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ed on, we may congratulate our mercan
tile friends, and our country, on a
change in our commercial prospects,
more flattering than could have been
expected from the increased hostility of
the belligerent powers.
The intellgence by this arrival, does
not announce any change of importance
on the continent of Europe. The French
army retained its position in the neigh
bourhood of Warsaw, and the Russians,
amounting to 80,000 men, were waiting
reinforcements, and acting on the defen
sive. The King and Queen of Prussia,
were at Koningsburg.
A detachment of the Trench army
was approaching Dantzic, which al
though garrisoned by 17,000 men, un
der Gen. Manstein, was not expected
to tnake much dc fence.
The latest advices in the London pa
pers, relative to Turkey, contradict the
report of a rupture between that power
and Russia.
In a debate in the British House of
Lords on the 2d of January, very high
toned opinions are given both by the
ministry and the opposition, respecting
the late negotiations with France : and
it is expressly declared by all partit s,
that a peace to he permanent, must be
honorable to the British nation, and
that no other ought to be concluded.
Foulk, Governor of West-Florida,
with 300 nu n, were at Fort St. Johns,
within a few miles of Ne.v-Orl ans, on
the 21st ult. He had requested to land
liis men and march so Baton Rouge,
but was refused by gen. Wilkinson.
LONDON, January 4.
Mr. Morier, Mr. Moore. Mr. Mur
ray, and oilier English gentlemen, who
arrived in town on Ei it lay, and yester
day, from the continent, are unanimous
in the most favourable reports of thi
number and efficiency of the Russian
armies. Mr. Morier, in his rout*
from \ ienna to Koningsburg, passer!
the corps under general Benninger.—Ir
was 80 000 stiong, and in excellent or
der. Its retreat from the Vistula prin
cipally ;.rose from the won* of provi
sions, the Prussian magazines being
every when • mptv.
Mr. Morier heard nothing of the
fall of (iraundtz. He mentions that
propel *y belonging to the king of Prus
sia, ol consul ruble value, was embark
ed on hoard two vtssels at Libhau, but
he was uninformed of their destination.
\ o J
Yesterday letters were received in,
town from Petersburgh, Riga, and Elsi
neur; the letters are to the 28th of De
cember, by the Mercury', Jackson, and
Relieve, Taylor, which on Thursday
.arrived at Hull. By these we have ob
tained intelligence some days later than
the last mails, and are enabled to state
that to the 14th ult. no action had taken
place in Poland. Bonaparte, at that
date, continued at Posen, and was not
expected to leave that city until the 23d.
1'he advanced corps of Davoust’s divi
sion had not on the 12th, proceeded be
yond Skara.
A Gentleman -a ho landed at Hull,
and arrived in town yesterday, left Me
nu! on the 6th ult. and passed several
days at Koningsburg, whence he sailed
on the 20th-lie saw the king and
queen of Prussia at a small town near
Koningsburg the day before his depar
ture : Their majesties lodged at a gro
cer’s shop, and the prime minister,
Ilaugwitz, occupied a miserable apart
ment at an apothecary’s.—The king
supported the extraordinary reverse of
fortune which he has experienced with
composure and fortitude ; but the queen
appeared sensibly afflicted at the woful
change in her condition.—There were
about 4,000 troops in the town, and a
bout 20,000 at Koningsburg and its
neighbourhood.
A general embargo is ordered at
Hamburgh, and no neutral is allowed to
sail even in ballast :—The American
consul lias remonstrated on the occasion,
hut in vain. Hambourg on the 16th
was garrisoned by about 800 Italians.
In all the conquered countries, the
French have deprived the natives of
the ir arms. Mortier has proclaim d in
Hanover, &c. that any person c ires
ponding with England, shall he punish
ed with death ; and gen. Schremn has
threatened those who talk on politicks
with a like fate.
w II E F L f N G,
Thursday, IV' arch i 2, 1 807.
On the 24th i ji t.uary,a presentment
was made 10 ihe Supcr'mr Court of the
1 erritory oi Orleans, hj the Grand Ju
ly, declaring that they felt themselves
imperiously called upon to present, as a
most dangerous anti alarming evil, the
unpreceelente el exercise of military pow
[ > r in that city. They present, that14 they
I have seen w ith no less astonishment than
grief, the laws and the civil authority
prostrated before a military force. They
have seen the Citizens of the United
States and ot this Territory, seized up
on and imprisoned hv that force, and de
prived ot the benefit of that great bul
wark of civil liberty, the writ of Habeas
Corpus. Nay more; they have seen the
General commanding the American ar
my here, come before this honourable
court, and openly avow such illegal acts;
and to this grand jury the same General
has acknowledged the commission of
such acts, and sought to justify them by
alleging that they were previously ap
proved by the governor and two of the
judges of diis territory. Whoever his
advisers were, we hold such advice, un
der existing circumstances, as a total
dereliction of all regard to the constitu
tion and laws of the United States, and
as striking at the very foundation of ci
vil liberty.”
1 ne presentment of the Grand Jury
may probably have had some effect in
checking the odious system of tyranny
to whiah New-Orleans was subjected.
It must excite surprise and indignation,
to find such a decree as the following
issued within the jurisdiction of the Li
nked States. It hears a very strong
resemblance to the arrettes issued by
the 1* rench Governors of conouered pro
vinces. It was inscribed on the Coffee
House Books, and published at New
Orleans, on the 20th of January.
“ The merchants and traders of New
Orleans, and the other persons trans
porting goods on the waters of the Mis
sissippi, are hereby informed, that in
consecpience of
OFFICIAL ORDERS,
\> men have in view the tranquillity
and welfare of the countrv, no vessels,
I oats, barges, rafts, or flotillas, contain
ing cannon, powder, arms, ammunition,
military or naval stores of anv descrip
tion whatever, will be permitted to as
cend the Mississippi, without passports
signed by Governor Claiborne.
If, from the date hereof, any ves
sels, boats, barges, rafts, or flotillas,
containing cannon, powd- r, arms, am
munition, military or naval stores, he
found asci nding the Mississippi with
out said passports, the same, together
with the person or persons on hoard, shall
be taken in custodv, brought ;lg*ck to
du C» v i f N ' -O'l« a: s, Ttftd -Wfe
detained du - ing the pleahirfcof fits
[excellency Gov. Claiborne LIT!