The National Register. — London, England, 1811-12-15 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGIST for its defence against every arm and nature of ordnance, that nut the smallest apprehension is entertained of its pregnability. ADMIRALTY•OFTICE, DECRMBER 14, 1811. Extract of a letter from Capt. CODRINGroN, of his Majesty's ship Blake, addressed to Vice-Admiral Sir EDWARD PELLEW, and transmitted by the latter to JOHN WILSON CROKE*, Esq. -dated off Mataro, on the Coast of Catalonia, the Ist of No vember, 1811. Catalonia, heretofore so distrustful, shows at present the most ispbounded confidence in the Generals who lead her armies ; and the barbarities of the enemy, instead of quelling that spirit for which she bas been renowned, have made soldiers of her whole male population. Sanguine as I have heretofore been, I 1111 reelly astonished at the noble attitude to which the principa lity is rising. _ _ The Baton Eroles has fought another successful battle on the 516th, near l'uigcerda, in which he has lessened the numbers of the enemy in killed, wounded, and prisoners, to the amount of GOO; and he is now levying contributions in the neighbour hood of Mont Louis (within the confines of France) without any opposition. This Gazette contains a Copy of a Letter from . Capt. Peyton, of his Majesty's sloop, the Weaael, off the Westward of Cyprus, giving an account of his having captured the French privateer I.e Rol de Rome, of 10 guns and forty-six men, out six days from Alexandria. She is only 45 days off the stocks, and sails remarkably well. She had left Alexandria after seven English merchant vessels bound to Malta. Also a Letter from Capt. Malcolm, of his Majesty's ship the Rhin, dated Cawsand Bay, Dec. 9, giving an account of his hav ing captured, after a chace of four hours, off the Eddystone, the French schooner privateer, I.a Courageuse, of fourteen guns (which she threw overboard in the chase, along with her anchors, and part of her provisions), ninety tons and seventy mcn. IiANKR.UP'rcY SUPERSEDED. Thomas Tatterball, of Manchester, grocer. BANKR UPTS. William Cooper, late of Draycott, Somerset, maltster. Richard Jackson, of Nianchester, cornfactor. David Ellis, of Christchurch, Slants, linen-draper. James R ighy, of Liverpool, livery-stable-keeper. James Po%N:ii, late of St. Margaret's-hill, Southwark, sta tioner. William Glaehrouk, of Whitechapel High-street, hosier. Benjamin Wal-h, late of Hackney, broker. Joseph Blakey Spencer, Joseph Bowman, and James Robin. son, of Bearbin:!er-lane, factors. Henry Hooper, of Starry, Kent, dealer. Jane Vickers, of Bath, milliner. William Soady, of •Pl)mouth-dock, tallow-chandler. James Shaw, of Liverpool, taylor. James Gore, jun. late of Cheltenham, plumber and glazier. John Southcott, of Bristol, victualler. Samuel Goilop, of Honiton, Devon, baker. CERT I FICA' I'ES, J N. 4. Harry Palsford, of Berkeley-street, Piccadilly, wine-mer ehant,--Henry Webb, of Enfield, Middlesex, corn-fact r.— Isiac Cooke, of Gravesend, careenter.—William Platt, of Bol ton-le-Moors, Lancaster, muslin and cotton-manufacturer. — Robert Butler, of Cheapside, glover.—John Kirkpatrick, of Li verpool, merchant. —David Burrell, of Jenny!' street, W e st_ m.inster ' Gluyas and Oliver Gluyas, of Ma razion, Cornwall, dea!ers.—Robert Palmer Goodstm, now or 1 t.e of Leadeah.,ll-street, sadler.—Hoegson Brongh, of Cam berwell, mariner.—James Byrn, of Broad-street, insuranee-hru ker.—Sanittel Hartshorn, of Shrewsbury, mercer.--Isaae Aide bert, Charie4 Christian Becher, and James Hargreaves, of Copt merchants.—William henry King, of Fleet-lane, cabinet-maker. The East India Directors have entered into a resolution not to tiriiitt at their own tables. or at those of other persons, any wines whatever of French production, until it should apprar that the exchange is in favour of this country. We trust this exantp!t will be generally followed. PI~OVINCIALS. • NOTTINGHAM, Dte. It. The insurrectional state to which this county has been reduced for the last month, has no parallel in its history since the troubled days of Charles the First, against which misguided monarch it took so decided a part. These truly alarming tumults had their origin in a complaint- exhibited by the stock ing.makers against some of the hosiers, on account of the latter abating the fashioning price of making some descriptions of stockings, and causing others, along with sandals, socks, caps, &c. to be cut out of pieces, in like manner as a tailor cuts a garment ; and the stockings, &c. thus made, were not only deprived of their proper loopy selvages, which are the grace, the ornament, and natural guarantee to the real value of the frame•work-knitted stockings, but, as many more could be produced in any given time than could hi. of those properly fashioned, the wages of the workmen and the work itself were daily en the decline, as was alio the credit of the trade.—And if we add to these causes of corn. plaint the constant advancement in the price of every article necessary to human subsistence, the true causes of the s e disturbances will be found. • The object of the woikmen has been to destroy those machines, or frames, as they are called in the dialect of the trade, that were employed irr : the making of pieces to be cut up into si orkings, &c. ; and indiscriminately those belonging to the hosiers, who had rendered their names obnoxious by giving reduced prices. Day after day hive the Magistrates, both of the town and county, used every possible endeavour to restore tranquillity ; day after day have they added to the strength and activity of the civil power, and called in additional aid of the mili tary ; but, hitherto, their exertions have been but of little avail : a mysterious organization has been brought into existence, which baffles every ordinary etfort to suppress it. The rioters appear suddenly in armed parties, under regurar commanders; the chief of whom, be he whomsoever he may, is stilled General Lucid; and his orders are as implicit! y obeyed as if he had received his authority from the hands of a monarch ; indeed, it is well understood, that disobedience to his command is punishable with death, according to a solemn oath administered to all the party ; and any person that gives infor mation against any of them, subjects himself to the vengeance of the whole organized band, both in person and property ; some dreadful examples in the latter instance having already been inflicted, by the burning of hay-stacks, &c. hence it is that so few impeachments are made, and so few of the edators apprehended. When the object of destruction is agreed on, the party pounce upon their prey with the ven geance of the tiger and the cunning of the fox; the destruction of one frame seldom takes more than ten minutes time ; and, acrordin4 to the threats imprecautiously held out, it would subject any one to instant death to make the least alarm. The house where the mischief is going on is gtiarded on all sides with men armed with muskets, and scouts stand at a distance from each other, wt o cry t‘ All's well," or otherwise, if thingi it, they give the alarm. In some cases, however, 1.01........ e .5p . p. " 4