The Statesman.
London, England, 1813-01-06 00:00:00

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would be, in f
all possible
forget his duty v.
unanimous vote of
the bth of "
had been to
approved of.
Alderman:km:l,s
served what essential
country, by the -
ping in the Port
ping ships of
and that on the
avoid all dispute
should be put.
Mr. Items . _ argument";
had been made , anewer to his.
jest was to adjourn to understand the *object .
object of the.motion before them to decilis tit .onoe.
,The motion having been again reed, •
Mr. Hintz suggested the separating die question
of approbation from that of adjoulwatent. But
there being a loud call of " Question I" the motion
was put as it stood, and carried; only one baud (that
of Mr. Base) being held up against it.

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Stock was held yesterday, on which OCOISIOD weer•
respondence of the most important nature wu intro.
dated by theChairman,who stated that the negocitition
with Government had assemed a very unfavourable
aspect. The attendance was very numerous, as the
object of the meeting was to debate the preposition
made by Government for the renewal 'of the Com-
pany's Charter. A letter, however, had been received
from the' Earl of Becemanaitsutax, late OR 114011411111
• night, which was considered of so much impieties*
as to induce. the Chairman (far,. Wen into) trr
propose an adigurtnnent for a fortnight. •It Ail be
found by the proceeding:, which ye have giant It.
full length, hitt Ministers and the East ladth
Company are both resolutely determined not tore.
cede from thepoint at issue, and the most important
coesequences may be expected to result from as.
affair of such eital interest to the Nation.
An American lately captured, and sent into Ply.'
mouth, has written to his correspondent in London„
• stating, that before he left America, the America*,
frigate the United States had arrived at &Minot
with her prize the Macedonian frigate.
Of five French frigates now ascertained to belt
sea, and supposed to be bound to America; nothint
is known with any certainty beyond whet has been
communicated by the Spy store.ship from Halifax,
captured by one of them, La Gioire, on the 20tk
ult. off Cape Clear.
1 We mentioned some short time since, that item..
sequence of the appointment of an officer froin
another corps to the Blues, a correspondence had
passed beta ten the Duke of Noarnostassuarcto,
as
Colonel of the Horse Guards, and his Roy al High. ,
ness the Commander-in-Chief, on the subject, a si- I
milar appointment not having taken place for upwardsl
of fifty years. The result, we now bear, has been,
the his Grace, on Monday, sent in his resignation.
I Much stress has been laid on the size of the Ame.
rican frigates, but though this completely exonerates
our officers and sailors from any imputation, it is no
excuse for the Admiralty. We hare 64 gun ships—
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we have numerous frigates that might sail in aqua.
drons—we have too some large frigates. Where are
the Endsmion,the Amon, the Lavinia, the Sgyp.'
ticnne, any one of which, if not superior in size,
wood, with British seamen and commanders, hate
l been more than a match for any vessel that the United
iStates could send to sea.
We are concerned to state, that MT.. DANISTERI
so generally and deservedly a favourite with the
public, is indisposed at Brighton, with a fit of the
gout.
The following mafrimonio dramatico engagements
, are now on the nuptializing tapis, viz.—Miss ic.-etzx
Ito Mr. PlittLirs, and Miss MELLON to an Officer of
the army, namedMtutson, who is said to havi a fine
, taste for fruit of fine flavour!
• Miss FEARoN, one of the vocal Syrens of Covent.
garden Theatre, has given het hand to a country
gentleman, formerly 'a schoolmaster, who was so
enamoured by her dulcet strains, that on learning
!she had no fortune, he exclaimed, as his brother
Lingo would hare done before him, " then will I
take her with her yea et preterea *Mil!"
LORD COKE AND STATUTE LAW.—A Statesman
called on his Lordship one day, and told him that be
wanted to consult him on a point of law.—" If it
be common law," said COKE, " I should be ashamed
if I could not give you a ready answer • but if it
be Statute Law, I should be equally ash need if I
answered you immediately."
MORE SYMPTOM ON NATIONAL
We believe the following will be toend to be an ac-
curate Account of the Number of Cottionissions of
Bankruptcy published in the Londooi Gazette during
the year Ups
Alneort-, .•-•-e..--154 A - 113
telirmory, ".• -is •
March . • 144, . 44
April .. 07 November .
May . . 159 I littcesaber - • 10e
Jude 14b
Joly .•NS Tolat 4. IX*
The Hussar Brigade now pestling embarkation,
will consist of about 1300 mounted mee, and no poi-
tibia delay is to .take place-in their proceeding.
The 64th regiment, Lieut.-Colonel Sir 3. WAND.
LOW, has been ordered from the. West Indies to Cee

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have been expected from a combination of
gious bigotry tad corrupt iodation ; a petition
against a masers which weeld restore a tumorous,
and valuable class of *tit comtrymest to the pose
sessionof their undoubted rights, and (which is peril
baps the greatest Objection to the measure) would ob•
struct and ciretwavent the projects and wishes or.
ihose *rho have the distribution of the loaves and!
fishes. Thit precious document, this petition., framed
in such an extraordinary way, is now offered to
the peblic for their subscription. I, however, fiat-1
ter myself that the public will not lend its sanction
-tea pemseeding which ctudour and honesty disavow,
and that many names will not be tinted to a petition)
in the framing of which so small a number of in-
dividuals were permitted to assist. But I now
come to the most important observation that have
to offer upon the subject: when the friends of into-
lerance and the supporters of tyranny arc thus active
and zealous, the advocates and admirers of freedom
and toleratio9 ought surely to emulate and to tur-
pas, such activity and zeal, and in proportion as
their object is more noble and virtuous, their efforts
ought also to he more vigorous and unremitted. I
hope somcleading public characters—known to the
nation—possessed of the nation's
,confidence and
esteem—will convene a speedy meeting of their fel-
rowecitizent—sot privately and clandestinely, but
in the face of day, as becomes men whose
intentions are honourable and pure—to prepare
4 Petition in support of Catholic Enraucipatioe
—not for the purpose of counteracting the effect
of that to which I have alluded, for it must be
deemed unworthy of such an opposition ; but be-
cause it would be honourable to the cities of London
and Westminster, and useful to the cause of Tolera-
tion, that their opinion in favour of that .measure
should be loudly end decidedly expressed:

k CITIZRN OF WESIMIN*TER.

NAVAL COORT.MARTUL.
A Court-Martial was hold on Th*rsday, October
8, 1812, on board his Majesty's ship Jason, in St.
John's Harbour, Newfoundland, Captain fames
Carpenter, President, in pursuance of as order
from Sir Thomas Duckworth, K. H. for the purpose
of invostipting and enquiring into all the circum-
stances which led to, and occasioned the capture of
his Majesty's late sloop the Alert, on the 13th of
August last, by the United States frigate the. Essex,
and to try Captain Thomas Lamb Poulden Laugh.
area, late Commander of the said sloop, the Offt. i
cers and Ship's Company, for their conduct on that
occasion.
The Court having lwanl Captain Langtarne's letter to the
1 Conunander in Chief, containing his relation of the circnm- !
' stances. and having examined him and the °Seers and the Ship's
Company, and very materely and• deliberately weighed and
! considered the said letter and the whole of the evidence, (Wi-
tmer their sentence as follows :
" That no blame whatever was imputable to Capt. Laugh-
lin*. but that his conduct thooughout tbc anise was marked
Laugh-
by gallantry and judgment, and that he did strike the co-
;• lours of the Alert, moil it became utterly impossible to con.
; done the action against so saperior a force with nay prospect
' of success.
" That the conduct of Lieutenant Andrew Dunc in, Senior
Lieutenant of the Abet, has been highly reprehensible, and al-
t
t though the Court acquit him of cowardice, still it appear. that 1
! be failed to give that asistance to his Capiaio, and that view'. .
ragement to the ship's_company, which ought in a more peiniiar
ns•
osner to be ex peeled from his situation.
" The Court are of opipion, that the remaining Officers and
i the ship's compauy behaved with gallantry during the action ;
bat they cannot pas over the circumstance of their having cone
ats, to advise their Captain to strike, without etprewiug the
I strongest disapprobation, nor would such a proceeding under
ai
any circumstances. be jimitied. The Court, hoarser. think •
proper in making this remark, to except Mr. Clearing, the
Master, and Mr. Haggerty, the Purser, who appeared to have
• egbatiscirotcstipsUautT and not to have gone aft n ith
rest. 4
" The Court do therefore, ananimossly aid most imaginably 1
aOseit Captain Lauglowne, and he Is hereby unanimously and i
met bennerably acquitted accordingly ; and do adjudge the I
sold Lieutenant Andrew Duncan to be dismissed from his Ma- •
jaely's 'revive, and be is hereby dismissed accordingly ; and do'i
11•11oUrablv acquit Mr. Clean the Master, and Mr. flag
gorty, thiroroer, and they are hereby honourably acquitted
etellediolOY l and ballr 'he Court being convinced that the
*wing aft of 'bomber DOOM VA ship's Asenrmay• wag not
sap oiled by as cowardice os disaffection,
•do acquit them,
sot they aro hereby acquitted accordingly."
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PALmoutti, "3.-4rtitod ilte Mate, Coe,
from Nassau ; sailed in company with the George,
under convoy of leis Maissiyao dpots Masa& and
roriulok, and parted hoar aim 311.
long. 5.
sommimmommoomoolp
• POLIGa.
• STREET R4fisilT
MaystoS-110uSX.--Tveidar. Irege idevellg:inteller of 'waft"
• was cuttged before the Loan MaVINt. Ibelliat meowed oath
Zrati Yi Id* "MK tritiiae.eems the
sessesjbed • U, Haber iiiikistreet. OW* ea Seek
eveei apt. The calliflakibet.posiese am to s
bei pelt !'.dish,
rtuld aloe' ste!y.tbroogh an se lleigreset, that Lidat the
Cross KO inn, In Weod.street, Uheepsiiih, bs saw she Prisuan
sellieg Draws its the street, la the fare pan of the day, and
Asked him te.show him where he could bay a jpair of snouts;
that he took him where begot the amen% it:. aid ettovevg
him back to the Inn, tbr which he gave efies. e that be went iiitb
the Prisoner again in the ergaing dire* several greets, whoa
thew mot with three others, who took his lags apses:we where
the Prisoner put his hand upon bit inauth, while toe others
robbed him of two !E. notes, and all, note. aid aD ran swat
Oat he was positive of the Prisoner neat the
_sae.
The Prisoner, in a long defence, coal/wed the charge, con-
testing that he and another had gone with the Prosecutor to
the Minories, where be houele greasers, stockier,
that be saw him in the evening, when he wanted him to ma,.
the Prosecutor to a girl ; that be went with him to Leatlcr-
hall-street, where they met t!wee men. with whom he pre-
tended to have left the i'roseentor ; bat denied putting hie lisEd
oe his mouth, or knowing auy thing of the money.
A singular circumweoce occurred while this evidence vim
giving: a foreign Captain, who come to swear an affidavit,
itninetliately knew the young German to belong tb his ship,
and had run assay 'mice Saterday. faking with him his pocket.
hook, containing the Dank notes he had. been describing, wits
some other papers; At sight of the Captain, the voting Ger.
man was taken very bad, and wished to retire a little, which
nag perthitted, with an officer to attend bins, w hen the officer
foiled, he wanted io make away with some papers, which the
Officer prevented. And upon examining those papers they
proved tube papers which were in the captain's pocket ;rook.
He was asked, what he bad to say its his defence for absconding
m ith the pocket-book and notes:—he said, he was very sorry,
but got drunk, and could not end his way en board. Hart, the
Jew, was told, that he must give the information of the tarn
who actually committed this robbery, or his life would be in
danger as au accomplice. They were bath rsimmkted to dif-
ferent Compters for further examination on Thursday nest.

CHARGE OF hIURUER.
Gonmsam—Tuesday, Sullivan 40d Griffith, the two mrs
taken op on suspicion of murdering Bloomield. the watch-
men, at :Wow-hill op Sunday tnornieglast, about the hour of
two -o'clock, and for analearli in she street, were brought be-
fore the Sitting Alderman ATFJIIII, when there appeared no evi.
deuce of the felonious part of the charge, -they were dettiiard to
54 boil for the assault. After a areas adinoaitioa from the
Allorpoa to ilollisoo to amend bis wog, af life, and to cirilfitla
to avoid such had company as that o Sunless, they were re-
manded. to 6nd bail.
A man named Stack ens pot to the ham, ebarged with having,
on Sunday morning last, at tea o'clock, declared to a Mr. Cope,
the Prosecutor, that be kaew the petsons who murdered the
watchman at Snow-hill that morning: The Prisoner in his de-
fence stated, that he was jesting at the time of such declaration ;
but the Prosecutor denied that the dectuatiOn appeared to Nice
been made in jest, upon which the Prisoner was remanded lot
1 further tlaglaillitioll.

ISNIPDIAN ROBBEAT.—LateIy, as W man of the
name of Hopkinson, in Coalpit-lane, Nottingham,
was passing on Sitenton-street, his attention Wl5
drawn aside by the piteous plaints of* boy, whom
he found standingand shivering with cold, with a
few apples in his hand; and from whom he learnt
the following artleis tale :—He said his mother Net
last brought to bed—that then were three little oyes
younger than himself—that his father had no work
to do—that there was no fire in the honse-d-that all
the money his father had, be had given him to fetch
a loaf with—that as he was returning home with the
loaf, a man (a monster)`had met him and given him
a penny to bay some apples, while he held the loaf
—that the wretch had run awarwith the loaf—a. d
that he dare not go home. Mt. Hopkinson %Teta
home with the boy into Platt,stieet, and found the
*hole of the story literelli tree: !
On Saturday morning early, a fire broke nut is
Gravel-lane, by which tbe premises were constoed
in a short time. A boy, about 14 years of age, why
was an inhabitant of a neighbouring hove, mac.
knocked down by the horse* of one of theeng;v:,
leblth war' coming full speed, and the machine pas`,'
firiftfor.lis thigh it was fractured in a most shockiq
*inner. .
Friday morning, as the servant of Mr. Rich.
arch, in Tavistock-streets Cotent.gaid o, wa.4h•
ing the pavement before the door, she having ocea•
sion to go to the kitchen
_for sorue water, during her
absence some person arrrested the opportunity and
took two Modern great costs that were deposited in
the Hall, worth seven guineas each, With which they
made off.

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