The Statesman. — London, England, 1813-11-18 00:00:00

w down to Niagara to-day and to-morrow probably.— There are at Fort George 700 regulars, and 590 mi litia; at Fort Niagara, 100 regulars and 400 mili tia ; and, on the frontier, 400 Indians, and more following—the whole unster the command of General M•Clrre. Yesterday the troops salted on an expe dition, together with the fleet.—About 4500 men embarked on hoard tho ships and boats. " On Tuesday last Chauncey came across Yeo ; Le had the wind of him, but could not bring on a general action. The Pike vustained the fire of the whole British fleet for half an hour. Chauncey chased the enemy up the Lake to Burlington Heights, where the IGY grounded under protection of the batteries.' The Pike was considerably injur ed in bull and sails, 28 tu.Ni killed and wounded, no . Othcers hurt. Several were killed by the bursting of a long 24. I was informed that at one time the ll'atf was so much cut and injured, that the whole British fleet bad to surround her to sate her from the Pike. One schooner passed near the Pike, and hauled down her colours, but the Commodore was sa eager in the pursuit, that he passed her for some of the rest of the squadron to take; but she escaped. " Sir James may call this mime:ming, but I call it running with a vengeance. I saw same deserters examined yesterday, who state that Proctor is within 40 miles of the British encampment here on his way to Malden, and Harrison in close pursuit. The last part of this I doubt. 'f The British squadron, it is believed, will em bark the British army at the head of the Lake, to counteract the movements of Wilkinson. In haste.) , A ferlerafsatitte,ha% been fired from the hill, in Consequence of the pleasing and Intii i iietant intelli gence front Lake Erie. ir.in Oli e. Herkimer, ON. 7, One P. M. • _I(lax• HAMPTON! AT OCDENSOURG.-A friend has this innment put into our hands a letter which he has just received from an Officer at Brownville, dated Oct. 4, from which we extract the following:— !$ Clew. Hampton has arrived at Ogdensburg, with 4000 choice troops, and we have sent him a detach ment of light dragoons, with a number of pieces of Artillery, and a great quantity of ammunition. 66 A formidable expedition is fitting out at Sacket's .Harboor, but its destination is unknown." . . . Arr •• , Mail Pile 0 - S 0 Heligoland • 0' , Lisboa 0 - 1 0 % • : Cerunna 0 , .. ... , ; ... Malta ... ........ .... ... 1 'P RICE ()5 4 ‘TOCKP THIS *deal • " * per Cent Pol. 37 per Len! irAin• 58ft per C0',.0 71{ 2 5 per Cent. silty) 69iii Long. Ann I 1 3-16 DAY AT ONH O'CLOCK. India Suede 3.4 dis F.scheouer hills 3id. Ditto 30. 3 5 p Altriniem 6ftl rr Como • for Acct. 5811 • Lottery . Tickets THE STATESMAN. LONDON: TUVRSDAY, NOVEIIIII.II. IS t 1813. The discussion in the House of Commons, last night, was more impressive, in a national point of view, then any we have witnessed for many Sessions past. It has shown us clearly that the heart of Mi- Dieters does not keep pace with their tongue. As Lord CASTLEREAGII says, it was right that Aus tria should try the disposition of the enemy to- wards peace, if it were only to satisfy its own sub. jerts ; so has it no doubt been thought necessary by his Lordship and colleagues, to charm the ears of the ku4scts of this couutry with the word peace, that they may more readily he induced to open their pockets for a continuance of the war : would he, otherwise, magisterially threaten to " discourage any idle futile discussions on peace," &c. What a language is this ? We must, it seems 's confide in his Majesty's Government." This confidence has ; Cost ti.' nation nearly five hundred millions of lesneey, since the archetype of these eloquent Mi nistet • &reined the sway of our finances. With the 0 10 11 euce of oa . word: Minister, his successors are able to captivate the senses of even the reflecting, and to wrest the money from the pockets of the avaricious. We elands deny the irresistible powers of persua sion' In the Noble Mover of the subject oh the Fo. reign ,Triaties; but, as Patriots, we " deplore that oratory should have such an ascendancy over reason. Pio acknowledged, that above 10,000,000 of money is *anted for the Continent, independently of the aids we furnish jet acme, end the espete.e we are , put torine t recipstipio .e mi pm; ! inure `ls dts " th at gpld eisy.be bought at too desk a ratp.“ Whys if' the object of BONA.. ?Agit MIS to bereave us irf our-commerce, and, no tiout, it wan; and that the inimical machinery, i :r. ruin. our trade, be, as Mr. CANNING ' shivered to *tom's;" why all this ex- preparation for further warfare? Com- I tow, by its profits, restore us; we may be undersel our deals; but if we go on increass hts, the materials of oor tradeand the exs .or labour may he so enhanced by the ad the price of every necessary of life, 1 tittiges of competition may 'be for ever dearness even of a well-manufactured sir force the consumer upon the expedient ithout it, or of snbstitpting another But these are considerations too re the view of the Ministers of our day ; would never be lost sight of by profound We are afflicted to see that it is not so deliveiance of our commerce in jeopardy, 'vent and quixotic Ministers are driving ' 6 deliverance of Europe." Alas! it is poor England, as an island, that the de 41iPle PIUS 1 4 1 Ottlined at jN Mt, which was to .. , • 4 .. t declares, 66 st pence and pr . 1 merce may no able still to uu . iing our debts t ;Jencks of otp tancement le it: that the &dean j ' 1 lust. The del ticle may for of doing will for it. But mote for tht though.they e Statesmen. 1 i much the deli that these flu , et, ex the 66 bard Spots p 91 S'IA'ITSMAN. We consider the pursuit (after " the engine for wounding our trade is shivered to atoms")' as little less chimerical than that of delivering the Holy Lind from the fnfidels. Our zealots, in this latter pursuit, are little inferior in chivalrose warmth of brain to the 'LIMA mos and the Mutates of those days. But what, in the name of wonder,. has brought us to such a pass ? What deleterious system must that he, which has so long been pursued, ! and which seems to have thrown us into this dilemma, that if we stop we are said to be in danger, and if we proceed it is highly probable we are undone Where is to be the end of all this? Mr. CA MN [NO, whose figurative language, after being stripped of the artfully woven veil, is little better than mere cant: for although he describes Bott.teaterz as foiled and beaten out of all his designs, yet will not venture to say the game is won, nor talk of the ter mination of our labour, and the attainment of re pose. Yet is it declared this is not a time to talk of the terms of peace, nor even of the basis of negocia. Lion? No, " we hate BONAPARTE to the marrow', and must have (to use a vulgar and goaint phrase) another touch at him ; another round with him, since his antagonist has so many valorous bottle-holders." Yet this consistent supporter of the Noble Lord, at whom he, the other day levelled his pistol,telle to "we must contemplate and expect frogs-the - eliserter of the enemy, a renewed and veheoient strugfle."' Virtu) can assure us we shall, after that, be forwarder in our views, if we have oily precise ones? But as this dealer in trope beat/WAY apostrophises, by saying, the " spark in Spain once nearly extinct, has burst into flame, and dazzled aild illuminated all Europe :" so may this 'Gentleman's speech dazzle all England, thnngh not illuminate it. But let us hear what a CR IM,I sensible, and sincere lover of his country ; a Senator ! who, by fortune, &c. can have no distinct interest i from its honour and prosperity, who has tie ambition t to shine in the Cabinet ; but to place in stn.olosions and clear light the condition of the couttry. Sir G. HEATIICOTE deprecates the granting or large fo reign subsidies, while the annual tazea bear to heaiy on the community, and our financtis not war 'ranting such expenditure. That the Allied Powers never so effectually opposed the French as when an- , supported by the pecuniary Rid of England—that the system pursued, resembled to , much that of . a person in private life, who tiled on ti,e principal iestead of the interest of his fortune (what can more forcibly show the extravagance and danger of our proceed iegs than that apposite simile!). He observed, that England stands too pre-eminent to necessitate her to alter her demands upon any fresh suro.ess.— NATAL INTELLIGENCE. Daat., Nov. 17.—Pit bark, by contrary wiads. his M g i esty ' s ship Forth.—Arelved his Majesty's ship Blenheim, from the North SeahJ mad Woodlark sloop of war, with a *envoy of transports trona Yarmouth, with foreige troops es beard. The outward-betted remain. • Powrsworne, Nov. 17.—Arrived his Majesty's eiilp Beylls s l haus Plymouthit i tud the Ore.tes sloop of war, map a Mire. ss PLeouvw, v. 16.—Came in the Fearnotight, rpm Po: are; Zephyr si of war, from a cruise ; American primmer Dart, from New Odessa, with cotton, captured by the Niger , aid 4 Fortune frigates. riLMOOTR. Nov. 15.—Arrived the Ardent. Fishley, from Cork.—Bailed the Arrow schooner, Lieutenant Apliu, oa a cruise.—The John aed.Ergaels and the Thetis did not proceed with his Majesty's ship Trinculo to Portsmouth yesterday. in consequence of the Port Captain here informing them that she had co orders to take the skips boned to the Nlediterranean. LinatooTa, Nov. 7.- -Arrived rri ved yesterday evening th e A r il sloop of war, Capt. , from Gottenhureh, with the Mem bers of the Dec i :t e l r e: who went to present th e O r d er o f t h e Garter to the ' rat Bassin ; they were landed and pro ceeded immediately to town.—Arrived and passed' ea to the southward the Cherokee sloop of war. The Union, Ellis, from Sligo to Liverpool, was driven on shore on Stinday night, near Abergeby : most of the cargo expected to be saved. The Clio Walker from Sunderland to Little' Hampton, struck on the sands near the Galloper Light, on Sunday, and it is supposed went down.' Crew saved. The Mary transport, of London, Thomas, ran on shore yesterday morning, at the entrance of the Mar gate /Harbour, with the loss of two anchors and cables. • 'V NOME: TO CREDITORS. dtde, be insrrted in s the London Gazette, and in the int, News• papers eatl, I the STATESMAN and the Aloraing Herald, of whic;; m) said rrect,wr► bereinbeforc-nanted ure hereby re qui red to take notice. That her Minivters should at, once fix the terms on which she would make peace, and adhere to. them as a basis of negociation. Now, what Briton, who is not bereft of his reason, or warped by a sotidldla terest of profit or place from the war, can retain from wishing, however unavailing, that thalot tone of the country were in the hands of sbch a man, or of men of congenial sentiments. Would we had as many mouths as ARGUS had eyes, we would from every one of them advise the 'PRINCE REGENT (if he would be great from his kingdom's prosperity) to call upon such men to counsel with him in the present state of affairs. Mr. Wurrearanivery ably defeaded the observa. tion he made on the opening of the Session, with respect to obtaining an honourable peace; and he as successfully attacked the vanity of Mr. CAN. NING, who had assumed much consequence to himself for the share he pretended to have in so favourable a turn of affairs. In opposition to this talkative Gentleman's self-complacency, Mr. WHIT • BREAD observed, and justly too, of the many occa. sions lost for effecting an honourable Peace, while he, Mr. CANNING, had a share in the councils of the country. But , an observation worth all the rhe toric of the Member for Liverpool, was made by Mr. WHITBREAD on the occasion, whose' senti. ments, like his actions, are all of a great and mascu. line character, that " he hoped Mr. CANNING would recollect, that his Majesty's Minis.ers would recol lect, and that even the Allies would recollect, that it was, the mad ambition of BONAPA fat, Sibidcar: vying bum beyond all bounds of prudence or juatice, had produced that reverse if•jortune which so many were desirous pf taking creditfOr ;" and added, with ettooljoadosisa, *mother rem**. tlgit 4 4 -it ,104,1 9 .41 the conduct of this country *ilia had .enalited him to proceed so far as he bad done in his unprincipled career." Tao As WALLAs. The k Mark of JAMES PECK. Yeterday, at half-past 11 o'clock, her Pota.rEsirr, acoompanied by the Princesses 'ELIZABETH and MARY, arrived at the QUEEN'S Palace from Windsor. •At half-past three o'clock he,r. Ilda,tarrY held a private Court, when the Duke * of BRUNSWICK was introduced to her by herlrtm : Cuamer.at.tos. His Highness took leave of the QUEEN previous to • his departure from England. Soon after six o'clock the QUEEN and PeoxcussEs went to Carlton-house to dine with the PRINCE RE GENT. The house in Connaught-place, fitting-up for the Princess of WALL', will soou be ready for the recep tion of her Royal Highness. The bust of the Marquis of WELLINGTON, ordered a few days since by the Corporation of the City of London, for their Council Chamber, is to be from one in the possession of the Marquis WELLESLEY, which represents the noble warrior decorated in all his honours of the Garter, the Golden Fleece, and the Tower and Sword. The county of Meath, the native county of Lord WELLuverox, has resolved to show its sense of the eminent and glorious services rendered to the coun try by his Lordship, and, at the same time, to per petuate the honour of the county, iu giving birth to the illustrious hero, by erecting in the hall of the new Court-house, at Trim, the shire town, a statue of him in bronze, to be executed by a most eminent ratist. The Gottenburgh and Heligoland Mails-•are still due. Our Yarmouth letter, however, mentions the ' Ariel sloop of war, having arrived there from Gottenburgh, oish the Members of the Depu. teflon who went to present the Order of the -Garter to the Emperor of RusstA.,---ft is therefore, highly, probable, that Ministers have received some information by these Gentler ten, rem lacing to the operations of the Allied Powers since the 19th ; and we are in hopes to learn the particu lars befote oar Paper goes to Press. It is re ported that the head-quarters of the. Allies were on the 29th ult. at Saxe-Meinungen, sad their light cavalry being much further in advancti towards. Mentz. The Earl of Muccaave had an audience of the Pginik Renner yesterday morning. Yesterday morning the JUDGE ADVOCATE had an audience of the PRINCE REGENT, and laid before him thy Fropedings of ;me Cnucte-ipartig. slim" or wia"lligne. d' is u, ipi eft LAW INTP.LLIORNCE. ' COT or LICH Nov. 17.—TRIAL AT.IIAP Rqu —,...... Eiti Nov ~ • • ~ "as iffiToMNST.CENEMAL V. WILLIAM CAPAgn ,i t 1- ," anowsmow, ..1 • The Court was occupied this day with tie remainder et this case. The Jury returned to the Co urt about 10 o'clock. ' The first witness called was Mr. Jes s o p, who, to. gether with Mr. Green, gave opinions similar to those of the witnesses who had been already the mischievousness of the wharf of Mr. Carver.-. The latter witness admitted that the tide struck the Hard, which was formed for the convenience of pe r , sons landing from boats, sometime before it reached Carver's wharf, but its elect, to any considerable degree, ceased when the tide rose above it. Tk. 1 time when7the tide struck, the hard t.( fpre it struct, Carver's wharf, was duripg its first quarter, wi mi the velocity with which it entered the harbour tra, I not great. • . Mr. Chapman, Civil 43gineer, of Newevoi,. 'upon-Tyne, said, that ha hed been present at t r . ilsurvey of Portsmouth Amateur, with M r . it„, ; „ , Mr. Jessop, and others, and had then observed c o . !Ver's-buildit H _rig. J e agreed with Mr. ILynniu, th a t they were a nui sance to the hartioor, hat did not agree with Mm as to their effect.lfectenhacelvisheidrlthaatt the send bank, in the middle of till harbour, had •hriten from nr.t ura l causeg, though wt prrer's, might hase operatediu aid of them. 'The Ailla flowed oir .the west sae of the h ar b our aid ebbed on the east side, so that in the middle thfia was a deposit of san d a n d mud, -which cootinurd to . . I, JAMES PECK, a Prboffer for Debt con fi ne d i n t his Majesty's Gaol of Newgate, and l a t e o f T ra f a l gar - street , increase until it was svrep . away,. in-part b y ' l it Bethnal-green-road, and us i n g th e name an d d escr i pt i on of cu rren t on th e east s ;d e , and in part by the en ri;on t on the west side. H e con c e i ve d, th at a t presen. it James Peek, cow-jobber ; and formerly o f Phili p - street . .Kingsland-road, and using there the name and description of Peck, cow had reached its g r e a t e st-height, and that thine wit James -jobber, Do hereby g i ve N o ti ce , Th at on t h e 49th day of October, I presented my Petition, Schedule, and no danger of its increase to any greater eaten .-• Oath to the Court for the Relief of insolvent Debtors, at No. This sand-NIA would, in his oninioti have esi,t,:i 6, Carey -street, Lin co l n ' s I nn , p ra y* to be dischar ge d f r o m . , Citatody upon all Process, and to have futur e Lib ert y o f m y even if Carver's wha r f h a d never b een b u il t. 'a ct i Person against the Demands for which I am now in custody, inconvenienc:. resulting from Ca; ver'o wharf wi ~ as m ody Creditsor as demands of claaimingll othe to r Persons named Creditors, or specin m y i that it displaced a q u an tity o f wa t er equa l t o is bolt I Schedule annexed to my s a id P e titi on ; an d t h e ' sa id P et i t i on ,' . an d tormed . an obstruct i , 41 to the nay gall ti. tin fOath, and Schedule have been tiled in the said Co n n : Where- t.lVllis of ovinioil. that the in c onvenience r c s u lt ng f ,r, lupon the said Court bath ordered, That the Matter of the said 1 this wharf w0 , ,h1 hate ipeo greater if the Third, or Petition shall be heard in the said Court, to be holden at the Guildhall of the Ci•y of Westminster, on Tuesday, the 14th day lamling-place below it, had not exiSted. lof December nest, at the hour of Nine i n th e M orn i ng : A n d . The depositions of Mr. Cazeley and , ther wit. tl!e said Court hath judged 6t to dispense with my serving Mr. nesses were read. The dep o sition o f M. . Ca,. . e.. , Dempir-, Enfield, man uf a ct urer; M r . Milb urn , Bl ac k we ll, . cow-keeper ; Mr.. Fry_; Mr. Dorkins, Wood-green, cots job-. proved, th a t th e tid e h a d fl owe d w h ere toe wha ai. b.-r; Mr. 'Awakes, Hackney, cow- keg rr ; Mr. Stevenson, present stood ;he al so s p o k e o f C arver ' s w h ar f a•r.tl ti.hmonger, Cambridge-heath ; Mr. D. elfor, Stok , !-New- : . . logion ; Mr. Evans Hoodoo. cow-keeper; Mr. Hughes, t oNteuction to imerovements in the h • r h our . 'I i ia Cranfield, Bedfordshire, dealer ; Mr. vyard, Islington. cow- : other points to which the e depositions referred n sr! keeper ; Mr. Edge, Vauxhall-dock, clerk ; Mr. Biddle, not differeot from those spoken to by the parole e%i. iiinrland•road, cow-keeper; Mr. Crane, ditt o , m ilk man ; , -Mr. - Martin, Romfortt. Essex, jobber ; Mr. Kitchen, Mile-end . deuce. On this evidence ilie Counsel ,or the Plaiiiii!l New Town. cow-keeper; Mr. Nettleton, Hackney-road, iron- rested their case. monger; air. Sellerson, Cambridge-heath ; Mr. Disherman ; Sergean t Me. Lazarus. Church-street, B e thn a l- g r een , p u blic an; an d , t liEsT then addressel the Jury on the br- Mr. Robert Kew,. Whitechapetroad, .orse-d e al er ; Creditors half of the Defendants, and called the. follow - log wit. named in soy Schedule, with Notice of my Application in nesses : manner direc.ed by the Act of Parliament iii that behalf ; and bath ordered, that Notice of the said‘Petition, Oath, andScae- Sir S. Bentham, late Civil Architect dwdEttgiaeer, and one of the Commissioners of the Slav►•, oat called and examined. lie stated, that he the year 1804 he had inspected the has boor of Portsmouth, with a view to determine whr.ther the whitf in gnat tion had beets Injurious to the harbour. The result of hie examination of the _seat lenValerifit on his mind that no injury had engin from it. The sand bank which had beim Often of, had keen formed Merely from the suddenopening of the harliour, by which the shells and gravel brought in bf the force of the sea, were deposited as the .current become smoother. The reason why the sand-batik existed in that particular place might have been that the opal, ing of Stoke-lane was neir this place, which, by giv ing the flowing tide a lare space to expand. creates' comparatively still water, a.td whelk by int king the &thing title, also ditni , iiSlied the velocity of the ca•. sent on its return. That Carver's wharf was is uo degree the cause of thin litek of silt,• was pros', (I, he conceived, by the ciscamsta•+ce thaz 110 took pace at the side of .he wharf, nem the lauding. place called King's-stairs. J. Ward, a waterman of Gosp-rt, staled, that he had known the harbour of Portsmouth for more than 25 years. About• 25 years ago he had occasion to make soundings in the harbour of P ortou tatt y aid on the bars he also had made sounding. I and there w•s no difference.. On crois-ezamioa ,, on, he admits-tl that as to the soundings 01 the Inabe .r he could not be exact, tbOugh he perf.ctly renurt, hered the soundings on 150 bar.—Carve 's woad could not, in his opinion, be of ally injury to the harbour, because lite tile did tint run against them at more than half a mile a,i Vuur. I J. Parsons, a pilot, sta . ;ed that he had made soundings in different parts of the harbour, an' at ! its entra':ce, 30 years ago. There had been a &I- I fereoce in the depth of the water near the bar, re account of much ballast having been shot out eat this place in the American war, which caused shoals. Since that time there had been mach mud mein. ally thrown near - that placeby the mod-l'ghters. had himself expostulated With thb Captain of one of these vessels.—[The witness was - severely cross-examined tivtibil-fixt4 s bet • peoseorbieri-lalbriirsch tertte.nt.,' 1 ., The CIIIEF BARON, in the eatiie absence of any , L evutence, other than that of , opinion, to prose the ! tact of the damage accruing to the harbour from Car ver's wharf, advised the Plaiutiff's Counsel to ac cept a nousuit.—The Plaintiff was accordingly non suited. - - Tuesday, the Dutch volunteers embarked at Leith, for the Isle of Wight, to join the 7th battalion of GOth ,regiment: We understand, that as the 7th battalion is now completed to 1,500 men, Govern ment have tin Contemplation to form an additional battalion, to be also composed of Germans and Dutch, from the different depots of prisoners of war in Englajui 44 Scotlaud....— ...-= .=.--.--• , ;.-1.1":" , - - , GREAT PERYORMtIiCH.--LA poney, not more than twelve and a half hands high, was matched at the be ginning 'of the present month to gallop• 18 miles within an hour. The animal started on Saturday on the Bromley road, and did nine miles in %7 minutes. The rider slackened pace for halt a mile, when he agaiu made play, and . performed the distance in thrityi minutes less than the Filen time. The ponei .Was 1 It is said, that Sir THOMAS GatlIAM is to be pro the favourite against time. . I posed as a Candidate for the situation of Lord Rector A spirited charger, belonging to a Dragoon 06.. of the University of Glasgow. cer, ran away with hit rider, a boy twelve years old, LITERARY NOYELTIES.—The Memoirs of M. who was exercising 'him at the top of Oxford-road GOLDONI, the celebrated Italian Dramatist, written yesterday. The b o y k ep t hi s sea t . as th e an i ma l ga l. by himself, will appear in a few days. A New No loped down the road, but the horse at longth ran vel also, from the pen of Mrs. HEavcsr,•Author of against a waggon,,ait4 t was thrown with the greatest the " 6 MOlirtraN Flintily, " is on the eve of publira violence. The boy war shockingly mangled, and was cation ; it is entitled " Anzahel, or Memoirs of a conveyed to the hospitirin a senseless state, and the , Wotan of Fashion." horse was rendered unfit for use, one of his fore legs . . having been broken. . MARRIED. Two Greenwich coachmen were, on Tuesday, fined Nis Clayden, of :tiartsted, Page:.; P ercy , of Ouildfbrd, to Oss the Oth inst the Rev Stephen at Union hail 51. each and costs, for having thirteen - . outside passengers on their coaches, contrary to Act On the sth inst. at Prestei l g ) n i , E i l littnorshire, la her 75th year, of Parliament.—John Carpenler, a baker, was fined Mrs. Sarah Ballard, sister orof Vice-Admiral Vashon. 61. tOs. for exposing to tale a quantity o f bread de. Slater t* Monday ie g last,. at wise, Wilts, I. the 58th year of his age, 6cient in weight 00 ounces. the 14th inst. in the 61st year of her age, at her boos a t HATTow-GAILoax. --Yesterday Mary Anne Eton, l Haute, Mn. Miry ! Ostnoosatbe, widow of doe We Browne was committ e d f or t r i a l, on a c h arge o f s t ea l- I . :aaa Duas"sthe* ing plate from the house of Mr. Weir ) Frincesi.. • --.3-.....-........- S ..........•-.......... 11 1 imNDON : Printed and Pablisised h_y D. Couple at let i garret, Bridgewatemluttie t STATlesitAx Orm e. 07, ftwtosset. I