The National Register.
London, England, 1811-12-15 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGIST

for its defence against every arm and nature of ordnance, that
nut the smallest apprehension is entertained of its pregnability.

ADMIRALTY•OFTICE, DECRMBER 14, 1811.

Extract of a letter from Capt. CODRINGroN, of his Majesty's
ship Blake, addressed to Vice-Admiral Sir EDWARD PELLEW,
and transmitted by the latter to JOHN WILSON CROKE*, Esq.
-dated off Mataro, on the Coast of Catalonia, the Ist of No-

vember, 1811.
Catalonia, heretofore so distrustful, shows at present the most
ispbounded confidence in the Generals who lead her armies ;
and the barbarities of the enemy, instead of quelling that spirit
for which she bas been renowned, have made soldiers of her
whole male population. Sanguine as I have heretofore been, I
1111 reelly astonished at the noble attitude to which the principa-
lity is rising. _ _

The Baton Eroles has fought another successful battle on the
516th, near l'uigcerda, in which he has lessened the numbers of
the enemy in killed, wounded, and prisoners, to the amount
of GOO; and he is now levying contributions in the neighbour-
hood of Mont Louis (within the confines of France) without
any opposition.

This Gazette contains a Copy of a Letter from. Capt. Peyton,
of his Majesty's sloop, the Weaael, off the Westward of Cyprus,
giving an account of his having captured the French privateer
I.e Rol de Rome, of 10 guns and forty-six men, out six days
from Alexandria. She is only 45 days off the stocks, and sails
remarkably well. She had left Alexandria after seven English
merchant vessels bound to Malta.

Also a Letter from Capt. Malcolm, of his Majesty's ship the
Rhin, dated Cawsand Bay, Dec. 9, giving an account of his hav-
ing captured, after a chace of four hours, off the Eddystone, the
French schooner privateer, I.a Courageuse, of fourteen guns
(which she threw overboard in the chase, along with her
anchors, and part of her provisions), ninety tons and seventy
mcn.

IiANKR.UP'rcY SUPERSEDED.
Thomas Tatterball, of Manchester, grocer.

BANKR UPTS.
William Cooper, late of Draycott, Somerset, maltster.
Richard Jackson, of Nianchester, cornfactor.
David Ellis, of Christchurch, Slants, linen-draper.
James R ighy, of Liverpool, livery-stable-keeper.
James Po%N:ii, late of St. Margaret's-hill, Southwark, sta-
tioner.
William Glaehrouk, of Whitechapel High-street, hosier.
Benjamin Wal-h, late of Hackney, broker.
Joseph Blakey Spencer, Joseph Bowman, and James Robin.
son, of Bearbin:!er-lane, factors.
Henry Hooper, of Starry, Kent, dealer.
Jane Vickers, of Bath, milliner.
William Soady, of •Pl)mouth-dock, tallow-chandler.
James Shaw, of Liverpool, taylor.
James Gore, jun. late of Cheltenham, plumber and glazier.
John Southcott, of Bristol, victualler.
Samuel Goilop, of Honiton, Devon, baker.
CERT I FICA' I'ES, J N. 4.
Harry Palsford, of Berkeley-street, Piccadilly, wine-mer-
ehant,--Henry Webb, of Enfield, Middlesex, corn-fact r.—
Isiac Cooke, of Gravesend, careenter.—William Platt, of Bol-
ton-le-Moors, Lancaster, muslin and cotton-manufacturer.—
Robert Butler, of Cheapside, glover.—John Kirkpatrick, of Li-
verpool, merchant. —David Burrell, of Jenny!' street, West_
m.inster' Gluyas and Oliver Gluyas, of Ma-
razion, Cornwall, dea!ers.—Robert Palmer Goodstm, now or
1 t.e of Leadeah.,ll-street, sadler.—Hoegson Brongh, of Cam-
berwell, mariner.—James Byrn, of Broad-street, insuranee-hru-
ker.—Sanittel Hartshorn, of Shrewsbury, mercer.--Isaae Aide-
bert, Charie4 Christian Becher, and James Hargreaves, of Copt-
merchants.—William henry King, of Fleet-lane,
cabinet-maker.

The East India Directors have entered into a resolution not
to tiriiitt at their own tables. or at those of other persons, any
wines whatever of French production, until it should apprar
that the exchange is in favour of this country. We trust this
exantp!t will be generally followed.

PI~OVINCIALS.
•
NOTTINGHAM, Dte. It.
The insurrectional state to which this county has
been reduced for the last month, has no parallel in
its history since the troubled days of Charles the
First, against which misguided monarch it took so
decided a part. These truly alarming tumults had
their origin in a complaint- exhibited by the stock-
ing.makers against some of the hosiers, on account
of the latter abating the fashioning price of making
some descriptions of stockings, and causing others,
along with sandals, socks, caps, &c. to be cut out
of pieces, in like manner as a tailor cuts a garment ;
and the stockings, &c. thus made, were not only
deprived of their proper loopy selvages, which are
the grace, the ornament, and natural guarantee to
the real value of the frame•work-knitted stockings,
but, as many more could be produced in any given
time than could hi. of those properly fashioned, the
wages of the workmen and the work itself were
daily en the decline, as was alio the credit of the
trade.—And if we add to these causes of corn.
plaint the constant advancement in the price of
every article necessary to human subsistence, the
true causes of these disturbances will be found. •

The object of the woikmen has been to destroy
those machines, or frames, as they are called in the
dialect of the trade, that were employed irr: the
making of pieces to be cut up into si orkings, &c. ;
and indiscriminately those belonging to the hosiers,
who had rendered their names obnoxious by giving
reduced prices. Day after day hive the Magistrates,
both of the town and county, used every possible
endeavour to restore tranquillity ; day after day
have they added to the strength and activity of the
civil power, and called in additional aid of the mili-
tary ; but, hitherto, their exertions have been but
of little avail : a mysterious organization has been
brought into existence, which baffles every ordinary
etfort to suppress it. The rioters appear suddenly
in armed parties, under regurar commanders; the
chief of whom, be he whomsoever he may, is
stilled General Lucid; and his orders are as implicit! y
obeyed as if he had received his authority from the
hands of a monarch ; indeed, it is well understood,
that disobedience to his command is punishable
with death, according to a solemn oath administered
to all the party ; and any person that gives infor-
mation against any of them, subjects himself to
the vengeance of the whole organized band, both
in person and property ; some dreadful examples
in the latter instance having already been inflicted,
by the burning of hay-stacks, &c. hence it is that
so few impeachments are made, and so few of the
edators apprehended.
When the object of destruction is agreed on,
the party pounce upon their prey with the ven-
geance of the tiger and the cunning of the
fox; the destruction of one frame seldom takes
more than ten minutes time ; and, acrordin4 to the
threats imprecautiously held out, it would subject
any one to instant death to make the least alarm.
The house where the mischief is going on is
gtiarded on all sides with men armed with muskets,
and scouts stand at a distance from each other, wt o
cry t‘ All's well," or otherwise, if thingi
it, they give the alarm. In some cases, however,