after the 1st day of December, 1811, on all staves, same time, an intercourse of this kind with Ame lumber, horses, mules, asses, neat cattle, sheep, rica is not contrary to the navigation laws, since hogs, poultry, live stock, live provisions, and any they do not restrain direct intercourse between us kind of provisions whatever, being of the growth and any foreign country, whose shipping brings us or produce of the United States of America, the her own produce and carries back ours: following duties shall be paid :That another mode of relief, at once obvious and For every quintal of dried or salt cod fish fifty-five just, is the reduction of the duties under a reguladents; and a proportionate duty for every barrel of tion proportioning them to the average price of eured or pickled shad, alewives, mackarel, or sal-sugar: mon. And the following duties in Jamaica currency. Wheat flour, per barrel, 0 6 8 Wheat bread, do. Other bread, per hundred, Meal, from rye, peas, beans, Indian corn, &c. per bbl. 0 3 4 Peas, beans, rye, corn, &c. per bushel, 0 Common shingles (Boston chips) per Other shingles, per thousand, White Oak do. do White or yellow pine lumber, do. 3 4 0 10 0 34 100 6 8 0 0 0 15 0 0 10 0 0 15 0 050 Horses, neat cattle, stock, &c. ten per cent. ad valorem, at the port or place of importation. It is also ordered, that the said permission to import and export, until the said 31st day of De cember, 1812, shall cease in six months after notification of such cessation shall appear in the London Gazette, and at the expiration of six months, after the ratification of a definitive treaty of peace. British America. BARBADOS, August 27.-At a meeting of the planters and merchants engaged in the sugar manufactory and trade, the following resolutions, among others, have been passed: That a committee of twelve gentlemen be appointed to prepare a petition to parliament and to the throne, and to carry into effect the general objects of this meeting; of which number any five with the chairman of this meeting, shall be deemed competent to transact business. Resolved, That the committee be instructed to apply by petition to the legislature, requesting that a fund be provided to meet the necessary expenses incurred in carrying the objects of the meeting into effect. The following gentlemen where chosen as a committee: Hon. John F. Alleyne, Hon. Samuel Hinds, Hon. John B. Skeete, Hon. John A. Beckles, Hon. John Beckles, Henry E. Holder, George Carrington, John P. Mayres, John H. Pinder, Dr. H. Hamden, jr. James Maxwell, C. Cadogan, Esqs. The chairman (Hon. John Barrows) received the thanks of the meeting, and the business of the day was closed. By order of the Hon. the Chairman, L. THOMAS, Jr. Sec'ry. A Day at Madrid. From a PICTURE OF MADRID, taken on the spot. By CHRISTIAN AUGUSTUS FISCHER. Translated from the German. That the distresses of the West India planters I wake 'tis four o'clock in the morning! The have increased to an extent hitherto unexampled, whole broad street of Alcala is spread before me like and the effects which the disuse of sugar in the an immense square-churches-palaces and condistilleries has already produced, are such as to ex-vents:—at the further end the shady walks of the cite in our minds just and most alarming apprehen- Prado-a grand sublime sight, baffling description. sions, that nothing short of speedy relief can enable The matin bell announces the early mass-the the planter to preserve his capital from the most streets become more animated. Veiled women in rapid deterioration: black, men in long brown cloaks with redisillas, That a partial export of sugar from the West wearing their hair in a kind of net work, hanging Indies was formerly allowed in American bottoms, low down their back. The doors of all the balcothe prohibition of which has proved extremely in-nies open, and water is sprinkled out before every jurious to the planters, who receive those stores so house. essential to the existence of their plantations from the Now the goat-keepers with their little herds enUnited States, to pay for which, money is now drain-ter the gates, crying milk! milk! goat's milk!ed from the colonies. Hence it was recommended fresh and warm! who will have any? There I see in the year 1808, by a committee of the House of market-women pass by with their asses loaded Commons, that the planters should be allowed to with vegetables-bakers with bread, in carts made barter sugars with the Americans, to the value of of Spanish reed-water carriers and porters hastenthe stores which they receive from them; and it ing to commence their day's work, while with a has been proved before a committee of the House hoarse voice two consequential-looking alguarzils of Commons in 1807, that British America is ill proclaim the thefts committed on the preceeding suited to supply the wants of the planters, who are night. furnished only with one-tenth of their stores thence; By degrees, all the ware houses, shops, and the value of these stores from the United States has boothes, are opened. The publicans (taberneros) been computed at 25,000 hhds. of sugar, the vent expose their wine-cups; the chocolate-women get for which would afford a great relief to the planter their pots ready; the water-carriers begin to chaunt and prevent a reduction of his crops, which under their "Quien bebe ?" (who'll drink?) and the hackexisting circumstances, must ultimately ensue to ney coach and hackney chaise drivers, with the his ruin, and to the consequent injury of the ship persons who let mules for hire, take their usual owner and merchants; on the other hand, the ad- stands. mission of this barter would contribute to redeem Soon the whole street resounds with the various him from a rapid approach of insolvency, and ena- cries of numberless criers-Cod, white cod! Onible him to pay those debts which would otherwise ons, onions from Gallacia! Walnuts, walnuts from be lost to his British correspondent; and at the Biscay! Oranges, oranges from Murcia! Haid Hurricane. smoked sausages from Estramadura! Tomates,[ large tomates! Sweet citrons, sweet citrons! Barley water! Ice water! A new journal! A new ga- We have noticed the general suffering of the zette! Water melons! Long Malaga raisins! Olives, British vessels of war on our coasts, by the late olives from Seville! Milk rolls! Milk rolls, fresh gales. The following extract from the log-book of and hot! Grapes, grapes! Figs, new figs! Pome- an officer on board the Spartan, is awfully descripgranates, pomegranates from Valencia. tive of the storm, and deserves record. It is copied from a Halifax paper of the 9th ult. It strikes ten; the guards mount; dragoons, Swiss regiments, Walloon guards, Spanish infantry, "Alos pies Vin Donna Manuela!" (Let us go to mass.) Extract from a log-book kept on board his majesty's ship Spartan, giving an account of the hurricane of Monday, September 30. All the bells are ringing, all the streets are coAt 2 A. M. wind S. E. fresh gales and cloudy, vered with the rock roses, rich carpets hanging Africa in company-at three, down top gallant from every balcony, and altars raised on every yards, and close reefed her topsails, at 7 struck square under canopies of state. The procession top-gallant masts-at the same time the barometer sets out. What a number of neat little angels, with had fallen to 28 6-10, this was attempted to be compaste-board wings, covered with gilt paper! ima-municated to the Africa by telegraph, but it came ges of saints, with fine powdered bob wigs, and on so thick that we lost sight of her. At 8 it blew robes of gold brocade! What swarms of priests!--very hard from S.E, handed the topsails and courses, How many beautiful girls! all pleasant and in mix-the sea got us so suddenly that we could not send ed groupes. a man aloft to send the top-gallant masts on deck; at 10 A. M. the barometer at 28 3-10, at 10, 20, the The clock proclaims noon-day! We return throwind suddenly died away to nearly a calm, so that the square of the Puerta del Sol! All the rifas, (raf- the storm stay-sails were set to keep the ship steady, Aes) have begun, all the hackney writers are busy the wind gradually shifting round from S. E. to and the whole square thronged with people. N. W. and about half past 11 it came on to blow One o'clock! we are all called to dinner; a great with a fury which it is impossible to describe; the deal of saffron, many love-apples, plenty of oil and noise of the wind resembled a continued discharge pimento! But then, wine from La Mancha, old of heavy artillery, and its effects upon the storm sails, Ceres and Malaga! What a nice thing is Spanish which were quite new and of the strongest canvass, Cookery! was the same as if struck by a shot, the instant La Siesta! la Siesta, Senores! A deadly silence they felt the wind they shivered to atoms and blew is in all the streets, all the window shutters are put away in very small pieces; and now without a rag up, or the curtains let down; even the most indus-of sail except a trysail, the ship lay on her side like trious porter stretches his length on his mat, and a log, the sea was one sheet of foam, the lee guns falls asleep at the fountain, with his pitcher behind on the main deck were under water, and nothing. but the hatchways being buttened down in time him. At four o'clock every body repairs to the bull-prevented our receiving much water below; the fight, to the canal, or to the prado, all is gaiety and mizen top sail blew loose, and at the same moment merriment, one equipage after another, one chaise the mizen top mast went over the side, but the wind after another, drive full speed to those places of di-was so loud that we did not hear it fall; the sea was version. The Puerta del Sol becomes as crowded as before, and the water-carriers and the orange women, the procuresses of the frail fair, are all as busy as bees. at this time breaking over the ship to windward, and the scene on deck was most awful. For nearly an hour and an half this continued; every moment we expected the masts to be blown over the side, and by the greatest exertions imaginable, a howser Thus passes the afternoon; and the dusky shades was passed round the lee rigging to enable us to cut of evening set in at last. All the bells ring, and every Spaniard says the prayer of salutation to the way the shrouds whenever the masts might fall. Virgin. Now all hasten to the tertulias and thea"The men behaved nobly, and the officers set them tres, and in a few minutes the rattling of carriages a good example,but such was the violence of the temresounds in every street. The lamps before the pest,that the most daring seaman could do little more houses, or the images of the Virgin, are already at first than look at it with astonishment. At 1 P. M. Jighted: the merchants and dealers have illuminated the carpenter reported the mainmast to be so badly their houses and shops, and the sellers of ice water sprung that he thought it must soon fall; the foreand lemonade their stalls. Every where are seen mast was nearly in the same state, the ship laboring rush lights, paper lanthorns, and bougies on the ta- so much that we considered the loss of the masts as inevitable; at half past one the wind abated, but still blew a heavy gale, and we saw the Africa to Meanwhile the crowd on the square has prodigi- windward, with her main and mizen topmasts gone; ously increased, and it is soon stowed with people. at this tiine the larboard or weather bower anchor In one part you will hear the soft sounds of the broke adrift, and we apprehended that the force of guitar, or a seguidilla; in another a female ballad the sea would drive it through the bow, so we cut singer tells in rhyme the tale of the last murder the cable and let it go; at 4 the gale had moderated, committed; in a third, a thundering missionary, at- but the sea still ran very high; all hands were emtempts to move the hearts of obdurate sinners, ployed in securing the masts. At 30 minutes past while the light-footed cyprian corps carries off his 10 P. M. the maintop mast fell over the side, which audience by dozens. Soon passes the rosary and we were not sorry to see as it certainly saved the tattoo with music, and the equipages return from mainmast; we were employed all night in clearing the theatres. the wreck, the next morning the sea still ran high, bles of the fruit women and cake-men. It grows still later; the crowds begin to disperse and to save the mast we were obliged to cut the main by one o'clock in the morning all the streets are geers and let the yard come down; but we secured still and quiet, and only here and there resounds a it without its doing any injury, we saved all our solitary guitar through the solitary gloom of night. I wreck.-Many of the men distinguished themselv by their intrepidity in volunteering aloft, when it those that remain, how have they changed rank and was not justifiable to order them up, but they made importance! 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Printed and published by H. NILES, Water-street, near the Merchants' Coffee-House, at $5. per Public Documents. ORDERS IN COUNCIL-CONTINUED FROM PAGE 163. MR. FOSTER TO MR. MONROE. Washington, July 24th, 1811. upon some points on which you have evidently misapprehended, for I will not suppose you could have wished to misinterpret my meaning. And first in regard to the blockade of May SIR-Having been unable to ascertain dis-1806, I must avow that I am wholly at a loss tinctly from your letter to me of yesterday's to find out from what part of my letter it is date, whether it was the determination of that the president has drawn the unqualified the president to rest satisfied with the partial inference that should the orders in council of repeal of the Berlin and Milan decrees, which 1807 be revoked, the blockade of May 1806, you believe has taken place, so as to see no would cease with them. It is most material reason in the conduct of France for altering that on this point no mistake should exist the relations between this country and Great between us. From your letter it would ap Britain by exercising his power of suspending pear as if on the question of blockade which the operation of the non-importation act, allow America had so unexpectedly connected with me to repeat my question to you on this her demand for a repeal of our orders in point as contained in my letter of the 14th council, Great Britain had made the concesinstant, before I procced to make any com- sion required of her; as if, after all that has ments on your answer. passed on the subject, after the astonishment I have the honor to be, with distinguished and regret of his majesty's government at the consideration, sir, your most obedient hum-United States' having taken up the view ble servant, AUG. J. FOSTER. MR. FOSTER TO MR. MONROE. Washington, July 26th, 1811. which the French government presented of our just and legitimate principles of blockade which are exemplified in the blockade of May 1806, the whole ground taken by his majes SIR-I have had the honor to receive your ty's government was at once abandoned.letter of July 23, in answer to mine of the Sd When I had the honor to exhibit to you my and 14th instant, which you will permit me to instructions, and to draw up as I conceived say were not merely relative to his majesty's according to your wishes and those of the orders in council, and the blockade of May, president, a statement of the mode in which that 1806, but also to the president's proclamation blockade would probably disappear, I never of last November, and to the consequent act meant to authorise such a conclusion, and I of congress of March 2, as well as to the just now beg most unequivocally to disclaim it. complaints which his royal highness the The blockade of May 1806, will not continue prince regent had commanded me to make to after the repeal of the orders in council, unyour government with respect to the procla- less his majesty's government shall think fie mation and to that act. to sustainit by the special application of a suffi If the United States' government had ex-cient naval force, and the fact of its being so pected that I should have made communica-continued or not, will be notified at the time. tions which would have enabled them to If in this view of the matter, which is cercome to an accommodation with Great Bri-tainly presented in a conciliatory spirit, one tain on the ground on which alone you say it of the obstacles to a complete understanding was possible to meet us, and that you mean between our countries can be removed by the by that expression a departure from our sys-United States' government waving ali further tem of defence against the new kind of war-reference to that blockade, when they can be fare still practised by France, I am at a loss justified in asking a repeal of the orders, to discover from what source they could have and I may communicate this to my governderived those expectations, certainly not from ment, it will undoubtedly be very satisfactothe correspondence between the marquis ry; but I beg distinctly to disavow having Wellesley and Mr. Pinkney. made any acknowledgment that the blockade Before I proceed to reply to the arguments would cease merely in consequence of a revowhich are brought forward by you to shew cation of the orders in council; whenever it that the decrees of Berlin and Milan are re-does cease, it will cease because there will be pealed, I must first enter into an explanation 'no adequate force applied to maintain it. 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