The Statesman. — London, England, 1812-12-31 00:00:00

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Mr. Ross, employed in the lite omission from this country, arrived in this vessel with i disietchn for Lord CASTLEREAGH, from Mr. RATES, the British Diplomatic Agent at Washington... 6 These dispatches are stated to be of great import.. asce, but no account of their tootents has yet trans. plied. We have received by the Minerva New Tok Papers to the 111th Sit. from which we have •made a variety of extracts, among which is a letter of Commodore RODGERS, announcing the capture of the Studios') packet. Another Message has bees transmitted to the CODirtill •by Mr. MADISON, ac. companied by faither correspr ndence relatifs to the orerturei made to our Government. Our im, olitic war with France drove that nation into a belligerent attitude ; and now our still .more impolitic ear with America is fordng her to oectine cianufactural. In this vie • of the relative 4 tate of tLe o countries, it is truly awful ! Our reflections of yesterday, ,on this so .1 •ct,'l.oe how almost im pos.ible it is that we can keep clear of jealousies and collisions with any State in Europe, under our pre. sent exorbitant!) , expensive system of . Government. Notwithstanding the excellence of our articles of trade for exportation, the grievous Leavy taxation laid upon every article of life, renders it impossible that tea should not be undersold in the foreign waeket , Those home commodities which are net reached by direct imposts. are, nevertheless, ens banced in price by the proceedings of the Bank, and , its paper, to nearly the rate of twenty.fiva per cent. While we left the limited States to be agricultural ; and commercial, the natural pursuits of an infant ! state, they never aimed at the establishment of. 00. 1 , nufactorlea. That would have been a work WW I deferred. They would have been contented to buy every nail of us for half a century to come, and were v.?, much in the habit of purchasing every luxury from England. The higher-classes of the women of America thought nothing of a dress, no. le a s it was chiefly composed of materials from• this ametry. Oh ! what o mortifylag reverse 1 Thwill , triotic of both sexes have been forced to Senonit9 every thing of British workmanship or production, whether in dress or furniture. Their shipping the the last twelve years has more. than doubled is amount of tonnage to that which they employed pre. lima to that period.i—Thefollowiog is the flourishing condition of their manufactures in one State, since they were led to apprehend a war with us, viz.:— STATE OF MANUFACTURES IN vim STATE Or xvir TORE, IN THE YEAR 1810 OR 1811. Lentils, 33,068.—Yards of cloth (all lands), 9,G99,703. Value in dollars, 5,002,891. —Ten. works, 867. Value of leather in dollars, 1,299,542. —Distilleries, 591. Value in dollars, 1,685,794. — Breweries, 42. Value in dollars, 340,765.—Fut , 'ling-mills, 427. Value of cloth in dollars, 679,126. Paper-mills, 28. Value in dollars, 233,268.—i1at factories, 121. Value in dollars, 219,035.—Glass wniks, 8. Vallie in dollars, 716,800. —Powder mills, '2. Value in dullarst 10,400. —Rope-walks, 18. Value in dollars, 538,000.—Sugar.houses, 10. Value in dollars, 420,706.--:Oil-mills, '2B. Value in dollars, 49,283.—81a5t faruaces, It. Value in dollars, 205,300. , ...tAirafereaces, 10. Value in dollars, 156,720.Cut-ns i t factories, 41. Value in dollars, 276,932.—F0rge5, 48. Value in dollars, 185,210. —Trip-hammers, 49. Value in dollars, 2,603. --Total value in dollars, ' carding-machines, value included in cloth dove, and 26 cotton-factories not included above, the cloth there mentioned being the manufacture of families only. The above returns are, moreover, believed to be short of the real amount ; no tow-cloth was returned except for two counties. Instead of one formerly, there are now 10' or 12 rolling and slitting-mills. The nail, hat, peper and rope-factories, reach exceed the nosiber Wonted. Alt the woollen factories are omitted. It insykANlN. , ed, that the present minuet value of the MIN& named manufactures exceeds sixteen tufltiOnsat• lars. In viewing the progressive increase of perpnia• tian in the same state, we are also not encouraged to augur success from Ito rash or foolish a war. In the year 1786, it was 138,806 ; in 1791, 340,120; in 1800, 586,000; and in 1810, by a recent census, it was augmented to the prodigious Timber of 960,000. Was this a country for • wise Ministry to provoke to war ? Lord Nowny and his adherents lost the sovereignty of North . America; and _Mr. Pvvv's wretched followers, and their supporters, have lost us the trade of it. A French Paper was received in Torn last night, dated the list inst. which contains little of ioa- Portan;e. It notices that the Managers of the Thea- * 4 tre of the Okra Gona v e have been punished for their conduct, which occas ioned; the disturbances there d few days before; bat from the mildhesa of the sentence, it is evident that this frac* was not of a political nature ; not does there spear to hive been any tumult or expressions of disaffection against the &mason, respecting. the disasters of his campaign sinoe his return to 'Paris. It must, however, be admitted, that a great deal of caution had been used, previous to his appear ing is the capital, to conceal the extent of the losses sustained by the armies in Russia. We do not, however, expect to hear of any of those explosions in Paris, which have been so often predicted by our Ministers, and echoed by their servile journals. . ; • the accounts from Jamaica, by the Mail which &r -fled on Friday, represent that Island to be literally blockaded by American privateers: Admiral STIR. 1 LING was so much In want of croziers, that he had i been obliged to hire a paltry vessel (which was lately sold in London for about 5001.) for the protection of ; the trade. Neither on the Leeward Island, or Ja . in** stations, had a single ship of war arrived from England as a reinforcement, up to the end of Oct. although the war with America had been anticipated more than six months. Recent advice. from the Windward Islands state, , that the Admiral is mortified at the depredations of the Anwrican privateers, it not being in his power , to prevent them; most of the few cruisers under his orders halting been out so long from England, that their copper is nearly off; so that the privateers re ! main unmolested, as they can sail round our ships whenever they think proper: they are, in conse quence, become so daring, as even to cut vessels out of harbours, though protected by batteries, and to 'I land, and carry off code from plantations. What ! must Sir FRANCIS Lsroetv's feelings be when he learns, that instead of receiving a reinfor*ment of ships to sappert the British flag, he is superseded as Commander in Chief on that station, by the ap pointment (an unprecedented one) of Sir JOHN W ARUN, to the very important command of hit Majesty's ships and vessels on the lialifax and Lee-' ward bland station, which, in our opinion, is by • far too extensive for an individual, and more para. IPcularly at the commencement of a war with Anieri ies ; besides which, be has to attend to his duties as r a Negociator ? tins following letter was yesterday received at WiTfeS _ _ _ " Admiralty-01a, Dec. 29, 1819. • II am emataanded by the Lords Commissioners of the Ad 'Shaky to inform ype, is reference to my letter of the 25th lost. Syr the information of the Committee fur nuutagleg the afrairs of Lie re's, that I ham Ms day steeived a letter from ldml aM as Yarmoath, traametting one dated Hall,' the '1 28th last. teas Captain Daum; •of the Sheldrake, which strip ino is base eonvoyod the trade from the Dasher to Gotten burgh, by whit* k spears. that the whole of the trade collect ml ia that river, had, with the exception of two vessels (one of which was la ballast), voluntarily returned their convoy in armee/Is. sot cossiderlag ft, as it is stated, safe to proceed at this advanced season of the year. (Shooed) “ J. W. CROKER. Te Mr. J. Bgievwr, Joe. Secretary to Love's." At a court.llilartial, gn board the Raison— able, in Sheerness harbott on the ilst lust. Sekjeant' &Nab, of the Royal Marines, belonging to the Snipe gun-brig, was tried for stealing& 101. note out .of the Clerk's chest of the said gun-brig. The .charges being proved, the Prisoner was sentenced to e reduced to the ranks, and to receive 100 lashes round the fleet. The 11‘hop of Lonna& has given the 'Archdea tenry of Colchester to Mr. JErrsamov, of Essex.— The Precentorship and the other Prebend in St. Paul's linger still. On Monday se'nnight, the troops in Limerick Garrison, commanded by Major-General DAtthf (with his Staff, Brigade-Major O'DottoGuut, Quar• ter-Msster-Geoeral ARMSTRONG, Assistant Adje- Aant-General WOOLDRIDGE), consisting of a brigade Of Royal Artillery, Ist K.'s Dragoons, 72d, 90th, and Monaghan Regiments, were drawn up in the. square of the New Barracks, where the sentence of Lieut . . °PATRICK LYNCH, 2d haft. 90th (whose trial coo.; silenced on the 7th inst: on a charge preferred against him), was promulgated, and in his presence teed aloud as follows: SENTENCE. 4 , The Court having taken into their consideration the evi -1 denee against the Prisoner, as also what was olTered by Alin In ! his defenee,are of opinion, that he es pito , of the charge eabi. Wird against him, as far as relates to the assault 'coniniitted by hint on Elisabeth O'Brien. being In breach of the Articles of War, but acquit him of itemailaloos. infamous conduct—and do, therefore, adjudge hint to be reprimanded in such manger, and at sech time and place, as the Commander of the Farces may Orme to appoint—nod further, that he (the Primes() he buspeptied from rank and pay, furs period of six calendar months." Cvatays MATCll.—Carter the pugilist,whose mas ter[). pedestrian peeformince has placed him high on that list, has been matched to run three amateur pe destrians, on Sunbury Common, on Monday nett, and to give the.following distances :—The first is to Motive 500 yards out of two Miles, the second 600 yards, and the third 700, fat - SO guineas. The ground to be taken at starting. ! - Carter is backed ,Also to perform the distance laAtaa minutes and a half. A poor man of the name of James Gaunt, of Runslet, a millwright by trade, while in search of work, was robbed near Alverthorpe Bar, in the neighbourhood of Wakefield, on Tuesday night, by three footpads, who knocked Isim down, and riled his pockets of Os. all the mosey he bad in the world. MusDaw is making the Theatrical circcit of Ramp. shire; after finishing his engagements at Portsmouth, Gosport, &c he goes to Ireland, to perform at the Dublin Theatre. The children educated at the new Lancasterian school in Grantham, consisting of about 140, dined together on roast beef and plum-podding at the Red Lion ina in that place, on Gitristmal-day. They lresented a most interesting sight. Monday an Inquest was held at the Poor-house in Spalding, by SAMUEL, EDWARDS, Gent. Coroner on the body of the infant child of a piuper girl, which, was found dead in bed beside its mother, who then lay in, end had fallen asleep.--Verdict, tasailkeittl by bolas . overlaid. . , ;";0rg,.,:.+46 , 111 , fi • WrATto.timAN. faz Of .• „, V br.WAV 4. l : 4,:ittgtivid. cr • . ! PEtliottn, DEC. Expedution,: Captain Evans, of and from Philagal phia, bound tn Dourdeaut s ladin i'ith cotton, cap toted by his Majeaty's-frigatel Bolton and ,indro- Macke. The Niemen frigate, Captain Pym, sailed this morning for Pertstnouth, having under her convoy a fleet zonsisting of nearly 100 sail ; amongst them the homeward bound Mediterranean fleet, which arrived here a few days since under convoy of his Majesty's ship Kent. Arrived the Conquestador, of 74 guns, from off Brest. There is a report in circulation, that the Belle Poule frigate has captured a French frigate, which escaped from Havre, bound to America. The schooner Badqjos, from the Mediterranean, is just arrived. The Pickle brig of war, which ar rived here some days since, having fallen in with her at sea, and taken some Masters of vessels out of her, who had been captured by a French privateer. Captain Dacres, late of the Guerriere frigate, with his Officers, and some of the men late of the Barbadoes, lost in the West Indies, arrived here ' this day in the Leonidas frigate, from Ireland ; they having arrived there in the Africa, 64, from Acne ' rica. DEAL, DEC. 30.—Arrived . the Sprightly cotter, with 15 sail of vessels under convoy, from Dart ! Mouth ; Royalist sloop of war, Capbitt Downie, with the Ruese French privateer, with 68 men on board, which she captured eitrly this morning, off Dover: The privateer came out of Boulogne last evening ; had made no captures. Put back by contrary winds, the Providence East Indiaman. Came down from the River, several ships, and remain with a large fleet of outward-bound. I PORTSMOUTH ) Mc. 30.--Arrived his Majesty's ! ship Venerable, from Corwin& ; Prettoyante, from the Dawes ; Valiaul, from off Cherburgh ; Niemen, with a convoy, from Plymouth; Northumberland, I from ditto ; also the Bolls, with dispatches, from I Newfoundland. Sailed Ms .Majesty's ships Savage and 111issIctoe, on a cruise. _ _ NEWHAVS/I t Dec. Adey, Master of the Catlatrine, of Sutherland, landed here with his crew, and states, that his vessel was captured yesterday by three French privateers, between Brighton and Shoreham. The privateer also captured two other ♦essels, supposed to be colliers. In a journey, and through a variety of Govern ments, and such a journey, and such a variety as the late most astonishing passage of BONAPARTE to Paris, there can be but one opinion Its to the suppression or the change of his name : it was expedient for expe dition arid ease, apart from the additional conside rations • of security ; as , such, it has ever beets' the custom. Kings nod Princes every where have thus affected and travelled in an incognito, at all times and places, even when most remote from, and apparently out of reach of any approachable peril Thus it was the Emperor Josten travelled as Count fame's. STEIN, the King of Daxmaex as M. Le Comet Do Nom,. The King of PROiSIA (Ftterteerca) did the same, even in his little tour through Strasbnigh (where the nesessary passports being forgotten, he forged one ender the feigned name, sealing it silth his own seal upon the spot) : it was.so even with our own late Duke of YORK (the present King's bro ther, who died in Monaco), and so, in short, with all the world. As for the speed of tae journey, that has no comparison : it far exceeds every thing the most remarkable, in the recollections of what has 'been done by Mcisengers and the Post! And as such, is a display of physical power most extraordi nary ! The power to subdue such difficulties, to endure such fatigues, and all this without any cross -accident, or interposing mischief to delay ! Though all this comes to pass amidst the horrors of a Northern ' winter, through countries of barbarians (at least se barbarous as to be without roads and inns), and through countries, too, where we have been told it was all alienation and hostility ; all impatient of the Germanic Confederacy, and wanting nothing to shake it off but the very light levers a a while hand kerchief and a idsite ribband ; as light and as lasting as the LILIEi. In addition to the alarming depredations committed . but too successfully by a nest of %instills who infest this, place (Boston), which we have lately had occa sion to mention, we have sincere regret in recording - another burglary no less daring In its nature. Last Monday night, or early on Tuesday morning, the brew house of Mr. J. BROUGHTON was broken open, and property to the amount of 141. or 151. taken therefrom. The money was deposited in two boxes; one of which was Mr. BROCGRTON'S and contained a little silver and halfpence, which bad been taken for yeast; and the other the Christmas-box of his brewer and labourers working in the brewhouse, the contents of which had, been collected within these few days past, and which , they used to I keep in the brewhouse., until they had received the customary donations of their friend& at this time, led they. should make a sliviAon of .the whole. The thieves seem to have been. at consider-' able trouble to etfect their purpose, and well ac quainted with theprernises,asthey took the tiles from off a building, and, breaking through the ceilieg,• de scended into a store-room, from whence they must have got through a window about five feet high into another apartment, where they pessessed lhemlelees of Mr. BIIOUGUTON . 9 box • bat that Orthe men, which contained the principal part of the iatney, was in another store-room, leading from the'above, *filch was limited, and was found this morning fOrcedopen, and, the box gone—though it was quite a dirk Mom, and the box hid in a corner behind the door. There is strong suspicion entertained' of the thief, and we' sincerely hope he will not *escape with implinit7.-- (Boston Gazette-) y':>'. .. , . .. y . - Aittftratv ihiPlelo , • *,, • - ^ , ;.1 .: . • i • NrOf ' t - OUR, DiD . v.. 17.—CommolOre Cheusiey sailed an the Bth of November with Ms stftwidron, • from Socket's Harbour, well armed and mott::ed, with oh intention of scouring the Lake from bde end to the other. 1 ".7,',.:::•,. t i ro33 TUE OGDENSBURG PALLADIUM, 44. e have been induced to defer:the pi . ion of k the Palladium till to-day, from an exiteehttivin that something of consequence wonld trstiviplre, Jut we learned last Tuesday, chit a fleet of 60 or tO British boats were coming up the river about 'BO miles 1)0 low, and it was believed that the boats in our port, in conjunction with a number from Socket's harbour, Would make an attack upon them a few miles above this village.' Just as our Paper was going to Pierthe British boats hove in sight. The) are now, tethe number of forty or fifty, entering Prescot Ilarboul , . We do not learn that any arrangements have been made to capture them. By an Officer who arrived here on Tuesday, front Socket's Harbour, we learn that the brig Oneida, accompanied by eight vessels, each carrying a long I at-pounder, sailed from there last Monday morning for the purpose of sweeping the lake. The squadron is commanded by Commodore Chauncey.. Success to them ! SUCCESSFUL POLICY OF GREyE BAl+Ait Britain stomped ds into Ititlepentlent 4tates—she has . councilled us into a manufacturing people, and she is now fighting es into a maritime porer.—( Ns. !knot Intelligences%) WASIIIMCITOICCITI, Key. It—Copt of a 11410 • received yestietleY by the Semler, of thelslolslit Commodore Rodgers : s. Friaate Prcs , den*, at Sea, Ort:li, fait 66 Stn,-1 have the honour to acqwniaf ydu, that on the 15th instant, near the Grand Bank, this ship, the Congress in company, captured the British King's packet Swallow, Joseph Murphew, Com mander, bound from Kingston, Jamaica, to Fal mouth. The rank of the commander of this vessel, is that of Master and Commander in the Navy. She had no cargo in, except eighty-one boxes of gold and silver, amounting to between one hundred and fifty and two hundred thousand dollars. The sPc.cici I topic out of her, and had intended sending he1.:14 England in the character of a cartel, with her own. crew. Having fallen in at this moment,' however,, , with .the American schooner. Eleanor, bound front Baltimore to France; dismasted, induced me- te change my first determination, and instead of sending her to England have • sent her. to the United States in charge of the Master and Fie/ of the before-mentioned schooner, who, at the moment of writing this, have charge of the Swallow with the schooner in tow, but which, as soon as the weather will permit, they intend abandoning, tater 'having taken her cargo on board the Swallow. " I parted company with the United Slates 4nif Argus five days since: they are net, howerer,' fate - . from me at present, I apprehend. 66 We have not seen a single British vessel of. war' except one frigate, which the want of wind and the approach of night prevented our chasing with any effect ; although from information we afterwards receivd, we must have passed very near a scredvoit of five frigates, the evening preteefing that-on which we saw the one before mentioned. 66 I have the honour to be, with the States! . re speet) Sir e your obedient servant. f" Jon% RODONI9. "ave. Nei Hamill .n, Socre!fry of sae Novpu • ••••••••• e • EXTRAOPI OP A IX [TER TO TUE SDITOIS OPTlii Pitt. q6e LAULLviIiA GAZETTZ. ‘). ;, Wri-IOnTON 1111:•,.116. " On 00 one subject has there ev.r bleu etinc.ed a greater unanimity, than is at present expressed. ia, favour of the increase of 'our navy. Ithai Inert ens... pillically said by an Officer here, 4 .1141 -W4rt ing. ton was the Father of tl.e Navy---but.that Hutt .. w4s. its preserver'-for so regardless, or Tether se•pre-. judiced was Coog ess agaititt this establishment,. hat had the onset of the svar b.Wn marlt.'llmith :is to..ch t disgrace on the ocean, as it has beeti by land tat, navy would have been &West Wier! abaudecs:al xs an expensive gew-gaw. . Uappil, s however, victot.r, perched upon our lop.mast.--and the Meults Ka. ,t Cong,sess, from helegiarnical to navy prePariltions, are now. z 3 : lostsly tfetermined on, a prvratoito,..,and I respectable augmeotation of the pitabfisil:neut. The. materials now on hand, such as tituber,-cnpar,,cati-. rag, &e. is sufficient for the building of six sid i ps of. the line. " The Constitution, Capt.,Stewart, vihich gip sail, the middle of next month, is in thamost comple;e re-. pair, equal to a new frigate. The .Aclamr; tiai. hie ! bcott lengthened lb' feet, is rapidly progressiug i repairs. She will be commanded, by.. Capt. Morris. 4 The New iork,capeble of being made a capital ship n I is be ticket; mind to New York to receive her re pairs. She will be ,u,atisig., , the epinucauck of Captain Gordon. •t • 5 • • " lit was very correctly expressed here this morn. ing, by a -very able Member or the Senate, usually attached to the Achuiniatration, that it appeared by 1 the President's Message, that the difference between this country and Great Iltitain was reduced down to a mere. quibble. The subject of impressment, he conceives, tiny, be easily adjusted. The Admini stration certainly do not mean to wage win for the ,defence of British seamen. • lie would advise the Executive not only to stipulate that we would not employ British seamen—but he would be willing to go farther—to pass au Act denying the - right of na turalisation to British seamen. Either of these mea sures, would inost assuredly satisfy the British Mi. •istry; and the disputes growing out of this fruitful source of 'irritation be thus for ever buried between the two nations." • ' . • 1101 ME OF REMBSENTATIYES, Nov. 13. The following Message, was received from the President et the United States, by Mr. Cele. ) his Secretary • - . ' le . 1 aliE INNAte AND N . ODSIC OP RVIDASZNTATITES Of . . Vag LIN ITNIVITATES. For the faith/ tufiirmatiot,of Cengtess, reletiie to 0%004 advances 'Made en the part a the Go rammed to that if Great Britain and the manner ris which they hare been met by tlialatter ) I trans. .., fe • • k - _~~~ r . -I - k i , ; ti ~ „, I I