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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 4. _

FRENCH STATE PAPER.

R.fiort of the Minuter fr Foreign affair, to

the Km/ieror, iSc.

<g.BE_The treaty between France ami Rus-

aia wa, a treaty of offensive alliance against

En 'land. It was on your return f. on. the

Ldereuces oftlte Niemen, in which the Em-

peror Alexander said to your Majesty, that toe

would he your second against Engl.nd, that

you determined to sacrifice the advantages

victory had given you, and to pass rapidly

, he state of war to the state ol alliance

with R isnia- This alliance, which augment-

ed for France the means of war against Eng- land ought also to have secured the peace ol

the continent. In W9’ >ww«ver» A"8"U i made warupp* France. Russia, in cm.Ua-

diction to the precise text ol treaties, a.loukd

you no aid. Indeed of the 150 090 men wluco

might have been put in motion, ami wh.cn

ought to have supported the French army, on-

ly 15.000 were brought into the held, and b> the time they crossed the Russian hontier me

fate ol the war was decided. After this epoch, Sh e, the ttkase of the >9tb

D cemNef; 18.0, which destroyed our com-

mevrial relations with Russia, the admission

of E-.-lish commerce into her ports, ner aim

Ws ub ch from the commencement of 1811,

threatened the invasion of the Dutchy of Wur-

-W saw. finally the protest respecting OUlenburgh, ^

annihilated the alliance. It no longer existed

when on both sides armies were formed for

reciprocal observation. i. 'phe whole of the year IS 11, was, howe-

ver, spent in conferences and negotiations with

Russia, in the hope of withdrawing if possible, the cabinet of Petersburg from the war, up-

on which it appeared to be resolved, and to

obtain a knowledge of its real intentions. It

is proved to the certainty of evidence, that that

power proposed at the same time to depart from the conditions of the treaty of Tilsit, to

place herself in peace with England, and to

vncnace the existence of the Dutchy of War-

saw, making use of the prctext of indemnities claim' d tor the Duke ot Oldenburgh. i

I, Your M. jestv determined to maintain by arms, the h nor of treaties, the existence and

inugn-y of the states of your allies, has felt

the impo tance of uniting yoursell more close-

ly to a power, to which you were already at-

tached by words dear to your heart, and the

general political principles of which are the

same as those of your Majesty; lot this pur*

p se a treaty was concluded, on the 14th ol

this mun h w ith Austria. Every thing p omises a long duration to

th s .dii nee. It assures repose to the South

of Eu upe, and promises to France that she

snail no loVigi r bedisturbeu in htr cfloiis loi

the re-estabhshmei.i of a maritime peace. (Signed

“LE ‘>UC DE BASSANO. Guwbineny June 2 l ” |

from GIBRALTAR PAPERS,

Received at the office of the Philadelphia lie*

'gixter) via Xutrm.

Letter from the french governor of

■I AC A. TO COL DON MIGUEL SARASA*

ri^Lt us no longer doubt that the wm of the

StMuiurcL aguiusi tne slavis of the Corsican,

is actually commencing. The incomparable Esposy 'Alina’s »let«rminatiou is gradually adopting a*1 over the peninsula. Whenever it

b- comes a general rule, the war will soon be

at an end. The following letter proves that

Mina is getting excellent pupils ] Jaca, April 27.

The gov. of J.ica being informed that S ira-

aa ha* shot at Yebra, an inhabitant of Jaca,

w ho had gone out of the city upon another

inhabitant** private business, notifies to him

that hi* daughter lias been ariestecl, and that

*he shad undergo the sanie fate, ii, Irom this

day forward, be ba guilty ot the least violence.

Four of his friends and rel itions have also

bcon arrested, and 2ne to be si ot, one after

tnother, for e very inhabitant that he shall pul to death, nr dm, or otherwise injure, in a si*

milar manner.

And lastly, I am going to send tor his son,

who is a prisoner, for the purpose of hanging v

him, it his barbarous father continues to com-

mit the s.Vne atrocities. The corregidor will be pleased to cause

the present order to be delivered into Sarasa’s

hands. Colonel Sarahs answer to the foregoing

# letter, V Gavin, April 28.

% The commandant general of the left ot Ar-

ragon, colonel D. Miguel Sarasa, ordered a

Trench spv of Jaca, to be shot at Yebra, wbo

•‘had presumed to go through the whole of hi*

troops, furteving hi»«*rlt safe by means of a

forged letter of which he was the bearer; but

not until the fa t had been legally proved, the

culprit h„d confessed it, and pursuant to the opinion and sentence of a court martial, the &c>1oq«1 aoting in this respect, conformable to

the practice of the Spanish and French armies. For this act of jurisdiction, be who calls him- self governor of Jaca,'Informs him that he has

arrested his daughter, and four relations or

friends of his, and threatens that he will hang them, as well as his son, who is a prisoner, if Sarasa continues to commit the same atroci- ties ; as more fully appears by tho said dis-

patch which remains in Iris hands. Sarasa, in

this part of Arragon, has shewn the French how war is waged by the noble minded. Up- on this subject he confidently appeals to 1 15 j prisoners, who are at his disposal in tho de-

pots of Catalonia, and amongst whom arc five

cap’ains. to whom lie g -vc his table, clothes and money. Sarasa, as commandant general, has neither relations, nor friends, nor daugh- ters nor a son prisoner ; and therefore slights all those impotent threats. S.trasu neither has nor will put any one to death, without a court

mani.d, or without an offence ; but the com-

mandant general ot tnis part ot Arragon, will know how to avenge every vio ation of the law of nations, upon the beads of the 115 pri- soners, for the present, and will tm* the luture,

put to death t\M F enchmen, for every one of his men that they shall murder.

Colonel SafaVs principal boast is the iil

usage he has experienced at the hands of the

French, amt he pledges his honor, that he will celebrate with an entertainment, the day on

which he shall learn that, for a justifiable deed of his exalted patiiotism, his children iiul relations have fallen victims to French

barbarity ; as to his friends, their cruel policy will find none, as he is not aware that he has anr.

Sarasa will not alter his system, because he is determined to die as an honest man ; and the alcalde of Biescas shall, upon pain of death, send tliis order to the governor ot Jaca by an

express. _ —---_

Narrative of Captain W". L. Cazneau.

The brig Polly, of 130 tons burthen, sailed from Boston, with a cargo of lumber and pro- visions, on a voyage to Santa Croix, on tnc

I 2th of December 1311, under the comm uni

of capt \V. L. C. zneau, with a mate, 4 sea-

men and a cook. M« J. S. Hunt and a negro girl of 9 years of age passengers. Nothing material happened until the !5ih, when tlvc\

had cleared away cape Cod, the shoal ol Gco«

ges, and nearly as they supposed, crossed the

golph stream when there came on a vioie: storm of rain from the S. E. in which tin

brig labored very hard, which promt ed a

leak that so gained ©it the pumps as to sound

nearly 6 feet, when about midnight s'e *\a

upset, and Mr. Hunt washed ovcrin-aid ! Not

having any reason to hope for her lighting- her weather lanyards were cut away, the deck load being before thrown over and the lash-

ings all gone, in about hall an hour the main- mast went by the board, and soon alter the

foremast, when she righted, theugh full ol

water, a dreadful sea making a fair breach o-

ver her from stem to stern. In this situation the night v ore away, and day light f und all a*

live, exWpt the passengers, and upon close search the little girl was found clinging t<>

the sky light, and so saved from drowning in the cabin. The glass and grating of the sky- light having gone away, while on her beam ends, the little girl was drawn through tho o

pening, but so much chilled that she survived out a few hours. In thiisituatiun they remain- ed. without fire, as near as the capt. can recol- lect, 12 days, when the cook, an Indian from Canton, near Boston, snp-p-ested the oner..lion

on

ot rubbing two sticks togi thcr, which succeed- ed. Very fortunately, the Cambose d d not go ovei board with tbe deck loud; this was got to the w mdwai da fire kindled 5c some provisi* ns cook-

ed, which was the first they had tasted, except raw pork, for the whole time.—They now got up a barrel of pork, part of a barrel ol beef, uod one half barrel of beef. A small pig bad been saved alive, which they now dressed, not

having any thing to feed it with. But at this *

lime no apprehension was entertained of Ho-

lering fur meat, there being several barrels \ flowed in the inn, and upwards of H>0 under deck. With this impression the people used the provisions very imprudently, tiil the) dis-

covered that the stern post was gone and the

gale continuing for a long time, the barrels j had stove, and their contents were all lost for- ,

ever. j There happened to be a cask of water lash- j

ed on the quarter dick, which was saved, con-

taining about 30 gallons, all the test was lost. ! This lasted about 18 days, when the crew,' were reduced to the necessity of catching j what rain they could, and having no more ! At the end of 40 da)s the meat was all gore, and absolute famine stared them in the face. The fi st victim to this destroyer was Mr. Paddock, the mate, whose exquisite distie*s seemed t« redouble the sufferings of his com- i

panions. He was a man of a robust constitu- 1

tion, w ho had spent his life in the bank fishing, had suffered many hardships and appeared the

most capable of standing the shocks of vnisfor- ;

tune of any of the crew. In the meredian of life, being about 35 years old, it was reasona-

ble to suppose that instead of the first, he would have been the last to have fallen a sa-

crifice to cold and hunger; but Heaven or-

deied it otherwise—he became delirious, and death relieved him from his sufferings the fiftieth day of his shipwreck. During all this time, the storms continued, and would often overwhelm them so as to keep them always drenched with seawater, having nothing to screeu them, except a temporary kind of ca«

bin which they had built tip of boards between

the windlass and nightheads on the larboaid- side of the bowsprit. The next who sank

under this horrid press of disasters was Howes, a young man of about 30, who likewise was a

fisherman, by profession, and tall, spate, and

as smart and active a seaman as any on board.

He likewise died delirious, and in dreadful

distress, six days after Paddock, being (he* fif-

ty-sixth day of the wieck. Something must

be done to procure water, or this must evi-

dently be the fate of all the sui vivors in a ve-

ry short time. About tnis time good luck, or more probably, kind providence, enabled

them to fish up the tea-kettle and one of the

captain’s pisUds, and necessity, the mother of invention, suggested the plan of a distill

Acroidingly a piece of boaid was very nicely fitted to the" mouth of the boiler a small hole

made in it, and the tea-kettle, bottom upwards fixed to the upper side of the board ; the pis to barrel was fixed to the nose of the kettle,

and kept cool by the constant application of cold *\ ate r. This completely since, did, and

the survivors without a doubt, owe their pre- servation to this simple experiment. But all that could be obtained by ibis very imperfect distill, was but a scanty allowance of water

for five men ; yet it would sustain life and

that was all. The impression that there was

meat enough under the halt deck, induced them to use every cxeition to obtain it j blit

by getting up pieces of bone, entirely bare ol

meat and in a putrid state, they found that no-

thing was left lor tnem but to rely on Heaven for food, and be contented with whatever cuinc*

tohciid, till relief should come. Their only sustenance now was barnacles gathered fion the sides of the vessel which were ate raw

that the distilling might not be inteiiupt<d • __ ~ il.. M m .. I..

which \v<>uid give mem !>«• nunc uiciii »*u.v

glumes of water each per day. The next food which they obtained w«s a large shark, caught by means of a i uniting bow line. This was a

very great relief and lasted so oe lime. Two

advantages arose from thi* signal interposi lion of kind providence ; for w hile they lived

upon their shark, the barnacles were growing larger and more nutritive. They iikew s

found many small crabs among the sea-weed which often floated around the wreck, which

wei e very pleasant food. But from the ne-

cessity of chewing theio raw, and sucking out

-be nourishing; t th* \ b ought on an obstina e

'Osiiveness. which became extremely painiu- rnd probably much exasperated by the want of

x at v i\

() i the 2.5th of March, according to their con pu dion, poor Maho, the cook, expired, evidently ftom want of water, though witn much less distress than the others and in tiie full exercise of his reason ; he very devouth

played and appeared perfectly resigned to tin win of the God wh fflctt dhim Tin ir con

slant study was directed to the improvemet t

ot tiieii iiisiill, which was made much bt tie

by the udditn n of the other pistol battel, whici was (blind by fishing with the grains they made by fixing spikes into a pit ce of a stav*

With this bam 1 they so fit* pt rfected the dis till as to obtain eight junk bottles full ot v\ c*

ter in 24 hours. Bui l orn the death of Mu- ho to the deal t of Join son which happened a

bout the middle of Apr 1, they seen ed to be denied eviry kind of food. The barnacle* were all gone, and no friendly gale wafted n

their side the seaweed from which the) coulf obtain crabs or insects—It seemed as if o

hope was gone forever, and they nothing be foie them but death, or the hn id alien.ativ- ol eating tiie fksh of their di ad companion One expedient was left that w<*s to try to de- em u snaik, it happily there might be one a

bout the wreck, by par t of tlie c »r ps of tlu n

snip m-tc I Tnis succeed'■*<!, and they c.mgh > large shark, and from tn&t time had phnu of iv' n tin tneir happy deliverance. Very for-

tuhuiely, a cask of nails which was on deck i<d*cdin the sea scuppers, while on thcii bc,.m ends: with these they were enabled t’

iusien the si,ingles on their cabin, which by consu.nl improvement, had become much

hu te commodious,, and when reduced to t\\<.

oni), ti.v v huh a co i jwetent supply of water

1 hey hud now drifted above 2tK 0 mile sand were in lat. 28 N. and Ion. 13 West, when m

tneir unspeakable joy they saw three ships beating down upon them. The ships came as

neai aswus convenient, and then hailed, which Capt. CazneoU answered with all the force of his lungs. The ship which hailed proved to

be the Fame of Hull, Captain Fcatherstonc bound from Rio Jancrio home. It so happen- ed that the three Captains had dined together that day and were all on board the Fame. Hu- manity immediately sent a boat, which put an

end to tne dreadful thraldom of Capt. Cazneau and b«muel Badger, the only surviving per- sons, who wtit received by these humane En-

glishmen with exulting sensibility. Thus was

ended the most shocking catastrophe which our naval history has recorded for many years, alter a series of distresses from Dec 15th to the 2Uth of June, a period of 191 days! Every attention was paid to the sufferers that

generosity warmed with pity and fellow feel-

ing could dictate, on bouid the Fame. They were cherished comforted, fed, clotlv-d and nursed until the 9.h of July, when they fell in with capt Perkins, of the brig Dromo, in the

chops of the channel ot England, who gene- rously took them on boar d and careiully per- fected the work of goodness begun by the ge- nerous Englishmen ; and safely landed them in Kenncbunk.

It is natural to inquire how they could float such » vast distance upon the most frequent-

ed part of the Atlantic and not he discover all this time ? They were passed by more iF a dozen sail, one ot which came soni^luh

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that they could, distinctly see the pcvplc o* deck and on the rigging looking ot them • V **

to the inexpressible disappointment <>f u- starving and freezing men, they siifl.fi ()^ dictates of compassion, hoisted sail aim ti uc] 1) abandoned them to their late.

BALTIMORE, September 3. Extract Jrom the Schoorur Rtsolution^ Jr

B ok, Thoa. Jlutm, mutter, from Btiiimlrt bound to Chariot*on, S. C.

Munday. July 20, I812 Moderate breezes and hazy ; at 11 \

Patuxent bore W N W. distai ce 4 1^,,* at 2 P. M. was fired at by a sn ail sch^,, whic h piovcd to he the Hornet, Gpt. rpj((s Frost, who immediately boarded ns withflfl* men i.rmcd with cutlasses, and two ofiiars who, after < summing the papers ordered \\i halt hes to be opened ; they then 1 ailed t|Q privateer and a*k'd ]>< rmiss on ol Cupt. Fiost to open the main hatches, vvl ieb he cm s nt-^ to. He then came on bon d himself and g4,ye the Capfain much abusive language,\\veaun* he would follow the schooner to her <!estii,((i port (Charleston); lie then went on board unj continued all the afternoon backing and fillii ^ and sailing round us with criuu and life pU* ing the tune ot Yaiikee doodle.

Tufsday, July 31. Commenced with vnocleiaie Inciz's ?t \T,

E. standing down the bay in company wit;, a small sc hr.; *»t 9 A. M. h.iuled in f<»r X vV.

Point Comfort, at mericJhn the light-hoot bore North,.at 2 P. M. came too in Severn li- ver with the small Bower and the Cupt. went » nshore; at 3 P M the priwteer ptssed clone along side, when Cupt. Frost called out

saying, you have the bloody fl*g filing, allud- ing to a small red fly at the niiz n ti-p-o avt In ad, the mate answered, ves, >.ir; he tkeri said, damn you I will puil it d >vii for you; immediately after his boat with f ur mrn ai d rwo officers came on board, one a rapt. Sellars, the other not known : they said they wi heel to count tfir flour «n deck and in the cabin, aw] immediately began breaking up the tiers;tba m t i< Id him he exported the would inwall they broke cir, at wl ich lie fl w in a great pa | *»ion, using mut h abusive language, swaaihg he would see her Kelson, kc. lie then went on board the privateer, but ret it red in a few minutes, accompanied by Capt Frost and Mr. Y azer, all of them very much intoxicated; ii coming along side Capt. ILost observed, il there w, s any ecu.age < n hoard he would soon cool it down, he then jumped on deck (‘•’low ♦ d 1 v the re>h one < f whom had i» air o1’ p at 1 ; Cap. F 04 tlen challenged the mate to go on s tore and fight linn will) p .*

tols, and began to shove him round the drek, • epcating the cl al'engc m goon horc.or fi*<ht him across ; fio ir ban 1 -tl c m te then said be vvoul I go on shore and fig! t him. provided ;>e would go with only their two friei te; dur-

ing this time, he scut a m T t> the mast head o haul the fly d >w ,J’'ul fi d ng the n.a'c was

illing to fight him, he oideied it t«> be lioist- d up again, saying damn me where is your um and water, which the stew<id iaumdiate- v got for him ; after tak’ng a stifi ulass, he

reeled to the gunwale, anil got in Ins hoat.or- • cring his officers and crew to follow, which

they acc' 1 finely did TllOS. AUTENT, NICHOLAS OWINGS, Ataf. J Ci \V. GARDNER, fastener. \V- LOPEZ, Vu avenger.

h;s JAMES X DAVIS, Pilot.

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Norfolk. August 29. fl JVOTHRR AA>IZIL I

The sh*p Tom Hazard, German, forty if)nr I J lays from Liverpool hound to Baltimore. 'VIth l|

a valuable crrigo of Diy Goods, Hanhv^f, 11 kc. tv us carried into Hampton Roads last c- 11

veiling by the pi lot b»»at privateer Hre Lon,fb 9 capt- Barrett. She was taken oil the Captsl i yesterday morning. | —n ■■« ^ nn ■prgrrjrr/ jg u ■* — I 'f|

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