Star. — London, England, 1807-12-29 00:00:00

AIIERICA, BRITISH COURAGE .DISPLAYED. . COPY of a Letter from Mr. William Rogers, Mt ing Car3l6 of the Windfor Caftle Packet, to Captain Sutton of Falmouth DEAR SIR, Cathie Bay Oa ober 4, t 807. I am vary happy to inform you of our arrival at Barbadoea, af ter 36days paffage, on the t ft day of 04tober. In latitude of 14 :to. N. lorgitude r;•.30. we fell in with a French privateer la Gurie ; after two hours adim, the (truck to the Windfor Caftle. We bad 13 killed and wounded; the pri vateer sy killed and wounded. I have been and got a Proteft for the Ship's damages:—all the main rigging is (hot away, the wizen ditto, main malt and mixcu malt—if 1 can fifh the rhino matt ann main yard until I get to Antigua,l will; all the main and nnien channel is toot away, with her long 24-pounder ; our fails are very.much damaged. We have had a great fatigue for thefe four days, in having fu many prifoncrs on board, and only having t t of us to guard 56. She is the crack fchooner out of Guadeloupe, mounts Ili long 6 plunders and one long 24 pounder, too men; when we boarded her, the decks were covered with killed and wounded. We (hall not he able to fall fur this week to come. The Prince Ernea packet failed the day before we arrived. I will write by afhip that fails ne;t week bow we get on. KILLED. Joreph Bell man, carpenter. Thomas lltinpy,feaman. S Wills. WOUNDED. Mr. Morphew, mailer, in the back. Thomas Hatcher, feaman, dangerous, through the thigh M. Tregening, fail maker, through the leg John Thomas. feaman, dangerous, through the arm ohn Rogers, feaman, in the forehead William Bosse, feaman,through the arm George Trewilliati, feaman, leg and arm Samuel Odgers, do.loft his left finger at the wheel William Rebers, faunae, dangerous, through the breaft and out through the back George Thomas, feaman, Rightly I am, Sir. your obedient humble Servant, To Capt Sutton, Falmouth. WM. ROGERS. Few Inftances have occurred in the annals of Great Britain, in which greater courage has been difplaycd, than by the CREW of his Majefty's Packet the WINDAOR CASTLE, who regardlefs of thernfelves and their fanatics, and bearing in their minds the ever memorable exprellion of the immortal NELSON, " That England expedls every man to do his duty," gallantly defended their veffel from the attack of a fuperior force, which after a fevere salon of two hours, they captured. The period in which fuch a fignat difplay of BritiCh energy and courage has been made, eat. i not but excite the attention and liberality of the Public, eft*. eially whets it is recollated, that there is rot (however much it ' may be regretted) any adequate uational provilion for the relatives o f thole who die, or for thofe wh' are wounded in the defence of his Majefty's Packtts--this esnfielcration has induced a private individual to open a fubferipti on for WM. ROGERS, the aeling Captain of the Wltnlfor Cagle and Crew, and for the Relatives of thole brave men who fis nobly fell.ia this action. It is prefumed the Country will truly appreciate the bravery and difinterefted nefs of the Crew of this Ship. and fliroulare others to follow their (visited example, by actively promoting and giving 'Wed to this Subfeription. for ..vhich books are opened at Lloyd's Coffee book, and at Meffrs. limes Dixon, Young and Dixon's, No. 50, Fen church ftrect, London. The following Fuhferiptiona have been already received: Thomas Hugh.:s s . 5 Meffrs. Giles and Hen- John Tunno 5 5 nings 5 5 Sir R. Neave, Bart 5 5 MeffrsAgular,Diai& Co 5 5 James Mangles 5 5 Kenfireoo, Styan and Cu 5 3 Captain Goodall, Comman- J. Robley and Co 5 S der of the Young RoLius 5 5 Daniel H. Rucker 5 5 JoLn Daniel S 5 Meffrs Mitchell and I.;p- Manning, Anderdon and ham S 5 Bafanquet s 5 Meffrs Ne!fon 8c Adam 5 5 Bodelington and Sharp .5 3 Meffrs A. and D Cock 5 .5 Siinon Cock S 5 Marrs F. and W. Curtis, Oliver and Gilbee 3 S Clarke and Co 5 S Meffrs T. and IL Brown 5 5 I Briekwood, Daniels &Co 5 3 rvlackarzie and Glcnnie 5 3 Hoare, I!-Ienetts and Co 5 3 John Blackburn 5 5 (Meffrs R. Curling &Co 5 3 juft;nian Caramaj ir 55 G. and A. Young and SIMS 5 5 Samuel and Clarks Tur. I Me ffrs Clarke and Anfled 5 5 per s 5 I Mars Wom:bridge, Dyer Plummer and Parham 5 5 I and Co 5 5 Nasbaotel Atchefon 5 5 Mr Sheriff Phillips z - z Thomas Kini 5 . 5 Me firs Woolf and Co t s Matters of City of London M. G. 1 1 Tavern 5 5 I Robert Brift:ov s S Marrs Jacks & Browell 5 5 Mr WM. Peat fm z a MAN j Pollard &Co 5 5I Mr Cm. Lyall I 1 Mats Hale, Mollard &Co Mr Deacon I r London Tavern 5 5 Darby and Hilton 5 S Mills Jof Dowfon & Son 5 5 George Blackman 5 5 Meffrs j Dixon, Young I Wiliam Barnes S 5 and Dixon 5 5 I Samuel & Beefton Long 5 5 James Dix an 5 S I rhos Pickford, jun 5 5 IVleffrs Hodfun & Hayter 5 5 I I 'bos GWen & Son 5 5 Meffrs G R and W I Benj & Ab. Goldfmid 5 5 Hi bb ert 5 5 Vaux Brothers $ 5 Mars Rymer, M'Tag- I John ShAnarer, Barton &Co 3 5 gart and Co 5 5 Wm derfoo 5• 5 Mt firs Blache Se Kemble .5 5 Wm Maffan 5 S NIA . , b Moreon & Forfters• 5 I Sir R Harding. Bart 5 o Men, Walkers, Maltby Capt J. M.Dm.ald 5 5 and Co 5 5 J. D. (of Enfield) 5 5 ?Virgil s Danvers, Clarke, Gdding and Son 5 5 • and Co 5 3 Printer of Public Ledger 1 1 11.orras 014 S 5 Eater, Lubbock &Co 5 5 Capt George Faith 5 5 Wedderbtirei and Co 3 5 1 oho Blacket 5 5 Lang, Turing and Co 5 S homer Edwards 5 5 `David Lyon 5 5 1.1.1 T limfon,Wright&Co 5 5 Wm Vatighan 5 5 George' Bridr.s 5 5 Bolan luet, Beachcroft, Mears Leech and Dalli- and Co 5 5 mete 5 5 Wm Knowlys 5 5 James Broaellitirft 53 I John Julius Angerflein 5 5 Meffrs J. Cates & Sons 5 5 I Lord de Duntiativille 5 s Meirrs *rya s, Dunkley James, Efq as a Syc• and Co. 3 5 I cial juryman 1 o T Tyrrell 5 3 Gatty & Madden 1 2 Cowley, Son & Saneton 5 5 j and it Willis 1 1 H. W. Mortimer, jun 5 o S li. a o Solomon Prole 5 5 sdaritiaduke Tr:.ttle 5 5 Meffrs John Deffell & Son 5 5 I John Watkins, Dittun, • Boak, Storkdale and White 5 5 near Warrington 3 o Rettig, Brothers and Co 5 5 WM Chrittie , 5 Hermanus Vofs, Efq 5 5 rud & Henderfon 3 5 Hazard, Borne and Co 5 5 Sir C Price and Cn S 3 The melt Noble theblar. Mr Under Sheriff Leigb i a qui& lAiradown 5n o I Thom+ hith a s David Pike Watts 5 5 Richard Orman 5 3 Mcffrs Inglis Ellice &Co 5 .5 Nada. Harden $ 5 Sir Philip Gibbs But a, 1 Subferiptions continue to be received. The following are the Names of the Crcw of a c Wiodfor Cattle Packet, as forwarded by Captairr Sutton, of Falmouth, upon the arrival of the Veatl at that Port, to Mr James Dina, of Fe-nclaurch•ftreet-- . William Rogers, Commander 1 -lim n Mint, Mats Roger Haze% Doatfwain ;Lenart Jordan, Gunner George "'hornpipe, Cook Stich Laurance, Able Seaman Edward Truth. ditto Thomas Hayman, ditto Thomas 1 3 -trtio. Able Seaman Edward Martin, ditto Wigiam Tonkin, ditto Joiluta Smbh ditto Jorepil '1 bornas, dem l'hontatt slrukteiiti, ditto Wnr Cherry, 1 Ordinary Sea Woa. Haul, j own. KILLID. /of. Bellman, Carpenter—Mt a Widow and a young Children Thomas Dungy, Able Seaman— a Widow and i young Child Simon Wills, ditto--Father and Mother very poor William Roberts, ditto (died of his wounds)—Dino, ditto WOUNDED. Joreph Morphew, the back Thomas Hatcher, Able Seamau—badly in the knee and arm, and in aliprobability will sever be abk to do duty as a Leaman aotin ; bas a wife and child Michael Tregonning ditto—badly in the kg Jchn Thomas, ditto—loft his arm, and left at the florpitai tuna. roinica ins dangerous Rate; has a wife aids children inhn Rogers, ditto-Lin the bead William Boafe, ditto—in the arm George Trey:Mon, ditto—in the tbigh,witk two Malan balls &mad Odgers, diuo•-tn the finger COMMODORE BARRON. REPORT of the Cover of logyitty airembled on board the United States !hip CHEbaPEAR, in the harbour of Norfolk, and States of Virginia, by the order of the Hon. Reaper SMITH, Secretary of the Navy of the United States, and continued by adjournment from day to day, from Monday the sth day of OEtober, 1837, until WednefiLy the 4th of November, 1807. a. It appears to the Court, that the Unitad States mip Chefs peat, then under the command of James Barron, Big. a Captain in the Navy of the United States, failed from Hampton Road►, on an intended cruize i i the Mediterranean Sea, on the morning of the azi June hit pan, having en board a crew confining of more than 370 men,and completely equipped with every thin necafary for Inch a (hip of war, failing on fuch a cruise. a. It appears to the. Court, that Captain Barron was appointed Commodore of the (hips and velfels thinned for the Mediterranean fervice en the isth day of May lett paft, and hoifted his broad pendant on board the Chefapeak the fire time he came on board of her aftrr her arrival in Hampton Roads, to o it, on or about the 6th day of June left pall. 3. It appears to the Court that Commodore Barron vii ted the Cbefapeak only twice during the period the remained in Hampton Roads, and before he came on board to proceed to lea ; on neither of which occafions did he examine particularly Into her (tate and eihdition. 4. it appears to the Court that the guns of the Che(aprak were never examined before the proceeded to fea—that her crew were quartered but a few days previous to that time, and had never been called to quarters more than three times prior to her failing for lea. _ 3. It appears to the Court, that the (hip was reported to Comm°. dore Barron to be ready for Eta on the 17th day of June, that he came on board on the a tit, and that the (hip failed on the morning of the 7,2 d of June (aft pal. 6. It appears to the Court, that antecedent to the failing of the Chefapeak, there had been received on board of her fome p-rfons who had been claimed by the Britiffi Government as detesters from their fervice, but who were not ordered to be delivered up by the American Officers—That there was alfo a report in circu lation, and generally known on board the Cherapeak, that a threat had been urea by the Captain of the Britiffi (hip of war Melampus to take thefe men front the Cherapeak—That Commodore Barron had full knowledge of the fads that fuck men were on board his fhip—that they had been demanded by the Bridal Government, and had not been delivered up, the Court are perfeCUy fati,fied ; but no pofitive evidence has been adduced to prove. that the report of the threat above mentioned was communicated to aim before his fhip failed. 7. It appears to the Court, that the Clo fapeak. in proceeding from Hampton Road, to fea, palled a Britifh fquaZron at anchor in Lynbaven Bay, who at the time of her patng them were making fignals to each other, which was not only reported to Commodore Barron by one of his Officers, but actually obferved by himfelf. 8. It appears to the Court, that the Britifh flip of war Leopard, of to guns. one of the fquadron then at anchor within the limits of the United States, weighed iminedi.dely after theft fignals were thrown out, and flood to fea. . . 9 ft does not appear to the Court that at this tiate there was any arcticl in fight, or any other objed to induce her to go to fee, but the Chefapeak. to. It appears to the Court, that at the time the Leopard got under weigh, the wind was at 5.5 W. and therefore fair for her to proceed to Ira; but that in of availing berfelf of this to clear the land, fhe hauled by the wind, dole round Cape Henry, and Rood to the fouthward under eafy fail ; thereby Stewing that it was not her intention to get off the land fpeedily. it. It appears to the Court, that after this wind became light and is. Ming, at.d likely to fLift, and came out front the ealtward. that when this happened the Leopard thatened fad and ftentel to the raftward. 12. It appears to the Court. that after this the wiittl mid come out from about Couch fouth eaft,and that the Leopard then hav ing thus got the weather gage, prefaced it, by taking in thorn when the Chefi.peak did fo, in order to rtet off tier pitat, and after the CheLyeak :gain Rood off to the cattward, that the Leopard were and bore down for her. r 3. It appears to the Court, that when the Leopard tacked and Rood in Chore on the fame tack with the Chefapeak, that her Lawer deck ports were all triced up. la. It appears to the Court, that when the Leapt rd run down (or the Chelapeak, the rounded to nn her ft; rboard quarter and to windward of her, and that, at this time, her tampions were out of her guns. £5. It appears to the Court, that Commodore Barron was upon deck, obferving the Leopard, dating the time tilde manoeuvres were pradlifineand thtfe appearances exhibited. 16. That the Court is of opinion that the eircumflances above Rated were in thentfelves fu fufpiclqus as to have furniChed fuffi dent warning to a prudent, &facet, and attentive officer, of the probable (Rhos of a Cali, of war concluded in that way. and ought to have induced Commodore Barron to have prepared his hip for action. efpeclally with the information he poffeffitst of the fituation of hi% clew generally, of thole who had been deman-1 ded by the Britiflt Government particularly, andpof the general Rate of the flip at that time. t 7. It appears to the Court that Commodore Barron neverthe lefs did not order his Chip to be cleared for salon, and that he did not call his men to quarters. tB. It appeara to the Court that when the Leopard came along fide of the Chefapeak, an officer wa. font front her, with await munication from Captain I lumphries. the C a ptain of the Leopardi, to Commodore Barron, which the latter could not and did net rnifunderftand, but very corredtly concluded to be a demand with which he ought not, and could not comply, and one which, if re fuftd, would he enforced, if pollible. zo. It appears to the Court, that although fuch was the fituation and impreffion of Commodore Barron at this time, y‘ t that he did not !till order his Chip to be prepared for netinti, although ample time was allowed for that purpok, the Britifil officer being detain ed on hoard the Chefaptak from 33 to 45 minute.. 20. The Court is of opinion, that the neglet of Commodore Barron to prepare his !hip for aElion under inch ciectuttitances, is a direct breach of the 4th article of the rules and regulationefor the Government of the Navy of the United States, adopted by an Adt of the Cosigrefa of the United States, patted on the 23d day of April, tg..:o, entitled " An A. 51 for the better Government of the Navy of the ,tinted States." 2i. It appears to the Court, that after the Dritifh officer left the Cbefapeak, bea-ing a polltivereits'al from Commodore Barron to the dr:nand which had bent made by Captain Humphries, and after Commodore Barron was biotic!t fatisfied that an attack urea his (hip would be made, he did not take prompt, neceffary, and tfficient ovens to prepare his (hip for battle ; that his firft order was merely to clear his gun deck, and the fecond given,after the Ilapfe of fame time, was to get his men to quarters fecretly, with out beat of drum ; although with (itch a crew as he had on board, and in fuels a fituatien as the Rip then was, it was not to be ex peeked that fuch orders could be effectually accomplifhed. 2s. It appears to the Court that the cantina of Commodore Barron during the attack of the Leopard manifelted great indeci lion, and a difpnfition to negoci'te rather than a determination bravely to defend his (h p; that he repeatedly hailed the Leopard during her attack upon him; that be drew his men from their t ;uns to lowering down boats, to fend on board of the attacking Chip; and that he ordered his hint Lieutenant from his quarters during the attack, to carry a nieffage on board of the Leopard, at that time bring upon him. 23. it appears to :be Court, that during the attack,Commodore Barrou tiled language in pretence of his men, calculated to difpirlt his crew, by ordering tbeni to keep down, or that they would all be cut to pieces 24. It appears to the Court, that Commodore Barron ordered the colours of the Chefapeak to be !truck ; and that they were Bruck, before a fingle gun of any kind was fired from her ; and that at the time the y were fo ftruele, her main deck battery was in a fituation which would have enabled the return of a ,broadfide in a very fhort time. 25. The Court is therefore of opinion, that the Chefaptak was prematurely furrendered, at a time whin flue was nearly prepared for battle, and when the injuries fultained either on the (hip or crew did not make fuch a furrender then. peed rat y ; and that for this Commodore Barron falls under a part of the Si2th Article of the Rules and Regulationt for the Government of the Navy of the [lobed States, adoptedby an MI of the Conrail of the United States, paffed on the sad day of April, £Boc, entitled " An Adt for the better Governmentbt the Navy of the United States." 26. The Court is of oriole°, that although the condo& of Commodore Barron, before and during the attack of the I.enpard, evinced great inattentioh to his duty, and want &Mimi. yet t that during tbat attack be espied his perfon, and di'd not maniicit either by his orders or attions, any pertain! fear, sr want of courage. ay. It appears to the Court, that although the Chefapeak might, and ought m have been better defended than lbe was, yet that Ilse i was not in a Stuatton at the time of the attack made upon her, to have enabled fo gallant a defence being made as might be expeetcd.! Some of her guns were not &comfy fixed In their carriages, Come of her fpunges and wads were too large. but few of her powder horns were filled, her matches were not primed, Tome of tier rammen were not in their proper places,her marines were neither I(applied with enough of cartridges, or were thole which they had of the proper Rae. None of thefe circemftances, however, could I have influenced Commodore Barron in ftrikiog his colours, be mute they were not known to him at the time. ag. The Court is of opinion that the esodudt of all the other Officers of the Blip, except thole whore duty it was to have reme died the acficiencies before Rated, and the crew, generally, was proper, commendable, and honourable. (A true Copy) L. W. TAZEWELL, Judge Advocate. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, NOVEMBER to. DEBATE ON THE BILL, MAKING FURTHER APPROPRIA• TION FOR THS SUPPORT OF THS NAVY. Mr. RANDOLPH Paid he willed to be clearly under- 1 Rood as to the courfe which be thought it incumbent on the executive to have purfued, and confequently to what extent the courfe which had been purfued -met his approbation. He thought Congrefs ought to have been immediately convened on the eaptitt e of the Chefapeak, and our Minillers at London inflantly recalled, after having made an explicit and peremp tory demand of redrefs, and that redrefs too by a Bridal envoy difpatched to the United States for the efpecial purpofe. Congrefs being convened, the na• tion (hould have been put in a pollute of defence, waiting a reafonable time to receive redrefs by an envoy. That being refufed, iu(lant retaliation &could have been taken on tilt offending party. Mr. R. would have invaded Canada and Nova Scotia, and made a decent nn Jamaica. He would have feized on Canada and Nova Scotia, not with a view to their incorporation into our fyllem of Government, bat as pledges to be retained againil a future pacification, until we had obtained ample redrefs for our wrongs. Whilll he held there fentiments he entirely concurred with the gentleman from Pennfylvania (Mr. Smilie) that war was a great evil, never to be reforted to, without a folernn demand of reparation from the offender, and giving him a fair opportunity to make due atonement for else injury or infult which he had, offered : but there was a mode of demanding as wel l as of receiving redrefs. He faid that he fhould for ever protell, wherever it could be poilihly avr ided, and here it might have been avoided, againti expenditure of public money, without the previous fanetion of law. But condemning an expence, and refuting to appropriate money to difcharge it, were different things. A man, for inflance, might highly difap. prove his wife's running up a large account with a merchant, without his knowledge or content, which his honour would neverthelers compel him to pay. Incurring a debt was one thing, and difcbarging it another. 1 1 :r. R. believed it was within the know ledge of many Members of that Houle, that during the late war between France and Er.gland, which was terminated by the peace of Amiens, the extra ordinary expences, that is the expences incurred with nut the knowledge and concurrer:e of Parliament, loch expences as this Bill provides for, exceeded the ordinary or authorized expences during a tingle year of that war, although thefe lath amounted to sear twenty millions fterling! Ought we not then, laid he, to let our faces againll the introduetion of a principle which mull neceffarily lead to confequences fo ruin ous ? Would any man put the additional fecutity which we derive from a few military gores in corn. petition with a violation of the conflitution, in a point too involving the dearefl privileges of that Houle? Whilli he held this language, he was not infenfible to the impending danger, nor unwilling to make efficient provifion to meet it. Let us not, he laid, deceive ourfelves with the idea that we are to have a war of military parade. Sacrifices they would be called upon to make, and he was prepared to meet them• He hoped they would enter into it, if war we mull have, with a full conviainn of its juflice and neceffity, and with hearts refulutely bent to endure 41 its priva tions, and abide by ail its hardfhips. He had on • former occafion laid, that if Great Britain put forth her firtngth, we thould feel it ; the had put forth her 11 , ength, and we had felt it—you feel it now (laid he), in evert , fibre of your heart. It could nut be expected that he fhnuld anfwer infinuations of a Bri. tills party in that Houle, coaling ton from fuch per. fans. Nei her could it be expeeted that he (hould fink into that vile and Supple thing, an humble fol lower ; a pliant tool rf a maim ity, and tacitly dill avow the principles f rr which he contended two years ago. He had then, as far as in him lay, endeavour ed to avert the fituation of affairs which now exifts, and under the fame circumllances he fhould do fo again. It had been laid, that it was idle to retrof peel on the caufes which led to that situation, and he agreed that it was, fo far as related to the foreign uwer, but not as it related to the conchs& of our o Government. It was totally immaterial what were the previous points in difpnte between us and Great Britain. Her conduit had put it cut of our power to look back upon them, to examine into them, had pre cluded all deliberation. We had received a blow, and it was out of the quellion to enter into the me rits of the difpnte which had produced it. To Great Britain the door of difctillion was Phut, was barred, and (he mull knock with the light tap of folicitation before it could be opened to her. But let not Gen tlemen calculate upon throwing the difficulties into which the country was brought, upon thole who had oppofed the meafures of imbecility and irritation which led to them. He could not confent to take upon himfelf any part of the credit which the non importation law conferred upon its fi-spotters, how ever anxious they might be to Share it with him. If the expence of convening Congrefs were to be made a pretext for aEling without its authority, we might as well give the Executive a power of attorney at once to legiflate for us. He fcuuted loch an idea, It would have been better to have convened Con gra; at the expence of half a million, than that a tin gle cent (hould have been drawn out of the treafury without a previous appropriation by law. When the queltion was taken by yeas and nays on the paffage of the Bill—Yeai, 124 —Nays, Meffrs. Hoge, D. R. Williams. THE AFFAIR. OF THE CHESAPEAKE. Wastatuorow, Nov. 17.—Mr. Blount, from a Committee of the Houle of Reprefentatives on a part of the I'l44:lent's Meffage, reported this day on the fubjedt of the attack on the Chelapeake. The report commences with as expraga of fenfibilify at th;s outrage ; (Wes the receipt of information relative thereto from the State and Navy Departments ; pre fents a general view of the circumßances, obferving that it might be raid to have been incontetiibly proved that William Ware, John Strachan, and Dan. Mar. `tin (three of the four perfons taken out of the Chefa peake) are ci izens of the United States; but the Committee add, that they conceive it unneceffary for them nr the Houfe to go into any inquiry on that part of the fubjell, as in their opinion whether the men taken from the Chefapeake, were or were not citizens of the United States, and whether the Che• fapeake was or was not within the acknowledged ' limits of the United States at the time they were taken, the charadler of the att of taking them remains the fame. " From the foregoing Eats, it appears to your Committee that the outrage committed on the frigat e Chefapeake has been Clamped with cirsutnriances of indignity and infult, of which there is fcarcely to be found- a parallel in the hiftory of civilifed nations, and requires only the fanEliun of the Government under colour of whore authority it was perpetrated, to make it jua caufe of, if not an irrefiaible call for, inflant and fevere retaliation. Whether it will receive that fanetion or be difavowed and declared an unautho. tiled at of a fubordinate otßeer, remains to be tie. tersoined by the anfwer which fh.ll be given to the , demand of explanation—that anfwer, now daily 1 expelled, will either fink the detectable ad into piracy or expand it to the magnitude of premeditated hol. 1614 againa the sovereignty and independence of 1 this nation ; and until its true character (hall be , ) fixed and known, your Committee deem it expedient i to decline exprefling any opinion as to the meafures proper to be adopted in retaliation to it. But the Committee add, as other ads of aggreflion have been committed within our ports and waters, fuch as thole mentioned in the Prefident's Mefrage, the Committee are of opinion that it is expedient to provide more effedually for the protedion of our ports and bar. bours; hut not being prepared to report fpecifically on that fubjed, they ask fut eter indulgence of the Houfe, and fubmit the following Refolutron : " litfolved,That the attack of the Britifh Chip of war Leopard on the United States frigate Chefapeake, was a flagrant violation of the jurifdidtion of the United States •, and that the continuance of the Width squadron (of which the Leopard was one) in their waters, after being notified by the Proclamation of the Prefident of the United States, orieting theat to depart the Imre, was a further violation thereof " NovEMBIL 20.—A motion was made by Mr. Williams to adjourn until Monday. This was op poled by Mr. Crowninfhield, who, amrng other ob fervations, faid, 6 , he hoped the Houfe would not lofe two days in the week, when we were perhaps on the eve of a war."—The motion was loft. IN SENATE. EXTRAORDINARY MEASURE. Nov. 24.—Yefierday Mr. Adams from a Commit- tee appointed t.n a part of the Prefident's Meffage, reported to the Senate a Bill for the prefervation of peace and maintenance of the authority of the United States in the ports, harbours, and waters under thei; jurifdidtion, which received a fir( reading. The bill is very long, and contains numerous im- portant details. The outlines ate as follow ; Ir authorifes the Prefident to permit or interdiET, at his difcretion, the entrance of our harbours to all armed veffels belonging to a foreign power, and by force to repel and move them from the fame, except in certain fpecified cafes, in which cafes the laid veffels are to conform to rules prefcribed by the Executive. It further, in crinfequence of she late conduit of the Bata, prohibits the entrance of any Britifla armed veffel into the harbours or waters of the United States, except when driven in by tires of weather, or when charged with difpatches; provided that whenever reparation (hall be made, to the fatisfac tion of the Prelident, for the outrages committed upon the national fovereignty, it (hall be lawful for the Pt-trident to remove the interdiaion. On fuel) veld refuting to depart, the (hall be deemed to have made a hollile invafion of the terr;- tory of the United States, and than be proceeded againfi as an enemy, and may be feized and bronghs in and forfei ed. and (hall accrue wholly to the captors. All pacific intercourfe with fuch veflel is forbidden. The Prelident is authorifed to ufe the land forces and militia to feize Inch veffel. He is alto empowered to refute admitlion to any veffel belonging to the fobjeds of the nation whofe aimed veffel 'hall fo remain in the harbours of the United States. In impowers any perfon or perfons to burn, fink, or defiroy any Inch veffel, for which a bounty of dollars is offered on each guu of Paid veffel. It authririfes the Prefident to carry this Aft into effe&, and fit out all the armed veffels of the United States. BOSTON, Dsc. MOREALT." , —We Utl• derftand that General Moreau, about a week fince, left Philadelphia for the Weiler n Country, it is laid, for New Orleans. His unexpated depart ere and the rapidity with which he has paired on his journey. have excited confiderable euriofity, not unmixed with fufpicion, which feems principally to have atifen from the place to which he is faid to he oinr- One would think that quiet ought 'to ha rellored, and the authority of the laws fuhini On the contrary, infolence and infubor braved all authority until the folliiwing treafon appeared in a French paper printer Or leans. Complaining of the judgment of it is added— " Should there be no other remedy if proved that the Batture belonged to the vioufly to the cetfion, I have no doubt but tier of his Imperial and Royal Mirka) , wil his duty to lay the affair before the Emper general inftruetions do not anthorife the immediate application to the American Got on behalf of the Louifiani.rns. It is well km. the Emperor Napoleon will think himfelf bound and in honour to fee that the treaty of gallon be The Emperor of the French did not cede ht to be devoured by the harpies of chicane, Alexander knows how to cut the Gordiar iniquity. That is what the Greek Americ' for they well know, that milers they cat inquiry, the judgment will Pot avail the vi paper that is Rained with it." The fentiments of indignation, and the excited by the perufal of fuch unparalleled cannot be expreffed. Americans ! remember Prefeft Lauffat, in the very ad of forrcndcrii I )ing. have been initted to. ,ordination climax of :d in Nevi Ithe Com; it can be city ye- t the Mini. ill think it Tnr. if his Minifter's OVCIOIIIeOG sown that and in it ice no violated. his lubjeas ne. That an knot of :ans dread Rifle all value of the reflections d bet that the ' m i n g L^!: