The National Register.
London, England, 1808-02-15 00:00:00

. THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

TRANSLATION,

In the galley the Victoria, Bernardo Molina, Patron, there
have been sent to Don Vincent Foich nine thousand siN hundred
and forty dollars, which sum, without making the least use of
it, oU will hold at my disposal, to deliver it at the moment an
erder may be resented to by the American General Don
James Wilkinson (end preserve you many years.
Nei' Orleans, 20th Jaw, 1796.

The BARON nr, CA Ito\ DCLET.

To Senor Don Thomas Portell.

I certify that the foregoing is a copy of its original, to which
I refer. (Signed) THOMAS POKTELL.

New Madrid, 21th .T une;l796.

A debate ensued, which continued till past five o'clock, al-
most entirely on the mode proper to he pursued, whether to
refer the Resolution to a Select Committee of the whole, or to
pass it without reference.-,-No decision was however made.
The further consideration of the subject was postponed, on
motion of Mr, Smiley, till Monday, Jan. 4.
vc tuv 2. —The engrossed Rill, Supplementary to the
Act lay ing an Embargo, has been read a third time ; and on the
question, shall the Bill pass, a division took place—lays 68—
s
Extract of a Letter. dated W ashington, Dee. 31, ISO 7 :
" This morning an advertisement was found posted up in ditre
rent parts of the city, proclaiming John Randolph a prcvari-
eating poltroon ; signed " James Wilkiuson."—ln the House,
this day, Randolph impeached \\ ilkinsmt of being a Spanish
pensioner, and said that he had documents and letter, in his pos-
session (w hich he has had but two or three days) which would
fully prose the charge. A motion was made to request the
President to in..titote an enquiry into Wilkinson's conduct.—
ilkinson challenged Randolph yesterday, and Randolph re-
plied, that he would nut light him till ho cleared up his cha-
racter."

110 sroN, Dr,e. 22.—The merchants and dealers in flour and
wheat at the Southward, are very severely feeling the first effects
of the embargo : flour has fallen at New York, Alexandria,
Baltimore, and other places, to four a four and a-fourth dol-
lars, and several great failures have already occurred : one at
New York, last week, for 40,001 dollars, it is said.
BoSTO NI .1A N. 7.—Already are the effects of the embargo
so sensibly felt by the labouring classes, that the Corporation
of New York were proposing means of employing the eartmen,
nsechaaies, and I:llm:irers of that city, so as togice bread to
their distressed families, at this iuelemeut season of the year.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

MOUSE OF LORDS,
MONDAY, FEB, 8, 1808.

101

The Curates Suspension Bill was read a third time and passed.
LORD JrCKI. st,ll 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 docu,
ments 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 itt spite of all the efforts
of the enemy to depress and injure our trade, that during the
year in which his Noble Friend near him (Lord Grenville) was
at the head of the Administration, that our exports amounted
to the enormous sum of 43 millions; but was sorry to say that
they had fallen very considerably since the present Ministers
came into office. The Noble Lord then moved, that there be
laid before the Bowe an account of the exports and imports
into Great Britain during the last three years. distinguishing the
amount and value in each year, ending the sth of January 180 b.

Lonu G itENVILLE wished to knoWfrout the Noble Secretary
of State, whether any Official Communication had been recched
respecting a :Nlessao'r from the President of the United States of
America, as to the Ratification of the Treaty concluded by the
Commissioners of both Countries.

LORD II IWAIISBURr said, be expected to be able to satisfy
the Noble Baron to-morrow, or on Weducsday next.

COP LNIIMIEN MCP EDITION.

DIE DuKr OP NORrOLIi read a variety of motions for copiekt
of the Proclamations of Lord Cathcart and Admiral Gambier
the representations of the latter respecting the state of the
Danish fleet, &c. all of which were severally put.and agreed to.
His Grace then moved for copies of any representations 'wale
by the British 3liaister at Copenhagen, regarding the intentions
of Denmark to surrender her fleet to France ; and of any de-
mands of explanation addressed to the Crown Prince, I( ith re-
gard to the secret articles of the Treaty of Tilsit.
Ton li:qv is or if-Ei.t.csi.E.E considered the question (tithe
Copenhagen I pedition as already decided by the resolutions
of Parliament, on the various points connected with that sub-
ject.
Loan HOTCIIIN4OY stated his conviction, that the Crown
Prince was determined to persevere ip his neutrality. When
the French, in Dec. 1805, v iolated his territory, it was known
to every Foreign rtliaister at Copenhagen, that his resolution
was, in case of necessity, to abaudon holstein and Jutland, and
not a doubt existed of his ability to. preserve Zealand s ith its
Navy. lie was convinced, that the attack on Copenhagen was
the immediate cause of the war with Russia. That Power had
done all that she could do against Frame. In the short cam-
paign of 11 days, which terminated the war, she had out of an
army of 70,000, lost 27 Generals, 1800 inferior officers, and
40,000 men. The enemy had taken the field vv ith, at the lowest
calculation, a force of 160,000 eilective troops. lie had oppor-
tunities ()nudging that peace was essentially necessary to thegx•
istence of Russia. Here his Lordship read a statement of two pri-
vate conversations which he had with the Emperor. [ride the
OBIGIN A I. DISQUISITION on his Lordship's eunfererire with the
Emperor of Russia,] From the warmth withwhich the Emperor
addressed him, he waseonvinced that nothing prevented au imme.
diate declaration of hostilities, but that there were two Russian
squadrons at sea. Yet what had been the conduct of Ministers?
They asserted that Russia was a principal party to the Maritime
Confederacy, they permitted one of her squadrons to enter the
Tagus, and another to pass through their fleet in the Sound !
They were weak and pusillanimous to the strong, firm and vigo-
rous to the weak.

LORD ll,orKrFarnr justified the Expedition to Zenlatal
upon three grounds, Ist, The avowed designs of France ;
The impracticability of effectual resistance on the part of Den-
mark ; and idly, The magnitude of the danger to this country,
should the Danish Navy fall into the hands of Bonaparte.
For the Motion, Contents 85—P ro x ies 19. Against it, Non-
Contents 66—Proxies 31.—Adjourned.

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