Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1812-03-26

Treph. master, detained lOt a DiSaSii u .iip
orders in council, and brought to adjudication
before the Court Of Admiralty, on Tuesday
last. DIR. Philimorc moved the Court tor per-
mission to introduce evidence 20 shew that the
operation Of the DEGREES OF Berlin and Milan
had ceased. He stated, that if this fact could,
as he was credibiy informed 1t could, be prov
ed, he should then think he might confidently
contend before the court, that the Americans
would be entitled to the restoration ct their
property, even though there was no formal re-
vocation of the orders In council On the part OF
our government--that the ground OF his argu-
ment would be, that as the orders in council
were allowed to be contrary to the law OF ma
tons, and only justified as a measure OF retail
alton, if it could be showed that the DEGREES,
which they were intended toretallate, were no
longer in existence, then these orders would
become ipso facto cancelled and annulled-
and could have no legal validity IN court OF
the law of nations. The learned counsel urg-
ed the propriety Of granting every indulgence
to American merchants, who were trading In
strict conformity TO the ancient acknowledged
rules of maritime law, and whose property
could only be liable to confiscation, under III.
noyations lately introduced into that law. Sir
w. Scott, after enquiring whether the proofs
suggested could be Immediately produced, re-
jected the application. He thought the case
in question must follow the course fthe other
American cases, he could not presume re-
vocation ofth orders in council till it had been
notified to him by government, and he sug-
gested, that even if it could be shewn that the
French DEGREES were revoked, there would
still be question of law, whether repeal OF
them as to America alone, would be consider
cd as a repeal by our government.
January 81.
On the 9Th inst. the shock of an Earthquake
was felt at Oxford and it, neighborhood.
The report of the Physicians states, that
" His Majesty is nearly in the same state in
which he was previous to the late increase OF
his disorder
Bernadotte's speech to the Swedish mo-
march, on the occasion of the resumption of
Royal duties by his Majesty, is document of
importance. He confesses, that by adopting
the continental system, and declaring war "a
gainst Great-B Britain, the revenue from the
customs had been extinguished-that the
cruisers under the French flag had committed
numerous aggressions, which the emperor had
foreign relations Of the country, emitting
France, he remarks, that Sweden was on the
most amicable footing with the courts of Ber-
lin, Petersburg, Vienna and Constantinople.
January 90.
The immediate result of Lord w. Bcntick's
return to Palermo, and an interview with the
king, is said to have been that every difficulty
was amicably arranged, and the arrest and trl-
al of number of French spies and emissa-
res ordered. 1t is of this circumstance the
French papers avail themselves, which, in all
article from Naples Of the 9Th, would have it
believed, that the persons arrested are the
best friends of the SiciIian government
The tone Of that article sufficiently shews that
the projects of the enemy against Sicily have
been completely defeated.
January 80.
Capture of French frigate.-Thcre is no
doubt Though the official accounts are not yet
recelved) that another action, honorable to our
naval arms, has been fought in the Adriatic.-
Whether there were more than the English
frigate Active, of So, and the French Pomone,
of "a guns, engaged, is not known but it
by the former, after furious fight. Capt
Gordon has lost a leg, but is doing we'll
Since writing the above, we understand that
the Marquis of Huntly had letter yesterday
via France, from capt Maxwell, of the Al
ceste, dated LISA, Dec 9, that the Pomone
had been taken from the enemy, and that capt.
Gordon OF the Active frigate, after the loss Of
his leg, was doing WE'LL
January 81.
Our readers will rccollcct that about two
months ago, the Austrian government issued |
an order directing that French troops should
be allowed to pass through the Austrian terri
tories, and that provisions and other necessa-
ries should be afforded them 1t is now said
that the French have assembled powerful |