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, ' ROYAL MILITARY COLLEGE, Juts , 8, 1811. IN conformity to the Resolutions of his Majesty's Commissioners for conducting the affairs of the Royal Mili tary College, that the Appointments of Professors and Masters aball be determined by a compesitioo of Talents, the Governor dotb heteby give Notice, that a Master of Fortification wilt be - wasted at the Junior Departments of the said College at Great Ishrlow, in the County of Bucks. No Person will be approved for the Establishments, whose character will not bear the strictest scrutiny. A Collegiate Bnard of the Royal Military College will be beld at Great MarloW on Tuesday, the 6th thy of August next, for the examination Of the Candidates for the above-mentioned ap pointment. 1 0 ' FROM LAST NIGHT'S GAZETTE. DOWNING-STRUT, JULY 16. • •••m•1••W..,•1- S Plspatch, of which the following is an Extract, was on Sun day received at Lord Liverpool's Office, addressed to his Lord ship by Lieutenant-General Viscount Wellington, dated Qoiuta de St. Joao, 20th June. The enemy moved forward his advanced guard, consisting of about ten thousand men, to Los Santos, on the morning of the 13th. Upon this occasion Lieutenant Streenuwitz, of the 21st Light Dragoons, was sent out by Major-Gene ral Sir William Erskine to reconnoitre the enemy,- with a small detachment of the 2d Hussars and 3.4 Dragoon Guards, which distinguished themselves in an attack upon a superior number of the enemy, and took some prisoners. I had arranged that the cavalry and 2cl and 4th divisions of the allied British and Portuguese army, nod the corps of Spanish troops under General Blake, should collect if the ettemy . should advance to inter rupt the siege or blockade of Badajoz ; and I went to Albuera on that night to superintend the move 'tents of the troops. I also moved, on the night of the 13th, General Hamilton's division from the blockade of Badajoz, with an intention to stop the enemy in case the Army .of the South alone should have moved forward. On the 14th, in the night, Lieutenant Ayling of the 40th regiment, who had been employed to ob serve the movements of the enemy, arrived at Albue ra with the account, that the advanced guard of the enemy's Army of Portugal from Castile had entered Truxillo at noon the 13th, which conErmed the other accounts which I had received of their progress up to the 12th, and as from Truxillo they might have been at Merida on the 15th, and in communication with the Army of the South, I determined to raise the blockade of Badajoz, and that all the allied troops should cross the Guadiana on the 17th. This was accordingly effected without difficulty or loss of any description ; and General Blake likewise crossed with his corps at Juramenha on the 17th. Since that period, the allied British and Portuguese army have been encamped in the woods upon the Caya about Torre de M'atro, having their right upon the Ponte de Caya ; the 3d and 7th divisions and Brigadier-General 14adden's cavalry being in Campo Ilayor. And the troops which had been under the command of L;ete - cnai t-General Sir Brent Spencer on the frontiers of Castile, have crossed the Tagus at Villa Veiha in proportion as the enemy have crossed that river at Almarez. The whole are now upon the Caya, between this place and Arronches, The enemy's advance have appeared in the neigh bourhood'of Badajoz this day, and I conceive that their whole army will be collected to-morrow. The enemy have collected upon this occasion all their force from Castile, their whole force from Ma drid, and what is called their Centre.Army, and *all their force from Andalusia, excepting what is abso. lately necessary to maintain their position before Cadiz, and that held by Sebastiani in the Eastern Kingdoms of Andalusia. The enemy have abandoned Old and New Castile, with the exception of a small garrison in Ma4rid, and have risked every thisg in all parts of Spain, in order to collect this large army in Estremadura. ADMIRAL I Y-OFFICE, JUNE le. A • Cop? of a Letter from Rear-Admiral Sawyer, Commander-10., - Chief ends Majesty's ships and vessels on lbe Coast of North America, to John Wilson Croker, Esq. dated on board the Africa, at Bermuda, the 11th of June. • Silt—lnclosed I transmit to you, for the information of the .Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, a Copy of a Letter from Captain Arthur Bair Bingham,Commander of his Majesty's sloop Little Belt, received this day from Lord James Townshend, Cap tain of his Majesty's ship Bolus, and Senior Officer at Halifax; by which their Lordships will perceive he was attacked on the evening of the 16th May last, when cruizing between Caps Henry and Cape Hatteras, by the United States frigate the Pre eident, of forty-four guns, .commanded by Commodore Rogers; and that after a close action cf three quarters of an hour the American *hip made sail from him. Captain Bingliam's modest, but full and clear statement, ren ders any comment from Me unnecessary; and I have only to admire the extraordinary bravery and firmness with which him self, his officers, and ship's company supported the honour of the British flag when opposed to urea an immense superiority of force. I have, however, deeply to lament the number of valua ble British Seamen and Royal Marines who have been either killed or wounded on this unexpected occasion ; a list of whole games is also inclosed, togither with a Copy of my Order, µoder which Captain Bingham .was cruizing. I have the honour to be, Ste. 4 • H. SAWI LA, Rear-Admiral. His Majesty's Ship Little Belt, May 21, lat. 36.53. N. long. 71. 49. W. Cape Charles bearing W. 48 miles. SIR—I beg leave tcracquaint you, that in pursu ance of your orders to join his Majesty's ship Guer riere, and being on my return from the northward, • pot having fallen in with her, that at about eleven A. M. May 16th, saw a strange sail, to which I imme diately gave duce ; at one P. M. discovered her to be a man of war, apparently a frigate, standing to the eastward, who, when he made us out, edged away from us, and set hi: royals ; made the signal 275, and finding it not answered, concluded she was an Ame rican frigate, as he had a Commodore's blue pendant flying at the main ; hoisted the colours, and made all sail tooth, the course I intended. steering round C,ape Hatteras, the strabger edging away, but out maleng any mice sail. At half past duce he made sail in chart, when I made the private signal, which ' was ne t answered. At half past sis, he gain pd so considerably on us as not to be able to.-elude him during the night, being within gun shot, and clearly discerning the stars in his broad pendant, I irrogined the mote prudent method was to bring to, and hoist the colours, that no mistake might arise ; an 4 that he might see what we were 1 the sliip was therefore brought to,, colours hoisted, guns double ;hotted, gnd every preparation made in case of a sun l rise, his, manner of• steeling down, lie evi dently wished u, lay his ship in 4 position Forsaking, which I b ustrat!ii by we.uing three times{ About a (pang pmt h t l 8 Eallif 401: i 4441 " ' '- ""Nt"" 6.' . PARLIAMENT:IR?' PROCEEDINGS. • and asked what ship it was ? fie reputed my eines. tion. I again hailed, and asked what ship it was ? HOUSE OF LORDS. JULY 16. He again repeated my words, and fired a broadside, . - In the App eal " Menzies V. Beresferd," Sir Samuel Romilly which I immediately returned. Th e action then be. a nd Mr. Abercromby were heard tor the Re l ondent, and Mr. came general, and continued so for three quarters of Adam in reply—Judgment on Thursday. an hour, when he ceased firing, and appeared to be The farther consideration of the Scots' Appeal Cause respect on fire about the main hatchway. He then filled.•p ing Burns's Poems, was deferred till Thursday neat. was obliged to desist from firing , a s the shi p fallin g CI RCULATING MEDIUM. The order of the day was read for the continuation of the de off, no gun would bear, and had no after-sail to keep bate from the adjournment thereof till this day, on the fourteen her to. All the rigging and sails cut to pieces, not a Resolutions presented to the House by Earl Stanhope. brace or bowline left, he hailed, and asked what ship Earl STANHOPE then rose, and addressed the . this was ? I told him : he then asked me if I had House upon the subject at considerable length. The .struck my colours ? My answer was, No, and asked principle of his Resolutions was what he first stated What ship it was ?As plainly as I could understand, to the House. Then came a particular instance, (he having shot some distance at this time) he an- which rendered it necessary to bring in the Bill he swered, the United States frigate. He fired no more had introduced, and which was now before the Com-1 grins, but stood from us, giving no reason for his most mons. The law as it would stand, if that Bill should extraordinary conduct. At day-light in the morning, ITiass into an Act, would avert for a time those great saw a ship to windward, which having mad e o u t well 1 mischiefs which were . daily to be apprehended. It what we were, bore up and passed within hail, fully i would leave open three remedies for the landlord, u prepared for action. About eight o'clock he hailed, before; but it would prevent him from making a di,- and said, if I pleased be would send a boat on board; : tress when Bank-notes were tendered. We had been , I replied in the affirmative, and a boat accordingly brought into a situation, something like a man with came with an officer, and a message from Comma- a number of roads before him, and not knowing dore Rogers, of the President United States frigate, which of them to take. There'were mud and water;, to say that he lamented much the unfortunate affair i and' broken bridges before him; and he knew not (is be termed it) that had happened, and that had he ; how to choose. The Ministers seemed afraid to take known our force was so inferior, he should not have i a direct road, and the Opposition.had no directions to fired at me. I asked his motive for having fired at , give.' He had, therefore, brought them 'to the point, all ? his reply was, that we fired the first gun at him,- and they had begun now to take the right, road for a which was positively not the case. I cautioned both . short way ; but something farther Must he crane, or the officers and men to be particularly careful, and they would soon be overturned. He neverlSoughe not to suffer any more than one man to be at the , hi s Bill perfect. On the contrary, he-bad said, it gun. Nor is it probable that a sloop of war within ' was like a coat made for Humpy. He had been ob pistol-shot of a large forty-four gun frigate should ,lilted to frame it to meet the distorted shape of des commence hostilities. He offered me every assistance law as it stood, and the circumstances of the time.. I stood in need of, and submitted to me that I had He could not possibly look at the dangers-likely to better put into one of the ports of the United States, ensue without alarm. Why was the tenant, . who which I immediately declined. By the manner in produced for their Lordships their rents and their which he apologized, it appeared to me evident, that comforts, to be obliged to bring gold, (w hich, by had he fallen in with a British frigate he would cer- the bye , he could not p rocure) or to pay ank-notes tainly have brought her to action ; and what further ,at a depreciation of four shillings in twenty ? His confirms me in that opinion is, tkat his guns were not j Lordship put a case of a tenant having received such only loaded with round and grape shot, but with every a notice, and going to his landlord, to represent to scrap of iron that could possibly be collected. him his difficulties. " Have I ever failed to pay my I have to lament the loss of thirty-two men killed rent at the appointed time ?" " No, never."— and wounded, among whom is the Master. His Ma- 64 Have I ever cur down the trees, or ploughed up, i jesty's sloop is much damaged in her masts, sails, the gardenc, or injured your estate ?" " No 1".... rigging, and hull, and as there are many shot 64 I have borrowed money, which I have expended' , ' through between wind and water, and many s hots still in improving your land." " You have."—" I," con i remaining in her side, and upper works all shot away, times the tenant, " can't get gold." 66 Then," says starboard pump also, I have judged It proper to pro- the landlord, " you must turn out." What horrible teed to Halifax, which will I hope meet with your injustice would this be ! This landlord would, like approbation. shylock the Jew, in the play, take out his long knife, I cannot speak in too high terms of the officers and and whet it upon the floor, and tell his tenant, 66 I'll men I have the honour to command, for their steady have my bond, I'll have my pound of flesh." Aye, so and active conduct throughout the whole of this bus- he might : but they ought to take care that he should siress, who had much to do, as a gale of wind came not get a drop of Christian blood ! It was clear, that ,on the second night after the action. My First Lieu- forcing tenants to paying gold must have an injurious • tenant, Mr. John Mo'aerly, who is in every respect a effect in raising the prices of all the necessaries of lite : most excellent officer, afforded me very great assis- the butcher, the baker, &c. must all be affected by it. tance in stopping the leaks himself in the gale, secu- His Lordship proceeded to deny the principles that had iring the masts, and doing every thing in his power.— been laid down by so many persons, about gold being, i It would be the greatest injustice was I not also to exclusively the medium of circul ation. .He said speak most highly of Lieutenant Lovell, Second Lieu- that it had been for various reasons so esteemed in Itenant ; of Mr. *Queen, Master, who, as I have be- earlier and infant ages o f c ivilization, .and that it fore stated, was wounded in the right arm in nearly boasted an antiquity bordering on the days of barbale I the middle of the action ; and Mr. Wilson, Master's., rism. Those notions had been received and acted Mate. Indeed, the conduct of every officer and man upon, but did it not follow that they were indisputite• was so good, it is impossible for me to discriminate. I ble ? As civilization had increased, the use of a pa.. • I beg leave to enclose a Eat of the S'2 men killed per-medium had been introdtiCed, which was, in many and wounded, most of them mortally I fear. : case, much more convenient. Yet he heard from I hope, Sir, in this affair 1 shall appear to have done. hundreds, nothing but " Gold, Gold ;" which they my duty, and conducted myself as I ought to have exclaimed like so many parrots or magpies, who had done against so superior a force, and that the honour 4 been taught to say nothing else : but he could hear of the British colours was well supported. I have no sound arguments from thence.' Gold was a fluc the honour to be, &c. (Signed) coating medium in its value,as different circumstances A. B. BINGHAM, Captain. occurred, such as the balance of trade, and course of Return of ()Steers, Petty Officers, Seamen, and Marines, Killed Exchange. A pound sterling, he contended, was and Wounded on board his Majesty's Sloop Little Belt, Ar thur Batt Bingham, 'Esq. Commander, in Action with the can F r i g ate President, the 16th May. CUED. • ;what the law had made it , and n o t bu llion. If h e ' I wanted to measure the length 'and w idt h of that American I house, he should look for a rule of f e e t, or feet di ritr. Samuel Woodward, Midshipman ; Christ. Bennett, Cap- vided into inches; and not for a thermomet er or an y ' tarn of the Foretop; Jacob Greaves , Carpenter's crew ; Thomas thing else that would expand in his hands, or when Shippard, Ganner's Mate ; George Wilson, able seaman ; Robert he came near the fire. Nobody in the kingdom could Liversage, able seaman ; James Grey, ordinary seaman ; Robert Howard, ordinary seaman ; and John Pardon, private marine. misunderstand what was meant by a pound - note .— Let those who complained call county m eetin g s. He WOUNDED. D an i e l Kilbam, landasan, dangerously—died ten hours a fter the would attend in Kent, if one were called , a nd take action ; Richard Coady, ordinary seaman, ditto—died 20 Yours . care to call for the skew of hands on this subject, and after the action ; John Randal, able seaman, dangerously ; Isli- Ihe had little doubt as to the result. The effect of the cholas Manager, Gunner's crew, Acting Master, severely; hunee Dunn (2), Captain of the Main- . ditto ; Mr. James "Qmeens ' system of two prices would even be seen in the com monest ric top, ditto ; James Lawrence, able seaman, ditto • John Richards ! enrrences. Suppose a brewer, for instance able seaman, ditto ; 'Thomas Ives, able seaman, 'ditto ; Michael 1 —he would say, Brewer Whitbread, and why not ? Skinners, landman, ditto ; William Fern, 'boy, ditto ; David Well, Brewer Whitbread tells one of his publicans Dowd, marine, ditto ; William Harrold, marine, ditto; . Mr. , James Franklin, Boatswain, slightly ; Mr.. Benjamin Angel, . that lie must be paid in gold. The man murmurs, Carpenter, (lino ; Peter b•PCaskeU, Captain of the Mast , ditto ; . i and the brewer must compromise, unless the publican - mers that have William Andrewi , ordinary seaman, ditto ; Willi am isr cs ,",. can procure gold every time his cu sto mers boy, ditto; Edward' Graham, able seaman, ditto; George Da- ; a little credit run up their pints and pots of porter to !any, able seaman, ditto ; George Roberts, boy, ditto; George i a seven-shilling piece. If he don't compromise, the Shoard, marine, ditto ; and Daniel Long, Marine, ditto. ' publican would take down the board 66 Whitbread's (Signed) A. B. RINCIAM, Captain. . Entire , " ' and put up 66 Meux's Entire," or " Calvert's W. Tuawea (2),Surgeon. Entire." (A laugh.) lie only wished Noble Lords " By Herbert Sawyer, Esq. Rear-Admiral of the Red, and Comm! wander - in-Chief of his Majesty's ships and vesse l s employed , ! to consider the subject more attentively. Gold, he and to be employed, in the River Saint Lawrence, along the ; asserted, could not be got, though it was said there Coast o f Nova Scotia, the islands of Anticoste, Madelaine.and was a great deal of it in Mexico and Peru. So there faint John, and Cape Breton, the Bay of Fundy, aad At or was , . about the Island of Bermuda, or Somers Island: .. . some under the earth and some over it , b u t the y - I might send all the British navy for it , and not ger " You are hereby required and directed to Out to . sea in his Majesty's sloop under your Command , a nd . it. No! they must send something t hat the p eo p le wanted to buy in exchange for their g o l d. It watt proceed without loss of time off Charlestown, where i t.: ue course of exchange and balance of trade that you may expect to meet Captain Pechell, in the deprived us of gold. When Bonaparte set up his Guerriere, to whom you will deliver the packet y ou will herewith receive, and follow his orders for your system of further proceedings. Should you not meet the Guer riere many people laughed at it. He had never thought so contemptuously of that man, as not to believe off Charlestown, you will stand to the North that he would push his plan as far as he could ward, and use your utmost endeavours to join him Nv off the Capes of Virginia, or off New York ; and in t i me m i g ht hat was wanted; was generality, and success.. A.l the event of not meeting the Guerriere, you will time some presently, when he would have that duce success. It was with a view to that that he had enerality in the effect of his plan, which wou ld pro cruize as long as your provisions and water will last, and then repair to Halifax for further orders. Yo u drawn up his resolutions, not to press them at th e en are to pay due regard to protecting the trade of h is Majesty's subjects, and the capture or destruct i on of of the Session, but to have them printed , so that No- be particularly . ble Lords might consider theta well b efor e next Ses the ships of the enemy. You are to sion, wnen it would be necessary to do something caretut not to give any just cause of offence to the permanent. His Noble Friends in oosition seemed rn Govement or subjects of the United States of Arms to think gold was easily to be had pp : that be must, rica ; and to give very particular orders to this effect to th officers you may have occasion. to send on deny. They seemed to suppose , tha t, as the y thought the Ministrrs were ruining the country , the board ships under the American flag. You are n o t people could have no confidence in them , and there any - to anchor in of the American ports , but in case of absolute necessity, and then put to sea ag ai n as fore naturally hoarded up all the gold : b u t that soon as they came inf out would come all the soon as possible. • . , secreted gold, and cover the country ! ( Hear. ) -- ,6 Given under my Hand at Bermuda , this 19 th He did not think that would be the case. Respecting April, 1811, (Signed') ' HERBERT SAWTAR, Bank-notes, he thought it most dangerous and unjust 46 Til Arillur Batt Bingham, Esq. Commander of kis Ma sloop Little Bel!. , to make them legal tenders. How were two pe o p le !‘ Dy Command of the Rear. Admiral, to act safely with them, neither of them being a t‘ li• N. ScilisPvluiZt" judge of a good 131111 k-note from 4 Im4 Pile ? 'Am would be a step like those of Robnititrre and Mares II who, when in France, used queer words for things-- , called the making assignats legal tenders, proneydisiny ) the assignats. Afterwards they were obliged tolekais recourse to the tuorsoneydiriq of their assignats. The same. consequences must result here from making Bank notes legal tenders. Every body recollected a cause in our t-ourts of Justice respccung the forgery of French assignats, and that the Court computed one party to stay the other's bill for doing so. Thus the law had made it leial to forge French assignats. Might not Bonaparte, whenever we should fume re- Nurse to the making Bank-notes legal tenders, per mit the same thing, and throw 'millions of forged legal tenders out of boats and ships Hato this country ? After a variety of ingenious arguments and illustra tions on the subject, the Noble Earl strenuously re commended his plan of bouk-entries, which was na impracticable theory, but had been adopted with suc cess in Hemburgh and Holland, where people knew. at least, something about commerce sad circulating mediums. He stated a variety of instances in. whicla this plan was superior to every other, as it wouls! a f. ford us what we so much wanted—a permanent legal tender ; and had none of those disadvantages, and that injustice, which must follow the making of Bank limes legal tenders. In Ole view of transfer, what was the selling an estate in Kent for £lOO,OOO and buying another in Yorkshire• of about the same amount, but a mere exchange of land : say in the neighbouihood of. Canterbpry for, one in the vicinity of Yolk, which the man liked better ? Then. the look entry system particularly applied. If the_ no. ney must be received in gold, it could not he carried in a post.chaise, for fear of. snapping the springs, it might be carried in a great broad wheeled w .ggon. —(il laugh)—There-was no need for this ; th,re was a positive necessity for some thing permanent as a medium, something that might be well understood by every body. In fact, his plan had been begun and acted upon by individual bankers in the West of England. One who had written to him, did not, on 'that account, want his bill, because it proceeded on 4 the foundation of the Bank of England, whereas the individual's notes could be made legal tenders. But still, this instance was a strong argument for his Bill. His Lordship adverted to the present execution of Bank-notes, which he represented as so easily to be forged, that in the opinion of good artists, any clever engraver's apprentice, of three years standing, might do it. The country notes were much better done: these of the Bank were inferior to their Lnrdships' visiting cards. He did not censure the Bank, be cauie he knew that they could not get the numbers wanted executed with sufficient dispatch, if they em ployed eminent artists. He concluded, after many ge neral observations and particular explanations on the whole subject, by recommending the Resolutions to the serious consideration of the House, as they coo tained recorded principles on this most important question. He moved that the Resolutions be printed, The Earl of LIVERPOOL said, he deemed it ne cessary before he should puke those short observa tions he intendend on the main object of the Noble Earl's speech, to say a very few words on what i tell from the Noble Earl in the outset. He had said it would be impossible for the law to remain as it asttuld be after the passing of the bill now before the other 'House. With respect to this part of the sub ject, however, all the Noble Earl's reasoning would equally apply to the state of the law ar it stood im mediately after the suspension of cash payments by the Bank in the year 1797. And in effect, the whole of the agricultural and commercial dealings of the country have been going on under that system, from that time until the present moment. In what the Noble Earl said, of its being best first to look to pr in. ciple, he agreed ; he always thought it the best mode of conduct, to act upon principles drawn from facts I and experience ; and not to begin with speculative -principles, and then seeing hew facts and circumstan. ca t 'geoid turn out. It was preferable to do no more than was absolutely necessary, than to legislate on the idea of speculative evils. With respect to the main subject of the Noble Earl's speech, he appeared to have fairly stated the circumstances, whatever his prejudices might he in favour of this other child nfhis mind ! But he felt it his duty to put it to the House generally. whether, in such a state as Parliament must now naturally be supposed to be in, with reference to ' the season of the year, and the expectation of adequate attendance, whether prdpositions of such extent and magnitude could be allowably proposed fcr consi deration. But when the Noble Earl stated that his only object at present was to have them pribted, and that they may be considered at some future opporu nity, it altered the case so far , as that upon t hat p rin. i. ell:4e he should not abject to the mere printing. At 4 the same time, he wished to observe. that it such a proceeding were taken to imply the least sanction of the House to what was proposed, he should resist the motion for even printing them. But as that mere proceeding gave no Parliamentary authority, and was allowed to obtain even to what max be thought of an Objectionable nature, he should accede to the Noble Earl's motion, and upon the further ground of its being consid, red, that in so doing he gave no opinion whatever as to the merits of the propositions. The Earl of LAUDERDALE said it was highly satisfactory to him to hear the Noble Earl on the other side decline to adopt this secotiet child of his Noble Friend, but he still thought that to vote the printing of these Resolutions would be giving a sanction to them which the House, ought to pause long before they agreed to. He could not but cons der some par s of his Noble Friend's speech as inflammatory and mis chievous, although undoubtedly not intended to be so. When his Noble Friend talked of calling a mei ting in Westminster, and putting a question, whether they would have dear or cheap bread, what would it be ,but raising a clamour upon a subject which those who were called upon to decide did not understand ? When • men's minds were agitated as they now were, by this subject; he could not think that his Noble Friend's Resolutions, or his speech, were calculated to do any good. He had heard, with feelings of pain and rygre, those parts pf his Noble Friend's speech, in which he had so strongly urged the absurdity of haying gold as a circulating medium, recollicting that the very s me arguments were used in Paris, at the time of the Re• IrOltition, when gold NV46 equally said to be unnece .- "ilerle and when it was said, Gs Let the dirt return to the earth trom whence it came." These ye . 7 same argu• menu which led to the freed currency and consocr 1 t depreciation of assignats, and all the dreadful co , ..e -luences which followed, could any Wag be uses'