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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