The Statesman.
London, England, 1812-09-10 00:00:00

THE STATESMAN.

UNITED sTATLS' RIGATE CONSTITUTION.
BOSTON, Jva.Y Y 7.

We have the pleasure of announcing the arrival in
oar harbour, last evening, of the frigate Constitution,
Captain Hum.. She left the Chesapeake Bay on the
11th inst. and on the 16th, in the afternoon, saw a
frigate, and gave chase : the winds being light, they
could not come near enough before night to ascertain
who she was. It continued calm the principal part
of the night. On the morning of the 17th, an English
squadron was discovered, consisting of a ship of the
line, four frigates, a brig, and schooner—the nearest
frigate within gunshot. Through the whole of this day
it was calm ; and every exertion made, by towing and
warping to make head-way ; but the enemy by attach-
ing all their boats to two of the frigates, were evi-
dently gaining upon the Constitution, and occasion-
ally enabled them to bring their bow guns to bear upon
her. This kind of manoeuvring, and the frequent dis-
charge of the Constitution's stern-chasers, continued
during the whole day; on the 18th, at day-light, a •
small breeze sprang up, when the Constitution spread
all her canvas, and, by outselling the enemy, escaped
a conflict, which she could not have maintained with
any hope of success against a force so greatly su- '
perior. The chace continued sixty hours, during
which time the whole crew remained at their sta-
tions. The Constitution was bound to New Yolk,
but from the uidavourableness of the winds, has
put in here.
BALTIMORT, JOLT 913. 1

The Reign of Terror. and Proscription has raised
its hideous form once more among us. The first as-
sault on the Federal Republican Office, was but a
farce compared to the one of last night. The cause of
*fella WU, the re-appearance of the Federal Repub.
!ican yesterday. The paper itself is printed in
Georgetown, district of Columbia; the Editors,
however, took an office in this city, from whence it
was to be distributed among the Subscribers here.—
The Editors hiving received isformation in the course
of the day that an attempt would be made in the
eight to demolish the building and its contents, they
accordingly prepared themselves to defend their per-
nos and property. About fifty of their friends
joine,l them, armed and otherwise accoutred. About
ten o'clock the mob made their appearance, and
commenced the attack by throwing a volley of brick-
bats at the windows, to which no return was
made from within. At length they attempted to force
the doors of the building, when those within desired
them to desist, at the same time firing ns a warning
three pistols without ball. The assailants then burst
open the door, when those within were ordered to •
fire, and three or four of the ringleaders were in-
-standy ICYCPC4 with the ground and several others
wounded. slaving been defeated in this instance,
they had recourse to the gun-house of one of our ar-
tillery companies, from whenee they took a nine-
pounder, which they loaded and placed opposite to
the house, and were only deterred from firing it by
a troop of horse making their appearance, when a
compromise being made with the Defendants, and a
few of their friends without, that they would go to
jail and hold themselves amenable to the tans for
v; hat they had done, accordingly about '2O of our
most respectable citizens were conducted to jail for
safety,, under a guard of soldiers, and amidst the
shootings and joyful acclamations of as infuriated a
sot of demagogues as ever disgraced the city of Paris
under Itoursmitat. They have threatened to pull
~own the jail, as likewise the court-house. Our
praiseworthy Mayor was sent fur early, but did not
make his appearance till after six u'ettck this morn-
in4, when he remained a passive spectator !—Oh !
that we had a Da IVITT CLINThN here, an end
would soon be put to these iniquities and allonti-
nations."

MOST HORRIBLE BUTCHERY AND MURDER!
tirlucT OF • LETTER TROD BALTIMORE, DAM) ON WED-

WESDAT MORNING AT NINE O.( tocK.

" The. Gentlemen referred to in iny letter of yesterday, pre-
f. rred remaining in prison to being hailed out, nuder assurances
Af protection from the t'onstituted Authorities. A regimerit of
i...f.ihtry, a company of artillery, and certain troopers were
ordered out, A detachment of thcmob surrounded the escort of
the rientlemen M thejnil...wounded several of them with stones
as tl,ey were starching along the street, and struck seseral others
37 th ascended the steps), while the greater part of them coed-
rued about and in the house of Mr. WAGNen, destroying the
furniture and the iellernal work of the hailding, throughout the
day, without the least molestation.

" After dinner I stalked out to Howard's Park opposite the
.
which was surrounded by a large concourse of people.—
Erigadier-General Sinus= and the Mayne were walking
about apparently anteater-Ned. The eonstant cry of the mob
was ' blood for blond.' No military appeared, although de-
-I.ehroents were paraded in tern, which a little before sue-set
*sec unloved to Os dismissal as being unneeenery; and, within
an hoer frees that time, the mob, without resistance, entered the
jail and forced the door of the apartment which contained the
entlemen. Mr. DANTIL Mranat presctted himself before
'em with pistols and they drew hack—the Gentlemen then
JAed forward, ami many of then, succeeded in effecting their
'=cape uabort. General LIP MAN was inhumanly murdered, and
etvcral were desperately wounded. Mr. Joust Twonrsow,
beaten to a mummy—wan of his arms broken in two places, and
olio deep indentures In his right cheek, continues barely to exist.
General Lest, with a fractured seen, was take. to the Hospital,
but it is hoped be will survive his wound, as well as Mr. GEOII/Ge
NV mai versa, and another Gentleman, who were terribly beaten.
1 l•ave beard of none others much isiured. In the course of the
afternoon Mr. Hansom put his head out of the window and pro-
claimed, that they were trearherously 'rot there to be ussmaered.
" General Lrgeaw is the idol of Montgomery, and serious
eoaiequences are apprehended to result from his murder. It
*IS reported yesterday morning, that an express had gone to
Motgoalery for an escort of six hundred horse--and consider.
lag that the General—a Member of the Legislature, and several
si their most distinguished citizens, were in imminent peril, it
is impossible to predict the consequences of these excitements.
" Mr. Taoism), was taken about in a tart last alght—and
this naraiolts at half-past nine, it he be alive, is to be tarred
and feathered, and paraded through the strcets--de prevent
which I eats hear et no measures taken. Trumpets, have beers
I"wiagl ands atlenith, about belt & troop at hems.-11

party of artillery without uniform, and a company of {gantry,
'Hemet either uaiforta or arms, lave appeared, and, it is said,
are going out for exercise au the !olassess.

"-Thefollowing (ineosoplete) list, extracted from tie Whig,
contains the names of the thstietsea above referred lost—Wm.
Schroeder, John Thoupsoo, ORA. Harry Lee, otbo Sprig&
Heavy Kennedy, Mules Kilgore. Joan E. Hall, George Win-
chester, Perregrine Wad Mid, Alexaarkr C. Hama, George
Richards, Edward Gain., David Hoßimy Horatio Bigelow,
Ephraim Gaither, William Gaither, Jaeckficholey, Mark U.
Pringle, Daniel Mummy, Can. Junes
gas, also Mr. Mosgrove daagereeely wooded' at the Hospital.
—Several moms not reeolleeted."

We have received farther extracts from the French
Papers, which wilt be found In a preceding column.
A Lisbon Mail has aloe arrived this morning, from
which we have taken the followleg extract :

LISBON, Ana. 25,
The glorious entry of his Excellency the Marshal
of Torres Vedras in the capital of Spain, will not be
attended with inferior moral consequences to the re-
sults purely military, which the celebrated victory in
the fields of Salamanca will produce, as applied to
the existence of the French army in the Peninsula.—
The incredulous, if there were any respecting that
recent victory, must at last give way by the evidence
of his having entered Madrid, Which was its legitimate
consequence ; this can neither be hidden nor denied ;
when King Joseph is obliged to abandon his ill-ac-
quired Court and Capital ; when insecure wherever
he passes, and wherever his disgrace conducts him,
can there still remain any doubt upon this event 2--
( Lisbon Gazette, Aug. 25.)

By further extracts from the Gottenburgb Mail,
it appears, that 13E1mm:born's Speech, on closing
the Swedish Diet, was merely the echo of that made
by the King of SWEDEN, calling forth the energies of
the nation for their own defence, without alluding to
any intended co-operation with Russia. These Pa-
pers also announce the Proclamation of Peace be-
tween England and Russia, comprehending the sr-
rangemeuts in favour of trade with Great Britain.

RENEWED RIOTS AT NOTTINGHAM.
NOTTINGHAM. Sem 9.
On Monday morning, a baker in Nottingham had
the temerity to advance his flour two-pence a stoae,
in the face of a falling market, which so enraged the
women, that several got a fishing-rod, and fixed a
halfpenny loaf upon it, which they coloured over
with reddle, in imitation of its being dipt in blood,
and likewise adorned it with a piece of crape. With
this they began to parade the streets, and soon col.
lected a very large mob, among which were two
women with hand-bills, who were dignified with the
titles of Madam and Lady LUDD. The first object
of their vengeance was the baker who had advanced
the price of his floor; they broke his windows, and
compelled him to drop his flour sixpence a stone.
The mob then divided into several parties, and treated
nearly every baker and flour-seller in the same manner;
not sparing their windows till they had promised to
drop flour six-pence a stone. In vain did the Mayor and
the other Magistrates reason with them on the im-
propriety of their conduct. Impelled by hunger and
revenge, they flew from one object of vengeance to
another; and in one place a woman was carried in
a chair to give the word of command; and some
parties went to the neighbouring villages, where they
exercised their authority in the same manner. The
Mayor, at length, ordered out the military, and
peace was, apparently, restored. During the night,
a party of men went to Alderman BATtes farm, about
two miles hence, and, after regaling themselves with
such fare at the house afforded, they took away a
blunderbess and a gun. They likewise went to the
house of one of Lord CIIESTERFIELD'S keepers, and
took away his fire-arms and some hams. Oa Tues-
day morning the scenes of fUrnult were renewed
with increased violence; arts loaded with po-
tatoes were stopped in the streets and sold at reduced
prices ; a corn warehouse was attacked with great
fury, as well as many bakers• shops, but without
any mischief being done, except the breaking of wits-
dou s, and some other (titling affairs. What added
to the tumult gas, the bread served out to the sol-
diers was found to be short of weight; and many of
them were•, ou Monday, seen active in the mob.—
A peace officer and a party of the West Kent Militia,
are now stationed in every house or warehouse con-
sidered in danger, while parties of hussars constantly
parade the streets. Yesterday three prisoners were
brought in from a neighbouring village.—• All is quiet
this morning.

We had a letter from Liverpool yesterday, which
says that there is no truth in the story of the Presi-
dent having been carried into Halifax, the writer
haring letters from thence subsequent to the date as-
signed to the arrival of the American frigate, and
which letters are silent as to such an event.
It was reported yesterday, that the town of Mon-
treat had been taken possession of by a detachment
of the United States troops. No accounts of that na-
ture have, however, reached this country.
14:Ens, Sim 7.—We feel sincere pleasure in be-
ing able to state, that. for many days past the Ma-
gistrates of Manchester have been humanely exerting
themselves in recalling those unfortunate men deno-
minated Luddites back to their daty to their cow:
-
try. Many of them have coew voluntarily forward
and renounced the injunction of that infamous oath
which they had permitted themselves to accept from,
designing men, during the,lans•thnes of perturbatiow
and riot. Of this oath they knew little, and many
of them had never hesitated to enquire the nature of
the bond under wide& they were unfortunately'
leaguing. The oath of *neg. lance has been adminis-
tered to all the applicants, and meetings are bold by
the Magistrates lit' the New Bayley court Hone, on
appointed daps, to receive the submissions of them
who are Wanting to torn/.

COPENT.G ARDEN THEATRE.
The Beggar: Opera was performed last night at
this Theatre, in which Mr. INcLapos was the Mac- ,
heath, Mrs. C. Knout the Lucy, and a Mrs. STER-
LING the Polly. The person of Mrs. STIALING is
rather approximating to en bon point, yet not enough
so as to render her inelegant; her face possesses the
lineaments of beauty, and her manner was genteel ;
though she evidently suffered - scenic agency,
by possessing a portion of sensibility too keenly ope-
rative; but as modesty is, commonly, significant of
merit, we may expect, with some warrantable confi-
dence, that, when she has a little more public self-
possession, she may become an ornament to that de-
partment of her profession which she bath chosen as
a debutante. Her voice is good, and her articulation
distinct : in executing the air of " Ah ponder well,"
she was particularly successful, and. was properly
encored.

When Mr.lact.enos made his appearance in Mac-
heath, he was greeted most enthesiastically from all
parts of the Theatre ; and it must have been truly
gratifying to his mind, to feel, and know, that,
after serving the Public during so many years, he
still retained their esteem, perhaps, in as warm a
degree as ever. He was in fine voice, and we have
seldom heard him exert himself with more effect; he
poured forth the etch stream of melody, which he lie
eminently can command, in a way that, at once, both
charmed and electrified the audience. In executing
the duet of " The Miser thus a Shilling sees," he
was wholly equal to himself. We are sorry that
o cannot extend this panegyric to his ailing, as
he certainly misunderstood, ohcasionally, the mean.
lag of his author; but he hath been rambling
in the provinces, where, if an actor acquires any
new habits, they are very seldom of an advan.
tageous sort : a kind of slip-shod demeanour is
imbibed, which the frequenters of a Metropolitan
Theatre cannot altogether relish. Though Macheath
is a highwayman, it should be recollected that he is
a gentleman, and, of course, should deliver his sen-
timents with some degree of refinement. The repro.
tentative of Sixteen-string Jack may be boisterous
in his mirth, and not depart from the genuine bear-
ing of the character ; hut Macheath, who keeps good
company, should have certain restraints about him,
even in the fullest manifestation of his joys and sor-
rows; for, though Macheath is tainted in his morals,
he is not presumed to be vulgarised in his deport-
ment.

We derived great pleasure from seeing Mrs. C.
KrataLE in the part of Lucy, which she assuredly
personates with mare truth and spirit than any other
Actress that we have known. It is an instance of
eacetlence upon which the memory of the judicious
can dwell with satisfaction, and may be quoted here-
after, in order to prove what such au assumption I
should be.

The Earl of MARCH, eldest son of the Duke of
ittcrtmosn, and one of the Marquis of NVELLING•
TON'S Aids-de-Camp, arrived yesterday forenoon,
in Downing-street, from Corunna, with duplicates of
the dispatches, respecting the possession of Madrid
by the Allied Army.
Captain TALBOT, of the Victorious, 74, has been
presented by the Board of Admiralty with a gold
medal, to be worn with his fall uniform, suspended
by a ribband from the fourth button-hole, on the
left side of the lappet, for his gallant conduct in cap-
tering the Rivoli, of 80 guns, in the Gulph of
Venice.

BREAKWATER AT PLintouvu.—We understand
apprehensions are entertained, that if this great na-
tional undertaking is proceeded with, the accumdla-
lion of sand will, in a very few years, completely
cheek op the harbour. This objection was stated
some time agio to the Admiralty, by a Gentleman
residing in Cornwall, but his opinion was though
to be fallacious: he has since formed, on a small
scale, a harbour, upon the same plan, on his estate
contiguous to the sea, and 1125 run out a pier similar
to the one just began at Plymouth—the result has
verified his prediction. lle is now in town, and the
Board of Admiralty have entered into a serious in-
vestigation of the matter.

SECOND EDITION.

STATESMAN OFFICi, rtro o.cLocra
LONDON GAZETTE EXTRAORDINARY.

WAR DEPARTMENT.

Downing-Street, Sep(., 10!

Major D'Oyr.Y, Aid-de-Camp to Major-General
Cooaz, has this morning arrived with dispatcher,
addressed to the Fad BATHURST by Major-General
Cooar, dated Cadiz, 28th August, of which tho
following are a copy and and an Extract :

CADIZ, Ave.9i.

MY Loao,--I beg leare to refer your Lordship
to the inclosed copy of a Letter to. General the Ea 1
et itimisrorox,lreporting that the enemy abindo
ed his position opposite to this place, and the
I,la de Leon, on the night of the 24th, and morning
of the 25th.

Cadiz, Aug. 26, 1812.

MY Loan,—l have the pleasure to inform your
Lordship, that the enemy abandoned his positions
and works opposite to Cadiz and the Island, on the
night of the 24th and morning of the 25th, except
the town of Port Santa Maria, where a body of
troops remained till the middle of the day, and then
withdrew to the Cartage. He has left a very nu.
merous artillery in the several works, and a large
quantity of stores and powder ; and although most
of the ordnance have been rendeted useless, he ap-
pears to have retired from his position with more
precipitation than I should have expected.
A considerable body of cavalry was brought (low*
previous to the retreat commencing.

The towns of Puerto Real and Chiclona are now
occupied by detachments of Spanish troops, and a
party from the 2d Hanoverian Hussars is at the tint-
mentioned place, to which Colonel Lambert had
moved from the Portazzo with them, and seine light
troops from this division.

I hare the honour to be, &e.
The Earl of Wellington, &c. &c. (IEO. COOKE.

(Extrict.)

I take thii opportunity of informing your Lord-
ship, that Colonel Seaman and the Spanish troops
under General Cauz, were at Manzonilla on the
22d, where they remained to draw the attention of
Marshal So ULT.

I beg to state to your Lordship, that the Regency
has given orders to commence a cut across the Tro•
cadero immediately, by a considerable number of
workmen, so as to insulate it.