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In the Biitish House ot Commons,
on the 13th April, there was an inte
resting and warm debate on the pro
priety of appropriating money for di •
(rat ing the expences of the Barrack
Department. Mr. Frcemantle said
there could not be a more profligate
or wasteful expenditure of public
money.—Mr. Whitbread said the
practice of seperating the citizen and
the soldier was unconstitutional and
dangerous to the country—the mea
sure is rash and preposterous.—Dis
tress is now spreading over every pai t
ol the country* the loom is rendered
listless, and'the CRIES ot HUN
GER are strifledby the point of the
bayonet. We shall finally be com
pelled to purchase a Peace by sub
mission, unless there is a change in
oui policy. There is no good rea
son for the extension of barracks.—
The Chancellor of the Exchtquer
said Mr. W. had worked himself in
to a heat, which induced him to say
w hat lie would not in cooler moments,
particularly in asserting that the mea
sures of government had produced
thepresim scat city. As to the Orders
in Council, the Chancellor said, that
in consequence of them, our trade
had very much increased for the Iasi
two years The doctrine of Mr. W.
said he, would lay us, prostrate at the
feet of iioivapurie, who conquering us,
would triumph over the rest of the
world. Mr. Whitbread was reply
ing warmly but was called to order.
Mr. Yorke got up, & said Mr W. had
just made one of the most outrage
ous personal attacks—and here was
called to order. The discussion now
became genu al, and crie;, Chair,
Chair, resounded through the Mouse.
The chairman then decided that Mr.
Whitbread was out of order. Mr
Whitbread then confessed his heat
ami explained. '1 he Chancellor was
satisfied ; and observed, that in po
pulous towns, the soldiery ought to
be kept apart from the people. lie
also said the scarcity was as severely
felt in France at present as in En
gland. That the Orders in Council
was not the cause of the scarcity.—
Mr Stephen said, those who oposed
the Orders in Council could not ar
gue them when they came to bedis
cussed, lie congratulated the coun
try on the Chancellor of the Exche
quer retaining his situation, as it
would lie advantageous to the coun
try. Mr Pon-sonby supported Mr
Whitbread. Was not, said be, the
state of our relations with America
affected most materially by the Or
ders in Council ? Was the authority
of America good authority, when she
demands, as the pi icc of restoration
to a godd understanding, the repeal ol
these Orders ? Mr Fuller, Mr Hose,
and others, denied that the Oidcrs
in Council had occasioned tne scar
city. On the question, the majority
was 48.
BRITISH HOUSE o/COMMOKS—^priV 17.
Orders in Council.
Mr. Wilberforce presented two Petitions
ftom Sheffield in Yoiklhire, agaiuft the Or.
der* in Council—Oidcrcd to lie on the ta.
b]«.
Sir C. Mordsunt presented a Petition from
Birmingham agaiud the Outers in Coun.
Cil.
Mr. Bering felt it to be impoflihle, when
fuch petitions were prefenttd from our mod
f iopulous manufacturing towns, to refrain
rom calling the attention bf the/J ufe to the
fuhjtft. These, it was to be ohseired, did
not come from pcrlona who were influenced
by a defirc to obdrurt the mcafures of the
Government—but from perfons who had rot
come forward, till their own ruin, and the
(Giving of thole under them, foiced them to
come to that lioOse and (late the fatal t (fells
of the fyfttm which had of late been unlor.
tunatciy purfued. The Hon. Gentleman pro
ceeded to comment upon the cv.ls which
had been hro’t on this country by the (lop.
page of the trade with America, and on the
failure of our Orders in Council, which had
ended In our granting licences to permit the
importation of nearly all the manufaltuiea
of the enemy, which it was our interred to
prohibit.
S’rC. Mordaunt offered a few observatu
ons on the prefrnt Hate of Birmingham, as
when such bard words as rum and Itarvalion
were used, he thought they ought not to go
unanswered. The town was not in that de
plorable (late in which it had been fuppofed
to be—If, however, much was felt here,
much alfo was felt on the other side of the
Atlantic. An American could not shave
hintseif, nor catch his mice, for want of
our commodities.
Mr. Whitbread said the Honorable Biro,
ret was wrong in wha: he had (aid ic.-pclt.
ing America. IfAmcrica were (hut, Bir
mingham mud be idle ; and if idle, its po.
E uUtiou mud darve. America then mud
t kept open, by her necessity, or by our
policy,and Utterly it has appeared to be our
K licy to (but it. They had, however,
;n told *aat America could not “catch
her mice," and “ could not (have hcrfclf.”
The Hon. Baronet might have told us, that
till Ufdy America could not “ ride her
horse/' “ could not lltoe her horse/*
«• bad not a nail 10 drivebut be
would find that the lad orders from A me.
rica called for no nails, (.tho* nails were for.
tncrly an at tide of prime nectffity.) having
been drives to manulalture them »or her
fclf. Thu* would it be found in other
Ibipfs U ibe pretest fyficai were perfevered
v
in j thus would her miusufaflures Inereafe
and improve to the annihilation of our
trade
Mr. Perceval (Chancellor of the Fache.
quer) denied that the evils experienced -trole
Irom the Orders in Ccuncl which could
not lie given up without (aciificing their
maritime rights, lie also denied that the
Berlin and Milan decrees are repealed.
Mr. Brougham conjured min*Hers to open
thrir eyes to the conliquences cf a war with
Amei ica, and to review their orders in coun-
cil.
Lord CalHereagh fpoke at fome length
& faid many parts of the country, he would
allow, suffered ; but it was chi, fly owing
to the fadure ol the harved, and not to the
Orders in Council.
dope. This rfetpatch goC3 by a.
Mile hand lor Boidcsux, there to be
confided to sc me passing* r to go by
(ru ol cur Inst sailing sthdentrs.—
You will notice that ihe Minister, ir
forty warriors left my house this
morning to apprthtnu a bar.oitti ol
,se.tn who had been doing mischief
in my rtighborhccd. They have or
ders to crep them according to our
his report says nothing particular cl i mode. Our chiefs are unanimously
Boston, May 19.
LATEST THOM PORTUGAL.
Lisbon, April 10.
We have this dav the pleasure to
announce the fall of Badajoz on the
Gth inst. after a siege of twenty-one
days. The investment ot the city
was commenced on the 6:h March,
and the batteries were opened on the
24th of the same month History
affords few examples of such rapid
conquests as those of Badajoz and
Ciudad Rodrigo.
April 11.
By letters from F.lvas of the 8th
inst. the assault of Badajoz is repre
sented as most dreadful. The Brea
ches were assaulted, and the walls
scaled ct the same moment, the cas
tle being made the principal point of
attack. The French troops appoint
ed to defend the breaches being at
tacked at all points, were compelled
to give way A terrible slaughter
then commenced in the streets oi the
city, owing to the confusion of the
battle, increased by the daiknecs ot
the night.
April 15.
This morning arrived in this city
Gen. Fkdipon late Commander of
Badnjoz ; and ilis Staff ; and Gen.
Wirian, French Gen. of Engineers.
The French had from 2 to 300 kil
led, and 4 500 surrendered prisoners,
including the sick and wounded.—
The British and Portuguese loss was
very small.
April 16.
Letters from Elvas, of the i3th,
say, that Soult retired from Estrama
dura as soon as he heard of the fall
of Badajoz. It appears certain that
Ballesteros, entered Seville ; but was
compelled by Soult to retire from it
again. The French had attempted
an incursion in Peira Boixa, but had
not progressed lar. This attempt
on the frontiers ot Portugal was sup
posed to have been made to divide
the attention of Lord Wellington.
Baltimore, May 23.
LATEST FROM FRANCE.
Mercantile friends have favored us
with letters from Paris dated the 20th
April, from intelligent Americans ;
their contents are m substance as fol
low :—“ No prospect of a favoura
ble arrangement with France, and
people were surprised that JNIr. i?</r-
low should have ever indulged in
the hope of it. Napoleon had a
grand army of 500,000 men ready
tor the northern expedition. West
phalia, it was thought, would be an
nexed to France ; Jen me t: be trans
ferred to Russian Poland, or else*
where; but, such was the scarcity
of provisions in France, and so scri-
ous and alarming were the distur
bances in consequence, that many
were of opinion the emperor could
not leave France at a moment so cri
tical. Riots had occurred in many
provinces, and a bold tone of dis
content was heard in Paris itself.”
The length ot the documents receiv
ed by the Hornet from our Minis
ti r in France, prevents us from
giving them entire-—The three last
letters from Mr. Bartow to our
government, which follow, affoid
a correct idea of the state in which
the despatches by the lioniet left
cur affairs at Paris.
Extract oi a left a from Mr. Barlow
to the Secretary of State, dated
PARIS, MARCH 15, 1812.
44 I have scarcely been able to get
an interview with the Duke of B.is-
sano for the last 15 days though he
has appointed sevetal. He has dis
appointed ine in most of them, and I
am sure with reluctance. Last e-
vening I obtaind a short audience,
in which he declared that his great
work of this continent was now finish
ed and he would be able after to
morrow to devote himself very much
to the treaty with the United States,
till it should be completed. And i
left him rather with the hope than
the full expectation, that he will have
it in his power to keep his promise.”
(No. y.)
Extract of a letter from Mr. Barlow
to the Secretary of State, dated
PARIS, J! ARCH 15, 1812.
44 Since I iiad the honor ct writing
to you yesterday, the Moniieur has
the United States, and nothing more
precise th:»n heretofore of tl.e revo
cation of the decrees.
“ This furnishes an additional mo
tive for using all my efforts to get the
treaty though, earning with it an
unequivocal stipulation that shall put
the question to rest. Its importance
is sufficient to warrant my detaining
the Hornet.
“ The Emperor did not like the
bill we have seen before Congress tor
admitting English goods contracted
for before the non-importation law
went into operation.
“ l wa3 questioned by the Duke of
Bassano on the bill, with a good deal
ot point, when it fust appeared,and I
gave such decided explanations, as I
thought at the time would remove all
uneasiness. But I have since heard
that the Emperor is not well satisfi
ed. If Congress had applied its re
lieving hand to individual cases only,
and on personal petitions, it would
have excited no suspicion.
44 In consequence of my repeated
remonstances in cases of condemna
tion of American cargoes, on frivo
lous or false pretences, I think the
career is somewhat arrested, and
thtv shew a disposition to revise the
judgments. The Betsey, the Plough-
boy, ft the Ant, ordered for revision,
i lit: Belisarius is in progress, and is
likely to be liberated, as you will
learn by the correspondence I now
have the honor to enclose respecting
the case.”
No. 10.
Extract of a Letter from J\lr. Barlow
to Mr. Monroe.
Ear is, April 22 1812.
44 I am obliged at last to dismiss
the Hornet without the expected
tre aty, which I should have regret
ted more than I do if your despatch
es which I have had the honor to re
ceive b) the Wasp, had not somewhat
abated my zeal iu that w rk.”
44 It really appeared to me, that the
advantages ot such a treaty as I have
sketched would be very gieat, and
especially if it could be concluded
soon.”
44 ft is true, that our claims of in
demnity for past spoliations should
be heard, examined, and satisfied ;
which operation should precede the
new treaty or go hand m hand with it.
This is dull work, hard lo begin, and
difficult to pursue. I urged it a
long time, without the effect even ol
an oral answer. But lately they have
consented to give it a discussion, and
the minister assures me something
shall be done to silence the com
plaints, and on principles that he says
ought to be satisfactory.
44 I shall not venture to detain the
Wasp more than two to three weeks
And* I hope by that time to have
something decisive to forward by
her.”
44 From some expressions in your
’eters, I am in hopes of receiving
soon some more precise insliuctions
on these subjects.
44 My communication with Eng
land by Morlaix is almost entirely
cut off. It is not so easy to send to
London, unless by one of our own
public ships, as it is to the United
States. I now send your despatch
es and my own to Mr. Russel, by a
messenger in the Hornet, whom I
shall desire captain Lawrence to put
rn shore or into a pilot boat on the
coast of England.
44 1 his messenger with Mr. Biddle
will leave Paris this night for Cher,
bourg, where the Hornet is ready to
receive them.”
oj posed to having any thing to do in
die Wars cf white people. Some of
our wild young people are for mis
chief, and will act as the impression
of the moment impels them ; but
such is the state of the Indian prepa
ration for peace, that they cannot
do mischief with impunity. We
are not yet freed from tne intrusion
of our white neighbors, who turn
their cattle over to range on the In
dian lands, fire-hunt, cut cedar,
staves, and cultivate fields on the
banks of the Ocmulgee This irr itates
the Indians & is the cause of their im.
proper conduct. Tulchassee, where
you learned the rudiments of Indi
an affairs, is spread into villages, not
one settlement remaining in the old
Town. Cussetuh which had 196
men at one ball play, has not ten
houses in the old Town, and Cow-
etuh not more than twelve.
44 The Indians low down on Cat.
telioohe are spinning, weaving, and
attending to stock. Our Indians who
associate on the frontiers are the most
rude and tricky of any we have, and
they progress slowly.
44 I have a letter from the Secre
tary of the Orleans Territory, who
informs me that 13000 hogsheads of
Sugar were made there the last year
—that every grown hand employed
in it netted five hundred dollars.
44 We manufacture almost every
thing we use at home—hats, saddles,
shoes, tin, leather, cabinet furniture,
our cloathing, and shall make our
blankets. I have 200 sheep, am to
have a Merino ram next October.
One of our Indians, Upolica, has
made fifteen blankets, twelve of the
stiipe and size of the London duf-
f.l, which sold at S 4 a blanket.
©oincdttc.
Raleigh, May 29.
His Excelleucv the Governor of
this Static has received a letter from
the Secretary of War, under date of
the 21st instant, requesting him to
order into actual service such part of
the quota of the Militia of this State,
required by his letter of the lo.h of
April, us Major General Pinkney
may deem necessary for the defence
of the Fortifications on the Sea
board.
We have been favored with the
following extract of a letter, from
Colonel Benjamin Hawkins, United
States’ Agent in the Creek Nation,
to ids Excellency Governor Haivkins,
dated
44 Cyerk Agency, May 18, 1812.
44 I have just teturned from a
Council of the Creeks at Cowctuh,
in time only to write you a short let
ter by this mail. I have got them
once more to lift their sticks and pun-
come out with th. Senatus Consultum j ish thieves ; two have been cropped
Of which I spoke. This X no» en- ! and whipped within four days i and
;
Extract of a letter lo the Editor of the
Enquirer, dated, Washington, 27th
May.
44 My Dear Sir—You are no doubt
very anxious to know as well the na
ture ot the dispatches brought by the
Hornet, as their probable effect upon
measures here. Such parts of thorn
were yesterday laid before Congress
as the public interest admits of being
promulgated. When they were read,
a very agreeable disappointment was
manifested throughout the h use.
Rumor had been busy in misrepre
senting and pt-rv.pting iiH-itii Oney -
ing the impulse of a just resentment,
many of the members had been for
directing our hostilities against
France as well as England, But
now there is but one sentiment 44 Let
us goon,” say the Republicans, 44 <n
the course we had prescribed as to
England, and wait a little longer as
to France.”
44 It appears from the correspon
dente of Mr. Barlow there is on (he
part of FVance,a practical observance
ot the repeal of the Berlin and Milan
decrees as to this country. The fact
oltlie repeal seems to be treated as
one not open to controversy. '1 he
Duke of Bassano, in a letter dated in
December, to Mr. Barlow, alter the
customary introduction, commences
by observing, 44 Since the repeal cf
the Berlin and Milan decrees' he.
Several mslancts ol ihe application of
ihe repeal to inoividual cases are gi
ven.
44 As to the Rnmbollet and other
spoliations, ahho’ we are not authori
sed confidently to draw a favorable
conclusion from the correspondence,
they are made the subject of discus
sion, and form perhaps at this very
moment a topic of negociation.
44 Mr. Barlow had presented a spi
rited note on the subject of the recent
on tilings, to which, it not having
been long submitted to the French
Government, no reply was received
at the date ol his last letter. Those
burnings you know form an anoma
lous class of injuries, not falling with
the scope of the Berlin and Milan de
crees.
“ Throughout the whole of his in
tercourse with the French Govern
Went, he appears to have been treated
with prompt attention and a civility
which exhibits a striking contrast to
the delays anil superciliousness expe
rienced by Mr. Pinkney lioiu Wel
lesley,
44 I give you this hasty sketch in
anticipation of the entire correspon
dence, which being ordered to be
pi inted will be shortly in your posses
sion.
Vincennes, CL T.J April 25.
On Wednesday evening last a-
bout sunset the family of Mr. Hary-
man. consisting of himself, his wife
and five small children, were inur
dcred at tlitir residence upon the
Embaras river, jj> the Illinois territo
ry, and about five miles from thia
place. Mr. Haryman was in the act
ol loading a perogue for the purpose
of embarking them, when he was fired
on-—a young man who lived with him
and who had gone back to the house
a short distance off, to bring some
thing that was left, had an opportu
nity of mak ing his escape. On Thurs
day, ecl Miller, with a detachment
of the United States’ troops went to
the spot and interred the mangled
bodies of this unfortunate family—
Mr. Haryman was a mill-right, a res
pectable citizen, and an emigrant
from the state of Vermont. A par
ty of rangers and militia were send
after the Indians, but a violent rain
which fell the night succeeding the
murder obliterated their tracks and
rendered the pursuit impracticable.
In consequence of the above men.
tioned murders, the alarm was short
ly after communicated to the town,
anil we cannot but highly applaud the
spirit and alacrity manifested by both
citizens aud soldiers on the occasi
on. ,
On Tuesday last the family of a
Mr. Mix, living on Little Pidgeon
creek, were attacked by three Indiana
about day light—Old Mrs. Mix wa*
first fired on as she was going to the
spring, but she sustained no injury
her husband ran into the yard, and
was immediately shot down ; her
youngest son was also shot in the
house and his arm broken with a to
mahawk, whilst they were struggling
on the floor ; his sister took down the
old gentleman's rifle and snapped it a-
gainst the Indians head, she then de.
liberately primed the gun, and flash
ed it—unfortunately it was not load
ed—the old lady then seized an axe
with which she beat the Indian off of
her son and drove him out of the
house. Whilst these things were
passing, another son of Mr. Mix,
whose house was abont forty yards
from his father’s had fired on the In
dians, killed one, and then retreated
into the woods with his family, sup
posing that his fathers’s were killed.
The old lady and her daughter how*
ever, heroically kept the house,
which the two remaining Indians
durst not again attempt to enter, but
taking up the body ot their deceased
companion, they threw it into the
spring branch, and covering it with ^
tew logs, made a precipitate retreatk
Columbia, CS. C.) June 2.
Agreeable to Orders, the 33d Re
giment of Militia, commanded by
Gol. Chappell, paraded in this town
on Saturday last for the purpose of
furnishing its quota of the 100,000
militia required by the general go*
vernment. ' •
i he zeal and military ardor which
pervaded all ranks, evidenced a scene
unknown to tyrants. It was an as
semblage ot freemen whose hearts
bf-at in unison with the indignant
voice ot their country. To avenge
its wrongs and vindicate its rights,
each contended who should be fore
most. Thrice the required quota of
volunteers offered their services,
and lots were obliged at last to be
cast among the seeds of ’76, in order
to ascertain which should wear the
of marching under the flag of booa
their country.
On Thursday last Col. James
Wellbornc ot the United States ar-
my, arrived in this place tor the pur
pose of arranging and expediting the
recruiting service in Department No.
two, composed of North Carolina,
South-Carolina and Georgia. He
has ordered all the field officers ap
pointed in South-Carolina and Geor
gia to rendezvous in this place im- .
mediately, and as early as possible j,
alter which, the captains and subal
terns will also be ordered to attend to.
receive their recruiting instructions,.,
and be detached to different parts of
this state and Georgia, to carry oq
that service with all possible vigor.
PUBLIC SEN riMENT—0» »he
20th inlt. about Twelve thoufjr^ _, rfon .
assembled in the State-*.,,,.,' D , •
Melphii-u/iliuta r■ »”? *'. P u
r-u f I •Tones in the chair.
ar es ngerfoll reaa a i nn g an j ncr .
vousaddref, from “the citiaen. of the
“ r,t Congressional Diffrift ot Pennfylva-
n,a * to tl,e| r Fellow.Citisens, the People
ot the United Statesit was unanimous-
iy adopted and leveral thoufand coptef
were ordered to be printed in handbill*
artl diftr.buted among the peeole ; and it
was *
‘* Resolved, As the opinion of this
meeting, l hat the only efficient remedy
for the protra&td and aggravated evil*
which afflict our country, will be found
in a prompt, vigorous and open war with
that power whose edidls blockade the en
tire continent of Europe ; fave only fuch
parts as require our inllrunientality vo
circulate her products, supply her naval
and military expeditions—.whofe fleets
not only plunder our lawful commerce
upon the high ltai| tut blockade ^ur hat;