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.Vol. 16, ' v.- s'jTere'--are'now several countries, arid bweden to maintain tbei existent andandependence, -call details have not been irecelved,' but the '-par..tcular. r6 the BatUrmrc'rederM Jtirpuouiin smohg the Ja&t ot them, wmcn nave peenjurivcu hi ureir Mjunw iiu vruixers, " pcrmu mem are communic nea in a letter irom im E,.,ui.yui ; . 'OH ( f FALUN GE ATNESS. ; ff ; When a ponderous alderrrian is summoned to mV the last debt IDt nature,; inctiuruc wup .ny Ls to flow, abd the, frail agWert .akncaa cc . n. for a ciffl. unnunishec t Bftt'he world rafaUH go on uriheld Lbble, merchants UVBate.nd.goVen. JuMcli 9theut f . great is nave, cicvaicu : uman lifer is Suddenly . that olurlumissionisfipofttaneous and voluntary", that we never loaded a pUtol or raised m arm to recovetour property e"xttept against'the enemy of aii) lh8 has dimtanibUJpn'a Vidder,n. . almos to .v.. m and seamclf Jlke a crow amitf the KriBCJtttOIW wuj,w,.JW.B v y- . -Si- flfst time. seriOuWfcb) finiiWladdWg Kdef the eoast from Wcix9 the tM- ..we .Ppt; airS ! eL. fwhlcliwas some time niii VeduSedVasrt- DC wu""' rr-. 4 i" 1 i dotn by which be enligntened, qjne vaior mm hich he defended her. We trace bis career it. jafid concluding that it is a mere paper blockade which OUeht aiidvthust be relinquished, because forsooth, our CorfitExecutij is determined to suffef no" obstacle tor be raised, against the trans portation of all thbsVjjrovisions, naval stores, co- ' Frtnch' PriiaHetB, wceimon was mentlpned in wajMphqa and barely mentioned, feitit : is so intereatinkW that it invites torepefitn. It has been a: question ;om'eti;igltat by civilians h4.herr prTvateeiQ 'is a lawful rnoe of annoying ahero laasmh noi yuuisiiijn. is saiU'iijanone puisaips: under' a baVibnaU Wmmislftfi.'i anvrVrable io the im$fo teata elifeage W'ajkaJiboal-WafiBbt others hav? e, hat Icustom IsbH theirs :wdei; Be this as'it rnrlher i?:nodoubt t nobnly' countenanced, but openly recognized and eQeourap;ed as vessels of war by their oW, go vernment. ' .One of the constituted authorities .of the emperor lately boasted that their privateers in fact blockaded, the Enelish channel more com pletely, than the English fleet blockadedany part km the school boy's shinine Saturday, face to the Mowlij ' frown of the alatesman, , checking " the presumptuous and awing thq- boldr Th states Ln'who directs the concerns of , a (treat.-nation, - ' . r . , - - Lv. imDeriai .maiestr !tne ytoieni suoverio whose watcnuu eyesore r"" liberty, and unlawful, possessor of crown of war, acting under the authority of their gdvern, i ntA mftr.hinerv b which it IS kent 10 motion, i . . K s . : . . .i i. . , - , . ' C:r .h nnrW ina cotr there. ! ce) grdft,, as has been cone xor rao object worthy of ouripiost ; profound tiorf. r nis actions lonial produce and specie they want to give his 'of trance. Hence we are pertecily justified in imperial majesty (the violent subverter of French j considering. French' privateers as national vessels there, atten i Va7n some time i merit ; antTihgir tlebretiatlons the depredations of and wheneyerwe had It in our powqr. Un-.tliev. government : 1 hese arccontinued to the a fortunately C&r the Dukelhere is not the slightest 1 same degree since the 1st of November or the Operate Ml KT,ICI ,r...;J C' - i,nA ks mct h,. v.tutcrnh f LVhrhirn oC kr,. k;,U ,l..,c peapqn' 75s i rvJiS ignorant of the s?ate of. the coast,.; and seas of Eu,' ttappears, have only been made use of. to every bole aim comer Ol ine ,gre pomiwi , . ,,.,:, m'rfi.ive his colleague and 'entire the AmW-an rommerrf f: "J.:. ' - . .. i L.i,.. V v1 o . - -a ,- T ' "fj Doai,vtne.-irec countrymen, to assert that .this . blockade tiear, ana .nPP"" without fo,xes, as he did in words o, in substance, good menus. W ( -in ,he late.debat, on' the -non intercourse bill hye no new,teptf to give Massena's army before LUbon, atanding stock stilly Diligent, commanded by a captain Grassin This ww balls. wTh people, msensibly identify hm - ,:w B.;tu n,, tW u--,Kfi -.. ?W f .JSEf? Slharbotu-, which they fully and quieJy .possess owners .re two U-us, brothers, one ofewhom dated Indian.Ocean. October the Caroline, Piedmontaise, ived off Banda on the Sth Aiu , stust; and assembled JOO men in'ooats, lor the at-. m iackt but owing to', theweither being ,squally,ho;c,; 'T ' bOatsejpariaeoV and CpnnTlft' '' fpttntt only J0; men present at the "rend vou, With jthra forceg ; I however, he advanced ; a battery of ten 24 poun : dersaa stormed intthe irear ; the seixinel waa.;- t f.1 killed itli a pike, fldr firing's pistolr leaylSg kguatnl in the bat. ; ' terjv the s$piitfi'.$ajba4..&Pt4 3 lenebflajid the tesefve by chkptiinjlc prtvced r 4 'to ,Skt Be bytibarj'nw.patli nT-he: akt) tcS' 1 of the town. While the ettmy were sounding an -v ; alarm the scaling ladders were placed bet weett the guns, - and "notwithstanding a srnbut ldU v '.V rected fire Xfpm the Citadeji ahd surrounding bush- c "c. esi;lh5jower works "were carried. ladder ; ; were then hauled up and placed against the iimeje ;c wall j and the ,encmy,spanic'stracTs'flcci inall di- v rections, le aving. the Colonel i Commandant and . -10 men killed, and two Captains and SO men pri. , ..... soners. Owiiig to the heavy raihsThe, .Uu4 1 burnt priming, aridy thos' thia men obtained possession of a" citadel without wiy ; loss. Port Nassau abd IJtowf' aH 5 reroaie'tdh ' 'v unsubdutd, bi a flaglolruceCbtyioee patched tbthe Goverloroflerinj private, property on the sarrenderf 'the islind and'ihreai of storming the townhd fortjf PTO-I; ' V duced an immediaie and uhco'ndidraiy sutrendrri Sv i into their clutches. I observe in Ihe-New York and 700 disciplined troops, and 300 miwi4,v'er6und' 'i Gazette of yesterday, a notice from the captain of;ed their arms .The 'iudiort entered "tlieVVar Itfce- ship Hebe; -stating that on the 21 si of Febru- bour at six in the afternoon, ' flunda is aoiiabi'-v;''lS his ikill, hi address and his wisdpni J cbrnmerce 1ttrihe,rf national dignity is maintained; and the public coffers supplied, the. cheerful eyes of a grateful people hail him in Retirement, nd they Uxecrate the pitiful inttlgue which has depri ved ihem of his services. ; . . V The reader, 1f bis eyes be open,' wiH'at once discern ktbe drift rcf these reflexions. We need pt inform htm, ihatf we allude to ihe recent dis anission of Mr'. Robejrf $miih from the" manage' Bient ofouY.Dublic : ifairs.V: A man so tlevated as ..i ll ' P . - L . .1.. ' a "' "i. r Raw gcmicnmii, oi auuuis bo iranscc naaiu, vi kaurtesy so polished, that accomplihen btanhope would have been but a boor in his' drawing-ropnv ptWLAsttuai. epSa-to be -Jtlae su&jc f bitter; euiogy on tne otner. .;e may compare the scare crow which At sometimes stuck up in cornBeWs by prudent farmers and pelted at by mischievous urchins ; jUpon a second -. .reflection. dusimmeprea9.me-jso much, 'that t "must en large Jttittle upot)i XI ;vand I apprize the rearter .nt my mienuoiw orcicr inar lne oe in a ..inirry he may paM oyer a'fewlines : a sort of economy by '.which much Urn: is often save lost, as I have'-often tad occasion to remark ot my own practice . in reading Mr." Jefferson's mts .ages and MrSfftitli's pullic letters. But to my Maritime forces are naturally of most effect in of lives in Bordeaux. ( . tid not in Rbchelle al statt d fending fr defending,, when kept moii!g, and the? in Monday paper., and' the -other, livca in WaSh Duke may have assured himself,, that the,., British ; mgron .street, in our city,., and quit ily itctivesbis know bttttfr how to employ their ships of war, than share of the pr6fits, arisii g from the dai y cap id,, uss them, as we do .ours, against their owti'tures, ransoms and pluu!trins of American ves cornmerce. To guard this cbast, -which, as the sels Capt. Ogle says that the French ci-.ptiin Duke has'stated, may extend a thousand ,, miles, "committed y..rious outrages und' depredations bin partly irf'siht of England, and Irom the Eng. on board tb Hr.be," as .usual, and then he was lish only feap invasions, there are pro.iahjy ner ahput piocjeding toscuttlr and sink thehip ac' a thousand ships of war, 'of every t!eserptin, in- co !ingfo ruk, rA bting ihe orders of' his go eluding gtin boata, which Jour, embaigo heroes vernment, unless cajtain Ogle would ransom her ; thought' quiw sufficient to Sttack unaimed mer- wheieupon, in on er to save htr bom .immediate chant shi;s. If ii weretherise, why should we esiructiii. iht captain drew a biil uponthimdt;! hear Jiom !imiita.tmWM. the los' 4 a-:ivjuuy toi'iQT(ijcj This' unmeanmKT -' iRaicmi fncxpicKing,upoyinc rrenco wn. ne iiowvery . juiuy reiuses-io pay,tnocau. . ,;,..if,Jana' Dutch of ljilish. seamen shipwrecked on tions the r-u! lie against rccevvinir it, as it was tile Sniilea scarecrow, is msdefTtdrlc lihis vtry ..coast .We" believe no American ships ealiy extorted from him I iuve no (loubt, how have been able to pass into the North Sea since ever, that Fik and I)uai:e and Eppts will uiiitrf this blockade, without being met by British crui in opinion that the bill cuphi to'be paid, insisting; . . I .... t- , . i. .. C ii : U . 1, .i . , . i ' l - , .' r ztrsi wc fciiut iiuu nidiiy oi our snips imvt ucen inai ine captain oyprawmg it, piengeu r.is lai n' convoyed through the English channel by these loathe Frenchman on the same principles Jha' it uizers, and protected Irom the French and Dutch led these three great and honest men totnsibt'that priiyjjjeers nay, saved trom French and Dutch" the Lnited States yCere .pledged' to pass fc-'non rn custom house ofticers, by heme . waj;njed.bit.th -JLemmrse.law: '.aganstVLnKlandbecause France iasfVli'6t,.vweausperU that few American sea cbnttnued he -Spollicions upon" our cbrnmerce men ct experience,, would venture to one of the 1 he priyateer Difigent is, I presume, one of the ports ot it, while there is so great a, certainty as three that at.lhis mhmttit lie in our harbour, re un or pawwnaTttttTOrnotiTerxruise. Lcincm tlty have experienced many transmigrations. F'rsl ieVe Ibe decn 'Sunday ctt :- next it tfayeJa to Toarket for a 'season or two : then, it has (to stand the. brunt of all weathers and alt days, until , it-1 cut upinjto .jaclteV0f trowsers fo-young Sam. iny, whose . herr, apparent is black. Bin One rf.3ju.nkiliatvJi ibe JLtKijifttarcSliL fnrther gOi",bt art can -often-'-do what 'nature cannot. 1 hisiarticlei atrvescvior many years, to stop a hole5'n the window,: -it relieves the galled-judge"- from the -unmerciful eripe of a saddle, whose "embrace pinches as hard as the kindncsi of an usurer Lastly .it is filled with old shirUails, nsejess feathers iir other filthy materials, and mounted, on a fence corner.' , .. Now you may fpllow many a great man in this 1?y from the , unsophisti cated c hild of nature : iee him;, growing into manhood : '.cd'upted' by the base agsrit of avarice nd misfortunes of his Wlow creatures, by the crnicmrible practice of """""5vne turns pqmqi -ana- willing to sacn r,0!5 e',ery honoraWeeling at the shrine of am Wtjoa.is always ready to stop a crack in the reputa uqp.ot some grpaunammoth, on whose shoulders fe may ride the race of popularityi So l eay, you Inay follow his4steps until you find him elevated to ine "bold bad eminence. A miserable; thing, waae Up cf ,t shretis and, patches, ' a bundle of ''. which will'not stand the slight that, if they did attempt it, they would be insur . do so: let them purchase arms ammunition and til here lor less than half of the value they -took sea stores and whatever they chuse, the law allows with them. This- is the real and only cause why it irid who has a ricrht to obiect to it ? Lt t them V milts broad, and K long and produces Iwt'hlhutviv.ivvf' megs and cloves in great fibundance Haiula n4!s4 : its dependt ncies export annually Of .000.,' wrrtbL, oi spices, to Batatia. About 400,000. worth of spices jwere found bjr the captoVs.-Xon aieW 1 .DeaiHhhf Dukt.of Grafton.' - ' This NfiUlesnan died on- I'hursday last, in the,1 4 7$th yeai of his e.- His decease wi give to Mi-'V"- ntsters the disposal of several ofndes and honours, ' tie wa Knight ol'the Garter.. Govei Dor of the p rt of Gornwa:land Devon. Receiver General. of ihe Profits of the Seals in the King's Bench and Cow- on Picas, and Ot.the rrisage of . wines-Jcctiiel,.--:,! vas also .Chancellor of Cambridge, Recorder o rhtfiid and Covc-ntrv Stc. He is si.rrefled Irt : i.i'a tiJesand estates by his "son 6rgi Hcnryi ' E&ribf i:ustori.0.-4";'4- this btockade, which, as the Duke says, Jias ex- uiea iour or nve years, never excueu any mur murs on tht part of the American government, until mUde a part of the Duke Cadore's Men enten tftTofl h eSTh-oTvVu j u a it last;a n"d ne ve FmvTy et, to our knjwle'dge, excited any to this duty oil the part of the merchants and people of AmeHipa. Amsierdam and Hamburg, as well ss Bouraeaux, and Naittz, remained blockaded, and .generally free and open to our ships tand tradeTas lohg as it. was sate or:prudent to venture into them : and, provide therivselvts With eyery sort of con venience in New Yorki for more surely overhauling, and capturing' American vessels to rplunder sink or burn theiiwrlas not' our governmentTeKpffssl.y allowed it ? Nay, has it not invited them into bur ports and'barbourv the more securely torepair, refit and re-arm, by prohibiting lheir eneny from j lollowmg them to molest them? ft has. ' p, .I' ; - ; F. E. Post. c bve seen a letter from a respectable mer- c'aBtile gentlemanat' Lisbon, to his correspondents in mi cuy, irom wnicn we nave Deep permittea to mae the following ex'. tact. JV, Y. Mvi fosrS ' v -Lisbon. March jtl 1811 V Our last advices left MUssena with theFrtucri army in full retreat from Santaremj and we; have": to add that the allied armies are foHowing)hem inSt tnree divisions, the centre commanded . by - Lord tuelttngtoti followirrgin ihr dirti!tbn bFTfibarj' the left towards'eiria, and the righV under MarC shall Beriebford has crossed the -Tagus . at A--brantes, to cut off tlie retreat upon Caste llo Bra. nio. , In consequence of which the French" have' b een obh ged to recross the Zezere, and, take the road which leads to. Coimbra s. However, not' without a considerable loss of time. ,A numbet of stragglers and deserters have been taken from them a skirmish took place on. the dih inst. wjexem,-the two to three hundred killed and wounded, and. 3 pieces of artillery; atid from the nearness of ou? Tust as our paper was eoine to press' we were it is only because ihe French are not in them, I favoured with the following extract of a letter from advanced, guard tb the-Tearof theufugitives. great- "t expectations are entertained ot -a general Jattlt.. The French troops are yeryv scantily suppJied with provisions for their retreat, and have no Tor-' a (re hdtfver. '.-. --. -' s' '. - " ,-- . V- ( IN l EHEsTlNG. ' . '.fei . Natch kz, .March 18, 1811. By a gentleman who left St Trancisville on' Tuesday last, we learn . that ?a curioui cucum- Amencans now enjoy the trade to Cadiz and Lis la ceiitleman whd eame passenctr in the Fox, ar. bon. , , v 1 V :- . ' rived, at Phtladtfphia from France ,o his friends The fact isy and our counsellov of state, ought j in this Lity .NtfSEv? Post. ( 1 to have knwn, and should have told it, .that "the The poliiical disposition of the French ero greMer part of this coast from Brest to the Elbe, vernment as respects this country, was, at the ; stance took place on Sunday .On that moni'nj? iiio uctn tncvi-uayy uiucK.j:u .iy ine juruisn , iime oi my oepariureis unprDpiiious as u nas; wnen me innaouanis rose, mey were asionisnri to' hnd- the Hag. ot IJonda again waving at Uiq top of the flaer-stalf : but as there' had been m?.ny MoflatK.,- Jrlavre, Dieppe, Dunkirk nd Ostend, of spohanon .that jWie has so long maintaine d which it contains, have been totally desertedjong if I accept the 'actual 'and immediate, confiscation, ago by the s-hips and mrchants, which they for- I may "safely $y ihat-the. Same vexat ion to whlch merly posessed and that as the Great Napoleon our corrimerce" w Jexpoied rior tp(" IhF second extended his custom house off.cerevurthe-r norfli - of November last exists at piesent. For those tet breeie to iPVtnt the dastardly admirers of his tyranny, toi odiexd; that can neaerveany purpose.) Wllh Lngl.sh,-' Irttle 15.Uy J.it:' ow l make( out, .that a statesman -may be like ! I- p Hare crowi an object ot scorn and derision tol ot lM.'en those whr Ichivw vvhnr 1, 'r.at1v ii nA riF -mciuA w those only who mistake it for a roan from its Wizard resemblance to that creature Now I ..taution tvery one against making any application ethis Umile, Vhich. I have wiredrawn -with -as "ucti ubor as was required in the finest1 figure of we UijVd. So far am 1 from making the slightest Husiou to Our fallen Wolscy, thit l positively af- orra; iTlV helipT thill hu n.l'fl. - 151 4b..ini 'i his exterior "appearance, or make iany man be. that.be is what he is not,- ' : ; P 'Jft the Baltimore:, Federal Gazette. 7 : J '5 doubtful, 'whether a' country who hastieiin Ptbed to one belligerent a very considerable a successors, have eKtended their connuests ifch fleets, to prevent the emperor's newly acquired .subjects, from trading with ? any body else. ,-; , - k.;- .-. It is fime, high time, that we could make a full discovery of thatew Vtatffif rhings, as his majesty the emperorexpresses it, by which the jfates and dentmies have kindly enabled him to give arbitrary jaws to the .'continent of, Europe, and es tablish custom houses brhe coasts thereof, for replenishing his treasury, and perpetuating the slavery r of the inhabitants; -&-And that these same fates and destinies', or something else, less officious, but equally effectual, have also enabled his ene myt English,- to bloekade and ie'strfct ihe trade of the European coasts according tohtir- will and pleasure ; and that, consequently, we cease to think, or to expect, that a poplrwhom Bona partejias endeavored to render desperate by de vessels which have arrived subsequent to that pe- rispo, ano upon tne presumed taiin ot tne rtp .alol Milan, Berli and other. decrees are still kept in a state of sequestration ;" or "what is tantamo unt, no decision can be obtained as to . what will be their fate-' - Such as'arrived, were obliged, to trans mit. their papers to Paris, to be submitted to the examination othe emperor,, and 1 know ot no instance wherein any notice has beeb" taken of them, but . in such as were providec ; vviih liceb ces. So far ft bm there beingany amelioration of t our proapecju the - reverse was tbe fdet, as 1 saw letters of gobd authority from Paris dated the 7th Rlarch, wherein it. was Isa'id. that tlie Empe. ror hadissucd orders "to all the custom hpuj.ei, not tp permit the adjoiion of any vAmerican ves sel and property, .iter seize such as should arrive, anq not to report on tne 'case 01 any wuaisoever tliat'had1Strfived.,,'';'-': -: ;- 40l,prQ 5 Pe thought 1ieutiaI, orhave any claim to those i will iay by, or put down the , means iliey have ac. agcs .which o( nght belong to the state,1 quired at the expense of nfUcii blood and treasure, Galiant affair ut j5arafa Banda, the. principal island of ibe Moluccas has been carried by one of seamen are so much 'vdisUnguishe'dif ;The odlcial mischievous pranks played for several nights pro-" vious, no persoii attempted to take it down,, and mpre particularly as there was no getting at 'rt, unless byvclimbing the staff, which wav at - least sixtyfeet high, or by felling it' In the courselpf Lhe dav. "hmvrvetv iinmAiwnrl-nwihVKavW' mtm into the; country, found that uneasy sensationa. had beeri created, .and a; belM was like tb lie come current, that it was reared in opposition'. ,'-t. t the govfernmt'nt In the evening, on -their return, J J a few pel sons viewing tk-e thing more Serious. rt.J solved eri cutting dovwi the-staff. . The cutting !-- down the staff was opposed on ' he ground of jis i bting private "property his .Contention;-was. likf .i to produce a serious not, when very bapp'djii .'. General Hampton and Lieut Httkill arrived i.v , ; tpwft..-.' The general immeiiiately. cl!ed.;on'' a jr.r'4 vil -officer, and' slating' that lm ' considered ;.lhe; ff-& ; then flying' was an, insult tO bis gvtrnmcrt,- d .' sited tlwt it might - be ordered 'rlown -The dity'' ulbcer accordingly repairedT'to live flag staff, where it -'ihe right of private prpperty.was again contended f .v,; for. The general cbierved thai if. the flag W3 J pot taken dp wn'4bythe'Civil pS)wer, he would havey?- , a detachment of tioopa.to doit th nextay-Th V civil magistrate Ihenddaed rne .stfT to be cut iu.wnwiii:biHN!:as' dc;ml.flieite3r7Sfe , ;'Th day, following, at, thiee o'clock P. M. a faw, of those who were at the storming of Baton Rouge) t If. , 1': -V..
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