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was shot IP der him ; he was himself wounded, with sever i 1 of his officers anti men, and the enemy hid surrounded his brave band, h it (31 iven his , tiftbt flank(composed of regulars) from their post, and thereby got in his rear. Gen. , ral Ross acknowledged his fire to have been tremendous, and that his first gun laid ten of hib meh in the dust. One advantage their men had over ours, was, their carrying each from 60 calltidges upwards. They, however, were so loaded with their ammunition, knapsacks, &c. and were so overpowered by their rapid march, that many fell dead in the road. As they passed through Bladensburg their mouths were open, gasping for breath, and their officers were driving them forward with their swords and espnntoons. Twelve were buried in one field that had not a wound. Commodore Barney's wound will be tedious, but is not dangerous. He has been removed to his resi dence on Elkbridge. Captain Miller of the marinesp was badly wounded. _ _ Among the latter still remaining at Bladensburg, are as follows :—James Hooper, dangerously ; Geo. Lawder, ditto ; John Denney, ditto ; W:lson De night, flesh ; Harry Jones, ditto. A deserter, who was in the battle, states that Co. lonel Thornton, of the 85th regiment, was shot from his horse (a grey) early in the battle; that Majnt Wood, of the 29th, fell shortly after, and that he be lived frcm three to four hundred have deserted from the enemy. FROM THE NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER, SEPT. s. On Saturday several of the enemy's vessels ap peared in sight down the river, and a flag was sent down by the citizens of Alexandria, offering to sur render at discretion. We are not precisely informed of the terms and nature of the capitulation agreed on, which however shall be hereafter stated. The fort near Warburton was blown up by the Commander, about dusk on Saturday evening. The President of the United States was not only active during the engagement which took place with the enemy, but had been exerting himself for two or three days previous, and has been personally active . ever since. Every one joins in attributing to him the greatest merit. The enemy's vessels now lie off Alexandria, about six miles below this city, and by some are supposed to menace it. We are prepared to meet and we hope to repel them. Private property was in general scrupulously re spected by the enemy during his stay in the city, with the exception of two or three houses burnt, because gees were fred from them on the enemy. The officers of Government are now all at this face, and about resuming in their ordinary course en the functions of government, to which a momen tary interruption has been given by the sudden incur sion of a on force of the enemy. This event, however it may have produced considerable loss to the public, much loss to a few individuals, among whom are ourselves, and great anxiety to all classes, can produce no serious effect, either on the govern. scent or community generally. The inconvenience, though serious to us, and those who have bravely fled to our succour, to the people of the United States will be momentary ; the loss to the proprietors of the city (those excepted whose pro., petty was destroyed) was very trivial. The only se rious effect is, the stigma which this event will ne cessarily, we do net say justly, affix on the national character. That stain can only be effaced by future vigour and unity of action. In what manner thest should be exhibited, is a point we shall leave for fu ture elucidation. PHILADELPHIA, AUGUST so. We understand that several Banks of this city have resolved to suspend the payment of specie for the pre. sent, and that the reason for this measure will speedily be given to the public. In the exertions of self-defence, Mr. Madison and bis great men will be neglected and despised. If any of them retain their places, it will be owing to their talents sad virtues, not to their follies, infamy, or treachery to their country's prosperity. Mr. Jeffer• son may cry for union, who first sowed dissensions , while proclaiming that we were all federalists, all re. publicans. He may rejoice at the downfal of Napo leon, and yet weep for his own confusion. This age will vindicate moral politics, and every political' scoundrel must pay them reverence. FROM THE LADELPHIA TRUE AMERICAN, SEPTEMBER S. Last night's Southern Stage brought nothing from our Correspondent at Baltimore. We kayo the fol kowing verbal communication from a passenger in the Pilot :—On Sattirday last the British forces in the Potomac took Fort Warburton by storm, after an en gagenwat of two hours, and took possession of Alex andria, 18 miles below Washington. A party of Bri. tish straggler:, amounting to 200, bad been made prisoners by a detachment under Colonel Cooke. BOSTON, SEPTEMBER S. _ _ Whatever success may attend our Commissioners et Ghent, there is a moral certainty of immediate de feat at home. Before a cessation of hostilities can be concluded abroad, the superiority of British forces in Canada will repel every invasion from American troops, and retaliate all our success and burning with interest. Such a state of thirgs will prob..bly produce defeats and desertions among the American armies to an alarming degree. Our frontiers will be defence *Op and in turn, by entirely esposoi to invasion: Where may not 20,000 lithlsh veterans march, un less repelled by ;kite troops ?—and what Can &ate trolis Ito at first, bat retreat until reinforced by num bers adequate to repel the invader ? Did Mr. Ma dison at the commencement of this war wish all this? Did he foresee unanimity which invasion and defeats would produce, when unanimity should be our only defence ? Were confusion and desolation necessity to divert the attention from the causes of this war to its consequences? Wonderful Statesman! To-day we have received Paris Papers of Wednes. day. They enable us to confirm a report which was stated in the Continental Journals a few days since, namely, that the Saxon Generals and other Officers ho were base enough to sign a remonstrance to the CO..:I,'SS, in tavoui of the miserable creature whom they call their Sovereign, have been sent to Torgau. The benefit of the great revolutions which have re cently taken place in Europe would be lost to poste rity, and the manes of the brave men who fell in the great battle of Leipsic would be unavenged, if such a reptile was allowed to strut in the trappings of royalty, and elbow such heroes as ALEXANDER and FREDERICK at the various Courts of Europe. The Allied Sovereigns cannot, therefore, be the real benefactors of the Saxons, 'intil they give them a So ' vereign better entitled to their respect, and better qua lified to reign over a virtuous and brave people, as they certainly have uniformly proved themselves.— Let BONAPARTE give the hoary traitor to his country an indemnity in Elba ; but let him not be permitted to shew his guilty countenance among the legitimate Sovereigns of Europe. From die condition of BONAPARTE'S King of Saxony, the transition is natural and easy to that of the King of NAPLES, who came from the workshop of the same artist. The Paris Papers now before us, anticipate his immediate downfil, and truly there have been reports verified of far less probability in their origin. The Emperor of AUSTRIA is by no means disposed to fav,,ur his pretensions : indeed how should he ? Even BERNADOTTE himself sits but insecurely in his n ! . , v, chair of state : hi: desertion of 13amm , nnTE took place several years before that of Auaar, and the benefits he thereby conferred upon mankind - were proportionably great. It was in the hour of distress and ruin that JOACHIM deserted Bo- NAPARTE this an additional claim upon the pro. tection of the Allied Sovereigns, or the reverse ? EUGENE BEAUHARNOIS, on the contrary, acted to his worthless and unnatural father-in-law, the part of a Gentleman and a good soldier, and has met with cor responding sentiments of respect. PARIS, OCTOBER 12. Our private correspondence from Vienna announces that the Ministers of Austria, Russia, Prussia, Eng land, France, and Spain, had" a preparatory con ference on the 90th of September. It was thought that the formal conferences of the Congress would be opened a few days afterwards, and that Sweden and Portugal would be admitted. These conferences, it is added, have no other object but the political arrange ments of Europe; and the objects which concern Germany in particular will be treated of separately. The Minister Baron Stein has, it is said, drawn up a project for the new organization of Germany. and presented it to the three Allied Sovereigns. The Duke de Berri has returned to Paris. It was Mrs. Fitzherbert, and not the Princess of Wales, who arrived at Paris a few days since. Letters from Norway state, that the public opinion there is ♦ery unfavourable to Sweden. The Diet which was to meet on the 7th October will not be complete, as the bailliages of Drontheim and Bergen refuse to send Deputies. The differences in the Canton Tessino of Switzer land, between the inhabitants and the contederate troops, are compromised. The inhabitants of the Canton of St. Gall are continually tight ng. Prince Esterhazy did not openly assume any offi cial character at Naples, but he had a long private Audience el Kin:; Joachim. Since this interview there has been remarked in the physiognomy of the Royal family, indications of a keen inquietude. Intelligence from Gibraltar of the 16th ultimo, states, that the epidemy there has increased. The troops who are encamped on the neutral ground have not yet been attacked. This morning we received a supply of Brussels and Frankfort Papers. They place, beyond a doubt, the report of the approaching restoration of Poland : the Emperor ALEXANDER, in his way through that coun try, repeatedly assured the Authorities of the King dom of his wishes and intentions to this effect. We subjoin from the same Papers an article dated from Vienna, but most probably written by some of the ignorant American boobies-now at Ghent, while under the influence of the fumes of Holland: and tobacco, in which a dark and malignant attack is made upon our maritime rights. Happily for mankind no American scoundrel will be permitted to spew his face at the Congress, and it is not likely that any thing like a new modification of the Law of Nations, on this head, will even be proposed : VIENNA, SEPTEMBER 28. The King of Wurtemberg has found here several Princes of the House of Hohenloe, who reclaim their territories which Bonaparte took from them, and gave to his Majesty. All these territortal pretensions will be regulated, in a summary way, at the Congress, which will leave to the first Dist of the German Em- lAN the care of 41;ng the rights and di@ dada or each of its Members. Perhaps, even independent!) of the Congress, the Diet of the Empire may open its Sittings in this City. It is asserted that the particular interests of the German Princes, among themselves, will be regula ted by the counsels of German Civilians, versed in the history and statistics of their country, in order to avoid what happened at the Treaty of Luneville , where certain Princes obtained, by means of intrigues, indemnities for what they had not lost. Questions snore generally interesting will employ the Ambassadors of the great Powers : the. first will doubtless be to fix solemnly the principles of that Law of Nations of which every body talks and which only the weak observe. France and Russia will sti pulate, it is presumed, in the name of humanity, that neutral trade shall no longer be plundered in time of ' war, nor any war begun without a previous declara tion, and even without a certain fixed time allowed for negotiating. The Emperor Alexander has brought forward the only plan that can insure these great principles.—lt is a mutual agreement between all the Powers, to diminish: by half, their standing ar mies. The respect due to the independence of na tions, the sacredness of the imprescriptible rights of the lawful dynasties, the mutual guarantee of the Constitutions established, the obligation to unite in future against every usurpation and every insurrection, will form the articles of the new Social Compact, in which the gradual abolition of the Slave Trade will Also be introduced, but only as an iccessary article. Letters received in Town this morning from Ghent, mention, that the EMPEROR OF Russte has in timated to the American Plenipotentiaries that he will not interfere at the Congress un the questions at issue between Great Britain and the United States. Letters from Vienna, by the French Mail, affirm (but we know not how truly) that the Allied Sove reigns have refused to admit TALLEvatANo to take a share in thedeltberatiops of theCongre;s,alleging,that as France has nothing to cede, she can have no voice in the adjustication of territory. THE AR mr. It was reported in Cork on S iturday, that the Ex pedition which was preparing to sail from Cove for America, had been countermanded. On that after. noon, the 23. h Regiment, fr.7ming part of the above Expediti:n, rna;.ched into C•rk, after having been disembarked at Monkstown. Friday se'nnight, the 40th Regiment, 600 strong, embarked at the Cove of Cnrk ; the York Chasseurs sailed the preceding Sunday, for 6 , :uth America. A cictaehment of the Bth Rifle, 60th Regiment, have removed from Lymington to Portsmouth, to embark for Gibraltar. The following Derots from Horsham Barracks ?lave been ordcretto march. viz.—those of tbe76th, 98th, 99► h, and 1-02 d regiments, to Winchester bar racks ; that Of the 41st, to Chatham ; and those of the 5G h to Sheerness, to k,in the 3d battalion of the later tegiment at that place. The Ist or Royal Scott, and 94th, at Leith ; the 59th, C 24, 69th, 77th, and 83d, at Portsmouth ; the 74th and 64th, at Liverpool ; are ordered to embark at the afore;tid paces, to juin their respective regi menu in Ireland. The following Regiments are stationed in the Home District : Cairn tir.—lst and Ild Life Guards, Royal Horse Guards (Blue), four 1 r0,,p4 a Wit dsor, four at Reading; 10th Light Dragoons, six at Rumford, one at Hornchurcb, and one at Ilford; 11th Uzi - a Dragoon% five at Holm!low, three at Hampton. Court ; Waggon Tra'n, three at Croydon. IN TANTRY..—Ist loot Guards, 1.4 and Sd battalions; Cold stream, Ist ditto; and SI Foot Guards, lst ditto, Lemke; Sth foot, rd ditro, Wind-or ; 47th, five Companies, 2d battalion, Sandhurst Camp; 15th, 2d ditto, at ditto; 49th, 2d ditto, ar Chelmsford; 50th, td ditto, and 52d, Ist ditto, at Chatham. The Oxfordshire Militia arrived safe at Portsmouth on NVednesday last, after a very boisterous passage of six days from the Cove of Cork, and are expected to march into Oxford on Thursday next. GENERAL ORDER. Horse-Guards, September 25, 1214. His Royal Highness the Commander-in-Chief has been pleased to direct, that the following Arrange ment of Military Districts in South Britain, shall take place from this date : Counties. Head-Quars. Northumberland, Cumberland, We•tntorland,Durham; York, York. and lsle of Maw - :4orfulk, Suffolk, Cambridge,l Huntingdon, EMI, exclusive of the Hundreds Reacontree Districts. NoßTseave EASTERN and Walthain,and the Liberty of Havering; Ci: y of Peter borough - • - i KtNT • Kent, east of the river Cray, and Holwood Hill • SUM% • S Stniti • • SOUTM Warr IWiltshire, Dorset, Hants Devon, Cornwall, Somerset,' WISTIAN exelu%ive of the - vicinity of Bristol - ICheshire, Shropshire, Lancl Li verpool. NollTU WIST shire, and North Wales The following Counties, .&c. are not contained in any Military District, and the Troops stationed in those Counties are to report direct to Head-quar ters, viz : Dover. • Brighton. Portsmou Bedford, Berkshire, Bristol and its vicinity, Buckingham, Derby, Hundreds of 13eacontree and Waltham, and the Liberty of Havering In Essex, Gloucester, Hertford, Hereford, Kent, west of the river Cray an al Holviiod Hill, Lincoln, Leicester, Middlesex, Monmouth, ottingham, Northampton, exclosive of the city of Peterborough, Oatord, RvAlsod, Surrey, Stafford, Warwick, Worcester, and South Wales. The Troops in the Isle of Wight are to report to the Commandant sa the Army Depot. By order of his Royal Highness the Commander in Chief, HARRY CALVICRT, Adj.-Gen. Although MAnisorr was deprived of his SIMI?, in consequence of the British troop s e n te r in g hi s mansion at Washington, yet it must be some consolation to WWI that he did not lose his duert. NAVAL MEM WENCR. ,M 6.........• 'Me Good Intent, }limiting, from T, igianotith to Lisbon, is on shore in St. Bride's Bay. The William, DAwsom, from London to Ham• surith, is on shore near Cuckold's Point, and !ull of water. The General Tchernicheff, REM from Bremen to Havannah, WAS taken in Augu.t• uy .orne mut' in the Old Bahama Channel. The Margaret, Huu, of London, is toully lost near Archangel. • FALMOU ; 11, OCTOBER 14. Arrived the Louisa packet, with a Mail from Us. bon, in 11 days p Roscius, Acorn, and El!tabeth met.. chantmen, from the Braz,ls,tsound to Li v. rneol ; I,ft Pernambucco the 17th /kw> ust, under convoy of the Isis frigate, (the l ate has arrived at Portsmout! . ) in company with the following vessels, bound to Liver pool : Clode Scott, Auro, a, and the Rosina--the two former being dull sailors, the lists left them a few days after sailing. Tile latter parted four days before— she made the Western Islands, and it is feared she will be taken, as they fell in with an American priva teer the next day, which the furs dived, but could come up with her. N.ithing sailed to-day. The Lady Arabella packet - had arrived at Lisbon previous to the sailing of the Louisa, and the Duke of Marl- borough packet left Lisbon seven days before the ' Louisa, and has not yet arrived. PLYMoUTI4, oc roBER is. Arrived El Patriota, Acont.o, From New York, with passengers, detained by the SUPERB nian of war; Atalanta, from Guernsey; and Aida, Irt,m Liver pool, bound to Bourdeaux. PORTSMOUTH, OCTOBER 14, Arrived his Maje , ty's ship FREYA. from Plrieutle. Came into harbour his Nl:jesty's ship BAertititz--. His Ni.ijesty's ship Drtake gives iottructi. , ns to the trade b,aind to Spin, rtugal, and the Mediterre. neap.—Wind S.S.E. DEAL, OCTOBER 14. Arrived the OLYMPIA CU. ter from the Westward; Wakefield transport from Ostend, and t4iled for o.e ltivrt ; drum Ip.iit, ha- old rs ; and the Un;ty from lloil.tod. ti.t leJ the Brilliant, teas, fur Bermuda; Alb'on, WrnsrEtt, f r D.cps.e ; And Lsruaralda, OXIAI r Came dit+t a from the River tha Ililder and Fame trAnipuru. SCILLY, OCTOIsER Arrived the day before yesterday the nun . sloop of war, with 40 sail of transports, irom Cork, for Portsmouth, and sailed yestet day for that tort. CORK, OC I OBER 7. Yesterday siiled his Majesty's ships Hat:mint and PILOT, for England, having mider convoy the van. sports with the Oxford, Dorset, Derby, and Ist So merset regiments I militia. and the detachments of the 24th and 31st regiments of the line. His Ma jesty's ship CASTILIAN, Captain Lunen, re-captured, about ten days .:go, 100 leagues to the west of Cape Clear, the ship Carlebilry, of London, from Ctn. c)a to that port, and sent her in this ni , :t him!. H s Ma jesty's ship 'rums. Captain HALLIDAY, has the Con roy Signal for the West Indies, Brazils, a..d Cape of Good Hope. TRADE WITH IRELAND. _ _ _ The following circuit 11,tice w•as posted at Lloyd's offee-house: " London, iOsl. C,ttohrr, 1114. " Eta-1 am directed, by the Commit ee of hie) charls trading with Ireland, to acquaint you, that the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty hay been pl • , Pd 10 direct, that aunvoys, for the protection of the trod, b.• ap. pointed front time to lime, and as frequently as circumstances may render necessary. chow trans Ireland to by und , T the im mediate arrangement of the Admiral a , Cork, at which place is , equired the sb , ps and vessels from Watrrturd rtalt 'Lodes mu% -' that an armed vessel sita:t be ordered to convoy dti s . i pa fromLletterick, .vhen-vcr a sutinlient nt.nibt.r 5f.411 b In [mating to require such pro: re ion ; and that convoys shall ix poinred from Bel est to can uff Newry, and also to bring the trade from Dublin. " ho ships aml vowels for Ireland are to receive protection from Plymouth. " The Committee feel it incumben to rep: csrot, .t has been strongly enjoined upon them by the Lord , oc the A :miralty, to recommend, in Cm most forcible masse•, to the different parties interested, that each, a• much as is in his power, should insist that all vessels in which he may be concern d, .1141 attend to these regulations, and take the uctiefit of the pr .tection to be thus afforded.—Your obedient servant, " WILLIAM Otaihsr, Secretary. By a private ship we have advices from Pernans buco. seven days later than the convtly. The sub sequent is an extract from one of the lettrrs " Putumassics, AUGUST tB. " There are five sLips waiting here at present, tb. Superior, Meditemnean, Samuel Braddick, Eliza , and Succe4s ; but 19 completely destitute of pro uce is tl:is pot, that I Jill convinced oat one of them will be able to proture a ladin g ." Yesterday a Chia 4 Directo's was held at the East India House, when the ship Hertfordshire, of 1200 tons, Captain CHARLES LE BLANc, was taken up and stationed for St. Helena, lks ilice of Wales Island, and China. Captain CHARLES NESBETT was sworn into the command of the ship Essex, consigised to Bom bay and China. Yesterday, parsnant to appointment, the deputa tion of merchants interested in the booding trade. waited upon Lord Livaaeoot. and the CtrANcet.Lon of the Excurount, at Fife-house. Alter heat cng their representation pf the inconveniences which would re suit to the Commercial world from rigidly enfoicing the late order of the Lords of the Treasury, the fol lowing modifications were adopted :—That bark and barilla, ant already warehoused for the period of two years beyond the legal period, 51r.11,1 remain ware housed until the Ist of October, 1815 :—that all other articles not already warehoused twelve months be yond the legal term, should remain until the Ist of January, 1815 :—that the duties on all articles paya ble before the Sl)'h instant, shall be paid by four monthly instalments; the first payme it vs be made before the goods are taken from the warehouse, and security to be given to the Commissioners of the Ex cise and Customs for the rem titling iastalments, tc gether with the legal interest, from the SOtli instant, provided the whole amount be, in each case, not less than 41,000. A letter was ordered to be forwarded to Sir C. PRICE, acquainting hill with their Lord ships' determination upon this subject, in order to its being, through him, communicated to the parties in terested. PRICE OF .7 I'UCKd fhiS DAY AI TWELVE 0'(.3.04;Kt Reduced 6414 per Cent. s 11—:. per Cent. Navy 9641. Consnk 65111- - for account, 66--Sauk Lora Anne. is 1.16tt 013111. Y f 41c-4nd, IU. 16s. pre.-Exclieluer 131114114. Si. pr.