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troops which form the cordon of neutrality, to relieve the different cantonal contingents; after six month,' service. The Minister of Baden - t1) the Swiss Confedera tion, Nl. her, has declared to the cantons, through his Excellency the Laudanum', that, though for.. merly the property of the Swiss State, and indi viduals situated within the territu-y of. Baden, were,. dke those of the government end subjects of Baden, situate in Switzerland, free from all contri butions, circumstances nu longer permitted the maintenance of this iirinciple, and all the property of the Swiss cantons, corporations, and individuals, situated in the Grand Duchy of Baden, would, in future, he taxed the sane as those of the subjects of the Grand Duchy. The same Minister hes complained to the Lan- daminan, of the facility with which several of the Cantons have received the conscripts, who have emigrated, to avoid the fulfilment of their duties, and oho take refuge, in preference, in the Helvetic territory, because the other frontier states, such as Alsace and Wurtemlierg, are closed against them. His Excellency demands, that 'no subject of Baden shall be Guttered to enter Switzerland, unless pro vided with regular passports ; and that such as have been before received, shall be delivered up to the neighbouring Authorities of Baden. We learn, that the Canton of Bile has already taken measures to satisfy the just demand of the Government of Baden; and that these measures have her:: extended to fort.* subjects of other Powers.—(Ahmiteer, Noo. 1.) AMSTERDAM, NOV. 4. The Minister of Marine has given notice, that un account of the vast expense occasioned by sea-rod are. from and after the tith of this month, large lanterns shall be sitipended in the light-house of the island of Van Urk, which may be seen at sea at two miles distance from shore ; and as the dis tance between the islands of Urk and Marken is calculated to amount to shout 4.1 miles, standing, in common weather N. N. F.. and after hating passed Marken, the hinter,. of Urk aill be seen after that of Marken has been laid, and that there are no shoal■ between Marken end Urk.--tlioyal Am sterdam Courant, of Nutt. 1) JAMAICA PiIeERS. ¶4 KINGSTON, SEPT. 91. Three hundred men, of the 7th West Jiiilin regi ment, under the command of Major Clermont, were embarked in the brig Fox, and schooner Sa ra/ which sailed on Saturday. for llonduras ; and ninety French officers, late of the garrison of Santa- Domingo, went passengers in the brig Alexandrine, foe Philadelphia. A Coroner's Inquest was held the same day, in theyard of Mr. Lachlan ***** se, on the body of an old negro woman named Eleanor, wliu had hung herself. It appearing that she la boured under mental dera:o4tonent for some time part, the Jury returned a yerdu t of Ltutney. The Lily sloop of war, of los song, Cipt. Sherriff, arrived ou Sunday from Carthagena. The Aurora frigate, of tit guns Capt. Doer, sailed on Tuesday morale% on a cruise. Moselle brig, of la guiteXispt Boys, in five da) s from Santo-U gn, with hie Excellency Ma jor-General Carmichael on board, came to anchor the same afternoon at Port Royal. On leer coining abreast of Fort Charles, the General received a sa lute of 17 guns, which the Moselle immediately re turned, and on his quitting the vessel shortly titer, she saluted him with a similar discharge. Capt. Major. oldie .l4l•Wept-lilia regiment, and Lieutenants Doran, of the I sth, and Delahousay, of the ed %Vest-India regiment, Aides-de-Camp to the General ; Lieut.-Calonel Smith, of the Royal Artillery; Lieut.-Colonel Myers, Deputy Quarter master-General; Lieut. Valiancty. Assistant ditto; Diajor Tolle, Deputy Adjutant-General ; Major Pvelion, Engineer; Capt. Maillard and Lieutenant Graves, of the HMIs; aml $0 wen Of the 54th, 3.3 th, and 4d West-India regiments, alio arrived in the Aluseik. The brig Morse Fortesie. Ducky, from Sauto- Domingo. last, (mu Arabs. also arrived rim Tuesday ere JJ I JJJ ; Lieutenants Clarke and Aiken, and Dr. Bell. of the loth regiment, and Iv) men of the st h. .54th, and 351 h. Rut! 2.1 West.l....eult4 regiments, came in h, r. The 3/1, Ise Fartrusie sailed from the farmer port on the Gth ult. fur Caragoa, but fell to let twArtl, snit put into Aruba on the 17th. She again sailed en the ted, but afterwards falling short of pro% and water. sbe bore up for this Island. The brig Agnes and schooner Snap-Dragon, with 3uo men of the 2.1 West-Judi• reginulat on board, tinder the command of Capt. How, saih•d from St. LutuingoUll the Lath ult. fur Now-Provi aleibet. Oa Wednesday cams on to be heard, by Conn ed. before George Kinghorn, James higlio, John Campbell, Joseph Berner, and Klivard F:vitur, Euro. at the Quarter-Sessions, the petition of certain Methodist Preachers, praying to be li censed to preach in this city. agreeably to the To!eration Act; whtn, after a long and patient hearing of Coun•cl on both sides, the Court una nimously refused the prayer of their petition.— The Counsel fur the Petitioners Were Aleuts. Tongs and Drew. and against the* Mr. Why ilecoaler. It is worthy of teatark, Om an th.z.r tic , _• 1.4 tition they admitted the indecorous conduct of for mer preachers. Application was also snade by Counsel on behalf Of George L:ele, the elder, to sanction the re-opeiei • ing of his . useeting-house on the Rock Fort Road, •which met with a similar fate. Captain O'Gorman, Lieuts. Owen and Stack poole, and Dr. Crofton, of the filth regiment, Lieu tenant King, of the 54th, and Lieut. ell' Donald, of the 56th, and ion men of the 2,1 West India regi ment, and So French prisoners, arrived in the Jolts 4die.' front St. Domingo. A Coroner's Inquest was held the same day, on the body of a French officer, a prisoner on parole. mimed Etienne Beinicoste, Lieutenant of Engi neers, who shot himself through the head, at a ne. ; gro-house, in riper Matthew's-lane, the Paine morning. It appeared that he had been for sonic time aillicted with an incurable disorder, and had, in consequence, been neglected by his brother offi cers. This, combined with other circumstances, threw him into a state of mental derangement, in which he was led to commit the above act. The Joey returned a verdict of Leroary. The brig Dong/ar, !lolly, which arrived on Friday se'imight, fr o m Newf came-to off Turk's Island, on the t id nit. when a pilot came on board, and informed Captain Holly, that the ship John, of Liverpool, n letter-of-mariie, from Liverpool to the West [min.*, had unfortunately got ashore on the •20th, on the North-east reef of Turk% , Island, and nal bilged. The crew, and part of the eargo, consisting of (by goods, were saved. Capt. Holly describes her to lie a largo ship, with a tier of ports. bolivarks, a handsome head. and. iii appearance, of about 500 tons. We iniiiri.tanel that the Governor of Carets gena has intimated that he received, some time s;iire, an order front the Spanish Government, for bidding foreign vessel* to be admitted to trade with the Spanish colonies. The Norfolk Ledger, of the Bth July, contains the following paragraph : " In%tructions have been received by the Collec tor of this port from the T►easury Department, to allow the admission of ships of war of Great Ilti tain and France, as well as of all other nations, without restiictions." Captain Charlton, of the Sappho brig. of is guns, has been made Post, and appointed to the command of the Garland frigate, of 2! guns, vire Nicholas, deceased ; and Captain Grenves has been appointed to the command of the Sapp/au. We have been favoured with the following Cars respondence which passed between Major-General Carmichael and the Spanish General Don Juan Sanele.z. Ramirez, on the former's delivering up the pussessicus of Santo-Domingo to the latter:— Mad Quarters, Sautu. Domino, Yuurt rceIf.I.LNCT, Aug. 21, 1509. It a muerte egret that 1 wow see •pproach the moment 01 the depart ore of your EweHerm with the bruins troops meter your command, which, by your esteemed fa vour of yrstei day, you have fixed for Wednesday, the 23di instant, and of which I have new the honour to acknowledge the iercipt. In consequence of the ties of friendship and chute alliance, Which, with mutual satisfaction, at this present moment, uwltc the two powerful nations to whom we belong, we feel and consielei the subjects of each as brothers and friends—a the more grater's% (ruin the continual interrooren, fur nearly two mouths, I have enjoyed with your Excellency and °Seers, is the delicate matters it was necessary to discuss, both befure and after the taking pusitession of the place; tie those occasions, I have experienced your affability and kind• nem, as well as the patriotism and lively interest with which all have co-operated to sustain the common cause that we defend; admiring, m your troop., that valour and constancy, with whirls they have undergone the difficulties attendant ow the fatigues of ear, and the correct discipliue and good he tsarina: observed by them since our union, in such peculiar moments, when. these military virtues would hare alum- in sured to us success over the enerny'averrison that were in the place, Cram whence we so happily dislodged them ; all which bas served to bind, in the strongest m possible, these existiog relations, and make vs feel that sincere tacit thin of conipailions and friends; whilst these powerful rem sons now sin - c only to double the regret I feel in the loos of the ainiaLleecumpany of your Excelleney. I assure your Excellency, on my part,and iv the same of all the inhabitants of this city and island, that the gratitude ac.l obligations se feel for the amistance that, personally, and iu the name of Ilia Britannic Majesty, you have afforded us, twin the beginning till the 'cuisclusiou of the enterprise we have so hay pily effected, shall be ever indelible, and shall be perpetuated to the remotest generations ; we will transmit toe them the Mei°, as a worthy tribute of our grateful me mruslislanct, motel hopes, that it may be at some time in ear power to make a return, as well fur the services of your Ex cellency, as fur that powerful nation that has afforded us the ratification of possessing so wertby and respectable a gue,t, whom, we have to regret, that circumstances have not en• alder! us to receive and treat as be deserves ; but, as a pmuf of my personal attarkentrat, suffer nre to manlier your Excel knelt, that I will never cease to &debars wry prayers to the Most High, for 1L prosperity and sattsCacti aaaa of your Exert legacy, of whom' I remain, with the most high tuusolcratiour the &Toted %tryout trod Mead, (Si gned) JUAN SANCHEZ RAMIREZ. To his Eseelkney Major-General Carmichael, Commanding His Dritaneic Majesty's troops. csrlify, that the above lea correct traiAletion from the original Spanish. WM. IVA ETON, jun. Civil See. Santo Domingo, Aug. 92, sloe. Ste—Your Excellency's higbly-esteemed favour of yes terday was delivered to me, and to which I feel ay pcn in aih goat, is give an answer, conformably to my wishes, and the sestirnentii excited by the very handioine manner ;it which your Esu•cllency has bceo pleased to convey your non Gpiti.nu, as well as that of the iutuibitanie of this city, and island, as to Has 'tramline Nlajesty . 1 Form I laser the ho nour to command. The friendship, iv,inrally acquired by frrTieg 6r the same just and bailout Able cause, as totes ree, fru:a ay lieu feelings, that the amity ash dame id- • Nance between the subjects of our revered &welt igns are is Santo-Doinssigo cordial and reciprocal; and I have every conlideuee that the aiaccrc affection, formed upon mutest esteem of CaMpallilltli in dangers and difficulties, cannot be sithveried by intrigue or itisidMus designs. Wises iufinined of the Freud@ General's defiance to the British arms, by his answer to the Naval Commander's summons, it appeared to ma my iodibpensaLle duty to main tain the houour of the nation, and obey the orders of my Kiug, in aiding the cause of the bpaiiiidi Patriots. I there fore repaired here without loss of time, with such troops a could lie first collected and ripened from Jamaica, fully con vinced of success even with a small body of regular troops and proper &initialler to join the force under your Excel lency's command, who had persevered eight months in he inning the enemy. To your Excellency's exertions upon this ondsons service, permit me to offer my testimony, with die consideratiou of being unprovided with proper artillery, and in command of troops, greater part of whom, however brave mid loyal, had not an opportunity of discipline, or being em ployed upuu such ditties, sufferitig under privations and sickness ; the hurricane season commenced, which would have raised the blockade by sea, and opened supplies to the enemy in a few days, as was experienced from the dreadful aid fatal storm, attended with the lute of one of Ilia Ha jesty's ships. Reflecting upon then probable circa Mit auccs, trusting in a jint cause, nod .coufident of being gallantly supported by yonr Excellermy sod the Spaniards in arms, I thought it Koper iinniediately to offer battle to the ene my; this they declined, and the ternirdictakil to them will I hind be approved of by our respective Surer - Mimi, as button/Able to the arm* of the allied nations. Flom ere. gloiious the It .inivation of an assault upon this city would Lee lama, hasniuniay atiust e.t.a such au eflusiou of Wood uus ohrt.d..d, and the lionible eadnisaities that oust ham act usattlated tip, the islisbitauts of every deseriptiuu, who have lou; beets inoncased iu wretchedness and misery. Your Excellency appreciates too highly my humble en. dearouts to peiform that duty I coucrised iuc ttttt bent upon the stale of national responsibility is which I had the ho nour to staid. The °lily merit I can attach to myself is • conscious rectitude of intention, and ■ zealous drone to emulate the example of my compatriots is Europe, by co operating, with every mesas in my power, to reinstate the loyal subjeets of Its Mart Catholic Majesty Ferdivaud the 1711 h, in their lawful dominion.. and just right►. The attaitimeat of this gramd oh2ect, in those most as• dent ten - I'o4lra of the Stoutish Crown, has gratified the summit of any ambition, and, as a British taco, couveys to my breast its own reward. The hospitality soil kindoess received from your Excel lency, and tin- Officers consposinz the Spanish army, will ever be ram in the recollection elite British and our intercourse, as well in the field as in private society, wills , ever be reflected timia by us with pleasure and gratification. Allow me to repeat those undisguised assurances which I have, un various occasions, la-fore declared, that my most fervent prayers are directed to Heaven for the success of the Spanish rause, and that your Excellency and amiable family may fur riser enjoy that prosperity and happiness Providence eau bestow or a brave patriotic General, alone private cha racter is also held is the Itigiast catimut.un by all acquainted with it. I beg leave to subscribe myself, with the greatest regard, your Exc..lleticy's most faithful and sincere bumble i.eri sat, HUGH LYI.E CARMICHAEL, Gement', commanding His Britaunie Majesty's Fortes iu Santo- Doiaisgo. His Excellency Don Jura Sautlier Ramirez, &C. &e. Articles of Agreement between Major-General Hog% Carmichael and Dune/41011 Sanchez Ramirez, Governor of tlse Spanish part of Santo.Dunsitign, relating to Trade. iVe, the under , icited, Maior-General thigh Lyle Car michael, commanding His Britannic Majesty's Forces in the island of Santo- Duir.iiteu, and Dun Juan Sanchez Ba sun.. z, litrvcrnu► Intendant and Captain-General, per iris• rim, of the thorinit.h part of the island, in consideration of the dose alliance and amity hrtoccn the biitish and Spanish lotions, as also the assistatice granted by His .Majesty George the Third of Englind dm reprt seutit aces ?nd subjects of His Must Catholic Majesty Ferdinand V llth. of Spain, for the poi pule of these territuties to their ancient do iniuirms, as previous to the treaty of Basle, in August, /9.53 and it basing pkaaed Almighty God to grant success to the unit. d Allied Forces by the surrender of the French Army : We, the Ilep►tseutatives of our respective Sovereigns and Nations, by motor of the Fusin in us tested, and the res toratiuss of this country by the right of conquest, !afore ilk , gaily occupied by the French Nation, considering the mutual advantages that may result from a commercial intercourse between the two Posers, do agree as folios.:- 1. Thst all vessels !Icarian the tin of Grist Britain, and nagigated according to law, shall have free access and a•ltais• siert into all the ports smiler the Spanish Chore' Hamm, and shall pay the same duties and imposts as these of Spanish vessels; cojiling the rights, liberties, nod privilegt-s iu uavi. settee and commerre equally with the latter. Y. Tina the parsons oust property 0(011 British sehjerts l■ the Spanish dominions of St. Donner, shall be under the safeguard and protection of the Government. 3. The contracting parties haviug tsheit upon themselves to agree to the 'remand no ticks, they are at the same tints to be considered only in force fur the time being, until sub. matted to the respective (acne:unseats of Great Ltritain sad • lu wituea whereof, we bay* hereunto afENrd our hands and suds, ill the Coverament.liouse a the said C.ty Sauto•Lumtogo, this 9th day or August, twig; HUGH Ll' LIE CARMICHAF.L, Mwjur. General, cuusivasitiug His Hrlillf11111: hlsjesty's Fumes at Saato•lluutiugu. JUAN SANCHEZ RAMIREZ. BY THE KING—A PROCLAMATION. G. R .—.Whereas our Gement AiwaLly of this oar islaud of Jamaica is and stands prorogued W Tuesday, the sth day of September instant: Ault whereas, fur divers weighty roams earl considerations, as thercuuto moving, We hare thought 6t thud oar said Assembly sl 1111 l Id stand further prorogued to Tuesday, tbe loth day of October neat We theirforr, issue this oar Royal Proclamation, signifying our Royal Will and pleasure fly-16n ; and our said Assembly is hereby further prorogued to Tuesday, the loth day of Oc tober, accontingly. Witness Ida Grace William Doke of Manch...ter, Cap• taut General sod Onerstee-sts-t:hicr ha ■nd over this our Wood &Jamaica, and the Territories then•«r pciadang iu Aniericy chancellor and ies•Adnriral of the same, at St. Jags' de la Vcga, the 4.1 Amy of Sep. tetntwr, in the yes:, of Mir Led 111 , 13. 1111.1 ill the suili 'ear of our Itctrn• NI AIM:11E8T I:14. E) his Grace's c ~,,,, ItOTIENT ROnslti SUN. Net- GOD SAVE THE KING. THE BRITISH PRESS. I 1 1 LONDON, SATURDAY. Novorsza General STEWART awl Sir Roars? WILSON:BP rivoI, yesterday, from Lisbon. They have brought an account of an action fought near Salamanca, between the Trent h corps, lately unfit r the -cow.- twand of Marshal NEI , , and the army of the Duke DrL Fallout., The French force amounted 12,000 men, of whom it lost Lino ; and, after•the action. retreated to a position to the northward 4eir that city. The ftiliosihig uccunut of the action is given in a letter from Governor Coi to Governor TRANT, dated Alintida, , 20th October, of whittle the Gaming is an extract : u On the lath inst. the Duke del - Moque fell in with tin French, ronsistiug of 10,000 (hot, aidas.dtau buise, avdm,u. cannon, four leagues uu this side of lidlaniancs. 'ith• niards took 1000 men, one oa.poundrr, one colour, and ' stand of arms, and, at the plot of the bayonet, re-took-sia (ammo, that the French had taken early in the day. I'h. Freoch have "mired beyond Salamanca. As English other% who was takeu by the trench, nod made his esespe after Ahla action, says, bets certain the trench lost at least law sorsa. —I am to great bash, d.c." A large Rest of tratispoiis Linked, on Minas% at Poi tsinuntli, frown the 'll'agus, with troops. The two regiments of embodied detachments, whit* ginned so much renown at the battle of Talaverti are on bourd ; the remainder consist of sit*. amountingto nearly 1200.—Dr. FrAztm bus come home in charge of the sick. The Chichester packet is arrived ut Falmouth. with letters and parrs front Jlllll4lCa to the Kith of September, the substance of which is given in our preceding column.. Before our troops left St. Domingo an a4reeitient stes entered into, !oculist; the free access into all the parts under the Spanish Government, of all vessels hearing the British Nag. The article is given ut kegth in our extracts.—We are concerned to state, that seven of the Maier. leis crew died of the yellow fe%er white .he re minuet! at Jamaica. The packet ha» al.o brought home dispatches from Admiral liowl.ce, with the particulars of the loss of the Lark .loop of war, I* a dreadful gale of wind, with the whole of her crew, except three men and a carpenter ; and also an account of the loos of lhs Manset's gnu-brig s Dominica. of 14 guar, Lieutenant C as.La %%roust. Commander. upon the same station. We have received French papers to the id, anti Dutch to the sth inst. The reduction of the T 3 .- rolesr, those gallant and interesting people. whom the Emperor of Ansvola, in the hour of his nod isecessity, ahandoned to their fate, by the Treaty or.' ientia. has already commenced. The Da. V 116311 army, marching in three divisions, has cent. 'Brom! oolditry operations :spited the Tyrol. The van of the division under Gen.Waxoe had entered Itotteuberg previous to the enth last, and wee ex pected to reach Inspruck in a day or two. From the great difficulties of the country. the spirit of this. hardy people, and the advanced season of the year, we may, however, hoite, that the Bavarians will not be idle to make much longer. se for a considetahle time. Roe ervive lia. is,acil a Decree convening the Legis'alike Budy uu the ibt of December. If the third Article of the Treaty of Vienna ia merely a local regulation, of an insignificant buturie s solely ilt‘igited for the convenience of BON APA scrsti Saxon Ally, whose capital, standing close to the Bohemian frontiers, derives some accornmodation from the acquirement of a few villages; it is far otherwise, when we contemplate the next stiptslm. host. FRANCIS here pays the forfeit of the sushi lion and rapacity of his predecessors, in the two measurable partitions of Poland, still more than he expiates his own political misdeed's. At one stroke s all the Western Gollishi, inclittlitig the city of Crr cow, is ceded to Saxony. Even to the south and the east of the Vistula, a district, " to be hereafter ascertained," together with .4 the Circle of Zumatic. in Eastern C3llicin," is surrendered to the same Prince. The tine of demarcation, pretended tw Ie drawn, seems, and prithattly is intended to be, iu detinite. Vieliczka, however, the great price, as containing the salt mines that supply Hungary, WA• less than all Poland, Moravia, and Silesia, a ith that necessary article, is " to belting, its common.. to 4,e Emperor of AUSTIIIA and the ACipg of SARIS'S if 4 . a fertile and interminable source of p.-rpetuisat dissension and jealousy between the two Pone's:. as, no doubt, their Machiaveli4n Cielipieeor Master, projected I The pretende4 excittp.iorts from tolls, stipulated ;a favonr of Anstriatt salt,. moseyed across the Vistula', and through thee Duchy of Warsaw, cannnot ofliird security protection to the subjects of Paxsets, when tea- erring the states of a creature of NArtibLuti. whom lie has made, and can unmake, at pleassir.. By an additional clause to this Article, we he L that the Suvereignsof AUSTRIA and SAXONY snap fur* stuA, an arrangement, with respect to the vest bouitchilics of their state, as that the river San shall hetiewforward constitme the line betwee• them. This. stipulation is clear enough; leittil,; in Saxony ali to the lost and north 01 the Sd!l, vitule sill retails* the country son ti and west of the river. Tlw city of Sar therelsir, becontos Saxon; while Jailislarr, and ti.ot. gees mei dne tiftl 'nil Gs tint uel hi au i. tti as 11li . de an