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t rtipn Sutclfigcncr.
J.i’ Joil, < a-.Ur 5. 1S10.
T UCIEN HONaPaR l'K.
V{ are enable *.0 if am Lome off:
*c a! pa-ntubi-fi of the f’‘ght o‘ Lu
citN BiNUARvr, and hi* faintly,
from I»alv, anJ Li, demand ct the
prof *<ft» m of our government. Oi
Imt’al letters Ir in Malta, d kteJ Au
gull 24th, (Ure, il at on t e 24:11
I.uctbN BonaParie airivci attfi.it
place. He failed ficm Civita Vec
c'tiu,a port near Rome] cti board
iLe American fhip iltrcu.es, which
)ie freighted to carry biniL.lt & fami
ly, tc Cajlieri, to claim the protection
of Mr. Hill, the Britilh MinilKr
Plenipotentiary. On arriving off the
■port, Mr. Hu i. redded his permif.
ft n for hi* landing, and the Vcficl
continued otV toe p irt fcveral d^ys.
inuring the time Mr. Adair, the late
Brjtifh Minider to the Oitoman
Porte, arrived at Caglieii, in the 8*1
L*fte fiigarc, when upon a ennfuita
fitm b.‘tween the two Minifters, it
was agreed that the Pomona iriga*e
fhotdd take Lucien and ii;s family
toMaha Mr. Lucies Bonaparte
Bates that not 1 rng lince he received
an invitation from hia brother, the
Lmperor of France, to divo;fb his
prefent wife : to marrv into fome ol
the Imperial or'Itoyal Koufes cf Eu*
rope ; and to wed Irs daughter, a
beautiful girl of 1 which had been
f'-ra lime at Pari*, to the prifoner
Ferdinand, the yrb.— In which cafe
he lliou’d be appointed King oi
Home. Some threats, as ufual with
L»;AroLfiviN, attended thcfc propefi
i yns —Lucien, unwilling to repudi
ate hii wife, though, like hiu.felf, of
humble origin, nor to defert his chil
cran ; and aware of the impetuous
and b oody ciilpofuion cf a brother,
who, in fpeaking of another brother,
Loti , to the Dutch deputation,
cou'd fay, in permitting him to live
1 uii e Jlwvn more forbearance than
ny (h.ira&er admits and my rights re
c Jredf lie adopted the reflation to
ciu Je his gralp, and fecvc^ly engaged
an American veil'd to transport him,
Lis numerous family, relatives, and
wealth to where it coulJ be protec
ted by the only power in Europe ca.
pable of affording them the protec
tion required. On his arrival at
Malta he was waited upon by CLn.
Oakes, who aflured him that lie
ihould receive the protection he wifh
cd : but that he muff, for the pre.
fern, tr,ke qu arters in the citadel, and
conlider Imnlelf a prifoner of war,
cn parole, until th<i determination of
the iiritifli Monarch cn his cafe,
could he obtained. Lucien and his
family ate treated with every at;en
tion.
Eonafarte’s family are thus dc-1
tiined to l*. the lternell comments- •
tors upon his policy, the feverelt cri
tics upon his life. They afford in
their own peilons, and by their own
actions, the el ated evidence that his
tyranny is intolerable, even to thetn
leltcs. One has abdicated a tbror.c,
preiering the life of an exile to all*
the honors his brother coind bellow
upon him. A lecojid remained a
prifuner in the mulft of an enemy’s
country, a King without the powerof
a King, frarfu! of trutling diimlelf in
t le inidiiof his fuhjc&f, defirous of
Throwing off the robes < i rv) alty, hut
cbngeri lti : to be the puppet and in
flrufruat o» his brother, and feeking
*n th.* %ice of drunkennefs, a Uiort j
oblivion of his appr-henfions and his |
c *s A third to whom Napoleon |
lr.ui owed evety thing, proclaims that i
lie is uulafe in his dominions, and j
fhes for protection to the very Pow
er which Bonaparte is fighting a
gaintl, (has furnitmng the leveielt
refutation of his calumnies againlt
us and proving, that whillt Nap le
• n Bonaparte is making Europe re
found with his aceniarions agaitbl
us, Lucipn Bonaparte feels and
fhews that Great Britiin is the only
real friend of mankind, ti e only re j
n.ainiug afy.’um of fxerdotn, of iecu
rity, and ot pood fi.irh. One only
t»t hi' iamily, JeRoxts-, feems to cling
to Napoleon—an union cemented
Lv a congeniality of vice—both l/e
i»,g adulterers.
ti.*w proud is the tribute which
t•>« BonhPaktes pay to this ctHin
i y ! — IIojv deeply wdl fids conduct
of L»'C.hKs g.di and go3d the ty
rant 1 -l here is no pcliibiKty of
miftaking iry cHara£fer. -lie wa» rot
uken pi doner in hiu patfogt to Amer
ica. Kmaparte would then have pre
I-Kuuiuut the ejefw oc iu > gv.ing was
A me rATiou of £re:t iatporfafrce.
,ut be ouits Ira'y in order to p.rceed
to ;;>c ucairli fpoc were Btiihh gen*
robty might be mtereRed in hifi la
;votir— he ilirjvrs himfelf with bis
I whole family into the amis of Great*
|Britain, and (ays in w^rds net to be
In.iH.ak nor diftmted—“Here only
lisfafety t»>l*e found —here only am I
fecure from the tyranny and ven
geance of my Brother.
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From A< x'-};W, X$v- 9*
GREAT BATTLE JX FURTU
GAI~
Amon r the numerous arrivals at
this port yefU'day, was the fhip Ra
dins, Capt Miller, who left Corunna
on the 7th of laR month.
Capt. M informs, that on the 5th
ult. olhcial letters were received at
Corunna, one of which he read, Ra
ting that a fevere battle commenced
on the 27th at Almeida and contin
ued without intermuuon till the 29th
between the French and the Engiilh
j.d Portuguefc armies. The army
under the command of Lord \\ cb
liugton was vidlorioui. '1 he French
were conip-lled to retreat, leaving
behind, in killed and prifoners, 14,
000 men. The lofs of the combined
army was comparatively fmall. Fhe
Portuguese troops behaved 1110R gab
lastly. 1 he German troops were
daily defer ting from the French.
This highly interefting news we
imagine wiii prove by the details, to
be fubftancially correct. In the hrft
place, there was every probability ol
a fpcedy engagement by Lord Wel
Itogrotfs despatches of the 24th Sept,
the battle is Hated to have began on
the 27th and ended on the 29th —
therefore there is in this circumitance
not only no contradiction, but every
continuation of the fuppofition
1 he engagement w.;s near Almei
da ; the movements of the refpec
tive armies, after the ♦all of A Imeida,
had been various; we believe the
Lnglith mull have conccnuated foaic
wiicrc between (tuarda and Alme
ida, along the Sierra dt Ak:ba ; the
two armies by accounts both from
England and Oporto, were in view
ci each other. Cojuma is a place
to which accounts of a fucccfsful en
gagement on the fide oi thejfcriglifh,
would be immediately fent, and there
were lix dnys eiapfed after the bat
tle before the account was received
at Corunna; with which place the
Lngliih have kept up a conftant com
munication. A Courier was fent
irom England to Lord Wellington,
according to the lail accounts, ard
was ordered to land at Corunm,
which fhov s that the communica
tion was free. As to the lofi of men,
and the retreat of the French, there
is nothing improbable in Cither fup
pofition.—Bo/. Gaz.
w wrv 'Wjm I
CONFIRMATION.
Fijian* November 12.
FROM PORTUGAL.
C.ipt. Hunt, who arrived this day
from L’fbou, left that place on die
30th Sept. Intelligence of a battle be
t xcen the eppejing armies in the interi
or had jutt been received. It was
faid die French loft io,cco in killed
wounded and prifeuero, among them
2 French Generals,
The Portuguese troops engaged
were complimented a* having lur
p.tfled the Lhirilh in their efforts 2
gaiuil the common enemy.
Accounts dir ell from I ifbon.
By the Brig Gerfliam, which arri
ved at Duxbury on Thurfday from
Lifbm, accouts have been received
2b iateas the 29th of September, di
rc£Uy from a gentleman of confider*
able intelligence and early informa
tion, who communicates an official
letter from the Aid de Camp of Gen
Campbell, in the Portuguese fervice.
— By thefe it appears, that Lord Wei
lingroifs army was attacked by the
French late on the 26th and renewed
on the 27th of September, more ef
pecldfly at thofe polls occupied by
the Portwgtttfe troops , but were re
pu fed at all points. The Courier
left the fccnce of action at 7 in the
morning of the 2«irh,at which time
the action had ce. f d, the enemy re
quelling leave to bury rheit dead,
j which amounted to 3 or 4 r00— i lie
followtpg is die account from Gen
Campbell’s aid : —
“ Fdjiaco* near Cccuibdt 2 7/ ; Sep/.
u Late on the 26th, the adion
commenced, with th* Tirailleurs and
a few cbcw* of urrillerv. On die
m J
I
2/th, th * trench attacVd tire lotr
wing, coF.fidin » of tire 43 1 and 52d
ftritilh, and 6th aid i3h Po»tu
guefe, chafllur«* They charged with
the bayonet, and were repulied
The tfth chafTeurs fullered feverdy.
I 1 he enemy then made an attack on
our cent-e with gTeat impetuofity ; —
we were ordered to reinforce them
but the movement was unneceflary.
as the centre, confiding of the 21ft
and 9th Portuguese, and 74th Brit
ifh, repulfcd them with ^onfiderable
lofs. Phe right wing w»s not enga
ged. do morrow (the 23th) anat-j
tack, will be made by all the army.
We flatter ourfeives there will be a
glorious refuit. At flight the lirench
foliated leave to bury their dead,
which is equal to 3 or 4003. Our’s
is 800. Geii. bimon is a prifoner,
and fo.ne accounts fay, is mortally
wounded. Gen. Frare is killed.
Lord Wellington and Marihal Ber
resford, arc f+fe.”
In addition to the above it is ft iffcd,
that I«ord WeHington was llationed '
at Ponte de Marcello; that 22,000
militia, under Colonels Prant and
Miiler, and MarQiali Lilviera, polled
on the Douro, above Lamiego, will
be ready to harrafs the rear of Maf
fena ; and that his army is now Ha
ted not to exceed that of Lord Wel
lington, more than 1000 men.
It may be fo, that this is all the ac- 1
tion the reports refpccling which,
have yet reached America ; if Maf
fenr Hnds an evident fuperiority in
the combined armies, he will proba
bly decline a further conteft.
FROM DENMARK.
The accounts from Denmark and
Norway continue diftreffing to our
mercantile countrymen. No circum
flance is too abfurd to be adopted as
caufe $f detention and trial. The
fona fide certificates of the Confuls
of the Ally and Dictator of Denmark,
(France) are pronounced forgeries,
and confifcation has enfued on this
fcandalous pretence.
A letter from an American gen
tleman in Gottenburg, dated* Sept 1
13, informs, «• that having touched !
a: l'onningen, he was refufed per
.miffion to difeharge hit cargo; the
reafon given by the Danifh officers
were, that it was to prevent the Ln
glifh from fmuggling manufactured
goods into Denmark under American
colors—Yet the Fnglijb and Daves
carry on a dir eft trade in licenced vef
fels• There are feveral in this port at
prefent *, we fpoke one direct from
Gluckftadt, for London, in company
with feveral others bound to London.
They wear a privileged mark in their
flags”—Thus, it appears, thefe
plundering Dane3 can violently ar
refi and condemn the unprotected
property of Americans, with whom
they are at peace, and who never
“ Copenhagen’d" them ; aod at the
famt time can fubmiffively carry on
Commerce under the lug ot the na
tion with whom they are at war, and
whofc fleets now ride in durance vile
in britiih ports, without any of the
compuiuftious vifitings of confcience. |
The extent of the commerce carrying
on between England and the Baltic
States, in which Denmark flumes,
may be j ifig ed of, when we find, in
a tingle article in a London paper of
th« 26th Sept, laft, that on the day
before “ there arrived at Yarmouth,
a fleet from the Baltic, containing
upwards of Six Hnndted fail of mtr*
chamment, betides fixty fail of prize
' fhips under convoy of only five vef
lels of war.”
From d London paper of N^v, 5.
NEW DIVING DRESS.
On the 27th of laft month, an ex
periment was made on the Stine, at
1 Paris, with a machine, called a by
j dr fiat, in prefence of two Commis
ioi.ers appointed by the government,
; and a great concourfe of 1 pectators,
! who were highly citified by the ex
hibition The id alt of the experi
• rnent proves, that a diver fhut up in
the Machine can remain under wa
ter at pleafure, and with theghdp of
pincars, can pick up things at the
bottom of the water.
The byd reft at is a machine made of
copper, in the iiupe of a deep balker,
into which a man is introduced ; it
is then harmetically clofed by a co
ver in the Dupe of a cap heimet,
which forms the upper extremity j
in the front- and back parts of the
t >p, two peices of glafs a;e fixed, for
tlie ad mi (non of tight ; in the mid
dle of the tubes, ate fixed, one for
the introdu&ion of air, another for
' the cxpuliiou of it, and the third n>
r
tiled uS a pVU VOtXf VJT 1I.T l'.ici
changc of fpeech 1 In articulations
.,f the angles or fiexutes of this bydro
iLti are perfcttly mar.ageab e, and
the hands of the diver are covered
with leather, in the form of gtoves.
Bad A civs from 'Juris.
“ Malta, aug 24, 1810 A very
unpleasant business lias taken place be
tween the Bey of'Tunis and our Con
sul. It seems an American ship was
| captured by a French privateer, and
| carried into Tunisy where sire was pur
chased by a minister of the Bey's put
under Tunisian colouis and sent here.
—Her former supercargo being in
Malta, appealed to the Lbilish Court of
Admiralty to have her topped, in con
sequence of sortie illegality i.i the con
demnation. They declined interfering
as out of their jurisdiction, lie then
applied to the tribunal of Malta ; they
stopped the ship, and the esse is now
undecided in that ’Court —The Bryy
hearing of this, has confiscated all the
American firofierty in Tunity say, 150
to 200,000 dollar s. Air. Cox, the Con
sol, has arrived here in a flag of truce,
to settle tlie business, but whether res
toring the ship will satisfy the Bei y or
a war will follow, time only can deter
mine.’'
FROM ST. DOMINGO.
Capt. Quin eh, arrived at Marble•
head, from Port-au-Prince, sailed Oct.
6 : lie informs that Chhistophe had
entire possession of Cu/ie-Aichota
Afb/r i—^that he had had a battle with
Petion’s forces, in which Gen. Evel
Vllard was killed ; that an insurrec
tion had taken place near Jeremie,
where thei*; were 1500 embodied, and
some skirmishes hud taken place —
that a severe gale had been experien
ced near Aiix-Cuye« and Jeremie, and
had caused great destiuction among
the shipping ;—that the brig of war
Plamb au, belonging tb Petion, had
drifted on shore at ArcKia, was entirely
! lost, and a number of men perished :~
| That Chhistophe was capturing all
vessels bound to Petion’s dominions,
and obliged them to sell their cargoes »
, and that it was expected (-HaiSTOPiiB
would blockade Port-au-Prince.
0** —' .... 1 i i
’ Comratic ^jiucUtjnKr.
. _____ __ _
!
> NATCHEZ, OCT. 15, 18 10.
' Tlte Editor has just returned from
, Baton-Rouge, the capital of the Com
monwealth of Wcit-blorbduP The
Convention has adjourned to Novem
ber, and a Committee of Public Safety
r was left to draft another Constitution.
A minister will be sent to the United
; States immediately on the adoption of
the Constitution, A garrison is left
in Baton-Rouge fort, and the militia
discharged. The expedition against
Ptic/ua had returned, the insurgents
(excepting ilft/liam Cjofizr, a refugee
, fiom Aorth Carolina) having taken the
oath of allegiance.—The Convention
has repealed the tax oh slaves, and laid
a Land Tax.
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WEW-YORK, NOV 9, 1810.
| The E**ex frigate, with despatches,
t and Lt. Grayson as a messenger,
j will sail immediately ior Europe.
It is usserted in a tiu9t worthy pa
per, that when President Madison first
received Cadore’s letter to Armstrong,
he pronounced it, what every honest,
independent and intelligent man must
pronounce it, “ a Jesuitical, deceitful
communicationt on which no reliance can
be placed.” But three or four weeks
alter, he issues a Proclamation on the
f.iith ol it.
ltow very mute and subuiiueive have
our late noisy and riotous Jeffersonian
democrats become on the subject of
rftlBUTB and Foreign LICEN
CES ! They) good honest consistent
Pat* ior* can “submit” to any imposi
tion when directed by the lenient hind
at their sovereign Lord and Master
A iPQL&ox the Great J
9 I he lh tilth Aavy.
There are at present in commission
$ 31 ships of war, of which 153 are of
the line, 26 fr. 5 3 to 4* guns, 179 fri
gates, 161 sloops of war, live bombs
and live ships, 173 armed brigs, 36 cut
ters, and 79 smaller vessels of war ;
besides which there are building mi less
than 30 sail of the line, and in ordina
ry 69, together with a number ol eve
ry other class, which will make the
total of the British 1103 ships of tHiTei
ent descriptions.
The Emperor of France has order
ed the suppression of the Amsterdam
Mmiteur declui ing “that Aew.ifte
hers are the eggs of Sedt'wn in En
gi. * n o, tliry arc considered as Lie pil
lar* tf civil hoerty.
BOSTON, NOV. 1 1 .
Arrived, ship America, Oapt, lsiat
Sio.i?, 42 days from Ghiibdansvi i,
, .Mw ...» pissrngrrsc M tJr\•
tet a, mates and st amen belonging It*
j vessels carried into the pons of Nojs.
way, and which were under capture, set
questrution, condemnation, 6tc. Cap:.
| S reports, that the situation of the A
merican vessels and cargoes at Chris
timVand, was desperate in the extreme
—ail that were taken in the fleet, had
bsen condemned at the Court of Prize.,
in that place ; though tumc appeals
j wer^ •uffered to be made to a higher
1 court at Copenhagen, where it is pro
b.blea similar fate will attend tUm.
! The America was taken up by the
A merican Consul to convey i>N md< r"
innate countryman to their home*.
The passengers are Capt. Uanaitlsonj
William Htisscl, K. Craves and J.
*Meek ; 83 mates, and liO seamen.
Commercial Pro*fitrrityt—There ar*
rived at the port of New-York, in m,c
day, 8th inst. 75 vessels, in iioston,
there were seventy vessels arrived on
the 9th and !Oth inst ; 34 of them
ftom European ports. This exhibits
a proud contrast to the T«rra(iin poll
j cy of Embargo and Non-intercourse,
wltich probably cur Iluleis would have
continued, hud it not been for the zeal
ous efforts of tiie Fcdcndialin Con
gress.
I * V . ■
Myttfrbii* -—Wt ct mot artoid cal*
ling the attention cm o ,r reaclci * to a
very singular circt m» tore. 1 he ad
ministration fitqu ntl* oc verv prompt*
ly indulge thm c nstitucnti with
the correspondence between Mr. Pink
ney and the lliitish government, issu.
td in a National Inteligenccr Extraor
dinary, while the correspondence be
tween Gen. Armstrong and the French
government is us frequently studiously
concealed. W e have now to be sure,
the President’s Proclamation announ
cing on the 2d November that th*
French decrees ceased to exist the da:<
flreviou* J but the proclamation does
j not contain the least intimation that
^ the American property sequestered in
j France is to be restored, or that the
I American property that may hereatter
be sent there will be respected. And
although the official paper announces
tho receipt ol despatches fioirt Gen.
Armstrong, (of course containing his
correspondence with the French gov
ernment yet not a single line is made
public—We the people a»c ns much in
the dark as ever. Oor French corres
pondence is hid under a bushel, while
that with Grcat-Britain is proclaimed
upon the house top.
Jlcrtlanti,
Monday, November )9, 1SKX
Foreign Intelligence.
Accounts from Lisbon, under date of
September 2<Lh, state that an «#ti m Inti
t*ke<i place betwixt the French, under the
command ol M *r?hal Massena, and (hi
, combined English and Portuguese forces,
in which tike firmer were defeated with
considerable loss. It is stated the action
commenced on the 2fith of September, an 1
waa renewed on the 27th, when tlie i ream
1 were again repulsed, and the following
night requested leave to bury their dead
amounting to b or 4000—tl.# English loss :s
kstated at tSOO. It was expected the contest
would be renewed on the following daj.
That there has been some haul fighting
between the two armies in Portugal there
ran be n » doubt ; but w' »t the final remit
ot tlie engagement is does not appear—
probably the late of Portugal, at lea»t fu*
i the present year, vas decided on the OUT.
The next arrival will furnish the parttcuUia
of the event, of winch we have as jet hult*
more than reports ami rumors
i i rencn i»>rc« aetore Cadiz liss lately
received a reinforcement of 14,000 fuel*, bit
ag yet, have not been able to make any im
pression upon the p*ace. Th* Cortes or
Genera! Congress, in which all the domin
ions and colonies of Spain arc represented,
continue in session nraf tlie City, and delib
erate with open doors. The subject which
occupies lheir principal attention is the or
ganization of a new Ccnstiiution* It is «n.
derstuod the government is to continue to
be administered in the name of Ferdinand
,7tb The Spaniards still keep up a consid
erable force in various parts of the country,
and skirmishes almost daily take place be
’wixt them ami their invaders, in which the
French lose many n»en.
It ia reported that D >nu*>arfe if about t#
•soul an »• my of f>*) CbO m n into Sweden j
wid that lie lias in v’ew to give a patent
Kmg to Denmark. Some suppose the ob
ject of these movements in the north is to
exclude the English trade from the Baltic.
The Danes continue to capture and con
demn American vessels upon the n o-t friv
olous mid absurd p.etenceB, notaithstand
mg all the fl) nipathy which our good folks
nave bestowed upon them fur bein*, Copen
hagen'd by Nc*l»on.
LATE AM) Ii%/PORTA«\T.
Since the above was put into type
the following particular* of events us*
Portugal have been receivedl) the ar
rival of thebng Entcrprize, in a re
markable short passage f om I eland of*
21 days. 1 he Londonaccouht* a e u
the 19th, ath! Dublin to the 23u of
October. A detp vtt h had been re
ceived in Loud(*n Iron* Laid VVebiiiv*
ton, dated Lot ultra, tape 30, wo
account of the engagements of the ■«'*» *:
and 2?ih, which c.'iiif.rni in put u.
| statement* wincti luivc ucen public c :
* i he o! the Ereucjs cntbe*«j t«/r
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