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respective autle; aTfilt.l;fl.; taken pace during the campaign which ;s lion:litrabl6 teethe army, those Officers are entitled to a large share of If the' last act should be disapproved, no part of the censure belongs to . them. I have likewise to express my obligation to Gen. Taylor, who has performed the duty of Quarter-Master-General, for his great exertions in procuring-every thing in his department which it was possible to furnish for convenience of the army ; likewise to Brigade Major Jessup, for the correct and punctual man ner in whieh he has discharged his duty; and to the army generally for their exertion, and the zeal they have manifested for the public interest. The death of Dr. Foster, soon after he arrived at Detroit, was a severe misfortune to the army ; it was inci eased bythe capture ofthe Chache,ga packet, by which the medicine and hospital stores were lost.: He was commencing the hest arrangements in the department of ‘ybieb he was the principal, with the very small means they posSessed: I was likewise deprived of the 'necessary' services of Capt: Partridge by sickness, the only Officer of the corps of engineers attached to the army. All the Officers and men are gone to their respective tomes, excepting the 4th United States' regiment, and a small part, of the Ist, and Capt. Dyson's Company of artillery. Capt. Dyson's 'company was left at Ambe'rstburg, and the others are with me prisoners,—they amount to about 340. I have only to solicit an investigation of my conduct, as early as my situation and the state of things will admit, and to add the further .request, that the Government will not -be unmindful of my asso ciates in captivity, and of the families of those brave men 'o=lio have fallen in the contest. , . I .have- the honour to be, very respectfully, Your most .obedient servant, . W. Hum., Brig.-Gen. Commandiqg the North Western Army of the United States. Hon...Nlr. Eustis, Secretaryof the Department of Witr. EXTRACT FROM THE LETTER OF COLONEL MSS TO THE SECRETARY OF til.ll. When the forces landed in Canada, they landed with an ardent zeal, and stimulated with the hope -of - conquest. No enn,tuy appeared within view of us, and had an immediate and vigorous attack been Made upon Malden, it would doubtless have fallen an easy victory. I know Geneialflull af , terwards declared he regretted this attack had not been 'made. In the course of three weeks the cannon were mounted, the ammunition, and every preparation made for an imaie:liate investment of the fort. At a Council, at which were present all the Field Officers, and which was held two days - before ofir'preparations were completed, it Was unanithouSly agieed to make an immediate at tempt to accomplish the object of this expedition; but d change of measures, in opposition to the Wishes and opinions a; the Officers, was adopted by the General. ; The plan of attackirigMalden was abandoned, and instead of acting offensiVely, Ave broke up oar camp, and evacuated Canada, and recrossed the river in thenight, without even the shadow of an enemy to injure us. We left to the tender mercy of the enemy the miserable Ca nadians who had joined us, and the protection we afforded them was but a passport to vengeance.-- This fatal and 'unaccountable step &spirited the troops, and destroyed the' little confidence which a series of timid, irresolute, and ,indeeisive mea sures bad left in thc CoMmanding Officer. About the 10th of August, the enemy received the reinforcement of 400 men. On the 12th, the Commanding Officers . of three of the regiments (the fourth was absent) were informed, through a medium which admitted of no doubt, that the General had stated that a capitulation would be necessary., As no enemy was near us, and as . the superiority of our force was manifest, We could see no neces sity for capitulating, nor any propriety in allud ing to it. We. therefore determined, in the last resort, to incur the responsibility of divesting the General of his command. "This:plan was eventually prevented by two Commanding Officers of regi ments being ordered upOn detachmeats. On the 13th, the British took a - position oppo site to Detroit, and began to throw up works. - -- . During that and the two following days, they pursued their object without interruption, and es tablished a, battery for two 18-pounders and an 8-inch howitzer. About sun-set on the evening of the. 14th, a detachment of 350 men, from the ,regiment commanded by Colonel M'Arthiir and , myself, was 'ordered to March to the Raisin, to es .cort-the provisions,. . . On Saturday, . the .15th y about one o'clock, a flag of truce. arrived from Sandwich, bearing a summons from .General Brock, for the surrender of the town and fork of .7)etroit, stating, he could no longer restrain the fury of the savages. To this an immediate and spirited refusal was re turned. About four o'clock, their batteries be gan to play upon the The fire was returned and continued without interruption, and with lit tit effect, until dark. 'Their shells were thrown till eleven o'clock. At day-light the firing on both sides recom menced ; about the same time the enemy began to land troops at the Springwells, three miles be low Detroit, protected by two of their armed vessels. Between it and seven o'clock they effected • their landing,, and immediately took up their line of march. They :moved in a close column of pla toons, 12 in front, upon the bank of the river. 'The fourth ri:girnent was stationed in the fort; the Ohio volunteers, , and a part of the Michigan inihtia, behind some pickets, in 'a situation. in which the whole flank of the enemy would. have teen exposed. The residue. of the Michigan mi litia were in the upper part of the town to resist. the incursions of the savages.' Two 24-pounders loaded with grape-shot, were posted upon a com manding eminence, ready.to sweep the advanc ing cOlumu. In this situation, the superiority of our position was apparent. When the head of their colunm arrived within Ptoutlo6 yards of, our * line, orders were received . grant General' Hull, for the. whole to retreat. to the fort, and for the 24-pounders not to open upon the enemy. The fort was in this manner filled ; the men were directed to 'stack their arms, and,, 'scarcely was an opportunity afforded of moving. .t.'ho.r.tly after a white flag was hung. 'out upon tha 'walls. A British Officer rode up to inquire the A communication . passO between the . . , , •. • r'anurianding Generals, which ended in thylstapi .. ttilation sulatiiitied to you. . -‘• Our' morning _report had that inorni:l7 mp.de our effective Men present fit for duty 1030, out including the detachment before aliiitA to, and without including 300 of the on duty. _ _ I have been informed by Colonel Findley, who saw the return of their, Quarter-Master-General the day after the surrender, that their whole force of every description, white, red; and black, was -1080. They had 29 platoons, 12 in a platoon, of men dressed in uniform. Many of these were evidently Canadian militia The rest of their Mi litia increased their white force to about 700 men. , . The number of their Indi an s c o u ld no t b e asc e r tained• with any degree of precision : not many were visible : and on the event of an attack upon, the town and fort, it was a species of force which could have afforded no material advantage to the . enemy, In enacavouring to appreciate the motive, and to investigate the causes, ivhich led to the event sir Unexpected ,and dishonourable, it is ithpossible to find any solution in the relative strength of the contending .parties, or in the measures of resist ance in our power. That we were far superior to the enemy—that upon any ordinary principles of calculation, we would have 'defeated them, the wounded and indignant 'feelings of every man there will testify. . • _ A few days before the surrender, I was inform ed by General [lull, we' had 400' rounds of 24- pound shot fixed, and about 100,000 cartridges made: We surrendered with the fort, 400 barrels of powder, and 2500 stand of arms. The state of our provisions has not been gene rally understood. the day of tht. surrender we had 15 days' provisions of every kind on h an d. Had we been totally destitute of provisions, our duty and ouv interest undoubtedly was to fight. But basely to surrender without firing a - gun-- tamely to submit without raising a bayonet—dis graceful': to pass in review bef9re an enemy is• inferior in the quality as in the number of his forces, were circumstances whicb excited feelings of indignation more easily felt-than described.. I am expressly authorisedto state, that Colonel M'Arthur, and' Colonel Findley, and Lieutenant- Colonel Miller, viewed this transaction in the light which I dQ. Confident I am, that bad the conrage.and con duct of the General been equal to the spirit and zeal of the troops, the event would . have beeicas brilliant and, successful as it now thsastrous.and dithonourable. LEwis Cass, Cal. 3d, Regt. Ohio Vol. 'The Hon. Wm: Eustis; Secretary of War. • COMMODORE RODGERS. TIE PRESIDENT A .;p BELVIDEgE. .EXT;RACT FROM THE JOURNAL OF COMMODORE RODGERS After describing the first ineffectual attempts of the President upon the. Belvider.e, the American Commander thus proceeds : " I now endeavoured, by altering course .half a point to port and wetting our sails, to gain a more effectual po s itio n on hi s starboard quarter, but soon found myself losing ground. After this a similar attempt was made at nis-.•larooard guar ter, ba.. without any better success, as the wind at this time. being very light, and bOth ships Sail ing so nearly that by making an angle of only half a point from the course she steered, enabled him to augment Eis distance. No hope was now left of bringing him to close action, except that derived from being to windward, and the expect ation the breeze might favour ut first : 1 accord ingly gave orders to steer directly after him, and to keep our bow chase guns playing on_ his spars and rigging, until .Our bl4mdsicie would more effectually reach him. At five, finding from' the advantage his stern guns gave him, that he had done considerable injury to . oursails and rigging, lud being within point blank shot, -1 gave orders to put the helm to starboard, and fire our main tied( guns ; this broadside did some fOrlherda-. maga to'his rigging, and I could perceive that ass fare-top-sail-yard was wounded, tint the sea was so very smooth., .and the wind so light, .that the injury done was not such as materially to affeCt .his sailing. After this broadside cur course was instantly renewed in his wake (under &galling tire from his stern-chase guns, directed at our spars `and rigging), and Continued until half-past six; at which time, being within reach-of his grape, and finding our sails, rigging, and several spars (particularly the main-yard, which had little left' to support it except the lifts and braceS) 'very much disabled, I again gave orders to luff acrasa s bis stern, and gave hima couple of broad sides; " The enemy at this time finding. himself so hardly pressed, and seeing while in the act of fir ing our head sails to left, and suppOsing that the, ship had in a . ratasure lest the effect of her helm, he gave a broad yaw•with the intention of bring ing his broadside to bear : finding ,the President answered helm too quick for his purpose, he im mediately reassumed his course, and precipitately' fired his 4 after main-deck guns on - the starboard side, although they did not bear upon us at the time by 25 or 30 degrees, and he now commenced lightening his ship by throwing overboard all his boats, waste anchors, 8:c. and by this means was enabled by a quarter before seven to get so far ahead as to prevent our bow chase guns. doing ex ecution, and I now perceived with more mortifica tion than words can express, that there was little or no chance left of getting within gun-shot of the enemy again. Under every disadvantage of disabled.spars, sails, and rigging, I however con tinued the chase with all the sail we could set, till half past eleven p. m., when perceiving he had gained upwards of three miles, and not the slightest prospect of coming up with him, I gave up the pursuit, and made the signal to the other ships as they came up to do the same. "During the first of the chase, while theibreeze was fresh and sailing by the wind, I thought the whole of the squadron gained upon ,the. enemy. It was soon discoverable; however, the.ad vantage be acquired by sailing large, and this 1 conceive be must have derived in so great a degree . bystart ing his water, as I could perceive, upwards of an hOur before we came within gun- . shot, water run ning out of his scuppers. " While in chase it was difficult to determine • „ . w,bether onr. own' situation or that .of the other, r. 4 a5 the most unpleasant 1• 4 .7 e superior sailing : of the President was not (of'the Avind) as t o e n a bl e us'to get upon the iyoadside of the. enet4 ; the situation of the citherS was notlesa irksome, as not even the head most, which w a s the Congress, was able at any One to get within less than two gun-shots distant, and even at that but for a very little time.. ” endeavonringto Fet alongside of the ene my, the following persons were killed and wound - - ell ; 16 of whom were killed and wounded,hy the bursting of our own 'gun, viz.— Killed--.7ohn Taylor, jun. midshipman ; John H. Bird, ditto ; Fraoci, H. Dwight, marine. Wlmmied•-•—Comhiodore Rodgsrs ; Thomas Gamble, Lieut. se: I'e:rely; .I,;lin Heath, - Lieut. of .3iLtriims, slightly; Katt. C. Perry, midshipman, ditto; -Lawrence ditto, ditto; - Lrenee Ninutgoinery, midst: lusthis telt arm; John Barrett; mailer-gunner, severely; Sohn Beasley, slightly"; . Ifarid Dais:A, • ditto, .ceverely, 'since ; Andrew 'Matthews, ditto,, liOtly; .:or lon Bmthe, armour er, ditto; ..tolai Claim, seaman, . severely; stewirt, ditto, diiin ; Qeorge ditto,. ditto; ordinary seaman. ditto ; Neil ibErtling,'ditto, Jchn Berry, ditto, ditto ; Henry Qiieert,,d141.9,,d404 hoy,.ditto. . Note.--The greater part of the wounded have since nearly , coveted. . NEW PARLIAMENT: 111EMBE;Li RETITRitiED°, Esser. --John Archer Houblon, * Charles C. Western, Esqrs.: • Cornwall.-- Sir William ..Lernan, Bart John Hearle, 'rrernayne, Esq. CONTESTED ELECTIONS. SURTtIi,Y.—OCT. 19. Mr Sumner Sir Thomas Sutton 1q69 Dundas. Neville . BERKSHIRE.—OcT. 19 Han t' - 546 I • ..►... .373 • .ESSEN:.;—:FINAL C,Lcnn.' Houblon Western ... 1,57 THE THEATRE.- - ple delightful comedy of Js You Like. It introduced two new performers last night, at Drury-lane Theatre. Mr. GL,6SI'.A.NES; fIon) Bath, „performed the part of. Orlando in a very judicious manner, , and displayed feeling.as well as knowledge. Mr. PHILLIPS, from: YOA., .also quitted ' himself respectably.in the .Dicke ; and they were both well received. We slrell, INwever, re serve Ourselves' for .second examination of their respective merits, before we venture to' decide upon Aheir talents ) as the. first appearalVee Of Actors -on the London boards is generally at tended with a degree of timidity, which operates us a restraint upon , their powei . s: BANNISTER followed the track .of his old friend :Tom KING, in Totichst•ine, but not with servile precision. His .performance was marked _by original humow'. WROUGIITON'S Japes,AVl,S supported by judgthent and expression,' gnd Miss., IioNcAN - was an ani mated representatlye of .Rosalind.. The scenery was agreeably varied, picturesque, .and ncll exe,- ,cuted. . BRATIAM iSeDrige.o to perform at the Bath and Bristol Theatres. Mrs. CHILDE, who, was last season at Covent-Garden Theatre, is also engaged at the saline places. ; It is proper .to state that the report (4 , .f the Drury-lane Cominittee, having otleted a t ecuniary reward to the author o,f the best Address is un foutilled.---Such an offer, would, most probahly, have prevented many persons from entering into any conlpetition.4 . Mr. GOLDS:)IITH was lately attacked in a Morn ing Paper by one of its Correspondents, and he sent an answer to the writer, under a reasonable expectation that it Ni - ould be inserted in the same paper ; but his article was rejected, inconsistently with" c:mdour and common, justice, as he had a right to demand an opportunity of . Vindicating hims , .elf in the same quarter in which he Was at tacked. : But, he without reason accuses other papers, of shrinking from their duty, because they did, not insert his .article. Surely ,he has no right to . bring such a charge again,; those prints which admitted nothing-to his prejudice. As to the at tachs which have been made upon Mr. Gor,DsKrril on the. ground of his having once been a zealous chant ion for the principles which occasioned that dreadful political chaos the French Revolution, and now being strenuous against those principles, we think he has fairly exculpated himself. . He was young and inexperienced at the time alluded to ; he has since had fuli opportnuity of seeing the bane ful Consequences that rauSt inevitably result from those principles, and therefore heopealy proclaimed his recantation, and is now a resolute advocate for tl e British" ConStitution. M r . F ox , th oug h au . I and experienced politicia n , w ai us m uc h en . red by the reyolutiona'ry principles of France ay...'fr. Gor.nsmlTH, yet Mr. Fox separated front 4 i,, his best friend, one of the mos t enlightened states men of this or any age, Mr. Bo RKE, and though he saw all the horrors which ,j,uch principles. mast always tend to prodUce, 111 - r. Fox went ,tto the gra.se without professing hiS regret at tits fatal er ror: into which he had fallen, and left a silly book behind him, without a syllable in it to counter-' act doctrines which his 'eloquence had supported, and which have spread misers and ruiu over so. many riationi. • . . . . r. LAWLESS, luperintendant of Mgils last week recek'ed'the reward `due to his vigilance in detecting the cohveyanCe of gold from this kingdom. The sum seized was 7000 guineas, of which Mr. L. received one third. The State Lottery began Drawing at Eleven this - morning ; tied when our Pope was prt. to Press, the only Capital drawn was, "I•To. :3252 a Prize of 20,000/. which was sold at WEBB'S truly fortunate Office, 17, Lthlgate-street, in one Tli and eight Sixteen Shares. Ti fortunate holtrerSarray receive their money of WEBB as early es please to-morrow. Nt ' ndav - mOrnin!,),•, a ,journeyman - baker of the name of • Neath, undertook for a wager of 5/. to go on'foot front Aidgate, and pas. over the three . bridges, London, Nadal-bus, and . Westminster, and back-again, in th e s p ace o f hour - the : whole distance is calculated'.a.t about eight miles, and a h ilf. He•started at seven o'clock, and ar rived-at the starting. post, completing the wager in four minutes less than the given time. Con siderable bets were depending ,on th issue. The odds at starting were three to two against him. CORONCItiS INQUEST. Oa Wednesday and;Thurshy last an inquest Was taken by Roger Caliaway, Coroner of Portsmouth Borouglii - on the body of Lieutenant Sohn Bagnell,%of the Royal Marine Corps, who was mortally wounded in a duel by Lieutenant William Stuart, of the same corps, on South Sea Carnman, on the morning of Thursday, the Tth (Ifwiiich wound he languished until Satur day e;ening, last,: when he died.---Thomas and, Jane Ifaines deposed, th a t th e d ecease d was brought to their cottage, partly aSisto,:by the said Thomas„flaines, and that hail wa.S extracted from him by Xi . , Madden, Surgeon, who was seat far to c.turd him professional aid hie ball entered the right side, near the arm-pit, and was taktniout.of.ti:e left shoulder. Li eu : c ha n t L. subecinently conveyed to his lodging's in Hambrook-row in a post-chaise. Lieu tenant Bagacli wasproceeding to the cu:sge, he 0,14 to the gentleman who assisted him ',Lieut. !An ,Q‘Hanlon), " John, h i e . never came bock to say he was sorry for it,'' he genfleman an swered, " No.", When lying on the hed, he said, " I am sorry for you ; Jack; and they both ?;110 tears. Ile also said, " I disch.rged iii'.'pistol, didn't I to which . Lieut. O'klaiiloa replied, `. Yes, yon did.", A. Aubell, who nursed Lieut. Bagnell, deposed, that ,she bad much cOnversation 'with him, and that he 'ij.d be bad been wounded in a duel with Mr. :.3tirart, and that be would have made it up on .the ground, but Mr. Stuart was riot .7Lient; Alexander Day, of the Royal shrine Corps, deposed, that having . received a ines . sle: ; e from .Lieut. W. Stuart, who wished to see him, he waited upon him. He met him at the door of ii s lodging-house, in Stone-street, and was instant's. , saluted with the following words, or to the effect— " Day, lam the most miserable wretch !" After Lieut. Day hail expressed his soi row on the Occa sion, Lieut. Stuart entered' into particulars of a dispute which had recently taken place between him and th'e deceased. He stated, that 'as he : vas about, to leave Mr. bagnell, at his lodgings, ,he (Stuart) - observed that he should make a call on se;;ie one, and Ale. liai4nell immediately answer will.not bexeceived." That Mr. S. then said,-.--" How do you know I shall not be yeeei ecd ?"—Upon which Mr . . B. replied, that he would nut allow himself to he impertinentlycate:- hised. Mr. S. rejoined, that he would not allow ilineseif to-be bullied': Bagnell then exclaimed,--=- _" What ! call me bully in my own house l---walk put of it. - That Mr. hereupon went 'towards the door, and Mr. B. followed him, with his hatil touching, or nearly touching his great coat ; induced Stuart t o say,—" Doat' touch MC. Beg:- nell,.for that never can be made up ; and when he had got into the street, Stuart told Bagnell he should Ilea:. from hirn--:hat inov;ine hie hand to And fro, said,—" Go along, go alon'g"-=:-. that Stuart, in the course of his conversation with Lieut. Day, said, he was very glad to hear Raj- ;Dell's wound was not mortal, and that he w a s likely to recover. Stuart also said, that Bagneli . s first ball had passed very near him. Lieut. Philip Kinner Jessop, of the Royal Ma rine corps, deposed, that on returning to his lodg ings on Friday afternoon last, he found them oc cupied by Lieut. W. Stuart, who appeared very much agitated at the time, and said, " Jessop, am I not a wretched fellow ? I never shall enjoy. a moment's peace of mind - as long as I live.' ,That, after Lieut. Stetvart had told him the cause Of the quarrel, (nearly as described upon the above deposition) he said Bagnell must blame himself for what had happened, in being obstinate, and refusing to make an apology : that Stuart, how ever, shelved great distress of mind, and often expressed his sorrow at what had taken place : be said it should be a lesson to him as long as he lived ; and that, in future, whatever affront he nligllt cr even if he was, struck, h e wou ld not be induced to light a duel again ; but would. rather verify the text in Scripture—' That if he received a blow on one cheek, be Would suffer the other to be struck.als3 ;" this deponent was part of two days in the house with Lieutenant S. kind he constantly evinced his great distress of mind and sorrow fcr the state of hiS poor friend Bag nell, as he called him. Tbe Jury adjourned its proceediugs until Wed - - nesday next, to obtain the evidence of anotber witness. Lieutenant Bagnell was a fine yours m in the 30th year of •his age. He married a dangli. ter of the Rev. Dr. Asbe, of chippenhAm, she now lives, and by whom twq enti dren, who .d:ed. The parties were the most in timate friends previously to the unfortunate (Rs pute that terminated so lamentably. ANA' . 4I, APPOINTMENTS.—Lieut. vva!son, Of the Alciuste, for his gall.,nt conduct, to the rank of Commance.. —Capta:nsl-lon" . .—N4pler, to the , toshaw'i: ;. Qz:iiton, to the Argo; Dickenson, to the 'Hasty ; Maxwell, to the Dx(1.17t.. Lie A utenants ►nderson, to the , l'ililian; Fitt', to the StaiiiLcd; Shurtiend, to the Boxer; Invite, to the Barham ; Nailer, the Minerva ; J..Arne:d, Steele, a::f3. T. Lipson, to the Bitr fleet ; G. Kinc.. (1st)•, - to thc Velig,tance prison-;hip; T. Ste yenson,, late - Of the Gle.aintur, - to the Sampson prisiu-ship, Clia , ..ham; J. Wharton, to the Fir:r. ' Yesterday afternoon an inquest was held before SHELTON, Esq. at Blackfriars, on a view of the body of an elderly woman of the name of Clark, whose death was occasioned by throwing herself off Blackfriars Bridge, on Sunday nwning, into the Thames.—The Jury returned a verdict of Licnc:cy On Tuesday tWO of tlie French prisoners at Perth were. released from their confinement, to hp l restored to their country and their friends.— One of them, a Lieutenl.-_nt s - was exchanged for a British Odieer equal rank ; the other i a brave • and 'humane soldier: bas obtained hot only ii berty, hut the good will and respect of every 134t0n who knows his story. Tile gallant Gene- ral WALKER, while storming L3nda:loz, at the held Of his brigade, was fOund by this yonag F-I:nch man lying wounded s.ri-d bleeding in the breach. He took. our woUndecr General- in his arms, and carried .him into a French hos , ,ital, be was taken care of by the medical. depart ment. The General !rave his address, with a pro mise, to serve his deliverer, if ever in his power. The Frenchman, at last it captive, aceordingly ap. plied to General i \TALKER, WhO - lost no tune in. procnring for burn the precious reward of liberty.