.THE NATIONAL REGISTER. married. He did not know that punishment awaited on virtue. The Militia Ballot was a severe conscription, and bung heavy con the middling classes of the people • and by that very law every man of England wasborn to be ii:tgcd. He persisted in pushing his motion to a division. • The Gallery was accordingly cleared, and there appeared— For the Motion of Address 10; Against it ,94.—Majority S 4. The Westminster Hustings Bill was read a third tiaie and passed. LOVEDEN'S DIVORCE BILL. The House went into a Committee . on the above-mentioned Bill, and on the motion of Mr. Barham the blank left in the Bid for annual settlement was figed up with 4ffll. p-r annum. On the motion of Mr. DA vIE4 GIDDY, the original jointure of 8001. per annum was taken away, and Mr. Whitbread divided the House on a motion foi• ;:n additional jointure of 4001. per annum after Loveden's decease, which was negatived by a majori!) , of nine. The House then re , umed, and the Bill was read a third time and pused.—Adjourned. health was such that the utmost care was. necessary. The only request \ which the petitioner had made was, that the unhealthy apartment in which he was at present confined, should ba •chang-d for one in which there would be a circulation of air. - Lord CASI T.EREAGH wished that every arNammodation should be furnieled to the petitioner in his confinement. He (Lord C.) had felt 'illicit pain in bringing forward - such a prose cution, but it was a duty impt-rative upon him, as It mint he Universally consid-red a 1.1)el upon the •GoVernment. . It had been his wish that the Court would mitigate his sentence, and it was now his desire that he should receive evert dulgence. Atter some further obsc!rvations from Mr. Brougham, Mr. Hutchinson, Sir Francis Burdett, and others, the petition was ordered to lie on the Table. • - The Insolvent Debtors' Bill was read a second time, and was ordered to be committed on Monday.—Adjourned. AMERICA. 64 New York, May '2l. " TnE NAVAL FNemcxNtriv - r.—The armed vessel, men tioned in our last as king below, proves to he tie United states frigate Frew - lent, Co nmodore R °GE It S. non after our Paper of. fast evening went to press, two officers from the fri, Site arrived in the pilot-boA, and confirmed the Norfolk ac count of an engagement on the 16th instant, near the Capes of the Chesapeake. The following particulars 'of the action are copied from the Gazeite of this morning. From a personal in terview with the Navy Agent and the Officer, who has gone in the mail stage of this day, with dispatches from Commodore RociERS to the Secretary of the Navy, we learn, that this state ment is eubstantially correct. The boy, who was the only per son injured on board the President, had an arm broken by 4 musket ball. " Particulars of the Engagement between the United States frig gate President, Commodore Roo E It s, and the British sloop of war Little Belt, Captain BINGHAM. " On the night o'.the 16th inst. about nine o'clock, the fri. gate fell in with the 100 of war, about 20 miles N. E. of Cape 1 - knry ; and .when within pistol-shot of her, Commodore Ro. GiCRS hailed her—no answer was given. Commodore R ocras toiled her a second time, and, in the act of hailing, a shot was fired from the sloop of war into the frigate, which struck her mainmast. The frigate immediately fired a shot into the sloop of war—she than, poured a broadside into the frigate. Here the action commenced, and continued about litteen minutes, when the sloop of war ceased firing. The frigate continued near her all night. The next morning 'Commodore ROGEKII sent an Officer on board, to offer any assistance they might re quire; and to express his regret at the circtimstance that bad occurred the preceding evening. The sloop of war proved to be the Little Belt, Captain BibicatArtt, who apologised ; and gave as a reason for firing into the frigate, that he supposed her to be a Frenchman ; and politely ceclined any assistance, as he believed he would be able to reach a port in safety. 46 The Little Be(t lost in killed and wounded thirty men, was very much injured, having bad nearly all her masts and spars shot away, besides several shots in her hull. " This sloop, of war is a Danish built vestal, and was taken at Copenhagen. Iu Steel's List she is rated an 18 gun sloop ; and-carries thirty-two•pound carronades. 4‘ The Presidort received some trifling damage in her rigging, and had one boy slightly.wounded in the um." [FROM THE 7ATIONAL INTELLIGENZKRI " Within the course of a few days past, several cases have occurrwd of impressment by iiritiah vebsrls, on our coast, from co:wan vessels. " impresmentß, halting taken place under aggravated circumstances, have excitvtl, as they ought, a very gen. ral indig. t fceiine. 44 The United States frigatt Pro4ide...zi put to sea from Ana polls, under such circumstances as justify the impression, that the obj,.:ct of her sailing was to obtain the release of these men. g‘ Under these circitimtances, rumours of an engagement I if our Capes have reached u 4, w hi c h we present to our Readers as they fallow, barely observing, that it is well under. .4 , ),n1 that the Commanders of public vessels are generally ii4sinerted ti submit to no tpultio4 frot. any Foreign vessel which shall wearthe son-. teance pia threat in masirKr or in words." New York, May 23, 1811. • ' We are correctly 'informed, that a letter ii in town, from one of the Nienthera of the Executive, stating, that Rentßl his positive orders to search for a Br', ish frigate, demand the impresied ni n she has ou board audit refustd, to take diet" ' 1 by force.' FRIDAY, JUNE 21. . The Parish Register Bill was read a second time, and corn *mined. • The report was received, and ordered to be taken into -further consideration on this day n•onth. Lord Foucs rime, in the absence of Mr. Creevey, gave ro tice that his Hon. Friend would early in the next Session submit a motion upon the subject of the transactions in India, as con nected with Sir George Barlow. WEAVERS' PETITION. Colonel Stanley moved, that the report of the Weavers' Peti tion should be taken into further consideration. The CHANCELLOR of the Excin said, that this was a dropped Order, and as it was a subject upon which it was likely that there would be a difference of opinion, he thought it more correct that the O: der should be renewed, for the purpose of giving every Member a fair notice to attend. He •thrrefore jnoyed di:A the Order should be renewed for lontlay. Mr. Witurait ea D said, that it was impossible for him to at tend on Monday, and he had come into town this day with the full conviction that the subject would be brought forward. He then went into a statement of the present .tote of the manufac turers of the kingdom, and said that the sitnation of every body 'of those manufacturers was juet such as that. of the weavers. Having now in his hand the papers which had been refused by the Right Hon. Gentleman, but which had been since published in America, and sent to this country, and finding from them that America had been treated more like a dependent state in this country than a great and independent power, lie should 'therefore, before lie sat.down, move for the production of that correspondence. With.repect to the weaver,' petition, at the very time that it was presented they were a, , ..itired that Ito • thing could be done - for them. The Right Hon. Gentleman lad proposed a tax on the raw commodity of their manufacture, but•had afterwaid.s given itup as unprofitable, telling them that lie could do with.:ut if. Such treatment was certainly very 'hard. He then read extracts from the correspondence with America, that the House might be aware of the negociation with that country, and. if war should be the result, might not pe taken by 'surprise with. respect to the occasion of it. He trusted that no further objections would bc made to an Address 'to the Price Regent, for copies ofah the correspondence which took place between the American -Government and the Secre tary of State for Foreign Affairs, during the year 1-810. • The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER expressed his surprise that a motion of such a nature should be made without previous notice, especially as it was not to be acted upon in the present He could not conceive what benefit could result from 'an acquiescence in the motion for the correspondence. What ever advantages might be derivable from their production, they 'eerteinly were n , t sufficient tp counterbalance the inconveni• ences which would arise during the present pending negoeiation with America. After a few words from Mr. Whitbread and Mr. Rose, Mr. Whitbread's motion was negatived, and Colonel Suudry's re. ;dewed for Monday. MR: PETER FINNERTY. Mr., WHITIPI CAD presented a petition from Peter Finnerty, at present con:ined in, Lincoln Gaol. complaining of oppreivt: treatment in prisoniand praying for the interference of the House, in order to:have that treatment mitigated. • Mr. Secretary Vi.TDER said, that it was thought proper, in cotpequence of. Mrs Finnerty% indecorous co- - duct in prism, to restrict him in thavommon privileges of a prisoner. He would, however, make enskulry, and if it appeared that the measures adopted toward; him were of a - severe nature, he would give 41irections to the Sheriff to allow biin ,tich -ex ten_sion of liberty as was con , istent with the re%•;tillritv of the Mr. .WurniasAD said, th a t th e s t ate o f M r. Fi nnerty ' a 4. • . • mow',;,. ~, .