Star.
London, England, 1811-09-19 00:00:00

AMERICAN PAPERS.

NEW-YORK, AUGUST S.
ARE VIE FBENCII DECREES oFti ?—Captain Bacon,
of the ship Spartan, of Plymouth, (Mass ) who ar-
rived here on Saturday evening in 47 days from Lon-
don, informs us, that on the 14th of July he was
boarded by a French frigate, who enquired where the
ship was from, and on learning from London, in-
formed Captain Bacon that he must burn her, as she
was not worth
,carrying in. They then proceeded to
examine the papers and letters, and a ftewards returned
them. They then informed Captain Bacon, that in
the course of three weeks they had captured twenty.
five English and American vessels, several cf whom
they had burnt. One was an American brig from
Lisbon bound to Boston, burnt the day before; and
another, the ship Betsey, from Lisbon for Boston.—
He did not seem inclined to give Capt. B. the names
of the other vessels, but told him be was very fortu-
nate in not having a valuable cargo, as in that case
lie should have sent him in, and if he had a moderate
cargo of any kind, he must have tsarist her ; but as
she was oily in ballast, he permitted the Spartan to
proceed.—The pilot who brought the ship Spartan up
inf rms us, that on Friday last, off Lnng Island, he
spoke the ship lss, from Monte Video, bound to Pro-
vidence, R. I. abe Captain of which said, that the
place htd,surrendered to the patri Its, and that they
bad declared themselves independent.
PIULADELPHIA, AUGU:iT s.
Tits CCP is etnne—The long-impentiirg. ire, the
smothered hatred, the disguised war which
lass
ed
so many aspects, which has ultimately
and promised r..tlress, and professed justice only to
vary the farms of injustice —wbch has oppressed the
commerce, corrupted the morals, insulted the dig-
nity, and violated the rights of this free anctindepen-
- dent nation —which has murdered our people, and
carried thousands into the mast adieus of all bondage
—at length assumes an aspect less treachet nus, be-
' cause a more opened and determined hostility.
Great Britain at length avows her injustice, and
once more menaces our independence.
From the seat of the United States Government,
and from England, we az the same moment have re-
ceived advice which corroborate each other, and de-
termine the fact that Great Britain has resolved to
make war upon us.
' [The Philadelphia paper then mentions the arrival
of the Russell, from Liverpool, with an account of
the condemnation of the ship Fox, and other vessels.]
Such is the substance of the infoimation by the ar-
rival of the Russell at New York.
Prior to the receipt of these advices, we had receiv-
ed authentic informatinn of the course already pur-
• sued by Mr. Foster, at Washington. Upon his first
arrival we bad suggested, that five or six weeks would
determine whether the " intents" of the British Go-
vernment were " wicked or charitable." The youth
and incons:qiience of this Gentleman had induced an
' epin;oe, that he was intflteled to be one of those roes-
. aengers whom Pope Sextils V. described, by the
sanootlineas of their chins, better adapted to cony sy
Viet dcax than raeript:---to pat take of a carnival than
to announce hoisterons war. Vs-e supposed him sent,
Ike some of his predecessors, t s ilioigne ; or, like
others, to amuse or abuse our Governinent. I-lam-
rnnntl, List n-., Merry, Inakine, Rose, Jackson, and
?gorier, had in succession been employed upon this
raissi •n—and upon c .nsidering their course of con-
I curt, it vas rot easy to believe that this young Gen-
fa-man a:as to be the.agent of a policy,,more auspi-
-1 e nu,. The distresses in which the detestable nature
. of lb it:sli policy had involved that nation, induced
,s Ine o believe that ii_ essity had tatieht leer justice,
I
find the coming of Mr. roster was, with a credulity
which has never been diminished by disappointment
i oby reason, considered by thousands as the final
iimeasure which was to heal all former wounds, and
put a stop so future injuries.

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Others, and we among this class, believed, that as
he could not have been the person selected. if any
thing like substantial justice was to he done, his mis-
sion was to be only a business of amusement and pro-
crastination —that he was to make no distinct pro-
mise‘, but to carry on a discussion of contingent pro-
p Isitiors, and to give aid to Messrs. Pickering and
Co. in their undertakings.
It appears that we had mistaken the character of
the mission, and that the Minister's valet would have
I exechted the service upon which Mr. Foster was sent,
with as much skill and as much good manners as the
diplomatist himself.
Mr. Foster has fallen nothing short of the insolence
of one of his predecessors, in the style and port which
he has assumed—and he has exceeded him b perso-
nal indecorum and even personal rudeness.
On the snhject of the Little Belt, our Government
i displayed an alacrity to give the most satisfactory ex-
' planations, and it is presumed did so ; but on the sub-
' ject of the nun-importation law it was replied, that acts
of legislature belonged to the Congress of the United
States, which would meet in November : and it would
be with that Body to act in their province as wisdom
and justice should direct.
But that, on the question as it related to France or
1 any other nation, the United States would not inter-
fere hut in concerns of the United States alone; that
the United States had given to Great Britain, in com-
mon with France, a fair and liberal opportunity to
obtain not only an uninterrupted commercial inter-
course with the United States, but, if she had accepted
1 the terms, an exclusion of France in her favour ; that
Great Britain had not chosen to pursue that path, con-
sistent with justice and her commercial interests, by
leaving the flag of the United States with free pos-
session of the neutral rights of independent nations—
that France had embraced the proposition, and that
it had now become an engagement for which the na-
tional faith of the United States was pledged, so long
as Great Britain chose to persist in her aggressions
on neutral commerce—that as it related to France,
she had complied with the engagement, and the
United States flag was, as to her, unrestrained and
uninterrupted on the high seas—and the United States
had no right to interfere in any matters of dispute be-
tween the two belligerents, in which she was not con-
cerned, and could not, and would not, make any re-
presentation on the subject.

This is the substance of the information we have
obtained, and it is the substance only that we take
upon us to give ; the phraseology is our own.

SPANISH PAPERS.