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ing friends to liberty; for, be assured, that, if they could destroy the navy of England they would; and, though it is possible that they might love liberty themselves, if they could get it, they would not stir one inch to save us from dungeons and chains; but, on the contrary, when they saw us manacled, would laugh at our folly. This tender feeling, Gentlemen, for the interests and honour of foreign nations, is a feeling of modern date in the English patriot's breast. The motto, which I have taken for this paper, contains the sentiments of one of those, who assisted in overturning the kingly government of England. His were not notions of universal equality amongst nations. The men of that day understood what liberty was, full as well as my friend of the Independent Whig. They were no court sycophants. They spared not their blood in the cause of liberty at home; but, never did it enter into their minds, that all nations were entitled to equal rights upon the seas. They gave up none, no not one, of the rights or the honours of England; but, they restored, re established, and confirmed those rights and honours, which the preceding pusillanimous kings had suffered to wither and decay.

There are some other important points, upon which I shall, in my next letter, trouble you with some observations, such, for instance, as the danger, which this writer apprehends, from the closing of the American ports against us, in which he happens most harmoniously to coincide in expression with those whom, I hope, he most despises. The character of the Americans, too, and especially that of their sea-faring people, he has adventurously taken upon him to vindicate. The probable number of our seamen on board of American ships I shall be able to state with a little more accuracy than he has done. In the meanwhile, suffer me to exhort you, not to let your resentment against our calumniators carry you one inch towards an indifference with respest to the fate of our country from without; for, be assured, that if a conqueror were to take possession of it, we should be the principal sufferers, and not they, who would readily enlist in his ser vice, and who would be gladly received, as ready-made instruments in his works of rapacity and plunder.

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FOREIGN OFFICIAL PAPERS. CONTINENTAL WAR.

Eightieth Bulletin of the Grand French Army.

(Concluded from page 224.)

The Emperor of Russia remained three weeks at Tilsitt with the King of Prussia. On receiving advice of the battle of Friedland, they both left the place with the ut most haste.

No. I.

The General in Chief Benningsen, to his Excellency the Prince Bagrathion.

After the torrents of blood which have lately flowed in battles as sanguinary as frequently repeated, I could wish to assuage the evils of this destructive war by proposing an armistice, before we eater into a conflict, into a new war, perhaps still more terrişle than the former. I request you, Prince, to make known to the chiefs of the French army this intention on my part, of which the consequence may have effects more salutary, as a general congress has already been proposed, and may prevent a useless effusion of human blood. You will afterwards transmit to me the result of your proceedings, and believe me to be with the most distinguished consideration, your Excellency's most humble and most obedient servantB. BENNINGSEN.

No. II.

His Excellency the Prince Bagrathion to the General in Chief Benningsen.

General, The General Commander in Chief has addressed to me a letter relative to the orders which his Excellency has received from his Majesty the Emperor, directing me to communicate its contents: I think I cannot better comply with his intentions than by transmitting to you the original. I request you, at the same time, to send me your answer; and accept the assurance of the high consideration with which I am, General, your most humble and most obedient servant,- BAGRATHION. -June

6-18th.

81st Bulletin of the Grand French Army.

Tilsit, June 21.At the affair at Heilsberg, the Grand Duke of Berg passed along the line of the 3d division of cuirassiers, at the moment when the 6th regiment had just made a charge. Col, d'Avary, commander of the regiment, his sabre dyed in blood, said, "Prince, review my regi ment, and you will find that there is not a soldier whose sword is not like mine.' Col. Borde Soult was wounded; Guihenene, Aid-de-Camp to Marshal Lasnes," was wounded.

(To be continued.)

PUBLIC PAPERS.
DISPUTE WITH AMERICA.- -Proclamation
by Thomas Jefferson, President of the
United States of America. Given at the
City of Washington, July 2, 1807.

and that no circumstance might be wanting to mark its character, it had been previously ascertained, that the seamen demanded were native citizens of the United States. Having effected his purpose, he returned to anchor with his squadron within our jurisdiction. Hospitality, under such circumstances, ceases to be a duty; and a continuance of it," with such uncontrouled abuses, would tend only, by multiplying injuries and irritations, to bring on a rupture between the two nations. This extreme resort is equally op

During the wars which, for some time, have unhappily prevailed among the powers of Europe, the United States of America, firm in their principles of peace, have endeavoured, by justice, by a regular discharge of all their national and social duties, and by every friendly office their situation has admitted, to maintain, with all the bellige-posed to the interests of both, as it is to asrents, their accustomed relations of friendship, hospitality, and commercial intercourse. Taking no part in the questions which animate these powers against each other, nor permitting themselves to entertain a wish but for the restoration of general peace, they have observed with good faith the neutrality they assumed, and they believe that no instance of a departure from its duties can be justly imputed to them by any nation. A free use of their harbours and waters, the means of refitting and of refreshment, of succour to their sick and suffering, have, at all times, and on equal principles, been extended to all, and this too amidst a constant recurrence of acts of insubordination to the laws, of violence to the persons, and of trespasses on the property of our citizens, committed by officers of one of the belligerent parties received among us. In truth these abuses of the laws of hospitality have, with few exceptions, become habitual to the commanders of the British armed vessels hovering on our coasts, and frequenting our harbours. They have been the subject of repeated representations to their government. Assurances have been given that proper orders should restrain them within the limit of the rights and of the respect due to a friendly nation: but those orders and assurances have been without effect; no instance of punishment for past wrongs has taken place. At length, a deed, transcending all we have hitherto seen or suffered, brings the public sensibility to a serious crisis, and our forbearance to a necessary pause. A frigate of the United States, trusting to a 'state of peace, and leaving her harbour on a distant service, has been surprised and attacked by a Eritish vessel of superior force, one of a squadron then lying in our waters, and covering the transaction, and has been disabled from service, with the loss of a number of men kill.d'and wounded. This enormity was not only without provocation or justifiable cause, but was committed with the avowed purpose of taking by force, from a ship of war, belonging to the United States, a part of her crew,

surances of the most friendly dispositions on the part of the British government, in the midst of which this outrage has been committed. In this light the subject cannot but present itself to that government, and strengthen the motives to an honourable réparation of the wrong which has been done, and to that effectual controul of its naval commanders, which alone can justify the government of the United States, in the exercise of those hospitalities it is now constrained to discontinue. -- In consideration of these circumstances, and of the right of every nation to regulate its own police, to provide for its peace, and for the safety of its citizens, and consequently to refuse the admission of armed vessels into its harbours or waters, either in such numbers or of such descriptions as are inconsistent with these, or with the maintenance of the authority of the laws, I have thought proper, in pursuance of the authorities specially given by law, to issue this my proclamation, hereby requiring all armed vessels bearing commission under the government of Great Britain, now within the waters or harbours of the United States, immediately and without any delay to depart from the same, and interdicting the entrance of all the said harbours and waters to the said armed vessels, and to all others bearing commissions under the authorityof the British government--And if the said vessels, or any of them, thall fail to depart as aforesaid, or if they, or any others, so interdicted, shall hereafter enter the harbours or waters aforesaid, I do, in that case, forbid all intercourse with them, or any of them, their officers or crews, and do prohibit all supplies and aid from being furnished to them or any of them And I do declare and make known, that if any person from, or within the jurisdictional limits of the United States, shall afford any aid to any such vessel, contrary to the prohibition contained in this proclamation, either in repairing any such vessel, or in furnishing her, her officers, or crew, with supplies of any kind, or in any manner whatsoever, or if any pilot shall assist in navigating any of the said armed ves

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sels, unless it be for the purpose of carrying them in the first instance, bevond the limits and jurisdiction of the United States, or unless it be in the case of a vessel forced by distress, or charged with public dispatches, as hereinafter provided for, such person or persons shall, on conviction, suffer all the pains and penalties by the laws provided for such offences. And I do hereby enjoin and require all persons bearing office, civil or mi litary, within or under the authority of the United States, and all others, citizens or inhabitants thereof, or being within the same, with vigilance and promptitude to exer: their respective authorities, and to be aiding and assisting to the carrying this proclamation, and every part thereof, into full effect.Provided nevertheless, that if any such vessel shall be forced into the harbours or waters of the United States, by distress, by the dangers of the sea, or by the pursuit of an enemy, or shall enter them charged with dispatches or business from their government, or shall be a public packet for the conveyance of letters and dispatches, the commanding officer immediately reporting his vessel to the collector of the district, stating the ob ject or causes of entering the said harbours or waters, and conforming himself to the regulations in that case prescribed under the authority of the laws, shall be allowed the benefit of such regulations respecting repairs, supplies, stay, intercourse and departure, as shall be permitted under the same authority.In testimony whereof I have caused the Seal of the United States to be affixed to these presents, and signed the same. -Given at the City of Washington, the 2d day of July, in the year of our Lord, 1807, and of the sovereignty and indepen dence of the United States the thirty-first ;THOMAS JEFFERSON, By the President.JAMES MADISON, Secretary of State. TREATY BETWEEN FRANCE AND RUSSIA.— Treaty of Peace between his Majesty the Emperor of the French, the King of Italy, and his Majesty the Emperor of all the Russias. Done at Tilsit, July 7, 1807.

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Emperor of all the Russias, has, on his part, appointed Prince Kourakin, his actual Privy Counsellor; Member of the Council of State, and of the Senate; Chancellor of all the Orders in the Empire; Ambassador Extraordinary, and Pienipotentiary of his Majesty of all the Russias to his Majesty the Emperor of Austria; Knight of the Russian Order of St. Andrew, of St. Alexander; of St. Aube; of the first class of the Order of St. Wolodimir, and of the second class of the Prussian Orders of the Black and Red Eagle; of the Bavariau Order of St. Hubert; of the Danish Order of Dannebrog, and the Perfect Union, and Bailiff and Grand Cross of the Sovereign Order of St. John of Jerusalem; and Prince Demety Labanoff Vau Rostoff, Lieut. General of the Armies of his Majesty the Emperor of all the Russias; Knight of the first class of the Order of St. Anne, of the Military Order of St. Joris, and of the third class of the order of Wolodimir.The abovementioned, after exchanging their full powers, have agreed upon the folowing Articles-Art. I. From the day of exchanging the ratification of the present treaties, there shall be perfect peace and amity between his Majesty the Emperor of the French and King of Italy, and his Majesty the Emperor of all the Russias. - Art. II. Hostilities shall immediately cease at all points by sea or land, as soon as the intelligence of the present treaty shall be officially received. In the mean while, the high contracting parties shall dispatch couriers extraordinary to their respective generals, and commanders.-Art. III All ships of war or other vessels, belonging to the high contracting parties of their subjects, which may he captured after the signing of this treaty, shall be restored In case of these vessels being sold, the value shall be returned.Art. IV. Out of esteem for his Majesty the Emperor of all the Russias, and to afford to him a proof of his sincere desire to unite both nations in the bands of immutable confidence and friendship, the Emperor Napoleon wishes that all the countries, towns, and territory, conquered from, the King of Prus sia, the ally of his Majesty the Emperor of all the Russias, should be restored, namely, that part of the Duchy of Magdeburg, situated on the right bank of the Rhine, the Mark of Prignitz; the Uker Mark; the Middle and New. Mark of Brandenburg, with the exception of the Circle of Kotbuss, in Lower Alsace; the Duchy of Pomerania; Upper, Lower, and New Silesia, and the County of Glatz; that part of the District of the Netze, which is situated to the northward of the road of Driesen and Schneidemuhl, and to the northward of a line drawn

His Majesty, the Emperor of France, King of Italy, Protector of the Confederation of the Rhine, and his Majesty the Emperor of Russia, animated with the same int rest in putting an end to the devastations of war, have, for this purpose, nominated and furnished with full power on the part of his Majesty the Emperor of France and King of Italy, Charles Maurice Talleyrand, Prince of Benevento, his Great Chamberlain, and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour, Knight of the Prussian Order of the Black and of the Red Eagle of the Order of St. Hubert.His Majesty, the

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from Schneidemuhl through Waldau to the Vistula, and extending along the frontier of the circle of Bromberg, and the navigation of the river Netze, and of the canal of Bremberg, from Driesen to the Vistula' and back, must rem in open and free of all tolls; Pometelia; the island of Nogat; the country on the right bank of the Vistula and of the Nogat to the West of Old Prussia, and to the Northward of the circle of Calm; Ermeland. Lastly, the kingdom of Prussia, as it was on the 1st of January, 1772, together with the fortresses of Spandau, Stettin, Custrin, Glogau, Breslan, Schweidnitz, Neisse, Brieg, Kosel, and Glatz, and in ge neral all fortresses, citadels, castles, and strong holds of the countries above-named, in the same condition in which those fortresses, citadels, castles, and strong holds may be at present; also, in addition to the above, the city and citadel of Graudentz.-Art. V. Those provinces which, on the 1st of January, 1772, formed a part of the kingdom of Poland, and have since, at different times, been subjected to Prussia (with the exception of the countries named or al luded to in the preceding article, and of those which are described below the 9th ar=ticle), shall become the possession of his Majesty the King of Saxony, with power of possession and sovereignty, under the title of the Duchy of Warsaw, and shall be governed according to a regulation, which will insure the liberties and privileges of the peoF ple of the said Duchy, and be consistent with the security of the neighbouring states. --Art. VI. The City of Dantzic, with a territory of two leagues round the same, is restored to her former independence, under the protection of his Majesty the King of Prussia, and his Majesty the King of Saxony; to be governed according to the laws by which she was governed at the time when she ceased to be her own mistress.-——Art. VII. For a communication betwixt the king dom of Saxony and the Duchy of Warsaw, his Majesty the King of Saxony is to have the free use of a military road through the states of his Majesty the King of Prussia. This road, the number of troops which are allowed to pass at once, and the resting. places, shall be fixed by a particular agreement between the two sovereigns, unter the mediation of France.-Art. VIII, Neither his Majesty the King of Prussia, his Majesty the King of Saxony, nor the city of Dantzic, shall oppose any obstacles whate ever to the free navigation of the Vistula un der the name of tolls, rights, or dutles.

Art. IX. In order as far as, po ible to estiblish a natural boundary between Ritssia and

the Duchy of Warsaw, the territory between the present confines of Russia, from the Bug to the mouth of the Lassona, shall extend in a line from the mouth of the Lassona along. the towing path of the said river; and that of the Bobra, up to its mouth; that of the Narew from the mouth of that river as far as Suradiz; froin Lissa to its source near the village of Mien; from this village to Nuzeck, and, from Nutzeck to the mouth of that river beyond Nurr; and finally, along the towing path of the Bug upwards, to ex tend as far as the present frontiers of Russia.. This territory is for ever united to the Empire of Russia.-Art. X. No person of any rank or quality whatever, whose residence or property may be within the limits stated in the above-mentioned article, nor any inha-: bitant in those provinces of the ancient kingdom of Poland, which may be given up to his Majesty the King of Prussia, or any pers son possessing estates, revenues, pensions, or any other kind of income, shall be molested in his person, or in any way whatever, on account of his rank, quality, estates, revenues, pensions, income, or otherwise, or in consequence of any part, political or military, which he may have taken in the events of the present war-Art. XI. All contractsand engagements between his Majesty the King of Prussia and the ancient possessors, relative to the general imposts, the ecclesiastical, the military or civil benefices, of the creditors or pensioners of the old Prussian government, are to be settled between the Emperor of all the Russias and his Majesty the King of Saxony; and to be regulated by their said Majesties, in proportion to their acquisitions, according to articles V. and IX.

Art. XII. Their Royal Highnesses the Dukes of Saxe Cobourg, Oldenburg, and Mecklenburgh Schwerin, shall each of them be restored to the complete and quiet possession of their estates; but the ports in the Duchies of Oldenburgh and Mecklenburgh shall remain in the possession of French gar risons till the definitive treaty shall be signed between France and England.-Art. XIIL His Majesty the Emperor Napoleon accepts of the mediation of the Emperor of all the Russias, in order to negociate and conclude a definitive treaty of peace between France and England; however only upon coudition that this mediation shall be accepted by England in one month after the exchange of the ratification of the present treaty.-Art. Xi. His Majesty the Emperor of all the Russias being desirous on his part to manifest how atdently he desires to establish the most intimate and lasting relations betwe n the two Ethperors, acknowledges his Majesty

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Joseph Napoleon, King of Naples, and his
Majesty Louis Napoleon, King of Holland.
Art. XV. His Majesty the Emperor of all
the Russias, acknowledges the Confederation
of the Rhine, the present state of the pos-
sessions of the princes belonging to it, and
the titles of those which were conferred,
upon them by the act of confederation, or
by the subsequent treaties of accession. His
said Majesty also promises, information be-
ing communicated to him on the part of the
Emperor Napoleon, to acknowledge those
sovereigns who may hereafter become mem-
bers of the confederation, according to their
rank specified in the act of confederation.
Art. XVI. His Majesty the Emperor of all
the Russias cedes all his property in the
right of sovereignty to the Lordship of Jevor,
in East Friesland, to his Majesty the King
of Holland.-Art. XVII. The present treaty
of peace shall be mutually binding, and in
force for his Majesty the King of Naples,
Joseph Napoleon, his Majesty Louis Napo-
leon, King of Holland, and the Sovereigns
of the Confederation of the Rhine, in al-
liance with the Emperor Napoleon.-Art.
XVIII. His Majesty the Emperor of all the
Russias also acknowledges his Imperial
Highness, Prince Jerome Napoleon, as
King of Westphalia.-Art. XIX. The
Kingdom of Westphalia shall consist of the
provinces ceded by the King of Prussia on
the left bank of the Elbe, and other states
at present in the possession of his Majesty
the Emperor Napoleon.Art. XX. His
Majesty the Emperor of all the Russias en-
gages to recognize the limits which shall be
determined by his Majesty the Emperor
Napoleon, in pursuance of the foregoing
XIXth article, and the cessions of his Majes-
ty the King of Prussia (which shall be noti-
fed to his Majesty the Emperor of all the
Russias), together with the state of posses-
sion resulting therefrom to the sovereigns for
whose behoof they shall have been establish-
ed.—Art. XXI. Áll hostilities shall imme-
diately cease between the troops of his Ma-
jesty the Emperor of all the Russias and
those of the Grand Seignior, at all points,
wherever official intelligence shall arrive of
the signing of the present treaty. The high
contracting parties shall, without delay, dis-
patch couriers extraordinary to convey the
intelligence, with the utmost possible expe-
dition, to the respective generals and com-
manders-Art. XXII. The Prussian troops
shall be withdrawn from the Provinces of
Moldavia, but the said provinces may not be

occupied by the troops of the Grand Seig-
nior, till after the exchange of the ratifica-
tions of the future definitive treaty of peace
between Russia and the Ottoman Porte.-
Art. XXII. His Majesty the Emperor of
all the Russias accepts the mediation of his
Majesty the Emperor of France and King of
Italy, for the purpose of negociating a peace
advantageous and honourable to the two
powers, and of concluding the same. The
respective plenipotentiaries shall repair to
that place which will be agreed upon by the
two powers concerned, there to open the
negociations, and to proceed therewith.-
Art. XXIV. The periods, within which the
high contracting parties shall withdraw their
troops from the places which they are to
evacuate pursuant to the above stipulations,
as also the manner in which the different
stipulations contained in the present treaty,
shail be executed, will be settled by a special
agreement.-Art. XXV.. His Majesty the
Emperor of the French, King of Italy, and
his Majesty the Emperor of all the Russias,
mutually ensure to each other the integrity
of their possessions, and of those of the pow-
ers included in this present treaty, in the
state in which they are now settled, or fur-
ther to be settled, pursuant to the above sti-
pulations.—Art. XXVI. The prisoners made
by the contracting parties, or those included
in the present treaty, shall be restored in a
mass, and without any cartel of exchange on
both sides.-Art. XXVII. The commercial
relations between the French Empire, the
Kingdom of Italy, the Kingdoms of Naples
and Holland, and the Confederated States of
the Rhine, on one side; and the Empire of
Russia on the other, shall be replaced on the
same footing as before the war.--Art.
XXVIII. The ceremonial between the two
courts of the Thuilleries and Petersburgh,
with respect to each other, and also their
respective ambassadors, ministers, and en-
voys, mutually accredited to each other,
shall be placed on the footing of complete
equality and reciprocity.-Art. XXIX. The
present treaty shall be ratified by his Majes-
ty the Emperor of the French, King of Italy,
and his Majesty the Emperor of all the Rus-
sias; the ratifications shall be exchanged in
this city within the space of four days.
Done at Tilsit, 7th July, (25th June), 1807.

-(Signed) C. MAURICE TALLEYRAND,
Pr. of Benevento.--Prince ALEXANDER
KOURAKIN.Prince DIMITRY LABANOFF
VAN ROSTOFF.A true Copy. (Signed)
C. M. TALLEYRAND, Prince of Benevento.

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