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tor-General of our Customs, who is to cause them the Press is busily at work in the North of Europe
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to be examined by Commissaries who have a know.- to convince the people that the projected changes will '
ledge of these branches, attached to the Ministry of . be for their advantage.
IDispatches were this day received by the Airiest'
Plymouth from Senegal, which she left the 10th ult.
Company, brought by the Morning Star, arrived 4
the Interior ; and who, in every such examination, Some German papers have also arrived by the
These dispatches, we are informed, contain some sa.
shall be assisted by two manufacturers or merchants, above Gottenburgh Mail. They are filled with de.
chosen by the Minister of the Interior. I tails respecting the manoeuvres of the English and tisfactory accounts respecting the safety of this enter.
If it, shall appear that the declarations are false, Italian, or rather French flotillas, off the coasts of Prizing traveller.
all the merchandize shall be seized and confiscated." 1 i Sicily and Calabria ; but the skirmishes they record 1
AUGUST 9. are not of recent dates.
COPY OF A LETTER FROM THE MINISTER or FOREIGN The intelligence from Turkey, brought by the 'Ger.

MUNGO PARR. •

SPAIN.

By accounts received yesterday afterneon from
Cadiz to the 22d ult. it appears that an opinion pre.
vails there, that the French are about to raise the
blockade of the Isle of Leon. The Spanish peasantry
are said to have been so extremely active as to have
rendered the subsistence and communications of the
besieging army extremely precarious.
The French before Cadiz arc stated to be only
16,000, a great many of whom are on the sick li►t.
and it has been found necessary to erect temporary
hospitals for their accommodation. The loss of the
enemy by desertion, disease, and by the adventurous
spirit of the skirmishing parties, is described as im.
mense.

man Papers, describes that Empire as being still torn
with intestine divisions of various kinds. An epidemic
distemper rages with great violence in Bulgaria.
STOCKHOLM, JULY so.
I informed you in my last that his Danish Ma-
jest had offered himself as successor to the late Crown
Prince, engaging, in the event of his succeeding to
the Crown, to make this capital his principal residence.
Since then, a paper has been circulated with much in-
dustry, pointing out the advantages which would
ensue from an union of the three Crowns of Denmark,
Norway, and Sweden. Although the sophistry of this
paper should not be too palpable to make it rejected
by every good Swede, yet the recent example of the
union of Holland to France, and the benefits which
have followed in consequence, would be an induce-
ment, ample enough, for us to resist by every means
in our power, a connection so abhorrent to that loyal
and patriotic policy which we have ever displayed.
CONSTANTINOPLE, MAY so. •
The operations -against the Wechabites are about
to be pursued with more activity. They have seized
upon the island of Bahreim and the town of Zobara,
in the Persian gulph, which renders them masters of
the Pearl fisheries. But Scherif Hemond, one of the
descendants of the Scherifs of Mecca, has advanced
from Jemen to Tajet, three leagues from Mecca.—
This event is the more important, because it is from
Tajef that provisions are procured for Mecca and all
the inhabitants of that holy town, whose territory is
sterile; and besides this march will greatly facilitate
the operations of the Pacha of Egypt, who is to at-
tack the Wechabites from the side of the Red Sea.—
They write from Cairo, that a plan of attack has al-
ready been agreed upon ; the different Generals have
been named ; the son of the Pacha, Fesum Pacha, is
to have the chief command. To this end a great
number of ships in frames have been transported.
EXTRACT OF A LETTER, DATED PETERSBURGII, JULY 7.
A very severe ordinance has just been issued, tend-
ing to prevent the clandestine introduction of mer-
chandize coming from an enemy's country by means
of false documents which the ships carry who are
loaded with them. Any one who can prove the ff►l-
sity of the papers of a ship shall receive as a recom-
pence the shird part of the value of the catgo. We
are at this time examining the papers of 60 vessels
from the island of. Teneriffe, now in this port. There
have arrived in that of Cronstadt above 200 ships of
different nations.
COPENHAGEN, JULY 21.
A pamphlet has lately been published in Sweden,
under the tide To the Scandinavian: ;" the author of
winch enumerates several grounds, why the future
union of Denmark; Norway and Sweden, under one
Sovereign, would be an event productive of signal.
advantages to the North of Europe. He also ob-
serves that the mighty monarch who guides the poli-
tics of the continent could not throw any obstacle in
the way of a similar change.
ORBERO, JULY 27.
M. Wegelen, of Stockholm, merchant, and Knight
of the Order of Wasa, has been appointed Speaker of
the States of Burghers, and M. J. Wistin, of Stock-
holm, Deputy Speaker.
PETERSBURGH, JULY 3.
Our Court Gazette has now given a detailed ac-
count of the operat;ons of our army in Moldavia,
whereby it appears, that at the storming of Bazard-
shiek 8000 Turks were killed ; besides the Comman-
der in Chief, Peglivan, 276 Pachas were taken pri-
soners ; the number of the latter amounted in the
whole to 1657. The loss of the Russians does not
exceed 700 men.

RELATIONS TO M. ARMSTRONG.
" Paris, August 5, 1810.
" Sir—T have laid before his Majesty the Emperor
and King, the Act of Congress of the Ist of May,
extracted from the paper of the United States, which
you had transmitted to me. His Majesty could have
wished that this Act, and all other Acts of the Ude.
ted States that may concern France, had been always
officially notified to him.
" The Emperor applauded the general embargo
laid by the United States on all their vessels, because
that measure, if it has been prejudicial to France,
contained at least nothing offensive to her honour. It
has caused her to lose her colonies of Guadaloupe,
Martinique, and Cayenne. The Emperor cid not
complain of it. He made this sacrifice to the prin-
ciple which determined the Americans to impose the
embargo, and which inspired them with the noble re.
solution of interdicting themselves the use of the sea,
rather than submit to the laws of those who wish to
become its tyrants.
44 The Act of the Ist of March removed the em-
bargo, and substituted for it a measure which must
have been particularly injurious to the interests of
France.
46 That Act, with which the Emperor was not ac-
quainted for a considerable time after, interdicted to
American vessels the commerce of France, whilst it
authorized a trade with. Spain, Naples, and Holland,
that is to say, with countries under French influence,
and denote ced confiscation against all French vessels
that should enter the ports of America. Reprisal was
a matter of right, and commanded by the dignity of
France, a circumstance upon which it was impossible
to make any compromise. The sequestration of all
the American vessels in France was the necessary re-
sult of the measure taken by Congress.
46 At present the Congress treads back its steps.—
It revokes the Act of the Ist of March. The ports
of America are open to French commerce, Ind France
is no longer interdicted to the Americans. In short,
the Congress engages to oppose such of the bellige-
rent Powers, as shall refuse to recognize the rights of
neutrals.
.6, In this new state of things, I am authorised to
declare to you, Sir, th .t the Decrees of Berlin and
Milan are revoked, and that, from the Ist of Novem-
ber, they will cease to be in force, it being under-
stood that in consequence of this declaration the Eng-
lish shall revoke their orders hi Council, and re-
nounce the new principles of blockade which they
have attempted to establish;; or that the United States,
conformably to the Act which you have just commu-
nicated, shall cause their rights to be respected by
the English.
64 It is with the most particular sat:sfaction that I
inform you of this resolution of the Emperor. His
Majesty loves the Americans. Their prosperity, and
their commerce enter into the views of his policy.—
The independence of America is one of the principal
titles of the glory of France. Since that epoch, the
Emperor has felt a pleaittre in aggrandizing the
United States ; and in all circumstances, whatever
can contribute to the independence, the prosperity,
and the liberty of the Americans, will be regarded by
the Emperor as conformable to the interests of his
empire."

The mast lively joy had been diffused at Cadiz by
rime additional communications from Mexico. The
persons in authority there, and all their dependants,
professed the most profound respect for the Regency
and Junta, and the warmest attachment to the parent
state. They said, that if money alone were wanted to
support her independence, a sufficient supply should be
transmitted to answer all her purposes. The documents
proceed to state, that from 16 to 20 millions of dollars
would be immediately consigned to Cadiz, and that in
the whole, sixty millions would be raised, if the ne.
cessities of the Government should require assistance
to that extent. Some new mines had been discovered,
which were extremely productive, and the most ac-
tive means were employed to extract their treasures.
Under a commercial regulation adopted by the
Junta of Cadiz, it is now permitted to export to South
America from thence, silk and cotton manufactures
in Spanish vessels, and for Spanish account. Before,
silk could only be exported if of foreign produce,
with a certain proportion of the native silks ; and cot-
tons were wholly prohibited.
General o'l)o:emu., according to some letters,
has been honourably restored to the chief command
of the army of Catalonia.

Letters were obtained from Gijon by a transport.
which sailed on the 10th inst. On this authority it
was said that the Marquisito ( Poaprea) had been under
the necessity of abandoning castropol, from whence
he crossed the River to Ribadeo, to withdraw into the
interior of Galicia. This movement was in conse-
quence of the return of the enemy to take vengeance
upon him for his successful intrusion. His detach-
ment is stated to be an irregular levy of 5000 infantry
and 600 cavalry, and the force of the enemy to con-
sist of 5000 troops.

Thursday, at seven in the evening, a heavy firing
was heard on the heights at Dover, in the direction of
the opposite coast, which, from the blazes of light
discovered at intervals, bad the appearance of being

The Dock yards of Antwerp and the Scheldt are
said to be abundantly supplied with every species of
ship timber from the interior of Germany, vast quan-
tities of which have been brought thither at an im-
mense expense by land carriage.

Mr. WHITE, Master in the Navy, is appointed su-
perintending Master of the Port of Chatham, in lieu
of Mr. SALSIONDI deceased, and is to have charge of
the gun-boats in Hoo Creek.
There are but five living out of the number of per-
formers who trod the Stage with the ever-memorable
GARRICK, viz. Mrs. ABINGTON Mrs. KEMBLa, Miss
POPI/1 Mr. O'BRIEN, and Mr. Moony.

Tharsday, Mr. John Armitage, a clerk in.the Bank, I
(not the person of that name for whose apprehension
a reward was offered,) who was taken up on suspi-
cion of being concerned in forging a dividend warrant,
was discharged out of custody, there not being the
least evidence against him.
Tuesday st'anight, about seven o'clock, William
Briggs, a native of Swalwell, 70 years of age, after
working a day's work as hammerman at anchors, un-
dertook to walk thente to Hezham and back again,
being a distance of 36 milts, in ten hours, I,r a wager
of £5, which he performed in eight hours with the
greatest ease, although it rained during his walking
26 mites of the said distance.