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LONDON, May 27.
Cofly of a letter from th President of the United
State* of America to th '■ king of Holland, inter
crftled by one of the ships of the north sea stjuad
ron, under th command of admiral Hassell.
C KKA t AND (icjtjt) l RIEND,
Having’ received your letter of September
last, which notifies your accession to the thione
of Holland, I teiulei you, in behalf of the United
States, niv congratulations on this event. Con
nected with that nation by the earliest ties of
vi ■.ndship, and maintaining with them iininter-
Erupted rela'iotvt of peace and commerce, no
etenl which interests then welfare can be m
diifercnt tons. 1> is, theiefore, with the g'eat
es pleasure I receive the. assurances of your
M 4|esly, that ton will continue to cbeiish
those ancient relations, and we shall, on our
part, endeavor to strengthen your good will
bv a faithful observance of justice, and by
all the good offices which occasion shall per
mit .
I)i,tant as we are from the powets of Eu
rope. and devoted to pursuits which scp.u u c
us from their affairs, we s'ul look with broth
erly concern on what affects th<, e nations,
and offer constant prayers for their wellate
With a f iendly solicitude for your Majesty’s
person, I pray God, that he may always have
you, great and good friend, in his ho,y keep
ing
Written at the city of Washington, the 23th
February, 1807.
Your good friend,
TH : JEFFERSON.
By order of the Brest,lent.
J. MaDDISON, Secretary oj State.
We regret to learn, that no doubt whatever
exists ol the capture of the Sc,dim se f ig.ne oil’
Genoa, by a French squadron. It will be recol
lected that she sailed from England with a valu
able convoy and money on boatd to pay our
troops at a,al a. bhe w„s on her leturn when
She tell in wi h the enemy.
Mr Hcriol’s account of the Canadas has
drawn the attention ol government to iliose val
it ible gems in the Bi i ish diadem, and vv hose po
litteal at rangemen'sand commen iui regulations
are in consequence ahnlil to take pi ice highly
beneficial to those provinces and to the interests
of the public.
Yesterday, admiral, sir John Duckworth ar
rived at Portsmouth, in his flag-ship the Royal
(•eo ge. lie is, we understand, come home
for the pm pose ol meeting an cnqni, v into his
conduct wi li respect ‘o the procciiings of the
British squadron undei hi., command off Con
stantinople and m the Dat'da. cllc . It is confi
dently stated that sir Sidney Smith is to he his
ix incipal accusei. The gallant officer’s arrival
la England is daily expected.
On riim sd-.v last, bis majesty had a full from
his horse at Windsor; hut vve are happy to have
it in ohr power to state, that he received not the
least injury from the accident.
Mi. Pauli was worse yesterday than lie has
been these few days past, lie still hopes to lie
able to recover without sullening amputation ol
the wounded limb.
May 28.
By the Isabella, Crecne, an American, whose
arrival hum Buenos .tyres has Indore been an
nounced, we learn the following particulars
She left that city on the Ist of March, at whirl,
ti no a port of the British suit ulron had conic u|.
the river, and was then lying opposite a small
town on the north side ofl.u Plata, not lar Iron
Buenos. A flag of truce had been sent on shot t
and some provisions obtained in consequence.
The inhabitants throughout the count!y wee
certainly hostile to the British, and in Buenos
Ayres in particular, were making great pre
parations for the expeeted attack. No order
or discipline, however, appeared among them,
and the embarkation of the 5000 men that
were sent out to aid Montevideo, prior to the
storming of the works of that fortress, was a
most tumultuous and disorderly spectacle in
deed. ‘Flu* Isabella sold her cargo of British
manufactures to considerable advantage ; none
of it went into Buenos Ayres, but was sent
up the countrv—part was destined to Lima.
The town of Buenos Avrcs may be about the
size of Liverpool, and the adjacent countrv is
well peopled, but the houses and mode of liv
ing of the inferior oiiieis. are slovenly in the ex
treme.
RALEIGH, [n.c .] July 16.
Orders have been issued horn the War Of
fice to the governors of the several slates, ma
king a requisition of one hundred thousand mi
liti.i, to he ready to take the field at a moment’s
warning. Ihe following communication was
received by our governor, by the mail on . a
turday evening.
II ur Dtparttnent, July 6. 1807.
“ Si u—The President of the United States
has directed me to call upon the executives of
the several states to take effectual measures
to organize, arm and equip according to law,
and bold in readiness to march at a moment’s
warning, their respective projßirtion of one
hundred thousand militia, officers included, bv
virtue of an act of Congress, passed on the 18di
day ot April, 1806. intituled, “ An act authori
sing a detachment from the militia of the Uni
ted States.” Fins, therefore, is to require of
your excellency to take effectual measures for
having seven thousand and three of the militia
of North Carolina (being her quota) detached
and dulv organized in companies, battalions,
regiments, brigades and divisions, within the
shortest period that circumstances will permit,
and as nearly as practicable in the following
proportions of artillery, cavalry and infantry,
vu. one twentieth pail artillery, one ten dr v„-
va!rv, ar<3 the residue infantry. There will
however, be no objection on the part ol the
President of the United States, to the udmis
sion of a proportion of liflemen, duly organized
in distinct corps, and not exceeding one tenth
part of the whole quota of the states respec
tively. Each corps should be properly armed
and equipped fi r service.
“ Any companies of volunteers, who pre
vious to orders lor taking the field, may tender
their services conformably to the second sec
tion of the aforesaid act, or to an act of con
gress, passed the 24th day of February, 1807,
intitled “ Ail act authorising the Piesident of
the United States to accept the services of a
number of volunteer companies, riot exceed
ing thirty thousand men,” will be considered as
a part ol the aforesaid quota of seven thousand
and three, according to theit numbers. And
from the well known patriotism of our fellow
citizens, it must he presumed, that under the
existing circumstances of our country, a large
proportion ol the quotas of the several status
will be composed of such volunteer corps, es
pecially as tlicv will undoubtedly meet with
every encouragement,from your excellency,
and from all other patriotic, influential churac
'crs.
“ When the detachment ar.d organization
shall have been effected, the respective corps
will bo exercised under the officers set over
them ; but will not remain embodie 1, or be
considered in actual service, until by subse
quent orders they shall be vlnected .o lake the
field.
“ Your excellency wi!’ please to direct that
correct muster rolls and iie pec'ion returns be
made of the several corps, and that copies
thereof be transmitted to this department as
early as possible.
I have the honor to be,
Ye y respectfully,
A our Excellency’s ol.’t servt.
H. DEARBORN.”
Hi* F.rrellennt
the governor of jY. Carolina.
AIK U T\, JUI Y R.
At a meeting of the cit ns of AimutU and it* viein
ity, -t t. Pnil'nC -urcli on Wednt-fday the rstli
ot Ji y (x 7, for the purpose of taking under con
fid atinn t e ae flagrant and outrageous con
dtuA if tie Bntifli fqiudr >n near Nortolk, upon
tl c U .ite 1 State* Irig ite Cli f. pejke.
Tiic It mor.tble JO.I ‘.'CVII.P. J f was unanimou r
ly <|ip ii ed t hair.nan, an 1 JO'El'H MUI CHIN
SOiv, iicreta y,
R, j ’*> J— 1 hat a romnvttrc be appointed to pre
r> r f ich muter as tln y n y conceive wi I meet tlie
f-i.f and fc lings of t'ti m et>"g n the occafi .n and
till Tbo-n J Rournoy. iViltrim l Hobby, Si,tolas -Rare,
f iion is Cumming & h m.it I. I rjy.lt, hat committee,
t • rei ri to in now at Ui. place, at io o’clock—
to which t.n.c the in. etu g was then adjourned.
7 b > dty. xtith ‘Ju'y , ‘BO7.
The committ e who were yMtcr l*y appointed, at
tended ( lie meeting t • day an t made the following
ri p r , w .ich was unanimoudy ngrt ed to, via :
It VIXG r c ive 1 u n|U'ltiouable information of
aI re flagrant ou rag up no r r g ts. in ihe hoflile
at ack upon ihe nig te hefapeake, bv a Britilli fli p
ot war wherein f veral of our felh w-i it zens liave
een mu dei e and u conn ry grossly intuited, we
fee a de,tee t itnlig a:i 11, which la gu.ige is iuad
eq late to del. ri e—am) w) lie w, dcpl .re ti e ute of
t>.. fiflerer., in In flvamefu! and mclanch. ly tranl
aiSt on, we feel it h th 1 duty and a right to cxprels
our . p mini on the c iidticl which Derationed it.
The g v. rnment under which we I’ve, and to which
we are ev >ltd, wlole viewing with humane com
mifle ti 11 the com (lions t other nations, ha* ut.i
to m y man felled a chf , fi ion to preserve that fyffem
ot honorable neutr.i ity, which is founded in jutlice,
and 111 umf.m with that tramjui uy and peace, tor
Which to arc flo’s nub y contend tl, and which they
( tumor hlv obtained ..mold re.tcrate.l wrongs, a
fur tie ranee has li.en exhibited, vv nch, correfp md
| ing with the pea. t Ini views of <>ur citiztn , evii c<d a
1 and fpofi ion, in every c.t'c as tar a- p ilibl ■, to aitjufl
I all ditf. renc shy amicable negoci ton, with mt a
pi ehniin .ry facrifice o t c h'o dos America * But
it his been manned to th world; it i, oltvi us o
ouifelvcs, that our just c- ant fnrtiearance has no:
met a c rrefpondcrt return Fom Great-llr.tai’i, to
ward- whom ati amicable difpoliti n as hen ever
maiiif Ihd wc l ave r, ccivcd rc .e ted 1 ful's and
numerous i. jirus—a the very m ment when we
supp le fr end y eg ciations were nrogrefling witn
I c ou 11l ii. li. ve b< n captured and our ci izem
1 1 rii'oiico, and at eogtli, trans ending aft so nicr
a a . t 1 I me her lb ps li.-.ve op nly att ck<'d the
fov nigity and itidepe deuce it our cuuntry, ill
in kug v. t r upon .1 11 t> al v flel, near our own
llum-*, wit’ ■ut auv 1 r vi u declar.t.on f h dli'i y.
I bus 1 mated, it hecomts us a* a p ople, detetuiined
to prcli rvc out r nk a m 11c the t.a ion* o’ the e rth,
to expr I* ou f umei ts 11 the undifgu.icd lau
gu „e 1I cm lid cc and of truth.
it F. tH> KMOKF. The citizens o r .'.ugufta vd
it* vie 11 y. un v toot. sty resolve , I h-t t’ C late ptemc*
dit.i ed an t languina y attack upon the Vme ieau
cheiapcad., 1 udly uemauds adequ.uc r pi a
non
Reso.ved —Th t on thi’ filjcift there is Inr one mind,
no cart, one v icc 111 ttiis c. mm inity **l minor
coi file ‘turn* ar. Ift 111 the ocn no ial fetitiment
cxcit.d hy t is event—a and whatever moafures our
gv. r'm i.t may adopt to red’ tfs this nano .1 inju
ry. we p edge ouif - ve ,th t we vv II to the u.raoft of
our power and ability, lupport nd defend.
AbioiWJ—Fl at wc luartily .pprove of the conduct
of cur tcllow-c t'zc s ill the e p rt t wo*, who have
dcUTuiii elto ho and ii’ inteic uric with or turc.illi
fuppliea to -ny Britilli (hips of war, uioil thcdeicr
m naiii not our go eminent (hall le kn wn.
Resolved —t h t a copy of tin ft’ proceedings be
rrai fill ted t t'c Preside t if ill U 1 ted Mates and
that e e v Printer nr the ftaie he req efted to gi c
them publicity.
‘I he intendaut of the c ty having taken the chair,
on motion,
Reso.ved —That the thank* of ‘hi* meeting be pre
senttd to Jnd„e C.A IT.E I I, for hi* able a.d patriot
ic difchaige ol the du is ot tl e chair.
ji’HN C.i l 1.11 I', Cluiroian.
JO6LFU HU lY.el.Nj J.N, ics’.y
Prom the -V. York Public Advertiser.
THE CRISIS.
At no period since the ettablishment of ou.
independence, have I witnessed the iiaiiotia,
resentment eqOal to what has been iiii.iiile-.tei.
by every class of citizens, on the news of the
murder of our seamen on board the Chesa
peake ; nor has there been an occasion equal
ly villainous since that period to justify such
loud expressions o public indignation.
In this, as in all free governments, there are
local attachments to political men, and some
diflerence of opinion as to political measures ;
b.t on the present occasion, w ith the excep
tion of a few tory characters, there is but one
sentiment and one voice.
The people of America are for peace ; be
cause happy in our government, and the natne
felicities of our countrv, we have no imauce
mer.t to go to war. Liberty, plenty, and cx
tensive territory are the portion of Americans
ann none of these do we wish to increase by
the hazard of war. Impressed with these sen
timents, we have gone grea( lengths to pre
serve peace with the European na ions. v e
appeal to a canditl world, and even to the peo
ple of England themselves, whe'hei vve have
not given the most ample evidence of a pacific
disposition, and have, preserved the most hon
orable and s'rict neutrality even since the pre
sent war in Europe. England has not ceased
to oppress our comn erce and insult our na
tional dignity, but it was reserved for the cap
tain of the Leopard to consultin'.ate the base
ness of his nation, by firing on one of om na
tional ships iii time of peace, and when unpre
pared to fight, in killing and wounding our ci
tizens, who are in the daily habit of giving
these ungrateful people every comfort our
shores afford. There is a point, beyond which
patience cannot be exerted, nor fnbearamc
extended. At that period, fe low ti izens, we
have now artived. At a time when every bo
sum svveiis with indignation, it. is natural c
notlgil to ask, WHAT CAN BE DONE ?
ihe sentiments I express will not he consi
dered as dictating to the government, than
whom no man loves and respects more than
tnyscif. They are reflections tlut naturally
rise out of the subject under consideration. On
tins subject then 1 say, we appeal to Heaven
for the justice ol our cause and the wrongs we
have received. We must confide in the wis
dom and jus.ice of Jefferson and his worthy as
sociates : We must lie prepared and determin
ed to support them in any and every measure
tney limy pursue for the honor and happiness
of our country. If impertinence should en
quire—what can government cio ? To such I
would answer, they can do much. \V T e can
not fight them hy sea. nor do we wish to do i:
if we possessed the means. We possess, how
ever, more effectual means of punishing these
tyrants.
We can lay an embaago.
W’e can enforce and extend the non inapt r
tation act to every article of Biilish produce
and manufactures.
We can suspend the payment of British
commcicial debts.
We can seize the stock held by British sub
jects in our Banks and hinds.
W’e can and hope 1 will, at all events, pass a
law to prevent British subjects and aliens iron)
transacting business in this country oilier than
by the agency oi American citizens.
We can starve and ruin hy a suspension of
intercourse ihe British VV est-lndies.
We can create bankruptcy and ruin among
the British merchants.
Wc can derange and ruin their manufac
tory.
We can reduce the British revenue 14 mil
lions of dollars annually bv depriving them of
an extravagant convoy duty.
W'e can make the British people know that
al! the miseries they may feel in conse juence
of a suspension of intercourse with us, is to be’
attributed to the wicked and impolitic conduct
of their own miuinistry.
All this, and much more our government
can do by the scratcn o! a pet.—ny renouncing
ail intercourse witn a government who has
snewn to the world mey aietotally unworthy our
confidence and connection.
But should any or all those measures fail to
restore the British ministry to a sense ot jus ice.
and war mus, hy the ultimate resort, we wish
them to know that America can uo to Bittain
one of her formidable toes.
VV e hav e wealth,
W'e have courage and they know it.
We have experience.
We have a powerful population who when
they fight, do so for themselves ai.d not lor a
master.
We can with ease deprive them of the Cana
das and Nova Scotia and deliver that people
from a galling yoke which they are now willing
and only want an opportunity to throw off’.
We can expeli them from the continent ol”
America.
W'e can harrass their West-India commerce
by a chain of privateers, from the gulf of St.
Lawrence to that of Mexico.,
l'hese tny fellow-citizens, are some of the
powers the God of nations and of nature, has
possessed you off, and thus can you avenge
yourselves on a nation already given up by tne
God of Providence to judicial blindness, to
work their own destruction with greediness.
But let me not say any thi ig *o fan the flame
which now burns in our manly breasts—rather
wou and i recommend a patient waiting for the
measures of that man, who has never disap
pointed the just expectation of his country.
FRANKLIN.
From the hCatio a. Intelligencer.
THE PROCLAMATION.
The measures taken by the executive are be
fore the public. We ate well aware that a
tnong the unreflecting part of our countrymen,
or those whole feelings have for a moment usur
ped the feat of reason, they may be viewed as
destitute of the full measure of vigor called for
by the crilis. A deliberate confideratioi , how
ever, of the circumltances of the case, of the pi -
collar organization of our government, and of
the powers veltcd by law in the President, will
(hew that the course pursued is as vigorous as
ought to have been expelled. The language
of the proclamation is decided without inflama
tion, and is the dignified vehicle of earneit feel
ing and resolute purpose. It certainly bears no
comparrifou witfi the indigent terms in which the
feelings of our fellow citizens in every part of
the union are couched. Such language on their
part is appropriate and well applied, as it 1 e
comes them to demonstrate the zeal with which
they are animated to and. feud the rights and ho •
or of their country. But from the government
vve have a right to expert decision tempered by
ci 1 ii ll e!s, even on the eve of certain wat, a;.-d
much more so at a period when the occurrence
of fueh an event is uncertain. In refpert. to
fiyf’e then the proclamation is unqueltionably
corrert.
Is it so likewise with regard to substance ?
The outrage committed by the Bntifh com
man dor is an art of war ; and as such we have the
right 33 an independaut nation to treat it. But
is it our iutereit to receive it in this light, with
out any previous explanation with the govern
ment whole officers have commut’ and it ?
We fay no. It is the filtered of the people, aid
therefore the duty of the government to avert u>
great a calamity as war by every honorable mean
m their power. It is their filtered to try r such
mean ß before a resort to force that they may
make every exertion to avert war, thereby pre
serving the unrivalled bleflfiigs we enjoy ; and
that if such exertions fail to avert it, vve may
convince the world ol the fmcerity of our wifli
to maintain peace, doing every thing in our pow
er to preserve it, thereby making the world our
friend by exhibiting in the mod ltriking and con
traded colors our own sense of judice and the is -
judice of our enemy, many of whose own fnb
jerts we fnould in this way alienate trom their go
vernment and make our secret, ii not avowed
friends and advocates.
There is, as we have remarked, no mean hone
of the government of Britain giving us those ex
planations and that fatisfartion that may pre
serve the peace of the two nations. Ihe mo
deration of our government, backed by a per
emptory demand ol immediate explanation, aid
supported by the Ipertacle of a whole nation
ready to (heel their lad drop of blood in dcfei.es
of their rights, will preient oi r case before the
British government and nation in the mod im
poiing form. Demanding nothing but what ho
norable men ought not to hclitate to yield un
aflced, and, that in terms refpertiul and dignifi
ed, is there not reason to hope that, when they
are apprised at the fame time, as appriled they
mod unequivocally will be, of the temper of ttie
country, they will at length awaken from tile
delirium of paflion and do us judice ? All thele
advantages will be gained by a deliberate over a
preeipaie coudurt. Os this course it is a further
recommendation that our merchants will have an
opportun ty of getting in their {hips, ot repres
flag their {peculations, and adjuding to a consi
derable extent their affairs before the eventful pe
riod, which fh.ill make force the final arbiter.
Our seamen, too, the finewsof oui power agaiufl
a maritime nation, will be, to a great degree,
then fafe in cur harbors, and thus enable us, in
case of ueceflity, to drike a prompt and vigor.
OUR blow.
f * But, if the soundness of thele remarks should
.be quedioued, itdl it cannot be denied that the
nature of our government and the peculiatterele
gation of its powers, redrained the ccujve
from those measures, which, in this “ v w of the
diicullion, might be considered ,Ti e
President does notpoffefs the power of t> .nsicr
rtng ttie nation from a (late of peace to a date of
war. That is the extlufive province of the ie
giflature. The powers of the President, appli
cable to cases like the preient, are transferred by
law : and as these powers have been exerctfed to
the full extent, with a lingle reservation—viz.
that of inter idling the entrance of Bntifh tnrr
chant veflels into our ports, provided, after the
previous prohibition of armed veflels, the latter
do not comply with the injunftion of the execu
tive. The exercise of this lad power, it will he
perceived, for reasons too obvious to be recited,
is not called for at this preient time by any posi
tive good it could effect : while it would have
the mifehevious effort in case of a resort to war
of diminiihing the vulnerable, points of our ene
my, and impairing our means of retribution for
any unjud aggressions (lie might commit on our
property in our own ports. The power, more
over, is one which may be exercised at any peri
od hereafter when its neceflity shall become ap
parent.
There is one farther dep which the executive
may take. He may convene Congress, with a
view to the exercise by them of those powers ex
clusively veiled in them by the conilitution—
fuch as the declaration of war ; the interdicting
? intercourse with Britain; the enaction of a non.
! importation law ; the laying an embargo ; the
, better fortifying bur ports and harbors ; the in
crease of the regular force ; and various other
similar powers. On this point there appears to
be considerable public lolicitude, which as far as
we are enabled, we deem it our duty to fatisfy.
From wuat we have been able to collect, Con-