Norfolk Gazette And Publick Ledger

We understand that the president of the United States in his letter of May 6, addressed to the Governors of Orleans, Georgia, South Carolina, Massachusetts and New Hampshire, (referred to in Mr. Gallatin's letter of instructions) observes, That the evasions of the preceding embargo laws went so far towards defeating their object, and chiefly by vessels clearing out coastwise, that congress; by their act of April 25, authorised the absolute detention of all vessels bound coastwise with cargoes, exciting suspicions of an intention to evade those laws; that there being few towns on our sea coast which cannot be supplied with flour from the interior country, shipments of flour become generally suspicious and proper subjects of detention : that Orleans is one of the few places on the sea-board, which need supplies of flour by sea, or its own consumption ; and that in order it may not suffer by the cautions we are obliged to use; the president requests of his excellency, wherever he deems it necessary, that his present or any future stock should be enlarged, to take the trouble of giving his certificate in favour of any merchant in whom he has confidence, directed to the collector of any port, usually exporting flour from which he may choose to bring it, for any quantity which the governor may deem necessary for consumption, beyond his interior supplies, inclosing to the secretary of the treasury at the same time, a duplicate of the certificate, as a check of the falsification of the governor's certificate; and that in this way a supply of the real wants of our citizens may be supplied, and at the same time those wants may be prevented from being used as a cover for the violations of the laws by unprincipled adventurers. (Enquirer.)