Star. — London, England, 1813-12-22 00:00:00

- w7r s i the English itessii#.Eniegin g osi the coast • that the halite's - hate Weft burnt ; the chttichet *blued anti destroyed. It appears that the Officeri, animated by the pre- Setice Of Admiral Cockburn, particularly distinguish. ed themselves on this occasion ; and that they were impelled by the united motives of avarice and Yea: geinee, dot contented with appropriating to them selves articles of value, they destroyed all that could not gratify their insatiable cupidity. It has been *fledged, to excuse these acts of stupid cruelty, that a vessel sent on shore by the Admiral, had been re keited by a discharge of musketry from the American Militia. The documents prove that this is false. This pretext has been found out to palliate a conduct ivbich no circurnstanc:. can justify. The Commissioners, fully con#inced that no per. Son; tither of this nation or of any other, can read without lively sentiments of indignation and horror the bare recital of all the shameful' violations of ho nour, justice,• and humanity, of which our enemies have been guilty, abstain from making any reflections on the thicuments which demOnstrate their alithenti tit y ; and let no one think of palliating these shameful adioht, by alledsins that they were committed by savages. Every civilized nation is responsible for the condtiet of the Allies under its command, and as it ,shatet tiro advantaAts of their success, it ought also io partake the odium of their crimes. But this Itaktining, though just, does not express ?I the infamy of the conduct of the English, in the air of the 22d, en the Raisin River: The MAS. 2Stl, took place, it, is a fact, these circuit contribute shewed a unhappy than all the the English dead bodies remained, •rey of wild retest re.J religien.--r very con ive of COll . r .og,trii.. .ige, 4 not wit it th pity the-4114 dudes to the dead. The Comoldoners ate neeltee4Able to discover what effect such bar: 1 .. '. s koire. produced on the military and civil au __ • •• Of the frontier, but the choice of an Indian' :i..• b to adorn the hail of he Legislative Body of. 1 ..: - Canada, giyes ground to conjecture it. `. - 4:he - Coinmittee have considered it as their duty to 4114,11mit to the House the proofs of the atrocities corn ieli4e4 at Hampton, though it has been since they tbdtAtostiake their 'import. cit .. ' barbarous acts may reasonably be consi lire iestarural consequence of the example given I lgi c b - Y r the- 41 • • ' caf the naval force on our coast. Thee turpitude , continues to increase, and the aoldl l kirrepared for the most abominable deeds, by•• 4owed to commit smaller excesses voids impun ity:,, must must excite indignation, though got sueprise,, that troops who have been led, by the example bf their officers, to plunder the property, and to burn the houses of unarmed citizens, should be guilty of violence and murder. But for every viola tion of the laws - of humanity, our enemies find, or fabricate, an excuse, '- . .-, .- . , .. .• • the wounded prisoners on the Northern Frontiers were massacred by the Savages, the sick put to death, the *tallith insulted at Hampton—were so by foreign troops in the pay of Great Britain. These pretexts (if we admit their truth) are as disgraceful as the conduct which is forced to have recourse to them..-- Honour and magnanimity impose it as a law, not only to forbid the soldier to commit these crimes, but to do the utmost to present the commission of them. • If in such a case the soldier, in contempt of disci pline, commits an act of violence on any individual, whom he ought to piotect, the eiemplary punishment of the offender alone can re-establish the honour of the nation to whom he belongs. It will be seen by the documents, if the English officers behaved in this *flair like men of honour, and whether the national efunracter has been avenged in this manner. The groans and the cries of the innocent victims of st trash immodesty at Hampton, were heard by the American prisoners ; but they were too weak wreath the ears and to disturb the tepose of the English offi cers, whose duty as men it was to protect the woolen whom the chance of war had put into their power.- - The Commissioners will not insist on this shameful subject. Human language has no terms strong enough to express the emotions which the exa mination of the documents, proving these horrible facts, has excited in them ; antl they rejoice that the American people consider them as forged. For the rtonour of human nature, they deeply regret that their !nab is too clearly Confirmed. In the correspondence of the Commander of the English and American forces, there are phrases which are equivalent to an express declaration of the facts of which we have spoken above. As such atrocities, instead of inspiring terror, as the enemy had doubtless imagined, can only produce 4 contrary effect on the minds of our fellow-citizens, the Committee submits to the consideration of the i House the felleWing Resolution : Resolved—That the President of the United States be reques ted to collett and to lay before the House, during the continua tion of the war, the proofs of ail the infractions of the enemy of :le laws of witr is use among civilized nations. BASLE, DECEMBER 7. We have just-learned, with indignation, that the •wrier, with the mail from Basle for Frankfort, of lie Ist December, has been robbed by the Cossacks, nd that they have carried off all his dispatches. A iwric:i was immediately sent to the Landaturnan, to criataint him with this intelligence. Sr. GALL, DECEMBER 3. The Aran Gaunt announces that Marshal the ',ince of Moskwa is to command an army of reserve a the neighbourhood of Besancon. AU the troops horn the Duchy of Baden which marched to Fribourg, in Brisgau, have returned Carlsrube. The garrison of Glogau lately made two very mur derous sorties. The fortress of Konigstein is still occupied by the trench. A Saxon Gazette announces that the Grand Duke Frankfort has written to the King of Bavaria that -"Prwr lie ld *Mo - " andba — te chit dignity in favoui his suc. cessor, the Prince' ititerby son-in- of a* to his Bavarian Majesty. HisMajtity, it. ii said, replied, .that he *bald reltir-it to thk Allied Powers. HANbVER, 140 4 4EMEER 24. Prince d'Eckmdhl, in concert with the bailee, st i ll occupies the positionof Raiabourg, Lubec, and Ham -burgh ; a • position which, accordin g to a memo i r o f the late General Ewald, is impreguable, solorig as the lakes and rivers do not freeze. LIEGE, DkCEMEER 9, • - - It appears from letters received here, that every thing is tranquil on both sidei of the Rhine. Atcord. ing to letters of the 704 General Molitor, with- hi* corps d'artnee, were still in the island of Bomel, and the best spirit reigned among the troops of all atmsil which were under the command of that General; and those under his Excellency the. Marshal Doke of 'rarente. NAPLES, DECEMBER 2. The intelligence of the departufe of his Majesty for the army, has excited the most lively joy througbout all Italy. They write from Rome, that the arrival of the first division has produced an unanimous en. thusiasm, and that all the inhabitants disputed who should best receive our troops. . sa . ere. of the 231:after the capitulation tc the h c o er ut ta t i h n e ti rr 4vlt . ' ef mL4 k kin any effort to hinder it, t w o th c i es s c t atit .aliel.if s . tin w -.74- ' l . _weigr . , -I :ll 4.s 9m; d ers hy d a id li n ti o le t si c egliminal indi sl ryn ign ei ,r, .awn-hands, they the 1 minded. But tb . -"''' • sr, the; pro ' ....,„&r..• I . ..'ves more it ); ~:___ , T., - a --- ='° .„, ~ , acter of th 4 ibe ulFlo isiot ►47 ;ii n7 htne - - ~, , , d tt , the dc ( 1 TM cgigirs4rour - ' - '''' 4,t ) tOolidlatvety i ust? • ~, ' , wuntr*lnen bezigt,*k rhscsiobt o f - :. . 4 .,_ , „me the pre itt,..._atlt• Melvin of ' '.lllfixt the gr 116 2 e 1 utimars*lr the character :. ~./' ;I °f : " temPtlble, which is reduced -- - Y -Is !alit); that its g . the alternatit livirge Allies - would not pm THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. WEDNESDAY, DiCkt4l3ER 22, 1813. PRICE OF ;TOM'S THIS DAY Ai* TWELVE' O'CLOCK Reduced 61 ff:—Cons. shut —for ace. 621 4 pet Ct. 76f 4—Navy shut—Rauk Long Amu. Is 1-16ths New Otnn.ll4-11011ds, le. fte. diorratels; Bah 21r. 3s. pre. To-day we have given some (Unbar extracts from the irench Papers received yesterday: they contain some entertaining matter.—The only allies who now adhere cordially to BONAPARTX are the Americans or rather the atheistical diabolical faction in that un happy republic which owns JAMES MADISON as. its liege Lord. The French Government, having now no means of silencing their enemies in the field— having no armies, no finances, no morale, no materiel, they resort to the musty old revolutiodary trick of libelling the British nation. In France, our troops behave well, and, with the exception of the Cossacks, so do our allies. PLArore's light troops, however, now and then excite indignation, by robbing a courier with dispatches I—The " Emperor-Journalist, or Imperial Libeller," as M. SCHLEGEL calls him, has therefore nothing to say of the conduct of the British troops in France. Lord WELLINGTON takes care to see his humane proclamation put in force. But in America, alas ! bow changed the scene The Moniteur gravely copies a report edited under the inspection of Mr. Mammon, by a Mr. MACON, a Transatlantic Legislator anti Interpreter of the Laws of Nations to the sublime Sanhedrim or Statesmen and Philosophers which occasionally -assembles at Washington. In this document the British are charged not only skith decoying American' seamen into their service, but with subjecting to rigorous ira- Frisoument -all those who will not be thus seduced. 66 Thereby (says the learned Mr. MAcoN) will-the naval force of Great Britain increase in proportion to the number of our sailor's who shall be impri soned." And he emphatically adds—" Great Bri-, tarn has thus the means of continuing and even ex- 1 tending her commerce, without diminishing the num ber of sailors employed on Wad her men of war." Bravo ! Great Britain-- we commend her policy. We &lave here the secret of the hostility of the Atm.: ricans to Great Britaiu. How much will it be increases when they learn that the ‘vhoie of the Continent is open to the British flag and shot to the American ! plaiu English of all tot-se grievances is this— , the Americans have no longer city or . anc, of couist: they have no employment; for seamen of sober and' decent habits; ansl . -thesi-poor fellows prefer a life of industry at sea to one of idleness on laud—they pre fer navigating a vessel under neutral colours to con finement in x prisoniship s This is what Mr. Macon calls , g illicit trade." -It is, is shots, ibe 14 war in disguise" which his immaculate Government has been carrying on against Great Britain for twenty years. The tables are now turned upon them....-that is all. The fifth and sixth articles relate to what is termed cruelties practised in - the war in Canada. A Dr. ' ICEMAN, an American practitioner in surgery, was sent, it seems, to take care of his wounded country men what became of him we are not told—whether he was intercepted himself, or only his man °SAMAR with the catholicons, we know hot; certain it is, how ever, according to the Ameticati statement, that he never reached his patientS. ills was a matter of triumph to the English, according to this malignant and stupid blockhead ; for he boldly insinuates, that it was regarded as very good policy to hinder the American Surgeons from giving assistance to their countrymen, because the Savage Surgeotu have a more sure and expeditious method of terminating their sufferings." An idiot * capable of hazarding such nonsense upon paper, scarcely deserves an answer The charges against us for employing Indian allies with Indian principles of right and wrong, are appli cable to the Americans themselves—their arguments on this subject cut both ways. " Mutato nombe, de to fibula aarratur r A woeful picture is drawn towards the close of this I document of the "turpitude" of the Euglish soldiery, .pd the meek unoffending nature of the ighabitants , of America, The most serious and awful calamities which can befid humanity, may be so narrated as to excite the ~~r ~~thugiane and ,%,. ' '_ _ --.. °: - • P". SEGO TD EDITION, kAti f biF HAIKB U auditor most hilatox has tilt.' kilatk to atioiiiitibo.;-=after desttib i ng 61"ttle o?af t racre4 burnings, phinderings, violationt honour, juitice slid human it y, ocupbay. as •-ti: • - - :Mr. - ".•• - feelingly as 'any illiterate lring blackhead in Arne . •• , rica can (la, he sums-up the whole by adding, that STA 11-OFFICE, TWO O'CLOCK. the sanguinary drama was closed by a s t ill m a t t afro- W e sto p t h e Pi et' , to St ate , th at there are letters in clout scene, nafnely, that 'o(leaving the dead bodlei - Town . froth Hollind; of the 17th, mentioning thii unburied! . ' Hamburg h had.capitulated; and that Magdebtttgh The Americans would, no doubt, have. b een d e . the e lighted with the perfo r manc e o f thi s ac t o f hu man i t y was on e e of•Capituhting• 7 -it would hate given them in opportditity . to bring - The vessel which brotight the Dutch Mail of 031 tap their teinforcemints and .fall insist the burying day d noilarlng any diipitchei for GovernMent.— Part*. • • - but the resplar Picket t when Oa her way for the Eq.; • Ws now take our trate of Mn Maoism. and Mt. b Coast. era; recalled by- ItfAcon. Were it not th a t t hei r f r ie n d N ft e oxaos - -si r" t° *Alt ffir patches ft* sped cpu*Avir, of great BONAPARTE had orde r ed i nser ti on to t h e i r A rt i c l e in • . the Monitor, we would not have wasted so much j iinfortaact• time upon them. I The regular itaa bus- wars the "he 4ist isera The same Journals inform us, that 16,060 Preach • another vessel, which has since arrived. • - troops have assembled at Antwerp.--h The Govein- The intellice from Lord CLANcanint d Ment does not talk, but it acts," says this Editor.—lt expected to arrive every hour, will, it is 14ppoisti . has had nathing to talk of for these many days—be sides it hat discovered that talking will nut alwaysl coasts) the fall of Hamburgh and M.igdeburgh. pin victories.—Antwetp must fall ; notwithstanding - these 16,000. At Naples; the departire of the King (Mutat) ler the army has " excited the most lively joy."---SO it ought—the Neapolitani have thus another chance of getting rid of a severe taskmaster. The Grand Duke of FRANICTORTi ashamed of the blushing honours conferred upon him by 130NAPARTE, wishes tb resign them in favour of BEAutiamiois this is a civil way of declining all further connection with the Napoleon Dynasty. The Cosiacks have seized certain dispatches which were on their way from Basle to Frankforta cir cumstance which excites the most lively indignation, and the Landamman has been infornied of it. It is a gross violation of the Swiss cordon of neutrality, and will, we trust, be resented a's such, fot the sooner the Swiss take a side the more speedily will the con test be ended.-4 , Plague on all Neutrals !" ,The Gazette of last night contains the official de tails of the late affairs in Canada; from the pelt of that most gallant and enterprising General of the British forces, Sir Geottos PREVOST. They will be read with interest by every friend to his country, as exhibiting another specimen of the prodigies of va lour and persevering enterprize of which British sol diers are capable, under an experienced leader. The fOrce appropriated for the defence of Canada has never been equal in numbers to that of the Americans in ' any action, and yet tbe latter have been repeatedly beaten; and, what adds to their disgrace, the regular British troops in the field against them have never borne the proportion of one to twenty : -to the Cana dian Militia and Fencibles, therefore, the greater share of the literals acquired by British valour in America is justly due ; some korai or Legislative act of munificence, of course, awaits them. On the Lakes, we regret to say that our force is still inferior; and while this inferiority continues, we must hold Canada by a precarious tenure. Every exertion is, however, making to repkir our losses, and to enable Sir JaMes Yee to assume a threatening aui tude. Government have recently ordered reinforce ments and supplies for that quarter of the globe, on a most liberal and extensive scale. A Mail from 1-1111 and arrives as this Paper was putting to Press. The intelligence it brings is highly favourable. Gorcum is bombarded. In a sally made by the garrison, they were repulsed with great loss, and they have also failed in an attempt to burn the flotilla. The following are extracts from the Dutch Papers : ~, HELVOETSLUYS, DEC. Is. 11 It Is reported here that almost the whole of the Allies have passed the Rhine as different points, and that the advance of the Russians is within a mile and a half of Antwerp. Gorcom, Breda, Bergen-op-Zoom, Bommel, and Heusden, all strongly fortified places, are said to be in possession of the Dutch. g , The British are collecting in great force at lemstadt, and General Sir T. Graham arrived yes terday at Stevenes, in the island of Tholetr, and will take the command. ti The Tezel fleet is said to have been given up to the - Civil Authorities." . " HAGUE, DECEMBER 14. ' . According to intelligence received, we • must ,conclude that Bergen-op Zoom has surrendered, it being asserted, that the French Lave left that city, and that the same event has taken place with the_ Bosch ,and Antwerp : it appears ,evident, " from all circumstances, that there exists great confusion and disorganization among the French. It is even re. .ported as a fact, that the Conscripts in several de. partmeuts of France have refused to march." " UTRECHT, DECEMBER 17. " On the Prussian troops having collected a num ber of vessels, as well from the Linge as other places, to proceed to Bommel, and being in readiness to make the passage over the Waal, the French, who were at Bommel, took flight, so that the Allies took possession, not only of the town, but of the whole district of Bommel. " We are this day occupied in throwing a bridge of boati over at that place. for which the weary' achtLyta. anchors, &c. are put in requisition.". 1 - FURTHER EXTRACTS FROM THR HUTCH Mita& , • " ROtrk RtiAM, bre ts . it With regard to Flushing, the Isletad of Wei• cheren is already relieved, and it is the tithe with Tholen ; but we are yet without ant inteDigeuce from South Beveland. At Bergen-op.Zoosn the giteg are shut, but there no garrison. 41 The spirit of entering into the service tinder the Orange colours is not deficient here. A considerable transport of troops are 'daily sent tiff to the Hague; and it is reported that do retruking parties art seen -n ' * r• in that city." s WILLWISTADT„ I;EtSMINt 14. 44 The enemy id his hasty fight froin this place had not time tti do much injury. In the excellent mAga: tine *Web the Fredch Empettt Canned' to be built - there, and which cost him.upwardi of ft.do,oo(iftencsl there is remaining about 200,000 poundtpf gutipOw:' der, and 132 pieces of artillery on bur walls. .The enmity had indeed spiked the latter, but they Lave all bben rendered serviceable by Lieut. yon, Vughti of the Coast artillery, who for that purpose tame hither from the Plaat. • It is the tame with the flotilla i the cordage grad taih of the several vessels are rather In bad condition, bat will all be i2ordy repairid ; and the Ajaz, which was sunk, is pumped eat, her bottom caulkedt and sent to Helvoetshiys. We can therefore reckon the • whole flotilla as being saved." a LEYDEN, DECEMBER e. a All the Dutch troops hare left the Helder. The infamout Admiral Verhttel has not mote than 7 or 800 men, Mottly French douinisrs, who att in fort La Salle : he has threatened to biun all the ships ' which are in the. Tem!, unless hi is allowed .to pro ceed to Ftance." , ti . 4 4 DORDRECHT, DECEMBER 15. Aecoant to reports chat have beer received here this evening, and which may be relied on, the passage from the Tielerward to the.Bortuneleaward has been forced, and the enemy compelled to tetreat , after a very severe engagement, in which the Prue: sian troops cEstingnished themselves; so that dietown and the whole island of Bommel is now in the power of the Allies. " It is reported from'anther quarter, that the enemy, after a trifling affair yesterday, near Veen, (bet Ween Wondtnhem and Heutdeny, left . Heusden, and the town was immediately taken possesiieft of by the Allies. Wendiuchem acid Loevessteini holls'avNeh places appear to be still in the enemy's baud; A. probably, be this day attacked in great force. - • - « Antwerp does not, as yet, appear to he in the .possession of the Allies, at least we h*ve not, hither to, hal any certain information of its Meanwhilt the force of the Allies, in the Barony of Breda, is conti nually Increasing ; and, according to reports, there rbay be about 5000 men in the townof Breda.itself. • We have again a report from severals of 30,000 Austrians having passed the Rhine, at Dusseldorf, after repairing the drawbridge-before that town, for the purpose • of of marching to Brussels. 64 We hope soon to receive official intelligence of this matter. Mails front Cadiz and C,oruona also arrived this morning,, but they bring no news. By letters from Gibraltar of the 2d inst. we are inTormed that the fever has abated so much as to in. duce a hope that in a fortnight from that daft the ! ION') would be declared healthy. The nmrcases _ . were` educed to two daily. • We understand Mr. PHILiPPART, the Author of the Ncrthern Campaigns of 1812 and 181%. will, in a few days, give to the Public a Correct Memoir of General MONZA% and a Statement of all bis COS. paigns. It is important that a Work of this kind should be before the Public, and we are happy to find the Author of the Campaigns has undertaken it under the auspices of Madame btioRRAU. We reset our Residers to an Advertisement in our columns. CORN EXCHANGE, MARR..LANE, DEC. as. Having no fresh arrival; this morning, what lade Rae Wheat was left over from Monday's supply sold readily at that days prises. Harkey sold full as wen as on haft market day, having vary little new of be quality. Oats, in consequence of the short supply, are rather dearer. la Peas, news, sad other Articles, there Is no situation.