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CONGRESS, IN SENATE. rtulay May 8. Mr. Tope submitted the following notion for consideration: Whereas, the conduct of the French goverment, in failing to make compen sation for the property of the citizens of the United States, seized and confis cated under the Ramhouillct decree, of 1810, in excluding from France by en ormous discriminating duties, our to bacco and cotton, and principal articles of export in the southern and south western parts of the United States, contrary to our just expectations, au thorized by the assurances of her min ister ; besides granting licences to car ry on u trade from certain ports of the United States so disrespectful to the feelings, so derogatory to the sove reignty of an independent nation; and the recent conduct of public mid private armed vessels, on the lawful commerce of the U. S. demand From the imparti ality, honor and dignity of this govern . ment, the arrangement made with her, which took effect on the 2d day of Nov. 1810, a measure calculated to inspire general confidence and respect, and to convince every true American, that the object of this goverment is to unite the people ina manly American effort to resist foreign aggression. And where as, many of our citizens, under an ex pectation or at least a hope of a change in our relations with G. Brit tian have, in the course of trade acqui red property abroad not admissible by existing laws, into the United Mtatrs, the importation of w hich it is reason aide and expedient to permit; expedi ent because it will not only prevent in juries and losses to many of our citi zens, but aid our finances, cheapen the public supplies, until a sufficiency can he procured of home manufacture, and iessen the necessity of internal taxes to carry on the war in which we may be engaged in with Great-Britain: Therefore Resolved, That the act. entitled an act concerning the com mercial intercourse between the Uni ted States & Great-Britain and France and their dependencies, and for other purposes,” passed on the first of May, 18(0, except the section thereof, all the force and effect of the Presi dent’s proclamation, issued in virtue thereof, on the day of in (he same year : and the act, entitled “ an act supple mentary to the act entitled “ an act concerning commercial intercourse be tween the United States and (Jreat liritain and Franco and their depend encies. and for ot her purposes, passed on tin? second day of March tail, ought to be repealed, annulled and set aside, and that a committee he appoin ted ta bring in a bill for that purpose. Very Late From England. Toe ship Relfkst oapt, B inker, in 29 days from Liverpool, bound to Srvahnab, passed the brr o i Saturday evening’ last. She sail ed April 17. To the politeness of captain Bunker, and the attention of Mr. Burns, branch-pilot, who boarded the Belfast in the offing 1 , tve are indebted for a London evening paper (Star) of the 14th of April, fiftef n Joys later than had been before rc ceivtd. The most important news which this arrival furnishes, is the great scarcity of provis ions which. exists in England and the feiirs of famine w hich appear to be enter tained by the people of that country. The government Itself seems to participate in the alat-m, for in a debate jn the house of com mon'’ on the loth ult. the subject is no ticed with evident marks of anxiety V.'.tr bet-veen France and Russia appears to be at last determined upon. Letters from the Baltic assert that the Russian Decla ration had been received there. Fhc war in the Peninsula is prosecuted with vigor Tile outworks of Bad; jos have been earned by slam, with small loss to die be siegers, and it was expected that the place must soon fi 11. The subject of t'jc Ortprt in Council has been again incident;.l!i noticed in Parliament— the Ministers adlitre to them as pertinaci ously as ever, notwithstanding the mimei oa* petitions against tin in. Etiiiori C/tar. Cow- Front the L’jmhn Star. London April 11. IV e mentioned yesterday the arrival of a gentleman from Liebau. who had seen be fore he left that place, a copy of the Russian declaration. The f.iet of war having been declared is men tioned in several private letters. One received bv a. most respectable house in the city from anothci of equal char acter in the Baltic, says, - We have a declaration of war in our possession.” The new commercial arrangement for I Ik* admission of British goods into Russian ports furnishes a direct proof of the determination of Alexander, to resist file French system— t. r. to op pose Napoleon. No idea seems to be entertained of the submission of Alexander to France —but according t numerous letters, the uniform opinion both in Sweden and Russia, was, that war would im mediately take place between Russia and France, and the French minister at Copenhagen declared distinctly and publicly to the Swedish Ambassador at that Court, that hostilities must im mediately commence. Another circumstance deserving at tention is the state of t he Exchange.— This useful barometer of the politics of the times had risen from 14 1-2 to to 1-4. The jealousy of France towards Sweden is expressed in remarkable terms, in one of our letters from Got tenburgh, dated the 6th instant. “ France,” says our correspondent, “looks upon this country as an Eng lish colony.” ‘Fhe same letter men tions, that a part of the grand Russian army was actually quartered within the limits of the Prussian territory.” The following letter, received by the last Mail, is important: “ Gottenburgh, Alf>ril Gth An Austrian Courier has arrived here anil will proceed in the next packet with important despatches tor London—lie is detained at present wait ing for further advice from Stockholm ; but will proceed for England by the first packet which may sail after such advices may be brought hither. It is conjectured that Austria lias offered to mediate between Russia and France, to m e her influence with England to put a stop to hostilities, on conditions which are supposed to be advantageous to all par ties.” It was reported last night that an Austrian Messenger has actually ar rived in London with despatches, and that he is also the bearer of presents to the Prince Regent, on the occasion of his investment w ith the full powers of the British Crown. There is no foundation for this report. It is also rumoured that Austria will not join Prance in the threatened war with Russia; and that Franee will in consequence he obliged to abandon the enterprise. We cannot, however al low ourselves to believe that that Francis and Napoleon will pursue opposite systems. Austria is now too deeply linked with France to dare to act independently. „ rrSBOjY MAIL. Ihe Queen Charlotte packet has arrived at Falmouth from Lisbon, w ith a mail and despatches. She sailed on the Ist instant. The siege of Badajoz is prosecuted with unparalleled vigor. 1 here had been a suspension of the o peratious of the besiegers for a few days, in consequence of the rains. The batteries opened again, however, on the 23d ult. Earl Wellington holds the French force which was supposed to he on its march to relieve the place, in deserved contempt: the French sol diers are destitute of food, clothing, ammunition, and in short, of every re quisite for the field. Marmont continues to concentrate his iorees with a view to make some desperate effort. Some accounts state that his object is the reeaptnre of Cius dad Rodrigo; towards which place hi battering train is said to be on the march, (Marmont himself was at Sa lamanca about the middle of Mareh. The French general, Hnncet, has been ordered once more to penetrate into the Austurias. The intelligence from Spain receiv ed by the Lisbon papers, states that the greatest misery prevails in the neighborhood of Si". Luear, from the want of provisions. In many of the surrounding t illages, numbers of the inhabitants were daily dying for the want of food. We are informed, that it is not con templated by the managers at Wash ington to declare w ar or to issue letters of mark. Ihe knowing ones intend only to give permission to arm for de fence. and this not especially against England, but generally against all at tempts to exercise force against the law of nations. England, we should suppose, would have no objection to the measure, as her cruizers are too heavily armed to be resisted, and as its principal effect will he to check the French and Danish privateers—a cir cumstance calculated to hazard the passage of the projected law. Unit. Fed. Ilep. It seems a dispensation of heaven that when a nation once leaves the high road of honor, nothing but expe rience. cruel, hitter, grinding experi ence, can bring about a conviction When we east tv retrospect to the ad ministration of Washington, and con trast the bold and imposing attitude then asserted and maintained by our country w ith its present degraded and impoverished character, the valedic tory address of the august patriot seems to breathe the spirit of true pro phecy. Nothing was wanting to the consummation of our felicity ns a na tion but to persevere in his radiant track—nothing to ensure prosperity but to follow the precedent. But out fellow citizen* were discontented under the blessings of heaven. That unri valled How of prosperity that made this continent at that time the political Eden of the earth, v.as abandoned, w ickedly abandoned, and how dreadful lias been the alteration! A govern ment insulted and bearded by foreign nations, and deprived of all confidence at home, under the pressure of calami ties it has industriously sought and provoked war without the means of defence, and environed, as it is, with disgrace. Let our fellow citizens take warning by such examples—let them he persuaded, that, however deception and falsehood may triumph for a spa son, we are only rapaciously hoarding up materials for future misery and dis grace. These empty pretenders to pa triotism, who now abuse the confidence of the people, have been tried in all their forms and found wanting. It is the eternal law of Divine Providence that such shall ever be the result. All history abounds with such examples. United States Gaz. For the American Patriot. DISS APPOINTED ambit ion [it may with propriety be remarked] often produces a paroxism of madness or some act of desperation. If treason be live road pursued by the votary of this passion, for the attainment of his object, a disappointment must almost inevitably subject him to some mental derangement; and should he escape self-destruction from a fit of despair, the laws of ail countries have pointed out the reward due to the treacherous conduct; “adungeon or a scaffold.’ We may well suppose that the feel ings of a man, who may have engaged in this worst of crimes cannot be very pleasant. On whatever side he turns his view he sees nothing but danger or I infainv before him : It will be needless for him to say to himself “ I will go to this or that country, to escape the pun ish that my own is preparing forme for my treacherous conduct towards her.” To whatever country he mayfly for an Asylum, he will be contemned and ab horred ; for before lie can reach it, his character upon the wings of infamy will have been there before him and will rentier him an object of suspicion, fear and detestation. I was led to these reflections from (he perusal of a piece written by one of the Florida revolutionists and pub lished in the Evening Ledger of the 14th instant, the author of which ap pears to evince under prospects now before him, as he from his own confes sion had taken “ an active and an early part in that most mysterious transac tion. From the inconsistency and misre presentations of facts in this publica tion, I think it may be fairly infered that the agitation of the authors feel ings has already subjected him to a state of mental derangement; and that we may therefore view his publication as the ebullition of a disordered brain. How else can w e account for his at tempting to gull the public by asser tions which he must have known the voice of thousands w ill contradict. If this how ever is not the ease and he is yet possessed of that portion of wit which nature allowed him, lie must have added to the crime of his “ ac tivity ” in treason that of falsehood and defamation; he the state of his mind w hat it may; it is but justice to the respectable inhabitants of Fcrnandina, whose sense of honor would not allow them to engage in this desperate en terprise, to counteract the effect of the foul and slanderous charges made against them by the patriot Author. For this purpose and to point out his misrepresentation of facts 1 shall com ment a little upon his publication. lie remarks, “it certainly was the interest ofthosepersoiislliat theyshould be able to carry on their business on the two sides of the river St. Mary’s in the same manner they have been do ing for some years past, Englishmen in heart and smugglers in practice; (Im profited during the last embargo by transporting cotton &.e. from the Unit ed States into Florida; and during the non. importation law by carry ine;lsritisl aoods from Florida into the United Now as far as this alludes to the in habitants of Fernandina it is asserted to be a “ falsehood and calumny . It is true that some of them are “ English men” but in Florida tl is does not con stitute a crime. The few respectable native Spaniards there, are also believ ed to he well wishers of England, a very natural sentiment w hen it is considered that she is spending her blood and treasures in supporting the magnani mous struggle of their country for free dom and independence. It is is equally true that these men have “ British goods” fer Sale, but they needed not in order to get rid of them to have turned “smugglers” while so many of those w ho have made such conspicuous figures in the Patriotic camp, made a regular profession of this honorable calling, and no doubt much to tlieir own advantage. During the Embargo of 1809 certain great men now high in office among the virtuous patriots, made r.o hesitation of openly declaring their profession of “ smuggling cotton &e. from the United States into Florida.’ The odium attached to this smuggling trade, the author of the piece in ques tion wishes to remove from his patriotic brethren, to fix it on the inhabitants of Fernandina. But in the delerimn I suppose he must have forgot that there was scarcely one of the present inha bitants of Fernandina who resided there during the Embargo of 1309; so that he may see that this correction in his statement is not made from a spirit of contradiction or prejudice what 1 have advanced his own conscience, and the voice of hundreds w ill testify to. ‘Fhe riches acquired by those sot disant patriots by their indefatigable perseverance in the illicit trade may be one cause of their rebellion; for as they found their wealth increasing they thought their consequence increased with it and they wished to come back to enjoy it ill the bosom of their mother country which they had left some time before for some reason best known to themselves; and which they had been in this way so faithfully serving during a part of their exile. But they were no doubt aw are of the old adage: “ mo ney covers a multitude of sins.'” r Fhe gentleman wishes to impress upon our minds the moderation with which this “ patriotic rabble” acted, by not appropriating to themselves the merchandize, with which he says the town of Fernandina was “filled.” — From the well know n character of the most part of those engaged in this des perate enterprise; w e may naturally conclude this moderation to lie more owing to their fear than their justice. Could they have had any reasonable prospect of maintaining (he Province in their own hands without requiring the aid of any civilised government: they would undoubtedly have appro brialed to tlieir own use every thing they came across. But as they relied upon the support and protection of the United States; they knew that they would not eountenunce open robbery, and should they fail [as it is now like ly they will] they knew they would lie hanged at any rate, and therefore their plunder would he of no use to them. After a good deal of w hining com plaint because forsooth he ha3 under stood that the executive of the United States have refused openly to counten ance their rebellion—lie goes on to re mark—“ wishing to give liberty to our friends at Amelia who were awed by a nest of smugglers with tlieir motly rab ble. and intimidated by an English fleet laying their houses in ashes if they joined us.” A barefaced falsehood of this mag nitude, and so easily contradicted should 1 think have made the author’s cheek blush w ith a shame in w riting it. Had there been an “ English fleet” in the harbor of Amelia, at the time the Pa triots took possession of it, it is not likely that we should have been igDo rar.t of such a circumstance untill now. as it would have been too conspicuous for the advocates of this rebellion to pass over it unnoticed: had it been there, it would have r.o doubt been the cause of ordering troops to march from the district of Maine to St. Mary’s. But unfortunately for the patriot, cause there was not a single E) n/jj, vessel of war at Amelia at the time the Patriots landed there. There cannot therefore be any other construction put upon this assertion, but that the author wishes to veil the “active” part he had himself taken in stirring up and supporting this rebellion, under tbij shameful subterfuge, but which homes have been conscious all the world would see through. What ungrateful wretch, es their “ friends at Amelia” are, when they would not accept of Liberty thus graciously, r.nd gratuitously offered them !! They must dearly love their chains! But it is in the winding up part o? this poor gentleman's publication, and in what may be called his “ so liloquy” that we may discover the sy in terns of his approaching madness, and the agonizing sensations by which his soul is tortured and agitated. It i* lh**re lie with peculiar feelings speaks of the horror of dungeons and the dread of scaffolds: He now w hen too late be gins to think of the enormity of hi s crime and she prospects before him— He now sees that he has forever lost that respect in society to which his elia racier,situation and circumstance, may have formerly entitled him to; and that like Aaron Burr he is about to become an outcast in the world. lie now secs if his patriotic brethren fail in their enterprise, should he return to the coun try against which he has rebelled, a dungeon open to receive him for the remainder of his day s, or a scaffold erecting to put a speedy end to them; should lie seek an asylum in another, he sets nothing hut contempt and deri sion to cheer him for he must know that traitors are unwelcome guest in all civi lized countries. While we know the mind of this do. Hided man and h;s copartners in error to be harrassed by such dismal reflec tions as these: charity would lead us to hope, it there was such a thing as a compromise for the sins committed in this life; that a part of the punislynent due to their crime might he remitted in consideration of the hell they now suf fer within themselves. With great propriety the author of the publication’ alluded to, may now exclaim v. ith ’Mo liere's Maitre Jaques, [in his play of the Avarc] “ Itelas! wnmevi faut il done fair? ? On me dome des coups de baton pour dive oral el ati'iie -rent peridve pour we liters."* He is so deeply-in volved in guilt that whether he tells the truth or glosses it over with false hood he is conscious of being equally deserving of puni lenent. •Has! how then r-xist loet? they i 1 me for telling the truth, and they threaten to hung me for lying Bills on Boston, For Sale by, Wm. TAYLOR May 22 3t 12 Bills on Providence, T ANARUS, .. . CEHOnF.-I.rE.I.YDj bor Sale by, T. BECKWITH. May 13 io Bills on Providence, f RHO DF.TSIJ.KjD} At short sight. For sale by Christopher R. Greene. May 15 3t io OFFICE FOR THE SALE OF JS’EGROES. nnilE SUBSCRIBER having long J been in the habit of disposing of NEGROES, and being well acquuint with those persons most likely to pur chase in the states of South Carolina and Georgia ; flatters himself that he can obtain fair prices and speedily ef fect sales. His services are tendered, with an assurance, that candor trill ir. all cases be observed as to any enquiry made regarding the character and qual ifications of Negroes in his possession 4 and care will be taken to investigate tittle as far as in Ins power, that impo sitions may be avoided and as he he* made it a business will inform himself of the true situation of that species c? property. His attention will also he directed to the sale of hinds, houses and lots and every article of merchan dize and produce. D. I'OIiOtK.