The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1807-08-10 00:00:00

111 DUClff.'is BRUNSWICK.

Alas, it 'kn.. yr..., Royal and smella
Lodi hl iyor, Ali...rmen, and Commons, of the
t. rho., w Com.:.on Co ttttt mint humbly
ent a, r ..r Royal and Serene Highness to accept our sincere
ennar.duiatiana tot your safe arrival ie this Imperial Country
Ti.. return to her native land ef an illustrious Princess, sp
nearls arid dearly allied to our beloNed So.ereaja., and In the
nr.yal and amiable Consort of the hear apparent to the throne
Mrhis United Kmadose, cannot but renew the most lively
sientimems of affrcoon in the harts of His Majesty's loyal
subjects, and a warm participation of those feelings which a
tweeting ao 'literati°, to the Royal Family must bars °m-
eowed.

Derple impreved, Madam' as we are, by the extraordinary
events •hi.:ll hare omasioned Tour return, we trust your
noy,l and Serene Highness will permit us to express the
sincere jny we feel at your restorition to the shores of a free
..,.d loyal people, not more att.Lhed to a goad sad venerable
E ne, by duty to his supreme and august station, than by
site. ten to his sacred person and family.
(Signed) By order r.t Court,
HENRY WOADMOR PF.
Tn vAich Her Royal Highness sttui nod the lot.
g Answer
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!,11 LORD--I return year p, awl the .I.lderns.o
tio.! Co.riooos of the City of Loudon, my wtrful thauk4 lot
an krldreat which has peen me th • most he 41.;..t sat,bt.ction.
affor.•. me an additional instance of the it., al at. aehment
•f the Cny .f Imetion to the King, an•l 01 their effortionate
:or II n Nfaje,t,'s Royal Family.
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They were irac;ousli re rived. and had the ho-
Dour to krsi her R. 1.41 Hiehnets's hand.

AIitVAL

PLYMOUTH, ALGUST ti.
Riled His Majesty's ship tl,erga4 of 74 guns,
Captain Malcolm, to join the fleet off Brest, Chart.,
and guts-brigs, and 41111 hired armed ship.
'PIRO* Y. AUG. 6.
Put back His Maji-sty's ships Ville .4 Paris.
11►..af....ag41. 140, London, and
•, from the Westward.—Wind S.W.
DIAL, *twos? 7.
down from Sheerness. the Sparrow sloop
Ind •enuins is she I.L.wns with the ships as
anil several outw.rd-boucti !muds.

43/ERlei.

IN NM TOR[, 311/LT ii•

A fewer from Norfolk, dated June 700, says—
ef Yesterday afternoon we were gratified with the
sight of the four grin-boars equipped and under way
for the defence of the Narrows, in case any attempt
should be made to enter this harbour by the British.
Ton much praise cannot be given to the spirit
and patriotism of the Captains and seamen of the
port on this occasion. On Sunday evening only, a
deputation from the Committee waked on Captain
Decatur with a request that the gunboats might be
prepared for anion. At this time no rigging was
over head, no sails bent, arms or ammunition on
board,. but such was the persevering labour. and
ardent exertion of our seamen, that at four o'clock
they sailed, ready vinualled. manned. and in every
respen prepared for anion, and under a Com-
mander who will never be taken all aback, or shut
his eves at the quell."
The Secretary of the Navy has ordered all the
gun-boats belonging to the United States. to be fit-
ted for serv;ce with all possible dispatch.
Extraa of a letter from Baltimore, dated July 1—
ff Last evening meetings were held in sundry parts
of this city for the purpose of forming companies
of volunteers—they were generally attended, and
the business before them zealously entered into. It
is expelled, that in the course of a few weeks we
shall have at least two. perhaps four. thousand
men under arms—not formed for parading through
the meets, but tor the noble purpose of defending
their country, and resenting its injuries."

JULY 9.

Extraft of a letter from Philadelphia. dated
July 7 :—" The late unhappy disturbances will pre-
vent many vessels from proceeding on their respec-
tive voyares, as no insurance can at present be ef-
feEted at any of our offices, which, of course, must
operate a► an embargo."

JULY 10.

Letters were received at the Post Office yesterday
dite!ed to al, the Midshipmen of the United States
Navy wise in this City. They are said to contain
erders to Froceed immediately to Washington.
Letters have also been received in town, stating,
that Commodore Douglas, of the British &fleas,
and Mr. Erskine, the British Minister, were at
Washington. The purport of the Commodore's
visit is said to be, to obtain a soppy of water.
The United States schooner Revenge, now at
Baltimore, is under orders to he in readiness for
sea. She is to convey to our Minister at London
dispatches, instructing him to demand of the British
Government the explanation and satisfaction which
thelste outrage on the frigate Chesapeake, necessarily
requires. Consistently with the usage of civilized
nations, the Aar of its petty officers cannot be con-
sidered as the aft of the British Government. until
an opportunity be afforded them of avowing or dis-
avowing it.

JULY 11.

Hit Excellency Governor "" irnpkons- has receiv-
ed d;reftions to call out It,ooo of the New Yotk
Militia into the service of tLe United States.

VVILAVELVHIA. JVLT 9.
From Washington, we learn, that the Executive
have resolved to call Congress, to meet on the 1t5:12
of 0/Whet next ; to send the schooner &crags
with dispatches to our Ministers at the Court of
St. James's; that no retaliation is to take place till
her retorts, hut in the mean time the sea-ports to he
fortified. 30 gun-boats to be prepared, and 100,000
militia embudted and prepared for immediate service.

JULY 10.

A letter from the highest authority, received at
Baltimore. from Washirgron. and published in an
extra Ciazat., states :--1. That a letter bad been
received from Captain Decatur,of the 4th,
by express. ..w.rming, that the titish squadrun
had moved higher up in Hampton Roads ; that he
had been at quarters the whole of the previous night
on i.oard the Ch. eiseake, expelling an attack ; that
three British telidirs, armed, had moved into shoal
water ; that Com. Douglas had fotmally declared
Norfolk vs a :fate Rleehads, and had ;Axially
stopped one or v.v.) vessels, until their Resolutions
should to re%,ci..4led, and that if he was net p.r.
batted to obtain supplies. he would take them by
furcc !"

d PAOCLAMATION,

BY THOMAS JEFFERsON, PRESIDENT OF THE

UM s FATES OF ANF.RICA.

Dii.ing the wars which, for some time, have unhappily
prevaned 'moor the Powers of Europe, the United States of
.borrow, firm in their priosiples of peace, have endearosgred,
by peen..., by a .rgu!ar discharge of all their national and so-
ciat dotes, 1.,y every friendly office their saw:- ad-
mitted, to °hm tain, with all the belligerents, their accusiomed
relations is friendship, hoepitality, and commercial inter.
course. Taking no part in the questions which animate these
Powers against each other, nor permitting themselves to enter-
tain a wish but for the restoration of general peace, they have
Overfeed with good faith eh,• w. utrality tier Ab 'U114.1. and
they believe that no instance of a depertors from its doties
can be justly imputed to th-es be any nation. A free itst of
their harbour. ?nd waters, the means of refitting and of re-
freshment, el succour to their sick and suffering, hare, at all
tints, And on equal principles, Leen exterlied te all, and the
too amidst a constant recurrence of arts of insubordination to
the laws, of vi•dence to the i•ersens, and of trespasses on the
property of our caucus, committed by officers of one of the
at parties received among us. 1.1 truth these abuses
the laws of huapnaiaty have, with few inceptions, become
bahito,,t to the Commanders of the British armed vessels hover-
111, hit our ,oath, and freque g our harbours. They have
hero the subject of repeated representations to their (;.....iii-
ment Aesusances hare been Riven that proper orders should re•
srmin ihe,a within the limit of the r.glita sod of the respect due
ro a I.r. idly nation hilt stove orders and assurances hate been
wirgie„,l ch.zr ; no instance of punisheseht for past wrongs has
taken phicr At length, a deed, transcending all we have hi.
theft, sera or soil, red, brings the public sensibility tea serious
rim is, and Oil; C.lttenr.lice t, a necessary pawls A frigate of
toe United States, trusting to a state of peace. and leaving het
harbour on .roan a, has been surprtierl and attacked by
a !Plush vcssol of superior force, one of a squadron then lying
in our waters, and covering the trausadien, and has been dm-
‘ibled form ari•.e.., with the roes of a mina's' of men killed and
wounded. Thii einsimity was net only without provocation
ear jurtm.abl • enlist, but was committed with the avowed pur-
r ice of tiling by force, from a ship of war, belonging to the
United States, a part of her crew, mid that DO circumstance
might be wanting to mark its character, it had been praviously
ascertained, that the seamen demanded were native citironscf
the UnitoilStates• el;ested his purport, be returned
to anchor with hi, NUnnlrcoll within our Hu*.
inlity, no I,r such circumstances, ceases to be a dety t and •
continuance of it, with sw,v utrountrouled abuses, would tend
only, by multiplying injuries awl irritations, to brit,' on a cup.
cure bot.resii the two anions. Thu extreme resort S equally
opposed to the interest. of both, as it is to MISSIVSISCIIS of the
most friendly dispositions 011 the part of the British Gravest-
m Int, in the midst of which this outrage has bees ..emitted
In IL:, Iriqt the subject cannot but roma Undt this far

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wr plentblue the mews to es beesittals rep'
11Poilthe ong which has beam done and to that effectual
omatroul its naval commandos, which alone can justify the
Government of the United State; in the exercise of those
hospitalities it is now constrained to distention,.
In consideration of th se cir.:timstances, and of the right
of every nation to regulate its OWn pOlife, to provide for its
peace, and foe thesafety of its citizens, and consequently ter
refuse the admission of armed vessels into its harbeurs o
waters, either In then numbers or of such Ameriptimis as Sr.
ineoriostent with these, or with the maintenance of the au-
thority of the laws, I have thought proper, in pursitanc-., or
the authorities specially tven by law, to issue this my rin
els/ileum, hereby requiring all armed vessels bearirl caw-
miug..n guider the Government of Great Britain, now within
the waters or harbour. of the Waited State, immediately and
without any delay to depart kern the sense, and kterdatting
the entrance of all the said harboars and waters to the said
wined ...sea, and to all others beating commirairms under
the authority of the Brut:sh Government.
And if said vessels, or any of thmi, shill fail to depart as
aforesaid, or if they, or any others, so interilictel, shall liege-
after enter the harbours err waters aforesaid, I dr., in that eau.,
forbid all intercourse with thorn, or any of them, their officcrs
or crews, and dr, prohibit all supplies arid aid from being fur.
Willed to them or any of them.
And I do declare and make known, that if any person from,
Of within the jurisdictional limits of the United States, shall af-
ford any aid in any such vessel, contrary to the proliihitlon con.
tented in this Proclamation either in repairing any such vessel,
or in furnishing her, her officers, in crew, with supplies of any
kind, or in any manner whatsoever or if any pilot shall assist
in navigating any of the said armed vessels, maims it he fee the
purpose of carrying them in the first instance, beyond the li-
mits and JuiPdietion of the United States, or unless it be in
the case of a vessel forced by distress, or charged with public
dispatches, as hereinafter provided for, such person or persons
shall, on conviction, stiffer all the pains and penalties by the
laws provided for such *fences.
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And I do hereby enjoin and r lithe all manna beating
°Mee, caviler military, within or older the authority of t►e
United Slates, and all otben. citisens or inhabitants thereof,
or being within the same, with vigilance and promptitude to
exert their respective authorities, and to lie aiding and assist-
ing to the carrying this Proclamation, and every part thereof,
into full effect.

• Pro.kled nevertheless, That if any such vessel shall be forced
into the harbours or waters of the United Suttee, by disuess,
by the dangers of the sea, or by the pursuit of an enemy, or
shall enter them charged eith dispatches or business from their
Government, or shall be a public packet for the conveyance of
letters and dispatches, the Commanding Officer immediately
reporting his vessel to the Colleague( the Distritt, 'tette, the
objet or causes of entering the said harbour' on waters, and
ceisforming himself to the regulation, in that case prescribed
under the authority of the laws, shall be allowed th • benefit
of such regulations suspecting repairs, supplies, stay, inter-
course and departure, u shall be permitted undo the same
authority.
In testimony whereof 1 have caused the Seal of the United
States to be affixed to these prevails, and signed the same
Given at she City of Washington, the Second day of July,
in the year of our Lord one thousand welt hundred
and men, and i.f the susereienty and independeuce o
the United Slaws the thirty-Sot ;
THUM.%S JEFFERSON.
By the President,
JAMES MADISON, Secretary of State.

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