The Statesman. — London, England, 1814-02-26 00:00:00

No. ZOO. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY.LANR. T II I S present EVENING, Feb. VI; their Mill...sties' Servants will perform TILE MERCHANT OP' VENICE, Mr. Lea'. his 7th appearance lu this character. After which, (sth thne,) a new Ballet Dance, called LEANDER AND LEONORA. To which will be misled, LOVE IN A CAMP. BUILDER'S kitit 116A / rEltl A LS. CIALIIECti El) TO FEBRUARY 16, 1814. • Carefully canton) throssehoot, 4 4 N ROSBY'S BUILDER'S NEW PRICE 80014 containing the preseet value of all kinds of Materials aid Workmanship, with the Price of Labour ste. Also dile various Acts and Dade.; Direction to make • used Limes. Tables for measuring Timber, and all kinds of ark method of coostructistgOvens, sad several useful Calculations relating to Building. B_y JOHN PHILLIPS. Corrected by C. SUR/A AN, Survesor r assisted by several emiarat io the Profeshoe. Lond.m : Printed for R. mud R. Crosby and Co. 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Who, recently recovered from n lung and dangerous ill ness, respectfully solicits the portronnKe she most gratefully acknowledges to 'hive been honoured with, ioy a generous . MISS WESTON'S NEW NOVEL. üblic, during eighteen years of almost unparalleled sof- ; . In Three Vols. price ISs. in boards, Terigs. 1 E P LEASUR and PAIN; or, The Fate of Ellen. 0 MONDAY NEXT, the 2,Btit inst. will be ! A lade, in three vols. presented the favourite Tragedy of TAMERLANE, in' By ANNA MARIA WF.STON. which Sir F.. Perrott, Bart. ; Mis- 1.. - Nenry, of the Theatre London: Primed for Thomas Ted, at the Apollo Circulat. Royal. Bath ; and Lady permit will perform. The Philan. ing Library, No. 111. Cheapaide; and may be bad of the theopic AMATEUR of FASHION will giye hi, dissertat...o on HOBBIES. Too which will be added, BON TON, Miss Booksellers, and read at all the Libraries in the Kingdom. Also, just published, in two vols. price Sts. Tittup. by Miss - Fitzhettry. With a variety of other Entertain- ; STR ATHMAY ; or, Scenes in the North. By the Author of ments. , " A Winter in Edinburg'," Ticket to he had or Mr. Cruikshatiks, Perfh ner, Haymarket; ' sad of Mr. Wand, Cohfector, N..% 'toad-street. DISTRESS IN GERMANY. ABOUT eight yeors ago the calamities occasioned by Oar War in different part.; of Germany . rave rice to • Subscription, and nv . St:811140n of a Cominktee to London, to relieve the dist recce4 on tile • ' dinient. By the generosity of . .i. British Public, the sum of nearly 50.0001. was remitted, whii-h rescued multitudes from the ex tremity of want; hat at i period since the existence of this Committee, has the irviss o• every kind of misery been so great, in the country to which their attention wa first directed; where I ' the many sa . go i na rs battles fought in Silesia, Lusatia, go. ' LOWES PATENT BRITISH SHIRTING CLOTH ; hernia. Saxons, Brandrubsirgh, and other pans, have entailed Established, 180 S. upon the pefteeable inhabitanrs.sufferings - almost onexampled in The only Mani:facture in Great Britain, in shies the advt. - the annals of hisiise ‘ . The Committee are anxious to impress takes of English Flax dad Cotton, are united In One el t the minds of their ccantrymea, that in anticipation of s:. i- Thread. slash support, they have remitted to different pails of Germany i THE peculiar texture of this fabric frees it from tu the amount of near 40,0001. the eftets incident to the shames of climate or atmos- Amount silrea.l: advertised £33,121 17 0/. pheie, avoiding the injurious cold or chill experienced in the I wear of lii-h or other Linens, and the unplea san t sensation pe stra,Calrflosis GI rtes RECEIVID. culiar to fabrics made wholly.of Cotton ; in this respect it at- Henry Driver Cooper £lO la rtieods :t Hull, at taches the exclusive isdrainage of being mere conducive to John Whitfield .i. Ist their 51outhls Men. . 1 health, in all seasons and climatee,thau Any other description of E. B. Vigor.. Greek- .. lat £15 4 5 Shirting Cloth. street. limbo • 5 0 T.Tbompson, M. P., For durability, beautiful 11. 1 l I appearance, comfort in nears. and 14. 11 i Hall 20 0 great eersoo.y.y, this manufacture stand: unrivalled, and is sold' air limos* lbohlobir — - ib - rim • -Velem& , Alf sk t-eluget tufa the price a irigibr sr atheribr - thomor 4 . 6 aka- -Ro.' Hill, mid Co. , - Nantnich, per S.' ' tentee's Warehouse_, 154. Cheapside, near St. Paul's; and by R. P. h e r Ladbrobestk eb. o A Moline - its 0 , appointment, at Harding, Howellaad Co.'s, No. 69, Ptil- Lieut.-Col. C. Fraser 10 Id J. S. B. 2 0 Mall. Mr. W. W. Terringtora • 5 i Yams a well-elsber,in l •• •It is proper to guard the Public against confounding the T. M. 17 10 . . - Glevehossi 5 0 • above fabric with the new Imperial Cotton Twine Shirting had James Wore 21 0 Wollaits Van, Esq. 4 4 Sheetium, which professes to regulate perspiration, acid in be Davison, Noel, Temp. Met. Vito 2 2 aromatiseci, and as an antidote against the plague and other la- - . nod Co. 100 O Mr. Thomas Vats 2 2 contagious disorders !! Gr Lefever, Bank I I Mrs. Van 1 1 1 3. (unniashatn 2 2 Mr. V. Van . 1 1 J. Guniiingharo, jun. •11 2 John Bridgman 1 1 The alts. Gunninghams 2 2 A London Clergyman 2 2 E. W. 0 b Messrs. R .liing and Thor. K. Mall 20 0 flocking, per Mr. Green% end, Cox, and Bens - fell 5 0 Haminerslev 100 0 Messrs. S.Us.win and C 0.20 0 W. J. Hitycraft per Rev. W. T. Strutt, bies, , r.... Wil liams, Feomiters'-/lall 2 0 Son,_ and C... 10 10 , T. 11. Ihisit 1 0 W. Worrall,ol Liver. T . B. Itirrard 1 1 pool, per ditto 25 0. C. Grant, EN. 10 10 The Worshipful So ? Mr. Squire, of Cam cies, of Apothecaries 59 11 - berweil 2 0 Rev. Maurice Phillips 1 1 Dr. Horne, of Chi.wivk (ie... Co v‘ ir, Bank Co. 10 il T. Wells 5 5 Samovar. I)orrien 5 5 Robert Smith 10 lit Mr. Alexander 5 It Bev. Mr. Bean 1 1 ---- lloirgood 3 .3 1 Tb.,avias Siiepparil SO Sir Tito,. Tvrwhitt, William Rosh well 1 1 Hoerr, and Clio 52 1014 alone! Flemming, C. 1). . 21. Wandsworth TO 0 Jos. Bottnlmore, Esq. ; iorrorisin,llruitser,dtCo.lo o 0 20 0 11„%.-iTr . 2 5! LOCK AN I) SURGICAL DISPEICIAItir. His Royal flighneas the Duke of York, Pivoting, sod the following Committee of Govettcps :—, Earl of Leitrim I Colonel W. J. Janie, 11. P. m Earl of Egront - John Lame*, Es,. IL P. Right H'ou. T. .1 oats CleasVtl> M. P. Rt. lion. R. IS. harridan. M. P. I Captain Janes Oily. lion. Col. J. Harry, M. P. Surgeon. Mr. Kiernan, Member of the Itx vat College ' London. TILE Patronage this Institution has receireci, for the excln-ive treatment and Cure of both Sexes, &Sided with Venereal Complaints, and their dreadful consequences, at strictures, debility. ulcerations, &c. ceodected under the Oa. aagerom of the tirst profraiorial abilidet, will satisfy the Fab. lic of r;o. high ..1 its of Mr. ICIERN AN'S plan, and that by it the inco:,%eniences of Public Charities are avoided, whilst the ytotug and unwary are protect... Cooled the faliddelesioos held net by adverti.ing prttendets MO% branch of practice. Since 180(1, is appeared by the Animal IlePdrt of Hll4, 5431.patlents,of both he us, have been cured, without canfloemettar injury to the constitution, and with a delicacy and secrecy hitherto ealtnewat many of those have laboured under the mot c o mplicated forms of the disease front ten to twenty years. The first symptoms • in fe" and where ---:-:---- 1.-- - ------' -- NFIT FRIDASY, 4th MAII,CII, State Lottery begin. DiliWiag.—Schethe contains ' 9 ........Prises 0f..... .. ..E 40 .eOO ........................ .000 3 ...................... . I; 00 4 ........................ bOO Tickets and Shares are selling by Ii ichardson. and eir Co. StOffiook b-oltrrs and Cootractors fur the Lotter‘, at thces, Cartier of Bnak.buildioss. Cornhill, and facing the King's lee*. Charioe-cross; where they stild, in the Lottery that Soi•bett Wasting the 96th of Jaoirry, SIN of the Cafitul I - slim, io 7% Shore.. • 'f -. ... Milk-street r _ _ _ ~ C a rsten Dirs, 1:•q.. ti.) UIJT. . : p h 2 9 yield to Mr. Kientnn's treatment .. a , w days; s. nit! /Ind Marte n 4b P . )swell and Cn. Utley 21 0 appearottee of debility comes on, too early applicatioq comm. M r.hl Freoth 1 C Retthoteller and Co. St 10 1 tte made to prevent the danger Buil may einue. . Bout 10.. ad. °enteral N;rholstatt 10 lt) I Air. Kiernan usay be rowelled by either Sex, with the Coles, Brothers alO Res. S. Newt . .trut r •••,tr . •.ecreey, nt his private hos-e, No. 21, Lower Char- A Chrislian's Society, 1 a M. Newton, of , lotte-street, Becaford.square, from niue to twelve la the morn- C a teatim-sireet R S 0 Wit:..im, Esse% 10 0 ill, awl front sit fill ante at night ;to whom letters ad other Rev. Dr. —, Bath OW. Barnett, Esq. 1 commuications. from town and country, may be addreseed, and J• E. Coating I 0 Briditc4treet, M'est- I will he punctually amwered. A Collection by the atiaster * 0 , Just published, Rev. J. Reenolds,in Mr. R. Jones I U . PRACTICAL OBSERVATIONS on (he above DISEA tbe I e dependeint Mr. Meals 71 lb S ES. price 3s. By F. Kiernan; and odd by Sherwood, Neely, Chapel, t hester 511.115. 4d; Mn'. Ely Rates •Id 0 and Jo nes, 20, Pateratmeer-row i and by algbley, 24, Fleet Mr. Volimais 1 0 Rer.W. T. Platt,Col- I street. , ... .__ . ties. Clark, 91, Strand 1 0 tertian at Holywell- James Whirr 5 5 Mount Chapel 251. 2s. 6d. I 1) F. BILITX, STRICTOIRIiSt (Le. Mr. Cat ~ St. Mates- T. Paget, Lough- i I MPREASED with s. consciousness that their de rei',4lo 1 1 . Mirosith 5 0 1, ~ :talon from the general plan bas been highly braehellal to David I: d 5 li Mr. Orialth S 3 others, and improved.'" their professional acquirements by t 1 l'ho-.siiiil.John Laing 5 5 Pl.i3p Dixie 1 0 maturity of :.. ,tr twenty yam experience , Messes. CURB 1 i r li. Ltheriogton, Hull 10 U Pieschell and Schreiber 52 10 and CO. coalmen., n M anabated ardour, the eradication Subscriptions received at the Bars of the City of London Ta- ; those disorders which are the consequence of Illicit Indulge v • Llas (I's Ci,lfee-ho•se ; Stock Lechunge; and at all the ;or the desti uctive habits of the inconsiderate School-boy. Ili ' •- .i profe.ssine the cure of these Complaints, they bold oat no hi- Bookers la rUlf A and Country. dacentent to vice ; but, seiesible as all men most be of the ex it. H. MARTIN, s ecr etaries. I istence Growls calamities, they offer their amietanee.as eac t ht LUKE HOWARI), I e d u cated Surgeons of I.:soden. and of the Royal ......--------------- i Edinburgh. in a:I cases of Siphylitic sad In Weep PRIZE NMN EV. complaint of Debilit) and Deficiese, adobe from the ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND POUNDS. , infatuation of a certain desttuctive lie y bil,leigasillienee law. lI[ORNSBY and Co. had the singular pleasure of climates, free . living, Of any other GUIS! a dellarell ' of manly vigour, the patient may rely on a paling to the Public the above Amount in the last Two di,. to vigorous bulth. The t iltnrowed plan rig A wall Lotteries, and they snake no doubt, hot t hey shall ith their the Urethra has Ikea att with peculiar sweetie. Shielseih tit louse Fortune's favours In those alto honour t hem of ten and twenty years' duration have yielded to their ire.; E w liT Fil command; In the p re cut Lottery, to be thrown . meat in the short period of three weeks. Several Noldesnalii Da V. . • f C * and Gentlemen of the first respectability, who ha laboured a choice selec ti on o rt. 11°R41515Y and Co. have on Sale i * Old I..sta bli A r d this painful end distressing disease, bowleg received a radical Uhl plil Prices io Tickets a re cih.tres, at the r _ . t _ permanent cure, particularly request that reference Nay bee Mitt Office, 16, Corohill, where all business in the Funds es t to them, as satisfactory evidences of the decided etl wills hdelity and dispatch. 1 Messrs. Currie nod Co.'s Plan of Trent/tient. M en ro a f ei ZeC - Gentlemen had been trader the can of Mean . None, Omni . ' side, and (Aber sarrom of equal emioence. who sib:espied their Cure by the appllcatina of the Lunar Cautic, without sucess. Messrs. CArrie and Co. issap.beemulted by patierdsaleitlat sea, with the greatest seater : a* bisnour, at their hinge s No. 107, Hatton -garden • Patients is the country are . hilted to the partiaslan of their cues Would general habit of thane s Am WWI% a remittance for advice and medicines, whim same will be given or Mot to @nylon of the kingdom. iim Zir sl ithse ism creel so essential to their oadertaksag. eke mo m am bc 0464 AID WWI o.*PRlellik . . ':. • ~''+; A • t•• ; • S • .4 4 • • • /P I t • I r k ek N . . )I Pi • ‘k, LONDON 4. 411.3"744Cr01t;0RY N, 1814. "Thedlists'tl g 4, Afoot? Say, vircgags . 114 . 4ggeg ! ED. (IA YNES, Adj.-Gen. N. A. .I.I 4 4III,zCALENCv LIEVT.•OZNERAL SIR G. PREVOST, 111110, IKJIMMAMDER or MIS MAJESTY'S FORCES IN Val& I[ILEItI~ A. Toth. Inhabitants of his Majesty's Provinces In North America : A PROCL Nt ATIO N. The complete success which has attended his Ma jesty's arms on the Niagara frontier, having placed i in our possession the whole of the enemy's posts on that line, it became a matter of imperious duty, to retaliate on America the miseries which the unforiu nate inhabitants of Newark had been made to suffer upon the evacuation of Fort George. The Alleges of Lewiston, Black Rock, and Buf. I fate, have accordingly been burned. At the slam time that his Excellency the Com mander of the Forces sincerely deprecates this int of warfare, he trusts, that it will he su ffi cient o ,call the atten t tion of every candid and impartial per song bottramongst ourselves and the enemy, to Ole circumstances from • which it has arisen, to Willy them that Ibis departure i fiont the established usages of wet. has originated with America herself, nod the' to her alone ,are justly Chargeable'. all the awful and unhappy consequences which have hitherto flowed, • and ate likely to result from it. It is net necessary to advert to the conduct of the troops employed on the American coast, in conjunc tion with his Majesty's squadion, under Admiral Sir John B. Warren, since, as they were neither within the command, nor subject to the controul of his Ex cellency, their acts cannot be ascribable to him, even If they wanted that jestification which the circum stances that occasioned them so amply afford. it-will be fufficient for the present purpose, and in order to mark the character of the war, as carried on open the frontiers of these provinces, to trace the lice et conduct observed by his Excellency, and the troop? under his command, since the commencement of hostilities, and to contrast it with that of the emayri -1 The first invasion of Upper Canada took place in July, 1812, when the American forces, under Briga dier-General Hall, crossed over, and took posses. slots of Sandwich, where they began to manifest a disposition so different from that of a magnanimous enemy, and whisk they hire ;Luce invariably dis played, t o lin mar out as objects of their peculiar inesitmakts. tbe /AIICAP Leg 11'.41.1i,esql. and ' ^I . HALIFAI.Z.P,iIagiLI ill dooming their property . . —.....,- • ! ffagration. HA.Ltrxx,. F. 5.,--Captain Co&r acme. 1 Various instances of thiare, , Camplo his Excellency Sir George Prevost airlted Sandwich and its nelghbou. here from Quebec on Monday evening. Ire Is 'Ole': I When his Majesty's standard , _,, mg ttpoL bearer of divatches of dispatches for England, lord; r fbrt of Michilimackinac, and affording !rislection ta . *e uniterligsA A :takei his departure from hence to- fhe persons and property of those wt,o nad snlntltetr:: morruiiiilalliajcity's brig Raleigh. • • ft tu;•asweiltsehjahOlistefedvioliwteeheksft;liffrteesrs"oafr.Dl4etrtohiett.%:lticisiThis .CANADA—CIENEItAL ORDI3ItB. ( together with the whole of the Michigan territory, Head-quarters. Oldies, ,lwo.ll. 1814. bad surrendered to his M a je s ty' s a rms . . - His Excellency the'Commander of the Forces has i 'Had not' his Excellency been actuated by send. the satisfaction of announcing to the troops, that he i l menta far different fronethese ' , which had influteated has received a dispatch from Lieutenant-General : the American Government, and the persons ens. Drummond, reporting the complete succea of twat- ! ployed by It in the wanton acts of destruction of'prit tack that was made at day-break, on the morning ; rate property, committed during their short Occupies 4 ofthe 30th of December, on the enemy's position at 1 tion of a part of Upper Canada, his Excellency Black Rock s where he was advantageously posted,' could not have failed to have availed himself of Out with epwards of WOO men ; and after a short but , opportunity which the undistuthed possession of the :severe contest, the enemy was repulsed in the most whole of the Michigan territory altordeehan of Phi" woluuses . 'ked pursued in his retreat to Be- ' amply rettliatteg for the disfistatitte iststent aifil-. 1 -ru e falo, where be attempted to make a stand, but on . had been pursued at Sandwich and On - the Thhtties. receiving a few rounds from the British field pieces, I an he abandoned that post also, and fled with precl,td- But strictly in Conformity to the views and' dispel: on of his own Government, and to That liberal tation to the Eleven Mile Creek,. on Lake Erie, and magnanimous policy which it had 'dictated, he leasing seven field pieces, and four schooners and chose rather to forbear an imitation of the etteMyl sloops, with a considerable quantity of ordnance , example, in the hope, that such forbetrance would and other valuable stores, which have fallen into 'be duly appreciated by the Government of the United - our hands. The enemy suffered severely, but from ;States, and eould produce a return to the more ci. the rapidity of his flight, 70 prisoners only are i vilized usages of war. taken, among whom is Doctor or Lieutenant-Colonel 1 The persons and property, therefore, of the Wm- Chapin. i bitants of the Michigan territory were respected, anti The corps under Major-General Riall consisted tiremained unmolested. of detachments from the Royal Scots, Bth, 41st, and • - In the winter of the following year, when the eete. the flank companies of the 89th and 100th regiments, cess which attended the gallant enterprise against the whole not exceeding 1000 men. I Ogdensburgh had placed that populous and lionrish. The Lieutenant-General bestows the highest praise': log villag: in our possession, the genetealty of this upon the undaunted courage, and patient submi.sion I British character was again conspicuous in the sera: of the troops, in contempt of the inclemency of the I pulous preservation of every article which could be weather, and the hardships to which they were ex_-' considered as private property; stir! , public bnitfingb posed. only being destroyed.as were used for the iionnunbt No British Officer has fallen on Ois occasion ; I nation of troops and for public stores. ' • Lieut.-Col. Ogilvie, Bth, and Capt. Fawcett, 100th l -The destructi o n o f° the'llefenCes 'of Ogdettsbergh s grenadiers, were won ceded • and it is supposed our : an d the dispersion of the enemy's force in that neigh. loss does not exceed 25 killed, and .50 weuaded. : bourhood; laid' epee the' whole of their frontier on Black Rock and Buffalo were burnt previous to I the St. _Lawrence to the Incursion, of his Majesty's their evacuation by our troops, together with all the i troops; and Hamilton, as well as the numerous set. public buildings 'anal the four vessels. A consider- i tlements on the banks of the titer, might, at any able quantity of stores had been sent away before ,se net , had such been the disposition of his Majesty's the conflagration. . ED. B % YNES, Adj.-Gco. N. A. 1 d erca __A an d la id waste. ° I - Government, or of those acting under it, been plus. ''2During the course of the following summer, by*" llend-uworier., Qw.b.c, lanegs Ler4. His Excellency the Governor-in-Chietnpd.Cons. liwtuitate result of the motel prize against Plattfi wander of the Forces has received from ColOnet Sir liurgiv, that town was for several hours in the coot. Sidney Beckwith, a report from Captain Barker, of !lOW' possession of our troops, there not being auy the Frontier - .Light Itifuntry, stating the complete' force in the neigh bourhood which could newe l :is a re• stews, of an etpedition committed to the charge oft sistriee. Yet even there, under circuinsteuces of , 'Mt rilteei.; igit - tiiiiitieMrs tiOo toi A - itv pw; . a rt . IA ro wg 4 . 1 °1;" 4 "al I °°l when the seven ! *x.". .f ,a ° •4 4 4 Derby, in the State of Vermont, which were taken! the enemy, in the wanton destruction at York, of possession of at day-break, on the 17th of Deem- 'private property, and buildings not used for mili t ary her. An extensive barrack for 1 200 men, lately !: purposes, must have been fresh in the recollection of erected, was destroyed, together with the stables : . the s. forces employed on that occasion, and would and storehouses, and a considerable quantity of va-1 have justified a retaliation on their part, their finks suable military stores have been brought away. I bear:mice was strongly manifested, and the direction! Captain Barker mentions Captains Curtis and I his Excellency had o eiven to the Commander of that taplio, Lieutenants Messa anti (indwell, an d 'E ns i gn ; expedition so scrupulously o beyed, that sc . :Lively can as . another instance be shown in which, during a state ~Bortero, of the township battalions of militia, lliaving been most active with the volunteers of the war , circumstances , : of and under similar art enemy, eniiairt, in the execution of this judicious and spirited so completely under the ir..wer and at the mercy of enterprise. their adversaries, had so little rause of complilat. During the course of the same summer, Fees Schlosser and Black Rock were surrised and taken by a part of the forces under the command of 'Ma. jor-General De Rottenburgh, on the Niagarlon. tier, at both of which places personal pAsperty was respected, and the public buildings were alone de. stroyed. It was certainly matter of just and reasonable ex. pectation, that the humane and liberal course of con duct pursued by his Excellency on these el ff,e, - eit cc- . casions, would have had its due weight with the American Government, and would have led it to have abstained, in the further prosecution of (he war, from any acts of wanto , iness or violence, which. could only tend unnecessarily to add to its ,rdinary calamities, Ind to bring down upon their own twat.. fending citizens a retaliation, which, though distant, they must have k- own would await and certainly follow such condte ' . Undeterred, however, by his Excellency's example .of moderation, or by any of the consequences to be apprehended from the adoption of such barbarous measures, the American forces at Fort George, act• ing, as there is every reason to believe, uoder the orders, or with the approbation of their Government, for some time previous to their evacuation of that fortress, under various pretences, burued. and. de. stroyed the farm-houies end buildings of many of the respectable and peaceable inhabitants of that neigh. bourhood. But the full measure of this specie* of barbarity remained to he completed at a genien aill, all its horrors might lie'mpre fully and ke'e.nly. lilt' by those whq were to' become the wretched trietle si of it. ' It will hardly be credited hy those who shalt here. after read it in the page of h,tsto7; that in the en. lightened era of the nineteenth -Wilsey', and in the inclemency of a Canadian winter, the 'troops of a pa. tion calling itself civilized' and Christian, had wan. tonly, and without the shadow of a pretext, fefred 400 helpless women and children to quit their dserioi.. lings, and to be the mournful spectators of the coil. fiagration and total destruction of all that belonged to' them. Yet such was the fate of Newark on the 10th of ' December, a day which the inhabitants of Upper Canada can never forget, and the recollection of which cannot but nerve their arms when again op. posed to their vindictive foe. On the night of that dav l the American troops, under Brigadier-General ° M'Clute, being about to evacuate Fort George, .. ,_-". • e-r..~....,.e„~ •A • r . - . i : o , •, *\ --, - '' l .ll •f‘ -: -IN ..- t " ' 11 , ' • '. .''ile # , 1 * : - >jk/ 13,tarkti ra q _ ' P.NwE Gin. .....;...........m. i ."..„,,,,„"a _ a ty to plunder and con. big kind occurred, both at Jrhood, r,t the eery pliriod lard was wa‘lng woo the will 77:1a 4 ,W14 . ti? • • BOOKS PUBLISHED THIS WE.' Price 16s. MATERIALS for By WILLIAM RURDONge THIRD F.DITION. • Altered and umeuded. Painted far LONGMAN, HURST, RM. °WM end SRO %VN, Paternoster-row. SEAT OF WAR IN FRANCE. Price 7s. 6d, in One large Sheet, or 105..6d. in a Case for the Pocket, A NEW MAP of FRANCE, divided into Depart. meats and Proviaees, comprehending the Netherlands, Switzerland. and part of Germany, ou a Scale sufficient to sbow the present Military Operadaan. Printed for John Carey, 181, Strand. 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