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London, England, 1808-01-02 00:00:00

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TO 87, MAD BY AUCTION,
Oa Thiseday, the 4 of February next, at the.Reillios Inn, in
liaisbnry,in the County of Oxford, M Three oTlock in the
Aternoon,in tink T
HE WINDSOR MANOR.of DEDDINGTOK
in the County of Oxford, with ;the COpisold eat dime
Marimial Rights belonging thereto. Aldo two
ilHouses, smiled die Great-House and the •Leader- Wiliftrerch
with extensive Yards, Homestelids and Out-builditios, dabs in
the Town of Deddington • and near to Acres ct abl ifittesed
Lands called the Castle Clones, lying adjoining the mit Town I
with the two Meadows of Ancient Pasture called the Omit Fisher,
and near 1000 Acres of very excellent Arable, Meadow, and
Pasture Land, situate in the Township of Deddington, and in the
Hamlets of Chfto" and Himpton-,in the same Parish,as the same
artnew let out upon the Umlaute of the open fields there.
TM above premises are holden on' a renewable Lease ter 111
years; pi.elly under the Dean and Canon, of Winteurs sad tarty
ander the Dean and Canoes of Christ Church, In Oxford.
Also, ieFrecbold.Farm-Hotise, with good Out-pudding% Home-
stead, and a Plot of about 3 Acres of useful Freehold Land, in
the Hamlet of Hampton aforesaid.
IPaiticulars'and Plans of the several Lots, with the Conditions
et Me, win be left at the Oilltie of Mr. Caldmott, Solicitor, in
Rugby, Warwickshire; Messrs. Churchill and Field, in bedding-
" toski.Grer.Booth Tyndale, Esq. Lincoln's-bin-Fields, London ;
at Mr. GOdsoith, Land Surveyor, Hodlutortsn, Oxfoltelskire; and
st thi principal Inns in Banbury and Chipping Norco*: and Mr.
Taylot,ol Deddington, w W thew the Lots.

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41AERICA. .

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• SINAIIi.-SIEI7.NGTON CITY, NOV.; so.
In the debate intim House Of Representatives, on
the 27th-of November upon the memorial from the
Philadelphia znereltai4 Against the Non-importation
Act, Mr. C.adwirtztatizboltaid, 44 that :from the ru,
mours Which were afloat, and the dispotition of Great
Britain, he entertained ndhope. that she would do Ame-
rica justice. She was making peat? preparations==
endeavouring to decol the Indians on our .frontierse
and Sias rning htr in Canada :and Nora
Scotia. • , . .
Mr: Sinetz* said there was a party in the House
stronglY,prejuclised in favour cifthe British Government
--and that this wait a nieuure of that party:,
Mr. J. CLAY inveighed against the Non•impcirta:--
tion Act, and *said he felt mach hurt kt Mr. Smilie's
observation. The April of the petition were native
American Citizens., • •
Mr.-N=lOH was igainsiiiferring the petition, par-
ticularly "when we were, he feared, on the eve of a

war."
Mr. RANDOLPIT said, " if the prayer of the petition:
ers was improper, would it not be better to expose
their errors in a masterly report from a Committee
than to slam the door in their faces, and, affecting all
the airs of an Asiatic Sovereign, refuse to heir them ?
We were, he befieved, oR the eve 'is guar with Great
Britaix and we were treadingin the very footsteps of
the British Ministry on the eve of the American war,
and on the eve of the French war.
The }louse, Mr. R. said, had now been in session,
five weeks ; and, on the eve of a was, they were dis-
cussing whether we should import. locks with brass
knobs ; or locks with iron knobs ; they were sitting
there looking at one another, reading newspapers
writing letters, receiving bank cheeks, and counting
their money ; and the nation was precisely in the same
situation as it was when the Howe first assembled.—
If we were to hive a war with Great Britain, as he be-
lieved we *ere, it would become the House, at 'the
outset to conciliate those by whom that war was to be
• carried on : he meant " by those," the great body of
the American people, and not the rich merchant more
tharithe landholders, but not less. .
The question for referring. the petition to a Commit-
tee was, as we have already stated, lost.
Nov. SO.—Mr. COOK observed, that the House hair
been some time in Session' and had, done nothing on
the great national question for which they had assem-
bled. Some were in want of the information necessary,
and some perhaps of the disposition to act. For the
purpose of gaining that information, he submitted the
following resolutions :
1. Resolved, That the Secretary of the Navy be directed to lay
before this House a statement of the number of frigates and other
armed vessels composing the navy of the United Sates, distin.,
guishing those in actual service from those in ordinary and those
in want of repairs, the sums necessary to put them in actual ler.
vice, and the time necessary for making such repairs.
a. Resolved, That the Secretary of the Navy be directed to
ley before this Hogue, a statement of the number of officers and
men respectively, belonging to the Navy of the United States and
the manna corps.
S. Resolved, That the Secretary of the Navy be directed t•
lay before this house a statement of the number of officers and men
w Mak may be necessary to man the whole and entire fora of the
United States, including gun boats ; and an estimate of the es.
pence necessary to keep them in actual service during one year.
4. Resolved, That the Secretary of the Navy be directed to lay
before this House, a statement of the quantity, quality, and pre-
sent state of dad:Tiber and other materials belonging to the United
States, now on band, and the purposes for which such materials
may be suited.
. Mr. Smut wished the Gentlemen to state the object
of the Resolutions ; and whether the building of a
Beet was to follow. A report was on the table, vs:liich
was a part of the system of defence now in contempla-
tion. He thought it was best to do one thing at once;
he the refote moved to the further considera-
atien of the Resoluticlso this day week.
Mr. Coos was. surprised to find any objection to the
Resolutions ; they merely went to request information
necessary for the House to have.. was nothing
in them about increasing or decreasing the navy. -He
thought we had slept long enough be feared_ wt.
might sleep the sleep of death.
Mr. Miyina thought the motion of his colleajiu;
(Mr. Sznilie) very extraordinary. Notwithstanding
tae Gentleman's great antipathy to a navy,- he was
surprised that he should be unwilling to t the
House the information now required. • the
navy was to be increased or annihilated, it was neces
sary for the Houseto posseuthe information requested
_in the Resolutions. He believed there were not ten
Gentlerisen on the. floor, who knew the .preseitt situa-
tion of our naval 'affairs, how many vessels mere in ac-
real service, bow many Were in ordinary, or how many
were rotting. It had been said on the last day the
House were in session, that we were on the eve of war;
be believed one Gentleman had said, that We were ac-
tually at war. In this situation a Gentleman comes
forward and objects to the call ice necessary informa-
tion respecting the present state of our defence a
particularly when the winter was approaching, at
h time the difficulty of repairing our vessels will
be greatly incr.:wed. .
Mr. MUMFODD said the house had been a month in
Session and had done nothing, although the nation
was continually looking up to the House for some-
thing to be done. He the House would immt-
diately proceed to the eof the nation. Look at
the preparations in Canada and Nova Scotia, where

troop! have arrived. and others, am expected. ,
thalisatid men tdo, were said to be destined foe South
America, when they might in fact be destined foe
the West Indies; and 14 sail of the line were said to
he destined for the .:West Indies, when in fat** they
might be' to blockade our own ports.
Mr. DANA said, that the object of the Resolu•
tions was merely to
.gain official information ; lie '
thought ihem iMportant, as our affairs were certainly
in a very delicate situation. Seine gentlemen had
said that we were on the eve of a war ; if so he should
surely know our means of defence. If it was im-
proper in the House to know the means, it was im-
proper in the President to commend the subject I
their consideration.
Mr. Saone said, that if the Gentleman from New
York (Mr. Mumford) supposed that he was opposed.
to putting the country in a state of defence, be was
incorrect; he thought, that in our presenecritical.situsl,
tiOn, we ought to proceed as if we were actually at
*tr. But he did not think that beets were the best
merle of defence ; be believed thit our ports and har-'
bourn ought to:be fortified. • .••-. • •
Mr. Smilie's motion to postpone was lost. •
Mr..Coox said, he consented to withdraw the first
resohnion, as it appeared the House had received a
letter from the Secretary of the Navy, giving the in-
formation required by its; but he hoped the House
would adopt the other. • •
. The. qnestion was then taken on the three remain-
ing resolutions, and they were agreed.to. • . .
(hi the motion of Mr. Qpnwer' Resolved, 'a That.
the Sicrtiiry for the Departineitof Wai Aiiectid
to lay before this House, an account of the state of
the fbitificitions of tke respective ports .aref Iserbcnirs
of the unite States ; with a statement .of.the:risconies •
apPiopiiiieff for forti6Cations remaining lini*en-
ded end .41 estimate Of the sums necesurf for
completing such fortifications as'marbe necessary for
the defence.
Mr. ji.A24II,OLPH submitted the following Resolu-
tions : . • •
Resolved—That provisions 'ought to be made fly law for anti'
inn and equipping the whole body of the Mins of the Visited
States. . •
Resolied—That provision ought to be nude by law Rseproru-
ring a formidsble train of artillery foe the service of the United
States.
Committed -a Committee of 'Or whole Honse;
ffi
ade The order for tomorrow.• . •

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NEW YoRIC, DEC. s. . .
On Tuesday evening, pursliant to an invitation
from the Chamber of Commerce, s: meeting of Nat:
body, together with the Merchats generally of this
city, was held at the Tontine Coffee7house, Cornelius
Ray, Esq. the President : it was resolved, That a
Committee. consisting of 21 persona, be appointed to
take into consideration the Memorial respecting the
Non-importation: Act sent to Congress, and report
their opinion thereon.
A heavy gale of wind took place at Curacoa, on the
16th October yfhich the next morning increased to a
hurricane. the water forced its way into. the water-
'fort. washed awiy the batterier, Customhouse, Ord-
nance Office,. together with many private houses ; en-
tirely' destroyed the wall of the church yard, and
:pasha a number of dead bodies out of their graves.—
,British frigate Hebe, Captain Ellicott, ,parted her
-fastenings, and was in imminent danger. Many
house in Peter Destroy, situated S. E. from the town,
"vreti'vhstie4 away ; the isoint aid reef batteries were
paitlytestroyed.• Little Curacoa was under Water.for
several days. The shipping in the harbour sustaimed
but little damage.
Decattilia s.—Porrsesurr.—We learn that our Go.
svenunett received •no letters from Mr. Monroe, by the'
British,packet lately arrived. It was before known,
th4tOl% the 7th of September, MN, Monroe addressed
'i note to Mr: Canning, in consequence of his. instruc-
tions by the Revenge► complaining of the aggreision
on the Chesapeak, calling on that Government for re-
paration of the wrong. and for a final discussion and
_understanding on thew claim, to take whonisoever
they chum to tall their seamen, wherever found—and
issuringshim at the same time, that he was authorised
ttrtbhcur in arrangements liberally calculated to take
away all ground or that practice. It is now rumoured
that the answer was, that by the President's proclama-
tion, we had taken the business of satisfaction for the
aggression on the Chesapeak, so far in into our own
hands, that still, however, the British Government
was ready to enter into a discussion of that act, if it
could be done separately;• leaving their gederal claim -
to future negociamon, but..as•Mr. Monroe considered
himself unauthorised to settle this act separately, that
Government would enter with him into no explana-
tions concerning it, but would send a Minister to this
place for that special purpose. Whether this is a mere
manoeuvre to avoid a settlement, :and lose the subject
altogether in the endless. mazes of negociation,. is to
he judged of by the promptitude or the delay of this
mission. In the mean time our peace is left at the
' mercy of their officers,' whose interest and wish is war
with all mankind ; and how can it be pretendid that
the subjects have no connection ? They claim a right
to take those whom they call their seamen—( and
under that cover ours also) wherever they can find
them, even without their Own jurisdiction. And
Ist. Their Officers are its the daily practice of taking
them from on board our Imerchant vessels, and with
ffiern many more of .ours than of theirs. - - •
• 2cl. They have repeatedly done the same in foreign
ports and countries, partiCularly in Canton, in Lisbon.
and now lately in Madeira, going ashore and-seizing
them in the streets and h6usts of the place.:
id: In the instance now in question, they leave ex-
tended it .to the taking them by force from bur natio-
nal armed ships.. And • •
Oh. The next step may be to pnwole by their press
.gangs the streets of Neer-York add Norfolk, and take
from thence ali those whopay, suit them ; their prin7
ciple evidently gees to &at extent. : Ii it then suffi-
cient to receive satisfaction for ati *ct done under owe
particular branch of this Aim!, lrithoutnny assurance
that it will not be repeated the nett, day: under the '
others ? Certain it is, there liteverclia by iijailitsbjp
nor even a condolence of Peace, with .England, 'Ili:
long is no "American Citiien can leave SS oven shores
without danger of being 'seized by the .'firsi.Britiili
Officer be meets, and made to serve as a comthoir
seaman on hoard their ships of war ; and equally so,
that if the general question is not settled-now, we niay
give it ap for. ever, and letter citizens understand
that they are abandoned by "their country to the un;*
bridled powerof evevy.Britisb Naval Commander:
General Moreau. says a Pittsburgh paper of the
T•kh uk. arrived in town last evening.

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The Wiwi! bear ell the Lieutenant no-
-(ernoe of Jamul', at the • Session of the
Assembly, with the A House in answer :
0 Gentlessets .f the Ceigicil,
" Mr. Spealer, and bortlatais few. distembly.
" Influenced by an uniform desire to promote the
public benefit, I have deemed it expedient to assemble
the Legislature at the earliest period I thought con-
sistent with your private convenience.
los I should have rejoiced, had I been enabled to con-
avatulate jou on the success of our allies on the Con-
Onset of Europe : Amidst their reverses, however, it
We be recollected that the resources of the British em-
pia sent* unimpaired ; and I trust that an honour-
islak, iecure, and permanent peace will be, under the
bit:sings of PROVIDTNCE, attained by the firmness and
Moderation of his Majesty's Councils, and by the va-
lour of his fleets and annum. •
66- I have much satisfaction in learning, that the te:
meal scarcity of.provisioos, recently prevalent, is likiely
tole succeeded by abundance ; the late seagonable
rains will secure the island from a sudden return of this
evil ; yet I earnestly- recommend your adopting the
most efficacious measures for preventing the recur-1
rence of so rt a calamity. It was tome a sourse
of very 'ar gratification, that the distress was alle-
viaied / the effects of my proclamation, :which ex-
ilendeti 1 the term of the intercourse with the United .
Stem Of America ;• but the sUbiistance of the inhabi-
tants should depend at little as potsible On a resource
so precarious asthat ofa supply from distant countries:
' " the establidaing Of St. Ann's B4y_as a free Plc'
*alai the Slaking 'of Port-Morant, Port-Maria, and, galr
mouth, poets 'of entrance and Elearattcei arti.objeauof
..great iimportance; and cannot .be regarded otherwise
dun as additional proofs of his Maesty'spaternal care
'for the welfare of his subjects in this colony.
" Mr. Speaker, and Gentlemen of the Assembly.
"l rely with that confidence, which the eliperience
I have of your known -liberality so well justifies, for
those supplies which the exigencies of Government
require. . .
. . .'.4.:Gentlemeg of she Cana, .
" Mr. Speller, and Gentlows of she Anenqy, -
" My inspection of the militia throughout the Island
is
affords me the '
:faction of making known to you
the general ' ' velistate of that essential branch of
oil. defence. • eof the regiments in particular,
have made coil enable progress in discipline and ap-
pearanct, while the laudable spirit of emulation and
loyalty, which pervades the whole body, cannot fail of
producing the most beneficial consequences.
" The forts and batteries along the coast have al.
ready derived advantages from your wise regulation,
during the list Session ; a system of regularity, eco-
nomy, and military arrangement, now exists in this
establishment, which must effectually tend to the gene-
ral detente of the island.
v When I reflect on the great and arduous contest
in which thvßritish Empire is now engaged, it were
vain to *peal that our present meeting is in times
no common difficulty: from you I expect all that
can be effected by public spirit, united exertions,
and theNilLorifice of individual interests to the general
weal ; fippi me you may eel), on receiving, upon all
occasions, the most cordial co-operation in every mea-
sure .Which is calculated to increase the public b!ppi7
nesi, promote the prosperity, andinsure the safety
this country."
" Nada, N. • -

a to his Hewer I.3etssevant-Gentral Sir pat Coors, Knight
- • -of the Most Hoisoniside Order d tie lash, and Knight
- the eresetatt, Lientesiont-Goversor and Csinunander-in•Clik
• in and over that, his Majesty's Woad et Isamica, sad** ter-
. Soda themes depending in Amide", Chancellor and Vim-
Admiral a( the MUM
THZ ADDS Of TXI DOLT.
•"
Afil Awe your Honour,
4, We, ha Majeitys most dutiful and loyal subjects,
the Assembly of Jamaica, beg leave to thank your
Honour for your speech at the opening of this Session,'
We are fully sensible of your Honour's uniform
desire to promote the public benefit, and gratefully
knoviledge your attention in assembling the Legisla-
ture at the earliest period you thought consistent with
one private convenience :
a We regret the reverses which have befallen our
Allies on the Continent of Europe ; but we, however,
sincerely join with your Honour in the hope, that,
the resources of the British empire remain unimpair-
ed, an honourable, secure, and permanent peiKewill
be, under" the blessing of Pawn:mica, ultimately
`taint:

s' We shall give our serious attention to your Ho`
.Hour's recommendation of adopting the most effica-
cious measures for preventing the recurrence of
great a calamity as a general scarcity of provisions,
recently prevalent, but which has been providentially
idilosoed by the late reasonable rains ; and we grate-
fully own the beneficial effects of your Honour's pro-
clamation, in alleviating the distress incident to a .
prudence on a resource so precarious as that of a sup-
ply from distant countries.
44 We duly appreciate his Majesty's paternal
fOi the welfare of his subjects in this colony, when
contemplite the great importance of the extended
-establishment of the free ports and ports of entry -
.clearance.
•
" Your Honour may rely on our '
granting such
supplies for the exigencies of GovernmeAt, as the
tent of our means, and the existing circumstances
the country, will justify.
" We are happy to be assured by your Honour
the general improved state of the militia, and of
system of regularity, cecontony, and military arrange-
ment, which, under your Honour's direction, exists
`in the mina establishment .of forts and batteries,
yeigulated by the A.:to/the last Session.
44 Fully aware that our present meeting' is in times
Of no common difficulty, when the British Emiie
engaged inn most arduous contest, and the colonies
ci,re suffering under the pressure of sew and peculiar
diftressei, we are seatiblf, that it is iacluublut
us to) sacrifice our indioiduql interests, and to
ow gtratest exertions for the general weal ;
rely with the most perfect coatieace as your
flour's assurance of a cordial co.operatios
measure, which is calculated to increase the happiatm,
promote the prosperity, and insure the soßty of
c .untry."