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FROM SATURDAT NIGHT'S GAZLTTE. LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S OFFICE, DEC. 17, 1814. Orders foil. the Court's going into Mou rnin g ' onl Thursday neethe 22d instant, for the late Duke of Sleswick Holstein Augustenbourg, viz. The Ladies to wear black silk, fringed or plain linen, white gloves, neck-laces and ear-rings, black or white shoes, fans and t ippets. Undress—White or grey lustrings, tabbies or damasks. The Gentlemen to wear black, full trimmed, fringed or plain linen, black swords and buclaes. Undress—Grey flocks. The Court to change the Mourning on Thursday the sth of January, 1815, viz : The Lath( s to wear black silk or velvet, coloured ribbons, fans a..d tippets, or plain white, or white and gold, or white and di va .tuts, with black ribbons. Ihe Gentlemen to wear black coats, and black or plain white, or white and gold, or white and silver stuff waistcoats, full trim med, coloured swords and buckles. And on Thursday the 12th of January, 1815, the Court to go out of Mourning. ADMIRALTY-OFFICE, DECEMBER 17, 1814. The letters undermentioped have been transmitted by Rear-Admiral Hotham to J. W. Croker, Esq. From Captain Sir William Bolton, of his Majesty's ship Forth, dated off Sandy-Hook, the 22d Septem ber, stating that, on the 19th, the boats of that ship, under the direction of Lieutenant Neville, cap tured by boarding, and afterwards destroyed, at the mouth of Little Egg Harbour, the American letter of marque brig Regent, of 5 guns and :35 men. Lieu. tenant Neville and one British seaman were woundid: the enemy had two killed and two wounded. From Captain Pym, of his Majesty's ship Niemen, dated off the river Delaware, the 80th September, giving an account of his having, on the 18th, captured the American schooner privateer Daedalus, of 2 guns. And from Captain Lumley, of his Majesty's ship Narcissus, dated off Negro Head, the 13th October, stating that, on that day, the boats of the Narcissus ,and Dispatch, under Lieutenant Scott, of the for mer, brought out from under the fire of a battery, and of a number of militia, the American revenue schooner Eagle, pierced for ten guns, but only two mounted. MILITARY PROMOTIONS. ORDNANCE OFFICE, DEC. 15. Artillery of the King's Germau Legion. Charles du Plat, Gent. to be Second Lieutenant, vice G. Meyer, promoted; Franz Rottiger, Gent. to be ditto, vice QUiter, appointed to the let Hussars. Commissions in the Durham Yeoma nr y Cavalry, signed by the Lord Lieutenant. Arthur Mowbray, Esq. to be Lieutenant Colonel ; Captain Henry Donkin to be Major ; Lieutenant William Shields, jun. to be Captain; Cornet. lobo Elliott, John Lookup. jun. and Perci val Forster, to be Lieutenauts ; William Stobart, Sober Wat. kin, and Robert Ovington, Gents. to be Cornets. Commiseions signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the North Riding of Yorkshire. North York Regiment of Militia—Richard Warner, Esq. to be Captain, and Samuel Allen, Gent. to be Ensign. Derbyshire Old Militia—Gavin Miller, Gent. to be Lieutenant. Chatsworth Regiment of Local Militia—Thos. Carill Wortley, Esq. to be Captain. ADMIRALTY OFFICE, DECEMBER 17. A List of Vessels captured, burnt, and destroyed by the squadron under the orders of Rear. Admiral the Hon. Hasa T Ho roam, As reported to him, between the 6th of August and the 9th of October, 1814. American sloop Sally, captured by the Nimrod. American stoop Fair Play, captured by the Nimrod. • American sloop Eleanor, captured by the Nimrod. ' • American schooner, name unknown, captured by the Nimrod. American sloop, name unknown, captured by the Nimrod. American sloop Sally, captured by the Mmrod. American schoonar Mink, captured by the Nimrod. American sloop Delight, captured by the Nimrod. American schooner Edward and Mary, captured by the Nimrod. American sloop Jane, captured by the Nimrod. American schooner Industry, captured by the Nimrod. American khooner, name unknown, captured by the Nimrod. American schooner Fly, captured by the Nimrod. American schooner Maria, captured by the Nimrod. American sloop Enterprize, captured by the Nimrod. American schooner Elegant, captured by the Nimrod. American schooner Hornet, captured by the Nimrod. American schooner Peggy, captured by the Nimrod. American sloop Eagle, captured by the Nimrod. American schooner Dove, captured by the Nimrod. American schooner Drente), captured by the Nimrod.. American schooner beat Sailor's Rights, captured by the Nimrod. .Americati schooner Trial, captured by the Nimrod. American sloop Swallow, captured by the Nimrod. American sloop Lord Wellington, captured by the Nimrod. American sloop Trim Mer, captured by the Nimrod. American schooner Betsey, captured by the Nimrod. American sloop Young Pox, captured by the Nimrod. American schooner Lively, captured by the Nimrod. American schooner Maria, captured by the Nimrod. American schooner Godfly, ctmtuted by the Nimrod. American schooner Corn Sheaf, capturedhy tbe Nimrod. American sloop Niobe, captured by the igitilrOd. American schooner Willing Maid , captured by the Nimrod. American schooner boat Sailor's Resource, captured by ditto. American schooner boat Troy, captured by the Nimrod. American sclooner boat Martha, capturectby the Nimrod. Antelican schooner boat Fly by Nigh!, captured by the Nimrod. American sloop Financier, captured by the Saturn. American schooner Arno, captured by the Pomone. American sloop John and James, captured by the Pomone. American sloop Grampus, captured by the Pomone. American schooner Primrose, captured by the remove. American schooner Sally, captured by the Peptone. American schooner Eaterprize captured by the Pomone: • American sloop Lively, captured by the Femme. American schooner Nancy, captured by the Dispatch. American schooner Highilyer, captured by the Loire. American sloop Liberty, captured by the Loire: Americas sloop Nancy, captured by the Loire. American schooner William, captured by the Loire. American schooner Good Hope, captured by the Loire. American sloop Emperor Napoleon, captured by the Lobe. Am e rican sloop Emperor, capture d by the Loire. --- • American schooner Hound, captured by the Niemen. American schooner James Philip, captured by the Niemen. American sloop Flask, captured by the Niemen. American schooner Hibernia, captured by the Niemen. American schooner Enterprize, captured by the Amen. American schooner James, captured by the Nielsen. American sloop Regulator, captured by the Niemen. American sloop Betsey, captured by the Saturn. Two American ships, manses unknown, captured by the Narcissus. Two ditto schoousrs, names unknerno, captured by the Forth. American sloop Nancy, captured by the Forth. American brig Endeavour, captured by the Forth. American schooner Caty, captured hy the Forth. American brig Mary and captured by the Forth: American sloop Sally, captured by the Pomone. American sloop Chauncy, captured by the Pomone. Aenerican sloop Hussar, captured by the Pomone. American sloop Iwo Friends, captured by the ?moue. ArneriCall sloop Nancy, captured by the Pomone. American sloop Maid of the OA , , captured by the Ponione: American sloop MereantiUscaptured by the Pomone. American stoop Fair AMeriCau, captured the by th ee. otuone; c aured by Pome Am e rican sl oop . Herald, p l I.merican shwa Oneida, captured by the Pomone. Atuercan snap Hope, caieNeellay the Femora. American &loop Two fribindea,capoired by the Pomone. ./enericau :Lem Importerveaptured by the Superb: nod) HL Aar Ho funs, Commander. ,This Gazette audio's an Order in Counci the l, date instant, t d the 10th I nst ant, for continuing for one year, from stst he bounties for seamen. Another Order declares the Port of Liver pool proer fur the depnalt and safe custody of goods imported from the East ludies.—For the Bankrupt 6 see the last ragr.] .4.IIERICAN PAPERS. BOSTON, OCTOBER Sr). The British ship Neptune (late Captain Athol), , prize to the Amelia, of Baltimore, arrived at New York on the I3th ult. She sailed from Greenock, August 20th, and was captured September 4th, in lat. 46, long. 40—is 450 tons, mounts eight corm• nades, and had 18 men ; her cargo consists of 222 tons of sea coal, 140 packages of goods, 34 hogs heads of claret, 10 pipes of wine,. .15 ditto gin, 60 barrels of pork, Sec. The Neptune was not taken till after an action of 50 minutes. None hurt on either side. The Amelia captured five others, two of which she manned, sunk two, and ordered in the sth. The private armed brig Dash, Bacon, of Portland, from a cruize of 30 days, is arrived. She has cap tured the British schooner Regent, from Nova Scotia for the West Indies, laden with fish, and manned her ; and brig Jane, from Barbadoes for St. John ; the cargo consisted of rum, of which 138 puncheons were taken out and the vessel given up. NEWHAVEN, CONNEC nun', OCTOZER 24. APPROXIMATION TO RESRLLIOk. His Excellency the Governor on Thursday last sent a Message to both Houses, communicating a letter from the Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and also from the President of the Senate, and Speaker of the I-loose of Representatives of that State, inviting their State to send Delegates to a Convention of the New England' States, to bo, held at Hartford, in December next. On the motion of Mr. Denison, the Message, and the Documents accompanying tht same, were refer red to the Joint Committee, to whom was referred the Speech of the Governor at the opening of the Sesion, and the subject of the defence of the State. THE QUAKERS OF PENSYLVANIA. The following remonstrance of the religious So ciety of Friends was, by a deputation from them, presented to the Governor, at Harrisburg, on the 15th of October : " TO SIMON SNYDER, GOVERNOR OP THE STATE OP PENNSYLVANIA. " The remonstrance of the religious Society of Friends, commonly called Quakers, respectfully sheweth— " That the following publication appeared on the 11th inst. in a paper oithis city, styled The Democratic Pm:, edited by John Binns, vie. - " 4 We have information, upon such authority as leaves us no reason to doubt the fact, that at a late yearly Meeting of Friends' Society in this City, in the Address then adopted as their Address to the Friends' Society of Great Britain, there was in sub stance the following declaration and prayer :••• 4 We are in principle opposed to and deplore the war le i which the United States are engaged with the Unit ed Kingdom : we will do all in our power to with hold from the Government of the United States the means of carrying it on: we will not, either directly or indirectly, contribute any money or other thing which is to be applied to the support of the war.— Acting under these principles, and adhering. to this conduct, we humbly hope and trust that, if his Ma jesty's troops shall get possession of any portion of the United States within which Friends may reside,' their persons and properties will be held sacred. and not injured or destroyed.'—We wish it to be dis tinctly understood, that we make. this information public from a sense of duvi to the Government and country. If the address be not a holding of treason able correspondence, o. a giving aid and comfort to the enemy, then are we mistaken in the import of words ; and if it be of this character, then ought it to be enquired after, and its authors prosecuted.' " Here, our religious Society are represented as expressing sentiments adverse to the Government of the United - States, and charged with holding a trea sonable correspondence ; an investigation of which we have not the least objection to, but believe it a duty incembent on us for the clearing our religious profession from such unjust imputation and slander, to state, in the most explicit manner, that no such sentiments or expressions were written or addressed to any meeting, or to the members of any meeting of our religions society in England or elsewhere. It has ever been our principle, and often published to the world, that we can take no part in exciting com motion or giving molestation to the Government Wider which we live, but are bound to lead a quiet, inoffensive life among all men, and to seek the com fort, peace, and happiness of the Governments which DIVINS PROVIDENCE may place over us. 41 The sincerity of this profession has been tested by long and grievous sufferings on account of mili tary requisitions : and we have always disclaimed seeking any relief by treasonable correspondence with any nation or people, or by doing any act or thing to the injury of any ; but where we cannot actively comply with demands incompatible with our religions t estimony and principles, we have patiently suffered for conscience sake. " signed in and on behalf of a meeting appointed to represent our religious Sodety in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, &c. held in Philadelphia, the 12th of the 10th month, 1514. " JONA EVANS, Clerk." NEW LONDOK OCTOBta 26. BRITISH AGENT NOT PERMITTED TO LAND. A flag of truce arrived here yesterday morning, from the British sloop of war Morgiana, with a letter from Gilbert Robinson, Esq. to General Cushing, commanding officer of this military district. It has been known for some time that Mr. Robinson has been appointed agent for prisoners of war by the British Government ; and we presume he has been informed by the commanding officer, that the Go vernment of the United States will not receive him in that capacity.. Four ships and a brig are now off this port. Sunday last two British Officers, Lieutenant Da niel Carpenter, formerly commander of the cutter Algerine, and Lieutenant Lovesey, late of the brig •liitx were arrested at Saybrook , a n d br ought to LI/U.o4e. By their representation the y were a p art of the Di hostages sent from Pitsfield to Lancaster, and have been exchanged. No subsistence having been for some' wee ics furnished them, and no prospect appearing of their being sent home, they determined it possible to g et on board some British ship. With this view they left Lancaster, and came to Saybrook ; where, after two unsuccessful attempts to get off in boats, being first baffled by the weather, and then by the tide, they were on the third day suspected to be spies and arrested. The Marshal hes taken proper steps to ascertain their true character. Two new batteries on each side of the haehour are newly completed ; and a line of handsome and effi cient breast-works finished, almost circumvallating the south line of this town : all of which has been effected in a very short time, by the voluntary labour of the citizens of this place. NEW YORK, OCTOBER al. RICH CAPTURES PROM TM! 8R1T1051...-The priva teer brig Portsmouth, Shaw, arrived at Portsmouth on Weduesday, the 19th of October, bringing in 260 bales and cases of British goods, said to be valued at 260,000 dollars, which she took out of the James,', Messenger, bound from London to Quebec, and laden with dry goods, rum, gin, brandy, and 80 casks of gun-powder, besides clothes, &c. for the army in CAnada. The James sailed with a fleet of 44 sail, 6om Plymouth, under protection of a frigate, and parted in a gale about the 4th of October off the Banks of Newfoundland. The James was throws on her beam-ends. and nearly the whole convoy was dispersed. The fleet convoyed 8000 troops. Cap tain Messenger has stated, that the cargo on board the James was invoiced at £lOO,OOO sterling, of which the Portsmouth took out ,835,000 worth, is per invoice. The sale of the goods, at Durham, wet Thursday, captured by the Portsmouth, on her for mer cruise, amounted to upwards of 190,000 dollars; and allowing the goods she has now brought in to average as much at the sale as those at Durham, (and there is no doubt they will more, as they are better adapted, too the season) they will amount to more than 562,000 dollars ; thus netting to the owners, and all concerned in that vessel, upwards of 512,000 dollars in the short space of thirty-three days. The privateer schooner, Grampus, late Murphy, belonging to Baltimore, consigned to John White and Co. arrived in this port yesterday, from a five months cruise off the Western Islands, during which she made' six prizes, manned four of them, and ordered them in. On the 4th of September fell in with the Ariel, dis guised, and after a severe engagement, in which she received several shot between wind and water, suc ceeded in beating her off. Captain Murphy, during the engagement. received a grape shot, which carried away part of his right jaw and tongue; and a musket ball, at the same instant, in his right thigh, but reluc tantly permitted himself to be carried below. He sur vived three days afterwards. H. Young and J. Ab bott were also killed in the engagement. PHILADELPHIA, OCT. at. The Itutrudions.—Our readers cannot reasonably suppose thar what we have said in exposure of the shameless versatility disclosed by our Cabinet ip the 'instructions to our Commissioners, was thrown out by way of censure on its dereliction of the pretexts so unrighteously set up, and subsequently so mischie fsouily insisted upon, for a time so pertinaciously maintained, and of a sudden abandoned with such hardened disregard of shame. Our aaimadversions were intended to prove, what we have repeatedly asserted, that the President never was sincere in the prefenions he made of a wish for peace, till he found that his real object in going to war, that is to say, an effective co-operation with Buonaparte against Eu ropean independence, was no longer practicable; and 'that the omission to Gottenburgh was a mere strata. Ism to answer party purposes at horns, not without a collateral object of sneaking by extra diplomatic adu lation into the favour of Russia—of that same Alex ander whom the hypocrite of Monticello had the au dacious craftiness to insult with a fulsome compliment —( 44 the virtuotu Alexander")—whom all the press agents of Madison and his faction were in the daily habit of reviling,—and the report of whOse capture in Paris, by Buonaparte, filled them all with a mad tumult of joy. A retrospect of our President's conduct on this point will lay a very curious patch of political sce nery before the reader. Buonaparte having failed in a conspiracy he had formed in the very heart of the capital of Russia, to seize the person of the Emperor, in order to destroy him, and place one of his own vile creatures upon the throne of Peter the Great, resolved to accomplish by force what he found unattainable by fraud, and marched against Moscow the most nu merous, highly disciplined, and best appointed army that had ever before existed in the world. To aid him in encountering this force, deemed-irresistible by the far greater part of Europe, the magnanimous 'Alexander had only the fidelity of his people, the ge nius and courage of his officers, and the co-operation sad assistance of Great Britain. In that critical mo ssiest, when, to all on this side of the Atlantic, the fall of Russia seemed next to inevitable, and wea l peognosticated with joy and triumph by Jefferson, Madison, and other noted Jacobins who composer' their unhallowed faction, our government, in order to divert away as much as possible the force of Great Britain from the aid of the virtuour Alexander, deul dared war against her upon that false and foul pee.' text—the orders in council ; and when those were found to be repealed, continued that war upon ano ther pretext, still more false and foul, and which baring adhered to so long as it promised to an-1 swer the original purpose of laying Alexander and Britain both at the feet of Napoleon, has been with as ceremony abandoned the very moment It was foetid that that purpose could not be accomplished. Such were the pretensions with which obr Cabinet had the audacity to hope they could obtain favour in the' sight of Russia, and turn that Monarch against his best and most substantial friend, Great Britain, when, having occasion to cajole this infatuated people with a show of pacification, he appointed Commissioners to repair to Gottenburgb. His instructions to those Commissioners, in April, ISIS, are already pub= fibbed ; but wishing to remiod our readers of, and to ' f air a few remake upon them, we will extract some of their most prominent passages. By way of open. iog the crocodile battery against the Emperor, Mr. m entoe says, 44 in accepting this overture, he (the President) has been particularly gratified to evince, by the manner of it, the distinguished consideration which the United States entertain far the Emperor Alexander." Stupid aggressor ! to imagine that the Emperor was ignorant of the base machinations put in prac. lice by the American friend and slave of Bonaparte, or knowing them could receive such homage but with indignation or scorn. Without any consideration of this natural kind, the Sec re t ar y, on behalf of the President, pours out a torrent of sycophantic, treacher ous flattery on Alexander; but so far from furnishing his negociatort with topics of a pacific nature ,ht reaptct to England, urges, with increased obstinacy and petulance, the demands with which the war set. out, and which they both must have been assured the British would reject, and then again returns his grovelling adulation of Itussia. Mathe words, reader In discharging the dales of the oust ennunltted to yea, do President de , ires that you will manifest the high est degree f re. specs for the Emperor of Reelie, and confidence is the lines:lcy and impartiality of his views." Again— .4 " 1 shall conclude by remarking, that a strong hope Si enter. tained that this friendly methadon of the Emperor Alexander / will form an epoch in the relations between the Unite I States and Russia, which will be attentively felt, and be long and enti- 4 newly distingaished by the happy consequences attendiag it.-- Since 1785, Russia has been the pivot on which all questions O. neutral right have essentially turned. Most of the wars which have disturbed the world in modern times have oriLinated Great Britain and France." Would heart of man believe, that this is the hi" gunge held by a chief tut gistrate of one country Pik: an injured Sovereign of another, whom he bad eay. neatly endiavoured to destroy, and, at the very mo. ment of inditing, wished to see prostrated at the feet of the most implacable enemy and the most sangisi nary tyrant that ever existed ? What must evety honourable American feel when he thinks of this dis. graceful conduct in his Government ? What must the Emperor of Russia feel when he reads (he will read them, too) those instructions, ant perceives that our Government endeavoured to make • him an agent, a go-between, a pander in such a des. ceptign as this attempted on his ally, Greitt Britain ; for what but a deception was it to urge as iudispen. sable conditions of peice, demands which are now relinquished with she precipitation of conscious guilt and fear ? Mark %Ora our Government say in this first set of instructions : _ " By this the British Government would accr.iirf the right cr search for seamen, with that of impressing from oir vessels subjects of all other Powers. it will not escape yrtur attention, that by admitting the right, in any case, we give up the principle, l and leave the door open to every kind of abuse. 'lle same ob jection is applicable to any, and every other amusement, whfali withholds the respect due to our ea g by not allowuig i; to tea the crew sailing under it." " Of the right of the United States to be exempt from the do• grading practice of impressment, so much has been already said„, and with such ability, that it would be useless, espedalfy to yon,- who are otherwise so well acquainted with it, to dilate on ilit4 merits. I must obsetve, however, that the practice is untidy repugnant to the law of nations; that it is supported by no wm .. with any nation ; that it was never acquiesced ID by eon 4116 that a submission to it by the United States we** the donment, in favour of Great Britain, of all Mr. r • rights, and of all other rights on the ocietio." • • • • Here we have an express acknovitleitamt of Mao Madison, that submission to impr4suips& would be the abandonment of our rights on the ocran, yet )4 his subsequent instructions he agrees to that seib• mission, and therefore, has, on hie own iteesiir actually abandoned all our rights an the ma& -1/1` other words, he has already expended the lives of Mei or 12,000 American citizens, and wasted about &- hundred and fifty millions of dollars, to place the question of impressment on a worse footing than ever it stood before, and to make a formal surrender, 4a unequivocal terms, of all our rights on ocean... Pit Liters scripts ausiussl.—We have his of official thority for it. ;.:- BARMVDA, & r. 2 i .11v: .r Admiral Cockburn is preparing here for sea, •in the Appion, 74, with every dispatch, Rumour says. he goes first to the Chesapeake t then against SavAnnah, with the battalion of marines left . by him in the Che sapeake, and the remainder of the Bourdeaus troops. The Portia sloop arrived here on the' 9d inst. We understand she is the avant courier of a naval and mi. litary force which left Portsmouth and Plymouth in the middle of September, for this island, under the command of General Kean, and the, orders of Capt. Walker, of his Majesty's ship Bedford. The troops are in the Bedford, Norge, Alceste, Belle Paule, Hydra, Dover, Bucephalus, Gorgon, and a few transports. We hourly expect their arrival ; and the presumption is, that Admiral Cockburn will sail with the troops and these ships, on an expedition against the southern states of America. On the Ist inst. the Armide, Sir T. Trowbridge, arrived from Halifar. On her way she made three recaptures ; one of them of great value, being a .large ship laden with army clothing and army accoutrements. The Pigmy it. rived at the same time with dispatches from England; and sailed again to look after the Commander in Chisf—hut where he is, no one knows. He left Ha- Wax in the Tonnant, on the 4th ult. and steered to the southward. The Menelaus is here ; and we look for the Severn, from Halifax. The Quebec Mercury of the Bth of Nov. says, " by advices just received, it appears that the accounts of the evacuation of Fort Erie, by the Americans, were premature ; that hard only had crossed the Niagara: but that Brown still retained possession of the Fort. We are persuaded, again, however, that they must be straitened for winter quarters on the Canada side, cooped up as they are in a circumscribed space, The transport ship Sovereign, bound from Eng land to Quebec, was wrecked on the the 18:h Oct. last, on the island of St. Paul, Gulph of St. Law. rence ; she had on board nine officers, and 186 sni dierrof the 49th, 58th, and 81st regiments, 2 ser vattri:2l Women and children i in att, including the captain, mate, and 19 seamen, forming a total of 236 persons. Only 37 lives were saved ! The Sovereign was sailing at seven knots an hoar; and it being about seven o'clock in the evening, the rock on which she split was not observed above three minutes before she struck. The survivors were taken off the island two days after, by the Champion, and ar rived here on the 3d instant. 'They bad saved but a small quantity of provisions, and could nit have subsisted very long. Lieutenant Rolfe, of the 58th, is thelitly officer saved ; together with two ser• jeauts, 14 teak and file, and 10 seamen. t.Orricass DROWKLD-49th Regiment—Lieutenant Hainbil, Irlfe, and child; Ensign Wilson-58th, Lieutenants rarntsr, ~gut; Goldsmid ; Surgeon Donaglacie- 51st, Lieutenant ~Sew E ' a TheCha mp ion n Transport arrived here on the 3,1 hit= from Portsmouth, under convoy of the Liffey frigate. She was captured on the 9th of October, by the Mammoth American privateer; after an action oi an hour and meaty minutes ; when the Champi ons gunswere all disabled, and her rigging much cot. She was plundered, during forty-seven hours, of err cargo, water. and provisions, to a considerable ammatt and.then given up, leaving Captain limb! to proceed where he pleased. Captain K. was roil dentien7 led to the relict of the survivors of the wre3