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In particular it i. .ahlreatt,l is jwuple of taidihui ; to studious person* rotitiard -and tittleistmy life t wilco to lh..ar ailictrol with Iservou• rtheix in IQ• - twrnl with a ,eriou. 4.1.1n- , s to buy, sw.l youaa NIYI, rho hare injured, or are Id 41.1,1trer of ruinit theil awrtauhous Sold ha ilatheas Said I.ei lt, No. 141, Stroud, dud ull 11.311:IiI(44. FROM "THE RU lI‘ioND ENQUIRES.** TO E PEOPLE OF '1 H E LIATERN ST 4TVE Like the crisis of ,* these are the times winch try 4111n11 . !. soul,: ' The of private good, the sHllla disinterested love of country, the same resolution to brave ers.ry thing for the rights and honour of America, are neces sary to avert the gathering storms. Success esta blishes our greatest interests. Sehereirsion would have tarnished the honour and surrendered the de*rest rights of the a oulitty. Fur abut mill we then contend with the hosts of Britain ? It was fur the indlernerlreice meal rights of the United States—lt was W.:141114 the encroach ments of an arrogant power, that pre mined to tax ti , a;ruinst our own cuieseut. We could have borne the tax of a few pence ene a pound of tad. It was not the oppression and weight of dent requisition that Beaded the states to resistance—it was be cause we had sagacity veibugh to sec these things se mu their remotest cousequeilees." We saw, that if a petty tax oil tea was once sulnuitted to, till our .le land, every article of our possessions, It I ! jetted to the fealty of tribute. The very air we breathed might be put under folitributigii for the benefit of the British Exchequer. It was because, too, we had prudence enough to see, that if the principle of taxation 1 , 6414 once permitted to make a breach in the Constitution, all the means and in signia of despotism would enter in the train. Our representative assemblies would have vanished one after the other; and the British Governors would have bee • the lords of the bowl. For what arc we now called on to struggle with the powers of Europe It es that the same Da ti on which had once roused :is to uppo-ition :mil war has attack•el u. again. The independence and rights of these states ore tmee more in danger. The same power which once attempted to viola% e us on the land, is now nsvailiii 4 our natiunal hove reiguty on the ocean. 'Flint great highway of _ _ uatiiine. which Great Britain neither cult i vated nor cleared, i; to be turopiked for her own emolument. Our t 144 laud pay for the privilege of flying Many direttion. Whole branches of trade, which she lrul titii.lrto recognised nod respected, are now to tee topped oF by one dash of the teen. The whole t'ontineut of Europe, with the c-ception of Swe is thrown wilier • fictitious blockade. Two tlnrl ,if our lawi'al commerce are destroyed by her sovereign direction. All our trade itli Primer, Bosna, and othur countries, either in the colonial produce, or in the native productions of these states, is directly shut up—in is oi.wiied on the express connlitinn•of paying an Algerine tribute on every bottom rid cargo. .ill American vessels that shoal pornume to gry directly to, oi. Come howl. these great cva}td•ria of Mil :muu►crce, are subject to capture and condemnation—or they Awl pass to a British Cu.toisi-house, and contribute a tait to the British Treasury, and purclusse a Bernie to trade with their natural minket., The eXect of those encroachments is not to he mistaken. Either a larbe portion of the pro:its of V I I .#, • OUT trade would be abandoned without a stru4gle, or avast number of our vessels will be ►wept into the Courts of the British Admiralty; enriching 'and rewarding the very poser that dares to oppress us. The honour of our country likenise will he deeply tarnished. Europe will have reason to re• proach us with beiug K, mercenary u people, that the slightest prospret of eluolinuent, the gam of a miserable cent. here or these, is a solficieut italuct- I meld for us to forego the most sacred tights. The evil. of the present encroachments of ( ;mat Britain are infinitely more oppressive to us, than tlw tux of a few inmost mo colours, a r nn tea, to the heroes of our revolution. But those evils have not yet uttliiiieol their nolo% Sistomiseion would only insure us a more exteu.ive and comptwated op pression. No man, who is accustomed to the his tory of British tyranii , will ever believe, that there is in erey enough in the British Ailininistootion to shield their sllticring and submissive victim. There is nothing in the character of Americans ouch will entitle them to greater respect, Omit those olio have siidered in the green fields of Irelaud, or on the photos of I The present aggressions of ( ;n at Britain then being tolerated, not u vestige of our fertile trade 4114 the ocean can be reusonably expected to escape her insolene. Our ships, our ex!)t.rto, all our native, us well 1414 imported produe- our bronelies of tnide to her own 'oats or 6°4(.4 her eill'llly, may Nit under her power by the provisions of subsequent onlers. All our rights may perish, one , Art the other, under co lour of the same frivolous pretences which she hue hitherto employed ; until, at length, no Aug might be seen on the ocean, except the proud strip of (Simi ISritatn, or the disgraced pendant of some foreign power, dying tinder the purehesed protec tion of a British The which she has urged for her pre sent aggressions Are just as ridiculon+in themselves, AM these aggressions tare destructive of our rights.- 774e9 slew the real motive of this cotidtict, mid the spirit which would hereafter guide the proveedings of Great Britain. These pretexts are, that the United States have acquiesced iu the moupations of the Bei hi, Decree. Nothing is evidiaitly more hollow tor hypocritical. Without even ktiowing of the intentions; of the United States, .lar enacted her Orders of loin:lry 7. Although the French De cree haul not been vitt in force against the neutral rights of the Uttited States, she smarted her Orders of November. Atul altliong-li the President has Lntrly rvialertal her a proposition, which would have removed ecru the senthlaaee of ail acquiescence in the French Decrees, since their applientlon to the United States, yet lout she rejected it it it la area-tie contemns[. Ail the late productions oh' her t'aldnet display the spirit by which she is nured. The author of the Hints to Both Parties has strongly eiijoiiird the pokey of retaining her Orders, teen though France d 'd repeal her Decrees ; and of potting forth all her maritime strength for the uc qnisitioo of the supremacy of the seas. Such is the teal object of her late aggressions. Her orders are not so ittiteit intended to distress the resources of her comity, as to accomplish the object whirl) have previously esplain.4l ; to liii;bl the prosperity of her own conotterce upon the ruins of the rights of neutrals. But Great Britain is not the only power that has violated our rights and excites our resentment ; —France too employs the same hollow pretests to justify similar aggressions upon our rights. Her measures are mote judicious than destruct Ye.— With scarce a single ship on the ocean, France has presumed to declare Great Britain iii a state of blockade. She takes all our vessels mid cargoes that are bound to the ports of her enemy, or that have been visited by their cruisers, agreeably to the aeltoowledged laws of nations. But though the maritime power of France is almost a cypher— though the tttttt tier of her cruisers is comparatively small—vet is the number of American vessels that mould be taken by her Decrees too considerable not to require the utmost pre/caution. Amidst these unexampled uggressions on the part of Europe, what course, fellowscitimis, are we to steer' Our rights are as deeply invaded as they were before oar glorious revolution. But then we had only OM nation to essoutmerr, and gloriotisly dial our fathers sustain the onset. Now there are two nations that have assailed and insulted us.— No discriminating mind can make a s el e ction of the enemy oboist we could encounter, upon any. 'triumph: of justice, or with any expectation of exiting the whole cation in the war. And to war against a world in arms, would be a dangerous ex periment. In go into the war with both, on the ex t ol wino of indocile; one of them to offer us se ticfactory terms, migltt he fatal, because we can not atiticipte these terms. An allisLlCe, OffeWiiVe 31141 Ileit'lll4 Vf., is against nor interest. To lie compelled to preserve MO unnatural and execrable war, until the French are formal tea sur render to the Ili itisla a promontory of Africa. Or nil lslaiel of the East Indies, would he the worst of all infatuations. lf, then, war cannot now he resorted to. to what better .exprilient et.n wr ply than to the Ettiloirgo, and the non-iotereritirse s, stem Voss, fellow-couxtryineu of the East, will suffer by it. But sou bare too much virtfieloo muds orsolotion—tau watch of the hereditary spirit of your brave fore-fathers. not to rally round the con stituted authorities of your country. .1 FILICRIFAX. y., -. 1 it. PRINCE EDIV IRD'S ISLAya 'CHARLOTTE TOW*. NOY. 15. Since I wrote last to you, we celebrated the birth-day of his Royal I lighlW4S the Duke of Kent. I cannot say it was ushered in by the ringing of bells, fur there is not tine on the island ; but there was every other demonstration of joy : three levees, at the Governor's (General Faiming's,) and the Chief Justice's ; a bull and supper in the eve.iing, given by Mrs. Desbauss, which was ciowded, and due honour done to the excellence of the enter tainment. Many snags well sung, two especially, by a Mr. Marsh, a new settler, just come out from Liverpool. Mr. :Manners, the late Member for Grantham, now our Provost Marshal, and Mr. Holland, were joint Musters of the Cur sr and Presidents of the Table. Our subscription balls commence on the 17th, under their management, but I bar we shall have no theatrical entertain ments, as the two Masters Howe, who plujed the ladies' parts remarkably well, have declined, and the theatre is converted into what it was originally intended for--a hiike-Aumle. Late as it is, we have had two arrivals for lum ber. Novenilwr 3, the Seet•a Sisters, Brownie, Aberdeen. brig ; November o, the ,llarenre•t, Speudlove, hull, brig; and uwre are still expeci ed. It is said the Amphitrite brig. also loomid for this island, is ashore between this and Halifax ; and it is also feared, that the .born, from St. John's, Newfoundland, is lust; they both came t•rutn Englund. It is also ninth feared, that the Dart schooner, Simon eraser, Captain and owner, with a cargo of grain and oxen, f hence, is to tally lost at Scenery Island, off Cape Breton, and the crew, consisting of four persons, perished.— During the American witr, the Sorest sloop of war was wrecked in the same place. The brig Fa rourite, f Kirkaldy, in Scotlaud, which taok the ground in going over the bar, and was so much datnaged as to be sold on account of •the Underwriters, has beets got off and repaired, and will take home a cargo of boanls. The brig Hero, from A herder'', was flail aground goitig omit of Caseampicque, and it was apprehended site would Le also lost ; hut it is sins- said she has been repaired, awl will :probably Le able to :proceed this season, if not very early the next. Our clearasices are, the Alm and William, the Suir, and die Ana, Iry which this goes. I am just informed that a vessel, which is hoped to lit! the Asupkitritr, has passed by this harlimir for Bedeque. the nest opportunity, I shall. hope, be ■blr to send you a correct statement of our imports and exports for one year, up to the loth of October. We are rapidly advancing in both commerce alld popubstion ; and, many, if we go on as well next year us we have done in this, we shall become of some consequence to the mo ther country. .E BRITISH PR SS. LONDON, FRIDAY. JANUARY 13. The extracts from Sir JOHN 3ltione's letters, published in The Gazette of Tuesday, have ex cited much apprehension fur the safety of our army hi Spain. If the whole of the accounts received by Government had been published, the alarm would be much greater.—lt would be trifling with the feelingsof the public, were we to assert, that it is not in a must perilous situation. The extracts from Sir Jonsi Moofte's letters in The Ga:eite, inertly state, that the French infantry had not come up, but that the cavalry was 'amity, him in great numbers. These terms convoy a very Malicia:de idol of the actual distance awl fore,: of the emony. We can state, with confidence, that the French army iu pursuit, consisted of the balk of his infantry, amid sixteen squadrons of cavalry, and that the main body, commanded by Boa APIKTE its person, 1,4%, on the 31st, (the date of Sir Jun 110otted mid letter), within three. Spanish leagues, or 12 English miles, of the British army. lu making u rapid movement from Madrid, to support Some, cud get into the rearof the English, it wt,s not to be expected that Boa Armen.: would incumber him self with any thing that could retard his march, where the success of its object depended so upon celerity. Sir dons Moues, however, had a.cer tained that BONAPARTE hail also contrived to bring with him a moat formidable train of heavy artillery. It is very true that our cavalry had distinguished itself very much iii its several skirmishes with that of the enemy ; but here, also, the extracts in The Graetie give only a partial view of the case. Our corps of cavalry which covered the retreat consisted of five regiments, while the force with which they skirmished consisted only of one regiment of the ' Imperial Guards, that led the van. That our • cavalry displayed all its char:ll.4.6,th: gallantry, and that tliciir conduct is beyond all praise, we ad mit; but it is also well known, that the enemy's cavalry fought with great spirA, and eviuced the most eimisionted bravery. Cielieria LEFLIVRE had made twelity charges btrore he was taken prisoner. Now the British infantry, with the corps that had joined froin K i tAN.tS division, amounting to gether to almost tretaft) 'hens unwitro, from The Getz, lir, to have Isom, on the 3 Ist of December, in full starch upon Pouferrado and Villafranca, for and the cavalry and horse artillery, which _ revered its retreat. were on the same day at Artorga. From this route, it would appear, that our army was retreating to Curniina. which is dis tant from Asturga about 13.5 miles, which is equal to nine days' march. Bat our army, we nos understand, is not retreating to Corunna. It hope] to reach Vigo, where the men of war and transport, to carry it off are only to be found. There are n preparations or memo of embarking provided a Cotonou. Sir Jour Mottos has no hopes of safet there, and for the transports to work roan front Vigo to Corunna, would be a work of time the extent of which it would be impossible to for , see. They must double Cape Finisterre, and WHO highly favoured by the wind, twiny days might elapse before they roultl remit their destination. 1 i go is, therefore, the point to which the British array is retreating; anti, consequently, upon its arrival at Logo, it will strike off to the left, and proceed le l ' Ortnise. The dist:thee by this route from Astorga to Vigo is about Via trails•~, and its it lies through a very difficult country, fifteen days would be scarce ly sulliriesit, with t very advantage, to titeble army to accomplish sti I d u tuarrh. lu caleo lating the time of we are also to consider that our retreat most be conduchql its the most cool and orderly manner, fur when forced marches are attempted, and the troops are hurried and l'atigocil, from that moment the enemy itsat himself it• hi. sup p unity, mid advances with coo coleme, mid without reserve, to the attack.— Now, on the Jist, the Biltisli infantry was a aim's march a-lit ad of the cavalry, and the uiuiu body of the French army, commanded by BONAPARTE 111 panne, sus wily at twelve miles distance hour it. Allowiiig, ditto, fur the characteristic velocity of the French ; that some of their cavalry had actually come up with ours; that t h ey may dash fiaaard irregularly, wl.il•• we, to retreat safety, soir.t retreat orderly ; we do sera• every reason to apprehend that the grist masse of the French army, following in the same track, must overtake the JS ititli troops, before the latter 1:1111 reach 1 igo, or even C 011113114, were Coruiva their point of retreat. Nrr is till 4 : From Astorga to Vigo there Is a much shutter road that runs south of the river Sit to Uretise by St. road being repo:vented as impracticable. 6irJous Moon: was obliged to take Ire circuitous route uortlisard, by Lugo; hot should its difiieu/- ties appear to have been overrated, and Mos PARTE succeed in pushing a corps forward ill this direction, it will reach Vigo before the British 'nay. Under all these circumstances, we are confi dent that Bo x•ocare;u - ill be able tetbring our army to action before it can reach the coast, that a bailie t be fought, a battle iii which the British army will be opposed to a greatly superior force ; bin in which it e anticipate every thing that emu be achieved by British courage, directed by a brave and skilful General. Shout-1 our army, however, contrary to all expectation, effect its retreat to the coast, we caimot hope that It coal embark without great liorses, artillery, camp equipage, must all be left behind. The corps that cover retreat, we fuer, must also fill i n to the hands of die enemy. IVe speak thus plainly, because, of all things, we disdain trifle with our readers. The Ministers admit al most a. much, whelk they boast in their Journals that our army is retreating to the coast, only to em bark there, rind laud ilk some other quarter of Spain, where it may serve with more advautage.— Ministers know very well, that if BON A PARTE tan boat that he has driven the English into the sea, at Vigo or CW111111:1, that it would he idle to think of limiting them again in Andalusia or Catalonia. We know full well it is the opinion of some of the most loyal and well-informed mcu 111 Spui i, that there is good reason to fear that the amnesty offered by Botvaeaarx will be gene rally accepted in Spain, and that the British army being once driven from the Peninsula, he dreads two hither resistauee to hi. ambitious and atrocious designs upon that country. Those persons who consider Europe as about to fall beneath the genius. the arms, and the .ystein of BONAPARTE ; who look to the extinction of all the ancient dynasties; and who confidently predict a new order of thioas f one extremity of the Continent to the other ; those persons derive no small support, in their reasonings and opinions, from the facts which have characterised the pro gress of the Sp•stsisls invasion. " Ifs• say they. •• any c try, or any people, could have opposed a barrier to the Corsiciiii's dominion, it was Spain. Its position, the isthmus by which it is connected with France, the mountains that cover, and the fortresses that defend, the entrance ; the charatb r ; of the Catalans and the Biscayans ; the central situation of the Capital ; and even the prejudices of the Spaniards themselves, cut ow from a general t, intercourse with other nations ; mitt these eircutn stances encouraged and justified hope. But a series of errors, or of misfortunes, have overturned even• calculation, and seem to extinguish any rational prospect of setting limits to the revolutioonry con flagration. If CHARLES IV. had not surrendered, and if his Mt . :moms Minister GODOS had not sold the !lb starchy to N POLLON, he could UUt have made him- 1 self master of Figueroa, of Montjuy, and of l'ant peluus. Navarre. and Catalonia, would hate given time to the other provinces to arm. :mu to repel the invaders. We have witnessed the defence ninclie by Saragossa and by Val.mleia. a auld out Bar-