shall, severely; Lieutenant Armstrong, slightly; Lieutenant Johnson, severely; Ensigns Thatcher, Warton, slightly; Ensign Le Mesurier, right arm amputated.-53d Foot, 2d Batt. LieutenantColonel Bingham, Brigadier Lieutenant-Colonel and Captain Robinson, Captain Fehrsen, severely; Captain Poppleton, slightly; Captains Fernandez, Blackall, M'Dougal, Lieutenants Hunter, Nicholson, severely; Ensign Bunworth, Adjutant Carss, slightly.-60th Foot, 5th Batt. Lieutenant-Colonel Williams, slightly; Major Galiffe, Ensign Lucke, severely.-61st Foot, ist Batt. Major Downing, Captains Oke, M'Leod, Green, severely; Captain Faville, severely (since dead); Lieutenant Falkener, severely; Lieute nant Daniel, slightly; Lieutenant Chapman, severely; Lieutenant Chipchase, slightly; Lieutenant Furnace, severely; Lieutenant Gloster, slightly; Lieutenant Collis, severely; Lieutenant Wolfe, slightly; Lieutenants Brackenburg, Royal, Toole, Ensigns Whyte, Beere, Singleton, severely.-68th Foot, Captain and Brevet Major Millar, severely; Captain North, slightly.-74th Foot, Captain and Brevet Major Thompson, Lieutenant Ewing, severely.-83d Foot, 2d Batt. Lieutenant Gascoigne, severely; Lieutenant Evans, slightly.-88th Foot, 2d Batt. Captain Adair, Lieutenants Nichols, Meade, severely; Lieutenant Kingsmill, slightly. 94th Foot, Lieutenant-Colonel Campbell, Captain Cooke, Lieutenant Griffiths, severely.-1st Light Batt. King's German Legion, Captain Hulseman, Lieutenant Hartwig, severely. 2d Light Batt. Ditto, Captain Haassman, slightly.-2d Line Batt. Ditto, Captain Scharnhorst, Lieutenant Repke, severely.-5th Ditto, Ditto, Captain Langresher, severely.-Brunswick Oels, Captain Lueder, severely; Lieutenant Griesham, slightly.-1st Royal Scots, Volunteer M'Alpin, severely.-9th Foot, 1st Batt. Volunteer Perry, severely.-53d Foot, 2d Batt. Volunteer Morf shell, severely.

ously. Royal Horse Guards Blue, LieutenantColonel Elley, A. A. G. slightly.-88th Foot, Captain Tryon, D. A. A. G. severely.-13th Light Dragoons, Captain White, D. A. Q. M. G. severely, since dead.-29th Foot, Lieutenant Hay, Aid-de-Camp to Lieutenant-General Leith, slightly.-6th Dragoons, Captain Dawson, extra A. D. C. to Lieutenant-General Leith, severely. 5th Dragoons, Captain Aiken, severely; Lieu tenant Christie, severely.-4th Dragoons, Lieutenant Norcliffe, severely.-1st Hussars, King's German Legion, Captains Muller and Decken, slightly; Lieutenant Fueto, severely; Lieutenant Cordemann, slightly; Cornet Behrends, slightly.-Coldstream Guards, 1st Batt. Ensign Hotham, slightly.—3d Guards, 1st Batt. Captain White, severely.-1st Foot, or Royal Scots, Lieutenant-Colonel Barnes, severely; Captain Logan, slightly; Lieutenants Kellett, O'Neil, and Falk, severely; Lieutenant M'Killigan, slightly; Lieutenant Clarke, severely; Ensign Stoyte, severely.-2d Foot, or Queen's, Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Kingsbury, severely; Major Graham, severely; Captain Scott, severely; Lieutenant Gordon, severely; Lieutenant Williams, slightly; Lieutenant Hudson, severely. 4th Foot, 1st Batt. Major O'Halloran, slightly. 5th Foot, 1st Batt. Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Bird, slightly; Captain Simcocks, severely; Lieutenants Macpherson and Gunn, severely; Ensign Hamilton, slightly; Ensign Pratt, severely.-5th Foot, 2d Batt. Lieutenant O'Dell, severely; Lieutenant Hilliard, slightly.-7th Royal Fusileers, Captain Hammerton, slightly; Lieutenants Hutchinson and Hartley, severely; Lieutenants Wallace, Nantes, Johnson, Knowles, Henry, and Hannam, slightly; Adjutant Hay, severely.-9th Foot, 1st Batt. Lieutenant Ackland, slightly.-11th Foot, 1st Batt. LieutenantColonel Cuyler, Major M'Gregor, Captains Porter, Hamilton, and Gualy, severely; Lieutenant Donovan, slightly; Lieutenants Rynd, Williams, and Stephens, severely; Lieutenant Daniel, slightly; Lieutenants Walker and Smith, severely; Lieutenant Stewart, slightly; Lieutenants Gethen and Read, severely.-23d Royal Welch Fusileers, Lieutenant-Colonel Ellis, Major Dalmer, Lieutenants Enoch, Fryer, Cloyde, severely; Lieutenant Macdonald, slightly.27th Foot, 3d Batt. Lieutenant Philip Gordon, slightly. 30th Foot, 2d Batt. Lieutenant Garvey, slightly,-32d Foot, 1st Batt. Captains Roslew- WOUNDED.-Royal Artillery, Lieutenant-Coen, Toole, slightly; Lieutenants Greaves, Eason, lonel May, A. A. G. severely.-1st Dragoons, severely; Lieutenant R. Robinson, slightly; King's German Legion, Captain Decken, Cor Lieutenants Bowes, Butterworth, Ensign New-net Tappe, severely.-2d ditto, ditto, Lieateton (2d) severely; Ensign Blood, slightly.-36th Foot, 1st Batt. Captain Fox, slightly; Lieute nants Price, Hewart, Ensign Bouchier, severely.-38th Foot, 1st Batt. Lieutenant-Colonel Miles, severely; Captains Wilshire, Gallie, slightly; Captain Fullarton, severely; Lientenant Ince, slightly; Lieutenant_Peddie, right arm amputated; Lieutenant Laws, Ensign Wheatley, severely; Ensigns Magie, Wilcocks, slightly; Ensign Byam, severely; Ensign Freer, slightly.-38th Foot, 2d Batt. Lient. M'Pherson, Ensign Anderson, severely.-40th Foot, 1st Batt. Lieutenants Gray, Hudson, severely; Lieutenants Brown, Turton, slightly; Adjutant Bethel, severely.-43d Foot, 1st Batt. Lieutenant Ridout, slightly.-45th Foot, 1st Batt. Major Greenwell, severely; Lieutenant-Colonel Forbes, Captain Lightfoot, Lieutenant Coghlan, slightly; Ensign Rey, severely.-48th Foot, 1st Batt. Captain Thwaites, Lieutenant Stroud, slightly; Lieutenants Leroux, Vincent, Mar

(Signed)

JOHN WATERS, Lieut. Col. and A. A. G.

Names of the Officers killed and wounded on the 23d of July, 1812.

KILLED.-1st Dragoons, King's German Le gion, Lieutenants Voss and Heugell.-2d ditto, ditto, Captain Usslar.

nant Fumette, slightly.

Abstract of Killed, Wounded, and Missing of the
Army under the Command of the Earl of Welling-
ton, near Castrajon, on the 18th July, 1812.
Killed. Wounded. Missing.
61

British
Portuguese 34

297

27

96

27

393

Total 95

Abstract of Killed, Wounded, and Missing of the
Allied Army, under the Command of General the
Earl of Wellington, in the Battle fought near
Salamanca, on the 22d Day of July, 1812.
Killed. Wounded. Missing,

388

British
Portuguese 304 1552
Spanish

or returning with the honest proceeds of them, wrested from their lawful destinations, confiscated by prize courts no longer the organs of public law, but the instruments of arbitrary edicts; and their unfortunate crews dispersed and lost, or forced or inveigled in British ports into British

6 French eight-pounders, 1 French four-pound-fleets; whilst arguments are employed in er, 3 Spanish four-pounders, 1 French six-inch

howitzer.-Total 11.

5 tumbrils with ammunition.

The exact quantity of ammunition carried on each tumbril not yet ascertained.

(Signed) HOYLET FRAMINGHAM. Lieut. Col. Royal Artillery.

OFFICIAL PAPERS. AMERICAN STATES.-Message of President Madison to the Congress, 1st June, 1812, relative to the dispute with England.

support of these aggressions, which have no foundation but in a principle equally supporting a claim to regulate our external commerce in all cases whatsoever.—We behold, in fine, on the side of Great Britain, a state of war against the United States; and on the side of the United States, a state of peace towards Great Britain.- -Whether the United States shall continue passive under these progressive usurpations, and these accumulating wrongs; or, opposing force to force, in defence of their natural rights, shall commit a just. cause into the hands of the Almighty Disposer of events; avoiding all connexions which might entangle it in the contests or views of other powers, and preserving a constant readiness to concur in an honour

ship, is a solemn question, which the constitution wisely confides to the Legislative Department of the Government. In recommending it to their early deliberations, I am happy in the assurance that the decision will be worthy the enlightened and patriotic councils of a virtuous, a free, and a powerful nation.Having presented this view of the relations of the United States with Great Britain, and of the solemn alternative growing out of them, I proceed to remark that the communications last made to Congress on the subject of our relations with France will have shown, that since the revocation of her decrees as they violated the neutral rights of the United States, her Government has authorized illegal captures by its privateers and public ships, and that other outrages have been practised on our vessels and our citizens. It will have been seen also, that no indem

(Continued from page 222.) terpositions heretofore furnished by the officers and agents of that Government.Such is the spectacle of injuries and indignities which have been heaped on our country; and such the crisis which its unex-able re-establishment of peace and friendampled forbearance and conciliatory efforts have not been able to avert. It might at least have been expected, that an enlightened nation, if less urged by moral obligations, or invited by friendly dispositions on the part of the United States, would have found in its true interests alone a sufficient motive to respect their rights and their tranquillity on the high seas; that an enlarged policy would have favoured the free and general circulation of commerce, in which the British nation is at all times interested, and which in times of war is the best alleviation of its calamities to herself, as well as the other belligerents; and more especially that the British Cabinet would not, for the sake of a precarious and surreptitious intercourse with hostile markets, have persevered in a course of measures which necessarily put at hazard the invaluable market of a great and growing country, disposed to cultivate the mutual advan-nity had been provided, or satisfactorily tages of an active commerce.Other pledged, for the extensive spoliations comcouncils have prevailed.. Our moderation mitted under the violent and retrospective and conciliation have had no other effect order of the French Government against the than to encourage perseverance, and to en- property of our Citizens seized within the large pretensions. We behold our sea- jurisdiction of France.I abstain at this faring citizens still the daily victims of law-time from recommending to the considerzless violence committed on the great and common highway of nations, even within sight of the country which owes them protection. We behold our vessels, freighted with the products of our soil and industry,

tion of Congress definitive measures with respect to that nation, in the expectation, that the result of unclosed discussions between our Minister Plenipotentiary at Paris and the French Government, will speedily

rica, now within, or which shall hereafter By command of their Lordships,

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two sureties in the sum of 1,000 pounds each; that the whole of this sentence has been executed upon me, that I have been imprisoned the two years, have paid the thousand pounds TO THE KING, and have given the bail, Timothy Brown and Peter Walker, Esqrs. being my sureties; that the Attorney General was Sir Vicary Gibbs, the Judge who sat at the trial Lord Ellenborough, the four Judges who sat at passing sentence Ellenborough, Grose, Le Blanc, and Bailey; and that the jurors were, Thomas Rhodes of Hampstead Road, John Davis of Southampton Place, James Ellis of Tottenham Court Road, John Richards of Bayswater, Thomas Marsham of Baker Street, Robert Heathcote of High Street Marylebone, John Maud of York Place Marylebone, George Baxter of Church Terrace Paneras, Thomas Taylor of Red Lion Square, David Deane of St. John Street, William Palmer of Upper Street Islington, Henry Favre of Pall Mall; that the Prime Ministers during the time were Spencer Perceval, until he was shot by John Bellingham, and after that Robert B. Jenkinson, Earl of Li verpool; that the prosecution and sentence took place in the reign of King George the Third, and that, he having become insane during my impri the Prince Regent, in his behalf; that, during my imprisonment, I wrote and published 364 Essays and Letters upon political subjects; that, during the same time, I was visited by persons from 197 cities and towns, many of them as a sort of depu ties from Societies or Clubs; that, at the expira tion of my imprisonment, on the 9th of July, 1812, a great dinner was given in London for the purpose of receiving me, at which dinner npwards of 600 persons were present, and at which Sir Francis Burdett presided; that dinners and other parties were held on the same occasion in many other places in England; that, on my way home, I was received at Alton, the first town in Hamp

In order that my countrymen and that the world may not be deceived, duped, and cheated upon this subject, I, WILLIAM COBBETT, of Botley, in Hampshire, put upon record the following facts; to wit: That, on the 24th June, 1809, the following article was pub. lished in a London news-paper, called the COURIER:- "The Mutiny amongst the LO« CAL MILITIA, which broke out at Ely, was "fortunately suppressed on Wednesday by the "arrival of four squadrons of the GERMAN "LEGION CAVALRY from Bury, under the «command of General Auckland. Five of the ❝ringleaders were tried by a Court-Martial, and "sentenced to receive 500 lashes each, part of which "punishment they received on Wednesday, and k a part was remitted. A stoppage for their knapa sacks was the ground of the complaint that ex"cited this mutinous spirit, which occasioned "the men to surround their officers, and demand what they deemed their arrears. The first "division of the German Legion halted yesterday "at Newmarket on their return to Bury."That, on the 1st July, 1809, I published, in the Political Register, an article censuring, in the strongest terms, these proceedings; that, for so doing, the Attorney General prosecuted, as sedi-sonment, the 1,000 pounds was paid to his son, tious libellers, and by Ex-Officio Information, me, and also my printer, my publisher, and one of the principal retailers of the Political Register; that I was brought to trial on the 15th June, 1810, and was, by a Special Jury, that is to say, by 12 men out of 48 appointed by the Master of the Crown Office, found guilty; that, on the 20th of the same month, I was compelled to give bail for my appearance to receive judgment; and that, as I came up from Botley (to which place I had returned to my family and my farm on the evening of the 15th), a Tipstaff went down from London in order to seize me, personally; that, on the 9th of July, 1810, I, together with my printer, publisher, and the news-shire, with the ringing of the Church bells; that man, were brought into th Court of King's Bench to receive judgmen., that the three former were sentenced to be imprisoned for some months in the King's Bench prison; that I was sentenced to be imprisoned for two years in Newgate, the great receptacle for malefactors, and the front of which is the scene of numerous hangings in the course of every year; that the part of tire prison in which I was sentenced to be confined is sometimes habited by felons, that felons were actually ar it a the time I entered it; that one man was taken ct of it to be trans ported in about 48 hours after i was put into the same yard.ch him; and that it is the place of confinement for men guilty of unnatural crimes, of whom there are four in it at this time; that, besides this imprisonment, I was sentenced to pay a thousand pounds TO THE KING, and to give security for my good behaviour for seven years, myself in the sum of 3,000 pounds, and

a respectable company met me and gave me a dinner at Winchester; that I was drawn from more than the distance of a mile into Botley by the people; that, upon my arrival in the village, I found all the people assembled to receive me; that I concluded the day by explaining to them the cause of my imprisonment, and by giving them clear notions respecting the flogging of the Local Militia-men at Ely, and respecting the em ployment of German Troops; and, finally, which is more than a compensation for my losses and all my sufferings, I am in perfect health and strength, and, though I must, for the sake of six children, feel the diminution that has been made in my property (thinking it right in me to decline the offer of a subscription), I have the consolation to see growing up three sons, upon whose hearts, I trust, all these facts will be engraven.

Botley, July 23, 1812.

WM. COBBETT.

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to have excited half so much joy as was excited by the death (not the killing) of the late prime minister Perceval; at which I rather wonder, because, as I have before observed, the victory is something for us to be proud of, whatever it may lead to and it is the more worthy of our applause, as it forms such a contrast with the events BATTLE OF SALAMANCA. -The rejoic- of the campaigns on the continent, which ings, on account of the result of this battle, ended at Dunkirk and the Helder. Our though very loud and long immediately army has here beaten a French army. We under the eye of the government, do not were, it may be said, greatly superior in appear to have reached very widely over numbers, I do not mind that; for we the country, for which I can, however, see were not so much superior in numbers as to no reason, except that of a conviction in the prevent a French Marshal from giving us people's minds, that the victory only tended battle. Our army has beaten a French to prolong the war; for, in point of glory, army, and our General has beaten a French it is certainly the greatest victory that has Marshal. We have, too, taken 7,000 men been gained by England in our day, and, prisoners of war, with a due proportion of indeed, since the reign of Queen Anne. officers. This is, therefore, a victory, and, By sea we have been accustomed to beat in a military point of view, something to be every body. Battles at sea are much more proud of; but, while I think the country matters of skill than of personal valour. has received the victory rather coldly, IThe men engaged scarcely see their enemy. must say, that the hired news-papers have The danger may be as great, but it is not been as indiscreet on the other side. Ta Men in a ship are like men in a for- hear them, one would think that England tified place. A battle at sea is an affair of never won a victory before, that this was ropes and sails and rudders. The victory her first-born in the way of victories; and depends, in a great measure, upon the that, in short, she was beside her senses. dexterity of the parties engaged. But, in with joy upon the occasion.-Reflection a land battle, the result generally depends should make them more moderate; for, afupon the degrees of personal courage pos-ter all, Marshal the Duke of Albufera has sessed by the parties engaged. In a sea sent to France at least six times as many battle no man can skulk from his post if he prisoners as all our generals put together would. The greatest coward is as efficient, have taken during the whole war. The generally speaking, as the bravest man. boastings, therefore, should have some But, in a land battle, men may generally bounds; for, if we are thus to boast at the skulk if they will. There are so many op- taking of 7,000 prisoners, what would the portunities of avoiding bodily danger, that French be justified in doing at the taking of a coward will seldom fail to avail himself of more than 100,000 prisoners in this same some one or other of them. From a ship war of the Peninsula? And what would there is no desertion during a battle; from they be justified in doing at the taking of an army there may be much. For these the more, perhaps, than two millions of reasons I am always inclined to be more prisoners, whom they have taken since the proud of victories (I mean real ones) gained commencement of their revolution? Our by land, than of victories gained by sea, hired writers should think of these things though in the sea service it often happens in the midst of their excessive joy, or, rathat there are occasions for performing pro-ther, their affectation of that joy; for, as digious feats of valour.Nevertheless, it to any feeling upon the subject, they have is certain, that, throughout the country, the no more than the table upon which I am news of the victory of Salamanca has been writing.-There was one transaction, revery coldly received. It does not appear lating to the London rejoicings, which I

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