whom the Leepcd made the late attack on the CAr. agpeehr, we ate induced to state. that, as we under. stout, u application by Mr. Erskiae. for their SW. under, he was informed that it could.not be done. and was referred to the written mower a given by the Secretary of State. on a previous application in another case. for the principles on which the stir. render of British deserters was refused. It was re. marked to Mr. Erskine. st the same time. both by the Secretary of the Navy and the Secretary el State. that although the Government could not de- liver up deserters it wag so far from countenancing , _ desertion, that general orders had boa issued to • on naval Commanders not to permit any British deserters to be recruited for the American service • Tlity also informed Mr. Erskine, a few days after, , zhatzbey had sufficient reason for believing that the eramen in question were native citizens of the Visited States; this being the result of an enquiry} . Made by Captain Barton, in pursuance of orders from the Secretary of the NAvy. On this point Mr Erskine expressed no opinion. This was not asked, because his opinion could form n 3 part of the ground on which the Government proceeded ; and leueatrnot offered. because it appears to have been 1.11 Tall anew was Irvin's, Janeary 7, 1807 It was per. eseettelyan sppliNfon for the surrentkr to their allettiaem's of certain British *mnce, who Lasing united with American searnen left on boar/ a sole' eternal to !-Ltlifax as a pr.'', - brought her iota A. (ruled States, and were eh .tried with lbatiar, pimer, and in atteill 1.1 to in inder their olt.ets The austere stated, that not only no prerogative to. ale purpose in question is tested lathe executive of the United States; but That retitle' , the law nor the prattles of nations impose no them Ito obhgatbsn to prevails for the SIIIIC'I4III of fugitives from the • Siedjh om of other yole4•n. The obligetket ears result only from seeelal •ni mutual smoulattorts 1 'Mien do not exist be tereei the Uhitert Stet ‘• and Ghee. Ordain t and hluclt, deed, PS ' , Pitted in the axpued articles of the Treaty of 1794, • do tot comprehend any ether diem= than these of squat murder and (army. .1. Ilia iatortnativa taputtctl by Captain Swan was as fol lows :•••• 1141teni Ware, rented frents on board the brig Neptune, Cistain Crafts, by the Bridal Gigaw bileirnairea, in the Hal r t emir, and has served on timid the said frigate IS months... lA'are is a net ve American, bum on Pipe emit, Irrededei cnu.ny, state of biarylanJ, at bruee's MIL, and served his time at said mills He also lived at Lllicott's sear Ihtittninie; a.,1 drove a waggon, sex ral yams, between Heil-ra Two and edbratore. He al-d served IS months tun trawl the U:iitsti States frigate Chesapeake, under the coma scud of Comm:Aare Morris and Ca,3 James Barion.-.He is an Indian laaiLing men. Pus et Martin was premed at the same time and place. He is a not, se of W..e Port, in Massach swats, about .2.4 miles to te e o mo wor d es N o w Frog, Rhoda 11111":1; sewed los time out of ei-of Durk, loth CJIA. alairusslay, in the Calm:wig ; refers to Ms. Benjamin Dons, menhant, ❑nd Mt. Ben!amnia Corer, of W l'ost. Ha ha e coluutcd man. .Idiw ots, born cm the eastern shore of Maryland, Queen Atiu% aounty, between Centerville eud Queen's towns refer, to Mr. Joint Price and -- l'ratt, Esq. ess Kent Island, w los re!ais —Swatch.' sailed to the brig Marsha E. nd, Ca,rtuts WcrEle, fonts Nuit,lk to Dublin, and from Ih,nc,. to Lserroi.l. He there left the brig, and snipped on bi.aid G 4,l•Aman. Hewes pressed on hoard of the Meamrus GI Cape Fiaisterre, to better his situation he Con sented to eleternaLied to make his escape when appnetunity off red. He served tsoaid the Mons two years. He :s a white man e about aft feet seven taehcs high. K able' tier, and J.lO &Pull.' have protection;-..Danit: ids, too says he los: his atter !miring the frigate. lil.ll !'revers, and Ambrose Irate', escaped frogs the 14. lam pus At the same taw, known to the above p:rums to he A ner.cans, but have net been teamed by my tei oth-t C. ikiere II Art, Donal .ifs•tos, and J..e Steirefos, state, that !Rinse time F.bruary la.t there OA. an entenwtoiliolit an Swig the %L•lanyw, ly men in Hampton roads—thAt wwhsle the othuie., &c were tog- Red, And all the ship's boats ex rept tile :wing 4totstw2 to—themselves And the ells/ othce m • RI ized, avaittil t!ie of the irtorent 4. sc ze the gig at.. 4 row as soon as they had K.•t into the Lost, they • ere hill, d to know what they Ilefe gOlag to du—th • • repii.d, they were going uu brick fire of witi‘tieetr commeo.ed hat it the tit:,.—t:•at iu ...LI-l ance both Ar..l th•• 1.0141 d of their I,ss , 1h• v co.itioue,l to p u p. ,aht e•l;oted their e,CAI e to land, sta,atly, Point—"bat ..t0;t1 hau . .-t1 'l3 . the t oat on the brat, st•lled ele co, , placett that 4 , ..4 *sr,' in Ulu tee • .ot m0 , .1 up tile if at a tta.a , vre It Itti, to be venfied real 6mo-71.0...at, try a waned to V.Ar wyurces riobd the s.,aa.•n raw:hal:ly ( Not. boat,T:ve ".. thr:: t: putt in ever! of ittente Ni his "raft% and to have been held as his duty also. to de no Isom than to transmit. without remarks, wlitysvor documents or information relative to faits, he might judge proper to be &retarded to the British Adatitsh_on different stations. In this ease, he, accordingly. merely stated, for the iqformatioo of the Bridals Naval Commander, that the ie.ult of an inquiry made by Captain Barron. had satisfied our Government that the seamen, for whose surrender he had applied, were citizens and natives of the United States." 1111W-YO*C. •UG. 4. On Satuiday the Petersburg and Richmond de tichments of infantry, under Major Ambler, cm. harked on board of two vessels, on their return to their reap dive .places of residence ; the service not requiring them to remain . longer here. On leaving the harbour they were saluted by the Artillery Com pany, Forts Nels.,n and Norfolk, and cheered by the Gbecarraks frigate. We have nothing to inform onr distant readers, respelling the operations of the British ships in the bay; a part of them occasionally go out and return again every day. They have not made any attempt to land, or taken any steps respelling the ire per sons detained. Commodore Sir Thomas Hardy, who now commands, behaves, as far as se can learn, with great politeness to the vessels going out and coming in, giving them no interruption. It is to he regretted that Commodore Hardy had not commanded from the commencement of this affair. We think he would never have written sod: a letter as that of Commodore Douglas, which has been produaive of indignation scarcely short of that pounced by the original outrage. •00. 5. By a gentleman lately arrived front Trinidad, we an informed, that Miranda was still at that plisse. and that be was waiting for intelligence and anise ance from England, for the purpose of making a turther attempt on the Spanish Maim Many are of opinion that he has a British Commi,tion. and ads under the orders of that Government. No ex pedition appears to be fitting ont from Trinidad for the Main at present. Yesterday was the time fixed for the trial of Col. Burr, before the Circuit Court of the United States, to be held at Richmond. Proparatiebs are making to put the harbour of Boston in a complete state of defence. •ua. 6. Captain Fitzhugh, of the schooner firlda4 and Amur, who arrived yesterday from Norfolk, states, that the account of an action between the American frigate Coital,&ries and a British frigate is not true ; And adds, that there had been no arrival at that place from Malaga. The two British Officers and three seamen, taken at Lynhaven B4y.have been re. turned, by order of the President, to the ships to which 'ley belonged. The brig rpill4C, from Kingston, Jamaica, ar rived this day with ballast and bees wan ; off King ston spoke the brig President. of and for Akxandria, from Kingston ; the Captain of which informed, that he was boarded by a British frigate from La Vets Crux, with two minions of dollars on board. Captain Abed informs, that previous to his sailing, a British frigate had arrived with four millions, and that an embargo was to take place immediately.— Arrived this day, and at quarantine, the brig Samp son, Stout, of Kennebnnk. Guadeloupe, 16, ship Snfreed, Lombatd.6l days from River Plate. The account of Lieutenant Pike and his party be ivg cut off by the Indians, is totally unfounded. The latest infnrmation, entitled to credit, states, that his party, having missed their route, and passed (tont the Red River to the Rio del Mute, in the territory of Spain, had been arrested in their course, in the month of February, by a detachment of Spanish troops, and taken to Santa Fe. and thence to Chihuahua, the residence of Governor Salcedo, who bad treated them with great attention, and given them liberty to return to the United States.— Inielfigrircer.) Extra& of a Letter from the Havannah, dated July IS, 1907, to a Gentleman in Washington: —0 Unfortunately, Sir, I am under the disa greeable necessity to inform you that the yillow fever and black vomit rage violently amongst the crews of our vessels, and some of the citizen of the United States who are now in this city. I have not heard that any ether class of peo- ple have been attainted with this horrid distem per. Whether it be owing to their intemperate manner of living. which has been sometimes car ried to excess even here, and in the most fatal season of the year. is what I cannot undertake to say ; but I fear that example and danger will not teach ma ny of my countr> men to be more moderate even in this critical moment, than at any other period." vrAsHircorom CITT. JULY 31. IIY nil passicrimr OF TN/ LNITELP STAYS. or A PRI X,I.A ‘i A TIC*. W hereas great LI I seergh , , maters. e:ai esti trg the centWer. _trim' of th e (:o n vv.. ut th e United Stare.. Lrors a.r extraonii. ''•tary ncrseott f-rr c.,. se 11::g Virus, I do by these preseses 1p "Int hiert.Lty the .Gr.tr 4a) of U.....bet saris, fee then akeeting : ...._ . -' .. ~~ et ties city of Watibballbee I here* rosioirind efts sioellitos Unarm iad Representatives thud awl there es asseibbb Conran. in order to repine such eansinewieations as say -risen be ones to the., and to eciosult sad Aet-rrnine on such measures as in their wisdoms may bed/eased meet for the wel , fare of the United States. testimony whereof. I hare causal the seal of the U.,ited Statists, be belereteallsei, sod sten:d the same with my hand. (Seal) Does at the city of Washington, the S'ith day of July, in the year 01 OUT Lord 1607 and isk the 3U y,ar of the independence of the Maned State.. Ily the President, T. JEFFERSON. JAMBS MALE. )ST, Secretary of State. INDIA. CEYLON COVENNP.III.NT GAZE rrE. nectmera 3, 1806 The Supreme Court returned yssterdayaf ernnon from its circuit round the island. and will hold a Session. for Civil Business, on Friday, the fth, at eight o'clock. MADRAS, DEC 21., 1806. On Monday arrived the ship Fa:arna.rag, in charge of Mr. John Jopling, prier-master. This Kesel was captured by a French brig ptivateer, on the coast of Pepe, together with another vess.l, from six to seven hundred tons burden, name not known. The Fatamtrina was retaken by the Perham Captain H. Maws, fitted out at Botany Bay, in lat. to. N. long. b 3. E. on the List ult. and dispatched to this place. Two Fattamar sloops have arrived in the Roads, with cargoes of rice, from Bengat. 111A011614 JAS. 1, 1807. Grain has considerably risen' in price I. the course of the present week; but whether in conse quence of a real, or fiftitious scarcity, we are not competent to determine. As large - quantities of riee,-peas, &C. are striving daily from -Bengal, in cEnnitry *nisi I:lsere. can be littjs_skrpj►t that there mi 4 soon be - suilleindolorthe i consumpsion of th► . Carnatic, and the rice will, or cOniie;*this In the mean time, any combinations that may be discovered, which haie•for their oiled to tumor°. bee grain, will doubtless meet with merited runish. ment at the hands of the Magistracy, whose ae• deity, whilst it proud' the fair traders, will defeat the designs crafty who 'may harbour inlintions, which lead to such poignant distiesS, as the want of rice must prAuce to the natives of this cou..try. THE BRITISH PRESS. LONDON, • THURSDAY, Stefan: us 10. . We have received New York papers to the 7th last, from which we have made copious extrads. The PIISIDISIT of the United States has issued a proclamation, appointing the 46th of °Roller for the meeting of Congress, and assigning 4` great and weighty matters, claiming the consideration of Con gress." as the cause for convening this extraordinary session. The great and weighty matters alluded to in the Proclamation, are well known to be the circumstances attending the late affair between the Lesperof and the Cheseteale, and the maritime rights claimed and exercised by the British cruisers. The American Editors speculate, that the tiers:we, which has brought over the Initruaions of the Pa &sons? of the United States upon this suhjea, would arrive about the beginning of this mouth ; and as the Pass' cans evidently expeas the answer of our Government before the day appointed for the meeting of Congress, we may presume, that he does not calculate upon a long discussion. In the mean time, the fury of the American people appears to have abated, and they await with patience the determination of Congress.—We stated, in a former paper, that Mr. Ensues, our Minister to the United States, had complained that what had passed between him and the American Government upon the tolled had been misrepresented. In the explanation which has been published. to corral the false ac count, it is diatinely stated, that the seamen claimed by the Leopard were native•botn citizens of the United States, and the report of Commodore .B As ane, in which they arc described. is referred to as evidence of the fa&. The B. itish Officers and sea men, made prisoners at I yiihaven, have been re-. stored to their respeSire ships ; and though we find in the New York papers plans for the defence of the coast, and des•:cep for destroying ships. all in contemplation of a was with England, and proceeding from a hostile spirit. they appear to be merely the speculative amusement of idle indivi duals, in which the Government takes no interest. The yellow fever. it is said, has broken out among the crews of the Spanish vessels at the Havannah, and some Americans at that place. The American Government, we understand, is willing to concede the right of snatch for vas. un der certain circumstances; but never to allow any ve‘sol, bearing their a lg, to be scanted for wen ; a: d hle suggested some nolatioas for identifyits Amain. and liiehla sauna. For Ws we understand. it proposes that Wald chaff pointed in every enneinereial port in each before whom nU coutplainu shall be bear; pasted. and every seaman given ap to that witch he is found to belong. According to the American Laws. eves of an English vessel is liable to . a Mae of lt for every - American seaman found on be. ship. The hoe, we are informed, was p 4 ca of the Er(lar. as English scud, Will SJUAC Americar.s on board. Km it is br jttst, we think, that :name each law slioull this conntry ald tivat both 4:llovernrav be placed on an Nina! laming. It is clas, there are in the American trade upward' or British seamen, and that this country has in it; ploy 15,000 American seamen. leaving a LA of 13,000 in favour of America. Ministers were last night in expiSch n of pitches fro.n Admiral GA %BIER, but non: 11.1: rived When this paper WAS put to press. The Br , :/;► gurkorig. arrived at Deals tpoi her late cruise an American ship, From Amer . .t the Captain of which natal, that before he left port, on the 2d instant, the news that Capla:. had surrendered to the British had been publidie, The Amsterdam Ga:etk. The statlneat of &Wire must be incorrett t as the Dutch G4l which we have received to the 4th, wueld cerce, bate mentioned an event of such importance, had taken plaee, and transpired at Amsterdam on t‘ Nis MAJESTY came to town yesterd iv as no and Jae!d a priva C Levee, at two Queen's Palace, w hich wits auerulei by -111oe Arebbiehep el Ceetethury, the Lend Pretotent tr , Couthil, the Fula 1... rd of the Tretheryi the ChAnc.i. Exchequer, the three Secrtharthe rif State, th • ir,ut 1 n d Adette.:ty, Fart uf Saidadrator. Lord. Lake and Al.ll-0 wartips4. The kortoumbie and Revercr.d Mr tierlegeOshortse, ( Groom iu wautus). Mem. Thlrresa Fearkence, • The fo!lowing had the hotwor of befog preset,' to Vrts bt AJ ' rr t UN& Lake, by Viscount Castlstraili, upon his ele thsfsrersge, end upon his mum howl lochs. Th. Bortouro.le aryl ker. Mr. Egeitoa, by his 13-oh^r, Elrl ut Bridgwater, up.sa precedeuce of tie rom oi Earl Mr. rewntoe, His Majesty's Minister to the Chet Lower Sneer, 07 Mr. Gamine, upos his fetal& to r His Maaasve hold a Privy Council, and sr audiences to the Duke of PoaTLAND, Earl DIN. Lords HAMIKII•OlY, MOLCIII•Vg ; Mr. CAPPING. and Mr. 1 noast Soon after five o'clock, His Adman v ()obis return to Windsor. YesterdAy morning, Lord LAZe had an it view with the Duke of Yoar. at Yolk-house. Dr. Luz/mac. dui new Bishop of Burro. is to be created a Bishop next Sunday, ti Archbishop of t:anterttry, at Lambe ,h Palace. Sir lib VIMID NS4OIII wrivettio town - and attended die Board at Adntird y. The Doke of Poa &&&&& purposes to give a binet dinner at bis house in Piccadilly. on iv Wednesday. The fi rst of this series et . Mil hospitalities took place yebterday. Yesterday. a Court of Giro:fors was held at East India House, when the ship tsar?, of I - tons, was taken up for China direct. The Corr: adjourned at 6 o'clock till toanirrow. Parliament, it is expeSed, will be farther pro. ro:med on the 24th Instant. Should the war, Isle. ever. continue, it is generally believed that it w:1 meet for the dispatch of business hi the mist re November. Report says. that the first of that inor.th has been already Semi on. The hriisprnraide ; --; aferera, --•' for, ; Rica anomie ; iferera,Ba sso ; Ah:abetri, Bureaus ; Grand sa7hese, --; S':r. ; and the Csorsavere. South Seamen, was: l_ft all well is. April last, at New Zealand. The report mat all communication between the Dutch ports and this cnunny is completely cloud. seems to be fully confirmed. Two vessels unar Kniphausen colours. which sailed a ltse days ago from Gravesend for Rotterdam. with passengers only, have returned to Yarmosith. after be warned off by one of the Officers of the guardbfw) off Helvoetsluys. They were not even allowed re waft tnr provisions. but ordered to proceed to sea immediately. They spoke afterwards a pilot bmt, who informed them, that every vessel coming realy from England would be confiscated, and t•.tt the master,. witb any passengers he might have co bard, would be marched to the Hague. By the Lisboa Mail we have received the Ma Iril Gilvill4 to the IRh oft. inclusive. The latr‘t courts received at Madrid of the state of alf..rs Buenos Ayr..., are said to balm come by way of o' Janeiro, and consist only of the reports of th• ter oft vessel, which had arrivei there from B . • .• Ayres ,o long ago as the 29. b of Aril. 'l'; • vices wisich he broug!it ate, howev‘r, th , sofficient importance to, be commuts;catal c•• • • p: per. l'hry were, that News ,• •l• • been regularly fortiSad ; that the inh 4,:* • earolcd the:incises; that then sale ~ 4 tie place unit.; 1111913*; and that, in brac ur r e gilanee and opposition of the aemy, rerosorcato.,.'s ha..: been sent to the Pals Wands, on the t'-'44 of Patagonia. A Icier, received in town by the Cilll4 S it lately arrived, sands some Mir that Sir 1. •atone m.y still he live:Jß. It is dated Dore 4*. January 7. an .f says, after mentioning the arri•••l of a packet horn Esida...l—,e sir Ts Tectwe 4l P has his 4:g on bmit_l the The firl • • cnunts of the probable hi:a of the ding 14% i t ' s brmaght to Cork 00 the eti:ll of May last. I:sct d the the libnifrint had sailed from the With t:311 irrritr, Iru.q W;ISCh ea patted in a g •••• of wind, ;it'd being very raky at tot time. g-4 1 sumo.ed re have ;Juo.lera tuff the coast sat gascar. r„ t bi s put; Sala shalt be a each cotta, to beard a ri d to flat n a ,i 94 I. every Ci?t e of loop Ma Ward of W4l paid to stel, whie% t it is bir. fait 4001.1 be enc. ernmeits th I Clttl)lltt wards of s)., ry has in it; tiring a L 4 priga,i.in of rut non: 11:1 Deal, gptice itn Arniter.ii :fore he left Co I hat Coploha men publitheJ i atareat of t. latch , weeld cntti pomace, ' ardant on the acid iv at mill o'cick, a: by itd Pregoteni,, , Lae Chain is , r,f 4 th • iroat I .nni,...tn ke toot A ~h •,: ti Mr 1.4 ours. TO - loom. being present;. pen hit eke:a...no by hit 11-4's^r, th :1 of t..e as co a r to the Chet n his tater& to E.( coca, and sv: on, Earl rLaticano, Hr. 1 fi‘JahaO% &mast . v set,. t had an int Cork.houte. Itf lilr.atol e • StlndAy. , t' 'be h tow° .yester d liy. ies to give a C 'dilly, on ten es of Mittiste • war held at taster, of I 1U