Jenks's Portland gazette. [volume] (Portland [Me.]) 1799-1802, 1801-01-19
Rupture between Rufia and England.
LONDON, NOV. zS.


We are forty to fate that the intel
ligence we communicated yelerday o.
70 Britilh vehels having been detained
by the emperor Paul at Riga, is
confirmed by many letters received
by the mail 1t is reported that I6c
fhips have been topped at St. Peterf
burgh, and as the embargo would Ger.
tainly extend to Archangel, it is believ.
ed that no fewer than 500 in all have
been detained.
Bonaparte exults in the failure q
the negotiation betwixt Kleber and the
Ottoman Cabinet. He alto urges the
power of the north to fhake off wha
he is pleafed to term the " tyranny
which opprefeS their commerce anc
their feas," mentions Ruflia, in parti,
cular, who " knows that France is Z
necefary counterpoife in the maritime
balance Of the world"
This paper adds, Nothing is want
ing to reaIive all the moderate preten-
fons Of theFrench rulcr8-but peace; .
and if we do not vet enjoy it Gay
they) we have to accufe that power
ENGLAND Of courle) which is unaHect-
ed by the diiaaers of the continent"
Government las taken up the az
greiIions Of our late magn2aim0w ally
with becoming fpirit. 4 cabinet coun.
Gil was yelterday held on this impor.
tant bulinels, at which were prelcnt his
grace the duke Of Portland, the EARL
Of Chatham and Spencer, the lord
Chancellor, lord Grenyille, the attor.
ney general, and fir Stephen CottereI
clerk Of the council. The delibcra.
tons continued for thTee hours, and
the refult was a determination to make
repriials, by lying an embargo on all
the Rullian ihips in Britilh ports.
Orders were fent off lal night to the
different out-ports, to carry the relolu.
ton Of the council into effect.
DECEMBER Z.
YeGerJay arrived the Hlmburg mail. due
on Wednesday laR. It confirms the important
Intelligence which We mentioned in our lat
that The Emperor IF RuGia had laid an En-
barge on all the Britih hipping in the port.
Of his domnions' Il is afo Aated on the al
thority Of private letters fsom Hamburger, that
ia addition to this act Of violent aggrefIion, he
has thrown the captains Of thcie vefes into
prfon.
Some Of the fhips which were at Narva and
Riga, made their tlcaPe and have reached El
iincur. The number detained is eRimated a
500. Their cargoes are Of comfortable value
The reporeof The tqueRration of Brililh pro
pertY throughout RulIia, is ALTO current; anC
It is ALTO reported, that an order has been ignec
by Paul, that pafports ihould be delivered L
every Rufian hip rhat fail; containing mott
ication that if the hiP fhould De attempted (
be viiited b. the Lnglih, the fame fhall be re
ga,ded as declaration Of war
Tho no embargo on Runian Hips in Engllt
ports has been ordered, there being none tC
lop that we can hear Of, nealures OF nature
equally hottie were refoived on in the counc
held at Buckingham hou.e on Friday. The
RufiAn merchants, feeling the oPprei1iOn and
injultice Of being called on to pay to perlons j.
Runia, for cargoes which they have 70 little
chance Of obtaining, applied to governmen
for an order Of council, for prohibiting the pay
ment Of bills from Rudia, or other wife remit
ting money thither. THIS order was made b,
the King in council, after coniulting the attor
ney and folicitoT generals on the lubea. Ii
the mean time, the merchants held anothe
meeiing and refolved that they fhonld pay IN
bills they had accepted, but that they fhouic
accept no more.
7 It's faid that miniGers have fent OF an orde
to Lord Keith IN the Mediterranean, to detai
all RuiIiAn veiIels that may at preient be toun,
ia thai quarter.
The PruIian Armies in motion
LONDON, DEC, 2.