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PRICE OF sun,. 113 nk Stock:, 260 Navy 5 per Cent. 950 Irish 5 per Cent. 4 - per Cent..B2ti 3 per Cent. Red. 67 661 3 per Cent. Cons. G 6 Autii L. Ann. 16 5-lGths AMERICAN PAPERS [FURTHER EXTRACTS.] COPY OF A LETTER FROM GEN. M`CLi . ./RE, or THE NEW YORK STATE TROOPS, TO THE SECRETARY AT WAR. Head=quarters, ttiffalo, Dec. 22, 1813. regret to be under the necessity of an= nouncing to you the mortifying intelligence of the loss of Fort Niagara. On the morning of the 9th inst. 'abOtit foul- o'clock, the enemy crossed the river at the Five , mileMeadows'in great force., consisting of regulars and Indians, who made their way undiscovered to the ,garrison, which, from the most correct information I can col lect) was completely surprised. Our men were liearly -all asleep in their tents ;' the ; enemy rushed' in and commenced• a most horilti Slaugh ter. Such as escaped the fury of the firs . t . on set, retired to the old mess-house, - *VhVrethey kept Op a destructive fire on the cneiny Until a want of atiiMunition compelled them to sUrren= Although our force was very infesrior, and omparatively small indeed, I am induced to think that the disaster 'is not attributable to any want of troops, but to gross neglect in the Commanding Officer of the fort, Capt. Leonard, in not prepar ing,,,being ready, and looking out for the ex pected attack. 1 have Hot been able to ascertain correctly the number of .killed and wounded. About twenty re gulars have escaped-out of the fort, some badly wounded. Lieut. Peek, 24th regiment, is killed and it is said three othefs.. You will perceive, Sir, by the enclosed General Orders, that I apprehended as attack, and made the necessary arrangement to meet it, but 'have reason to believe, from information received "by those who have made their escape, that the Couv inandant did not iu any respect comply with these orders. • . . On the same Morning a detachment of militia ; under Major Bennett stationed at LieWi's'eown Heights, was attacked by a party of tavageg,l?- but the Major and his little corps, by making a .4.lespe.• Tate charge, effected their retreat . , after being surrounded by several hundred, with the toss of x or eight, who doubtless were killed ; among whom were two sons of Captain Jones, Indian interpreter. The villages of Youngstown, Lewis ton Manchester,- and the Indian Tuscarora vil lage, were reduced to ashes, and the inoffensive inhabitants 'who could not escape, were, without regard to age 'or sex., inhumanly butchered by sa vages, headed by British Officers painted. A 'Bri tish Officer, who is taken prisoner, avows that many small children were murdered by their In dians. Major Mallory, who was . stationed at Schlosser, With about forty Canadian vo,unteers, advanced to Lewistown Heights, and compelled the ash nced guard of tile enemy to fall back to the foot' 81: the mountain. The Major is a meritorious officer ; he fought the enemy two 'days, and contested every inch of ground to the Tautawanty Creek.---7 in these actions Lieutenant Lowe, 23d regiment of the United States army, and eight of the Cana dian volunteers, were killed. had myself, three clays previous to the attack on the Niagara, left it - place, - Black Hock, and the other villages. on this frontier. I came here without tFoops, and have called out the militia of Gennessee, Niagara, and Chataugue counties en Masse: This place was then thought to be in imminent danger, as well as the shipping, but I 'have no doubt is now perfectly secure. , Vornateem are coming; in in great numbers ; they are,./idivt . ver, a species of troops that cannot b e ,ocpectedto continue in the service for a long time.;:i , -Inln.few days, 1000 detached 'militia, lately drafted, will be on. I have, &c. GEO. M'CLURE, Brig. Geti. Cora. I iff n..l.4lrmsfi-ong, SeCretary of War. GENERAL ORDERS. • Head-quarters, Fort Niagara ' Dec. 12, ISM Capt. Leonard will, as soon as possible, bare a proportion of hand-grenades in the different BloCk-houses, and give di rections to the officers of the infantry where they should be posted witlttheir men, in ease of an attack; and should they not he able toanaintain the outworks, to repair to the block and mess houses, and have every thing arranged in such a planner as though lie expected an immediate attack. Much is expected of Capt. Leonard, from' his • long exe- Timer -4nd knowledge of duty; and the General feeht dent he will he well supported by Capt. Loomas, of theArtil levy, as well as the Officers of the Infantry. i,Ey order of Brig_ Gen. George M'Clure. - DONALD FRASER, Lt. 15th U.S. Inf. • • and Vol. Aid-dc-Camp. GENERAL ORDERS. Head-quarters, Fort Niagara, Dec. 13, 1813. The Contractor will depo r iit in Fort Niagara immediately, ' Wile month's provision for three hundred men, and keep good that deposit.' Ile will pro►iiie and issue at the following places ' At Lewistown, say for 500 men, , :At Schlosser - - TOO men, yt Buffalo. - - 1000 men, for one month. The Commanding Officers at the different stations will sign tr.turns'.—By order of Gen. I.sl‘Clure. JOHN A. RODGERS, Capt. 24th Infantry, • . Acting Aid-de-Vamp. EXTRACT OF A SECOND . LETTER FROM GENERAL M'CLURE TO THE' 'SECRETARY AT WAR, Batavia, Dec. 25, 1913. It it a notorious fact, that the night on which Fort Niagara was captured, Captain Leonard lett the Fort abOut eleven o'clock, P.M. lam assured that be has since given Himself up to the enemy, and that he and his family are noW on the cana dian_side of the Strait. , • , . , 'liS' YESTERDAY. - Inlllil Stiyek, "'- India Bonds, ss. is. IT.' 'Sokb Sett Stock, , Excheq. Bills, 4s. Gs. pr. Minium, 20i Imperial 3 per Cent. Cons. for :25th Feb. 674; COEN-EXCITANGE, FEB. 4.—No business being done; every thin r,:main's precisely in the same state as on Wednesday. • Si:all/FILM) AlAfiliET, 4.--This day's Market had a shork-.;upply of the different kinds of Cattle ;. Beef kind itlut tun c:leaper; Neal and Pork were dearer; and the trade g - enerA was not over brisk sales in the Hay-rnarket Were somewhat dull; Flay and Straw fetched better prices; Cl 6. er has dropped in•price. REMARKABLE FACTi-Two women:` and one wan have „been bulled out of the same House innlsq), within sertni weeks, 11,hoseltuited 1) a• i .;c:ii. ;.1.1 - s: `j.2.-iyearki. EAST ilsbiA'ilittilidtMeti JA'A, Yu 1813:—Since Onr last, publicaL acConrits have been received that the 13an;• ditti at Proholing9 have been entirely suppressed and dispersed; and We are permitted to insert the following antbOitie account of the cireutnstanect in 'Which the melancholy fate of the Officers who fell into their hands is too clearly confirmed: Extraet . of a Letter from Captain Cameron, to Major Forbesot Majesty'; 7.86 Regiment. 1 " On the forenoon Of the lBth instant; Colonel and Mrs. Fraser, Captain McPherson', Lieutenant Robertson, Ensign Cameron, and myself, came on a visit•to the China Major.--4n the evening; whilst out riding, several MantrieS came and re ported that a body of about 300 inn had tome down from the mountains, and hackaken posses sion of a village about two or three paals from the house,—that they did not molest the inhabi tants, and that they had declared they came to take possession if tire country by command of Mahotuet.--Conceiving them to be nothing more than a tithed of religious enthnsite:ts, we deter mined to inspect them personally, mid ascertain their intentions With this vise-the China Major, whO aecompanied us, collected his people, amount ing to about 200, armed with. pikes. We pro. ceeded about six paals when we came in sight of them, posted in a coffee plantation. ' While we were ordering some people, to; go forward and hold a conference with them, and endeavour to ascertain their waists, And if possible to disperse them, they suddenly mado a most furious attack upon us, preceded by a most dreadful yell. The China Major's people gave way in. every-direc tion.—Captain McPherson and myself, svho h ap pelleel to be in front (he having a pistol and I a fowling-piece in. my band) finding ourselves aban doned, retreated towa'rds.Colonel Fraser, and the other officers who accompanied the China Major,- and a. few relatives.—We attempted to make a stand, and discharged the few shot we had, but were immediately obliged to retire,'heing hard pressed and followed closely by the Banditti.—Al this moment, Col. Fraser and Capt McPherson being much exhausted, fell, and it . is with the deepest sorrow I have to relate, their having into the bands of the banditti, without the smallest prospect of our being able to afford them the least assistance, being at the .moment surrounded by crowds of them.---Lieutenant Robertson, Eisign . Cameron and myself, made our escape with great difficulty and danger, being closely pursued to the house, where we arrived much fatigued about ten o'clock. We immediately put the house in the best posture of defence We could.—We had a large square of houses to defend, and only a few Chinamen. and slaves to assist us. In this situa tion we remained all night in momentary expec tation of an attack, which luckily for us they (lid not attempt, as I felt convinced, from the general disaffection and cowardice (if the veople 'of the country, they would have carried, the place with ease, as our own exertions together with die few Chinamen we bad, were far from being adequate to defend so large - a space.—Duriug the night,, some slaves were sent out to collect the China Major's people, and if possible to rally those that had accompanied us.--Towards morning we were able to . (mister about 150_part of which I sent out to gain some intelligence.. N one o f those-re turned, and I have every reason to suppose they joined the banditti; and the only method I had of keeping the rest together, was by confining them within the square, and placing the more trusty slaves at all the gates and outlets. - " In consequence of the different requisitions that had been forwarded to Passeroang and Sou rebayh, seventy of the Djyang Sekers arrived fr om Passeroang at half-past five in the morning of the 19th.—On being joined by this force, I again sent parties to collect the inhabitants, it being tity.de termination to attack the banditti, and if pos.sible to rescue my brother officers and the China Major, if alive ; but I was soon obliged to relin- quish so pleasing a prospect the decided reluc tance they shoved to move, and the differei)t at tempts they made to disperse, convinced me; that I had nothing to. depend upon bait the Piyang Seßars, who were only armed with pikes. The banditti had by this time advanced , within one mile of the place,;,and their force had con siderably augmented. —Soon after, the chief of the banditti sent a man to inform us that hellad killed the English, and challenged us to come_ out and fight him. On my receiving the confirma tion of this melancholy event, ‘ I gave up every . idea of attacking them, as I did not perceive the smallest prospect of success with the few Djyang Sekars I had, who were so badly arnad.-1 how ever took. every measure for a determined reSist ance.—About ten o'clock I found the Chinamen, were removing every thing from - the house, and preparing for their own departure, in wh;ch event', I should have been deprived- of their assistance, which 'in so dangerous a predicament was of great ,importance, and left with only the biyang . Sekars. "_I deemed it then necessary to see Mr s . F raser afety, and proceed with her to a pow that was to convey the Chinaman's family to Passe roang. Having done this, -I , returned abont P 2 o'clock,, taking the China Captain (from Johanna) and one of the China Major's sons with' me, — On our entrance into the house, we found that all•the Malays and China people had abandoned it, the Djyang Sekars in retreat, and the' banditti in possession of the front of the building.--No thing was now left us but to make oar escape, which we effected with great difficulty., I order-, ed the Djyang Sekars to proceed by a road that led' from the rear of the house, and being anxious myself to afford every protection and assisthnee in my power to Mrs. Fraser, I made way to the prow, which I had not reached when the banditti appeared on the beach in great nUmbers, prepar ing to follow us in boats. The prow immediately weighed and stood for Jor Passcroang, and we ar-. rived there at" 'll, o'clock at ,night, when I took the earliest opportunity of placing Myself under Your edintnand. " AlloW me to embrace this opportunity of of fering my best thanks to Lieutenant Robertson, and Ensign Cameron for their 'determined eon: 'duct and able assistance during the short hut, pe rilous situation in which we were placed. I also beg leave to remark- the good behaviour of the Cli,inatuen, and particularly to call your• attention - • iii the the first accOnivanie.l us;.and behaved in the inoA vilant manner. lie was wounded severely in OAP breast, whilst alfordink every assistance to tap tale - McPherson and Who hat — aceniiipai2ied me ever Since." l'he following is a list of killed and wbunded on this unfortnnaN e'•unt Killed. Lieutenant-Colonel Fraser, his NlAleity's ,78th Regimeni Captaiil APPlterson, his Majesty's 78th Reginierit ; . Ilan China najort Ongqing-tiong, relative of ditto. Fe lix Dupre, Captaiti Cameron's Servant. - • tcounded. Onting Socv, Son of the China - Major; Mantree-Kartod ynyou °lie Slave. The following is a correct abstract of the gal lant and successful enterprize against the Bail• ditti As soon as the intelligence was received. from ProbOlinga, Major Forbes, ,with a detachment i o( his Majesty's 76th regiment, consisting of 100 rank and file, with a proportion of Officers, ticd . mounted for greater dispatch, proceeded on 'tie, forenoon of the 19th ult. accompanied by a-party: of Djayang Sekars, under the command of Lieut. Dwyer. On the road the information arrived, that the I Banditti had •found five field pieces, and a quan tity of ammunition in the - China Major's house,', at Aroholingo; and were considerably increased in nuMbers, that the Resident at Passeroang had dispatched a large party of armed men, tinder the command of Colonel'Arenschild,, a pensioned of ficer residing there, and that a yellow flag had aeon hoisted by the Banditti. - Major Forbes Con tinued his march witholit delay, and cam© up with Colonel Arensehild tat day-break of the 2oth at Touges. After halting a short time to arrange the mode of attack s the whole party moved for ward towards-Probolingo, and after a march of two paals, a party of Banditti were discovered, and they retired. Thenunterous bodies of Nu tives being found to impede the march of`t - he: detachment, Major-Forbes resolved to ptish4or ward with the detachment of his Majesty's.7Bth regiment, the Djayang Sekars, acid one gun. At a distance of two paals, three field pieces were found placed on the road, and covered by'a large body of the Banditti; chiefly armed with pikes ; they were instantly attacked, and when the de tachment had come uvithin 20 yarda of them, con tinning a heavy fire during the•advance, they has tiy fled, leaving the guns, and a number of kill ed and kvounded. After a march of one paal, two more guns were seen on the road, covered as before, only imgreater force, with two large yellow flags ; which gave reason to suppose the principal Chief commanded. They shouted and advanced to uneet. the detachment, to encoura g e which, Major Forbes took' up a position on each side of the road, directing the Djayang Sekars to keep sound distance in the rear. The Banditti -advanced with a shout, , and the detachment, reserving their fire until within a few yards distance, opened it upon them in 'a most effectual and destructive manner; after a short interval 'they ran, and dispersed in every direction. The Chief, when finally deserted , . by his people, rushed forward, an.l was taken, severely wounded ; a second Chief was afterwards brought in, and suffered the punishment he so richly deserved. and a brother of the latter killed. 'flue destruction of -the Banditti may; therefore be considered complete, and subsequent accounts mention, that Major Forbes had return ed with his detachment to Sourabaya. It is most satisfactory to add," that not one of the gallant detachment has been killed, and only two wounded—and the district has been 'restored to perfect tranquillity. On Wednesday the Swallow transport sailed fOr ` Madras and Bengal, havin g on hoard t h e detach ment of Madras Horse Artillery. Last Tuesday arrived his M a j es ty' s frigate Ma lacca, being appointed to this station.—This ship sailed from Madras about six weeks ago. The Rajah'ot Berar lately set out from Nan.- pore on a journey to Poonab, aeconlmnied by .Mr. Jenkins, the Resident at his Court. Mr. Sotheby remained at Nagpore in charge of the Residency. 13)7:accounts from China of the beginning of April, it is stated that no less than thirte'en sail of American merchantmen were laid up in the river of Canton, dismantled. Most of these were last front the Easternlsland, whither they had gOne for cargoes of sandal wood. It was not supposed that any of them would venture to sea again, so 'pug as matters remained _unadjusted b e L tweet) the British and American Governments. EXTRACT OP A LETTER PROM BUNDLECUNb. " Koonch, July 9, 1813, " Our corps is TIOW under marching orders from this station. The force about to take tie field under Colonel Palmer•will consist of the 2d battalion I Ith Native Infantry, 15 'companies et* the 23d Regiment, and four 611°1111(161.s, all which will be . aseembled herL., I believe, in three days, wben, it - -is,supposed, we will immediately coin thenea our march in the direction of Gwalior." CALCUTTA, JULY 12, 1813.—8 y letters re ceivcd ,in the course of last week froM Madras, we have the satisfaction to learn, that a numerous and respectable body of the inhabitants of that. settlement had entered into a subscription for the purchase of a piece of gold plate, of the value of fifteen hundred pounds sterling, to be presented to Sir George Barlow, on the occasion of his depar ture for England, in testimony of the high sense which they entertain of his public services and private virtues. We understand, that Sir George Barlow does ,not proceed to England in one of his Majesty's frigates, as was originally intended ; the exigen cies of the service not permitting any ships of war to be at present detached from the India station, • The weather in the Upper. Provinces continued extremely sultry. Nat a drop of rain had fallen at Cawnpore so late as the 30th tilt. ; and at Meerut, the . thetmometer had been so high as 95 degrees at five o'clock in the morning. The Eu rpean troops suffered most severely from this state of the atmosphtlre no fewer than six men of the 67th regiment, and one of the ,Bth light dragoons, having died at Cawnpore in the course of.a single day (the 28th). Colonel Ada:•ns has been nominated to the cont mand of the force in the limalt country. Mean -u' „ • - a& . e g into c inenn.'fdr the tainy.ScaSbn. I {-)111-alot.-Uenefal Nightingale etnharked .at thi s . )stl'esidency on Thursday last, under the sialute ( I q e , to , Vis, rank: The Caroline yacht, with Maj° l '; General Nightingale on hoard, reached Diaroo ou harbour on Saturday, ana found there the IL C• cruizer Nearchus, Which' Conveys the Major- 6 ° . neral to Java. BRITISH ARMY IN FRANCB. EXTRACT OF A PRIVATE LETTER, DATED THE 714 INSt. NEAR BAYON'NE. " We have now here a-complete Flitter- coi n: paign. Soutzr is continually making moverneo t ; for ther.rpose of harassing our troops, but b never stirs without paying dearly for his temeritY'• The dispatches sent home by our illustrious chief .-p.rc, at all times so explicit, that it %road be pre, sumption iii An Officer of my rank, to atteltir , descrihing his great movements. • We are quartered in the numerous chateau'; and farm-houses in the neighbourhood offiayelln e , i our line extending four leagues from left to, The troops in excellent health, and most [leo"' fully supplied with every thing that can make tbe ° comfortable. • " Sir It. affair must have reached 9 0 ere this. I was present, and never witnessed a n y thing like the impetuosity . , the force, the pe.r s A e vering resolution with which our troops char and Continued to employ the•bayonet solely. T l% ; heights, of which the Freitch'had possessed selves, were literally covered with de;ul I myself saw 2470 of them interred in one trelge!: " Our out-posts are but a short mile Bayonne ; I trust We shall soon be in it. sure you it looks very handsom, and very telor.'.; ing frOm these heights, aid w cannot look 0 1 without wishing to get in. " fiord WZLLINGTON is at this moment, wbite write, fox -hunting; .1 hear the cry-'—he is in fig e of the French fortified camp, and thous.r.nds 3l f looking at him with their glas ses.--f-1e is a, Jo, extraordinary man. Yesterday he two, m anc eavrii!, on the right against - SouLT, anti to-day he is ft'' hunting close to his picquets on the left." Another letter front St. Jean de Luz, Jan. says, " Since the actions of the 9th, li.)!!y,' 12th, and .13th, the icit collinm has Ite(;1 deal employed in 'throwing tip forming batteries, about two miles front 'on the . roo4l - to Bayonne. The object of ths.; works is, I suppose, to give strength to our el', Ritions la case of any check on our ativoof, i fur -,I cannot think them designed as a s'ecti'', ( _against a general attack from th e enem y, a s have not shewn the least disposit ion to 4tet offensive since tEe battles- of the five days R 4 'though certainly starering ineonveniencies .present situation, which might tempt thel 9 hazard an action, with a-view to improve tl l , circumstances, if they could entertain any hol' 4 i. a successful result. The garris.on, and inlari ti tants of Bayonne in particular, l a b o ur 013 , 4 , many severe privations ; one of the most distre; i i, ing of which is, the extreme want of fire-1 09 0 the only fuel of this part. —Their commtaric ~ 4 . 5 , with the Pvcenevs, and the other woody 41:Isn':ill . tieing couipletely out off by the- British Ij4 alli e d forces, wild besides the comm an d o f' carriage roads, have also the power of it:text - oe, ing'tbc navigation of the `wive and the Adorn . , $" supplies of any extent c a n p ass i n t o the piacc. to The greatest want felt in the place, accordio4 of the best information we can collect, is 001 bread, 'or biscuit, a neeessaty, the privatioo,, f . which the French eau bear worse tha n any 014', people.. They.have corn and flou r , we arc 01 , _in considerable stdre ; but fro the want of foc i . 0 1 tram o bake, they cannot make it into satisfactory 1ne1. 05 sustenance:ln order to procure a li t tl e s'uppli or pressing use, they are obliged daily to pull dosOr i p houses for the purpose of c o nv ert i ng t h e woo ( ' the indispensable necessities of theircooktry• V e n WELLINGToN's 'head -quarters a r e st ill at S t• if , de .Luz. Our communication with Ettgla o , l 4 now frequent and regular, heyo n d any t hi n g t:;, s we have experienced since our first coiuing f° Peninsula ;. and this, 1 assure you, is a great P ie tifieation—for, besides the ple asu te o f our c ° D s stant domestic intelligence fron t our families, t eagerness with which w e l oo k f or th e neWspoPt - and devour their contents, is not to he deseri o , The talk between the army and the en em y, vd ) C• it i , ever the sentinels or officers find an opportau. ci for gosspin ,, at a civil distance, . which they I 'm very fond of, turns all on p eace .. The Fre',ll„'f make no disguise of their bei ng h eart il y titeliji, the war, and wishin;= very much for peace--' fleets, soldiers, people, all." SECRET CORRESPONDENCE. 1 1 Most of our R ea d ers are aware that so 111%; i documents, pretending to be official, are now nufactured and circulated in this country, that i t sy not easy to draw the line of distinction and de' v r s which are true—which are false. We have lettl )e from Sovereigns, an d m i nu t es o f con f erence s most private ; we have the secret articles of tr`','• o 0 ties before the public a r e we ll ascertained: 01 have the bases of negotiations, th e t er n 's ofr e , t o and rejected, • .proje'ts, and 'conitter-projks ,• AO „t fine, all that is c onnec t e d w ith the Goveingic'e . and intercourse of Enrope, however anxious ti, parties concerned are that they should he cone' l , ed. All these thi ng s a well-known ga ng of L i i j o principled foreigners, and sonic kindred inven ti or spirits in our own newspapers, soon lathoto --- o r forge, and they p ass t h roug h t h e w h ole o f' ° c public press as authentic ;.--;too senseless t° d r . 'contradicted by th ose w h o are b etter infortve they impose generally upon the British eva ders .British newspapers, and arc the source of. un' fi ' t E o gated scorn and con t em p t :to other countries which they may chance to travel, - Perhaps the matter is too serious for,joculari t i" but the following copy of a letter from Booll', J parte to the Emp eror o f A us t r i a , may be depeoato't upon as fully as genuine and original us most the compositions we lrhve alluded to : • stand take to takings I -.you throw my yourself and •e' ....... , • ifettbieb, being deeyphered, means, ~ 1 understand y o u undertake to ov e rthr o w my onder . likingi, to act yoni self over Ina,,, and make s an end of la'