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with regard to foreign nations: it'was measly 41, 4 tended as a permanent natioual regulation. We had laws, he said, regulating the distribution of prize-money, and the amount 44:ealvage in cases of re-capture; these were 'pennadeit laws; and let . they only operated in time of seat., If, atter dis cussion, the house should couceive .that it was int prolper to adopt the principle contained in the reso lution, it might be rejeeted. The resolution was agreed to, and made the or der of the day for Monday uest. Mr. NEwToN, from the Commiltee of Coin tweice and Manufactures, presented " A bill sup plementary to the act prohibiting the importation of certain goods, wares, unit inerehuildize ;" which was wade the order of the day fur Thursday oext.— and then the house adjourned (.to'4:leek.) DEC. 9. Mr. Bov he, from the Committee of Public Lands, presented " A bill making further provision for the sale of the sections of lends heretofore re served for the future disposition of Congress." Re ferred toe Committee of the whole on Monday. The House pmceedcd to consider the report of the Committee of the whole yesterday , on the Bi ll from the Senate ntakinif appropriations for build ing lho arkdition l gun-boats. Con.sidertible debate arose oa ageoeileg to said Bill, occasioned by a mo tion to strike out the words " It4n gun-Imates" and insert 144 guts beats and 4 frigates of 44 gust each." The question was taken on the amendment, arid it was lost, ...yes to. The Bill was then ordered to be read a thlrti 4i ttttt to-morrow. The House then adjourned olr.ltalf past two o'clock. New .11411 i. DEC. 11. ST. BAETIioLoMEWS.—CApt. Burrell, who ar rived, yesterday, ins 1 days from point-Petre, ((ltusdaloupe) ittformstlua an embargo was laid on that port for sight days . previous to his sailing, owing to an eitpedition that was fitting oat at Point- Paties capostiag of the twig General Rivet,' and a large cutter, both French privateers, carry ing upwards of 300 men. This expedition was panned against St. Bartholomew's, and was eoin pletely successful. The fort was surprised' and carries at midnight ; an American brig and schooner lying there, both belongiug to Baltimore, were captured; they were under Swedish flags, and loaded with coffee from St. Dousing". The expe dition retusoed to Point-Petro on the 49th of No vember with their prizes and so,nonlbs. coffee, taken from the store of 'Mr. ---, agent for the Americans engaged in that traffic. The intern. genee that there rich cargoes were at St. Bartholo mew's, which aemptod to the expedition, is supposed to have been conununicatixl by a mer- Cant at St.Bertholoiseves, who has done a vast deal dAtorrican business, and had a great share of their confidence, but became thirtffeeted in consequenee of another Agent having been remit out. This, however, is only given as is suspicion. Several large West Indiamen have been cap tured by French privateers, and brought to Point- Petre, with coffee, sager, and cotton, from De merara and Surinam. Markets at Poiri-Petre for American commodities. very dull, and paynikent in bad sugar and high price. It is minrstred this morning, that Gen. Torreon, the Minister of France, has detuandel that the Co vsrnment of the Uuited States shall dint their ports again,* the British. Whether this rumour is well founded (and The predictioas of vaiisulage thereby verified), a vt rye short time will furnish a full expla nation. If any Government has dared to insult our country by such a *miss d, is there an independent or rational man in th.• United States, that eau hesi tate, for one instant, to say how it should be answer ed ?—/Pod. Reg.) Der. 12. NEM TOm[• DEC. 14. The United States schooner Rerengr, Captain Reed, arrived at this port on Saturday evening, in 20 dart, from Cherbourg. Captain Reed is the bower of very important dispatches from France far mg Government. Ifs left this city yesterday abosoirtg, for Washington. Capt. Reed informs, *ere is evacy prospect of the existing diflirenees between this country and Great Britain being ami cably settled; and also, that Bona:iurte has de clared, thgt there shall no longer be ANY NEU.. tams ; and that if this country should send a Minor to the Court of St. Jaines . *, after a err tarn period, be would consider it as a declaration of war. This seemint eorroborates the report that Tur man demanded of our Government to shut its ports against Great Briton.. Tag ACT PXOlltaltING TM lisroneertos I.IOX GMAT BRITAIN, 01' cutest"' (.loops, Wilts, Atif ML/KKANDIVE, COWS INTO °PURA tient THIS I)AV. Estra , t of a Pater from a friend stin itt Wash ington, to the Xditor of at Emma a Annul, dated Dec. it, 1907 :- 4 4 The House of Itepreseatatives were yesterday several hours in conclave, on a Mes-i.,;e frow the Presidunt, utolerstood out of doors to matt to our 1 'Vint with *eat Entail). is sufratt t• trairisp: Pith tategeted thutlitue is no giound *at*. illtata• 1 know at 4iist sae Member, who formed an opinion before the dispatches came . • tct;liand, that asmatters now stood, if we should have war, it would be our own fault ; and 1 ant iteppy to assure you, that his opinion, instead of 'being weakened by the dispatches, has been com pletely confirmed." A.letter front ‘Vatihington, received on Thursday mooting, states that a private vomersation, which lasted seven hours, has been held between the Secretary of State and Mr. Erskine, the British Minister, whereon, a communication was made by the President to the Congress, which occasioned their deliberations with closed doors on Monday last—the result of which had nut transpired ut the date of our last advices from Washington.—(Pol. Reg.) PRILADELPID 4, DEC. 12. We have been favoured with a► extract of a bet ter from Batavia, dated July IS, 1807, to a gentle man in this city, gating, that dispatches had been received by the Government of Batavia from Te mar, of a large fleet of sixty sail of British men of war and transports, with 10,000 land forces on board, hating passed by, supposed to he intruded against the Island of Manilla. The fleet was fitted out at Bengal and Calcutta. INDIA. BOMBAY INTELLIGENCE. It appears that the want of provisions it the 'Mauritius was entirely owing to the vigilance of our cruisers, as all the Madagascar trailers had been taken by a frigate, &e. on their piusage to that island.—Rice extremely dear, twelve dollars per loolb. The Piednsontaise frigate, from the Mauritius, was spoken with by an American in 516 S. 66 E. supposed bound for the Bay of Bengal. A brig of to guns had sailed from the Isle of France, to cruise on the West coast. The Warren Ilostings, Captain Hunter, was wrecked in a gale of wind at Bourbon. . The Semiltante frigate, repairing at the Isle of France, was expected to be ready fur sea by the Ist of Jime last. _ _ The ship Prierc, Captain Fogerty, Wound from Madras to Bombay, seas wrecked near Clow early in June ; cress saved. The following passengers, late prisoners at the Isle of France, arrives' at Calcutta in the ship Gilhrell, from Tranquebox, on the izth June lust, viz.—Lieut. M'Carthy, Lieut. Joilson, ('aptain Hunter, country menace, ; Mr. Finch, Mr. J. R. O'Connor, and Mr. Masse. The ship Daniel, Capt. Thomas, was lost off the Sand Heads, in going up to Calcutta; craw saved : the cargo extremely valuable. FOREIGN lATELLIGESCE. GOTT LN BI • KGH NAIL. UOTTENDUIIIiII, DEC. 11. Most of the English merchants, front St. Peters. burgh, are d.►ily expected hew. Preparations ere making licre for the King's reception to-morrow. lie will, it i. said, only remain two days here, and then proceed to Stockholm. The English ('ha►ge d'Affaires, Mr. Bathnrst, accompanies The ship (the ..1pollo), which was permitted to pail from Cronstadt, with the baggage, plane, and other effects, of Lord G. L. Gower, has been chased into Carlscrima, by the Danes, lii which port are in other English merchant ships. The baggage,- &e. must now be brought inert:laid hither. as these ships cannot venture to COUe out of that harbour. ■CLStNGRORO, NOT. 29. The Russian Etiv4, M. Alopens, had his midi.. eller of leave of His Swedish Majesty ou the 17th instant, and the next day set out for Stockholm. The Swedish commercial Agent, M. (:rum, was arrested at Copenhagen on the 17th inst. at two in the morning, and committed to prison, but on t h e % , .7th he was it at liberty, and sufliTed to remain in his OWD house under a guard, till the requisite examinations shall have been made.(Storkkulas Gazette, Dec. 7.) COPFItHAGC!:, DU. S. Our two ships of the line, the Louisa An u gimta. atul Prince Chrintien, under theeounualmil Of the Cap tains Snedorf and Pepcn, have safely arri, ell from Norway, and come into our road yesterday after noon. They chased in time Cattegat au English brig, which, however, being too piumli a-head of them, escaped into a Swedish port. Tie• shove two ships of the hue have sailed again this day fur the Baltic. To remove the fears of those who dare not ven ture to soil with their c-argues, from fear of meet imr with the enrmy's cruisers, it will he sufficient to state, that eat re Ital.- arrived here within the.r few ttr~,, two •hq), from one from Warding- berg, onefroto N;L"rg.ittni Imo from Piussia;taltielt..s. lid Da meet with a magic English mealier. Op the 30th of Nei. all the English shim, left the Sound, and sailed for the North Sea. They were very briskly fired on as they passed the Castle of Cronenburg. An Euglish ship, laden with hemp, and linseed oil, and commended by Captain John Schimmel% was taken by a privateer, and car ried into Elsinenr. A notice was issued from the General Post ()thee here, on the 4th of this Mouth, enjoining ail the post olfiees, in consequence of superior orders, to receive no letter for any foreign town, or for Altona, Hilburn, Tbnitingen, Friederickstadt (in the Duchy of Sehleswic) , Elsineur, Friederiekshold, and Ilensvinge, till the pemon appointed by Go vernment for that purpose, s:mall have examined it, and been satisfied that the said letter contains no means, direct or indirect, of correspondence with England, or with British -subjects, and shall, in orusequence, for security, hitv . e affixed his seal to mch letter.—(Copeekagen Ce:ette.) =TRACT OF A LETII6II • 7114014 scawsata, Dec. 5. " General Laval traninaitted to our Govern ment, on the 2d of this month, the following let ter frotu His Highness the Prince of Neufchatel, which the Government imuediately conked to be published:" " Foatainbleau, Nov. is. "The will of his Majesty the Emperor is that the country of Mecklenburg shall be eiaeuated by the French troop*, with the exception of an Adjutant- Commandant, who shell remain at Rostock, with a battalion at most, to take care that no English merchandise be introduced into the said cow►try You will, before your departure, (:eueral, see that all the necessary dispositions are made for the carrying into execution of this measure•" THE BRITISH PRESS. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JAN. 13, The correspondence betwcen this country and France, carried on •for some time, indirectly, ' through the medium of the Austrian Ambassadors, at Paris and Loudon, is, ,rte uridena.and, entirely broken off, and nothing now remains to be done, but to prosecute the war with all our energies.— The Count de MIER, who returned with dispatches on Tnesilay se'nuight, in a flag of truce from Calais, yesterday left the house of Prince F./F. TERIIAZY, in ThAyor-street, Manchester-square. for Dover, where he will embvk on board • s tide' waiting there to convey him to Fratite.— le brings with him a.: mistier, which, it is suppswed p • will put an end to all communication between the two countries.—Mr. Ct.tve, who lately came from Vienna on parole, will Like his passage, with his wife and two children, in the untie vessel with the Count de Mica. We have received New York papers to the 15th List, containing the proceedings in t'oo gress, Ito far us they have been sttgered to be published, to the loth. The Act prohibiting the importation of certain goods, ware*, and merchandixes, of England and her Colonies. into the United States, became operative 'and wits enforced on the 14th. This Act, which has excited so Much interest in the commercial world, received the sanction of the Executive upon the l eth April, 1806, and was to take effect on the 15th of No vember, in the same year, but was susp..nded to the present time, in expectation of an amicable adjust ment of the differences between the two countries. Private letters from Igew York, dated the 14th, state, that on the morning of that day, the Mails from the South arrived, - bringing the important intelligence, that a great majority of the House of Representatives had determined to put the Act in immediate force, with jeered sew classes; but this, we apprehend, is a mistake. A Supplemental Bill was brought into that House, and made the order of the day fnr the 10th; but it professed to be merely a Bill to prevent the numerous difficulties that must necessarily arise out of the Act in its present defective state. Besides, admitting a Supplemental Bill, containing such clauses, to have been prosecuted with the utmost expedition, we do not believe it could have been passed so as that it should be known at New York on the morning of the 14th. Some private accounts speak confidently of an amicable adjiistment of the dispute between England and America, a feeling which appears to have been encouraged, if lint entirely produced, by the extra vagant tone which It is dudenitecAl Bow •PAILTE has assumed towards that country. The Revenge schooner, Captain READ, arrived at New York on the 12th, in twenty-six days from Cl.erlourgh, charged with important dispatches for Govern ment, and on the next day he set out foe Wash ington.—Captain RaAo reported, that 80% PAIRTL had declared he would allow so sutitru!A, . and that if At nerica should after al.;iven period send a Minister to England, he would consider it equi valent to a Declaration of War.—lt is also ,aid, that M. Ty flimsy, the French Minister to the United States, had demanded that America sherd(' shut her ports against England. We hope there is some truth in these reports, as such language lutist tend to promote a reconciliatioo between this country and , the United States. The Mertl, BLAND, is arrived at Liverpool, from Norfolk, in 2.5 days. Mr. Moues arrived there the day before she sailed, viz. December 13. We yesterday announced the arrival of Ave of the eight Cottenbitrgh Mails due. Since which, another, the first of the series, has also arrived. An order has been issued at Copenhagen, requiring all letters for a foreign place to be minutely inspected before they are received at the Danish Post Offices. This order is for the more effectual prevention of all correspondence between England and the Con tinent. The Swedish Minister at Copenhagen has been arrested ou suspicion of being impli cated in some correspondence of this kind. — The French troop• have been ordered to e►acuate MeeklenbuFg Schwerin, w►th the exception of a sin gle laittalion that remains at Rostock to prevent any commerce with 'England. The two Danish ships of the line that lately arrived at Copenhagen from Nor way, have proceeded to the Baltic. AU the younger branches of the Royal. F•sti ix of DENBIAILK have returned to Copenhagen. Private letters from Stock bolsi, of Ile 19th tilt. state, that the K r a 4; had arrived at his capitalfrom Gottcuburg. lie was received with entity expression of joy and loyalty, and there wereilluminations two nights. Letters from Gut. tenbaegh, of the 30th ult. assert, that Russia and Denmark are both sedulous iu their endeavours to persuade the KING to join them in the league against Greiat Britain. A. Leeward . Idaad Hail arrived, yesterday, - _ brought to.F.almouth by the Prioress Mary packet, Capt. PotitiCa, in 33 days, folio Tortola. On the 7th inst., she fell in with a fleet.froin Cork, under convoy •of. His MAJESTY'S ship Nemesis. The Prisicess Mary left Barbodoes - on the 14th Nov. at ;!frhieli time were lying there His MAJESTY'S ships'itamihes, Ulysses, Castor, Netky, Jason, C'a- Wasik liippastimes,, Favourite, Dart, and Wukerine. small co uvoy far England, left Tortola about tem slays behae the packet. Dispatches were received, yesterday, at the Admiralty, front Barbadoes, dated the 17th of Noieutber, giving au account of the alarming Imo. etiii of French privateers in that quarter. The Mittotaar, Admiral COtTOPI, 'Do to proceed with the fiest fait. wind front Falmouth, to join Sir OIDIVEY 9lifT/1 off the Tagus. The transports ar rived at tla► part and Portsmouth are to join and folio* Admiral Curtn( under cavort of the Antelupr. Dispatches were received yeieertilig at the Admi ralty, rusting, that the Autielb.Captom liesTE , and convoy, bound for (: Itidtat and Malta, have Welt spokeu at sea, all well. The Eurl of AY LI/irons, the Lord Steward of 146 MAJESTY'S Household. is expected in town, this day, to order the neeeoney prep ration fur the celebration of Her MAJESTY'S Billli-day. Lord HAwoussuo r y will entertaiu a very large party Ithe Home of Peers to dinner on the 10th nest. when it is expected his Lordship will read MS MAJESTY'S Speech. General %Vim's:Loam's trial, we understand, fixed for Wednesday next. His MAJESTY'S ship Isis, of 60 guns, Captain LAWSHAIINT., had all her convoy collected at Spit head, on the 1 ith instant. The following is a list of vessels that sailed front Tortola, tinder convoy of lbs MAJESTY'/ ships Alexandria and Cygnet, and are yet mitring, vie.— The Baps, Somme front Boirbadoes.forLiverpool; Argo, POSTMAN, front St. Kitt's ; ilferionte, JONES, from St. Vincent's ; hulefatt i e . , WtttiArts, from Berbiue ; Rebecca M' Cow Mary, tlaw ttn; awl the Mary Ann, Cooee, from Surinam, all bound to London. We gave yesterday the Resolutions of the Lord Provost and Meeting of Merchants and Manufac turers of Glasgow. These Resolutions, if not a direct declaration in fa vour of peace, are certainly a direct declaration in favour of moderation, which we are happy to hail. We were struck with the difference of the tone of these Resolutions from that of the advertisement of thetLortl I'rovnst calling this meeting. Upon in (miring, we final that this has arisen oat of a com promise. From the spirit of the advertisement it appeared. that the object of the Gentlemen who , called the meeting, war to get an eulogiutn upon llis Meassev's Ministers voted, with an Address to the Kt"! o. encouraging a continuation of war. These Gentlemen wire given to understand. however, that the public was not dispte.ed to take up a pa.iy question, and still leis to vote any Address that me ht operate as a bar to negoriation. They were told, that if they persisted in their plan, an amend ment would be moved and carried against them. But that if thee would withdraw the obnoxious matter, anal introduce into their Itesolutions haul Address soinethieg that looked towards peace. to preserve the harmony of the town. the useettng would he attended by Itoi la parties, and the nieietuie made to appear to be 011:1911betia. Thi*, it sterilis. v. as at last agreed tee and the Rerolistious and Ad dress framed acc ordingly ; into the e s e i rliisior, o f both of which • desire rol peace has beets 'nate 0- duced. . ( !, he wig TAL her I i EN 1 . .1111i1 Inc • 41 11 ' I i ' 1 TI Tt tier lg °J . .X.tl •ew ~ e net ha _es , .111,1 oils ::.o. ad 'it. .nu t he ro at re ' re he • 1 r . . rs J ' i # • • L oil C PI pi t 'II tr .... s e f s r • 1. . ' • d it , c.... 11 IM K. • ye of U. ;.. ho 13'e Ith lid is sin .. • nt- I • own l i ps ool; i TA ir .11411, L 6; row .ord i r.tv- i fa- n in twit. ie of at of 3 in- mrce• Lit it wior