Star. — London, England, 1814-10-22 00:00:00

Boston, and the doternor of Connecticut has been equally vigilant in his duties. Clo Vernor Tottikins has called the Legislature of New York to meet early in October. The Governor of Vermont is putting the IVlilitia of that State in motion the purposes may be easily imagined. SEPTEMBER 17.—We have inserted the Genetal Or der relating to the proceedings of the army and the flotilla at Plattsburg. Candour must compel every One to confess, that the result of the late operations has fallen short of even is moderate expectations."— The battle lasted an hour and a half. The force of each squadron, we are informed, standi, thus t—Bti tish, 1 ship, Mounting in all 32 guns; 1 brig, in all. 20 guns; 2 sloops of 70 tons, each 10 guns; and ten gon-boats.—.American, 1 ship rated 28 guns, carry ing 36 ; 1 brig, 24 ; 1 strong schooner, 18 ; 3 sloops, each 10 guns; and 24 gunboats. The crews, ton- 1 nage, and weight of metal, are estimated at one- 1 fourth superior on the side of the Americans; and we beim no reason to doubt our information. We have always considered offensive Warfare the best mode of securing peace; and recent humiliation has not changed our tone. We may be called to defend points which have not hitherto been thought of; and consequently the late retreat may not have been ill advjsed; but the fort at Hamburg should have been . stormed. . That part of the labour. would have cost less in blood and embalmment than was sustained in the retreat—a retreat that ; tend to rouse the energies of the enemy. We might have taken 2000 prisoners, a fine train of artillery, and immense stores. We are not military men, but we call on " every experienced officer" to support or contradict us. If we are wrong we shall take a pride in confessing our ignorance. The scientific brave Generals, officers and soldier: of the Duke of Wellington's army, and the others who ban before fought in our cause in the Canada*, did every thing which depended on them to support , the noble efforts of their brothers on the water.—' That distinguished officer, General Robinson, who has been twice wounded this year on the other Con tinent, with part of his gallant brigade, bad braved all danger in an assault. Some of the picquets of the fort were tom away, and i few minutes more would have given up the fortification, with an immense train of artillery into our hands, and every American must have fallen, or been made prisoner. It was thought necessary to check the ardour of the troops, Mid we must now instantly redouble our energies to obtain the command of the Lake, or with humility await our fature destiny. Since writing the above observations we have re ceived the following particulars which may be de pended upon as being the latest from the spot : " The two squadrons met in Plattsburgh Bay on - rte morning of the I 1 th instant ; Captain Downie, •in the new ship the Confiance, led the attack in the Most gallant style, but was unfortunately killed a few . minutes after the action -ememeaced. His ship was afterwards fought for mars th in hour with the most determined bravery, by Lieutenant Robinson) when haying suffered very severe' loss both in WE.' tees and men. the *die opposed to the enemy being '' . 'irSwy much Osablelik and falling in an attempt to 04F‘tpliiing her other broadside to bear her m o• r ea us Idalst the enemy ' s ship had sue. iiiidiorgi 'Conn round, sit as to bring her fresh lireeirda' ad the Co fi_n_a' tice; the commanding etre!. !OWE relsetandy ordered her colours to be . struck,i i . , e: es sittti'etletily got possession of a mere wreck; tr liith 3 "thicksosage she had sustained, was with ittia' - dliSctity kept from sinking. if the brig Linaet, commanded by Cassia Prin.' and the two sloops supported the frigate in the most etittrageous and determined manner, and did not jie t ld until the fall of the latter rendered all further reil t stance unavailing. The gun-boats, which did not appear to bear any great share in the action, seeing the fate of the other vessels, were enabled to make good their retreat with the provision vessel which at. tended the squadron. " Shortly after the action commenced Our ba tte vies were opened upon the *naafi forts and works and our troops were preparing to assault them, when' iO consequence of the disastrous result of the naval contest, it was deemed expedient to recall the storm leg party then advancing. '4 The object of the expedition baviag been com pletely frustrated, by the loss of the Beet, the posses sion of the enemy's forts and works was not consider edof sufficient importance to compensate for the va 'sable. lives of the many brave men which must have been sacrificed to obtain them, particularly a; the pe tition could not him been maintained even if we had gained possession of it. Our fleet was not bred upon during any part of the action from the enemy's bat teries. The only ose from where it was supposed the squadren would have been annoyed, •was a battery oeastructedby 11* enemy upon the beach, from which they were driven 'without a 'Wiley* been fired from it, immediately after the Int* oar batteries had • opus i 3'4 . /14 , '!/%7 , ;" • es OmeNdiqiitioss jt . the setios is estimated at A about 1 1 /a• killed! and wooded I that of the gamy Is nearly as great.. The mum's ship wa; numb 44. ,aged both in her isulland rigging, tad her side irk opposed to the Cadmus suety disabled. Our army sedan* lust Plattdserg vos thcloiltit :to t atomplaio, where part of LitiSBOW peewit *ld tftsoughder for WINN* ',muss .THE EVENING STARA JON DON. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 221 1814. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT TWELVE O'CLOCK : Reduced 641-4 per Cent. 811-5 per Cent. Navy 4631 Consols 65j 86—for account, 66 65 661i—ontn. 212 die. Bank Long Anns.l6l-16th—Bonds 14s. pr. Exchequer Bills par, to 4s. prem. Having received printed Journals, and private let ters, from Canada, to the 18th ult, by the Jusy aid Flora, which arrived in the Clyde on Sunday evening, we are now enabled to lay before the Public many particulars respecting the late events at Plattsburg. The extracts from the Papers, all the circumstances of the time and place of publication being duly con sidered, speak a language which can hardly be mis understood. The private letters, but we hope either without reason, or from an imperfect knowledge of the facts, are loud in their complaints against the Commander in Chief. It appears that ample preparations were made for the expedition against Plattsburg. The force under the command of the Governor-General Sir G. Paz varr, and led by the gallant Major-General Blue luxe, General POWER, &c. consisted of about 14,000 men ; and in the attack they were to have the co. operation of the naval force on the Lake, to prevent any annoyance from that of the enemy. On the morning of the 11th, Captain Down', in the Confiance, a vessel of twentreight guns, (not 64, as stated yesterday by mistake) lately built, began the attack. He fell—and his First Lieutenant con tinued the action, but without success. A brig and two sloops supported the Confiance, but were obliged to yield when she struck ; and only a few gun-boats, with provisions, escaped. In the mean time the land force had opened bat teries upon the fort, and were on the point of assault, when the naval contest ended so unfavourably. Or ders for a retreat were instantly issued—Private let ters state, that on receipt of this order, General PowEas rode up to the Commander in Chief and begged it might be recalled, as General BRISBANE was about to storm, and would be in possession of the fort in a few minutes; to which General Sir G. PREVOST is said to have replied, " My orders must be obeyed"—and an instant retreat took place. All this may have happened without blame being imputable to any person; and, besides, we know that individuals in private life often view military •events through a false medium. But from all the letters before us, we are persuaded that nothing less than a public inquiry into all the circumstances of this affair will satisfy the Canadian public at least.— Indeed, in the history of the transactionome incident occurs which.we believe is without exemplei and which will require explanation to satisfy the country generally, and particularly the friends and relatives of our brave veterans—carried from Spain to retreat in the face of raw American Militia. The fact to which we allude is this. There were two Editions of the General Order which was issued after the retreat. The one which we yesterday laid before our Readers was -the first edition. In the second edition, the following words, with which our accord pat agraph concluded,. did. not , appear, viz.— ," in consequence ot the rudder of his Majesty's ship CONBIANCE being disabled, and the brig LINNET. Pgrounding early in the action; thus leaving these ill fated vessels, almost without resource, exposed to the whole force of the enemy. All that undaunted de votion to the service could effect was evinced on this unfortunate occasion. The Officer in command ot the division of gun-boats, acted with judgment in securing those vessels to the service, when his further efforts in action had become unavailing." As the General Order first appeared, the inference it afforded was, that circumstances connected With the fleet bad occasioned the fatal result of the land movements. From the Second Edition, the fair in ference seems to be, that the suppressed words were found, in some way, not to correspond with the fact. We cannot credit all the statements in the private letters, nor will our Readers be quick to give them credence. They state that Sir GEORGE PREVOST. on passing some of the troops on the road, was hissed by them ; that the forts were so much occupied in pre paring for their own defence as not to allow them time to fire a single gun on our flotilla ; and that Lieute nant DREW, of the LINNET, who had arrived at Que bec on par Ole, stated the loss of the fleet to have been " occasioned by our land forces not having stormed the fort, in which there were only 1400 men. under Ge neral *Come, who informed Captain Pity% of the LINNET, that every Min "Ng petard S. Attrrender MP Me advance of Ms driiirh anew." The same letters state, that no await was made on .. the fort ; that General Rotuma/ is under arrest, that. Generals BRISBANE and Parma had tendered their swords to Sir G. Pasyorr, and that Colonel Wu.- LIAMS of the 13th, had declined that he would never draw his sword again, wee under the command 01 Sir GEORGE. It is said Sir Gismos is gone to Kingston. The Welling tonian warriors now in Quebec, have got a saying among them, which Is stated in the let ters—a - The hunters and hounda bihe are capital, but the huntsman and his whipper.m me two fools."— To whom can they allude f • • • The Public are not yet in toossessisen ot inicient materi 413 to enable them to form a cared sinsi, partial ogiaiqu oit this distressing bob , - • • :41 r the facts before it, the ilittpreision oh 'oar ininds is-- that the failure was neenneited heithte by want( troops, nor by any deficiency in their quality. Blar seems to attach souk 'where. Have Pdinitter let the Comnsander in Chief without tile proper means This is an imps:et:ant question, and the Public wi; do well to attend to it ; for here the friends of the de Unguents, if there be any delinquents, will try to fix i the blame. But tbn simple fact before us, that the. British force was utpintrds of 14,000 men, while that in Plattsburgh did mot exceed 1400, must set this question at rest; *.z Aa inquiry seems to be imperiously called for, and we hope it will not be delayed. Ai the date of the latest advice: the army had taken up nearly the same positions which they occupied be. fore their advance on Platt4burg $ and Sir Gamma PRIVOST had proceeded to Kingston to superintend, as it is said, the projected attack on Sackett's-harbour. Happily, for the visits of our countrymen, the co pious extracts which we have given from the United States, exhibit matters in a different light. Alarm and terror are still prevalent throughout the whole of the enemy's territory. Since yesterday we have received Paris Papers o► Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. The Moniteur of the latter day is nearly filled with a report by M. Bedoc to the Chamber of Deputies, respecting the law for the restitution, to the Emigrants, of their un sold property. The amendments which he suggested are as follow: In the first place be proposei to expunge the word restitution, as implying an illegal spoliation, and there. fore, perhaps, offensive to some polite ears among the Jacobins..of all nations, for whom M. Bedoc spews a most uncalled for degree. of respect. He suggests the word remission, as a substitute. The reporter next suggests a formal clause remit ting the sentence of death pronounced against all Emigrants by the aforesaid Jacobins. This he asks out of respect to the memory of the French Rep ublic one and indivisible. Has the KING of France then no prerogative with which the Chamber of Deputies have no right to interfere ? Are the poor Emigrants, who have been ennobled by their sufferings and their loyalty, to be perpetually twitted with owing their pardon to some of the unprincipled reptiles, perhaps, who adjudged them to death ? By the third amendment, all marriages, legally solemnized with Migrants, in foreign countries, are confirmed, " saving the rights of third parties." To this there can be no objection. All the other amendments are merely verbal : the spirit in which the report has been drawn up is suffi ciently evident from the first two, and we prerame it will receive• a proper check from the firmness and wisdom of the King, whose dignity is insolently com promised by the offensive articles alluded to. The Moniteur contains a notification, which we hope will be frequently repeated,*namely, that the inha bitants of a French district, ravaged by the war, have Jeclined all indemnity for their losses. The minor Paris Papers contain some villainous paragraphs to the effect of alarming us for our mari time rights. The Congress at Vienna is the rod which is held over us on this occasion. Impotent malignity! The Americans have no Representatives there ! PARIS, OCTOBER is. Yelterday the FOreign Anibissaaon and Ministers paid their respects to the King and die Royal Family. At these audiences were presented—by his Excel lency the Duke of Wellington, Ambassador from his Britannic Majesty—Messrs. Bagat, Mackenzie, and impey, Commissioners from the English Government. At two o'clock the Duchess of Wellington, the I.ady of the English Ambassador, was presented to the King and Royal Family at the Levee of her Royal Highness the Duchess de Angouleme, to which she was introduced by M. de Lalive, Introductor of Am bassadors, and M. Dargainaratz, Secretary to the King for introducing Ambassadors. The same day the Duchess of Wellington dined at the Castle of the Tbuilleries, at a table of.Bo'enveis, r. ept by Count D'Ekars, first Maitre d'Hotel to the King, and at which the Duchess of &rent. Lady of Honour to the Ducheu d'Angouleme, did the honours. the inhabitants of the Commune of Monneville, in the department of the Seine and Oise, as a; proof of their love and devotion to his Majesty, have declared that they renounce all indemnity for their sufferings . ' .• and losses by the events of the late war.' .- o tv PAPA y OCTOBER,,I?,, It is thought thro to the Congress ;Sit Cases ;will be laid of the law of nations, which Bonaparte hail' destroyed : it will particularly determine the princi ples which ought to regulate, in time of war, the con duct of the Powers with respect to the security of commerce and navigation.—Joureal de Paris. Yesterday the Duchess of Angouleme received the first formal visit from the Duchess of Wellington, the Lady of the English Ambassador. A Royal Ordoanance of the' 7th instant restores to die Duke'of Orleans, and his sister, all their estates and property in !rase*, whit') had not been sold to privets tadividuals......Fium Ms Mositaw. WINDSOR, oCroasa 21.—Last evening the Pawl itIOZWT arrived at the Castle, and returned to Lon ; doe about nine o'ilodk. • Pilociesi AboutrA role oa horseback io thiCkeat Pak.. Princess SOMA took wir t ri P I an akin ilk tba Li . . Park ..: Her Dam s on mo d. she NscPollo !PA; , /04.4F4Affafti4.404c 6 7 i .lay, eo t4eir 7pfiO 1 ,7, , rigbtsltt 4,/, /fp sow yosalt icqi ; tilfziL10001: •TswitAtiKier abbNi3 ocitottitMittimot,i ei FRIDAY, ocTwairt 41. A Subleription Handicap Plate of AM, for 3-7 r-olds and upward'. T. Y. p. .rd Foley's eb. c. Scipe*lsk 4 yri old, 7st 11115 r Craves% b. c. Eaglet, 4 yrs old, sat lib - • - Eleven others started, bnt.the Judie pitted oily twG. sto I agst Scapewell to I art Eaglet. Tirt TIIIII Class of the Ostibnds Stabs of 1100. each: D. •4r. • rerrett's Bluster, 6 yrs old, 9st 21b . . - Vr. Wyndham names Hamlet, b yrs old. 9st 115 - "Luke of Graftoo's Vestal, stn old, 7st alb - a - Mr. Craven Lames Paulus, 3 yrs old, 7st 516 - 4 Lord G. H. Cavendisb's Gaber, Pin old, eat 5 to 2 apt Bbster--.4 to l apt Haallit-3 to I apt Veit& . s it NifPAL !NTELLIGtNCR.• FALMOUTH. OCrthilit 111. Arrived the Elia, BOLAND, from Nanti ; tiero,• PRETTYJOHN, from Wales. Sailed the Jane, HEART. watt, for London; Caledonia, Covey, for Teneriffe. The Kate Lumez.tyis, from London for Malta, ar rived at the latter place the Ist 6eptember, -and was to sail for Constantinople the.4th. PLYMOUTH, ocroßat W. Arrived the Russian ship Venus, froM Amelia Islands, with cotton and tobacco ; and the brig Cos. sack, from Archangel, with hemp and tar. Thi Chasm sloop of war arrived from a crisize.—The outward-bound fleets remain Kind-bo'snd•--Wind W. PORTSMOUTH, OCTOBER ti. Arrived the following transports from the.Medi. terranean, and are under quarantine, viz : Reiource 596, Ratcliffe 365, Dowson 76, Nymph 61., Harpoon 51, Heart of Oak 525, Mary 281, Sir John War r: A 183, and the Amity 8. The Brailsford B'2o, is re. leased from quarantine, and is ordered to dibtmbaik. Came up from St. Helen's Roads his NNtay's Si!, BUFFALO. Sailed the GROWLER, tnr St. M.doe's. DEAL, OCTOBER 21. Arrived the James, HAYES, from, the New- South Seas ; Eliza and Shakespeare, from Gibraltar; Li- VERET sloop of war, from Lis4oh; Camara sloop of war, from Gibraltar; Bvtrut7u.t amp of war, from Calais; and the MALeotan 4otip of wit-, frOm the River. Sailed the whole of the outward.bonnd, for Portsmouth; also his Majesty's ships Meatorz, AMA. RANTHI4 and Ancnza, for the same destination. RAMSGATE, OCTOBER 21. Yesterday evening arrived the tramport brig Eri. tannia, CooK Master, from Ostend.—This morning arrived the Three Gebrofters, Saar, f otn Ostend; with loss of an anchor and cable, and rather leaky, put in for shelter ; Jonge Frederick; for Bilbca ; John sloop, JAAIES I from London for Falmouth ; and the New Providence, 'ROBERTS, from London to Dublin. HARWICH, OCTOBER 21. No arrivals.—Sailed the Lioness E A, Free Bri. I ton NV I, Hope E 0, Bellona F 0, transports, ia ballast, for Deptford; and the Anderson 472, and Harper 690, transports, also in ballast, for Ports , mouth.—Wind N.W. INMINGTON 6 OCTOBER 21. Arrived his Majesty's ship SWAIM, with the Woad• bridge and Earl Moira East-Indiamen and the Emily Souusseasnan under convoy, and remain in the roads. Wind S.W. GRAVESEND, OCTOBER 21. Arrived the Victory, Perse, from Caen; Latona, Rate, end Perseverance, Wadhant, from GMraltar • Three Friends, Adrad, and Fearuought, Southgate, from Malaga ; Argo, Delap, tram Archangel, and Montreal, Patterson, from o.tend. Sail, d, the Anna, Mather, for Hantburgh ; Zeeburgh, Anderson, for Rot terdam; san Guillermo De Gana, for Corunna• Britannia, Whitefield, fur Cork; G r anada, ' anada, Glendenning, for Mob serrit ; Liberty, Scott, for Gateway; Alen, Rainer, and Mary, Davis, for Antwerp; Blucher, Broiler, foe Pilate; and Cad Avow, berg, for Gottenburgh. The Merchants who have goods warehoused on bond, having been dissatisfied with the additional indulgence granted by the Lords of the Tre,isury, renewed their application for a further delay. We have every reason to believe that no further delay in payment of the duties will be granted. The Right Rev. Dr. VINCENT, Dean of Westmin. ster, came to town this morning from his seat at Hislop, near Oxford, with rQnovated health. The recommendation of the Commander in Chief to employ half.pay Officers on the recruiting service, has, we hear, been overruled, on the ground that these Officers would not be subject to martial lam. The Officers appointed to form the Court Martial for the trial of Lieutenant-General Sir JOHN MURRAY have received their orders for attendance; General Sir ALURID CLARKE, K.B. President. Sunday his Royal Highness FRIDZRICIC Prince of Orange sailed for Helvoet in the Duna packet, Cap tain MACDONOUGH. A sloop of war has been sent to the Clyde to con voy the outward-bound West-India trade (between forty and fifty sail) to Cork ; but the merchants Rav in et been informed that the Captain's orders were to take them to Bdfut, and from thence to tiverisool, on their way to Cork, he has been suffered to leave the Clyde without a single ship. The value of the fleet is supposed to be above £1,500,000. A Mail arrived from Malta has brought letters from thence of 31st August, and we have adviers through another channel from the Liana to the il.th .of last month, but those are not so late by a week as those previously obtained. •There was Ilona' ) k liieet trade with the Havannah, and a much more extensive intercourse than was expected with Marseilles. The vessel which arrived at Southampton, on Sun day last, from America, was neither the Fingal car teippor the Dutch frigate Ajax, but a ve ss el b e l ong i ng tollew York, freighted by Mr. MiGasoon, a native of Britain, for the express purpose of conveying Mr. Roca's, an American Gentleman and family, to Eu rope, and ultimately to the South of France, for the benefit of his Lady's health, who was in a deep de cline, and died on the passage. To enable Mr. Ronson to carry his object into effect, the Diitch Mi nister inAmerica, from motivesof humanity, furnished the vessel (then called the Princess of Orange) wish a certificate of protection, and procured the consent of the British Admiral to allow her, thus neutralized, to proceed on her voyage. Dainty-LANE THEATRE.—Last night the new Co. medy of Pokey, or Thus Runs the World Away, was represented for the third time. The picce is now re duced into three Acts : the curtailments *re eery judiciously made, aid the audience testifiecktbcknp. probation, by loud plauilkie its (Meng i fPr.l4 4.. • , s. ,z tr;2 . iiiw