The Statesman.
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its forthtr blessing, in turning the mis..ri
nation from theiverrors—restoring to, of
country a speedy peace, commerce, and
-..-401ys Of federal prosperity ; and make
''hnetitil in inspiring our Sister States, whose
**bpi:oool4lg, with energy and patriotism to
~fte'the esani pies set them.—Light beoins the
follows the return of votes fromr
Siltie•tt give a net peace gain of 5300.1
The above, says Coe Ce Wind, are ptinci
.
illuthentit sources, and will, we think,
agree with the returns.
. u Dover, A,
DiA u Stu,—The following are col
dispatches received, the one at three, the
o'c!oekEthis morning, by Government,
Daiisi commanding at Lewistown. You
.will,. to
. doubt, give them immediate publieity.
BLACIP

. . " Head-quarters at bewi,, April 6. 1613.
" This evening•the Bill:lidera and two
small yowls came close into Lewis, and commented
an attack by tiring several thirty-two pound shot
into the torn, which we have picked up, after wbich
a flag was suit, to which the follewing reply was
returned
" 6 Si N—ln.reply to the renewal of your demand
w►th the addition for a supply of water I have
to inform you, that neither can be complied'with.=
you must be sensible of, therefore I must
insist the attack on the inhabitants of this towp Is
wanton and cruel.—l hive the hodeur to be, &c.
" ' S. B. DAVIS, Col.-Come "

" Hend-quart:rv, [owl% April 6, 1813. .•
7" SlR,—Since the reply to Commodore Beres-
ford's letters, which 1 communicated to you by ex-
press, I received the follo*ing about five o'clock:—Relvitlera, off the village of tA:ttiS„
:Cut,—.-No dishonour can be attached in comply-
ing ivith"the detniiid of Sir John Boresford to Lewis,
in consideration of his superior force:
• " [must therefore consider your refusal to supply
the squadron with water and the cattle the neighbour-
• hood affords, most cruel upon your part to its 'Oh-
thugs ; I grieve for the distress the women and chil-
dren are reduced to by your conduct, and earnestly.
desire they may be immediately removed.-1 have the
honour, Arc.
" H. BYRON, Captain.
," N. B. The cattle will be honourably paid for.
• 6. 1..• S. 11. Davis, Colonel Cocomanuanf."
,"ro which I have returned the following reply
That Col. Davis is a gallant man has
ereakty taken care of the ladies.'
" 'rite attack immediately commenced, and con-.
tinued near 10 o'clock, the fire from our battery
silenced one of their most dangerous gun-boats,
whist which I directed the fire from our 18-pounder,
for ‘vhich-1 request you will immediately send me a
supply of shot. and powder. They have not suc-
ceeded with their bombs in reaching the town, and
the ctiniage from. their 32-pounders and canister
cannot be ascertained till day light,
" I hope, Sir, in this affair, you will find the ho-
nour of the state has not been tarnished. I hare the
honour to be, &c.

" N. B. While writing the above, the enemy has
recommenced firing.
Jineph Ila-lett.

S.B. DAVIS, Col.-00m."

A letter that accompanied the above dispatch says,
that the_ Governor had that moment left Dover for
head-quarters, to superintend the movements of the
militia, all of whom are determined to sacrifice
every thing rather than treasonably submit to the
enemy's demands.—The Belvidera lies within less
than two miles of the town. •
New Votes, APRIL-B.—Mr. Swirtchkoff, the
Russian Secretary of Legation, left Washington last
Sunday morning, on a second visit to Admiral War-
ren in the Chesapeake Bay.

Doyen, APRIL 9.4Tlie people of Lewis-town are
in high spirits ; the enemy dared not make a landing •
.se should have cut. every man of them off; we- tried
to get them on shore, and trap them, but they anti-
cipated our purpose and kept close in their boats.—
I wish they would give us an opportunity of
riding a few of them up to Wilmington, as the
British at Montreal treated our' officers. We
• -have some traitors on the opposite shore. It is said
• from good authority that a Major of Militia and a
Physician of Cape May, have been repeatedly on
board the British Commodore.. Some enquiry into
this appears necessary, and a little expenditure or.
. hemp would, perhaps, save a ton of gunpowder.
The Belvitkra frigate run out on Thursday after a
sail that appeared in sight. The boys at Lewis-town
are become so accustomed to the enemy's fire that '
• they amuse themselves with digging the 32-pound
laiaot out of the batiks into which they were fired.
• All the .damage done to Lewis-toun could be. re-
paired fur SUO dollars." • •
NTw APRIL 10.—An alarm was given
from the forts below on. the appearance of some Bri-
%tisk ships off the Book, yesterday anernoon, then
• the different garrisons in the harbour prepared for•
iert..diate action. Tim vesiela discovered were a
falgate (the Acasta) mad a 74, neither of which ap-
. • puated near the bar, nor -do we •espect will soon,
though whenever they shall they will find our forte
• ready to give them as hula reception 'as the furttaceo
4o each. battery can afford. j, .• . . •
APRI!. i9e-411101 the North. West-
ern Army, sines the publication of the daily National
loiclligancer of yesterday, we have seen letters
from Camp Mregtl2. dated 4th•Arnill, which have re-
tnoved the apprehensions we then entertained for
. the safety of that fort. It is true, the Indians are
. prowling round the camp, and butcher every strag-
gler they find, but their aggregate force is not half.
, so,great as is rt piet•ewed in the article we have co-
pied frnm the O!iio rapers.

Westminster.
._This short.addresi wis received witil Sens* ap-
plause, and his Lordship retired.
Soon after five o'clock the' Chest we taken by
Mr. JONES BURDCTT/ who apologiXed. for the ab-
hence of Sir Francis Burdett, the moitthy, Baronet
being preiented `from attending by 'he,* ludispo-
sitioa. •
After an excelleit dinner, the cloth bang senior-.
ed, the Chairman glive .
The scarce of Legitimate9Power—Tho Pe ~ . ,
4111‘
Tane—Britoos strike home. '
The nest tons; was--The Hare Repot. . •
. •Time—Hope told a dotterinitale.
.frillowtng—.The inoocent, iniired, mid lashed lirlikess
Of Walesr w ith three times threr-:dranit with MiShosiastie op.
Pr.
aye —The Triumph. ...., • . ,
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Mr. T. NOIIIIOIO itz • Then addressee ••tli Meeting.;
He stated that he had the honotiC
r-epileebting tin/2
•
Address of the county of Middlesex to her Hayti '
1 Highness, and described the affecting manner in
which' her 'Royal Highness received it. He Omni
described the munificence -of' her -Royal Hight/etc'
in bestowing a legicy, of 15,6901.'which bad- been
recently' left her, upon her brOtber. He next A:.
verted to.scveral documents, 'from which it appeared
that 84 Members of the house of 'Comtnins dl Med'
amongst them no less than 663,6001. of,:tiiii public,'
money in placds and pensions--end the from the
present mode of representation. ie. Tarliiment, apt
the patronage of some individuals, theta were twat
Members to one patron—and -concluded a speech a
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Some length by general animadversions epee the MOIR ,
ruption of the present House of Commons. , -, -
The CHAIRMAO then gave—,
• •
May the Electors of the United X inxdom, follow ilw.4=l '
of the People of Westminster by reverting- to the MC
tioilal made of selecting Represeotadves, instead of sigerlag
Candidate' to cajole them. '4
Tune—"-The Westminster March.
Mr. MONTAGU Blystooest prOfessed Mover Eke
warm friend of Parliainentary Reform, and extolled
the electors of Westminster for the glorious example
,
they had set. .
Mr. WisuaaT, after some warm encomiums on the
public character and conduct of the worthy &rondo*
proposed as a toast,
WeslialnstePo pride and England's hope'—Sir Francis Bur-
den—with three times three, aid most rnpturous applause.
l• Tune—W.l'4 tiepin in my native land.
The CHAIRMAN then stated the cause of the -el.
sence of the worthy. Baronet, which arose from atb,.
vere indisposition, and his regret at not being able
to preside on the present occasion; after some ob-
servations, he read a letter from Sir Francis, "rail
follows : - '1
" TO THE EI.ECTORB OF WESTMINSTER, ASSEM.
BLED AT THE CROWN AND ANCHOR.
" May 54, 1813.
" Citirturair,—lt is truly mortifying to me, to be compel!.
ea' by the age of my health, td omit tlie.discharge of most im-
portant duties,'and to forego the satisfaction of meeting my
Constituents, the Independent Electors of Westminster, upon
this Astivenary, in commemoration of an electios so honoura-
ble to you. and so flattering to inc.
" I think it, however, toy duty to renew before you. this'
day, my unchanged, and, 1 believe, unchangeable political •
principles, which form the bond of• our union, and, I trust, eta
great majority of the people of England, practically exempli-
fied in a steady adherence to the determioation of exerting
every effort in our power to obtain the restoration of the
.peopk
to their national and constitutional right of choosing *or own
Representatives in the Commoks House of I'arliameol. I' am
well aware of the danger to whica, every man exposes himself,
who, in these times, avows sentiments hostile to the power of a
corrupt oligarchy, ili a falsely denominated representation of
the people. No one has more cause to know the uncotsslita-
tional stretches of that power • thaw I bare; sad, although h is
the conduct of a madman to expose himself to danger ter ebi
merical good, and highly culpable to utter seotielents &Yount-
1 ble to popular tumult and disorganising regulated society. it is
nevertheless as culpable, and more pusillanimous, to shrink
from supporting opinions conducive to the benefit of mankind,
and to desert the cause of liberty and humanity, by timid pal-
liation
or mess sobterfageefedes lbs fear of Wending Any
power. • ,
" Gentlemen, it may reds'. ear:— sous airmaily to satire ,
..
nay '
my Constitaellts of that which entertain as doubt—
ambaken attachment to die great coostitotional ISM of
wirlciasi
tree representation. If, however, we yellers ois . . RI 1
and melancholy desertions from, or the lake Wart-
' less support afforded to, .this great national• afeleesi=ioe of
its earliest and most powerful altvncates; 'when po 11901,
tacy is become so very common, when we can number *moog
itsootaries so many,-who, not long since, were reves'encied far
their patriotism, and wkosenbilitiesi• exerted in defeace of nor
liberties, at the commencement of this wicked and unhappy
wir, escitesi universal admiration and esteem ;we way, per-
haps, think renewed 'professions. of political faith .liecemil, to
keep alive one another's ecalialat to prevent ni from giving way
to detpair ; never, however, was there korai:sr for dawn . than
at the premut liras. lam persuadedthe public area' ' ----vh aware
oillie bennrfaCis greet nieosure,and, 'alai 'T:'
formed, Pe loosare likely tette pottridg ill fry
its support. 'The wipacity of the Borough hi
p=
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times three.
Tare—iliwye Riad..
: Mr. WIIIIIMITtafter a, Yew prefatory had compli-
,mentary observetions,propospd- the health of *the
Chairmen,. " Mr. Jones Burdett," with three times
three.
Tact.—'&e atoned the hoe reek.
. TherCnsmcstax," in returning thanks for.the lio-
nour conferred* upon him, expressed his' politiCal
Ntebtiesents and' principlertote in anion with those
4 his *milt? Motive, particularly on `the subject of
Parliamentary Reform—and confessed he had no
korish to bsooine a Member of Parliament so long as
the ilement system of corruption prevailed, as he
could not, by any exertion of his, benefit the peo-
ple, end he should 'consider li not an honour but
a disgrace to be associated with those men who now
pretended to repteinnt the people.
Twee—hipartist Jedgva,lodcpendeat Advicater, and NOM
Jarvemen.
Tope-The gnawer!. . .
The Cuai MIMI then gave— . . 0, .4
- The veteran advocate of Parliaatestary ftrforat.4lloW
Cartwright.
Tose—Steady.she Roes—all's wen.
Major CAA:wale:lnv, in returning thanks tot-the
honour conferred on him, with his usual ability,
advocated the cause of 'Parliamentary Reform, and
stated, that be hid then in his possession no less
1 than
.320 petitions, signed by upwards of 120,000
Englishmen, in favour of Parliamentary Reform;
that the great cause was daily gaining ground ;'tend
he trusted the dey.wis Oat far distant %%hen he should
I NO n comnkteeetonstitutional, and milt
:,Illtiebm
lin Parliament effected.

The CuatastAx then, after some prefatory Obser-
vations, proposed u a toast— • .
The Liberty of the Preen—h is like thealf-w6 bftsillidoil we
have it aot.we die.
The next toast given was—
The Independent Livery af Loadoi.

After some pause,
Mr. 'W`kirrmitAx rose to return thanks in the name
of the Livery, who wopld have acted at all times
with as much. independence as the Electors of West-
minster; bat unfortunately the elective franchise of
the City of London was limited to these -only-who
belonged to the Companies composing the Livery, to
fhe exclasicuref many.tif the Most respectable house-
holders and freeholders. He referred to his conduct
es a public man. for -the list twenty years, daring
Which time he had-been the uniform and warm advo-
-cate of Parliamentary Reform, end the determined
opposer of every species of corrappion, whether pub-
lic or private.
Twast—?se ladepeelelit Eketesn Sethsrerit, any they
prfeet themselves iu the lava they have iukem friuu she Wes,
esteeter School,
Mr. .Jecitts, an. Elector of Southwark, in re-
, turning thanks In the name of the Borough, entered
into a detail of' some considerable length upon the
proceedings at- the late Election for that Borough,
and the motives which induced a number of the inde-
pendent Electors to propose and support Mr. Jones
Burdett upon that occasion.
Mr. Jones BURDEIT took the opporainity of ex-'
pressing his warmest acknowledgments to/lithe man-
ner in which he had been supported typos that occa-
sion. .
The Cusiamax.then gave—.
The 46b ttelsoeght Freemen, who voted at the Bristol Elrc-

um_
.
Mr. HUNT upon this toast being-given, addressed
the Meeting, and, in the course of his speech alluded
to thelcondgct of several respectable individuals, in a
way mhich called up Mr. Waithman and Mr. Wishart
in reply, and which had the effect of breaking up the
Metering.

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lettendth,eairndage:jeisr
MMus
withirippect , ,iate-
a
then "Icwonoteganirlditilha,
rest, Taws, and helium towards. the State sir
will
thtvheeoy:76atire‘fiFeeti
•
take especial care that the Measures. they may ado
t
for relief, bt untinctored witiethose latent considers.
Sons oft political nature; which ' peep through their.
present proceedings. Religion itself is founded upon
' principles of equality ; every thing, therefore, of an
arisfocialic nature, vitiates its wonted • fl 10 uence, and
casts over champions a mantle, not of the bright
=lost 10 benevolence, • but exhibits the forbidding
4:44l6:theet,:f the 'Cittil'ol!ci
shaded a sespicionsand sinteter concealment. In this
view of the case before us thee wog •
s, - contemplating
the setalloessof the majority tinder all -the
bewitch..,ing force Of, the Secksza's arguments, we hail the
decay of prejudice, and the growth of reason, and
tweed of philosophy and benevolence. The Claims
are bet lost•nor denied, butthe grant of them is de.
layed for reasons offered to the largest assembly we
have observed for a long tim.me, on a like occasion.—.
The daily encrease of political dissidents will make
this disappointment of. the. Catholics less a topic of
general conversation ; fiztt("•., we acknOwledge that
some of the reasons for the SPEVIEESS'S dissent
'will be likely to be remeini:ered, when the sub-
ject is not in agitation. Stich as that Loewe.,
.is a' Philosopher, Lord SOMERS, as a Statesman,
and King WILLIAM) as a Sovereign, have all
declared the Catholic ecclesiastical polity incom.
inttible with, and 'Katlic' to, the safety of the
State ! ' Mr. AnoTT., it appears, hs no inconsidera-
ble Parliamentary tactician. lie skilfully remarked,
'that if the door of Parliament was thrown open to
Catholics, the Protestant Memberi from Ireland
would be throws out. He took care toe to throw
into his cauldron of fearful enchantment a giantess
sufficii of moderation, and oven of Catholic favour :
for he enquired, why in this Bill legislative provision
were not made for the Catholic soldiers' worship, and
f orCatholic marriages ? MV.WILITEUEAD made the most
ahlereplyto the Hight Hon. Gent. who opened the
debute. • Ilelett, however, that at the time he op-
'pissed his sentiments, their weight would overpower
the House. Thiaable Senator, with a keenness and
force, showed how different was the Catholic of the
17. th century, and the Catholic of the 19th, and that
si;ere those great persons now alive, whose names
had been • quoted as entertaining opinions ou
Citholicism-•so hostibe to free governments, with
Lord CLAILENDON at their bead, they would express
fery. different opinions. He combated also, by his
usual logic ainfeloquence, the terrifying bugbear let
loose by th 6 SPEAMER, that if the ways-of the Stet:
were thrown so open to the claimants, the•Crowa
might get into the bands of a Catholic,
•
Government liai at length received dispatches from
Lord .PATIMART and Sir CILVICLES SfEWART, dated
the 7th instant, containing a statement of thy battlo
of Gros.Gorchen, similar to those accounts whict
have already been published-in the German Popes•
it it reported that. Lord Carncanv expresses peat
-confidence in the cause of the Allies, and represents
the iitnation 'of the French army as extremely
tkal.. 'the neat iinival from France . will most
Pmbebir bring nil much latfr accounts of the
.operations of the hostile armies, by. which we
'Fall be enabled to form a .more accurate opinion
jhan at present. The King of SAXON? :IS said to
have had a conference with the Emperor of C
MANX at Lintz, and orders were given tA' rec .iv t' his
Majesty with every mark of distinction at Prague.
The accounts from Hamburgh are not very sa-
tisfactory, for there is too mach reason to believe that
that tinfortunate city will tall again into .1 he halide of
tht French--4n *ld& 'tee we cannot help sating
' -1701.141. t • • • .`
. . .
`fie i nfelimaricati Papers so late as the 18th ult.
them we vie Outwit limeo-not thopairif s k
:to read of the burning to ashes towns on the enlist
'by bembardtnenti from -oar shipping, and there.
•tiy driving the peaceable't nhabitents, merchants,
and fisher Men, naked'. into the woods, 84c.—
the contrary, we are pleased ,to-see, that some
expectations are entertained of the success of the
Haitian Mediation,''. being • ourselves satisfied that
iiihatever animositylitay 'be at present entortalsted be.
twek the twl countries, it may be converted
ainity; if the opperimiity -be !iot, as hai:genera.
the cage, ;Hawed t pass by est-deeded to.

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fIEAGU bad audiences of the Pirwct Rows?.
TUE NEw LIST Mit THE LIVAIII.--TILP SubSeribulJ
ere informed, that application limit be made for the
few remaining Shares on Di' berme To-wonsiow
EVENING, AT S olet.ocs, as 'fiery eirly ()iv Thurs.
day morning the INkeet oieria with Four Grand
Loans of 1120,000, and aet0,000! Sereo of f2,00°,
and 1,0001 and several Thousand others Cl
£5OO, £3OO, R2OO, 000, It c. including
210,00 Q. which will ke given to We Srst,drawe
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April 1.1813. Call of.the House this days. his pasonal atteAdan ..
with three servedly enplained,;we are Weeds ,to every measure
copies of t*opropissed 44. (*ma of iin short, as friends to Fisanow widely and ,Hare.
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