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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-