Star.
London, England, 1811-10-25 00:00:00

PROVIDENCE, SEPT. S.

The brig Ruth, from Lisbon, arrived here, was I
fired at and brought to by a British sloop of war;
arid when within a short distance, a musket was
filed, the ball of which passed very near the man at
the helm.
The brig Telegraph, arrived here from Charles.
town, was fired at and brought to off Block Island,
and detained all night by the British frigate Guerrier ;
the Cornniander of which inquired of Captain Bishop
whether Commodore Rodgers was hung : and to
ceiving an answer in the negative, he informed Cap-
tain Bishop, that unless the Commodore should be
hung soon, that was the last bag or cotton he should
13e suffered to bring from Charlestown, and that he,
expected 18 ships of war from England every licur,'
with orders to capture every American vessel they
found on the ocean.
QUINTk..SE\CE OF AUDACITY.
We have just received from our Correspondent in
Philadelphia, a letter containing a fresh instance of
the shocking insolence of Bonaparte's Caitiffs in the
United States. It caps the climax of French arro-
gance and turpitude.7-(Bah. Paper.)

" Philadelphia, August 30.
" As the news of the day, I sit down to inform
you of one of the most atrocious pieces of French
impudence that perhaps bas happened since the days
of Genet. Some time since arrived here A schooner
called No. 5, belonging, as is pretended, to the Em-
peror of France, entering on a plea of distress—she
was put into the hands of the carpenter, and her crew
mined over to the brig Diligente, then in port. It
s soon discovered that No. 5 was the schooner Ex-
change belonging to Mr. M.Fadon, and Mr. Greet-
ham of your town, seized some time since in France,
and fitted out without condemnation. On that plea
she was last week seized, and this day Judge Peters
gave the parties their first hearing. The Frenchmen
employed no lawyer to appear for them; but soon
after the business commenced, the French Consul
handed the Judge a paper, in form of a protest,
against the libellants and the Court, saying, 4, that
if they condemned the scheoner, his Master would
look to them (the Court) for indemnification, &c."
Judge Peters treated it with becoming indignation, as
an insult to the Court ; and said, that lie had never
seen or heard of any thing like it since the days of
Genet. Dallas, the attorney of the district, coming
in, be (Peters) handed it to hint, and told him he.
might do with it what he pleased ; but it shortid not
go en the files of the Coot t. It is suppoNed the paper
,4 ill he handed to the President. at Washiagton, and
then we shall see how fAr French influence will go.
I am in hopes of getting a copy of the Lalucst, when
N 1 will see it, and a more ciarect statement in tre
papers."
CONDEKNATION UNDER SONAPARTR'II AMERICAN
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EON-IMPORTATION; Eigtßu. _ _

At a late Session of the. United States District
Court, for the State of Connecticut, Pierpont Ed.
rolls, District Judge, sitting at New Haven, judg-
ement of condemnation was passed upon the brig Two
Brothers, and her cargo, for an alleged violation of
the Non-Importation Law, on the following opinion
of Judge Edwards
“ That the President's Proclamation was conclu-
sive Evidence that the Berlin and Milan Decrees were
revoked within the meaning of the Act of Congress;
and that; 'whatever be his Private opinion on the
v-rtion of fact, whether don Detrees were or were not
in for, e, it was incpmpetent for him, in his judi-
cial capacity, to enquire into that question; the Pre-
sident of the United States, to whom the decision
thereof belonged, having, on his responsibility, already,
by proclamation, settled that point."
COlt M ERCL-HAT EMS.
Borrrox, SEPT. 11.—On the Creed of the Com•
merce-haters at Washington, as extracted this day
from the National Intel4encer, the New-York Commer-
cial Advertiser has the following pungent remarks :
Farewell •to Commerce. The people of our
country ought to know their fate. External commerce

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must undergo a great and permanent reduction. 1,
this be the case ; and what follows ?—Ship-ewnen
and holders of real' property, in all cities and sea-
ports, look to it ! Your property is to undergo a
great and permanent reduction. Mechanics and la-
bourers, look to it The price of your labour is to
undergo a great and permanent reduction. We do
not state these things with an expectation of rousing
our countrymen—they will never believe, until they
feel. When real property in our cities shall be re-
duced to 100 per cent. ; when Our ships are rotten ;
when wheat shall be sold at 50 cents per bushel, and
labaur reduced to 25 cents per day ;—then will the
people begin to inquire the cause of these things, and
not till then."
An American brig, from Madeira for New Orleans,
is reported to have been takes in the Gulph of Mexi-
co, and burnt by a French privateer, probably the
same which lately fired on a United States vessel.
• MORE FAVIEUOODs REFUTED.
[From the Boston Gazette.]
One fact, known to every newspaper reader, will
I disprove all the democratic assertions of the capture
of American vessels, bound to Sweden, Ste. Upwards
of 70 American vessels, which arrived in Sweden,
/ sailed in company with the English, lay with that
fleet in Wingo Sound, and were afterwards gratui-
tously convoyed or protected by them into the eastern
seas.
We noticed, in a late paper, a Proclamation by the
I Executive Authority of Lower Canada, enforcing an
act of the British Government, prohibiting the im-
portation into any of the colonies of that country, of
East India goods, except such only as shall be bona
file shipped in England, in vessels navigated accord-
ing to law. It has been since understood, however,
that the collectors of Canada are instructed, in the
event of bona fde importations of such goods, to re-
frain from a seizure, and to admit the cargoes to be
entered for exportation.
The Captain of an American vessel lately boarded
in the Delaware by the French privateer Marango,
stated, that the Commander of that vessel informe
him, a his orders were to-burn and sink every vessel
from Spain, Portugal, and En-gland."
We learn from Washington, that the British sloop
of war Tartarus, having entered Hampton Roads,
and not complied with the conditions of our non-in-
tercourse law, the Collector of Norfolk, •n Friday;
the 30th ult. required from Commodore Porter, com-
manding on the Norfolk station, the aid of the naval
force subject so !!is order, to compel her to leave our
waters. The Commodore accordingly forthwith pro-
ceeded to Hampton Roads with an intention of driv-
ling her from that place with gun-boats, No. 68 and
' 69, manned horn the crew of the Essex ; the brig
Nautilus, Lieutenant Commandant Sinclair, and the
boats of the frigate Essex, armed, and under the com-
mand of Lieutenants Downes, Wilmore, Wilson, and
Finch. On the arrival of these boats at the place of
her anchorage, Commodore Porter was informed by
a pilot (employed for the purpose of saving her an-
chor) that the Tartarus had in consequence of a let-
ter received by the Commander from Norfolk, cut
her-cable, and gone to sea in the night. There is no
doubt from the activity and zeal displayed by the
officers and seamen, that had she remained, she would
have severely suffered, for her hardihood and impru-
dence in setting the laws at defiance. We need not
remind our readers that this is the vessel which the
other day captured, the American ships Driad and
Betsey, on our coast, in utter disregard and disgrace-
ful violation of our neutrality, and of national law.
NEW BEDFORD, SEPTEMBER 6.
MORE ALOERINE ROBBERY AND IMPRESSMENTS.
The ship Hercules, Captain Snow. of this port,
owned by Messrs. Weston Howland, Humphrey Ha-
thaway, Jireh Swift, jun. and Captain Snow, all of
this town, and Native American Citizens, with a car-
go of American produce, wholly owned by the own-
ers of the ship, consisting of tobacco, rice, cotton,
and logwood, a part of which was taken in here, and
the remainder at the Southward, sailed from Charles-
, ton, S. C. about the 20th February last, bound to St.
Petersburgh. On the 18th of April last she was
taken by a Danish privateer, carried into Copenha-
gen, and after a detention of five days was liberated,
and proceeded on her voyage. About the Ist of June
last, she was captured by a French privateer, and
carried into Dantzick, where her cargo was immedi-
ately discharged, and her provisions, stores, &c. taken
on board the privateer, to fit her for another cruize.
The people were turned on shore, without any thing
to eat or drink, And were preserved from extreme
distress and tarnishing by the charitable assistance of
some friends of Captain Snow, at Hamburgh and St.
Petersburgla Four of the sailors, viz. Seth Randall,
Robert Lesile, Thomas Best, and Joseph Vaughan,
were impressed, and marched to Antwerp. The ship
and cargo were valued at about 60,000 cent., and
were mostly insured at a premium of 21) per cent.—
Here is, then, another precious and striking evidence.
of the repeal of the Berlin and Milan Decrees, with
a vengeance.

FRENCH PECULATION.

A Committee of the Council of State, consisting
of Meisrs. Bonlay, Pelet, and4aubert, have made to
Bonaparte a Report, with regard to the dilapidations
that have been committed for the last ten years in the
eollectiOn of the ociroi (municipal dues) of the city of
Antwerp. •
The following are some of the principal facts :
" The ociroi of Antwerp, established in Thermidor,
year 8, was at first placed under the direction of one
individual. 'This administration, which subsisted for
three years, was confided to a Sieur Lacoste, who ar-
rived in that city, where he was previansly unknown,
provided with a commission from the Minister of the
Interior. This is the period during which peculation
was carried to its utmost extent.
" Lacoste, by his sole authority, established an en-
trepot, in which were doposited all the commodities
' destined either for home consumption or export ; and
as this entrepot was completely in his power, as he
was subject to no inspection, nor kept any public re-
gisters, (when asked where were his registers, he said
he knew nothing of them), it may easily be conceiv-
ed, that either by false permits, or valuations of which
he had the sole direction, he disposed, at his pleasure
of the produce of the occroi, giving to the city what-
ever he pleased, and keeping the rest to himself. He
acknowledges that out of the profits of this entrepot,
he gave 30,000 francs to the wife of the Mayor) who
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