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This dwy is pahlishid, in one volume tto embellished with Iwo Engrariogs, pime ti. as. iu boards, Yr RAVELS in ASIA and APR ll'A ; inchnling 1. a Joitroey from Scanderoun to Aleppo, Rod over the Desert to Bagdad and Bowmen; a voyage Crum Bussora to *lmbue, and Mang the Westero Coast of India; a voyage 4Voin Byinbsy to hloelia and Sues in the Red Sea, and a Joarney Frani Sn.z to CairU mid Rosetta, in Egypt. Dy the Isle ABRAHAM P.NiSONS, Esq. Consul nod Factor-marine et Seanderoon. Printed for Looping, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, Paternm tarader. li. a few days will be published, E CS of the SOVERIGNTY riviNDitAIT.D; with particular Reference to the Polities' Doctrines of " Tiro Ediuburea Review,' nod of ocher perimlieal Publications. It, JOHN PERS TINS EY, Esq. London : Printed fur C. sod It Bald. in, New Bridge street ; sold alas by Wadi, mid Co. Salisbury. _ This day was published, is Ton -191". Nvol. prWC boats* with an &Rewrote Map id Spain, and a Book o' tlta Poseßoads, the Second Edition, rolcrged, of MIL S E P LE'S JOURNEY through SPAIN, PORTVOAL, &c. Lowden: Printed fur C. and R. Baldwin, New Ifridr- Meat. A s a The parseversnee with which the patinitie Spaniards, tautimse to resist their invaders, proves that Nfr. Sem* Mewed that people with tbit eye of a Politician and BBB's. ooplier, when lie foretold that to Spain the freAton sf Escape was destined to commence." • cluing* has been rendered the more striking. tiu der the lseilign influence of our Republican just:- inflow:, end the ntaintenance of peace with all natiolis, wliilst so busily of than *ere engaged in bloody and wasteful wars, the fruits of policy were etijoyed iu ui u stied growth of oar faeulti4 nod rasources.—Proof. of this were seru in the improvements of agriculture in the successful enterpnse of commerce ; in the pro rens of mmufactitres and useful arta; in the increase of the public revenues, and tie use made . . of it in reducing the public debt,iindin the valuable works and establishments every where multiplying over the face of our land. 4. It is a precious reflection that the transition from this prosperous condition of our country, to the scene which has for some time beets distressing 11., I. not chargeable on any warrantable views, nor, as I trust, on any involuntaty errors in the Public Councils. bidltigllig no IlltS*lollg which trespass CIO the rights or the repose of other Nations, it has been the true glory of the United States to calif vote peace by observing justice, nod to entitle themselves to the respect of the Natieus at war, by fulfilling their neutral obligations with the most scrupulous impartiality. " If there be candour in the world, the troth of these awesome will lot be questioned. Posterity at least will do justice to them. •' This unexceptionable course could not avail against tht injustice and violence of the Belligerent Powers. In their rage against each other, or im pelled by more direct motive'', principle% of retali ation have been introduced, equally contray to AMERICAN PAPERS. MR. MADISON'S INAUGURAL SPEECH, Delivered Minh 4th, it Twelve o'clock. WASHINGIION, HaittH 4. " tinailling to depart from examples of the most revered authority. I aced myself of the occasion now presented, to express the profound isapressisn made eta ate. by the call of my country to the station, to the duties of which I am about to pledge myself, by the most solemn of sanctions. So distinguished a mark of confidence proceeding from,. 41se deliberate and tranquil suffrage of a free and virtuous N ation, would, under stay circumstances, have e.olyarnanded my gratitude and devotion, as well a. filled i.re *lib All awful sense of the tru.tto l a e assumed. Voilev the various eircitinstalices, ] which gave pecti!lar solemnity to the csivtiii4 period, I feel that both the hoootir cud the responsibility " allotted to ore are inexpressibly enhanced. o' The prevent situation of the world is indeed w ithout a parallel.; sad that of our corintry full of difficulties. The pressure of these, too, is the more seven ly felt, becalm they have fallen upon us at a na.oviratt when nattenal prosperity hiring at a height aot before attained, the contrast revolting from this universal reason and acknowledged law. How long their arbitrary edicts will be continued in spite Of the gtenionstrationg, that not even a pretext or Omuta has leen given by the United States, and • -of the fair mid Wirral atteistpts to induce a revo catioo of them, cannot be anticipated. Assuring myself that, ander every viCieskode, the deterroMed spirit and united councils of the nation will be safe-guard+ to its bouonr :lad it. es- F P I I mntial interests, I repair to the post assigned me, with no other discouragement than what springs ' front me own inadequacy to its high duties. if I do not sink under the weight of this deep ecinv:e- Cum, it is because I find sonic support in as con seionsuessof the purposes, and n confidence in the principles, which I bring witli me into this :min ons s ervice. T.. cherish peace and. friendly intercourse with all nations, baying correspondent dispositions; to maintain sincere neutrality towards belligerent na tions; to prefer in all cases amicable discussions amtl reasonable uccoininodirtion of differences, toe deci sion of them by nn appeal to arms; to exclude foreign intrigues and foreign partialities, so de grading to all countries, and 1 , 0 INltiellll to free ones; to foster a spirit of independence, too just to invade the rights of others; too proud to anr render our own; too liberal to iodulge unworthy prejudices ourselves, and too elevated not to look down upon them in others ; to hold die union of the States as the basis of their peace and Implant ss; to support the constitution ( which is the cement of the union, as well in its limitations. its in its autho rities; to respect the rights and authorities reservo to the States and to the people, as et-pi:illy in corporated wit:l,mA essential to, the of the general sestet') ; to avoid the slightest interference with the rights of cemscience or the functions of re ligion so wisely exempted from - civil jurisdiction to preserve to their full energy the other salutary provisions in behalf of pirate and per.onal rights, and of the freedom of the press ; to observe econo my in public expenditures ; to liberate the public resources by an honourable disclurrge of the pub lic debts; to keep ‘‘,itliir. the requisite limits a standing military force. always remembering, that an irrineil and trained militia is the firmest bul a urk of republics, that without standing armies their liberty can never be in danger; nor with :urge ones safe ; to promote, by authorised means, improvements friendly to agriculture, and to exs terns', as well as internal commerce; to favour,' in like inant.er, the advancement of science amid the diffusion of information, as the best elitist:lit to true liberty ; to carry on the benevolent plans which hale been so meritoriously applied to the conver sion of our aboriginal neighbours c from the degra dation and wretchedness of savage life, to a parti cipation of the improvements of which the human mind and manners are susceptible iu a civilized date. As far as sentiments and intentions such as these can aid the fol fitment of my duty, they will be A resource which cannot fail me. " It is my good fortune, moreover, to have the path in which I am to tread, lighted lay examples of illustrious services, successfully rendered in the most trying difficulties by those who have ingiched before me. Of those of my immediate predecessor, it might least become me here to speak. I may. however, be p 'Mooed for not suppressing the sympathy, with which my heart is full, in the rich reward he enjoys in the benedictions of a belov ed country, gratefully bestowed for exalted talents, zealously devoted, through a long career, to the ailvanceinent of its highest interest and happiness. .• •• But the .source to which L look for the aid, which alone can supply my deficiencies, is in the well-tried intelligence and virtue of my fel low-citirens, and in the counsels of those repre senting then in the other typortraents associated in the care of the national interest. lit these my confidence will, wider every difficulty, be best placed ; next to that which we have all been en eoaraged to feel M the guardianship and guidance of that Almighty Being, whose power regulates the destiny of nations—whose blessings have been so conspicuomly dispensed to this rising Republic, iissd to whom we are bound to address our devout gratitude for the past, as well as our fervent sup plications and best hopes for the future." CIRCULAR. Trrassery Dcpattesent, Marti, ad, snO. Mt herewith transmit a printed copy uf an art to inter dict the commercial intercourse between the United States and Great Britain and France sad their dependencies, and for other purposes. The pieviaiono of the Ist and ed sections extend to pub. lie ships and Tenets Of France, t►e regulation already in force is relation to public ensels of Great Britain. The 14th, 13th, lith, 1511,, And 16th mellitus, take effect after the t3th day of this month t after which day, vessels owned by citizens of the United States may be cleared fee say poet we place, °titer than those excepted by the 1 , 21 h prelim, en riving hoed in a sum double the value of the cruel and cargo, and is other respects complying w ith the requisite of the , ait section of the Art of January last. It follows, that the provision in the Imit-nimitioned section, re quirire bond In six times the value of the vessel sod cargo, is repea'ed from sad after the 13th of this mouth. The law remains in full force in relation to vessels owned by foreigner+ ; and in additiim thereto, bonds in four times the valet of the vessel and cargo must be required from such vessels, whether they sail in ballast or with the cargoes which they had brought in, that they shall not proceed to fm hidden ports, Soc. is the forts prescribed by the nth section. Nut even English vessels can, after t►at day, be cleared fur the domialinis of England, or Preach vessels for the dominions of Vraues. Pselets and other vessels, excepted under the let keetwea of the Aet, may, however, be permitted to pro ceed. No foreign vessel wha , sad wherever booed, eau take any cargo as board. The coalition trade w, by the tnth sect. reknit. Oiwin every impediment laid by the Embargo iam%, such provisions excepted ss are continued is t►e loth sect. All iustrue lions, therefore, on t►ae snlueet, are revoked, sod portico lorly those reeperting re-shipments. Detentions an still however anthorised io eases where there is sofrwieat nese to apprebsod that an *Tadao of t►e taw is handed. ♦ad the provisions applicable to districts adjacent to eirlterlCS tell:Mill to Ivee. But so.. arc nulls. ised to grant. permission to proceed to New thleiiiiv, unless pin have rea sons to believe that there is au intention to evade or violate the lens, in which case you *rill refer the application to this department. Every eosin,'" nominally enjoying an inderwnileot form of Government, :other than Great Theism or Prance), and not in the actual possession of entire Great Britain or Prance, is open hy the law, and particidaily 'holland, Spain, and Por tugal, and their 0111111iCS: lint you will suspend, mod the question has been better invistigated, granting CICIII4IIITS for any part of the island of St. Domingo, or the kingdom of list). _ . . (; 0 1011;t7 conquered by., and in posse.sion of I liiitaia sr France, are prohibited. lam your's respectfully. GALI.ATIN, Canketot. of tlie Pool of Philadelphia. THE BRITISH PRESS. LONDON, MONDAY. APRIL 17. The expedition ender Sir ASTIMR WEIALESLCY sailed on Saturday, from Portsmouth for Lisbon. Sir ARTHUR and hie SEMI sailed in the Surveillenge frigate, Capt. Cu 1.1.1 ER. We have received New licult Papers to the 22d. The Secretary of the Treasury has issued a circu lar letter to the mereantile interest, explanatory oldie Non-Intercourse Act, in which he states,that every country moulted& enjoying an independ ent ferns of Government (other than Great Britain and France) and nut in the actual possession of either Great Britain or France, is open by the law, and particularly Holland, Spain, and Portugal, and their colonies." A copy of the official instructions is give() in our preceding columns, and apse or the new PRESIDENVI speech. from wind' it appeani, that he is resolved to tread precisely in the steps of his predecessor. The Gazette of Saturday night contains an eIR• cial account of the capture of Cayenne, acid also of the capture of Le Niemen French frigate, of 44 guns, by the .linetAyst, Capt. SLestouit, who lately distinguished himself so much by the cap ture of the French frigate La Topaze. We are assurtd, that General Expedition was met, going into the Tagus, #lll4 the 311 of April, as the last accounts came away from Lisbon.— This is, imthe present situation of affairs in Portu gal, a most important piece of intelligence. Report states that Lord Met.vtLl.E is to succeed his son the Right lion. HUBERT DUN PAS, as the head of the East India Board. Of Mr. DUN- Das abilities the world knows nothing. except Ins gentlemanly speech in the [louse of Commons in defence of his father, against the charges of cor ruption alleged against I' upon the authority of the Tenth Report of the Commissioners of Naval Inquiry. Upon that trying and delicate occa sion, Mr. DUNI/AS certainly shelved great good sense and feeling but how far he is com petent to the duty of the Chief Secretary of Ireland, we do not pretend to say. It may also ap pear a little extraordinary to find Lord Mlttvut.E, who was removed from office for imputed corrup tion, restored at the very critical moment when the public voice is so loudly rinsed against public abuses. This circumstance, we admit, diminishes the credit which we should otherwise have given to our authority for this statement, which, if tree, would not merely restore Lord MELVILLt to of fice, but crown hint with eclat, for by this lineup meut it is not sue but two places to which hii fa mily succeed. On casting our eye over the troubled Chart of Europe at the present moment, it is peculiarly and iuvoluntarily attraCted to the two extremities, Por tugal and Sweden ; countries, in both of which, scenes of foreign war, or of domestic violence are acting, which forcibly compel attention ! On the Tagus, by a curious and singular transition, we have precisely exchanged situations with the enemy ; CRADDOCR being in April, My, nearly in the moue position which JtINoT occupied in August last; while Souve and LASN as are become the invaders, as Wei.l.cscer and DALRYMPLE were, six minimills aye. That our army is critically circumstanced, we readily admit, hut, we never can allow, or suppose that it is, or ever will be in the contemplation of our Commander to re-embark from Lisbon, as Blisoae did from COMMA, unless a far greater French force penetrate into the henry of Portugal, than we trust is probable, before Sir ARIVIUM WELLER LEI'S arrival in the 1 . 91g1111. Our army, when augmented by the 6,000 men sent out tinder Geir. lltt.L, cannot fall short of /3,500 troops; amid the Portuguese are still more numerous. If no decisive operations take place before they are joined by Sir Arnica, who carries omit 11,000 in fantry; such a laxly of British, sustained by the native inhabitants, and masters of the capital, the forts ' and the river, may make a long, and we conceive, a successful resistance to the French. It is indeed difficult to conceive that Sou LT, whose aggregate strength, we apprehend, does not exceed 17,000 teen, and whose retreat into Gallicia, over the Minho, either by Tny, by Oreu►e, or by Chaves, must be very uncertain and precarious, while the Spanish and Portuguese insurgents occupy the banks of that river; can venture on a march of 160 miles front Oporto to Lisbon, in face of ass sascsay advantageously jousted. The motions of Soi i.r 7 ,77 . 0,7 :v. wait, indeed, eboo , .sl • 19 et treat mestere de pendant on, and ilii••, u d h,t, the advances of the army at:vain:log through the Siainish proaince of Estreut-tolara, towurl• thelajot and Rivas. If we could ouppoof th.it 1 rerun ur LAsit es, after tatting or blockading Elvas, could reach %Intermit, or even Ahrantas, ivittiont opposition, then indeed the co-operation of Sou I.T might decide the con tent; but of so rapid or irrelootihie iw, attack, front ten quarters so remote, through a country inimical to the invaders, deatitute of mug/Amines,. and at this ca t ty seawnr , wlitis little or nothing is to be found on the ground, we eutaintin 110 stroag apprehen sion. The same uncertainty which has •verhung all the operations or intentions of France, Austria, and Russia, during several weelva past, as to the great question of pence or war, still pervades the Cabinets of those countries. BONAPARTE Stilt huger. at Paris, uor in the dye irrevocably crust by the Government of Vienna. That NAPOLI:COS would with to subject Portugal, to drive the So preme Junta from Seville, and to make himself master of Cadiz, before he came to a rupture wits Fount:is, no wan can doubt ; as, on the other hand, it is clear that Austria, however unable shit may be in mauy respects to cope with the Corsican. yet, by waiting till he has reduced to his obedience the whole peninsula, after deinonotratiog her die position to take up arms, cal, only protract while she meals, her own destruction. We are still of opi *ion, said if that be any confirmation, we know that our Government contiime to believe that war roust tinselly ensue between Austria and rrisnot.— Wbat rart may he taken in such, SO event by Rue. site, Prussia, and Saxony, remains as yet mu some measure prohilematieal. la Sweden, we apprehend, no natioual efforts, meriting that title, either on the part of the Dale. carbons, or any other Provinces, will be made to replace Gustavus the Fourth in the active admi nistration of affairs. Ills life may not improbably be spared, from the /immunity, loyalty, and noble simplicity of the Swedish character, whose annals, though stormy, are not sanguinary, and who sirs nut, like the Italian*, or the Muscovites, dispaurli their deposed Monarchs by pRIS•11, or by manual vio lence. Yet we cannot forget, that ERIC XIV. who, for estrongesseat of Ruud, was dethrunwd by Iris bro ther, perished at Gripsliohn in 1569, In the very pa lace to which, by the latest accounts, we amid that GuSTAYUS had been, tnnisferred. This fact is cer. tainly ominous. Nor is the character of the de posed Prince of that yielding kind, IA to render it probable that he will acquiesce patiently in his fate. We lament his uilhappy destiny, as our ally, as a magnanimous and zealous partizan of the atk inflextble tient order of things ; above all, ow the foe of the Corsican tyrant, to whom he never would. like Fr:F.OEI/1G VI. or ALEXANDER, bend the knee. We fear, that under the lteGelle, Sweden., t become a member of the ernifetlorney against its, however unwilling the Duke of SUDOE.r MA NIA may be to take a hostile part in the war. But though these propositions may both be true, we do not leas candidly admit. that Gumtree's arrest and deposition were. we leer, become indispeosible and necemury. Not only Finland and Pteliennua were lost. We site that Sweden itself would have been invaded and probably citiequeied. The Bos siest Conran ks had landed et Griselhaium, ott the shore of the Gulf of Bothuia, from whence it is only about forty-six miles to Stockholm. We repeat, that GUSTAVUS ought, as the Regent as serts in his Manifesto, to have made Peace with Naeoreox at Tilsit, while Alto, Iltlsingfors. and Stralsund, were all unattocked. It was not merely bad 'silky ; it was madness to persist in the war, from the instant that ALEISEDIa and Feminist; WILLIAM laid down their arms. The cousetpuesict's might all have beau foretold at the time. For the rest, those who only see in history, a repetition of the saute facts, under new moues, will smile to re- Meet that in 1604, 410( her CHAILLES. Duke of SU oLum• o t• ' uncle to another king of SWEDEN. Sl titmice on, deposed his nephew, exactly as now its 1104. That Duke of S —UDEEM•NIA was declared King by the States. reigned gloriously for seven rears, was father of the immortal GUSTAVUS ADOL. Piths, and died in 1611, in possession of the crown of Sweden, which be teseemitteei to his descendants. Sir Jung Ducawnwra's squadron has arrived at Plymouth. Sir J. CR A 01110 C , the present Commander-in- Chief of the British Forces in Portugal, has been appointed I..ient.-(lnvernor of Gibraltar, and is to proceed thither as soou as Sir A. Wal.utstev ar rives in the Tagus. The Myrtle, Capt. Issas, arrived last were at Portsmouth, from Cadiz, brought the fiilluwise triter, datrd " Cadiz, &bush rs, 1109. w Since I wrote you, a few days ago, (nano tin' Cadiz ' then its the fleet of Sir J. Duckworth, we Lave karat, .b at t' French lest, of whieb we were in perseit, is he I We were thcrefuev ordered into this port, witt Seer sad Norge, instead of pang to ear original t' Lisbon. We foaled here the Atlas, Adantral Pt inn, Bombay, Yoh:attain:, and Ambuscade Eclair Asap. The Vilk de Paris sailed this the Ahura Lord Collingeoud. Freach Sited ow board balks here, are dying Moly, their bodies arefluatiwg alma the Imerhuor ism beer. The St. Ames deoppeolleses frees yesterday, with a 74, and a frigate (Creech) ship. We hear writhing of the F'rewalit enema, or the latter power, it is throsaht, is twee the a denial) , iu favour of the . . The GM'S heed, this day, from Gibraltar ; she left tie Daiwa Mole, but ant a surd of sews. We eaderstmed John Duckworth is goo. as tar ma kteekars, the lid, to creme dame. The skips with hi... firor4e, SI George, Tenierairr, Dreadnought, I ltb, Achille, Impetuous, sad Watitpite. karat that the is is karat, , with the BK. ;teal desatuation. J Purvis, Ham- a, frigates and its day to receive 11 prisoners 'cos- y, by dunes . • mad All is pat..tot- al the Carries, Kb) a beasettfet a, us of the wale evait- Grasshopper ar- e laity to she leaned that Sir , 'wadi the rest of Ma arip—ieyet leletatiew