The National Register. — London, England, 1811-09-15 00:00:00

ranteed by! tile law 41:41ations indemnity for the first nor security for the future. ' We have been penuriously rewarded by the r elease of less than 2 00,000 value in vessels and cargoes, in return fur the heavy confiscations, in our own ports, under the Non-Importation Act operating re tro ,pectively, on American, and English proprty. This is all that has been or will be done by The Great Napoleon,' who imagines he has nicely baited _ another trap for our mercantile gulls." We close our remarks with one other extract, which we give without comment : SMITII I'o NIR. AIIMSTRONG. Novetnber 2, 1810. • You willherevith receive a printed copy of the proclamation, &c. You will, however, lest the French Government understand that this has been doxie on the ground, that the repeal of these Decrees • d•l:s involve an extinguishnwnt of all the Edicts of France, actually violating our neutral rights, &c.• It is to be remarke(l, moreover, that in issuing the procla:nation, it has been presumed that the re qui,itiim contained in that letter, on the subject of tutiOquestcred property, will have been satisfied." . REGISTER. felt the azote operate upon him like a power• ful disposition liisleep, and he sunk into his death-like state wish as much freedom from pain as persons usually sink to rest. While he was at the bottom, all sensation was of course extinct; but he describes his feelings when he began to revive, as those of a person recovering from a stat.: of intoxication ; and so powerful were-the effects of the pernicious air he had inhaled, that he was several days before he could be said to be in a collected state of mind. Elizabeth Jones, of Peterborougli, Iltely. poisoned !myself, and her body was buried in the road leading to Spalding. The rela tions-of the unfortunate girl have recently placed a stone near where her retrains are interred, bearing the following inscrip tion.--" liear this spot were deposited, on the 24th 01 May, 1811, the sad remains of Elizabeth James; an awful memento against the horrid crime of Suicide —Passenger ! take warning ; you see here a fatal instance of human weakness, ar►d the dre4- ful conseptence of misplaced affection." Thursday was executed at I'ened.:ll Heath, Kent, agreeably to his sentence at the late assizes, Peter Wood, aged 35, a sailor and a French prisoner of war, for cutting and stabbing Ebenezer Alexander in the right breast, with intent to murder him, cm hoard the Canada prison ship, on the river Medway. The un. fortunate man, who was a Catholic, behaved in a manner ho coming his awful situation. TUESDAY'S LONDON GAZETTE. ADMIRALTY-OTIrICE, SETT. 10, 1811. Copy of a Letter from Captain Ferris, of his Majesty's ship Diana, addressed to Rear-Admiral Sir Thomas "Williarets, and transmitted by Admiral Sir Cherles,Cotton to John W il sun Crofter, Esq. Sip.—l have the honour to inform you, that while standing toe wards the Cordovan Light-house, in company- with his Majesty's ship Semiramis, in the afternoon of the 24th inst..l discerneed i4ur sail inside of the shoals at the mouth of the river Gironde, un der escort of a national brig of war. I meditated either dieir capture or destruction, which could only be accomplished by ar tifice and promptitude, without the sacrifice of many liven. Stratagem was used, which had the desired effect, as they sent a vessel with !hots to our asshflance, and I anchored after da: k the two ships midway between the Cordovan and Royan, under whose funs the brig hed taken refuse, and close to the brig sta. tioned4or the protection of the several convoys pasbing either way. I dispatched three boats under the orders 01 Lieut. Sp; r row**(secorid), Lieut. Roper (third), and Mr. Holmes master's mate, from this ship, seconded by four boats under the ordtrs of Li eute nants Gardner, Grace, and Nichelserr, and IV,:r. Retau, master's mate, from the Semiramis, to capture or destroy. the convoy then anchored up the river, about [Air miles tlietant, hut the tide prevented their acconipiishieg it until late in the eight ; and at day-light, finding the captured ves-cls with the boat* far up the river beyond the two brigs, I determined to attack theta with the ship, but not without using the same artifice as tf,e preceding Mein, to prevent suspicion; and so convinced were they of our being friends, that the Captain of the Port, Monsieur Michel Auguste Dubourg, Capitaine de Frigate, and command ing the in-shore brig, came on board to offer his saviees, antl was not undeceived until he had ascenOed' the quarter-deck. The Diana laid the outer brig on boercl, and Li. ut. Robert W. Parsons (First Lieutenant) Lieut. Madden, first of the Royal Ni a e t nes, and Mt. Mark. b. Noble, boatswain, headed about thirty seamen 'and marines. (as many as could be spored by the absence of the boats), and succeeded in gaining i:es , ,eesiee of his Majesty's lategtin -brie Teazer, mounting twelve eighteen-pound earrotrades, and two long eighteen-pounder gum, commanded by Morsieur Al6rinder Papineau, Lieut. de Vai , e•eati, With a Com eiement of 85 men, and without loss on either side. it adds to the lustre these Officers and men achieved, the humanity they displayed to the oyerpowered captives, in putting them below without the force of arms and an unnecessary effusion of blood. It was at this time that alarm was given, and the batteries opened their fire. upon the ships, when Captain Richardson in the Semi ramis, in a manner which characterises the officer and seaman, pursued, (trove on shore, and burnt, under the gun! of the has- , , . , • terms, the French national brig Le I'litvier, mounting 16 gunge, '''' e , and lttp men, esoutit: Captain,- I have before spoken ot, was deev. , .. • - '" cnyed on board. - se Hiving obtaineet to 010 utmost the object in view, I aneh a - • in dee Oi r dnde, opt of. gun-shot, to repair the damages sustlelne '' '' 1 ' by i hedifferentetessels# when I was re . joined by the brsattiAskestl.. - the captured eerr'voy, a list of Which I have the hOntdifAttens. -- ..* close. The services I received from Capt. Klefhttailsii, / ilisf •-• Officers and shin's company of the Semiramis, uteri; lygewattsse est ack.rinwhidgements, and. I should be con-Witting.* gieat it). justice to the Officers and ship's company I pclituluitOrliere Inca to speak in terms of the highest admiration for ttteir steaditirss and seal throughout the whOe aff4r. And conlal add ample a'.• ~. . :, : t i 380.. • TTIE NATIONAL REGIS' . II own account, he "-•J..4ll.—nations ?' We see neith er f i t disposition ... PROVINCIALS. • .. DRIPADFOL, AFFMAT.—On Monday last, about-eight o'cloelt. • :in the evening, a deeaditil array occurred at the Plough, at .Thatcham. A party of voluntea r- from the Irish militia, on • • their' way to join the 87th regi•eent at l'ertsmouth, quarrelled amongst tiiernselve;, and afterwards with the persons who were in the house, of which they s •on took full poFsession, turning . the guests out. The inhabitan t s soon assembled, armed with %gnus, - and broke open•the. doors, desiring the soldiers to surren der, which they refteed to do, with threats and attempts to wound those who approached them ; on which they were in formed, that unless they immediately submitted, they would 13,2 fired Upon ; they replied, " shoot and be damned," oil which a gun was discharged, which killed one of the lrishrry n on the seot, the contents letly,ing in his heaq. • A Coroner's inquest .was held on the body, who returned a verdict of JuslOiabic Ho micide. The soldiers are now at Newbury, and the matter will be brought before the Magistrates of that place in a few days. A destructive fire broke out on Monday, in the rick-yard of 'oult a Lrater, at East-end, nor ';iitortesbrook, in Oxfortshire, occasioned by the descent of a tire balloon on a . • wheat riclt. The balloon had been sent up in the neighbqnr hood of Marlow, nearly VC) mils from v. here it desce.nied. "me daniage wasvery extensive, for besi.ies the burning of four - r cl, a barn, containing, a full stowage of lint hreshed corn, toge- Leer with several outhoust s, fell a prey to the devourirg element. A similar circumstance occurred in Berkshire some thee since, when the authors of the misfortune paid dearly for tech amuse . rilent at the Assiees. n outrage ot a most daring description, •^ok place on Wed- II iay night, about ten o'clock, between Nettlehiai end H,nley• U on-Thames, by a gang of miscreant , that infest the woods in tat vicinity. A carriage belonging to J. li'arry. Fig. on its way t) town empty, was thrice firt d at by the miliaria, who, with h grid imp•ecations, demanded the coachman to stop, hut. by the • a ed of the horses they escaped, with several shot holes in the p teli. of the coach. Had any persons been inside, they must h bee;: kif led, At the Caernarvon Assizes, a whimsical proof of PO saga. city was giten by one of the Jurymen who tried a prisoner for sheep-stealing. He convinced his fellovyltuors that, though there was no doubt the prisoner stole the sheep, yet as no one saw him steal them they must find him Not Gni/tu; and they actually llought in a verdict to the• above effect ; brit after a trifling philippic from the Court, these sates in the law were o'iliged to alter their verdict. A man AiAl s 1 16 y lately 'employed in fixing 'a pump on Bees ton Hill, near Leeds, on their descent into the well, met the black dump, alit - 14 tailed, and were precini:atedito the bottom in a lifeles4 State. 'l'l tee' was soon restored to animation ; but the wan laid at bott• *three quarters of an hour, and when tirquith! up, signs ot life •had vanished , hut after being espo-ed thy. air for nearly an hour, the vital spark was re it Mae ; grrif-;ing to the curious to know hwr death in thiA way attiiails his subjects. AceOading to -the man's , . w s . --a~ss!".~ , ;•• evbA . ! •