Star.
London, England, 1807-10-21 00:00:00

ALEX GRAY

NEN: MAITLAND T. CIILUORT

101 IN SHILIIIFF.
' Monte Vidco, July is, !Stn.'

The Coittmittee having attended his Excellency,
finds that he is pleafed td decline repaying any part
of the dtities,.in money or otherwife, that have been
paid here—but will recommend to the Government
at home the repayment of •the duties on fuch goods
as Mai n& be fold, to that the duties !hall only be
paid on fuch part as have been, or may yet be fold.
A fuffici'ent force will remain here for our protec-
tiOD, until the expiration of the truce. His Excellency
hopes and thinks, that great fales will yet be made,
and every factlity.will be afforded to our commerce,
by the free admiflion, by land or water, of people
from Buenos Ayres with that view.

His Excellency recommends our furnithing him
with a lilt of debts, due by Spaniards to Englifhmen,
and not becoming payable until after the expiration
of the truce, witt► the tenor of their obligations,
that he may take the proper fleps for the fecurity
of the creditors:.

that date now before us, c intains the following ob.
fervations :
41 The affair of the Chefapeak orcafions much
talk and noife among the thonghtlefs and ignorant :
it is the opinion. however, among the moderate and
bell informed people, that if Britain remain firm, the
Pretident will concede the points in difpute rather
than ruin our merchants, by a war with England.
We have much to lofe, and can gain nothing by
fuch a contett. But fhould the prefent differences
be accommodated, your manufalturers and met.
chants fhluld improve the prolonged amity in
putting their concerns in fuch a Rate as to leen
their rifque in cafe of a new rupture. You may de-
pend upon the fad I am about to Rate—Many people
in this country long for a war with Britain on any
ground. Patriotifm !—the defence of natural righti!
—the maintenance of national honour ! will only be
mere pretexts with thole to whom I now allude,
Gould a rupture be effected between the two coun-
tries. Some of our merchants are men of high and
honourable principles; but, I am forry to fay, we
have many among us who would rejoice in any event
that would fufpend the claims of their Britifh 'credi•
tors. This, however, is not the only confideration
which fhould govern your commercial people in their
intercourfe with this country. The law of attachment
is the law of Maffachuffets, and operates in fuch a
manner that in cafes of failure the Britifh creditor
can never get a farthing of his debt. In the na.
tare of things a mants neighbours muff know his
infolvent circumfiances before hit foreign creditors,
and in confequence the two or three who fir&
attach, run away with the whole property. No
longer ago than lan week, there were feveral failures,
from none of which will the Englifb Creditor get a
tingle Wiling of the debts due to thetiL—Even goods
that were coming to fume of them, and not then ar.
rived, were attached as loon as the (hips came in fight.
BOSTON, SEPT.sa.
The following are the correct particulars of the
late defertion of fix fcamen from the Jafon frigate :
—A boat, with a Lieutenant and fix men, was fent
from the Britillt frigate with elifpatches for Colonel
Barclay, the Britifh Conful at New' ork. As loon
al the boat had touched the !bore, the fix men ran
sway; and were purfued by the Lieutenint, who
took out his piftols, and threatened to fire on them,
if they did not return to their duty. A mob On
diatcly alfembled, proteded the men, abufed the
Lieutenant, and handled him very roughly ; and
fomething ferious would have bappened, if Captain
Chauncey, of the United States Navy, had not been
prefent, who, by very great exertions, protected him
from their fury. The Lieutenant made a formal
demand oft the men ; but whether they were given
up or not, our informant does not know. Of thele
tranfaitiolis our informant was a witnefs.
The lag National: lateiligencer contains a number of
depofitions on the fubjeCt of the nativity of three of
the framer; taken by the Chefapeak. It appears by
them that William Ware, one of thole (-canter', was
born a (lave to Norman Bruce, of Allighany county,
Maryland, and railed op his farm, and went by
the name of Romulus. That John Strahan, or
Strawhan, was born at the Tan Yard of William
Tilghtnan, in Maryland, and bound sTprenlice to
the fea.fer`vice, and was of a light randy colt:Ole:ion ;
and that Daniel Martin was born at force Spanifh
fettlement in America (Bonaire), was 'a coloured
boy, and brought into the United States when fix
or (even years old : he was indentured as an appren-
tice by the Seledmen of Weflport, in Mafrachufets,
and van away when a; years of age. No mention Is
made of Wilfon, lately executed at Halifax. '