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This day were published, In One Volume, tom pr c. 12s. in boards, TILEMENTS OF HEBREW GRAMMAR, .Jllj Comaii,ing, Part 1. The Doctrine of the Vowel Points. mid the itii,brnems of the Grammar. Part g. The structure and ILoms of the I .anguage. Will an Appendix, coatainiss the No tation of the 1 - lebrcw Verbs in Roman Letters. liy J. F. GYLkS, Esq. M. A. Printed by A. 1. VA LPY ; and gold by LHatchard,Piccadilly ; Upham. ; and all other Booksellers. AMERICAN PAPERS. NORFOLK, AUGUST 17. We copy the following from the Enquirer of Satur day last, with a view that such part of our Readers as do net see the Administration Papers, may know the sentiments of those Papers, as far as they deem it prudent to go at present : TO THE EDITOR. a Washington, August 3,1814. it DEAR SIR—You will perceive by the Intelligencer of this morning that Congress are to assemble. The causes Assigned are as various as such an event might lead us to expect. The report of the morning here Most credited by persons generally is—that Govern ment have received by the last arrival from England the features of the terms on which the British Go veri,ment are disposed to make peace. Those terms, It is said, go to deprive 2 certain pit of our country men of particular rights and privileges—and that they Will fall most heavily on that section of the commu nity that least expects it. The fisheries, it is said, tl.e Briiish intend to insist on having altogether e L ikes also !—and they will insist, says the re port, upon such trammelling conditions as will efrec tttally dt•prtve us of any benefit to the trade to Ciiina and the East Indies. Our commtrce, say they, to those parts of the world, will not be prohibited: but it »rust be regulated in the British Custom houses th.re and in Lll,lon. Impressment, now that the !• ore 'teas evert or.- at an end, they are willing to accommod tie. Slould this report live any truth in if, the cause for which the w tr has for vane time been prosecuted will be at an erd. But although the eastern section of the country has not behaved towards the others in a proper manner, to speak mildly, I hope their rights, which are the rights of the whole nation, will be de fended in the last. It would be more hmourable to the republican party, as it would be a return of good for evil." It appears the great subject of impressment is to be put to test, by the termination of the war in Eu rope: 4 4 free ships to make free goods," and “ paper blockades," are no more hear.] of. But it is possible, the enemy means to demand a surrender of some of! Our rights. The trade to India, and the privilege of curing fish on the shores of the British provinces, ap- i pear not considered by The Enquirer as among our _rights; of course they will not be contented for.— The right Of fishing on the banks of Newfoundland it among the rights we will not surrender. The Lakes.—We will not give up the Lakes ; it is to bt hoped not ; but if 7he Enquirer speaks the sentiments of the Administration, they are ready to agree to any re:frith:me that are reciprocal." Whet is meant b; reciprocal restricti.ne we do not understand ; unless that neither party shall have a naval force on the Lakes ; that neither party shAll erect fortifications, or station troops within a certain distance of the shores of the Likes. If th:se restrictions are agreed to, the erien.y will be perfectly secure in the potsession of the C-tn , :d .s. CALL or Cononass.—This measure, about which sh much has been said and so much will be conjec tured, does not, in our opinion, Ofion the face of it, point out one thine, or the other. We were aware, si-rne time since, that the call would be made in the course of a tew weeks—and we ready expected at that time it wonl.l be made cre this. We were thee told, th u the call would be calculated to meet either the con tingency of Peace orWar ;—if Peace, - that the Senate might pass upon the treaty which our Commissioners might agree toi and that both branches might shape our comM,•!rcial laws according to the provisions of the treaty ;—if War, flat Congress might be ready to adopt such measures as were hest calculated to give it vigour and success. The call does not, there fore, appear ('n the lace of it to shew that the die is cast one way or the other ; or that the President has received such information as may enable him to judge how the die is to be cast. The only thing which seems to point out any conclusion is the time of meeting, as before the 10th of September the Pre gident seems to look for some definitive information from our Commissioners. Conjecture, however, seems as busy atWashington as it is here ; for various reasons are there assigned for the measure, as if the general one, which we have given, is not sufficient. We have little doubt, in deed, that the President may have received some in lormtion from our Ministers in London ; and he May loom some conjecture of the probable issue of the negotiation. • ST. JOI-IN'3, (NEWFOUNDLAND), SEPTEMBER 8. The ship Robert, Captain Pearson, from Liver pool for Pittou, laden with salt, foundered nt sea, on the evening of the-6th of August, having sprung a leak some days previous, in a heavy gale. The Cap tain and crew were taken off the wreck a short time before she sunk, by.the brig Carricks, almost exhausted by puttying, endeavouring to keep the ship above water—some of them were afterwards put on board the snow Patriot, and have arrived here. We are ilso informed, that a ship belonging to London, name unknown, sunk, with all hands, in the same gale. This m -ming arrived here, Captain Sexton, late of the Government .brig Endeavour, belonging to this place, which was captured last Friday, off Cape Cha peaurouge, in lat. 46. 12. lag. 55. 17. by the Ame rican privateer schooner, Surprise, James Barnes mac ter, of 290 tons, 10 guns, rind 140 men, belonging to Baltim re, but last from Newport, R. I. which place she left on the 2 till of August.—The following is a lii t of the vessels captured by the Surprise, during a eru;re of ten days. viz. Echoouer Queen t..h.r10 te, hence fur Halifax—burnt. trig Eiy,le, ditto—given up. Gov..rinunt brig hndeavour, from Sydney for this port, laden h coalient to the United ::tates. Ship Milne!, from Cork for htrathichl, in ballast,—burnt. Ship Caltdoni:i, from Greenock, last from Coi k, for Quebec, vv'th ram and dry goods—s nt to tile United States. bit; itiveller, from i'xicu zo harbour-Grace, with lumber— g i vp:i up ar a Cala Uilin Satoh, of the todeavour, M'Farlane, of the Caledoilia, and Reid, of the Manes, with their crews, were landed this morning from the brig Tra veller. They speak in the handsomest terms of the politeness and attention they experienced from Cap tain Barnes and his Officers, during the time they were on board the privateer. Extract of a letter from Captain Banner, of the ship Hope, to Messrs. Hunters and Co. of this town, dated at sea, the '26th July, 1814, in lat. 38. 32. long. 16. : " On the 20th inst. we fell in with an American pri vateer, of 13 guns, which we engaged for two hours, and having wounded his mast, obliged him to haul by the wind from us. He tried to rake us, but could not accomplish it, notwithstanding all his manoeuvres." Monday last, as Mr. E. Henley (agent for the house of Messrs. Bulky and Job), was endeavouring to work a pleasure-boat up the harbour, the wind blowing very fresh, a sudden squall took the boat, just off Mr. Brophey's wharf, when she instantly filled and sunk, by which catastrophe Mr. H. was unfor tunately drowned. Several boats put off to his as sistance, but all to no purpose, as he was not seen after he first went down. Saturday last arrived here, the Pike schooner, Lieu tenant Buchan, from a cruize ; yesterday, the Medina, Captain Bourchier,, from a cruize ; and last evening, the Pioneer schooner, Lieutenant. Hill, from Eng land—sal d from thence with the July convoy. SEPT. 12.—A large convoy arrived this morning from Bermuda, by which we learn, that in the course of the week before the convoy soiled, two flags of truce had been received there from Nantucket, pray ing to be taken under the protection of the British Government. The passengeri also state that Balti. more was on fire, and that New London has been taken ; but this appears to be mre report. A vast quantity of American property has been taken and destroyed by our men of war, but with little loss to the captors. KINGDOM OF HATTI. CAPE HENRY, MARCH 22, 1814. STORMING OF FORT SABOURIN. We had been for several days in possession of the intelligence of the brilliant victory g tined by the royal army over the rebels ; but as we were still ig norant of the particulars, we were prevented from sooner satisfying the impatience of our fellow-citi zens on the subject of this victory, which sheds new lustre on tae valour of our armies. We feel to-day the greatest pleasure in presenting them, in this num ber, with the o ffi cial details which have reached us, of the storming of Fort Sabourin, and the taking of several chiefs of the rebels, mid a great numb:r of prisoners, by the army under the command of the Prince of Limbe, Minister of War and of the Marne. REPORT OF THE PRINCE OF LINHIE TO THE KING. Brad-quarters at Verrettes, Feb. 26,1 til7, Year r t. 44 Szaa—l have the satisfaction to summit to your Majesty the details of the glorious operations of the army, and the takiag of Fort Sabourin, by assault, from the rebels. Being informed by several reports, that the enemy occupied in force the position of Set 'aourin, and that he had there entrenched and forti fied himself by placing artillery in his fortifications; that the rebel Colonels Jean Dugutier and Franc us had assembled tr.::::ps there; that the runaway. Alex;s Basin, Ex-C anmandant of the Mountain of Arcahaye, had jtained them with his horde ; that this pest, thus fortified and garrisoned, served As an advanced guard for the rebels of Port-aux-Climes, to give them the alarm and apprise them of our movements. ‘, I resolved to attack them iii ineir lurking place, to carry the fort by a coup-dc-main, and to con found their projects by overthrowing and totally de molishing their works. 44 I made my dispositions without delay I order ed the Duke of Artibonite to hold himself in readi ness to open the campaign with his corps d'armee, which I composed with troops stationed at the Little River and Verrettes. 46 'lle like orders were given to the Duke of the Great River, to hold hiniselt in readiness. to march with the corps of reserve cantoned at St. Mark. 44 All my precautions were taken : on the 21st I commenced my match for the Mountain of Arca haye, with the Duke of Artibonite, commanding the first corps ; and I ordered the Duke of the Great River to push rapidly by the high road, upon Arca haye with the second corm d'armee under his coin. mand. The same day I halted at the camp of Va. ladon, and at two in the morning, of the 22d con tinued my march for the plain of Arcahaye; at ten the army debouched in the plain and effected its junction with the second corps : at three P. M. I made my dispositions for attacking the enemy with success on the 23d. I dirseted my columns accord ingly, ordering the Duke of Artibonite to hasten his march to proceed during the night over the summit of the chain of the Morne of Sabourin, and to post himself on the road which leads from the Stinking Spring to Cibert, to turn the enemy, and cut off his retreat to the Port-aux-Crimes. 44 I ordered the Duke of the Great River to ma. noeuvre on the high road, with the second corps, to oppose any succours which the enemy' might send from Pott-aux-Crimes. 44 I arranged the corps of cavalry on the left, to support it on a ground adapted to a cavalry engage. ment ; I directed the regiment of St. Mark, under the command of Colonel Chevalier de Rene Semble, to occupy the excellent position of the old fort of Cabaret, and the high road leading from Prince House, to Port-aux-Crimes. 66 By these measures, all the communications of the rebels were entirely- cut off; and I have every.) reason to praise the celerity and precision with which these movements were executed. 46 On the 23d, the enemy had concentrated all his forces at Fort Sabourin t I ordered the Duke of Ar tibonite to attack him, and to carry his position by assault and by main force, with the under.menuon. ed troops: HaANTRT. Ist battalion of tie regiment of Arcahaye. Cd battalion of the regiment of Artibunite. Ist battalion of the regiment of St. Mark. Cd battalion of the rerment el Port-de-Paht, Ist battalion of the regiment of Gonaives. 3d battalion of the regiment of Verre tea. 2d battalai of the regiment of the Great given ad battalion of the regiment of Trou. Total—E.ght battalions. CAVALRY. One company of the Prince Koyal's Light Hone. One cempany of the Kirg's regiment of cavalry, under as coinruand of Sub Lieutenant Chevalier de Marc. 64 The two eorpt d'armee, and the corps of coalry, remained in observation in their respective positions, ' ready to repel the enemy on whatever side he might presen( himself. 46 The Duke of Artibonite, after making his dis positions for the attack, ordered the fort to be car ried at the point of the bayonet : in vain the enemy. made a most vigorous resistance, keeping up an in cessant fire of artillery and musketry • nothing could withstand the exalted valour of your Majesty's troops. All obstacles, the ditches, and the redoubts which defended the fort, were surmounted with intrepidity, and carried by assault ; those who escaped the bayo nets of the infantry, fell under the sabre of the ca valry, by whom they were cut in pieces. 44 The victory was complete ; the artillery, arms, baggage, and ammunition, fell into our power : a great number of rebels bit the dust ; the fort and its environs were strewed with their carcasses, among which were recognized the bodies of Francois, Colo nel of the Sd Regiment of the Rebels, and severJl other officers of distinction, who atoned with their lives for their detestable rebellion. _ _ " We have taken a great number of prisoners; Jean Dugotier, their Colonel Commanlint, and Alexis Baxin, Ex-Commandant of the Mountain of Arcahaye, are among the number. Out of the whole band, which amounted to not less than from twelve to fifteen hundred men, officers and soldiers, accord ing to the returns found among their papers, not one has escaped ; they have all fallen into our power, or have expiated with their lives the horrid crime of daring to fight against their country, their King, and their fellow-citizens. " Permit me, Sire, to represent to your Majesty, the great and important obligations which I owe to the Duke of Artibonite, and to the Duke of the Great River, for the invaluable assistance which they afforded me on that day, with all the zeal and entire devotion which they feel for your Majesty's service. 46 I also beg your Majesty to permit me to make mention of the good conduct, intelligence, and intre pidity of Lieutenant-Colonel Chevalier de Diaceue, Aide-de-camp of the Duke of the Great River, and of Captain Edward, Aide-de-camp of the Duke of Artibonite; but I have particularly remarked Lieu tenant-Colonel Jean Jacques Adonis, of the Ist bat tilion of the regiment of Saint Mark, the Captains of Grenadiers Henry and Diane, and Captain Adju tant Maj ,, r Jean Louis Belantrier, of the same regi ment. The Commandant Aiigustin, guide to the army, also distinguished himself. " These Officers covered themselves with glory, by being the first to leap upon the ramparts of the enemy. " Lieutenant-Colonel Andre Zele, of the regiment cif Arcahaye, died gloriously on the field of honour. Our loss was only 16 killed and 4.0 wounde.t. 44 The troops eng aged in the assault displayed the greatest valour ; denerals, Officers, and sildiers, all did their duty ; the excellent spirit, discipline and ardour which prevailed, will ever be to the army a sure pledge of victory. 66 The rebels of Port-aux-Crimes miy be said to have been quiet spectators of the destructii.n of Fort Sabourin and its garrison; they might have sent succours, which world have reached it in less than tone hours, but they prudently kept within their wells. I deeply regret, and the army shares th;s fed. ifiF, that they durst not venture to shsv themselves; can assure your Majesty, it they had, we should have given a account of them. , SUNO.nerl " s l ubrnit to your Majesty a statement of the Artillery, arms, and amimmition, taken by us frim the rebels, and the corm spondence of their ' Chiets, which likewise fill into our 114nds. " I have the honour to be, with the most profound respect, Sire, your Royal Majesty's most obedient servant and faithful subject, (Signed) 44 Prince of Limit" In reading the Report of the I'rince of Limbe to the King, we cannot help admiring the judgment with which this military operation was planned and executed, and to offering a few reflections, suggested by this glorious victory. The promptitude of the preparations, the celerity ' of the march, the judicious manceuvres of the army to encompass the enemy, to cut him off from all hope of relief and the means of effecting his retreat, re. fle.t great honour on the genius and military talents of the Generals of the army ; and nothing short of the valour and intrepidity of the troops could have carried. by a cows-de-main, a fort entrenched, fortified, and detended by 1500 men, who conceived them selves impregnable. This severe lesson given to the rebels, within eight leagues Purt-aux•Crimes, must have produced a poweifill impression upon the rebels, and filled them with consternAtion. This lesson, I say, is not the first, neither will it be the last they will receive from the brave royal army- We are thoroughly convinced, that, whenever they shall mature their strength with the rebels, the lat ter, whether in the open field, in pitched battle, of shut up within their walls, will be invariably con quered. as they have been in all the actions fought since the vimmencement of their revolt. We buldly affirm, and we boast in the declaration, that if this sanguinary and unhappy contest had been to be decided by arms and bravery alone, there mould long since have ceased to be either rebels or rebellion in Hayti ; but infamous, odious treason, that favou rite engine of traitors and cowards, has been the cause of some ephemeral successes, and the impure food which has nourished rebellion up to the present day. It was but natural that guilt should ally itself to guilt, and that treason should afford assistance to traitors— but right, virtue, and justice, must uveo tually triumph ; guilt never goes unpunished—they have, therefore, only deferred for a time their vi table downfall, and deepened the abyss vshich will finally ingult them. Tremble. perfidious wretches ! your hopes are now extinguished—traitors and cowards no longer exist among us. Our ranks are purified, composed of brave men; faithful to honour, to their King, to their country, they burn with ardour to meet you, to van quish you: or to hi ing you back into the paths of ho nour, which ye have basely abandoned. Directed as we are by a Sovereign, great by his character, illustrious by his military career, beloved and revered by his people, for his virues, with our sublime institutions to pr serve, our country to rege nerate, our political existence and independence to consolidate, with that inasculim: attitude, with a cause 'so sacred, so sublime, which we have sworn to 40. lend at the price of cur blood—how durst you appear before us to combat us—you, who had renounced, betrayed, trodden under foot, all that is dearest and most sacred among men—you who had no country, 'since you had turned against it your parricide arms, and lacerated it with your own bands!—yon who no longer had a Sovereign, since you had basely as. sassinated lion—and while yet. polleted with this crime, durst reject the true and lawful Successor in the Government—yon, genuine apostles of falsehood, wha lived like Bedouins of the desart, without tae. without police, and without laws, and who had erected vice into virtue—thirst you meet us ?—tio I see your impious and sacrilegious weapons fall from your trembling hands, either from shame or terror I see you Bee before us. We cannot, however, help lamenting the deplore. ble infatuation of the Haytians id' this part of the island. From the letters which have fallen into OU T hinds in the affair of Sibourin, and from the report of the prisoners, we are convinced that there arena suggestions too perverse, no means too vile to be employed by the factious, in order to delude and mie. lead the people. With what artifices and with what impudence the demagogues who govern acquired popularity, byau. thorising all sorts of licentiousness, in order to main tain theirsystem of domination, which saunas possibly be lasting ! What insipidity in the style of their letters to Jean Dugotier and others l What base adulations they re• sort to, to ensnare suffrages Thus every thing tends to the demoralization, t• the dissolution, and overthrow of this part of the na. tion into an abyss of evils. And what could be ex pected from this creation of demagogue, Wh a t equld be hoped from a Government, fnunded on error and imposture It carries with it the seeds of its destruction. SANSSOU'Ci, MARCH 19. A great number of the prisoners taken from the rebels, in the storming of Fort Sabonrirt, arrived this morning in this city. They were escorted by a strong detachment of trchips, and conducted to the presence of his Majesty—among them were distinguished Jean Dugotier and Alexis Blain, their ciiiefs, and other officers of rank—disgrace was impressed upon their brows; humbled to the ground, they durst not raise their guilty eyes to their august Sovereign, to the tender lather, whom they had cruelly outraged and offended. His Majesty, so far from being exasperated against these guilty men, donsidered them only as victims of error, and instruments of the factious, Anti ordered them to be sent to different quarters of the interior. In the afternoon of the same day arrived Messrs. Lieutenant-C•.lonel Chevalier Diacouf, Aid.de.camp t his Grace M inieigneur the Duke of the Great River; and Lieutenant• Colonel J. Ad. ass, of the re giment of St. Mark; Captain &lows*, ttiJ•de•eamp f his Grace Monseigneur the Duke of Artibonie ; Me►srs. Diane, and Ca i rtain Adjutant-M rjnr J. L. Belantrier, of the reg ment of St.. Mark ; and M. the Commandant Augustin; Captain Henry having been detained by his wounds. His Majesty having desired to see those brave sol diers, to reward them for their good conduct and the brilliant valour which they displayed in the assault of Fort Sabourin, sent for them to Court, where they had the honour of being presented to his Majesty by the Grand Master of the Ceremonies. His Majesty having promoted those brave officers to the rank of Chevaliers, we .here give our Readers the speech addressed to them by his Majesty when conferring that order: " GENTLEMEN-1 have seen from the report made to me by my Minister of War. the Prince of .Limbe, the distinguished manner in which you behaved in ttie glorious assault of Fort Sabourin, taken by main force, through the bravery of my troops, from the rebel hordes. " You have been particularly mentioned, Gentle men, among the brave men who shared with you the perils and the glory of that day. You have fought valiantly—you have boldly confronted the enemy— you were the first to throw yourselves with intrepi. dity into. his ramp irts ; every thing yielded—every thing gave way to your noble and generous efforts— artillery, arms, baggage, and Ammunition, tell into the power of the army. The numerous prisoners taken from the enemy. the interior of the tort, its entrenchments and its environs, strewed with carcases of the revolters, who have bitten the dust—the many trophies of that battle attest your courage and the triumph of the army. " You have rendered yourselves worthy of the praises of your Sovereign, and atsacted the notice of your Generals and of your brave companions in arms, who witnessed your valour : be proud and ela ted with having deserved well of your country, your King, and your fellow-citizens ! 44 Ever attentive to reward merit, zeal, fidelity, and bravery, I can appreciate your extraordinary ea. lour; and to give you a proof of my entire satisfac tion, 1 create you Knights of my Royal and Military Order of St. Henry. In raising you to that dignity, in conferring on you the reward of military valour, I have in view not only to recompense the briliiant ac tions which cover you with glory, but also to foster the germ of martial virtues. " I am convinced that you will always be worthy of the glorious distinction which I now bestow on you : glory, honour, fidelity, bravery, conduct with out stain and with Jut reproach. Such is the noble career upon which you enter—the career which it oprn to all the brave men of my Armies who shall sOralize themselves like you in battle, by splendid a:Lions and heroic behaviour." We what sublime sentiments these valiant Knights must have been animated while listening to the noble and flattering expressions contained in this speech of the King. SUCiI eulogiums, such glorious rewards, are well calculated to excite the noblest emulation I every bosom. What soldier will henceforth be air:lU to eneoun• ter the haz.irds and perils of battle, when honour, glory, and the favour of the Sovereign are the tewad that awaits him His Majesty has just oriered the issue of a consi• derable sum from the Royal Treasury to the Trea• surer of the Royal and Military Order of st. Hew, for the payment of the pensions of the Grand Crosses, Commanders, and Knights, agreeable to the edict of creation of the said Order.