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BOSTON, November 11. !
Yesterday Mr. John S. tilery, passenger in
the brig Sally-Barker-Windsor, arrived|in town ‘
in a short passage from Bordeaux, and furnish*
cd us with F icnch papers to the slh October.
The particulars of the fall ol Copenhagen are
given in these papers. The trench represent
the conditions to have been extremely hard ;
and state that the prinpe regent would not ac
knowledge the capitulation : but the English
had the fleet and citadel in possession ; and no
measures to oppose them had been taken the
latter end of September. An aid-de-camp of
the prince regeut had had an audience of the
emperor Napoleon after the surrender. The
cannonade of the English was represented as
prodigious, and the Danish loss to have been ve
ry great. In one sortie, the Danes are repre
sented to have lost 1000 men, and the garrison
from 7000 had been reduced to less thon 4000
men. Fifteen hundred cf the inhabitants pe
rished. General Peyman, though severely
wounded, continued to reject all the summons
to surrender, until driven to the last extremity.
Besides the subburbs, which the Danes set on
fire, 305 houses were burnt.
The letters from Bordeaux state, that anew
decree had been issued by Bonaparte, for the
capture of all vessels, (including American)
bound cither to or from Great Britain, and il
with cargoes, to be condemned as good prizes.
‘Hie following article from Antwerp, Sept.
28, confirms the statements of the letters :
—- i ‘ ‘Ve undertand, an order has been given
out by the emperor, to capture every vessel
bound to or from England, and if with cargoes,
are to be considered as good prize. This is a
mortal blow to the American commerce ; and
we fear will lead to a ruptuie between America
and France.”
Letters from Paris stated that the bounda
ries of Louisiana had been setdedby the French
e r per or to the satisfaction of our minister in
Paris.
It was understood in France, that our affairs
with England would be amicably settled.
November 14.
A gentleman who came passenger in the
Sally-Barker-Windsor, informs us, “ That two
cases of capture, (American) made since, and
under the decree of the 21st November, 1806,
were brought before the piize court, at Bor
deaux, a short time before he left that city ; but
the court had refused to give an opinion, un il
fresh instructions should be received from the
emperor. These instructions were called for
by the court, and a question demanded—wheth
er the decree was to be put in full force against
the Americans ? His answer was, “ that in effect
the latj must operate against them as with all other
neutrals
We are favored with the following article
from a source which may be relied on :
“ Answers were given by the emperor, to the
council of prizes, on the 23d September last, to
the following questions:—
Ist. Whether there should be any exceptions
to the decree of November 21, 1806, in favor
V of such nations, as, by their treaties, were al
ii lowed a free trade, or the privilege of neutral
v izing enenii?S* property ? Answer, that as the
1 decree contained no exceptions , there should not
| be ant/ made in its application.
2d. Whether neutral vessels in ballast should
also be made liable to confiscation, upon the
plea of capture, or stress of weather, if they had
entered a British port? Answer, that it must
lay over for further consideration.
3d Whether one half of the confiscated pro
perty, should in ail cases be appropriated to
( wards indemnifying sufferers by British spolia
tions ? The answer was in the affirmative.”
From Russia —Our last accounts from Rus
sia (to the middle of September) are by capt.
Cleveland, from states, that
though he heard some of the condemn
the attack on Denmark, a England
was not anticipated or talkeiof. The French
ambassador at Petersburg Wad succeeded iir
procuring an entire change in the Russian min
•i istry, favorable to the views of his master Na
poleon ; but the people in Russia were dissatis
fied with the measures of government, particu
larly tfyp taeaty of Tilsit; and that a great num
ber of governors of pi ovinces, and other officers
had resigned their employments.
From the Mediterranean.— Capt. Wil
liams arrived at Salem from Leghorn, confirms
the account of the capture of that city by the
French; of their laying an embargo, which
continued until the 16th September, when it
■was taken off. He informs, that lord Paget,
the English minister, was ncgociating at Con
stantinople, with a prosp l ct of success, being
backed by lord Collingwood, with sixteen sail
of the line, who hud taken the island of Tene
dos, (recently restored to the Turks by Russia)
with six or seven sail of the line—that a French
army of 60,000 men, which had been on the
inarch to Naples, supposed to be ultimately
destined against Sicily, had halted—and this
halt was attributed, at Leghorn, to appearances
unfavorable to the French in other parts of Eu
rope. The discontents at Petersburg, it was
expected, would produce a change there, in
favor of the war party ; and it was confidently
ttelieved that England would still be able again
to combine both Austria and Russia against
France, to which the powerful diversion she
had made at Constantinople, would probably
contribute. Such was the view of affairs at Leg
horn, the Ist of October.
CHARLESTON, November 30.
The ship Alfred, arrived this morning, sailed
fbom the Downs on the 17th October, and fur
nishes London papers to the 14th of the same
month.
The reports by this arrival on American af-
fairs, bear a pacific aspect. The British gov* [
eminent, it is positively stated, have recalled
admiral Berkley, and sir John Borlase Warren
is appointed to the command on the Halifax
station. George Rose, jun. esq. is coming out
on a special mission to this country ; and was to
leave England in a short time. Mr. Monroe had
not left London on the 12th October.
The lateness of the hour precludes the pos
sibility of giving many extracts from our Lon
don papers. The only article however of any
interest that we notice on a hasty perusal, is the
following :
London, October 14.
from Lisbon, September 28. —“The demands
of the French government were as follow: —
Four millions of crusades, to be immediately
paid in specie—all the ports of Portugal to be
shut against British commerce—British sub
jects to be imprisoned, and their goods confis
cated—the fleet to be surrendered to France,
and the garrisons of the kingdom to be protect
ed by troops from France and Spain.
“ The whole of these demands were imme
diately rejected, and the determination made
known to the various ambassadors ; those from
France and Spain instantly demanded their pass
ports, which were granted.”
Ail the accounts received from Turkey re
present that empire in a complete state of an
archy. No vestige of regular government re
mains in that unhappy country. The Janissa
ries call arbitrarily upon the treasury for
sums of money ; they dismiss the ministers,
recal the public agents in the provinces, mur
der them ; appoint others ; and, in short, have
laid aside the new emperor, whose authority
has, to all intents and purposes, devolved upon
a private of their corps, who calls himself
Mustapha Cavac, from the name of the castle
near which the revolution broke out.
On the 30tli of August last the large and
handsome town of Beckswick, in the Bannat ol
the Austrian empire, was almost entiicly con
sumed by fire. Eight hundred houses were
burned, and ten persons lost their lives. ‘Flic
loss in buildings, grain, and merchandize, is
estimated at six millions ol florins. The fire
originated in a barn, in which a child had wan
tonly fired oil’ a pistol ; the wadding set lire
to the straw, and in less than three quartets of
an hour, two thirds of the town was in ashes.
We understand that orders have been sent
to Torbay, for such vessels as are ready for
sea. immediately to proceed to Lisbon. If the
Portuguese government seriously resolved to
go to the Brazils, the convoy of our fleet must
be desirable to them ; at the same time it is
extremely adviseable for ns to take care that
the Portuguese fleet do not fall into the hands
of the French
By a vessel arrived at Leith, we have recei
ved accounts from the Baltic, of a more re
cent date than any which had before come to
hand. The following are the particulars :
“ Leith, October 6.—The Fancy gun-brig,
lieutenant Sinclair, has just arrived from Got
tenbmgh. which place she left on the first in
stant. Just as she came away, 100 carriages
had arrived with the suit and baggage of Louis
XVIII. who was to embark next day for Eng
land, in a Swedish frigate, together with all the
French princes, &c. The Swedish packet,
with the mail, which had been sent via Den
mark, in order to bting along with it the Da
nish letters, had not been allowed to stop, but
ordered instantly to depart, or they would fire
at her. A war between these two nations is
considered inevitable. The English cannot
get vessels sufficient to bring away the stores
at Copenhagen.
“ Admiral Gambier bad applied for 40 Swe
dish pilqts to take down the men of war. Rus
sia is milch dissatisfied with the treaty. ‘This
vessel has be n just 14 days from Leith on her
voyage out and home.”
Savannah,
SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 5, 1807.
A letter from Washington, to a gentleman in
this city, received by Thursday’s mail, says
—“ Dispatches are received from M ‘ Monroe,
dated loth September, stating, that he had pre
sented his note on the 7th, upon the affair of the
Chesapeake, but had received no answer—nei
ther had he, at the date of his letter, received
any communication from the British govern
ment, written or verbal, from which even a con
jecture count lie formed, as to the disposition of
that government ‘in relation to any of the points
of tlie negociation.”
Yesterday,on the opening of the house of rep
resentatives, Mr. Lyon said some proceedings
had come to his Knowledge which he wished to
expose, which iie thought sii mid lie done with
ciosed doors ; on which the galleries were im
mediately cleared, conformably to a standing
rule of the house.
Mr. Lyon then submitted the following reso
lution :
Resolved, That provision ought to be made
by law, forbidding a 1 transfers of rights of ac
tion, and of all monies and other property, either
real or personal, to or by anv subject of the
crown of Great-Britain, and also forbidding anv
citizen or resident of the United States paying
any debt or demand to any such subject.
Mr. Lyon, on offering this resolution, observ
ed that he had understood that Mr, Erskine the
British minister, had recently transferred stock
possessed by his father, to a large amount, in
the American funds. He said, he considered
this as a strong indication of hostility on the part
of England towards this country. He express
ed the opinion that Britain had, in numerous
instances, so infracted the treaty between tue two
countries, that it could no langer be considered
as obligatory on the United States, who conse
quently’ possessed the moral right of declining,
on her part, to respect those stipulations, whose
observance might be injurious to her. He said,
that he thought .t became the United States, in
tue present state of affairs, to hold such pledges
as she possessed against the acts of injustice
which might be committed by Britain, and that
by adopting this resolution, she would retain
in her hands the means of indca.hity, in case
such acts should be committed; and if they
should not, no injury could ensue front its adop
tion.
A universal sentiment was unreservedly ex
pressed, that such a step at this tunc was im
proper. Not a single member supported the
resolution; but all censured its imprudence.—*
The general opinion was, that if persisted in
by the mover, the doors should be instantly
opened, and the resolution rejected in public.
Mr. Lyon then withdrew the resolution, and the
galleries were opened under the understanding
that all secrecy was at an end.
The foregoing Contains, we believe, a faithful
statement of the substance of the discussion, it
such indeed it can be called. More cannot be
expected.—National Intelligencer, Nov. 18.
Mr. Curtis Bolton, of Savannah,a passenger
in the •ship Swift, from Liverpool, came up in
a pilot boat last evening from the Hook, and in
forms, that he left Liverpool on the 20th Sep
tember, that Mr. Monroe had taken his passage
in the ship Pocahontas, for Baltimore, but ow
ing to slight indisposition (occasioned by a cold)
he had determined not to come out in the above
ship.—-Yew* York pap, f
The American consul at Genoa is said to
have been arrested, and seals put upon his pa
pers, by order of the French government, with
out assigning any reason.
Extract of a letter, dated .Aorfolk, November 3,
received at Washington.
“ Yesterday the long-lalked-of affair of honor,
between capt. Gordon and Mr. M’Comuco, was
decided on the borders of N. Carolina; for which
place they set off about 7 o’clock in the morn
ing, and arrived at the destined ground about
12, when they immediately proceeded to busi
ness ; standing at the distance of eight paces, and
advancing after each fire. Both missed the first
fire, then advanced and fired; when both were
wounded. Mr. C. slightly—capt. G. it is said,
mortally. The ball passed through the fleshy
part of C’s. thigh—G. received the ball a little
below tlie groin. The ball cannot be extracted.”
On Friday, on motion of colonel Ogden,
counsel for colonel Burr, and with ihc assent
of the attorney general, we understand the su
preme court granted an order to c/uash the in
dictment in the case of the state against Aaron
Burr for the murder of general Hamilton. It
appears that the indictment was very material
ly defective, and particularly in that it allcdged
tlie murder to be committed in this state,
whereas the fact was well established that the
dealh took place in the state of’ Ncw-York—
and that it was the opinion of the bar generally
that the indictment, in its present form, could
not be sustained.
Burr is said to have been in the neighbor
hood of this city—at Morrisville—how true the
report is we know not.— Trenton True Amer.
Charleston, November 30.
The United States’ brig Hornet, Dent,
esq. commander, anchored in this harbor yes
terday jn 42 days from Malaga—she fired a
salute on passing Fort Johnson.
We learn by this arrival, that neutral ves
sels of all descriptions are captured by the bel
ligerent powers in the Mediterranean. All
• communication with Gibraltar lias been inter
dicted oil pain of death. It was reported that
the French was about to embark forty thou
sand troops, in Russian bottoms, for the inva
sion of Sicily, but their success would.be doubt
ful, as the British were erecting fortifications,
and using every means in their power to op
pose them. The Portuguese were in daily
expectation of the arrival of the French, and
the royal family were making preparation to
go to Brazil. When the French troops took
possession of Leghorn, in August last, they
seized all British and American property, and
lodged it in the public magazines, until the
claimants can prove it not to be of the manu
facture of England. The ex-bashaw of Tripo
li re uained at Syracuse in good health.
The Hornet, in a gale of wind on the coast,
sprung her main-mast, carried away several
main shrouds, and received serious, injury in
her sails and other rigging.
Married, in Effingham county, on Tuesday
last, by the reverend Mr. Birgman, Mr. John
Christopher S'kckingkr, to Miss Aon eta
Rahn, daughter! of Matthew’ Kahn, esquire of
that county.
PRICES CURR A VANN AIL
Baco i—l 6 to 18 cents.
Bees. Wax—2B to 31 cents.
Brandy, Cogniac--108 to 110 cents.
Cotton Bagging—6o to 70 cents.
Cotton, Sea-Island—32 to 34 cents.
Corn—loo cents.
Coffee—32 to 34 cents.
Flour—Boo to 850 cents.
Iron, Swedes—6 dollars.
Rice, new, 3 75 v
Rum, Jamaica—ll 2 to 116 cents.
Salt—s 6to 62 cents. ‘S&jt'*
Tea, Hyson—l dollar 6 cents
Sugars, brown—9 dolls, to 10 50.
Gin, Holland—lo 6 to 108 cents. >
Tobacco—6so to 700 cents
port of savannah.
arrived.
Ship Little Cherub, Wade, Philadelphia—
ship Cotton Planter, Chase, Liverpool—brig
William, Rich, Jamaica—schooner Maria, Jeff
ries, o.—schooner Orion, Mason- Newport, r.i.
-—stoop Fellowship, Snow, ew-Bcdford.
Bools and Shoes.
yJu&i received by the brig Luna ,
Frtlr-Top and Suw arrow Hoots
Morocco ditto
Mens shoes ; first, second and third quality
Ditto leather and morocco dancing pumps
Hoys Suwarrow boots
An elegant assortment of ladies kid slippery
assorted colours ; among winch are a few
pair vthite
Morocco slippers, with and without heels
Leather ditto
Masses kiu and velvet slippers
e hildrens morocco and kid buskins, Sec.
AH w arranted of the best quality
AI.SO,
1 pipeCogniac Brandy
1 ditto country gin
1 ditto set. Croix Rum
Bbls. prime Pork and mess Beef
boxes mould Candles, and
A few lirk ns of Butter
W hick will be sold at cost and charges
Taylor & Scribner*
December 5 —136
i'or LIVERPOOL,
r The staunch
&&&$& SI tip Isabella,
Nutting, Master.
A prime sailer—will receive dispatch. For
P t eight or Passage, apply to the A Lister, or
b. O’ C. Howard.
\\ ho have received by said vessel,
20b tons of Liverpool SALT,
W Inch w ill be sold on good terms, if received
on boa rd. jj ec cm be r .s—if,6
TAXKS.
Defaulters are Notified, that the cti.
tfest for 1807 is placed in my office,
where returns v. ill be received until
the 15lh day of January'm xt.
JOB T. ROLLF.S, Clerk ,
Chatham county, Dec. 5 18U7—136.
TAX NOTICE. ’
All persons that have not paid
their Tax for last year, 1806, will lu \e
executions issued again: t them, if they
do not come forward and pay the same
in the course of the next week.
PETER DEV FAUX. t. c. c.
November 28—133. v
Mr. ,T. Michel,
Has thu honor to inform his Friends and the
Public, generally, that his DANCING and
MUSIC SCHOOL will be opened on Moijjjv,
tlx 7ih instant, at Mrs. Courtney’s, on the
December s—m—-136
House wanted.
Wanted to Lease, for a term of years, a
HOUSE, of about live rooms, to be in good re
pair, with suitable out buildings, and to be in
a centrical part of the city. For such a house,
a good price will be allowed. Application to be
made at the office of the Republican.
December .■>—l36
Sheriff ‘s Sales.
On the first TUESDAY in February next,
Will be sold at the court house in Jell -ri on,
Camden county, D-
The following NEGROES,
Taken in execution, under the foreclosure of
a mortgage, as the property of Edward
man, at the suit of John Carnochan and others,
viz.—Peter, Columbus, Catharine, (Alicia,
Reyna, Jean, Mary, Silvy, Cook, Ned, Nelly,
Cuffy, Peter, Belfast, Jenny,Chatham, Rachel
and Harry.
Joseph Crews, n. s. c. c.
December 5—136 y
Jr
Sales fur llent.
Will be sold, at the house of Mr. John Lilli*
bridge, - >
On MONIJA\ , the 21st hist.
A cast iron STOVE—‘Distrained as the pro
perty of George Stcnfoid, to satisfy John Lilli
bridge, for lu use rent.
SlLo, at sane tine ami place ,
A HOUSE, situated south of line Theatre—
taken ’> the property of George Stuck, tosatis
ty Hendricks Fisher, for ground rent.
James Clark, c. c.
December 5—136.
rr 100 hales COTTON are want
ed on freight, to fill the ship AMERICA, for
Liverpool.
Mein, Mackay N Cos.
November 28 L>3
j UST KECV. 1V E 1),
per schooner Three friends, from Boston,
Ten chests and one hundred and twenty boxes
First (jnfility Hyson
Warranted to be all of this year’s importation,
and entitled lo benefit of drawback, for sale by
Smith L Courkc.
October 31—121
Blank Manifests,
For said at this office.