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LONDON, May *7.
Copy afi Utter from the Prefideni of the U
niied States of America to the King of Hoi.
land, intercepted by one of the Jhips of the
North Sea J\fuadron , under the command
of Admiral Rujfell,
' Great and Good Friend,
Having received yout letter of September
last, which notifies your accdOon to the
Throne of Holland, I tender you, in behalf,
of (he United States, my congratulations on
this event. Con netted with that nation by
the eaflicft (i< s of friendship, and maintain.
Ing with them uninterrupted relations of peace
ami commerce, no event which intcrefts their
welfare can be indiffcr/nt to us. It is, tfaerc
ferej with the grejtdl pleasure I receive the
ufluranecs of your Majdly that you will con
tinue to pherilh those ancient relations, and
we (hall, on our part, endeavor to firemh
eft ycur good will by a faithful observance
cf jufticr, & by all the good offices which oc
calion fti dl permit. , <
Distant as we arc from the powers of
Europe, and devoted to purfuit.i w hich fcpc.
rate us from their affairs, we thill look with
brothirly Concern on what thofe na.
sions, and offer eouftart prayers for their
welfare. With a fUeddly fuliciiadefor your
Mnjclij' ’« person, I pray God rhat he may
always have you, great and good friend, in
bis holy keeping.
Written at the City of Washington, the
zBih February, 1807.
Your good Friend,
THOMAS JEFFERSON.
order of the P rest dent,
[ J. Madison, Secretary of State.
MayjB.
Ycfterdey, as the Dukes of Ymk Pc Gam
btidge were coming out of the Queen's pal.
*pe, a woman, decen.ly drened, picfentcd a
letter to the Duke of York, which his roy
al highness was about to take, when Sayers,
who was in attendance, knowing her, 2nd
fofyefting (he was deranged ; pm her aficle.
She went a few yards from the houfc, hut
soon returned, and remained there during the
Whole afternoon. About five o’clock, when
the king’s carriage entered to wait for his
fliajefty, (he ru(hed in after it, unperceivcd
by the fentincls. She was, however, ob.
fervtd by Sayers and Mr. Baker, the geo
llertar, porter, who ftopt her before (he got
to tb<? door of the palace, and took the let. 1
tet from her. It was direfted to the king
ars'd r,.'<?en. There were five other letters
inclosed in it. From their contents, there
was no doubt ot her being deranged. Her
name appears to o« Margaret Flett, and, (he
rtfidta in Star-court, Eaft-Smithfield. Those
who reooileft the appearance of Margaret
Nicholson, when (he attempted to stab the
king, (ay, (he is a limilar woman, anddreC
fed exactly like her.
FROM AN ENGLISH PAPER.
WEEKLY ANALYSIS OF INTELLIGENCE.
The prografs made in the arrangement of
the new administration, enables us to judge
wish tolerable accuracy, of the talents of
which it will bt composed. The tumour of
the pa(V week has also thrown a confideiablc
degree of light on the canfes of the expulsion
of the late iiiiniftry. We lament that it has
fallen to our lot to record thefc causes, for
We had hopes that whatever venal and dilho
notatoie practices had disgraced foreign prin
ccs—we had hopes that the royal blocd of
Britain had efcapcd the pollution, and that
Integrity and honor were not unknown a
morgtt our princes. We have been deceiv
ed—we have now rcafon to join in the gen
eral malcdidion, «* curled is he that putteth
bis trust in princes.”
The blood of every Englilhman luuft boR
within him, when he reflefts on this nefa
rious line of conduft. If the embezzlement
of his master’s property, by a fervanr, be
puni(hed with a marked severity, how much
greater ignominy oaght he to be loaded with
who, while in a public situation, and receiv
ing the most munificient remuneration for
his fcrvicct, squanders the money emrulled
to his honor, in private gratification and il.
licit pieafiues. Such is the fad, te if means
are not adopted tb check the progicfs of in.
veftigation, and prevent open detection and
public punilhment, it becomes the imperious
duty of every public journalist to hold up the
delinquent, however exalted, to public in
dignation ; to designate the crimes which are
atte nped to be iniquitously ihiclded from in.
quiring jofticc ; and to deprecate that sor
did meatjnefs, not to fay vice, which would
hayc held up an individual of meaner birth
to public and private execration and con.
tempt.
PARIS, May ry.
r The prefeft of Herault has addrelTed to the
editor of the Journal of his department, the
following letter :
‘‘■Sir, bis majesty the emperor has an
nounced to his excellency-the minifler of the
interior that every kind of English goods ha
ving been prohibited in the Ottoman empire
the grand feignor has teftified to him his
wilh of getting French cloths, and cfpcciaU
ly those kinds of woollens t ailed Chalons j
and his excellency the minifl :s has charged
me with giving this informatk n to the man.
ufa&urers of this department, I hare ta
ken proper steps to inform them therewith, I .
never thelcfs wilh von to insert thi' notice in
your Journal: the citizens will learn with
pleafura that even the enemies of France have
by-rheir violence restored for its fabrics a
ray important market, of which they had,
been deprived for 15 yean. Thi» circum-
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i fiance Is-preciuua to fejze upon, & the aum
ufa&crera will not fail of availing thcmfelves
of »t.
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I Ml I.
BOSTON, July 10.
Letters from Admiral Berkeley, for
the British Minister and Consul General,
paffcd through oor poft-cffice yesterday,
July 13.
SPIRIT OF 3 j6 RE-KINDLED '
When the Hon. Elbrtdgc Gerry, Efq’r.
(the fame Elbridgc Gerry who signed the de
claration of independence in 1776) took the
chair at the meeting of the citizens assembled
at the New State.Hoofe, on Friday last, he
addrrffed them in a drain of elopuence and
patiiotifm, which did honor to his head and
heart, and concluded with the following
fenience :
“ I had hoped, it my period of life, to
have been able to have retired from politics;
but at a ertfis so momenreus and inrerefting
to our beloved country, 1 bold it to be 'he
duty of every citizen, though he may have
but one Jay to live, to devote that day to
the public good.’'
PHILADELPHIA, July Ij.
The Helvetius, left Canton the 711 March*
ten day s previous to her departure from thence
an affray between feme Chinese and feme of
thecrew of the English East India Company's
Oiii-s, had taken place, during which the lat
ter unluckily killed a Chinese ; for whom the
Mandarine demanded a man, which being re
fund, the loading of the company's ihipwas
flopped ; the chief of the English factory had
the mandarines made acquainted, that unless
they were permitted, to proceed with the load,
ing of their ships, he would, on account of
the approach of the fouth weft monsoon, dis.
patch them as they were, and render the Chi.
nefe rcfponftble for the loss that would occur
thereon, ,
Captain Rolls, of his majefty’sfhiy Lyon,
of 64. guns, demanded at the fame time, that
an officer and fix men, who had been taken
by thcLadrones about one month fmee, w hen
attempting to land at Macoa to procure pro
visions, Should be restored ; that if they were
not, he would proceed to obtain redress.
The Chinese mandarines gave three days
notice to the English faftory, that, should
they ohftinately persist in nor giving them a
man, their supply of prervifnrs fliould be
flopped; the English had prepared themfelvcs
in case of any further difturbanccs, as the
ship Lyon of 64. guns, a brig, and a difeo
very ship then at Macto were held in readi
ness to proceed at a moment’s notice up the
river ; the Chinese had sealed the guns in
their forts ; and forae very feverc corfequen
ces were apprehended by the gentlemen of
the Bast India Company;
BALTIMORE, July 15.
We have been informed by a gentleman of
credibility, that the enquiry into the conduft
of Capt. Barron, has been superseded for the
present, on account of the indisposition of
Commodore Preble. Capt. Chauncey, who
was to have been a member of the court for
thepurpofe, arrived yesterday in this city,
on his way to New-York, whither he has
been ordered, in conjunction with Commo.
dore Rodgers, for the purpose of taking effi.
cient mealbres for protecting the port of that
place. Eight or nine gun.boats, we un
derstand, will be employed for the defence of
that harbor.
July 14.
A Portland packer, capt; Adams, from
hence tor Portland, was loft on Richmond
Island, on Sunday night; and of 22 pas.
fengers; 16 were drowned—among them
Mr. Eilazer A. Jenks, Mrs. Hayden, a Mr
Sargent, ahd the captain's wife,
WASHINGTON CITY, July 8.
To the Mnjiers and other Officers failing to
and from the ports of Norfolk, and Forts.
mouth.
The tender of your services for the erec
tion or reparation rs Fort Norfolk and
works on Craney-Ifland, and for manning
the gun boats and other vessels for the wa.
ters of Elizabeth and James rivers, arc re
ceived with great fatisfaCiion. They are
the more important in proportion, as we
have much to do in the Jeaft time pofliblc.
Knowing their peculiar value for manning
and managing the Ghn-boats and other
vessels, it is in that direCHon 1 am inhopes
they will have been applied, and that the
ncceffary aid for erecting or repairing works
on the land will have found in the zeal of
other citizens, less qualified to be ufeful
in the employments on the water. I return
for yonr country, the thanks you so justly
deserve,
TH: JEFFERSON.
SONS OF ERIN, ASSEMBLE!
Honor, duty and your adopted country
calls you ! The blood of your fires, your
brothers, your countrymen, is not yet wi- I
ped away from the hands of the assassins,
the tyrants of the ocean I—But like the
falilites of Nero, they look for fitfh objects
to glut their voratious but bloody appetites
with! Froced from your native (hore by
the rapacity of your tyrants, you looked
for an afylutn here; but received a home,
adopted and identified with the proprietors
of the foil, enjoying in common with them
every blessing that an upright and virtuous
government can confer—Blit above all, put
into the full poffcffion of that inexpteffible
felicity the complete enjoyment of liberty.
Ungrateful and diihonorable would your
conduct be, if you were to be the last to the
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.battle..-Press forward* then, to Me. MY
ERS* Tavern, Pennsylvania Avenue, this
Evening, at j o'clock—Form yonrfelves
into a company of Invincibles, whose mot
to will be * Liberty or Death ! To die is
the lot of all } it cannot be avoided. The
coward who (buns the battle may drag out
a wretched, a degraded existence for a short
time ; but at lenght falls a viflira to some
disease, unregretted and despised—Not so f
with a Montgomery, a Warren, Woof
ter. Their memory is, and ever will be,
dear to posterity. When cur government
honors us with a place among its defenders,
let us not forget that retribution is due for
the murders by Whitby and Humphrey s, as
well as thole committed on the blood-ftaincd
fields of poor Erin.
A REPUBLICAN.
NORFOLK, July 16.
By letters from St. Jago de Cuba, of a
late date, we learn that a number of houses
belonging to the French inhabitants of that
had been recently set on fire and dc
ftroyeri ; and that in spite of the utmost vi
gilance of the Governor and inhabitants to
pm a ’fop to thefc outrages, and to difeover
the perpetrators, four houses were burnt on
the 3rd June* One of these letters, dated
the 23d fays, “ For two days past I have
been guarding my property night and day.
We arc in a dreadful situation. Three times
tr-day have the different quartets of the city
occupied by the French been set on fire. We
know not what will become of us, if these
ravages continue ; the Governor of St. Ja.
go uses cxery exertion ho put a flop io them."
July rB*
SOME RETALIATION ,
Last evening an express arrived at Head-
Quarters to the Commander, General Ma
thews, from Capt. Sheppard, of the troop
of Cavalry stationed near the Cape,—The
intelligence the express brought is of great
importance—it announces the firft &B of re
taliation for the outrages of the British fquad
ton.
The fubftanee cf the intelligence, as far
as we are informed, and our information may
be relied on, is, that a boat with five men,
viz, two midshipmen, and three Tailors, was
seen to land on Thuifday evening, on the
cast fide of the inlet; the people came on
fliore, and were fired at by a detachment of
Militia under the command of a Lieutenant
from Kempf* illc. They retreated and took
refuge in the woods—information being giv
en toCapt. Sheppard of the place to which
they had retired, it was immediately fur.
rounded.—ln the morning they wetc dis
covered, and surrendered thcmfelvcs prison
ers without resistance.—The boat and the
arms on board of her have been taken pofef
fion of; and the men are now prisoners at
Mr. Lemuel Comtek's, waiting the orders
of the General.
JITLV 20.
C~ Saturday morning, another boat was
on shore, with fifteen men, but put off at
the moment that capt. Taylor's Cavalry
appeared in fight.
Another boat has been, w« understand, .
on fliore, beating a flag of truce ; but as
the officer who came, had no written com
: mumcation to prove the character he ap
i peared in, he was ordered on board, with
out enquiring into the objeft of his mifliin,
which we believe was to afeertaiu the fate
of the persons who are detained.
July 22.
Yesterday, at u o’clock, the Leopard
returned to Lynhaven Bay, (we were mis
taken in flaring that (he remained) and an
chored, About 4 o’clock all the British
(hips went out from our waters, and from
a boat which came up last night, we learn,
that they were seen fleering to the eastward
under a press of fail. We arc not possessed
of the knowledge of any circuroftancc which
has induced this movement, of course we arc 1
not enabled to form a conjecture, whether
their departure is final or tempory.
POSTSCRIPT,
At the instant that our paper was putting
to press, a bay pilot-boat came up from t,he
Capes, which (he left this morning at 10 I
o’clock, reports that the British flaps were
at anchor at their usual anchorage.
From /be Bojion Chronicle.
IMPRESSMENTS!
Bartifiakle , yuljf 7, 1807.
Mcflrs. Adams & Rhodes,— “ To add
to the villiany of the firitilh frigate Leopard,
1 confidcr it my duty, through your paper,
to make known to the public, that a fifhing
schooner bound from this pprr, was on the
30th ult. brought to by a tender of his Bri
tannic majesty 5n George’s Bank, who forci
bly took therefrom two of her crew, belong
ing to Yarmouth, one of whom was provided
with a protection, which not finding so soon
as pleased the press-gang, they hurried him
and the other on board the tender, declaring
I ** they were determined to take From every ‘
coasting and fifhing veffcl that they came a
cross, every seaman who has not a protecti
on." W. O.
The Common Council of New. York
have agreed to cede to the United States
such part of the public grounds as the Secre
tary of|War may deem needfary for crcfting
fortifications.— Nut. hit ,
The intelligence of the attack on the
Chesapeake wus Tent express to Halifax in
his majesty's brig Columbine, and from'
thence to England, in the Sylvia.
BoJltn fafer.
CHARLESTON, July 2g .
Nominal Prices— The Boston Gazette
of the ijck ioltant, fays—« The f er i 0 ®
occurrence in the Ghefapeake, has material •
affected the commercial trade and bufinth of
this place. Our rates of infutance are who!*
ly nominal j and the prices of merchandize
were fdtind too indefinite and unsteady w
quote them with any confidence.'* 1
• jutr-ji.
_ We are happy to learn that captain Kal,
tiefen, the commanding officer cf Fort Johnl
son, has received advice that a large supply
of cannon and military (lores have been or
dered on to this city for the defence of our
harbor, Six cannon, 18 and 24 pounders
with travelling can luges, and ten iSpoun!
ders, are dirtied by the Secretary of War
to be deposited in this city, under the charge
of the officer commanding the JVlliitia,
A Portuguese frigate from Rio Janeiro,
was fpokc June 17, lat. 35, long. 62, who
informed, that the Edafh. had re-taken
Buenos Ayres.
It is (fated {fays the Norfolk Ledger of
jOtliinft.) that the Cleopatra, Britiffi fri
gate, has joined the Britiih (hips below.
The (hips that have remained, are, the
Triumph and Leopard, fa that Sir Thomas
Hardie now commands on the station.
The returu of the RichmomJ and Pcterf,
burg Infantry, from Norfolk, has been
countermanded.
Died, on the 28th inst. Col. Albxan.
der Moultrie, in the year of his
age. In him another patriot of ’y6 hath
closed the fcenc of life, who pofieffed a large
(hare cf all the qualifications, that form the
ftatefrnan, soldier, and worty citizen ; and
his vivacity, civility, and genteel deport
ment, evinced he was the well bred gentles
men.
DIEDon tfce,l9th instant, at the City cf
Wafhiogujn, Uriah Tracey, Esq. a Se,
nator in the Congrcfs of the United Stater,
from the tiatc of Conneftictu,
r—i—
Ex trad of a Utter from an officer in the Fir,
gmia Detachment, dated tor tfmonth, Ju.
ij ijth,
“ O;. Tuefday morning Mr. R. Lee, ore
of Mathews's aids, & Mr. Archer of Nor.
folk* visited the Britiih fquadren in Lyn
haven Bay, for the purpose of delivering the
dispatches from Mr, Erlkine, which Mr.
A. had just bro't from Wellington, Thcfe
dispatches (imply ad'vi/cdQommodore Doug
las to retire fr«m the territorial jurifdiftion
of the Uditcd States.—Mr. Erlkine had no
other authority; for the Brilifh fqnadfons
cn the American station are not at all re.
fponfible to the Britiih miniftcr in the Uni
ted States, except in certain conditional ca
ses ; but are generally undev the controd of
the admiral who is Rationed at Halifax,
where Mr. Eilkine could only ad'vifc, ad.
niiral Berkeley could command. Mr. Lee
1 was received by Commodore Dooglafs in a
most cavalier and indecorous style. The
Commodore expressed his contemptuous af
tonifoment at Mr. L's visit ; He slked him,
w hether he was ignorant that the President’s
proclamation forbade ail intercourse between
American citizens and the Britiih (hips j and
how he could think of fl>ing in the face of
thcfe laws, by paying him the honor of a vi
sit.. As soon as Mr, Lee had delivered the
d.fpatches, a fignai was gven to the other ,
vessels, and their captains immediately re.
paired to the Commodore’s (hip. You arc.
already incensed enough at the ourageous
conduct of the Britiih, and I have no incli
nation to make your blood indignantly boil,
by a lull defwiption of the conversation which
ensued. One or two anecdotes will be Effi
cient to (how you the fpiiit of the whole.
The infamous Humphries tauntingly glkcd
Mnjor Lee, whether he was not afraid cf
being inffefled by keeping company with a
murderer and an a(L(lin, such as he himfelf
had been rtprefented tp be. They enquired
about the fare of the Britifn consul and his
/ lady; and infolcntly demanded, whether
tire mob of Norfolk had hung them or thrown
them into prison.-They called the correspon
ding committee ofNorfolk a mol; they cal
led General Mathews the leader of that.mob:
they fard that they were at lead entitled to
an official copy of the Prefidem’s proclama
tion, under the seal of theftcretary of date;
and they expressly denied the authority of
the Britiih miniftcr to interfere on flic pre
sent occasion. Every one of those Captain#
was insolent and insulting in the extrore;
except Sir Thomas Hardy, captain of the
Triumph: the celebrated friend and come
panion of Lord Nelson. He is laid to bav
in his cabirmhe very fopha on which that
{ great man breathed his last.
Ex trad of a letter from Baltimore, fa
ted July 9*
t( By the arrival of the Daniil) fchootirr
Experiment, From Cape Francois, in eight
days, we are informed, that Chiiftophe h" 8
completely defeated the army of Pet ion, » n d
is now in full pcfirfiion of aH the northern de*
parturient, even to Port au Prince,
coffee law, so obuoxio\is to thefs trading
there, has been abolished ; maikets
good snd perfefi tranquility reigned."
We are informed that the Executive h , "'C
determined to direst Geu. Mathews to re
tain the five Britiih pmbnersin coftodr, un*
til the pleasure of the Prefldent of the United
States, relative to the dilpofal of them, (t aiJ
be known. Virginia Argute