The National Register.
London, England, 1811-06-23 00:00:00

.THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

married. He did not know that punishment awaited on virtue.
The Militia Ballot was a severe conscription, and bung heavy
con the middling classes of the people • and by that very law
every man of England wasborn to be ii:tgcd. He persisted in
pushing his motion to a division.
• The Gallery was accordingly cleared, and there appeared—
For the Motion of Address 10; Against it ,94.—Majority S 4.
The Westminster Hustings Bill was read a third tiaie and
passed.

LOVEDEN'S DIVORCE BILL.
The House went into a Committee .on the above-mentioned
Bill, and on the motion of Mr. Barham the blank left in the
Bid for annual settlement was figed up with 4ffll. p-r annum.
On the motion of Mr. DA vIE4 GIDDY, the original
jointure of 8001. per annum was taken away, and Mr.
Whitbread divided the House on a motion foi• ;:n additional
jointure of 4001. per annum after Loveden's decease, which was
negatived by a majori!), of nine. The House then re,umed,
and the Bill was read a third time and pused.—Adjourned.

health was such that the utmost care was. necessary. The only
request\ which the petitioner had made was, that the unhealthy
apartment in which he was at present confined, should ba
•chang-d for one in which there would be a circulation of air.
- Lord CASI T.EREAGH wished that every arNammodation
should be furnieled to the petitioner in his confinement. He
(Lord C.) had felt 'illicit pain in bringing forward-such a prose-
cution, but it was a duty impt-rative upon him, as It mint he
Universally consid-red a 1.1)el upon the •GoVernment. . It had
been his wish that the Court would mitigate his sentence, and
it was now his desire that he should receive evert dulgence.
Atter some further obsc!rvations from Mr. Brougham, Mr.
Hutchinson, Sir Francis Burdett, and others, the petition was
ordered to lie on the Table.
• -The Insolvent Debtors' Bill was read a second time, and was
ordered to be committed on Monday.—Adjourned.

AMERICA.

64 New York, May '2l.

" TnE NAVAL FNemcxNtriv-r.—The armed vessel, men-
tioned in our last as king below, proves to he tie United
states frigate Frew-lent, Co nmodore R °GE It S. non after our
Paper of. fast evening went to press, two officers from the fri,
Site arrived in the pilot-boA, and confirmed the Norfolk ac-
count of an engagement on the 16th instant, near the Capes of
the Chesapeake. The following particulars 'of the action are
copied from the Gazeite of this morning. From a personal in-
terview with the Navy Agent and the Officer, who has gone in
the mail stage of this day, with dispatches from Commodore
RociERS to the Secretary of the Navy, we learn, that this state-
ment is eubstantially correct. The boy, who was the only per-
son injured on board the President, had an arm broken by 4
musket ball.

" Particulars of the Engagement between the United States frig
gate President, Commodore Roo E It s, and the British sloop of
war Little Belt, Captain BINGHAM.

" On the night o'.the 16th inst. about nine o'clock, the fri.
gate fell in with the 100 of war, about 20 miles N. E. of Cape
1-knry ; and .when within pistol-shot of her, Commodore Ro.
GiCRS hailed her—no answer was given. Commodore R ocras
toiled her a second time, and, in the act of hailing, a shot was
fired from the sloop of war into the frigate, which struck her
mainmast. The frigate immediately fired a shot into the sloop
of war—she than, poured a broadside into the frigate. Here
the action commenced, and continued about litteen minutes,
when the sloop of war ceased firing. The frigate continued
near her all night. The next morning 'Commodore ROGEKII
sent an Officer on board, to offer any assistance they might re
quire; and to express his regret at the circtimstance that bad
occurred the preceding evening. The sloop of war proved to
be the Little Belt, Captain BibicatArtt, who apologised ; and
gave as a reason for firing into the frigate, that he supposed her
to be a Frenchman ; and politely ceclined any assistance, as he
believed he would be able to reach a port in safety.
46 The Little Be(t lost in killed and wounded thirty men, was
very much injured, having bad nearly all her masts and spars
shot away, besides several shots in her hull.
" This sloop, of war is a Danish built vestal, and was taken
at Copenhagen. Iu Steel's List she is rated an 18 gun sloop ;
and-carries thirty-two•pound carronades.
4‘ The Presidort received some trifling damage in her rigging,
and had one boy slightly.wounded in the um."

[FROM THE 7ATIONAL INTELLIGENZKRI
" Within the course of a few days past, several cases have
occurrwd of impressment by iiritiah vebsrls, on our coast, from
co:wan vessels.

" impresmentß, halting taken place under aggravated
circumstances, have excitvtl, as they ought, a very gen. ral indig.
t fceiine.

44 The United States frigatt Pro4ide...zi put to sea from Ana-
polls, under such circumstances as justify the impression, that
the obj,.:ct of her sailing was to obtain the release of these men.
g‘ Under these circitimtances, rumours of an engagement I if
our Capes have reached u 4, which we present to our Readers as
they fallow, barely observing, that it is well under.
.4,),n1 that the
Commanders of public vessels are generally ii4sinerted ti submit
to no tpultio4 frot. any Foreign vessel which shall wearthe son-.
teance pia threat in masirKr or in words."

New York, May 23, 1811.
•
' We are correctly 'informed, that a letter ii in town, from
one of the Nienthera of the Executive, stating, that Rentßl
his positive orders to search for a Br', ish frigate, demand the
impresied ni n she has ou board audit refustd, to take diet"
'1 by force.'

IRELAND.'
• We are concerned to find by the Dublin Evening Post, re •
rented on Friday morning, that a serious disturbance took place
611 Sunday evening last, in the open ground adjoining Foster
Aqueduct, on the Royal Canal, which was .attended with la-
mentable consequences :—" It appears that on Sunday evening
iitunber of persons assembled La: the ground above mentioned,
for the purpose of 'wrestling and other exercise, a custom which
has been observed there for many years ; and it is said that the
perso:is so assembled were ainu ing themselves peaceably, and
without evincing any disposition to riot or disorder, when a party
of the police rushed in and seized the two wrestlers, and by
threats and menaces were endeavouring to disperse the crowd,
which it is thought they would have accompl:shed without any
serious opposition, had not a second party of the police descend-
ed rapidly from the rising ground, and unattended by a Magis-
trate—no notice given—the Riot. Act not read—commenced an
4ttack upon the unarmed and unoffending populace. Some shots
were fired, and several persons are said to have been dreadfully
lacerated with sabre wounds. A man walking with his Wife
—*rid child in Upper Dominick-street, is said to have received
three dangerous wounds ; he was conveyed to the hospi:al in
Brunswick-street; two slugs were extracted from his shoulder;
a third that entered his neck could not be extracted, and he is
not expected to recover. A young Gentleman, an Attorney,
was carried to Jervis-street hospital, in a hopeless
state—a sabre
is said to have penetrated his skull." Such is the account given
of this unpleasant affair in the Dublin Evening Pust. We have
only to express our hopes that the disturbance may have been
less serious than it is above represented.