The National Register.
London, England, 1811-11-10 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER•

JAMAICA PAPERS.

The following Proclamation has been issued at
Jamaica by the Duke of Manchester :

PROCLAMATION.

PROM TIIE ROYAL JAMAICA GAZETTE, OF AUG. 31.
Whereas, it has been represented to me by the Common
Council of the City of Kingston, that many persons:of a danger-
ous description to the security and tranquillity of this island.
have lately arrived therein; and there being reason to apprehend
that more persons of a similar description may arrive, I have
thought it necessary to issue this my Proclamation, and to exer-
cise the power and authority vested in me, in and by a certain
act of the Legislature, made and passed in the forty-first year of
his present Majesty's reign ; and I do therefore hereby direct,
that no person or persons, not being natural-horn subject or sub-
jects of hisMajesty,of any description whatsoever, shall he landed
out of any ship or vessel arriving at any port or place within this
island, from any island or colony whatsoever in the West Indies,
belonging to, or in the possession of any foreign European Sove-
reign or State, save and except in the City of Kingston, in the
County of Surrey ; and that no person or persons of the descrip-
tion aforesaid be landed in the said city or town."
[Here follows a list of regulations necessary to be
observed, in order to give effect to the Proclama-
tion.]
4, This Proclamation, and regulations and directions therein
contained, to be in force until ordered to the contrary.
MANCHESTER.
"By his Grace's command, "'J. F. BONNETT, Sec.
" GOD SAVE THE KING."

By the Letters received on Friday from Jamaica,
we have learned some particulars of the ravages of
the enemy. The following is an extract of one
which reached a respectable houte in the City on the
subject :

" Kingston, Sept. 22.
" The Pelican, a very valuable trader, from Havannah to
this port, with 80,000 dollars and 3000 doubloons on board, was
captured on Tuesday last, after a desperate resistance, off Alli-
gator Point, in St. Elizabeth, by the Marengo, of eight guns,
and ninety men, fitted out from Baltimore. One half of the
property beloned to merchants here, and came in payment of
goods sold; the other half was the property of passengers on
board, coming to purchase goods. 'Phis is very much to be la-
mented, as our trade had just began to he very brisk, which
this may damp. We have sold in this month already about
16001. though it is generally considered the worst in the year.
Mr. MILLER, from Glisgow, was on board the Pelican. The
Captain, it is feared, is mortally wounded."
ICINGSTON, AUG. 424.—Iatues Fraser, Deputy-Marshal, for
branding a negro, the property of David Jones, Esq. deceased,
with the initials of his name, to be confined three months in
Savanna-la-Mar gaol; and for allowing Matthew Solomon, who
was sentenced to a public flogging, for receiving stolen-goods,
to escape from the gaol of this city, to pay a fine of 501. having
been found guilty on both these indictments on Ttiesday last.
His honour the Chief Justice observed, that he had thought it
necessary to sentence Mr. Fraser to confinement in Savanna-la-
Mar gaol, for his better security, as his offence was of a very
heinous nature; and he had repeatedly represented the county
gaol to be in so insecure a state, that prisoners could walk in
and out at pleasure. Mr. Fraser afterwards sent in a petition to
the Court, soliciting a revision of the sentence, respecting con-
finement in the above-mentioned gaol ; on which their Honours
were pleased to defer giving their opinion until this day, when
they refused to accede to his request.

sunk the Belt. Commodore Rodgers was very anxious to stop
the firing.—Commodore's statement confirmed.
" John M. Funk, 4th Lieutenant, commanded 3d divisior,
gun.deck.—Heard hail, reply-2d hail, and gun from Belt, a•
before. Heard no gun or provocation from the President, a.nu
there certainly was none from his division. Gun from elt re-
turned from President in five or six seconds, broadside from
Belt ensued. Orders of Cont. R. as before. Round and grape
only fired. No fire or sheering off. Another broadside would
have sunk the Belt. Com. R. exerted himself to stop the firing.
—Official account confirmed,
" Peter Gamble, Midshipman.--Was on gun-deck at 2d di-
vision. Heard first shot from Little Belt, and felt no jar on
board the President. No gun or provocation front Corn. R.
Confirms the official account

" Fdward Babbet, Midshipman.—Was on gun-deck, at 3d
division. Was looking at the Belt, anti saw and heard the first
gun from her. No gun or provocation had been given by the
President.—Official account confirmed.
" Mr. Mull testified that the damage on board the President
was one boy wounded, a shot in the main-mast, and another
in the fore-mast, with some of the back-stays cut away ; but
not a single shot of any kind from the Little Belt struck the
Will of the President.

" Edward Rutledge Slubrick, Midshipman, was forward on
gun-deck at first division ' • was looking at the Belt, and saw and
heard the first fire from her before any gun or pro•wocation from
the President. Philip Dickenson Spencer, Midshipman, wall..
confident that the first shot came from the Attie Belt.

" Breasted Barnes, carpenter, was on gun-deck, to attend
pumps, and looking at the Belt when she fired the first shot be-
fore gun or provocation from Commodore Rodgers. The Pre-
sident did not receive a shot of any kind in the hull, but one is
her minniast and another in her foremast.

66 Edward Walker, captain first gun, 4th division, forecastle,
from hearing the report and feeling no jar, believed the first shot
came from the Belt. Moses Dunbar, 2d captain (first absent)
2d gun, 4th division, was looking at the Little Belt, and saw
her fire first. George Sin nvions 3d captain, (first absent) 3d gun,
4th division. John MiCornick, 2d captain, (first absent) 4th
gun, 4th division. William Campbell, Ist gun, 4th division,
quarter-deck, all testified the same as Moses Dunbar.
66 Thomas l'aylor, captain 21 gun quarter-deck, saw the Lit-
tle Belt fire six seconds first. Six captains of guns on quarter-
deck said the same.

" Mr. Mull teitified that the Commodore showed great hu-
maitity..—Lieurenant Dallas heard two report,...—lllidshipmen
S. H. Stringham, J. H. Ludlow, and D. G. Ingraham, saw the
Little Belt fire the first shot." _

The subsequent article is taken from The A'ational Intelli.
genccr, and way published immediately after the close of the
proceedings of the Court on the_ above inquiry.

THE NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER BECOMING FEDERAL.

NE wYo RlC,Stpy.2B.--The advocates of the Jeffersonian system
will be surprised to read the following, when they are informed
that it is copied from the Government Gazette, and undoubtedly
has the sanction of Administration. The Federalists declared
long ago, that we must have a navy or no commerce ; and that
without commerce we could not exist as an independent nation ;
Mr. Vindex, alias Mr. M—n, appears now to be of the same
opinion ! •

Mr. GALES, Washington, Sept. f.'o.
SlR—Sceing in one of your late. Papers an invitation to a dis-
cussion of the advantages of creating and maintaining a perma-
nent navy, permit me to offer a few remarks on that subject, in
doing which two previous questions occur.
First, That an establishment of this nature intended to guard
our foreign commerce, evidently pre-supposes the importance of
that commerce ; and as the necessity of providing a navy to de-
fend it, has been supposed to depend on the mode of conducting
it, when its utility was estaniished, Vie importance of our navi•
gation naturally produces the second question.
Upon these two questions I shall generally remark, that was
the Atlantic Ocean, which separates us from Europe, no wider
than the .\nacostia, or the Potomac, and tit:- countries which
bound 131 on the west, powerful empires, we might, like Sparta
or Rome, look for employment in arms. But remote from tha
common theatre of war, to realize a military spirit we must diem
solve the Union, give to each state a military form, and renew-
ing the early ages of the world, derive activity from perpetual
rivalships and contentions among ourselves.
Placed at a distance from the warlike stations of Europe, the
American politician must guard against national apathy by allow-
ing the principles that promote activity in peace, an unrestrained
operation. He must awaken th- industry of the former, by
opening a market for the surplus fruits of the earth—the rn.:nts•
facturer he must invigorate, by the certainty of obtaining sub..
obtence in exchange of his wrought indttrials. He must aft%