The Sun.
London, England, 1813-12-31 00:00:00

UNITED stivrEs

EXTRACT OF A LETTER PROM GEN. HARRISON, To
THE bEPARTMENT OF WAR,,DATEI)'.
" H. Q. Sandwich, U. C. Sept. 30, 1513.
" Sia—Oen. Proctor :has with lihn •175 regu--
lars of the 41st Newfoundland regiment of vete-.
I'4llS, 45 dragoons, and from- GOO to I 0 0 Indians.
Some deserters, who kit him the night before last.,
give the latter as the number. The citizens of
Detroit suppose the former to be correct.
"'The Ottowas myrd Chippawas have withdrawn
front time British, and have sent in three ofitheir
warriors. to. beg for peace, promising to agree to
any terms that I shall prescribe. I have agreed
to receive them upon condition of their giving
hostages for their fidelity, and immediately joiti-
ing us with all their warriors. The Wyandots,
Miamies, and time baud of Delawares whiuii had
joined the enemy, are also desirous to be received
upon the same terms.
" The celebrated C.bier, llain Pock, .4 at the
head of the hostile band on the betroit side of the
Streight. Tecumseh headS that Which remains
with the British. 'fhc itilithita,nts of .Detroit,
Who were in daily communication with theta!,
,make the former from 1000 'to 1410. • Their cab.,
jeet in dividing their force was to niake.a night
attack upon the part of the array which crol*d
over to Detroit, or that•which rewained tin this,
side, ,by a junction. of tlieir force some wiles
above.

'' A detachment of the army, and some of the
vessels of war, will set out for the reduction of
MaCkinac and St. Joseph's in a few days.
, • " ' honour, to be, &c.
4 CIA , i'2 Art " IV. H. E1111tIlfSON."
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4(.81 cc "itl;kit 'l,A4li ttitcifil#4, t.ep rture, five nations
of India s, iiA it-tr ' s Chippewa w ys; Po-
tewattontientittiitsiiiiiti Jekapoos, who were
but a few tirilt-s • e conic in fur
peace, and
I have agreed that hostilities should eete,for the
present, int the following conditions_(' They
have agreed to take hold -of ,the same tomahawk
with us, and to strike ail who are, or who may he
enemies to the United States, whether ilritich or
Indians, "-r—They are to bring in a number of their
women' as hostages, whilst they accompany tts to
war.--Some of them have already brought in their
women, and are drawing rations." -

In part of our last impression we published a
postcript, stating that the enemy's force bad pre-
cipitately abandoned the Niagara frontier, de-
stroying large quantities of his storeN, that lue
was pursued tti Tst'AVC Mite Creek by qeneral
WClure, who returned on' the. 156, by way of
Beaver-Dam, Chippaway, and Queenstown; and
that Col. Scott bad left Fort 'George on the same
day with nil the regulars for Saekvit's Oat hour.
This information is confirmed by the But! ahr Ga-
zette, which adds, that our militia, in .the expe-
dition, found 1000 barrels ur flunr,3 or 400 stands
of arms,
.500 hides, tallow, hats, bread, &c. • A
part of our force still remained, inider-Colonel
Chapin. •
Upwards' of 200 British ' prisoners passed
through Albany on Saturday, from thillarbour,
gutrlded by Captain 3.l.`lnzyre's company of de-
tached light infantry.
Gen. Proctor, with a small escort, hats joined
General Vincent 'at Burlington Heights, about
40 miles froin Fort Getirge, where they have
been joined by 120 men t'roas Long Point .(Lake
Erie.

rut:TILER EVENTS,OF THE WAR ON Tag. NOIITHEIt'a

FRONTIER.

O(YnENsuOtG (on the ricer st. Lawrence, about
30 miles N.. E. of Sackett's Harbour), OCT. 13.
This morning abOttt 160 dragoons arrived here
and the British, nt the fort of Prescott discover-
ing them, opened a fire on their encampment,
situated about twenty rods from the Court Honse,
where the Court was in session. The 'Court ad-
journedjust before. a twenty-four punt{ shot pa,sv
ed throughlthe court room. The dragoons having
left the town, the tiring ceased.

The 23d infantry blurt all the light artillery have
left Fort Getirge, and took up their line of in,trch
for the• Eastward on Thursday -inst.:. Colonel.
AV, Scott accompanied them, but we do not learn.
that General M. Porter has left Fort Niagara,
• At length we have 'received accounts of the.
United States frigate Esse, Capt. Porter, 1.%11i01
has so pang been considered missing. She ttn7
dinned at. Lima on,the nth of April, having in
charge two .Southseanien, her prizes, and shortly
after proceeded on a eruize off the Gallapagos
Islands. On the 28th of April, she captured the
English shipS Georgiana, Peas ; Policy,Bow-
twin ; mid Montezuma, Baxter. On the 2Sth
May, she also made prize of, the ships. Atlantic,'
Myer ; land Greenwich, Sbuttleworth. Shortly.
after, Capt. Porter had the Georgiana fitted out as
a vessel of war.

In addition to the above, we are informed by
the supercargo of the Jove, that the Essex bad on
board of her,. specie to the amount of four or five
millions of dollars. Thhi information was given
to oor informant by Captain .13axter, of the ship,
Alonte/mna, AVIIO arrived at Carthagena before the
Jove sailed for that port. _

We learn that the. schooner Chippawly (lately
captured by the enemy) had been driven by a gale
from the head of Lake Erie to near Buffalo. She
was bound to Malden witil the baggage of the
27111, and had on board Win,, Brown, Esq.. bro-
dwr to General Brown, who was the bearer of
dispatches from General Armstrong to Gen, ear.
rh,on. This gentler-twit was unfortunately drowned
in attempting to reach the shore on an oar. The
schooucr Was sot in and rqairing.

titol
"PhDe:EctiT., ta.—Ntimertnts deserteri
arrive here dailyft•oni lh b iut. bast higlit ar-
rived, tinning other St tu:o lltitch teazofficert from
Antwerp, ‘vho haVe left the ttittny's ttantlard, and
bring the following actoutit Of the force there as
sembled by the wilily: It hits been augmented to
the Dumber of
.1,5,000 Men; by the arrival of sonsa
thousand conscripts; %Ow have Hot served Si:t
• weeks, arid are not yet clothed, by some remains
of the Imperial Guards; as 30 Mantalukes, some
Lancers, .some tlublaus; some Guards of Honour,
and it was about 'a third;part of this force whiCh
Made an attack upon Breda. According to he-
, counts received this morning. from Zwalaw, the
enemy Ititstsustained. a .considerable loss hi killed
anti 'prisopers, in his retreat, and lost two pieces
of cannon': The Russian eavalry wcrestill briskly
imrsuing him. A number of• French prisoners
must have been brought into Breda yesterday.
evening. We hear that during the two attacks on
Broda,severatof the citizens repaired to the walls
and fort;ficalioni, and fired With greitt courage
upon the 'enemy. We expect every moment an
Gomm ; all is ready.
WILLIAMIrraIYr. DEC:U.—There are now lying
before our town twenty English ships: They were
rill frill_ of troops, which we have seen successively
land here, and whose number maybe about 7000.
The rest of the,,e troop* zire gone this, morning to
Pnticland, and it seems as-if they all were going
.by,Steinbergen to the side of Beigen-op-Zoont.
This afternoon more English troops arrived here
front Rotterdam in ten vessels, the same, that cast
anchor on Sunday afternoon before D,rdrecht,,
arid were forced to remain tilde. •T4vo more
English- tratispults have arrived la flelvoetsluys,
which we expect ivill be landed to-morrow, and
we hear thaf.others art eNpected to tallow. A
feN days ago .a numbei n:eces,al cannon, with.
the necessary artillery, Awas sent from here to
Breda, and several vessels lie ready to carry. morel
to the same place, Aft our frontier tortre&seto
which have been evacuated: by the enemy ,are to
he -placed in tire..best s ste of *fence..
SEu MADE, DEC.' luilf-pust four, p:
Cossack has just arrived,trotn'the English head-
tviarters at stei4bo:geis, bringing a letter from the
English to M.,Vanticr, Platt, Commandant of Bre-
da. The .Cossaeli whir spoke German, affirmed
that the .English were ready to fall in the rear of
the French before Breda.

UTRE(:IIT, ."060,43.—We hear that the French.
made .a brisk sallY`from Gummi, but were so well
received by •the PrussianS, that after lositliz Tatty
killed and .wounded 000 men some say) , they
were again driven in. There is no other pal-tic:4-
W. news from -the place.
ZUNKSEE, Doc. 18.—,Our port presents a fine
prospect. We have nowhere 20 vessels, frigates
and..ships.of. the, line, which yesterday landed a
part of their troops on South Beveland anti 'no-
lo). South Beveland is not yet quite free front
the enemy. The fort Raz, where there are '2OO
French, is to be attacked, they say, to-day by
the English ; it is nut expected to m'ake a long
resistance. Bergen-up-Z(l6m is surrounded on
all Sides by the Allies, and it is hoped will soot)
be forced tosurrender. lam just informed/ taut
the French are making the most terrible retihibi-
tions'in Walcheren ; they have curried away four
Ut the principal inhabitants of Middleburg ;- every
peasant who has four horseS or four oxen must
give the half of them : the requisitions of hay,
straw, forage, money, in short of every thing they
want, are extoried with great violence front the
inhabitants. The fate of the unhappy island of
W
aleheren is much to ,be pitied, and we cannot be
sotricitndy thankful for havitig escaped such 11115'
•

A RN liE I fit, Dec, 20.,--A letter from Bmbden,'or
the 131 It instant, says, that the Prassian Governor
of that town, has summoned all men from 17 to
'4O years of age, to take part in the conquest of
DellzyL They, went. away in •14 .vcssels, on the
1 Ith, armed, with what they could find. Our
people lie' round Delfzyl, and tird English vessels
have.cast anchoi in the Emms -before the place,
NO that it is now closely invested. There..are
about 800 men in it, mostly Douaniers, All those
who are not French have descri..rt. They arc in
want of many OCCCSSaI"I6 but the .phice is very
strong ; 140 pieces of cannon are in " the bat-
teries. The former French Commandant of this
placciras. been here to parley, hut our Comman-
limit requires that the garrison shall surrender at
discretion.' In Couverden there arc still some
French.

RoTTEtinAst, Dxc. 25. Accounts from Me-
den, of 17th inst. soy, that the Prefect of the De,
partment has given notice that 60;000 of the Al.;
lied troOps will march through there. There is
nothing new: from.Peventcr, the neighbourhoood,
suffer very severely.
DEO. 20.-"AProchimation has. been published
Jere by the BurgOrnaster, addressed to the inha-
bitants, calling 'on them to
,enrol their namcs
among those of the defenders of their counity,
.and to stihseLihe liberally to the eolutitary-dona-
,

PeDESTRIANISM.----. wiandet tul performance
was completed on Tuesday last at flatford, Oxon,
by Mr. TOWARD, a farmer, who undertook to do
100 miles in twelve hours, tb drive and walk, for
100 guineas; and to be allowed but one horie.---!
mr.To WAR b; drov6 ablooti-mare, in a-light chaise,
sixty-two miles in six hours, when he tool; some
refreshment, and commenced pedestrian, having
thirty-eight miles to perform in six hours. Ile
did 20 miles,in three hours and twenty minutes,
when, he tirade play, mid won the match with n_itch
difficulty in three minutes within the givet..t:il;.
Mr. TOWARD had trained' two months fortho
dertaking, and ,the snatch was done on a hOod
road of 23 miles.

SUMO/E.—A melancholy instance of self-dc-
strnction occurred yesterday morning in Essex-
court, Temple. A respectable green-grocer, with
a wife and lis(e children', residing in that court,
having passed the preceding night in a neighbour.,
ing public-hol.se, with a party, cards were intro-
duegd, and the unfortunate man lest a considerable
snzu•of money which he happened to have about
him at the, titne. Ile went home after lotv,t,
went to.: bed, got up in an. hour after, ando'veitt
down stairs into the cellar, and hanged hit sclf
his wilt' found hiw, when she got up, st4e,flif
and quite dead.