The Statesman. — London, England, 1812-05-28 00:00:00

BOADICEA, THE yu-EE.v. .cry nature of an Administration that is to embrace persons heretofore of different parties presents (lA ;allies net easily surmounted—and we have no he, c itation in saying; that an Administration may be too extended, for strength, as well 'as too limited. A Cabinet, as well as a piece el the most precious m o a t, may be enlarged to such an extent as to-gain in the glitter of surface what it loses in solidity.--- We have confidence, however, that there will be no heterogeneous matter in the composition of the frame o f Government that is now in hand. We are mire o r thp pure honour, disinterestedness, and concilia tion of the Noble Earl to %shoat the important task fia, been confided. We forbear to enter'more at Pry into the matter for this day. We cannot be roriain, after the experience we kave had, that the lic goeintion vllll even yet come to' the conclusion ankh every man that truly feels the urgent state of our affairs must desire. Obstacles may arise in the detail that may defeat the principle; Rua theippen. &Pic of a Household may impede, if not prevent, the construction of the main building. Such things, at least, have happened!" Various Lists are in circulation containing the names of those who are supposed likely to form the new Administration, which are evidently founded on mere conjecture. The following appears the most prominent : .." Earl GR FT=Flint Lord of the Treasu ry. Lord Iluu.i%D, Mr. PON6ONBY, and Sir. CANNING—The Three Secretaries of S ate. Marquis WELLEFIAT and Lord GRVIt ILLE—To have Seats in the Cabine t. Earl of Sr. Vorcrur—First Lard of the Admiralty. Earl ,1 Moto-a—At the head of the Ordnance, or go Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. Earl of LAUDICRD4LE—President of the Board of Contrsul. Ti ERNST— Chuacellor of the Exchequer. General FißCOSON—Secretary r.t %sir. Sir Jost Newt oat—Secretary far Ireland. The whole of the Opposition to come into power, w;t'l tae Marquis WELLESLEY and Mr. CANNINO, except Mr. WATIIIIEAD, who declines office, but will giro his support. The two frigates which lately cruised with so much success againt our commerce in the West Indies. have been fallen in with, while attempting to enter a French port (L'Orient, it is supposed); and one, if /lot both of them have been destroyed. According to ooe'account, the Plymouth Telegraph yesterday announced the destruction of one of them by the Northumberland, Captain HUTH AM. We have seen another statement, which says, that both the frigates were destroyed while attempting to enter L'Orient, by the Cumberland, Captain BAKER, and another ship watching that station. We have letters from Vigo to the Scl, and from Gibratar to the 7th instant. The Gibraltar market was overstocked with every article of merchandize, tn:d trade was in a condition of almost total inacti vity. The following extract conveys the most pro minent inform ttiott:-- GIIIRAZTAII, MAY 3.—We have a report this ise7; inig, that Bit.t.Asvlttos is again retreating from before Malaga, in consequence of being in want of provisions." it will be seen, by our Parliamentary Report, that Mr. MARTIN, of Gakay, has given notice of a Alo ton on the Catholic Q te•tion for the Nth of June, on the supposition that circumstances might occur to prevent Air. CANNING from bringing forward the Alaion of which lie has given notice on the same subject._ Tuesday, all the Cabinet Ministers, except Lords tome awl CASTLIRT.tott, dined with the Earl of LIvERPOOL I at his.house in Whitehall. Yesterday; about half-past twelve o'clock, Mini sters had another electing at the Noble Earl's house. 0 • Monday, Tuesday, and yesterday, the Lords of tt,e Treasury -met at the Treasury Chambers to fill up the vacancies is the public offices, &c. Yesterday, about two o'clock, Lord .MELviu.s had au audience of the PRINCE KEORNT, at Carlton Rouse. Lord Mont* had two interviews with his Rnyel Highness in the course•of the afternoon. •I'he l'ardcz Meares Levee is expected to be numerously attended to-morrow, in consequence of tlu.. great anxiety to know who are to form the Ad ministration, as something decisive is expected to be made known on the subject at the Levee. Mr. -Grottos HARLEY DRUMMOND'S name was omitted in the list of the Minority on Mr. S. Wort ley's motion. Viscount Cosmos: was, as Tteaday, elected Mem ber for Northampton, in the room of 'the late Mr. FIACEVAL. Withitifie kit twenty-yeilis ti mighty revolution has taken•placehs the public mind; -not owing to the measures of Ministers being basted with greater freedom of censure now than in former periods of our history, for there never was a period-since the Revolution of 1688, when freedom of discussion was at a lower ebb than the present, nor whets the press was kept under more 6hulcsome resit-aid by the ter rors of indictments ex-officio. it is not, therefore, owing to freedom of discussion that this change has taken place, but to other causes; and the principal of these causes is to be found in a system of policy adverse to the true interests of the country. Up to the year 1793, the people of this country were , mosperous and happy ; and, in that state we might ,ve remained had not folly and ambition removed _:s from the proud eminence on which we stood, as the A.rbitress of the world, and plunged as into a ruinous and endless warfare. Since that period our national debt has been swelled from three hundred millions to nine hundred millions of pounds 1 Our taxes, national' and parochial, have increased in a four-fold proportion ! our lists of bankrupt traders have been increased from MO to 1837 yearly ! our prisons, notwithstanding the repeated and recent jail deliveries, are crowded with unfortunate debtors ! our work-houses swarm with inmates, and the ag gregate number of paupers in England and Wales, has, within the period alluded to, been swelled from five hundred thousand to twelve hundred thou sand ! and, to sum up this climax of misery, num bers of the labouring classes, in the manufacturing Parts of the country, are at this moment suffering under the accumulated pressure of deficiency of le bo ur and „eat reity of food. • 'gum , "lio. THE MINISTRY. SHREWSBURY, MAY 27.—Mr. BETTY, whose un common talents at an early period astonished the world, and proved a source of theatrical attraction unparalleled even in the days of GARRICK, made his adult debut at our Theatre on Monday evening to a crowded and respectable audience., as Selin, in the Tragedy of Durham:fa. That ease and ele t onco of tieportment, so conspicuous in his juvenile attempts, and the native energy of mind which marked his early progress, seem, if possible, improved : whilst his manly form now gives reality to what the asto- Wailed fancy before wished to suppose, as a tribute to early genius unequalled in any age. Throughout the piece his empassioned scenes proved their effect by the electric impulse of resounding applause; and 1 where the more tender feelings of the mind were to be poortrayed, we do not recollect a modulation of , voice to equal Mr. BETTY'S. In short, his represen tation of Selim, is an excellence in the scenic art very few have attained, and we should suppose it to be his master-piece, although the papers speak of his Alexander as the chef d'wuvre of dramatic perfec tion.:—Last night Mr. BETTY appeared in the cha racter of 7'ancred—this evening he plays Osinyn-r -and on Thursday (his last night), the part of Essex. Some weeks ago, as four men were crossing the water of Girvan, near Killochan, in a very small boat, steered by meadi of a long poll, they were up set and precipitated to the bottom of a pool ten feet deep. Not being used to swim, three of them would infallibly have been drowned (for they rose repeated ly to the surface of the water and again sunk), had not the steersman, who reached the shore by means ' of the pole, devised means of _preserving them. - Ile put the end of the pole into the pool, whisk was seized by one 9f those lit jeopardy, who held fast, a second seized him by the leg, and the third caught him by the foot. Thus they were dragged ashore In a very exhaused state, and conveyed to a farm house, *here every cordial suited to their respective cog!s was administered, with seems. IWO , NAKir. TAVMS. We have seen a beautiful I.ligraving of this cele bra•ecl Queen, anima.; the Blite.is to d .I.lul their Country agaiost the I{' sans, evecuted h. tlia. emi nent ark., Mr. Sit sap, from a hi; id : . fini hed d .sigts by T. Srots MD. The of this is Of SO popular a nature, and the iziterest whir . it is calcu late.' to excite in timer lilie the pr. seA, is so op pare'.t, that we are per' I ii-re are kw or none •o will not be de"irous of having a copy of the Print in their possession. Toe following .i• a "ketch of the event in the history of Bo tovtcv, •.kh \lr. Sit sap has d: , lineated with so much talent : owin g beets the ietitn of the hatd:arity of th.sßomatis, DICE.% sought to be avenged f r the crialiies which she suffered ; and, as the crime 3 of those coviguerors had sp: end universal hatred against them, she kiodlod he time of revolt in the hearts of her inj r d country. : In th first burst of its violence, upwards of seventy thousand of their enemies were slaughtered by Britons, in London, Colchester, St. At fiats's, and in the surrounding districts, before lurrosnus, the Itc-man General, hid time to concert the means of resistance. At Imigth, the two hostile armies drew up, opposed to each other: the Britons appeared an im mense multitude, divi 'ed into large soparate bands of borse and foot; and, withall, so confident of victory, that they had brought their wives with them, to be spectators of ;Mom their waggons, which they had placed round the borders of the field. BOADICEA rode in a war-chariot, having her two ° daughters also along with her ; and, as shesravereed I through the ranks of the several confederated tribes, she declared to all, that, though It was net unusual I for the Britons to war under the conduct of a woman, yet, upon this occasion, she assumed not the autho rity of on, descended from a line of illustrious an ' cestors, hut appeared upon the same tooting as the lowest among them, seeking vengeance,—not for tho loss of her kingdom, but for the expiration of liberty, for the stripes inflicted upon her person, and for the brutal indignities offered to her virgin-daugh ters. She :tited, that men might, if they were so inclined, still live, and be doomed to slavery, but that Britons, determined to be free, must, in the im pending conflict, either remain victorious or utterly perish ; and that, with regard to herself, she was prepared for either. The result of the battle was, that the steady dkciplitie of the Roman soldiery pre vailed over the enthusiasm and intemperate ardour of the Britons, who, when they b. gun - to give way, found it difficult to escape through the incloslre made by their own carriages, and, thus obstructed in their retreat, they were Nearly all cut off. BuAntuEs, in despair, sought her own death, disdaining inglo riously to outlive the freedom of her country. This eventful struggle was made in the year of our Lord 61, being about ten years after a similar effort of the Britons under CARACTACUS. Mr. Slll Re has also displayed his inimitable talents by an Engraving of ZENOBIA, from a study by Mt. CUA EL A NGELO. This illustrious woman was the wife of the celebrated ODENATUS, l'rince of Pal. myra, and, afterwards, partner in the empire with GALLIENUS. Upon his death she caused the Ito. man provinces in Asia and Egypt to acknow ledge her sovereignty. The Emperor AURELIAN, of putting an end to the power of so formi dable a rival, led his forces against Z ENOBIA, and, after many severe conflicts, she was reduced to the • necessity of shutting herself up in Palmyra, where she sstained a siege with wonderful courage and per. severance, until the superior resources of At, MEL! Art at length prevailed, and she adorned his triumphal return to Rome, in the 273 d year of our common era ; and Palmyra, the seat of her fleeting empire, was consigned to stand in the desert, a melancholy, though a splendid, monument of the vicissitudes of human grandeur. NAVAL INTE I. LIG E NCR. PORTSMOUTH. MAI' 47. The Mariner arrived this morning from the Cape, and was irnp mediately put under quarantine, hiving on Dowd invalid, She touched at St. Helena on the 2d of April, but the , •••.111.prg prevailing much at the ('ape and on hoard of the Mariner, s was not allowed to have any communication with the shore ; also the 'toren, Capt. Cator, from a cr.. ise Sailed the Regulus, Captain Tailour, to Lisbon : Circe, S . ?, Captain Woolcombe, to Plymouth; and intelligent, on a cruise. PLYMOUTH, May 26. Arrived the Venerable, of 74 guns, from the westward; the Thomas, Dueean, from London ; and the Union, fr Sunderland. Sail-d the SivaLe (lately arrived from the Capeof Goad Hope), for Landau. MMi A 4 1 fl ~~ pe ! I . . I I, , 1. ‘• • I 1 • , ‘ , ..• A .. s 0 1 • Jr: ; ... • ', C. ii /'.. ..$ .•'•' 1...; I • 4, 11 '• A: 4 . . ' ', • O '-' . • 1 . . . . . . I. • ,•,.. , • 1 ' • ... i 4' I , , r . 1. / I i i .....c aim., w u was awe auujeva as MC I.4ISVCC. wissount. um / ULAD, vicsacas sus,. 4.. ...,,,..,,suissi i Mr. GEORGE HARLEY DRUMMOND'S name was I SHREWSBURY, MAY 27.—Mr. BETTY, whose on- pectation of eternity, as at'this period of the tide it' l soaderland. “" Thomas, Duncan, from London ; and the Union, 11.1,.e11, fr .0% i Z 1 omitted in the list of the Minority on Mr. 'S. Wort- ,I common talents at an early period astonished the was octet ly impossible, from the for the boats to ; • ~ les s motion. 1 world, and proved a source of theatrical attraction sur f , for Sa w il-d ado th n e . Soalie (lately arrived from the Capeof Gin d Hope), I approach the Tnscar rock. The water poured in so re- i . Viscount Courson was, oe Tefasday, elected Mem- i unparalleled even in the days of theme's, made his nu), below, that some were unhappily drowned be- her for Northampton, in the rooes,.of 'the late Mr. 1 adult debut at our 'Theatre on Monday evening to a ;fore they could reach the deck ; and others, in their • On Friday s'ennight an 'inquest was held at +Long • PLRCETAL. . j crowded and respectable audience., as &Um, in the . . ri ' , l .attempts to extricate themselves, were brui g s ag ed4a .Setton s i by J. -W. .0 tarts, Gent. Colonist., on the Withititlie kit twenty-yestis i mighty 'revolution I Tragedy of Darbanossa. That ease and elegance eV I most shocking manner, by the heavy bag d - body. of Volm*Haker ( labourer to Mrs, Hickson, of t has taken•place in the public mind; tot owing to the , Jeportment, so conspicuous in his juvenile attempts, timbers, which the sea was forcing in all directions. that placo), who was scalded to death hiss shocking measures of Ministers being trotted with greater i and the native energy of mind which marked hisl When the tide retired, men, women, .and children way. The decsased had been employed in brewing freedom of censure now than in former period; o f : early progress, seem, if possible, improved : whilst . „ S' were necessitated to cling to theriggingand ship's side, ale, and • had set the mash in the tub, which stood our history, for there never was a periodsince the 'th,rs_,lna_,,nly form now gives reality to what the asto- -1 as she lay on her beam ends. After remnitiing benumb- upon a crotch, when, in reaching to sin. a I come Revolution of 1688, when freedom of discussion was lag' fancy before wished to suppose, as a tribute 1 ed with wet and cold in this e retched state for several sacks across thevat , a board laid across the heedles s . , at a lower ebb than the present, nor whets the press to early genius unequalled in any age. Throughout ; hours, every hope of deliverance being almost reliu. ate! itpcin which he stood, gave way, and the prior was kept under more 6hulesome restraint by the ter- the piece his empassioned scenes proved their effect ! finished, they were by the great at d praiseWorthyes. l fellow fell headlong into the tub. A lad who was tors of indictments ex-officio. it is not, therefore by the electric impulse of resounding applause; and I ertion of Capt. Keyser, and Mr. Bradshaw, the Chief- luckily in the brew-house at the time (about five 1' ' owing to freedom of discussion that this change has , where the more tender feelings of the mind were to . mate, slang by ropes and lowered into the boats, : o'clock in the morning), hearing him fall in, ran to taken place, but to other causes ; and the pr i nc i pal be pourtrayed, we do not recollect a modulation of i and dragged in the same way by men (who fort's- his assistance, and got his head above the liquw, t be of these causes is to found in a system of policy i voice to equal Mr. &TTY's. In short, his represeu- nately happened to be oil the 'b o xca r for the purpose 'when Baker got hold of the side of the tub; but not adverse to the true interests of the country .. Up to i tation of Selim, is an excellence in the scenic art ,of building a light-house) up the rock. Tne infants being able to recover himself, lie got his legs over , the year 1793, the people of this country were' very few have attained, and we should suppose it to lof the officers and soldiers, many only a few mouths into the tub, and walked through the scalding wort; l , mosperous and happy ; and in that state we might Ibe his master-piece, although the papers speak of his i old, and one born on board the ship, were drawn up Medical aid was procured with all possible spend, and , ,re remained had no t f o ll y an d am bi t i on remove d Alexander as the chef d'auvre of dramatic perfec. i ; in- potatoe bags. From this desolate condition, the poor fellow sur vived, in excruciating p ai n , until • 1 ss from the proud emiteettee on which we stood, as tion.s—Last night Mr. BETTY appeared in the c h a- which was nearly as bad as the wreck, being desti- , Wednesday last (tell days after the accident), when 1 the Arbitress of the world, and plunged ns into a racter of 7'ancred—this evening he plays Osnryn-:- tute of every article of provisions and clothing, ,he died, leaving a wife and three children to lament ;' • 't 1 ruinous and e n dl ess war f are . Since that period our and on Thursday (his last night), the part of Essex. most of these miserable sufferers were rescued the loss of a very creditable member'of society. national debt has been swelled from three hundred Some weeks ago, as four men were crossing the by the humanity of Captain Matthewson, in the brig ; Lostnevery.—At Taddiegton, in Derbyshire, is 1 millions to nine hundred millions of pounds! .Our water of Girvan, near Killochan, in a very s p r at Sarah, of Workington ; whose kiudness in bearing now living, a woman, in the 10616 ear of tier age. , taxes, national and parochial, have increased in a boat, steered by meant of a long poll, they were up- down under every risk to, relieve them, and sharing Her hearing is rather imperfect, but her ey esi g h t is • four-fold proportion ! our lists of bankrupt traders set and precipitated to the bottom of a pool t e n f ee t with them his small stock of provisions on board, so good, that she can throttle common sissd needle ' have been increased • 1 from MO to 1837 yearly ! our deep. Not being used to swim, three of them would will ever redound to his honour , as a C hristian, an d w ith ou t spectacles. Her oldest child (a daughter). . I prisons, notwithstanding th e re p ea t e d an d recent infallibly have been drowned (for they rose repeated- a man of feeling. Captain Matthewson, after en- Is lisle's, in the 80th year of her age; and her jail deliveries, are crowded with unfortunate debtors ! ly to the surface of the water and again sunk), had deavou s rin te laud the detechment •in Dublin, was youngest (a son, with whom' she lives), is in his 68th " li I our work-houses swarm with i nma t es , an d the ag- not the steersman, who reached the shore by means oblird , by adverse winds, to steer for. Deaumaris, in. year. Her mother lived till she was 10 8 years of "Ss gregate number of paupers in E ng l an d an d W a l es , of the pole, devised means of _preserving them. - Ile the le"! A4lesea, where they arrired on the 12th age, which she herself bids fair to exceed, sever has, within the period alluded t o , been swelled put the end of the pole into the of whisk was inst. some without evep sufficient clothing to pro having had any particular sickness throughout her : from five hundred thousand to twelve hundred thou- twitted by one 9f those lit jeopardy, who held fast, a tect them from the weather, this melancholy accident already very long life. •1 send ! and, to sum up this climax of misery, num- second seised him by the leg, and the third caught' havio l „,(rdepriTeA them of every thing but their lives. R a i s in, hy Messrs. i Thornton w and W ri ght, a wondelulry i t i ndsonie hr •'r (De er ' ' . , . • bers of the labouring classes, in the manufacturing I him by the foot. Thus they were dragged ashore in The Officers of the detachment, 'we are happy to add, hastier are scale nor sated •nore than 01 trftrof *nuke), bred parts of the country, are at this moment suffering a very &mused state, and conveyed tom farm house, were all saved, viz, Pvt. Nora, s Cleats. Timperly, and fed b, Mr. Thais** Lauber!, of hy, *hien weighed 106 stool (141 h. to tbe stone), lb sroweV d t sumnbicabserat I ala. ' i . tinder the accumulated pressure of deficiency of In- livhere every cordial suited to their respective cases Walton, Ross,' &Ham, Gregory ; Ensigns Hayes, very much resembled Day's Durham Ox, Wei of th e same ' • !I bour and.ecereity of food. yes administered, With SUMS!. • • 'kungen ; and Assistant-Surgeon O'Reilly.- . breed. ,I / . ol m I i 01 . ' . , . • - " . ..10.-000 0 0 . . t• THE S'I'ATFSMAN. TO THE EDITOR Or THE STATESMAN. Slit,--We have had a marvellous communication to-day, said to be from•no less a personage than the Right Honourable, pardon me, the Right Worship. fat the Mayor of this Borough, now in your City, as ;the full representative of all our India affairs,— Apropos, I am told his Worship, on being asked what he thought of the Indian sea, with due official reserve, declined a , direct answer, cunningly ob. serving, however, that it was a very dry subject.— ' .11.:Na I and the whole squad off!---Oh !Mr. WORT.. LEY, Mr.WORTLZY, how you have perplexed us! lit the coufideut hope that the ff r aleheren Ministry would not be displaced to make room for the Be!. lingham. Administration, we had resolved upon giv ing a lift to the early friends of the late principles of Mi. PITT, by a public dinner. But what shall we do- 7 what can 'we do. now I Even the Courier sayi he .knows not what is now to be done.—Bless us ! are we come to this ? The Courier knows i not what is now to be done! Surely, s ur ely, the very principle itself of mischief must be ex hausted, when this fellow is at a loss for a job. Trade is scarce indeed. Every thing Is embarrassing. 1 I im quite confound. Only think, Sir, the death iof Allr,,acevit.„, U p went the Cons 1 • London, „ . , ,,. 0 Stn... down went cottarin Liverpopl. Good Goo! how • is this to be accounted for? What signifies merit. iWe have lost all standard by which to ascertain it. But Lord WELLESLEY will carry on the . war mere extendedly, and, of course, more expensively. Will he?. Where is the stuff? This is odd. To me it looks like heaving the cargo overboard to save the ship. Well ! well! As to the funds, the more they go down, theeasier, you know, it will be to pay then. Ha! ha !! ha! I! In America, I remember, I paid 5001. fora breakfast. This is the way to get rid of the stock. But if trade returns, up go the public securities, and we shall all be ruined. Prosperity would play the very devil with us. WELLESLEY and CasrgiNo— aye, aye, all goes right again. We run no risk of being ruined in this scow. But the Catholics must be emanclpated, and the Orders in Council taken oil. , They must redeem their pledge—no such thing—they I will only ply the interest of it; what they have raid i is conditional, not absolute. It is a mere cud, de posited irr the first stomach, in order to be chewed over again,'and digested or spit oat, as it suits their future views. I rely upon the economy of Lord WELLESLEY, and the wisdom of Mr. CANNING. We are past all power of declamation. Majoribus pre luiri, said friend C LORGE ; but, I say, who the devil were they ? You must know, Sir, that we have sent an Address of condolence to the __MONT ; _and to-day I was shockedto hear that it was to be left at the Secretary of State's office. No Knighthood then. Sad work ! Sad work ! We deeply deplored the loss the country sustained, and we talked of the lofty elevation of 1 Mr. Peactvat.'s talents. I thought loftiness was de vatiou : we must give ever laughing at a speedy Peace and soon; or the cause of liberty all over the world, and every-rchere else. We talked too of the bright display of his milder virtues. Some say this is bad taste; at all events it is a new one. We must change °us hack writer, and get some thing with a bit of blood in it. I am told that a certain Irishman, who had two strings to his bow, broke a brace of them, and has sent the remainder down to Lincoln to be sold for the benefit of Mr. FINNERTY. But I have now done.' The current of my heart has lost iti progressive motion and runs in-the opposite direction. How dietrently I am affected with the disappointments and sufferings of the man whose heart bleeds for Ireland, and the heartless monster that made Ireland bleed. Liverpool, May :I,l$lY. John Clerk, Esq. of Vdin, in Scotland, lately de ceased, was well known as the inventor of ti.at sy s. tern of naval tactics, under which the British navy has acquired such unrivalled glory. Never, in any former instance, have the speculations of the closet been more powerfully felt in the affairs of the world. In looking into the history of - naval warfare, we find, that, previous to the year 1780, there was no way of forcing on unwilling adversary to a close and decisive action ; aitd the French accordingly, when they met a British fleet eager for battle, always conti ived, by a skilful system of naval manceiwres, to elude the blow, and to pursue the object of their voyage : either parading on the ocean, or transporling troops and stores for the attack or defence of distant settle ments; and thus wresting from the British the fair fruits of their superior gallantry, even while they pas a tacit tribute to their gallantry, by planning a (I..f.Nt. sive system to shelter them from its r fleets ; in which they succeeded so well, that the hostile fleets of Bd. tails and France generally parted after some indeci sive fits. g. This desideratum in naval tactics was first seen and remedied by the inventive genius of Mr. Clerk. He plainly demonstrated, with all the force of mathematical evidence, that the plan adopted by the British, of attacking an enemy's fleet at once, from van to rear, exposed the advancing ships to the formi. dable battery of the whole adverse fleet, by which means they were crippled and disabled, either for action or pursuit : while the enemy might bear away, and repeat the same matatiwrty until their assailants were tired out by a series of such fruitless attacks.— He then suggested a more decisive and certain mode of fighting ; and, finally, he pointed but the grand and bril ioat manoeuvre, so congenial to the charac ter of British "seamep, of piercing the enemy's line, which instantly ensured a close action. The system of naval tactics was 'bus perfected; for the British sailor, disdaining stratagem, only wanted to fight his enemy on equal terms, and relied on his own valour for the event. Mr. Clerk's discovery was communicated to Admiral Rodney ; and its value is attested by the brilliant victory which followed, and by that unbroken series of successes which hare ever since distinguished the naval history of the country. The FRENCII SQUADRON.—Ft appears from ac counts furnished by the Patent, the vessel released with prisoners by the French squadron, and which arrived at Plymouth on Sunday, that this squadron Ileft Nantz on the 9th of January, and kept the sea till the departure of the Patent—upwards of four, months.—The ships taken and destroyed were all running ships. The Frenchmen often jeered their pri soners, by saying, " 4 Englishmen were all asleep, all snug in harbour." Off the coast of Portugal a plan was formed by the prisoners on board the French Commodore to take possession of her, and for this pur pose they got possession of the arms chest, and stow T !ed it forwards. This plan, however, failed, from the ; the circumstance of the prisoners not having ac- quainted the English Captains and Mates on board with their intentions. Many of those were push- ing about the glass with the. French Officers when i the daring attempt cnmmenced, and failed for want of proper leaders after they had obtained possession ;of the gun-deck of the frigate. From this circum stance, and from the scarcity of previsions, of which there was only three weeks' stock left, the French determined on putting all the English, Prussians, and I Danes, ou hoard the Patent, which had just been captured in ballast, and sending them away to shift for themselves. They retained as prisoners all the i Spaniards and Portuguese. Tz:e h n &a- d and twenly ' fice, including Captains and Mates, Were put on board the Paient, of whom I.4oarrived in that vessel, the rest haviog been pressed at sea. The frigates had a great deal of specie on beard, and any one of the ; four composing this most s tccessful squadron would prove a most valuable prize •for any of our frigat.a. A. B. LOSS or Tilt IRLANI, CAPTAIN IC.FTT \R.—With deep concern Is e announce the loss of the ship Irlam, Capt. Keyxar, wrecked on the Tuscar rock; in the Irish Channel, on the morning of Sunday se'nnight, i the 10th inst. at four o'clock. She had on board t !large detachment of the 16th or 'Bedfordshire Regi ment of Foot, returning from the West Indies. The distressing situation of these tinfortenate people, af ter the ship strut*, it is scarcely possible to describe ; a tremendous sea, which drove her bottom incessantly against the rocks, placed them In momentary ex pectation of eternity, as at'this period of the tide it was utterly impossible, from the surf, for the boats to approach the Tuscar rock. The water poured in so ra tpidly below, that some were unhappily drowned be-1 fore they could reach the deck ; and others, in their ! On Friday s'ennight an 'inquest was held at +Long • attempts to extricate themselves, were bruised ja i tt .Settonyi hey J. J.W. .0 tires, Vent. Colonel., on the most shocking manner, by the heavy baggagMd • body. of *John'Bakee (labourer 'to Mr,, Hickson, of limbers, which the sea was forcing in all directions. that placo), who was scalded to death ilia shrieking .When the tide retired, men, women, etnd . children ' way. The dec?ased had been employed in brewing were necessitated to cling to theriggingand ship's side, ale, and • had set the mash in the tub, which stood as she lay on her beam ends. After remaining benumb- upon a crate!), when, in reaching to sp. a I come !ed with wet and cold in this w retched state for several sacks across thevat, a hoard laid across theletedles, hours, every hope of deliverance being almost reliu. i an , l itpciu which he stood, gave way, and the prior squished, they were by the great at d praismiorthy es. ! fellow fell headlong into the tub. A lad who was ertion of Capt. Keyzar,aud.Mr. Bradshaw, the Chief- i luckily in the brew-house at the time (about five mate, slang by ropes and lowered into the boats, : o'clock in the morning), hearing him fall in, ran to and dragged in the same way by men (who forte- . his assistance, and got his head above the Nun-, stately happened to be on the 'Nicer for the purpose ' when Biker got hold of the side of the tub; but not f building a light-house) up the rock. Tne infants ' being able to recover himself, lie got his legs over 4( the officers and soldiers, many only a few mouths into the tub, and walked through the scalding wort; old, and one born on board the ship, were drawn up . Medical aid was procured with all possible speed, and in- potatoe bags. From this desolate condition, the poor fellow survived, in excruciating pain, until 'which was nearly as bad as the wreck, being desti- ! Wednesday last (tell days after the accident), when . tute of every article of provisions and clothing, ,he died, leaving a wife and three children to lament r oost of these miserable sufferers were rescued the loss of a very creditable member'of society. .by the humanity of Captain Matthewson, in the brig ; Lorenevery.—At Taddiegton, in Derbyshire, is Sarah, of Workington ; whose kindness its bearing now living, a woman, in the 1066:year of tier age. down under every risk to. relieve them, and sharing Her hearing is rather imperfect, but her eyesight is With them his small .stock of provisions on board, so good, that . she can thread a common siz^d needle will ever redound to hie honour, as a Christian, and without spectacles. Her oldest child (a daughter) • a man of feeling. Captain Matthewson, after en. Is siring, in the 80th year of her age; and her deavevireg te .land the detachment •in Dublin, was youngest (a son, with whom . she lives), is in his 68th obliO, by adverse winds, to steer for . Beaumaris, in. year. Her mother lived till she was 108 years of the Isle* A4lesea, where they arrived on the 12th age, which she herself bids fair to exceed, Lever inst. some without evep sufficient clothing to pro having had any particular sickness throughout her tect them from the weather; this melancholy accident already very long life. havit%depriveA them of every thing but their live s . , Thornton"last we Zd w il l Wright, slaurbterelilfarkel Ril a isin ti "htY Messrs. The Officers of the detachment, 'we are happy to ad d , havaeed a calf , Wee a won derful l ymo re than i 4 Iftwor ie oft e c . ‘ti r el, he oe :d r were all. saved, viz. Nit. Nagent e .Cieuts. Timperly, and fed bl Mr. Those; Lambert, at by, whim weighed Walton, Ross,' O'Hara, Gregory"; Ensigns Hayes, e i V r r" much resembled Day's Durham Oz, Whit a the mil .` • (141 b. to the stone), 16 s rors e V d issurshjoosiqss, s h e liannigan ; and Assistant-Surgeon O'Reilly. - ' breed. .1