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Late Foreign Nezvs ,
CHARLESTON*, Jan. 28.
Yesterday arrived fie ship Charles Car
ter, capt. Drvsdale, in 48 days from Lon ;
diiu ; and the ship Northern Liberties,
captain VVa’t, in 40 da.s from Greenock
fly these arrivals we have recrivetLLon
cion papers to the 10th; and Greenock pi
pe ts to the 12th ult. inclusive.
The article of most importance is the
declaration of the Emperor of Russia,
which, although not declared to be so, :4
tantamount to a Declaration of War,
The flriiish government have, therefore,
laid an embargo upon nil the Russian ves
sels in their port', and ordered their crui.
aers to detain all such as they should fall
in with. The influence of fluonaparte
has added<he only maritime nation of ini J ’
portancc in Europe, to the enemies of the
British, and has woven another laurel/or
the brow ot some oi her naval comman
ders. The Russian naval officers have
learnt the art of war in the British navy,
but they will, most probably, soou have
it in their power to evince to the world
whether or not they have improved by the
lessons which have been given them. It is .
generally believed that s\vetlen will be
compelled to join in the confederacy.
The temporal authority of the Pope is
almost at an end. The French have taken
possession of the castle of Vt. Angelo, pre
para or v to the erection of another king
dom in Italy, of which Lucien Buonaparte
is to be the bead, by the title of king oi
l-atium.
General Sebastian!, jhe French ambas
sador to the Porte, has left Constantino
ple for Paris. The Turkish government
torn by factions and distracted in iheii
councils by the infl jence oi flaonaparte
and wd!, ou st probably, lalln
sactifi e io the insidious friendship of the
one and the-overwhelming power of the
other.
The city of Berlin, as well as the pro.
vinces, ate in a state of die most complete
mi.erv. The inhabitants are threatened
with military execution, for not paying
the contributions which the French have
imjiosed upn them, and which they are
enorely unable to pay. Buonaparte has
demanded five millions of dollars from the
king of Prussia and required that eight of
the strongest Prussian loruA-.sses should
br garrisoned by Fn uch uuops until the
contusion of tl<e war.
Buonaparte, it is said, is gone to Italy,
for the purpose of meeting ad the* kings
and princes of his own making at Milan.
Th<- Pope, the King and Queen of Naples
she Queen of Ktrurftt, the King of Bavaria
&r. are to be there ; but it is not linuwn
for whatjwr/joae these g cat peroonages
are to assemble-
Ti e prince of Asturias has been relea
sed by the kingof Spniu, through the in
terference ot Auonapar ie, who has pre
sented him the cordon of the legion of ho
nour. His h*ghncss, it is said, confessed
his guilt to his royal parents, and, not on- •
ly received their paidon, but has been
placed at the head of the punish army
and stined to invade Portugal. If this ac
count be true, the power of the Prince of
Peace is completely overturned ; /Fiona
pirre has employed him a* long as he
tbo* ght necessary, and will now, probably
saci ifipe him, t.s the surest way of obtain
ing popularity with the people of Spain.
The 1-bciattoa ol the Prir.ct was icceivtd
(vi -h the utmost joy by the people, who
drew his carnage vhiough the streets
amid t the loudest acclamation!
ddatis al sir John florlase Warren, in
the 3<vif|sui e of 74 guns, sailed from Ply
inouih on the 31 it ult. for Ilaiilax,
, On the J3:h ylt. in lat. 41, 30, long. 14,
rspt. ]) iv ad ale spoke the fliitish govern
nitnt brig Redwing, one of sir Sidney
bmith’s njuadron, who informed him,
that ihe Por.uguese fleet, having onboard
the rbyal faimly of Pu.-tugai, sivded from
the Tagu?, on the 22d of November,
b und to the Rraziis. 11. e fiVct consisted
ol 9 soil ol i he line, 4 frigatys and 2 bugs,
accompanied with 4 sail of British iiue of
battle ship'. jhe emigration of the Por
tuguese royal family to *V°uth America
writ be a’tended with protfigious advanta
gts :o ihe liritHti, it will open the most
tv.tnsive mart for ihttr ruanolaciuics,
an-i w:il jr-'ve th<- >..v fir the f ill of i£c
Spanish power in i’-.uth America.
December 2.
War with Pnjfta —Sir Robert Wil
fan arrived in n.e middle of Lii night,
with diipaiches of the ht.-r.cll impor
tance from Feteifliurgli—Djpftc'nb
ol a nature dcctdcuiy holiik. ihe
m millers were iuinmoned u> meet in
council fyrly ibis morning. They re*
n.amcd lining tvi.cn our j aper was put
to preJs j, uit Uepgers were lent o it to I
•all ihe out ports, i.iid • the following I
j letter was tranfinitted to ihe Lord j
* Mayor :
“ Stanhope flreet , D:c. t.
*'• My Lord—l have the honor to
acquaint your lordship, that dispatches
have been received from hU maiefty’s
arnhaffador at the court of Pcterfburgh
by which it appears’ that the emperor of
Ruflia having publiflied a Declaration
in which his imperial majesty announ
ces his determination to break off all
communication with England, to recal
1 his rainiftcr from this court, arid not
j to permit the continuance of a Britilh
million at the court of St. Peterfbur.gh
I his majelly's ambafTadox has demand
■ ed his paffporis, and is now on his re.
J turn.
’ I have loft no time in com muni
eating this intelligence to your Iprdfhip,
in order that it may be made as pub
lic as pofiible.
“ I have the honour to he &c.
41 Geqhge Cannjnc.”
Sir Samuel Hood {'ailed on Monday
from Plymouth in the Centaur, with
the Captain, York, Intrepid, Success,
and L’Africaine, with the lith regi
nient of foot on board.
Five fail of the line of Admiral
Keates’ squadron have been ordered to
, fail immediately under secret orders.—
The admit al himfelf was sent for'to
town express on Monday, and we be ,
lieve will havje the command of liief
squadron.
Private letters have been brought o
ver in affuuggiing veifel from Middle
burgh. They have served to give
birth to a •number of reports, Tome of
which we aie far from ciediting, and
shall mention but brief]y They lay,
that frefii arrangements have beer*
made between France and Prussia ;
and tha-t the King of Westphalia is to
pofft f s Berlin for his relidence ; and
that Frederick William is to be indetn
nified by the pofleflio-n of Damziek.
Govcrmnent has at lenth determined
to prevent the further entrance of all
foreigners into the ports of the united :
kingdom. Orders to (itis elfefci have
been iflued to the command; 1 g officers
at all the ports,. No perfoti of any
defeription, under any pretext, except;
be can produce an authenticated palf
port, is m lulut-e, to be allowed to land
in Eng Lad.
December 4.
Declaration oj Ibijjta againjl England-
The higher the value in which the
wnpemr held the ami y of his Britaunic
majedy, th'e keener the regret he mult
feel at ihe complete alienation of th<t
monarch-
Twice has the emperor taken up
arms.in a cause in which the intcreda
ol England were molt immediately
concerned ; bnt he has Iblicived to no
purpose her co operation to promote
•he acccompliffiment of her own ob
jects. He did not require die (houid
unite her lotces \vii j h.is; he was anx
ious only die Would make civet lion
in their favor- He was allpnilh.ed that
in furtherance ot h.er own canfo (lie
heiLii woulu make no exeuionj'’ ‘‘Afiir •
the contrary, ihe locked on a coldfpcc
uuix of the iangtdnary theatre df the
war, which the had tier felt kindled, and
fem par: of her troops to attack Bue
nos Ayres. Another portion of her
army, which (cenieti it* be dcilined to
make a diver lion in Italy, finally with
di cw from Sicily* it he :e it was aflem.
bled. Hopes were entertained that
they had teken that lltp in order to
ihrow themiclvcs on the Neapolitan
coull ; but it was loon undei flood that
they weteemployed m taking pc/feiTion
of Egy pt.
But what mod fenfihly hurt the
feelings ot his imperial in?jelly was, to
ice, iii violation of the faith and ex-)
prtls ‘lipulations of trtaiks, Englamlj
annoying ihe matiirme tiae'e ofhls tub
jeds ; a and it wU -petiod was ihis
procyedii'g adopted ? W hen ibd blood
01 tlit Ruliians wavilowing
rious battles which accumulated i,d
dneclcd againfl the armies of, .lss im
perial the whole of the milita
ry toice of In.- aicj dty :he emperor of
the French,- with whour England was, I
artd iiili is, dr war.
When ihe iwo emperors made peace, !
his inr*j• fly iiOtwuhii.ir.<ling liis jull }
caufcs oi diipleafure at the coiuiuft of |
EitgLnd, <i;d aot refrain frocu enJca
! vnring to render her sci v r ces. The
emperor flipuLted in that very treaty
that he fhojuid interpol'e his media
tion between England and France ;
-•ind he accordingly made an offer of
that mediation to the king of Great
Britain apprifjng him that it was with a
wish to obtain honorable conditions for
him. But the Briiilh minillry, adher
ing no doubt to the plan tiiat was to
arlifTolve and h*e.ak off all the ties be
•tween RnfJia and England, rejsfied
that mediation.
The peace between Raffia and
France was likely to bring about a gen
eral peace ; but it, was at this moment
that England suddenly awoke from that
apparent lethargy in which she had
flutnbered; but it was only to ihrow
into the North freffi fire brands, which
were to re kindle, and have aftually
kindled, the flames of a war which she
was deftrous not to fee extinguifhefl.
Her, fleets, her troops, appeared on
the Danish coads, to execute an aH of
violence of which history, so huiiful
in examples, records no parallel.
A power diftsnguifhcd for its peace
ful and moderate conduft, and for a
long and unexpected course of wife
neutrality, and who sustained, amidlt
surrounding Monarchies, a kind cf a
moral dignity , finds itfelf treated as if
,41 was engaged in secret plots, and was
meditating the downfal of England ;
while the whole of these imputations
were only meant to jultify the Ridden
and entire i’poliation of that power.
The emperor, wounded in his digni
ty, wounded in the affebHon he feels
for his people, wounded in his engage
menis with the Courts of the North,
by this a£l of violence committed 111
the Baltic, a close sea, the tranquillity
of which has so long depended on the
Court of Si. |ames ; and is reciprocal
ly guaranteed by both powers, did no;
di fl’emhle his resentment again If En
gland, and warned her that he fhouhi *
not, remain indifferent to such a pro
ceeding.
liis majellv did not forefee, that
while ‘England having fuccessfully em
ployed her forces, was on the point of
leizing on her prey, Ihe would offer
a freih outrage to Denmark, in which
his majelty was to bear a part.
New proportions Hill, more insidi
ous than thole made at firlt, weie made
to Denmaik, which aimed at binding
down to England that power thus sub
jugated, degraded, and applauding, as
it were, every thing that had happen
ed.
Still !efs did the emperor forefee ih at
it would be proposed to him to guaran
tee that fubmifficn, and to prom ili?
that that a& of violence ffiould not be
attended with any milchievous conle
quence to England.
The EngHlh arnhaffador seems to
-have imagined that he might venture to
propose to the of miniller the emj etor,
that his Imperial majeffy (houid un
dertake lie apology and defence of a
proceeding which his tinjefly has so o.
penly condemned. To this Hep on
the pan of the cabinet of St. James’,
his majedy has thought proper to pay
only that attention which it deserved,
and has deemed it high time to lei li
mits to his moderation.
The Ptince Royal of Denmaik, en
doyved with a chara£!er full of noble
nefsand energy, and having been b lei -
‘ed by Providence with a foul as ele
vated as his rank, had apprised the
Emperor, that, jullly enraged agaiuli
what had iccetuly happened at Copen
hagen, he had 1101 ratified the conven
lion tefpetling it, and that he consider
ed it as null and void.
1 hat Prince has just now acquaint
ed l>is majelly with the new propofi
lions that have been made 10 him, anc
which aeofa nature rather to pi
voke his refinance, than to appeale his
releuimcnt, for they tend to itarnp on
his aHions the seal of degradation, the
irnpr els of which they never wtii txhi
bit.
The emperor struck with the confi
dcnce which ihe Prince Royal placed
in him, having moreover conhdereo
his own grounds of diflathfa£tion with
Englanc, baviug attended to his cn
gaguiicnis with the powers of the
North, etrgagemems cntcud into by
the empret; Cath4titiP : utid by bis late-
Imperial inajeffy, ho'h’ of glorious me
mory, has refoh’rd upon fulfilling
them.
His Imperial majefrv break-’ off oi#
[ rommuniealioh with. England ; he ref
j calls his ernbaffv from that court,
. will rrot allow any ambalTadpr front
J her to confimie at his court. There
{ shall henceforth exiff no rdatrorrs be--
tween the two countries.
The emperor declares that he
gales for ever every afl hitherto con
cluded between Great Britain and Ruf
lia, and particularly the convention
concluded in 1801. lie proclaims a
new the principles of the Armed Net*- -
trality, that monument of the vvifdoin
/ of the Emp r tTs Caiharirre, and bind*
I himfelf never to recede from that lvs~
tem.
He calls upon England to give.”
compleat fatisfaßicn to his fubjeds^,,
I with refped to all tiie just claims ibey’
) may fe t up, of Ihips and tnerchandiles
feized and detained, contrary to the;
express tenor of die nealies concluded*
during liis own reign.
The emperor gives warning, that no
thing (hall he n*-eftab>ilhed between
u(lia and England, until the latter
(hall have given faiLfatliou to Den
mark.
The emperor expects that hi; Britan
nic majelty, inltead of permitting his
minifters to (cauer Irelh feeds of war,
in compliance only with his own feel
ings, will be induced to conclude it
peace with his majelly the emperor of
the French, which wouid be extending
in a manner, to the whole world, the
meltimable blessings of peace.
When the emperor shall be fatisfied
upon all ihe'c points, and especially up
on that of a peace between France ‘
and England, without which no part
of Europe can expctl to enjoy any
real tranquillity, his Imperial majesty
will ihen willingly return to the relations
of amity with Great Britain, which in
the (tale of just resentment which the
emperor Ihould feel, he has maintained*
perhaps, too long. „ . *.
Done at St. Pdtrjburgk , Ocl. 26, 1807*
December 5.
Sir Robert VViffoo, it is /aid, has
brought intelligence to government
which he heard on high authority a
Peterlburgh, that Bonaparte has deter
mined to make imnediate pteparations
lor the invasion of this country. Ice
land, or Scotland, it is supposed, will
he the fit ft objetl of his attempt. >
It is ri ported, in letters from Peterf
burgh, that Gen- Savary makes it hia .
boall in that capital, that Bonaparte
will invade this country with 300,000
men.
Government, we under Rand, have
received intelligence from Lisbon of.
so late a date as the 17th ult. On the
night of the nth, a Council was fud*
denly sffembled, at which all the Min*
ilters attended. At this meeting it was
announced that the Portuguese Amb'af
lador at the Court of Madrid had
been oidered to quit that city in 24
hours; that the invasion of Portugal
was detetmined upon; and that .the
advanced guard of the French army
would pals the frontiers on the lith
of Nov. In conicquence of these in
dications of hoftilitv, it was resolved
that all the cdi&s and proclamations
which had been issued against British
commerce should be immediaiely te
feinded ; and that the Court, whenever
the danger became imminent, (houid
embaik for the Brazils. The flatement
is lanctioncd by the circumstance of a
number of liccnles having been yH&cr
day iflued for the protection of vefleis
clearing out for the ports of Portugal.
A veflel has anived from Caen, from
whence she failed on TuefJay iaft.
I here were several American vefleis at
hat poit under detention, upon fuspi
c ion of their having touched at G. Bti
ain. The maiteis wete very appre
henflve that oiders would be givenrfor
heir confiicatiuu. It was reported
here that Bonaparte had demanded
five millions of dollars of his Pruflian
majesty and that eight of the Itrongelt
Prulliau fortreffes Ihould be ganifon
cd by French iroops till the conclu
sion of the wat. The infoicnce and ty
ranny of Bonaparte know no bounds.
He wtii nut even be at the trouble of”
aHigning a plaufiblc cxqulq fur the