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, MIMI 41ME111CA. FROM THE FRONTIER. ,s From Sackett's Harbour we learn, that the Bets& squadron had eluded Chauncey's vigilance, and got . into Kingston. The . Commodore had been in port, • and sailed again early on Saturday morning. From Buffalo we have a letter, dated' the 17th : it states,` that on the 14th Major Chapin, with about thirty volunteers, went, to Point-Abino, on the • British. side of Lake Erie, where they landed and continued the Oity whole day, making tik7rkidns into the country several miles: They brought ftf barrels of flour, and a bale of blankets, belon.gtng t ioAe British Government. Colonel Dawson, Aide-&4.ainpto General Wilkin sont.had been at Buffqii antlkettl a Secret Cobncil with, the Indians, and it wartiaslevitood that the In dians had agreed to crotk i 4gain into Canada, to aid our army in a general attack i kaon the enemy, which it was expected would take ptitte.soen, as every thing seemed to warrant such a donclesion. • NEW YORK, SErtglaiTht" . We learn, by a Gentledtan who 'arrived here yes terday, in the steam-boat, that rill . SaturdaY the 18th, Commodore Chauncey, with' Milker, leg Sackett's. Harbour with about forty open boats, ancf on Monday afternoon he passed Pultneyville. We ( 9rther learn,: that all our cannon had been brotighover to the American side from Fort George - and, it was re ported at Canandaigna, on Wednesday the' d,. that the American troops bad all left Fort GeOrge, and had arrived at Fort Niagara. It was supposed the whole of the American fOrce was destined for King ston. Six sloops from New York, foul of troops, had arrived at Greenbush, and were still on board die sloops as late as nine o'clock on'Tuesday morning. NEW YORK, OCTOBER 2. [LATZST 'FROM NEW LONDON.] Captain Burrows, of the sloop Fox, in twenty-four hours from New London s informs, that Commodore Decatur's squadron had not removed from their an) chorage, six miles above the city. Of courfe, the rumour of last evening, that ,the Commod , re had brought the frigates down to New London, was, like most of the rumours of the day, altogether incorrect. Captain Burrows also informs us, that at three o'clock yesterday morning he passed the Valiant, 74, and two brigs, at anchor off New London light-house. He passed also the Acasta and Atalante, off Black Point. . —On Wednesday a small sloop from the eastward was captured by a British tender, off New London ; • and, on Saturday last, a schooner and a sloop were ca,- :wed and burnt. The Diana and Jane, from Buenos Ayres to Greenock, and two other vessels, have been captured by the United States frigate Con gress, and destroyed, except the Diana, which was given up, after being partly dismantled, and having some of her cargo thrown overboard. EVACUATION OF FORT GEORGE. A letter received in town yesterday, by the Editor s dated Canandaigiie, September '22, mentions that a convoy of transports had sailed from Niagara, to take on bo.,rd troops at Fort George. It is probable they are destined io co-operate in an attack upon Kingston. FROM LAKE CHAMPLAIN. COPY OF A LETTER FROM THOMAS AIACOONOUGH. ESQ. comNIANDING THE UNITED %TATES NAVAL FORCEON . LAKE CHAMPLAIN: " United State. sloop President, near Plattsburg, Sept. B. •II Ste-1 have the honour to inform you, that I arrived heie yesterday.frotn near the lines, having sailed from Burlington ea the eth instant, with an intention to tall its with the enet.sy, who were then near this place. Having proceeded to within a short distance of the lines, 1 received itsformat , on that they were at . anchor, soon after, they weighed and stool to the northward. nut of the I ake—thus, if not acknowledging our ascendancy on the Lake, tvincing an unwillingnets (although they bad the advan; cage of situation, owing to the narrowue,s of rise channel in which their galleys could work, when we should want room) to deter mine it.-1 have the honour, lac. "Taros. Macaw :woo." *, Hon. W. Jones, Secretary of the Navy." HALIFAX PAPERS. PRINCE Euwa RD IsLawo, Oct. 2.—lt is with regret we learn, that his Majesty's brig Bold, Capt. Skekil, Commander, was ''riven on shore by a strong north east gale, near the North Cape of this island, on Monday morning last, between the hours of duce and four o'clock. The Commander and Surgeon arrived at this place on "rhursday, by whom we arc informed* that the officers and crew, to the number of 67, were with much difficulty saved, but it is feared that the vessel would be entirely lost. The Agnes transport that arrived on Sunday last with ordnance stores for this garrison, is ordered round to her assistance, and his Lxcellency .Lieutenant Governor Smith has also given instructions for procuring ,the best assistance from the town, and the neighbouring settlements, to get the vessel off, if practicable, or, if not, .to save sileh of her stores as the circumstances of her situa tion may afford. Stlii-L3uRNE, OCTOBER 10.—A contrary wind has efiven into this harbour the American privateer scf.oomr Portsmouth Packet, of six guns and forty men, (late the celebrated Liverpool Packet), captur ed on the sth inst. by his Majesty's brig Fantome, Captain Lawrence, off Mount Desert, and ordered for Halifax. Mich praise is due to Capt. Lawrence !Cy this capture, for his judicious manoeuvres in de coying this singularly mischievous vessel, thereby relieving the mercantile interest from an enemy, as formidable by her great qualities; of sailing, &c. as any privateer ever yet sent to sea. Moserttem., SEPTEMBER 11.—The enemy's troops at. Stirlington, it is said, have made considerable imiTiem,:nts for the week past ; their numbers have been augmented by a regiment sent on front Green bush, and reports say they have crossed over from Burlington to •Plattsburg ab .ut '2OOO men. The American officers are said to speak positively of tak ing _Montreal for winter quarters. The American piquet guard taken at Fort George on the 24th ult. arrived here on Wednesday. At the end nflast week the American regular troops at f,turlington consisted of 61100 effective n.ei ; a regimenr was sent to Platts- _ burgh, and the whole were in motion to menace this province. They speak positively of attacking Isle auk N.oix. The number of British ; prisoners in Greenbush was not three hundred, including officers. This intelligence we have from theasest authority.— Lasst week, ten soldiers (Frenchmen) deserted from Mearon's regiment, stationed at Chambly, and pro-, ces i ded owa;ds the lines, with their arms and aecou tressents, WI, is_ full uniform. They compelled a pot* Outwit** to conduct them, and threatened him with death if be refused. A party of the 13th regi mein, With an . Officer of Matron's, pursued and over-, took them, not forty roods from the lines. The vil- . I J • A • 1 • 1 ( I t r • . •jetty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Bri. tain and Ireland, Robert Stewart, Viscount Castle- ADS, NOVEMBER te. reagh, a Privy Councillor, and one of his Majesty's ten in the morning, 14d orde- Principal Secretaries of State ; and his Majesty the :ice of the LORD CRAkcmcia Emperor of All the Russias the Count de Lieven, judicial business of the day should Lieutenant General of Ms Armies, his Aide-de-Camp ck. General, his Ambassador Extraordinary and Plen- Stewart v. Hall end another," potentiary to his Britannic Majesty, Knight of ilie Ni sit ' with some alteration. Order of Sr. Alexander Newsky, of St. G e or re et ta an l Appeal from Scotland, " the Lord Advo. the fd class, Grand Cross of Sr.. Vlodimir of the no eitte v. Mackenzie and another," Mr. Adam and class, of St. Anne of the Ist class, Commander of St. Me. Nolin were heard for the Appellant,. and Sir S. John of Jerusalem. Knight of the Prussian Orders of Romilly for the Respondents.—Further hearing on the Black and Red Eagles, and Commander Grand Monday. Cross of the Swedish Order of the Sword, who, at. r At two o'clock, the House adjourned dusing plea- exchanging their respective full powers, ;, - otoid to sure; and the Lord Chancellor went to the Court of in due and proper form, have agreed upon the fi !- Exchequer, to attend the Council for the nomination lowing Ankles : of Sheriffs. Art. I. His Britannic Majesty etlrges to propo.• The *llse resumed at a quarter before four, and to his Parliament to authorise the issue of these bill: there being no other business, adjourned ia a sew mi• of credit, for the benefit of their Majesties the Empe• , flutes till Monday. • ror of AU the Russias and the King of Prussia. for HOUSE OF COMMONS. die sum of two millions and a . half sterling. or of lf. millions of Prussia . n thalers, of the denomination. anu • Lord CASTLEREAGH moved for an Account of the 1 weig h t 1764., and of this sum there shall be furnish . effective Strength of the Military Force of this coun- led rob one million of Prussian thalers, until i try during . the last ten ynrs—diseioguishing British three months after the signature of a gen era l p eace , from Foreign Troops, and Militia f r om Regulars. in case that it should take place befo re t h e w h o l e o f Also, the Number of Troops raised for the British the said sum shall be put in circulation. and Colonial Corps by the ordinary mode of recruit- The value of each bill shall be specified therein ing, and by recruiting from the Militia, during the simultaneoully in Prussian dialers and in Spani sh samr period.--Qrdered. On his motion there was els() ordered dollars, at the rate of one dollar for a chale t a n d a , hall. The formula shall be the same as that ehich to be laid before' the House, an Account of the Ca. is annexed to the present instrument. The manufac sualties for the last ten years. and an Account of the lure of these bills shall be executed exclusively by the Recruits raised during the present year. . British Goveinment as soon as possible; they shall The Annual Indemnity illß was read a first time, beuaranteed by law, end reimbursement thereOf and ordered to be read a second time on I.lnnday. • , slim be made in specie, to take place place one month - Mr. ARBUTHNOT moved, The. the - sum of ten mil. i a f ter t he ratification of,a general peaty. lions five hundred thousand pounds, and of five ntil• / I. T wo.t hi r d s pf the sum so issued each month lions seven hundred thousand pounds , be granted to shall be furnished to his Majesty the Knipertir of All his Majesty, to take up the Exchequer Bills outstan- the Russias, for the service of his aysny I and the ding under the Acts of last Session.—Agreed to. other third tu his Majesty the' King of liussia, for . The House then resumed, and the Report was ors the service of his army. This issue dull be computed tiered to be received to-morrow. liorn the 3d ( isth) of Juge at the current year; so WAYS AND MEANS, that his Britannic 'Majesty eager% to place at the The House then resolved itself into a Committee disposal of th eir Majesties, the Emperor and Itiog, of Ways and Means ; and the annual taxes on Malt, for the first instalment, as many millions of thalers la Pensions, Land, Sugar, and Tobacco, were granted there shall have been months elapsed since the Sd towards raising the supply. ( lath) of June last, and thereafter a millicn each The CHANCELLOR of the Eactieoute said, that the month, until the issue of the )8 millions 'of dialers, r c onsistingl tax on }aga r at present of three distinct' in —before - specified, shall be completed. THE MUNICIPAL/TY OF VALENCIENNES, TO HER MA. I duties, was productive of great inconvenience. aAt 111. These bills of credit s h a ll b e i ssued b y m a. present alwthe drawbacks on sugar exported Were ,lE4TY THE EMPRESS QUEEN AND REGENT. lions of thalers, separately classed and n . aMbeget n''' charged on the Consolidated Fund, which caused an " MADAME—The City of Valenciennes, which has cording to the date of their isspe t and each million apparent diminution of that fund, and a correspon always manifested its zeal for the country, and itssell be divided into series subdivided ieto He ra dent increase on the sugar duties. This, though of love for its Sovereigns, cannot be deaf to the appeal .. in such inflater 01.4 the bius will exhibit the date of no disadvantage t o the Public, produced a prejuat- of your Imperial and Royal Majesty. It has not yet th e month ip which they shall have been issued, the vial inaccuracy in. the accounts. He therefore gave forgotten that it stopped the career of the coalesce d notice, that he should, d uring thep resent Session specification of the million of which they form a part, armies during an entire campaign, and the efforts . remedy propose some measure to these de f ects. that were then made will be again repeated. This . -as their numbers in that series. MILITIA SERVICE BILL. oath they take on the restored reaches b of their im- No bills shall be manufactured of a lower amount I Sir EDWARD Ki:Arciformt., seeing a Noble Lord pregnable ramparts. than 100 Prussian thalers. .. I (Castlereagh) in the House,• wished to ask, What 66 May your Imperial and Royal Majesty monde- IV. Commissioners shall be named on the part of Militia of the scend to be persuaded of the profound devotion of the would be the date of the co m m i ss i on the High Contracting Parties urm the Continent. Officers who were to be adm it te d i ilto t he their I ` I who . inhabitants of this city, and of the desire they feel to'shall be charged to direct dm err Ola. tion - pf-slle 1 Troops—whether the same as that of I itta : add son in conformity with the principles estab. acquire a secure and honourable peace. „ commissions, or - whether they were to commerce % she by the resent Convention—these Com:W*o. (Signed) " Beskirr, Mayor, tee. 1 . 1 f rom the time of their joining the regular forces ? ! THE MUNICIPALITY Or SARLAT TO HER MASILSIIt OINS shall be chosen, is preference* from the PERMIT* Lord CASTLEREAGH said this subject would not be . cis! clas s; THE EMPRESS QUEEN AND REGENT. when embodied in the Bill, as it came within the preroga.they shah be directed losoncert together " Mamma—Frenchmen cannot be ipon all the Assorts which they may think useful insensible w " a rive of the Crown. What the regulation on the sub. their Prince, their country; and their h.nour calls .ect would be, he was nOt eared exacti for the creek of th e paper in question ; and the cheat. The The memorable sentiments Which your Ma. J .y to sa y ' sian and Prussian Commissioners to whom the above this he could say, that the dates of these commissions mentioned bills shall be furnished, will be particelarli jesty has expressed in the Senate have penetrated our in the Regulars would not be the acme -as those of roams IsQ a, hearts, and we desire to prostrate ourselves at the ,_ e---'-- 1 - • • foot of that throne which has been founded by your t' comm is s ion s or t he "a. officers it} I I T M ili C ia ' to prevent their falling into 'discredit. INSOLVENT DEBLOBS IN THE ISLE Of MAY. :Mgt/St spouse, and on which your virtues reflect ad. V. These bills of credit shall not bear interest, but Mr. HORNER said, he held in his band a fletitidn ditional.lustre. a general office shall be opened in such towns of the similar to four or five which he had before presented, " France will never descend from the high state of , - . . . North of Germany, as the British Government, with .. not only from t h e same boas! of persons. but from the glory to which she has been elevated by the splendid . the concurrence of the Courts of Russia and Prussia, i same i n di v iduals — the insolvent Debtors in the Ile of her Emperor. She will never receive lawsshall point out for that purpose, where the holders of of Man. The case of these persons was certainly .om e nfr stranaer • but if we should be threatened by ' each bill shllll be admitted to fund them at 'six r :3 I hard, as they were excluded from the bene fi ts which sent . • - __- dolga. Into stook. io rs a such peril we are anxious to contribute with our lives . nt. ; t h at is to say, to convert persons in a similar situation received under the In fortum s to her defence. fund of six per Cent.; the registry of which shall he ' solvent Acts in this country. It had been said, that +' Such, Madame, are our sentiments and those of kept in the same manner .as' is that of the English the . Ins t il .7 _Legislature was . the proper body to . apply our feliow.subjects for whom we appear . We implorenational debt, in the books of the Bank of E!ifiland ; ~ relief to ....is case • and, in consequence a Bill had or, your Majesty to condecend to receive this bumble 1 a t the choke Of the holders of the said In actually passed that body, and bad been traesmit- e.' Dlis, declaration + f our hearts. • -- len - Mfbeilitl M, • - a- ' six - cent. lains titsolutely time assisted by torn fired, killed three of theft SIPTIMUR 14h dons oa the part . balm been perceirPd that a considerable >MS. Tlattsburg, kis !hulling - ton, were advancing in the same direction; from the in telligence we received yesterday, the number of regu lars on this expedition is estimated at 6,000, and that their movements strongly indicate an attack 011 our lines. If this divercion of the enemy is contem plated, as is supposed, to distract our attention ; and by that means weaken our force in the. Upper Pro vince, so as to enable him to effect his object in that quarter, we have every reason to hope he will be mis. taken, and that with the force now on our lines, and _with the militia, which may be immediately collected, he- will have more cause to repent this second alarm than he had be first which he occasioned us last fail, and where he was satisfied with being frightened into precipitate retreat. SICILr. . , Morn; of a letter from a Noblemakof high rank in Sicily', `dated Palermo, September.. 14, 1813. " The . Parliament proceeds vigorously. The Oppo sition. takes the lead. The Prince Belmonte and Prince Villamosa, with all the Ministers, have been displaced,- because they were favouring their own views instead of those of the ration. The Prince St. AntOnino, Duke of Anjou, Is at the head of the Op position in the House of Lords, to whose bar it is in tended to call the Prince Villamosa, late Minister of Finances, to render his accountL The Commons have decreed, that the nation cannot bear the weight of the 60,0u0 dollars, which the Old Government as signed as ?n annual pension to the Duke of Orleans, and therefore that the payment should be stopped, and only the interest upon the Duchess's fortune at seven per cent. per 'annum be given to him. This has been a great Wow, because the Duke is of the Prince. Belmonte's party. We have completely triumphed, and the English Constitution, with some modifications, will prevail in Sicily." FRANCE. (Signed) " BOUITANUE." ted to the Privy Count , here for the royal assent. — He wished to ask his 'tight Hon. Friend oppoiite to him (Mr. Vansittart) what was the reason that these unfortunate persons had not received the benefit of this Bill ? The CHANCELLOR of the EXCUEQUER espres . sed hint. self unable, at that time, to answer the question o(the Hon. Gentleman. The Petition was brought up,. and ordered to lie on the table. MILtTiA SERVICE BILL. The Militia Service Bill was brought in, and read a first time, and ordered to be read - a second time to-morrow. 'Lord Carn.ruzacu said, that he should move qn Monday that the Bill he citmmitted, in order to fill up the blanks. To facilitate the progress of the Bill, he should postpone the notice he had given respect. ing the Subsidies from Monday to Wednesday. The Local Token Bill wept through a commit tee.—Adjourned. *Tips English interest, registered and numbered . The English Commiesionets upon the Continent shall be directed to keep this registry, of which a duplicate shall be lett every month to England, for the security of the parties interested. VI, The interest of the bills funded and eouverted into a six per cent. stock, or into Debentures, as stat ed in Article V. shall be payable every six months, in whatever city of the North of Germany his 4hi tannic Majesty's Commiesiooers shall point ou4 for that purpos e , to commence from themonth following that of the ir being deposited in the general office.— The payment of this interest, as well as the rem- Alinement of the capital, shell be made in one or rather of the coins herein before specified in Art. I. The bills which shall neither have been registered 1601` funded before the signature of the Preliminaries of Peace, shall be entitled to an interest of half per cent. per sepath, to commence from the period of the said signatere, until that of their reimbursement. VII. The reisnbureetnent of the whole of the fif teen millions thalen of bills of credit, which his Bri tannic Majesty takes upon himself, shall be made as is specified in Article I. in specie, either in Prussian 'balers, according teitlie Tar? ff of 1764, or in Spanish dollars, at the rate of one Prussian dialer and a half for each dollar, at the proportion of cue milliOn of thalers per month, to commence from the month fol lowing the ratifieation of a general peace. The reimbursement of these bills shall be made in the manner following t—First ; the Funded Bills ac cording to the nrder of their subsceiption, and then the monthly bills not funded, according to the date of their issue, so that the reimbursement shall be completed in fifteen months. This reimbursement, as well as the payment of the interest, shall take place in such cities on the Continent as shall be pointed out for that purpose. In the event, which Goo forbid, of the state of peace, fixed for the period of reimbursement, being disturbed'afresh before the entire completion of such reimbursement, the payment Sha ll not thereby be in. tempted. VIII. His Britannic Majesty reserves to himself the right of anticipating, as he may think proper, the period of reimbursement, as well of the six per cent. sock, ai of the bills not converted into that stock. Done at London, this 18th (30th) of Septean,bch in the year of our Lord, 1813. (Signed) . CASTLFAIZAGII. COMTZ DE LI.EVEN. STATE PAPER. SUPPLEMENTARY CONVENTION TO THE 71ir•ATT OF CONCERT AND SUBSIDY OF THE 15TH OF JUNE ; lBl3, BETWEEN HIS BRITANNIC MAJNIITY AND HIE MAJESTY THE EMPEROR OF ALL Till RUSSIAN SIGNED AT LOW' boN, THE 90TH OF SEPT. 181 3. In the Name of the Mon Holy and Undivided Trinity, The scarcity of specie producing difficulties and considerable loss in furnishing the pecuniary succours which his Britannic Majesty is desirous of furnirkOing to his Allies, to assist them in supporting the ex pences of the war with France, it has been agreed between his Majesty the King of the United King. dom of Great Britain and Ireland on the one hand, and their Majesties the Emperor of All the Russia:, and the King of Prussia on the other, that a part of these succours shall be furnished by aid of the public credit of Great Britain, and under the form of bills of credit, exclusively applical i sle to the expences of the war, and to be reimbursed in specie on the terms • and conditions hereinafter stipulated. • In consequence and in execution of the fourth Ar ticle of the Convention, Concluded at Reichenbach, , on the Sd (15th) June of the present year, his Ma jesty the King of the %.Inited Kingdom of Great Bn., taut and Ireland, and his Majesty the Emperor of All the Russias, have named their Plenipotentiaries, to conclude the presiiit Convention, namely, his Ma- fired on the patty which Was at that PAIRLIAMENTA y the Militia. The porgepstla *la d foot of the deserters, - ifialertauschd HOME OF LOR. the :mailing three escaped. ) The House met at ten 14.—We understand that demon*. r d, pusuant to the notic rt of the' enemy, on our own frontier & yesterday, that the judici irpd within these few days past; sad terminate at two o'clock. able body of his troops baa arrived at In the Appeal a Ste , n Burlington, and that other divisions judgment was affirmed, • FRENCH FINANCES. The 'direct and it:direct Contributions, and other Livres. Revenue,. estimated for the year 1811, esti mated at - - 900,000,000 Only produced - - - - 957.000,000 The estimate for IRI 2 was • 1,051 , 1,0W:on And only produced, according to appearance - 992,5u0,0U0 That ot this sum there remained due 111,5204147 francs Leaving a deficit of • 37,500,000 The estimate for the year 1813 is - - 1,150,000.000 Which is somewhat under at 48,000,000 sterling, and this includes the whole expence of war, civil establish ments, church, and poor, with a population of at least three times the extent of our United Kingdom. The actual receipt for 1812 was not ascertained when the last budget was opened by the Duke de Gaete ; but he took the probable produce as above. 'The falling off from the estimate wag in th e dimi. nution of the profits on the sale of snuff and tobacco, on the sale of the woods, and some other branches of revenue. , 'rite diminution in the receipts arising from the mo. nopoly of our colonial produce was not included, causebe it had nut then affected the receipts. The monopoly of tobJeco arm estknated to pro duce - • - - T0,,000,nc And only produced - - • 40,000p00 The woods which in 1809 produced - - 56,235,978 In 1812 produced but - - - - 34,000,000 But the great deficit to be expected in 1813 will come from the Ordinary and Extraordinary Duties of Citstoess, by the interruption of the Licence Trade, and which, in 1812, were taken at 14.0,000,000. The benefit of which was not confined to the actual re. ceipt of the Customs, but by which a vent was given to the produce and manufactures of France, to enable the people to pay the direct contributions. These have not yet fallen off, since, by the rigour of the collection, whenever an arrear occurs, a prosecution follows, and the lands or goods are seized. It fol lows, however, that, as a stop is • put to the sale of those_luxuries, the product of France, for which all na tions can find substitutes, the great sources of French revenue may be entirely interrupted, until the people shall return to the just feeling of a due respect to the rights of others. % I