The National Register.
London, England, 1811-09-15 00:00:00

ranteed by! tile law 41:41ations
indemnity for the first nor security for the future.
' We have been penuriously rewarded by the release
of less than 200,000 value in vessels and cargoes,
in return fur the heavy confiscations, in our own
ports, under the Non-Importation Act operating re-
tro ,pectively, on American, and English proprty.
This is all that has been or will be done by The
Great Napoleon,' who imagines he has nicely baited
_ another trap for our mercantile gulls."
We close our remarks with one other extract,
which we give without comment :
SMITII I'o NIR. AIIMSTRONG.
Novetnber 2, 1810.
• You willherevith receive a printed copy of the
proclamation, &c. You will, however, lest the
French Government understand that this has been
doxie on the ground, that the repeal of these Decrees
• d•l:s involve an extinguishnwnt of all the Edicts of
France, actually violating our neutral rights, &c.•
It is to be remarke(l, moreover, that in issuing the
procla:nation, it has been presumed that the re-
qui,itiim contained in that letter, on the subject of
tutiOquestcred property, will have been satisfied."

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felt the azote operate upon him like a power•
ful disposition liisleep, and he sunk into his death-like state
wish as much freedom from pain as persons usually sink to
rest. While he was at the bottom, all sensation was of course
extinct; but he describes his feelings when he began to revive,
as those of a person recovering from a stat.: of intoxication ; and
so powerful were-the effects of the pernicious air he had inhaled,
that he was several days before he could be said to be in a
collected state of mind.
Elizabeth Jones, of Peterborougli, Iltely. poisoned !myself, and
her body was buried in the road leading to Spalding. The rela-
tions-of the unfortunate girl have recently placed a stone near
where her retrains are interred, bearing the following inscrip-
tion.--" liear this spot were deposited, on the 24th 01 May,
1811, the sad remains of Elizabeth James; an awful memento
against the horrid crime of Suicide—Passenger ! take warning ;
you see here a fatal instance of human weakness, ar►d the dre4-
ful conseptence of misplaced affection."
Thursday was executed at I'ened.:ll Heath, Kent, agreeably
to his sentence at the late assizes, Peter Wood, aged 35, a sailor
and a French prisoner of war, for cutting and stabbing Ebenezer
Alexander in the right breast, with intent to murder him, cm
hoard the Canada prison ship, on the river Medway. The un.
fortunate man, who was a Catholic, behaved in a manner ho-
coming his awful situation.

TUESDAY'S LONDON GAZETTE.

ADMIRALTY-OTIrICE, SETT. 10, 1811.
Copy of a Letter from Captain Ferris, of his Majesty's ship
Diana, addressed to Rear-Admiral Sir Thomas "Williarets,
and transmitted by Admiral Sir Cherles,Cotton to John W il-
sun Crofter, Esq.
Sip.—l have the honour to inform you, that while standing toe
wards the Cordovan Light-house, in company- with his Majesty's
ship Semiramis, in the afternoon of the 24th inst..l discerneed i4ur
sail inside of the shoals at the mouth of the river Gironde, un-
der escort of a national brig of war. I meditated either dieir
capture or destruction, which could only be accomplished by ar-
tifice and promptitude, without the sacrifice of many liven.
Stratagem was used, which had the desired effect, as they sent
a vessel with !hots to our asshflance, and I anchored after da: k
the two ships midway between the Cordovan and Royan, under
whose funs the brig hed taken refuse, and close to the brig sta.
tioned4or the protection of the several convoys pasbing either
way. I dispatched three boats under the orders 01 Lieut. Sp; r-
row**(secorid), Lieut. Roper (third), and Mr. Holmes master's
mate, from this ship, seconded by four boats under the ordtrs of
Lieutenants Gardner, Grace, and Nichelserr, and IV,:r. Retau,
master's mate, from the Semiramis, to capture or destroy. the
convoy then anchored up the river, about [Air miles tlietant, hut
the tide prevented their acconipiishieg it until late in the eight ;
and at day-light, finding the captured ves-cls with the boat* far
up the river beyond the two brigs, I determined to attack theta
with the ship, but not without using the same artifice as tf,e
preceding Mein, to prevent suspicion; and so convinced were
they of our being friends, that the Captain of the Port, Monsieur
Michel Auguste Dubourg, Capitaine de Frigate, and command-
ing the in-shore brig, came on board to offer his saviees, antl
was not undeceived until he had ascenOed' the quarter-deck.
The Diana laid the outer brig on boercl, and Li. ut. Robert W.
Parsons (First Lieutenant) Lieut. Madden, first of the Royal
Ni aetnes, and Mt. Mark. b. Noble, boatswain, headed about
thirty seamen 'and marines. (as many as could be spored by the
absence of the boats), and succeeded in gaining i:es,,eesiee of his
Majesty's lategtin -brie Teazer, mounting twelve eighteen-pound
earrotrades, and two long eighteen-pounder gum, commanded
by Morsieur Al6rinder Papineau, Lieut. de Vai,e•eati, With a
Com eiement of 85 men, and without loss on either side. it adds
to the lustre these Officers and men achieved, the humanity they
displayed to the oyerpowered captives, in putting them below
without the force of arms and an unnecessary effusion of blood.
It was at this time that alarm was given, and the batteries opened
their fire. upon the ships, when Captain Richardson in the Semi-
ramis, in a manner which characterises the officer and seaman,
pursued, (trove on shore, and burnt, under the gun! of the has- , , . , •
terms, the French national brig Le I'litvier, mounting 16 gunge, '''' e,
and lttp men, esoutit: Captain,- I have before spoken ot, was deev.,.. • - '"
cnyed on board. - se
Hiving obtaineet to 010 utmost the object in view, I aneh a- •
in dee Oirdnde, opt of. gun-shot, to repair the damages sustlelne '' '' 1'
by ihedifferentetessels# when I was re
.joined by the brsattiAskestl.. -
the captured eerr'voy, a list of Which I have the hOntdifAttens. -- ..*
close. The services I received from Capt. Klefhttailsii, /ilisf •-•
Officers and shin's company of the Semiramis, uteri; lygewattsse
est ack.rinwhidgements, and. I should be con-Witting.* gieat it).
justice to the Officers and ship's company I pclituluitOrliere Inca
to speak in terms of the highest admiration for ttteir steaditirss
and seal throughout the whOe aff4r. And conlal add ample

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