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LONDON. SATURDAY* MARCH 27. fT^WO Goltenburgli Mails have arrived with JL intelligence from that city to lltli inst Tit accounts from Hamburgh and Berlin are not so recent as those which we have received from Heligoland. Now that the seal of war is removed so much to the westward, it is from the mouth ol't lie Ems, the Weser, or the Elbe, we are to look for I lie earliest informa lion. The Viceroy of Italy fled from Berlin to Wirlemburg, in which direction he was pumied by the Russians, who are stated to have taken in that vicinity 1600 horses intend- ed tor he srraud army. According to some accounts the Viceroy had reached Wirteniberg, others state that lie has been made a prisoner. e Prince Kill II so tf. in a report ot-the operations, dated Plock, lotli Febtuary, states, that on the Sth of Feb. General Miloradvitsch took j)oss;*ss!o« of the city ot Waaw. It also mentions, That lticelietz, y, who made a sortie from Daisizic, on the 4tll of Feb. had succeed- ed in driving in his out-posts, but were after- wards c it off from the city, to which not a single man of the whole column, consisting of > Hearty one thousand m#n, returned. Of these events our readers are already apprised. It is • extraordinary that we have not more recent intelligence respecting the progress of the siege of Dantzic. The private accounts which have lately been, received from France, of the preparations making by Bonaparte to set out tor the Rhine, are corroborated by a letter received on Friday from Dea), which says, From some arrivals from a Duclh port, 1 hear that. Bonaparte has ac'uaUy left Paris—that he has been to the opposite coast, to Dunkirk, Flushing, and Antwerp, after which he set off for tile-army How collecting on the other side of the Rhine. Some additional New York letters and pa- pers vert- received yesterday, with the pro- ceedings of Congerss to Ihe 17lh ult. Thc bill to allow the import of foreign manufactures to the -date of Juno, 1814, was in progress; but a Meeting was appointed at New York, by some respectable and opulent individuals, to oppose it by petition. It was expected that it won Id lie -resisted in all its stages, yet that it would be ultimately passed if there should be sufficient time for the discussion before the dissolution of Congress, which was to have taken place on the 4th of this month. Some more American papers have come to hand, which though not of a more recent date than those before received, contain intelli- gence of some importance. The Americans. in order to dn greater injury to our navy, hate brought in a Bill, ordering the use of torpe does and sub-marine engines to destroy British ships of war m American ports: and offering ■as a reward for stich destruction, one half of the value of the vessel so destroyed. Our Go- vernment possesses the means of inflicting ntos dreadful retaliation for this designed mischief. The British ships of war had taken on board at Bermuda, bombs, howitzers, rotkets, &c. to bombard some American ports. We shrtll he glad to see. the war car- ried oil in earnest, and to find Britsh vengeance effectually chastise American presumption and aggression. By a Mail from Corunna. which arrived this morning, we have received papers to the lSth inst. King Joseph arrived at Valladolid; 4111 the 4th i'st. accompanied by Marshals Souli and Jourdnn twenty-oneGenerats.and several other civil and military ofifcers. It was supposed thai, he would move his head-quar- ters next day to Salamanca, and that the Bri. tish troops would advance in the same dire": '-tio:i. I,. the two armies are approaching each other, the campaign must soon open. Suchet remallls ili Valencia. A captured American vessel, arrived at Ply- mouth, which left Charleston the 17(11 1mngs a report that a French squadron, eon 1Iistiu:.?; of three men of war and five frigates, had arrived at Newport, Rhode Island. It is stated that orders have been given Jn Bonaparte to rill round the Dutch ships of war from the 1 exe! to the Scheldt, from an apprehension that the spirit which is rising in the North should extend to Holland, and that they may fall into our hands. I Letter from ilic Gen. Field Marshal Prince Kutusow of Smolensko, to her Excellency Anna >eketischa Navyschkin :—"The church Village of rirutitio, belonging to you, has been distinguished by a glorious victory ob tained by the Russian troops over the enemy. From tiiis lime forwrrd the lIamc of that place will he as distinguished in history as Pultowa and the river Nara, as renowned for us as the Nepradwa was, on whose banks the innumer- able sf'srms of the Marnai found their de stvuctiou. I beg leave to request, gracious lady, that the intrenchments which we threw up, not tar from the church village of Taru- tioo—fhose entrenchments which filled the enemy's troops with great dread, and became a firm wall of defence, in the neighbourhood of wbid. the rapid current of the destroyers who threatened to overrun all Russia was stopped, may remain standing, uiitiiolesteil- I beg they may be suffered to fall by the hand of time, but not by human hands; may the peasant, win 1st he tills his surrounding peaceable fields, never touch them with his plow may they, in future times, remain sacred memorials to the Russians, of the valour of their forefathers! may our posteri- ty, when viewing them,become inflamed with., the spirit of emulation, and with transport say. this is the spot, where the pride of the robbers fell before the sous of our couolry Yout neighbour, Prince Wolkqnskoe, has offered to erect a monument on the grounds of the village of Letaschewka, which belongs to In n in commemoration of the Russian warriors. The entrenchments at. Tarntiuo, Which proudly raise themselves among your peaceful iiiekis, will, of themselves remain existing monumcnts of Husian valour and Russian glory. (PROM THE MONlTEUR OF fAnCTl 19.) Dispulch from the American General Harrison to Governor Meigs. Heart-quarters, Carrguies River, Jan. 24. Stlm,-Tlie event which I mentioned to you with so much apprehension, in my letterdated Lower Sandusky, has in effect taken place. The detachment commanded by Colonel Lewis was reinforced by General Winchester, with 150 men. He reached aud took the command of it at the Raisin river. On the 20th and 22d I he was attacked by a considerable English and Indian force, with six pieces of cannon. The troops having been surprised, and the ground being unfavourable, they could not form with advantage they were surrounded, and in 20 or 25 minutes totally defeated. A Major, a Captain, and about 25 men, were all that es- caped. I had but 350 men with me, three miles above the Rapids, where I received this intel- ligence. I ordered them to march, and set out myself, with my Staff, in order to reach a detachment of 300 men which had marched for the Raisin river that morning; I overtook it at six miles distance: but before the other troops (the Ohio regiment under the orders of Colonel Ardrene) arrived, I was assured that the defeat had been complete; and Generals Payne and Perkins, and the officers of the line, were of opinion that we should return. A detachment of 170 men had been sent in ad- vance, with orders to succour those who were fortunate enough to escape. Never were the affairs of an army in a more brillIant situation than our's, previous to the unfortunate step of sending the detachment to the Raisin river; it was done, not only with- out my authority, but against all my intenti- ons; I have, however, done all that depended on me to prevent any disaster, and i have sent reinforcements with all possible rapidity. Maj. Colgrove's battalion was at 40 miles distance from the scene of action, when lie was inform- ed of the defeat, and 300 regular troops were immediately put in march. 1 remained at the Rapids with a single regiment. In justifi- cation of General Winchester, t must observe, that he was forced by the Officers to send a detachment to the Raisin river but whafeier may have been the cause, and however great the calamity, both in respect to the nation and individuals, this check is not irreparable. By the unanimous opinion of the Gencrals and Officers of the Line, I yesterday took this po. sition with the design of making a prompt junction with the troops in the rear, and of covering the precious convoy of artillery and ammunition which is coming frum Under Sand- nscky. If I am riot delayed by the weather, I shall in four or five days be at the Rapids, and 1 will certainly offer the enemy an opportunity of measuring his strength with us in a new contest. In respect to myself, I have no doubt of success, particularly if 1 judge by the dis- position of the troops, and the manner in which they yesterday received my address: besides, the desire of revenging their com- zl- rades, and wiping off the disgrace which has fallen upon their country, is at this moment the predominant passion which entirely occu- pies them. I am as yet ignorant what proportion the prisoners of General Winchester's troops bear to that of -the killed.-The detachment \vas 1000 strong. ( hillicolhc, Feb. 2.—When the affair of the 18tli was announced to General Winchester, who, with the remainder of his division, was at the Rapids, he immediately put himself in march with two hundred and fifty men, to reinforce Colonel Lewis, and take the com mand of the detachment; although the neigh bourhood oflhc enemy, and the facility he possessed of crossing the river, rendered the danger of an attack imminent, he did not, however, (we know not why) take any pre- caution for the safety of the army. We are informed, that the night preceding that fatal morning, General Winchester was lodged in a private house, three quarters of a mile distant from his troops the Officers were lodged in different houses in the neighbourhood, and the. soldiers slept without older in barns and sheep houses. The enemy, probably informed that the American troops kept a had guard, attacked flileiii, it break of day on the 22d, with about 1600 or 1800 Indians, and 2 or 300 riticr,ii ,s!I tflopS, and eight pieces of artillery. The at tack was so sudden, attil, otir troops so com- pletely surprised, thai I he report of the nri tish cannon was the first notice they had of the danger in which they were. The scene of confusion which followed may- more easily he imailled than described. The iyioi-c easi P, Officers could not find their men the greater pari of thelroopu.ollld npt he formed, so that they made very little resistance, if any a small number succeeded in making their es- cane; the remainder were killed or taken pri- soners. The l/nforlunate General Winchester was killed, and mutilated in the most horrible manner by the Indians, who took off the hair of his bead, wilh the scalpel and it is feared that Colonels Lewis and Allen are among the nUlubcr of killed. The evening of the attack, Colonel Wells, apprehensive of the troops of the line foresee- ing the danger to which the detachment was exposed, proceeded itioililste to the Rapids to inform General Harrison of the situation in which it was. The General immediately march- ed to ils succour wilh ■ a reinforcement, but having on the road, learned the intelligence of this unhappy event, he instantly retrograded and retired IS miles oil tlii-i ilic Rapids, after having destroyed a small quantity of pro- visions which he could not carry off Genera! Tupper marched to rejoin General Tiauison., who had some lime been joined by Gencral, Perkins, Listivich, and Crook, wilh their hri- gades. We hope that the disaster occasioned by the imprudence of General Winchester will not maleriallv relard the operations of tliear- mv. The moment is favourable for an attack oil Maiden, in which it is said, all the English vessels now are. If, as we think. Gen. Har- rison has sufficient force to beat the enemy and drive him beyond Maiden vyhilst the rivers aiwl lakes are frozen, the destruction of his marine in this part is inevitable in this case hisuaval superiority would be irrevocably lost.
FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE.
FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE. Foreign Office, J/urch 27, 1813. The following copy of a dispatch from General Viscount-Cathcarf, K. T. his Majesty's Am- bassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary at the Court of Russia, has been received by Vis- count Castlereagh, bis Majesty's Principal Se crctary of State for Foreign Affairs, dated Im- perial Head-Quarters, Kalisti, March 6, IB13. MY LoRD,-Ill answer to the communica- tion of the vote of Parliament for the relief of Isufferei-ii by the late invasion, and of the liberal subscription for the same purpose, the Emperor has desired me to express to his Royal Highness the Prince Regent, that the sympa- thy and cordiality manifested on this occasion by Great Britain towards his people, has made a deep and most satisfactory impression on Ins mind, which will never be effaced and that with these sentiments he accepts for his people what has been so liberally offered, and will take care that the distribution shall be made conformubly to the purpose for which I it is intended. The Emperor has charged me to take the most effectual means lo communicate his thanks and sentiments on this occasion, and I therefore rely on your Lordship's good offices to give effect to this part of his Imperial Ma jesty's intention. I have the honour to be, &c. (Signed) CATHCART.
POLITICAL SUMMARY.
POLITICAL SUMMARY. AMERICA.—AMERICAN papers have arrived I tolhe 24th February. They present us with I an account of another victory obtained by the British arms in Upper Canada. Though the details are short, confused, and imperfect, yet we collect from them that the victory was more decisive than is represented. Theen- gagement, like all others with the Americans by land, was characterised by precipitation and want of subordination. General Harrison, who succeeded Hull in the command of the forces in that quarter, has for some months been collecting troops and evei-y itece.87 sary for the invasion of Upper Canada. His headquarters were on the banks of the Carry- ing R i ver, a branch o f t lie M i a m i. H i s a d v a need guard, under Gen. Winchester, was in a more advanced position. On tlie,2 I st January Gen. Winchester attacked (contrary to orders) the British and Indian force entrenched at file ri. ver Raisiii: it consisted of 300 British and 900 Indians. The American General, after sdme resistance, carried the post; and his troops, conceiving nothing more was left to be done after this achievement, dispersed in order to obtain plunder. In the interim, the British Commander, who had retired in good order, and with scarcely any loss, having re- ceived a reinforcement from Fort Maiden, at- tacked the enemy in his turn, defeated him, and his retreat being rendered impracticable by the Indians, the result was the surrender of the greater part of the surviving force, with its imprudent General (Winchester), Colonel Lewis, Major Garrett, &c. The enemy slate their loss in prisoners only at 700 men, but we should think it much greater. Perhaps the whole cannot be less than 1500. It is rumoured, that proposals of a concilia- tory nature have been made by the Alhcricalls. The following are reported to be the iei-iiis on which thev are willit)- to make i)cice ".J 1. A law to I)e passed hy Congress, under which it will be highly penal to employ British seamen in the ships of the United Slates, whether com- uierciat or iiavil. 2. No British seaman to be in future naturaliz-' ed by (tie existing taws of citizenship, obtained'' by residence, and an Act to be passed, to exclude such persons from the-operation of the Inw. 3. A negociatiou to be entered -into regarding tile ;iiiii' A'iiiei,i(,,Iil men, reciprocally claimed by'the two countries. rr-N L mail arrived on Wednesday from Corti III) -Cifftl.(!Il i with his division, and Caiubron, wilh the I.,ii per:, ,i I'' C. iiilr(li, said to have marched for France.—Joseph Bonaparte had left Madrid, and was at Valla- dolld on the 2d instant, about to proceed to Francc-Mina is said to have taken Tafalio, wilh 300 men who garrisoned it.-The French were fortifying Hilboa, and had collected 16,000 men in for what purpose it was not known. In an action wilh tonga on t, the i lib of Feb ruary, the French are staled to I have lost 800 men. NORTHERN WAit.-Tlic entry of the Rus- sians into Bedi non the 4th inst. is confirmed, and it is said that there was a Prussian force in pursuit of Beauharnois. The Prussian Gen. D'York, has been constituted Governor of Berlin. The Saxon territory had been entered by the Russians, as the dominions of an ene- my, in consequence of the King of Saxony's declaration, that he would not depart from his alliance wilh Buonaparte. We arc gratified to record a gallant exploit by a detachment of the Russian army before Dantzic, against a strong body of French troops, which had made a sally from the garrison, to procure provisions, of which, it would seem, there is some deficiency, notwithstanding what has been boasted of the abundance wilh which the city was supplied. III the onset, the sortie was successful against the Russian outposts; but a rapid movement of a body of Cossacks upon the rear of Ihe enemy, changed the for- tune of the enterprise, and the whole division was killed, wounded, or captured not a man returned to Daulzic. -w-
OPENING OF AIR- PITTS MONUMENT…
OPENING OF AIR- PITTS MONUMENT jT GUILDHALL. On Saturday last, the Right Hon. George Can- ning, Lord Granville Leveson Gower, the Hon. Charles Bagot, H. Bankes, Esq. M. P. and Charles Ellis, Esq. :1\1. P. met the Committee of the Corporation of London, at Guildhall, and attended, with the, the opening of the Monu- ment erected to the memory of the Right Hon. William pitt The hall was much crowded,not only from the notice which had been given of the openin.» of tfie monument, but from the great number of persons attending the Commissioners of Bankrupts and when the temporary covering of the monument was lowered, so as to admit the head of Mr. Pitt to be seen, a seeming anx- iety was spreSd over the whole Hall, and the ut- most silence prevailed but when the covering was entirely removed, and the whole monument was displayed,one general aclamation of applause burst forth.
DESCRIPTION OF THE MONUMENT.
DESCRIPTION OF THE MONUMENT. The massy substance on which the figures in this composition are placed, is intended to repre- sent the island of Great Britain and tfie surround- ing waves. On an elevation, in the centre of the island, Mr. Pitt appears in his robes, as Chan- cellor of the Exchequer, in the attitude of a public orator. Below him, on an intermediate foreground, two statues characterise his abilities while,with the national energy,which is embodied, and riding on a symbol of the ocean in the lower centre, they assist, to describe allusively the ef- fects of his Administration. Apollo stands on his right, impersonating eloquence and learning Mercury is introduced on his left, as the repre- sentative of commerce aiul the patron of policy. To describe the unprecedented spiendour of suc- cess which crowned the British Navy while Mr. Pitt was Minister, the lower part of the monu- ment is occupied by a statue of Britannia, seated triumphantly on a sea-horse in her left hand is the usual emblem of naval power and her right grasps a thunderbolt, which she is prepared to hui] against the enemies of her country. The inscription, written by Mr. Canning, is clear and nervous. It is as follovs, WILLIAM PITT, Son of William Pitt, Earl of Chatharri, Inheriting the genius and formed by the precepts of his Father, Devoted himself from his early years to the ser- — vice of the State. Call'd to the chief conduct, of the Administration after the close of a disastrous war, He repaired the exhausted Revenues, he revived and invigorated the Commerce and Prosperity of the Country. And he had re-established the Public Credit on deep and sure foundation When a new war was kindled in Europe, more formidable than any preceding war from the peculiar character of its dangers. To resist the arms of France, which were direct- ed against the Independence of every Govern- ment and People To animate other Nations by the example of Great Britain To check the contagion of opinions which tended to dissolve the frame of Civil Society To array the loyal, the sober-minded, and the good, in defence ot the venerable Constitution, of the British Monarchy, Were the duties which, at that awful crisis, de- volved upon the British Nlitiister And which he discharged with transcendant zeal, intrepidity, and perseverance He upheld the National Honor abroad he main- tained at home the blessings of Order and of true Liberty And, in the midst of difficulties and perils, He united and consolidated the strength, power, and resources of the Empire. For these high purposes, He was gifted by Divine Providence with en- dowments, Rare in their separate excellence, and wonderful in their combination Judgment imagination memory wit; force 8f acuteness of reasoning Eloquence, copious and accurate, commanding and persuasive, And suited from its splendour to the dignity of his iiiiii(I *,iii(i to the authority of his station; A lofty spirit a mild and ingenuous temper. Warm and stedfast in friendship,towards enemies he was forbearing and forgiving His industry was not relaxed by confidence in his great abilities. His indulgence to others was not abated by the consciousness of his own superiority. His ambitfcn was pure-from--all selfish motives The love of power and the passion for fame were in him subordinate to views of public utility Dispensing for near twenty years the favours of the Crown, lIe lived without ostentation and he died poor. A GR \TEFUL NATION Decreed to hi III those funeral honours Wliicli are reserved for eminent and extra- ordinary men. THIS MONUMENT Is erected by the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Council, To record the reverend and affectionate regret With which the City of London cherishes his memory And to hold out to the imitation of posterity "Those principles of public and private virtue Which ensure to nations a solid greatness, And to individuals an imperishable name. Mr. Canning, Lord G. L. Gower, the Hon. C. Bagot, Mr. Bankes, and Mr. Ellis, with William Huskisson, Esq. M. P.and Robt. Percy Smith, Esq. afterwards partook of an elegant entertain- ment, provided by order of the Committee, at the Albion Tavern, in Aldersgate-strcet.
EARL GROSVENOR AND LORD KENYON
EARL GROSVENOR AND LORD KENYON The following correspondence has taken-place between Lord Grosvenor and Lord Kenyon, on the subject of the charges made by the latter in the House of Lords, that the former had used an un- due influence in procuring signatures to the peti- tion from the county of Flint, in favor of the Catholics. (COPY.)-NO. I. TO I' OltD KENYON. Eaton Hall, March 8th, 1813. MY LORo-When I wrote to you yesterday, ( thought I might have an early opportunity of no- ticing in Parliament what you stated respecting the Flintshire Petition, in too public and marked a i-naniier to be overlooked by me but as that opportunity may be too long protracted, I cannot delay callitig upon you ror an explanation of what you are represented to have said in the House of Lords. My unavoidable absence was certainly not a sufficient reason to silence any comments you were disposed to make on the Petition, when actually presented, at the same time it called for particular circumspection in making remarks of a personal nature and I trust I am not to un- derstand, that you meant to insinuate, that I au thorised my agents to offer any thing likea threat to inrtuce those in my employ, or any at all con- nected wi-th me, to sign the Petition. It seems, however, that your Lordship has charged my agents with having used threats of a serious na- ture towards two individuals. They deny the fact, and conclude this idle report originated from the circumstance of a person having conducted himself very improperly in the office, where the Petition had been left for signatures and on ac- count of such indecent behaviour, and not for the cause mentioned by your Lordship, he was told he would be dismissed, but afterwards he apolo. gised, and was excused but to make the matter perfectly clear, I must request your Lordship will, without delay, state your authority for such charge, in justice both to those in my employ, and to myself. 1 need hardly add, that if the accusation proves true, I shall express my strong disapprobation of such conduct, on the part of my agents. Your Lordship seems to have over- looked, that the Petition, both to the Lords and Commons, was signed by many highly respectable names, that are in no remote degree depfodeut t me, and I have the satisfaction of knowing at the signatures were all genuine, which can- It he said of many that were presented from (fferent parts of the country against the Catho I claims to obtain which, t know the most dgraceful means were but too frequently resort- etto, I have the honor to be, my Lord, your Lrdship's very obedient servant, GROSVENOR. (COPY.)—NO. II. TO EARl, GROSVEIVOR. 9, Portman-sqiiare, March 10th. (tv CORD—After your letter of yesterday, I anno little surprised at that with which I am to da honored but am now, and shall be on all oeisious, ready to state any fact, or authenticate an expiessions attributed to me. It would as- sutilly afforded me much pleasure had your LoJship presented the Flintshire Counter Peti- tioi in person and I am glad you acknowledge fha I coutd not do otherwise than make the re- maps which I thought truth demanded, on its bei presented. My information was from se- vera quarters ihe names of the individuals your >" Lortfhipwill not t'xpect me to disclose; but from the ttelings you express, namely, 14 if the accu- sation proves true, I shall express my strong disapprobation of such conduct on the part of my Agents," I do not hesitate to state, that two per- sons, Thomas Davies and .Tosiah Redfern, po- silivelj refused Edwards, the Agent at Hatkin, fo sign what they conceived to be so hostile to to sign what they conceived to be so hostile to their principles, and adduced in defence of their determination, the spirit of persecution, which had always influenced those Governments which held the tenets of the Roman Church, and urged also theIr fears lest the destructive calamities of Mary's reign, should be again realized by the readinission of Papists into power. "Rdwards replied, probably such calamities might never occur in their times but it did novsignify, they must euher sign or quit Lord Gr/ enor's em- pteyfflaent." I should be glad if your Lordship would point out in your place in the House of Lords, or to me, many highly respectable names contained in your Counter Petition. I am in- formed there are very few indeed who are not under votis- Lordship's influence but having been informed only of the conduct of your Agents, I applied my remarks only to them, and should disdain to insinuate what I did not feel called upon to assert. The description of persons sign- ing a Counter Address, and ihe mode by which they were induced to sign, I should have beeq unworthy the honor of presenting the County Address,.had I not stated to the House of Lords. I have the honor to be, your Lordship's very obedient servant, KENYON. (COPY.)-NO. III. Eaton Hall, March 14, 1813. My Lord-On the receipt of your Lordship's letter, I immediately went to Halkin, for the purpose of making the necessary inquiries relative to the charges against my agent, Edw irds, for his conduct to Josiah Redfern and Thos. Davies and I have the satisfaction of sending you the following copies of declarations, voluntarily made and signed by them. The originals are in my possession. Halkin, March 13, 1813. I, JOSIAH REDF ERN, do hereby declare, that no threatening whatever was made to me, by either of Lord Grosvenor's agents, for not signing The Petition of the county of Flint, in favour of the Catholics that 1. went to Edward Edwards' office of my own accord,and objected to the Petition. Edward Edwards requested of me to read it, which I refused; in consequence of my refusing to read the Petition,Edward Edwards made use of harsh expressions towards me, and [ was discharged from the mines in two days af- terwards. I went to Edwards'office, and request- ed leave to sign the Petition. Edward Edwards said then I should, not sign unless I would first read it; and if I could state any objections to it, he would not wish me to sign. I am no tenant of Lord Grosvenor's. The above statement I am willing to verify by affidavit, if required. JOSIAH REDFERN. Halkin. March 13, 1813. 1, THOMAS DAVIES, do hereby declare, that- no threatening whatever was made to me by either of Lord Grosvenor's ageuta, for withhold- ing-my sanction to the Petition in favour of the Cathotics from the county of Flint, and that I amno,tenant of Lord'Grosvenor's. THOMAS DAVIES, Witness, JOSIAH REDFERN, his 'A mark. The following is a Copy of a Declaration made and signed by my agents:— ¡, Halkin, March 13, ISIS. We, EDWARD EDWARDS and PETER JON ES, agents to the Earl Grosvenor, do hereby declare, that no threatening was made by either of us to any person whatever, for withholding his sanction to the Petition in favonr Of the Ca- tholics, from the county of Flint; and that Lord Kenyon's statement in the House of Lords, relat- ing to that business, is totally erroneous. EDWARD EDWARDS. PETER JONES. Redfern, I find turns out to he the person men- tioned in my former letter, whose misbehaviour, and not refusal to sign had been the cause of his temporary disaiissioi) and which, it was rightly conjectured, had given rise to the idle report that had been, with so much zeal, conveyed to your Lordship. After the fullest investigation of the affair, I am persuaded not only that no threats, but that no undue influence, was used by my agents to induce any in my employ to sign that Counter, Petition. Many of them I find would not sign, and on their declining to do so,no comment was made upon the subject. But it would be injustice to my agents not to mention a circumstance that occurred, as striking, perhaps, as that in Redfern's declara- tion of Edwards insisting that he should not sign the Petition till he had read and fully considered it, wl)icli was, that some miners having expres- sed a wish to sign the Counter Petition, had been persuaded not to do so by my agents, lest they should incur the displeasure of their landlord, who, it appeared, had pointedly interfered to prevent them. Upon the whole, your Lordship will clearly perceive, .that you have been much imposed on by some officious persons, in regard to the Conduct of my agents. You seem still, I think, to doubt the respect. ability flf the signatures. You do not, I flatter myselUitean to imply, that if even all of them had been actually those of persons in my employ, or connected with me, that they might not, there- fore, be respectable but for the rest. ■' tustadd, that although I have never seen the signatures, I speak from undoubted authority, when I say, that to one or other of the Counter Petitions win be found the names of Sir Thomas Mostyn, Sir W. W. Wynn, Sir Edward Price Lloyd, Mr. Douglas, and others, who will not, I think, be classed by your Lordship among my dependents. The Counter Petition was circulated but in few places, with a view chiefly of shewing that the county of Flint was very far from being unani- mous in its hostility to the Catholic Claims, al- though great pains had been taken to make it so. As your Lordship's charges have been so point- edly and so publicly made, and as silence, on my part might be construed into an acquiesence ia the justness of your remarks, I can have no he. sitation in making this refutation as public also. I have the honor to be, my Lord, Your hoitfship's very obedient servant, GROSVENOR.