Martinsburgh gazette. [volume] (Martinsburgh, Va. [W. Va.]) 1810-1825, 1814-11-17

ihiS - itnpossloIc- Iney tuuSt nave ca
pected it We have been attacked in Can
ada, and no British minister would be so
unwise and regardless OF British interest as
not to insist upon security in that quarter
against such attacks in future Canada is
necessary to our West Indies, md our
West Indies are necessary to cur naval
power, and therefore Canada must be made
secure !; and secure it can only be made by
cessions
Bot it will be said, that though Mr.
Madison might and must have expected
such a demand, he could not give the Com
missioners the means of acceding TO it, be-
cause those means could only have been a
special act of the Congress consenting to
such cession Very true-but the demand
being made, it could naturally be transmit
ted to the President, who lays it before
Congress, land this would ofcourse produce
delay in the negotiation) unless he was
prepared for the demand being made, and
determined at once to reject it.
SWITZERLAND continues to be in a
state of great fermentation, and hostilities
are expected unless the Allied Powers i'm
fnediately interpose their powerful infu-
ehce.
IL is still insisted that the negotiation
with America has broken off; and that the
British government has been applied to,
to grant the privileges of cartel to the
Neptune American ship. It is added in a
morning paper, that she has been ordered
to cut Gottenburg and to repair to Brest.
Mr.. Gallatin, who 10 native of Geneva,
will, we are told, make an excursion to
Switzerland and the other commissioners
viii pursue their several inclinations, with
the exception of Messrs. Adams and Russell,
who are to go to st. Petersburg and Stock
holm, TO fulfil their appointed duties as
ministers at those courts. Such of the
American public agents as return TO A.
mcriea, viz. Messrs. Gallatin, Clay and
Bayard, and their Secretaries, are to be
Assembled at Brest, SO as to be in readiness
to depart by the LIST of October next. Con-
gress is to meet the first week in Novem-
Der; when it is probable the Neptune will
have arrived, and those persons will have
sob mitted their statement of the progress
and result Of the negotiation to the execu-
tive government at Washington.
Had the negotiation been entirely broken
of, we apprehend that orr government.
would have announced it 0 fiicially.
! COUNT RUMFORD died on the 2lst
ut at his country House at Autueil, in
France, of nervous fever.
tits the intention Of the Admiralty, in
consequence Of the numerous captures
made by the Americans, to be extremely
strict with captains who quit their convoy
at sea, or who contrary to orders, sail with
out convoy. Prosecutions of masters of
ships for neglect Of this description. have
already commenced, as will be seen by the
subjoined extract of letter:
" LLovD's, August 81.
" The Lords Commissioners of the Ad-
miralty have been pleased to inform the
Committee, that they have given direc-
tons to their solicitor to prosecute the mas
ters Of the following vessels, viz Mr.. Smart,
of the Arabella, lately arrived at Liver
pool, from St. Domingo and Jamaica, for
sailing without convoy and Mr.. Rundell,
master of the New Frederick, from Malta to
Hull, for deserving the feet under convoy
of his majesty's ship Milford, in June last
(Signed)
JOHN BENNETT, Jr"