The Statesman. — London, England, 1812-09-10 00:00:00

THE STATESMAN. UNITED sTATLS' RIGATE CONSTITUTION. BOSTON, Jva.Y Y 7. We have the pleasure of announcing the arrival in oar harbour, last evening, of the frigate Constitution, Captain Hum.. She left the Chesapeake Bay on the 11th inst. and on the 16th, in the afternoon, saw a frigate, and gave chase : the winds being light, they could not come near enough before night to ascertain who she was. It continued calm the principal part of the night. On the morning of the 17th, an English squadron was discovered, consisting of a ship of the line, four frigates, a brig, and schooner—the nearest frigate within gunshot. Through the whole of this day it was calm ; and every exertion made, by towing and warping to make head-way ; but the enemy by attach ing all their boats to two of the frigates, were evi dently gaining upon the Constitution, and occasion ally enabled them to bring their bow guns to bear upon her. This kind of manoeuvring, and the frequent dis charge of the Constitution's stern-chasers, continued during the whole day; on the 18th, at day-light, a • small breeze sprang up, when the Constitution spread all her canvas, and, by outselling the enemy, escaped a conflict, which she could not have maintained with any hope of success against a force so greatly su- ' perior. The chace continued sixty hours, during which time the whole crew remained at their sta tions. The Constitution was bound to New Yolk, but from the uidavourableness of the winds, has put in here. BALTIMORT, JOLT 913. 1 The Reign of Terror. and Proscription has raised its hideous form once more among us. The first as sault on the Federal Republican Office, was but a farce compared to the one of last night. The cause of *fella WU, the re-appearance of the Federal Repub. !ican yesterday. The paper itself is printed in Georgetown, district of Columbia; the Editors, however, took an office in this city, from whence it was to be distributed among the Subscribers here.— The Editors hiving received isformation in the course of the day that an attempt would be made in the eight to demolish the building and its contents, they accordingly prepared themselves to defend their per nos and property. About fifty of their friends joine , l them, armed and otherwise accoutred. About ten o'clock the mob made their appearance, and commenced the attack by throwing a volley of brick bats at the windows, to which no return was made from within. At length they attempted to force the doors of the building, when those within desired them to desist, at the same time firing ns a warning three pistols without ball. The assailants then burst open the door, when those within were ordered to • fire, and three or four of the ringleaders were in -standy ICYCPC4 with the ground and several others wounded. slaving been defeated in this instance, they had recourse to the gun-house of one of our ar tillery companies, from whenee they took a nine pounder, which they loaded and placed opposite to the house, and were only deterred from firing it by a troop of horse making their appearance, when a compromise being made with the Defendants, and a few of their friends without, that they would go to jail and hold themselves amenable to the tans for v; hat they had done, accordingly about '2O of our most respectable citizens were conducted to jail for safety,, under a guard of soldiers, and amidst the shootings and joyful acclamations of as infuriated a sot of demagogues as ever disgraced the city of Paris under Itoursmitat. They have threatened to pull ~own the jail, as likewise the court-house. Our praiseworthy Mayor was sent fur early, but did not make his appearance till after six u'ettck this morn in4, when he remained a passive spectator !—Oh ! that we had a Da IVITT CLINThN here, an end would soon be put to these iniquities and allonti nations." MOST HORRIBLE BUTCHERY AND MURDER! tirlucT OF • LETTER TROD BALTIMORE, DAM) ON WED- WESDAT MORNING AT NINE O . ( tocK. " The. Gentlemen referred to in iny letter of yesterday, pre f. rred remaining in prison to being hailed out, nuder assurances Af protection from the t'onstituted Authorities. A regimerit of i . ..f.ihtry, a company of artillery, and certain troopers were ordered out, A detachment of thcmob surrounded the escort of the rientlemen M thejnil...wounded several of them with stones as tl,ey were starching along the street, and struck seseral others 37 th ascended the steps), while the greater part of them coed rued about and in the house of Mr. WAGNen, destroying the furniture and the iellernal work of the hailding, throughout the day, without the least molestation. " After dinner I stalked out to Howard's Park opposite the . which was surrounded by a large concourse of people.— Erigadier-General Sinus= and the Mayne were walking about apparently anteater-Ned. The eonstant cry of the mob was ' blood for blond.' No military appeared, although de -I.ehroents were paraded in tern, which a little before sue-set *sec unloved to Os dismissal as being unneeenery; and, within an hoer frees that time, the mob, without resistance, entered the jail and forced the door of the apartment which contained the entlemen. Mr. DANTIL Mranat presctted himself before 'em with pistols and they drew hack—the Gentlemen then JAed forward, ami many of then, succeeded in effecting their '=cape uabort. General LIP MAN was inhumanly murdered, and etvcral were desperately wounded. Mr. Joust Twonrsow, beaten to a mummy—wan of his arms broken in two places, and olio deep indentures In his right cheek, continu es barely to exist. General Lest, with a fractured seen, was take. to the Hospital, but it is hoped be will survive his wound, as well as Mr. GEOII/Ge NV mai versa, and another Gentleman, who were terribly beaten. 1 l•ave beard of none others much isiured. In the course of the afternoon Mr. Hansom put his head out of the window and pro claimed, that they were trearherously 'rot there to be ussmaered. " General Lrgeaw is the idol of Montgomery, and serious eoaiequences are apprehended to result from his murder. It * IS reported yesterday morning, that an express had gone to M otgoalery for an escort of six hundred horse--and consider. lag that the General—a Member of the Legislature, and several si their most distinguished citizens, were in imminent peril, it is impossible to predict the consequences of these excitements. " Mr. Taoism), was taken about in a tart last alght—and this na raiolts at half-past nine, it he be alive, is to be tarred and feathered, and paraded through the strcets--de prevent which I eats hear et no measures taken. Trumpets, have beers I"wia gl ands atlenith, about belt & troop at hems.-11 party of artillery without uniform, and a company of {gantry, 'Hemet either uaiforta or arms, lave appeared, and, it is said, are going out for exercise au the !olassess. " - Thefollowing (ineosoplete) list, extracted from tie Whig, contains the names of the thstietsea above referred lost—Wm. Schroeder, John Thoupsoo, ORA. Harry Lee, otbo Sprig& Heavy Kennedy, Mules Kilgore. Joan E. Hall, George Win chester, Perregrine Wad Mid, Alexaarkr C. Hama, George Richards, Edward Gain., David Hoßimy Horatio Bigelow, Ephraim Gaither, William Gaither, Jaeckficholey, Mark U. Pringle, Daniel Mummy, Can. Junes gas, also Mr. Mosgrove daagereeely wooded' at the Hospital. —Several moms not reeolleeted." We have received farther extracts from the French Papers, which wilt be found In a preceding column. A Lisbon Mail has aloe arrived this morning, from which we have taken the followleg extract : LISBON, Ana. 25, The glorious entry of his Excellency the Marshal of Torres Vedras in the capital of Spain, will not be attended with inferior moral consequences to the re sults purely military, which the celebrated victory in the fields of Salamanca will produce, as applied t o the existence of the French army in the Peninsula.— The incredulous, if there were any respecting that recent victory, must at last give way by the evidence of his having entered Madrid, Which was its legitimate consequence ; this can neither be hidden nor denied ; when King Joseph is obliged to abandon his ill-ac quired Court and Capital ; when insecure wherever he passes, and wherever his disgrace conducts him, can there still remain any doubt upon this event 2-- ( Lisbon Gazette, Aug. 25.) By further extracts from the Gottenburgb Mail, it appears, that 13E1mm:born's Speech, on closing the Swedish Diet, was merely the echo of that made by the King of SWEDEN, calling forth the energies of the nation for their own defence, without alluding to any intended co-operation with Russia. These Pa pers also announce the Proclamation of Peace be tween England and Russia, comprehending the sr rangemeuts in favour of trade with Great Britain. RENEWED RIOTS AT NOTTINGHAM. NOTTINGHAM. Sem 9. On Monday morning, a baker in Nottingham had the temerity to advance his flour two-pence a stoae, in the face of a falling market, which so enraged the women, that several got a fishing-rod, and fixed a halfpenny loaf upon it, which they coloured over with reddle, in imitation of its being dipt in blood, and likewise adorned it with a piece of crape. With this they began to parade the streets, and soon col. lected a very large mob, among which were two women with hand-bills, who were dignified with the titles of Madam and Lady LUDD. The first object of their vengeance was the baker who had advanced the price of his floor; they broke his windows, and compelled him to drop his flour sixpence a stone. The mob then divided into several parties, and treated nearly every baker and flour-seller in the same manner; not sparing their windows till they had promised to drop flour six-pence a stone. In vain did the Mayor and the other Magistrates reason with them on the im propriety of their conduct. Impelled by hunger and revenge, they flew from one object of vengeance to another; and in one place a woman was carried in a chair to give the word of command; and some parties went to the neighbouring villages, where they exercised their authority in the same manner. The Mayor, at length, ordered out the military, and peace was, apparently, restored. During the night, a party of men went to Alderman BATtes farm, about two miles hence, and, after regaling themselves with such fare at the house afforded, they took away a blunderbess and a gun. They likewise went to the house of one of Lord CIIESTERFIELD'S keepers, and took away his fire-arms and some hams. Oa Tues day morning the scenes of fUrnult were renewed with increased violence; arts loaded with po tatoes were stopped in the streets and sold at reduced prices ; a corn warehouse was attacked with great fury, as well as many bakers• shops, but without any mischief being done, except the breaking of wits dou s, and some other (titling affairs. What added to the tumult gas, the bread served out to the sol diers was found to be short of weight; and many of them were•, ou Monday, seen active in the mob.— A peace officer and a party of the West Kent Militia, are now stationed in every house or warehouse con sidered in danger, while parties of hussars constantly parade the streets. Yesterday three prisoners were brought in from a neighbouring village.—• All is quiet this morning. We had a letter from Liverpool yesterday, which says that there is no truth in the story of the Presi dent having been carried into Halifax, the writer haring letters from thence subsequent to the date as signed to the arrival of the American frigate, and which letters are silent as to such an event. It was reported yesterday, that the town of Mon treat had been taken possession of by a detachment of the United States troops. No accounts of that na ture have, however, reached this country. 14:Ens, Sim 7.—We feel sincere pleasure in be ing able to state, tha t . for many days past the Ma gistrates of Manchester have been humanely exerting themselves in recalling those unfortunate men deno minated Luddites back to their daty to their cow: - try. Many of them have coew voluntarily forward and renounced the injunction of that infamous oath which they had permitted themselves to accept from, designing men, during the,lans•thnes of perturbatiow and riot. Of this oath they knew little, and many of them had never hesitated to enquire the nature of the bond under wide& they were unfortunately' leaguing. The oath of *neg . lance has been adminis tered to all the applicants, and meetings are bold by the Magistrates lit' the New Bayley court Hone, on appointed daps, to receive the submissions of them who are Wanting to torn/. COPENT.G ARDEN THEATRE. The Beggar: Opera was performed last night at this Theatre, in which Mr. INcLapos was the Mac- , heath, Mrs. C. Knout the Lucy, and a Mrs. STER LING the Polly. The person of Mrs. STIALING is rather approximating to en bon point, yet not enough so as to render her inelegant; her face possesses the lineaments of beauty, and her manner was genteel ; though she evidently suffered - scenic agency, by possessing a portion of sensibility too keenly ope rative; but as modesty is, commonly, significant of merit, we may expect, with some warrantable confi dence, that, when she has a little more public self possession, she may become an ornament to that de partment of her profession which she bath chosen as a debutante. Her voice is good, and her articulation distinct : in executing the air of " Ah ponder well," she was particularly successful, and. was properly encored. When Mr.lact.enos made his appearance in Mac heath, he was greeted most enthesiastically from all parts of the Theatre ; and it must have been truly gratifying to his mind, to feel, and know, that, after serving the Public during so many years, he still retained their esteem, perhaps, in as warm a degree as ever. He was in fine voice, and we have seldom heard him exert himself with more effect; he poured forth the etch stream of melody, which he lie eminently can command, in a way that, at once, both charmed and electrified the audience. In executing the duet of " The Miser thus a Shilling sees," he was wholly equal to himself. We are sorry that o cannot extend this panegyric to his ailing, as he certainly misunderstood, ohcasionally, the mean. lag of his author; but he hath been rambling in the provinces, where, if an actor acquires any new habits, they are very seldom of an advan. tageous sort : a kind of slip-shod demeanour is imbibed, which the frequenters of a Metropolitan Theatre cannot altogether relish. Though Macheath is a highwayman, it should be recollected that he is a gentleman, and, of course, should deliver his sen timents with some degree of refinement. The repro. tentative of Sixteen-string Jack may be boisterous in his mirth, and not depart from the genuine bear ing of the character ; hut Macheath, who keeps good company, should have certain restraints about him, even in the fullest manifestation of his joys and sor rows; for, though Macheath is tainted in his morals, he is not presumed to be vulgarised in his deport ment. We derived great pleasure from seeing Mrs. C. KrataLE in the part of Lucy, which she assuredly personates with mare truth and spirit than any other Actress that we have known. It is an instance of eacetlence upon which the memory of the judicious can dwell with satisfaction, and may be quoted here after, in order to prove what such au assumption I should be. The Earl of MARCH, eldest son of the Duke of ittcrtmosn, and one of the Marquis of NVELLING• TON'S Aids-de-Camp, arrived yesterday forenoon, in Downing-street, from Corunna, with duplicates of the dispatches, respecting the possession of Madrid by the Allied Army. Captain TALBOT, of the Victorious, 74, has been presented by the Board of Admiralty with a gold medal, to be worn with his fall uniform, suspended by a ribband from the fourth button-hole, on the left side of the lappet, for his gallant conduct in cap tering the Rivoli, of 80 guns, in the Gulph of Venice. BREAKWATER AT PLintouvu.—We understand apprehensions are entertained, that if this great na tional undertaking is proceeded with, the accumdla lion of sand will, in a very few years, completely cheek op the harbour. This objection was stated some time agio to the Admiralty, by a Gentleman residing in Cornwall, but his opinion was though to be fallacious: he has since formed, on a small scale, a harbour, upon the same plan, on his estate contiguous to the sea, and 1125 run out a pier similar to the one just began at Plymouth—the result has verified his prediction. lle is now in town, and the Board of Admiralty have entered into a serious in vestigation of the matter. SECOND EDITION. STATESMAN OFFICi, rtro o . cLocra LONDON GAZETTE EXTRAORDINARY. WAR DEPARTMENT. Downing-Street, Sep(., 10! Major D'Oyr.Y, Aid-de-Camp to Major-General Cooaz, has this morning arrived with dispatcher, addressed to the Fad BATHURST by Major-General Cooar, dated Cadiz, 28th August, of which tho following are a copy and and an Extract : CADIZ, Ave.9i. MY Loao,--I beg leare to refer your Lordship to the inclosed copy of a Letter to. General the Ea 1 et itimisrorox,lreporting that the enemy abindo ed his position opposite to this place, and the I,la de Leon, on the night of the 24th, and morning of the 25th. Cadiz, Aug. 26, 1812. MY Loan,—l have the pleasure to inform your Lordship, that the enemy abandoned his positions and works opposite to Cadiz and the Island, on the night of the 24th and morning of the 25th, except the town of Port Santa Maria, where a body of troops remained till the middle of the day, and then withdrew to the Cartage. He has left a very nu. merous artillery in the several works, and a large quantity of stores and powder ; and although most of the ordnance have been rendeted useless, he ap pears to have retired from his position with more precipitation than I should have expected. A considerable body of cavalry was brought (low* previous to the retreat commencing. The towns of Puerto Real and Chiclona are now occupied by detachments of Spanish troops, and a party from the 2d Hanoverian Hussars is at the tint- mentioned place, to which Colonel Lambert had moved from the Portazzo with them, and seine light troops from this division. I hare the honour to be, &e. The Earl of Wellington, &c. &c. (IEO. COOKE. (Extrict.) I take thii opportunity of informing your Lord ship, that Colonel Seaman and the Spanish troops under General Cauz, were at Manzonilla on the 22d, where they remained to draw the attention of Marshal So ULT. I beg to state to your Lordship, that the Regency has given orders to commence a cut across the Tro• cadero immediately, by a considerable number of workmen, so as to insulate it. .NAFAL INTELLIGENCE. DEAL, Sser. 9. Sailed the Warrior sloop of war, oa a cruise of Flirhing I and the Royalist sloop of war, with a eoavoy for Portsmouth. PORTSMOUTH, Stitt. 9. • Arrived his Majesty s ship Crane, from of Chrriattrith ; Al bicore and Semiramis, from a cruise; Eclipse, with dispatches from the East-Indies; aid the Calatalrims, with dispatches frost Cadis. Sailed his Majecty's chip ftosario, with a convoy for tho Downs ; and the Viper cutter on a cruise. PLYMOUTH, Sim 11. Arrived the Intelligent gun-brig, with a new sloop of w2r from Topsham; Achates sloop of war, from a maize; the Belle Poule frigate, from off Bourdeaus ; and two transports, with French prisoners, void to he from Coritnna. The Amsterdam packet, an American.has been detained and sent is by the htiorlea sloop of war; and the Amei ;can ship America, has been detained by hit Majesiy's obi') Arrived a Pre mien brig from flourdeassz ; the Cai fain say to, the French disasters in Spain were known at that port. YA RMOUTH, Stave. P. Sailed the Princes, of Wales and Brltisb Fair cutters, on a cruise. Arrived the Lyra tender, and Transit cutter., from the south ward, The principal improvements in the construction of the Breakwater at Plymouth, suggested by Captain Moyle, and submitted to the Lords of the Admiralty, consist in extending one of the extremities of the pre sent plan to the land, and making a cut across the isthmus to the sea, for the admission of a strong cur- The Bengal fleet, the arrival of which, off Fat rent of backwater, as also the entrance of ships. mouth, we hare already announced, tots net yet ar- When the acquitted prisoners at the Assizes of reed at any port in the Channel. In addition to tho Lancaster were discharged, on Wednesday se'rrnight, wind being adverse, It is reported, that all the able Edmund Newton, one of the thirty-eight persons hands have been impressed, and that the ships will be charged with having administered an unlawful oath navigated up Channel by ticket-men. to Samuel Fleming, at Manchester, was immediately Yesterday moreing the remainder of the first bat arrested and committed to the Castle, on an accuse- teflon of the Ist regiment of Gearas, ordered for tints for a similar offence et.Teetwistle t in the county foreign ievvice, to join the army hi Spain under tho of Chester. F Marquis of WELLINGTON, were' gemenbled in the It is worthy of remark, dist among the rioters court-yard of the Barracks at Heightsbtidge, as tried at the two last Assizes a Lancaster, not one early as 5 o'clock, and formed in two divisions, con- Catholic, English or Irish, was to be found. . suiting of 700 men, under the command of Lieate- Our Readers will recollect the body of a man, of nant.Colonel Asxzw, Captain WUEATLY, and other the name of Cites:wet, having been found, a short : Military Officers; the van taking their routs to time since, in the neighbourhood of Stockport, dis- Kingston, and the rear-division leaving Knights figured by a number of wounds, and very much ; bridge to the left, towards their quarters for the burned. From the situation in which the body was night in the vicinity of Egham and Staines ; the mili found, it was supposed that the deceased had been : tary band accompan) jug them no farther than the en murdered. A Correspondent in the Chester Vero- trance of Hammersmith. They evinced the same Nick, however, gives the following elucidation of spirit of military ardour, zeal, and loyalty, a s th e i r the business It appears, from what has lately , comrad e s, w h o marc h e d from town the preceding been ascertained, that a number of those misguided morning; and as they passed the barracks of the sted desperate men, called Luddites, met on New. Life Guards, most of them being out in front of the ben-heeth, on the night of the 30th July, for the place, greeted them with three buzzes. purpose of concerting measures for the assassination A most daring attempt at robbery was on Tuesd a y et a person (whose name it would be imprudent to' night made in the house of Mrs. Gordon, jeweller mention) whose propriety of conduct to his King' and silversmith, in the Strand; but the family being land country, had given them no little uneasiness, alarmed, the villains fled, without having effected and had tended to the exposure of their secret de- their purpose. ages against the Constitution. It was agreed that; J. SiVEIVR!GIIT has greet pleasure le stat . nst the be should be shot ;, and in loadingagun for that pur. ' usual success that attended his Old Forte:lWe OlficAs ! r pm . with three seas kw etsapis accidentally went *ln the-. Lottery drawn the Bth Ittlt t ailt, havieg so d or, and killed SAM. CitAiriitn l //wee the compiro- the highest Prize therein, No. 3 51, a elO,COO, gla bre, who made himself active in primaries ammuni. i several minor Capitals in 40 Shares • and he tr us ts The marks of fire upon his perso n were occa- (the same good fortune await s hi s friends in the Small .cloned by the explosion, at the same time, of a con. : Lottery, to be drawn the 20th of Oct o b er , con t a i n . `adorable qoantlty of gunpowder, which he had in • lug tot' Prizes of j eW,OOO, &c. (Or which Tickets his pocket. An event so fatally unexpected, put an and Imre: are on Sale, in great variety, at No. . end to their issignithes plans, and they made off in 37, Cornhill; 141, it Ifo r d strict ; mid 38, Bay. dlireet dirsetiont. i market. F • - I