Star.
London, England, 1804-03-05 00:00:00

if MERICA

When COVITYIOICLAIIIOR N B took pored-lon of Lon-
'liana, in the na eof the United States, he dined
the following proclamation :

By His iseclieney WILLIAM C. C. CLAIBORNE.
COTCTINIT Of the MillGSrpi Territory, trending the powers of
Ooyerrwr Grum& sod Intendant of tbc Province of Looifiaba.

Wheieas by llipulations between the Govern-
ments of France and Spain, the latter ceded to the
Now the colony and province of Louifiana, with
the fame extent which it had at the date of the above
ssentioned treaty in the hands of Spain, and that it
bad when name pnifered it, and fuch as it ought
to be after the treaties iubfequently entered into be.
preen Spain and other States ; and whereas the Go-
vernment of France has ceded the fame to the Unit-
ed States by a treaty duly ratified, and bearing date
the Both of April in the prefent year, and the poi:
Maim of raid Colony and Province is now ,in the
United States according to the tenor of the laa men-
tioned treaty t and wwwts the Compels of the
United States, on the pa day of (Mobs: in the pre-
feat year, did ease that anta the expiration of the
forma of Congrefs then fitting (nal& provifiass for
the temporary government a the raid territories be
toaster made by Congrefs) all the military, civil,
and judicial powers exeraled by the then 'tilling
-Sominment of the fame, hall be =Red in fuch per.,
fon or pertness, and stall be exercikd in firth manner
as the Prefident of the United States !hall direa, for
the maintaining and pFotetitiag the inhabitants of
Laai6asa is the free enjoyment of their liberty, woo-
party, and religion t and the Prefident of the
el States has, by hit commirsoa, bearing date the
!sate eta day of Oftober, insetted me with all the
c rew:;, and charged me with the feseral &ales
ors held and *united by the Governor Ge.
sera and' lateadant of the Province :

I have therefore thou& it to Wm thin my Pnatimthre,
=rem the preralies, and to *dare that the Ooversemeat
rem
ems the idd Province of Lealliams, es wdl
war the wedseritr et Irk at of the Item! Repel& bee
oak& as/ that d the gaited limas of Amides Is ellabilaat
wm to tame i Mat the bthabitasta *wee we be imerponsed
to the Mims etas Vatted Stews. wad okehted as km as pa&
id% aseardlas to the peladiphe Webs rahtral Ceekinnicst, to the
enkyasset del the el ter. admits' s, sod hmempkies d od-
gem at the MICA States i that la the wan dam they lholl be
malmeined mid peewee! ia the hes alkyeaeat of their
pegerty. and the teethe whkh they raids t that all laws lad
kmakihril rerselatime which were IN miler= at the esEmloa of
the lam 00•4111111111114 ramie la tall lieree, dell ell me
ehathed mith their eseastka. emit theta whets poems have
taunt tprielity vela IN war. sad amp Ws lash yam as have
loge sainikeil with de milledtka et Itostage. are eentimeed
is their as dating the piastersie Goma. Me the
Ow sk anal pearikedidl ahem& be mods.
And 1 de hereby =haft and mists s 1 the labatkame awl
Ober pinkies withla dm hid lambs; to be khaki end tree la
thek elibinkiewt be the 14imd Stems, withholding to the baws and
ambethke ed the lime, sada. tan aillswase that their Mt rights
he irks the gaardialdp at the Vatted Stain, sad wag be
Ipoimissi treat all Wee ter Mebane frees withava err withk.
yetdmany whereat I have besseato fat my band.
pint at the City of New Orleans, the ma day etbeeember,
403, nerd hidersaJente at Me United of Aloe-
des die wet. C. e. CLAMMans.

MUTE of THE HINTED STATES. JAN. 4.
IM►IaCMMIIT.

At este o'clock the Reprefentatives appointed to
ahoodoet the impeachment of Judge PICIABRING, ap-
peared at the bar of the Senate, when Mr. NICHOL-
son, in their name, announced that they were ready
to prefer the ankles, four in number.
The firfl of which, being read, accufed the Judge
of delivering up a weird called the Eliza, with her
tackle and furniture, to one Eliphalett Ladd, after
On had been feized at Portfmouth, in the diariel of
New Hampflsire, without the Paid ELIPHALITT
Lawn having delivered a certificate from the Nasal
cohabit' and Officer of the Diftrid, that the tonnage
daft on the laid (hip and her cargo had been paid,
*gaga the laws of the United States, and to the in-
jury of the revenue.
Article the Second.--That at a Special Conn, held
in the diiitia of New Hamplhire, ou the t nil of
November tilos, wherein the fame Judge PICHAR.
spa prefided ; the United States, by JOSEPH WHIP.
r zs. their Colleaor, having given the laid Judge to
underhand that the lbip Eliza had bees (cued; be-
cattle Ike had unladen, spina the law, two cables,
and one hundred pieces of check, of the value of four
hundred dollars, and having prayed that the laid
°sip might be adjudged by the Paid Court, to be fur-
fitted according to law, and a certain ELIPHALITT
LADD having come into Court, by his attorney, and
claimed the raid fhip, with her tackle and furniture,
that had been forfeited by law, the Paid Judge PICK.
BRING of the Dißria Court, with intent to defeat the
rights of the United States, did refute to hear the
geilimony of feveral witneffes, produced in beh elf of
the States in the fame caufe, and did order and de-
cree that the laud (hip, with her tackle and fit-rtiture,
Ihould be given up to ELIPH•LETT LADD. the claim-
-301, contrary to law, his duty as a Judge, and to the
injury of the United States.
The third at tide dates, that contrary to an An of
Congreli, patted on the 24th of September, in 5789,
nailing that in all final decrees, in a dillriet Court, in
pll maritime cafes, where the difpute exceeds the va
he of Soo dollars, inclufive of coils, an appeal fball
be allowed at the next circuit day, within the fame
Marta, that•the laid Jolty Pic lIR lac ( Judge), dif
regarding the authority of the laws, did refute to 41-
low the appeal of Jous Sorsasousx s, attorn- v for
the United :stare., in the c.tufe of the (hip 11./ I.
up to ELIPHAL NTT T.Aoit, on rl e I alli of Scut• ro
her, 1789. to the of the pubhc revenue, and in
violating ur the uatil he had t.Lcii I admindler im•
partial Office.
Ankle the fourth--That POCKER-
Iig did .a;fc:at VD the bench tithe Pifirifi Cow% on

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the 12th of September, 27* in a Bate of total in-
toxication, and did then andthene invoke the name
of the Sure r M r BEING. in the moll indeepot manner,
and uts guilty of other mildemeanors, difgracefol
to his charader as a Judge, andodegradiog to the ho-
nour and dignity of the State.
Upon the reading of the above articles of impeach- I
ment, the Vice Prefident informed the managers,
that the Senate would take order on them, and, io
form the Reprefentatives of the Houfe thereof.
The Senate having retired, Mr. ADAM. moved
that the Senate, as a Court of Impeachment, Ihould
adjourn until the next day.
Much diverfity of opinion arofe on this motion,
Tome Gentlemen being in favour of the Senate, as a
Court of Impeachment, adjourning from time to
time, diflindly from their ordinary adjournment,
others being in favour of purfuing one common mode
of adjournment.
On the fuggeflion, of Mr. V , Mr. ADAMS
withdrew his motion, and acquiefced in a poßpone-
ment of the fubjed until the next day.

PARI.I4MENTART PROCEEDINGS.

HOUSE OF COMMONS, SATURDAY, MARCH 3.

Mr. SPEAKER tank the Cialru theee2VelOck.

Sir J. C. HIPPISLEY reported from the Committee on the
Coventry Election Petition their Refoiatioa, that Peter Moore,
Efq. the fitting Member. was duly *died, Lot that the Petition
wan not frivolous or undoes.
Mr. FANE reported from the Committee upon the London
Elation Petition. their Refoleadan. that all the fitting Members
were duly doled, and that the Petition of Sir Watkin Lewes
was Merlons and vender.
Mr. W. DUNDAS prefented a Petition on the fobjed of the
Likeard Median, which was received, and rehired to the Com-
mittee thereon.
Mr. ALEXANDER reported the Mutiny Bill.--Ordered to be
coveted, and read the third time on Monday.
Lave given to kW, In a Ilk to permit the importation of
Hides, Calf-fidna. and Wool, (except Coosa Wool) in foreign
=au the fame tubs of duty as if imported% Britik or kik
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Ref°lva Into a Committee on the Marine Foroi Motley W.
Ordered to be reported ea Meader.
Mr. ALEXANDER brought up the Report,of the
Committee, which fat yellerday on the fubjett of con-
folidating and arranging certain revenue duties upon
Goods, Wares, and Merchandizes, imported and ex-
ported to and from Ireland. On reading the ara
Refolinion.

Mr. CORKY rote for the purport of explainin4 to
the Houfe, in a general way, the nature and oboe
of the new regulationi, preparatory to the dike
of the Bill to be introduced thereon, and of which
the Schedules upon the table were to form the
grounds. He then entered at confiderable length
into a detailed cornparifon between the complicated
manner in which chore feveral duties as they have
hitherto been inspored under different and fueceifive
Ails of Parliament, and the concife, expeditious, and
fatisfaftery manner, in which it was propofed to eel-
lea them under the new arrangement, as well ter
the catisfaaion and advantage of the merchant as
thofe of the revenue. Another Species of advantage
would arife from the real facility which the new
arrangements would give to the commercial inter.
courfe between both countries. He was happy in the
opportunity of adding, that he had unifprmly experi-
enced the zealous co-operation of his Majeay's Mini-
hers in England, to give every fair and equitable
encouragement to the commercial interests of Ireland.
It was material alto to hate, that in the Schedules
upon the table, and the Several regulations therein
adopted, it would be found that every with and ob-
, jea of the great mercantile inure& in Ireland were
fully anfwered Isy anticipation.
Mr. FOSTER rote, not to go into any difeufGon
for the prefent, knowing that a better opportunity
would be afforded when the Bill Mould come before
the Houk, and when, if any thing Should occur to
him in the mean time, he Should hate it. He role
now to exprefs his very Sincere pleafure on the laa
dechiration of the Right Hon. Gentleman, namely,
that the whole mercantile interests of Ireland were
perfealy Satisfied with the arrangements, becaufe he
did underhand that a very confiderable degree of
difeontent had prevailed throughout the whole orthe
North of Ireland, on Account of the capon duty of
3 per cent. impofed lalt year upon linens, as well as
other commodities exported from that kingdom.
Mr. CORRY replied, that it certainly was his in-
tention to have fully explained the point alluded to
by the Right Hon. Gentleman, before he concluded
his firs Speech, but it efeaped his recollation. He
would now, however, fay, that the export duty on
linens from Ireland was not done away, for that it
would be utterly impraaicable In to do, without giv-
ing the moa jut grounds of jealoufy to the
manufailurers. The tax w.s a temporary one, and
Specifically applicable to the war, with which alfo it
• would ccafe. It was a tax to which all the manufac-
tures and native produce of England were liable,
linens as well as all others. The commerce of the

Britilb merchant was the principal channel through

Which the intereas of the 'hills linen inanufattureit
werefupported, in every part of the globe to which

Britilh commetce extended ; and whit mull be the
jealoufy of the Britilh manufaCturer and merchant,
upon reflaing that Britilh linens exported laboured
under the difedvantage of a duty of 3 per cent. while
Ira linens. carried out on board the very fame Ihip,

and to the fame market, were exempt ? To put the
eonverfe of the cafe—Suppofe that the duty was
charged only upon [rills linens, and that Britifh linens
were exempt, what, he would ant, would bethe feelings

of tlic Irith merchant and manufaCturer ? It was —a
tax which, if not collated iii Ireland, could not be
culleCted at all; and one from which, of Irak linens
were t tempt, would lead to incalculable frauds upon
the Vojta revenue, as linens of every fort would be
entered riutwarda for Irifb; a tax under which even
[till the Ira manitfaanrer would poffefs many ad-
vantages over the Britilh ; far ant only was every
.-pecies of material employed in the manufaeure im.
ported into Ireland duty free, but is paid a bounty
upon the export, and has an almull exchifive protec-
tion in favour of Irifh linens at the Englifh market.
Mr. FOSTER laid a few words in reply.
Mr. ATKINS Aid, he was very deeply interened
in the linen manufafture alluded to, and wa.'con.
vinced the I:tifc of the Northern manulaeltirers was
nut ay.:tie:o C:IC contribution of their quo,* to the
fuppott of the war. By the fcliedule on the table,
it was prf•pot:d to vote the tax in pc:peony ; but
he was full, if the tax was made the fuLiza of a fe•
parate Bill, and duly explained in Ireland, as a ten-
;. racy tax r.nly, f,r the period of the war, ab ob
p.‘iitans 40 it would inlbsittli cca4c.

Mn HAWTHORN (poke to the fkme 44.
Atm !DAWSON profeffed Waif& molt warmly In.
meted in the proteftion of a manufaCture which
formed to very principal a (hare in the trade and prof-
perky of that County, in Ireland, (Monaghan).
which he had the hollow to reprefrot. He expreffed
his regret, that the tax was not abandoned upon the
only ilaple manufa&ure of Ireland. and upon the in.
terefts of which, he feared, it would feverely operate.
He was lorry for having omitted to oppofe this tax
during the laft Seflion of Parliament, for he was
prefent when it paled; but it had efcaped him
through mere ignorance and inadvertency, under the
general head of a Three per Cent Export Tax; for
he thought, that every Ilipulation for the proteaion
of that manufaCture had been completely adjufted
under the terms of the Union.
Mr. ALEXANDER raid, he felt as deeply inte-
refted as any Hon. Member, in the inter& of the
Linen Manufaiture of Ireland ; but he was well con-
vinced the tax in queltion would not be felt in the
flughteft degree. The perfons concerned in that ti atie
were extremely wealthy, and daily advancing in
riches and profperity ; and the manufa4lurers were
as highly and as weU paid for their labour, as any
other in Europe.
Lord DE BLACQUIERE (poke in favour of the
tax. He thought that Ireland fhould proudly exult
in being called on to contribute her quota in fu port
of the war; and raid, that he himfeff attended a
meeting of the Linen Board. at Dublin, when this
tax was mentioned, and no body oppofed it, but all
went away fatisfied.
Mr. FOSTER faid, that he too attended that meet.
ing ; and the Noble Lord mull recolleit, that no dif-
cutEon took place. no opinion was expreffed, nor did
any refolution whatever parson the fubjee, owing to
a meffage received from the C.aftle, requelting the
Board to fulpend its proceedings until Come fartho
confederation could be had upon the fubjeft, on the
part of Government.
Lord CASTLERF.AGH raid, it was extremely
defirable that no erroneous opinion &odd go abroad,
that the Honk was about to impofe a tax upon the
ftaple manufaititre of Ireland. injurious to the We-
re& of that manufaCture, or the merchants concerned
eneoß
in it. The oi "nt to be confidered was, how far the
trifling kisj in queltion would be likely to diminith
the g confumption of the commodity ? An ob-
vious criterion prefented itfelf in a companion be.
terns the exports of MI6 linens, the year before this
tax was impofed. and that of the laft year when the
tax was in full operation; and, the refult would
thew, that the exportation under the tax, inked of
being diminithed, was molt confiderably increafed :
Co far proofs were againft conjefure. Betides it was
idle to fuppore the tax could be injurious to the ma-
nufaturer or the 'merchant which mull ultimately
fall upon the confunser.—The Refolutions were then
read. and agreed to.
On the motion of Mr. Fofter, force accounts were
orded. to Amy the exiting rates of duties payable
upon Imports and Exports of Ireland. And alfo. on
the motion of Mr. Dawlon, an account of the quan-
tity of Linen exported from Ireland fince the Union,
to the sth January, 1804, diftinguithing each year.
—Adjourned to Monday.

LONDON.

MONDAY. MARCH S.

PRICE OP STOCKS THIS DAY AT OHS 0 CLOCII
Cm( for pa 35I—Dlius for ME
Am.
3 dIL
CCOLS*4IIIOIrt ADO. ji 7•16.

Dosain, Kamen r.
31 par Ceat.Oov. Deb. 67-5 par Cent. Oov. Deb. poi—
Grand Can. 6 per Cwt. 97,96—R al Canal 6pa Cam aft—
Enchant; Dublin as , z 7.

THE KING.

" Ctteas'a Palace, March 4. is 34.
" Ku llfayiscr it Jitter today than he neat yelerday."
" qtreeres Palace, Marcia S. 0104-
" Hit lifs7strr continue, to Mat very favouralk trogrili

toward, zscorwer."

( Signed as before.)

The French, it teems, who have been for Tome
time pail collefling a force in Cuba, are meditating
an attack on the Bahama Wands, as appears by the
following extra& of a letter, received this morning by
a Gentledsan in the City, dated
" Narks, New Providence, Jan. r 7, dec.

" We have jull received the molt melancholy
" news of an intended invafinn of this ifland by the
" French, who are Already embodied at Cuba, to
" the number of 3000 men, and are to be with us
" in the courfe of a week."

This day we lay before our Readers fome farther
extrafta from the IA Li(bon Mail, which want of
room obliged us to poßpone on Saturday. We alio
fome articles received by the

HAMBURGH AND DOTTENDURGH MAILS,
feven of the latter, and three of the former having
arrived this morning.
HIVIUI, FEL I4.—A meafure enforced by the
French throughout our Republic, and particularly in
the maritime towns,andthetwodepartments,Batavian
Brabant and Zealand, has occafioned come alive ne-
gociations between our Government and that of
France. On the 7th ink an order was ilTued by the
French Government for (citing all Englifh entmesodi.
ties in the warehonfes, &nits, or commercial boufes
in the above mentired departments, and all goods
which were entente.' fuch were taken away and
carried to places appertaining to France. In the
lOand of Walcheren. General Novo. r enforced the
meafure by officers of the Co !Inure. lupported by mi.
litary detachments. At Mtddlcbnrg►, Flaking. and
Veere the hoofes were occupied, and arcing detach.
ments patroled the firects till all the Englifh commo-
dities were feized, and placed tinder the gnarl of the
French troops. In Brabant the nperation was carried
into aid by a great number of Officers of the Cuf
toms, who went from cne villige to antacr,
without nI aid from tlic miliutrr I ot.ly at

'I

Taut, where there k a greet manufaftory of
eloth. the afEltanee of the military was called in.
The Englith goods were then packed up, and catried
a in waggons, which were put in requiftion, to the
neighbouring French territory. By this violent Inca-
fure many of the inhabitants, particularly at null:.
ing, have loft a great part of their property. The
governmentlof Zealand hasmade a Prong remonft ranee
on the fubjed to General Mow NIT ; and a limilar one
has been made by the Government here to General
VICTOR ; and it is hoped that the drat of theft wiP
at leap be that the commodities feized will not be fie
to France or confifcated before the return of a mini
who was difpatched to Paris to our Asnbaffado)
SCIIIIMILtENNIIICC on Snndaylall.
During the feizure of the Englifb good. at Fluff.
ing, the French troops loaded with ball, and paid no
regard to the cries of the women and children, when
their property was taken away ; the Rate of Flullainic
is truly deplorable
COIISTANTINOPLB, Jac. I4.—Accounts Lave been
received from Syria, that ANDUL WiCHAB, bas been
murdered, together with his brother. They wci c
taunted while at prayers, hut he who perpetrated the
deed did not efcape : be fell into the hands of the
partizans of Asout WiTscuas, who furioufly cut him
into a thoufand pieces. The intelligence of this event
has caufed a great fenfation here, aiscl efpecially in
the Seraglio : the courier who brought it has received
a valuable prefent, and the Porte flatters kali; that
tranquility will now fpeedily be perfedly reltored in
Arabia.

The chief of the rebels in Romelia, has been taken
and beheaded; his bead has been Cent here, and pub-
licly expofed for three days.
Several Eoglilh (hips of war are crnizing ,off the
coaft of Egypt.
The Tmfurer and Seeward of the late CAPITA
Pasha have been beheaded, for having abufed the
confidence of their matter. Immediately after the
(alive' of the Bairam, the clefts of the late High
Admiral will be fold for the benefit of his creditors.

Mr. S the Englifh Enwy, has been ap.
pointed by his Court Ambairador and Minitier Pleni-
potentiary to the Porte : he will in a few days give
in his credentials.
Duriag the Ramazan, or Fall, which ended the
day before yefterday, no fire broke out in the city,
which is confidered as extraordinary, and a proof of
the tranquility and fatisfa&ion of the people.
Official accounts have been received from Egypt
that all the Confuls of the European Powers, at
Alexandria, have applied to their Knitters at the
Porte, complaining that ALt PASHA has made many
attacks on their perfons, property, and privileges.
'The Arnauts and Mamelnkes, among the latter of
whom are many renegacioes or difgnifed foreigners,
have again come to blows with the Turkith troops in
Egypt, who are too weak to op pore them.
I JAN. 15.—The Porte frequently receives diftratches
from the Mores and from Corfu, the contents of
which relate to the Rate of affair in the Mediter-
ranean and Adriatic Seas. The Divan has held
' many councils on this fubjea. It is likewife remarked
that the Ruffian and Engliffi envoys, and the Nea-
politan Clapp d'Afaires, have frequent confereares
with the Reis Effendi. _ _ _

We are allured that a new treaty of alliance has
been concluded between the Porte and Great Britain.
but which is only to be carried intoeffeff under certain
circumftances. The Englifh Envoy fent off a cou-
rier to London the day before yellerday. The
above mentioned treaty of alliance would have been
eoncludedifooner, had not the late CAPITAIa Pasun
conftantly oppofed it.
Mixaa, jaw. 3o.—General (harm, late Com-
mander of the French troops at Leghorn, left that
place on the aoth infl. after having refigned his corn.
mand to General VtRDIER.
According to private later' from Rome, a report
prevailed there, that the reigning Kiuo of Samoa*
had propofed to go to Malta.
Gswoa, Jas. 23. The Vice Admiral LATOOCIII
Tasvista is arrived at Toulon, to take command of
the fipadron there, confining of fix !hips of the lino
and four frigates.

On Saturday, the 3d inaanto Sir GEORGE Bow.
yes, Bart. of Radley, Berks, came of age, and the
event was celebrated with great feaivity, at his man-
fion, and other domains, in Berkaiire. The tenants
and their wives, lons, and daughters, were enter-
tained at Radley with a ulna plentiful board,
and the cottagers and their families had allotted to
them five pounds of beef per head, and a proportion-
ate quantity of filver, to provide themfelves with
bread and beer at their own houfes. Above fix hun-
dred perfons partook of this bounty. Sir GEORGE is
the fun of the late Admiral Sir GLORGE Bowysa,who
bore a confiderable part, and 101 l his leg, in the ever
memorable engagement between the Engli(h and
French fleets on the ill June, 5794.
A New York paper, 01 January 18, fays,“ Capt.
MURPHY, from Calcutta, informs us, that the new, of
war had not reached that rlace when he failed, but
was inform:d of it at St. Helena. A keret expeJi-
tionfailed from Calcutta, in company with the Swirr,
fuppofed to be &Rine,' for Ceylon, as a reinforce-
ment to the Britifh troops at that place."
The following, refpeflingi Lisors's fqusdron, is
extraned from the Aurora, of Philadelphia, of the
tarli January, Captain Howszy, arrived at Phila.
Gum the lac of France, failed from thane
on the tOth of °Robes., after being embargoed three
weeks, in confequence of five (flips M the line with
troops having failed on a item expedition, fliortlf
after the arrival of a new Governor from France."
There could not be five flaps of the line.
On Saturday force further accounts reached Town
from Rio de Janeiro, ten days later than chafe which
were received on Friday. They are dated the 161 h ,:f
Oftober, and Hate, that the Britifh fquadron, under
the command of Captain Fszaraa, conlifiing of the
Aesroe, &RETIE, and Russ's, of 74 gons, 41" I
GRAMPUS of so, with the Melville, Vex, Spencer,
Princefs Mary, Ann, Glory, Anna, and Southamp-
ton Indiamen, failed on the tsth for India : the C il-
cutta for New South Wales, having repaired fume
damage which fhe experienced on her palTage, iike•
wit: proceeded en her vein:.
Tic Dutch Admiral IlliTtlNg, with two 1.1 a
the Ire, 5125 to fail on the f Mowing. The ~.•1
other (hips, of which his fquadr in confided, have fuf-
mined in much damage on their pailage, Oa they
catll.l not be in a cona4in fur lea for tome ay.1.1:1)-•