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PIRATE IN THE MONA PASSAGE.
DOPY OF A LETTRR FROM COLONEL CHRISTIE TO MA,IOR-
GENERAL lionGSoN, GOVERNOR OF THE ISLAND OF
CURAcoA, AND ITS DEPENDENCIEs, DATED BERMUDA,
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head, 'wherefore he had himself come to hasten the
dismantling of the brig, so as then to immediately
sink her. I told him, since that was his determina-
tion, I should, for myself, ask the favour of being
landed on Mona, which was so very near that it
would Lost him no time. We observed that it was a
desert island, where I must perish ; and besides, that
his doing that, might hereafter be attended• with seki.
ous consequences to himself. I declared that, for my
own part. I preferred taking my chance `of getting
off the island to the being received on board his
schooner; and that, for what regarded him,he should
immediately be furnished with a certificate of its be.
ing done at my own earnest request. Before he could
make any answer the schooner hailed, and informed _
her Commander that the strange sail was fast ape
proaching, loomed large, and like a vessel of war.--T•
Upon this he suddenly quitted me without saying one
word, stepped into a boat, and went straight on board
his vessel. In five minutes he called to his Officer in
the brig to repair directly, with all his men, on board.
of him ; which they did in such haste as to leave se.
viral things behind them, intended to have been taken
away. Immediately the schooner was under sail,
ordering the Coffee Planter to wait her return there
at the anchorage. In less than halt an hour she had
rounded the north-west end of the Island, and by her
topsails, which appeared over a long low point, she
was observed stretching. up close to the wind, until
higher land hid her from our view. Meanwhile the
strange sail had come near enough to be, by us,
clearly seen thateshe was not a vessel of war. Capt.
Jenkins, however, putting his trust in her size and
appearance for protecting him from any fatal conse- ,
quence of his disregard to the pirate's last order, only
waited till she had got abreast of him, and not more
than a mile to leeward, when he cut his cable and
ran down to her. She proved to be the ship Camay..
then, —Videl master, from St. Domingo city, with
mahogany, bound to London, having only a dozen
men to as many guns, and therefore, however large,
unfortunately incapable of affording any real protec-
tion. In our offing from Mona, we could see the
schooner north of the island, far to windward. For
a time she appeared to be fluttering about with some+,
thing of indecision. At length, with seeming caution,
she began to edge down slowly towards us. The
our situation became critical. I knew the Frenchman
possessed a tine telescope ; and it was evident that if
he once ventured to feel the Carmarthen (as he ap-
peared inclined to do) our fate in the brig would be,
to be all put to the sword. At this crisis; the provi-
ctential appearance of another ship checked the schoo-
ner, which backed her topsails. We soon managed
to speak with this other most welcome stranger. She
proved to be the ship' Minerva, Goodge master, also
from St. Domingo city, with mahogany, bound to
London. Although likewise, in fact, but very indif-
ferently manned and armed, she presented a warlike
appearance, with considerable size. This seasonable
second junction at length determined the schooner,
who hauled her wind again, to keep it ; so that before
sun-set we had run her hull down.
Some cf the ruffians said their commander's name
was Jean Anjereau, a native of Names. Your Excel-
lency will best judge of the.expediency or utility of
any representation to the Government of Hayti re-
specting the depredations and murders committed by
those Buccaniers ; the greater part of them being
clearly from. thence, and as their vessel (American
built) which they called the Marengo, could not well
keep those seas without being recruited with the ne-
cessary supplies in one or other of the many creeks or
minor harbours of that kingdom.

AUGUST
Sia—l am sorry to have to inform your Excel-
lency of the loss of the mail from your island, dis-
patched for England by the brig Coffee Planter, HER-
CULES JENKINS, Commander, on the 15th of July.—
On the morning of the 21st, proceeding in for the
Mona Passage, at ten o'clock, a schooner was seen in
the tiorth-east, hovering in different directions. It
was not long before she bore down towards us, and
'at about two miles off displayed English colours,
which the brig answered by hoisting her ensign.—
Upon this she hauled from us, and stood away to the
S.E. In so doing, the schooner, presenting her broad-
side, afforded us a better view of her size, which was
considerable ; and we perceived her decks to be full
of men. We therefore concluded she was a British
cruizer, who, having observed us near enough to be
convinced of the brig being English, was going away
satisfied. Even if we could have known, at the time,
the unpleasant truth, unfortunately, the brig was not
in a'condition to have made the least suitable prepa-
ration for the proper reception of an enemy. Of nine
men who composed the Coffee Planter's crew at her
leaving Curaeoa, six then lay dangerously ill of fever;
and one of the remaining three had his left hand dis- !
abled by the bursting of a musket so that, although
the Master took en himself the charge and labour of
the helm, these were hardly sufficient for thcbusiness
of attending the sails; in which I assisted ; and thus j
the management of a single piece of ordnance was
wholly out of the question. At one o'clock the schoo-1
ner tacked, and, to our surprise, appeared to be stan-
ding back after us, with English colours still flying;
and although the brig had been making off under all
the canvas she could carry, so great was the other's_
superiority in sailing, that, about three, she had come ,
up again within cannon range, threw a shot over us,
and hoisted French colours. As the French did not
possess a single harbour or spot in those seas, at sight
of their tri-coloured flag, I could hardly believe my
eyes. The Coffee Planter was a mere floating hos-
pital ; and her escape being impossible, no alternative
was left her Commander, who hauled down his co- I
lours, and proceeded to heave his vessel to ; but, for
want of hands, this not being executed so quickly as
was perhaps expected by the enemy, he wantonly
fired several shot at the brig, happily without towch-;
ing any one. In a few minutes the firing ceased, to
make way for a humiliating scene—that of behold-
ing human beings debased to the brutal ferocity of
wild beasts. A boat was immediately alongside the
Coffee Planter, with about a dozen of such men, of
all colours and tongues. Each was armed with a
-sabre, a brace of pistols, and a long knife. In an in-
stant they were spread over the brig for booty, and
trunks, boxes, lockers, &c. were forced open in search .
of dollars. The leader of this savage band was a
young Frenchman, half naked, with two flesh sabre
wounds on his right arm, of good aspect and modest'
deportment. On my remonstrating with him, lie
said," It was their v,al3, ;" that " skips and their car.'
goes were of no use to them—that they always blunt
them after taking cut any money, and the most por-
table valuables." To the question from whence they
were commissioned, or had fitted out ? he declined
giving any answers. I perceived that we were in
the hands of pirates. At this time the schooner hail-
ed, and, in the French language, ordered the prize-
master to make sail in the brig, and conduct her to I
their place of anchorage. At about ten o'clock that
night the brig anchored on the south-west side of the
isle of Mona, within pistol-shot of the shore, as did
'also the schooner, soon after, close to her. Here shel-
tered in smooth water, was their place for the pillage
of the Coffee Planter, of whatever might best suit
thena, previous to destroying her. Early on the mor-
nrseg ~1 the.22d this work began. Boats, with reliefs
or hands, kept plying between the vessels, carrying
elf cannons, stores, spars, cordage, bales of dry goods,
all my live stock, witty. and other table provisions,
&c. In one of these boats Captain Jenkins came and'
informed me, that within the hour the brig would be
burnt, for which reason be had been permitted to re. I
turn on board, to put up a few changes of linen. He
said that no one in the schooner would tell him from
vk hence she came ; that she was an uncommonly fine i
vessel, of about 180 tons; that her original comple-
iarent of men was 140 ; and that there were still on I
board about 100, of whom not more than 30 were
white, about as many,black, the rest of all the valid
ens internigdiate hues. Among these I observed a •
• few of thelndian red cast. The savage appearance
• and manners of. this motly crew Were. rendered yet
more revolting, by many things about them being
still stained with the blood spilt-, but a few days he
fore, in a severe conflict with a Spanish packet from
Cadiz, with mails for Porto Rico and Carthagena ;
when, by boarding, the packet was overpowered, and.
their own confeesion was, that of 4.0 spallieeds trey
slew 35. Cent. Jenkins repre:.eriteel the evaeme in-
creased heat of the schooner, from the swarm of peo-
, plc, with the stench from the sick and wounded, to be
almost insupportable, insomuch that he had asked and
• obtained the favour to walk their deck-all night in hea-
vy rain and open air: thousands of letters lay strewed{
with heap so f dollarsewhich covered the great cabin floor.
....-About ten o'clock the Commander of the schooner
came on board the Coffee Planter. He accosted me
with civility, and asked some questions about a ship
at Curacoa, named the Exchange ; and said, that,
by several intercepted letters, "he had certain intelli-
/wee she was appointed to sail for England .on the
25th, and with a considerable quantity of dollars."—
Knoiving that to be the ship in which General Lay.
nrd and Colonel Vandespiegel, the Collector, had ac-
. ttially engaged their passage for Europe, I told him,
if he valued his safety, he had better not be there
waiting for the Exchange, as she was to be convoyed
at least as far as through the Mona-passage, by the
Avon sloop of war. He replied that he well knew
of the Avon, that he heard of her almost daily ; that
he certainly did not pretend to face a vessel of her
,I. class; but that he would take a distant secure station
'Well to windward of Mona, to wait and see the fact
cf the Exchange being alone or not. That during
five weeks he had been taking English and Spanish
Vessels of all descriptions, 46. the number of thirty-one;
[hat our's made the thirty-second. He added, that
he did not feel guise at his ease, as a strange sail,
square
rigged, had just been descsied from his mast-
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to hasten the to send the head of Jima to Constantinople, and as. Egypt, who, were entampteel near the Cataracts, ec
immediately some the command of the Pachalik of Damascus.— the head of light or nine hundred Mamalule labrer,
is determine- The unfortunate Julia fled to Cairo, where he was with a considerable body of Negroes and Arabs, un •
our of being hospitably received by Mohammed Ali, and protected der the command of Ibrahim, Bey. This Chieftain in
tear that it from the attempts of his rival ; and the Porte finding with the exception of Osman Bey Hassan, the only
eat it was a Suliman no better able than Jussuf to support its au- leader of note who survives, and is well known as such
esides, that charity against its infidel impugners, at last ordered to every English and French Commander who her
t• with seri- the Pacha of Egypt to undertake the recovery of the served in Egypt. But both he and Osman are now
at, for my holy cities, and promised to invest him with the go- incapacitated by age from acting with energy peopor.
if getting vernments of Damascus and Acre. tioned to their difficulties, and from supporting the
board his The Pacha of Acre was already highly exasperated fatigues incident to their erratic mode of warfare. In.
he should against the Viceroy of Egypt on account of the asylum deed, a report has lately reached England. that the
of its be. granted to his unfortunate predecessor; and this order Pacha's troops had surpri,,ed the Mamalukes of Up-
he could and promise of the Porte at once increased his desire per Egypt, and succeeded in dummying the last re-
nfortned to revenge, and presented ateopportunity ofgratifying mains of this singular people, which had subsisted
fast ap- it. He listened with eagerness to the proposal made to with such varied tor:une from the days of Salad's to
war.— him by the Mamalukes of joining his forces with 'the present period.
Ing one their's, and of falling upon Mohammed Ali and the The Beys who perished on the Ist of March last,
board small remains of his army which would be left in were--
E claim Bey Elfi, Achmet Bey, Murad Bey. liehis Rey, Narita.,
icer in Egypt after the departure of the expedition against
I board Mecca, under the command of his son. The plan Bey, Emirn Bey, Hussein Bey the eider, Hussein Beytheyourve,
ye se- was matured, and the period of its execution seemed Id tehruyooffEthificiliteuisme oint Elßabyu'aßl •°lsetilluvrur BevileYAlirbdra'hbaa. 11.7,
zac Bey, son of Ibrahim the Great; Al! Bey el Fakunt se:,ll,ll3airei:
aken fast approaching ; as the Pacha of Egypt had assem- I
sail, bled a number of boats, nearly sufficient to convey , Cherengi; with five or six other Beys of lets vote.
here his troops down the Red Sea to Gedda, and his army I Emirn Bey El 6, and Achmet Bey Elk (two what
had was collected and encamped near Cairo, in readiness accompanied Elfi Bey to England) were reported to
her to march down to the coast. But the. jealousy and have escaped. It was said that, on seeing the iunee
she vigilance of the Viceroy were as great as the tree- gates of the citadel closed, they immediately suspec.
oil chery of his enemies. A person in the confidence of ted treachery, and, being inthe rear of the Memalitke
he
.Sciaim Bey had been bribed to betray his master, and procession, had time to turn round and escape before
is, I regularly transmitted to the Peella copies of the cry- the outer gate was closed on them. It is not probe-
t. 1 respondence carried en by the Beys in Cairo with ble, however, that they were thus fortunate, as the
d 1 those in Upper Egypt and Suliman of Acre. The Officers of the Pacha asserted that their heads wele
i Porte was duly informed of the design's of the conspi amongst the number of those sent to Constantinople.
.1 rators, and when its definitive orders were received, the The principal Beys who remained in March last is
Viceroy immediately prepared to carry them into exc- command in Upper Egypt were, Ibrahim Bey the
cution. Mohammed Ali, on his return from Suez to Great, Osman Bey Heseea, Selim Bey Machramn
Cairo, announced the approaching completion of his Achmet Bey Mam auch, Ali Bey Ajeb.
preparations against Mecca; and that therefore on the -
Ist set March he should celebrate a grand festival cn
the occasion of solemnly investing his son Tussun
' Pacha with the pelisse of command, previous to the I LONDON.
departure of the expedition. The Mamalukes in Cairo
1 Sr. Lem—Holiday at the Exchequer, Bank, and South San
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were requested to honour the ceremony with their FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18.
presence—and accepted the invitation. The proces-
sion was to pass through the private street of-Cairo House.
up to the citadel, where the investiture was to take
place. The Turkish infantry led the way, and The report of Peace having been concluded be.
were followed by the Mamalukes on horseback,: tween Russia and Turkey, still gains ground. A
under the command" of Scieim Bey, who WAS sup-Turkish frigate has arrived at Portsmouth, which left
ported by two sons of the Viceroy Ibrahim Bey and
the Dardanelles the gcl September, and it is affirmed
Tucson Pacha ; the Delhati' or Turkish cavalry fol-
lowed, mid closed the procession. The foot had al- that she conveys official intelligence to the above effete.
ready entered the interior of tee citadel, and the Ma-
malnices were passing between the inner and outer ' The Eliza Anne has arrived at Cork, with a cargo
wall of the fortress, along a narrow way enclosed on of staves from Philadelphia, which place she left on
both sides by high walls and ruined buildings, when the 9th ult. No decisive measures were expected to
the gates at each extremity of the passage were closed. be taken by the American Government until con-
The Pacha had revealed his intention to no one until
gress met, the Papers brought by the above vessel are
this Mon:ent, when he ordered his infantry to line
therefore barren of intelligence. Mr. Teoum ENO
the walls which surrounded the Mamalukes, and to
commence a heavy fire upon them ; even his suns usto Consul (Torn the United States to Dublin, with
were still mixed with them, and for a time exposed his family, are passengers by the Eliza Anne.
to the same fate. The hlamalukes, cooped up in a
The Adelaide cartel has arrived et Dartmouth
narrow apace, where their equestrianeikill, and their
dexterity in the use of the sabre, were unavailing, Cr"' M°rlailco with an mnerican Messenger, who see
impeded by their own slumbers, encumbered by off immediately for London, with Dispatches for the
their dresses of ceremony, and surrounded on all American Minister. Two English Ladies also c in::
sides by an enemy superior in levee and protected
passengers by the Adelaide.
by his situation, made but a feeble resistance, and
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were soon compelled to surrender.- The wicket of • A vessel arrived yesterday from C'inn, by which
the inner gate was then opened, and the Turkish sol-'
very recent 'intelligence has been receives from the
diets dragged out their victims one by one into the
' I court of the citadel, where they were first stripped and Asturias, E•scay, and other parts of the north of
then beheaded. They met their fate, it is said, with Spain. There are very few French in that quartet
_.:S 1114111ALUKES. the most undaunted courage ; regretted enly that the of the Peninsula. The Local Authorities have sum•
cowardice of their adversaries had deprived them of an : moiled all the \-_,lsng men to form corps, and the can
opportunity of displaying that bravery end skill which
EXTRACTED FROM TAB PAPERS OP A GENTLEMAN WHO 0 ' has been so promptly answered, that a new army of
the Turks had so often and so fatally experienced, ,
WAS TRAVELLfIei IN EGYPT, AT TILE TIME TIIE DIAS:
SACRE TOOK PLACE. i and menaced _their executioners with the vengeance about 30,000 men wills peedily be formed. TL's
Egypt had ever been considered by the Mamalukes lof their brethren in upper Egypt. Sciaim Bey army is to he placed under the command of Genoa/
as their patrimony ; and so deeply was this idea im•
was brought alive into the presence of the Pacha, le
...aemzeset. Arms and accoutrements for the
who reproached him with his treachery to himself,
pressed upon their mind., by long possession and un- !: troop; are landed from Bi itish frigates on the mot.
,
of
his
adopted
disturbed enjoynient, that they complained of the in- !and with the assassination ' The active pat tizan, calted the -Peseee, has Abell
iringtment of their rights, when, upon the evacuation ' Elfi Bey ; and then ordered him to be led away
the 6000 men under his command, with whom he daily
of the English army, the Porte was'reinstated in its !to execution. Some of the Mamalukes, whilst
original authority. But kid it even been consistent
attention of the Turks were engaged by the slaueh- heresies the Fiencli. The town of Guer&ca, through
;
with justice to restore to the Marnelukes their oases-
I ter of their companions, succeeded in climbing - which lie used to pass, in order to cernneunicaie
1 ped dominion, such conduct would scarcely have been % over the walls which inclosed them ; most of these,with our frigates, was lately induced, from a dread of
however, unable to escape out of the precincts of
leconcileable to sound policy ; since their numbers the resentment of object the French, to to his taking
the citadel, were taken and beheaded in the course of
had been so much reduced by the superiority of the
French arms, as to incapacitate them from defending i that or the following day ; three of them contrived to that road. The Pastor was so indignant at this sub-
!
secrete themselves for nearly a week amongst the d la- urviency. to the views of the enemy, that he attacked
1 the country against the attacks of a foreign invader, i
pidated buildings of the fortress, and when almost ex-
or even from suppressing the. leuguid efforts which] . the place, destroyed some of the houses, and killed
, piringwith hunger were discovered, sharedandt the late I the native Egyptians might make against the tyranny 1.5 men belonging to a description of force organ'zed
lof their comrade e. Several who had concealed them-
of their masters. Yet the Beyee though sensible of by the French on the plan of the Gens-d'armes. Next
i ; selves until the first I uey of their murderers was over-
- their weakness, still sighed for the pleasures of unlit '
suited dominion, of which they had been so lately de- Pdungeons ast,were suffered to live for sonic time in the day all the young men of the town joined him.
primed ; their obedience to the Turki h Viceroy, ex- :
of the castle; and the Pacha, when his safety required The French, who retain the possession of Santone,
• s
I no farther bloodshed, was disposed tu spare their lives;
' cept when enforced by arms, was merely nominal,employ about 1000 peasants in working on the for.i•
i but the Chiaja Bey, Viceroy-Lieti.tenant,.
hearing
of
and the operations of his government were perpetually fications. They are making a new citadel, and it ap-
; this intended elemency, and doubting the policy of it,
exitharrassed and resisted by Mamaluke intrigue or
I rebellion. They Upper -
were carrying on open war in 1
immediately caused his prisoners to be privately exe- Pears that they intend to insulate the town,
' Egypt against Mehommed Ali, the present Viceroy , toted before the intelligence of their pardon could be .
I officially announced to him. Of 800 Mamalukes who ' The following letter has been received, conteiniag
and Pacha, and were even then on the eve of exter-
were enclosed within the walls of the citadel, it is not some interesting particulars from the West Indies:
minatieo when the news arrived of the landing of t' 1
, certainly known that any escaped except a few boys,
lit itish army under General Fraser. Upon the re- " PORTO Rico, 31/LY 15.
-ceipt of this intelligence, the Pacha immediately con- who owed their safety to their extreme youth and per- eOn the 22d of last month, ao expedition took its &Farms
eluded a peace wilt the Mamalukes as his less dan- i sonal attractions. During the carnage, the Delhati, from this island, consisting of live-vessels with troops, to act
, against whom the gate; of the citadel had been closed
gerous enemies, and led his troops against the British ; against Cuniana. It
was under the orders of D. LORENtO Di /A
with what success is too well known. Iti one of the arti- ; alter the entry of the Mamalukes by way of equivalent R. Tles is the only way to quiet the factions hi South Am
cles of that treat y, it was stipulated that the wholecoeps for their absence from the slaughter, began to plunder rica, where the insurrection is the work only of a few arnhitime
should come and reside at Cairo ; with this condition ! the houses of the Beys. Their women, their money,
individuals. 1/ sotto troops, however inconsiderable in cumber,
their jewels, horses and arms, fell all into the hands of
reat part of them coo lied ; and; under: thecommand were to arrive from the Peninsula, the restoration of traaquilliti
gof Sciaini Bey, fixed their residence at Gizeh, near the • the spoilers. This pillage, indeed, was contrary to the would be instantly accomplished.
capital, but on the opposite bank of the Nile ; the re- ' order s of the Pacha, who had no intention that so va-
" Since the unsuccessful expedition of the Rebels ajainst Cero,
mainder, under the command of Ibrahim Bey, conti- luable a booty should be lost to himselt; but he could
when they were routed with the low of 600 men, by the loysl.
nued in Upper Egypt. The Beys, convinced of the : not leave unfinished the work of death in the citadel ;
inhabitants, 1). I'LItRANDO Dl. TORO, who commutate them,
kutility of contending against a man who was their and it was not until the houses of the Mamalukes
has been banished the capital, and the chief authority has been
equal in fraud, and their superior in force, relinquish- were already stripped of every thing valuable, that lie
sallied out at the head of his guard, and by die in- ted on the notorious aFa "C"C*MiltAgpas a nazi"
ed, for the present, their attempt to overthrow the of Caraccas."
'Dacha's authority ; waiting until one of those sudden scant execution of the most active delinquents, put a
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convulsions, to which Oriental despotism is subject, stop to farther depredation, and delivered the inhebi-
should remove or enfeeble the object' of their appre- tants of Cairo from the apprehensions of a general By the Anholt Mail of yesterday, we have real 'ved
hensions, and open a way to the recovery of their sack and massacre. advices from Memel, St. Petersburgh, Riga, aud
former influence.—About this period the Porte enter. The day after this butchery, the heads of the Beys Hann° Bay. The letters from Memel are to me 22d
tained considerable alarm on account of the rapid and principal Cachets, to the number of twenty-four, ult. and the intelligence is
progrees of the'sVechabi. Mecca and Medina were in were forwarded to Constantinople. An order was
the possession of these seceders from the Catholic faith given at the samelime for the slaughter of all the re- consequence of the demand made by BOVAIPARTII In
of Islamism : and the heads of the Law at Constanti- maining Mamalukes in Egypt. In the course of the for the surrender of Graudenta and Colberg into h.s
nople had'asserted, that misfortune must attend all month, seven or eight hundred were destroyed in the hands, Feuszettic WILLIAM made immediate prep.
their undertakings, so long as the cradle of their faith towns and villages; and the heads of such as had been rations for defence. He was at that time at Berlin,
remained in the hands of heretics. Jussuf, Pacha of taken in the neighbourhood of the capital, were from whence he proceeded to Konigsburs, sod review-
Damascus, had not been able to resist die numbers brought on camels to Cairo, and daily exposed before
and the enthusiesm of this new sect • and Suliman, the gates of the citadel. A large body of troops ed the p rtion of his army stationed in that vicinity,
Pacha of Acre,had in cesiaiipsence been commissioned marched immediately agaiegt the Bets in Upper eaPPogild 19 be strut "MOO mou Qs It racial illialie
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ter of the Prussian forces it was ascertained, that they
amounted to upwards of 140,000 men, trained, disci
Oiled, and fit to perform duty in the field, but not
is a state of equipment. While matters were in that
tituation, and the eyes of the Continent were conspi-
cuously looking for the commencement of hostilities,
a courier arrived from Paris, bearing such a modifica-
tion of tha claims of the French Ruler, respecting the
Prussian fortresses, as superseded the necessity of an
immediate rupture, and it was presumed that tran-
quillity would not be interrupted during the winter
season. Under these circumstances, precautions, how-
ever, were taken by Prussia, and the army, although
clisrnised to its quarters, was not disbanded.

The information from Petersburgh is to the middle
of September. Trade was so dull as to be approach.
ing to a condition of total inactivity. The Exchange
was at 141.
By a letter from Riga we learn, that a notice had
been received there from Sir JAMES SAUMAREZ, which
arrived on the 2111 ult. informing the Merchants that
the convoy would sail from the place of rendezvous
between the Ist and 15th October. Many of the ships
were dismantling at Riga, partly from not being able
to procure cargoes in time for the convoy, and partly
from the low price of freight, which was little more
than el per ton.
In Hanno Bay there were about' 150 ships waiting
for the convoy.
Some vessels, during the tempestuous weather, mat
with considerable damage near Carlscrona.
It is apprehended, that on the disappearance of the
English ships of war from the Baltic, a very conside.
table roasting trade will be carried on between the
different States, for which ample preparations were
making. The navigation for such a purpose on the
western side of the Baltic, in mild seasons, can be
continued till Christmas; but on the opposite shore
it closes three weeks or a month earlier.