r801.] 
of a great number of the Scherif’s fol- 
lowers, it was judged expedient to re-. 
embark, and leave the French in pof- 
{eflion. sri ties 
RUSSIA, SWEDEN, AND DENMARK. 
The Northern Confederacy of Ruffia, 
Sweden, and Denmark, has at length, we 
have every reafon to fuppofe,been complete- 
ly organized: Pruflia does-not appear at 
prefent to have acceded. The property 
of the Bricifh merchants in the different 
Ruffian ports has been’ actually confif- 
cated ; anda proclamation iffued, contain- 
ing the mode by which it is to be con- 
verted into cafh, and the purpofes to 
which fuch caf isto be applied. This 
is a fpecies of attack upon the rights of 
individuals, fcandalous and difgraceful to 
every civilized Government, but for 
which we have ourfelves given fome pre- 
“ text by the attack upon French and 
Dutch property in the Bank, at the com- 
menement of the war with thefe Repub- 
lics. In confequence of thefe hoftile mea- 
fures exhibited in the North, the Britith 
Government has alfo ordered a feizure 
of all veffels belonging toany of the Con- 
federate Powers, now in the ports of this 
country; and ‘it is farther afferted, that 
letters of marque are immediately to be 
granted; fer the purpofe of capturing a 
great variety of richly laden fingle vefiels 
and fleets, which are now well known to be 
working their way towards the Baltic. 
This new war may now therefore be re- 
garded as certain, and, indeed, as actu- 
ally commenced. Minifters ought, inftead 
of botching up the difpute with Den- 
mark, and confining their confideration 
to a few individual fa&ts of the moment, 
of no importance whatever, to have 
boldly adverted to general principles, and 
either have at once admitted thofe con- 
tended for by the Confederacy, or com- 
pelled the recognizance of their own. 
; AMERICA. 
By a letter from Philadelphia, dated the 
16th of December, intelligence has been 
brought that Mr. Jefferfon and Mr. 
Burr, are to be the Prefident and Vice- 
prefident of the United States. The par- 
ticulars of the eleétion are not arrived. 
an EAST INDIES. 
On the goth of December, an over- 
Band exprefs was received at the’ India- 
houfe from the Eaft Indies, dated the 
middle of Auguft laft. By this convey- 
ance information is received of a detach- 
‘ment of the Bombay army having been 
ordered to prepare for embarkation, for 
the purpofe of proceeding to the Straits 
State of Public Affairs in Fanuary, 1801. 
a landing totally failed. After the lof 
7t 
of Babelinandel, to make an attack upon 
the French at Suez, while General Aber- 
cromby, with the army under his com- 
mand, ’makes a vigorous affault upon the 
fide of Alexandria. Some important ad- 
vices may therefore be fhortly expected 
from that quarter. ; 
An account is alfo received of the cone 
duct of the. aflaffin, Vizier Ally, during 
his imprifonment at Calcutta. | The 
murder of Mr. Cherry, who was the 
Company’s Refident at Benares, inftigated 
our Government to make the moit vigie 
lant fearch after the delinquent, who took 
refuge in the dominions of the Nabob’ 
Vizier : he was induced however at length 
to deliver him up. 
GREAT BRITAIN. ; 
The annals of Englith hiftory do not 
comprife a peried fo truly alarming as 
the prefent. » At the clofe of the eighth 
year of a war, fo extravagantly conduéted 
as to have doubled in that period the 
whole debt of the nation, that is, as much 
as every antecedent war in which the na-~ 
tion has ever been engaged added together; 
we now find ourfelves deferted by every 
ally but one, and this one ally, upon 
whofe union we can no longer depend, 
and whofe exiftence feems to hang upon 
his feparating himfelf from us. The 
greater number of our allies are become 
our a¢tive enemies ; and the reit.. if they 
have not pofitively commenced hottilities, 
are daily: difcovering the. moft cordial 
inclination to do fo, and are only wait- 
ing for a convenient opportunity. Ina 
few weeks, it is probable, we hall not 
only be: disjoined from Auftria, and at 
war with France, Spain, and Holland, but 
with all the Northern Powers of Europe. 
But enormous as this evil is, and fatal as 
the proipect it prefents, this is not the 
wortt evil, or the moft defpairing profpec 
we have to encounter. Yo the fccurge 
of war abroad, is now. added that of fas 
enine at home ; a famine, if not produced 
by the war, augmented by it, and which 
the war oniy, and the pro{peé of increaf- 
ing warfare, by fhutting againft us almok 
every port by which we can obtain a fup+ 
ply, duplicates and renders permament. 
The word famine is not too {trong aterm 
by which to exprefs our prefent defperate 
fituation. | With refpeét to the poor, it is 
a&tually a famine at the prefent moment. 
It is impoffible for any man to caft his 
eyes around him, or even to attend to 
the information laid before Parliament 
upon this very fubjeét, without behold- 
ing the ruin of his country, and being 
compelled todeclare that the hand of Pre- 
vidence 
