The Sun.
London, England, 1814-01-11 00:00:00

TLZzz t'ANADAS.

, EXTRACT OP A LETTER
_FROM MONTREAL 'NOV. lg. ,
When we reflect upon the stuninary transition,
which the inhabitants of Upper Canadk have ,
perienced from security to perils of every descrip-
tion, and from abundance to wretchedness, we
cannot. but feel for them, and regret that so-grelt
a portion of his Majesty's faithful subjects slionrd
be suddenly deprived of the fruits of thirty years
labour in the wilderness, and of the conSOlatimi, pt
bequeathing to their children a property, the ori-
ginal donation of their Sovereign, improved Llll-
- his immediate protection.
Lake Erie and its shores are at thk Moment
the undisputed possessions of the American Go 7
vernment ; and national mortification has accorn-.
panic(' this loss of territory. Behold a fleet under
the British flag led captive, with its gallant Coin--
minder, to the enemy's shores and; as if envy
had contrived to mock the sufferings of our mini-
lated hero Capt. Barclay., she, at the inoine4 of--
victory, made him feel his inability to seize upon
the prize valour had awarded hith Can it be be-
lieved, or toll without regret, that when this ini37
iortune happened, a sufficient and an abundant:
number of sailors were ti) be procured' in the
Lower Province, ready at a moment's notice to.
support the service of the Lakes ? Behold,_ with
the loss of the fleet, the consequent saCt•ificc of a,
gallant little army who for months had eom!.."
batted under every privation,--bad resisted the .
most formidable attempts of the enemy,—and who
were usefully employed in :seconding the virtabas
efforts of the confederated Indian nations fighting,,,
for • existence : the Indians, now, astonished at d
disasters which have befallen the warriors of their
. Great Father, have their confidence shaken, and
are left exposed to the temptations Oran insidious
enemy. The communication. between-the Lakes
Ontario and Erie cut of,--the seat of Govern-
, meta insulted, and no place of security fOurid
itt its visiuity,—the -Americini flag flying ou
Fort George, and a brave army, when corn=
batting with diseases of the climate; paraded,
to demonstrate that the loss was irreparable,---the
whole country (Toni the Eastern entrance of Lake
Ontario to our Moscsicivanced post of St. Joseph, a
thousand miles, open to the attacks of the coin-
Mon enemy,---:and can it be, or is it believed, that
this state of things could have been prevented?
Yes ; it is believed that the taking possession of
Fort-Niagara would have prevented these 'disasters.
The aggressive invasion itf' General Hull justified
the capture of the American fort at Detroit, and
at the same time instinct! the captnre of Niagara.
It was a nic:!sare of most peremptory obligation
in the judi., itt of the gallant Lieut. Govermir
Brock, who fill putting forthaill the energimof the
prov.ba:e eau (Ist ed to los care ; and, in fact, lt was
a measi,re of' such obvious necessity, that its not
having I)e.en executed eau never be too muchycs-ret-,

IMPORTANT NEWS,

GOVEB.NM ENT DISPATCHES-SURRENDER OF ER-
FURT, TORGAII, BLANIONT, NIMEGEN, AND ZARA,

-P_ S. OF THE RHINE AT DUSSELDORFF BY
GEN. KLEIST.

Government have this morning received Dis-

patches, the substance of which shortly is, that

lie Head-Qtiarters of the Allies remained still at

Lorrach—that Erturt-,—the important fortre3s
, •
of
Torgan---Zara- (as noticed below), an al-
most impregnable fortification, and the capital
of the province of that name in 'Venetian Dal-

matia ; Blamont, in the department of the
Doubs, and the steong fort of Nimegen, are in

the hands of the Allies.

To this we have to add the important fact, that

General KLEIST has crossed the Rhine at Dus-

schlorff.

Thus the full tide of success bears the Good

Cause to the desired Haven—and we congratulate

our Country in. the words of the Steersman,

"'Steady she goes—all's well."

An Officer has arrived from the Adriatic, but
bthigi,nothingpallicular. The fortress of Zara,

tht Otte, wit . remaining.•in l',lle toe'
my's hands in Dalmatia, had surrende,ed earl).l°
December to the touted forces of the
Austrians.

The arrival of Lord CASTLEILEAGH at the Frage
is announced by our private Corresponden
Yarmouth. as follows :

" YARMOUTH, JAN. iO.-Arrived a Dlitcl
schuyt, from Scbeveling, with Mr. Saw, a Kitigl
Messenger, with Dispatches ; and four Briti3
•
ship-masters, who have escaped from French p.ro,
sons. Lord CAsTr.r.nEAGit arrived on 'chars 15,1
last atthe

We have this morning received Bremen Pzip:',°'
and Dutch and[ Cadiz Mails, from all of which 'lc
have made extracts hi our preccding columns-
The Bremen Papers announce the importo,
fact of the capture of the strong fortress
Gluckstadt by the British, which acquisit44!
lays the Elbe completely open all the NVily t°
Hamburgh, against which city our naval fo''cc,
bas proceeded to co-operate with the brave Ailict
in its reduction.

The Dutch Papers bring nothing of great in°.
rest. Their contents, in so far as they relate
military affairs, arc e .tteme!y barren, arid th'it
political intelligence is too entirely of a spec:lll'4!
tive nature to require inch more attention. 4'
Conscript native of Holland,' who ha:l deer't
with thirty-two others from Arras, gives an "c'.
count of dktnrbances in that place, and (11°'
tions, what we know from eye-witnesses to °Il
true, that the whole country through which 11l
passed, wished only for the Dolfall of.theTyro6
and the revival of better times.

Among the most prominent of the specubti°
arc those which refer to Lord CAsTLuitttAGIII
. Mission, which the desires of the People in Wl,'
land, as elsewhere, induce them to suppose
aimed /It the) restoration of Peace with Fr3o(tl
and not with her perfidious and. sanguint4.
Rider. MuttAT is reported to have offered to 01
over to the Allies, provided his Lstalt svcore'
to him. This is a doubtful phrasc—Derhaps
Robber piny include the Crown of Naples etn°i"/
his real property.
T
The accounts from Cadiz are not mare 154y0r
tj
taut than those troni Holland Three thou`''
a
non-commissioned Officers have, it is said,
e
Barcelona for France to form the nucleus Of ti)
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new conscription-force. The other inoveruerits
Catalonia are of inferior interest. MortTlr'llr,
reported to be the successor of SUCIIET,
Cosa to be nodding to its fall. The lteu.cncq b°7i
-
set out trout Cad:z for Madrid, and rece''ll
throttghout their progress fire most distingliisll .
honours from the inhabitants of various tow °5"•

et.,,ko,thig to alt accounts EI/ONAPARTE 1:0 5
the high road to be put in possession of !ir't ji
which he lately said he was convinced b:,:.rf''e:li
and security were to be found—a ve::; "
Empire.”—Experience has taught him that
" Extended Empire, liLe expanded g.)1,1,
" Exchanges solid s:rength for fee'ile spen2our'',"?',l
But we trust his experience arcived 160 'vac,

tiot the ig n arrow dwelling lippoiuted for
kind" will be the utmost bounds of posse.,:sio"_
lowed hiin.•

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We noticed yesterday the City report,.. 1",,
French Papers had arrived—the same rinnoar
perseveringly repeated to-day, with the additia,:
that the Grand Allied Army had approached Wllll5
thirty leagues of Paris. We state these thi4s
they reach us, and 113 suspicion merely of the,r
being unauthenticated prevents our laving theo $
before a public which can exercise a in4r,alelit
upon them so well regulated by information
of the British nation. We ought to observe,
ever in the present instance, that it was not eNe
11
ed that the Allied Army should be prepared for No
and general operations before the 56 inst'
that if there has been any advance pusbei• •
nearly within a hundred miles of the Capital,,
must be composed of those daring Cossol°:
lihose astonishing marches defy the calcuPti°ll
of ordinary warFrire, and leiive the cocuPut."
tions by scale and rule far in the rear. j)
c
the matter as it may, the report is so 1"-i li
credited that Oinnitun retains its Mivancod stut.°
cc
at 174-.

• It does not always follow, when French
have arrived, th It their contents transpire inn/1::5
diately. If they fall into the hands of Pers°
deeplTimplicated in stockjobbiug, they are s'cit! ~
held till bargains can be made to theadontl'''
of their possessors ;,and in the mean time, til°'*it
from the motions of this therpometer, the st°-Tic
market, we can discover that intelligence of s°l
kind Las been received by certain parties, it,7e
not always that we can ascertain /its Pree.
nature. Thus we have reason to believe ti l:
the French Paper; we announced on Tne6(4lY:b.
li
cl
actually arrive is town that day, though their 9
el
stance did not transpire till after 'Change liours
Wednesday, and this arose from a sliecuintiii”

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Persons who obtainNl the news; and 'who,.
"nowin4 that these'apers were .not of a pacific
t etidencv, kept them secret till the assertion that
o leY Were so, and that the French Funds bad risen
5
Per cent. enabled them to raise Ortinium to 18,
111 el, in truth, their information extended to the
1, 4.1
that the intelligence was warlike, and that the
French Funds had fallen 5 per. cent.
iag,l Under such circumstances, our Readers will re-
' bow difficult it is always to steer clear of de-
xon and at the same time furnish the most re-
t`t news. We desire, therefore, to he perused with
ccireat, that what we affirm we know of our-
leiv" ma, be relied on with the most implicit
'°aAdelice, and what sr p state as reports, resting
" the authority of others, must be construed.
\tith a reference to, and stand or fall by that au-
The rutnour we mentioned yesterday has been
of a number to all the Morning Papers.
i
-ue it s saki that BLIONAPART2 had shot.him-
"--hv another that MARIA LOUISA bad found
means to acquaint her father that the King of
c'llE was a little impostor, and no son of
a third, that the Corsican had fled
tunnats—by a fourth, that he had pro-
t'"ded to join in army which he has some-
11'4"e or other, andthat the disturbances arose
.41.ter ,lei from Paris. We submit these
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the f!hoice of our Readers--they are all upon
al to authentiefty, and every mail may pre-
adds that W•hich he likes best—for our parts, we
re to the death Of BUONAPARIE, reckless

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layl pRINcE ALEGEN •T is expected in townnto-
trVesterday morning the Pulse of Yor,E, after
tanSaeting military business at Tort;
1)-House, af-
e,
the post bad arrived, left town for Windsor,
a visit to the•QuEEN, to report to her MA.TES-
tI
the proceedinv at lielvoir Castle, on the
'"lsteninff, of the Marquis of GRANBY, to whom
bler MAJusTY did the honour of standing sponsor
ver " concerned to say Princess SOPHIN• is
onich indisposed.
thentllilrenee has been received from Paris by
"f Kiyonne, that several persons of dis-
minn 11,1(1 been thrown into prison in conse-
til
tence of taisiug
lti secret measures to undermine
e Governme
.We have -reason to believe, that the intended
ti,il,irture from this country of MONSIEUR and the
T~nk
e De. BERRI is'suspended for the present.—

111)1:1vate letters from Cadiz, of a recent date,
1
-ernmn, that all thoughts of Lord WELLINGTON'S
Stqrlin,(2; his command were happily at an end.
„uieHET, it is certain, had left the army of Bar-
T' for some appointment in France.
hr`'is Majesty's sh'p Cossack, Captain STANPF,LI.,
;11et1 at Gibraltar on the 15th ult. after landing
/;,.."I,l'N MURRAY at Valencia. Captain STAN-
tri th wis been appointed by Sir EDWARD PELLEW
I.4‘kr "1""ml of a squadron, to cruize between
el ,v4l'a Point and Cape de Gat, for the•purpose
.„A..4q1n.; the ens, ern entrance of the Straits.
"entn,-)euburgh letter of Dec. 31, asserts that
1:‘,110.s consented to the alienation of the
The,' x‘urwav in full sovereignty to Sweden.
Lord \''‘,e, is a report 'row Sicily that MURAT upCi
the orn 14:NTINCK had bad a'meetiog, in which
111 t'r
prupo sed terms on which he was
ove no the cause of BUONAPARTE.
Oa:! reps :rum -I.'dtruno state, tha: they were in
(1' 7xPectatioti of the Neapolitan ports being
l'Zv''.!..t•() any ship with neutral colours.
1"1";.,kt.: letter from Schanffhausen mentions
e e!itire openness of Switzerland to the AllTes,
but! the hearty welcome with which they have
%tell r;Teived not only in that country but by the
oa the left of the Rhine.

A Gentleman Who quitted IHantbnrgh on•the
4th ult. says, that 27,000 inhabitants ,in the
r")le have been turned out of the place, and that
mixed himself with the rest as a pauper, to ef-..
feet his escape. The number of inhabitants now
‘..tt, • .ng .
'atnT is about 60,000, or about one half the
ineg'llar population. Some of the Principal build-
-""
are converted into purveying-houses for the
tb"Ps, and the churches into stables. A few of
Pleaure houses without the walls have been
rh- standhig, to he used astemporary hospitals.—
t,i,„,ry Of the citizens was extreme.
e'ieral STRodox,oFF watched Harburgh, and
thLt,ninticated with General WORONZOFF across
4t,:t by Blankenese and Stade. DAVOUST was
afr,e;,," °Y some of the prisoners
.to be excessively
sti'l'e of the populace. It is impossible to de-
bt: le the he which all the people aboutllarti-
ANgt4, entertain for DAVOUST j and innumerable
brotle stories whiCh they relate of his avarice and
eel `akitY• The Dutch gunners had secretly spilt-
neals:t °f the large guns, in consequence of which
tht; hot French gunners were permitted to do
thi: 'ln the works ; they were bivouacked upon
giji.,l4lllParts, and neither the inhabitants nor the
. were permitt-d to ascend them.
"e inhabitants were daily quitting. Hamburgh
i,,,,,great numbers ; and it was thought, that there n,
la "t less than 50,000 who were not able to
1110- ur, the prescribed stock of necessaries for six
m utak the for want of money, and the
ere opulent from the want of provisions in the
p,.:4llbunrhood, which had 'been scoured by
43i 101 commissioners and donaniers for -the use
uP the garrison. The Engliih flotilla was expected
the Elbe with great anxiety and if it did not
3:fte,it Was thought :that some Russian chas-
i,lts would he put on hoar: Blankenese boats,
""rder to clit'ar the river of French gun-boats.
4,11 P to the • 16th ult. the English, in Lower
had a free communication with-Altona,
vvin.eh was then consificreil es a neutral town, in
-'a nes had only
1,110 the t nemv had star ,irted no troops. The
about 120 c,; i atlry, and a bur her
in tit?. town. Itillaoitants had shut
'41,11E gates Against the French.

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