• Moulds are generally 15, per dozen advance on Stores. 05 0 6 0 15.6 665 673 04 10 5 1543 671 3 05 0 6 056 674 9 015 0 6- 036 674 9 t Delivered at 125. advance on the above Prices. 645 672 3 711 STATE PAPERS. Letter from General Armstrong to Mr. Madison, dated, Paris, 7th August, 1808, enclosing a Letter to Mr. Champagny. begs leave to inform him, that having, for some mouths past, made trial of the artificial waters of Trivoli without any useful effect, his physician has prescribed for hun, Should M. De Champagny have airy communications to make to Mr. Armstrong, he will be pleased to address them, as usual, to the Hotel de Legation Americane, rue Vanguard, 100, whence they will be regularly and promptly transmitted' to Bourbon. On leaving Paris, Mr. Armstrong thinks proper to state his regret, that the political relations of the two powers should continue to wear an aspect less auspicious to their future good understanding, than is wished for by those who are the friends of both. That his majesty (Napoleon,) has a right to make such municipal regulations as he may deem proper, with regard to foreign commerce. neither is nor has been denied. For example, he may forbid the entry into the ports of France of American ships which have touched in England, or been destined to England; and he may either sequester or confiscate such vessels of the United States as shall infract these Zz4 laws, laws, after due promulgation and notice thereof; but beyond this, the United States hope and believe that his majesty will not go. M. De Champagny will not fail to seize the distinction which these remarks present, between the autho rity of municipal regulations and that of public law, and will decide whether it does or does not offer a ground on which a good understanding so long and so usefully maintained between the United States and France, may be preserved, and a degree of intercourse revived between, which shall have the effect of reanimating their former industry. Does his majesty fear that the balance of trade arising from this renewed industry, would go to the advantage of England? Means are certainly not wanting to prevent this consequence. Would it not be entirely avoided by making it a condition of the commerce in question, that all ships leaving France shall take in (in some article or articles of her manufacture) the full amount of the cargo they bring hither. Ships sailing under this regulation would or would not go voluntarily to England. If they went voluntarily, it would only be because that country afforded the best markets for the production of France, in which case, the babitual results would be entirely changed, and England ceasing to receive a balance for her manufactures, would begin to pay one to the United States, on the productions of France. Could France wish a state of Commerce more prosperous than this? If, on the other hand, the American ships did not go voluntarily to England, but were captured and sent in for adjudication, it may be fairly presumed, that the United States would no longer hesitate about becoming a party in the war against England. Thus, in either case, the interests of his majesty would be directly advanced by the measure: in the one, the wants of France and her colonies would be not only regularly supplied, but she would herself become an entrepot for the supply of the continent in the other, the wishes of his majesty, as expressed in February last, would be directly promoted. Proclamation issued in Mexico, dated 16th September, 1808. Inhabitants of Mexico, of all classes and conditions! Necessity is not subject to common laws. The city has seized the person of his excellency the Viceroy. His removal has been imperiously demanded by reasons of utility and general convenience. In the course of last night, the Royal Acuerdo, the most illustrious seignor, the Archbishop, and the other authorities were convoked. They have submitted to the urgency of affairs; and the said Viceroy being divested of his autho- » rily, it has devolved, conformably to the royal order of the 30th October 1808, upon field marshal D. Pedro Gariby, until the dispatches brought by the Providence shall have been opened. He is actually in possess sion of the supreme authority. Be calm and tranquil; you are now go verned by au accredited chief, with whose prudence you are acquainted. Confide in the vigilance of the Royal Acuerdo; all will turn out to your advantage. Impatience cau only serve to divide men's minds, and and to occasion mischiefs which may perhaps be irremediable. The said provisional chief, the Royal Acuerdo, and the other concurring authorities, give you every assurance that can be wished for. By command of his excellency, the President, with the Royal Acuerdo, the most illustrious seignor Archbishop, and the other Authorities. FRANCISCO XIMENEZ. Letter from Mr. Giles, Member of the Embargo Committee, to Mr. Gullatin, Secretary of the Treasury, dated 11th November, 1808. Dear Sir-I am instructed by the Committee appointed to consider the several Embargo Laws, &c. to request you to lay before them with as little delay as possible, such information as your department af fords upon the following questions. First, What measures would be most effectual in preventing the violations or evasions of the several Embargo Laws: and enforcing due observance thereof ? Second, Can any the inconveniences of the present system be remedied by further modifications; and what modifications would effect that object? For better preventing coasting vessels regularly cleared from violating the Embargo, two measures appear necessary: 1st. That the amount of the Bonds should be increased, 2dly. That neither capture, distress, or any other accident should be admitted as a plea, or be given in evidence on trial. By the first regulation the temp tation of going to a foreign port, m hopes that the profit on the sale of the cargo will indenmify for the forfeiture of the penalty, will be done away. By the second, every expectation of escaping the payment of the penalty under fraudulent pretences will be disappointed; and the power of remitting the penalties in the few cases of unavoidable acci- . dent which may occur, will remain as heretofore, and as in other cases, with the treasury. As the object of those two regulations will be to make the bond a sufficient and complete security, they will have a tendency to relieve, in a considerable degree, the coasting trade from the inconvenience resulting from detentions. The sufficiency of the bond will in many doubtful cases remove the necessity of detaining the vessels, or what amounts to the same, of informing the owners that unless they reduce the amount of their cargoes they Be pleased, Sir, to accept assur-will be detained. ances of my high consideration and regard. Letter from Mr. Gullatin, in Answer to Mr. Giles. Dated 21st November, 1808. Sir Indisposition has prevented an earlier answer to your letter of the 14th inst. I would also submit the propriety of placing under the controul of the President, that power of detention vésted in the Collectors by the act of the 25th April last. That subject has been a constant source of complaint and difficulty. It has been the uniform praetice from the estalishment of the government of the United States, to give positive instructions to the Col lectors |