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ip I 4LLING-OFFICE, Oct. 28, 1822.
LE COMMISSIONERS for VICTUAL-
A.ihVG His 31.1JESTY's NAVY, do" hereby
14 °tice, that on Tuesday, the 19th of November next,
"11 be rtody to receive Tenders in writing (sealed up)
Sq‘a re, ,1 for the supply (on separate Contracts) of all such
de es of SEA PROVISIONS, including RUM, as may
It I:4"ed for the use of His Majesty's Ships and Vessels
°Caie Ptaces under-mentioned, from the dates expressed
utif:4t each
~ till the 31st December, 1823, viz,. :
kticli,Cariclifergns Lune Harbour,
iaa"ewry
(i.L4it-47 and Dublin Ist January, 1823.
(14,,°44err,

rY and Loughswilly
tit!, 9th January, 1823.
Wirti!,l.l,l Roads( and the Frith of}
Z. 5"
, Mb February, 1823.
'T. Cu-4tion., of the Contracts may be seen at this Office,
lj 711); IYing- to the Secretary, to the Postmaster-General
Qt6n.-and to the Collectors of His Majesty's Customs
s'"etively. Gal //) Londonderry, Greenock, and Leith, re-
tcro,
e
4e Weti Meer must specify the price in words at length, and
tiered before One o'Clock on the day appointed, and
acc°4lpanied by a Letter, signed by two responsible
11"p4iQ4' engaging to become bound with the Party ten er-
ega the Penal Sum of 5001. for the due performance of
•• of .L
tie
p` the
er Contracts.
4on who makes the Tender, or some Person on his
'Anse attend to answer when called for.
M. WeILLER CLIFTON.

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uARD and Co. who Sold in Shares the
t6eltrri hest Prize yet drawn, No• fin, £l,OOO, remind
th,ttAry esritk's and the Public of the Restoration of a Good Old
44'412 xe:',„eme, same as Thirty Years ago. Second Day of
I),,°lvii's,",fiXT TUESDAY, 12th November, when all the
Capitals may be drawn, as there are no Fixed

'''''''''''' "••••,.: £20,0001 2 of £5,000
~,, ...................... 10,000 3 2,000
th,". lekets And 104 other Capitals.
t`4 014 and Shares are Selling by HAZARD and Co. at
e'cchativ established and fortunate Offices, No. 93, Royal,
'l;s3te ; 26, Cornhill ; 324, Oxford-street, End of Re-
s ill tie: ; who Sold THREE of £20,000 in the last Lottery
Ir_evioqs Contract.

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L'' TURE TO BE SOLD, consisting
fa
t;lthe_, set of SPANISH PATENT DINING TABLES,
041coicest Wood, 14 feet by a of TWELVE
11,. ; Lirrresponing ; a magnificents; SIDEBOARD TA-
h'et 6 iliorlaellZ'.p.blea wit,latrghomer,sof Zebra Wood; also a
b fitted up with Cedar.!—
Ll4ll4l)°iis part `Pinged
1 ct Order, the Property of a Gentlsee-
qthich the
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dofestihgenedOribegin Plan of the Hou
in materially altered
thiNticoatracted, Furniturei9 now owfitsred to the Public for less thalt.w9:
kteet, °rt
the Manufacturer's Price, at Mills'4, No. 77, High
-"all-le-bone, opposite Devonshire-street.

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London, 18th Oct. 1822.
ka!HIP WILLIAM PARKER, myself
*it) "I•to„.(7) previous to her late Voyage to Jamaica, had
ithehlt 4;111 and Foresail made of Canvas prepared by you,
I qtver 411 powinK it ; I found the Canvas to be the best I
tht.P"etvde` with ; the Sails were certainly in a sit uatinn where
p. siigh, to have found them mildewed, yet there is not
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CAMPAIGNS IN T 111; CANADAS.

( Concluded from yesterday's Surf.)
On the 3d of September Sir George Prevost put his troops in
motion, and entered the American territory. The force which
he commanded was composed of a regiment of light cavalry, a
numerous train of artillery, and three brigades of the best in-
fantry in the British service, led by. Major-Generals Brisbane,
Robinson, and Power, and amounting, in all, to 11,000 men,
inured to service, and long habituated to victory under the
great Captain of the age. After Izzart's march to Sackett's.
Harbour, General Macomb was left to command on Lake
Champlain with, as already said, only 1,500 of the refuse of
the American army, and, when the object of our Commander-
in-Chief had been developed, he was joined by between two
and three thousand of raw militia who were hastily collected at
Plattsburg. It may readily be conceived how much resistance
could be offered by such a rabble to the advance of the Bri-
tish troops. Between the 3d and the 6th of September, the
enemy, did not even show themselves, yet Sir George Prevost
consumed these four days in an advance of only twenty-five
miles along the lake shore. On the morning of the 6th, how-
ever, the American riflemen and Militia in some force, sup.
ported by artillery, endeavoured to oppose the march of the
army, but our columns pressed on without deigning to deploy
or even to return their fire, except by the skirmishers; and, on
the evening of the same day, arrived on the left hank of the
little river Saranac, on the southern shore of which stood the
village of-Plattsburg, and on an elevated ridge above it, the
American defences, which consisted of three unfinished re-
doubts and two block-houses, armed in all with from 15 to 20
pieces of ordnance. The American flotilla lay at anchor in Platts-
burg Bay. Had the Commander-in-Chief suffered these works
to be assaulted, as was eagerly proposed to him, on the same
evening, there can be no question but they must have fallen
with scarcely an effort befor a single brigade. But after losing
four days on a march which he might easily have effected in
two, while the enemy were active in strengthening their posi-
tion, he halted for other five days in front of their works, as
if to enable them to complete their preparations. The pre.
sence of their flotilla wits the reason assigned for this deplor-
able inaction ; but we have the assurance of their own his-
torian (Sketches of the War, p. 319.) that the redoubts
were still in such a state that not any exertion of the whole
flotilla could have saved Macomb and his undi'sciplined
horde from capture if Sir George Prevost had crossed the
Saranac and attacked them on the evening of the 6th of Sep-
tember. For any ulterior operations beyond the possession
of Plattsburg, the assistance of our fleet was requisite, and the
Commander-m-Chief should not have commenced his march be.
fore the navy were in readiness ; but having advanced to Platts-
burg, he might with ease have attained so much of his object as
the reduction of that place without the stghtest necessity for the
aid of a flotilla. But he would now undertake nothing until
the arrival of our vessels to attack those of the enemy. It was
only on the 3d of September, the same day on which the army
crossed the boundary line, and little more than a week after the
launch of a 36-gun ship, that Captain Downie of the Royal
Navy arrived from the Ontario squadron to take the command
on Lake Champlain ; and he immediately began to prepare for
sea with the utmost activity. But the assemblage of a crew for
the new ship had only commenced after she was launched, by
draughts of seamen from the men of war and transports at Que-
bec, and it was the 9th of September before the last detach-
ment had arrived at Isle-aux-noix. On that day 270 men
had at length been collected from fourteen different king's
vessels, besides those from transports, with marines,. soldiers
of an infantry regiment, and of the royal and marine artil-
lery. Captain Downie knew but one of his officers, and none
of the seamen ; the latter were men of inferior character, who
had been permitted to volunteer, or rather had been forced from
their respective ships ; and the new vessel was in so unfinished
a state that while she was going into action two days afterwards,
the joiners were at work at Fier magazines, her powder lying
alongside in a boat, and the carpenters still fixing ring bolts,Stc.
for guns. It surely needs no acquaintance with naval affairs to
comprehend how essentially necessary it must be that the cap-
tain, the officers and crew of a vessel of war should be well
known to each other, trained to exercise together, and that
before a ship is carried into action her constriction and equip-
ment should at least be completed. Yet though Sir George
Prevost was well aware of the condition of Captain Downie's
ship, he repeatedly urged him, both by letter and through
the officers of his staff, to make instant co-operation with
the army, who, it was said, had been long awaiting his ar-
rival before Plattsburg, for the purpose of assaulting the ene-
my's works, simultaneously with a naval attack upon their
squadron in the bay. With Captain Downie, as with Captain
Barclay in the preceding year, innuendo and taunt were re-
sorted to to provoke him to engage against his better judgment.
Unhappily the same effect was produced. Stung at an insinua-
tion that the Commander-in-Chief hoped Capt. Downie suf-
, fered himself to be delayed by nothing but the state of the
wind,' he replied that he needed no urging to do his duty, and
that he should be up with the army from Isle-aux-noix with
the first breeze. It was then solemnly agreed that as soon as
_Downie attacked the American fleet, our troops should assault
the forts, and that the scaling of the guns of our squadron, in
doubling the head to the northward of the bay, should be the
signal for the advance of the columns of attack. Besides
Captain Downie's own ship of 36 guns, manned in the way we
have stated, the British flotilla was composed of a brig of 16
and two sloops of 11 guns each, with ten gun-boats. The
American squadron consisted of three vessels, of 26, 28, and
18 guns, one of 7, and ten gun-boats. In the number of
guns, therefore, there was little difference, but in weight of
metal the enemy were as three .to two, and they had nearly a
thousand prime seamen to oppose less than six hundred men
of all descriptions. Early on the morning of the 11th of Sep-
tember, the approach of the squadron on the lake was dis.
tinctly announced to the Commander-in-Chief by the precon.
certed signal of the scaling of their guns. The report of the
ordnance was within hearing of every man in our army, and
the general astonishment may be conceived when it was
immediately followed—not by the long wished-for command
to advance to the assault, but by an order for the troops
TO COOK. Not a platoon had been permitted to form and
move forward when our fleet were seen to round the pro-
montory, stand into the bay, and attack the American squa-
dron. Captain Downie had stated to his crew that the troops
would instantly storm the works on shore, and they commenced
the action with much gallantry, in the confidence of support.
Their brave leader fell in ten minutes after its commencement,
but the ship was courageously fought for two hours after-
wards, under the discouraging circumstance of the total failure
of the Commander-in-Chief to fulfil his pledge of co-operation
on shore. There were several untoward events on this dis-
estrous day to increase the effect of the misconduct of the Com.
mander-in-Chief—Our large ship in entering the bay had both
her anchors shot away, so that she could not be brought to the
intended station ; one of the sloops ran aground, and was com-
pelled to surrender without doing any service ; and the pm-
boats, which were manned with Canadian militih, on observing
that no attack was made by land, shamefully fled at the mo-
ment when their assistance in winding the large ship,' to bring
her undamaged broadside to bear, might have turned the fate
of the day. After an obstinate struggle of two hours and
twenty minutes, the ship, the brig, and one sloop, which had
maintained the battle against the whole of the hostile squa-
dron with a resolution that merited a happier result, were suc-
cessively reduced to .strike their colours. The feeble and va-
cillating author of this calamity was meanwhile a passive specc.
tator of the unavailing efforts of the brave mervwhom he had
exposed. After disregarding the signal at which he had pro.
mised to put his columns in motion, and viewing the naval en-
agement for some time without an effort, he at length gave the
order to advance,. and gave it only to recall it again just when
the light troops were close in upon their works, and half an-
hour would have avenged the fall of the _gallant Downie and
the loss of the fleet. Language would ill express the indig-
nant feelings of the troops on being condemned thus tamely
to witness the victory of the American fleet, and themselves to
yield a. second triumph to a weak and undisciplined enemy.—
Their wounded pride and anger were vented in load re-
proaches against the individual who had proved himself so
" unworthy to command them, and their indignation reached
its height when, to, complete the fulness of the undeserved
shame with which he had loaded them, a precipitate retreat,
or more truly a flight, with the abandonment of immense quan-
tities of stores, ammunition, and provisions, was commenced on
the night of the 11th September. The whole loss of the army
in killed and wounded did not exceed two hundred men ; but
the disgraceful issue of the expedition had such a fatal effect
upon the minds of the soldiery, that above 800 of them had de-
serted before the retreat was concluded.
For the palpable violation of promise of which the Com-
mander-in-Chief was guilty in not immediately preparing for
the assault when he heard the scaling of ate*. ms of the Beet, it
would be impossible to assign a reason, far he h.d onl to per.