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IT tile Conqucrour's discretion; Lccsnsc <fls
armies of the Emperour Of france, and of his
dependent allies, advance against Austria with
hostile views. 49,
The forces of Austria have risen for self
defence and self preservation az the nod of
their Monarch / am leading them on
against the cneIny,to TO prevent the certain az
tack he prepared against us.
"We pass the frontiers not as eonquerours !;
not as enemies of Germany not to-destroy
German institutions, laws, customs and man
ners, and impose foreign ones not to appro-
pirate to ourselves the property OF Germany,
or to sacrifice her children in distant wars,car-
ried on to destroy and sqbjucatc foreign ma
tions.--No; we fight to assert the indepen-
dence of the Austrian Monarchy, and to res
tore to Germany, the independence and nation
al honours which are due TO her.
The same pretcntions which now threat
en- US have already proved fatal to Germany.
Our assistance is her last effort to be saved.
Our cause is that Of Germany-United with
Austria Germany was independent and
happy it is only though the assistance Of
Austria that Garinany can receive happiness
and independence.
|" Germans ! Consider your destruction.
Accept the aid we offer, and cooperate with
us for your salvation. We demand from you
no excrtions, but such as the war for our
common cause rcquires-Your property and
your domcstick peace are secured by the dis.
ciplne of Our troops The Austrian armies
will not opprcss, nor rob you [; they respect
you as brethren, chosen to fight Jointly with us
for your cause and ours. Be worthy of our
respect; such Germans only as forget them
selves are our enemies.
"Dcpcnd on my word which have more
than once pledged, and redeemed to save you !!
Depend on the word of my Emperour and
Brother, which has never been violated.
--i (" CHARLES, Generalissimo."
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LONDON, APRIL 90.
Desfrnefion Of the Rocheforf Squadron.
.4Tzxcx w BAsQUE RoADs.

The circumstances of the late attack upon
the enemy's feet, and the extraordinary SER
vices of Lord Cochranc in conducting the en-
tcrprize, are not sufficiently known. We
have great pleasure in laying them before the
publick upon the authority Of an officer who
shared in the gallat and perilous achievement.
Lord Cochrane personally conducted the
explosion ship, which had been charged by
himself in manner than which nothing was
ever contrivcd TO be more dreadful. His
Lordship caused about 1900 barrels of gun
powder to be- started into punchcons, which
were fixed end upwards Upon the tops Of
The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1809-06-14
proclamation By DAVO US7,
To the Army of the Rhine.

HEMAu,' APRIL IL.
!" SoIdicrs-His Majesty the Emperour of
Austria commenced hostilitics on the 9Th inst.
This was announced by his Generals in Chief
on the 9th. They have taken up arms. The
orders of the day delivered to the Austrian
armies arc merely the cffnsions of scurrility.
This is not the way to attack the soldiers of
the Emperour Napoleon. They threaten to
ovcrwhelm us with defeat and disgrace upon
the plains of Ulm and Marengo. Your con-
duct will show what right they have to make
use of these threats. Soldiers, our beloved
Sovereign, when he was first Consul, offered
peace, the Emperour of Austria refused IT.
Marengo compelled him to accept ofterms.
The English broke the treaty of Amiens. Our
Sovereign had collected his armies OH the
French coast, and the Emperour of Austria,
availcd himself Of that juncturc, and without
any previous declaration of war, violated the
territory of our allies, and threatened ours
Uln compelled the enemy of our sovereign
to make peace. In the present instance the
Emperour of Austria has threatened the ter
ritory of our allies, without the least appear
ances Of any difference between the two pow
ers, and conceiving himself in a situation to
undertake hostilities, has actually commenced
war. The directors of the Austrian Cabin
ct have a very great interest in the result Of
their libellous scurrilities. Woe be 10 those
who may dare to disseminate them, and by
these means excite disturbance the prompt
execution Of military law will be the incyita-
BILE consequence.
Soldiers--In spite Of those libellous re-
proaches, Germany has done honour.to your
discipline and good conduct. You do not
make war against the inhabitants those un-
fortunate sacrifices to the views of the House
of fAustria,whosc ambition has stained SO many
pages Of history with blood, and whose arro-
gance has again excited such agitation among
the nations.
A soldier of Napoleon must not only be
free from censure but without fear. If there
arc any of contrary charactcrin our ranks,
and who shall so far, transgress against the
fundamentals Of all discipline as to dishonour
his. cloth by plunder-or disobedience, punish
ment shall speedily follow
!" The results of this war are certain. We
shall be supported by the Emperour AIexan-
der, who is faithful TO his engagements in
peace or war. With his armies, whom
you highly respect ) with the confederate
Soxereigns whose wish is that we should a.
vcngcxtheir cause, and secure them in future
against the ambition of our eternal enemy /;
and lastly, through the justice of our cause,
victory must be ours Your courage, and the
genius of yonr Sovereign, when yon see him
in the midst of you will be the most. infalli-
bic assurance of your triumph"
g The Marshall Duke Of AuERsTADT."
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Latest fnreigtt JNtfos.

The American Despatch. ship Pacjfck,
Capt. STANTON, has arrived at New-York,
from England, bringing important dispatches
for our government. The Pacifck left Fall
mouth on the 9Th May, and is the bearer of
London accounts to the 5th May, from which
the following extracts arc made.
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FROM raz IosDos eAzsrrr, 4rsl1 20.


III The Courf Of Quecn's Palace, kAe. .26M Of
.4hril l BOG, fresenf the Kfng's losf Ercelens
11yesty in Council. !.
Whereas His Majesty, by his Order in
Council of the eleventh of November, ono
thousand eight hundred and seven: was pleas
ed, for the reasons assigned therein, to order
that's all the ports and places Df@Franre and
her allies, or'of any other country at war with
his Majesty, and all other ports or places
in Europe, from which, although fict at
war with his majesty, the Brrtish flag is
excluded, and all ports or. places in tho
colonies belonging to his Majcsty's enc
mics, should from henceforth be ssbiec,'to
the same restrictions, in point Of trade and
navigation, as il the same were actually block
AIDED in the most strict and rigorous manner
and also to prohibit, $ all trade in articles
which are the produce or manufacture OF the
said country or colonies"
And whereas his Majesty having been ne
verthelcss desirous not to subjccs those coun-
tries which were .inplliance Or amity with his
Majesty to any greater Inconvenience than
was absolutely inseparablc from carrying into
effect his Majesty's just determination TO
counteract the designs of his enemies, did
make certain exceptions and notifications
expressed in the said Order Of the eleventh
Of November, and in certain Subsequent Or
The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1809-08-18
DOMESTIC.
New YORK, August IL.
EXTRhCT-DATED
+" WASHINGTON CITY, August 8, 1909


3" The president has this day had a cabinet
council No decision has transported: Indeed,
probably none has been had Two of the
prominent points in their immediate view
are doubtless, thu REVOCATION OF THE
PRESIDENTS LATE PROCLAMATION, AND
AN EARLY CALL OF CoNGREss
- 1t may afford matter tor some specula
ton to the society OF political doctors, zvl,at
7vouid de The safe IF things uhon such rezo-
e0fton Would we be reinstated in statu quo
dnfe, or not! mean to any subsequent
operation or revival of the Non -Intercourse
LdEv, tor, in the most interesting and impor-
tant respect, we can not be restored. AT all
events whatever may be the legal effects of
the revocation, think ii highly probable that
1t 7otH take mace VERY SOON
{" The impression is here pretty strong.
that Mr.. Jac&Son's tardine SIS has been i'm part.
II not principally, produced by the desire of
the English ministry to learn the event of
the general engagement between the French
(and perhaps the Russians) and the Aus
TRANS, which was expected some time in
June. If that event be decisive, it's effects
wiil doubtless be the more important to us
as well as to the victors: We know how cabi
nets are influenced by Causes of this nature
the Eugllsh certainly not the least so.-
Some even suspect that the Russians are
playing double game between the French
and Austrlans; but confess see no ground
tor The suspicion, as yet
e The basis which mr.. Erskine takes &c
! that if the object of the ministry was. as
they hrcfessed, REcoNcILIA4IoN, sc. he has
accomplished their object b.. the only prac-
ticable means: "Ihat TO hare Submitted his
" fnsfructtona IN EXTENso 10 our Cabinet
Tooula haze been. he 4ua8 zveH adUiaed, at
. once cutting cG tie negociation and al
:" ITO ne had the fo7vey, he zvas nor ORDER
$ d thus 10 submit fhem That as to the
expressed conditions, if the Non Intercourse
continued with respect to France, &c.
there could of course be no colonial trade
"with the colonies: and the English with
out formal Cession, would in fact. exer-
" else the right of enforcing cur Non Inter-
course law ,nasmuch as the captured
10y the English) iDfractors of our laws
g would apply with an i'll grace to their own
government for relief; and our govern
ment would be very reluctant and cautious
g IN interpreting at all" In fine he CO tends.
that "the rRo3EcT sfthe ministry 4uas SUB
. @tanfia1y, tho nos formally, erecuted 4;
" II they zDerc sincere in their hrofcssfons
"9 AMI7r," &c. &c &c.
snatch moment from otherimportant
engagements to give you the above hasty
sketch. 1t athears to be snhhoSed, that
the last dispatches from the continent by Mr..
GelSfon, are not of quite SO daik a complex
ION as those which preceded them by Coles"
The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1809-08-18
From The National MteWgencer.

| whether the agreement made by Mr..
ErSxine with our government be in any or
What degree binding on the British govern
ment, has occasioned much discussions The
solution of this point certainly depends ON
the powers vested in NJ Erskine. Ifthose
powers were such as Mr.. Erskine most I'm
equvocaly aliedges them to be, the agree
inent would have been absolutely binding in
an It's parts. In his correspondence with
Mr. omith he declares every step taken to
nave been in consequence of full power from
the king of England; power, not to form the
articles OF an ordinary treaty, subject to the
continuation or rejection of each sovereign
that was party to it but an agreement
absolute, unconditional, final, and to take
effect, III both countries at the time, and par
ticulariy in the United States before any
measure taken by England should be known
here. On this point the writer's on the laws
OF nations use language altogether unambi-
guouS-
Vattel says -
Sovereigns treat with each other by their
proxies, who are invested with sufficient DOW.
er, anu who are commonly called pIenipo-
tentiaries. We here apply all the rules OF
the law OF nature, to things that arc done by
commission. The rights of the proxy are
expressed IN the instructions that are given
him he ought not to deviate from them I:
but every thing be promises within the terms
OF ms commission and the extent o. his pow
crs. binds his Constituent"
Again
But to relusc with honor to -atify what
has been concluded on, by virtue of a full
power, IT IS necessary that the sovereign
should have strong aud solid reasons, and
mat he shew ~ particular, that his injnis-
ter had deviated from his instructions"
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tertained no fears of their nearer approach.
Barcelona still remained in the p~s> sssion OF
the French. Captain T. brought no pa
pers.
FROM CADIz, June IS, 1909.
"Onr political situation is growing better
every day. The French army is retiring
rom Estremadura. The English and Spa
nish armies are advancing in pursuit OF it !;
and we-now dairy expect AN engagement,
the result of which we doubt not will be ia
voraLle to the arms of Spain.''
Extract Of a letter from Boston, TO the
Editor IF tie Mercantile advertiser,
datrd AugNst 9th.
he Irish papers, received yesterday,
make mention of a new and severe decree
lot the Emperor of Russia, avowediy intend
ed to proven, the British from benefiting by
Russian commerce, but in its operation CAL
cuiated 70 be oppressive on the, American
trade. IT we may credit these papers, the
troops OF the Duke of Brunswick and a de-
tached corps of Austrians, have been very
successful in Sa3lony and Franconia and
the greatest alarm prevails. Indeed nothing
but n6tqnify in Napoleon could completely
control the extensive territory of which he
Is directly or Indirectly the master.
There have been some slight disturban-
ces ut Belfast among the master weavers
but they were settled. A reduction of wa
yes was the Cause,
some spcculators in London have, for fif
ty per cent. insured that Bonaparte would
not occupy Vienna OH the first of July. The,
viii assuredly lose, as he was there OH tho
30th of Juno.
| The FtoDer, reported to have sailed from
/. England for Philadelphia. is said to have re
Turned about the Goth of June from a c,.uize
The Swedish CONSTITUTIONS is completed
1t rs said to give to the new King the pow.
err OF making war aud concluding peace.'
The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1809-08-18
LATEST FROM ENGLAND.

FROM THE BOSTON CENTINEL
On Tuesday the schooner Enterprise
capt. sNlnal, arrived here in a short pas
/ sage from Belfast, in Ireland. We have
been favored with file of Belfast papers &c
the cd July, which contain Londen intelli-
gence to the 28th June, seven days later.
The Duke OF Brunswick continued to car
ry on an active predatory war in Saxony
and the ArChduke Charles had dispatched
some 8 or 10000 men of his army into
SaXony under Gen. Amende, who had cap
tnred Dresden, Wurtzburg and Leipsic.---
Three thousand Saxons had been surround
eel by them and taken prisoners.
Sixty thousand men of the Hungarian in
surrcctisn were on the march to reinforce
the Archduke Charles.
After Marshal Lefebvre left the Tyrol to
reinforce the French grand army, the Ty-
rolese rose and massacred the French de-
tachments.
The French CONSUMPTION in Holland was
violently opposed
Prussia is to remain neutral.
great number of French privateers had
been laid up, and the crews sent to the Da-
nube.
Some hundreds of the French who had
escaped the massacre of the SDaniards in
the re- capture OF St. Andero, by flying on
board the British ships, had arrived in En-
gland.
great expedition was fitting out of En-
gland. From IS 900 to 10000 men were TO
be employed, and commanded by the Earl of
Chatham, Gen. Hope. &c. SirHome Pop
ham was to command the naval force.
Lord GrcDville Levesou Cover is appoint-
ed British Secretary OF war, vice Lord Muir
ray.
Letters from Holland stated, that several
English and American vessels had been CON
demned i'll Riga.
The English stocks continued rising
June 26th, three per cents were at 69j
Capt Ninal informs, that much anxiety
existed in the minds of Americans at Ire
land, for the fate of the numerous vessels
bound to the north of Europe That the
Danes were capturing every thing in the Bal
tic they could find; and that insurance ON
American vessels fron England and Ireland
was at forty guneas, to return nineteen, in
case OF sailing with a British Convoy.
The English papers contain many reports
which time has contradicted, aud which we
have not ROOM to particuiarizc.
Captain Taylor arrived at Boston ON Tos.
day from Cadiz, in'<5 DAYS, mentions, that
the French army, Of about 25 900 men, was a.
bout 80 miles from Cadiz, I'm Kstremadu-
"a, no Doubt buf that ff,e II, f,;t,..,.
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May so.


official Detaiks-The following, f. ON Lon
don paper OF the 18Th OF June, are the Austrian
ofhcl, details Of the battles of the DIST and 22d
OF May, published by tie Arch Duke Charles
wnch were promised in the Preliminary Report
already given.
BRIETRNLEE, May %.
The French army, commanded by the empc-
ror Napoleon in person, has been totally beaten
on the 2lst and 22d Of this month at Aspern and
Essllng, by the Austrian army, commanded bv
the Archdukc Charles. Several DAYS before the
two sanSuinary ones tie Ffench army had pre-
pared grand attack, by movements and demon
STATIONS upon line six or eight leagues oppo-
site Vienna, above and below that city-Tbe
Archduke, Who on the 10th and 17th of Nav had
collected and concentrated t:c columns offiis ar
nay IN a lEe parallel with the left bank, was ca
ger only to second the ardor of his troops to come
~ contact with the enemy, and to take their re.
Venee tor the battles of The 18TH and 2Otl,, DIST
and 22d OF April-Tiie opportunity was afforded
them on tie 20th.
The emperor Napoleon evinced determinad.
ON to pass the Danube by bridge, whose right
was upon Labau, an isle of the Danube, two
leagues long and three-fourths wide. 1t is below
Vienna aud league and half distant by the
right bank, and three leagues by the left the
Danube making AN arm whose angles both in.
S lde and outside, served for q support TO tie de-
vslopement the French army The Archdnke
did not attempt to oppose the passage The
French troops who had already de5ouched. and
who took part ~ the battle Of the 2lst chiefly
consisted Of three divisions, generals Legrand's,
St' Cyrs and Motors, AID strong b0.5 oics-
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captain Taylor arrived at Boston on Tus
day from Cadiz, in'<5 days, mentions, that
the French army, Of about 25 900 men, was d.
Oout 30 miles from Cadiz. lin kstremadu-
ia, no doubt, but that the inhabitants en-
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4UII' DIUdIIt3 IsoII.
After this correspondence Lord Paget and
Lady Charlotte retired to a village IN De-
vonshire, where another letter arrived from
the Colonel, tits said, on the same suhiect
as his former; and his Lordship being still
determined not to meet him, the fueitives
forsook therretreat at a moments notice.
n late letter If Lady Chariotte UcHeslev
~ mr.. d. .4r6RfhHot.
IT would he the heighth Of ingratitude
were not to try to convey my Ganks 70
Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1809-03-15
FOREIGN.
LONDON, December a.

LCNDCN, IecSTlheT q.
We this day lay before cur readers, the
documents with which Mr.. Jefi,erson's Adj
dress to the American Senate and House
Of Representatives was accompanied
namely, the correspondence between Mes
sieurs Canning and Pinkney. A dispas-
sionate perusal Of these letters, in spite Of
Mr.. Teferson's d18sertation, we think will
hardly fail to leave an impression on the
mind Of the Americans themselves, very
different from the effect expected from the
Presidents comment. The British Orders
in Council was not levelle<! at America, but
a just and necessary act Of retaliation, call
ed for by the previous decree OF our enc
my, and necessary to Our own safety. We
admit that America, as an Independent
State, has a right to enact whatever regu-
lations may be deemed necessary for her
own safety that she is not even bound to
assign to any power a reason for laying an
embargo on the trade OF her own subjects
but America has no right to hunt for pre-
texts to Justify her conduct, in the proceed
ings OF another power called foI by the ag-
gressions Of a third party nor does Ame
RIGA act with justice when she admits the
ships of war of that aggressor. to refresh in
her harbors, and at the same time excludes
those of.the most injured party.
There is something SO powerful and COM
handing in thedictatcs of Justice, that she
will cause her voice to be heard sooner or
later, even by such as, from interest, have
endeavored to turn deaf ear to her dictates.
A man may wish not to hear the trumpet
sounded at his ear, but he must hear it,
whether he obey It's summons or not.
Our readers will see by the proceedings of
Congress, that they have taken up the Sub.
ject of the Embargo with promptitude
which seems to indicate determination to
probe to the bottom the measure, and the
motive and relations which produced it.
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inducing z fercai Cf f2s s,assssS
TEN of the British government, Wnien may
seek pretexts, to plead necessity Tor coun-
.teractine the unprecedented and f0rmlda6le
mode of wdytare bractiaed against her--lti
will Be desirable that as little room as posi-
bic should be left, for this remaining danger
to the tranquil enjoyment q our ootainsfslT
al rights"
The following frank and open letter from !,
Armstrong to Pinkney proves that all
hopes of operating on France, either
through her justice or wisdom, were
wholly vain, aud worse than vain, ms
chievous.
He adds, that France has become ccnvinc-
ed, {. that zvords, and 7vo,-ds onlyare the
weapons we can employ"
This is too severe from a friend And you
Brutus-thcn die Cesar" Have the ie-
deralists been unjust in ascribing THIS
pompous boasting character to the 60
yernnlent, when its own officers Care
tell it so? Yet this officer still holds his
place.
Extract Of Gletter from mr.. AfnlStfonSS 10
Mr. Pinkney.
PARIS, goth fsgse, 1903.
The St. Michael arrived at l2Crent,
on the first inst. and the government mes
senger at Paris on the 9Th; a passport for
the vessel TO Falmouth, thence to L'Crlcnt
again, was Immediately requested, but one
in the form could not be granted utby OF
der of the Emperor, and this was not given
till the 18th these circumstances viii ac-
count for the long detention OF your dis
patches. We have reason to regret that the
views Of oul, government, founded Oh the
justice and wisdom of the belligerent pow
ers, are so little likely to succeed. Attembts
Of this character made here (and they have
not been unfrequenD haze hitterto d51se no
good. Nay, the repetition Of these may be
fairly presumed have done m;sctief, mas
much as it has tended to establish q creed,
that 1Uordzs in some form or other, are the
on!y 25ea'as we have to employ. The French
council of prizes, which is I am TODD as
like the English court Of admiralty, as one
egg is like an other, has lately began ca
reer OF condemnation. Between the 1st and
18th inst. i've cases have been decided, and
| am assured that orders have been received
from Bayonnc, tor ccndemnins all Ameri-
can cases en- bloc in-mass.l What has slls-
pended the axe siace the 18th, We can
bur conjecture. 1t may be presumed that.
the reflections of the Spanish Junta, On the
political and other relations, subsisting De-
tween Spain and Tie United States, through
the medium Of the colonies, may have pro-
duced The pause. That it is not owing to
any conquest which good principles have
obtained over bad ones, is certain. Are
things any better your Side The channel :"
10 6e continued.