The Statesman.
London, England, 1812-04-23 00:00:00

THE STATESMAN,

TO THE LUDDITES OF NOTTINGIL4M.

THE BLACK EMPEROR'S NAVY.

C rxnutz,t,—l am unacquainted with the form of
your Government under King Leon, whether it be j
absolute er mixed; but am rather Inclined to suppose
it the latter, and if so, you have a Parliament some-
thing similitr to our own—equally under Ministerial
influence and venerating precedent unboundedly, ex•
cept when clashing with wholesome Ministerial inno-
vations. If this is the case, it certainly was a great
over sight in your King—no; I beg pardon,
I. I mean in his Ministers, to suffer any of you to
come under punishment of the law, when they might
have secured them most completely from all harm,
Iby passing a Bill of Indemnity in favour of all
Frame-breakers. Respect for precedent would have
prevented their trial; and the necessity of oicasionally
recurring to that measure ourselves, would prevent
all discussion on its merits and validity. It may not
I.be too late at present to be introduced, either by a I
motion to that effect, prefaced by a most gracious
message; or King Leo, by the advice of his Minis-
' ters, may make it a leading feature in his next speech
to his Parliament. It will give many much satisfac-
tion to find your King thus taking the field in a con-
' stitutional manner, and pitting Indemnity Bill
against Indemnity Bill, quoting precedent, making
t tine promises of future peerteamtaese, overiotoltiour
present distress and rain, to view in a far distant and
clouded prospect, success and glory, applauding Mi-
nisters, reprobating advisers, and, to crown the whole,
acting upon the principle, avowed in times not very
dissimiliar, of a rigour beyond the Laws. Thiscer-
-1 tainly is the era for the production of great mos.—
; Whether King Lynn will eclipse BONAPARTE time
must 'hew ; but that he is already great, is sufficient.
ly proved by our Ministers having sent their military
and legal forces against him. If he foils both record
I and bayonet united, adieu our liberties !

I --mu—
Very little has yet transpired concerning the
1 cause and capture of Christophe's frigate the Ames.
I Myst,, by his Majesty's ship Southampton, but much
I very much has been already felt by the Europeans
settled in Hayti. It may not be amiss, therefore, to
state how the Black Navy originated and ended, for
so it certainly hat by this capture. At the corn.
mencement of this year, 1812,. Christophe's Navy
istood thus, and in the order as purchased :

Guns Men How procured.
thwerelceable. 1 ;maresaerde di Nord ; 44352 A____emejea__.
Loot. Yining Rosettes 16 400 Kr: Goodall.
Lord Molgrave 80 -900 Do.
Takeo. Sattelite 10 60 , Do.
Lord Wellesley 18 150 Greases & Ca.
Jasaron 10 10.) America.
Gen. Maoist 14 110 Greases & Co.
Ambuscade 14 80 a Prize.
Lady H. Stanhope 42 800 Goodall.
Artimese R. Ad.
40 900 Do.loAmerica.
Parse, Ct. PAngliii i
Amethyst, R. Ad.
Rastia,Ct. Lemur, 44 450Dowrink &Co.
Capt. Pr. Bernadine.

Total 192 2149

The violent and tyrannical seizure of Goodall in
the Haytian corvette (in 1808) Lord hfulgrave, Is
fresh in the memory, together with the distress-
ingconsequence that occurred to his fortune thereby,
lief/left hereafter will fully appear. Goodall, on his
arrival at Jamaica, wrote aa official letter to Admiral
ltowley, strongly urging, " that as considerable
quantities of British manufactures were in Hayti,
the trying situation to which both person and
property were subject to, should be considered, if
the ship was not restored." It had its weight with
the Admiral, and she was sent back to the Cape.
Goodall was sent to England, a state prisoner,
' and returned to Hayti, rehoisted his flag, and during
his cruize was boarded on the coast by the Garland
frigate. A dispute took plate, and hence arose or-
ders, the compliance'of which occasioned tke cap-
ture of the Amethyst, and which, together with
aping the British system of blockade, caused Good-
'all's resignation, that on no aceonnt,from any Power
whatever, the smallest insult to the Haytias Plat,
on pain of death, should be passed over, for a trilling
inattention or inadvertency to the orders of no boat
leaving theshore after eight o'clock,p.ns.his Majesty'si
; ship gyperion's boat was fired at eighteen months ,
I since, and four men killed. Christophe repri-1
mended, at the same time, Goodall, for not having !
thrown Capt. Charlton and Air boat's crew overboard.
The Southampton fired a shot, the Amethyst return-1
ed the fire, by so doing Admiral Hestia was shot ;
had he done otherwise he would, on his return, have !
lost his head or been hung by the heels, of two evils, he i
therefore chose the !east. What the consequences
are to the residents in Hayti is very easy to imagine, I
governed as they are, by the most cruel and unjust i
tyrant on earA, without edutation, common honesty,.,
or generosity ; who reaping all the advantages of good
opinion in this country, has not, to this moment,
repaid his agent the suns advanced in charitable done-
tions, nor paid him, the Admiral, or Officers who
were the means of placing the crown on his head, for
the sufferings he has undergone, the expences he has
paid, nor a sous for four years hard and zealous
_
services. I

NINCOtdPOOP, MEMBER BY PURCHASE.

COMMON COUAVCIL.

The following is a List of the Members of the
Common Council of the City of London, who, on
Thursday last, voted against the Address to the
PRI NICk: RTOENT to dismiss his present Ministers.—
From documents in our possession we may probably
give, on a future day, a statement of the places,
pensions, contracts, and other means of Government
influence which induced these very loyal and palrio.
gentlemen, to declare themselves in favour of the
present corrupt system :

ALDERS! ATE WARD.
Sir J. W. Anderson. Alderman.
ALDGATE.—None.
BASSISHAW.
The Lord Mayor E. E. Frisby.

BILLINGSGATE. -
A. Brawn
J. Unroforl
J. Sudlow.
'SLATE.
R. Knight
A. -Winds& '
.EET.
J. Bate
J..lohnson
M. T. Gibson.

, irktr her

NAVAL INTELLIGENGS.
POItTSMOUTII, APRIL 4/.

Arrived the Dolphin store-ship, Capt. !Hack, him the Cape
of Good Hope, and South America,
Came up from Bt. Helen's, the Afontarte, 74 rant Captain
Dixon.

Arrived the Elisabeth, 74 guns, Captain Leveson Gower
and Comet sloop, from looking after the French squadron ; and
the Minerva frigate, -Captain Hawking, &dm Plymouth, to
take convoy to North America.

Went out of harbour the Hyperion frigate, Captain Cemby.
Sailed the Acteon, 18, Captain Cator, with a convey ftir the
Downs.

Tbe.Thais is appointed convoy for Portugal.
PLYMOUTH, Amer 22.
Arrived the American ship Manchester, Captain °Joon,
from Wiladegton, with tar, doer, thc, to this port, for orders :
the Americas ship Verne, Captahi %decibel!, from Savannah,
with timber for the dock-yard; the Robert and Sarah, H.dph
Wood, Master, from Gibraltar, with wine and brandy, 2 t days
paimge ; has brought some bags of letters, but no news—is a
roaming. A convoy was daily expected to arrive there from
Malta, bound to ihistfoontry. •
Arrived the &Used. Nicholls ; Eleanor and Grace, Brown ;
Mary, litmus ; Heathers, Walker; laulton, Saunders; and
Bee, Roes, all from Wales; Pomona, Swallow, from Exeter ;
Vanoard, Gilley, Master, nom Sunderland-; Christian, Cooke,
from Meath; the Danish brig Friendship, Bull, from Pensaoce,
for Norway ; the Fishottad brig of war Leas a 'cruise ; the
Swan, Evans, from Waterford; Eltza, Clark, and nape,
Davis, from Dundalk; and Lively, Jackson, &oils-Waterford.
Sailed the Elizabeth, 74 gum ; Minerva frigate; and Comet
'sloop of war to Portsmouth; and, the American ship Nerd,
snack, Cook, for Portsmouth.
?he Whislarroehoosser is expected tonsil tasmatakirtalikamasi
yoy to Jersey and Guernsey. •
A fleet passed down Channel this morning fromlbaltuttaitl.
DEAL, Aran. if. •
Arrived his Majesty's ships Victory, Vice-Admiral Sir ins.
Saemarez, from the ; Impregnable, Admiral Tilting $ •
land the Warrior, Captain Byng, to augment the fleet of Hush-
ing; and his Majesty's ship Marlborough front off ditto.
Came down from the River the Indefatigable, Cross, for
New South Wales and China, and several others.

Yesterday, soon after• two o'clock, his Royal
Highness the Palsies heaxxv held a Leree at Carl-
ton House. A troop of the second Life Guards
marched into Pall-mall, about one o'clockf.and a
detachment of the First Guards, into the Court.
yard, with colours flying, and the band in their
state uniforms. Their Royal Highnesses the Dukes
of KENT, CAMBRIDGE, and GLOUCESTER. arrived
early ; the fanner was accompanied by the Dukes of
CLARENCE and Bittniswica.
There were present, the Lord Chancellor, the
President of the Board of Tjade, the First Lord of
the Admiralty, the First Lord of the Treasury and
Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Master General.of
the Ordnance, the Secretaries of State for the • Home
and War Department, the President of the Board
of Controul, the Lord Steward of the Household,
the Chancellor of the Duchy of Cornwall, the Bi-
shop of Eater, the Neapoltant Sieilian, and Tur-
kish Arnim: ;adore; the Lord Mayor, Recorder, and
Remembrancer of London. with the Sheriffs ; and
the Dukes of PORTLAND and MONTROSE.

After the Levee, the PIUNCE gave audiences to the
Earl of Livrneoot.; and Mr. Sheriff ittacskand the
City Remembraucer; when his Royal Highness was
.pleated.to appoint nest Tuesday, at three o'clock,
to receive the City Address.
The harbour of liamoaze is now nearly as full of
frigates, &c. in ordinary, as in
the midst of peace. Notwithstanding which, the list
of ships in commission is great beyond all example.
CIIINNERY, the Treasury defaulter, has not soil-
ed for America, es has been said. He is now at
Altona, the Danish town on the Elbe, near Rant-
burgh, where he resides in the House of an ac-
quaintance.

Thursday night, between 11 and 12 o'clock, Syd-
' ney College, Cambridge, was discovered to he 0.1
fire in two distinct places,
,and no do"ht
ed but it was set on fire by some incendiary. .
TUE REGENT'S CANAL.—The Committee on this
All finished their arduous task on Wednesday. The
Preamble was unanimously agreed to, and thus the
groat utility of the measure established, by the opi-
nion of a very considerable number of most intelli-
gent Members of Parliament. The various clauses
of the Bill were then gone through, and the blanks
filled up; after which, nearly 100 clauses were added,
liberally adopted to protect the interest of every indi-
vidual property on the line of the caoal. Only two
divisions took place on clauses proposel by dissatis-
fied parties, both of which were I.:-,g1tived. The Re-
port was then agreed to with nirrithity equal to the
passing of the PI eatable, and this useful 'public work
will, in a few days, be submitted to the sanction of
the House of Commons. •

The following singular Phenomenon took place
near Angelica.in the county of Allegheny, America,
on the 16th December hut :-,-Early its the morning,
about sun rise, as a person was sitting at breakfast,
bellied a strange feeling, and supposed at first that
be was fainting, but as his sight did not fail, he then
concluded that he was going into a fit, and removed
big chair back from the table. He then had a seen.
tion as though the house was swinging, and observed,
that clothes banging on lines in the room were swint
big, as also a large kettle hanging over the fire.
observed, that his wife and family appeared to be I
greatly alarmed, and still supposing that it was in i
nonce of his apparently falling into a lit. but
en enquiring found that all the felt sane sensation.—
This continled, as he supposed, for at least 151,
minutes. There was no noise or trembling, nor any
vital, but only an appearance of swinging or 1
Milting two feet one way and the other.—.•
of his neighbours felt the same, and on the -
opposite side of the river, at a farm-house and ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE EXTRAORDINARY.
I
dwelling-'louse, the same motions a•td sensations ! tivAGa lElmm/tn.—Two Coonsellors, C—atp-11 and
M—rt—n, F.r. took their seats
felt. A female was in bed, and when she first lately in a stnge-coacit, in coat-
lenvintvgi
t;!
„an nferrio!juizmemhelrloef twiteoiraws,,ofoor tbsetituurpioseiof at-
e rh. motion, and a strange sensation, as.if &tub-
:ilitting, she jumped out of bed, supposing that the being rather non mows menliqq, arising from ehis intense applgns
e.
cation to the interests of his clients, huallv dive Fed, as we pre-
.t was on fire. The motion eves so considerable.;
ruze. t,t,:eliwpoyerT, over gariczel hnt.ile.ti *Tl:e.ev:ht?rdthi,
tt:._
as to set all the bells in the several rooms ringing, -1
and an inside door Wasybseged to swing open and . coach had arrived at Hounslow-beath, that they Jointly made a
shut. The same motions were felt up the river about :let
aor,antiOl inGthtstt:r=riwit•is, naado elabetretienVarreeAtniuyelmagr irt
eight Mlles above, at a house near a small brook ; ; pe.tuoits night. The urea, however,&c. ookcted to thr:procZ:
the people ran out of the house, and observed the ild—Veii ea, that the lam. of the road would notjustify it—nrid
wafer to have the same motion. Accounts state, that . ratchlog glr,k44:Blo°tf'atils plts!;lVlcpblaretalrrcell'endt,;.atbti :It
the same motions have been felt at sundry other I law would tolerate ate otlitnnee they wished tb &Lie. Thenv-
places, thirty miles distant. tion here became very reeriininatiye, and u got:4 de.ti of
, sharp practlceeastted. All the force of argoneW available in
At.the Sittings yesterday in Guildhall, before Lord the therrest.." Part"7"blacmkguilrinin lasi Bzwe'..beingll2nAlenitd.,,...mh e1',.11141,,.."-
Ect.EwsonovGil and a Special Jury, the cause of '—e
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GoaDorr a. LovELL, was determined. - The damages I - ~ moos qtrry quick and strong conviction, .
were laid at 30001. ;. and the Jury returned a verdict in flits of the P?w+gfec°4ltZTV.";"; ~
of One Shilling, which ippeared-io give universal torioutaipites militant, eopported thei9rOnpiatoosisseith as
satisfaction.—We shall take an early opportunity of , mach as-the po err-acs; heeds, knees, sill feet
could exhibit, to the or MO pitosamest, bat sotesional
giving a full report of the Trial. . • [Wane of 'a witness, who arilt 41 wiwiezhi court tho'whole time
A rrICTING INSTANCE Or SELY-DISTRUCTION.-11—• , eta the °frolic** Miow, wisely tooslarr.
Early on Thursday, the wife of Mr: Maynard, sad. I'', • • in'
dler, of Redcliff-hill, Bristol, was found drewned.br
Bathurst Basou. She left her husband ind infant
child in bed early in the morning, and precipitatted
herself into the Eason, where her lifeless body was
found by her afflicted relatives In a few hours after,
The child, which had been previously ill, owing, I
is supposed, to the distracted state. of its parsers
mind, expired almost the same moment that the
corpse of its mother was brought into this house.—
She lived on the most affectionate tofu,
butted sad sad family. -

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it dlate rjertatsat, eta &sited. The cense, therefore,
dos which war tor ao its widereaded pue, was ennsequently
Permitted lost's* =tile tattooing light display/0J on the
was
he lawyee's tair , k oyes, equal In dimensions to the
--. patetismo.% 's Olt, mad one orate learned brothers pre-
seated a vi.allassa 'Aka were various record... 4 evidences of the
attontry's skill Sa chorea; his oppatwats. The whale trial
bitted Dearly thirty-014ra!