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quifhed this intercourse would be fent to Paris. This menace produced the greatest alarm; and all mercantile people are defrous that their correfpondents in England will defift in writing to them. The fame caution should be oblerved with respect to Gottenburgh; letters by that channel being equally opened in Denmark and the perfons addteffed in like manner fubject to exposure.

A merchant of Hamburgh, who has extenfive dealings with America, was lately obliged to furrender the keys of his warehoule to French authority. For fome time he refuted compliance, but at last he was directed by one of the fenators to make the furrender. This took place in the prefence of mr. Forbes, the American contul, who was requested to attend as a witnels of the tranfaction.

Aium of 20,000 rix dollars, which had been collected to erect a monument to Luther, at Mansfield, has been seized on to pay the war-contribution; and the monumental ipeculation had been put off till the great jubilee of the reform!

Letters from Nuremberg of the 21 ult. ftate that fome rigorous orders relative to contributions had just been publifhed at Dantzig, by the governor, general Rapp. He commands that there be levied on all rich individuals, as well as on all manu facturers who have made money in confequence of the prefence of the troops, a forced loan of 2,500,000 francs, at an intereft of 5 per cent.; and 14,500,000 francs for the chest of the army paymaiter.

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A letter from Berlin, dated the 28th ult. fays: our capital is in a tiare of the most complete milery and neither it nor the provinces have yet been able to pay the contributions impofed upon them; nor will they be, unlets fome extraordinary event fhould relieve them from their prefent difficult es, The inhabitants of this city, who are threatened with military execution, make every poflible exertion to avoid this misfortune; but the burthens which are impofed on them are too heavy for the ma, jority to bear, and they are in the fame pre. dicainent with refpect to the requifitions. In tome of the provinces, in which the magazines are not capable of furnishing one third of the contribution, the towns have to fupport an executive detachment, befides the French gaurifon,There has been a great mortality here for fome time; upon an average the deaths exceed the births by upwards of eighty per week.

Letters of the ft ut. mention a report, Phat Bonaparte has made fome frein demands on the king of Prutia. He is faid to require a fupply of 8,000,000 dollars,

and to garrifon with French troops eight of the ftronget Pruffian fortrelles during the war.

RUSSIA.

The emperor Alexander has announced his determination to break off all communication with England, to recall his ambaffador from this court, and not to per, mit the British miflion to continue at the court of St. Petersburgh.

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The feizure of British property in Ruffia has been general; but, we understand, the amount has not been confiderable, and there are not any accounts of the perfons of the British relidents having been arrefted.

The following ukafe was iffued by the emperor Alexander.

To COUNT NICOLY PETROWITZK
ROMANZOFF.

In confequence of the prefent political circumstances, which have compelled us to break off all connexion with Britain, we order.'

1. An embargo to be laid on all British hips in our harbours, and on all property of the British on board of the fame, as allo on that at 'change and in the custom-house pack-houlės.

2. Their immoveable property, and what does not confit of goods to be left in their poffalion as heretofore, but not to be allowed to be soid, mortgaged, or transferred into other hands. Taking fuch meatures merely from our evident mercy to them, we hope they will not, during the exifting dif ference, tranfgrefs their duty by actions which might prove prejudicial to Ruffia, and thus incur our juit difpleafure, but live in due quietness and tranquillity.

3. Concerning the embargo, a committee is to be appointed at this port, of the most respectable Ruffian merchants, and of one member of the college of commerce. Authorifing you to select thefe men, we leave it to you to form the committee, and to inform us of the fame.

4. Similar committees to be appointed in Riga and Archangel, which are to be dependent on the one here. The fe lection and appointment of the members of them to be left to the military governors, directing allo the civil department; and where no fuch are, to the civil gover nors.

5. The charges which may accrue on this occafion to be provided from the revenues of the refpective cuftom-houfes, and placed to the account of the lequeltered shipa and goods. We are, &c.

(Signed by his imperial majefty's hand) ALEXANDER.

St. Petersburgh, O. 23, O. S. (Nov. 3.)

Letters

Letters from St. Petersburgh state, that moft of the old nobility of Ruffia had prefented a strong remonftrance to the emperor against the policy of his councils, that had led to the war with England, instead of cultivating the friendship of that power, which it is juftly obferved to be the true inte eft of Rumia to do. The emperor's reply was not then known, but was looked for with an intereft cominenfurate to the importance of the subject; and in the interim the people, as well as the nobility, did not conceal their refentment at the predominance of Gallic influence in the emperor's councils. It is farther faid, that they have fent a remonftrance to count Romanzoff, importing, that they had fufficient confidence in the good faith and integrity of the British merchants at St. Petersburgh, and did not require the interference of the government with respect to the liquidation of their debts, &c.

SWEDEN.

Letters from Gottenburg affirm, that the king of Sweden adheres ftrictly to his good faith with this country, notwithstand ing the attempts of the Danes to bias him from it. The accounts add, that the king has gained of late much popularity among his fubjects; and every affittance is promifed him in cafe of being forced into a war with Rullia. His Swedish majefty is about to pay a visit to Stockholm. Great confidence is expreffed at Gottenburg, that the Swedes would be fully competent to defend themselves against the Rulians, in cafe the reported invasion of Finland thould take place. They fay they have nothing to apprehend but the freezing of the Sound fo completely as to admit of the French and Danish forces paffing the ice to the oppofite

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So great has become the demand for colonial produce on the continent, in confequence of the difficulties which attend its obtainment, that we are affured our merchants are abundantly recompenfed for their enterprize if they receive payment for › one cargo in three; and we thus find that, notwithstanding the very precarious state of our connexion with Sweden, all the ports in that kingdom are now loaded with our produce at Gottenburg, in particular, the quays are groaing under the weight of fugar, coffee, &c. daily pouring in from London, Liverpool, &c.

DENMARK.

It appears, that the trial of gen. Peymann, for figning the capitulation of Copenhagen, is merely a matter of form. Had he protracted the fiege 48 hours longer, the whole of the town must have been laid in afies. The heads of the thirty

corporations have a right, by charter, to dictate to the military power in cafes of emergency, or any attack against the city.

One of the moft diftreffing calamities which refulted from the bombardment of Copenhagen, happened to the family of profeffor Horneman. A bomb forced its way into his house, and dreadfully mutilated his three daughters. One had both her legs broken, and the others were maimed in nearly a finiilar manner.

It is a moft remarkable circumftance, that the fee and refidence of the bishop of Zealand, fituated near the church of our lady (which was burnt down), escaped the conflagration. It had the fame good fortune in the great fire of 1727, and in the fire which did fo much damage a few years back.

The Danes are making uncommon exertions to recruit their marine. It is flated, that there were on the zoth ult. at fea, or in readiness for fea, two fail of the fine, three frigates, 13 brigs carrying from 14 to 18 guns, one fchooner of 10 guns, feven gun-boats mounting from a to 6 guns, and three finaller ones, befides numerous yawls, each carrying a gun, and in some instances four howitzers. It is a fingular fact, that, when the Danish fleet was furrendered to us, it was stated that the hips were unprovided with boats: they had been fent away, and kept concealed till the term of our convention expired; when feveral hundred of them made their appearance in the harbour.Many of thele have been fitted with guns for the annoyance of our trade in the Baltic..

In the year 1785 his royal highness the crown prince received an English-built floop, as a prefent from his majesty the king of England. When the English carried away the Danish navy, and emptied the arfenal, they left this loop as a mark of refpe&t. His royal highnets, however, `on his return to Copenhagen, ordered that this veffel fhould be manned with 15 Englifh failors, who had been made prisoners, furnished with the neceffary provisions, and fent back to England.

The crown prince of Denmark has rendered himself particularly unpopular in his dominions, by the angry precipitancy in which he has plunged into the war. It is a fact not generally known, that when he fled from Copenhagen in difguife, he was taken by admiral Keate's fquadron during his paffage over the Belt. He was imme diately recognised, but our people, affect ing not to know him, generously permitted him to continue his route. He forced the command of Copenhagen on general Pey

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mann, who in vain urged his advanced age as an excufe for his retirement from fo weighty a refponfibility, and now punishes him for the natural confequence of that impofition. The generality of the people of Denmark were by no means difpleafed at the lofs of their navy, although poffibly mortified by the manner of it more than half the revenues of Denmark went to the establishment of this ufelefs marine, without their having, for forty years back, had a fingle fhip of the line at fea. The Danish failors and officers are on conftant pay, al though not on-board, but fcattered throughout the country; and the mercantile part of the people, in particular, are pleated at being relieved from the burthen of their fupport.

Denmark has iffued an uncommonly rigorous proclamation, denouncing death against any of her fubjects who carry on an intercourfe with Great Britain, together with the confifcation of the goods which may be the object of such intercourse, if they can be found; and if not, the full value of them is to be advanced from the other effects of the criminals.

A decree has been published at Copenhagen, authoriting the admiffion, into Danifh ports, of all cruifers which may capture English prizes.

Helfingburg, Nov. 19. Mr. Lutekins and mr. Pent, the two commiffaries left at Copenhagen to liquidate the accounts due from the English, have been ordered by the crown prince to leave it immedi ately; though almost 250,000 dollars remain unpaid! Thefe gentlemen have arrived here.

The Swedish conful at Copenhagen has been arrested for correfponding with a captain in the English fleet. By way of retaliation, the king of Sweden has ordered the Danish conful at Malmo to be confined to his house.

AMERICA.

The profecution against colonel Burr continued at Richmond as late as the middle of last month. Mr. Martin, the counsel employed by the government against the colonel, concluded his argument on the 14th, after having spoken in Tupport of the charges upwards of eighteen hours. The American editors appear afhamed of this protracted profecution, and in their late papers are filent on the fubject.

The following circumftance has much occupied the attention of the party jour nals at New York: A packet of letters, addreffed to mr. Erkine, the British minifter, and indorfed by vice-admiral Berkeley, was delivered, off the Capes of the Delaware, by the officer of a British armed fchooner, to an American, pilot bound to

New York, with inftructions to put it into the poft-office in that city. The pilot, inftead of taking the packet to the post-office himself, confided it to another perfon, who was intercepted on the way, and prevailed upon by a third perfon to take it to the office of The Aurora-a paper remarkable for its revolutionary principles, its attachment to France, and hoftility to England. The packet was there detained; and upon application being made for it the next day, it was faid that it had been forwarded to Washington; an affertion which was found, on inquiry at the post-office, to be falfe.

Colonel Patton, of New York, is to be poft-mafter-general of the united states, in the room of mr. Granger, refigned.The poft-office, at New York, vacated by the colonel's promotion, has given rise to a warm conteft; among the candidates is Duane, the editor of The Aurora, who has lately notorized himself by detaining and breaking open the dispatches of admiral' Berkeley to mr. Efkine.

The following fingular equality with refpect to fex and age, occurred in the number of deaths at New York for one week,,, ending the 17th ult. viz.-Men 13, Wo. men 13, boys 11, Girls 11 ;-Total 48.

Upwards of fifty of the Americans who went with Miranda, and were taken in the Bee and Bacchus fchooners, are, it appears, ftill confined in the Spanish cattles at Qmoa, Boco Chica, and Porto Ricco; where they are doomed to eight and ten years flavery, and are scarcely allowed fufficient provifions to fupport life. A fubfcription has been opened at New York to afford them some re. lief.

Private letters received with the lat American papers counteract, in a great measure, the effect which might otherwife have been produced by the prefident's speech. They ftate, that the opposition he will have to encounter in congrefs will be to ftrong, as to render abortive any endea vour of the Gallic party to involve the states in a war wirh Great Britain. This ftatement is fupported by a fact which is very ftriking; viz. that the inturance on vessels trading to England remains at the ufual Iates of a time of peace.

The following article is of importance, inafmuch as it fhews that France is very willing at all times, when he is able, to adopt that mode of conduct which he is fo eager to complain of in any other nation. Bofton, Nov. zo.

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PROCLAMATION.

Gibraltar, Dec. 1.

In future all letters which are intended to be fent from this garrison to Spain; either by land or water, are to be firft brought to the fecretary's office, for examination, during office hours; and any perfon, who fhall, after this warning, be detected in attempting to fend or convey any letter to Spain, that fhall not have been previously brought to the fecretary of state, will be con- fidered as a spy, who is holding correfpondence with the enemy, and punished accordingly.

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All letters alfo that are brought to the garrifon from Spain, either by land or water, are to be fent to the fecretary's office for examination, previous to their being delivered; and the pratique mafter is hereby directed to warn all

veffels or boats that may arrive here from any port in Spain, that if they hall attempt to deliver any letters they may bring for this garrifon, without being firft fent to the fecretary's office for examination, they will be confidered as fpies, and treated accordingly. All letters intended to be fent to Tetuau or Tangiers, or any part of Barbary, or that may be brought from thence, are in like manner to be brought to the fecretary's office for examination.

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P. WRIGHT, A. Sec.'. 23.] Letters, whofe contents are of ceived from Holland. It is faid in a very fingular nature, have been rethem, that Bonaparte has agreed to an amicable feparation from his wife; that the kingdom of Italy is to be settled on her, as fome confolation for the lofs of her imperial confort; that his journey thither is connected with this felf, after madame Bonaparte is difpofarrangement and finally, that he himhis fpoufe, with a view, no doubt, to ed of, is to take a Ruffian princess as the prefervation of the Bonaparte dynafty on the throne of France.

Lloyd's for veffels to the Brazils; and 24.] Policies are already opened at infurances have been made upon the fame terms as to the Weft Indies; namely, as the underwriters term it, 8 to return 4, which implies the complete feeling of fecurity.

FIRE AT TOTTENHAM.

the houfe of mrs. M'Coy, in White On Monday night a fire broke out at Hart-lane, Tottenham, which was attended with very affecting circumftan

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Mrs. McCoy kept a feminary for for the purpofe of accompanying fome young ladies, and had gone to town of them to their parents till after the intention to ftop in town all night, holidays. The fervants, aware of her have a party of friends. The nursery availed themselves of her abfence to maid put to bed, as ufual, mrs. M'Coy's two children, (one about five, and the other feven years of age) and in her hurry to join her party below ftairs, the left burning by their bedfides a candle,

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which foon fet fire to their bed curtains. When the cries of the fuffering children were heard, it was too late to afford them any relief, and tney perished! The houfe and premifes adjoining were burnt to the ground. Mrs. McCoy's life, for fome years paft, has been one continued fcene of misfortune and diftrefs; a few years ago her huf band failed in bufinefs as a merchant; and with a view to recover his fortune, went abroad, and took with him his two elder fons. The fhip in which they took their paffage foundered, and they, with many others, met an un timely death. Mr. M'Coy's creditors, affected by the circumitance, prelented the widow with the freehold houfe in which he lived at Tottenham. She immediately converted it into a feminary, in order to fupport her two remain ing infants, and had begun to feel fome abatement of her affliction, when this new and heavy calamity befel her.

FURTHER PARTICULARS.

Upon further enquiry refpecting this calamitous event, we learn that lady's name is Maccaughey and not M'Coy. Her husband, as we ftated, was drowned at fea. On his death he left eight children to deplore his lofs. One of thefe fubfequently loft his life by falling into a pond in his mother's garden, while he was gone to church. She had till feven children living. The two younger perished by the fire at their mother's houfe on Monday night. The immediate caufe of the fire is now understood to have been different from what we ftated yesterday. Mr. Macċaughy, with a lady from Ireland, came to town to fee one of her fons, and finding him unwell, fpent the night in town. A letter was fent by mis. M. to her family, to inform them of her intention; but the letter, unhappily, never was delivered, or the fatal accident would probably have been prevented. The acquaintances who had fpent the evening at the houfe with the fervants, had left it before nine, when the younger children were put to bed. In the mean while the family, confifling of two young ladies, and two

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26.] At the dinner given by the Portuguefe ambaffador, in honour of the birth day of the queen of Portugal, Don Roderigo, and his fpeech on the 22d of September,' was one of the toafts drank with enthusiasm. Don Roderigo is the brother of count de Suza, the Portuguese ambaffador of our court, and accompanies the royal emi grants to the Brazils. The fpeech alluded to was one in which he strongly urged the measure of emigration, and the neceffity of adhering to England in all extremities.

Wednesday the lords of the admiralty again took into confideration the fervices of captain Yeo, when they de clared him entitled to a reward of 200l. and figned a recommendation to the lords of the treasury to prefent him with that fum.

ABRAHAM NEWLAND'S WILL. Although the will of mr. A. Newland has not been registered, yet, we are enabled to ftate the principal contents of it, and to whom the chief legacies were bequeathed. Mr. Newlaud was the son of a baker in Southwark; and he owed the confpicuous fituation he held in the bank to his own perfeverance, and unremitting at- || tention in his pursuits.

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