The Sun.
London, England, 1814-02-10 00:00:00

CANADIAN PARODY.

A Knight of renown, to whom few would say no,
Once his suifto a Lady would make,—,
,The. name of the KniiTlit was Sir J—s L—c—s Y—o,
And ae for the Lady, suffice it to
"rwas she, so far faat'd, of the Lake.
Mid oh ! says the. Knight, though from England I came,
To work o'er wide waters my way,
To regions of glory and.foiios of fame ;
You'll shun my .embraces, eluding nay aim
To all that I ask you'll say nay.
hush says the maiden, these tones of despair,
Unworthy of me and of you—
Believe me, Sir Knight, in your -passion I share;
And am willing to try, by my faith, I declare,
•
Whether you, Sir, or I be most true.
Should e'er, gallant Knight; my fidelity fail,
Or my honour a stain ever know,
I hope that grim Biiress, who rides on a gale,
'And Neptune, astride en the hack of a whale,
May hurl me to Pluto below.
The Knight Men cruise on Ontario's long lake,
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Betoot:: liin3,,,wkeivf.-list, and deplore ! -
He found that the Lady who vows could so make,
Though to honour and shame she had ue'er been awake,
Had eloped with an old Commodore!
With stars, and with eagles, and colours so gay) -
He her pride and her vanity fed—
nut, from our bold Knight would they both fly away,
Who pursued then, by night and pursued thei by day,
'Till around the wilt-Re space they bad fled—
He followed, nor feared either tempests or squalls,
For danger to lihn was a hum,—
She
looked at him coyly, returned just. his calls;
put rejected his presents, was:sby of his tails,

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And refused to an uinon to come.
And now to Niagara hastened the pair,
The revelry there had begun—
The tables they groaned under true fankee fare,
Of Pumpliimatit•Vork, every, man eat his share,
When the bells,oa board ships.tinkled one.
,
Then first with amazement the Lady observed,
An Indian stood up.aAt.the deck;
He looked as if long in had weather he'd served ;
Hii soul seemed all gloom, and his body unnerved,
• He squinted, and .bent was his neck—. .
With feathers and scalps was his person bedeck'd,
His hands, they were clay cold and danip ;
At this sight was all pleasure and gaiety clieck'd :
All the ships in the port were already half wreck'd,
And blue burnt each binnacle lamp—
The lady, though trembling, then handed a chair,
Begg'cl he'd sit, just his strength to renew,
!Int all! who can can judge bow profound' her despair,
WhAti thu feathers dew off; and 411 present declare,
'Twas the Prephersgrins ghost stood in view ! •
The sailors and soldiers that dwelt in the place,
With fear and with horror all shake;
Tee worms slipt to earth and snails mended their pace,
While fleas and muskitoes stood fixed on his face,
As he cried—List thou Lass of the Lake !!
Behold me, thou false one; and bear my dread tale--
To the Knight oh ! remember thy vows,
Since thou to preserve thy bright hottour didit fail,
Grim Boreas is cause on his charger the Gale,
And old dathly'Neptune astride on a shale!
To take thee to l!lt.n,n blow—
Thus saying he looked all around him aghast ! -
While vainly her face she would screen—
Then Boreakso 144, blew a terrible blast,
While Neptune his net for the fair lady cast—
And she sunk never more to be seen !
So, 'Os said too, sunk HAIIR: SON, MADDY'S Spoilt pet,
And none since his army commands,
And th-e-newspapers—lirrald as well as Gazette—
Declare that the ghost of the Lady mourns yet
O'er his sabre and sash.on the sands.

WINDSOR, FEB. 9.—This being the finest day
since Christmas, the QUEEN, Princesses AUGUSTA,
ELIZABETH, and MARY, took an airing to Frog-
more, and walked in the gardens for the first time
since the thaw. Her MAJESTY was drawn in her
garden chair by. her favourite bay honey, on the
delightful gravel walks at the hack front of the
Lodge, and "fie'at the serpentine water. They par-
took of some reffe-shment at half-past one o'clock,
and returned to L:the Castle a little before four,
and dressed for. dinner at five. Last night the
QUEEN had a select party to tea and cards.
The Princess CHARLOTTE, . attended by Miss
KILIGHT, took an- airing yesterday in Hyde-park.
Yesterday the Earls of LIVERPOOL and CHOL-
mationLicx waited on the PittNca REGENT.
Mrs. JoribAs, it seems, is to head the comic
corps of Theatrical Amazons next •week at Co-
vent Garden Theatre. Mrs. H. 'JOUNSTON, ac-
cording to report, retires from public sertricc.
The-venerable atei highly rpspcctable President
of the Mediterranean
.2toard of Trade, Mr. Tuitti-
BULL, we are happy to learn, bas just been restored
to sight, in the 'short' space of five days, by the
new method a extracting the Cataract, which has
been of late so successfully performed upon a large
number of the Greenwich Pensioners, by Mr.

ADAMS. .
SPIRITED VOLUNTEERING FOR CANADA.
Saturday night a list was sent off. from Plymouth
Yard to the Admiralty, of the shipwrights who
have volunteered for Canada.. The wishes. of Go-
vernment hadTno sooner been made known to the
artificers,:thr numbers pressed forward to give in
their names ; and the list forwarded on Saturday
night contains the names of 230 young men, none
of them exceed;no• 30 years of age, andthe..flower
of the workmen of Plymouth Yard.
It is stated in letters from
_Vienna, that the
Archduke ANTONY has experienced an accident in
consequence of his zeal in prosecuting his studies.
• Being, on the 2d ofJauuary,,alone in his libtary,
be wished to get down a bo9k, which was placed
on a very high shelf. For this purpose lie step-
ped up a ladder, but being seized with a swim-
mingin the head, he fell, and dislocated his right
attn.

A Gentleman at a tavern dinner observing

the witie,did not,ciret late very quickly a Pillibte
said, it was-,ilo %yonder, for it was slue-juice.'

SEGO DTI) EDITION.

MOST GLORIOVS

FURTHER PAP..TIC:ULARE.

SUN'-OFFICE, HALF-PAST Two O'CLOCK.

It is confidently reported, an the credit of a

Letter recei*ved this day by a Courier, that a Ge-

.•
neral Battle took place on the 3d and 4th instant,

at Chalons-sur-Seine, in whkb BUONAPARTE was

, . . , .
Defeated, with the loss of 25,etab mth hors de conz-

bat. It was not known whatt bo,cl become of him

personally—the Letter says, gull se istuvethat he

ias escaped.

The Allies had pnsbed on their ad-

vanced guard, and were to EnterTaris on the 7th.

BUONAPARTE bad previonsly Made an unsuccessful

attack on BLUCHER. We may confidently rely on.

the truth and accuracy of these statements, as

we are aware of the mode in which they were so

rapidly conveyed to this cot try.

The Cossacks h<lct before been at Fontaine

bleau sonic days.

The Rout is cotnplete.

Similar intelligence

has been received .by Mr. ROSCHILD, a most re

spectable Merchant
.in tlip,city, chose accounts
arrived froth Deal in semen boars.

)rcurn, it is said, has surrendered, and At'

rnical VERuzuf. has offered to give up the Texe

Fort and Flea on terms which_ arc rejected.

THIRD EDITION.

MONITECTRS OF THE SEVENTH.

SUN-OFFICI3,Foua O'CLOCK.

n corrohoratio,l of what we'have stated, Mo

of ,
~have TA.oclied
.us7—Moniieurs_o_

be Seventh bring the accounts from the Armies

engaged, only a llnndred Miles from Paris,

:o no later a date than the first. They of course

do not come to _the period we have been enabled

o reach in our Second Edition, but their con

:Cuts are such as -to hiduee us to placc,

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even. firmer reliance than before upon the

splendid news therein contained. They relate to

le first battle, in wbich lltioNapanme was en

gaged against the artily under BLUCHER, into con-
tact with which he -came on the route by St•

Dizier.

Hei•e the ,c29rsican iuet his first reverse,

and he endeavours fo glass oven the disaster, and.

his consequent retreat, by Itating, that he retired

a the direction of :TR:OYES, in ol•dcr to cover

Paris from the ettackwith which it.was threatened

by the advance on his right (to Sens) Of the Force

under Prince SCHWARTZENBERG.

This Movement: a glance
_at the Map

will she-w our Readers,..mould bring him

precisely to the spot where our private letters
assert he was utterly routed on the 3d and 4th,

namely, to near Chalorzs, being, between that City

and Troyes.

We laeurtliy cang4t.u!tit:e our country on these

the most gratifying tidings that have yet reached

us—tile crisis we may stq has cone ! There arc

marry• minor particulars, but we bare neither time

nor room for their inwiipn, and in truth they
are swallowed no in the loriaus consummation.

The American whaler Crardne'r, with 500 bar-
rels of oil, prize to'his Majesty'S ships Ramifies
and Loire, has arrived at Halifax.
The' ship Asia,, of Bombay, from Batavia, fohn-
dered on the 2d-of Aptil lat. 10, S. long. 85.
E. The crew took to the boats; bat onlT' one
Officer, Mr. PATroT:f,andl2,R lanais, reached Clue-
dah on the 15th of May.
The roliey, of Load n, with 1200 barrels of"
oil, was taken in the South Seas by the 'Essex fri-
gate, retaken Dec.l l „ Aff Sandy Hook; by the
-Ramifies and`Loicre,' and arrived at balifax
Dec. 17.
Their Lordships the Postmasters-General have
appointed Mr. 3ofiN WATKINS 4 %Ili() So gallantly
dzfended the Montague packet after the death of
her late Commander, to he Captain of tin esta-
blished packet on the Falmouth station.

AMERICA:

:FURTHER EXTRACTS-FRoM AMERICAN PAPERS.]

.GENERAL ORDERS. s

• • Head quartersi, Quebec, 2lit Dec. 1813
"His Excellency. the_ Governor
,in Chief and
Commander of the Forces,_ has received a dispatch
from Major-General De ltottenhurgh, transmit-•
ting. a, letter front Major-General .17incent, con-
taining an Qfteial Report front CJ Intel "n. Ju:ly, .
of his having taken pofoessionof Fort George,
-Niagara, on the
,12th inst. withont opposition.—
The Colonel states,. that _having received intelli-_
Bence of its being, the enemy's intention to 'plan-
der.the adjacent country;
,and to carry off •the
loyal inhabitants of that district, that he immedi-
ately made .a forced, match with Aiyirktnall detach-
ment of the advanced corpi itrvirr.bis command,
consisting of...tf party of RoyatArtillery,'` With
two field pieces, about anti 340
of the 100th regiment nntlerltient.-,Colonel
the whole ,amounting otil;7 tr) 379 • rank
and file, together with, about 20 volunteers and.
70,Western,India.ns, under. Colonel Elliott, atilt •
notwithstanding the •incletnencv of the weather,
stiCceededidarriving in time, to frustrate the ene-
my's predatoty design, who :aba»doned the ' for-
tress with .such precipitation, On the approach
of the detachment, that his teats were left sign A...-
ink, nor had he time to injure the works of the
place, which have been restored
,to a respectable
state of defence by the enemy, and would have.
required a regular.sieg,e to -reduce. - •
, - "The enemy succeeded in crossing over his Ord-
nance_and stores,• previous to his flight, which
has' been marked by eternal infamy at3d disgrace,
in the wanton conflagration :ot`rthe'WhOle town,
which,iridefiance of the comMontrights of humani
and indirect violation, of the Keityrated protesta-
tions of. the American t'otitmandeii' to respect
private property, has at this hiir lWnent. season,
been rednced to a heap Of ashes. By the judicions
and, prompt movement of Colonel Alto:ray, the
.Ciagara frontier bas been rescued from, its in,'
vaders, and a fruitful and extensive districtpre-
served from' Meditated plunder, and its loyal- in-
habitants from. further outrage, and imprison-
tient, which neither the pledged faith of the
American Commanders, not/their patient'suhmis-
sion to the imperious will of the lavelesi invaders,
would have secured them frOm suffering. . .
" EDWARD BAYNES, Adjt.-Cseu. N

GENERAL ORDER, .
" Head-quarters, Montreal, Dec. 12.
His Excellency the .Chief no
Commander of the Forces, has neg aituotince to the •
troops tinder his ,command, .tbathas •received A
communication from Gen. •Wiltlyit6l4', command- '• •
ing a division of the army of th eliiied States Of.
America, -by order of his Government, Of which
the following is an extract :
'._The GOver'nment of the United States,: ada. •
tiering` unalterably to the prihcinle• aml.purpose
pose declared in the communication of Geri.. Dea- •,•-%
born to you, on the subject' Of the 24 Ainericati
soldiers priSoners'af war, sent.. to ,Englaud to be
tried As criminals, and ••the yonfinetnent of the like
number of British soldiers, Prisoners of war,, se-
lectettio a.bi461,14.9,„t:i4Av t:Lirvkr;Apg eun-
sequeme of the step taken by the British Govern-
ment; as tow cOnitmmicated, ordered 46 tlritish
Officers into cline confinenrent..and that they will
not be discharged from,their confinement until it
is known that the 46 American Officers and non- ' •
commissioned officers in question
.:Are. no longer

confined.
"It would be superfluous -to us-e- any art nment
to refute an assumption so extrav4gant, unjust,
and unprecedented, as to deny tlle, 0441tt of a lice
nation to bring to legal trial, in dne cause of law,
her own natural-born subjectstzLeßken ,in the ac-
ttral commission of the most bowls offence that
man can commit
.against his. 4itialt4illis Country,
and his God, that of raising anti
against his allegiance to his countrymen, by
leaguing with their enemies ; a crime held in such
abhorrence by every civilized nation in F..nrope,
that summary death by the. law martial is its
avowed reward, and is inflicted with . unrelenting
severity by France, the Ally of the United States.
" This pretension must appear to every
a 1-
prejudiced and upright mind asinitinitons and un-
just as is the retaliation Which the Government ,tf
the United States has adopted, by placing in Close
confinement 23, British soldiers, as iHostage' foe
an equal number df infamous wretches, the un-
worthy offspring of Great .Britain , who, when
drawn front the ranks of the
,enemy, solicited to
be suffered to expiate their ~vetson, by turning
their arms apinst their repent- employers. These
rebels have, with the con empt they merit, been
consigned to the infamy! and punishment that
await them froni the just law 3 of their offended
country ; .while the Government' of the I.Juie.ed
States does' not blush to ekim those .o,utcast trai-
tors as their own, and outrage, the custom of civi-
lized war in the persons of honourable men, by
placing them on a par tiith -rebels an+Aeserters.
No alternative remains to the Commander of
the Forces, in the discharge of his dlity to his
King, his .country, awl his fellow hot
to .order all the American officers, prisoners
war, .without exception of rank, to be immediate.
ly placed in close confinement, as hoStates: for
the 46 .British :offieers
.So'confined by. the eX'preis
command of tkiStioreme. Authority in that count.
try, until the number of ele-le.'completed, over
and above tho Se. now in cioiifin'enient.
" His Excellency directs-titiar this General oe-
der, together-with the. (116 i-issued on the 27th
October,, he read to the "th the British
sohliermay be-sensible afilltuternis an which
America has determined to wage this war ;
_confi-
dent that he will met them with prop& spirit
and indignation ; for should• he beconie.the pri—
sonerof.a foe so regardless Of < the-se' la*s
for ages baye governed civiliztA 'nation's at war,
be would be doomed to a rigorous' confinement,
and that perhaps only preparatory to a More sa-
vage scene.
(Signed) . EDWARD BAYNES,
4g Adjoult-Cieueral, North Ainerica."