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,5 A TU 1 1) A k, AUGUST 11, 1810.

CHRISTORHER COATS, A L.CE COATS, and IOHN
COATS.

\ATHEREAS CHRISTOPHER. COATS, for-.'
merly of Slrdburn, to Howland, Yorkshire,
hourer, went to live in London, about sixty years ago (being
then about eighteen years of age), at the Swan. with Two
Ne,ks, in LadAarre, in the capacity of an Ostler; AIC E
COA rS, Sister of the said Christopher Coats, went from `.
the same place also to London, about fifty years ago. and• it
is supposed married a Shoemaker-, JOHN COATS, who
served an apprenticeship to a Woolcomber at Rel,tott. near
shipton, in Craven, Yorkshire,- enlisted as a Private So:dier
abo:.t tlairty-seven years ago, Now if the said Christopher
Coats, 'A Ice Coats, and John Coats, who have not since been
heard of, excepr a report-tin it Christopher Coats died about
forty-five years ago. or any of then be now living, or it dead,
their legal Issue, or any Descendants from them. Will make
application to Messrs: flleastlale, Alexander, 'and P.olrne,'
No, 11, New-inn, LOndon, or to Mr. Duckle, Solicitor,
Gainsburgh,'in the Comet) of Lincoln, they will hgar bt
'something very much to their advantage. The abosie twee
Persons were the Children of one Williath Coats,' by Ann
Turner, who was4n,-.1e.: to one kobert 'Punier, formerly of
Leeds.

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N.B. Any inforMation respeeing all, or any of the above
Pers.,ns, will be handsomely rewarded.
Cain,burgli, •agrc....
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KEINOVAIL.I) HEAL Fri.

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IT. has been too frequently the' subjea of just and
I general reprobation, that men destitute of the element Sot
the medical, art bave offered themselves as candidates for
public patronage in the profession of physic. For the .purpose
of doing justice to the result-of-Our studies and exprienee, am!
to prevent us from being classed among those.emriirics whose
imprudent pretension s have, unfortunately for society, bee!,
too favourably received, we beg leave to submit to the.liberal
and enlightened a filithf ;l statement of our pursuits and ac
quirements. A tier having teceived a regular medical educa
two as the pupils of AilesSrs. G :rutted and Blizard, whose
le&ures and practice we carefully attended, as,prolessors and
surgeons of the London Hospital; we enweaotnseives as,
•students in that -justly celebrated School for flied-it:4l acciiiire,
ment, the Royal .College of Edinburgh, and were instruded
in the different branches of anatomy, surgery, the theory and
wactice of phyic, •chemistry, midwifery, botany, &c. &c.
by ttiosebeininent. protessors, Drs. Munro, Gregory, 'Blacfr ,
Hamilton, Duncan anti Rutherford. We trust we shall not
be deemed presumptuous in saying that our proticiency.anc
• acquirements are not inconsiderable. Having tor a long series
of years made Venereal Complaints, and -the various diseases
of Debility, the particular ()hied of our studies and pradice,
u will, we hope, be allowed that We have acquired superior
know ledge of their treatment and cure. slight and recent
cases otinfedion perted re-etablishment is completed in
the short period of two days ; and in those of the utmost in.
veteracy, where other practitioners have f.::iled.ot success, a
proper perseverance in our plan of treatment ensures to flu.
patient a safe and radical cure. 2

Amidst the melancholy variety of disorders which are the,
effects of a habit long and most unhappily pursued by the-
ontli of both sexes, there. are none m ire Alarming or snore
'distressing than those deficiencies and debilities which frc-
ti acidly prevent or embitter the ma triin,,ntal state • such
persons it must he a Consolation to knuw that they may now,
by a new and infallible ulnae oftreatintfrit, he rest ..red to that
greatest ot all human blessings, a strong, maii.y, and vigil:-
ails constitution. In all cases ot debility; from Whatever
cause arising, as well every.speo4:bot venereal inteCtiou,
we nosy be conSulteii so:, patients of citbrr sex with the. grat.-
est secrecy and honour., ll,tirs or consultation at hoine Ira t,
on to three, and liornii In the_evening till 13 at night.
Patients in title e-untry to tetitiested to state the particii-
tars'ot their case, 4e, and•goieral habit ot ltviti, , etc. ace. in
closing 'a retiattplu.x wilz.r) the same
wia he giVelk, of Sent to am part 0: the kingdom. To clisurr
that bei.icc) a,, esscriti4. to tout unitertaking, the pmitage
It tefs say :la, lei: to the account tor

• CUR RI and Co: Sure,eons, -No. 1.7; Hatton—y;arderi
f,...?" Messrs. C,ittle awl. Co. have I.2ertineate4 fry rn !AL.
respecta:de I rolessors of London 4nij Edinburgh, far
t ie diligence, skill, and hunrAnttyi with wiu&.h they per.
!ilitied the duties a3sh;nei the:n n' the time they .t
f:', (led their I.,etur • I

To T. TA Lc) k, ',1.1rg,. y, New lindv.struet,
Lonci

SIR, Fdinhttrrti, lay 2, Ina.
N the, Spring of .1794-1 was atiliaecl with
1. Venereal • Couiplaint, which I re treated with intliffer
.
ence tive. months ; but was then ooliged to
,apply to r.
regular l'hysician, who put a ternporary stop to the virti
lence of the Disease. !by m•-reurial applications) for sum,
time;
but
00,,ing, in spite of all, medicine r and the advice
of the -first Gentlemen ot. the -Faculty here, worse and
worse for two years, [.was reduced to a state almost un •
iiatalleled and 'beyond description; being an entire leper;
And ulcerated from head to foot.--M Y-tead, • throat, month.,
nose, legs, arms, Sec.. have been alternately' in danger to
te owing useless; in short, I have had front twenty t,
thirty eating ulcers 'on my body, and nearly teitoilly dew
privet', of sight.— It would be, voluminous to partieula•
raze all my case--suffice it to say,. there
.never was, or eve,
will be, one of a more dangerous, or of a more compli•
ateti nature. I was lung looked up-in by my friends, an,'
--zinuglired myself, beyond all hopes of recovery; and, in.-
.in then condition, - death was. preferable to my
• more than miserable state. In this ttrcatiCitl situation die
drag a, most miserable existence, till Divine Providence
• threW in. my way a Newspaper 'containing
_the case of a
Mr. 11 of Plymoutli--,try friends read it, I could' not.-1
sent and procured some of your LEAKE 's PATE NI
p I I. LS. which,
.-by using froin time•to time,- am now, and
have. long been, (atter more than tour- -years- indescriliablt
distress), in as good a stare of In.salth as ever renjoyed
t .as a
propel or I had, a line, thriving, healthy chill, born
me a few months ago. In gratitude' to-God; and in hopes
of rendering my fellow-creature service, I request you to
publish this.; •antl you 1-uay, at any time refer persofis who
wish to he satititiO of the truth of tnis, or further park-
to me or my triendS, by letter or person. eu'laAsrse,*t.V cases fur badness writ ever eq;lal and none
it, 1 have -from -eyerience every ieason to assure
kna▪
nkinti, that in your LEA I'i 1.1.. S they will .tind a
sure, .speetif, , safe, and radical cure, tint that most dread
tut stage ut the Veneieat ,Di'sease,.Whielt is called CON.
LU4S. jOIIN TIIOMPSQN..
. , •
▪ Ifisurniolintable faintly reasons prevont making my.
-name .and- address public ; hut tn•eilitable. •persons- really
wanting information may also be reterred to i•ne and lit)
friends by Mrs. S_ Clark, Ramsay-Gardens, Edinburgh. , •
_ %Crop:lied and Sfild by•rii," Sole, 1
Jruprietivr,
r. T YLoI4, Member 'ut the Royal College of Surgeon,
• in-London; at his house, Nu. 9, New Itridge,.street, •
where :he will give Advice without a tee, to persons tak-
ing these and will answer patients letters, if post.
paid, on the same terms, observing in, all cases the must
inviolable secrecy, no person's name ur case having be. n -
mentioned,.but at their own particular request, by the Pro-
prietor, during the course ot more than tturty-six years,
that he has had the conducting of an extensive sale of , the
above . Medicine, and the practice arising therefrom. •
They are also said by nis Appointment, for the conv,.
nienee ut those living at a distance, by . Mr. Baxter,
South-bri.ige, Edinburgh; Mr. Micdonald, Printer, Clas
4ow, to whom also Mr. T.' rereri tor his address;, at tin.
Perfumer's, No. 35, St. Alban's-street, Pall-mall; Mr..
Robertson's Toy-shop, No to.; Oxford-istreet; Mr.
oorougif s„ N0.,7, Eisli-street-Hill, nearly opposite the Mo
ntiment; Mr. Steel's, ltooksellet, Vo t, 13mon-roW; Little
Tower-hill; 'Mt. Bull, Danie,street. Dublin; and by one
person In every considerable town in Great-liritain axle'
Ireland, 'in. lioxes of only as. 9ti. each, sealed up
full and plain diredions, whereby-persons of either Sex
cure therriselVa•With'easeand secrecy.

. N. 13. Every box 'sold in t`...Treat Britain is sealed up •
with a Stamp,.‘ on *Men, by -layout of the Cerrlnlib-
;sioners,: is Trinted, at the Stainp=OLfice-41 T. Taylor,.
Ni..: 6, New liridga.street," to imitate Which is felony, and
all others are cow-wait-its.

AMERICA.

SPEECHOF THEHON. fOHN RANDOLPH;

DEBATE ON THE REDUCIIiiN OF THE NAVAL ESTA,.

PLISHMENT uF l'Hk. IJNITED STATES.

XPHiL 25, 1810.

(Concluded from yesterthy's Paper ")

. ,
fromth,': Trtastny statement in my- hand,.
made on the sth of this month, that the navy under
G‘metzil Wiishingtosti's ad:niniStration cost eleVen
hundred thousand doll irs ; that 'dutiti 111,2 •four
yearS of Mr. Adams's administration it cos" nine
millions 'seven, hundred thousand dollars in round,
nurnhers ; that iti the etgirt •yp Ts'ot the succeeding
'atitiiii•strat ion it cost tWelveMrillions seven hundred-
,thoUsaud dollar;;. I mike these remarks, bec.mse
the statement (Lifers from ehat wade by the woethy
Gentlenan froth Conneoicut, in' this respect ; that
when he made the expenditufe'uild_x the last
nistration.to amount to fourteen millions, he did in'
my option.- improperly s iddle that adwftlistra•ion
%Anil the • expendituie the . year (Cul, viz.
2, I 1 I,42saothgrisd and voted wider
Adatui's,edministratioti. From, late Lll:„tregLlllCz: at
I his piper it will be seen, that front -I tt,e ex: -
penditure fell from the above sun of two tilit.io.:ts tci
nine hundred thousanddollatS, rna'r king disi nictiy
the retrenchment at the period of Jeff rson's
accession,. The first year properl) chargeable ti, elie
last administration is that suce,editig the One in
which.they came into office, viz.. 1403: 1 ling
from a 'comparison of the statements • in tire same:
. document, tuat the most extravagant year of the se-,
cond administration Was the year 1801), the year after_
first had the IiOLIOorUt a.geat Hotiei r. hew
the expenditure amounted 16 3,44a,776-deltars.
The most exiravagaut ye.ir of tlie' hist, adminis,
(ration Was the year succeeding its going out of
office, the expences of which 4/ere
voted by it, .viz, the amount of 2 -,427,753
lars.

Against the administratioh-of-Mr: Aalam4, I, in
common with many others, did, -and du . enler-f
tain a sentiment of hostility, and, have repeatedly
cried out against it for extra..aiganCeand 'fur
sio.i, and tur waste, wanton waste of the, public re-
sources. , I find, ho. ieVer; upon Consideration,
whether. from ,the_ nature of inn or from the
nature of thiugs, or .1.-yent hatever other. cause,,
- that ti at admmist ration, grossly extravagant
-.I did then and still do heneve. to have b.:!en, if
stied by the criterion ofthe succeen,lig one, was
ri patent 'of 'retrenchment and ,o0110.;ly. ;. and 1
ask tiie House to pot the goesituni to th ,
e.uselves,
whether we are insets to, sec,at ail. fo,ore period,
.an aLlininistration more .econotnical than ihat ut
w Mich eye hive just now taken leave ?
.And this
meaning to
,cass the slightest imputa-
. tattoo on the present.. Tie person'now at-the head
of arfiirs has, al least in one respect, conduted
s'erf in his high
.ortice. in a spirit dear to toy heart ;
it is the spirit of a.g,:•ntlernair. The fiist 'session er
Ci.nki,,ress tinder t last. adroinistra tion .was a_ period
of retrenchment. Throw the session of last suiu-•
roZT.out of the quesCion,.iind tnisstnnst be the session
of:reform under ,the,pleaerit. Have we any le .son
to conciu..ie from what,we.-have yen or heard, tint_
we can look forward to any po!icy rnwe economical
,than that of the.a.itninistnltion of. which We have
just tak.im leave.? „I Wish to he .clearlyonderstuad,
that its the yqar
.1800, in which-our expences
Mounted to e-4 3,448,690. dollars, we had thre4'-
'gun frigates; six frigates hunt 44 to 32, two of 3,4
of a large size, lox of_32 smalier,. eight trout 32 to
20, three sloops of war,
,and our hiigs trcrri 18 to
16, and, five brigs•and sc.:boaters troth 14 to 1',.! guns.,
employing a total of adritnis,
tration,: too, it should be reolarke.f, not only built
every frigate, every vessel of yiidectable :19`tc,:: (yes,
Sir, built then) frOmithe stutnii), which the Untiel
States now have,- but many oiners s hint have been
since sold, and the proceeds of which haire.gone in-
to the Treasury. • At this. time, . then, the
United States had this formiLlable, force afloat, winTli
nearly .8,000 semnen were enyloyed ; (I know the
-documents only state 7,300, but I asst :old f.om he
best authority, there were nearly 80,000;) when
our flag at least. triumphed in out ovsibseas, w/hen
we had, pothirtg of that vstein of drawn 4 within our
shell, • w hiCh the_ gentleman. from Connecticut so
jO;tly derides; when Nye. had not reacted the
4helled state in which we are placed by the
jercburso-law—at that time the nßvyof the Uni ed
States cost nearly three ondiuns and a ball, tnali-
ing for each seaman about, four h tnidred.and seventy-
two dollars. 1 that the-e statements .are
dry, but they.are lawful plopollluthis thq ate
dry. According to.t.tie, spletpelit wi,tcl2 my col•
league 01r. 13asseti). .ant which he has,
iota you not only ,cante- front :of the
Navy, hut was., in the SVCl.etaly', own hands writtng,
the number of seamen which ia e had last year in
employ. was 2,723, which post the nation 2,4(27,000
dollars; for each man employed within a tithe 01
goo dollars! Now, .Sir,ll- every seaman. under -tile
last adrmuistration cost double the expense which
was incurred for the same man uricLr the preceding
one, it the, same system iscutitinind„ we• have no
reason to doubt that the searnrm next year
.will cyst
duuble.pf their presept expense.. But event suppose
.lie expense to remain the same as it now is, will
the tepresematives. of the American people agree to
maintain a naval force which costs us rime hundred,
within 13, dollars per man; the use of which no
man has attempted to guess, much less to. deinon-
smite.?
I wish to be indulged in a little' farther coMpara-
tive political anatomy. I believe, Sir, that the sime
good results in politicS front conivaring the merits of
different administrations, that result, in .ireedicine

.p tr SIXPENtE lIALFPENIN

and surgery from the disseaion of the htirtian badYl
ilia they are ti in by the 3a.ne tniei:
end, then, thr in ,hig year reoi, he rstrma ie•i td.-tv
ofthe officers t 391,000 dolais, an thit he, -titii-to.d
p y of the seamen, in the same year, t,1318,1/00 du •=
tars; dod yet, S,r, by the e4ti..ate non before we, and
which any Gentl:o,an c'm tin%) t. , made for the
Year 1809, the subsistence of th, orticers,,_ their
pay and that of the s-:anit-n, a.nounis only . to'
:296,000 d llars, a su;n legs by nearly an hundred
tho.asand doll .rs, than .the estimated pay alone of•
otliC-?.rS tn. I SOO ; COensec of the
whole e,tabllghtnent approach, f,.r the I.st year,
within one million of dol:ars of thy vx,pen,e of the
year firs. mentioned. lam .at a loss to account for
Inese,444pnife.st.incw)iiitetiCieS, and j. might • say so-
lecistni our political arithme,,c. We Lore t
naq 4erndloys 2,7:00 men, wh'cli
costs Wit a ibird;.as much as a navy empi ,‘ lug
nearly ,00(J men; and yet,l,vheit to•o,)m.
pare the great (;1?j,..-ts of exiiense,,, to wit, fray a:4
subsistence of the officers :ind seamen, t.,ie roward,Qt
of vaiour 'and. merit, a'e tifid oQntrAst, wliicli
I b,!',lve. nv
.mati in I his -110...5e is :pree.a.e,119.44:
plain!

Now, Sir, ft the whole subjeet, thank God I is
now before, tr,s; let us look at the eX.penceS I the
to rin corps. I have always unders:ood that_bia-
rihes .were necessary in proportion to the -extent of
_the nity ; that such a force-is pot on board oti every
'ship of such a nu ober of . I find, that in the
.r.tar 'lBOO, wh:n we had nearly 40 ship of war in
rn.wned win ne:tay B,ooo.inen, the
"expense of the mantle corps :Amounted to. 16.2,000
d-flars ; :and in I 809, whtli we have ten or fifteen
of all sorts,. Inannell atilt e,300 seitaien, tite
einense of the nitrite corps artiotinti tott.l-,000
• dolari: and yet, Sir, it we luck at the items, there
does cot seem -to 'be a very' great variance bet wean
,oate QV. the 'most in); Ttant ; !or Instance, I find
tha• the clothing in 1800 way estimated a' 33,000
d,ll.irs ; in 1809.1 but 32,000—1nd ye; the troops,
whose do Intig p osts 1 000 doll irs less, tvith
so,uoo dams more, , _

Then • come the navy yards. Of these, that of
W;ls!)itag.ton' alorce has cost neafbi one-halt of the
sum expenled'oti theni all. Well might my col-
league sy it was -worth as 'much -as the wf ole,
hen it had Coii a 4 unu, h —when, in'iced, • we
have ski,ut•ssed a considerable town, and the most
tlo,nishifig town too in this wider.giou, ca,lect
ill,- city t,f Washington,.b,.ilt out: of the public
reasnrj.

. \ve have econorised until we abcolutelv
tve- reci it. d the annual cost of a seaman frtttn 4;g
d allars: as it was under. the very. wasteful. expen-
diture, of Mr. Adams's. administration, down to-. the
moderate sum. of 837 dollars I We hare econo-
mised until a pzdtry iieet,,conisting of v.es,els huilt
to our, ban to s::y nothing of those..that have been
sold, and the warlike stores of which haze been re-
tained and preserved, .which fleet was built, rquipt,
and every cannon and. ituple cent of wir purchased
under the
:old administration,* has cost us twelve
millions of d2llars, when it cost the preceding ad-
ininistration. but nine ! Is ibis no argument fur re.
'Gentleman from Connecticut (Mr.
Dana), tells yon he does not wish an annihilation,
but a mairin of the naval establishment.. Sir, as
long :is a single chip remains in, that nary-yard, you
will never see any thug reforin—as long. as
you have,a chip 'of public ,property, one chip of
iive oak
.belong to the United Siates, you will have
a ni.inriding in his carriage with a long ,retinue of
4.1:-.01.nie,, ;and clerks, to aloe care of it. And, Sir,
<4:titletnao from dunnectic;:it does nut ine.ttl•.
utterly. to disgust the people Of the United States
agatnst a*navy ; it, in truth,
,he is , a friend to
'a navy, ought to join and. put -down this navy
; and nor, u iih'iny friend from North Caro-.
(.`lr. Al:icon) keep it up, in hops the enor-.
nin‘ of the evil will at some Lime or other correjt

Among the maty reasons offered to this House
for reta.ning the various parts of this establishment,
no one w,ord in favour of the marine•corps—
that, went sub silentio—but a great deal was said in
favour. of Washington. We were told that our,
• fleet night be Copenhagened, and that it was there
tore necessary' to ~tow ii a city here. We also heard
of the great press of work in the large towns'—of
the tnercant ile enploy which Uiere came inicic ,tu-
itetiti:w with that of the United States. I believe,
Sir, I liar 0,,r workmen, and men of all descrip-
troo,, from the. highest to. rue "lowest—I spc
subL'rdi
ll'ielrteb!-Ttir the elong ago tumid the truth of the
proff King's chaff is better than
_other men's corn. But it s, ems, that in order to
get a.ccninnodity cheap, we are not to go where it
is to be had:—oh no ! there is competition !—out
we must .bring. workmen here in the mail-coach, by
which conveyance, I understand, slot only live
s:oc.k for the navylard„ but copper bolts, and such
light articles are sometimes brought—l suppose, to
get Out of the way of competition—competition in
the markets of Philadelphia- and Baltimore, where
they are bought at • private sale. 111 this way have
seamen, in some instance,, been conveyed; and
unquesttOrably every utaerial.of ship timber and
naval stores has been repeatedly brought from Nor-
folk to this place, at an immense cost, work,d 'up
here by men colleted from Baltimore; Philadelphia,
&c. in Order that, so worked up, it (niht go back
to Norfolk, there to remain ! • But, Sir, if our ob.
jest really be to prevent our fleet frombetng Copen-
lvagened, we had bettei.porit above the falls of Nia-
gara ; there it would unquestionably be Most secure;
uniess'the' party on the other side of the take should
fit out a fleet to attack ii, in which •case, I suppose,
we must retort to another series of measures similaT

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adopt r. the protediou of our cotn-

,oeree and navy. -
An embargo to prote& ships of war ! This is in-
deed putting-the dart before the horse. We are to.
have a navy for the protection of commerce; and
all ,our measures in relation' to it are. calculated on
the basis ot keeping it,,' (poor thing !) .Itke some
sickly ci,ild, out ot 'harms way ! On the same prin-
ciple of economy on which 'the navy yard is kept
tin here, viz. for fear that merchants and others'
Sil:Th hi come two competition with the Goveinment,
I pi esuine We. have /Sent •abrOad- for ii;irikaten 'to
carry on the public. buidings.
It the navy-yards. are to be kept up here merely
that it. may be under our eye, I would' humbly
gliggest, Sir; that ite first pluck out the beam
that-has long blinded us.—We nezd only do that,
t see this building falling to pieces over our heads;
:mod yet an enormous appropriation is called ,for
towards finishing it, - which I • have no doubt
rny.worthy coileagne over the way (Mr. Lewis),
w tit press very strongly before the 'close di the
Session.
1 had forgotten the gun-boat"; 'and perhaps
t:te best notice which can be taken of them-:'is
that which is -taken on so-rte occasions of other
th'ngs; to pass by them with contempt. They
ire not worth bringing: into account, except- for
their "expence. Children Must have toys and
baubles;, and we must indulge 'otirselveS in an
•-xpenc6 of many millions, ou this ridiculous play-
ttong.

• But, Sir, the sale of our superfluous vessels met with
the !kb objection, that they were to be purchased
up by Christophe 'and .petion.; and. that the con-.
stituents of my colleague (Mr. Basset) are to be
terrfied, if not into bodily fear,. at least out of
their I), ace of mind, by these vessels ; and at the
same time we are told that Christophe was in such
good creitit only forty miles off,"that vessels are.
building at Bal!iitiore for his use ; and yet, Sii, n 44.•
Gentleman has brought forward a Bill, making it'
penal to supply these barbarians with ships of

war and warlike stores. In other words, Sir, to
avoid the possibility of Christophe- and hiss seamen
•fonndering on board these rotten hulks, my col-
.lea4ue would: much rather drive him into Balti-
more, where he c.iin purchase good vessels, which
will answer. his purpo%e much better than atese
frigates which . the barbarians-would not know haw
to manage, iaid which are not calculated, from thpir
great dranght, for predatory warfare in the West
Indian seas. !lily worthy colleague, too, has given

'us a curious illustration of the superiority of ;mild
over military force, by comparing the. navy of Great
- Britain with her army. I suppose, if the argument
were re.torted.o-n my colleague, by a comparison of
the army of Buonaparte with his navy, he would say
that the same amount was not there expended upon
the army ; whereas, in England, the amount of
money expended, 6n each• is equal. But does not
my celleague know that one, and the chief cause
of the superiority of the British navy over the army
is, that in the navy men rise by merit—that they
do not gee in, ('o use a seaman's phrase) " at -the
cabin wiiidol4 ;"----and that the army, if we give
credit to the P.-irliamentary investigation, is a mere,
Sink of correptiou;a mere engine of patronage, and
pl :ce in which 'a corrupt Commanderin,Cbief
icls according to .his vile pleasure, and the pleasure
of all the pimps', and parasites, and haT!ots, who en-
viron him I• This; Sir, is the cause of the superiority."
of the naval over the military force of Great Britain.
But When'the British navy shall have etfeated• what
the armies ofs'othir nations-from time imnierriorial
have done, when h shall. have subjugated whole
continents, then will I, agree in the superior power,
of eaval over military force. I have no hesitation,
in saying, that I would rather vote for naval than
tnistary force ; and it is, because a naval force has
not the same power as a -military ; I have never
heard .of a despotic power created by a naval
force, unless perhaps in the chieftain at a band of
pirates.
With respe&, Sir, to this patriotism; or this re-
publicanism, that has left the - tObacco fields and
cotton plantatiols, and taken up its dwelling in the
counting-house, I beg leave to express my doubt of
the faet. I never have had that high opinion of
the mercantile class expressed by some Gentle-
men ,in this House—I think of them as of Other
men ;. that in proportion to the temptations to
which• they are exposed, so are they virtuous or
otherwise. But, Sir, I have not, and cannot have
confidence in a man to, whom the Great Emperor
has given a fraternal squeeze, whose property is se-
questrated at Bayonne or St. Sebastian'; I. disclaim
any thing like personal allusion—l speak of a class
cannot hive the confidence on the subje'a of
Our foreign relations, in a man so situated; that I
can have in the planter or farmer, whose property
is growing on his land, around the house in which
he he nightly ,sleeps ;• and why 1 because, minas mu-
tandis, I :should not have the same confidence in
myself. Ishnuld not believe- it , possible; if I had
rich cargoes under sequestration in France, that I
could vote tree from the bias which the jeopardy of
that.property.would throw on nay mind.
In the course of my observations, I think I for--

got to mention, that when the United States kept
40 sad of armed vessels afloat, and employed 8000
searnen, we had no navy-yards at all. If we had,
there must have been some extraordinary oversight
,';ornmitted bythe then Secretary of the Treasury ;
(and I believe politicians were not any more apt
then than now to omit any items of public expence;
they crowded in all they could). In the estimate
which I cold, in my hand, there is no item of that
exp,-nce. And I hope, if the House agree, (which
God turbid !) to so much of the Report of the Corn.
►nittee of the whole as retains the frigates and ships

of war, that they will at least consent to cut
;:own the navy-yard at this place, and break do% n
the supernumerary marines. 1 hope, at least, that
tl►e marines wil► be reduced, and that we shall re-
tain, at least, not mole navy-yards than ships.

BUONAPARTES COMMERCIAL POLICY.

ITS DIREFUL EFFECTS ON THE CONTINENT.

• An article, of which the following is a transla-
tion, has been very extensively, though covertly,
circulated upon the Continent, where it has made a
deep impression. Thu agents of France at Hain-

bnrgli have offerect 4 reward at 6no crown; to wt.:)-
. ever will initirol agai-nst the writers and printersOf
it ; and-the 'possession of copy is subjected to a
penalty of 300 crowns. Tit fads and the reason-
ing will befonnd to be extradei .from the very ti-
teresting and- able work lately published by air
FRANCIS IYIVERNMS, " EffeaS of the Continental.
Blockade
,upon the Commerce, &e. of the.. British
-.Wands ;" w/I;ch the ruinous operation of that
Measure upon the Continent, and its complOte
potence as asainst this *country, is indisputably
established.

" Lamentations of the Continental Nations of Europe
upon the. interruption of their Commerce address-
ed to all the Princes of that part of the world.
44. SOIIEREMNS, PRINCES, FATHERS OF NATIONS,

" Deign to listen to the complaints extorted from
us by that universal system of prohibition to which
our commerce iss el übjeed. Tne justice and the
high importance of, these complaints are sufficiently
Clethonstrated by the afflicting condition to which
the people 'of the Continent are reduced.
." Now that this system ot. commercial warfare
against England, from which we were taught to ex-
pea such mighty advantages, has been carried on
for some years, -we may be permitted to inrjuire
whether it has in fail been productive of any a&an-
tage to tis. • -
From this. inquiry we shall find that while the
Continent is every day more and wore embartassed,
imgpwerished, and distressed, Great Britain ad-
vancing in a course of prosperity and wealth, and
feels none- of the ruinous consequences of the re-
straints by which we are fettered.- Sp far from it,
she every year has been, able to render herself more
and more independent of the 'Continent ; to open to
herself new channels cf foreign commerce, and to
discoVer within herself, new means of supplying all
.hei wants in the same manner as the attempt which
was made from 1793 to 1796, t o
.starve France by
depriving her' of all foreign torn, only serving to
develope her resources, and to stimulate her to an
improved cultivation of her own sod.

At.present England is supplied with corn from
America, Barbary, Sicily, and from her growth at
home,. wnere cultivation is every year exteude-d and
improved. In addition to this, she has 'etfee.ed a
great saving in her consumption, by prohibiting the
use of 'barley in her distilleries, which are now con-
fined to sugar. This is beneficial to her in another
way, by taking off, at a fair, price, that. surplus
quantity of 'sugar which the Cunt:tient is 'prohibited
from teceiving.
" Wine she Obtaing front Portugal, Madeira, the
Granary Islands; the Cape of Good Hope, Sardinia,
Sicily, Spain, Greece, and indeed through Many
channels from France itself.
" South America furnishes her with hides, and
.North America v.ith timber; hemp she gets from
Bengal, and she will soon raise enough of this article
for her whole demand in Ireland, where very exten-
sive marshes have been drained for the cultivation
of it. From thence, La, she supplies herself with
yarn and linens.
" She has rendered herself independent of Russia
for tallow, partly by the substitution of oil; and
partly by the use of inflammable gas. Froin the
coal which is employed in the produdion of this
gas, she extract, pitch, tar, rosin, and a sort of tur—
pentine; and she has discovered that the fish 'of her
own.seas s iii furnish .her with as much 'isinglass as
she mar_require.

" Iu her silk Manufactories the -raw material of
India and China is Sound capable of being used
wit bout the intermixture of any other; and her
clothiers have been equally successful with• British
wool/.

With respect to, the exportation of her own
produce, the European blockade atfects4Grem Bri-
tain SO little that her manufacturers nre scarcely sen-
sible of it. Such is the prodigiously increased and
increasing demand for her goods throughout India
and America.

" In ti it is proved beyond a doubt by the mc;t,
authentic public documents, anti by the testimony of
the most intelligent and impartial travellers, that the
industry, the commerce, the public revenue, and
credit of England not only base not sustained -any
diminution, but, on the contrary, have been iliCreaS-
ing, and that every class of her population is in a state
of occupation, pro;perity and comfort.. If we re-
verse the picture, what dreadful evils are suffered on
the Cortinent ! Our ports are closed, our ships can
no longer be employed in carrying on that trade be-
t Ween different parts which their different circum-
stances render indispensable, and which cannot be
conduCted by land carriage. Thus the intercourse
which is essential to the social system of the Conti-
nent cannot be maintained. The Southern nations
can no longer exchange their wines, their oil, their
bilk;, Scc. lot the corn, the hemp, the linens, the tim-
ber, the iron, and the tallow of the Northern. In
every country there is an' accumulation of their sur-
plus produce decaying and perishing. They are un-
able to purchase with it the most necessary foreign
commodities, and thus they lose all motive and all
inclination to exert their own powers of production.
Another source of distress to, the Continent is, the
want of many articles which England. furnished, and
the privation of which has thrown many industrious
persons out of employment. Raw cotton and yarn,
dying goods and different drugs, were articles of Ibis
sort ; and what adds to the evil is, that the Conti-
nent is not suffered to purrThase from America those
of them which she could supply. The mischievous
effeds of this prohibitory system do not confine them-
selves to one or to a few branches of the trade and
industry of particular nations. All the happiness,
all the habits of industry throughout the whole Con-.
tinent are affeded by if; every apartment is pervad-
ed by embarrassments, obstruclions, and oppressions
of various sorts. The very means of correspondence
by the Post Otfice, whether upon topics of trade, of
literature, or of private business, or friendship, are
restrained by it. Upon the coast, the inhabitants
are precluded from their old occupation in . the
fishery they lose their maritime skill and habits,
the natural.ntirsery of seamen is rendered unproduc-
tive, and all hope is taken from the continent of
again becoming, able to establish a navy, military or
commercial, capable of contending with those of
England.
‘ It is by no means eid merchant alone who suf.

tlattivan—z Lisbon, i Dublin. Ml—. 4 Cadiz, i Water-
ford. , .

PRICF•OF STOCKS
THIS DAY AT TWELVII O'CiLOC/Cp
Consols
- -64 i

THE S UN.

SOLEM QUIS DICIRL FALSUM AUDEAT ?

LONDON.

SATURDAY, AUGUST 11, 1810.

Dispatches were this morning 'received from Lord
WELLINGTON, dated Alverca, July 25. It appears
that the advanced corps under Brigadier-General
CRAUFORD, consisting of the 43d, 52(1, and 'gsth
Regiments, with part of the 14th Light DragoJns,
and the Ist German Hussars,,a troop of Horse Artil-
lery, and two Battalions of Portuguese Cha,sears,
having remained upon the right bank of the Coa, in
order to give countetnance to' the garrison of Al-
meida, were attacked in the morning of the 24th
by a division of the French army, of which a large
proportion was Cavalry. Notwithstanding the vast
superiority of thek enemy, our troops successfully
misled every atempt to break in upon. them

M3twl

and, after,a severe- ac. on, ra",A\l tueir rMre'“
the best 'order across the C though not vi ii.lict:
considerable loss, 'wild), ;needing wounded
amounts to a tiout fzi7o men.

'After our troop bad crossed the Coa, the enerai
made three desOerate attenapts. to carry the bridge
by assault, but were repulsed every ritue with gr(Pt
loss. • •

Lieur-Col. 12-lum. and Capi. CA ttaorr are arlos
the •British killed. The British Inf4ntry, and lb°
ad Portuguese Chasseurs, are replied to:have distio'
giaished illemselves gteatly in, this and the 43d
and 95th Regiments are those which tine suffered
most. .

-Wben the Dispatches catne away Geti-6-ai
was .wahin two days. march of Lord NVELLLNGTON*

This morn%;g we received Portuguese Papers to
the 30th ult. It appears that some movements of
importance have been made both by the British ova.
French armies,. but from the manner in which till
are mentioned in these papers, it is difficult to speal
with any precision upon the subieti. • It is howeve,t
positively stated, that. GeneralsHlLL has marched
'from•his
.toimer position to Castel 8,.• for the
rauco.
purpose of joining Lord WELLINGTON : this mote;
talent. was Prob;ibly"tnade inconsequern, Generalof,
RSGNIER having marched to the northward, in
order to forma junaioit with MASSE JA.

It is reported, upon Are authority *of some letters
from America, that a Treaty of Alliance; oftelJsill6
and detens.ive, • has•been signed,at Washingtorl, 134'
tween the United States and the Spanish RevQitl-
Lionized ,Colonies in South Arnerica.. •3i •

Thursday Dr. DoNnAs visited Princess Am"!tip
4.1,
and' remained with tier Howl niginaess up"'4'
of an hour, and then retuned to Richmond.

.on,l'hui say his MAIE,STY Il>oit'ilTSUStlai ITIOrf"
airing c ing horseback: in Wind or Park, a "jisls;
panied by Pripccsses AUGUSTA. and SOPHIA/ -
DE did also yesterday mOrning'Writh the same Pei}'
cesses.
ci
Princess AmEf..l.A. continues in a fair way
recovery. _ •
sic
Among the officers proceeding to Cadiz, arer,„j
W. EttsitikE, and Brigadier General HAY. 'lf •",f—r,
Nye.!..L4NGTON shall he . forced to retreat, we tulli,
stand Government mean to form an: army io
„ji 1
South of Spain, and to keep considerable detiw°
tnents aflnot to Larass the French at every point•-,.,
This day General MIRANDA and the two.D4'l,fi
from South Arrierica.are.lo Visit tile Bank and 'oil
Tndia House". Gee" it is said;_. VO,
sesses one.ot the most valuable libraries in Fdor.4l;,
He, has made a: great collection of scarce anu cull •
hooks.and manusyipts. - - - ill)
On Wednesday Commissioner PUGET dined .;
the Court of East.lndteDireCtors, preparatory t°1`,,,1
final depai lure fur Madras. He .is to take his pas'' by
in his Majesty's ship Bartitdoes, comtnolided
,It
Capt. FIODGSO : which ship is now fitting oil. '4;4
Stn head, and. Will: probably sail the first fi4ir wii ,
_. .
after next week. ' i for.
Orders went down to Canterbury on Mouu3Yass
training the Militia regiments in garrison to 113,
of the field pieces with the drag ropes.
op
On Monday a grand slim fight will take place .y,
Clapham Common, consisting of the Ist sorr%'
Lambeth, Christ Church, Wansworth, Clarba' )
and several other Volunteer Corps in Surrel• s
The following is an extract from a letter receicts
from Lisbon
LISBON, JLI t.y 16.,—We have no news from lb!
army later than the 23d,when no alteration 0,I ..1,.
tiou had been made. 'We have heard this 1130111-..
a report, though without any foundation, that are,re
treat was in contemplation ffotts. Alverche, the 1),,,,r
sent head-quarters. I do not beliete the ruOlii
myself; • though there are many that do. The Fr'll,a,
seem endeavouring to get round Lord ‘Sit./.11;05
Tort, The. skirmishing continues as succ,-25,1u op
usual : it. is calculated that the enemy nave lost I.leii
Men. The' Light Horse particularly distingoi'llo,
themselves. It is. reported Generals Hitt. all(' the
MANA are ordered to join Lord WELLINGTON, °S
4(0
French are too strong near Badjoz. Provisions:o
plentiful.. A Gentleman is arrived from the arlli
.who states, that accounts have been receive] diet
the French are sickly, and. not less than 10,0° lief
them are in
_the hospitals of Salamanca, ant i cAtlie
depots. Two thou Sand men have deserted from

French."
The DeputiJs from the newly-erected Gn'te,,o4s
Mem of the Caraccas, who arrked here sonic
tej
ago, are aoout to return home. We •understalid t
leave this country perfectly satisfied with lb
-dad
ceplion they have met with from Government' er
the result of the negociation, into which ail heir
instructed to enter, which was conducted on
part in the name of ISHRDINA ND VII. subject njoi'
approval of the Council of Regency, establishie.io
Cadiz. It is expected that some commercial fac.,4l„-ttd°
very advantageous to the Caraccas and this Compe'
will result from the discut,sions between these

puties and Government.
k 113('
The Merino sheep lately arrived in Col-- pi'
boar, have been put on shore at Marino, neard
sage. Their fleeces are remarkably fine, arLerd
ready they hale attracted a considerable numb
amateurs in the breeding line. The Spanish be ie
herd and his dog, who continue with the flocks'l
objets of n., small curiosity to' several-41'e 004
exhibits a piaure of rude pastoral manners lot°
in these islands ; and notwithstanding the nolsvii
of our climate, he preserves his own country 0 to
and sleeps on the ground wrapt in his blanket° dpi
unseparated from his flock, and attended b

• -
fait h ul dog.
In consequence of a wager that there were
Irish than English executed at the front of
gate, the opinion of Mr. Jack Ketch was taken,

said, " he believed it xwas a lie,7