Western Sun, Volume 3, Number 43, Vincennes, Knox County, 20 October 1810 — Page 2

' ' " - ' I f At prefent the congrefs treads back its under the aft ofcongrefs,it will be gratii T , . v fteps. It revokes the aft of the I ft March, fying to our readers to learn that the prefiJLate and Important IVeWS. The ports of America are open to French dent is expefted at the feat of government New York, September 23. commerce, and France is no longer inter- in a very few days, where alfoall the heads Laft evening arrived at this port, the fliip djftcd tQ thc Americans. In fhort the con- of department are daily expected. Magdalen, captain Sketchly, in the remar- . fg cngagcs to 0ppofe fuch of the bellig- . The fecrctary of ilate arrived laft evenlubly fhort paffage of 28 days from Liver- ercnt powcrs as aM fcfufc lQ rccogDizc the ing. pool.

Capt. S. has furnifhed the editors of the t jn lhi3 ncw ftatc of things v am auth0. NATCHEZ, September 26. Mercantile Advcrtifer with London papers rjfcj t0 dcciarc t0 you fir, that the decrees At a late hour laft night we received ' and Lloyd's lift to the 20th of Auguft, and BcTym anj Mjian arc revoked, and that the fubjoincd extract of a letter, which we Xiverpool to the 22d, all inclufive. t from the 1ft of November they willceafc to lofe no time in laying before our readers. At no former period have we been put be Jn forcc lt being underftood that in con From this it will be leen that the Florida I 3n poflVflion of more highly important in- fcmjence 0f tliis declaration the Englifh convention have been compelled to have re. ' telligencc the repeal of the French Berlin rcfokc thcr ordcrs in council, and re- courfc to military force, and that the fort j and Milan decrees, and the probable rcf. nonnce the ncw principles of blockade, of Baton-Rougc, and governor Delaffus is ! binding the Britifh ordersin couc!1' - which they have attempted toeftablifh ; or in the power of the patriots. We are in- . , The French decrees and the official letter thjU thc jntc States, conformably to the formed that a few days fincc, the convention to gen. Armftrong, were pubhfhed in the aft which you have juft communicated, received intelligence that they were betrayFrench governmental paper (the Moniteur) caufe thcir . htf lQ fae rcfpcftcd by ed, and that gov. Folch, had a galley at ! on the 9th ult. and in all the London pa- thc jgijfo. Galvcftown,in which he meant to embark j. pers on the 18th. " It is with the moft particular fatisfac- the convention for Pcnfacola, and that he It was underftood in England that anew tion thjt j inform you Qf this refolution of himfclf was in thecaftern part of-the pro- ' reinifter had been appointed for the United theebperor. His majefty loves thc Ame- vince, alarming, and fewing diflention a- f.j States and it is afferted in one of our Lon. ricaii8--.tbeir profperity and their commerce mong the people. In this dilemma, prompt ' nn nnrt. that thi French errDeror, who t r u:- tk- . .ri .1

ruf p-p -f cuter iiivu vitc mcw ui uia puuvy. i nc giwu uiciuic uciauic aoioiuicij fys he loves the Americans, has alio na- independence of America is one of the prin- ncceffary, ztid the refult is here related, xned a minifter to this country. ci tUIcs of lhc giory 0f France. Since Pinkneyvillet Sept. 25, 1810.

i ne tan filing ung ...v that cpochf the emperor has felt a plcalure 11 We have received information directly don on the 17th Auguft m great hafte, for Jn aggraniii2ing the U. States ; and in all from Baton.Rouge, that on Saturday night I New Yorkas her departure was immedi- c;rcumQancrs whatever can contribute to about 150 men, under the command of J ately after the receipt the French news, thc independence, the profperity and the li- gen. Thomas, entered the fort of Baton- li it was fuppofed (he had been difpatched by faerty of Amer-ica? w,n be regarded by the Rouge. Young Grand Pre who command. A mr. Pinckney, our minifter at London. cmperor as conformable to the intcrcfts of cd, gallantly attempted to defend it, and i his empire." received a fevere wound in the neck, with I .Repeal Of the French Decrees. a broad fword. One of the guard fired on I Paris, Auguft 9. From the National Intelligencer ef Sept. the affailants, and was immediately mot -v Copy of a letter from the minifter of foreign 26, received by the last mail. down with a piftol by one of dpt. Johnfons relations to mr. Armftrong. . Taking into confideration the manner in dragoons another of the Spanifli guard ' Parist August 5, 1810. which former communications to our mini- was wounded no damage" received by the Sir, I have, laid before his majefty the fter in France, have been made public thro troops of the convention. Having quieted rmperor and king the aft of congrefs of the the medium oPthe newfpapers foon after every thing in the fort, they proceeded to,'j' lft of May, extracted from the paper of their tranfmiffion to him, the letter of the the houfe of his excellency, dragged hira the United States, which you had tranfmit- minifter of foreign relations to mr. Arm- out, carried him to the fort, with two boxted to me. His majefty could have wifhed ftrong may be confidered as genuine. es of money found in his room, and loaded i that this ac, and all other a&s of the U. The following is the fecYion of the aft him with irons but not without having to ' States that may concern France, had been of the lft of May, referred to by the min- knock him down with the butt end of a . always officially notified to him. ifter of foreign affairs, which weSnfert to mulket. The convention had about 350 "The emperor applauded the general enable our readers to form a judgment of men in the place when the meflcnger left embargo laid by the U. States on all their the motive and effeft of the new attitude it, and every thing was quiet." ' -veftels, beca'ufe that meafure, if it has been taken by France : prejudicial to France, contained at leaft no- " And be it further enafted, that in cafe Washington City, Sept. 2l thing prejudicial to her honor It has cau- either Great Britain or France, (hall, before The following is an extract of a letter fed her to loofc her colonies of Guadaloupe, the 3d day of March next, fo revoke or from W. J arvis, efq. our conful at Lifbonf Iartiuique and Cayenne. The emperor modify her edicts as that they fhall ceafe to dated Lifbon, Aug. lft, 1 8 10. ' did not complain of it. He made this fa- violate the neutral commerce of the United Among thefe fcenes of warfare St blood J crifice to the principle which determined the States, which faft the prefident of the U. ever attentive to the intereft nd welfarcof Americans to impofc the embargo, and States (hall declare by proclamation, and if my country, I have profited of an opportun- ' which infptred them with the noble refolu- the other nation fhall not within 3 months ity which has off-red by the junta ot EOration of interdicting themfelves the ufe of thereafter fo revoke or modify her edicts in madura's felling the confifcated Cabannas of the fea, rather than fubmit to the laws of like manner, then the 3d, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, Merino (heep they had in their poflVflion, , thofe who wilh to become its tyrants. 8th, 9th, 10th Jc 11th fection of the act and purchafed 2000 of the heft blooded ' ' "The act of the lft of March, removed to interdict the commerce between the U. flieep in Spain. Paulais and Aquines, r.nd the embargo, and fubftituled for it a mea- States and G. Britain and France and their have already (hipped 1200 to the. different Aire which muft have been particularly in- dependences, and for other purpofes," fhall ports in the U. S. and am in hopes to (hip t jurious to the intereftsof France. This aft from and after the expiration of 3 months the reft in 8 days. Among my fhipmenti 1 with which the emperor was not acquainted from the date of the proclamation afore- are 220 to Baltimore, to the addrefs of gen. for a confiderable time afier, interdicted to faid, be revived and have full force and ef. Smith, from whofe patriotifm I anticipated American veflVls the commerce of France, feft, fo far as relates to the dominions, col. his taking charge of them with pleafure , , whilft it authorifed a trade with Spain, Na- onies and dependencies, and to the articles To Alexandria I have fhipped 50, to Norples and Holland, that is to fay, with coun- the growth, produce or manufacture of the folk 70, to Richmond 150, and fhall make .tries under French influence, and denounc dominions, colonies and dependencies of the another fhipment to Vir. of 150. In un- i ed csnfifcation on all French vefiels that nation thus refufing or neglecting to re- dertakintj fo large a porchafe, I have been 'f fliould enter the ports of America. Repri- move or modify her edicts in the manner greatly ftimulated by the example which gofal was a matter of right, and commanded aforefaid. And the reflections impofed by vernment always affords of doinjj ever by the dignity of France, a circumftance this aft fliall, from the date of fuch procla- thing within their power to promote the upon wlrch it ws impoffible to make any mation, ceafe and be difcontinued in relati- well being of our country. The BritiPi j compromife. The fequeftration of all the on to the nation revoking or modifying her minifter purelufed nearly 7000, and the American velTels in France, was the necef- decrees in the manner aforefaid." rere confidered of fuffici-nt national im- i faryrefultpf the meafure taken by con- As much in relation to this fubjeft will portance to difpatch tranfports immedirtely greiV depend upon tLedccifion of the executive to take to G. Britain 6000 of them." 1 1