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AMERICA, NEW Vora'AND HALIFAX PAPMS: FROM TLIEPEDF.RAL RPITBLICAN, AUGs. 5. THE RAPID DESCENT. It appears that, from recent accounts, not more, Than 1000 men are collected 'fear Albany, for the grand invasion which has been threatened, and preparing for six months. At this rate, it would cost sore labour to a'military arithmetician, who should understand to calculate when . the liberty - 'of the seas . will t v e w i quere d the 'Heights of aibrahant. • We' -have no expectation of an advantageous result from General Hull's expedition. His re gular force is too small, and the army is too badly supplied, to promise success against Maiden. It is characteriStic of the men who have pre cipitated •this .var, that the British should have tircuitously.obtain-A much earlier information of the declaration than General Hull, and taken their measures accordingly. • • 49HNSON, the guilty Mayor of Baltimore, the 'perfidious betrayer of the brave, the reproach of Magistracy, has called the City Councils together, in order to obtain an 'e3 , ;.ulpatory, statement of facts in his favour, and that of Straker, his col kague in perfidy and dishonour. it may readily be foreseen what kind of statement this will be, uten it is remembered, that A1141'11)01) retains the sovereign power in Baltimore ; that the persons appointed to draw it up are nearly all notorious tor hsorganizing prf f neipies, and that the number includes a fugitive from Irdand. , As the club are clothed with powers to increase t beir , inembers, we would adviSe them to call in Straker as 'well as the Mayor, that both may,have principaLshare in the drudgery of white-wash ing themselves, without laying the but-then alto gether upon others. 0 (FROM, THE FEDERAL REPUBLICAN OF AUG. 7.] PROCLAMATION. The reliance General Lee placed in the hOnour of General Struker, originated in the feelings , he supposed one Officer of the RevolutiOn could not l alp entertaining for another. Alas ! he did not know the stuff of which the leading Baltimore Democrats are made. *Truth, homiur, and faith ale by then) laughed to scorn. When force 'can- Lot r , ;aCh the victims, cool deliberate smiling per fidy, t=i--!s. place. Such men, whilst they .are oof aga'nst 'he feeling of humanity, are care ess of the opinion of'the worthy. The .sacrice . ol'a political opponent i 9 to them more delightful than the IiiCCIISe of well-merited applause. He will remain stained with the blood of General r!ingan till he retires from the stage of life, he the Period, long, or short, to giVe'an account of his Conduct. Ant who can envy him his trhimpli over braverylattained such a manner?. It is not safe. .Meatiwhile let him prepare for the ma inconveniencies which must ensue, from a deliberate breach of faith, which has cost others r,o dearly in 'life, feeling, and property: Well blight it be exclaimed, " the moo itself was hu- I nane, compared with Struker, JohnsonP and their associates in this black business. ',nose, over whose murmurs the grave was to be closed, bare risen from it to atte::t. thc:r wrongs, and the mode in which ti,ey were perfi.'iousl. immolated. Their story wilt descend to posterity in details, Which will affect the. heart and startle. ( Avenged thei r su ff erings must be, by the justice H of man or dispensations of heaven. It cannot be known what were the orders with which Commodore Rodgers put to sea. A fault of magnitude however lies somewhere. For more than *a month the coast and trade of the United States have been exposed, ,without the protection 'which the principal and most active part of ()pi little navy could afford. This, .in the early part of hostilities, would - have been of moment to the returning vessels, which, froin the course of cir cumstances, were unsuspicious of danger. As thing s have been managed, Commodore Rodgers ss driving about-the ocean in quest of British cbn 'toys whir% he cannot meet, and leaving our trade a Prey to every petty gun-vessel. But, if he had been so successful as to capture as many vessels as be could man, the whole amount would be only equal to a small proportion of what this unjusti fiable cruize will have cost in the loss of American Property, and which ought to have been saved by the activity of his squadron nearer home. What is become of him, and what may be his fate are questions to be anxiously put; both by the patrons Of the navy, and the friends of those who are un der his command. If the danger from the superi ority of British naval force were less striking, the interval which has elapsed' without hearing, from hitu is foreboding. Deep is the interest which every friend to -his Country must feel in the preservation of the slen- Per means of maritime defence which we- have :been allowed by our AdMinistration to possess equally valuable are the liberty and welfare of so marry Officers of the first promise-and connection, - "Is our public vessels contain. Bat it is a truth Which is in a course of verification, that this 'war will cost us both, and that before long.-- In anticipation of this, it is already re-echoed - in certain quarters, that Congress will never hereafter fppropriate a dollar for naval pur louses.- We have seldom seen this subject placed upon its true 'footing. The present posture -of 4f . airs affords an illustration which may tend to hold it up in its true light. We have now a maritime and land war at the same time; the whole internal frontier is'menaced both by the British and sa vages, in like manner as the sea-coast is liable to the annoyances of the British ernizers. Both re quire protection, and why should theinterror tiers be alone provided for ? Ought not every -alember, connected with the Atlantic interests, 'to have checked the gratification of the Western interests, till full justice had been awarded to the People she represents ? As the matter at present stands, the maritime people are to pay all, fight WI, and lose all. , .`i THE MAYOR OF BALTIMORE, DATED AUG. 0.1 , * Whereas a dis p osition has manifested itself A the part of seine of our misguided citizens, to d .sturb the peace of our city, by a disregard of, 411 d Open omosition to its laws, and whereas it is belies - red that the prothoterS of tliis‘cti*iftteil conduct Are so few in number, that if not coati : tenanced by others, who are in fact. Only spec tators, they would desist from such misconduct. Now,: therefore, T 'am induced to . ,issue this my . proclamation, calling upon , all ,well-disposed peaceable'citizens, who are not in the employ of ,the civil or military authorities, to remain within their respective houses after eight o'clock in the evening, during the present state of the public . mind, and particularly to retain at hOme all their apprehOces, servants, and children ; in doing 'so 'they will consult their own safety, as well as con tribute.to,the preservation of peace ; for as effica cious Means arc adopted to disperse all assemblies of the people,' and summarily puhish ,the riotous and ill-disposed, thoso who arc in the streets only as spectators, will subject themselves to the dabber of suffering with the guilty. EDWARD' JOHNSON: GEORGE TowN, AuG. 7.---The providential es cape and recovery of Mr. Hanson from his woundS, have excited pious gladness in our hearts which no language can express. The joy occasioned is heightened by the perusal of 1i letter.from him to a friend ; holding out the expectation of his soon resuming a part in the direction of this Jonrnal:— After the. scenes which have passed in review be fore us,who can doubt the fervour to the devotion of the'cause of justice, Hefty, and maukind,which warms the bosom , of the man whose wrongs and sufferings in the cause of liberty and virtue, have noth:en surnassed for ages. EXTRACT ' 01 , &LETTER FROM A. C. HANSON, ESQ. DATED NEAR BALTIMORE, AUG. 3, 1812: " Next to the death of General - Lingan, whose exit was truly noble and. characteristic, the panic prevailing among the people in raid near Bahl : - more,. has smote my heart more severely than all the wrongs and sufferings inflicted by the. blind 11.nd ferocious agents ,of„ malignant cowardly, blood-thirsty enemies, sheltering ,themselves for a time under an irresponsible banditti. My wounds, it is true, are numerous and severe ; but .they reach not my mind, nor give a moment's un., easiness or grief ;. but the gloom and despondency pervading' the body Of Federalists within the . sphere of Baltinthrei influence and inflame my very brain, and arc as a thousand daggers aimed at my heart. .The late scenes in the Emporium of Maryland, originating demonstrably at Washing ton, and made by many a party question,.:l con sider merely as the Cominencement of . a long' se- ; ries .of troubles, to terminate happily or unfor- Aunately . for the country; as men of respectability, property, and talents, perform the parts assigned them by patriotism. If they look on quietly, or rather fly their posts, and permit the hundredth part of the population of any given place, and that too composed of pickpockets, footpads, °fo reign vagabonds, and, priv steers men, to usurp' , the government, they may blame themselves when their property, persons, and families lir! disposed of by the Same. rules of summary adjudi cation. . " 0, my friend's and fehow-martyrs, when- I , say they would . vie with the niekeil meri of Leoni-_ das, facts, wilt attest the truth ,of the assertion. Although they had not slept for the last 36 hours, to the lest moment they were cheerful, conversi ble, and sometimes gay. Not even When the forc— ing of the jail-door was announced by the savage yell of the mob,, nor when they Caine to the door of, the apartment in which we were confined,' Was there a look, a word, a whisper, a motion of the body, of any thing,_ but cool, collected courage, and contempt : of death. A different conduct was not to be expected of_ men who had embarked in such a cause,. with a perfect knowledge of all the consequences,, though they never could have anticipated being delivered over to the ex,ecu tioner, 'through the inhuman treachery •of the civil authorities. The liberty of the press, the security of person and property, the rights._ civil and political, belonging to the meanest citizen, the very principles and priVileges for the - assertion and defence of which the War of independence was declared, we had pledged . ourselves to maintain, and at the risk of our lives, and at every extremity, not forbidden' by With. the mob and:civil authority united against Us; the contest Was .indeed unequal. However, my tituation allows me to add but little. All my partners in persecution and suffering whom I have seen or heard from since the massacre, agree in subscribing the injuries to the same men. The names of Nlayor,General Struker, and John Mont gomery, are the first on the catalogue of the-per fidious barbarous monsters, and it will appear that the advice of the latter, dictated by cowardice, pro duced the, catastrophe. My writing to you is more of an experiment thanot'herwise, and I cannot dictate, as no one, will tie my'ainanuensis, the 'doctors and .nurses all insisting that I shall neither Write 'nor talk, and I can 'do neither Without danger. - ' , _ _ " I have six wounds on my head, eithe'r of whiclp sufficiently severe to induce an inflamma tion of the brain, without great care. -Both lar , bones.are hurt. The extremity of the spinal bone injured, ond extremely painful. The breast bruised, and now painful. The fore-finger o'/ the, right hand broken, and the whole hand injured - , having been twice stabbed, once through with a pen-knife, and the nose broken. :These are the. injuries I have received,.but they do not give'me half the pain that the despondency of my political friehd3 ,Ln'AX, AUG. 24.—His Majesty's ships Maid, stone; .Spartan, and Indian.,• with a fleet of Mer chantmen; arrived on • Tuesday last from Ne* BrunsAriek..- The Rosina, mast-ship, is one .of the fleet, onboard her are Lieut-Gen': Hunter, his Lady and family. - • • - • •BAVTIMORE. - On Tuesday evening they resolved to pull down the Post Office, is the most effectualway of pre venting the circulation of the Federal 'Republican in Baltimore. On this act they were as fully bent" as they ever were,.-upon anv of the numerous out "ages they have perpetrated' with so much impu nity, but they-were prevented by calling out the militia, who have been'On duty every nightsince in considerable numbers. 'Even the Mayor, of clear conscience, has made a spew of acting by issuing a Proclamation in the Ronaparteau style, threatening " summarily to punish t4e riotous and At, the tithe this step Was taken, applies.tiori WAS made, ag -we are informed, to the rostmaster, to 'exclude, our:Taper from the office. The mob hare sworn ,they would have it down in less than : Ave sights.; and thuS far thetf;ave generally made go ) cid their threats. Should ti proclamation nre 7 . vent - Omit , success, ou the. present occasion, how clearly will the Mayor convict himself of copuiv.= ance and perfidy on t: Very former occasion ! Why did he not issue his prlelarnation in an. earlier stage of mobocracy ? lie was timely and pointedly ap prised of each of the three mobs which affected us; but in the two first he declined interfering—and in the last he had just so much agency, as to con vince the populace that they had nothing to fear from his prevention, in the perpetrlition of what must appearo every man a preconcerted massacre ; his own express and avowed language proves his ,He now declares, in his ..proclamation— " Whereas a disposition has: manifested itself, on the pariof some of our. misguided citizens, to dis turb the peace of our city; and whereas it is be-, sieved that the promoters ,or disorderly 'conduct arssafew in number, that, if not countenanced by others, who are, in fact, only ,spectators, they would desist from such conduct." If this be' true, ,what exct - ,:se has he for all that is past ? He can ne ver pretend tbk so fewpersons could uotbe restrain ed, had be tholght proper to exert his authority. Is it not IIQW clear to demonstration ? Is it - not liow manifest from his own confession, that the. printing,offiCe and dWellintz-house of one of us, with their ‘-respective :contents; were destrove, and our friends ruassacred.in the prisons, ha' a,few whom the., constitute4 ;; authorities did not choose to oppose? And why not oppose them ? other ansv,-er cap be given, if the premises be trUe„ that their Condpct was approved, if not procured and iuSthrated. . The :Postmaster of Baltimore sent an ex:ptess,to Washington, containing an account of the dan ger, and askia for assistance, which, as we have heard, has for the present been.declined., The 20th Regiment of Foot, and the Ist batta lion of the 6th, are to embark forthwith from Ireland for Spain ; the Ist battalion of the 91st Regiment has the same destination: Four hundred rank and file of the 7th and 82d regiment& may be speedily expected at Portsmouth from . Jersey and Alderney, to embark for foreign service. • Detachments for the following regiments .at Cadiz are preparing for embarkation : 2d batta lion 47th regiment; 4th• battalion 67th ditto ; 95th ditto, and BE WATTEVILLE'S: The detachment of the 2d battalion 23d regi ment, which is stationed at HaverfordWest, is to be removed to Barnstaple. • A detachment of volunteers from the Irish mili tia embarked on the 9th' inst. for the different re . giments in England, under the command of Lieu tenant WALS 7 I, of the 11th Foot. To promote cleanliness and the convenience of the soldiers, six married women, of good charac ter, are permitted to reside ii the barracks in Great Britain, for every troop or company consisting of 100 men ; but.no articles are to be furni . shed by the Barrack-materS on this account. BoxING.—A pitched battle which excited. much attention, took place yesterday in the, neighbour hood of Ealing, between Carter, from Laues.sitire, and Bone. The men, who were of tolerably pqual weight, set to at one o'alock. Betting was even, but Carter had the.turn.—After a battle of seven teen minutes continuance, in which Carter dis played some skill and considerable - courage, be was declared the victor. There were very few of the amateurs present and the fight did not excite much interest. MuRDER,!---Tnesday, the 9th instant, a 'horrid murder, almost raiparalleled in the Principality, was Committed it the neighbourhood of Tre Madoc, - Carnarvonshire.—Thomas Davies,' who had .been: -employed at ivir. Machiock's embank ment. nearly four years, and who, lodged at the house of a small farmer, returned from his work, and robbed the cottage of his host, while the fa wily Were occupied harvest work, 'at a short . distance;: Before he had-completed his plunder, the danghter canie.home, for thepnrpose of car rying provisions to her father, and - the family in the qield. Davies immediately.seized the young Woman, and; with a pair of shears,. Stabbed her seven or .eight times, and finally. cut her throat With them. The girl not rani-fling in due time, the brother- was dispatched to ascertain the cause of her (Way. he approached. the house, he saw the_ murderer washing his face, who said he had fallen down a rock and cut his face : but when the boy entered the door, and beheld his sister's bloody corpse on the floor, he ran - and re lated the matter to.his parents, who, with some neighbours, hastened to the spot. On questiOn big DaVies, he declared in the most solemn man-i ner 'that -he knew 'nothing of the murder; and that •he came home, at an ,unusual hour, because he was un well. His hsir ',icing wet, he was asked why - lie had washed his face ; but he denied hav ing done : sso: This contradiction of the. child's testiiitony, with other circtunstanees, excited sus picion,` and Davies was tipprehended, in order, to ,lie-exaMined by a Magistrate: For this purpose he was fastened upon a hors.e,.his legs tied to the girths of the saddle, his hands fastened together, and the rope from thence was held by an attend 'ant. When'night came on he contrived to etinin cipate himself; and . having fastened to the Saddle the one end of the rope, Which was also held by the person who had him in custody, he slipped off,' and absconded anrong the mountains,. near TanTbwich. The prisoner was, however, soon missed, and a hue and cry being raised, he was retaken next morning, with the pocket-book, watch, and other property which . he had stoleii, found upon. him, and is committed to Dolgelly Gaol. Th e consequence of his escape, therefore, is, that by his returning to a field where he had secreted the property, which was finally found in his pOssession; a stronger evidence of his guilt . is 'brought to light. He is a native of Lucton, near CleObury-Mortißer, 68 years-of age, and 6 feet ' 2 inches high '; 'tie had worked at Paris Mountain, •in Anglesea, 14 years, .andifrom his astonishing muscular power, was called. The King of the Mann tains . —We regret to add another tragicaLoccur rence-,-the uncle of the murdered girl, when seaafning after thevillain, accidentally fell from. a precipice, and was killed. 'elve (AA) BEI-i. 18. • • James Vernon stood indicted for stealing 1011'. lead, charged to have been affixed to a certa building belOngingto one Edward Aust;n, in t . s:t. parish of St. Andrews, Holborn. The -prisofxr, it appeared vats, ,detected in the fact. On the cross-examination of the prosN—t ,, r, however,, it turned out, that the lead in : I Letti had been cat from a trough, from. which fioct,:s drink, end NVIliCh was attached to. a-wall, not a part of the dwelling-house: From this infor mality in the indictment, the prisoner was ac: quitted. • John Smith stood indicted forr stealing several aricics of plate, in the dwelbog house of John Shii!ito, in the. Strand. . t The prosecutor ha:ving been sworn, proceeded togive his zetAimony in so eetentric a manner, that the Court wash interrupted by ,a . .bUrst 'of laughter from the persOns.prestnt. The Learned Judge (Gtncs) then addressed the witness in a tone of severity, exhorted him to recollect the awful duty he Y was about. to - .perf•••rai, and th respect due: to the Court, as well.4s td him self. Still, however,the prosecutor waf.;'proen2ding in:his disorderly manner, when a constable inter fered, and signified•to the Court that he was not In a sound state of mind, which was - immediately proved upon oath. The Learned Judge-st.r.E.lr conduct of thqse, who, knowing that circum stance, had suffered the witness to be sworn. The prosecutor's testimony beir., - ; ;nAihuissible in supporting the inclictuient; the' prisoner vas acquiitect. Bewamin CVbrd. Was charged. with the wilful murder of' Patrick Doyle, . on the `.26tli of August It appeared . , that on the day mentioned - in the indictment, consideral4 riot Ilan prevailed in the neighbourhood - of-Poplar, anionf,cst the ROI re' sidents'in that quarter; one of whom was the prisoner. At eleven o'clock. the same night, a watchman discovered - the prisoner, who k was; 'a lieadborough of that parish, stripped and .111.!, - hting with the deceased. The wathrnart interferedy find- separated them, desiring ‘the prisoner, whom he censured as being a constable, for having' broken, rather than preserved the peace, to :2:0 home' and he went away. The deceased remain ed a short time with the watchman, but at, last ran after the prisoner, crying; ". Stop .thief!" 'having previously said that he had been ill-treated, and would have satisfaction. The. watchman per ceiving that they had again got together and were senfilirig,'went towards them, when the prisoner ran off,, and the deceased staggered, and fell against sonie:railing; and on investigation appeared to be dying. A surgeon was immediately sent for, who, On 'examining - the deceased, found that he had re ceived a wound on the- left side, which li.ad the appearance of having been inflicted with a knife, and on further investigation, he ascertained that the instrument had penetrated the heart. In refutation of the. charge, it appeared that there - had been considerable dissension and riot amongst the natives Of . Ireland, the whole of the day preceding the death of the deceased, who., by possibility, might have received the mortal cvound from some other hind than that of the prisoner. Mr. Justice IitATH, in summing up the evi dence, •observed,' that the -testimony adduced completely failed 'in supporting the • charge of murder. If the prisoner had been 3uilty of any crime, it was that of Illanslattghixr, but even of that offence, as - against the prisoner, he dill not conceive there was any satisfactory proof.—Ac quitted. Saiah Penny -was next tried .on 'an indictment, charging her with _having wilfully murdered her bastard child at Hackney. Lucy Bailey, a midwife, deposed,. that on the morning of the .29th of August, she was sent for to attend a person in labour, at the house of a Mr. Smith, at Hackney. I She perceived the prisonet sitting up in bed, and ,found that she had in part been delivered of ar female child: 'Wkness immediately proceeded to give her professional assistance. On examining the child she fousn that it had received sa severe contusion on the chest . ; and from the mouth there was a great ef. fusion of blood. The child soon after expired. everal other witnesses were called, but as their testimony.only went to prove, that the injure; sustained by the child might have been oecasioneil by an attempt on•the part of the woman to delivea herself, the Counsel for the prosecution declined .proceeding farther with the case, and the prisonc.i Was acquitted. _ Thomas Heath stood indicted for the willu murder of his wife. .Elizabeth, on the 19th of Jul) last. Sarah Cod deposed, that she called upon du deceased on the morning of the ISth of July last She found her in bed, extremely unwell; and at: asking her the cause of her indisposition, slit said that she bad been ill treated by her husband Witness saw two severe bruises 'on her body. TWo Surgeons were called ; "from the evidence of -one of whom it appeared, that when he_ wal 'called in to the deceased, he did not anticipate any fatal effects from her illness ; - and from th; other, who opened her on the day subsequent tZ her death, it appeared, that her dissolution w not attributable to any exterior cause. Under these circumstances, the Learned Judgi directed , the Jury &) acquit the prisoner. • METEOROLOGICAL UR NAL BY it. BANKS, PHILOSOPHICAL INSTRUMENT M AKER, STRAND Therm 41 riv!ter. Wea: oe ~, • bi) 071... .. ..,4 4" • er. 1"" 3.5 Fair Do. Do. Do. Do. Rain Fzdr 20.00 29 89 the Bar meter w Ft D,. Do- ;:8.1~. 110011, 30 31