Star.
London, England, 1807-12-29 00:00:00

THE AFFAIR. OF THE CHESAPEAKE.

Wastatuorow, Nov. 17.—Mr. Blount, from a
Committee of the Houle of Reprefentatives on a part
of the I'l44:lent's Meffage, reported this day on the
fubjedt of the attack on the Chelapeake. The report
commences with as expraga of fenfibilify at th;s

outrage ; (Wes the receipt of information relative
thereto from the State and Navy Departments ; pre-
fents a general view of the circumßances, obferving
that it might be raid to have been incontetiibly proved
that William Ware, John Strachan, and Dan. Mar.
`tin (three of the four perfons taken out of the Chefa-
peake) are ci izens of the United States; but the
Committee add, that they conceive it unneceffary for
them nr the Houfe to go into any inquiry on that
part of the fubjell, as in their opinion whether the
men taken from the Chefapeake, were or were not
citizens of the United States, and whether the Che•
fapeake was or was not within the acknowledged
' limits of the United States at the time they were
taken, the charadler of the att of taking them remains
the fame.

" From the foregoing Eats, it appears to your
Committee that the outrage committed on the frigate
Chefapeake has been Clamped with cirsutnriances of
indignity and infult, of which there is fcarcely to be
found- a parallel in the hiftory of civilifed nations, and
requires only the fanEliun of the Government under
colour of whore authority it was perpetrated, to make
it jua caufe of, if not an irrefiaible call for, inflant
and fevere retaliation. Whether it will receive that
fanetion or be difavowed and declared an unautho.
tiled at of a fubordinate otßeer, remains to be tie.
tersoined by the anfwer which fh.ll be given to the
, demand of explanation—that anfwer, now daily
1 expelled, will either fink the detectable ad into piracy
or expand it to the magnitude of premeditated hol.
1614 againa the sovereignty and independence of
1 this nation ; and until its true character (hall be
,
) fixed and known, your Committee deem it expedient
i to decline exprefling any opinion as to the meafures
proper to be adopted in retaliation to it. But the
Committee add, as other ads of aggreflion have been
committed within our ports and waters, fuch as thole
mentioned in the Prefident's Mefrage, the Committee
are of opinion that it is expedient to provide more
effedually for the protedion of our ports and bar.
bours; hut not being prepared to report fpecifically on
that fubjed, they ask fut eter indulgence of the Houfe,
and fubmit the following Refolutron :
" litfolved,That the attack of the Britifh Chip of war Leopard
on the United States frigate Chefapeake, was a flagrant violation
of the jurifdidtion of the United States •, and that the continuance
of the Width squadron (of which the Leopard was one) in their
waters, after being notified by the Proclamation of the Prefident
of the United States, orieting theat to depart the Imre, was a
further violation thereof "

NovEMBIL 20.—A motion was made by Mr.
Williams to adjourn until Monday. This was op-
poled by Mr. Crowninfhield, who, amrng other ob-
fervations, faid, 6, he hoped the Houfe would not
lofe two days in the week, when we were perhaps
on the eve of a war."—The motion was loft.
IN SENATE. EXTRAORDINARY MEASURE.

Nov. 24.—Yefierday Mr. Adams from a Commit-
tee appointed t.n a part of the Prefident's Meffage,
reported to the Senate a Bill for the prefervation of
peace and maintenance of the authority of the United
States in the ports, harbours, and waters under thei;
jurifdidtion, which received a fir( reading.
The bill is very long, and contains numerous im-
portant details. The outlines ate as follow ;
Ir authorifes the Prefident to permit or interdiET,
at his difcretion, the entrance of our harbours to all
armed veffels belonging to a foreign power, and by
force to repel and move them from the fame, except
in certain fpecified cafes, in which cafes the laid
veffels are to conform to rules prefcribed by the
Executive.
It further, in crinfequence of she late conduit of
the Bata, prohibits the entrance of any Britifla
armed veffel into the harbours or waters of the United
States, except when driven in by tires of weather,
or when charged with difpatches; provided that
whenever reparation (hall be made, to the fatisfac-
tion of the Prelident, for the outrages committed
upon the national fovereignty, it (hall be lawful for
the Pt-trident to remove the interdiaion.
On fuel) veld refuting to depart, the (hall be
deemed to have made a hollile invafion of the terr;-
tory of the United States, and than be proceeded
againfi as an enemy, and may be feized and bronghs
in and forfei ed. and (hall accrue wholly to the
captors. All pacific intercourfe with fuch veflel is
forbidden.
The Prelident is authorifed to ufe the land forces
and militia to feize Inch veffel.
He is alto empowered to refute admitlion to any
veffel belonging to the fobjeds of the nation whofe
aimed veffel 'hall fo remain in the harbours of the
United States.
In impowers any perfon or perfons to burn, fink,
or defiroy any Inch veffel, for which a bounty of
dollars is offered on each guu of Paid veffel.
It authririfes the Prefident to carry this Aft into
effe&, and fit out all the armed veffels of the United
States.
BOSTON, Dsc. MOREALT.",—We Utl•
derftand that General Moreau, about a week fince,
left Philadelphia for the Weiler n Country, it is laid,
for New Orleans. His unexpated depart ere and
the rapidity with which he has paired on his journey.
have excited confiderable euriofity, not unmixed with
fufpicion, which feems principally to have atifen
from the place to which he is faid to he oinr-
One would think that quiet ought 'to ha
rellored, and the authority of the laws fuhini
On the contrary, infolence and infubor
braved all authority until the folliiwing
treafon appeared in a French paper printer
Or leans. Complaining of the judgment of
it is added—
" Should there be no other remedy if
proved that the Batture belonged to the
vioufly to the cetfion, I have no doubt but
tier of his Imperial and Royal Mirka), wil
his duty to lay the affair before the Emper
general inftruetions do not anthorife the
immediate application to the American Got
on behalf of the Louifiani.rns. It is well km.
the Emperor Napoleon will think himfelf bound
and in honour to fee that the treaty of gallon be
The Emperor of the French did not cede ht
to be devoured by the harpies of chicane,
Alexander knows how to cut the Gordiar
iniquity. That is what the Greek Americ'
for they well know, that milers they cat
inquiry, the judgment will Pot avail the vi
paper that is Rained with it."
The fentiments of indignation, and the
excited by the perufal of fuch unparalleled
cannot be expreffed. Americans ! remember
Prefeft Lauffat, in the very ad of forrcndcrii

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fAitia to the United States, laid, 44 Louillanians
Remember always that you are Frenchmen, and that
trance will regard you as her children l"—Thus it
will be, that upon every inttance of difcontent in
Lnuitiana, and which intrigue can always excite and
f,,ment, the Emperor of France will be appealed to.
It teems now to be pretty well afcertained, though
not ofliciilly, that Bonaparte is refolved to enforce
his blockading decree againft our commerce. As
Congrsf have been called together to take into con-
sideration the hottile aggrefflons of one of the Belli•
gerent Powers, we hope that executive partiality will
nor induce them entirely to overlook thofe of another.
To thew our •readers that this decree is a dire vio-
lation of a folemn compact flipulated in the convention
of sBOO, figned by Bonaparte hirafelf, we fubjoin the
lath article of that convention, from which it appears
that to enforce fuch a decree as that of Novembcr
let, is fuch an aggreffion as amounts to a eaufe of
war, and is at once equally infulting and injurious.
Whether the refeutment of our Government is already
fo exclufively engroffed with the injuries received
from Great Britain, that they have none to fpare for
Stich outrageous violations of folemn treaty, remains
to be feen.

Art. ix. It (ball be lawful for the citizens of
either country to fail with their (hips and aterchan-
dize (contraband goods always excepted) from any
port whatever, to any port of the enemy of the other,
and fail and ttade with their (hips and merchandize,
With perfea fecurity and liberty, from the country,
ports, places of thofe who are enemies of both, or of
either party, without any oppofition or dißurbance
Whatfoever, and to pafs not only direftly from the
places and ports of the enemy aforementtoned, to
neutral ports and places, but alfo from one place
belonging to an enemy to another place belonging to
an enemy, whether they be under the jurifdiftion of
the fame power, nr under feveral ; unlefs fuch ports
or places fh,lll be adually blot-laded, befirged or rimed.
" And whereas it frequently happen, that vefids
fail for a port or place belonging tc an enemy, with-
out knowing that the fame is either befieged cr in-
*retied, it is agreed that every veffel fo circumtlanced
may be turned away from fuch port or place, but the
(hall not be detained, nor any part of her cargo if
not contraband, be confifcated, unlefs, after notice of
fuch blockade or invettment, the (hall again attempt
to enter, but (hall be permitted to go to any other
port or place (he (hall think proper. Nor (hall any
'etrel of either that may have entered into fuch port
before the fame was a&ually befieged, blockaded or
insetted by the other, be reftrained from quitting
loch place with her cargo, nor if found therein after
the redation and furrender of filch place, °tall fuch
veffel or her cargo be liable to confifcation, but they
fh.ll be rettored to the owners thereof."

F3REIGN INIELLIGENCE.