Norfolk gazette and publick ledger — Norfolk [Va.], 1810-09-05 00:00:00, page 2

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THE PUBLYCK LEDGER. ,*
, fwEgNF.SUAV EVE^NG^feiW.^ »S10, ^
■ ' ~>;Y«t«rday arrived btrethefest»*)hnadfeff'oorf
: , Trip Stmt, rapt. Haynes,' in $2 flays fflrro Lisbon.
' Jty eeptaintl. we. have j^pir favoundHrith a file of
Lisbon papers up to the 2Sth of July, which w«.
Iiave placed in the herds of a gentleman, who has
(Promised us translations of what shall appear iirle
jtestiijg. In taking a hasty view of-tbem, it does
not appear that any action of importance bad taken
flHiaee oft the,frontiers, between the British and
dprewb armies. The report of gen. Craufurdtt
,»fealjj»f DO ft.unduiica * Citidcd Rodrigo, capi
Jolsted to the French about the tOih -of. July ; the
articles of capitulation are not in the papers, tW
; they stale thsit the garrison u?re marched to Sala
jmanra as prisoners of war. This place is said to
■* Jrave made a gallant defence, and to have cost the
.Frtweh 10 or 12.000 mm. ^
*;^-Tha British troops which soiled from Halifax
some time since, arrived at Lisbon or the 2ith of
' ffllak, about 2000 in nambepi,v-Jdrfr^?;»^ -P.%. *.<■*&,
T A M|fket* continued gohd at Lisbon f»r Flour and
v <N*l>nf iheiormtr t7 dollars per barrel, lha Litter
■ r - jfe^|P>Har» p*r bathe!. , ; 4 '
v ? On hia passage, capt. H. fell in with His Britair
. . aick Miijesly’s ship Magidtnnt, from the comman
der of which he obtained e London paper of the.
' IJth nf July, which rapt. H. has favoured us with.
, • have made from it such extracts as appeared of
|&y Interest, for this evening's paper. The prices
of Wheat and Flowin' London, as will appear by the
. Jlort ^ Exchange, were still high. , At tbe prices
eihere quoted, American flour may be put down at
V about 15a 16 dollars per barrel «f superfine.
, The translations from oar Lisbon papers, whrrh
V^-hara received since the' preceding article whs
tomposed, furnish to the reader a knowledge of the
^dsitioir of the armies on the frontiers of Portugal,
he French armies, w.e suspect, are not in tbe force
hich they have her-* represented, or tbe positrons
cfJLord I Felling tan are too strong to be .forced.—
J,.- f%«* system of partisan war, which appears to ha
* adopted' in every part of tbe Peninsula, is that best
Calculated to barrass, and finally to rain the iwva*
f fl«»- 1 v. .* "'.V'
; Tbe British force in Portugal, from the beat in
formation we can obtain, is from 27 to 30,000 mm, j
for which the transports and men of war in the Ta- 1
|fe- gu», are sufficient to take the whole of this force off,
■ ^ if necessary.'' Tbs transports have constantly on
hoard six month* provision for the troops, it being j
understood to be the plan of the British roniman- ,
; , ffl, if the fore# sent to Portugal from its numbers !
cannot bs resisted, to embar k, and proceed to ano
ther point, where there cannot be a sufficient force
?! to resist him,
■ tbe whote, we think the cause of Spain and '
- Portugal not in tu bad a stays as had been represent
ed. If the rest of Europe bad made the same re
sistance, the world might have been now el peace,
»6d the tyrant confined Vo Jboae limits, which for
the liberty and safety of Europe, and of America
% a||o, ha should be. s .
- The Lisbon papers state, that the French have
' destroyed the fortificatioh at Barcelona. '
, » $Onr readers will find m this day's paper, the Tri
* ■ afarCpndsTT.;., ■ .vf i
;r /-,/ _;
-J)XfiB-»Yesterday rooming, in York Town, where
hjbadg.mt futfhis health, CapuTiroMAsCuiBOKs,
Boropgh, in the 56th year of W» ace.,
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« H f P*ntAPElPHiA, Anij. 31.
» i - LATEST FROM CADIZ,
Yesterday arrived at tbit port, the chip Magnet,
•apt. Myriik, in 31 days from Cadiz. C«pt. M. in
formAa, that dpwn to hit tailing (July 33th) no events
• of an important naturehad oecerred. He heard no
thiag of th**epaeted ditatter of general Crawford’s
division; t-fiun whirli it is presumable the acronrit
it entirely uqlrue. The Fr»ncb continued the **g.'
wjtbautaoy segmentation of forre, and made fre*
qaent spd unsuccessful attempts to liirow shtJUin
WtheFity. The allies were equally active in erect
ingthei* fortr^rations. lOvill be observed hy an
aitiei^vnder our marine bead furnished by rapt, M.
*hstair the score of pt ov isions Caiiia it amply sap.
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' -*Vv: ' Bostob, Aug. 37.
',,#$* GIBRALTAR. .
>•’: •• Wwrtwi.-'TWWtUvy *fh'r Industry, rapt. Harris,
SldaysAom Othrulter.- Capt.H. bat furnished
us with filrbraltar papers* to the 3tit July ; bu
they afford os oo political news of any novelty.* The
-jpc _ ~—* r - - — -■■y git<
account* from Spun and Portugal, male; m» menu
of the reported haitie between 4be French an
Portuguese; they however confirn^jor previous ac
. eottnu oftbt unhealthy condition of the French, ar
s .ingNtin Spain?'of the continued and successful m
iwkn ill fhnaint a( tKn onniumnrl nnJ /t -
$, tfttion* of the Sp >oi»b peasantry, and of tht increa
^ ■: -cr v-r w -f * * Mwjovrw
tint hatred which manifested against the French
, in tvery quarter—A Spanish gentleman, arrived at
$ 1/ftraUar, from IbeVnviions «*f Seville, states, that
thd'French wi-re'attachrd near Seville, from the 1st
; to the 4th July, b/the divisionsof Balb stems and
^ CajK*»*toJ grsut succett ;—fha greti mwnbm «i
deadand wonwlei. were seiBr cqrfying iqto Seville,
aaft,|*»,wbeo b«came **ay„the firmg of cannon
;»®d musketry »at stillcntttinue^.—The papers
ttam><hat imp Joseph had retornedto Madrid, ?l»d
1.. bad4iwuimd.irow his life gnawfe, all the Span!
%ju$mU iadWo employed shout his pen£*, * .
'■ -A ■ ’■■■. " -->v.:
- rphit At IPitfP t_t. * •
■:%i •***•? ®*Hfc iwpvrtapf• here. e*.
<*plTl^ t^#rtacb.vr}m’Wwim«g towardsTor
lota, hating retired to I*rkto, w bey* they left a small
■Ar'\,*'
,Sv tv •; .. J-b. -MiL*. ■■■■>/:
.:..r
a comtLdarab)# Wy troops have tombed, sappo
«J towtrd* Mjutrh) t» repair their losses in Casule
and Navarre. fyiiijihtce » patting Jo a rnost re
spectttle state of tkfrnre, and it it tnoofb* that io
\ short timePAe^i^f will b* jq such a situation
is to hf able to gtv#be tuiny a great deal. to. do,
shpphi they attacLus, oiJPrbich thera appear* so
immediate probability.”’ . •
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From Belts Weekly Mcucrrger.—June 29
TRIAL OF WILLIAM COBBETT.
This cause mine on to be died before the right
linn, lord F.llenbornogb, at Westminster Hall, at 9
o'clock on Friday morning.
The Attorney General slated, that the libel having
teen published so long ago as July 1809. some rea
son would be expected for the rause having been so
longdelayed. Mr.Cobbctt living at such a distance,
and taking advantage of his just right of deferring
his pleadings, the rause was brought forward at the
eailiest period that the forms of the court would ad
mit—1 hreatened wuh invasion, it was thought pro
per that a eertain portion of the population of En
gland should be trained to arms. In 1798, lord
Casilereagh brought in his bill, by which the local
militia might be called out for 20 days. When the
Cambridgeshire militia was called out, tome disaf
fected persons in the Isle of Ely caused them to mu
tiny, and it waf found neecssary to call in the mili
•ary in the neighborhood, and five of the ring lead
ers were sentenced to receive 500 lashes, part only
of which they receiv'd. The German Legion, who
were men, who, whrn Hanover was overrun, quit
ted the country, and, entering into his majesty’s
service, have conducted themselves with bravery.
Mr. Wardlc, in a motion in the houseof commons,
had proposed to disband the German Legion against
which Mr. Huskisson offered sufficient reasons. A
paragraph soon after appeared in the Courier, which
he would read.
1 he mutiny amonp&t the local militia, which
lirrik* nut lit Ely, whs Jwtunntt.li/ suppressed on
Wednesday, t>y the arrival of four squadrons of the
German legion cavalry from Bury, under the com
mand of general At klund, Pive of the rih^i^sdtrs
ware tried hv a court martial,'and.sentenced to re
ceive 300 lashes each, part of which punishment
they received on Wednesday, end a part was remitt
|'d, A stoppage for their knapsacks was the ground,
of complaint that excited this mutinous spirit which
| occasioned the me n to surround their officers, and
demand what then deemed their arrears. The first
division of the German legion halted yesterday at
‘^er*rljl?k<d* on theiT retorn to Bury.”-— Courier,
( Ninuferiol) Nevspaper, Saturday, June 24,1809.
With It's paragraph, as a text to a sermon, had
Cohbett headed his paper.
The attorney general then read the alledged li
, bel, the chief point of winch is as follows :
u Well done, lord Caetlereagh ! this is just what
it wi» thought your plan would produce. Welf
said Mr. Hu$k;ssorr! It really was not without rea
son that you dwelt, with so much earnestness upon
the great utility of the foreign troops, whom Mr.
Wardle appeared to think of no utility at all. He
little imaginsd that they might he made the means
of compelling Englishmen to submit to that sort of
discipline which is so conducive to the producing in
Ubem a disposition to defend the country, at the
risk of their lives. Let Mr. Wardle say, whether
the German soldiers are of no use.—-Five hundred
lashes each!—Aye, that is right! Flog them—flog
them—flog them ! They deseive it, and a greatdeal
mure. They deserve a flogging at everv meal lime.
“ Lash them daily, lash them daily.” What, shall
the rascals dare to mutiny, and that too when the
German legion, is so near at hand—Lash them—
lash them—lash them ! They deserve it. O yes ;
they merit a doable tailed cat.-Base dogs!
What, mutiny for the sake of the price of a knap- \
sack! Lash them !—Flog them!—Base rascals!
Mutiny for the price of a goat’s skin ; and then up
on the appearance of the German Soldiers, they take
a flogging as quietly as so many trunks of trees ! I
(do not know what sort of a place Ely is; but I
really should like to know bow the inhabitants look
ed one another in the face, while this scene was ex
hibiting in their town. I should like to have been
able to see their faces, and to heard their observati
ons to each other at the time. This occurrence at
home will, one would hope, teach the loyal a little
caution in speaking of the means, which Napoleon
employs (or rather which they say he employs), in
order to get together and discipline his conscripts.”
1 he Jury would observe with bow much reproach
Mr. Cobtiett mentions the word “loyal.” He would
hot sutler it to he believed that Napoleon would use
surh means to raise an at my. He not only render
ed it a vehicle of attack 011 this country, but as a
defence ef the emperour of France; he would not
permit the country to believe the tyranny of Buon
aparte. So that the author (neaut to represent that
the treatment of ministers was as tyrannical as the
chaining together of the conscripts of France.—
Whatever the author had to allege, he would be pa
tiently heard. He had considered the paper atten
tively, and could give it no character, but that
which he asrribes it to be.
* Mr. Cobhctt foae to address the court and jury
his owrr defence." • He would be as short in wbat
he should say, as justice to himself would allow him.
The inquisitors et Spain, he said, clolhed those
who were just going to the stake, with garments
that made them look like so many devils, and pain
ted them with hellish colours,-so that the people
rhight think them objects that were not fit to live.
Asfor himself,he wished the jury to put no other con
strue tiunou his words than what the; fairly imported.
—The question before them was of mp/ive and intrn
finn ; and ifthey bejieveil them, they would believe
any thing. But before he went further, he would
nonce one or two of the calumnies that had been
sent forth, against him.' They could not have walk
ed, the streets without observing placards oft the
walls, which desrrtbed him to be exactly the oppo
site «*» what be w*». He was distinctly charged by
I «r»t-person, who received a pension of SOOl.per an
| nlim, in some expressions at the foot of a car icature,
[ being one of a set of pictures designated as being
illustrative of the life of Wiltum Qohbett, with hav
i.»% 40001? as bisjpyatly w^aataWised, to
| writs and pTUit ugsinU irefnfm, whioh it stated be
[ Had receives} frttBi-toid'SdrtHiuth. On tha I Ith
in*t. he wrote t» lAnl Si<6nouth, to know if there
wens any foundation for Inch a charge, end his lord
ship7 re turned J*r answer that' “ it was. wholly
groundless.1* Ifsfhaldhia lordship's letter in his
hand. A set oflisrt tnurh similar to those to whom
>-h*i.lW, W hy wajrW frepu&o,ybt the
V.-v-.;
-it
present titar$, pursued him iantwspapcrs, placards
and in every meaner they eocld suggest* to vilify
'«r|d degrade him. The ffoaiiDgfMrges against him
were of a vague and loose njlunS ' The information
• stated him to be an ill disposed and seditious person,
| and did what he had dune from hadfed of his majes
ly Had government. That was faying that the in
tention was evil ; that he meant |p injure bis coun
try. fie denied drat be bad avaitei^iiinself of the
distance at which be lived from tdwotokeep off the
present trial; on the contrary, he was anxious that |
it should rome on with all possible dispatch. He
had not made use of the word “ loyal" as a term of
reproach; and the Jury, if they had been accustom
ed to read, must know the truth of what be said, ex
cept when claimed as a sort of exclusive loyalty.—
Every ope most know his meaning to be by that
word an ironical application to (hose hypocrites,
who affected loyalty or any thing else. The attorney
general knew the whole paragraph to be satirical ;
a criticism on lord Castlereagh’s bill, the mischief
from which he had been very forward in anticipa
ting. Dut, ah ; says lord Castleieagh, you cannot
mean me, you must meafi the king—“speaking of
flogging, you cannot mean me,” Why, by and by
if a minister were pelted in the street with mud, we
should be told the mod was thrown at the king, and
not at the minister. There vra* nothing in the pa
per to obsiru. rthe king, or to excite dislike against
w:c jjluveriinirni. 11 me insnrmauon uaa said, tie
line! intended u> attack lord Castlereagh, he should
admit the fart. The forced construction on his words
was obvious, h« was ridiculing the measure,- and in
saying "Jlog them,” he meant nothing more than
« ridu-ule ot lord Castlereagh. The use made of
Bonaparte's treatment of his soldiers, was to make
the treatment ol the Local Militia a warning to the
ministers to desist from that measute—Were we ne
j ver to compl ain of soldiers beffcg ill-treated ? If we
were to see a soldier flogged to death, was no tongue,
no pen, to tndve in his defence? The object was to
ridicule the measure so as to cause the practise to be
done autay for the future. A young fellow, with a
smock frock, sentenced to five bundled lashes for mu
tiny ! But this was not a mutiny—a squabble about
a marching guinea. He had told lord Castlereagh,
that by that measure he had just made these men
soldiers enough to dislike labour, and yet not soldi
ers enough to cease to be labourers.
The man who meant to excite dissatisfaction in
the army, would not have taken such open mea
sures as had been imputed to him ; he would have
proceeded more secretly and insidiously. If every
passage that is written were to admit of such forced
constructions as bad been put upon his paper, the
press must be silent, or writers would have to con
fine their columns to the praises of men in powers*
The employ roent of the German troops was that cir
cumstance which had excited his indignation; to
see those foreigners brought to superintend, or per
haps to inflict punishment on misled young men,
who had been concerned in the squabble at Ely, ex
cited indignation in the bosom more than the pun
ishment itself. Our ancestors had always disliked
foreign troops; almost every body disliked them,
and surely that dislike could not te construed into
any \\\\ngjacobinical.
There were no fewer than four or five German ge
nerals who were of the British staff, and one of
whom even commanded an English general. Since
the year 1796 this force has increased from 24 to
34,000 men. We bad 34,124 foreigners, four ge
nerals, lour lieutenant generals, and nineteen colo
nels. There was also a Frenchman of ihe name of
Monaleinbert on the staff in Sussex, and two
Frenchmen at a dock yard in Wales—that was di
rectly against law. Both the acts of parliament,
by which German troops are allowed to be in Eng
land, were in truth meiely arts of indemnity, for i
the declaration of rights and other statutes had de- i
dared the holding places of trust by foreigners, ei- I
tlier civil or military, illegal. There are no less
than 773 German officers in our service, and iuclu ]
ding foreigners of other nations, there were J509
foreign officers in our pay. Of the number ef fo
reign troops in our service, not more than four or
five thousand men had been enlisted in this country
—many of the 34,000 bad been even enlisted in
Spain -taken out ol prison there, having been in
Dupont s aimy 1 Why then were these men brought
to superintend the lashing the backs of his own
countrymen ? It bud been asserted that the German
troops had behaved bravely at the battle of TaTave
ra. He knew the contrary to Be the fact. He had
a letter from an officer of the horse artillery, lieute
nant Frederick Reed, an officer high in govern
ment, in the office of ordnance, in winch it was
asserted th&t from the cowardice of the German le
gion, some English regiments would have been cut
off if the 29th had not come to their assistaure.—
1 his was connrmed to him by several officers who
had slept at bis house in Boiley, after their arrival
in England. A German officer of the name uf
Landieth had indeed seized a standard, and endea
voured to rally his countrymen, but it was found
impossible. With respect to their conduct in quar
ters, he was able himself to form some estimate,
as he lived in the neighbourhood where they were
quartered. But he would first read a document,
which would shew what had been their conduct
even in Germany. (Mr. Cobbett then read a letter
from the archduke Charles to the duke of Brunswick
(Ms, reprobating the excesses committed by his
corps in Saxony.)—These were the very men now
in our pay. Ou their landing in England they were
quartered in the Isle of Wight where they commit
ted every species of brutal excess—fro# whence
they were sent to Ireland on acrount of their enor
mities. They bad even been accused of committing
two murders. A landlord who bad refused them li
quor had beenattarked by them with swords, in bis
own bar in the most ferocious manner : and the ter
ror of the inhabitants of Newport exceeded any
thing that had been seen in this country—At Gua
daloupe, the <>Oih regiment we were told bad run
away. The depot ol that regiment was at Lyming*
ton, and was filled up principally with foreigners,
sod, vagabonds taken from gaols, whence they were
shipped oft to thefiOlh regiment in the West Indies,
where they had an opportunity uf shewing tbeir
bravery—by running away. Under these impres
sions he bad written the article In question, and he
trusted that the jury would nee that it could arise
from no evil intention* but from the irritation of his
imlingh alone, lie wrote tiw article from no bad
motives. Every advantage be possessed was pros
pective—all his prosperU, his property* bis publi
cation* even (be very trees he planted, all depended
««the continuance of hie majeel/i government.—
0M pros peels denied U* assertion. He eonld not
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M SO Stupid, I* ftflguil" «r»
tfae overthrow eft he government under ‘Which he
lived. He called on thejary to makedns case their
***** and if they did that he was tore the* would
acquit him. H • .* -
The attorney general thought Mr. Cobbett would
have better consulted bis interest, if, instead of tHa
-defence be had made, be had admitted, as the other
defendants had. that be bad published a libel, instead
of adding to u % tbe scandal be baBtt^p in^iis
defence. He waa not a constant reader of Mr Cob-J
belt’s ltegister dpt it had qgt fallen jn his way to
see many publications which should lead bun io be
lieve that Mr. Cobbett was a man “more sinninr
than sinned against." *
Mr. Cobbett in defending himself had dispraised
the taste rod style df tbe alledged libel. But’as to
tbe evil intentions imputed to him for that publica
tion, he treated them as a mere trifle—as to any
wickedness of intention that was quite out of sight
ft would be of no consequence to any one of wbat
opinion Mr. Cobbett might be; but be, tbe attorney
general, wobld ask the jury, bad Mr. Cob Lett mere
ly oflered an opinion on this subject? He would ask
the Jury, was there any thing like discussion in tbe
i paper? Did Mr.Cubbett in that paper seem to iLink
there was any wiser ceurse than that adopted b> the
legislature—did he think it would be the wiser course
to wait tbe arrival of the enemy, ere the people
should be trained to arms ? or did he wish to‘ pre-s
vent the people from submitting to any measure of
that sort? It must be remembered that this paper
appeared after a legislative measure had been passed
'by which a military force bad been embodied, and
! f'er * mut,ny 1‘«k*n place, for which punishment
had been warded, although a part of that punish
ment bad Leen remitted; the object then of Mr.
Cobbett, must have been again to light up the flame,
of discord, by bolding out that the German Wien
was brought for the purpose of flogging our soldiers.’
who were forced into tbe army by measures more
tyrannical than those of Bonaparte. [The attpr
ney general read several passages from the libel, on
which he commented with great acrimony.! What
could Mr. Cobbett mean but to reprofeh and taunt
th* ,L^aJ *M,Il,,a for having submitted to be flog
ged ? Did be not mean to ndicul*them for being so
dastardly ? Surely he did, and meant also to excite
the people of Ely to rescue the soldiers from the
punishment of the law. Could any man of cum
inon sense doubt that ha meant to reproach the peo
ple of Ely for having patiently witnessed the scene?
One word be must say on tbe scandal which Mr.
Cobbett had east on the gallant German Legion,—
Tnat among.^2,000 men, some might have mis
conducted themselves he would not deny; but he
could maintain there «'«r was a military corps in
this kingdom of whom there was so little complaint,
or so little cause of enmnl.l.r
| The question before the court and jury was not,*
however, on the merits or demerits of the German
Legion ; the question for. the jury to decide was whe
ther that mischievous paper which had been read
had it not m view to hoJd up these brave men to ob
loquy and contempt, and to e.xrite in the minds of
the military disobedience and resistance, and io
those of the people at large of this country, a dispo
sition to discontent and disaffection.
Lord EFIenborough observed, that the question
was, whether the publication that had been read
was of the noxious tendency imputed to it. The del
leiidant had stated that he laboured under great ca
lumny-whether that was the fact be knew not?
but the jury, be was suie, would consider the de
fendant as a man whose character or situation waa
totally unknown to them. The defendant had stat
ed, that this, in his opinion, was a mere squabble a
bout a marching guinea, but how that could be o
therwise considered than as an act of mutiny, his
lorrisb'p was at atoss to discover. The defendant
bad laid his claim to discuss the utility or proprie:y
of employing foreign troops. Every individual had
a right in temperate terms to offer his opinion of
the policy or inexpediency of any pnblick measure.
And no person could, or would have questioned a.
temperate and qualified discussion of that subject.
No person in the situation be filled, could have ub
jected to that discussion. But ii was tbe intention
that was principally to be looked at, and how was it
to be collected?—by a fair consideration of tbe im
portot the publication which if it imported mischief,
must be intended to mean mischief. His lordship read
a paragraph of what Mr. Cobbett had said iu his
defence, respecting this subject, that sCemed to eo*->
vey an idea that the employment of ihe foreign troop*
bad been with a view to punish the British army.
—If it bad been doubtful whether those, observati
ons were intended to have been the meaning, they
(might take his own words—“ f should uot ham*
said so much of the German Legion if they had not
been brought to flog the barks of ray own country
men. What was the probable effect of such a
publication ? Had it not a tendency to loosen aft
the links and ties of military subordination? Must
he not have been understood to have intended that?
Another passage went to this : “ As many cruelties
•recommitted by you here, as by Buonaparte."—.
This was the scope of the publication; and it rest-'
ed with tbe jury to say, whether tha publication
was that of a man whose zeal had overstepped hit *
discretion, or whether it was not calculated to Iona
eo those bonds of society by which the country was
held together, and to excite animosity, so. as that it
should come under tbe well merited description of
a seditious libel. His lordship, for his own part
had no hesitation, in stating it, with full confidence,
his decided opinion, that the paper was a moat sedw»
tious libel. , '
The jury consulting together, shortly returned *
verdict without going out of court, finding tfaa fit
fendant—G U LI Y. ; - . ;
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gallant action «*&'medrrerranjg'
’:•* t Letter from m office, to * friend in London.] <S$.
“ His Majesty’s Ship Sparta*. )
«. m n r “ MaUe\ lC^ ATay. 1810. (
Mt Dear Friend—Aware that an old ram
mite (particularly “ once*Spartan) will derive tom*
gratificaiuHi, from the particular! of ourrecent elo
riont contest, I willingly .vail myself of the first
conveyance to enable you to participate in tha feet*
tngs of your oldshipmatis. On the 1st inst we.
in company with the Socceas, phased into Nanis* «
frigate, corvette, brig and cottar. On tha g«L from
a supposition on the part of our truly gallant can
tarn (Mice Brmtoo) that these fai/weather bird*
would never put to sea.whil* menaced by 3 British
frigates, ha ordered the Success (being a shm)
tp part cowpany; tha jnaatenvrc succeeded, gad mi
->-3l2L