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, Po vii: SONNET TO WALTER scoTT', Ps4. On bit Poem If " Tat Vistort or Dow, it OiILNICK." Saab or pit Novr it I. who wont," with strange ielight, On legends rude of ruffian chiefs to pore, And form thy lays by ditties quaint of )ore, That well might perish in oblivious night ; Since thou has ventur'd on a prouder flight, in realms of genuine poesy to soar, He greets thee now who dar'd rebuke before,* +tutted thy Muse could reach a nobler height. . l iedsi, thou first struck thy LUSITAN lAN lyre, tie a gainst thee ne'er had rais'd a hos,tile hand, . loY'd to guard thy wreaths from envious ire; And glad h." sees thee take thy rightful stand, }or none with purer zeal thy, pow'r4 admire, High on tite,roll with Britain's tuneful band. . ! • * The Caledonian Comet. T. JOSEPH LdNCASTER. A declaration_ male by this man at the recent e Catholic e li nner, i n D u bli n , as stated in a Morning raper of yesterday, calls for particular notice and animadversion. According to the report of the. Murning Alluded to, and which is •corroborated , ..bY similar reports in other daily printi , JOSEPH , LANCASTER' after some common-place sentiments and fulsome eutogitnnt on the Irish people, perfect ly inconsistent with thestruple character of the lea to which he' pi tesses to belong, and , which, we tr a", the good si , :ise of our Irish fellow-subjeas will inditce :hero to treat with contempt, is said to have uttered the following words, in referring to What is termed CATHOLIC EMANCIPATION : " He would tell the Meeting what no mar, in exstence could impart bat himself—He had often talked w i t h t h e Ki ng o f England ; and in one of his conversations lie contrived to know his senri upeti Catholic Ea:aticipation. The King was l i avourabi e tip Catholic Emancipation ;--he told him v"s ; .but his Coronation 'Oath, be thought, r w ould nut allow him to do any thing for the Catlin -I,cas and he was concerned at It. He thought that sais proof o f consc i ence was to . he respetted—he Illentioned it in bonner of the integrity of the King, 'liter it had remained in his own breast for five Years." can baldly bring ourselves to believe that, 6 fie, man of common sense, even in the Meeting was intended toy flatter, could give any ciee flit to this vain, preitenptnoue, and indeCent decla 131lon.—Mr. LANZASTEIt has betrayed his low Con. even by het own. statement, 111 saying that he cuntrived to know , his Mojesty's sentiments upon the subj,:6l; thereby acknowicdging that he practised trick and artifice ,opero the Sovereigivin Older to draw from lien his secret opinions upon a tlqhject of gr e at ituportatice to the tranqu ilit y of thu e nipire, and the future security of the Constitu tion. It would almost be insulting, our Readers to dw e ll upon the gross improvability of this man's klatement, vet a few observations fluty be• nixes- Ilty, in Order to lay bare his real chara cter to tnari fitki,—ls it to be supposed that his Mejester l'ave confided sentunents to this Matt which he t u nce:lied, from all the wise . and able characters t o State, he has committed the first offices of the otate, and upon whose prudence and honour he I t Ullibt. most Confidently rely I Even this vain boaster does not pretend to Say that his Majesty declared he had informed nobody but himself of his r eal sentiments on the Catholic Question ; and since he does not presume, so far as to sa y that his naJesty had given him such an as s ura nce, u p on what lotendatton does he dare to assert , th at ' " no "lan in existence but hiMself" could impart th e t eem of the Royal sentiments .upon the subjer3 in fl "'"i°n ? Mr. LANCASTER hes now com p letel y , in out ( Onion, ruined his reputation , a nd we con ceive that it is absolutely impossible to place any tcm fidttuce in his futute declarations. Even sup- Posingt it ossible that there is any truth in this -1. ) he d eprives ' his Majesty of the grace of a i.e_nerous avowal of his opinions, inasmuch as lie ‘ t ltanwitedgel, by implication; that he was obli g ed ro ' aneesort to cont r i va nce, to order, to throw the King his guaid, for. the purpose of dising intp his ce " l g B. ; and this. mea n subtlety was put into . Practice at a ti me when he was applying to the te," 'o 4ll4 ' c ll for his proteaion of a , syst em of educe k,,litch was to dissipate error, to diffuse know ouKe and to amend the heart ! ! " Out ,of his e rl mouth will we condemn him." He has ' she w n te„,nl3l to be a composition of low cunni n g , u nder d tna‘de of simplicity, and it is .tow more evi e; e - 71 than ever; that such a man is, wholl y unfit to, ntrusted with the important care of th e na tional education. His condua towards Dr. BELL e , in:4Cnicienily marked by folly, inconsis tenc y , and eralitude ; for after having Acknowledged that he ve d tlitS first principles cf his plan from the • l iVtior, l ie grossly at t ac ked the charaacr thle h en tlettan, misrepresented his Words, accused kil n of bein g the advocate .of ignoranc e, an d de d that he had any pretensiens to credit in the fiery Plan Of education, which he at first ‘ , OWI4 that lie had borrowed from the Dottor's book`.-- ; 41 it IS not difficult to account for mr. LANCA S . conduct in thus prete nding to ,have artfully et 4 , e 'vn forth the 'sentiments of his Majesty in. favour Ettiancipetion, and in taking the 00er- - It ni l of discloeing them at the great Meetingof t ei ° " ) an Catholic's. He found that his character and_ weie understood in this Country, and that 'he !la e ." Retied the friends of .the Establ)shed Chu r c h to " f rollize a system o f Education calculated- o pre ee4 4'e -thee Establishment, and therefore be w ent to . : 144 ` 1 ) and endeat•aured to ally . himself with th' Ae i 'lan Catholics; in older to recover some eit that e e i l°ll anee there, which he has nearly, it not ellolle lost in this country. We earnestly, exhert who have thought . favourably pi th is mart; to c onsider a attentively the declaration whic h h e has , ma de respecti ng hi s M a jesty, and then to determ ine vi ll cl !tiler ltdoee not bear internal eVidence of artifice, estlui Ptibits indecebei, and talsehoodeand whet her it lee c e , 4l ', exelte belief in any person who is no t holeby stupidity, or warped by fanaticism : We Pe the friends of the Constltution in Church and ea p will letiouSly attend to this subjea. and we Upon our competitors not to suffer so pa l pa ble tel i mposture 10 01155 without due reptebtuoiun. . tINI7 tb S DES. draw Nov. 20.—1 n the euturttiair of yesterday evening; and in the Morning Pose and Meri-entile ddvertiser of toAlay, is published a solemn deposition, taken before the Recorder of our city, by one John Aikins, stating that be was en impressed American, with two other Americans, on board the Little Belt, when the encounter took place between her and the President; that the Little Belt fired first ; that among the number kilted was an American named Robert Howell, who was im ptessed from the brig Martin; from Martinique ; that Howell, when dying, requested a Mr. Wheeler, now in this City, to take a ring from his finger, and a lock of hair, which was plaited and hung round the neck, and give them to a certain person, from , whom he had teccived . them, 3tp. ; that there wire , about twelve Americans on board the Little Belt, who objected to go to quarters when the action commenced, because it would be to fight against their brothers ; but that Captain Bingham answer ed, If they refused, he would try them by a Court- Martial, .and put thein to instant death as neers, • Such is the amount of the deposition ; but it will be given to-morrow at full length, together, with a More particular and formal answer than we can procure to-day. For the present, let it suffica to inform the public, that the following lads have come to our knowledge in a manner that enables us• to say they may be received with implicit con fidence : • r John the deponent, k not an- American, b'ii a Canadian, and was born in CaLadit.., He was never on board the Little Belt, n r either of the two men (Blanchard and Fries), whom he says were pressed at the same rinse that he was, until taken from the ship IraVeller, belonging to this port, a vessel which was captured by the Little Belt long after the engagement with the, President, on her, way from Halifax to England, on board of which, at that time, Aikins, Blanchard, and Fries were sailors before theimisr. Such are the filch we are enabled to, give to-day ; but, which, with some others, will be commuoicated to-morrow in an other and more solemn I(irin, We trust that the measures taken to discover this Aikins may prove sticcessful, in order that a dis closure may be obtained of the names of those who have been guilty of inducing a wicked and ignorant wretch to commit so gross a perjury, from motives, on their part, not difficult at hi; line to divine. Mr. • Randolph, iu a late debate, disclaimed all idea of wanton, attacks on foreigners. Some of his most valuable friends were men who had emigrated to this country since the Revolution. He said he had referred to the imported patriots of the present day. He was glad to find the Gentleman from Pennsylvania had confined Iris commendations of Tom Paine to the Rights of Man without bringing in the Age of Reason. For his own part, Mr. R. said, the ideas of Tutu Paine and' the devil Were 'so intinvitely associated in his mind, that he could not think of the . one without recalling the other ; nor did be believe that toe Washingtons or Haficocks of this counts)/ required to be spotted to tesistarice by' an English s:ay4aker ; the Revolution would , have gone on without him. 11 the Gentleman from Penniylvania was lliSpOSed to deity Font Paine, he should not join in the worship. Mr. R. express ed his unwillingness to enconrage emigration from the old States, especially at this important crisis. He hoped we should take care of ourselves first, and of the people on the Missokni afterwards. Naw Youx, Nov. '16.--Something important maybe expe&ed by thc,next British packet, as a Messenger his been dispatched to this city by 'Mr. ' Foster, to wait her ariiy3l, with instructions to _lose no time in returning to Washington . with the dts patche,s by the packet. The Editor of the Baltimore Federal Gazette ob serves--.." The friends of peace are well pkised at the adjustment of the 'affair of the Chesapeake; and considering this amicable settlement as evidence of a mutual. desire to return to friendly intercourse, hopes are revived that the American and British ' Governments will proceed rapidly in the good, work. And we may add, as the opinion of some of the well informed at Washington, that the clouds in our po litical horizon begin to appear less gloomy. -Very little is said in the public offices, or near, the Exc• come, of war with England. T 1 e. Savannah packet, the French pt ivateer La Vengeance, and another, name unknoWn, are at SaVannah. On the night of the 141 h inst. about fib men belonging\ to these privateers, collected in the city, lumen with knives, and attacked about i.!O American seamen ; and stabbed the mate of the brig Hetty, of Philadelphia, to t he bearr, who immedt ately expired. They also wounded several other American seamen. ' OFFICIAL CaNSUS OF. TnE UNITED STATEs, Volt 1810.--Gratl total 7,239,903 of which the slaves amotint to 1,19 )3646 Le rd FING4I. was in the Chair on the recent grand Catholic dinner, in Doblin. • Among the Orators whodistinguishedlhemselves . on the' occa sion was JOSEPH LANCASTER, the Educationist. Mr. GRATTAN twide onesethuit .4 this Meetomg, wit all dtie submission' to .so profound an observer of mankind, is not solely applicable to his country, viz. " Ttie greatest honour that an Irishman can receive,' is the approbation of his countrymen." • Sunday night, some thieves_ attempted lo bteak'opon the shop of Mr. Prior., smiler, Birchin lane, by 'means of an iron instrument, with which they'tried.to unscrew the nuts of time belts which fastened the windows; not being able to accomplish theifpurpose, they made a sec-nd attempt on Mon day eventng, with no better success. On the same n'ght, some villains endeavoured by similar means to enter the banking-honse of Messrs. Hoare, Hill, 'and Barnett, in wliich they , glio 'Comoparing the me..ins used to gain admission, there is liftle doubt ilia' the robbers were the same who attempted the shop of Mr. Prior. The house of the Rev.S. H. Saltere, at Hitchin, neasi•Beacontield, • W 36 broke of en on Sunday night by-tour robbers, who alarmed the family soon alter going_ to: bed. They hid each fire-arms in, their possession, -and after assuring Mrs. Saltere, who way alonesio her bed-chamber, that no violence was meant, ,thy rAnsacked the house of.some articles of plate, amounting to about 301. and the like sum in nofems, when they retired. Theme were only two servants and a little boy in the house, Mt. S. being in town, THE LATE :111171?bERS: Yesterday Mr. ( s ..Aeesit, 'a , Magistrate of Shad well Otlice, attended on Mr.Vermill oe (not Vertnil• lion, as beforeitated), in Newgate. IVIr. Alderman Woon, and Adkins, ,waited on the Magistrates in the morning, and stated information Which was of great importance. • The ripping ehisgel whict) was found in William son's house , tea conveyed to Newgate, in order to be indentined by Mr: yermilloe. . Tht:, conference Was privates and continued until four o'clock in the' evening. Mr. Verwilloe gave testimony to the in strument, called a ripping -hook, being among the chest of tools deposited in his house, - This tipping hook, about two feet in length, was found.by.the side of Mrs. Williamson, and it is the same instru ment which Mr. V. has deposed that he ,knew per fectly. well. Mr. V. h as lik e wi se given informa-- tion of another man, whom he .conceives must be concerned in the late inhuman murders. The Magistrate immediately forwarded - directions to the different officers logo in pursuit, and hue la s t night every exertion was ust , d to find out the ratan alluded to. As far as can be learnfqi, there were only two men concerned in both of the atrocious murders. Williamspravious to the murders, had largo red, whiskers ' !which seem to have been cut off very re cently befbre his apprehension, and his hair is cut in a different manner to what it was before : he is• about five feet nine inches 'in beigm, of an inSinn ating M3llll.ey atid plea•ing.countenancei anti is not 'lame, as stated in some of the Papers. Vermilloe, the landlord of the Pear•tree • public.' house, at which the supposed therderer fudged, was liberated from the debtors' side of Newgate this day, and will be further examined to-morro N. Williams is heavily ironed and confined iu Cold-- bath-fields House of Correction. Nothing can be more unjust than to accuse the advocates for a third Theatte of hostility towards Covent-Girden Theatre, or towards that now rain ing in Drury. Lane, and which we sincerely ,hope will be completed in due time for the gratification of the public. Jr may bet (aitly presumed, that if the population of, this country .bad been much leSs than it was whrin the Patents tor' the Iwo Theatres were grimed, but one would hate• been allowed ; and therefore it may be properly nrged, that as the population has so enormously increased since (tilt period, there is every reasonable ground for the hope that a third Theatie,. at least, will rec e ive the sane lion of Government. THEATRICAL ArtracnoTa.—Some years ago all aaress, on the York stage, who was accustomed to indulge her Self with a cheerftil glass, when she had taken ton much, and sespd6ted that she should be unable to discharge her duty on the stage . , always attempted to disguise her situation by pretending to swoon... On one of these occasions, she was about to resort to her old trick, an d trie d ! to catch the cloak of an attor, , who Concealed beneath it a su perb belt, with which he intended soddenly to gut-. 'Prize the audience. The actror saw her design, but, starting 011 - ; exclaimed, " if you taint, you fall, for by G— 1 Must flask my belt." [FROM THE CORUHNA LIALt o 4Tlt DECEUERR. „.. . , AS*(I.IiIAN.S, • Your unnutunate lot will still remain the same, while the policy of those who possess the civil and , military authority over you 'continues unchanged. Hold in view va.hat has passed in other pi - ovinces, and . 'especially in to prevent invasion ; or if that should be etleeted,' to repel the enemy, and annihilate them in every point.. If your Government, it of having shame fully disarmed the peo ple, and thus extinguishing a great measure the, Asturian -enthusiast», and Aim on it in a manner contrary to the system of nature, bad provided them with arms and arrittalni lion, training and exercising on holidays, and at all omvenient limes, the robust limbs and hodirs-,with which this country abounds, the eireCt would have been, that the division of 'hetWeen . seVen and eight thou-and men, commanded by Senor Lutatia, which cotild . -nuf"Prevent the entrance into Asturias of an equal force wide! General Bonnet, would have had a body of reserve Of „15 or 20,000 men, capable alone of putting an end for ever to Bonnet and,his invasions. . This reserve has been wanting, because it has not been provided fur in time, and nothing now 'remains but regret and lamentation. Unhap py country ! which, the euenw tramples tinder foot and ravages whenever he pleases, notwithstanding it's being one entire fortress, in the opiniott.of Buo 7 naparte. irecause a division of 15 or 20 0 000 French hag not petietratvd into Gallicia, does it follow that in column it could not do it ? The troops which defend the enirtme6s •, of this kingdom would do dirk duty, but still, -in the pr e sent stale th e y could ni , t prevent it ; in the Asturi.it there were, only 20,000 men skilleo . lq th.:llse, of. the musket, neither Bennet, nor any other General, would dare to invade, much less invade this moan airtons giound, without a utsmeruni arnq, since, in every.valleys hill, and would meet Combatan-t's,' and: even death. Without. further :fatiguing myself, beloved As. turians, in kmonstrating this truth, it only remains to recommend, that some of you will .paint out upon whit ground your juntas awl militory chieta support their opiniow of not organizing volunteers. Astorians,,, do not be discouraged, your superior junta pos,esses, wisdom, and prudence, it will listen to your (trim,* a levy of wat like.men, you will not then be obliged to carry on a petty wailare against the French, who know the b iciness Of their cause; and if, contrary to your wishes and mine, yon shoold not be, attended to, or difficulties are thrOwn in, the way, direr, your complaint to ,the National Cougress. NA Ai. APPOINTIIENTS.-0-Cipt. PiaMpill to the Itoyal• Soren/Iga ; Capt. Feiliog to the Psyche.; Capel to the Hogue ; Capt. W. Evan* to thr Sy,phe ; ',Lieut. Wrottesley i 4 promoted to the rank of Commander, and appointed to the Onyx; ;jroker to the tiurieu:e; I.ieut. Mont» goutery to the Vengeur ; Lieu', J. M. tmisrlian to the. Maidstone ;" Lieutenants Wya t t al it (.'.latk 1,) the Cumberland ; Lielat. Sir C. W. Chalmers, Bat L. to the Prince of 'Wales ; Lieut. Tupman so the Bulwark ; Lieu(. J. C. Woolnough to the Provi dence ; LivutX, Nicholson to the - Eootont Lsent. Woodriff to the . Thunder bomb ; Lieut. Evans, t , ) be flag Litoteriaut to Commuctore Cockborn, dig ERIC,!. DOCUMENTS ACCOMPANYING THB PRESILiENT'S MESSACIi: MR. MONROR TO MR. POSTER. • Department of State, July 8, au'. Ste, I hese had the honour to . reteive the note which you have presenicd, by urtkr of his Royal Iliginpiss the. Prince Itegent„ iu o 1 the 1104. gemey of Spaut,'.against the possessiOn lately t a k en 'by the United States of certain parts of WeAt Florida., Although - the President cannot tvitnit the right of Great Britain to intetkr2 iu arty tluestian relating to that prOvince; . he is willing to explain, in ti friendly t he consideratiCns *•hkh indicted the United.. Stales to take the . step agttitrst which you have been ordeted to protest. It is to be inferred from your iiiew of the Subje‘ft, that the British Government has been taught to be. lieve that the United Stints seized a' moment of mi.' donal embarrassment to wrest hoin Spain a province, to which they had: e) right, Aiici °oat they were prompted to it by their interest alone, and a know. ledge that Spain could not derend it.. Nothing, however, is more r t m o t e from . the feta than aid presumption on Whip!! your Government appeara tot have acted. Examples of so ti n mil thy a conduct are unfortunately too li - rquent in the hi stor y or nations, but the..United.Statestme not foltovved' them. TI President had persuaded himself that the Unequivocal proofs . which the united States have 'given in all their transaetiOns with foreign powers, and , partico. lady with S.pain, of an upright and liberal poliey i , have shielded them "from such tin unineritdd suspicion. .He is satistiedibat nothing is wAntirtg but ,a correa knowled g e ul 13CAS completely to d 64 sipate, it. s 1 might bring to year view a long Catalogue of injuries which the United Stater reeeiee(t Spain since the conolusion of their revOldtionary war, any one of which would most probably have been considered cause of war, and resented as such by other powers. I will mention two of these only: the spoliations that were committed on'their com merce to a „ great amount in the last war, and the 'suppression of their deposit at New Orleana just be fore the commencement of the present war, in vie+ !anon of a solemn treaty ; for neither of which in juries has any reparation or 'atonement been made. For injuries like those of the first class,' it is known to you that Great Britain and France made indemA ' The United States, howeve r , d o not rely on injuresthese for a justification of their condtiet kt this transa6tion, although their Claims to reparation for them arc by no means relinquished, mid it is ro be presumed will not always be neglected : When 1 inforM you that the province of Writ Florida to t h e Perdido was a part of Louisiana, while the whole province' formerly belonged to France;' that although it was afterwards separated from the other part ; yet that both patts were again reuotied in the hands' of Spain, and by her reconveyed to France, in which state the entire province of Looi. siana was ceded to the United States, in 1803; that in accepting the cession, and paying for the territety ceded, the United States uuderstood and. believed th at they paid for the country as tar as the Perdide, part of Louisiana ; and that on conyietion of their right, ihey included in their laws provisions adofe e d to the c e ssion in that extent--it cannot fail to be cause of sorprive to, the Prince Regent, that they did. not proceed to take possession of tile territory in rinesiion'aS scion as the treaty was ratified'. There was 'nothing. in the circumstances of Spain' at that t i me that could have forbidden the measure: in de. vying the.right of the United States to this territory, her • Govermnent invited negociation on i that and every,other point in contention between the parties. The United' States accepted the invitation, m the hope that it would secure an adjustment and repara tion for every injury which had been received, and lead to the restoration of perfect harmony between the two c‘ounties, but in that hope they mere `dis,' appointed. Since the year 1805, the period of the last nego elation with Spain, tha proVitice of West Florida has temained in a situation altogether, incompatible with the welfare of these States. *The Govetnment of Spiin has careely been. felt there I in consequence of which, the affairs, of that provin c e h a d fal len into disorder. Of 'that Circumstance, however,' the United States 'took no advatitoge, It was not until the last 'yell-, When the inhabitants, perceiving that all authority over them had ceased, rose in:a body With intention to take the country, into their own hands, that' the American Government interposed. It was impossible for the United States to behold with indifference a movement in which they were so deeply interested. The President would have ins correct the censure of the nation, if he had sutfered that province to be wrested frOm the United States., under a pretext of wresting it from Spain. In tick. iog Possession of it, in their name, and under that authority, except in the pelt which was occupied by the Spanish troops, 'who hare not been disturbed, they defended the rights':; and secured the peace of the rimier), and even constilted the honour ; otSpain herself. By this event the ,United , States .have act qnired no new title to West flotich. They wain. ed none. In adjesting- hereafter li the . ot her point:4 which remain to be adjusted with Spain, and which it is proposed to make the subject of amicable negot, ciation as soon as the GOVernment of Spain shall be settled, her claim to this territory May again be :brought into view, and receive all theat ten tion which is due - to is. Aware that this transaction might be miteonoeived and misrepresented, the President deemed ,t e p ro , Ur subject of instruction to the Mini sters of t he nited States at Foreign Courts, to.place it_ in a true light beture them. Such an instruction 'was -rm., warded to Mr. Pinkney, their late Minister Pleni. petentiary at London, who wonld have executed it, had not the termination of-hint mission prevented Th e pr.,,,dette• - cannot doubt that the liatik.and can• did explanation 'which I have now giVen, by his order, of the considerations Which inducted the United States to take possession of this countrv, will be porlealy satisfaCtory to his Royal Highness the P.ince Regent. • ' With great respeti and consideration, I have the honotir to be, Sir, ) - our most obedient servant, (Starred) Nr()NP.O2 . A Lir:l I Foster, Eaq. dec.