The National Intelligencer And Washington Advertiser

New-York, Aug. 17.

FROM HAVANNA.

We learn by the passengers in the ship Vigilant, Clay, arrived yesterday, that the Governor of Havanna had succeeded in forming a supreme council consisting of the following classes: Nobility, clergy, merchants, planters, and patricians, or the respectable natives of the island. The governor is President of the council. A proclamation had been issued, ordering all Frenchmen not naturalized to leave the island; and several of them came passengers in the Vigilant. They were permitted to take their property with them. The reason assigned for this measure was, to prevent disturbances with the populace, who might have sacrificed them to their fury.

Several British ships of war had put in there with dispatches.

The passengers further inform that reports, via Jamaica (by a smuggler from Cuba), say, that Bonaparte had permitted Ferdinand the 7th to return to Spain—that all the French troops in Portugal had been destroyed: also many of them in Spain. The Grand Duke of Berg requested 120,000 men should be sent to Madrid immediately. The Senatus Consultum had been ordered to call out the conscription of 1810; who refused, and demanded of the emperor the troops already in Spain, and ordered him to Paris:—where some riots had occurred, by pulling down the pictures and busts of Bonaparte, &c. &c. Another report mentioned, that an English fleet had been seen passing Lisbon, with nine sail of French ships as prizes.

Extract of a letter from our Correspondent, dated Havanna, August 1, 1808.

A Col. Williamson, formerly of our state, has arrived in the last vessel, as commissioner on the part of the British government, with dispatches from England, Cadiz, and the governor of Jamaica. He has several other officers in his suite.

San Lorenzo, a 74, is fitting out here to take a commission of three, from thence to Vera Cruz, and Mexico—in which they will probably be joined by the British now here.

Accounts from that quarter lately received, state it to be favorably disposed to the new state of things.

The late news from Europe has exhilarated the spirits of the people here to a height which is shewing itself in a variety of instances. An order was issued the other day for the departure of all the French residents from the island; and the poor creatures are now flocking on board every barque in which they can obtain a passage. Hundreds of them with large families who had been established here in their trades and other useful occupations, caressed by the government whilst Bonaparte reigned, are now driven off with almost savage ferocity. This new alliance with England will not operate much in favor of the United States. They already view you as of no account. Protected by the British they can get their provisions from Mexico, and their merchandize from Spain and England. Two United States Gun-boats, Nos. 65 and 66—put in yesterday on their way to New Orleans, for refreshments. The boarding officer told them they could not come on shore, nor be boarded from the shore till permission from the governor, which was not sent till eight o'clock, and then by a common bomb boat !! I have this from the officers themselves, who have in consequence declined waiting upon any of the officers of the government and after taking some water will sail again to-morrow.

What adds to the aggravation of the above neglect is that the captains and people of two New-Providence privateers, at anchor alongside the gun boats, had been immediately (the day before) permitted to come on shore, and were parading the street with every kind of indecent and noisy behavior.