THE WEEKLY REGISTER-PRIVATEERING, in three months from this time, or sooner if pos-gr.evances which we respectfully hope will meet a In witness whereof, we, the underwritten plenipotentar, by virtue of our respective powers, have signed this present treaty, and have hereunto affixed our seals, Done at Weliky Lousky, the 20th of July, 1812, Privateering. By the 4th section of the "act concerning letters of marque, prizes and prize goods," it is provided-ty shall be forfeited, and shall accrue to the owners, "That all captures and prizes of vessels and properofficers and crew, of the vessels by whom such captures and prizes shall be made, and on due conden nation had, shall be distributed according to any written agreement which shall be written between them; and if there be no such agreement, then one moity to the owners, the other to the officers and To the honorable the Senate and House of Representa-crew, as nearly as may be, according to the rules tices of the United States of America, in Congress prescribed for the distribution of prize money, by the act entitled "an act for the better government of To this section no assembled:The nenorial of the subscribers, owners of and the navy of the United States." agents for twenty-four private armed vessels fitted other construction can, in the opinion of your memoout of the port of New-York, and other citizens of rialists, reasonably be given, than that the capture, the city of New-York, respectfully SHEWETH:-That when ascertained to be a lawful prize, is to be at the tour memorialists, convinced that the successful 15-disposal of the captors, to be, by them, distributed sue of the present war against Great Britain, mate-according to the provisions of the law. The object of the interference of the court of ad18 simply to enquire into the character of the rially depends upon the effectual annoyance of the enemy, have, many of them, engaged in the equipmiralty ment of private armed vessels. The extent to which prize, which, if enemy's property when captured, such enterprizes may be carried, to the injury of the "accrues" and is "forfeited," by the taking, to the fbe, is incalculable; for no bounds can be prescribed captors, whose property therein is affirmed, not acquired, by the act of condemnation. This property to the hardihood and daring of American seamen. The great advantages of this cheap and effectual is, in the opinion of your memorialists, the undoubtmode of warfare peculiarly entitle it, in the opinion ed right of the owner, derived from all moral and of your memorialists, to the serious regard and fos-political rulers of law and justice, to dispose of as tering care of congress; the effect of promoting or he deems proper; a right not be divested, but by dediscouraging it, will be felt, not only by those im-linquency mediately concerned, but throughout every department and member of the war. or crime. In the district of New-York, of which your memorialists are inhabitants, the court of admiralty has To the bold and successful efforts of our private decided, that prizes when condemned shall in every armed vessels, we may attribute, in a great degree, instance, be sold by the marshal, and the proceeds a growing confidence in every class of citizens in our deposited in the hands of the clerk of the court, to ability to contend, at least on equal terms, with the be by him Uistributed. self-styled mistress of the ocean. Whilst your memorialists submit with respect to The examples of heroism in our seamen in the east, the authority whence this decision emanates, they cannot fail to inspire with a corresponding ardor our must complain of the hardships of its consequence soldiers of the north and west producing a rivalship from which they respectfully hope congress will see It is manifest that sales by the marshal must, in of patriotism and courage, ensuring a war of glory, the necessity of affording immediate relief. terminating in an honorable and lasting peace. The spirit with which our maritime citizens have almost every instance, be conducted hastily, and engaged in such adventures, and which, if properly without regard to the value of the property, which excited and encouraged, would prove so destructive will often be sold at times and places unfavorable to to the enemy, is in danger of being extingished, the sale of the commodity. The owners will thus fice of valuable property, which in their own hands unless congress interpose, immediately and effectu-be enforced and passive spectators of the total sacrially, for its preservation. For this object, a diminution of the high duties im- would yield a certain profit, were they permitted to posed on prize goods is indispensable. The captur- dispose of it at such times and places, on such terms ed property, loaded with these duties, in addition of credit, and in such quantities, as are accommoto the charges attending its condemnation and sale, dated to the demand. produces, even at this early period, and under the By this proceeding, not only are the captors demost favorable circumstances, nett profits utterly in-prived of the common right of managing their own adequate to the risk and danger of such enterprizes, concerns in their own way, but when their property and in some instances is attended with an absolute is sacrificed at any price, the proceeds are loaded Joss to the captors. The cases in which profit is ob- with commissions of officers for making that very tained, must daily lessen as adventures increase, un-¡sacrifice. Of these commissions the marshal rewhich includes the duties, and the humane fund, til all hope of advantage being precluded, a stop ceives 11-4 per cent. on the gross amount of sales, will effectually be put to further attempts. Your memorialists believe, that as a means of re-established for the support of disabled seamen and venue, it will eventually prove its own destruction: their families, and constitutes tax upon tax. This for though large sums may, at present, be obtained gross amount so stripped of one and a quarter per from it, by diminishing the expectation of profit, it cent. then passes into the hands of the clerk, where will soon, not only prevent the increase of private it again suffers a diminution of one and a quarter armed vessels, but drive them from the ocean as a per cent. for receiving and paving over. hopeless speculation or certain loss. A reduction of deductions, the payment of the duties, the costs of the duties, by encouraging additional adventurers, condemnation, together with the extra ministerial would soon more than indeniify the treasury for any and indispensable charges of the two per cent, invatemporary loss it might sustain, in the increased lid fund, agency, wharfage, &c. the owners, offinumber of subjects of duty which it would produce. cers and crew are presented with a lean account of In addition to the burden of the high duties above profit, if not of absolute loss, chilling to the hopes complained of, these enterprizes are subject to other and unnerving the aim of private enterprize. After these Your memorialists trust that it is unnecessary to right of which, we understand, 200,000 dollars have enlarge on the utter impossibility of aiding the coun-been refused) we have to add that of a citizen of try by a continuance of services, burdened with the state of New-York, who in a common but hithersuch grievous impositions. To congress they confi- to unnoticed vegetable, has discovered a substitute dently look for legal provisions, that may secure to for flax and hemp, greatly superior to either, and owners of private armed vessels an adequate return which multiplies itself so abundantly as to yield for their expense and risk, to the brave officers and from 500 to 1000 from roots and seeds per annum. crews the reward of their gallant services, and to Mr. Baldwin, of Montpelier, Vermont, the ingetheir widows and orphans the humane fund, estanious inventor of the patent machine for spinning blished by law, unimpaired by official exactions. hemp and flax, has made trial of it, and says it will Your memorialists would suggest the expediency work better than either of those articles. of shortening the time for effecting the condemna- Dr. Eddy, the lecturer on Botany, gives it as his tion of prizes, and of limiting the ordinary fees of opinion, that, "owing to the bulbores or tuberous officers of the prize courts to a certain sum, as was form of its root, even should the old root die, the formerly done in this country, when colonies of Great plant will be continued by suckers or shoots from the parent root; that it may be cultivated in good Britain. Your memorialists, whilst they direct the atten- upland as well as in its natural soil, which is low tion of congress to the aforegoing evils, would re- and moist; that it will bear from 15 to 20 stems on spectfully further suggest the propriety and impor- one root, which grow in a circle of not more than 6 tance of granting to the owners, officers and crews of inches diameter, and arise to the height of from 4 private arned vessels, a bounty for the destruction to 6 feet without branches." of enemy's property. It will often be expedient to In honor of the discoverer, Mr. Chas. Whitlow, it destroy vessels and goods captured to prevent almost has received the classical name of Urtica Whitlowi. certain recapture. This, whilst it promotes the ob- A committee of the corporation, to whom Mr. ject of the war, in distressing the enemy, produces Whitlow's memorial on this subject was referred, no benefit to the captors. A bounty proportioned have made the following report thereon: to the tonnage of the vessels destroyed, would "The committee to whom was referred the memoprompt to much activity and vigilance, and ensure rial of Charles Whitlow, on the subject of a newly the loss of much valuable property to the enemy, in discovered plant as a substitute for hemp and flax, situations whence it could not safely be carried into respectfully report, port, or not without the deduction of a force disobliging the captors for other operations of equal or greater importance. "That lately they have had several interviews and conferences with the memorialist, at which he has exhibited specimens of his newly discovered plant in To redress the evils above complained of, and to its various stages, from the nettle in its natural state, encourage and promote a system of maritime war- including the flax and tow, to a fine spun thread; fare so beneficial to the country and so mischievous that from the accompanying certificates and docuto the enemy, your memorialists would earnestly ments published in the Baltimore Medical and Phirecommend that provision be made by law: losophical Lyceum, it appears, that it is a hardy per For reducing the duties on prizes; renial, and believed to be a species not hitherto disFor delivering the prize property on condemna-covered by any botanist. It further appears, from tion, to the captors, to be by them disposed of, a certificate signed by a number of manufacturers, of and distributed; flax and hemp, linen and cotton, that they had exaFor shortening the time necessary to procure con-mined the plant above described in its different demnation; stages of flax, tow and thread; and were unanimousFor limiting the fees of the officers of the prize ly of opinion that it is far superior to any flax or courts to a certain sum; and hemp they had ever seen, as well in the quantity it For authorising prize owners or their agents to or-produces from a single stem, as its superior strength, der prizes arrived in one port to any other port, beauty and fineness of texture. That from the exat their discretion, at any time before the actual periments made by them they were further of opini Jibelling of such prizes. on, that it will produce from twenty to twenty-five Your memorialists are convinced, that such legal per cent. more from the heckle than any flax or hemp provisions, aiding and encouraging the patriotic spi-known to them; and that they are fully persuaded rit of our citizens, will soon cover the ocean with an it will become a great benefit to any country that active hostile armament, which no vigilance can will encourage its cultivation." elude, and from which, no force, however great, can effectually protect." (Signed by Thomas Farmer and others. } From these, and various other documents exhibited to your committee, as well as from their own view and observation, they are decidedly of opinion that the discovery of the Urtica Whitlowi (the name by which the plant is distinguished) is of the highest importance-and, as far as they are competent to judge, the plant will be found a valuable substitute The restless and inquisitive genius of our country-for hemp and flax, and its cultivation and manufacmen, if it has sometimes subjected us to ridicule,ture will be highly beneficial to every country which has assuredly contributed our full proportion to will afford it patronage and encouragement. Important Discovery. All which is respectfully submitted. [Signed] Nov. 9, 1812. NICHOLAS FISH, P. H. WENDOVER, the stock of general information; indeed, some of the most ingenious and important discoveries were reserved for the persevering curiosity and scientific research of the American people. Of the "perpetual motion" alluded to, we wait further infor mation; but the discovery described below ap- The discoverer has obtained a patent right-and pears so completely sustained by experience, as will sell rights to cultivate and manufacture the to justify us in recording it. It is copied from a product of fifty acres for 14 years, for 300 dollars, New-York paper. and will furnish 4000 seeds gratis, and as many more To the discovery of the perpetual motion, recent-as may be wanted, at reasonable charge, by applying ly made by a citizen of Pennsylvania (for the patent to Charles Whitlow, 27, Maidenlane, Mr. J. Edgar, THE WEEKLY REGISTER THE SLAVE TRADE. merchant, Charleston; Mr. David Landriff, nurseryman, Philadelphia, or the office of the Mercantile Advertiser. Domestic Manufactures. "THE FLESH-POTS OF EGYPT." The Slave Trade. The progress of manufactures is astonishing. The world has no parallel for the population of the United States, nor can it furnish any for the increase of our fabrications. Every time that the many, many thousand spindles, now in motion, go round, this hanker. ing for the "flesh-pots" is diminished, for it increases the treasure at home, and keeps the heart from wandering. To see the present state of our manufactoMoses, the great lawgiver of the chosen people of rics and compare them with the situation of there esGod-wonderfully called to lead the Israelites from tablishments only four years ago, would make a man the oppressions of Pharoah to political freedom, and suppose some mighty genii had been at work, if we a land of their own, rich and luxuriant, "overflow-could not account for it in a natural way; to be found, ing with milk and honey," to be possessed by them originally, in the outrages of Europe, and confirmed and their children-and giving evidence of his Divine by the happy experience that we can conduct them as authority by many miracles wrought for their imme-cheap and as well as any other people. Let the pre diate preservation, was incessantly vexed by the re-sent double duties on dry goods be continued three bellions of those he was commanded to preserve, un-years, and there will be a dreary wilderness between til the smell of the flesh-pots of Egypt had completely the great body of our citizens and the Egypt we escaped their nostrils. For the mind of man was then, fear. Its passes will be guarded by interest, and all as it is now-liable to the influence of uneasy spirits, will watch for spics from the enemy's camp, to seize that seek momentary and individual gratification, and expose and render abortive all his designs of rethough it might deprive them of permanent blessings ducing us again to bondage, compelling "us to make bricks without straw"-as we have been compelled to and national happiness. The "flesh-pots" that give trouble to the rulers of purchase British goods while denied that commerce the United States are British goods; by the sale of that best enabled us to pay for them. which many, of great influence in society, make their living-"Where the treasure is the heart will be also”. and to the trading man, in general, the denunciation In answer to some general enquiries, as it comes of Burke applies with great truth and energy-"His counting house is his temple; his desk his altar; completely within the plan of this work, we have his ledger his bible, and money his god." As a case collected and arranged the following items and facts, in point, a vender of British manufactures, a few for reference, relative to the slave trade. The slave trade between Europe and -Africa was days ago, was much offended with me in questioning bis patriotism, for expressing his satisfaction at the first made a regular traffic, as at presnnt continued, surrender by general Hull, as hoping it might tend to by the Portuguese, in 1482. That nation, therefore, a peace with Great Britain, BECAUSE HE OBTAINED has precedence of all the modern European powers in this species of commerce. England commenced it in 1550, and France, Holland, Denmark, &c. about By the blessings of Providence, not so visible to the natural eye as the miracles wrought for the deli-the same time. Slaves were first sent to South Ame 1620. In 1768, the following were the chief traders verance of Israel, but as powerful in their effectrica in 1550; to the North American continent in to western Africa: and leading gradually to the same object, the people of the United States are conducted from this sensual gratification-this longing for a British connexion, by the establishment of numerous manufactories for Ancient ties and the supply of their own wants. long accustomed habits, however hurtful they may be, cannot be dissolved, in a moment, without damage. If the habitual drunkard, by a sudden virtuous resolution, altogether refrains from his usual potions, violent convulsions or excessive debility en-valued at 15 sterling each, in Africa. The price He must be weaned by degrees from the way has much advanced since then. Nearly the whole of these slaves were sent to the American colonies. that leads to the valley of death. In 1788 the slaves in the then British islands in the been drunk with foreign trade-it is true they were West-Indies were estimated at 430,000; an aggregate The following apexhilarated by it, and felt strength from it--but the issue is, that the public mind is debased, and too much under the real amount. pears to be, nearly, the present number in these ready to submit to any indignity or insult to obtain a islands; the amount, however, is rapidly declining: little more of the same intoxicating material. good exercise, and now and then a cheerful glass, is the British government having forbidden the trade; the best for the health of the body corporeal, so is and the war with the continent so much interferes the application of our native resources, with foreign with the sale of colonial produce, as to make it too trade for our superfluities, the only means of pre-small an object to violate the humane regulation, extensively, at present. serving the body politic, from the servility of Holland and the oppression of the modern Carthage. HIS LIVING BY SELLING HER GOODS. sues. Our people have As Great Britain purchased that year 53,100 Holland Portugal Total purchased, as above, in 1768 23,500 11,300 8,700 6,300 1,200 104,000 British Islands-Jamaica, 200,000; Barbadoes, It is by no means our wish to hurry the establish- 60,000; Antigua, 35,000; Grenada and adjacent -Mores did not immediately lands, 30,000; St. Christopher's, 36,000; St. Vinment of manufactories. lead the children of Israel to the promised land. He cents, 11,853, Dominica, 12,000; Anguilla, Tortola might have travelled there in a few days, but he so- and adjacent islands, 15,000; Nevis, 10,000; Montjourned 40 years in the wilderness-for he knew that serat, 10,000; the Bahamas, 5,000; the Bermudas, the people were not prepared for the change of life 5,000; Martinico, 60,000; Guadaloupe, 50,000 ; that awaited them. They were almost insensibly led St. Lucia,* 10,000; Tobago,* 10,000; Marigalante," to an understanding of their own strength; and, 6,000; St. Martins, 10,000; St. Eustatius,* 10,000: when the day of battle came, their enemy was defeat-Curracoa,* 15,000; Trinidad,* 10,000; St. Croix,* ed. With how much force do those facts apply to the state of our country? * New possessions of the British. 30,000; the other lesser islands may contain, in all, 30 or 40,000 more. Spanish Islands---Cuba, 108,000; Porto Rico, 8,000 -Margaretta, 3,900. Danish Island.-St. Thomas, 5,600. Swedish Island-St. Bartholomews, 10,000. British continental possessions in South America.Surrinam* 43,009; Demarara and Essequibo* 40,000; Cavenne* 25,000. The German mile is rather more than four miles English-the [Austrian] Florin is equal to fifty cents. Events of the War. MILITARY. General Harrison was at Franklinton on the 24th ult. A detachment from col. M'CoreL's regiment of volunteer artillery, consisting of 500 effective men, marched through Albany on the 8th inst. on their St. Domingo, Hispaniola or Hayti-French part, before the revolution, 600,000; Spanish part, 15,000. Portuguese America.—Brazil, 600,000. Forty throu sand slaves per annum have been imported into Brazil to supply the waste, and keep pace with the de-way to Sackett's Harbor. mand. Spanish America. We have no document at hand that gives the probable number of [black] slaves in "Spanish America;" but they are not numerous, and at the utmost extent cannot, it is believed, exceed 200,000, in the whole. In the Spanish dominions, at least 300,000 Grand total of the African race in Amer. 20,000 3,861,810 A second U. S. volunteer company has been orga nized in Connecticut. John Williams, a private of the 6th regiment, has been shot at Plattsburg, agreeable to the sentence of a court martial, for desertion. Travelling amusement-The following is mention ed as a fact, in a letter from a gentleman at Buffalo, to another in this town: A Dr. Lorton, of Philadelphia, travelling through that country for amusement, arrived at Lewistown at 9 o'clock the night before the battle of Queenstown, volunteered his services, and fought in the ranks till captured. The butt of his musket was shot off. Major Mullany, it is said, speaks in the highest terms of his deliberate bravery in the battle. He was paroled, and left at liberty to proceed on his diverting tour. (Harrisburgh pap. All the troops of the United States, at the date of our latest accounts from them, are believed to be most amply supplied with all the necessaries and conveniences incident to their situation; to effect which the most liberal and patriotic exertions have been made. It is reported that gen. Hopkins,with 2000 mountcd volunteers, has returned to Vincennes after a The reader will please to observe, that in ma- fruitless excursion in hunt of the savages-having ny cases the number is only supposed. But the amounts seen only three on his route. He was about to start have not been put down without some probability, for the Prophet's settlements on the Wabash, with built upon a calculation of the produce of the islands his men dismounted. So says the report. &c. compared with other places whose number of Every movement on the lines indicates the approach slaves were given us "by authority." of interesting events. Gen. Bloomfield, with 8000 The introduction of slaves into the United States, men, has moved from Plattsburgh to Champlain, Che was forbidden by law on the first day of January, frontier village, where we expect general Dearborn 1810-the earliest period that such a provision could also. General Smyth, from Buffalo, &c. was evidentbe constitutionally made. The present trade to Afri-ly preparing for inmediate operations against Erie, ca is chiefly carried on in Spanish and Swedish bot-Queenstown and Fort George-and the army affairs toms. The Treaty of Luneville in the north-west, having obtained the reedful supe plies, so much deranged by the wonderful surrender at Detroit, is prepared to retrieve the honor of the United States, and exact a terrible retribution of the between the emperor of Germany, "in behalf of the allies. From all these appearances, with the prospect whole Germanic body" and the French Republic, of news from our tars on the ocean and on the lakes, was signed on the 9th of February, 1801-when the we anticipate that our next number will contain following cessions were made to the latter. We more important details, than it has yet fallen to our copy it from a Hamburg paper printed shortly after. lot to record in a single paper. Austria, lost, including the Mila- . nutes. German 39. Inhabi- Revenue. It is said that the legislature of Verment has pass1,000 1-2 3,529,455 9,314,135 ed a law for raising seven regiments of Valunteerscach soldier to icecive $30 bounty, and have his wa 1,960,575 14,163,134|| ges made up to $10 per month. 885 75 42 1-2 The Equestrian order 20 1-2 The Chapter of Cologne 1 The imperial cities, 5 in number 4 80 The imperial chamber of Wezlaar 2,168 1-2 6,253,660 28,362,481 have seen the ancient states of the Prince of Orange Nassau, late Stadtholder; held in the same mater that Hanover was retained by the family of the Ell. Reg. Cuelphs, sovereigns of England. THE WEEKLY REGISTER-EVENTS OF THE WAR. Copy of a letter from major-general Van Rensselear, ¡stated that the fellow was taken into custody on his BUFFALOE, 24th Oct. 1812. SIR-Having this day resigned to you the comNaval volunteers. A British privateer, the Livermand of the army on the Niagara frontier, and being now on the eve of my departure for Albany, I con- pool packet, commanded by one Freeman, an Americeive it to be a duty I owe to myself, to merit, and can and native of Cape Cod, has been cruizing on to the service, to recommend to your particular our eastern coast, and interrupting the coasting notice and favor, and through you, sir, to major-ge- trade: the patriots of Salem,on ascertaining the fact, neral Dearborn, the following brave officers who dis-in three hours and a half fitted out the schooner He tinguished themselves in the first detachment oflen, with four gums and plenty of small arms, and troops who were engaged in storming the redoubt seventy brave spirits instantly volunteered their upon the heights of Queenstown, on the 13th inst. services to catch the traitor. We trust their success Captains Wool and Ogilvie; lieutenants Kearney, will equal the zeal of the enterprize. We wait impatiently for news from the great ocean Carr, Huginin, and Sammons, of the 13th infantry; lieutenant Randolph of the light artillery, who vo- and the lakes. It seems almost impossible that our frigates should not soon encounter the enemy-and, lunteered his services and commanded the vanguard; lieutenants Rathbone and Gansevoort of the it is highly probable, that captain Chauncey has, before this time, obtained the mastery over Ontario artillery. CONSTITUTION AND GUERRIERE. And if, sir, through want of particular informaThe following certificate was before the naval comtion, I may have omitted any who are known to have distinguished themselves, upon that occasion, mittee. We were on board the Africa from the 10th I beg you will have the goodness to insert their July to the 26th August, during which time we freto do justice to their quently saw the Guerriere, captain Dacres, and we names, in such manner as certify that we frequently counted the guns of that merit. I am, sir, your most obedient servant, S. V. RENSSELEAR. frigate, and that she mounted on her main battery, thirty guns-on her quarter-deck sixteen thirty-two QUEBEC, Oct. 25.—We understand, and with plea-pound carronades, and on her forecastle eight guns sure we announce it to the public, that one of the making an armament of fifty-four guns. Brig. gen. Smyth, of the U. S. forces. government store ships, lately arrived, brought 10,000 stand of arms. The prisoners taken at Detroit and brought down to Quebec, are on the point of embarking for Boston for the purpose of being exchanged. Five cannon are now lying at Chateau court taken at Detroit. EDWARD GRANWELL, A writer in the Watchman, printed at Wilmington, (Del.) claims captain Porter, of the Essex, capt. Jones, late of the Wasp, lieutenant Bush, late of Arrived ship William, Goodman, 75 days from the marines, who was killed on Loard the ConstituPortsmouth, cargo government stores. Passengers, tion, and captain Gibson, of the light artillery, who 214 officers and privates of the Royals and 103d distinguished himself on the heights of Queenstown, as natives of Delaware. The patriotic citizens of regiment. Ship Lady Shore, Watson, 75 days from Ports-Wilmington have it in contemplation to present mouth, cargo government stores. Passenger, Mr. captain Jones with a sword, on his return to his country. Montgomery, hospital staff. Brig Magdalen, Leister, 75 days from Portsmouth. Passengers, 53 officers and privates of the artillery, 8th and 49th regiments. NAVAL. Copy of a letter from Mr.Henry Dennison, of the United States brig Argus, to the Secretary of the Nuvy. PHILADELPHIA, 11th Nov. 1812. SIR-I have the honor to inform you that I arrived From the 28th of July to the 27th October, only here last evening in the ship Ariadne, of Boston, sixteen sail of American vessels were sent into New cleared from Alexandria for Cadiz, with a cargo of Providence, including three privateers-but during that space of time there arrived twenty three SPANISH ships, owned, we suppose, by good citizens of the United States. Arrived at the port of Plattsburg, on the 6th inst. and saluted the town, the U. S. vessel of war, Hunter, lieut. Smith. The Hunter carries one long 18 and six6 pounders. I above 5000 barrels of flour, but detained by the United States' brig Argus. capt. Sinclair, for being under British license. The Argus fell in with her on the 15th ult. in latitude 55 deg. 45 min. longitude 56 I was ordered deg. 56 min.; and, by boarding under British colors, obtained possession of her passport, On the passage to take charge of her and bring her into the first port I could make in the United States. The following additional instruction has been given fell in with two British cruizers, viz. the sloop of war to the public and private arined vessel of the United Tartarus and brig Colibri, and was strictly examined by each, but by making use of the license and a lit States: "The public and private armed vessels of the Unit-tle finesse, we escaped capture; the Tartarus even ed States are not to interrupt any British unarmed put on board of us nine American seamen, prisoners, vessels bound to Sable Island, and laden with sup-to assist in working the ship. All the papers found on board I have submitted to Mr. Dallas, district at plies for the humane establishment at that place." "By command of the president of the United torney, but as yet he has not given me any decided opinion relative to the case. States, &c. A Batavia (N. Y.) paper informs us that the tars at Black Rock had laid a plan to possess themselves of the enemy's ship the Queen Charlotte, then lying under the guns of fort Erie; but that some abominable traitor had passed over and exposed the design, on which the ship immediately left the port. It is) The Argus separated from the squadron on the 13th ult. and when I left her she had failen in with nothing but the Ariadne. I have the honor to be, most respectfully, sir, your |