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7 vpMtthe work* to the foundation. The
• r ' same .day the dock-yard and store-hoo»e>>
were set fire to and totally destroyed;
after which the arsenal Was set on fire.
“ The late gales have done much mis
chief here. I- *°Try to add, several
transports have been blown on shore, and
some totally lost. There are now 13 sail
on of which, I fear, will
never be got <»ti again. I much fear our
line of battle ships will not be able to get
away until next spring tides, the wind
blowing so hard from the S. W.”
Dutch papers up to the 15th inst. have
been received in town. They put us in
possession of the result of the battle of Oca
na; but furnish few details of* the engage
ment. The French state the loss of the
Spaniards at- 4000 left dead on the field of
battle, and 20.000 made prisoners. The
action took place on the 10th inst. The
‘ French were commanded by Joseph Bona
parte in person, who had under him the
Marshal Duke of Dalmatia.
La Mancha is not the only quarter In
which success had attended the arms of
She enemy. A corps under General B< n
aet has defeated General Marquesito, with
considerable loss and re-occupied Su Ad
dero.
The Emperour Francis has returned to
his capital, and the Archduke Charles
was expected to arrive In a few days. x
W General Monnet, the late commander of
. Flushing, has been declared by a council*
«f Inquiry guilty of cowardice and treason.
Mb has likewise been found gnHty of em
bezzlement and extortion. We cannot help
stopping a moment here to remark on the
injustice of the French government. Gen
eral Monnet is tried and condemned, ab
sent and unheard, and should he ever rc
* • turn to France, hit- life will probably be
the penalty which he will have to pay to
satisfy the vengeance of his ruthless mas
ter.
The Dutch papers contain a long ac
count of the/rte given to Bonaparte by the
city of Paris, at the Hotel de Ville, on the
4th inst. Besides their Imperial Majesties
of France, there were present at this en
tertainment no fewer than .nine crowned
of Napoleon’s creation.
, As soon as the intelligence of the defeat
of Ocana reached Seville, the Marquis de
la Rom.ma, with a detachment of from 8
to 10.0U0 men, left that city to proceed to
La Carolina, to reinforce General Arran
ge. Several officers have been executed
•t Seville for treason.
Havre, Cette, Marseilles, the bason of
Antwerp, carried nn with great activity ;
the road of Mount Cents, opening the pas
sage to the Alps; the marshes of the Co
tentia, and of Rochefort drained., are the
‘ results of the favours bestowed by the gov
ernment, and of the solicitude which it
manifests for every object of its adminis
’ tration.
HAMBURGH, December 1
We have not received positive informa
tion concerning the future organization of
the Hansetowns The following are the
particulars deserving the most credit:—
The Hansetowns will be called the United
and Free Imperial Cities—they will be un
der the prelection of the Emperour of
France, will furnish a quota to the con
federation of the Rhine, (1800 infantry,
besides cavalry, and 200 artillery.) Their
deputies will assemble at certain times, for
the purpor- of consulting about their inter
ests These cities can only have an Am
bassadour at the Emperour’s Court. The
other persons can qnly have a Consul, [at
the Imperial Hansetowns.]
SUMMARY OF THE EXPOSE.
tin, finished by the prisoners of war ; that
of Napoleom which is to join the Rhone
to the Rhine, already far advanced ; seve
ral locks of importance finished ; the ma
ritime'wot ks of the ports of Dunkirk,
labourer* are working at the building* des
tined to be the exchange of Parisi thk
columm or Austkhlitz is already cov
ered with half Of the bronse which is to
decorate it; the Louvre is adorned with a
rapidity which astonishes even the inhabi
tants of this capital; already Pai is enjoys
the water* of the Oureq, and by another
favocg of hi* Majesty, beggary, that hid
eous plague of polished states, ha* disap
peared.
different parts of the Empire since the last
session—on one side the canal of St. Queu-
several parts. In the first, he describes
the works undertaken, or finished in the
Delivered before the Legislative Body by
Monsieur de Montalinet, Minister of the
embellish the metropolis of this vast em
pire; out of the city of Paris, the bridges of
Bezens, of Choizy, are commenced; that of
Charenton is re-established ; the bridge of
Jena gets forward, the bridge St. Michael
is entirely cleared, the keys of the Louvre,
and of Jena are finished; granaries are
erecting; large slaughter-houses have
been built near one of the gates of Paris ;
His Excellency here mentions the im
provements which the departments have
experienced dering this year; the inhabi
tants on the banks of the Rhine, who have
suffered by the inundations, have been io-
for their losses; succour has
beet the Cemtnuoee afl.tied
Interiour, on the 12th December, 1809.
His Excellency divides his report into
Before our eyes, numberless monuments
Nobody can deny the evils which the
temporal power of the Popes has occasion
ed to religion; had it not been for that
power, more than the half of Europe
would not have been separated from the
other. The Emperour has had discussions
with the Pope; bis Majesty, in ever)
thing acknowledging his spiritual powei,
thought it bis duty to preserve the rights
of his crown. The concordet signed by
the Pope was intended to recognise those
rights; but the court of Rome, actuated
b| hatred against France, could no longer
conceal its secret sentiments. It constant
ly manifested them, and that even befort
the battle of Austerlitz, by receiving the
enemies of France, and by refusing to ac
knowledge the lawfulness of the appoint
ment of some members of the French cler
gy. Incendiary writings and clandestine
bulls have been hawked about several
parts of the empire ; but they have been
received with that contempt they de
served.
Convinced of this perfidy of the court of
Rome, the Emperour had only to choose
between two resolutions—that of creating
a patriarch or chief of religion in France.
His Majesty has rejected the first resolu
tion; but he will never acknowledge the
triple crown, and will only admit of the
spiritual power of the Pope. It is necessa
ry that the successor of St. Peter, like St.
Peter himself, should be a flatter accord
ing to the precepts of Jesus Christ—Popes
like Kings ought to give unto C*sar what
belongs to Cesar.
His Excellency, after announcing that J
the Emperour having done a great deal, is
disposed to do still more for religion—has
dedicated another part of his report to the
triumphs which have crowned the French
armies in the last campaigns. The Em
perour, he adds, by a skilful manoeuvre,
had succeeded in drawing the English ar
my into a snare. Already he was pur
suing it, and was on the point of annihi
lating it, when he received intelligence
that the cabinet of Vienna was meditating
a diversion in favour of the Spanish insur
gents ; that it had promised them 100.000
muskets; and that 500,000 men had in
vaded Bavaria without a declaration ot
war. His Excellency calls to mind the ef
fects which the presence nf the Emperour
produced amidst the soldiers in Germany
and the brilliant victories which brought
about a peace without doubt more durable
than that of Presburgh.
His Excellency then remarks upon the
expedition .of Flushing, so cowardly sur
rendered ; and praises the zeal of the de
partments which flew to the defence of the
French territory. ' He nevertheless ex
cepts from this praise the department of
Barre, somecommunes of which, instead
The administration of justice has been
the same as in former years. The Em
perour, respecting the consciences of his
subjects, has thought that all religions
founded on the morality ot the gospel were
useful to society. It was with that princi
ple that the worship of the Lutherans has
experienced the effects of his protectidn,
and ministers of that mode of worship are
sup|>orted at the expense of the state.
An to the religion of the Emperour,
which is that of all his family, and of the
majority of the French, it has always been
the object of his most assiduous cares;
many places of worship have been repair
ed ; new seminaries have been formed;
the number of chapels of ease has been in
creased, assistance has been afforded tu
the curates, and deserving and infirm old
clergymen. Lastly, his Majesty has ap
pointed as members of the senate, and of
the university several archbishops and
bishops, and proposes to appoint them in
his council of state.
byhafl and fire. sstebßshmehts Mr vacefa
nation have been established in the de
partments; the arte and sciences have
teen encouraged. His Majesty proposes
io hootzir and reward them. With that
view he has established decennial premi
ums; they would have been distributed by
this time, if the jury of examination had
sent in the result of their labours, and if
the Emperour had not thought proper to
give more scope to his first degree in es
tablishing new premiums, and in ordering
a more solemn discussion for the works of
the learned.
of obeying the calls of patriotism, rebelled.
Their conduct, he says, has excited the
indignation of his Majesty—he has order
ed military commissions to punish the
guilty. Already a council of state has
gone to examine on the spot the conduct of
those communes. Such as have betrayed
their honour will be condemned to pay for
25 years double taxes; the inhabitants
will lose their citizenship; and over the
gates of the town these words shall be Writ
ten “ Thit it not a French commune.**
Hi* Excellency terminates his report by
an examination of the political relations
of France with foreign power*. The re
port announces that a peace with Sweden
will soon be signed ; that Holland, equally
bruised by France and by England, will
undergo some changes ; that our relations
with the United States of America are only
suspended for the moment, and will soon
resume their natural channel, (Marche
naturell*)—that the part of Poland added
to the Grstid Duchy of Warsaw, and freed
from the yoke of Austria, is about to proe-
HOUSE QF REPRESENTATIVES,
Monday, February 19.
PROPOSITIONS ro BSLLICPPXNTS, &C.
I he following message was received from
the President of the United States:
To the Haute of Refiretentativet f the
United Statet.
I transmit reports of the Secretaries of
State, and the Treasury, complying with
your resolution of the sth inst.
JAMES MADISON.
February 17, 1810.
“ The pllot-boat schooner Savage, from
New-Ybrk, for the West-Indies, in ballast,
was also sent in; and a brig from New-
York, put in in distress and is condemned
as unseaworthy.”
Department of State, February’li, 1810.
Agreeably to a resolution of the House of
Representatives, of the sth inst. requesting
the President of the United States to cause
to be laid before that House, copies of the
several communications made to the gov
ernments of France and Great-Britain, in
pursuance of the authorities vested by Con
gress in the .Executive, with respect to the
several orders and decrees of either, vio
lating the lawful commerce and neutral
rights of the United States, except such
parts as may, in his judgement, require
secrecy; and also to communicate to the
same House, such information as he may
have received, touching the forgery of pa
pers, purporting to be those of American
the Secretary of State has the
honour of laying before the President the
following papers, viz.
“ 'Hie ship Triton, Henderson, from
New-York, forFayal; and ship Powhat
tan, from Virginia, for Lisbon, laden with
tabacco, have been sent into Bermuda by
the sloop of war Halifax, Captain Frazer,,
and we understand. Admiral Warren,- af
ter severely reprimanding Captain Frazer,
ordered the immediate release of these
vessels. ✓
pet under the laws of the King of Saxfißy;
that a true friendship unites Russia to the
French empire; lastly, that the Ungs, al
lies of France, will receive an increase, of
territory and that France herself ac
quires new sources of prosperity, and new
openings for her commerce, by the means
of the countries incorporated with the em
pire.
The Couut Aodreoaai, it is announced,
will verf soon arrive in this capital, in
quality of A tnbassadour, from his Majesty
the Emperour of the French near his Ma
jesty the Emperour of Austria.*
The French troops which occupy Steyer,
St. Pollen, Wells, and Lintz, are so crowd
ed, that it is found impossible to furnish
even the superiour officers with separate
lodgings. The regency distributes victuals
to the soldiers, so that they have only oc
casion to require from the inhabitants on
whom they are billeted, salt and vegeta
bles,
Ist. Extract of a letter from Mr. Smith,
Secretary of State, to General Armstrong*,
Minister Plenipotentiary of the U. States,
at Paris, dated March 15, 1809.
2d. Copy of a note from General Arm
strong to Ceunt Champagny, Minister of
exteriour relations at Paris, dated 29th
April, 1809.
3d. Extract of a letter from Mr. Smith
to Mr. Pinkney, Minister Plenipotentiary
of the United States at London, dated
March 15th, 1809.
4th. 'Extracts of a letter from Mr. Pink
ney to Mr. Smith, dated May 1, 1809.
A. Extracts of a letter from John M.
Forbes, Consul of the United States at
Hamburg, to Mr. Madison, Secretary of
State, dated 13th November, 1807.
B. Extracts of a letter from Mr. Lee,
commercial agent of the United States at
Bourdeaux, to the same, dated November
1, 1808. *
C. Copy of a letter from Mr. Hackley,
Consul of the United States at St. Lucar, to
Mr. Smith, dated Cadiz, 23d March, 1809.
D. Sundry original documents belonging
to, and concerning the ship Aurora of New-
York.
E. Extract of a letter from Mr. Harris,
Consul of the United States at St. Peters
burg, to Mr. Smith, dated 25th October,
1809, covering certain papers belonging to
the ship called the Georgia, of New-York.
F. Extracts of a letter from John M.
Forbes, dated November 7, 1809, to Mr.
Smith covering the forged sea-letter of the
ship Arno, of Beaton, dated August 21st,
1809, also a letter of the same date, signed
Stephen Higginson and company, to Cap
tain William Kempton.
G. Extract of a letter from William
Kirkpatrick, Cugsnl of the United States
at Malaga, to Mr. Smith, dated November
25,1809.
It may be proper moreover to state, that
variousother communicationshave been re
ceived at thia department, from the agents
of the United States, in foreign countrie*,
which mention that the practice prevails
of forging American ships papers and docu
ments; but as they do not afford any de-
BERMUDA, January 13.
VIENNA. December 3.
CangrtM
“ The undersigned, Minister Plenipoten
tiary of the United States, has the honour
of presenting to his Excellency the Minis
ter of exteriour relations, the enclosed copy
of a law recently passed by the Legisla
ture of the Union.
“ This law', aa may be seen by the seve
ral provisions of it, has been forced upon
them by the extraordinary circumstances
of the times, and is to be regarded as an
act of precaution, taken with the view only
of protecting their own property and rights,
and once more appealing to the interest
and justice of those who would disturb or
destroy them.
“ Your Excellency may be assured, that
as nothing has given more disquietude to
the United Slates than the necessity which
has impelled them to the adoption of this
measure, so nothing will give them more
satisfaction than to see that necessity c< ase.
It is in the spirit and sincerity of this de
claration, that the undersigned is instruct
ed to add, that any interpretation of the
imperial decrees, of the 21st of November,
1806, and 17th of December, 1807, which
shall have the effect of leaving unimpaired,
the maritime rights of the union, will be
instantaneously followed by a revocation of
the present acts: and a re-establishment
of the ordinary commercial intercourse be
tween the two countries. -
s ** Department of State, March 15,1809.
The proceedings at Congress of their
late session, combined with the Executive
communications, affording as they do. ad
ditional proofs of the pacifick disposition of
this government, and of its strict obser
vance of whatever the laws of neutrality
require ; you will not fail to avail yourself
of the just arguments thence deducible, in
urging the equitable claims of the United
States. The Ist, 2d, 3d, 4th, 12th and 17th
sections of the act interdicting our com
mercial intercourse with Great-Britain and
France, will, in that view, claim your at
tention, and especially the 11th section,
authorizing the Executive to renew our
commerce with the nation withdrawing the
operation of its illegal edicts. And you will
be careful to let it be understood, that the
authority thus vested, will, of course, be
exercised in the event stated by the law.”
Extract (fa letter from the Secretary of
• State, to William Pinkney, Etq. Minit
ter Plenipotentiary of the United Statet,
in London, dated
“ The proceedings of Congress at their
late session, combined with the Executive
com tnn ications, affording, as they do, ad
ditional proofs of the pacifick disposition of
this government, and of its strict obser
vance of whatever the laws of neutrality
require, you will not fail to avail yourself
of the just arguments, thence deducible, in
arguing the equituble claims of the United
States.—The Ist, Sd, 3d, 4th, 11th and
17th sections of the act interdicting our
commercial interior se with Great-Brifaiu
and France, will, in that view claim your
attention, and especially the 11th section,
authorizing the Executive to renew our
commerce with the nation withdrawing the
operation of its illegal edicts. And you will
be careful to let it be understood that the
authority thus vested, will, of course, be
exercised in the event stated in the law.'*
toils, they are not included in thia report,
which is respectfully submitted.
R. SMITH.
General Armttrong to Count Champagny.
“ I offer to your Excellency, Bcc. &c.
(Signed)' JOHN ARMSTRONG.
Hit Excellency Count Champagny.
Extract of a letter from the Secretary tf
State, to General Armttrong, Minitter
Plenipotentiary'tf the United Statet at
Farit, dated.
Extract! from a letter of Mr. Pinkney.
Minitter Plenipotentiary of the Unitea
Statet, at London, to Mr. Smith, Secre
tary of State, dated
“ Upon receipt of your letter of the 15th
of March, it became my obvious duty to ask
a conference with Mr. Canning. It took
place accordingly on Monday the 16th of
April.”
“ With a view to do justice to the cha
racter and tendency of the law of the first
of March, I called the attention of Mr.
Canning in a particular manner to the 11th
section, which provides for the renewal of
commercial intercourse with the power re
voking or so modifying its editts as they
should cease to violate the neutral com
merce of the United States; and in obe
dience to my instructions I assured him
that the authority vested in the President
to proclaim such revocation or modifica
tion, would not fail to be exercised as the
case occurred.”
*• I entered into a minute explanation of
the law of the first of March, and in the
course of it availed myself of every in
ducement of interest which it could be sup
posed to furnish to his government to re
tract it* Orders in Council and of the
proofs with which it abounds of the sin
cere desire of the American government to
cultivate peace and friendship with Great-
Britain, even while it was repelling what it
deemed encroachments and injuries, the
most pernicious and alarming.”
* Department of State, March 15, 1809.
“ Paris, 29th April, 1809.
“.London, May 1, 1809.
Treasury De/tarfmcnf,
Sia—l have the honour to a
statement transmitted by IM Collector of
Boston, in relation to the ship Arno which
entered Toniflngen with a forgod sou-let
ter.
Exclusively of the cases respecting forged
marine papers which have from lime to
time been communicated by the Depart
ment of State,- one only has come to
knowledge of the Treasury', the partgt
lars of which are explained by
clos/fl letter from the Collector of New-
York, and the papers accompanying the
same. .. ,
I have the honour to be, Bcc.
ALBERT dALLATtIff*
The Pretident of the United Statet. ’
The above documents, and others ac
companying the message, were ordered to
be printed.
bated at great length without a decision, -
Saturday, February 24. '
Mrs. Hamilton’s petition was again be
fore the House, on a motion of Mr. Root, of
New-York, to connect with it pn old peti
tion of General Barton of Rhode-Inland,
which had not been regularly bro£ht for
ward the present session. lu the debate of
yesterday Mr Root made the imprettive,
manly, and dignified remark, worthy of a
Tully fa the brightest era of ancient elo
quence, that “ If Mrs. Hamilton and her
family were in distress, the State of NeW-
York had made provision for their
poor !! !" [Shades of the Heroes of th*
Revolution ! Ye must smile benignantly
upon this eloquent Representative of th*
people whose liberties ye sealed with wur
blood, when he proposes to send p>ur
widows and daughters to the poor-houtee,
even when it is officially admitted that
they have, in the right of your la
bours and tour blood, a “JUST
CLAIM” upon their Country !] Mr. Gar
denier this morning “ roasted,” as the
phrase is, the said eloquent Mr. Root, ob
serving, among other things, that the cir
cumstance that the State of New-York
had made such, liberal provisions for its
poor was probably not the least of that gen
tleman’s inducements to become an in
habitant of the state.# Mr. Potter and Mr.
Dana also kindled flames of satire around.
Mr. Root, from which he fled instinctively,
unambitious of the honours of martyrdom,
Ucalegon. burnt next, as an ancient poet
says. Mr. W. Alston threw himself into
the fire of Mr. Dana’s wit, and Mr. Ghol
son, (tf"Virginian democrat, who had acted
a most honourable part in relation to
present claim,) mercifully attempting t*
extinguish the flames which were con
suming Mr.' A. by calling him to ordsr, he
also fled from the Jield, and all his elo
quence evaporated in tmoke. Mr.Smilfa
appeared to be opposed to Mrs. H’s. claim
with yore zeal and “ sound and fury,*
than he has displayed upon any subject ex
cept the “ Northern Confederacy.” Mr.
Root having, in the course of his speech, de
nounced the “Washington Society” of
N. York, as old toriet, monarchist, Scotch
merchant!, with a few of the detcendanta
of revolutionary office ft. Mr. Gardenier
made a most interesting reply, in which he
vindicated that Society, declaring that he
himself belonged to it, and that every
member of it whs obliged to abjure mon
archy and aristocracy. Mr. Fisk mad*
some remarks which were really manly fa
favour of the claim. If there Were any
barriers around the Treasury, excluding
just claims, he was ready te break
them down! Mr. Lyon advocated Mrs.
H’s. claim, and the Rhode-Islknd claim
also, but wished them kept distinct. Mr.
Montgomery contended for the connexion
of the two claims. Mr. Johnson, (of Ken
tucky,) chairman of the committee of
claims, both on yesterday and this day ad
vocated the claim of Mrs. Hamilton with
great animation., At the moment whs*
the question was about to be token, Mr,
Root came back and made another speech,
which the pubhek would not thank us for
reporting. He admitted, however, that he
war not requested to bring forward the
Rhode-Island claim, and that he never taw
General Barton. MF. Root was repeatedly
called to order, and being repeatedly de
clared out of order by the Speaker, at last
gave up the point in despair. His motto*
was negatived, ayes 62, noes 63. [Thia
votethrows a dark shade on Mrs. Hamil
ton’s claim.]
Friday, February 23.
Mr. P. B. Porter reported a bill providing
for the improvement of the United States
by Roads and Canals.
4 motion was made to take up the Fo
reign Intercourse Bill, but the House de
termined not to break down the rule set
ting apart Fridays for business growing out ‘
of petitions.
Mrs. Hamilton’s petition was again de-
After the House of Representatives had re- ’ J
sumed the unfinished business of yesterday,
(Macon’s Bill,) Mr. Eppes withdrew the
amendments which he offered yesterday, (su- f\
thoriiing merchants to arm, kc. and propoaesf I
others in lieu of them, of a similar import, bag ' I
more in detail. Mr. E. afterwards withdrew I
that part relative to convoys, on the suggestion i
that the subject was embraced by a bill alrea- a i
dy before the House. He then moved that the . I
bdl, together with the proposed amendments, 1
as wi ll as the bill on the subject of convoy, be |
recommitted to a select committee. After con
siderable dehate, and confusion, on points of
wdsr, this motion was carried, syes 74,nooedff. • I
Tuesday, Fesbi’asy 27.