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RALEIGH, ( n . c . ) ' TH URSDJY, SEPTEMBER 8 ,1808.
No. 649.
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HIGHLY JMPOR TAKT SPEECH,
British House of Commons, June 24.
Extract from Canning speech on American
, . a Q airs.
"" " America, sir, is the next subject of the
hon. gentleman's Speech which I shall no
tiee. Of nearly all that has passed between the
-two countries, the house and the 'public have
been put in possession by the publication of
tl American government. I presume that
, the honourable, gentleman does not intend to
blame bis majesty's ministei s for-iiot having
niule similar communications to patliament :,
for if be had thouglit such communications
necessary, he would doubtless have moved for
them. Without censuring their production
by die American government, his majesty's
ministers have felt that the transaction being
"pending, any appeal from government to par
liament, would lookus if it were concluded.
I shall only state, that in the whole conduct
of the British government with respect to the
affair of the Chesapeake, we have endeavoured
u keep in view the principle upon which we
set out,-namely tw makeample reparation for
that which was decidedly a wrong act ; but
to make that reparation under a. firm deter
mination not to surrender a right which the
great majyrity off the country has ever consi
tkrvd as esseiitialtoits dearestinterests. Sir,
- may boldly appeal to the country to'-determine
whether from the correspondence on
the table Of the houscyany such disposition
oii the part 61' his majesty's ministers, has ap
peared through the whole transaction. That
the rupture of the negotiation on this subject,
-was not attended with any hostile feeling on
either side, is an incontrovertible truth The
reparation was not accepted by America, be
cause America would not accept the conditi
on on which alone it was tendered, nrtnely,
the revocation of that proclamation by "which
the British ships .Were not allowed menn?
the harbours ot America, while those : -ot the
eiiemy visited them at pleasure. But sir, the
manner in which the British reparation was
tendered to America by special" mission, was,
to all the feeling of nice honor, an affective
reparation; although not accented : and so in
fact we' have every, reason to believe it was
considered by the American government.
With respect, sir, to the embargo, and to the
probable effects of the orders in council in
.producing its abandonment, the honorable
.gentleman has mis stated my right honorable
.li lends propositions. 1 he honorable gentle
man declares my right honorable friend to
havx 'predicted that- the orders in council
would do away the embargo ; whereas my
honorable friend only argued in opposition to
the hoi.-qrable genthjuan' on the othev side,
that die "OrdeiHjnTfwrdt did net produce -the
1 " K .. .! . tlt ni 'il. A. . . . . 4. . . . I . . ' - t
tiuuaiiju, iiiui.iticy U'IC IIUl hUUfciauuveiy
known in America when the embargo . took
4!iifce, and that they were not included inthe
complaint made by the American govern
hien to Congress, on '-Which complaint tile
embargo. was founded. Nor, sir, do I think
that the orders iu council, 'themselves, could
have produced any irritation in America. If
I yere- not disposed on this oe'eviion to kvoid
making any .observations that might be' sus
pected of a party, feeling, I would?say, that I
do not think irritation in America may have
' ken produced by the echo, of the discussions
.in this house (Icar, hear, heu r I)
Sir, since the return of Mr. Rose, no com
munication has been made by the American
vernment, in the form of complaint," .or re-
inonstance, or irrttationcrry'cnscription
KatcverI mention this particularly, be
jause it is notorious that there have been se
Jti'al arrivals frorri America, .supposed io " be
of great importance, ahcUthat several special
Messengers have' reached this -country from
-thence, after having touched atFVace. But,
:ixh the honorable gentleman- in tlrxec'u-
of his public dutypiad tho't tit : tolnove
anycoininunicationthat hud been made?
fcy the American govermei.tince the depar
lure ci Mr. Rose, my answer inust have been,
rot that: his majesty's government were . dis
inclined to make them, but that ' absolutely
Were were none to make, '
If it be asked, wiy? I am unable satisfacto
rily to reply. ,1 can. only conjecture that7
mtricahjs eeieil into negociatipns v.it!i
,.rance, which , are exnected 6 Ua'd fo Some
result, and tJt'iK ....'.';-r..r a
t!ier:ca"0 this enr.ritri? Jtr' tr K pnnfiiirri.nf-
-Mat result. -Thlsrsir, is Conjecture alone,
v'V J-uicUrt the .extraordinary circum-i.-ance'e;
jfo many arrivalJ without anv com-
''ews
Si-Ti'
ipepteti ot -mCj
'OUs'.l Statf nr(iv!'Vf.ritF.l' itK nra tKf
Of tits maiestv's rnvf-inVpntJS-lhi
"Jjertularincjjjjg.by. which they have
'lkbuide(l, they will continue inya
'' Q Uemplato: thev attach as much
;1ncer
o t;-.e restoration, and to the " continue
PL Ccix!ialittT.von,! A ..Jj.
,i. -J.-IT- '.iiiiRa, as anv man ran , r.o!
"ieV'l puase. that advantage; by
U'tiUSt ncirnuion thev have prov
fat rcadinessby the Act the: present,
session, in which the trade of America has
. been placed on the most favorable footing.
But sir,- they are not ready to purch ise that
advantage, as great as they acknowledge it, as
the price of the surrender of those richts, oh
which the naval power and preponderance of
Great Britain, is immutably fixed.
BOSTON, August 23.
AE JVS FJi OM SVJTJV. ,.
, On Saturday arrived the brig AA?rcrycapt.
Bbadfohd, from Alkant and Gibraltar, ijhe
saild from the former place on the 29th June
only 9 days subsequent to our accounts from
Cadiz ; and the cities are at a considerable
distance from each other. She left Gibraltar
on the 1 1th July, where she remained but a
shprt time, on occount of apprehensions that
it was possible she mig'it be detained, as she
was without her regular papers, and the fin,t
vessel from a Spanish :fT6it with a cargo "that
had put in there since the 'orders of council.
By capt. AtiFbao's tnfqtmtion, it ap
pears, that the hatred of the Spaniards" for
the French, has never been exceeded even
among nations that were natural isnemies.
The French Consul at itaag-;, and several
merchants, were said to have been put to
death. Al Micanty every person born in
France was imprisoned. Some who were
confined, had resided 30 or 40 years in Shiin.
The Patriots had heard that Napoleon
had afijtointed them a King in his brothe Jo
seph. '
All classes of Spaniards were" enthusiastic
in their determination to resist Lhe Trench.
The instances of suspicion that persons wjere
in the Gallic inierebt, 'were rare. At Va
ieiuiu oneprson had been beheaded. Ai Slula
ga a few persons had been arrested, but, upon
exi-minauoQ, tbtie appeared po, reason to
vdoubt iheir patriotism, and they "weit liberat
ed. Tire? person at the head of the J'rfiVmce
mktnan-of-reatdisliiic- Spamsli t:oops that entered Portugal witlithe
Irench, also marched to l?ptn, but tboVe in
Lisbon, and its environs vverti all disarmed on
the night oh he 10th of June, by the French,
andput on, board some Portuguese ships of
war then in the Tagus,,: under French colouis.
Gen. Junot published tire next morning his
tionanu nronei tv t and several persons at
Jlicanty denominated noblemen, had-Vol'un-tttrcd
in the ranks to server against their
treacherous enemy one of these persons
was the gentleman who owned the American
Consuls house. .
iUost el the ITerchmtn ' at Jlktivt who
were arrested, on account of the indignation
against the Kulei ot the . country, which . gave
them tiirth, were loud and "decisive -pgainst
the conduct of Napoleon towards his faithful
ally. : A
At tli commencement Vjf the revolution,
Valencia esta-lised a local Junta ; which has
since declared tiiat ii WiU'receive and execute
the commands -of the Junta at Seville.
In proportion to the enmity of the Spani
ards to.utrdiiih- 1 -'rendu was iheir attachment
.Pofuguese 1 1 oops for
ol the trotitier
to the iivitis!.-' W-iien a Biitish Kii ermuenl
brig arrived at Vuloxiif with supplies, the
. popuhti e canied her commanter on their
fc holders to th el .town house, w lit le the council
vas convened. " tv " , .'
The islands of Mojova 1 fd Mlrcrca had
sctit the Patriots icii.iorceiuch'is, anuuvms and
ammunition. . V
-The Cartl:agc)7a squadron remained at Mi
norca. None of the I rent h 'fleets weie known
to be at sea. " -1 -'"-: -
T he account of the, defeat tjf the French
8t;my under Gen. Duvont, on hlrway from
itfadrid to Hevillei is conHrmedr'it is- said.
Q00 " Frenchmen were killed.
The news of the capture of,theFrcnch fleet
at Cadiz, by the Spauish Pati rets, is confirm-;
td j ' and if was asserted, there were found oi
board of them, a large amount o' n.orey, and"
great quantitiesjpf;ruusket8, tavtridges, balls,
'powder, 4.c. - -:'dh r- ' " ' - ' -
It w as Said there was at adrii and in its
neighborhood, about , 50?006 French troops
under the Duke of Beko.'
. Several skirmishes had Jtaken place In
Catalonia, thexe were said to bV about 25, Otu.
.Desertions were very fi'equcnt, and to prevent
jhis at Barcelona, about HK)0. selected troops
nati, ueen siauonea rounu me cuy. i pese
the rvojjat'nmistsiitravsd to surprize, and
they were all. cut, ttf pieces. . : .''
A" body .of French trojps (reported at 5 COO
had been . dispatched from' Madrid to take
possession of the ey of Valencia. Tlvcy had
been Slice attacked, succeedeil in dTfebmfiiing
the bpaniafds and continued " their .nisivli
They had arrived within about-
akna j .but there "rwastio despouency on
th at account and. about vO 000 regulai s ''and
volunteers 'had maixhed to give them battle
zealous in theii' country's cause, aitd vonndenf !
of success. :" . '-' s ' -
' . We .cannot karn that any fresh troops, from
L 'France enleredlpi5T in June." 1 . .
AH American -VessjeU, which, had been de
tained at Alicant raid Malaga, had been re
lea-! hv iht Snahlirdi : -but-It w.m wnorti-d
J l r - - 1 . i . - - - - . w . . m l i . . .IIUC
thlsftSure;-jadhA3?ct beerti3opted7 afr ness whatevei doing, aiKl should Tliey'
cant. A good understanding exisrt with the
United States. The war continues hetwfeen
Algiers, and Tunis - w
At Gjbraltar, caft-B learnt, that the Por
tuguese had conquered the Freuch in their
:country, and that at the last dates from Lis
bon, they were firing upon tne Russian squa
dron to. com pel it to surrender. It is very
pro! able, many of the French had taken ye
refutje on board these ships.
Cnt.sh t loops had been landed at St. Lu-
car " --' ' " - y
A Valentiapaper oLthe 1 1st Jurit, states
under tbe head of Madrid, June 15, u that the
Russian minister had left Madrid ; that the
enyperdr Alexander was displeased with the
conduct of Napol on, who had violated one
of the articles of the Tilsit treaty that the
Arch-Duke Charles was to marry a Russian
Princess., and a war between France and Rus
sia and Austria was expected. .
A Valencia paper of Jtme il, mentions the
defeat of the French under Dupont.
PHILADELPHIA, August 26. .
We are indebted to a respectable Mercan
tile llou$e in this -Cityrfor the following inter
esting details, furnished" hy Capt. jolm W.
Cox, of the ship John Jones.
Left Lisbon,' on the 1 7th of June, 1808, at
tiiat time there was a report in circalaVion that
a revohuicn had taken phce in Russia, and
that the emperor Alexander had been depos
ed by hs people, p.nd his biother Consiantine
proclaimed l.ih)eror. -
About the middle of .May, the Spanish Gen.
Belesta who commanded at Porto, marched
JVom thence for Spain, and took with him as
prisoners the French .Gem' Qutsnel w ith all
his suit and troops, as also the chief magis
trate, Mr., .-l aijoureauf and the people at Por
to ii is suid had appointed a governor in the
name' pi 'he former prince regent and hoisted
111c i onuiuese nave, t ne greater pan 01 ini-
motivtsfor disarmingthe Spaniards, in which
he sayS that he wes obliged to! take those
fcteps, although (very much against his .feel
ings) on account of the ipfatnou behaviour
nim , but hot one of them it is said is sea wor
thy. ; 7: , , - . ., : ' ..
The Russian fleet, Commanded by Rear
AlTiniral Se vini, consisting of nine ships of the ;
line, One fifty gun vessel and a frigate, still cori-V
tinue.in the Tagus ; thty are also repairing.
- ThrFrench made an attack on the foit of
Castro'Marin, in Algarve, oh the night of the.
j3d June, were repulsed with the loss of a
number of men killed and taken prisoners
and all over that part of Portugal tbey have
been attacked by the Portuguese and com
pletely routed.
It was likewise reported that the Ust June, .
was the day fixed for all the Portugiiefce to
rise on the French ; but I connot say. if they
rose in Lisbon, as I was on my journey at that
time ---for'--Algarve ; -and all communication
was stopped between that part and the South
of Portugal, but it was said that they had rose
there, as also iu St. Ubes, Alcacere do Sal,
B jlja, &c. as arso at Mertola, where they took
a great quantity of flour intended for Lisbon.
-The cargo of the chooner New-York7 which
Vessel was stranded on the coust of Altrarve
in Portugal in December? 'last, on a yoyag-rf
irom iew -jorsio messina, was m store at
Ville'Real on the 16th of last June ; such part '
of it as consisted of provisions, had been
forcibly taken out of the stores by order, and
for the use of the French government, arid
the remainder of the cargo detained. The
super cargo was at Lisbon, endeavoring to ob
tain payment for the provisions, and also to
recover possession of the remainder of the tar
go ; but had not succeeded as late as the 1 6th
of June, and on the 25ih of the same month,
the corgo of the same schooner was transport
ed by older of the Spanish government, from.
Ville Reai to Ayamonte, the keys of the
stores containing the 'cargo, were delivered-19
the supercargo's agent in Ayanrunte.
NARRATIVE OF THE LATE PROCEED
" INGS AT MADRID.
of the Spanish Gen. at Porte, and to prevent
any ett'usipti of blood. In Lisbon there, was
only abt ut 8u0 Spaniards, uid in .the r irons
afHiFT g'0r men. rnaking hi'--the ;whok $000
men. There was u iv.cn c than 5000 French
troops, in Pcnirgal when I left it, the rest of
the army Jiavirg tiarched frr Spain, end in
different parts cf the fi onilcrs of... Portugal.
The I rench ? lutd been at; ached by the Spa
niards, paitkularJy at Bad a jus, wheiethey
permitte d them to enter, Ptid thtn attnrk d
them, killed a great number end took the
1 ttiifiinder prisoners. T he Porto-gcrrre Lieut.
Gen. Gomez Fieire de Anchade, who
ln'iU'cV.ed VtiUi tlie
I raiice, -it is suid was' r.t 01
towns of I'oi uiga!, at the head ofaiiTa;rr,y. of '
foily thousand I'ortugr.es aid Spanitl: troops ;
he is a "Gen. -of tome e:e! ience, having ois
tiriguishtd .himself -formerly in. ti;.e Risiun
riTvice, as also whcjijie was-st'et:d.in com-
mand of the Portuguese, troops that were suit
to assist Uie-Spaiiiard?- tn" the 'crmnien cement
of the Frencti Revolution, w heie he aiso dis
tingi.iscd himsnfas a Gen.
Isr-The French General Jur.dtj gave- orders
mat an me property belonging to ttus gene
ral .should be immediavdy confiscated, who is
very popular and almost adored by the Por
tivucse People.,, The Frchch had forti&ed
the" castle ofi Gecrge, in Lifbon, and put
in bread and w ater foi ix months, and it was
generally snj ossedrshoijld they be attacked
by the Spaniards by land, and the British by "..
tea, that they Would rctUje ; to that castle, .s it
command's the cityjvjrtfiey'"ould easily
.desti.-tjfr'' Lfbhon -thef wasi strong' Ceet .
as al a ii (Qiijfcer of transports . with troops on
board, but they had not disembarked in any
plate when ' kfr Lisbon. There are 110
French troops in the previcccof "Algarye,
where" tliev pe.ple are altin.erms, and that part
)' of Portugal is 'govei feed' in the . name, of die
Prince Regent and the Portuguese flaer flvintr
20 leagues -of -j-therej' ss alio in a numbcrcf -the" ptoviBces
throughout-Portugal. ? I
Spaniards fod Pr.rtuguese have' red
ribbands ivbout the i--left arms ast a distinction,
they have alwVeue.d about "S00O barrels of
flour, destined fofc Lisbon ; as also the great
er part-.of rhe'Church plate, St upwards of 5000
bags of colion gmg froiv Portiigai to France
?Vhen I'left Portugal thfere was no gVetvant
of provisions' bu t everyvt h ing yerjdear TTand.
a great deal 01 poverty ; there .being no busi
AlKtiras. TiiS"Mercury was one of the de
tained essels ; having been seized inny
months since by the French. '-.
A formidaljle insurrection was reported lo
haveVroken out in Nifties.- . -
Two Algerine ciuiztrs had' put into AH
hot
shortly receive some supplies of comrijread
inust" rise considerably in, price, ahhough
there was a" very great prospect of. an abun
drint harvest all over, the' country; In Lisbon
iht Fieichre preparing i with great actijhty
ail the old skills oFwaj the Prince left behind
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Brief narrative of the transactions at Madrid,
on .Monday, the 2d of May, 1803, bij an v
English gentleman who was there on that lyvT
Hay. r. ' . '- 'f?!
The public mind had never been ina state tf
of perfect tranquility shfee the middle of '
March, when the intention of King Charles
the IVth to remove to Seville, with all the
Royal family, was first suspected.
'The deposition of the Prince of Peace on
the 1 8th his imprisonment on the 19th, with
,lhe abdicatipn of King Charles, and . accession
of his son Prince Ferdinand, which took place
on the same dayAvere eveiUS tliat gave great
satisfaction, and "'might in time have produced
the happiest effects; the arrival of the French
troops in Jfulriil, the dt livery of the sword'.cfv,
Tn.ncis the first to-general Murat, which had '
remained in the Royal Armory as a trophy
everrircc the battle t,f Pavia, the depaitt re of
King Ftrtiinand for RurgoS the delivery of .
the Prince cf Peace "to the French and finally
tlic'Iutig's da-jrmination to?, pass the frontiers
and put hinnself in "the hands of the French at i
liaycnne', were circumstances Vvhich revived
the ferment, and "gradually Ihf reased At to
such a violent dpgree, that seme formidable
explosion was hourly dreaded by the Junta,
de tiobrionsi (of which the infant Don Antonia,
was left President) to quiet the alarms of the
p' ople, end prevent therti proceeding to open ' t
ut's of violence seainst the French. ' ,f " . I
A '.Parte or extraordinary courier used to "
arrive every evening from TJayonnc, with ac-ccur.tscfth-j
tr.isictions there ;thpse,acpunts
were never published in the Gazette, but cir
culated in lhe form of extracts from private
Tetters fiom the king's attendants, and the fjrst
of them afforded a hiemehtary satisfactioft,.BS
they xonsisted solely of the honours paid to
Prince Ferdinand on his arfiat. and the cof
dial reception -he had from Bonaparte. The
subsequent accounts became dailyjess. satK-' .'
'factfery;V.,ficst, obscure hitits were given that
"all jyas not well, -arid then iTas explaped?"
more clearly, that the intention of' the ruler of '
France was tprevail upori Ferdinand tore -7
sign his croAvp,' ' ; ;;- ' i?J...i-'' "."'.-..',:'
' The Parte due on SaturdAy, 50th; April, ;
didjiot "'arrive. It' was stilt : dei on -Sunday
'evening, May' 1st, and' many thousand people
were assmbjelatthe Peurt dd Sol, aiid other '?
streets near the ppst-effieb, in anxious expect
ation ef-thentessehger. ' ' 1
. 'The Frencn garrison a,t Madrid, remained
all night under arms'; and the sun of Monday " r
the 2d of May, arose' on,many an unrovtuna'e ; -:
inhabitant, who-were destined hevsr lo "see ant '
other mon.iii!T ' " , .-', '-'
" This day fixed on for the departure of the -7 ,
Uueen ofk fruria, and her brother the Infante ,
. JDon Frantico?de Padla,, forCayonne Thel -!
curiosity of many people ied them to the square ...
before the Palace to witiuss the scene, and wi. ?,
many of'the wives and' families went ther tc . '''"
take leayb cf their husb'andsantT parents andv
-jo lament unetr nara ia;er uvmg leit w an
out any cevtainj provisions. '.When, the firt
cak'iage appeared ; at the ga?e irkny of the
moU expressed a suspicion-that ;,4he ?; Infante
Don Antonio, . president of the Junta," or
provisionary governiueut, was also to 'leavt ,
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