Star.
London, England, 1806-12-27 00:00:00

AMERICA

• '
New Yolic;Nov. hail been favoured
with the following intere4ing extraft of a letter from
Alexandria, the contents of which our readers may
rely on as faa
mezandrh. 194 OR. 1806.
" The city of I.Vantittgton is now a ("mum of
Colonel Butt has publicly announced his prnje& to
feparare the Weilern territnryfrom die United States.
He bas Wit.crw son at the head of the army, in
league with him. There has been a council fitting
for three days at Waibington ; the refuk of which is,
that procers goes out to the Martini of the territory
to often BURR and %%Lamson ; and, till the *tarn
of the Maribal and Judge of the diftria, that the law
maw.' be carried into aka. The MilitiA of the
Union is immediately to be called out ; but if two
millions of ;:eople are determined not to be under the
Government of the United States, I do not know
what King Ton will do."

THE EVENING STAR.

LONDON.

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 27.
Sr. Joan roe Evetwogurr,..No bailee's at the Stock Exchange.

THE LATE NEGOTIATION.

The day after the Signature of the Ruffian Trea•
ty,. M. TALLIVRAND demanded the full powers of
Lord Itaasrouvw, who judged it not expedient to
with-hold the produltion of them any longer (Papers
No. 23, July as), a Rep which did not receive the
approbation of our Cabinet. It was argued, that by
his inflrudions he was to defer that aft until after the
French fhould revert again to the uti poidetit, the
balls of the Treaty originally propofed by them-
(elves; but by the delivery of them nn the very
$' day after the Signature of the Ruffian Treaty,
an imprelEon might be created unfavourable to the
farther progrefs of the Negotiation ;" a eonceMon, in
vain demanded before, made at that feafon, might
have been attributed to fear in our Government, and
increafed the demands of the enemy upon us. Be-
tides, the inaruments of the Confederation of the
Rhine, placing fo great a part of Germany effeftively
under the Government of NAPOLSOH, had then been
figned but four days ; if either, or both of the two
great Powers of Germany might have come to en-
tertain any hope that the effett of that projeft could
be defeated--to have feen a feparate peace eonclud-
al with Ruffia two days after that fatal tranfaelion—
and in four, a Minifter of England opening hit full
powers to treat—it would appear to have their con-
currence, and that there was nothing left to them but
acquiefeence.
The reafonings by which Lnrd YARMOUTH de-
fends the Rep he had taken, are inferior, perhaps, to
thefe in flrength ; yet is their weight fuch, as in or-
dinary cafes might defend an Ambaffador in exceed-
ing his ;nitrations, and in jullice they ought not to
be fuppreffed.

No joint or provilional Treaty could have been con-
cluded, unlefs the Earl of YARMOUTH had produced
his powers. NAPOLEON was Rated by TALLBYR•ND
to have many plans in agitation to extend his dire&
power and his influence. It was on the Bth of July
(No. 19, July 9th;, that the French Minifler, ad.
mining the exigence of the plan of the Ferltratien of
the Rhine, affured Lord YARMOUTH and M. d'Ou-
sus, that " if Peace was made, Germany Ihould
remain in its then exiding Rate." (No. st, July t 9)
This fall is repeated in dilpatch (No. aft, July 30).
In jußice to Lord Yana/ova-Ir, we here fay, that any
cenfure which may be erroneoufly paired upon him,
ion the fuppofition that it was for the flat time by
him Rated in No. 28, thus falls to the ground OW
No. 30, where the Paper No. a t is copied sannoriltr.)
The eminent Statefman who ran into this error, Co
eafy to be committed, would have thanked us for this
cot-ration—his furviving friends, wbo are infpired
with his fentiments on the like occafion, will receive
this remark in the fame manner. The powers of
Lord YARMOUTH not being produced, that plan was
finally figned on the 17th. If England would have
negotiated before d'Ou atm figned the feparate treaty
for Ruffia, it is evident the might exped better terms
for [midi. It was with this argument TALLEY•
RAND had preffed our Ambalikdor, when he told him
the Ruffian Treaty would be figned in two days—an
event which took place—(No. 28, July 30.)
Thefe two events Rem to have given a certain de-
.

gree of credit to the declaration of TA tux o, that
the only probability of putting a flop to the ulterior
projcdts of N•voLaoa, which he had communicated
to Lord Y. was by his beginning to treat in form.—
Tilde were, to march the army affembled at Bay-
onne, to feize both Spain and Portugal (No. 22) ; to
cad a new change in the Government of Switzer-
land (No. 28), and to carry into execution the mea-
farts he had before dated to be in preparation arida
the Todd& Empire (No. ix, June 33). The Me-
motial OSSI!AST14111 to the Rats E 3, and the

deprivation of the Horpodare of Moldavia and Wal-
lachia, flew that Inch defigns were really then enter-
tained ageing the Porte. A demand war alfcr faid to
be made by Prof4a refpeffing Hanover ; and it was
intimated, that ankh a formal negotiation was
opened. it mutt be fecured to that power. The great
internsl difirefe of France, and the utility of A per-
meson* peace to that country, would on one fide
tend to induce a belief that there obje&a weed be
facrificed to obtain it ; the thano3er of her Camas

would oppofe it : we fo hold the latter opinion, as
not to reproba►e former.
But the bell remedy which remained to be applied
after this coned:Goa, to convince France and the other
States of Europe, that we were net carried away br
that eagernefs for peace it might be, conftrued to
imply, was the appointment of a Coadjutor to Lord
Irmistourt, and feemingly on this uccouat Lord
LAUDCROALI vas joined with him in the Negociation.
But prior to his arrival, General CLARA' had re-
ceived from NAPOLIOII full powers to treat with our
Mioilter. ".He had acquired the temporary triumph
of reducing d'Ousett to fign the feparate Treaty,
and be opens his couferencffs with the Earl of YAIL.
Moo TH, by repainting it, as to its effedon the Ne-
gotiation, to be equal or• fuperior to any fuccefs in
war ;" that terms more advantageous and now be

allowed to France ; that if Hanover more to be re.
Bored, Pruffia mull be fuffcred to have an indemni-
ty ; he demanded alio. that the Cape Otould be
free pert ; and that divers reflitutions firould be made
to France and Holland of our acquifitioos in the
EaR and Welt Indies, in Africa, and the Continent
of America ; and be declined treating on the fubjea
of Sicily, on the fuppofition that Lord YARMOUTH
ought to wait to receive inftrudions from England
on that head, in cenfequence of the article upon it in
the Ruffian Treaty ; and he informed him, that if
the Peace with England were not rapidly concluded,
France mull lay afide the confideration of it for foam
months, as the mutt apply herfelf to her ulterior
views.—(No. 25, July 2.4.)
At this period Lord LAUDIRDALR'S Miffion com-
menced—who, as more fully acquainted with the
intention of this Court, was to take the lead in the
Negotiation (No. 29, Auguß 2.) Immediately on
his arrival in Paris, the two Englith Minitters deli-
vered in a joint note to the'French Plenipotentiary,
General CLAIM!, in which they claim to treat folely
on the original balls of the sitinfidetit, modified by
the conceffion that Sicily might be exchanged for a
fatisfaBory equivalent. Mention is alfo made in this
Paper of the great acceffion of power to Miro:am'
by the change effeBed by him in Germany, during
a period in which he was treating with England on a
principle to which that all was repugnant: and, it
was added, that England might alfo form views in
other parts of the world of infinite importance to her
commerce, and the power of her Empire (No. gs.
G. Auguß 7.
This Note was delivered at a conference, in which
Lord Y. recalled General C 's recolleBion to
the circumftances of his having conftantly affirmed
the all polfrletis to be the only bails on which he could
treat ; and the French MMiucr affededtu tontider as
Mole what has paffed on that fubjea. and nothing
more than political reveries (romans) (No. 35, letter,
Auguß 9.) To our Ambaffadors' joint Note he gave
a written anfwer, in which he Rates, that Naroxsox
confidered the Negotiation as already brought to
mans' ity ; but that a retrograde dire lion was now
given to it. He oblerves, that its eftablifbed balls '
were io faa two : the firft, that the Treaty thould
be for the hellion; of the two Contrailing Powers.
and of their allies; and of a nature the matt perma-
nent which could be given to it': and the fecond.
the right of each tb interference and guarantee,lvith
regard to Contentntal and Maritime affairs ; and that
it never could have entered into the mind of the
Emperor to treat on the art poisidie—a principle
which would have Induced him to have, retained all
his conqueßs from Auftria. Gets. CLARKe alfo re,
infills upon all the ceffations on the part of Great

Britain which he claimed in his firft conference with

Lord YARI6OUTH ; and reproaches our Plenipoten-
tiaries with the interminable delays following their

mode of Negotiation. (No. 35, D. Augui 9th).
In their reply, which was delivered on the day they
received General CLaaaa'S anfwer to their Paper,
they decline entering into the topics brought forward
by. General C —as leading to matter to ba
avoided in fa& important difcuffions—limiting them•
felvis to objeaions to Come new affertions contained
in that intirument, and refuting the charge of delay
urged in it r.and, in a Note to M. T Do
they demand parports to relate to England.

The American• Non-importation Ad, palled in the
laR Seflion of the Congests, has been carried into
execution by the feizure of fome of our vefids in the
port of Charlellon, whofe cargoes have been landed
and lodged in the Collom-houfe force. We have
not learnt whether the fame rigour has been exercifed
in other places, but probably it has.
In confequence of the above important information,
a Deputation of the American Merchants waited on
Lord Geer mug yeferday, to receive infiruiliona
with refpea to the line of conduct molt prudent to
be adopted under the exifling circumitances. The
anfwer they received was, we onderftand, that what-
ever inconvenience might have been experienced,
there was very little likelihood of its being of long
duration ; aml bat little alarm has of coutfe been
excited by the occurrence, which, though of ell up-
pleafant defeription, is certaily not portentous of any
very injurious refult to our commercial inters*.

The accounts from the North of Europe continue
to report the Defeat of the French in Poland, The
ne NM however, clef no credit. It is the old
.11irry travelling from port to port, am! from all of
them in fucceifion may we expeft to receive it.