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viiiuiius republican, Gorpel
Wyth *, -ftl bt inj c<;[iv nceti that
his intent ors wete upririhr, -\- i
though in fume things he ft. la- •
go'Cil w rh ihemfrlves.
Youi last and bt-ft rewud will
b? happiness af er death. In th s
world, our portion of happinef
is buts nail. The belt nil n art
o r tea affiidted i.kr the worlt—
They have to weep withagonizetl
hearts for rhe Sols of those they
love moft deaily, as we do now *
ani fomttitoes, as was the case
of our unoitJ..ai.e friend, they
fc; 1 the ftrokc of death embitter*
ed by the sharp and ver.einous
ltmg of inprati ude. But they
have thfir consolation. Thev
re pole their hopes in the bosom
of their God, and look to the
place he has prepared as their
permanent abode. Such wa'i the
comf ft which lrr.cothed the Let!
of death to <ur and parted friend.
He alwis believed in a fum* e
anil I c.'ei (fate, whit h alottr can
afford to goi cl men their just re
iribntion ; nnd 1 trull is himfclf
ar ih s moment in that happier
Wi rid, whcie “ the wn. ked ce. fe
front tr uiblittg and the weary an
at rell.” if his bleiled spirit,
ex .lied above the cares and paint
of mortality, couid now tenoet
us any services, i would invoke
it, and call upon him to inftift
into our hearts, 3t lead a portion
of his virtues. But to him it
would not be proper for us to
nuke our application. 1 o the
Almighty creator only, to that
God who made him all that he
was, our request fliould be di
reded. And that he may, in hit
mercy teach us properly to esti
mate, and draw the molt uftfui
jnllrntt on from the great exam
ple which is n w set before us,
is my molt and icrveM
piaycr.
From the Folio/. J Intelligencer.
UNIVERSAL BLOCK.’ DES.
Tin- vc >vet nment ot Guat Britain <’<*et
nm tpptar fuffi :ently to conlider the ua
tTire and conb qutuccs of the mcafure of
universal blockade, wl iclt they hav#
laid to have adopted. The mcatuic is
in fad irn; roperly styled a blockade. It
in a forcible lufpehliou of all the trade of
the continent of Euiope Switzerland
enveloped in Europe, and the United
State# of Ann rica to ad 11 rent auel rc
niote quarter of the glouc, are incidcn
tally lul j deel to mfu| portable and lili
ginmate interruptions of the sales of
their agricullutal production#, and inanu
faduies, anil to the nioft injurous ob*
ftrudion ol'theit lup plies. We can have
flo vmt for the tropical productions
which we import. Switzerland,incapa
ble of p.uticipatiiig in the operations o!
Fiance and Pnflia in Ihutting the Euro
pean sea ports, and America having no
participation in them, are treated at
France and Pruflia. The chapter of
justice i* torn out cf the maiiuiqe code.
Tae law of nations i# mutilated in oiu
prrt and mtripolaied in another. Ame
rica prevented fiom fuppiying the old
continent through England or by c. red
voyages, can ra ie no moti. s from do-
Ir.ctlic or fine pi goods to pay lor Eu
ropean merchandize. She cannot raise
dune# or tevc ue thereon. I his is a
condition *h h the United S'ltrs rre
unable to endure. It u- quite uni cic(T._
ry to cc • ti.iCi, v.licthc’ e mail be willing
orn 1 c nttut to ci'ture luch a ttate oi
things, for it is not in our power to eni
it \V e mufl ult our accutt n.cd tned ur*
(tit mrllic ant. ( c.ieigu goods) to pui hale
or procure fuppliis. 11 wt cannot fell
cur dtmeilic and foreign gocJs abroad,
we muit wot It then, up and coulume
tlunr at home. Beer, cider, and fruit
and grain fpiiits, made at home, mud
toon exclude foreign beer aud ruin.—
Europe takes i o IhcepN wool from us,
wherefore wo mull extend prohibitions
ot woolen goods at the next lellioii of
Congrei*, that Europe and America
may be forced to mautadure the raw ma j
teriais w produce for lilt and exportau j
on. Two mitt ens oj ftmaUt anJ monj j
chilJun in the United Slates, who do
little now but needle woik or play, mud
be taught to card, (pin by machines,
knit, weave, dye, print cloths, engrave,,
gilt, paint, aud perform other operations \
in mdfcutadure*. If the manufacturing
nations uuwifcly and unkiudly destroy
the export trade of our produce w e muit
mar, uf ..dure it. The current of Britilh
fuirply will be turneu aude, btcaufe we
cannot loot* the lupply of our crops, aud ;
buy of them any longer to the amount t
ot Unity millions of dollars per annum
It is the plain intend ot Gnat Britain to
facilitate the tales of tr ps and foreign
gooOs, the pivcccd* ol which enab cs us
tw buv iheir mar.uffcdtures. li mllcad of
facilitating, fhc detin y the nett proceeds
of lairs by illegitimate blockades, it wil
toicrus like ihe new Kobiulon Cruloe,
lo work up our erops tor ourleivcs. As
there ;s nut a IcCWon in the i, w of . r.ati”
on# to juttify this dcftrudiou of neutral j
trice# not contraband, lo it it tuauitcli) 1
a
that fli’_ coiver.s the* .trident into tbs
eeptr.- of. naval debt ‘inn. \V:ie, auJ
‘•'■arned, and upright judge*, cannot con
-o;ina t.S : property of the innocent infrac
tor* of ilk)>itimate blockades Corf i
|ence, in an enlightened and independent
judiciary department, i* not to be moul
ded by “ orders” of the executive j.'o
i vernment. “ Refcntmeot*’ against Pa
ilia cannot there warrant lawless injufticr
to the United States of America. lucre
is no authority in the British navy to
make commercial laws for neutral ftatec.
Britain has no right to make “orders of
king St council” to bind our commerce
in all cases whatsoever. But lately we
hare heard the plea of nectfiity to juflify
the impressment of our seamen ; and now
it u used to juflify the prollration of our
agriculture, and the deftrudion of our
trade in innocent goods—goods notcoir
traband of war. It is easy to perceive
the fame difpo&tioo in the Britilh con
vention of March, 1793. with the le e
government of Ruflia, a* avowed to Mr.
T. Pinckney, by lord Grenville, The
papers contained in Mr, JtfFcrfou’s
celebrated communications of 1793
and 4, with the British and French go
vernments. There wa* then no neces
ti;y. The fame dilpofition appears in
the proclamation of admiral Sir Horatio
Nelson, of//pril H, 1797, before Ca
diz, in which he declared that it was
loan i “ right that Spain Ihouk) no long
er have any trade !” Here is not even a
. ica or appearance of nectfiity, yet ad
rmral Nelson allowed himfclf so to use
his p wer and commifTion, ;.s to set up a
blocks eat the exptnee of the iudefeafi
hit rights of our neutral agriculture and
; commerce. The order of the Britilh go
vernment of Nov. 6, 1793> was rquaily
unvvatrantable and equally unfounded in
neceiTuy. Itauthoriled the carrying in
of all American vcffcls, having on hoard
the produce of the French colonies We
were in our colonial days, and have been
fmee in the course and practice of tdc le
gitimate importations of hundrtds of
J cargoes of molalfes from tfie French co
lonies.—The naval despotism of Great
Britain, in November, 1793, made t’nefe
a cattle of seizure—Surely without tie
ctfTi’y. England lias alloweu a mere
corporation of merchants to ulttrp the
dominions of all the native princes of
India, so as to txcludr us and all other
maritime nations from the whole pemn
(ula as if it were a proper eifatc of their
EnghHi trading company. And now,
to crown the whole, they have determin
ed that we ffi ill not buy or fell with the
myriads that inhabit Europe !—Thai
m'gi ■; Europe (hall no longer have any
tiaje !-—That we mull carry on trauc
with tneir European dominions alone !
7hal all this it requilite to the manifts
|un ion of “ the resentment” of the Bn
ofii government at the recent coudutt of
Fiullii!—'The king of Great Britain
vas coerced into a neutrality, in his llan
ovarian charadter, by the power of
Fiance- Ihulta adled the fame neutral
part; Now Pruflki got* a fltp further,
under equal circuir.flanceß of coercion.
All the relations and connections of ihe
Brnifh royal family on ihe European
continent, (as well by blood as b) mar
riage) ad ihe fame part. Vet, neutial,
frienuly America is no long.r to he al
lowed, by the Bntifh navy, lo fell her
crops to these very relations and then
fubje.ta. This is undeniably a meafut.
of the mo ft exet Hive nature. Mr. Fox
far, very far, exceeds Lord Grenville
and Mr. I'itt- To the neutral world,
lie oui-herods Herod. VVe recently iup
poled, that, though a faithful Union,
he was nil: enough of the citizen of the
world to love j ilhce aud right in his in
teroourfc with the amicable, the right an.
the jult.
Can it be supposed, that the American
people wiil submit to laws of trade, un
pmcedcutCd and arbitrary, framed by the
ixecultve government ot that country,
v.bul'e. legislative fiipremScy, with picas
. : “ nccouiiy” and virtual representative
charsder, lliey fuccefsfuily eienied in
jrm ? Will fix organized millions in
IHO6, submit to worle than what two
little hi. organized millions refufed to bear
rweeniy years ago ? Is America to bear
aliedgtu Bin fli necessities. and her own
rtal neceflities also ? Arc icaion and jus
lice ana hxtd principle to be expunged
from lire maritime code, aud the will of
a (ingle prince to be the law of nemrals
tin the ocean : Is this the tlyle and man
ner in which Britain protects the liberties
of the world ? Is it for such purposes
rhat (he maintains it to be neciifary, that
the should pofTcfs the fupeiiority at lei—
the sovereignty ot the ocean ?
The real “ neccfUties” of Britain are
lat this time completely mitunderitood,
las we believe,and we have an equal right
j to think, when the mealurts altedged to
be “ uect ffary,” affeit us. The difeus
lion of this point nray be a fubjed ot fu
ture consideration. In the mean time it
. may be well temperately and firmly, to
joblerve, that to interfere with the legiti.
| male and advantageous tales of the crops
and merchandifc of the greatell neutral
and friendly consumer of Briulh tnanu
-1 tadures, at a moment too when the rctl
;ot the civilifed world throws them oa
ihe hands of the Bntifh manufadurers,
; appears to us to be as unwise, as it is
unlawful, unexampled, and insupportable.
Their real nee limes demand that they
diligently incrcafe our ability and our
means and our difpolitions to purchale
their reduudant and rejeded manutae
turt#, by enabling us to tell our crops
aud toreigu merchandise at increased pri
ccs. Inlicad ot this, they propole au tl
hg'.timaie and offenlive obtlrndion of
our markets, to the proportionate des
truction of our means ot purchufe, for
cing u> by a BcceUity, real an. imperious,
*0 manufacture those foeignand domes
tic raw materials, wmeh muit otht- vvi c
peril'll in our hands.
nuy 3S
ROME, March 20.
The College of Cardinal, has already
tad two extraordinary meetings. 1 here
is a great talk here of removing the Ho
ly See to another quarter, and of the
coronation of an Emperor in our metro
polis, A Papal Courier has been dis
patched to Paris.
From the Banis of tie Alain, /Iprif 13,
According to a letter from Bremen,
the Prullian troops have occupied all the
pofkiuns, on the Wcfer and Elbe, by
which they arc enabled to prevent the
entrance of Engliffi Blips into the mouth
of those rivers.
ALBANIA, March 30.
The commander of the Ruffian squad
ron at Cattaro, has ifTued the following
order refpedring the blockade of the
ports in the Adriatic fra To accom
plifii the just objedt of maintaining a
good understanding with the neutral
powers, and at the fame time to perfe
vtre in the import ant plan of cutting off
the enemy from al luppliea which he
might receive through the means of neu
trals, the commander of the (quadron of
his imperial majeftj of all the Ruffians
hereby notifies and declares -
1. That all the coafti and harbors,
both on the right and the left of the A
dnatic Gulph belonging io the French,
or to neutral dates, and pol Lil.-d by the
French, are, from this day, fltiekly
blockaded by the said squadron.
2. That no veffe! belonging to the
laid powers fii ill atu mat to convey war
like Ibvree, proviiions, or other fuppiies,
to any of the blockaded places, under
the penalty of confifcation of at.d
eargo. ,
3. That whereas this notification
fufliciently teilifics the tefpedl which
my court entertains fer the neutral ftate3,
I flatter myfelf that sll the evils will be
averted which would result to them from
acting in oppoUtiou to the order uow
given.
Henry Bailey,
Commander of thefyu tdron of his fm
pcial Majejly 0) all the Rujjians.
On board the Asia (hip of the line, at
anchor in the Cinal of tl?e Buccadi
March 15, iSoS.
SWEDEN and PRUSSIA.
Du Ideation of thi Swedi/h commander •
LusEniurg, April 20.
In conlequcncc of the reiterated ru
mours that * s the fruflian troops are ma
xing preparation! to pass the Elbe, the
Swolilh commtndant count Guflavus
Lowenbeirn, addrcfTed the following to
the P. ufli n commandant at Lunenburg ;
“ Ts Al Le Commandant of the Put/-
fun t. oops at Lunenburg.
“ As several reports have reached me,
tho’ unofficial, r.(peering the prtparati
l oils of the Pruffijn troops for palling o.
vtr to the right lank of the Elbe, I feel
royfelf calhd upon, in conformity to the
orders l have t cat veil from my sovereign
with the repetition ot mine, of the ift of
February, to dtclare to iae commandant
of the Prussian treops, that all the Hano
verian territory uaon the right bank of
the Elbe, is placel under the protection
of Sweden, as the property of his majes
ty’s augult al.y, the kit*;; of Great Bri
tain and Ireland, ra bis quality as ele&or
o’ Hanover—andthat, under this view,
the counties abov: mentioned are occupi
ed by tf.e troops<f the kiug of Sweden
unocr my coimnaid ; and that I have
orders to defend those countries, in case
>t ary violation o their limits by foreign
troops, and of when I have given proper
notice to my adviuced polls, a3 any such
vioiat on wi'l be t-cate- as an attack up
on the itates of hit .wed sh majesty.
“ Count Gr/luvus Lcwenheim .”
“ Head Qiurters, Ratzburg,
April 13, 1S06”
VIENNA, yfpril 9 .
It is ass.. ted t hat ys.tti.r lay there was
lined between toe courts of Vienna and
I lance, a convention, in virtue of which
the tornu r concedes to the latter, a free
V ffago for its troops by La Ponteba and
Prietic, lor lltria aad Venetian Dalmatia;
tiie number oi these troops are varioully
dated; fome carrying it as high as
45,000 others to only 30,000. This
lalt point is a matter of indifference ; the
passage benig once curried, there proba
bly would not be any d.ffieulty as to the
number. Although hi the manner from
which this demand was made no one
doubted of its success, the new treaty of
the conclusion has neverthelcfs caused a
great fenfatiou among the public, & the
Rulln forctaw this con*
ce&Hion, and in conftquence, we learn
by private letters received yetlerday from
Trieste, that the commander in chief of
the Ruffian Sect in the adriatic, has given
directions to all the divisions under his
orders, to blockade not only that port,
but also those on the two coarts of that
La, and to examine ftridly every ship
that enters or comes out.
To this order is annexed an exaft lift
of every l’pecics of commerce which is
reckoned proviiion, or ammunition of
war, and a copy of these inftrudtions is
on board the afia, the admiral’s ihip.
Ragufa itlclf is lituated among the
ports which will be lubjtfted to thele
vilits so ditlrdTing to a great part of Ita
ly, and particularly to the hereditary
itates. *
It (hould seem as if the renewal of
war upon the continent, was almoli im
pofUblc to be avoided. It 1; clear, not
1 viihilaudii.g the belief which F i-i.-a 4|
irofefT.s to entertain, that Auitrui wi!
•auTe Csftle Nuovo, ani tht tnouihs o 1
the Cattaro to be delivered op to him.
-.hat he fufpcAs the surrender of then
to Ruflia to have been the eff.ct of con
uivance between the two courts. It ii
said that the French troops are approach
ing the Inn, and that a camp is to be
formed near Bran nan.
In the event of a renewal of the war
on the continent, the theatre of hdftilities
will be much larger than it was during
the lall short contcif. It will extend
from the north of Germany to Dalmatia
—it may even extend to the Turkjflt pro
vinces, and the fate of chri&ian Europe
may be decided upon the territories of
the followers of Mahomet.
SCHIFDAM, April 55.
A. letter from Semlin, dated March 30,
fayß “ Since the defeat of Pafwan
Oglu, the Servians have withdrawn the
corpa of obfervatiou which they had
pofled in the environs of Widdin. This
corps, which is very numerous, has re
puffed the Timock, and taken a petition
along the rivages of that river.
“ The insurgents have appeared be
fore Belgrade with new forces. That
place continues in the greatest difbefs.
Many houses there have been demolish
ed ; the woods have been burnt, and the
(tones exchanged with the Aultriansfor
provisions. Several public edifices foch
as the Greek Church, the episcopal resi
dence, the cavern ot the jatiifiaries, and
even thebaflions, have not been spared,
Ihe number of the inhabitants is one
half diminifhtd ; fame have taken Sight,
others have died of wrctchcdnels or in
battle. 1 here is a report current that
Palwan-Oglu has fallen into the hands of
the Servians, after his defeat, he at-,
tempted to join the Ottoman troops,
when he fell in with the’ troop of Bul
garians who cat oft his paffige ; the
Servians who were in pursuit of him,
having come up, he was (urounded on all
tides. The wi.ik escort which accom
panied him, were cut in pieces, and the
llurdy chieftain made prisoner.
M. de 1 alleyrand, nephe w of the
French miniller for foreign affairs, arriv
ed at Augfhu'gon the 15r.11 inll. from Vi
enna, with the news that the Ruffians
bad evacuated Cattaro arid Ragufa, and
that the difficulties which had arisen with
the house of Austria on this fubjeft, had
been adjusted. He carried orders for
marshal Ney, at Mcmmingen, to proceed
for Fiance with the corps d’Avmee under
his command. Marshal Soult at Paflau,
has received a similar order. The form
er commenced his march on the fame
day for France, by way of Stralburg.
a German paper contains the fallow
ing very important article, dated Munich
April 13 —“ We have received very a
greeable difpatchea from Petersburg.
The emperor Alexandria has recognized
the royal dignity in the houses of Bava
ria and Wurtemburg, and is difpcfed to
treat with France for peace, under the
mediation of Pauffia. In cohfequence
of this, the Bavarian army is about to
be put on the peace eftablifiiment, and the
departure of their majeflies for Milan and
Parts will take place immediately.
The fame Journal mentions, that the
king of Sweden, in quitting Ratzcburg,
declared to the Regency of that city,
that as the dutchy of Lunenburg should
be under the proteftion of Swedish troops
he would regard an attack on its inde
pendence the fame as if direfted againll
his own Rates.
The French troops which have occu
pied the duchy of Cleves, amount to a
bout 6,00 men. Several French offi
cers and comintffaries have arrived at Ox
nabrug. It is laid that this principality,
as well as thre other provinces, will be
given to an Austrian prince. ‘
It feetns that the kingdom of Italy
having been ffiut agair.lt the manufadtures
of Switzerland, has occasioned great mi
fery among ihe laborers of that country.
General Oudinot was about to take
poff.fiion of Teufchatel a9 a conquered
country, when he received a courier, an
nouncing that the king of Prussia had
consented to its cession.
LONDON, April 29.
The Britilh minister at Berlin, has de
rnanded and obtained his passports. He
was expected at Huffum, before the end
of this month on his way to England.
Private letters from Dublin, (late,
Dwyer, the county of Wicklow rebel
chief, and his companions, who were
shipped oft for Botany Bay, role upon
the crew on the voyage, and carried the
vtfLlinto the Brazils.
PORTSMOUTH, April zb.
This moruing arrived the Donncgal,
of 80 guns, captain Puitney Malcelm,
one of Sir John Duckworth’s squadron,
from Jamaica, from whence (he tailed on
the Bth of March, within the Canopus,
bo, rear admiral lir Thomas Louis, cap
tain Austen; Spencer, 74, hou. captain
Stopford ; Jupiter, (pr.z-) 74, captain
Gill j L’Alexander, (prize) 74, captain
ltnpey ; and the La liraave, (prize) So
captain Boyer. The Donncgal and La
Braave parted from the other (hips on
the 8:h intt. off the Weftcrn Iflauds ;
and on the 12th, during a heavy gale o’
wind, the Braave loundered. She ha
been much cut up in the iifton ; on th
morning of the 12th inil. her main.ma
fell overboard, and (he was found to ope
much ; all her people were removed t<
the Donnegal during that day, and 1
the evening the went down. Sir Joh
Duckworth, in the Superb, captan
Keats, with the Acafta frigate, captait
Dunn, failed f> >val for bn
Rt.itij j est Cs ‘ , f-v-.-a f fiye b,t . -
■tii Reps The Canopus, Spcm
and the other two priz s, it .wasexped. 1
by the Donnegal, would have reach
Sptthead before thefh, as they were he
! tained two days of the gale in attend! .g
to La B-aave.
General Carmichael, who last all his
things in the Braave, is landed from
Donnegal. Avon (loop, captain Snell,
which arrived last night from Liffin’n,
brings an account of fir Sidney Smith
having joined lord Coilingwood, and
that capt. Digby was appointed .to the
Swiltfure, one of the Trafalgar prizes,
which may be hourly expelled hoine—
The Topaze’ French frigate, was a
traid to leave Lisbon, notwithftaoding
there were no ships watching her.
DF AL. April 30.
A large fleet of Swedish mer
chantmen are just: arrived in the
Downs, from the Westward, an*l
are now coming to anchor to
wait for pilots to condufl them
to the Wore, where hey will re
main till an Euglifh nun of war
is appoin ed to elcort them to
their different places of deftmaci.
on. . This attention on the pare
of our government 10 the pro
tection of the Swediih commerce
is highly meritorious, at the fame
time that it shews the good un
derftanding fubfiiting between
the two kingdoms.
Three or four fail of large
coppered tranlpoits from the ri
ver, having ori board the zi re
giment of foot, are come into
the Downs, where they will re
main r.jl joined by the rest of the
regiments that are destined on
die fame ftrvice and so secret is
the place of destination kept,
that the officers only
fuppefethae they are going ’ on
foreign ftrvice. Conjeclur lays,
to the Cape of Gced Hope, hue
t is, probably mere conjedure.
BALTIMORE, June 7.
Our readers will perceive, with
no imali degree of indignation
that ihe Leander is again off the
port ot New-York, and pursu
ing the fame fy.ftem of conduct
which lately excited so mu;h
fenfibiiiiy throughout the United
States. It must alio have been
oblerved from an attciiition to
the ftiip news for several days
p; ft, tliat a number of Britilh
vefftls are guilty of violations of
right andjuftice, not ftfs flagrant
and unprincipled.
“ As it was at the.beginning,’’
of our conrroverly with Britain,
“lb it is now,” honor and hu
manity appears to have defer ted
the Couit of St. Jams, and pow
er conftitute* right among its
.ninifters. Are \vc to “ sweat
and groan” under her imposi
tions ? Is there no help for us ?
Are our viffels to be plunder
our people murdered,and fta-.nea
villa noufly to be carried awav,
fr art all they hold dear with
impunity?
T 1 e subsequent letter from
Benj min Franklin, and Siiaa
D an, to lord Stormont, the En
;l sh ambuffador at Pans, at the
com nencemencofthe revolution
pourtrays in strong language,
how things were at that time,
and should be handed down to
posterity as a lading evidence cf
Bm.fh humanity and British ho
nor.
PARIS, April 2, 1777,
“ My Lord—We did our
selves the honor of wtAing fome
time ago to your Lordship on
the fubjectof exchanging pnTon
ers. You did not condescend to
give us any answer, and chere
■ore we expedt none to this. We
however, taice the liberty of lea
fing you copies of certain depo
iitions, which we ihall tranfmic
to Congress, whereby it will be
known to your court, that the
United States are not acquaint
v] with the barbarous treatment
.heir people receive, when they
lave the misfortune ,of being
our prifoneis here in Europe - t
ind that if your conduit towards
.is is not altered, it is not unhke
y that severe reprisals may be
hough ur.juftifiable from the r.e
efticy of putting lome check
o furh abominable praitices.
“ For the fake of humanity,
t is to be wi Died that men
vould endeavour to alleviate, /*