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LONDON, December y
frejefltd Commercial RevolutitH,
TV following outline it farm (bed by ■
gentleman who lately came front France,
where he enjoyed the priviledge* of Ameri
can citizenlbip, and Wat in habitt of inti
macy with some of the perfoot attached to
the government. The plan appears roman
tic in the extreme, and we may hope will
prove impracticable ;
** The king of Sweden it to be compelled,
on pain of forfeiture of hit crown, to join
the continental confederation. No more
naval (tore* are to be permitted to come to
this country from the North, and we are to
have no peace hut such a one at (bail annihi.
late oar maritime greatness.—-For thit end
American fhip* at well as Brttilh are to be
excluded from every port of the ooontinent;
no produce from either of those countries nor
from the Weft-Indies, it to lie received in
any port (relonging to France, or in alliance
with her.—Those countries are to trade with
each other, and to exclude the rest of the
world ; they arc to form a grand commer
cial confederation, extending from the ex
tremes of Europe to Afta, and uniting the
frozen regions of Norway, Sc Lapland with
the Ktft. Indies. This trade is to be carri
ed on internally, by means of great roads
and canals, and round the coarts by fmail
vcflcls, protected by guns and batteries pbu
ced on advantageous fituafions.
<< Gibraltar is to be taken from us, and
an army of 60,000 French and Ruffians ate-*
to aid the native princes in driving us out
of the continent of India. This being ac.
compUlhed, the lucrative commerce of the
gift is in future to flow through Pcrfia,
Turkey, Raffia,' and France, and from
thence into the other dates of Europe. A$
final (us these people pretend) is to be dug
for the purport of connecting the Euphrates
with the river of Pheasants, at some place
in Armenia, Where they are said to be very
near each other; by which means the an
cient conveyance of merchandize from India
along these riv**rs into the Black Sea, will
be restored, and the Danube and the Dan
will there receive them, and convey them,
info the interior of Germany and Russia,
The Danube is likewise to be connefted in
four different places with the Elbe, the
Maine, the Necker, and the Rhinej con.
feqnently with the rivers and canals both in
the North and South of France, Venice is
to recover the commercial splendor (he pof
feflfed, when the wealth of the East flowed
into her port by the channel aboveinention.
ed.
<* Napoleon, it is said, has promtfed the
king of Westphalia, that he will (hortly fee
bales of India goods transported from Bafto.
ra to Hamburg, by inland navigation and
the «nanufafl»nc» of Europe arc to find their
way to Hindoftan in the fame manner.
- -•*■» But this is not the road that thrfs po
tentates ate to take, in order to reach India.
The French army are ho cross the Danube
and proceed by the Crimea to the Caspian
Sea, they will continue to march through
the dominions of their allies, the Ruffians
as far as Aftrabath ; which is a port
on the Southern extremity of the Caspian
Sea, in 55 degrees of Eastern longitude, and
fr r, m thence to the N. W. extremity of
Hindoftan is only 13 degrees, or about 800
miles. Aftrabath hat been fortified by Ruf
fi t, and has a fine port, by means of which
it can draw provifi >ns from the Don and the
Wolga, countries abounding in corn and o
ther neceffai ics, which in time of peace, are
usually (bipped in large quantities from A
foph and Kirf m, to Cunifantinople. Aftra
bach' is therefore to be their grand depot, &
at that place the Ruffians are, it is said, at
* present in considerable force.
PARIS, December 14.
Frm a Bordeaux paper. of Dec. r 9.
Letters from the fltft corps of observation
of (he Girond, commanded by general Junto,
announce, (hat the prince regent of Portugal,
as soon as he was infortntd of the arrival of
tha French troops at Abrantes, took the
resolution of retiring to Brazil. He aftual.
ly failed on she 19th of November. Gen
eral Junot entered on the 30th into I ilbon :
he was well received by the inhabitants of
the capital. The confidence in the French
was such, that the (bops were not (hut, and
business was not interrupted for a finale
instant. ,
HANOVER, Nov. i*.
The following is the imperial decree,
which has been ififued refpefting Hanover
and the principality of Hanau :
Extras from the reyfiers offate’s office.
»alacb or sr* cloud, 4th Aug. 1807.
We Nanolcon, emperor of the French,
and king of Irak, protestor of the confede
ration of rhe Rhine, decree as follows;'
Art. 1. All territorial and allodial pro
perty, all houses and poffcffiens, and in
general all private property which belonged
to the prince or states of Hanover, as well
as ro the country, under whatever title,
(hall be fequeft rated, and pofleffion taken
thereof in our nanfe.
11. The woods and forefts are comprised
in the properties mentioned in the preceding
article.—An infpe&or of the registering
(hsll immediately ftt off poll from Paris, in
rrder to take cognizance of these objects,
to take am inventory ,of the properety, and
to fend to I Paris, as soon as poffiblc, a lift
of thodeafc.s of t|fcfe parts which arc let.
HI, The lama operation (hall take
a *
place in Hinso, and another infpcAor of
the rcgiftering, who will be sent thither,
(hall fulfil the fame duties.
IV. As soon as tbefe infpeftors or direc
tors (hall be arrived at their deftinttion,
they are to fend to the miniftcr of finances
a (ketch of the inventory of the aforefaid
property; and they (hall remain not with--
Handing at their ufaal place oi dedication un.
till pofffflion be taken, they preceding there
to conjointly with oar intertdant,— Jostrna
dt Farit, ;
CONSTANTINOPLE, o<*. id.
Gen. Sehafiian has received, by a cou
rier, arrived here from Paris, official in
telligence that the republic of Ragufa had
been incorporated into the kingdom of Ita
ly, and has communicated that event to
the Ottoman ministry.
RICHMOND, Feb. ».
The very important bill, originally in.
traduced by Mr. Ghol/on of Brunlwick,
for edablifhing a superior court of law in
each of the counties of this commonwealth,
has at length passed both houses of General
Aflembly ; but is not to take effeft untill
the (irft ot January next.
According to this law, the fevcral coun
ties are to be divided into twelve circuits,
of about eight in each ; tw o judges to be
added to the ten who now commute the
general court; and those twelve judges to
hold superior courts twice a year in the
feverai counties of their refpcftive circuits,
to w hich h-y are to be allotted by the go
vernor with the advice of council.
On yesterday, also, another mod impor
tant bill finally :—the bill
“ concerning the Lies of property under ex
ecutions and iticupibr-unces,” which the
present distressed (uuation of the citizens,
occafioncd by the embargo, has rendered so
neccffary. It reflores the old fjftem of re
plevying property on which executions arc
levied ; the indulgence to the debtor being
to continue ftxty days after the embargo
(hall have been taken off', and no longer.
When this bill went up to the Senate, it
comprehended all cases of Tales of property
by truftces by virtue of any deed, and ex
tended to executions oh behalf of any
Bank ; but the Senate prepofed an amend,
ment to make it apply only to deeds of
trust hereafter executed j and another ex
empting executions i(Tiled 'irt lavor ot banks
trom being affected by it'; to both which
amendments the Houfeof Delegates in the
end acceded.
LANCASTER, January 27,
** This day the qoedfon was taken on a
general pollponemtm of the impeachment
of the governor, ard earned—Yeas 44,
Nays 41. Abraham M‘Kin«ey was absent.
CHILICOTHF, January jfi.
Twenry-nine wirnefies have been examln.
cd in the case of the U. Slates against Aa
ron Bmr ar d Herman Blcnnerhaffett, Ihe
grand jury have not yet made a return to
the bills laid before them by Mr. Cieigtuon,
the d.ftrift attorney, in the above cases.
It will probably be made in the courle of
to-morrow.
CHARLESTON, February tB.
IMPORTANT.
The Collet' or of this Port received the I
following highly important information, by
the /hip Wilhtm , capt. Kopper, arrived yes
terday, in 40 days from St. Übcs. !
Consulate of the United States
Lifion, 4 thjan . 1808.
SlR—The inclofed copy of a letter from
Tobias Lear, Esq. dated in Algiers, the
16th ult. announcing the agreeable intelli.
gence of our differences with the Diy
•f Alciers being amicably adjust.
e>, you will plcafc to make public tor the
information of our fellow citizens.
WILLIAM JARVIS.
To the Colie Bor of the Port ofCharlefon.
Algiers, December 16, 1807.
SIR— You have undoubtedly before this
heard, that three American vcffcls have
been detained by a frigate from this place,
in confcqucnce of the annuities for two years
past not having been sent trom the United
States, in naval and military (lores, as (tip.
ulated by treaty ; norwithllanding the a
mount thereof had been repeatedly offered
in ca(h.
1 have now the honor to inform you that
I have adjusted this bufmefs with the Dey,
who has received the amount ot two years
annuities, due, in calh, and the vcffcls are
; and that our commerce will re
ceive no further molcftation from the erui
fers of this Regency.
(Signed) v T. LEAR.
“ May our country never want bread,"
The infpedHon of flour at the port of Balti
more, during the year 1807, amounted to
barrels and *1154.2 half barrels of
wheat, which, with about 7,400 barrels of
rye and Indian flour, is equal to 497,624
barrels. This is about 80,000 barrels more
than were ever before infpe&cd there in one
year, and is believed to be the greatest annual
in(peAion ever made at any One port in the
United States.
A poor unfortunate.genthman, who was
so often flopped by the fleet* by the bajiffs
that he waa in continual ipprehfrnfion of
them ; going along the ftreei his coat sleeve
at he was moving aleng in h flurry, hap
pened to hiten upon a railing ‘ turning about
hastily, he immediately alkcl—♦ At whose
| fait, fir, at whose fait J*
The following meffege wm received from the
Prcfidcnt, and with the document* enclo
sed, ordered to be printed.
T 9 the House ts Repre/tntatives,
OF THE UNITED STATES.
In my meflageof January to, 1 stated that
some papers forwarded by Mr. Daniel
Clarke of New.Orlcans, to the Secretary
of State in 1803," had not then been found
in the office of State j and that a letter had
been add reded to the former chief clerk, in
the hope that he might advise where they
fliould be Sought for. By indications from
him they are now found. Among them are
two letters from the Baron de Carondeict to
an officer serving under him at a feperatc poll,
in which his views of a dismemberment of
our uni an are exprefled. Ext rafts of so much’
of these letters as are within the scope of the
resolution of the house are now communica
ted. With, these were found the letters
written by Mr. Clarke to the Secretary of
fate i 1803. A part of dtoe Only of these
relates to tbi« fubjeft, and is extrafted and
enclosed for the information of the House.
In no part of the papers communicated by
Mr. Clarke, which are voluminous, and
in different languages, nor in his letters,
have we found any information of the cor
rupt receipt of money by any cfficer of the
United States, from any foreign agents for
difmemtering the union; these papers or let.
ters offer nothing which was not probably
known to roy predcceffon, or which would
call anew for enquiries, which they had
not thought ncccffary to inffitute, when the
fafts were recent, and could be better pro.
ved. They probably believed it heft to
let pass into oblivion trarfaftionr. which,
however culpable, had cemmeneed before
this goverment milled, and had been finally
extinguilbed by the treaty of 1795.
TH: JEFFERSON.
February 4, iBo|.
NORFOLK February, 3,.
Portugal. -Captain King, of the (hip
Intrepid, arrived her* last night from Wa.
terford. Capt. K. was originally boupd to
St. Übes, but on the *4>h December, eff
Lisbon, was boarded from his Britannic
Majesty's (hip Conqueror, of 74 guns, one
of a fleet under the command of Sir Sidney
Smith, then within hail in the Hiberna, of
MO guns. The officer who boarded the
Intrepid, informed capt. K. that the French
having poffcflion of St. Übes, and indeed of
all Portugal, he could not go in, the ports
of Portugal being blockaded, endorsed his
register and turned him oflT. This officer
further informed capt. King, that the Prince
Regent, with the Royal Family, left the
Tagus on the 30th November, as stated in
our laft# The approach of the French army
was so rapid, that the fleet came out very
ftlort of provisions, with which they were
furniflied from the Britilh fleet: Sir Sidney
Smith sent Jour foil cf the line with the
Portuguefc fleet to the Brazils.—The Ruf
fian fleet was still in the Tagus, the batteries
being too strong to permit an attack to be
made upon it.
From the Wajh'ington Fedtraljh of Wei .
nefday .
It is with regret we hear that Mr. John
Randolph received considerable injury from
a fall on his hip on Sunday evening laft,—
Mr. Randolph, with several gentlemen di
ned with Mr. Key, and in the evening was
proceeding to return to town, when juft'as
he reached thefteps, hisjqpt flipped, and be
had a violent fall. He was so much hurt as
to require immediate medical Bid——and we
are sorry to learn he is yet unable to come
to town. We hope be will fopn recover,
and resume his feat in our national legisla
ture, where his brilliant talents and unbefi- >
ding integrity may be still employed in af
fixing toihicld his beloved country from foul
dilhonor and impending ruin,
- PADAVS BRIDGE .
B. O’Connor's invincible American bat.
tery, or bridge, both of wood and iron,
will this day be exhibited at i» o’clock, at
the tontine coffee house. The wooden
bridge is planned independently above the
iron one, the time of its duration will be
fuficicor for the proper cementation of the
iron one, to make it capable of answering
every purpofc for which it was intended.
Any piece of the wood or iron bridge can
be taken out when defeflive, and replaced
without the fmallcft injury to the bridge.
Likcwifc bridges both of wood and iron on
this principle can be built cheaper, on the
mo fi extravagant calculations , than bridges
of considerable magnitude ever have been
built in the U. S. Those who are deft,
rous of feeing it will have an opportunity,
as it will be removed in the country in),
mediately. It is defeeiptive of a feftion of
w bridge eleven hundred feet in ’engtb, cal.
culated for Hoops to fail under the arches.
The piers, together with the arches, are
built without any fcaffolding. The ma
terials for building the piers arc raised in a
cavity in the centre of ir, by machinery
which is so calculated that the power of one
hundred weight is ftifficient to raise a ton.
The arches are raised with (beers the piers
repreient a formidable battery, in which
arc planted one or more 4 pounders. Those
who (houldcalt at the time, or Wish further
explanation, wifi please to call on B. O’-
Connor, or El South worth. No. *3O,
Greenwich freer.
. Ifhe-picrs are defended fiwrx the
ice by arjalar triangular hlocks,
/
w
1 ExtraS of a letter pen a member of Con.
S' rest to bit friend in this citj dated
'anuary 28. ’ \
“ A letter has been recti red from capt.
- Decatur, announcing a demand by the capt,
of the Statira, of three sea men. It appears
one of them has redded to years, another
15 yean in the United State*. Both have
families. This is confidcreAa* a very tin.
favorable omen, as to the result of the pending
negotiation,”
The Hamburgh Gazette dates, that Boat. !
parte has granted a pension of 160,000 80.
rin*, to the Prince and Princess
and a pension of 120,000 fibrins to Prince
William ofßrunfwick, in lieu of thedomia,
ions, of wmch they have been deprived. A '
pension has been refufed to the BleAor of
Hele Caflfel* becaufehe is (aid to be pofiefled
of a large capital in foreign countries.
Louden paper.
The Government has received difpatchei
from Mr. Pinkney, by the (hip Powhatan,
arrived at Norfolk. Aurora .
An American general was apprehended at
Quebec on the 2d of January, on suspicion t:
of being a spy. He was, however, soon
rccognifed to be also a refpcftable former f
who had gone thither on no other errand 1 |
than to carry h’s hogs to market.
Quebec taper . |
A Jew, residing in St. Catherine's Lane,
and who has long been known by the title of
honed Benjamin, a few days since attained
his 86th year. ‘ He is (fated to have drank
2*,000 gallons of gin, and confuthed nearly
"two tons of tobacco, within the last sixty
years, at the expense of between three and
four thousand pounds,
London paper ,
AUGUSTA, 27."
NEWS.
The fate of the royal honfe of Portugal
reminds us of that {>fQ£,it;as and his family
after the fiegcof Troy—he took his old
father, Anchifes, on his (houldcrs, with
his pennies or ;houfehold ; gods, to ftek i w
new abode.— lbineus, ibimas, quequenque Ijj
me It or fortuna vocal nos. —Well might the
prince of Portugal, having his old crazy
mother on his back sing, as above, with
the poet—and on his arrival at St. Salva*
dor, the Capital of Brazil.
Sing with another.— Per tam variot
tafut et tot di/crimina return./ ~~The pro.
babilityis that the Spaniards and Portu.
gefe in South America will kindle a frefH
flame in that quarter—the animosities of tha
old world are not so soon or so cafily buried*
For the interest of England, however, tha
eftabliihmenr of the house of Braganza, is
of great importance in South America—the |
Brazils are fruitful in Gold—in Ditnbnds-. \
in Tobacco—Sugar, Cotton, Dyewootli
drc.——A mighty objeft, under existing cir . 1
cumftancts ; and while Ihe Britilh fleet
rides fovertign of the Ocean, England will I
command the entire and exclusive com. H
mercc of the Portugefc in that part cf the $
globe.
Brazil is situated between 3$ and 6o d<«
g f ccs weftern longitude, and between the
Equator and 3$ degrees of Couth longitude,
bounded by the Atlantic Ocean and the ri
ver Amazon on the north, by the fame Atlan
tic Ocean on the east and by the river Plate
on the fouth and by Paraguay arid the coun
try of the Amazons on the weft—this
country wa* planted by the Portugeefe about
the year 1550.
Thisday/s paper (hews the grand projeft
, of the leading powers in Europe—it ,is not
at ell improbable but they will carry theft !
extenjive views into operation 1
A meeting of Charles Fox’s friends took |
place lately in London...they enterjed into t 1
fubfeription for (he support ofhxs widow, i
—who is to have fxooo a year, including
the pension from Government.... Fox owed
10,000 pound sterling at his death ; his
noble friends, not waiting for the day of i|
Judgment, volunteered to pay this sum
also.
A Young Irishman (108 years of age
only) of the name cf Bentley, and residing
near the village , (Dublin) has had a child
fathered on him lately {...his eldest son is
y 6, and just cutting his eye teeth ! !.
In consequence of the war with Ruflia,
Cordage had risen 10 pounds sterling per
ton, and every kind of naval (lores in pro
portion.
A French writer, fpecnlating on the
changes and accidents of the times, wifhei
to know how the royal family of England
would dispose of themfclves, in case they
were driven tp such extremities , as that of
Portugal. He concldrs, at last, that the
only//?/* asylum , in that case, would be- T .
Botany Bay.
Bills of indiftrr.tnt for a mifdcmcanor have
been found agair.il Burr and Biannerhaflctt
at Chiiicothc—29 witnefics on the part of
thcU. States have been examined 00 both
their cases.
A Britilh print fays England had decided
to accept the mediation of Austria, for pro
curing a continental peace, .
Liniers has received the title.of Excel
lency, and has been promoted to the rank ’ll
of Marftial de Camp, by the King of Spain*
The fpoita brought Irora Denmark are
fold to amount to one million ftefljrg*
The Engliftj fay they arc aduali/.iu t’ l ®
predicament tint Frarce was in y