The Statesman. — London, England, 1812-06-05 00:00:00

4 AMERICA. WAIMINGTODI CITY, APRIL 99.—The proposi tion for a recess of Congress received its roue de grace, in the House of Representatives, ou Saturday last, after a warm struggle: the recess, we believe, would have taken place, kad it been suggested foe 20 days, instead of near 40, as proposed by the' Senate. lhe Senate passed and sent down another Resolu tion to day to adjourn Congress from the 6th to the 29th of May ; it was taken up immediately, the pre vious question called for, carried, and the Resolution negatived, 59 to 51. NATIONAL INTELLIGENCENI Y.tY Q. The Bill for appointing two Assistant Secretaries to the War Department has passed both Houses of Congress. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Aram3o. Mr. REED presented a Petition of sundry Mer ebants of Boston, in Massachusetts, stating that they have an immense amount of properly in the domi nions of Great Britain, the safety of which is jeopar cltsed by the state of the relations between the two countries, and praying permission to draw their said property from Great Britain and her dependencies, under such provisions as shall be reasonable and just. Some debate took place on the question of refe rence of this Petition. Mr. RHEA moved to postpone it to the 4th of July next. _ _ Mr. REED moved to refer it to the Committee of Foreign Relations. A motion by Mr. Bine, to refer the Petition to the Committee of the whole to whom similar Peti tions have been referred, was carried in the affirma tive. The Bills from the Senate " respecting Associ ati9ns for Maritime Security," and the Bill " con cerning Merchant Vessels armed for defence," were twice read, and referred to Committee of the whole. . -TENNESSEE.-DIVISION ORDERS. VOLUNTEERS TO ARMS! CITIZENS !—Your Government has at last yielded td the impulse of the nation. Your impatience is no longer restrained. The hour for national vengeance is now at hand. The eternal enemies of American prosperity are again to be taught to respect your rights, alter having been compelled to feel, once more, the power of your arms. War is on the point of breaking out between the United states and the King of Great Britain ! And the militia hosts of Amerita are summoned to the tented field. BENEVOLENT SOCIETY OF Sr. PATRICK. AT nit Adjourned and Special Quarterly Meeting of the Governors of this Charity, held at the Old Parr's Head, in Aldersgate-street, en the 9th of May, 1612. THOMAS BAIN MIDGE, Esq. Treasurer, in the Chair: The following, moved by the Marquis of Lansdowne, and Seconded by Lord Arthur Hill, was unanimously resolved : That another (Literal Special Meeting be convened for Satur day, the 6th of June, 161;4 at one o'clock, at the Purr's Head, in Aldersgate-street, for the consderation of divers matters of great importance to the Charity, as well regarding the adoptien 1 of the laocasterian System of Educating the Children; the ap propriation of the Building Fund to that purpose; as the revi sion, auditing, and sanctioning the Accounts. and Administra tion of the Charity. A oamerous Meeting of Governors is most earnestly requested. That the Committee, and particularly those Gentlemen be longing to it who have visited the Laneasterian School, he re qoested to prepare and lay before the General Meeting, on the 6th of Jose, a Report respecting the nature and principles of that Inititutkia ; and the extent to which they can be made available to the purposes of this Charity. (Signed, by order) HENRY WAITERS, See. Arr. Mails. DIM. 1 Waterford 1 Cadiz 0 1 o 0 1 PRICE 01 STOCKS THIS Bank 5 per Cent. ('Mn,. 3 per C•nt. Red. 60 591 ,4 per Cent'. 75 41 5 per Cent. Navy Long. Ann. 15 5-161 • DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. India Bonds par 1 pr. Exchequer Bills sid. par 1 pr Ditto aid. 4 5 par. Omniurn Consols for Acct. 61 60; Lottery Tickets THE STATESMAN. LONDON: FRIDAY, JUNE a, 1812. THE , . ADM INISTRATICM. Hardly any thing towards a final arrangement of 1 this business, could be expected to be done yester day, as the PRINCE REGENT left town early in the morning for Windsor, to assist in the private cele bration of his Majesty's birth-day. His Royal Highness is expected to return this afternoon, when it is probable, the progress which Earl MoirtA has made in the formation of a Cabinet, will be laid be fore him. A Morning Paper, which pretends to lie in the secrets of Carleton-house, states, that the PRINCE " vested Earl MoIKA with full powers to negociate a Ministerial arrangement, without any ex- 1 elusive reservation whatever." This is as it should be, and we earnestly hope the statement will prove correct. At the same time, when we consider what has , passed within these few weeks, and contemplate the power ful faction which the true friends of the country hare to combat with, we are not very sanguine as to the result of the present struggle. Oar minds at least cannot be set at no, until we see those men vested with power, whom the people hail as their delivere►s from the horrors of war, and from the iron grasp of an intolerant despotism. We stopped tho press yesterday to announce the arrival of an empress from Liverpool, conveying the disagreeable intelligence from Almeria, that more direct hostile measures had been resorted to by that Goversment, than any hitherto adopted against Great Britain. Mr. Pors had brought in a Bill, au thorising the Pees:cast? to eagage the public ships 1* capturing all foreign vessels ionad hovering off the Coast; and another Bill was brought Into the Senate, enabling the relations of impressed seamen to seek recotspeoes la the atlas:tumid of British property, TUE STATESMAN. to be held and disbursed at the rate of thirty dollars per month for each man. One clause of this Bill enacts :—That any British or other sub jects, proved to have been guilty of impressing American seamen, shall be deemed pirates and r• felons, and punished with death ; such persons to be tried on the spot, wherever they may be found : By the farther clauses of this Bill, the American flag is made to cover all persons .on board, excepting such as may be in the acttfal service of Great. Britain ; and it is ordered, that the Government do seize so many British subjects in the United States, or fh the terri tories of Great Britain ! as shall be equivalent to the number of Americans detaintl on board the British navy; these hostages to be detained until a regular exchange by the esual way of cartel. This Bill passed the hist reading by a majority of 53 to 28; and no doubt was entertained of its immediately passing into a law. The National Intellkencer an nounces the measure of Embargo at preliminary to war, and cautions the mercantile part of the Union not to regard the restriction as a system to be acted on. Even the private letters, while stating that war is not very palatable, mention, that nothing but the recal of our Orders in Council can prevent this sad and afflicting calamity. Our Government are, indeed, said to have received authentic information, that Letters of Marque and Reprisal had actually been issued by the Americans. Since writing the above, the following copy of the Impressed Seamen's Bill, as it passed to a thltd read ing in the House of Representatives on the 27th of April, has reached us : " A BILL POfi THE PROTECTION, RECOVTRY, ASO vessel, of any foreign nation, shall have taken or impressed from on board any ship or other ves sel of the United States, while at any port or place not within the jurisdiction of such foreign ,nation, or while on her passage to or from any port or place, any seaman, mariner, or other person, not being in the military service of an enemy of such foreign na don, to prohibit, by proclamation, every person residing within the United States, or its territories, from affording succour or provisions of whatsoever kind to such ship or vessel ; and any pilot, or other person residing within the United States, who shall (after such prohibition shall have been made known, and before the same shall be revoked) afford aid, succour, or provision as aforesaid to such ship or vessel, and be thereof convicted, shall be sentenced to be imprisoned not exceeding one year, and fined not exceeding 1,000 dollars. " Stc. 7. And be it further enacted, That from and after the 4th day of June next, whenever full and sufficient testimony shall be produced, that the Com mander or Commanders of public armed vessels, of any foreign nation, having pressed or taken from on board any ship or vessel within the jurisdiction of the United States, or while on passage to or from any port or place, any seaman, mariner, or other person, the PRESIDZNT shall be, and hereby is, authorised to prohibit, by proclamation, the landing from on board any ship or other vessel of the foreign nation (whose Commander or Commanders have of fended as aforesaid), any goods, wares, or mer ' chaudite, within any of the ports of the United States or its territories; and also to prohibit the lading of any ship or vessel of such nation, within any of the ports or territories of the United States, pro vided that nothing herein-contained shall be construed to prevent any ship or vessel of the nation, whose Commander or Commanders have offended as afore. said, and which shall arrive within any of the ports of the United States or its territories, to remain with their cargoes on board, or to proceed to any place without the jurisdiction of the United States.— And provided also, that any ship or vessel of such nation (which may have been partly laden at the time such Proclamation shall be made known) shall be permitted to depart with the lading then on board, to the port of destination of such ship or vessel :" upon a division, the Yeas 58—the Nays 28.—This Bill has been since, on its third rending in the House of Representatives, recommitted to a Committee of the whole. The Paine REGENT, accompanied by the Duke of CestasaLAND, left town soon after nine o'clock, for Windsor, where they were met by the other branches of the Royal Family, who, with a select party of particular friends, paid their complimentary respects to the Quays, in the Grand Saloon, on the return of the day. Princesses AUGUSTA, SOPHIA, and Cummotert of WALES, the Dukes of CLARENCE and Kawr, rode on horseback in the Plantations, &t........expee;ed by Lords Soweavnts an d S T . HELENE; Generals IiARTH, CAR.' and WINYARD ; Col. TAYLOR., and Lady ROSSLYN. Mr. SCRAW, the Messenger, was sent off with dispatches to America, about three weeks ago. COURTS-MARTI AL.—A Circular Letter from the War-Office, dated the 25th of March, has been ad dressed to the Colonels cfimmanding regimmts, in which they are apprised, " that his Royal Highness the PRINCE REGENT has deemed it expedient to re vert to the custom heretofore in use, of entrusting to the Colonel or Commanding Officer of each regiment, a warrant, empowering him to hold in the regiment under his command, and composed exclusively of the Officers belonging to it, General Courts-Martial, for the investigation and punishment of offences, which, though they do not fall under the description of small offeeces, and consequently of offences cog. nizable by a Regimental Conrt-Martial, are not, how ever, from their nature, of sufficient gravity or im portance, to require the investigation of a General Court-Martial,i composed of Officers of other corps." A Circular Letter, which accompanies the pre ceding document, contains the following recom mendations on the subject of the prevention of mi litary offences : tur i n , ed ord h li is e th rr a u nk h s a t s a , in a compumentarykt.taoTa Captain 11Orttsm they (as and t : o u menwould n not t f the permit Non thhi mennbcr cahnadt. were captain but killed is( to bi)pee:irtir,cokar(mebol'sf i o n a r the e immediately , Br i tish _when thrown is th e fully e c x u a os m tvo i er n m ed b as to the probability of any life remaining, and then or d ere d t h eir bodies to be committed to the deep iu the most solemn manner, the funeral service being read by the Chaplain. Th e custom of the French Navy is to pile the dead ho. ' dies or those supposed to be dead, on the mkkhip part of the decks. The British ws eratenh t des h o r chl o odi w smoobnt e ah v te f e w : y eeetdx m witeee : ::; overboard as soon as he falls. se I pal arl h e IprarCi painting collectionti i : ng n e o r n y o ' w s fGrecianwhich hn ti representseV sa, iday at Christie's. The celebrated Vase, the pri les: the Greeks and Trojans, for the body of Palu m b o I was knocked down f or 172 gu i neas. • ; Peeesratasissf.--A gentleman of the name o f FERGUSSON, on Tuesday morning, started from Hyde-park Corner, to walk barefooted fiftpe u miles in five hours. He performed the task with ease in three hours and 40 minutes. The first 10 miles he walked in two hours and .58 minutes. An inquest was taken on Wednesday the 80th ult. '.before the Alderman of the borough of Malmesbary, on the body' of Thomas Carter. It appeared that the deceased had been dining with the members of a benefit club, or friendly society, at the Three Cups Inn, that is the evening having become intoxicated he was placed in a wheel-barrow, and by four of his companions wheeled from the Inn where he had bees dining to the George Inn, and there thrown into stable, where he was soon after discerned i ts & lifeless state. Medical assistance was immediately called in, but every effort to restore animation wasia vain! Never perhaps was therean instauce of morewan ton or cruel treatment than this poor creature, who was of the most peaceable disposition and habits, etbeeived from those who had been his companions, and whose duty it was to have affordod him protec tion, instead of exposing and depriving him of exist.. ;nee. The public will no doubt leant with astonish., went, and indignation, that the perpetrators of tilt, cruel act, that the men who have deprived an inno cent individaul of his life, a wife of her husband, and, eight children of a parent, have escaped all punish.. meet, except that which must arise from that of their own consciences ; and it is most probable, their com punctions will be bat light, or it would have been impossible they could have acted in the manner they did, had the efforts of conscience any influence on their actions. The following is an instance of the fatal effects of inattention in administering medicines. A woman who lives at Gedney Dyke, having last week gone to a shop to purchase some syrup of rhubarb, which she intended giving to a child, the person who sup plied her, unfortunately, by mistake, gave her lau danum, of which the woman administered to the child two tea-spoonfuls. The consequence was the death of the child. CHILD STE.u.INc.—A mast atrocious instance of depravity occurred a few days since, in the neigh bourhood of Taunton, in the deprivation of' a child. from its miserable parents, through the artifice of an. old woman. She applied to the poor people, who live in a cottage near Taunton, for liberty to warm and rest herself' Th.:4 61411U...1, a.. 1 tha nett' any she came again, and stole away a fine infant, about three years old. The distressed father, riding all night over the county, in quest of his child, luckily met the old hag coming into the town of Chard. They had staid in the fields all night, and the poor infant had been beaten severely for not calling the wretch mother. Its clothes and shoes had been taken away, and the object of the inhuman monster was to go begging with the child. She is committed to Ilchester Gaol. A most melancholy accident happened on Wednes day se'nnight, at Portchester ; as the boat of the &- I *!stance was there with an officer, making payment of remittances to the prisoners, Henry Franks, a very fine young man, who was boat-keeper, by some ac cident, when the rest of the crew were absent, fell out of the boat ; he was soon missed, and picked up before cold, but every effort to restore animation was in vain : he had a larg e cut over one of hi* eyes, which is supposed to be occasioned by filling egaipst the bk.at's stem or a stone. An inquest h s oeen e on the body, and a verdict returned ot —Accidenial Death. Old th l i ta M df o o nda rd, y e'n sol s dal n l ig h h lst,llr. potatoes IJ o to we h t is t, po l‘ y li r l Miller of gh.. - ---- ----- - " The Comenmder-in-Chief has commanded me to t a ke this I J, take opportunity of stating. that there is no point on which his Royal i bourn at likl. r k.lie Highness is more decided in his opinion than that when O ffi cers , quantity of his p flou r, rotai l l,,at the reduced price of are earnest and zealous in the discharve, of their duty, and cum- I likewise sold a large potent to their respective stations, a frequent recurrence to pu• i 4s. for wheat flour with the bran in it. At t he same oishmeot is ill not be necessary. 1 45. 10d. for seconds ; 4s. 4d. for good thirds; and " The Commander-in-Chief is confident, the Officers of the ! time he informed them, he would continue to retail army are universally actuated by a spirit of justice, "and irnpm- flour at his { sed with those sentiments of kindosso and regard towards their 1 mill , every Monday null Saturday morn men which they on so many occasions have proved themselves ta t ing, from nine tilt two o'clock. desisivos but his Royal Hlghtiess has reason to apprehend, MIMI in many instance, sufficient attention has not been paid to the Cis of crimes. The timely interference of the Officer. w i thin the walls ofthe fourprincipal prisons for , It is a fact, that there are at this time immured Ms personal intercourse and acquaintance with,his men (which debtors within the bounds of the metropolis, upwards 'rewire to be repaid by the.soldien' confidence and attach- whoseindustrious exertions pro cious means of preventin g military offences ; ascot), and abOve all, his personal example, are the only effica- of 1500 persons, on der-in-Chief has DO hesitation in declaring, that the maintenance pendant for support. an d th e co m mas_ ' three times that number were princ i p all y de bably of strict discipline, without severity of punishment, and the sup- I Tuesday evening the new Alms - hou ses in Gravel past and encouragement of au ardent and military spirit in a we" without licentiousness, are the criterions by which his!la Royal Highness will be very much guided, in forming his opt- fo n r e 2 , l 6 p o o u o th r w a a g r ed k, w h id u o il w t s h b y elo th n e gi ße ng to S urrey elfin of the talents, abilities, and merits of the Officers to whom were o the command of the diff eren t reg i me nts a nd corps of the army ;p ?nail for their reception, when a p latform are confided." I was erected in front of the houses , from which the Rev. Rowland Chapel, Hil The following is a copy of a General Order of his Rev. Gentleman preached in the open air to not less `Royal Highness the Commander in Chief, ordered than 3000 persons. to be printed by the House of Commons, May 28, ! A gold coin of the reign of Edward HI. called a 1812: ' Ia consequence of the op e r a ti on o f t h e . Ac t, f or allowing the Horse Guards, sth July, 1811. ult. by Mr. Botterill, of the I) olphin , in B oston, in I Rose Noble (6s. B d.), was found on Monda y ,thetsth Highness the c omm a n d e r is Chi e f i s pleased to direct. that the high state of preservation, haying on one side the mutual interchange of the British and Irish Militias, his Royal a garden belonging to him in Maiiiiidge. It is in* D l° ' A 'al" and on the other, " Exalted:liar in Gloria." l e ire. nta that adi no ng sold °lllcers ter„p o rokr f regiimengnihtseshali Roman he cas Eari b i o c l u ic lar tie !Y I V: - followir , inscription, " Edward, Dei Gra. Rev shall be subject to any punishment for not attending the Divine IS • worship of the Chu roit of England : and that every such soldier ' shall be at full lib e rty t o a tt en d t h e wor ship o f Almighty trod, the aceonliog to th e fo rms prescribed by his religion ; when military lolled the use of the petticoat, and havin g nosy ploi n attire consequence of o u r fasho ifon the aeble modern neiles,i m hiving em fi e rs ntts e n duty does not int e rf ere . ' By endunand of tie Royal Highness the Commander in Chief, considerably shortened the gown, so as to shelf t° HARRY CA E LVRT 0 ,A. , ;full aevan t taps the elegance of a well-turned ancle , Yesterday the Judges met is the King's Bench Grionsis. has been called amo ngst the admirers of Treasury ' Chambers, Westminster Hall, to choose I a meeting the fair sex who have unanimously resolved to ad their Circuits. '. ects , of their adoration, praying thefts Hans. —Lord Ellet t hora Baron , Lnrd Chief Ban. dress the obj I NORIP•I4I.—Sir Jamesld, Mr. Justice Heath. to cease ll further c urtailments of-their habil Wirsersui.--11r. Justice Chembre. Mr. Baron Graham.entirely d • Oxsosto.—Mr. Baron Thossioa, Mr. Justice I.e 131•Itic. pleasures which haw, hi,therto been derived frost ima• PIDLADII.—Mr. Justice( likabs t 'Mc Jostler tillgw- ments, lest they should estroy all this(' NOwNlalur.-1411 . . 1.41., Weed Ur. Justice Bailey. iear:lion. INDEMNIFICATION OF AMERICAN SEAMEN. " Whereas, by the Treaty of Amity, Commerce, and Negociation, made between his BRITANNIC MA. JESTY and the United States, at London, en the 19th day of November, 1791, it is agreed, that there shall be a firm, inviolable, and universal peace, and a true and sincere friendship between his Bat- TANNIC MAJESTY, his heirs, and successors, and the United States of America, and between their respec tive countries, territories, cities, towns, and peo ple of every degree, without exception of persons or places. And, whereas, his BRITANNIC MAJESTY has caused to be impressed out of the ships of the United States, sailing QII the high seas, under the American flag, divers liege Citizens of said States, and compelled them to serve on board the ships of war of Great Britain, and to fight against the United States ; and numbers of them yet detains contrary to the express provision of said Treaty, and in violation of their natural liberty; and against the peace of the United States. " Be it therefore enacted, by the Senate and House of Representatives• of the United States of America id Congresss assembled, that from and after the 4th day of June next, any person or persons who shall impress any native seaman of the United States from on board any vessel of the United States, sailing on the high seas, or in any port, river, haven, basin, or - flay, under pretence or colour of a com mission from any foreign power, shall, for' every such offence, be adjudged a pirate and felon, and, en conviction, shall suffer death ; and the trial in such case shall be had where the offender is appre hended, or may be first brought. ►r Ssc. 2. And be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for any seaman sailing under the dig of the United States, on any person or personsattempting to impress him by force or violence from on board any ►es sel of the United States on the high seas, or in any port, river, haven, basin, or bay, to repel force by force ; and if any person so attempting to impress said seaman, shall be killed, maimed, or wounded, it shall be lawful for such seaman on the general I , sue, to give the special matter in evidence, which is hereby declared a perfect justification. " SEc. 3. And be it further enacted, That on in formation being given to the President of the UNITE° STATES, proving, satisfactorily to him, that any ci tizen of the United States shall have been impressed, and shall be yet detained, or shall hereafter be im pressed, to cause the most rigorous retaliation on any of the subjects of said Government, taken on the high seas, or within the British territories, whom he is hereby authorised to cause to be taken and sties& for that purpose, any Treaty to the contrary notwith standing. 46 SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That any seaman heretofore or hereafter impressed, shall be, and he is hereby authorised, to attach, in the hands of any British subject, or in the hands of any debtor of any British subject, a sum equal to thirty dollars per month, for the whole time he shall hare been de tained on hoard any British vessel or vessels. And that any sum of money, so attached out of the hands of any debtor, shall be a payment of so ON& of said debt to said creditor; and. en plea of pay. ment, or set off, the same may be given in evidence s and allowed in any suit for the recovery of said debt, any Treaty to the contrary notwithstandingt • " SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That the President of the UNITED STATES is hereby autho. rised to capture, by way of resprisal, any British subjects on the high seas, or within the British terri tories, as may be equal to the impressed American seamen in the possession of Great Britain, and by a cartel to exchange the same. " Sac; 6. And be it further .vaacted, That the PRESIDENT be, and be is hereby authorised, when ever sufficient tastimeny shall be pioduced that the Commander of ant public armed Alps or oar *.' 1' :T -11 . IF 1 0 t. I 1~~ r' , . z ! .). 1