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Baltimore Price Current.
tOJBJCTED WEEKLY.
Article.^. Per, Prices.
B-Iead. ship, civt S3
tiavy, 4 25
pilot, 5 50
Bret1, northern mess, bbl 14
c:o-;ro, No.1, : 12
-----~, No. 2, 10
Bacon, /i. ii 12
Butter,for exportation, is
Coffee, Butav'ia, 30
W. India nest gr. 32
dipt, 18
spermaceti, 50
Cheese, American, English, b4st, H 14
40 .45
Bucx, R'.!S'i;i, bit. 17 24
1IoUr.ru1.,, _ 24 27
Ravens, 14 50 15
Russia Sheeting, /piece 22
iisn, c(A, dry, * out. 4 50 dull
salmon, bbl. 16
herrings, 5
mackerc¦">,, 8 10
shad, __ 8 scarce
Flaxseed, rtnlgh, bv.th. 1
cleansed, «i. 12
Flour, superfine, bbl. 7 25
fiiie, ¦ 6 7S
middlings., 6 25
rj e, 5 ' S 25
*W»o*D»B, Enpl. 25 ft. id
Do. Baltimore manufac. 9
Grain, Indian com, bush. 67 . 70
vheat, Virginia, 1 33 1 G5
do. Maryland, 1 40 1 ¦'.,'
jive, 67 70
Barley,
Clover >;ed, -i- 7 50
"Oaty,, ;^_ ¦ a 50
He'-ir, Ru .ton. 285 SCO
CounViv, lb. 7 9
Hoes, (freshj lb. 25
Hog's Lard, __ .Juon, pig, ton. 15 18
3 5 40
¦Country bar, 115 120
Russia, 105 110
Swedes, best, 120
Hoop, _ 173
Sheet, _ 220 225
JffiU rods, 140
Castings, 80 90
Leatueh, sole, __ 18 20
$Lumbkii, per 100/f.
oak, timb. h scant 2 2 25
boards.aU sizes, 2 2 25
pine scantling, do. 1 12 1 30
boards, 4-4 .,. .3 50
do. 5-4 __ 2 3
white do. com. 4-4 2 25
do. clear, 4-4 2 50 3 50
shingles, cyp. 18 inch M. 2 50 3 50
juniper, 24 do. 6 50 8 50
do. com. do. 4 5
staves, w. o. pipe __ >
do. Lhd. f
da. bbl. _ > 1
red oak, bbl. C "^
do. hhd. _ J
hhd. heading, 30 32
Meal, corn,kiln-dried, bbl. 4
NiNKits, short, pc. 82 ¦83
JvTavai. Stores, tar, bbl. 2 50
pitch, 3 3 50
turpentine, 2 50
losin, 3
spirits turpentine, gal. 30 35
varnish, bright, 99
black, 30
PottK, northern mess, bbl. 25
Prime . 19
Cargo _ 18 50
Bultivnose navy 32
----------Prime, 19
Southern, 2d, 17 18
ft,,\tsTEn. Paris, fr. ten 8
Vorieu, London, dps. 2 50 3
Americas, 1 25
Rice, (new) per 100 lb. 4 75
Soap, American, white, lb. 10 12
do. brown, 9 10
Castile, 17
Saltpetre rough. Am. r~ 18
refined, none
Sassatwas, ton 12 14
$ FIB Mrs, BTsndv.F.4th p.£<-»/. 1 5
Cogujac, 4th p. 1 12 1 15
Barcelona, 1st]). 80 85
do. 4th p. 90 92
¦Gin, Hol'd, 1st p. 1 5
~ do. 2d p.
do. American, Rum, jam. 4th p. 62
90 93
St. Croix, 3 & 4 none
Antigua, 3 St 4 - 76 78
Windward-/ T, ~ 62 plenty.
Island .ol ~~ 67
J 4th 70 75
American, 50
Whiskey, 50
Sugars, Havana', white, wit. do. brown, 14 50
10 50
clayed, white, 13 50
do. brown, 12 50 13
fliuscov. lstqual. 12 50 1.5 50
do. 2d 9 50 10
India, lstqual. 12 12 50
loaf, lb. 20
lump, 18
¦(Salt, St. Ubes, bush. 70 75
Lisbon, 65 70
Cadiz, 62
Liverpool, blown, 50
ground, ¦65 plenty
' Turks-Island, none
Isle of May, none
S-:iot, of all sizes, cut. 12 50 13
Tobacco, Maryland, 100 lb.
line: yellow, f1st
Upper Patuxent, 1st 7 50 8
Lower Batuxent, 1st 7 7 50
Potomac, 1st, - 5 50 6
East, shore, 1st 5
Virginia, fat, 6 7
do. middling, 5 50 6
Rappahannock, ¦ 5
Georgia, natte
Tallow, American, lb. 14
'Wax, bees, Winks, Madeira, L.P. #<..'. 42 44
2 50 3
do. I.. M. . 1 15 1 65
do. N.Y.M 1 12 1 50
Lisbon, 1 12 1 20
Sherry, 1 20 1 2S
Corsica, 60
TenerUTe, 80 1
Claret, doz. 6 10
do. new, csi. 33 40
Malaga, gal, 95
Port, ----- 1 40 1 50
" Stare Prices.
§ Board mcu-iretncnt.
t Cargo prices.
j Second Qualities of Patuxen , are 2 hilars
tiu i Potomac CJ/ dinstern-slwrs 1 dollar las.
FRENCH SPOLIATIONS.
REPORT
Of the committee to whom was referred on the
l(>th December last, the petition of sundry
merchants of Charleston, South-Carolina,
fj:ONCLUDI;D.]
On the 5th and 22d day of June, 1797, the
president of the United States appointed 3
envoys extraordinary, for the purpose of ad-
justing the differences which then existed
between the two nations, and on the 15th of
July, 1797, gave instructions to the envoys,
which, so far as they respect the depredati-
ons on tiie commerce of the U. States, are
in. the following words :
" In respect to the depredations on our
commerce, the principal objects will be, tp
agree on an equitable mode of examining 6t
deciding the claims of our citizens, and the
manner and periods of making them com-
pensable. As to the first, the seventh arti-
cle of the British,and the 21st of the Spa-
nish treaty, present approving precedents to
be adopted with France. The proposed
mode of adjusting those claims, by commis-
sioners appointed on each side, is so perfect-
ly fair, we cannot imagine that it will be re-
fused. But when the claims are adjusted, if
payment in specie cannot be obtained, it
may be found necessary to agree, in behalf
of our citizens, that they shall accept pub-
lic securities, payable with interest at such
periods as the state of. the French finances
shall render practicable. These periods you
will endeavor as far as possible to short-
en."
" Not only the recent depredations un-
der color of the decrees of the directoty of
the 2d of July, 1796, and the id of March,
1797, or under the decrees of their agents,
or the illegal sentences of their tribunals,
but all prior ones, not already satisfactorily
adjusted, should be put m this equitable
train of settlement. To cancel many or
all of the last mentioned claims, might be
the effect of the decree of the executive di-
rectory of the ad of March last, reviving
the decree of QthMay, 1793'but this being
an ex post facto regulation, as well as a vi-
olation of the treaty between the United
States and France, cannot be obligatory on
the former. Indeed the greater part, proba-
bly nearly all the captures and confiscations in
question, have been committed in direct
violation of that treaty, or of the law of
nations. But the injuries arising from the
capture of enemy's property in vessels of
the United States, may not be very exten-
siveand if, fojr such captured property,
the French government will, agreeably to
the law of nations, pay the freight and rea-
sonable demurrage, we shall not, on this
account, any further contend. But for
ship timber and naval stores taken and con-
fiscated by the French, they ought to pay '
the full value, because our citizens continu-
ed their traffick in those arricles under the
faith of the treaty with France. On these
two points we ought to expect that the
French government will not refuse to do
us justice ; and the more because it has not,
at any period of the war, expressed this de-
sire that the commercial treaty should in
these respects be altered."
" Besides the claimsof our citizens for de-
predations on their property, there are many
arising from express contracts made with
the French government and its agents, or
founded on the seizure of their property in
French ports, other claims have arisen from
the long detention of a multitude of our
ve isels in the ports of France. The wrong
hereby done to our citizens was acknowledg-
ed by'the French, government, and in some,
perhaps in most of the cases, small pay-
ments towards indemnifications, have been
made ; the residue still remains to be claim-
ed."
" All these just demands of our citizens
will merit your attention. The best possi-
ble means of compensation must be at-
tempted. These will depend on what you
shall discover to be practicable in relation to
the French finances. But an exception
must be made in respect to debts due to our
citizensby the contracts of the French govern-
ment and its agents, if they are comprehended ,
in any stipulation ; and an option reserved
to them jointly or individually, either to ac-
cept the means of payment which you shall
stipulate, or to resort to the French go-
vernment directly, for the fulfilment of its
contracts."
" Although the reparations for lossess
fustainedby the citizens of the United States,
in consequence of irregular or illegal cap-
tues or condemnations, or forcible seizures
or detentions, is of very high importance,
and is to be pressed with the greatest earnest-
ness, yet it is not to be insisted on, as an
indispensible condition of the proposed trea-
ty. You are not, however, to renounce
these claims of our citizens, nor to stipu-
late that they may be assumed by the United
States, as a loan to the French govern-
ment."
Whilst these envoys were in Paris, en-
deavoring to effect the objects of their mis-
sion, the French government, on the 18th
of January, 1798, passed the following
law :
" The character of vessels, relative to
their quality of neuter or enemy, shall be
determined by their cargo ; inconsequence,
every.vessel found at sea, loaded in whole
or in part with merchandise, the production
of England or of her possessions, shall be
declared good prize, whoever the owner of
these goods or merchandise may be."
" Every foreign vessel which, in the course
of her voyage, shall have entered into an
English port, shall not be admitted into a
port of the French republic, except in case
of necessity, in which case she shall be bound
to depart from the said port as soon as the
causes of her entry shall have ceased."
The envoys not having been received by
.the directory, and not having effected the
object of their mission, or the 28th day of
May, 1798, the government of the United
States paseert the following law ;
a An act rriore efFectua'ly to protect the
commerce and coasts of the U. States."
" Whereas armed vessels sailing under au-
thority, or pretence of authority from the
republic of France, have committed depre-
dations on the commerce of the United
States, and have recently captured the ves-
sels and property of citizens thereof, on and
.near the coasts, in violation of the laws of
nations, and treaties between the United
States and the French nation :Therefore,
" Be it' enacted ly the senate and house of
-representatives of the United States of A-
meriea, in congress assembled, That it shall
-be lawful for the president of the United
States, and he is hereby authorised to in-
. struct and direct the commanders of the
armed vessels belonging to the United States,
to seize, take and bring into any port of the
United States, to be proceeded against ac-
cording to the lawa o/f nations, any such
armed vesswl, which shall have committed
or which shall be found hovering on the
coasts of the United States, for the purpose
of committing depredations on the vessels
belonging to citizens thereof; and also to re-
take any ship or v«ssel of any citizen of the
United States, which may have been captur-
ed by any such armed vessel."
On.the 7th of July, 1798, the govern-
ment of the United States passed the follow-
ing law :
" An act to declare the treaties heretofore
concluded with France no lor.ger obligatory
on the U. S."
Whereas the treaties concluded between
the United States and France, have been re-
peatedly violated on the part of ah.e French
government and the just claims of the United
States for reparation of the injuries so com
milted have been refused, and their attempts
to ntgociate an amicable adjustment of all
complaints between the two nations, have
been repelled with indignity ': And whereas,
under authority of the French government,
there is yet pursued against the United
States a system of predatory violence, in-
fracting the said treaties, and hostile to the
rights of a free and independent nation :
" Be it enacted by the senate and Jwuse of
representatives of the United State; of Ame-
rica, in congress assembled, That the United
States are, of right, freed and exonerated
from the stipulations of the treaties, and of
the consular convention heretofore conclud-
ed between the United States and France ;
and that the same shall not henceforth be
regarded as legally obligatory «n the govern.
ment or citizens of the United States."
.On the 9th of July, 1798, the govern-
ment of the United States passed a law fur-
ther to protect the commerce of the United
States, the two first sections of which re-
late to this subject, awl are in the following
words :
" Be it enacted hy the senate and house of
representatives of the United Stales of Ame-
rica, in congress assembled, That the presi-
dent of the United States be, and he is here-
by authorised to instruct the commanders of
the public armed vessels which are, or
shall be employed in the service of the U.
States to subdue, seize aud take any armed
French vessels which shall be found within
the jurisdictional limits of the United States
cr elsewhere, on the high seas ; aud such
captured vessel, with her apparel, gaits, and
appurtenances, and the goods or effects
which shall be found on board the same be-
ing French property, shall be brought with-
in some port of the U. States, and shall be
duly proceeded against, and condemned as
forfeited, and shall acme and be disiribited
as by law is or shall be provided respecting
the captures which shall be made by the pub
lie armed vessels of the United States."
u And be it furtlur enacted. That the
president of the U. States shall be, and he
is hereby authorised to grant to the owners
of private armed ships and vessels of the
United States, who shall make application
therefor, special commissions ill the form
which he shall direct, and under the seal of
the United States ; and such private armed
vessels, when duly commissioned, as afore-
said, shall have the same license and autho-
rity for the subduing, seizing and capturing
any armed French vessel, and for the recap-
ture of the vessels, goods and effects of the
people of the United States, as the public
armed vessels of the United States may by
law have ; and shall be, in like manner, sub-
ject to such restrictions as shall be ordered
by the president of the United States, for
the regulation of their conduct. And the
commissions which shall be granted, as afore-
said, shall be revocable at the pleasure of the
president of the United States."
On the 28th day of May, 1798, instruc-
tions were given to the commanders of arm-
ed vessels belonging to the United States, in
the following words;
u Wkereas it is declared by an act of con-
gress, passed the 28th day of May, 1798,
that armed vessels, sailing under authority,
or pretence of authority, from the French
republic, have committed dapredalions on
the commerce of the United States, and have
recently captured the vessels and property
of citizens thereof, on and near the coasts,
in violation of the law of nations and trea-
ties between the United States and the
French nation :
" Therefore, and in pursuance of the said
act, you are instructed and direcetd to seize,
take and bring into any port of the United
States, to be proceeded against according
to the laws of nations, any armed vessel
sailing under authority, or pretence of au-'
thority, from the French republic, which
shall have com mitted, or which shall be found
hovering on the coasts of the United'States,
for the purpose of committing depredation
011 the vessels belonging to citizens thereof:
and also to retake any ship or vessel of
any citizen or citizens of the United States,
which may have been captured by any such
armed vessel."
" On the loth day of July, 1798, further
instructions were given to the commanders
of armed vessels oi' the United States in the
words following:
" In pursuance of the acts of congress,
passed the 28th day of May, the 20th day
of June, and the 9th day of July,"
" You are hereby authroized, instructed
and directed to subdue, seize and take any
armed French vessel or vessels, sailing under
authority or pretence of authority, from the
French republic, which shall be found with-
in tlie jurisdictional limits of the U. States,
cr elsewhere on the high seas ; and such
captured vessel, wi»h her apparel, guns and
appurtenances, and tke goods and effects
which shall be found on board of the same,
to bring within some port of the U. States ;
afld also re-take any vessel, goods and ef-
fects of the United States, or persons resi-
dent therein, which may have been captured
by any French vessel, in irrder that proceed-
ings may be had concerning se.cn capture
or re-capture, in due form of law, and as to
right shall appertain."
Instructions were also given after the
passage of the aforesaid laws, to the captains
of private armed vessels of the United Slates
to the same effect with the instructions giv-
en to the public armed vessels of the United
States.
In consequence of these measures the
treaty of the 6th of February, 1778, be-
tween the United States and Fran".', in vir-
tue of which most of the reclamations were
made, became no longer obligatory ; a par-
tial state of hostility took place between the
United Siates and the French republic ; se-
veral hostile actions occurred between the
armed vessels of the two nations ; and seve-
ral captures were made of French vessels,
both by public and private armed vessels of
the United States, which have been con-
demned and sold as lawful prizes.
On the 25th of February, 1799, the pre
sident of the United States nominated three
other envoys extraordinary for the purpose
of adjusting the differences between the
United States and the French republic ; and
and on the SOth day of November, 1800, a
.convention for determining certain differen-
ces which had arisen between the United
States and the Frenchrepnblic, was conclui-
ed at Paris. On the 3d day of February,
1801, the senate passed a resolution in the
constitutional mode, advising the ratifica-
tion of the said convention, provided the
2d article be expunged, &c. The second ar-
title is in the following words :
" The ministers plenipotentiary of the
two parties not being able to agr/ee at pre-
sent respecting the treaty of alliance of the
6th of February, 1778, the treaty ol amity
and commerce of the same date, and the
convention of the 14th November, 1783,
nor upon the indemnities mutually due or
claimed ; the parties will negociiU- further
on these subjects at a conveuii lit time, and
until they may have agreed upon these
points, the said treaties and convention
shall have uo operation, and the relations of
the two countries shall be regulated as fol-
lows." This article was introduced into
the convention at the intimation of the A
merican envoys, being, it is to be presumed,
the best stipulation it was in their power ..it
that time to make for negotiating hereafter
upon the indemnities mutually due, or
claimed bv the citizens of the two countries.
On the 'l8th of February, 3801, the presi-
dent of the United States, in conformity
with the advice of the senate, did ratify the
said convention, excluding therefrom the
aforesaid second article.
" The senate not having accompanied
their advice, for expunging the said second
article, with any explanation of their motive
for the measure, it was understood, both by
the chief consul and bhe American envoy
then at Paris, that the object of expunging
the said 2d article was, " the retrenchment
of the respective pretensions of the two go-
vernments, which were the object of the
said 2d article -, ** and with aii explanation
to that effect, on the 31st of July, 1801,
the chief consul ratified the saidconvention."
The convention thus ratified, was laid before
the senate, by the president of the United
States, on its return from Paris, and on the
19th day of December, 18j1, the senate re-
solved, " that they considered the said con-
vention as fully ratified; 'and in pursuance
thereof, on the 21st of the same month, the
president caused the said convention to be
promulgated, as it was originally ratified."
From these circumstances, and a recur-
rence to the fifth article of said convention
in the following words, 'The debts contract-
ed by one of the two nations with individu-
als of the other, or by the individuals of one
with the individuals of the other, shall be
paid, cr the payment may be prosecuted in
the same manner as if there had been no mis-
understanding between the two states , but
this clai se shall not extend to indemnities
claimed on account of captures or confiscati-
ons." It appears, that the exclusion of the
second article of the convention was const
dered as a renunciation of the indemnities
claimed by the citizens ojkhe United States
for spoliations and deprfc nions upon their
commerce, so far as the ternment might
otherwise have been instrumental in btain-
ing such indemnities." *
Upon the whole view of the case, the
committee submitt it to the house, to deter-
mine whether the government of the United
States be, in any respect, bound to indem-
nify the memorialists ; and whether there
be any ground for discrimination between
the cases of losses sustained before the acts
of the 28th of May, 1798, the 7th of July,
1798, and the 9th of July, 1798; and cases
of losses sustained after those periods.
From London papers to the eleventh of Ja-
nuary, received at the office of the Re-
gister, by the British packet, arrived at
New-York.
IMPERIAL UKASE.
Alexander, Emperor of all the Russias,
&c. &c. &c.
Our manifesto of the 30th of August de-
clared the situation of our affairs with the
French government.
*^t that period of our hostile situation,
Prussia still formed a harrier between us
and the French, who tyranniy.ed over vari-
ous rparts of Germany. But soon after,
the fire of war blazed out in Prussia also ;
after various disasters, and important losses
on her part, our own dominions on the
frontiers are now threatened by the flame.
To the Russians, accustomed to love the
glory of their country, and to sacrifice every
thing to it, it is unnecessary to explain how
unavoidable these events have made the pre-
sent war.
Honor unsheathed our sword for the pro-
tection of our allies ; how much more just-
ly must it be drawn for the defence of our
own safety ? Before these events could ap-
proach our frontiers, we took, at an eaily
period, every measure to be ready to meet
them. Having, in good time, ordered our
army to move beyond the frontier, we have
now commissioned our genernl, field-mar-
shal Kamenskoy, to command it, and to
act against the the enemy with with all the
forces entrusted to him.
We are assured, that all our faithful sub-
subjects will joia us in fervent prayers to
the Almighty, ivho directs the fate of states,
and the is-re oi b
our rightei us cause under his all powerful
protection, that bis victoriflu swength and
bk*S!-klg may direct the Rui ian irrniei era.
jdeyed for repelling the gclicial foe of Fu-
rope.
We arn confkWt, that our faithful :eV'
jects of the government of the frontier will,
in the present circumstances particularly re-
douhlethe proofs of vheiralttchrnejnt and their
zeal for the common good ; and that unshak-
en by fear or delusive promises, they will tread
with firmness the same path in which un-
der the protection of the laws, and of a
mild government, fhevhave hitherto erjov-
ed tranquility and undisputed rwyfcity, and
shared in the universal prosperity of trie
whole empire.
Lastly, we are confident, that all the
children of the lard, reiving on the Lip of
God, and the valor of troops, and on the
known experience of ti-.ii le^daf, wil
spare no sacrifice, no effort which patriot-
ism and the safety of our country may de-
mand-
St. Petersburg, Nov. hX>, 1806.
STATE PAPER.
By his majesty the etnc) of Prussia.
As inserted by authority in th of
Kotiigsberg, of the 1st Dec. 1806.
" The battle of the 14th of Oct
notwithstanding the courageoils efforts of
his majesty's armies has been so unfortunates
for the Prussian arms that the road of
the capital, and even to the very heart of
his dominions has been left open to the
enemy ; the king was therefore induced to
otlet terms for ah. armistice, of which he
had every reason to expect a cordial accept-
ance on the part of the enemy, as in tha
midst of the battle he received a letter frwn
the emperor Napoleon, full of fnendiy ex-
pression ; but to this offer of the armistice
the door of acceptance was shut utiles the;
king consented, as the basis of a paace, to
iin sacrifices, incompatible with his
honor and dignity.'
" The king, who saw the full extent and
magnitude of the misfortunes and dangers
which unavoidably surrounded his f:>.ithf'ul
subjects, preferred an immediate >md uucer-
t.un tranquility, to the remote and uncer-
tain prospect of the return of the fortune
of war in his favor ; his lmijesty, therefoie,
immediately took the resolution of making
such sacrifices, however great they might
be, as were compatible with the interests of
his throne, and accordingly sent the minis-
ter of state, the marquis Lucchessi.u, on,
the 18th of October, with ample diploma-, io
powers, to the head-quarters of the empe-
ror and king Napoleon. The sacrifices
which the Jting had agreed to, on receiv-
ing the first dispatches from the marquis:
Lucchessini (to whom in order to accelerate
the business, his majesty had sent major-
general Zastrow) were so adequate to thes
advantages which the enemy, by the for-
tun of"a single day had gained, that so-
early as the""80th of October, they were-
respectfully acknowledged, and received as
the basis of a treaty for peace, by the ple-
nipotentiary, the grand marshal of the pa-
lace, Duroc ; upon this basis the peace it..elf
was to have been concluded without deiay,
and the king on his own part, took all iha
necessary measures to provide that those
conditions of peace should he punctually ful-
filled, immediately after the signing of the
preliminaries thereof. The emperor Napo-
leon, on the contrary, refused to put a stop
to hostilities, and allowed his ajtivy not on-
ly to enjoy the advantages tiny alreM-y pos-
sessed, but to proceed in a. new
conquests, arid even all the provinces |
