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Nl* YORK, JANUARY tit
A letter is said to have been received in town this
morning. from a Merolla. of Congress. stating that
the Non-Importation Act had been amended in Cern-
mittee, so as to permit allgoodsishippeel!in Great Br'.
tain previens to the 2d of February to an entry at
our custont.house. The Bill thus amended was to
have been reported to the House on Tuesday last,
Mr. Madison, it is to be regretted, has had too
much faith in the assurance of Champagny, the
French Minister of foreign relations; for it will be
seen, by this same Minister's report to Bonaparte, in
this day's Gazette, that on the Bth of last month he
says—,46 Sire, as long.as England shall persist in her
Orders in Council, your Majesty will persist in your
Decrees.'
This Report, too, was adopted at an extra session
of the French Conservative Senate, held on the 13th
ultimo.
We leave this difficulty to be settled at Washington.
Something must be immediately done. The Presi-
dent's Proclamation now is a nonentity, and no sei.
care of British goods can be made under it.
TN! Bert.-.46T. Gallatin, in his report of the.
2341 instant. gives the following general statement of ,
the Bank of the Unitei States and Its branches. He
Observes—
" On the subject of Directors; no statement *Mt-
Per is made : and in relation to the capital stock, its
Mess antoerm, and the portion allowed to each Bank,
are the only particulars which can be required, or
are.exhibited in the statements transmitted to this'
.offioz. rt was ascertained some years ago from an ,
-authentic source, that near three-fourths of the stock
(bout 1800 shares) were held by foreigners; and
the fact, though not officially communicated to the
department, was stated in the report respecting the
lank, made to the Senate on the 2d day of March
1809. No subsequent or other information has been
obtained on that subject ; and, with very few excep-
Aims, the names of the Directors and Stockholders. I
either abroad or in the United States, are unknows
to the Secretary.
" The act to incorporate the Subscribers to thOi
Bank of the United States does not itself expire int
any positive clause of limitation; but it is enacted by
the third section of the act, that the subscribers shall
be a corporation and body politic, and so continue
until the fourth day of March, 1811. It is presumed
that some meal's will be devised either by Govern-
ment or by the Bank, whereby the debts dee to and
from the corporation maybe collected after that day.
So far as relates to the Treasury deposits, no incon-
venience can arise, as, in any event, the loan obtained
from the institution is a sufficient pledge for their
payment. But a doubt may arise, from the manner
in which the .act is expressed, whether under the 10th
section, the Bank-notes still in circulation will not be
receiveable in all payments to the United States.—
The propriety of some provision which may removal
every doubt on the subject, er otherwise prevent the
inconveniencies resulting from that construction of
the act, is respeCtfully suggested.
(Signed) ALSZAT GALLATIN."
vaxx.
"France has ceased to violate the Nevis* Comm/ of the
United States."—Preddeat leladlaon's Proclamation.

COMMIIINT.
On the 16th of the present month, the fine Ameri-
can ship Canton, Captain Wickham, 14 days out
from New Orleans, with a very valuable cargo of
cotton, kc. was captured by a French privateer brig
of 14 guns, in the lat. of 29, and king 81, and order-
ei for France. Captain Wickham, three seamen,;
and two apprentices, were left on board the Canton,
the remainder of the crew, 18 in number, were taken
oa board the privateer, where they were detained for,
four days, when the privateer fell in with a small
British schooner from Turks Island, which being of
small value was not worth taking, and they accor-•
dingly put the crew. Of Americans on board her. and
they arrived at this port last evening. The brig had
captured several British and Spanish vessels, and
having manned several prizes, her crew did not ex-
ceed S 5 men. We are assured by the officers of the
Canton, that had the American seamen remained any
longer on board the French brig, they would certainly
have risen upon the crew and taken her, a plinlor
the purpose having been agreed upon by the Ameri-
cans, which was frustrated by their being put on
board the British schooner. The privateer was from
Nantz, had been some time cruiziag on this coast,
and was about to shape her course for France again,
after having added this proof to the thousands already
in our possession, that his Majesty the Emperor of
'the French " !roes the Americans !"—Chatitaca palter,
of the 24th Janstary.
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consequence of a trilling quarrel, a duel took
place at Barbados, on the 15th of January, between.
Captain BOARDMAN, of the 2d battalion of the 60th.
Regiment, and Ensign Ds Barron, of the Royal
West-India Rangers, in which, at the first fire, they
former was shot through the heart, and instantly ex-
pired. • The survi►or immediately escaped from the
island.

Tuesday last, at Aylsham, as a Mrs. Baxter was
sitting by the fire, the flames caught her clothes,
which were instantly in a blaze. A Gentleman past ,
sing by wrapped his great coat round her, and
tinguished the fire, but not till she was so dangerously
burnt as to leave but little hope of her recovery. Her
daughter died the same &ay, and was lying a corpse
iti the house at the time. It is remarkable that
about three years ago her sister was in a similar max.,
ner burned to death. •
Puauay.—Saturday another of those detestsilite
wretches of the name of French, who was convicted
last week at the Middlesex Sessions, of attempting an
' abominable crime with a young man at the Sun pub-
ifte house, Gete-Meet, Lincoln's-inn-fields, stood in
the pillory, in Holborn. He was brought from New-
gate in an open net ; but the populace not being'
;aware of the nature of his offence, he was suffered to
so unmolested till he was placed in the pillory, when
all the filth and mud that could be collected was
• brought to the spot, sad in a few minutes he was so
'much disfigured that not a feature (ibis face Was dis-
Iseraibie. After standing, the usual time,, he was so,
tilitaninthauatedas to be hardly Ala tanned, and was
again put into the cart, and coolaired bath to New.
pm, to abide the tesaisim of seasesei - *-A