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lief oM mi nation, * acted' in the cunt%
meccement of yhia reign as you have
done, what happiness, what blood and
quiet would have been saved to the
world. The dupe df Jiis own simpli
<ity, and the slave of Npk ministers, he
has sacrificed the welfare of his peo
ple, and kept the ifori^ in perpetual
alarms, and wars, and misery. The
puppet of power, this'royal maniac,
nas ever been mdyjfcd to and frot by
his rascally.ministers, an object of con
tempt and derision to tbe world, a
cloak to every villainy, and a sanction
to every nefarious scheme of diaboli
cal infamy. O ! fallen state of man !
O ! degrading humility ! How dissi
milar to y*6ur glory. Had he like you,
dared to resign a power, which his
physical weaknesses, incapacitated
rum to exercise, his name might have
passed dpwn to posterity, unrlis
graced by the shameful adjunctions,
tyrant, despot, unrelenting, cruel mas
ter. But not having -this dignity of
mind, he has by persevering io reign,
and confiding hi« power in the hands
of wcajf -cr.vicious ministers-who have
never cessed to abuse it, silienated the
affections ol his subjects, forfeited all
claim to their obedience, drawn down
the. h vredatid contempt of the present
race, and ensured the detestation of all
posterity, to remotes* ages.
I have been led to make these hasty
observations, by my admiration of an
ac*ion which cannot be tr.o much ad
mired. If not the language of classic
elegance they spe.vk that of the 60ul.
. Tht hurry with which they have been |
written, has precluded the possibility |
of a correct arrangement, and syste- ]
roetic exposition. The subject i3 in- ]
teresting, but perhaps my remarks are j
not very important. If worthy of pub. J
licat’on .give it them, if not, g vc them
to the flames. ’Tis thus I end.
MARCUS.
New-Yoek, Sept. 25.
One day later from England.
Last evening arrived at this port the
fast sailing ship Remittance, Maddox,
in 30 days from Liverpool, which port
she left on 25th of August. Capf. M.
has politely furnished the Ediiois of
the MevcaptHe Adveifser with a Li
verpool paper to the 23d, and a hie of
the London Star to the 21st of Au
gust, inclusive, Irom which we have
extracted the following articles.
London, Adg. HU
RICE OF STOCKS this day at
^■lockir A per Cent. Cons, money,
c. G8, 2-2 5 8 ; 3 per Cent,
C>2 1-8—4 per Cent. 85 1 4
3 8; Navy 5 per Cent. 99 3-4 78;
Omnium I 3-4 die.
A Ootuuburgh lifatl arrived this
morning. However singular it may
appsar, Gustavus Adolphs, tne f.x- |
K ng of Sweden, Berms to have offer
ed himself as a Candidate to fill the
throne of that kingdom once more.
By the following accounts he seems 1
to tv* on his way fiom his late retire
ment to the Koiih of Europe.
JLeipric, July 30. .
Count Van Got tor p, Gastavu* A.
dolphos, arrived here to-day—he con
tinues his journey by way of Merlin’
where be will arrrive to-morroir.
An envoy from the U. Slates, to
aucc-.ed Gen. Armstrong, has arrived
in France.
By lett<r<i from Holland it appears
that the Dutch, so far from expecting
any relief to the oppressions under
which theircowtucrcehas solorggroau.
cd, arc apprehensive that the new ar- ;
ttifljpments, so far from ameliorating !
will increase thrir soft-rings.
No confirmation has jet been re- !
ceived of the battle between the allied j
army and the French, of which a ru
mor h;«i rcach'd Corunna belore the
Nimrod (eft that port. -
Ldtcrs from iidboa and Santander
state, that serious consequences had
result*d from the late daring expedi
tion under Porlier. The French, as
a punishment on the biscayans, have
levied a contribution of 3,500 OOO re
al*, nnd twelve thousand nien have
been marched from Victo »a, to occii* j
py the dift r*nt towns and pom of that
uofctrunate piovin'-e. A pt-rson who ]
left Santander on the 4’h inst. dc-irtrihes
jo paiidui terms he condition of that
to < n av.d the arijati lit country, m con
ttqtffnccdf French exactions St op
pressh ns.
J. tttrs received from the Baltic
•tare, that the vessels which were de
tail.-.-d in tl**- ports of Prussia, «>n sus-!
piusn of be«ng laden with English
property, art liki-ly to be released on
p .yi g 50 p.*r cent*
Ar gtn’l.iTiaft irom Gottenburg, who
quitieJ that pert on ihe 8th of the pre
*• ui montli, stat'-s that previous to that
tune intelligence baa been received of
. . n
*an order at t^bristiatMtanfi for
Lease of all American vessels brought
tin there, which had not been taken
when under the guard of a British con
voy. In consequence qf that Regula
tion Aree shjps of the United States,
with valuable cargoes had beenrAleas
ed, and.it was hoped that this conces
sion would be made throughout all the
ports of Norway. An opinion gen
erally prevailed, that the King of Den
mark would be the. successful candi
date for the succession to the Swedish
Throne.
A letter.from liostock gives unfa
vorable accounts of the state of affiiii s
at that pprt. It appears that measures
ol great severity had been resorted to
in that harbor against all American
ships, and that , none of them were
permitted to land any part of their car
goes . ...
If Napoleon adheres to his declara •
tion respecting the .Berlin and Milan
Decrees, there can hardly be soy diffi
culty even in point of ettequetto, as
to the remains of our Orders in Co jo
ciL The words of the French Min
ister’s letter are, “ In this new state
of things, Sir,. I nm authorised to de
clare to vbu, that the Decrees of Ber
lin and Milan are revoked,. and that
from the 1st of November they will
cease to he in fo’ce, it being un
derstood that in consequence of this
declaration, the {Lin',lish shall revoke
their orders in cou cil, and renounce
the new principles-of blockade, which
they have attempted to establish ; or,
that the United States, conformably
to the act which you have just Cum mu.
nicated, shall cause their rights to be
respected by the English.” “After
this declaration on the part erf the
French government that their decrees
arc revoked and shall cease to be in
force from the first of November,
t I*rp IP AS ___L1
- — ■ caaunauiy
prevent a declaration on our part, that
the measures adopted by us, expressly
on the principle of retaliation should
cease to be in force at the same time
with the obnoxious decrees. F^om
the concluding member of the sentence,
it indeed appears that the decrees arc
to be revoked at any rate, provided
the Americans cause their rights
to be respected by the English. Any
backwardness on our parts, therefore,
must embroil us with the Americans,
whom Napoleon now addresses in that
tone of fulsome flattery which he so
readily assumes towards those whom
he wishes to bend to his purposes.
REPEAL OF TIIE UNION.
The Right Hon. Henry Grattan,
and the lion. JVlr R. Shaw, the two
members for the city of Dublin, are
to be delegated to present the petition
to the King, praying for a Repeat of
the Act of Union, *nd a i estoration of
the Parliament of Ireland.
Bread.—There was no court of Al
dermen held this day ; the Lord May
or, after inspecting ihe returns, or irr
ed the price of bread to be reduced
one penny per peck.
There was on import into Liver
pool last week of 22,335 bushels of
wheat, and 11,299 barrels of flour.
-- .. _
New-iork, Sept. 29.
LATEST FOREIGN NEWS.
yesterday arrived at this port the
fast sailing and regular trading ship
Frances, tnpt. Taylor, in the very short
passage of 27 days from Greenock,
which port she left on the 3'Jthof Aa
giist.
The arrival of tho Frances has fur
nished the Editors of the Mercantile
Advertiser with London papers to the
25th August, inclusive, four days later
than hitherto received.
It whs expected the British OrJers
in Council would be repealed, when
the Berlin and Milan Decrees ceased
to be in force.
The harvest in England had turned
out-much better tb»r* was expected,
but the demand for the armies abroad
kept up the prices.
Lon no*, Aug. 22.
A Lady has arrived in a Cartel from
Morlaix, who says that cn Friday la3t
a telegraphic message was received
th“re in 11 hours from Paris, by the
Prefect of M<*rlaix, which stated that
B naparte had, on the l$i'h inst. sign,
ed a Cartel for the exchange of prison
ers.
A Gottenburg Mail arrived this mor
ning.-——T o the surprise of the Swedes
a competitor for the Crown of Sweden
has started up its the person of Berna.
dot e, upon whom the Swedish papers
hnve hern lavishing the warmest eulo
gies, no doubt by order of the French
Government.
Augunt 23.
•* We learn that nearly a whole re- 1
giment ot Swiss soldiers, with most of
iheir officers, amounting to about se
ven hundred »ot», have deserted to the
Ecgltshnriny. Masseftais so.t’.i&crtist.
ful ©f any troops but the French and;:
Italians, that lie takes care that the o_
tffrs shall very seldom 'came within
j ai$xt of the British colours.
I Almeida, beseiged by Loiscm, !*
! #41 make a brave resistance* A Bri
tish garrison has been put in there un
der General Cox, who is a very brave
officer, but not because the Portuguese
garrison was distrusted, for they have
almotffunlfornrty conducted themselves
very gallantly.”
Letters from Amsterdam to the 14th,
annou. ee that, the conscription which
the French Emperor had promised to
postpone to the ensuing ye::r, had been
actually carried into execution. - The
first class was composed of persons be
tween the ages of fifteen and twenty;
the second, of those between 20 and 25 V
and the third, of such as were ten years
older.—An article in the papers from
Bohemia, under date of the 28ih July
mentions, that the ttrnr of the King of
Holland was solely for the rc-establi - h
meat ©rhis health—and that his Ma
jesty had condescended, to become a
•boarder in the -house of a physician of
th^ name of Ambrosi, residing at T< ip
li ft, who received Valetudinarians-into
his family. ■*
Hollandis in a terrible state—The
i French are taking all the young men
for thexequisition ; the people’s houses
are also crittred by the soldiers in
search of British goodsx There are
not less than thirty thousaud French
in Amsterdam.
I: is stated from Copenhagen, un
der date of August 4, that the coiulem
r.ed ship Amelia, which had been
brought in under American colours
was sold Tor 30,100 rix dollars ; and
that on the following Monday, another
prize ship, the Minerva, laden with
230 casks of refined sugar, taken from
ihe British, would be exposed to sale.
It is added, that at Callunburg three
large Americans had been brought in
with cargoes, consisting of salt and
ammunition. Ten captures are men
tioned of this description.
From Dantfcic, information of a‘
contrary nature has been received.—
Orders had arrived there that all A
mericans should be treated as friends,
and that their ships and cargoes should
be respected.
Parliament is further prorogued,
with the usual formalities to the 1st of
November.——Tie Commissioners
are the Lord Chancellor, Earls Bathurst
and Liverpool.
After a deliberation of some days,
the.Lords of Trade have determined
to grant licences for the importation of
cargoes from France, consisting of one
third wine, and two thirds grain, oil,
and seeds, on condition that one third
of the cargo exported to France shall
lie composed of coffee and sugar, or
East India manufactured goods. Li
cences to this eKhct will be granted ns
soon as the formula for that purpose
can be pvcpaied by the printer.
Saturday the partner in the banking
fi. m of Brickwood & Co. passed their
third exami :ation at G dldhall. The
amount of debts proved was £ 1,200,
o;o.
The Marshal’s man, who went ex.
nreas to Liverpool, to apprehend At.
kinson,the clerk of Messrs. Beddin
ton k Co. of St. John-st. has returned
I wi:hout his man ; as Atkinson had got
on board an American shin.
Charles, outward bound from that
port, and had sailed about two hours
before the officer’s arrival.—He pur
sued the vessel in a six oared boat to
seo, but the weather was so boisterous
he was obliged to relinquish the pur
suit. The employers of Atkinson,
however, are not likely to sustain any
loss, as one of them is executor to a
will, iu which a sum of £ 1000 wa3
!>» queathed to Atkinson shortly before
he absconded.
August 2\.
Private letters brought by the Got
tenburg Mail of yesterday, state that
a great number pf privateers are fitting
out in the Bal.ic, and that as soon an
the nights by the advance of the year,
should h^ye lengthened, serious depre
dations might be expected in that sea.
Accounts had readied Gottenbirrg
from S'. Petersburg!) to the 26th ult.
that the decision respecting the Tene
riffe vesels was still in suspence, but
that their condemnatirm was expected.
! —Several American vessels were re.
I ased, whose papers were under exa
mination about the same time ; and
from this it wan inferred that the
ncrifFe vessels would also have been
dischargfd if there were not some
strong circumstances to justify their
beidg detained and ultimately con
demned.
Through another channel we learn
that a large homeward bound convoy
had reached CarisHanm*.
By letters from Dunkirk of the 18lh ,
inst. it appears, that at that date no li- j
cences for the importation of colonial |
produce had been signed by Napoleon,1
iVho was about to -quit Pavia f at Am*
ittrdanv. It was therefore behrved
ait -Dunkirk that no lioeocts will be is
sued before the 1st of November, the
period named for the termination cf
the Milan and Berlin Decrees, by
which date the termination of the Bri
tish Government respecting the Orders
in Council will be known.
Com Kxchange, Market Lane, Au
gust 2<k—To day there are consider*
able remaining supplies of Wheat, wait
ing the expected reduction, sales are
very heavy and at lower prices.—
Flour remains at late prices.
Wheat 80s. 95s. 1153—Fine do.
US'?. 123s.
Fine Flour 95s. to 100s—Seconds,
70s. to 95s.
August 25.
Letters have been received from
Gottenburgh to the 13th inst. which
serve to throw some light on the state
of politics in Sweden.-.It is now
supposed that the Duke of Augusten
burgh, the brother of the late°Crown
Prince, wiH be elected successor to the
Swedish Throne. A great majority
in three out of thi four atates had de
clared for him. 7"he King of Den
mark appears from the first to have
had no chance of success; ail the states
being unanimous in their ooositioa to
him. The orders of tlie clergy anrd the
peasants had declared against Berna
doue, the first, it is said, on account
of his religion, the latter because he
was a "Frenchman. There does not
the least suspicion appear to be enter,
tained of the possibility of Gustavus
Adolphys coming forward to assert
his rights to the Torone.
i’he late convulsion in the mercan
tile* wnrlfl Km — _>
of anew Jomt Stock Company, with
a capital of five millions, under the ti*
tie of “ The Commercial Loan and
Interest Company.” It is to be divide
ed into three branches.
1. I he De posit Branch, for a gene
ral accommodation on real property,
the profit of which to accumulate at
compound interest.
2. intcrebt Branch, by which per
sons may deposit small sums, and re
ceive the company’s bills bearing inte
rest.
3. Credit Branch, by which sub
scribers may draw at 183 day-:, 9 and
12 months date on the company, for
three fourths of the amount of his stock,
upon his c;gnovit to provide for the
same 3 days before the period of his
bills—by this his capital is to be made
active.
The plan has many details, and it is
said, that 3 of the first characters in
this city patronize the plan.
Keut Silver Coinage.---— —We are
happy to learn, that in addition to ten
millions of 5u bank dollars which are
now stamping by Messrs. Watt & Bol
ton, a new silver coinage of Half
Crowns, Shillings and Sixpences, is in
a state of great forwardness. When
these are issued those in circulation are
to be received at the Bank of England,
only according to their weight.
Aug. 25, half past 7, P. M.
To-day we have no arrivals from ei
ther France or Holland, but we have
some information from the latter, by
two Dutch gentlemen who left that
country by the last conveyance. It is
innpossioie t > express unless influen
ced by the same passions, the indigua*
tion which the conduct of Bonaparte
has excited. The turpitude of Lewis
has awakened the same leelings, and
he is said to have embezzled the sum
of 20 millions of ducats, which had
been transmitted to Germany.
AUSTRIAN DECREE;
The prohibit- ry laws interdicting
the admission of colonial produce have
not been found sufficient. A new de
cree ha« been signed by the Emperor
commanding that coffee shall under
no pretence, be received into private
houses, or used for domestic consump
tion, and penalties at e enacted on those
who shall dare to transgress that man
date.
It is supposed that some relaxation
of this Decree will be applicable to ca
ses hereafter, where coffee and other
colonial produce shall be obtained thro’
the medium ot France.
BRITISH ARMy"»n PORTUGAL.
The trading ship G*orge has reach
ed Falmouth from Lisbon after a pas
sage of 14 days. A gentleman from
that capital has this day favored ns
with some acceptable intelligence,—
The number of British troops, ancor
to the latest returns, appeared to he
28,000 effective men, not including the
7th regiment, which had just arrived
from Halifax, and which was compo
sed of remarkably fine seasoned troops.
The Portuguese regulars, and even
the volunteers, were well clothed and
made a respectable aud soldierlike up
ptnrance,’ With v general TfilV are se
veral native regiments. S^ne-ofthe
Hidalgos whb had commanded tinder
him, had been put under arrest, on
account of their offensive deportment
on one or more occasions, when they
manifested lets temper and discretion
than warmth and courage. The vast
embouchure of the Tagus was full of
shipping, for the reception and convoy
of the army, should necessity require
its re-embarkation. The no: them
bank was lined with batteries, but the
southern shore was destitute of a single
gun, and there were none mounted e
ven on the ramparts of Almada, which
was cpn-urutted toprotect the naviga
tion. Just before this person passed
the bar, a large transport with conva
lescents was proceeding up the Tagus
thuf they might resume active duty in
the Camp. By the ship to which we
have referred, we are favored with the
following com mini cation s—
“ Lisbon, A.ug, 8.
“ News of no later date than the 31st
has reached ,U3 from our army, though
we might have had it later by at Iea6t
a day. You may easily conceive what
anxiety we feel. The letters received
here communicate no news and indeed
every one seems very careful in des
cribing particulars relative to our ar
my.”
Glasgow, August 28.
Letters from Dunkirk, of the 18th
instant, state, that the French govern
ment will not grant licences for the im
portation of colonial produce until the
2d of November, when it will appear
what has been the determination of the
unusit government in consequence
of the conditional revocation of the
Berlin and Mil in Decrees ; the ope*
ration of which will cease (upon the
terms Specified) to have effect the 1st.
of the same month.
The Dutch have hitherto had a
mild and considerate Sovereign: Bo*
naparte is now going to Amsterdam
to shew the in ihe difference.
Ftom London papers by the Remittance.
Schwerin, Aug. 1.
Our Gazette of-to-day contains the
following edict: Wherea3 instances
have shewn that the North American
flag is wrongfully made use of by the
English to import prohibited good*
and elude the well known vigilance
pursued by the imperial French go
vernment, to preserve the illicit trade
in colonial produce, which for a con
siderable time has not been shipped
off from any port in North America;
therefore we hereby direct that no A*
merican ships shall henceforth be ad
mitted in any port of our dominions,
and the Minister Committees in Ros
’ tock and Weismar are charged to
watch over the punctual execution o£
this order.
“FREDERICK FRANCIS*
“ Doberrau, July 29, 1810.”
Dunkirk, April 10,1810.”
The American vessels which had
been detained here, are ordered to bei
released.”
Paris, Aug. 12.
I IMPERIAL CUSTOMS.
An error of the press in the De«
crees of the 5th inst. must be correct
ed as follows:—“ Levant Cotton, im
ported by sea 400 fr. The same im
ported by land, through the offices at
Cologne, Coblent/,, Mentz,and Stras
burgh, 200 fr.”
On Thursday last his Majesty was
employed during the greater part of
the day at Trianon, in transacting bu
siness with his ministers.
Amsterdam, Aug. 6.
The following notice ha- been pub
lished here “ The Director of »h«
Imperial cus'oms hastens to acquaint
the Merchants, that a Decree of the
Emperor and King, dated July 3» 1
which has been just communicated to
him by his most Serene Highness the
Arch Chancellor of the Empire, Duke
of Placentia, contains some modifies*
uons and alterations in the Tarif that
have -*en already published which are
fo t»c applied to the colonjjl produce
already in Holland ; ar.d that the same
Decree regulates the manner and pe
riods of payment. He freU it to b«
, his duty to make public this decree,
, ;»S well as the farlf, to put «u end tea
the impautnee of the mercantile ela3*
’ SC 3.
i “ P a I. aC.v. of St. Ci.o'JD, July 31,1 MOi
j ” Napoleon, by ihe <»race of Oocl
and the Constitution, Emperor of the
I’ renebj King of Italy, Protector ^>f
the co federation of the Khiue, Media
tor of ihe Swiss Confederacy, Sec. 8tc*
Sec. VV> have decreed and do decree
: at follows.
j 11 Art. 1. The duty of fifty per ernfe
I to vrhtca colonial produce in Holland