The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1810-08-30 00:00:00

CIA11,111iLl„ A Walla V.

On Monday last, Mary Cu.ti,'oa otherwise
Grant, en,l Eleanor (.r.srat, were put to their trials,
fin lire murder A/I. Nicholas Maher, E-1.
Catharine Fog. arty was soon'. Said, that she
saw Nicholas ;Maher at sis or seven o'clock ou
Tiitirs.lay morning. oppo-ite his herd's house, lying
dead on his face ; there were a great many *minds
on ma f ice. The place where tier body was lying
was distant about 3 or 600 yards hose the house
of the Pnuotiers.
Latiergan sworn: said he walked with
111 r. NI iit.•r towards the Prisoners' house the even.
lug before hi• deaths about nine o'clock : Mr. Mo-
Jier's house ass wither! a iplartir or a mile of the
Prisoners'. When he parted aitit the d .ceased. hr
VI itk,si frins his own hussar, and sal I he was
grams for workin-m to one %Money's, wbich was
within a field mud a garde" of the Prisoners. N't' it-
al.,* met James Scott end Philip Carroll, who inv
girred for t ie deceased.
Philip tenon sworn : said that James Scott
brinu;Ot him a message to meet the deceased at Ilse
bride, where he mut and watched one or two
hours; he then went to the Prisoners house, and
beard /defier's voice, but did not see k.m. The
deceased had sent witness to the Prisoners' with
papers, and seat him with moue) to Mary Grant
(or ('ostigen).
Mr. Nicholas Crawford was on the Coroner's
Inquest, avid proved the situation of the body: saw
blood about too yards from the body, in a gravel
pit; saw blood .1.0 on a stone gap, and both the
grip and the gravel-pit were in the most direct line
to the house of the Prisoners : on a double ditch
n to the house, he met another spot of blood ;
as he approinheil the house, within In or I.;
yard., he saw swore blood ; when he enteical the
house, he saw Eleanor Grant sitting on a mat, and,
with the assistance of a constable, he palled her
and the mat to the door. The upper part of the
mat appeared to have beets washed, and there was
dry cl ty on it ; on witness thrustin,; hie
through the mat, they came out bloody, I the
under side of the mat was Moody, On fir..llll9lllg
the moron, the wall for the circumference of a hat
wits broken fresh, •bowt a foot high from the ground,
and round the hick there were mark. of blood.
Jobis Scott sworn : said that he knew the de-
ice i.e I ; that shoot seven o'clock in the morning of
she day slier Nicholas Maher had been murdered,
be saw Mary Cootgen (or Gram) in the house alone,
lying on the bed, and she dad not get up while he
remained there: she asked the millets if Mr. \laher
was not murdered Witness said hr was, au I that
he (wmiess) was sorry for it ; and that he believed
it was in that very nook lie was killed. Mary Cot-
tisran (or Grant) desired him to take care what
lie said.

Joseph Crengh. Esq. sworn: nee the hotly about
tell reeirk k—•one blood in the direction from the
both to the l'r soncr.' house: the nest mirk of
blue I was in the Caine direction nearer to the h0n....
Ile saw the old woman (Eleanor (:r.int) on the inst.
s ii.l •her tcas not well : Mr. Lingler for
the ilitighter (llnry Cieitig in or (:r.entl : the Pre.
auger E.esnor nod sloe heel gone to fir. Litie:le)..,
to Lidge information agsites: J inn. Scott—be ono,
en the mat whet appeared to is blood. and part of
it appe.sred to lee erashed.—M iry. the don4locr.
lonuzht a nosooer tel the ingesev, or,ll Upoll
3• to tn..
1..1.1 11.0 111.11 file !mil k,lit,t a t ; it ken, mei to a few
sb.situnt• after mod it 111,!..3 a Itll.li.

Carden. E•al. b,‘ ~rll : lie Lay* Nu-
\J slier, Use d ure
in4iiri• 1,111;1413 , sliniitit,LT at
Jinn ; there were r r tnG rill it.oa 4 swam fart-
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so Mr. 4'. ;r vs the SOll
UI carte. nml i.rnther of the wile. ('r.. .•„r.

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A.StERIC.I.

TIOM THE NATIONAL INTTELLIGENLEN.

't Amongst the papers lately laid before the British
Parliament respecting American atfasrs, is a dis-
patch from Mr. Erskine to Mr. Calming, dated 4th
Dec. NOB, which principally relates to a conversa-
tion between Mr. Erskine and tuiself. This took
place at may house, and without any previnhs ap-
pointment : but es Mr. Erskine had daring the pre-
week cooversed with Mr. Nindison on the
swine topics, and the result had hewn communicat-
ed to me the day before by Mr. Madison, 1 was
prepared for 'the subj.•ct ; and every sentiment I
uttered wits in perfect unison with those of Ilse Pre-
aident and the Secretary of State. %%lint was
meant by colonial Ingle bas already been explained
by Mr. Erskine : laic as his own share in those con-
errsatinas with several Members of the Administra-
tion Is, in Isis dispatches, altogether omitted, and
the conditions expected by the United States from
Great Britain are not distinctly explained, it is pro-
per to state briefly the general grounds which were
con•idi•red here as forming a propet basis fur an ad-
justment of differences, if a conciliatory disposi-
tion was found to exit on the part of the British
Govar ttttt ent.

" I. Repara!:,nrr the attack on the Chesapeake.
The Pre-edene.-pr.a:l.im4tam mergin4 in the pro-
posed :'.on-Islielemirz.e Act, by which the public
ships of hoth Great 13rit.,tu awl Fence would he
excluded from the pints of the United States, the
tuteissible oir.ta,:le to in ikuig the rep.tratten, ac-
kunw to lie doe, was removed.

" 2. Orders T. be repealed giinp:y
on the grouliJ of the Nion-Intereonrso Act apply-
ing. In nett event. txcln,ively to France. to long
es her 4),•erees tiolatiig the nentral rights of the
United S:uta continued in force.

" 3. lopresitseitt cf S: ova. To he entirely
abturloned America agreeing to exelittle from her
uarn,Pati en sea ine:t not citizens of U nite4l States,
en the principle celtaitied in the i ruct ions of the
20th May ltto7. to Nlessr>. Monroe and l'inkney,
winch. 011 deCOUlit of the rupture of the stewing.
tions, were not, in that respect, acted ',span.
4. Colonial That.. The right to the direct
trade, via. that carried directly from the colonies
to the Belligerents in Eurolre, to be swayed by the
United States; provided that the trade between the
United States and the colonies, and that in colonial
articles between the Untied States and other coon.;
tries, was formally recognized, aceordlng to the
principles cart•ained in the same inattoctions,
"5. Coatiocreirt/ nehtio*s. The irarnal Non.
Importation Act of the United Stairs, and the coo-

voi •wlotlierextra duties of Greut brit.sio, to h

re-pealed ; and gencially every snaree of coltioon
arising from that sMcies of 1.0 'intent vl warfare to
cease, hi a [unmet repeal of all diseritninsin%
io confortn,ty with the instructions to Messrs.
Monroe aml Pnikney. before mentioned. The
two nations to plsre other, in every other re-
spect, on the fentiag of the tisost favoured tmtion.

thus last point toy olitervatio is were gene-
ral, and etitistiy appltint to both countries; the
system of rr.stret which thotwi of (heat Britain
had forced the United State. to adopt, beingegtisls
ly injurious to troth ; and :Sir. Erskine is mistaken
soisposmg that I wimid lisve ',referred, at first,
nicts•ures of • Ware decided nature to the Elle-14f.
go.

" Mr. Erskine appears, so far as can he inferred
from the corresposideore now published, to hare
supposed that, in order to induce his Government
to take into consideration those proposition., and
to adopt a conduct consistent with just principles,
Wild with the great and permanent interests of Great
Britien, it was absolutely necessary to dissipate the
prejudices they h id imbibed : and his efforts seem
accordingly to hare bete principally used in trying
to coo, ince them of the sincere di•oositton of the
Members of the Ainerirsin Administration to ad-
just the difference: between the two countries.
Knowing tie earnestness of his endeavours in pro-
moting that object, thv difli.mlties hr had to en-
counter in his attempts to induce the British Mi-
nistry to take u coropreheneite and correct view of
the subject, mid the sanguine temper which he di..
covered throughout the whole transaction. I feel
no disp,ssition to cavil at the general colouring of
the language ascribed either to other 'Members of
the Adrtritistration, or to myself. But there is part
of the dispatch to which I comsat for a moment ac.
" From casual expressions imiierfeetly under-
stood, and incorrectly stated, and flout what he
calls toy manner and slight ii i oo infuse*: Mr.
EtAine infers. that 1 thought that the President
(11r. Jeri...Forel) had acted with partiality toward.
France ; and that I hail attempted to cootnast Mr.
sentiments iu that respect with those of
the President.
" That Mr. Er-kine's object was to use the
change of Presidency as an argument to mince the
British Millistry to •Iter their to.aa.terett Ins:Ards
.Itherica, anal that the optima's thus :IS: robed to me
were 111,, own, is so tficiet:tly obvious from the sihole
tenor of h.• dispatch. But the inference, as ii re-
lates to me, Is totally erronerous ; and Mr. Erskine
most base inis'aken my assent to the ..zistence of
surpluses of partiality in Mr. Jeff 1%011 Inwards
Fr -ice, for an acquiescence in the 'roil' of ahem.
" I might with truth have spoken of Mr.
7t14:".i,0n, not as feeling any parti.tular admiration
for the Ilrihsh constitution sod institutions, but as
h is ill,: neither bias or enmity towards France or
flogfnid. Vint I never could, or did, contrast his
P.9.tine..nt• iu that respect, or aser.ho to him
°ptt...." on the soltjt.ct of our foreign relations at
e s;11. t of 1I r. J. fl ttaut.
knew those srrinise. trisecting Mr. Jeffer.
son to la.• slto.tether distillate of futuaation.
t.ave. in the most itahae, t 111:111ilef, suggested or
clot...tett itt-ert a belief in throat. would have been
Wret t lalseiloatl. So far from hating, even by my
51t.111..'. ;savor we., in i....i,.natr(1116 of :hot nature,
M.i,•:s Mr. Erskin , once, alai once only. dropt
hr., that otos, tong a supposed ho•tility
to E. iglalliff, and 11.4: VI, Pre 11 td sit 111.1(-1"4
tier rou,lua 1.1 a fur li;ht hrfore the pulaht, i am-
liiriliat‘ly rep ;led the 1 111141, ainottio other
o;..• ri •Von.t, reamin.leJ hnn thal the only time
•hr o • t .ovcrnment h, I, by the proposed
squit!t!• ion of sititits. mole ea approach of a libe-
-1.41 n, it . :.,I'.ollllory Datable towartls America, it
aus itutusthately met by the P:rActit, oho had

expressly recommended the subject Its Congress
his message ; and that the plan had been defeat d
by the clamour of that party in America, wi.irh was
considered the hest disposed towards Great Bri-
taid. That, on that occasion, a chang • took place
in wy manner is very probable ; but Alt. Erskine
has ascribed it to a source very ditli•reat from that
which occasioned it. I had very lately been zea-
lously employed •in repelling the charge ;
charge which I never could hear without indigna-
tion. Eight years of the most intimate intercourse,
during which not an act, nor hardly a thought, re-
specting the foreign relations of America was con-
cealed, enable me confidently to say, that Mr. Jrf-
feraou never had. in that respect, any other ohjeet
in view but the protection of the rights of the
United States against every foreign aggression or
injury, from whatever nation it proceeded ; and
has, in every instance, observed towards all the bel-
ligerents the must strict Justice, and the most ecru-
!minus impartiality. His character steads not in
need of this declaration : it is doe to myself.
" The groundless accusations of foreign bias and
influence have beau generated solely by the vio-
lence of party spirit; and they were adopted abroad
as an apology or pretence for unprovoked eggres-
along. A just 01.114 C of the injuries received, and
the most temperate efforts to uhtsin retlreie, con-
stitute what has been called partiality. And it
seems to have been forgotten, that, from the time
when Mr. Jefferson became President, till the
month uf August 1807. no actual aggressiou on the,
neutral rights of America had ►eau committed by
France; whilst, during the same period, the (10.1t1-
111'4 bdickades of enemies' ports by Eogland. and
the annual actual blockades, as they may be called,
of our own—the renewal, contrary to exprr•M and
mutual eeilauatin•ts, of the depredations on the in-
direct colou:al tra•te--.the cioitomed impressinente
of our seamen, awl the attack on the Chesapeake
actually taken ;place.
During that per.tod, the laws, the executive act.,
the negotietious of the American fliiivernineut,
could have been directed to that Gower 1111 l e of alone
from whom injuries had been retried. But from
the time when the rights of the United States wet e
invaded by both the Belligereiits, every public
measure has equally embraced them both ; the like-
efforts, founded on the sane basis, have uniformly,
thsugh with tut SUCCe,II, been made to obtain re-
drew from hod; ; and the correspondence now pnb-
lisherl, furnishes at least irrefiegable pronto of the
earnest desire rit. Jlr. J4ferson'a Administration to
adjust the differences with Great Britain, and of
their disposition to remove, fur that outpour, what-
ever, might true ay the shadow of a pretence for a
denial of justice ou her part.

•
" A LIM? GALLATIN."
" Waslaiuglou, April 11, i ARE"

OF SPAIN.

The following important intelligence hal been
renewed from Coning. relative to the state of af-
fair% in the No►th of SicIIII

EXTRACT OF TUE NEWS COMMUNICATED DT DON
14 IRVIN DE BEILUAIA. LIEUTENANT IN DENS.
ItAl. FORLIELL's DIVISION.

This Gentleman conies from Navarre, where he
had bean trtit with Lient.-Colonel Morale, with
the commission of uniting the different flying par-
tits winch had straggled from his division, and form-
ing them, as well u. other eying parties, into • IT..
Oar corps. This they hive uccomplithed,, and
have now in Navarre a force of 4000 infantry,
well disciplined and well armed ; besides 500
cavalry, and 15:10 infantry nenly raised, who,
from want of muskets. march in the rear of the
4000 above stated ; and, when opportunly of-
fers, fall un the enemy with knives, broad-
sword.. air any other arms of this ,store.—This
Gentleman adds. that a great motifs, r of volu:i-
teen fun Biscay. Guipuscoa, and the neigh-
bouring provinces, presented themselves daily, but
could nut admit them fur went of arms : a fete,
however, were kept and drilled to the exercise.
This Gentleman states, it is his opinion that 30,000
men could be armed in a very short tine iu the
three Provnices above-mentioned: this might be
realized by effecting a landing of 6000 men with
311,00 u muskets: lie adds, that the French have
adopted such vexatious an I cruel Measures in Bilbaa
nod all Biscay, that even married men fly to take
up arms, abandoning their families, &c. Oa the
29th ult. • party of 7sio infantry, who
were escorting thirteen carts of saltpetre to l'ain-
pelums, were attacked by 200 infantry and cavalry,
Spaniards, on the Carraseiel (three miles distant
Rom Piiiiipellins), and only 155 escaped; the rest
were wounded or knllr t.

On the 14th of July, a party of 500
who escorted 18 cuts or wa,:,L;rnis full of fine
new Toledo sabres, were attarke I by the Spatii:irda,
who made 40 prisoners, and tuuk the carts with
the sabres.

Every day there are skirmishes of cinn•iderahle
magnitude in Navarre, between the pitnutic partite
and the French div,olobv.

There arc between s.x and seven hundred Ger-
man troops who have deserted from the French,
and tight together with the Spauish pa-ties. and
seem hearty in the cause. There is hardly a day
that does not bring forward 11 or 14 deseriers from
the French. Regular exchanges of prisoners have
lately taken place in Navarre, silica it has been
agreed that quarter should be given on both 'ides.
Munn, that, the prisoners were equally put to 46411 i
by both tortes. What gave rise to thin humour
change, was a memorial presented by the french
Officers at Pampclutia to their General, in which
they represented that they could not. nor would
not submit to such a method of cam 'to.; un wsr.
A great number of prisoners have been made in
N.varre, who have been sent to Valencia, gebe:aly
on° monthly; iu *holt, the enthusiasm is so great
and so general, and the situation of the province is
such, and so compromised, that they are detertoin.
eJ to go any length to support those principles
which distnignisli them, effectually. They have ap-
plied, repeatedly applied, to Valeu iv for ammuni-
tion, but without sneers. They ate DoW ID a
total want of ammunition.

(In the n•t ult. 5..0 Snieol (n•rentlere.l nt
bria to Gent r.:l Soknan mud Cruel-al Silreire (Po. -
tuguerr). They capit:i!ate.l to br heated with
hurrianity, to he rent to Solt/edam', *here they
.‘onld not take up ann. *piled the Surrniartie, nor
any of their Mlle% Fire Thou-and French troops
wide their airpt.trnitr at J Au_thr la :Lardy after tltc

le,l

cavil tdati on. this. tinettpectta fn•ce 01; ;041
Spaniards and Portugneae to rroirr 71. r
followed fur ten miles by the ftrin.h.
lion evidently was that Tem.... the 4,H, rrs, who had tnarchei the ',Needing du) ruins.

Gival at Corunos, Aug le, tein

NA L :!%T ,SCE.
•

rolt TSM v 4.
Arrived the Beguril. from thr Braz OCTI
ils.
i'd.ueit by the West India under coin
the Pehcan sloop of ear, for the Doom.
PLYMOUTH-DMA, AVGENT
The intelligence brought yroerdort, is y lit
of the mast favourable tio'ure.
Hitt brought to England three French Spii,
deserters from &loosens, who state, th:it Juni
Ala-sera are at sari:ince, and thut their ;11111
in a starving cotolition. Since the battle
wq
British out-pmts, the enemy I4s retri4teil
miles.—At Astorgu the French hale 4UO
the lloopital. The Spanidrilo sod Portugi,
in high spirits, and are much more seine is
operations.

Arrived the Abercrombie, 74, Captain!' din
be docked and repaired.
Caine in two chaste , laden nitL sii
bitt•idy, taken by the Lyra, Captain Blaye.
Went into the Sound, the /frisk sloop of
Sailed the Denny cutter with a Ileet to the
want.

I.IIIOUTII, AUG.
SAM the Lady A rat,' LL teittli,t, with 1
for the Iltediterr.t.w4ll; mod the Pr incest
racket, for the

ElAro'clock, p. e— The L',rd 11!,:mli p
Capt. from Cwl,:z. and a 11111+,;i
(name oikktio‘Ao;, n,r 11.1%l xorlon, into It.:
bum.— I
lir Lord /Abort has bt.o lUrg
The Prince of Brazils par ket Ea%
iiingsl.ridge. from ltio Janeiro, sod
ul letters.

T Air..
Arrived the Anne Norio, bent tu by the I•an.
man of war ; a•td the ilecaa Rebecca, brut
the Emote gun-Ltig.

OVAL. ACC.
Arrived the Phenol:, and thi. Harriet, fr,i
mair;i; and the Mary, Brilby. Irons St. Doi
Remain in the Downs His Majesty's ship
hat.

FROM LLOYD'S LIST.
AVIEVEND, AL CM. IT trb'ell the Deena,
son, frum Quebec.—Sailed the Witturier.
Jaaciru dud the FlasarJ, F.I Icrkin, tu• Nee

On Monday mi. g some flihennea from
t. r caught a remarkable large sturgeon, iii die
not fee from Ch-ster ; it m-,asureil ni,e feet
niches in length, owl weighed nr3rt% 21014.
On Monday morning a fire Lr;•ke out
corn, flour, and cheese warehouse of Mr. ,Ira
TON, ill Thomas-street, Mancheger; which,
getber with the stock, was entirely consul:std.
BELL MOadat leg was nu
the Collegiate Church, Manchester, in three
and four miners, V:: a Select party
cheater and Salford ringers, Mr. linr.v's tree
of grand-ire triples, consisting of 1.040 013r:'
The peal was nobly and truly conduct. d h%
Wollltal.t.; and the tenor, weighing 22 cat.
well ring by Mr. ‘Vonster.
At the late Norfolk A.siaes, Samuel Barti
ittltic:urlfor assJulteng and ravishing Masts ti
in the church-parch of Upton, into
he pulled tier over a rail afro fret high, and ill
'dished his ittlilto-e taut site gate her r%.
Kith sii much colifidence,, •',Unil a mast:•ro.:ii
she fnrinerly lived lEiring stated t;:::t Le soul
believe her upon her oath, tile pr.on.l wi
yawed.—William Caner. charged with
straiing, was also ocriesitted.—No true bill,
ILA. Tuffs, Fran, Harms. and ./.
Matthew Plater, a manufacturer of 13i
stocking+. and late a Banti4 preacher in N.,
was tried fir of a gross and ti,.,
crime on one of three boys in his employ: I
quitted on the tint indictment, and tie hurt
not brought forwards
Friday afternoon a boy very locaistiaus'r al
a red-hot poker to a boinb-shell, which proveat
charged, in the back court of a house in the It,
row, Leith. It instantly replotted, by which
very severely hurt, but he is 110 A in a fair wa,:
covery. A great number of the t:it
hou-e were broke, mud part of the poker was falA
at the distance of 120 yar.;.% fro:n the spot.
On Monday last a fatal accident happened !it
Made-for-eve; Coal•worka, about four milis and
half from Bristol, on the Ministry ru.,d, owing
10
the water breaking in upon four men, then at sort
in the pit, named ItiNvaOIVES, PALMFII, ARtill:t.
sod NISIIITOM : the two former secured thern,r,v:
by clinging round the timber used as props. alto"
the whole holy of water made its way over 111,14
timiszli not willout their, bring materially ii 3..:
Aitttiutt wire driven by the learnt set er.ii 001
yards to the mouth of the pit, by **ATI' he
ce veil sir much injury, that he was takiii
Milani Infirmary ; Mourns was drowned nit e
pit. and the body has not yet been found.

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