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- PLAISTOW LODGE, NEAR BROMLEY. KENT. ELEGANT H011:•EHOLD FURNITURE, CAPITAL BM LIARD-TABI .E,FINE FRENCH GLASSE , ONE NOBLE PLATE, 112 by 66, FRENCH CLOCKS, CHANDELIERS, TRIPODS, PAINTINGS BY ESTEEMLD MA'S! EPS, and variou- Effects.belonging to the Estate of the late PETER THELLUSSON, Esq. pursuant to an Order of the HIGH COURT of CHANCERY, and with the approbation of SAMUEL COMP FON COX, Esq. one of the Maine's in the said Court. To be SOLD by AUCTION, by Mr. ROBINS, On the Premises, pi -An - row LODGE, b2lween Lewisham and Bromley, in the County of KEN I% on Monday, the 29th of January, and following Day, at F.levol u'Clock : 'J'HE FURNITURE ; comprising capital four post and other bed.btads, with dimity. cotton, and stuff furniture', prime stat'sned feather boils and he Itlirg, of strions descriptions, DRAWING-ROOM SUIT OE SILK FU K NI TURN:, In whadow.curtatns .eofas, chairs, Ste.; NOBLE BRIL LIANT FRENCHI/LASiES, One ONE HUNDRED AND TWELVE BY SIXTY-SIX ; Tuikey. Brussels, Wilton, and other carpets, WELL-FINISHED CABINET' ARTICLES OF ALL DESCRIPTIONS, in satin wood, mahogany, /cr.. libstry bookcases, A CAPITAL FULL-SIZED BILLIARD-TABLE, WITH MACES, QUEUES, &c. variety of furniture for me: wants' apartments, kitchen r: quisites, a mangle, garden lilts and tools, and various effect'. . , . To be viewed Friday and Satnyday preceding the Sale,. by Catalogues, which may be !•ad on the Prvmises, at One Shilling each; and of Mr. Robins, Warivick-street, Gulden-vinare. 4MERICA. _ NEW-YORK, iiOVEMBER to. - - In the Colombian of yesterday evening, and in the Morning Post and Mercantile Advertiser of to-day, is published a solemn deposition, taken before the Re corder of our city, by one John Aikins, stating that he was an impressed American, with two. other Americans, on board the Little Belr, when the en counter took dace. between ha and the President-- & that the Little Belt fired first ; that among the num -ber killed was an Amainn named Robert Howell, who was impressed from the brig Martin, from Mar tinique ; that Howell, when dying, requested a Mr. Wheeler, now in this city, to take a ring from his finger, and a lock of hair, which was plaited, and hung round the neck, and give them to a certain per.. son, from whom he had received them, &c.—that there were about twelve Americans on board the .Lit tle Belt, who objected to go to quarters when the ac tion commenced, because it would he to fight against their brothers—but that• Capt. Bingham answered, if they refused he would try them by a Court-martial, and put them to instant death as mutineers, &c. . • For the present let it suffice to inform the public, that the following facts have come to our. knowledge • in a manna that enables us to say they may be re- ' ceived with implicit confidence : • John Aikins, th! deponent„ is not an American, but a Canadian, and was born in Canada. Ile was never on board the Little Belt, nor either of the two men (Blanchard and Fries) whom he says were pressed at the same time that he was, until taken from the ship Traveller, belonging to this port, a vessel which was captured by the Llife Belt, long after the en gagement with the President, on her way from Ha lifax to England, on board of which, at that time, Aikins, Blanchard and Fries, were sailors before the past Mr. Randolph, in a late debate, di , claimed all idea of wanton attacks on foreigners. Some of his most. valuable friends were men who bad emigrated to this country since the Revolution. He said he had re . (mac(' to the imported patriots of the present day..;-• He was glad to find the Gentleman from Pensyl-' vania had confined his commendations of Tom Paine to the Rights of Man, without bringing in thel Age of Reason. For his own part Mr. R. said, tho ideas of Tom Paine and the devil were so intimately associated in his mind, that he could not think of the one without recalling the other—nor did he believe that the Washingtmu or Hancock; of this country, required to, be Spurred to resistance by an English stay-maker ; the Rettolution would have gone on, without him. If the gentlentan from Pensylvinii' was disposed to deify Torn Paine, he should not join in the worship. Mr. R. expressed his unwillipgneis to encourage tanigration from the old States, esm chilly at this important crisis. He hoped we shonld take care of ourselves first, and of the people on the )dissouriafterwards. WOVE:ABER 26. . . Something important may be expected by the next British packet, as a messenger has beets dispatched to this city by Mr. Foster, to wait her arrival, Within, %ructions to loss no time in returning to Washington with the dispatches by the packet. . - Count Pahlen , late Min ister to the United State' ,from Russia, we understand, presented his letters of secall to.the President on Thursday last aunt is -I;nderstood that be will sliortly.lea„yethis country, foe the Brazils, in quality of Minister fintp his Sover eign to the Court-of Portugal. , On the next day bC Andro.de Daickhoff Oreifnt4 . l ad to the President his letters of credence as Minisier rlintipotentary and Envoy Extraordinaryft - vile:the Emperor of Russia,to the Un ited States of Amvta. Mr. Ellisben is his Secretary ; and his rimers's* jr Consul-Clener aVene leain, is M. Kozloff. _ . On the modem of Mr. Milner, it was xstiobad the American House ri Representatives,' on the dStli ult. that a Committee should be appointed toenquire whether any, and what amendrnents•rwsre-needisary: to the laws of the United States relating to-thenpro. tection of American seamen.. Mr.-Milner said, - that the Act for the Relief of American seamen, made it the duty of the Collectors to furnish certificates of ci tizenship in the manner thereia directed but owing to an error of Congress, no manner was prescribed, and, of course, the Collectors had laecn left to accept gulch proof as they deemed sufficient, or to act under the diivctions of the Secretary of the Treasury, which, in %Out instances, was an unsafe way.. of proceeding. tfti-penal laws of the United States provide no pia _ )Ih/intent for the crime of perjury in these cases.. A 'recent instance, Mr.'M. said, had occurred in the dis trict which he reprrisented. An Italimt, not 20 days in the country, appeared before a Notary Public, el .timing the rights of an American seaman. He made the necessary oath, and produced a sponsor, who swore that he was born in Baltimore. The tongue of the man detected the falsehood, The Collector had both seaman and sponsor apprehended. The attorney for the district looked into the case, but found the law Vriis defective, and that the offence was not per j• The Attorney-General confirmed this opinion ; the offenders, therefore, escaped punishment. • Official Census of the United States, for 1810 Grand total 7,239,903, of which the slaves amount 1.9...y910641 have lately arisen between the Government and its allies ; but the only cause explained is, that the Bd. lIATABURGH, DEC. 11. tish want to deprive the King of his regal dignity.— At the fete of his Majesty the Emperor and King, Thus the State sees itself, by not attending to whole a discourse suitable to the occasion was delivered in some Councils, reduced to a condition of absolute the Catholic Church. A collection for the relief of dependence. the poor was at the same time made, at which two " All the Nobility, opposed to the views of Eng ot the lades of the Chief Functionaries presided, ! land, have been put into confinement, and some pub- Presents were also made to the necessitous. I licly executed. Trade, (through the despotism of His Excellency the Prince of Eckmuhl, Governor- England,) is permitted only to a privileged faction ; General, assembled in his place the principal civil; and all articles bear an enormous price. land military functionaries. His Excellency gave thee, wUnder these circumstances, it is impossible not following toast r—e To Napoleon the Great. The Ito foresee that the time is fast approaching when a anniversary of the coronation of our well-beloved So- i yevoletion shall take place in Sicily. It is impossi vereign reminds us of the day which fixed on an that the loyal natives, who are very numerous, moveable basis the prosperity aed happiness of his should longer endure such complicated miseries.— people." This toast was received with that eirthu e l,We know it to be a fact, that between the 22d and siasm which the enunciation of .a grand truth always 2541 of October not less than 500 persons, some of produces. I them connected with the Sicilian 'Government, took That the poor might participate in the public joy, • flight, and arrived in small boats °lithe coast of Ca the city provided a lottery, the prizes in which con...labrin• sisted of eatables. I "We cannot believe that the - Neapolitans, who This fete, offered us a new and most interesting ! cantemplate the natives of Sicily not only as country spectacle.Admissions to the three theatres of this cityl men but• as brothers, can behold the barbarity of were free. About 4000 spectators, without distinction,/ England without indignation ; we know they feel for of sex or age, passed the evening in the most agree- them, and will soon, with the guidance of FROVI. able manner, abet- formed the most ardent vows fon OEN"' attempt their deliverance.'" 'the life of a Monarch, who seeks only the happiness Peteriburgh, November 16. and prosperi t y of so many people' in his vast empire. " Dispatches have been receivedfrom the Com- The greatest order reigned throughout the city. The ~ mender in Chief of the Army of Moldavia,' which joy was general. An active and well.organized pre. communicate the pleasing . news of further successes lice ed no offence to punish. Heaven even seemed .,l against the Grand Vizier, and that the latter bad l stied for-an armistice, for the purpose of arranging a to favonr, by the finest weather, a fete, which involvet so mnall.glAy. treaty of peace. It is remarked; that every day the inhabitants or Lieutenant-General Markoff has been appoilit.: ed a Knight of the second class of the Order of St. this country. become more and mere attached to the n existing order. of things, which has already caused Cromle." them.to enjoy the good administration and the insti:l ,tutions which will immortalize the reign of Nspolecq ' ',the great, as much as militiry prodigies. The towns and.villages of this department rivalled the large cll.: ties in duly celebrating the fete of the coronation. HAMBURGH, DECEMBER 6. • 1. ORDINANCE,. " We, the Governor-General of the Hanseatic de partments, having seen the reports which have been made to us by the Special Council of the Customs; considering that, for the purpose of annihilating fraud in its last retreats, it is important to take measures relative to the cockers or discharges which have been issued by the Imperial Customs, in the proportion of the colonial produce actually existing on the territory of the empire, and imported from Helstein, confor mably to the decrees of October last ; considering, also, that the retail sale of colonial pr!oduce cannot be permitted to wholesale merchants, and that the • continuance in their hands of the above discharges affords means of nourishing fraud, by substituting through means of the said discharges merchandize fraudul,ntly entered or not declared, in the room of those that have been already consumed ; ordain as follsiws Art. 1. All discharges and acts of cession with re gard to colonial product:, for what quantity soever, gall be placed in the Custom-house, along the whole extent of iheline of its inspection. ‘4 , 1 L In effectuating the deposit prescribed in the pre ceding article, the merchants shall be bound to make 'declaration of the qu intity and quality of produce which still remains in their nossession, such declaras - don to be endorsed on the papers. 3. Reckoning from Dec. '2O, 1811, all discharges not deposited in the Custom-house shall'be considered as null and of in effect, and the produce which they represent Shah be liable to seizure. 4. When a merchant shall have ceded all or part of his stores to another merchant, he shall be bound to make known the same, that the administration may ascertain that the stores are carried over to the . books of the person to whom the transfer is made. -.5. The present ordinance shall be enforced through - eitit the whole line of customs, and transmitted to the 'special •counca of customs for its publication and execution. (Signed) 11,13eelial Prince of ECKMU HL (A true Copy) ROMEUE, General of Brigade. lisinhur o li, Nov. MI, 1511. CORSOIIR, NOVEMBER 27. A convoy, consisting of two ships of the line, one frigate, two brigs, and an armed ship and 41. mer chantmen, anEhored yesterday morning before Wre sen ; they sailed early this morning, and are now out of sight. The ships above alluded to have since arrived off Gottenburgh. The General commanding the French troops at Kid is dead, and has been succeeded by another of ficer who is suspected to be yet more hostile to trade than his predecessor. 11,1111317R^11 PAPERS. " Copenhagen, November 26. a The severe measures adopted by our Govern ment to prevent the introduction of colonial products and other prohibited goods, continue to be augmented by tlte necessary dispositions to prevent all fraud on the sea coasts. “ On the 17th inst. two enemies fleets passed Shaa gin, one of which entered the Cattegat, and the other took the direction of Ternores and Anholt. " Bremen, November 15. Thirty-three ships, laden with corn, proceeding from Cuxhaven, 9n the 11th inst.- entered the Weber, and the following day . set sail fa Holland." THE EVENING MIL LONDON. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 26. HOLT NucleusTs.—Holiday at all the Public Offices. ..We have authority to state, that both Houses of Parliament will proceed to the dispatch of business immediately on their meeting on the 7th of January. No adjournment whatever, the usual holidays except ed, will take place until the business of the Session is ended. They Captain of a Spanish brig which arrived at Plymobth 'a few days ago, trom.Corunna in eight days, states, that the UNICORN, lass, and Suavats, LANTZ frigates sailed thence two days previous to his leaving that place; and that it was there reported that those vessels were gone to St. Sebastians, in order to make an attack on the batteries and two French frigates, then lying there. Dublin Papers of Monday last, which arrived this Morning, contain the following important comma. nication : " DUBLIN, DECEMBER 23. " ARREST OF LORDS FINGALL AND NETTERVILLE I AND DISPERSION OF THE CATHOLIC COMMITTEE: ss A few minutes before twelve o'clock this day, Counsellor HARE, a Police Magistrate, entered the Theatre, Fishamble-street, where the Catholic Com mittee were assembled, and took his station beside ,the Chair, which was prepared for the reception of Lord FINGAIL. gg At two minutes after twelve his Lordship ar. rived, and, upon the motion of Counsellor HeSSEY, seconded by Counsellor O'CoNNELL, he was called to the Chair. 64 Mr. HARE was about to address Lord FINGALL when Lord NernutviLLE stood up and moved, that the Catholic Petition.be now read ; which was secon ded by Counsellor Q'Goassaw. A~irBOLT -112 NOTE 07 tHS MAJESTY Tire EMPEROR TO THE STADT HOLDER OF LOWER AUSTRIA. FL “ Vienna, November 11. a Mr. HARK now addressed himself to Lord Fm. (taLt,---$ bit Lord FINGALir t I beg to state, what thy object is in earning to this meeting. As Chairman .of this meeting, I have to inform you that I come here as a Magistrate of the City of Dublin, by direc tions of the Lord Lieutenant, his Excellency having been informed that this is a meeting of the Catholic Committee—composel of the Peers, Prelates, Coun try Gentlemen, and the persons chosen in the diffe rent parishes of Dublin. I beg to ask you, as Chair man of this meeting, if that be the case, and what is your object ?' " Lord FINOALL-Sir, we are assembled here for a legal and constitutional purpose. " Meet High-born• Lord, • " Hearing from our Ministers that in various parts of the territories, by us placed under your immedi ate controul, complaints have been made by the Corn. minders of some troops of our August Cousin the e . Emperor of the French, that all proper conveniences and necessaries had not been afforded to them, on -their way to various parts of the frontiers ; and feel ing the many obligations we have experienced from his Majesty the Emperor of the French ; we have thought it necessary to notice these matters, in order that you may direct your subordinate officers to give free passage to such troops, and to grant them the proper supplies on their journey. 44 You will communicate this our will and pleasure to whom it may concern, and take care that it be car ried into effect ley ail direct and indirect means. (Signed) " FRANCIS. " 41 We understand that in a short period his Ma jesty the Emperor will return to Presburgh." ..Antwerp, November 26. ig Mr. HAas—Allow me to observe that this is not an answer to my question ; perhaps you did not distinctly hear me—l ask, is it a meeting of the Ca tholic Committee, composed of the Peers, Prelates, Country Gentlemen, and others in the City of Dublin ? " Equipments for 20,000 infantry and '2,000 ca.' valry have arrived here, and many other preparations seem making." 4 ' Naples, November 14. 4i All the intelligence we receive from Sicily is de rived either from the prl..ioners taken b,y our sailors, or from deserters Ofor the Journal of the island, (as much Engli s h as Sicilian,) contains nothing positive as tq the real state of affairs. We are certain that the most serious disputes " Lord FISMALL-I certainly do not feel myself bound to give you any other answer—We are met for the sole legal and constitutional purpose of petitioning. " Mr. HARE.—My Lord, I ask you as Chairman of this meeting, in what capacity are you met ? " Lord ForoALL—We are met fiir the purpose of petitioning Parliament. " Mr. HAan—My Lord, that not an answer to my question. I speak deliberately stud di s tinctly in order that every person may hear and ul.derstand me.—( Here some little confusion occurred ov.ing to _metal persons speaking together.) Mr. HARE, I lope I have leave to speak, (hear, hear the magi. strate from several persons.) I beg leave to ask your Lordship again, is it a meeting of the Catholic Committee, constituted by the Catholic Peers, Pre lates, Country Gentlemen, and the persons appoint ed In the different Parishes of Dublin 0 Lord FINGALLI am not aware that I can give you any other answer, than that which i have al ready given. ". Mr. HARE—Then my Lord ye n r.answer is, that you ate a meeting of Catholici assembled for a legal and constitutional purpose. " From several voices-No. No, there was no ar.- I#er given in such tests. *" Counsellor O'CoNxet.r.--It .is a most unusual thing for any Magiitrate to come into a public meet. ing to catechise; to ask questions and put his own con struction upon the answers (hear, isear.) " Mr. liAfte—My Lord, am I to understand that you decline answering me fully, what inciting you are and the purpose of tour meeting ? 66 Lord Ftwom.r.z.-We are met far a ' and constitutional purpose. Ir Mr. It haar,--I . viith to be disiinetly nodentood I have'addreased your 'Lordship explicitly, twa us' three times. AA -I to understand that you will givo• • no other answer to my questiOn •Do you give no other answer—( Here some confusion arose in conse quence of several persons . speaking together—some crying out ,to have the Petition read—others calling on Mr. Hay..-and.others iequiring silence, for the purpose of hearing Counsellor HARE).. "Mr. HARE—Idy Lori Fttiosa.t.,..l addressed my. self to you so distinctly, that I thought my question could not be mistaken. I consider your declining to give me a direct answer, as an admission that this is the Committee of the Catholics of Ireland. " CounsellorO'Coamett.-.4 beg leave to say,that as what passes here may be given in evidence, the Ma. gistrate has received a distinct answer to his ques- tion ; and it is not for him to distort any answer he has received into a mean'ng of his own-.lse is to take words in their literal signification. . Mr. HARE—My Lord, I consider your refusing to give any other answer, as an admission of the fact, of this being the Catholic Committee. " Counsellor O'CoNset.t.—Sir, if you please to tell Gentlemen such is your belief, it is of no consequence to us : we are not to be bound by your opinion. . . " Mr. HARE—This is an admission of the fact that this is the Catholic Committue—and I consider your Lordship's refusal—(Here the meeting was inter rupted, by the confusion incidental to a number of persons speaking together.) Mr. HARE—Does your Lordship deny that this is the Catholic Committee ? " Counsellor FINN—No, no : my Lord Fingal' lia.s not given you either admission or denial. " Counsellor O'Constau.-.We do not want the Gentleman's assistance to make out meanings for us. Let him not imagine that the character of this Meet ing can be affected, or that he can bind this Meeting by any assertion he thinks proper to make. 64 Mr. HARE.--Thell I repeat that your Lordship's refusal to givo me a direct answer, is an admission that this Meeting is the Catholic Committee, and as such it is an unlawful assembly. " Counsellor O'CoExam.—Mr. Hare is now speak ing in his Magisterial capacity, therefore whatever he says give it attention. " Mr. HARE—My Lord, I say that this is an un. lawful assembly, and as such I require it to disperse. I beg leave to say, that it is my wish to discharge my duty in as mild a manner as possible. I hope that no resistance will be offered, and that I need not have recourse to those means with which I am entrusted fur tlae purpose of obliging the meeting to disperse. " Lord PuicsAsa.--it is not our intention to do any thing improper, or to act in resistance to the laws of the land—but it is my determination not to leave the Chair, until I am obliged by some person to do so, in order thai I may bring my kgal action against the person who shall remove me. • • " Mr. HARE—My Lord, I shailrentove you Oat of the Chair, and in doing so it will be an actual arrest. [Here, as might be naturally expected, some con. fusion arose, in consequence of a noise in the gallery. which, we are informed, was occasioned by Police Constables.] " Mr. Hans—My Lord, if you'll have the g00..1- suss to leave the Chair, that is a legal arrest. " He then took Lord Futaau. by the arm, and gen tly pushed him from the Chair. 66 On the motion of Counsellor O'Gottatite, se conded by Dr. LUST, Lord NITTIAVILLI was imme diately called to the Chair, from which he was re moved by Counsellor HAae, in the same way that he had put Lord FINOALL out of it. " There was, then, an universal cry for Lord FYRINCH to take the Chair. His Lords Gip, who is in a, bad state of health, either had not arrived or was not within hearing of those who called him to the Chair. di The Hon. Mr. BAIINVIALL was then called to the Chair ; but before he had uken it, Lord Fraawcu arrived, and was proceeding to his post, when, .it the recommendation of Sir Enw. BaLt.aw , and at about half-past twelve_ o'clock, tbo Meeting die-