The National Register. — London, England, 1814-09-25 00:00:00

r SEPT. 25. the war is vigorously pursued on the sea coast ef the United `, States. Our ships ascend every river, disembark troops, and spread alarm and dismay in every direction. On the 9th of August an attack was made upon.the town of Stomengen, in New London County, 14 miles E. by S. of New London. Our firing did great damage, particularly the Copgreve rockets—but this attack upon Stonninp,en was supposed to be subordinate to a more serious one upon New London, whery the enemy have the Macedonian and United States fri gates, and Hornet sloop. These our gallant seamen are de termined to take or destroy. A detachment Of British troops , has landed and taken possession of Montan!. Point, the eastern extremity of Long Island.---Washington is considered to be unsafe, and it is in ,contemplation to remove the seat of I Government to Carlisle. Virginia and New York are also considered to be in danger, and thus is the enemy menaced I on ye! y side. Mr. Madison, it is saki, has in this exigency summoned Congress to meet in an extraordinary Session on the 19th of September.--•-The expedition to Bermuda under Admiral Cochrane sailed on the Ist of August for the Ameri can coast ; its destination is supposed to be the Chesapeake. Admiral Maloplm followed in a day or two after.---Another expedition, consisting of the 29th, 62d, and 98th regiments, two rifle companies of the Goth regiment, and a detachment of Royal Artillery, under the inunediate auspices of his Excel lency Lieutenant-General Sir J. C. Sherbroke ; the whole divided into two brigades, commanded by Major-General Gosselin, and Colonel Douglas, sailed from Halifax on the c.2Gth August, with the Dragon, Admiral Griffiths, the Lndymioo, Bacchante, Sylph, &c. and sanguine hopes are explessed, that it will speedily strike a heavy blow upon the enemy, though its object is nut mentioned. Amidst these successes and flatter ing prospects of further and more decisive triumphs, we regret to learn, that Lieutenant-General Drummond, as Governor of the Province of Upper Canada, has been under the necessity of making some severe examples of persons found guilty of high treason. Fifteen were tried at .‘ncaster, under this charge, and their crime being proved eight suffered the awful sentence of the law, at Burlington, io the district of Niagari, on the 20th of July ; the remain ing seven have been respited. It appears to be the intention of the Trench Government to attempt to reduce the emancipated negroes of Hayti to the condition of slaves ; to wrench the Crown ft oin the brow of the sable Sovereigns, and to sacs ifiee thousands of whites, to restore all the horrors of shivery in a country from whence they have been extirpated, with dreadful vengeance, liv the sword. The French Reporter who introduced the subject in the Hou,e of Repretatives, pretended that the surren der of the Ilaytian Chieftains might he expected, as soon as they should know the intßution of Louis XVIII. to recover the colony. The documents which we this day publish, and which have been translated by the agents of those very Chief tains, Christophe and Polon, show, on the contrary, that instead of a voluntary submission, the most obstinate and sanguinary is ;stance is to be expected on their part. And who is aloe who will not bieathe a wish fur their success ? By a Proclamation in la-,t night's Gazette the meeting of Parliament is f.. , ther prorogue , ! Tuesday the sih of No veinher, when Loth Ilonsi-s will sit for the dispatch of divers urgent and important affairs. The Leeward Island fleet arrived on Friday in the Downs. The Jamaica fleet may be hourly expected. l'hey were oft Kinsale on the 20th instant, Two of the fleet have utread: arrived in British pmts. THE NATIONAL THiTri€TEn.. 615, By the way of France we received on Friday letters from Gibraltar to the Qd inst. and the following is an extract from one of them. with very painful intelligence :...- GIRRAI-TAR, SEPT. I.—" I am very ~ , r ay to inform you that the di , order here, insteod of hying removed, as the public accounts state, has re-appeared under vely unpleasant ti:eumtanees. Not tht least doubt of tire exisience of the malignant, fever being entertained all the mnal precautions m.hiek had bean abandoned are again re sorted to, to lessen as much as passible the diffusion of the malady. It is eeitic consolatioy, that contagion+ etreet will be very much li mitted by previous alarm, which occaaioned the departure of almost all those who Iraq not bo"ore been visited with this disease. " As it afferts trading interelli:Ae, you may assume that bushels will be itn•i i intled fr.r tw•: inont,s at least, and perhaps the safer proceeding «iii he to consider the whole sear as lost to commercial adventure." We have also a statement of the progress of the diso:der from the Medical Reports, which was as follows : On the 28th of August five or six new cases were discovered. On the 29th and 50th there were four deaths, and six or seven new cases. On the 31st one death, and three new cases. The statement of the condition of the malady on the Ist September bad nut been published. Through the same channel we have advises from Malta, to the 21st ult, when the perfect health of the Island is acknow. 'edged, and of the little neighbouring dependencies. The Government of General Maitland is highly approved, and the me: chants frnta Italy and Greece were again resorting to Nialta to supply from their depot the several markets; but A wl!l be long before it acquires any semblance of its former prosperity. Paris Papers arrived on Wednesday to the 18th instant. Tallayrand lcft Paris for Vienna on the 141). During his absence M. Jancourt is to letNe the direction of the Foreign Department. Count Alexis Noailles is appointed Amba , sador Extraordinary from France to Austria.—The Queen of the Two Sicilies, consort of Ferdinand IV. expired suddenly at Vienna on the 9th inst. She was sister to the late Queen of France. She was a woman of an active mind, with a strong turn for political intrigue. From the French papers terming her Queen of tho Two Sicilies, it would appear the Fiend Court do not acknowledge Murat's title to the Crown of Na ples.—There appeals to be great eagerness in Ftance to plunge into colonial speculations, though they should be accompanied with all the atrocities of the African slave trade. The merchants and planters flatter themselves that they will easily obtain possession of San Domingo. hi the Ch:imber of Depnties, on the 16th, General Desfourneaux made a le port on petitions presented from persons calling themselves proprietors of that ished ; the report recommended an ad dress to the King, requesting hi to send land and sea for ces to reconquer that island, and to provide laws for its civil :;over nmcnt. This report was agreed to, ordered to be printed, and referted to the Committees.—A paragraph, dated from Augsburgh, states that the King of Saxony has renounced his claims to Saxony in favour of Prince Antony, his brother, who is an uncle by. marriage to the Emperor of Aus:l lit, and who is at present at Vienna. I f true, this is un doubtra!y a stumbling block in the way of Prussia, which may create considerable embarrassment. —A story is men tioned in the Paris papers of Buonapart. - haying been carried off from Elba by the Englith, and conveyed to Malta. The carne report has been current in various parts of the Con- ti nen t. Brussels Papers reached town on Friday night to the 20th Instant. They mention a report that the lonian Islands are to be given to the Order of Malta, and speak with some in dignation of the attempts made in the Ft euch Paper: to excite jealousies and distrusts f n Cermau:'. AIP