mitted to remain neuter, during the present war, upon condition of her paying ten millions of dollars annually to France.-Lord R. Fitzgerald has lately communicated to the British government, such information relative to the present political state of Portugal, as to remove all apprehensions respecting the immediate safety of British property in that kingdom.-The war, which, for some time past, has been carried on between the United States of America and the Emperor of Morocco, has been recently terminated; and the Emperor has agreed to restore the treaty which was concluded with the United States, by his father, in the year 1786.St. Domingo continues to be the scene of trouble and misery. The scarcity still prevails there; and, notwithstanding the ravages of the negroes, General Rochambeau is determined to keep possession of the island to the very last hour.-Martinique is in a state of siege, and the governor, who is apprehensive of an attack from the British, has exhorted the soldiers and inhabitants of the island to make a vigorous resistance.- Since the capture of St. Lucia, the English governor has invited the Americans to a renewal of their commercial intercourse: the terins which he offers are liberal, and a considerable number of vessels have already entered the ports of the island.-The American news. papers are filled with complaints against the conduct of the commanders of the British cruizers, on the American and West-India stations, in impressing American seamen, and detaining American vessels.

DOMESTIC. For some days past, a new alarm has been excited in Dublin, by the арprehension of some persons of rank and fortune, who are said to have been connected with the leaders of the late rebellion. The arrests are numerous; and it is now asserted, that the plot has been discovered to be more extensive than was previously supposed.Quigly has been frequently examined, and has made some important confessions to the government. Teeling, brother of General Humbert's aid-de-camp, who was executed in 1798, has been brought to Dublin from the North, under a strong escort: he is charged with being a member of the provisional government; and after being examined at the castle, was remanded for further examination. The commission of Oyer and Terminer, which was sitting at Dublin, made an order, that all persons confined on charges of treasonable practices, except under a Secretary's warrant, or by virtue of the suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act, shall be discharged by proclamation. The court then adjourned to the 16th of December next.

A late Portsmouth news-paper states, that "The trade of Portsmouth and Portsea is "nearly stagnated, from the deficiency of "small coin for exchange. We know that "there are persons who make a business of "collecting such monies, which they have "the boldness to issue at the profit of a shil"ling and eighteen-pence upon a one pound note. We are in possession of many of "the names concerned in this illegal and "anti-patriotic traffic, to whom we give this "warning, cautioning them, at the same "time, against impending prosecution, which "will not fail (under conviction) of the "most serious consequences, both to their "character, persons and property. The " evil is of such a magnitude, that many

persons, who are strangers here, daily "embark without common necessaries for

"their respective voyages."- Mr. Alexander has declined going to India, in a judicial capacity, as was intended by the late arrangements; and Mr. Hobhouse, who was to have succeeded him as Chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means, has been appointed Secretary of the Board of Control. Lord Hawkesbury has

been called up to the House of Peers, by writ, by the title of Baron Hawkesbury.- -The King has been pleased to appoint the Hon. Henry Pierrepoint, to be his Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary to the court of Stockholm.-The King has also been pleased to grant to the Rev. Walker King, D. D. the place and dignity of a Canon or Prebendary of the Metropolitan church of Canterbury, void by the resignation of William Beaumont Busby, clerk, late Canon thereof.- -The treaty concluded between Great-Britain and the United State of America is now expiring, and negotiations are carrying on between Mr. Monroe, the American Ambassador here, and the British cabinet, for the formation of another.

MILITARY.-The inhabitants of Malta, made an offer to his Majesty, of raising two regiments of infantry at their own expense, for the protection of the island: the offer, it is understood, was graciously accepted.General Lasnes has informed the Prince Regent of Portugal, that the army, which has been lately collecting at Bayonne, is to form part of the grand army, destined for the invasion of Great-Britain.-Lord Hobart, in a note to the Lord Mayor of London, dated on the 14th instant, informed him that Surinam, Demarara, and Essequibo had surrendered to his Majesty's forces, under the command of General Grinfield and Commodore Hood, on the 19th of September. The dispatches, however, from General Grinfield and Com

modore Hood, which were published in the London Gazette of the 15th instant, only give information of the surrender of Demarara and Essequibo. The capitulation was signed on board the Heureux, on the 19th of September; the Hornet and the Netley entered the river, and two hundred men took possession of Fort William Frederick, in the evening of the same day, and on the 20th, the colonies surrendered. The Hippomenes, Batavian corvette of 18 guns, the only vessel of the republic there, was included in the capitulation. It was said, that general orders will be issued, in the course of a few days, for all the British troops now encamped in different parts of the kingdom, to go into cantonments, barracks, or quarters: papers, for this purpose, were made out and laid before the Commander in Chief, but from some cause, unknown to the public, orders were transmitted to the army, enjoining them to remain in camp until further orders.-Some of the troops at Shorncliff camp have begun to go into quarters. A party of the 4th and 59th regiments took possession of Hythe barracks on the 11th instant. The 52d, and the rifle corps will be quartered at Forts Twiss, Sutherland, and Moncrieff on the beach. The Berkshire and West Kent are to go into Braybourn Lees, near Ashford; and the East Middlesex are to be quartered at Deal.-Barracks are preparing in the city of Canterbury for about twenty-six hundred infantry; and preparations are making, at the same place, for providing quarters for about a thousand more. Barracks, for six hundred men, have also been erected at Maidstone, and six hundred more may be accommodated there in a short time.-The batteries on the eastern and western parts of Margate, are nearly completed, and the guns will be mounted in a few days. The batteries at Ramsgate and Pegwell Bay are finished.-Behind Eastware Bay, near Folkestone, they are forming a sluice and lines, so as to prevent the French from advancing into the interior, if they should succeed in landing on that part of the country.-The batteries intended for the protection of the Humber are completed, and the ordnance is now on its way to the different stations.-It is said, that many of the troops encamped on, and near the coast, will be sent on board of ships, which will be moored as near as possible to their respective camps.. The ships are to be immediately fitted out at Chatham. An official return, made at the war office, states the number of volunteer infantry to be 297,502, cavalry 31,000, and artillery 6,207. -Some changes in the staff in Ireland, are talked of. Among others is, that Sir John

Cradock is to be sent to take the chief command at Madras; that General Meyrick is to be removed to the English staff; and that Generals Pigot and Drummond are to go to Ireland. It is also reported there, that some regiments of the Irish militia are to be sent to England, and that some other troops from England will replace them.

NAVAL. On the 2d of August last, Captain Page, in his Majesty's ship Caroline, fell in with and captured the Batavian brig De Haasje, of six guns, and thirty-three men. The brig had been thirty hours from the Cape of Good Hope, and was bound to Batavia with dispatches, which she threw overboard, before she was taken: she mounted eighteen 12-pound carronades, but had left them at the Cape.On the 8th of September, Captain Richardson, in the Juno, captured the French bombarde privateer Les Quatre Fils, of Nice, armed with four 12 and 9-pounders, and manned with seventy-eight men. On the 10th of September, Captain Corbet, in the Bittern sloop, captured, after a chase of several hours, the French privateer schooner Le Caille, pierced for fourteen guns, but carrying only six 6-pounders, and a complement of sixty men. This schooner is one of nine which have for some time past, infested the Streights of the Mediterranneau.On the 14th instant, it was reported in London, that intelligence had been received in Ireland, of the sailing of the whole or a part of the Brest French fleet. The report was, however, soon contradicted; and it is now supposed, that it arose from the citcumstance of the arrival of the Diamond frigate at the Cove of Cork, with dispatches from Lord Cornwallis to Lord Gardner.The Alonzo frigate has arrived in the Humber, with a fleet from the Baltic.--The vigorous impressment of seamen, which was mentioned to have been made in several ports of the kingdom, in the beginning of last week, has been very general. At Portsmouth, Hull, and Leith, it was carried on with so much zeal, that the trading vessels in the harbours of those places were almost entirely stripped of their men.--Orders have been given at the Dock Yard at Portsmouth, to fit every boat which is capable of carrying a carronade.- It is generally reported that another bombardment of the French ports on the channel, will be immediately attempted. Captain Morrice in the Leopard, it is said, will conduct the ope rations. He will be aided by the Leda, Amethyst, Ambuscade, and Fortunée fri. gates; the Harpy, Bloodhound, Basilisk, and Archer gun-brigs; and the Perseus,

Locust, and Sulphur bombs. Boulogne, Havre, Dieppe, Gravelines, and Calais, will be the objects of attack.--The last advices state that no part of the Brest fleet has left that harbour, and that Admiral Cornwallis is still cruising off that station.—— Four ships of the line have been ordered to proceed, with all possible dispatch, to join Lord Nelson's squadron off Toulon.--The British squadron in Bantry Bay, and the naval force on the coast of Scotland, are both to be immediately increased. Sir Sidney

Smith is to be stationed off Flushing.

SUMMARY OF POLITICS. CONVENTION WITH SWEDEN.. -In the preceding sheet, p. 680, I inserted the explanatory convention, which, it appears, the ministers entered into with Sweden, in the month of July last, and in which, for the sake of obtaining some real and sterling advantages from us, the Swedes have consented to acknowledge the existence of a right, which we always possessed, and which we have seldom failed to exercise, for which ac

knowledgment we are to pay most dearly,

not in smooth words, nor in bank notes, nor in three per cents, but in gold, silver, and reputation. On account of this Convention, however, the ministers are, it seems, about to claim enormous merit; and, to say the truth, any act of theirs, not big with national ruin, must now be looked upon as comparatively meritorious; but, 'ere the parliament and the nation again sell themselves to laughter, I beg them to compare the stipulations of this Convention with those, relative to the same points, contained in the treaty, for instance, concluded in 1794, with the United States of America; and to inquire whether the last-mentioned stipulations, which were obtained by Lord Grenville, will ever be renewed by the means of his successor.- -The comparison, which I am desirous the parliament and the nation should make, naturally divides itself into two distinct heads; to wit; FIRST, the list of articles, which are to be considered as contraband of war, and, if taken on their way to an enemy's port, to be confiscated; and, SECONDLY, the articles, which are to be subjected to the operation of the right of preemption, that is to say, to be liable, if taken on their way to an enemy's port, to be brought into the port of the belligerent captor, and there, if the said captor chooses, to be kept by him, he paying for the articles, as well as for the detention of the vessel, at a certain specified rate.- -As to the first point, both the Treaty and the Convention

dage; but, in the treaty with America, in which we maintained, that we had insisted only on our indubitable rights founded on the law of nations, not only manufactured articles, but ship-timber, tar, rosin, hemp, and generally, every thing that may serve directly to the equipment of ships, every thing, unwrought iron and fir-planks only excepted. And, observe, too, that, in the Swedish Convention, even manufactured articles are considered as contraband only when they are such as may immediately serve to the equipment of ships of quar;" whereas, in the treaty with America, all articles, both manufactured and unmanufactured, are included, if they are such as may directly serve to the equipment of "vessels." This is a very material distinction; for, many of the articles, which are unfit for the equipment of ships of war, may be rendered not less mischievous to us by being employed upon other sort of vessels; and, indeed, under the favour of this clause, Sweden might, if she had the means, supply France with every article which France can possibly want in the construction and equipment of her navy.— But, let us now compare the two instruments as to the second point, that is, the list of articles, which are to be subjected to the right of pre-emption. >

Generally speaking, the articles for naval equipment, which are liable to confiscation in the American treaty, are, in the Convention with Sweden, only hable to the right of pre-emption; and, considering that Sweden has no export provisions but herrings, those articles, which, in the American treaty, are liable to the right of pre-emption, are, in the Swedish Convention, “not liable either to confiscation or pre-emp"tion;" but, in the instance of ship-timber, and of spars expressly named, that which is in the first class in the American treaty, is in the last class in the Convention; that which is liable to confiscation according to the former, is, according to the latter, to be "permitted to pass free" to the ports of the enemy, unshackled even by our right of pre-emption ! Again, therefore, I beseech the people to be careful how they, this time, sell themselves to laughter; to consider a little, not the disgrace, which they have purchased, literally purchased, in this Convention; not the disgrace, for dis grace has long been familiar to them; but the danger, the danger to their country, to their persons, their families, and to their more beloved property. Conciliation is the order of the day; a conceding disposition is regarded as the first qualification in a public man; and, ministers are really esteemed in an exact proportion to the depth of that degradation, to which they themselves are willing to sink, and to reduce their country; but, as it was frequently observed, with respect to the treaty of Amiens, so may it as to the Conventions with the neutrals of the North, that the hope of the coward shall "perish;" concession will not save us; baseness, instead of retarding, will basten our misery and our ruin.---My remarks as to the consequences of the concessions, to which I now more immediately refer, I shall reserve for the close of the succeeding dissertation, in which shall once more endeavour to call the attention of the Public to a subject, not less interesting even than that of the defence of the lard they live in.

DISPUTE WITH AMERICA.--For upwards of seven years, I have, in one way or another, been earnestly endeavouring to turn the attention of the rulers of this country towards the United States of America. I was told, that America was not an interesting object; that its distance was too great; and, though it seemed to me hardly possible, that such observations should, by any man of sense, be made with regard to a country whither we shipped nearly a third part of the whole of our exported manufac

ures; a country, besides, necessarily our

rival in commercial views, and having a mercantile marine in magnitude fast approaching to our own; though it seemed to me utterly incredible, that, while vast importance was attached to every little point in dispute with Denmark and Sweden, all matters relative to America should be treated with the most perfect indifference; yet, so I found it, and I then foresaw precisely what has since happened; that, at the expiration of the treaty of 1794, if the same wilful blindness continued, the attention, the anxious attention, of this country would be directed towards America when too late. Events, the force of events it is, which always, first or last, comes to the vindication of just political opinions.Now, perhaps, I shall, upon this "uninteresting topic," obtain a hearing; but, whether I do or not, the topic must and will, 'ere long, command attention, and, if this nation is not doomed to perish, and that speedily too, it is a topic, the discussion of which cannot fail to lead to a legal demand of justice upon the heads of the ministers.- Long extracts from other publications are not often excusable, in a work so little voluminous as this; and, when such loans are made upon the diurnal London prints, one cannot help feeling the necessity of a formal supplication for pardon, which, I trust, however, will be readily granted, in the present case, because it will evidently appear, that the matter, which could not have been drawn from any other source, is absolutely necessary to a clear developement of the subject. This extract is taken from the Morning Post of the 12th instant; it is certainly a production of office, and the object it has in view, is, to prepare the public for some concession hitherto unequalled in baseness, or, for a rupture with the United States, if all the efforts of baseness should finally prove in vain." While the attention and activity "of Government appear to be almost wholly