The National Register. — London, England, 1811-12-22 00:00:00

NA' A SECOND EDITION of this Paper is published every MON DAY AFTERNOON, for the purpose of being sent into the Country. This Edition contains the NEWS or THE DAY up TO THREE O'CLOCX, all the London Markets, Price of Stocks, &c. Delivered (post free) to any part of the United Kingdom.—Price per Quarter 103. sid. payable either in ad vance, or by reference to a house in London. THE NATIONAL REGISTER. lontion. SUNDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1811. • THE KING. Last Sunday the following Bulletin was shown at St. James's Palace : " Windsor Castle, Dec. 14. " His MAJ Es r r continues nearly in the same state. MURDERS. Government seems to be at length seriously im pressed with the extremely perilous situation to which the inhabitants of the eastern extremity of the metropolis are at present so fatally exposed. By the Gazette of last night, it appeals that a reward of 5001. is offered for the apprehension and convic tion of the persons concerned in the recent murder ing of Mr. WILLIAMSON and family, to be paid on the customary terms. This is well. Something more efficacious must, however, be► attempted. It is one of the misfortunes resulting. from the high state of civilization at which we are nationally ar rived,—coupled with the peculiar circumstances of modern Europe, bringing to this country an extra ordinary influx of strangers,—that the increased and increasing extent of our metropolis affords a. sort of covert for crimes, to the detection of which its usual police is wholly inadequate. Criminal coalitions are thus easily formed. How are such alarming misfortunes to be met ?—Why, by a police system, vhich, we know, is not easily to be reconciled to the habits or feelings of the country. Paris would manage these miscreants far better than London ? Government here promises no trivial reward, the hamlet of Ratcliff also offers the sum of one hun dred and twenty-six pounds, whilst the parish of Shadwell tenders one hundred and five ; and yet all this, connected with the unusual recompence ad vertised in the case of Mr. MAnn and his family, proves only the futility of pecuniary remuneration towards the ends of criminal detection. Having nothing but public justice in view, and not unmind ful that an explicit avowal of our sentiments might here disserve its cause, we shall elsewhere suggest the sentiments which press upon us relating to this subject. AMERICA. Dispatches from Mr. FOSTER, and American Pa- Fers to the 17th of Noyember, were received last riday. The nature of the former remains un known, but the latter have brought an account of the first proceedings of Congress, and the whole of the correspondence between the Ministers of the British and American Governme{its, mentioned in the PRESIDENT'S speech at the opening of Con. press. As the other intelligence of tile week is too im- ain=a ' 'AL REG portant to . iced, . would more than fill all our coluinas, we shall for the present only lay its substance, with extracts from the most.prominent parts, before our readers. As it is likely, hOwever, that it will supply us with several points on which to make extended observa tions, whenever we' shall find this to be the case, we shall dedicate a column or two to the insertion of that part of the correspondence on which our re mark Will be founded. The first part relates to the affair of the Chesa peake, which we rejoice to find is at last settled. In the first letter Mr. FOSTER informs the American Secretary, that he has been instructed by his Royal Highness the PRINCE REGENT to offer reparation for the attack on the Chesapeake, but that. in conse quence of the. AMerican Government having taken no step to clear up the circumstances of the action between the Little Belt and the President, he had suspended the execution of his instructions. On learning, however, that an inquiry has been held on the conduct of Conimodore RODGERS, he ex presses his readiness to communicate the terms of reparation offered by his Royal Highness, as soon as it should be found convenient to enter upon the discussion. Mr. MuszttoE having, in reply, an nounced his disposition., to. receive them, the third letter (Mr. FOSTER'S) states them to consist of the following :-- « First, that I am instructed to repeat to the American Government the prompt disavowal made by his Majesty (and recited in Mr. -Erskine's note of April 17, 1809, to Mr. Smith), on being ap prised of the unauthorized act of the Officer in com mand of his naval forces on the coast of America, whose recall from an highly important and honour-. able command immediately ensued, as a mark of his Majesty's disapprobation. " Secondly. I am authorized to. offer, in addition to that disavowal on the part of his* Royal Highness * the immediate restoration, as far as circumstances will admit, of the men who, in consequence of Admisial Berkeley's orders, were forcibly taken out of the Chesapeake, to the vessel from which they were taken—or, if that ship should be no.longer in commission, to such sea-port of tile United States as the American Government may - name for the purpose. " Thirdly. I am also authorized to offer to the American Government a suitable pecuniary la , °vi sion for the sufferers, in consequence of the attack on the Chesapeake, including the families of those seamen who unfortunately fell in the action, and of the wounded survivors." • In answer, Mr. MUNROE announces the accept ..ince of these terms in the following letter, in which the spirit of American self-importance, gratified by our condescension, fully displays itself. 46 Washington, November 12. SIR-•-•••I • have had the honour to receive your letter Of the Ist of November, and to lay k before the President: It is much to be regretted, that the reparation due for such an aggression as that corn. mitted.on the Milted States frigate the Chesapeake should - have been so long delayed, nor could the translation of the offending Of&er from one com mand to another, be regarded as constituting a part of the reparation, otherwise satisfactory.— ISTER. $O7 to be reduced, and as this correspondence "it Is Ow Ir., air