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grand expedition. The delicate
manner in which Petion has con
dncled this requTition, has increai'ed
our refpedl for him j and I have no
doubt but all the parties will be
amply compenfa:ed by Petion for
any iofs or damage done to the vef
fds or property.
At the critical moment that the
whole fleet were ready to fail, news
of the arrival from Jaimai
ca, at Aux-Cayes of one ofPeti
on’s (Inips ; Die was immediately
put under Indigene; colors, and fail
ed for this place, and we hourly
her. On her arrival, the
HAadron will confift of two heavy
BHps of 20 guns, 18 and 24 poun
tyrs. the three mailed fchooner,
Ehe brig Kate, the fchooners Inde
pendence, Prcfident, and Rebecca,
manned, and with from 12, to
men. This is by far the moil
BBHLdnblc expedition we have [ten
HBvti, and will not only com
blockade or annihilate Chris-
naval force, but will, it is
fupoofed aft on the ofFenfive—So
need not be furprifed to
lifelilML war brought to lffue
rt time ; for it Petion, as
■. , PTI, marches by land ; and La
with his augmented force,
Hp£hat which he now has at the
PTvTole, advances towards the cape,
■there is almcft a certainty of fuc
; ,f We find by letters from Lon
don cf the 14th December, that
Bfcgland has officially declared, the
of Playti. Britifh fub
jedts and all others are allowed free
ly to trade to Hayti, the fame as
to other neutral ports. This im
portant aft widens the range of
commerce to this country, and we
fhall prefently be inundated with
Britifh veflels and fabricks.”
FOREIGN NEWS. .
NEW-YORK, April 20.
Laft evening arrived at this port,
the brig Cumberland, captain Me
ferve, in 44 days from Liverpool,
which place the veffel left on the
6<h of March, and captain Mefcrve
has politely favored the editor of
the Mercantile Advertiffcr with a
file of the London Courier to the
evening of the jd of March, from
which we have copied the following
anicles of intelligence.
The examination of the duke of
York had been re fumed, and was
progrtffing ; and it was the opinion
of the editor of the Courier, that
the duke would be put to trial.—
Our London papers are nearly filled
with the examination of the witneff
es againft the duke.
Our former accounts left the
Bred fleet at fea—we now find them
at Rochefort, but not in a very
ftrong fituation—for fays the Lon
don Courier—
“ The object of the Bred fleet
was, in the firfl indance, to furprife
our Iquadron off Rochefort, con
fi fling of four fail of the line, then
to join the Rochefort, and proceed
from thence to Ferrol, where uni
ted to the Ferrol fquadron, their
combined force would have amount
ed to 20 fail of the line. It has
been reported, thac on their paflage
to Rochefort, the Bred fleet called
<ff L’Orienr, and joined by the
Iquadron there—but this, we under
fland, is not the fad ; they made
their way dired to Rochefort.—
The enemy had no fooner got into
Bafque Roads than admiral Stbp
ford was joined by three fail of the
line, which had been blockading
L’Orient. The admiral has now
under him the Caefar, Donegal,
Defiance, Triumph, Valiant, Re
venge and Thefeus. He would
foon be joined by the diviflo'n under
admiral Duckworth, which had been
difpatched by lord Gambier to
cruife off Cape Finifferre, his lord
fhip very naturally fuppofing that
the enemy would pufh for Ferrol.-**-
The Caledonia, his lordlhip’s fhip,
fupplied admiral Duckworth with
all her provifions, which obliged
her to return to Plymouth to pro
cure a frefh fupply. The frigates
belonging to the Breft fLet were a
good w f ay behind the line of battle
(hips, and hence we were enabled
to drive them under the batteries
of the Sables d’Olonne. The Cae
fer wai left keeping up a tremen
dous fire upon them, and it was.
hoped would be able to e ffeft their
definition. The Breft fleet was
in Bafque Roads and expectations,
as we dated yefterday, are enter
tained that their capture or dtftruc
tion may be effected.”
In the houfe of commons, March
5, Mr. Whitbread moved for an
account of duties levied on exporta
tion, in CGnfequence of the aft3 of
Lit fefflon,. fubfequent to, and in
purfuance of the iyftem laid down
in the orders of council. Ordered..
He then made fome obfervations
on the fubjeft of the papers relative
to America, which had been laid on
the table, not being printed. He
thought that the correfpondence
between Mr. Canning and Mr.
Pinkney, and Mr. Role and Mr.
Madifon, ought, from their im
portance, to have been in the hands
of every member of parliament
-—but did not make any motion on
the fubjyft.
Lord Fulkerfon's motion for a
call of the houfe on the Bth of March,
was carried in the houfe of com
mons on the firft of March—lo 2
to 15.
London, March i.
A queftion was afked by Mr.
Ponfonby in the houfe of commons
yefterday whether the treaty which
had been faid to be on the eve of
being concluded with Spain, had
been as yet ratified ? And 2d.
whether the report to which he had
alluded on a former night, viz., that
the force fent from Lifcon, had
been refufed admiflion into Cadiz,
was true or not ?
Mr. Canning replied to the firft
queftion, that the treaty had not been
received, and to the fecond,that he
could not give any precife anfwer,
though he did not know of any fuch
circumftance having taken place..
The gallant fir David Baird is im
mediately to be elevated to the
Peerage, with the title of Vifcount.
Sir John Moore's family are to
have penfions.
Gen. Hope is to be made a baro
net, and get the firft red ribbon.
Our communication with Sweden
and the Baltic is-at length opened,
and this morning i<pof the i6Got
tenburgh mails due arrived. On
the 13d of December five Britifh
and three Swedilh (hips of war, with
a convoy of twelve merchant vef
fel-s, failed for England, part of
which were loft by the ice and part
captured by the Danes—fome of
the prizes were alfo loft in the lame
way.
March 3.
Fcccs between Greet- Britain and
Turkey—probability of war bst weeu
Aujiria and trance.
Dutch papers arrived this morn
ing to the 28th ult. They contain
very important intelligence. War
between Auftria and France is open
ly fpoken of, and an article in rhe
Leyden paper, of the 47th, informs
us of the meafures which have been
adopted by the cabinet of Vienna;
measures which can only have been
adopted i’n the contemplation of an
immediate war.
Peace has certainly been conclud
ed between Turkey and Great-Bri
tain. ft was signed by the Turkifh
minister, Hakki, Effendi, and Mr.
Adair. A fre 111 insurrection had
broken out at Conftantinople, and
the peace with England is said, in an
article from Vienna, to have been
the immediate consequence of it.
The Russian generals, as soon as
they were informed of the event*
broke off all negociation with the
Turks.
Peace with Turkey was signed on
the sth of January.
An article from Arragon, dated
the nth of February, mentions,.that
there are 40,000 men in arms de
fending Saragofla; that Junotis be
seiging it; that the works and trench
es are pufhed on to the gates of the
town and a bombardment kept up
without intermiftion. The enemy
hope to force the place to surrender
by famine, more than by force of
arms..
Lintz, Feb. 8, (via France.)
ff The anxiety which the re
port of anew war in Auftria had oc
cafioned, has been augmented py the
late meafures of the court of Vienna.
It is certain chat fome light corps
are to be formed, which will be
fent to join different regiments.—
Other military preparations are
likewife making, and magazines are
forming in Bohemia and Auftria.—
M. Falhendcr, who in the late cam
paigns was principal Commiffary to
the Auftrian army, has been again
appointed to that poft, and the
Count de Guinne, formerly adju
tant general to Archduke Charles,
has been appointed adjutant to the
emperor. The Archduke Fer
dinand is to take the Chief Com -
mand of an Auftrian army in Bohe
mia, if war ftiould break out, and
Count Beliegarde will command an
army in Carinthia and Carniola.—
In the mean time feveral Generals
who commanded cn the Turkifh
frontiers, have been recalled to Vi
enna. Many perfens however
doubt, whether the Archduke
Charles approves the meafures of the
court, and will be willing to enter
into anew war. In the conference
which have been held on the fub
jeft, and at which both that Prince
and the Archduke Ferdinand, the
Brother of the Emprefs, were pre
fent, it is faid, anew general levy
was fpoken of, and different meaf
ures propofed to render it agreeable
to the people. -Thofe molt expe
rienced in military affairs eftimate
the whole of our regular troops at
i43>coa men—but it is not prafti
cable to find a train of artillery fuf
ficienc for an army of 60,c00 men.
Leyden Ceurant , Feb. 27.
Wl ■IIIIIWI 1 , i i■ ■
SHERIFF’S BLANK TITLES
FOR SALE
AT THIS OFFICE. •
GEORGIA EXPRESS.
- ■ ■ 1
ATHENS , MAT 13.
Anfwer to the Ffuejlion in cur laft.
The waggon loads , computing each
to carry one ton, will be 83.325, the
diameter of the fphere will be 42^ feet
and 69 hundrethsy the circumference
134 feet and 17 hundreths y the miles
which the waggons will cover (that
is allowing each waggon to cover 40
feet) is 631 miles , and the folid con
tent of the above fphere will be 410*
201,538 cubic inches.
B.
Athens, Franklin College, - )
May 9, 1809. y
By laft evening's Mail.
VERY LATE FROM FRANCE-
Bc/fon y April 27.
The French letter of marque L**
Efperence, captain Deplace, arrived I
here on Tuefday, in a fhort paffage- 1
from Bourdeaux. A French gen- I
tleman, a paflerger, politely favor- j
ed us with a file of French papers i
to the 19,:h of laft month—and a.
manufeript copy of anew Imperial
Decree. A few tranflations from
the papers, and the decree, will be
found below.
The accounts from the European,
continent, inthefe papers, are near
ly a month later than before receiv-,
cd.—War between France and Auf-i
tria had not commenced, though the
declaration of it was daily expected.
The French Amhaffador, and the
Minifters of the Confederation of’
the Rhine, had quitted Vienna; and’
all the troops in the North, under
the control of Bonaparte, were mi
motion. One hundred thoufand off
the troops, which were in Spain,
had returned into France; and were,
moving towards Bavaria. The Em
peror was in Paris at the laft date..
We find but little mention made off
Ruffia ; and that little did not ind? 4
cate any thing like her taking a part
in the war againft Auftria. Thtf
peace between Turkey and England
is attributed in the Paris papers
the interference of Austria*
The tidings from Spain are late*
—Saragcffa surrendered the 241
Feb. after a- memorable siege : thd*
particulars, of which fill three of the*
papers. —About 10,000 men of the •
garrifon had pafTed thro* Bayonne!,..
—The South of Spain had notbeeib
over-run, not had Cadiz been in -
veiled. The French had;-entered l
Oporto, (Portugal) and were adt*
vancing on Lifbon.
[translations.]
Vienna Feb. 23.
The Wurtemberg and Bavaria: s
Ambaffadors are about to quit thi 5
capital. The different corps of ou r
army are to be commanded by
Archdukes, and by generals Li'tch *
enftein, Rofamburg, Klenau, Kalio -
wart and Beliegarde. ‘
Peterjhurg Jan. 1 6.
The Auftrian ambaffador, Prim e-
Schwarzenberg has had his firft ai -
dience of his Majefty-, and had a coi -
ference of an hour and an half wi l h
him in his clofe' c .
Pa r is March 22.
The V' ienn a Court Gazette con
tinues t 0 give all the absurdities of
’Englifh journals. The manner
i r . which the events in Turkey are
recounted, prove evidently that
Auftria b.as contributed ali m rcr