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.a ' . e• IN_ FROM SAL URDAT ArlGßi'S GiMIaTZ. ' A Levee will be held at Carhoo House ea Thunday nazi. , His Royal Highness the Prince Regent has been plowed, II the name and on the behalf of his Majesty, to appint the' Ho* tritrable liebert Gordon to be Aecretery to hi* bbijoity:a boo basiy at the Court of his Majesty the Emperor of Austria. His Royal Highness the Prince Regent has also been pleased. and Sp the behalf of his Maeo, to appoint Jobs JIERIMi-i l aVe Sreretary to hl t Majesty 's Eulbasst a the Court of his Ro i ri I lighncss the Prince Sovereign of the United He* thettinde Mumma airroasiro' SLIM 11 , 1 Tull PRESENT PAILLIAPAILN r. ~Bikrough of Southwark—Charles Barclay, Esq. In the room of Henry Thornton, Esq. deceased. ADMIRALTY-OFFICE, FEBRUARY 18, 1813. Copy Of a Lev er from Rear-Admiral the Honourable Sir Henry liotham, I{. C. B. to John Wilson Croker, Esq. dated on • board his Nl.lesty's slop Superb, at anchor before New 'lcon doo, Janulry, 1813. Silt—l have the honour to request you will be pleased to lay the enclosed copy of a letter and its en closures, which I have this day addressed to Vice. Admiral Sir Alexander Cochrane, the Commander in-Chief, detailing the capture of the United States' ship President, on the I.sth instant, under the circum stances therein mentioned, before the Lords Com missioners of the Admiralty, with which, in his ab sence, I have directed Lieutenant Hare, command ing his Majesty's schooner Pictou, to proceed forth with to England for their Lordships information. I have the honour to be, &c. (Signed) HENRY HOTHAII, Rear-Ad. Superb, at Anchor beforo New London, January 24, 1815. SIR—I have the honour to acquaint you with the capture of the United States' ship President, on the 15th instant, by the force described in the margin*, which I had Collected off the Bar of New York, under the direction of Captain Hayes. She and the Mace donian armed brig, of 420 tons, loaded with provi sions, sailed on the preceding evening, under the command of Commodore Decatur : but the present season of the year, and the dark nights, of which he availed himself, have not enabled him to elude the vigilance of Captain Hayes, and the Commanders of his Majesty's ships under his orders , who have well discharged the important duty i assigned to them ; and I beg leave to offer you my congratulations on the design of the American Government being defeated. You will perceive by the reptiles Captain Hayes has delivered to me (copies of which I do myself the honour to transmit to you herewith) the ardour dis played by Captain . Hope in the pursuit, the intrepi dity with which he brought the enemy's ship td close action, and the undaunted spirit with which the Eu. etymion's inferior force e-as surgly emplerd, for the space of two horns and a half, leaving hiunourable evidence of judgutefa in the position s.l was placed in, and of the destructive precision of her fire, in the sinking state of her antagonist ; the heavy loss sus tained by him, and his inability to make further re sistance when the Pomona arrived up with him ; %sink the loss and damage sustained by the Endy inion w is coMparatively small; and although the dis tingttished conduct of Ciptoin Hope. his Officers and ship's company, can dellve na additional lustre from my conituctsdation, I cannot withhold my tribute of applause, nor can I retrain front assuring you, that the jitd.cieus tondlict of Captain Hayes in the direc tion of the force entrusted to his orders, and the ex anions exhibited by • him and by Captains Parker, Hope. and Lumley, have justified the confidence I had placed in their zeal, and have rendered them worthy of your aiiprobation. I have the honour to be, &c. (Signed) HENRY HOTHAM * Rear-Ad. To the Hun. Ales ander Cochrane, K.B. Vice-Admiral of the Rear', Commao der-hi•Chisf, Am &c. &c. Majestic, at Sea, Jan. 17, 1815, lat. 89 min as deg. N. Nog. 71 min. 53 deg. W. SIR—I have the honour to acquaiut you, that not withstanding my utmost endeavours to keep the squa dron committed to my charge close in with Sandy- Hook, agreeably to your directions, for the purpose of preventing the escape of the United States' ship Iresident, and other vessels ready for sea at Staten sland, we were repeatedly blown off by frequent gales; but the very great attention paid to any orders and instructions by the respective Captains, in situa tions difficult to keep company, prevented separation; and, whenever the wind did force us from the coasts I invariably, ,on the gale moderating, placed• the squadron on that point of bearing from the Hook, I judged it likely, from existing circumstances, would be the enemy's track : and it is with great pleasure I have now to inform you of the success of the squa dron, in the capture - of the United States' ship Pre sident; Commodore Decatur, on Sunday night, after an anxious chace of eighteen hours. • On Friday, the Tenedos joined me, 'with your order to take Captain Parker in that ship under my commend ; we were then in company with the En iymi'on and Pcmone, cif the Hook, and in sight of the enemy's ships ; but that night the squadron was blown off again in A severe snow storm. Oil Sttur day, the wind and weather became favourable fur the enemy, and I had no doubt but he would attempt his escape that night : it was impossible, from the direction of the wind, to get in with the-Hook, and, as before stated, (in preference to closing the laud to the suuthward). we stood away to the northward and eastward; till the squadron reached the supposed track of theivieniy, and what is a little singular, at ',the -Very instant of arriving at that point, an hoer he; fore day-light, Sandyflook beating W.N.W. fifteen leagues, we were made happy by the sight of I ship and brig 'standing to the southward and eastward, and not more than two Miles on the Majestic's wea ther bow ; the night signal for a general chace was made. and promptly obeyed by all the ships. In the course of the day, the chace be ca me ex tremely interesting by the endeavours of the enemy to escape. and the exertions of the Captains to get their respective ships alongside of him, the former by cutting away his anchors, and throwing overt board every rnovc.i-le article, with a great quantity. of provisions, and the latter by trimming thtir Ships in every way possible to effect their purpose. As the day advanced, the wind declined, giving the Endy vision an evident advaetage in sailing ; and Captain Hope's exertions enabled him to get his ship along side ofahe enemy, and commence close action at half an hour past five o'clock in the evening, which was Continued 'with great' gallantry and sPrit on both . ' • lelj s es e, Captain Hayes; ' Penedos , Captain Hyd e -P a rk er; Itteliedea, Captain Hope; Potwar, t;aptain Lumley. .7 sides, for two hoars aiNd a 1 . 44 when the Zodysticeiii rails beink cut from die yards, the enemy got alead --.Captain'Hnpe tikhig thkopportunity to bind new sails to enable WM to get Ms ship alongside arl , . the action ceased, till the Pomona getting up at past eleven at night, and firing a few shots, the ene my hailed to say, she had already surrendered. The ship on being taken possession of, proved to be the President, as above stated, commanded by ComModore Decatur: The vessel in company with her was the Macedo. nian brig*, which made her escape, by very superior sailing. . And nee Sir, a very pleasing part of my duty is the bearing testimony to the able and masterly manner in which the Endymion was conducted, and the gailautry with which she was fought; and when the effect produced by her well directed fire upon the President is witnessed, it cannot be doubted but that in Hope would have succeeded in either capture iik or sinking her, had none of the squadron been in sight. For your further information I have the honour to enclose Captain Hope's later, with a return of killed and wounded, on board the Endymion; I have not yet been able to ascertain the loss of the President, but I believe it to be much greater than the Endy. mion's ; and she had six feet water in the hold when taken possession of : both ships were very much cut in masts and rigging, and had the present most severe gale commenced twelve hours sooner, the prize would undoubtedly have sunk : as soon as the 'weather will permit a communication, I shall procure further particulars, and then send the Endymion and Pomone, with the prize and prisoners, to Bermuda. I have the honour to be, kc. (Signed) JOHN HAYRS, Captain. Rear Admiral the Hon. Sir Henry Hotham, ate. P. S. The ships having parted company in the gale, no further particulars have been obtained. Number of persons of all descriptions on board the President, previous to the action, about four hundred and ninety. NUMBER AND CALIBRE OF HER GUNK. Main Deak-30 long twenty-four-pounders. Quarter Deck-14 forty-two-pounder curunades, 1 long twenty. four-pounder, 1 twenty-four-pounder howitzer. Forecastle-6 forty-two-pounder carronades, 1 long twenty four-pounder. Foretop-4 brass six-pounders. Maintop-2 brass six-pounders. Alizeutur —2 smaller gunc—Toral-59. • A Merchant ship laden with provisions. His Majesty's ship Endymlon, at Sea, Jan. 15. Sta—T enclose a return of the killed and wounded, and I have great pleasure in bearing testimony of the very great assistance I received from the Senior Lieutenant, M.lrgan, during the whole day's pro cee.lings together with the cool and determined bravery 66 . my officers and ship's company. QR this fortunate occasion. Where every individual has so conspicuously done his duty, it would be injustice for me to particularise, but I trust the loss and da mage sustained by the enemy's frigate, will shew the steady and well-directed fire kept up bytis Majesty's strip under my command. Al:hough our loss has been severe, I am happy.to state, that it is trifling when compared with that of . , the enemy.—l have the honour to be, &c. (Signed) H. HOPE. To 'Jahn Hayes, Esq. Captain et 141 Majesty's ship lajest,c, and Senior Officer off New York. LIST ut? KILLED AND WOUNDED ON BIARD MS MA. JESTY'B !HIM ENDTMION, IN ACTION WITH THE UNIIND STATES SHIP PREsIDENT, JANUARY 15TH. KILLYD. • John Rid, quarter-master; Stephen Murphy, captain of the maintop; James Fair, ordinary seaman; William Ash, land man; Matthew Norton, Henry Jenkins, and Robert Mkcjisil, able seamen; Robert Alward, swum sooner; Peter Connell, and William Hope, butilnato ; sue JoJin Smith, scrjeant of strin us. —Total-1 la WOUNDID. James Easley, carpenter's mate, severely ; James Donovan, gun ner's mate, severely; Thomas Duff, captain of the sifter-guard, dangerously; William Lane, trumpeter, dangerously; James Batley, quarter gunner, severely; Joseph Goadhail, able sea. man, slightly; John Eagan, William Mitford, and Robert I soling, landsmen, slightly; Ruben Lyons, huidsman, severely ; Thomas Weeks, able seaman, slightly ; John Cole, ordinary seaman, severely; John Price, private marine, severely; John Evans, rivate marine, slightly...—Total-14. [For Military Promotions, Bankrupts, die. SC* the last page.] AMERICAN PAPERS. American Papers have reached town to the 10th ultimo. Letters had arrived at New York, from. Augusta, stating that the British had landed 14,000 men on the west side of Mobile Bay. On the 2d ultimo, the new Bill for establishing a national bank was rejected in the House of Representatives.. There were eight :one Members on each side, and the fate of Ike thU was decided by the casting vote of the Speaker. It was supposed, that, in consequence of this decision, Mr. Dallas would resign. Commodore M , D-.itiough was on the point of leaving New Yorlt, to re,ume the command of the squadron on Lake Champlain. A report, which we know to be totally unfilul...led, prevailed at New York, of the Maidstone British frigate having been sunk by the Constitution American frigate. On the 24th of December, the twenty-six delegates of the New England States, met in Convention at Hartford, came to the following , . To recommend to the Legislatures represented 'in this Convention, to adopt all necessary measures to protect their citizens from all acts passed or to be passed by the Congress, containing provisions sub jecting the militiamen or other citizens to forcible Jrafts, conscriptions, or impressments, not authorized by theCcnstitution. 2. Application to the Government of the United States for an arrangement whereby the said States may separately, or in concert, assume to - themselves the defence of their territory, and the management of a reAsulable portion of the taxes collected within the said State.. " - 3. To form corps for the defence of such parts of the Stites of New England is may be invaded. 4. To recommend the following Amendments in the Constitution : I. Representatives and direct Tales shall be apportlened among the several States which away be included within this 'Union, according to the respective number of free persons. 4. No new State to be admitted into the Union without the concurrence of two-thirds of both the Howes of Cousins% 3. Congress not to have the power to lay an ensbergelopen the ships of the citisens of the Un - ted States for sore abut So days. 4. Cuogress not to have the ;alum without the neecturepte of two-thirds of both Houses, to interdict the eotnasentill lamp course between the United States and foidge motile& £ Compose wag to tigolore war without- the toIootIONIMI eta ; • two-thiolo of bait Haut*, except Ahem of its se- Sinvoke. No pew bereetwe oaturolisal to tw eligible at a Member et the stun or Hans iattiMPlll*Wit wee arable eilmAdhig any civil once. 7. The moo person oat to be elected President of the United Stew a wood time, nor to be elected foe the soma late two term in surAwnioa. - Arid that if these recommendations be OnSUCCeSS' ful, and peace be not concluded, and the defence of these States linneglected, the Represeatatives of the New England States do appoint Delegates to another Convention, to be held at Boston on the 3d of June. BRUSSELS PAP,Eia. . BRUSSELS, FEDWARY 14. • The Paris Journals have announced the ialcing. of Rome by the Neapolitan army, the retreat.of his Ho liness to the Cutle of St. Angelo, and many Other' 'events which are mere fables, destitute of all founda- ' tion. We regret having noticed these reports, which are spread in Paris out of malevolence. We have before us letters from Rome of the 24th of January his Holiness had officiated the day before in public at St. Peter% amidst an immense crowd of the faithful. Every thing was perfectly tranquil at Rome when these letters cause away. Some French papers continue to publish articles, sometimes under the head of Antwerp, sometimes of Ghent, of Louvain, or of some other town, which sewlto he dictated by the spirit of lying and perfidy which reigned under Banaparte. These reflections occur on:lading in the Ginseng de France of the loth instant, an extract from a private letter written from Ghent by Si Flemish Magistrate : this pretended letter is a forger a f g o i r s th ere cannot be in Flanders, I wilt not say a trate, but any man so stupid as to combine ignorance and imposture to such a degree. Here is the proof—lt is asked (says this letter of French manufacture) where is the deliverance, and from what are we delivered ? certainly it is not from the &sits mail, nor from the conscription, nor from the contributions, *cc. _ We know not whether we ought most to admire the fully or the ill faith of such an assertion. What ! a Paris journalist dares to tell us, that the conscrip tion exists in our country, and he h4s the impudence to attribute this imposture to a Flemish Magistrate. That is too much. No one is ignorant that onr na tional army is recruited by voluntary enrolments; that all chase soldiers who leave foreign service to re turn to their country, may go to their own homes, as soon as they have set foot on their native soil. The military service is free in the strictest sense of the term. It the droits rural:, now called the indirect taxes, still exist, they are greatly diminished ; viz, salt under the French Government cost 45 cent:mies a pound, now it costs 10. On the other, h.ind, the spies, the informers, the worthy retinue of the an: cleat administration of the droits remit, have disap. . eeared with it. You asked from what are we deli vered ? I answer, from your chains, your dungeons, your usoveable columns, which filled our country with despair, from the proscription of our venerable bishops, from the infamous treatment shewn to the young men of the seminary at Ghent, kom the hor rible abuse of all kind of pow's% we are delivered also from a certala proprietor the Gaseite de 'mow. who made Antwerp and all Zealand tremble by the arbitrary measures of hir police. To hear you, one would 'apprise that in your happy France, there were no *as retails, no •contri butions,*and that manna falls in ithondance from Heaven for the fortunate inhabitants. IF I remember, hoviever, the Ceunt d'Artois, the, .of his Majesty Louis XVIII. when he en tered France by the way of Alsace and Lorraine, did proclaim with that noble generosity which distin guishes his character, the abolition of the bait but we know that the King has not confirmed this measure. Have we not lately seen courts of justice in Burgundy bring actions against persons who re fused to pay the draft: rola, which they thought abolished ? These facts are nut communicated to us by magistrates of Lorraine or Burgundy, but merely by the newspapers. • TrAIT PAPER; . NOTZ OF PRIKII 614%11211MR% CHAWCILLOR OF PRUSSIA, TO PRINCI 111117TERNICH. The undersigned, Chancellor of State to his Ma jesty the King of Prussia, and to whom the Emperor of Russia' as condescended to grant an interview, on the arrangements to be adopted in regard to the Du ch); of Warsaw, hastens to communicate theiresults of that conference to Prince Metternich,. In order not to expose ad object of such high importance to the um certainty which might result from a verbal converse r don, be has thought it his duty to commit to writing what he then said, in the adjoitied note of the 2d of , Decedsber (No. 1.) On the 10th of December he re ceived front Prince Metternich.thereily (No. 2) with the schedules annexed. The contents *of this note,' in as far as Aigards Saxony, were the Mbre calculated to surprise the un dersigned, inasmdch is they are discordant with de. claratums previously made, both viva voce and in writing, particularly with the Adjoined paper of Prince Metternich, (No._ S.) Bithis Note, as well as by that of the same date, to .Lord Castlereagh, and containing absolutely the same declarations ai the 'nose No. !1.,. tbv Austrian Court gave, under' certain conditions, its consent to the union of all Seemly' with Prussia. In consequence the undersifir has been the more astonished At this change of guage,. be cause it is now recommended to leave only a portion ofilaxony to its Sovereign, as a means of conciliation to satisfy all parties, while at the same time it is wished to retain four-fifths of Saxony, and to leave only one part to Prussia. The undersigned confined himself on the alth of . December to the making of snmeremarks on all this, adding, that be fek lumself under the necessity of demanding from the King, his august master, pre cise in:unctions, before being able to make any alter. rior declaration. lo the interval. Prince hletternich gave him to underst3nd, that what was offered by him as to Saxony, was not to be considered as an ultimatum. It was primarily nircepsery to rectify the tables an: "end to the note of the 10th Decembei. With this view is faithful statemt•at was given in (N 0.5.), which proves completely that Prussia, instead of having, ac• cording to the said tahls, a greater population than in 1805, would have a letd by more than 4200"0. Seedily herielt is most materially interested in the clecision.• The Most powerful reastine operate against het belay Wowed down—the welfare and tke of the nation, the word of the Emperor Alexandtr, the interest of Prussia, as well as that of all Europ Hitherto it has never been denied, that in order io maintain a balance of power and tranquillity, Prusst must be strong. The wish is, that she should ha such extent as may give her the means of self-defent % ansleihich way not send her in perpetnol search "aggeaitaisement to maintain the, force indispens.tb - to her defence. Treaties, also,Tive her assurance of the number inhabitants which ;he had in 1805; it is true they Li y nothing of the precise p/;:sessi ; but they se recur t her at least a State geograplin:. ees 'llY spects: Justice demands that she-eis..?"ld be rei,„orc unded ;all r. in the same manner as all the Allies are: s" 'z"` otl:cr States have been. Where is she to pi ocr.s.Z-'. 44: this, unless the whole of Saxony is given to ha ! Ifsiould be expedient, in every point of view, cc found another establishnient for the King of Salotty and his successors. His ulterior existence in &son, presents a situation which, far fronibeing satisf...ctt tr to himself, could, on the contraly, only be bunt,: some and precarious: His possessions "would be ways cramped by the two barderingpoteers, and Prussia. The inhabitants of the territory Mac:. h- might retain would necessarily by in constant IN latioitship with those of the ceded portions ; which, would occasion disputes and . discontents equally pit. judicial- to the Sovereigns and tiiefr subjects. Jr would become the centre of intrigues and tai lc, which would incessantly endanger the internal nab quality of the two States, and even the haus ny which should always reign becweses Ausuia A 261 Prussia. The Kik; of Prussia has offered, und.n very caw conditions, Munster, Paderbore, and Corvey, v.!1.1 a population of 310,00() tool', in order to form t; establishment ;Nulled for the House of SAxony. Should these offers apprAr insufficient, the unln• signed is charged to prrpose possessions of twice their extent en the left bank of the Rlii le, anti 17s which there is a city calcul.ited to form A very aArr r. able residence. Luxembourg would in tli3 become a fortress common to thew..ole Gam Confederation. •In the Note of the 29.3 of October, Prince Met: nich consented, in the name of his Sovereign, undo certain conditioni, that all Saxony should be uniteti to Prussia. He confined • himself to expressing a wish that a portion of Saxony bordering on Bohemia should be retained to its Stivereign. The imporC , ,i7 lity of acquiescing in this:with was set forth. The possession of a considerable country. whose inhabi tant's profess the same religion as the birg, was lered as an alternative, whirl,. in point of power, would give him rank imroediatelf-after - Baden a.. _welLas.a.asote.in.a.be.ferse4eitheil—of-tire-enntet4r.l- Lion, it-being evident that the sitnationof this district .of tOnjitrY is fitheiVlnalgailiaingiraraCCNOSirlf - l he subject of continual Jealnysy between Prussia and Austria; it would thus be preferable in every view to his retaining part of-Barmy, which would 4 qc less se-, cure and independent: - May I now be permitted to examine thicanilitiens. on which Prince Metternich gave.hiseensint • .- 1. That this object should remain_coopecl s adwith the other territorial arrangementstnr-etermenfilhat. in regard to this connection, hit Imperial Majesty aunsiders the most perfect •equilibriena- between Austria and Prussia in Germany ns ii 1. so that in the defensive system of Austria and hump Aei ther of these Powers may directly encroach on the other. But should the equality of protection or of influence of the two Gerinan !taws cease to exist, his Majesty would then consider the line um the Mein, including Mentz, as necessary for the deleire Southernof Germany, and the security of his Mo narchy ; the course of the Mein and that of the Moselle would in consequence be considered as the southern line of defence : and the portions of territory which might serve as indemnities or compensations to the Princes of Northern and Sonthern"Germany would next fall to be regulated accordingly. 2. Upder the express reservation.of airangemeats to be concluded between the twn Powers, in regard .to frontiers, to the fortification of certain places, and to the commercial relations anil free navigation of the Elbe. S. His Majesty reckons on the perfect agreement of the two Courts, and their mutual support of each other as far as relates to. the affairs of Poland. As to the first point, Prussia enters completely into all the views and , principles of his Majesty the Em peror. She is quite disposed to yield to Austria the influence and the arrangements in questioo, both en the left bank of the Mein and the right bank of the Moselle, without entering into any immediate discus. sion of the question, whether the fortress of Mentz is more necessary for the defence of the north than the south of Germany, The necessity of preserving it, for the benefit of the common country, is so evident, and so•distinctly declared by the majority of the Ger man Princes, that Prussia, which has never enter tained the design of augmenting its possessions by that fortress, has no other with but to consider it as a common bulwark of the Confederation- This for tress would be guarded by the troops of the Germa nic Body, and kept up at the common expense. In regard to the second point, an engagement has been made not to fortify Dresden. The undersigned knows not any other frontier Point or place which can become the subject of discussifit on this head s but the arrangements to be made in regard to Dres.. den, to the relations of commerce and mutual benefit, and to the tree navigation of the Elbe, are not liable to any difficulties. Ifs *ll4lll "I the third pOillt. Prussia has already done pa much, as far as her means extend, that we may hope to see it adjusted ip It satisfactory manner. With the exec= — I the undersigned does not know any power which has declare against the union - of all Saxony with Prussia. • That Power intimates it does not wish that the ft: derAtive compact should be established en a basis. which, by combining with it the incorporation done of the fit it States of Germany, might give it alarm for its own security. But was not the existence of Germany, and the safety of its members, menaced in a such higher degree, whet the King of Saxony remained obstinately attached to the cause of the enemy till the last moment I The King of Prussia flatters himself that the Em peror will consent io the incorporation of Saxony with Puna, sad will represent 4o the King of Saxony. end the members of his. funny, the advaatajol which 1