tions in a port which we should not have selected for the exccution of such a plan. Is it the interest of Bonaparte to force him to such a step? we think not; but if Portugal be the only power that he has in view in assembling an army on the frontiers of Spain, we are so far deceived in his character. It will be recollected, that besides the general obsequiousness of Spain, 20,000 or more of the Spanish troops are far enough from home in the north of Germany: and as France once held the Spanish fleet as a pledge for good behaviour, she now holds this proportion of the Spanish army, for similar purposes. We pay no attention to the reports of a journey of Bonaparte to Italy speedily; further than to warn our countrymen against the effect of this ruse de guerre, is he professedly going east?-look for him in the west: to Italy?—rather read" Britain." He will go to where the people are least prepared to expect him this developes the secret of his next expedition. : We are not aware that affairs between Russia and Britain are in a desparate state : as to their being uneasy, that we believe: but time and reflection may restore many things which accident has injured: a thread may be tangled without being broken. It is certain that the treaty of Tilsit stipulated for the expulsion of Louis XVIII. from the Russian dominions: and this article is in a course of execution: the King will, we take it for granted, join his family in this island. Did Bonaparte endeavour to prevail on Alexander, to surrender this Prince and his Court to the tender mercies of a Corsican? We add no remarks on the power of destiny, which has laid the Bourbons under the necessity of seeking shelter among us; the fact and the reflections attached to it, are obvious. What is to be their future state? A more important subject to us as a nation is that of our present state and situation with America. Our Government has lately issued a Proclamation, to which deep politicians attribute the highest importance. We shall therefore insert it at length. BY THE KINGA PROCLAMATION, FOR RECALLING AND PROHIBITING SEAMEN 1ROM SERVING FOREIGN PRINCES AND STATES. withdraw themselves, and depart from, and quit such foreign services, and do return home to their native country; or do enter on board such of our ships of war as they may chance to fall in with, either on the high seas, or in any rivers, waters, havens, roads, ports, or places whatsoever or wheresoever. And, for the better execution of the purposes of this our Royal Proclamation, we do authorize and command all captains, masters, and others, commanding our ships and vessels of war to stop and make stay of all and every such person or persons (being our naturalborn subjects), as shall endeavour to transport or enter themselves into the service of any Foreign State, contrary to the intent and command of our Royal Proclamation, and to seize npon, take, and bring away, all such persons as aforesaid, who shall be found to be employed or serving in any foreign merchant ship or vessel as aforesaid: but we do strictly enjoin all such our captains, masand others, that they do permit no man to go on board such ships and vessels belonging to States at amity with us, for the purpose of so seizing upon, taking and bringing away such persons as aforesaid, for whose discreet and orderly demeanour the said captains cannot answer, and that they do take special care that no unnecessary violence be done or offered to the vessel, or to the remainder of the crew, from out of which such persons shall be taken. ters, And in case of their receiving information of any such person or persons being employed, or serving on board of any ship of war belonging to such Foreign State, being a State at amity with us, we do authorize and command our captains, masters, and others, commanding our ships of war, to require of the captain or commander of such foreign ship of war, that he do forthwith release, and discharge such person or persons, being our natural born subject or subjects; and if such release and discharge shall be refused, then to transmit information of such refusal to the Commander in Chief of the squadron under whose orders such scaptain or comman der shall be then serving, which information the said Commander in Chief is hereby strictly directed and enjoined to transmit, with the least possible delay, to our minister residing at the seat of Government of that State to which the said foreign ships of war shall belong, or to our Lord High Admiral, or Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty for the time being, in order that we, being apprized of such proceedings, may forthwith direct the necessary steps to be taken for obtaining redress from the Government to which such foreign ship of war shall belong, for the injury done to us by the unwarranted detention of our natural-born subjects in the service of a foreign State. And whereas it has further been represented mend the prudence which has, by an act that unto us, that divers mariners and seafaring it had an undoubted right to perform, preparinen, our natural-born subjects, have been ed the way for mutual explanations and adinduced to accept letters of naturalization, or justment. If it were permitted us to supcertificates of citizenship, from foreign states, pose, for instance, that the civil representatives and have been taught to believe that, by such of Great Britain in America were to obtain letters or certificates, they are discharged from satisfaction as to the fact of no British Seathat duty of allegiance which, as our natural- men being inveigied on board of American born subjects, they owe to us; now we do ships, instead of the military officers of our hereby warn all such mariners, seafaring men, Nation, we see no injury that could result and others, our natural-born subjects, that from such an arrangement, provided it was no such letters of naturalization, or certificates bona fide carried into execution. It would of citizenship, do, or can, in any manner, not commit the dignity of either nation to divest our natural-born subjects of the allegi- any thing improper, and it would contribute ance, or in any degree alter the duty which to remove some of the evils complained of, they owe to us, their lawful Sovereign. But, and which the Proclamation is intended to rein consideration of the error into which such form. Parties, we understand, run high in mariners and seafaring men as aforesaid may America, and public opinion is very much have been led, we do hereby publish and divided; it is likely it should be so: the budeclare our free pardon to all such our sub-siness is of moment to that rising state: and jeets, who, repenting of the delusion under which they have acted, shall immediately, upon knowledge of this our Royal Proclamation, withdraw themselves from foreign services, and return to their allegiance to us; and we do declare that all such our subjects, who shall continue in the service of foreign states, in disregard and contempt of this our Royal Proclamation, will not only incur our just displeasure, but are liable to be proceeded against for such contempt, and shall be proceeded against accordingly; and we do hereby declare, that if any such masters of ships, pilots, mariners, seamen, shipwrights, or other seafaring men, being our naturalborn subjects, shall be taken in any foreign service by the Algeries, or other Barbary Powers, and carried into slavery, they shall not be reclaimed by us as subjects of Great Britain. And we do further notify, that all such our subjects as aforesaid, who have voluntarily entered, or shall enter, or voluntarily continue to serve on board of any snips of war belonging to any foreign State at enmity with us, are, and will be guilty of high treason; and we do by this our Roval Proclamation declare, that they shall be punished with the utmost severity of the law. Given at our Court at the Queen's Palace, the 16th day of October, 1807, and in the 47th year of our reign.-GOD SAVE THE KING. those who are most likely to suffer may well be supposed to exclaim with proportionate vehemence. We condemn without reluctance the inter→ ference of the Americans in the trade between France and Spain, and their Colonies: it is a breach of good faith, of sound policy, and of national honour. But the way for Great Britain to prevent it, has not hitherto appeared to us so clear, as to enable us to point it out, and mark it, as free from inconveniences, difficulties, and even danger. For, it should be recollected that a principle agreed to now, may, on some future occasion, be quoted against us, with an effect which it would be difficult for us to parry. The mere call of the moment, is not all which a judicious politician would wish to meet on any question of lasting importance. Looking to our West-India connections we have no great variations to report from what we have formerly stated. This subject naturally revives the idea of the slave trade, and this confers additional interest on the reported war of extermination in Africa, which has cut off thousands of inhabitants and involved the fate of thousands more. Humanity shudders at the tale: yet we may rejoice as Britons, in being able to say, these bloody scenes did not arise from any intrigue of ours: we neither begun nor promoted them they are solely of African origin." : Surely, India, we are happy to say, is peaceful: we hope it is sincerely so: but, in territories so extensive, some part or other will always require peculiar attention; and report will not fail to enlarge on whatever occurs that is unpleasant. Prudence, caution, dexterity, steadiness, may be recommended with unquestionable propriety to the representatives of Britain in the provinces of Hindoostan. We confess for ourselves, that we do not think this document is to be considered as implying a final settlement of the matters in discussion between Britain and America. If it be so, we blame without hesitation the manner, as well as the substance, of the convention thus obliquely not openly and frankly, concluded. But, if this be a part only of what has been agreed on if it be one step taken by one party, to be answered by another As we firmly believe that an All-wise Prostep by the other party, then we com-vidence governs the world, so we believe that the scene of confusion which it is our lot to behold, may be part of a plan subservient to the most beneficial purposes. As there is on the globe only such a portion of heat, or of cold, at a time, but it does not visit the same places regularly every year, or equally at all times, so it may be, that there is always an equal portion of peace and war, of calamity and enjoyment, but it is not always equally diffused it may be, that our sufferings are compensated by the felicities which abound in other parts of the globe: that while we are in confusion, they are in tranquillity that they enjoy peace while we endure war, so that, on the whole, there is as much good as is usually allotted to the human race in activity at this moment, in spite of Belial, Belzebub, or Buonaparte. : The late overland dispatch from India contains the most distressing accounts of the consequences of the late drought in several districts, particularly in the hills. In one of the villages in the Ghauts, nearly an hundred dead bodies were lying about the doors of their vacant houses, besides numbers on the highways and banks of the Nullahs and Tanks, to which they had in vain been at-tracted by the hopes of obtaining a draught of water. Advices from Mysore state, that until the Dekan shall have recovered from the effects of the late famine, the government has considerably reduced the military force of the country. One individual of every family of the ancient military is to be in the the state, and he is to be relieved by others of his family in rotation. By this arrangement a body of 20,000 men will be organized for service on any emergency. pay of By accounts from Bundeleund, dated in February, we learn that the strong fortress of Chucer, in the district of Poonah, which had long been in possession of irregular troops, had been attacked by a detachment under Colonel Hawkins, and carried by assault, after desperate conflict, in which the whole garrison, amounting to nearly 300 men, were killed. The attack was led by Captain Delamain; and Lieutenants Macgregor, of the 17th foot, and M'Queen, of the 1st native infantry, are said to have been killed. with about forty of the Europeans and Natives A nephew of Rumjeet Sing is said to have been killed in this attack. pressed for the maintenance of peace. He is said to have devoted himself, with much zeal, to revive in his empire a taste for literature and the arts so much neglected by his predecessors. MASSACRE AT VELLORE. PROCLAMATION. The right hon. the governor in council, having observed that in some late instances an extraordinary degree of agitation has prevailed among several corps of the native army of this coast, it has been his lordship's parti cular endeavour to ascertain the motives which may have led to conduct so different from that which formerly distinguished the native army. From this inquiry, it has appeared, that many persons of evil intention have endea voured, for malicious purposes, to impress upon the native troops a belief that it is the wish of the British Government to convert them by forcible means to Christianity; and his lordship in council has observed with concern that such malicious reports have been believed by many of the native troops. The Right Hon, the Governor in Council therefore deems it proper in this public manner to repeat to the Native Troops his assurance, that the same respect which has been invariably shewn by the British Government for their Religion and for their Customs, will be always continued; and that no interruption will be given to any Native, whether Hindoo or Mussulman, on the prac tice of his religious ceremonies. His Lordship in Council desires that the Native Troops will not give belief to the idle rumours which are circulated by enemies of their happiness, who endeavour, with the basest designs, to weaken the confidence of Lordship in Council desires that the Native the troops in the British Governmen'. His Troops will remember the constant attention and humanity which have been shewn by the British Government, in providing for their comfort, by augmenting the Native Officers and Sepoys; by allowing li beral pensions to those who have done their duty faithfully; by making ample provision for the families of those who may have died in battle; and by receiving their children into the service of the Hon. Company, to be treated with the same care and bounty as their fathers had experienced. pay of the The Right Hon. the Governor in Council trusts that the Native Troops, remembering By the late accounts from Persia, we learn, the e circumstances, will be sensible of the that the King's brother, Hoosom Cruoobe happiness of their situation, which is greater Khan, who had been in confinement for some thin what the troops of any other part of the years past, has effected his escape, and pre-world enjoy, and that they will continue to vailed on the Governor of the district to observe the same good conduct for which espouse his cause. The King is considered by they were distinguished in the days of General his people as wanting in personal courage, in Lawrence, Sir Eyre Coote, and of other res consequence of the solicitude he has ever ex nowned heroes. The Native Troops must, at the same time, be sensible, that if they should fail in the duties of their allegiance, and should shew themselves disobedient to their Officers, their conduct will not fail to receive inerited punishment, as the British Government is not less prepared to punish the guilty, than to protect and distinguish those who are deservlag of its favour. It is directed that this Paper be translated with care into the Tamul, Telinga, and Hindoostany languages; and that copies of it be circulated to each Native Battalion, of whien the European Officers are enjoined and ondered to be careful in making it known to every Native Officer and Sepoy under his command, It is also directed that Copies of the Paper be circulated to all the Magistrates and Collecters under this Government, for the purpose of being fully understood in all parts of the country. Published by order of the Right Hon. the Governor in Council. G. BUCHAN, Chief &.c. to Govt.-Dated in Fort St. George, 3d Dec. 1806. The Proclamation above entirely repels the ides which some have entertained, that there was any intention in the Anglo-Indian goverment of spreading the profession of Christunity among the natives by undue means. All thinking mires which understand the nature of our holy religion, must abhor the very sembiance of violence exerted in its fatour; in fact, nothing can be so unfavoura le. If we are rightly informed, no misonary of any description had ever addressed these revolters; nor was there one at the time within 150 miles of the station. A handsome provision has been made for the widows and children of the officers, both civil and military, who were killed or wounded in the late mutiny at Vellore. A dreadful carnage has taken place in Africa, among some of the principal tribes there. It appears that one of the Chiefs, a a very rich and powerful Prince, of the tribe of the Asshentees, died, and in conformity with their custom, was buried, with a large portion of his treasure deposited in the grave. The Chief of another tribe found means to approach the tomb, from whence he stole the money; the violation was discovered-the chief was pursued, who had taken refuge with another Chief, with whom he had shared the booty, and these two were joined by a third. These three tribes were followed by the party aggrieved, with a very large army. One of the offending parties proceeded to the English fort of Ananiaboo, where no less than 5,000 women had taken shelter, and the Asshentees, headed by their King in person, on the 15th of June, proceeded to invest the fort, which was garrisoned by the African Company's slaves and boys, and twenty-four soldiers, under the command of Mr. White, and Messrs. Meredith, Swanzay, Bains, and Smith. The Asshentecs first took the town, and then proceeded under the walls of the garrison, and demanded all such persons as had taken shelter within them. A dreadful earnage ensued, and between 1,000 and 2,000 persons became victims,-Mr. White received two shots, one of which was in his mouth. Mr. Meredith, Mr. Swanzay, and Mr. Bains, were slightly wounded. Mr. White was not dead, but the country was deprived of his services. Reinforcements were obtained from Cape Coast Castle, under the command of Capt. Bold; they were embarked on board the Colpoys, and were landed at Anamaboo. The Governor of Elmine expressed a wish to adjust the dispute, but the mediation was witheld, and was afterwards adjusted by a flag of truce, sent out by Mr. White. After the battle of Anamaboo, and as soon as they were satisfied none of the refractory chieftains were in the English garrison, the Asshentees went to Cape Coast Castle, with the remains of their army, where one of the refractory chiefs, named Cheboo, had taken refuge, and was given up to them by the English; but the other two, named Quaco poutay and Accom, effected their escape. The Asshentees carried fire and murder through the whole of the country in their way. When at Cape Coast, they had proceded about 6000 English miles from their native country, and it is said, that in the cource of the march not less than from 30 to 40,000 persons had fallen victims to their ferocity. The Asshentee King is a very powerful chieftain, and has a number of tributary Kings under him, among which were those who rebelled. He had no less than seven petty Kings in his army in this expedition. His country is very rich in articles of mer chandise; and it is supposed that as 600 as he shall have destroyed his enemies, a treaty, highly advantageous, will be made by the English with him, in consideration of their having given up Cheboo.--The nation that has suffered most in this war has been the Fantees, whose country lay between the English settlements and the Ashentee country, and who have hitherto thrown every obstacle in the way of trade to the interior. We hope that these events will not prove injurious to our settlements on the coast, or destructive to the plans which benevolence is forming for the welfare of Africa; if they should really prove advantageous, it will be a remarkable instance of the power of Providence to educe good from evil. Bankrupts and Certificates between Sept. 20, and Oct. 20, 1807, with the Attorneys, extracted correctly from the London Gazette. BANKRUPTS. Sept. 22.-J. Greenwood and W. Grimaldi, Old Bond st. auctioners. Att. Bowen and Co. Tooke's court, Cursitor street. W. Cuff, Upper East Smithfield, cheesemonger. Att. Mitchel', Union court, Bread street. C. Bardett, Cannon street road, stone mason. Att. Noy, Mincing lane. 1. Braham, Back lane, wheelwright. Att. Unwin, Shadwell. P. Mitchell, Butt lane. Deptford, pork butcher. Att. Lee, Castle street, Holborn. 3. and G. Herbert, Grange road, tanners. Att. Bourdillon and Co. Little Friday street. W. Foy, Chertsey, baker. Att. Horne, Staines. P. Drury, Evesham, brazier. Att. Blayney and Co. Eves. ham. J. Hadiey, Birmingham, jeweller. Att. Brearly, Birming ham. J. Collins, Gosport, builder. All. Young, Gasport. 1.Townson, Plymouth Dock, hatter. Att. Stephens, Bristol. G. Grifin, Tooley street, sacking manufacturer. Wright, Dowgate hill. S. Webb, Bethnal Green, tallow chandler. Att. Drew, Clifford's Inn. C. Smerdon and B. Penu, Liverpool, druggists. A. Woods, Liverpool. H. Hall, Gloucestershire, dealer, Att. Lediard, Cirencester. W. P. Joggett, Cullum street, Fenchurch street, merchant and insurance broker. Att. Bousfield, Bouverie street, Fleet street. S. W. Lane, Davis street, Berkeley square, coachmaker. E. Washington and G. Currell, Chester, milliner. Att. 0.4. 2.--W. Higginbottom, Tottenham court road, cockfounder. 4. Hunt, Surrey street, Strand. B. Bloomfeldt, Upper Norton street, Fitzroy square, wine merchant. tr. Willett and Co. Finsbury square. Crt. 6.-1. Fenron, Watling street, Norwich, shawl manufacturer. Att. Birkett, Bond street, Walbrook. D. Price, Whitcomb street, Charing cross, carpenter. All. Wood, Richmond buildings. N. Kent, Newcastle upon Tyne, linen and woollen draper. Att. Bainbridge, Newcastle. I. S. Pringle, Newcastle upon Tyne, maitster. A. Lambert, Newcastle. W. Browne and T. Wale, Manchester, linen draper. Att. Knight, Manchester. Oct. 10.-J. Perkins and G. Bethell, Oxford street, woolden drapers. Att. Turner, Edward sucet, Cavendish square. M. Wilson, Newcastle upon Tyne, spirit merchant. Att. Bainbridge, Newcastle upon Tync. J. Hall and W. Dunlop, Newcastle upon Tyne, merchants. Att. Bainbridge, Newcastle upon Tyne. J. Hodgson, jun. Coleman street, merchant. Att. Collins and Co. Spital square. W. Anderton, Liverpool, upholsterer. Att. Cukitt, Liverpool. G. Bridport, Old Cavendish street, paper hanger. Att. Wilkinson, Oxford street. C. Band, Lamb strect, Spitalfields, grocer. Att. Williams, Upper John street, Fitzroy square. Oct. 13.-J. Johnson, Twickett's Mills, Paulerspury, miller. Att. Butcher, Northampton. J. Johnson and J. Statham, Twickett's Mills, near Towcester, inillers. Att. Swain and Co. Old Jewry. J. Adams, Fore street. Cripplegate, dealer in spirituous ligaps. Att. Vandercom and Co. Bush lane, Cannon st, Umper, Oxford sircet, linen draper. 4t. Drake, Old Fih street, Doctor's Compions. W. Radcliffe and T. Ross, Stockport, cotton manufacturers, Att. Lingard and Co. Heaton Norris. T. Topham, Manchester, merchant. Att. Jackson, Man chester. J. Lloyd, Liverpool, brewer. A. Griffith, Liverpool. S. Lawton, Grappenhall, butcher. Att. Griffith, Livetpool. C. Adams, Bury court, St. Mary Axe, jeweller. Att. Pasmore, Warnford court, Throginorton street. J. Hodges, Birmingham, baker. Att. Owen, Atherstone, Warwickshire. Oct. 17.-J. Kennion, sen, and J. Kennion, jun. Nicholas lane. brokers. Att. Crowder and Co. Frederick's place, Old Jewry. E. 1. Samuels, Prescott street, Goodman's fields, merchant. Att. Howard, Jewry street. G. M. A. Harper, Easingwold, flax dresser. Att. Barnley, Thirsk. J. Gruzelier, Plymouth dock, victualler. Att. Bovill, New Bridge strect. J. Lippard, Deptford, cheesemonger, Att. Mangnall, Warwick square. J. Hopkinson and Co. Sheffield, saw and edge tool manufacturers. Att. Tattersall, Sheffield. T. Bedford, Grange Moor, white clothier. Att. Rylali, Dewsbury. G. Braine, Mirfield, ship carpenter, Att. Rylah, Dews bury. O. Macdonagh, Albany Tavern, Piccadilly, victualler. Att. Winter, Paper buildings, Temple, J. Askew and W. Wright, New Bridge street, straw hat ma nufacturers. Att. Tucker, Staples Inn. G. Hawker, Stroud, clothier. Zit. Newnan, Stroud. P. Fitzherbert, Bath, merchant. Att. J. and T. Leman, W. Lewis, Bond street, woollen draper. Att. Westons, Fenchurch street. J. Potter, High Holborn, baker, Att. A'Beckett, Broad st. Golden square. J. Richardson, Somerset strect, Goodman's fields, mathematical instrument maker. Att. Falcon, Elm court, Temple. Oct. 20-J, Hill, Watling street, warehouseman. Att. Wilde, jun. Castle street, Falcon square. W. Tabberer and T. Johnson, Hyde street, Bloomsbury, factors. Att. Swain and Co Old Jewry. W. Hanslip, Stradbrook, tanner. A. Hurd, King's Bench Walk, Temple. J. Jones, Bishop's Stortford, shopkeeper. Att. Meredith & Co. New square. Lincoln's inu, J. Walter, jun. Shad Thames, anchorsmith. Alt. Hatton, Dean street, Southwark. C. F. Mollerston, Osborn place, Whitechapel, leather ma nufacturer. A. Lane, Lawrence Poultney hill. CERTIFICATES. Oct. 13.-J. H. Govett, Wivilscombe, cloth manufacturer. Oct. 20.-J. Bell, Liverp, auctioneer.-J. Bradley, Shaw Oct. 97.-L. Lester, Sheerness, shoemaker.-H. Fell, Basinghall street, warehouseman.-W. Barth, Chester liner draper.-J. Coatsworth, Dundee Arms Wapping, Tictualler.W, Nicholls, Bristol, soap dealer-J. Clinton. Newport, Shropshire, skinner.-J. G. Tietkens, Queen's row, Bethnall green, merchant. Oct. 31.-D. Sweetland, Topsham, coal merchant.-T. Nesbitt, High street, Borough, chinaman. Nov. 3.-J. and J. Starforth, Durham, woollen manufac turers.-J. Thomas and A. Bond, Lightpile, clothiers.R. Ginger, Queenlithe, salter.-F. T. Walker, Liverpool, merchant. Nov. 7.-J. Stoneham, St. Nicholas, Bristol, tavern keep er J. and W. Wild, Stockport, cotton spinners.--T. Lewis, Bristol, merebant.-A. and J. Surtees, R. Burdon, J. Brandling, and J. Embleton, Berwick upon Tweed, bankers.-A. Jones, L. Coins, and E. Kerney, New Bond street, milliners. Nov. 10.-G. Pailthorpe, St. John street, oilman.-J. Dut ton, Levenshulme, fustian manufacturer.-J. Turner, Tooley street, cordwainer.-S. Pearson, Kexby bridge corn factor. |