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THE FISHERIES/
, To Sir Richard Kcrls. and to (he Bn
k tisjh Naval Officers on the Halifax Sta
tion, \v v;J.
Downing.jtreet 1 7th
Sir—As the treaty of Peace lately !
* concluded Wi h the United States, cons -!
tains no provisions with, respect to the j
Fisfit&ies which the subjects of the U*
S- enjoyed under the 3d article of the
Peace of 1783, his Majesty’s Govern
ment consider it unnecessary, that you
should. : * i.ulormed as to the extent to
which />se privileges are alfccted; by
the omission of any stipulation in the
present Treaty of the line of conduct
which it is in ‘consequence .adviseable
for you to adopt. • .*'• />.
You cannot but be aware, that the 3d
article of tie Treaty of Peace of 1783
contained two distinct stipulations,'-the
one recognizing the right which the
United States had to take fish upon the
high seas and the other granting to ( the
United Slates the privilege ot fishing
within the British jurisdiction, and qf. u
-4-sing, under certain conditions, the shores
■ arid Territory of His Majesty tor pur
poses connected’ with the fishery ; ot
thc>e, the-former being considered per-:
man S’ cannot be altered or affected oy
any cr.augc of the relative siiufctdOn ot
the two countries, but the olUerTbemg
a privilege dei ived from the floaty o*
1783 alone, was, as to its duration, ne
cessarily l.mt ted to the duration ot the
Treaty n.ielf On the Declkrat’on ot
\Vfu| by the , American Government,
fiedne consequent abrogation of the then
Sing treaties, the United States for
t. with respect to the Fisheries,
privileges w hich are purely con
. iirtl, (and as they have not been
retie wed by a stipulation in the present
Treaty the subjects of the United
States can httveTo pretence to any right
to # fi-h Within the British jurisdiction, or
to use the British territory for purposes
Connected wuh the fishery. ~ > (
Such being the view taken of the
question of the fisheries as far as
to the United States, f am commanded
*by nis royal highness the Prince Regent
to instruct youVto abstain caretulJy
iny interference with tne fishery
§nch the Subjects of the United
may be engaged, either on the
l Bank of Newfoundland the Guii
of St. Uawrt nce, or other places id the
Sea. At the same time you wilt pre
vent them, except - under the circum
stances herein mentioned from using
the British territory for purposes con
nected with the .fishing vessels, from
bays, harbours rivers, creeks, and inlets
of all his majesty’s possessions. In
xiase however, it should, have happened
that the fishermen United States,
through ignorance of the cu-cumstancCs
which affect this question* should previ
ous to youv arrival, have already
tne need a filshefy s naiur taihut carried
tm bV them previous q the late war, and
should have occupied by the British
and termed establishments on
‘Ute British territory* which could not oe
suddenly übuiidcwd
unless they wk u p o>
tluuAseiYes unworthy or
~~~
ATHENS, 7 HURST)AY, APRIL BJIBI6
, * >v v r.* * r • - , .
to cbm muni cate to them the/tennoc of
the jnstructiofis which you* have receiv
ed, and the view which his majesty’s
government takes of thequestion of the
fishery, and you will, above all, be care*
ful to explain to them that they are not
in any future season to expect a contin
uance of the same indulgence. *
f Signed J BATHURST.
From the London Pilot of January 2;
’ WATERLOO.
The Officer , his Wife , and the Baggage
’ dSS. ‘ . : ’ ;
The following interesting anecdote is
taken from u A visit to Flanders-! and
will give some idea of the kind of scenes
that were passing during the memora
) ble battle of Waterloo ;
‘ f l had the good fortune,” says the m
teligenl writer, ” to travel from Brussels
to Paris with a young Irish officer arid
his wife, an Antwerp lady of only six
teen of great beauty* match lee ss in
nocence, and naivete. The husband
was in the battle of Quatre Brasjas. wt 1
as of Waterloo, and to liira I owe much
of my minutest and most interesting in
formation. ‘ * -
“ He was liviagyin the
ot Ni.ve!lis» his wife with him. Hie
unexpected advance of the French! called
him off at a moment’s notice to Qu
Brass : but he 1 *lt with, his wife .Ins SeV
vant, one horse* andjthe family baggage*;
was packed upon a; large ass. * Retreat
at that time was not aut4£ipared, but be--
ing suddently ordered on S.itu day
ing, he contrived to get a ravage to
his’ wife to make the best of her way, at
tended by the servant, 4»d baggage# to
Brussels. .The servant, a foreigner, had
availed himself of the .opportunity to
take, leave ol both master and mistress,
anti mane of with the horse* leaving, jhe
helpless young lady alone the bag
gage ass. With a firmness bedoming
the wife'of a british officer, she, boldly
commenced cn loot her .retreat of twen
ty-five miles, leading the ass bf thejbrifi,
die, and carefully preserving tne bag
gage ;no violence was daj;ed <by any
one to so innocent a,pilgri n t bat no one
would venture to assist ner. She* was ;
, soon in the midst of the columns of the
retreating Bail fall army, and much retar
ded,by the artillery. The fatigue ,was
great; it rained in water spouts,; and
the thunefer and lightning was dreadful*
to the extreme, tsfie continued .to ad- ‘
vancc, and got upon the great road from
to at Waterloo,
when the army on Saturday evening
were taking Up the line tor the awfui
conflict. In an expensive a held, and a- 7 ”
mong 80,009 pfsmfit was in vain to seek
her husband; she knew t blithe sight
of. her, there, would only enibana* and
distress him ; she kept slowly .advan
cing to Brussels all Satuidy night—
the road choaked with all sorts of con
veyances# waggons and horses.; multi,:
tuties of native fugitive*, on. tae road
and flying into the great wood ; and ma
ny. oi the wounded walking their* pain*
ful way# dropping every step, and breath
ing their last/ every few steps lay a
corpse or a limb / particularly, site
said several hands. Many personswere
killed by others, it by chance
they-stood in thd-way of their endeav
ours to save themselves. And to those
horrors, the rain continued unabated
and ih£ thunder and lightning stilfraged
as ifjhe he&vens and earth were torn to
pieces. Full twelve miles further, in the
night thU young woman marched up to
the knees in mud, her boots wore
entirely off, so that she was barefooted ;
but still unhurt# she led her ass s and
although thousands lost their baggage,
and many their lives, she calmly enter
ed Brussels in che morning ill
h easel f, ass and baggage, without the
IjOSs of an a few hours after
her arrival, commenced, the cannon’s
itoarof the tremendous Sunday, expos
ed to which for ten hours, she knew her
husband to be, and after a day and night;
in agony* she was rewarded by finding
herleit in her husband’s aims, he uj|-
hurt, and she nothing the worse* on
iponday. The officer told me jsSb tale
*himseif, with tears m his eyes. VVith
a siigut Irish accent, he called her his
dear little woman, ana saidshe became
mure valuable to him every day. I netk
er sa\v a mpre elegant gentlemanlike
‘younjf man i and assuredly t his f rett| <
■ - ‘ • •• .
Belgium, seemed almost to adore him.
It gives additional value to the anecdote
that I had it from the actOTs in the scene
described* Whe% 1 remarked that it
was quite in the spirit Elizabeth
of Siberia, the lady exclSuined, “ Ah
in a trie re in'a dip Id me me cho ?r* H My 41
mother made the same f f *
The Duel, a Parisian jf*»y.--Las.t
Saturdy a Chefd’Escadron ‘hclofcging to
a regiment of Chasseurs, after quitting
the Levee of the War Minister, went
to dine at the Palais Royal, at the
Freres Provinceaitx. vvhere he 3Cci#n
talfv found hirnself at the same tjfble
» with English Officer. The English
/officer had tsyo bottles of wine placed
be Fore him, wbich .he emtif 1 d all fjut * >k-.
■ sjngle glass, which, when full, be threw
at the French officer, tvhd “indignantly
»'ose from his seal and rook summary
* veogeabce.*. The EngUshitjan, stupiued
sudden attack of his adversary,
demanded wu*c’v was im
mediately’ agreed_to* Vnt; the
man reque ued a cp|ar#*r of an nouaTo
go so rh is ar m dj* ’hi accord in gl y we nX
out, and soon nfieyj return erf ‘wt%jg ytwo
The place was not very Coh-x
venient for a duel,/and as, Jbesides, it
was very late, they agreedbo decide sss
•in a private loom! The .EogTish-nan
Imposed that only|a
be lorded which sjioiikl, be drawqpby
chance. and thiis earh to run the hazard
f)f blowing put brains! This
was accepted The pistols
fcWere put into a hat, and - each inimedU
&tely drew forth^c fek",’-- chef d’Es
cadrph, impatienttd pusSn cnd>. to the
business? placed the pistol in'his mouth’,
and pulled the trigger* but he happened
to select the one not loaded
he Englishman! with phlegm which
iie had hitherto ! manifested- drehv the
ramrod, put it tijjto has pistol, ahd find
ing that it was loaded, immediately ob
served, I begin to think that I have
the right one-*'—He then pau3ed, H ask.
’ ed the (henchman if he had.,any chil
dren, and Said “ I wish to settle my as--
fairs ; I request an hour and a half’—/
will give all your life, replied the French*,
man, and at the ‘same Jtime he insisted
Chat an end should be’put to the busi
ness,. The Englishman* persisted in
his depianci, promising his adversary J
that he would not be found deficient ‘ in
hanor-*—' They forthwith separated* and
four'hours afterwards the Fl’ench oicer
received a note from the. Englishman,
informing that at the moment when he
should read that letter, he should be no
-more; he msde apologies
foE having employed four hours instead
of one and a half, but he assured him
that his afiairs . indispensably -required
it- As soon as the English officer had
put his affairs into order, he had his
bed, warmed, went into it, and a few
minutes afteawards bltpv his brains out!
The Frenchman and the Englishman
were, both of them men of honor; but
it is afilicting to humanity to see the
barbarous custom of duelling yet prevail
%an age oLknowJedge and philosophy.
London paper •
An interesting account of the. vpyage
of the bold but unfortunate La Pey
rouse, who sailed from France about
years since on a. voyage of discovery,
and respecting whose fate so much con
jecture has‘ been made-ris sh th^
; was obtained from Mr.
4 Dagelet, the astronomer, who accompa
nied Pey rouse— and who was taken of£
from a rock, in lßis, at the east of the
Philippine islands. La Perouse was
born in prance irt 1741. Me distin
guished himself by niany years, ser
vices to the India sea in the .early part
of his life. During the Amertfen wa,r,
he served under d’Estaing, and distin
guished hi mseif at the taking of Grenada.
After the peace of 178,3, he was selected
by Louis XVI. the Astro
labe and the Broussole on a voyage of
-.discovery. He began his voyage by
lollowing the tract of, captain Cook*
visited the north west coast, advanced to
Behring, streights,* thence down the
eastern coast of Asia, along Japan; and.
in Feb* 1788 visited Botany bay. A *
narrative of his voyage thus far has been
published- From the time of hearing
.Botany bay* nothing has been heard of {
.him till the present discovery In 1791;
Jthe French national assembly sent two
[ships in search of bins but after explor
ing the seas which he was supposed to
have visited’ they returned without the
least intelligence of his fate. If appears
that one of Fey rouse’s two vessel! after
leaving Botany Bay, in 1788, struck
upon* a chain of rocks and was lost
crew saved by rouse’s vessel ,* they
afterwards discovered an island in the
S, S. E. of New Zealand* ahd anchored
k in the bay, when this vessel accidentally
f caught on fire an d/sis consumed—that
the natives during the first twentey one
years vyere amicably disposed ; but Pey
rouse tirpd ,of waiting for relief and
anxious to return home, ordered trees to
be felled for timber to build a vessel—
j the natives considered this* an act of
hostility, war commenced, and finally
| Fey rouse and ail who were with him
j were mas sacred except Datjelet &nd 17
| others ; who - escaped alter great perils*
f lu birch canoes to the place where he
f was found, and where he resided two
f years— those who escaped with him had
all died— an i Dagalet himself died a
few days, after he was taken from off
the rock,. His journal of events was
preserved and deposited at IVJacoa, from
the account is received.
.; fThe At the ,conclusion of
the - A me’ricaiifß eVql utibn", €> r. FtanklinV
t4ie English f Emjfassadbr’j B arid the
• French Minister dining to
gether at yerjaiHes, a toast from e-ach
, for and agreed to. The
British
the 3d—who, like tbcSuh in its meridi
an, spreads lustre throughout and .en
lightens the world.’** *Tht£ French Min
,ister followed with, “ .the illustrious Lou
& 16f$~w.]iq» Jikte thfe Moon, sbetL its
mild and benignant rayfc on, and influ
ences ; the globe.” ,Our ; Ameiieaik
Franklin then gave, “ George Washing
ton, tommander of the. American a’ my—~
’ who, like dbshua of old, comniam'ed
the Sun and Moon to stand itillj and
they obeytd bln}.
to ....
./Messrs, Forsyth and Cos. Pa
tent Gun-makers, beg leave ts»
inform those who may be unac
quainted with the merits of ths
Forsy tii Loch, that it ignites the
charge by means of percus
sion without the use ,of flint—
thafjif is secure ffom fain or
damp in the pripring—and that
from the instantaneous and com
plete inflammation oi the powder
huthe gfi .S with this
Lock, have been found by uni
versal experience to kill at a
much longer distance than when;
the i lint Lock is used.
; The Town of Petersburg.—lt gives US
pleasure to observe, by that valuable
pgper, the “ Petersburg Intelligencer,”
that this town has .risen, like the Pbce
flix, from its ashes, and Is rapidly advan
cing to. such a State of improvement as
to cause the late fire there to be regarde#
rather as a subject of congratulation
than regret. . „• .
;4r\V. LATE FROM CADIZ..
‘Extract of a letter from 4f2» America *
gentleman in Cadiz , to his brother iTO
Boston , dated January 11. ‘ -
“ The Spanish 9d-gun ship San Fer
nando, in coming dowii the Streights*
under convoy of the Constellation frigate
met with a violent gale and was lost
neat Algiers* She s had on .board two
Lieutenants and sixty men, Americans
,?The Americans on board the above
ship belonged to the frigate United
States, and she sailed in co. with that
frigate from port Mahon for Carthage
naf on the 4th of December. Iho
next day she lost her mizen topmast it*
a gale and parted from the legate—
The Americans had taken care of her
c 4^. m «Bss t i f \