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London, England, 1804-11-05 00:00:00

of the Memorialists were reduced from afilttence to
want, and rendered unable to pay their just debts
laformed of these violetices, the memorialists,
confiding in their Government, consider themselves
entitled to proteCtion. while engaged in fair and
hottest commerce under the flag of the United States.
The memorialists then express their satisfaction
that the United States were engaged in negotiations
for that purpose, but erpressed their disappointment
on the publication of the treaty of Madrid, of the 1 lth
August, Mt, which referred so much to interpre-
tation, so much to chance ! and conclude by profess-
ing that, in common with their fellow-citizens, they
felt the force, and confessedthe faCI of the declaration,
that no nation can too highly prize the value and
preservation of peace ; but that one objea should be
still dearer to us---our national independence."
That heavily as they felt the hand which invaded
it, they relied on the wisdom of thc Government to
obtain adequate redress. so long delayed ; pledging
themselves that, if negociations fail for that pur-
pose, they will, with their lives and :attunes, sup-
port whatever measures the United States may adopt
to maintain its honour, independence, and future
security ; and to obtain sati.faßion and suitable re-
dress for their aggravated wrongs.
By authority of the Board of 1-1-alth, the ru-
mour of a malignant fever at Baltimore is without
foundation.

It may he judged of what consequence the cap-
ture of Surinam is to the English, when letters from
Paramaribo, to a respedabie hanking-honce in Am-
sterdam, say, that at the arrival of th,• English in
that Colony, it contained coffee enough t load
SOO, and sugar enough to sill 1000 large West I iisha-
men, not iucluding other productions, as cotton,
rum, arc. _

The New-York Aferrantite Adverther. of the 27 h
of September, contains a coil of the Cinveirion
between His Catholic Kijesty and the United
States of America, for the indemnification of those
who had sustained losses, damages, or injto ies, in
consequisce of the recesses of indivi foals of either
!ration, during the late war. central-) to the existing
treaty on the laws of nxions ; dated August 11,
1 Sot

,nw YORK, STPT. 29.

Captain Thomas Dulson a: rived yesterday at
this port in the brig Rose, from Cadiz, wi:h very
mportant dispatches from Mr. Pinckney, the Arne-
an Minister at the Court .tt Mach id. Mr Pmck-
n y hAi received his passports, and 'tViAs to leave
!Madrid for the United States about the •20th of Au-
gust The beater of the dispatcies has given it as
his op:nton. that a war between bpain and the United
&ices is inevi,able.

A very sei ions riot took place at Philadelphia.
about the hegetning of September, betwesn some
Am. rican and Spanish saltine, in consequelice of
the latter /atino, without provocarioit, stabbed a
mariner named 13sory, in the streets, the night pre-
ceding the riot. The Americans atta:ked a house
resorted to by Spaniards, which they demolished,
and killed, or desperately wounded. five or six
Spanish sadors.
The poaril of Health at Philadelphia has publicly
declared, that the rumoured existence of a malignant
or yellow fever at Baltimore is entirely withnut
foundation ; and that that place and its vicinity en-
joyed an entre exerurtion from disease.
A dreadful tever made its aaearance in Septem-
ber, at York Town, Pennsylvania, by which four-
teen persons were carried of in one day.
PFIIIISSIIROH (VIRGINIA), SEPT. 21.
mortality prevails among the inhabitants
of aJI the adjacent counties, occasioned by the on-
cominsnly and dry weather of the present
month. In addition to the dry in ason, a Brea:
;molter of mill-ponds contribute to the mortality.
Pt ivate interest is too commonly the bane of public
happiness.
Accounts were received at Charleston, that the
royal treasury at the Havannah had been robbed
of 25.000 dollars. Although the plate was con-
stantly guarded, the thieves er.tered by the rod of
the building, and curled off their plunder unob,
served. The moment the robbery was known, an
embargo was laid on all shipping in the harbour,
and a strict search was made no ough the city, but
without died. Some interior miters belonging to
the treasury were suspeeted.