The National Register.
London, England, 1814-10-02 00:00:00

rutiily for a regale at the P. Lace ; and even the ice prepair,i foe
enniiiiz their wine ; ail of 'inch our incendiaries availed tLeuriehes
befoie they tired the houtie.

Had the Americans hem] given four and twenty hours more time,
it miglit hare mailea serious ilifference, as the troops were joining
every moment. The action was a sharp one, and we lost a good
many. The General (Ross) h;.d two horses killed under hint ; anti
the Admiral his stirrup shot away and his knee bruised. Au Ame-
rican ()Meer hasi been on board us with a tleg of truce, and cunt.
plains bitterly of our rockets.
The half-printed paper* you find enclosed I took my.elf from tlist
p.ress of the I:A[l),ms Republican Printer, Mr. Joe Gide. He will laanc%a
i;o more thundeis al us ; for we broke his essoblishment up, and scat-
tered pe and sheets to the AA ide winds—Gale's uccupat :on's gone!
I write from one of the rivers cmpOng, itsel into the mighty Chessr.
; nil the waters of this country are on H gvird4oale, hod militate
the.Youkies, with such a salt.Asatrr enemy al they End in us. I
to not know whether the army is destine 4 to :my •Intiter cxpeditioei
'his mason; perhaps not, for the unhualthy .porit.d is come; rind be-
; %ides, the General will most likrly, MI ,o •tinall a for, e ours really
is, be unwilliug to hazard any alloy to so brilliant a stroke as he Las just
eifected.

Tl:ts cori,ins leletnent is the Tvmpnn sheet of the last Washington
Jonrnal. It slims. the agitvion of. the place, and confu-ion of tine
press, whAst the enemy was at their gates.

BRITISH ATTACK ON PORT ERIE.

(oFriciAL ACCOUNT.)

Fleaiittariers, Ow? E. fore Fort Fri!, Avg.. 12, 1814.
Clir,NtiltAt. Otrutsa.—Lient. General Drummond congratulates
this nay •u the brilliant achievement exc•euted last night by Capt.
nobles, of the Royal Navy, and a paity of seamen . and marines,
who, in the most tall:oat styie, bladed, and, after a short struede,
tatried two or the enerny's armed schooner., anchored *dose to Fort
Erie. Accident alone rrrventell the c:ipktne of Hie- third schooner;
tlro:e captirred are the Biters and •Poreniiiur, the former mounts
Ur() 10ri7,. I .f.-ponialers, and thc littler one 11— They were com-
fit mdeti oy Licutenithts, and had on hoard 55 men each.
The Lientcoant General laments to ficd that Lieutenant Rad-
clille, commander of hi'. Miksty's schooner Ailetley. Las fallen oa
this occa-ion ;he was kilie I in the act of boat d: a.;:. He will be
bulled at twelve o'elt,ck„ with well marks of respect as cimans-
stances will permit ; besides Mr. Radcliffe, our 10,5 leas been one
seamati kill, d and four wounded. The enemy's loss is one seatitAil
killtl, th.'re officers and four seamen wounded. The whole enter-
priz:r reft.'rt.:i the highest credit on the ability and spirit of Clpitia
Dobbs, and the gallant party under his command.
i (Signed) J. HARVEY, Lieut. Colonel,
Deputy Adjutant General.

Ifrad-Quarters, Montreal, stk Avg.
GENERAL Orenrtz.-111 •primuli.ating• to the troops an extract
frnni• a I)hariet General Order, issued by Livia-timid General
Drummond, to the right division of this army, in consequence of
the capture of two of the enemy's seltooner*, couperating in the
cletenre of the eitenty*4 poritinti at :Fort Erie, the Commander of
the Vorees avails himself of the opportunity it presents, to ac-
, knovv ',edge the high sense he entertains of the.valukble
service rcu-
dered to the right division by Captain Dobbs of the Royal Navy,
and the Officers and.seameat of the vessels placed under his coal-
:nand, for art: purpoge, by C:Antnodore Sir James Yeo.
This evcnt, so ably riatmeel and so gallantly executed, was fol-
lowed by a general attack of the enemy's fells and tuttenchmeots.
Laid. (;elieral Drunimond reports, that the spirit with which
it was undertake:l, eimbled oar troops to surmount every olisricle:
Fort Ft is awl the etitrenchments were entered, the guns turned on
the Itarr,kel-, Mock le use (the envitiv'i refuge), hen ourorto-
ttatvly, a, west vruienr evilfision occurred on (1w battei y, in its
effeet destroying Mal di,abling many a valuable officer and soldier,
f-iteii a consternatien, av to iteliire the remainc:g troops
to nbandott the woiks, and ;ill those a.ivanta,ges hieli they had
gained by chterinitied conduct, and preeigitately to retire to
our first arp-o..clies.
From ether (mines, ahrevt inseparable from night operatious
carrying nil in a Anne and difliceit country, the right cobunii tailed
1, in t'
se rie objet it hat.l to nceempliAt.
11 With deep terzret the Cuter:lm(ler of the Forces recortlo less
his Majeati's service has scstained on this occasion.

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