Star. — London, England, 1814-11-16 00:00:00

Civil Lits. sus PiglA its,she-charges - for the licentious, ;Intl diszottistg wpm exhibited during a fortnight in Hyde Nip.. The . t eipvuditure from the privy purse w4l to bemosOetikwith a jealous eye, since so many ebvsee been folind to exist. On all these grounds he eaUed, ores the Chancellor to satisfy the wishes of the country that an immediate investigation should be allowed, and allow Mr. Huskisson to take the first step towards realizing his favourite schemes of poli tical economy. Mr. W. POLE Whitened with great attention to the speech of the Honourable Gentleman; and, but for the conclusion, should not have recognised the question before the House. The whole of that speech was taken .up with animadversions on Mr. Canning, and any thing but the motion for an Account of the Civil List. - Mr. W. Pole disclaimed any connection with Mr. Canning; and assured the House, that in acqepting office he acted from public motives. The good of the country was the stimulus with him to • I action. He then stated his reasons for objecting to tho froduction of the Account, on the grounds urged by the former Speakers. PONSONBY felt en doubt that the Right Hon. Gentle. mail. who - bid just sat down, was ready at all times to serve his cobntry, and with a proportionate share of responsibility ! and what.was be sew t *Master of the Mint ! A very high situa tion, and a very heavy responsibility! TMs responsibility was 'doubtless Increased by the fist, that no Money was now, or was in future, to be coined,* the Mint.. Mr. itATitURST maintained, that Parliament had already ,providedsiainst any excesses in the Civil Litt Expenditure, in the curs Acts referred to by his Right Hon. Friead, therefore the nefessity fur producing tbepapers was obviated. . • Nit. BANKES was for producing the aecounts 'early, In order that Paifiament, if necessary, might found some definitive measure before the retest. If Mkdsten, however, would pledge :themselves to produce the Accounts, to thew that ne material excina r liad seism, he would not vote for the motion. TIF.RNEY was disposed to withdraw the motion, if the Rri„lit Hon. Gentleman would produce the papers next week or gibe would agree to amend the Act, so that the accounts may be made up by the Stb of January,instead of the sth of April. IeIe.,LONG admitted, that if there wet not time for enquiry into &e state of the Civil List Expenditure, that would be a reason for altering the Act ; but after the accounts were on the table, there would be complete time for investigation. Me TIERNEY replied, and hoped the time for making up the accounts would be altered to the sth of January. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER had no objec tiap to alter the Act in this respect, but he would not enter into any compromise. Upon this understanding, Mr. TIERNEY withdrew his mo tion for the peneet ; pledging himself to bring it forward in the ev.ait of the Act not being altered in the course of the next week. The motion, after some observations from Mr. BANKES, was then withdrawn.—Adjourned at Tr N O'CLOCK. TUE EVENING STAR. y,nl . LONDON • V . 11. Lim air best thanks. His future favours are earnestly • =treated. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1814. PRICEDESTOCKII Tills DAY AT TWELVE O'CLOCK: tednced SSII —4 per Cenr.6of —5 per Cent. Navy Set tsti r -for account, 64 fl —Onmiu m 341 dia. Atuas.l6—lndia Bonds 15s. 16s. pre. it er Bills 2s. to ss. prem. f t s4 ol This. morning Major Yammer, of the 82d Regi mot, arrived at the Secretary of State's Office, with dispatehea.from Quebec. This Officer was landed yesterday at Portsmouth, item the ANTELOPE, wh;c111 ilatp :attired Alirit' 041114/teet of tsamipoits- from A l e !: JO° eqlnte,eo the unfortunate affair upon LakerClassudbia‘nnititellthof September, with the restift softrwkiikllllP-Estelle tie already acquainted. They 404 ceirtaitfafe fra!rtictriVes_ of a sortie made by the A.Miiicaii garrison iiftit - Erie, on the 17th of SePtenther, against the British force under Lieutenant Goofed Daustasomp, by which that fort was invested. Illeelitgleagsed the Astsericin as well as the Bri. titer eivocent of the - letterodfair, we shall lay them bolhiOrt*ltiOei*:.tt will be seen that both boivA of haings*pla :die victory : but from all that is before us ye, cannot doubt that the success was actually -Ott ibir aide of the Americans.—They suelorited'poOketihyied- a battery and some other wilits'firthe'hisiegers, and appear to have p ut near ly a vmole (I:!aWArrevuus's) hors de combat. —Not to have retained po :session of our out-works erre* musing of disaster. It was not for the occu pitien of our works, but for their destruction, and to secure Fort Erie, 'that the sonic was made.—ln one word : We look but for little success in Canada till the change of sestets known to have been resolved on shall have been carried into effect in that quarter. It will be seen by the remarks of the Quebec Edi tor, which we have subjoined to the official details, that precisely the same views are entertained in Canada as in thisimuntry as to the inadequacy of the means sedplOyed it- the commencement of the wars against the . enemy : nor can we 'doubt , when they shall lie informed pf the extentiof the British force which is now resolved to be brought into the field, that' they will equally applaud with ourselves the vigour with which the war is in future to be con daeted; AMERICAN ACCOUNTS. 'XITRACT OP A LETTER FROM GENERAL VARNAM. " Buffalo, Sebtember 13. er l>r.altSta—Oar gallant little army on this iron. live has again signalized itself by gaining a brilliant wirtety over a part of the enemy's forces near Fort Erie. Two of the enemy's batteries were carried, tht suns spiked, trunnions broken off, and their maga zines blown up. The action lasted more than two hours. We took nearly four hundred prisonas, among whom are twelve Officers. Our loss, except in Officers,l Own. • _ " The enemy's lou could not have been less tlan 800 men in killed, wounded, and taken. We have to Unseat the loss a Colonel Gibson, Lientenstile C° l ° 2l e#A 4 Ple7; Colonel Aspinwall , Major Traub* "if A t „ te 4 AIM M em wounded. General asse D O" fifi tiM : 'us, kilted ; General Porter 6 8 111 17114;10411111 tiallteikimoße Officers, =PO SS knob& Opel ifre *bik e is was one of tbs. brilliant tortiai vat r imie r anA l succeeded bap our most sanguine explitations. • I are, respectftdli, your obedient servant, - (Signed)* "J. B. VARNAM. " To M. Hitchcock, Esq." EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM GENERAL BROWN TO GENERAL GAINES. " Head -Quarters, Fort Erie, Sept. IS. " MY DEAR GENERAL.—The sortie that I have , been contemplating ever since my return to this place, was ordered yesterday.—lt succeeded. We carried the enemy's battery, destroyed his battering cannon, and blew up a strong new work which he bad erected 'with a view of destroying Fort Erie. He resisted manfully, but was promptly overpowered : his loss—s prisoners his total loss cannot be less t:+ :ti St nwn. I have to lament the loss of many gallant talkers. Our loss is not numerous, and our strength is but little impaired by the splendid atchiev ment. General Ripley is severely wounded ; Colo.! nels Gibson and Wood killed : Colonel Aspinwall has lost an arm, and Major Trimbel is, I bear, need tally wounded." BRITISH ACCOUNTS. DISTRICT ORNERAt ORD'S& a Head-quarters, Camp before fart Erie, Sept.'. 0.; G I Major-General De Wattev il le having been directed to de; iii e b a party yesterday eienrni to endeavourTo Cut off the enemy‘ picquet,No. 4, reports, that this service was executed by a cona• pany of the 6th regiment, and one of the Glengary Light Infantry, joined by the infantry piquet at Platows, and the detachment of the 19th Light Dragoons under Captain Eustace, the whole under the command of Captain Paterson, of the 6th regiment, and conducted by Captain Powell, Deputy Assistant Quarter- Master-General. " Theenemy's picquet was surprised at day-light this morn ing: of its advanced party, which consisted of twenty men and an officer, nut one escaped; fourteen, including the officer, being killed, and seven wounded and taken prisoners. The main body of the picquet fled towards the forts, pursued by our troops close under the guns of the place, and must have suffered very consi derably from our fire. Our loss has been only one killed, (pri vate sth) and one slightly wounded. " The conduct of this little enterprise reflects great credit not only on Captain Paterson, commanding the detachment, and on the 'whole of the Officers and Soldiers of which it was composed, but on Captain Powell, Deputy Assistant Quarter Muter General, by whom the enterprise was planned. Serjeant Powell, 19th Light Dragoons, has been named to the Lieutenant General as having agaiu distinguished himself on this occasion.. " J. HAIMY, Lt. Cal/el). Adj. General." I GENERAL ORDER. " Head-quarters, Montreal, September 29, 1814. " His Excellency the Commander of the Forces fusing re ceived the official Report of Lieutenant-General Drummond of the affair Which took place at Fort Erie on the 17th instant, in Which very superior numbers of the enemy were repulsed with loss, entirely coincides with the Lieutenant-General In the just tribute of praise be bestows on the intrepid valour and deter mined discipline evinced by the division of troops under his com mand, as detailed in the District General Order of the 18th inst. which his Ezetneney is pleased to order to be published for the postal information of the troops under his command. "°' (Signed) " EavtAius Boolozogottlit.Veo. N. A • - DISTFOCT GEN..aRAI. ORDER.: - " Head-quarters, Camp before Fort Erie, Sept. 18, 1814. " Lieutenant-General Drummond having received riot Reports of the General Officer in the immediate direction of the troops engaged yesterday, begs to offer his best acknowledgements for their very gallant conduct in repulsing the attack made by the enemy on our batteries with his whole force, represented to con sist of not less than five thousand men, including militia. The brilliant style in which the battery No. 2 was recovered, and the enemy driven beyond our entrenchments by seven companies of the 82d - Regiment, under Major Proctor, and three companies of the 6th Regiment, detached under Majqr Taylor, excited Lieu ' tenant-General Drummond's admire:len, and entitled those troops to his putkular thanks. •_. _ . . . . •" On the right the enemy's advance was checked by the Ist Battalion of the Royal Scots, supported by the 89th under the direction of Lieutenant-Colonel Gordon of the Royals; and in the centre be was driven back by the Glengary Light Infantry , under Lieutenant-Colonel Battereby, and directed by Lieutenant Colonel Pearson, Inspecting Field Officer. To theie troops the Lieutettant-General's best thanks are due, as also to the remain der of the res e rve under Lieutenant-Colonel Campbell, consisting of the remaining Companies of the 6th Regiment, the tank Com panies of the 41st, and the Incorporated Militia, which supported the troops engaged. " The Lieutenant-Genet al deeply laments the unfortunate circumstances of wer her which enabled the enemy to approach unperceived close to the right of the position, and to capture a considerable number of the Regiment de Watteville stationed at the point. The severe loss in killed and wounded which the Bth [ or Ktng's and De Watteville'a Regiment have suffered, affords iscontestible proof that No. 2 Battery was not gained without a vigorous resistance; it Is equally obvious that the Block House on the right was well defended by the party of the King's Regi ment stationed in it. ." Lieutenant-General Drummond feels greatly indebted to Major-Greneral De Wafter!!le, for his judicious arrangement ; and be also desires to offer his thanks to the respective Com manding Officers of Brigades and Corps, and the Officers and Men of the Royal Artillery and Engineers, for their exertions:— To Major-General Stovin, who joined the army a short time before the attack, the Lieutenant-General is indebted for his assistance, and also to the Officers of t►e General and of his personal Sraff. " I.:eurenant-General Drummond greatly regrets the wounds which have deprived the Army for the present of the services of Colonel Fischer, Lieutenant-Colonels Pearson and Gordon. " Lieutenant-Colonels Fischer, Pearson, and Gordon, have permission to proceed to the rear for the recovery of their wounds. (Styled) • ul. HALYLY, Lieutenant-Colonel, Dep. Adjutant-General?' MONTREAL, OCTOBER 1. Oar Kingston Correspondent writes on the 27th ult. that accounts had been received from Fort Erie of the' 22d.. General Drummond, apprehensive of an a tta c k by . thi enemy with superior numbers, had fallen back a mile, and taken a new position, said to be very strong. The army was in high spirits, notwithstanding the sickly season. We understand accounts reached town last evening stating, that the American squadron had sailed from Sackett's 1-l4rbOur with 3000 regulars, and 2000 proceeded to the head of the Lake, and landed the troops at Twelve-mile Creek. We think this telligence is unfounded. General *Comb boasts of Isis having taken a number of our guns, when the British retreated from 'Pittsburg : This is false. We lost not a single piece of artillery. The Americans, we confess, had the glory of taking the broken carriages of a 24-pounder field piece, which had been thrown into a Creek, and that's all. The gun is now at Isle aux Noix. QUEBEC, OCTOBER 4. In the Canadas the waste of strength has lately been so great, that the reinforcements have scarcely been more than adequate to cover the casualities, particu larly in the right division. If, at any time, we can' boast of success, it must be admitted that our laurels are not acquired a la Bonaparte, by overwhelming numbers. Unfortunately for us. such has lately been the magnitude of the European wars, that a contest with the American States, at this day, can scarcely call up the attention of the nation. It it treated as such a puny war, that the Clergy, it is said, scruple to read the prayer appropriated to a time of war and tumults. Yet, puny a; the war is, out strength is daily wast ing► by thousands, and that without our being able to prevent the enemy from strengthening themselves and Ltating root on British ground. Why is this ?. Be ' cause as one regiment is lost, or numbers equal to a regiment, is another, and only another, sent to fill the vacancies. Great Britain must keep a certain number of troops on foot—fed and clothed they must be, wherever they may be stationed ; why not then double or treble the numbers, where they are most wanted—at the station where must be tried the tug of war ? Because the Canadas were not conquered at the commencement of the war, when there were scarcely any troops ill the country, a conclusion is drawn, according to appearances, that a few thou sands additional are more than enough. A conclu sion egregiously erroneous. At the beginning of the war the Americans were much divided. Many were decidedly opposed to hostilities; the few in arms were not yet become soldiers. If then we remained un conquered, we had to thank the American divisions, weakness, and want of discipline, more than our own strength. The case at present is greatly altered, not only are the Americans now become soldiers by practice; but they are much more united, as might be expected, when, instead of being assailants, they are put on their defence. If the war be to be continued, most certain it is that it will become necessary that our troops should be greatly reinforced, so as to be enabled to act with weight and effect at the points to which they may be led. If these suggestions be not the suggestions of ,rnilit4gg ig en, they .are those of common sense, arising out of a state of things that must be obvious to all. Greiterritain, if she continue the 'most nd Linger view it as a puny war, but as a conflict with an ene my by no means to be treated with or held in con tempt. She will find it as necessary to put forth her strength in America as she did in Europe. In Europe, her purse precluded the necessity of her sending armies to the north, by her contributions to the support of foreign nations, having a common cause with her. In America she has no allies save a few Indians. In an American war then must she notonly open her purse, but herbattles must be fought by Britons ; and that at every point of a far more ex tensive coast than the shores of Europe. If then it be her with to vanquish, she must send not a few, but many—not her thousands, or tens of thousands ; but her hundreds of thousands. She must crush, and speedily, if she would end gloriously. She must not, be turned from her purpose by American cunning or delusiy . e art, such as may be found in Mr. Munroe's deceptive answer to Admiral Cochrane. Misrepresen tation, evasion, and delusion, are the common wea pons of American statesmen. Inadequate as has been our force to expel the Americans from Upper Canada, or to the accomplish. ment of any other object, yet, on the arrival of the late reinforcements from the continent of Europe, the embarrassment seemed to be what to do with them ; as a proof, the 6th battalion of militia has been disbanded, though a battalion that required no barracks. Perhaps, it was from knowing our tMops, to be a burthen, that the enemy have very charitably relieved us of a few thousands. Burthensome as the new corners may have been thought, if the war con tinues, room, we take it, must be found for some others for the next campaign, if there be a wish to meet the growing force of the enemy in a manner it will be necessary to meet it. A Gentleman, who left Quebec on the 14th Octo. ber, stales. that accounts had then been received from Lake Ontario to the 6th. No new affair had taken place on the Lakes ; but Sir JAMES Yzo had been reinforced, and had sailed from Kingston with the whole of his fleet, including the 102• gun ship lately launched ; and as CHAUNCEY was known to have left Sacketes Harbour some time before, no doubt was entertained of a rencontre taking place, from which the most complete success was anticipated, as Yzo was greatly superior in force. It was also reported that General &Han had landed $OOO men in the rear of General DRUMMOND. We have been informed, by a Gentlemen just ar. rived from Ostend, t h at t h e A mer i can vessel lying there, with dispatches for the United States, and still waiting for flew dispatches from the Commissioners, received them oa the 2d inst. and sailed the same day. REPORTED OF THE MACEDONIAN, AND UNITED STATES FRIGATE BY THE BRITISH. PROM tHE EXETER WESTERN LUMINARY. •' EXETER, NOVEMBER 15. A►e, have been favoured with the following by a !ery respectable friend at Dartmouth, and give it as ire receive it: A Captain DUNIMAN, whom we know here, has just landed, and informed us that, on the 27th ult. his vessel was run down, off Lisbon, by the GRANICUS frigate, Captain Wise, who informed him, that a few days previous he had boarded a neutral •essel from America, which informed him that the Macedonian and United States frigates had been destroyed by us in New London, that the American President Ma- DIBON had absconded, no one knows where, and that the American Cabinet was in the utmost confusion and alarm.—Two •ery rich American ships had got safe into Lisbon." NAVAL INTALLIGENCR. Tb. MIDWAY frigate has captured *large American siva. leer, which had taken several vessels on tbe Odd Coast, and ent• tied ber into the Cape of Good Hope. Microao, Nov. IL—Last evening arrived the Swedish brig Minerva, Hendrick Bract master, from Lanzarotd, with barilb, for Dublin. On the ads ult. in at. SS. 43. long. 168 she was boarded b' the True Blooded Ya:ikee American privateer, of le guns, and plundered of every arucle of value, including their clothes, and suffered to proceed. The Mary, MITCHILL i from Newfoundland, arrived'at CO• MO= under jury-masts—lost all her crew except two boys. EAST-INDIA SHIPPING. The ships Marchioness of Exeter, and Lady Lush ington and I-Talon extra ships, from Bengal, arrived yesterday off the Isle of Wight; also the Archduke Charles, from China, and several transports ircm the Isle of France and Cape of Good Hope, under con voy of his Majesty's ship DAttszstAaix—they sailed from the Cape the 16th August, and from St. He- • lena the Bth September.—The Company's ship Strea chain sailed from Sanger Roads, the 30th January, for Amboyna, and the Devonshire the 3d F, bruary, for Malacca.—The Scaleby Castle, outward-bound, left the Capefor Batavia the '2sth July. PLYMOUTH, NOVEMBER 14. Came in the Arkley Hall, Laiy Hamilton, and Agincourt transports, from Gibraltar, last from Lis bon; the St. Philip cartel, from Dartmouth, with prisoners for America ; nicest frigate, and Essex, (prize) from the Brazils ; NEREUS frigate from ditto, the latter has sailed to the Eastward.—Wind W.N.W. PORTSMOUTH, NOVEMBER 15. • Arrived his Majesty's ship ANTELOPK from Quebec (sailed 14th October, with a fleet of transports)... Arrived the Elizi and Dominica from the Mediter. r.tnean, and are under quarantine. Also arrived his Majesty's ship STAG from the Cape of Good Hops. DEAL, NOVEMBER 15. Came dews frotu the River, about 20 sail of Wan Indlarnen ; 10 all althea are for Jamaica: they remain in the Downs. Ar rived the tit sleep of war from the Mediterranean. Put back the war. Arrived the Duke of Montt igetss Optiqw • bell, (ram Lisbon. Wand S.W. 1441100 ATE, NOVEMBER 10. The hetelintlefeles,..f layming,ton. Farrady master, froru the North, with coals, was totally lost On the Goodwin Sands yester day ; 'master and crew landed he:e. The brig Selena, Nelson master, front Sunderland for Portsniouth, was run down co the North Eastland by a ben vessel ; the master and crew have lan. ded burst. 'I he John and Sophia, Apaul:ne, Prudence, Nancy, Nelson, Flaxley, Brothers, Four Friends, have put into this port , for shelter. A hulk from Porintouth for London, is at theback of the Sands, without anchors or cables; assistance from hence 1s just gone to her. PADSTOW, NOVEMBER IS. Put in Isere to-day the transport Edgar, HARRISON, from Lisbon for Woolwich, with urinary stores. Thr Ann, PART- Lary, oeTeignmouth, foundered at sea on Tuesday list; the crew, eight in number, took to the boat,. but six an them were drowned by the boat up...citing as she :approached the shore, about two tulles west of this harbour. By letters received from Gibraltar, via France, to the 25th ult. it appears that all apprehensions from the fever have ceased. The few cases that occur are of so mild a nature, as to induce a belief that in a very short time the contagion would entirely disappear. . Private accounts from Paris state the arrest of Ge. neral DUPOLIA and a large party of persons assembled with him ata coffee-house. No notice of the event. indeed, appears in the French Papers ; nor, perhaps. was it absolutely .necessary that the Government should put the accomplices of these crimit.ale on their guard, by a premature disclosure of the fact. or of its causes. More especially were secrecy and decision, necessary on this occasion-, it the plot was of the din , bolical nature which we have heard hinted. By the arrival of his Majesty's frigate Nk:nens at I Portsmouth from the river Plate, we learn that soon after the capitulation of Monte Video was agreed to by the Governor. VtGonsr, a difference of opinion arose between the contracting parties, and the Gover nor hesitated to fulfil the conditions of the treaty.—.- Mao/iv:1;1e an Officer, serving under the Captain Ge neral, who had separated himself, with many fol lowers, from Buenos Ayres troops, was detected conveying a letter to VIGODET, encouraging the latter to resist the giving up of the fortress, and promising that his Captain General would come to his succour with his forces, to the amount of 1500 men. Upon the discovery of this affair, Ai-yeas, the Buenos- Ayres General, resolved on an insmedi: , te attack of the fortress, and succeeded, sword in hand, in taking %Tit:toper, the Governor, and the whole of the garri son, prisoners. ALVEAR, upon this success, antici pating the arrival of the Captain General and his party, went out to meet them, and after a short action put the whole to the route. The garrison of Monte Video then volunteered to join the cause of Buenos Ayres, and the Governor, VIOODIST, was sent prisoner on board a ship bound to Buenos Ayres. The arrival of the intelligence at Chili of the suc cess of the armies of Buenos Ayres over the Monte. videaiis, was the signal for a counter-revolution there also. The politics of Buenos Ayres, whatever they may be, are, therefore, likely to spread throusboot the richest provinces of New Spain. CORN-EXCHANGE, NOVEMBER li. ‘,), sup lit pu e ed prer wit s p l i enu an Gad o( n ixt , rt an tra i ß c w ca i si bds osed ite Za s civ ou sai r itt r at ibu luet . .±jaz for such line Wheat as was kft 'Radial:mud of ea &guilder= that dsy's priers ars hilly supported. Hawk% na foe liz rp i o y earel market, the prim of that grata is nominal, but himiaay It would have sold freely at an advaoce of is, per quarter. Oats, Beans, and other amid es are ready salt at Monday's prices.