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his negociatort with topics of a pacific nature ,ht
reaptct to England, urges, with increased obstinacy
and petulance, the demands with which the war set.
out, and which they both must have been assured
the British would reject, and then again returns
his grovelling adulation of Itussia. Mathe words,
reader
In discharging the dales of the oust ennunltted to yea, do
President de,ires that you will manifest the highest degree f re.
specs for the Emperor of Reelie, and confidence is the lines:lcy
and impartiality of his views."
Again— .4
" 1 shall conclude by remarking, that a strong hope Si enter.
tained that this friendly methadon of the Emperor Alexander /
will form an epoch in the relations between the Unite I States
and Russia, which will be attentively felt, and be long and enti- 4
newly distingaished by the happy consequences attendiag it.--
Since 1785, Russia has been the pivot on which all questions O.
neutral right have essentially turned. Most of the wars which
have disturbed the world in modern times have oriLinated
Great Britain and France."
Would heart of man believe, that this is the hi"
gunge held by a chief tut gistrate of one country Pik:
an injured Sovereign of another, whom he bad eay.
neatly endiavoured to destroy, and, at the very mo.
ment of inditing, wished to see prostrated at the feet
of the most implacable enemy and the most sangisi-
nary tyrant that ever existed ? What must evety
honourable American feel when he thinks of this dis.
graceful conduct in his Government ?
What must the Emperor of Russia feel when he
reads (he will read them, too) those instructions, ant
perceives that our Government endeavoured to make •
him an agent, a go-between, a pander in such a des.
ceptign as this attempted on his ally, Greitt Britain ;
for what but a deception was it to urge as iudispen.
sable conditions of peice, demands which are now
relinquished with she precipitation of conscious guilt
and fear ? Mark %Ora our Government say in this
first set of instructions :

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" By this the British Government would accr.iirf the right cr
search for seamen, with that of impressing from oir vessels
subjects of all other Powers. it will not escape yrtur attention,
that by admitting the right, in any case, we give up the principle,
land leave the door open to every kind of abuse. 'lle same ob-
jection is applicable to any, and every other amusement, whfali
withholds the respect due to our eag by not allowuig i; to
tea the crew sailing under it."
" Of the right of the United States to be exempt from the do•
grading practice of impressment, so much has been already said„,
and with such ability, that it would be useless, espedalfy to yon,-
who are otherwise so well acquainted with it, to dilate on ilit4
merits. I must obsetve, however, that the practice is untidy
repugnant to the law of nations; that it is supported by no wm..
with any nation ; that it was never acquiesced ID by eon 4116
that a submission to it by the United States we** the
donment, in favour of Great Britain, of all Mr. r
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rights, and of all other rights on the ocietio." • • • •
Here we have an express acknovitleitamt of Mao
Madison, that submission to impr4suips& would be
the abandonment of our rights on the ocran, yet )4
his subsequent instructions he agrees to that seib•
mission, and therefore, has, on hie own iteesiir
actually abandoned all our rights an the ma& -1/1`
other words, he has already expended the lives of Mei
or 12,000 American citizens, and wasted about &-
hundred and fifty millions of dollars, to place the
question of impressment on a worse footing than ever
it stood before, and to make a formal surrender, 4a
unequivocal terms, of all our rights on ocean... Pit
Liters scripts ausiussl.—We have his of official
thority for it.
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BARMVDA, & r. 2
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Admiral Cockburn is preparing here for sea, •in the
Appion, 74, with every dispatch, Rumour says. he
goes first to the Chesapeaket then against SavAnnah,
with the battalion of marines left.by him in the Che-
sapeake, and the remainder of the Bourdeaus troops.
The Portia sloop arrived here on the' 9d inst. We
understand she is the avant courier of a naval and mi.
litary force which left Portsmouth and Plymouth in
the middle of September, for this island, under the
command of General Kean, and the, orders of Capt.
Walker, of his Majesty's ship Bedford. The troops
are in the Bedford, Norge, Alceste, Belle Paule,
Hydra, Dover, Bucephalus, Gorgon, and a few
transports. We hourly expect their arrival ; and the
presumption is, that Admiral Cockburn will sail with
the troops and these ships, on an expedition against
the southern states of America. On the Ist inst. the
Armide, Sir T. Trowbridge, arrived from Halifar.
On her way she made three recaptures ; one of them
of great value, being a .large ship laden with army
clothing and army accoutrements. The Pigmy it.
rived at the same time with dispatches from England;
and sailed again to look after the Commander in
Chisf—hut where he is, no one knows. He left Ha-
Wax in the Tonnant, on the 4th ult. and steered to
the southward. The Menelaus is here ; and we look
for the Severn, from Halifax.
The Quebec Mercury of the Bth of Nov. says, " by
advices just received, it appears that the accounts of
the evacuation of Fort Erie, by the Americans, were
premature ; that hard only had crossed the Niagara:
but that Brown still retained possession of the Fort.
We are persuaded, again, however, that they must be
straitened for winter quarters on the Canada side,
cooped up as they are in a circumscribed space,
The transport ship Sovereign, bound from Eng-
land to Quebec, was wrecked on the the 18:h Oct.
last, on the island of St. Paul, Gulph of St. Law.
rence ; she had on board nine officers, and 186 sni-
dierrof the 49th, 58th, and 81st regiments, 2 ser-
vattri:2l Women and children i in att, including the
captain, mate, and 19 seamen, forming a total of 236
persons. Only 37 lives were saved ! The Sovereign
was sailing at seven knots an hoar; and it being about
seven o'clock in the evening, the rock on which she
split was not observed above three minutes before
she struck. The survivors were taken off the
island two days after, by the Champion, and ar-
rived here on the 3d instant. 'They bad saved
but a small quantity of provisions, and could nit
have subsisted very long. Lieutenant Rolfe, of the
58th, is thelitly officer saved ; together with two ser•
jeauts, 14 teak and file, and 10 seamen.
t.Orricass DROWKLD-49th Regiment—Lieutenant Hainbil,
Irlfe, and child; Ensign Wilson-58th, Lieutenants rarntsr,
~gut;
Goldsmid ; Surgeon Donaglacie-51st, Lieutenant
~Sew E
' aTheChampion n
Transport arrived here on the 3,1
hit= from Portsmouth, under convoy of the Liffey
frigate. She was captured on the 9th of October, by
the Mammoth American privateer; after an action oi
an hour and meaty minutes ; when the Champions
gunswere all disabled, and her rigging much cot.
She was plundered, during forty-seven hours, of err
cargo, water. and
provisions, to a considerable
ammatt and.then given up, leaving Captain limb!
to proceed where he pleased. Captain K. was roil-
dentien7 led to the relict of the survivors of the wre3