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smart under the exactions of the French, not- 
withstanding their incorporation with West- 
phalia the principal places are garrisoned 
with French troops. and this is made the pre- 
tence for renewing the war-contridution for 
three months longer. 
ITALY. 
The accounts from Messina to the 25tti of 
June, represent the enemy’s preparations for 
the invasion of Sicily as being completed, and 
that though several of their gun boats and 
convoys from Naples and Salerno, with 
artillery and warlike stores, had been de- 
stroyed, yet their small craft, to the number 
of 500, was secured by formidable batteries 
along the coaft of Calabria. 
The last accounts from our squadron em- 
ployed on the coast of Calabria, state that 
we had been invariably successful in taicing 
Or destroying all the armed vessels or gun- 
boats of the enemy that our flo illa engaged. 
The French have evacuated the Island of 
Fanu, to the northward of Cortu, which had 
been taken possession of by Cap:ain Griffiths, 
of the Leonidas 
The necessary measures have been taken 
forthe blockade of the canal or Corfu, and 
from (his time all the measures authorized by 
the laws of nations, and the respective trea- 
fics between his Majesty and the diferent 
neutral powers, will be adopted and execuied 
with rescect to all vessels which may attempt 
to violate the said blockade. 
SPAIN AND PoPTUGAL. 
A great battle is daily expected on the 
frontiers of Portugal between the English 
and Portuguese armies under Lord Wel- 
Jington, andthe grand French army under 
Marshals Massena, Ney, and others. 
King Joseph was, on the 26th ult. in the 
Reighbourhood of Valencia, wich an army of 
30,000 men, with which he intended to form 
the siege of Tarragona. 
The Regency of Purtagal, through British 
mediation, has purchased a two-years peace 
of the Dey of Algiers for 960,000 dollars. 
This piratical prince declared wag. against 
France on the 29 h of May. 
In consequence of the interception of cou- 
riers with dispatches by the peasantry, orders 
had been issuea by king joseph tor the evec- 
tion of a number of forts, at stated distances, 
en the great road leading fiom Madrid to 
Bayonne. . 
FRANCE, } 
Paris, Aug 7. 
His Majesty issued on the 5th August, 
at the palace of Trianon, the following 
decree: 
_ Art. I. The duties upon the importation of 
the under-mentioned goods and merchandize are 
settled as follows.—-By metrical quiutal: the 
cottons of Brazil, Cayenne, Surinam, Deme- 
rary, and Georgia, long staple, 800 francs 
Levant cottons, imported by sea, 600 francs; 
the same by lund, through the offices at Co- 
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logme, Codlentz, Mavence, and Strasburgh, 
300 francs; cottons from. oll other places, 
those trom Naples excepted, 600 francs ; 
‘tho-e from Naples, the old duties; raw Sa2ary 
300 francs; clayed or loaf sugar, 400 francs; 
hyson teas, 900 francss green teas, 600 
francs; all other teas, 150 «rancs; indigo, 
900 trancs; Cocoa, 10C0 trancs3 cochineal, 
2000 fiancs ; white pepp.r, 500 francs; black 
ditto, 400 trancs 3 common cinnamon, 1400 
francs 3 fine ditto, 090 tranes; cloves, 600 
francs 3 nutmegs, 2000 francs mahogany, 
50 francs; Pernamvucco wood, 120 francs 5 
Campzachy ditto, 80 francs; dye woods, 
ground, 100 francs. 
Art. II. When the custom-house officers 
suspect that the declarations co cerning the 
species or qualities are false, they shall send 
Specimens to the direttor general of our cus- 
toms, wno isto cause them to be exsmined 
by commiussaries who have a knowledge of 
these branches, attached to the ministry of 
the interiur ; and who, in every such exami- 
nation, shall be assisted by two manufactueis 
or merchants, chosen by the minister of tine 
interior. . Té it shall appear that the declae 
rations are false, all the merchandize shall 
be seized ana confiscated S 
Letter from the French Migister of Fo-cign Rea 
lations, to Mr. <drmstrong, the Americin Ainx 
bassador. Paris, Avg. 5, 1810. 
Sirx.—I have laid berore vis Majesty the 
Emperor and King, the act of Congress o° the 
1st of May, extracted from the paper of the 
United States, which you has transmitted to 
me. —His Majesty could: have wished that 
this act, and ail-othcr acts of tie Unired 
States that may concern France, had veen 
aiways officially notified to him. Vhe Ems 
peror applauded the general embargo laid by 
the United States on all their vessels, because 
that measure, 4f it has been preéjudici:l to 
France, contained, at least, nothing offensive 
to her honour. It has caused her to lose her: 
colonies of Guadaloupe, Martinique, and 
Cayenne. The emperor did not complain of 
it. He, made this sacrifice to the priuciple 
which determined the Americans to impose 
the embargo, and which inspired them with 
the nob:e resolution of interdicting theme 
Selves the use of the sea, rather than submit 
tothe laws of those who wish to become its 
tyrants. The act of the ist of March ree 
moved the embargo, and substituted for it a 
measure which must have been particularly 
injurious to tve interests of France. That 
act, with which the emperor was not ac- 
quainted for a cons:derable time after, inter- 
dicted to American veszels the commerce of 
France, whilst it autiorised a trade with 
Spain, Naples, and Holland, that is to say, 
with countrics u-der Frénch influence, and 
denounced cunfscation against all French 
vessels that should enter the ports of Ame- 
rica, Reprisal was a matter of right, and. 
commanded by the dignity of France, a cir- 
cumstasce upon which it was impossible to 
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