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ell in every direc'ion round his vessel, and
he with his crew took to the small bo.it and
lett her. Admiral K.ea<s, commander of
the British squadron in Cadiz Bay, seeing
the situation of the vessel, sent a number of
boats which took possession of her before
she could run ashore, and got her safe back
again. He then sent her papers to Mr.
Hickley, the American vice-consul at Ca
dix, and requested him to return them to
the cap.ain.
Captain Taber of the ship Otho informs
us that an express arrived at Villa Heal on
the 9th October from Lisbon, on its way to
Cadiz, for the purpose of ordering to the
former place (Lisbon) all the troops that
could be spared from the latter.
From the Boston PrAla Hum of Bov 16
Remarkable passage from Ireland.
•• Last night arrived at this port brig Enter
prize, Capt. Cottle, in 21 days from Dublin
Capt C. heard from his merchant, the day he
saded fOct.24) that intelligence had Keen re
ceive.! that lh< Rritia i had been defeated in Por
tugal, and were preparing to leave that country ;
»hho* in the beginning of their combats they had
met with some successes.
Capt C favored us with a Dublin paper of
October 23, and a Liverpool paper of October
IB
Londov, Oct. 19. \ ircgtenper has arrived
from Portugal, which he left on the fill inst_
There had b.-rn iio second battle. Lord Wel
lington has obtained such information of Masses
na's force that it is said he is determined to risk
another battle even in a pla<n. He thinks his Ca
vafy equal to meet that of the French.
Brigadier General Ciawford had died in Por
tugal
Additional reinforcements are ordered to Por
tugal.
Dublin, October 23. A London Eveningpa
per by yesterday’s packet, says, despatches of
October 5, ar« received from Lord Wellington,
dated Alcob .co, S. W. of Leyria. H iving giv
en time to the inhabitants of Coimbra to remove,
he retreated from tlie banks of the Mondtgo on’
the 1st Massena advanced from Avelhms, cros
sed the Mondego, ami his head quarters were at
Leyria. There had been some sharp skirmisb
ing.
The Dublin paper, notwithstanding the above,
piu lubes an account, via Corunna, of October
14, t ..n, the army of the 12iii, of victories o\er
tin F ench-on «he 1st and 3d of October, and that
5000 Fi nch prisoners were made at Oporto.
Lonpon, Oct. 17-We have received
Axerman papers to he G.h and Paris jour
nals to tlu 9 h. They contain several ar
ticles which possess some interest ; among
■which is a letter from Berne, in which the
repudiated Josephine is mentioned. This
discarded empress is wandering about
Sw'nzei land, and preserves a strict incogni
to, tho’ the German papers still venture to
g!Vt. 1 cr the title of majesty. Bernadette
pasted through Meby on the third, and was
expected to i each Hamburg about the 6di
or 7th on his way to Sweden.
Accounts from Copenhagen, dated Sept
29, state that-“His majesty the king lias
issued orders that his royal highness the
■Prince ol Ponte Corvo, in his passage through
this kingdom-to Sweden, as well as the
whole of his suite, shall be treated with the
utmost respect and attention. On the 8h
ii-si. it was reported at Tromsal that three
cutter brigs had made 14 English ships
prizes ” / *
Last Wednesday was issued from the Ex
chequer about 6 000 000/ to the bank, to pay
the o pel Cent Reduced, Long and lmpe.
rial Annuities, also other dividends. On
Friday the Bank paid to the Bankers, and
on Saturday commenced paying to the pub.
lie at large.
Letters, from the French coast, received
yes’erday, state, that eighteen . argues of
American produce, which had been confis
caled, were carried to Antwerp, and sold
on the 15th Sept, by order of Bona par ’
te.
ATTEMPT UPON SICILY.
Murat has at length made an attack up
on Sicily, and even by his own confession,
has failed. On the 17th of last month, Mu
ra- conceiving that the equinoctial gales
had commenced, and would toice our ships
to return to port, embarked some detach,
ments of his army in the night, and they
reached the Sicilian shore to the southward
of Messina in safety.-They debarked at
San Stei'aino, at three o’ clerk in the after,
noon and drove our outposts to Dnchessa
This was the sum and substance of their
atchievements, even according to their own
accounts, for the wind ceased, and a dead
calm ensued ; the boa's.sent to Calabria to
carrv over more troops could not get back
to Sicily and part of the troops that had
been landed in Sicily could not get back to
Calabria for want of t/ieir bouta /
Philadelphia, November 20 The ship
puinbriilgf, C «ptuin Gray, arrived here y< ster
dry evening. in the remarkable short passage of
twenty four days from tlie Downs and twenty
out from Sc illy. She is own-d by Messrs J.
•nd T. Gilpin, ami is leaded with dry good* -
Her letters arc not up—she has brought. London
p. pers to the eighteenth of October. We un
derstand they contain no ne&a of importance_
Passengers state, that no information had been
reie vcd fiomthe armies in Portugal respecting
any battle after that of the twenty seventh of
September. W* wete favoured with tlie Lon
don Tunes of tlit v venteenth, brought by a pas
senger, from which we have extracted the fol
lowing : '
P*London, October 17 We yesterday rerei
ved a Puns paper, Journal de So.r, of toe R'li
jnst. 1 he li Mowing nve the only articles ol in
telligence which it i.ffnids :
r I’am , Octobers. The Crown Prince of Swe
del- t Ifri r.aiioitc) Set out on Monday last ft om
rfdrtai ie, on his w .y to Stockholm.
“ He" Majesty the Qjireii of Holland is arrived
at F< t-ur.h ' ■ u
Memal, Sept 20 “ Count Gottorp (if,c Ex
King of Sweden) still continues at Polangen, in
Com I nd It is reported that he intends to pro
cetd to England.
IIambuiigh, September 28. “ His Hoyat
High ness d c Prince of Ponte Corvo, Cro wn
Prince of Sweden, is expected here on tlie 6tii
Inst.
Pasjs. Oct. 1. By virtue of a decree of his
Imp. nd Majesty, tlie Council of Prizes esttb
liahtd at Paris is charged to take cognizance, to
tin exclusion of all oilier tribunals, of disputes
relative to the validity of seizures made in Hnl
land, i - execute'-n »tl»er of the Decree of ti e
12th rvept. <>r the Decree* promulgated against
the English commerce It also takes cgiu*.
mice oft li the disputes relative lo the said se.
h rav<tc by toe D. Owners It will proclaim
confiscation in cas. s pi(.v:did by the laws,
New York, Novimber 19. Geo. Armstrong,
late American minister ..t Paris, arrived in this
f ity y»kttrdajr.
tvebi* o letters from Bordeaux, per the
trait/, 4$ Lue aa the bth of last monih. They iiv,
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that American vessels arriving In French ports
with the production of United States will be ad
mitted, and antlered to load, without difficulty j
but, that ih> vessel loaded with colonial produce,
can enter without a licence—that the Kambouil
let decree would be repealed, and that the se
questered property would be restored by paying
the new dr-ty.
Philadelphia, Nor. 20.1810.
SPANISH NEWS.
Cadiz. Sept. 20. 1810 “ The grand meet
ing ol the carles takes place this day, at lsla,
but it is expected their future sittings wilt be held
at this place, in the Theatre Their first step
will be to suspend the regency and appoint some
other government, as to them shall appear oru
per ; great are the expectations anticipated by
tl»e people from llicir deliberations, as by the peo
ple, they have been freely chosen. I send you an
address to them, which is a spirited well writ -
ten production, its author published a gazelle
lately at Seville, which was slopped by the then
Junta for speaking too freely [This is a spiri
ted essay in the Spanish language, too long for
present insertion.}
" 1 firing is still kept up by both sides but
not so much by toe French, They are going on
with their works and fortifications very slow, but
when completed we ni»v expect some warm
work, as soon as they open their batteries upon
Punules, the fort of the latter place will not be
tenable for 2 hours.—— Mot withstanding there
seems to be no apprehension for C'ul'Z
We have 2 packets yesterday from England,
one 7 days. 1 he trial by court rrtartial, we learn
by this arrival, is to take place on admit <1 Pur
vis, for allowing the French, by his inactivity, to
.fortify the works on the opposite shore, to so great
a degree, that the present admiral Keaies, has
given his opinion that they a-e now so strong that
he can do nothing against them
“ Cadiz, October 4lh. “ On the 28th tilt*
the Spaniards and English made an attack on the
advanced out post, of the French near Id « and
took a redoubt, 4 pieces of c nnon and 60 men
“ The Cortes are now itting with open d .or
as unanimously voted for the fi -t day_they have
suspended the regency and the Junta—have de
clared the pressfree—and wish the sense ofllie
people to bo taken, through its medium, fur the
most proper person to be regent before they pre
tend to appoint. Tiie duke of Orleans is here,
and has been intriguing to get himself appoin
ted, in consequence of which, the cortes addres
sed him a note, requiring his immediate depur
tore, which not being complied with, an order was
issued to put him on board a vessel in the Bay *-e ».
dy i«i receive him, and ship him in 24 hours
-- .a itv.nu: llllll.
“ General Cuesta and the duke del Parque.
Have also been ordered maay to Majorca, by the
Cortes, and many other principal characters_
they mean to purge the country of traitors_
i be bishop of Orense, who was at the head of
the old regency, declined taking the oath of ul
1. glance to the cortes and Inis retired entirely
from public affairs, and to take charge of his
fact in Estramadura.”
“ The British minister Wellesley has had the
fa ulty to propose to the Cortes that the sister
of Ferdinand princess of Brazils, should b~ an
pointed to *lie Regency ! The Cortes has nv.de
a spirited representation on the subject, in which
tliL\ I'.nve declared their entire belief, respect ing
the good wishes of the people of England, tow
a. ds their crown—but will never allow their mi
nister to interfere in the internal regulations of
**?* ,1SPani*h government; and if t-.e minister,
Wellesley, continu-.s to persist, that they shall
he under the necessity of demanding his imme
. diate fecal—all of which has been notified to him,
since which he appears to be perfectly quiet.”
“ Heinforcemrnts have arrived two days ago
from Gibraltar and Sicily of about 3000 British
i they are certainly fine looking fellows, and I
I should suppose only want able officers At one
fort on Matagorda the F. each have 70 pieces hea
vy cannon, and 1 do suppose-, whenever they open
the batteries, that Puntahm will fall in a few
hours, though no doubt it will be obstinately de
fended. Still, however, should this take place,
it is the current opinion that the French can ne
ver enter Cadiz The shipping in the bay, will
be made very uncomfortable, and I btlieve, that
, very shortly, as I have witnessed several balls Sc
shells fall amongst the shipping, which clearly
f proves what the French can do, whenever il.n,
, think proper to enter seriously upon the bus/
ness.
“We learn that the conspirators at Lisbon
have all been sent to the Azores, and Cape de
Verds, there to stand their trial, not wishing or
thinking it prudent for it to take place at Lis
bon.
, ** October 5
The Cortes have for the present, reinstated
the junta of Cadiz, and the present regency to
remain as the government, (though they have m
powers whatsoever, but those granted by the
cortes,) until anew one is appointed.
An attack w-s made Lst night, it begBn at
12 and ended at 2, by the Spaniards and English
ag..instill.- fort of St. Catalina I saw the whole
i ut “• ar,d I assure you, never have I witnessed
| so splendid an appearance—the Congreve rock
ets werr used against tl»e'French, and shells with
out number There was a heavy firing from the
fort, chiefly c.f red hot balls. I learn there lias
bevri no one killed or wounded on this side, and
for 11 it; other, it i£ not probable we shall know
" October 6.—The duke Del Parque, has this
d-y 0 (1 Ilia ate somewhat ameliorated, he is
n w appointed Captain General of the Canaries,
j v Inch is an honorable banishment
Ocf. 8.-•• That a decisive battle be
tween the French and British may be verv
shortly expected in that quarter, cannot be
doubted, and we have fugitive information,
that large reinforcements are on their w’ay
to Massena, and it is supposed he only waits
tor them, to make the attack-from all ac
counts we can collect, they will probably join
him in a week *r todays from this, perhaps
sooner.
“ The French from St, Catalina. Mata
gordo, and Trocadero, the English and
Spaniards from the island St. Leon, Pun
tales, the bomb ships and gun boats, are
constantly amusing themselves more or less,
with exchanging shells and balls, &c. Hut
I believe without much danger on either side,
i hib winter will pay the shipping in the
bay, for it is impossible, that they can lay so
far out as they now do. and to move further
up, the French would bestow a few red ho»
shot on them—— their situation will certain
ly be a dangerous one. ”—iurora.
(VIA BOSTON )
Losinov, Oct. 1 y ■■ ■■ ■ lirig. Opii. Craw,
ford has died in Portugal, not Gen. Craw
ford, Mr. Windham’s tiiend, as stated in
the papers.
RETREAT OP THE ENGLISH ARMY.
I lie following intelligence is by the Eliza
beth Packet, from Lisbon, and may be r**hed
up^n. As has before been stated, Massena
made a strong and rapid movement to out.
flank Lord Wellington’s army on the Mon
‘lego. 1 his, of course, required a counter
acting movement on the part of his Lord
stop, and produced the battles of the 26th
and 27th at Hassaco, near Coimbra, (a town
on the Miinclrgo, a few miles from the At.
| lantic ) A general battle was expected on
he 28th, which did not take place. On the
1st of Ootober, after giving time to the in
habitants of Coimbra to remove themselves
anti valuables, Lord Wellington lelt the
banks of the Moodt'gu, fit retreated towards
Lisbon, and cn the 7th occupied a position
extending front the Tagus to the Ocean* on
a chain of fortified heights. His H. Q. on
that day were at Alcobaca, about 40 miles
from Lisbon, having his right at Albandra
on the Tagus, and his left at Peuiche, ou the
Atlam ic.
In 'his position, it is stated, he had about
70.000 men. militia included ; and was am
ply supplied. Gen Silveria and Gen. Wil
son, with a strong body of Portuguese irre_
gulars. were hanging on the rear of STasse.
na’s army. The Marquis Komanu, with
13.000 men, were on the south of the Tagus,
following Lord Wellington’s march.
Unless an immediate embarkation took
place, a general and decisive battle could not
be avoided. The English merchants had
waited upon Admiral Berkelv for permissi
on to embark on board the transports ; but
were denied, as there was not shipping suf
ficient to take away the troops ; and at the
same time hinted there was no great cause
for apprehension.
Boston, Nov. 15.
EJST INDIES.
A letter from Madras, da'ed May 6, says
■—“the Pitt goes m England direct as a
packet. You will perceive we have taken
Amboyna, and 1 hope our present expediti.
on against Bourbon will be equally success
ful. . The troops at present going from hence
; consist of the G9tii and 86:h regimen's, fl ink
j companies ot his Majesty’s 13th and 84n
j regiments, under Lieut. Col. Campbell,12 h
amt 6th N. I. anil a portion of artillery.—
They arc to take possession of the Isle of
Bourbon, preparatory to a combined attack,
with a fore** from the Cape, on the Isle of
France. 1 he entire force going against the
Mauritius is 3000 from India and 3000 from
the Cape. Mr. Farquhar goes with the
expedition, to b? Governor of the anticipa..
ted new conquest. Besides the expedition
ag dust the Mauritius, another is on foot to
reduce Java and Batavia, and. in short,
wvery place where an enemy’s ft .g now
flies.’’
. !■ ■ I ■■ —■—».
loan’d tic.
PRIZE COURTS OF FRANCE.
[We have been favored with the copy of
a number of memoirs addressed to the Coun*
jcilot Prizes, at Paris, in behalf of AmerL
I can citizens, whose vessels and cargoes de
pended on the decisions of the Court.——
These memoirs are in general couched in
nervous language, and evifice the zeal of
the .agent in support of neutral rights. We
should feel pleasure in offering many of
them to our readers, did the present limits
of our paper permit, as they would doubt
less be interesting, particularly to merchants,
and othose gentlemen versed in maritime
law. We have selected one which will af
ford a fair specimen of the abilit) and zeal
with which these cases were defended*1_
Nat. Jnt. ’1
( Translated from the French.)
CASE OF THE OCKAN.
Memoir preseu ed n defence of this case
by D. B Warden, Esq late American
Consul ar Paris
7 o the Attorney General and members of
the Council of Prizes at Paris.
gentlemen,
The Arne ican brig Ocean, of 150 tons
. captain John Hid sailed from Boston the
10 h of January last. with a cargo of cod
hsh and oil, tor St» Andero, in Spain. He
was forced, by stress of weather, to seek
retuge in-he port of Socoa. where .he ves
sel and cargo were seized, by the Custom
House Officers, the 27th of February last
This vessel is furnished with all tliedocu
menrs which are required either by the del
crees of his majes v, nr by ancient or modern
marit me laws: ■ Her register, her Dass
por . certificate of health, clearance.' and
role d'cquijiage, are all perfecily regular.
1 he neutrality of her cargo is completely
established ; and its origin is certified bv
the French Consul, who addressed a le'te’r
to his colleague, at St. Andero, to apprize
him of this certificate, conformably to the
orders of his Excellency, ihe Minister of
Ex erior Relations, dated the 8th of April
1809. This brig was not visited at sea by
any English vessel during her voyage ; nor I
did she touch at any British port Conse- |
quently the re can be no contravention of any
species of law or decree. 3
The Counsellor of State and Director of
Customs in his letter of he 6th of April
which is annexed to the papers of the
vessel and of her cargo, observes that
" this seizure was made according to the for
mal orders of his Majesty, relative to Amer
ican vessels and their cargoes. And as to
the exception of being driven intnthis port
(concerning which, in all cases, I think that
it belongs to his majesty only to pronounce)
so much less can it be here taken into con
sideration, as the vessel Ocean was bound to
oi Aimem , mai cui a quen ly, and not-,
withstanding thq force nuijrure, which ob
liged her to enter a port of France, she was
there liable to seizure and confiscation, for
this reason alone, that she would have been
in the same situation in the port of Spain for .
which she was destined.”
According to this opinion, it matters not
into what port under the domination of
France, the vessel entered : the same order
which made her a good prize at Socoa, would
have had the same effect at St. Andero, the
place of her destination.
Whatever be the opinion of the members j
'of the Council of Frizes concerning this let |
ter, an imperious duty commands me to sub
|mit to their consideration some observations \
! in the name of the unhappy victims* of whom !
I am the organ, in the name of my govern
inent, whose measures I support, in the !
name, in fine, of the rights of nations, those
,sacied rights which his Majesty the Empe
jror and King makes it his glory to defend
and to avenge,
I The imperial decree is founded on the
j rights of reprisals. It rests solely on the
acts of the United States, of the 1st of
March 1809, which interdicts the entrance
into their ports of all English and French
vessels,
1 shall not here speak of the right which
all independent powers have of putting what
ever restrictions compatible with the rights
of nations, which they may think proper, on
the commerce and communication of their
citizens or subjects with those of other p.»w
ers. Neither shall I insist on the particular
interest which the U. S. have, as a nation es
scntially neuter, not toemploy this right, ex
reptin a case of the last extremity. Those
are two propositions, the truth of which
cannot he less felt by the council than it
by all Europe. I shall only observe, that as
the U. t>. passed the act of the first of March
1». 9, they had an iucontestible right so to
do ; they were compelled to have recourse
to this measure by ^rovocatious which it
was impossible any longer to resist, tfut in
employing this righ in yielding to this pro
vocation. what precautions have not been ob
served by the 5J. S. to avoid the smallest tn~
croacltment on the rights of nations ; and lo
give to the subjects ot France and of Eng
land, all necessary means to withdraw them .
selves from the effects of an act which was
not to be in operation till nearly 3 months
after its promulgation. The nations whom
it concerned had timely notice of it ; their
vessels in the ports of the United States
were at liberty to leave them, and no indi
vidual could suffer, unless lie were voluuta
rily exposed.
Thus, these precautions so well succeed
ed, that we challenge the most inveterate
| enemies of theU. S. to cite a case, in which
a French vessel has been seized or seques
tered in virtue of this act.
If, then, it were preferred to follow the
principle of reciprocity and reprisal, as the
decree pvonoses. Fi ance ought to have given
to the U. S the »anie notice which she re
ceivetl from them: the citizens*of these
states neither ought nor could'entertain any
doubt on this subject; they have .henconfi
tied in the magnanimous lojalty of his Ma
jesty the Emperot Sc King; they have con_
tided in'he invitations made in the let er of
I his Excellency th minister at war; they
[could not but believe, tu.it if they conform
ed wholly to the known decrees of the French
governmeut, they might come wiih their
vessels into the ports of France, and the
countries under her dominati n. Thus they
have not ceased to come during mot e than
| a year ; and all of a sudden, at the end of
i this year, appears a decree, winch, two
| months alter its date, strikes indistinctly
, with confiscation the vessels which in future
may enter the port3, and those whicn had
entc-.ec! during the course of the wh V,e ve ir
—VVliat do we say ?—The vessels which
were found in .he ports, even before the e
poch when the decree was to commence its
operation, are, like the others, confiscated
in open contravention of the very text of the
decree. There is something in all this to
tally inexplicable. Napoleon the Great
could not have intended s > manifest a viola
tion of the rights of nations and of public
faith. I? is for the judges of the Council,
revered defenders of this sacred right, and
this faith, which ought to be inviolable, to
whom I appeal : In you, worthy inter
preters of Imperial justice, do I place
my confidence, that this property will be
restored.
D. R WARDEN,
Consul of the U. States, t3*c.
New York Nov. 17.
A letter from a passenger in the ship SaL
' ,v> capt. Scott, arrived at New London from
i Bordeaux, to his friend in this city, dated
November 14, says, “ Capt. Scott having
I on board a number of female passengers,
who were extremely anxious to get within
the land, and the weather being very stor
my, concluded to make Montauk, and run
through the sound. In coming round the point
we struck on Shag vam Heet, and for a few
moments gave up all hopes of preservation;
but we were mercifully delivered from that
, dreadful'situation, with the loss cf our rud
der. W e came to an anchor in a very ex
posed situation under the point, wheie w«
rode out a long and very unpleas«rt nigh •
In the morning tve were boarded b> a pilot
from Martha’s Vineyard, who brought us
here last evening. VVe expect to leave this
place for New York to-morrow. We have
on board General Armstrong and family,
Messrs. Claiborne and M’Jlvaine of Phil:>._
delphia, Mr. Gardner i.f Charles.on, Mr.
Alexander Phoenix of New York, and a,
number of other passengers, French and
! Ameiican. There is some reason to hope;
| that on the receipt in France of the Presi. I
I dent 8 proctamation of the 2nd November,!
vessels luaucu vriiii American produce may
be admitted : but under such conditions as
leave but little encouragement to induce
many adventurers.” [The Sallv sailed
from Bordeaux on the 12th of Oct.]
Captain Quiner, who has arrived at Mar
blehead from Port au ..Prince, s.dled Oct
6-‘-He informs, that Christophe hail < n_
tire possession of Cape Nicola M -hat
he had had a battle with Pe.ion's forces, in
which General Evelill ud was ki;le l ; that
an insurrection had 'ak.-o place near Je
remie, where there -ere 1500 embodied,
and some skirmishes nad tnk n dace_1
that a severe g • had been exp.*’ ienccJ ne <r
A ox Caves and Jeremi-, and had caused
great destruction nrmng ihe shipping ; inuc
the brig of war flambeau, oelonging to Pe
tion, hud drifted on shore at Archaia, was
entirely lost and a number of men perished :
—-That Clitisioplie was capturing all ves
sels bound to Petion’s dominions, and obli
g d them to sell their cargoes ; and that it
wa, expected Christophe would blockade
Port-au Prince.
poisonous"CHEESE.
Yesterday, an entire fam Jv, consisting of
five persons, were seized with violent and
incessant puking, in consequence of eating
now cheese. One of the party assured us'
that the rind was not eaten ; but that the
sickness was occasioned by the poisonous
quality of the whole cheese.
PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE.
Communicated for the R. Fed. Gazette
“ Bordeaux, Ortober 8 I advised you in
August, that the Berlin and Milan decrees would
e -ase 1st November, provided, &c. It is, how
eve r. rep -rted, that only articles the growth of
the United Stales will be admitted by their ves
sell. Gen. Armstrong, previous to his depar
lure, whs assured that American cargoes se
questered were considered only as a set off a
gsinst any seizures you may have made-and
that whatever excess shall appear will be re
funded. Still the most rigorous measures ar<
adopted to exclude to exclude trade from the
north- rn ports Exchange on London 20 frs
pn/J" N-w duties imposed by Imperial de
cre. ofS. pt. 12, 1810—potash 33 frs. per nil
fish ml 15 75, codfish,11, rice 11, raw hides 2 75
each.
CLAnKSTiLLK, (Ten.) Nov. 3.
Extract from a le'tcr dated Natchez Oct
fl'/i addressed to a gentleman of this
place.
Not long after the independence of
West Florida was declared, I bad the honor
af visiting the fort at Baton Rouge which
was in possession of the Republicans; a con
venbou was sitting and the laws that have
passed, similar to those of the U. States.—
Gen, Thomas, with whom I I ad an inter
view, expressed n wish, that they should be
Some ore of the U. S. and add on*; more Star to
•ur flag : their flag is a Blue with white
Jorder, and a large Star in tii6 centre; a'
hat time there wus a part of the inhabitant
n'peu a nett which was bound to Egypt *
\ ——anil to dissipate the other phantoms of
I then- disturbed imaginations ?_Is not
that a sufficient warning to him ? Or must
! J1? aSam exp.oe his party to ridicule, bv
his wild ant cipations ?
3 hut Buir was the tool of France in
1806? Indeed ! and what proof is there of
this suspicion ? Is a tittle of it to be found in
the chain of evidence adduced ? He told lies
enough about his accomplices—lie exagge
rated his resources to those whom he wished
to decoy-but not once does »he name of
France drop from his lips ? Trux n indeed
whispers something about England—but not
I1 a nee. — But ** Wiliaumec ! tit-hovereil a -
I) >ut our coast in 1806—and has this maniac
fneverseen or “ remembered to forget” the
intercepted let'ersofW toGcn. Turreau_
so eagerly blaz. n d in the federal prints in
1807—letters of whi^h they made much,
because “written without being intended for
public inspection, and of course the senti~
ments of the writer freely expressed.” Is
'here a word in them to back Mr. Wagner’s
suspicions—not one syllable ; Wlllauinez
speaks of |,is plans ag-inst the British con
voijb against the English Fisheries a- New
foundland, of h trip to V ra Cruz f r dollars,
and of an anack upon Jamaica——but not
n«: Word of TM. Or leans, or i>f A. Burr.
Mi Wagner is certainlv r/rrgtigc —his
triends and hispary should look to h m
instead of allowing him a pen and types,
ihey should clap him under the customary
regime of a strait jacket and water gruel,
FOR THE ENQUIRER
By this tirnr, perhaps, the <fie is cast in
J ottugal. Who does not foresee, the result
of the struggle ? Welling'ofi against M isse
na ; the hardy Highlander and the shrink
ing Portuguese against the well trained
French ; inexperience against practice t ar
diness opposed to rapidity of mance ivre;
these are “fearful olds.” The < fficer,
whom Moreau has pronounced fhe first gen •
eral of the age next to U maparte, anil whom
the voice of Esnpe has hailed as “ the
spoilt child of Fortune,” lias probably, ere
this time, plarred Ins victorious banners on
the ramparts of Lisbon. The British have
either capitulated < t he enemy, or what is
belter for them, have 11 wn to their trans
ports and evac'M'ed Portugal.
And if (Ins oe the issur, what a gloomy
shade does it cast upon the past p hey of
England ! Where is her Compensation for
the blood and treasure which she Iris waV:
ed ' the millions which she has sjient, tt e
debt she has iiicm red, the shock commugl
catcd to her public funds, and ihe bonea <>f
thousands of her sons whir.lt blear.!? up
the plains and mountains of Portugal ?
<Sf the frontiers, bordering on Pofishitrtftic
and the river Tickata that rose in opposite
on to tbe convention-General Thomas
has visited them with troops, taken their
fort, and dispel sod the enemy. The coun
iry^isat peace and considered as a Repub
an—gpgi. . in ■ i
RICHMOND, NOVEMBER 27, 1810.
GALLO .PHOBIA
d new s/iecies of Madness.
What is madness ?
We are told by Physicians, that it is that
dei angemeni. ot the nerves and brain, by
which a particular train of thought engros
ses our attention and belief, and o.
ther impressions, instead of correcting the
delusion, only 'take the color of the predom
inant idea, leediiig and fastening it more
str .ngly upon us. Thu*, the niock monarch
mistakes a straw for a sceptre, and a wreath
ot flowers tor a crown. This deception of
the senses takes the name of hallucination
”-and is one of the s rongest symptoms of
the distemper which produces it. Things,
which 10 any other mind appear as the na_'
tural effects ot other causes, are traced in
the mind ot the maniac, to its own overrul
ing idea. L<ke the ro.i of Aaron, it swal
lows up every think else. '
By what other name, shall wfe call that
excessive fear of Fiance which distinguishes
some of our federal prims ? To their jaun
diced eyes 1 he hand of Napoleon is in every
thing.—-Phis disease is • apidlv reaching
its ci isis, in the m ain ot Mr Wagner_
The visions, which have gleamed in the last
No’s, of his “Ft tie nl Republican” prove
him, to all intents and purp ises, mad ! mad I
mad !
Asron Burr, and a French army, are the
hobgi'b ins which haunt his imaginatioi ——
He tells us, that he has it from an Ameri„
can Gentleman, just from. England, that
the Marquis Wellesley addressed him thus
" there exists in my office pr: posals made
to this government by that ol Fi ance, for
partitioning your country”-He adds, that
Burr is now in Paris, scheming an invasion
of the United States by Fiance—that the 15
sail ot the Line, now in Brest, are to con
duct it—that Burr had the aid of France in
his former conspiracy in 1806. and that ad
miral Wi'laumez would have landed at N.
Orleans if the elements had not dispersed
hij fleet.—A more flimsy tissue of fictions
never entangled the brain of a poor mani
ac !
1st Wellesley has in his office the scheme
of Bun- submitted to Fouche, for his inter
position with which F was disgraced_and
it is besides a fact, says the Aurora, that
when t>ur ininis’er applied to the marquis
on the subject “ Ins lordship with nis
usual frankness assured him, that it was
the first time he ever heard of such a thing,
that he had never received <nv such pro
posi ion, and that if he had, be e ntertained,
too high a degree of consideration fo» Mr.
P. not to have communicated ii to him at
once.”
2J Mr. Wagner does not state the si ighest
fact to induce a belief that France wishes
to invade us. This is precisely <he case
with a madman—he believes without any
reason-Can we reconcile this idea to any
one circumstance of probability- ? Would
Bonaparte distract his fore * ? Would he
fly from Europe to America; aid iF *o A.
would he urn from hr S nth to us > Would
he attack us, while G B i* v * Hosubdmd*
VVhere would be the comparative benefit ?
E ery thing conspires -against il.e idea _1
But he fleet at Brest—Aye—there i; “ no
destination sopossiijle*’a8 our ports_Indeed 1
is tht-'e noliiing o do in Europe? A sober
nnn rrngh- cut mu wn.ir fv>;- j;_
W u re is Heligoland ? where is Sicilv >_
Where is S-iuth America ? Where is Gua
da- ope and M irtimqni-isles lost to
i rti' ce !< i wan of i eioforcemenis ? -Has
Mr. Wagn-v r ugo-ten thelui .rous tales of
me 1 onion Fieri m 98-Harper’s clues
and iui) plots-he alarm which his party
exci ed—&. how the', wasted our money nod
ravished our Constitution, for what? To