The Sun. — London, England, 1813-12-21 00:00:00

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PRESENT EVENING, Dec. 21, will be performed the Mein-Dramatic Opera of FOR ENGLAND, 140! 4ftoriehich first time), a new Farce, called Ta w FAIR GAME. hiciptvill be added the Melo-Dramatic Romanct of ALADDIN. tyTIT EATRE-ROYAT„ DRIIRY-LANE. HIS PRESENT EVENING, Dec. 21, their lilajekties S'errarits will perform the Comedy of WAYS AND MEANS. After which the Comic DirertiAement of I.ll*ln . ORANGE BOVEN. • ch will b e added the Melii-Dramatic Spectacle, called ILLUSION. • hr„, EAST-INDI,I4IOI7SE. Nov. n, ist 't m. at COURT of DIRECTORS of theUNITED 2 , CO.IIP.C.VY ;4* AIEIICII.,I.V7'S of. ENCiI,.I.VD lig to the E.-ISLI.VDIE.S, herein, QQi a Pl 7- IRTE RLY GE NE11.4 I, C'ol7ll7'of the said ; lo amy will be held a t th e i r Ilou,te in Leadenhall,stre , t, on 11 41(lay, th e '22d Decen..her ne.rt,.at Eleven n'elt , ch in the p 4 4 '"°^! for the purpose of dt•eli;i.ing a DIVIDEN,I) ifidaummer last . to Christtnai ne:rt. tv,; / " Ccu ri 4 , .f Directors do also give 11Totiee, that at the Gen,,,nl Court a Motion will be . suede 64 That Mr. per " .. r ""Li.i, late of the Ileagoli*.lril • Establishment lie wHitedta return with his I?anh• to India." ' JiDIE.S' COBB, .Issist. Secretary.. Trr n /NDM-MWSE,. s, 18 1 3. • "vd CO URTor DIRECTORS of the UNITED ''''‘VP.lArl'of MERCILIiViS of E-YUL.lNDirrad R to the fia.vt Tadies, do hereby give Arsitiee, Me Transfer Books of t7i said Company's Stook, Will k ; . u t.on Thu rs d ay , the 9.51 A Instant, at 7'wo o'clock,.and "ea agai n nn Due4ilay, the 113 , k January lit tl that he viden Warrants °A ge said Stock, down to boy ? Jant ar nyext, witt be ready to be delivered On Tues. the 11th Zf the same Month. • .1.4411.6 S COBB, Ass.'stastiSe.reetary.. tleggiib, BURNE, and Co-Stockbrokers, ~r_e_Tectfully inform the Publi c , that the NEV.: STATE t 4 i,...._t1 i. , consisting of only 12,00 0 Ti c k e ts,' will he 'down wo u ys, viz. the 14th and 22d JANUARY, 1314. 2 . . TnE SCHEIE CONTAINA ...... Prizes 'if..' L• 2 0 .009 ' 2 • , of. lO,OOO. 2 , of. 3,000 2 2,0" tu. "ric, of. s4.ll,l:att:rsthe4irnoddilitirES i n , putt vlrietr ot Numbers, 9re , 1 1. Ne 0. ' 93, i iI.O . I" : AL LiCtiANGE, Lon- „lII'-,----- ......,..... . CAPITAL PRIZES Sold and' Shared lit: li er i t ,? T ' L .BISH, within the present year (1314) I►eing too t bold, : "t an Advertisement, he solicits. the fort . unt n e t ' eitil .°f any outstanding Prizes, to Wing themn . forp.s)int. t t „ ” CORNHILL. or 9, CIIMUNG-Cl.Oss, or , o k - "oge them for Tiaets -and Shates in the New yiw s_ *hick to be drawn the Isth of Neat Month ; tl:c SclieTe . of 0 it contains I : • •prizes 0f..... L 20,000 2 Prizes 0f..... L 2,000 % ........ 10.000 .1.. ........ 1000 ..... . . ............ • . 3000 6 . .. . 500 I „ &e. &c. like. 1 4 , 1 ; ecrtes with PArticitlass may he liarl'atts, arta ait iT". in tbe Public Paads'trausaited.wilb tidelity and dis 'tu, by T. BISH, at' ...,!__. 4, CORNIIYLL, or 9,, CILITUNG-CROSR. • 14th NEXT moNni, January, Pi t , STATE. LOTTERY BEGINS; DRAWING. •-THOUSAND POVNDS for the . First-drawn Prise . above teo.- -74114,11,D • 50.,:c7„,.rip01)LUCK-, nqd Cn • spec,rimy , infOrm" the Pnhlic; i lir STATE Ulf lir will begin Drawing 14th JANVAItY. The. Second i s, Drawing wain the 2:14 JANUARY. . THE SCIIEHE CONTAINS 2 Prizes of keninne 10,000 ,000 2,000 1,000 2 . .4 &C. &c. &c. jnTS and SHOES are on Sale by RICII.,‘RDSON, t « ^:IDLI101{, and Co. the Contractors for the present -Lot theil Offices, BluAk-buildincs, 0)1111)01, and Charing ttal%,, where they in the Lotteriti drAwn bro. Sip 7 and November, the fallowing Cap slit itol Priivs, in Forty shares,: 3,854 1,130 .. ... L. 500 8,471...... 1,0001 7,527. 500 _ — nIC AN' PA MRS (CONT 1 NUED .) 're ek lON; ReAr Nov. 7.—.lbout the end of last teaux vetw " 'r een Prescot and Ki n gston, seven bat kaded with goods, belongi n g to sundr y ; a r ch m s , were captured by the Americans, the of which is 'estimated at 5000 t. The par s. 41 1 : 14 this misfortune have not com e to hand, I , r e are as sure d f rom au thority of the f a ct. V 'fate vd,, e 'leaos arc erecting huts at Gravelly Point, Xvi,,; re . it is said, an array will encamp: during . er, to awe Kingston. dsvi "E "ER 2.---The steam-boat arrived on Sun a‘ 4 m st from Quebec, With about 350 m arines: and - artillery. f ro „ aE&L, Ocr. 30.----The latest accounts l'P.,ingston, arc that the American army front l oi e t's ['arbour, amnuntin;..c to about 700 had L e k' ed at Grenadier's Island, 17 or 18 miles th ev -w i li.ingston, about ten Lhiys since, where tOa l ',: 4ve .remained without shelter, exposed to ti u ,i constant rain and cold 1 ". 1 " e 3; thei; ( ', nmch sickness and discontent. Two of dr•'a r se Scows anti several Boats, Ilan' been It 6. -11 ,°1 , ' agale of wind dOwn the river and lost. Dar n — "ea: supposed this movement was for the 4 , 14,, e ,, 1e , of making an attack upon Kingston, for t i the garrison is said to be so' well prepared ' ; clr r eception that little feu was entertained th e e alg able to repulse them shand they make %ou c . 4 i tte ruPt. Yesterday sixty-two American Pri bit :8 a rrived here, Which' were taken in the per P •• (4 0 rovinee and at Chateauguay. It alie "4c ' Nov. 4.-Theharbour of Quebec, for kt r i v ,i l qs past, has presented, in regard to the *4B 4 (li °I; Shipping, the appearance by which it of ttr,tiugaished before the war. The supplies tilt s re s and yrovisions, of every kind, sent to Is amazing. Part of the nth refit. for uP this Morni ng ; numerousdetaehmepts ink tier,Y r egiment in the country are hourly milk 64ite eit 4PPearance, General Drummond and A: a rrived al-do /esterday. al Lieut.-Colonel M‘Dn'ti , ( :111ef7 4111 P to :his ri.seelleitcy the Governor in t healito arriied. The wind is now fair, and 4 4y. •" ° te of• the - convonvill prob•,ibly be up to leer-writer from Sandusky sayi, "The Bri-; e e decla re d t h at it was with rehrt.4tanee leo 'MONTREAL, Nov. G. The American army, at Four.-Corners, wider ' General Uampton, after haVing•so long fixed the attention t;f our troops,. began at length to move towards .our lines on the 2l st alt. .About four o'clock in the afternoon of the same day, their advanced guard drove in our. pignets stationed at Piper's Itoad, about ten leagues above.the Cha teangoy Church, Upon Vie receipt of this in telligence, Major lienry of the Beatiliarnols Mi litia, commanding . at.Euglish river, used every di ligence in apprizing Maior-Geueral De Watte ville of the approaCh of the. enemy, and ordered immediately in advance, Captains Levetryne and ISt:harm!) with their flank companies of the stb Batt. locorporated Militia, together with about' - 200 of the Beauharunis division. This force ad vaneecl about two leaguel that night, mid halted nt the entrance of it wood through which it would have been imprudent to pass. • They were joined • early next morning by Lieut.-Colonel De Sala berry with his Voltigeurs. and Capt. Ferguson's Light Company of the Canadian Regiment- Lieut.-Colonel De Salaberry moved about at league up the left bank of the river, to themtiter extre mity of the wood, gad a patrolo of the enemy hav ing•shewn itself at some distance, he there halted his little force. The Lieut.-Colonel, whit had the adVantage of reconnoitring the tvhole•country above Chateangay, in. his expedition to the Ante , ri'eart lines a few weeks. before, knew well that the whole bank of the river could not afford a. better position. . The wood abounded with deep ditches or ra vin'es ; atid upon four of these he established four lines of defence, ,the one ofter the other. The • three first lines were, upon 'ant average, at the distance of about 200 yards from cacti other; the fourth line was about half a mile in the rear, and cotta winded alord . to the right hank of the river, which it becghic riiost imporuut to defend •in order to protect his left flank. Upon each of . these lines he caused a 'breast-work to he thrown up, 'extending some distance into the woods, so as to gt:ard his right. The:lneast.work on the • first line broke into 'tin obtuse angle on the right of the road; and. ran 'along the °windings of the ditch. The whole of _the firht nay was taken up in fortifying this 'position, than which none could be more eligible itr point of strength. It had also the advantage of Compelling the enemy, if disposed to attack, to travel over a large extent of an uninhabited entintry, and to remove at a large distatfrom his supplies, while our troops Oitott e 0 4171 - y Wail; ttnd were well supported in ear rear. • • • The right hank of the river wits covered vial a thick .wood, and care was also taken to guard against an attack from that quarter. A strong guard was placed at the ford,. and a picquet of sixty of the Be au h arno is.Militia:was thrown .in advance on the other side. The attention of the Lieut. Colonel was not confined to the winks above mentioned. In order .to strengthen his position still snore, he ordered the next day a party of thirty axe men of the Bean harnois division to proceed in advance of the first line for the purpose of destroying the bridges and the ahattis, All the bridges , for the distance of a league and a half in advance were consequehtly destroyed, and a fbrmidable ahattis was made about a mile in front of the first line, e,xteuiling from the bank of the river to about three or four arpents .into the wood, where it. was met on the right by ft swamp, or epinettiers, though which it was next . to impossible to pass. .Thus ; were the- four liae completely protected. It was well known that the enemy had about ten -pieces of cannon, and it became impossible for them to cut a road fur their artillery. To the strength of the position so chosen and so' fortified at all points as much as to the heroism of our little army are we indebted for the splendid victory that has Imen obtained. The skill 'ahil talents of a commanding officer sire an doubt. as conspicuous in the choice of his ground before the battle, as at the inanagement of his troops in, the heat of action ; and it is but common justice to Col. Dc Salaberry ,to •state, 'that to him alone proisc is (Inc for the " admirable arratigtment established by IsiM for the defence' of his post." ' After Colonel De. Salaberry had made these ,in dicious,arrangements, Major Gen.Watteville visit ed his camp, and did him the honour to approve of every, thing he had done. Notwithstanding that the abattis had been corn piked on the second day, working parties . were continually kept there, in order to render it still .more.formiduble : troops were sent in front to ,protect them, independently of which there was always a strong piquet in the rear. On the 26th ult. about ten o clock in the morn ing, an advanced corps of the enemy came within fire of the abatis; Lieutenant Guy of the Volti geurs, who was in front with about '2O of his men, was forced, in after exchanging a few shots , and found in:itself supported by. Lieutenant John son of the same corps, who commanded the piquet in the rear. The working party retreated, of course, and.did not resume its labours during the whole of that day. The firing brought up- Lieutenant-Colonel De Salabcrre immediately from the front of the first 'line. lie took, with him three companies : Cap tain Ferguson's of•the Caoadian regiment, which he placed in extended order on the, right, and in • f r ont of the abettii ; Captain JeaOliapt. Daches. nay!s, which be ordered to iiectifq' the left, ex leinliog at the same time to the river side Ain ,Captain Jueherau DUCIICSIIay'S; which, •vith üb,,t fifty or sixty of the J3eAuharnois w:is • thrown back •en potence on the left side• of the abattis, so as to flank the advance of the enenev .against the Beanharnois.Militia on the right bank of the river. I omitted to mention that about twenty Indians• were mixed With Captain Fergu son's company on the right. The lientenant,co lond placed himself in the centre of the front line. Ile now saw In his • front an enemy with whom, he had twice endeavoured to come in contact since the beginning of this-.campaign. The Wog wlsbed for opportunity was at hand, and the event shown that - he knew how to improve it. Between the abattis and the lines were placed Captain Ecuyer's company of Voltigeurs and Capt. Dc hartzch's light comparly of the rith 'Battalion of Incorporated Militia; having their flank picquets thrown' out to the right. t7l large body of Indians under Capt. Lamothe were extended in the road on the right of Capt. Debartzch. Lieutenant-Co lonel M'Donell, of the Glengary Light Infantry, moved up with part Of his light brigade from the 3d and 4th to the Ist. and 2d lines. All these Movements were made with uncommon rapidity. In the mean time, the enemy began to form in a large plain that endedalmost at a point in front of the abattis. General nun/ 1 1ton commanded in person the-left Vank of the river ;, he had with him the 10th, 31st and other regiments, amount-, Jug to about three thousand or three thousand five hundred men, with three sonadronS of caval f ry,. and tour pieces of artillery. The artillery,. how ever, was not brought into action. A large force of the enemy amounting to about fifteen hundred men, moved down through the woods on the right bank of the river. It Was composed of . the 4th, 33d, 34th, and the volunteer. and light battalions. Tlie remainder of the American army formed in the rear of the force on the left bank. Soon after the disposition-made by Col.. De Sa laberry, as mentioned above, a.strong column of infantry advanced through the plain in front of the abattis; and the Colonel perceiving that this co lomn had laid itself open to a front and flank fire, an opportunity for which he had waited some time, lie. himself' fired the first shot which was seen to bring down a =trite(' pfEcer. This was ominous of sneeess. He •.then • ordered, .the bugle to sound for commence firing. A spi rited and well directed fire from the companies - in front checked for a few minutes the advance . ot the enemy, they remained motionless far some rinse-, • and then wheeled. to the left into• line, in which position they fired sereral vollies. By this mOvethenChowever, the tire front the left of. the line was entirely thrown away upon tluit part of the Woods unoccupied by our troops : but, the fire from their right was sn . powerfiil, as to force our Skirmishers to shelter themselves in the front edge of • the abattis. The comumwook 001,. OA the begiiiiiinA. of a retreat ; vont mints: mistalsen they were, for they did not occupy one inch ,of the abattis.—Huzzas resounded 'from all parts of their army ; nor were we interior even in this shouting . warlat;e. Our companies in front cheer ed in their turn-- , their Inizzas were re-echoed by those iu their rear, and reiterated by the troops in the front line. Nothing could be more ani nun i ng. Lient.-Coldnel McDOnell,fiorn the first liner caused the bugles to be sounded in all direc tions, so as to induce the' enemy to believe that we were in tar greater numbers : this ruse de guerre hail the flesired effect; for we afterwards learned front the prisoners that they rated. our _ face at five - ut sik thousand. • After these mutual checrings, vollies were for some time exchanged 0100th-sides. The enemy did not , once' attempt to penetrate into the abattis. They however still kept up their fire, which was well returned . , par ticelarly,froin the left. After a short time it be gan to slacken, as if their attention were directed to the other side of the river, Here the bugles in trout, in consequence of some mancsouvre,: sounded the advance, find Lieut.-Colonel desirmis of adding new laurels to those al ready won at Ogdensburgh, came up from the first and seconciline with, I believe, Capt. Levesque's company and-another. Towarils the close of the engagement on the left bank, the enemy, on the right ) who had over powered the Beaulawnois Militia, opened a heavy: fire on our left, which was well returned by the left of Captain .I..Blipt. and the right of Captain' .lucherau Duchesnay's companies. Lieutenant- . Colonel.De Salaberry then ordered Lieutenant-. Colonel M'Donell, who had resumed his slily,' Lion, to send a company to the other side, of Abe river, for the purpose of checking the edvance of the enemy. Captain Daly, who wits selected for this air *ice, crossed at the ford, :took With him tip remains oldie Sedentary Militia on the other side, and moved with rapidity up the river. Tne-fire.of the enemy having nearly ceased at the abattis, and Colonel Dv Salaberry seeing the action about to assume a serions aspect on the right bank, left his situation in the centre of the front, and placed himself with the troops throWn back en potence on the left. Here he ascended a large stuamp of a tree, and although Much ex posed to the fire of the enemy, surveyed theirs coolly with his glass. He then gave his orders in French to Captain Daly, on the other side, and ,cautioned him to 'answer in the some lap page, that they might not be under4tood by the enemy. Captain. Daly for some time dro've the enemy .gallantly before him; but rallying upon their supports nearly iu a line with the force on • tee left hank, they waited his approach and receiv ed hin t with • a heavy fire. He was wounded in the onset ; but though wounded be still continued% to posh on With his company, and while in the,act o f encouraging them by exhortation and example, he received a second wound .and • fell. Captain luny ere of the Bentsharnois militia was also wound- eelat the sarne i tinte, but slightly. T I heir men now no .longer able to withstand such an over, tvhelating force, were compelled to fall hark, which they did •in good order,• till it the com mand of Lieutenant Schiller of Captain Daly's, - company. Shouts of applause tvere again he,ird from the 'enemy, but their exultation' wt,,: that moment., for' no sooner did they COMe opposite the potence, than, by the /triers of Co:. Lie Salaherry, the troops' in that position 9pened upon theth across the river, a heavy and 'Well-di- reefed fire, which suddenly checked their career rind threw them into the greatest coufmion. Ira vain did they attempt to stand. • They dispersed and retreitted' with precipitation. It was then about half-past two o'clock in the aft ernomi . , and' Gen. Illimptoofiading that his troop:: on the rik;ht bank of the 'rivet' were not more'saccessful (1 0 l those on the left, ordered the latter to retreat, af- • ter they had remained in action for nearly an lima, though occasionally galled by long'sticits froth our skirmishers,who were pefectly seratre in the ahattiS. --- , Our troops continued in their nos'ition, and though weary with the toils of -victorv l they slept that night on the ground they- . hail or:.tipied dur ing the , day.• At day-break oexr7norniog they. were reinforced by Capt lIonville:s company of the Voltigeurs, .Capt. Levesque's grenadier com pany of the sth Hatt Incorporated Militia, and GO of the Beauharnois division, the whole under the 'command of Lient-Colonel M'Donell, To this disthignislied ' oflicer Col. De Salaberry en- trusted. the defence of the . abittii. yitplets were thrown in advance about two miles' farther than they hitherto had been. The day will; passed in expectation of -it i'Secood attack ; but no enemy appeared. 'The piquets were so pnshett that 'about 20 prisoners fell into our bands. ?mu the ri, 4 ltt bank of the river. On .the same Side were•alsO fountl a large quantity of muskets, drUms, knapsneks, provisions; . &c. &c.' Every thing indicated the confusion 'iota which the enemy Intl been thrown atld with which they had retreated. Upwar: ls of 40 of. their dead . were'bitried by our troops, inde pendently of those who were burijd 17y the enemy'. Among• the latter were two or'three offic..i.rs of . distinction. TWo horses were found dead on the ICU bank, and- the . enenry carried Off ; . : 1 ' w aggo w i several of their wounded on that •side of the river. nr lOsa in the action atuoititt , :d to 2 killed, I 6 wounded,. •and 4 omis,ing. ThrPci rank and file (1. - f Capt. Ferguson's company have :leen reported ua killed; but. it has been since . ascertained, th.tt .hurried on by their impetuosity, they MI into the hands pf theencmy.. On th'e 286 in the .morning Captain DIMOtiIC, with about l;')0 Indians,' went to reconnoitre the enemy, who. front the repoyt of Colonel Hughes, of the Engineers, hod abandoned their cam on the preceding day. A parry of the 13eaulialuoii Militia, protected by Copt:lin Debartich, bunted Atobtrovell the u««-ly- trotted 'briAfges canyon within of the • enemy, alto hail moved their camp to about a mile and a half beyond Piper's road, that iito.say, about two l!agoes above th e i r former position: Captain , Lamothe :proceeded through the woods With his Indians,' and ~notw ithstanding the.inferiority of his force, that zea lot's and tietive officer brought the enemy to a par • rani engageMent, %therein they had one killed and seven wounded. • On the 30th an Indian 'scouting party, under Captain Ducharme, brought intelligence that the enemy had on the 29th abandoned'their ramp skt Piper's-road, in the greatest confusion ; ' an d , weit, on the high road to Font. Corners. • Here ended Gen. Haloptors's expedition to Lower Canada. I have been thui minute in deSetibing the teene of action and the position and inunagement of qhe troops engaged, without taspassing on the p;n*-- ence of the reader. Upon such a subject, the eager expectation of a Canadian public will rally look with anxiety for.erery species of infer- Illation, and in,such an honourable, contest there. can berm circumstance, however trivial, without its interest. From every information that could be collected /min th'e prisoners, , it appears dun the intention of the enemy :was to push on by Chnteaugay river to the banks of the banks of the St. ttrwre: , c.e. ; - there to vrait the Co=operation of General.Wlikia,. son, who . was to have taken Kingston u his way down. Rusticus expectat duet defluat It has alsO been ascertained froin the ptlso-sere, that the force of the enemy anloooted to 7t.C.11 infantry, 400 cavalry and ten Or twelve tiieces cannon. To the distant or the prejudiced reader, ;t perhaps appear incredible that the whole foree engaged on our side, (VI not exceed ti-ce bon 'tired men ; but such is the fart, anti it tari d, without fear of contradiction, The re;u3;uder oz . our troops were in the rrlerve of the ur o un.t. the few in the,l.“ And "ti line. It would no doubt have been the height of r:i..11- nessa.ndindiScretion for this handful of now, wearied and fatigued with the labours of the day, to hove ventured sue inch beyond the nhattk, in pursuit of such immense numbers, prompted by such a large body of . vavulry ; but it it be nut indel::aie to p.,; t h e (l i te ' s h o w, Why were .not•the troops in reserve btlow the cutup brought , up 'th.annoy ih e en( in their retreat, and cut off their . titraggliag foree . It is highly gratifying to add, that the 300 men engaol; together with their brave eonitnander, .were all CAriadians,-witli" the .exception of tlo, t , gallant Captain Pergnson, three of his company. and three officers belonging to other enrps. Let this be told wherever mention is made of the battle of Chateatigay, and prcinfliceuntst iliac Ito and the intirmars;Of malevolence will be kindled into confusion. T o the o thc ( ! r s nn4i tr(lolvi coogoil on this im e. morable day, the highest vreti:t is certainly