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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 carry to the enemy or enemies of the belligerent party, money, arms, or bombs, with their fusces and other appurtenances, hre balls, gunpowder, inatches, cannon-balls, spears, lances, pikes, halbarts, guns, mortars, petards, grenadoes, musketrests, bandaliers, saltperre, muskets, musket bullets, helme.s, head. pieces, breast-plates, cons 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, bults, or any other instruments of war, or ships of war, and guard 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 confiscationArt. 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 et 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 acCount of the subjects thereof, the belligerent power shail, 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 indemrification 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 neu. tral 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 shal! 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 neural 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-caption 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 it it can be done. I 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 be axed thereto.

Done at London, the 25th day of July, 1803. (L.S.) HAWKESBURY.

(L.S.) JORDAN ULDRIC SILVERHJELM.

PROCLAMATION of the BATAVIAN GOVERNMENT re specting NEUTRAL COMMERCE, dated on the 4th of July, and read in the Sitting of the Legislative Body on the 1st of November, 1303.

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 proviled with the certificates mentioned in the second article of the said proclamation.-11. 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 Jading be not suspected, shall be allowed to enter the ports of this Republic --III. That articles, whether the production of the soil of this Republe, 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 articles 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 respec's still remaining

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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

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 Jie contiguous to the harbour.--The last mail from Liston 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.Letters 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 neutrality 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 simiJar attempts in Germany, and, it is said, with no 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 Re-public-Buonaparté is still at Paris, and held a diplomatic audience on the 23d, when the Chevalier D'Azzarra, Ambassador from his Catholic Majesty, presented his letters of credence, as Minister PlenipotenMary from the Queen Regent of Etruria,

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 merchant, the son of Napper Tandy; Mr. Lawless, a brewer, the brother of Surgeon Lawless, 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 ob ject, was was soon frustrated.A destructive 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 mas 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-helds 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 of 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 tumult in this City of "London, under the direction of the Lord "Mayor and Aldermen in this city, until 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 shillings 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 ton. At ten o'clock, which was the hour 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' caine; and, after performing a few evolutions, the Bloomsbury corps were dismissed.Several fatal accidents have recently happened among the members of the VoTunteer-corps, in London, and in diffe rent parts of the country, from their unskilfulness in the use of arms. The farmers, in different parts of Scotland, have been publicly requested by the clergy to |

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, conformably 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 battalion 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,

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he gave directions that all the artillery and horses, which had not been sent to headquarters, should be inmediately sent to Bruges, where he gave orders for completing the expedition by all possible means neral d'Avoust's army, which amounts to nearly 60,000 men, will be immediately embarked at Breskens, Ostend, and Dunkirk, where a detachment of the consular guards has just arrived.--General Deinarrois, 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: afa General St. Sebastiani has a similar appointment for those between the mouth of the Vilain and Brest.—Geveral Malker and Billiard, have al- received appointments in the army intended for the invasion of England.The camp near Villers Cotterets, Chantilly and Compiegne consists, at present, principally of dragoons, under the command-of-General-Baraguy d'Hilliers. 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 baitery 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 8.h 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. É.V., royal Leith volunteers, 2d bat. 2d reg. R. E.V., 18th regiment of fout, 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 84 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 Honeyman, 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

Mitchell sustained but little injury, and had only two men severely wounded, and two others, but slightly.-On the 8th instant, Lieutenant Chambers, in his Majesty's gunbrig, Conflict, while cruising off Calais, fell in with, and captured the French national gun-boat, No. 86. The gun-boat is luggerrigged, and is manned with one sub-lieutenant, twenty-seven non-commissioned officers and privates of the 36th regiment of the line, and six seamen. She is armed with one long 18-pounder, and one long 8-pounder, twenty-three stand of arms, complete, with sabres, pistols, and small arms. Dis

-patches have been received at Lord Hobart's Office and at the Admiralty, from Sir Sidney Smith, who is arrived at Yarmouth, in the Antelope: they state that every place in Holland where troops can be embarked is crowded with boats, and that the preparations for invasion are in a state of complete readiness.

TO THE RIGHT HON. LORD FOLKESTONE. LETTER II.

MY LORD,-Since the date of my former letter,* some facts, illustrative of the opinions there expressed, have been communicated to the public. The state of discipline, to which the Volunteer-corps have attained, has been displayed in their shooting one another with the wadding; in the bursting of their muskets, from the effect of double, triple, and quadruple charges; and, in one instance, in the killing of a man, because he trod upon the heel of his file-leader. These partial consequences of awkwardness and of individual passion, though they must awaken, in every reflecting mind, serious apprehensions as to what would take place, in this respect, amongst the same persons, if exposed to the hardships of actual service, and plunged into the confusion, which, as far as they were concerned, the presence of an enemy would inevitably produce, are not, however, a thousandth part so terrific as that spirit of self-conceit and of consequent insubordination, not to say mutiny, which has, in several places, made its appearance, and an instance of which is but too amply described in the following account from Dover." Sunday," [30th ultimo], "Ge"neral Dundas, Lord Chatham, and Mr. "Pitt, went to Dover, by appointment, to

view the Volunteers, when, instead of 500, there were scarcely 200. Among

man was not immediately removed. This "declaration gave much uneasiness to the "Lord Warden, as he entertains a very

high opinion, not only of the military "character of Major Shee, but of his me"rits and deservings in private life. Mr. "Pitt, therefore, requested the gentlemen "then under arms, to speak out their

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grievances; and said, that, if he found any just cause of complaint, they might "be assured he would afford them instant "redress. The Volunteers, on this occa

sion, were addressed in companies, and "they all declared, that it was impossible "for any man, or body of men, to enter"tain a higher opinion of Major Shee's mi

litary character than they did; but, in "addressing them, when in the field, he so "far lost sight of the gentleman, as fre

so unworthy of himself, and so entirely "undeserved by the gallant defenders of "the town of Dover.'-' I request of you, therefore,' (said this brave and excel"lent officer) to bury what has passed in a friendly oblivion! --One such example, my Lord, would, in an army, set the whole into an inextinguishable blaze of mutiny. The sequel is not related: we are not told, whether the gentlemen" were sa tisfied, or, whether they persisted in demanding the discussion of their commander: nor, is it, indeed, of much consequence, which way the matter terminated; for, the