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which blockade was afterwards extend. of blonde, e d to the port of Brest ; but it being notoriously im possible to maintain such a systesn by actual force, this was not inaptly styled a Paperßlockade. On the 21st of November, 1806, Bouzparte hay- , big In the mean time conquered Prussia, issued from the metropolis of that kingdom the document called t h e Berlin Decree, which retaliates on the British Order of the 16th of April, by declaring England in a state of blockade, and prohibiting the commerce of all neutral nations with this country. On the 9th of January, 1807, the British Ministry ;.cued a fresh Order in Council, to retaliate upon the Berlin Decree ; the substance of which Order was, that no neutral vessel should be allowed to trade to ans . port of France, or to any port of her Allies so much " under French controul as that British vessels nine not freely trade thereto." On the 11th of November, in 1807, another of the series of British Orders was issued, directing that neutral aessels bound for the ports of France, or of her Allies under French controul, should undergo a search by British cruisers, or should proceed in the first instance to England, and pay a per centage upon their cargoes. These Orders called forth another Retaliatory De cree, isped by Napoleon from Milan, on the 7th of Deewelier, 1807, which directed, 44 That every s hip, t,i st ha lever nation it may belong, that shall hate submi•ted to be searched by English ships, or to a v o ) age to England, or that shall have paid any tax whatsoever to the English Government, shall for that alone be declared to be denationalized, and to have forfeited the protection of its Government, shall hate become English property, and as such shall be seizable, either in a French port, or by, French cruisers, and adjudged to the captors." This produced more British Orders of Retaliation, in the spirit of the former, and the last of which was issued in April, 1809. It remains only in conclusion to state, that against all these infractions of neutral rights the Government of the United States loudly protested, both at the Courts of London and Paris, by both of ehich they were told, that nothing could be more distant from the wish of that Government than to commit any act of injustice against America; that all each had done was purely retaliatory upon the acts of the other; that it was the earnest desire of earls to sec the commerce of the world restored to that freedom which is necessary to its prosperi ty; that they were ready• to abandon the system which had been forced upon them, whenever the enemy should retract the principles which had rendered it necessary ; and Lord Wellesly, on the part of his Britannic Majesty, added, that we were ready to " proceed peripussu_with France, in relax ing the rigour of their measuree."—We shall only that on the Sth of August, 1810, it was noti fied by the French Government to the American Mi nister resident at Paris, that the Berlin and Milan Decrees would be revoked on the Ist of November following, " it -bring clearly understood that the English Orders in Connell should be rescinded at the same time." This information was, on► the 25th of August, 1810, communicated to the British Govern ment. by Mr. Pinkney, the Minister of the United Slates to the Court of London; but instead of being told that we were ready to redeem our pledge, and to proceed step by step witk the French in relaxing the rigour of these measures, the answer wag, " that henever the repeal of the French Decrees should have actual!!! taken place," then, and not till then, ie should relinquish our present system. What kind of evidence the British Ministry require of the ac tual re►bcntion of the French Decrees we knew not; the Americans. by their President, say, they have cca , Pci to exist, but the British Orders in Council continue t. operate with undiminished rigour, to the ►uin of our manufacturer s and to the dishonour of the country. We are authorised to state, that a paragraph which appeared in the Times of this morning, respecting the Banking concerns of Messrs. BOLDER() and• Co. whose failure we mentioned yesterday, is grossly un founded in almost every particular. Until the affairs of that company are regularly investigated, the pub lic will do well to be on their guard against exag gerated accoonts respecting them, which have no other foundation than malevolence. Wedeesday morning the Earl of MOIRA had an kuileuce of the PRINCE Re.oxscr, at Carlton-house. It is somewhat remarkable, that Mr. SHLRIDAN should have made his debut, as a Parliamentary Orator, by a motion on the disgraceful state et the Police of Wesitnin :len in which he was seconded, in a maiden speech also, by his friend Lord JOHN rOWNbREND. Lord Viscount JocELYN, who is to move the Ad. dress in the House of Commons, is Joint Auditor. General of the Exchequer of Ireland, %ith his fa ther, the Earl of Ronzw. The place is a perfect nnecurc. " it is with extreme satisfaction we leans," PIP the Freeman's Journal, " that most of the liberal Protestants uow is Dublin, have agreed to give a sumptuous entertainment to their Catholic counery men." 4. Three Clerks belonging to one of the offices in Somerset House, were examined at the AdmirelV- Office, on Wednesday and yesterday, before Mr. Caorra and Sir T. B. TuostesoN, assisted by Mr. CaAn.tx, and some other Magistrates, upon certain charges of misconduct brought against them. On Wednesday evening, one of Clerks of a re 6Pectahle Banking-house, in the City, was appre hended on a charge of embezzling 14001. the pro. Perty of his employers, and lodged in the Poultry Comptes. , • p G" ._w. ~, r isri~ .~: N4VAL INTELLIGENCE. --.40.-- PORTSMOUTH, JAN. Z Arrived the Mermaid, armee en flute, Son. Cap. tain W. Perry; and the Laiona. armee en flute, Captain Sotheby, with a convoy from Lisbon. Also the Dwarf cutter, Lieut. S. Gordon, from the east• ward, and the squadron from off Cherburgb, con sistiug of the Venerable, Royal Oak, Goshawk, Hot• spur, and Thracian ; the latter destroyed, on Friday n French privateer off Cherhurgh. Ime into harbour to be docked, the Courageux, 74, Captain Plampin. PLYMOUTH, JAM. 1. Arrived the Star, Captain Jameson, from Hon. duras, bound to London with logwood, Sailed the Niemen frigate, of 38 gum, Sit Michael Seymour, Commander; on a cruise to the Westward. Came in the Scylla brig of war, of 18 gtitts, Cap tain Atchison, and has brought in with her the Ame rican brig Fly, from Havre de, Orace, bolitid 'to Bristol, in America, with wines and brandy, which she has detained, Arrived the Diadem, of 64 guns, from Ports. mouth. Sailed the Mermaid awl • Latona frigates ) with a fleet of taansports, having 41 hoard French prisoners for Portsmouth, which aiitied here yesterday from Lisbon. Di* Jai'. V. Arrived his Majesty's ship cambetltrod, frog* Portsmouth ; and the Fatourite, Bemis, from the River, bound to Jamaica. . - Passed by a large fleet of colliers and coaster. froni the westward. LEITH, DEC. Si. Sailed last night his Nlajest 's ships Eagenh4elio, Sarpedon, and Nightingale, to protect the home ward-bound Baltic fleet, now said to be on the Coast. Ott the evening of the 14th instant, a Gentleman was stopped near Sandy .lane, on the Stapleton road, Bristol, by two ruffians, ono of whom knocked him down; but whilst they were proceeding to rifle his pockets, they were alarmed by some _noise, and de camped with the Gentleman's hat. EsTitAoItDINARY MOIttALITY.—At a Society, near Qucensferry, on the 10th ult. Isabella Nlennell, aged three years ; on the 11th ult. William Miller Mennell, aged seven months ; on the 13th-ult. Mary Mennell, aged seven years; and Margaret Mennell, aged live years, son and daughter of Mr. William Seocr.►`r. ArcinviT.—Art unfortunate accident occurred at the Portsmouth Theatre on Tuesday evening. A young lad, 14 years of age, of the name of James Harrison, the darling son of a widow, a .lops►ller in Portsmouth, went with some of his companions to the gallery of the Theatre as soon as the doors were opened. Oil their gaining the top of the stairs, which open on the back of the gallery, he rushed directly down to the front, eiclaimini f he would either get a front seat, or go into line Unfortunately there was no Iron rating - tflywriVe resting-place for the arms, to prevent his falling over, and he was precipitated headlong dow❑ a height of thirty feet. Surgical assistance was immediately pro cured, and the Theatre closed. The Manager, with marked attention, which did honour to his feelings, ordered every care to be taken of him in his private dressing-room during the night, where. he lingered in the greatest agony till eight o'clock the following morning, when he died. A Subaltern Officer, in a - garrison town, appear ing very slovenly on parade, was thus accosted by his Captain :---" Sir, I am ashamed of you; why, by the negligence of your dress, I should take you at least ro be a Colonel, if not a General !" Furred great-coats and scowler whiskers are at present all the rage among the Bond-street Bucks.-:- Such of the animals as are not shod wear broad brass spurs, though many of them never mounted a horse in their lives. The impediments which have so long interrupted the negociation between Russia and Turkey, are said to have at length been removed, and that prelimi naries of peace, if not already signed, will very shortly be concluded. Report says, that Moldavia and Wallachia are to be ceded to Russia, and that Servia is to be again placed under the Turkish do minion. A poor woman, while proceeding to Covent. garden market, from Old Brompton, was yesterday morning stepped between the Bell and Horns pubne.- house and Iltrgmore-laue, nod robbed of 15s. by two ruffians, dressed Iwsmoek-troclis. Molineux, the sable pugilist; has made, a safe re t►eat, to avo►d clamorous creditors, some of. whose debts he declares fictitipus. . ' - TIE MARKETS. ' 'CORN EXCHANGE, Sas. S.' To-day the Market has not natty arrivals of • Wheat, and 'the remaining supplies but inconsiderable, waiting*appliesr few salesare effected, and second, with ordinary ' at srunewhat less. Barley and Matt at littiriluctuation. White and Grey Pens, as also .Beaty of the tyto.kind, rather lower. Be have but fry. further airivalsof its, and this trade is named at hide Ilartua due. nom! frutajbe late pleat,' scarcely supports the gene ral priers' quistesl: TIIE STATESMAN. GENERAUSARRAWN. The modesty of this Gentleman Is scarcely to be credited. An additional proof of it will be found in the demands which he has made upon Government for the notes and information with which lie has pro vided them, and the silly presumptuous Essays he has published in this country. Gentle Reader, you will hardly believe it ; but the following demands have actually been made upon our Government by this very disinterested man—this honourable betrayer of the trust reposed in him by his own Government. GENERAL SARRAZIN ' S DEMANDS!! ! 1. letterzuf naturalization. . . • 2. That his wife and son be considered as prisoners of war in France. . _ _ 3. That his rank of be acknowledged from the Bth of October, 1799, on which day he was exchanged in that quality for General Sir Harry %mud, agreeably to tke cartel which he dcitteJted at the Foreign Office. and conse quently recognised as holding that rank by the English Govern ment. 4. A pension of three thousand pounds sterling a year for life. 5. An indemnity of ten thousand pounds sterling fur his losses at Boulogne, to enable him to take a house suitable to his rank in London, as he had in France. 6. A capital of fifty thousands pounds sterling, in payment fot his notesand LYCEUM TIIB4TRE. :•••••11.6,4- 1 A new Comedy was performed, fur the first time, at this Theatre, yestarilay evestiag, called Riskter.Wrong. DRAMATIS PliDarlM. . . . Farmer Dakhla Mr. DiassimN. Dick Oa U ' NN' • -" ' ' Mt. thrsailair. a Old ere trot.. -- ....yrs .T72-n-Otr - Pri-c4mr. • .Mr. PENSO7I. Sir James Ilareoart • Mr. Lortasiovz. Harry Yevilke - • • Mr. DL CAMP. klalcour. . - .. ...Mr. Ilou.sysp. • Venom ....... .... Mr. l'Ana. Spr.icc • 11r. I'ENLEv. • Julia Mrs. EDM IN. Cecilia Esther Dame Oakhatn - • - Tlve interest of this Piece, or at least such as it possesses, is ex cited by the common place incident of a forged vs ill. which Nat. emir bath pads., in conjunction with a minor villain (Yemeni), by which Harry Neville, and his sister, Julia, are deprived of the mansion and estates which appertained to their family. It appears that this serious evil was effected by Maleour's practis ing upon the credulity of their uncle, who is dead, and making him suppose that his nephew, who was in India, was a must li centious profligate: but there is no apology offered for his de priving Julia of her fortune, who is driven, in conoequenee, to the most extreme distress, and compelled to seek fur protection in the cottage of Farmer Oakham, where she is pursued by Mal emir, who labors to dishonour her. Eventually she is rescued from the insults of Malrour ; first by the intervention of Cikarks Pemberton, who proves to lie her lover; nisi, secondly, by her brother. There is a sort of an under plot introduced, in which. Sir James Harcourt and his daughter. Cecilia, are principally in- terwoven, the latter of whom rejects the addresses of ..Itatruur, in opposition to her father's desire, being secretly betrothed to Harry Neville. After an infinity of bustle, that bath but little meaning, and several challenges, and much foul language, young Pemberton marries Julia, and Harry Neeille marries Cecilia. — In the construction of this I'lay there is no evidence of either no velty or genius ; many of the sentiments have a just tendency, hut they are as old as the Malvern Mills. Dick Oakhaut is a very ill-designed copy of Harroteby, in The l'uor Gentleman; but the Bard bath ingeniously contrived that he shall be almost as injurious to the truth of the English language as a modern Tra gedian ! This imperfect Drama bad one capital fault : as every auditor could foretel the doormen( before the second net was finished. They knew what the dishes would be before the cloth was well laid upon the table ! The Prologue was spoken by INJTMAM, sad it woo crammer) with bgsets, aid roses; wait field-towers, like Covent-garden market in Jana. The Epi logue was pointedly delivered by Mrs. fit,ovca : it was replete with supplication, but it had no salt. The prostrate Bard was much indebted to the meritorious exertions of Mrs. liowrr, Mrs. Gloria, Mr. Doverox, Mr. LOVEGROVC Mr. l) CAMP, and Mrs. SPARES. It was announced for a second representation by Mr. Ds CAMP, amid such a din of yeas and nays. that it gas wholly impossible to understand the verdict of the Public Jury. The legality of the arrest of the Earl of FINGALL and Viscount NEWERVILLE, will be tried iu the Court of Exchequer, Dublin. FRENCH FLEET.—The enemy have certainly a formidable force equipped in their several ports for immediate service, viz. Antwerp and the Scheldt Toulon Rochefort V sail of the fine. 17 ilel;t;ei;lisys, and other Dutch l'orts 27 Total 7 9 mi i 1 of the line. To the above it has long been the design of BONA• PARTE to add the several squadrons of Sweden, Den mark, and Russia ; but in which, we trust; he will continue to be disappointed, by the vigilance and va lour of a British fieet.—There are only two ships of force in any state of equipment at Brest, from the impossibility of their receiving naval stores in that port : this has compelled them to strip live or six sail in order to equip those two. _ There have been grand illuminations in St. Peters- burgh, in consequence of the late victory obtained over the Turks, which is represented as having been decisive. It is said the whole of the Turkish camp was taken, including the Grand Vizier's tent, the military chest, the artillery, the Divan's correspond ence, and considerable booty. This event hastened the signing of the Preliminaries of Peace: There were two nephews of the Grand Vizier in the battle, one of ;whom was killed, and the other mortally wounded. It is said there were several French Offi cers is the Turkish army. The Committee of General Purposes, in the Court of Common Council, have very humanely ordered a quantity of coals, blankets, and rugs, for the pri soners, which are principally Court of Conscience debtors, and very poor, in the Borough Compter, commonly called the Clink, during the severe weather. They have also given directions for the windows to be repaired, which were almost all broken. This prison, for want of a resident Magistrate in the Borough, is gone miserably to decay. ACTION Or FROST ON STONES.—At Perth, in the last week, se intense was the cold, 'that in a few hours the ice was near two inches in thickness. A number of fine free-stones from Kingoody quarry were split to pieces at the depot, and the contractors sustained a very severe loss. The stones having drank sufficiently of rain water at their pores, are lune. diately incrusted with frost ; the water is forced int" the centre, and, instantly confined, breaks forth with a loud explosion. Two pints of Scottish water had been taken from their centre previous to their breaking. SHHIWRECK OF THE SALDSINH.4. TO THE EDITOR OF THE 811ArESMAN. SlR,—Tlkose who are strangers to the perils of a sea-life, and unconnected with any embarked in that honourable, but dangerous profession—who, by a happy lot, sit secure on shore in peaceful safety, while the tempest spends its fury on the ocean, will find it difficult, with all the susceptibilities of a feel ing heart, to form an adequate idea of that anguish and sorrow, which the surviving and affectionate re• Wives of the shipwrecked seaman, are inevitatt, doomed to suffer. The truth of this observation, was some days back brought home to my mind with inexpressible force, when listening to the afflicting tale of an elderly Lady, who has lost her son-in-law, in the recent shipwreck of the Saidanha frigate. I am aware that the distress of an individuul, neither distinguished by title, rank, nor fortune, may be supposed to want dignity sufficient to claim public at tention. Vet lam persuaded, that the number and singularity of her misfortunes, wilt be found to range her case in no common class, and to render her narrative not uninteresting to the humane and intelligent Reader. This Lady is the sister of the late Mr. FELIX WCARTIIY, a Gentleman to whom you could not, I suspect, be entirely a stranger ; and whose recent and very unexpected death has been to her a source of unceasing sorrow. This Gentleman was ,the last-of three brothers, who may be saidall to have died in early life, each of whom were dear to her af fections. But the most remarkable circumstance in her eventful history is, her having been the mother of no less than twenty-four children, twenty of whom, after having reared them almost to maturity, she lost by death. These numerous and severe trials, though they had long made her familiar with afflic tion, had not sufficiently fortified her mind against a still greater calamity that awaited her, which she ex perienced in the sudden death of the best of hus bands, and the tender father, protector, and guide of her numerous offspring. Of her four survit ing children, the youngest is in his fifteenth year, and what may be deemed singularly remarkable, is her eighteenth son. Thus, by the wise, but in scrutable decrees of Providence, has the ravages of death swept from this mortal in ra pid succession, a progeny of promising and . accomplished children—her nearest and dearest rela tives, together with the husband of her youth—her best friend, her comfort, and her pride. At last, however: a ray of light darted through the gloom which hal long hung over her fortunes, and cheered her with the hope of happier days in declining age. Her only daughter, with every prospect of felicity to herself, was last year married to Lieut. DAVID Titom A s,of the Royal Navy. This excellent young risen had entered into the service at a very early age— had been almost constantly engaged in active duty, and distinguished himself in so many important and perilous engagements, that he _had rt!c!ird . most flattering assurance of speedy promotion.— Enthusiastically attached to his profession, he was ever eager to follow where danger led, and during his short, bat adventurous career, he had repeatedly the good fortune to merit the approbation of his Commanding Officers. His zeal, knowledge, and in trepidity, ensured him the respect of his superiors— his strict integrity, combined with a mild and obliging temper, commanded the esteem of his equals -end his unremitting attention to the comforts of all below him, procured him the grateful attachment of 1 his inferiors. In this high and all :able condition of apparent felicity—honoured, respected, and beloved —cheered with the animated view of rising to profes sional distinction, he was returning home on board the Saldanha frigate, full of life and hope, when, on the sth of this month, on the north coast of Irelafid, she was suddenly wrecked, and he, together with every man on board, perished. Thus, was lost for ever to his friends and to his country, Lieut. THOMAS, in the 24th year of his age, whose widow is now far advanced in her first pregnancy, and whose poignant and unceas ing grief for her melancholy loss, has already so mate rially affected her health, •as even to endanger her life.—SUch then, Sir, is the short sketch of this Lady's disastrous and afflicting 'history, and surely, if duly reflected 00, it might tend at least to still the murmurs of complaint at common misfortune, and to reconcile us better to isittly of the ills of life, which, while uncontrasted with deeper scenes of human misery, are too apt to appear insupportable and overwhelming. Ibee.9o,lStl. A. T. . Intelligence from Sweden, states, that BERN A. WM .has ordered a levy of no less than 80,000 men to be made in the kingdom of Sweden, who are to be ready to take the geld in the ensuing spring. The various departments under Government lave been ordered to provide during the winter for the establishment of magazines and hospitals. For .the subsistence of this large force, supplies of grain are to be ' froarilioports f Ankh( Swe dish Pomerania. French . : those which not contain armies. merchant- s One hundred from the Wilmington. families, Cape F ' A pointer apartment of food leased from health. ~+ 1 i,l ;‘ i', hi '6 411 4 ,t ..1"! I I V 11 I ; • i• ;r • 1 V 1~ I, . 9ißif L .1 #~,-~ ~ UMW.. .r IlVlif , ULM lIMIG leaC p"ma•J, ..,.........., -,-- -- ~ --- ' l); .'''...*'' red — fr -- ;iiiiii-ports -7 f tltisii.ol proca o we. rot peters. voted.' ' . • ' • omerania. ..' s' . f eltafUr price or chars!' i ach Papers bowl arrived of a balltdatO than r ik beal ie it i tt• •• . ....V . N . : li tt . 1 90, 1 " . Il Tick itto Beal's * . l'ild o ) .se. ' . 7 . 4 1 t,. la. ›-- $ . r • "4 . ehiCh had been previously roeitnit They doit Ye - - 14. SI.. s. main any intelligence of . from the &mei, - ... of..& s . od. Potands spa. 37.. tid. They announce several ' II captures of 71:$ tits ', Boi FA : . Potktoe ditto ...- SIN . ..49 4 •. E '04 64 . ' t lers) '744 . i tot-vessels in the Channel and Other quarters. G rey p eas , -- - 5'64.:. fe;, Fine Floor •-- -, Mc .10Us• ! hundred and . ninety•two Sco t ch Emigrants, Beans (old), •- • Eli.. ftt ii torods ••- - -- Ns_ P 6 ,1 he Isle of Skye, lately arrived in one shttrat SUTTHFIRI.I3 Ate-HP.T.—So N. 3. ". .. , ; . . . ngton, North Grolina ; they comprise many -T o s i n k th e Offal. per stoner-6lb, . , „ 1, and it is said they intended to settle on Beef ....Se. 24. to is. 2d. Head of Nutt 'hi! day. Fear River, in that state. mutual ..6.. 11.1. to 6s. 44. 1 1 Reaets •..•. • 9Oll Veal ....7a tid. to Rs. Ott. 91teep , 9,740 *inter dog was accidentally locked up in an pork ,‘„,68, od, to l c . 4d , ca 1,...„,;,, II:, mot in Inverneu, where he had not a particle_ Lamb •• • .03. Od• to 03. bd. Pie 3 . ' ' 24J d for the space of nine days, yet when re. HA Ir-M.AIiK ET. from kir confinement / he Appeared in perfect . I.la - Y O. Ito. Od. Iti. S. 10s. 04. . • ' Straw - , . Clover ... • 61. Os. 04, 1. C.. es. •34. . ~ •" . I • . • • --......„. • .. J . __ • 1 . 1 1 1 . To, d .