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- T 'V .FbtVAfB IX. PUBLISHED (weekly) W ALLMAND HALL TUESDAY, JULY 9, 18C& AV 447. NEW-YORK, June 17. 0tlr Greenock pipers by the ship Ardent, "fare to the 6th of Mav. and the Loiu!oniriteLsii tection against so large a naval force as had J lit AV'iii iiiui tt ' J n.- uw? u- all masters of English vessels to consult their own safety, as he could afford them no pro- r n e- r ;e :e. of 'e r- n- ul iir so o- T ti- f 1'nreocalhey contain is of the 21, one day , U ter than We had before received, comprising the subjoined articles. . I We learn verbally, that an, embargo was picl on all vesselijn the ports of England on the 7th of May, and in Scolind on the lOlh, ,, . JO co.nsequence. of the sailing of the second secret expedition ; and that the Ardent, hat Ving cleared out at the Custom-House' before the embargo, s-ikd in the e felling of the llth, unJer a protest; . . , - iThe Ardent had apassageofl4 jdaysto , the Jlank ot JNewtouuuUncJ, and; has been lluays upon the ciast. '.n'T7 - ' . v.; ; Londow, May 2. The' enemy's squadrons seem to be on the 'alert in almost every quarter. Lord Gard iner's dispatches state, we understand, that (anunusuul degree of activity had been obier , )ved anoi.g the Brest fject. , , "! The preparations tin another expedition, I upon a scale cf l",a ce about equal to that "which lately sailed, are nearly ready at Ports jxiiGutb. f: Letters of the 28th tilt, were received yes terday from Holland. 1 hey mention, that M&cbimmelpenninck proposed the next 1 dry jo meet the Members" 6T the Gi.vern- went, for the purpose of leceivuig their ac-" : ctptance or retusal of the New Gonstitmion. I ' Among other rumors at Paris, it is said that Buonaparte intends to create Madame I Lapagetir, who resides at Martinico, and is the mother of lus w tie, an l.mprcs cf the Yyest-lndies, to be succeeded by her grand son. Euenius Beauharnois, and that this ac counts for the numerous, troops sentry him toth.it part of lite woi hi, where many think both th" Brest fleet' and Spanish armamer.ts Arc destined. ; arrived; The 20th pointed for the sailing of the Windward Isl and fleet, to rendczvouTwith those from Sur inam andDemarara at Torlola. It was e"s raected ratrSt. Bartholomews that a division of the French fleet would be sent to St. Kitts was not arrived at Gibraltar as late as the 2d of April, twelve days "after the French fteet pased the Gut. PulaJ. True American. ' Captain John Harvey, in brig Tartin.' tula, arrived at Bolton on Friday even-' I ng from Havanna, informs, that on the 2xA Tune, inrtrrt iat. -j?, long, 7c, a- of the French fleet would he sent to M. Kitts -bout 10 o.clock, P. M. he was broutht and Tortola,to lake possession of the English to and ordered ai board, by a French brig . or about !0 guns ; on going on board, Ghef.nock,, May 6. r' A Lisbon mail arrived on TlHir.iday, in H days, per the Walsinghun picket, in which came passengers, Lord and Lady Holland. Jerome Buonaparte has set off for France, and his la!y and her brother, by sea, for AmsteicLvm. The French Ambassador, Ju not, had arrived at Lisbon. , t Extract of a letter from Captain Bridges of the trig llatinuh, f Nwburj)fut, sto hi f,, owtVt'i tfactd 'y'aHiAprii6, arrived here on the 31st ult. The d;iy before 1 got in I was fired upon in a most barbarous m.uiner by au Engi'iidi privaterr, tad recrivtd two vt ly sivere wounds in the Uroin and thigh, which, I thank God, are not likely to prove nmrul, tl:huh lh-y will cost me fevcrtl weeks of pr,in and an-uish. t lntonsqjen:e efbein di,ablcd, nnd lmit ibeiiighiyjnaiul fccane, I have sold my car-,o f'rwinc, and shall sail direct for Newbury " .'part bs soon as rav wttuids will r,-m.;L." ial J .r , . June IR. .i Cnplain Delano, who p.rrivtd last evening j tr J frora LisUoii,-Is the biarer cfdUpatcl.es for. ! 1 J - Cupt. D. informs thet the French and Spanish flmrts doubled Cpc St. Vincents n , j th 23J cf April, and it w.n up;xistl tiny I bad gone ,to the Northward, bifiv correct ' t Infoririation had been rt ceived of tlu-ir (Icsti. i rtioj..Uu the Sdofil iy.tbeonl:- B.ituh ff k tiicketn werpHikrt itrlicil r.-..tn f us.'... '...r ..... 1 , . -r....iu mw.hiiiti mi IIIH1IIII III r "5 Dn led jri- vessels there. ' By a letter from tlavanna, dat'd May, 28, we learn that markt-ts were extremely taw, and the duty on all goods thirty-two and one "liU per cchf.adv'a!ore Tme'tTiTfd 'oT thts duty was to be taken oil on the 1 t intant. Irt the harbour were two Sp;iii.h 74 gun ships, blockaded by the Bacchante,, Captain Dash wood, who cruised Jwithin a few miles ofllieMoro and boarded every thing going out or in. Sis Gtm-Boats were preparing to go out and take La Bacchant ; and in order to -Accomplish them for this service they, were: dailvrotxupied in the valourous exploit of h warding and inking one of the seventy-fours. Their hopes of success were considerable ; and indeed it began to be confidently believ ed that those who could with such ease cap ture a Spanish line-of-battle ship, would very soon be in a condition to attack a British sloop of war. : June 20. We are informed, says the United States Gazette, that the board of health of Bh'uldel ph'u have received jnformrtion of the yellow fever having brykerTout in New-Y-Oik. HOMEWARD -BOUND JAMAICA FLEET c Statement -of the-llett w hich sailed from Jamaica in Deremb-.'r last, under 'convoy' of the Sagesse frigate. 43 in number 37 ar rived 2 foundered at sea 1 lost on the Goodwin Sands 2 t-krn imd" retaken 6 unaccounted for, supposed to be taken or bit. Capt. Sebring, of the l)rig Friends, b.-ftthe French and Spanish fleets at Martinique on the 3'Jth of May, the litter in a very sickly condition. Their destination was not known; but ir was Kupp'ised thev would proceed Up windward a gainst Trinidad and the other to lanici in posstiiion of the English. Extract ofa letter from a respectable cm - me re ial houne in- Libvn to another in th'u city, dated M iy id. Since our l.st advices the continued and abu-i .la:it im;urtti'ns of grain from Trance, the bi'nu'tng (jf those fiom t!e- M.-diterra-nesn, the certain advuxs of cohm lerable purchases in the north of Europ-v th'.- occu sio'ial supplies from America, and the flatter in, appearance of our own crop, hsv? alto-C-Hhcr liad a more stuldn ancLitnportant ef fect upo-i our market than we ever rem?" b?r to have experienced. Very little more thin a ninth ago we sold ft ur'at 15 dollars a id a half per barrel on boatd, and wheat r ihrr lusher in '.proportion. The nominal pi ice is mw from 10 to 1 1 dclhrs. In Spain, 11 iiir which uasliti-ly at 22 d.dls. is now on saleable at 15 ; and we are afr.iid much mo ney will be lost at your lite hili prices. Ve ry few of our c'estlers will now buy at any rate. Ths case is nearly the name through out Spain." an I after his papers were 'exammevf, they. . informed him they "bore. difpat'cSies tf'om 1 j'tc fl;et at the Windward IQjnVfc fa? the' j-Fieet lbaf was gone dow a tu Nevifouhd- land: They further informed that a few jdays pievi us, in company -with a-ioiher French b.i.i ihey had fiuht an Englilh icorvc te, and had many men wouiKled. U i com.Tg on deck, capt li. heard the j groans or the woiiudej.-. There was a t-niun;bicr of gentlemen in the cabin, who appeared 'aspnsoners J?. one of them, but apparency under refliaint, enquired the ftate of tiu markets at the ffavanna The )afl captain H. faw of the privateer lllii was llertiiig W. S. V. not a courft for NcKloundland, and he fuppofes, fiom the; courfe, file wjs bound to Chaticiton, probably to land her woun ded men. J " BrifJJf f ttt at Jamaica C iptaln Ray, of the kluiui.. r Aliiame, who arnvea this morning in 24 da) s from Fa'moulh (Jam.; informs u ihat Admiral Hecres had arrived., with eleven fail of the line and had llaiioued h fleet acrois the har bor of Port Royal.' Lord Ncifou wa hour. Iv expc&'.'d with a Uronij. ie.iiHrcement. Prior to the arrival of the Englifh fleet, the inhabitants of Port Royal were ihmn into the utmolt cimllcrnatiun. Infor matioi; had been received rf the arrival cf the French and Spanilh fleets at Mir tinirjue, and rumor with her liunJ-C'l tonyiies, hjt I ivvol'e.n the coo.htfed for tes 10 45 Ljil or th- linf. Tcey r xpitl d all rt- at n- e4 on ; cn nd N. er ii n. far C tr iAdmiral Craig, in the Chi.mu-1 of tin-move- rtnti of the Vrrn. h and Spatmh fl ct. f On be 5h "f My, 40 nil of B.i ;is!i inns- thru, conveyed bv !vo mt n ' tA uir txt.A w t - ....... v v W 1 friste, Anchored in Gcnis' l;rty,' a liale iu ! tle Sotithtvafd 4fU Kcrk of Listen ; they 1 the coinmjmd bf Sir J. (;rJi,. bhti-id hr j jGibrtdtif and Mltn, with troops for the unmediaie orders to uurch to Ki- tjllon and lo leave their ovn oit to th.e nv.ges of the enemy. The arrival of AJumal Ij-Drcres however, d fpatched their fea't I u. : r?ncn-cd tneir nopes. Ad.niral Cocbra.'e haJ failcl in the N jrthumbctland, f 7 4 guru toukc co.n. inand ol the Windrt-ard .lation, The pom l Jamaica' cun-inucd fht 'It America.n velfj:!?. M1rti.1t law was txptfted to take place immediately tl.rt wju nt tl eifl and Ii wibho rems nierc I that 01 the fiul of April lalf. -.Admiral D i.'kworth rcfiied Lis flrrt at t Jamaica to th- c'lfrg; of Ad nirat Uccres, an I Jii nfeU" ( faiL I to E glamU Since ' th it pcrioJ, A l.niral Decre, Ins' been ! erirzirm ar.Htn' th: d ft.-rcnt iflinds. On 1 j the 6.S ol Apri1 Admiral Cochrane atri. I vc l wit!i a rcir.forctment r.f 6 fil of the line and 3 frijjatis, Admiral Dcret has : ' r.ovv ft fcC'iic le.uroed to Fori Royal wiili o.vn Jieet a"J he whole ot A Imiral 1 I.11 puriioiu. On the 8th of May, cpt. t), left itcd Uv t me 7 J.pn Hoads. CiOt. I). further informs, that a war w$ ibortly ('tveted to take lacv between Tottu gp and Frutn'c. . f Vu'tft Currfnt fit L??rr, Maj . ' riour E8 50, to 9 cImIN j wheat, I 73. to ydolh. p.r b'.tict. com I I0 to S, beef 12 tn 13. JxrW tjig 6 j rodfli i 50, p!pt vtuu-s Ml 103. lb!; Co. 30 to 55 j rtid band Utcs 40 to ii. 'A letter fm Canini'i?, 1atrl tle C3th Ilaf rectlvcd wi tii'u ci'y.ststts that th em b Vtfo'of four.c en d iyt had hfcn taken offlha 4$y prciding,6ndlhal tiitr fieri bxt i iilcd. Thrjiri Mincrv was to teane port for New York on lht2J,,. Aoothtr letter m-niinntut the Combined rieeiwrre Intcnted torrt a.ilt Jiuuici n. Trinidad; ths fi'tn.r to be ait-ickru bf ,tH French, itid '-, UMcr by the Spa- . tiarJt.' ' ' ' r- - . . Cift. n'sSfi, iiTitii st'Dil'J'n re frnn tu llinhlfnfws l-.Tirmt ih-t afmii:i wtro receifd from MiMin'i f ,nC rr' tt of Ihs French th.rethit an t n'lirt b.t-1 wt' 01 alt ??U at Martioiyi t an I ? G uiilopc tbt AdMrt Li Kai hvl tcnlofJsrilj l!u dM:rtatUInJi ditectlri; A respectable French gentleman, who ar rive t at Providence in the bti;j Trailer, nd- j viie. that ths combined French and Spanish 1 sqiindrons arrived Rt Mart urn pie, from Cn ritz, hid on iioir t 9300 French and 3000 Spa rush troops i and that amniwit the Jattcr wrre UOofthe Irish bri'ule, in the service of his tuo'u Catholic M.jwst)'. , Wetjatn ly the fh'r Hannah Birtlcy, ..from' St. Jigo-dc-('til.a. that the .follow tn American fceam-n have l.t' tr dcered f:t m th-mfnihr.f the rittr, arid saw the flrt of transports croisiiig the bar, lounJ u.) to Lis-" ii thtir resii -ctive nl.i js in that It.itbour. and en'.etcu nnbomd 1 n-ni h pmatcrrs, lorir.c jiui p-ise of cruising against Anitrican com morsel Hichsrd Hrycc, of Haltimcrc, from slnrp ' Little J rk. David Hayes, of C.nnm ctieut, (to. rGtorc' Wat vin, of Massachusetts, arh'r Olive Urutich.s Attdt cw Wl.itei of Providence, IL t.sch'r Jletsey. Loreland Starkt, of N'ewhavcn, trig F.lc , nnor. Marl;, of Last Haven, do. it Haiti-more. Wh'.tclhe French fiect.were fitting out at To'ilon, several ldtert wrre dispatched on tmard ncirrat vessels, nhich were designedly thrnwn in the wttyofthe ft itish rrtilicrstn the ncighbourlKKKl of Gibraltar, Mnting in pretty atrong terms, that the (left wit bum I to r.gypt. These, when discovered bvin ronrtyed by the commanding rfficer to Lont Nelson, drew him o(T from Toulon to lke atmrc a tintageousp7st f -rinte'eeptini; them on that routt which t;svc the Frtnth fl-et mi opportunity to escap , and my probably te the f .Hinds'hn of l?e acrtt ex;fdition f,tn out irt F.ntand. This my liuuic ir. .na;r -account -aby H br-ship Caclwanc'a, X'tdling ihe Nonliumler. land mentioi.cd ahove. We (late thef 10 Ihevr the pio.iulilitv, ih it Admi ral Dccrcs m4y lue coilcclc,! from the" variofn ftitions in the Welt I tidies, and from Halifax, a fcre equal to the "one inciitiiMJc J by capt. Ray . , . . t Fran MartinlcueCzpltiti Lvnch. of ilie fchonncr Man, arrived this mor licg from Mrtiii'q-ie, informs in that belore. he left the llland, there were fig-t-aU Imille I f.r acoMier fleet to wind arJ f'ippnftd to' be Biiufh ; and that off Bfr modi, he faw two IJritilh fliipi of the line llceiing S. t. W. under a heavy f iefs of fail. Jtfre::. Captain Drown, of the febooner Roger VVidums arrived here ycllctday in 14 dari Irom St. Uartholnmcwi, give us tie rnfitivcairurar.ee that a Hritifii fleet f f 18 f I of the lire had arrived at Barba-ri-cjuii the firll of June, under the com numlof AlminlSir Richard iJicktrtou who wa to bejuinrj iir.mtdia'cly by Ad miral Cochame wiih fie fail of the line. The fquaJron under bir. Ri.hard ii that lately commindrdby Admiral Lord Nek fun, who ft fiJ to have returned to En Knd on account ol the il (late of his bcalih. Captain B. fur'lier Infotmi ut that an. oil er French ai.d Spanifli fleet frum Frr rolanJ Carthap,ena, ccnfifiing of 36 fail (14 of which were of the line) luilrg l2cOTtror.ps on bard, bad artfrcJ at Martinqur, from w lie net they wire to pruned againit Ar,ligua ai d TtinUad. By Captain Tlori3pfoa,-tn 13 !ajri fr"ni it. Ctyix, we ate iukitl that news was received there the day before ' he failed, that a Britilh fleet of 17 fail of . the line bad arrived off St, Lucie and that ' another French fleet, confiftinfc of 14 fait of the line, had arrived-at Martinique Capt. T fays the above news was -believ- ed at St Croix . Capta'w Fow'er, of the schooner Mar, iner, lift Martinique on the. fir ft of June, -at which time no fecund fleet had arrived ; there, as reported dy Captain Brown. rhe fhip Brntui, Craig, 38 days from Londonderry, is arrived at Nevv-Caftlo "with 240' palleftgcrs. - - - v n It is reported that the Store fh.ip of the . , United States, with Provifions, &c. tor cur Utile fqtiadron in ther Mediterranean, . has beeri captured by a Spanifh Privateer. AlthOngh no official accounts have been receive 1 ot. this unfortutiJte event "yetthero is too much reafon to fear that the report is true, an I bel ev-.d by government, as or ders have been given to prepare immcdi. atelya like quantity of ftoreafor the ufer of our brave tars in'jihat (ea, in order to' prevent their fufFering from the want jjf thofe faid to captured. IVajh Fed. rillLADKLPlHA, June 19. Two bomb ketches are fitting out at Char- 1 leston, .(Mass.) under the direction of Gom-.. modore Preble. They t re nearly ready fof sea, and will sail, it is said, .in a few; days, . for the Mediterranean, under the command of Lieutenants Lewis and M'Ne'J. . , Kxtfact ofa letter from a pentleman in France : to his friend in this country.' ' ' . " In this city (Rouen) and its environs ar very con-iiderable manufactories of all kinds,' which alone consume prodigious quantities of your produce, viz. pot and pearl ash,' cot-. ton, fish oil, indigo, dye and other woods, shumac, quercitron or Amcrican.bark, &c madder root (in French Alliaria) is an article of which there is at least 10,000 bug annual ly consumed by our dyers. In a late con versation I hnd with Mr. Livingston, Ire commended the culture of madder Toot in America, SK'bJcU is an article of very great importance, "and the consumption of which is (Lily uiignic nted in Llland as well as here, unci from the increased demand, its price has lattly nearly doubled. It is frrown in Turkey, Uarbnrv, in the Sou'h cf France, Holland,' &c but 'he most esteemed is the Gyprus which U now at the most exorbitant price of 130 livers pe? cwt. The lJutch " grow and manuriirtuie it' into a powder, ond export rf to England nd France in preat' quantries. As )ou have laiuU and climates' of all descriptions in your country, I have no dot'bt of its onswetin-j i-n a trial being made, and of its bcrmn'mq; an article of commerce with you as eMinsive as lucrative. Shumae is liktwisc much in demand here, and near ly of the same consun ption, but I never saw any American in this market, the most cstecrrred here is that of Malaga. Querci tron or American bark, is io repute here, though as yet little known ; and the small quantity we have," comes through other countries at an advanced price." Extract of a letter from Washington, recei- ved by yesterday's mail. "The late mention in the paptrs is pretty correct Buonaparte signed every thing. They have regained for some rtiputed claims . three millions of Iir res, Monroe is gone back to Kngland, and left the Dons in a very bad humor. The delay of remittance from France is unactountkblc." Accounts from the combined fleet In the WeM-Indies state, that they have on board provisions for a tihe months voyages IxKnox, May 6. Mr. T.'l attended the select committee this day, and undeiwcnt an .examination of some length. llouxt sf Ctnmeu Mr. Calcraflpreientcda more formal de claration from sir Francis Iturdctt, relative to the abandonment of his teat. It was read by the (Jerk. The declaration stated, that it wss not the intention ofsir Francis lo defend his election and return. The j-etltion of Mr. Mainwaring was then ordered tote taken into consideration, on Friday the 7th of June. This arrangement is itli a view to the free holders themselves vindicating the return ef sir Francis Mr. Whitbread rote to bring' forward Ida motion for taking into consideration ihel'mtt -answer to the resolutions of the tth olTipril, respecting lord Melville. The object of hit , motion if carried, is to found an address to Ihe sovereign, entreating him lo drive front', his presence and councils lord 'Melville fwf ever. . ,,- ,". Mr. Tilt interrupted the hon. grntlcmar. by announcing, that lie had a communication en the subject to make, which might possi bly anticipate the motion of that gentleman. . Mr. Wbitfbrtad rlM not feel inclined ta suffer Ihe minister lo stste what he had lo corumunicatei until after he had roadc til 4 iff
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