The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-02-24 00:00:00

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LONDON: .
TUEST)AT, 7811IWART Si; 1916.

Philadelphia Papers Papers to the 23d, and Boston
to the tOth nit. reached .as this forenoon. The
American troops, who were ascending the Fast*
River,had had another engagement with 1200 lodises
30 miles below Fort Scott. When the impress left,
which was on the 18th, the fire from both parties
continued; at which time Major Muucaseuaci had
three men killed end thirteen wounded ; bet. there
was not the least appreheniion of any of the vessels
being taken that were under his command. • The
troops' so defended themselves In the vessels, hole
the enemy, that they were perfectly safe. Captain '
Wisectsu, who commanded a post 12 miles from
Fort Scott; with 40 men, was attecited Decembeif,
15, by between R and 300 Indians.
.• Captain M. de..
. teased them etiOnot losing a single man, end ftaa•
. -Wee* Wes sitiewed4 Thorolad OM been a skirsitsb'
between the (deadly end hostile Savages, in which
the Chief of the former wits killed, in consequence of
which a number of the pert, andertis command de.
silted and joined the hostile Indians. The
drafted troops were a4sembliog at Darien, and it
was understood that they would march ilalite•
.diately for Hartford. Gen. Gc.Ascoca, at the bead of
1000 men, left Hartford for the Indian nation esti the
27th Dec. A detachment of United States troop,
from Amelia, and. a further draft of Militia hid also
proceeded towards Dario., es bad also Getters!
GAHM!.

At length the mountain, after secret workings nod
portentous beatings, has been been delivered of Its
mouse. The consistent absurdity of our present
Ministers is beyond example. " None but them.
selves coo be their parallel." They began with. forte,
in the " Notch ado about Nothing" style, converted
it Into a tragedy, and now they come forth with an-
other farce upon the same subject, truly original.
The Report of the Secret Committee of the Rouse of
Lards was submitted last night, metered ender tbp
hippies! auspices of official security, end undisturbed
by the least appearance of Conflicting testimony;
though Ossa was heaped upon Pallor) and Pelii
Upon Ossa from the Rome Secretary's Green Doc
- collections to assist in •composing this impeoetraige
defence. A notable effort of collected wittiest it
certainly is. " Catch me if yea tans" seims:loo
the motto. As toeny thing like information hi.
partial representation, we believe so onetime/bell
silly enoegh -to expect such things from the Rws
and no one will be disappointed*. This Reekbw of
the State of the country, this Exposition of Mini-
sterisl Justice and Policy, relates' no fact to justify
the Suspension Measures beyond the subsequent dis-
turbances et Derby, which might have been repressed
by the us-process of the established laws, with the
addition of the number of persons arrested on Lord
SIDMoCTIOI warrants, and liberated for want of proof;
but of the detestable arts of the Government Spies, and
the consequenoes of their horrid system, nothing
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said in the Report. This -document was to convilla
every one that the Ministers spoke troth when they.
accused the country of rebellion, and that neither they.'
sior their agents have itemised any uncalled-for se--
verity against the people, who have been clamoaring
for Reform. To produce this conviction, it refers to
the preceding Reports, the falsehood of which bas base
. disproved by every thing that has since transpired of
the plans of the *mimed individuals, sod the state of
public, sentiment. We are still requested by this.
reference to the truth of the former Reports to be-
lieve in the Stocking Plot of the wretch and
spy Castles, who swore that:Dr. Waysoo was to
smother all the soldiers and destroy the berrackrby
a chymioel process; and that he himself recon-
emitted the ground for that purpose. leech is the ye-
' rification (so far as the Public areacqoainted) of that
allegation of the Report ; and something similar
may be observed of almost all the others. We are to
believe all that has.been said too about-the herroretif
the *men System, for which the peer Evawvea
have suffered so -much, but respeetieg which' -the
Public yet know as little as they did before these
Reports were issued. Much is s'laid in the fti
port of last night of the projected, risings of tier
Reformers, and the intended orlirds of the. Ii;
surgeste to London, all. of which were so happily
frustrated by " the vigilance of his Majesty's Go-
vernment, and the activity of the Magistrates,". lot
forgetting " the weedy co-operation of the recibir
Troops and Yeomanry Cavalry," who se bravSty
took the Retitions from the poor Blanketeers, and
assisted to commit them to the dungeons in which
they were confined. The Public can compare
this very satisfactory detail with the narratives
In the Petitions of the Reforming Insurgents,
and the statements in the credible document,
presented last night in the House of Lords
by Earl Cantronvog, mot from persons who had
been imprisoned, bat from 'meal of the most re-
spectable Merchants and lobebitants of the town of
Manchester, who had undertaken to investigate the
allegations contained in the Reports of the secret
Committeetand which stated that the Petitioners had
found, on enquiry, that the Reports of the Secret