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the British to the Algcrinei on that ocoailon*?' whether from regard to the feeliugs of tfio lattor will not pretuud to say. 'Thtslast reflection, even as detailed by the writer of the bytiopsis, vill convince every reader of judgment' that Ive has here converted. the ordinary incidents of al? most every sea-fight into an accusation that has not the leant foundation, even if the basin he ha* warned be true. llut we itre authorised to state positively nnri untN|ni vocally, that onl< one sin? file gun wf?H fiiftl into the Frolic after she fell on Iward the Wasp. 'llie Frolic was thei* taken TN>??<?H<*io!i of, all her surviving crew, to the num Iter of nc:ir fifty, having mil below, leaving the captain, tho firat lieutenant, anil punter, alone mi the deck. Captain Jones then recei.ved ttie sword of Captain Whinvnt?*, and nn doubt did walk over the deck, which was " covered with dead, and dying, and wounded men," ait in usu al on socli occasion*. ? If, however, 14 tha task of lire ?(??.tin/ t'ie enemy's character in no favor ah!i? li?ht'*is no " painful" to this writer, why <lu! ho not moth hi* feelings by detailing the hi?h and courteous humanity of I^awreuce in exposing even tiie lives of bin own men to save the d .-owning ciew of tho IVacock t the gene rositvof llaiut>rid<re. acknowledged by tieueral Jivslop?and the conduct of Perry and Mucdo nonu'i. in paroling on their own authority, their wovnled antagonist*. treating; them, as was ac knowledged l?v t'apt. Barclay,*' like brother* ?" Sii'-1' i candid w riter an this ought certainly to ha.e i????lee-.bered these thins*. and w* can only ac oni.f for hi* foi-gftfulucss of notor-iiis truths by tin- supposition, that he was so iminstrioiiHly enipli.vcd. w bile engaged in thin work, in the pursuit* of imagination, that lie forgot entirely to res ?rt to I i* memory for his facts. Ir? loosing hack on the Synopsis wc perceive flint much stress is laid upon the lo*? of the Fro lic's main \ mil. carried awa\ in the evening yireviru* to the encasement in a gale. It may lher?*fore be proper to strife, tliat the Wiuip lost hcrjib-hoii'n, anil was without it during the ac* tion, which was fought running ri&ht before thr 'vind. t!ie Wasp under close reefed topsails, and the Frolic under closed reefed fore-topsail and leele i nmin sail. In four minutes after the ac tion be,* :i. the main topmast of the Wasp wa* ?hot away within two feet of the cap, and from tliat time to the end of the nflhir she was more disabled in her spars than the Frolic. Neither ship got a position to rake until the end of the action, when, in conseipie'ice of the Frolic en da,'i\oriti|( to sheer from the Whho to avoid so clone an acti?-??,by hauling upon the wind, both vessels v. ere taken uback nearlv at the same time, and the Frolic paying oft' first fell aboard of the WanpJb The next engagement Hint occupies the arith. metical ingenuity of the British oilircr. is that be*ween the Macedonian and the Cnited States, Ion ht on ?he 2.?th of t'-e same month of Octo> brr. On this occasion he falls to cyphering most vehemently, and the iesult of his calculation is. anteriority of three to t.vo in ship, guns and me: . all " picked men/' toj. and " mi Imckram" no doubt, on the side of us unlucky Americans. We might stute, in contradiction to this, that, in the *h>t itince, the Macedonian, instead of elc?'un hundred is twelve hundred tons, and the S uited State* onlv fourteen hundred and liftv, instead of sixteen hundred ami thirty, as stated hy the writer of die. Synopsis.?In the second place, that the l7nil?d States had neither shift ing guns nor howitzers in the tops, and that the irttmutr of men on one side is considerably ev niMgornted, on the other considerably diminish* ?d ? but tho writer ban kindly saved us the trMiblo, V mc??*i he U compelled to notice, that44 the re liiilw executiondon* in thi* action was atill n? ?'-o ?lis,)rM1M?rtiiimte thin in any former 011?/' ti? ?? it, one hnndredgml four to twelve. Ad mating tie relative (orfre to lie what lie ?tat*!, to two, we linve hero a relative low of ?l^ ni'tKf nine to our. Thi* lie ascribes tfi^the \el manner in which the action uah foujjnt 1"? That ifl, a-4 we shall directly substantiate, to the minerioritv of *kill displayed by (ant. Decatur, .ir.il the shyness of capt. <!arden. To the proof. 44 Our sl'iip," saysthe Itritish officer,44 had the weather rmh?;c j but captain Cardan kept at 4 lon? l?ulIs' till all lit*top-masts were shot away ami I-is ship had become an unmanageable wreck.'* Why did he do *0 K<Tho Macedonian, it ins ?'nee .been ascertained, easily outsails the Cnited States ; she wua to wind wardin the en gagement ? the two vessels crossed each other o > opposite tacks, each dead upon a wind, and il.'i* commenced the nctVm. It was therefore in hi* power to close with Id* antagonist,*1)4 In hi* only. Theno fncts were proved by the con current testimony of all his officers on catttaio Carden's court martial, which, on that testimo ny, parsed o direct censure on Ids conduct in not closing when it was in his power. It mutt be acknowledged however that the Macedoni&n was, jis writer states, 14 an unmanageable w?-f < k" in a very few minutes nftei* she cawe within touching'distance of the United States) and r?aliv we. think it rather hard to be thus, as it were, censured for the shyness of oar enemy, or^'or our skill in taking sdvuntage of it. it on?y proves what we have all alonjxasserted,that our nfltrers and seimen are superior to those bf <?ref-t liritnin. Vailiiite their oi#a?ter* tA they may,this is the iirm ii tlde conclusion to be drawn* even from the statements of their own apologists. As much reliance is placed, by the Writer oi l the tf vnop#;*, on the alledged superiority of the American frigates, and the weight of their me tal. we will?,fate the following facts, which are ?If lived from a gontlei mil present on the occa sion to which we refer. Not more than three months previous to the declaration of war, the United Hat's and Macedonian were lying to gether ot Norfolk, where Captain Cardan was treated with the hospitality for which that place i* distinguished, ami where he and Commodore Decatur often dined together at the houses of ?different gentlemen. The sama officers and crew* were attached to both ships that were in them when the enaaxement afterwards .took place t and they visited each others ship dail>. On one of fho *. meetings, at the tabia of tfto Conwd at Norfolk,in th'o presence of a number cf gentlemen, the covariation turned on the comparative force of flnj two ships, iltclr rrroa* ment, and the number oh well as the excellence of .their crews, .Captain Carden then stated, that a British thirty-eight gun.frigate was fully ascertouwxl by experience to be the mojjt cflt cltfrtt idR-rle docked vessel that ever 44 swam the ocean j" that any increase of size wm Worse thai) use less, as it only rendered thorn niore tin* manageable ; that' long eighteen jroundprs Itad been demonstrated to lie better than twe'qty fours, and could actually throw a greater weight of metal in a given timet because tnelr ligldiicss rendered them more itanagcablo ; that an in creased thickness of sides rendered a shin only more heavy, without bringing any counterbal ancing advantage, avit couliVnot be increased so at to stop an eighteen pound shot, wliilo the Hides of their frigates would resist grape and canuister as well as oarsj and, finally* that it was also ascertained that a greater number of men than their regulations allowed was not only useless, hut pernicious, because it onlr crowded them together, and exposed them to greater slaughter. Captain Carden proceeded to state, that this reasoning wan founded on his own ex perience, he having obtained his promotion in consequence of being first lieutenant of a Bri tish thirty-eight, which captured a French fri gate, mounting forty-four twentv-four pounders. Ho concluded by Haying, that from thin experi ence he felt satisfied he could take the lTuited State# with the Macedonian, though at the Name time he disclaimed any intention to question the skill or bravery of the American officers. These opinions were held by nil the liritinh naval offi cer* in all their delrates on the subject, either in the ports of Kngland, the United (States, or the Mediterranean tea. Now really, in all humility, we conceive our Helves entitled.beings youn^and inexperienced nation, to some little credit for having taught the thrice valiant ami experienced officers of our e nemv, that they absolutely did not know what they were talking about, and that their " expe rience" had most wofilllv deceived them. It is certainly an evidence of the superior geniiiH of our country, that even against the authority of such great men?and, more than all, agaiiiHt the practice of llritaiif, from whom we are from time to time reproached with Imrrowing all we know, ?we should have persisted in building ships with such thick sides, and dared to tight nor with ?4 pounders. \N e further think, in the simplicity of our Ijearh, (perhaps it may be from our igno rance of surh matters) that the oftlccr who at this time of day, like Decatur, discovers "a novel manner of fighting his ship," by the which he renders his enemy " an unmanageable wreck*" and kilts and wounds more than one third of his crew, with so little loss or damage to himself, deserves some little credit for his ffenitis. : AU<* heral and a noble enemy would have ac! lodged this at once, instead of consulting.!!!!^ worth's Assistant, or Cocker's Arithmetic, and racking his brain for palliatives* the which lie is himself forced to ar*'":1' notwithstanding every alleged he is in many instances obliged at to the confession that this alone will notac for the disparity of loss. The solution enigma lies, we* repeat again, not ill " ami scantling" of our ships, the metal, or the number of their I, superiority of their officer* pnd tn morally and physically bcttOTtl$i\ Hritisli no\y?who can point guns and aland the pointing ofnnenfemy better??id trho will n?i< titer risk hanging of drowning to desert from their ships whenever they h^re an opportunity The last thing we shall''notice in the forego ing part of the Hynopsis, ii the author's spiteful denunciation against poofKew-London, where the Macedonian,togetner with the United States and Hornet, was blockaded by a British fleet? Not content with having burnt that good town onco before, he is for burning it again, for af fording a shelter to one of hit< 11. M.'s captured frigates. Now this is really carrying the joke a little ton far. One would have supposed that burning & town onco would content a magnam mous enemy?-but some people are never satis* lied. One mighf also have supposed that " a British naval officer," who had, like our author* beou on the coast of America during the whole war, would have known, that by burning New* London he would have been never the nearer to burning the Macedonian,which lay several miles up the little river Thames ; consequently, even our fiery ofllcer's fire could hardly luve reached her such a long way off?unless he could have set the river on'firc, which however would |?er? hops be no hard matter for such a smart sensi ble officer an he appears to be* FOHKION NEWS. ^nirr.**r.n.) TRIAL OP OBNBIIAL DRBKLLE. SUting of March 24.?'The Court assembled Atone o'clock* and the audience boing enjoined to observe profound silence, the accused wan In troduced. The Judge Mai-?hul made a long and eloquent address, which he concluded* by oh nerving that the evidence adduced in support of the prosecution was ho clear and conclusive, that a verdict of conviction appeared to be i r re list ible. Mr. Derryer, Counsel for the defence, addressed the coujrt no Iwhulf <?f l?i?* <? limit?af ter which t?en. Debelle read the following ad dress. ** When the king \va? restored to the wishes of France, ( had been disgraced and per Hccuted for several years, and lived in retirement in a village in DaunUlne. I blessed Providence fir having restored to my country its rightful sovereign, and suffered no opportunity to pa*s without manifesting my attachment to the au gust family of the 4 ourbons, whom I had served from my cnildhood. When llonaparte entered Orcrfoblc* lie sent to me, orders to take upon me the command of the department of the llromc. i Intimidated by his order, and fearing a renewal of the prosecutions of myself and family which wo ha<i experienced npwards of five years* I set out for Valenqe alone, and with the intention of joining the Hoval Authorities, for the mainte* "fiance of tranquility. I had the good fortune to 5 revent the tumults and te-actions which on the point of taking place in that deportment. I fre quently tucountcred imminent danger* in de feuding the friend* of the and the mea sures which I took afforded to the Dnko D*An? goulemo tho facility of entering Montellmnrt with tho effusion of blood. If Iliad tho wenk n^ss to obey i\ii order of tlie Usurper* it not thnt erf* amply expiated by the H116 of conduct 1 Sursued, and tho ftervi'ces whiefj I rendered t<? lie royal canoe ? A singlo instance of weakness ?an error of the moment* will* 1"trust, meet with indulgence In (ho algut of the Judge* who have in their power ti?k appreciate tho purity of njy motives, The law allow* you the right of pro nouncing upon the intentions of tho accused f? you will not refuse to fulfil its objects toward* a person under accusation, whose conduct has been uniformly influenced by a'love of country f I resign myself entirely to the clemency of our August Sovereign, for whom I never ceascd to to offer prayers. Happy shall I bo in an Oppor tunity to prove-my dovolion and fidelity towards him, and to obliterate a momentary act of inad vcrtency, bv tho last drop of my blood?I await mv doom?Viiv te ttol /" Tho President ask ?mi th? general if it was he who uavo the order to defend the bridge of the Droine r A. No, it wa? not?nordid I know who did give such au order. The council withdrew to deliberate at hall' past 4 o'clock. At a quarter before eight, the Sitting was resumed, and the Presidunt put the following onestion:?Is General Debelle guil ty? 1st, Or having without rijjht or lawful autho rity, sei/tHl the command of tho Department of Drome, particularly of the town of Valence.? 2d. Of having been"party in the hostile military operations, by raising, or causing armed troop'.** to be raised, dud in hnving inarched them against the troops that remained faithful to the King The nccond permanent council of war of the first military division unanimously declare in the af firmative, on the first question, and by n mino rity of ft votes on the 21. Yes?the Marshal de-Camp Debelle is guilty. Upon which the Attorney (Scneral having prayed the application of the punishment, the Council condemed Gene ral Debelle, in expiation of crimes of which he lias been convicted, to tho penalty of death, to be framed from thu Legion of Honour^ to the costs if the prosecution, and the polling of the sen iencc. . * ? MOM LATK U)*W>* WP?tl. The valuable snuffbox of Bonaparte, enrich id with 142 of tli? finest diamonds, which was pun (I in his carriage after; the battle of Watcr [>o, ha* been sent from BritMls to tfngltuul to '?n^!/l?pll?H ef til* mftu Charlotte, with frince Leopold- will be solemtmcd in Easter Veek* Cain^ffal house it. we their The ir or* wo bac drawn sword drtwn unately fallen a aaerifice to TUf^e^npti n, at an exhibition in Scotland, the sword taking a wrong direction. " Cnrjoua Serpent*?At Anjongo on the Mala coast, them in a curious small black serpent, d from the shape of its head, tbo crescent e, though it should rather be classcd with the lypus. It is described as having teeth on the uter line of the crcsceut, small enough to rc quire a microscope to discern them. The bite i? said to be mortal \ and it is added that tlie slime, with which the creaturc in covered, avul which, like the snail, it leaves along it* track, is poisohou*. No eyca can be discovered. On cutting off the head, tho other end Immediately supplies the loss ; it m*vea in a rctrogade man ner and lives after the amputation. The Glasgow Chronicle contains ti e follow ing p^sii*ge?~t' It is a lamentable fact, that the prices of weaving arc now generally at a point of depression that has scarcely been paralleled in the worst of times. Printed goods, Madras* handkerchiefs, and gingham*, have fallen in weaving tnore than SO per cent, since autumn ; and more than 50 per cent, below the rate of or* <1 iuarv trade. A good tradesman can hardly earn half a guinea a week | ami weavers, on an average, not more than six shillings. The dis tress of the manufactures arises chiefly from the completely glutted state ofe very foreign market t and In some degree from the failure of demand in the home trade. The German and North A* merican markets are those which are 'expected first to recover, but the spring threatens to be passed very disagreeably. We may, however, take this opportunity of noticing tlmt the ac counts in the English and Irinh napcirt of the fai lures in Glasgow, arc prodigiously exaggerated." Hingttlur Kscape.?The following in from a Dublin paper : A Itomun Catholic clergyman, when oil his way homo to a village in tho county of Cavan, was accosted by a man on horseback, who asked the clergyman to recommend him lodgings. The man pretended to he afraid to stop at the house the priest recommended, as it was full of Orangemen.. The priest offered a l>cd, and a place for his horse, at oh own residence, to which the stranger assented \ after taking some refreshment, they retired to their apatt* inents. Tho man servant of the clergyman hav ing occasion to go into the stranger's bed cham ber before be hail gone to bed, observed under liis great coat a blunderbuss. On quitting the room, which he did instantly, ho went to his master, and told him he did not like the appear ance of his guest, that he was armed and proba hiv had bauintoritions. Ilis master, upon this statement, desired him not to go to bod, but to arm himself with a pitch folk, and sit Dp in the ; kitchen t while he ht the same time loaded a caso of pistols, and sat up also reading, to be guile tho time. In the dead of the night the priest's door was opened, and the man wnmn he had sheltered entered the room, presented the Iduoderbuss, and desired him to deliver his mo ney, or he would shoot him } tlift clergyman re quested he would put down the blunderimsst lest it should actually go off, and that he would shuw him whut money he had ? the priest than threw ?on the table a few ten pennies* saying that was all the money he had t on which the other re I died, he knew he had plenty of money, and that to came for the |*.irpose of getting it, and tliat if lie had not brought him to Ids house, be Mould liavt that night broken into it. Tbe prieit then i?t money bo 1ia?l was in the of the room, nud pu bU KjHB his pocket, to?k out the key, v hethttttro* th'etablo t during the time In boeu in the room, the ruffian was threati him with immediate doHtruHtion \ howeve took up^tho key*laid down tho blunder end went towards the desk, when tho i drew ono,of tho jointoU, fired at him, and l him on the upot P Tho moment tho tepo the shot was hoard, the hall dour wan forct nud 4.mru elites I, and rushed into tho r< the priest collected for the womt eveut, tm the nlundcrbyss, uhen he htaitl the crash ? door, and firing amount thorn n< they ent killed two. and A third with the reserved pi the servant attacked tho fourth with th?? | folk, and inflicted a wound in hi* back, bu unluckily escaped. Letter* from Paris mention, that the Ft had not only stopped tho circulation of tin papers, but had refused to deliver Jimtvlcu pert which arrive at out ports. A letter from I'aris, dated March 20, t " Tho following new tarifTis to be adopted j ton in Freuch vessel* from countries out o ropo, 4<> francs per quintal metiique ; from pari of Kuriipe, .10 fianc* | io foreign vesai' liy land, 35 frnoot. Short staple*, in Ft voshcIs, from the i.idiesand Turkey, 15 fro from other couutriea out ol Hum: c. '20 do. t any part of Kurope, dO do. } in fureign ve? or ny laud 35 do." ? HON A1'ARTE. St. Helena, March 19.?We nailed from on thu &2?t of la?t November j on our |w; \vc lay at tlic capo of Ciood Ifono tli.co w from whence wo proceeded to St. Helena, v wo continued tliroo days. ltonn*'arte had number of person* from 11. M. S. Nor.hui land, 74, with the eminent of the Admiral, wanted nlso olght able seamen, and one o ship's boats, to amuse himself round the im but this was immediately refused, Sentinc placed at different stations j and one night studious mood, lie overreached the boundat signed him. In this situation, the sentim duty stopped him. Surprised to he som< roughly addressed, ne asked the man if he ! who it was he detained, and was answere the sentinel in the affirmative. Bonapart uardless of the caution of the sentinel, advti further beyond his limits, when the lattei charged his musket at him, but missed him. tliin conduct of.tho soldier, Honaparie comi c?l to ti>o Governor i and the man was ask he meant to shoot Gen. Bonaparte, whsn I plied that he did i he was honorably acquit The London papers are fdled with letters fit. Helena. Jsouy apprar* to enjoy hi much in that enchanting sj>ot in the ocean, a Intce'.tcitainmcnt, he was so much ph with a lady who sang and performed on tin no, that ho seized her bv the ears, and gave two severe pinches, which is tho climax o approbation and ddjxht. It is said, that on board the Northumberland. he pincltM ears of all the officers,exccpt the Admiral, they said anv thing to please him. Friduy se'night,l>et 20 and 30 packages were removed from tl? cretary of States'oflice for the war dcpiirfi for Portsmouth, to be put on board hi* inuj< ship Newcastle, bound to .St. Helena, are supposed to contain books.and other p. ty forucii. Honaparte. The Duke of Wellington has written, h> mission* to Louis XVlil. on the state of j affairs in Franco* He tells tho King, " ly abides in peace by my word, and on my rc sibility j yet but one wort) would be reuuls rouse it from its inaction, 'lite word will I tered if mo>e ?lability and prudence are n> troduced into the government. The tran ty of this country depends entirely on the sence of tho allied troops j th?ir removal * be the signal of a now and inevitable convu Tho ultra royalist majority of the chambei merits dissentions and distrust. Your inn may rest assured that the greatest evil hn source in vour own palace." Since the re of this letter, the language of ministers tnv? the chamber of deputies has assumed a (i tone. Madame Lavalettc, was set at liberty oi 16th March, by a decree of thu Chandler ot conation. The keeper and domestic* ot hukband have hern ?cnt before the Court of size, on tho charge of having facilitated hi cape front the Conciergerie. Messrs. Wi Bruce and Hutchinson, are sent before the court, accused of having consummated the escnpo. ' On Sunday the 17th March, about half 13 o'clock* violent shocks of an earthquake experienced in various parts of Kngland. undulation* were dittinethr felt ami seen f< veral second*. The earth seemed to und like water for a little while, and then to ? lenving those who perceived it eonfoumle first* and terrified on recollection at the da which they had cscaped. Jlnectlnfc nf ?V. M. de I. iette, living with his deliverer, had apnroa the frontier. The postoiastor examined his r tetinuze, and recognised him through his guise, instantly a postillion was sent oft' at sliced. M. do I-avalette urfced his deman horses. The postmaster hail jtfSt quitted house, and given orders that none should be plied. The travellers fancied theinsclvci covered, and caw no means of escaping, country with which thoy were unacnuai they resolved upon defending themselves selling their lives dearly. The postnissti length returned unattended, and then add inghimself to M. dc Lavalette, he said,(> liftve the appearance of amm of honor, yo going to'lintsseW, wheio you will see M. di valetle. deliver hirti these two hundred L which I owe him, and which ho Is no dotil want of 1 and without waiting for an a;mwe threw the money into the carriage and withd saying, you will lie drawn by my be*t liorst postillion is gone on to provide relay* for