The Sun.
London, England, 1803-03-09 00:00:00

HAGUE, MARCH J.

WITHIN these few days a spirit of tumultuous
insurreEtion began to &blew itself among the Sailors
at Amsterdam. The extraordinary length of the
frost, and the continuance of the ice at the Har-
bours, occasioned this disturbance. Several Mer.
chants of Amsterdam had hired Sailors to go out in
ships, which should have sailed two months since,
had it not been for the ice. The Merchants re.
fused to pay wages to the Seamen for the time dur.
ing which they were detained in Port by the frost ;
and the Sailors would, in their resentment of this
usage, have proceeded to the most desperate ex.
ceases, if the Police had not vigorously interposed
to check the tumult. Tranquillity has been, by
its exertions, entirely restored.
The Government has officially announced, in the
Public Papers, what was before sufficiently known,
that all the West India Colonies taken by the Bri.
tish during the War, have been finally given up, in
consequence of the Peace, to the Batavian Republic.
Last Tuesday arrived from Paris, one of the
Aid.de.Camps of General VICTOR, with an order
from the FIRST Cowart, that General CXSAR BER.
THIER should remain in his appointment of Chief
Officer of the Staff for the Expedition to Louisiana,
and should not obtain that new employment, which
was some time intended for him by the F !AST
CONSUL. The Naval Minister writes to General
VICTOR, that he has given the necessary orders for
the departure of the Expedition in the end of March.
Its departure is what we devoutly wish.

We hear that a new arrangement has been made
by the Postmaster-General, in consequence of which
the Mail from Edinburgh to Glasgow is, after the
Loth inst. to be conveyed in a Mail-cart, the driver
of which is tq be armed with a cutlas and pistols.
This mode will afford a greater degree of security
than formerly.
An estate in Caithness, of 1681, gross rental, full
nine miles from the sea or any town, was lately sold
by private bargain, at something above one hundred
and three and a half years purchase.
Nine acres of building ground, part of the lands
of West Paisons Croft, in the immediate vicinity of
Glasgow, were sold last week, by public roue, for
about 16,0001. ; the price to be converted into a
feu.duty at five per cent. per annum.
The island of Scaraha, with other lands in the
counties of Argyll and Perth, were lately purchased
by a gentleman of Glasgow, at 26,0001. and up-
wards, being about fifty years purchase of the pre-
sent rental.
The LORD PRIMATE of all Ireland, has pre-
sented the Reverend THOMAS CARTER, A, M. of
Trinity College, Cambridge, and Domestic Chap-
lain to His Grace, to a Stall in the. Cathedral Church
of Armagh, with the Rectory of Ballymore.
On Friday, the 25th ult. the Godwood hounds
run a fox for several hours in the neighbourhood of
Chichester, followed by a large field of Sportimen,
very few only of whom were in at the death, A
fine horse belonging to Captain joHrisort, of the
Prince's Regiment, dropped under his master, and
expired, in consequence of hard riding in the field.
The above chace afforded several remarkably fine
runs, with reyaard in full view, and was esteemed
the best before the Godwood dogs owing the ass•
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AMERICA.

The following Resolution was passed on the 26th
of January by the House of Representatives of the
State of Delaware,

Resolved, That this General Assembly view with
regret, the little disposition shown by Congress to
relieve our Western Brethren from the difficulties and
embarrassments under which they labour, from the
obstrudion of the Mississippi, " by recent irregular
measures carried on at New-Orleans," by the Spanish
Government or its Agents; this General Assembly,
however, rests confident, that die Representatives
from this State in the present, as in every other in.
stance, will advocate measures, which will tend to
preserve the honour, and be for the interest and
happiness of the United States.
From the Ist of January, 1802, to the Ist of
January, 1803, new coin was issued from the Mint
of the United States of America, to the amount of
516, 1 15 dollars, 83 cents; of which, to the value of
129,730 dollars, 91 cents, was in gold.
By a statement of the Exports from the United
States of America, officially published, it appears,
that the Exports for the year ending the Ist of
October tBor, amounted to 93,020,513 dollars ;
and for the year ending the ist of Oclober, 1802,
7 ;,957,144. dollars, being a decrease of 21,063,369
dollars. The value of Exports from the United
States to the following Countries, has increased :
Russia, Prussia, Sweden, Denmark, the Imperial
Ports, France, Portugal, and Italy : with the United
Netherlands, Great Britain, Ha mburgh, Bremen, &c.
—Spain and the East Indies, the value has declined.
The difference in the value of Exports to Great
Britain and her territories, between the last year of
the war and the first of the peace, exceeds eighteen
millions of dollars, nearly nine tenths of the aggre-
gate decrease of the value of them, The total
value of Exports in 1802, exceeds that of the
year 1800, which amounted to 70,976,800 dollars,
nearly one million of dollars. The excess in the
year 1801, above 1800, was upwards of tweoty
two millions of dollars.

The value of Exports has increased in the States
of New-Hampshire, Rhode-Island, Connedicnt,
New-Jersey, Georgia and Kentucky, and has de.
clined in the States of Vermont, New-York, Penn-
sylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North
Carolina, and South Carolina ; though New-York,
by a small excess, still ranks first in the scale of
commercial consequence.

In the Sitting of Congress of January the 28th,
Mr. Speaker laid before the House a Letter from Co.
lonelHumphreys, late Minister at the Court of Ma.
drid, stating, that when he was about to leave that
Court, the Minister of State urged his acceptance of
the customary present from His Majesty. Col. Huin.
phreys informed him, that he could not, consistently
with the Constitution of his Government, accept the
present. The Minister continued to press the accept.
ance, and urged, that as he was no longer an Ofti.
cer of the United States, there could he no impro_
priety in his receiving it. Col. Humphreys replied,
that though he was then out of office, there would
still, in his opinion, be an indelicacy in the accept.
ance, and that if he should receive the present de.
signed for him, he should consider it as his duty to
deliver it into the hands of the President of the
United States, to be disposed of at the pleasure of
the Government.

Under these circumstances he left the Court of
Madrid ; and upon his arrival in the United States,
he found a casket of very valuable female orna.
ments, addressed to Mrs. Humphreys, which,
though unaccompanied by any letter, he presumed
to be a present from the Ou s str of St.n. t tr. Doubting
the propriety of accepting it under such circum.
stances, Mrs. Humphreys presented the casket to
the President of the United States, who put it into
the hands of the Secretary of State. The Se.
cretary of State, declining to decide the constitu.
tional question, whether Mr. Humphreys could
with propriety retain it, ordered it to be return.
ed to him for the purpose of being sent back
to Spain, .or otherwise disposed of as he might
think proper. Mr. Humphreys refused to receive it
back upon such terms : it consequently remains
with the Chief Clerk in the Department of
State, and Colonel Humphreys now requests
Congress to give orders for sending it back to
Spain, or for disposing of it in such other way
as they may think proper. He makes the same re-
quest respetling a Sword presented him by the
Dey of Algiers, which is also in the hands of the
Chief Clerk of the Department of State, under
similar circumstances.

The subjed, after considerable conversation in
the House, was referred to a Stied Committee to
report their opinion thereon.

Yesterday a woman was charged before the Sit.
ting Magistrate at the Police. Office, Marlborough.
street, by a girl of about eleven years of age, with
sending her into the streets to commit depredations
on the Public. It appeared that this girl had ran
away from her aunt about two months since, and
meeting with another girl in Peter-street, had asked
'her if she knew where she could be taken in, as she
had ran away from her aunt; to which she answered
in the affirmative, saying, there was a woman,
(naming the Prisoner) who lived in Marlborough.
row, who would take her in ; and while they were
talking, the woman in question passed. by, with
a pair of boots in her hand, being a shoe-black,
and was immediately pointed out to the witness
as being the person ; that she went home with
her, when the Prisoner immediately pledged
her gown and apron, and employed her to go
round the different places to steal whatever she
could lay hands on; and not content with her em.
ployment in that way only, she used to send her
son, a lad about eight years of age, about the neigh.
bourhood, to steal also ; the son stole a band of
pork from a house in Pulteney.street, on Saturday
night last. The Magistrate ordered an officer to
go to the house as described by the witness, to see
if such an article had been lost ; when a person at.
tended, and said she had lost one at the time men.
tioned by the girl. The boy, whom the mother had
brought with her, was fully committed with his

ItEß7'l%ofib ASSIZLI.

MONDAY, MARCH 76

Tests day the Assizes for the County or Hertford
commenced before Mr. Justice HEATH. There
were but five Causes on the Civil side, and of them
three were Nonsuits ; one was a Special Jury
Cause, upon the Game Mts.

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