his Excellency M. De Rosencrantz shall address directly to his Excellency Count D'Engerstrom, and which shall be reconcileable with the stipulations of the Treaties between Sweden and her Allies. (Signed) C. ROSCHILD. AMERICAN WAR. LONDON GAZETTE, July 10. [Transmitted by Capt. Capel.] -Mr. Aldham, the Purser, who had spiritedly volunteered the charge of a party of small-arm men, was killed at his post on the gangway. My faithful old Clerk, Mr. Dunn, was shot by his side; Mr. Aldham has left a widow to lament his loss. I request the Commander-in-Chief will recommend her to the protection of my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. My veteran boatswain, Mr. Stephens, has lost an arm. He fought under Lord Rodney on the 12th April. I trust his age and services will be duly rewarded. Shannon, Halifax, June 6. Sir, I have the honour to inform you, I am happy to say, that Mr. Samwell, that being close in with Boston Light House, a midshipman of much merit, is the only in his Majesty's ship under my command, other officer wounded besides myself, and on the 1st instant, I had the pleasure of he not dangerously. Of my gallant seaseeing that the United States' frigate Che- men and marines we had twenty-three slain sapeake (whom we had long been watch- and fifty-six wounded. I subjoin the names ing) was coming out of the harbour to en- of the former. No expressions I can make gage the Shannon; I took a position be- use of can do justice to the merits of my tween Cape Ann and Cape Cod, and then valiant officers and crew; the calm couhove to for him to join us-the enemy came rage they displayed during the cannonade, down in a very handsome manner, having and the tremendous precision of their fire, three American ensigns flying; when clos- could only be equalled by the ardour with ing with us, he sent down his royal yards. which they rushed to the assault. I reI kept the Shannon's up, expecting the commend them all warmly to the protection breeze would die away. At half past five of the Commander-in-Chief.Having P. M. the enemy hauled up within hail of received a severe sabre wound at the first us on the starboard side, and the battle be- onset, whilst charging a party of the enegan, both ships steering full under the top-my who had rallied on their forecastle, I sails; after exchanging between two and was only capable of giving command till three broadsides, the enemy's ship fell on assured our conquest was complete, and board of us, her mizen channels locking in then directing Second Lieutenant Wallis to with our fore-rigging. I went forward to take charge of the Shannon, and secure the ascertain her position, and observing that prisoners, I left the Third Lieutenant, Mr. the enemy were flinching from their guns, Faulkiner (who had headed the main-deck I gave orders to prepare for boarding. Our boarders), in charge of the prize. I beg gallant bands appointed to that service im- to recommend these Officers most strongly, mediately rushed in, under their respective to the Commander-in-Chief's patronage, Officers, upon the enemy's decks, driving for the gallantry they displayed during the every thing before them with irresistible action, and the skill and judgment they fury. The enemy made a desperate but evinced in the anxious duties which afterdisorderly resistance.- -The firing con- wards devolved upon them.-To Mr. tinued at all the gangways, and between Etough, the Acting-Master, I am much the tops, but in two minutes time the ene-indebted for the steadiness in which he my were driven sword in hand from every post. The American flag was hauled down, and the proud old British Union floated triumphant over it. In another minute they ceased firing from below, and called for quarter. The whole of this service was achieved in fifteen minutes, from the commencement of the action.I have to lament the loss of many of my gallant shipmates, but they fell exulting in their conquest. My brave First Lieutenant, Mr. Watt, was slain in the moment of victory, in the act of hoisting the British colours; his death is a severe loss to the service. conned the ship into action. The Lieutenants Johns and Law, of the marines, bravely boarded at the head of their respective divisions.It is impossible to particularize every brilliant deed performed by my officers and men, but I must mention, when the ship's yard arms were locked together, that Mr. Cosnahan, who commanded in our main-top, finding himself screened from the enemy by the foot of the topsail, laid out at the main-yard arm to fire upon them, and shot three men in that situation. Mr. Smith, who commanded in our fore-top, stormed the ene that whatever wish France had to do an agreeable thing to Sweden, a treaty of alliance having been concluded with Denmark, guaranteeing the integrity of that Power, his Majesty could not give his consent to the dismemberment of the territory of his ally.From this moment Sweden detached herself from France, and entered into negociations with her enemies.-Afterwards the war between France and Russia became imminent. The Swedish Court proposed to make common cause with France, but at the same time renewing its my's fore-top from the fore-yard-arm, and destroyed all the Americans remaining in it. I particularly beg leave to recommend Mr. Etough, the Acting Master, and Messrs. Smith, Leake, Clavering, Ray mond, and Littlejohn, Midshipmen. This latter Officer is the son of Captain Littlejohn, who was slain in the Berwick.The loss of the enemy was about 70 killed, and 100 wounded. Among the former were the four Lieutenants, a Lieutenant of Marines, the Master, and many other Of ficers. Captain Laurence is since dead of his wounds. -The enemy came into ac-proposition relative to Norway. It was in tion with a complement of four hundred and forty men; the Shannon having picked up some recaptured seamen, had three hundred and thirty.The Chesapeake is a fine frigate, and mounts forty-nine guns, eighteens on her main deck, two-and-thirties on her quarter deck and forecastle. Both ships came out of action in the most beautiful order, their rigging appearing as perfect as if they had only been exchanging salute.I have the honour to be, &c. (Signed) P. B. V. BROKE. To Capt. the Hon. T. Bladen LIST OF KILled on BoaRD HIS MAJESTY'S G. T. L. Watt, First Lieutenant; G. Aldham, Purser; John Dunn, Captain's Clerk; G. Gil. bert, W. Berilles, N. Gilchrist, T. Selby, J. Long, J. Young, J. Wallace, and J. Brown, able seamen, T. Barr, M. Murphy, T. Molloy, T. Jones, and J. O'Connelly, ordinary seamen; T. Barry, first class, boy. MARINES. Samuel Millard, corporal; James Jayms, priate; Dominique Seder, private; and William Young, private. SUPERNUMERARIES. (Signed) P. B. V. BROKE, Captain, FRENCH PAPERS. Baron de Kaas, Danish Minister of the After the affair of Copenhagen, a treaty of alliance was concluded between France and Denmark. By that treaty the Emperor guaranteed the integrity of Denmark. -In the year 1811, Sweden made known at Paris the desire she had of uniting Norway to Sweden, and demanded the assistance of France. She was answered, vain that Sweden represented that from the Norwegian ports a descent upon Scotland was easy; it was in vain that she dwelt upon all the guarantees which the ancient alliance of Sweden gave France of the conduct she would follow towards England. The reply of the Cabinet of the Thuilleries was the same: it had its hands tied by the treaty with Denmark.From that moment Sweden no longer kept any measures; she contracted an alliance with Russia and England; and the first stipulation of that treaty was, the common engagement of compelling Denmark to cede Norway to Sweden. -The battles of Smolens and of the Moskwa restrained the activity of Sweden; she received some subsidies, made The events of the winter of 1812 arrived; some preparations; but began no hostilities. the French troops evacuated Hamburgh; the situation of Denmark became perilous; at war with England, threatened by Sweden and Russia, France appeared unable to support her. The King of Denmark, with that fidelity which characterizes him, addressed himself to the Emperor, in order to get out of this situation. The Emperor, who wishes that his policy should never be at the expense of his Allies, replied, that Denmark was at liberty to treat with England to save the integrity of her territory, and that his esteem and friendship for the King should receive no diminution from the new connexion which the force of circumstances obliged Denmark to contract. The King expressed his gratitude at this proceeding. -Four ships crews of very excellent sailors had been furnished by Denmark, and manned four ships of our Scheldt fleet. The King of Denmark, during this time, having expressed a desire that these sailors should be restored, the Emperor sent them back to him with the most scrupulous exactuêss, at the same time expressing to the officers and seamen the satisfaction he felt at their good conduct. 66 Events, however, proceeded. The Allies | language was held to Count Moltke, Envoy thought that the reveries of Burke were from Denmark to the Emperor Alexander. realized. The French empire, in their Prince Dolgorucki was disavowed as hav imaginations, was already effaced from the ing exceeded his powers: and during this face of the globe; and this idea must have time the Danes were giving their notifica predominated to a strange degree, when tion to the French army, and some hostilithey offered Denmark, as a compensation ties took place!!!We shall in vain for Norway, our Departments of the 32d open the annals of nations to discover in Military Division, and even all Holland, them policy more immoral. It was at the in order to recompose in the North a mari- moment that Denmark found herself thus time power, who should act in conjunction engaged in a war with France, that the with Russia.—The King of Denmark, treaty to which she was conforming, was far from suffering himself to be surprised at the same time disavowed at London and by those deceitful offers, said to them, in Russia, and that advantage was taken of you wish, then, to give me colonies in the embarrassments in which that power Europe, and that too, to the detriment of was placed, to present her as an ultimatum France?"- -In the impossibility of mak- with a treaty which engaged her to acknowing the King of Denmark participate in so ledge the cession of Norway!———Under foolish an idea, Prince Dolgorucki was sent those difficult circumstances the King shewto Copenhagen to demand that they should ed the greatest confidence in the Emperor'; make common cause with the Allies, in he declared his treaty void; he recalled his consequence of which, the Allies would troops from Hamburgh; he ordered his guarantee the integrity of Denmark, and army to march with the French army; even of Norway. The urgency of circum- and, in short, he declared that he still constances, the imminent dangers which Den-sidered himself as allied to France, and mark ran, the distance of the French ar- that he relied upon the Emperor's magnamies, her own salvation made the policy of nimity.—The President de Kaas was Denmark give way. The King consented, sent to the French head-quarters with letin return for the guarantee of his domi-ters from the King. At the same time, the nions, to cover Hamburgh, and to keep King dispatched to Norway the hereditary that town sheltered from the French armies Prince of Denmark, a young Prince of the during the war. He felt all that was dis-highest promise, and particularly beloved agreeable to the Emperor in this stipula tion; he made all the modifications which it was possible to make in it; and did not even sign it but by giving way to the entreaties of all those by whom he was surrounded, who represented to him the necessity of saving his States; but he was far from thinking it was only a snare that was laid for him. They wished to place him at war with France, and after making him by this measure lose in that circumstance his natural support, they would have broken their word, and obliged him to submit to all the shameful conditions they chose to impose on him.-M. de Bernstorf proceeded to London; he expected to have been eagerly received there, and to have nothing more to do than renew the treaty concluded with Prince Dolgorucki: but what was his astonishment, when the Prince Regent refused to receive the King's letter, and when Lord Castlereagh gave him to understand, there could be no treaty between England and Denmark, unless as a preliminary article, Norway was ceded to Sweden. A few days after, Count Bernstorf received an order to return to Denmark. -At the same moment, a similar by the Norwegians. He set out disguised as a sailor; threw himself into a fishingboat, and arrived in Norway on the 22d of May.On the 30th May, the French troops entered Hamburgh, and a Danish division, which marched with our troops, entered Lubeck.Baron de Kaas, while at Altona, experienced another scene of perfidy, equal to the first. The Envoys from the Allies came to his lodgings, and gave him to understand, that they renounced the cession of Norway, and that on condition of Denmark making common cause with the Allies, it should no longer be made a question; they conjured him to delay his departure.The reply of M. de Kaas was simple:-"I have my orders; I must execute them." They told him the French armies were defeated; that did not move him, he continued his journey. However, on the 31st of May, an English fleet appeared before Copenhagen; one of the ships of war anchored before the town, and Mr. Thornton presented himself. He stated that the Allies were going to commence hostilities, if, within forty-eight hours, Denmark did not sign a treaty, the principal conditions of which were, to cede - Norway to Sweden, to immediately give of Norway critical, is the want of provi up, en depot, the province of Drontheim, sions; but Norway shall remain Danishand to furnish 25,000 men to act with the the integrity of Denmark is guaranteed by Allies against France, and conquer the in-France. The bombardment of Copendemnities which were to be the portion of hagen, whilst an English Minister was still Denmark. He at the same time declared, with the King; the burning of that capital that the overtures made to M. de Kaas, on and the fleet, without a declaration of war, his journey to Altona, were disavowed, and or any previous hostility; appeared to be could only be considered as military sug- the most odious scene of modern history; gestions.The King indignantly refused but the crooked policy which leads the Engthis insolent summons. Meanwhile, the lish to demand the cession of a province, Prince Royal having arrived in Norway, happy for so many years under the sceptre published the following proclamation. of the house of Holstein, and the series of "Norwegians!--Your King knows and intrigues to which they have had recourse appreciates your immovable fidelity for him to obtain this odious result, will be consi and the dynasty of the Kings of Denmark dered as more immoral and more outrageand Norway, who for a number of ages ous than even the burning of Copenhagen. have governed your ancestors. It is the In it we observe that policy of which paternal desire of his Majesty to see the in- the houses of Timour and of Sicily have dissoluble bonds of paternal love and har- been the victims, and which has despoiled mony which unite the two kingdoms still them of their dominions., The English are drawn closer. The heart of Frederick VI. accustomed in India to be never stopped by is always with you; but the care of all any idea of justice they follow this policy parts of his States refuses him the gratifi- in Europe.- -It appears, that in all the cation of seeing himself surrounded by his negociations which the Allies have had people of Norway; he, therefore, has sent with England, the Powers the greatest eneme in quality of governor of Norway, with mies to France have been disgusted by the full powers to fulfil his orders as if he him- excessive pretensions of the English Governself was present. His will shall be my ment, -The bases even of the peace of law; the wish of gaining your confidence Luneville are declared by the English to be shall be my guide; your esteem and your inadmissible, as too favourable to France. love shall be my reward. Should we be-Madmen! They are deceived in their threatened by trials still more severe, rely- latitude, and take Frenchmen for Hining on Divine Providence, we will brave doos. them with intrepid courage, and with your assistance, gallant Norwegians, we will surmount them, for I know that I can depend upon your fidelity towards the King; that you are determined to preserve the integrity of ancient Norway, and that the watchword for us all will be God, the King, and the country. (Signed) CHRISTIAN FREDERICK." ARMY OF ARRAGON. ment (four p.m.) received a letter from the Valencia, June 9.-I have just this mo Governor of Tortosa, dated June 3, three quarters past nine o'clock, of which the following is a copy: "Excellent Monseigneur, The enemy's fleet was yesterday in sight before Tarra The confidence which the King of Den-gona at five o'clock; it consists of about 180 mark had in the Emperor has been entirely Villanova de Sirjis. In this state of things, sail; it appears to steer in the direction of justified, and all the bonds between the I have determined to march with 600 two nations have been re-established and infantry and 800 horse into Lower Catastrengthened.The French army is in lonia, in order to rally the troops of GeneHamburgh; a Danish division follows its ral Decaen, and, if it is possible, endeavour motions to support it. The English, by to fight the English. I am, &c. their policy, obtained only shame and confusion: the wishes of all worthy men ac (Signed) Marshal the Duke of ALBUFERA. company the hereditary Prince of Denmark "To the Minister at War." into Norway. What renders the situation : (To be continued.)... Published by R. BAGSHAW, Brydges-Street, Covent-Garden. A COBBETT'S WEEKLY POLITICAL REGISTER. VOL. XXIV, No. 4.] LONDON, SATURDAY, JULY 24, 1813. 971 [Price 1s. [98 reform of abuses and the cutting up of corruption by the roots; to appear in this cha racter, in England, is, with these hirelings, to be a bad subject, an enemy of the country, and a friend of France; it is to be a Jacobin, a Leveller, a Disorganizer, and a fiend in human shape. Upon what ground can language like this, and sentiments like these, be justified in those who are the eulogists of the revolution which we have occasioned in Sicily? There, it seems, a' SUMMARY OF POLITICS. QUEEN OF SICILY.Amongst the incidents, in this grand drama, the war of Twenty Years already past, that, which the fate of the Queen of Sicily at this time presents, is not the least interesting. The public has seen, from time to time, the proceedings which our Government has adopted in Sicily. They have seen, that the King of that country retired to make room for his son; they have seen that, un-revolution is a good thing; there, it seems der English auspices, a new sort of constitution has been formed; they have seen our news papers filled with revilings against the Queen, and finally, they have seen that she is about to be sent out of the country. -But, before we come to the case of Her Majesty, as depicted in her Letter to Lord William Bentinck, let us look a little at the revolution, which has been made in Sicily, under our auspices.That a revolution in the government of Sicily has been made, there can be no doubt. That is a fact which is notorious. It is also a fact, that it has been made by us; that what has been done, in the way of change, has been done by our authority and power. In justification of this change, our writers allege, that the government of Sicily was very bad indeed; that it was excessively corrupt and oppressive; and, they have frequently added, that, in compassion towards the people, as well as for the sake of annoying the enemy, we ought to seize on the island for ourselves. This last measure is récommended by CAPTAIN PASLEY, whose book has been very much applauded in our pubfie prints. To talk of peace, while principles like these are afloat, is wholly absurd. But, as to this revolution which we have made, it was necessary to the wel: fare of the people of Sicily, or it was not. If the latter, why did we make, and how are we to justify the act? If the former, with what reason is it, that the hireling writers and the tools of corruption in EngMand cry out against revolutionists? With them, to be a revolutionist; to have views towards a revolution; to propose any material change in the government; to talk of a to be justifiable to set aside a king and put D |