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’ jaded when whhifi the prison
k >rs.
The result is as follows : 7 men
hilled, 39 langeroufly wounded, 6
of whom had their limbs amputat
ed ; and 20 (lightly wounded.
On the Bth a coroner’s inquest
was held on the bodies of the de
ceai'ed, and on the 9th they gave
in their vcrdidl juftifiable homi
cide.
The following lift was carefully
colle&ed and revised by H Kenney
and myfelf from amongst the pri
soners, and the acquaintance of
thtfe who feli on that day ; and I
have made it my duty since my im
priionment to collect the names of
the deaths, and of those that enter
ed the Britifli service during the
late war, with all the places of a
bode, and the vessels they original
ly belonged to. Os the former I
have the date of their deaths j they
are at your service for the perusal
of the public.
I am, gentlemen, with refpedt,
your moft obedient servant,
JOHN MEIGGS.
Portland, May 24. •
BRITISH BARBARITY!
Mr. Douglass. —l witnessed on
the 13th instant, an aft of cruelty
too barbarous for contemplation
but with horror—it was the whip
ping of two American citizens
(young men) at Eatlport. The
circutnftances were as follows:
The young men went to the inl
and of Kaftport with their boat, £5
landed, where five sergeants were
previously concealed, the better to
efteft their bale purpose, on their
landing, two or more privates were
sent to seduce them, with offering
a large sum, if they would take
them to the American jide—alter
repeated entreaties they agreed, on
putting oft from the (hore the Ser
geants in am-bush, ordered the boat
back and the young men were seiz
ed and put into confinement—the
following morning they were tried
by. a Court Martial— Two hundred
stripes on the nuked buck was the
fenteq.ee of each ! —and to cap the
climax of their brutality, the moth
ers of thele unfortuate lads were
marched under guard to the wharf,
where this feene was tranfa&ed, &
there iefreed to vrew their mangled
sons and to hear their shrieks, re
peated to the tenfold agony ot their
bleeding hearts. Good God !
thought I, can this be man—can
this be him who would fcye taught
to feel another’s woes? Alas
humanity had fled—and in ts place
savage barbarity evidently had ta
ken residence. The poor lacerat
ed young men were after wards
sent over to Lubec.
Beginning The Minerva of
Norfolk, from N. Carolina, for
Cadiz, is sent into Gibraltar, by u
Britifli-frigate— Enquirer.
Freon Cobbctt's Weekly Register.
REFORM, WAR &c TAMILS.
Mr. Cobb'-tt —Nothing ccn
be more;ferviceab!e to the caufc of
Reform, than the puffing of the
Corn Bill, through the House of
Commons. The direct oppofitiqa
which innumerable petitions have
received cannot fail to impress the
minds of the people with the neces
sity of radical alterations in the con
stitution of the Common’s House
of Parliament. The people can lie
ver forget it. And in all the coun
try meetings, when speaking of re
form, (and every political and re
ligious evil relate to it) we mud
never forget to produce this fact, in
order to (hew the people the im
portance of a true representation
annually assembled. It will be a
plain ami irresistible argument,
which the public will eafiiy ur.der
ftand, and acknowledge. When
ever I think about reform, and
conflitution; and liberty, I cannot
help thinking abut America.
This is the land of freedom, not
falfe adulterate freedom, but free
dom in the genuine sense of the
word, civil and religious; and it is
to America we must look for the
model of a good, free and cheap
government. With what scorn &
contempt, did we speak of this no
ble republic, but a little time ago,
and now this fame contemptible re
public, victorious by land and sea,
(lands upon a prouder eminence
than all the other nations of the
world put together ! What a pity
it is that we should have thus ex
posed ourselves to the ridicule of
the world ! Whigs and forks, all
were for the American war, though
obviously one of die moft unjust
that this country ever entered into.
The treaty is ratified ; war itself
is over, but the effedls of this war
are not over and will never be over,
as long as the world lasts! There is
no event of so much consequence to
our country. I think that America
will henceforth be the arbiter of all
other nations. All other nations
mult keep their eyes upon Ameri
ca ; and all the lovers of freedom
must remember the republic. You
are the only public writer who
has taken a just and masterly view
of this (object; and you were per
fectly right in following your own
judgment, and in not taking the
advice of those who wrote to you to
desist. The government and peo
ple of this country are not aware of
the conlequcnces of this war again ft
freemen ; and Napoleon’s return
is .calculated to abl'orb all attention
for the present.
Yours, Sic.
O. G. FORDHAM.
Sander., March 20, 1815.
Mr. Siren: Gardnier, formerly
a member of Congress, and now
editor of a Coflack paper in New-
York, delates that he is more
grateful to Judge Hall for having
fined and threatened to imprtion
the immortal hero of Orleans, than
he is to Jackson for laving the city.
Such are tne principles of federal
leaders: They would sooner fee a
patriot and a hero immolated on
the altar of personal revenge, than
a city and its fair inhaottants pro
tected from the invaiioii and pol
lution ot a brutal army of foreign
mercinaries.
Balt. Pat.
A letter from New Orleans,
dated the 13th ult. Hates the fol
lowing:—“ We are at this moment
in the utmost alarm in. consequence
of the height of the river. A ( nail
wind would be fufficient to break
the levee in almost any place, and
inundate our itreets. Above and
below the city, the levee has
given way in leveral places, and it
is (aid the fine cotton lands of Con
cordia are ah under water.”
Bonaparte appears to be working
his machinery with considerable
t fleet in France, and displays net a
little dexterity in turning the weap
ons of the allies upon themselves.
He has thrown out an indirect chal
lenge to single combat with the
Emperor of Russia, for which the
Paris papers afteCt to find a prece
dent in the personal quarrel of
Francis I. and Charles V. This is
the use which Bonaparte has made
of the statement so often repeated
in the German papers, that the
quarrel is entirely personal with Bo
naparte, and that it is not against
the French people, but against one
man, all the other nations of Eu
rope are directing their immense
armies to the Rhine.
We are.informed from Edin
burgh, (fays a late London paper)
that 500 manufacturers and labor
ers had volunteered to go to Cana
da, from Glasgow, and 500 from
Edinburgh. [“ Cross the line.”]
Decrease of the British Navy.
From the following statement
accurately copied from “ Steel's cor
rect list of the Royal Navy ” of G.
Britain, for September, 1813, and
March, 1815, it is evident that in
that period, (19 months) there was
a decrease in her naval force of
TWO HUNDRED AND SIX
TEEN SAIL— -fifty-three of which
were of the line !—This great de
crease (fays the Charleston City
Gazette) is probably owing to the
number of vefTels which have been
condemned as totally unfit for ser
vice, so far exceeding their means
for building new ones to replace
them.
Sept. 1813 March , 1815.
TO miffion C °"’ 760 523
°tzr and 191 270
Building 94 30
1045 829
It is asserted at Vienna that the
Arch Duke Charles refufed to take
a command. He has certainly (aid
“ the danger is not on the fide of
France but St. Peterfburgh. In
marching against Napoleon, we e
vidently march against all France.
For how can it be possible tnat a
man who for a year has been load
ed with such abuse, and cried dowQ
in many ways, should have come
as it were alone, and seized upon
all France, if the whole nation was
not in his favor. I will not inter
fere in this war; I fee nothing in
it but inevitable dilgrace.—Sir (laid
he to his brother) hasten to ac
knowledge your son in-law—fend
him his wife and child, and if he
ratifies the treaty of Paris, difeon
tinue your warlike preparations.—
Europe will then be at peace, and
you will avoid much misery.”
“foreign news.'"”
Nzif Tork, May 24.
Latest from England. —Yesterday
arrived at this port, the Ruffian
fliip Prince Michael, in 40 days
from Liverpool. By this arrival
the Editors of the Mercantile Ad
vertiser have received London pa
pers to the 10th and Liverpool
papers of the 12 of April, from
which extracts follow.
War had not been declared agajnft
France, but it appears by our Lon
don papers that great preparations
were making to commence hoftiii
ties, by all the Allied Powers.
A letter from a merchant in Li
verpool of the 11th of April", fays,
“ American Stocks are at par, (afk
irfg price) ” —Another letter of the
12th, fays, 4i Dollars are five (hil
lings and nine pence.” The latter
adds, “ I do not believe we (hall
have war with Bonaparte.”
Another letter fays, * The ex.
portation of fail cloth, and all o
ther muintions of w 7 ar are prohibit
ed in Holland, under the idea that
idea that war will take place be
tween that country and France.”
“ The king of France patted
through Antwerp, on the 29th
March.”
Amsterdam , April 6.
Letter from Vienna, March 27.
Ihe king of Saxony, it is said,
has now at last signed the conditions
laid before him.
The armaments are continued
on all Tides with double activity
The Austrians fend 150,000 men
to the Rhine and Switzerland, and
a great army to Italy, to support
the king of Sardinia, and be pre
pared to oppose the king of Naples,
who has assumed a hostile position
towards Austria The Ruffians
fend four corps to Germany, in all
180,000 men, and 60,000
The whole force of Prussia is part
ly already assembled beyond the
Rhine, partly on the march, as well
as all the German allies ; the moft
of :hefe forces are to be collected
by the Ist of May. It is said the
diplomatic union of the allied pow
ers will become a military one, and
take the name of head-quarters of
the allies.
From the London Evening papers)”
The Courier states that the war,
ha? begun in Italy. Mr. Lyal, the
messenger, has brought dispatches
announcing that an affair had taken
place between the Austrian and
Nepolitan Armies. It is said to
have been only an affair of out
polls, but it is important as it deter
mines the question refpe&ing the
intentions of Murat.
An article in the Paris papers of
the 12th instant, assert, that the
king of Naples arrived at Bologna
on the 30th of March. He fought
the Austrian advance guard, which
attempted to oppose his progress,
and made 5000 prisoners. Thirty
thoufan j Itaiion insurgents have
taken up arms and are advancing
to Milan—the gates of which city
were closed on the second instant.
The Courier extraordinary of
14th inst. states that the Pope had
requested permission to return to
France. The Neapolitan army is
encamped on the Appenines: it is
sixty thousand strong with one
hundred and fifty pieces of cannon.
Belgium , (Brussels) April 10.
The government of the prince of
Orange, has just aboliflied the tri
al by jury. The measure has ex
cited the greatest difeontent among
all the true friends of liberty.
’ Tis thus He wins them.
The emperor has caused the de
coration of the legion of honor to
be given to the individual of the
mounted national guard, who sing
ly offered to accompany the count
d’Artios when he found himfelf
obliged to quit Lyons.
Bordeaux paper.
Imperial Decree. —Napoleon, em
peror of the French ; we have de
creed and do decree as follows :
Art Ist. From the date of the
publication of the present decree,
the (lave trade is aboliflied ; there
(hall not be granted any clearance
for this commerce neither in the
ports of France or her colonies.
Art. 2d There (hall not be im
ported for sale, in our colonies, any
blacks obtained by the aforemen
tioned traffic, either by Frenchmen
