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meat of the Mailer at Which dis• c h arg ed their Any, bum the documents Witty it and presented to the House, and from the start men ts of fact, snd the conclusions which they had drawn therefi.m. The Committee had deemed it their duty, and that duty they performed without fa vour or affection, to speak freely upon all subjects ar i s i n g ironi the transaction, the developement of w h ic h had been committed to them, except on the so. li tan y question of military conduct. They had col lected all the facts 'that had come to their knowledge in relation to the military movements, and had t hought proper to leave, for the decision of those equally qualified with themselves to judge what bet ter might have been done. If the Committee had erred in any of their opinions, those opinions were subject to the will of the House: In relation to the mere military questiob, whenever the proper oppor tunity presented itself, he was not disposed to with );old either censure or praise when it should appear to him to be due. He would venture to say, what ever ditference of opinion might arise on those points on which the Committee hail not expressed an opi nion ; on those on which it had expressed an opinion, its views would receive the sanction, not only of the House but of the whole world. In relation to him self, Mr. Johnson said, he claimed no other merit than having toiled with the rest of the Committee in making up an opinion on the subject. Mr. WEBSTER said he should be sorry to be sup posed to have found fault with the manner of execu tion of the principle adopted bf the Committee. He complained that the Committee had not thought pro per to express any decided opinion on the transactions submitted to their investigation. Although the fact was announced that the enemy had landed within 50 miles of this place, and that 1200 men of their army had overthrown all the force collected here with tivo months' notice. no opinion was expressed of these sir cumstances. Neither would it be seen in the Report that the burning of the Navy-yard was justifiable, or whether it was not an act of infatuation.—[Hero the Speaker interrupted Mr. Webster, and called •his at tention to the question].—Mr. Webster said, he ob jected to the Report, because it expressed no opinion, and served in no degree to lead the public sentiment in respect to this disaster, and it was therefore that he proposed to question its correctness. He heartily concurred in the motion for printinig p he or leport. Mr. Jourisoti moved to refer the to a Com mittee of the whole, and make it the order fir the third Monday in December. This would leave the Report open to discussion, in which, come when it would, he proposed to be in the front rank, and not • in the rear. The reference and printing of the lteport, as moved, were both agreed to. , NEW YORE, DECEMBER Seii. On Wednesday, the 21st of December, in the House of Representatives, the Members resumed the consideration of the Bill for laying a direct tax of six millions of dollars upon the United States. Mr. YANCEY moved to amend the Bill, by striking therefrom the 41st section, which pledges the coati motion in force of this Bill, for the purpose of esta blishing an adequate revenue to pay the expenses of the Government, the principal and interest of the public debt, &c. and to create an adequate sinking Fund. - On this motion a very interesting , bat desultory debate arose, in which great opposition was shown mike Bill.—Yancey, Calhoun, Rheee, Linton: . Ind Telfair were in labour of the Motion ; and Messrs. kffes. Ingersol, Potter, Theval, Fmdley, Grosve nor, Hawkins, Webster, Pickering, Nelson, and Newton, against it. The question being at length taken on the motion, vas decided in the negative by the following vote:— For the motion, 48—Against it, 105. On Thursday, the 22d, after undergoing some va• tiotion, the Bill laying 44 direct tax of six millions" on the people for the support of the Government, and pledging the faith of the Government that the tats shall continue until the war debt be paid, &c. wac read a third time. Upon the question, 44 Shall this pass.?" the ayes and noes were called by Mr. Vow. Mr. 1300HAU made a few remarks against dull F,i!l, upon the ground that the money was required f)r Canadian conquest; that it was for the support of a war which he ever had opposed, and never would s'ipport. He said that Mauachussets was left by the general government to support and defend itself, and wc. ought not to vote away her resources, &c. The Bill passed.—Ayes, 106—Noes, 53. The Militia Draft Bill next occupied the attention the House. This Bill was for the object of call into the service 80,000 militia. A debate of con siderable length arose thereon. The Bill was strongly opposed. upon the principle t'..it it would create an expense, according to Owes tamite of the Committee of Ways and Means, of millions of dollars, withoat the certainty of pros sing 2 single beneficial result. Mr. Ltlvits moved the indefinite postponement of the Dill and the amendments thereto. This qnmion was decided in the negative by the icalawing votes :—For the motion ti9—Againt k 83. bore amendments were introduced to extend the period of service; but that of one year was in the end :greed to. NEW YORK, PECE/ABER 24. t e -"Kt,,iat—r ,,, ---: of a Lem* from Major-Georral Joebson to """n" XzdY, dated IleaSquoisors, Soveotb htilitary Das ..rict, nem Fort Mimmi, Nov. 16, 1614. " Before ibis reaches yolk iriforsnation will have been received of r. 17 iihit to Pensacola. It was occa sioned by the unprecedented Conduct of the Gover nor of Pensacola, in harbouring, aiding. and counts riincing the British aad their red allies. I entered itiliebrd in hand, with about 30 1 00 brave follroarrrs in the fare of the Spanish batteries, and a British fteet ijenesseil anchored abreast apposite the town. The Rao* by intrigue and base falsehood induced the Spaniards to abandon the works commanding the harbour, entered them and blew thaw up, other wise they w ou ld h ave f allen a sacrifice to their own plans. When this took place, the fleet being at li berty to p out, did so g and I evacuated the towns leaving the Spaniards favourably impressed with our conduct, and disgusted with their British friends. — The hostile Indians fled across the bay at, our ap proach, and have no doubt lost all confidence it "the assurances they have received of British protection. They have retired, it le believed . , " arc h 6 P ala. chicola, in great Au% "The Bentiaolies*Ot* s it ippeare, from info:- 1111160 Rivalrelkolitawkitd , it. itepsiridi to amine say baulk attiep*:' *ben . Ihei heir eifthe shamefal -13111111er in *Nth' ale Red Sticks vrtre de serted by their aim they: wilt wish Itio ' After writing the above, Gentled Jaeksoislifiiiii the eve of departure fbvNew Orleans. '• General Jackson, by thelatestaccountt, war Mire& ing to defend New Orleans. CAPTURS or WASN—Thcrurnotir of the eitp-: tare of this vessel, it is strongly to be feared, will even. tuaUy prove to have been correct. The Norfolk Ledger, in copying the rumour pub lished in the Commercial Advertiser last evening, from the Wilmington Gazette, adds the following : --61 We understand that Admiral Cockburn stated, that on his passage from Bermuda he spoke a vessel, from which he obtained information that the Wasp had been taken off Charleston after a bloody con flict." Taking this in connection with the other re ports in circulation, there is some grounds to appre hend that the Wasp is captured. NEW YORK, DECEMBER 22. The British Lieutenant who commanded the brig Locust last year is stated to have deserted to the Americans. On his arrival, at flarhatt's Harbour, on the 13th of Decembef e ) tjgeill,lgualuation that the enemy's new frigate. at wpm is nearly ready !for launching, and that they have had down the keel for another ship of the Beant size,as the St. Lawrence, and are collecting large guaiAttaa Of ;imber. He further states, that they have got buf f t he frames of two frigates, near Lake Erie, and intend bringing them down to the Lake, and setting them up, as soon as the sleighing becomes good. He also states, that the enemy are building two 20-gun brigs on Lake Huron. (Fran the National Intelligence: of Friday.) Tux LNIMII IN RAPPANANNOCE.•••From the Ricb risOnd'papers and other sources, we learn that a large British force, consisting of one 74, five frigues, and a number of schooners and barges, containing, it was estimated, about 2000 troops, suddenly entered the Rappahannock on the 30th ult. and ascended that river as high as Tappahannock, where they ar.chored and fired some time upon the town. The latest in formation from thence states that the town was al most wholly destroyed, and that the enemy had ad vanced about five miles above Tappahannock. The purpose of the enemy appears to be, as heretofore, to steal n , stock, tobacco, &c. plunder the houses within e tEr s reach, and burn what they cannot carry off. A considerable number of militia troops are in the vicinity, and others are hastening thither from various quarters-600 have marched from Richmond. A sufficierit • number, we doubt not, have ere this reached the scene of action to repel the incendiaries. Major-General Scott passed through this city three days ago, to Fbrt Washington, and has since, we learn, crossed the Potomac on his way to the Rappa hannock. From the National Imelligencer of Saturday. Tot ENEMY.—We learn that the enemy have de scended the Rappahannock. An account from there states, that their ascent up the river was marked by a conduct evert wary worthy of the infamous Cock burn, plundering and burning on both shores almost every thing within their reach. Their conduct at Tappahannock was scarcely exceeded at H.impton for its brutality aad wanton destruction of property. They have laid in ashes the court-house, prison, col lector's office, clerk's office, and a large warehouse, arid scarcely a building escaped plunder or damage.' It appears likewise. by letters published in the Alex.' marls Herald, that the negmes who joined the enemy were armed by them, and turned into the town with license to commit any excess; and, what we could not have believed of Cockburn himself • had he not shewn himself capable of any villainy, they broke into the family vault .of Colonel Ritchie, and ran sacked the ashes of the dead. " Five coffins (says a letter) were opened, their escutcheons torn off and cast away, and their mouldering contents mutilated and left exposed ; the plea was the hope of plunder." HAVANNAH, DECEMBER a. MORE COASTERS CAPTURED.--On Tuesday last the schooner Nancy, Captain Chace, and shop Factor, Captain S. Smith, were captured by British barges in Doboy sound, and carried to sea : and in the after noon of the same day, the schooner Delight, Captain Handy, schooner George and 'Joseph, Captain Sher wood, were all taken in Teakettle Creek, manned, and sent to sea. THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1815. ?vuIIcATZO or TOL VIRGIN hiAeltiiaidity at the Bank. In addition to the official documents respecting the negociations at Ghent, which we have continued in our columns, we have this day given some interest.; ing extracts from New York and other Americai, Papers to the 29th of December. They all tend to prove how nearly JAM: MADISON had got to the *ad• of his reign, when saved by a reprieve—the Treaty of Ghent. No sooner was advice received in Maryland, that the Conscription Bill had passed the House of Representatives of the United States, than the HOW! of Delegates of Maryland assembled, and declared that they would take measures for 14 maintaining thel sovereign rights" of that State, and for misting all “ arbitrary and unconstitutional acts of the general government." The Bill for raising st direct Tax o f six milieus of dollars passed the House of Represea.. tatives with much opposition, but it was thought that it would not be of easy enforcement. The New York .Gazette of the 20th December, announces that si already the new Bill of 25 Cents, recently issued by the Corporation on Bank paper, has been counterfeited,,, and expresses a fear that the. SO and 75 Cent Bills may also have been forged. Descents on various parts of the American cos by boats from our men of war had also proved very annoying, and, if we may judge from the language i of the Official paper, had caused much uneasiness to. the Government. The paper alluded to talks ef , 46 incendiaries," di brutality," and 44 villainy," and " • speaking of oar Admiral, IllanoM Creintin. 6 idevitpiper AU may be tolerated, but what *veld the world think of oor Goveiranseat o were It, io tie London daiettei to afildr inch epithek Posit to the Waitrons JAM A Mestenger artiVed this morning from Vienni And Rolland with dispatches. We have reason to be lieve he announces the departure of Lord CASTLIS. AZA . GH from Vienna to London. This morning two Dutch Mails arrived. 'They brought us an abundant supply of Continental Jour nals, but they contain little or no intelligence of in terest. The Prussians are digging canals in Saxony the more intimately to connect it with Prussia : this does not look as if the claims of th.l latter to Saxony had been disallowed at Congress. We have also received, since yesterday, Paris Papers of Sunday last. From Vienna they profess to have received no information of an authentic charac ter, and yet it is evident that all the great points are at length amicably settled. With respect to Naples the Allies seem to have left MURAT to settle his claims .with his neighbours the POPS and the Kiag of the Two /Heflin, and both these Powers have long since declared their sentiments. We announced yesterday the sailing of the Stritrir.e American privateer from Brest for the purpose of cruizing in the Channel ; and this morning we have received intelligence from Plymouth of another American privateer, the Reindeer, of seven guns and 140 men, having captured a rich vessel from the Cape of Good Hope. The particulitrs.are detailed among our Nautical articles. A Gentleman who left New Yrrk on the 28th of December informs ns, that the Guerriere, Commo dore Roorßa, was ready for sea : that the Independent was likewise ready, at BostOn ; as also the Con gress; and that no frigate had put to sea except the Constitution.—There is no truth that the Bill for establishing a National Bank, has passed into a law ; on the contrary, as was stated before, it has been rejected. NAVAL INTILIIGENCE. PLYMOUTH, JANUARY 31. This evening the sloop Unity, of Dartmouth, W. PASSMORR Master, arrived here, in twelve days, from Lisbon : on the 24th instant, she fell in with and was captured by the American brig privateer Reindeer, of Boston, Captain SNOW, in lat. 40.39. long. 11. 11. after being plundered of part of her cargo, stores, and all her papers, she was released, and five prisoners put on board her, late belonging to the schooner William, of and from Whitehaven, for St. Michael's, MEM= BARON Master—which vessel was captured on the 20th instant, in lat. 42. 39. long. 16. 40. and , burin the following day. The Reindeer is quite new, on her first cruize, about 400 tons—mounted with three long 24-pounders, midships, on pivots.; two 18- pounders, and. two 9-pounders, with a complement of 140 men. From the prisonsers it is learnt that the Reindeer had previously captured the Daphne, with a valuable cargo, from the Cape of Good Hope ; and a schooner, from Newfoundland, with oil, for Dub lin—the former had been sent to America, and the latter destroyed.—Arrived the French sloop le Dori Didien, GRACIIPf s from Charente for Rouen, dismas ted ; also arrived the Icaaus frigate, from Ports mouth, and is to sail immediately, on a cruize— said to be in quest of a privateer that captured two vessels off this place last night ; also the Lzi sloop of war, on the same service.—Sailed the ZEPHYR and SZALLRE sloops of war, on a crnise.—Wind S. E. PORTSMOUTH, FEBRUARY 1. Arrived several ships from the Downs and remain. Sailed his Majesty's ship TERMAGANT with dispatches for the Cape of Good Hope. Convoys as per last. DEAL. FEBRUARY 1. Arrived his Majesty's ship HAMADAYAD from Portsmouth. and sailed for Woolwich to be paid off. Remain his Majesty's brigs as per last. Wind S.W. GRAVESEND. FEBRUARY I. Arrived the Jesdff Thsuber, Nihon, from Norway; John, Seale, from Havre; Providence, Esker, item ditto; Henry, Ferguson, from St. Michael's ; Johanna, Green, from Sweedland; Apollo, Edwards, from 3:. Andero.—Sailed the Urania, Peaks, for Serbia: Patrk:t, OraE , for Hamburgh k Rover, King, for Ostend; &prance, Porgrout, for Rouen; Catherine Anna, Pen. hoick; Hoop, Hass; Prow Alide, Noyes; and Twee 04tbros 4ers, Swires. for Antwerp ; George, Mazwell, for Belfast. The Thames, Scott, from London to Aberdeen, was totally lost, with all her crew, the 47th ultimo, near Aberdeen. A Danish vessel, name unknown, was wrecked the filth at Berwick on Tweid--two of the crew The Crows Prince, Walker, from the rtrerranean to Lon. don, is taken by the Pottsmouth privateer. The Alonzo, Weckbar, from Uddervalla to the Mediterra. man, run on shore en the Goodwin, on Monday, but was got .11 with loss of rudder, leaky, and ca rried into Ramsgate. The Weetuier, Jansen, from Dantzic to London. and Anna Amanda Amelia, from Stockholm to the Mediterranean, were driven on shore on the Lincolnshire coast—the cargo of t he l for fuer is expected to be saved, and the latter expected to begot of. STSAY BOOT. ...A new Steam-boat is launched to ton between London and Gravesend. It performed its fine journey last week, against wind and tide, in flf hours. The vessel is very commo diously fitted up, and capable of bolding SOO persons. It con sumes, during the viya‘e half chaldron of coals. The ex pence of each passenger 'Axed's ad.; bath has the edema uge of binding its passengers without the aid of wherries, as it throws a platform from it. side to the wharf—avoiding, thereby, not only the danger, but the extortion practised by the watermen A slight shock of en earthquake was felt in various parts of America on the evening of the 28th Novem ber last. New Loivzay.—This day the following Gentle. men waited on the CHANCILLOR of the EXCHtQUZII, to contract for a new Lottery of 20,000 Matt:: BIDDING., PLR TICKS'S*. Bun and Somata. . . 415 1 a Iticnaanses and Swirl* - 14 IS 7 J. BITILWRIOIT • - • • 14. 0 7 J, • . HAMPSHIRE Af3ItiCULT6RAL SOCIETV. Wisciwiter, iebntary 1. Three oVitiolt. . lor the last three days the following Clinger has been forwarded to ibe differeet Members of the above Society Si WinchWter, Jan. U ISI S. " ceostinelie Of a reguisition from several Members acting ender the suction of the President and Vice-President of the Hampshire Agricsltural Society, I beg *aye to inform yob, tbat.a Meeting thereof will be holden on Wednesday next. Feb. the Ist, at the Swan Inn, Winchester, at twelve °duck. for this purpose of Sating into consideration the propriety of petitioning Parliament for relief la the present digressed state of Agried tore, wbes,your attendance is particularly,requitsted.-1 anr, your bumble serves:4 a JOidA MITUV, See." In consequence of this notification, a Meeting took place at half past twelve this day. As soon as the Members of the Society began to assembly, the writ[: : of this entered the room, and informed the Gentlemen then present, that as be understood the Meeting to be of a public nattily, he had attended for the purpose of taking minutes of the proceedings for publication, on which he was told that the Meeting was not considered tb be exactly a public one—to which he replied, he in ferred from the terms of the notice that it was so, ins'. much as it purported to be a Meeting to deliberate on the propriety of Petitioning the Legislature oison a public measure. The answer to this was, that there was no intention of Petitioning Parliament in the present instance, but only to consider what measures were ne. cessary to relieve the distresses under which agr;clll - now labours. The writer was requested to re tire, and in case the Meeting should be decided to be a publie one, be would be sent for. The Meeting was afterwards declared to be private, and all those petsons present who were not members, were request to withdraw. A full report of the proceedings can. not therefore be given; but the following facts mat be relied on as authentic : • WM. POWLETT PoWLETT moved a petition which he had previously prepared, and which underwent some slight alterations only, praying the LrgislAture to take the distresieffitate of agriculture into its most serious consideration, and to afford such relief as to its wisdom might seem fit. This petition was agree:l to unanimously; not, however, as the petition of the Meeting, but as that of the Farmers and others ince'. rested in agriculture in Winchester and its neighbour hoed ; and subseqoently a resolution was adopted, the object of which was to recommend to the farmers and landowners of the county, to frame and sign similat petitions, which for convenience, might be left at the different market towns for signature. This wag deemed a more reasonable mode than to call puWie meetings on the subject. The Meeting consisted of about 50 members, among whom were Lord Northesk, Wm. Powlett Powlett, Esq. Sir W. Heathcote, Bart. the Rer. C. Rich, Mr. Fitzhugh, Mr. Blunt, and about thirty , five other land-owners, many of whom farm their own estates ; of mere renters there were not more than ten present. Saturday the Gloucester County Meeting was held at the Booth Hall, in the City of Gloucester, Sir CHARS.= COCKERCLL, Bait. High Sheriff, in the Chair. Colonel BERKELEY, after an energetic speech, proposed several Resolutions, and a Petition against the renewal of the Property Tax, which were second ed by Colonel Klxoscora. After some discussion Sir B. W. Gums expressed thoplerasure he should have in presenting the Petition, to which he would give every support in his power. The Resolutions and the Petition were unanimously agreed to. 'Tuesday last, a Meeting was held at the S.in Inn, Newport, to consider the propriety of petitioning Par liament against the renewal of the Property Tax.— Jouti FULLAGAR I Esq. being called to the Chair, opened the business in an able speech. Resolutions, declaring the Tax to be unjust in its principle, inqui. sitorial, and unconstitutional, in its operation, and stating that the people have a right to expect the most rigid economy in every department of Government, were severally proposed by Mr. THOMAS COOKE, jun. the Rev. W. MUM and other Gentlemen ; a Pe- tition, founded on the Resolutions, was Adopted by the Meeting, which has been already numerously and respectably signed, and will be presented to the House of Commons by Sir L. T. H. Hotstss, Bart. one of the Members for the B o rough of Newport. CAMOVS MEMORIAL. ...PAMPHLICTZEIL TRANSLATION of CANNOT'S MEMORIAL TO Louis the Eighteenth is preparing expressly for the next Number, IX. which will be published early in Fe. bruary, and which will also contain a selection of PAMIIILITS on those subjects, which most engross the public attention at this important period, viz. Paussm and SAXONY by the celebrated Councillor On the DISPUTED POINTS Of BOUNDARY in ASIERICA-.. ANSWER to JUDGE FLETCHER' CELEBRATED CHARGE, ice. Bcc.—The Pastruurraga is published quarterly, price 6s. 6d. A DARING Arrastrr TO Ros..-On the night of Tuesday last, three nocturnal depredators made an attempt to rob a gentleman's house is Bethnal-green. The family, it appears, let out apartments to respect. able young gentlemen belonging to Public Ottices, who have keys to let themselves in at all hours ; and the thieves having discovered this, thus , gained an entrance .in at the front door. They had gone into the first Boor, and packed up a valuable carpet and every other portable article they could carry away; when the gentleman of the house, hearing an unusual noise, went down stairs with a loaded pistol, and on entering the parlour, discovered them just about to go off with the property. One of them, on being thus discovered, immediately attempted to sub him with a dirk; on which he fired promiscuously, and wounded one of them. By this time, the family hay. ing become alarmed, they instantly ran uff, carrying with them their wounded confederate, who, it is sup posed, must have been severely wounded, from the quantity of blood observed so far as they were traced. COOrr Or CIIIANCLILY, Fn. I.—ln the matter of lord Poarsmotrra.--The Loan Comicatioa au& again the what' of this day in his Private Room, to bear the final arguments in this important sad novel mutter. The arguments were concluded kte in the evening, what his Lordship bud Filthy , neat •er judgment, adding, that on that day he should receive water an davits if offered.—litrangers were excluded. Fox Cases.—Mr. Harris's hounds. of Oreysouthen, bbirst the reputation of fully equalling any telanaver, Iv the foliosong will testify. On the ad video they fob to olds a fez lit PApia °nebulas, and, after a *Med obese et two hoer* p a killed hint near Crosby, ire ronlelog ogee an extol of supposed to exceed 40 silll4 On the 14th ultimo theyINSII at Desrhata Bridge ' sad Not NO is with Reynosa, wire, eat a good nut, was bawd. On cite some day onsdor soinaldrit: killed to Pattbson's OW by the snooped'. 11 1 iI :