The Statesman.
London, England, 1812-12-15 00:00:00

SL'A'rESNIAN.

The Rice Duty Bill, the Spanish Red Wine Bill,
the Chocolate Bill, and the Post-otlice• Secretary
Franking Bill, severally went through Committees,
and %%ere ordered to he reported to-morrow.
11r. WHARTON presented Papers• relating to
Monies issued in perstiante of Addresses.
Mr. H. MARTIN, ie pursuance of his notice,
moved for a copy of the last Commission limier the
Great Seal, appointing Commissioners to hear and
determina causes in the Court of Chancery.—Or-
dered.
Mr. 11. MARTIN then moved for leave to bring
in a Mil to regulate the office of Deputy Remem-
brancer of the Court of Exchequer.—Leave was
granled, and the Bill brought in accordingly. It
was read a first time, and ordered to he read a se-
cond time on the 10th of February next, and to be
printed.
The SPEAKER haring informed the house that
this was the last (Inv for receiving Election Petitions,
Petitions were presented against the returns for the
following places, viz. Seaford, to be taken into con-
sideration on the 18th of March ; Aldborough, to
be taken into consideration on the 23d ; Downpa-
trick, to be taken into consideration on the same
day; and Camelford, to be taken into consideration
on the 25th of the same month.—Adjourned.

the distresses felt within these few years had arisen.
Instead of giving facilities to the Government, too, to
meet the exigencies of the times, as it had been in-
sinuated an adherence to the present system was cal-
culated to afford, it had been found the greatest im-
pediment to the prosecution of the war, even in that
quarter where our arms had gained the greatest
glory, and where we had the greatest prospect of
success.
Mr. ROSE re-stated Isis assertions of a formen
night, that the issues from the Bank had no effect in
producing what the Honourable Gentleman culled
a depreciation. On the contrary, the rate of ex-
change rose at the period when those issues were the
greatest.
Mr. GRI.NT (Member for Great Grimsb, ) could
not conceive any possible means by which a depre-
ciation of paper currency could be occasioned, but
by the credit of the persons issuing: it •having re-
ceived a shock, or by the issues being made its ton
great quantities. Bad as ho conceived the general
system of the Government of this country to be, he
regarded the present measure as the worst of ell,
cutting off, as it did, even the prospect of a return
to a better order of things. lie had heard, the
other night, a thing which was to him perfectly units-
telligible, expleined by a Noble Lord. .That Noble
Lord, to satisfy the House that permanent meant
temporary, informed them that there was ale official ii - AMERICAN PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE.
sad a velpr language. lie supposed they should I —ewes—
now be informed that there was a Porliennentary lan-
I WASHINGTON CITY, Nov. 4.—The President of
gouge also, which differed as much from the vulgar • United the U States this day commtnticated to Mr.
acceptation of the word, as it appeared official lan-
guage did. On this principle, he had no doubt the , Coles, his private Secretary, the following Message
supporters of the present Bill acted, and reconciled : to Congress:—
themselves to a measure no otherwise reconcilable to I Fellow Citizens of the Senate and House of Representntlet%
common sense, by holding that equivalent means as 1 On our present meeting, it is my first dutf to in.'
tArec to two. As to two prices, properly speaking, , trite yoor attention to the providential favours which
such a thing could not exist, because then the higher ' our country has experienced in the unusual degree of
in value will vanish, and allow the other to remain'
health dispensed to its inhabitants, and in the rich
in possession of the field. He contended, that this Bill .
was no advantage to the publiccreditor ;by defraudingabundance with which the earth has rewarded the
others we did not benefit him. It was an oppressive , labours bestowed on it. In the successful
tax on every description of Annuitants. Ile con. `cultivation of other branches of industry, and is
eluded a very clear and argumentative speech, by de- :the piogress of general improvement favourable. to
daring, that the real object of the Bill was to con. : the national prosperity, there is just occasion also for
cent our true situation from ourselves. We were :
our mutual congratulation and thankfulness.
like children who hold their hands before their eyes,
and thee imagine themselves out of danger. With these blessings are naturally mingled the
Alderman ill rrii spoke in favour of the Bill. . pressures and vicissitudes incidental to the state of
Sir F. FLOOD declared the Resolution of the war into which the United States hare been forced
Ilouse, that gold and paper areequitalent, to be con- by the perseverance of a foreign Power in its system
trary to the fact. It was not true in England, nor
of iejustice and aggression. Previous to its decla.
was-it true in Ireland. Before he left his own court- -
• ration, it was deemed proper, as a measure of press
try, his Steward would always bring hint home the
same quantity of provisions for 20 pounds in gold us caution and forecast, that a considerable force should I
for 25 in paper. Since he came over to this country ;be placed in die Michigan territory, with a general 1
he had occasion to buy a horse, the owner asked 38, view to its security ; and, in the event of war, to 1
guineas for it ' • lie refused to give more than :34; but as ' such operations in the uppermost Canada, as would I
soon as he had opened his purse, which was lined with I
! intercept the hostile influence of Great Britain over
guineas, the mats took him at his word. He, how-
ever, objected to the oppressive idea of some Land- the savagett; obtain the command of the lake on
lords, who insisted on being paid their rents in gold, which that -part of Canada borders; and maintain
to which he thought they had uo right in reason or co-opeiating relations with such forces as might be
conscience. I most conveniently employed against other pieta.
Mr. PftEiTON spoke for the Bill-; as did also
Mr. MARRIOTT, who said, that the question, Brigadier-General Hull was charged with this
provisional service, having under his command a body
whether Batik-notes were:equivalent to specie had ;
been as much agitated by the Moderns, as the "es_ 1 of troops, composed of regulars and of volunteers
tion whether the earth turned round the suit, or the . from the state of Ohio : having reached Isis destitsa-
sun round the earth, had been by the Ancients. i tion, after his knowledge of the war, and possessing
This idea was humorously applied against him by i discretionary authority to act offensively, he passed
Mr. WHITBREAD, who declared that his whole 1 into the neighbouring territory of the enemy with
speech was irrelevant to the question, and utterly
unintelligible, except to the Nesters and Ulysses of i a prospect of an easy ace victorious progress. The
that House. He complimented Mr. Preston (who expedition, nevertheless, terminated unfoitunatelh
had stated that he received one or two guineas every not only in a retreat to the town and fort of Detroit,
day in the course of his practice) on the superior es- but in the surrender of hoth, and of the gallant
cellence of los law, to that of all the other profes- corps commanded by that Officer. The causes of this
sional Gentlemen of his acquaintance, who never re-
ceived a single guinea front cue year's end to another. painful reverse will be investigated by a Military
The Route them; divided-7- Tribunal. A distinguishing feature in the opera-
Ayes
Nee, ' ' ..
11
• • • is the use made by the enemy of the merciless
Work] ..,.. 65 savages under their influence, • Whilst the bene-
Qn Our admiesion into the pottery, we found the
volent policy of the United States ioveriably recom-
House in q Committee on the Making Bill, its which,
mended peace, and promoted civilization amongst
after some conversation, the blanks were filled up,
and some new clauses inserted.—The Report to be that wretched portion of the human race, anti was i
received to:mornew. _ making exertions to dissuade them from taking either I

The House then resolved itself into a Commit-
tee of Supply, in which the following sums were
r oted :
For the Land Forces - - - ;.1,000,000
For the Militia . - /70,1100
Stipernitinerary Officer* - . - : N,5i10
Kilmainham iltnfital - - - 275.000
Fnr.iga Corp* . . . . 593,000
Volunteer Corp, ... - ... • iipxo
Loral Militia 7 - - 7 . 3.300,
Snrgemt. and Hospital, - • - - 3.200
American Loyalists - - • - 19,00)
St. Domingo Sl•trerers - - $.030
liar Suffering Clergy and Laity of France - . 12.1,0410
Corsican Emigrants - 11,300
French and Corsican Emigrants abroad - 4,003
Dutch Fauigrants - 4,3.10
French Emigrants in .Terry and finernsey - :;,403
Mr. IViII'ILKEAD asked, whether any provi-
sion were made for raising the sums thus voted ?
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHUQUER an-
swered, 'by the Annual Bills, and 10,500,0001. l'.x-
chequer Bills.
The COmmittee of Way; and Means was fixed for
Wedioyday neat.
The Report on the Household Bill was taken into
consideration, and the Amendments agreed to. To •
be read a third time to-morrow.
The Report from the Committee on the Prince Re.
gent's Melisage relative tp the Marquis Of 'Welling..
ton; the ii.esolution was read a first and second
time, and the Committee on the Bill ordered to be •
instructed Iccordingly.
Ile 11.)istillery Prohibition Bill, and the West In-
din Indemnity Bill, went through Committees, the
Reports fro M-which were ordered to bp received to.
morrow.
The Marquis of Wellington's Lands Bill went
through t Committee, hi which an Amendment was
!Itia44. rhe Report to be received to-morrow.
' The Exchequer Bills Bill went through a Commit.
tte in which
Mr. WHITBR.IO,I) asked, whether any i:;erease
fif the amount EielieqUer dills would be effected
by Ibis measure? To which
Tint C)l4l4OElll.A)id. of the EXC if EQU ER an-
fwerini, that it would depend on the produce of the
forniqiidated Fund.—The Report to be received to-
*FM!,

&le in the war, the enemy has not scrupled to call to
his aid their ruthless ferocity, armed with the hor-
rors of those instruments of carnage and torture
which are known to spare neither age nor sex. In
this outrage against the laws of honourable war, and
against the feelings sacred to humanity, the British I
.Commander cannot resort to a plan of retaliation ;
for it is committed in the face of our example. They
cannot mitigate it by calling it a self defence agai
men in arms, for it embraces the most abiding 1
butcheries of defenceless families ; nor can it be pre-
tended
that they are not answerable for the atrocities I
perpetrated, since the savages'are employed with the
knowledge, and even with menaces, that their fury.,
could not be controlled. Such is the spectacle which'
the Deputed Authorities of a nation, boasting its re.,
ligion and morality, have not been restrained from'
presenting to an enlightened age.
The misfortune at Detroit was not, however, with.
out a consoling effect. It was followed by signal
proofs, that the national spirit rises according to the 1
pressure on it. The loss of an important post, and:
of the brave men surrendered with it, inspired every
"-here new ardour and determitraion. In the states
and districts least remote, it was no sooner known
then every citizen was eager to fly with his arms at
once to proteet his brethren against the blood-thirsty,
same; let (pose by the enemy on un extensive frog.'
tier; smite. convert a partial calamity into a sources
of invigorated etfors. This patriotic zeal, which
it was necessary rather to limit than excite, has em-
bodied au ample force from the States of Kentucky
aNd Ohio and from parts of Pennsylvania and %Ir.
Oak! It-is placed, with the additioit.ef a few regu-
lars, tinder the command of Brigadier?Qeneral Barr
risen, who possesses the entire confidence of his
fellow-soldiers--among whom are citiiens—some of
I them voiut4!emy Le the mink!—unt left distinsuishml

by their political stations, than by their personal,
merits;
The greater portion of this force is proceeding on
.its destffiltion towards the Michigan territory, hay.
lug succeeded in relievingan importaut frontier post,'
and In several incidental operations against textile
tribes of savages, rendered indispensible by the sub-
serviency into %hick they had been seduced by the.
enemy—a seduction the more cruel, as it could not
fail to impose a necessity of precautionary severities
against those who yielded to it.
At a recent date, an attack was made on a post of
the enemy near Niagara, by a detachment of the re-
gulnr and other forces, under the command of Major
General Van Rensselaer, of the Militia of the State
of New-York. The attack, it appears, was ordered
in compliance with the ardour of the troops, who
executed it with distinguished gallantry, and were for
a time victorious ; but not receiving the expected
support, they were compelled to yield to reinforce-
ments of British regulars and savages. Our loss has
been considerable, and is deeply to be lamented.
That of the enemy, less ascertained, will be the i
more felt, as it includes among the killed, the Com.
mending General, who was also Governor of the
province; and was sustained by veteran troops, from
inexperienced soldiers, who must daily improve in •
the duties of the field. 1
Oor expectation of gaining the command of the
Lakes by the invasion of Canada from Detroit, hav-
ing been disappointed, measures were instantly taken
to provide on them a naval force superior to that of
the enemy. From the talents and activity of the
Officer charged with this object, every thing that
can be done may be expected. Should the present "
season not admit of complete success, the progress
made! will ensure for the next a mud ascendancy,
where it is essential to a permanteut peace with,
and a coetroul over, the Savages.
Among the incidents to the measures of the war, I'
am constrained to advert to the refusal of the Cover-
nors of Massachusetts and Connecticut, to furnish • ,
the required detachments of militia towards the de.
fence of the maritime frontier. The refusal was
founded on a novel and unfortunate exposition of the
privisions of the Constitntion relating to the militia. ;
The correspondence which will be before you, Con-
tain the requisite information on the subject. It is
obvious, that if the authority of the United States to
call into service and command the ntiii.ia for the pub-
lic defence, can be thus frustrated, even in a state of
declared war, and of course under appreheusions of
invasion preceding war, they are not one nation for
the vurpose most of all requiring it, and that the pub.
lic safety may have no other resource titan those large
and permanent military establishmeuts which are for-
bidden by the principles of our free Government, and
against the necessity of which the militia were meant.'
to be a constitutional bulwark. _ _

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purporting to be a definitive re
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tehfethanetiDesfaecitlhonGtooverrencleeiviet.assuratices eZtithettelre friendship, and that it will not be h,
• rupture between the United States and Croat ifet
• Sweden also professes sentiments far
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listing
Vth the
tinigharm Barbary(my, Powers,,exceptitie that of Al: •
Biers, our affairs remain on the enlist :try fooling,_
"The Consnl.General with that Ite:encs, has co.'
denly, and without cause, been banished, together
with all the American citizens found there. Whe,
ther this was the transitory effect of capricious de.
potism, or the tirst act Of predetermined hostility,
.is not ascertained. Precautions were taken by the
Consul on the latter supposition.
i The Indian tribes, not under foreign instigations,
remain at peace, and receive the civilizing attention;
which have proved so beneficial to them.
I With a view to that vigorous prosecutinu of the
war to which our national faculties are adequate, the
attention of Congress will be particularly drawn le
the insufficiency of the existing provisions for filling
up the military establishment. Such is the happy
: condition of our country, arising from the facility of
subsistence, and the high wages for every species of
• occupation, that,' not*ithatandiug the augnicatel ie.
dueements provided at the last Session, a partial sue.
cess only had attended the recruiting service. The
deficiency has been necessarily supplied during the
campaign by other than regular troops, with all the
inconveniences and elpences incident to them. 'Lie
remedy lies, In 'establishing more favourably for the
private soldier, the • proportion between his recant.
pence and the term of his enlistment t and it is a sslject
which cannot ten soon or too seriously ho Wien iota
consideration, The tame insufaciency bas been ex..
perioneed in the provisions for volunteers made by
en Act of the last Session. The recompence for
the service required in this case, is still less et,
tractive than in the others and although patriotism
alone has sent into the •field some 'aloud& uorps
of that description, those alone who can afford
the sacrifice, can reasonably be expected to yield
to the impulse. It will merit consideration also,
whether, as cixiliary to the security of our frontier,
corps may not be advantageously organized, wit!
restriction of their services to particular districts co:i.
venient to them; and whether the local or occasional
services
similar
ilor marinesor
organization,others
would
in the
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tewits,t
be a proper
addition to the means of their defence. I recommend
es
athperoovrolisioy,nthfoordaelelincouroensey
ofowitf-the General
lohhosueu Ouiulfiueestrrus4
by the number and distance of separate commands,
which the cause of the war, and the advantage of the

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Oa the coasts and on the ocean, the war has been I service, have required: and I cannot press too
successful as circumstances inseparable from its ! strongly on the earliest attention of the Legislature,
!early stages could promise. ! Our public ships and ! the importance of the re-organiaation of the Staff
private cruisers, by their activity, and where there Establishment, with a view to render more distinct
was occasion, by their intrepidity, have made the and definite the relations and responsibilities of its
enemy sensible of the difference between a reciprocity i several departments: that there is room for improve.
of captures, and the long confinement of them to I ments,which will materiallypromote both econompaci
their side. • Our trade, with little exception, has ° success, in what appertains Co the army and the war,
safely reached onr ports, having been much favoured is equally inculcated by the eramples of other route
in it by the course pursued by a squadron of our fri- ; tries, and by the experience of our own.
gates under the command of Commodore Rodgers ; A revision. of the Militia Laws, for the purpose
and in the instance in which skill and bravery were of rendering them more systematic, and better adap !.
more particularly tried with those of the enemy, the ! ing them to emergencies of the war, is at this time
American ling had an auspicious triumph. The fri- . particularly desirable. Of the additional ships an-
rite Constitution, commanded by Captain Hull, after thorised to be fitted far service two will be shortly
a close and short engagement, completely disabled , ready to sail ; a third is under repair, and delay will
avid captured a British frigate ; gaining for that 01E- be avoided in the repair of the residue. Of theme
cer, and all on hoard, a prai;e which cannot be too preprlations for the purchase of materials forshlp•
liberally bestowed,—not merely for the victory ac- I building, the reater pert has been applied to that
Natty achieved, but for that prompt* and cool exer- object, and the purchases will be continued with the
tion of commanding talents, which, giving to courage balance. The enterprising spirit which has charger
its highest character, aind to the force applied its full tensed our naval force, and its success both in re.
effect, proved that more could have been done in a t, straining insults and depredations on our coasts, and
contest requiring more. lin reprisals on the enemy, will net fit to recoM.
Anxious to abridge the evils from which a state of , mend an enlargement upon it.
war cannot be exempt, I lost 'no time after it was There being reason to believe, that the Act prold-
declared, in conveying to the British Government biting the acceptance of British licences is not a suf.
the terms on which its progress might be arrested, ; ficiant guard against the use of them, for purposes
without waiting the delays of' a formal. and final pa- ! favourable to the interests and views of the enemy;
cificatiou : and our Charge') d'Affaires at London was; further prevision on that subject are highly important'
at the same time authorised to agree to an armistice, Nor is it less so, that penal enactments should be
founded upon them, These terms required, that provided fOr cases of corrupt and perfidious inter.
the Orders i* Council should be repealed, as they 1 course with the enemy,..not !anusuotisse: Us mesas
affected the United States, without a revival of ;the nor yet embraced by any statutory previsions.
blockades violating acknowledged rules ; that there A considerable number of Amerman vessels, taiga
should be an immediate discharge of American sea- , were in England when the revocation of the Ordete
men from British ships, and a stop to impressments in Council took place, were laden with British me.
from American ships, with art understanding that an nufactures, under an erroneous impression that the
exclusion of the seamen of each nation from the ships Non-Importation Act would immediately cease t.o.
of the other should he stipulated, and that the ar- ! operate, have arrived in the United States. it
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mistice should be improved intern definitive and corn- ~not appear proper to exercise ou-unforeseen cases u
prehensive adjustment of depending cootroversies. such magnitude, the ordinary powers vested in the
Although a repeal of the Orders susceptible of ex. ! Treasury Department, to mitigate forfeitures without
planation' meeting. the views of this Government, ! previously affording Congress an opportunity of mak•
had taken place before this pacific advance was corn. ing on the subject such provisions us they maithia
municated to that of Great Britain, the advance was proper. In their decisioo,
they will, doubtless,
declined from an *vowed repugnance to a suspension equally consult what is due to equitable considera-
of the practice of impressment during the armistice, firms, and to the public interest.
and without ally intimation that the arrangement The receipts into the Treasury during the for
proposed with respect to seamen would be accepted. ending on the 30th of September last, have exeleemt,
Whether the subsequent communications from this l6 millions and a half of dollars, whichlisse b
Government, affording an occasion for reconsider- suf cient to defray all the demands on the Treastu,r:.
;.
ing the subject on the part of Great Britain, will be to that day, including a necessary reimhursemeavic
viewed in a more favoorable light, or received in a • near three millions of the principal of
' more accommodating spirit, remains to he known. debt. In these receipts are included a sum of aptr
0.
It would be unwise to release our-measures, in any *f,850,000 received on account of the 103115 au hue
respect, on a presumption of suds a result. rised by the Acts of last Session. The whole
. sum
The of
The documents from the department of State, actually obtained on loan amounts to n
which relate to this 'subject, will give a view also of dollars, the residue of which being receivable sewb:,
the propositions. for au armistice, which have been geese 'to the 30th of S'epternber,
together e
received here,—one of them from the authorities at the current revenue, enable us to defray All th
the pu
lialifas Mid in Canada, the other from the British penceF of this year.
c of the
Ciowersieseat isaelf, through Admiral Warren ; and The duties on the late unexpected imeorta(ons
Or the grpstuds upon whicit neither of thpm could be British manufactores will resider the swot%
accepted. ensuing year more productive than could ha -u_tletow.
Our affairs With France retain the posture which anticipated. .110 situation
they held at my last communlptiqq to you. citizens,
is not without its difficulties, thooigh;
Notwithstanding the authorised expectation of an abounds in animating considerations,
of wl:ii
reis
early 1'0! Gtvottilllitld of the discsissioes siew here presented of our pecuniary roan]
of rm. votary, feit

LONDON':
TuESDAT, MUMS, 15,
We this morning received the following letter frost
Our Correspondent at Dover :
Doren, Dec. 14.—A Spanish vessel arrived in the
Downs last evening from Gottenburgh, in four days,
aihl brings an account that BONAPATCTE bad been shot
by wie of his own officers. A vessel has just arrived
itt the Roads from Ostend, and is said to confirm the
above, the news Of BONAPARTeg death having ay.
riled a few hours before this vessel left that place.
She will come in next tide.

i

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'We have this day to lay before our Readers &copy
r,' the Message, addressed by the PmesprNr of the [
I.llPt (IStates to Congress, s usual, at the commence.: ,
meat of the new Session, which is highly interesting.'
It commences with congratulating the nation upon i
thc healthy state of its inhabitants,' and the great
abundanc2 with which the earth has rewarded their
labours. It complains of being compelled to !Aye
recourse to war, in gaff Se oppose $ system of 'UK .
saitice and aggoession which had been long persevered
i, by Great Britain, whose Conduct, by engaging the
savages to assist them in the war, had greatly ag. i
gidrated the hostile feelings of the United States,
a. it had been their Wadable polloy to re. I
cornmc:id peace and civiligation amongst that 1
wretched Portion of the human race, and to ands*.
Tot:: to dissuade them from taking either side in the
wit.; but the English had not scrupled to toll to
t!.v:r aid a ruthless ferocity, armed with the horrors
lii those instruments Of carnage and torture which
b-1 b'...crt found to spare neither age nor sex. Such
/was the spectacle which the deputed Authorities of
a twine, boasting its religion and morality, had not
beet, restrained from presenting to an enlightened
2ge; aLd which could not be mitigated by calling it a i
self.defence against men in arms, as it embraced the
most shocking butcheries among defenceless families;
hor could they pretend not to be answerable for the
atroeities perpetrated, since the savages were em.•
Ployed with their knowledge, and even with menaces,
I:rouwing a fury which could not be controlled. It
then states that the national spirit had risen in pro-
portion to the pressure on it, and that the loss of
their brave men had inspired every where new era
dour and determination. The Message likewise
states, that the United States, anxious to abridke the
eras of war, bad lost no time In conveying to Abet