Georgia Argus. (Milledgeville, Ga.) 1808-1816, April 22, 1812, Image 2

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.'4 H 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-