16,300- Calves, 450-Sheep, 278,923-Hogs,| It was under the consideration of government to 50,676-Kids and rabbits, 24,000-Fowls, 1,255,340 suppress all companies and corporations of trades, -Ducks, 125,000-Turkeys, 205,000-Pigeons, and to leave every individual to the free exercise of 65,300-Partridges, 140,000, with proportionate his profession. The determination of this question quantities of maize, barley and flour. A fermented is not known. liquor called pulque, is the common drink of the Statistics-According to the enumeration made people; they are said to consume 44 millions of for the purpose of the conscription, the actual bottles per annum, each bottle containing about 58 population of this capital amounts to 224,548 inhacubit inches-they also drink considerable quant-bitants, among which are enumerated 4,128 nobles ties of wine, brandy, &c. and destroy near 50 millions (416 fewer than in 1808) 4,623 ecclesiastics (140 of pounds of bread every year. fewer than in 1808) 4,623 placemen (58 more than Our author next gives a long narrative of the in 1808) 10,220 artizans, workmen and artists inundations Mexico has suffered, and a detailed (1,25 more than in 1808.) The number of houses account of the great dykes that are cut through the since 1808 is increased 92: since 1785 it is increased mountains to carry off the surplus waters. Suffice 1,414. The number of families is diminished 3,185 it to say, the city seems now pretty well protected since 1808. Notwitstanding this diminuation, against similar calamities, effected at an enormous lodgings containing 2 or 3 rooms are much scarcer expense of nearly 6 millions of dollars. The than in 1808; and the price is doubled or trebled. last inundation was in 1764;-in 1863 additional This scarcity cannot be attributed to the number of works were commenced to render it perfectly safe. strangers, for that is diminished 6,863 since 1808. The great height of Mexico above the sea forever In 1785 a population of 217,967 persons occupied forbids the hope of possessing a water communica-only 5,607 houses; in 1810 the houses occupied by It is the emporium of an immense com- 206,400 persons are 7,021 of which several have merce; but every thing must be transported to and been heightened one or more stories. Lodging is so from it on the backs of men and animals over the very dear and scarce that some cannot obtain it.mountains. Three times have the populace, broke the windows of a rich proprietor of a house who demanded an excessive price for the rents of it. The number of horses in Vienna is 4,025: of dogs nearly 30,000. tion. We cannot consider this account of Mexico complete without noticing the floating gardens with which the lakes are filled, and from whence the market derives its chief supply of vegetables, roots, fruits and flowers. They are formed of reeds, rushes and branches of brushwood, strongly united; over which the Indians cast a fine black mould, or mud drawn from the bottom of the lakes. They are generally about 300 feet in length, and from 16 to 20 broad, and are moved about at pleasure. Education. The Emperor had commanded a learned Jew, M. Hertz Hombourg, to compose a book of morals, particurlarly appropriate to the situation of the Jewish nation, and in which the maxims of a sound philosophy were supported by passages from all the old Testament. M. Hom bourg's book entitled Beni Zion, has recently been The other chief places in the intendancy of Mex-approved by the Commissioners of studies, and will ico are-Tezcuco, which formerly possessed conside-be introduced into the Jewish schools. M. Humrable cotton manufactories-Acapulco, an excellent bourg has received from the Emperor a present of sea port on the Pacific ocean, and the great empo-1,000 florins, and he will also be entitled to the payrium of the trade to Asia, Peru, Chili, &c. is a ment of two per cent. of the produce of the sale of miserable and unhealthy town, and has an habitual his book. population of only 4000 souls, chiefly people of BOHEMIA The number of Births and Deaths in color. Queretaro, celebrated for the beauty of the kingdom of Bohemia, for 1 year, has been its aqueducts, fine edifices and cloth manufactures, 134,631 of which 69,909 were boys; and 64,742 has 35,000 inhabitants, of whom between 11 and 12 girls. The number of deaths was 115,630; births thousand are Indians. more than deaths 19,021. TO BE CONTINUED. CHINA-The Pirates, who so long, infested the S. W. parts of the coast of China, have at length surrendered themselves to the government of the province of Canton. A general amnesty was granted them by the Viceroy; and upon their surrender they were received with marks of favor and honor, and taken into the employ of government! DENMARK-The Paper money of this government is at this time at the rate of 5 for 1; for bills negotiable in England. Miscellaneous Intelligence. Philosophical, Literary, Political, &c. AUSTRIAN LITERATURE.-The periodical works published in Austria continue increasing: and among those which are now publishing are many of great merit. Literary criticism is pursued with great success in the "annals of Literature and the Arts," by Mr. Glatz, councellor of the Protes- FRANCE-Literary Property-The Georgiques tant Consistory; excellent articles of statistics of M. Delille in the course of their sale, during 40 appear in the "Patriotic Journal," of which M. years, have made the fortunes of a whole family, and Hormayr is the principal editor; as he is also of have been circulated, throughout the literary world, the "Archives of Geography, History, Statistics to the number of 200,000 copies. They have lately and Arms." There are some military journals in been sold by auction to Messrs. Michaud, printers high repute. Several journals are devoted entirely and booksellers, for 25,000 francs (about 5000 dolls.) to the belles lettres. VIENNA. Finance-It is said that this government proposed in the first months of this year, to put 20 millions of money into circulation. By these means which the Austrian monarchy still possesses after so long and so unfortunate a war, and by the daily augmentation of their national industry, they hope to extricate themselves from the miserable situation in which they have been placed by their commercial operations with foreign countries. curious and rare fish, described by Buffon in his Sea Tyger-There is now exhibiting in Paris a Natural History, Vol. 26th, under the name of Sea Tyger: it was caught in the North Sea, on the coast of Norway. It measures 5 feet in length, and nearly 3 in circumference. It feeds on fish, knows its master, and rises out of the water when commanded. [So say the Paris papers. It is probably nothing more than a large specimen of the Seal, or Phoca kind.] "As Astronomical. HOLLAND. Substitutes for Conscripts forbiddenGeneral direction of the Police in Holland. THE SUN ECLIPSED. sociations having been framed at Amsterdam and many other towns and villages in the departments Extract of a letter from Wm. Lambert, Esq. dated at of Holland, in order to furnish Substitutes for such Washington City, to a gentleman at Richmond, Va. conscripts as may be drawn by lot, his Serene High- "A singular phenomenon will take place at Richness and the Prince Governor General having been mond, on the 17th September, 1811: The Sun will informed of them, orders me to make known that be annularly and very nearly centrally eclipsed by he cannot tolerate them. He considers these asso- the Moon, at 2h. 5 1-2m. P. M. apparent or solar ciations but as speculations equally injurious to the time. What is meant by an annular eclipse, is that interest of the State, as to those individuals. The the apparent or visible diameter of the Sun will on substitutes must, as in the rest of the Empire, be that day, be larger than the Moon's, and a ring of by mutual consent. Thus, while each considers it light will appear round the dark body of the Moon as an honor to offer for his substitute a man worthy (from which the name or designation is derived) at of entering into the ranks of the army, he also takes all places where the eclipse will be central or nearly care, without merely considering his interest, that so. In latitude 37, 35, 44, and longitude 77, 21, 25, no association shall be the consequence, however west of Greenwich, which is very nearly the geo laudable his intentions. DUTERRAGE." graphical position of Richmond, I make the eclipse to be central, when the apparent time at Greenwich will be 7h. 15m. P. M. The centre of the Moon's [The following ought to have been inserted among shadow will pass from the north west to the south the items headed "British Statistics"-the omis-east, and go off in the Atlantic ocean near Ocracock sion was not observed until too late to put it in its proper place on account of the table which follows, without deranging the whole paper:] British navy, 1811-whole number of armed vessels Agricultural. 719 261 62 719 261 62 1,042 Hessian Flies-These flies have so spread them-1 selves over the whole of this northern country, that it is with difficulty the farmer can raise any wheat; much has been said and done to effect means whereby they may be kept out of the grain; but as nothing has ever as yet proved effectual, I shall endeavor (from my experience) to inform every farmer in what way he may dispose himself of those, his unfriendly neighbors; and as I mean to apply to the government of this state for a premium, it is hoped that every agricultural man will make a trial of the method which I shall give, and give their satisfaction accordingly. inlet, in North Carolina. If the weather should prove favorable for observation, this eclipse will afford one of the best means of ascertaining the longitude with precision in different parts of the United States. The beginning and end ought to be ob served with the greatest possible accuracy, by a watch or clock beating or shewing seconds, and the error of the watch for apparent or solar time should be carefully ascertained by several sets of altitudes of the Sun, taken with good sextants or quadrants, the former being preferable. No opportunity of this kind should be lost, whenever it happens, for such means occur but seldom, and a nobler and more important use should be made of them than merely as an object of curiosity. The correct solar time of the beginning and end is all that is wanting for the calculation, provided the latitude of the place shall have been previously ascertained with sufficient accuracy." THE BEGGAR-SONNET. [Poetry, the offspring of sensibility and feeling, when regulated by good taste, and controled by judgment, possesses a charm, which penetrates the bosom of the reader, though he may know no more of the parties with whom he sympathises than he learns from the verses under his perusal; while characters also drawn from life with discri mination, delight by their vigor and fancy.] Of late I saw him on his staff reclin’d, Bow'd down beneath a weary weight of woes, His head, all hoar with many a winter's snows. This fly blows, or lays the eggs or nits in the wheat while it is in blossom, and these continue dormant until the grain is sowed, and then it comes up with the wheat and is always discovered in the first joint, where it is impossible for the fly to deposit. The method to destroy or prevent this fly But freely shar'd what providence had sent. from getting in the wheat is as follows: Soak the How hard for him, the stranger's boon to crave, wheat in weak lye or lime water, brine or chamber-And live to want the mite his bounty gave! lye, many things will answer this purpose, such as soaking the grain all winter in baskets-Care should be taken that the grain be not soaked too long so as to kill it. Should any farmer want any information which I can give, all letters post paid will be attended to with pleasure. GILBERT BROWNE. New-York, 8th mɔ. 29, 1811. WASHING COLORS FOR LADIES' WEAR. "Your cottons,"said Flavia, "are cheating vile trash! "See! the colors are gone, though you said they "would wash!" "Yes, madam," the shopkeeper answered-no doubt, "I said they would wash, but I meant they'd wasḥ out!" GERRO. The Chronicle. Since the above was written, the schooner Globe, from Bayonne, has arrived with a cargo of wine, dry Foreign Intelligence. The report given in the last goods and oil, in 31 days-and the ship George and REGISTER, that Sir Joseph Yorke had been dis-Albert, in 28 days from Cadiz-bringing the latest patched for our coast with a squadron of ships, &c. accounts we have had from Europe. The chief is contradicted by later accounts from London; we things follow: have news from that city of the 27th of July. The It seems understood that American vessels ar king of England was not dead, but there appeared riving in France with native produce will be freely every reason to believe that he would not live many admitted-but vessels with colonial articles must days. He was completely insane! and for fifty four have licences. The emperor was expected at Bayhours neither closed his eyes, took any aliment, or onne the latter end of August-200,000 men, it is for one moment ceased talking with incoherence; said, were under marching orders for Spain and some little ease had been given him by forcing up- Portugal.-The British are b eaking up their comon him strong soporifics. His breathing was diffi-mercial establishments at Heligoland from the imcult, the glands in the throat being swelled. That a belief is held in England of a war with the United States, the following article from a Plymouth paper of the 22d of July will shew. The Landrail schooner is fitting for sea in this harbor, and in the event of an American war, will cruize between the Channel and Atlantic to intercept the American merchantmen. nent, the coasts being so completely watched.-On possibility of smuggling their goods into the conti. the 4th of July the Russians defeated the grand army of the Turks, consisting of 160,000 men, commanded by the grand vizier. The Spaniards, it is stated, had celebrated the return of king Joseph to Madrid with great demonstrations of joy-The The frigate John Adams may soon be expected to tem" with great rigor.-The ports of the Levant king of Prussia is enforcing "the continental sysarrive with dispatches from our agents in France are stated to be inundated with British goods; and and England. We hear that three American ves- the crops of cotton to be very abundant.-The king sels were lately released in France, on proof being of England was alive the 29th July; but all his fami produced that the property belonged as stated. It ly had been assembled in expectation of his deis said that many others will be immediately releas- cease. ed to the claimants; and that the French courts of admiralty considered the Berlin and Milan decrees as abrogated, rendered null and void, since the first of November last, and act accordingly. We should like to see full proof of this. skirmishes-and detail the marches and 'counterThe accounts from Spain give us notice of many marches of small bodies of troops, but mention no event of importance. The British Parliament was prorogued on the 24th of July to the 22d of August, by a commission, Baltimore Prices Current, September 11, 1811. "acting under the Prince Regent on behalf of his best Coffee, 16; Cotton, Geo. up. 10-12; Cheese, Bacon, per lb. 10 cents. Butter, in kegs, 15-18; Majesty," as it was inconvenient for the Prince him-1-11; Flour, bbl. $8; Flaxseed, rough, bush. 80; self to attend. The address delivered on this occa- Do. cleansed, cask, $10. sion speaks in flattering terms of the prosperity of wheat, 145-150; rye, 75-80; barley, 8; clover Grain-corn, 75-80; the empire-he thanks parliament for its liberal sup-seed, $9-10; Hemp, lb. 7-11; Hops, 25; Kiln plies-encourages a prosecution of the war in Spain dried corn meal, bbl. 4 50. Naval stores-tar, bbl. and Portugal, and congratulates them on the sur-3 25-3 50; pitch, 3 50; turpentine, soft, 2 25; render of Mauritius, or the Isle of France, the last rosin, 275; spirits of turpentine, gal. 40; whiskey, colony of that enemy. The royal assent was given 1st pf. 46; brown sugar, cwt. 10 75-13 5; loaf, to an act to make bank notes the same value as gold, 19-20; shot, of all sizes, Am. cwt. 12 50. Tabacco and to a bill for transporting the militia of England-Md. no sales; Virginia, fa, cwt. 500-600; Rapto Ireland, and the militia of Ireland to England, for the better preservation of "order and law,” in the two countries. Lord Milton, after giving the notorious duke of York a severe lashing, in the house of commons, June 6, proposed a vote of censure on the conduct of the ministers for recommending to the Prince Regent the re-appointment of that creature to the command of the army. But the motion could not prevail. Petitions are circulating for the removal of the ministers. Stocks, London, July 23, 3 per cent. reduced 63 1-2; 5 per cent. consols 62 3-4. pahannock, 2 50; Kentucky 400-500; Tallow, Am. Exchange on London, 16 per cent. discount. something of the "body, form and substance" we The present number of the REGISTER assumes wish it to possess; though not arrived at the desir ed train of the business, we hope to reach it with a little more experience. The public (revolutionary] papers were postpondence, &c.-their publication shall be resumed, and ed to make room for a new declaration of Indepenthe proposed series, leisurely, completed. paper, American and colonial produce is very cheap and plentiful at St. Petersburg; a great number of cargoes are in port, and others daily arriving.Russia and France continue on a friendly foot-rity in the delivery or transmission of this The Editor requests information of any irregulaing. We learn that orders have been issued by the must be free of expense. that it may be remedied. Communications to him king of Denmark to the privateers, to bring in for examination in the lower court, all vessels from the Baltic, whatever might be their destination. From this we may expect great depredations on our trade. worthy our increased and increasing support-the By close attention, we hope to prove ourselves Editor has to present his thank to more than a bundred new subscribers obtained since Saturday last. With the third or fourth number shall be publishJoseph Bonaparte has returned to Madrid-anded an extra; if the patronage of the Register goes fresh troops are marching into Spain. No event on as it has done, we promise at least an extra sheet of importance is made known to us of the war in for every month. the peninsula since our last. Subscribers may be furnished from the beginning. VOL. 1] BALTIMORE, SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 21, 1811. 66 -I wish no other herald "No other speaker of my living actions, Shakspeare-HENRY VIII. Printed and published by H. NILES, Water-street, near the Merchants' Coffee-House, at $5 per annum. short speaking distance. This, however, the com President and Little Belt. vres, to be anxious to prevent, as he wore and [The affair (every thing is an "affair" now-a-days) mander of the chase appeared, from his maneu of the President and Little Belt, appearing to as-hauled by the wind on different tacks, four times sume great importance in England, we have thought proper to record the official papers relative to it; so that, at once, our readers may see the whole nature of the contention, giving credit where credit shall appear to be due.] Copy of a letter from Commodore RODGERS to the Secretary of the Navy. us, successively, between this period and the time of our arriving at the position, which I had ordered to be taken. At fifteen or twenty minutes past eight, being a little forward of her weather bean and distant from seventy to a hundred yards, hailed "what but I was hailed by her commander, and asked Having asked the first ship is that?" to this enquiry no answer was given, "what ship is that?" U. S. FRIGATE PRESIDENT, question, I of course, considered myself entitled, Off Sandy Hook, May 23, 1811. Sir-I regret extremely being under the necessi-by the common rules of politeness, to the first answer; after a pause of fifteen or twenty seconds, I ty of representing to you an event that occurred on the night of the 16th inst. between the ship under reiterated my first enquiry of "what ship is that?” my command and his Britannic Majesty's ship of and before I had time to take the trumpet from my war the Little Belt, commanded by captain Bing-mouth, was answered by a shot, that cut off one mast-at this instant captain Caldwell (of marines) ham: the result of which has given me much pain, of our main-top back stays and went into our maincaused as well on account of the injury she sustained, as that I should have been compelled to the measure who was standing very near me on the gangway, that produced it, by a vessel of her inferior force. having observed sir, she has fired at The circumstances are as follows: On the 16th me to pause for a moment, just as I was in the act inst. at twenty-five minute past meridian, in seven-of giving an order to fire a shot in return; and be. teen fathom water, Cape Henry bearing S. W. dis-fore I had time to resume the repetition of the inLant fourteen or fifteen leagues, a sail was discover-tended order, a shot was actually fired from the secd from our mast head in the east, standing towards cond division of this ship, and was scarcely out of us under a press of sail. At half past one the sym- the gun before it was answered from our assumed metry of her upper sails (which were at this time enemy by three others in quick succession, and At forty-five When the first shot was fired, being under an imdistinguishable from our deck) and her making sig-soon after the rest of his broadside and musketry. nals, shewed her to be a man of war. minutes past one, P. M. hoisted our ensign and pen-pression, that it might possibly have proceeded from dant: when, finding her signals not answered, she accident, and without the orders of the comman wore and stood to the southward. Being desirous der, I had determined at the moment to fire only a of speaking her, and of ascertaining what she was, single shot in return, but the immediate repetition I now made sail in chase; and by half past three of the previous unprovoked outrage induced me to .. found we were coming up with her; as, by believe that the insult was premeditated, and hat this time, the upper part of her stern began to shew from our adversary being, at that time, as ignorant itself above the horizon. The wind now began, of our real force as I was of his, he thought this, and continued gradually to decrease, so as to pre- perhaps, a favorable opportunity of acquiiing provent my being able to approach her sufficiently be- motion, although at the expence of violating our fore sun-set, to discover her actual force, (which the neutrality, and insulting our fiag; I accordingly, position she preserved during the chase was calcu- with that degree of repugnance incident to feeling lated to conceal) or to judge even to what nation equally determined neither to be the aggressor, or punity, gave a general order to fire; the effect of she belonged; as she appeared studiously to decline suffer the flag of my country to be insulted with imAt fifteen or twenty minutes slewing her colors. which, in from four to six minutes, as near as I guns, I gave orders to cease firing, discovering by can judge, having produced a partial silence of his hoisted an ensign or flag at her mizen peak, but it the feeble opposition that it must be a ship of very was too dark for me to discover what nation it re-inferior force to what I had supposed, or that some My orders in this instance however (although they presented; now, for the first time, her broadside untoward accident had happened to her. was presented to our view; but night had so far progressed, that although her appearance indica- proceeded alone from motives of humanity and a red she was a frigate, I was unable to determine her determination not to spill a drop of blood unneces son to regret, as he renewed his fire, of which two actual force. sarily) I had, in less than four ninutes, some rea32 pound shot cut off one of our fore-shrouds and injured our fore-mast. It was now that I found myself under the painful necessity of giving orders past seven P. M. the chase took in her studding sails, the wind on the starboard tack; she at the same time At fifteen minutes before eight P. M. being about a mile and half from her, the wind at the time very Light, I directed captain Ludiow to take a position windward of her and on the same tack, within G for a repetition of our fire against a force which my cacy, connected with personal considerations, soliforbearance alone had enabled to do us any injury of cit that you will be pleased to request 'he President moment; our fire was accordingly renewed and con- to authorise a formal enquiry to be instituted into tinued from three to five minutes longer, when all the circumstances as well as into every part of perceiving our opponent's gaff and colors down, m conduct connected with the same. his maintop-sail yard upon the cap and his fire si- The injury sustained by the ship under my comlenced, although it was so dark that I could not dis-mand is very trifling, except to the fore and main cern any other particular injury we had done or masts, which I before mentioned; no person killed, how far he was in a situation to do us farther harm, and but one (a boy) wounded. I nevertheless embraced the earliest moment to stop our fire and prevent the further effusion of blood. Here a pause of half a minute or more tock place, at the end of which, our adversary not shewing a further disposition to fire, I hailed again and asked, "what ship is that?" I learned for the first time, that it was a ship of his Britannic majesty; but, owing to its blowing rather fresher than it had done, I was unable to learn her name, For further particulars I refer you to Captain Honorable PAUL HAMILTON, JOHN RODGERS. (LONDON) Admiralty Office, July 16. Copy of a letter from rear-admiral Sawyer, commander in chief of his majesty's ships and vessels on the coast of North-America, to John Wilson Crocker, esq. dated on board the Africa, at Bermuda, the 11th of June, 1811. Halifax; by which their lordships will perceive he was attacked on the evening of the 16th of May last, when cruizing between Cape Henry and Cape Hatteras, by the United States frigate the President, of forty-four guns, commanded by commodore Rodgers; and that after a close action of three quarters of an hour, the American ship made sail from him. After having informed her commander of the name of this ship, I gave orders to wear, run under his lee and haul by the wind on the starboard tack, and heave too under topsails and repair what little injury we had sustained in our rigging, which was accordingly executed, and we continued lying too Sir,-Enclosed I transmit to you, for the inforon different tacks with a number of lights displayed, mation of the lords commissioners of the admiralty, in order that our adversary might the better discern a copy of a letter from'captain Arthur Batt Bingham, our position, and command our assistance, in case commander of his majesty's sloop Little Belt, re. he found it necessary during the night. At day-ceived this day from lord James Townsend, captain break on the 17th, she was discovered several miles of his majesty's ship Eolus, and senior officer st to leeward, when I gave orders to bear up and run down to him under easy sail; after hailing him I sent a boat on board with Lieutenant Creighton, to learn the names of the ship and her commander, with directions to ascertain the damage she had sustained, and to inform her commander, how much I regretted the necessity on my part, which had led to such an unhappy result: at the same time to offer all the assistance that the ship under my Captain Bingham's medest, but full and clear command afforded, in repairing the damages his statement, renders any comment from me unnebad sustained. At 9 A. M. Lieutenant Creighton cessary, and I have only to admire the extraodinary returned with information, that it was his Britannic bravery and firmness with which him self, his offiMajesty's ship Little Belt, Captain Bingham; who cers, and ship's company supported the honour of in a polite munner declined the acceptance of any the British flag when opposed to such an immense assistance; saying, at the same time, that he had on superiority of force. I have however deeply to laboard all the necessary requisites to repair the dam-ment the number of valuable British seamen and ages sufficiently to enable him to return to Halifax. royal marines who have been either killed or wounThis however, was not the most unpleasant part ded on this unexampled occasion: a list of whose of Captain Bingham's communication to Lieut.names is also enclosed, together with a copy of my Creighton, as he informed him, that, in addition order, under which captain Bingham was cruising. to the injury his ship had sustained, between 20 and 30 of his crew had been killed and wounded. I have the honor to be, &c. H. SAWYER, Rear-Admiral. His majesty's sloop Little Belt, May 21st 1811, lat. 36, 53, N. long. 71, 49, W. Cape Charles, bearing W. 48, miles. The regret that this information caused me was much, you may be sure, as a man might expect to feel, whose greatest pride is to prove, without ostentation, by every public as well as private act, that he possesses a humane and generous heart; Sin-1 beg leave to acquaint you that in pursuand with these sentiments, believe me sir, that ance of your orders to join H. M. ship Guerriere, such a communication would cause me the most and being on my return from the northward, not acute pain during the remainder of my life, had Ihaving fallen in with ler-that about 11 A. M. May not the consolation to know that there was no 16th, saw a strange sail, to which I immediately alternative left me between such a sacrifice, and one gave chase. At 1 P. M discovered her to be a man which would have been still greater, namely, to of war, apparently a frigate standing to the easthave remained a passive spectator of insult to the ward, who when he made us out edged away for tis, flag of my country, while it was confided to my and set his royals. Made the signal 275, and findprotection and I would have you to be convinced, ing it not answered, concluded she was an Amerisir, that however much individually I may previ-can frigate, as she had a Commodore's blue penously have had reason to feel incensed at the repeat-dant flying at the main. Hoisted the colours and ed outrages committed on our flag by British ships made all sail south, the course I intended steering of war, neither my passions nor prejudices had any round Cape Hatteras; the stranger edging away agency in this affair, but not making any more sail. At 3, 30, he made To my country, I am well convinced of the im-sail in chase, when 1 made a private signal which portance of the transaction which has imposed was not answered: At 6, 30, finding he gaired so upon me the necessity of making you this commu- considerably on us as not to be able to clude him ication; I must, therefore, from motives of deli- during the night, being within gun shot, and clearin |