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due deference to the ciMWlitUteif authorities of tfh
nation, of which we are « component peri, lo state
the impression which the measures pursued by the
national administrations, at different periods, have
made on my mind.
It is, 1 think, much to he regretted, that the pre
sent administration, end thai which immediately
preceded it, in conducting the affairs of the nation,
have so far departed from the principles and mes
snrcs of tne immortal Washington, the father of his
country ; under whose administration, the United
States were, beyond a parallel, prosperous, safe
and happy. The leading principle of his system
continued by his immediate successor was, to defend
the nation, at every hazard, with an adequate force,
both by - sea and land, against lawless aggression.
Glorious things were achieved; and the great mas
ters of Europe were compelled to respect our rights
as an independent and powerful nation. Our com
merce under bis plastic hand became second only
to that of the great maritime nation of Europe.—
Our ships of war rode the orean with confidence.
Our treasury was overflowing ; and our debt, the
price of our independence, was uniformly and ra
pidly decreasing. Rut «n» we experience the re
verse of all this. France invades the rights of oar
* neutral commerce, in-defiance of a subsisting treaty;
we remonstrate, but nothing mote. Our remon
strances are disregard. Our commerce is seized and
sequestered. Our vessels are buint and the crews
imprisoned. We wholly abandon the idea of nppos
ing force to force. Great Britain retaliates on her
enemy the injury aimed at her commerce by this J
lawless attack on ours, and Seeks indemnity at our
‘ expense, because we neglect to drfeud it, against
her rival. We justly complain, but without effect.
We have recourse to nonimportation, embargo and
non intercourse, under the vain idra of bringing her
to our feet. Thus, to tevrnge a partial injury to
commerce, vve, by our own art, annihilate it; and
instead of wounding the great belligerents, we have
gratified the one, by falling in with her views ; and
taught the other, to our lasting damage, new sour
ces of coitfcmerce. Our ships of war have disap.
u i cu iiuui uic r«u, vy u i bt ioovip y to »./\nuuuw
Oor revenue i3 become inadequate to the ordinary
expenses ol' a peace establishment; end, as e na
ttion, we have become “ spiritless, afflicted, fallen.'*
—Still, in our defenceless condition, our executive
reject the messenger of peace from Great Britain,
berause its sensibility was# wounded by something
indecorous which it discerned, or thought it dis
cerned, in the language of that messenger of peace.
And thus, by regarding form more than substanre,
via have lost an opportunity for an honourable ad
. justment of the most interesting concerns, which
perhaps may never return. Had our government
asserted its rights with an adequate force, created
with a small proportion of the millions which have
been sacrificed in the prosecution of this imbecile
system of measures, against the aggressions of
France, all these evils might have been stifled in
their ori::in. A humble submission to French rapa
ci/y, is the main source of our unhappy decline. The
system of restriction is now abandoned by its
advocates; and the dreams of philosophic theo
rists have at length, vanished into empty air.—
Whence this visionary scheme of measures? Is i?
to b» imput'd to the want of spirit in the na
tion? Or, to a defect of resources against the
maritime power of France, annihilated to our
hand by the British navy ? No. The cause has
long existed end become inveterate, a cause which
can be better understood than expressed, a cause
which will be reflected on with regret by all true
Amc.ricaos us the names 01 Washington and Jeffer
son sbaM .be contrasted upon the page of history.
[The remainder of the speech being on local sub
jects U .omitted.]
Ntw York, May 14.
from Cadiz.
Yesterday arrived at this port, the ship Ariadne,
captain Burrowes, from Cadiz—from winch place
she sailed the 4tb of April.
Capt. Burrowes informs, that a British fleet with |
5000 troops, had arrived from England, a.vl were
dsbarking the day he sailed. Fourteen British
ahins of the line were in Cadiz Bay. The Spanish j
and British armies were determined to hold Cadiz,!
The French army was on the opposite shore, and
engaged in erecting fortifications. Admiral lord
Collingwood, commander of the British squadron in
the Mediterranean, died off Toulon about the mid
dle of March, and his body was brought to Cadiz
in the Valliant of 74 guns ; and afterwards pot on
board a frigate which sailed for England on the 3rd
of April.
American produce was high at Cadiz.
May 15.
uy me urig Lomntfrre, rapt. Litreil, rrnm 31.
Bartholomews, the editors of the New York Ga
zette received the subsequent official papers.
Britannic majesty’s ship Neptune. Point a Pctre,
Gawlaloupe, April 10, 1810.
SIR.-—Wishing tn apprize your excellency the
moment I have become acquainted with any thin;;
that may affect your interest, I forward to yon the
copy oi an Order I hava issued to prevent the nn
porution of provisions or lumber from St. Bartho
lomews,, into anv of the British islands, which 1
request your excellency will also he pleased to make
known to the merchants under yonr government,
that they may trot be led into any difficulties, by
not knowing of this Regulation in time.
I have the honour to be with great consideration,
yner excellency's most obedient humble servant,
ALEX. COCHRANE.
His excellency gov. Aakarhetm, &c.
St. Bartholomews.
Neptune, Cosier Buy,
Guadeloupe, April 0,1810.
Hie majesty having signified his pleasure, that
the importation of floor, biscuit, or other provisions
or lumber from the island of St. Bartholomews,
even iu English bottoms, is hot to he admitted into
Mky of the British possessions in the West Indies ;
thereby apprise the respective captains, conrmand
er«, and commanding officers of the ships and ves
sels of the squadron thereof, in'order that such ves
sels attempting a breach of this order, may be
ized. m
(Signed) ‘A LEX. COCHRANE.
Tn the respective Captains, &c.
Newcomb’s Packet will sail for
New Y«rk ou THURSDAY sext. May"!.
Yesterday afternoon ihe BnUtkPrL-*.
Antrim, rapt. Monrsoo, arrived Imre from ftp
wi 'Otb, which place she left on tbe <)ih nit. add
Halifax on Wednesday last.;; Tbe Editors dfadw>
Ne# York Gajeltc have received London pipers
and Lloyd’s Lips to the (wh ultimo, front whirh
they have extracted all thin is interesting—tbe
John Adams frigate sailed from England on the
26th of March for France and America.
•The newt in England from Spain, was not so lute
as that before received at this port.
Sir Francis Burdett, a conspicuous oppositionist,
was committed to the Tdwer lor writing a sedi
tious letter to his constitoents. The proceedings
on litis subject will be found in this day’s Ga
zette. 1 here is little else of an interesting na
ture.
The opinion in England continued to be favoura
ble towards the United States. Mr. Wallace has
despatches for government.
The Izindon Morning Chionicltr of the Sfst March,
mentions the arrival at Falmouth of the Packet
Express from New-York, with Dr. Logan on
board.
The same paper is nearly full of a debate in parlia
ment, which took place tbe preceding day, “ on
the expedition to Holland.” On the amendment,
approving tbe ronduel ol ministers, the ayes were
253, noes 231 — Majority for ininistiy 21. On
the other divisions the majority for ministers
was 48 and 40.
Price of storks at London, April 6.—3 per cent,
cons. 68 3 8 5-8. Consols for — 6‘8 3-8 7 8.
■-Price ot fine flour 90 shillings per sack, or
60 shillings (sterling) per America* bariel.
t-ojfDON, March 26,
The dispatches from Mr. F.nkncy to the Ameri
can government were we understand, sent from
town on Saturday last to the American frigate John
Adams, tying at Cowes, They were taken by lieot.
Klimt ol that ship, whirh was to proceed to Pans,
in order t obtain the dispatres from Gen. Arm
r.irone. It is, however, hy no means improbable
that Gen. Armstrong will demand passports, and
retuin hnnvelf to America in the John Adams, as
the trench government has recently adopted mea
sures so hostile to the American government that
it wenM l *»e all respect in the eyes ol mankind it it
were to submit to them. Private letters from Pa
ns, indeed, bated the 18th inst. 9tate, that Genera!
Armstrong bed actually demanded passports, as
the french government bud issued an order for the
seizure :-.nJ sale of American vessels and property.
Intelligence of the same, it is said, has been received
by Mr. Pinkney and by our minister. The con
duct oi Buonaparte towards America has been so
strange, capricious, and impolitick, that such an
order might naturally be expected from him ; and
if so, »e trust it will dispose the American govern
ment to be more sensible oi the wisdom of being up
on good terms with the only power that can guaid
their commercial interests, and enable them to sup
port their independence.
'Two ships have arrived from Norway. The pas
sengers describe the situation of the inhabitants of
that inhospitable region, as most deplorable from
the sc-mity of the ordinary means ot subsistence,
from Riga, under the date of the 17th ultimo, we
learn, that trade had acquired considerable activity.
Hemp w,.s sold at 22 dollars, and tbe prices of othei
Baltu k commodities had not declined, though prices
of colonial produce remained the same.
The diamond which ornaments the hilt of Buo
naparte's sword is worth 12,000,000 o| francs,
winch is three limes the value of the celebrated Or
leans diamond.
The value of the jewels and nnptnuf ornaments
which Napoleon has destined for his bride are esti
mated Ht 18,000,000 nffranrs.
The court of Denmark it is said, ha^ seized and
ordered for sale, all American vessels in its ports,
ami d reeled the proceeds to be paid into tbe Royal
Treasury.
March 29.
I he following letter has been received from IIol
1 rnd, hut we are hy tm means disposed to pledge our
selves for the truth of its contents :
•* Bank* of the Scheldt, March 22.
“ Aft matters of apprehended difference bet*, erf
the courts of Russia and France are fullv and ami
cably adjusted, so that there is not the smallest
chance of a disagreement between these two pow-.
era.
“ Paeitfck proposals have been made, or will be
immeditely commenced, to Great Britain by France,
upon the occasion of the august matrimonial «Hi
a nee between France and Austria.
* March 31.
At the departure of the post front Dover nn
Thursday a vessel was in sight, supposed to be a flag
of trura from France, with some further dispatches
relative to the pending negotiation for an exchange
Of prisoners.
Sevaral saif of the line are assemble* at Yaf
month, and are to be joined by a ffett of transports/
with troops, destined upon a seret expedition.
April tf.
Three GottenI.org Mails arrived last night. The
French, under the pretence of air attack upon Zea
land and Bornholm, meditated by os, are to occupy
Holstein, tt will be foand, no doubt, when' they
have ttikerr possession of it, that they have occupi
ed it, not to preserve it for the Danes, but to wrest
it from them, and to keep it themselves.
S.r Samuel Hood has passed the Dardanelles, and
is now cruising in the Black Sea. The Russians of
course dare not shew themselves out of port.
1 he repudiated Empress Josephine intends, that
is, has bee a commanded, to quit France, and retire
to Italy,
The king of Prussia has issued a decree, by
which, from the 1st of April bo vessel from an Eu
ropean port shall be admitted into the Prussian
ports, if her cargo consists of any other articles
than such European commodities and products as
ate admissible according to the continental system.
Medical drugs are the only article* excepted from
this regulation.
Colonial and extra European produce is to be im
ported by sea only from American ports. IV# have
inserted in another part of onr paper a letter from
the French minister of the interroar, relative to li
ceners. Hy these measures it is hoped all Comoirr
ciul intercourse between this country and the conti
nent will be rendered impracticable. The coast of
Pomerania, and from the Elbe to the Scheldt, are to
be occupied by French troops.
We received this morning the following letter of
Rap
,*> ^ _
rprinting aft
,.,vT.«....
*r W.e htftf jn^t received the unpicafuit liewso
tli# French having taken possession' of the iil/o
Newark in the river Elbe* which will' cut >4f tom
in'imrafioi.s with Hamburg ;• t)ie French nAh-eti
are very think all along the roast.”
Admiral Harvey was restored to his rank in con
sequence of af memorial to the king.
DoTK.a, April 1 .—Yesterday a French higgei
was seen to take an American ship and i*rtg at tin
hark of the Sand; the signal bring made'at litih
( ornbill, two brigs and a schooner got under weigh
and pursued ihem, and it is said Unit li e KrcCth lug
gef has been taken and sent td the Downs.
April 3.
I-etters fronrdiffer'ent parts of Spain arrivid yes
t»rday. Those limn QhIIu ih are of the 23d, 'and
state that the purest spirit oi patriotism pervade
the whole of that and the adjoining provinces ; an.
ihe last accounts received at Corunna from AndaltS
Sia contain the most positive assurances that in*
great part of the country in the ftar ot the French
the people had risen in immense numbers agaihsl
their oppressors, and hopes were entertained that
the enemy’s communication with Madud would Soor
he effectually cut off.
npr: i 4.
Ourletters from the opposite coast nrp to Satin?,
day. 1 he subject ol Pence isr. smn*d on thPi-ort
tiuent, and spokrn of as an event fully expected,
as a necessary consequence ol the new matrimonial
connexion ol Buonaparte.
1 lie Dutch papers contain nothing hut accounts
of l lie magnificent operations for the Imperial Mar
riage. The smallest window in the streets of Parts
from the gate ol Maillot to the Place de Conform:,
is hired at enormous prices to see the cavalcade.
The Prussian decree, adopting the Fnnrh profit,
hitory system, is to he put in force the fits! July.
!■ almouth, March 31.—The Ameiican hrig
“nitre,- Mrtriooc, JrorTi Norfolk, has beeo sent into
I'owey by the privateer Jubilee,
April J.
We yesterday received additional sets of for-igA
papeis, but their contents are unimportant. Their
principal features rnnlinue to he the details of the
jonrrwy ot the new empress of France. At Sti ,s
toirgii, where she arrived on the 23d, she eve>v
where shewed herself to the people, and is stated to
have been much admired; and on the fnlbrwtnn
morning she proceeded on her journey to Compeigne",
at which city (says Berthier) she whs very anxious
to arrive. At that place she was received by Ifuon
aparte J and on the 30th they weie to reach St.
Cloud; and the 31st was the day appointed
lor the formal solernnitsation of the imperial nupti
als. This event, our readers already know, whs
announced by a general firing *1 nog th« coast a few
days since'. By a neutral vessel arrived at Har
wich, we learn that great rejoicings have also tak
en place in Holland on the same ocensran, the op
pressed people of that country indulging in the fofid
hope that the event may ?ead to a g-neral peace.
1 his day arnvid a rn-iil hum 0 dir and <me from
Lisbon, 1 loughtto falmouth by ttie Princes- Ma
ry packet, in twelve days iron) the (urinei purl.
i he Portuguese pap rs are pi m< ipallv • >< cupieci
with idle rumours from Spain, detailed with their
usual gravity, altogether unworthy ol notice.
April 6'.
The proceeding* of the house of romiivns lait
night, on Sir Francis Bu-dett's case, to which, as
our trailers will perceive, we have paid considera
ble attention, cannot fall t-r be read with ConSidef
able interest by persons ol every' description, wh.it
vei may be their political opinions.
Ai the early hour of ten o'clock Vestefd iy rtioifi
ing all the avenues to (he house were blocked up b\
crowds ol people, eager (or xdnrissinn. Oo ihe
doors being opened at the usual hour, the gallery
was instantly crowed, almost lo suHocatinn,- '! h
press waS the must excessive We have ever witness
ed, hut we are happy to add that no accident hap
pened. Ihe lobbies remained crowded during tue
whole of the night.
Ait extraordinary number of rdiisfabfe# w(:fe on
duty to preserve order; and, ,f we i.re rightly in
formed, the horse guards had received orders ui
hold themselves in readiAvss, td be Called out in
Case of ady necessity.
* « w«w*o3iniuu pusi. arvriiu < iniamOTIl
ing. I it the course of the dfhate lord Fotkslunr
can elmled a speech in opposition to the resolutions,
by moving that the house do proceed to Other or
der* ot the day, alter a long,- and :n some respects,
a very animated discussion'; This motion was ne
gatived, on a Motion ot 271 to SO. The fts ilsu
ons were then adopted ; after which, Sir Robert $a
hsbory Moot'd “ Thai Sir Francis Rurdett he roiu
nutted to the Tower.” Upon this motion Mt. She
ridan moved, as an amendment, “That the house
do now adjourn but on n division, the amendment
whs lost, and the motion lor the commitment was
carried,- the numbers being 190 to i3'i.
Str Francis who was at bis( house itf Picadifiy,
was immediately informed of the derision by his
brother, Mr. Jones Burdatt, Who had been in the
gallery during the whole of the debate. The surge
ant at arms arrived rn Pfcadilly with the speaker's
Warrant nearly at the same time with the baronet's
brother, and proceeded to the tower, after Sir
frauds had taken leave of his family, he and his
brother left the house with the sargeant at arms.
The letters by the Gottenhtrrgh mails were deli
vered yesterday. They confirm the account ws
have already given, from the Swedish papers, nl
the introduction ofFrea-h troops into the fert.lc
province nl Holstein. Mo doubt Is entertained,
that it is the intention of Buonaparte to take pos
session of the rntire peninsula to the northern ejt
tremily of Jutland. The following me extracts
from the private Communications by this opportu
nity
“ Gottenburgh, March 23.
“ We are in daily expectation here of the arrival
of (he French ambassador } and when he Sppears,
we have much reason to apprehend that new as*
severe restrictions will he imposed on odr com
merce."' ^ ' - ' ; *. .
Seme Daft.
“ There have been thirty six ship* seined at Pe
terdhtffgh, and there te very tittle chance at the i«
questration being taken ok from any of them.—
Right-offheee, with their cargoes, ere already con
demned."
tr.U is onrf Mn revived. *?ii (his
wiir («■ Very unwitting fit e itisefll, onW#
'■ompolsoiy measures ere edtmwd by the French
minister here.it is seidtbwt SwsdWs »wd liePwarfc
have already ennsMjtwl, M M rsHnn#* »<d be
placed no tlm statements.- ”,
“ I«is amatfer oTgfrit agirtiv afiertet* #refl'A*
r.ifric iu vessels during the approijvhint «<*&■(, will'
!'/• allowed to entPf Riga wfltf llwr kW
!'or(s. it is reported, th«f fjfr r
ii. if i'-e many fraoils procured on- the R«ut ttw
Unite?*! Sutes he not avoided, and if tkeeVtft »„(
ronva without fireii'cerlrofnrCiVeai-I^itrtio. - Of
such vessels,- he himself examines *11 (he papers,
rtnd tejfcis them tl there be the least ground of sos.
pirinr,
” fJ'f'et tuhttefs remain riiurfi as ifipj were svherr
i wrote tu you last. The nope foot it is dnderst. 6<V
has changed his mm rets for a Rosstan’ ladv,--jsjio
has the same influence ovethidi as ber.prenie&lvr,
end who is equally under the eontioul o( ths inmlr
minister and his pakf.
Gazet te lilm'hie Memorandfo
/itftfrf.D,
f Sloop Susan Riddirk, Jmriuo,- if days from 11 i
vann«, Mohses. F. & J. \jf. rjeuup. U^V
Ann Halford, Lungdon,-nf this port to sad ii l(t
d;is s.
hr,* Georg*. C..S, is d*y* froth' St. ti.tthriw
in.ova, Rom. ), nmnos & K.'cMeyLelt F ro three
nr^ted SrhV JoatfthiM- JWfcs,- of W ilmWou.
v. c. brig* Olive Branch, NottortyofNew 4f^t>n;
V ,< for,- Elliott, of do ; Orior,, Ponl.,.* j
Hunter, Walker, Providence, (*. i.)—A ottofbrr of
others names not recollected, 1
Ship Ol.ve IfTunrli, Nason,- 50 dit*s from Cope
d“ Verd*. Salt, MnseS Myers * Sop.*!;efe
>hips Illinois,- French, New York ;- BoAmI,- l[)trk
son, do ;*-Hrig Wdlurrt \ F.sr*, Bachelor. Ar*M-'
(jury Sell r Liberty, fluluerlnrd, Newhutypori.—
Spoke, May IF, its ht. 34, tff, Infifi. jtf, brig tj«.
rot em StelUagen.S day* from Phifadelpht* bound
to Vera Cruz/ - ■i f*'
Brig Industry, Gladden, 4 dap from Mode I,
\*M
Srh'r Daafi, Wills, 16 day* from Ntw (Means,
Stiftaf, Armisteadfi: Kilty.
Sch’r Charles Austin, 6 days from Neavl.nrvi^rt.
Sloop M .ry Ann, Foster, 3 drfysfrhht'$ew*\>rl.
m.,
lo-Morrow, (Tuesday) Sind infant#
at eleven o'clock, on Maxwell’s wharf. Witt he
Sold, the CARGO of the Stoop Susan RidE
consisting of * f
5» hriids. and S> fierce^ MOLASSES.
Terms-60 and 90 days M nil ,t,m, over 2G0
dollars.
dt the tame htne wiH be Sot£,
Tf|E SI OOF t
StJSAN RfDDicK,
Burthen 87 tohs. will curry 700 barrels flout, hht 9
years old, and ready to receive'a cargo,
. Francis Sfriitli* % M,,
May Si. f M
.*s
To-Morrow at 11 o’clock, will ^
!v»ld at the Dwelling-Hods* Of Mri. Dtthivdvihi'
Qoeen-Sfrcfty Old Fields, ' -
All her Household ntiid Kitche'n EXTKJ
N ITU HE.
« , -. 8. IHaKKS, jufe.
Maiv SI.- 1
For Freight dr Charter,
! The Good
SJanfch Brig
Jphn Ghidden, master, 165 fobs bttrthen, My
decked and well sheathed, Expected to cortV uftnui
1500 barrels, how wady to take' 6n board a r
For terms apply (0
Richard Bkw.
May 21.- ,f •
A /•’> *'•»*< it minted juf tte
iZ&jziDjp’ Ship fcdWara,
fillin'!, hurt!i/-ti 24(> tent; of
350 htif^h«8<l!i tobacco, art nccCHCnt Ves«1, oftd if»
coni]>lete order to receive a Cargo—Apply ort board
or to .' '**v ’ " ■
TtfiSUfiAR ftKWTOrtOA.C&fef,
For yeii-Ynrjc. the fait tatting Pocket
Mary
W. Foster, master—For freighter
Upfeti
board at Newton’* wharf.
\fij
FLOUR—Afioati
900 bbls. Richmond SupCrfiiieFldtf«
For Sale by
James Thorbura. ,
May Si. .3
.Ii.il T i. .
SdTiefi.
An election will he held at die
change Coffee-House, bn Monday the 35th $
iune next, beltfeeti the hours Of ten *hd tyro
furefloon, (the 24th being Sunday) for tWj“
represent ward No. 5, In .the Corn Kwh
the Borough.
L. IF. TttoemU;')
R B. Voyfor, VSuptri,
te. i-af -
ff. Sooikgott.
LAMtollio
tint £)ttyfr*ni on ioOrd the
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May U.