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; DAY'S MAILS.
#EW YORK, July H.
Captain Mather of the flSdlus'; from
i, informs us, that a British 64 and
1Q Company's ships were at Canton, when
Jie lett there. Some of the British seamen
-iod.rr Chinese ; and the government
lemanded an Englishman from one of
?.he ships- ' is refused. In conse-
quence of which the Chinese had prohibit-
ed goods fiom being carried on. board the
Ships.
Gen. Dearborn, Secretary at War, ar-
rived in this city on Saturday last. He is a
eon>in:-',ioner with the Vice-President and
Co!. Williams, to examine the situation of
«ur harbor and erect such temporary works
ys the present emergency may require. It
is said the powers of the commissioners are
unlimited,
A 'rived,
The ship ./Bolus, Mather. 126 days from
Canton. Left at Whnmpoa, March 3, ships
Helvetius, Rowen, for Philadelphia, in 3 or
A <'a • : Arrive, Morris, for do. in 40 ; Ar-
thur, Tiownserld, for Providetic», in iC) or [3 ;
I'<.c!ip>:, O'Crain, from the N~. W. coast of
i, bound back ; schr. Asenath, Ros
seller, for New York, in co. with the llel-
->erius. March £i, sailed from Maco'a in co.
with ihip St. Cuthht-rt, Hooker, for N, York
—and oil" the 29th parted with her 40 leagues
from Java Head. In lat. 35, Is, S.lono;. 25,
57, R. was bsarded by a 4i j»un frigate and
treated politely. July 6, lat. 31, 44, long.
66*20 si).i),'te schr. Sexius. Thomas, 15 davs
from N.Voik for Honduras. 9ih, lat. 36,
22, long, 70, 40, spoke brig Columbia, of
Boston, 7 {iiys from Charleston For Cadiz,
The schr, Emily, Benhafn, 9 days from
Philadelphia.
The British brig Swift, M'Laughlin, It
days from St. John, N. b.
The brig Olivia, Barker, 47 days from
_Bordeaits. [_Tiie vessels left were reported
?>y the ftWsey.l May 26, spoke ship Hare,
Barry, of fX. York, from Antwerp for Mr-
deaitX. July 3, lit. 40, 24, Ion;;. 53', 30,
Spoke ship Fanny-Almira, Hicks, from Bal-
timore, for "Rutland.
The brig Troy, Hazard, is days from
Havauna. Left, schr. Farmer, Hill, for
Boston, in 8 days ; Sally, Lark, for N. Or-
leans, put in for water., in. I : Rebecca, Ca-
philadelphia, in a ; Regulator, Law-
rence, N. York, 4 ; brig Cumberland, Lau-
rel, Philadelphia, 10 ; Two Brothers, Rich-
ardson, />'ilfimore, just arrived ; Friendship,
Scallon, Boston, 3 ; Portland, Nayes, Port-
land, uncertain ; Eight Sisters, Gilmore,
Boston, C. ; Puniron, Watts, do. do. Anna-
Maria, Kenley, Baltimore, uncertain ; Smi-
lax, Prime, Philadelphia, 12 or 14 ; Ac-
tress, M 'r;m, Baltimore ; Ceres, Brown,
bound toNantz; El za, Gray, N. York, in
10 Of 12 ; and others.
Tiie schr. Hiram, Galpin, 27 dyys from
Momego Bay, Jam. Sailed in co.ship Fa-
vorite, Mackie, for New-York. Lib .sloop
Farmer's Daughter, ol Edenton to sad af'er
the embargo, which was laid on tire 16th
June, to continue till the 30th, when'the
fioet '\oiild sail- Spoke going into Ha'va-
Tia, schr. Louisa, of Baltimore, Capt. Gal-
pin was boarded off Havana, by 2 Provi-
dence privaieers, and treated politely.
The British schooner Trafalgar, Parker,
15 days from St. K.itts, bound to Halifax
put in in distress. Left, fschv.—, Bernard,
of New-Haver,, for New-York in 8 days.
The schr. Antelope, Rogers, 10 days
from Currituck.
The schr. Happy Couple, Folger, of
Nantucket, 24. days from St. Thomas.
The schr. William Gray Darned, 6 days
from Kdenton.
The schr. James, Salmon, 8 days from
Charleston.
Cleared—ship Grand Sachem, Le Bar-
ron, Liverpool j Two Brother;., Paul, Am-
sterdam.
PHILADELPHIA, Tidy 15. '
Arrived, brig Almira, Whipple, Barce-
lona, 66 days ; schr. Three Friends, Fish-
er Richmond 4 ; Young Carpenter, Rape,
do. 4 ; brigs Isabella, Crane, Amsterdam,
6b,
Below, brigs Union Johnson, Uavanna ;
Elizabeth, Cambcll, St Crux : Sally, Ane-
sley, do. ; Eliza, Bakei, Savannah ; schr.
, Concord, Turner, St. Augustine.
Cleared, brig Eliaa, Gilford, Trinidad ;
schr. Favorite, Potter, Kingston, Jamaica.
A ship below.
A brig and two schooners, names un-
known, are below.
The ship reported below, is said to be
from Matanzies, bound to Boston, put in
leaky.
LA.W
Suppressing the duty of 10 per cent, upon
the exportation of sugar, coiton and co-
coa, aild abolishing the tax of 1-4J1 im-
posed upon the farmers of the planta-
tions belonging to the state.
The council of state upon the proposition of
the president and generalissimo of the
land and sea forces of the Island of Hayti,
enacts the following law :
Art. 1. From the i.rst July next, the du-
r" ty ot ten per cent laid by the 1st article of
the decree of the 2d September, 3808, is,
.atld shall be suspended upon the exportation
nance* is1 strictly cnjoinctl !o carry ihe
above into execution.
Done at the Cape the 20th June, 1807,
4th year of independence.
A. Vernet, Toussdint Brave, Martial
Besse, Jean Philippi Daux, Raphael
Maeuel, Jean Baptiste, Juge Finery,
Paul R main, chairman, Maguy,
secretary.
"We, the President and Generalissimo of
the land and sea forces of the state of Hayti,
have sanctioned, and do hereby sanction,
the present law—and direct, that the seal of
the state shall be thereunto affixed, and that
the same be published and carried into exe-
cution through ut the territory of Hayti----
Given at the palace ai the Cape, 21st June,
1807, 4th year of independence.
HENRY CHRISTOPHE.
of sugar, cotton and cocoa : It shall only jQ ,he ,.llc force
iained upon coffee. mi .1
NORFOKK, July 11.
THE ADDRESS
Of the Committee to their fellow-citizens of the
towns of Norfolk, Portsmouth, and thcr
•vicinities, of the cessation of their functi-
ons.
Fellow Citi-'.vns,
The select committee, previous to their
dissolution, beg leave to recur to the cms.
es, which gave existence to your resoluti-
ons ; and to attract your notice to the prin-
ciples, which presided over their conduct,
in the execution of them. The late out-
rage, commited in sight of y mr shores, on
the National flag, by a British ship of war,
which wns previously prepared for that act
of attrocity, by instructions and signals gi-
ven by order of the commandant of the
squadron, at that fime anchored within the
capes of Virginia ; and the deliberate slaugh-
ter of your countrymen, who fell unsus-
pecting victims, at the very moment, the
human voice was prostituted and prop'naued,
in articulating professions of peace and ami
ty—roused and excited yotir indignation
and lesenrmcnt to "a degree never betore
felt.
This last deed of savage ferocity, unpa-
ralleled even in the naval annals of Britain,
awakened the sentiment ot abhorrence in
every breast. Every voice was loud in its
call for reparations commensurate to the in-
sult: Hi itish m-olence and barbarity had
reached the ne plus ultra. They had the
unblushing effrontery to claim the rights of
hospitality, while their hands were crim-
soned and ¦•moaking with the blood ol your
countrymen—even at tne msiant they had
declared war in sight of those shores from
which, not many years past, their discomfit-
ed and recreant myrmidons were driven
with disgrace in sight of those m -numenls
which h!l y ur bieasts with a holy and in-
spiring admiration for the valor and triumphs
of your iore'atliers. The nation was unex-
ly plu,god into var, and yourselves
the first exposed to its ruthless bla.it. The
choice 01 tame submission or resistance was
forced on your consideration ; with out-
voice you declared that your ancestors had
wrested their rights,then liberties and inde-
pendence from the suffocating grasp of Bn-
t.sh tyranny, by the sword ; and mat you,
(heir posterity, had resolved with it to de
fend and to perpetuate the hallowed pa-
trinvny.
Remote, in this crisis of imminent dan-
ger and alarm, from the government of the
United Slates, whose decision could not be
immediately had, and knowing tins portion
of tne union to be within sinking distance
of a savage and insiaious enemy, the delibe-
rate violators of all those just principles
and usages . Inch religion, law, and time
have sanctified ; you assembled for the pur-
pose of concerting the best possible means
for the immediate protection of all that was
dearth you—your vives, your children, and
the sacred hon.r of your country. The re-
solution;, uiunimouslyadop.ed bythis august
assembly, in which ths sublime rorjesty of
the people presided, are spread before the
world ; in all plates they receive the pure
and sincere homage of elevated patriotism.
To enforce obedience to your resolutions,
you appointed a committee of citizens from
your body, whom you made depositaries of
your power; but whose existence, as your
organ, should cease and determine the in-
stant the voice of government pronounced
its decision. —This, fell w-citizens, is a con-
cise hisiory of the outrage, and of your pro-
ceedings.
Your committe, though deriving no pow-
ers from the constitution and laws of the
land yet feel an honorable and just pride in
the recollection, that the appointment con-
ferred on them, flowed from the only pure
and legitimate source of all power—the
People—the fountain from which branches,
as so many streams, the constitution and the
laws.
They were deeply impressed with a senre
of the delicate situation in which they were
placed, and filled with anxious solicitude
for the right performance of the solemn du-
ties confided to them, all eyes were direct-
ed to them—they were regarded as the ral-
lying point. The public sentiment placed
in their hands the lever which was to raise
—to poise—and to communicate uiementum
J poll *¦'.«¦*.
2, It shall hereafter be lawful for vessels
of every description, foreignors or others,
ypxly to export sugar, cotton and cocoa ;
which article, it is forbidden to e«act
any duty whatever.
3. The duty of one fourth imposed upon
the produce raised by the Farmers of the
state, by the 5th article of the decree relat-
ing to the mode of renting the national do-
mains of the 2 2d Dec. 1804, shall be Here-
after abolished.
4. The Fanners cf the rtr.te shall be stib-
jecied to no other charge fhah'the payment
rms.'
lupe, • f"'.(jarit general of the Fi.
The course the committee was to hold
could not be acuratety deleniated ; the eye
had in prospect wherever it directed its vi-
sion, dangers threatening and awful. They
were imperiously called on to take no step
without dgleberation ; to sanction no mea-
sure that might compromit the honor and
reputation of their countrymen. They en
deavored, in all their proceedings, to res-
pect the demarcations of civil and political
powers ; and by their acts so to direct the
current of opinion, as to communicate
to the complex machinery of government
—accession of foree: The committee, kept
jt/ths alarming st^te of slffairs i an'J
their cWiSteitatioits were incessantly employ-
ed to promote the public good, by endea-
voring tO separate from it—the evils that
are often blt-nded—with it.
They were taught by the p-jges of Ameri-
can history, how ranch the Magic ejithusf
asm of public sentiment outfit to beapprecia
ted. j\ sentiment to which the magisterial
arm is indebted for the far greater portion
of its strength. They were sensible that if
this divine and all powerful impetus could
be confined to its appropriate orbit, that it
Xvouid diffuse around lilce the Sun, the cen-
tre o£<0.ur systejft, health, vigor and spleu
dor. A constant effort was therefore exert-
ed by a direction of this impetus, to pre-
vent those schisms and collisions whose in-
variable tendency is to destroy the harmo-
ny of the political sphere. Your commit-
tee have endeavored by vigilance and atten-
tion to every subject embraced by your reso
lutib - to realise your expectations. Their
7." 1 and .. r uvo-> never reunited—No du-
ty, h were* hazardous or difficult to perform,
ane'sted tiie >tea;iy movement of the hand
that w.s entrusted with the executive pow-
er. That ihey have erred, they are not s-o
presumptous as to deny. It is not the f:r-
tunate lot of humanity to boast of exemp-
tion from error.
To a: tain perfection is not permitted by
the laws of our nature. We a.'e. allowed to
iS towards, but never te reach it. If
they an- chargeable with deficiency irvjttdg-
nienf. SirfFi r tin m in e.xtenuadon to say, that
their intentions were pure an;! hours,. Per-
mit them to decl.ii'e, that next to the smiles
and approbation of their consciences, they
prize a a vaTUe thee, teem aitd confidence of
ttieir fell.uv-c1ti7.ens. The exercise of their
functions is no longer required. The gov.-rn-
;nonr of the United State-, has decided on
the course that is to be pursued
The outrage committed has roused into
action iis energies'. You, fellow-citizens,
have anticipated the wise and salutary mea-
sures which it has taken ; you have the
glory of performing spontaneous acts of pa-
triotism ; you lved not the promptings of
authority ; the fescue of gOvt rhment to re-
mind you of the relation in which you stand
to the republic ; your acts are approvel by
the Executive Magistrate of the Unit-d
States; they have his sanction', Your com-
mittee express a lively satisfaction, in the
gredt respect rendered to your authority.
Few are the instances in which it lias been
questioned, because its foundation was not
systematically hud in the constitutions and
laws of the land. You have the merit by
wise preen m ion. and the temper and firmness
disci unable in ail your proceedings, of secur-
ing to this portion of your country - unani-
mity.
We nc)\v, fellow-citizens, re-deliver to you
the pow r.s 3'ou eio 10 .0 I to us*, to proniot
the public good. We Batter ourselves that
they flow hack, unp'iilfutfdi to the source
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