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London, England, 1811-12-24 00:00:00

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AMERICiIh PAPERS.

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NEW YORK, .NOVEMBER 14.
, A. letter from I ialifix :spates, that five persons, call-
ing themselves Americans, Are now confined in prison
s'lit that place, di prisdners of war, !riving been taken
in the drench privateey bilg Adele, captured off
• Carleston, a levi months since. By their own con-
qession, they entered voluntarily on board, but assert
. The plea that they presvme4 she was a merchantman,
.3/id were allured by the high wages offered them.—
AppliCation was Made to Admiral Sawyer for their
release, bit without effect ; the Admiral observing,
.s.^ el alit had they been-iinptessed from Ametican vet-
' •••1: 'sels, he would not detain,them after in application
.W ''siias made fir their enlargement; but the subject of
•'a neutral nation, who world voluntarily enlist under
the flag of the commnn enemy of mankind, to assist
- himin his unlawful depredations on the property of
their 'own • country, and against the only natiim
that is fighting the battles of tire world, ought not to
to unpunished!'
Ths:Wasp is at the watering-plate, waiting for a
wind to proceed to the Delaware, where, it is said,
etre will winter..
A letter from Washington to the Editor of the
Fetkral Gersette obseryes—“ It is bilieyed
• there are but two strong war men on the ponunittec
0 Wayi and Means (Smilie and Johnson), the ethers
being modfrate men: The leading. Mernbers have
• disrdant sentiments as to war. It is impossible yet
:to discover any decided view in those whts art consi-
4shetd
• The rktional Ineelfizetwer says, 200 Indians are
eintsodied at Indialpi, and threatened hostility against
the United ,Stacks, having shlt'one of our sentinels.'
Nov. 5t1.-.The United Seaips ;loop of war Hornet
has not yet sailetlfor'Enrop, Itte underst4td, how.
ever, that tyio-Meuengers, Lieut. Biddle and Mr.
1;;.ylor, left Washington' on Tuesday last, for this
city-,c, ogle destined for fianee, where the Hornet !topi
kst, and the other for England.
et/COMMIS ACCOMPANYING *VIE MESSAGE OF TUE
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Mr. Pulc,kncr, in his 1e44 to Mr. Smith, dated
Asnwori 17, lii 11, says, "My answer-to 144 Wel-
leslePs letter Was written under the pressure of indis-
position, and thn influence of more indignation, than
coul4 well be suPpiesse4l. 'His letter prOves What
• scarcely requites Noof, that if ihe present doveru-
Xnent cen•;suies, we cannot be friends with England.
p• iced edit analyse ii to you." Mr: Pinckney, in his
letter to Lid Wellesley, d.ited the 14th of January,
amts that the Aticrican Government has required,
arinditipenct.ble 4t the view of its acts of inteicourse
`and nnu-interconise, the annulment of the British
blockade: cf May, ISO 6 ; and further, that it has,
throtigh him, declared its con:Wel:a expectation that
olircir*Glocicades of a similar.character (including thit
4 ikbe island tpf Zealand) wilt be dilcontinuea. Dim,
bt add", liy what process of reasoning yourlonjahip
.as arrived at the conclusion, that the Government
cf the United States, intended by this requifition, to
)eclane thechampion of thp Edict of Berlin, to fa-
'thin its krinciiile, 41. the of Prance, while it 0*-
fected to adhew tQ ItS_CIWIIt tend to act upon some
puitneiship in doctrines, which it would fain induce
you tri-acimowlecl e, b&. ccadd not prevail upon itself
to avow, li Wttle . .1111 F to conjectu;:.
4.
Marquis 'e v, tri his letter of ;he 23d of Fe.
briinry, says, 4 No ob .f .
rcoon has ever been stated on
Vie part of thii Gover;:.4nent to an antic:ark; discus.-
011 Pf the principles' 8f any blockade, which may bit
I:emed eze4ptionable by the United•States.'? Then
,
'fllotra the following .tier ; ,
• Extfact of &Jetta. fearn Mr. Pinckney to Mr. Smith,
Secittni of State, Of tip linked ittites, dated Lon-
don, March .1., 1811 i —" I bad my deice of leave
at Carleton Houce yeverday., 'ht the Osurse of the
iliprt address which the'occasion requir4 I stated to
Ole Prince Regent:- the grounds 4pon Which it had
beconswaty duty to take my leave: and to commit
the Wiriness of the letaticn to a Charge d'Affaires,
nil& f• corichtled by expresiirg My regret; that my
lityublet efforts in the execution of the instruetiOns i f
my Government, to sat to‘Sights the 'embarrassed and
d4bintid.rtfationi of the two countries, had wholly
failed, and that I saw no reason '-to exp Oct that. the
great wail of their orefonciliatioi; was likely Fo Jr sic-
einutilished through any other agency.
44 The Prince's reply was of course general ;-but I
car,4,ht to 'say, that (exclusively of pleases of cocirtell)
tontained explicit declarations of thi most amicable
views and feeling's towards the United kitates.-,.
Lord Wellesley was the duly person- present at this

audience. • ' .
!‘ While I was in the outer roomy waiting until
the Prince Regint was. ready to rsceivp,,me, Lard
'Wellesley told me, that alley intended "to 41p4 ottt.
Mr. Foster immediately:, •" • •
In the correspondence between- Mr. Russell, the
American Minister at Paris, and Ms Qovernment,
Mr. R. io his letter of the 10th of May, 1811, en-
closes a liar cf all the American vessels whose cargoes
hayse been 'adm:tted byt order the Einierori*:(l.lils
no-contain:all the American vessels arrived sponta..
neoustrin the.ports of France since the Ist of
Vember, tna not. previokisly admitted,' except one,
whose paper's Wire mislaid: Mr. R. 'in his letter of
the 15th of July, to the time, stares, that 44 on the
sth of May he received a note from the Dike ei Bas.
Lido, chifd the 4th, containing a list of 16 Amtrican
vessels, whose captains had been admitted, by tlior-
-4el 41 the Empetpr, to discharge their cargoes. On
the 11th, having learned at the Council'ofi'riaes that
no new order had been recpived, hp addressed The
DUke:qf !bassanis again, • with II list cf Americanvessels ceptuied. `PliestmperPesleelined inahmgany,
decision with regard to it, before it hiid been submitted
to the-Courieil of Cownierce. The Coeneit• did not
meet befeie tie depat titre of tlic Eriiretor to Cher-
bourg, and during his ansestm,'eisd the feitlyals:
Jn the same letter Mr. Rowel. sayt, " I ocr4 sug-
Irked to him, (the• Duke dellassano) the evils which
resulted to our cpjnanercial intercourse with Fr:ince,
fr(,ot the gieat upeertainty. which attended A,' owing
to the total want oritheir part, of alearwegulasion. 1
request to know U b would have any communication
to make to me on thessubjecr, previous to the 'sailing
Of the John Adams: w.,s 14 to make this enguiriy
frt information, that several resolutions (Or the ie-
gulation-oloar ttadesliad been definitively decreed.
lie replied, that no such cornmunication• would be
snagehere, but Mr. Serrurier would Ire fully iostructed