The Statesman.
London, England, 1815-02-22 00:00:00

HOUSE OF LORDS. FEB. 41.

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PllOll rai LONDON GAZETDE, FES. 21.

IMPERIAL PARLI4MEN7'.

spondeuce between the Admiralt. and Navy Bo rd
on the subject of slonps of war, together with the
representations of the Admiralty to the Navy B-art].
1 These Sloops, too, were defective in point of size,stid •
JURY TRIAL,
The LORD CHANCELLOR, at the suteestioo of Lord not fit to cope with the large American sloops. 'eh, next
Skeaew, mentioned Thursday as the day for the second read- point was, the defective manner in who h tee snips
leg et the Scotch Trial by Jury Rill, and moved that she Lords were manned. With the knowledge which the Art_
.miralty must have had of the description 'or ships with
ibemnamoned for that day.—Ordered accordingly,
09 the motion of Lord MONTFORT, the Order of itie Day
for the consideration of Mrs. Lee's Petition was discharged, nod which out's had to .contend they ()Ugh* to nave.
'the petitiou was ordered to be takes into con-ideration on made corresponding preparations. They might hetet': .1140oday.
eftrIt_SIELVILLE, Earl of LAUDERDALE, and Duke had fewer ships, and those of a larger size aid better' -
OFOLK, presented several Petitions from tile Growers manned • and if this had been done, it wou
of Corn in Haddington, %emir, &c. which were laid'on the " I
table. prevented a great sacrifice of the, lives of our b 'fiet,i.,
a Persen from the Stamp-otter presented an *comet of Pro- seamen. Our natal managers had, hi. anent, IoN?-: -.
tmissore Notes Stamped between April, 1613. and April, 1814; lowed a different plait. In the case of the .free
and a Penton from the East India Dock Company presented .
Palters from that Composiy.—Laid on the table_ , ;lonian frigate, for instance, there never was a crew
i NAVAL ADMINISTRATION. I worse constituter' ; and the Captain, who had sub-
-1 Earl DARNLEY.—tit risings pursuant to notice, , sequentiy lost his life probably from -nos memeneere-•
to move for certain papers relative to the Adminis. . meat of the Admiralty, had, when he left Porte-
tration of the Naval Affairs of this Country during mouth, bitterly complained of the state of the crew.
the contest with America, he should not do justice I He would ask the Noble Viscount whether our
to his owti feelings if he did not congratulate the : sloops had been Brimmed as to make any thing like
House on the additional wreath of glory Which 'had I a match for the American sloops ? A crew of le7
been lately acquired by the gallantre, of the officers men was made up of 73 seamen; .20 boys, 20 ma-
and seamen of the British navy. This was one of rises, and these had to cope with 180 picked men.
I the many proofs of the superiority of our naval What, then, was the most probable result in case •''
officers and men when brought into competition on ; close action ? He appealed to those most conversan
any thing approaching to equal terms, even with the ; with matters of this sort, whether this was the way
activity, enterprise, and naval skill of the Ameri- in which the navy.ought to be managed, and w he-
cans. But while he congratulated their Lordships ther the most proper plan would not hive been, to .
on that circumstance, he could not help remarking , have had a smaller number. but of a strews( r and mote
that the sensation which it had excited served to i efficient description ? In order to bring this point
prove that, though no imputation could ever have' before their Lordships, he shoski move fir the
'been justly cast upon our officers and seamen, very minutes of theCourts-Martial held on the officers anti
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serious blame attached to those to whom the admi- crews of some of our ships of war whicb had been
nistration of our naval affairs had been entrusted.— taken bythe Americans. He wished likewise to have
It was a further proof, if proof had been wanting, before their Lordships, the representations which end
that to the nasal administration alone the disasters I been made by naval officers respecting the etudes.
which We had before experienced were to be ascribed. ! ciency of their crews ; and when these were pit-
Their Lordships would observe, that this frigate the I duced, he believed it would be found that these
Endymion, though the only one (previous to the : gallant men had severely felt the deplorable disatt-
'building of the late large class of frigates) which . vantage under which they laboured from !lea ciretem.
could carry a 24-pounder, and at all calculated to istence. Another very material point • was, that of
meet the American frigates, was at the time when he • the supplies afforded to our fleets on 'the -American
first brought this subject to the attention of their I Lakes. The Noble Viscount had boasted that the
Lordships, out of commission. Stich was the judg- supplies had not only been sufficient, but much more
ment and prescience of those who had the direction ' than sufficient. That Noble Viscount and his co.
of the navys who must have been acquainted with : adjutors had adopted one notable device to secure a
the American navy, and the class of ships with which Isoperiority on the American Lakes. They bed coul-
eur frigates would have to contend. This ship, too, ! structed ships in Chatham docks with American
.had ao additional complement of men ; and yet the 1 timber, then taken them to pieces, and scot out tee
Captain, of wbotte judgment there could now be as i pieces to be carried up the Rapids, and to be put to-
ilette doubt as of his valour, thought the crew too gether again on the Lakes. Such were the wise and
oseilt, and, on leaving port, had-pressedebe Adati- immentsiee-preietrite_naeteedakintettators, ins
ratty for greater 'uuntber of min. The Noble 'Pie- 1, tififfeni'ci-croubt to awe it:pence, and answer the
count at the head of the Admiralty had. at the begin- ' purpose of expedition. Ile should therefore move
ling of the Session, made a pompous display of the ' for an account of the expetices of buitdlug one of '
number of ships taken from the Americans. Consi- these ships, and sending out the pieces in this mol-
dering the numbers of the British nary, anti the' ner. It was known to their Loreships that at the
blockade of the American rivers and harbours, it ; close of the last season we had at last gained th,• ,a-
would have been surprising if a great number of Ame- ' periority on Lake Ontario 'by the construction of
dean ships had not been taken. He did not conceive, ii one ship larger than any that had been built by the
therefore, that the numbers added much to any , Americans. Yet, notwithstanding the boasted sup.
favourable view that could be taken of the conduct !ply of stores to our fleets on the Lakes, lie had been
of the Admiralty. But in the return of these ships informed, that had it not been for the accidental ar-
and guns, it was worthy of remark, that the Ame- , rival off the American coast of some of our ships of
ricans had been rated at the number of guns taken, war with part of the troops which had belonged to
while our's had been estimated according to the class the Duke of Wellington's army, that ship could not
, of the ships ; the guns in a 38-gun frigate had been have been fitted out from the-want of stores and sup-
stated at 58, while, in point of fact, the ship might 1 plies of various descriptions. The Centaur, the Ajax,
have carried 44 guns. This, perhaps, was a matter . and the other ships of war which had arrived with
of no great importance, but still it was note fair way these troops, had each supplied something which she
of making up an account. Besides, no less than I could spare, in order to have the ship in question
le4 of the American ships consisted of gun-boats, I fitted out; and without this accidental assistance,
steam-boats, and'vessels of that description, carry- I she could not have been fitted out at all. He should,
ing about six guns each. In answer to an observe- : therefore, move for the Correspondence with the
tion of his on a former occasion, the Noble Viscount I Canadian Government relative to the building of
had boasted of the great number of. British ships of !ships on the Lakes. Another point deserved atten-
war at sea. He was desirous of coming to issue tion ; he alluded to the protection afforded to our
with the Noble Viscount on that head, and should trade. 11'ith respect flea, I.e remained of the mine
therefore move for a return of the number of Bri. lopinion as before; nothing like adequate protection
tish ships of war at sea on the 26th of December, had been given. He was anxious likewise to call
1814. He should also move for a .return of the their Lordships' attention to a circumstance unpre.
numbers of men on board each ship, with the pro- cedented in the annals of the British navy. It was
, portion of boys in each. He would venture to said that instructions had been sent by the Admiralty
assert, that on the production of these accounts, it . to the Captains of our frigates to avoid' an engage-
• would appear that a great proportion of the ships at I ment with the American frigates. In this House,
sea were not effective ships of war. Did the Noble ; the walls of which exhibited a memorable instance of
Viscount thiuk that a ship under 18 guns could be a , our naval triumphs—in this base where so many sat
match even for an American privateer? His object i who had been ennobled by their naval achievements,
then was, to have a return which would give a cor- I could it be endured, without appropriate indignation,
RESURRECTION MEN.—Those who have lain bu-that instructions should have beets emit its. the Cap-
vied as it were for years past, have now risen to a rect view of the number of ships of war in commis-
sion during the American contest, that it might be tains of British frigates to avoid coping with Ameri-
new life of Adventure, in their eagerness to purchase seen what proportion was effective, and what not.— Can frigates ? Yet such instructions had been under.
Tickets and Shares for the Three Thirty Thousal He believed it would clearly appear that it would stood to have been sent. The Admiralty having,
Pound Prizes, and the Five Thousand Guinea Prize have been Infinitely preferable to have had a smaller with their eyes open suffered the proper season to
Ito be paid io Gold as soon as drawn, declaring they 1 number of a larger. and better description, and pass without constructing frigates of a class fit to
bad no inducement in the common insipid Schemes of , better manned. If the Admiralty had followed thee; meet the American frigates—and having when to.,
late years, and only buried themselves until the pre- I plan of which the advantages were so obvious, those; tete discovered their error, they found themselves
sent enlivening Scheme re-animated them, and which i disasters which 'had in a few instances happened I obliged to attempt a remedy, by sending instructions
seems to please all classes of Adventurers. The
to our navy would probably never have occurred.— to avoid engaging with the enemy. Had such in-
Drawing begins sth April.
There was soothes point to which he was very! structions been really given or not ? Be hoped the
On Tuesday the Old Bailey S isioss ended, when sentence of
death was ;tossed on James privet, for returning from trams. sit ig io us to direct their Lordships, attention, as it !Noble Viscount would be able to tell that they had
portation : Jame- Smeey, for hone-stealing; Susannah towns was a subject which ought ever to be kept in view in ; not been given ; bet still it could .dot be forgotten,
.alias Jettning., and Sarah Ward, for high treason: !Grimed time of peace as ecll as in time of war—he alluded ' that the Captain of a British, frigate was said to hate
Grape, James James, Elizabeth Mary Turner and John Lane*
for stealing in dwelling-house'; Sarah Perry and Gearee Jones. to the manner in which our ships of war were con- : been compelled to show his btstructions, to prove
for stealing privately in a shop; Joseph Curtis, Part sang. structed. It had beets said, that we never took a i that he had been ordered to avoiti an engagement.--
ford. Joseph Hodges, John Allrork. and John Yarnell,
burglary ; Timothy !beyond slim Demme, for hinglary and ;
rob cry ;sad Elizabeth Itinerisse who wits capitally convicted
tier ,copy of the body of a fine ship which came into our I Ile,hoeed and trusted it would not he said, that be- -
hands without spoiling it. The Noble Viscount cause the war was now at an ehd, it was therefore•
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at the last Sessions, fir stealing m a ilwelling-bouse. Two to
he Irmo/noted for life; four tar fourteen years; not! Wa- might smile, hut such he understood to be the fact.— ' unnecessary to enquire into these matters. lie con
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Oat such was the attachment of those to whom that gratulated the House and the country that we were
four for se ve.i year.
This morning Seagrim nod Moore, found guilty at the tittelli Y
at was entrusted to antiquated prejudices,and old now at peace with America.. Though the war had .
Old (Wiry Sessions, of a robbery in a field, were enslave et forms, that
either from that cause, or from our over- been conducted on our part in a manner leech more
Ne w gutr, pursuant to their sentence.
. • weaning vanity, or both, our navy was rendered in- advantageous and honourable, still be 'beta ley that
MEI. —Early oin Monday morning It ineethertnak Voce Ine si. • of construction.
hind Holland-House, Kiinington, between Captain .of the , IMINOnS in point Those who were peace was desirable, the very moment it *mild be
Navy, and Mr. 11. In ~ asequence of a dispute oo the subject of employed iii this important object could hardly con- Procured on reaeonahle terms. On that voini. there-
sir .1. MORRAY'S Court-Martial. The parties were accom-
panied is the ground by their seconds and a surgeon ; and ends stroct it sloop of war that was fit for sea. They fore, he heartily congratulated the House and the
ex rhanarrt twn shots. At the second fire Mr. H.'s hall entered , were really dangerous—not sea-worthy ; and he him- country ; but still he belletrsd he could make out a
the right arm of Capt. M. et the wrist The seconds tow inters self happosted to have seen instances where sloops case which would show the necessity of enqu 1,. If
fend, told the party declaring themselses snasfied, entered a
post-eaaise which was waiting id the UxbriJge-road, and re-0
had been brought back as unfit to keep the sea. Ile this country were to be a great country at all, it must
o timed to town together. thereol4l wished to move for Copies of the Corte- 'be by means of its navy. But our naval Wes Aan

Whigeheil, Pei. 21.

His Royal Tfighneis the Prince Regent bath bees
-pleased, in the mine and on the behalf of his Majes-1
ty, to give and grant unto Kenneth Mac Kenzie,
'Esq. Post-Captain in the Royal Navy, his Majesty's
royal licence and permission, that he may accept and
wear the insignia of a Knight of the Royal Swedish
.Military Order of the Sword.

LENT ASSIZES, 1815.
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NORFOLVC2ACILIT. , , ._ .
liisurtsbottatics-Adr. ,Ittstiee Hoare. .;
Burkinclutualdre-Masada_y. 11, at Aylesbury. •
Bedfordshire-Thursday. Nimes Iff. at Bedford i•-
lituningdoashire-Satantsy, Mho* 18, at Hostimploa.
Cambridgesitine,-Thesday, Mardi 11, at Cambridge. ". A
Norfolk-S*o,May, Mitch 49, at Ther(ord.
Suffolk-Thursday, March la. at Bury St. Edmond's.
MIDLAND CIRCUIT.
11, Sir VICARY Gr_mr. 311StiCe BAILEY.
Northampt.inshirc-Satur y,.March )1, at Northampton.
Rutlandshire- Friday, Marsh 10, at Oltcham.
Lincoln-10re -Satarday, !larch 11, at the Castle of Lincoln.
City of Lioenlit--thc same day, at ?he City of Liocoln.
Nottinghamshire-Friday, March 17, at Nottingham.
Tnwn.of Nettiughaus--the same day.
Derhyshire-Wedocaday. March 42, at Derby.
Leicestershire-Tuesday. March 48. at the Castle of Leicester.
Boron,* of Iseicestar-the sameday.
Coventry-Saturday, April 1, at the City of Coventry.
Warw ichsbire-the same day, at Wa. w wk.

NORTHERN CIRCUIT.
Sir A. Tuomsots--Air. Justice LE BLANC.

City of York. and Cote ty of the some (7 Mare►
11. at the Guildhall of the sold City.
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Yorkshire—the mine day, at the Castle of York.
Lancashire—Saturday, es, at the Castle of Lawaster.

HOME. CIRCUIT,
Mr. Justice CMAMDME—Mr. Baron Woov.
Hertfordshire—Tbanday, March 2, at Hertford.
Essex—Monday, March 6, at Chelmsford.
Amu—Monday, March IS, at Maidstine.
sussex—Moodiy, March 20, at Horsham.
Surrey—Saturday, March.9s, at Kingston-upon-Thames.
OXFORD CIRCUIT.
Mr. Justice DALLAS—ME. Baron RICKARDS.
Berluitire—Monday, March 6, at Reading.
Oxfordshire—Wednesday, March 8. at Oxford.
Worcestershire—Siturday, March 11, at Worcester.
City of Worcester—the same day, at the City of Worcester.
Staffordshire—Thursday, March 16, at Stafford.
Shropshire—Tuesday, March 41; at Shrewsbury.
Herefordshire—Monday. March 27, at Hereford.
Monmouthshire—Saturday, April 1, at Monmouth.
Gloucestershire—Wednesday, April 5, at Gloucester.
City of Gloucester—the same day, at the City of Gloucester.
WESTERN CIRCUIT.
Mr. Baron 6axatast—:Mr. J wire DAMPIER.

Southampton— 'onday, March 6, at the Castle of Winchester.,
W iltshire—Satordav, March 11. at New Sarum.
Dorsetsbire—Thnrsday. March 16, xi Dorchester.
Dewonshire—Monday, March 40, at the Castle of Exeter.
City and County of Exeter—the sante day. Guildhall, Kseter.
Cornwall—Monday, March 27, at Lnuacoston.
SoancoCishirc-4041014Y, IlarlitilafkOZlll4,l!% •
CHEST/1R
Sir W. GARROW. Knt.—the Hon. Mr. Justice Busvrow.
Montgomeryshire—Monday, March 13. at Welsh Pool.
Denbighshire—Saturday, March 18, at Risible.
Flintshire—Friday, March 24, at Mold.
Cheshire—Thursday, March So, at the Castle of Chester.

BANKRUPTCY ENLARGED.
R. Byrehmorr, Caddington, Hertfordshire, farmer, from
March 4 to April 42, at Guildhall.

BANKRUPTS.
W. Boyle, Kingston-upon-Hull, merchant, March 1,2,
April 4, at the Neptune Inn, Kingston-upon-Hull. Anomie",
Messrs. Exley, Stocker, and Dawson, Furnivals Inn ; and Mr.
Cotsworth,
J. Gowen, Heveningham, Suffolk, grocer, March 10, 11,
April 4, at the Angel Inn, Haleswortb. Attornies, Mr. Crabtree,
Halesworth ; and Mr. Pugh, Bernard-street, Russell-square.
J. Smith, Sudbury, upholsterer, Feb. 27, 28, April 4, at the
Rose and Crown, Sudbury. Anomie', Messrs. Frost and Sted-
man, Sudbury.
J. Gidlev, Norwich, coach-maker, Feb. 24, March 9, April
4, at the White Swan Inn, Norwich. Attoraies, Nlessn. Foster
and Unthatik, Horn ich.
W. Davis, tinner, Herefordshire, cattle-dealer, March 9,
4, April 4, at the Black Swan Inn, Hereford. Anomie-it,. Mr.
Pewtriss, Verulant-buildings, Gray's Inn; and Mr. Watkyns,
Hereford.
J. Schollick, Wooloaks, Cumberland, corn-dealer, March
1, 2. April 4, at the Black Horse Inn, Carlisle. Attornies, Mr.
Birkett, Cloak-lane; and Mr. Blow, Carlisle.
J. Manton, Foulsham, Norfolk, grocer, Feb. 25, March 4,
April 4. at the White Swan, Norwich. Attornies. Mr. Quarles,
Foulshain ; and Messrs. Windits and Holtaway, Southampton-
buildings.
N. Ablitt, Ipswich, maltster, March 1,2, April 4. nt the
Bear and Crown Inn, Ipswich. Atturaies, Messrs. Pearson
and Bunn, Ipswich; and-Mr. Taylor, John-street, Bedford-
TOW.

J. Matthews, Norwich, plumber, Feb. 25, March 4, April
4, at the Norfolk Hotel, Norwich. Attornies, Messrs. Simpson
and ltnekham, Norwich; and Mcss►s. Winduv and Iloltaway,
Chancery-bane.
E. Booghton, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, mercer, March.
3,4, April 4, at the Star and Garter Inn, Worcester. Attar-
nips, Mr. Robeson, Bromsgrove; and Messrs. I:lactate and
Neeld, Essex-street, Strand.