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" The erimmorticatimis ROW 'Bede, abewine the great and
ilieressom &weer, with whit hour vessels, our mantes', and
aarrehaailiwr are throstenett, no the higher*. mid t isei.here,
flat the Di-Moran Powets of Europe, and it beinz of the
11.: test importance to keep is safety their absentia! re-
lowers, I deem it say daily to recommend the subject to the
eu..soteratiwo o:Coatireas, who will doubtless perceiv. all the
advantage that' ;say be mqpeetint from ,n inhih:".mt of thr de-
parture of our meads from the ports of the United Stab A.
Their wls, tto wilt a:an see the neeessAy of waking
away preparation foe whatever event vaay grow uiit of the
present emir. "'T. JLIVESSON."
" Dec. It, 1607 P

W A6RI .TON, •=C. 42.
E 3113.0160.

Congress this ' the following Act.—
Having received the .anction of the Prendent so
late as 2 p. Is. we can only farther add; that it
passed in conherluenee of a Message from the Prw-
sklent—in the Senate, Yeas 22—Nays 6 ; and in
the House of Represeutative4 Yeas 82—Nays 44.
AN ACT LATINO ♦N EMDABGO ON ALL SIMS AND
TEM LS IN TIN N !MITA AND HARBOURS Or THL
VNITED

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Re-
presentatives of the United States of America, in
..gees searetneded, That an embargo he, and
hereby is laid on di ships and vessels in the parts
and places width' the limits or jurisdiction of the
United States, cleared or not cleared, bound to any
foreign port or place ; and that uo clearance be far.
Risked to any ship or vessel bound to such fo:eign
port or place, except vesicle under the immediate
direction of the President of the United States; sad
that the Preside:it be authorised to give such in-
structions to the officers of the revenue, and of de
navy mid revenue cutters of the United States, as
shall appear best adapted for carrying the same into
fall effect. I ded, That nothing larrei la contained
shall be construed to prevent the departure of any
foreign ship or vessel, eitker in ballast, or with the
g•uode, wares and merchandise on board of such
Sverige' ship or vessel, when notified of this art.
Src. 2. And be it further enacted, That during
the continuance of this act, no registered, or sea-
letter vessel, having oo board goods, wares and
merchandise., shall be allowed to depart from one
port of the United States to another within the
Limes unless the maste:, owner, consignee or
Macaw of such vessel, ehall first give bond with
one or more saveties to the Collector of the dis-
trict from whiCh she is bound to depart, in a sum
of double the 'aloe of the vessel and cargo, that
the Rid anode, wares and merchandise shall be re-
loaded in some port of the United States, (ionizers
of the seas excepted; *Stich boad, and also a cer-
tificate from the Cuilector where the same may be
te-landed, shall, by the Collectors respectively, he
transtnitted to the 9ecretaty of the Treasury. All
armed 'l.s:whim:sassing public ecnamivsiazie from
so y foreiarn unser, are not to be considered as
liable to tire Enlarger 1•4 ity di* Act.

LoNnoN,
WED DAY, JA No e 7.

The-,Russian and Atu.trutn State Papers were
laid yesterday before the House of Comusous. A
Co of them is given in our preceding columns.

The foriner consist of a series of five notes, of

which the third and fifth are the most important.

The third is from Genet.it 131.DBEIIGI to Lord G.
LErrao■ Gowas, onr Ambassador at St. Peters-
burgh. It is dated Tilsit, June 30, 1807, and is a

justification of the conduct of Ramis. in mak-
ing s separate avatar of • peace with France.—
It is a detail of. some of the causes of complaint

aguitrt tins country, reiterated in the Di,
duration, which is before the public. 'I he fifth

Note is from Mr. CANNING to M. ALOPILUS, the
Russian Ambrosador at our Court, declining to
accept the proffered mediation of Russia, until
furnished with the secret Articles of Tilsit, and a
statement of the laisiS open which France is de-
sirous to conclude a peace. It is already before
the public, that these terms were proposed, but never
complied ;with: 'Thii Note is dated London, sth of
August, 1807, tour r3a)s alter the date of the
Note of M. ALorEcs, to which it is an answer.
.The Note of M. A torKes is dated Loudon
• August 1. The Austrian set of papers con-
sists of ten Notes, and are much more in-
teresting than the Itussisti, the particulars being
almost entirely new to the public. It appears,
that so far back as the 18th of April, 1807,
Count STaanzmartao proposed the mediation of
Austria between Prussia, Russia, France, and
Eigland. Mr. C4llllltwG took seven days to an-
swer this Note, the terms of which were accepted
on the iSth. or the result we are not informed,
and there is a chasm in the correspondence from
that date to the Sloth November. In the interval
thus passed over in silence, Russia and Prussia
made peace with France; and we 6sid the Note
of Count SisaRIIEMBLIG. of the srOth Nov. is an
offer of the mediation of Austria between France

and England alone. This offer was accepted in
a note from Mr. CANNING, dated November
23. Here there iti another chasm until the Ist
of January instant, on which day Count STAIR-
IIESIBEAG seat a note to Mr. CANNING, in which
lc.. proposes to the English Government to send
PleMpotentiaries immediately to Paris, and offers
passports for tie purpeee. Mr. C*Wlllll4l*
answer, Note VI. is a most important document.
It desires to kome upon what authority Count
Sr 111.111:M131.1W has made this pro;,osition ? It
complain; that the formr ovneure, which was sic-
, cepted, Lad not liven followed up, nor is even no-
, ticed in the renewed oiler. It objects to the
proposal, us not combining the Allies of Great
Britain, and it refuses to send Plenipotentiaries to
an hostile capital, or to open a negocintion any
where, except in conjunction with His MAJESTY'4
Allies, and until a lasi* is ac.wed upon. This Note
is dated the nth of January instant. Count STAR..
IILUBERG replied to it on the lith, in a Note de-
manding his passports. This Note was not received
until the 15th, on which day Mr.Csurtrao inclosed
the passports required. Such is the subutance of
these important State Papers. We may now
triumphantly appeal to them as irrefragable
evidence of the coweetness and superiority of
our sources of intelligence, which enabled ns
to guard the public against the ignorance of
our eni inpomries, who uniformly contended that
the late correspondence, by flags of truce, was a
private affair of the Princess STA/MUMMER°, and
had notlang to do with a negotiation for peace.
State Papers of more interest, and pregnant
with more important consequences, have not
appeared for a length of time. We have already
adverted to Mr. Cm( rrisr.'s Note, No. VI. It is
fall of matter; and it would not only be presump-
tuous, but unjust, to say, on a hasty perusal,that
it is not fully borne out by facts. We wish, how-
ever, that there i►ad been a little more suavity in
it—a little more of that kindness and temper ne-
cessary to dement the foe, and deprive• hies of all
pretence to say that his overtures were not received
in a perfect spirit of peace and conciliation.

We received yesterday New York and Phi-
ladelphia Paper* to the 27th la,t. We have
extracted from them all the commnnieations
received from Washington to the :ail. including
the Aut. of Embargo. It was ptwed o;t the 3/cl.
and put into immediate operation. The mea-
sure only evils vesaels of the United Staten.—

Foreign vessels nifty deport in their present con-
dition, whether loaded or in ballast. It was
passed by a great majority. Although the House
were three days debati:sg the expediency of the
measure, yet the friends of it said little iu its
favour. Most of the tine was taken up by its op.
polieuts, who with great enorgyaad ataquaarie ia-

The
National littelageocer, "attetiding this measure.
that although it will have effects, salutary it may
be hoped, on the policy of the great contending'
nations, it affords ueitle.r of them the slightOt
ground for coinplaint. The embargo ticilities the
rights of pone. Its oliket is to -secure oirti,elves,.

is a

It is a measure of precaution, not of at,rgroiion.—

It is resorted to by all natioos, when their great iu-

terebto require it. All of them have made us, on

different occasions, feet the effects of such a reoort

on our commercial interest... And if :could be

the less murmured at by thcrse who may be
incidentally affected by the • present anthem°,
inasmuch as they have forced W into the mea-
sure, by the direct effect on toi of .measures

founded in no alleged regard fdrtheie own ere*.
'nal s,ifety and e-sontied interustu Aa, how-
ever, the in•-ans of wady :sittcesta-ril associate

themselves with the idea. of/visage:, the• maw-,
sure hns necessarily excited much alarm and appre-
hensions of war, By some. it is considered as k-
veiled against Euglaud---by some against France—
and by others against both. Upon such various and
contradintory-Mutter, instead of our own opinion,:
we give tlie following extract from a letter from an
intelligent correspondent, dated New York, De-
cember 26

" The papers will have informed you, that Congress have
been sitting with closed doors for several days sticeessively,
is censequeoce of repeated communications niadc from the
Easentive. Of the nature of any part of them ensinnunica-
tioos the public continued ignoraut until yesterday lamming,
when by the Mail from Washington we received*. Act Is!, in:
an Embargo on all v.eselsbelougiwt to eft:Z(lN of the United
States. themail ofthla taurnin; a dispatch has been receiv-
ed from the Bash Minister, at Washington, which compels
the immediate departure of the paclet Lady Arabella, who
was ap for sailing, sod whom reviler course would leave been
the tithalJasuary. What has indared the F.nahargo, I Can-
na
inform you. Omajceture is all afloat, and thesperulatiose
a the subject mime and cootradictory.The state of our affaii s
with Great Britain, and the rmorical demands of the French
Government, ahlk furnish isuaglnary ground, each predunde-
'ha: in its torn according to the quarter from whence it
arises. There is one thin:, however, which iu my mind is
conclusive dint the measure is levelled at Great Britain, and
the is, that,lllo linearity is both Houses, on the mteellon
of laying the ansisago, com mond precisely with the ulna-
bees of the Federalists, and the names which have been giveu
ia aisoppeising the Act, are the mostadistio:aished and leach
ing men of that party. Wow, we well know that the conduct
of the .btidnistration, as it relates particularly to the gala-
understanding with Great Britain, has drawn from this quar-
ter very severe censurer, and as they are feelingly alive to the
sallforts of French lase-am in eu r Cab inst,ll4 hardly prasuin a-
waald contend avert immeseethitirMaid tale it
rise from I lie destruct ion ofthst inflamer. It is generalty s.i 1;
-that thesiispatches from France meet' the roost aufrien,*and
hostile nature, inasmuch as that they insist upon a departure
from th::t neutrality which it has hem the aim said the po-
licy of America to preserve. It is difficult to accolt,:ik. this
with the ensekmboa, that the Embargo is poiatttl at Great
Britain, warm oar Government is determined to stthscrike to
the dictator of Prance, which I cannot tea lime to be she rase.
The etbet ripen tae community is oat yet very resibice.."
The necessity is deplored; and, as far as individuals are
affected by it, the measure rept:bat-1. lf he general see-
timent cannot be expected • bile its °jumbo, is but par-
tially Mt."

It does not appear that Mr. ROSE has arrived at
Washington, although several vessels, which sailed 1
subsequent to ling departure in the Swim, have
reached Amalie.. A great weight attaches to his
mission. Never, perhaps, was a moment when a
skilfrl negociator was more nece-,sary to the
interests of country. In the prewat uncertain
and wavering policy of the Crnitlpd•Btatees, superior
diplomatic address may incline the-scale. Box
PARTE, we fear, has seen this in time to avail him-
self of it, by attempting to conciliate America. He
has hems for some time rather reluctant in enforcing
his Decrees against American vessels in France and
Holland. In several instances, we believe, where
these Decrees were enforced, the veasela have been
afterwards released.

We are concerned to announce the rnss of the
Sparkler gun brig, of 14 guns, Lieutenant i)E nNis,
on the coast of llolland, on the lAth instant.—
Dispatches comintinieating this ungTatefill intelli-
gence were receive,l, yrigerday, at the Admiralty.
The following is a list of the men drowned on thif
sartivrtimate occasion
Rieliard Riley, mid.hipman ; John Darin, boatoraln'a
mate; Earr‘field, el,rk ai.d steward; William
Clarke, Jubo houe, lidwaell Cranford, 'Timothy Donovan,
and Andrew Hufiegati, oram-u ; John %Vbitelbeavea aal
James Brown, ; tir:or *ld John 'Malcolm,
boys; Edward De Cruse nod John Roberts, urAcincs.—
Totoi 14.

Two Gottenburgb Mails arrived yesterday.-.-
Their contents are wiven in thr last page.

Hill MAJESTY is impecteii ias tows, this day, to
hold a private Levee cad Privy Council at the
QUEEN'S Palmer.

A Miniatetial Paper of yesterday aara---" The
►nrrtour that Sir H. 1,111/I.* Illplo6oll did get
pursue toe Rochfurt fleet. because it bad not pro-
ye notooottert-41 hat; bet victualled only
too or thrice de, s la.thre the ettettur Actiler' _
. . . .

From the Bth to the 11th U emaiper.
seven vevvels arrived at Ciiseigadolk Rota Akteav
wit4.l2a9 slave* !

FridaY, the lid insteotf being appointed for the
consideration of ,tha Catholic aidets-311 the Com-
mon Council of the City of Dublin, at their
Quarter Assembly, Mr., Outran) moved, that an
Address be preeented to His MaJesTY, praying
Lill toYamort his Mitiiitert,agaiust the drug/CI:04
who petits/Alla& for i= under tht
tuna tofficemd, filarzsrls late Miaisters."
lyhmer re4tHprititecteleicatly called—A_ll she
Tafeattind their frtendit in the Hots.es Zap.:
liainecit, as weU as thtirsuppertersout of c'eaori.--
Ise Address was' agreed to, add Certain of the
Aldirtnon and •Ccitemonti; with the assistance of
the ItEcoatita; were deputed to pre.pire the sane.'
Toutine btisinem was then' disposed of;
after which 'Mt..Ciretro rose to may!, " That:
the assembly. aproint Conitnitt4 Yb prepare a •
Petition against the eitinilicClaims." lie pre-
faced hit inettA by a few: .loirde kV mid that
he had no hostility iresiusethe theological tenets of
the. triehltiorneW.C.atetidice 'it wet se:viten IfttAr,
polite he koorl he‘thon4ht theta silbsersive J.
oythapq Cosseolutiotkni Church
Mr. Coer.aocoudo,l the tuatiao,
bin•Faigitorv.t.-propo,M, avail atnenrinteak that
the tint eriair shoal+ be postponed for one year.
M. Cif/aim shortly—upon whi,4
ballet ass called for, when three arpeared: s
For the original 501i05.... w Se
Fur the arcamhuest

111jority in Career al' Mr. 13.1proullus 31 .
After w few wo.tti from Mi. Wtt.t.is, urg:tig the
wisdom cud potic) of wring every effort to cow:l:late
the Catholic llo.lj•, the Petitiou wa that put u 4
carrii:ii without a ilivi3iou.

Her Royal Highness the l'6w-egs of IVAhEs
visaed the -Aelatettioness of 'low tt sit 1:44 yestertlet,
at. her house in Weymouth-aueet, and returami 00
four o'etoek to fiteekheetk.
On Mineley the Duke of CatimirtibUirrived at
Wiad,or. on a aiait to Their lakie issue* limier.
day. His Royal Highness went tregsrautlity, espial
a shooting party.
Yesterday, the Duke of VORIL held a public
day, at hie Office in the Horse Gearli, which was
attended by a nutialser of Militate; Odium*, N. n•
count CATHC ART and General Meeas. had private
audiences of his !loyal Highness.
A new gi Lad. Serious Opera, entitled, Dirletie,
was performed last night, for the hest tine, laud
rot-rived witisethett applause. The plot is derived
front the meats of Dints and :Eaeret.—Mtneevart
CATS LARI was the heroine of the piece, and exe-
cuted the part with all her used estelleuee.
dame Dueetti made her first apeleaninee, isethe
pert of Xeres: Shot' was drieetire only at a roes
ttgit of the 1-fere.• 'The see.icr% is heinstiftth• rid
the house presented a 214i:et:id ateliesace.--TM
Movie is by PAttarqLlo.
It has been dated as a matter of surprise, that
the Minor Canons and Vicars Choial of St. Pu 11
Cathedral withdrew on Monday, and did 'net at.
tens the funeral of Virount I'IttrALOWIL. tbe
raison assigued is, that the funeral was aosounced
as a premise, though it was actually conducted, la
seine -reverie, as a public ot.e.
leia ;everted that the trate Tioniel to Creet Br:-
tail' are detnined iieGotteuburg, in co asequerioesi
Denish line of battle ship, and tereearoaesttes,
cruising in die Sleeve.
Yesterday 'afternoon, intelligence • was received
East India I louse of-the arrival oft' the 1.-le
of Wight; the 25th iaetaat, of the Si,' Stlitlsen
Larking:ow, Cap.. GRAY, from Retn'eay ; model
from Se liekaa the the tells !de u etre- county cif
Rea esrv'e ships Aginn.qrt and Wo Ariel, with
WS transports and the Star wholes. !'lo ships left
stile Helmut.
. The Ali &r.plten Lusigitigtion was obliged to leave
Vie Fleet Lary arrived, MY the Ceee of Goad
Hope, where lilts put in, hay lig 'p rite a leak;
beret/ego was unloaded, pert of which war much
dainag
We have received tls.• follewi ig inteltige ee free
Calcutta, dated June 1 3, 1607 :
ou the slit iasteat, is Behmore Guest, the Corstosadal
spoke La Perwirersesce, prier to His Ms.:. elVa stip thaw&
—Lila prize .Itsurasted.
Arrived aoTriai'ataulee, Joao 3, 74Pie.4 ship Bost-
hay, Captsia Lye, a 1.41.3 tt.e nth, Majesty's slop Petret-
fal, apt neap 11, one Mint. 4<
His ateirates step Withtlyi3Ol was spokes with of Vi. a
jjartaia, attacht
lb. Majesty's aliip Relbqaeux ea srriveditt wan;.
His 3taitstf's ship Moamar had etaWdel o Duomoad
harbour, barare spume • leak.'
The Teri:richer, frigate ha i arri-ad at Pet o a of Wakes
Wald, 11 ow n ,suite Is the Psalm IS as, all reit.
The Bintti Syr, than, trout Peiladelphia fir
Bremeii, is captured and carried iuto Atusterdiee.
The 2Viga tc. BLitt:le, from Stockholm f
Plemouti, is captured and ea, r rd into Fleshin
'Vesterdae, the Lo:ie on asinine tie
Mealweighies' returns, was modes the inscesei, of
raising the price of ;tread half en assize, to take
Otte.. to-moecove when the quartere teat; sebeseme
will be cold for 1 etd. and household
The noted Captein BLACK has made his escape
from Portsmouth. He is supposed to be e'
aniptrei. where saddle's are sent in punmit of him.
Yeeterdiry, about three ciehatk, in the &chile
of husinees, a DUD forcibly made his way into the
Subscription-rooms of LLOYD'S Coffee-house. No
V=eons whatever could induce him to quit the
s, and some of the Gentlemen were obliged
fbreibly to drag)tiro out, and deliver him into the
heeds of II Constable, who, with the assistance of
three others, convened him to the Poultry Comptes,
from which place he. will be brouebt up, this day,
before the Lone Melte& He refilled to give any
accouet of himself, but by his books and ;metre.
it appear. he is a Clergy inse, rat bar deranged.
A man was found yesterday inieninl drowned in
the New Rarer. We eadevetand seise is
Beanotirs. An inquest will be held tie- day.
A eorouee's Ineumt wet held, yestettity. at the
Georgepaiblie.ho.e.e, Sloriener-eneet, on the t oiy
of Mm. Ultra CoTymonS, wife of the Rev. D .
cneruetac It appeared. flow the evelcure of
Ittecest. Centex, a tie= of the decreased, that
she wee alarmed eita ftl ay about to else o'clock,
by the berth,, of her mirtresies lapelo7 ; and on
tering up tern, she hived the deceased in tie.
deniare-roms. with ter bead inside the fender. end
ber clothe* in a blare. Immediate ass:steers...es
pence ed. but to no purrose. Deceived I triguil+ed
noeil reveler moraine, who. 06e did. %INES'
Lied ecaitisaol4o4 sae op airferitem.

COURT OP KING), BENCH, JAN. fi
DOG TRAPS..
TOWNSEND C. WADDING.
This *wee a Rule to shew cause why the verdict
given at the last Gloucester krsizes should not be
set .turidt%
It appeared that the Defendant bad a particular
kincLof trap set in a wood, adjoiniru; the hnuse,of
the Plainta, baited with meat, dipped into a"i-
seed, so sis to induce the Plaintiff's hounds to
follow the scent. and fall into the snare, by which
means many of them were much injured.
The Cower, ufter hearing Mr. Dauncev for the
Plaintiff and the Attorney-General and Mr. Gar.
sow, for the Defendant, confirmed the Verdict.