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41MERIC IX .r.4II'4KS. - . . .
' WHITEHALL; MAY 23, 1814.
; *reels! .
His Royal Highness the Pelmet Rtottre bath been pleased,
CHALLINGI ' ili the name and on thafisebalf of his MAJLEYY, to grant to Rear-
tiETWEEN THE AMERICAN AND BRITISH tRIGATES Admiral Fa est AN r Lai his Majesty's royal licence and permission
" United States ship United States; to wear the insignia o a Commander of the Imperial Military
Order of Maria Theresa, conferred on 'hint by the Eni,peror of 1
• New Landon Jan
* Jan 17' 1814.,A *AUSTRIA; and permission to the following Officers to wear the
a Ste--Having been informed by Nicholas Mogan, the Mae- insignia of a Knight of the same Order, alpo conferred on them
ter of a sloop recently captured by his Britannic Majesty's ship by the Emperor of Ausr ate :—Cmeares ROWLEY, Esq. late
I 1 rspdymion, ;sow lying before this port, that whilst he Was on Captain of his
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board the Ramilies, and in your hearing, Captain Hope of the
Endynnen did ask him, whether the frigate United States would late Captain of his Majesty's ship Bacchante ; and-Feterex
MORESBY, Esq. Commander of his Majesty's sloop Wesel*.
• pot avoid an action ? He further states, that he beard you de • ' '
dare it to be your wish that the United States ship Macedonian MILITARY PROMOTIONS.
should Live a megting with his Britannic Majesty's ship Statira, • WAR-OFFICE, MAY 24..
that you would furnish 'men and give room for such meeting, ed Regiment of Foot Guards—Brevet-Major 'Thomas Gills to
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I • but that you would not permit the eisallengeT to come from be Captain of a Compaity and Lieutenant-Colonel, without
your side. purchase.
" '1 he Endymion, I am informed, carries 24-pounders and 9th Regiment of Foot—Captain P. W. Lambert to be Major,
mounts 50 guns in all; thin ship also carries 24-pounders and without purchase; Lieutenant M. Armstrong to be Captain
mounts 48 guns in ail, besides a HS-pound carronade, a boat gun. of a Company, without purchase.
" The Statira mounts 50, the Maeedonian.47, metatthe same, 29th Ditto—Lieutenant Henry Birmingham to be Captain of a
t so that the force on both sides is as nearly equal as we could ex- Company, withour putcbase.
I pect to find. . 30th Ditto—Captain Thontas Roberts to be Major, without pur-
"lf Mr. Morass's instemeet be correct; it is evident Captains chase; lieutenant Robert Howard to be Captain of
&Coal-
-1 'Her and Stackpole fiaie the laudable desire of engaging with• pan.y,, vice Nunn, deceased; Ensign William Sullivan to be
their ships, the United States and Macedonian. . We, Sir, are Lieutenant, without purchase.
ready and equally desirous fur such meeting forthwith. 39d Ditto—Brevet-Major Terence M'Mahon to be Major, with-
" 'The only difficulty that appears to be in the way, is from , out purchase. ' •
whom the formal invitation is to come. If, Sir, you admit Mo- 61st Ditto—Lieutenant Lewis Mordaunt to be Captain of a Com-
ran's statement to be correct, the difficulty will be removed, and pany, without purchase.
you will be pleased to consider this as an invitation; at the same
time we beg you will assure captains Hope and Stackpole, that - BREVET. 4
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To be Lientenant.Coloneh in the Army.
nu personal feeling towards them induces me to make.thisncem- Brevet-Major T. M'Mabon, of the 53d Foot. - I C..
rnunication ;. they are solicitous 'to add to 'the renoevn of their Major Alexander Share, on the isalf•pae of the 16th cliarebtffi
country—we honour their motives. . . Battalion.
" Captain Pddle, who will have the honour to deliver you Major Samuel Taylor Popham, of the 34th Foot.
this, is authorised, on our part, to make any arrangements which Major Henry Roberts of tbe.3Zt Foot, •
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way be thought necessary.—l have the honour to be, Sir, Major Colquhoun Grant, °tette 1 lth Foot.
" Very respectfully, your most obedient servant, Major Thomas W. Rrothertion, of the 14th Light Dragnoni:
(Signed) " S•rteute Decer ot." • Major Thomas Lightfoot, of the 43th FOot.
66 To Commodore Sir Thomas Masterman Hardy, Bart. &c." . . To be Majors in the Army. . .
• "His Majesty's ehip Statira, off
.New London, Jan. 17. Captain peter Ryves Hawker, 14, the 30th Foot.
-Captain Thomas Cells, of the 3d Regiment of Foot Guards.'
IL Sia—Captain Sir Thomas Masterman Hardy, Bart. end Captain Hector M'Laloe, of the 57th Foot.
Commodore off New London, his this atterrmion handed to me Captain Robert M. Cairns; of the. Royal Artillery. •
'a letter from you, expressing a desire that the United States ship . Captain Henry D. Loftus, of the 9th Foot. . • .
Macedonian, commanded by Captain Jones, should meet his Ma- To In Liedtenaot-Colonel on the Continent of Europe oak. .
jesty's ship Stairs, under. 'my command; and th die United 'Major Albert Stinger, of the Regiment of Roll.
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states ship United States, bearing your broad pendant, would MEMORANDUM. 1
embrace the tame opportunity of. meeting the Einlyrnion, cons- Ensign MiKenzie of the Bth West India Regiment, who way
rnanded by Captain Hope. lh the event of tir Thomas Hardy's superseded, as Sated huh. Gazette of Ist March last, Is reit
permitting our joint acceptation of this rendezvous, I, of 'course, stated in his Tank.
trust be the Senior Officer; but, in the intetim, I shall continue •
my reply to your obliging letter, as to die fisture acts of his Ma- memetas RETURNED 7'..i0 SERVE INists nester eelLLl_Assamv.
County of Rutland—etr Gerard Noel Noel, Bart. n the Toon%
jesty's ship 1 have the honour to command.
"It will afford her Captain, Officers and ,crew, the greatest of Charles Noel Noel, Esq. who has accepted the Chiltern
Hundreds.
pleasure to Meet Captain Jones in the Officer,
10-morrow,
text day, or whenever such a meeting mss better suit his per Borough of Newark upon Trent—George Ilay Dawkins Pen-
Esq. .
pure; let him only be pleased to appoint the day and place—say, nant,
c hem the room of Sir Stapleton
theCoton, Bart. now,
- ale or ten leagues' south of Montuue Point, or furthet, if he Baron one rmere. [ For Bankrupts see last page.]
- pleases. My only object for selecting this distance from the
ehore, is to avoid any interruption; little, I think, can be appre. PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS .
!tended, as all the Captains eammauding frigates, excephone‘in . •
titese seas, are junior to me, and in the event of chance or ad- ---
dent,lneeting tarn, I will hoist a flag of truce, pledging the word HOUSE OF LORDS, MAY es.
...a honour of a British Officer (further I cannot offer) to keep Their Lordships met at Cause-day hour, and Counsel were
the truce flying until the Matetionian is out of sight; arid in the heard respecting the undermeetiuned Appeals :
-event of a junior officer appearing, the same guarautee of safety
, :
sail' be kept flying until 1 eau detach hint. ' Andrew v. Murdoch—Judgment deferred. Scott v. Mackin-
tosh—the final decision epees which was also postponed. Red..'
" In accepting this invitation, Sir, it is net to vaunt err in .INi'
denten v. Reddisigton--Codneel were bevel in part : to proceed
most trifling degree to enhance my own professional!diaracter,'
ortake froth what is 'so justly due to Captain loses. . Although again in-nlereew- - • ... -
1 lave been twice mortified in being obliged to retreat, on the An Account of the Resldentendldon-resident -Incumbents and
26th and 28th of August, lel3, by six American men of war, Cunt- sin the differeut l'arishea in England and Wales, was pre-
aad for twelve weeks together cruizing alone, it bas never fallen Tented by Dr. Clarke, from the Privy Council Office, pursuant
to the Statira'S lot to meet one singly. - to an Address of their Lordships to the Prince Regent, and or-
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The honour of. anysKieg, the defence of my country, en- dered to be printed:
gagedin a just and unprovoked 'war, added to the glory of the The consideration of-Best's Diioree Bill being resumed, Coun-
Britigh flag, is all I have in view. eel were heard in suppsrt of the same, and Evidence appeared
-" I perceive a statement in your letter oldie .comparitive at the Bar ;.and the Judgment. in the: Court belts*, awarding
fewest Of the two ships, and is I fear you have been led into Kier, £2OOO damages to the petitioner, Thomas Best, Esq. and the
I ahall take ibis opportunity to say, the Statira carries oaly forty!. fact of Lady Emily's adulterous 'intercourse 'With —...- ith the late
f • iis. guns, instead of fifty, 'with two little hoarsens, of more Henry, Esq. liting duly prove{, . the Bill was, on the motion of
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.in exercising the mete than any efLet they might have in lord KENYON, 11:4 a2d time„.and Committed for to-morrow.
the Lour of battle; wihotit any ex .ernal finery to recommend
lord KENYON, in reference to the Poors I.aws Improve-
by , she is simply a British man of war of her class, nevertheless,
anent all then before their Lordships, observed, that a Commit-
s 'mute ear and' equal match in shift and guns may not soon
tee of the other House bad made a Report on the subject some
• recur. In numbers of men lam aware of having a superiority to time since; and moved that a message be sent to the COMMOndi
ePpose. All f request is, that both ships may quickly meet. requesting that a dopy aal die satissemay be communicated to their
4' Having received your cominunicatiort .by the Itiud. of Sir
Lordshies —Ordered.' . .
'Thomas 141. Hardy, I shah convey sty reply through the same • '
The Additional Customs Doti, the American TM*, the Teak
channel, requeeung you Willie so good as to hand it to the Cap-
taln of the Macedonian. • WOOd Importation Hair; wild sine or twq other Bills, passed
" I remain, sir, with every consideration, through Committees' of ;the whole House, and were reported
" Your obedient bumble servant, Noe,* 4 I as:. withoutany ameuchneete. . . .
" To Commodore Decatur,•&e. N. London." CORN exeoftTeertote amt.
This Bill was brought up from the Commons by Sir Hauer
Then follows a letter.from Sir Thomas Hardy to PAANILL, and forthwith reed a first time; as were several pri-
Commodore Decatur, giving the most willing per- vote Bills, presented by Mr. Lesceetes, Mr. C. DUNDAS, and
mission to Captain Stackpole, of the Statira,
.to meet. other Members. .
the Islacedonian. But, contrary to the wishes of Cap- The Earl of LAUDERDAI.E moved the-printing of the Corr
fain Hope, of theiEndynii
' Expertation Bill, which was accordingly ordered; anti alluding
on, Sir Thomassadds, that to the other Bill before the Commons on the came subject, stir
be mustdecline the ievitation for the Endyntion, as- getted the propriety of not reading the Bilftben brought up a
she is 200 [Oll6 less than the . United States, carries second time, until• the whole measure should be before tile House
only SG guns On her main deck, and 32113. carronades, The Irish Ecclesiastical Courts Bill was reads third time ant
whilst the United States has $0 guns on •bar pain imbed- - .
deck, and 321 b. carronades. " - -
1 • • DUSDAS'S DIVORCE BILL.
, Sir Thomas Hardy guarantees,' 66 shoula success s The LORD CHANCELLOR called the atten.
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attend the Macedonian against the Statira,. her_pro- tion of their Lordshipsto this pending Bill, respecting
seeding to any port to the eastward of this anchorage which those requisites for warranting the House tt
(Off New London) ; and he proposes the same from Proceed to its consideration, via. the decision of the
Commodore Decatur, for the Statira to proceed to Ecclesiastical Court for a Divorce a mensa et tlsoro, ant
4ermuda." , the judgment i-sf the C l urt below respecting dAmage!
were before their Lordships. But in this-particular
Commodore Decatur. in his reply, declines a meet- case it appeared, the .buiy,. Mrs. Dundas, had pre
ing between the Statira and Islac:donian, as his aqua- sented a Petition to the House, in reference to het
• drun is under sailing orders from Government, and appeal from the sentence of the Ecclesiastical Cour
be feels bound to put to sea the first favourable .op-
to a superior one of similar jurisdiction, for the pur
portonity." He does not consider the guarantee pose of staying
proceedings with.respect to the Balm
against recarnre, should the , Jylacedonian prove suc• that ground. A proceeding of that kind may, a
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cessin art
l, satutfact•oy.
may not, be calculated for purposes of undue delay
Sir Thomas Hardy answers shortly-that he will and therefore worthy of particular investigation; bu
glie-everY guaraitge, in h&1194,e! in case. of
~.the 1!1 a• in case of the former, one important consideratio
zfdonian's tutees,. - • . • - was worthy tile peculiar attention of their Lordships
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The subjoined is given in one of the Anterisso Pa' naively, that in a protracted interval, the death o
pers as a correct list of the number of prizes made by tome of the Petitioner's witnesses, necessary to.cstab
United States' frigates and privateers, since the corn- lish his case at their Lordships' bar, may deprive bin
attencement of sthe war : of the benefit of their viva vote evidence. With 're
• roar bundred and eighty-five English vessels arrived within the • ference to that contingency. it should, he thought, b
United States. - a- point for their Lordships' consideration, whethe
One bundred and fifty-six English vessels destroyed; they should ftot proceed without delay to the hearin.
Seven English King's Packets; six of which have arrived with- of those witnesses, which would preclude the potsi
in the United Statese-sThe other was re:listened. • , bility of the disadvantage accruing to the petitions
Sixty-five American vessels recaptured and arrived within the to which he-alluded. He would, therefore, propos
Vatted States. •' • • the proceeding, so far, iu the consideration of the Bil
Thine-Eve American vessels, with British licences, arrived
within the United States.-021awk Islaxd 11epositery.). • • OA an early day.
' • NORFOLK, MARCH IS. Earl STANHOPE expressed his coincidence i
The enemy hive lately placed a buoy on the Middle what the Noble and Learned Lord had so clearly an
. properly stated. There was anothei bonsideratioi
pround, anothez•On the Horse-shoe, and a third on . which
miy be well attended to, viz. there were, ace();
Willoughby"s Point. it is believed they intend shortly ding to the Noble Lord's statement on a former eves
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to come into Hampton Reads: " Orders are said to ing, no fewer than Four of these Ecclesiastical Court
have been received irom•England; directing that no i • •
and r these were to be gone- through in the way t
more 'American prisonert are to be sent on shore,
i appeal, it was impossible to say where the proceeding
t without an equal number of British prisoners being would' •
end. He thought thqie in question were is
• sent off in exchange. - •
,stituted for, the pittposes of relay only.:
NEw 1.014D0y, MARCH itt. . • The Earl of LAUDERDALE briefly alluded 1
The many 's * blockading squadron are reinforced the allegationAliatsoniessivenisttetwould be brougl
1 • at-
by the additiiion of ttrii frigates ; otie.ortrluskarrived; forward in tam cafe. '' - -.- . .
Off the harbour last Friday, the other ibii morning. No particular order wesnadslempon the iiccaajors,s
More arc expected, as it is reported there has a num- The private Bills'upon tbs table were respective]
her been sees off Nook wand within a few days. forwarded, and the Douse ndjoatteed till toinorrow
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