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ces vanish away ami both the peace ami se
curity of the country is established The
respective judges taking care «>f giving ex.
act information as to the quality of the arti
cle* so stored.
The Junta of Caraccas omit for the pre
sent, to make many other remarks which de
pend upon the circumstances of the mom it,
and from the opposition that some foreign
nation mtv ofTer to the consolidation of our
government. —If such shott.d be he case,
the department of Venezuela hns sworn i
to maintain its independence, or bury itself
under the ruins, before being subject to unit
foreign nation whatsoever ; Even if our
friendly nllies should be stimulated bv an
ambition which our good faith and political
Calculations could not foresee, we would pi e
ferour total extermination rather than tore .
nnunce the title of Free and Independent
Spanish Americans. Let us not speak of
Frenchmen— Th* difficulties which have
been brought upon us by the invasion of their
armies, and the horrible execration which
every honest man, be he a Spaniard or not,
must declare against them, guarantee our
security. We shall enjoy it without moles.
Cation, if we only keep ourselves united in
principles and sentiments, and if that peace
and brotherly love which lias prevailed tlu
ring the Glorious Revolution of C.araccas,
will equally animate the whole department
of Venezuela.
Such arc the wishes of the Junta.
Authorised by the Sccreta.y of the
War Department.
Caraccas, May 19th, 1810.
<£aropf.
Roston. June 30.
LATEST FROM ENGLAND.
’TO TUB EDITOR,
“ Hi ig Ceesar. lat. 42. 26, long 62.
“ Fin—-H *ving fal*en in with a schooner
bound n Boston, ar.d having had hut 25 days
from Liverpool. I send yon a / on don paper ot
the 19 .i ot M u ; which I hope you will
receive seasonably from your obedient ser
vant,
__ “ MICHAEL POWERS.”
lt7* rhe paper p liteiv furnished bv Capt.
Powkrs is four days later than before re
ceived ; hut is filled principally wnh de
bates on Parliamentary Privileges, and on
the topic of Catholic emancipation.
jL-rov.i a London paper qf May 19, 1810.
Ai n 19 We have private le ters from
Labnn to th. .5 h. when it was reported, that
Lord Wkli i notom was advancing towards
Spain, with32 0U0 British and S6,000 Portu
guese troops
Oporto advices bring accounts from Lord
\\ kllinctoN’s army to the 6'h mst.—His
Lordship had iett V’nrn, and was advancing
towards C:udad Rodrigo ; and the French
■were falling-jack into the centre of Leon
rI he head quarters of tlie opposing armies
were about SO miles apart ; and there is no
doubt a contest will speedily ensue.
The Princess Am elm (youngest daughter
of the King, born in 1783) was in a very cri
tical state last night. '1 he accoun s from
IViudnor stated, “ that her Royal Highness
was much worse than on the preceding day,
and that no fin llier hopes were entertained ’*
The whole Court were overwhelmed wi,h
affliction on her sir nation ; and she is con
siantly attended by the Princess Mart, and
his Majesty.
MUNGO PARK.
We have the satisfaction to communicate
the very pleasing intelligence of the safety
of Mr. Mukso Park whose supposed loss,
his family, li is friends, and his country have
sincerely, bnt. prematurely deplored forsev
eral years. The event was considered so
certain, that a pension was voted to Mr .
Park, by the House of Commons, in consul
eration of her husband’s public services, in a
former session of Parliament.-Phis Gen
tleman, as our readers will recollect, has
been long and usefully engaged m exploring
the interior of Africa, and a sanguine hope1
iriav la; now entertained that hiv country!
will have the benefit of his laborious and
haz ud us researches The whole of the i
suite attached to die en*c» prize, ab vc fifti '
in nu nl»ei\ vv.th the exception of three, aie
sa»d to have pei i»hed. The intellig ncc to
which n e aliude ami which we hope soon to I
find fu'lv fi'ifi: inp'l, lui^ been received b)
the ship Ravontc of London Cap . Truman,
arrived at Plymouth from (Jorce Pn vious
to the departii: e. f'htr ws^', intoniiariou
had been received *t Senegal by a native of
the Mvnlit'go country, who accompanied
3VIr. Jiark. ns fir into (he interior a-> Scpo
and Sunianding. that he as alive in tin
mouth of J<nu irv. Col. Maxwell, die Guv
ernoroi Senegal, ivm. *n consequence ot trr.s
information, directed that a decked boat
should immediately be fitted out to proceed
up ’he river Senega/ for the purpose . f giving
assistance to Mr. Park in fits indefatigable
exertions in exploring the continent o{ jtf
riea. This account is further corroborated
by a letter dated in M irc'l last, received by
a vessel from Sierra Leone, from Mr. Doug
las, who writes as fol.ows ; —
“ Permit me to lay before you some infor
mation respecting Mungo Park, which I
■was favored with from an intelligent ',1a.
homedan,' whom I met at Hon e, and who had 1
acted as a guide to Mr. Park, from the time
of Ids landing on the continent of Africa, to
Ins embarkation on the Aiger, He states
that the king of St go had shown much favor
to Mr Park, and that the re port of his as
sassination there was untrue. He had pas
sed far along the Alger, without any moles
ration whatever, from the na.ivcs. My in
formant could not recollect the date of Ids em - J
bnrkation on the Aiger, hut t* inks it must he I
about 3 yea s ago. Mr Park had taken four
months provisions for himself and two fol
lowers, with whom he intended to proceed
to the eastward, and onwards as fay as the
Jted Sea Some travellers who hrd fallen
in with ids guide, informed him, that about
two or three mouths subsequent to Mr.
Park'* embarkation, he hid iieen severe,
ly scorched io his breast by the hurst
ing of agon while fi iug at some birds, hut
that he passed Tumbucioo, in the night by 1
■water.”
The boats of our squadron in Quibcron
Pay have destroyed ten soil of French \ »s
sels under La Fosse dm j/OYK,on tiic/i/:
cf Hhi.
Jitighah Stocks,—lay 19. Three Pci *
Cent. ru.
FROM SOUTH OF SPAIN.
C.npt. Colby, arrived at A'rwbnryfiori.
jiicant the 23d April, and iniorios, that.
the French from Andalusia hail advanced I
into Murcia, hail taken Lorca, and menac~ ' !
id Murcia x. -I •-'art/iui'ena. The Spanish i
army of the i.untie were to retire <o Cart ha
f'cna ami alii cant, and not risk a battle.
\Ye llope they will harras* the French
fl inks, and cut off their supplies.-\ p it
t<7. in war i> the policy of the Patriots.—Uvs
ton Ccruinel.
Paris, May 1.
The Mon'near makes the following reHec
lions on ilte debates in the Hns ■ of Co n..
inons upon the expedition to Antwerp
" We resolved to publish 'he sequel of the
discussions and the investigation relative to
the ejrpediiion to tlte Isle of YYalchercn, thn*
the question is already stale, and no longer ;
possesses any great interest, Hut this in
vestigation is a m mument of the ignorance
olihe E lglish, respecting those affairs which
most concern them. Want! no plan of Ant
werp to be ha-J in Lon (ton ? What! are they
ignorant of the situati on of these dock yards,
trom which IT sail of the line have been
already launched, and eighteen more are
on the point of being launched ? They know
eo‘, that since July 1803, when the emperor
v’-ited Antwerp, six millions have been ex
pended upon the fortifications which were
previously considerable : and that the le;t
bank, and the Tote dc Flandre, were pro
lected by fortifications, so as to maintain
‘he communications with France and c»
to red bv an inundation to the extent of 2000
“ 1 he English truly lav out their money*
to very little purpose. Lord Chatham knew
nothing of the fortifications of Antwerp, bur
trom masons who had worked there. Eu_
ropr and France will see with astonishment
♦ he exrent c>f the ignorance of iiir English
'Ikey fcnow uni whe' her Cadmind hr an Is.,
iand Tkrtj are tfrnoranr i/,a•* the channel
which sefuira’cd (Jadsa'ul from the Cnn'i
nrrrt has been dry th>-se five and twenty
years and rhaf Cadsatid is no longer an
Island. They know nor that the French
squadron could place i»solF in safety, either
a - >ove nr below the fortifications of Antwerp.
They know not that forts Lillo and L^if.
heushocck were protected on the land side
■>y inundations. and secure from every at
tack, and on the side of the river by 80 we
ces of ordnance, which from the right & left
supported the line of gunboats & the booms
in tli,-' pass >ge
n 'vout i be curious to contrast with this
ignorance the detailed informations which
t!u* 1 typographic cabinet of France possesses
with regard to the coasts of England, and
what the English were doing there in 1805
Observations on the number of batteries,
their strength, the numbers of ihe workmen,
the quantity ot troops, the posts from which
resistance might be expected, those that
could not he defended, the profile of the works
&<*. were daily arriving at the Topographic
cabinet of France.
" Vfter this, it will not excite astonish,
ment, that the English knew not, that there
wfcve 12,000 troops at Boulogne, who became
disposable from the instant that theexpedi
tion stumbled upon another point ; and that
the national guards alone was fully suffici.
ent, as soon as this (joint was found not to
be menaced ; that the senator general Rani ■
pon commanded at St. Oiner.a chasseur
corps o* picked national guuids. regimented
these three years, and consisting of 12 000
jrm-n; that the general of division, Cham
Ibarian, commanded at Louvaine, a camp of
jeigiit battalions ot the line ; that the rtgi
ments of conscripts, workmen at Antwerp,
formed tar more than 6000 men under arms;
that ilie fortresses in Flanders contained
the depots of 60 regiments, 15 of them be.
ing cavalry, and finally, that the Icing of Hoi
land had 12,000 men under arms, there being
[ only, beyond liis territory, tour regiments to
watch II.mover.
“ Ic is surprising to find the English so
little acquainted with France,as to suppose
tl: it an expedition landed upon her territo
ry should r. mpel her to weaken the army
she had at Vienna.
I ne result of the expedition to the
Scheldt has proved, and all Europe, which
is in constant communication with France,
kn,-w b-fore_hand, chat a debarkation ot
40 000 E ghsli on our coasts would not ere
- e my diversion, but only occasion the for
m I'oii of new armies.**
We may form an opinion how anxious the
English ate for peace, and how much they
b < 1 die want of it by the sudden and extra,
ordinary rise of their funds, upon the. first
intelligence of an exchange of prisoners_
They never rose higher in time of peace.
I HILADELPHTA, July 4.
LATEST FROM EUROPE.
Yesterday arrived, brig Cx*ar, captain
1 owet'S, hvm Liverpool, by whom we have
L union & Liverpool papers to the 23d May,
hot have only tune t> extract the follow ’
nig:
London, May 21.
Mr. Brand makes this day Itis motion f r
a parliamentary reform. It i:, supposed
that the debate will occupy two dais_—
\\ e understand that he does not intend .•>
propose any specific reform, but only, that a
committee be appointed to report their o.
pinion ol tl j necessity or non .expediency of
such a measure.
Letters were yesterday received from the
JJutch coast to the 12th inst. which state,
t.iat Bonaparte and his empress jvere ex
pected to visit all ihe principal towns in
Holland. Great preparations were malting
tor their reception at Rotterdam. These
letters say nothing of the decree reported to
have been issued against the Americans,
and which, if reallv adopted, is iikelv to
ue extended to the Dutch ports.
t Accounts from Lord Wellington state,
t'la’. his head quarters were at Almeida, on
die R h, Gen. Ildl’s brigade was at Castle
B'm, and Gen. Paine’s at St. Pedro. The
advanced corps of (General Hill’s brigade
was within ten miles o» the enemy’s load,
quartets at f'tiidad Hodvigo. (fen. Craii—
loid Hiir at Go legos, between Almeida and
Cuidad Hodhgo. The British f„rre amount
ed to 23 000 men, which would lie reinfor.
imI In about 3000 more, who were on their
iiiau h Horn L:sl> >n. The Portuguese troops
see about .>7,000 strong, making together a
jotil CO.OCO men.
1 In enemy are about the snm<- number
Ney hnvitig brut joined by the divisions of
.ii gnin- and L 4soii, and .lunot being on his
march from .' storga, to join him with 10 000
dilatory, arid 2000 cavalry. Ten thousand
■ion; trrrps wine to be dr-’.tvn from Valla
l.’ktl.. L- iron’s divj.Vn n was on Ihc 5ih, on
tile right bank of the Aguada.
Extract of a /irivatt lrt(rr.
“ Oi’ORTo. Mnv 10.
“On the 24-b of April the French an.
p:cached the advanced guard tinder Gen.
I he force under Junot, is stated at 10 000
men, of which number, after the capifjla
tioti of Astorg 1.2 000 were dispatched to
Asturias, and were defeated on their march
to Porlier. Only 300 remained at Astorg.'.,
and the rest, amourting to r.enr 8 COO men,
marched towards Ciudad H dng>, and w;
suppose have joined Marshal Nev, wiio'
threatens that fdhress, which will now he
the object of serious contention. To |>,;lT
parties its possession is of the utmost im_ :
portance. To the French, as it would favor'
their designs upon Oporto and the North of
Portugal, and force the allied army South,
ward ; and to the allies, as it is an interest
ing point between the enemy’s division in
Leon and Estremadora. Ciudad Rodrigo 1
is. however, a plans of considerable strength, .1
with a formidable,; in-isoo ; and though tile
French have brought their heavy artillery
♦ rom Salamanca for the purpose of com
mencing the siege, it is not likely, were it
even left to itself, soon to surrender Dm
the 'movements of the ai'mi<*« indicate an '
approaching battle. Lord VVelln g on, a 1
ware of the design upon Ciudad Rodrigo, 1
It ad dispatched Ccn. Cranford tocoverit;
and ns it appears, from advices from Opor i
to, ns late as the 10*h of May, the French 5
approached his advanced guard, and drove *
in the piquets. This movement has drawn
Lord Wellington from. Vizcn, who, with -
-2,000 Dritislt and 14,000 Portuguese, took i
the direction of Almeida, and on the 5ih {
instant, was advanced about three leagues !:
■intuh-cast of Almeida. The French army 1
is commanded by Ney. and with the fbree ''
under Junot, which has probobly joined
him, and is said to amount to 30,000 men. .
Dther divisioi s arc, however, jo’mit g him, !
ird the probability of a battle will !v- deter- •
mined by the respective proportion of force. I
If the. two armies approach near in point i
>f numbers, we apprehend that the French !
wiil prove shy of fighting. They will pro.!
b'sbly linger until tney are joined by pow i
“rftil reinforcements, and add to their chart.. f
res of success,by the superiority ot mun
jera i
Die Krr.al! bands of patriot- ore rn the
r.h rt, in the different provinces with vari.
ms success. Romana has repulsed an at
sek upon Daclajos, ami O’Donnel *h->v/S, [
hat he on>y wants a mi rc powerful nodef '
talent force to do real set vice to hiscoutt*
ry.
Summary of Event9.—-The evchatrg? of ,
jirisoacrs between this ceuntry and France,11
'ran ford, in the neighborhood of Cnidad
lodrigo, and drove ii. tin piquets. Dur
ng these operations. advices were sent t<
Lord Wdling'oiifat Yiseu who immediate
iv fortran hts march with 22.000 English and
14.000 I’nringiiese, to support the division '
under General Cranford On the 26 fo hr
p tssed Afoneidn. and fov the last accounts
which was of the 5ifo instant, from head
quarters. lie was a fe*v Iragurt to the S nitfo
east of Almeida. A reinforcement of 3006
men was hourly expected to arrive at the
camp.
“ I he French, after threatening the van
guard in the manner stated proceeded with
their main foody under he Duke of F.'chin j
gen, to the nuinfocr of 30 000 men. and oc..!
cupiedthc vicinity of fluid td R vdrigo. which
place had been lour foxf ire surrounded fov
their piquets. lluidad It >drigo is strongly
fortified, amplv provisioned, and powerful
ly garrisoned. and is in no danger front anv
force thru the Fconch can at present bring
against it. supported as it is fov the neigh
foorhood of the allied armies. The Ftench
have made a show rf commencing; the scige
of that place, and for that purpose have
forought all theiv heavy artillery from Sa
latnnnca.
“ In this situation of tilings tin apprehrn
sions aie felt for the? result of the present
manoeuvres ; font on the contrary, great hopes
•<*•<» entertained of a successful issue L >rd
Welling*on’s fo ce amounts to 30 000 men.
in high spirits, with scarcely a person on |
the sick. 1st, and supplied with every ne„
ces$ary of war and subsistence. Beyond the
number of 30 000 stated the enemy has not
5000 troops eau of Burgos, and therefore
can be in no rnnditi »n to commence the
siege of Cuidad 11' drtgo in the presence of
tlie allied army, or to make an ntrack upon
that armv reinforced as it progressively will
be front the interior oF Portugal
•• I here has been lately no want of the
essential articles "f meat and (l air in the
British army The cattle depot has nlwavs
had 1000 huliockv and the influx has been
f >r some Mme so great that they had not suf
ficient space for the herds
*' You will foe anxious to know the dis
tribution ot the Spanish forces near the Por,
tuguese frontiers O’D wind, who has been
mu Hi worsted at Merida, had, before the
conflict, 8000 men. Rornwna has about the
same number at Radajoa. The force of
Ballasteros near Seville. may be 10 000_
Flip French occupy Merida and it« neigh
fom h^od with 90 000 men, under Marshal
Mortier.”
May 22.
The princess Amelia, we are happy to
learn, passed the rrisi', of her disorder on
Saturday, and the tirconnts of vesterdny
stale, that her royal highness had a quiet
night.
BURDETT.
At a common hall held yesterday at Guild
hall, several resolutions were passed ex.,
pressing the severest disapprobation of the
rejection of the citv petition by the house of
commons, and of the conduct of the livery
men, wha the counter uddress, A
new petition vrasthen proposed by Mr. Quin,
assented to with great acclamations, and or..
tiered to he presented by Mr. Alderman
( ombe. Mr. Dixon and Mr, Kemble were
permitted to declare their sentiments unin
terrupted. The horses were taken from the
carriages of the lord max or & sheriff Wood,
and these gentlemen were escorted to their
respective homes by an immense concourse
of people.
Liverpool May 23.
SPAIN k PORIUGNL.
A considerable degree of activity appears
now to be manifested both on the part of the
cnemv and the allies in different parts of
the Peninsula. In Leon, Astorga, after a
tremendous bombardment, has surrender
ed to the French under Junot, A great part
of the girrison however escaped into Asm
rias in disguise cf peasants, but the gover
nor having refused to swear allvgian e to
Joseph, on which c edition he was ff red to
be continued in the comm mu! of the town,
heaud 1000 men were sent to Fr ncc. One
circumstance very strongly marks the spirit
of the Spanish peasantry. The governor,
when he capitulated, enforced a stipulation
’hat the troops of the enemy were not to be
distributed in the adjacent country, assign
ing as a reason that he could not answer
for their security among his indignant coua
crymen.
Ims already crmmencert cn an offensive
■oale Four Cartels s riled from Plymouth
'•» Tup diy the 15th, far Morlaix, with
pea* 800'French prisoners on hoard. many
• if whom h id been confined several years
in this country. These will l:e followed by
many others, as fast as the Cartels return
wiih our prisoners in exchange.
A Gentian paper stages, under date from
J'co.l.Ti, the ll*h ultimo, that the cam
tiaign bei ween the TUKK.S and 1UJSS1
ATSS IihiI been opened by some skinnish_
injt. and that the nrrnv of r ich power was
estimated at one hundred and tif.y thou
sand men.
I he disturbances in the Tyrol, mention
cd m ono of our late nnmti-rs. had tueiroi i
K’n ’n ,be attempt to enf >rc.e the conscrip
tion system anions' ‘hose brave people. I
Tlie reduction of ttie Danish Island of |
H- rtihclm, in the Baltic. it is understood |
was the first >L>ject of the licet under Sir
J. Sauinart z, and from -lie s'ate of us de_ |
fences, i: is supposed by this tune to have
lallcn an e is\ cuiquest.
I lie report of the Non..Intcrconrse net I
having been so pended, is contradicted i»>
letters from N Y ik, of die Slst March,
wiiicli likewise state, that no fnriher pm
Kr*-ss had been made in Mr. M if mi’s tiil!,
nor was any other commercial or political
nieasute ot importance 1 kely to he adopt*
ed. until the return of the John Adams f;L
ga; e.
Prices of Cirn utui l4'lour in I .iverfiool.
Corn e erhanre. 7 ursday ¥hl of May.
'/'hr demand f<r •athrut run inurs and
1,v firr bushel dearer. Other drc.cri/< 11~
oft.i of (train n’t' a is > in request. Harley
and Malt each 3d <o 6 / and Oils 'id to Zd.
/yr bushel ndi'oncr. Means mure inquired
fjff & 1*. io 2a. /irr quarter higher. Cl jod
/'lour is scarcer at a f urther increase.
The brig Ca: s ir, i* -.ers. has arrived in the
Delaware, 37 lays from Liverpool, and bniws
papers to the 25t . M y, fit>m London
1 I't* H'ltisli pud'-ment continued ill session,
a'ul the subjects ,>( Pirlitiin'w try reform mil Ca
tholic emancipation had been debui.d with great
heat. b
1 ii? p^inoipal onpo^cr of nfirliniDentary rfform
■in this onr;a5ion, was mw of*its former h<1voc 'it's,
"|ir Tierney His argument amounted to this,
that it was improper to admii copyholders to vote,
occause tliat would lend to barliolders, neX1
would follow yearly tenants, and after that would
come every one who paid a tax, this would Iran
to universal suffrage, and there would he «n end
•o tne Liberties of England ! What a stup-nulou
fabric, what a laboratory for the decompose *u
'n manly and virtuous character, and for com
poundmg’ and manufacturing villainy !
1 he votes on parliamentary reform were, ayes
id/3, noc3 .>47—-so the question w s losi ——V
Francis Bu-dett may be now liberated as soon a -!
exped ient.
On the subject of Catholic ■ mancipation, t!,
British parliament are well on.- g • disposed i
emancipate the blade. <>r tin- Sftmiards or th
Turks, but this is another affair. Ii i iu pu-.i
comfort to mankind when they r.i o coolv an-1 <!e
iiberately consent to be tmmlniggeu—it is - grow
ing disease —Aurora
( 'ft A n I. F.<i ro v Jrilu 2.
BA^Tl.F. I a PO ■: Til ,.IL
Ca/i' /Ihook s, of the schooner ts.diy. nr
rived at ’his fort on Saturdnu fom ' Ma
(L ira, ihfoi-m* ua 'hat 'he day b fore hr.
8(irh d a fir itish g;tn l>rig itrriv'd a! tha
ft lace in G daysf om Lshon, with he m.
diligence that a grra' bat tie had bt en
t (gat on thr co~ fiartt af I'm"Viral fir. zvrru
the combined Brt ish and P r-..g,u.s-e armt)
and the french ; 'hut "heJighdng antintl
ea far three da an and that he French wns
c m/il- rly tlf a d with gnat Iocs Ji
Was also stwed h ?t -h> ch trij .fi<t ta
ken firinoners.were Many of them c0 c m
finely w< rn ow with, fad gw and hunger
a* o he unable to frucecd on thdr ma'eh.
It was/few;so a-* rted Lt the Pencil
had br en comfirlh d'a ez' it n tc Madrid fjr
the man qff’rrv;.d- ?.v. and that the Pa ri
otn h id taken j., , s.sioti of hut c y -d
rein fore emeu ./ 90-; o men that had arrived
a> Lisb >n from l-l gland remained on b tu ~d
the trails/tor! i. the Por'ug .r.ic assuring the
commander, tha> the /»>; /.;.> 'roofs hen in
the century togeh-r with the Portuguese
t 'o'./is wetefully comae.ent to defend the
kingdom
1 lie P irtuguese fire represented to be in
the I’ g irs splits imaginable, and to cuter
t mi ■ he most sungn.iu* hopes of preserving
their c- -n im v from French tt rannv.
Gnat rejoicings had taken place at Ma
d -iri in consequence of this victory over
the Jficnch.--Courier.
New York J i'y 3.
LVTF.ST FRO VI PO;<ldGAL
Captain it tile, of tiie brig Hector, from
Lisbot), which p.rt he left o., tiic 22-1 j
'1 May, informs, that Mu* B itish tro p* in j
F< r'ugal amounted tv. 23,000 nun, an-l
the Portuguese ar nv c • .sised of 60 000
Fimt this iorre war,divided into three u.vi_
sions, anil was statu ned to defend the pnS"
ut, on the frontiers of Portugd._Th e
ipvcral «-kiimi>lies luid taken place between
he combined armies and the French, an I 1
i nne sc'uriiig parties «.f the Fretieh had been 1
ak-ii and .sent to 1, sb .n N.»genera! battle
md been fought, though one was daily ex 1
Jfic.ed-1 he English and Portuguese
.vrre fortifying Lisbon, H"d meant t:.dr.lend 1
* agiiwst the French to . he l.istex remit v.
i ro >ps wrie daily coming in fiom England
-here were about 400 English transport*
if Lisbon and more expected. The P >r
tig iese were in high spiri's.-L.v Pont
Ycstcrdny arrived at Uis port, the U S r
10 jii l war Wasp, c»pt Lawrence, Iroin a *
truise to the eastward 1
\K OTHER Or DP. It OF I ME RrITISII COUX- *
Cl I,.
The roll's wing late intelligence from London *
<]<L another out rage to the scenes of encroach *
nri.t & aggression, to which th f ii commerce
f lh;» cmmrjr lr*s hero yrars subjected ,y the »
!<*cisinnsof the Ki"g\s council. It n-ems that the I
h itisli goveri.m-nt mo-, f,,py a .oimrd, for fact, r
hear, r'inn no I:>i.g rr-dmwined by the federal c
i ..-ly in i i!-) count-yf ih t America is unable t > s
icdicat? her rig'is stgtuns'. the power of f.njj
and —N<rtrmi!if;t with excluding our coni H
fierce from oery valuable i t in the continent *
1 Luyot c, die i - «;i nl<m ,u «>ur Fiahtriet ,
yh’S i ■ the Mow ly which si » hopes to give h "
M:d stab to mr iiiriv oving m rine. Bold as the "
iulr»;.e is, it iv • Jliinl its .nli. ’, ;j*rs amunEjt us.
Hr'pi? of New E yflmul—You who lieve
rrown 11 h upon join (iituriri, what flunk you a
• f your Lloyd*, > our 1'nhrrir.ea and your Hillhou- I
fa now—they told you th.-.t England w «s anxiou
or a rciiirn of confi lrnrc nn I aifeebon ; Hut 4
bat ft lUj u'-:ie.in Administration were avers.- f
on ittlh nwnt of differences. They told you '
vr.gl- ml w.is willing to recognise) our right*, U r
low it is p- ii- c I tr, you that the fu st-overtures 1
nccoinm »<!.-■ i >n arc met by the British Couii- »
;il with an «ct of aggression more griffon* and k
ttsoci jus, bcca'i^j it baa no pl$a of rct^Iiatian cr a
iv ccssily, an-' :* palliated hv rv> ex ;r.plc exl.t.
:n* * * »c part oi i*j antagonist
Extract oj <1 ittttr J>ow Lon dor t d.t'ed the l St It
I.ast Saturday nipl.^s G. conta-n* an
Oa or in Council ordt ring r-rpui •• and crodisi*
"ali >n *.* w haling erd fishing \ <* !s«.faMi . -jun*
that exc'mu British ships from their p-n Is or ua- »
tious under the inllnciM-c *.* Doiti|i.!Vic.”
Nt\v Yohk. July 3.
De -arted this JIT.-, yrst.rday, at the H itse- of
M’"* K-’.ns y- No 5 U^oa'lway, Thomas Gill-at,
k'*!- K climo-vl. Virginia, in the 4}r'.h y:ar «>f
i,,s *,P{>* after an illiess uftinir m .iitbs, which h-j
bore with the m< »t muily f,:t:;u ;^—Mr Gil
iiat wa* a n -tive of En*i .ml,, hui. for m.nv
y,4-i s past uii «»■ vvlicri*
am* ilile <j■ istiil:t w >»• his ami his numSt-riess
v 1 ar • so well k lawn, that his loss will be
oio^t deriy irjjieltcd. The funeral will .e at
5 o clo k 'Ins alter-ir m, at which the attendance
or his i.-i» mis and acqmiiiilauccs is particularly
r quested
Prostitution of the Aininc.tr. Flag by the British .
*' VVhi ttsnch dvr.lar'itiniis \s the following
('xt-actr.'from tiie Sun. of the 23d M *v.) are
made in the ilrit ah parliament, and by such a
•ii.'ii as Mr Al xandcr Baring, (who is known to
be ii,im< al hotli to the Orders of Council «• J
• tie Ministry,) rio we feel any surprise at the
n-ru-m es Hclopte ' on the continent to exclude
Anu rir.au tt-sst Is.
Ml- Bating observed, the trade between' this
country h.I .he North of Europe might i*e rurri
e i on in British ship* under the American fl ,g_
It was impossible to distinguish English from A
merican sailors. Employing ucutrul "ind rne
inic»’ sc a men. w .$ training up a future enemy
in own nursery for se .m-n.—lie very mtu'la
feared out- American colonies could not furnish
a sufficient quantity of t'unber sufficiently good in
! qtt slity, atul was apprehensive that the measure
I i>'-o|>osed would have the ett n't of increasing the
p ot a very important article, which was al
ready exc ecdingly dear.
HOUSE OF COMMONS, May 15.
AMERICAJY DISPUTE.
Mr. Whitbread rose and said, that having
read and conside. ed certain papers laid be_
fore tiie house respecting the Negociatioa
which was carried on between Mr. Ertkitie
and the American Government, he was now
perfectly prepared to state his pinion upon
them. The Right Hon. gen leiinin, his Ma
jesty’s late Secretary for Foreign AfT.-.irs,
(Mr. Canning) hid pu'dinv charged Mr.
Erskme with having departed widely from
Iji. h he letter and spirit of this instructions.
Mr. Erskine denied the fact ; and the qnes
lion at issue in the face of Europe was, whe
ther <»r not the Right H uorable gmtle n -n
tiad deviated from the truth. lie for his
own part was persuaded no such imputation
v i.l ! be founded against the Right honora_
ble gmitleinan. But --
[Here the Chancellor of the Exchequer
r *se and deprecated 'he progress of the noils
-Mitlem m in a speech which might lead to
in irjeeul.tr dehate, there being no questi
on before iht house.1
.vlr. VV iii bread did not mean to bring
forward any •notion on’ this subject; lie
w \shed to si ye the house the trouble of a
discussion. I ne question was at is-nc, is
h. iwe-m the right honorablegeatlema >, .\lr.
E shine, and h ms 11. What he wished to
-ay then was, that 'll h a was wanting to
the vindication of Mr E '-kine, was the p •!>..
lication oi list letter .low before the world
nun tr mi an atientire perusal of that letti r,
he thought the vindication cot.xfilete ; hut
'hat hese instructions were nut drawn n/i
nath he accuracy rknj'jugh to hnv been,
ttorw h due a t- ntion to a law which h id,
then recru it, flamed in America Under
standing however. that an intercourse was
n«»w in negocia ion with A nerica, lie did
not Wish to 1.1 ge any thing further on the
subject
'.Me. Canning, expressed his surprise at
-*ie course pursued by the Iv nnraide gentle
tna », at»d though he had a rigut to complain
<d his want of candor in thus deserting a dis
cussion, which for so 1 ,ng a time lie hud ap
peared so anxious to bring forward. For
his own pu t, he had always courted it, as
the only way in which lie could show to the
••oil !, that what he had done in his official
character with respect to Mr.Krskine, would
mar the strictest and most minute investi
gitiion There was nothing for which he
was more anxious than that the investigati
on of his sunjeci sh >u!d he entered into in
t ie fullest mii-mer. !I_- had never said anv
th > g tending to traduce the character of
•vlr lvsk'ne.
H- ft id affirmed and re affirmed, tlvat
M-. E.sk n * had acted contrary to h a in„
H’rucri na not onty ua <0 he letter, but the
i/urit of hem ; and e was ready to make
11 eppear ia argument, whenever the honor
Hi'e^ gentleman, or any other of Mr Ers
kme s in« n<l,s, should chose to living it for
wurd H -:h .nght the honorable gen lemnn
hd not treat hi >• fair y, when after lie had
stated, th it it certain documents were be >’t
orwarcl it Would appear that his (Mr.
l. "'fin g’ ) conduct would be found fau.ty
m, l r* preheasible ; and now those very, do
•.omeins were brought forward the honora„
di gsnilenian deser ed his former ground,
ind li- was l. ft wi'hout any opphnnni'y of
!(fendihg liis r.ffici 1 character from tlic
'barges which had at different tinpes beta
nude against it.
3&0mr$tic.
• Washington July 6.
The Anniversary ohvjr I. d vendence wan
m Wednesday celebrated with the dHim.
;uished honors which have here been In***,
lab ) p lid it Silu cs Ushered in the dawn
nd were repeated at intervals during m*
lay.
At ten o’clock on oration was deliver* U In
i'*tior ot the day, at the Baptist memoir
louse l»y \U- Hubert P .!k.
( About noon the spacious rooms of the
're .ident were opened to a huge and brll
ianl a^s^mhlage of both sexes, who pai loelc
f the lihrr.il refreshments provided, nod
••joyed with the utmost harmony, the plea,
ures of social intercourse.
V.ui us dining and evening parties ensued,
t ail of which patriotic and convivial ph-a
m e reigned, and the day terminated wi b..
ut any incident calculated to dump the r(* •
eral joy.—Aat. hit
C () M M LTNI CATION.
I O-i Wednesday a numerous company din
d .»t Long s Hotel it; cofmieinm h ion of the
i a of our ii dependence. They wire Honoied
mli the presence of the Heads of Depart
un a, of .he II is*; ,n monster, Count P di
’•1, and his soo'e, l»overnor C lilhorne, Cieii.
Vilkjns'.n iM.ij m l.c ;« several other strong
era hf distinction, an ! if.'hcii j of the gent,ml
od local pov^rumynt.