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can cite in favour of their pretensions. This law, which originated in times of ignorance and barbarism, while it declared enemy's property found in neutral vessels good prize, enacted that the captor should pay the out-fitter the stipulated freight.At present the English seize enemy's property, without paying the freight.England, however, did not think that the advantages given her by the Convention of the 17th of June, 1801, were sufficiently great; and Sweden was compelled to grant her an additional benefit, by authorizing her to retain, according to her caprice, at part of the maritime supplies which certain States of the Continent might endeavour to procure by the channel of Swedish vessels. This is the result of the convention concluded between England and Sweden on the 25th of July last.-[The Moniteur baving then given the text of the Convention with the Court of Stockholm, concludes its animadversions in the following terms:England thus exercises the right of preemption with respect to the reserved articles of merchandize; that is, retains them for her own use, not only when found in vessels bound to an enemy's port, but also when found in such vessels bound to neutal ports as appear to be in danger of falling into the hands of the enemy.- -From the establishment of this hitherto unheard of right, the new creation of maritime despotism, it is evident that the merchandize subject to pre-emption cannot arrive on board Swedi-h vessels in the ports of the Continent but at the pleasure of the English.--England has exacted this new treaty of Sweden as the price of the tardy and partial justice which she is pleased to give her with regard to the value of the Convoys detained for five years, and for which she at length pays her 6000 crowns of Hamburgh currency. Not having the same bargain to make with the other powers, England will probably not obtain from them the same concessions; but there can be no doubt that she will make every effort to induce them to adopt the Convention of the 17th of June, 1801. It does not hitherto appear that the Court of Berlin, that of Naples, or even that of Lisbon, have departed from the principles of neutrality universally received in 1780. Besides a few variations in policy cannot alter principles. There are, doubtless, situations in which governments are influenced by combinations which, depending only on the calculations. of the moment, suggest only dispositions according to circumstances, and thus produce nothing more than temporary conven

tions. We cannot suspect the Northern Powers of being indifferent upon questions which interest the civilization of Europe and the liberty of the seas. Every state must see that these questions depend upon the event of the present war; and in this view also, as in so many other respects, the cause of France is the cause of all nations.

PUBLIC PAPERS.

NOTE delivered to the FOREIGN MINISTERS at CON. STANTINOPLE, on the 20th of September, 1803; di•' claring the intention of the SUBLIME PORTE to preserve a STRICT NEUTRALITY during the war.

In the war by sea and land, which began between France and England in the year of the He gira 1207 (1792), the Porte which was in friendship with both powers, and neutral, signified its resolution by a note, that the ships of the said powers should not molest or attack each other ou the coasts of the Ottoman Empire, under the cannon of the fortresses of Asia or Europe, or the Islands of the White Sea, or at a less distance from land than three miles; and that the respective Consuls should use every exertion to restrain those who would make such attacks in the vicinity of the harbours. It was then resolved, and the or dinance is now renewed, that the strictest inquiries should be made to arrest and punish such subjects of the Porte as should engage to serve on board privateers. No Mussulman, who is a subject, shall embark any commodities on board the ships of the said powers, without being provided with the necessary documents from their respective Consuls. When an engagement shall take place between the ships of the Belligerent Powers, no Captain of a Turkish ship of war, or any other Turkish subject, shall interfere in favour of either of the parties. And as the Sublime Porte, in the new war which has commenced between France and England, has determined to abide by the same system of neutrality between the English Court and the French Republic, it has transmitted the ordinance necessary for that purpose to his Highness the Capitan Pacha; and it will also be communicated in writing to all the Foreign Ministers. CONVENTION between his BRITANNIC MAJESTY and the KING of SWEDEN. Concluded at London on the 25th of July, 1803.

His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and his Majesty the King of Sweden, being equally desirous of promoting the good understanding which happily subsists between them, and of preventing the recurrence of those differences which have heretofore arisen respecting the eleventh article of the treaty of alliance concluded and signed at Whiteh I, on the 21s: day of October, 1661, have named and autho rised for that purpese, viz. his Britannic Majesty, the Right Hon. Robert Banks Jenkinson, Lord Hawkesbury, one of his said Majesty's most honourable Privy Council, and his principal Secretary of State for the Foreign Department, and his Swedish Majesty, George Uldric Baron de Silve h jelm, his Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to his Britannic Majesty, and Kaight of the order of the Polar Star, who after having duly communicated to each other their respective full powers, have agreed upon the following artis cies--Art. 1. In the event of one of the con

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PROCLAMATION of the BATAVIAN GOVERNMENT Y specting NEUTRAL COMMERCE, dated on the 5th of July, and read in the Sitting of the Legislative Body on the 1st of November, 1803.

1. All such neutral vessels as are laden with iron, northern timber, and other articles necessary for ship building, and which cannot be procured from the North, shall be admitted into the harbours of this Republic, without being provided with the certificates mentioned in the second article of the said proclamation.II. All neutral vessels, which have been absolutely compelled to enter the Kingdom of Great Britain, provided they have not there broken bulk, taken in any part of their lading, and provided their lading be not suspected, shall be allowed to enter the ports of this Republic-III. That articles, whether the production of the soil of this Republic, or of the industry of its inhabitants, which, according to the third article of the said proclamation, must be taken in return, may also be introduced into this country; but in this case shall be subject to those regulations, and to the payment of those duties which have been established by the laws.IV. That in general all ar ticles which cannot be considered as coming originally from the Kingdom of Great Britain, or from any of its Colonies, may be brought into the harbours of this Republic, the above Proclamation of the 5th of July in other respects still remaining

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tracting parties being neutral during a war in which the other contracting party may be belligerent, the vessels of the neutral party shall not curry to the enemy or enemies of the belligerent party, money, arms, or bombs, with their fusees and other appurtenances, fire-balls, gunpowder, matches, cannon-balls, spears, lances, pikes, halberts, guns, mortars, petards, grenadoes, musketrests, handaliers, saltpetre, muskets, musket bullets, helmets, head pieces, breast-plates, coats of mail, commonly called cuirasses, and the like kind of arms, or troops, horses, or any thing necessary for the equipment of cavalry, or pistols, belts, or any other instruments of war, or ships of war, and gaard ships, nor any manufactured articles immediately serving for the equipment of the same, under the penalty, that if either of the contracting parties shall seize the same, these artieles shall be liable to confiscation-Art. 2. The cruizers of the belligerent power shall exercise the right of bringing in the ships of the neutral going to the ports of an enemy, laden with cargoes of provisions, or with cargoes of pitch, tar, hemp, and generally all unmanufactured articles whatever, serving for the equipment of ships of all descriptions, and likewise all manufactured articles serving for the equipment of merchant vessels, (herrings, iron in bars, steel, rose copper, brass and brass wire, deal, planks not being oak, and spars, however, excepted), and if the cargoes so exported in the bottoms of the neutral power, are the produce of the territories of the said neutral power, and going on ac. count of the subjects thereof, the belligerent power shall, in that case, exercise the right of purcha sing them, upon condition of paying a profit of ten per centum upon a fair invoice price, or the fair market price in England or in Sweden respectively, at the option of the owner, with an indemnification for detention and necessary expenses.Art. 3. If the cargoes specified in the preceding article (not being enemy's property) are proceeding with a professed destination to the ports of a neutral country, and are brought in under suspicion that their true destination is to the ports of the enemy, and it shall turn out upon due inquiry that they were really bound to neutral ports, they shall be at liberty to pursue their voyages, after being indemnified for their detention and necessary expenses; unless the government of the belligerent country, from a reasonable apprehension of their falling into the hands of the enemy, should desire to purchase them, in which case the full price shall be paid, which they would have obtained in the ports of the neutral country to which they were going, with an indemnification for detention and necessary expenses.--Art. 4. Herrings, iron in bars, steel, rose copper, brass and brass wire, deal, planks not being of oak, and spars, shall not be liable to confiscation or pre-emption on the part of the belligerent power, but shall be permitted to pass free in the ships of the neutral country, provided they are not an enemy's property.Art. 5. The present convention shall be ratified by his Britannic Majesty, and by his Swedish Majesty, and the ratifications exchanged at London, in the space of two months, or sooner if it can be done.In witness whereof, we, the undersigned Plenipotentiaries of his Britannic Majesty, and of his Swedish Majesty, have signed the present convention, and have caused the seals of our arms to bedon, the 25th day of July, 1803.

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1.S.) JORDAN ULDRIC SILVERHJELM.

INTELLIGENCE.

FOREIGN. On the 20th of September, the Sublime Porte caused a note to be presented to all the Foreign Ministers at Constantinople, declaring his intention to preserve the strictest neutrality, during the continuance of the present war. -The Turkish forces opposed to Paswan Oglou, have lately obtained an advantage over a body of troops, which he had dispatched on a predatory incursion into some of the northern countries, near Widdin.- --The fleet of the Capitan Pacha was, on the receipt of the last intelligence, lying off the Island of Chio. In answer to a remonstrance made to the Regency of Tunis, on the part of the British Government, against French privateers being suffered to bring their prizes into that port, it was stated, "that British "vessels might, if they pleased, claim simi"lar indulgences, with respect to captures "made by them, from France or any other

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power." --Letters from Malaga, dated on the 8th of October, give information of the prevalence of an epidemical disease, to which great numbers of the inhabitants of that place have fallen victims. It rages with peculiar malignity, among the shipping in the port, and in those streets which lie contiguous to the harbour. The last mail from Lisbon brings intelligence that

the sum which the Portuguese Government has consented to pay, as the price of its neutrality, is twenty millions of crusadoes, which is upwards of two millions sterling.

-The French and German newspapers speak confidently of a pacific negotiation now carrying on between the Court of Petersburgh, and that of Berlin. The objects of it are said to be, the immediate relief of the north of Germany, and the restoration of peace between France and England. The last papers from Paris, however, assert that M. Champagny had made an official communication to the Emperor, that the last mentioned object of the negotiation had completely failed. In consequence of an affray which took place between a small recruiting party of English, and another of French, at Moorbourg, a village near Harbourg, the Senate of Hamburgh has issued an ordinance forbidding all recruiting in its territory, by any of the Belligerent Powers, and declaring that it will be considered as a violation of its neutrality.I etters from Manheim state, that Baron Thugot has lately made some efforts to regain the influence, which he formerly held at the Court of Vienna, but that the opposite party, at the head of which is Prince Charles, had frustrated his intentions. The Prince has again given his opinion, in the Council of State, in favour of the system of neptrality which Austria has adopted.-—— At the commencement of the next year, the Prussian army is to be augmented by twenty thousand men, consisting of light cavalry, horse artillery, light dragoons, and infantry.

-Since the residence of the King of Sweden, at the Court of the Elector of Baden, an incessant exchange of couriers has taken place between the Cabinets of Stockholm and Petersburgh.The States of Hanover have been endeavouring to raise a loan in Portugal, but the security which they offered not being satisfactory, the terms were rejected. They have also made similar attempts in Germany, and, it is said, with bo better success.---The Executive Commission at Hanover has been directed to purchase twenty-five hundred horses for the First Consul; and all the towns of the

Electorate, which are situated on the direct road to France, are required to furnish twenty-five horses, every week, for the transportation of arms, &c. &c. to that Republic.--Buonaparté is still at Paris, and held a diplomatic audience on the 23d, when the Chevalier D'Azzarra, Ambassador rom his Catholic Majesty, presented his fetters of credence, as Minister Plenipoteniary from the Queen Regent of Etrura

Citizen Vos Van Steenwye, gave in his letters of recall at the same time: and his Highness the Electoral Prince of Wirtemberg had an audience.--Three new Candidates have been recommended to the Conservative Senate, among whom is Boissy d'Anglas, the tribune, and Le Brun Rochemont, brother of the third Consul--Consi derable disturbances prevail in the countries bordering the Dutch settlements at the Cape of Good Hope, in consequence of the violent contentions of some of the African Chiefs, who have even menaced Cape Town.-Two thousand men are daily employed in improving the harbour of Boulogne; and a new and complete bason is constructing in the harbour of Honfleur.

DOMESTIC.-The commission of Oyer and Terminer was opened, at Dublin, on the 29th ult. by the Lord Mayor, the right hon. Lord Viscount Avonmore, Chief Baron of his Majesty's Court of Exchequer, and the right hon. George Dally, third Baron of the said court. Quigley and Stafford were arraigned, but their trials were postponed.Several persons have been recently arrested in different parts of Ireland on suspicion of having been engaged in treasonable practices. Among them are Mr. Tandy, a wine mer. chant, the son of Napper Tandy; Mr. Lawless, a brewer, the brother of Surgeon Law. less, who made himself conpicuous in the rebellion of 1798; and three others who held official situations under the provisional government. Six persons were also brought from Naas, in the county of Kildare, and warrants have been issued for one hundred and one others, in that neighbourhood.A quantity of arms has been seized in a house near Nicholas Street.A conspiracy has been discovered among some of the soldiers of the Cavan regiment of militia, stationed in Enniscorthy, but as it was neither well planned nor widely extended, the object, was was soon frustrated.tive fever is now raging in Newcastle, and, for some days past, has carried off a great number of persons; but the magistrates are pursuing such measures as they think will speedily check its progress A young man

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was arrested on Sunday last, at an inn in Holborn, on suspicion of treason, and after undergoing an examination before Sir Richard Ford, was committed to Tothill-fields Bridewell.- -On the 5th instant, the Lord Chancellor, by virtue of his Majesty's com mission, prorogued the Parliament to the 22d of November instant, when they will meet for the dispatch of business.-The court goes into mourning on the 10th instant, for the late hereditary Princess of Mecklenburgh

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Schwerin, Princess of Russia; will change. on the 17th, and go out of mourning on the 20th.--Circular letters have been issued to the officiating minister of every parish in Sussex, requesting them to give an immediate account to government, of the amount of the crops of grain, hay, and potatoes, raised in their respective parishes, during the year 1803.--The corps constables, which it was recommended to form, in the different wards of the city, in aid of the civil power, in case of emergency, have begun to associate, and the members have taken the following oaths, previous to their complete admission. —- "I do so. lemnly and sincerely promise and swear, "that I will be faithful, and bear true "allegiance to his Majesty King George, "and his heirs and successors.' "do swear, I will well and truly execute "the office of a constable, for the pre"servation of the peace, and suppression "of riot and tumalt in this City of "London, under the direction of the Lord Mayor and Aldermen in this city, un"til I shall be discharged by the Lord Mayor." -An information was lately made at Bristol, before the Mayor and two aldermen, by the treasurer of the Royal Bristol Light Horse Volunteers, against a private of that corps, for seventeen shilLngs and six-pence, which were due for seven days' absence from roll-call and exercise. On the part of the defendant, it was contended, that the members of such corps had always the right of resigning; but the magistrates over-ruled all objections, and convicted the defendant in the amount of the fines, with the addition of double that sum, as a penalty, in pursuance of the act of 43d Geo. III. chap. 121, sec. 14.-A brigade of the Volunteers of the Metropolis, composed of the St. James's, Bloomsbury, Mary-le-bonne, and Prince of Wales's corps, was to be reviewed on the 10th instant in Hyde Park, by Earl Harring 100. At ten o'clock, which was the hoor appointed, the Bloomsbury corps were on the ground, and, at eleven, the Maryle-bonne corps made their appearance, but were immediately ordered home, by Lord Harrington. Neither of the others came; and, after performing a few evolutions, the Bloomsbury corps were dismissed.Several fatal accidents have recently hap pened among the members of the Vilunteer-corps, in London, and in different parts of the country, from their un

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thresh out all their corn, as quickly as pos sible, and have it immediately converted into meal, and so packed up, that it will be, at any time, ready to be removed into the interior of the country.--Lord Pelham's appointment to the chancellorship of the Duchy of Lancaster, was confirmed by his Majesty, after the levee held at St. James's, on the 9th instant.It is said that his predecessor Lord Liverpool, retires on a pension; and that Lord Hawkesbury will be called up to the House of Peers, previous to the next meeting of Parliament.

MILITARY.-General Berthier, minister of war, after having inspected the principal fortresses, camps, and ports in the Batavian republic, set out on his return to Paris, on the 23d of October.-The head-quarters of the French and Batavian army, which are assembled in the territories of the Batavian republic, are to be established at Utrecht, where the greatest part has arrived. Two battalions of the 104th brigade, arrived there, from Zealand, on the 27th ultimo, and two of the 11th, from Gouda, on the 28th. The whole of the troops, which will be collected there, will be formed into regiments, conform bly to the system recently adopted by the First Consul.-The third battalion of the Batavian infantry, which was encamped on the downs, near Krantje Lek, has been marched through Haarlem to Amsterdam; and the first bats talion will be marched to the Briel, and the Helvoet, where it will be followed by the regiment of Saxe-Gotha, from' Delft.--The military preparations at Brussels, Ghent, Bruges, Ostend, Dunkirk, Calais, St. Omer, and Boulogne, have all been minutely inspected by the minister of war. At Brussels, he gave directions that all the artillery and horses, which had not been sent to headquarters, should be immediately sent to Bruges, where he gave orders for completing the expedition by all possible means.--General d'Avonst's army, which amounts to nearly 60,000 men, will be immediately embarked at Be kens, Ostend, and Dunkirk, where a detachment of the consular guards has just arrived.--General Demarrois, one of the aides-de-camp to the First Consul, has been appointed to the inspection of the armies on the coast, between Brest and Concale; and General St Sebastiani has a similar appointment for those between the mouth of the Vilain and Brest.-General Malker and Billiard, have also received appointments in the army intended for the invasion of England. The camp near Villers Cotterets,

hantilly and Compiegne consists, at present, principally of dragoons, under the command of General Baraguay d'Hiliers. The

infantry in Switzerland has received orders to join the camp, and that army will then be commanded by General Ney. The cavalry will remain in Switzerland some time longer, under General Barbou, and will receive reinforcements from France. The troops encamped at Shorncliffe, under General Moore, were inspected on the 1st inst. by Lieutenant General the Earl of Chatham: many persons of distinction were present at the review. -Colonel Wolff, and the 70th regiment, have left the camp, on their route to Portsmouth, where they are to be embarked for the West Indies.-A party of five hundred men is constantly employed in erecting a battery at Cop Point, near Folkestone.-In the course of the last week, three detachments of the 9th battalion of the army of reserve, commanded by Lord Craven, passed through Chester, on their way to Liverpool, where they will embark for Ireland. Several detachments of the 8th battalion have already been sent from there, for the same destination.

-On the 6th inst. a considerable quantity of artillery passed through town, for the west of England; and, on the day following, twelve pieces of ordnance, together with howitzers and ammunition waggons, passed through for Tynemouth.-On the 4th inst. Lord Moira, attended by Lieutenant-General Vyse, and the other officers of the staff, reviewed about ten thousand men, on PortoBello Sands, near Edinburgh. The right wing was formed of the first brigade, commanded by Major-General Sir James St. Clair Erskine, and consisting of the royal artillery, third regiment of dragoon guards, Edinburgh N. B. militia, mid. Lothian V. infantry, and Forfairshire N. B. militia; and of the third brigade, commanded by Colonel the Earl of Dalkeith, and consisting of the Renfrewshire N. B. militia, Dumfries N. B. militia, and Mid. Lothian V. cavalry: the left wing was formed of the fourth brigade, commanded by Colonel Campbell, and consisting of R. E.V. artillery, Argyleshire N. B. militia, E. R. reg., and 1st regiment R. E. V.; and of the second brigade, commanded by Brig. Gen. Earl of Dalhousie, and consisting of 1st. bat. 2d reg. R. E.V., royal Leith volunteers, 2d bat. 2d reg. R. E.V., 18th regiment of foot, and R. M. L. vol. artillery.

NAVAL. It is stated in the foreign papers, that the Batavian naval force, in the Texel, amounts to ten sail of the line, several frigates, and about four hundred armed merchant ships, besides a great number of schuyts with covered decks. At Brussels, and the different ports of Belgium, an embargo has been laid on all merchant vessels; and their crews have been put into requisition, to aid in

the invasion of England. A similar measure was adopted at Dunkirk, on the 15th of Oct.

-Above two hundred transports are assembled at Ostend; and all sailors and fishermen, and boys above twelve years old, are ordered to be in readiness to embark, the moment they may receive warning. On the 16th ultimo, a convoy of eighteen gun-boats, besides several small vessels. got safely out of Havre, and joined the flotilla at Boulogne. -On the same day, a flotilla of twenty-six armed vessels, and several transports, made good their passage from St. Maloes to Brest, whence they will sail for the place of their destination.-The French squadron, now in the harbour of Ferrol, consists of one ship of 84 guns, and three of 74: that in Corunna, of one ship of S4 guns, and two frigates of 44 guns. There are, besides, a Batavian 74 gun ship and two frigates at Ferrol. Sir Edward Pellew's squadron, off those harbours, consists of three ships of 84 guns, three of 74 guns, and two frigates.-The British naval force in Bantry Bay, consists of seven sail of the line and several frigates; and, it is said, will immediately be increased.--The large fishing-boats of Brighton are to be furnished with false decks, &c. for the purpose of taking on board, one and two 12-pound car ronades to annoy the French, if they should approach the coast of Sussex.-The vessels employed in the defence of the Thames are one of 40 guns, and nine of 24 guns.-A very severe press took place on the river, during the night of the 9th instant; and as no respect, whatever, was paid to protections, a great number of excellent men were obtained for the navy.-On the same night, a pressgang at Margate took some persons, whom the peace officers of the town attempted to rescue, contending that they were improperly taken: the press-gang, however, vexed at their opposition, seized the whole party, and took them on board ship.-On the morning of the 31st ultimo, six French sloops, some of which were armed, came out of Etaples, under convoy of a large gun-brig, and stood eastward, towards Boulogne. Captain Ho neyman, in the Leda, immediately made signal to the Harpy and the Lark, which were in company, to begin the chase; but when he came off Boulogne, he discovered the Admiral Mitchell cutter, commanded by Lieut. Sheppard, who immediately ran down, within musket-shot, and commenced a welldirected attack, which he continued for two hours and a half, under the batteries of Patel, and finally succeeded in driving the brig and one of the sloops on shore. Notwithstanding the superior force of the enemy, who mounted twelve 32-pounders, the Admiral

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