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MIRROR OF THE TIMES.
NEW YORK, Jan. 21.
Arrived the Superior faft fail
ing brig Sylph, Daniel, iio
days from Canton, wiih teas,
ftlks, nankeens, to capt. Whet
ton, (peffenger) and J. ]. A (lor.
Left, Sept. 30, Ihips Ttidcnt.
Blekeman ; Canton, Murphy;
and Williams, all
of N. York—Pacific, Weeks:
Dorathea, Dougherty; Sufque
hannah, Benners; brigs Grow
ler, Roberts ; and Hibernia,
Singleton, all of Philadelphia- -
Levant, Proftor ; Alahulpha,
Sturges; & Mandarin, Matlh,
j all of Boflon—Ann and Hope,
I Olney of Providence.—Willi
! am, Emeiy; Minetva, Ward;
Hunter, Pannel ; and the brig
Pilgrim, Pierson, all of Salem,
1 be (hip Chinele, Brum, of N.
York, arrived at Macow, Sept.
25, having 101 l both anchors
among the islands. The ship
Delaware, of Philadelphia, re
ported to be at Macow.—Left
the land Odober 4 : fame day,
I poke the ship Thalia, of Phi.
ladelphia, the Grand Ladrone
atN.N-E. 3-4* dis. 19 leagues.
—Nine tail of company's Ihips,
a 64, a frigate and a gun brig,
were at Chumpee, detained by
thc Chinese, until permuted by
the court of Pekin to proceed to
Whampoa. This was in con
feqnence of the milunderfland
ing of the preceding year.—
I he Sylph was boarded by the
St Alban’s, a 64, and treated
politely. '
The Ladrones, diffatisfied |
with the Chinese government, >
are increasing in power, <fe dai
ly making excuifions up the ri
vers, plundering burning Vila
ges, and madacreirig the inha
bitants. Their force by lea,
is, ftom 900 to 1000 Junks,
from 3 (• 28 guns, and peifed
ly manned and they are amply
supplied by their abettors in
the maritime provinces. All
efforts of the Viceroy of Can
ton to suppress them have pro
ved fruitlefs, as the agents lent
for this purpose have proved
treacherous, acting in concert
with the rebels. The lower or.
der of Mandarins cannot be
trufled to execute the orders of
government, such is the widc-
Ipread difaffcction !-~ Their
mode of wai fare is of the mod
sanguinary kind, the prisoners
on both tides are murdered in
the mod favage.manner.
Application had been made
by government through the fe.
curtty merchants, to the Amer.
I cans, for them to drop down
the nver for a few days, to pro-,
lett the pafTage from the Bog-
Tyris to Whompoa ; but this
i requed could not be complied
i with, as the ships were noi
in a situation to fight their
battles. A number of Ameri
can teamen, however volun
teered their ferviecs on board a
; country ship that government
chartered for a cruize of 15
j days, to act in concert with a
fleet of Junks. As soon as
they met the enemy, the Junl#
made off, and left the (hip to
luflain the expected confiitf a
! lone : but the Ladrones fhel
tered themfclves in shoal va
, ter. Previous to this, (thc lat
ter end of Auguf!,) 18 or 10
: of the largcit Ladrone Junks
made a so; Rial attack on the
■ +i
“ hold the mirror up to nature.” — Shakespeare.
hip Atahulpa, Sturges, of Col
on, while at anchor in Macow
roads, and when part of captain 1
S’s crew were on (bore. The
attack was repelled with the ut.
mod bravery for a length of
time, when taking advantage of
a breeze, cut the cables, and
lan under the guns of thc foil
at Macow.
The fpeftatorson shore, spoke
in thc highest terms of praile of
the gallant behaviour of capt.
Sturges, hy whose Ipiriied con.
duct his ship was refeued from
such superior force The at. j
tack was led on by the admiral’s j
Junk of 28 guns. The Ata
hutpa had only 6 fix pounders. !
Her rigging was much cut, and
received many shot in her hull,
but none of lhe crew injured. J
A short time before, they cap- ;
tured a Portugues brig from i
Goa to Macow. Two.malt. |
ed veflels are much mote the
object of auack, than fhip*.—
Meafurc* had been taken to
apprise thc American* of their
danger.
The Ladrones only attack
tingle ships—they do not go
near veflels in company. There
is no danger of the American
veflels left at Whampoa, as
they would net leave there sing
ly. The Sylph came down the
river under the escort of the
English country ship Ruffe! cap.
tain Ferguson, who politely
gave his protection. January
18, lat. 35, long. 72 (poke sch.
John of New-York. 22d, lat.
38, long 72, (poke ship Raleigh,
jof Philadelphia, 28 days from
; St. Bart’s, for New York—out
of 12 days on the coast, had
lain to fix, Sc had her fails split.
CADIZ. Dec. 3, 1809.
This place is all in coufubon;
the emperor of France has no
tified to this city, that if they
luffer ships of war now lying in
this harbor to be taken away or
by the Brittfh, that
the whole moveable properly of
Cadiz (hall be confifcated for
the ufc of the French army.
The public conlternation is great
fora deiperate battle is laid to
have been fought, in which the
Spaniih army, confiding of
50,000 inen were put to the
rout with great daughter by the
French. The Spanish caval.
ty, contributed to the defeat
and destruction, by their cow
ardice, as they were the firlt
that fled, and ia their fright
broke down and trod to death
their own infantiy battalions.
The Spanish general brought
only about 5000 out of the
field of battle/'
The copied from
the original letter of a citizen
of Philadelphia on board a
Philadelphia vessel in the port
of Cadiz, battle referred
to is probably that of which
we had some account before, as
having taken place at Orcana.
Thc Spanish Ihips of warat (
I Caflft are divided ; a part lie ;
abovi thc city, and could not
be destroyed without the con
tent Spaniads —thc other
division he below the city, Sc
could easily be taken by the
linn*} if danger was imminent j
| of their falling into thc hands
of the French. But if the Span
iih patrotic leaders mean to
emigrate to South America,
to cUablifh an independent go
r
vernment, they will probably
take the ships with them.
( Aurora.
CONGRESS.
In SENATE.
Jan. 2i.
The bill authorising the fitting
out, ofliceriog, and manning the
frigates of the United Slates was
read the third time.
. Mr; Brttdley moved to post
{ pone tlie further consideration of
\ the subject till Monday nrXt*
On this motion the Senate divi
j ded, 13, and tj, tile Vice Presi
dent decided the question in the
i negative.
Mr. Anderaon moved to post..
1 pone the further consideration of
the bill to the second Monday in
February. This question was
! decided by Yeas and Nays as fol-
I low :
YEAS. Messrs. Anderson, Brad
ley, Condit, Campbell, Crowford,
Franklin,Gregg, Lambert, Meigs,
’ Robinson, Sumpter, Turner, and
Whiteside.—l3.
NAYS. Messrs. Bayard, Brent,
Champlm. Gaillard, German, Giles
Gilman, Goodrich, Htlihouse, Le’
ib, Lloyd, Parker, Pickering,
Pope, Reed, Smith, (Md.) Smith, 1
(N. Y.) and Tail—lß.
The bdl was passed by Yeas &
Nays at follow :
YEAS—Messrs. Bayard, Brad
ley, Brent, Champlin, Franklin,
Gallard, German, Giles, Gilman,
Goodrich, Gregg, lldhoote, Luib,
Lloyd, Megs, Faiker, Pickering,
Pope, R ecd, Robinson, Smith, I
(Md.) Smith, (N. Y.) Sumter,
Tail, and Whiteside.—2s
YEAS—Messrs. Anderson,
Campbell Condit, Crawford, Lam
bert, and Turner.
House of Reprefentatvics.
Jan. 2o<
AMERICAN NAVIGATION ACT
The House resumed the con
fideration of the bill concerning
commercial intercourlc with G.
Britain and France } and for o_
ther purpofe*,
Mr Livermore moved the fol
lowing as an amendment to the
bill “ And be it further enafcled,
that the operation of the 3d, 4th,
51b, 6th, 7th and Bih ieftions
be suspended until after the
day of next.” The blank
Mr D. proposed to fill with thc
111 day of Januaty next
The amendment was negativ’d.
Mr Munriford, after some re
marks, offered the amendment
given in our Uft, (relating to
convoy, &c)
Mr Burwell moved to recom
mit the bill for the purpose of
a more full dilcuflion of the a*
mendtnent offered
Mr Sheffey spoke in favor of
the propriety of making the
ptopofition in quefiion the sub
je£t of a separate bill. He de
precated the charging of this
bill wiih propofuons not connec
ted with ii, and which would de
feat its paflage. He was pro.
ceedmg to shew the improprie-'
ty of palling the amendment,
but was called to order by Mr
‘ Kcv, and relumed his feat .
Mr Smilie was, like the gen.
; tieman who preceded him, op.
posed to blending peace and war
meafurcs, and therefore he laid
he was opposed to the recom
mitment of the bill.
Mr Bur well withdrew, his mo
tion for recommitment; for he
said he was aware of thc propri
ety of making the proposed a. j
MONDAY, February 12, 1810
mendment the fubjeft of a dir«
tmtf bill
Mr Milnor renewed the mo
tion. His objetl appeared to
be to flrike out of the present
bill a part which he deemed
wholly inconfittant with the
proposed amendment.
Mr. Pickman supported the
motion on the fame gronnds.
Mr. Gardenieroppofed are*
commitment, as he was content
to vote for the bill as ii now
flood.
Mr. Macon was opposed to a
recommitment, conceiving the
proposed amendment to em«
brace a subject not neceflarily
connected with the present bill
Mr. Ghollon spoke in favor
of a commitment of the bill,
but wiihed it to be committed
to a felett committee for the
purpose of new-modelling it,
conceiving the bill to be objec
tionable in its present shape.
Mr. Milnor varied his mo*
tion thus—“ that the bill be
recommitted to a fe!e£l com.*
nrittee, with inflrußion to di
vide the fame by introducing
the third forth, fifth, sixth. se
venth, eighth, nin'h, tenth and
twelfth lections in a separate
bill.” Mr. Milnor’s object was
to have a bill reported to re
tain only the features of exclu.
lion ol armed vcfielsand repeal
of non_intercour(e.
Mr Gholfon required a division
•of the motion, lo as to take the
queltion Amply on recommit
ment.
Meflrs. Eppes and Troup
spoke in favor ol recommit,
ment, with a view to procuring
a report of a bill charatierifcd
by (tronger features'
Meflrs, Dana and Quincy
were in favor of recommitment
with a view to expunging from
the bill thofc features which they
deemed too hatih
Meflrs. Macon, Smilie, and
M‘Kee Ipoke againlt commit*
ment, because, they were fa*
tished with the bill in its pre*
sent form and because amend,
ments, if neceflary, could be
as well made without commit
ment.
[ln the course of this debate
several gentlemen, proceeding
to dil'culs the propriety of the
amendment proposed on the
motion to recommit, were de
clared out of order ; Sc in one
case, an appeal being made to
the houle, the Ipaker’s decision
was confirmed by a large ma
jority. This decision if ad
tiered to, by preventing exue*
neous debate, will save much
of the time olthe houfe.]
The queltion on recommit**
ting the bill to a leled commit ee
wa» decided by Yeas and Naya
Yeas 59—Nays61.
State or the United State*
army.
Mr. Newton said he rose to sub
mit to the consideration of the
House a resolution of some im. •
portante. He said he was satis
-1 lied when gentlemen became ac*»
quamted with the objects embra.
ced by it they would readily ex
tend to it their patronage. Gen.
tlemcn are aware (said he) of the
situation in which this country is
placed with respect to the bel
ligerent powers. It become*
us at thi* crisis to be extremely
circumspect, to render our parti
cular atiemiou to every oqjed
coonnected with our defence.—
I Tu« President of the U. Staten
[No. 70.]