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RICHMOND,
TUESDAY, Junk 5, 1810.
The Baltimore Federal Republican
has conjured up a cut ious dialogue be
tween Mr Giles and Mr. ■— Dash !
Pray, who is Mr. Dash! Wagner
& Co. have been long Runous for their
dashing. They have dashed at Mr.
Jeffetscn ; they have dashed at Mr.
Madison ; they hat e dashed at the Se»
cretr.ry of State ; ami now, forsooth,
they dash at >ir. Giles. Doubtless
these political foplings would dash their
own brains out, if that were possible :
but nature has put it out cl the questi
cn, by just giving them^nough for a
cement to their skulls. Dash, in
deed! Mister-! Why, this is
the most silly invention that even a
printer’s devil could think on to injure
a man of reputation. It is truly wor.
thv of the Genii that preside over the
Federah Republican, that precious de
posit df political hltli arid scum, which
is disowned by almost all the respects
ble.n.enof its own party, and is only
upheld by such individuals as Harper.
What varlets the Baltimore Fede
ral Republican jockies art! “ Never
fsay they) have'the federalists ceased
to warn their countrymen of the dan
ger”—meaning the danger of France
seizing our property. Now, the fact
is the federalists always ridiculed the
idea that France could injure oir trade.
K* \ fcl Maryland) said in Congress,
that Bonaparte’s decrees were mere j
noise—brutumJuimcn! Quincey blub
bered in me same side against the em
bargo ; so did Ely, and Livermore,
Ircm iYLassachus its ; and so uiu all
the federalists in Congress. And now
the federal prints have the audacity to
turn about ar.d cry, rue told you sj!
T Id what? Did they ever tell or say
any thing bu', takeoff the embargo!
—Off! Off! was tue incessant cry.
Well, oft u came, sure enough ; and,
where are rue now ? Why, just where
the Republican Pi ints always said we
should be, if the embargo was taken oif
—at the mercy ot the billigerents.
Surilythe public remember this very
well, and yet such nibbl'nig vermin as
"Wagner & Co. have the audacity to
claim the merit of prophecy on the
occasion. Rut, what is it, in the name
of Heaven ! that tacse ttliowa will not
say and do too ?
SOUND LOGIC.
American ships could not have been
seized b\ the French, if they had been
detained in the ports of the U. States.
The embargo would have detained
them, and the republicans were in fa
vor of the embargo.
The federalists opposed the embar
go : the embargo was repealed—the
vessels put to sea.
7herrj'ore^ the opposition which the
federalists maintained against the cm*
bargo is the caUie of the seizure of A
rmrican property in Francs*
E.ctr-irt of a letter from P ris, recei\^
ed by ship Madison, via Baltimore,
dated December 18.
. “ I am this moment informed, from
good <mdiority,that Madam Bonaparte,
•late Miss Patterson, is made a Prin
ces'., and her son acknowledged as a
Prince, son i.nd successor to JCing Jc^
mine of Westphalia, who has oifeied
his services to mediate a settlement
between France and the U. Slates !!!”
Boston Palladium.
The late English papers contain a
letter from the British Commander in
Chief in Portugal, Mating that an at
tack had bren made, (on the Portu
guese frontiers,) on a detachment of
British troops, by a superior French
corps, in which the latter were repuls
ed with considerable 1 ;ss. An account
is c.Uo given in the papers of a battle
Lr \»rrn the patriots under Homana,
and the French near Seville, in which
the former obtained an important vic
tory. Many inferior mil tary affairs
are trtTitented as occurring almost
daily in some pm or other of Spain,
serving to waste away the French
l«,r».es. 1 he patriots at 3.. A micro
hail made a rlcspttare attempt on the
French in that city by a general rising.
M «n> of the invaders wuc killed, but
th« Sjjsnja'ds were finally overpower,
e .., numbers lost their lives, and ma
ny vrre sent to France. ib.
Halifax, Virginia,
o May 1 *tt lUi.
IIX 1 ENI) lo be absent fn^Wihe
Mate four or five months. r^Biose
having business with me in rfly ab
set.ee, wtil apply to Mr. William JLeigh
vi tins county. ALEXr. HAY.
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FOREIGN.
LONDON. April >0
The following is a Cppy of the Spea.
ket*s Warrant,on which Sir Francis Bur.
tie t was arrested by the Seijoant at
A.rms
“Veneris 6® die Anritlis, 1810.
*' Whereas the House of Commons hath
this day adjudged, that Sir Francis Our.
dett, baronet, who has admitted that a
letter, signed “ Francis Burden,** and a
further part of a paper, intituled* •* Ar.
guroent ** in Cobbett’s Weekly Register
of Match 24, 1810, was printed by his
authority (which lettei and argument the
said House had re-mlvcd to t e a libellous
and scandalous paper, i tfle£Li>g on the
just rights and privileges of the said house)
has been thereby gu liy of a breach oh
the privileges ol the said Hou,e
“ And whereas the House of Commons
hath thereupon ordered, that the said Fran*
cis Burdelt be for his said offence, com>
raitted to his Majesty’s Tower of Lon
don,
** These are therefore to require you
to lake into your custody the body of the
said Francis Burden, and then tonhwiih
to deliver him over into tire custody of
the Lieutenant of His Majesty’s Tower
of London.
“ And all Mayors, Baliffs, Sheriff Un.
der*Sheriffs, Constables, 6c Headboroughs,
ai.d every other person or persons, are
hereby required to be aiding and assis.
ting to you in the execution hereof.
“ For which this shall be your sufficient
warrant.
“ Given under ray hand the sixth day
of April, 1810.
•• CHAS. ABBOT, Speaker.
41 To the Scrjeant.at.Arras attending the
House of Commons, or his Oepu y.'*
«ir _ « rt •
t nave icLUfcu rails papers iu me
5th, and Dutch to the 7'h instant. The
Paris papers contain an account ef the cu I
vil marriage of Bonaparte and the Prin
cess Maria Louoa, on the 1st of April. |
It was exrcu.ed precisely according to
the plan which has already appeared in
this paper.—* A most surprising circum
stance,” say the Paris papers, ** is, that,
at St, Cloud* the wea her was pretty fair,
at the same tuijs^thal in Paris the streets
were inunc!at«l wi.h an incessant torrent
of rain. Fears were already entertained
w.th regard to the festivity of the ensu.
mg day ; aud we hud already begun to
lament the lo>s of so many preparations
in the capital to celebrate the most au.
gust ol ceremonies, and ihe most memo,
ruble of events. —The star of lire Err.*
peror once more prevailed over tbe cqu—
nofilial gales. At the moment v/hen die
cannon announced the dcpailure of hts
majesty, the sun dispersed the clouds ;
and nothing wa* wanting to the spiendot
of the most delightful tele that we hare
ever beheld.”
The pioetssion commenced at twelve
o’clock, oo the 1st. The Emperor and
l Empress reached the Thuilleries at two.
The ihe ceremony at the Chapel lasted
nearly three-quarters of an hour; and their
majesties returned to the Tbuiiictiea at
tour.
Eugene Beauharnois, the son-in-law of
Bonaparte, and his Viceroy of fuly, is
created prince of Venice, with a suitable
appendage oione million of livrea a year.
It would appear that incase ot failure of
the Bor.aparle line, the Crowns of France
a’d Italy ate to devolve upon him. Tne
reports of over ures of peace, of the re
vival of the kingdom of Poland and ot
the journey of th Emperor of Russia &
King ot Piuvstato Puns me tepea'ed from
va tou'uuaitcrs in the Dutch papers,
Pr vu e accounts sta.e, that a the re.
lig.ous ceiemony of the ma.rtage ol Uu
impart? on the 2d, four t^jeeti*, wete the
tram-beaters r.f her Majesty. Af.er re.
ce*ving the cungratula tons of all ranks
in Paris, Bcnapaite and his bride set of!'
lor oi. on Wtciocsciay last, wheic
they were to remain a few cays.
April 11.
Letters from Bayonne slate, that King
Joieph made his solemn entry into MsL
ag« on the 4<h ol March. Numerous <ie
pu anons met the K. ng on Ins approach
to the city ; and on his arrival there, he
received the congratulatory addresses oi
the cnns.itu’.ed authorities, and then pro.
ceeded 10 the Caiheural, where Te L)eu:a
was solemnly sung.
Apirl 13. v
On the third day af.er their marriage,
Bonapnrte and his imperial hridx received
, the congratulations of toe Sena.e upon
, rite happy occasion, in the usual style of
1 fulsome -ttd ilalton-.lt appears hy a dir.
I pa ch from the Governor of Madrid, that
| ihe Ling Joseph was making the tour of
: the provinces contiguous to Andalusia, He
| mace hit formal entry into Grenada on
the 15»h tilt. The dispatch also men.
1 '.ions, that in the late huiricane in the
Bay of Cadiz, iwo British ships ol the
I ne, vbich went on shore, wtre taker*
poa.es ‘jo ol by the French.
Sir 1‘iaiicis Burden was yesterday vi4
j silerl in ihe Tower by kis lamdy and ae.
veral ol Ins Ir ien.lv—No extraordinary
• precaution was ob»crv J there* nor d.tj
| l,f:r |PPc"r "i ®ny part ol he town th
sbgbtcst inclination to lumitl „r disorder.
1 tie volunteers Were, however^ generally
under aims during the night, and a te.
port ol tbe name, oi tho^c who at ended
• %
ittUitsT has otdtred lo b: mile lo £*>•
vernment*
Bjr information from a gentleman just
a; rived fiom France, we hear that a ci.
rious question was discussed by a Syn-*d
of Biihopk on \h« occasion of the meet,
ing between Bonaparte and the Austrian
princess, at the town of Compeignej on
the river Oise, 45 milea north.cn,t of
Paris- It wn inquired of these Prelates,
assembled in the Ecclesiastical Court, if
it were lawful, that Napoleon and Maria
Lou sa, who had been mairied by proxy
at Vicnna, could, consistent with the Chris*
(ian low, sleep beneath the same canopy ?
After ■ short consultation of thess Epis.
copal Doctors, permission was given, and
we are told, that Che religious scruples of
the Imperial Maiden were by these ven«
arable Patriarchs happily iamoved*
Apiil 13,
A Treaty has been concluded between
France and Holland, by which the whole
of Zealand, Dutch Brabant, See. are in.
corpuraicd with France* Holland, thus
reduced is to support a navy ot 9 sail of
the line, 6 frigates, and ICO gun boats,
and a military force ot 12,0GQ natives and
6iiOC® French, the whole to be exclusive,
ly under the orders ol France.—-All A.
vneiican produce which has reached the ;
ceded provinces, also all imported into
the United S ates, are placed under se.
questraiiun, lo be disposed of as Bona
parte shall hereafter think proper; * and,
in return for all this, Holland is to have
Munsterland.
April 1-t.
Sir Francis Burdett has served the
Speaker ol the House of Commons
a id the Serjeant at Arms? with notice
of an action in the Court of King’s
Bench, for an assault and false imprL
sonment. His notice to the Speaker
.... i it__ „r r._
last night. The right claimed by the
House of Common^ and acted upon
by the Serjeant at arms, will thus re
ceive a legal discussion and decision.
The German papers received yes.
terday state, under tm» head of Paris,
March 19, that on the preceding day
the daughter of the Senator Lucien
Bonaparte arrived in that city ; Lucien
either disgusted with the apostacy of
Napoleon, or fearing for the perma
nence of his power, has long declined 1
to partake of his fortune. The arri- j
val of h?s daughter at Paris, is proba
bly the signal for a reconciliation be
tween the two brothers. We also find
from the German papers, that the
blessings of a military conscription
are to be extended to Naplc3, Den
mark, and all the other countries and
state3 which enjoy the benefit of
French fraternity. The following is
the only article deserving notice, not
already before our readers :
11 Banks of the Elbe, March 23 —
“ The recent union of Hanover makes
the politicians on the Continent very
doubtful as to the ultimate success of
i the negotiations of peace that may be
opened with Great Britain. The loy
al inhabitants of the Electorate of
Hanover, so partial to their lawful Sc
adored Monarch, are, literally speak
ing, filled with despair at this calami
tous event, which is considered by
' them a true national disaster. We
hone that England will use severe re
prisals on this account agiinst France.
The most recent accounts from Pa
ris state, that Monsieur Durmoutur^
who is to go as Ambassador from
France, is to use both promises and
threats to induce America to make an
! alliance with Frauce, and break off
j with England.
April 16.
Orders were received at Plymouth
on Thursday from ;he Admiralty, for
a swift-sailing cutter or o*her ve93cl,
to prepare to sail for America, and
from theuce to the Inland of Sombre*
ro, and all other West India Islands,
to search for and endeavour to ascer
tain the fate of JrfFery, the seaman be
lodging to the Recruit si )op, who was
inhumanly set on shore on the above
named Island of Sombrero^ by his
commanding officer, the Honorable
Captain Lake, for the enormous crime
of stealing a bottle o» spruce beer T! !
Tnis order is in pursuance of the mo
tion made in the Hou;.e of Commons
by Sir France Burdett. The persons
who go out in her are ordered to have
the unfortunate man advertised in all
the American and West India papers,
and a he very minute in tn :ir search
j on the island to ascertain whether any
of his bones or other vestiges ui him
remain.
Sir Samuel Romilly made his pro
mised motion in the House ot Com
mons last night, for the liberating of
j ol Mr C* ile Jones. Hi did not ques
• •* Art. 10. All the merchandize im.
I ported bjr American vessel* that have ar.
rived in the po ts of Holland since the 1st
! f'f January 1809, sh.iH be put under i*e
i qocstralion, ar>d made over to France, in
, order to her d>sp03.ng thereof according
I -to ;he circums ances and the state of her
| political relations with the U. S.
y
■Mk
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liun the aath.iruy or the House, but .
'thought the punishment had already
he n comnuonurate to the offence,
j The motion was opposed upon the
ground of their being no precedent
I for liberating any person offending a
igains: the privilege of that House,
j without a petition having been presen
ted for th«t purpose ; and it was seve
ral times pretty plainly stated, in the
I course of the debate, that Mr Jones
| might obtain his liberation whenever
I he thought proper to express his con
jtr«tion to the Home for the offence he
had offered to it. On a di vision, there
appeared a majority of 48 agaiost the
motion; the nu abers being, for it 112,
against it 160.
April 20.
In the last Dutch Papers, a very
important Decree of the Danish Go
vernment is noticed, by which it ap
pears, that the Court of Copenhagen
has resolved to carry into practice the
princi^e, that 44 flee bottoms make
free goods ” It is st£ed, on the au
thority of a letter from Copenhagen,
that the Danish Chancery has issued
an Order relative to Captures and
Prizes, and which, among v rious new
regulations, contains the following:—
Letters of marque shall henceforth j
be given only to Danish citizms, and
for vessels carrying guns, and having
crews suitably armed. None but ex
perienced seamen to have the com
mand of privateers. Securities to be
given by the captains for the compen
sation of damage done by the impro
per exercise of their authority. No
|hip to be taken within the Jurisdicti
on of friendly or neutral States, which
jurisdiction is, according to the com
mon acceptation, understood to extend
one nautical mile from the land.-"- -
tv im respect to me soanti, u is parti
cularly directed that captures shall not
be made uader the Swedish batt-.ries,
nor within gun-shot of the Swedish
coast. Whereas free ships make free
goods, no vessel belonging to a neu
tral or friendly power can be detained,
to whomsoever the eargo may belong,
provided the ship’s papers are found
to be good, and the vessel is not laden
with contraband of war for England,
or is not in respects of suspici
ous character, vfci the contrary, if the
ship be not free, it follows as a conse
quence that the cargo is not free. En
glish ships having false papers, carry- j
ing goods, contraband of war, or bail
ing under the protection ol English
convoys in the North Sea and the tiai
tic, ure good prizes.”
. NbwsurtpjrTj May 2*.
FROM CADIZ.
The scHnrner Fame, captain Hoyt. 54
days from Cadiz, arrived at this pnrt on
Monday las’. Captain Hoyt poliely
furnished us wills the following intclli.
gence ;
That it was the opinion of the British
Officers that Cadiz will be evacuated, as
soon as the English proper y is removed t
Fresh provisions ol all Rinds are exceed,
ingly scarce and high; fre»h beef, i dol
lar per lb. candles, 45 cents lb. eggs I
dollar per dozen, and other articles pro.
portiunably dear.
By order of tho Junta, vessels arriving
with provisions are ooi suffered to depart
until the provisions are landed,
l The priests are daily employed in ex
ercising the guns on the walls from 10
o'e’ock in the morning, till noon.
The English burnt all the American
lliat \vf»nt nn in (ho
which they could get at; and it could not
be ascertained that any American vessels
were burnt by the French, or lint any
Americans were made prisoners by them.
So busy were the English in burning: he
American vessels* that they did not give
the necessary a s stance to their own liana,
ports.
The English officers speak in the high*
cst terms of approbation of the kindness
shewn by the French 'o the English pri
soners ; especially those taken in the bat
lie of TaUvcra. •
Philadelphia, May 29.
The Editor of the U. S, Gazette is in.
debted to a mercantile gentleman of
this city, for a Dutch paper of the 9 th
April, containing a copy ot a treaty be.
tween Napoleon and his brother, the
king of Holland. The following is a
translation of such parts as appear to be
iuterssting to the people of the United
States.
[From the Royal Courant nf the 9th A.
. pril, 1*10.]
TREATY'.
His majesty the cm pern- of the French
and.king of Italy and his majesty the
king of Holland,
Wishing to pul an end to the dilTeren.
ces, which have arisen between them, and
wisiing to render ihr. independence of
Holland to correspond with tlic present
circumstances into which the orders in
Council of England, of 19.',7, have p.noed
: ail the maritime p>wci»; n»vs agreed—
Art. 1. Un'il the English government
; shall have, officially withdrawn »h* re.
i sincrions cohtcne.1 in her *<r<leri of coun*
1 Cii of JbCT, all trade WUtSKVir b tween
the p%r;» nf Holland and the ports of
EnglanA is prohioitrd. In case particular
reasons a..*,ul*l make it mctss.ry to grant
Tiv>*neevt only are delivered in t:»e
no.ore «>t the emperor, tinli bo vald.
Art. 2. A body of troops of 18.000 men*
30Q& whereof are to be cavalry. and con
sisting of 6000 French and 12,000 Licitc..,
shall be placed on all the mounts of tne
rivers, together w th officers of the French
custom house, to w itcn, “iat the Cum-nis
of the preceding article are put iu force*
3. These troops are £u be maintained,
fed and clothed by the government ui iiol- ““
land.
4. All vessels transgressing the first ar
ticle, which may be taken by French men
of war or privateers, shall be declared
g >od prizes, and in case of doubt, the dif
ficulties ran be resolved by Uis majesty
the fcn:peror only.
5. The restric'ions in the preceding
articles contained, s.iall be withdrawn, us
soon as England snail have with-lrawp her
orders in council of 1807. And from that
moment the French troops suall quit Hol
land and leave to her the tub enjoyment of
her independence.
6. Hi* majesty the king of Holland, in
ordjr to co-operate with lUe forces of ihe
French empire, shall have in the road a
si;uadron of nine ships and six frigates
armed and provisioned for six nrtonchq/iliia
ready to go to s;a by the first of July
next, and also a flotilla of one hundred
gunboats, or other vtsiels of war. Tot*
force shall be mumtaiiLd and-kept in con
stant readiness during the whole of the
war.
7. All merchandize* brought by A*
mero^yi vessels, which have eutejed tne
porJM^ Holland since the 1st January
18Q9jJall betaken in sequestration an!
liiBPFranee in order to dispose thereof
according to circumstances and her politi
cal relations with the United States.
S. All merchandize of English manu
facture are prohibited in Holland.
y. And measures of police are to be
taken to keep a watchful eye, upon anil
take into custody all insurers ot prohui.cd
trade, all smugglers, their abettors, 8cc.
In one word, the government of Holland
obliges itself to d«-» roy the contraband
trade.
10. This present treaty shall be ratifi
ed, and the ratifications shall be exchanged
at Fans within fifteen days, or sooner if
pOSSi b>^.
Dotie a^^Mys, the i»tn March, 1810.
• Chalbpagny Duke of Cadore.
m Admiktl Vcrnuil.
Louis N^^eon, byfthe grace of God and
tNe constitution m the kingdom, king of
Hol\and and cojwable ot France:
T it ii u iiinas^^iiniil~r itinii that the de
partments of Zealand and BraWant, the
territory between the Meuse and the Waal
including Nimeguen, together with ths
Bomtnelerwaard and the territory of Alto
na, have been ceded by us to France, by
a treaty signed on the 16:b, and whereof
the ratifications have this day been ex*
changed; we haye decreed aud hereby da*
cree —
Art. 1. The inhabitants of Zealand'
Brabant, llie territory between the bleu.©
and' Waal, including Nimeguen, together
with the Bommelerwaat J and the territory
of Altona, whether public officers or o*
ther9, are hereby declared to be, from the
date hereof, released from their oath of
allegiance taken to U3.
2. Our minister tor foralga affairs is
charged wnh tne execution of the piesenb
decree, widen shall also be published and
inserted in the bulletin of tne laws.
Given at Paris, the Jlitday of March,
of the year 18id, aud of our. reign tho
5ch. ' ,
(Sign;J)
LOUIS.
' Extract of a letter from Liverpool, dated
April 24.
“ Upwards of 80 000 reamers of wheat
I have been imported from France into the
London market in one week. L-»rv:c
i exp rtations of Brazil cotton hive been
; mud. fro,.. England to France."
“ Liverpool, April 17.
I The prices of American produce are at
little variation from the annexed though
still depressed, 401 d some filter lower.
An order has bvenr*Leived^rour custom*
house to allow the ftnpa^ation of it.es,
duty free.
The iim)ortaliO'isoLCf*tton the last week
amount to 12.000 bales, and the sales are
estimated at near 8000 Th#large arri
mernui manufacture rs ani dialers down ;
while the detention in the discharge of
vessel* ha* prevented touch being landed ;
and the inquiries af.er prime Upland and
New Orleans Cottons have been very greao
—16 1«2J has been reiused for tne for.
mer, and 17d asked ; while prime favor,
ite marks o Ml-sis-ippi, of wliich, iiowe.
ver there are none at market, would c>m.
mand 20 1— nf inferior qualities there ure
abundant supplies, and heavy.
It it evident from this demand, in face
of so large an importation, that the coun
try trade is badly stocked and real prime
cottons are scarce, and likely to he wan.
ted, tl.o* they may be subject to occasion*
al v iriat ona.
by the public papers you wilt observe,
that Sweden has accided to the plan of
prohibiting Hritish colonial prnduce and
innnuiactutes, admitting oniy the import a.
tion of salt in loreign vessels. Also, that
a treaty hisbren s gued between Napole
on and Lcuis llumparte, by which amongst
other articles, it is si.pulatrd that all pro.
perty imported in mnencan ships since
the first of Feb. loU'J, mo il >l\*nd, sha4
be field nt the disposition of France, till it,
• i» ascertain!) i how affairs go between the
two countries. Du ch Brabant, tne w>i«le
ol Zealand, including the bland of So'io.
wan, and mat pan of (iuslderlaiid situ ttr.
oil t:.e lef. bank of the Waal, are ceded iq
France.
I ft i*. here currently reported and keliev. ^
' ed, that (»• ner^l Armstrong )•» about ti»^^
leave France for A n rica, a "d me g* • e .
ai <*t)'n>on is, that import « ns even ui.
| reci iroui Americ i, will be rrn *s;r?d l. ioie
to sequestration .n the coun t a > wider
Fie»Ch ii.lla.nci-.
No fear, are entertained for the sa.'ety
of Cadiz at present or any imme liate dread
of l*ortugd, though the puin general