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- . - i ? 7 - : CLASSICAL JOURNAL. • Pubßilked on the tat of January, price Six ShMop, NUMBER XVI. of THE CLASSICAL JOURNAL, CONTAINING: Origin of the Druids. Account of the Wahabis. Pontes quos 'facitus in tradendis rebus ante se gestls videatur sequutus ,psincis indicat 3. H. L. Bileiertstto. This is reprinted from a scarce tract in folio. 1795. Etymology of " Peor." Platonic. Use of , as expialned by B. Ste phew, Ruhnken, Vaickenaer, and Le Clerc. Heuniannus De Summo Bono. Arabian Anecdote. CAItiRINA HOSILRiCA, 'MSS et Odyssea, a Rhapsewilo ruin Interpolationibus repurgata, et in pristlnam fur snam, quatenus recuperanda ease, taus ex veterum monumentorum fide et auctoritate, quam ex antiqui sermonis Indole ac Ratione, redacta; cum Notis ac Prolegomenis, ,diligenter inquiritur, opera et studio RISARDI PAYNE KNIGRT. Edit. 2d. This Edition, with many additions, is printed exclusively in the CLASS. Joua.—A copy of, the first edition, of which only 50 were printed, was lately sold by auction for above X 7. IX. On the Republication of Castell's /Ethiopic Lexicon. X. On the Repetition of certain Words; applied to the • Illustration of English, Latin, and Greek Writers, and of the New l'estament: • XI. On a Verse of /Eschylus. XII. Heliodorus born a Christian; and not a Pagan. XIII. Remarks on •Racine. XIV. An Attempt to determine the Controversy about the Construction of Macte, and the Etynsology of Elul dem. , 11. 111. IV. V. VI. VII. VIII. XV. Notarum Romanaium ac Literarum tingularam tom pentiiique scriptioma in antiquis cociicibus et monu• metal. obvii interpretatio, ex variis auctOribus col ic cta ;—Notz Jude, a Magone cotlectz. The Number Seven. XVII. Study of the Christian Fathers. XVIII. An Essay on the Hebrew Points, and on the Integrity of the Hebrew Text. Xi L 'On Dr. Hales's Chronology. XX. Boothroyd's Edition of the Hebrew Bible. XXI. 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" and all *either bined ♦ery have teas I hay make route._ bable, the American army man soon be compelled, by the severity of the season, to go into winter-quar ters, and to abandon all thoughts of the conquest, 01 . 1 Canada for this campaign. I have also the honour of transmitting to your Lordship copy of a letter, with its enclosures therein referred to, addressed to Major-General de Rotten burg by Lieutenant-Colonel Morrison, in which you will see a further proof of the vigilance and activity of that officer, in executing the duty with which he has been entrusted ; and I have the further pleasure to repOrt to your Lordship, that a thirteen-inch iron, and a ten-inch brass mortar, wish their stores, and a large supply of provisions, deposited by the American army at Ogdensburg, have been brought away front thence by Captain Mulcaster, of the navy, and landed at Prescott. I have again witnessed, with peculiar satisfaction, the loyalty and active zeal with which all classes have been animated in their endeavour to oppose the threatened invasion of the enemy, and which I have great pleasure in reporting to your Lordship. I have the honour to be, &c. (Signed)• • GEORGE PREVOST. Chrlsder's. - Wittiatnsberg; Upper Canada, Nev.4e. SIR—I have the heartfelt gratification to report the brilliant and galhint conduct of the detachment from the centre division of the army, as yesterday displayed in repulsing and defeating a division of the enemy's force, consisting of two brigades of infantry and a regiment of cavalry, amounting to between three and four thousand men, who moved forward, about two o'clock in the afternoon ; from Christler's- Point, and attacked our advance, which gradually fell back to the position selected for chc_detachment to occupy ; the right resting on the river, and the left on a pine wood, exhibiting a front of.about wires hundred yards. The ground being open, the troops were thus dis posed ; the flank companies of the 49th regiment, the detachment of the Canadian Fencibles • with one field piece, under Lieutenant-Colonel Pearson on the right, a little advanced on the road ; three compa nies of the 89th regiment, under Captain Barnes, with a gun, formed in echelon with the advance on ,its left supporting it. The. 49th..and 89th, thrown more to the rear with a gun, formed. ;he main body and reserve, extending. to the woods on the left, which were occupied by the voltigeurs undcr Major Herriot, and the Indians under Lieut. Anderson. ~ At about half-past two the action became general, when the enemy endeavoured, by moving forward a brigadn from his right, to turn our left, but was re; pulsed by the 89th, forming in potence with the 49th, and both corps moving forward, occasionally firing by platoons. His efforts were nex t directed agiinst our right, and to repulse this m ovement the 49th took ground in that direction in echelion, followed •by the 89th ; when within half musket shot-the line was formed, under a heavy but irregular fire from • The 49th was then .directed to charge tho gun posted opposite to ours, but it became necessary, when within a short distance of it, to check the for ward movement, in consequence of a charge from their cavalry on the right, lest they should wheel about and fall upon their rear ; but they were receiv. ed in so gallant a manner by On companies of the 89th, under Captain Barnes: and the well directed fire of the artillery, that they quickly retreated, and by. an immediate charge from those companies one gun was gained. • The enemy immediately concentrated their force to check our advance, but such was the steady coon-' tenance and well directed fire of the troops and artil lery, that about half-past four they gave way at all points from an exceeding strong position, endeavour ing by their light infantry to cover their retreat, who were soon driven away by a judicious movement madeby Lieutenant-Colonel Pearson. The detach ment for the night, occupied the ground from which -the enemy had been driven, and are now moving forward in pursuit. I regret to find our lois in killed and wounded has been so considerable, but trust a most essential ser vice has been rendered to the country, as the whole of the enemy's infantry, after the action, precipitately retired to their own shores. It is now my grateful duty to point out to your HOnour the benefit the service has received from the abiljty, judgment, and active exertions of Lieutenant Colonel Harvey, the Deputy Adjutant• General, for sparing whom to accompany the detachment, I must again publicly express my ackn ow led gments . T o the cordial co-operation and exertions of Lieutenant- Colonel Pearson, commanding the detachment from Prescott, Lieutenant-Colonel Prenderleath, of the 49th, Major Clifford, of the 89th, Major Herriot, of ' `the Voltigeurs, and Captain Jackson, of the Royal 'Artillery, combined with the gallantry of the troops,' our great success may be attributed. Every man did his duty, and I believe I cannot more strongly speak 'their merits than in mentioning, that our small force did not exceed 800 rank and file. To Captains Davies and Skinner of the Quartetn master-General's department, I am under the greatest Am, assistance T have received froth them ; their zeal and activity has .been unremitting. Lieutenant Hagerman, o f t h e m ili t i a , h as also, f ir' his services, deserved my public acknowledgments, as also Lieutenant Anderson, of the Indian depart ment. As the prisoners are •hourly bringing in, I am unable to furnish your honour with a correct re turn of them, but upwards of 100 are in our posses sion ; neither of the ordnance stores taken, as the whole have not yet been collected. • I have the honour to be, &c. (Signed) J. W. MORRISON, Lieut. Col. 89th, Commanding Corps of Observation. RETURN OF WOUNDED, AND MissiNG, Rayal Artillery-2 rank and fik wounded. Anal Artillery Dri*Aol74, rank and 6k wounded. ,*sirs #oot—i Captain, I" drummer, 3 rank and Ale, kill e d ; 5 ' il Fbeltems, 3 Saimaa, 34, rank and wouuded. Poo : , -1 . drummer, 4 rank and fil er kilt e d ; Captain, lied. emu, 57 rank and file, woonlled. 49th Poot,t o rk Cotnpan7-..a rank and file killed; tubakarn s 11 rank file, wounded ; 6 rank and Se goling. canadko Feneiblps,.4**A . ,* Mlle idlled S subalterns. 44 TN * . 1 . 424 Mr, woundad. KILLsa. 49th Foot—Captain Nairne. WOUNDED. 49th Foot—Lieutenant Jones, dangerously; Lieutenant Bartley, severely, not dangerously; Lieutenant Claes, left leg ampu tated; Lieutenant Morton, severely, not dangerously; Lieu tenant Richmond, slightly. 89th Foot—Captain Browne, severely, not dangerously; Ensign Leaden, sHghtly. 49th Foot, Flank Company—Lieutenant Holland, severely. Canadian Fencibles--Lieutenant Delorimlere, dangerously, since dead ; Ensign Armstrong, dangerously. Williamsburg, Upper Canada, November 11. SIR—I have the honour to inclose a copy of the akteement entered into by Captain Mttkaster, of doe :Rdyil Navy, and myself, w►th two of` the principal ittlubir.ants of Hamilton, in the State of New York. —Having understood, when passing that place, that public property was deposited there, and being in formed ,byi.ieutenant•Colonel Pearson that his Ex cellency the Commander of the forces bad directed a small force to act against that village, we considered it our duty, as we possessed the means, to fulfil the intentions of his Excellency ; but not having suffi cient conveyance, or time, to bring the property away, and as it appeared that it principally belonged to merchants at Kingston, we deemed the enclosed terms best to propose. I also inclose herewith a copy of Major-General Wilkinson's proclamation. • I have the honour to be &c. (Signed) .• J =amain; Lt.-Col. 89th Reg. command* Corr of 14108ervation. Major-General De Rottenharg. • . (cory.) .Wo do hereby promise, on our respectire words and bgnour, .tO deliver on . the opposite side of the river, at the house of Jacob Wager, if a flag should beFermitted to land, all the public property of the United States, if any should he found here ; also all property belonging to his Britannic Majesty's Go vernment, and the individuals thereof, now deposited in the house of Charles Richards. It being expressly understood that the property and persons of the in habitants of the village have been spared in conside ration of the preceding arrangement. And we do hereby further pledge our honours, that the boats shall also be delivered, which belong either to the Government of the United States, or to his Britannic Majesty's Government. - And we do further admit, th . at int the non-compli ance with these conditions, the village be subject to be destroyed. (Signed) DAVID A. OODEN. ALEXANDER RICHA nDs. W. H. MIA:CASTER, Capt. Royal Navy, commanding flotilla. J. W. MonatsoN, Lieut.-Col. 89th Regiment, commanding Corps of Observation. Hamilton, November 10, 1819. filen follows a copy'of General Wilkinson's Proclamatiou to the imlibm.isiennt a eNF ..h;.h h,• alr•asay srpPlri.ti in tibe STAR.) AMERICAN PAPERS. EVENTS OF THE WAR. PLATTSBURGH, OCTOBER 29. A letter from Erie of the 25th inst. says—" Most part of the fleet have been here, and passed on to nuffaloe, carrying between 1,500 and 2,000 land :krces, who are destined for the army under Genera Wilkinson. % Commodore Perry, it is a frigate. 41 thave been favoured by an agent of the con tractors, who left Detroit on the 18th inst. with the number of Indians who have made peace with the United States, and whO have been furnished with provisions at Detroit, since our troops have taken possession of that country. ,It is probable many women and children are included. -understood, is to have "4 Pottawatnies - • Miamies, Eel river Miantits, and Weants 942 , b ::40 Kiekapoos - • - 323 .. • Tawas, and Chippeways . - 920 Wyandots - • , - 400 Total, - - 3419 • 0 The whole of the foregoing have been sentoff to !their different villages, and as they cannot after this lbe supplied with ammunition by the British, we may expect to have peace on our frontiers.--{Delusive .expectation].—Of those who followed the N. W. Army, now 'remaining at Detroit, there are— . Senecas - 75 Wyandots • - 31 Shawanees - - - 35 Delman-a - • '- SO Total . . —l7l gg There have been near 500 altogether attached to the N. W. Army. " Tt is certain that Tecumseh was killed in the ac tion ; his body was viewed by many of the British Officers, who all acknowledge it." NEW-YORK (BUFFALO), OCTOBER 26. The prisoners taken by General Harrison have been sent to Chillicothe ; among them was Colonel War tunby, who, we understand, blames General Proctor for ma making a stand at Malden. Provisions were exceedingly scarce; the Indians and British army had consumed every thing. We learn from an officer ofahe army, that Brig*: dier-General Cass is appointed Governor of Michigan territory, tiro tem/sore, and commands at Malden and. Sandwich. His head-quarters at Detroit. FROM THE PLATTSBURGH NORTIORN HRRALIV OCT. 26. The conscripts lately ordersd out by Governor Tompkins, and who had joined General Hampton, in Chateauguay, have returned to Plattsburgh. They were sent back by the General, in consequence of their refusing to cross the lines when thearmy marched into Canada. About twenty-five of them volunteered, the rest, availing themselves of their constitutional privileges, declined going, and are accordingly dis charged and sent hinne, with all the curses of Demo cracy on their heads, . PASSAGES MAIL PASSAGES, DECEMBER V. It is reported here, that the Marquis of Wellington is about to remove his head-quarters to Ustaritz, (a town situated about ten miles to the southward of Bayonne), for which purpose, several divisions of Spaniards have received orders to move forwards.. We have not heard that any affair of importance has occurred between the two hostile armies subsequent to that of the 13th, in which British valour was so conspicuous. VIT TORIA, DECEMBER et. They write from San Fernando (Isle de Leon), that it had been determined the Government should leave that city on the 16th, for Madrid. It appears that it will make three halts on the journey one at Carmona, another in Ecije, and the third 111 MAWR nAres. With whit pleasure will good Spatni %rds toee the Government proceed towards the centre of Spain! . Heroic people 1 grand people i to you it belongs to' crown the-work whit h you yourielvcs began. SOUTH AMERICA. By a Manuscript Journal, which bas been received from Vera Cruz, and which contains intelligence from the Ist of March 'to the end of July, we learn, that the war is continued with great fury in - that quar ter of the world, notwithstanding the advantages of which several Spanish Papers boast. The Journal, though written by *suelone partizen of the Spanish Government, discloses the following fa4il2 “ All the towns in th environs of Vera Cruz have been burnt by the Europeans, and among the rest Old Vera Cruz, the first :ettlement of the conquerors, has been reduced to - Itshes. Medellin, which was the second town they 'built, has shared, the same fate. Though the troops found in the latter place only women and..children, they, notwithstanding, deli. vered it up to the flames, setting fire to it in tour dif ferent places, and having afterwards learned that some houses remained standing, they marched again from Vera Cruz to complete the destruction. , g Cruz left Guadalaxara to decimate anoiher tov-r, and immediately an insurrection broke out in the cite whence he had departed, the population of Which is 6u,000. He returned, and in July had seized hnct executed eighty-six of the inhabitants, and the punish ments were still going on. " The same system is pursued in the interior pro vinces as in Mexico. The Constitution and the Li berty of the Press experience the fate whica is to be , expected where a military GovemmLnt subsists. The 4th of July was appointed at Vera CI ux for the paro chial enumeration of electors for the Deputies to the Cortes, when the election was made by only thirty. individuals, with the approbation of the Governor l", DUTGII PAPERS. BANKS OF THE SCHELDT, DECEMBER 29. Intelligence obtained (rem four .credible persons, who by different means have escaped from Antwerp on the 20th, 22d, and 23d of this month, states that the land force in that city was composed of a guard of lancers and one complete regiment of guard ya gers. Further,' of the troops obtained from all the adjacent depots, such as Ryssel, Valenciennes. And Brussels-- Also about three or four hundred douaniers, and the 118th regiment of infantry. composed of boys of the last conscription, who are both unfit and onwilling to perform duty. When the late attack was made upon Breda, we learn that all the troops in Antwerp, ex cepting the guards, lancers, and yagers, had refused to join in the enterprize, unless they were allowed the emolument of a general pillage. The Cornmaudant having assented to• their terms, they agreed to en gage in the a ff air, and being di sa pp o i nte d o f their principal object, they committed depredations upon the unfor. tunate inhabitants of Haage, Rysbergen, and, as they report, Great Zundert. WILLIAM-IMAM, DECEMBER ss. PRI VATZ LETTER.) " We are peculiarly favoured here by the weather: This most convenient port and harbour is as open as in Midsummer ;.though at this season, in most years, it is rendered unapproachable by ice axed or floating. We therefore duly receive reinforcements from Eng. land ;—troops, stores, and cannon are continually landing, and passing on to the frontiers. Our posi.. tion is as follows s—Opr out-posts extend as far as within cannon shot of Bergen.op•zoom, which fortress is only masked 'on the North-East. Headiuirters at Toolen, and from thence to Williamstadt. Our army is stationed in good quarters at Steinbergen, Clun• dest, and Severn Bergen. The garrison of William stadt consists of the 56th, rad, and 63d R:gimerts, and some Artillery ; but what rernents - compose the rest I have as yet no authentic information. The enemy still holds Gorcum (in which he is closely blockaded), and Crevecour and Bois-le-Due. The Prussians, under Bulow, are at Thiel and Bommel ; and the Dutch division and Cossacks occupy Grrtru. denburgh and Breda. Close to the latter the enemy make excursions : he drove in our posts the other night on Severnbergen, but with them came in a number of Dutch conscripts. The Cossacks do not cease to carry confusion and panic into the enemy's quarters. The enemy also reconnoitres our positions from Walcheren to Beveland, but there • about 500 prisoners have been taken; in one of his•posts, has not been a single shot fired in anger, nor a drop of blood spilled between us and them on this frontier as yet. The people here and throughout Brabant are more French than in any part of Holland. They have been well 'rested by the enemy. " General Skerret has had a severe hart by big horse's falling on him in making a rec ost o rio:: n :vger no ca. ss pidy a ro ; i:. . near Breda. Sir Thomas Gultam was here yester. nd lled day ; be is indefatigable. He tires all his Aides-de. .Camp, he actually rides 70 miles a day. " The Hereditary Prince of Orange arrived here yesterday—visited the army at bead-quarters, and returned here to-day. He was received with un-. feigned delight. The town was illuminated, and fire works were played of, and the boys and girls (die latter of whom ate extremely pretty) paraded the streets all night, singing loyal songs. " The Prince travelled in a country vehicle like our old-fashioned one-horse chaises. He was accorn. aono P i:f a gmit n ith.Th l yn eci teldia,saes o rffivi n ,nwee l cw y betiihil b soneoax y hpes e c f farrt e tlyhiths o eedei f rcan l e, i roa i ( s d,uri s lopGd u al i trr te irimilytabbee i ri n reanumor tic esi. sa. c h k r i etertrit94lit i .. _ _ . _ her is beeoming whighly Unfavourable to cot". oldgenrs-4 rank antllolofied; • realiceod Ilk i operestaons, that uilleas ()alma' Wilkifts4,lo-a . .::',. eli rank and file misehlg.r. - rfi . .,,, few daft succeed;" in. foram the positiodi 1 r agitiop ~.. 6........ -1 k and fiw wltputed. - ---c s . • ..\\ -:\ and file *landed. -‘ \A . .....4 caused to be occupied' -., e 'Rapids of the C 9. ,I •—i Iturior =ad, .0 w miltin g' ( ' i ll de Lac, 'and on-the Bea ~.—.2,ois Channel, which Tatal-1 Captain, 2 drum ' raak and Ma/ • I re no reason to expect hstatif do, or that he can , Captain, 9 Subalterns, 6 . 131 sipkandile, wound- 4 e his way into the province by either of the other . al; 12 rank and Me mi is I have mentioned, which I think very impro- NAUZI or OFFICKRII K AND WOUNDED. ._ _--1 iAi - FROM LAST NIGHT'S GAZETTE., COIANIAL DEPARtMENT. - - • 1 1 )OWNING-STREET, JANUARY 4. A Dispatch, of which the following is a copy, has been this morning received by Earl Bathurst, his Majesty's Principal Secretasy► of State for the Colo nies, from Lieutenant Geneiiiil Sir .George Prevost, Baronet s. • MT Lain—, Head Quarters, La Chine, Nov. 15, 1813. 14or-General Wilkinson left Grena rn tte 30 t h}, nisirstn with ten thousand men, in small n cra t an d bureaux, and proceeded down the St. Lawrence, in.order to co-operate with Major-General Hampton in the in vasion of Lower Canada, and for the avowed pur pose of taking tip his winter-quarters at Montreal. Having on the 31st halted, a few miles below Gra velly Point, on the south side of the river. his position was on the following day reconnoitred, and after wards cannonaded by a division of gust-boats, under the command of Captain Mulcaster of the Royal Navy. By keeping close to his own shore, the enemy-arri ved, on the 6th instant, within six milts of the port of Prescott, which he endeavoured to pass unobser ved, during the night •of the 7th ; but the vigilance of Lieutenant-Colonel Pearson who- commands there • frustrated his attempt, and the American armada was obliged to sustain a heavy and destructive can nonade during the vehole of that operation, t. • Having anticipated the possibility of tforitenerican Government sending its whole concentrated force fl'onn Lake Ontario towards this-part of his Majesty's tesoitory, I had ordered a corps of observation, con sisting of the remains of the 49th regiment, 2d batta• lion of the 89th regiment, and three companies of voltigeurs, with a division of gun-boats, the whole to be placed under the command of Lieutenant-Co , lonel Morrison of the 89th regiment, to follow the movements of Major-General Wilkinson's artny, as soon as they should be ascertained to point towards this quarter. I have now the satisfaction of transmitting to your Lordship a copy of a report made by Lieutenant- Colonel Morrison to Major-General De. Rottenberg, containing the details of an attack upon the corps of obseivation placed under his command, by a part of the American force under Brigadier-General Boyd, amounting to near four thousand men, which termi nated in the complete.repulse and defeat of the ene my, with very considerable loss upwards. of on e hundred prisoners, to ge th er w i t h a field-piece, re mained in our p ossession ; and as I understand that More than one hundred were found dead on the add, their total loss, in :dna, wounded, and prisoners, could not be less than SOO men. The consequence of ,this gallant affair, which re. Sects SOCh high credit OP all the officers and men en. gaged in it, and particularly op Lieutenant. Colonel Morrison, for the skill and judgment manifested by him in his choice of position, and for the coolness and intrepidity with which he. maintained it, has been, that the enemy, disheartened by their losses and ill success, re-embarked the whole of their forces on the 13th, and crossed to St. Regis and Salmon River, on their own shore, not leaving a man in our territory, excepting such as were prisoners. It is yet uncertain whether General Wilkinson to prosecute his original intention of proceed. his small craft and boats from flallnon River ontreal, or to unite his troops with those under r,General Hampton, and attempt to advance the province by the Chateauguay or Neitown Major-Genet* Hampton bps received posir orders to recite the position which be toned on the CUteauguay River, when b re ited to Matti:burg, isnmediatriy afte; the disgrace defeat he lately experleaml INA the state of the ; 1 ~ . 4•6 ft • means II: 1 .g. In to mo Major, into tt roads. five itbandl treated felt clef • XVI. ~? I I I N