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RODGER’S CRUIZE.
Copy of a letter from Commodore Rod
gers to the Secretary of the Havy*
United States Frigate President ,
Sandy. Hook Bay, Feb «-19,1814.
SIR—I have to acquaint you that
I arrived at my present anchorage
last evening at 5 o’clock, after a
cruise of 75 days, and now have the
honor to detail to yod the particulars.
In pursuance of your directions, I
sailed from Providence the sth of
December; and although I expected
to have run the gauntlet through the
enemy’* squadron,that was reported
so be cruizing between Block Island
ind Gavbead for the purpose of in
tercepting the President, I had the
good luck to avoid them. The day
after leaving Providence, I recaptur
ed the American schooner Comet, of
and bound to New-York. with a car
go of cotton from Savannah, which
had been captured by the Ramdies
and Loire and in their possession a
bout 48 hours. In a few hours af
ter recapturing the Comet, a sail was
discovered to the eastward, which I
felt inclined to avoid, from the cir
cumstance of the weather being hazy,
and knowing that I was in the neigh
borhood of an enemy's squadron;
from an advantage of wind, she was
enabled, however to gain our lee
beam at a distance of 3 or 4 miles,
owing to which 4 was induced to
shorten sail with the intention of of
fering her ’batt’.e in the morning,
should nothing else be in sight, and
the not be a ship of the line. The
weather becoming more obscure at
S o'clock, prevented our seeing her
until daylight, when she stood from
us to the N E although the president
was hove to let her come up. jPVom
this date until the 25th, we did not
aee a single sail, except the Recov
ery fa brig belonging and: bound to
Penobscot, from St. Bartholemew in
ballast) until after reaching the long
35 and lat. 19, being carried that jfai
eastward by a severe S. W. gale,ac
companied by such a heavy sea as to
render heaving to impracticable with
out infinite risk, when two large sails
Were discovered standing to the north
ward, and to which I gave chase, be
lieving, as well from the situation in
which they were first discovered, as
the manifest disposition they afte ♦
wards shewed to avoid a separation,
that one was a frigate and the other
an Indiainan under her Convoy; in
th s 1 was mistaken, for on a nearer
approach 1 could discover the head
most was * frigate with 7 ports abaft
htr gangway, and the other a snip
of equal or little inferior force ; on
discovering their decided superiority,
and supposing them to be enemy's
„ whips, F endeavored dtifing the suc
ceeding night to separate them by
steering different courses and occa
sionally shewing a light: btit was un
able to succeed, for die headmost; at
one time was so near that she Bred
a shot over Us, whilst ftfcr consort
w.ts but a few bundled yards astern
cf het, I now directed our course to
be altered’, made sail, ami continued
the remainder of the night to shew
them alight occasionally, but to no
effect, as at’ chy light they were dis
covered to be iur a'situatian to unite
their force.
“Alter this t shaped'a course to*
reach a position to Windward of Bar
badoes, on parrellbl of longitude with
Cayenne, and did*not meet with an
other vessel till the 30th', when fall
ing in with a Portuguese bHg, and*
receiving information that’ she’ had
been boarded 36 hours before by two
British storeships bound to the West
Indies with 30* troops on board, T
crowdecFsail to the westwardin the
hope of overtaking them ; in this P
Was again disappointed, and after a :
pursuit of four days* hauled further
aouthwartl to* gaiiv the latitude of”
I}*rundoes ; and in that situation on
the sth of January captured the
British merchant ship'Wanderer of
r guns and sixteen men, from- Lon
don bound-to Jamai a, partly loaded
with plantation : stores, and after’ ta-
Ving from her such light articles
were of most vtdue and sunk hefi
In>thes*mc position on the* Tth,l
feH i/t with the British merchant ship’
Riinco- George in the- character of
a cartel witlv prisoners,* which with
four other British vessels had been
captured by- two French 44 gun fri
guit>, the Medusa and Nymph, the
ohipa 1-had fallen =in with U days be
fore On board the Prince George
I sent the pristyters captured in the
Wanderer to iftrbadoes on parole.
On life 9th of January, wmlettdi <o .
windward of B qpadoes. l captured
the ship Edward of 6 guns and 8
men. from London bound to Legni
ca, in ballast—Which vessel I also
sunk Having learnt from the mus
ter of the Edward as well ’ as those
of the Wanderer and Prince Gcdrge,
that they had been separated in the
Bay of lb sc ay from their convoy*
consisting of the Queen 74. two tii
£au, two sloop* of waV, I was indu
to a belief that the convey
ji’ »n ihc Wi.il wuid,,to remain
of Baroauocs until the
16t*iof Jamilry, when finding they i
must hare passed, I c’rfa o * oy I
ground Mtd rtii off Cayenne* Sc from
thence down the coast of Sdfioifm.
Berbicke and Demarara, through be
tween Tobago and Grenada ; thence
though the Carribean Sea, along
the south east side of Portorico, thro*
the Mona Passage, down the north
side of Jamaica and other leeward
islands without meeting a single ves
sel of the enemy, or any other *han
4 Spanish drogers and bne Swedish.
ship, until I got near the Manilla
Reef; near which after capturing ♦
and sinking the British schooner
Jonathan, loaded with rum and dry;
goods* ('the most valuable part of
which I took tm board/I hauled o
ver for the Florida shore and struck *
soundings of St. Augustine, and from
thence run on soundings as far as
Charleston, passing within 4 or 5
miles of Columbia Island, and as
near to Savannah as the weather and
depth of water would allow, without
meeting a single vessel except a Spa
nish ship from the Havanna bound
to Spain, but steering for Savan
nah, in consequence of having
sprung a leak. ‘ :
Arriving off Charleston, (which
was on the 1 Ith Inst.) 1 stretched
close in with the Bar, and made the
private signal of theday to 2 schoon
ers lying in Rebellion Roads, and
which from their appearance I be
lieved to be public vessels. After *
remaining all day efff the Bar with
colours hoisted and the before men- ’
tioned signal displayed, without be
ing able to communicate with the ‘
schooners,, I -stood to the northward
arid at 7 o’clock the next morning
discovered and chased a ship to the
southward, which after pursuing 8
or 9 miles, led me to a second sail,
v a brig under her tbpsails, with her <
topgallant-mast hoisted and flying
jib boom rigged in) and from thencp
to the discovery of a third sail, rep
resented from the mast head to baa
large frigate ; on discovering the
tnird sail, added to the manauvres
of the first and second, 1 was induced*
to believe them, part of an enemy &
squadron, and accordingly hauled up
and stood tor the former, to ascer
tain her character; and after nUking
her from the deck, perceived sne
was a frigate as reported, I rtow
tacked and shortened sail, believing
that towards night 1 might be ena
bled to cut off the ship (which was
either a small frigate or large sloop
of warj and brig from the third or
largest sail, ar this time and or 10 miles
to windward ; in this, however I was
nbt able to effect my purpose, owing
to the weather sail (between sunset
and dark) bearing down for the oth
ers. Judging now from the man
oeuvres that after dark they would
chase, I stood to the eastwafd under
short sail; believing that in the morn
ing I might End them in some dis
order*; at day light, however, owing
to the haziness of the weather, they
were hot to be seen ; fconsequehtly
I wore and stdod back to the west
ward to make them again, and in a
few minutes discovered two (otfe on
r the lee, the other pn the weather bow
to which I gave chase, but after cha*
dng theim about half ah hour, the
weather becoming more clear ami
i large ships suddenly making their
ippearance )one on the weather and
the other on the lee beam I changed
my cohrse to the eastward, when the
four immediately crowded sail in pur
suit i but, owing, to the weather, as
sisted’ bjr the enemy’s manner of cha
sing l was enabled to get clear of
them wit bout difficulty ina feWhours.
From this I pursued'a course oh’
soundings, except in doubling Cape
Hatter as, tb 18 fathom water off the
Delaware, where, in a Tog* ; l fell in
with a large vessel,'apparently a man :
of war. Shortened sail to- tppsaiis
.and cleared* 1 ship for action* but she
suddenly disappearing and ih few
minutes she> or some other vessel
near, being heard to fire signal guns
l stood on to the northward, from* a
oelief l .was near another-squadron,
.rromtne Delaware I saw nothing
I made Sandy Hook, when again’
fell iiv with'another of the enemy’s
squadrons, and by some unaccounta
ble ckuse was permitted to enter the
bay,* although in the presence of a
decidedly superior force, after having
been obliged‘to remain outside seven
hours and a half Waiting lor the tide-
LAMENTATION CIIAP. VII 1.
TroMthe London Pilot cj Hoc* 12i j
SOUTH-SEA WHALE FISHERY
The readers of the Pilot will recol
lect, that, when information -was re
ceived, several months since, of the
de • »ure of the American frigate
Essex, from the coast of Brazil for
the South sea, and subsequently to
hdr arrival at Valparaiso, on the .coast
of Chili, the Pilot suggested the pro
bability, tnat tbiscruize Was a branch
of a grand scheme formed it* Atom
ic t, tor tne capture or destruction of
of our oil trade | Qoaimo
dore Rodgers being sent pur
pose towards Green find, while the
otaef department was assigned, to
v . ■* ,V’ mMmjT .
Cftptam Porter- tt is now quite dear
*lr idea was correct and though
R>d*fer» did npMUCceed in his part*
or the plan, the general ability of
the designand arrangements cannot
.be questioned; for it was our good
Iqck that preserved tls on the north
ern side from the same fate to which
want of due precision betrayed a.nd
delivered us upon the southern side*
Purely those wbo3« business it is to
look to those matters, and to provide
for the public safety* in tbis depart
ment, might have foreseen at least
as well -as we did, that the capture
, of these whalers'must inevitably be
the object of captain Porter's vis?t to
the South Sea—and yet we do n<?t
find that any,means whatsoever were
taken ta prevent his success.
A single frigate would have been
sufficient for this purpose then ; now
we must send a squadron—for Cap
tain Porte* having armed 8c manned
tip’ less than three of the captured
whalers, has now a squadron under
his erd-ri; and collecting probably
to his aid all the seafaring despera
does of the revolutionized Spanish
settlements on th& coast of Chili and
Peru, wiU shortly form the basis of
a buccaneering system more dange*
rous to our East Indian trade, than
that of the West Indies formerly was
to all peaceable and industrious set
tlements in that quarter. We are
not fond of'casting blame,; out
surely it would have been easier to
< l-*nd a frigate in pursuit oft je Essex
or to protect our trade from her five
months since, than to send a squad
ron now, after the most valmuleox
? our property has fallen into tne en
emy’s hand. The cargoes of these
ships may be considered a necessary
of life. We cannot lignt our streets
without it ami a scarcity already ex
ists in consequence of the failure oi
the fishery in the Greenland seas
and the capture of some of our Ves
sels. - ‘
Proclamation pubUsHod by Gen, Von
* HtlUr it Trent , on the 26 th Octo~ |
be, 1813.
People of Italy !—*l have passed
the Alps with an army of 60 000 men,
and I enter the plains ot Italy. ■ t'ro
vilence is going to put a period to
the tyranny that opposed you ; s.T
enticed your youths-in the norm oi
Spain, for an unjust cause—paraliitv*
commerce and industry, ana spread
desolation in held ot Itaiy, so
tdvoreu by Heaven. I have occupied
me passes leading from Italy into
Austria—i taive turned, at their
source, toe is on so, me Tagliamento,
the Have, aim tne tirenta. i and i have
made it impossible for your General
in Chut to escape me, whethersoever
lie uiuy tuni. Verona, and Mantua,
and Milan) expect to be delivered to
a lew days, ine north, tne east and
west oi .Europe nave furnished an
their forces, and the dower ot their
young population, to re-establish the
iaaep eouaict of the states, and they
are now tree, beared in Austria, in
Russia, in Prussia, or in £>pam, the
French, wno ruicd the world; you
will hhdcoipses, prisoners* wounded,
and traces of devastation ; nut the
enemy have there no longer any bo
dies ot troops under array. ;
, The tine pomades of tne south df
Europe ought hae wise to participate!
in the joy of the world on account
of the return oi ancient times*©!. or
der. and of justice* My Sovereign
has been pleased to entrust to me
this great workiiiae, thereforeyf
people of Italy; you kiiow wnat
means of resistance tne enemy has
.to oppose tome; you are awaie taut
they are the last, i have under my
banners 30,000 men, who have not
yet fought in tnis holy war and wno
are burning with a desire oi sharing
in tiie glory oi those tnat proceeded:
thenW % Fresh’ armies art* forming s
beyond the Alps / the fate of Italy is
decided—remind your children, tnat
they were born in the ancient coun
try of glory, and that the height of
glory consists in combatting under
the banners of the most just of Mo
narchs, for the peace of the world,
and for the independence of nations.
The General of Artillery, Com
mander in Chief of tne Imperial
and Royal AVrhjr of the Tyrol,
atodof Italy.
BARON VON HILLER
f , HOLLAND#
* Holland, commonly so called, con
sists of seven- provinces aimted, of
. which Holland proper is the most
considerable ol them all. The
extent of the provinces is not large,
being less than-two hundred miles
in circumference. The land is aL
most every where lowerthao the sea,
the water being kept odt by dikes|
which ‘ th©’ people are particularly,
careful itr watching and Weeping in
repair, test themselves and the .land
should be-drowned.
The country is crossed by the
mouth of the Rhind and the MiesscJ
by several small rivers, and is besides
intersected by numerous canals, on
which people conveniently travel *by
day and night* In reality Holland
is but a large meadow, secured by art
& labour from repeated inundations;
:r. U AFV’W . ’HOLM'. ‘ Jt- ‘
it isUoMrsvcr, esry fertile, and feeds ‘
great numbers of cattle. It is in
proportion to hs extent the most pop
ulous eduntfy in the world, in con
sequence of its former great and pro
fitable trade. The provinceicontain
to.) large towns, and 18 cities. The
houses are well built, and* are kept
extremely neat and clean. They
have woollen and linen manufactures;
and at once construct the largest
ships for war and commerce, and the
most insignificant toys for children.
The established religion is Calvinism
. hut ali others are tolerated ; the
French dominion over them having
made no change in that respect.
Aug, Herald*
From a late London paper< _ *,
The Cossack f lies down along side
of his and never thinks of re
freshments &r himself until !>e has
relieved the waiHs of his dumb com
panion. The animal becomes so ha
bituated to his master that he runs
to him when he hears him whistle.
The following occurrence concerning
th-m is told at the HaguefA *
A Cossack intercepted a French
officer, stripped him of his coat, and
in getting either off or op, thjp Par
letvous took advantage of his perplex
ity, leapt on his horse, and bid him
Bonjour.— -The Cossack only smiled
at this, had recourse to whistle, and
had the MonsieuHiack in a twink
ling, when in addition to bidding
him good day, he gave him rather au
unwelcome salute.
From, late London Papers .
The Duke of York recovers his
Bishoprick of Osnaburg, by the re
possession of our Hanoverian domi
nions; the revenues of which, before
the war, amounted to 50,000*’. per
annum.
The pay of an English field mar
shal has lately been raised from
9/. 9 s* 6 <L per day to 16/. B*. 9d, ’
making about 6000/. per annum.
• A shower qf stones, from a thun*
dcrclQud, fell on the 10th ult. at A
dair in Limerick—*several of theni
weighed from to 4 pounds—they
were black on the outside, extremely
heavy, and much burnt—when bro
ken they are of a dingy grey. {
We regret to state that another of
those dreadful calamities, the blast
ing of a, coal mine, occurred on
Thursday last, at the Hay Pitt, at
Fairfield, in the parish of Chester
street, county qf Durham. Up
wards of thirty riieo and boys
k I ed.
*
London, Dec. 18.— Sir Philip
Broke is to be honored with a gold
medal, to be worn with his full uni
form for the capture of the Chcsa
pcake.’’
The above distinction con
ferred on the officers who succeeded,
only after a desperate battle in cap
turing an American frigate of equal
force and loss of her commander in
the beginning of the engagement,
impliedly*.. but unavoidably,contains
fhe_highest compliment to the supe
rior bravery of th-e American’ navy.
Is it any where recorded in English
history, that a similar mark of dis
tinction in a, similar case Vfas’ ever
conferred on an English commander
for achieving such a victory over a
* frigate of France, Spain or any other
nation ? No--
a (Evening Post.
- <«i> ■
|;r .. ST. DOMINGO. - ,
£ap*. Barnard of the schr. Chaun
eey from Port-au-Prince, reports
that Petion, the President oTthe Re
public at Hayti, had left Port-au-
Prince on the 20th January at the
head of 600© of his trbops, to meet
Christophe oittne plains, abotrt sixty
miles N. E. of Port au-Prince, at
which place he was informed that
Christophe had embodied himself
■tfith a large nu-mber of men ; and
that when Petion arrived at'., the •
place tbmeet him, he; retreated to
the mountains. It appeared, to be
the height of the ambition of Petion
to meet his adversary* on a plain in
order to prove his generalship iba
field of battle.— Dem. Press *
;C - NeiT-YorK. February 24.
Successful Recruiting.-* -We intend
ed but forgot, to copy
from the. Evening Post of Tuesday,
a note of the success which has at
tended the re'eruiting service in this
city .since the last act for raising the
bounty* on enlistment*. Such great
numbers have joined the standardjdf
their country, that > number of offi
cers have raised their quota already,
and the Post says that three have
clcsed'their rendezvous. It is evi
dent thatTraen enough are now to be
had for the money. And should
there be aiiy complaint of
of money, as there was of .
*He want of men, we trust the deffi
ciency wiß be promptly supplied by
government from the resources put
in their hands, ftec?uits are raising
here for the* following different
corps: viz % 6th regt. infantry, 41st
do 3d artillery, Com. Lewis’s flotil
la, and Com. M'Donnough’s squad
ron on lake Champlain, and ptfrfcapo
*'■ * ®vT •; LW ■* »” -t* ■‘•'S ,jSSn. . . { w a
some not recoil ct ted, besides the’
privateer York, and ft number of let
levs of marque fitting for sea.
Goti.ir.Sijn-,
VOICE OF *fEW-JEItS£V.
The following preamble and reso
lutions were adopted by both HoiteeS
of the Legislature, ou Saturday, tho
12tt» inst.-—do Council without <!e«*
hate—in the House, after a violent
opposition :
srjre of y£»*-y£*stK-
We, the Representatives of thef
state of Ncw-Jersey, in Council and
General Assembly convened, in or
der to prevent any misrepresentati
ons a former Legislature may have
made to the Government or l'eople
of the United Slates, relative to the
principles and opinions of our cot!**
stituents—deem it a duty to express?
our sentiments, respecting our nati
onal concerns ; therefore.
Resolved, That peace on terms of
equity and reciprocity is at all times,
the desire of the people of this sfeuy
as well as of the United States, and
that war ought only to he resorted to
when all other means of rCdreistng
our grievances or maintaining our
rights have proved ineffectual.
Resolved, That Great Britain, hav
ing long continued to heap insult
upon agg»ession—attempting to ex
cite disunion of the states—-refusing
satisfaction for past wrongs, or Ud*
guarantee against future injuries, haft
fully justified our government ia
having recourse,to arms.
Resolved, That this Legislature re*>
gards with contempt and abhouenc#’
the ravings of an infuriated faction,
either as issuing from a Legislative
Body, a maniac Governor, or dis
contented or ambitious demagogues
—that the friends of our country and
government may rest assured the
people of this state will meet inter*
, nal insurrection with the vamfr
promptitude they will the invasion
of a cruel, vindictive and savages
toe. ; v: i ,
That this Legislature
view with jcegret and disapprobation
the conduct of those
tatives in both Houses of Congress,
who, in to thwart the
rpeasures of government, par.Jiztf
the energetic prosecution of the
war, and retard the speedy return of
honorable peace:
Resolved , That whiUtAre approx
the prompt acceptance c*| ,our go
vernment to renew the negcciation*
of peace on an offer made by Great-.
Britain, we repose a a entire conSf
dence in the wisdom, firmness and
virtue of the Executive and General
Government, and fear not ta put to
the hazard of war all-that man hold*
dear, in defence- of the ineßtiniabf®
blessings of liberty and mdipenji
dehce.
Extract of a letter from Mjj.Jjkherdt
Pinkney, to his excellency'the Gov
ernsr of Sduth~Carolina, dated
Fort Hawxins, 20th Feb. 1814,
~r Since 1 had the honor of address
ing you on the j27tb January—l have
receded your excellency’s letters of
the 21st of Jan. and oth of this month.
Nothing could exceed the zeal of
the South Carolina rpilitia in volun
teering their services,’ and proceed- •
ing to this place, without either tent*
or arms, and furnished only With
the scanty supply of camp.equipage,
which colonel Earle was enabled sud
denly to collect. By the indefatiga
ble activity and judicious conduct of
this officer in bringing, the .troops
forward so expeditiously, the’ pub-
service has bben materially ben
efited ; which you will be able more
justly to appHqiate, when -you arc*
Informed without this timely arrival
we should probably have been com
pelled- to leave our advanced post a£
fort Hull l&O mit&s from this fron
tier, and to fall back to the Chata
: houchee, thereby relinquishing a
tract of ccuntry 48 mile? in extent*
and exposing the front"; vv inhabitant*
to the depredations of, the savages,
encouraged by this retreat. ... i
I knew the’ penury of our Maga
zine ini Charleston and was aware of
“ the delay which must attend the eJ
duiprtient of this corps,
from the army regulation which
rects all requisitions to be forwarded*
to the WarjOffice and approved be
fore executed, purchasing depart,
ment. 1 therefore requested your
! Excellency'said in th#sc equipments.
It is with pleasure I acknowledge
your ready compliance therewith*
and the prompt arrangement made
for tho march of the troops which
I have tepresented in its proper place
as a patriotic and consider
it a personal obligaiiawj\ life
sC7*Our Indian * affairs have re**
cently undergon&po material change*.
Offensive operations, which are at
present suspended, will
we imagine on the arrival of the
troops from North-Carolina, who*
have at length marched and may b«>
looked for iiy the course of a week,
by last accounts from General Jack
son he was *v,tn