The National Register. — London, England, 1813-11-21 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER. 740 company with the Cokress on the ;Ade ut the sane month, it now* only remains for me to make you acqaainted with my . proceedings since the latter date. " his a few hou rs after ...ening light from the to sea., the wind, whirls had been wes tward, :hilted to the S. E. and obliged mete heat, tausetrearly prevented our getting clear of the hay until the 34 of lay. when in the afternoon, while in chase of a British brig of th re war ar the shoal of George's Bank, we passed to the windward of e Navel which, from their appearance and informatiou peevi y re ceived, I judged to be La Hog ue, 14, and Nymph frigate, the thitd d a merchant brig. After clear of George's the win ve ered to the ttor t h- cas tward, getting and we emanated east sontherly in the tlireetion of the southern edge of the Stream, 'Wit the 3th of May, in long. 60. W. lat :39. 30. N. parted company with the Cent -cgs. After ►parting corn \aped a. course as near as the wind would permit to . in s enemy's Wed India commerce passing to the sunlit ?. Grand Bank : not meeting will; any thing in this direc t American vessels front Lisbon and Cadiz, I next par to the northward, on a parallel with the eastern edge, Bank, so as to cross the tracks of his West India, 'tee, and St. John's trade. In this route, experienc ;clt fogs for a number of days, and not nteeting any -Ling the latitude of 48 N. I steered to the S. E. ofi whielt, in different directions. I continued ilte V itl.utet YiiCetini a single enemy's ve.sel, or two A : ss.ri.-atss. At this time lathier, in with an al to Cadiz, and receiving infurmation that the re, pa , sed an enemy's convoy time the West giand, I crowded sail to the N. E. and, A n its with the convoy, I nevertheless I oven the 9th anti 13th ofJunc. 4t. of id N. and lone. 2t W. I detertnined Sea, and accordingly shaped a course that ilittg in with vessels boom! t' Newfound unntel by the way of C;q'e Clear, as well 'en!' about to the Northward of Ireland ; in all this mate, I did not meet with le. the Shetland I.lands and even off ;els t rading to Englan d under Britith 'ld the Shetland 14hrtils, a considera id water (keine expended, it became 'velem to detennining what course ly, for this purpose, pot into North much to my scent ire and disap. ally thing hot water, there being ry part of Norway,. and at the • sufficiency for its inhabitaats be case, after replenishing my and stretched over towards Nowards the North Cape, for V 25 to 30 sail, which it, was' piddle of July, under ,pro a. ' • a nd which was further the 13th am, l Bib of the I the good fortune to di•- vrigate making their ap v, just as I was in inn ' on first deatovering owing to the haziness 'tit precision, I stood !re, I hauled by the It, owing to faint, in that lat. at • above the hori. wards of eighty , ;es of the wind was desirable. the privateer e slay before, issed by the without ap' ov, and a I.ermined 'erect to , C Irish ' ed of v had ntt id, NOV. M. • - . near to which I made two more captures and by the latter one found that the Bellemphon, 74, and Hyperion frigate, were on the eastern part of the Bank, and only a few Mika to the westward of me; I, however, did not fall in with them. From the eastern edge of the Grind Bank, to which I had beat all the way from the north-west coast of Ireland,.(the wind having prevailed without intermission, from the tst of Aug. to the middle of' Sept. from west to south , west), I steered for, the United States, without seeing a single vessel of any kind until the 22t1 of the present month - being near the south Shoal of Nautuket , I met with a Swedish Crig, and an American cartel (the Russian ship Hoffnung) from London bound to New Bedford. " By this time my provisions, and particularly bread, was so nearly consumed, as to make it indispewahly necessary that I should put into the first convenient port, after gaining the requisite infor madder of the disposition of the enemy's cruisers as could citable use to steer clear of a superior force ; and this I was enabled to do in a manner which I shall communicate in another letter. On the q 341 inst. I captured his Britannic Majesty's schooner Highker, ( tender to Admiral ‘Varren,) with which vessel I now have to inform you of my arrival at this port. 4 ‘ During my cruise, although I have not had it in my power to add any additional lustre to the character of our little navy, I have, nevertheless, rendered essential service to my country , hope, by harrassing the enemy's commerce, and employing to his disadvantage more than a 'dozen times the force of a single . frigate. " My officers and crew have experienced great privations since I left the United States, from being neatly five months at sea, and living the last three months of that time upon a scanty allowance of the roughest fare ; and it is with peculiar pleasure I acquaint h on, that they are all in better health than might be expected, althoug you may well suppose that their scanty allowance has not been of any advantage to their strength or appearance. " The Highflyer was commanded by Lieut. Hutchinson, second of the St. Domingo. She is a remarkably fine vessel of her class, salts very fast, and would snake an excellent light crezer; pro ' vided the Government have occasion for a vessel of her descrip7 firm. " int. at the moment of closing my lett'r, a newspaper has been hawk a t „ m e, c ,mtAining Capt. Brake's challenge to my late gal lant. friend Capt. Lawrence, in which he mentions with considera hle e mp)tasis the pains he had taken to meet the President and Colvvress with the Shannon and 'rowdy.. "'lt is nnueeessary at preient to take further notice of Captain Broke's observations than to say , .if that was his disposition , his conduct was so glaring l y oppwite , as to authorise a very contrary belief. Relative to Captain Broke, I have only furtlitir to say, that I hope he has not been so severely wounded as to make it a sufficient reason to prevent his re-assuming the command of the Shannon at a Wore day. I have the honour JOati ttr ax. “ RODGERS.° il " 'Fite Hon. W. Jones , Secretary of the Navy, Washington, Di-PER/AL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE Or LORDS. MONDAY, NOV. O. Lord HOLLAND presented a Petition fromeertain Insolvent Deb► tom in the - Fleet Prison, com pl a ining of delay iti carrying into ex ecution the Insolvent /ebtors Act. As it would not be proper to enter into any discussion in the absence of tlic Noble ,Lord (Redesdale) who framed the Act, he should move, that this . Petition do lie on their Lord shi p s ' table, with a view • that, qs soon a: he Noble and Learned Lord's presence will adMit, their'ca6e should be taken under consideration. _ ' The LORD' CrIANCELLOR And Lord StnmouTH explained the progressive steps which had been taken to put the Act in force, and assured the House that the delays which had arisen rested not with Goeernmentrbut were solely occasioned by the difficulty of puttiog the Act in execution. Lord EKLENTIOROUGII stated, that it was morally impossible to carry the Act into execution into in its present shape ; there ne was a Bill passed less adapted to its purposes t He then pover inted out several parts of it %%bid' WCYCimpwsible to be acted on ; in the first place it Wag ascertain whether one or three Judges were to preside in tlic Court of Appeal—it was not:news where tiny were to —and whn they even proceeded to •letermine a gaestiou, they bad sit no power s to send for a single witntss. tie ws no friend to,