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BRITISH house OF LORDS,
7" undajt June 2J.
TRADE BKTWEIM THt UNITID STATES
AND WIST INDIkS.
Lord Holland wfhed for information
whether any orderi had been sent t*
Jamaica for discontinuing the reftriftions
on the importation of goods from the
United States, in American bottoms;
or whether thehoule was to understand,
that no orders had leen sent to enforce
the reftriftions on the trade between
the United States and the Wcft-India
islands i
The Duke of Montrofe observed,
that the slate oftbtlaw on the fubjeft
in queftioti, was thisi According to the
navigation ad, tber; could be no com,
muuicatioa between the United States
ana the Bntifh WcS India islands, ex
cept in British bottoms. Bui a power
was given to the go'ernor of every is
land, to allow the importation of pro
vifion* and other articles, in cases of
ueccffuy. it having appeared, howe
ver, that forae irregularities had arifui
in the exercise of thm power, and that a
too general importation had been per
mitted, dhtdioiik had been lent out to
the governors not ro make too frequent
oleos the diferetiou that poll fin and.
There was no ground fort ftippofing,
that they were prohibited from lufpeii
ding the reftrifition ; thty were only re
paired not to give way to too a
facility ot importation,
v T 1 V “ V “rreply. tl u
h.rH heard, Conv >accQ that the rea
triftion had bsr n ’ fo.pmperly enforced ;
and he conceived it be bin duty
to move for certain pipers
that trade.
The Marquis of i,*tam laid, the
Lieutenant governcrVif Jamaica had un
derlined his hands to < tied up, by or
ders trar.frr.tttcil to hiniVom government.
J.ord Hawkifhury all Lord Camden
applauded the coutiuft ot the Licute
• nant governor—and lie conversation
terminated.
LONDON, Jne 20.
The hostility which t'fc king of Swe
den has evinced to theonduct of Bo
naparte, is well known t the world .•
And it is apparent he tiuld long since
have readily embarked i, the war with
great Biitain, had he btn supported by
Russia. Tliough the evnt has not been
officially announced, ftrral circumltan
ces render it certain, th: a treaty has
been fettled between Geat Britain and
Sweden, by which the Itter agrees to
tin mill 25,000 troops, or a fubfldy to
be paid by Great Britai, the amount
of which only remaifd to be lettled.
Sweden demanded twomillions (Idling,
which Great Britain edilidered as two
much. The l’ruffian iDnarch has avow
ed his determination tuprevent the ex
ecution of this treaty 4 a will appear by
the following
PRUSSIAN STAHE PAPER.
The Baron and Harden|urg, to the B
run dc l)i iuikuan, Charge d’Afiaires
of his Swediflt M.jelty.
** Birlin, December 24, 1805.
‘• When his msjrtty the king of Swe
Ben, thought proper to lend Lieut, gen.
Armfeldt to Berlin, with a letter from
his .Swediflt inajefly to the king, dated
September to inquire in what light
be conftdertd the political fitua ion of
the North of Germany, the king ex
plained himfclf on this fubjeft, wiih the
greatest freedom, to the Baron D’Arm
fcldt, as well in his aufwer of the 261 b
of Sept, as by the medium of the un
drtflgned Cabinet minifterof state.—the
king declared that as hitfyftein was to
prevent, as much as possible, the exten
tion of the war to the continent; and
as he had invariably preferibed to himfelf
the llriftell neutrality for the good of
his kingdom and of his neighbors. His
inajefly would iu conformity to that fys
teni, employ every means in his power
to prevent the tranquility of the North
Germany being disturbed by any per.
son whatever ; that his majesty had gi
ven his explanations on tins important
ot'j •*£>, as well to the emperor of all the
Ruffians as to the emperor of the French,
that his majesty had entered into mutu
al engagements in confluence thereof,
and that he could not admit or fuffer a
ny hollile attempt on either fij e , con.
fcquently no armament of any kind in
Swedish Pomenana. This dec'jratioo !
was at the fame time communicated to i 1
France, and it is with true fa tut act ion
that his majesty ou the efle hand r CCriv i 1
cn uic moil pouvivc aUutdiiccs, by Baron’ s
Armfeldt and M. ISiincktnan, his Swc* i
dish miniftars charge d’affairs at his Court i
that his said majesty had not anv hollile 1
intention againll Fraiice, that the mea- 1
lures taken at Slrallund were purely de- i
feufive, and would never have any other 1
view than to fecuie hirnli If from an un- 1
just attack ; and on the other hand, his
majetly found that his endeavors to pre- :
serve the tranquility ot the North, i
were not employed in vain at Paris. 1
“ N<-vcrthclels, the king has juil bee.i
informed by an official note delivered by
the French nuuitler M. Lafottft, that a
treaty of lubiidy 11 at ttiis momeut nego
tiating between England and Sweden, in
which the latter power offers to march
25,00. meh, and, according to thellate
ment wt the txpence attendant thereon,
demand* a fubftdy of two nflliions fter
liug for the fame, and that it is only die
amount of tke subsidy which is ftiU un
der diicuffiun. Although the king whil
es to perfuadc himfeif that thele fads de
ferve* no credit, fad* which are so grcct
1y at variance with the above mentioned
a durance* ; yet the manner in which
they are announced, and the confirmation
rrceiveo, at lead in part, by other acvi
cc>, place the king uuwer the ueccffity of
giving his Sentiments thereupon. Tut
underflgned has therefore, received or
ders to request M. De Bnnckham, to
ask of bis august fovereigo, a positive
explanation on this important fubjeft,
in conformity to the mutual confidence
which he kas deemed necessary to esta
blish between the king and himfelf.
The king hopes, his Swedish ma
jesty, far from wishing to extend the evils
of war to, and expose to danger the tran-
quility and peace of his own dominions,
and of the rest of Europe, by an aggres
sion against France, will rather be incli
ned to co-operate in the prelervatiou of
those benefits, and in a reconciliation
with that power, all the avenues to
which may perhaps not yet be closed.
But in no*cafe can -his majesty permit
(without forgetting what the interetls
of his kingdom and his neighbours re
jquire) that Swedish Pomerania shall be
-1 come either the focus or the theatre of
jwar, as he does not conceal from hi*
[majefty, that in the event of offenfive
mcifurcs taking place ou the part of
1 Sweden against France, he would be
’ obliged, though reluctantly, to take the
molt decisive measures refpefting that
: province-, in order to hinder that event
from disturbing the fyllem which he lias
adopted His Swedish majesty certainly
will not charge this fyltem with partiality
lif he will plcafe to coufider, that the
lame principles which oblige .the king ‘
Ito hold fneh I —o-pW"’ ** e-thole w*-~ .
! 1 make 1L lus dutv f"t w per
mit that the ‘ra nqmlity ot tile Nortf of 1
•Germany be disturbed, and which g|ar- 1
:.t Swedish Pomerania itfell from be- 11
ry conlc-queßcc attending any var f
tviiatever, I
“ The underfigued requests ff. de
Brineiman, to accept the affuranceot his
molt petfeft r. gard, (Signed)
“ HARDE-NBERt.”
July 1.
Invasion — Accounts were yeterday
received, ttiat the enemy’s flotiia, *
Boulougne, contiau and 111 a pertest ltat--
ot readtueis for sea, and that Bonaparte
■- expected there about the end of th:
present month.— Fen tboufaud troo]S
who had been lent into the interior, n
conftqucnce of fome infurredtionarjr
symptoms, had returned to the coait ;
and there was every appcirance of an
attempt being shortly made to crols the
channel.
Jb-tubj.go in II oil and. —Die captain of
a neutral ship, who left tie Texel on
the 2Sifi ult. brings an aciuunt of an
embargo having been laid Okall the (hip
ping 111 the Dutch ports. \t was only
by flipping his r-ble in the ai-ht, that
he tlf died his escape.
The Dutch men of war, and lie trans
ports in the 1 exel, have lor lufte timr
palt been in rcaainefs to put to f, and
were only wailing for a favotable eppor
runity to come out. From the emkargo
having been laid, it is luppoled, the ion
accounts wih Ihew that tacy have pio
cecued on their voyage.
PIRATICAL CRUELTY.
“ The brig Success, captain Brum, of
New-York, failed from Kmgllon, (jam.)
for New-York, on tbe 6th of July.—Ou
the 13th, she was captured two leagues
from Cape St. Anthony, by a Spaitifh
galley, (belonging to Havana) without
ihok, with two matt* and two fquaie
tails, and called La Bonne Union. The
galley was commanded by captain Css
lar, and manned with thirty or forty
Spaniards and Frenchmen, with one
Inffiman who served as an interpreter.
Three days after they were taken, capt.
Brum, the paffc'ngers (eight iu number)
and the hands, were all ordered below,
and the hatches shut upon them. In this
iituation they were kept all night. In
the morning, the pirates prepared their
knives, cutlasses and clubs, opened the I
forecaftle, and called for the captain.
One of the seamen (Peter Dughemin)
with the view of prclerviug the captaias
life, stepped forward and afeended the
deck.—The ruffians, with their inftru
tHents of daughter, having arranged
themselves in two ranks, compelled'the
seaman to run the gauntlet, while each
gave him a blow, a gafli, or a ltab, as
he pafied. Capt. Brum, his paftengers
and crew were all in succession taken
from the hold and treated with the fame
horrid cruelty, excepting five Fiench
paftengers. An English gentleman, by
the name of bmith, who was one of the
paftengers, was beaten with such feveri
'vn /bra iu tnts-% tk* I T -^
and broke his ancle in two places. The
mate of the brig, two English paftengers
and two icamen, were put in irons on
board the galley, and three days after
wards were lent alhore at Couyaboots,
about 180 miles from Havanas ; and
the brig with the captain and remainder
ot the crew, were sent to Campcachy.
1 hefe foils were received from Peter
Duchemin, ouc of the seamen who were
sent affiore in irons. He made his es- >
cape from Couyaboots, put himfelf on i
board the ship Cato and arrived at this
port on Monday last.
1 he objeft of these barbarous wretch
es was money. They offered to release
the captain aud ship on receiving 6,000
dollars.
August 19.
Hurriciih— On Saturday last a
bout half past a’clock P. M. at Cow
Neck, (L. 1,) a cloud appeared in the
south weft, attended with thunder and
lightning, and about 14 minutes after its
firft appearance, with a tremenduous
hurricane and heavy rain.— A boat which
was made fatl on the lhorc near B. T.
Tredwell Elq’s. house was hurled ‘into
the air and flittered into a thousand pie
ces, fome of which were found 60 yawls
distant. la iu course the hurricane tore
i-p trees by their roots, ft ripped Tome of
their brandies, ami railed into the an
a number af boards which were lying
on the wharf.
BOSTON, August 13.
It is said that the house of Locgonerc
fjf Cn. at Corunna (Spain,) have failed
for a 1 arge amount ; and, we understand,
that a number of merchants of this, and
.he neighbouring towns, will be great
luffereis.
NORFOLK, August n.
Capt. Lake, of the schooner Sally,
n the 27th of July, in lat. 22, it,
ong. 63, at 4P. M. fell in with the
ruin inaft, of a large (hip, which he fup
pofea had been blown up, as part of the
an d fails were much burnt;
picked up part of an English pendant,
ind a number of blocks, iiamped with
pn arrow, the customary marks of a
jlock belonging to a king’s ship. Saw
mother malt about a mile distant, with
ill the yards and other spars attached to
t, and one of the bower anchors, with
he cable to it, hanging under the main
ap. There being a very heavy swell,
:id the weight of the anchor keeping
ie mad nearly upright, capt. Lark
•ould only save a few spars and blocks.
On one of the top gallant yards, “ Bi.iv-
XV>- O. R.’’ in cut with a pen khife.
I f/lis majesty s Imp Biennctm, E> Kun ,
I was 1 ‘■ a V L ‘ 15,a " d 5,*
doe* not appear to have been attached
to the fleet under Lord Nelso n j nor
from the li ft publifbed, to that which
failed from England, under admi ra l Col !
hngwood ; neither do we find her name ;
among those last stated to have been on
the Jamaica station. From the circum
flances of her having her colours flying
(which captain Lark could plainly dis
cern under water) it it conje6lured that
the ship mud have been in a&ion when
the accident took place. J
August 9.
The French counful at this place, has,
vt understand, rtceirtd a letter from the
French Minister at Washington, infor
ming, that a letter had been received by
lim from general Ferrand, which dates,
tiat the fchr. Iris, captain Pearfoo, cap-
Ured on her voyage from Porto Rico
t this port, in May last, had been
ctrried into St. Domingo, (the city)
where (he had been tried and acqnitted,
aid the captors condemned to pay da
nuges. We record this aft of justice
w'th pleasure, and shall be happy to
ertdit the fame account with a similar
article in everyday’s Ledger, until the
la-ge balance yet remaining is liquidated.
The Wilmington Mirror dates that
the snip New-York, with General
Mcreau and family un board, all in
iood health, passed up the Delaware on
Friday lad.
of a letter from JOHN SHAW,
lesq. commanding officer of the U. S.
frigate John Adams, dated
Gibraltar, June 15, 1805.
“ With pleasure l inform you of my
arival here (after a passage of 30 days)
fom New-York. The second day after
ty leaving Sandy hook, I unfortunate
lj foparated from the gun boat* in a
!vy gale from E. N. E. to E. accom
pnied with a thick fog, which lasted
tiee or four days. On the 10th inst.
Fell in with No. 10 lieut. Cartey, out
frra Norfolk 27 days. He reported,
hi boat far cxceded his expeftations, and
w capable of living in any sea, and that
(h lay to remarkably well. I found ly
in’to an anchor here gun-boats No. 3,
liqt. Maxwell, No. 6, lieut. Lawrence
an! No. 5, lieut. Harrison, all perfeftly
wfl. These boats ail cxceded the ex
-1 pefations of their officers. No. 2, lieut.
lzrd, No. 8, lieut. Harradan, and No.
9, ieut. Elbert, failed from this port for
Trpoli yesterday morning.
* Letters from commodore Barron,
of he 2 1 ft; April make no mention of
anyprofpefta of peace, and state that he
was making aftive preparations for this
fuinner’s siege. He hss bought three
iargj schooners, which he has cut down,
ftreigthened and placed bombs on board.
The blockade has been kept up the
whole winter very rigidly by our squad
ron ; but the north winds occasionally
compelled our fleet to weigh and beat
off the fhorc. The result is that two
ftn*H vruizerc L..... —*. ‘T’h. j r,-,,
k-ra Ut-'r r . C„.Ua, wnlch 1
presume i* their cruizing ground.
“ Captain Bainbridge, officer* and
crew, are all well and not harfhiy treated.
I flatter tryfclf that they will be all li
berated this summer, as lam sure every
exertion of our officers will be employ
ed to effeft this.
“ 1 am employed thin moruing in
mounting the cannon on the boats, with
my main yard, and the instant it is done,
if the wind will favor, I shall weigh my
anch< f for Tripoli.
“ Captain Stewart failed from hence
on the 2d, in company with one of oar
llore ships, for Malta.
“ P- S Commodore Barron’* health
is pctfedUy restored.”
From the Farit Argue.
The French expedition to the Weft-
Indies is highly deserving the attention
of our reader*. Whether the accounts
of it be taken from the English journals,
or be tead in the Moniteur, one u equal
ly itruck with the moderation and gene*
rofity which the French have opposed to
a century of barbartfm, perjuries and o
ther crimes, upon which the Engliih go
vernment has founded its power. It is
an in vr ho a of the common property of
all nations. Conqueiora have rapidly
‘ < -tr'-rnn roantries; - * l * lf Y have jl
lnbjugate>l l.jvr eiii. m restored to
their indtpendei.ee, re >ved happy
under the dominion o’ tfcdnqueror, be
come their father. The darr.ities w! ich
accompany or follow -.afioris are loon
forgotten ; but the uftffltiou pf com
merce, and of the maritirfetptre, leaves
lading fores, and inflidfwounds which
are never healed, but by rowing off the
yoke with which one is tiled. If tve
examine the history of ithe nations of
Europe, we shall fee at tat price Eng
land has purchased jieroodjr and op
pressive dominion. Ir writers have
Feigned to deplore the ndition of the
allies of France; but sen has France
ever attempted to invaitheir trade or
their colonies, as long asie was at peace
with them ?—ln oppofkn to this, it is
I in the midst of peace thljthe British go
vernment has im-ftly mrated the ruin
|of nations. Portugal njr had any more
j cruel enemy than
fubjeft to her by coraetcial laws, as
hard as those under wch I* eland dill
groans. The celebrati minister, Poru
bai, clearly forefaw thaatal confequen
ccs of the influence wfcli the English
government wilhtd to afr'-'v ‘the ?.ff..irß
of Portugal. He defrdet’ w i t h all his
might the independent <£ his nation ;
he Openly deprecated, ft* conduft cf
fomecapta ns <'f‘hc %hVh navy, who
ha.l /ti.r.ed I’renen lilpj under the ei>v—
lin hi* tcij ; and by treaties of tom
i merce more fatal than the aloft disaftmus 1
| wars, the nation loft all its industry, dis- I
j rll its wealth, and it may be pro
ved, t Lat in the space of forty years it
has pad, by the disadvantage of its com
mercia balance, more than iixty millions
fterlinf tirbute to England.
Spiin knows with what jealousy the
Englih government fees Mtvico still in
her piffdlion. Naples ought to remem,
ber with what imperious haughlineis she
was ordered, in 1740, not to attempt
making war without the consent of the
king cf Holland. Holland hasfeen with
what obflinacy the English ministry have
pursued their fyltem of deftruftion and
iavafibn. The powers of the north have
loft their maritime force, according as
England has railed her’s—Peter the
great, forefeeing what would tnfue from
such an monopolizing spirit, wished to
make a treaty of commerce with France.
The sequel of events has proved, that
the exaggerated greatnef* of England
was calculated to be fatal to all nations,
and that as it was founded only upon con
tinual violations of the moll sacred laws,
it could only be supported by vioieuce
and breach of faith. This maritime em
pire has been the apparent or secret cause
of all the wars which have desolated the
continent for these two hundred v p ars
past—to prove this would be no difficult
matter. England has appeared in them
either as auxiliary, inftigatar, or pn'm-!|,,l
party, and has ever dftinguifhed herfelf
by fome peculiar immoality. She al >ne
has not feared to look upon the dread
ful scourge as a fpeculiion of commerce.
The deftruftion of the enemy's eftablifh
<nents has always been the objeft of her
expeditions. After tHs, with what fern
blance of justice can aiy complaints be
raffed against the condift of the French
in the Weft-Indies ? I is acknowledged
even by the English jiurnals, that they
have every where rtfprited private habi
tations, that they have treated persons,
with the utmost humanty, that their ge
neral even ordered fume’oldiers to be shut,
who had been found plundering, that
they contented themfel-es with confisca
ting the England merciSndize ; but that
they showed the moft religious refpeft
for all neutral (hips and property. Ne
ver were the English fa generous in the
course of their triumphs, when they had
no reprisals to txercife. It is still re
membered in the Weft Indies, that in the
year I7*G upon the treacherouß taking
of St. Euftatia, admiral Rodney seized
all the merchandize he found there,
whatever nation it belonging to, and that
he fold it, by public auftion, for money
or bills upon London. If the English
merchants interested in the trade of the
Weft Indies, arc disposed to complain,
let them compare their fltuation to that
®f the French merchants, who, having,
upon the faith of the treaty of Amiens,
engaged in commercial speculations, lud
denly found themselves ruined by a peace
un-v-ur.pied, unimagineu ex
cept by Englishmen 1 Let them hereby
judge of the difference of their fate, and
of the policy of the two governments.
From the Aurora.
THE COCK BOATS.
The intelligence from Europe, begins
to devclopc the deep laid policy of the
failing of the Rochefort and Toulon fleets
to the Weft Indies, and we have 110 doubt
will continue to exhibit the policy of the
inscrutable cabinet of Parts. The Bri
tish papers by the Hercules, acknowledge
that fir James Craig’* expedition was de
stined for the capture of Minorca, and
that the expedition was abandoned on
account of the reinforcements received
by the Spamfh garrison in that iflacd.
By Nelfcn’s fading from the Mediterra
nean, the French and Spaniard* were left
free to pursue their own fytlems of ope
ration* j and the Carthagena fleet, a‘ter
reinforcing Minorca, proceeded to Cadiz
A double, or as Mr. Windham would
term it a “ negative vidtory” it u at once
gained ; Minorca they have pcefervtd—
and they have truftrated the expedition !
While another Spantfh fleet i* brought
rearer to the intended fcenc of adtiou.—
Other advantageous movunensrauft have
taken place which we consul yet have
heard of an this fide the Atlantic
When Craig tkivked into trie Tagus, a
laughable blunder took plnce. I i>c
Fiench and Span’fh amSaffsdors rernor,-
ftrated ! Craig anlwered, through the re
gent of Portugal, that he had been
“ driven in by a (form!” The hostile
amballadors remarked that the ttorm was
then over, and that it was a breach of
neutrality to fuffer fucii a large Britith
force tc remain in that port. The re
gent again applied to the British com
mander. Poor Criag, was at last forced
to speak out—“ if 1 fail, lam afraid of
being taken.” At last finding the coast
clear, he did fail; ventured t<s make a
run for it and got into Gibraltar, where
our last accounts left him waiting for or
ders 1 It dots not appear that the B.itifti,
at the failing of the Hercules, had heard,
of the second airivai of the French in the
Weft Indies, but it was impossible but
they mu ft in a few days after.
Such is the weight of influence of the
nabobs trading thither, that the minister
mud pay obedience to their remonstran
ces, and we expeft that as the British
ministry are as snort ftgbted as our coffee
house politicians here who look no far
ther than the furface—we (ball (boa
hear cf Craig’s bring ordered to the Weft
Indies ! Ot Coo‘e’s being ordered to the
Weft Indies i Os a large fleet of line of
battle Ihips arriving iu the Weft Indies i
Aah! iVdtfwg■’ v* ; *^r^A* | <wwsi<l>—' | > ■■
krtera r reacn oacxct j
If the combined fleets are returned to
Europe, which many suppose to be the
case, we have no doubt but Cadiz will
be their fhft port ; form a jundlion with
’.he ships there, and then raise the block
ade of Ferro'. Those junctions would
form aa tffeftive force of upwards of 5#
line of battle (flips, by the British ac
counts. Th ports of Cadiz and Fcrrol
Co be blockaded } the forrter by
fivt, the la'ter by fourteen fail of the
iinc. As fighting was not the objeft of
the Toulon fleet when they left the Me
diterranean, the escape of the former
British fleet is accounted for. As we be
!iev* fighting on their return, will be now”
the objeft of the conbiued fleets * we;
think that the detachments of the British
fleets are in a critical fituitiort. The
combined fleetb will come perfectly unex
pected—ttie disparity of force immenle.
Suppose they form the junction alluded
to, they may land any number of troop*
they choose in Ireland, before the Britifb
hear of their I'eturn to the European Teas,
or they will be iu force to make Corn
wallis haul off from Bred—they have,
their choice ; and we may expeft in three;
months to hear important news.
The message of the British king to hit
parliament, is of a piece with all his other
wife afts. It appears as if the Britifts.
ministry were determined to be the apo
logizers for all the ambition of Bonapar
te —for his warmest advocates need not
take up, but their arguments.
Som, time back, mi tbe Frenclj Em.
perur’s offering to commence a treaty,
the King, who fits on the throne of Bri
tain, informed his fubjeft*, that he was
engaged in negotiations with foreiga
continental powers, and could not treat
on the fubjeft of peace, until he had their
answer.—Now, he again informs hi*
parliament, that he failed at that time j
but that he has again renewed his at
tempts —what attempts ? why, to stir up*
through the medium of Russia, another .
crusade against France—another conti
nental w-r. Now, with those intention*
openly avowed by the British king and
ministry, who is there but such ideots, a*
the rulers of the British nation, or other
ideots like them, who must not commend
Bonaparte for every precaution he takes.
Suppose, camparing great events with,
small, the nefl of thieves who now infeft.
this city, were publicly to avoid their in
tention of plundering the stores, breaking
open the cellars, and firing of Second or
any other street ; pray, would the citi
zens be such tools as to be idle. Cer
tainly not—the patrole and the watch
would be organized , one body would
occopy Market street, Pewter Platter al
ley, Church alley, and every avenue would
be defended with fixed bayonets ; other
parties, as advanced guards would occu
py, and patrole in places distant from the
threatened spot, to give timely notice,
or to seize the robbers as they approach j
all this would be done, and done wifely *
just so it is with Bonaparte—the*Britifh
. . . t leu me
French, that they have voted 5,000,000
to engage Russia and Sweden to go to
war with them, that they are endeavour
ing to advise Auilria to join them—and
then forfooth, because Bonaparte afts
just ss our city patrole would do here, he
is to be charged with ambition ! Suppose
a body ot thieves in Southwark were to
fend word that they meant to attack—
would not our patrole beat up their quar
ters. Suppose Sweden tells Bonaparte
that she will go to war with him, so fooa
as flic is sure of Russia ; in this case,
would not Bonaparte aft as cur city pat
role, beat up his quarters firft. Unfor
tunately for the British, their folly give*
the ambition of the Emperor an excule
for his conduft. You fay I am ambiti
ous in Europe ; look to yourfoives, to
your conduct in the Eaft-ludies. You
lay 1 w’.fh to eftablilh a military despo
tism ; look you. selves, to your tyranny
on the ocean. You fay I march armies
and threaien peaceable nations—you
yourfi lve. tell me at the fame moment,
that you will lttr up those nations to war
against me. You blame me for occupy,
mg Naples, and at the fame moment,
your papers iutortn me that the Ruffians
your allies are re-ady to entrr.
I We are not the panegyrifts of Bona
(parte, wc like uot the “ br-ed of king’s,”
: or nobility; from toe French monarch