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. Late Foreign News.
BOSTON, Novemdik 6*
T By the arrival of the brig By field, capt.
Fpftcf, in the very Ihort paflagc of 37 day*
from Copenhagen, we have been favored by
the politenefk and attention of capt. Fuller,
with Hamburg and Copenhagen papers to
the 2 7 »h September.
The following translations obligingly fur
. r.ilhcd by Mr. Hauff, Swedilh consul in this
place, (hew that their contents are highly
.intcrefting.
“ CoriNHAceti, September 27..
They write from IConifhgerg, that troops
• arc embarking in several Ruffian ports, to
be ttanfpurted to Pomtrania. ,
“ The combined Dutch—French army,
.in Holland,' is said to amount to 70,000
tnen.
“Several tamps are formed on the fron.
tiers of Ruffin. '
“ The Prussian troof s are moving rowaids
the grand army, now forming in Saxony.
“ It is laid the French minifler at Berlin
hat demaned his palfport.
4 The Prussian troops in every direflion are
in motion. • Nothing is said in the German
papers, relative to Auflria.
“ FROM THE GERMAN PAPERS.
The late Pruffim minifler at London, Mr.
Jacoli, who had proceeded on his journey
home has arrfvtd at Hamburg ; and it is .
believed, intends returning immediately to
Enghnd.
*• ThcFrench troops on the Rhine aud
Maine, are in motion ; and a part of them
actually palled over the right bank of the
latter fiver, at Frankfort.’
“ The French emperor's body guards have •
quitted the palace ol Sr. Cloud, and been
replaced by other frqcps.,
“ The treafurcs of the Cathedral at Muni
ftcr have been removed to Magdeburg .for
fafety.. \ *.
PROM LONDON PAPERS, Sept. Ig.
“ Although it fee ms the English arc not
willing to exclude neutrals from trading to
Buencs Ayres, yet it is supposed the dirties
will be such as not to encourage the imports
,*lion of any other than Biitilh *
“ Mr. Sheridan has declines the honour
of tie Wcftminftcr cleft irn. Earl Percy will
probably he defied, having the support of
Lord Grenville A other diflinguilhed friends.
The Britilh government has issued an or
d*f for opening the trade of Buenos Ayres,
to the Biitilhrrerdmits ; and reinforcements
. had been lent out t© hold the conqncfls.
Earl Spencer tranfatf ed the foreign .bufmefs
alter Mr. Fox’s death. m >■» * .
LONDON, September 13.
The fee Ample of Spanilh America would
be to this country equal to the amount of
the national debt. What has enabled us to
carry on the war (o long, at the cxpence
which thirty, nay ten years ago, no man
believed it possible for this country to bear,
but nut increase of colonies and cpnfrquent
increafc of commerce? It would aflonilh
! the public tb know the great riches wc have
duivul from,the Dutch colonies alone of
D> maiaia, Iftqueibo and Surinam, which
wi'l probably be thrown away in a treaty
of peace by our rmnifleis .as if they were
cm umbranccs. Out of filch fertile colonies,
, ftvit ft) induftry..and, capital have extraflcd
pud'g’ous wealth. What might wc, ; not
, draw from Sp.apilh America, having as we
Hill have, though lord Howie is Bill firll
Lord cf the admiralty, the fovcrdgfity ot
the leas ?■ With the fourcesof thC*pTcious
ntetals in cur hands, we could control com.
mcrce in peace nearly as much as we do by
out navy in’time of war. With the mono
poly of the trade of the richcft, mod exten- ,
five, and naturally ftrcngcfl colonies in tha
world, our commerce and manufactures
would rile with a new life, would expand
with a new vigor which would make our
national debt be felt as but a feather, while
its redemption would be rapidly going on
l*V meant of the finking fund. Our increafc
of commerce would also neceflfarUy augment
cur maritime t ftrength, andcircumfcribc
i tha* of the enemy. France/ it .is feared,
nv.v one day teach cur E.a|Llndian domin.
it if.- vve kind with htr armiw; but Spanilh t
AiTjer»c.:« is not so vulnerable ; so detached
f n u Europe, it would. alw*“» belong to 1
that nail' d which held, ,ths tiident of Nep
tune, Vioin it wc fiiould derive nsw four
ct,i U v. e hh to counterbalance our new bur
lhir», and the cunqueil of it w f ouKl more
firmly t-s as a colonial and maritime
power than any other ftcp wc could take,
or any olhtr event tha: could happen.
Thde are not ordinary time?. The revolu. 1
tioos in Europe arc but the prelude to dill
greater events in other parts of ihe wot Id.
In » general view of society, a change of
a' vftcib in Spanilh America would he of far
greater importance to the world than the
changes which have already happened in
•Europe. Our udnllkrs mull be * drunken
drivers’ : r.d -cd, if they believe that R.na_
parte-deiigni, to let the Bourbon family pos
sess Spanilh Amt.-icn, the richelt colonies
in the world, and the mod important in a
military point of view, cfpecially with the
views he entertains of uniyerfal .empire.
To France or to England, Spanilh America
Seedily nul l fall. Unddr other ministers
! wvh ..i>d i »ok to it as the means of oar re- '
i -i pnon ; but we arc under the Foxities,
v i , tfyhc Pamphlet on the State of the
Naticn be, as it is said, their manifcfto,
• think ihis country holds ufeU\iip 100 highly,
; ru th.it rhe only remedy for our difficulties
to lower the public spirit. Wc' must
give up our right of featch, wc mull restore
the freedom of the leas, set limits to oar.
colonial aggrandizement,* and (hare > out
commercial greatoefs with Bonaparte, as
the only way of appealing him, * If this
•fyftcm of policy be porfeed, England is
undone*
On Sunday the transports with the'
following regiments, (ailed from Ports
mouth. .»
40th Regiment, Ift battalion; 40th do.
ai battalion4.4oth db. battalion ; sth
German ' Legion, detachment ; dth do.
detachment ; 7thßo. whole regiment; and
Bch do. whote rdgiihent. ..
Part of the marched throu*
Dbvcr ycftetday flora Deal, on their way
to Portfmooth, where they are to be em
barked for foreign fervicc.
Major General Sir Arthur Welleflej and
Sir George Prevoft, will it is said get the
commands of separate expeditions.
Sift ember 25.
We understand that the following are ,
the new arrangements which are agreed
upon ir. consequence of the lamented death
of Mr. Fox.
Earl Fizwilliam, from indisposition,
withes to retire from the situation (which •
require* regular attention) of Lord Prefidcnt,
but to retain his feat in the cabinet. Lord
Sid mouth, eo be Lord Prefidcnt, Lord
Holland, to he Lord Privy Seal. Lo'd
Howick, to be Secretary of the State for
the Foreign Department. Mr. Thomas
Grenville, to be firft Lord of the Admiralty.
Mr. Tierney, to bc Prefidcnt of the Board
of controul. Mr. Braggs Bathurft to be
Matter of the Mint, vice Lord Charles
Spencer*. Mr. Whitbread will a!fo be
fpecdily called into office,' but the arrange
mem for that pntjfofcMs not yet matured.
Wi can now add, vmb the utmost con
fidence, tfiat Lrfrd Grt&viHe proceeded on
Monday rttdrningf to Windsor, to take the
King’s pica hire upon above nominations,
ail of which it is presumed will bc con
firmed <it fhS privy council held this day.
THE EXPEDITIONS,
One of the expeditions now fitting out
is for the Spanifli Main. We understand
that the tdth, the B;ih, and Jyth regi
ments, are to go on this service.
Plymouth, September 22.
“ Orders have been received this day
to prepare three transports tor the reception
of the 87th regiment of foot, which we un
derstand, are to be joined by the 89th re
giment, from Portsmouth, and then both
to proceed direst for Buenos Ayres.
Hahovek, Seri*;.
Picquets arc drawn from the fcveral corps
of cavalry, in order to watch the borders
of the Wcfer, and the country between that
liver and the Ems, in order to prevent the
desertion of the Prufflan infantry, which
has become so general that fomc companies
have loft a thins, a fid others a half of their
men. It is alTcrted that general Ruche 1
will not obtain the command of the army.
. Count Schulleimbourg ia univerfaliy regret,
ted. The mandates of the royal treasury,
have experienced a confiderabie depreciation
fine* the reports of war have been in circula.
lion.
NEW-YORK, November 13.
< The fall failing (hip Richard, espt. Ro
gers, arrived at this port ytftcrday from
.; iNantz-H[he left there the ift October.
- One of the paffergers in the Richard, is
the bearer of a. prize.medal awarded to the
Prefidcnt of the United Slates by the Agri
cultural Society of the /Soine.
A letter by this arrival mentions that
Bonaparte bad set out for the army.—[fPi
do not find this annmmtd in the papers]
Jerome Bonaparte Is created a prince, and
it is said is to many the pdnoefs of Wer
tumherg.
Letters from Madrid of the Bth of August
mention (hat the king had given orders for
an army of 40,000 men to hold themfeivcs
in rcaitnefs to march; It Is thought this
'order is in confequencethe entry of the
l£ng)hVitito the Tagus. ■.•-.*
.. * - A., gentleman wrho* cahae paftcngef in the
. Richard is the beater ofrdifpatches from the
American minuter at Paris, to the Secretary
f of state, ' ' L-’
Lord Lauderdale was at Paris on the 25 th
September.
A friend having favoured us with a Tri
nidad paper of the itflh October, we are
enabled to state,
That the Britilh (hip Fortitude, from the
Straits of Malacca via Bengal, had arrived
there wirh 191 native*, (mechanics and ar
tilh) agreeably to a plan-of the Britilh gov
ernment, "
November 19.
Yelterday afternoon the (hip New. Guide,
Cupt. Hail, from Liverpool, came up to
the city, after being detained below by
head winds. Our London papers by the
New Guide are to the 15th of September,
fix days later than before received. They
state, on the authority of a letter from
Plymouth, that Lord Sr. Vincent has ta- '
ken out all the Portuguese (hip of war at
Li (bon, and is rigging them with all pofli
ble difpatcb, and no dbobtwill bring them
away with him. and, jtlj Royal Family.
From a London paper.—-The (hip Tippoo
Salb, from Savannah to, Liverpool, was
totally Idft on light, Sept, x 4 th;
near, Froroby point, England ; the captain,
pilot, and all the crew, were saved by the
boats with the utmolWif<Mty* She ft nick
at 1 r o’clock at night, and in the morning
: no part of the veflel was visible. The King
George packet', of and from Parkgat* to
Dublin, was loft on the fame night near the»
1 1 •
* ‘
Hoyle Bank. It is fan! (be bad on board
upwards of 100 paffcngers; all ot whom
(together with her crew} are supposed to
have perifhcd, exsept three or four.
WASHINGTON CITY, November ra.
* ' We have the fatisf&llion of informing our
readers that in consequence of indmllion*
from the court of Madrid, Col. Howard,
ailing ad-interm as Governor of Pcnfacola,
in the absence of Governor Folk, has order
ed the Spanifi officers on the Mobille to
permit American vessels to navigate that
dream* without being charged with other
duties than such as ate .chargeable on Span-,
i(h vcflsla navigating the Miffifluppi.
ANNAPOLIS, November ra.
Gentlemen, -
YOUR joint letter of the loth inst.
notifying roe of wy appointment as the gov
ernor of the date of Maryland, I received
by express at my rdidence in Cbeftertown,
at half pall twelve o'clock on the night of
that day.
1 accept the appointment wi:h peculiar
gratification, as Iconfiderit the fell of ycur
approbation of my conduit in the office of
Ann lor of the United States, which by
your appointment 1 have held for the last
five years, and in the difeharge of the du
ties whereof I have most cordially co-opera
ted v.uh a virtuous adminillration ip pro
moting the best interests sf cur common
country, in repealing such laws as imposed
odious and unnecessary taxes on our fellcw
ciiizcns ; in refiorirg the national judicial
ry to iht fiate it had obtained in the time of
our Wafliingson ; in the purchase of Lluifia
na, and thereby extending to our wefiern
brethern the great advantages of the impor
tant port of Orleans, and .the navigation of
the Miliburi w}th_all its tributary ftrearos;
in the measures adopted to.ccquire the Flori
das, that the American empire might be
consolidated, and a rilk of a collision with
a colony of Spain avoided ; in the cultiva
tion of the arts of peace with all our foreign
relations, with temper and goed faith, in
an honed neutrality with all the belligerent
powers, andin an cxall dilchar e cf every
duty imposed on us by exiding treaties, or
by the law of nations, and in the laudible
attention that has been paid to our native
brethren the savage tribes, in inst rutting
them in the culture of the foil and, doroedic
manufalhues, and thereby inducing them
to convert theft scalping-knives into prunin
hcoks, and their tomahawks into implements
of hulbandry, and both by precept ard ex
ample teaching them, to prefer the pacific
olive to the bloody laurel.
Permit me to render to yoprfelves and the
honorable bodies over which you preside,
.the aflurances of my entire personal refpcll,
arul cf r.;y devotion to the principles of the
American rt: volution, hallowed by the blood
of her patriots, immolated on the altar cf
■ liberty. i .„
I now re ,r. my office of senator in the
femae ot the United Suites ;'! will attend
to qualify at fu'ch time, to-day as will be
mod agr.ea:.!.; tv your honors, and am,
with t k.u itfpcl!, gentlemen, ycur obedi
ent fervaut.
, ROBERT WRIGHT#
The Honorable -the PrefiduU "i .
of the Senirie- snd the
Speaker of the House of
Delegates. J
LEXINGTON, (Ken ) Ol>. j©.
SviGißE-i-Oh the evening of ehc. 9 h in
dart. Ml Robert Smith, 3 youhg gentleman -
of L'. uirv'ii?,, pin an end to his cxiltence
The particular oi ihia unhappy event arc un.
com:non. Mr. Smith had been for fume
time in a low [‘ate of health, and was con
fired to his room. The family had from
OfnE > iicauifiances, lufkctted he had a riefign
on bis o«rn life, and removed every it Ifru
rnrnt with which iie*c»/U ! d execute such de
j fi-mij'iio;;. the re on. Yet he* found mtans,
unknown to tilt family, of getting his pcf-
I t il?’ from the Itute below, and ot having
it .rn -oth ch.rgtd. On the evening above,
young man bho attended in the dore,
went it* fupptr, and left a small negro toy ■
(*s bfu: i) locked up in the room with him.
Mt S.nitlv then placed himfelf on a trunk,
with his back reding againd the wall, and
a barrel between his legs; each arm was
fupporttd on a chair and pillow. Fixed in
this poficion, he compelled the boy, by
threats, to hold a locking glass, before his
face, having, without effctt, endeavoured
so to place it on the head of the barrel as to
answer his purpose. He then appliedVa pis
tol to each temple, and difeharged both at
thtfame indant.
CHARLESTON, November 20.
On the aid of September, oIF Dover
eapt. Perry was boarded by the British gtm,
brig Tygrefs, and informed by her comman
■der, chat lord Lauderdale had returned to
England without concluding a peace.
In the brig Eliza, capt. Wilson, arrived
at Philadelphia from New-Orleans, came
paffengcr Daniel Clark cfq. member of Con.
gtch, who informs, that gen. Wilkinson
having taken the command of the United
States army at Nachitochcs, had opened a
conference with the commander of the Span,
ilk troops, in consequence of which matters
J! were adjusted, and the Spaniards had crofied,
or- at lead agreed tore-croTs the Sabine am.
mediately.
PriHt i» Ltmds»§* the It Se/temeer,
WBRLIKO.
Cotton, sea island, is. to as. 6d,
Geo, Upland, it 6 J to it i\d.
Flour American per bl. 40 to 4ft.
AARON BURR.
Ui j many Os them of foch a comp&irm
th *l U - ,r ; l l ht ** criminal eitl >cr to treat iVm
with indifference, or to receive them' askh
folutely true. Under fnch drcomftanwT
it is our duty to tecord them. They vHI!
inculcate vigilance and the propriety of M
Hate of preparation lor any events which
may occur. Let it not be imagined tliic
we ha y e any doubts of the virtue and patri.
otifm of tbc.Weffern dates, or apprehenfionj
any mschinations to. separate them from
fheUniqn. On the' contrary, fa believe
their affeaicn to the union and the adminif.
nation unbounded. Notwithstanding, ,he r «
may be men among them who ate deluded
by their ambitious views, and who may
form the mod urproroifing jirojcfts. 7
It is affirmed as an unequivocal sass, that
a com raft has been entered into with Com,
fort Ty ler for furriifliing, on the waters of
the Ohio, abcut the beginning ofOftobtr,
provisions to the amount of forty thenfand
dollars, at the b 'jghtfi market prices .'' This
is vouched by creditable men, who declare
they have the information from those who
have seen the conttaft. The faft is likewifc
corroborated by ftVeral peilons to whom
offers of purchafc were made, but who dc,
dined entirely from the tnjftencus appear,
ance of the business. It is affirmed as un
deniable, that during the Jtft winter Mr,
Burr offered gen. Eaton a com million, which
the latter rejefted ; in confeqßenctof which,
tbe latter gentleman, at an entertainment sc
which Mr. Burr was prcfcnt, gate a toast
to tfiis efftft~“ May the arm ho Withered,
and the head paralizcd, thatKhali attempt
or meditate a reparation of the Hates'*
, ' , - ' Noli Intel
4 * "*• \f > > 4 ;
Extras tja letter from General' Wilkxnfn,
dated Rapids of Red River, Seftemiif
, *9* iio(s. y V }
M My orders, and the ccndcft of the
Mexicans, are so much at variance, and the
Spanilh commander, at the head of 1500 cr
li'eomen, has treated the strong remonstran
ces of Governor Claiborne and ccl. Gdhing
with foch flight, after having travelled the
territory e*ft of the Sabine, where be has
taken hit nearest pest, and menaced cut es.
tablifliment at Natchitoches; that I forefee
an inevitabfo appeal to arms in the couifeof
twelve days, if the Spaniards (hould not re.
cede, or 1 receive counter orders.—And as
govetner Hcrrara is an officer who has risen
by his fwotd, and is reputed a roan of great
pride and spirit, I think it prof able he will
adhere to bis fdlemh pro mile to maintain and
defend his master's territorial pretenfiens
to a point within seven miles of one pod, ard
$0 ciaft of the Sabine.
“ Under theft circumfiances, but with a
solemn determination to drain the cop of con,
dilation before I draw the sword, I have
called for about yep militia, which is the
fom total I am (feexpeft front this and the
Mississippi tertitotitf, to be affcmbled at
Nachitochcs the fit ft proximo.
“It is not improbable heftilities at this
point will he instantly followed by an appeal
to arms in Weft. Florida. I will write to
ybu again in about ten days, when I fear
you will be informed that blood bat heenjhei.
I have twto Spanish governors eppofed tome
—Hcrrara and Cordera, of whom and their
xceomen, I shall withlefs than 1200 give
yuu a good account.**
ExtraS of a letter from a gentleman at De
troit, to his fnend in the city of Now
Tork, dated Sept 34, 18c6. *
“ You will remember I wrote you of the
fracas which occurred here in December lad,
viz, two Biitifh cfficcrs, aided by some of,
fleers and citizens of the United States, at
tempting to rake away a deserter from De
troit. 7 heir trial came on this court.—
Capt. Muir, one of the British officers, is
fined 10/ sterling and 17 daj s imprisonment.
Lt. Lundi is fired xcool sterling and 6
months imprisonment; and Lt. Brcvqt, aw
American officer, 100/ New York currency
and 75 days imprisonment. There ate two
otter indiftmtnt* fiill depending against
Lundi.and Brevot, fofr aftault and battery
commitud at the fame time* on other pet
fons,” .V,
DEATH of GENERA I. KNOX.
kTarren, (Mnff) OS* a6, 1806.
** Dear Sir,
** It is with the deepest regret, I h»ve
now to inform you, that the great and good
Gcnerol Kkox, departed this life yesterday
morning. He was confined about fix days.
It is foppofed that thecaufe of his death <*al
his swallowing a (harp chicken boo* which
perforated his bowels, and produced t mor
tification.—The event was very foddeu, Se
unexpefted by bis physicians, till a very
ftiort time before his death. It has coveted
us all with the deepest gloom. The funeral
will be to.morrow, when every teftwiony
of rsfpcft will be paid, by all dalles of peo
ple.**
Extras of a letter from L'Jken, dated Sep
tember x, iSta6.
“There is her* at prcfcnt a fttiiUh fleet
of 2>y fail of th« line ondrr the command of
the Earl Sr, Vincent, A large reinforce
ment of <hipt mod *6 thousand troops arte
expeflrd here ppfepteft the Fortugaefc fro*
the encroachments of the Spaniards who
have entered the frontiers. General Hutch
inson, the commander in chief, with h;s
Raff, has just arrived in the Santa Mar
garitta frigate,*’—— Fbila-