Star. — London, England, 1814-10-14 00:00:00

THE EVENING► STAR. LON DON. , -* tiLID.A. I Ir; OCTOBER. 14, 1814. - • TO•MORRAW.at•NINE ep.k.ocK in the MORNING, the _ . 1.0 FURY REGINS DRAWING; 1 - 4 TO I+E-DRAWN UN THAT DAY. .• , . PM ROB TOM Tifil% I)4Y TWELVE O'CLOCK: Prdured till# t 2. div.--4 to Cent. . L'ottaois "eft —for account, 46f-5 per Cent. Navy *614 7 ron. 23 tit*. —floods t i7s pr.—Er:chequer Dills 21.5.. In*. Logis Amu'. I 1-ttith a dhr. We have this morning received New York Papers to !fie: 4th• ult.' brought to Plymouth by a Spaaish brik,al;ickarrreed therion Wednesday. Their con. tents ate interesting. -• Th. official account of the capure of Washington is creditable to the character of our troops. The only act, of.robbery and pilfering of private property are admitted to hn.ro been perpetrated by their own countmnen.• An American-Journalist humourously concludes the . account of. the capture 'of Washington with— • " l ly Ma b; Sus si I—:IItOSIANISISTRONO, runt Were $6 Tile Lan WONS of MADISON !* The Members of the Government have again made their appearance atWashing,ton, and now that nothing is kit to defend, they are filling the place with troops. The expeciati3n is very general throughout Ame rica, that MADISON'S speech to Congress on the 19th Septtmber, will convey his resignation. Rurus Tunics is mentioned as to be his successor. A letter appen's in Many c f the Papers, dated Rf•ckviile, August 27, in which it is stated that Mr. MADrios h-id at iive..l there, escorted by General MA son anti fifty Virginia dragoons. Lodgings were asked at one house, and positively refused ; he was received at Another, General MAspN having asked for iim:e!fand Mr. Bent?y. [Qr.—Was this Mr. BENTLY Mr. MADISON ?]. AnNtsTneNcr, the Secretary at "War, has been din. missed, and the New York Papers express a hope that the PiIfSIDENT and his adherents will soon also retire. From those papers it would appear that the Ame. :icons have no hope of success in any quarter. They expect every day to hear of a large llitish force 11:-.vng attacked and destroyed SaCkett's Harbour.— Nor do Or y seem to have any resource!, or even hri•Pe3, Lft : for it is anw admitted, that no loan can be obtliaed by the Government;—and, in conse quence, the different States are attempting to nego ci.;te .as for their own separate defence, How this is to he iff i cted it is impossible to conceive; for all business is it a stand, aati no motley in circu• 'Atkin s even the BarAs of New Ycrk and Philadel phia:have stopped all payments in sr:cie, and an at tenspt is sniide by some of the merchants to induce ;he poblic to receive their paper in payments. ca.APTURE OF ALEXANDRIA, BY THE BRITISH. F r om these P 4.213 we learn that, on the 29th of August, only four days after Washington fell into olfrr hands, the town of Alexandria, on the Potomac, wis occupied 14 the British without any resistance. T%e public buldings have been destroyed, 411 the skips and merchandise, including an immense quan tily of flour, tobacco, have been declared prize, and even some vessels which the Amkricans had sunk are to be raised and delivered to the conquerors. • From the circumstances connected with the cap. tore of •Alczandria, we infer that George Town would be in the possession of our troops in two cif three days after. The Mayor of the former Place writes to the Chief Magistrate of the latter, an ayp.trent self,gratnlation on itccount of the gwid Nuns :te LAci obtained, and lucre than hiats ii)at he uili be wise if he folk)** his example, and m .ke :t6 veil a baq;ain. The greater part of the newspapers near the scene properaturus, haying the fear of Admiral Copysmut before their eye*, h4ve announced that they will not for some tinta . be published regularly, but only (Kea,: alonally, 4s eirculustar.ces may. permit. The stile in which the American Journalists relate slwir own disasters is roily humorous. They seem eturt at the practical evid4tce which the result of (ha movements ref their Government has afforded of Sl4 we:ars:au and folly of the men who have brought tha- cointtl into, inch difficulties, They cannot stain from jig and. aril, in their own way, at the dis. 'cot/Alum - of their doughty CSIVITh and Catos, and Brutuses, who were to ptrfurm such prodigies. Our limits prohibit further remarks at present, and we pqn.rtfer our Iterkciers to such extracts .as we can ID Ake, room fur : • • ruOM TUE yttDfRAL REMDLICAIt " Cipogetowp j Angus' 30. 46 PI WE I TN* FOTcIiAC.—A natal force. COLI - of six 'ship% ha, ascended the Potomac. Oa 84- ~urd ter they tgac!ie4 y i nt Warburton, and comrnocent suisaimading is. The Of f icer in tom- ruand v eu. their approach, evacuated and blew up the . . . forr;withciut hr'ng a mini and this, as he states, in Sons! querie of eiiiress order s . Alexandria is thus in the power at the tee, who deinand the surrender of all prdpen eiteept household ftwiliture, and *eaten to destroy 41 the shipping in tip.harhour. ALEXA CAPITULATED. • d! Since the above W;11 in type, we have read the Articles o( C which .the Corporation of It iota tstl r i 4 was f•rced c 'f 'alit to. "l'he ci; i lei; s hat resolve 4, in town meet;ns, that there las not:Aug leitfpr them but tp mast the best teqns They could, since they were abandoned by This Go vernment, and left entirely defenceless. The Mayor of that city has informed the Mayor -of this town, that the enemy would no doubt 'proceed up the Po• tomac, and make the same demands which he was forced to acceed to. The enemy is now coming up, and is in lull view six miles off." COPY OF A LETTER FROM TUE MAYOR OF ALEXANDRIA, TO THE MAYOR OF GEIAGETOWN. " DEAR Sin—Enclosed is a copy of the terms pro. posed to• the Common Council of Alexandria, by the Commanding Officer of the squadron now lying be fore the town, to which they were compelled to sub mit. —I believe they will certainly go to Georgetoun and the City. Very respectfully, your obedient ser vant. (Signed) " CHARLES SIMM. " " His Majesty's Ship Semhor, off Alexandria, £9th Augur, 181 Is " GENTLEMEN—In consequence of a deputation yesterday received from the city of Alexandria, re questing favourable terms for the safety of the city, the undermentioned are the only conditions ia my power to offer. " The town of Alexandria, with the exception of public works, shall not be destroyed, unless hostilities are commenced on the part of the Americans, nor shall the itihab tants be molested in any manner what ever, or their dwelling-houses enteted if the following Articles are complied with : ART. I. All naval and ordnance stores (public or private) must be immediately eelivered up. Po►ses';en will be immediately taken of all the shipping' "and their furniture must be sent on board by thy owners with out dilly. 3 Ihe vessels that have been sunk must be delivered up in the state they were on the 19th of August, the day of the squa dron push's the Kettle Bottoms. 4. Merchandise, of every description, must be Instantly de livered up, and to crevent any irregularity that might be com mitted in its embarkation, the merchants have it at their option to load the vessels generally employed for that purpose, when they will be towed otd• by us. S. All merchandixe that has been removed from Alexandria since the t9th inst. is to be included in the above Articles. 6. Refreshments of every description to be supplied the ships, and paid for at the market price by bills on the British Govern ment. 7. Officers will he appointed to see that Articles No. 2,3, 4 , and 5, are strictly complied with ;and any deviation or nen-com pliance on the part of the inhabitants of Alexandria, will reader this Treaty null and toid.-1 have the honour, &c. (Signed) " JOUN A. Gqienow, Captain of his Majesty's ship Seahorse, and Str'nr Officer of his Majesty's eht<s off Alexandria." " To the Cotnmou Council of tire Town of Alexandria." FROM THE NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER, AVG. 31. Mr. Secretary Monroe has, in pursuance of the united requests of the commanders of the vitrinus description of troops assembled in this district, ac cepted the command of the military force now in the vicinity. General Armstoong having, yesterday, retired from the execution of the duties of Secretary of War in this District, in consequence, probi.bly, of the prejudice which has been excited against him among the troop!, the duties of his office also , have been temporari:y consigned to the Secretlry of State, who immet!iately entered on the discharge of them. Mitny measures will, forthwith, be put in a train of execution which it may not now be proper to announce, and the effect of which will be seen in due time. The enemy continued last night still at Alexan dria, emptying the warehouses, as agreed on in the Capitulation, which will be found in our columns ; a capitulation of such a nature as the citizens of Georgetown indignantly repelled an invitation to enter into. Two of the frigates or vessels of war are said to have gene down yesterday ; but there are doubtless others below to supply their place. The night before last, we learn, nine transports of the largest class entered Patuxent river. Thc.r desti nation is, for the (resent, only matter of conjecture. Troops are every hour arriving in the c►t„ in larger or smaller corps, which it would be difficult, if we wished, to enumerate. Among those arrived or expected are a number of seamen, under their gallant commanders. When we remarked, in our paper of yesterday, that private property had in general been scrupulously respected by the enemy during his late incursion, we spoke what we believed, from a hasty survey, and perhaps without sufficient inquiry. Greater respect was certainly paid to private property than has usually been exhibited by the enemy in his marauding par ties. Nu houses were half as much plundered by the tnemy as by the knavish wretches about the town, who profited of tile general distress. There were, however, several private buildings wantonly destroy. ed, and some of those persons who remained in the city were scandalously maltreated. Among the private buildings destroyed, was the dwelling-house owned and occupied by Mr. Robert Sewall (formerly rented by Mr. GAlatin) from be hind which a gun was fired at General Ross, which killed the horse he rode ; the houses built for General Washington on the brow of Capitol hill, the large hotel belonging to Daniel Carroll sf Dudn, and otters, and recently occupied by Mr. Tomlinson ; the rope-walks of Tench, Ringold, Heath, and Co. and John Chalmers, were destroyed by fire, without any pretence being assigned therefore that we know of. The enemy was conducted through the city by a fornicr resident, who, with other detached traitors, is now in confinement Cockburn was quite a mountebank in the city, cx. hibiting in the streets a gr . nss levity of manner, chi. playing sundry articles of trifling value of which he had robbed the President's house, and orating many of the ceases* jests and vulgar slug .of the Federal Republican respecting the Chief Magistrate and ' others, in a strain of eloquence , . which could only have been acquired by a constant perusal of that disgrace to the country. " r M, The magazine at Greenleaf's Point was destroyed (partially only) and the guns spiked on Thursday. In a dry well belonging to the barracks our soldiers had thrown many barrels of powder for concealment. Alter exploding the magazine, the British soldiers threw casually into this well one or two of their matches, which communicated to the powder depo-', sited there. The effect was terrific. Every one of his soldiers near was blown into eternity, many at a greater distance wounded, and the excavation re mains an evidence of the great force of this explosion.' The enemy retreated from the city with so great precipitation, as to leave half his wounded behind him, amounting to more than a hundred, among I whom are a Colonel and a Major. The force of the enemy is differently represented by deserters and pri-. soners ; but the best informed make the force des tined for the city to have been from four to five thou-, sand well appointed and active men, infantry, artil lery, rucketeers, &c. The enemy did not bury their dettd, except those in the vicinity of their camp. - The rest, in number nearly 2GO, were buried by a Committee of oar own Citizens sent out for the purpose. After the action, on the retreat, Maks;‘Morgan, of Winchester, fainted from fatigue, and expired in a few hintrs afterwards. We again caution our readers against giving too much credt to all the rumours wlitch arc widely and industriously circulated, general!) , from erroneous in formation, but sometimes we arc convinced froM less pardonable causes, in relation to the battle at Bla densburg. Justice, however, requires its to say that much dissatisfaction prevailed among the troop; who were engaged, at having been led so soon and so far from the field of action. It is a general opinion aniong them, how just *e say not, that the enemy might have been successfully resisted to the end by the force we had in the field. This is a question, the solution of which materi.►lly depends on the num htr of troops the enemy brought into the field, as to which, as we before observed, we are not accurately informed, and much difference of opini,n Frevails. GENERAL WINDER'S OFFICIAL LETFER. COPY OF A LrTTER PROMIBIOADIIi•OF.NERAL WINO= TO THE bECUSTARY AT WAII, DATED " Baltimore, August 27, 1214. 0 Sin—When the enemy arrived at the mouth of the Potomac, of all the militia which I ha..l been au ri-olized to assemble, there were about 1700 in the lield—from thirteen to fourteen hundred under Ge neral Stansbury, near this place. and about two hen. Jred and fifty at Bladensburg, u tiler Lieutenant colonel Kramer. The. slow progress of draft, and the imperfect organization, with the ineffectiveness of the laws to compel them to turn out, rendered it im possible to have procured more. The militia of this State and of the contiguous p•trts of Virginia and Pennsylvania were called on to maw; hut the former militia law of Pennsylvania had expired the Ist of June or July, and the one adopted in i:s place is not to take effect in organizing the otilitia before October. No aid, therefore, has been received from that State; 46 After all the force that coall be put at my dis posal in that short time, and waking such di-pni tions as I &wised best calculated toinesent the most respectable force at whatever point the enemy might strike, I was enabled, by the most active and har rassing movement of the troops, to interpose before the enemy at Bladensburg, about 5000 mcn, i3g 550 regulars, and Commodore B irney's com mand. Much the largest eortion of this force ar- 1 rived on the ground when the enemy were in sight, and were disposed of to support, in the ben tna.oner, the position which General Stansbury had taken.— They had barely reached the grewid before the action commenced, which was about one o'clock, P. at. of the 24th instant, and continued about an hour. "-The contest was not as obstinately maintained as could have been desired, but was, by parts of the troops, sustained with great spirit and•prodigious effect; and had the whole of our force been equally firm, I am induced to believe the enemy would have been repulsed, notwithstanding 41 the disadvan tages ender which we fought. The artillery from Baltimore, supported by Major Pinkney's rifle battalion, and a part of Capt. Dough. ty's from the Navy-yard, were in advance to com mand the pass of the bridge at Bladensburgh, and played upon care enensy k aa I have since learned, with very destructive effete.. But the rifle troops were ob liged after some tinletssmetire, and of course the ar tillery. Supe . rior iambics, htiwever, rushed upon them, and Made thetYetteat necessary; not howeve r without great loss on' the part of the enemy. Major Pinkney received a severe wound in his right arm after he had retired to the of Stanbury's bri. gads. The right and centre of Stansbury's brigade, consisting of Lieutenant Colonels Ragan and Shiner's regiments generally, gave way very soon afterwards, with the exception of about forty, rallied by Colonel Ragan, after having lost hit horse, and the whole or apart of Captain Shower's company, both of whom Gtoteral Stansbury represents to have made, even thus deserted, a gallant stand. .The fall which Lieutenant-C o l one l R agan re . ceived from his horse, together with his great efforts to sustain his position, rendered btu' unable to tollniv the retreat; we have therefore to lament that this gallant and excellent officer has been taken prisoner ; he has, however, been paroled, and I met him here recovering from the bruises occasioned by his The loss of his services at this moment is seriou,. 41 The sth Baltimore regiment, under Lieutenant. Colonel Sterrett, being the left of Brigadier-General Stosbury's brigade, gill however stood their ground. and except fur a moment. whets part of them rbeciled a few steps, remained firm, and stood until ordered I , to retreat, with a view to prevent them from being I out-flanked. The reserve, undo. Brigidier-General Smith, of the district of Columbia, with the militia of the city and Georgetown, with the regulars and some detach. ments of Maryland militia, flanked on the right by CommoJore Barney and his brave fellows, and Lies tenant-Colonel Beal, still were to the right on the hi:l„ and maintained the contest for some time with grn: effect. 64 It is not with me to report the conduct of Com- modore Barney and his command, nor can I spoak from observation, being too remote, but the colcur. rent testimony of all that d►d observe tl.em, the highest justice for their brave resistance and the destructive effect they produced on the enemy. Commodore Barney, after having lost his hone, took post near one of his guns, and there unfortunately received a severe wound in the thigh, and he also fell into the hands of the enemy. Captain Miller, of the marines. was wounded In the arm. fighting bravely. Front tha best intelligence, there remains but little doubt that ►he enemy lgat at least 4'20 killed and wounded, and of these a very unesual portion killed. 44 Our loss cannot, I think, be estimated at more than from 30 to 40 killed, and 50 or 60 wounded. 44 They took altogether about 120 prisoners. a You will readily understand that it is impossible for me to speak minutely of merit ur demerit of parti. cular troops so little known to me from their recent and hasty assemblage. My subsequent movements for the purpose of preserving as much of my force as possible, gaining reinforcements. and protecting this plaCe, you already know. I am, with great respect, Sir, your obedient servant. Wu. H. WINDER, Brig.-Gets. 10th Mil, D. " Hon. John Armstrong, Seerr.ary of Wit. •• NJ 3. WI have to lament, that Captain &met. of the sth Baltimore regiment, has also been wounded, but is doing well. Other officers, no doubt, dram notice, but I am as yet unable to particularise." COPY OP A LETTER PROD THE 48CRITARY 08 WAX TO CAPTAIN DVS )X, DATED AUGUST 29. gi SIR-I send c4ptain Maginattlt with orders to receive your written or verbal report of the ;awes under which you acted, and from whom received... I am, S;r, your most obedient servant, (Signed) " J. AIULStRONCI. " Captain town ) Corps of Artillery." " Camp at Maconea Island. August O. " SIR-I had the honour to receive your comma• nication of the 20th inst. The orders received from Brigadier. General Winder through Major Hite, vets. hilly, on the 24th inst. were, in case I was oppressed by, or heard of, an enemy in my rear, to spike our guns and make my escape over the river. The enemy approached by water on the 27th, and we had learnt on that day through several channels that tl'e enemy had been reinforced at Benedict, 6000 strong, and Neat the• were on their march to cooperate with the fleet, in adeition to the force whrch left the city.— Under all these circumstaneev, the Officers under my command were consulted, and agreed it was b.ct to abandon the fort and effect a retreat. The force under my command was thought not egnil to a de• fence of the place.—l have the honour to be, with great consideration, your obedient servant, (Signed) " ;Militia. F. awn. " 7 he Ham. John Armstraag, Set. at War, Washington. ° Captain Dyson is, we learn, under Amy. and the command of his company given to Lieut. Spencer. The enemy having evacuated this city, those hills. bitants who departed, generally returned on Satur. day. No attempt has since been made by the enemy to re-occupy it. We have received Puis Papers of Tuesday, but their contents are not very sttiking, and the interest of our details from America renders them still less worthy of attention. A Dutch Mail also arrived this morning, to which the same observation applies. The latest accounts from Ghent are of the lath instant. Lord Game= had been to Antwerp and Bergen•op•Zoom, Mr. GotaAram to Antwerp aid Brussels, and. the American Ministers to Brussels, and had returned from their various excursions by the 15th inst. expecting at that time, as we haw; he :ore an. nounced, the arrival of some important commitnitaa Lion from London. The dispatches sent of (.8 Fri day last will be the first communicAtinnly to re• new active intereourte.—ln the mean time the intel ligence of the capture of IVadiin g ton lye i:s weight in bringing the American Commis:in. to more moderate and conciliating expectations than they have hitherto tah,bited. Yesterday Prince Fus.nottuat ..f Ounce. and Coe Duren Ammo/twit, f.adi aud.encei of ii.e PhiNce ReckNf at Carlton 1 - :oust. The Princ.r wis duced by his Exce:l..l.cy, and, we • n.i.rstani, • ..k leave of the P►ttscu RIA:INT previous to his le..ving England. incess of WA LEs has arrived in r.ris o iiikgc 4 d of prcisecutiis her route to Italy. • •