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a On Monday, the 2 d of January, 1815, will be published, price 2a. No. I. of ANEW LITERARY JOURNAL, entitled the BRITISH LADY'S MAGAZINE. To be continued Monthly. Greatness of mind, and nobleness, their seat In Ittit Idveliest. Witvrels. The above is to be considerelps an attempt to supply the more cultivated and intellectual order of Females, with a com prehensive Journal, in which an effort will be made to combine the light and elegant associations that are more peculiarly femi nine, with a Ins attention to the progression of the higher depart ments of Literature, of Morals, and of general Inform Lion. Pinned for i. Souter, Wo. I, Paternoster-row. FRENCH PAPERS. HAVRE, NOVEMBER 25. Last night some travellers brought us the intelli genze that foreign refined sugars would continue to ' be prohibite.l as they have been for the last twenty years. This intelligence diffused a joy truly patriotic ; and although our locality was perhaps interested in the admission of refined sugars, since we were in the habit of receiving numerous cargoes, the public spirit, which in France flows from reason, stifles all indivi dual interest : 'every one feels that it is advantageous to our Colonies, our manufactures, and to a large mass of industrious men, to reserve to the grench re finers the privilege of feeding their fellow Citizens, and of giving work to a great number of families. If the price of loaf sugar rises for the moment, it is evident that the rivalship of our refiners will restore the prow equilibrium ; that the clayed . sugass will supply the want of the refined, aad that the people will content themselves, as heretofore, with raw sugar and molasses ; that in two months we shall receive the first cargoes from our own Island, and that by And by the raw material will become abundant. It may, therefore, be concluded that our sugar refi neries, by increasing in number, will of themselves invite purchasers, by lowering the prices. England, formerly our rival in industry, now our model, has maintained for centuries her system, which has raised her to the rank of the first Commercial Power. She has reserved all the profits of workman ship for her manufactures, by excluding from her consumption all the productions of foreign manufac tures: By imitating her, France ought to find at least the same results, since her population furnishes her with twice as many arms to employ, and conse quen:ly more than double the number of consumers. Tire prohibition of foreign refined sugars has this adv ►ntage, *that it tranquillizes all the trench manu facturers, and that many capitalists will now confi dently form establishments, since our national indus try will continue to be favoured. CAN 213,1 PAPERS. MONTREAL, OCTOBER 99. The express from Upper Canada, which arrived yesterday morning, confirmed the highly satisfactory reports of the preceding day, that the enemy had precipitately retreated on the 19th instant, from be tore Chippawa, after destroying a qisantity of pro visions and heavy baggage ; and that, on the 21st, ihey had passed over to Dufraloe a great part of their force, and were blowing up the works at Fort Erie. Further accounts from Kingston have been received this morning to the 26th instant, when the official re pc t of the enemy's retreat from Fort Erie, after the destruction cf the works, had not reached that place, but thole was no doubt of the fact. Major-General DeWaneville commanded the corps pressing on the . enemy ; the master of a mail which arrived at Kingston cm the 9.5 th, in 24 hours from F , ,rl George, further confirms the previous intelli gence, and reports that several hundred prisoners were taken, before the Americans effected their escape across the river. On the 18th the British clme up with his rear guard, and, in a sharp action, thirty of the Ame ricans were left on the field, without a casualty happening on our side. This was at Chippawa Creek. The enemy then fled with the utmost preci pitation to Fort Erie, and Organ the destruction of his fortifications. A military courier from Kingston arrived this morning, brings no additional news of importance. tir James Yeo had returned to Kingston with the sick of the army of Niagara on board. He again sailed for the Head of the Lake. A private letter from Niagara of the 19th instant, says, that a severe action took place the day before near Chippawa ; our loss is stated at ten killed and rounded. That of the enemy is supposed to be very considerable ; a field-piece made to bear upon one of his columns did great execation. Another letter denies any loss itt killed, but makes the wound twenty-five or thirty. MONTREAL, NOVEMBER 5. From Upper Canada we have received nothing of i)nportanee. The report of the whole American army's having crossed the Niagara was a mistake, as the last accounts from that quarter mention that Ge rierals Brown was still in possession of Fort Erie. r• ••'v QUEBEC, NOVEMBER. S. • We were in expectation of some further details of the" operations on the Niagara fiontier by this day's Montreal post: but they had not arrived at one o'clock. The evacuation by the enemy of our territory on that frontier, is a striking illustration of the impor tance of the command of the Lake. The enemy did not cross over to our side till the moment that his fleet was ready to assume the superiority. The re. appearance of our fleet effected what could not be done by the expense of so much blood and treasure. FROM. THIF., QUEBEC GAZETTE. The American Government has published the pa. pets relating to the late .negotiations at Ghent. We confess that we have seen these papers with feelings 9f some. satisfaction and much regret; satisfaction that we can now say that the honour of the British Government is pledged to do something for the BA. tish interests in North America, and regret that that something is so little. 1,1 . 4 Ladians are to be, made independent of both nitiittas.' This is perfectly just, and would, under cerfain circumstances, greatly add to the security of tTi l'lnvinces. The Lakes are to be exclusive)) , t,i . ; ,h. On these subjects we must be permitted to e,4, bow long they would remain so—how long the Weans would retain their independence in the event of another war, if the communication with them should be in the power of the enemy ? The sole com munication for military purposes, with the Indians and the Lakes, is by the river St. Lawrence, from Montreal to Kingston, and from Niagara to Fort Erie ; and the Americans ate to be permitted to re main in possession of one of its banks! The enemy has hitherto been prevented from interrupting this communication by the thinness of the settlements on their side, the consequent badness of the roads, and difficulty of supplying a large force. The possession of the southern bank of the St. Lawrence, between Montreal and Kingston, and the power of supply. jug themselves, and operating on that frontier, by 'the roads now existing, and from Lake• Champlain, 'has been worth a large force to them, during the whole of the war ; it has caused us to parcel our force to support the line of communication , between Lake St. Francis and Kingston, and keep a great proportion of it to protect the base of that line in the vicinity of Montreal. The position of Canada, relatively to the United States, with its present boundaries, is an extraordi nary one ; so much so, that intelligent military men have pronounced it incapable of defence, much be yond Quebec. The miserable state of the enemy's preparations, the superiority which we then had on the Lakes, the good disposition of the inhabitants, and the prudent conduct of the Commander of the Forces, alone saved it. The waste of means in pro tecting and conveying supplies by a communication of 500 miles adjoining the whole way to the enemy's frontier, is conceivable only to those whom expiri ence has made acquainted with the fact, or who are habituated to reflection; and whenever the commu nicaticn by the Lakes becomes interrupted, the sup ply of any force further advanced on the line becomes utterly impracticable. The enemy derives his supplies either by the Lakes upon which an army can effect nothing, or from a set tled country a long way in his rear, protected by his army, a country covered with woods, and a militia more effective than the best troops in such a country, always ready for the protection of their property and their• homes. Under such circumstances the weakness of an army beyond a certain' point, is to be counted by its numbers. We scruple not to say, that whenever that part of the State of New York, extending to the St. Law rence between Lake Ontario and Lake Champlake shall be fully settled, the whole of Upper Canada must fall to the United States, and Lower Canada wili nut be defensible but at an expellee of means/er! beyond its vhlue. . ..; We had much rather see the Americans confinatel , in the posscssioa of Sackett's Harbour, Presqu'ile, Detroit, and. Michilimackinac, than in the pozsession.i of the track of country just mentioned. Great Britain will always have the means of estzb lishing a soperiority on the Lakes, whenever she chooses to exert them, but she never will be able to drive the Americans out of that frontier when once fully settled, supported as they will be by the ico-1 mense population of the back parts of the State of New ',lurk and adjoining States. [eituti UNITED STATES PAPERS LJRI3ANNA, SEPT. £5. An express has arrived from Detroit to General *Arthur in six days, in which Governor Cass says: " A state of things has arrived in which your pre sence, with the force at your disposal, is essential to the security and preservation of the country. The Indians have recommenced hostilities on every side of us. They are murdering the people and breaking up the settlements. " There is now a large force of them in the imme diate vicinity of this place, most probably within a mile of it, with the avowed purpose of attacking the town: We hare no force adequate to the defence of the country, and none of the description ' , roper for the pursuit of Indians. My opinion is, that you should hasten on with the mounted men with all possible expedition." The express came by water - , the 'awl communica tion being entirely cut off. ALBANY, OCTOBER :7.5. The Legislature of this State adjourned yesterday, after a Session of lour weeks. The ptincipal laws passed, are-- An Act to authorise the raising of troops for the defence of this state. An Act to encourage privatecring. An Act to authorise the raising of a corps of Sea Pencibles. An Act to provide for the repayment of curtain sums of money advanced by the Corporation of the City of New York, fur the defence of the State and. for other purposes. An Act to prevent the apprehension of British deserters. An Act to authorise the raising two Regiments of men of colour. An Act authorising additional pay to be made to the volun teers, and for paying the Militia called into service by the State authority. • An Act to aid in the apprehension of deserters from the army and navy of the United states. Thu first Act authorises the Governor to call into actual service 12,000 men, for the term of two years, provided the Government of the United States shall ;lave declared their intention to pay, clothe, and sub sist them at their expence. The Privateer Bill authorises associations to incor porate themselves for the purpose of fitting oatiwin you:yrs. The following resolution, introduced by Mi. Mo nell, passed, both Houses of our Legislature unani mously, on Saturday : Resolved Unanimously—That the House of Assembly of the State of New York view with mingled emotions of surprise and indignation, the extravagant and disgraceful terms proposed by the British Commissioners at Ghent—that, however ardently they may desire the restoration of peace to their century, they can never consent to receive it at the sacrifice of national honour and dignity—that they therefore strongly reccirmend to the Na tional Legislature the adoption of the most vigorous and effica cious measures in the prosecution of the war, as the best means of bringing the contest to an honourable termination, and of transmitting unimpaired to their posterity their rights, liberty, and independence. Extract of a letter from New Orleans, Sept. 23 ." The disasters at Washington had thrown over us a gloom, which our successes in this quarter have had a very powerful effect in dispelling ; and we now feel that it must be a very considerable force that will carry this place. We think the army that burnt Washington would find more difficulty here, even in New Weans," [FROM AN AMERICAN PAPER.] " Sbottos Great Britain, notwithstanuing, adhere to her pretensions of impressing her own stamen, the cause of the United States would thenceforth become the common cause of nation,s."—Mn. MaotsoN. " On a late occasion W. had a long and somewhat unrestrained tnnversation with Mr. Madi son on the subject of our foreign affairs ; in the course of which Mr. Madison told him, that letters from Mr. Crawford itt Paris had given him some unpleasantin• formation. That the Bourbons and all France were completely English, as between the English and us in the present war ; that they would not hear a lisp of "the justice of eiur cause," or free trade and sailors' rights, declaring that it was the old story of Bona parte's, and had been adopted from him, and got up second hand in America to serve a turn." Mr. Ma dison then added, that the influence of England had closed the ears of all Europe against us, so that nbt the slightest sympathy was felt for us cr our cause is the whole continent ; on the contrary, that there was reason to apprehend hostilities against us from ano ther quarter." (Meaning probably Spain.) FROM THE PALLADIUM—A BOSTON PAPER. Messrs. Editors—By admitting the following Que ries into your Paper, you will oblige an old friend, but new correspondent : t. Is any nation competent to dispossess any other nation of its rights, by negociation with a third party, without the consent of the principal.? 2. Is not the right of sovereignty co-equal with the national right of soil ? 3. Have not the Indian nations been considered as entitled to the rights of sovereignty, and thence inferable rights of negacios dun, and all other acts of sovereignty ? 4. Have not the Americans and other civilized nations always admitted these rights, by making treaties, &c. ? 5. Can a title to the sovereignty of the soil be acquired in any other way than, 1. By possession for a series of years-2. By right of prior discovery—Z. By conquest-4. By cession, and 5. By purchase? ' 6. have the Americans ever acquired eitbet of these named rights to the litigated territory , ? 7. Is the simple act of purchasing by individuals sufficient to give us these rights? 8. Did not the Treaty of Grenville, made by General Wayne and sundry nations of Indians there named, recognize the right of these nations to the very lands now in discussion t 9. Have the Indians ever exercised any act tt sovereignty by wh!ch they have divested themstlies ut their rights in thL,e lands ? 10. Even supposing t his territory to bt long to the United States, which by the above-Cited treaty it certainly toes not, is.it of ad vantage to this section of the United States, or important to any? 1. Arc the .Nete England and middle States to consent to tut: prosecution of an interminable war, to keep possession of what is unimportant, and dots not belong to us? 12. Can it be wise in any nation to prosecute interminably a war, th•astrcrts in as effects, and. ruinous in its consequences. ra ther ;kin mar...: any sacrifice ? 13. Are thd terms proposed by the English to us more &grace ful than :hoes that have been imposed on every nation at sortie of its hicamongory—witucas, among other instances, conditions rt7, l p 9d unposed open UMW., compelling her to give up nada, dis. emotes Dunkirk, and to permit the Engh.h to kit? a Consults sary In the place to prevent the.erection of new w orks ? • 14. Are the Americans mightier and more removed from the chances of national mosafication than all other people of the earth 15. Is there not danger, if peace is not made, that the English will take posse , . Ann of New Orlt.ns, or some eq tally important j post, and make the perpetual possession of it a Jim pa non in any future negotiation ? 16. Is it not probable, in this event, that the inhabitants of all the Wc.tern Territory would either secede from the Union, or, like Nantuchet, templed by the prospect of commercial advan tage, mkt a separate peace, or declare themselves neuttal, and, .ter gef tiag us into the war, leave the Atlantic States to get out of it as they can ? 17. Is not this expectaticn a reasonable one ; and is it pro • ball c, ttai, after carrying on the war for three or five the , . we shall be better enabled to bring Great Britaat to trains then tor present? 18. It the Euglath, with a disposable force of certainly not ex ceeding, six thousand men are'able to keep upwards of one hun .dred th ousand mllitia untilr arms, and all the aea-baundesi in constant and great alarm, what will be our situation when Lord Hill arrives with fourteen thousand additional troops ? 19. Is the country rich enough to pay all the taxes that are and w ill be demai.ded of us by the General Government, and yet able to meet all the demands of the State Government for pro. tection their own territories ? In short, Messrs. Editors, I could fill a quire of pa per with little queries; but these I consider 115 amongst the most important, and I trust that some gentleman will discuss them in the fullest manner. If there ever was a moment when the federal party stood upon cri tical grounds, this is the one. The English have pro posed rather hard terms, yet such as they believe to be honourable and just they insist on the Indian boundaries—but all unit' other propositions are liable to be modified, and perhaps not to be insisted upi.n in any offensive degree. They are evidently desirous of a peace with us, because our commerce is valuable to them, and because their pride and glory are rote. rested in treating us with magnanimity. Let the fe deralists ponder well upon the course they pursue... let them unite in exerting themselves to enlighten each others 'minds upon points that may not be per; fectly clear at the first blush. Let them make no rash declarations and pledges ; but let them unitedly cry aloud for peace, and patriotically support cur state authorities, and mylife for it, you will in one year drive the present party from power, and will then have peace, prosperity, and happiness, once more restored to us. Let them adopt a different course, and declare their readiness to support the present administration, and they assuredly Leal the ruin a their country.- -Reflect then, Federalists, before you are too far committed, to recede. Recollect how general was your outry at the time of Jay's treaty, and how soon you discovered your error, and were willing to almost worship the man, whom a short time before some ap peared almost willing to sentence to the gibbet. Re collect that if this negotiation is broken off without peace, we shall have none for many years, and thin only perhaps upon terms truly degrading. YORK, SEPTEMBER 3. Colonel Talbot has the honour of stating to the Loyal and Patriotic Society, that on the 16th of last month, the enemy, amounting to upwards of one hundred men, composed of Indians and Americans, painted and disguised as the former, surprised the settlement of Port Talbot, where they committed the most atrocious acts of violence, by robbing the under. mentioned fifty heads of families of all their holies, and every particle of necessary apparel and household furniture, leaving the sufferers naked and in the most wretched state. Here the names of the sufferers are enumerated. They in all amounted to 49 men, 37 women, 148 children—Total 234. On the 15th of May, a detachment of the Ameri can army, under a Colonel Campbell, landed at Long Point, county of Norfolk, district of London, Upper Canada, and on that and the following day pillaged and laid waste as much of the adjacent country as they could reach. They burnt the village of Dover, with the mills, and all the mills and dwelling-houses in the vicinity, carrying off as much property as 7/as easily portable, and killing the cattle, &c.-19 dwel ling-houses burnt, 3 grist mills, 13 barns, 6 stores, 3 distilleties ) 1 tan-house ) and 1 saw mill. Estimated value of the property taken and destroyed, sand dollars. The number of families wantonly r uined occasion is twenty-five. There was no public within fifty miles of the place, and the say city exhibited by the American troops, and by their Commanding Officer, could only by GeneralJacksin'tspol massacre of the Creeks. • • TH4.p.VENING STAR. LO N DON. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 3, PRICE OF STOC:CS THIS DAY AT TWELVE O'CLOCT.: Reduced 6541-4 per Ceul. per Cent. Navy sha! Consols shut—for account, 87H—Omnium 1# dfs. Bank Long Aims. 16;•-111a Bonds 17$. IS& pro. kschequer Bills Is. to Ss. prom. To-day we hare the satisfaction to present our Readers with some farther interesting intelligence from America, brought by the Lirrer frigate, the: an ival of which we noticed yesterday. This intellT. Bence, although not conveyed in the eficial form o: dispatches; is nevertheless of undoubted authenticity. Private letters and papers to the 10th ult. have been received from Quebec,•and to the sth frcm ;Montreal: they do not, it is true, confirm the ac• *count of the capture of S.tcl:ett's Harbour, but they assure hs that the cuper:ority on take Ontario nclr rests exclu'ively with our gall:lnt sqUndron under Sit JAltrs Yro. This spirited and experienced Officer had availed himself of the advantage of his sitifaticn to silpply Ditt-NINIOND amply with .provisions, stores, and zeinforcanents ; this division of the .P.Titish army been placed in rather a perilous situatidn by [he junction of Generals Bftowx Hod lz um. On the :15th of Ocrober the united forces of the American Generals, 6090 strong, made an attack on our army at Chippewa, but'were most gallantly repulsed 03 the 19th foll Owing, a body of 1500 Americans, which had been detached with a view to turn our right, was also met and beat back with considerable loss. —This defeat compelled Generals BROWN and IZARD CO fall back on Fort Eric, whither they were followed by :` lajor-Genrra 1 DE WATTEVILLE 2 S division, which lt:Aveccr, found them too strongly posted to be at• tacked with any prospect of success. Lieutenant: General DitUANIOND having been afterwards rein. fenced by 1500 men sent from •Ringston by Sir GC nvc PitEvosr, it was expected that he wou!3 silo:ay make an attempt to drive the enemy from F.ll Erie. Reports had, indeed, been received, that 1.11 , 1 Americans had abandoned that post, after bloc ing op the fortifications, and had passed over the chief part of their forces to Buff aloe : but these statements were evidently premature. Sir GEORGE PREVOC, it - ter having superintended at Kingston all the neces sary arrangements for reinforcing General DEUX• WON% 2ratd raturoad oar the Aala a. Montreal. A) though Sir JAMES YE° possessed a complete ascend ancy on the Lake, CHAUNCEY was safely moored in an unattackable position at Sackett's harbour, where he evidently meant to remain on the defensive, with. out risking any attempt to come out and give battle. The Quebec Gazette contains some interesting re. marks on the terms proposed by the Commissioners at Ghent: on behalf of his Canadian brethren, he expresses their gratitude to the Mother Country for taking advantage of the opportunity which circum stances afforded to demand a new boundary for her North American Colonies; but this judicious ad% cute for the true interests of his country does not think the Government at home will discharge its duty if it recedes one jot from the terms proposed in this branch of the Negotiations. The possession of the Southern Bank of the St. Lawrence, between Montreal and Kingston, by tLe Americans, places us under such disadvantages in the distribution of our forces, that we cannot expect to preserve Canada for any great length of time, but at an enormous and disproportionate expense. " We had much rather," says the writer, " see the Ameri cans confirmed in the possession of Sackett's Har our, Presqu'isle, Detroit, and Michilimackinac, than in the possession of the country just mentioned." We have no doubt that serious attention will be paid by Ministers to these opinions of the loyal ids.• bitants of our colonies, who will have no occasion to 'regret the blood which•has been spilt in their tern. 'tory,• when therfind it has laid-the foundation for the -tranquillity and independence of future generations. Our Readers may form some idea of the impor tance attached by the Americans to the retention of their present Canadian boundaries, from the subjoined article. We extract it from the Jonrnal de Paris of Monday last : it comes from the same elegant pen which furnished a recent phillipic against us fa the burning of Washington. Our Readers will observe that the writer's zeal has considerably abated L:ece that " shocking event" ; his style is somewhat rug.: moderated, but the matter must be equally oceusUe to all but American . ears : " In order to form a precise ide 1," says this Ls mane antics: curie, " Of the prop sals made by dle English Commissioners to the American Plenipoletl• tiaries, relative to the fixing of the limits of the Ie• dian territories and that of the United States and Great Britain, (proposals of which we gave the bll4. stance), it is necessary to observe, that the line a demarcation established by the Treaty of Urenrin-41 concluded in 1795 with the Indians, traverses tee State of Ohio, meld the most popclous and flJuti• ing of the States recently admitted to a participtull lllMEms..—__ fifty th o 4, ned on this property;laic t vage e P d especially be equated el unresisting RI act 1.814. ei