Star. — London, England, 1814-10-24 00:00:00

• and ttley wittda be taken better rate of in the Lower Province. I am, dear Sir, very faithfully, your oil dient servant. (Signed) " naoßoit tV4IIIO WASHINGTON, SEPT. 16. • CJPY OF A LETTER FROM COMMODORE taiDOL:IOtRIE TO THE SECRETARY OF TUE S 4YY, DATED UNITED FIATS'S SHIP S.SRATOGi, OFF FLA TISEURC, strr. 11: Sta--The Az.zitorrry has been pleased to grant us a sigadl victory on Lake Champlain, in the cap tore of One .frigate,• one brig, and two sloops of War of the.enertly. —I have the honour to be, very respect fully,••Sir, your obedient servant, • - ••• • S igned ) T. NI ACDONOIIOII, 00111. " Hon, W. Juno, Secretary of the Navy." • • • MONT'PELIER, SEPT. 15. • Ott Sunday morning last, about eight 'o'clock, the British and American fleets on Lake Champlain, met, sad a. most bloody engagement ensued. The British -Commodore was killed the first or second shot. ' Com modore. Nl•Dortough has escaped unhurt, although every officer on board his ship was either killed or wounded. The Growler, when taken, had but five .men alive. two of those badly wounded. A surgeon of the ship, coming on deck and finding but two men standing, and those at the guns, struck the flag. Our loss is great, but not exactly ascertained. The whole of our force on the Lake, independent of the captured British ships, is Ship . Saratoga, Commodore WI/enough 26 guns. Brg Eurprlze, Master andeontmandant Henly 20 Schooner Ticonderoga, do. Cas!in • • 20 Slop treble, Lieutenatit Budd • - • 7 Do. Montgomery, Sailing Master Lumtta - 7 Do. President, Master'S Mate Freeborn - 10 Six new Row Gatlin; the Santepead, Viper, Nettle, Berer, Burrows and Allen, each mounting 24 and a short 18-pounder - 12 Bow tallies, Nos. 1,2, 9, and 4, the two former Mounting each a log 9, and the two luta each a ices isloneder - 4 : _. Large ship • !trig . ,Growler Eleven Gun boats c2nJt:... . .. Total BRITISH. GUM. Men. Killed. Wounded. - 39 300 50 tO 16 11.0 20 30 - 11 10 6 10 11 40 8 10 - 16 550 2 probably sunk 106 guns. A Toml 93 1050 - 84 110 Several of the gun-boats struck ; but the sinking state of the Arrge vessels required the assistance of the men in our gallies, so that not being able'•n take possession of theta, tby were able to lave themstivol by kt. e ANIZRICAN. .Rllit Vpa. Waincied. 53ratega. - 2:0 20 Eagle, brig . 22r 120, 27 Ticonderoga, schooner . 110. „ Prebl. 000% 6 $0 • I 1 Ten Gun-boats - 11 KO ". V 0 • - Total 820 671 The Ilphie 0111025 keyed were Commodore powale and two t r icutenents, &c. • The Americas :Officers kilted were Lieute tants Gamble and Stansbury, the latter of whom, was knocked overboard and net found, and Sailing Master Carter. - A l ltilifbithili Officers taken are Captain prim - and sift or eight li-Aestenants.: The wounded have been paroled and seat, by a messet,-.te-th• Isle Airs Noiz. ....)''' - ' ''' ATTACK ON !LevrrniUßG. - • '.'"Fheinilitary events near'Plattsburg are confusedly • 'and itintradictoririnarrated. The tó*n is located at - - -t%e bottinii if ifiai Ft Lake Champlain, having the :sfeeiraraiitic : robnhig through it. the village, we itridisettind,'lsbn the north or west_ side of the river, -la the tirblriein strong hOldi cat the: south or east bade,,- ' • . '-:' --• ' . ' •. • - ... ... . .. :. . • i 7 -lift app its; by variOin Statements, that on the 6th 'llo.pteiriher 'the Btitish adiaiseed Hoops occupied the tease Of Plattsburg, compelling ear advanced party of regulars and militia to retreat to the Saranae, - Which Akereiested,' and removed the bridge (20 rods wide) .wvetiKit river: The British advance tellowed to the lion,. lend then, at night, retired to their main body, whichvbirVetrEanatied a few miles from it. During these opetationi'the village was set on fire arid destroy ed fiTifetateit; fii•ed 'from the American streng holds 4) trlictdViLvt :side" Of the river. . .r.Costithis7tff-flie -British advanced party returned to -shvitlveti •sind'svete employed in pseparing pontoonsi WI 61*in:fit y when . i ' sevate cannonade actoss the ''.iivev eiitiiitaiikidi :litisli Wittlitired • on both • side's *four:ll4*dt. nu thi 'Wash have' vain Cl 16 or I'VpieMr s s' .l7 If " ' •. : . . 3 1 heitre4h of thi tritiii) nie*y; and: its Com. Thantter,lart '461644 'ita?ed:' 4t piobablz is corn. mamiM bytitieriii Biisiiine, who 'll,i'about 6000 troops, Want of thenitiatia i' And - that General Pee iiiost ennundftds the reteite; el abatis an banal bunt ) ter, cantoned near the Canada border. IlieAnterieati'artriy, tinder General Macotiab, did :nur-creeed 3000 when the British army first advanced; -lest it has since been . strongly reinforced b 7 the New. . littsh.rind VentUni Militia, ' Of the latter, SOW had :pt illedllldtte 0 . 111100 a% previous to the 14th instant, anti ensiViuthiniattrids mOre.were on the ro.sd, in full !sortiortlfiVestitelr. ' 'rtinfaCilitate their march, Go.' -stirreatottiketidetr'hierepaired to Burlington, and t nimated theiti Veit- vigordtis croft to compel the In. -.aadets oamonssif 404 boundaries. . . d— '. .I*tiitiiittl“ sintiStExit 20. - • ittlgeleitlenwan; arrived IA the mail stage, who left Valtruitre4n Saturday afternoon, at three o'clock, •sisltisehe .kd tarried two days. He idformi us, that - the Whale' uf• ibe British' Itect had Raised dOwn ; the lility t.that Only.thrce nsiels,' bekmging to the last -ottlbeltit44; Were to be'Reti . fioni the Obseriattiry : - 411.11dViii the . enemy ;dug * . eN raves on North Point s IVanie-Of *Ka hid linen slhil oll•ened, and were fOund: - t sh eitwittiOrbn sty ttliragi &bitr bodies each. Sony, •WaSut tiodiearifiVetierni, intiiiitin the sioade,liiist 'b, • ht Th ee:4 brong la by our n fi e alms. ere was pc 1 . _ tionbt entertained as to the death of General Rost. IXTEACT of A LETTER FROM SACKETT'S RARSOUtto DATED SEPT. 13, 18,14. " One or two new vessels are on their way Sp the St. Lawrence, or have already arrived at Kingston, iu a raft, which was put together at Johnstown, and consists cf all their timber, spars, apparel and arma ment ready to put together. 44 We are in doubt as to the point or object of the expedition—it is evident, however, that one hon foot; It is my belief that this division intend throwing themselves in the rear of the British army at Niagara, as they probably do not think themselves strong enough for Kingston. If Drummond's army by this means be captured, at the head of the Lake, and Brown and Izard form a junction, and make a descent upon Kingston before the new ship is ready, I think there would be a chance of success, and this is the only •one on which I can reasonably make calcula dons, and this can only he done while we have the ascendancy on the Lake. The Oneida is in port, and divested of her armament—her cannon are mounted on board the gun-boats—she will probably act bete after as a transport." • 1,,0 NOON. MONDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1814. PRICE OF I'OCKS THIS DAY Al' TWELVE O'CLOCK : ktduceil 64 —4 per Cent. SI ft.... 5 per Cm. Miry 10613 6111301 s 6 acenunt i 651 66---Orna. Y die. . Bank t.txtg Ann; titl 16 1- a.—Bon4s 14s. I.ss.pr. Etche.pier Bats 41. Fran. This morning we received New York Papers to the 22i, and Boston to the '2 1i ult. also HaEtas Papers , of so late a date as the sth instant. The former do not contain the Pncstnexr's.speech on opening Congress, which, however, was daily ex pected. BOSTON, SEPTEMBEIt 24. The President's Message at the extra meeting of Congress had not been received at New York on Wednesday evening, from which it may be concluded that it was not delivered on Tuesday. We shall pro. bably receive it in the course of the day. • The tate affair at Lake Champieht occupies a con-. siderable portion of these papers. As might b: expec t • ed, the enemy in his official statement—indeed in all the accounts—loudly triumphs at his success; and it must be allowed, not without at least the app?arance of reason.—He boasts of expelling and capturing those heroes who had conquered in Portugal, in Spain, in France—in every quarter in which they had taken the field in Europe and in Asia—of having defeated, with a force of only 30J0 brave Americans, a Briiish veteran force many times their number:—and, alas! the fact is unhappily but too true. We shall not be so unjust as to fir a stigma on any person or persons, or condemn any before they have been proved guilty ; but prima facie, it is n. t probable that such a discomfiture cLuld have t ilzn place with out some cul . pa.ble error in either the concoction or execution of the expedition, or of the previous arrange ments : and it is impossible, in the nature of things, that an enquiry can he delayed. NOVA-SCOTIA HERALD OFFICE, OCTOBER 9, FOUR O'CLOCK. We stop the press to announce, that a letter has just been received from an officer of our army, datca Fort Erie, 6th instant, stating th:u a hot rencontre had taken place with our pickets on the 4th, in which the traitor Wilcox was killed, and 70 of his party put hors de combat." MONTREAL, SEPTEMBER 17. We understand that our new ship was safely launch ed on Saturday at Kingston. During the last week several parties of American prisoners have arrived from Upper Canada, and yes terday sixteen of those taken on the late Plattsborg expedition were brought to town—the remainder, b?- tween two and three hundred, we understand, are expected here this day and to-morrow. HALIFAX, OCTOBER 1. ' The intercepted letters which we have copied from American pipers, give us a clear view of the pla:as our Commander in Chief intended to pursue—which indeed, he has pursued, and which have proved un successful—so wonder ; they depended on and commenced before the issue of a hattl , i o Lak Champlain was ascertained ; having lost the day fy water, a disgraceful retreat by land was the natural consequence. We have before had the mortification to regret his having trusted to miracles to feed his tacked Brigades, and now find General Drumrnond's army depending solely on that contingency—solely , perhaps, we ought.not tosay ; his and his soldiers va lour will yet End resources ; and we also calculate en assistunce , .frorn Sir James Yeo, as gallant a cha racter as the British Navy boasts.of, though for once LaDoLdwa,.we are sure, unjustly ).accused.of ~ vsccil latin Ftioune seem* tired of . favouring us in Canada— ; she offered us Alackett's Harbour, but we disclaimed her proffered kindniss—she gave us the means of su periority on all the Lakes in that country —th's too was rejected. and it was.thouy,ht better to put Great Britain to £loo.oooexpence at 'pane, to send Iranies of ships to Quebrc, which will never reach their ties tinatieo, tiwi to gratify a builder on the spot with one thousand pounds more than those who were not judges ;thought the work worth. • Our limits do not allow us this day to lay before our Readei s a 1 age portion of the observations to which these evens have given occasion in the Hali la Papers ; but they are loud in their complaints, ?:or do thel use tiny disguise in die censures which they level (perhaps unjustly) at the Commander-in- Ch i • Whitever may haqe been the caws, or wherever lie bi;:me mAy attach, our interests in that quarter itavc been brought into a most critical situation such a situation as requires some prompt measures at home. Matters are too pressing to he left to airy re rnetir which Sir GEORGE PUEVOST mei have It tAt' power to apply.—Some of the brave soldiers of the . . Peninsula are alrrady in Canada. They are fretting and rrpining at the disgrace of luring obliged to r - treat before American militia, perhaps the most con. rempuble military force upon the face of the earth, Let the;r old Commander be instantly sent our, wi!!, powers similar to those which he exercised with sq much judgment in Spain..-let him take the com. mand, and affairs will soon present a very different aspect from what they now do in Canada. It may also he well to deliberate before any more of the. 2d battalions be reduced. First conquer your elleniy, and tEen disband your troops. The Halifax Papers contain a proclamation, by Sir GEOIIGE Pitrvosr, prohibiting the exportation, from Lower Canada, during the war, of provisions of every dscriptioa, efc..rpt to the fishing settlements of La. bradore and Newfoundland. In the Chesapeake we have had what h called a " demonstration"—this we did not want, convinced before that every thing practkable had been acconi, plished, and trusting. with confidence to the future, movements of that • little army-we have had also al ".demonstration" from Canada—the result is hz the Chesapeake our troops are too few, in Canada too. many, unless we know better how to htndle them— it is one thing to row a wherry, another to work a 74. Even adepts in the difficult art of lying, may some. times over-reach themselves;• A very lengthy Ame rican account of the action,on Lake Champlain, men tions, that only five men (of which two were wounded) survived on hoard the Growler sloop j yet, whet; it afterwards became necessary to make a superiority on our side, this circumstance escaped the recollection of the federalists (who have the exclushe manage ment of seater-lies, as the democrats have of hum/- ones-0 for the number of killed and wounded on board she Growler, is: given ist the three iurvivop, who were nut hurt., makes. her complement of men aline:ten, incteady of Foul v, as al lotted to her, in round numbers, by. our scripsloiu enemy This Morning we received Paris Papers of Thurs day, but they contain little of interest. Mails from atalburgh and Holland have also arrived to-day—they convey but little intelligence of, interest. On Saturday Mr. CANNWG had an audience of the PItINCE Reot.sr at Carlton House, and took leave of his ltcyal Highness previous to. his departure for. Lisbon. The PRIVIt RsGENT, attended by General BLoott.; Mato, lett town on Saturday evening, for Brighton. Dowager Lady MaLvit.LE is arrived in the Isk Wight, whtre she will remain until the wind. is fairy for his Majesty's shipTIBER, to take her teißourdeater. A Letter from Ghent, dated °etcher •17, sari " We know nothing of the Congress in this torn., except that the Plenipotentiaries of the two lowersi receive from time to time dispatches, and exchange. diplomatic notes, but the conteats of boat the dis patches and notes are hidden from the public in ius• l penetrable sect eq. The American negociators are , upon the point of making a tour to Brussels and. Antwerp, as well as the other cmsidrrable cities cf Belgians, to view all that is remarkable in them." On Wednesday the s lirra sloop of war, Captain Forts - run, arrived at Yortsmoutli from the Mdi near, latt from Lisbon- Admiral Ft use waslyiro 4,a:• ••....- - .. J• - g. 01- _lying Muc,l as we admire the laconic in letter-writing, at Algesiras, in the Etizaarrii, of 7 t guns, with the vie should have been better pleased with Commodore ..P.lllll.ton and SPARROW SLOOPS, on the .23d ult. She' Millonough, had he informed us by whose eartk& did not touch at Gibraltar. And on Thursday ten • means, exclusive of his own, he was allowed to achieve transportkarrkved from various parts of the tai int,tbp 19th ult. Mediter a victory 44 so contrary to his expectation ranean. They sailed from Gibra and all bu- under . cativo of the Crocus, and j todched at Lisbon, man probability." Had he, without telling us of the 1 w h ere they fiy seventeen ' , days. 'The Cachrt went aid he received from that BEING, who, in dres,ing the . past with the remainder of Ilifinvoy forth' Dotvns. cemmodon.'s wounded finger, as in fighting the bat- Vv CAM happy.to state, dug thimeis 'lota:sick men in tics of nations, alike interferes, written tl..tist any of tLessliips. , None 4,tlie ,ships Kw riltit.Me -44 diterrane4ut Will return ho"me until 410 hfirOatylfe• .That beneOtcpt haus', which_ (acting under Dr- hived by others from Eligland. ' i trirqt ranl l .lowit:c4 vnexpectodiy forced: ulton us, this M e . Macy=Arnt 'uslialerr fioni-T - nAf. tibitid u lbr lime last year, a whole British acct on Lake E: ie— England, arrived at St. Liticils, the V.itii August. • igain g niterpeetedly, is t i Ma to nt the Iropottant pout of SaCkett's 'Wbeii we bard foolishly giVin it up as lost, merely because it was in the eniiiny's #ouession t that AMC 'Kim* hind, that, instead of sending forth Against es the Wellington troOps, in hest bodies; now hippy frittering away their fives in petty expeditfons, has tlits day also unexpec tedly rgaie forced into our hantds a British fleet on Lake Champlain? Then, indtedohould we have acknow lidged the value Constnodere'S letter ! THE - EVENING STA 4. - , ..: igmllg • • ~, Orders have been received at Portsmouth lei immediate shipment, on board ships of WA!' Lid transports, of 10,000 stand of arms, with very large quantities of amunition of different kinds, destit:ed for America. Thursday the Staff of the 2.1 battalion of the 9lst Regiment of the Line, whi,h regiment has been sta. tinned in Canterbury since its return front Brab int; mucked [or Gravesend, to embark for ScotlanO, to recruit. The effective& of the battalion, forming 4 Wong detachment, are under orders to proceed to Ire land I from thence, it is conjectured, to embark to join the Ist battalion on service inAmerica, This morning a detachment of the 911 High landers from Scotland, marched through the City for Chelsea. The Officers who received Modish w ith Sir RALPH Anacaosasie, in Egypt, and those with the Duke of WELI,INGTON, in Spsin. now west them in plain chilies as well as when dressed Et regimentals. FIINZEAL OE GENERAL it , ts.—Tbe body of the gallant and much•latnented Major-(Jeneral !toss wag interred in St. Paul's Church-yard, H *tifar, nn the Oth September. The copse left the flig-ship pre. cisely at three o'clock, under a discharee at half.m:. note guns, and arrived at the King's Wharf, *bre it was received by the 6.enadior company nt the G`rth regiment. and foilowed to the grave by all the ;” in cipal naval and milituy officers and a tare number of u&habit.uttc. ' " 'l7 4 I NAVAL INItLLIGRIVCR. - • . . • FALMOUTH, OCTOBEg gn.. Sail' kis Majesty's ship Got.nnscii i . "RT:Liriar. pool, with a few ships under coriaoy . L Prancirir. Hog packer, for Lisbon ; LorVii picket; til . ELAilea ; Snake packet, lor Nlalta ; Frederick,l4 et,,foi the Brazils ; and the Princess Marpcpeeket, or Itmoico, all with Mails; and hisli•iiest s Ship ...% its slo t — ,Rn 14( a ehrize. Arrived the TiMert OM, frottiGibialty, in 14 days, sailed in compao . It/1 ltle Ttfuesq'ilArip i MIYSTRISL, whom tad' eti&secoviirh ker r rli . atom bound to Liston, and front itliiip ilie par.tetfuNYeipo St. Vincent's on the 9th - fraftent . : '' • ' z . • .0c: roams 21.-41ri.ed . tNre AtinchinbroOk _relay from Jur:area id 46.04,7 i, =a/itli 4 a MA. s eUtsi On Queen Charlotte pi Set, wfth is Mail. !pi Sui.iitjtiu • . PLYMOVni, OCrQIIE,I !9 • Arrived his Maje s ty's s!:ip Bettotwcattra, from the East Indies; EalliblNustripte, arum a cruise; Nor wegian brigßesolittion, from with timber; and the Lord Gambler, Bisitott, from Jersey.' Sailed the BITTZBN sloop of war, and 1 - 4Pantom frigate, on is cruise. —Wind W.N.W. PORTSMOUTH, OCTOBER 2s. Arrived his Majesty's schooner VASTA I with di., patches from America—His Mijesty's ship• Picxot, and sailed again on a crutze.—Wind W. DEAL, OCTOBER !S. Put back several of the outward•bound West.- Indiamen. Came down bunt the River the Grenada, for Montserratt ; Hythe, fur Portsmouth ; and sailed with the whole of the outward-bound for Purtsmouth. Sailed the 13.irrossa, Globe, E4me, Venus, Hilda, 4eaborse, Truelove, and Qsrvin traasporti, tor Ports -4nclutb..,-Whld West, JOANNA SOUTHCOTT).—This wretched woman has published the following address to her friends: as Many of the Believers in my Visitation, sal have been infurmed, begin to grow impatics.t in their expectation, as to the marriage spoken of not, having taken place and published a Lang tittle Jielgfe • ap child should be bop ; and seeing the, harvest nearly ended, • they appear ready to sirsk in the great deep —the seas before them, and the Egyptian boa bellied them ;' so that where is the promise of eiths the, Nig• riage or the Child ,t will soca be the cry of theAblic ; and the belleiers themselves will be ready to say • the harvest is over ; the day is ended ; and we are not saved.' From this I see clearly that tnycflemiei would soon boast and triumph, while the Believers would be ready to sink in despair, if the way they are stumbled in remained without being answered and ee, plained. In crier, therefore, to do away such a state of mind in the Believers, I take this opportunity of in forming them, that when the marriage was first men tioned to me, it was before I bad any kaowledge cif what would follow ; I was warned that a private mar riage should first take place in my own hause, whicls afterwards was to be granted to be realized in public. 44 This circumstance stumbled me, and also my friends, who were made acquainted with it, becanip that time there appeared no necessity for such s p 0 vale Marriage to take place in haste ; but now; tsile case enough, from the dangers which begin to ap. pear; so that, from my present situation, and my own feeliags, I can judge the truth of the words that are already in print. For, if there be r no Son, *Ow Will be • no adopted Father,' and no Marriage WO binding ; because it will be but a teniporaryN4t,ti 4e, from which death must soon release me. iliacsirbo the Bridegroom is must not publicly be nsidge knowli s after the Marriage bath taken place, until the Mild tie born. "thus, taking the whole into ectiaderatiON is clear . to me 'bulb , . Marriage and the Birth of Child may, 'sad will mo.t likely, take.plaj:e wishing perhapt, tot than a day"l'he ore= before tstif titl) I therefore the Belir.pers may from k this hint he 4 le n foini a correct jusgittest; tat 4 eirlk tbilr ittp4tie r oCe so as not to look or it:elf:o to. immediately-After the Marriage shall liavitikeh pjlcei be./ that theta/4 and ,FeventS sioh, to complete the wear/eel, as' before said, will be in order, and its right titass both aria, the Birth of the Child Omit bare taken place. ' • (Signed) haitiiNA .So, t:Tticbri:.!' October 21, 1814." ~N EMIT I-IFIE1.1) MARKE'a", OCTOBER :4. Ikef 41 ad to :a tii! Veal 6s Od to Ts ad Mutton 5s Od to 61 Od 1 Park Gs Od to 71 Gd Cattle at ~yMarket. Dents kG4O-46oap and Lamb• 16,7•2 O—Calves I .50—• Pigs SO. CORN-MARKET, MARK-LANE, OCTOBER Ss. Our market having been but modemtely a:polled wick Epollah Wheat since last Monday, and what appeared this wawa' f rom Eases being In general of Inferior qt.aitty, occasion ready sak fog o ti e samples, at an advance of es. per quarter. "1 be beet d, rentt ? .:ion of k o seign Wheat have :Ise sold freely at an *gold advents., hat there is no amendment in the-rico, or urd.oary sem, sels,cis I am taken alt very abwly. We b,tilo t rple sstriks i, :f Marley, %shun picked samiles sold Is. per cjitat . h , glier. ans Wig suppcirt Imt monaay's prices. Whi-e` ` aii i itdl 1 : 'tow • ear lower. Good Oats sell i tacitly, *4 ate It dearir• In other articles there Is rev 'Altera:ion.