The Sun.
London, England, 1814-09-24 00:00:00

AMEIUCAN PAPERS OF BiroRTANCE.

We. lament to say, that the'follbwing has just
reached us front the:City. We 11:1ve,no idea what
degree of credit • is due to•it, but the bare report
is painful and distressing :
" the Jenny, MY RES, arrived at Dart Mouth,
in 23 days from Rhode, Island, American Papers
to the 28th ult. have been received. They. con-
tain the unpleasant intelligence that, an attack was•
made on Fort Erie on the 15th 'August, at 2
•
•
o'clock' in the-morning, which failed of success,
and the. British wereeompelled to retire with the'
loss of 600 men, killed, wounded, and prisoners:
." Col. DanwmoNo,.,,a relation'of the General's,
is among the killed; These Papers also state,
that Commodore CHAUNCEY was left blockading
the British squadron on the Lakes.
" The sante Papers admit that Adm. COCHRANE
the Chesapeake, with 46 sail, consisti?lg
0- men of war, transports, &c. ; and that he had
eirected a landing with 4000 men,, with the
In-
tentium of going against Washington. At•tlfe.
same time they hold out that the Atherican Go-

vernment had collected a force of 7000 -men to
% meet theni. The above the most important

part of those Papers.". . •
• It is to 'be observed, that the above 'is Anieri-
/
eah, and 6rAsecluen!lY• of the most doubtful

The dates are, however, .accordant with

nature.

preceding facts, and as we know r6,tiforcements
join
to, t{ie`'Enemy were h istcningat Erie, it

is not unlikely that a battle might be. fought
'aabout.tbe•middle of .August. _

• arliamnts e we hear, will meet for the
f business on tlie-lOtli of November; a Proclama-

tion for die parpose will be proposed, and nb
doubt agreed up'un, by the PRINCE REGENT in
Couh.ril this day) and which will be issued after
the breakiv,g up of
,the

Stocks are fulling rapidly—Omni= is at 6 per
Cent. discount—Consols 6*.

The Captain of a vessel; a►°rived in the Downs-,
from Africa, reports. that in lat. 49. he spoke a brig
given up as a cartel by the Wasp American sloop,
since her action with the Aeon, and from the-pas.-
sengers'he learnt, that in that action the Wasp
escaped without any material damage, and had
Only one man lillecrand two wounded.

We yesterday annonnced the safe arrival of two
of the Leeward Island fleet, and have now the
satisfaction to add, that the whole of this valuable
fleet, -under convoy of his,Majesty's ship Glouces-
ter, arrived yesterday in the Downs, andproceded
for. the River.

It affords us pleasure to add, the homeward
holind Jamaica fleet, under convoy of his Majes-
ty's ship Warrior,, consisting of 'about 64 sail,
we're off Kins'ale on. the 20th. inst. They left
Jamaic4, 26th July, andmaY be hourly looked for;
two of—the fleet have already Arrived,
Susan, Dbnpi, in the River and'ihe
ATKINSON, at Bristol.
,‘

The destinations of the East India ships were
yesterdy fixed by the Committee of Correspon-
dence, and will be confirmed by the Court of,
Directors on Wednesday _next.

. A report of the taking of Baltimore has reached
Plymouth, and is consistent enough in circum-
stance with -all the previous movements with
.which we were acquainted in- the Chesapeake
Bay. It is, however, supposed
"that this intelli=
gence is as yet nothing more than an antidipa-
tion of what .is likely to haypen ; and much, as
we shall ,hail etery blow struck at these brag-
gard and mischievous enemies, there is not a spot
in the whole United States where an infliction of
. .
Britain's vengeance will be more entitled to our
applause than on this sink of Jacobinical infamy—
Baltimore.

We insert in another part of our impression
Extracts from Communications said to have been
received from St. Domingo, the authenticity of
which we _most' strongly doubt.. The views taken
of European affairs in one of these letters, and
the arguments. in the other, are so completely in
unison with the views and arguments which the
parties who have published-tbern woutu
.selves employ, that we confess neither the strange
signatures of Secretary of State Lemonade, nor
of the Duke of Marmalade himself„ have force
enough to convince us that 'these are boa fide of

The vast importance of the island of Java, as a
commercial acquisition'lto this country, has not,
till the present time, been sufficiently Appreciated
and, under a Government less enlightened and less
energetic than that which.:now rules- the island,'
its value might have remained, in a great.
degree, long unknown. It appears that the
Governor and Council are so highly, impressed.
with its importance, that they have scat hove,
expressly, a Packet with dispatches and represens-
tations of the utmost consequence, and an Officer:
of Rank, with Confidential communications to his
Majesty's Ministers and the Directors of the Hon.
East India Company, which, it is hoped, will
lead to the retention and ultimate incorporation
of that valuable Island with the British dominions
in the East. It seems to be the opinion, that in
possession of Java Great_ Britain need not be
under, any.future apprehensions as to the unfa-
vourable diSposition of the Chinese Government
to the British Interegts, in, that Empire.

.:While we, from day to 'day, devoteour columns
to Foreign' News of, comparatively,:very trifling
interest, we have not cost sight of our promise to
return to that question of vital importance to this
Country, of which we last week took a hash no-
tice, and to the discussion of which we last year
devoted a .considerableportion of our tithe and at-
.tention,: .need we say we allude to the projected
measures respecting the CORN LAWS ? 'We have
been charged with disregarding the great Agricul-
tural Interests -of the'.gmpire; we deny' the
charge, and assert that we are not only the friends
to these interests, as entwined with the general
welfare of, the State, but that 'we are distinctly
their friends considered per se;. exclusively and
peculiarly. It is true, as may reattify be imagin-
, . .
en, that it is no easy matter. to persuade or Con-
vince thanY Land-owners, that they would be
bettered in. the first instance, as well ,s
mately;' by having their incomes reduced, • yet
such fact, in our opinion, is not difficult of detriOn-
stration. But even were it otherwise, we would
contend that it must be wisdom in these persons