The enquirer — Richmond, Va., 1810-10-16 00:00:00, page 2

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indirect schemes for palliating the possible
evils resulting front the suspension of cash
payments, would prove wholly inadequate 1
for that purpose, because the necessary pro
portion could never l»c adjusted, and if oute
fixed, might aggravate very much the in
conveniences of a temporary pressure ;
and even if their efficacy could be made to
appear, that would be objectionable as
a moat hurtful and improper interference
with the rights of commercial property.
" According to the best judgment your
committee has been enabled to form, no
sufficient remedy for the present, or ser.u.
rity tor the future, can be pointed out,
except the repeal of the law which sus
pends the cash payments of the bank of Eng
land.
“ In effecting so important a change, your
committee are of opinion that some difficul
ties most be encountered, and that there are
Borne contingent dangers to the bank, against
which it ought most carefully and strongly
to he guarded. But all ther e may be effec.
tally provided for, by entrusting to the dis
Cretion of the bank itself the charge of con
ducting and completing the operation, and
b\ allowing to the bank so ample a period
of lime lor conducting it, as will be more
than sufficient to effect its completion. To
the discretion, experience, and integrity of
the directors of the bank, your committee
believe that parliament may safely entrust J
the charge of effecting that which parliament1
may*in its wisdom determine upon as neces
sity to be effected ; ar.cl that the directors
cl that gi eat institution, far from making
themselves n party with those who have a
temporary interest in spreading alarm, will
take a much longer view of the permanent
interests of the bank, as indissolubly blend yd
with those of the public. The particular
nude of gradually affecting the resumption
of cash payments ought therefoic, in the o
pinion of your committee, to be. left in a
gteat measure to the discretion of the bank,
and parliament ought to do little more than
to fix, definitively, the time at which cash
payments are to become, as before, compul
sory. The period allowed ought to be am
ple, in order that the bank directors may
feel their way ; and that, having a constant
watch upon the varying circumstances that
ought to guide them and avail.ng them
selves onlv of favorable circumstances, they
may tread back their steps slowly, and may
preserve both the course of their own at*
fairs as a company, and that of public and
commercial credit not only safe but uncm
barrnssed.
* With this view, your committee would
suggest that llie restriction on cash payments
cannot safely be removed at an earlier pe
riod than two rears from the present time;
but your committee are of opinion, that ear
ly provision ought to be made by parliament
for terminating, by the end of that period,
the operation of ihe several statutes which
have imposed and continued that restricti
on.
*• In suggesting this period of two years,
your committee have not over locked the cir
cumstance, that as the law stands at present,
the bank would he compelled to pay in cash
at the end of six months after the ratifica
tion of a definitive treaty ot peace ; so that
if peace were to be concluded within that
peiiod, the recommendation of your com
m it tee might seem to have the effect of post
poning, instead of accelerating the resump
lion ot payments. Rut your committee are
of opinion, that if peace were immediately
to be ratified, in the present stale of our
circulation, it would be most hazardous to
compel the bank to pay cash in six months,
and would be found wholly impracticable.
Indeed the restoration of peace, by opening
new fields of commercial enterprise, would
multiply instead of abridging the demands
upon the bank for discount, and would ren
der it peculiarly distressing to the rammer
cial world if the bank were suddenly and
materially to restrict their issues. Your
committee are therefore of opinion, that e~
ven if peace should intervene, two years
s' ould lie given to the bank for resuming its
payments ; but that even if the war should
be prolonged, cash payments should be re.
sumed by the end of that period.
*• Although the details of the best mode
of returning to cash payments ought to be
left to the discretion of the bank of England,
as already stated, certain provisions would
be necessary, under the authority of parlia
ment, both for the convenience of the bank
itself, and for the security of the other bank
ing establishment in this country and in Ire
land.
•• Your committee conceive it may be con
venient for the bank to be penni ted to is
Sue notes under the value of 51. for some lit
tie time after it had resumed payments in
specie.
“ It will be convenient also for the char
tered banks of Ireland and Scotland, and all
the country banks, that they should not lie
compelled to pay iri specie until some time
after the resumption of payments in cash by
the bank of England ; but that they should
Continue for a short period upon their pre
sent looting, of being liable to pay their own
notes on demand in bank of England pa_
per.”
% l'ro*n a late l.andon Paficr.
STATE OF COMMERCE.
A.s the failures that have l ately t akcn place
among mercantile men continue to he the
subject of general interest and conversation,
we conceive w« shall not be performing an
useless tusk, if we endeavor to trace *he‘e
failures to their source : by so doing, we shall
perhaps '>e able to form an accurate judge
merit of their importance to the general in
teiostofthe commmunity
Notwithstanding all the effort of t he ene_
my to obstruct the commerce of (i. Britain,
her imports and exports have gone progres
lively increasing, to an amount altogether un
preceden'ed ; an amount that has been the
boast of his Majesty’s ministers ; ns justify
ing the policy of th- ir councils, the wonder
of the opposition, who predicted the annihi
latino of mu commerce, as the inevitable re
suit of these councils ; and the disappoint
mem of Bonaparte, who finds the ingeunity of
his suhjects u* an overmatch for lus author
ity ; that their necessities are stronger
than his law: & who is compelled to acknow
Jedgr. the impracticability of enforcing de
cries, which tend to cut off not only their
accustomed conveniences, but even their
minus nt subsistence. That spirit of com
mercial enterprize, weich so particularly dis
tinguishes the British nation, has of late had
gr-iter scope than ever,- - --a greater pro
portion of our commerce having been fenced
out of its regular Channels, and become of a
speculative description, ir. consequence of
those revolutions which have subvened the
the ordinary Commercial relations in almost f
established older of things, and interrupted*
country in Europe. The profit matte
by the first adventurers in any new line of
basiness. generally encourages both them &
others to pursue it still more largely, till the
tnaiket becomes overstocked, and the trade
instead of continuing to afiT id a profit is at
tended with heavy losses. This has been the
ease for sometime past, with many Tending
branches of that commerce in which specu •
lative men are eugiged ; and we have only
to examine into the fact to be satisfied of the
truth t>f this remark.
It w e turn our eyes to the Baltic trade, we
shall find that the eagerness of commercial
men to ludge a large quantity of British man
ufactures and produce in the ports of Russia
and Prussia, while they were yet open for
their reception, and to secure an adequate
supply of hemp, tallow, and other cnnunn
dities which we derive from those count t ies
in return, induced them to catty on this,
brnnch cf commerce last year, to an extent
wholly without example. The consilience
of these excessive importations had been,
that the prices of all those commodities,
which had risen to a Very gteat height,
have experienced as rapid a decline ; and
the importers and speculators either have
their capital still locked up in them,
jor have sold them to very great disadvan
tage.
The trade to H' ligolnnd formerly took off'
I a vast quantity of British merchandize and
j Colonial produce, which were smuggled from
thence into the neighboring ports of the con
j tir.ent. But Bonaparte in order to pm a I
} stop to thts traffic established a new cordon !
1 of custom house officer;* (iluuanicrs) all a_
I long the coast ; and. although it may be
i presumed that they will not be more incer
J rupiibte 'han their predecessors, yet the in
habitants must have an opportunity of becctn
ing acquainted with them, and feeling their
pulses ptopt i ly, before the tvade can go on
as usual In he mean time the imports
have continued to such an excess, that n room
24 feet square, now rents at Heligoland for
one hundied guineas per month ; and whole
cargoes of goods are lying there exposed to
the weather, for want of warehouses to put
them into. Under these circumstances of a
total stagnation of sales and want sf returns,
the parties concerned in this branch of com
met re are necessarily in a state of mucli em
barrassment.
r If we consider the state of Holland, we
find that two thirds of the funded property of
that country have been annihilated by Bon
aparte. I his loss falls chieflv upon the
merchants, who are great capitalists ; and
tlie reaction of such a blow must necessarily
affect the British merchants with whom thev
are connected.
l he great cause of this mischievous e?<
! cess of speculation, is the abu*e of paper cre
■ dit. Men connive to raise an artificial cap
ital by accommodation hills, on which they
trade, beyo*d all r*»sonab!e proportion to
! their real means. This paper does infinite
mischief to the community at large. It en
! ablcs speculators of every description to
keep back t!. ;ir commodities instead of
bringing them to market; it injures the pub
lie in the first instance, by occasioning the
extrAvagan*. rise of prices; and ultimately it
injures th^ speculators themselves, by in.
dating others to speculate in the same ar
tides, on the strength of these artificial pri
ces, till at length the quantity becomes too
unwieldy to be bold, forced sales arc made,
prices fall to their proper level, and the J
speculators are ruined.
We are at present in this stage of the pro- j
cess, which is the nccessaiy consequence!
of the great profits which ha% e lately been
made ; for profit and loss, good and bad
markets, high prices and low prices, fol
low each other as regularly as action and re
action. Cause and effect. Mercantile men
are now only receiving one of those practi
cal illustrations of these truths, which from
time to time are enforced in the same man"
ner, because, like other wholesome admoni
tions, the impression they make Is too soon
forgotten.
From a London paper.
In ptfrsusn&e et •» petition to the Ilcuse o
It we go farther to the westward, we shall I
find that the desire of making a provision of |
the commodities of Spain and Portugal, he
fore the final subjugation of that peninsula,
has ltd to ihe same consequences as in the
Baltic trade The apprehensions of our be
ing shortly deprived of any future supply of
the com modi'ies of 'hose countries, raised
their value here. This rise occasioned ex
traordinary importation, which increased
the stock on hand so as 10 lower the price a
1 gain, and to bring very heavy losses in the
1 Speculators. For example, Spanish wool
I r»se to more than 20s. per lb. and is now not
I worth more than from eight to ten shillings
per lb
N r liavfc the speculations to the foreign
colonies been more productive than those 'o
the continent of Europe. The markets in
j the Brazils and the Spanish provinces in
I Souih America, are completely overstocked
, with British goods ; and all the late advtn_
j tun s to those settlements have bi en very los
j ing concerns to the persons who embarked in
j them.
The same observations apply to St Domin
go, with the additional misfortune, that cof
fee the principle article bro’t from thence in
return, can hardly be sold at any price, and
if sold at all, must be sold at a ruinous tie
preciation.
A far greater quantity of goods has b*en
sent to Martinique and Guadaloupe than the
consumption of those Islands can, by any pos
sibility, take off; and competition for pro
duce to load ships home has been so great, as
to raise the price of gar there 40 percent.
' upon the purchasers ; a commodity, which
when it arrives, is just as unsaleable, in the
present state of things, as the coficc of St.
Domingo.
Since our intercourse with the U. S of
, America has been renewed, the glut of their
, produce, which has been accumulating
j while their embargo and non-intercourse
j laws were in force, is pouring into this couti
j try, with a rapidity that not only depresses
I its value, but even deters the purchasers
I from buying many articles at any price ;
! the quantity arrived aud expected being such
as can neither be consumed here, nor
exported Irom hence to the continent of Eu
rope
Under these circumstances, the conse
quence of a glutted and depressed market,
arising from an excessive and overstrained
importation in most bl anches of commerce,
must inevitably bring gieat distress upon
those whose speculations have led them into
engagements beyond the extent of their cap
ital. Speculation, confined rvithin proper
bounds, has undoubtedly its advantage :
like strong liquors if used in moderation,
it acts as a cordial, and quickens the too
languid circulation ; but like them, too, if
taken to excess, it leads to intoxication and
. ruin.
America miiil acknowlcdg ilinl the instigated
the attack upon the Chesapeake j tlist thed> ser
V'.-d the enactment of the irders in council j that
1 the was incomp* tont to judge of the insultmg
deportment of a British minister toiler govern
ment ; that (in lly, though more concessions
may he er.tim- ratt d, that the was all along
wrong, and the policy and measures of the min*
inters of Great Britain towards her pei fo tly
right. Arnerics must m-kc these acknowle dge
tnents the basis of any tre aty or compact tint
may restore old and amicable relations between
her and the British empiic ; and whoever suppo
ses that slip will do all this, may anticipate in a
greeinent if not really since* e, :«t b ust ’pparently
so. Jt would he a very indiscreet expect tf on that
presumed upon any viod’Jic it ion of the sjs'em of
our able and fortunate ministers. calculated to '
j tfrve us ihe alliance of one independent nation in
I this wide world. T would o»-e» -n tolly in hope
I b>r it- The renewal of unrestrained commerce
with America would open a market for our ma
hufaclttres, and lor those comm xhlies that have
now »n unprofitable, jf not an h jurioug occunu
*ion of lli- States and ware-houses of tlt« United
Kingdoms,—such policy our ministers would
revolt from. What * to make a concession winch
would he a reproach to their wisri^i, and sully
the f ante of their |>olittoal achieve nvnts, to ;;ive
peace and content • the state, and redeem thou
sands of starving m»mif«clitfei> from ruin and
miser)*. No such thing, that mu'trotbc. No
—let America shut her porta, w.tlmH th< other
ports of the world, that aic shut agiiogt ns : end
if it should open them all to relinquish one pre
tens on that we have upon American acquit*-i
cr rice, though the claims that we have upon her
rpngethcri 'ght be brushed » Way by one honest I
s* ns i*ion for toe country’s prosperity, ot minis )
ten, estimating ot,r digni’y unmeasu ably be
yond our happinestor our security, will not re
cede a single inch from what they have rcsol
ved upon——’hat Amei ic.i shall concede all, and
Great Britain notin'*". Let it be observed tr.al
Common* from the trn«fo?9 ofthe British muse*
uni, Mr Gerville’s collection of minerals has
been valued by Dr*. U idling ton and WuH»ston,
and five other gentlemen, who report that the
whole collection consists of about 20,000 *peri
mens, that the scries of chrynUUited rubeNitirs.
• bamond*. and precious stones in general as well
as the series of (lie various ores, tar surpass anv
that are known to them in the different collec
tions and that the value ofthe whole is 18,7271
including the cabinets which cost 1,6001.
A patent lias lately been obtained for a method
of giving statues, or other ornamental works,
in plaister, an appearance nearly resembling
marble. 'Phis is effected bv impregnating tiie
I plaister *»r parts with sulphate of alumine (slum)
and afterwards, when cooled, continuing to
throw over it tome ofthe solution till the alum
forms a line chrystallation over t lie sttriac- of the
plaister; a proper degree of smoothness, or po
lish, may then be given it by means of sand pa
per, and finished by being rubbed with a fine
linen cloth, slightly moistened with clean wa
ter.
Nf.w York, Oct. 8.—Noon.
From Ireland.
By the Brig Sarah, Captain Barnes, ar
rived this morning f> om Dub in, we have re
ceived a file of Irish papers to the 25rh of
August inclusive ; but as the da es are no
, la'erthan those alreudv received from Lon
don, they contain very little interesting mat
ter.
From r/if Ditbrn F. Post, *4ugtiit 25.
ARTHUR O'CONNOR.
In consequence of wha has la - ly appear
eel in Cobbett’s Register and ether publica
tions respecting a supposed concern ol Mr.
Arthur O’Connor in the Argos Paper, a
friend of Ins sent us a letter just vicrivtd
from Paris containing vlte following extract
under his own hand.
” You did me justice in contradicting bat
I hud the smallest connexion in any r.C-vs
paper in this country. They title know
my feelings who think I could ever meri le
in such a thing in these time*. Neither
my head, hand, or heart, have been engaged
in such aff :irs for many years : and sim e l
left Scotland, scarce have I written a line
for any newspaper, nor had I the :no*,t dt-e.
tarn connection with any. Of this be assur
ed.”
County mayo—Last Friday a numerous
ard respectable meeting of the Gentlemen.
Clergy, and Freeholders of the county of
Mayo having been convened at Ballinmbe
for the purpose of preparing An address to
be presented to his grace the lord lieut. on
his arrival in that county, the great ques.,
tion of 'Catholic Htnanci/iatibil was made
(collaterally) a subject of debate, in con*e
quence of some observations made by t'epn.
sellor Mac Donnell. 1 hose were followed
up by a specific motion on that poin', made
bv Mr. Neil O’Donnell Esq who in a most
eloquent and zealous manner, advocated the
claims of his Catholic fellow subjects.-—
Lord Tyrawley the Hon. H A D Hon, Ut
Honorable D. Browne, Martin D rwan,
K-q and many other gemlenrten of equal
respectability expressed, in .lie strongest
terms, their cm dial coincidence with the
feelings of Mr. ()’D mnell, hut did not thick
that the proper mode or time for publiciv
expressing their sentiments; hey at he
satne time pledged themselves bv the most
solemn assuram s. In** • f a proper opjn r
tnnity was aff >rdcd them (bv callingam ec
ing lor the purpose) .hev would cacer idly
qo_operate with anv other person n !*»»•«.
warding the claims of tlu Cathuhc . I he
honorable colonel Dilliou distinguish-d him
sell in a particular manner b\ tlte un.'ffVc
ted zeal he manifested on Hie oci tsiur. Ji
having been ultimately agreed tha. if a re
quisition were sent to the high sheriff tncall
a meeting for that particular purpose, they
would attend and give their as*ie-ance Mr
O’Donnell consented to withdraw his nr ti
on, with enderstatid:ng that the e 9hcij.d be
ano'her meeting appointed for tha day
men'll. afitr which the address to his ex
cellenc.y passed unanimotislv. lmme» i«'e_
Iv after the meeting had r--en, a r-.-qnisi ion
was drawn, and signed by twelve of the
most respectable protest Ant magistra es in
the country, calling on the high sheriff to
convene a meeting for the purpose of ta.
king into consideration the most effectual
means of advancing the claims of their ca
tholic fellow subjects.
The visible traits of satire in the following
remarks of the Editor of the Dublin Correspon
• lent of July 19 has induced us to girt* it a re
publication We have no doubt it will meet witli
an attentive perusal, as it strongly shews the
sentiments entertained by It i oh Editors of Bri
tish justice and magnanimity.—Baltimore A
metican.
“ It is oonreived that n rupture with (hetween
America and France.) will necessarily draw the
connection closer between Great Britain and
America. This is. however, by no means to
be inferred ass matter of course, probable as it
appears to be The reconciliation -if Great Bi i
t in and America does not uhngeth r d-tp nd
upon tiny thing that Fi .nee may do The wise
and Vigorous rulers of our aff airs have not left
disease to be in any degree affected oy such a
contingence. Before they will permit a friendly
association of British and American inter- its.
we would not recommend the lightest degrade*
tion of that national reputation, tnat our minis*
ters for some reason or other seem so tenarinus
of : and we would not have them forced into
any compliance Unit did not accord with the
best con {derations that cmild be entertained for
the interests of the country But in all that has
occurred between them and the American go
Ivernment in a long cours; of rngociation, we
cannnldisrover thut they have manifested such
a disposition to n cordial and ready undeiatan
ding, as policy founded upon a just examination
of the state of the nation whorr ut fairs they di
feet, pointed out they should evince, and with
sincerity too. Ii what they have done make its
proper impression, we cannot be very sanguine
that the condition in which France and America
are placed relatively, will be productive of ad
justm nt an I good will so expeditiously as the
public of th**se kingdoms could hope for it It
lias been statrd by the American government
that the rescindment of the ami-commercial de
cio«*r „r France and England was a necessary
preliminary to friendly relations with either, and
therefore it was in the power of the ministers at
any time, by abrogating their orders in council,
to have placed France at an hostile issue with
America.”
Nkw Yor it, October 8.
C.ptain Smith of the schooner Alert, left
i Dublin on the 30lh of Aug., but did not bring i
; miy newspapers. Capt. S. informs us, that
the last London papers received in Dublin,
did not.com ain any thing relative to the re
pealing of the British Orders iu Council.
filer, .dciv.
Capt. Doty who arrived at this port yes. j
: terday. in 95 days from Batavia, informs that I
j 2 days before he sailed. For., the com man- j
der of the Spice Islands, was shot by order
of the Governor General, for having given
up the Islands to the British. Captain I) ]
fut .her states, that several engineers had I
just arrived at Batavia, from the Lie of
j France, lot th>- purpose of constructing for ]
tificarion.e The seat of Government has ■
Ibf-en removed from Ratavia to Buiienzorg,
j obou; 50 miles from B ttavia where the Go
vernor General had built a most superb pa
jlacr. A BritLh squadron passed UP 'he Chi
Lies': seas about the 25'h of June.—lo.
L It is confidently stated, that the Honorable
] Jo'.m Q Adams, our minister at the court of
j Russia, lias expressed his decided opinion in
favor ol a treaty with Great Britain, p: a.,
vided it could be obtained upon unv tiling
[like equal terms of reciprocity. It is re_
j marked by him. ho ■> dang rous the French
jinfluence in the court of St. Petersburg, has
j become, pervading every artery of the lm
. dy politic; there is no. a nobleman's palace,
but has some minion of Franco within it.—
He considers the safety of thin country and
Great Britain so nearly connected, that we,
as well as they, must find a paramount du
ty in opposing French influence and power.
St. Petersburg is the most extravagant'
Court in Europe ; the establishment of the
French Minister is almost unlimited, in point
of expence. He lives at a rate infinitely
mere luxurious than die Emperor A!cxan_
tier, or anr nobleman <>f his Court As -i»
instance i his profusion he give a public
g ib. some lime ago, at which all the public
.Vi .list•*> s, the nobility, gentry and strangers
ve e invited The number of guests was
immense, and every person en his entrance i
•"as presented ■ h i lottery ticket, which
was drawn doting lie evening. Every tick
Ct was a pr;z. which entitled the bearer to I
i p-tir ofgttvc-s.au elegant fan, n valuable.1
-|V'.’tl, watch, or s ue other article. So
>U*i m this par>icul.tr alone, many thousand
pounds were expended.
Alexander is said to he completely infa
mated with th glorv and success. as well
as the pei-dual auras ions ..f Napoleon ; so
that his influence a tin-court of S' Peters
burg, is in no chance of becorfiing diminish
ed ; especially w hilst it is ex ended by bri
I); ry. splendor and a univeisal diffusion of
cxin-nce.
’T?*' i he above three Paragraphs are from
a Federal paper, the Boston Gazette.
IIU R RICAXF.
On S’.turdr.v the 111It Angti-t, the-*** w\s a
Hij ri -. 'oe, at Port Spain, Ida.. I of Trinidad,
sy upturns t winch appeared early iu the morn
ing. Dy 12 the wind hail increased to a strong
G du
Tile sto.-m continued with the addition of
frequent fl isiies of lightning (but no aud .bl thun
j der) .md. a slight tremor nf the earl It, unilinear
Iy four o’clock : ii then began to take iT, and by
six feil moderate ; but it was n it till outlay
; morning that any pn cse account could be m d~
) of the damage in tin: harbor or in town ; and so
1 far as we have been able to collect the follow.
1 iog is a sketch of it :
To the east ward of the King's wharf, along
those of Messrs Pietri, Fi-m heschi and Bois
sicrc, are d po* il. higgle tv pigglety all tli
droggers, launches, gd)Hrs,ati'l sm .11 craft w!»i h
tividly lay off that an'borag* ; and immediately
Hi t lie south end a Spanish launch with mules
filled and sunk. To the westward o:‘tlie wharf
ait :><*r bowsprit nearly over th ■ guns of' f«»r»
St. Andrew, lies the American brig Qu -k Time
—nex; n succession, is the Bermudas schooner
1 Emtneiioe, win :h arrived on Friday from New
fottndlifid, vv tli a full cargo of ftali, and she >s
; now discharging along side; next are two St
' V.ncent sloops, the Dipper and the Delight ;—
■ then the American -loop Dispatch, and brig
■ Kornetij from S-‘C >, and A ■ • ■ ■ ■, arrived only
i toe day before, from Quebec ; the brig Iris from
jCiuk, ship Gt'-orgt from Liverpool, brig Palis
11corn London, se'i’r. Triumoh, his m <je.sty’s gun
boat Lemon, and the sch’r. Venus from N. Caro
i bna, with lumber
The Bermudas slonp I* illy, arrived only th>
same morning from N wf.midland with a cargo
of fish, an I Mr Span** sloop the Harriot, both
>nn!t at their anchors from striking on sunken
hulks.
'll' I.lio’uion’s fine boat had the smrv* fate, &
Mr Black’s boat having p'aric I and drifted a
shore on Mr Graham’s wharf was there crush
cd to atoms, between the wall and a heavy flat,
loaded with molasses, which fell on hoard of her
to windward.
If one ot the vessel* ashore have suffered any
! material dinujg..-, km it will require ingenuity |
and strength to get them off, they have been dri
veu so high up by the force of the wind and sea,
which ro«e very considerably during the height
of the gale
The ships t&hich rode the gale, were his
M*j city’s ship Cyg’ Ct, snip Hri'innia, Trafalgar I
and Amelia j twigs President Dunn, St. Nicho
las, F >mPrince* and Muniasliquio ; schooners
Sei Flower and’'Catharine, wir.i flour and oom
fr >m Virginia j but they all drove during the
height of the gale, and, wlu-n it took off, were
trailing tfie gmir d. Mis Majesty’# ship Cygnet
b 'd four anchors a head, and yard* and topmasts
struck.
We may expect to le'nr a tale of calamities
f om In* storm in the island* northward,to which
our# art comparatively miidl, tuoug.i f.«r exceed
mg what we are aide to hear
D'lrlfijf the Ga'e tno wli’r. Edward, eapta n
Jordan, bound for Norfolk. w»* d s ousted, ard
no * I '.’B autilK 5 mile# below this place— c*j go,
ir.jlasse*, nearly saved.
Capi. Lake, of th® Rritish navy, for land
ing ami leaving Robert Jeffrey, a Ilritishk
seaman, on the uninhabited island of Sombe
rn.for some pet:y offences, has been tried by a
court martial, found gu'hy. and dismissed
his majesty's service For murdering A.
mcrican seamen and citizens liritiuh offiM
cers, instead of being dismissed,arc /iroma-4
ted —Am. IVatchman
Mr. Muxgo 1’arkk —A letter from co 1/
Maxwell, dated g vernment house, Sene.
gal, July 6, 1810, to the scretary of the Afri*
can institution says, “ I have jusi received,
information from Gnree, that Mr. Lapor.e,
of that island, was on the 27th March last,
at C—, and h.itfthere met with a Touca
lour, who informed him that a month before
he hadsecnMr Mungo Parke in a village,
the name of which had escaped themtmory
of Mr. Laporte ; that he is very well, hut
alone, having lost alibis companions ; that
he intended to return to the coast, hy Galara
to Senegal, it being a shorter route from
where h- was, than hy Gambia ”
f—:—l ~ib~ 1 11."»*—
Kith.ion a. 15th October 1810.
rr'HOSE persons wishing supplies of COAL
A from the llceji Run Pits, will be pleased to
leave lhe>r order* *t my Counting Room, wliare
« m> asure »* kept for tde convenience of Such •»
vodi to have their coal ir>e«sured from the wag*
A/ W. RAFGOtiK.
October It. tf
Baltimore, October 10.
Ship, Sally, Webber, of Boston, arriveX
las: evening ; sailed from Liverpool about
'28th August. She landed a messenger at
A or folk vj: • h despatches from our minis
ter* in France and England for government*
II e do not learn that she brings any news
Inter than before received Passengers.
cap'ain Josiuh Wilson, Afessrs Wm Trull
and Ed. Jones.
The Messenger landed from the Sally on
Friday.
A/ew^YoNX, Oct. 9.
It appears, by captain Dennis's log book,
ibat, on the first of ’/its rnon h he spoke the
ship Sally. Capt. Webber of Bos'on, then 32
days from Liverpool for Baltimore, having
on board a Mr avenger svi /i Despatches frdm.
Gen. Armstrong-Cape, D. informs the
Editors of this Gazette tha' the above gen
tleman told fvm that 'he Despatches were of
a very favorable nature. A* the Messenger
took his departure from England about'the
last of August, it is probable he has also a.
communication from Mr. Pinkney He wav
anxious to know whether our Congress
had met; but said nothing about the orders
in council. By the next mail from the
southward, we shall probably be furnished
ii>’ h the news by this arrival in detail_
Th* above is probably the gentleman who
took to England’he news of the repeal 't,f
the Berlin and Milan Decrees.—N. Y Ga
zelle.
New-York, October 10.-Captain Brown,
passenger hi the brig Matilda, Arnold, from La
guira, informs that the brig Jane, Smart, arrived
at I.sguira from Cxithcchs, on tlie 6th of Sep
tember. On the rimming of the 7th, capt. Smart
hoisted Ins colors, ns usual, viz. ensign, pendant
and jack, and went on shore. Soon after a boat
from the British brig of war Challenger, Capt.
Hidcr, was sent alongside, and an officer went
on board who ordered the pendant to be taken
down, which the mate refused to do, and the*
officers of the Challenger pulled it down by force.
About twelve o’clock, Capt. Smart returned o;i
board his brig, anal after learning the cause of
the pendant’s being struck, ordered it to be hois
ted again. This being perceiv. d by the Chulten
boat wall several armed m<-n whs :»g in
•sent and the colors were sg.i.n forcibly taken
down. Capta.n Smart was s'Urd and carried
on board the Challenge-, and from thence on
s’inr", under a string g i ird. to toe commandant',
who after an explanation ortiered Capt1 Smart t »
i»e immcdi .t lv released : but informed h»m at
ibe-ame time iha no merchant vessel would be
allowed u» wear a p. ,ulant in port.
Capi Aruoid confirms tlie abo-.e statement_■
and informs that duties jolt i;np:) s and bkpnrjN
Mere lessened one-fourth in Brno i bottoms ; fc
that the government of Carracc&s Have prehibil,
s-d the slave trade.
Pxfraci of c letterJ'mtn on yftftertcott yen
i If man in J^iverfiool, lu Inn friend in
PurtnmoulA, Ai il. dated Auyiott 5.
mo.
.** A sbCceSsimi of failures 1ms taken flats,
with in He list six months, in ihis co.ur-j,
which perhaps ha- never, in so short an m
; terval bt eo equalled The shock c nnmenc
j e<l at the bead of file commercial system.
(In London,six hundred £c: veufy-t.ne failures
! have takrii place ; so ae sinyly, from one
i to three millions ste l.ng, ,\I :.,y of these
j are private hanks of immense concerns,
: w'h<-ae paper formed 'lie s.lien' s of specma_
| to n. 1 bat of I) Hays, which wph an
; "ouncpd on die 3-1 in.st. is one of the largest
in tie Kingdom. Tw in the neighborhood,
ot Liveip il have sunk, anti among the fai
, lures in this immense depot of trade is one
of one mil 1 t-'ii and another of 450.0001 ster
ling. 1 lie intimate connection ot London
wttri ibis place at.tl ii,de< d with every part
of England, has given rise to a general want
of confidence, Du not believe our embargo
Caused this coiinti y i-o injury ; liere is c!i.
rect, irrefVugah.e proof that it did-and
well-informed men are now wilin g to ac
knowledge. that this heavy g*nit would
have been played off | isr year, liad not the
non .intercourse taw set afloat, by lie revL
i yA* hazardous enterpr'ze, the almost sink,
i ing credit of embargo speculators ”
I Baltimore October 9.— Arrived, schr.
II •n t1'!, Harrison, £4 <! .ys from Ko g-iou
(Ja i.aic t)-ruin and Pm ento-.S<unuiel
Grace
I . All Mill \ ND.\’S MhN have been set at
iibcrtv by the new ipwernmen the Spa,.
; nisli Main, six of the n had arrived at J-».
meica. All others who bud been imprison
j m>tler the old government, were also set
| at liberty.
FROM MEXICO.
YVc have seen a gentleman just arrived
from Vera Cruz (Mexico) who informs, that
the Viceroy r.t (Mexico) lias supplied the
governor of Mai acaybo with money, arms,
and ammunition, for the put pose of resisting
the tehels of Can accas, whom it was-deter
mined to reduce to submission. I he Bul
wark 74 gun ship was on the eve of sailing
for Spain with the deputies on board from
Mexico to the Spanish Cortes, and was t®
touch at the Havana to take on hoard the
deputies from Cuba. The Mexicans had
dispatched two -hips laden with gin pow
der (nmHufacttP'ed in Mexico) as a present
to the Spani-li Patriots of the mo her coun„
tiyr, and hatl subscribed twenty millions of
dollars to be sent to them shortly. Ph!l.
II after.