Herald of the United States (Warren, R.I.), 1806-10-25 00:00:00

Gazet of the United States.
WARREN:—PUBLISHED NEAR THE POST-OFFICE, BY NATHANIEL PHILLIPS.
[No. 2, of Vol. XV.]
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1806.
[Whole No. 720.]
WEEKLY ALMANACK.
   OCTOBER. D. of. h. m. Sea. REMARKS.     26 Sunday, 6 47 6 56 7 23   27 Monday, 6 48 6 56 8 9 Full 6h. 59m   28 Tuesday, 6 49 6 55 8 58 morn.   29 Wednesday, 6 50 6 53 9 50 Look out for   30 Thursday, 6 51 6 51 10 45 rain in abund-   31 Friday, 6 53 6 48 11 40 ance.   1 NOVEMBER 6 55 6 45 12 35  
Important to Merchants.
COURT OF VICE-ADMIRALTY, NASSAU, AUG. 5, 1806.
THE next question to be resolved is whether there was any original intention on the part of the importer, that these goods should be carried on in their present course and one strong circumstance to raise the presumption of such an intention, is the non-payment (refusing myself the liberty to say non-security ) of the duties.—Another circumstance of immense strength in such a point, is the peculiar nature of the cargo . It is perfectly notorious that this article of jerked beef prepared at Buenos Ayres, from the innumerable droves of wild cattle which traverse the adjoining plains is solely confined in its use to the soldiery and the lower classes of people throughout the Spanish colonies, but is never consumed in the United States, any more than it is by ourselves. Is it possible then to conceive that such a cargo could be imported with any idea of home consumption, or rather without a plain intention to send it forward to those places where alone it is used? I am not regardless of the argument which was used of the circuitry of this voyage as an inference against its being an entire transaction, begun and carried on by one projector, and under one general scheme. True it is, that to carry the produce of a Spanish colony in lat. 34, S. to an American port, in lat. 41, N. and then to re-export it to another Spanish colony in lat. 23, where by 18 degrees, in a southerly direction, are to be retraced, is rather a circuitous navigation. But when the unity of the transaction is well established by other evidence, it appears to me that the only deduction from this circuitry, is the necessity of the enemy, which must be supplied under any circumstances of inconvenience, from double freight, and enlarged expenses.—The only other circumstance I rely on to show such original intention is, the shortness of the time during which this cargo was detained in the neutral port. A long period of delay may fairly enough sustain a presumption that the merchants were tried, and ordinary mercantile routines gone through; but a short stop, perhaps no more than sufficient to take the cargo out of one vessel and put it into the other, must lead to very opposite conclusions.
In addition to the facts that this cargo was brought from an enemy's colony, was not landed in the neutral port, nor was the subject of any importation duties, it now appears by the plainest inferences, that there must have existed an original intention to transport it to another enemy's colony. Had that intention been carried into effect by Mr. D'WOLFE, the Court could not have admitted of a moment's doubt. The only remaining question then must be, how far the transfer of the property to Mr. BRADFORD induces any favourable distinction.
But in the first place, the reality of that transfer does admit of considerable doubt.—The vessel with her cargo ready laden, is sold as a lump—I do not affirm that such a bargain may not occur, but at least the usual prudence of mercantile enquiry entitles me to say it is not a very likely transaction. The master too, knows nothing of the consideration. I beg to be understood as by no means laying down a rule, that a master should in all cases be acquainted with the consideration which is paid for a vessel or cargo by his employers; but I merely say with respect to this master's want of knowledge, that it is the more singular as he was an old master in the service of Mr. D'WOLFE, and appears to be turned over upon this transfer to Mr. BRADFORD, in the same lumping way with the brig and cargo.
There is another circumstance to discredit the reality of this transfer—The master says it took place on the 11th of June, and the register bears date on the 11th of June; yet on this last mentioned day, Mr. D'WOLFE the former owner, advances the wages of the crew, and takes a receipt in his own name. Does this look like a complete renunciation of his property on the part of Mr. D'WOLFE? The answer is obvious—indeed, this point of the case is felt so strongly that the master endeavours to excuse it, by saying, that Mr. BRADFORD not being at Bristol at the time the brig failed, his brother-in-law Mr. D'WOLFE paid the men their advance of a month's wages. But how is he to account for this explanation? By comparing that receipt with the roll d'équipage , in which the date of each person's entry is given, it appears that though the receipt at the head of it is dated the 11th of June, yet in fact there was a continued payment to each successive seaman as he entered up to the day of sailing, which was the 15th of June. JAMES BRENNING a seaman entered on the 15th day, and he signs the receipt for an advance of wages, and under him the master himself signs for a like advance,
and of course it is to be taken that he received his advance after the other. It is not enough to show that Mr. BRADFORD was absent on that day—it must be proved that he was out of the way during the whole period, from the 11th to the 15th; yet on the 11th day of June we know he was not absent because on that day, he swore to his sole interest in the cargo before a notary in Bristol, and took the oath of exclusive property in the brig before the officers of the customs, upon which they issued the brig's register.
But, in the second place, admitting the reality of the transfer, and allowing that something of a consideration did pass from BRADFORD to D'WOLFE, so as to satisfy BRADFORD in taking new papers, and describing the property as exclusively his own, how, after all is a better title to restitution established? We have only to look to the intimate connection between these two persons. The master tells us they are brothers-in-law. It is no improbable presumption that they are partners. JACKSON, one of the seamen, speaks of them expressly in that character. Another witness, BROWN, tells us he has known the vessel several years, and as being under Mr. BRADFORD's direction. In another place he speaks of her more expressly as the property of Mr. BRADFORD exclusively. This no doubt was a mistake, but it goes a great way to show what was the common understanding, as to their concern over each others property; or, I should rather say, the impossibility to divide their interests. Here that business of advancing their wages comes again in aid of this conclusion—as an excuse for the act, it is attributed to fraternal affection; but I cannot forget that the payment is made and the receipts taken by a clerk (its head-writing being the same as that of a letter from D'WOLFE & Co. to a merchant at Havana, which is among the papers in the cause,) from whence I draw this probable conclusion, that it was done in the way of business, and that there was but one mercantile party between the two gentlemen.
As to this transaction, therefore, I must consider Mr. D'WOLFE and BRADFORD as one and the same person, and when I see this sort of handing over between them, I can only conclude that it was a preconceived scheme, to avoid penalties which they were well aware of, and that for this purpose it was managed (by way of raising the semblance of a separation of interests) that the goods should be imported by the one person and exported by the other. But with the close connection which is proved in this case to subsist between them, if the act of the one is not to be taken as the act of the other, at least it is clear that there was a concert between them to effect an illegal end, and that this voyage from Bristol to Hayana, on account of Mr. BRADFORD, was only a consummation of the other voyage from Buenos Ayres to Bristol on account of Mr. D'WOLFE, that first voyage and its final object being known to them both.
It is my duty to pronounce, that this attempt to break the continuity of the voyage cannot avail, and that the same penalty of confiscation must be attached to this case as would have applied to a direct voyage between the hostile ports. I by no means accede to the distinctions which were attempted to be set up with respect to the brig. Had this been a case of charter, exceptions might reasonably (and not without success) have been urged in favor of an innocent brig owner. But no such reasoning can apply when the brig and cargo belong to the same persons. I therefore pronounce that both brig and cargo are subject to condemnation—but I restore private adventures.
(Concluded from our last.)
On General MIRANDA's debarkation at Coro, he immediately issued considerable numbers, printed in the Spanish language, on a large type of the following
PROCLAMATION.
DON FRANCISCO DE MIRANDA, Commander in Chief of the Columbian Army, to the inhabitants of the continent of Columbian America:
Brave Countrymen and Friends,
OBEDIENT to your wishes, and to the repeated requests and calls of the country, to whose service we have cheerfully consecrated the greater part of our lives, we have disembarked in this province of Caraccas. The opportunity and time appear to us highly favourable for the completion of our designs; and all persons composing this army are your friends or countrymen; all resolved to sacrifice their lives, if necessary, for your liberty and independence, under the auspices and protection of the British navy. With these auxiliaries, we can safely say, that the day will come when our America, recovering her sovereign independence, her sons will be able freely to shew to the universe their exalted spirit. The oppressive, unfeeling government which has obscured our finer qualities, and blackened with calumnies our deference and character, managed also to maintain her abominable system of administration for three successive centuries, but was never able to eradicate from our hearts those moral and civil virtues which a holy religion, and a regular code of laws, incorporated with our customs, and led to an honest and natural course of action.
Let us be worthy then of those admirable qualities, that the mean, odious agents of the Court of Madrid being expelled, we may be able quietly to establish the civil order necessary to the completion of so honourable an undertaking. The recovery of our rights as citizens, and of our national glory as Columbian Americans, will be amongst the least benefits we shall derive from that so just and necessary determination.
The innocent Indians and other men will consider us all as brother citizens, and that precedence belongs only to merit and virtue, in which belief they will primarily obtain, most certainly, military and civil recompenses, the reward of merit alone.
If the Dutch and Portuguese were able in former times to throw off the yoke of Spanish oppression; if the Swiss and Americans, our neighbours, have equally succeeded to establish their liberty and independence with the general applause of the world, and to the benefit of their inhabitants, when each of them, separately, scarcely contained two or three millions of people; why then shall we, who are at least sixteen millions, not be able easily to extricate ourselves? Possessing besides, over and above those considerations the most fertile, inexhaustible, and rich continent in the known world! The fact is that it depends solely upon our own will—and that the will, progressing to our independence, union will assure to us permanent and perpetual happiness; the Divine Providence ordains it, to alleviate the miseries of our unhappy countrymen and for the protection and benefit of the human species!
Those people, who are timorous or left instructed, and who wish to inform themselves of the ground work, of the justice and equity which these proceedings require; joined to be historical truths, that prove the inconceivable ingratitude, unheard of cruelties, and atrocious persecutions of the Spanish government, towards the innocent and unhappy inhabitants of the New World, almost from the moment of its discovery, will read the subjoined address of Don Juan Vilcardo, of the Order of Jesus, directed to his countrymen and they will find in it irrefragable proofs and solid arguments in favour of our cause, dictated by a holy man, at a time when he was about taking his leave of this world, to appear before the Creator of the Universe.
To carry this plan into its due effect with security and efficacy, the citizens will be obliged, without distinction of classes or nation, (ecclesiastick only excepted in the parts where they may be appointed) to conform themselves strictly to the following articles:
I. Every person, military, judicial, civil or ecclesiastick, who exercises any authority granted by the Court of Madrid, shall suspend pro facto their functions—and those who may continue them after the present publication, as well as those who obey such persons, shall be severely punished.
II. The Ecclesiastical Courts and Courts of Justice, in all the cities, towns and places shall exercise, ad interim , all the functions of government, civil, administrative, and judicial, with personal responsibility, and regulated by the laws of the country; and the curates of parishes and missionaries shall remain in their respective churches and parishes, without altering the exercise of their sacred functions.
III. All the Ecclesiastical Courts and Courts of Justice shall send one or two Deputies to the Head Quarters of the army, in order that they may unite themselves in a general assembly on our arrival in the capital; and to form there a provisional government which may lead in due time to another government general and permanent, with the consent of all the nation.
IV. Every Citizen from the age of 16 to 55 years shall repair without fail to the army, bringing with him such arms as he may be able to procure—and, if they have none, they shall receive them from the Military depots of the army.
V. The Citizens who may have the baseness to make common cause with the agents of the Spanish government, or who may be found with arms, encamped in any garrison or place of strength for the said government, shall be treated as a traitor to his country. If any persons in the actual service of Spain shall be so pusillanimous as to believe that they are in honour bound to serve against the independence of their country, they shall be forever banished the country.
VI. On the contrary, all those who are exercising any Military, Civil, or whatever other employ, who may join with promptitude the standard of the country, shall receive honours and employments proportioned to the zeal and love of the country which they may have manifested in such an important conjuncture: Soldiers and Seamen shall be equally rewarded according to their capacity and zeal.
VII. The treasurers of the publick money shall immediately deposit the same with the Administrators Civil and Ecclesiastick—who shall nominate persons capable of managing the same, and for the supply of the Columbian Army with whatever may be necessary to its maintenance and operations: not only in money, but also provisions, clothing, vegetables, carriages, mules, horses, &c.
VIII. In order to prevent all kinds of insults or aggression on the part of the soldiers or the advanced posts of the army—the Magistrates and Parish Priests of the cities, towns, and villages, (under their personal responsibility) shall cause to be fixed the colors or ensign of the National Independence, in the highest and most conspicuous parts of the Churches, and the Citizens shall also wear in their hats the cock-ads which denotes them to be such, since without which, they would not be respected and protected as brothers.
IX. This Proclamation shall be fixed, by the Priests and Magistrates, on the doors of the parish churches and all publick buildings, in order that it may be speedily notified to all the inhabitants; they shall also read in the churches, and in every civil court, once a day at least, the pamphlet formerly mentioned, written by J. Vilcardo, which accompanies this edict.
X: Whoever shall hinder, retard or neglect the completion of the nine preceding articles, shall be considered as a publick offender, and punished immediately with exemplary severity.—The publick good is the supreme law.
Done at Head-Quarters, at Coro, 2d of Aug. 1806.
FRAN. DE MIRANDA.
THOS. MOLINI, Secretary.
Latest Foreign Intelligence.
Received by recent arrivals at New-York and Boston last London date August 27th.
GERMANY.
VIENNA, AUG. 8.
"We Francis Hd. &c."
IN abdicating the imperial government of the Empire, We, considering it as the last effort of our care and as an absolute duty, do express thus publickly a desire equally reasonable and just, that the persons who have hitherto been employed in the administration of justice and in diplomatick and other affairs, for the good of the whole empire, and for the service of the chief of the empire, should be suitably provided for.
"The care which all the states of the empire took of those persons who lost their places by the affair of the indemnity in 1803, induces us to hope that the same sentiments of justice will be extended to those individuals who have hitherto been employed in the general service, who have been chosen in all parts of the Germanick empire, and many of whom have quitted other profitable places looking forward to an honourable subsistence for life, and which should not be wanting to them on account of their fidelity, and the integrity and capacity with which they have executed their functions."
"We have, therefore, taken the resolution of preserving to those of our imperial servants, who have hitherto drawn their salaries from our chamber, the same appointments, referring to ourselves to place their employments in the service of our hereditary states, and we hope, with so much the more confidence, that the electors, Princes and States will provide for the imperial chambers of justice of the Empire, and the Chancellerie of the chamber of Justice, by charging themselves voluntarily with this expence, as it will be trifling in amount, and will diminish every year."
"As to the chancellerie of the Aulick Council of the Empire, the funds destined for its support will be employed to provide for the wants of those individuals, who have hitherto drawn from thence their salaries, this will serve them until other measures may be taken."
"Done in our capital and residence of Vienna, under our Imperial Seal, the 6th of August, 1806. "FRANCIS."
FRANCE.
PARIS, AUG. 23.
Count Furstenburn, the Austrian minister at: Ratisbon, received on the 13th inst. dispatches from Vienna, which officially enjoined him to notify to the Diet, the renunciation by H. M. the Emperor of Austria, of the title,

functions, duties and prerogatives of Chief of the Germanic empire.
Mr. Francois de Beauharnois, appointed some months since the Emperor's ambassador to the court of Spain, has just received the insignia of the grand order of Baden. He goes to discharge his new functions very shortly.
AUG. 28. We have received London papers to the 23d inst. inclusive. They exhibit the same picture of uncertainty, of abusive reports, of lying rumours and alarming news; and as among a commercial nation, the speculations of trade have a great influence upon public opinion, it is at the Royal and Stock Exchanges that an observer should place himself to judge of the alternatives of fear and hope which the inhabitants of London have experienced for these eight days past. The 20th and 21st, Omnium fell to 5, and on those days the thermometer seemed to be steadily fixed at War! But as this extraordinary fall was only the result of the news spread in the morning, that Lord Lauderdale had received his passport to return to England, it is probable the subsequent days may have been more serene for the city of London, by informing its merchants and stockholders that his Lordship had not quitted Paris. The Monitor of Tuesday last especially, by announcing the news of the return of the grand army of France, will shew, that if England be determined to prosecute a war devoid of object, it will henceforward be really a war hand to hand, and without any support for her on the part of the continent.
All the Austrian prisoners who were in the Wirtemberg states, and who were retained there in consequence of the obstacles, which arose in the execution of the Treaty of Presburg, have been released, and have now set out on their march home.
All the French troops of the Grand Army, have received their marching orders to return to France.
The corps of Marshal Ney will cross the Rhine over the bridge of New-Basack.
The corps of Marshal Mortier, Bernadotte, and Angereau will cross the Rhine over the bridge of Mentz.
The corps of Marshal Soult and the different reserves of Cavalry will cross the Rhine over the bridge of Strasburg.
The corps of Marshal Davoust will cross the Rhine over the bridge of Spire.
Thus before the end of Sept. the corps of the Grand army will have evacuated Germany, and by the end of that month, there will not be a single Frenchman in it.
Several camps will be pitched round Paris for the army during the Fete. That of Medon already contains twelve battalions, who have been encamped there for this week past.
It is asserted that the Charge d'Affairs of the Emperor of Russia at the Diet of Ratisbon, is to publish a declaration of the Sovereign, acknowledging the confederation of the Rhine. It is thought that he will be hereafter accredited to the Prince of Primate at Frankfort.
The Spanish Ambassador, in order to celebrate the Fete of St. Louis which is that of the Queen, his Sovereign, gave on Monday a grand dinner to all the Spaniards of distinction now in Paris.
ENGLAND.  LONDON, AUG. 20.
MR. FOX.
Gains fresh strength every day. He has been able to walk through his apartments. He yesterday walked in his garden in conversation with the Marquis of Douglas previous to his departure for Russia. Mr. Fox will in a few days remove to his country house at St. Ann's hill.
Dr. Erskine set off on Thursday, to embark for the United States; and Mr. Braham, on the same day quitted London on a mission to Lisbon.
It is said, the 13th, 14th and 15th regiments will be ordered to embark
for Portugal, to assist in the defence of that kingdom; which if found impracticable to repair, to South America, with the Court.
AUG. 23. We are happy in being able to state, that Lords Holland and Auckland are just appointed Plenipotentiaries, in order to negotiate with Messrs. Pinckney and Munro, concerning the difficulties which have arisen between the United States and Great-Britain.
AUG. 27.  The Expeditions. —On Monday the wind being at E. S. E. the signal was made for getting the fleet at Plymouth under weigh, and every ship hove short to her anchor, but by 9 o'clock the wind had shifted again to the S. W. and put a stop to any further proceedings. It is reported that orders have gone from the admiralty, to countermand the sailing of part of them. A number of transports are now assembled in the Downs, waiting for orders.
From Holland we learn, that King Louis, by a decree, has not only suppressed one of the Amsterdam papers, the Avond Journal (Evening Herald) but has decided that the unfortunate editor shall not be employed in any periodical work. The reason assigned for this act of authority is the publication of some free remarks upon governments with whom his majesty is at peace. This decree is part of a plan laid down by the French government to strangle, if possible, the freedom of the press in every country in Europe.
The confused accounts from the Neapolitan territories do not enable us to ascertain the extent of the disasters suffered by the enemy in that quarter. It is evident that the whole of the country is in a state of insurrection, and that the French are extremely perplexed by the frequency and diversity of the attacks which are made upon them. Massena is now advancing against them with the whole of the French force.
Bonaparte has compiled a catechism for the use of all the churches in his empire.
At Algiers the 7th of June, a camp of 20,000 men had broke up for Tunis.
A cabinet council was yesterday held at the Foreign office at 2 o'clock in the afternoon, which was attended by Lords Spencer, Moira, Grenville, Sidmouth, Erskine, Howick, and Messrs. Windham and T. Grenville. The council is understood to have been held on the information last received from Paris.
The Earl of Harrington, as commander in chief, being admitted to his majesty's privy council in Ireland, was sworn, and took his place at the board.
Lieut. Hewett, of the Royal Navy, agent for transports at the port of Cork, has received orders to engage as many vessels as he can procure for that service, for 12 months certain.
Price of Stocks, this day at one o'clock.—Conf. money 62 1-8 63— for acct. 63 3-8 5-8. Reduced 63 1-2 5-8—Omnium 7 1-2.
LOSS OF THE QUEBEC FLEET.
Mercantile Chronicle office, Cork, August 15th, 4 o'clock.
Our Courier has just arrived from Cove, with the following information:
The transport ship Osborne , Capt. Moffatt, has arrived in this harbour. Her intelligence is of a very disagreeable nature. She made one of a fleet of 22 sail, which left Quebec, under convoy, of His Majesty's ship Champion . Three of that number were transports having on board the 6th regiment of foot, consisting of 467 men; the other ships were merchantmen and mast ships. On the 15th inst. seven of the convoy parted at different periods of the day; and on the same day they fell in with a strange sail, which, when within four miles of the Champion not answering the private signal, it was intimated to the ships of the fleet to disperse. It was shortly discovered that the strange ship was an enemy and a line of battle ship.
She was observed to board five sail during the day which were set on fire. Another sail was distinguished to lee-ward, bearing S. by E. which had also the appearance of a man of war, and as a fire was discernable in that direction, she was also judged to be an enemy. From the situation in which the fleet was when the Osborne escaped it is strongly to be apprehended, that the entire of it was either captured or destroyed. We are not specially informed of the fate of the Champion , from the short distance she was from the enemy, her escape was considered impossible. The Osborne has part of the 6th foot on board.
PORTSMOUTH, AUG. 22. The Hon. D. M. ERSKINE, Minister Plenipotentiary to the United States of America, arrived here this afternoon to take his passage to America, in the Avon sloop, Capt. STARCK. Mr. ERSKINE, by this appointment, vacates his seat in Parliament for this borough; Sir THOMAS MILLER, of Froyle, a wealthy and independent gentleman, will be chosen to succeed him.
NEW-PROVIDENCE.
NASSAU, SEPT. 15.
On Sunday last, we were again visited by a very severe gale, more violent than the one we experienced on the 31st of last month. It commenced from the northward, early in the morning, and continued with unabated violence until night, by which time it had shifted round to the Southward. The circumstances of its blowing from the Northward, fortunately occasioned the shipping in the harbour to be in a measure protected against its fury, by Hog island, yet, the shipping did not escape altogether without injury, and we record the damage sustained by them as far as we have been able to learn. The slaughter house was shattered to pieces by the howl-pir of the sloop Aon , belonging to Mr. Richards, which vessel had there been cast on shore; the wharves and abutments along the bay sustained considerable injury, and a number of fences and trees in the town and its vicinity were blown down; we are happy however to have it in our power to state, that we have not heard of any lives being lost.
SEPT. 19.
The brig Black Walnut , Sheffield, from New-Orleans for Antigua, got in here in distress. The sloop Enterprise , Johnson, of New-York, in the late gale, got ashore to the southward of Galliot's Key—the vessel it is supposed will be lost. The government sloop Nassau , Capt. Edgecomb, was drove ashore during the late gale at Royal island. Arrived, sloop Concord , Latham, New-York. Cleared, brig James , Goodman, New-London; sloop Gabriel , Dovall, Charleston. The schooner Speedwell , Yellowly, from New-York entirely lost on Silver Key—crew saved.
The following vessels drifted from their anchorages, and got ashore about the bay:
Ship Patent , since got off, not much injured; ship Joha , of Liverpool, do.; ship Pandora , re-captured by the brig Le Supérieure —got off, lost her bowsprit, and otherwise damaged; ship Suffolk , sent in for adjudication, got off, not much damaged; brig Eliza , of London, do.; brig James , do.; sloop Ann , considerably injured; sloop Jacob , scuttled; sloop Gabriel , Dovall, of Charleston; Florida, and Eleanor , will be got off without injury; sloop Experiment , prize to the sloop Haddock , totally lost; sloop Jolly Bacchus , prize to the Redbridge , got off, not much injured; sloop Begle , considerably damaged; sloop Fame , scuttled, but not much injured; sloop Mary & Susan , do.; sloop Lucia , prize, scuttled; sloop Santa Rosa , bilged; sloop Maria , do.; sloop Sarah , mast cut away and sunk; sloop Richard & Alfred , got off not injured.
The sloop Roxana , formerly of New-Haven, took away on the 31st ult. on Berry island, but got off, and on her way to this port, was drove ashore near the old fort to the westward. By an arrival yesterday from Harbour island, we learn, they experienced the most severe and distressing hurricane that ever was known in the memory of the oldest inhabitant there, on the 14th inst. it commenced at 8 o'clock in the morning, and continued with increased violence, till about half past 4 o'clock afternoon. The brig Two Brothers , and smack Betsey , belonging to Capt. Fisher, sunk in the harbour; but the distress of the inhabitants is deplorable in the extreme. There are only now standing on the island about 45 houses, and these very much shattered, and no less than 124 totally demolished, exclusive of the Barracks and Church, which are razed to the foundation; and what adds to these distressing circumstances, is that the whole crop on which those people depended is totally destroyed.
At Spanish Wells, we understand, there are only 4 houses standing; and at the Bong, on Eleuthera, it is reported a number of people are drowned.
Domestic Occurrences.
SOUTH-CAROLINA.
CHARLESTON, OCT. 2.
Another Gale. CAPT. BUNKER, from East-Florida, experienced one on the Florida coast, on the 15th of September. St. Augustine had suffered considerably, several houses were blown down, the vessels in port driven on shore, and the pier entirely demolished. Capt. BUNKER lost his vessel on Cape
Romain, in the September gale of 1804, but he thinks this gale far exceeded that in severity. A great number of vessels have been driven on the Florida shore, among them a ship belonging to Philadelphia from Havana, with a cargo of sugar. A brig which had gone on shore had been got off and towed into St. Mary's river.
MARYLAND.  BALTIMORE, OCT. 15.
The Spaniards. —We received advices by yesterday's mail from Natchez, down to the 16th ult. Nothing decisive had happened, as will be found from the following extracts;
NATCHEZ, SEPT. 16.
Letters from Natchitoches, under date of the 5th September, state, that the Spanish army continued encamped at the Payau Pierre, and was supposed to be twelve hundred strong. Governor Cordero from St. Augustine had arrived at Nacogdoches, with a reinforcement of 300 regular troops.
Governor Claiborne was still at Natchitoches, and between him and the officer commanding the Spanish troops, several letters had passed.—Governor Claiborne had ordered a detachment of militia to be in readiness to march. The troops from Fort Adams had not arrived, but were daily expected. The Spanish Governor, Horrera, has arrested three Americans from Kentucky, of the names of Brewster, Shaw and Ivan, and sent them prisoners to St. Antoine.—Gov. Claiborne has demanded their immediate release. The Spanish army has evinced no disposition to attack Natchitoches—they avow their object to be, to preserve inviolate the territory of the king their master. It is believed at Natchitoches that nothing prevents the American troops from marching against the Spaniards, but orders to that effect.
The removal (by order of the President) of a detachment of Spanish troops last winter on the west side of the Sabine, is assigned by the Spaniards as the reason for augmenting their force, in what they call the province of Texas.—This province they say extends to little Bayau, about six miles from Natchitoches, called Rye funda. The settlers of the Bayau Pierre, where the Spanish army now is, have considered themselves under the government of Spain.
STATE OF NEW YORK.
NEW YORK, OCT. 14.
The captain and passengers of the Hamlet report, that the Negotiations for Peace between Great-Britain and France were broken off, and that, on the 28th of August, Lord Lauderdale demanded his passports to return to England.—The Paris papers, however, do not mention this fact.
The Paris Argus of the 30th of August says:—"We do not share the opinion of the Journalists of London, upon the effect which some fresh triumphs of their navy would produce. It is not upon any point of the ocean that the grand contest subsisting between France and England can be hereafter decided. The question hitherto was, whether Great Britain should preserve the dominion of her influence upon the Continent: this first and principal point has been irrevocably determined in the plains of Austerlitz. The second question that remains to be resolved, and which is an inevitable consequence of the former, is how long the nations of the Continent shall remain excluded from the common domain of the sea, and submit to the yoke which England imposes upon their commerce and their industry? This second conquest is, it is true, not yet performed; but all nations are interested in it as well as the French, and all Europe is ready to undertake it."
"The negotiations with England are still carrying on with activity. On the 25th inst. Mr. Shaw, an English courier, arrived in this city, and it is now asserted that Mr. Basilico is on the eve of his departure for London, as is also Lord Lauderdale's private secretary."— Publiciste.
OCT. 17.
Miranda. —Capt. Briggs, arrived yesterday from a Caraccas, reports, that he was at Aruba 6 weeks ago, at which time Miranda was in possession of that island. Capt. B. sold part of his cargo to the British vessels under direction of Miranda, which consisted of the Galatea , of 36 guns; Bachante , 28; Lilly sloop 22; brigs  Attentive , 18; Express , 18; 2 schooners heavily armed, and the Leander , 24.
With several schooners as transports. The troops were about 600 in number.
Capt. Briggs, dined with the general, who informed him that the reason of his sailing out with Lewis (former captain of the Leander ) was, when the Spanish brig attacked the Leander , the boat went off with safe—they then bore down on the two schooners , which had fallen to leeward, and in shore—the general requested Lewis to pursue, but he would not, by which means the schooners were captured. He also informed captain B. that he was not beat out of Coro, but that he left it for Aruba, until the troops, 5000 in number, that he expected daily