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THE CRIMINAL CODE.

Sir Joie N EIVIIO LT, the able and worthy Chair-
man of the Sessions for Hampshire, at the last Session, ex-
plained the alterations which had been made in the Criminal
Levi of the Country in the course of the last Session of Par-
liament. He remarked, that as no man• could plead ignorance
of the Law, to excuse the violation of its prohibitions, it,was
but justice to the community to promulgate its enactments on
every occasion that offered. The Chairman then lamented the
manifestations which had been lately exhibited, both in this
and a neighbouring county, of that mad and mischievous spirit
which instigates men, from the mere love of destruction, to set
fire to the barns and houses, which contained the fruits of the
honest labour of their neighbours. He expressed his earnest
hope that the perpetrators of such diabolical outrages would be
discovered and brought to punishment ; but in the mean time
he thought it ought to be publicly known, that by an Act passed
early in the last sessions of Parliament, the sufferers by these
acts had a summary means afforded them of recovering
damages for the injuries, so recieved by them,
,where they
did not exceed thirty pounds, instead of having recourse to
the more circuitous and expensive mode of obtaining them
by an action at law. The mode pointed out by the Act
is, for the parties to give notice to the chief officer of the
district where the loss is sustained, who is directed there-
upon to summons the local Magistrates to hold a Petty Sessions,
they having a power given them to direct a compensation to the
persons so complaining of the destruction of their property
(within the sum specified), out of a fund to be raised in the
manner re,. tivul"wly po;ntoct out by the Act. The next statute
the Chairman drew the attention of the Grand Jury to, was the
40th of the King, which appeared, by the title, to be an Act
that had f',>r its object to consolidate into one Act, and amend
all the Vagrant Laws. The Chairman said, as those laws were
very peculiarly connected with the Courts of Quarter Session,
he should think it his duty to state the provisions of it some.
what at length. He said, in the first place it appeared that the
Legislature had by this Act abolished all former Laws relative
to Vagrants, with the exception of those concerning Lunatic
vagrants, and the removal of poor persons born in Scotland,
Ireland, the Isle of Man, Guernsey, and Jersey. The Act, he
said, then proceeded to enact, that all persons who threatened to
run away and leave their wires and children chargeable' to any
parish, and all persons who should be able to work, and should
neglect so to do, by which fault their families should become
chargeable to the parish ; and all persons who should return to
a parish after an order of removal, and should there become
chargeable, without producing a certificate owning them to be
settled elsewhere; and all common prostitutes walking in the
public streets, might, on conviction before any of his Majesty's
Justices of the Peace, be sent to the House of Correction, there
to be kept to hard labour for any time not exceeding 1 month.
—The Act then designates certain offenders who were deemed
rogues and vagabonds, if they should again commit any offence
under this Act • and enacts, that all such persons, after they
had been adjudged rogues and vagabonds, if they should again
commit any offence under this Act, should be deemed incor-
rigible rogues. He said, the difference of punishment in the
two classes of cases was, that the first were subjected to deten-
tion in the House of Correction, and there kept to hard labour
for six months, while offenders of the latter class might be com-
mitted for any time not exceeding a year, or less than 6 months,
and during that time, in the case of males, to be corrected by
whipping. For the purpose of facilitating the execution of this
Act, all houses kept for the reception of poor travellers, were
liable to be searched, and suspected persons brought before a '
Magistrate, who had a power given them to bind persons by
recognisance to prosecute vagrants at Sessions. He said there
was also a penalty on constables, and on all persons who, being
ordered by a .Justice to assist in the execution of this Act,
should neglect so to do : on the other hand, the Justices could
order a reward, not exceeding .ss. to the persons apprehending
such offenders. The Chairman then observed, that all persons
who were committed to 'prison under this Act, were to be kept
to hard labour, as a consevence of such commitment. He
said he had before occasion to observe to the Jury on the
beneficial effects of employing prisoners during their con-
finement, which was also exemplified at the present Ses-
sions by the smallness of the calendar; and the Legis-
lature had, on this account, extended the right of the
' Sessions to commit to hard labour, as well in cases of
misdemeanours as of felonies. He said there were two
other important laws,
_ relative to the criminal code, which he
wished to notice to them ; the one related to the offence of re-
deiving stolen goods, knowing them to be stolen, anti the other
to robberies committed by servants on their masters. With
regard to the first, it was in their knowledge that the stealing
bonds, notes, and that description of property, which was tech-
nically called a choscs in action, was made felony, and put on
the same footing as a larceny'committed on any other goods
and chattels ; but hitherto the receiving such property when
stolen had not been an offence like the stealing other goods and
chattels. To correct this anomaly in the law the 3d of the pre-
sent King had been passed, which extended the law against
receivers of stolen goods to receivers of bonds and other secu-
rities for money: The last Statute the Chairman noticed was
of the same Session, which, to prevent the serious detriment to
which masters were subject by the depredations of their ser-
vants, a facility for committing which was afforded by the na-
ture of their connection, increased the punishment, to which
they were now liable (where the case was not capital), by enact-
ing that it should be at the discretion of the Court before whom
such offenders should be convicted, to adjudge them either to
be transported for any teem not exceeding fourteen years, or to
be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for any term not exceed-
ing three years. He noticed another most important provision
in this Act, which enabled the Court to punish persons advis-
ing children or others to commit thefts, by transportation for
seven years, or by imprisonment and hard labour for any term
not exceeding three years. All accessories before the fact were
also subjected by this Act to imprisonment for any term not
exceeding three years, and this, although the principal felons
were not previously convicted of such felony.

CAMPAIGNS IN THE CANADA.S.

( Continued from yesterday's. Sc st.)
We have now to revert to the operations of the numerous
force which the enemy had, early in October, concentrated at
Socket's Harbour • but some notice of the few preceding events
of the year in Lower Canada will first be necessary. The
enemy, at the opening of 1013, commanded the waters of Lake
Champlain, on which we had no naval force, nor did Sir George
Prevost use the slighteSt exertion to create one.. A fortunate
accident; however, threw into our hands two American sloops
of 11 guns each, which, incautiously approaching too near
to the Isle-aux-noix, were boarded and gallantly captured by
a part of that garrison in boats. After this success, Colonel
Murray, whose subsequent meritorious services we have de-
tailed, and who then commanded at the Isle-aux-noix, embark-
ed about 1,000 men in batteaux, -ander convoy of the sloops, to
harrass the enemy's posts on the shores of the lake. General
Himpton, who, with the numerous forte which had been under
the orders of Dearborn on that frontier, in the preceding year,
had remained inactive during the present summer, now quietly
suffered Colonel 'Murray to land and burn the block-houses
and extensive barracks at Plattsburg, a post which, in the fol-
lowing year, became unfortunately more famous. After other
successful descents upon the enemy's the Colonel returned
without loss to his station.
In the autumn, the American usbinet projected a serious in-
vasion of Lower anada by a simultaneous attack from Sackett's
Harbour and the shores of Lake Champlain. The plan was
judiciously conceived, but it was most wretchedly marred in
execution. It was proposed that General Wilkinson should
assemble a force of ten thousand men at Sackett's 'Harbour,
with a view either of attacking Kingston, if he found it prac-
ticable, or, if not, of deceiving the British into an opinion that
he designed an attempt upon it. He was then suddenly to drop
down the St. Lawrence with his whole force, in concert with
General Hampton's advance from his frontier, to capture
Montreal, to lock up the British in his rear to starve or surren-
' der, or to oblige them to follow him without artillery, baggage,
or provisions, and eventually to lay down their arms.' As
General Hampton could, assemble 6,000 men, the whole Ame-
rican force to unite in this project would not be less than
16,000 regular troops. The arrival of two regiments from the
Niagara at Kingston, and the intelligence possessed by the
enemy that the remainder of General Vincent's force was di-
rected to retreat to that fortress, probably prevented any real
attack upon it; but the latter circumstance induced the enemy
to dispatch all their disposable force with confidence from Fort
George to Sackett's Harbour, where, before the middle of Octo-
ber, 10,000 men of all arms, with 30 pieces of light artillery
and a battering train, were assembled, together with upwards
of three hundred large boats for the transport of the expedition.
General 'Wilkinson being now completely prepared, instructions
were issued to General Hampton to force his way immediately
to the banks "of the St. Lawrence and unite with General.
Wilkinson's army. We have already observed that the Isle-
aux-noix commands the only entrance into the lower province
from bake Champlain by which heavy artillery and stores
can advance. , The route by which Hampton was necessitated
to invade the province was so difficult that his engineers were
compelled to cut a road as they proceeded for his field-pieces,
and Lieutenant-Colonel de Saluberry, who commanded our
outposts, had increased the obstacles before the enemy by felling
trees and constructing abattis on their line of march. Had the
difficulties of the enterprize been less, however, neither Hamp-
ton nor his troops were of a character to surmount them. They
crossed the boundary of the British possessions on the 21st of
October, and on the 20th fell in with the pickets of the British
advance, which were covering a working party of peasants em-
ployed at the abattis on the River Chateaugay. Here, behind
these defences, Lieutenant-Colonel tie Saluberry collected three
hundred Canadian fencibles and militia, and with this hand-
ful of men, without a regular soldier, resolutely maintained his
post during the day against two brigades of the enemy, who
attacked him on opposite banks of the river, under Hampton
in person. The assailants were at least twenty to one, but
Hampton mismanaged the attack most unaccountably, and his
troops behaved with the greatest cowardice **. Towards night.
fall they retreated precipitately, • and their two colums, in retir-
ing through the woods, commenced by mistake a destructin
n. i upon vista, 1.• .V
part of the night. On the following morning, Hampton con-
tinued his retreat, and made no halt until he regained the Ame-
rican territory.
General Wilkinson, in the mean time, ignorant of the re.
treat of his colleague, had commenced his advance into the
British provinces. On the same day on which the skirmish
was fought at Chateaugay, the fleet of boats containing his
army quitted Sackett's Harbour and entered the St. Lawrence
on their proposed descent to Montreal. Sir .James Yeo, who
had returned to Kingston with the fleet early in October,
distributed part of his crews into gun-boats to watch the
enemy's movements, and hang on their rear. At the same
time a corps of observation of about 800 men, under Lieut.-
Colonel Morrison, a distinguished officer, was dispatched
from Kingston with a similar view. The enemy continued
to descend the river,' and during; the night of the 6th of
Nov., having silently passed Fort Wellington with litttle loss
from the few guns of that work, landed on the following day
about 2,500 cavalry and infantry under Gen Brown, to march
down the Canadian hank, and to clear it of our troops, though
there was between Fort Willington and Coteau-du-lac no Bri-
tish force to oppose them except a few militia. Brown, there-
fore, advanced to the village of Cornwall, about 80 miles from
Montreal and half that distance from Coteau-du-lac ; mean-
while Col. Morrison rapidly came up with the enemy's rear,
which he was indefatigable in harrassing, at the same time that
our gunboats ,frequently
.cannonaded their flotilla,-though con-
voyed by a superior naval fore. Besides the advance
under Brown, the enemy, in the evening of the 9th, landed an-
other body of about 2,500 men of the elite of their army, cavalry
and infantry, with six field-pieces, under General Boyd, to
cover the rear of the expedition from Colonel Morrisons s as-
saults, which soon became so troublesome, that Wilkinson,
who was sick in his boat, sent orders to Boyd to counter-
march, attack Colonel Morrison, and take his artillery. As
Boyd returned up the river for the purpose of executing these
courageous instructions, Colonel Morrison retired before him
until he gained a position, at a place called Chrystler's Farm,
where lie had previously resolved to await the enemy's attack if
they should turn upon him. Here about two o'clock on the
afternoon of the 11th of November, the American corps of 2,500
men,__ with six guns, advanced in three columns to the attack of
the British position, and, after an obstinate conflict of two
hours, gave way at all points, with a loss of about 400 men in
killed and wounded, and among the former a general officer,
besides 100 prisoners and a six-pounder ; our loss did not
amount to 200 men. Immediately after-the action, the enemy
retired hastily down the river to Cornwall. There Wilkin-
son's whole force was again united, but he bad scarcely ar-
rived, before he received intelligence of the repulse of Hamp-
ton at Chateaugay. He needed not this pretext for aban-
doning the purpose of the expedition. He was alarmed at the
issue of the affair at Chrystler's, and at the hostile disposition
of the inhabitants of the country. Colonel Morrison was
again hanging on ,his rear, while the militia assembling in
force threatened his flank. His followers were equally terri-
fied with himself, and a council of war having determined that
the enterprize should be suspended, the whole army, on the
12th of November, hastily retired to their own shore, and began
to fortify themselves for protection against the small face
opposed to them: If the Commander-in-Chief had then dis-
patched forward the troops assembled at Coteau-du-lac, to
make a combined movement with Colonel Morrison against
Wilkinson during his panic, a good account might have been
given of his army ; but, as usual, he hesitated, and placed his
troops in winter-quarters until the enemy had quietly withdrawn
into the interior; then, and not until then, he Sent Colonel
Morrison over ink ebruary to burn their boats, which were
frozen up in the Salmon river opposite to Cornwall.
In summing up the events of the campaign of 1813, one of
the most striking facts is, that of all the conquests which the
enemy are known to, have proposed, the destruction of our
naval depot, so injudiciously laid open to their attack, at York,
was the only part in which they were permanently successful ;
and, instead of expelling us from the Niagara line, they had, on
the last day of December, lost all their own posts on that river.
They had however been most fortunate where they could' least
hope for advantage; the imbecility of Sir George Prevost had
enabled diem to regain the Michigan country, and to acquire
both the naval ascendancy on Lake Erie, and the command of
its shores ; ' but they -failed most disgracefully in, their com-
bined and simultaneous invasion of Canada and attempt upon
Montreal. We do not mean to assert that the forces un-

It may give some idea of American bombast to know that
the editor of the ' Albany Register compliments tie brave
Hampton and his Spartan band' for their feats at Chateaugay :
and this too without meaning it in irony.

der Lieutenant-Colonels Morrison and De Salubeiry were
in themselves the sole cause of the repulse of Wiikinson
and Hampton ; but it is both strictly true, and most ho-
nourable to our brave troops, that the whole strength of the
two corps which sustained the assaults of 16,000 American
soldiers, did not exceed 1,200 men. The conduct of Hampton
and his troops was such as to baffle all military criticism ; and
compared with them, Wilkinson and his followers were skilfid
and resolute; but even the expedition from Sackett's Harbour
was deplorably conducted. Such is the rapidity of the current
of the St. Lawrence, that, assisted by the wind, the passage
from Fort Wellington to Montreal (120 miles) is frequently ef-
fected in batteaux in sixteen hours ; yet, though Wilkinson
had a favourable breeze after passing Fort Wellington, be lin-
gered for six days between that place and Cornwall, a distance
of less than fifty miles, in landing, and embarking detachments,
without the slightest necessity, at the critical period when every
prospect of success depended upon the celerity of his move-
ments. If he had made no halts, Col. Morrison's corps could
not have overtaken him : he would then have had only the force
at Coteau-du-lac to contend with—but, if his troops could not
rout one-third of their numbers at Chrystler's, it perhaps was of
little moment what plan he pursued.
(To be continued.)

IRELAND.

BY THE RIGHT HON. THE LORD MAYOR OF THE CITY OF

DUBLIN.
A PROCLAMATION.

JOHN SMITH FLEMING,
Whereas the decoration of the statue of King William, in
College-green, has been for some time past the occasion of dis-
sensions and animosities amongst the inhabitants of Dublin, and,
in many instances, productive of violations of the public peace :
And whereas it appears, by information upon oath, that, in con-
sequence of the decoration of the said statue on the 12th of July
cast, a tumultious mob assembled in the early part of the night
of the said day, and continued in a state of riot and disturbance
of the public peace for some hours, during which period several
of his Majesty's subjects received, in consequence thereof, se-
rious bodily injuries; and the,inhabitants of College-green and
its vicinity were kept in a state of great personal apprehension
and alarm : And whereas it further appears, by the said infor-
mations upon oath, that there is reason to believe that there
will be a repetition of the like disturbances, if the said statue
shall be decorated upon the approaching Anniversaries of the
4th and sth days of November next :
Now, I, the said Lord Mayor of the City of Dublin, do hereby
give this Public Notice, that, as Chief Magistrate of this City, I
shall feel it my bounden duty to guard, as far as I possibly can,
against the recurrence of similar disorders and infractions of the
public peace ; and, for that purpose, to prevent, by all the legal
means in my power, the decoration of' the said statue, or the
affixing thereto any emblem, ornament, or device whatever, with
a view to the said approaching Anniversaries, and to bring to
public justice all offhnders in that respect. And Ido most con-
fidently hope that all the loyal, peaceable, and well disposed of
my fellow citizens will concur in giving effect to this my Pro-
clamation. And Ido further hope that -in thus following the
will and benignant instructions of his Majesty, and avoiding
thii cause of irritation, we shall set an example, which, by
uniting all classes in support of his Majesty's Government, may
restore the public tranquility, redeem the character, and pro-
mote the prosperity of the country in general.
Given at the Mansion-house, this 31st day of Oct. 1821
By order, A. TAI LOR, Secretery.