Norfolk gazette and publick ledger — Norfolk [Va.], 1810-09-28 00:00:00, page 3

f'-' • ■THE PUBLICK LEDGER.
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: t>JRlDAY EVOKING, SEPT.,2$> 4810.
' i. Of all the extraordinary stAte papers which'have
proceeded Irqm the Frenrh government, wa«>ill
•wommenred its revolutionarycarser, that from the
Mi^iter of: Foreign Relations tb Mr. Armstrong,
' which is now published, appears to us the most ex
traordinary. Jt would be a waste of time,, to ex?
•mine all the many absurdities which are cohtain
ad in this paperr they are too obvious to escape
' the most careless observer. Our Embargo lost the
* Iipperour his Colonies! Ridiculous as this charge
fa, it-is no doubt intended as an offset to our just
- claims, for the injuries we have sustained from his
rrapacity apd injustice. Equally ridiculous are the
complaints against the act of March 180$, as it
'effected French merchant-vessels, when every one
hnuwstbat they were long before that act passed,
»ot only excluded from the United States, but bad
disappeared from the ocean. Our actxerves, how
ever, as an excuse for the sequestration of Ameri
can property; “ reptisal was a matter of right."—
This position is taken, and wilt be maintained,
*r the Emperour must restore the sequestered
.property.—By this declaration, thus positively
: made, we are given to understand that no claim
will be admitted ; and if any one can discover any
'thing dike a promise to restore, or rompensate/or
; the property already sold or sequestered, be must,
have the facility of extracting consolation, which,
stb<>’ pleasing for the moment, will be delusive in
"the end. ■ - ' ‘ ■ '
|= Rut “ at present Congress treads back its steps."
£No, most puissant Emperour, it is you “that Heads
'-bark your steps."—Yqwaro at length compelled to
■ckhbwledge by your own act, that your anti-com
•pMreihl system/ which was adopted without regard
reason, policy or justice, has. most completely
'failed. v , • W, ?-•<,
V It must afford great satisfaction to those who have
foreseen, and foretold what would be the result of
, that system of commercial warfare, which was pro
jected by France, anil so foolishly adopted by us.—'
The advocates for Embargoes and Non-Intercourses,
must certainly have some reflections that cannot be
’very comfortable at this time. But more of this
boon. Let us pursue the subject under considera
tion. ■'? /' '
5; Necessity has produced that which justice or
.policy could not. , To any one, who took the tiou
bie to examine the subject, the'consequences were
• abvious. The system of'Sequestrations, and plun
der could not last long; the expenses of a nation
. must he defrayed by means nwie certain—from the
« industry-and enterprise of the people—protected by
'just laws; on these sources the enemy of Buona
paite relied, compared to which tbqse adopted by
.Jbitn, was to compare time to eternity.
It is too plain that the emperour has found that
Commerce is necessary to France, at well as Eng
land, and however bis pride tnay seek to disguise the
.fact, his own acts rise in judgment against him.—
Our art of congress which passed the first of May,
" appears to have been unknown in France until the
month of August, and its effects are wonderful,
if we believe the einperour, for although the
'Beilin and Milan decrees are not yet repealed,
. they mi doubt will be. In these extraordina
ry times when all reasonable calculations are
baffled by events, we ought not to be surprised
, that the roost unpopular and impoteut (arrord
• jog to the opinions of violent democrats) of
eur art, has produced such important results, or
to speak correctly, furnished the pretext. This
poor act, which has been abused with all the terms
•f reproach, that can be found in tbe vocabulary of
. ,nn infuriated democrat, its advocates branded with
•li the opprobrious epithets which party rancour
could suggest, hat done wbat the wonder working
embargo, and its appendages of non-imporiatien,
•nd non intercourse could not. j
\ ** His Majesty loves tbe Americans” just about
• u much as every honest American loves his majes
‘ *y, and no mure, and with submission to iffs roa
• we hope that he will not take any eonrern
about our independence, prosperity, or liberty, for
Ci»d forbid they should require hi« protection—We
"should hardly think of selecting the wolf for a shep*
herd, ift, all Wa ask of him, is the observance of
^common honesty as regards onr property. * - '
r- *Th$ British government have fairly, overcome
<h« emperoor, and by retorting upon bin the mea
>SW0of his own injustice.’ . f
»a event that promises advantage^ to. our
•OOntry, we rejoice in it, but we think ouf tner
shants will be wise in restraining their spirit of en
terprise. 4"
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Five; dollars Reward.
/V
i STRAYED last March from.the Stable Yard at
the Exchange Coffee-House, A CHESNUT SOR
RELM ARE, 4 years old. about 14 hands l inch
high,
a small bl&ae in her face, nne hind foot
- white, fong switch tail and hanging mane. Who©.
"w will deliver her te the Subscriber dull receive
* the above reward.. •#»,'' ‘,V -v ; ^
Peter Kemp.
f:
September 3*.
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/£
Williamson V-Pafeket wiH saU for
Alexandria on SUN DAY.., For passage, apply on
board at Newtou’s wbarf.ol ti* ’.v't*'-*
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„ Laft evening arrived tb* ship M«|daKiH c*|^
Sketchley; in the rlroaiMgle abort passage of
days from Liverpool', Illrwotthy of retriobk that
the Magdalen has performed her yoyegeout ttbid
home it> the abort spare of 5 todays. Capt. $. has
brought London papers and Lloyd's Luts to the
20th August, from which the following'important
articles are copied: " ’’
. v?V
. ■ tosndR, Aug. 13.
FRENCH PAPERS.
, SVtU;' ;
Paris, Aug. 7.— His majesty issued on the 5th
Aug. at the Palace of Trianon, the following Decree:
Article 1. The duties upon the importation of the
undermentioned goods and merchandise, are settled;
as follows: !' #■
By metrical quintal ; -the Cottons of Brazil. Cay
enne.Surinam, Hemugga, and Georgia, long staple.,
300 francs ; Levant fwtons, imported by sea, 600
francs ; the game by land, through the offices of
Cologne, Coblentz, Muyence, and Strasburgh, 300
francs ; cottons from all other places, those from
Naples excepted, 600 fr.; those from, Naples, the
old duties. -Raw sugar, 300 fr.; clayed or loafsn
gar, 400 fr.; hyson teas, 900 fr.; green teas, GOO
fr.; all other teas, 150 fr.; indigo, 900 fr.; cocoa,
1600 fr.; cochineal, 2000 fr,; white pepper, 600
fr.; black do. 400 fr.; common cinnamon, 1400fr. j
fine do. 2000 fr.; cloves, 600 fr.; nutmegs, 2000
fr.; mahogany, 50 fr.; Pernambuco wood, ISOfr.i
Cam peachy do. 80 fr, dye woods grounds, 100 fr.
Arl. 2. When the custom-house ofticeis suspePt
that the declarations concerning the species or ooa
litfes are false, they shall send specimens to the di
rector general o( our customs, wtio is to muse them
to he examined by commissioners who have a
knowledge of these branches, attached to the minis
try of the interior; and who, in every surh exami
nation, shall be. assisted by two manufacturers or
merchants chosen by the minister of the interior.
“ If shall .ippear that the declarations are false,
all the merchandize shall be seized and confiscated.”
" > * .1 • •• ‘
V , } "''V, Paris, August 9, ■
Copy of a Utter from the Minuter ,f Foreign At lo
tions to Mr. Armstrong.
; . ** Paris, Aug. 5, 1810.
“Sir—I have laid before his majesty the empe>
ror and king, the Art of Congress of. the 1st of
May, extracted from the paper of the Un ted States,
which you bad transmitted to me. His majesty
could have wished that this Act, and all other acts
of the United States, that may concern France, had
beed always officially notified to him.
“The emperor applauded the general embargo laid
by the United Slates on all their vessels, because
that measure, if it has been prejudicial to France,
contained at least, nothing offensive to her honour.
It has caused her to lose her colonies of Gu»d«
loupe, Martin que and Cayenne. The emperor did
not Complain ot it. He made this sacrifice to the
principles which determined the Americans to im
pose the embargo, and which inspired them with
the noble resolution of interdicting themselves the
use of the sea, rather than submit to the laws of
those who wish to become its tyrants.
“ The Act of the 1st of March removed the em
b*rg°» ®nd substituted for it a measure which must
have been particularly injurious to the interests of
France. That act, with which the emperor was
not acquainted for a considerable time aftei, inter
dicted to American vessels the commerce of France,
whilst it authorised a trade with Spain, Naples and
Holland, that is to say, with countries under French
influence, and denounced confiscation against all
French vessels that should enter the ports of Ame
rica. Reprisal was a matter of right, and com
manded by the dignity of France, a circumstance
upon which it was impossible to make any compro
mise. The sequestration 0/ all the American ves
sels in France was tbs necessary result of the mea
sure taken by congress.
“At present the congress treads back its steps!
It revokes the act of the 1st of March. The ports
of America are open to French commerce, and
France is no longer interdicted to the Americans.
In short, the congress engages to oppose such of the
belligerent powers as shall refuse to recognize the
rights of neutrals.
“ In this new state of things, I am authorised to
declare to you, sir, that the Decrees of Beilin and
Milon are revoked, and that from the 1st of No
vember, they will cease to be in force, it being un
derstood that in consequence of this declaration the
English shall revoke their orders in coancil, and re
nounce the new principles of blockade which they
bare attempted to establish; or that the United
States, conformably to the Act which you have just
communicated, shall cause their rights to be re
spected by the English. •
“ It is with the most particular satisfaction that
I inform yon of this resolution of the emperor. His
mmesty loves the Americans, Their prosperity,
and their commerce enter into the views of bis po
licy. . The independence uf America is one of the
principal titles of the glory pf, France.- Since that
epoch, the emperor has felt a pleasure in aggrandi
zing the United States ; and in all its circumstan
ces, whatever can contribute to the independence,
the prosperity, and the liberty of America, wilt be
regarded by the emperor at conformable to the in
terests of his empire." J■ vV«Ss>T'.jf
*5 ' '' Sr. Pste&sborg, July tl. i;
The papers of the merchant-fleet arrived from
Teneriffe, are still under examination. The exa
mination of the papers of neutrals will henceforth
be conducted by the treasurer of the empire Baten
Kampenhause. .... ^ . d
His majesty has, by a reiilript addressed to the
minister of the interior, appointed a special commis
sion to deliberate upon ail matters that may he ad
vantageous to the manufacturers 0f the empire, and
pai t'uularly that of violent.
Wixge'f* it
so,
■ iff .e r
'i . . ■■ £
Cwrtcr*, ‘
• - <■. ■py'-Xi* -Tl,' ••— T rrr—'• v'ff v*-'; • ,
A WtwfeMPafy against the fits, of Bonaparte it said
to haver been. djj*over«4 «tt Breda, end two of - the
principal persona engaged tnit Attested. i '
It is reported tbat a flag of trace arrived on $4
tnrday at pover
leUye to a ca^
Ui. "
We doubt the report, JIq __,,,
ver ietfer has
U«n received tbia.Owirmugmsntieaiug each|iU'
It t«tm> rttmordlMry that wiyprrww ifcplf
iff that Bonaparte ha«fc«#iHht fcpItwcwBdftnn hf
commercial restrictions, rrit t- riiiii» that- '
hove utterly Tiitrj m |irnilagW'Hinflii | jis i
■flt. ,Oj one end the same Aejr beopeaehif r-f-,
-for the importation wf those commodities which he
rMflfit proem* but frtoj the powlf be bad sworn to
destroy, and with whom be bad interdicted every
.species of intercourse : and he notifies to the Ame.
rifnn .minister, that because America has repealed
her pon-intereoutse act, add opened her ports th
French. commerce,. hie Berlin and Milan decrees
are revoked: is if these decrees heck been the. cone
sequence of offensive measures adopted by America,
which nieasnre having been withdrawn; the decrees
ere also withdrawn. ,’v VVf-7 />
If he revoke bis decrees cinr order#consequent
upon those decrees will be revoked also.?,but if he
suppose that we shall abandon any part of the old,
maritime law, be will find himself completely raj*»
taken. He has said, that from and after the first
>f November, bis decrees are revoked, and our go*
vernment, taking notice that the enemy has an
nounced bis decrees to be no longer in force from and
after the 1st of November, may notify, that from
the 1st of November our orders in council, adopt*
ed in consequence of those decrees, will cease, . '
Some misapprehension seems to have taken place
with respect to the decree allowing the importation
<>f certain articles of colonial and East India pro
duce. It was supposed that the second aitiele of
the decree, ordering confiscation, if the declarations
concerning the species or qualities of goods were
i laise, meant connscation U it should be found that
I the g°°d« were British. The Decree, as we observ
! ed on Saturday, might in that case as well not bare
j been issued, fur the moat of the goods allowcdto be
imported are British. Bat the meaning of the se
i cond article of the Decree is, that goods are (o be
} confiscated if false declarations be given of their
species or qualities ; for instance, if Levant cot
ions, which are to pay a higher,duty, beattempted
to be imported as Brazil cotton ; or if hyson of
green teas, which are to pay a tax of 9 «r $00
tracs be attempted ,to be Introduced under the name
of common teas, which are to pay only 150 francs.
Fresh disturbances have broken out in the Tyrol.
Saturday, a cabinet council was held at the foreign
office. 1 he subject of deliberation was supposed to
relate to Bonaparte’s late decree,
j Oa ihe operation of the late French commercial
| arrangements, we have a few particulars by 2 ships,
which arrived on Saturday from Ostend and Dun*
kirk. The following is an extract from one of the
letters. i- . r ••
: ' r “ Parts, Avgust 11, ‘
“ We have a hope of obtaining the release of a
great part if not all the American property and
ships seized in the ports of France."
Another from Dunkirk, notices the practical ap
plication of the uew indulgences of Americans, and
announces, in a postscript to the letter, that two
ships from the United States Had been released from
sequestration. ^
The following extract of a letter was posted at
Lloyd’s on Saturday :
I(_, • ■ ' ' “ Dunkirk, May 10, 1810. ’
Ihe American vessel which had been taken by
two large privateers and carried into Algiers, has
been released. She was charged with/ despatches
from Constantinople, Malta, and with overland des
patches from India.” I .
Gazette Marine Memoranda, *
ARRIVED.
Brig Wheeler, Eaken, 48 days from London, and
32 from the Land, Brandy and Porter, R. Dickson.
Spoke on Tuesday, off the Capes, ship Eliza Ann,
of Pittstown, 32 days from London, bound to Bal
tinioie.
1 he ship Planter, Davis, of and, from this port,
bound to Amsterdam, taken last spring by a French
privateer and earned into Amsterdam, was con
demned vessel and eargo, the 29ih Juue.
The ship Pdrtia.Tabb, of and from this port, was
detained at Christiansand, released upon the pay
ment of § 500, and allowed to proceed.
The Rising States, Jennings, with Fall Goods for
this port, was to have sailed from London between
the 10th and 15th August.
Boston, Sept. 19,
Arrived, sch'r Pocahontas, Field, 45 days from
Goree. Mons. Lewis Coste, passenger, reports,
that in the month of May six vessels had been ar
rested at that port, and conducted to Serahonue,
where they had been condemned, names not known,
that on the 25th June six vessels were arrested at
Gambie, and had been conducted to Serationue,
names unknown, as also their fate: that in the
course of July six other vessels were arrested at Go*
r««, the names of which here fullowShip Maria
Dolores, Backhouse, of East Florida; brig Perta
Zorilta, of do ; brig Santa Barbara, Juan Jose Do
mingo, of Teueriffe ; arh’r Alrevrda, Alena, of Ha
vaona ; sch’r Cerila, Emanuel Reyes, of do ; brig
Catelme, Gonzalude, of Tanarfa.-The brig St.
Anmii Peal, of Havana, touched at New York, and
arrived at Goree l$tb June; left said port on the
17 tb, and continued her voyage pour le Bas de la
Cotte. All those vessels sailed under Spanish or
Portuguese colours. The British captured indirii*
minately, vessels thus sailing and trading upon the
coast of Africa, from a conviction that /the object
U to take away slaves. The British havl fen tbs
coast four sloops of war, and there are atad several
lerters of marque. y \.j
/> Xiv^rphol^Salt^. ^
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The CARGO ef the Brig Sally, Samuel Watte,
» : Maitcry contitling qf > v J
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230 Liverpool filled Sacks,. \*f
' An<f a quantity of loose Salt.
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23 crates and 4 hogsheads Earthenware. '
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• •••’ Mose* Myers & Son.
. September 36. > - m4* <f'
JUondon ProoflCogniac Bj^ndy,^ 1
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Lmdkjgfrom tieirig Whetlni
Afew pipes of genuine OJdCogtmc
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. tXsopcrier oosllty ■■■•,• y»rSsl«br Wf,:
f msnntostpk?
*. - ^ mt>AY4 sett* *$, t$m v
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<*£■&-*»; 41% * |»|h
«m. «asu
Coffee, W. India.' «• . ,
Cordage, , ; |L U ■ , '. #
Cotton,Gen.UplandIt4F 14 <i i| ' * ,
o^feStta.:-C;:;;v ;Y
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Holland . <■ ■
No.11<.7,English .. .•• " ^#-»:y&
Floor,, Sups
Fine
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* Middlings ( 8 50 . *
Fish, Cod, dry oai®. 3 30 r ■
Herrings .bbl, - J-<4 25 s' ■>
•; fjt-v
Fustick ' '*— - . sV-iWiii .;..
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ton.
• yf 11 •?;- » •* • . . -- ,
Oram, Corn hUsb. 75 m§
Herop.Russtan toft. 450 ,. . J
Hides, Dried lb. , 10- . , H j' n '•
HogVLard, . . ■:
iron,Americanref.lcn. tlO • ' ' •* '■ .
Swedish 7 '.,>115.
>. 115, -
Logwood, Bay 40, , , M * . *
. Camp. .'£•• ■
Mahogany. Buy sq. t
Molasses, ' gal. . 50 :.'■«* ;
Peas, Black-eyed bo
Pepper,
Pimento, 25
Pitch, bbl ■ '• ’j>> -;;W-;4k-^if_
Pork, Cargo, Northern 15 ,' ' ’ ^ IjfHt
Prime- . , • - - 16 _ . -A . •
Mesg , 20 '„#/
Raisins, cask,
. ,-a, ® 7 j J f H <WCy V", ,*1
ditto,. box.
Rice, 1001b
Rosin,, bbl..|
Rum,Jamaica,4tb p.gal. , .-’L>g
a .• ^ a ‘ • . i* i/.vwi
Antigua, 3d p.
SO
65 ; ■ 'jSka3N&&&*M
Country,
'Ji**
Salt, Ttn-k’s-lsland, bus. , AO ”
St. Ubes, , v v 451
Liverpool, '.Vi
Ladu, ■ i.«i-ji - * 40-3 r^C', . t
Sugar, Muscovado 1001b. £ i t J'0 . =,
Hiv. Rm«n. IQ.-' - \>7'■
Hav. Brown,
White,- . 12. , ./ •• ••? r>-\, ••
- While,
Shingles,Cyp. 22in. M.
3 50
Staves, \V. O. hhd.
tarrel
: barrel
< hhd. \ 31
•• -i-v '■ - •;* «w*'-•N
*V* *>. *«• ®»k . 1»;‘.V ;V
Tar, • bhl. 2 '50>;
Tobacco, Rich. lOOlb. - V.
■ • ■-„• 7 !{■’■ \ i
Petersburg,. ’ 5 rY<.v- - '4#
Rappa. .:•
Turpentine, bbl. ^ • 'f.4§
Whiskey,.. .;']-x£j
Wines, Madeurn pipe. , 250
S5»
ay# - 'p
Lisbon, gal. ;V>'
Teneritfe, , 1 lt$
Sherry, , . 1 T5
Malaga,- :v' i; 1 30 -
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Prtmiumt of lnturanhc on Americm
Aiim*- y vr ■
' - „ ~r ■ 7 ’ ‘ .
To and from Greet-Britain, Ireland, ■*, , *' ,
Portugal and Spbio, without lira • f *'
Streigbts of Gibraltar, . . 3j «-«'4'*-7
Porte in the North Sea and Balttck, , jaf «
In the Mediterranean, .. . . .. . m s.
Gibraltar, Madeira,Canaries, Aaor/n,:' “ / • -
. and Cape de Verd Islands, " i f h J’
British and Neutral .Windiwwd
;' ands, form, Barbadoi to St.Tbo- > >'■$»;/
.:. mas, .» .. . • t . * >»• .., 5 M '-5} -
Jamaica and Honduras, . . . , 4
Porto Rico, . ,. v . .‘. ' ’3i *
Havanna gnd other PortsCuba, . ■ . ,<4L‘ 3^|.
at r«w. ■'.--.'.•eaw sfk- r
City of St, Domingo, . ,, *i 4. *
Parsia (swlla nn#l f'liiiaa .*?M. i-aa''.1' Jll .../’
Persia, India, and Cbiua,
Coaiteri, ■ • ,, •. ■«.>... y*-'~.
, ...;• «•• ' - , 'jH,** - . • ^acL- V” '
PRICES OP STQCZSM hm^'^ '
Virginia Bank 125, sM^ceu - . .. • '*v*' 4,^'*',
N01 folk Marine insurance Coofpany, fiO pcr.1f*nL ■.
' ..advance,. in steady demand, .y ■: ■yiy' /^V^7 -
United States Bank, none ia thn. -market... ;y'T'- '.' y
Exchange on Landon, 417^ 4«I*- ioLrflO£ «M!ffU"
tin'\V* propQM to giva a price-rn^ot oOOa ena.
tj weekt and t»nt^r it t«rrertn4
licit the aid of our mercantile fri««Hl», with(M|i
which art have no hope of making if so. .
If anv of oor friend* should di»ro*era»*rticJe.
wrong' oted, woeqjlkfetliankfol 10 hainformed! ,
of if, and the mor M^^ 'bo:-eofirectcdi^i3r4^lh;^i^';
*icau», ’a' reference may be rnat&to tief JK-Si'~ '
feat, at adntance^wUb confidence.
■piWPih";
, For Chartfry .
The remarkable fine’MI%, x
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Captain Cemminga, bnrthen Sf? tec*,will bo fomif
fcr the reception of nnargo at a few say* -\2
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September 28. ■
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