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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