The National Register.
London, England, 1813-11-28 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER,.

To CORRESPONDENTS —' A ,Layinate Hill find lijs last ob.ervap
tions duly attended to. ' Catholicii.; a ' Ctaistant Reader
Horace' are respectively finder conNideration.

We rejuice to be autherised t 9 state, that the par-egriph given in
Pdper, charging Sir John Btigges, Bart. with lelony, was totall
founded as fur us it respected that Gent:erna». It is a Mr. 'Briggs,
master's-ntaio of a ship, against whom, we understand, use (lir
.B,Pre preferred, who is in no way connected with Sir John ISrie,2e
mile. WV copied thee paragraph in question from The Ruth Chrone
%aids we eitoted at the time, and had we seen it contradioed before,
we should have hastened to insert the contradiction and ti heal a w'
► Inch we would never hrbve intentionally inflicted.

PRICE OF STOCKS YP,STERDAY.
3 per Cent. Con. ?, per Celt. Navy
3 per Cont. Ited t;044

THE NAT [O ti it EG ISTER.

Unbolt,
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 28.

CAPTURE 07 ST. JEAN DE LUZ.
It appears t 1: at winter has set in with unusual severity is
the Pyrenusts, as we find that instead of having pushed on tp
Bo? deaux. (as it was currently reported during the week on
the authority of a private letter }ruin Paris) our army has
been compelled to go into winter quarters. These were
previously improved, however, by the capture of the town of
St, Jean dc Luz after some severe opposition on the part of
the enemy. This intelligence was brought in three days
from Passages, as the following letter announces.
FAL:mm.llr, Nov. '24.—Arrived the Duke of Kent packet with ,
a mad trum Passant, in three days. By her we Faro, that Lord,
Wellington has taken the fort of St. Jean de Luz, with considerable
loss on our part, and that he was gone into winter quarters.

CAPTURE OF THE OUTWORKS OF DANTZIC.
Strong hopes are entertained that ere this the fortre,s of

Dantzic has capitulated. Accounts have reached town from
d tted the sth inst. which state,. that after all the
firmness displayed by General RAPP, in defence of Dant-
zic, that Officer's resolution had begun to waver, in con-
sequence of the multiplied di.nsters of the French armies.
and the rough treatment Ile had experienced from our tars
on the one band, and the besieging army on the other. On
the sth inst. lie had demanded a parley, which had been
granted, and the result was expected tohe, the capitulation of
the gar' icon. This is rende' ed still more probable by the
contents of Major M.Donald's dispatches given in yesterday's
Gazette. The filet is the most important, we therefore give
it at length.

o:iva, near Dautzie. Oct. 15.
The suburb of Ohra (where the enemy had established several
block-hott. es) as we:l as the hill which immediately commands it,
were attacked on the night of the 10th instant, by a force comho•ed
of Rusiian and Prussian troops. The hill was immediately cartied.
hot the I;lock• houses continued in the possession of the enemy tied
the foliouing evening, when, being set on fire. they were forced to
abandon them. The loss sustained by the troop: employed on this
occasion was severe, and may. I fear, be estimated at between tour
and five hundred men, killed and wounded. This is the only event
or any consequence which has occurred since I wrote your Lord.
shit► on the ist ►nstant.
The second is dated from the same place, Oct. 25th, and.
states, that batteries were erected on the hill captured as
tho 10th, which had continued to fire ever since the nbth,
on that part of the town called Speickler Inset, where it was
understood a .4quantit4 of provisions had been deposited.
A considerable part of t!me buildings had already been
Preparations were.nriking to open the 4rst parallel.

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liNtitisPitCheS from. Major MiDON A LI) are also dated OliVa.
Nov. 4th, and state, that the enemy had been driven from
the Stolienherg, only 600 yards from the ravelin of 7:shof-
gberg, and that it was eNrecied he would lose the same even-
ing two redoubts which he lad hitherto occupied in advance
of that work.
It is probable that these redoubts were carried' the same
evening. and that the loss of these defences induced Gene 7
val on the following day, to propose terms of capi-
tulation.

WAR IN CANADA.
Whilst fortune smiles on our arms in every quarter of
Europe, the brilliancy of our first successes in Canadabegins
to be clouded, and the Americans, taught by their defeats,
have now brought a mass of regular force, without reckoning
the militia, which more than trebles our own, and which they
have skilfully distributed. The destruction of our flotilla on
Lake Elie, though as honourable to the conquered as to the
victors, from the circumstances under which it was effected,
(when not a single officer remained in the British squadron .
unincapacitated by death or wounds from leading our men)
has greatly cant' ibuted to turn the chances of the war against
us. This event is detailed in dispatches from Lieut.-Gen.
Sir G. Prevost, dated Ireatl quarters; Montreal, October Sth,
which appeared in last night's Gazette. The following are
.their only important passages, and will give, if not a satis-
factory, at least a clear picture of the state of affairs in that
quarter.
On reaelling Montreal, (Oct. 25th) I learnt, that Major-General
Hampton, with about 5000 regular troops of' infantry. and some
artillery and ray:illy, had, after approaching close to the -Fontier
`line, near Ohl town, and overpowering one of our small piequets
in that •neighbourhood, suddenly moved with his whole force to the
westward, and was encamped at a place called the Four Corners, •
war the Chateatigay river..
Meamtres had been, in the wan time, taken, by Major-General
Sir Roger Sheath, commanding in this district, to resist the advance.
of the enemy, by moving the whole of the troops under his.com-
tuand nearer to the frontier line, and by calling out at:ont 31)00 of
the sedentary militia. Lthought it necessary to increase this latter
firm to nearly 8000, by embo lyinit the %dude of the sedentary mi-
litia twin the frontier, this being in addition to the six battalions
of .incorporated militia, amounting to live thousand nea ; and
it is svitll peculiar satisfaction I have to report to your laard•
ship, that his M:desty's Canadian Fultivets have a second
time answered the call, to arm in defence of their country.
with a zeal and alacrity beyond all praise, and which Mani-
fi,:ts in the strmigest manner their loyalty to their Sovereign,
• and their cheersil obedience to his commands. The force now as.
stmbled by the enemy at different prints, for the purpose of invad•
big tho.e provinces, is-greater than at any other period during the
war: M ijor-Ociteral Harrison has under him at Sandusky, on the
frontier ot the Michigan territory, about 8,000 men. ready to avail
himself of the alr:ulute command lately obtained by their navy on
Lake Lily, to advance upon Detroit and Amliersthurg. MajOr-Gc-
nerd NVitkinon coannautis at Fort George and Niagara, with a
force ammintimg to nearly 6,500 men; and Majoi.General Ilampton
with a I,rce untkr his cominand, which by the last accounts had
been increased, and amiamtant, probably, to about 11,000 men, is 011
this frontier. I hate reason to think, that the whole of the above
force, amounting to '26,oi)t) men, consists of regular troops, and is
*AO nine of 10,0;.:0 militia, which either have or arc in readiness to
:tuin.therm"
Sir G EORG r. then expresses his regret, that his applica-
tion to Admiral NV R f9r a further supply of seamen
for the lake ..,(3rvice, which he dispatched in a duplicate last
Jutie, should have b en so long in reaching him, as not to
ire ac .0 Pon until more thin two months afterwards. To
• this delay in a great measure he attributes the melancholy fate
of our strudron 0.1 Lake Et ie. On the it3d September Ge-
tieral PnocTo it was still at Sandwich, but it was expected
would be con, yelled to retire towards the head of Lake On.
Cotnmodote Sir J. V £O, Who had wiled on the Wth

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September, convoying transports to the head of the Lake,
where they 'safely arrived on the 25t1t, on the 48th fell
in with Commodore CHAUNCEY'S fleet, which, having the
advantage of
,the wind, chose its owit distance, and after a
running action of three hours, succeeded in cai lying off the
main and mizen topmasts of the Wolfe, which rendered her
unmanageable befoie a wind, and compeled Sir J. ItFo to
retire and cast anchor off Burlingtin Ile:gh's, where the
enemy, notwithstanding the advantage he had gained, dared
not follow him. On anchoring, the fore-top-mast of the
Royal George went over, but the other ve3suls received no
material injury, and the loss of men was so inconsiderable
that Sir JAMES d:cl not even mention it. Commodore
CHAUNCEY sailed again on the Ist October, to convoy a
flotilla, carrying regular troops, and destined for Sackett's
Harbour. Sir J. Y EC) iinthediately sailed in pursuit,
d: ter-
mined to force him, if, possible, to a general engagement,
and thus to restore out superimity on the Lakes.

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