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W recently oidertooktofxpm* the eon
the French government, 'and i*« erklizers to
W of this country, end their proper*
*J». W* war# sensible that at should expose our
•fives to th# attarka of Napoleon’s partizans. In
tpe that* not been disappointed, for they bate
ited alt.tbeir usual zeal in defence of tbeir mus
hy reviling his opponents.
%inhonid iraw expose these scandalous prodne
fiwit, if w# did not compassionate the humbled h«J
vortltef of Corsican rapacity and insolence. To
•dd to the mortification which the partizans of
France ought and most feel, would indicate a spirit
•f persecution which w« do not possess. Alas! mi
•erabl# men! tittle did yon imagine that at the v#
ty time yon were reviling the Editor of this paper
for discharging his doty, in exposing the conduct
•f France, that Napoleon himself had admitted
vninrt we had charged; and justified his conduct in
ttriUPthe most insolent, tluu language could ex
press. The note of th* French minister of foreign
•flairs will be remembered.
rThrte remarks hxve been produced hy some nl
•srwaftinos which have appeared in the Richmond
Mtrtptirer of the 13th and, the Petersburg R»t>uhli
*an of tha i6th instant. The first with an impu*
flMtf# thst defies invective, insinuates that el! the
Amarifaw property carried i/ito or seized in France,
Modjjlfs to smogglrrs, and men Who have prostitnt
*d tha honour pf their flag ; the 'second is no way
in, worthy coadjutor—he states twnpariiru
i, which had been noticed by ns—The ships
United States from this port. It is as
the FJHzs and cargo belonged - to naluia
cltiaeoa (mark that), and that the cargo was
#oldHlf>hdon, hefdre it was Captured by the French
wsfott# if at tha cargo of Jbe Un\&d States belonged
t® British Subjects. > w ’'v' - ■
TbyF.li** belonged only in port tn naturalised
titfiitiHi hut if it^hsd belonged wholly to nntu
rtltPod Titieens, ami that bp .offered as excuse*
We kb*K| nothing about tha cargo being sold in
Idwxhmf hot having pernsad tBe proceedings of the
Frmtr^i tribunal in this case, we undertake to say
that no sac h charge is made in the captors memoir,
tthBMf *»l*ef« sppee.it in the procvCedings—Thare
lh# fact bil bo>. it vis not known, and
therefor* this tnpeaifitis exrose d?visedfas we think)
by the Petersburg writer, ought to have no ronside
ratum—In respect of the United States, she was
,|j|^.jfcth’tyr«®y, and nffcr many months de
?*•*«! 8’1'* cargo were restored. We have
•It the court proceedings in this case also, and do
•Sjefl thAMh a p roper ty was admitted m tha sentence
tn b# American, as the fact of restora
ispt to prove—so that these excuses or
apotngtef fnt th# depredations on our commerce
ifiptfll' iy France and her dependants, cannot
deserve the smallest consideration.
Wy will not at present press this subject, the
W|jt»*f who have come forward in defence of c«*n
dbet wktrb ought to receive th# indignation of every
America®, shall be left, to their own reflations,
which W# apprehend are not very comfortable just
expert to lay be fora our readers in a few
days some‘Vd^tnnmg truths” respecting the prac
mo ot telling 4meriatnt m Francs,
Wt rytaived at the moment our puper was pnt
Br,1,a,> ‘He northward, Ca
paper* to4be 22J of .Vcrch, l ut* have not time
* rf(tr*|wUtions until eur next. We under
thill* is nothing important; the French
rowing tip entrenchments, but there had
banian bftlla of consequence.
Jr#m He $pu$t of 7(j.
Wftj pnB^an.mH>s^p r.
^ RWt.Uool.k. tMImg '•» becoming a featore
tnjfage* If the organs of power
**.**» m*pm of “ vox populi,
OX del from a babtt of canting and recanting, is
dinbwjbtirme the deity for the take of deceiving
L,li hot, the title «f the people to a
miuttm at once U»e pride and juautraiion ..!
Ur government, can oever be n,« le good i,v th-ir
Wj5^*n'-|fc* «*»p«e a«i poppet* ol pobttcul n*c«n
M|».., **$•*•• originated a eoudemnaiion of one
•el of toe*, end an applause of (Mother set, f,»r »l
anUr Wjeerei; renvoM of partial obsUcta
tfHto vsty of our commerce with I ra ore
mpm *Hap approbation of us ii
' wKole fcorld ; t ginenl ren
rn*of one nniroitfcl arm? and najrjr, aod* general
jotStAratien of another j the apprehensioGs leal a
t«Ml)Uob pmdneed kp on# foofi^h meitore, ibonld
throw nVjirm W*®* M*r **wfc «td U>o cop.
fdenrt^ba^MIobaif oer Keniagiu to this bet- orb
petfAp #«i*t and repealed t**n» of wbic^ae cao
oe« o*fjroe-tlueneea «( a an with
^3KKi&fiMr h«" were vugbW,
Old. AW*t
' **• raei the first *#Mr»nd
funs in JbeWSns* *f Representatives on Tuesday
the 17th inst. and on * (notion fur * third reading,
there were ayes 41, noes 43.1
A HIM*
Concerning the rommerrial intercourse LetwAn the
United State;) and Great Britain and their depen
dencies, and for other purpose*—As it was or
dered to he engrossed and read a third time to
• rourijw.
Be it enacted bp the Senate and House of Repre
sentatives of the United Stages of /tmeriqi in c>in
gress assembled, That the art, entitled “ An art to
amend and continue in force certain parts of the
art, entitled" An act to interdict the commercial
intercourse between the United States and Great
Britain and France and their dependencies, und for
other purposes," be, and the same is hereby repeal
ed.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, that all the pe
Rallies and forfeiture* which may have been incur
! r»d under the art Inst mentioned, and also all tin
penalties und forfeitures which may have been in
' rurred under the act laying an embargo on all ships
and vessels in tbe ports and harbours of the Uniteu
Stairs, or under any of the acts supplementary
thereto, or to enforce the same, or under the arts to
intirdirt the commercial intercourse between the
United States and Great Britain and France and
their dependencies, and for other purposes, shall be
r>covered and distributed, and may i<e remitted tn
the manner provided by the said acts respective
ly, and in hke nwnnet as if the said acts bad con
tinued in foil force and effort.
See. 3. And be it further enacted, That the two
first septions of the act, entitled “ An a<t to inter
dict the rommerrial intercourse between tbe United
State* and Great Britain and France and their de
pendencies, and for other purposes," be and the
same are hereby revived, and shall from the passage
of this act have full force and effect.
Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That from and
after the passage of this act, an addition of 50 per
centum shall be made to the duties now imposed by
law on the importation of .goods, wares and iner.
chandize, in respect to all goods, wares and mer
chandise, the growth, produce or manufacture of
any of the dominions, colonies—or dependencies of
either Great Britain ot France, or imported from
any of the s .id dominions, colonies or dependen
cies ; -which additional duties shall he levied and
collected iti the same manner and under the same re
gulations and allowances, as to drawbacks, mode of
security aud time of payment tespectively, at are al
ready prescribed by law, iu relation to the duties
now in force on tbe importation of goods, wares
and merchandise.
Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That in case
ether Gt.eat-Britain or France shsll, before tbe
third d«‘y of March next, so revoke or modify her
edicts as that they shall ceas" to violate the neutral
commerce of the Untied Stater, which fact tbe
president of the United-States shall declare by pro
clamation, ami if the othei nation Shall not within
three mouths thereafter so levoke or modify her
edicts in like manner, then the third, fourth, fifth,
sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth, aud eigh
teenth sections of the act, entitled “ An act to inter
dict the rAw menial intercourse between the Urn ten
States and Gieat-Britam and France und their tie
pendencies, and for other purposes,’ shall from anil
after the expiration of three months from the date
of the proclamation aforesaid, he revived and have
fall force and effect, so f.tr as relates to the domini
ons, rolouies and dependencies, Und to tbe articles
the growth, produce or manufacture of the domini
ons, colonies and dependencies of the nation thus
refusing or neglecting to' revoke of modify b*r
edicts tn the manner aforesaid. And tbe restricti
ons imposed hv this amt stiaft, from the date ef such
proclamation, and the additional duties laid by this
act shall, from the end three months after tbe
date of such proclamation, cease and be disconti
nued in relation to the nation tevoking or modify
ing her derrers in the manner aforesaid : Provided,
1 That the said additional duties shall he collected on
such goods, -wares, and merchandise, liable to pay
the same as shall have been imported previous to
the d*y on which tbe said duty is de cease.
1 __ Bostojt, April'14.
Extract of a letter from Paris, dated March 6'tb,
(by (ha Juno.)
Tbe changes taking place on the continent are
- so rapid you ran hardly follow them. Buonaparte
marries the daughter of the emperour of Austria.—
He is stretching his arms across the northern fron
tiers, and will seal up thecbaunels of commerce.—
; Russia must submit to all the dictates of the great
emperour, or the French Eagles wtllbe planted on
the walls of St. Petersburg.; and thus will Alexan
der be,pantuhed for bis treachery tn Austria. As
tn Americans, their case is hopeless. When will
our government realise the views of France l She
promises every thing, aud condemns every thing.—
Already have the American Vessels seized at St.
Sebastians* arrived at Bayonne; and their cargoes
deposited in the government stores. The sal* wiH
soon he made for the benefit of tbe ioiperiel treasu
ry-"
New-Yom, April 16.
Extract of a better from an intelligent and rexpect able
agent in Nani:, to hit Jriendt in this city, dated
February 13.
** Our affairs , grow more gloom} every Amy, end
I have lost all hopes of seeing the sequestration re*
moved from the American property. The day 1
left Bord»»«x (Feb. 8tl.) an alarming letter was re
• eivrd 1>y the director of the customs, from Mom.
Collin, director general at Paris,
A email Baltimore srhm.net, rapt. Jacobs, had
terd the Garonne in real distress (l.nupd for St.
rMl
&eheetian*) with a cargo of tobnerp and j*as seized
not fertng foVtcb u. Fp,ofe, M<*n»l'»*r <*«!§•#
prrites, in answer t? a letter sent him by the direct*
sir’
{beidcms, that be bad mitU
on wh«l^ttj hooner
I'ftj 'te/;w|s;^3r j&
«UOng that the vessel end cergn whs American »o4
tftiMbe wonldsrrifetbe cw»demnatM£ at the
cil of prise*. I **«r • copy of thF letter. ti*i*
proceeding appears to rtrte to be 0 declaration &
•»r. It ie also reported here, that order* have
hem given to sell the vessel* and cargoes in- Spain,
for the. profit 'and benefit of the French government.
“ The eniperour grants licences to export wine,
grain, dec. to any port or place, and bring hack
dye-woods, pot ashes, &r. Cotton is not among
LATEST FROM SPAIN.
Captain Borrows, of the brig Juliana, left Cadiz
un the Sd March ; at which time the army for its
defence consisted of 4500 English, 1500 Portu
guese, and 27,000 Sp aniards, who had a plruiiiiil
up ply of provisions for six months. There were
a's.) in the tun hour ant) mads 7 Spanish ships of
the tin», 1 Portuguese, and a number of Euglish
nitnol war. The British merchants who had ship
ped their prnpeitv on hoard the vesc*“l» in the har
t.our, on tlie approach of the French army, had rr
hinded it from a supposition that they weie in per
fect security.
The English hed dislodged the Ffench from one
of the fortifications which they had thrown up be
fore the city.
Joseph Buonaparte was with the army. lie had
spnt a Bag of truce tosunmn the garrison to sur
render, hut they treated his summons with con
tempt—A spring of excellent water had been found
in Cadiz sufficient for supplying the wants of the
inhabitants.
STATE PAPERS.
( Continued J
GREAT-BRITAIN AND AMERICA.
Correspondence between Mr. Secretary Canning
and the H >iiooral.le D. Erskiue.
(Laid before Parliament.)
! Despatch from the Mon. David Erskine, to Mr
Secretary Canning, dated Washington, August 3,
1809.
SIR—I have the honour to acknowledge the re
ceipt of your despatches, No. 10, 11, 1?, of the 22d,
23d, and 30th of May, original and duplicates, ihe
former brought in his majesty’s packet Windsor
Cnstle, which arrived at New-York on the S5th nit.
and the I tier which were delivered to me yesterday
by bent. Grc^irv, commanding his majesty’s gun
brig Contest, which arrived in Hampton Roads, in
the Buy of Chesapeake, on the 29th ult.
, I Inst no time in complying with your instructions
contained in your N», 13, to deliver a copy of his
majesty's order in council of the 24th of May last, to
tlie secretary of state of this government, which I
accordingly sent to Mr. Robert Smith in a w ritten
note, of which the enclosed is a copy. In obedience
to your command, I also used all the means in my
power to make the above mentioned order publtckiy
known throughout the United States.
It is with the deepest regret that I find from your
despatches, Nos 10 and 11, of the 22d and 23d May,
that his majesty h,d disapproved of the manner in
which I executed the instructions which you sent me
by Mr. Oakley, and has hern compelled to disavow
tlie provisional agreement which 1 had lately entered
into with this government, under the persuasion
that it would have met with bis majesty’s approba
tion. ,
The duty and high respect which I owe to his ma
jesty, would restrain me from making any reply to
the animadversions upon n»y conduct which you
have conveyed to me by his majesty's command, but
I consider that it is incumbent on n»e to offer some
observations upon certain points of my negotiation,
which appear to have been misunderstood, in conse
quence I suppose of my having given them an insuf.
bcient nr imperfect explanation. It is stated by you
in your No. 10, of the 22d May, that with respect to
tlie instructions relating to the Chesapeake, which
formed the'subject of your despatch, No. 1, of the
23d of January last, I had omitted a preliminary of
the most material importance, as the condition of
*' his majesty's no longer insisting upon the recal of
the proclamation of 1807, as a preliminary to the ad
justment of the difference arising from the affair of
tlie Chesapeake, and that French ships of war shall,
in point of fact, have been excluded from the ports
of the United St .tea, and such ships of that descrip
tion as were in those ports shall have been warned
to depart.”
Of Ups condition you observe, that I appear to
have taken no notice whatever ; you add also that
the non-intercourse bill operated to the prospective
exclusion.
I beg leave to refer you to the first section of the
ann-intercoursc law, which you will find excludes
the ships of war, from the passing of that act on the
first of March ; the prohibition, therefore, was not
prospective but immediate, and in fact had been in
operation six weeks before 1 commenced the nego
.Upon the subject of the warning which should be
given to any French ships in the ports of the United
States, the secrets ry of State, Mr. Robert Smith, in
firmed me, that there were no French ships at pre
sent within the waters of the United States, and that
i| was to be ftrttumed, that the government would
cause their laws to be executed ; in the propriety
and justire of which sentiment, I fully acquiesced. ..
The preliminary condition above mentioned was,
therefore, I conceive, fulfilled.
Your next objection states, that the proclamation
of the president of Juhr 1807, is neither withdrawn,
npr its operation declared to be at an end.
On explanation of this point, I beg leave to re
mark, that the non-intereourse law abrogated even
the act upon which the president's proclamation was
founded, by the words at the end of the third section
of that act, inserted by the congress for that pur
pose, which circumstance I communicated to you in
my No. 18, of the 17lh of March, and again in niy
No. 19, of .the 13th of April, in which I mentioned
that the secretary of state declared to me, that the
proclamation was*merged in the non-intercourse.—
1 believe I omitted in my No. 19 to inform you, - that
Mr. Smith added, that it was impossible to issue a
proclamation to recal an edict, which was already
revoked, and could not be revived.
The third objection taken by you ia upon a point
oi so delicate a nature, that ! proceed to aa expla
nation of it with the greatest Caution and deference.
Permit n»q, air, to request that you will lay Before
bis majesty my mn»t.earnest assurances, that I would
not have allowed any expression* which I ibcught
disrespectful towards his majesty to hnveyehuhied
unanswered in aftypdlil may have received
*> refrain from expw*
M opinion that Hkp <)e
S*fe*wM**p
lemtrfcto
[government tajp ye up i
any idea that f'entemfc
to his majesty, but ns It
than the deposition of t
sented toflfe, and of th
fully persuaded.
. Hdu rcwivea ivir. smitn’t rwtc, |de:»Vr£j
ed upon the propriety of miking *ny <.bser*atinn«7a
answer to those expressions, but I was indueetUo
forbear from sending any reply by consideration if
the policy and propriety of not blending irritating
discussions with amicable adjustments* ... 6
It appeared to me that if M’ny itidcfcbrom enuhj
justly be attributed to the expression in oWftil
note of this government, the ceneHreitlie wrlriltf fall
upon them, and that the public opinion wnt.hf e„iv
demn the:r bad taste or want of propriety, in coldly
and ungraciously giving up what they considered it* '
right, but which they are not in a, condition ’to cn
force*
The feelings of his majesty upon that point are a
sufficient proof that I have formed an erroneous
judgment respecting it. and I have to iament not on.'
ly that any act or omission on my pan should has*
incurred hismajesty’s-divpleasure, but that it should
nave been the cause (though unintentionally) of coo
veymg any expression personally disagreeable
even apparently disrespectful to the sovereign of my
country. 1
. ^ have omitted to mention onecircumstance, whicls
is, that the reason.why 1 did not pm in a claim oa
the part oi his majesty to recover from the Anien^
can government, deserters from his majesty’s ser?
vice was, that they had always declared themselves''
wii mg to be guided by the laws of rations ooon that
subject.
My motives far deviating from the precise (He of
mv instructions relative to the boon tv intended hr
his majesly for the relations of the lofledand woutid.
edon board of the Chesapeake, will, 1 hope, upon ex
planation, be fc'UDcl to he satisfactory.
When 1 mentioned his majesty’s liberal views up-i
on that point, the secretary of state informed me
that it would be highly satisfactory if the offer was”
expressed in general terms, although the govern,
ment never meant to accept the provision tendered, •
but would acknowledge the hberalitv of his m; jestv,
when they might hereafter decline to availthemselves
of it, but that if it was put upon the footing of sp»n- ‘
tatter us generosity, it would not be nt all accept*. -
blr* to the United States. With sentiments of the
highest respect, 1 have the honour to be, eir, your »■■■
most obedient humble servant.
P. M. EUSKINE. ;
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Congress of the United States. *
iiolse ofIIepresentatives.
H edntiday, April 18.
Ou motion of Mr. Johnson the committee #f
r’anris wvre discharged from the further roosidfrtb '
tion of the petition of P. C. L’Enfant, and it was t*.
ferred to a select committee. I - '*
commercial intercourse.
1 he house again resolved usrIf. into a committee,
of the whole, Mr. Desha m the chair, on the bift
concerning commercial intercourse between tle U. ’
States and Great Britain and France and uinr dt
peiidrncirs, and for other purposes.
Mr. Gholson’s proposition, to amend the bill by
inserting into it a system of total non-irttportntioa
from G. Britain and Prance was under considerati
on when the house last deliberated on this bill.
Mr. Johnson stated to the huse ah amendment
which he had in view, and vh’rh.he s i «!d . ffer
when the amendment oi Mr. Gnuison should beds
ndrd on.
Mr. Gholson said he felt satisfied that the syst.ny
which be has proposed was the best, but seeing a de
cried opposition to it, and with a view to ariommo
date Ins triends with an opportunity of moving a
mendments, he withdrew his motion, reserving to
himself the right of urging it again if the' anienifci
rornt proposed by the gentleman from Ken tacky
should not be agreed to. '
Mr. Johnson then moved to strike out the first
section of the bill and insert the following sections .
as an amendment to the bill:
“And be it further enacted, That the two - first
SectionPol the art entitled “ An act to interdict tfm
commercial intercourse between the United State*’ '*
and Great Britain and France and their dependen
cies, and for oilier purposes,"Tbe and the same ar«
hereby revived, and glia,I) trom the passage oFtbis
act have full force and, effect. ,
“ And be it farthtc enacted, That front and after
i the passage of this act, mi addition of fifty per cent,
shall be made to the duties now imposed by law on j
the importation of goods, wares and merchandize"
in respect to all goods, wares and merchandise, the
\ growth, produce or manufacture of any wf the do*
iffini.ons, colonies or dependencies of .’either Great
I Britain or France, nr imported from any oftheTatd
dominions, coluniesor dependencies^ whietiaddi
tional duties shall be levied and ftU'cted in th« '
same manner aqid.under the same regulations and *
| allowances, as to drawbacks, mode of security «6d ®
time of payment respectively; as are already pre- ’
scribed by law, in relation -to tbe duties now ia
force on the importation of goods, wares add mer
chandize. ’ >»
Mr. Randolph observed that when the house f£r#'
Ust in committee no ibis bill, the c«mmittej|f||
risen to give time for consideration of an
mem proposed l>y the gentleman from Virginia (Mr.
Oholson.-) That amendment Wat now withdrawn
and another substituted which ha for one mold not
understand. As he really believed, be mid, tb**§f
the house meant to spend nprofitally the remainder
of the session, they could hit on no inode more* apt;
than continuing in committee »n this subject,
moved that the committee should-rise. A.s -
Missrs. Johnson and GlmUon opposed the mo,
tien, which was lost, 58 to 36.. f. ,
Mr- Randolph’s question whether Mr. Ohritsor*
had a right, after h» amendment h.td been ofi
dered to beprioted and that acted on by thetiWuSe*' *
to withdraw it; but the Chairman overrule# the oh.
jection.
■. ty* O^rlnmd again moved Ah* ihe cmamltivs. :
rtWe. •' iq
This motion was yipporred by himself and 4fr; ^
Milnor, on U»? dat* «*<>. *
pdwd was *«yh as would destroy.*!} lie faifJS®^
cwndtry ithnt it was impoartt^ m •'diaihii '
French *nd other ffnt»q ’
U "dp UIJ *hjf«t of r-vrtier w^ w •
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