The National Register.
London, England, 1814-12-11 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

prospect of peace. The evident inclinations of the Arnefi
can Government appear to he, to wait the result of the Con-
giess at Vienna, in hopes that it will not be favourable to
peace. Hence, they argue we shall have employment for
our troops in Europe, and be thus pieventcd sending the
armament necessary to give a dec.sive blow the other side of
the Atlantic. For, from sources upon which we can depend,
we learn, that not less than a reinforcement of 35 or 40,000

will be necessary.
A report has been brought in letters from Pa, is of the 3d,
stating the surrender of Gen. Drummond, after a sanguinary
action with the united troops of Genet°ls Brown and lzard.
The fidlovking postctii:t of a letter was extracsed at Lloyd's

yesterday :
After your !titer, or rather my letter to you, was written and
sealed yesterday, I received a !otter from which state',
that the Gustaces .-Jdo/phus arrived at the Isle of Ri.6 (which It ft
New York after the Fined?) brings adviecs that the British situeral
Drummond, with his whole corp rfarin6e, amonntin,,e* to 4000 men,
Surrendered prisoners of war to General Blown, at Niagara."
INow as we have never found the Paris Papers backward
in announcing any intelligence, that might be considered as
unpleasant to us, from America, it is strange that the above
disaster, stated in letters from Paris of the f;d, is not men-
tioned in any of the Paris Papers, either of that date, or of
the 4th, sth, or 6th. It is most likely this intelligence will
turn out to be nothing mote than that already known, that
General Drummond was closely followed to Chippawa, but
that he afterwards turned upon the enemy and drove them
back to Fort Elie.
The Liffey frigate arrived on Thursday at Portsmouth,
from Quebec, after a short passage of twenty days ; she
brought dispatches for Ministers front Sir G. Prevost and Sir
J. Yeo, and also ,'otters from thence to the 10th ult. and from
Montreal to the 5111. We ale sorry to say, they do toot con-
firm the reported capture of Sacketes Harbour, or of Chaun-
cey's sq;,ad,on. No attack had been made on them, our
fleet afcer foicing the enemy to retire to port for shelter, hav•
ing itself lice n occupied in conveying provisions, stors, and
military reinforcements, to Lieut.-Gen. Drummond, who
bad been placed by the junction of Brown and lzard in a
very precarious situation. On the 13th of October the
united forces of the American Generals, $OOO strong, made
an attack on our army at Chippawa, but were most gallantly
-repulsed. On the i 9!h following, a body of 1,500 Ameri-
cans, which bad Leen detached with a view to turn our
right, was also met and beat back with considerable loss.
This defeat compelled Generals Brown and Izard to fall bat k
on Fort Eiie, whither they were followid by Major-Generat
De Vt'atteville's division, which, however, found them too
strong!), posted to be attacked with any prospect of success.
Lieut.-General Drummond having been afterwaids reinforced
by 1500 men sent flora Kingston by Sir G. Prevost, it was
expected that I,e would shortly make an attempt to drive the
enemy from Fort Eric. Reports had, indeed, been received,
that the Americans had abandoned that post,. after blowing
tip the furtificati:ms, and bad pasted over the. chief part of
their forces to Buffaloe: but these statements were evidently
premature. Sir George Prevost, after having superintended
at Kingston all the necessary arrangements for reinforcing
General Drummond, had returned on the 4th ult. to Mon-
treat. Sir James Yeo possessed a complete ascendancy on
the Lake; but Chauncey was safely 'pooled in an unattack-
able position at Sackett's Harbour, where he evidently meant
to remain on the defensive, without risking any attempt to
come out and give battle.
Commodore Owen is named as the Officer who is to suc-
ceed Sir James Yeo in the command on the Lakes, who is
coining borne on account of his health.

DEC. Li.

li Posteript of a letter from a Gentleman in Dumbarton, to
a Gentleman in Edinburgh, dated Thursday, Ist December :
" The town of Greenock has been in a great bustle to-day,
oman apprehension of an immediate visit from Commodore
Rodgers' squadron , now believed to be in the Channel. The
militia have been called out, and. preparations for defence
making. An express having arrived from Admiral Sawyer,
on the Irish station, ammunition, shot, and shells, ate now
sendieg off clot.' the Castle to the new battery."
" After writing the above, we find that the report alluded
to has caused a greater sensation than we were aware of, the
garrison (4'04 city, in consequence of orders from Edin-
burgh, ate preparing to march for Greenock, and six anthill.:
nition waggons have just arrived here for the same destina-
tion : 150 militia arc also on their march from Edinburgh
for Greenock:2 •
The fir itish and German Officers absent on leave from our
army in Brabant, have received orders forthwith to j. in their
respective corps ; and some of them left town yesterday to
pursue their journey to the coast, to embark for that purpose.
Friday a Cabinet Council was held at the Foreign Office,
and in the evening Mr. Mctts, the messenger, was sent off
with dispatches to Lord Gambier, Mr. Goulburn, and Dr.
Adams, the Commissioners at Ghent.
f Early on Faiday, Mr. Pegler, King's Messenger, art ived at
i the Foreign Office, with dispatches from Lord k'astlereagh.
The nomination of Don Pedro Ccvallos as Prime Minister
of Spain, appears, by recent accounts, to have been attended
with the best effects, from the system of government being
altered. The state prisoners, such as Arguelles, &c. are al-,
ready allowed the communication of their friends, and ex-
pectations arc entertained of the suits ins • jutted against
them, being brought to a conclusion If not too late, this
cle:nge may have some effect on Spanish America.
An event took place in France on the 25th or 2Gth ult.
which is calculated to excite no small degree of curiosity
and astonishment. The Earl of Oxford, with Lady Oxford,
had been for some time at the Court of Murat, King of
Naples, where they were high in royal favour. His Lord-
ship came apparently on special business, both to London
and Paris, leaving his Lady at Naples. At Paris, on his way
back to Naples, it is said he boasted of being the bearer of
many very important letters ; be that as it may, on his de-
parture from the former capital, at the first post from Paris,
the Commissary of Police, Carninge, had been waiting fox
his Lordship between three and four hours. On his ap-
proach be accosted him with great civility, and requested
him to alight from his carriage, as he had an order to take
possession of his papers. The Noble Lord remonstrated
against the violence, but in vain. Ile was obliged to deliver
up all his papers. M. Carninge then told him he was at
liberty to pursue his route to Italy ; but the Noble Earl re-
turned to Paris, and complained to the Duke of Wellington,
who, on nelking representations to the French Government,
was told, Lord Oxford bad no light to carry so marry letters,
to tire injury of the revenue, and that all those addressed to
subjects of his Britannic sh.jesty should be forwarded, but
that those la the enemies of the French Government should
he detained. This last condition has excited some surprise
and speculation. Some think they are letters from English-
men to extraordinary characters in Italy, even to the Em-
peror of the isle of Elba, as well•as to his brother Lucien;
while others assert many letters have thus been obtained
from high French military characters, to Buonaparte and
others. Certain it is that more than the ordinary precau-
tions were taken in Paris immediately afterwards. On the
evening of the 50th November the gates of the Thatches
were shut before the usual hour; ball cartridges were deli.