Norfolk gazette and publick ledger (Norfolk [Va.]), 1806-10-16 00:00:00

PUBLICK LEDGER, Extra.
THURSDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 16, 1806.
NORFOLK, OCTOBER 16.
By the arrival of the schooner Enterprize , Captain Fitzhugh, in 44 hours from New-York, we have received Monday's papers of that city. This vessel arriving after our paper had been issued yesterday afternoon, determined us to present our readers with this SUPPLEMENT.
It will be seen, that to the latest dates, accounts are contradictory, as to the issue of the negotiations between England and France. We must confess, amidst the confusion of intelligence, it is difficult to make up an opinion on the subject. It will be remembered that Lord Lauderdale had been nearly a month in Paris, to the date of our latest advices, which reach down to the 3d September from France, and to the 26th August from London. In the commencement it was understood, that the British government had determined not to be amused with a protracted negotiation. The circumstance of Lord Lauderdale's remaining so long in Paris, has the appearance of an expectation on his part, that the negotiation might terminate in an accommodation.
NEW YORK, October 13.
The ship Robert Burns , captain Waite, arrived at this port on Saturday in 48 days from Liverpool; and the schooner Hamlet , Henry, in 32 days from Bordeaux. The Robert Burns put into Kinsale, and brings Cork papers to the 28th of August; the Hamlet left Bordeaux on the 3d September.
To these dates the Irish and French papers received at the office of the Mercantile Advertiser extend.
But, although so many days later than our previous accounts, we are left in the same state of uncertainty as to the great question of Peace or War. Our verbal and printed advices from France differ very materially on this important point; the former state that the negotiations were broken off, and that Lord Lauderdale had demanded his passports: the Paris Argus of the 30th of August says, in a quotation from the Publicite , "The negotiations with England are still carrying on with activity." Two questions only, it is added, present themselves in the course of the deliberation of this subject; 1st. Whether Great Britain should preserve the dominion of her influence upon the continent; and 2d, How long the nations of the continent shall remain excluded from the common domain of the sea, and submit to the yoke England imposes upon their commerce and their industry? The battle of Austerlitz decided the first; the second is yet undetermined.
The emperor of Austria (who has renounced the title of emperor of Germany, and thus become Bonaparte's junior) the king of Prussia, and most of the great continental powers, have recognized the late Germanic Federation.
A Nantz paper of the 29th August announces that the ship Veteran , commanded by Jerome Buonaparte, arrived in the night between the 26th and 27th of that month at Concarneau in the Bay of La Foret.
Cezerni Georges obtained, on the 26th of July, a signal victory over the Ottoman troops on the frontiers of Turkey. The Turks lost no less than 9 or 10,000 men. Their defeat is represented as being so complete, that only a few hundred men escaped. Three of their principal chiefs, Ali Bey, Achmet Bey, and Zhego Bey, were killed. The Servians made an immense booty.
The homeward Jamaica fleet had arrived at its destination. On the passage the convoying vessels fell in with and captured a Spanish fleet of merchantmen, bound from Matanzas to Havanna, under the protection of a line of battle ship and two gun brigs.
In our selection of intelligence from the papers by the Robert Burns and Hamlet , we have carefully selected every article which might seem to have the been formed against France; but we find nothing to warrant so extravagant an opinion.
By the Alexander , captain Moores, the editor of the Mercantile Advertiser has completed his files of London papers to the 22d of August, and Lloyd's List and Prices to the 22d. The intelligence contained in these papers has been anticipated by the ship Robert Burns and Hamlet .
A London paper of the 26th of August put on board the Alexander , in the Downs, mentions the arrival of a messenger from Lord Lauderdale; and the morning of the 27th, that Lord Lauderdale had risen in close of the day. His lordship had not made any arrangement for quitting Paris: on the contrary, his son was about leaving London on a visit to his father, on the presumption that the negotiations are to be carried on for a considerable time longer.
SUMMARY FROM THE PEOPLES FRIEND, Oct. 13.
ENGLAND.
The dates which have reached us have come down to August 22. It would appear from these papers, that General Simcoe and his suit had embarked for the West Indies. But his destination is not so obvious as the politicians of Plymouth might have supposed. The Santa Margareta , on board which he embarked, had not provided herself with stores for so long a voyage. Lord Caledon's suite had embarked on the 19th of August for the Cape of Good Hope, and he himself was to sail by the first of September. On the 21st of August the variations
of Exchange were so abrupt from hour to hour, that it was, as the London papers call it, AN IMPORTANT DAY. The Marquis of Douglass has gone as ambassador to Petersburg. Mr. Erskine as ambassador to the United States. Mr. Braham had also sailed on a diplomatic mission to Lisbon. A number of troops had embarked for Sicily from Margate, and had got on as far as the Isle of Wight on the morning of the 21st. The Ganges, the Captain, and Kingfisher were employed in this expedition, and the rest of the convoy were repairing to Spithead, with the Fury , the Devastation , and the Explosion . Some of the English prints suppose that this expedition is intended for Portugal, and that if the defence of that kingdom should be found impracticable, they will immediately bear away to SPANISH AMERICA! Does this look like peace?
FRANCE.
The Paris papers down to August 29, hold up the false prospect of peace. They say, "notwithstanding the fluctuations of exchange, (in England and France.) Notwithstanding the reports propagated by those who know no more about it than ourselves, we live to believe, that peace with England was decided at Austerlitz." Lord Lauderdale had not received his passports—But it will be remembered by those who reflect on these subjects, that on a former occasion Lord Whitworth was remaining at Paris, whilst the English were taking the Cape of Good Hope.
NAPLES.
Massena is successful in Naples. The Neapolitan papers say, that major Coscelli, at the head of a company of gens d'armes, has 'scoured' the wood of Ariosa and Lama, which have always served as a shelter to the poor, feeble but loyal fugitives from the terrors of foreign invasion.
GERMANY.
This huge and respectable fabric is down, and its fragments are distributing among the servants of Napoleon. Prussia is composing a large military addition to her forces. Saxony has been sounded as to a northern confederacy, and refused her sanction.
LONDON, August 20.
The late accounts, received at Gottenburgh from St. Petersburg, state that the Russian minister to the Porte was about to take his departure.
Mr. David Erskine, appointed Ambassador to the United States, left town yesterday with his suit to embark for America.
The Jewish assembly at Paris has already answered three of the questions proposed to it; these are as follows:
 1. Is it lawful for the Jew to marry more than one wife?  2. Is Divorce allowed by the Jewish religion? Is it lawful, although no sentence respecting it be pronounced by the Tribunals, and in pursuance of the French Code.  3. May a Jewess marry a Christian, and a Christian female with a Jew? or does the Law require that the Jews solely marry among each other? 
The answer contains principally, that the Jewish law, in the strictest sense, permits polygamy, divorce, and mixed marriages, but that these are limited by practice and usage. To the question which relates to the duties of French citizens, the Assembly voluntarily, and without premeditation, answered in the fullest manner.
August 22.
A letter from an officer of rank in our fleet off the Dutch coast, dated the 19th instant, states, that there are five sail of the line, one frigate, and two armed brigs, ready for sea in the Maars Diep, and two sail of the line fitting out in the New Diep. The writer adds, "From every information that has reached me it appears, that upon the first intelligence of a change in the government, such symptoms of a disposition to mutiny were manifested among the seamen, that it was deemed expedient to pay them off, and they are now re-entering. This expedient was of course resorted to with a view to exclude the discontented, and to select the pliant. Admiral De Winter has come down as Admiral and Inspector General. He has hoisted his flag on board the Brutus , an 80 gun ship. I am of opinion that these ships have no notion of coming out, and that their only object is to shew those appearances which may suggest to us the necessity of keeping a fleet off the coast, and thus prevent us from employing it in any other quarter." From some further observations which appear in this officer's letter it seems pretty evident that the conduct of the Dutch seamen, when informed of the total subversion of their republic, amounted, as we have more than once stated, to mutiny. Several of these seamen are stated to have been committed to prison.
On Wednesday the Fury bomb, with a fleet from the Downs, among which were the three transports, so often put back by contrary winds, arrived off Plymouth.
At four o'clock in the afternoon of the same day, his majesty's ship Sampson , of 64 gun, Rear Admiral Stirling, sailed from Cawsand Bay, with the Pre-o-yant of 40 guns, Earl Spencer, and Sir Stephen Lushington, East Indians, and four more ships, all bound to the Cape of Good Hope; the wind was then fresh at S. E. so that they would soon clear the channel. Gen. Grey is on board the Sampson .
The troops, with the Resistance, of forty guns, still remained at Plymouth, when our letters came away. A number of mortars have been embarked with the Royal Artillery.
From a disagreement in our accounts from Plymouth a few days ago, we could not determine all the ship's names which received the Queen's Bays. We find they are the Repulse , Theseus , and Malta .
The publick were on Thursday gratified with seeing Mr. Fox in his carriage in Hyde Park. He took an airing for an hour, and returned without the slightest feeling of fatigue. It is now happily ascertained that the operation has succeeded. The skill with which it was performed, and his own naturally strong constitution, give almost certain hopes of a perfect recovery. His appetite is good, and his strength is gradually returning.
August 23.
Price of Stocks:—Bank stock 214, 3 per cent. consols 61 3/4 Omnium 54.
From the Moniteur of August 13.
We esteem ourselves fortunate in having obtained the information necessary to put the publick on their guard against the rumours which are at present in circulation, and which we are authorised to communicate.
All the difficulties which existed in Germany have been removed. Austria has acknowledged the Confederation of the Rhine: and the title of Emperor of Austria confers upon this house a title equal to those of other imperial Houses.
Prussia has acknowledged the confederation of the Rhine, as well as the late arrangements in Germany.
His majesty the king of Prussia has appointed M. de Humbolt his minister plenipotentiary to Naples. He has also appointed ministers to the king of Holland, and to the Grand duke of Cleves and Berg.
The emperor of Austria has acknowledged the King of the two Sicilies.
The orders are preparing for the Staff for the return of the Grand Army: and the Fêtes, on account of the peace, will take place at the end of September as we before stated.
The affairs of the Continent are in a state of arrangement at present, that it may look to permanent tranquility.
The ratifications of the treaty of peace with Russia will be exchanged at St. Petersburg on the 15th inst. and all the information which has been lately received from that great capital, furnishes fresh proofs of the pacific disposition of the Emperor Alexander, and of the desire to contribute to the general peace.
DEAL, August 21.
Mr. Basilico, the messenger, arrived this afternoon in the Speculator lugger from France. He is said to be the bearer of dispatches of the utmost importance, as an express was sent off to stop the transports.
According to report, the transports with troops from the Downs and Portsmouth, have been forced to put into Torbay.
LOSS OF THE QUEBEC FLEET.
Mercantile Chronicle Office, Cork, August 25, four 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 460 men; the other ships were merchantmen and mast ships. On the 15th inst. 7 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 4 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 leeward, bearing S. by E. which had also the appearance of a man of war, and a fire was discernible 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.
PARIS, Aug. 27.
The stockjobbing speculations have considerably lowered the publick funds at London. But the friends of peace do not the less preserve the hope of shortly seeing it re-established. The negotiations continue, and the night before last another English consier arrived with dispatches. The treaty of peace may be very difficult to conclude, but when the English ministers cast their eyes towards the continent they must certainly see that they have no more diversions to hope for from that quarter, and that consequently the war henceforth offers them no chance of favourable events, whilst it has incalculable dangers for England.
The English Courier who arrived in the night between the 25th and 26th, is Mr. Shaw: it is believed that it will not be long before the famous Basilico will be dispatched again to London, and that he will be accompanied by the private secretary of Lord Lauderdale. Thus the negotiations continue notwithstanding the reports propagated all over Europe by the spirit of stockjobbing, the effect of which is every where sensibly felt.
August 28.
We have received London papers to the 23d August 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 publick opinion, it is the royal and stock Exchanges that an observer should place himself to
judge of the alternative of fear and hope which the inhabitants of London have experienced for these 8 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 Moniteur of Tuesday last especially, by announcing the news of the return of the grand army of France, shows, 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 Wirttemberg 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 Brisack;
The corps of marshals Mortier, Bernadotte, and Angereau will cross the Rhine over the bridge at 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 Soire.
Thus before the end of September the corps of the grand army will have evacuated Germany, and by the end of that month, there will not be a single Frenchman remaining in it.
Several camps will be pitched round Paris for the army during the fètes. That of Meudon already contains twelve battalions, who have been encamped there for this week past. Moniteur .
It is asserted that the charge d'affaires of the emperor of Russia at the diet of Ratisbon, is to publish a declaration of his sovereign, acknowledging the confederation of the Rhine. It is thought that he will be hereafter accredited to the prince Primate, at Frankfort. Gazette de France .
The Spanish ambassador, in order to celebrate the fete of St. Louis, which is that of the queen, his sovereign, gave on Monday last a grand dinner to all the Spaniards of distinction now in Paris.
August 30.
The negotiations with England are still carrying on with activity. On the 25th instant, Mr. Shaw, an English courier arrived in this city, and is now asserted that Mr. Basilico is on the eve of his departure for London, as is also Lord Lauderdale's private secretary.
FRANKFORT, August 23.
Yesterday the governor of our town addressed a proclamation to the inhabitants, in which he informed that M. Lambert, French commissary general, had notified to him the order he had received to take possession of the town of Frankfort, for H. S. H. the prince Primate, the former elector arch chancellor.
The different German princes who form the confederation of the Rhine, had already made known their accession to the confederation, and the aggrandizement of their states, by patents and proclamations. French commissioners are now arrived at their courts; charged to take possession of and to deliver up to them their new acquisitions. The defensive constitution of the confederation will be carried into effect on the first September. It is still rumoured that at that period his majesty the emperor of the French will be in our town, in order to open, as protector, the first assembly of the confederated princes. This league is already recognized by most of the European powers; and we every instant expect to see it acknowledged in like manner by the emperor of Russia, and to receive the declaration which this potentate is about publishing on that head. This league augments daily. We have positive intelligence that the elector of Wurtemberg acceded thereto, about eight days since, and that the emperor of Austria, his brother, whom he had consulted on the subject, gave his formal approbation to the measure. It is not yet known what the elector of Hesse will do; the information which has reached us concerning the intentions of that court being too vague to be relied on.
For Sale on board the Ship Dumfries ,
A few boxes of Glass, 2 feet by 1 1/2; a case of Dutch Quills; a few pieces Ticklenburgs; handsome German Baskets and Table Mats; a quantity of Stone Jugs and Butter Pots; also, a few Stone Bottles, for bottling Cyder. October 13. 253
Landing from the Ship Ocean , from Marseilles, 600 hds. 100 cases Claret; 13 do. Vin-de-Grave, 37 pipes Brandy; 175 cases Sweet Oil; 25 do. Olives, 5 cases Capers; 20 do. Anchovies; 2 do. Fine Hats. 50 bags Corks. For Sale by Moses Myers.
Who has in Store, also for Sale,
150 pipes Cogniac Brandy; 120 hds. good Sugars, 60 bags Coffee; 100 cases choice old Claret, 20 pipes Westej Gin; 500 empty Gin Cases, 10,000 bushels Lisbon and Isle of May Salt. October 13. 251
On Wednesday, 29th inst. will be Sold before the Rawleigh Door, in this city, upon a credit of one and two years,
Two elegant and full bred STUD HORSES, one of them seven years old, and the other Chanceller; the other, three years old, by Lampglass. Their pedigree will be shown on the day of Sale. Williamsburg, October 2. 257