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at Breda, and two of the principal per-

L ~o"s avn t"O VI tHS PfinClPaI per-
sons engaged in it arrested.
i 1t is reported that aAllag OF truce ar.
rived on Saturday at Dover, with des-
patches relative TO cartel. We doohe
the report. No Dover letter has hen
received this morning mentioning such
an arrival.
! 1t seems extraordinary that any per.
son should deny chat Bonaparte has
been the first to condemn his com
mercial restrictions, and to confess
that they have utterly failed in pro.
ducing the effect he intended. Ga
one and the same day he opens his
lports for the importation of thoee
commodities which he cannot procure
but from the power whose commerce
ne had sworn to destroy, and with
whom he had interdicted every species
OF intercourse and he notifies to the
American minister, that because A
merica has repealed her non-inter.
course act, and opened her ports to
French commerce, his Berlin and
Milan DEGREES are revoked: as iftbesA
DEGREES had been the consequence of
the offensive measure adopted by A.
merica, which measure having been
Withdrawn, the DEGREES are also with.
drawn.
| Ii he revoke his DEGREES, our or.
ders consequent upon those DEGREES
will be revoked also: but if he sun
pose that we shall abandon any part of
the old maritime law, he will find
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himself completely mistaken. He has
said, that from and after the the list Of
Nov. his DEGREES are revoked. and
our government, taking notice that the
enemy has announced his DEGREES to be
no longer in force than from and after
the 1st of Nov. may molly, that from
the 1st of Nov. our orders ins council.
adopted in consequence of those de-
crees, will cease.
Some misrepresentation seems to
have taken place with respect to the
decree allowing the importation of
certain articles of colonial and East
India produce. twas supposed that
the second article of the decree, or
dering con6scaticn, the declarations
concerning the species or qualities of
goods were false, meant confscation
OF IT, should be found that the goods
were British. The decree, as we OBJ
served on Saturday, might in that case
as well not have been issued, for
the most of the goods allowed to be i'm
ported are British. But the meaning
OF the second article of the decree is,
that goods are to be con6scated if false
declarations be given of their species
or qualities for instance, if Leyanr
cottons, which are to pay higher
duty, be attempted to be imported as
Brazil cotton or if Tyson or green
teas, which are to pay tax of nine or
SIX hundred francs, be attempted TO
be introduced under the name OF COM
mon teas, which are to pay only $50
francs.
Fresh disturbances have broken out
in the Tyrol.
Saturday, a Cabinet Council ives
held at the Foreign Office. The sub
ljuct of deliberaton was supposed 20
relate TO Bonaparte's late decree.
On the operation of the late French
/ SNhhhhSfN'SA al dhE CuShtS, VIC nave
few particulars by two ships, witch ar
rived on Saturday from Ostend and
lDunkirk. The following is an extract
from one Of the letters:
PARIS, August live have
hope of obtaining the release of great
Ipart If not of all the American pro.
IPerty and ships seized in the ports of
France"
i Another from Dunkirk notices the
Ipractical application ofthe new indul-
LICENCES of Americans and announces,
in postscript to the letter, that two
Iships from the u. S. had been released
from sequestration.
The following Letter has been sent
to P. Sampson, esq. Chairman to tie
committee of American M rchants:
CounciLOGce, WhitehaH, August 8,
SIR,
The Lords Of III. M. p. Council,
having issued an Order for entirely
: suspending, until further order, the
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