The Statesman. — London, England, 1814-02-02 00:00:00

.r «' ( ►: gt , t—etary at War, who, by bad roads, worse Mam tier, and ill health, was diverted flout meeting ree near this place, and determined to tread back his steps to 'Washington from Antwerp on the 29th ott. I ens destined to, and determined on, the attack of Montreal, if not prevented by some act of God e ; awl' t o g ive security to the enterprise, the divisioU under your command must co-operate with the corps under my immediate orders. The point of render., onus is a circumstance or the greatest interest to the issue of this Operation ; and the distance which se parates us, and my ignorance. of the practicability of the direct or devious roads or routes by which you must march, make it necessary that your own judg nimit should determine the puha. To assist you in making the soundest determination, and to take the most prompt and effectual italetwaress I can only in form you of 'my intentions and sitnitioni Lu some re sTi•rts of the first importance. I shall pass Prescott to. night, ht, aUse the state of the season will not allow me thr , ‘g dais to take it; shall cross the ca valry at Hamilton, whirls 'sill not require a ditt. I shall thence press forward and hreak down , every obstruction to this river with 6ta T T River, th ere to t ross the Isle Perrot, and with' mY.sebws to bridge the narrow inner channel, and ihus obtain foothold oat Montreal Island at .About twenty miles from the city ; after which our artillery, bayonets, and swords, must secure our triumph, or provide us honourable • graveg. Jurlnsrid you lave a memorandum of a field and battering train pretty well found in fixed ammuni: rim, which ataY enable you to dismiss your own.— Rot we 'ire deficient in loose powder and musket cartridges, and therefore hope you may be abundantly • found. • Oti the 'object of pit/visions, I wish I could give a reso l uta& jef f sernatio.ns tur whole stock of bread • limy be computed et about IS days, and our meat at • tn. • Ii ipeiskihg bit this subject to the Secretary at •War, ht informed me ample magatines were laid up an (sake Champlain, and therefore, I most request •of you to erdet forward two or three months supply by the safest route, in a direction to the proposed seems of actiett. I have submitted the state of our • 'provision's to My General Officers, who unanimously 'epee should not present the progress of the expedition : and they also agree in opinion, that if you ire' not in force for to face the enemy, fou ' • Omuta meet es it St. Regis or its vicinity. shelf expect to hear from, if not see you at that ' pieta on th. 9th : and have the honour to be, re spectfully, your obedient humble servant, • (Signed) 3. WILKINSON. • Illakir.neeeral Hampton. . . Paola dual ltit hula TON TO atNattat lettsiNSOrr. Head-quarters, Four Corners, Nov.B. had the honour to receive, at a late hour last evening, by Colonel King, your communication of the 6th, .end *as deeply `impressed with the sense 'of responsibility It imposed, of deciding upon the ' Means of our . co.opefation. The idea suggested as the minima of Tour officers, of effecting the junc flop at St. R.gic, was most pleasing, es being most tinmeditle, JOH I came to the disclosure of the amount- of . your supplies of 'provisions. Colonel eitplain the reasons that would have rendered It impOssible for me to have brought more ' Oyu eget man could have carried on his back t and 'ithen I recollected, that in throwing myself upon ' , your scanty TPIIIIII, I should he weakening you in f ,nnr most. vulnerable point, I did not he sitate to *dope tl,4i opinion, attor ,consulting the general and • principal of6cera, that by throwing myself back on the • Maii• depot, obeli all the means of transportation had gone, and falling, upon theenemy's flank, and straining ' every effort to open a communication from Kitts • buirgh to Cognhawaga, or any other point you may ' indicate on the St. Lawrence, I should more effec ' stestly contribute to your success than by the juno tion at St. Regis. The way la, in many places, blockaded and abutted, and the, road impracticable for wheel carriages during winter; but, by the ern ' ployment of pack-horses, if I am not overpowired, I hope to he able to prevent your starving. I have ascertained and witnessed that the plan of the enemy is to burn Aid consume every thing in our advance. My troops, and other means, will be described you. by Colonel Atkinson. Besides the rawness and sickness, they have endored fatigues equal to a ' winter campaign, in the late snows and bad weather, and are sadly dispirited and fallen off ; but upon the . subject I Mutt refer you to Col. Atkinson. ' With these means, what can be accomplished by Woman exertions, I will att, , mpt—with a mind de voted to the general objects of the campaign. •1 hare the honour to be, very respectfully, Sir, your most obedient servant,' (Sired) W. HAMPTON. Hb Sicelleoey Major-Gee. James Wilkinson. FROM ORKER WILKINSON TO GEN. ARMSTRONG. 11e...1-quarter., French Ming. Nov. 18, 1813. Si a,--I beg 'his may be considered as an append• age to my official communications, respecting the action of thi. 11th instant. I last evening received the enclosed information, the result of the examine -he field of battle, lions of sundry prisoners taken on the field of battle, which jiistilies the opinion of the surviving General I , Officers, who were in the engagement. This goes to prove, that although the imperious obligations of duty did not allow me sufficient time to rout the enemy, they were beaten•—the accidental logs of one field-piece, notwithstanding, after it had been dis- charged 15 or (20 times. I have also learned, from what has been considered good authority, but I will not vouch for the correctness of it, that the enemy's ' loss exceeded 500 killed and wounded. The en- closed report will correct an error in my former corn- evunicrition.„ as it'appears it was the 89th and not' the With Brith regiment which was engaged en the . 11th.. 1 beg leave to mention of the action of the , 1 1111,, what, from my extreme indisposition, I have • omitted. Having received information late in the ( day, that the contest had become somewhat dubious, 1 ordered up a reserve of GOO men, whom I had or- dered to stand by their arms under Lieutenant- Coliinel Upham, who gallantly led them into action, which terminated a few minutes after their arrival on the ground. : 'lei t. 6 4, : Willi great consideratletv and respect, I have the honour to be, • Sit,' your obedient humble servant, ; • . • JAMES WILKIIibON. Tile Hon. Johu.Apptrost, Secretary at War. ri'llE SrI'ATF.SMAN ••••••••••••••••.... •••••••••••••••••• •.lIIP ...... -'' IA .-. . (Here follows a statement 4 11w strength of the British rem into the valley of the Aldudss. The operation de. ensosiil in the action of the 11th 14ovember— o 1230 Reptlisnt; , . 300 Militia; 40 tudiane — Total 2170.1 —Upward' of I.W MU earussupreh i isLordship's present dispateb„, is not in more than there were. • 4 A [isitdikkerahuch importance, tipt the eirtihmstances at - • • - A 4t0'...-.4-. - ' l' l ' , .. * HAM Way 1%430 .'nit campsigiS.egeinst 140 wer I , T it i r ng *are extremely wos'of attletion. Lord Canada is ovet for thisalein; The Aperients trooPs 1 egit!l* B T° l4 "Yst that " the inhtthiten te of Bey' hare gone into winter-lnaAers, and most orthe Ge. gores. were noted in the late stir for their opposition neral Officers returned to their family firesides, where to the Spanish troops, and they are the only persons they can contemplate, with uninterrupted. sure, w i le , b r ibe present war, - have manifested any dib the brilliant achievements of the campaign. - • - ' position to oppose the Allies : and I was in hopes The American . Pipits contain the interesting let. that the measures w h ich I had adopted would tars of General Wilkinson to the Secretary at War, ha an nouncing, with other, ierportant intilligenee, the , hiduced them to remain quiet." ;.. ..ve ... termination of the campaign ; and those %thigh issased . It appears evidently from this, that the inhabitants between Gen. Ilatnptn anti ‘ himself, shun ine the of Frauce are not disposed to submit to their invaders circumstances that lett to This correspondence is without resistance. Why should the inhabitants of remarkable for mister - Min - Wine and contradiction,. nd virulence Of aleusaiks•ord recrimination. ~ i ßeygetey be more resolute in their opposition to the a • uiral Wilkinsoni letter will form(pitiful' a r id Allies than any other persons , havin g the same op. Ge g Mal in the history : of military events : it is as coat-' portuuity ? It would appear incredible on the face ptete a tissue of nOnsense as thesconduct of the Ante. i of it, that they should be•the only persons who hats ricau army,. throne/ot i . the campaign, ,has been ris manifested any disposition to oppose.the Allies ; the" dieurous and ebsurd. Illi allusion's to the British are not, in fact, the only persons. Gen. D'UARISPa totter comninntied by Col. Morrison, which he has' had the assistance also of the inhabitants of Bidarray. modestly magnified to nearly treble the number of that he hatti men that really composed it, as harassing the rear of But Lord WELLINO2ON lets us know, , . , , in- Novem his Many. after leaving Grenadier Island, on the 3d of adopted measures which he 'looped would have in *, is highly arousing—it hung on his rear, duced them to remain quiet. It is at least clear, then, I'l4am/dyed him so much, that„ lie was tempted to that with respect to the inhabitants of those two turn about, end put an end to al " tcazing and nieces his Lordship has been mistaken, that his mea 'srriddling ; but—" alas !".—he was confined to his • • bed—tio dolt/ the St. Lawrence the General goes : s u res•to keep them quiet have been fruitless, and boldly determined, in turn,. to tent-.e and scratch the that he has lost possession of a military pose boldly inhabitants of Montreal—but the rear division tion„ in consequence of the . aid afforded by the of his army had not gone as fast as himself--he must inhabitants to the French army. That is, in -stop for it—at last he finds that it has been cogged '4:sonieitlfaissisraidenexpected by him b for if head with the enemy, had gained a great vic tor y , with the . • expected it, doubtfer it woad have been provided loss, however of a gun, and 339 men in killed end, ainst , 1 reitifelVit..t Mkaa, / and the the A lin of wounded ! The division joins him, and at the mo. ,i‘g position wo uld litre en presereet This fact, like ment of expecting to form a junction with the army under General Hampton, he " alas !" receives a let- ; that of the Allied Army being fired on by the itoloa ter from that hero, who so greatly distinguished him. I •bitatits of Langres, is decisive proof of the general self at Chateaugay, refusing to meet him—a Council : inclination of the people of France. What should dis of War is then held : and a famous opportunity is .) • tuogutsh the inhabitants of these p laces from the gene afforded for the officers who composed it, to save .l ! rat character of the French population ? Have they their hard-earned honours—they unanimously agreed in opinion, " That the attack on Montreal should! other interests, —other affections and passions than be abandoned for the season, and the troops go into ' the rest of their countrymen ? Why shduid net the winter-quarters !" • temper evinced by them be taken as a criterion' of th; HALI!AX, Dec. 17.—1 t is reported, that the Pee. universal feeling of the country ? ':ln ail lair rea:. l :Went frigate, Commodore Rogers, sailed from New soning it ought to be so taken. The same eonduct port on the 4th inst. and there is lit tle doubt but not having yet. been displayed in other , places is no that the frigates and sloop at New Lo n d on, and t he Constitution, from Boston, will noon attempt to fol. valid objection to this conclusion, unless it could be low them.. , . shown that the inhabitants of other places have had BOSTON, Dec. 4.-;--Gen. Harrison is arrived at similar opportunities of exertion. Every incident New York, and is to be honoured with a pu b lic . -- • • • • winch conveys to us any in format ion as to the dispo dinner. On Wednesday evening he attended the th e atre, which was brilliantly illuminated in honour sition ofthe Praia people is deeply interesting ;the , fate of the French empire may, at the present crisis, be of the conqueror. said to depend on the spirit of its people. The armies . which have invaded it hive commenced an under la-king of 61061 danger,—it is in the nature of Topelar_steeling to spread itself around with the sapidity .ef lightning,— common danger seldom fails . • to produce common exertion to repel it, —partial success, however trivial, furnishes an encourage ment of mighty effect, to the indignant enthusiasm of resistance; let the population of France once be aroused to action, and the mighty • hosts of the 1 Allies will be as nothing; destruction will hover around them closely on every side; and if they escape, it will be with precipitation and dis iv*. The British army in the South of France , Is-stated by private letters to be scarcely equal in 'force to that by which it is opposed, and considerable disapprobation is felt, that the troops ' recently sent to Holland were not rather de stined to 1 reinforce it. If any rupture should take place he /twelen our Government and that of Spain, an event which appears to be by no means improbable ; and if the army under SoULT should, as we fully expect it will, receive the active assistance of the population, the army of Lord WELLiNGTON will be in a situa tion of difficulty and danger, from which it will re quire all the ability of his Lordship to extricate it. A private letter from France, which we have this day inserted, represents the army collected by 80. NAPA aTE in the most formidable colours. Europe, it says, will be surprised that France should have raised an army of 600,000 men, perfectly equipped, and ready to take the field. This would be indeed surprising, and we cannot but suspect it of consi derable exaggeration. But we are very far from thinking the French Empire in such a state of utter helplessness, with respect to military preparation, as in this country it is generally thought. A conflict 'he most terrible may yet be expected to take place; a conflict, too, of which the consequences appal us In the contemplation. The Allied Sovereigns have )ad, and still may have, an opportunity of concluding ;peace, on terms the most honourable and advantageous, Icon terms which a very short time ago were their own. If . the occasion be not promptly Seized it may escape, not 'speedily to return, One serious military disaster to the Allies would bring down upon them the over whelming power of the French population, at pre sent restrained by their imposing aspect and un-] broken force; in suck circumstances their array could not escape annihilation. Let the slightest pro bability of this, let its mere possibility, and the —sm.-- i dreadful consequences that would attend it, be for a The Gazette of last night contains an extract pf a 1 moment considered, and it must clearly appear tlitt: dispatch from Lord WaLLINGTON, dated St. halt de prudence as well as honour dictate to , the Allies a Luz, the 16th ult. It relates to the repulse of Gen. l steady adherence to the terms already offered to MENA on the 12th. The General, it is stated, was France / and which she has declared her readiness to stationed at Murray, on the left of the Nivel and at . accept. If such an overthrow of the Allied Armies now St. Etienne de Baygorey, with three battalion! •of' In France, as we have described, should tak e p lace,l his troops, to observe the movements of the enemy the Military power of every one of the confederated from St. Jean Pied de Port., Geo. D'H A WW I . with Princes. would be destroyed, their respective states a division of the army of Catalonia, and some port would' again lay prostrate under the power of of the garrison of the last-named place, with tekeid . France, and her preponderance on the Continent be of the isiltabitants of Bierrigl end Basgoreli, moiled again establislitd, and on foundations more secure era gutesthvisioap vebil# mai compell44o reltive than ever. I* Make is muck too impottaut to be _, - ‘. . - Arr. Malls. Diu O O .... , ......... .. Matta . ,, 41 O I Panamint's es V. 11Aty.—Ilulikay. at Out THE STATESYI4.IT,_ LONDON: 4 WZONII3I;kr, "2, •lVill•;- • hazarded, either by inordinate demands on France, by squeamish delicacy as to the choice of negociators. The tone of triumph and haughtiness assumed by the war-faction in this country, in which they at one moment pretend to dictate the terms of peace, a, at another to select the negnciator, through whom the Allies may vouchsafe to treat, is at once ridi. coleus and baneful. t~ rang will not be found sunk in spirit nor In power, as to endure dictation, and we earnestly hope, .that the insolence faction may not again, as heretofore, prove t pi cursor of calamity. • There has been two. further arrival of French Paper since yesterday. We are, therefore, enable t gratify-the anfiety 6f our Readers with any officio intelligence from Parisi bat theteilf* abundance reports and speculations ,afloat, ell tee,ding ,to. of point, viz. the entire destruction Of fisak ' • kart fin his armies, to make. room for th ' '. of ti BouaaoNs. The Courier of lest night has, s great'. sagacity and loyalty, settled: the affairs France at one blow,,itt the following paragraph, " In the course of the present week we shall pt bably receive intelligence of decisive importance— , no less importance than the account of the first, may be the last, battle ~ice Usurper is doomed fight—and the intelligence of the 'effect prodiced upon the people. of France by the ,presenceof iitrell Of the BOUIIIION Princes arnonvelope. What asqu , since, the latter may have receliiiirom the All' Powers, whether they are of mallet; or passive ii ture, or whether they have received any, we preten not to know : had any negociation hen in can , templation with BONAPARTE, they would not ' been permitted, we suppose, thus to have hazarded their lives." The admirers of this Journal are, no aleobt s tip-toe, to receive a confirmation of inch kr tidings. It was formerly the -fashion hr Englal for the Government to have a - Paper of its o called ." the Kingdom's Intelligencer," to prereet the °circulation of false news; but, alas! how differ. ent now their employment, when most ,of the E,ng. Ush Journals are prostituted altd obliged to disse minate such information only, as may best the interest arid ends of their masters. The peoph are equally to blame for the enComigement given these hirelings, and it is not eve, NOW beyond " limlbi of -probability, that the 14.414, isrrive, their will have reeeott 4e lament their irtfittiuticm. ~.Never was the peace of Europe put to greater 'turd, tban at the moment the Allies crossed ilia, with the professions, ‘l4 kir. 1,1-1.4 y With the pretence, of hastening4.-d'Atoid teepei ) that balance of power more expotitd to those ations, which, it has been said, the war origins ..aii was intended to 'prevent. Whilst we cotish therefore, the ambitious or rapacious , scheme vading France, as condemnable in a general of view, we find peat and particular occasion meat the fate of Great Britain from her alliances, the very midst of triumphs.which have been sonnf so high. Viatoriei, that bring honour to the may bring shame to the councils of a nation, win a battle, to take a. town, is the glory Commander, and of an army. Of this glory we to be sure, the consolatory pride to say, we hie a very large share. But the wisdom of a is to proportion the ends she proposes, to her interest and her strength. Great Britain ought neiti have expected, nor to have desired, by the, mom cessfut war, what she might not hate ohlatizt putting an end to its ravages ten, nay Aileen: ago. But she has been hurried beyond her it good sense into the most extravagant hostility: to gratify the passion of an eloquent and. amt Minister ; and afterwards to feed the avarice's of men from the emoluments and influence of This, however, could not have been the case venal press had not deceived the people cf .En and flattered their prejudices, giving (it sr so express ourselves) a ' popularity to the though fraught with ruin : the whole eon being made unwilling to call for an end to'be contest that has afforded so many occasions lic. rejoicing, and so wide a range for rn pride. The English Ministry, since the deati Mr. PITT, have shown themselves equally lavii the blood and treasure of the nation, in support war, which, whatever it may be now, was unneces, nary in its commencement, and the obtainment whose honourable termination does most unq ably appear in every view of the case, to be the reach of the present men in power. EXTRACTS FROM LETTERS RECEIVED AT LIVERPOOT; THE HERMAN ) MOIL BOITQN, DAUS) iO4ll 1814. " We are expecting . another Embargo course of a few hours •,'" we have been all in to get off the few neutrals in port, hut a number be caught, and must clear out in ballast. The bargo Bill is reported to be very severe, and " to be for 1t months." " The Embargo Bill has unquestionably and is expected to reach here to-morrow; been the exertions to get off neutrals, that i.t 'lltve been taking in, both by day and by, 'We understand the form of the Embargo Bill isiT ; the features of it are very severe ; no • that are loaded and cleared out will be perm depart, after the Collector receives al, ial the Act. Consignees, or masters of neutral mot give bond to unload in 10 dam or be . • • r • %Ai lilt I. • , .. 0 one ne Ind Ion) idi. • XI to 131 on, (his Irlrc:t; r 1 ef ar if . ri o t ‘ l i el e ' * the • S with Cot . pro- , —of . t, it ' ! I to iced .i 4 • Eit - ree % A i,lO • filed lia. .tetrad . e have tided -• • • 1, 4 'on 3 oyful • ;lapdy 41 ()tin y •event lifer- A Fn g' • 4 t suit )eople • • 1 ven to id the rn. t w er h: so ‘.- sd • et was • devi. / - linally • nsider, of in- ; I point :* to ces, iR rmovied Nt" I army, 4 ,• 11. To yof a • eft, are had nation 1 Latvia then, tO oet 111 V, toed by ' , 4 yeers natural r; first, ohitions 'or a set if office. \. lc se, if a :ngland, . we may • le War, , nmussity wit to as • of .put - national Leath of */ avish of art of a amines. ment of LueStion- ie out of IL ,rot ST )7.11 • D c; 'lll a bustle mber will rhe Etn- lis stated % y passed, such his A TPLlttit r L ill is now 1 ) . neatrals , mitted ,to notice of 4 LI Was*, lial;le to . A Mail from Heligoland arrived this morning, by , which tce have received the following : IIeuGoLAND, JAN. el.-••-Six Mails are due from England, and Capt. Living, who arrived last from thence, and proceeded with the mails and passengers to Cuxhaven, has been caught by the ice, and, from all appearance of the weather, will have a long winter there. -We have had no communication with the Coast since the sth instant.; all around us is completely blockaded by large shoals of ice, which renders aU communication impossible. We have had a subscription here for the unfor tunate exiles of Hamburgh ; the accompanying list I will prove that, although at this moment excluded ' from the rest of the world by the ice, we are not cold to the sufferings of Out distressed fellow-crea tures. SUBSCRIPTIONS. Governor Hamilton 1001. ; Mr. J. Ramer and Messrs. Kohn, Brothers, and Co. 1001. each; trite Officers and Men of the garrison at Heligoland, 591. ss. 2d. ; Mr. Romer, Mr. J. Leader, A. Eller man, and F. Seluveiger, 501. each ; Messrs. Kehler and Lewes, Mr. A. H. Scholwin, 401. each; A. C. Bone, J. Falconer, Messrs. A. Blacker and Co., F. Schre eter, 301. each ; E. C. Schramm and Co. 251.; hi4 ; l G. Armistead, 251.; Mr. A. Blacker, W. Gibson, 201.; Messrs. Hermann and Co. 151. ; W. J. Bridge, H. M. BeileSeld, D. Eckenstein, J. Magnus, P. Graham, Messrs. H. Micholls and Co., Mr. N. G. Henschall, J. Pattisnn, Frances Leisewits, J. H. Tarenholts, 101. each ; T. Morgan, L. T. Cbtboff, J. G. Buie, --- Schultze, jun. GoviViggers, M. Cassebohm,-.41*. Hunt, 51. each, seeking in all, I'ooll. ss. ithosubscribed on the fie* day on ads I small island.