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mark its character, it had been previously as- 
certained that the seamen demanded were na- 
tive citizens of the United States. Having 
effected his purpofe, he returned to anchor 
with his squadron within ovr jurisdiction. 
Hospitality under such circumstances ceases 
to be a duty; anda continuance of it, with 
such uncontrolled abuses, would tend only, 
by multiplying injuries and irritations, to 
bring on a rupture between the two nations. 
This extreme resort is equally opposed to the 
mterests of both, as it is to assurances of the 
most friendly dispositions on the part of the 
British government, in the midet of which 
this outrage has heen committed. In this 
light the subject cannot but present itself to 
that goversment, and strengthen the motives 
to an honourable reparation of the wrong. 
which has been done, and to that effectual 
controul of its naval commanders, which 
alone can justify the government of the Uni- 
ted States in the exercise of those hospitali- 
ties it is now constrained to discontinue. 
In consideration of these circumstances, 
and of the right of every nation to regulate 
its own police, to provide for its peace and 
for the safety of its citizens, and consequent- 
ly to refuse the admission of armed vessels 
Into its harbours or waters, either In such 
numbers or of such descriptions, as are in- 
consistent with these, er with the mainte- 
nance of the authority of the laws, | have 
thought proper, in pursuance of the autho- 
rities especially given by law, to issue this 
my proclamation, hereby requiring all armed 
vessels bearing commissions under the govern- 
ment cf Gick Britain, now within the har? 
bours or wate:s of the United States, imme- 
diately and without zany delay to depart from 
the same, interdicting the entrance of all 
the said harbours and waters to the said 
armed vessels, and to ail others bearing com- 
missions unser the authority of the British 
government. 
And if the said vessels, or any of them, 
shall fail to depart as aforesaid, or if they or 
any others, so interdicted, shall hereafter en- 
ter the harbours or waters aforesaid, I doin 
that case forbid all intercourse with them, 
Incidents in and near Tovdon. 
or any of them, their officers or crews, and 
do prohibit all supplies and aid from —— 
furnished to them, or any of them. ; 
And I do declare and make known, that 
if any person from or within the jurisdiction- 
al limits of the United States shall afford any 
aid to any such vessels, contrary to the; 
prohibition contained- in this Proclamation, 
either in repairing any sueh vessel, or in fur- 
nishing her, her officers or crew, with sup- 
plies of any kind, or in any manner whatso- 
ever, or if any pilot st hall assist in Navigating 
any of the said armed vessels, unless it be for. 
the purpose of carrying them, in the first 
instance, beyond the limits and Jurisdiction 
of the United States, or unless it be in the 
case of a vessel forced by distress, or charged 
with public dispatches as hereinafter provided 
for, such person or persons shall, on convic- 
tion, suffer all the pains ana petialties by — 
the laws provided for such offences. 
And I 4o hereby enjoin and requireal! per- 
sons bearing office civil or military witbin or 
under the “authority of the United States, 
and all others, citizens or inhabitants thereof, 
or being within the same, with vigilance 
and promptitude, to exert their respective 
authori ities, and to be aiding and assisting to 
the carrying this Prociamation, and msi f 
part thereof, isto full effect. 
Proviced, nevertheless, that if any such 
vessels shall be forced into the harbours or 
waters of the United States by distress, by 
the dangers of the sea, or by the pursuit of 
aa enemy, or shall enter them charged with 
dispatches or business from their Govern- 
mac or shall be a public packet for the 
conveyance of let-e:s and dispatches, the 
commanding officer im mediately reporting his 
vessel to the collector of the district, stating 
the object or causes of entering the said har- 
bours or waters, and conforming. himself te_ 
the regulations in that case prescribed under 
the authority of the laws, shall be allowed 
the benefit of such regalations respecting re- 
pairs, supplies, stay, intercourse, and de- 
parture, as shail be-permitted under the same 
authority. 
TP. JEFFERSON, 
INCIDENTS, MARRIAGES, ann DEATHS, ry 
With Biogrophical Memoirs of difiinguijhed Charadlers recently deceafed. 
HE Rotherhithe. and -Croydon Canal, 
which was begun about five years 2Z0, is 
now nearly finish ved. it commences at the 
‘town oF - Croydon, passes over }enge Common, 
crosses the road lezding from London to Sy- 
denham, close to that town, where a bridge 
ever the canal has been erected some time. 
It then runs along the east s:de of Sycenham 
Common, Fore: Hill, and Nunhead, until it 
efusses the Deptiord Road, near the New 
Uross turnpike,-on the A sides Within 
the last three months a commodious bridge 
has been erected over the canal om this part 
{the road. From this, down to Rotherhithe, 
N ea LONDON. 
AND 
. & 
the canal has long since been cut, and scarcely. 
any thing is now wanting to set it working, 
but the completion of the towing paths. To 
obviate the difficulty of ob:aining water, along. 
the elevated grounds, over w hich rhe cual 
passes, betweea Sydensam and New Cross, 
several large reservoirs have been formed. 
The chief of these is on S:denham Common,. 
where it has more the appearance of a large 
lake than a pond. It is an excavatron of an 
oblong form, occupying upwards of thirty 
acres, and is several fect above the level of the 
canal, from which it is about fifty yards di 
tant, and into which the water can be comve 
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