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up by, his Majesty's iklitiisters, when should
.‘ye have found au end to the clamour .biledt:
croaehmtmts on the liberty of the; Press
After 'this say and a street- at the relii;ibus spi;it
of bi 3 country, tt;o unnaturally forced forward
not to be liable to thellqutation of a wish to
embroil us. with a Catholic people, the coMment
ends with the-general salvo—" That all this must
be an audacious falselit;o4l." Th4t it was such,
-and that he was convinced of its being so; there
can be no doubt; but that' be was eager to'gife it
all the publicity and probability in his 'powert, is
to me equally obvious. Whether he shall be
taught to feel further respect for the duties of a
public writer by the hand justice, or left to the
slow and almost hopeless correction of pnblie con-
tempt, is,.ailuesiion. with winch I have but slight.
concern ; it is sufficientfor me that 'leis marked,
aid that if tile Ceortes should demand retribution
`for their insulted•honour, they know from whose
person it ib to be exacted.--I am, Sir,

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CCELTUS.

Floml'lTE LONDON GA 411Yrl'Ea, Nov. 13, 1318

•
COLONIAL DiPARTMENT. •
Downing-street. NOM i 1, ,
Dispatch, of whieh ,the following is on extract; was tilts
day received tiY Earl BArttunsy, 41U11 Or [lig Mal'esty'r Prin-
- oripal Seeretnries. of State, train Lient,m:int-Gentral Sir (4;
l'ocvosT, tart. cotrunantlinn• his Majesty's Forces in North
Anwrica.
• Head-quarters, St. David's; riagara Frontier, Aug. 25.
)Major-(General Prager having gieen way to the
clamour of, our lutlian- allies., to vet offeueivelv,
Mover' forward on the 20th tilt. with about 350
men of the 41styegiment, and between Aree mid
four thousaudA.nctiatis; and on the .211 [net. at-
tempted to carry, hyassaelt, the bloek-houstis and
works at Sandusky, where the enemy had concen-
trated a considerable force. The Indians, how-
ever, previously to the asslult, withdrew O&M:-
selves out of reueli of the enemy's lite.: -
The bandful.of hie NajeSty's troops employed
on thi4 oceasiem, displayed the greatest bravery.;
nearly the whole of them having reached the fort,
and made every eiThrt to cuter it e. but ii,galling
and' destructive fire being kept np by ills enemy,
Wit.itin 'the block-bons-es -and !from behind the
picketting, which completely protected them, tied
which we had not the means to force, tiie Major-
General thought imostprudent not to continue
longer so unavailing a contest : tit; llCCOrdlygly
drew off the assailants, and rettaped to Sandwich,.
With girlie loss of about 25 killed, as, ninny missing;
and about 50 wounded.. Amongst the former are
Brevet Lient,-Colonel Shoat, and Lieutenant J.
G. Gordon, of the 41st regiment.
I am happy to he able to acquaint your Lord-
ship; that it appears by further item-lets received
from Major-General Procter to the 23d instant,
that the enemy had been disappointed in' an at-
tempt to mate distrust and disaffection amongst
our Indian allies., by a deputation of Chiefs, sent
by them foe that purpose, and.that in a talk,
which took place between the Deputimr-from'the
American. Indians and the Chiefs of our Indian
warriors, the contempt with, which General Har-
rison's proposals. were received, he the Isteer, anti
the determination expressed by them of adhering
to the cause of their Great Father in Beglend,
appeared sensibly to affect the Deputies, and af-
fi3rds strong grounds to believe that the cations
whom they represented will not be induced to
take up arms against us, or their brethren
acting with us.
On my arrival at this frontier, I finiud two
thousand. British soldiers, on an extended line,
cooping up, in Fort George, en American force:
exceedingfour thousaittl men : feeling desiroei of
aseertainieg in per..ma the .eetent of the eueinv's
works, and of viewing the means he iiosseesed for
defending the positiod Ife occupied, I ordered a
general demonstration ro bernOiltron Fort George,
to commence by the,attack and surprise of all the
American piequets thrown out in its front. This
,service was executed to my entire satisfaction
the picqnets were driven in, a great part of them
bcinglaken, with a very' trifling loss, Mid 1 found
myse:f close to the fort, apil the new.entrenehed
camp which is formed on the right of that ‘vork,
both of them crowded with men, bristled With
minute and supported by the lire frOin Fort
Nitigara, on the opposite side of that river ; but
no pro v„,:::tion could induce the Ameriatt army to,
leave their places of ,shelter, anti 'venture Iwo the
find. MA:le. 4 display 6e.ay 'force in yelp,
e deliberate retreat ensued without a casualty,
-.Since I laid cite honour of addressing Lord-
ship' on the -Ist instant, every possible' eXertion
has been matte by Cointieelore Sir James Vet), but
in vain, to bring the encioy's equadron to a deci-
sive action.: repeatedly hes -he offered them battle,
Leif' as repeatedly have they deciieed it, which
their great .superiority in sailing, together with
the light and 'baffling winds prevailing on the Lake
at this season, has enabled/their hitherto effec-
tually to do. He, however, was-fortunate enough,
on the ntglit of the itith instant, to get so close
in with the enemy, as to render an action inevi-
table, unless they chose to' sacrifice two of their
schooners in order to avoid,ite to this sacrifice
they suhet:tteil, and Sir -James had the satisfac-•
than, a 0 t'r a .dew shots, hail been fired, to take
por.ession Of two very ogee stihnoners,' the one
carry:eg one long 32‘pounder and-two long sixes,
aed the other one tong 32-potnide&r and one long
twelve, with a coniplement of 40 men cede nave
ing prOceeged to York for the inirpom of refitting
his prizes he sailed
,from -)hence with theta' its
pursuit-of tie enemy, on th 13th,inst. and hav-
ing falloWeil them down the Lake on the lith,
again saw them on the 18th, but was lityttbitt
come with them.. On the night preceding that
of the caltete of the above, vessels, two' of the
enemy's. largest schouners, carrying nine gene
each, overset and sunk, in carrying mil to keep
front our squadron, and, exceptink, sixteen per-
sons, all ou hoard -perished, in nottibers abaft(
one hundred'. Sir 34'ines Yeo liae.heen,intoKbeiv,
stun with his squadron, to tat: in provisions snd
rat, end since sailing ltas cruized nti /Park awl,-