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oreign Intelligence.
NEW TORK, March 30.
VERY LAT& AND IMPOR
TANT FROM ENGLAND.
1 he faft failing {hip Orbit,
captain Bool, arrived at this
F,om Paper: received al ills Office ' Lsrnx of the 'Prince Regent, 1 tion 1 (hould feel, if fame of thoft?
I am i Lords Grey and GreewuilT, < perfons with whom the early
, i habits of my public life were
T£ r^' formed) would llrengthen iny
to the duke of york hands, and conflitute a part of
t* My Dearest Brother— my governnx>nt. With fuch
“ As the reftri&ions on the fupport, and aided by a vigorous
exercifc of the royal authority and united ad min HI rat ion, form-
LONDON, jan. 29,
Orders in Council - If the ob
ject of the Orders in Council
was, originally, to prevent
France from importing the pro
duceof her ilUnds in neutral
(hips, as fne has now loft all her w ill lhortly expire, when 1 mult ed on the libera! balls, 1 lhall
there, down to this mcnicr* ap
peared even any appn.iki.tuiu \
towards filch an agreement r.f
opinion on the public intends,
as can alone for;.i a balls lor the
honorable union of patties pre-
vioufly oppofed to each other*
Into the detail of ihofe differui -
ces we at*e unwilling to enter ;
port yelterday in tne lno^t pa iflands the objrft has ceafed. and make my arrangements for the look with additional confidence theyembracealmollnllthelea-
lsge of 29 days from Liverpool. t heir continuance, as tar as re- future admirr.ftration of the pow- to a profperous ilTue of the molt ding features of the pveffintpot-
She left that port on the 28t " l a tes to France, can be no objett ers which I am invefted, arduous contell in which Great icy of the empire ; but his royal
of February und. has put the ecu
tors of the Mercantile Adver-
tiler in peff. llion of London pa
pers to the evening of the 26ih,
and Lloyd’s Lilts to the fame
date.
The reflri&ions on the Prince
Regent were removed on the
expiration of the ol parlia
ment by which they were laid
on ; and his royal highnefs has
retained the whole of the ol<
Miniltry, having previously
made overtures to Lords Grev
and Grenville to join the Ad-
miniftration, which were reject
ed..
Lord Caftlereaehhas fucceed-1
ed to Ld. Welltiley’s ft tuition j
in the Miniftry.
Lord Sidmouth is cxpe&ed
to take a feat in the Cabinet;
and Vr. Bragge Bathurft to
join the pi ef ‘fit adminiftration
The duke of Richmond is fpok
en of as defirous of returning
home. Eari Powys is reported
to be likely to fucceed him.
Peace between England and
Sweden, and war with the 11 S.
were events daily expected.
Heavy impreffments were mak
ing for manning the Britifh na .
vy fuepoled to be preparatory
to a ftate of hoftility with this
country.
The king of the Two Scilics
has abdicated the throne.
The Emperor of the French
has feized on Swedifii Pomera
nia, as a part of a Plan to ap
propriate to himfeif the whole
tadd^hern coaft of the Baltic.
TheU. States fioop of war
Hornet failed from Cowts for
Cherbourg cn the 13th Fcbru
ary.
FEB. 20,
Lord L ! verpool received the
the Seals cu the Foreign Office
yefterday, to hold in trull till a
Sacceffor is appointed
terday
Lords
and
we underhand, have fiats in the
Cabinet, It is alfo Did that Lord
Powys is to fucceed the duke of
Richmond in Ireland his Grace
having expreffed a w^fh to re
turn home.
Yeflerday, about half paft
two o'clock, the Marquis Wel
led'y had an audience of the
Prince Regent, and refigned the
Seats of office as S. cretary of
State for Foreign Affairs.
FEERUAR Y 21.
At a very early houV- yefler
<lay morning a hot prefs took
place on the river Thames. The
Riv cr Fencibles were called out
to afiift the imprefs fervice.
About 200 men were taken on
board the tender in confe-
quence.
FEB. 22.
Yefterday, at three o’clock,
Lora Vjlcount Caftlerepgh was
introduced to the Prince Regent
at C-niton Houfc and received, ‘
at the hands of his Royal High
nefs, the Seals of chief Secretary
of State for Foreign affairs. A
morning pr.ptr states, that his
Lord(h*p previotifly to his ac
ceptiug this high office, came to
an explicit underftanding with
Mr. P rceval, on the queftion
concerning the Catholics ol lre^
land, as far as refpetted his own
liberal fentiment on that impor
tant fubjttt. No other official
•appointment took place.
to this country. But if America
thinks her neutral privileges are
encroached upon by this new
fyftem of blockade, and is pre
paring to defend them, furely
we flnli not wi«m only r!/k a rup
ture with her, and hazard Cana
da and the Weft India Elands,
on the romantic idea of injuring
France.; we (hall at lcalt delay
the evil, by new modelling our
I think it right to communicate
to you thofe iectimonts which I
was withheld from ex picking at
an earlv period of the fiffion,
by my earneftffefirt; that the ex
pitted raotiondon the affairs of
Ireland might undergo the de“
liberate difeuffi ins of parliament,
unmixed with any other confid-
ertion
I think it hardly neceflary to
Britain was ever engaged.
*' You are yet authorifed to
communicate theie fentiments to
Lord 1 Grey, who, I have no
doubt, will make them known
to Lord Greenville.
“ I am, always, See.
'■‘GEORGE, P. R
| “Carlton Houe, Feb. 13 1S12.
' P. S I (hall lend a copy
y or me empire; out ms roy?
highnefs has himfeif, been pleaf-
eJ to adv rt to the late deliber
ations o: Parliament on the af
fairs of I. eland. This is a fub-
jett, above*all others important
in it lei f, and connected with tho
molt prtffing dangers Farfrotu
concurring in * the fentiments
which his majefty’s mitdftera
have, on that occafion, fo re
cently expreffed, we entertain
Orders in Council, as to the ex- i ca j| y^ur recollection to the re- of this letter immediately to Mr. j opinions direttly oppofite ;* we
tent of blockade from any given J cent circumftances under which Perceval.” j are firmly perfuaeied of the ne-
Fehruary 15, 1812 ! ceffity of a total hange in the
We beg leave moft prelent fyftem of that country
point, and give time for expla
nations ana arrangements. In- ’
‘ deed, it is not yet proved but
j that we ffiould gain by the alter
ation, in the export of cur man-
ufjeatures, which is a greater
object to us than the injury we
aim at France.
What could France hope or
defire more than a war between
G Biicaitiand America? 1 he
I affutneJ the authority delegated
to me by Parliament. At a mo
ment of unexampled difficulty
and danger, I was called upon
to make a (election of perfons to
whom I fhouUl entruft the func
tions of the Executive gove' n-
ment.
“ My fenfe of duty to our
Royal Farther folely decided that
“ Sir-
humbly to exprefs to your Roy and of the immediate repeal of
al Highnefs our dutiful ac. thofe civildifabilitiesunderwhich.
knowledgements for the gia- fo large a portion of his majefty’s
cious and condefcending manner fubjects dill labor on account of
in which you have had the their religious cpinions. Tore-
goodnefs to communicate to commended to parliament thfj
us the letter of his Royal High- repeal, is the full advice which
nefs the Prince Regent, on the it would be our uuty to offer to
choice, and every private feeling fubjett of the arrangements to his royal highnefs, could we, e-
only two ftates on the earth that gave way to.cotifiderations whbh be now made tor the iuture ad- ven for the fliorleft time, i
are itrong in thofe principles admitted of no'doubt or hefita miniftration of the public affairs; ourlelves rt fponfible for
which make againlt her dornin tion. I trull r*act;.l in that ref.
pe£k as the genuine reprefenta-
tive of the Auguit perfon whofe
lutidions I was appointed to dif-
mako
any
and we take the liberty of avail- further delay in the profpefl of a
ing ourfelves of your gracious meafure, without whichwe could
permiffion to addrels to your entertain no hope of rendering;
royal highnefs in the form what ourfelves ufelul to his royal
has occured to us in confequence highnefs or to the country, We
have only further to beg your
royal highnefs to lay;.‘Wefore his
ion, woulo, by fuch a political
fuicid , weaken and wear away
thofe energies which every con-
fideration of wifaotn and kin- charge ^ and I ha'e the fatisfac-
dred feeling should endeavor tion of knowing, that fuch was of that communication. The
to rally into a phalanx of com- the opinion of puffins for whofe Prince Regent, after exprtffing
tnon caul'e. And what could judgment and honorable princi to your royal highnefs in that
England, what could America, plesleritertamlhe higheft refpefi. letter his fentiments on various
gain by fuch an unnatural eon- “ In various inllarices, as you public matters, has, in the con-
it ft? We have no feelings for well know., wife re the law of the eluding paragraph, oondefeend-
triumph in fuch a war It has laft ffiflion left me at full liberty, ed to intimate his wifh that lome
no glory that ie not ftained by I have waved my perfonal grati of thofe perlons with whom the
fratricide—by violated obligati- fication, in or tier that his Majes- early habits of his public life \ vantage of his royal highnels’u
on?, the contemplation of which ty might refume, on his rellora were formed, would ftrengthen government, and the fuccefs of
would make the philosopher tion to health, every power and his royaffi high cuff’s hands, and hisendeavoisfcrthepublicweU
weep,and the Chriftian 'lliudder! prerogative belonging to his conftitute a part of his govern- fare
And where wore Amciiea, if fhe crown ItetiJ^nly am the laft meat ; and his royal highnefs is We have the honor'to be, See,
royal highnefs the Prince Re-
gent, the expi effion of our hum
ble duty, and the fincere and
refpetlful affurrnc-.. of our earn
ed v/iihcs for whatever may beft
promote the eafe, honor and ?tl-
couid fucceed in enabling the perlon in the Ipingdom to whom pleated to add. that wuh Inch ^Signed)
common enemy of both to fetter it can be permitted to defpair of fupport, aided by a vigorous and
GREY,
and fuhjetk the genius ol Eng our royal fathers recovery.,
land ? She may help to break A new aara is now arrived,
our naval por/er, but the could and I cannot but refit cl with fat-
nor fucceed to it. Transfer it to isfaclion on the events which
France, and fee if fhe wouM be have dillinguifhed the fhort peri
more moderate by ffia than lanu. od of my retlricted regency
united admuiiltration, formed
on the moft liberal bafis, he ;
would look with additional con- i
fidence to a profperous iffue of
the moft arduous conteft in
which G, Britain has ever been
engaged. On the other parts of
his royal highneff s letter we 1 do
not prefume to offer any obfer
vations ; but in the concluding
have°yielded t« thefe feelings, tain has added moft important paragraph, in fo far as we may
becauft we fear that America is acquifttions to her empire; the venture to fuppofe ourfelves in
national faith has been preferved , eluded in the gracious wifh
inviolate towards our allies ; j which itexpreffes, we owe it, in
and if character is (Length ap- ! obedience and duty to his royal
plied to a nation, the increafed | highnefs, to explain ourfelves
and increafing reputation of his . with franknefs and fincerity. We
acting more in a fpirit of relent
ment thanisperhaps wife—more
than is perhaps juft towards the
peculiar filtration of her powerful
but roo haughty parent. Eng
land nay be pui tuing a ret kids majefly s arms will ffiew to the j beg leave moft earneftly ^to af.
and mad career; and its lol
ly is only V°° i'ataily embtl-
liflted by i's gallantry, and a
r;dh and governiefs fpirit of pro
digal expenditure, that would
lav the feelings ol ball the world
umltr a kind eft tributary admi
ration ; but the main it.terefts cf
all free and civililcd fociety are
in a perhaps infeparable—de
gree interwoven with her fate.
We would call upon the Pnn< e
Regent to ftep bttv.ixt his eoun-
n-uions ol the continent how
much they may ftill achieve
when animated bv a glorious
fpirit of refinance to a foreign
yoke. In the critical fituatton
of the war in the Pe-ninfula Uhatl ' country, and uniting both its
be molt anxious to avoid every , government and its people. All
meafure which can lead my allies ( perfonal exclufion we entirely
to fuppofe that I mean to depart difclaim ; we reft on public tnea
from the prefint fyftem. Per- fures; and it is on this ground
feverance alone can atchieve the alone that w^ muft exprefs, with-
great o' jetl in queltion, and I out reft rve, the impoffibility of
cannot withhold my approbation our uniting with the prefent gov
try and the peWerfe policy that, from thofe who have honorably errment.
would fcatterto air the philofo- diftinguiflied themfelvc s in fup Our differences of opinion are
port ol it. 1 have no predilection too many and too important to
to indulge, no refentment to gra'i/v, admit of fuch an union. His
no objects to attain, hut fuch as ore Royal Highnefs will, we are
common to the whole empire It confident, do us the jullice to re-
“ GREl'NVILl E ”
“ To his Royal Highnefs the
Luke of Tork ”
A Tyrolese n mbufeade.
The following impveffive ac
count of an adion in Lefchvres•
expidilion, in Auguft, 1809,
were communicated by a Saxon
major, who efeuped from the
deftrudion of thofe terrible
days.
“ We had penetrated to In-
fpruck without great refifiance ;
and although much .was every
where talked of the Tyrolefe
ftationed upon and round the
Brenner, we gave little credit to
have
I pher’s dream cf liberty, and the
i Chriltians’s hope of peace—
Mon C hr on'
LONDON, FEBRUARY, 3
We underfland that an appli
cation was made on Saturday,
from Mr. Secretary Ryder to the
Lord Mayor, to obtain leave that
the imprels may take place with
in the piecir.&s ot ihe city du
ring nine days. J lv exertions
employed to procure hands have
for their object, the fitting out a
confidtrabic naval force to pro
ceed to America.
fure his royal highnefs, that no ; it, thinking the rebels to
faerifices, except thofe of honor jbeen difperfed by a fhort can-
and duty could appear to us too Inonade, and already confidering
great to be made, for the purpole : ourfelves as conquerors. Our
of healing the divifions of our | entrance into the paff.tge of the
Brenner was only oppofed by
{’mail corps, which conticued
falling back, after an cbftinpte
though fhort refiftance. Among
others I perceived a man full
eighty years of age,ported againfi:
the fide of a rock, and fending
death among our ranks at every
{hot. Upon the Bavarians de
ft-ending to make him prifoner
he (hunted aloud,Hurrah! ftruck
the fivft man to the ground with
a ball, feizvd hold ot the fficond,
[and with the ejaculation, in God’s
i name ! precipitated himfeif \Hth
fuch is the leading principle of , member, that we have twice __
condufi, and I can appeal to the .already adled on thisimprtffion ; him into the abyl’s below*,
paft as the evidence of what the ;in 1809, on the propofition then [Marching onwards, we heard!
future will be, I flatter myfelf I made to us under his majefly s refeund from the futnmit of a
authority ; and laft year when high rock : “ Stephen ! Jhall !
his royal highnefs was pleafed to chop it eff yet ?" to which a loud
require our advice refpe&ing the [ “ nay ’ reveibrated from the op*
formation of a new government. , pofite fide. This was told to the
The reafons which we then duke of Dantzic, who notwith-
humbly fubmitted to him are fianding, ordered us to advance :
ftrengthened by the incixafing at the fame time he prudently
dangers of the times, fior has t witiultevr from the centre ic the
fliall meet with the fupport of
Parliament and of a candid and
enlightened nation.
“ Having made this commu
nication ol my fentiments, in
this new and extraordinary crifis
of our affairs, I cannot conclude
without exprtfling the gratifica-