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NArelL lATELLIGENCE. • toeTs.Aut:TH, SETT. 16. Arrived His Majesty's ships !Wulf and * Hearty from a cruise. of t Sailed the Ant schooner fur PllptiOuth, and the ties Star sloop of war for the Downs.—Wind N. W. Coi ow, TOISAV, seer. 15. mo • Put in hers, yesterday evening, and sailed m o , again this morning, the Safttiar , i gun•brig, from ma P or t s mouth, v..ith the Skeldun Casa , , Union, and of biffrisrei East Indiamen, under convoy for Ply- me asouth.—Wied, N. str, PLYMOUTH, Siff. 15. An • •Arrived the 87iii4 and one tender, with pressed tht men. Rorie ; Brit* sloop of war, from a o f • cruise ; Sprightly and, herroppoosao cutters, from the in ' Westward. Also the Grouse, man of war, from the an, Downs ; Lady Warred armed ship. front a cruise ; ha Brit/ sloop of war, from the Eastward ; thealo.th f ec Louisa, a Dane, Ktoge, from Leghorn. for Copen- Fr hagen, detained by the IrJefoigeke privateer; Sr- en , saamot, Robson ; and the Winger, Wallet, from W Riga. as Sailed the C414a4C1 sloop. Capt. Yeo, on a cruise ; eh nerrly gerobrig ; Cedutres cuter ; and le:done pe hi ate, for the floe. tat . Fortuaately the ert4gsa were all embarked on Sae s o turstay, while the weath:r was fine. Yesterday, it sh rained Iteaeily, And incessantly, which would have eh greatly annoyed their progress. Last night we had eh a gaie of wind front the North. but no damage has de been done here. An order came down by Lela w, graph this morning, for the Horse ( Queen ' s Bays). in to be re-embarked ; and for the transport* to get of into the soiled by this wetting's tide; that part of ni the Expedition intended fortlw Mediterranean. eon- a . eisting of the Guards, the Rifle Corps, 594 and 62d p 1 Regina:tits. are to hold themselves in readiness to so pail tomorrow, if the wind continues favourable. l e —Wind liesh at N. . tt DCAL. IIEfT• 16. e , Cams down from Sheerness, the dinaranihe sloop B of war, and remainsjo the Downs, with the ships as a, per List.—Wind N.W. ft HULL. SEPT. 15. tt On Saturday and yesterday. a fleet of merchant t 1 • vesseta. bound foOvarious ports in the Baltic, went a dawn from hence to Grimsby Roads, to join the a , convoy (the Prowler* armed ship) appointed to h sail on •he 14th instant. Another convoy for the 0 same destination is expeffed to sail from hence on n or shout 'lath of this month. Yesterday morning. the llfary aid Elisnitth, t i Certain Robert haft, from °siege. for this port. it van on Holine Sand, in the Hember, and upset. s Lighters were dispatched from Hull to bring up a bee masts and rigging. The vessel, by laicism out a part of her cargo, has righted, sad may be ea- e prated here without any further Jeanne. The ddrinisers, N. Beeekin, a sloop employed in the limestone trade. beinglaid an at Saltwick. near 1 Whitby. on Friday. taking in a cargo of ironstone, was wrecked in coagulants" if a sudden gale of ; eralsl from the N. E. Tensaw& left. 14. The Master of a smash arrived hare Ws nsotoe reports. that oil the Land's Tad yesterday, he saw a impiem with another is um. dismal& NOM 1407D11 LIST. eavannie, Stn. 16-eoSeeesd by tbe Reenvety,Panean ; an I As relearn, sours, Erse Andiangei; Martha, Fe woes ; asessiee; eels doe nesse, Massabeid. haft Nereey ; Wea k *eta. were, Irem ineasa Tam 111 , aewm.Semald Rdwatd, Cotids ; and rid* ga m i no ,,, ; Tormoteabers, Sateetisiog; Anew's, rat esuolotasone, Social; eberVete thrnantOt. Raise end the Vow Intebeib, eleaces, from Pleinbree. imanemamilalmolloal DUBLD4 Sere.. IS. The following melancholy accident happened on Saturday nigl.t :—Me. Thomas Barrington and his servant. returning from Wexford, in a small cot, to his uncle's at Johnstown, about two miles from We:ft:n.l, when crossing the Slimes, Mr. Barrington ,• in endeavouring to force his way with a pole, went to the side where a cask of beer had been placed, when the cot upset, and he was unfortunately drowned ; the man was saved by getting an the bottom of the cot. On Monday morning, as Richard Edmeeds, • El. of Kilkenny. was bathing at Tramere, he was forced by the strength of the waves to a considerable d•stance from shore, and, we are seen to awe. was drowned. The body was soon after found. and every iron used to restore animation, but without ell-8. The following is a cone& list of such of the Re. aimenu of the Irish Militia whose men are to vo- floater for General Service. with the Head Quar- ters for their inspeltion, agreea!sle to the orders • issued from the Adjutant General's Office, dated the Id instant : Armagh, at Eyre Court ; Car- low. at Killatney ; Cavan. at Dablia • South Cork. at &alma ; North Down, at Arklisa;; South • Down, at Waterford; Dublin City. at Armagh ; Duolie Gamow .se lafaiiingar s Gainsay, as Cork; Kerry, at Boyle ; Kilkenny. at Cahier ; King's County. at Westport; Leitrim, at Bantry ; Lime- rick City. at Enniskillen ; Limerick Co. at Newry ; Lendonderry, at Belfast ; Louth, at loughrea ; North Mayo, et Ballinaslos ; South Mayo, at Birr ; Meath. at LiSord; Monaghan', at Dublin ; Qieee's County, at Nenagh; Roscommoo, at Kilkenny ; Sligo. at Drogheda; llpperary, at Bite; Tyrone, at .Clonmel; Westmeath. at Ballysbannon ; Wex- ford, At Dublin ; Wicklow, at Athlone. Tuesday night's Gazette contains a notice of an applicatinn to be made to i'arliament. in the seat tootling sessions, for leave to bring in a Bill for making and maintaining a new public Road and Street, to commence from or near to the Black Bull Ina, at the cart end of Kent-street, and to extend into Blackman-street, sn as to terminate in that • street, by an opening to he made therein, at a con- venient &trance from Saint George's Church; and it is proposed that the said Road and Street shall be made through and giver certa i n lands or grounds, and liered;raments, resp Oively situate in tha several parishes fullowirg, t:htt is to say, the parish of St. George the Martyr, Southwark, iu the co inty cf Surrey. and the parish of Saint Mary, Newin;tear, in the satire county. ?DIMON PLANTATIONS. (Concluded from Moodey's Piper ) Whether the Congress, or the several Legislantres ;the American States, will proceed to all extremi ties in measures of this nature, it is impossible for the Committee to say t If they are governed by their rum interest, they certainly will not, hut will adopt more temperate councils; for all whom the Com. nines have examined, (and they have examined many respeaahk parsons, who are perfealy informed the state of America, and oldie nature of its com merce) agree in opinion, that by prohibiting or ob strulting the intercourse between the continent of America and the West India Islands, the people of the United States will suffer much more than any if the subjects of Your Majesty; that they will such case have no sufficient vent for their lumber and provisions, both of which must perish on their hands. That the British West India Islands take from them infinitely more of their produce than the French and foreign islands. That the balance of the commerce between Your Majesty's subjefls in the West Indies and them (however persons may differ as to the particular amount) is certainly greatly in their favour; and that it will be strange therefore if a peooe so circumstanced, because Great Britain has laid some restriction on their commerce, should re solve to narrow still further their own market, and should exclude from their ports the best cucromer they have. Per them miens. many think, that though they may thmer out meows, as they have done before, in hopes of attaining their end, they will not persist, or attempt to carry their menaces into *661 or, if they do attempt it, that the nature of their country, full of ports and creeks, the feeble ness of their Government, the interest of indivieltialS, l and the contradictory views, in this respell, of their planters and merchants, will not allow them to en force the execution of any restriaive measures they may adopt : Mel the Committee are led to think, that at all events this will be the case, by the ac counts they have received of the great number of , 1 British vessels which, according to the last advicehi as before stated. have arrived at the ports of Jamaica, from different parts of the United States, laden with their produce; all which must have sailed horn thence long atter Your Wjesty's Order in Council was known there. This is further confirmed by the accounts they have also received of the great num. her of British vessels which had sailed from the port of Kingston, with the produce of the island of Ja maica, bound to the countries belonging to the United States, and of many others that were lading there ; and by the expeltation there was, that many more would be employed in this commerce, in con sequence of the present great demand of rum, and other produce. The Committee have also rece.ved accounts of the trade being in like manner open be tween Barbadees and the United Stares, by ships passing to and from these countries, laden with their remeafre produce, so that the intercourse between Your Majesty's Islands, and the countries belong ing to the United States, seems by the last accounts tes be as free and uninterrupted, and to be carried on with as little difficulty, and as much benefit to Your Majesty's subjeCts, as in any former period whatsoever. As the true interest of the Americans is contrary to any restriaive measures an their part. so there doss not appear to be any principle of justice by which they can vindicate their proceedings on this °session. By the general law of nations, acknow ledged by meets , European State, no nation has a right to have any trade with the Colonies of ano ther. This principle has long been adopted and enforced by the particular laws of each respeaive Sovereign, and it has never been departed from, but in cases where the mother country has, for its own interest, or that of its other dominions, thought fit m allow of exceptions. The United States of Ame rica are now become. at their own or ion, au inde pendent State, and are acknowledged as such by Great Britain. They have a right to claim and enjoy every advantage which belongs to this situa tion, but they are bound to submit to those rules and restritions which other countries, as independ ent as themselves, have never scrupled to acquiesce in. They have no right ta say that they will be independent of Greatitritain, and yet enjoy all those advantages to which, by virtue of their former de- Car• and conneainn, they were before entitleY; e7t. they ought to consider the permission given them to trade with Your Hi ijesty's Islands in the West Indies, ander the rules laid down in Your Majesty's Order in Council, as a favour and indal gents to which no other independent country is admitted. and have no right to complain of it as a grievance and restnnftiun, because they do not enjoy this commerce in the manner a.id to the extent they may wish. With what colour of justice cart they urge this cinnplaint, who, by their treaties with France and Holland, have voluntarily pledged themselves not to grant any commercial preference to the subjects of Your Majesty ? The French Pro clamation allows the people of the United States to carry to the Trench Islands in the West Indies such articles only as France cannot supply her Colonies with; a principle more rigid and confined than Crest Britain has hitheito adoperd; but it denies them the liberty of carrying thither arty sort of corn, becan.e it would interfere with the interest of the Southern Provinces of France. Your Majesty has thought fit to allow them to import into your Islands, for the present, corn and grain, which France has denied, because the interests of Great nritain see not so materially affected by this permis sion ; hut Your Majesty has denied them the liberty of importing this or any other part of their produce, in any but ships belonging to the subjects of Your Majesty, because it has ever been the first and fa vourite objet of Your Royal PrecLeessom as well as of Your Majesty, to eocourage and augment, as much as possible. the trade of your subjects in shipping and navigation. For on this principally depends not only a considerable share of the wealth, but the security of all your dominions. It is not surprising, that after the late war had produced so great a change in the commercial sys tem. the different parties sveuld find some difficulty in seining their respeßive rights and interests ; but the Committee have the satislatlion to find, front the testimony of reap: table merchants, and others well versed in commerce. that whatever may be the issue of these disputes ' the merchants and m inufacture s of Great Britain have little to apprehend from the reitrista.n.s which the United States, ttuough resent- ment et mistaitin policy, ail likely to lay on their commerce. The excellency of the thanufaciures of Great Britaih; aided by the efedit at which they can be sold, will force a vent through every obstacle which can be opposed to them. This is evident from what happened in the Bourse of the last war. It has been stated to the Committee, that the ma. nufattures of this coantry then found their way in very great quantities through France, Holland, Flanders, and other channels, into the countries now sub)eft to the United States, though the ports in their possession were then shut to our shipping, and the whole country was up in arms against Great Britain, so that the Americans still purchased them, though their price was greatly enhanced by addi tional freight, high insurance, and double commis sion ; and ;ince the peace, and particularly in the course of the last five months, the export of British goods to the countries of the United States, has been immense, certainly more than in any former period. Some have thought that our merchants have given credit to the Americans beyond all bounds of mer cantile judgment and discretion ; from all which cir cumstances. it is just to infer, that the Americans would never have given orders for so large a qrsan thy of goods, if they had really meant to prohibit or obsu at the commerce of this country, by excluding British ships from their ports; and that the mer chants of Great Britain would never have ventured to send these great quantities to America, if there had been sufficient reason to apprehend that the Goo l vernments of the different Prbvinces of America would carry their menaces, an this [eyed, into effettual execution. But while the commerce of Great Britain with the [hiked States is thus opening, with a fair pros peCt of success, from every part of Your Majesty's dominions, it has Leen a satisfaltion to the Com mittee to find, that foreign nations have made hi therto but languid and naprosperous efforts to avail themselves of those advantages of which they thought they had deprived Great Britain ; they ei ther cannot, or they will not, give the Americans that credit, which the commerce of all new esta blished eon-rides necessarily requires. They have perhaps been the more cautious in this resped, on account of the many bankruptcies which their in tercourse with America, as the Committee have been informed, has already occasioned ; they have sent therefore supeicargoes on board their ships, with orders to sell only for ready money. Mr. Brook Watson, Your Majesty's late Commissary General in America, was told by gentlemen who came from Philadelphia to New York, that all the foreign ships which had arrived there, had brought super cargoes with them, who gave no credit to the Anti ricans for any part of their cargoes ; that they even Cars ied out artificers necessary for the repairing their ships ; all which had created great murmurs among the merchants and tradesmen of that plate ; and that after they bad disposed of their carman. , they had offered to receive American produce at one halt of the usual freight, by which means the freighting of American ships was totally stopped, and their seamen out of employ. The Committee have re ceived intelligence to the like purport from several other quarters. They have been informed also by eminent underwriters, that there are but few ships going from the posts of Holland or France to the United States ; some are gcir.g from Ostend, and several from Portugal with wir.e ; but that these in general are American ship;: that there are sorre others bound from America to Frantle, chiefly froth Maryland and Virginia, laden with tobaectto ; that is appears by the nature of their insurances, that the Americans are not as yet determined to what ports it may be most for their benefit to carry their produce ; that they are under great uncertainty. with respell to their trade, and that they will pro bably come into the Channel, and upon the coast, and wait there till they are informed to what market it may be best for them to go ; all which clearly :hews, that their trade has hitherto received no posi tive direduion, and points out the necessity of our coming to some speedy decision on the future rela tive situation of this country and the United States, in point of commerce. Lest, however, the United States should, through resentment, proceed to prohibit or lay any material restridion on the trade carried on between the said States and the dominions of Your Majesty, in Ea. rope or the %Vest Indies, the Committee thought i: right to consider whether any proper measure could be adopted to defeat their views in this royal : it occurred to them, that the opening a free port, at a certain distance from the coast of America, was the measure of all others the best calculated for that purpose. By a free port, the Committee mean a port free for the admission of American ships, and of such enumerated articles of American produce only, as Great Britain, Ireland, and the Islands of the West Indies, may stand in need of, and with which they and Your Majesty's remaining Colonies in North America, cannot sufficiently supply each other ; which port might, at the same time, be made an enirepot for such articles as the Americans would take in return; that is, the manutaaures of Great Britain and Ireland, and the produce of the 11:oish West India Winds. The Island of Bermuda ap pears to the Committee well adapted for this design; it lies at a convenient distance from the coast of America ; it is nearly centrical to all the ports of the United States ; the navigation to and from it is open and easy at all seasons of the year ; it is in habited by a mercantile race of men, who build and navigate a great number of small quick sailing ves sels, and who are perfectly acquainted wish the har bours and creeks of Noris America. Having no proddce of its own, regulations may be more easily made for preventing contraband ; and, being an Is land, with one or two small ports, those regulations may be more easily eaforced. If the United States, therefore, should impose such restrictions on the commerce of Great Britain, as may lay it under any material difficulties, a measure like this may be pro. per, and greatly contribute to defeat the object they have in view : but the Committee are far from think ing that the trade of this country, either in Europe or the West Indies, is yet in such a situation as to make an exae.iient lase this in the least degree ne cessary. All that has been hitherto stated in this Report, clearly proves the reverse ; and they are sensible that there is great danger in adopting such a measure. It may not be possible, by any restric tions, so to guard a port, situated at a great distance . from the seat of Government, but that it will be made, loy the ado:anion of the ♦eGalL of other ra- h ix I ti i t aiil l es i of ii6 pr i llbit the ed se c i bl dce g ra nalet o ood mtionati s th to ei n n f ti e d th t ceamfe a mb n er u egoiat i f io c r n l iegu e e ff s a oea t w lecio i us 7: l l ., a zi conveyed into Your Majesty's Islands in the Wtit Indies, contrary to the essential interests a skit country. c'b reso Osel l tr u v t aa io tfiu :s ill3 o .c : t t h he business referred to them, whi l c r, they humbly offer as their advice to Your jelly : Resolution I —That such unmanufaelttrod goods and rr ,. ehandises, being the growth or predation of soy of the cone. tries under the dominion of the United States of Ammica, G re r m ea a t in ß ing ita t i o n es a 7lt h et el r a tta utt ili can are nc' n t ory condition tusup,r, in solCdesit plenty, and at reasonable rates, he permitted to be itaisoited from Vio countries under the dominien of tee said United States, into Your Majesty's Winds in the W ee' ladies. Resolution IL—That all goods and merchandises, (seine th e growth and predatieti of four hrla;esty's islands in the Wed Indies, (except such as may be used in manufacture.,) be„. emitted to be exported for the present from ally of the ~ Islands, to any of this countries under the dominion of the s.d United States. Resolution 111—That it is not advisalde for Your Mr: ; e ct , to mural, with the request of the West turtle Planters aid Merchants, by permitting the goods and mer eb en di em, described, to be imported te, or exported from, Your 11„. jetty's islands in the West Indies, horn Of to the commis under the dominion of the United States, in ship; belong og to the sublet% of the said United States. Re.olution IV.— first this goods and merchandiser, bey, described, be permitted to be imported and exported to and Crowds. said Islands and Countries respeeively, by British suleects only, and in ao otter than British-built ships, owne d by Your Majesty's subjects, and navigated according to • The Committee, in the conclusion of the'r Re pert, think it their duty humbly to represent to Your Ma jesty, that there has appeared, in the course of their inquiries, great reason to apprehend that ships he. longing to the subjeas of the United States kin: been unduly registered as British ships, and mitted as such into some of the ports of Your fla jesty's Islands in the West Indies ; and that the sub. jetts of the said States are endeavouring to carry on a contraband commerce to some of the ports ci ti e said Islands, with the produce of the countries under the dominion of the said States, to the great injury of the fair trader, and of those who are inclined to support the due execution of the laws of Great Britain. .... Wm. Broom. seaman of the Royal George, left her launch at Plymouth, on the 25th ult. and went to Exeter, where he enlisted as a marine, and received six guineas, in part of bounty. On his march to Plymouth Barracks, as a recruit, he was frighteasd at the aft he bad committed, and avowed himse;t a deserter from the Roval George. He was acc.,rd ingly carried ow board her as a prisoner, and, on Monday fast, tried by a Court Martial ; the charges being proved, be was condemned to receive I,sres honked lashes. ail to be mad of all fray doe to hint. CORN-EXCHANGE, Seer. 17. The supplies of Whet heir are still short, with very fire fustier arrivals; the sash*: of best quality, us sins train, re folly at lave price; and the inferior are extreme heavy in sr,e , , with few buyers. CIA Barley at better price; and Malt like wise. Whits Peas are elsePpre. Rape Seed also. OAS an in middling quantities, and vary bat tattle so ;glee. Four J dearer. Fine American, about 47a. per barrel; and an tithe Raiders little altrrati,n. FRICIS. OF GRAIN. Wheat........62e 7 Us. 44 514 ed. Fine 'F'zk beans 4) u'. Rrr, new 444 445. Cd. Oats' ..29s 2sa 505. Barter ' 434. 44.. 04. P lattG 304 34. 6d. Malt. 745. 80k. Cd ' Rape Seed gl. lOC Os. White Pea5....61.n. 70e 01.1 Flue Flour .745. 75: it Grey Pews We. Os. Od. Sere..le .66E 70e N. COAL-MAREPT. SETT. 17. Ships at Market . Sod Priest. ST ..Neaa-aola 3 ..Sundcrland 2 :38s Gd a --$ 04 FRICK, OF STOCKS YESTERDAY. 5 per Cent Cuntra's 2 per Cent Loyalty 951 G h Imperial 9 par Cent a '634 Ounniorn Si 74 I India Rondo • •• • • ls. 2s. dn. Exchequer Rills I. , lg'iali Lottery TAcets Consols for T RISII, Stock broker, No. 4, Conhill, and 9, Charing crass. IRI`,H STOCKS. SEFT. 12, nos. Gay. Debentures per Cent 94 R..ral Canal Loan, 6 per cent. . 95 Gnat. Stock 9 per Cent 94 9,4 COURSE OF EXC totatattlath S6 9 2 U. Ditto at Sigllt O6 -- Ratteittar. e. f.. 11 9 2 U. H. nburilt 34 3 AU. Alton. .34 4 lilt. Pans Ditto Smythe** C. d e Mil effect. Chun Madrid 36 effect. Dias lIANGE-r-Stee. 16. Geniis 47 I.i•• Pier Venice tt. C 60 Dice. ' Lutton 614 Oporto 6ll I Dublin Cork 13! soteloo. i. 4 PortoolGold in Coro end Bore !yet OZ. 4—• New I3iiubloons... New 5 Silver in Plats 5 GI New Louu each -- Agile of die Rank of Hollow, 51 per Coat. ot. .........11 a I_ll_4 38 Nista MARRIAGES. 001 tilt! I 'Rh ion. at St Andrew's Church, Holborn, Mrt Danlt Cownheraite, of Keswick, eon of Mr. P Crosthaare, Pru v rigsor or rho celebrated Mueaum at Keswick, to Hiss West ,of II tillsy, sear London. Us Monday, the IPth instant, at St Mary la-Ronne Church, Mr. H. H Turner, of At. Mary daellonne, Mtdd;e• sex, to hiss (:arthwn, of Sasthans, Suffolk, only daughter of A. S Gn rn, hoe of Fe dham, Norfolk, Esq. deceased. Ott Tetra:lay last, at F,nedon, in the comity of N ertharsP ' ton, Charlotta, ars and daughter of John English Dothan, of Fi-edon Hill, Esq. and of Sir Wills* Du Pen, Ban. to the /Uri. Samuel Woodfield Paul, of the same place. Lately, at Hutton Bushell. sear ScarittrottLba Thom" F.Q. son of R A. Daniel, Esq. M. r. tb Moo M'''a U•baldestou, youngeet daughter of use late Gorge Usbahlestm ,, Esq, DEATH. Latelv, it Nee house at Suarsebrook, Emelt, after a few losslads H•ple . ins, relict of the late Sir John H. , - kin., Knight, fotn.u.ly ous of (hit Aldermen of the City of London. lIIGH WATER. TIILS 1). 1 1Y. AT L'iNDON BRIDGE. Mwn.... 19 mia. after 11 I Evea.... 4 aim. after C• •Maft 2 _ - • :--lhassterd by 0. DAVIDSON, No. V. Dukor CevenvOutlegi„ and iniblithed at th. 11.0‘oe, No IS, Seek of St. (dement'. Church, Strand • b e ce No. 7, New B.,towsueet, Long Arm Orlort, t: rot this rtor, orai W dot Ofbot I. Iv SuIT ottooded Sir'e Cotins low., 11 kin, M Purser. 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