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receiving eitz . ge.r wbunds thrttugh the iight arm, under the left sl o and on the c s row-o of 'l.is he ad, was dispatched by a sabre blow abbve his hip. At the same time, CoLLivs, an American citizen, and lately a rigger here-, was so desperately wound ed, that he died ihe ICY inorni• g ; - many other sea oett were Etabber.l and maimed in a cr u el manner. „n Frid a y a f ternoon , t h e Isth ire taut, a numner -f c aptains and Mates of vesAels tift(l seamen were pro eeeding in a body, with the Ameri , 111 flag, towards th e Wharf, at which La Franchise was Iving, and as Ic) r) as they appeared from the 'arrow passage which leads to. it, they were aiehoscaded and tired u pon by the priviveers:nen from aloft on the , aharl, ? 1 , 4 i1e one or two cross slots w e re di s , : h arge d f rom t he Cao, MILLER, of the brig Chump/in, received a shit through his head, and is in a most i la ngerous situation—ai the same time a seaman he- Plging to Capt. HowLAso's vessel was killed. At, Iran, the saling master of one of the yes. and a Frenchman, tell in the rencontre, and a lie gto on board was shot through the hand. The popular indignation could no longer be re ttrained ; tinder feelitr4s excited to the utmost I)it ch, the alarm bell sounded, and the drums beat tb.arnis.. La Franchise was boarded, and immedi ately towed across the river, where she was fired ; 400 :1 a great number of seamen were in the act of dis mantling, and ca.ting off La Vengeance, whe n . 41 ‘ 1 1 1 .e war boarded ny a detachMent of the Savannah olunt eer G uar d s. Th e Mayo, of the City soon liter arrived on board, and a:t'er delivering an address 10 the much exasperated populac-, exhorting them to r e P the peace, sh 4 was c om mi tte d, w i t h t h e crew !' e ra reniaininEz on board of" her to the p ro t e cti on o f the corps which was on board. Her anchors hay ing been cut away, and almost all her rigging de .6lPoycd, an attempt was made to run her on the .3?Posite shore, but it failed, and she drifted to Wig's wharf, where she grounded—the prisoners C'll. board had been previously lac,rled, and received protection of the Republican Blues. • SDon after night, a number of boats'. crews 'Winced and expressed their determination to carry t he ve ss • 1. Anurrl•aerof desperate efforts were made b Y (ham ro board, and she was defended at the Pint of the bayonet until half past eleven o'clock ; hae assaila n t s had now p re p are d com b ust ibl es, an d d set fire to a .Petersburgfc boat, within 20 yards rthe privateer, which, wht.m'set adrift, could, not t. l ave passed one sile . her, while the utmost ex ertion was required on the other to keep otT t he boarders. One hour and - a half having elapsed, si,ce the corps had been promised relief or tei nforcttnent, not receiving ate, and having been eight hours at their posts, exposed to a cold wind 41114 rain, and seeing no poSsibility of saving the ves sel from ti e i n g filed, the attacking party was desired , ckaw off, and the detachment was disembarked. 41 Vengeance w i ts soon alter in flames, and was b to the water's edge. f We have never % , :itnessed more unanimity of l e eling than on this occasion ; the American spirit 8 08 e superior to every other consideration, and a ll e enlod animated by the same fe e lin g s a n d the s am e wishes The volunteer cor,,s were under arms in the city; 44 ,d We have much pleasure in noticing the condu c t . Major ElAktaisoN's hatrali , ,r) of the 2d regiment, wh ich marched t town itg soon as it could be as letlibled and uttered its services to the Corn kandant. Ott Sat , pday, the 161 - inst. the remains of TAY- Itoß. CuLt.iNs were iiit , ..trred. The Captains of h e pert acted as pall- bearers and mourners, and on wel ncholy occasion, c itizens of all rankg joined he prbeession (torn the Exchange, which consisted -O f bt arly 400 , iersons• • • We sincerely hope that the peace of the city will °t again be disturbed, and that such wretches as e l i mpo , ,;:d the crt ws ót the privateers will not be al uowed an opportunity of again sh,dding the blood °I . our Citizens, and drawing down American ven geance on their heads. T.,0 PRINCE REGENT will hold a Council on 1" 1, cloy next, when the Adslress of his R o y a l ig , nes„ rth. u huh the Session of Parliament '. ls to be opened on the following day, will s in its trect form, be submitted for his final appr o b at i on . is Ro; - al Highneis will not meet the Parliament - 4 I%erson ;—the Session will be opened by Corn- Mis s i on. sterday, at three o'clock, a Cabinet Council . was held at ti,e Foreign Office, which was attend by Earl 8,.-rutoistr, , PERCEVAL, Mr. YoaxE, 1. (4 (-1 11 , 1uocitAvE, Mr. RYDER, Marquis WELLES -1.111'.3 Earl of LivErirooo, and Viscot nt ll EL vr eeE . llr Council sat till near six o'clock. 1) : Yes!erday the Commander in Chief transaa e d 4 sioess with th e PRINCE REGENT. (-) ti lVlonciay the PRINCE REGEN't will hold a ri 'Y Council at Gallon House. k rir We feel moch• coneern in announcing the death T ,' Junta PEARSON, Esq. , Secretary to th e Lottery l ' Ace, at S o mer se t H o u se . H e h a d b een som e 1 141 ein a low desponding state, a n d it i s suppose d ha t a Sudden paroxysm had seized hi rn , an d • te , 4l l)tedhim to put a period to his existenc e . H e e as goin g our to dinner, aid the Hair-dresser, on 4 k ring his morn in or ter to shave him, found h un [ le ad ' and weltering in 164 blood. .Ap unload e d pis t°l way nest him, - but no report of its discharge had r. , e !=tl heard by his servants, or by any person i n t h e u Joining office. FL,. was a very religoots man, and 8 7 v er could bear ally to be- uttered in his pre . t , ; h oe that had rho sliglotst tendency to.prolane .ess—a full proof that this desperate ael-must have been th e (Alec[ of sioHen mental derangement. He ad t rereroly recei'.ed .cobsiderable addition to his i t- tote r , by die heath of Dr. GiIEY, whose office . 4 1 " held, and whom lie had long paid'a large an -4,11i.tY• father was a respectable Coal-merchant, 16 Mr. P. having a very numerous train of friends, I 4 aS induced to continue the nosiness, which was z" - Y, profitable. He was a very inotfensivecharacter l e Private life, and always re.ady it acts of benevo, 4, =e, .He was well known in the streets of Lou. °4 by •in enormous wen on tire side of his neck, ch•obllged Hai to wear a very large cravat. f--1..; .tis lef t a ver y agr d mo th er , an d a sister, ! . 43 lament a l foss ; the nature of which they Are happiiy not IYtised of, conceiving that tie event was the , ``feet of .his disorder, which had long been espco:d „ kruclece a sudden death, Weather. I, - . lii 1.: , i• L--:1 ----: 2 c RZ :7- . .4 ....• ... l as cr% a; .-: m cr, I = as Q ;e. JOO 0 I 23 34 34- 3C• 129 - 1 19.12 .os Snow Clay. 2 9 3 4 3 2 . '35. 0 1 •56 Fair Fair 33 28 3:,. 3z. 27 1 .93 1)9. D. 3' 28 33. 33. 31 1 33.03 I I CWT. Ckly. 1 37 37. 41• 36 i 2 9.79 Fair Fair 2 39 39. 44. 37 1 ••55 .02 Rain Rai n * 3 's 37* 4z• I 341 '39 . r. 5 . Do. . Fair • I 1 I I .----.72 ight sii N. 13. The th towel rs—at e; ist days :levcn P. are in 1 M. fine. Inuary, 1812. POLICE,. MANSION HOOSE.—Charlotte Magnay, the wo man in whose possession young Dellow was found at Gosport, arrived in town yesterday morning, and was brought up for examination in custody of Win. Barber, the Bridewell-keeper of Gosport, who stated, that in consequence of his having seen some hand-bills delivered about Portsmouth and G , sport, advertising a child lost in London, giving a description of the child, and offering a reward for its restoration, he made inquiiies,andin consequence was informed, that there was such a child at the house of a woman in Gosport, which there was strong reason for believing out to be her own. He went accordirtily to the residence of the prisoner, and inquired if she had not a child :ibout three years old. She answered, that she had. He then asked her if that child was het own. She answered in the affirmative. He then cautioned her to be correct in her answers, as he had reason to believe it vas not. She replied by - -icknowledging the child was not her own ; and said she had found it in the streets in London, sell had br tught . it home with 11A- ; that she had taken every possible care of it, and had bought it a quantity of clothes. He desired to see the child. S , ,e brought it out of bed to him, and shewed him the clothes she had purchased for it. He found ihechild answeri..g to the description in the handbill ; it was clean and comfortable, and seemed to have been well taken. care of. He told the prisoner she must come with him before a Ma gistrate, and-bring the child ; to which she most readily consented ; and in consequence of the Ma gistrate's order, the child wrs brought up to town, and restored to it parents.. The prisoner's d•seliing, he said, was 1-1,4 t and coinloi iable, and fit for any respectable tradesmen. Mrs. Dellow ; the child's mothei, attended with the little fellow in her alms, and the hat and feather on, which were describLd iu the forni , r ; rosecution to have been bo;;At for hiFn by MN. Russel, the person then alleged to It , ve taken him away, who was tried at the last Old Bailey Session for the sup pose.; offence. The: LORD IViATOR- asked tier if any part of • the clothes in which the chit I cunt, back to, her, was the s—ne he bad on when taken away. Site an swered in the negative, His Ldich.nip t' Lit asked the prisoner, if she wished i.) say any thing in h-r defence. She re ;lied, that sh,, had no unorero say than to acknowledge she had taken the child from a little girl in the street, • had bought for him sonic ca,kcs, had brought him home with her, and had taken the greatest care ut him ever ..ince. The LORD I‘ , l/omit then 'emanded her, tube again brought up on Mo•lclay : but at the same time desired she ought remain in the Mansion House, until the crowd, assetnbled uti the outside, should disperse. The Banker's Clerk, apprehended . on We'cinei. day evening, for embezzling 14001. the property of his employers unclerwviit a priva'e exacninalion before the Loup MAYoa, and was renlanded for a further examinatiou. Ihrtobr-HALL.—Thomas Ifs/cite, a man in sailor's apparel, was charged on suip , eion of being one of the persona concerned in the late atrocious murders in ilatclitf-highway: • His accuser was a goal -porter, named Harding, who stated, that on Thursday evening, he went into the Blue Pump public-house, in tiie Borough, to get a.pint of beer, when he saw the prisoner sitting in the tap-rourn ; there was something singular in his appearance, which excited his curiosity, and he en deavoured to enter into conversation with him, by asking him if he was a sailor. The prisoner denied that he was, saying he• had never in . his lift: been uelow the Nore. .There was a woman in company with him, who, on hearing the witness ask this question, applied a very disgraceful epithet to him, asking what buswess it was of his ; accusing hitt at the same tittle sit wanting to make a property of the prisoner. White, after this c;uversation, ap peared very restless and uneasy, which increased the witness's suspicions, who at last [old him that he very much resembled the description given by Tuner of the person he saw on the night of Wil liainson's murder ; to which the prisoner confessed that he was there, and ul;on this acknowledgment, the witness thought it his duty to give him in charge. Tire account which the prisoner gave of himselt was as follows ;—He had been a seaman in his Majesty's service for 20 years, and having been wounded, was discharged, with a pension ; he had since been a voyage to India, and vi•as.again entered on borrd t:ie Cuffmis Last Indiaman,. now lying at the Note; be came to town on Thursday morn ing, for the purpose of getting his impress money, and 'intended to go to Greenwich yesterday to re ceive his pension ; he had accordingly engaged a bed at the publie-house, whete,he was, in company with a female, when. Harding entered, who pro posed to him to toss for some liquor, which he declined. Harding accused linnof being concerned in the murders ; upon Which be said, " It you think so, yuu had better .detaiu rue;" - but he never acknowledged being one of the murderers, as Hard ing had stated. Several persons, prest.nt in the tap-room, bore testimony -to the truth of this statement, upon which the Magistrate discharged him, obicrrjog, tixrc was no fulludation lur the charge. 111ETEOROLOGla1L JOURNAL, Rl' R. BANKS, PHILOSOPHICAL INNtIIUMENT 'WAXER, STRAND. zIALERIC4N PA IiER4 (Continued from yesterday.) • •In this yfqvionable expectation we have, however, been disappointed: A . year - lids elapsed since the French Decires were rL schided, and yet Great Bri tain, instead of retracting part pciiSu that course of unjustifiable attack on neutral rights, in which she professed to be only the reluctant follower of Urance, has advanced with bolder and continually increasing slt ides. To the categorical demands lately made by our Government tbr the repeal of her Orders in Council, she IYIs atieaed to deny the praCliCel ex tinEtion of the French Decrees ; and she has, more over, advanced a new and unexpected demand, in creasing in hostility the Orders themselves. She has insisted, through her accredited' Minister at ibis pl:ice, that the repeal of the Orders in Council must be preceded,not only by the pradical abandonment Of thedecrees of Berlin and Milan,so far as they infringe the neutral rights of the United States; but by ihe renunciation on the part of FranCe of the whole of her system of commercial warfare against Great Bri tain, of which those Decrees originally formed a part. This system is understood to consist in a course of measures adopted by France and the other powers on the Continent subject to, or in alliance with her, calculated to prevent the introduction into their territories of the productS and manufactures of Great Britain and her colonies, and to annihilate her trade with them. However hostile these regu lations may be, on the part of France towards Great Britain, or however sensibly the latter mty feel their effects, they are, nevertheless, to be regarded only as the expedients ,of one enemy against another, for which the United States, as a neutral power can in no respect be responsible : they are, too, in exalt conformity with those which Great. Bri tain has herself adopted and aFted upon in time of peace as well as war. And it is not to he re sumed that France would yield to the unauthorised demand of America, what she seems to have con sidered as cne of the most powerful engines of the • present war. Such are the pretensions upon which Great Bri tain founds the violation of the maritime rights of the United Stales—pretensions 'not theoretical mere ly, but followed up by a desolating war upon, our unprotelled commerce. The ships of the United States, ladvn with the produls of our own soil and labour, navigated by our own citizens, and peace ably pursuing a lawful trarie, are seized on our own coasts, at the very mouths of our harbours, con demned and confiscated. Your Committee are not, however, of that sea whose ,worship is at the shrine of a calculating ava rice. And while we are laying. before you the just complaints of our merchants against the plunder, of their ships and cargoes, we cannot refrain from pre senting to the jus , ice and humanity of our country the unhappy case of our impressed seamen. Al though the groans of these victims of'barbarity for the toss of (what should be dearer to the Americans than life) their liberty—although the cries of their wives and children in the privztion of proteators and parents, have, of late, been drowned in the louder clamours a: the loss of property ; yet is the practice of forcing our mariners into tee British navy, in vio lation of the rights of our flag, carried on with una bated rigour and severity. If it be our duty to encourage the fair and legiti mate commerce of this country by prate ling the property of the .niercliant, then indeed, by as much adife•and liberty are more estimable than ships and goods, so much more impressive Is the duty to shield . the persons of wit- seamen; whose hard and honest services :ire employed, equally with those of the merchants, in advancing, under the mantle of its laws, the intertets of their country. To sum up, in a wee A, the great causes of com plaint apoist Great Britain, your Committee need only say—That the United States, as a sovereign and independent power, e.laim the right to use the ocean, which is the common and acknowledged highway o nations, for the purposes tit transporting, in their own Vessels, the products of their own Soil, and the acquisitions of their industry, to a market in the ports of frizndly nations, and to bring home, in return, such articles as their uccessiiies or conve nience may require always regarding the rights of belligerents, as. defined by , The established laws of nations. Great Britain, in defiance of this incontes tible right, captures every American vessel bound to, or returning from, .a port where her commerce is not favourecr; enslaves our seamen, and, in spite of our remonstrances, perseveres in these aggres sions. To wrongs so thring in chbraeler, and so disgrace ful in their execution, it is impo.sible. that the peo ple of the United States should remain indifferent. We must now tamely and quietly submit, or we must xesist by those means Which God has placed within our reach. Your . Committee would not cast a shade over the American name, by the expression of a doubt which branch of this alternative will be embraced. The occasion is , now presented when the national charatier; misunderstood and traduced for a time by foreign and domesric enen•ies, should be vindicated. If we have not rushed to the field of battle like the nations who are led by the mad ambition of a single Chief, or the avatice of a corrupted Court, it has not proceeded tram a fear of war, but from our love of justice and humanity. That proud spirit cf berlyand independence, which sustained our fathers in the successful assertion of their rights against fo reign aggression is not )et sunk. The patriotic fire of the revolution stilt burns i❑ the American breast with a holy and unextinguishable flame, and 'will conduct this nation to those high der.tinies, which are not less the reward of dignified moderation, than of exalted valour. But we have borne with injury until forbearance has ceased to be a virtue. .The sovereignty and in dependence of these states, p.urchased.aad sandified by tbe.blood of our fathers, from whose We receiv ed them, not for ourselves only, bw as the inheri tance of our , poster iiy, aredelinerately and systema tically. violated. And the perind has arrived, when in the opinion of your . Committee, it is the sacred duty of Congress to call forth the patriotism and re- SOU CILIS of the country. By the, aid' of these, and with the blessing . pf God, we confidently trust we shall be enabled to procure that redress, whi,:l l h as been sought for by jii4ti%;e o by remonstrance ar i d t u rbexance, in yaiD, • Your botiffnittee, reserving for a future ieperti those ulterior measures, which, din their opiniot - i ought to tie: ptirstied, Would; al this time, earnestly recommend, in the'werds of the Piesident, "That the United State' be immediately put had an ar mour,and attitude' demanded by the crisis, and ,corresnotiding With tha national spirit and expel:- tatidtis;" And, to this end, they Ipsg leave , o sub. Mit, for tLe adoption of the House, the fo;loWing resolutions 1. Resolved, That the Military Establishthent, ag authorised - by the e:fisting laws, ought to 'be completed by fillinkt up the milks end pro longing the enlistment of the troops; and that, to encourage enlistments, a bounty in lands ought tO be given in addi►ion to the pay and bounty now al.; lowed by law. . . 2. That an additional force of ten thoUsand regu lar troops ought to be immediately raised to serve for thsree years; and that a bounty in lands ought to be given to encourage enlistment. 3. That it is expedient to authorise the President under proper, regulations, to accept the servicepf • any number of volunteers, not. exceeding fitly thou. sand, lb_ be organized, trained, and - held in readiness to att on such service as the exigAkies of the Go vernment may. require. 4. That the President be authorised to order out, from time to time, such de:achments of the e milit:a,. as, in his opinion, the public service may rvq:iire. 5. That all the vessels not how in the service be longing to the navy arid worthy of repair, be im mediately fitted up and put in commission. G. That, it is expedient to permit our merchant vessels, owned eWusiVely by resident citizens, an 4 commanded and navigated solely by citizens, P , O ai in; under proper regulations, to be pt'eseribed by la►v, in self-detence, against all unlawful proceedings to wards them on the high seas.. ACTION-WITH THE INDIANS. Extral of a Letter ticith Governor Hi. 14 CiN to the Secrete tary of War, dated- Head -quarters, near the Prophet's Town, November 8, 1811, Six, I have the honour to inform you, that the dawn of yesterday terminated an action between . the; troops under my command, and she whole of the Prophet's force.. Their precipitate retreat, leaving a number of the warriors dead on the field; and the subsequent abandonment of their town (which was partially - fortified), attest for us a complete 'and de cisive viElory. It has, hoWeVer been dearly . pur chased. A number of brave and valuable men have fallen victims to their.zeal for their country's ser vice. The behaviour of the. regulars and militia troops was such as would have done honour to vete rans. I arrived at my present poSition, (a mile from the town) on'the evening of the 6th inst..; a corre spondence was immediately oi.ened with the Pio phet, and there was every appearance of a success ful termination of the expedition, without blood shed. Indeed there was an agreement for a suspen-. sion of.. hostilities ) until a turiher communication should take place on the next dAy. Contrary, boxy ever, to this engagement, he attacked me at half past four o'clock in the morning, so suddenly, that the-Indians were in the camp before many of the men could get ow of their tents. A little confu sion for a short time prevailed, but tided by the great exeertioni of the officers, I was soon enabled to form the mtm in order. The companies whiCh were hard pressed were supported, several success ful charges made, and about day•light; the enemy were finally put to flight. Our killed and wounded .amount to 1;9, of these 49. are now dead. I hive not tl , en able 'to ascertain the number of Indians in the action, it must, however, have been considerable. The principal Chief of those Pota't , atemies %Ito have joined the Pr,phet, is wnundea, and in our possessions I have taken care of Itim, and shall send him back to his tribe. At a more lelsure moment I shall do myself ihe honour to trx;smit a mole par ticular • account of the action, and of our previous movements, and am, with the grates' respect, Sir, your humble servant, W. H.'HARRISON. The lion.Wrtt. Eustis, Secretary of War. WASIIINC,'I ON, N0V.22. IEPORT OF 11-111 SECRETARY OF Tkia TREASURY. In nn obedience fo the dir ec tio ns o f t h e " Act sup pleentny to the Act entitled ' An Act to establisft the Treasury Department,'" the Secteta,ry of 0,6 Treasury. respecttully submits the following Report and Estimates : RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURES. -I. To THE EOID OF THE YEAR 1811. Tire actual receipt:). into the Tieasury, during the year ending on the 30th of September, 1811, have consisted of the funo‘ving sums, viz. Customs, sales of lands, arrears, repay ments, and alt other branches or reve nue, amounting together, as appears by the statetnent (E„), to . Temporary loan a 3 tst December, alp i ) . 2 3 , 54 1 ,44 6 37 Total amount of receipts Making tol;.,thcr with the bal:nce in the l'Jw:asory on-the Ist of October, IS ,o, and kenounting to 16,29 1 ,44 5 37 3 , 459 ,02 9 72 An aggregate of 1 9.7i0,476 09 The disbursements during trte same year have be,:i followetli, vit.- ( qivit DeiLA well:, including miscelja. nexus expetwes and tho4e inutitnt to he intercourse With foreign nations Arr;;y,• iprtink.ations, arms and arse seoals - , iz9,oco Navy Vepiirttnent 1,136,e00 Itidnl. Department 14:2,72i 1,360,8,8 98 Payments lb; interest on the public debt 4,407.725 2,2,25,1iJ0 93 Total current expences - s lkeirriburbemilit or the temporary loan (in Mar. h and Septembea, 'Sit) - Payn , ents cn account . of the principal of IiJ,C public debt Amountiry, together, as will appear more in detail by rite statement (1:) tb - And leaving ,n the Ticasury ou the 3oth of Sept. 48'1, a baleiice of 7:99.413 4. 4 2,750,0 , 05 4.°i 8 ; 2 7 2 82 '5,202,637 73 3, )47,8 36 • 1 9,7; 0 ,476 09 The actual receipfS arising from revenue and exclusively of the tetnporary loan since reim burs,ql,' appe,tr from this statement so have exceed , . .ed the current expetces, including there: 1 thc: terest paid ou 11le debt, by a buttiof more Shan five and au halt of dollars. But the payments on account ot interest, dui:ng the year ending on the 3-otli bl September, (81 t o have, from an nuts- IThermometer.