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THE EVENING STAR. LON DON. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1814. ?ME OF s'l OCKSTHIS DAY AT TWELVE O'CLOCK: Reduced 641-4 per Cenr. 821—S per Cent. Navy shut Como!: chut —kr account, 67 66I—Omnium die. Bank Long Antis. 16 3-16th3 i—lndia Bonds 155.166. pre. Exchequer Bills Is. dis. Ss. prem. Dispatches have been received from Halifax brought to Plymouth by the Itscaurr, sloop of war, in 16 days. The LOIRE frigate has also arrived from al ifax. Major. General KENIPT came home a passen ger by this ship, and does not return again till spring. The date of the repotted capture of Gen. DRUM.. mom) sits tit.lt matter at rest. They had the report at Philadelphia in October, but we have had ac- c l a nts to a much later date. New \relic Papers to the 10th November, and Ha tftr, tl the 191 h have arrived. kappears by these that the Americans ha4„bnpy under considerable alarm tt mr a report that anAdditienal British force had cntered the Chesqralti 32 , 1 on the 3 lst October. tut on the.9th the opinion' 4ras, that the vessels itt questicn were those which had left the Illy on and bef..we the 28th October, bound to addax or Bermuda, and which, apprehensive of all easteriy storm were putting back tor a harbour. The Editor of the Nett, lark Gazette= adds : 40 Out opinion that this is the case, is i strngtheneil by the fact, that as late as the 19th ultimo no additional force had arrived either at Bermuda or at Halifax.— The very idea of the danger to which we have been exposed, has roused.the exertions of every man in preparing for the worst; and to that state of pre paration which now exists, we are indebted for our present tranquillity and safety. We are now pre. pared; and we feet confident that no force at present on our sea-board (even with those said to be on their way under Lord Hill), could succeed at this season in any attempt upon this city." By tl'e general accounts in all the Papers that have reached us, the campaign in America is consi dered as terminated for the season in every quarter. The proceedings of the American Congress with which the above Papers furnish us, come down to the 2.5 th ()etcher. They have been occupied chiefly in providing for the exigencies of the Government, and when we say that every' Tax formerly levied in the United States has been doubled, we are nearly correct. The following area few of the new objects of Tara- tion, viz.—Manufactured tobacco and snuff, in the hands of the manufacturer ; candles, of tallow and spermaceti ; hats, leather, pig iron, castings ; bar, rolled, and slit iron ; and on nails, made by the aid of machinery ; on fumi Lure above a certain value, except beds, bedding, and articles of domestic f manufacture, in the hands of the owner ; beer, ale, and porter, in the hands of the manufacturer ; bouts above a certain price, in the hands of the manufacturer ;son plated harness, in the hands of the owner; on vats, fot the manufacture of paper ; on saddles and bridte.4 above a certain price, in the hands of the owner; on gold and silver watches, in the hands of the owner ; on pleasure horses, kept exclusively for the saddle or car riage ; on playing cards, and on lotteries. Otir Readers will see, from the speech of the Chief Magistrate of Rhode Island, that the example of Mas sachusets, in departing from the union, will, in all probability, be followed by the former State: LEGISLATURE OF RHODE-ISLAND. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. NOVEMBER 1. The ,House met pursuant to adjournment, at ten o'clock, A.M. and proceeded to elect the Hon. James Barri% jun. Speaker, and Thomas Burgess, 3111., Clerk. At twelve o'clock, his Excellency the Governor, by his Private Secretary, Thomas Burgess, Esq. com municated the following.anaisage and accompanying documents : rt! to " Gentlemen of the Senate, and Gentlemen of the House of Representatives—We meet again with less sanguine hopes of the restoration of peace and pro. sperity than we indulged at the last session. All the Battering expectations induced by' the meeting of Ambassadors at Ghent, have been disappointed, and we are to look forward to the longer continuance of an unhappy war. " Though the original causes or pretexts of the war are now abandoned by our administration, and they are willing to make peace with Great Britain without requiring any stipulation on her part, on the subjects of blockade or impressment, yet peace can not, in the opinion of our government, be restored on the terms proposed by the enemy. It is exclusively tAr province and the duty of the general government to decide on our foreign relations—they only can declare war or make peace, yet I may be permitted to express my regret that the negotiation had not been permitted to proceed to such further length as to have ascertained with more precision the real pretensions and demands of England. Present appearances forbidding us to anticipate the speedy restoration of those blessings which peace alone can restore, it becomes our duty to look at the actual state of things and to prepare for those exer tions, privations and sufferings through which, in the righteous providence of GOD, we may be called to v pass. Ifoo rill perceive, in the cor respondence between ech o Executive of this St me and the departments of the general Government, continued exertion on our pat: to inducv tl.eir to our exposed condition, and to prevail on them to extend to us that support and assistance which, by the terms of the national compact, and by every consideration of prudence as well as justice, they were bound to have afforded ; . . and you will as readily discover, on their part, re peated and continued delay ; and, finally, an implicit refusal or an acknowledgment of their inability to comply with our requests. 44 On the Part of this State we have exhibited a constant readiness to conform to the views of the general Government, and to co-operate with them, agreeably to the Constitution, to the extent of our power, and it is not understood that the general Go vernment itself has discovered or complained of any unwillingness or reluctance in us r yet, notwithstand ing our constant importunity and our readiness to act in concert with the Officers of the United States, our requisitions are uncomplied with; and, so far as depended on the general Government, our situation has continued as defenceless as at the commencement of the war. " You will perceive by the correspondence, that the Government have, in fact, refused to make the necessary advances for expenses which their own Officers have ordered and approved of, and that the utmost extent of the promise of the Secretary atWar is, that if we will advance the money, they will apply it to our defence. " In this unheard of and unforeseen condition of thinp, the General Assembly ar_ called on to make further arrangements for the defence of the State. " The large States of have more abunikrnt means. In this State, which has paid, and con- tinues to pay such immense sums into the national treasury, our means, by way of direct taxes, owing to the very limited extent of our territory, must neces sarily be much circumscribed. The taxes already in operation, and those proposed at this session, must draw from us a sum of money, one half of which, if applied to our own necessities, would increase, in a very respectable degree, our means of defence. The direct tax on houses and lands alone will undoubtedly exceed the sum of sixty-nine thousand dollars, no part of which is applied to the purpose of our parti cular defence. But I forbear further to enumerate our grievances, our sufferings, and dangers—the ca talogue might be Swelled to a frightftd size, and in stead of I urnishing us with motives fur exertion, might sink us into despondency. 66 I shall always be ready to concur in every mea sure proposed by the General Assembly for the de- fence of our native land, and of our invaluable liber ties, and I trust, the people, notwithstanding the ex tent of their losses and the discouragement of the times, will be found worthy of their privileges and of their former prosperity. Having done all we can do, we look for a blessing upon our arms and our cause to Him who alone iuleth among the nations of the earth. " In pursuance of the act passed at the last session, authorising me to borrow, on the credit of the state, a sum not exceeding one hundred thousand dollars, a loan has been opened at the several banks and propo sals have been sent to different towns. The success of the measure has not fully equalled my hopes ; a part only of the loan has been obtained, and a parti cular statement of its progress will be made for your information in the course of the session. " In compliiage with the resolutions on that tub. ject, 'at the spa* session of the legislature in Sep. tember, a draft has been made from the militia and chartered companies, to make up the State's quota of five hundred men, under the requisition of the Presi. dent of the United States, of the 4th of March, and they are ordered into service accordingly—and senior class will soon be organized agreeably to the laws passed for that purpose: g - In additiOn to the ordninee already stationed at several points, field-pieces have been provided for Little Compton, Tiverton Warren, East Greenwich, and North.iings-town, with some supplies of ord nance-stores{ and I have the satisfaction to acknow ledge the receipt from the United States, by the order of Brigadier-General Cushing, of six filed carriages for heavy cannon. 4. I have the pleasure of being able to inform you, that at some late inspections and reviews of the mili tia which I have attended, I have had the satisfaction of finding an evident improvement in discipline, and particularly in the quality and good order of their anns. There is also a very commendable zeal and alacrity excited among the officers, and a correspond. leg emulation among the men. We may be per tained therefore to believe, that in case of an inva sion, our militia will support the character for disci pline and bravery which they acquired in the war of the revolution ; and that as they have now become almost our sole military dependance, they will not dis appoint us in the hour of trial. •From the neglect and disregard of our wants which we have experienced from that quarter to which we naturally look for assistance, I have been induced, for the supply of some of the individual requisites for taking the field, to issue orders to the Quarter. Master and Commissary-Generals to make such pre• parations in their several departments as our scanty resources admit. " his my duty particularly to mention the situa tion of the men belonging to the state corps. The neglect on the part of the United States to make pro. vision for the ?arum of their wages, has reduced many of theni to very distressing circumstances. SLime have families, and all will require a supply of clothing. without which it will he impossible they can' do their duty through the approaching cold season. •44 Qn the 4th instant I was informed by the Secre tary at War that General Swift would visit this State, to inspect the fortifications, and to advise as to the erection of other works. General Swift ha's since ar rived, and in company with him I have visited the shores at the head of the Bay and Rhode Island and Tiverton near the Stone Bridge. What further steps will be taken by the Government in consequence of this measure, I have not been informed 01. In some parts of the State the citizens have cluet fully volun teered their services in erecting hatteries and field works, to a very considerable extent, and owing to their very meritorious exertions, additional security has been given to some important and exposed positions. 44 Under our great pecuniary embarrassments the patriotic labour of the people was particularly accept. able, and deserves the approbation of the Legislature. 44 I communicate, for your more particular infor mation, my correspondence with the Secretary of War, and also with Governor Strong and Governor Smith, on the subject of mutual aid of the Militia, in case of invasion. I also lay before you a communication from Go vernor Strong, with several resolutions of the Legis lature of Massachusetts, which, from the importance of the subject, and respectability of that St.ite, claim, and will, I have no doubt, receive your early and se rictus attention. " I cannot close this communication without ad verting to some of the many reasons which the people of this State have for gratitude and thankfulness to the GIVER OF ALL Gaon, who, in the midst of judg• ment, has remembered mercy. By his goodness we have reaped of the fruits of the earth. our health and lives have been preserved, and shores protected from invasion, and our laws and religious liberties con. tinue4i. (Signed) " WILLIAM JONES. " Providence, Oct. 31, 1814." NEW-YORK, OCTOBER 21. Governor Tompkins hAd issued orders for all the Militia Officers, who are absent from their posts, im mediately to join their respective regiments. His Excellency was to leave .Albany yesterday for this city, and intended on his way to visit the Connecticut sea coast, The stearn-boat furnishes no authentic intelligence from the northern or western frontier. From the latter there is a rumour that General Izard had join. ed General Brown above Chipawa : titat the two armies thus united were on their way to Chipawa and Queenston, and tliat the main army of the enemy had retired towards Burlington, leaving at these sta. tions a garrison of two or three hundred men. OCTOIHR 28. . FROM GENERAL IZARD'S ARMY.—By the steam boat Paragon, which arrived to-day from Albany, we learn, that on the 19th inst. General Bissel, with his brigade, attached to General Izard's army, forted , the Chipawa, eight miles above the enemy's position, with the loss of (ifs men, 14. of whom were killed ; and that the main army ware on the move from Black Creek down the Niagara upon the Chipawa. General Blown had gone to Sackett's Harbour, to take command of the forces there, NOVEMBER 9. By the steam-boat Fulton, of this morning, we hay nothing new from the frontiers, except a report from a Gentleman of Buffalo, that six inches of snow had fallen on Niagara, and that all military opera tions were of course ended, or suspended for the present. FROM TIM ONTARIO MESSENGER 01 NOVEMBER 1. We understand that Major-General Izard's army had re-crossed the Niagara, with the exception of Ge neral Bissell's brigade, which is stationed in Fort Erie. About 15,000 men of General. Browne's division are on their march from Buffalo to Sackett's Harbour ; they passed here yesterday. Brigadier General Win. der and suite passed here on Saturday, for the same place.—Nothing new from Sackett's Harbour. BALTIMORE, NOVEMBER I. The enemy landed yesterday morning at Deep Creek, and proceeded to Ruby's Windmill : he was reconnoitred and his position ascertained by Captain Bird, of the United States' Dragoons. The in. fantry under General Madison, having several miles to march, bad not arrived. Captain Bird de. termined upon a charge, with a view to cut off the retreat of the enemy, which he attempted in the most gallant manner, under a tremendous fire of can non and musketry; but not being well supported by Isis men, the charge was not so efficient as the gallant Captain had hoped to have made it. He was wounded severely in the head, and was nigh being taken priso ner. Our artillery galled the enemy everely whilst he was moving off in his barges. Deep Creek is 16 or 18 miles below the Annapolis, Maryland. Two English country ships (one the 1 1 ;,ndliam) from Canton, have been captured by an Au:trican letter of marque and given up, after having about 50,000 dollars worth of valuable property taken out. The British brig Harvest, cargo oil, blubber, salmon, cod fish, furs, deals, icc. a prize to the privateer York ; and schooner 'Prince Regent, cargo SBO bar rels and a quantity of salmon, cod fi.h, and boards, prize to the Dash, of Portland, have arrived at Two hundred and eighteen Americans were on board the prison-ship at Bermuda on the Sd Oc tober, and several on board the hospital-ship. A French squadron, of two ships of the line, four frigates, and three brigs, five days from Brest, for the West Indies, was spoken the 27th August. INTELIVGEATCR. The Sally has arrived at New York from Canton, after a pas. save of four months and a half, with a cargo of teas, tilts, h. valued at 5e0,000 dollars: satlpd 11th June ult. The Jacob Jo'es, said to have been captured in the Chios Seas, is arrived n Canton. CAP 'TIRES BY THE AMERICANS. The Mary, Purroughs, from Halifax to Martinique, was taken early In October by the Por►smouth privateer. The James, Mes enger, from London to Quebec, was cap tured the 4•h October by the Portsmouth privateer. She t►ok out of her about 90u packages of dry goods, and arrived at Bos. ton the 19th October from her cruise. The Erin, Twohy, from Plymouth to St. Micha e l' s , an d the Active, lTarrison, from I.iverpo.,l to ditto,were taken, the noddl e of last month, cif that Island, by the Hero privateer—the !arer was burnt, and the Erin ant to America. PORTSMOUTH, DECEMBER 114 _ _ Arrived his Majesty's ship PILISZUS, from Newfoundbild, last front Lisbon. His Majestfd ship Mon TAW/ a gives . !inns to the trsde bound to Bermnda and the Bahama islands,—. Wiod '.W.—lt has blown a gale nearly the who's dey, but it is now Vise o'clock) moderate. PLYMOUTH, DECEMBER 12. Arrived the Lona frigate from Halifax, having brought over Geueral Keiser; Rectum sloop of war also Irmo }War, in tti days passage, with divatches. Arrived the liron2bory, Ito. ger!, from Rio Janeiro for London, and the Stanisli sh.p Jou quits, from London for Havannah. ADMIRALTY-OFFICE, DECEMBER 12. Rear-Admiral Griffith has transmitted to Joh n WilsonCroker, Esq. a letter from Captain Sir George Collier, of his Majesty's ship Leander, giving an ac. count of his having. on the Sib of last month, cap. tured, off Cape Sable, the American privateer schoo. ner General Putnam, of eight guns and 57 men, Her guns were thrown overboard during this and a former chase, the vessel having been pursued by eleven different cruizers previously to her being fallen in with by the Leander ; And also a letter flotn Captain Stanfell, of his Majesty's ship Bacchante, reporting his having, oil the lst November, taken the American brig priva. teer M'Donough, of five guns and 71 men, out 24 hours from Purumouth.—Geedte. The American Generals and Naval Officers on the Canada frontiers are continually involved in quarrel , . Generol BROWN has written a long letter to Commo dore CHAUNCRY, apparently on business, but evi. dently calculated to convey some vulgar reproaches for omitting to support him as he ought to have done at Lake Ontario. The want of assistance he admits, renders his situation at Fort Erie extremely precari. ous, and will make his retreat from that place pieta. rious and dtfficiilt in case such a step is necessary. By General Orders, dated 44 Head-quarters if the Northern Army, Camp near Fort Erie, October 22," the Volunteers and Militia, on service with the Northern Army in Upper Canada, were ordered to march to Batavia to be discharged. Two Hamburgli Mails, with Brussels and Frank, fort Papers, reached Town this morning. From Fianna we learn, that two leading points have been settled at the Congress, to the satisfaction of all par. .ties. Saxony gets back her King, and the German Princes are, as heretolore, to be under the protection of Austria, subject to certain necessary mod fications. Not a word is said in these papers of Poland. • By accousts from Rio Janeiro to the 21st October, it appears• that a duty of 30 per cent. has been im posed upon all goods exported from the Brazils, which Are not destined to ports and territories under the Government of the Prince Regent of PoRTIIO4I. this be correct it will go far to destroy the effect of the 144 e treaty with this country. The opinion gain* ground that the Negotiations at Ghent have led to a well grounded hope that the signing of Preliminaries of Peace will be announced at no very remote period, Nothing official is, hew ever, allowed to transpire on this side the water, bet the movements of some who are supposed likely to ba well informed on any thing that concerns Americas interests, gives countenance to the general belief. We have received Paris Papers of Saturday. They contain rather a curious article respecting the deten tion of a French Officer, bearing letters from Naples, which were forcibly taken from him. We presume this was intended as an act of retaliation for some• what similar treatment which Lord OXFORD recently received in France. " ROME, NOVEMBER 15. '• An event which happened at Fendi, on the fro.l• tiers of the Kingdom (it Naples, has caused a great sensation here. The Baron de B.wlnois, a Freach General Officer, going from Naples, where he had been on private business of great importance, was at tacked on the 13th instant, near Fendi, op the fron• tiers of the Kingdom of Naples, by armed men. Tour of these persons got possession of his person, robbed him of his papers, and having teal-treated him, left him on the spot. What is surprising, is, that two merchants going the same read a few minutes beke the coach of the French General, were not stopped by the malefactors. The Baron de Boulnois arrood at the French Ambassador's, who bestowed on him all the care which his situation demanded, and fur nished him with the necessary assistance. His Holi. ness was much affected at the accident, and sent to inquire as to the state of the Baron, and to condole with him on his accident. The Baron took care to draw up a frrocer-verdal at Terracina of the circum stances of the attack, which was the more ertraordi• nary, since the robbers left many precious objects in the coach, but took away carefully all the plers which the Baron bore." Lord F*11,124.31 put a period to his existence with a pistol, on Friday last, in the chamber of one of Lis sons, in Trinity College, Dublin. He had previously sent the servant down stairs that he might arrange some papers without interruption. This act is ascribed to perplexities arising from the late failure ct dx bat,lting-house in Dublin, in which his Lordship concerned. Last night a Coroner's Inquest was held at B3:* tholomew's Hospital on the body of Sarah Pentt,n, who lately lived in Feather-bed -court, Fetter-lane. !E appeared that the deceased, in a quatrel with her Lui• band, had been repeatedly struck with a piece cf an old chair, and was carried to the H quence. Th e J ur y returne d a ver di ct i , t lu ter against the h us b an d, w h o h as b een com i Lte d Newgate for triaL osi.ital in conse- CORN EXCHANGE, DECEMBER 14. Very little famines's was dune upon our mai ket tisk mornklrs having bad no fresh arrivals, and au demand for the Wheat remaintd over from Mvisday—the prises are nominally same, but no sales could be effected. Barley supports MUD :ag ps ices, but there was very licile at market. Hawn: guod Oats, such kind are in dtinand ; ind rather coarse corn is dull sa l e . I n P cas, B eans, and nutlet Jr .:l ,here is no variation. C in of