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44 RUPTURE Wll3l MR. FoSTEß.—Every body i>
asking if it is arne that there has been a rupture at
Washington, between the President and the British
A nibassador. Without any doubt, no negociation can
proceed at Washington until after Mr. Foster shah
have received an answer to the dispatches sent by Ad
miral Sawyer, respecting the affair Of the Little Belt.
—As to that, there is as little doubt that the British
Governmen. will demand from ours a plain and ca-
tegorical answer, whether Commodore Rodgers acted
in purswanee of any new and special orders ? If this
is answered in the negative, the answer will be im-
medi itely accepted, and means will be readily found
to pass over the affair on both sides. If, on the other
hand, new and special orders have been issued of a
hostile nature, serious consequences are to be feared."
—(Evening Post.)
INTERESTING EXTRACT OF A LETTER.
" A Gentleman, who has conversed with Mr.
Pinckney, informs me, that it is Mr'. P.'s opinion,
that Mr. Foster will not be able to succeed in any
other accommodation than that of the attack on the
Chesapeak ; that; as regards the Orders in Council,
the views of the two Governments are so diametri-
cally opposite, that no permanent arrangement can be
made, unless one or both sides recede from the ground
heretofore taken. Mr. Pinckney also observed,, that
when the information of the rising of Congress, and
the passing of the Non-intercourse Law, was received
in England, the English Ministry were unanimously
of opinion, that letters of marque and reprisal ought
to be issued against the United States, and communi-
cated this opinion to the Prince Regent. The Prince
opposed the measure, observing, that as Mr. Foster
had been appointed, and had received his instructions,
he conceived it to be his duty to wait the result of the
mission before he resorted to so great an alternative
as war. This may be relied en.
" Messrs.. Munroe and Foster have had a long
conference ; but Mr. Barlow is to embark for France
immediately.
" Smith's Expose has excited much uneasiness in
the Niece, and is working great changes in Mary-
land."
THE BEM IN AND MILAN DECREES RESCINDED.
JULY 17.—We are again told, that these Decrees,
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which the French G ,vernment have officially inform-
ed the world weie to be the fundamental laws of the
Ftench Empire, are now rescinded, so far as they
respect this country ; that is, we presume, so far as
they respect a few American-vessels that had arrived
in France on the faith of Mr. Madison's Proclama-
tion ; but how long, can any one tell, .are these De.
crees to remain rescinded as they respect us ? Will
Bonaparte wait till he receives the proceeding of our
next Congress, and then, not finding that this Go-
ya, ; inent has declared war against England, still
keep suspended his hostile Edicts ? Or is this no more
than a new nap of Napoleon's, artfully set, to catch
his ports once more full of American vessels and car-
goes, and then declare them all good prizes ? Let
the American Merchants beware.
Captain Dunbar, who arrived here yesterday from
Bourdeaux, sailed from that place, June 11th. He
confirms the account of the release of the American
trading vessels which had violated no Decrees, and
• ought never to have been molested: Captain Dunbar
was informed by Capt. Harris, a few days before he
sailed, that the Berlin and Milan Decrees were not
revoked, and would not be while the British Orders
in Council continued. The prices of imports are
merely nominal, as no sales can be effected on terms
that will pay the duties and charges, except of li-
censed sugar.
JULY B.—Arrived at the Hooke the British sloop
of war Atalanta, and the Tartarus, the latter from
Halifax, with dispatches. The Atalanta is to remain
in the Bay, for return dispatches. On Saturday last,
on the coast, she detained the ship Thomas Wilson,
Brown, from Tonningen for Philadelphia, with a cargo
of linens and glassware, on suspicion of sailing under
false papers, and ordered her for Halifax, previously
sending up, in one of our pilot boats, all the hands
except the Captain, cook, and boy, who were left on
board the ship.
The report of a rupture between Mr. Munroe and
Mr. Foster is without foundation. We have it from
unquestionable authority, that the conversation be-
tween those two Gentlemen has been of a mild and
pacific nature, and that the objections of each to par-
ticular points have for the present been mutually
waived.— ( Yet v-rerk Gazette.) .
The National Intelligencer informs us, that Lucien
Bonaparte has lately become a creditor of the United
• • States to aconsiderable amount (upwardsof 450,000),
having purchased that amount of three per cent.
stock cf the United States from the British bankers
or stock-holders.
JULY lb.—The following is an extract of a letter
of the 13th inst. from Washington :
" Mr. Foster has taken a house in my neighbour-
hood for twelve months certain, with privilege for
holding it for five years. This looks well, and fa-
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yours the idea of a settlement of differences with
England."
BOSTON, JULY IS.
It appears, by an article in The National Intelligencer
that Monsieur Serrurier, the Minister Plenipotentiary
of the French Empire, is brought forward to contra-
dict the assertion of the late Secretary of State, re-
gal ding the official conduct of the President of the I
United States, towards Great Britain and France. If
the pe, isle of the United States are prepared to admit i
such testimony in such a cause, they had better in- i
struct their Representatives-in the National Legitla-
tore,
formally to acknowledge what the agents of
France in the United States have already proclaimed,
Napoleon is our King. So infamous an attempt to
screen executive delitiquency, and to rivet the chains
er foreign influence on the betrayed people of the
United States, could not have been conceived even or
me men by whom it is practised. A state secret of
the utmost importance becomes known to an abused 1
nation, anti to Destroy the effect of its disclosure, the
(evidence of a foreign- Minister, whose Government
is ii p y implicated ii the issue, is brought fOrward i
by ti— Yreaident cf the United States and his advo-
cates I
JULY '22....1t Is believed by some persons that the
•Arnerican vessels, carried into France since the Ist
of November, will be released in the Prise Courts by
the older of Eonapate. The motive of such a mop