The National Register.
London, England, 1808-02-14 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

. 14.

wares, and inerchawlize, either of foreign or domestic grow th
or manufacture, fishing vessels with salt for their fishing, fares
excepted. shall be allow ed to depart from ally port of the United
State-, u. shall receive a clearance until the ouner, consignee,
agent or factor, shall, u ith the master, give bond with one or
• more sureties to the 1. nited States, in a sum double the value of
the vessel and cargo. that the vessel is not destined for any foreign
port or place, aotl that the said woods, wares, and therchatalize
shall be re-loaded in some port ofP- the United States
See. '2. Ind be it further enacted, That if any ship or vessel
shall, during the continuance of the act to which th is act is a sup-
plement, depart from any port of the United States vi idiom a
clearance, or if any ship or VehSel. Shall, contrary to the provi-
sioas of timid act, or the act to hick this is a suppietnent, pro-
ceed to a foreign port or place, such ship or vessel and cargo
shall be v% holly forfeited ; and if the same shall not be seized,
the owner of such ship or vessel shall, fur every such offence,
forfeit an:l pay a sum equal to double the !aloe of the ship ur
vessel :end cargo, and the master or commander of such ship or
vessel, a:. well as all other persons concerned in such prohibited
foreign voyage, shall each respectively forfeit and pay the sum
of not more than -..!0,0(10 dollars, nor less than 1000 dollars for
every such oftener, hether the vessel be seized and cut:dimmed
or hot. _

See. 1. And be it further enacted, That the exception made
by the act, to which thi4 act is a supplement, in favour of armed
vcssels, pte.r..sint.t- politic commissions from foreign powers, shall
apply on 1:: to public armed vessels,And shall not be construed to
.embrace either privateers, sessels having; letters of marque, or
air. other private armed ves&eis : but such private armed vessels
ho p... 1 mitred to depart in the same mantic:. and tin•the
COWL lit)11-, us is pro v iilcd for other private foreign ships or vessels.
Ure . .I:ty Mr. Randolph, made a motion in the
Ilo►,e tif Representatives against (letter:ll Wilkinson. De said,
he should first state certain Cacti, and tho&e fact; would he the
ground of his motion. on which he shoot(' offer nu argument.—
Alr. It. then read the follow inz documents :

IMPERIAL PARLLAIVIENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS.
oNDAY, 8, 1808.
The Curates Suspension Bill was read a third time and passed.
•Lunn A uciti..4x u observed, that previously to the motion
which he intended to submit to their Lordships, it was necessary,
in his opinion, that they should. be in possession of certain docts.
merits and papers relating to the exports and imports of the
country for a certain time, for it would appear from the perusal
of those papers, when produced, that in spite of all the eiltati
of the enemy to depress and injure Our trade, that durifor, this
year in which his Noble Friend near him cLord Grenville) mot
at the head of the Administration, that our exports anieuut,:d
to the enormous sum of .13 mill' • ; but was sorry to say that
they had fallen very considerably since the present sllnlstere
came into office. The Noble Lord then moved, that there be
laid before the House an account of the exports and impnros
into Great Britain during the last three years. distinguishing the
amount and value in each year, ending the sth of .latonary 1811 d.
to RD GnEsrILLL wished to know from the ,:ohle Secretary
of State, whether any Official Communication had been received
respecting a Message from the President of the United States of
America, as to the R.afitieation of the Treaty concluded by tins
Commissioners of both Countries.
Loup IlAwar3prar said, he expected to be able to satisfy
the Noble Baron to-morrow, or on %%ednessiay next.

corLmt.ve.r.N ExetorrioN.
Tar Ih• Icr ye tonna% read a varlet, or motions fur retries'
of the Proclamations of Lord Cathenrt kid 'Admiral nambier
representatiow (if dle latter teTetcting the state of the
Danish fleet, of !itch ;were severally put .Ind agreed to.
ills Grace then muted fur copies of any representations made
by the British M ini.ter at Copl*nliagen, regarding the intentions
of Denmark to surrender her ficet to France ; and or any de-
mantis exptint,tion addresed to the Crown Prince, with re-
gard to the secret articles of the Tienty of Tilsit.
rut.: .11.4t:Qctb v r EI. I,I:iLEI considered the question of the
Copenhagen Expedition as already • decided by the resolutions
of Parliament, on the various points connected with that sub-
ject.
Loan Ilerritixsys Stated his conviction, that the Crown
Prince was determi:ied to persevere in his neutrality. When
the French, is Dec. IhUJ, violated hi. territort , it was known
to every Foreign Minister at Copenhagen, that his resulutiou
was, in ease of necessity-, to abandon Holstein and Jutland, and
not a doubt existed or hi. ability to preserve Zealand with its
Navy. Me was convinced, that the attack on Copenhagen was
the immediate cause of the war with Russia. That P.)wer had
done all that she could du against France. In the short cam-
paign of II dais, nich terminated the war, she had out of an
arniv of 10,060, lost 27 Generals, 1800 inferior °dicers, and
40,000 MU. The enemy had taken the field with, at the lowcat
calculation, a force of 160,000 ettective troops. He had oppor-
tunities ofjudging that peace was essentially necessary to thewx-
istenee of Russia. Here his Lordship read a statement of two
pri-
rate couversations which he had with the Emperor. (I.iiir the
ORIGINAL DISQUISITION Un Lordship's conference with the
Emperor of Russia.) From the warmth NS itIVW Writ the Emperor
addressed him, he w asconvineed that nothing prevented an imme-
diate declaration of hostilities, but that there were two Russian
squadrons at sea. Yet what had been the conduct of Ministers ?
Thev asserted that Russia was a principal party to the Alarititne
Confederacy, they permitted one or her squadrons to enter the
Tagus, and another to pass through their fleet in the Sound !
They w ere weak and pusillanimous to the strong, firm and s igo-
rota.; to the weak. .

LOnD IlAwxrcarnr justified the Expedition to Zealand
upon three grounds, hi. The as owed deigns of France ; 2d,
The impracticability of effectual re.,istance on the part of Den-
mark ; and idly, The mapiitinle of the danger to this country,
should the Danish Nayv fall into the !midi of Bonaparte.
cur the Motion, Contents :is—Proxies IS. AgainA it, `on-
Contents 6t3—ProxiesSi.—Adjourned.

TVESDtV, rns. 9.
Counsel %vete heard iu the Irish Appeal, Stafford v. Drew.—
Adjourned.
Nt• covvsn y, mat. 10.
Mr. Nlitfor.l pre:eeted aecoucts Iron the ettetotip Senthand
of the qttantity of shipping, hr. t. lit ployed in the Whale Fishery.
Ordered to lie uat the table.—Adj'lu.ued.