The Sun. — London, England, 1813-01-05 00:00:00

A T a MEETING of the PROMSTANT HABITANTS; of the COUNTY of FERMANAGH, at ENNISKILLEN (convened by public notice of the High Sheriff) on Monday,) on Monday, the 21st of December, 1812, JOHN AIKEN, Esq. High-Sheriff In the Chair; The following Resolutions were unanimously agreed to: Resolved, That as Petitions have been presented to the several Ri witches tif the Legislature,, from certain of the Pro .testants of Ireland, praying the unqualified repeal of all Ite strictions whatever, wind' atrixt the Mum Catholieo-of this County; it is ineaninent on the Protestant ProPriettirs, and much inure on the Protestant inhabitants of each. Comity, to Ittnati public declaration of their opinions on the subject that their silcrwe he not construed into an approbation, of ,senti- Inents which they ~don't. • JAMES C01113,. 4 . 5! Assi:,tant:Secretary. Resolved, that approving - of the spirit of the Itetwbitions entered into by our Loyal Protestant:Brethren of the adjoin ing Conotiei, anti by others rit Ireland, who have made pub lic avowal of shollar 'Sentiments, so useful at tiiis time to the Protestant cause, 'we do, in common with them, register ill the must (let ermittv.l and selenin manner • tor d disap probation of •suck thnpialitied repeal of the Etisabilities which affect the ltoman Catholics of Ireland. • rr.Aitts• CLEANI , ,D, STILVNG. .61P, T HE `Adveetisei'beinf the. veal Armilifactur i ~ re. is determined to' sell'e% ..rytit.i•ti , le of Ihe First FlL.shion and Workman,hip at the fulloWing redneed Prices, viz. Pearl Neel:laces, any pat- 1, GI re-• 41•4 1 ,104 r 12 a tc4ll,•from . . . Ear-rings, prr pair . . t 1) , 010 6 , 10.1 s Bandeaux .. ... 10 ll) 0. 1. ,,„. • 210 tl I;prigs . . • . . 4 upw n iirds < 1.5 0 Bracelets, per pair . . -5 - 10 0 0 10,i; Locket's . . . . . . 1 : I I I 0 1.1 0 lirpoehes . . . . • . V I 5 0 ' 0 7 a Crosses .• • • I 101, • , ..t. 4 Whereia Danny bidie4 and Gentlemen conceive and believe, from the abov.e.price..4lll.at (..)rtia.ute,nt is. niatle of,a Com position, or what iseommonly called Pitfent t'ear's, they ale respectfully ititornied; that "evei'yilniticle is composed of OA . until tile!Fisheties,olf, which; being naanufa.Ctuted tinw real. Workman,' are offered to the Public much under their usual Charges. Several conitilete snit's of Pearls, new patterns, in Morocco Ca)as, eon :tiAig of e, S l4rixcelel and three 8r0t , i ,, , flow per Apyly t 3. 1 • Opti C:II4M, ,\O. I, 1,0«,111: • ItesOlved, Thatwe ; cut ert Cm . towards our Itoman Catholic . brethren every feeling of regard, s,uitahle to the intimacy of our connection tu,siinjects of the same Gov crnment, and iiihabitants of the Same country, and when' the tolerant tuilrlites4 of 'it Prott‘gtanf Legislature, - acceding some years sirice to the prayer,; of their temperate and respectful yeti tionv, had removed from the Raman Catholics of this Any all their disabilities ifeetitid their property and their personal rights, under whii:ll their forefathers had laboured, we C.Oll - that all complaint on this part was at ;at , We:re gret, however, to perceive, that, n hind facility in cooceding had but increased an importunity in soliciting; that grati tude for tile riumerotlti lierietitS which' haVe been, Obtained 1138 been .Auper:Aded by discontent ut not enjoying tut: few that al,; withheld that the language if dutiful request has grivort (/Flea to the menacing tone rh'ilaand, and flint. it ii is lit en pri>ii9untxtr by nice.,; O.) •to the :Anse of 't l e ii lai . ge; th3t 144 thing lebs.than• anon, 311th tie evet y deiree of political pov. , er, now poessed by Proteslants o will satisfy the Roman 'Catholics of Itel,ind I 1 hat theirs is It it natural sit ht, and that ri , ght al- Oits nu comproaii:ie ant can be shackled by net qualifi cation. ~ 'Resolved, That . ltulitic al 1 7yre r appears 'to us not as a mat ter a geticeal ri4ut, hut of serectiou and par liege, which those, in whose ley aelinowleiiged and established pre scription it resides, .oray in variety tit degrees, on sound reo ton, impart to, or witlihilld from, various ric, , seri of the ciao- But while it is obvious that no ch, ; no should: be made, except. on reat.o.n proportiOncti to its iniportaucei'.We hat t been 'taught to liclicv,a, that there site fixed principles in tint ,Pritidi Constitution, which no change ern) unsettle, with- OM destroying the Constitution itself; one of these we hold tp be .that which inal.e3 the Protestant religion the reli gion of .the State, which governs the realm by laws enacted by. a Protestant King, Protestant Lords, and Protestant Cum . Such is the Constitution which Inn been handed down to us by our fathertii and such we trust we shall transmit it but posterity. Rooked, 'l'hat heside.s.the general danger which must re sult from opening the barriers' of our. Constitution, we see many specific dangers of an alarming nature in the Ismaili.. Lion now proposed. If Roman Catholics are to he admitted to seats in Parliament, we know not on what argument their. exclusion from Iho Throne ean.heustitied.' if the professors of every mode of Cavistian Faith are to have equal erspect iti the eyes of Constitution, we . know, that many eli he ready to :I.egne against any One or th.eio having toblishment ; but Irons what the history of minty ages attests of the aspiring spirit of the Roman Catholic hierarchy, and (Von what even our own limited experience sliewi us 'of the peninacity , of their priesthood, we own wt, apprehend a darn. .gee of a (Infest:a sort, in giving to the 'Church . of Rome, at suite future and inure favourahlo period, an us.:endant esta-. blishment in Ireland. llesolvt•d, That the arsoments advonced by the abettors of the Roman Catioilie Claims do not aprly to the removal of those dangers, nor convince us of the eweessity of submittilig to them. The'numhers of the itoman ( o etl,ulics , exaggerated us'they are to aill the purposes of the argument, do not niidate ill melee llVClll'ate returns, the increased population of our Protestant brethren in Circa Britain; and We hove no notion* for supposing that the proportion •of our Protestant populntion Ireland has been, ibininished since the.enactineot of the penal laws. When we are told that this is the only mode by which our Itonian Catholic brethreo veer he comilioted, we answer that the du, nut look un them in a light so oofavourable as to believe that such is tilt; tact, but if their mfections have not beet) conciliated bythe benefits which hey already enjoy, if their loyalty is nut yet firmly a, tacked to the Sovereign under wlorie Kor a n ,„„,„ t those, ben f i t e heoo conferred, we do not„thiolt it could been snren en c - , oirrender of the Constitoliim, and we'are o •• i:•.otivineeil i; out v. - orth' the peke, The ( e t r e. „„,,, our religious f:tith lo .101111. , triuy appear ; to 118 they are as wide as rut gion k distant from superstition, as, texts of the' 13ible from il,orees of the Pope. Ite :t olved, '.l:llat the mode in which the ItornanCatholies of indand have for some lion past, advocated their claims 85 revolting to the friends of good order and civil sulondioatioo that we contiot iniugine that they can have ssny serious Imp, of their co-operation. 'We have seen in the metropolis, under the eye of Covertitnea, a Popish Convention sifting day after t hey, hy regular adjournments, diserissin4' in all piirliamenturf formality the emicerris of..the empire, and mal;ing u , ,e of more than parlinnotiary freedom of debate. After the illegality of such an assembly has been pronounced by the highest. ; ottliority, we find the same individoals, cider a ditlerejit name, einitinoing their sessions, and nosy employed in their ow', body, who had dared to make use iii .their stainable pri vile;;,•. slich modes of procedure C3il he stated to he in fair further:wee of a Petition to Parliament" we believe tio -persoo NNW be hardy enough to assert; hut front.(( review of these debated ostentationsly published, mid diligently cirett, hated, we cannot but • reinarh that:hoperial interests are there volned only try their proportion to Popish'objeets ; and at the_ tittle' when the- nation is struggling 111 a hazardous coultst against ii h os t o f enemies, is deemed the most favourable fur oppressing the• Ministers of its Government With the urgenay at the R orottit C a th o lic Claims, We submit to the cousideration of our Protestant inettireit of the empire at huge, whether the discussions el scatequiliey in our stoat' are likely' Ca receive any aceessionc f temperate wisdom frinitureasares which would admit to the notional councils the leaders of . what calls itself the Catholic AciariL • itesulvedl, That ati humble Addres !! , be presented to his Royal highness the Pt ince Ilegeot, and Petitionii th both honses of Parliument, requesting that they. will be pleased to refuse the prayer of the lttnriati Catholic Petititin,; and that they will rhscooNe all applications of a similar nap re at a time witioli calls for all the energies.of his Majesty's Ministers, suit all' the deliherative wisdom of Parliament to maintain the orillious couljrci with our enemies which this kingdom rte at 1,,,,001t. engaged. itch viol, That these our 'Resolutions he transnateii 14) OUT , itepre,t'itt is eti Partainent for the purpose of strengthen ing the expressions of those sentiments which we know they bv the sanction of their concurrence with t base of the Loyal Protettatit inhabitants of theCouist•y of . Fetma sitigh. • - - - TILE SUN. SOLLNI (11.114 DICEItt: FM.,41.1.11 AtIORAT ? N D TUESDAY, JANUARY 5,115,13: A letter from the ['reach coast states, that report' prevailed of the Russittni•haintt sititered. Mlllia, after again. defeating the remnant of the French Army. his highly probable, as Nys ob served yesterday, that after the ratTE, his remaining troops were placed in a Intui tion Of'great peril and difficulty ; but ono further accounts have arrived. Our Portsmouth letter states a report,whieb 'w,e shall be niost happy to be enabled to confirm, that the Elephant, the Poictica, and a friAate had cap tured Commodore ftonotas and,his squatiron•-- - The Elephant, and the Hennes frigate sailed from Portsmouth on the 19th of Nov elobe; 4n , t to cruize off the Western 1316. The Pokliets, which WAS on the Halifax station, was oil' hcrifinda on the 23d of October. The President and Congress 11 nic rican frigates'were, on the 17th 'of October, in abode tat. 37. long. 51.--No account of the cap ture has been received at the Admiralty.: It is reported that scrions &insulations haVe again taken place , at Paris, but we have been unable to learn upon what authority the rumour is founded. • . . Yesterday. a Cabinet Councitwas' held at the Tz'oreign °Mee, which sit `Nearly fire hours in close didiberation, 'Dispatches from Admiral SiPt ar.tNr;, at Jamaica, and :from Sir FRAVCIS LAFORZY, at Barbadoes, wore receivetlyeat.erday. The Darlington packet has arrived at Falmouth from St. Thomas's, with inlvices from Guadaloupe., to the Ilth„,frOni. MUM t the 18th, and from Martimsfue to the 22i1. - Noveniber: The packet,' on the 29th of that month, spoke 12 Ves sels under convoy of the /Mena ship pt war, from Demerara. The Guadaloupe letters Kention, that the American privateers were very numerous round that island andLthe'neighourihg settlements. A letter from Barbadoes of thA 17th : November, states,. 6M the Martin sloop , davtartarrivort on the 14th from lialifax,' with 'orders from Sir , - J. H. S'. Altllo4 t 0 it F. LApoxy - fortlie, in of war '(fie thig 7 ship) of war to,proesed iihimidiately :tierlttiiiiitti, join Iu eonsetoroce of gait arrangement und er the direction 4..,t` the ()nice, no person, ei-r then native he fOreigner, to he cm-`' bark for Ainerita in Itant:c without 41 ' By . the death of General .!;ir frn ‘ , :a As . ?au 5-9 ottIVA, Bat. the Government of gravesend, and „01,e . '76th, Itt &neut. otifoOt, Which :W aS raised i 1787, and has nevelt gadi,atxylo - ther COlonel, are (0144'04 iikt: 41-1. itesolved, That, a Committee, consisting of Edward Arch dall, George 'Muni, and Christopher L'Estrenge, ENO. be appointed to priTaa; Addresses to his Royal Highneis the Prince Regen , ittid his Grace the Mike of ltichuiond, na also Petitions to both 'looses of Plilianient. The Committee having brought. up the Addresses tad Pe titions liebo i ii'ini, That these be adopted as the Addresses and Pe titions of the Piotestant inhabitants of the County of Fer ; and that the Addresses,- the Answers thereto and these our Itesolutions, be published in the bun and Courier 'London 'papers ; and in the ,Patriot, Correspondent, and Dub lin Joornal, thiblin papers; and also in, the Faite Packet, Enniebillen paper. 'Resolved, I'hut the Etta of Enniskillen he regnested to r resent a our Petition to the troupe of Lords, end fdent e nent-, General Arclulall that to the noose of Commons. JOHN' AIKE', Sheriff. The Iligh Sheriff With* left the f.;hair, and sh e % ni l of Enoktillen being called thereto. it was moved by George- Vison, Esq. OW seconded by John A , itostron,. anti ear, onanimously, that 'the rbtinlis of wellAng , be ptt sew v d J o hn Aik e n, rni. 'setsethy-Histijilierjr, t'h his readiness in convening the Protestant inhabitants of this eiinty, and for his proper conduct in the .cheir. • ENNISKILLEN. TO ALL 11110 VALUV, Vino, sitalr Sight of the. 'Aged is yestiored.ohi4 We ilk Sight stren, , :tthinc4l; uPon unerring Prl , "'lfsTYki*"* rl3ll ADlSEtitinr'llit'`LNT h.PECTACLES., d 32, Oxford.street. ptmnt Disappointment, be particular in olniervil it I, not a thop, Ina a Private !rouse, next door to the /jolt loonger's, between Swallow street, wed argyie-strett. IiNEAD.---To-day there was no Court of Alder, ;nen held. The Lord Mayor, after inspecting the returns, ordere4 the present price to continue, ... ?Z•t''', 11 6 9 ,10 liprstiA. ~:,Niigt:WS.:------ rrliin COTTIIT df DIRECTOW ''iut.o4,i4e ~,,,:- - .R. ..: X 771, :k * .t. '' , . 'Li.* UN1Tl11) C c\IP.:NY of MEIICIIA '--; I:,,AND, Trading to the E,t,t lirlifii, do her i 10,ve«! . : ~,E4,f k , 1 ..'()) - rrsIltrirI) t ,As. i:,— Ntsyed bisrajesty`s t That further Papers' respei*n giiiii present Ne . itieb4,!jk Mil : , hi p --11bicar i thi'oni Clitlernsey . . ' • Government for the retientl of the Company's e , xshisi . '‘)ri:- ~,,,. s4iled, : 4,4s,mlleit.ws...siii _ .1 . 17.. , _..._ , nr. , ~.100. amt. ,Zlliet 1 beseas,'„Vellona, and Nienien, with viie;, , es, are nowpriiit 'mg for the .irtforpvition of , tit: Proprt_ boui ._ , ._ , i / T T . ,P zui g7 ve -1 7 F -oil ;.'' 4 . etors, and will be reatly to be deliv4edeat tiie.lioitc . e to-mor- , b , row at noon. , - -.- —..-". m.- -' ' lealt44:4l.4itsioof..their destination renutiffce secret ° ''r 'Phil'i; l l . l . report in • eirenihtirni" hefe r ,Ut Ait is ~ i‘., , . „ i , . e.ii;o .-. :.. . 111,1.1e,Stt" ti •,; , 111S . I_Lepo r alii, l'inettcrsi.tilvu. rlg•ite, La\ ,' l,„ !I i.i with and captureAgo4i44o:ko 11074- . ~, , a: ~,:, ". a. ~,..—•': :i, 't• , TE M .--. ' .IIIC J' 1 , /ilLlni 111:111 o f .ivar, and the Ilerni,. rri:!„ite, ! , ,,tilvd from "WrrttflOntli on be i fsth Novs';n'oer la,i, to emit:6 can' the \Vtlt rn „'Talc,. The P , ?icliers wan' of war is• cm the II li 7 f.. 0.: ,t;ition, a l t t l was o ff -Bermuda on the 'A& of - October., The Proidoit . and t "ongrcss. A tneriatt frig,tteti ;%;el'e, cu ih,e 17th October, in about tat 37. N. Long';'sl. NS': Dv AL, JAN. 4.--A very large fleet of outwad bound Mill remain in the Downs, detaiiivd , by cOn 7 trary winds . . . . . Arrived the Percent gin-brig, .with a convoy; , fro:a.the WCSteril ports, which are sailed for the River.and other destinations. DOVER, JAN. 4.—The dalen, L4STER, from ()Lichee, - Went on shore last nightl‘i the dreadful fog,'brit-got off without damage. Other ves;• sell, : it is Said, also, got on shore, but have been got of again. It is reported tl►at a vessel, laden tvhth state, Was otptured last evening, name unknown. YARNIOUTII, JAN. 4.—Sailed yesterday evening his Majesty's ship Portia, Capt. Tnomrsom, for Sheerness, to refit. Arrived his Majesty's ship Forward, and - sailed again to the southward the hearty gun-brig, from °tithe -Texel ; and the itritish .Fair cutter, frOM Lynn. DiTatches front Major-General CLAY, com manding the forces in the Island of Antigua, were veAerday received; they are dated the 15th of November. The capture at the. Princess Amelia packet k mentioned, and that the .coast is much infested With American privateers. Saturday afternoon Lord 11'. BEAUCLERK arrived at Portsmontb, front London, to rehoist his flag an hoard the Royal Oak, and take the. crnarnand of a squadrori appoint..! to a particnlar service. The Ships which it is expected his Lordship will tae with. him - are---Valiant, Egmont, La lirigne, - Cressy, and the Desiree frigate. These ships are , fitting for' foreign service with the utmost dis patch. . . Licutenant , Colanel PATotson has been appoint- Lieutenant-( ;overnor of Quebec. The Quebec Gazette, of the 19th ult. makes the following remarks QUnrsEC, Nov. 19.—The past week bas been fertile in rcportS . and rumours, but has afforded very little authentic intelligence: To the bustle of. preparation at Montreal for an immediate at tack; succeeded a report of an armistice for six muntlis ;- this was followed hy' another, of the. breaking up"of the enemy;, camp at Vlattsbeirg, to go into winter quarters ; the next it was contra dieted ; and the next, certain intelligence arrived Of an attulpt at KingstOn, by a force from rack et's harbour. We have had, no particulars of this affair, but 'the last letters ,from Montrealipositive-; ly state that it had been repulsed, alter sonic can nonading." , Tar, TnEATItr.".•-ThOtlgh the pray of The Noun toino rs bus been so often , represented, yet . a new perfortheKaf the principal character is alwaysen titled to some notice. We, therefore, deem it no morOfhan a clue tribute to merit to state that Mr. CUAIiLES KestaLe appeared for the first time last night, it Covent-Garden Theatre,. in the part Of Octavian, which be sustained with ad mirable ability, and justly mceived the most .zea lons. applause of the audience. There was a ro mantic dignity thyough the whole, mixed with energy and pathos, that completely embodied the.character, and came home to the feelings. lont”ToNE,, from Drury-lane, appeared i n the part of Ki4»ianock, in consequence of the illness of TAVLOR, and .was much applauded.. Tug Tuar.—Lord Darlington has sold bis Eu mons racer Musidan, and be is scut into Ireland to serve as a stallion. He Was got by Worthy; dam, 'Woodbine, by IVoodpecker, out of Puzzle, (Ifornby ,Lass'i dam), by Match'em.--Hornby Lass is the dant of Morel and Truffle, both by Sotcerer. • Ellerker, of Hart, near Hartlepool, has sold Lb, brown colt. (two years old), by Sancho, out of a skter to Beningbrough (tbe dant of Archduke, &c.) to the narqUis of Queensberry. A few days since, a bargain was made At 'Os westry, market, between a farmer„ whose name ,is Evans, and the ostler at the Cross Keys iutr, for a goose which weighed 11.1b;f: the Ostler agreed to give Ali% S. one 'halfpenny for the first pound, a penny for the second, and in like manner to dou ble the sum for every succeeding pound, which , raised the price o f th e goose to 4 . / . 31(1. to the great mortiticathin of the purchaser. The body of a fel - Mile infant, about a tvr;elve- Ifittith old, Was foand floating on the surface of the New River, ,on Thursday last. On inquiry, it provedjto be the , child of amilk-woman ton; W'hielt had;been lost on. the preceding- Friday, and baying been intoxicated at the time, could give no account of the manner in which she had dispOsed'lifit. It is supposed that the child must have fallen accidentally from her arms into the river, as she was allowed to be an affectionate Parent, cuntoi's cotToir DROPS, • . The Chetipest and !lest MEDICINES fov COUGJIS, COLDN, ~..• , • . A fresh Proof of thtiir u:;toniShing Eflicaey.. THOMAS EDMUNPS,. of BirminAltm, df', l rife was pe , , , bertill to find ltoltily by tlx: sole use of Churt:h's Cough Drops, tont•hottie of which, porchosa.l iv Swinney's, 4-Ugh-street, Birmingham, re -hi to ecom o4l)(04. SU liocutiug . Asthmatic. Cough, when het a i not .anyt expectation of livintonanyMinutes p and that presevering in taking them, to the number of live hottic,, was enabled to resumer. his employment, and is now perfectly reitOred, which be vOlunturily certifies under his hand - at Birmiughami the lath of March, '18qT"). • • , THOMAS EDMUNDs. !Stems. Shaw and Edwards, (G, St., Panl's Church-yard, having purchased this a ntrall Mr. Church's medicines, none can ptuenhly be genuine but such ,as have their names en graved on the stamp " Shaw a n d ..Edwards, 1;6, :it. l'aul's Chuvoltlard," I lie intitation of which is felony.: Price only !41. and 6.. 6d. lier bottle. 'fhwte who may obj,(l to a liquid medicine, will find in vILLs, a woo. excellent sutr;ti tuie, price only Is. lid. Anitlvm)-1 Dliblin Dui:-4 Lisbon , 2 Gottetiburgh, 1 Bra zils, 1 liOigolatid, ) Guenisq, 2 Waterford. :$ ' l'O(7KS Tlii S 1). 4 .Y .:1"111'111,‘' (,r) , Consols . p .OliA 6Oll CAPTURE OF Trit LAURA, By THE DILIGENT. MINUTES MADE ON BOARD HIS MAJESTY'S gCHOONI L AURA, LIEUTENANT CHARLES N. HUNTER, CO MANDER. ":Sept; 8, 1812, at 211.'30m. p. m SaW t Frem.ch br;,g CaWin arassin,. of whi we bug. received previous information by (ill e three ~- A :pleriean. ve ;se's Ore had captured, the i`J of whjeb hlhi been spoken with by the Diiie 0. • a snort time pr,evions to her capture, off the 1 ) 'aware ; moment ive were in the It'ct bringing to tui,American ship and sloop, and lir paring to.take possession---ant being already r sluiced TO:forty in our total number,,.'out of "'h i but thirty-fist mild stand at quarters, :fiat havi already thirty American prisoners on board guard, it Would have rendered fis entirely -V weak to even think '.'of brioging the Diligent' AtiO'n (who now hoisted French cdlours)i therefore quitted the ship itnc sloop, and to dOWn'iin the Diligent, she•being not more three miles to leeward, the weather thick and bier I;avin. , sent, the prisoners below, prepared I" action, and within pistol-shot to windward of I`4 at 55m. we hauled up on the starboard be; and the action commenced ; at 411. 10m. fr" 1 ,,, 1 supe.rion sailing of the Diligent, We. were ail' , to 'set the courses to keep abreast ; at 4b. lot 'she tacked,' and" we, frOm missing stays, ' re obliged to wear, which brought us almost 8 161 1 side . , and the action continued; at 411:3010.1.. Diligent luffed.up close to our quarter, right tistern, and as she had now gained t he *I I of , us, we put our helm up,' to bring our tl side to her' again, but her very superior sal" preycinted it, and At 4h. 40in. she ran her boifsP,: over our stern and through the main-sail, (w in , l held, her there) and.-in iale several atterup o t i board under a })envy fire of musquetry and bow guns, but • was as repeatedly driven felt' r --Getting now still- more redimed s in our nu mb and obliged to repel band to hand the eotn n, , hoarders; we had but few to oppose their tola ji roes musketry. At 4h. 55m. no enemy's foot wa or had been seen, set on board the Lantla . which time Lieutenant Limiter ;vas shot in ~ head ; he fell, and from excess of bleeding , 'incapable of further of and, unfortino t di no officer was, left to take command. In , et 'e situation, their great superiority of numbers ",` , powered the opposers : they effected a bo rtilillt and subdued further resistance. . " The Laura mounted ten 1 8-pound etirit(. , 0 ) nades, s and two 9-pound guns ; had forty )11, officers and boys, at the continencenlent , which five were incapable of standing to (10°, 0 thirteen were killed' and wounded in the ac.`o, and there were thirty prisoners of war to g:''' oo l " The Diligent carries eighteen, but hti" :fifteen guns of different calibre mounted 4 _7B men after the action, unhurt, and 19 16 11 ' 4 wenntledin it." Ikt.i.Fax, OCT. 26.—0 n Wednesday Court'Martial was held on board his Alar r i, shit .Statira, . for the trill o late, schooner Lertre, fc►r t f he L:e u t rr,,ntuti itenan f t cN. .., linntex, the officers and crew of his AlRt s e s( ) ;fii vessel on the tith !:seistember, to tifelFrenc i o l)c% teen brig Ditig . ent—Vice-Ad m ira)llerbert President—Captains Byron,' Stackpole, 1t t and Lord James Townsend, ..11embers.—'; mature consideration, the Court we re o f l in , " That the capture of his Majesty's se '‘ )(k . Laura arose front the kiss of Lieut. C. N: P' her Commander, who, Was obliged to tl' tt4 ' 8i deck, being wounded ; until which time pears to have. conducted himscal in ' the ° l ' with the French brig privateer of 5 1 vier force, in a brave and able mann er; lid t t i lie Was gallantly supiiorted by his crew , with " I exception of William May,, Jahn B ro wo) James Cooper.'' The two first-Hawed re rs ' e remaining in the - United States of Artericui, anti thereby tsof-named ing before the Court, who, it is fully awl c-;i:proved, a which person (,lames quarters t u n r e i :7;1:: Cooper to be hanged by of cowardice, negligehee or disaffection , 'd 3. " 5 ' taplfif:llll Court (10th ad'udne, the the neck, 00 b" r of his. Majesty's ship s , an d at . suc h time, - 11 t.as. ti Commander in Chief .shall think proper; 3,°:„1 is hereby s entence d to s t iffer death aceordt'L The Court d ot h t h erefo t e h on ourably Lieutenant Cha r l es N. H u n ter ; an d f d ahel• o . y , judge the crew, with the exception of the mentioned persons, William May, Jo hn - " 40 , and James Cooper, to be acquitted, and tl,,,sr hereby acquitted accordingly.'' t ben ci Vice -Admiral Sawyer, the President , :J voted Lieutenant Hun ter his sword, with propriate•sneech. f the • Major RICIEARD WILLIAMS, with 22 0 Battalion 01 Roy.il Marines, has arrived f; mouth, from St. Andero, iii the Jo; PATLIISON. The reina hider, tlie taliOn, command e d by ajar MALcoLm ly expected. Th e y w ere embarking Diadem, Captain ,PoILL,IMORE, an' M lion. Captain RonNEy. The /cis, TIAN, would accompany them to were succeeded in the possessi and in the investment Of Saflt the Spanish troops, commit , ' DkiABEL. The Met usa„ . was to remain at St. Aude to Corunna, to bring a turday morning orders the Battalion of Ma' preceed to Plymour to sail on Sunday. The Espie - gle , C niDuth on Thu; C;ipe Ortegal, ' during schooner, v in the Bay ot the Cl' vateer, superi , with g(iir