Western Sun, Volume 3, Number 37, Vincennes, Knox County, 8 September 1810 — Page 2

lu:!::nrc August 9. COPFKR MINK. A valuable Copper mine, is faid to have be-a iliUovcicJ oti tlir i-ini of mr. Bn jani. B w"ii, about five miles from this city on the Falls turnpike road. fli'tttnjrr, August 10. FROM FRANCE. The fliip George Dyer, Collard, from Brd-ux in the By Ihefuled from Bor-d-ux, 8:U June. C ipt. J acobs of this port (tmr up ii j pilot butt this morning, he reposts ih it there was no change in the relations bvtween Fi nce ami the U. States. Ml Lt, th" American conful at Bordeaux, h.d LikiMi the ili;p Ann, of New York, to convey h'miirlf and f-tmilv to the United S ties, in vvi icli l!io moll of the officers and crews of the American vrfiVls detained a: St. Sebaftios would t.ke their pafTige. The Ihip .SMly, in which gen. Armftrong ws coming, was daily expected at lLr-ci-dUX ; it w s not known when he would leave France. The George Dyer, was detained a few hours by the Britith fquadron eff Kochelle, was examined and rcleafed. She has a threat number of letters on board, and my be expected up in the courfe of this day. (Coffee House Books, J

Wc hive been politely furniflied with a file of Bordeaux papers to June 2d they contain very little of intereft. Cpt. Collard informs us. that Americans were very delicately lituited in France; that general AnnlUon advifed all to leave the country as foon frs p flinle. We have made the following extras in hafte. The Britannia from Nantucket, cf 80 tons, C'pt. Cofiin, was entered at the cuf torn h.iufe Bjrdeaux, on the 22d May laft. News from Conftantinople about the laft of M ut.h, ftate, th at there are a number of Britilh officers in the army of the Grand Vizier, who are particularly odious to the JamflVies, among- whom many hateful diftmcliar.s have arifen, fuch as gave rife to the revolution which broke out under the jmgn animous Mulhpha Bairadtar. The profpectsof the farmer in fome of :he departments of France are not very proininng ; ftorms, t-mp'fts, rain, hail and fo ds, have drvaft.ted during the whole nunth of May the department of Upper Garonne, fpreading throughout fevcral communes terror and difmay. An article from Str-fbarg, of May 28, gives an account of the funeral honors paid to the deceafed generals, duke of MontibelJo and St. Hdliare, upon delivering them to the convoy nfligned to bring them to France. D fcharges of artillery were made at the fortifications on the route in honor of thefc, deccafed warriors. Tranfluions from Bordeau papers, received at the cfHce of the American. Ssmlin, Jfay 1 1 The Turks, who appear to dread more and more a rupture with France, inftead ot fattening the yoke they have impofed on tiie Chnltiaus, as would feem natural, ufe thrm with greater cruelty than ever. lijdirsnf Turks overrun the Greek villages of Bifnia, plunder, and commit every kind of rxceflVs. which increafes the emigration of the Greeks into Illyria. Vie ma, Miij 1G. The treaty conduced between our court and Rulli . relative to the cellion of 400 L'.O iV-i its, ItipnLted by th.e tre .ty of Vienna, his been puMilhtd here. The line of c: -m-rktion between the two countries no.v pirrr. by I Ii- z I -iru. . Ti.rre hs hrr tuiiv.-rly a cr.n finer able entrepot of Kulh r,i commerce at Pert zow C in'uiti- t i:iun'ii!e eti -.ntitirs ot iu jar ad roifee. hv wav cf thr B'a(k Sea. This p--! !jie has arrived th' re lr om O ielfi, fon which i: h;s b-rn brought irom the Levant, w-' -rr the merchant;. z no puce to receive it.

EsrJe-s ' thr LI': Mjv 19. Letters ti-'-r. l'nrit- tt ti.ry ase afl.vrlv f-utihr'g at d furt, i v. r.h ?r tilinv. the p r's iti ( :t ot lilyr:?. v.-r'-ri I i !' r i 4 n , Fr-n h. Ita'!;) ando!i,tt - U '!ll h J fiirtv 4f,(l ;"0.; -Tt -Jil '.tIc;! p- T 1 .in t ncir.v f t !i.:"-' inr i r t r. Tt'.s e fur'- very !- o t h- na i(rtmr 4t,.j cniiUl.Tfe "f T ' " !.!t-, at I ' t u.ti y. t. T..ls W,H I,p r,;rd ec rv Jari'rv - Kng'iMi cf;rii. v- l" fieri Yiii t!.:!; ic-i. icvciil :r,3;U

laden with nrtill.-iy of lirq;e calihre, have failed from Trieite for Urn age, Fola, Cittanova and offer ports ; others will follow them to farniih the coall of Crotia with fulfil ient artillery. Several ciuizers have already failed from Fiumeand Trielle, and probably from othei ports of Jllyria, who promife themfclvcsas great fucrefs as the Neapolitans have among the Engliih, Sicilian! and Maltcfc. Odessa March 3. An American veiTel has an ived here from Baltimotr. This is the full time that the American rlig has appeared in the Black fea. The captain is the bearer of a letter front our conful general and charge d'alfdirs in America, mr. DafihkofT, to our governor general. As we have now a diplomatic a gent accicdited at the U. States, we hope that this million will produce the eflablilh ment of very advantageous commercial relations between both countries. Bayontie, May IS. Letters of a late date from Madrid, announce the different advantages gained o ver the rebels in Murcia, by gen. Sebaftiani, and of his entry into its capitol. He found therein fifty cannon and confiderabh ilores, which were deOroyed. The Spani ards retired precipitately towards Carthagena. Their numbers are fewi and arc totally difcouraged. Gen. Frazer commands in place of gen. Blake, v,ho has gone to Carthagrna, from which he is expvttcd to go to Cadiz. Marquis Rcmana, during holy week attempted o raife a levy of the people, but failed. General Regnier, has taken, beat, and difperfed about 60C0 leb eh. The capture of a convoy of 600 head of cattle deftined for Badajoz, has thrown that city into the greateft conflernation. A popular tumult is faid to have broken out at Palma, in Majorca, againft the F. and Swifs prifoners, which was only appeafed by the perfuafions of the bifliop and clergy. SUMMARY. Tonningen papers have been received in London to the 29th of May. The amount of the Britifh manufactures and colonial produce in the illand of Helligoland (the intecourfe between which and the continent was cut off,) was faid to amount to 5,000 000 pounds fterling. On account of the non intercourfe with the continent, the ifland was very much in the want of water. It appears that king Louis has not yet abdicated his throne. It will be necdlefs to ftate that all the American property in France, and all the ports under her controul is fold for the benefit of Bonaparte. At the A dates 15 American vefiels were at Koningfburg it is added that no obltrucYion was given to the difcharge of their cargoes, or to trade in any refpcc whatever. Letters from Gottenbnrg mention that preparations were making for the meeting of the Diet, to nominate a new heir to the 6vcdifh crown, in place of the late prince Augullenburg, fuppofed to have been poifoned According tot calculation in a Parifian Journal, the French empire contains at prelent the following population inhabitants who fpeak the French Nm-uige, is 28.12G,00O German, 2,705,000 Flemifh, 2,227,000 Breton, 967 000

Bcfcue,

168.00'v'

Total, 5i.;62,OOGO Letters from Iiiyor.nr, in the P.uis pa rerr, mention the arrival ot a preat number of troops there, on their march to Spain. A great nmigation cf the feveritiei heretofore pr a c't i fed upon priloneis by French and Engliih, is now lliewn by both. Extract of a letter from AmHerdam, dated Mv 18. 11 French conmiliior.er have arrived to

tke pciT'-ilion ut the American cargoes de- ; pcM'itcd in the public ftote bft vear ; whith, j it i i f-ard. are to be tranfpoitcd to Antwerp ! to be fulJ tiiere."

A letter from A i-niWJam, fvr "The M-ria is to f4il from this fur New York aboilt the 2'):h of M a cartel thin, with ' a t aj'triii :.?nton, Hov. it h, (I !r, arid Meit on ho-rd. Freiuli comnniaoners a r i i -w-i lirrr an the 1 8 n M-y, and took pol-

Ulliun ti ill! property iu the k;;:'j, ware-

honfes helor.gmg to Amerlcn, cr whicl they intend to tranfport to Antwerp !oi falc." WASHINGTON CITY, Aug. S. Extradt of a letter from mi. J arvis, the American conful at Lifbon, dated June 17, 18I0. "There has not exifted fo great a fcarcity of grain and flour in Portugal at any period lince I have been here, as at this moment. Flour is now 16 1-2 dollars a barrel, equal at the exchange to 77s Uerling, the purchafer receiving it from on board, and paying the duty ; and the ap proaching harveft will not produce any fenfiblc efl'ea on the market, as the low land wheats have fuSercd extremely from the uncommonly wet fpring." MILITIA. Tiie Hate of Georgia has an 11 a& for the eftablHhment & fupport. of military fchools," which makes it the duty of their adjutant general to attend in different parts of the ftate to exercife 8c inftrucl the officers of the militia. An advertifement in the Georgia Argus, iigntd by the adjutant general, appoints meetings for this purpofe at Eatonton and Elberton, allowing ten days for the exercifes at each place.

A letter from the fecretary of

the navy, at VVafhington, to a gentleman in Savanna, dated June 21, fays : " it may be a fatisfacHon to you, and other good men of your city, to be informed that commo dore Decatur is now under failing orders, with a fquadron of our Ihips, to cruize from Hampton roads fouthwardly ; which will tend, I hope to rid our coafts oi the privateers which have been infciling it for fome time patt.'

j War Department, July 10, 1810 -notice is hereby given, 'gH AT feparate propofals will be receiJL ved at the office ef the fecretary for the department of war, until twelve o'clock at noon of the firft Monday in November next, for the fupply of all rations that may be required for the ufe of the United States, from the firft day of June, one thoufand eight hundred and eleven iuclufive, to the full day of June, one thoufand eight hundred and twelve, within the States, Territories and D.fliicls following, viz 1ft. At Niagara, Detroit, Michilim3Ckinac, Fort Wayne, Chik3go, and in their immediate vicinities, and at any place or places, where troops are or may he ftationed, marched or rcciuitcd within the territory of Michigan. 2nd. At any place or places, where troops are, or may Ue Rationed, marched or recruited within the Itates ot Kentucky & Tenncffee. 3rd. At Eelle Fontaine, Fort Ofage and lie He Vue, and at any plac, or places, vhere troops are, or may be fUtioned, marched or recruited within the ftate of Ohio, ?.nd the Illinois, Indiana and Louifiana territories, except Fort Vyne and Chikago, and their immediate vicinities. 4th. At ar.y place or places, where troops are, or may be Rationed, marched or recruited, within the Miflillippi and Oilcan: territories. Propyls will be received at the fame time for fupplying rations within the diftrids afTcUid, lor two years, commem inr on th.e firft d-iy of June, one thoufand eight huivlred and clc ven. 5th.. At any place or places, wh-re troops are or m-y he iUtioned, imrched or recruited wit! in the difirict of Main, and Itate ot New Himp'hirc. 6th. At any p!..ce cr phce:, where troops arc or may be fiatinncd, marched, or recruited, withiH the ilate of Vermont. 7th. At any plire or places, where trorps ire, or m.,y be ltionrd, march, cd, or recruited, within the Hate cf Maf-

fachufctts, the town of SpringHcld c, cepted. 8th. At any place or places, wheis tto -ps are or may be iUtioned, marched, or recruited, within the tlate of Connecticut and Rhode Illund. 9:h. At any place or places, wher? troops are or may te lUttoned, marched, or recrited, within the Hate of New Yotk, Nig3ra and its dependencies excepted. 10th. At any place or places, whers troops are or may be ftationrd, man-he;!, r recruited, within the H.te of Ncf Jerfry. 11th. At any place or places, where troop? are of may be ftationed, mauhrd, or recruited, within the itatc of PcnnMvania. 12th. At any place or places, when troops are or may be ftatiotird, marche:., or recruited, within the Uaies of M;uland, Delawaret and the Diftricl of Cwlumb'ra. r 13. At any place or places, whera troops are or may he ftationed, matched, or recruited within the ftate cf Virginia 14th. At any pLce or places, whers troops are or uy be iUtioned, marched, or recruited, within the ftate of North Chi rolina. 15th. At any place or places, whera troops are or may be ftationed, marched, or recruited, within the ftate of South Carolina. 16b. At Ocmulgee, Old Fields, and at any place or places, vheie troops are or may be ftatirjned, marched, or rccrui;ed, within the limits of the ftate of Georgia. 17th. Propofals will alfo be received, as aforefaid, for the fupply of all rations which may be required by the United States, for the troops which are or may be ftationed, ma died, or reciuittd, within the town of Spnngfieid, ni the ftate of MaiTachufetts; nd for the armorers, and cthor perfons employed in the United States armory at that place, from the f.rft day cf June, one thouiard eight hundred and eleven, inclulive, to the fi. ft day of June, one thoufand tight hundred and twelve. A ration to confjft of one pound and ono quarter , of beef, or three quarters of a pound of pork, eighteen ounces of bread or flour, one gill of rum, w hifkry, or brandy, and at the rate of two quarts of fait, tour quart" of vinegar, four pounds of foap, Jnd one pound and a half of candles, to cvery hundred rations. The prites of the fevcral component parts of the ration ftiall befpenfied ; but the United States refcrva the right of making fucli alterations in tho price of the component parts of the ration iforrfaid, as (hall make the price cf each part thereof bear a juft proportion to the propofed price of the whole ration. The rations are to be furnifhed in fuch quantities, that there fhall at all times during the term of the propofed central, be fufRcient for the confumption of the troops ai Mi. chilimackinsc, Detroit, Fcrt Ofage, and Belle Vue, Chikago, for fix months in ad. vance ; and at each of the port3 on the wrftem waters, for at leaft three months iu advance, of good and wholefome proviHona if the fame ftiall be required. It L alfo to be permitted to all and every cf the commandants of fortified place. or polls, toca'l tor at fea funs when the lame can he transported, or at any time in cafe of urgency, tuch fupph'cs of like proviGons in advance, as in the difcretion of the commandai;: ftiall be deemed proper. It is underftood that the contractor is to be at the rilk of ilfuing the lnpylies to thtroops, and that all lofi'cs fulLincd by the depredations of the enemy, cr by mrans cf the troops of the United States, (hall be paid by the United State', at the.. p,icc of the articles captured or deftroyed, as aforefaid, on the depoiition of two orrhorc perfons of credible characters, and the certuj. cue of a cominifiioned nfiuer, ftating the circun.ftances of the lofs, and the amount of the articles for which coiiipenljtion fhall be ( I imed. Tl;e previlege is undcrftcod to be referred to the United States, of requirin-r that '-one ol the fuppl.es, which mav be iornifli. rd under any. 0f the propofed contraa, ftnll U .(Turd, until the fupph-s which have hren, or may he furmlhcd under the contracts now in t.,rcet have Leen confume: ; and that a ftipp-y in advance, may be always required at any of thr f xed polls on the fea board, or Indian lVcntirr, not ex. cceumg three r.:o:;.i. w. kustis.