The National Register.
London, England, 1812-08-09 00:00:00

TG. 9

Accotwt 110:11 America, ria Canada, have been received
this 11101-I,tug.wherein it appears a Billbas been introduced
into Ciingress tip repeal the Non-intercourse Act, prohibit
the impoitlition of the following articles :
}Li; cloathing ready made, woollen cloths which
cosi m,,te Arm. 6s. sterling per yard; cotton cloths, of which the
prime is less than 15d. or more than 9s. silk, hemp, leather, or
ales ut .which consist of those materials, except—
ing !inens.
The duties on inipn.etation are doubled.
The Parliament of Sicily was opened on the 14th of Jane,
by sce,..ch from the 1-IEREDITArtv PRINCE, replete with
scntioleas of attachment to Great Britain.
Ilo.ton Papers, to the 30th of June, have been received
it, town. A meeting of the inhabitants of that place had
been held on the 18th, when several Resolutions, expressive
or then. d.ssatisfaction at the measures pursued by the Exe-
ratße and Legislature, were agreed to. Mr. RANDOLPH
addressed au eloquent and energetic letter to his Con-
stduciits against the war, which concludes in the following

manner : •
‘‘ Bei re these pagesameet your eye, the last Republic of the earth I,
will have. einisted meter the banners of she tyrant and become a party 1!
0! his cause. The blood 'it American freemen must fliio to cement
hi, power, to aid in stifling the last stru..gles of afflicted :Ind perse•
ciao! man ; to deliver up Into his hands the patriots of Spain and
Pore.gal ; to estatei-fi his Empire too r the ocean and over the land
that gave our loriathers birds ; to forge our own chains;--stud yet, my
friends, use :ire told. as we were told in the days of the mad a mbition
of Mr. Adams, " that the finger of heaven paints to war." Yes, the
finger heaven dues point to war. It 'mints to war as it points to
the ma-sion of eternal misely and torture ; as to a flaming beacon
warning us of that vortex which we may siot approach but with certain
destructi It pointsito des Wed Euror, and warns us of the chas-
tisement of those nations who have offended against the justice and
almost beyond the mercy of Heaven. It annownees the wrath to cola('
upon those who, ungrateful for the bounty of Providence, Hot satis-
fied with peace. iibeity, security, and plenty at house, fly, us it were,
into the face of the Mist High, and to law forbearance.
" f. beseech you, put it to your own bosoms bony far it becomes
,Oki as treenlvil, us Christians, to give your aid and sanction to this
mop nos and bloody warfare apinst your brethren of the human fa-
sully. To such among you, if any such there be, who are insensible
to motives not snore dignified and manly than they are Willi !sicallv
wise, I %%wild make a ditkrent appeal. I adjure you by the regard.
which you have fur your own security and property, for the liberties
and inhere alive of your children, by all that you hold dear and an
wed, to •n• !
erpole 3 our emstitutionad powers to save your country and
yoursel‘es from a calamity) the issue of which it is not given to hu-
man foresight to divine.
" Ask yourselves it' you are willing to become the virtual allies of
Buonaparte ? are you willing. for the sake of annexing Canada to the
Northern States, to submit to that over-growing system of taxation,
which units the European labourer supperless to bed ? to maintain, by
the sweat of your brow, armies ut whose hands you. arc to receive a
future master ? Suppose Canada ours Is there ai.y man Among you
who would ever be, in any respect, the better tin• it ?—the richer—
the freer—the happier—the more secure ? And is it tar a boon like
this, that 100 join in the warfare against the liberties of man in the
other hemisphere, and put your own in jeopardy,"
The followiug is an extract of a letter from Gibraltar,
dated July 21, received by the last mail:-
4 The war in Spain has_ at present a mo .6 favourable aspect for the
Patriots: it never looked so well since the iievolution. All the pro-
vinces of Catalonia are in arms, and by this time there mutt be all
"Y Of 25,000 men, English, Sicilians, and Natives. Souk has a
difficult game to play. If Lord Wellington cut up Mamma, 1 siwuld
not be Surprised to see Souk obliged to surrender like Dupont. The
WI of Badajos decided the campaign, by upsetting all the plans of
the French. Tarragona must fall, as the enemy have destroyed all
the outworks, and have only 1400 badly fed and discontented
AO defend the works.—The French now bombard Cadiz most dread-
fully, and with great effect; many lives are lost daily. Thirteen-inch
tarrying three miles, charged with forty pounds of powder, are
thrown continually into the city."
Government, it is said, dispatched on Monday n
10,000.
stand of arms, with•
ammunition and -to -Corinna, for
the de .if the -,,uarillas.
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