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TS** C«fii tod no* Mfcd—Tha* the Patriot*Da#
ereo ©btaiwd •omoj«hro«faw»^-*yi^aeo of their
unsubdued condition—»» several provinces;—That
the French tygers hud again bn compelled to rtl
.tireHrom tbe^icbprovmce of Vab-otia—That *
patty of Patriots bud taken advantage of the ab
sence of the marauders from Castile, and bad ad
vanced to Aranjues,. within a short distance of M<
drid, and made some prisoners :—That they we re
. advancing their codert* [not armies] upon the be
siegers of CadiS, with which city they had opened
a communication:—That, in short, in all quarters,
a depredatory waifare was carried on by small bo
dies against the French foraging parties, and posts
of communication :—And that the Patriots were
-Ain-good spirits, and had not lost their roniidenre in
^PUpavenlual success. God grant the full fruition of
their expectations. We know implicit reliance
rannot be placed even in the best corroborated ac
counts of Spanish and Portuguese affairs, in their
papers;—But the recent tardiness of the French in
many provinces;—the slow progress of those bo
veripg around Portugal;—the tombre style of some
of'fhe latest French official letters from Andalusia ;
—tberessation of the sprightly bulletins;—the ac
knowledged impoverished state of the provinces
•rbicii have been overrun by the French ;—and the
continual arrival of fresh reinforcements to the
British army in Portugal and Cadiz—induce a hope
of the existence of a stronger germ of Spanish op
position to the French myrmidons, of greater re
sources, and more obstacles to the intire sub
jugation of the peninsula, than most of the
accounts from thence have indicated. It is
possible the Patriots, though they write welt,
may jtuki badly.—But if any evidence of their spi
rit can be collected from their addresses and essays
id their gazettes, their inveteracy against, and their
determination never quietly to wear the yoke of
French slavery, is inexterimnahle. It appears in
those writings that the blond ,.f myriads of Spanish
and Portuguese Patriots, shed in defence of their
children, altars and firesides, against their lawless
invaders, is continually ascending to Heaven in fer
vent prayers for the frustration of the most cruel
invasion and bloody despotism which ever afflicted
a people, or brought down the vengeance of a just
God on the heads of the Tyrant and Usurper : and
that their prayers are sometimes beaid.
New York, June 10.
LATEST FROM EUROPE.
By the ship Eliza Ann, cap'. Steele, which airiv
ritrea at this poit on Satuid&y, the F/litnrs of the
Mercantile Advertiser have received London papers
and Lloyd’s Lists to the 2d of May, from which
tha following articles are taken.
Loudon, May l.
The master of an American vessel who is arriv
ed from France, states, that he was lately witness
to theexeculiot) of several Spanish women at St.
Sebaatians, who were condemned to death for hav
ing conveyed provisions to some of their country
men that were in arms against the French, lie
also reports that Turreau, the French minister to
the United States, was recalled, and that M. Mou-.
•tier has been appointed to succeed him.
* . . May 2.
\Ve last night received Paris papers to the 24.tb
alt. but the only articles of intelligence in them, in
the least degree interesting, have been anticipated
by previous arrivals. The Monitcur of the 23d is
almost completely filled with the discussions in the
bousenf cominops respecting sir F. Burduti, and
the documents recently laid before parliament rela
tive to the misunderstanding between lord Welling
ton and general Cuesta.
An American gentleman is arrived in town, who
left Paris a few days ago. Previous to bis depar
ture, he had an interview with general Armstrong,
who told him he had passports in his possession,
^o enable him to leav*- France, and that it was his
intention to return home with his family some time
,between that time and the 1st of June. For this
purpose he had purchased a sequestered American
vessel. Mr. Arc.strong expressed his opinion,
that his departure would no.l he conclusive of a
rupture between France and America; inasmuch
as Mr. Beckwith Livingston was to succeed him in
bis diplomatic character.
Letters received yesterday from New York, of the
23d of March, state that Mr. Macon’s bill had
made no farther progress : nor w is it supposed that
it would he again considered. It was expected that
the non-intercourse would not, on its expiration, he
revived ; whereby the intercourse would be left o
pen.
Whatever may be the termination of the present
contest in Spain, it is evident from eveiy account
which we receive, that the most determined hosti
lity to the French continues to be evinced by the
brave inhabitants of the Peninsula, from one ex
tremity thereof tg.the other; and (hat in fart the
peace ran only be concluded in desolation. St. Se
. bastians, our readers will observe, is at the foot of
the Pyrenees, and therefore adjoining France, anti
yet from that quarter has the following statement
■.been brought by on American raptain : lie says,
that “ The women of the country had on various
occasions, procured provisions, clothing, and nu
merous necessary articles, which in defiance of all
remonstrance^, they daily conveyed to small bodies
of patriotic troops, who had shewn themselves in
tbfe neighbourhood. This was at length considered
as an offence of much enormity against the Frenrh
government, and a considerable number of those
ladies were taken up aud tried hy a military tribu
nal, whose sentence consigned l6 to he shot; and
the sentence was carried into execution. He suw 3
of these heroines put to death, which they endured
with-wonderful fortitude."
Mr. Yorke’s commission is now made out as first
lord-of .the admiralty, in the place of lord Mal
grave.
- Mr. Dickenson, who accompanied Mr. Macken
zie In Mode.ix, is returned, *tid if most probably
' tJ#fc**rer *f 8,mi* new on the part of
tljj^French government. From the little haste
sbewnou the other aide of the water to carry into
immediate , execution’this arrangement for an ex
change of prisoners, ic*ts to be apprehended that
some fresh difficulties have arisen. Mr. Dicken
son, however, is very soon to return to Morlaix, to
icjoin ^lc. Mackenzie. The report of their having
proceeded to Paris, and been treated with marked
distinction, is quite unfounded.
* DUTCH PAPF.RS.
hi Attltrat o'clock this- morning vre received Dutch
“ The miniiters have gone to Compiegiie td bint#
council with hi* majesty. 'i * T ■ ' i
“ Hi* majesty the king of Naples has set off for
his states, where, upon hi* arrival, events of the
highest importance will most probably take place.1
The latest advices from Sicily affirm, that some of
the inhabitant* are dejected in the extreme, and
that others entertain apprehensions, which are cer
tainly well founded. It is said that the English go
vernment has, at length consented to receive the
king of Sicily, if he should be compelled finally to
abandon his dominions. He will, in that rase, pro
ceed, not to Malttf.but to England. The island is
well supplied with provisions, lint not so with artil
lery ami ammunition. The English complain of
the total incapacity of the inhabitants for military
service, and the latter complain of the arrogance of
their guests. Numerous reinforcements were anx
lously expected from Portugal, to garrison-tl.e vari
ous fortresses opposite I he remtin ut. With this
aid, it was hoped that the encuiv might tie resisted,
or at least so far as to secure the safety of ifie En
glish army.
“ Vienna, April 14.
vui vuna v^'-ur ciinums a formal contra
diction of a report that a Mr. Hoppe had, as Aus
trian charge d’affatrs, notified the nmitiage of the
archduchess Maria Louisa, to the English secreta
ry of state lor foreign affairs. ‘ We are,’ it says,
‘ authorised to declare, that there is no Austria!/
charge d'afl'atrs in England, nor any other political
agent who could hate made an official notili, .'ion
ol the marriage, and consequently that the whole of
ihe article, both in substance and detail, is false and
unfounded.'
flis imperial majesty gave an audience to Count
Otto the 10th, at six oclock in the evening, at
which he delivered a letter to his majesty from the
Emperor Napoleon, and seven coroons of the legi
on ol honour. His majesty retained one for him
self, and presented another to the archduke Charles,
intending to distribute the lest upon a future occa
sion.
“A letter from Constantinople of the lOili nil.
says, “ th Grand Seignior means to put himself at
the held ol his Asiatic troops, in whom he has
greater confidence than in those of Europe. For
some time past he has personally superintended
their exercise. The recent disturbances in Mace
donia were occasioned l.y some excesses on the par t
of the Janissaries, and had no relation whatever tn
political events. Macedonia, in I'art, is one of the
provinces that are at least desirous of a revolution.
Thessaly, and the rest of Grerce, openly express
their wishes for a change of government."
We are extremely concerned to find, ihat among
other ivu laneholy circumstances, resulting from the
late disturbances in the capital, his majesty was
rendered so unhappy, that he was indisposed for
some days, and the effect was the lout loss of his
remaining sig'it. But it is with very great satis
faction we add, that bis majesty is now perfectly
recovered, and in as good general health as he ever
enjoyed. I its maj-sty is, however, obliged to avail
himself of external assistance in Ins occasional
walks, which was not the case beiore the unfortu
nate events alluded to. His medical attendants
have, we understand, declared that his eye is now
fit hr the operation, whenever he feels himself dis
posed to submit to it.
Banks of the Elbe, April 1.—Private letters re
reived via Par.s, by some French and Spanish
houses in the North ni Germany state, that the
French besieging corps before Cadiz has suffered se
verely from the combined Spanish, British and Por
tuguese forces. The American ships that lately ar
rived at T.ninmg.n, and which could not obtain
leave to unload as fast as they wished, have sailed
iiom trie river Elder to the Baltic.
BRITISH PARLIAMENT.
HOUSE OF COMMON'S, APRIL 5.
The following is one of the speeches delivered in
the British house of commons in tha rase of sir
Francis Burdett.
Mr Jdam contended, if the arguments of an ho
nourable and learned triend of bis were to be attend
ed to, there was an end of the autbori.v of the house
of commons. II.id not the house of commons,
from the earliest times, thro ij. the reign of the
Tudors, during the tyranny of the J uneses, armed
with nothing but its privileges, fought ils way
through every ex. ri is. ot despotism, and the effusi
on of human blood ? But it was reserved for the
present times, for the year 1S10, to start grave
doubts upou this important subject. lie conjured
the bouse not to give up its privileges, merely be
cause, in a solitary instance, they might not have
been exercised with a due regard to distinction._
He would appeal to every man who undeistood the
law and constitution of the country, if it were not
the character of every court of justice to maintain
its authority by an innate power ? and upon this
subject he would leter them to the 4th of Coke’s
Institutes. Was it to be restricted to the hogse of
lords and the houss of rommons, that they ulone.
should be deprived of that power so essential to pre
serve tbe authority of every other court? And were
they to be limited to possess no higher authority
than the constable of the night ? He would ask if
the offence alii ibuted to Mr. Gale Jones was not
considerably greater than that preventing him in
his way to the house ? When he reflected upon the
pltst struggles of the house of commons, he was
convinced there was not any thing, except its un
questionable power, which maintained it in the con
stitution. He quoted the authority of the rase of
Crosby, where Gould J. had expressed his opinion
how far a man was legally liable to be punished for
writing or speaking contemptuously of judges ; and
to make that opinion apply on tbe present occasion,
it was not only required to change the object, via.
courts of justice, into the house of commons, and
with them it must be acknowledged, that whenever
courts of justice lose that right, they lose their au
thority amongst the people." Judge Hack stone
who had been appealed to as an authority; certain
ly. went on to state, that if cuntumelinos behavi
our was practised,an attachment finmediately/en
sued «f a necessary consequence. Hits authority,
likB tbe present under discussion, chuMoot W trar.
sd to its commencement. Did bis Tidnobraldt
friend recollect, there 'was after! titoe-Wlifn iftotd
chancellor, the keeper uf the gtcit seal, attempted
;-'V v' ■ -f r-'f
satrvdS in
•trows
; iiRmttI!, ... <afe^a»„..4aCT__g.
In Support of the dor trior he laid down, ha would
cite a cage in 1774, in which Mr. Woodfnll.was htf-j
prudent enough U» reflect opoo the person wh» then
lilled the • hair of the house ofcommons. 'J'be
question then wag, whether Mr. Wo&fatl sbooM be
committed? but Mr. W. having stated his author to
be Mr. Horne, end the latter gentleman being bro't
up pleaded not guilty; and at that time there was
not one word heard aiioot the'flivileges of lie house.
It was the more extraordinary, because an acrimo
nious discussion took place, and the most eminent
characters ot the country, Fox,Thur)ow, Lough bn
rough, &c. took partin the debate; but it oever
occurred to them that the bouse of commons did
not possess the power to commit either Mr. Wood
tail or Mr. HornK It was left foi the times in
which we live, to dispute surb power and privilege,
and he almost ronsidered it a waste of theii time to
refer to any other precedent. With respect l» th.
case of 1701, there was then a division upon the
privilege ul the house of cmnmoAs : and it wonhl
be observed, that Sir Hubert Walpole was one of the
•vuci* .or me majority. it Had been admitted in
*11 times, and recognized by every great authority,
t 'at the power of a court of law could out restrict
the privileges ot (,he house of commons. The great
Lord Holt never delivered an opinion against their
having power to commit. It was no argument to
adduce the condti t ! un intemperate committee, as
an indemnity to :he intemperance ol an individual.
When, in the case of Crosby, a Habeas Corpus was
moved tor, end the question was uijtd belnre the
Court of Common Pieas, and a: out the same time
in the exchequer, the judges neVer questioned the
privileges of that house. He would refer to the t.\
pres-ions of Lord Chid Justice Orey, Dennison, &
l uster, who all maintained there was no reason 10
question the privileges of that house; and would
they be disposed to overturn such great authorities,
by that ot n single case, supported only hy the de
claration of Lord Kenyon. In favor of the doctrine
he now laid down, he bad the authority pi judge
Bluckstone, Lord Coke, and Chief Justice Hide,
whose opinion on this subject, was more particularly
expressed in a manuscript, now in the possession ot
the learned Mr. Hargrave. In his and butler’s
notes upon the Commentaries of Coke upon Little
_ton, there would he found a reference to this mauu
script. He had therefore applied to .Mr. Ha-rgrave,
and he hud found the opinion of Judge Hale express
ed to this purport, “that to commit for breach of
privilege, belongs, hy long and accustomed usa^e to
the bouse of commons.” in addition to all other au
thorities on ibis question, there was that of the il
lustrious Mr. Fox, whose answer to an enquiry
respecting the power of the house, was, that
contempt alone would justify commitment.—
Lvery case would supply the argument, that il the
house could be libelled collectively, it could be li
belled also individually, and then there could be no
doubt as to tin* legality of the commitment in the
case of Mr. Gale Jones. The hon. and learned
gentleman here referred to a passage in the paper
complained of, where it i6 represented tbut the
practice of the house tends to make a mao crimi
nate himself, which mode of argument was in the
teeth of a re&olotirin of that house, in 1774, i,nd
was therefore a libel against the house. The re
marks made upon the warrant t.y that hon. Baro
net. proceeded to cut up the constitution by the
roots. He had contemptuously denominated it
“this thing, sui generis, this piece of unsealed pa
per.” But was u not this unsealed paper for which
that Iiou>-:p hid nobly stiuggled, and lorn it fl*om
(he crown, and from tha power of the Lord Chan
c« il ir of England (Shaftesbury ?) Should the house
"l commons, that house which set the crown upon
the head of James II— {hear, Acer,)—and establish
ed the bill of rights, be suspectid of the right dis
charge of its duty, although if might have gone a
little loo far in the case of Mr. Gale Jones 1 The
writer of the paper before them was contumelious,
in both the su* stance and the mode ot his argu’
mentt.. In this case he would recommend the mode
pursued in that of major Scott; where the house
having pronounced the publication libellous, yet
thought proper to pass only a reprimand. Mr. Put
on the occasion he alluded to, took a particular
part in the discussion, and desired the house to take
it op with great rnoderatioD. He contended that
Sir Francis Burdctt had not correctly represented
Sir Hieb-rt Walpole, when he imputed In him senti
ments favourable to the arguments he had urged._
It was for them to hear in mind that was the com
mons’house of parliament, and it was not to be
lowered in the constitution, ns a branch of the le
gislature. '
LrOzetle Marine Memoranda.
ARRIVED.
Ship Sheffield, \V. Cowper, 60 days from Cadiz,
Sail, to order.
SchV Prosperity, Stokes, 11 daysIroui Philadsl
plua.
Philadelphia, June 12.
Yesterday arrived, ship Amiable. Capl. Hrdeli
us, 32 day* /root Gottenbnrgh. Capl. H. doe* not
recollect that any new orders or decrees, respecting
neutrals and others, had been issued lately, hut
things were much in the same state «s when we last
heard from thence, except on the 15'hof April, it
was published in all the churches in Sweden, that
the importation of every arlirle of English produce
or manufacture, and generally, that all trade with
England was prohibited. He informs, that the Da
nish privateers and rruizers were out, but paid some
respect to the American flag. That .the brig Bell
air, late Jacobs, was tried at Tuuningeu and cleared.
That owing to the representations of John French,
Charge de Affairs at Stockholm, the communicating
by Packets, between England and Sweden, would,
shortly after the sailing of the Amiable, be stopped.
That hot withstanding the orders.of the Swedish gij
xeinmeht, British vessels of war were moored at
the entrance of the rivgy of Gottenburgh, and ih«l«
few days before the depaituie of the Amiable, ap
EogilSn *“**•■* -C, —— —l.-l a- m
. v albnp.of war, which had reyeiyed
"jdl P*«»b of.
Ml'V"*5 r-R‘,wd OoUeokurgh,
#hrte she attempted to go in, S*r«pUir.
; W *•*<*$**<
SaiWI from Court tom t** 26* «Mfe
M.^ron, Clarke, U New Y?&«lf4fj|
sel, for Cadiz.
At LSWpoot, A prrl 23.!, tl«» a»kic, i
"•v*1** vN« Ln»<J.iDde[ry. . **
Al D«», the Vet wmt, NirMW. fr«t
vottenhiirg, s77”
A l Clyde, the WeHtagto,,, OTUen* I
Master Payne's Fourth Night
NORFOLK THEATRE.
H
On Monday Evening, fg{]
Will be presented Shakespeare’s celebra
HAMLET, ' Ha^*W
PRINCE OF DENMARK, '"ft
The part of Hamlet by Master Payhe.
MfeChflp
King,
Ghost,
Horatio,
Polorius,
Laertes,
Roseojcrants,
issfi.
Guiideiisttjn,
Player King,
uu£3P8
Grave Digger,
MDcnsltL
Queen,
r». Placid*,
Ophelia,
Groan,
Player Queen,
Clark.
. -»jv, uinrko
To eehich via btaoded, the favourite ildeirtvemevt
THE WEATHERCOCK;
Or, Love Alone Can Fix Him,* f ,
Doors to be opened at Snt, and the Peifotwsn—
to commence a; Seven o’Clock precisely,
'** ’'Imitunro Onr lews <o be had •
^thc Ledger Office, and at the Office of the Theffip .
On Saturday the 23d instant, at il
o'clock, Will be Sold on the premises.
That Valuable LOT of LANi>,
On Smith'* Point,
Opposite to the house of Mrs. Brunet—This is *
most desirable and healthy situation, and Can be dj
vided into building lots to suit purchasers.
Also, • Ip
The HOUSE and LOT,
Formerly occupied by Mr. John Newell—Terms
will be made known at the sale.
Francis Smith.
June 13. 4
COMMERCE TO RUSSIA.
THE Charge de Aft Ira, and Consul General of
His Imperial Majesty the Emperor at all the
Kussias, informs all whom it may concent, tki no
cai goes loaded in American porta, will be permuted
to he discharged in Russian porta, unless the pauere
relative to the vesseis and their cargoes,; are ierkl.
ized by Russian Consuls, or Agents, accord in* to
publications already made by the Consul Gen^’
and this without any regard to the cirtumtrh
the vesaeit being firtt bound to, or to
port* of other nation*. " __ ,
ANDREW D.VSCHKGFF.
Philadelphia, March SI, 1810. x-V-jy
The foregoing is publisheSIfor
the information uf the merchants of Virginia.
Fortesctic
June 18.
POUR FHANC«*w_™,
La Goelette VIRGINIA,
i1 ■!■■■■ Capitaine Pi*ter Cturg'*i'
pnru.-a pour Bourdeau* le If du cournnHUie
des passaget # seulement, Ce bstiment eat tfsi i
bon voillier, Sc distnbue d’une ntanicro cnmi
pour porter des passugers ; ceux out ■*—hr lriiT f
passer, sont pries de s'iidilrcsser, an cup# alx.nl
au wharf, cornmonement «nhnu sous lenoan de Kane!
ad; rignant celui du capt. Chase ; on au.pi! ^
Stephen Benillant, au menu whf.
Baltimore, Juin time 4
A Kmc*:: -
GENEROUS RKVV4RPWJ be liter
person who will give information to the
of the residence of NICHOLAS ROW
master of the schooner Isabella, *h>
on shore at Great Eg* Harbour, in
Uruary, IfiO*—and of WILLIAM „
and UHEUIAH 1)1LL, semian, on board
ner Trio, JAMES bAKTJE, late
sjiiled from Wilmington, in N
1st February, 1809, in such manner that
sition may be taken in a cause now tie
district court of Nonh-CatuDna, ’to
ton in October next.
James Tltorfuim.
... June lft, 1810. r„
N. B. I'he persons abnvcmentinnfd a1!*
belong to the state of Mauachusetl
side in or near Boston. * vf ’
** 1 -* 1 ■ ■. »■' ■ " I ) ■ ■
C S/ieniiA CormWe
~ C J*** XUk, 1
pOR the information of Merchants and
cerned, I publish the following extract
cial letter I have /ujit received relative
merce of the Island of Cuba. V 4 .
“ His Majesty Ferdinand 7th, and In
“ the Regency of the kingdom^!*!
“ order that, during the present dn
“ lied and neutral vessels
“ of Havanan,.Saint Jago, Tr...,
“ sas, with all articles permitted
“ of 1778, for the free trade of
“ dition that they are'to take in
“said Island to the nmotint oft be
“ likewise to proven*
“ on of French
“ provided with
'• Consuls residin
** sailed i AMlfiw
W™aawss . g. mat
“ ded, shall *
Front
stand, i
being