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The Oielm-c Mercury of the 4th ult. which reach-
ed town this day, confirms the accotsut contained
in THE SUN of the 2d inst. of a severe action
which took. place on the 17th of September at
Fort Erie. ,A battery had been erected, from which
the Americans expected great annoyance ; and
therefore, favoured by the weather, they made a
sortie from the Fort, in, great force, and not-
withstanding the most spirited resistance on
the part of the British, succeeded in obtaining
possession of the Battery. The British, how-
-ever, returned to the charge,• and recovered
it. The Americans having, in a great degree,
accomplished their. purpose, retired into the
Fort. The Enemy state that our loss (origi-
nally said to be 400) in killed and wounded,
which took place chiefly on the right of our posi-
tion, amounted to. above 800,, and they boast of
having nearly destroyed theßegiMent of Watte-
ville. Our own accounts, We understand, admit that
the loss on both sides was considerable,and ascribe
the success of the Enemy chiefly to the overwhelm-
ing force which they brought to the attack. Gen-
BAtsles, in his General Orders recounting this af-
fair, speaks in the highest terms of the conduct
of the British, declaring that they did .every thing
that could be expected in point of spirit and abi-
lity, but that the great superiority of the Enemy
temfered it impossible for the result to have been
otherwise.

Captain GORDON arrived in town this day vvitit
Dispeches from General PuEvosT, respecting the
unfortnnate business on Lake -Champlain. The
Captain did not bring any account of, the affair
at Fort Erie, above-Mentioned. No advices of
this business had reached Government tins day.

Since writink the above, the following has
reached our Office :---

Yesterday arrived at Portsmouth tiie Antelope,
of 50 pins, Captain BUTCHER, with forty trans-
ports, front Halifax.
In the Antelope came home the Secretary of
General VREVOST, with dispatches, dated Oct. 9.
They state, that on finding our flotilla subdued
on Lake Champlain, which misfortune defeated
the design of General Yuzcosw in advancing to

Platt3bar,gh, teat ()Meer retired with the British
./
army in good order, without losing,either cannon
or men. The accounts circulated by the Ameri-
can Papers on this subject are thus.proved to he
()Toss falsehoods.

After Gen. Drx:Cktorin retired from Fort Erie,
the American army, in great force, followed him,
,and made a smart attack, which at first produced
some impression, but the British forces ultimately
repulsed them, and maintained their ground.
We have taken two very large American schoon-
ers on Lake Huron, a success of high importance
since it gites us the command on those waters.
Sir JAMES YEll has launched his. large ship of
100 gun's' on Lake Ontario, and vris out eercising
his men.

Upon the whole the accounts are highly satis-
faCtory. The enemy has made no progress.
We have seen a letter from Quebec, dated on
the 10th of October, but, being of a private na-
ture, it contains no nots.

We insert the followineas it has reached us—
there are no dates given to enable us to appre-
ciate the value of the rumour

(Fro.m the Exeter Western Luminary).

" EXETER, Nov-. 15:-LWe have been favoured
with the following, by a very respectable friend
at. Dartmouth, and give as we receive it
A Captain DUNMAN, whom we known here,
has just landed, and informed us, that on the 27th
ult. his vessel was near run clown off Lisbon by
the Granieni frigaterCaptain WISE, who inforthed
him, that a-few' days previous he bad boarded a
neutral vessel from America, Which informed him,
that the Macedonian and United States frigates
had been destroyed by us in New London ;. that
tile American President MADISON had absconded,
no one knows where ; and that the Atherican Ca-
binet was in the utmost cOnfusioli and alarm.—
Two very rich Atueriedvships had got safe into
Lisbon." •

The style of the Parliamentary Debates, which
have for these few• days excluded other matters
from our eoltruns, requires very serious considera-
tion. In future it is our intention to curtail these
-discussions as much as possible, and in the Mean-
time, till we can offer our sentiments more at large
on this painful subject, we are sure the Public will
join with us in lamenting the coarse and personal
tone which _has been introduced into these De-
bates,; which are -certainly not in unison with
the manners of Gentlemen, or with• the dignity of
the British Senate. •

Sunday a Cabinet Council was held at the Fo-.
reign Office at two o'clOCk, which sat till past four.:
On Monday the' Duke of YORK. came to town
from Oatlands. Yesterday hii Royal. Highness
held his first Levee for the season at his- Office in
the Horse Guards, as Commander in Chief, which
was numerously attende(L
The Gazette of last night-contains the distribu-
tion of the 26 offending Officeri of the Tenth:
Hussars, into other regiments 'of cavalry, pur-
suant to their late.sentence." .
The SOVEREIGN PRINCE of the NETHERLANDS
opened the Session of the States General Of Hol-
land, on the 7th instant: nis Speech on the oct
easion (which contains nothing of important
velty) want of room obliges us to postpone tilt
to-morrow. •

Reports-, which we should be glad
.to hear con-
firmed, reached town yesterday, stating, that Mr;
INlArnsoNT's misconduct, in having left .the capital
of the United S.tates, open to, a successful attack;
and not even taking due precautionS for the re-
moval of the national archives, had-been made the
ground of an impeachment.
By the arrival of his Majesty's frigate Nerehg
at Portsmouth froM the river Plate, we learn that
soon after the" capitulation of Monte Video was
agreed to by the GOVernor VIGODET, a difference
of opinion arose between the contracting parties,
and the Governor hesitated to fulfil the conditions
of the treaty. Meanwhile an Officer; serving un-
der the Captain .General, who had separated him-
self, with many followers, from Buenos Ayres'
troops, was detected conveying a letter to Vico-
enconraging the latter to resist the giving
up of the fortress, and-promising that his Captain-
General would come to his succour with his forces,
to the amount oflsoo men. Upon the discovery
of this affair, ALVEAR, the Buenos Ayres General,
resolved on an `immediate attack of the fortress,
• and succeeded, sword in hand, in taking VIGODET,
the-Governor, and-the whole of the garrison, pri-
soners... ALVEAR; upon this success, anticipating
the arrival of. the Captain-General and his party,
went out to meet them, and after a short action
put the whole to the rout. The garrison of
Monte Video then volunteered to join the cause
of Buenos Ayres, and the -Governor; VIGODET,
was sent prisoner on board a ship bound to Bue.
'nos Ayres.
Private accounts from Paris state the arrest of
General DUFOUR and a large party of persons as-
sembled with him at a coffee-house. No notice
of the event, indeed, appears in the French Pa-
pers..; nor perhaps was it absolutely necessary
that the Government should put the accomplices
of these criminals on their guard, by a prema-
ture disclosure of the fact, or of its causes.

in the French Chamber of Deputies, on the
I Ith inst. the project of the law for the exporta-
tion of wool was carried by a large majority.
On the 12th, the Court of Session met for the
dispatch of business. Ail the,Judges of each di-
vision were present.

The celebrated Mrs. CLARKE, it seems, is gone
abroad. It was full time that she should incline
towards the Continent: