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RALEIGH, (n. c ) THURSDAY, MARCH 30, 1 809.'
No: 678.
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Suppressed Documents.
(COSTINUKU FKOM OUR LAST.)
1 W-Aftinc 15, 1803. .. , ,
tatedin my last later the substance of
. .1.. it (ho dmiiprnr. viz. thai
1 .1,1 k fn.ind to except American
from the operation m ujc
L ;thnt infringing the principles
tecrees, he would immediately make
;fption.
No time was lost in commu
t this declaration to me, and 1 was m
Aat they should be immediately sub-
o his majesty. Utile as i nxea me
' .1 ..-li at T ' dtiubtrd the sincer-
ori, auu-ini. . - . - -
dfclaraUcn out oj wmcn n grew, i
refuse aV agency of mine in res
mudi oTike American property se
ST iff the ports oi r ranee as snoum
Uihin this new rule. I, accordingly
ihe note (a copy ot which is subjoined
luiPi-i nointine out in a few words the
v to which that rule would apply
'L !! init into the emperor's hand by
lie of lfcifcventtv who, though six days
U elapsed, has not yet received an an-
.Sowing document from Mr. Madison
r. Armstrong, proves, that our .govern
werercsoivcu iu ! tyi .
jniost decrees of Trance- so far as they
on land: mat Ar. miuuson cnose
eflook tlie captures in the West Inches,
in his own letter ot May Z2d, 18 7 :
though Bonaparte had expressly avow
m months before that his original filan
extend the decree of Berlin to A
can commerce, Mr. Madison chose to
itler the original dan confined to sei
s in pert ; and that all we wished was,
France should so modify her decrees,
cut m off from all trade with the con-
it, provided they would permit us to
ate the oewn. ..This hintis said at last
ave reached the tmfiertal ear, and mat
as consented to modify, not hjs Berlin
ec, but the decree of Milan, which ren
d a forcible boarding by a British cruiz-
aase of condemnation Generous
ctl Thy bounty is equal to thy mode-
11! No doubt Mr. Madison will thank
mperor for his-favor,' and as before,
tfl the Berlin decree as a just and law-
heasure, .
emperor's understanding of hjs Berlin
x, and- its original plan, see Arm
y's letter published in the documents,
20, ui which lie says, " that the appli-
n f f that "decree to us was the result of
general expressions of the article," and
lit emperor's decision, that it should"
to u, was the .declaration of an ante
positive disposition.
of u' letter from Mr. Madison to Mr
drmstrong. -r
May 2, 1805..
W the paracrraDh endintr with the
ds will be immediately taken." ' -
e repeal of her decrees is the more to
wed, above all. if Great Britain should
Qf be likely to repeal heis, as the dan
brigina! decree at Berlin did not extend
ration of the freedom of the seas, and
pitted. to a municipal operation lor
entire year, notwithstanding the il
nush order ot Jan. 1807, Sc. as a return
ito that restricted cope of her plans
potmmaiterjally diminish its operation
unuso eommcrce ; xnat ope ration
0 completely in the power of France
m soinue m her power off the high
"Ut although fr MnnnK if rirrht.i
' r ranee more than a repeal of so
1 'r qecrees as violates the freedom
fvand a great point will be gained
a of hat part of them, yet as it may
2 the effect of inducing a repeal of the
!e$alystena .of the Bri'ti&h govcrn-
QlCfr mav eek Jirfetpvts. fr nlexA a
I - ' . ---- "
Ulcounteraciingihe4inprecedentea
r it will he desirable, that as 1itt,le
f possible shnniri Ki lPff. v,;c
R danr to.theanquil eWynient of
Wins frank, anl Vt frrtm
f t0 Hinclne'y proves that all hopes
on i ranee, either through her
w wisdom, were wholly vaui, and
f v vt. v. v
that France has bome convinced,'
, ana wor onlyare tUe wea
we can employ."
severe f,-om a friend Atid you
eie favirV Have-helede
en unjust in ascribing this pom-
for !!l?fficrs dar tell it so ? Yet
"v-iv - ; y
V a btcr frrm A7 4. nr.
Pir.kney. ,
t Paris, 26h June, 4 88.
naei arrived at L'Orieot, pa
the lsvinst. and the government messenger
at Paris on the $th, ; a passport for the ves.
sel to Falmouth; thence to L'Orient again,
Ws immediately requested, but' one in the
form could not be granted but by order of the
emperor, and this was not given till the 18th ;
these circumstances will account for the long
detention of your dispatches. We have rea
son to regret that the views cf our govern
ment, founded of) the justice and wisdom of
the belligerent. pQwei-s, are so little likely to
succeed. - 4ctemfita of this character made here
(and they have not been linfrequent) have jr
therto done no good. Nay, the repetition of
these may be fairly presumed to have done
mischief, inasmuch as it has tended to estabx
lish a creed, that utokds in some form or 0
thr, are the only meaks we have to employ.
The French council of prizes, whiclt-is (I am
told) as ieke the DnIish court of admiralty,
as one egg is like another, has lately began a
career ot condemnation. Between the 1st
and lSth inst. five cases have been decided,
and I am assured that orders have been re
chived from Bayonoe, for condemning all A
mei ican cases en bloc in m is1. What has
suspended ttye axe sjne the lSth, we can buf.
conjecture It may be presumed that the re
flections of the Spanidi Junta, oh the political
aud other relations subsisting between Spain
and the United States, through the medium
of the colonies may have p odacd the pause.
That it is not owing to a .y conquest which
0od principles have obtained over bad ones,
is certain. Are things any better your side
the channel." " "
The following letters from Qen. Armstrong
prove his sense of the folly and inutility,
Uhe incompetency and fruitlessness of mir
Embargo. He recommends vigorous mea
sures against France- The reasons he
assigns, his conviction, that we can do much
against France, and the. belief, entertained
by. France, that we dare not do any thing
against her, while they prove, that France
knew our rultrs, and had ph(U;eafrpm thtm,
of which he was ignorant, prove a private
good 'understanding with ' France, through
some p' her channel than that of our accre
dited Minister.
-7. ;'
Extract of a letter from Mi .Armstrong to ilr.
Mudismi '
SOtii August, 1808. ."'
We have somewliat overrated our means
of coercion of the two great belligerents to a
course of justice. The embargo-is a measure
calculated above any other, to keep us whole,
and ke p us in peace, but beyond this, you
must not count uponlt. Here it is not felt,
and in England (in the midst of the more re
ctnt and interesting events of.' the' day) it is i
forgotten. ,1 hope that unless France shall do
us justice, we shall raise the Embargo, and
make, in its stead the experiment of an arm
ed commerce. Should she adhere to her
wicked and foolish measures, we ought not to
,'coiiteht-ourselves with doing this. 'There is
much, very much, besides, that we can do,
and we ought not omit doing all we can, be
cause it is believed here that we canuot.do
much, and even that we will not do Avhat vc
have the power of doing' :J
Letter from Mr. Piiikneu to Mr. Madison.
" Ft.it kuart 2. 1808
" Sir, I bad an interview tbi niovning with
Mr. Cannirig, at hisown rreque$t. One object
f the interview related to the Message of the
President of the 7th of October lastr of which
a newspaper copy had been received tram Mr.
Erekine. A call for a copy of this ihessage
was expected in parliament, and Mr. C. wish
ed to be in a situation to produce it. T could
not assist hioi and T suppose ihe newspaper
ropy will bexonside red sufficient. ...
As soon as this subject, was disposed of,
Mr. C observed,--lb at he had requested to see
me principally for the purpose" of conversing
with me privately, and cxtia-orSciaUy upon
the duty proposed to be laid in consequence
of the late blockading orders, upon cotton in
tended for re-exportation to enemy ports upon
"the Continent. The very felvoccasioiTaiTe;
marks which I bad made upon this subject at
our last interyieW (already mentioned in my
letter of the jilt.) bad led hi nrto suppose;
that it was only to this modeof excluding our
.cottoirfrom Trancer that ibetJ. States would
be likely! to object. And their object could
be accomplished in another way, the measure
would cease to be offensive.- Having admit
ted (what indeed was sufficiently obvious be
fore) that tkey looked to the inteftdedduty up
on cotton as a complete prohibition he said
tli at if it vyould be more acceptable to the U.
States that" the form of the proceeding should
be changed so as to leave the exclusion of cot
ton from the ContineBt, to the naere effect of
the blockade, their desire to consult the feel',
insrs and wishes, in whatever did not .entirely
counteract the great end of the measure,
would dispose them to adopt Siicb, a modihca-;
tion-of their plan. ... In the course of his expla
nations upon this ppinbe introduced profes
sions of good will towards our counfy ;f re
gret that France had imposed upon them Ute
necessity of rcsorticg tu j step winch nuit
be supposed to press with severity upon our
interests, and of an anxious desii ev that a re
turn to a system "oFequity and moderation on
the part of her enemies, would speedily ena
ble Great Britain to abandon (as she would in
that case certainly do) the whole of the recent
Orders in Council He slated that it was pe
culiarly important towards tlie first effect of
the. orders (of w hich it was the object to com
pel France to relieve tl:ecojnnierce of ihe
worldTrom the oppression of her late decrees j
that considerable supplies of cotton should not
be introduced into the Continent that it had
been hoped and believed, that the United
States would not receive as harsh or unfriend
ly a constrained attempt by Great Britain 10
prevent such supplies from being received by
the other parties to the war, especially as it
was certain that (JreaTBritain could herself
consume the whole of the cotton which we
were' in ihe habit of sending abroad, and that
they had preferred the imposition of a duty
U)on cotton; to a direct prohibition thrpugh.
the opera iop of the blockade, because It was
consistent with, those various 'and extensive
modifications of the blockade, to which they
had been, led, not merely by views of advan
tage to themselves, but by respect for the
feelings and convenience of other nations, and
particularly of America. In fine,' he 'wished
to know my private opinion before the subject
came, before the Parliament," whether an al
teration in this respect from a prohibitory du
ty, to an absolute interdict, would be likely to
be acceptable to us. I replied in as concilia
tory a manner as I .could, -.hat as scon as I
had understood that a dutf was to be proposed
on re-exported cotton, I had been disposed to
take for granted that the' object was not reve
nue but prohibition. -
" That w hether the objeeVwere the, one or
the other, Jt was as he kne-w, my opinion, tha.L
the United States ?would hold that object," as
well as the means and the whole system con
nected with them to be utterly inadmissible,
and that I did not feel myself authorized to
jay to -wlich-of-t he caitses -he-had suggested
my government would give the preference, or
that it would feel any preference for either.
Mr. C. at length askfd me if I should think
D -1
it vorth while to consult my government on '1
this subject, observing at the same time, that
he would not " wish it to be done if there wa s
the least danger of giving offence, and rujSVir
ing me that what he had said proceeded from
motives the most amicable x.nd respectful" to
wards us." He added tjiat upon jxf'cction
this would be the most convenient, "rruGafc, as
it would now giVe-tltem a good detof trouble
to accommodate their plan, as ptfeparcjl for
Parliament, to a change of s iVuth impor
tance, in season to be acted uir.i.
" J answered in substancte.('iis I vaw it wa'
his wish) that I could meilior, what had pass
ed to you. And that I ydidi not doubt, that
the motives of this proosa), whatever might
be thought of the .prooos-ul itstlf, would be ac
ceptable to the President. lie. requested me
to say to you that although tine necessary bils
would be propt)se(J aud wouW pass in Parlia
ment, according to ''their ficst project cf adu
ty, yet that th alteration above suggested
would be "'adopted,- .whenever it should be
known, that it would be a ;-eeable to us.
" I must not trouble you with any reflections
upon thisr1to.n'ersaiionl)itJbut.'''itis--Biy duty to
say, tba although MriC.'s manner was ex
treraey conciliatory, net a word escaped him
taarticourage a hope, that the orders in coun
ci'. would be in any degree abandoned, or that
t should gain any thing by urging a re con
sideration of them. ) threvy out some intima
tions with that tendency, but soon perceived
trial it r could not be useful fp foJIow them up.
I have the honor to be, &c.
1
f om0ii kl9cbj.
r $ ,
By the Bqtaviari?at Aevt York.
; " Niw-YoRK, March IT.
By the arrival of the bi i Bat3viiui, in 60.
days from" Hochelle", the editors-of the NevvT
-Yofk-G8etwt4ve-4!etirfra an-intelli
cent passenger the following imnortarit narti:
culars : The letter bag not being delivered
last night, deprives them of the news in de
tail, the loose paper having been taken by
the British 6fncersi ' The miraculous escape
and singulaijy chequered passage of the Ba
lavian is stated under our marine head.
Joseph Bonaparte was again crowned king .
at Madrid about the 8th of December. And
the. -Empefor had-.. addressed a proclamation
to; the Spaniards, "saying, that the Almighty .
adu iivcii nini ine poweruo ruic opam, anrt
ihtvt if the SaniardsdTotcomply their
blool should pay for their disobedis-nce. Thsf
if they vouId not accept of hi 3 brother:
as king, he would - take the throne himsetf;
and give him another kingdom. In this pro clamation
be offers a pardon to all Spanish of
ficers, (except about four whom be name! .)
that would lay down their arms. But we w e
happy to learn that not one of them chose 0
accrxt of this offer".
W; further 'earn, that the troops which
Ioai.partg jLool into bpain consisted princ-
pallv of Germans, Poles and Hollanders, wh,
marched reluctantly ino the couniry an"
that Bonaparte was "very susnkioy,3 pf Aus
ilia. ;."
Bonaparte had left Madrid, and it was re,
ported that he was on the frontiers pfPortii
gal '. - ,
News was received at Roqhelle, on the I2th
January, that there had been an engugenient
inSpain, which was said, to have take.n place
about the 13th December, and it was report
ed that 15,000 of the English had been killed,
and 15,000 taken prisoners. ,,Thja story,
nowever, say the passengers in the Balavian,
was not even believed in France. It is certain.
thatthe account was not confinned on the
14 h (two day s after), when tlie vessel sailed.
In the course qf a few d y , colonial pro
duce hail risen 15 per cent, at Bordeauxvini
eoiisequej.ee of accounts received fronTime.
rica. -
On the I4th Jaquary, the day the BataviaT,
sailed, the -e were at anchor in Rochejle jiar
Iwur, 4 Nhips of the line and 2 frigates, with
troops on board, ready for sea, destined for -Martinique;
but they were bloikded bya
force nearly as formidable. They were how
ever determined to slip out the first Oppoitu
nity. . , :
American vessels could not clear 'I out of
France Without giving bonds not 10 break the
American Embargo I -
The; Ibitish oflicvrs of the Comet frigate,
(mentior ied in our marine department) inform
ed a friend of ours, that off Rochefort, hs
read a .'London paper of the 12th January, ini
which it was stated, that sir Arthur. Welles
ly's ejr ped.ition tq Spain was abandoned. Tha
an ejf pedition ol 12 sail of the line and 4 fri
gala, were fitting out at Portsmouth for Bue
nos Ay res that Ferrol had been taken by th
French the beginning of January. That th
British troops at Corunna were about to strike
the guns and abandon the place that ihe Bri
tish army w, s retiring towards Vigo, when
we.ru 50 transports and 4' frigates to convey
them home und that-the Spanislicoast-wa
lined with French troops. V".
Tlie Comet, spoke a cutter in tfce channel, "
a' d was informed, that Admiral Mitchell had :
fallen in with the TOULON FLEE T, jQofe
two ships of the Hue, and sunk two others.
The above is given an we received it. it is
confused, and somewhat contradictory if a
cojicluiiion, may bq rirawnj; it is, that Bgoa
parte h(s seen more trouble in Spain lhan he
anticipated. a
March 17.
We also understand, from the passenger?
in tle Batavian, that the bulletins from, the
Grand a; my in Spain, Avere considered by
the enlightened port of '"the nation, as mere
fabrications intended-to amuse the ignorant.
.Ttwaj known at Rocbellc, that the French
army made three disfinct attacks on Madrid,
and suffered immense Jloss before it surren
dered. The roads from Spain into Fraricef
were continually, crowded with waggons of
kick and vvcuned, on their returnd ; and itwa
believed, that Bonaparte bad not lost less -than
100,000 men since he commenced hosti
lities" against Spain. Sp unpopular was the
present war in France, & su-h was the general
distress, that the best informed people were
seriously apprehensive of another revolution.
It must be extremely mortify ing to every A
merioan, and roust rouse the enmity of every
man who has the least pretensions to Xmeri
.cun feelings, to hear ofthe'eruehies practised
upon our fellow citizens in FruncevwhOro)
chance has thrown upon her shores. 1;
VVe learn from capt. Lindsay who came
home passnger in the E.lav'tan, (and we have
heard it before) that the prews of all Aineri
rican ..vessels tlpLained in Franceareimpri
suned, and are eleased only on : conditioit of
their enteringr on board French ships of war.
We have seen a letter from n young gentle
man if this ci y, who weiit. out trhief mate of -the'ship
lloUaud Trader, capt. Sinclair, LTe
states,:that he was still in prison at Rochefort,
anfl.allowed nothing to subsist on biit( brea4
aad .water I "' - , . .'
It will recur toour readersjhat captain Sin
TTainhe comtwrndeTfofrhe-1 J off and -Trader
vas also imprisoned jii France ; tabd that h
made his escape in disguise, gdt'on board the
ship" Boideaux, and arrived sometime since
at Philailelphia and ,it is a pleasing reflecti
on, that he is now with his family, in this ci-ty-
for hiescape bad so incensed the French,-"
thatimmeaiattly after it was discovered that
he had gone off, twelve thousand francs rtwar4
was bfferfid by the 1 government for- his appre
hension ! . ':. .".--r '
It was mentioned in yesterday's Gnzett
ithat dispatches were received inlb? Baiavian,
from Mr. Armstrdngforoui govcr;r.ment.
'I hes'edispatche.s were entrusted to -The care
-f capt. Bunker, a ' passenger in the Bataviaja
ent rusted by. whoip ? They we re htii tdeil
to cap. B. by the infamoiis captl Haley, on
the 2 1st December, with this particular in
j uictioD, thax if iheesselon board of which
he took his p:issa$e, wrs capt-: red by. a Bri
'ish cruizer, he must sfnlc or destroy the dis- '
patches, to'preveut UieJr fali'uig into the hands
of .the English : - '