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FOREIGN NEWS.
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Nt’v-YoRK, November 7 5.
she Danube arrived last evening,
in 23 days from The
editors of the Gazette ar.* in
debted to capt. Pierce for Drlfaft
papers to the acth u!t. containing
London news to the 16th. Im
portant ertracls follow.
A Paris paper of the fltb of On
tuber, contains a:: account of Mu<
i rath? attack upon otciiy—of his
landing with feme detachments at
San-Stephano—*t Ins difl.nlging
the enemy at that place amid the
cries c i Vive PEmper.ur ! And af
ter all, he thought ir prudent hav
ing completely tailed, to order the
return and dilembarkatien of his
troops!|.
Sir Home Popham, in the Ven
erable, has gone to Corrunna, to al
lift the Spaniards in an expedition.
Several transports are to follow with
troops, stores, ike.
Lucien Bonaparte was expected
m England in the Pomona frigate,
from Malta, with his family. He
will have his choice of remaining
th;re cr of coming to the United
States.
J It appears by a Ruffian official
account of the battle v.ith the
Turk?, before Rudfchuk, on the
6th of Sep*, that the latter surren
dered by recapitulation. The Turks
!oft 5000 killed and soooprifoneiß.
Among the prilancrs is /Unmet, a
Pacha of three tails it he battle
k kited from 10 in the morning till
at night.
A I: is (aid that Augustus Adolphus
a'. P;ii.ru, in g
his Jcup. or. 1 *ard tr.e
■Hpt fleet.
■rfhe prrrife loss of the Briiiffi
■rrr.y is 97 killed and 474 woun
■ei. -of the Portcguefe, 90 killei
i 2 wounded. The dilpatch-
HHrctc, that the enemy in now in
HofTcfficm ot no more ground in
Portugal than his troops occupy.
The loss of the French in killed,
founded and prifoncra is Rated at
f.io 000, fome accounts 15.000.
I The British cavalry had not been
‘engaged, but it is reported they had
Igot betwixt the Fre..J; army and
I Almeida.
In addition to tire force,-.in? pri-
I va:e accounts li ate, that before* the
I Gleaner had failed for England, it
Kvas reported, that the ok uch had
r been so prclfed with the purfuiug
I army, that i6,0c0 men with or.s
general and 37 oftictrs., had iurren
dered : and it was alib rumored
that the French had no brtaJ for
two or three clays previous to tire
r s&ion.
London, October £7.
Tire vcfTcl in which gen. Arm
strong the late miuifter from the
U. States to France, took his pas
sage for America has put into Fal
mouth. As this deviation in her
voyage was r.ot occasioned by ad
verse weather, or any of the usual
accidents, it is fappofed that gener
al Armstrong has touched here for
the purpose ot having perf uul com
munication with Mr. Piaknev.
and
Letters front the French coast,
feet ived yctlerday, (late, that 1 H
1 cargoes of American produce, which
Lhad been confifcatcd, were carried
Antwerp, and fold on tbs 15th
u!t. by order of Bonaparte.
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LirrßPCot., Off- *O.
The Turks, ir appears. Iwe de
fr?.tcd the Sthctnla*
i.••-- it Cw,'../i probable, Mt*.
i,ig to the crFkuftafm whi,.h has
been cx . ir ed in the empire to refill
< the inv2 that the Ruffians have
| reached the ii-.ait < 1 tiu-ir (need's.
A treniexidou:. mu tioti ofV.-fu
vi-:. took {!c ce * . the I S:h 5c ! 4'.h,
• ill. and i’ village of Rufina had
| been v.,;* n’gh ( v;. whelmed by the
! torrent cf lava, ih mountain
van rr.7t.or • •re tranquil <_n the
14*!i, b-t from / ruptior.; wcrs.ap
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London, O&oher 12.
Letters from Holland to the Brh
instant, confirm the melancholy
accounts relative to the cinfcarratf
inentt of the merchants—failures
daily—and trade extind. ihe or
der for the sale of American pro
perty is confirmed by the follow
ing:—
*• Tarts, Sept. 25.
Yve triform you that his tnajefly
Jttucd the following decree, on the
34111 in ft :
“ The merchandize proceeding
from the American v dills which
were fcqucftratsd in Holland, anti
whkh have not been already tranf
p >rtd to Antwerp, Hull be sent
there wititcut delay. The Mary
land Tobaccos, however, which
have not been yet removed thither,,
may be fold in the pons where they
are.
“ Such persons as have received
any articles which made part of the
aforefaid cargoes, either on estimate
or as fecuiities, fh.d! pay the
amount thereof before the 15th ot
next O&obtr. Thiife to whom
they have been delivered, without a
previous valuation (hall pay the a
mouni at the current price on the
Amsterdam Exchange. This price
shall be fettled by an enquiry be
fore the 10th of October, and the
payment of the value then fixed
mult be made before rhe iff of No
vember. An infpe&or of the Cus
toms ihali be sent to Holland to su
perintend the regulations preferibed
by mis decree, and report therer.n
to our Diredlor General. ’*
Several hundred veflcls were lay
ing at Gotten'ourgh and other ports,
the masters of v.-liich were preven
ted irom proceeding to their dtl
tiitarions l>v the terrors of ftizure ci
confi calion. There was hardly a
port ia the Baltic, in which a
French ccnful was not Rationed.
A pcrloß in that character was daily
expected at Gotter.burgh, to fu
periutend the trade of that port and
ice that the continental lyftem was
followed. Several applrcations had
been recently reft;fed for mips to
proceed to Koninglberg and other
TruiTiun ports, for fear they fljould
be ex poled to confifcatioii.
Iti cor.fcquance of the persever
ing intercefficn of the agents of the
French emperor, the Danes had
conceded ib far to their importuni
ty, that 500 of fhtir trot-jrs, were
to be adtnitted into Zealand pro
greffivtly, until the whole force in
teeded to be conveyed to Sweden,
iheuld iiave patfed through the 13-
. and ; and, it is added, th<.t under
1 no pretence whatever, more than
the SDO fpecified iheuld at any tims
remain in the territory.
The Sate king of Sweden r.as at
Menu I on the 17th ult.it was luid,
on his way to Finland, through
Rullij, to endeavor to excite a
movement in his fxrrr. A letter
from Ixoningftjerg of the 23th left,
Itans, tliar he Lad hi.ed a boat at
Tillau, for the phrprl'eof being con
veyed t* 1: ‘.wd-m. bvt h’ 5 **?.
*'■ . ivas ulfccvetcd,krd \.c tra
1 ’ cby the Paliee cfiicers when
-i. to embark. It is added, that
h w immediately lent oft under
£ ig guard to Higs.
V*'e are indebted, fays the Ncw
: York a highly nTpuTt
ble ’commercial houle, for the fol
lov b> T communication, from nut
ftcr.!..-.
rRUNCH DECREE.
L that nil Amgiicau veCe's
v ‘ nav arrive in the ports of
I r?r.t previous to the Ift Novcm
• ‘!’ be judged under rhe ce*
c: h *• Buljc and Milan only, and
nor under any other.
11. I hat the deerte of the ££sd
March, 18H>, v.v.s repealed from
the moment that tl.-e French gov
ernment heard of the expiration of
the non-ir.'crcourfe law.
111. That all American vefills
which shall not have lufiered their
flng to be denationalized, by fiib
ir.irting to the B* itifh orders in
council, sh 11 be received hereafter
without difficulty in the porta of
France, and depart in the fame
manner.
IV. That the emperor has riven
licences to Amernran vends, and
that it is the only foreign flag that
has obtained them, See.
V. That American voftlls ffi.dl
be admitted i't France, whether
loaded on account of Frenchmen
or America;**.
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M O A T I T O id. 1
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Saturday, Deccwber tt.
- 4M- >. -. I ■—l .
The IT'uf? of
paffcii a bill on Mone.ay to change
the name of Wdkinfon ct-unty
No opposition was made to (h iking
out Wilkinfon—fcveral names wore
propofrd— -Marion was finally
fnbftituted.
Journal.
The Dili to improve the tav:ga
tion of the rivers Octree, Savan
nah, &c, paffld the Houle of Rep- ,
rt.foinatives or. Thursday bft by a *
conftderabte majority. The appro
priations for the Ocmulgec and
Broad Rivers were ftricketi out. —
For clearing but the Oconee from
the mouth of Fishing creek to the
junction of the Octnulgee, the fnm
wa encreafed to 6,O(XJ dollars ;
2,(XX) for the Alfamaha, s*: 10,000
Par i he Icgdicture
cf S; utii Carolina fotne years ago
voted 10,0(Xj tioSlcrs for improving
the Savannah, when the lUte ot
r,f Georgia should make an appro
priation of the fame amount.
The foregoing bill yefterdav pas
sed the Senate with amendments.—
Two thousand dollars are appropri
ated for improving the navigation
of theOcmulgee tiver. Benjamin
Taliaferro, Samuel Devercux and
Phillip Cook are fubftiruted in place
of those fir ft named in the bill as
Commlffioncrs for fuperiatending
the expenditure of the appropria
tion for the Oconee river-
Hid.
Ir is vsA true (as stated in many
of the News-Papers) that Col, CW
litT, at rhe head of a party of Ame
ricans fmrn the Tomfcigbee, has ta
ken pofleffion of the town of Mo
bile in Weft Florida. We have
undoubted information from that
qua-ter of a late date, which au
thorizes us to fay, that though such
r.n “txvrprizc has been, ar.d full is
contemplated by fon.c indivijjaH
on the l'ou.bigbec contrary to the
v<iii;csbf our government, no hof-|
ti!<. mcalure has yet been attempted.’
Jiid.
A letter from New Brurifwick,
.Ttrfty, Uy?, we areal! incontufipaj
here, the towrr being completely
irnindattd with and the in
habitants puffing irom houle to
houfein boats. 1 hrec hbuf .*•
ed down the river ytilerday, nd
the numerous hagm'.nts cvmcs
great havoc in rhe neighborhood!
/mtrkan tVaiclmur., j
A gentleman, passenger in the
Savannah I'.t<ket, informs ur, that
the day they failed from New York,
a vt flu 1 an ived from Lisbon, which -
brought news 5 days later than the
Danube, from the scat of war • f e
purport of which was, that J< rd
Wellington, in confluence oi clif
coyeru.g tlicir.tenticn of Gen. Maf
fena. to make an effort to fall io
hts rear, after the fYum aUti c<l:
of his arn.y, for the* puspbflF*
king I.'fb.m, t.o gain fuppiice, Hj
they wfie in a ft ate r-f
in:mediately tiifpatchcd a par* or
his t..rce to take poxTcffitm of a
llrong pals which they werretm. ,
pulled to t.rofs on their way to Lit*
bon, art 1 irnmediat*-iy ft. 7 hack to
fallow them hi role If; and that he
was adually within 20 miles ot
Lifbos.
Savannah pater.
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There is a rep< it itt circulation
this morning, that G n. Armfrrong
is arrived—that rhe vt ile! in which
he came has put into New-L’ >n Joa, .
Ibid. *
A letter from a gentleman at P*.
ris, of S *pt 24. to a crmmv> rial
houic in this city, expreftfs an opin
ion, that it would be unfafe to flip
any produce to France at p tint,
believing, as he did, that the IVrhn
and Milan decrees would not ease
agreeably to the Duke of Cadofe’t
letter to General Armftrcng
IbuL
A letter from Baltimore of the
ai(t ir.lt. fays—“ The unfavorable
t:t\vs by t!ie lhrr.et t received this
day, will, I fear bear hard * n c.ur
Commercial concerns; the prices
of our produce will be much de
prefied, and I doubt not we shall
have a gloomy whiter.” ~ 1
MORE SEMITESTRATIOEJ.
Letters from Cape Francois cf
the 15th ultimo,received ptr Sj>ar
ifh brig Dolly, via Baltimore, an
nounce, “ 1 hat his highness the,
president Christophe, had sequest
ered the whole of the American ;
property in his dominions.** —A la !
mode Bonaparte/ U
Ttleprcphiz Dispatch! —The c- *
mazing rapidiry with-which intetfi
gence is conveyed from one part
efthe French empire to another,
may be comprehended from tl.is
circumftarrr.e: Gen Menou.gov- .
ernor of Venice, died at that ci’v on I
the morning of the ISihof Vuguft ‘
—the fact vva* known at Path bv a
telegraphic dispatch on the fame
day —the distance is (at a n.ugh
gucts) about 450 miles.
Balt. Eve Pest.
Christophe, the prefideur of
Hayii, has iflued general or 1 rs and
a proclamation anuyuncbig the
furft ndtfi of Cape Nklmia Mol;.*