The Statesman. — London, England, 1812-05-08 00:00:00

Aftor south coutorsatioli between . '.Kr. Ferrets!, Mr. Tierney, Mr. NVystneand Mr. Baker, as to how far the motion might infringe the Privileges of the Lords, Mr. Ben n ett agreed to limit his motion to the iwoduction of the Copy of•Appoiutmeut, which was carried. Sir JOAN NEWPORT gave notice, that on Thursday next he should submit a motion, the ob ject of which would be to relieve that class of Pro testant Dissenters in Ireland, known by the name of &ceders. The Report of the Resolutions of the-Committee of Supply was then brought up, and after sonni re marks from Mr. Wynne and Mr. Baker, was read a first and second time. The Committee on the Riot Bill was postponed to this day. The Bank Token Bill and the Unlawful Oaths Bill were both read It second time, and ordered to be committed. The other Orders of the Day were then disposed and the Douse adjoarued. ORDEICS IN COUNCIL. . EVIDENCE BEFORE THE HOUSE OF COMMONS CONTINUED. Mr. W. "'sere:forst examined.—lle is a nail,: ronmonger at West Bromwich, Staffordshire, six miles from Birmingham, nettr a principal manufactory of saw material of iron, and an im mense manufactory of nails. Twenty years accustomed to the trade. Trials never in so bad a state. Depression from Amtail, 1810. Before that, etwiloyed.l2 to 1500 men, women, and children now, from sto 303. Turned off his hands first, about sic months ago; previously employed them at full wawa. Stock akuniulatinisesicP. If it continues to do so, will not maple, the a:m • nutfibet ;of hands. Three are bat two or three triumptil usil-thanufactonis: Dudley is the chief place, West ronswich and Stu •rbridge, thd others, The nail-trade, when ourishing, employed from its to 30,000 people: two-thirds to threeloarths of them are now entelnyed, on full wages, at the ;reduced price of last January, of to 10 per cent. Wages sever reduced before; but advanc ed early in 1810: working home from 5 or 6 in the morning till 11 or 12 at night: earnings fso•n Bto 16 shillings per-week ; but very hard work indeed to aet the last. They do not work by time, but by:the piece. In oarfiling flutes 2 or S shillings a week more, in full employ : a man might now get 13 or 20 shilling:, working for a wager, and without but regular meals. The falling off since August, 1810, has been from i to 10 per cent.: keeps on his Sands now, in expectation of revival of trade: number of poor not in erased so much as he should have suppo,ed: many gone for sol diers, and to the poor-house; what became of the rest, cannot tell t knows no friendly societies in the pia?. Exported some goods to America in 1810: none since. Sent to South America to a considerable amount, and ITen paid a considerable pail. Seat them late in 1809, and early in 11410. Since Feb. 1811, sent duly one single lot: that waste the United States. Sent afew thou nand posed' worth between Feb. and April, 1811, 10 South Ame rica: since then, have not exported as much to South America as wed toexport to North America in same time: nothing to Heligo land, Malta, or the Continent. Cannot my there has been a fall ing offin home market ; but articles reduced in price. Knows of ins meuse orders, conditional on restoration of intercourse. Could env keep the men in full employ. Men hitherto orderly, bat eiscuatented for several months: earning such small wages, they have not much spirit for riot or anything of that kind a not dim posed to enter into a riotous spirit. During last scarcity, nail trade not in so had a state as now. Does not add to stock, as that has ruined many. Thinks poor's rates from 10 to 15 per cent. higher than they were in August, 1810. The desirable part of the mauuractnren are deserting them (the young men) and going for soldiers. In 1803 there Was a pressing machine ! at New York that manufactured 50 tons of nails per week.— ! Sold all hismitib there, mita itlistaniline, and made his reraittane.e • The decrease of the trade owing to stoppage of inter eoure. If we exported nails to anv amount tip A nierica, we meld not fully supply the demand, for the immense number of n node') houses built in that country. One would be surprised ' where they got the nails. None exported, he believes, since ; Juue, 1810. There might at that time lave been some re-export ed to the Spanish Colonies and West Indies. Does not know that cheapness of American pails bas countermanded orders: • mine complain of their presses Injuring their nails. A respect . - I able importer at filostowhas left a considerable order here Mt- • ; withstanding the manufactory there. When there is free 1164- • coarse we must have the trade, for a labourer gets a dollar s-day there, add cannot turn matinfactuerr. The present price of nails in America would afford a very great profit for our nails, ! if we could get them there. No great exporcof nails from the Continent to America since witness has been in business: 'for tnely Germany supplied America, the West Indies, Bcc. nhese there are now 110,030 employed in his part of the coun try, there were not then employed iem'nor, he believed, 5100 in that branch. We are at par with the Continent in the raw hriala Or Iron, 60 that 0011 e can go to Market cheaper than we : the reduced price of nails and the erection of the scram-engine s, remove all fear of our being undersold, is 114.11 t• ver the great mar kets for consumption of Willi and heavy goods, in N. and S. America, particularly the former, and the E. and W. Indies, silel! be opened. Nails are 1.5 per cent. cheaper than they were !la or three years ago. lie is sure, that if the export trade to America was again opened, the whole of the manufact u rers of Vest Bromw ien would And employment. The diminished price of the raw material is owing to the diminished consumption; bat „ereatly, also, to the improvement. Immense new mines and works are opened within last ten years. Never expects the raw material to tie maim pounds a ton higher than ,tow. Trade of nails with Canada, be ',chews, not diminished nor increased.— A tolerably fair export last season to the West M ar y lorople tumeAvitbdratfn (ruin the Smith A ineriean trade. Arti er, of Spi; pattern seat there were paid for: the ;einem 1.. w ont. Considerable order ibr thatatuarter in hand. Not rook Asa half the nail lade at most is for home consumption : butthat, together with Canada, South America, and West In dies, ?sakes about tbree.tinrths Increase of American BMW— factures creates considerable anxiety at Birmingham. As a mil maker, be as no anxiety with respect to the machinery in Anse l tics, Aitmlll.—Mr. Tuosess Poe-rs, a merchant of Birmingham, examined.—le . besiness 16 or 18 years, as an exporter to the United Ste (Mee evidence as to the • workmen of the nail trade mach to wine effect as lust witness. Prime workmen in the manufactories of Hiroolaghtim, button bnrnishers for instance, got 4 or 5 is from 4lls. to 503. a week : au' inferior man in the ;plated line rem 25s _to 311. Now they get not one half. One of A lower elms may get as before in a week, but generally they have only one-half the work, and half the money. 'Phone t -,es a half the week Oat of employ ore from 20 to 25,000. De. ttLiencies in every. trade. Work ii.en out of employ ; hitherto mist wonderfully peaceable. Manufacturers' stock accumulating nithuut vent for it. Cora,, L heratcs thestatements, as to probable demise:AV worksook When trade was open with America it was steady, and could be regularly calculated ape" bet steadily increasing up to PION. Twenty years ago, Amer:cam behind hand in payment. but progressively Improved. In 1807 no dif ticulty iu getting faytoeut for shipments. In 18061, after :lir. 4 elk ine's arrangeuteet, a cuieiderable fall in shipment, and one in 111111: better payment then than evert ready money frequent ly to avail thernselvesef. the discount, In fill nothing done but a few shipments, considered a high speculation. Daring the embargo in 1804, considerable shipments to Canada for smug- gling into the U nited states. The same attempted last year, but so unfortunate result. Goods were cheaper at Quebec th a n in the maeofacrerin g towns. Thinks the exports to America more than one-half of the whole demand for Birmingham wares, without tee/toning indirect shipmentsproagh Glasgow, Green 1' r &c. For the Lest three or four years, exports to the Conti- e•ot comparatively trifling. Exports to South America, far' on incress'ng. No relief in South America for the loss in : or th America, which was a regular staple trade, and could he emptied for six months before the orders came. Dues not think the Rirminghans goods very suitable to the South American I markets. t lumsy articles that we could s •areely imitate, were sent to us from thence as patterns. A most alarming progress within twgyears in North Am er i can -utanufactures. lient3 l - one adverffsements recently in the New York Papers fur hands, to engage in hasietwes preuliar to Mnochester and flientiaghatn. Various schemes ea foot in Arne' lea for working mines,, &c. If 'letters in Conned were rescinded, would ship tomorrow, in ennsequence of positive orders from Americans, with whoenthe ' ns'i lie Has engaged with two or three others, ships at Liver- pool with that mew, without waiting to learn what the Ameri run Government would do. Four houses in Birmingham have lead stock sailed to the market, of 210,0001. value. The article for the home market is al wuysluwer when we cease exporting. ; Mr. 2. Seew examined. Ile is Chairman of the-Chamber of ; of F ore i gn Commerce o f Bi rm i ng h am , and expor t er of bard. wares to Coadaeut of Europe : used to expert to Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Spain, Portegul„Terkey, sad recently to South America, from 50 to 80,0001. a year or mege; the trade materially deereakefi since 1807, more partieelarly last year.— ry little exported to the Continent the last three yews. He *f at a little I. Swath A:orrice, " when every Soo- was mad to wed goads to Samos Ayres, after letter of Sir H. Nibs:e t" 6 n- such rse. to pat of It, that IR will effect de Ware ut LONDON: FRIDAY, St 4.Y 8, 1811. A Lisbon Mail arrived this forenoon, by which we have received intelligence from the Peninsula to the 19th ult. lustead, of the French armies dying in all directions, as was lately represented, we find them still opposing the Allies in several directions.— MARMOST appears to bare entered Portugal by-Al meida, and to have pursued his course Southwards ' as far as 'uncles and Celorico, on the road to Lisbon. It is probable that the French Marshal calculated on Lord WELLINGTON proceeding into Spain after SOVET, by which the course would be left clear for him to advance with his army to the capital. Aware, how ever, of this movement, his Lordship has directed his attention to the North, and some divisions of our army are supposed to have crossed the Tagus on the 15th ult. with the view of intercepting MAamoter. These advances may probably bring on an engage ment hetwden the hostile armies in this quarter. The Lisbon Papers admit, that " -this diversion on the part of Maintop/v. was a good one, as it drew Lord WELLINGTON from the pursuit of Souty."' The report of the siege of Cadiz having been raised proves unfounded ; and there is no chance, now that . the Allies have found sufficient work elsewhere, of this occurrence soon taking place. With regard to Seville, it is stated that DALLASTEROS had actually taken possession of it, but fouod it necessary after , wards to retreat:on luariim of the approach of $4l pas% amp •• . TIIE STA TES7IIIA;N, that quitter, Ills deft ralxite Id the Chntineit are reduced two-thirds ; though as active as his neighbours in endewouring to do business, isaports ex little to the Brazils, but retinas ale - too tong In coming round. Tallow and hides from Hamm Ayres hang oa band. Disappointments there massed from a too great influx of Manufactures, and the goods not being sellable. Does not think the English merchint will be able to do much fatalness there. Knauss of no business between the East Indi e s an d C a p e of Good Ho& with Birmingham. Used to give six months cre dit to the Continental market, which was extended to tw e l ve but bus shipped f o r South Anaerica three years ago and recoMed no returns. Our goods sent to the United States were neater' than thole from Germany, hut dearer. There were, fear years ego, several mannfactories near Trieste, which made articles of brass and iron similar to those or Birmingham. Good nails are made at Liege, and at Oporto sat Aix la Chapelle and Itainshot, and from Holland, all the way to Trieste, there are rnanufacto ' ries conveniently situated for exportation by m eans o f rivers. U *the Weser, th e Elbe, and the Enas,were open to export the Roods from Aix la Chapelle .aud Liege, he does not think N or th America would take many of them, oar articles spiting them better ; hut it might ot•erato against as in the Brazils and in , Portugal. No fears from competition, if market s were open. , In somethings, Liege and Aix-la-Chapelle might undersel as in South America. Those who form the Chamber of Commerce at Birmingham deal to all other ports that Owe open except the I United States ,• there is not mere than sae of them who deals with i the United States. If there was no protecting duty upon arti- • cles from Germany not draws back_apen exportation, they would not go to the United States, nor West lodic's; but would go to the Brazils. Risk now too great to scud goods to Conti nent. Very few Birmingham goods go to Russia. Believes 'ma nufactures of sbe.Continent substituted' s% good deal in place of our's. Continental iron manufactures were exported chiefly from Dutch ports. Repeal of Orders in Council would.not ma terially increase the Continental calming, bet it would increase espial-Is from Birmingham. We should haVe more competition, but not in so groat a degree. Trade to ihe Continent, in gene ral, almost extinct. Distress at Birmingham owing more to want of employment than dearness of Mead. Has nut studied the question of the operation of the Osiers in Council: Trade :fell oft' after the Berlin and Milan Decrees, from difficulty of getting payments. Thinks it probable, if Orders were repealed, British goods would get on the Coatiaeat by means of neutrals. 1 If goneute, the isorkmas wake llidsessat patiasoo,askrar3r -lafiotratjlioaar wo r k. ,olltvtavo, coach.hai's and saddlery-plater, was next examined. Principally exports to America. Evidence much the AMC to most peons es these before examined, The • falling off in trade happened since the Orders in Council. Con siderable manufactories established. in America of late. The ' Continent never rivalled us in America in these I Mr. R. SPOONER, banker, of Birmingham, examined. Thinks • our fine goods would find their way to the Coniinent through America, if trade were again open with the latter, and such parts oft 'trope as are not under French dominion. The work , men would have full employ. Thinks goods did go to the Conti nent, when trade was open ss kb America. Mr. W. BLAKE% AT, lamp-inaker , examined. States, decay of trade, and accumulation of stock% must soon, if no chance occurs, dismiss his hands, whom he Las hitherto thought it his duty to keep . on : but in that case, does not expect to be able to get them again. Can get no home orders to compensate his loss •of trade. Greatest part of what he has made last 18 mouths, is on his hands, lie must soon turn off his men, or should not have the means of carrying WI business for one day in a week. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ORR O'CLOCK. Bank 2Sli lndia Bonds 2 p 5 per Ceut. Coo. 611 1 Exchequer Bill* 1 pr. S per Ceat. Red. 601 k Ditto sis 5 p 4 perl:tntil. 74H ()mullion 5 per Cent. Na,; 91i7 Consols/or Acct. 614 i Long. Aun. 15 4-16 i s Lottery Tkkets £2l :16 THE STATESMAN. • LtsnoN, Aram 18. Nevin. rasa campaign more brilliant than the pre. sent. To do justice to the merits of our great Com mander, or the valour of his gallant army at Badajos, is impossible. The breach was defended by every levention of destroctioto:—chateaux-de-frizes of swords, bomb-shells, mines, beams, large stones, old gun-carriages : it is incredible how it could be taken. PittuAreon is here ; he says he was not assniled by men, but devils. The fortress is now thoroughly repaired. General Hugs division is at Almeudraligo ; Generals SLADE and LONG are ad vanced to Villafranca, observing SoULT's move ments; while Lord WELLINGTON, with the remain der of the army, is passing through Portalegre, to drive MAttmosrr away, who bad advanced as far as Freynedas, apd pushed his parties as far as Fundas and Celorico; this diversion on the part of MAR /1110NT was a good one, as it drew Lord WELLING... TON from the pursuit of Soeur, if such was his in tention ; raising the siege of Cadiz ; and compelling the enemy tis evacuate the Andalusias. Our cavalry, a few days ago, came up with that of the enemy near Usalte, killed 100 of them, and took 300 prisoners. A quantity of ammunition has been sent from this place to tkidajos, sufficient to replace all that :was expended in the siege. In Badajos we4l aade 4700 prisoners. It is supposed that four of dour divisions crossed the Tagus at Vilha Velha, on er about the 15th, so that, by this time, Mvtatostr must be off. According to letters of the 13th inst. from Elves, SOVLT immediately retired from Estro rmadura, after hearing of the fatal success against Badajo S. It appears certain that BALLASTEAOS en tered Seville, which was almost ungarrisoned, but was not able to retain possession of that city, because SOCLT'S retreat was directed upon it, and he found himself again obliged to evacuate it. However, as in that capital were the principal establishments of the French, it is natural to suppose he caused them great loss. Letters from Beira Baxa state, that the French remain making excursions throughout the country, not being able to do any injury to Almeida, nor even penetrate by the Ooa, they descended along !the frontier, entered lower, and invaded Alpedrenha, and its neighbourhood; and, it appears, they have leven advanced as far as Fundas. Brigadier LEcoa had, however, ordered the flocks to be drawn otf, and every thing possible removed agreeably to the wise instructions of Government. Their object must i have been a diversion, which ceased to exist on the night of the 7th ; we may, therefore, hope that the stay of the enemy in our territory will be very I short.—(Lisbon Gazdle, April 18.) LISBON, APRIL 17.. Cadiz Gazettes to the 7th instant have arrived, they give no information respecting the movements. of the enemy in the lines before that city, and only state, that they had ceased throwing their bombs and grenades. That on the 3d, BALLASTEROS was in Polrlaciones del Pradn d'El Rey—that RovLa.t had routed in Catalonia, near Dornius, so completely a corps of 600 men, that 100 only escaped—that Eseoz and Ms had taken the French garrison of Tafalla prisoners—that the French had committed the unheard-of barbarity of killing with the bayonet many of the Spanish prisoners made in Valencia, who were not able to keep up with them on their march—and that in one 'single day, within the dis tance of a league, they killed 400 of these unfortu nate men.—(Lisbon Gazette, April 17). APRIL IS. Yesterday, at nine o'clock in the •moraing, Ge neral Pin LET PPON, with his Staff, and General Watt- TAN, arrived in this city. % • FRONTIERS ol? BEIRA BAXA, APRIL 7. On the 24, the French presented theßiselics in the vicinity of Citalad itodrigo, and crossing the Agueda, blockaded that fortress. They consisted of 4000 ofthe second division, 3000 of the third or fourth, 2600 of the sixth, 3000 of the fifth and others, and 3000 of the seventh ; according to appearances they do not observe any battering artillery from Salamanca, and very little light artillery ; they bring with them 30 waggons laden with scaling ladders. On the Gth they had retired, leaving the communication with Ciudad Rodkigo orn.—(Same Paper.) BANKS OF TIIE TORMES, MARCII 25. MAIIIIION'T we, yesterday io a - very had humour, iu come vivre of the Guerillas baring taken a convoy, with which were noise carriages and hones belonging to the Marshal, several portable mills, Ac. All was lost; several of the escort have ar rived here. The biscuit, which has been collected here, is fur a well number of people for a few day BoaNer, with his di vision, occupies lmgeti., Man-lhas, Leau, Orligo. and Astor gas. In Leas there are 5000 infantry, and 200 horse ; in Astor- ' Ipp_800; and in nmoy other points weak garrkoos. CARRILR, ekh his division, occupies litlialpando and its neighbourhood ; DOINSEPINL is in Burgos.—(Same putt.) Two Anholt Mails have arrived. The accounts which have reached us by this conveyance are to the 3d instant. Sir loin SAUMATIE2 has arrived at Gottenbargh. The Russian army is foolishly esti mated at 400,000 men. We say foolishly, because every one who knows any thing of the population of Russia, must be convinced that she can scarcely bring a fourth part of that number of troops into the field. The French are also represented to be afraid of attacking the litttssians, though it is ad mitted that they are advancing to meet them--a cir cumstance which cannot surely be considered an in dication of fear. But we see ho mason yet to be- Jiere that the sword will be drawn in the North. The' captering of Swedish and French vessels seems to be, This looks • tit .. .trot4(ol l thouih her deceptite`tiolicy naty intincn her to assail*" a warlike attitude, its order to r:Oule the present Minister, and obtain rinother euhsidyi tiOTTFA BURGH, MAY 2. The , French omits are In motion ; but the lateot account§ from St. Peteniburgh say, it Is generally supposed they a ill not venture to attack the Ressians, who are repregemed a: •IC.l,i'Ott strong, sod in the moot perfect state of Ili!cipllne, all rarsib:le pains baying been taken to renler they so ever tsi..ee the •Trea?o of filsit. The Latrancia, inpfrsoa, Wit is,e army, and has pledged himself to the Senate to have no tate:view lilt ItosiorAtern bat in the held, at the head of his troops. Sir d. SA UMAIREE bus just arrived. We are deeply concerned in stating, that in thO neighbourhood of Bolton Ghowbent, Leigh,and desley, a secret system Of organized riot,.approach ing to rebellion, has been carried on for some time. Many factories and mills were to be destroyed, and the lives of many respectable persons threatened.— By a well-conceived project, however, most juditi ously executed, these secret meetings have .been laid open, the private signals of the conspirators obtained, and by a patient and persevering duty of Avticinent/ of the Bolton Local Militia, their diabolical nee turnal assemblies are routed, their papers seised, and a great number of their ringleaders 41435 'peasecured, secured, and sent to La ncas t er gao l. AmOtigsl tie papers seised is a roll, containitu: a listerifittlies Uf great" numbers implicated. The Magistraten bre in defatigable. Much praise, is due to tialitain Bus.. LER, of the Greys, and to his troop honal to Major l'lrAmotosr, and his troop.—(Chegter, Paper.) The northern "arts of the kingdom wgrefor some days last week agitated bfrtntiOors 'or Oxtertiliiiffs.. turbances to take place upon the Ist or .iilt and some verse In Eacurrc was said to have Upon its circulation among the rioters. Of this, and of, the different oaths administered, Government are in pos. session. These, and other facts; will probably route out on the trials of the rioters in Chester-gaol, which will take place immediately, a Special Com:lls3;bn being now hi preparation. DOVER, MAT 7.—Much firing has been heard op '.the French coast; but, for want of an mita, mu . ire ignorant of the cause. An official return to an order of the House of Commons. states the amount of all sumi paid for the service of the Army itvthe Peninsula, Including Bet. tish, Foreign, and Portuguese troops, from April, 1808, to the 24th December, 1811, at .22„304,6121. 114 e. 2-1c1.;, and the amount of the advances in mo. ney, arms, stores, or otherwise made to the Spanish Government, at 2,535,9871. 17s. Oid. • It was stated yesterday, that Boston letters to the Bth ult. mentioning the probability of an Embargo within twenty-four hours, and a m?ssage sent with respect to shipping above 25 tons, have been re ceived. We have now every reason to believe, that the whole is a mistake. The Sally, from Boston, by which they are said to have been conveyed to Plymouth, has not yet reached the out-port. j A very hot press took place last night upon the I River, when upwards of 300 able hands were pro. I cured. In consequence of the withdrawing of the prolee- Cons from the impress of the persons lately embodied as River Fencibles, the whole of the business below bridge is at a stand, and the Baltic fleet outward, from the want-of hands, is detained, not being able in pro cure, on this account, the necessary supplies for the voyage. Under these circdmstances a Daptontion from the late corps has waited on the Loan M ►yo Sir WM. Cuevas, and Sir JAMES SnAw, amd the t lat. 'ter attended xt th3Treasury yesterday, with a strong Memorial from the persons concerned, showing the ipconvenience the Metropolis suffers from the :tape tion of the coal and corn trade, and other branches of commerce. The corps of Feacibles consisted only of about 600 men, but on the laborious duty to which we have referred, about 1800 strong and active per sons were regularly employed. None of these have ventured to appear on the river on account of the alarm of an impress, excited by the withdrawing the protections from the Fencibles. There are upwards of 100 persons now confined it: Lancaster Castle, charged with rioting. FRENCH PAPERS. I. a PARIS, MAY I.—The Senate had an extraordinary meeting to-day, under the Presidency of the Arch- Chancellor o f - the Empire.—(Gazette de France, May 2.) MAY I.—To-day, between four and five in the afternoon, Michel Michel, convicted of having sold the State secrets to the agents of a foreign power, suffered the punishment of death, to which he was condemned, in Place de Greve.—(Joui•nal de l'Em pire.) ALTon A, APRIL 19.—The corps of observation of our troops in our neighbourhood, are estimated at 15,000 men.—(Journal de l'Empire, May 3.) Lcirstc, APRIL %1. —The Senate has announced, that during the fair, the passage of troops through our town will not continue.—(Same Paper.) . VIENNA, APRIL 19.—Nothing has transpired re specting the negociations at Bucharest.—Probably, the Plenipotentiaries wait the return of a Courier dispatched to Constantinople with the result of the last conferences. All is tranquil in Servia.—(Same Paper.) STUTGARD, APRIL 27.—The King, accompanied by his Court and guards, to-day sgt out for Lud wigsburg.. On the 30th inst. the Queen will proceed thither.—(Same Paper.) PErcassußGll, APRIL 9.—TheGeneral of Infantry, Baron de Tolly, Minister at War, is named Corn mauder-in-Chief of the first Western Army.—(Jour nal de Paris, May 3.) Talk. Arr. .0 .- i l v )u .at b er lin ford - I ..~ o r Lisboa 0 2 0 lIVIELLIGENC • —4isebs-- SCILLY, MAY 3. On the f2Fitli ult. came ieltbe - Granger Van Oil, from De merara, and on the 29th the Elite, Cole, from St. Thom*.. and on the Ist root. they both sailed for op Chaeael ; suou after* cutter stood in from ma mad was boarded by a Pilot heat t proved to be a French privateer, farinerly the Cites erEeld Guernsey Packet, Commanded by the Lilted Captain 111:e.k.— She tirit took the Eliza without 0p..0-ition, and them engaged the (integer for an hour and a half Imitre site struck. Doritg the action Capt. Van Dyk was badly w Junded. A Mr. hal e, Secretary to the Governor of Demerara was phloem , r in t ie Graeger. The Eliza attempted to escape dining the ection w lea the (Integer, but the privateer again gave chime t. Ear, and tl.e Pilots, who were then put into their boat and discha , ged, had so - doubt of her recapture, as the privateer gained fist on her whea they last saw them. The Pilots give the above account. PORTSMOUTIC alliter 7. , Arrived 'at the Motherhank, the Trio, Capt. Rosa, frora Cu. peon. In tat. 49. 30. long. le. spoke the Grenada. 'from Gre nada, bound to Glasgow, who informed him oftberelatvieg lava two French rtlgates and a brig seen off Antigna. .Also arrived tia-day, the Motine gun-brig, from a cruise; Dotartrk emus of war, from Plymoutb • the Hannibal, from uff ChM* , t„e`i. and sailed again for the D'owas ; and the Foxhound gun-bfig Creme cruise. Sailed the Leopard man of war, with a convoy_fat - Cork ; oud. the Montague man of war, with the East India diet. PIXMOUTII, MAY 6. Arrived the Ametigaa brig Tigress, bound for Ilnanrilear. front Baltimore, with sugar and coffee, detninefl by the Her: sloop otaviar ; by the Tigress we learn, that Lis Majesty's. ship (ileanerhad arrived at Aliapolis, and had sent the dispatches, with witich she was charged, to Waibington. Put back thu Intelligent gun-brig and her cony bound fox the DOWIb4 • • VIE MARRa.- ..4.-- ` CORN EXCUATIOE, MAT 8. The h,farlet ihis day has several further arri vak of Wheat, as of-late, part from Set tland—the tradeextreme heavy lti sate, and gives way in price. The same is noted for Barley and Malt. White Peas, and the two sorts of BMW, still at little dom. atiun. Very few Grey Fe m. There are agaln seterai fresh arrivals of Oats, and sales o(serond, with inferior, are at !A:Sarah* lunar prices. Mar continues at late quotation, ' Iv hem .e l v ^..;. Ws 1184 141 r Tkk dot (new)... 6G / 0 1 Fineditto 135 142 • Do. (Fine Old) .. 7!,1 7.4 Rye .., - 78 8) Oat. 46 tO 81 Barley .: df 66 76 Poland do. Malt 92 100 Potatue do. White Pees (boilers) 85 921 Rape Seed Grey do. Beans smiliirtELDZNicr.T.—mAy S Ta sink the Oral, - of SM. - , reciprocal on the part of these rowers. _ is . , - . ~ per stone s. , what hostile; kit our suspicions as to the real Beer •••• 16 - 24 . "° f '`' 43 * Head id Culik Alf d:IS i AnOno —54. 4d. in 64. 64. I Item' . 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