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We learn 'from the Western Herald of the 20th inst., that
1,500 pirates, under command of Polish officers, were in Put-
in-Bay Island, some distance below Amherstburg ; that 500
armed men were last week seen in Ypsilanti, and that large
numbers were in the interior of Michigan, waiting to pounce
upon us. It is said that General Brady, with a military force,
has gone to disperse the pirates in Put-in-Bay. This dispers-
ing, however, we regard as fudge. The American Govern-
ment is, beyond all doubt, preparing for war. Ten thousand
stand of arms had arrived at Detroit; what for?

The Bealonian states that two steamers and a number of
schooners have left that port, full of pirates, for the head of
Lake Erie. The providence of the American Government
has been great—great store of arms awaits them at Detroit.
(From the Gaboury Star, Nev. 27).
Captain Graham, R. N., commanding the Coboury (armed)
,;tcam-boat, has been cruising during the past week between
Presque Isle and Windsor Bay for protection of our coast
against any contemplated movements of the Sympathisers in
,his quarter. This is an excellent precaution, and should be
continued while the harbours remain open ; so that the
,coundrels may not have a chance of landing at any point in
sentity. _ _

Major Elliot marched into Coburg on Saturday last with near
a hundred fine fellows from Cavan (volunteers for six months),
to be stationed here. Another hundred are expected shortly
from the same quarter ; which, with Captain Clark's company,
and the Rifles, who are also on duty, will constitute an effec-
ive force of about 350 men.

We learn with sincere regret that the Rev. Butler, the
touch-respected Catholic clergyman of Peterboro' died on
Saturday last in that town, from the effects of a severe fall
he had a short time since from the scaffolding of a new house
ie was erecting.
(From a Correspondent of the New York Whig.)
MONTREAL, DEC. 5.-1 stated in my last that the Court-
Niartial was adjourned till to-day. I was misinformed, it
opened yesterday at the usual time. The prisoners beginning
,heir defence, they handed in a protest, denying the com-
petency of the Court to try them, which was rejected by the
President of the Court, Major-General Clitheroo. One wit-
ness was brought up for the prisoners, to prove that they had
been forced into the rebellion, was asked where one of the pri-
soners was taken to; who replied he was taken to the camp,
i.e ,at the house occupied by another of the prisoners 1 The
witnesses brought forward by the prisoners have proved nothing,,
in fact, it is only to gain time, in hopes something may turn up
in their favour; though I believe the case will be decided
fay. All those who have heard the evidence are of but, one
opinion—the prisoners are guilty.
MONTREAL, DEC. G.—The trial of Cardinal is closed, and
the case has been taken en deliberie by the Court-martial_
The result is not known.

(From the Montreal Herald, Dec. 6.)
The Court-martial at Kingston commenced its sittings. en
the 28th ult., in Fort Henry, and sits daily from ten to four,
as the Court does here. On that morning Daniel George, of
Jefferson County, said to have been Paymaster of the Ame-
rican forces, was put on his trial, which closed on the follow-
ing forenoon, when he requested to be allowed till Saturday,
to prepare his defence, in which he is assisted by Mr. J. A..
M'Donald, Advocate. After his trial %AI closed on the
•)9tli ultimo, Neil S. Von Shoults, the Polish General, was
brought up, and pleaded guilty to the, charge brought against
The Kingston Chronicle. *says that Shoultz is a native
,f Poland, aged 31, of prepossessing appearance, that his fa-
ther was Major of arogiment of Cracow—that he emigrated
to the United States in 1836, and resided at Salina in Ohon-.
dago County, N. Q. Another American brigand, Dorett.ing
Abbey, was put on his trial on St. Andrew's Day, but the
case had not closed when the Chronicle went to press,
The Court-martial met on Tuesday morning, when the
evidence in favour of the prisoners was brought forward, and
continued doting the greater part of yesterday, when it was
closed, and will be summed up this day at eleven o'clock ;
after which, the members of the Court will deliberate as to the
verdicts and sentences against each ar.d all of the prisoners.
Messrs. Drummond and Morreau have acted as their Counsel,
but on Tuesday and yesterday they had the assistance of A.
P. Elart, Esq., who has been retained for the purpose of afford-
Mg every legal advantage to them.
In giving place to the following letter from our corre-
spondent at Canada, we cannot withhold the expression of our
hope that the account it gives of another banditti itivasircu of
the British province is either untrue or grossly exaggerated.
If General Brady was in sufficient force to have pmvented it,
and we have ample proofs that he does not lacti the inclina-
ion, but of this we are somewhat apprehensive. Our cor-
respondent's statement is confirmed by slips from Buffalo papers,
which even go so far as to say that their information is derived
from a person wlio left Sandwich after the battle.
It will P':,arcely be credited here that meetings are called at
Buffalo and in other places on the frontier, of citizens op-
posed to the neutrality law."
(Corespondence of the Courier and Enquirer.)
BUFFALO, DEC. 8,1838.—8 y the steam-boat Wisconsin,
which arrived here this morning from "up the Lake," we
have further accounts of " Patriot movements upon the De-
troit frontier. The story is, that a patriot force of some bun-
, dreds—variously estimated at from three to nine hundred_
crossed the river from Detroit, a few days ago, and attacked
the detachment of British regulars, and black and. white militia,
at Windsor, immediately opposite Detroit., whom they de-
feated, with the loss of some forty sixty killed and
wounded—when they immediately hi::rned the barracks, and
some other buildings used for public purposes, and then
marched upon Sandwich, about three miles below, which
place they also captured, after dispersing the black militia
stationed there, havi:,g, on their way down from Windsor,
destroyed the British steam-boat Thames, which was lying
at a wharf a short distance below that village.
Rumour further says that about 300 Canadian militia joined
the insurgents, and the whole body, to the number of 10,000
or 12,200, 'were marching down upon Amherstburgh and
Malden, which villages, it was believed, they would also tak
possession of.

That some part of the report is true I cannot doubt. The
crossing over of a body of invaders—the capture of Windsor
and Sandwich—and the burning of some buildings at those
places, and the steam-boat, are undoubtedly facts. The rest
of the story, as you will most likely see it in print, I rather
guess is but leather and prunella." The finale will un-
doubtedly be as at Prescott.
But what is all this to end in ? Who are the instigators of
these lawless proceedings ? For my part I cannot see how
the English Government can regard these repeated invasions
from our borders in any other than an angry mood. They are,
at least, calculated materially to disturb the good feeling exist-
ing between that Government and ours. And indeed I am fully
inclined to the belief that this is the sole object sought for by
the cowardly miscreants who are setting on foot these expedi-
tions, and by their false representations and specious arguments,
beguiling the thoughtless, though daring and outrageous young
men, upon our widely-extended frontier—now but imper-
fectly guarded by United States troops—in deeds which can
under no circumstances at present existing, be justified, and
which must, if persisted in, inevitably end in war between
England and the United States. The writer of this was once
told, in March last, in a public bar-room in Albany, in the pre-
sence of several Members of the Legislature, by time vagabond
Mackenzie, that the sole object of the friends of Canadian in-
dependence, on both sides of the line, was to involve the
United States in a war with Great Britain, since they had
failed of success at revolution within themselves. " And,"
continued this poor and miserable agitator, " we have got the
matter handsomely under way. We will have you and England
by the ears in less than two years, in spite of all the enemies
of free government in Canada and in this Union can do to
prevent it !" Verily, it would seem that what I then thought
to be but a vain boast of a contemptible renegade, a cowardly
runaway from a storm of his own raising—is likely to become
history, unless our Government bestirs itself with an energy
commensurate with the crisis before us.

The lower part of the lake is yet open ; but naviplion in
the upper part is put an end to. Ice that cannot be I;enetrated
is formed as low down as the Put-in-Bay Islands, at least.
The Wiscousin proceeded no farther than Heron.
GENERAL ORDER.
(From the Montreal Herald of Dec. 6)

" Adjutant-General's Office, Toronto, 24th Nov. 1838.
" The Lieutenant. Governor and Major-General command-
ing, feels much pride in congratulating the brave and gallant
militia of Upper Canada, upon the distinguished conduct of
the officers and men engaged in the destruction and capture
of the piratical force in the vicinity of Prescott, and upon the
triumphant result of the contest—to which the zeal, devotion,
and bravery of the militia, who spontaneously and readily came
forward, greatly contributed.

" Nearly connected with this victory thus gained in Upper
Canada, its brave militia have to remember the courage and
alacrity displayed by the portion of its force which has recently
moved against the rebels in the Lower Province.
" The Lieutenant-Governor cannot too strongly express
his approbation of the loyal exertions of the militia, in the
eastern section of the province ; or his firm reliance on the
same spirit, should the treacherous enemy offer opportuniti
for its display, in the middle and western portion; of the colon
•‘ The Lieutenant-Governor in making public the list of the
regular troops and militia, killed and wounded in the attack
aed overthrow of the piratical force in the neighbourhood of
Prescott, expresses his deep heartfelt sorrow for the loss of
many of valuable lives, and his cordial sympathy with the
bereaved families of the gallant men who have nobly fallen
in their country's cause. His Excellency, in thus expressing
his own feelings, is assured that they are those of the whole
]oval community; and that fron the breast of every Upper

Canadian, will proceed a sigh of sorrow for the departed
gallant spirits, whilst the universal desire will be indulged,
that their widows and children should be the objects cf the
tender care and paternal protection of the Government and
the Legislature.
" The result of this treacherous and piratical expedition
thus happily defeated, incontrovertibly proves that felons and
brigands must expect to have faithless and cowardly leaders
.--that those who are most active in tempting others to crime i
are the most ready to abandon them to destruction ; and it s
accordingly seen, that the false and double traitors who in-
duced a body of strangers to invade in arms a peaceful
country, have themselves remained in safety, prepared, pro-
bably, to delude new victims, but always ready to avoid
new consequences, which they well know must await them, if
they personally dare the contest with the injured people of
Upper Canada.
" Her Majesty's regular troops and the gallant militia, have
proved each other as brothers in arms—they have once more
fought side by side—they have bled and died together—their
Patriotic Example will not be forgotten in Upper Canada,
and their blood is not, and shall not, be shed in vain on the
ground which they have so nobly defended. That blood will
extinguish every kindly feeling, and will rouse to arms every
loyal Upper Canadian.
"The Lieut.- Governor cannot forbear, in terms of commen-
dation, to allude to the services of the militia which moved upon
Kingston, at the first notice of the presence of a foreign enemy,
and which enabled the officer commanding to detach a portion
of his garrison to ensure the complete overthrow of the enemy.
His Excellency holds this prompt and zealous conduct of the
militia in the vicinity of Kingston, up as an example to their
comrades throughout the province, and assures them of his
conviction, that it only requires an exhibition of the same true
and loyal feeling in all parts of the country, to ensure the over-
throw of the public enemy, and long continued years of peace
and prosperity
(By command) " RICHARD BULLOCK,
" Adjutant-General Militia."

ARREST OF MR. STEPHENS.

(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)
Staleyblidge, Jan. 1, 1838
STATE OF THE MANUFACTURING DISTRICTS.

ASHTON-UNDER- LYNE.—As every circumstance connected
;vith the arrest of Mr. Stephens must have an intense interest
at the present crisis, I take the liberty of sending you an out-
line of the proceedings of the people, in the neighbourhood,
when they ascertained the fact of his apprehension. You
cr.nnot conceive the intensity of the people's feelings upon the
matter. Theylare up and doing in all the localities;; every-
where there is exhibited the most splendid proofs
.of
the people's devotedness and attachment to their patriotic and
tried friend, Mr. Stephens. Yet all is done peaceably—tran-
quillity reigns in all their proceedings—not the slightest dis-
position to commit a breach of the peace has been manifested,
and the people have unanimously agreed to conduct their de-
liberations with propriety, and prove to their enemies how much
they have been misrepresented. On Thursday evening pub-
lic meetings were held in Ashton and Staleybridge. At Ash-
ton, the Charletown meeting-room was filled to suffocation,
and thousands had to return home unable to gain admission,

Messri. Higgins, Johnson, Fenton, Wilde, and others addressed
the meeting, which manifested its love for Mr. Stephens, by
coming to the resolution of providing him with the ablest Coun-
sel, to afford him all the legal information connected
..vith the case. At Staleybridge, King-street Chapel, was
crowded to excess. Mr. Benton occupied the chair, and Mr.
Deegan cautioned them not allow their feelings to lead them
to the commission of any impropriety, as it would injure the
cause of Mr. Stephens. The people have acted upon the ad-
vice, and the consequence is, that we are calm and tranquil,
i.otwithstanding the incitements of our enemies, to make us
otherwise. On Friday evening, when the proceedings ter-
minated at the New Bailey, Messrs. Deegan, Hobson, Duke,
Williamson, and Hawley returned to Ashton, and on their way,
four miles from the town, they met with tens of thousands, anxious
to learn the fate of Mr. Stephens. When they arrived at Henry-
square, the people rent the air with their acclamations when
they were informed that Mr. Stephens was to be liberated on
hail. This was at 10 r. m., and the people simultaneously de-
manded a public meeting. Mr. Deegan then addressed them
from the windows of the Bush Inn, in Stamford-street, but
an adjournment to the Market-place was immediately called
for ; to which place the immense crowds directed their steps.
Mr. Aitkin was appointed Chairman, and Mr. Deegan gave
them a brief account of the day's proceedings.
The people's cheers for their revered Pastor were long con-
tinued and tremendous. About midnight the meeting dis-
persed, and all returned peaceably to their respective abodes.
The inhabitants of the district intended to escort Mr. Ste-
phens to his home on Saturday, accompanied by several bands
of music, and placards to that effect were plentifully posted.
Mr. Stephens, however, declined the honour of a triumphant
public entry into Ashton, as ho was then in the hands of the
law, and as he did not intend to address the people, publicly,
until he had obtained his freedom. .

A public meeting was held, at six o'clock, on the marke
ground, at which not less than 15,000 persons were present,
Mr. Samuel Hawley. a respectable shopkeeper in the chair.
He recommended the people, in; forcible terms, to preserve
the peace.
Messrs. Higgins, Deegan, Johnson, Wilde, and others ad-
dressed the meeting, and resolutions were passed appointing
a Committee to collect subscriptions, to employ Counsel to
assist in the defence of Mr. Stephens. On Sunday, Mr. Ste•
phens preached, according to plan, in the afternoon, at Staley-
bridge, and in the evening at Ashton. At Staleybridge the
chapel was in danger, from the immense congregation as-
sembled.
At Ashton, the room in which he preaches, which is com-
puted to hold 1,600 persons, was crowded an hour before the
time for service to begin, and so many thousands had come to
hear him that the Trustees of the building were apprehensive
that the place would come down. Hundreds came from Old-
ham, four miles distant, and from Middleton, eight miles.
An adjournment took place, therefore, to the Market Ground,
and more than 10,000 persons had the pleasure of hearing
their unflinching friend and benefactor. At both the services
Mr. Stephens spoke in tho manner he usually does in the dis-
charge of his ministerial duties, and said not a word that could
by possibilty be construed to refer to his present position.
His auditors were bathed in tears ; many a brave-hearted man
sobbed aloud, so affecting was the eloquence of the gifted and
heaven-favoured Stephens.
Last night there was a public meeting in Staleybridge, and
a collection made to the amount of 101., which was handed to
Mr. Stephens. There was also a splendid tea party at Hyde,
at which place Mr. Stephens was present. 1,200 tickets
were sold at a shilling each, and more than 500 applied who
could not procure any. The room was decorated with ever-
greens, and adorned with numerous portraits of eminent
political characters, amongst which those Of Messrs. Oastler and
Stephens were most conspicuous. Several flags were placed
round the walls, bearing suitable inscriptions from the Book
of God. When Mr. Stephens spoke, the cheering with which
he was greeted was tremendous. The whole country is in a
ferment. There was a great meeting at Leigh on Friday
night, more than 5,000 persons attending. They passed reso-
dons declaring themselves ready for the worst, but resolved to
do nothing rashly. At a great number of places, in fact the
whole of the towns have expressed their readiness (if the
Council of the Manchester Political Union should deem it
expedient) to leave work, and go in procession on Thursday
to Manchester, to exhibit their irresistible moral power.
Hundred of prayer meetings are being held, to supplicate the
God of Heaven to overshadow Mr. Stephens with his benign
influence, and deliver him from the hands of his foes. You
may rest assured that the people are determined to shed the
last drop of their blood, rather than allow Mr. Stephens to be
sacrificed by his enemies.
( From the Times.)
Manchester, Wednesday Morning, Jan. 2.
Government, relying on the authority of the Manchester
Guardian, which reiterated its assertions, sent down Sir F.
Roe, Mr. Phillips, of the Home-office, Mr. Maule, solicitor to
the Treasury, and Mr. E. Chadwick, of Somerset-house, with
several Bow-street officers, to Manchester, where they re-
mained for some days, running " from pillar to post," con-
sulting Colonel Wemyss, the constables, local Whig Ma-
gistrates, &c. The result of their investigation was a belief
that they had discovered a regularly arranged plot, on the
part of Mr. Stephens, Mr. Oastler, Dr. Fletcher, of Bury,
and the leading agitators of the district, seriously to set
on fire the whole of the factories, if not to burn to the
ground the whole of the town of Manchester. In Ashton-
under-Line depositions were taken by the local Magistrates
in secret, and under a promise to the parties that their
names should not he divulged. All the disposable troops
were immediately marched into the district; the 20th being
sent from Weedcm, and two troops of Dragoons from Ireland.
Examinations also took place at Hyde. In the neighbourhood
of Ashton no fewer than 1,000 special constables were imme-
diately sworn in (to whom 300 were added on Monday last,
their ;umrnonses having been issued on Sunday); in Leigh not
less than 1,400, and so in proportion throughout the district.
With respect to the prosecution itself, it is somewhat re-
markable that neither the Magistrates of Manchester, Wigan,
Bury, Bolton, Rochdale, nor Oldham, have been induced to
interfere, Mr. Stephens having in all those towns repeatedly
addressed the populace in the most inflammatory harangues,
which had been duly reported in the newspapers ; and that,
instead of a charge for sedition or treason, founded, for in-
stance, on his speech at the torchlight meeting in Bury, after
such assemblages had been declared illegal by Mr. Under-
Secretary Phillipp's letter, and when Mr. Stephens openly
defied the Government, some six weeks'. old expressions at a
country village, which have never appeared in print, no
reporter having been present, should, on a common deposition
before a Magistrate and his clerk, be made the formidable
Liais of a mere misdemeanour. The warrant (which is said
to be illegal) we understand was to have been executed with-
out the knowledge of the proper local functionary. Mr.
Owen, however, the deputy-constable of Ashton, insisted on
discharging the duties of his office, by which means, probably,
a serious riot was prevented, and Mr. Stephens at once sur-
rendered himself into the hands of the law as he was walking
from Ashton to Manchester in company with a friend. They
entered a house and showed him the warrant, on which Mr.
Stephens said, " I protest against these proceedings, but you
bear what has the appearance of a legal document, and I am
your prisoner. I base but one favour to ask, and if it be com-
Fatible with the discharge pf your duty, I shall be obliged
if you will grant it me. I have ss wife, whom I have left ex-
pecting my return; she is sick, and may be very much alarmed
she hear of this sudden arrest from any other person than
myself. Mr. Owen may accompany me, and I will be with
you again in half an hour." This the officers, after consult-
ing together for a few minutes, refused, saying that Mrs.
...Stephens might proceed in a coach to meet Mr. Stephens at
the York Hotel in Manchester, where they would be happy
to allow her to have an interview with him. Mr. Stephens
- a'd that was impossible, as her state of health was such as
to render it dangerous for her to travel even so short a dis-
tance, and then, calling for pen, ink and paper, he wrote a
letter to his wife, and begged the officers to proceed in the
discharge of their duty.
The impression is that the amount of bail demanded was
excessive for a case of a mere misdemeanor, and the objec-
tions made to the parties who tendered it do certainly ap-
pear somewhat extraordinary. The sum was 2501., and
both sureties were known to be worth thousands. On Satur-
day, when the bail was given, Mr. Kenworthy was in court
ready to receive it, but the instrument requiring the names of
two justices, and Mr. Garnett happening to be on the bench,
he was asked so sign the document, but he at first refused ;
s ving, " Oh, no, Mr. Kenworthy, it is your case, I will have
nothing to do with it :" on learning, however, that it was a
:mere matter of routine, and that Mr. Stephens's liberation
d, pended on it, he consented to put his name to it.
When Mr. Stephens was released, a great many of his
friends were waiting to cheer him ; but, desiring to avoid all
sstentation, he got into a hackney coach and drove to the
`litre Inn. Mr. Oastler here addressed his friends, who had
arrived from the different towns in South Lancashire, en-
treating that they would forbear any manifestation in Mr,
Stephens's favour in their several localities, s.S the only way
in which they could serve him was by being peaeareakers.
They promised they would do so, and pnt a stop, if possible
to the various meetings contemplated throughout the district
in the evening. Mr. Stephens was in the hands of British
law, which was powerful as a roaring lion in asserting the in-
nocence of those who were not guilty, as it was in punishing
the psrjured witnesses who had appeared against him. He
begged' they would not expect Mr. Stephens to address one
ord to them, in st.L.'.'se name he returned them thanks for the
kind feeling they had show::: He particularly requested they
would allow Mr. Stephens and lat.;:::If to leave immediately,
as every moment was under the circumstances' of consequence
to Mr. Stephens, and without any of them following,
as no-
thing could be more improper or unpleasant to their friend's,
feelings than anything like commotion in the streets of Man-
chester.

Accordingly they all remained in the inn, while Mr. Oastler
And Mr. Stephens walked away unobserved, hired a coach, and
drove off to Dukinfiold.

It is a singular fact, winle it is creditable to their delicacy
of feeling, that however eager his friends were to see him on
Lis return, so careful were they not to implicate him by any
personal demonstration, or intrude upon the brief leisure
Which the interval between his liberation and approaching trial
allowed for the affecting duties of his domestic circle, that
not a single individual in the whole of the Ashton district
called to make any inquiry at his house.
STALEYBRIDGE. _ . .

Mr. Stephens (who, our readers should know, has three
chapels under his immediate charge, with twenty-six assistant
preachers, whose appointments, together with his own, are
indicated to the public by a quarterly printed plan, as among
the Wesleyans) kept his appointment on Sunday afternoon
at this place. The chapel was crowded to excess, and the
street leading to it was filled with persons, who found it im-
possible to gain admittance. He preached in his usual man-
ner, as though officiating in a ministry which had never been
interrupted, and never once making the remotest reference to
the subject of his apprehension.
In the evening Mr. Stephen. proceeded to Ashton, to fulfil
his appointment in that town. He was, however, met on his
way by a messenger, who informed him that in consequence
of the immense crowds congregated around the place, the
chapel itself being filled to suffocation an hour bole."' the time
of preaching, the trustees, alarmed for the safetrt-f tee people
and building, had adjourned the congregation to the market-
place, where the services were conducted in the usual way ;
which, in the stillness of the night, and beneath the chastened
light of the moon, the vast multitude preserving the most reve-
rential silence, had a very imposing and solemn effect. There
were certainly not less than 10,000 persons present on this oc-
casion. The subject of Mr. Stephens's discourse was the au-
thority of the Word of God in all matters of faith and practice
in the supremacy of the Divine will, against which there could
be r. 3 appeal, either in man's private, social, or political relations.
He said he was a man of one book ; onitheWord of God he would

take his stand. By that Word all actions must be weighed, to that
standard all laws must be brought, and no earthly power could
of right set up any authority against it. Whoever did so set
himself up in the stead of God, was the anti-Christ of Scrip-
ture, as such was fighting against God, and by all who be-
lieved in God was steadfastly to be resisted. The New Poor
Law was introduced as an illustration of this great point. He
solemnly denounced God's curse upon the people of Ashton if
they ever suffered that law to be established amongst them;
and God's blessing, he said, would rest on them if they refused
to allow it to come within their borders.