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nh 1 m 1 44 •ri •i• reatiter se* - 011 y took a posittollo on our wegt h e t bow, to rake us; to prevent which, fill s oupting to wear, to get our starboard broadside w bear urn her, a number of the guns of the larboard h ro adsiie being at this time disabled, fell on board t h e Queen Charlotte, at this time running up to lee ward of Us: in this situation the two ships remained f o r some time. As soon as we got clear of her, I or dered the Queen Charlotte to shoot ahead of us if pos- I *, and attempted to_back - our foretop-sail to get aster n, but the ibip laying completely unmanageable, ever y brace cut away, the miaentop-mast and gaff down, all the other masts badly wounded, not a stay left forward, hull shattered very much, a number of t h e guns disabled, 'and the enemy's squadron raking both ships ahead and astern, none of our own in a s i tua tion to support us; I was under the painfttl nez ee isity of answering the enemy, to say we had struck, the Queen Charlotte having previously done so.--. 1 have the honour to be, &c. (Signed) - GEORGE IN6LIs. To Captiin Barclay. Sec. &e &c. A STATEMENT OF 711 E FORCE or ors MAJESTY'S stoertolll ON LAKE ERIE, AND TRAY OF 711 E UNITED STATES. , & id . * squadron—Detroit, 2 long 24-pottit&r4, 1 lOog 18:poun der, 6long 12-poundera, 8 long 9-pounders, one 24-pounder orro cide, one 18-pounder carronade; Queen Charlotte, three u n t ig.goanders, 14 24-pounder carronades; Lade Prevost, s }, j o g 9 pounders, ten 12-pounder carronades ; Hunter, too • i b i l4 s4 o9 9gers, 4 long 4-pounders, t king 2-pounders, and I , 2:p o under carronadts; little Belt, I long 9-pounder, 2 long s o po nildeis; Cbipprway. 1 long 9-pounder. United States Squadron—Lawrence, two long 12-pounders, le 32-pounder carronades ; Niagara, 2 long 12-pounders, 18 32- Fonda carronades; Caledonia, 2 long 24-pounders, one 32- pouzder carronades, all on pivots; Artel, 4 long 12-pounders, all ou pivots ; Summers, one long 24-pounder, one 9:;-pounder c a t onele, all on pivots; Porcupine, one long 34-pounder, on 3 pivot; Tigress, one long 32-pouncler, co a pivot; Scorpion, one tong so-pounder, one 24-pounder,, ail on pivots; Trigs one long 2+-pounder, on a pivot. (Signed) (A True Copy.) R. H. BARCLAY, COMMUNISE. A LIST or EILLED AND.MOSINDED IN an MAJESTY'S MID* AIM VASSALS, IN AN ACTION INITN TNE AMERICAN SQUADRON WI LAKE ERIE, Tilt PIN serrstassa, 1013. Tyree Officers, na mix, killed; 9 Officers CS rata, wounded. Total—Forty one killed, 91 wounded. NAMES of OFEICEId itta.ari AND WOUNDED. Vent. Jamss Garden, Royal Newfoundland Regiment, Wed. Detroit—First Lieutenant John Garland, killed ; Caroms-R. H. & re l a y, and J. R. Hoffintister, purser, wounded, dangerously. Quern Charlotte—Ciptain Robert Finnic, killed; First Lieute nant James Stokoe, wounded, be verely- —Junes Foster, 14td. thipman, slightly. Lady Prevost—Lieutenant Edward Buchan, commanding, woum ded, dangerously ; First Lieutenant P. Rolette, severely. Hunter—Lieutenant George Bignall, commanding,. wounded, severely—Henry Gateshill, Master's Mate, slightly. • Clippessae—Masteis Mate J. Campbell, commanding, woun ded, slightly. (Signed) R H. BARCLAY, Conunander, and late Senior Officeg. FROM THE NOVA SCOTIA GAZETTE. GENERAL ORDER. fleacl-quarters, Montreal, N0v.24; 1513. eg His Excellency the Commander of the Fo;ces hts received an official report from Major.Getteral Proctor, of the affair which- took place on the 9th of October, near the Moravian village, and he has 'in vain sought in it for grounds to late the report trade to his Excellency by Staff Adjutant Reiffen stein, upon which the• General Order of the lfith of October was founded—on the contrary, that state merit remains confirmed in all the principal events which marked that disgraceful day : the precipitaqc; with which the Staff. Adjutant retreated from the field of action, prevented his ascertaining the loss sus tained by the division on that occasion ; it also led him most grossly to exaggerate the enemy's forte, and to misrepresent the conduct of the Indian Warriors, who, instead of retreating towards Machedash, as he had stated, gallantly maintained the conflict, under the brave chief Tecumseth, and is their turn harassed the American army on its retreat to Detroit. " The subjoined Return states the loss the tight division has 'sustained in the action of the fleet on Lake Erie on the 10th of September, and in the grail Of the sth October near the Moravian Village; in the latterbut very few- appear to have been rescued by an haaoutable death from the ignominy Of passing under the American yoke, nor are there many, whose wounds plead in mitigation of this reproach. The right division appears to have been incumbered with _ an unmanageable load of unnecessary, and forbidden private baggage—while the requisite arrangements for the expeditious and certain conveyance of the am munition and provisions, the sole objects worthy of consideration ? appear to'have been totally neglected; as well as all those ordinary measures, resorted to by Officers of intelligence to retard, and impede the ad vance of a pursuing enemy. The result affords but too fatal a proof of'this unjustifiable neglect. The :ight division had quitted Sandwich on its retreat, on the 26th September, having had ample time for every previous arrangement, to facilitate and secure that movement ; on the 2d October folbwing the enemy pursued by the same mute, and on ffie 4th succeeded in captuiing all the stores if the division, and on the following day attacked and 'defeated it almost With out a struggle. " With heartfelt pride and satisfaction tier Cain :under of the Forces had lavished on the right divi sion of this army, that tribute of praise which was so justly due to its former - gallantry and steady disci pline. It is with poistiant grief and mortificitlOlC, that he now beholds its well-earned laurels tarnished, end its conduct calling loudly for reproach and cen lure. The Commander of the Forces appeals to the genuine feelings of the British soldier, from whom he neither conceals the extent of the loss the army has.sustained, nor the far more to be lamented injury it has suffered in its wounded honour, confident that put one sentiment will animate every breast, and that, unions to wash out the stain, which, by a most ex traordinary and unaccountable infatuation, has fallen en a formerly deserving portion of the army ; all will vie to emulate the glorious achievements recently' performed, by, a small but highly-spirited and well disciplined division, led by officers possessed of en: terprize, intelligence, and gallantry, nobly evincing 'what British soldiers can pertoim, when susceptible of no fear but that of failing in the discharge of their duty. 4 His Excellency considers it an act cf justice ? to exonerate most• honourably from this censure, the brave soldiers of the right division who were serving as mariners on board the squadron on Lake Eric.— The Commander of the Forces having received the official Report of Captain Barclay of the action which took place on Lake Erie, on the 10th of September, when that gallant evinces:, from circumstances of im. perions necessity, was compelled to seek the superior tout of the enemy, and to Mil/4k an arduous and long.cadtested anger circumstances - of accu mulating ih.fortunl. - '• Captain Barclay tepretents that the windoehich was favourable early in the day, suddenly changed, giving the enemy the weather-gage, and that this important advantage was shortly atter the commence ment of the engagement, heightened by the fall of Captain Finnis, the Commander of the Queen Char lottez—in the death of that intrepid and intelligent officer, Captain Barclay laments the loss of his main suppot t. " The fall of Captain. Finnis was soon followed by that of Lieutenant Stokoe, whose country was de prived of his services at this very critical period, leaving the command of the Queen. Charlotte to pro ,vincial Lieutenant Irwin, who conducted himself with great courage, but was too limited in experience to ,supply the place of such an officer as Captain Finnis, and, in consequente; this vessel proved of far less as aristant:e than might be expected. " ,The action commenced about a quarter before o'clock, and-continued with great fury until half past two, when the American Commodore quitted his .. ship, which strata shortly after, to- that corn- Mended by Captain Barclay, (the Detroit) hitherto she determined valour displayed by the British squa dron had - surmounted every disadvantage, and the day was in our favour ; but the contest had arrived at that period when valour alone was unavailing— the Detroit and Queen Charlotte were perfect wrecks, and required the utmost skill of seamanship, while the Commanders and second officers of every ve s sel were either killed or wounded,; not more than fifty British seamen were dispersed in the crews of the squa dron, and of these a great proportion had fallen in the conflict. " The American Commodore made a gallant but too successful effort to regain the day. His second largest vessel, the Niagara, had suffered little, and his numerous gun-boats, which had proved the great est source of annoyance during the action, were all uninjured. :- 46 Lieutenant Garland, Ist Lieut. of the Detroit, being mortally wounded, previous to the wounds of Captain Barclay obliging him to quit the deck, it fell to the lot of Lieutenant Ingles, to whose intrepidity and conduct the highest praise is given, to surrender his Majesty's ship, When all farther resistance bad become unavailing. The enemy, by having the weather gage, were enabled tachoose their distance, and thereby availed themselves of the great advantage they derived in „superiority of heavy long guns ; but Captain Barclay attributes the fatal result of the day to the unprece dented fall of every commander, and second in com mand, and the very small number of able seamen left in the squadron, at a moment when the judg ment ot the officer, and skilful exertions of the sailor, were most eminently called tor. " To the British seamen Captain Barclay bestows dq highest praise—that they behaved like British seamen. • From the Officers and soldiers ot the regu lar forret serving is marines, Captain Barclay expe rienied every support within their power, and states, that their conduct -has excited 1 - iis warmest thanks and admiration. !‘ Deprived of the palm of victory when almost within his grasp, by an overwhelming force 'which the enemy possessed in reserve, aided by an accuniti- Lition of unfortunate circumstances, Captain Barcla and his brave treat' have by their gallant daring and belt-devotion to their country's . cause, rescued its ho nour, and their own, even in - defeat. • (Signed) 64 go BAviss, Adje: Gen." maTitii.Or TH6 RIGHT DIVI'ION OF THiIistARMY OF UP/Pik CA.ti ANDK. DRTACIOMRWT 811141110 AS MARI*ES OK . BOARD TSB SQDAGRDiI IN THE ACTION Of 111TH CifTEMELI, 1819. Kti.i.t —1 Lieutenant, I hesitant. Li rank and Me. Woutiutn.-3 Serjrants, 40 rank and file. • r Pelson ilS.— 2 Lit utenants, -1 Assistant Surgeon, 4 keine% 4 drummers, 167 rank autibe. KILLED, VfOUNDID, AND MISSING. IN THE TESTRIAT, AND IN • 4CTION ON. 5T * ll DCTORDII. II4I,3 . 1 Inspecting Field Officer, 1 Deputy Assistant Quarter-Master General, 1 Fort-Adjutaut. I Hospital-Mate, 1 Lieutenant-Co* uer, 6 Captains, 12 Lieutenants, 3 Corhets or Eusivss, 1 Pair ma,ter, I Assistant-Sirrgeun, 34 &dem., 13 Drummers, 550 , rank and Ale, and 46 homes. MUMBLED Al ANCASTER ON THE 17 TX OCTOBEI, 1813. 3 Major-General, 1 Major of Brigade, I Aid-de-Camp, 1 Staff-Adjutant, 3 Captains, 5 Lieutenants, 2 CNirnets or tasigns, 1 Adjutant, 1 Quarter-Mater. 2 Assistant-Surgeons, 15 Set ; joints, 9 Drummers, 'O4 rank and file, 53 liaises. TOTAL STRENGTH Of Tice RIGHT DIVISION * ON TIE 10TH Of' SETTLIEBER. -1 Major General, I Inspecting Field Officer, 1 Major of Bade, 1 Deputy Aiiisiant Quarter Master General, 1 Aid-de-' 1 Staff Adjutant, 1 Port Adjutant, 1 Hospital Mate, Lieutenant Colour!, 9 Captains, 23 Lieutenants, 5 Cornets air Ensigns, 1 Paymaster, 1 Adjutant, I Quarter Mister, 4 Assistant • Surgeons, 57 Serjeants, 26 drummers, EH rank and file, and 9 bi l es tatn—Lieut. Gonion, Royal Newfoundland Regiment. (`lgned) EDWARD BAT N Es, Adjut.-Gen. -.- 7' - I THE EVENING ST.AIt. r LONDON. - ~~ WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1814. R irk o 0;1'0610 THIS DAY AT TWELVE o * Cl.o*. Red. 64 67 66f—Cons. 66;ff—for acc. 67f-4 per Ct. 6211 • 5 per Cr. 950—0nm.19f y 0 19{—Bonds 73.115. pre. Lg. Anna. 16 ft 7.l6tbs•—Exchequer Bills 4r.. Ss. pre. HALIFAX PAPERS. cAP'rtYRZ OF FORT GEOR9E, l>K CANAD 4. &c. &c. ,• • We have \ received Halifax Papers to the .2rst;tilt. brought by the HYENA sloop of war, which hat" ar:. rived at Portsmouth. They contain the tolliwing intelligence: " HALIFAX, moony is. " The Quebec Mail arrived on Monday evening, last, left Quebec on the 22d ultimo; by it two very interesting General Orders were received, one an nouncing the further imprisonment of American OB9 ! cers under the retaliatory system, the other the cap ture of Fort George on the 12th becember, by a British force." GENERAL ORDER. " Head-quarters, Montreal, December la. , 4 His Freeliency the Governor in Chief and Com mander of the Forces has to announce to the troops under his command, that he has received a commu nication from General Wilkinson, conamanding a division of die Army of the 'United Stases of Ame rica, by order of his Government, of Which the fol lowing is an extract : ' 4 , The Government of the United States, adhering unalterably td the principle and purpose declared in the communication of General Dearborn to you, of the subject of the twenty-three American soldiers prisoners of ware sent to England to be tried as cri minals, and the confinement of the like number of British, soldiers, prisoners of war, selected to abide the fate of the former, has, in consequence of the step taken by the British Government, as now com municated, ordered forty-six British Officers into close confinement, and that they will not be discharged from their confinement until it is known that the forty-six American Officers and Non-commissioned Officers in question are no longer confined. " It would be superfluous to use any argument tQ refute an assumption so extravagant, unjust, and un precedented as to deny the right of a free nation to bring to legal trial, in due course of law, her own na tural-born subjects, taken in the actual commission *of the most heinous offence that man can commit against his King, his Country, and his Goo, that of raising his parracide arm against his allegiance tolis countrymen, by leaguing with their enemies; a crime held in such abhorrence, by every civilized nation in Europe, that summary death by the law martial is its avowed reward, and is inflicted with unrelenting severity by France, the ally of the United States. 44 This pretension must appear to every unpreju diced and upright mind .as iniquitous and unjust as . is the retaliation the Government of the United States has adopted, by placing in close confinement 23 British soldiers, as hostages for an equal•ntunber of infamous wretches, the unworthy offsFing of treat Britain ; who when drawn from the ranks of the enemy, solicited to be suffered to expiate their treason by turning their arms against their recent employers. These rebels have, with the contempt they merit, been consigned to the infamy and punishment that await them from the just laws of their offended country ; while the Government of the United States does not blush to claim these outcast traitors as their.own, and outrage the custom of civilised war in the persons of honourable men, by placing them on a par with rebels and deserters. " No alternative remains to the Commander of the Forces, in the discharge of his duty- to his Ring, his country, and his fellow soldiers, but to order all the American officers, prisoners of war, without excep tion of rank, to be immediately placed in close con ,finement, as hostages for the forty-six British officers so confined by the express command of the supreme authority in that country, until the number of forty. six be completed, over and above - those now in con finement. His Excellency directs that this Genera Order, together with the Order issued on. titel7th Octobef, be read to the troops, that the litildsh soldier may be sensible of the terms on which America has deter mined to wage this war; confident that he will meet them with proper spirit and indignation ; for, should he become the prisoner of a foe so regardless of these laws, which for ages have governed civilized nations at war, he would be doomed to a rigorous confine ment, and that perhaps only preparatory to a more savage scene. (Signed) " EDWARD BAY NIS, Adjutant•Generat North America." " QUEBEC, DECEMBER 21. • " Yesterday morning arrived in town from Mon.' treal, his Excellency the Governor-General. " Now that the military campaign is ended, the Legislative one may be expected soon to begin. It is expected the Militia Laws will engage much of the time of the Legislature." GENERAL ORDER. "'Head Quzrters, Quebec, December 21. II His Excellency the Governor in Chief and Com mander of the Forces, has received a Dispatch from Major General De Rottenburg, transmitting a letter .from Major General Vincent, containing an Official Report from Colonel Murray, of his having taken possession of Fort George, at Niagara, on the 12th Inst. without opposition. " The Colonel states, than having received intelli .gence of its being tlfe enemy's intention to plunder the adjacent country, and to carry off the loyal inha , bitants of that district, that be immediately made a forced march with a small detachment of th‘ advanced corps under his command, consisting of a party of Royal Artillery with two field-pieces, about forty `light cavalry, and 340 of the 100th regiment, under Lieutenant-Colonel Hamilton, the whole amounting only to-379 rank and file, together with about 20 Volunteers and 70 Western Indians, under Colonel Elliott, and notwithstanding the inclemency of the weather, succeeded in arriving in time telfru-strate the enemy's predatory design, who abandoned the fortress with such precipitation, on the approach of the detachment, that his tents were left standing, nor had he time to injure the works of the place, which have been restored, to a respectable state of defence by the enemy; and would have required a regular siege to reduce. " The enemy succeeded in crossing over his ord nance and stores, previous to his flight, which has been marked by eternal infamy and disgrace, in the wanton conflagration of the whole town, which, in defiance of the common rights of humanity, and in direct violation of the reiterated protestations at the . • —.glean Commanders to rehpeet,priratl properly, has at this inclement season been recloced to ashes. By the judicious and prompt movement of Co lonel Murray. the Niagara frontier has been rescued from its invaders, and a fruitful and- extensive TY .% trict preserved from meditated plunder, and its I y. 1 inhabitants from further outrage, and imprisa:l - neither the pledged faith of the Ame rican Commander, not their patient submi.sion to the imperious will of the Lawless - Invaders, would have secured them from suffering. (Signed) 4 , Ecpw. BAYWkI, Adj. Gen." SECOND EDITION. REPORTED CAPTURE OF 'BRUSSELS AND BR i t/GES:. • STAR-OFFICE, TWO O'CLOCK` A letter has this moment been received by one of the most respectable Houses in the City, dated Os. tend, the 4th instant, which states that Brusseli and Bruges were in possession of the Allies, and that all the Civil Authorities had left Ostend, the. Allies . being expected hotrly to enter that place. HALF-PAST TWO O'CLOCK. . Other letters have limo itieiv.'d trona . •Irollend'by a bye-boat : they are dated the 6th instant, mid state in addition to the above, that Ghent, andAtiwihae of the towns'of tr.tbAnt, as far as Ostend; are in pos session of the Allies, the Fiench having abandoned them, retreating into the French teiritory.—Brussels was entered on the 4th instant. - p The Gazette of last night, with its Supplements, contains dispatches from almost every quarter of the world, where there are military Gperatioas going for. ward. The details, however, have been in a great measure anticipated by previous communications. From the Allied,Armies in France, *the intelli gence, although not recent, is; highly ittteriqing.—:- , Marshal BLUCHEK has occupied Nancy in great force, and what is more inportant, heWas in full communi cation with the Bavarian army under Count Warr and the Grand Allied Army under nine, SbitesAa*. ZENBEIIG. It is very probable, therefor g e,:thatllbria. PARTE has had an affair of setne,..magl44l4E.Wiih BLUCHER, long 'ere this, but the result tatthHit, we think, be doubtful. . . . The dispatches from Sir Goons PRZVOST, ** nada, give an equally pleasing account of affairs In that quarter ; and those from Lord Wairsgroft are not less giatifying. CINEMA. 'ORDER_Oit • UHL GRAND AMY .OF • THE ALLIES. MontbTllar4, Jan. R. 44 At this moment; vrhen the army is . advAn.cing upon the French territory, I think it my duty to fe mind the Commanders of corps if the orders which preceded that movement, and to . enj'iin them to re- friable their zeal for the maintenance of order and discipline : they will exact the same attention, ? tinder a responsibility the most exten i ive, f r on t totn- , manders of regiments, battalions, &c.—the troops will make the scourge of war bear as lightlY as possible bn the inhabitants; 'and on no acci•iiiir Alit they exact :more than the fixed marching a; iow ince.• i“ The conduct and exact diccipline et the s•Vier must fulfil the solemn •engagement entered' into by the Allied Monarchs, in their . Declaration to the French people—must convince them that we do not 'make war upon them, and that sire are new in the n list of them only to conquer peace, and to enable them to participate of its blessings. The army, in unitin tO its well-proved valour the most severe discipline, will fix the admiration of its own age; and that of generations to come. 44 The Commandants of Corps will repeat to their troops the order that the most severe punishment will be inflicted on every offender, as due lo the honopr of the army which . is entrusted to my command ; they will also every where announce, that every inha. bitant out of uniform, taken with arms, in his hands, being only to be considerain such case as a male factor or assassin, shall be judicially condemned as 'such, and punished with death. 46 The town, city, or village, the inhabitants of which shall oppose any resistance, and commit any acts of hostility, shall be razed, and reduced to ashes." PROCLAMATION. PRENCHMEN—Suffer not yourselves to be de. ceived by calumnious reports, disseminated by male volence. Behold, in the armies of the allied Sove reigns, only the armies of humanity, who have -no `other enemies but the enemies of peace. Your rela tives, your friends, your brothers, your children, prisoners in a foreign land, unite their° wishes with ours for peace-but the .first benefit of which to then will be, their speedy return to the bosom of 'their families." Yesterday . soon after three . o'clock his Roval High. ness the Commander-in-Chief attended at his office in the Horse Guards, and gave interviews to a number of personages upon military business, &c. Among them were the Marquis of BUCKINGHAM, Lieutenant. General Lord Ft:OMM, Lienteaant-General Sir H. OAKes, Lieutenant-General FINCH, -Major-General DAILY, Major-General FARE, and Lieutenant-Colonel ,qtrecAar, on his return from the army ander the alatqUis of WILLINGTMI. Lieutenant-Colonel Dun- LEY ST. Lana HILL, Bth Portuguese Cacadoret, also took leave previous to his ring out again to take the command of his regiment, now in France. • Some time since, Mr. ' Sal tory, a butcher, of • Slough, near Windsor, packed up and sent 'Lord WaLLINOTON a fine baron of beef, to keep his Christ. mas with. The Noble Marquis felt extremely grstertil for this true English 'fare, and Mr. Stoma, ha s rt . mired a latter of thaaks from his Lordship. P