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MAILS. Due-3 Waterford. r j iN • SOLEM 91' OIf:ERE FASU 1.1 AUDLAT ? L 0 Ns D 6 N, VTEDNESDAY, JUNE 24, 1812. We understand that BERNADOTTE has given the most uneqnivocal Proof of his deterinination not to comply with the demands of BUONAPARTE. he latter has employed" bpth promises and threats, but they have been equally ; ineffectual. BCO*APARTE, it is said, "olfQ...rfd to restore Pointrania, Finland, and the estates of BERNADOTTE in Fran'e and Italy, on the condition that the latter, would co-operate with him in accomplish-- ing his designs in the North. He, in the same communication, reminded BERNADOTTE of his early friendship, and of his recent obligations. •" With The answer was short and decided : regard to Pomerania, the chance of war may again restore it to sine-:—*ith respect to . Finland, it is not yourr to bestow. As to the property assigned to me in France and Italy, I calculated on its sur render when I became 'a Swede. You advert to our early friendship. We have fought ,side by Side ; and for any talent we have shewn, or valour we have displayed, we are amply rewarded—you with the Crown of France, and I with the, Sceptre of Sweden; On the matter of obligation, I need only, reply, that the motives of gratitude are pretty We this morning received American Papers, fr oin which we have made the following extracts : SENATE..-TUESDAY, MAY S. `.,lr. POPE submitted the following motion for consideration Whereas 'the conduct of the French Government in failing to. make compensation' for the property of the, Citizens of the United States, seized and confiscated under the Rambouillet Decree in the year 1810, in excluding frdm France, by enormous discriminating duties, our tobacco and cotton, the _ principal articles of export in the Southern and South-western parts of the United States, contrary to our just expectations, authorised by the assur ance of ger Minister ; besides granting licenses to carry on a trade from certain ports of the United States, so disrespectful to the feelings, so deroga- - ' tory to the sovereignty of an independent nation; and the recent and repeated aggressions ©f her' public and private armed vessels, on the laivful com merce of the United States, demand, from the im partiality, honour, and dignity of this Government, a disavowal of 'the arrangement made with her, Ni , ,hich took effect Nov. 24, 1310, a measure caleu lated to inspire general confidence and respect, and to convince every true American, that the object of his government is to unite the people in a manly Ainerican effort to resist foreign aggression. And whereas, many of our citizens, under an expecta tion, or at least a hope of a . change in our relations with Great Britain, have, in the course oftrade,ac quired property abroad not adiiiissible by existing laws into . the United States ~.the importation of which it is reasonable and expedient to permit ; :4-Ipedient, because it will . not only prevent in juries and losses to. many of our citizens, but_aid our finances, cheapeti the public supplies, until a iufficienCy can be procured of home manufacture, rind lessen.the necessity of internal taxes to carry an the war in which we may be engaged with Great Britain. - Therefore, Resolved, That the Act, ' entitled " An, Act concerning the commercial - intercourse between the United States and Great Britin and France and their dependencieS; and:for other pur poses," passed on the Ist of May, 1810, except the Section thereof, all the force and effect of the President's Proclamation issued in virtue thereof, on the day of in the Same year; and the Act, entived, " Act supplementary to the Act, entitled An Act concerning commercial inter iconrse between the United States and - Great Bri 'big and France and their dependencies, and. for Other purposes, passed on the 2d day of March,; 1811, ought to be repealed, annulled i and set aside, and that a Committee be appOinted to bring in a Bill for that purpose. TiTESDAY, MAY I2.—The Senate resumed the consideration of Mr. POI:VS motion, •(.!specting repe'al of the Non-Importation Act; which, after debate, - was rejected hy,yeas and !lays as follows : Fur the resolution, B=-Against it, IC. rousE OF REPRESENTATIVES, MAY 13. BLErCKER presented a`memorial signed bar' 7 or 800 citizens of Albany, New York. Mr. RHEA said the embargo NI-as - no doubt as afflicting to a great portion of our citizens of the Western and SouViern country, as it wa's to these memorialists ; and yet no petitions were from them. Bence he inferred that the ereat mass of the nation were in favour of the nieaslre. Vie therefore Moved that the further considerAtioti of the memorial be postponed Until the 4th of July. Mr. GuOlAort moved that the memorial lic on the Jost, yeas 39, nays 42. lit.ttottit said, that although the embargo was laid as a pretended precUrsor of war, the people would never believe that the Government could go to war in our present unprepared state. He hoped the motion to postpone would not pre vail. It would be like telling the people we would ruin them first, and listen •to their , com plaints afterwards . Mr. ItAwriotrn said, it *as strange that the first discussion of the 'embargo law should take place on the - reference of a petition for its repeal. Yet such was-the facY Y . He took a general vier of the policy - of that measure, as well as the proposed measurei'• z. He wished toAnow if it really was intended as a precursor of war, how it,added one man to the army, one ship to the navy, or one shilling to the revenue ? If the contrary was the fact, this night more ought to be spoken of. We talk ,of goingio war ana Yet have not the courage:to lay war,-taxes, He had said, on a former occasion, that it' would 6ot be possible to raise a Loan. to the. amount pro 1 posod, experience had borne him out : the first Loan had failed ! and so far had brought disgrace upon the Nation. How could it be expected to raise other loans ? Whether we had war or not, he could not sayr;as*e had no system, no ships, no men, no money. Cyreatßritain, he observed; could not object to having' all our vessels and seamen driven into her grasp by the operation of our own laws ; - nor could she object, he Could suppose, if she was so jealous of the commercial spirit of this na tion, to seeing that spirit laid asleep, not in the Red Sea, but in the fresh waters of the embargo. I Mr. JOHNSON spoke with great animation in reply. As to the loan, he said, that taking into consideration the torified opposition to it through out the United States, it had fully answered the expectation of its friends. The time would come, and he hoped to Heaven it would come, when those who had opposed that loan would have to be more silent. Mr. CAL ILOKN also supported the embargo policy, and expressed his firm belief that war would shortly be declared. fie contended that there was a very trifling difference between the proposed war and that of the revolution. Mr. RANDOLPH again opposed the Embargo, which he declared to be the most compendious system of Kuhl ever devised, and that the very name of it was more ominous than the croaking of a raven. After a few observations from Mr. WRIGHT, on the same side, the question was taken on Mr. Rhea's motion to postpone the further consider ation of the Memorial till the 4th of July, and carried—Ayes 58, Noes 30. TUESDAY, MAY 12. Arr. LITTLE presented the Memorial of Thomas Sheppard and others of the city of Baltimore. Mr. RHEA moved to postpone the further con sideration till the 4th of July. Negatived. Mr. WRIGHT moved to refer them to a Select, Committee, for the avowed purpose of making report in favour of- 7 -lisuitig Letters. of Marque and Reprisal ! Mr. LITTLE moved, that they lie on the tahie,. Carried-38 to 36. It is reported at WaShington, that Mr, SEA- IitIIIER has sig-nified thatthe Emperor, having .come•impatient at the long delay in taking those decisive measures Against England, which room had ,been afforded for expecting, bad given h'ini orders to leave the country, if before the day , as signed something explicit and deterfninate should not take place. MAY 15. Mr WiLmAns, after a few ,prefatory observa tions, offered the following :—Resolved, that the Speaker he directed 'to.'address a letter to each Member of the House now absent, requesting his attendanCe prior to the first of 'June next. • , Mr: GRUNBY, after expressing'his approbation of the principle of the resolution, moved to amend it so as to request the attendance of the absentees " so soori as.. practicable," and thereby not fix a definite day when the, great question should be decided, and consequentlY excite , the feelings of the natiod to a particular time. Motion ne gatived. Mr. NrLsori rose and opposed the adoption of the resolution. lie was content to go on without the' assistance of those who had turned their barks upon its. He was willing to pursue the track marked out by the proceedings of the House at. the commencement of • the Session, even with the small band left. Mr. WILLIAMS advocated it adoption. Mr. RHEA. opposed Mr.' ROBERTS moved to amend the resolution so .as to request the attendance of the absentees forth, ivith.4—Carried. The resolution as luritnacA trai theri Adj tkurne d NEW YORK, MAY 18.—It will be seen, by Wednesday's proctedings of Congress, that all absent Members of Congress are called back to their posts. WAR .---The National Intelligencer of Thursday. observes,—" We conscientiously believe that we are on the eve, of a war; and that ft is prudent for every wise man to prepare for the event. " All opposition to such measures [the war measures :of Government] whether ex''teinal, or internal, must be resolutely met lie that is not for us, must be considered as against us, and treated accordingly. Disaffection must be hushed." The Supplement to the Gazette of last night contai,ls his Royal Highness, the PRINCE RE GENT'S Declaration for revothe Or ders k* in Council from the first day of August next. Mr. WHITBREAD, MT. BARING!, 201r.PONSONBY, and Mr. BROUGHAM expressed their entire satisfaction at the terms in which the Declaration of the PRINCE" REGENT was conceived. t:rpon this measure we can only e press our fervent wishes that it may be productive of all the advantages that have been predicted. A report,was yesterday circulated, that a part of 'the Toulon squadrOn, which had put to sea for the purpose of manceuvring, had been taken. There were, 'however, so Many particulars con nected with the report, which we know to be tut.- true, that we disbelieve, it altogether, Mr. BRAGGE•BATHURST tad an audience of his Royal Highness, when he was pleased to appoint the Right Hon. Gentleman to the Office of Chan cellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, and delivered to him the Serds of Office accordingly. He was afterwards sworn into the Office. Earls HARROWEY and LIVERPOOL, and Lord CASTLEREAGH, had audieLices of the PRINCE. Mr. Ilum...ca attended as Clerk of the Council, and Lord PETERSHAM and General STEVENS were the Lord and' Groom in Waiting. Yesterday, at two o'clock, his Royal Highness the PRINCE REGENT held.* Privy Council at Carl ton House, which was attended by the Lord Pre sident of the Council, the Lord Privy Seal, the First Lord of the Treasury, the Master-General of the Ordnance, the Secretaries of State for the Foreign and War Departments, and the President of the Board of Controul. The Earl of BUCK/NGIIAMSHIRE had an audi ence with the PRINCE REGENT, and resigned the Seals of the Office of Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. Monday., Princesses AUGUSTA, SOPHIA, and CIL Of WALES, attendee, by the Bishop of SALISBURY, Lady PAULET, General GAR•H and colonel TAYLOR, took an airing on horseback in. Windsor Park, &c. The QUEEN, Princesses So- PHIA and MARY went to Froginore Gardens. Bow-STREET.--On Monday - morning, Towns end, who was on duty in Soho-square, observed a man of suspicious appearance, and he stopped him, and found on him a complete set of instru ments for honse-breaking. Yesterday he.under went an examination' at this Office, When he was convicted , as a rogut, and a vagabond. His name, is John Reardon, and is a welt 7 known character. MARLBOROUGH-STREET.--The substance of the depositions, Against - Bowler. for discharging the contents of a blunderbuss at Mr.. Burrows, is al ready before our Readers.—After the examination of witnesses, WEATHERALL addresied the Magistrate (Mr. CONANT), and stated, that a statute of lu nacy had been obtained against the prisoner, and an inqUisition had sat, and after examining :wit nesses, the prisoner was declarfed to be a lunatic since March last: The Learned Counsel added, plat be was prepared to show to the Magistrate that the prisoner was insane- previously to the time he had stated. Mr. CONANT observed, that the examination of witnesses by the Inquest was ex parte, and all the evidence before hint was in direct contradiction to . what they had deposed, relative to the insanity' _of the prisoner. The commission, Mr. Conant observed, could not effect the proceedings before him. It was his cuty as a Magistrate, With the evidence before - him, to commit the prisoner for trial at anothkr Court to which he was amenable. It:would be an affectation of candOnr in him (the Magistrate) to hear the evidence given .under the Commission, when that commission could not weigh against his duty. The priSOner was fully' committed to Newgate for trial. A few days since Mr. Tippel, jun. master of a poor-house at Hoxton, went on a visit in a one horse elaise to a friend's house at Epping Forest, and while he was hi the act of taking the 'horse fromthe harness, the animal gave a sudden stayt, and by some accident the shaft of the chaise en tered Mr. Tippers side, through his back. HeWas immediately attended by a gentleman of the fa culty, and remains in a dangerous state, not,ex pected to snrvive. A' duel betwixt two persons unknown, was fought on Ealing Common on Saturday morning, one of whom was wounded in the groin, but not dangerously. His name is understood to be EATON. ' • On Friday se'nnight, as five women:, and a man were crossing the river Dun, at the usual place, in a cart, at Tinsley, near Sheffield, for the rur pose of weeding corn in.a :field belonging to Mr. France, of TinSley, the horse began to phr.lg'e, anclgot into a hole called Deadman's Hole, about seven yards deep, when unfortunately the man and a, woman - were drowned,, as was also the hOrse., The woman has left seven or eight young children to lament her loss. NAVAL XfIBIVS. Phan TLiZ LONDON GAZETTE; JUNL 23, 1817. ~'imir►zlty Jane t 3, 1812. Cony of a Letter from Mr. Richard Emden, Mate' of the Hind Rei; - enue Cutter, addressed to Admiral Sir Robert Calder Eait. and transmitted to John Wilson Croker, Esq. Hind, Revenue'Cutter, Cawsand 2 ray, SIR, Julio 19, 1812. I beg leave to acquaint ybu, for the inforMa tion of my Lords 'Commissioners of the Admi ratty, that, while cruiziug in his Majesty's revenue cutter the Hind, about P. M. yesterday, the Rodman bearing Sti. N. . distance about six or seven miles, and blowing hard, with a high spa, running, the weather hazy, I found myself in the near presence nf a French 'Jigger privateer,' then having in company an English brig which she had captured. This cutter became engaged with the lugger : the latter shewing every dispoSition to board the former, I gave him• three broadsides, fell on board him, and his - masts were carried away, boarded. and took possession of him ; but soon after the vessels were, separated, - the lugger was found to be in a sinking state, and it was, with great difficulty the officers and men of this cutter were withdrawn froM her,. as were, at the same time, her Commander, his first Officer, and seven of 4iis crew, who are now on board the Hind --- The__ lugger at this time . apt.;eared to have settled in the water very much, and being by that One dark night, we soon lost sight of her, and there it every 'ireason to suppoS.e she sunk.. From the report of her Commander, Jean Ls Due, this lugger proves to be the Incomparable, belonging to St. Maloes, one hundred and twenty tons burthen, armed with fourteen twelve pounder carronades, having a crew of fifty-three men ; out from Roscoe four days, had made no capture pre vious to the brig- then in her company ; during the action seven of her crew' were killed and nine men wounded. The crew, except the nine persons now in the Hind, and those seen in the brig's boat, remained in the lugger: I am happy to inform you, that none of the crew of the Hind have received any hurt,,whatever, and that their conduct on this occasion was most exemplary and brave, against so superior a force, , and such extreme bad weather. On the Hind appearing, the lugger withdrew her men from the brig, and none of her crew hav ing been removed at the same time, the brig - 5 both topmasts were carried away. did not wait to board the brig, but pursued the lugger, and in passing., I ordered the master of the brig to bear away for the nearest port ; but I have not since seen that vessel; and have every reason to think the Frenchmen perished in her boat, as we saw them rowing towards the lugger, and they have not been since heard of. • The Hind has received no other damage than in her rigging and sails. lan, &c.' RICH. BAWDEN, Mate in Command of Hind cutter. PLYMOUTH, JUNE, 22.—Came in the General Graham, PATTERsoN, from . Martinique ; Hrrnats sloop of war, and Scylla gun-brig, from a eruize.. The Antelope sloop of war, and Loire frigate,' passed down Channel this morning,-bound Newfoundland. Sailed the Boyue, Tonnant, Colossus, Tire, and; Cortquesiador, with .all the light transports that _were here, for Portsmouth, in consequence of a telegraphic , communicittion. DEAL, JUNE " 23.---Sailed his Majesty's ship Tremendous and Poictiers for Portsmouth. Arrived the Resolution hired armed cutter from off Flushing. PORTSMOUTH, JUNE 23.—Came in the follow ing transports from Plymouth without convoy} the names of them Iconic': .not learn, only their numbers and letters , 295, 19, 140, ;>01 ,) , 273, 146, 233, 14, 17,.413,163 ; letters A. F. G. and S. I. Admiral HAMILTON has this day hoisted his flag on board the Scipion. We stated yesterday, that the volcano, which has broken out in the West Indies, is in the , Island of St. Vincent's. This account is now coil firmed by the follow;ing communication : , Extract, of a letter from St. Vincent's, dated l'st of May, received by the ship John • Campbell, : ;, arrived in the Clyde, on Saturday morning, front ; Grenada :---‘ Having been informed that you bad not .sailed from Grenada by. the April fleet, I has - ten to give you some account of -a most alarm' ing circumstance which took place here last ni, , bt' and this morning. About sun-set, on Thursday ,evening, we observed an immense quantity of fill' and smoke to proceed froth the volcano, and eon" tinned till one o'clock this morning, when a in°, t , tremendous explosion took Owe, and continued .I till four, throwing up immense quantities of stnil es and ashes all over the Island. On the estates, I 't .. the vicinity 'of the mountains, the ashes are said .41 -to be from two to three feet deep ; that two a the ,principal rivers have been dried up and 11 04 ..: .6nes formed ; and that many df the estates iii that quarter have been much injured. One whi t , e - :i:, person and six negroes have been killed:. •il", A' though Kingston is at' the distance of a bout I: 6 ' miles from the volcano . ; the inhabitants were so . alarmed, , that many of them went on board of th' vessels iii the Bay for protection, anci it was not, until past eight, o'clock, that one person codhl distinguish another,' in 'consequence of the atm os 7 Oere being darkened by the.quantity of ashes. -- lam much afraid that the extent of tbe damage I sustained is not yet known. ' Tuesday last an Inquisition was taken at/Down` r tam Market, on, the body of D. Jarvis, who 11 `; lug been accosted by R. Eagle, in very ab usl° ,_ language, struck him, and afterwards fell into 5," ungovernable a passionthat he dropt down 'IT! , expired on proceeding a few yards.—Jurors vel. diet, " Died by passion.".eicessive , i 1