A statement of the Danish captures, condemna-, tions, &c. June 23-Act of Parliament regulating trade between the U. States and G. Britain. Oct. 14-Admiral Cochrane's blockade of the The documents from which these lists have been compiled, being of a miscellaneous nature, the detail is unavoidably imperfect. The sums stated as the amount of loss, are, in many cases doubtful.The chief fact from which the CAUSE of capture can French Leeward Islands. be inferred, is from the DATE of capture; which, on To these may be added the British Orders in couns referring to the regulations, orders or decrees, exist-cil of the 25th of April 1809, prohibiting altogether ing at the time, may serve to elucidate that point of all trade with France and Holland, and the ports of enquiry. The successive orders, decrees, &c. of the Italy, comprehended under the denomination of the belligerent powers, as they have come to the know-kingdom of Italy; the blockade of the ports of Spain ledge of this department, up to the year 1808, may from Gijon to the French territory, of the 20th of be found in a report made to congress by the Secre- Feb. 1810, which was partially relaxed on the 14th tary of State, on the 21st December, of that year-of May, 1810; the blockade of Venice, instituted In that report, the belligerent edicts bearing upon on the 27th of July 1806, and which was declared to neutral commerce, and corresponding with the list be still in force on the 26th of March, 1810; the now sent, are as follows: BRITISH. 1803-June 24. Direct trade between the neutrals and the colonies of enemies not to be interrupted unless upon the outward voy. age contraband supplies shall have been furnished by the neutrals. 1804-April 12.concerning Instructions blockades, communicated, by Mr. Merry Conversion of the siege of Curracoa into a blockade. Aug. 9, blockade of Fescamp, &c. 1805.-Aug. 17. Direct trade with enemies' colonics subject to restrictions. 1806-April 8. Blockade of the Ems, Weser, &c. May16-Blockake from the Elbe to Brest. Septr. 25-Discontinuance of the last blockade, in part. 1807-March 12. Interdiction of the trade from port to port of France. June 26.-Blockade of the Ems, &c. Oct. 16.-Proclamation recalling seamen. Nov. 11.-Three Orders in council. Nov. 25.-Six Orders in council. 1838-Jan. 8. Blockade of Carthagena, &c. March 28. Act of Par liament. April 11-Orders encouraging our citizens to violate the embargo. April 14-Act of Parlia ment to prohibit the exportation of cotton, wool, &c. Act of Parliament, making valid certain Orders in council. May 4-Blockade of Copenhagen and of the island of Zealand. FRENCH. 1803. 1804. 1805. 1806. blockade of the canal of Corfu, of the 13th August, 1810, which, in effect, was an attempt to blockade the Adriatic sea; together with certain other regu lations, principally touching the trade on the Bal tic. To the French edicts may be added, the decree of Rambouillet on the 23d of March 1810. The seizures and condemnations under the authority of the government of Naples, were principally in consequence of a special decree of the sovereign of that state. In making the lists, references have been had to the dates of the orders in council of Nov. 1807, and the French edicts of Berlin and Milan, chiefly because their promulgation formed a new epoch in the history of commercial spoliations. Under this division, these lists will exhibit the following results: 1807.-Dec. 17. Mi-Captures since the revocation of those de crees, 46 Nov. 21.-Berlin de- Captures during the existence of those cree. 1808-April 17. The number of captures made by the Neapolitans amounts to 47. The statement relative to Danish captures, will best explain itself. With respect to the question proposed by the resolution in obedience to which this report is made, "How far the decrees, orders or regulations under which the captures have been made, or abandoned, or persevered in, by the nation making such captures?" it may be remarked that the Berlin and Milan decrees were revoked, as far as they affected the neutral commerce of the United States, according to an official declaration of the French government made at Paris on the 5th of August 1810, to the American minister then resident there; and that this revocation in the same latitude has since been corroborated by acts and declarations of the French government communicated to the minister of the U. States who now resides at Paris. The decrees of Bayonne and Rambouillet, as well as that of the sovereign of Naples, being special, ceased with the accomplishment of the particular object of their promulga ders in council were rigidly enforced against Ameri-peal of the orders in council, the quarrel with American neutral trade: captures and condemnations were ca will be at an end. It will be best, however, to let incessantly occurring; and with respect to any edict the letter speak for itself,--"I have to advise you, of a date anterior to those orders in council, it is im- that a pilot-boat is arrived here to-day from Newpossible distinctly to specify whether it has been York, which she left on the 23d ult. bringing un acabandoned or not; for so late as the 25th of March count that the senate, after deliberating seven days, 1810, the British secretary of state for foreign af-had come to the resolution of deciaring war against fairs officially refused to allow the American min-Great Britain, 19 to 13. An express had arrived at ister in London to infer that the blockade of May N. York to major Bloomfield, which he read at the 1896, had become extinct by the operation of the head of his army, formally announcing that the Unitorders in council. On the contrary, he expressly fed States had declared war against Great Britain. I stated that the blockade was comprehended under think it proper to add, however, that the houses in the more extensive restrictions of a subsequent or New-York which dispatched the pilot with this inder: hence it may be inferred that the orders in coun-formation, for the purpose of making speculations in cil of November, 1897, and of April, 1809, which produce, expressly ordered that, should the orders were a more general extension of unlawful principles in council be revoked, their friends here were on no previously acted upon in a limited degree, although account to make any purchases for them. This is a comprehended, yet did not extinguish, particular convincing proof that this declaration of war will be blockades or orders an ece lently proclaimed; thus short-lived, and on the arrival of the Gazette, conleaving it uncertain whether in the event of the re-taining the revocation of the orders in council, all vocation of the orders in council themselves, any, or matters in dispute between the two countries wille what obnoxious edicts would or would not be insisted on or relinquished. In relation to Spain, the department of state is not in possession of information sufficient to authorise a report of the captures, &c. during the present war, by that power. All which is respectfully submitted. JAMES MONROE. Department of State, July 6th, 1812. "The American States.' " amic.bly settled. The Mackarei schooner had been dispatched from New-York by Mr. Foster, direct 10 Falmouth, the day before the pilot-boat sailed. When the senate came to the resolution of declaring wor, the account of Mr. Percival's death had not reached Washington, but was known at New-York." Thm a new falsehood is to be set on foot. We are now to believe that the declaration of war is to have no effer. Till now it has been asserted, distinctly acted, that the senate had rejected the proposition for vev. This, as the reader well knows, has been stated most distinctly, with all the circumstances attending the fact. It was not only asserted, that the senate hed rejected the proposition, but the number of the maUnder this head the well known WILLIAM COBBETT'jority against the motion was given to this deceived, frequently fills a few pages of his "Weekly Politi- this cheated, this insulted nation. In the Courier cal Register," published in London. The follow-newspaper of the 17th instant, was published the fling is from his paper of the 25th of July. It conlowing paragraph:-" We stop the press to state, tains much matter of curious interest, and will that we have just learned, that on a motion made in command a general perusal. the house of representatives for declaring war against Great Britain, the question was carried by a large American Statez-A second American war seemed majority; but on being brought up to the sena e, it to be all that was wanting to complete the round of was REJECTED by a majority of two? This was pubadventures in this jubilee reign; and this it seems lished on the 17th of July, and on the 20th the slove we have now got. It was very hard to persuade peo-letter from Liverpool. Now, upon what authority ple, that America would declare war. I begged of was the above statement made? Clearly upon no authe regent not to listen to those who affected to laugh thority at all. It was a falsehood; a falsehood inat American hostility. I told him, in so many words, tended to deceive the people of England, a falsethat we should have war, unless we redressed the hood intended to cheat them; a fuschood intended grievances that America complained of. Scarcely to answer most base and yet most foolish perposes; any body could be prevailed upon to believe this: for, on the 20th, out comes the truth by sheer force. but it is come true, it seems, after all. The anti-ja-I have heard a gentleman say, that he verily believed, cobins will not believe me; they despise my warn that, if the French were at Dover, half a million ings; and they pay for it in the end. Not only the strong, these same newspapers would represent Napublic, but the government, in England, wholly dis-poleon as at the last gasp. I hardly believe that; for, believed that the Americans would go to war. The by the time he was safely landed, they would be contruth is, that there are so many newspapers in Eng-sidering of the means of going over to his side, and Ind, whose sole purpose is to deceive the public, would, in their own mirds, be settling as to their that the wonder is, that any truth at all ever gains price. But, short of a crisis like that, there is nogeneral belief. There has, however, been an extra-ching that will induce them to desist from perseverordinary degree of obstinacy as to the real intentioning in falsehood to the very moment of detec ion. To of America with regard to war. Nothing could in-the very moment! They know well, that a few duce people to believe that she would go to war. weeks, days, or hours, must expose their faischoods asserted and proved, as I thought, that it was natu- to the public; but, they know also, that, for those rally to be expected that she would go to war, un-week, days, or hours, the falsehoods answer their less we did away the orders in council, and also the purpose. And, when one falsehood is worn out, they impressment of American seamen; but, scarcely a have another. Thus it is, that this nation is deceksoul would believe. Perhaps, it may be good foed; it is thus that it is inore deceived than any other the cause of freedom that I was not believed! Butacion upon earth; and that, at last, when a calamilet us now quit the past and look a little to the fity comes upon it, it seems to be thunderstruck at ture. What will take place now? The letter, or what all the rest of the world clearly foresaw. pretended letter, from Liverpool, under the date of his, too, more than by any other means, that the 18th instant, would make this chested nation believe, that, the moment the news arrives of the r * Brigadier general Slecmfield. ED. country has been brought into its present humbled agree to desist from impressing any persons on board and distressed state. The people have always been her ships at sea. Are we prepared for this? Are believing pretty nearly the contrary of the truth the associates of Percival ready to give up these while the event was coming. The result has, in al-points? Are they ready to pay for what has been most every case, been precisely the opposite, of what captured under regulations which the Americans rewas expected; and the world have thought the peo-gard as a violation of their rights and are they rea ple of England mad for their silly expectations; but, dy to make it a crime in any English officer to seize if the world knew the means that are used to make seamen on board American ships at sea? If they are, the people of England believe falsehoods instead of we shall certainly soon be at peace with America; truth; if the world knew, that the people of England, if they are not, my opinion is, that we shall have war during the progress of any expedition or other war with her till these points are given up. The close like undertaking, for instance, hear nothing but false- of the pretended letter from Liverpool is curious. hoods respecting it, the world would not be surprised It observes that, "when the senate came to the reat the disappointment of the people of England at solution of declaring war, the account of Mr. Percethe result. These observations apply with peculiar val's death had not reached Washington." As much force to the dispute with America, who has been re-as to say, that if the news of his death had reached presented to the people of England as being, even Washington, war might not have been declaied!-now, wholly incapable of going to war, and whose And this is the way in which the friends of the litgovernment has been represented as acting contrary tle dead lawyer speak of him, is it? They leave us to the sense of the people in all its acts of resistance clearly to infer, that the news of his death might against England. Now, however, we are at war, it have prevented a war with America! And yet have the above news be true; and even now new false-these same writers the impudence to call the people hoods are attempted to be paimed upon us. But of Nottingham, and other places, monsters, because does the reader not perceive, that if America has de- they expressed their joy upon receiving that same clared war, she is at war? And that if she is at war, news! In conclusion, I beg the reader to bear in there must be a treaty before there can be a peace ? mind, that I have been nearly two years endeavoring To make a treaty of peace will require some months, to prevent a war with America; that very soon afat any rate; and does the reader suppose that the ter I was sentenced to be imprisoned two years in Americans, after the expence of arming has been en- Newgate and to pay a thousand pounds to the king, countered, will disarm till she has obtained satisfac- for writing about the flogging of English local milition upon all the points at issue? The acts of ag- tia men at the town of Ely, and about the employing gression (as she considers them) on our part are ma- of German troops upon that occasion; I beg the ny; and does the reader suppose that the mere news reader to bear in mind, that very soon after the imof the repeal of the orders in council will satisfy her?prisonment commenced, I began my most earnest enBesides, if there were no subject of disagreement deavors to prevent this war, the most fat I fear of but that of the orders in council, does not the reader all the many wars in which we have been engaged perceive that the repeal has not been full, and com- since the present king mounted the throne. I was plete, and unqualified; and that if it were so, Ameri-[enabled to tell exactly what would come to pass, unca cannot be expected to disarm without some sort less we redressed the grievances of America without of compensation! What! is our government to com-delay. I had letters from America, written by permit upon the Americans whatever acts of aggression sons of a little more understanding than appears to it pleases; and, after that, when America arms and be possessed by those from whom our lawyers get declares war, are we to suppose that, to effect an in-their information. I did not know to what extent the stant perce, we have nothing to do but to put a stop merchants of America, might submit, to have their to our aggressions? I do not take apon me to assert property seized; but I was well assured that the Athat they are aggressions; but supposing them to be merican people would no longer suffer their seamen such, as I really think they are, does the reader sup-to be imp:essed upon the open sea. This I was popose that our government possesses a license to com-sitively told nearly two years ago; and I am now mit acts of aggression, and to put forward its mere particularly anxious to impress it upon the minds of cessation of them as a ground for peace with the of-the ministers; for they may be ASSURED, that the Afended party? This is not the way with our govern-merican government, if it has actually declared war, ment, either abroad or at home. will never make peace till that point is settled to the satisfaction of the American people; till, in It is always talking of "indemnity for the past and short, we agree to desist wholly from taking any persecurity for the future," and why are we to suppose son whatever out of an American ship at sea.* I am that the American government will not talk in the aware how stinging it will be to some persons in Eng- list soldiers and to fit out armed vessels; and she WILLIAM COBBETT. British Commerce. The following interesting tables are extracted from a late work, published in London, by J. J. Oddy. An account of all imports into Great Britain, the produes of the West-India colonial possessions, for three years: to which is sad ed, the first cost and charges of the East-India ade in the same years, to shew the aggregate amount of the East and West India, trade, and its importance to the country. 1801. 1832. L. 1803. £. 6,759,617 7,293,316 5786432 10,865,456 9,992,820 6148446 It was fat, duly commissioned as a privateer, on the 15th of "NEW-YORK, 9th July, 1812. 17,064,749 14,995,53310903921 An account of all West-India produce imported into Great Britain, have been under the unpleasant necessity of entering from the 5th January, 1803, to the 5th January, 1804. Juice of limes Marmalade Molasses Oil, Castor Pepper, Cayenne lbs. Quantity. Official or rated. Daty received|| value. Gum Guiacum 6464 gallons 26137 libs. 6076 Pimento 2393 1166314 354 969 12 0 1749 8 7 455 14 9 1694 12 91 5284 10 287 6 4 29467 10 0 973 13 51 370182 3 71 537 5 9 1469 19 0 3087819 4221110 7 6 7059 16 273539 19 Suceads Mahogany, Br.pl. Nicaragua Wool, cotton, lbs. 7266490 Br. pl. 1 £. s. d. 751 56 148 1730 8 8 46359 14 5 into an agreement with the owner of the brig Tulip, James Funk, master, bound from hence to Lisbon, that, in consideration of his landing--CLELAND, the bearer of my dispatches, IN ENGLAND, in his route to Lisbon, I would furnish him with a letter request43ing and enjoining you, gentlemen, to permit the said brig to proceed to Lisbon, with her cargo, and to 2016 12 3 return to this port in ballast, without capture, or 450 4other interruption. I therefore, beg you will be 600 170 pleased to comply with my request. The Tulip was 144 13 9 laden and ready for sea, at the time of my entering 0 11 into the contract, and she has been detained several 1352 16 11 days by me. I have the honor to be, sirs, your most 158 16 4obedient humble servant, I extracted from an authentic copy of a dispatch, (the original having been sent by me to the secreta 2031 7 10 ry of state, and the copy by him transmitted to the at622 160 torney of the district) the following sentence; be15904 19 10ing the only part relating to the cause. I certified576 167 that it was a public dispatch, giving important in35504 90 formation to the British government, of a political and military nature, relating to force, preparation, and warlike operations. The dispatch was directed To the Right Honorable Lord Castlereagh." "MY LORD-On condition of my granting a letter of recommendation to a merchant vessel, bound to Lisbon, the owner of the vessel, has agreed to land a messenger for me, IN AN ENGLISH PORT." The PASSPORT appears to me, to have all the substantial ingredients of a LICENCE, to which all British cruizers were bound to pay the like respect (its terms and consideration being either in progress to be fulfilled; or actually complied with) to which a LICENCE immediately from the British government, would have been entitled.* Although Mr. Foster was not, at the time, in a capacity to perform his omiAdmiralty side of the Dis-cial functions, as they related to the United States; TRICT COURT of the yet, his acts, as they regarded his own government, United States, in and and the officers of its navy, were binding; and, as to for the PENNSYLVANIA them, official. He was the minister of that govern. ment returning from an embassy. His powers hd, indeed, ceased, as to the government to which he had been sent; yet they were not extinguished by This is a case of an American vessel, clearly docu-that of his own country, as regarded its interests and mented as such, belonging to William Shaw, a natu-concerns. However valid the contract stated, and ralized citizen of New-York. The property in the his passport were, as connected with his own governvessel is not disputed; nor does there appear any ob jection to the title of William Shaw, to the brig cap- * 1. Black. Com. 259 Note. Donat. v. Insurance tured. She was taken, as prize, by the ATLAS, Mof Company. N. A. 4 Dallas. 463. ment, they were, as to us, illegal and highly unjusti- ed to him by Mr FOSTER-were all conce:led, in the fiable. The passport was accepted, by the owner of first instance, from the knowledge of the c. ptor. the brig, after the passing of the act, entitled "Even at the time of the examination on the wineries act to prohibit American vessels from proceeding to, or in preparator c, it appeared, that six or seven letters trading with the enemies of the United States, and for directed for Lisbon, had also been concealed during other purposes;" passed the 6th July last.--The law the chase. They were never delivered up, nor mencould not have been known to the collector of New-troned, until such examination; when we find, unteYork on the 8th; when he cleared out the vessel and countably, that those letters do not relate to the Tccargo for Lisbon. She did not leave the Hook tili zir, or her cargo; and that neither in them 102 say the 12th. But whether it was or was not known on other paper on board, (though the slip as well as the board of the Tulip, before her departure from the cargo, were to be sold by him) is the supercargo, Hook, does not appear. Some dispatches and letters who was going a perfect stranger to Lisbon, introsent on board by Mr. FOSTER, to the care of James duced, recommended, or named! Cleland, the messenger, (a Trinity House Pilot, on The messenger and despatches were captured on his return home, from New-York) directed for Lis-board the Tulip. But the supercargo and the capbon, he was desired to deliver to the captain of the tain do not p ecisely agree, as to the plan originally Tuup; though other letters sent under his charge, contemplated for disposing of them. It must howat the same time, were directed to be put in the post ever, be inferred, from what both have said, that, office in England. even if the Tulip was forbidden, by her Gwner, to Only the papers necessary to prove American cha-enter, or touch at, any English port, for the purpose racter in the vessel, were shewn to the captors, in of landing the messenger with the despatches, she the first instance. No papers or proofs, ascertaining was to put them on board of any vessel proceeding to the cargo to be American property, were then, or at England, which she might casually meet; and if, in any time since, shewn to the captors, or exhibited to her direct course for Lisbon she did not meet with a this court. The supercargo, Braine, swears, that he vessel proceeding for England, she was to sail to had verbal orders for selling the vessel and cargo, at the lands end (many degrees of latitude and lungiLision, for account of Shaw, of New-York; to whom, tude out of her direct course) and lie off and on there as be understood and believes, both belong. The until she found a vessel going into port. master, Funk, swears, that he signed bill or bills of The envelope directed to Shaw and Carrol of Dublading to order," and also declares his under-lin, contained, most assuredly, the only papers chistanding and beef, that the property, in both vessel bibited in relation to the caigo. It is aleged, by the and cargo, belongs to Wilham Shaw of New-York. claimant, that those papers were to be produced onAs to the suspicion that this ownership was one in ly in case the vessel should be carried into a British transilu, (induced by the circumstance of the bills of port. If the Envelope and its contents, had been at lading being "to order”) there does not appear any their date (before the cargo, let it be noted, was all other foundation for it; unless it can be laid in the shipped) calculated as a mere cover; it was an uppapers herein after stated. No bill of lading, except necessary measure after the passport; which would the one hereafter mentioned, was found among the supercede all necessity for producing these papers in papers deuvered into this court by the captors. But a British port. American papers were, then, the onan affidavit of the captain, Funk, was offered, to ly documents the cargo required; if it were bona fide prove, that one had been delivered by the captain of American property. the TULIP, to the heutenant of the ATLAS. The court I take no notice of the contents of a paper said to did not think this regular, in the stage of the cause be signed by the captain of the Tulip, Cleland, and in which it was offered; nor was it clear of the ob- Bruine, after the capture. It cannot have the authojection to it, of being sworn to by a witness who had rity of a paper found on board at the time of capture; been examined on the standing interrogatories; be-it is not proved on oath to have been signed; nor fore an order for further proof. A russe de guerre could it have been competent to prove the facts therewas practised by the captain of the ATLAS, which in stated. It is contradicted in its principal allegawas then and had been, under British colors, and tion, by the oaths of Braine and Funk; and could called the privateer Pitt of Bermudas. He said only be used to discredit their testimony. "the Ture was a good prize; and he should send Some animadversion has been made, by the advoher into Halifax? At this stage of the business, cate for the captors, on a short letter from Mr Samthe PASSPORT from Mr. FOSTER was produced by the payo at New York, directed to Mr. Sumpayo at Lis supercargo; together with the following document. bon, found on board the Tulip. There is no intrinsie An Envelope (for there was no epistolary commu- evidence in this letter, that it relates to that vessel nication) was delivered with the passport, and not or her cargo. The external circumstances alleged to before superscribed "To Messrs. Shaw and Carrol, be grounds of suspicion, are not proved, or judicialmerchants, Dublin;" and containing an invoice and ly known to the court. bill of lading of the cargo, Loth dated the 17th of The claim of William Shaw, and an affidavit anJune, 1812. The invoice is without marks or num-nexed-state, that he is a naturalized American citi. bers; it amounts in value to $ 11,659 6 cents; it in- zen, resident in New York, as a merchant since 1795. chales an item for commissions at 5 per cent. mak-That the lading of the brig (whereof he is the sole ing 591 and 95 cents; and it is headed "invoice of owner, as well as of the cargo) commenced on mer bandise shipped on board the brig Tulip, James the 10th of June, and she was destined for Lisbon, Fak, master, for Lisbon, per order, and for account and no other port, and he had not since changed her and risque of Messrs. Shaw and Carrol, merchants, destination, or that of her cargo. The supercargo had Dublin."-The bill of Inding is signed by Janes express orders to proceed to Laston; and not to touch, Fant; it states the cargo to be shipped by Filium on any account, at any port, or place, in Great BriSh; it declares the cargo to be deliverable to the tain or Ireland. That, for the purpose of protecting order of the shipper, upon payment of 4000 doilers the vessel and cargo from British capture, and for freight; and an endorsement from William Show, no other purpose, on her voyage to Lisbon, he receiv directs the captain to "deliver the within contents ed, from H. Barclay, son of the British consul, "a to the order of Messrs. Shaw and Carrol, of Dublin? | letter from Augustus J. FOSTER, lately the minister This document with its enclosures-the character of plenipotentiary of Great Britain near the United CLELAND as a messenger-and the dispatches entrust-States; intended as a protection from British cap |