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- ',MAILS. ARRIVri)--2 Dublin, 1 Water ford. Dui —1 Cadiz, I Jer sey, 1 Guernsey, I Gotteubargb, 1 Heligoland, 1 Waterford. PRICE OF STOCKS, lIIIS DAY AT TWELVF. O ' CLOC,K. Consols 6 • • 581 f Red, Atm s7i THE SUN I • SOLE:M QUIS DlCEtt+.4 FALS M • .L o N N, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 2 . 0, 1812. 'We have this day , confirmed our extracts from the American Papers. Our readers will, we. think, derive considerahle amusement from the perusal of -General llnt.r..'s dispatch, :announcing' the sur tender of himself and the formidable' army with which be was to drive the British Out of Canada. Gcneral,Hutr. and his associates 'seem to have .thought that they were going as it 'were upon a party of pleasure, in which they' were to meet . with neither obStacles nor enemies. To their in conceivable astonishment and dismay, however, they met with both ;_ and the consequence was; that heroes, who talked of fighting till their bayonets were Worn' to the .s'ocke ts, iinietly surrendered to an army of about one-fourth of, their numbers x%c,ith .out firing a. shot. It is said that, in the scarcity of Gener4ls in America, Mr. MuNRo, the• Secre tary of State, is to assume the truncheon, and it is expected 'that this gentleman, wino never saw , a. battie in his life, will ,retrieve the honour the American. arms. Great hopes are • entertained by the Federal Party, that Mr. MAD- . • DISON will lose his election, or, in other words, that the President of the United States will cease to be the humble vassal of BtIONAPARTE. If they -- should succeed, we. ;shall, we have no doubt, . ; , speedily see• that harmony restored between the .two cquntries, which has only been interrupted by the intrigues of France. There were no arrivals this morning either from the North, or from the Peninsula. Yesterday the Corronander in Chief 'arrived in town from Oathinds, and this day his Royal High ness will hold a Levee, at his Office, - at the Horse Guards. This day the Ministers Will hold a Council at the Foreign Office. This day Lord MELVILtE will hold a Levee at the Adruiralty. Baron NICOLAI, and two Russian Messengers, -with dispatches, caine in the last packet from Got t "burgh. The Baron, we understand, is appoint .ed Minister at this Court, and is. also the bearer 61 t!!ie project or a Treaty of Commerce, extremely ilvourd)le to British manufactures. Colonel DARROCII, now with the 36th regiment in Portugal, has been appointed a Brigadier Gene ,--1 tO serve with the troops iu Canada, under Sir G .ORGE PREVOST. Captain MAURICE, the intrepid defender of An bolt, has arrived at Sheerness in a transport, with port of the marines that lately composed the garri son of that island. We are sorry , to hear that General EN -GLAND, AN ho commands the 'Western. district, labours un der a dangerous illness, , which confines him to London. • Two. squadrons of .the first regiment of Life Guards paraded yesterday miming, at seven o'clock, in Hyde-park, opposite 'their barracks at Knlghtsbridge., They appeared in their fighting costume,. -and with their new appointments com p!ete. After going through the usual routine of .p trade duty, .which occupied about halt an hour, te squadron passed through . the centre of the irracks, and proceeded towards, Hyde Park 'Cirner, wind the other at the same instant wheeled to the right, and set out at a qttick pace for Kensing ton. The, cbncourse of people,- notwithstanding the rain, Was very great, both the front and rear of the 'barracks, as well as the 'quadrangle, being crowd ed with spectators, who rent .the air with acclams 'Cons and shouting., " God bless you!"—" Success • c•ttend you!" The gratulations and valedictory exclamations of the populace, produced a suit ,ahle return on the part of the military, who 'waved their helmets, and continued to huzza as long as . they' remained-in : . sight. The martial .?oiiearance, the .discipline, and efficiency of fie men.; the 'high mettle,' the ..elegant 1 and the singular docility of the horses, have long 'been the admiration of the visitants, as well as j oF the inhabitants \ Of the metropolis . , and we are c •Mfident that this fine body of men; who sponta n :ously solicited permission to go upon foreign ser vice, acquit, themselves in a way that will be lionOnrable tip themselveS, and worthy of the sen timenta they entertain' of the cafe and service in Vritieh they are eml.)arked. The squadron that w:teeled to . the left . from the barracks proceeded •to Guildford, where it halted for the night, and is expected to reach Portsmouth to-night, where the troops will embark to-morrow. The squadron, which went by Kensington, were quartered, last night, at Egham azo Staines and will arrive at Portsmouth to-morrow.— The reason assigned for taking different routes, , is the accommodation of the innkeepers, and also of the troops, whose arrival, on successive days will prevent unnecessary delay at Ports 'Mouth, and give greater facility to the embarka :tion. The two squadrons which marched yester day morning, are under the command of Major CAMAC, and the second, regiment, which will pro ceed for the same destination this mornining, are to but under the orders of Major BARTON. When - they reach Spain; the Life Guards will be brigad - eJ with the! Oxford Blues; and the command of Cr.! brigade confided to Major Gen. O'LOGHLIN. Orders have been received at the gm -wharf at Pivniouth to prepare hninediately for shipment 20,000 stand of arins,,supposeci to be destined for :Spain. NAVAL NEWS. PORTSMOIJT/I, OCT. 9.—Arrived his .:ttajeity ship . Savage fropl Quebec, last frorn the Nv.,estward. Came in the Diana transport, having slipt her Cable ; also . came into .harbour, the brig Mary from Cardiff for London, with the loss of anchors and cables. FALMOUTH, OCT. 17.—Arrived the Queen Char, lotte packet, from, Lisbon, last . from Plymouth, where she landed the mail; also arrived the Duke of Kent packet from Malta, last fron!joybay; where she landed her mail. Arrived the American ship Mayorville from Gal lipoli, under a license. The Marlborough and Chesterfield packets still remain wind-bound. Put back the brig Rosehill, BARBER, for Lis bon sailed three days since, under convoy of his Majesty's shill S'eqflower, whom she lost, TO11B4Y; OCT. 18.—Sailed his Majesty's ship Ferveai, and the transpoilt N 0.215, for Cork. DEAL, OCT. 19.—The, Nvhole of last night and this day we hal;e experienced a heavy galefrom the S.S.W. during which it is feared some of the ships must ha've suffered. . , The Orion, Capt. FERRIER, for Gibraltar, parted. A. large ,ship, particulars not known, has lost her foremast and bowsprit,; . two or three 'others have parted, particulars we cannot ascertain at present. • DREADFUL SW)R.II, A most tremendous storm caused some melan choly calamities at New Orleans, on the night_of the 19th Of Augnst. We extract the following account from a New.. Orleans Paper, which was transmitted.to New York in a letter from that place. The letter says, that the lower part of the country has bon entirely laid ,under water, ,and vast numbers had perished ; 'and that the fol lowing is hut a very faint picture of the ravages of the storm. The greater part of,the vessels in har bour were destroyed, and there was scarcely one which had not been damaged : (FROM THE NEW ORLEANS TRUMPETER OF AUGUST 21-.) • On Wednesday night last, about ten - o'clock, a gale commenced, occasionally accompanied with rain and bail, and which continued with a . most . dreadful violence for upwards of four hours. As we have never witnessed any thing to equal it, neither do we believe the imagination can pic ture to itself a scene more truly awful and dis tressing than that which its consequences pre sent. The marketLhouse, a large and solid build- it - Ig, entirely demolished.; its brick columns, of two feet diameter, swept down as though their weighty construction presented no obstacle what . ever to. the overwhelming element. The roof car ried' off from the church of the convent,. the fence surrounding which, as also the trees in , the gar den, many whereof arc remarkably large, levelled to the ground. The tin covering of the theatres, nailed on in such a manner as would have certainly have resisted any extraordinary force, twisted and torn off as though it were m er e paper.. A great part of the brick wall surrounding the garrison, . beat down. It would be impossible to,particula rise all the damage that has been done ; we be lieve, however, we may assert, that Ihere is not a building in the city or fauxbourgs, but what has been more or less injured.. " But the scene presented to us On visiting the shore who shall attempt to descrilie ? The level almost entirely• destroyed— the beach covered with fragments of vessels, merchandize, trunks, &c. — and here and there the eye falling upon a mangled corpse. -All the shipping below town high and dry in - the woods. Ali the river craft, market-boats, &e. entirely cruslaed to atoms. As . far as we have beard from the country, the raVages have been terrible—the planters' dwellings, stip:l-- houses, &c. demolished ; anti we have reason to fear that nearly the whole crop of sugar will be lost:' ..... • / FURTHER PARTICULARS. • NEW ORLEANS, AUG. 24..=- . -We haVe been visit ed' with one of the most terrible burricancs ever known in these parts: dt is impossible to give you a just idea of it. More than two4hirds of the houses were unroofed—the market-house and walls of the garrison , the ship ping .in .thebarbour Very much damaged or en tirely destroyed. The da'nage has been estimated at four millions. The harlequin froMNewNork, which had arrived at the English Turn in about 100 pays passage, upset and sunk; and all.perish- : ed, except four sailors, and one passenger, who were oti shore two Ladies Were among the 'drowned. Every day dead bodies arc discovered. News reached town this rimming, that the Sthith anwton 'frig -Ate, and Brazen sloop of War,, which haftbeen blockading our port, were both dismast ed, and On shore: P. 8. We since learn, thatof twelte'passengers who were in the Harlequin, only two were saved ; Messrs. Piere and tudlow ; they left the ship seven nines, below New Orleaus, three days be fore she was lost. A very distressing accident happened' on Tues 7 day,.at the . fish town of Pootdee, Scotland. The re'servoirfor:the refuse of blubber, of one of the whale fishing companies, had been improvidently left open, in the thoroughfare that leads from the fish towns to the quay, and a . brother and sister, children of William Watson, .the former 3 years of age, and the la_ tter seven, had been ,amusing themselves in the forenoon, after the reservoir had been filled from the boiling cauldron: The boy.tell in, and his sister attempted to drag him out, but in the attempt fell in herself. Her cries brought some people to their assistance, but too late to preserve their lives. The injury they had. sufrered Was'so extensive, that Medical aid was in vain, and they both expired before five in the afternoon, leaving their afflicted parents in a state of the Atf utmost distress. AMERICA' PAliEtt. WM. EtiSTIS, SECLETAIty OF THE DEPART-, MINT OF WAR. . . Fort George, 1812. Sti,—liteloed are the articles of capitulation by which the Fort of Detroit has been surrendered to Major-General Brock; commanding his Bri tannic Majesty's forces in Upper Canada, and by which the troops have become prisoners of'ivar. war. My situation at present forbids me from detailing the particular causes which have led Al) this unfortunate event. I will, however, gene rally ObServe, - that after the surrender of-Michili mackinac, almost . every tribe and nation- of In dians, eXcering a part of the Miamies and De= lawares, north from beyond Lake Siiper.Lr, west from beyond the Mississippi,.south from the Ohio and Wabash, and east from every part of Up per Canada, and from all the=interinediate eoua-- try, joined in open hostility; under the British standard, against the army I commanded, ;con trary to the most solemn assurances of a la - rge portion of them, to- remain neutral ; even the - Ottawa chiefs from Arbecrotch, who formed .the delegation to • Washington.the. last summer, in whose friendship I know, you had...great.f.con!i deuce, are amoue; the hostile tribes, and,several of them distinguished leaders.. Among the vat num- , her of chiefs who. led the hostile hands, Tecnn . selt, Marpolt , Logan,Walk-in-the-Water,Split-10g,15/.c. ,• are considered th e p r i nc ip a l s This nuinermiS as semblage of savafts, under the entire influence and direetion of the' British Commander, enabled bins tofallyto obstruct the only communication which I had with my - country. - This communication had been opened from the settlements in the State of Oaio, two hundred miles through'a wilderne , s, bye-the fatigues of the army, -which I marchi•d to the frontier of the river Detroit. 'I ae body of the lake being commanded• by the British. armed ships, and the-shores and rivers by gun-boats, the army was totally deprived of all communication by ava, ter. On this extensive road it depenf!ed tor trarls• portation of provisions, military stores, medicine, cloathing, and eyery,other supply, on pack-hors,es, All its operations were successful, until its arriv;,t) at Detroit, and in a few days it passed into the enemy's country, and ail opposition seeintY,i to fall before it. 'One month it remained in possession of this country, and was fed from its resources, in dif ferent directions, detachments penetrated sixty miles in the settled part of the province, and . the inhabitants seemed satisfied with the change of situation which appeared to be taking place : the militia. from Artiherstbnrg were daily deserting, and the whole country, under the controul of-the Army, was asking for protection, The Indians generally,: in the first instance, appeared to be neutralized, and determined to take no part in'the contest. The fort of Aniherstburg was eighteen miles- below by encampment. Not a single can non or mortar was on wheels suitable to carry be fore that place. I consulted my Officers whe ther it was expedi en t to. ma k e an attempt on it with the bayonet alone,. without cannon to 'make a' break in the first instance. The Coun cil I called was of the Opinion it was not. The greatest industry was exerted in making prepara tion ; and it was not until the 7th of August; that two 24-pounders, and three hoWitzers, were pre pared. It was then my intention to -have pro deeded on the enterprize. While the operations of the-army were delayed by" these preparations, the clouds of adversity had been for some time, and seemed still thickly to be gathering around me. : The surrender of Michilimackinac opened_the .Northern hive of Indians,. and they were swarm -ing down in every direction, Reinforcements from Niagara: had arrived at Atnherstburg, under the commancl.of Colonel Proctor. The desertion of the militia ceased. Besides the reinforcements that came, by water, I received information of a very considera ble force under the command of Major Chambers, on the river Le French, with four fie:Li-pieces-nand collecting the militia on his route, evidently des - - • tined for. Aniherstburga and in addition to this combination, and :increase of force, contrary to all my expectations, Wyaadots, :Chippewas, Otto was, P.ottawatamies, Muns,ees,DelaWares, &c. &c. -with whom I had the most friendly intercourse, at once Passed over to Amberstburg, and accepted the tomahawk and scalping knife.— There being now a vast number of Indiansat the British post, they were sent -to the-river Huron, Brownstown, and Magnago to intercept my coin- inunication. To open this communication ; I de tached Major Vanhorne, of the Ohio Volunteers, with 20(1 'men, to proceed as far. as the river Raisin, under an expectation he wou:d meet. Capt. Brush, from the /50 men, vol un t eers fro the State of. Ohio, and a quantity of provilions tor the army. Au ambuscade was formed at Brownstown, and Major Vanhorne's detachment defeated, and returned to.the camp without effecting the object of the 'expedition. In my letter of the. 7th inst. you have the par ticulars of that transactjan, wit,h a return of the hilted. and wounded., ~I:index this sudden and un- expected ehange.of things,. and having received an express front General Mall', cf.unmunding opposite the British shore on the Niagara river,. by which it appeared that..ther6:was no prospect of any co operation from that quarter, - and the two senior oniecrs q‘the artillery hilving.stated to me an opi nion thatit would be extremely di:;cult, if not ha possible., topass.theTurkey river and river Aux Can . nard:witittlie24-pounders,and that they could not be transported by water, as the Queen charlotte, which carried 18 24-pounders, lay in- the- river Detroit above the Inouth of the .river Aux Cannard; and as it appeared indispensably necessary .to open. the' communication to 'the river Raisin and the. Aliami.l found my elf compd/c.d . to suspend the. operations - against Ainhersthurg, and concentrate the main. force of the army at Detroit. Fullyin tending at that time, after the communication was opened; to rccross the river; and pursue the ola•• ject at Amberstburg, and 'strongly desirous of i:Ontinuing• protection to a very large number of the inhabitants of Upper Canada, whO had voluntarily 'accepted it 'Under My proclamation, I established a fortress on tl , e banks of the river, a -gale below Detroit, calculated for a garrison of ''3oo men. • • On the evening of the 7th, and inorning-of the Bth instant, the army, excepting' the garrison of 250 infantry and a corps of artillerists; all under the cerntriatid of Z,l - ajer Denny, of the Ohio voe lunteers, re-croieed the river, end encatirped at Detroit. In pursuance of the object of inpening the conurithlication, on which leonsidered the ex istence of tile army depended, a detachment .of sic hundred Men, tinder the command of Lieute nant-Colonel Miller, was immediately ordered. a particular account of the proceedings of this de tachment, and thti -memorable battle fought at Maguago„whiCli reflects. the highest honour the American arnia; I refer you to my lifter bitire 13th of August, a duplicate of which is inclosed; marked G. Nothing, however, but hOnotir was acqtrired by this victory, ; and it is a painful bon:tineratione that the blood of seventy-five gallant rneu could. only_open a conumitli :ation as far as the points of their. bayonets extended. The necessary care Of the sick and. wOnaded, and a very severe storm of rain, rendered their return- to camp indispensably necessary. for :their own comfort. Capt. Brush; with his smell (let:Khan-1a lied the aeovisi ons e being still at the river Ito sin, and in •,t situation to •be.destroyedhy ti,t-savage.;', 0:1 the 13th inst. in the evening; I nerodtted Cols n'irtlittr and {;ass to select Irvin their .Tegl!l!est foar letorlred Of their,' most efieetive Men, and oroceed ;n an upper ` route through tae a - noes, •.‘l , :i inid seatean express :0 Cairain to tlr , d had directed the Militia of the fiver naisei to c nepaey him as a reinforcement.. l'ne force o t e . enerey continu ally inerdtising, and the neeessey the coemmuicatiou, „and aetiag on the d fettaive,' imccerning more. apparent, I bid, aireviona to detaching Colonels M'Arthun and C:tsse ort the 11th einstaet, evaceated and destrnyed the fort on the opposite bank. ,0a the Eith e is tee evntieg,±;eeeral 1..3r0e1t err_ Ambertsereel about _ liey none Ceiotiels or and Caes marched, of which at that time I had Teeei red net information. - -On the I.sth, I received a smart - I . :or - 14 from him to surrender fort Detiiit, of which the paper marked A, is a copy: My answer-is marked At this time I had received no information from Colonels M'Arthur -and Cass 'An expresi was immediately . sent, strongly escorted,' . with ordfen • : - eeern, On the 15th, as soon e'en:teal oea icceived my letter., his batteries Opened on the town and fort, and contined until 'evening. In the evening, all Lire British ships war came nearly as far up the river as Sandwich, three miles below Detroit. At day-light Oti the 1-6th (at which -time I had received no information from Colonels M' e lrthur and Cass, ply ex presses sent the evening before, and in the . night, having been prevented from passing by numerous bodies of Indians), the can nonade recommenced, and in a short time 1 ,re ceived 'information that the BritiSh army and In dians were landing below the Spring Wells, under the cover of their ships of war. At, this , time the Whole effectiee force at my disposal at Detroit did not exceed 800 mon. Being new troops, and nu- accustomed to a camp life—having performed -A laborious march—having been engaged in A number of battles and skirmishes, in which • ' many had fallen, and more had • received wounds ; in addition, to :which, a large nom her being sick, and unprovided with medicine, and the comforts necessary for their situation, are the general causes by which the strength of the army was thus reduced. The fort at this thee was filled with women, children, and the old and de crepit people of the town and country : theyeivere unsafe in the town ) , as it was entirely open and -exposed 'to the enemy's ,batteries. Back of the fort, above or below it, there was no saf e ty f or theta on account of the Indians. In the first in- • stance, the enemy's fire was principally directed against our batteries ; towards the close, it was directed against the fort alone, and almost: every shot and shell had their effect. It now becanie necessary either to fight the enemeein the field, collect the whole force in the fort, or propose terms of capitulation. I could not have carried into the field more than 600 men, 'and left any adequate forc e in th e f ort . Th ere landed al.tliat time of the' enemy, a. regular force of much more than that number, and twice the number of Indians. Considering this great inequality .of force, I did not -think it expedient to adopt the first measure. The second must have been attended with a great saerifice of blood, and • no possible advantage ; because the contest could not have been sustained more than a day fir want f poWder, and hot a.yery few days for the want of provisions. In. addition to this, Colonels - ‘lVVArthur and Cass would have been in a most e, hazirdous situation. I feared nothing but the last alternative. I have dared to adopt it: I well know the high responsibility of the measure; take-the whole of it on myself. It was dictenel by a sense of duty, and a full conviction of its expediency. The bands of savages which had then joined the British force were numerous beyond any former example. Their nainbers have since 'increased, and the history' of the barbarians of the north of Europe does not furnish examples of more greedy violence than these savages have exhibited. A lar.,?;e portion .f the brave and gallant Officers and Men I commanded \mild cheerfully have co!)- tested until the last cartridge had been expended, and the bayonets worn to the sockets. •I could not consent to the useless sacrifice of such brave men, when I knew it was impossible for me to , sustain my situation. It was impossible inthe nature of things that •an army could have been furnished with the necessary supplies of provi _sions, military stores, clothing, and-comforts for the sick, on pack-horses, through 'a Wilderness of 200 miles, filled with hostile savages. It was - im-: • possible, Sir, that this little army, worn down by fatigue, by sickness, by wounds, and deaths, could have supported itself, 'not only against the col lectedforcc of all the northern nations of Indians., -but against the united strength of Upper Canada, -iv - hose population consists of More than twenty times the number contained ,- in the territory Of ichlgati;:aided by - the prin c ip a l p art o f th e re gular 'iOrces of the Province, and the wealth and 'influence of the'North West: and other trading es tablishments among the Indians, which have ill - their employment, and under th'eht entire edntroul, more than 2000 white men Before 1 close this dispatch►, it is a duty I owe my respectable associates in command,,, Colonels 111.gArthor, Finci!ey, Ca3s,.frid Liettf.- Col. driller, to - express my obligations to them, for the prompt and judicious inauntr-in which they performed their