The Statesman. — London, England, 1812-12-15 00:00:00

SL'A'rESNIAN. The Rice Duty Bill, the Spanish Red Wine Bi ll, the Chocolate Bill, and the Post-otlice • Secretary Franking Bill, severally went through Committees, and %%ere ordered to he reported to-morrow. 11r. WHARTON presented Papers• relating to Monies issued in perstiante of Addresses. Mr. H. MARTIN, ie pursuance of his notice, moved for a copy of the last Commission limier the Great Seal, appointing Commissioners to hear and determina causes in the Court of Chancery.—Or dered. Mr. 11. MARTIN then moved for leave to bring in a Mil to regulate the office of Deputy Remem brancer of the Court of Exchequer.—Leave was granled, and the Bill brought in accordingly. It was read a first time, and ordered to he read a se cond time on the 10th of February next, and to be printed. The SPEAKER haring informed the house that this was the last (Inv for receiving Election Petitions, Petitions were presented against the returns for the following places, viz. Seaford, to be taken into con sideration on the 18th of March ; Aldborough, to be taken into consideration on the 23d ; Downpa trick, to be taken into consideration on the same day; and Camelford, to be taken into consideration on the 25th of the same month.—Adjourned. the distresses felt within these few years had arisen. Instead of giving facilities to the Government, too, to meet the exigencies of the times, as it had been in sinuated an adherence to the present system was cal culated to afford, it had been found the greatest im pediment to the prosecution of the war, even in that quarter where our arms had gained the greatest glory, and where we had the greatest prospect of success. Mr. ROSE re-stated Isis assertions of a formen night, that the issues from the Bank had no effect in producing what the Honourable Gentleman culled a depreciation. On the contrary, the rate of ex change rose at the period when those issues were the greatest. Mr. GRI.NT (Member for Great Grimsb, ) could not conceive any possible means by which a depre ciation of paper currency could be occasioned, but by the credit of the persons issuing: it •having re ceived a shock, or by the issues being made its ton great quantities. Bad as ho conceived the general system of the Government of this country to be, he regarded the present measure as the worst of ell, cutting off, as it did, even the prospect of a return to a better order of things. lie had heard, the other night, a thing which was to him perfectly units telligible, expleined by a Noble Lord. .That Noble Lord, to satisfy the House that permanent meant temporary, informed them that there was ale official i i - AMERICAN PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE. sad a velpr language. lie supposed they should I —ewes— now be informed that there was a Porliennentary lan- I WASHINGTON CITY, Nov. 4.—The President of gouge also, which differed as much from the vulgar • U n i ted the U States this day commtnticated to Mr. acceptation of the word, as it appeared official lan- guage did. On this principle, he had no doubt the , Coles, his private Secretary, the following Message supporters of the present Bill acted, and reconciled : to Congress: — themselves to a measure no otherwise reconcilable to I Fellow Citizens of the Senate and House of Representntlet% common sense, by holding that equivalent means as 1 On our present meeting, it is my first dutf to in.' tArec to two. As to two prices, properly speaking, , trite yoor attention to the providential favours which such a thing could not exist, because then the higher ' our country has experienced in the unusual degree of in value will vanish, and allow the other to remain' health dispensed to its inhabitants, and in the rich in possession of the field. He contended, that this Bill . was no advantage to the publiccreditor ;by defraudingabundance with which the earth has rewarded the others we did not benefit him. It was an oppressive , labours bestowed on it. In the successful tax on every description of Annuitants. Ile con. `cultivation of other branches of industry, and is eluded a very clear and argumentative speech, by de- :the piogress of general improvement favourable. to daring, that the real object of the Bill was to con. : the national prosperity, there is just occasion also for cent our true situation from ourselves. We were : our mutual congratulation and thankfulness. like children who hold their hands before their eyes, and thee imagine themselves out of danger. With these blessings are naturally mingled the Alderman ill rrii spoke in favour of the Bill. . pressures and vicissitudes incidental to the state of Sir F. FLOOD declared the Resolution of the war into which the United States hare been forced Ilouse, that gold and paper areequitalent, to be con- by the perseverance of a foreign Power in its system trary to the fact. It was not true in England, nor of iejustice and aggression. Previous to its decla. was - it true in Ireland. Before he left his own court- - • ration, it was deemed proper, as a measure of press try, his Steward would always bring hint home the same quantity of provisions for 20 pounds in gold us caution and forecast, that a considerable force should I for 25 in paper. Since he came over to this country ;be placed in die Michigan territory, with a general 1 he had occasion to buy a horse, the owner asked 38, view to its security ; and, in the event of war, to 1 guineas for it ' • lie refused to give more than :34; but as ' suc h operat i ons i n t h e uppermost C ana d a, as wou ld I soon as he had opened his purse, which was lined with I ! intercept the hostile influence of Great Britain over guineas, the mats took him at his word. He, how ever, objected to the oppressive idea of some Land- the savagett; obtain the command of the lake on lords, who insisted on being paid their rents in gold, which that -part of Canada borders; and maintain to which he thought they had uo right in reason or co-opeiating relations with such forces as might be conscience. I most conveniently employed against other pieta. Mr. PftEiTON spoke for the Bill - ; as did also Mr. MARRIOTT, who said, that the question, Brigadier-General Hull was charged with this provisional service, having under his command a body whether Batik-notes were : equivalent to specie had ; been as much agitated by the Moderns, as the " es _ 1 of troops, composed of regulars and of volunteers tion whether the earth turned round the suit, or the . from the state of Ohio : having reached Isis destitsa sun round the earth, had been by the Ancients. i tion, after his knowledge of the war, and possessing This idea was humorously applied against him by i discretionary authority to act offensively, he passed Mr. WHITBREAD, who declared that his whole 1 i n to the neighbouring territory of the enemy with speech was irrelevant to the question, and utterly unintelligible, except to the Nesters and Ulysses of i a prospect of an easy a c e victorious progress. The that House. He complimented Mr. Preston (who expedition, nevertheless, terminated unfoitunatelh had stated that he received one or two guineas every not only in a retreat to the town and fort of Detroit, day in the course of his practice) on the superior es- but in the surrender of hoth, and of the gallant cellence of los law, to that of all the other profes- corps commanded by that Officer. The causes of this sional Gentlemen of his acquaintance, who never re ceived a single guinea front cue year's end to another. painful reverse will be investigated by a Military The Route them; divided- 7 - Tribunal. A distinguishing feature in the opera- Ayes Nee, ' ' .. 1 1 • • • is the use made by the enemy of the merciless Work] ..,.. 65 savages under their influence, • Whilst the bene- Qn Our admiesion into the pottery, we found the volent policy of the United States ioveriably recom- House in q Committee on the Making Bill, its which, mended peace, and promoted civilization amongst after some conversation, the blanks were filled up, and some new clauses inserted.—The Report to be that wretched portion of the human race, anti was i received to : mornew. _ making exertions to dissuade them from taking either I The House then resolved itself into a Commit tee of Supply, in which the following sums were r oted : For the Land Forces - - - ;.1,000,000 For the Militia . - /70,1100 Stipernitinerary Officer* - . - : N,5i10 Kilmainham iltnfital - - - 275.000 Fnr.iga Corp* . . . . 593,000 Volunteer Corp, ... - ... • iipxo Loral Militia 7 - - 7 . 3.300, Snrgemt. and Hospital, - • - - 3.200 American Loyalists - - • - 19,00) St. Domingo Sl•trerers - - $.030 liar Suffering Clergy and Laity of France - . 12.1,0410 Corsican Emigrants - 11,300 French and Corsican Emigrants abroad - 4,003 Dutch Fauigrants - 4,3.10 French Emigrants in .Terry and finernsey - :;,403 Mr. IViII'ILKEAD asked, whether any provi sion were made for raising the sums thus voted ? The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHUQUER an swered, 'by the Annual Bills, and 10,500,0001. l'.x chequer Bills. The COmmittee of Way; and Means was fixed for Wedioyday neat. The Report on the Household Bill was taken into consideration, and the Amendments agreed to. To • be read a third time to-morrow. The Report from the Committee on the Prince Re. gent's Melisage relative tp the Marquis Of 'Welling.. ton; the ii.esolution was read a first and secon d time, and the Committee on the Bill ordered to be • instructed Iccordingly. Ile 11.)istillery Prohibition Bill, and the West In din Indemnity Bill, went through Committees, the Reports fro M -which were ordered to bp received to. morrow. The Marquis of Wellington's Lands Bill went through t Committee, hi w hi c h an A men d m e nt was !Itia44. rhe Report to be received to-morrow. ' The Exchequer Bills Bill w en t thr oug h a C omm it. tte in which Mr. WHITBR.IO,I) asked, whether any i:;erease fif the amount EielieqUer dills would be effected by Ibis measure? To which Tint C)l4 l 4OEl l l.A)id. of the EXC if EQU ER an fwerini, that it would depend on the produce of the forniqiidated Fund.—The Report to be received to *FM!, &le in the war, the enemy has not scrupled to call to his aid their ruthless ferocity, armed with the hor rors of those instruments of carnage and torture which are known to spare neither age nor sex. In this outrage against the laws of honourable war, and against the feelings sacred to humanity, the British I .Commander cannot resort to a plan of retaliation ; for it is committed in the face of our example. They cannot mitigate it by calling it a self defence agai men in arms, for it embraces the most abiding 1 butcheries of defenceless families ; nor can it be pre tended that they are not answerable for the atrocities I perpetrated, since the savages'are employed with the knowledge, and even with menaces, that their fury . , could not be controlled. Such is the spectacle which' the Deputed Authorities of a nation, boasting its re., ligion and morality, have not been restrained from' presenting to an enlightened age. The misfortune at Detroit was not, however, with. out a consoling effect. It was followed by signal proofs, that the national spirit rises according to the 1 pressure on it. The loss of an important post, and: of the brave men surrendered with it, inspired every "-here new ardour and determitraion. In the states and districts least remote, it was no sooner known then every citizen was eager to fly with his arms at once to proteet his brethren against the blood-thirsty , same; let (pose by the enemy on un extensive frog.' tier; smite. convert a partial calamity into a source s of invigorated etfors. This patriotic zeal, which it was necessary rather to limit than excite, has em bodied au ample force from the States of Kentucky aNd Ohio and from parts of Pennsylvania and %Ir. Oak ! It - is placed, with the additioit.ef a few regu lars, tinder the command of Brigadier ? Qeneral Bar r risen, who possesses the entire confidence of his fellow-soldiers--among whom are citiiens—some of I them voiut4!emy Le the mink!—unt left distinsuishml by their political stations, than by their personal, merits; The greater portion of this force is proceeding on . its destffiltion towards the Michigan territory, hay. lug succeeded in relievingan importaut frontier post,' and In several incidental operations against textile tribes of savages, rendered indispensible by the sub serviency into %hick they had been seduced by the. enemy—a seduction the more cruel, as it could not fail to impose a necessity of precautionary severities against those who yielded to it. At a recent date, an attack was made on a post of the enemy near Niagara, by a detachment of the re- gulnr and other forces, under the command of Major General Van Rensselaer, of the Militia of the State of New-York. The attack, it appears, was ordered in compliance with the ardour of the troops, who executed it with distinguished gallantry, and were for a time victorious ; but not receiving the expected support, they were compelled to yield to reinforce ments of British regulars and savages. Our loss has been considerable, and is deeply to be lamented. That of the enemy, less ascertained, will be the i more felt, as it includes among the killed, the Com. mending General, who was also Governor of the province; and was sustained by veteran troops, from inexperienced soldiers, who must daily improve in • the duties of the field. 1 Oor expectation of gaining the command of the Lakes by the invasion of Canada from Detroit, hav ing been disappointed, measures were instantly taken to provide on them a naval force superior to that of the enemy. From the talents and activity of the Officer charged with this object, every thing that can be done may be expected. Should the present " season not admit of complete success, the progress made ! will ensure for the next a mud ascendancy, where it is essential to a permanteut peace with, and a coetroul over, the Savages. Among the incidents to the measures of the war, I' am constrained to advert to the refusal of the Cover nors of Massachusetts and Connecticut, to furnish • , the required detachments of militia towards the de. fence of the maritime frontier. The refusal was founded on a novel and unfortunate exposition of the privisions of the Constitntion relating to the militia. ; The correspondence which will be before you, Con- tain the requisite information on the subject. It is obvious, that if the authority of the United States to call into service and command the ntiii.ia for the pub lic defence, can be thus frustrated, even in a state of declared war, and of course under appreheusions of invasion preceding war, they are not one nation for the vurpose most of all requiring it, and that the pub. lic safety may have no other resource titan those large and permanent military establishmeuts which are for bidden by the principles of our free Government, and against the necessity of which the militia were meant.' to be a constitutional bulwark. _ _ n o a f ted the to ue th r ie lin in a : ti t on foot, these have bee; procrasti intervening occur t d e e t t t e t n promulgation pr proceeding, civtlinfigBnaiiriifittla'ireslrothita'iconhirierdl;:r oftaafoigmw. peitirence melt' purporting to be a definitive re Milan Decrees. '('his Council,the gro ;eft, therendered, pr e r d e? repeal of thef liable e e t o fi [Ta a l ' Zorn ° h m i u P n t i i c u a l : s from itteitrof,isn,ips6:eif;atsll;lll:ita?oiloyildnl.. eteffreteotsDeof iiiinitiaurtkis,siaoffus:rdootfteurftlitehire,ragpturj tehfethanetiDesfaecitlhonGtooverrencleeiviet.assuratices eZtit h e t tel re friendship, and that it will not be h, • rupture between the United States and Croat ifet • Sweden als o p ro f esses sent i ments far OtliZ ebl to )144 NIL listing Vth the tin i gharm Barbary(my, Powers,,exceptitie that of Al: • Biers, our affairs remain on the enlist :try fooling,_ "The Consnl.Ge nera l w i t h that Ite:enc s , has c o .' denly, and without cause, been banished , toge t her with all the American citizens found there. Whe, ther this was the transitory effect of capricious d e . potism, or the tirst act Of predetermined hostility , .is not ascertained. Precautions were taken by the Consul on the latter supposition. i The Indian tribes, not under foreign instigations, remain at peace, and receive the civilizing attention; which have proved so beneficial to them. I With a view to that vigorous prosecutinu of the war to which our national faculties are adequate, the attention of Congress will be particularly drawn le the insufficiency of the existing provisions for filling up the military establishment. Such is the happy : condition of our country, arising from the facility of subsistence, and the high wages for every species of • occupation, that,' not*ithatandiug the augnicatel ie. dueements provided at the last Session, a partial sue. cess only had attended the recruiting service. Th e deficiency has been necessarily supplied during the campaign by other than regular troops, with all the inconveniences and elpences incident to them. 'Lie remedy lies, In 'establishing more favourably for the private soldier, the • proportion between his recant. pence and the term of his enlistment t and it is a sslject which cannot ten soon or too seriously ho Wien iota consideration, The tame insufaciency bas been ex.. perioneed in the provisions for volunteers made by en Act of the last Session. The recompence for the service required in this case, is still less et, tractive than in the others and although patriotism alone has sent into the •field some 'aloud& uorps of that description, those alone who can afford the sacrifice, can reasonably be expected to yield to the impulse. It will merit consideration also, whether, as cixiliary to the security of our frontier, corps may not be advantageously organized, wit! restriction of their services to particular districts co:i. venient to them; and whether the local or occasional services similar ilor marinesor organization, others would in the e scot tewits,t be a proper addition to the means of their defence. I recommend e s a th p e ro o v rol isio y, n th fo o r d a elel inc ou r o ense y of o wit f-the General lohhosueu O uiu lfi u ee str r u s4 by the number and distance of separate commands, which the cause of the war, and the advantage of the - Oa the coasts and on the ocean, the war has been I service, have required: and I cannot press too successful as circumstances inseparable from its ! strongly on the earliest attention of the Legislature, !early stages could promise. ! Our public ships and ! the importance of the re-organiaation of the Staff private cruisers, by their activity, and where there Establishment, with a view to render more distinct was occasion, by their intrepidity, have made the and definite the relations and responsibilities of its enemy sensible of the difference between a reciprocity i several departments: that there is room for improve. of captures, and the long confinement of them to I ments,which will materiallypromote both econompaci their side. • Our trade, with little exception, has ° success, in what appertains Co the army and the war, safely reached onr ports, having been much favoured is equally inculcated by the eramples of other route in it by the course pursued by a squadron of our fri- ; tries, and by the experience of our own. gates under the command of Commodore Rodgers ; A revision. of the Militia Laws, for the purpose and in the instance in which skill and bravery were of rendering them more systematic, and better adap !. more particularly tried with those of the enemy, the ! ing them to emergencies of the war, is at this time American ling had an auspicious triumph. The fri- . particularly desirable. Of the additional ships an rite Constitution, commanded by Captain Hull, after thorised to be fitted far service two will be shortly a close and short engagement, completely disabled , ready to sail ; a third is under repair, and delay will avid captured a British frigate ; gaining for that 01E- be avoided in the repair of the residue. Of theme cer, and all on hoard, a prai;e which cannot be too preprlations for the purchase of materials forshlp• liberally bestowed,—not merely for the victory ac- I building, the reater pert has been applied to that Natty achieved, but for that prompt* and cool exer- object, and the purchases will be continued with the tion of commanding talents, which, giving to courage balance. The enterprising spirit which has charger its highest character, aind to the force applied its full tensed our naval force, and its success both in re. effect, proved that more could have been done in a t, straining insults and depredations on our coasts, and contest requiring more. lin reprisals on the enemy, will net fit to recoM. Anxious to abridge the evils from which a state of , mend an enlargement upon it. war cannot be exempt, I lost 'no time after it was There being reason to believe, that the Act prold declared, in conveying to the British Government biting the acceptance of British licences is not a suf. the terms on which its progress might be arrested, ; ficiant guard against the use of them, for purposes without waiting the delays of' a formal. and final pa- ! favourable to the interests and views of the enemy; cificatiou : and our Charge') d'Affaires at London was; further prevision on that subject are highly important' at the same time authorised to agree to an armistice, Nor is it less so, that penal enactments should be founded upon them, These terms required, that provided fOr cases of corrupt and perfidious inter. the Orders i* Council should be repealed, as they 1 course with the enemy,..not ! anusuotisse : Us mesas affected the United States, without a revival of ;the nor yet embraced by any statutory previsions. blockades violating acknowledged rules ; that there A considerable number of Amerman vessels, taiga should be an immediate discharge of American sea- , were in England when the revocation of the Ordete men from British ships, and a stop to impressments in Council took place, were laden with British me. from American ships, with art understanding that an nufactures, under an erroneous impression that the exclusion of the seamen of each nation from the ships Non-Importation Act would immediately cease t . o . of the other should he stipulated, and that the ar- ! operate, have arrived in the United States. it 1111 mistice should be improved intern definitive and corn- ~ not appear proper to exercise o u - unfore seen cases u prehensive adjustment of depending cootroversies. such magnitude, the ordinary powers vested in the Although a repeal of the Orders susceptible of ex. ! Treasury Department, to mitigate forfeitures without planation' meeting. the views of this Government, ! previously affording Congress an opp ortunit y of mak • had taken place before this pacific advance was corn. ing on the subject such provisions us they maithia municated to that of Great Britain, the advance was proper. In their decisioo, they will, dou btless, declined from an *vowed repugnance to a suspension equally consult what is due to equitable considera of the practice of impressment during the armistice, firms, and to the public interest. and without ally intimation that the arrangement The receipts into the Treasury du rin g the f or proposed with respect to seamen would be accepted. ending on the 30th of September last , have exeleemt, Whether the subsequent communications from this l6 millions and a half of dollars , whichlisse b Government, affording an occasion for reconsider- suf cient to defray all the demands on the Treastu, r:. ;. ing the subject on the part of Great Britain, will be to that day, including a necessary reimhursemeavic viewed in a more favoorable light, or received in a • near three millions of the principal of ' more accommodating spirit, remains to he known. debt. In these receipts are included a sum of a ptr 0. It would be unwise to release our - measures, in any *f,850,000 received on account of the 103115 au h ue respect, on a presumption of suds a result. rised by the Acts of last Session. The w hole . s um The of The documents from the department of State, actually obtained on loan amounts to n which relate to this 'subject, will give a view also of dollars, the residue of which being receivable se w b:, the propositions. for au armistice, which have been geese 'to the 30th of S'epternber, together e received here,—one of them from the authorities at the current revenue, enable us to defray All th the pu lialifas Mid in Canada, the other from the British penceF of this year. c of the Ciowersieseat isaelf, through Admiral Warren ; and The duties on the late unexpected imeorta(ons Or the grpstuds upon whicit neither of thpm could be British manufactores will resider the swot% accepted. ensuing year more productive than could ha -u_tlet ow. Our affairs With France retain the posture which anticipated. .110 situation they held at my last communlptiqq to you. citizens, is not without its dif fi culties, thooigh; Notwithstanding the authorised expectation of an aboun ds in animating considerations, of wl:ii reis early 1'0! Gtvottilllitld of the discsissioes siew here presented of our pecuniary roan] of rm . votary, feit 9 r ! ; ' •fi •; ' - i • " 4 4 I ' k • • 4 / '•••: 1 1 ,1 7 I 11 f• " • $ • 1 .•1 I • I I FI t l • I tt I h ~'~ i i~. ~. X ' , I vli P c or