The Sun.
London, England, 1814-09-19 00:00:00

AAJ,IMICNN' PAPERS:

1105T.GN,, Jon' 25.—A letter from Albany, 04
the 22d ult. says,- " We. have seen a Gentlemen
Avlio left Sackett.:s Harbour On Monday morning,
and we are .under the inortifyink necessity of CC-
peotiqg, on his authority, the-feet has not sailed.
lie states, that on Satitrday 300 riflemen left the
harbour in boats, destined for Brown's army?.
convov44l by two brigs ; that the troops were,
compaed 00 Sunday, by SVC,fithcr, to land.
upon Stoney Island, and the brigs to return -to,
port ; and that on Monday mortig, when the
stage came. Out, a firing was' heard, supposed to
be an attack of the enemy upon oar force on Sto-
ney Island. The movement of General Brown
took. plate under an expectation that the fleet
would co-operate in an attack upon ;Niagara by
the 10th of July. This expectation- has already
been disappointed, and if, in consequenee,
aster'' should. happen to the army,: there will rest
a heavy responsibility somewhere. The season.
for 'operations on the Lake is already half passed,.
and the time is at hand when the enemy will be •
decidedly superior to us."
A letter to the Secretary at War, dated Point
Lookout, July the 18th, states, " that on the
15th; the enemy's fleet, consisting of 12 sail,
stood up the Bay; yesterday three 74's, two 16-,
gates, one brig, three schooners, and twelve.
smaller vessels (prizes), from above,.anchpred ofl.
this Point ; this morning the fleet made sail, and
two 74's, one bearing Admiral Cochrane's flag,
two frigates, one brig, one schooner, and seven
smaller veskls, shaped their course fur Potomac
the. remainder stood down the Bay. Tivo fri
gates, one sloop of war, and a•brig,- arc in' the-
Patuxent."
A 20 gun ship is to be built on Lake Champ-.

LAKE C LIAM Pi, A I AtelligOiar contains'
- two letters front commodore M‘Donnough, of
the 29th of June and 9th of July. In the former
be states the particulars of Sailing Master Vilettc
having succeeded in taking possession, near the
lines, of two lar!-re spars intended for-the new
ship building at Isle 'aft Noix, 'and completely de-
stroying them ; they measured 80 and 85 feet, tint'
were in charge of four United States' citizens.
In. the-second letter, he informs; that having sus-
pected othet attempts would be made to supply,
the enemy with similar spars, he ordered .a good:
look out, and on the night- of the 7th, Midshipman
Abbot succeeded in destroying four more spars,
supposed-to-be .for the enemy's ship's maintu3st,
and three 'topmasts. They were taken four miles
within the enemy's boundary.
• Commodore' Rodgers has Written to the Secre,
Lary of the Navy, announcing his -having dis,
patched Lieut. Morgan, -with 250 of the crew of
the flotilla, to Elkton, on the moment of learning
'that the enemy was in that neighbourhood; that
the party reached that place from Newcastle in
three hours and 47. minutes, though carrying with
them two heavy pieces of travelling artillery in a
dark and rainy night. Lieut. M. has -since re-
turned to the Delftware with his detachment, the
militia having arrived in the vicinity of Elkton in
sufficient force to defend the saute.

Copy of a Letter from Captain Porter to the Secretary of the

Navy, dated New York, 3nly 13

R---There are :tome facts relating-to our enemy, and al-
-though not connected with the
:action, serve to amen- his per-
HY, and should be known. On Commodore Hi•lvar's arrival
.'alparaiso,• he ran the Ithesbe close alongside, of. the Essex,
and ivauire d politely after my health, observing that his ship'
was cienred for action, and hisinnltrepared for.boarding. I.
observed, " Sir, if you, by any accident, get on board me, I.
as ere you thatgrcat confusion will take place ; I am prepared
ta:;ei!eive you, but shall only act on the deal:sive." He ob-
served coolly and indifferently, " Oh; Sir, I have no stfelt in-
tentions;" at t his imtant-lkis ship took aback on my starboard!
bow, her yards.nearly 10,:king with these of the Essex. I called
ail • hands to board the enemy; and in an instant my crew
Were ready-to spring oo her decks.* Commodore Hillyar ex-
claimed,- with great agitation, " I had no intention of get,
ting- on board of you—l, had no intention Of cooling so near
mu sorry I came so near you." His ship fell off with
leer iih-boom over my her bows exposed to my broad-
side, her stern to the fire of the Essex 'Junior, her crew in:
the icreatk-St Confusion, and in 35 minutes I. could have.taken''
or destrord he r.• After he' had brought his ship to anchor;
eeminodore Hillyar, and Captain Tucker, of the Cherub, ',vi-
sited me on shore, when basked him if he intended to re-
spect the neutrality, of the port ; "Sir (said be) you have
paid such respect to the neutrality of this port, that I feel
ukyself,bonnd in honour to do the same."oave the honour
to be,. with great respect, your obedient servant. • •
DAVID PORTER,:

ConlinOdore' Porter remained in Philadelphia
but a few hams, when 'he."set out for Chester.—
' His reception in Philadelphia was very flattering ;
a hodv of sea captains and mates tome him on their
shoulders, .lief carried-him to the room assigned
for his reception; amidst' the cheerings of .the.
ID-altitude.
THE ENEMY IN THE PATUXENT- AGAIN.-klet-
ter from Washington, of the 19th, communicates
the following intelligence :—:fin express arrived

on Sunday evening. from General Winder, stating,
that the enemy were ascending the Patuxent in
great force ; orders were unwed ately issued from
the War Department for a detachment of 'Volun-
teers to proceed from this city;. yesterday, about
twelve- o'clock, CaptainiDavidson's light infantry,
Captain Burch's artillery, anti Captain Doughty's
rifle eompt'inies,r -took up the line of march ; the
whole ntWer the command of Capt. Davidson.
E=NSTPORT.—We have not received any official
or authorised particulars of the capture of this
place. It is said, and very probably it is the fact,
that the inhabitants flaying refused to aid the
troops on that station in defending the town, it
was given up withbut a struggle. Private propeTty,
we umlerstand, was respected. '

roSTsCiurT TO THE HALIFAX JOURNAL, AUG. 8.
The nail from Ai.ebee left 'there on. the 26th
ult. The 3d and .sgth re!,;hnents, part of General
power's Briiode from 13Ordtait,- had reached

there 5 th.e.. remainderrthe sth and `:7th regiments,
with ;1 diyisiun of ar:illcrv, was momentarily ex=
peccd, as was alioGen,ralKehiptbrigade, crom-
' pused. of the Ih,L
‘sth battalion tiOth; and
skt ;and Olvision of artillery: His
-sci!ooner .tq..l4awrenee arrived this af-
t enloon from Ikrmnda. 'Ehe troops- froln lior-
deanx,, ander General Ross, hid arrived there, and
wc, c to, sad in a day Ur two after for the
CheSa-
pe:the.

~)3psy.oN, AuG. 2.—The;Thitell sloop Ajax, ar-
rivcd here off sliodi.v fr(ins HetvoctsluYs, with his'
Excaency Chailguion‘, iunhass-adOr "feofa the
t.ovcreign of 114.:11and to the Liiiitell States.

OLD 13A'iLtY, SEPT. 2.

CHARGES OF MUliDEit.

Thoirias Bishop was indicted for making an as-
sault -tin Marg. Higgins, on the 23d of August
hilt, by driviog against her head the pole of a
chaise, of which he was the driver, in the parish
of St. Bride's, whereby he Inflicted a mortal
Iround On the said-Marg. Higgios,t of ‘"Bich-she
died On the 29th of the -said nionth.—Not Guilty.
Moulds Smith was also acquitted on an ;mlict-
ment charging him with having assaulted Thomas
Sims, in the parish of St. John's, Clerkenwell,
on the 29th of July last, by riding against him
with a certain horse, knocking trim down, and
thereby occasioning his death.

FORGERY.

Robert Silver Carley was indicted for feloniously
forging and uttering, and publishing as true,
knowing it to by forged, an order of payMent for
43/. in the name of It. Living, on Messrs. Per-
ring, Shaw', and Co. London:

The chief evidence. being that of an accomplice,
Mr. Justice DAMPIER', on summing up, directed
the Jury to view the testimony of Sampson, who
was an accomplice, with great jealousy. 'lt they
believed him worthy of credit, supported as: be
was 'by another person, they xvould find the pri-
sOnet' guilty=--if not, they Ivould'of coarse acquit
him.

The Jury withdrew to consider .their' verdict,
and after in absence: of two hours, returned with
a ;,erdict—Not

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

HACKNEY COACEIES,.

,QttEEN-SQuARE.--,--On Saturday Mr. Wilkinson,
a most respectable Gentleman, residing in the.
City and
,at Islington, exhibited .a complaint
against the driver of the hackney-co.:1cl) No. 644,
for refusing to deliver a ticket, agreeably to the
provisions of the new •Hackney,Coach Act,
Mr. W. thought the Public would have great
reason to rejoice at the . Construction which had
thus spiritedly been put upon the Act ; and so far
as'he was inilividually concerned, he would Spare
neither trouble nOr expellee to have ,the point
established( that a complaint could be preferred
against a -hackney-coachman, even without a
ticket, in , the event itf its being refused. The
summons was issued accordingly.
Bow-S*caEET.—On Saturday. morning, James
Strangeways, one of the soldiers in custody for
robbing Mr.tongloirst, near Staines, a few nights
since:underwent a further examination before
Sir NATIIANIBL Coxaa'r, and was an was fully connuitted
,to Newgate tor trial. The coat, waistemit, cra-
vat, gaiters, 'shoes, and umbrella, which Bacon
found in the pri'soner's possession, were identified
by Mr: Longhurst, as plot of the things taken
front him. Mr. L. also stated, that he bad no
doubt of the prisoner being the man who put on
his clothes at the time of the robbery. The pri-
soner adinitted that he was a• deserter from the
40th regiment; that he left Plymouth with the
two other offenders, who arc now at large, and
accompanied them as far as Salisbury ; did not
see them, again till he got to London, and he
bought of them the things found ,upon him, and
claimed by Mr. Longhtast.

LANCASTER ASSIZES.

Before Mr. Justice MARSUALL.

MA LICIOTISLY STABBING. - Augustine Antonio
was charge,d with having maliciously stabbed and
cut John Alhohne, at LiverpooL
The facts of the, case were these :—Jobn Al-
lipline, a Swedish sailor, was on the 18th' of Au-
gust last lodging in a house at Liverpool:which
was the resort of many foreign seamen, particular-
ly Portuguese. Upon the evening in question a
great number of sailors had assembled for. pur-
poses of merriment at the house where Alholme
lodged, and, as was usually the case, a quarrel
ensued amongst them : with this quarrel, how-
ever, Alhohne had nothing whatever to do,* fur-
ther than by endeavouring to become a peace-
maker ar.d restore tranquillity. While he was iu
a.place called the Lobby,
_exhorting the contend-
ing parties to be quiet, the prisoner came behind
him, and striking him with his knife in the body,
gave him a wound, -which, but for the surgical
skill with which he was afterward treated must
have been mortal.

The Surgeon deposed, that lie was called in to
the assistance of Alhohnc. He found him with a
large wound in the abdomen, and holding his
hand to it. His bowels liad obtruded, and had
the appearance of a cluck's egg. Had it not been
fOr their relaxed state, the knife must have per-
forated them deeply, and produced certain death.
The prisoner, who addressed the Jury through
an interpreter, expressed his innocence. He de-
nied his being the person who struck the blow ;
he said he had previously left the house.
One of the female witnesses was again called
up, and wholly disproved his defence.
Mr.Justice_MmtsuALL observed to the Jury,
that it had, by a recent Act of Parliament, been
made. a capital offence to 'stab 'with intent to
Murder, or do bodily harm ; but unless they were
convinced that in the event of death it would have
been murder, they could not bring •the prisoner
within the scope•and Meaning of that Statute. If
they thbught the prisoner bad been urged by ge-
neral malice, and that it would have been murder
if time party had died, they would in that case con-
vict, him of' the capital charge. His Lordship la-
mented the practice so prevalent among foreign
seamen of carrying instruments of death ,about
theta. Be had lately tried several of these cases.
He kneW that every pains was taken in this coup.
try to prevent them.from wearing knives; but the
fact was, they artfully contrived to conceal them
under their sleeves.

The Jury, without any hesitation, found the
prisoner. Guilty, and his Lordship immediately
passed upon him the sentence of death.

CORONER'S •INQuEsT.—Friday an inquest was
held on the. body of THowAs GIBBONS, at the-
s‘%4ll with Two Necks, Finchley-coninion. Jr
alai eared that ;Mr. GIBBONS, on 'Thursday last, in
returning from Barnet to London, was suddenly
thrown from lk:s_hoise, through the aninial taking
fright, awl killed on she spot.---Verdict, Accidental
Death,

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FROM TE3 LONDON GAZETTE, SEPT.

fr-arl Office, Stpt.i7 , 1814.

. .
His nighneS; the Prince. Regent has been. plcawi,
in the nariie and o f the, behalf Of his "....1-Aiestv, to approve of
tin; Word's j" Egmont,op=Zee arid Manti;',ra,'' treing boine on.
the colonir4 and, appointMents of the fnd Regiment, in addi-
tion to ant other badges or devices which may have beretii:
fore been granted to that in?tcad of the worts
" Bergen-op-'Lee and Nlandara, as stated in the Gazette of
2d 111 arch, 1S1:3,

Foreign-office, Sep?. 11, 1814.

N. B. His Royal Highness 'the Prince Regent's appforal
of Mr. James Fretierick_Donovan to Daiirsh .Majesty".;
Consul at Leith vas inserted in the Gazette of Tuesday last,
by mistake; such appointment hail Lot taken place.