The Sun.
London, England, 1812-02-13 00:00:00

VeICCIAATION.

Notwithstanding Vaccination is strongly patro-
nised by-the Royal Colleges of Physicians and Sur•-'
pans, it is much to be regretted, that the old prac-•
Lice is-still adhered to by.a few Medical Men'. And.
it appears that lately, Smell Pox has been intro.,
duced at a_ respeCtable Institution, named Tns
WESTERN DISPENSARY. . ft is suspe&ed, that th:s
measure has been efreaed clandestinely, as t-e
vernors of Hospitals; and Public Charities, now en-.
courage Vaccination. • Indeed, nothing can be more
evident, than that a,Dispensary is the most impro-
per place that could be sele6ted, for carrying, on
Inoculation of Small Pax; because mothers by
seeking relief there for their babes for one illness,
risk giving them the most fatal of all.

Tins practice, however, h :s 'not escaped the guar..
dian attention of THE NATIONAL VACCINE ,ESTA.
riustimENT, who have circulated the following
Letter among the Governors (tf Tit E WESTERN Die..
PENSARY. And as they are in general Noblemen
and Gentlemen of-benevolent and (Imitable princi •
.pies, and sui,!rior to vulgar preitadi‘es, i. is 'Uglily
probable that it will have. the desired effect.

TO THE GOVERNORS OF THE WESTERN DIS•
PENSARY.

NATIONAL .VACCINE ESTABLISHMENT.

Board. Rolm.), Leicester• square.

The Board" of the National Vaccine EqtAlish-.
men!, which is composed ot the Pre,hictt and Cen-
sors of the Royal College of Ph) sician,4, and of the
Master and Governors ot;the Boval College of Sur-
geons of London, have‘the honour of addressing the
Governors of the Western aspensary, do a subject
of mueis consequence to the Public.
As Government in consequence of a vote of Par-
liament have appointed this Board for the express pur-
pose,of extending as widely as possible, the benefits of.
Vaccination, it is judged expedient to represent to
you the evils which necessat dy result from allowing
persot.s to be inoculated with Small Pox -at I.
Western Dispensary. For you are probably not
aware ot the extensive mischief which all •es in,rn
diffusing through crowded lanes, courts and hou,es,_
a fatal and infectious disease; even a single inocu-
lated patient sometimes contaminating multitudes.
The knowledge of this, prompted the Governors
,of the Small Pox. Hospital to prohibit the inocula-
tion of this distemper to all out-patients, and to em-
ploy Vaccination, which has also been done by other
Public Charities. The wisdom of these measures is'
now clearly manifested. For according to the Bilis
of Mortality, the average number of Deaths by Small
'Pox, which formerly amounted to 2000 anntolly,
was last .year sunk to 751. This number is s+iil
however great, and is without. doubt chiefly owing
to a few Medical Practitioners persisting, in spite of
.the repeated declaration of all that are eminent in
the profession, to inoculate the Small Pox.

The immense utility of Vaccination is now pro d
by undeniable experience. For .wherever \raid. a-
tion has been adopted, .and Small Pox Inoculatiol'i
relinquished, the Small Pox has declined, or has
cea.ed altogether. Thus, authentic information has
been received, that no case of Small Pox has oc-
curred in Vienna fbr two years, and none in the
populous City of. Milan for . eight. But it is not
i equisite to go abroad to seek fur examples of this
kind ; it is gratifying to be able to state, that by the
Unanimous exertions of the Medical • Genttenten
in the city! of Norwich, and in the I,,wn of
Petworth, and the adjoining district, • the Small
Pox has entirely disappeared. It is pantie! to,
he obliged to add, that no representations hate
hitherto induced all the practitioners of this town
to refrain from inoculating the Small Pox, and
to employ 1
110
innocent and eftedual plan of
Vaccination 1p *its steitd. Tile consequence of Which
is, that Ihe Small Pox is now makit g considerable
havoc in Westminster. The Board of the National
V3ccine ',..stablititunent trust, that as soon as the
benevolent Governors of the Western Dispensary
receive this intimation, they will most seriously &-
liberate upon the subjea, and will prevent a ch4ri-
table Institution, so useful in other respetis, from
being a source of contagion of a most de9trueiwo
distemper.

Is have the honour to be,
Your most obedient '
and most bumble Servant,
hnliS 'Mooas,

MAILS.
Aitßivz A - Dublin, 2 Watertord. D E-I Cadiz, I Bra•
zils, I Waterford.

PRICE OF E•rocKs:
THIS DAY A TVIttLV It O'CLOCK.
Consols. • —631 i Red. Arm. 61i 63

THE S UN.

SOLEM LUIS DICERS FALSUNI AUDLAT ?

L 0 N D 0 N.

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1312.

• We give further extrads this day from the Ame-
rican Papers. The Speech of Mr. SIIEFFY is ob-
viously diclated by a proper sense to the interests of
-.his.country, and we Lope the moderation of this
-Gentleman will have its- due effe& trron the ma-
jority .f his countrymen, whether in or out of
place, and induce diem,: according to his advice, to
adopt no counsels but such as regard that " sat of
-honour which is tempered by prudence."

. The Countess of Hurcdurt transport, from Bata-
via, 'arrived at Poristnouth the 12th instant.

She sailed from Batavia the 20th October last,
with General JANSEN and suite; arrived at Si. He-
lena the-gth December, and sailed from thence the
.15th of that month. No ships there.
The extra ships Euphrates. and Monarch had not
ived at St. Helena.

It is much to be regretted that the Common
Council should have suffered themselves, on Tues-
day last, to be persuaded into a rejeaion of the
motion for patronising Dr. BELL'S plan, since they
hive thought proper to give a pecuniary support
to that of Mr. LANCASTER. By confining their
bounty to the system of the latter, they have
evidently been betrayed by seetarians. With-
out entering into the comparative merits of the
t o systems, the main principles of which were
assuredly introduced in this ,country by DoQor
BELL, whatever mechanical -iffiprovements they
rnly have derive,:in praQice from Mr. LANCASTER,
it becomes the City of London to skew an attach-
ment to the Established Religion, which Doetor
BELL'S System of Education is eminently calculated
to explain and tolupport. In political matters it
,may be expecled that the decisions of the Com-
mon Council may sometimes be influenced
by one party and sometimes by another but
in matters that essentially\ relate to the national
faith in the purest Religion that human nature can
receive as the rule of conduCt in this life, and the
basis of lu;pe for a better one hereafter, the City
of London, the great metropolis of the world, and
the general asylum of mankind, front the oppression
and tyranny of other coutitties, it might be hoped,
would have been direaed by a sense of national dig-
nity to have kept clear from all seetarian bias, and
I ave decidi;d according to the orthodox principles of

our Church Establishment. We therefore trust,
that some of the leading men of the City will support
the honour of the Common Council, and rescue it
from that charaaer of violence and party, which
ha-certainly not increased its credit in the estima-
tion of the public at large.

,Yesterday the LORD CHANCELLOR, Mr. PERCE-
- YAL, and the NtarqUis had audiences
of the PRINCE REGENT, at Carlton-House.
Yesieiday- the Duke of CAMBRIDGE visited the
Pitt ~;CE REGENT.
Yesterday the Cabinet Ministers dined with Earl
H .nnowsy, at,his house in Grosvenor-square.
Yerterday morning the Duke of YORK, accom-
pinitAl by Lieut. Colonel BROWN, one of his Secre-
taries, left town for Windsor.
This day Lieutenant-Colonel BROWN is expelled
tl leave town for Irelanet, where he has been ap-
pointed D,puty Quarter Master of the Army.
.1.1.)1.1.-HousE.—Yesterday a Court of Direaors
u[as held', when the underthentioned Commanders
took, lea e of the Court,• previous to departing for
their respective destin-lions,
Captain George Nichols, of the Bengal ; W. Lynch, of
tkie i iarriet ; and A. Campbell, of the Sovereign—for Madras
Rail Bengal.
Capt..l). M'Leod, of the Marquis of Huntley ; 1. Haiti-
button, of the Glatton ; M. Craig, of the Elphinstune ; and
C. Barnett!, of the Wextord—tor China direct.

Capt. f . Freeman, of the Lord Keith ; and G. Weltden, of
site Iliclus—Jor Madeira, Madras, and Bengal.
The undermentioned Captains were sworn into
al: command of their respective ships, viz.
Capt. Pearson, of the Sir Godfrey Webster ; Brock, of the
Fay, new ship building in the room of the Lady lane nun-
cios ; U. Bowman, of the Diana ; and R. Rawes, of the Itr-
Vana--for Bengal direct.
The following ships were thus stationed,
Earl Howe, for Bengal direct ; Diana, and l uliana, for
gatavia Carmarthen, fur Madeira and Bengal ; and Alex-
ander,- for (Madeira, Bengal, and Bencoolen ; the Lord Dun-
can, from-Bombay, to Madeira and v:ombay ; the Princess
Charlotte of ‘Vales,_and Thomas Grenville, iron Ceylon
end Bengal, to Madeira, Ceylon, and Bengal.
The Court adjourned at six o'clock till to-morrow.
The Board of Trade, having convened a Meeting
o' the persons interested in the :Wine Trade, has
oposed to theca the.following.regulattons
fiat on exporting from hence one hogshead of sugar, they
should be allowed to import from France (for ex porta-
firm only) two hogsheads of wine, or one puncheon (not
exceeding t2o gallons) of brandy.
On exporting from hence to cwt. of sound coffee, to be al-
lowed to import (for re-exportation) 2 1014 of wine.
In all cases the inten.hange to commence by the exporta.
don of the sugar or coffee trum hence, or the return,
Nvbet her of wine or brandy, nut to be admitted to home
consumption.
This prOposition is to be considered as a mere
suggestion on the part of the Board of Trade, and
,rieti to fart her discussion. The final determination
t. expected si the next meeting,.

PLYMOUTH, rEB. 1 American ship Xeno-
phon) belonging to New York, B. LORD, Master,
that arrived here on Sunday last from Wilmington,
cable a running ship, 33 days passage; left there
loading for this port the- ships Arabella, Algernon,
and Middlesex; _ the former was expelled to sail
in about fifteen days, and the latter in ten.—
The ship Young Factor, ATKINSON, with a cargo,
bound to London, was expeded to sail on the day
after the departure of the Xenophon. The ship
'46tcy 'with a cargo for Dublin, sailed the day be-
fore the Xenophon; the latter has hada very stormy
passage.

It was the Pelorus brig of war that arrived here
on Sunday with part of the cre,w of his Majesty's
ship Laurel, which was wrecked a few days since
in Quiberon Bay.
Went up the harbour to be refilled his Majesty's
ship Minerva, of 32 guns, Capt. HAWKINS, lately
arrived from Newfoundland.

The Loire frigate did not sail from hence, as stated
on Sunday last, but remains in the Sound.

Sailed the Steady gun-brig for Portsmouth.

Arrived the Peggy, SEArma, and the Providence,
ISAAC, from Lymington ; Three Sisters, CHAPNIAN,
and Lord Nelson, PUDDLCOMBE, from Portsmouth ;
Friends, CuMING, BlessNing, MILLS, and industrious,
DAVIES, from WALES.

DEAL, FEB. 12.--Arrived the Cygnet sloop of
war from a cruize off Flushing, and the Cheerful
cutter, after seeing the convoy that sadod on Mon-
day Safe to Portsmouth.

PORTSMOUTH, FEB. 12.-Arrived this day his
Majest.Cs ships royal Oak, Poictiers, and Venerable,
from off Cherbourg; and the Beagle and Rapid from
the Downs.
Sailed the Nile.
Tile Jason frigate takes convoy to the West IndieF.

YARNLOUTH, FEB. 1 2.—Arrived the Princess of
'Pales cutter from a cruize.
Sailed the Hearty gun-brig for off the Texel.

In the General Orders issued by the Lieutenant-
Governor of Gibraltar, immediately subsequent to
the victory of Tariffa, we observed the following,
viz. : " The Lieutenant-Governor cannot pass over
in silence - the address and ability with which Cap-
tain WREN, of the light company of the 11th re-
giment executed the two sallies committed to his
charge try Major KING, commanding in the island—
his condua on these occasions has been highly cre-
ditable and worthy of emulation."—Capt. WREN
(as we before stated) is a soil of Mrs. WREN, of Li-.
tnerick.

The Corporation of the city of Cork have pre-
sented an address to General FLOYD, expressing their
approbation of his condul while in the command
of the South West distria, to which he has returned
a suitable reply
Ensign WALLER, of the 87th, who was wounded
at Taritia is nephew to Capt. R. WALLER, of Castle-
waller, county Tipperary.
Lieutenant STAUNTON, of the i t 111 regiment of
Foot (late of the Gal Way was wounded in
a skirmish near Tarifa, on the 29th December.
BUONAPARTE, it seems, is nicknamed by the
Americans " the Little Corporal:" The Irish who
return from Paris, generally mention him by the
more humiliating title of " Little. Breeches." Such
is the vindictive temper of the man, that these de-
signations ?re likely to render him the bitter enemy
of both nations.

Far from being surprized that the French Officers
in Cidab;la should base employed assassins to de-
destroy English Officers serving in Sicily, such con,
dual is so congenial with the whole charaaer of the
French Government, and all its Agents, that, it is
wonderful we do not hear every day of similar atro-
cities. Nothing honourable, nothing dignified,
nothing humane is to be expected from the French
Government, as it is directed and supported by the
most artful and flagitious policy towards its own and
all other Si at es.

The French Papers state, that the drawing of the
Conscription has not only been performed with
tranquility, but with joy, parading about with mu-
sic, &c. The probability is, that as theSe poor fel;
lows find it impossible to avoid the service, they-
'affeol satisfaction, with a determination to take thn
first opportuniiy•of deserting.
The Manager of. the Bath Theat►e has, it seems,
succeeded in his negociations with Mr. BETTY, and
wrung from him his slow leave" io perform a few
nights in that city. Report says, that this engage-
ment is preparatory to his re-appearance on the
London Stage.
BANNISTER has best! very successful at Edin-
burgh. The present is the last week of his engage-
ment in that city. -
MUNDEN is performing at Newcastle-upon-Tyne,
where he was a great favourite many years ago.
Mrs. C. KE:usLa left Edinburgh to perform a few
nights at Sunderland ; but she is to return to the
former place upon a renewed engagement, after
playing two nights at Durham.
MATHEWS is still upon his rambling excursion in
the,North. He was to take,leave of South Shields
on Thursday last.
A beautiful Pit ure of TITIAN has been recently
conveyed from Venice, and is in the hands of a
Gentleman in Berners-street. The subjea relates
to Jephtha's Daughter. There are many figures in
the work, all nearly as large as life. The colouring
is uncommonly rich, and the picture, altogether, is
worthy of the great Artist who produced it.

Two brewers were conviled last week at Min-
chester, in the penalty of 2001. each, fur using
grains of paradise in their beer; and an innkeeper
was convicted in 1001. being his first offence, on a
like charge.

TAOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; lea. 3.
The engrosSed Bill for raising an additional
tary Force, was read a thifd time, and the question
put, shall the Bill pass ? •-•
Mr. StIBITY spoke against its-passage. Whird he
differed from the majority in the measures they
were about to pursuel‘he pretended not to impeach
the purity of,their motives ; and he hoped the same
liberality would be extended to himself. If they had
determined on war in a dire& and unqualified shape,
he should have considered himself bound to vote
for furnishing all. the means necessary for carrying ft
on, in order to bring it to a speedy termination.—
But this dire& course had not been pursued. In-
stead 'of presenting to our view the objeds of a war,
we had heard nothing but high-coloured piaures of
grievances. He did not deny that we had ample
cause of war with Great Britain, on account, of her
Orders in Council—in fa& we bad ample Cause of
war with both the great belligerents; but (he true
question was, whether we had it in our power to
compel Great Britain to do us justice ; whether it
was prudent to try such an expetiment. As to the
impressment of seamen, a great deal more noise tg as
made upon that he.:d than the subjed.deserved. He
never would consent to go to war to protea na-
turalised citizens abroad. If we prot,ded them
while they remained within, our territories, we went
far enough. Although it was not consistent with
the rights of man, yet the principle was held in most
other governments, that the subjed owed allegilnce
to his sovereign until the latter consented to his ex-
patriation. He felt for the; men that were'impress.:.
ed—but he would
_not ..agree to involve the nation
in war for the purpose of forcing our priniples upon
foreign governments; for the purpose of protecting
men who were not native citizens.

Mr. S. repeated, that there was a wide difference
between the cause of war, and the propriety of en-
gaging in it. He took a view of the state of our
trade with France and her dependencies, which he
asserted was not only of little value even in pros-
perous times, but was daily diminishing by the.
shackles imposed on it by the French Emperor.
For this commerce, then, scarcely worth having,
we • were to under take a Quixotic war with Great
Britain, in order to compel her to repeal her im-
prudent Orders in Council. For the sake of main-
taining a trade not worth above two millions. per
annum, we were to sacrifice a trade with the British
dominions worth about thirty-two millions—and
this sum, without taking into view the commerce
with Spain, Portugal, and the Brazils, which might
be lost likewise, in the event of the proposed war's
taking place.
But, he observed, we were called upon to go to
war in support of our honour. There were times,
however, when, nations, as well as individuals,
ought to suppress their feelings. The present was
such an occasion. The situation of the world was
unexampled. In all former wars, there had been
many neutrals—at present, the United States was
the only neutral nation; and it
_was unreasonable_
to expect, that, in so, great, a conflict as the one
now carrying on between the two belligerents,
neutral rights would be respeoled. This principle
of honour ought to be regulated by prudence. It
Would be truly humiliating to our honour, if after
having waged a seven years war, we should be com-
pelled to sit down without having attained the obje&
for which the war was undertaken. While he thought
little of the fanciful notions of honour en tertaiqed by
some, he had a high regard for that sort of honour
which was tempered by prudence—for men most yield
to circumstances, when circumstances would not
yield to them. In faal, such had been our own con-
duet heretofore—we had purchased peace of Algiers
by a tribute—and-we did not resist the Berlin De-
cree, which was a flagrant violation of neutral rights,
because it wOuld have been perfe&ly visionary to'
attempt to compel the French Emperor to repeal it.

With regard to the opinion held by some, that we
ought to go to war in order to preserve our warlike
charaCter, and for fear that a too long continuance
in peace would render us an easy prey to an invad-
ing foe, Mr. S. said,, the history of nations did uot
jus ify it ; nor should he be willing to render this
country miserable now, in order that it might be
happy hereafter.

Mr. S. intreated Gentlemen not to be misled by
the outcries of a few, that the nation was anxious
for war. He referred to the numerous addresses to
Mr. Adams in 1798-9, in which the !mil. s pledg-
ed themselves to go all length in support of war against
France; yet the (act was, that the majority of the
people were then, as they Were now, in favour of
peace ; and these very adtiressors knew it. And it
was undeniable that we had at least 2s great a cause
of war at that time, as we have at present, since, by
the French decrees, an American: vessel was liable
to capture for having a single article of British ma-
nufadure on board. He. considered it by no
means a matter of regret, that we ought not to
go to war for foreign tonvest,for the alar.ent

miserable people.
T-ie contended that it *as highly absurd to talk '-
of going to war two or three years hence ; no na-
tion ought to talk of such a thing until they were. =
prepared for it. That ibis was not our case, wag
' evident from the cireurnstance of our being un.
able to furnish the usual supplies to 'the Indiani •
wi,hout some relaxation in our Non Importation
law. And was it to be supposed that the Bavtish•
would be sleeping while we were making our prepa-:
rations ? Or was it supposed that the possession of
the • fiozen regions of' Canada and Nova Scotia
would beifull compensations for the ruin of our At.--; -
!mile cities ? Let any man look at the numerous
vulnerable points In our vast extent of seaboard, and
then say whether we should not haVe enough tO do to
defend ourselves, instead of invidng foreign coun-
t! ies. Before an army could teach the borders of
Canada, we should be obliged to recal them for self
defence.

Mr. S. belieVed that we could not support the ex-
pense of a War. It
.was very easy indeed to make
our estimates of expenses ; but he knew there was a
very great difference between an estimate and an en-
penditwe. We paid a hundred per cent._more• for
...
every thing that was done .than any other Govern-
ment. What went with
_the money he could not
say ; ,but such was the fad. Where were we. to ob-
tain the money to meet the vast expenses of a war ? '
Our commerce would be -destroyed, and with it. s
_would fall the revenue. ,It was said, we might
bofrow . motley ; but _we could do this no longer --
than we could offer good security to the lenders tor
the payment both of the interest" and,principal.
It was an old-fashioned doctrine, Mr. S. observed;
that standing armies were dangerous to liberty.
He could not account for the extiaordinary changes.
of opinion that had taken place.in any other way,
than by supposing that standing armies would be
composed DOW of different materials from all former
ones : that they would all be patriots. What was
our situation at the close of the revolutionary
war ? Had it not been for the patriotism of one man,
we might al this time have been groaning under a
military despotism. Why was a standing army con-
sidered
so dangerous twelve years ago, and so per-
feetly innocent now ? He could give no other rea-
son for this, than the majority were then out, and
were now in. . ,

We are about, said Mr. S. to declare war against
a nation that is fighting for the liberties of the
world-.--; He felt no obligations to England for the
protection thus afforded to us. A man, in self-de-
fence, might afford prote6lion to another with.out
owing any good will. But he must know little of
the history of mankind, who could believe we
should be s:ife after the downfal of England. It
was the nature of ambition to overwhelin every
nation within its grasp, and then weep that there
was nothing more to conquer. This was an im-
portant consideration with him, and ought to be with
every man. Let any person consider the history of
the British Government; and decide, whether they
were ever driven from their measutes by threats.
No instance of it could be found. It, therefore, we
had no good reason to believe she would relinquish
her pretensions by the conquest of Canada, it would
be silly to undertake it.

As soon as Mr. Sheffey concluded, the House ad-
journed (quarter before four o'clock.)

SATURDAY, JAN 4.

The 25,000 and one Bill has been debated almost
all day. Mr. Rhea opened the wordy campaign of
!he day in a speech of about half an hour. He was
tollowed by Mr. Pickins, a young a ycitmg man from
North Carolina. His Was a set speech ill e9mmit-
ted to memory : but he is supposed to be a man of
considerable talents. Mr. Harper, of New Hamp-
shire, read -and spoke an harangue of about an half
an hour.

He considered 25,000 aS too few; unless, as he
hoped, there should be 59,000 volunteers. Not
only Canada, but Nova Scotia must. be ours, nor
ought we tosutfer•the liability of being annoyed by
the Bahama The St. Lawrence and the
Lakes will be another Baltic, north of which may
be supposed a population of four millions of inhal
bitants. To him it had always appeared that
the Great Author of Nature intended our Govern-
, ment should extend to the Golph of Mexico on
the Swan), and to the regions of eternal Wst-(or
Almighty Alack t:'rost, as Ballow would say), on the
North. He. contvadiEled TrOup, who, some days
ago, asserted that ten thousand Bt nisi] soldiets could
March from Quebec to Boston in spite of any effbrt
to prevent it : the army, that conquered at Auster
lit could net, he said, march through New Eng-
land..

Next rose Mr. WwoEay (or Squire Widgery);
he spoke about three-fourths of an hour, and al-
forded' the House mud) divtrsiou.

AU these were in favour of the bill and of war.•
it. was now atter three o'clock, and a motion was
maile to adjourn, but lost.

Mr. MAcUN spoka iibout pppasi.

•.
tio to the Bill as it stonl, and in oivosFtiod to Its
immediate tiassage. The Hornet, he said, had gone
to.Fngland with th. Presicknt's .Nressage and the
Report of the Commirtve of Foreign Relations
should these have rio effeet On the Br)tiih Ministry,
he feared that war wai inevitable.
Mr. STANF6II-13 spoke some time against the Bill.
He had occasion tolsiceak of the fUle-lately'_establish-
d, respecting the preliOnS question, which he called_
a Gag Law, of the same character with the Seditidn;
Act. A Motion was now made by Mr. QUINCY '
to adjourn, and lost. Mr. STANVORD cyntintied
Speaking a little while; when Mr. Flsnr.A'y moved
that t'he House adjourn, which motion was carried.
a little after sun-do un.

MONDAY, JAN. 6.
The. House again resumed the consideration of
the Bill for raising an adjitional army.
Mr. STANFORD spoke against the. Bill, and against
War measures generally. He insisted that the Unit-
ed States had as good if not better cause of war with
FranCe in 1798—g, than we had noi.v with Eng-
land• As to the QpiDion that the fears entertain-
Ft that time of a French invasion were merely

visionary, he observed, that there was good authority
• for believing that,the. ExecutiVe Direcloty did medi-
• tate such a project. The former French decrees
were as flagrant violations of neutral rights as the
Present Britith Orders in Council ; and the depreda-
tions under those decrees even exceeded Itie captures
Under the lei ter. Yet the nation was now called
upon to fight for honour, although the minority in
Congress were violently opposed to it then. They
thought this do4trine unwise, because honor would as
tnuch compel a nation to go to war for the capture of
elle vessel as of any other number; but the great bchly
of Arnericatrpeople Were in favour of peace :—with
regard to impressment, that was never consider-,
ed a sot-lir:lent cause of war under any former ad-
Riinistration. A great proportion of the men im-
Pressed werel3ritish subje&ts,sorne of whom had never
eLtii the United States. To-sliew that this was the
• I'l6, he recd an extra4l from an official document
..i
presented to Congress' last year.—He deprecated the
Pnliey of goingto war for ,ft reign conquest. 'lt was
this that had deluged Europe its blood. He did not
• doubt our ability to conquer the Canadas-; but he did
1101 believe that this would accomplish our (abject.—
In Let, he believed that the. Cananas had hitherto
Preserved us at peace—for Great Britakti knew it was
in our power to take them; and it Was this cOnvic-
clioll that had kept her peaceable under our embar7
Ines and non-intercourses. He hoped we should
never go to war, except to resist invasion.
. -. Mr. BLACKLEDGE made some reotht ks relative to
what had (alien from Mr. Stanford on the subject
t.:f the projected invasion of this 'country by the
lerench Directory.
Mr. STANFORD said, he had nothing to retract.
Ire could prove that such a project was in content-
Ilation, and that such a person had been asked by a
member of the French Dir,•ctoty whether the Demo-
crats in this country would join them, whts possessing '
'a Republican heart; immediately answered no, no,
1/°, nobody will join you. Mr. S. repeated that he
ieth.oeuld prove this tact, but he did not feel himself at
ttY to mention his authority —it was one, how-
ever, entitled to lull credit. He appealed to,.
Mr..ltA.Nooepn, who confirmed Mr. Stanford's
I,aternent—and added, that it --Mr. Si's speech
oulci go before the public unmutilated, it was
Possible the evidence alluded to would be produced.
abMr• Stow also spoke against the Bilt. We were
out to fight for the proteelion of ships, he ob-
„'rect, while the ship owners themselves wereop-
i'l°l3ed to going to war. Should we "embark in.
ls war, he scarcely knew whether he should wish 1
t success or not—for, if successful, it would tempt
il
ts t° go . to war on every occasion : and if unsuc-
"si'l•;Tfol, we should be disgraced for ever.
'"rr• BOYD al.() opposed the Bill.
tb-I‘. Ir. WILLIAMS supported,' it, although it was
wJeaionahle in some of its details :t he should vote
it because he considered it the first step to a war
• 11;'(1 11 Great Britain. He contended that no stone
stl. been left unturned -to settle our differences
1 tleabl
th y witer. e at some
C'it on the numerous H
aggressionscommente ofd the British
. ' i overt- tlinen-,
I which he said aught no longer to be
1 11-Ihnitted to.
vaAfter a variety of other remarks, the question
slttided b'y yeas 94, nays 34 —Majot ity 60.
TUESDAY, JAN. 7.
I\itir. BARON, flOnl the Committee of -Ways and
t Batts, reported a Bill making an appropriation for
t:Pences utcident/ to 'the companies of mounted
tigers, during the year 1812. Referred to a Com-
'Wee of tb.e -whole to-moriow.
-.
tCZr. NEWTON obseived, that the Committee of
i tnrnerce and Alanufactures had been for sonic
preo" hesitating what report to make on the various
I ~ tnions of merchants, praying permission to itn-
i9rt Binish goods purchased previously to the 2d of
tl,ebr"ntoa,y. The delay of the Committee has been
„.g oa •
wish to ascertain the course that Con-
,
. i
1 r:_ess would pursue. And as the National- Legis-
w-t!ure had determined to assume a manly attitude
8,1.11' regaid to Great Britain, the Committee, be
;tki, instiucted him to report a Bill for the relief
;,e petitioners. Mr. N. accordingly reported a
ww, tuthotising the-inthortaiioi-COT certain goods,
atares, and metchandize, under certain 'circuna-
,
,ances, from Great" Britain, ber.colonies, and de-
''Nillencies. The Bill was referred to a committee
- i Of the whole on Friday:
Whole,
House went into the Committee of the
, b.;bie, Mr. BRECKENRIDGE in the Chair, on the
,11;,11_ making provisiou for the purchase- ord-
. nce, ordnance stores,, camp equipage, and small
~-..._,
[ e"s• The Bill was agreed to; and ordered to be
,figrossed for a third reading. [lt appropriates
1 ',4')0n,000 dollars for the purpoSe.]

kiG4 imkAs'oM,

SPECIAL COMMISSION; FIORSENIONCER-LANE,

WEDNESDAY, FEU. 12.

The Court resumed their proceedings under the
Special Commission this morning, at ten o'clock.—
An entire fresh Jury was impannelled, which con-
sisted of the following Gentlemen, viz.

Edw. Matter, Esq.: it. Dallet, farmer.
Wtm Bragg, ship-builder. I. Phillips, ironmonger.
R. Edw. Williams, Esq. John Keely, Gent.
G. Ives, liquor-inerchant. lames Dredge, Gent.
Henry Gilbert, grocer. Win. Coward, Esq.
john Fentanon, builder: William Johnson, Esq. -
. Charles Bird was put to the Bar, divested of his
irons.—The overt-aEts of treason charged against
this"prisoner were simply, that being a liege subjea
of the King of Great Britain, he illegally-and treitor-
ously entered the French service, in the Isle of
.France; and continued therein for six months, and
that he wore the uniform of a French soldier.

The circurustulCeS of the case were shortly stated
to the Jury by the Attorney-General, when the fol-
lowing witnesses were called

John Lowe stated, that he was a—seaman, along
with the prisoner, on bnard the Iphigenia frigate,
at the tiine she was captured and carried into the
Isle of Fiance by a super for French force. He had
heard the prisoner frequently say he was an Irish-
man, and often heard him speak the Irish language
to his countrymen on board the ship., Shortly after
he crew had been landed as prisoners of war, the
prisoner had a quarrel with some of his countrymen,
with whom he wanted to fight. He was, however,
prevented, and then began to upbraid them for
their cowardice, saying,that " they were a parCel
of cowardly rascals, and that there were enough of
them to fight the whole people of the island." The
prisoner then ran out of the prison, and witness did
not see him until abont six weeks afterwards at Port
'Louis, where he met hint in the streets at liberty,
but apparently very ill—witness himself being
guarded by a FrenCh cent nel, im..l going with some
money to another prison, from Captains Lambert
and Curtis, to relieve the prisoners therein confined.
The prisoner was not then dressed in a French uni-
form, but, in about six or eight days atter*ards, he
met him again as he Was going upon the same et -
rand, dressed in the French cannoneer's uniform, a
sword by his side-, and a French na,ional cockade in
his cap. lie saw him frequently afterward.; in the
same unitorni, opposite the prison gate, and on one
occasion he put his hand to the hilt of his sword, as
he thought, in a menacing winner, whilst the
Kri-
tish•Otiicers were playing b.,11 in the cool I of the
prison.; but he acknowledged that the prisoner ap-
peared to be in a state of intoxication

Thomas Westlake, another seaman of the Iphi-
genia, proved tirit he heard the prisoner say, he was
a native of Ireland, and was brought up a tailor.—
He saw the priSoner at large in a French uniform,
and on one occasio:i said, jeeringly, to the witness,
who was in prison, " that it would be better for him
to be on board st►ip baking the Captain's bread than
remain in prison," but assured him that he would
remain where he was for some time. On his cross-
examination he-sad he ria,t Dever any serious quar-
rel ith the prisoner, but he had charged him with
stealing some of Captain Lambert's property..
Elitabeth Westlake, wile of the last witness, and
who was a prisoner also in the Isle of France, stated,
that before the Iphigenia struck 'o the French ship
of war, :he prisoner said he hoped they would be
taken, and when she did actually strike her colours,
he observed, that he was very glad, and that he
would go into the French service. The wi:ness wits
suffered to go to market, at Port Louis, guarded by.
a centinel, and about five or six weeks after the
Iphigenia surrendered, she met the prisoner in the
market, dressed as a French soldier. She met him
again afterwards, and drank .along with, him, and
another woman, and that she pad for the liquor
they had had. On this occasion he jeered her about
her impiisonment, and said she was. not so fast as
she should be. He distinctly told her then that he
was in the French service, upon which she remark,
that there was hemp spinning for. him and many
more.

On her cross-examination, she admitted that she
had some difference with the prisoner about some
property of Capt. Lambert, which she saw him take,
but denied that she had ever suffered the prisoner to
take any liberties with her.
C iptain Lambert, of the Iphigenia, statedl thit
when his ship was taken, 'he exhorted all his crew
to avoid following the example of many of their
countrymen, in traitorously deserting to the French
service. He did not take par Ocular, notice th:it the
prisoner was one of the persons present. He fre-
quently saw the prisoner, after he was liberated, in
the French uniform.

Captain Curtis, of the Magicienne, also frequent-
ly saw the prisoner in a French uniform he ac-
knowledged that he had frequently saluted him and
other office's, but he was inclined to think the re-
sped he had shewn was insincere.
The case fur the Crown being closed, the prisoner
was asked
,if he had any thing to say in his defence.
Upon which he entered into a detail of the circum-
stances of his case, endeavouring to impress upon
the Court and Jury a belief that he was induced to
put on the French uniform, nut from disloyal mo-
tives, but ,with a view of escaping from the island,
and also of endeavOuring to administer to the com-
forts of his counirymen in captivity. - He attributed
to the female v. ituess examined, malicious motives
for the evidence she had given) and mote particular-
ly her assertion, that he had robbed his Command-
ing Officer, in consequence of his having discovered
her in au improper situm- ion with a French Officer.
He put it to the judgment of the Court, whether a
man, who had fought and
,bled in the 'service of his
country, whose father was an old veteran soldier of
forty years service in the army, and two of whose
brothers were now at this moment serving as offi-
cers in defence of their country—No.9ld desert that
King and Country to whom he owed allegiance
from duty and affection. He left them
.to judge of
his conduct from the circumstances .of his rewriting
home to take his trial, and indignantly rejecting the
offer of going to Old France, when made to him at
the time the island capitulated.
Martin Ryan, a seaman' in his Majesty's service,
who was a prisbner in the Isle of France, deposed
to the humane and benevolent conduct of the pri-
soner to his countrymen in prison, which he was
enabled to do bywbeing at large. Witness -had ten-
dered him,money, not knowing what' countryman
be was at the tithe, but he rejeded it 'with dis..

, . .
i . .
n
iliiii; iiying, that he required o reward for relieit-
og his tellow creatures. He stated emphatically,‘
that the prisOnerdid all in hiS peWei to dissuide
the English prisoners froni deserting to the French
cause.

Lieutenant Grimes, of the iphigenia said, that
the prisoner was always a willing hard working
man, and ever desirous of satisfying his officers.
Mr. BROUGHAM then addressed tip! Jury upon
the evidence, with considerable eloquence ; and
after a reply from the ATTORNEY-GENTRViL, Mr.
Justice Le BLANC summed up the evidence with
suitable
,Cotnments.

The Jury having then retired, after an absence
of half an hour, returned with a verdiet of-7-ac-
QuITT4L.

During their absence a new Jury was sworn, and
John Quigley, another of the prisoners, was put to
the. blr.

, The ATTORNEY-GENERAL, in opening, the case,
observed, that the charge against this prisoner was
nearly similar to that preferred against the Men al-
ready tried. He felt it his duty, hOwever, to state,
that there were circumstances in his condua, sub-
sequent to his• entering into the .Frenolt service,
Which', although they would not entitle him to a
verdict of acquittal, might operate in another place
in his favour. He then •proceeded to call his wit-
nesses to support the charge.
Michael M'Nabb, a seaman belonging to the Ma,
gicienne, Was a shipmate of the pisoner's, and. fre-
quently heard him say he was an Irishman.
John Baker and Charles Caswell were ship-
Mates of the prisoner's. on board the Iphigenia.—
They heard him say he was an Irishman, were with
him taken prisoners into the Isle of
.France, and
subsequently saw him, opposite their prison in a
a French uniform.

John Low, StewaNrd of the Inhigenia, saw the
prisoner dressed in the French uniform, in the I,le
of„Foance. He addressed him, and said, " John,
I am astonished to see you in that dress;" upon
which the prisoner cried, and said, he was v_ery sorry
for it himself, but that he had gone into the F 4 ench
service io.the--hope of getting a woman named Mar-
garet Coombe to live with him.. He finally declared
his intention to escape as soon. as he could. Wit-
ness frequently met the prisoner afterwards, and on
every occasinn he exptesscd his .-iregret for his
offence, and. at one time asked witness to carry
a letter to hiS Captain (Captain Lambert). This,
however, witness declined doing, as- he had been
charged,by the Captaill to received no. messages
(ions persons in French uniforms. Witness bore
testimony to the former good charmer of the pri-
soner.

Captain Lambert deposed; that he saw the pri-
soner with others of his crew, in French uniforms.
While the ptisoner was in his 'ship, he
„considered
him an expert seaman, and his conduct was uni.
formly coired.
Lieutenant. Grimes certified also, that he was art
excellent seaman, and always the first to fly to his
duty where his services were wanting on desperate
occasions, cutting out or otherwise.

Captain .11avi; and Captain Willoughby also
bore iestimooy to the excellence of his former cha-
racter.

Mr. BROUGHAM, in. commenting on the evi-
dence, exhorted the Jury to consider that the pri-
soner, although he appeared in a French uniform,
had assumed that disguise; not with the intention
of aiding and abetting the enemy, but for another
purpose, which his own confession had disclosed.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL, in reply, remarked,
that if such pretexts wese once admitted, the con-
sequences would be truly dreadful, as every man
who felt disposed to aeit in defiance of his alle-
giance, would plead precisely the same excuse.
The LORD CHIEF BARON lia‘'ing summed up the
evidence, the Jury found the prisoner
Death ;—but strongly recommended him to

Adjoutned at half-past fire till to-morrow (this
day).

MANSION•HousE.--Yes'erday Thomas - JaFreys
was charged before the LORD MAYOR with having
married a second wife, his first being still living.—
The ptisoner was charged by the Officers of the
•Parish he belongs to, they complaining that he hart
deserted 'this first wife with two children, 'who-had
become chargeable to them ; that since that, a se-
cond wife with a child, had claimed the same privi-
lege; that they got the certificates of both :mar-
riages from the parishes where the ceremonies were
performed, and both the wives attended. The pri-
soner did not deny his guilt : he wished to be sent
to sva, but the officers said the parish was deter-
mined to prosecute him, as an example to others.
He was accordingly• fully committed to take his
trial.

FAMILY ROBBERY.-A most extraordinary bur-
glary has recently been perpetrated in one of the
home counties. In the dead of night, a gang of
ruffians brake into the seat of an elderly Gentleman
of considerabie consequence, and stripped it of cash,
plate, and die Lady's jewels, to a very large amount.
Suspicion falling upon a fellow of desperive charac-
ter, he was apprehended, and warrants were issued
for securing others ; but on the examination of the
,former, it appeared that the Gentleman's n son
had leagued himself on this occasion with the band
robbers, and, in consequence of, this di,covery,
the warrants are said to have been recalled, in order
to prevent any farther disclosure of this singular
transaction.

SurclDE.--7Late on Tuesday night, or early yes-
terd.►y morning,. Mr., Marshal, one of the King's
Yeomen of Guard, put a period to his existence,
by hanging himself io the King's Guard, Chamber,
in St. James's Palace. It was his turn to do the
duty of sleeping in the Guard Room on Tuesday
night. He entered• the Guard Room at 9 o'clock,.
o❑ that duty. He has been for, several years, past
in a low desponding way, bordering, on insanity,
and he discovered evident symptoms of insanity (in
Tuesday afternoon, so much so, that one of his
brethren -did some of hisAnty for him.
Yesterday afternoon an Inquest was held at •the
Three Tuns public-house, Cross-street, Hatton-
garden, on the body of Mr. Archer, watch-maker,
in Kirby-street, Hatton-garden, who was bin-tied
almost to a cinder, by the premises taking fire on
Monday afternoon last. He was very far ad-
vanceJ in years. and sick in beat the time of the
accient. Ile Jury returned a vtirdia of Axiden-
ial Death.

MIPERI7IL PAIILI/131EN2.

ROUSE OF COMMONS,
WEDNESDAY, FEB. 1 fe.

POPULATION OF IRELAND.

Sir S. Nsweorri. brought in a Bill to ascertain the
Population of Ireland. Read a first time; and or-
dered to be read a second time on Monday.
WAVY ES"! IMATES:
Mr. CitokEtt presented the Ordinary EstiMates of
the Navy.

Ott the of Mr. Yoxiiti-, CopieS were or-
dered to be laid before the Honseot the reports that
had been made to the Admiralty reipecting.the pro-
posed Breakwater in l'lyinuuth Soun,!, and an bum-
ble address was ordered to be presented to his
Royal Highness the Prince Regent, praying, that
hiS Royal Highness Would be graciously pleased to
'Cause the proper officers to lay before the House
the Order in Cntincil of the 22d June, iBl 1, on
that subjeet.t

Mr. WpiTtaE.o was desitOus of having die
minutes of Mr. Bentham, relative to the Breakwa-
ter, produced.
Mr. Yo k Obierved, that those minutes had
been sent by the Navy Board to the Admiralty, out
that nut being fornial in their shape, they h id been,
returned, and had not again been sent. He shotld
dot object to any Motion which the Hon. Gentle.
man Might himself think prdper to make for their
production, although in the dischargee of his
duty, he did not think it expedient himself to make
any tnutiod on the subied.
Mr-. WHITBREAD then moved, and it was order-
ed, that there be laid before the House copies of all
communications made by the NoVy Board to the
Admiralty At Minutes by Mr. Bentham, on the
subject of the proposed Breakwater in Plymouth
Sound.

The papers Ordered on the motion of Mr. Yotu
were presented by Mr. CROKEIt.

Mr. YORKE then gave notice, that he would move
the Navy Estimates on Friday se'nnight.

LEEWARD ISLAND DUTIES.

Mr. CREEVER gave notice, that to-morrow se'n-
night he would submit to the House a proposition
on the subject of the four and a half per cent. duties:

On the Motion of Sir J. NE wPoaT, a copy of the
case, and of the opinion of the Attorney-General of
Ireland, dated March la, 1811, respecting the
warehousing of Martinique sugar, was ordered to
be laid before the House; and on the motion of
Mr. W. FLTZ GER A LD, a copy of such proceedings
as had been taken on the subjedt'since the Ist May,
1811.