Star. — London, England, 1814-11-02 00:00:00

heavens oat catopy—our bed the earth, Carly'' next nwt -,,;ng we lormed, and r7ontinued under arts; until we action commenced, which Was brouglikini by OUT troops. " Oar force consisted of one company of artillefy, with six 4-pounders; Colonel Maore's and Colonel lilays' o+i—se, Major Pinkney . 's battalion of riflemen, the sth regiment of volunteers under Colonel Sterrett, the 27tit militia Colonel Long, the 39th Colonel Tow. let, the Sid Colonel Ansys, and the 6th Colonel Mac donald. The 27th and sth were drawn up in line in front of the woad; the 51st and 93d at pistol-shot dis tance in the tear. Two companies of the sth, a de. tachment of artillery, with one field piece, a corps of riflemen and some cavalry volunteered to go out and provoke an action during the day, and then retreat. They found the British just cooking their dinner, near Gorsyck's Point, where they landed ; their force I was not able to ascertain. " The enemy had two nine-pounders, besides which they fired bombs and rockets. After the retreat of our advance guard upon the line, at about one o'clock, the action began at long shot, which conti nued for about an hour, when it became general along the whole line. ig The enemy advanced in platoons and outflanked its, right and left, which caused us-to retreat, or be taken prisoners. Our artillery mowed them down in great numbers. The action was fought with great gallantry for about two hours, when we retreated in good order, bringing off as many of our wounded as practicable. It was discovered that we were out flanked just in time to make good our retreat, as the enemy were far superior in numbers. " An enemy's Field Officer was seen to fall by a cannon shot early in the action. When we were outflanked, the two. regiments in the rear in action changed their position to meet their fiankers. The 6th was not in action, but advan. tageously posted on strong ground to aver our re treat. We retired behind eur entrenchn*itts last evening. We have a very strong . .force here, and more arriving daily. The enemy found yesterday that they had not Washington„ to deal with. The 27th behaved nobly, the others 'generally well. " Uriah Prosser, formerly - of Philadelphia, shoe maker, a soldier of the Revolution, who volunteered, although above military age, was killed alongside of his son, fighting nobly. BALTIMORE, SEPTEMBER 23. Our city is at present tranquil, but the enemy have not yet removed so far down the li.sy as to justify any relaxation of vigilance on the part of our citizens engaged in the defence of Baltimore. FROM SACKETT'S HARBOUR. We have accounts from Sackett's Harbour to the 20th. Commodore Chauncey's fleet came into that port on the 17th; on the 18th and 19th, detachments of General Izard's army were embarked on board his vessels, and it was expected the fleet would sail on the 20th, on an expedition ; but whether for an attack on Kingston, or to land the troops at the head (i the Lake, T9r the purpose of falling on General Drum- Mond's rear, was very properly not made public. Lieutenant Colonel Bellinger ha been ordered by Governor Tonikins to draft a regiment of Militia from Albany county, New York, and march them to Sisckett's Harbour. HALIFAX, OCTOBER 6. Arrived his Majesty's brig Calliope, three days from Canso; sloop Morgiana, Captain Scott, with the ship Five Sisters, brig Susan, schooners Margaret, Jane, and Eliza, from the West Indies, via Bermuda, 12 days from the latter place. A large ship in the above convoy, with a cargo of rum and sugar, be. lorging to St. Thomas's, foundered at sea after leaving Bermuda; crew saved. Comma 7.-Arrived his Majesty's ship Nymph, Captain Enworth, sit days from Boston Bay ; ship Severn, and brigs Rifleman and . jaseur, from the Chesapeake. His Majesty's ship Leander, now off Boston, has, we understand sent in a challenge to the Constitution frigate. - THE EVENING.STAIL LONDON. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1814. PRICE OF 'N rocK3 THIS. DAY AT TWELVE O'CLOCK: Rednced 641.-4 pet Cent. 80—S per Cent. Nary 115 i Consols 6si—for account, 6sif —Omn. S Bank Long Arms. I Si—Boods 141.155. pre. Exchequer Bills Is. to Ss. prem. Yesterday we had the good fortune to present onr Readers with a copy of the American President's Message to Congress. Today we are enabled to maintain our superiority over our contemporaries by copious and interesting extracts from the same Papers by which the Message was conveyed : the latter con sist of the official reports of a Commodore Mae; on whom the service devolved of burning the naval yard at Washington, and the reports of Commodore PERRY and Captain PORTtR, two heroes who set off with a motley groupe of soldiers and sailors on the Quixotic enterprise of intercepting the British on their way down the Potomac after the affairs of Washing. ton and Alexandria. TINGEVS report is remarkable in one or two re• spects ; it expressly charges various acts of wanton plunder and devastation upon the Americans them selves, and is silent with respect to any misbehaviour she The former, in fact, took full posses- tioti of what s temaitted of the public property after depatutre o the Britislie And desisted from their pil. feting only upon the advance of a regular American • force against them. Commodore TINGEY was much annoyed in burning the arsenals by deputations of men, women, and children, to represent the danger to the whole city from such a step ; indeed it was the absence of the wind only which saved it, and the Ame ricans themselves would thus have been the Attilas and Genserics who destroyed " the monuments of the arts." With respect to the Naval Yard, there fore, the British only completed what the Americans themselves began. About one hundred barrels of gunpowder, an old gun-brig, and a cargo of damaged provisions, were nearly all the public property which e.ica l ,ed destruction. Next in order we have the narratives of PERRY and PORTER, who were entrusted (in concert with Romans, the American Jumus CJESAR, but whose exploits on this occasion are not yet recorded) with the " destruction" of the British Squadron on its passage down the River. PERRY is laconic in his communication—he fairly tells us that the fire of the British was so heavy, that he found it advisable " to retire a short distance in the rear"—that is to say, he became alarmed lest these marauders should land a party of Seamen and Marines, and add a few Ame rican prisoners to the trophies they had already gained. PORTER was not more successful : ha too found it advisable " to retire behind a hill, and to be in readiness to charge the enemy if he should land to spike our guns !" When they passed down, and PORTER was out of all further danger, this pitiful fellow came out from his hiding place, and-finished that part of the drama with which he was entrusted, precisely as we should have conjectured, even if we had not his own evi dence—" I sent a Torpedo after them." adds this blockhead, with an air of triumph ! Not the least interesting of our extracts from the American' Papers is the eloquent article entitled the Crisis, which appears under the head of Boston.— While it draws a most forcible picture of the true state of America, we are happy to say that it affords no illustration whatever of the gloomy prognostications held forth, and eagerly caught at, among the wicked abettors of the American Government on this side of the Atlantic. We see no evidence whatever for in stance that the just and moderate reprisals inflicted at Washington have united all parties in America against us, and, with the exception of the effusions of one Paris Journalist, we have seen no symptoms of the "indignation of the civilized part of Europe." We recommend the perusal of this Boston article ro all those who calculate upon American unanimity while MADISON and his faction are in power. It is also a most excellent antidote against the diffusion of any mistaken ideas which the President's Message may make upon the unwary. We confess we see nothing but hostility in this ad ditional Manifesto in support of a bad cause:—he gives us no reason to hope for Peace being concluded in America, where only, fir the honour of Great Britain, it can now be finally arranged. He directs the whole attention of his constituents to Europe, as if it was from thence that the Olive Branch was to proceed : the illusions of Nourjahad were nothing to the delusions in which this wretched and profligate Statesman wishes to lead his countrymen. In the gloomy recesses of his own bad mind he calculates upon the support of some of the Continen tal Powers—perhaps he thinks that GALLATIN and BAYARD are patching up a maritime confederacy at Vienna—in the mean time he flounders on and talks of continuing the war without a dollar in the trea sury ! It requires, in short, a strenuous exercise of patience to follow this perfidious and slippery candi date for eternal infamy through all his windings and shuillings : our Readers will perceive that he now renounces all claims of America on the score of im pressment, and attempts to sneak out of the charge of inconsistency, by - saying, that the circumstances of Europe arc so changed as to render his persisting in these claims unnecessary. Now with what grace can he meet those Ameri cans who believe that he went to war expressly for the honour of their flag, and have accordingly sup ported him with vigour ? To this description of his followers he held out, that it was degrading that their ships of war should be forcibly visited and searched for British Traitors s a remonstrance by diplomatic Agents, he contended, was all the redress to which Great Britain was entitled by the code of nations. To a generous and enlightened mind there was something like fairness in this argument, and but for the eventful struggle in which Great Britain was en gaged, which imperiously demanded the assistance of every human being born upon her soil, and justified her resorting to her maritime superiority to keep herself and all Europe from being swallowed up by France; but far these reasons, we say, the partizans of Ame rica, in Europe, would have been numerous and re spectable. What must we think then of the man who goes to war for the maintenance of a principle bearing the semblance of right and justice, and meanly departs from it because, forsooth, the circumstances of Europe so longer render its enforcement necessary. In plain terms, this pitiful fellow now reduces the Arne -vim flag and all its laurels to a level with the bit of tawdry bunting which denotes the cock boats of ,Pappeaburg and Kniphausen 1 MB 4AM?. • in addition to the list of Staff given in Sitnrday's STAR as proceeding with' SIT ED*ARD PAKENUAII, this gallant and enterprising Officer will be joined by MAjpr-General KEAN and the troops which embarked at Plymouth; and likewise the following Officers go as General PAICENHAM'S Staff: Colonel Dick,oN, to command the Artillery; Lieutenant-Colonel Suit ooruz, to command the Engineer Department ; Somut, Esq. Purveyor-General. Report says, that Colonel HARVEY, of the 14th Dragoons, and Colonel BARNARD, of the Rifle Corps, both of them Officers who have greatly distinguished themselves under the Duke of WELLINuroN, go out as Brigadier-Generals. Within the last few days, the command in chief of our armies in America had, in the military circles' been mentioned as being offered to different Officers—, Sir THOMAS PICTON, Sir EDWARD PAGET, and Sir Geoace MURRAY. The latest report is—that Lord BERESFORD is on his return from Lisbon, in order to proceed to America. We attached no probability to the report that Ministers had asked the Duke of WEL LINGTON to go to America. Monday se'nnight the 2d battalion of the 42d Re giment, under the command of Major ANSTRUTHER, were disembodied at Aberdeen, the serviceable men of the regiment having been previously drafted into the Ist battalion. The following 2d and 3d Battalions received orders for being disbanded on the '2sth of October, but the Officers remain on their full pay to the 24th of De cember next : SIMONE, BATTALIONS...4Sth Foot, lath, 22d, 23d,24th, 26th, 31st, 32d, 36th, 38th, 4Cd, 45th, 48th, 48th, 50th, 61st, 63d, 86th, 92d, and 96th ditto. THIRD BATT.. LION--56th Foot. The CO►IMANDER-IN-CHIEF has been pleased to approve of such men lately discharged from the Cavalry in consequence of the reducti.in of the esta blishment being enlisted for the Infantry as do not exceed 30 years of age, provided they are in other respects conformable to the regulations under which Recruits are to be received into that service. The Depot of the 69th Regiment has been march ed from Yarmouth'for Ipswich, where it will arrive in the course of the present week. The 2d Battalion of the 91st Regiment having been almost totally drafted into the Ist Batt Ilion, is reduced to a mere detachment, which embarked at Gravesend on Saturday se'nnight for Leith, for the purpose of being disbanded. Detachments of the 38th, 48th, and 50th Regi. ments are ordered to embark immediately at Ports mouth to join their Regiments in Ireland. The 2d Royal Veteran Battalion, which lately for med the garrison of Madeira, are to be disembodied. The '2d Battalions of the 36th and 45th Regiments at Plymouth, are waiting convoy to Cork. A Monument to the memory of•the Hon. Colonel Cotoutrr, of the Foot Guards, has been erected in the neighbourhood of Seville, under the direction of General Sir J. DowNIE, Governor of the Royal Pa laces. Colonel COLQUITT sunk under the fatigue oc casioned by his exertions and enterprize at the delive rance of that city in the year 1813. Tuesd.y se'nnight Mr. John Merryweather, of Skipto:), was committed to Wakefield House of Cot.. iect:on for three months for causing a handbill to be posted in the town of Skipton, offering a handsome reward for a recruit to serve as a substitute in the 2d battalion of the 6th Foot, without having obtained the permission in writing of the Adjutant• General of his Majesty's forces to publish such notice ! SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. NEWMARKET THIRD OCTOBER OR. HOUGHTON MEETING, 1614. TUESDAY, NoVEldaltlt I. . I Fifty Pounds, fcr 2-year-olds carrying a feather; 5-year-olds, 7't. Lib. ; 4-year-olds, Itst; 9lb ; 5-year-olds, 9st. s'.l;s ; 6-year obis, 9s:. 71b.; and aged, 9g. 10th. Last three miles of B.C. Sir C. Bunburv's b. c. Troilus, S-yrs old - - 1 Duke of St. Alban's b. c. Knave of Diamonds, 4-yrs old 2 Seven to 4 on Troilus. Sweepstakes of silo gs. each. T. Y. C. Mr. Wyndham's brother to Hedley, 7st. 61b. . . 1 General Grosvenor's therty 'Bounce, 7st. 111 b. - - 2 Mr. Craven's Eagle', est. 101 b. - - - - - 2 Three to 1 agst Brother to Hedlcy—Even op Cherry Bounce -4 to 1 against Eaglet. It appears by letters from Cadiz, of the Bth ultimo, that the Epidemy had ceased its ravages., Bills of Health were immediately to be ordered for ships leaving that port. General DOME has left Madrid to take the benefit of the Baths in Murcia. FINAL PROROGATION OF PARLIAMENT. —Yesterday ' at three o'clock, the Lonn CHANCELLOR, and the Earls BATHURST and Livetieom, attended the House of Lords ; and shortly after, being robed. their Lordships took their seats as his Majesty's Commis. sioners on the bench in front of the Throne. The LORD CHANCELLOR, as Organ of the Commissioners, addressed the Assembly as follows : " NT LORDS AND GENTLLMCN " By virtue of the Commission, under the Great Beal, to us and other Lords directed, and now read, we do, in obedience to the commands of his Royal Highness the Prince Regent, in the name and on the behalf of his Majesty, prorogue this Parliament until Tuesday, the Bth day of this instant November, to be then holden and sit. And this Parliament is accordingly prorogued until Tuesday the Bth day of this instant November." The Commons then withdrew to their own House, and their Lordships retired. SWEARING IN THE LORD MAYOR. —Yesterday the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor, the Lord Mayor elect, Sheriffs, Recorder, and several Aldermen, the Court of Assistants of the Company to which the Lord Mayor elect belongs, attended by the City Mar shals, and City Officers, &c. went in grand procession with flags flying, and music playing, from the Man sion House to Guildhall, where the new Lord Mayor, Alderman BIRCH, WAS sworn into office. During the ceremony, the Hall was crowded with a number of Ladies. After being sworn in according to custom, they returned in the same grand procession to the Mansion House, where the LORD hiAvon gave them a sumptuous entertainment, generally termed his farewell dinner. The Gazette of last night contains an Order for Court Mourning for her late Sicilian Majesty. The Moniteu.r, in announcing Court Mourning for her Majesty, styles her the Queen of NAM, *ad SICILY. Not 111. INTELLIGENCII. • PALMOIT 114, (IC l'f.iP.F.R ?n. Arrived the -Evre,ss i.acket. with a Mail from Su' rinam, in 36 days; Uuke of Kent packet, frnm bon, %% at a Mail, in 14 days ; ah , ...rrived a sme ship frnm the Eastward, name tva known. Sailed the Fox packet, with a Mail fur Windward lilinds and the Arabella picket, with a Mail for Lisb:a. PLYMOUTH, OCTOBER Arrived off this Port his Wijesty's t and IPHIGENIA, with the outward•houni, ir• - )rn Ports. mouth, and were' joined by the .hips tr m hence, bound t', Bermuda. &c. Arriied scelral merchant men, ace. from the Thames and other ports to the Eastward. • PORTSMOUTH, NOVEMBER 1. sailed his Majesty's ship StAtm*, with General Paacuttant, &c for America; and th- Kire, for the Downs. Went out of hArLour the CNA rit km. Ihe Mediterranean Fleet and ships for. Spin, &!:. are ex pected to sail in the mnrning, coriv rf the AMARANTAL . : Arrived several from the River, one of them, the Minerva, a Swede; with the loss of micen-mast ; she his cone into hatbotir.—Wind E. DEAL, OCTOI3I3t 28. Last !vetting, at tam-set, Vice Admiral Focsi struck bis flag on beard his Majesty's ship Mow stoma. which ship sailed this morning, bout eleven for Woolwich, accomp.initA by the AtAi.inte t i.der. The Mosmourn, on leaving the Downs, bred a salute of nine guns.. DEAL, NOVEMBER 1. Bailed the Britannia transport, for Itamstrat. Remain his lktajesty's ships as per Lot. Wind N.E. HARWICH, NOVEMBER 1 Put back the Allidnce packet that sailed yesterdat with a mail for Goltenburgh. HULL, OCTOBER 30 I write to inform you of the safe , y of the Clapham after encountering a very hi avy gale in Marra 131 y, in which, I lament to say, the Augusta, BEADLING, is lost, with 10 of transp(ns. We h ive n letter froM Captain WiNROE, but Messrs. 13oLvora have one from Triotaxv, BOLTON, and Co. mentioning, amongst other ships; that the Clapham, and Mary and EIIZA . Beth, were laje. 'Ant - are all the particulars we have heard is yet. • LIVERPOOL, OCTOBER tst. • The Horatio, HANNAY, for Trinidad, and the Sen. house, CARMICIIALL, from Prince Edward's Island, were driven against the Fart on Tuesday morning by the gale. The Horatia had her starboard bulwarks stove in ; the Senhouse has since gone On shore.-- The report of the Oscar being burnt at Amelia Island is confirmed. GRAVESEND, NOVEMBER 1. Arrived the Louisa., Nemets, from Ste•tin ; 41Lolus, Leven*, from Pidau ; Sr. Johannes, Holt, front Kuvigsburg Vruw Fl nacana, Cris.oos, from Groningen ; Providence, scalier, frum Norway; Vig hut Scbssart, from Dantalc; Rosloa, hull;s, boat Dort; Augusta, Rodman, frum Stettin; T w o Breders, Dirks, from Embden ; El.sabetls, Habermaster, andMatiantia, .1 born , from Peteraburgb; a::.1 Hope, Fehman, from alp terdam Sailed the Wellington, Creigh, for Bilboa ; Princess Amelia, Roberts, for Dublin ; Jonge Flonce, De Vries, for Hamborg't ; Hannibal, Frees, for Swatter:mode; and Wow Aukje, Uyses, toe Am. stardom. Eztraet of a letter from Bourdeatix, dated Oct. 25th, IN Three or font ships ate lost near. this. harbour ; bat fbave not heard the particulars. It is reported that sonje American ships of war are just arrived ; put in by distress of weather.—Fifty A no,ric An sea. men ls•fi 'this place. the day before yesterday, supposed fur L'Orient, to embark on board the thated States' schooner' Lion s'.sbi hai been hitherto navigated un der French colours. Tha Mentor T.alspcirt, bound to QuAec, which was taken the 6th uj . near the Banks Neu f land 1/y theldarnouthprivateer, ca;led from S, idiead Sept. 1, with a fleet of ab- u t lorry sail, under convoy of the 1.111,&Y ftigati, but I):.vint. expetivocrd bad weatht:r, only seven sail were in company oa the 4th el October. The Rapid, Dono, of Greenock, from Newfound. land to Portugal, is• taken and burnt by the Mamoth • privateer. The Hope. M.D•ititar.o, from Gnadaloupe, was totally lost, on the 14th ult. near St. Jean de Luz only one man saved. . The following vessels, which sailed from Cork, on the 7th of September, under coovoy of the MAGNIII. CENT, were missing on her arrival at Madeira, on ibs 22d of September : Friend,hip, 'Young, from London to Senegal ; Itoermakl, Mil ler, do. to '1 eneriffe ; Lord Nelson, Morris, do. to Vlaouira. pat Into Lisbon ; I.ouisa, Mattison, do. to Cayenne; kaiward, Faulk ner, do. to Tenerit ;St Lawrence, A. 11141.areii, Greea ick to 1 rioldad ; Si"., A. Wall, tot lantai.ii, arriv,l at adeira oa the 20th of September, and sailed kto the :10th with a Beet ; Mary, A. Stewart, do. to St. Vincent's. The Ittnwsytai.e, prison-ship, lying at Gillingham, is under orders to be paid off. She is the only prison ship now in commission in.the Medway. Eleven have already been p aid tiff since the Peace, and disposed of in the following manner :—Three of them (the BELLIQUEUX, bEFIANCE, and Timm) are ordered to be taken to pieces. Time (the Itaou Pitiscest, NAS. My, and FYEN), to be sold out of the service, being foreign built ships, and iron fastened. Two (the BRUNSWICK and CANADA) to be powder magazines. The SAMPSON has been sent to Woolwich to be a Sheerhulk. The GLORY, being in goad repair, is to be retained. The BAHAMA is ,in Dock at Chatham yard, to be taken to pieces ; she is a Sp.tnish ship, taken at the glorious battle of Trafalgar, and mostly built of cedar. The American prisoners have all been sent Irons Chatham to a land prison, and the office of the Agent for Prisoners, at that Port, was discontinued on the 3lst ult. • The Atalanta, JAcacox, from Bourdeaux to Pensa. cola, was captured on th '2lst eh. in lat. 33. IS. long. 15. 45. by the Wap A nerican sloop of war, and sent for America. Tl.e A a:anta as the sixteen* Wes• sel the Wasp had taken and destroyed. The CONWAY and TAMER will sail from Chatham in the course of the week, if the wind continues fair. CORN EXORANGE, MARK• LANE, NOVEMBER e. We had a pretty good supply of W.. , at tide morning; but out prices for that of fine quality remain as oo Mormay, whiut ti • ordinary sorts are untaleal.le, at a 1 came of per quart. Ir.— Having a largo arrival of Barley from :‘•ffmk, u. additioo to considerable quantity on Monday, caused dull eaie we that at. tide, which is full is. per quaheaper. Oats ge a slowly, and but few buyers. la Peas, Beans s wad other mirage, there is sae variat!ota