Norfolk gazette and publick ledger — Norfolk [Va.], 1810-04-27 00:00:00, page 2

EVEN INO, * APRIL <27* I «»(
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bur power lo comply with the other part
10 at to answer, the end pio
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The object of the address, the respectable talents
with which it It written, and other considerations
yniW i» exciting deep regret, that we could not aid
tile twtbor in hie taorfaUe deeign of exposing the
poittieaj hypocrites, who are at once a carte and
Aegnfoto onr country.
We thatl retain this address, and with the au
thors leave make some extracts from it, for stu b
seatimenu hs it ronletiM can new he ont of season.
Tr*»*iotio*tfrom SpamtA Prrptrt rectintd at lit Of.
' < jfec of tki Publiek Ledger.
Extract* from the Gazettes of the Regency of
SpAlB iff) (lie Indies of the 13th M-trrh, 1810.
< Tarragona, fCatalonia) Jan. 17.
The occurrences within these few days past baVM
been most glorious for the arms of the king. On
1 the t2lh the enemy in number of more than 10,000
tatu passed through Grao-de-Oiot and other points,
and direr ted their mane towards Vich, whence they
attempted to go as far as Nnya, and to open them*
salves 8 passage through Collettspina.
The division of brigadier Porta whs attacked at .
the moment that it was going to form a junction j
with .that of marshal CDonell, from the town of
Centsllastn the position of Collsuspina, where the
latter general was posted. The superiority iu num
bers pi the fnemy made him at first gain some ad
srantagcs upon general Porta's division, which com
pelled him to quicken hie inarch ; hut he having
soon formed a junction with general O'Donell in
Collsuspina, tbecolamns of the enemy were attack
ed with so much gallantry^ that after a bloody ac
tion they betook themselves to e disorderly Right,
in which they were protected by the darkness of
the night: ‘ thna general Sobuain who commanded
the enemy was completely repulsed, and although
he had double ,forces, our troops took to officers
Sind mote than 100 privates prisoners ; they left
betidrs more than two hundred dead on the field of
ballft. > U i* Supposed that they carried away great
aumbtrs of wounded.
January 27*
There has hern just landed in this town twenty
thousand quarters of wheat. Day before yesterday
4dO prisoners, among them 17 officers were brought
in here ; the day before that a colonel had been
brought in whh commanded in the actiou of Mol
let. This day several waggons loaded with French
Wounded have come in. We expect a few hundred
more prisoners will he brought in.
" SevERa, (Catalonia) Jan. 23.
Various persons from the vicinity of liolslarich
report ia positive terms that the French suffered a
coalpitta defeat before that Castle, and that the
number of their wounded in Barcelona is very cun
aidaeapla. *
4;'< „ . » Janoary 24.
The Supreme Government have appointed mar
shal general O’Dowell eommanderin chief pro tern,
nf this Pioviucej the great confidence that the
people of this province have in this gallant and
distinguished officer makes us hope very agreeable
regutts Iron bis appointment.
Cadiz, March 12.
Ol tfcn 6th instant was introduced to the Su
preme Council of the Regency of Spaiu and the
fh^pa, maiding at Lie de Leon, the right hnnoura
Ui(tdiry Wditiley, bis Britanniek majesty’s uii
siiter plenipotentiary and extraordinary to this
government. He exhibited bis instructions, and
An this occasion new pledges were given with mutu
al aatlafnruon of the Hint alliance and sincere
friendship which from the beginning of our glori
«<M revolution have united. tb« two nations to resist
tfcewammon enemy, and defend the liberty and in
dependence of Spain, so cruelly and unjustly invad
ed. The jtyrant and usurper of the Continent will
receive with grief Urn oic«», at it time when be sup
puped hi tu» pride our provincei were subdutd, our
government done away, und our political and met
#aoJ$t ielationa With the powerful and generous Eu
gB»n nationat an end.
, We hg^ vreeaiead the pleasing intelligence from
A* Xaatern coast that the French have retired from
lilalaga, Marhella, Estepona, Tarifa, Saint Roque
and Algesiran, nn doubt afraid nf the patriotic m
> aurrectiott whkh is taking place in that part of the
country and. moontains. Of 700 men that had en
tered XinitjbpdOQ were put to the sword, the rest
•neekt^d in making their escape, carrying with
*hn« Count Manure*, one of the Coituseliora of
IntruderJaneph, commissioned by ^titu
people- In Rohde there
Armed who hod thuretd
(d eneiny. 600 mended
In join, the armed peopti
domannrr
deftod the passes of Serrania da Honda.
“ Mm ExctUtnt Sir,
“ Sly soul is overjoy ad. ! gammoned the French
commander in P.ouda, and received an atuwar in,
the usual French stile; still be did not think .proper
to wait for ine, but preferred a disgraceful fligVt, nT
which I do not expect one single rnau will escape,
according to the measures which I bad previously
adopted. I have entered Ronds, Te Deuni has been
sung, and our beloved Ferdinand is obeyed by all,
and in his absence the wise government which now
directs the councils of the nation. I will hereafter
wiite to your excellency mure in detail.
(Signed) FRANCISCO GAMZATEZ "
March 18.
Dispatches have been received from Lisbon by
our Secretary of State with the intelligence that the
Portuguese government hag solemnly recognized
the Supreme Council bf Regency of Spain and the
I tidies. By this act the cluse union which subsists
hetwecu the two nations is drawn closer, and we
wifi proceed with common accoid to the defence of
the Peninsula against the invasion aud tyranny of
the common enemy.
Through the same channel we have received
news from Badajoz to the 7th instant. The enemv
remained in the same positions. Mortier's division
supposed to ronsist of 8or 9000 infantry and 1000
cavalry, remained in Lafra, Los Santos, Fuerrte
d'-l Maestro. The division of Merle of about 4000
men continued in Montijo, Merida, &c. Oar ar
my of the left in conjunction with the English and
Portuguese, occupied a very respectable line, co
vering the places of AlLurqucrque, Cainpo Mayor,
Bad.joz, Olivencia, Portoalegre, Dastel Davide,
and Santa Oialla.
From the Gazette of the Commerce of Cadiz, March
the COM.
Within these few days past, the enemy have
made no movement worth noticing in these envi
rons ; they still continue to take out of the maga
zines in Trocadero a great deal of plank for their en
campment, whilst on our part we have kept oor
fire upon them.
The news which we daily receive of th# insurrec
tion of the towns of Andalusia is very flattering.
The news from Estreniadur3 is not less pleasing,
for besides that the enemy has been repulsed, we
see the natives inspired with a roost noble enthusi
asm, the only thing which can and must indubita
bly save the country. Private letters say, that a
division of 4000 conscripts had been beaten in
Castile by several of onr detached parties united;
and that the surnatned l'.uipezinudo had surprised
in the Inn of Spintu Santo, in the vicinity of Ma
drid, a French party which he bad taken prisoners.
Tbe in-ws front Asturias is not so pleasing, as it
appears that tbe enemy with 5000 inen had pene
trated as far as Oviedo and Xijon, against whom
it is added general Mahi had marched with his di
vision, beaten the enemy, and compelled them to
evacuate that principality,
March 21.
Tiie ship of the line Francisco de Paula, and the
castles of Pantai and Matagorda, continue their
flies upon the enemy, who is still employed in
carrying plank to their encampment.
iiarcti 22.
The head-quarters of our army bate been trans
ferred to the Isle of Leon. The enemy are at work
in their entrenchments in the vicinity of Santa Cata
lina ; they have nearly closed one square, and each
front consists of about fifty pipes. The castles of
Matagorda and Puntal, and our gun boats, have
kept rip their fire upon the enemy, who have an
swered from their different posts on the right of
Fort Lewis. They have thrown up a quantity ot
sand at tba mouth of River San Pedro, with the
view it is supposed of planting artillery.
It is asserted that the 900 French who fled from
Honda, have fallen victims in Olvera to the noble
fury of tire intrepid patriots. Experience will
continue to prove that Spanish hearts glow with
that implacable hatred to tyrants that will reduce
their phalanxes to dust.
[Aw Appewdix.]
From He Federal Republican.
The following letter, which we alluded to yester
day, and for the genuineness of which we pledged
ourselves, proves inmutrovertibly the guilt of Mr.
Erskiny as well as his seduction. A man's own
confession is justly considered the highest kind of
evidence, and when voluntarily given without the
least constraint, it will be held good against the
strongest conflicting circumstances, none of which,
however, exist in this affair.
IViukiagton, let August, I8O9.
My Deaw Sin,
Your inquiries relative to the late arrangement
woui.l have been answered by me, but you will have
heard the facts, and have seen a copy of part of my
ioeiiuctious.
f'Tom these you will perceive that I Have depart
ed Jiam tie letter of firm and have apparently not
received Jbe ruog*itiw*t required bp Air- Canning.
Wbat grounds 1 bad for believing that 1 had receiv
ed them in their spirit—time will show. Your
knowledge of the constitution of the United States
will suable you{|» see that the president had no
rer to give the recognitions asked in n formal
“ if reels with emigrate to determine
, , phlcA tie United States ought to
*ttbjRapttt to fandfit natton*. Mjr agree.
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t*m aodunderytandmgof what would tw lh* course
Wfamm*
tongress.
ibJt as a
preliminary stipulation loci
the XJ» States
•to andertahe- to place bwt.__
ID actual hostility
with surh powers as might execute decrees invo>lu
tion of the neutral rights of the United States—
but I had the most posting rratont ior believing that
«Wh consequences would follow from the removal
of the orders in council.
My government have undoubtedly a right to diia
l aw my age tenant, and they have done every thing
that became an honourable nation to prevent any evil
consequences arising to the citizens ot this country
irom trusting that the terms of the agreement would*
be fulfilled.
The only anxiety that I feel is, that no further
had consequences may ensue—aud that the good
understanding between the two governments*which
I was ronfident was quukly coming about, may
not be inlfminted. \our’s.
DAVID MONTAGUE F.R5K1NE.
FRENCH CORKKSPONDENCE,
Hunt TLF. “AURORA."
Extract from alerter, " dated Paris, Jan. 27•
“ lii regnrd to our I'nniimrual rnnrMiis, will*
this count, j, we have nulhiag to expert but iu be
ing true to ourselves The seizure of American
ves®e!s,smne time «•.<>. has been arrested by the
prompt and spirited mti rposition of genera! Arm
strong, and. coptiscation aas /nr the present avert
ed, but how lon^ it may continue so uo one cun
tell, as it is generally s.:pp .sed tin ministers them?
selves do not know. Fhe J ihn Adams will soon
proceed home ; from whit J |. ,rr, she wails lor
some dispatches, possibly the rtsolloi theac recent
measures may t e made known helore she sails ; iny
mercantile Irands sav that if ihe general duos not
succeed helore the John Aduios goes, the thing ts
hopeless ; and we may then look out for the shoiti.it
passage home.
“ You are, [ know, desirous of general political
inlormalion, but my opportunities are not favoura
ble to gratify you. Strange reports of projected
marii.iges are smu"times heard, and it bus been e
ven reported that a daughter of Lucitn Buonaparte,
1 who h«s been brought hither from Italy, is to he
' married to a Bourbon and plated on the Spanish
throne ; Joseph to be king of Rome, but these are
all as uncertain as the changes of any other panlo
mine, Ihe brides of the enapeiour have been no less
than three since bis divorce j first a Russian prin
| cess, next a Saxon, daughter ol Maixmilmn lb« kirg
oi Saxony's brother.
“ There ar*- numbers of Americans hero who
cast a strong reproach upon our country, there is
on# of them, who rt is said holds a correspondence
with Buir, who is now in Germany.
Extract of a letter from Paris, March I.
“ Ihe splendid and expensive preparations for
Nap deon's marriage, are tore the sole topics of
conversation. He bus n.,w condescended to an
nounce, that the Austrian Grand Dutchess, Maria
Louisa, is the bappv or wretcl.ed object of his
ehoce. This Princess is the deught-r ol Francis If .
the present Lmperm of Austria. She is the grand
daughter ol laopolo H, end grand niece ol Jose
phus II, both Emperors of Germany, ami both sup
posed to have died by poison, administered by Buo
napartes former friends, the French Jacobins. Louis
the XV I, and his unfortunate consort, the lest and
murdered queen ol France Maria Antoinette, (who
was also her great aunt) were her god father and
god mother, and she was called after them.—
Ihe (by Buonaparte) dethroned I rdin^nd JV,
and Carolina, King nd Queen of Naples, are her
grand parent by fier mother's side. She is twenty*
t.vo years atfd right months younger then h>-r hus
band in pttv, fieing born December 12lh 1791. Sle
'"«* of couria lour year* and three months old,
when Buonaparte, on the 7th of March, 1796, mar
ried Ihe, at present, repudiated Josephine. It is
said, that the offers made by him to marry a Rus
sian and an Eoglisli princess, have been rrjerted
with equal habur, both at St. Petersburgh and at
St. James’s, and Lb.it the Austrian monarch has
been obliged to sacrifice his daughter for the pre
servation of hisdynastj.
“ I'ke * rawer Santerre, who escorted Louis XVI
fo the srafioid, died here lately very repentant. He
disclosed before his death several circumstances and
traits of that eventual penod. He affirmed, that
the common executioner, Sampson, having refused
, to gullotine the king, a member of the. Parisian
commune, and one of the assassins of the prisoners,
in September 1792, had volunteered his services.—
The name of this wretch, was Charles James, son
of a mechanick at Brugos, and educated by chari
ly at the Jesuit college at Liege, lie had been re
commended by Manuel, us a relation, and was the
bosom friend of Marat and Robespierre. Demo
cralick fanaticism made him afterwards, tbe exte
nuatory well as the panegyrist of all the enormi
ties committed by them in France. By tire orders
of Napoleon, the police is in search alter this man ;
but he is said to have, soon after Santerre’s disco
very, destroyed himself.
" ItisTeported that four millions oflivres annu
ally, are to constitute the private purse of tbe new
fempress ; for whose dowery are besides assigned
the reveuues ofGallaria, and of the Grand Duchy of
Warsaw. Tbe value of the diamonds and jewels
intended to form her ebrin, exceeded filteen millions
of livers. Some of these trinkets are pubiickly ex*
posed in the windows of the Jewellers on tbe Quay
des Orfevres, in the Palais Royal and in the
Hue St. Honor*, to the great edification of our ruin
ed merchants, and beggard populace.
“ Tbe late King of Holland, is according to re
port, to be the King of Portugal, as soon as that
kingdom is conquered. He is, however, in the
mean time preparing to set out for Rome, as a tern
purely residence, or as others will have it, a* h
place of exile, being in disgrace.” N. Y. Ev. Post.
, Richmond, April 24.
[communication.]
Died—On the night nl Sunday the I5ih instant,
in lire jail m'King aod,Queen rocnty, John 1U>ane,
Jr, accused ol the horrid crime ol murdeiing his
wife. Op bit examining court be had contested
hi nisei] guilty : JfWt6/« under tbe influence At that
petturbed or deranged state «>r mind, under which
(baacl itself may have, been perpetrated. He ct.n
foshfo himself guilty, ns ft is, understood, on tbe
ground of motives forever to be buried in his own
breast, buff whidy H <i believed, existed only in
bi« awo disturbed imsgiMtioo. From wbatsver
«»«, however, Ihi. dreadful and ezer to be regret
ted catastrophe^ «»«**o„ qn the; part of a mats
•ho fa*l «av«r before commuted » „me % any
«ort; certain n il, tbit Jlie ytYi*£Aigp» iot«n
d«t to hive defended him, on the ground' *fotem
“*>' derangement of intellect, and had bum ironed
witnesse* for that purpose. It is certain, also^Mhat
“two resectable physicUne have been heard tosay.
In relation to different points of time, (one at least
of which was very recent,) that t^y considered him
to have been in a state of derangement_He has
died by the merciful dispensation of Providence,*,
and thus has eluded that fate, which the laws of his
country would have pronounced. <?•
Tears will never cease to flow over the bier of the
unfortunate victim, who has falleii—she was wor
thier of n more fortunate catastrophe—but let the
grave shed its generous oblivion over l).e melan
choly cause u! her disasters.
Mortals ! tba contest between the gallows bnd
the mad-house, for this nrittrable portion of l uma- -
mty, has been arrested by the decree of the Al
niighty : aud if it it were not even impious to sav
that that deerpe is unjust, we are yet taught that
it is belter for n.n ly-nine guilty persons to es
cape, than fur one innocent man to sutler."
* Ih died in the night f hat ing been long indispos
edj and his body aw dissected next dau, and no
marks of violence were found m him. The partial
lars oj his Ueuth are not kit unit to the writer. *.
New-York, April 20.
READ, AMERICANS!!
French Cruelty aid Barbarity—From ,«ptaia
folger of the brig Young Soldier, who arrived her#
“8t ev,?"!T ,n « ddjrs from Cadi*, «* learn,
that a must dreadful gale of wind set in at that
place on trie 5th 0,' March, and continued 6 days
with unabated fury, doting w hich time 39 vessels,
mostly American, were driven on si ore, nr. lb* east
side ol Cadiz Bay, in possession of the French, and
were burnt. Such was the cruelty and inhuman
b.trbauty of the French soldiery, that no sooner
than u ship came on shore, and while the crew wer*
in the greatest distress, they would wade out into
tile water up to their middle and set fire to her, leav
ing the crew to get ou shore, as they could, or pu->
rish in the flames. Such as were so fortunate ns to
escape death and reach the shore were immediately
thrown into a loathsome French prison, without
friends, without clothing an 1 without food. Seve
ral of li e vessels were fired on from the shore and
t-e:r crews killed and wounded. No calculate*
could be made of the number of lives lost, h ig
impossible to speak of the conduct of these infernal
scoundrels as it deserves.
1 he following are the names of the vessels that
were wrecked, burnt, &c. furnished by captain FdU'
ger.
Ship Thomas Jefferson, Densmore, New-York,
burnt, with about 10,000 pieces nankeens, and
some provisions.
Stiip Commerce, Colburn, Hallo well, burnt, with
a part of her outward cargo on board.
Ship Apollo, Huggins, Philadelphia, burnt, with,
all her nutuaid cargo on board.
Slop Franklin, Queensbury, New-York, burnt in
ballast.
Ship -Ariadne, Humphreys, Portsmouth, N. H.
got off with hut little damage.
Brig Snnlax, Johnson, Philadelphia, burnt with
all her outward cargo on boatd.
Brig Commerce, Brown, Richmond, burnt, put
of her outward cargo bn hoard.
Brig Sampson, Mason, Vermont, burnt, with
part of her outward cargo on board.
Barque Pompey, Sivers, Salem, burnt, in ballast.
VVitb a large number of English Spanish, and Por
tuguese vessels to the number of 39 gttil, amongst
which were one Spanish ship of 112, threedo. of
74, and one Portuguese do. of 74 suns.
A boat froHi une of the Biitish ships of war lying -
in Cadiz Bay, with a lieutenant and 18 men. put
o.i to the relief of ooe of the American vessels, and
was upset, and 11 ol the boat's company perished.
Evening Post.
It is a Fact, which we ran prove, that the Amt*
rican vessels which were driven ashore in the I at#
gale Opposite Cadiz, were, with inhuman barbarity 1
ar,d cruelty, immediately alter the gale abated,
BURN! by the French, to effert which, they '.vail
ed up to their middles to set fire to them, leaving
their crews to perish in the flames or get on shore
ss they could. Those of the distressed seamed who
reached the shore were thrown into loathsome pri
sons without clothing or food! 1—JV.T. Goa.
April 21.
LATEST FROM PORTUGAL- '.
By the brig Panther, rapt. Story, arrived at this
port, in 35 days from l^isbon, we learn verbally,
that a severe gale came on the 4th of IIarch,
which lasted till the 10th, in which several vessels
were lost, and almost every one damaged. A Con
vent was struck with lightning, and materially in
jured.
The British and Portuguese armies were in high •
spirits : no general battle had recently taken plaee.
The French army had not entered Portugal, bat
were'on tbe frontiers.
Bostox, April 20»
FROM THE MEDITERRANEAN^
Extract of a^lrtter from Salem, ‘written yestentily.
“ Th.s day arrived tbe brig independence, rapt.
Rogers, from Smyrna. .
“ Left there, J,m. 23, the Argo, Field, and Re
ward, Haocs, Salem. Tba America, of Saletft.;
Calumet, Cos ton ; and a Baltimore srhoonrr wera
at Constantinople, Jan. 29. At Malta, the la.uisi-uf
ana, of New York; Despatch, Boston; Betsey,
Salem ; Latona, Beverly 4 sent in by the ^riltsb.—w
Brig Sukey and Betsey, of Salem, has been seised -
by the Krenph at Gallipoli, All the crews of tbe
American vessels seised by tb* French at Naples
were prisoners, unless they preferred entering on
board privateers.
“ Bar with the Turks and Russians going on.-— '
Additional duty on Americans at Constantiminb,."
. „• landing , ;;>
t , Thit Day at Commerce-Street,
GALLEGQ’S FLOUR*
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m . 4p- Janie* Herron.
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