The Sun.
London, England, 1814-02-25 00:00:00

A 3: RICAN i'APERS.

OFNERAL ORDERS.
11,-4d-quartets, Quebec, Jan. B, 1814.
His Excellency the ComMander of the Forces
_ha“he s.atisl'actimi of :announcing to the troops,
that helm received a dispatch from Lieut.-Gen.
Drummond, reporting the complete sue,cess of an
attack that was. ii i-e at day-break, on the morn-
ing of the 30t), 'pct..' on the enemy's'position-sat
Black Rock, where he was, advantageously pc:rt-
ed, -with itflwa,ils of 2000 men, and
,after a short,
:but severe c<mtest, the "enemy' was repulsed in-the
most gailaul manner, and pnrsned in his retreat to
Buff+, lvbere he attempted to-Make a stand, but
on ree:;ving, a few, rounds frimi the British field-
pieces, he a!)andooed that post
_also, and fled with
precipitation to the 11 Mile. Creek, on Lake Erie,
leaving seven field-piece;, and four schoi3tiers and
sloops, 'kith considerable quantity of ordnance
and other vAludble sores, !vide!! );ave fallen into
our hauds.7-The enemy suffered sev,rely, lit
from the rapidity of his flight, 70 prisoners. only,
are talien, ffiong whom is Doctor or Lieut.-C,Ol.
Chapin. • -
The corps under Major'-Gen. Wall, consisted of
detachments from the - Royal Scots, Bth (or
King's), 41st, Had the flank-companies of the 89th
and 100th regiment; the whole not exceeding
1000 men.
Tthe Lieu,enant-General bestort/ the highest
praise upon the undaunted courage„ and patient
submission of the troops, in contempt of.the in-
clemency of the weather, and the hardships to
which they were exposed.
No British •Officer has fallen on this occasion ;
Lieut.-Col. Oilvie,'Sth, (or King's,) and Capt.
Fawcett, 100tla Grmadiers, were wounded, and
it is supposed our loss, does not exceed 25 killed,
and 50 wounded. .

BIACk Rock and Buffalo, were burnt previous
to their eacnation by our troops, together
.with
all the buildings and the four- vessels. A
considerable quantity ot'stores having been sent
away before the conflagration.. •
ED. BAY);ES, Adj.-Gen. N. A.

Head-quarters, Quebec, Jan 9 1814.
His Excellency the ciovernor in Chief and
Commander of the Forces has received from
Colu.iel Sit Sidney Beckwith, a report from Capt.
&Hier, of the Frontier Light Infantry, stating
ti,2.eomplete success of an expedition cominitted
.to the charge of thai ()dicer, against the enemy's
nost an,i dcptits at Derby, in the •State of Ver-
mont, -tvere taken possession of at 'day-
break," on the lith Dec.—An extensive barrack
for 1200 men !att.:ly erected, was destroyed, toge-
ther 'with the stables and store-houses, and a con-,
sid(Table gaantity of valuable military stores, have
been bro'nght away.
Capain Barker mentions Captains Curtis and
201.41. iiie“tthlaNts 1.1.0dw.41.
of •the township battalions of
militia, as having been most active with the vo-
Itinteers of the militia, in the execution of this

ktdicious and,spirited enterprise.
ED. BAYNES, ?►dj.-Gen. N. A.

BY IITS EXCELLENCY LIEUT. GF.N. SIR G. PREVOST,

BART. COMMANDER Of HIS MAJESTY'S FORCES IN
NORTH AMERICA, &C. &C. &C.,
To the Inhabitants of his Majesty's Provinces in North

, America 7
A PROCLAMATION.

The complete success which. has attended his
Majesty's arms on the Niagara frontier, having
placed in our possession the whole of the ene-
my's posts on that line, it becat9e a matter of
imperious duty, to-retaliate on America the mi-
series which the anfortunate inhabitants of New-
ark had been made to sutler upon the evacuation
of l'9rt George.
The villages of Lewiston, Black Rock, and
BuffalO, have accordingly been, burned.
At the same time that his Excellency the Com-
mander of the Forces sincerely , deprecates this
mode of warfare, he trusts, that it will be suffi-
cient to call the attention of every candid ;Ind im-
partial- person, both amongst ourselves and the
enetpv, to the circumstances from which it has
arisen, to satisfy them that this departure from
the established usages of %vat. has 'originated ,with
America herself, and that to her alone, are justly
eh tigeable all the awful and unhappy conse-
quences which have hitherto flowed, and are likely.
to result from it.

It is not necessary to advert to the' con-
duct Of the • troops .employed on the Ameri-
can coast, in conjunction with his Majesty's
squadron, under Admiral. Sir John B Warren,
since, as they. were neither within the command,
nOr.snbject to the controul of his Excellency,
their acts cannot be ascribable to him, even if
they wanted that justification which the circum-
stances that occasioned them so amply afford.
It xvill be sufficient for the present purpose, and
in order to mark the character of the war, as car-
ried on upon the frontiers- of these provinces, to
trace the line of conduct observed by his Excel—
lency, and the 'troops under his command, since
the comnicncement of hostilities, and to contrast
it with that of the enemy.
The*firSt-invasion of Upper Canada took place
in July, ISI2, when the American forces, under
Brigadier-General Hull, crossed over and took
possession of Sandwich, where they began to
wanifest a disposition so different from that of a
magnanimous enemy, and whi:•h they have since
invariably displayed, in marking oujests cif
their 'pecatliar resentment, the loyal subjects of
his .T.`'.4ajesty,\ and in dooming their property to
plunder and conflagration.
.Various 'instances of this kind occurred, both
at Sandwich and its neighbourhood, at the very
period when his' Majesty's Stathlard vas waving
upon the Fort of.llichilimackinac,, and affording

Forec,tion of
who h:zd .submitted ,to weck3
afterwar, -the 113ritish flag was al,(;•b4.4'!ted tau
ti) Fortress of Detroit, whi.ch, gkher tlig
whole of the Michigan Territory, had sur; endered
to his A,ijeqy's arms. .

11 ad not his Excel' y been iletuated,hv senti.
plents far di ff-rent from those Which had influene.
ect the .41Incrican,G;vernment; and the perSons-
eniployed by it, in. tios 'l4r t acts of destruetioh
of-private property, con:Milted during' their short
occupation-of a part of Tippet- Capada, IJ;s
cellency could not have failed to'have a.t;iiiled
him-
seh ()f the opportunity whiuli the undttirbed
possession of the whole of tile Miehil.* li rritory
aff6tded him of amply retilliating for the ileyrl4-
taking system which .had been .purSued ;it Sand-
wich and on the Thames.

But strictly in conforniity to the views and
'disposition of his hwn Government, and to'that
liberal and
.magnanimons policy which it hacrdic-
tated, he chose rather to torbear an inotation of.
the enemy's example, inthe hopes, that for-
heatance would he duly appreciated by the Gos.
vernment of the United States, and would pro
duce a return to the more civilizedosag-es of way.
The perions'- and property, therefore, of the
inhabitants of the Michigan territory were re,
speet'ed, and remained unmolested.
In the- winter of the 'following year, when the
success which attended the gallant enterprize
against Ogdensburgh bad placed
.that popnlons'
and flourishing village iu our possession, the ge-
nerosity of the.ritish character Was* again cop-
spicuoos in the scrupnlous preservation of
,every ,
article which could be considered as' priN''ate pro- .
perty; such public buildings only heing-destroyed
as were used for the accommodation of troops and
for Public stores;
. 11he destr,uction of the defences of Oidens.
burgh, and the dispersion of the•enemy's force in
that neighbourhood, laid open the whole of their
frontier on the St. Lawrence to the incursions 'of
his Majesty's troops, and Hamilton, tag well as the
nunierous Settlements on the banks. of the River,
might at any hour, had such heen the diSposition
'of. his Majesty's Government, or of (hose acting
under it, been plunderad.and laid waste. .
During-the course of the following Summer, by,
the fortunate result of the, enterprize against
Plattsbnrgh, that town was .for several boors in
the,eomplete possession of our troops; there not
being any force in the neighbourhood which could
attempt resistance. yet even there, under cir-
cumstances of strong temptation, and when the
recent example of the enemy, in Coe wanton de-
struction at York, of private' property, and
buildings not used for military purposes, must
have been fresh in the recollection of the forces
employed on that occasions, and would have jus-
tified a retaliation on their part, their forbearance
was strongly manifested, and the directions his
Excellency Lad given_f_a the Conomuder
.OL-o.ost-
expedition, so scrupulously obeyed,- that scarcely
can another instance be shewn in which, during
a state of war, and under similar cireurn,stances,
an enemy, so completely under the power and at
the mercy of their adversaries, bad so little cause
of complaint.
During the course of the -same simmer, Forts
Schlosser and Black Rock, were surprised and
taken by a part of the forces under the command
of Major-General. De Rottenburgh on the Nia-
gara frontier, at both of which places personal
property was respected, and the public buildings
were alone destroyed.
• It was certainly matter of just and reasonable
expectation, that the humane. and liberal course
of conduct pursued by -his Excellency on 'these
different occasions, would have had its due weight
with the American GoVernment, and would have
led it to haveabstained; in the further pt•osectu.ion
of the war, from any acts of WantonneFs or vio-
lence which could' only tend unnecessarily to add
to its of Binary calamities, and to bring down upon
their own unoffendingocifizens a retaliation, which,
though distant, they must
.have known would
await and certainly follow such eominet.
Undeterred, however, by his Excellency's ex-
ample of Moderation, or by any. of the come,
luences to be apprehended from the adoption of
such barbarous measupes, the American forces at
Fort George, acting, as there is every reason to
believe, under the orders, or with the approbation
of their Government, for sonic tune previous to
their evacuation of that fortress, nude.. various
,pur,edte
manycCst
lorfOye
the elther farm
csp: ‘cttb io
lie t
anal
' peaceable inhabitants of tln neighbourhoMl.
But-the full measure of this species of barbarity
remained to be completed at a season when all its
horrors might be Pliore fully and keenly felt by
those who. were tp become the wretched victims
of it.

It will hardly be credited .by those who 'shall
hereafter read. it in the page of history, that io'•
the enlightened azra .Qf the nineteenth century,
and the inclemency of a Canadian winter, the
troops of T a nation calling itself eivflized and
Christian, had wantonly,,aud without the shadow
Qf a pretext, forced 400 +helpless . women and
children to quit their dwellings, and to be the
mournful gpeetattirs of the conflagration .and to-

.tal destruction of all that belonged tee them. •
•. • Yet such was the fate of 'Nen'ark on.the 10th
December, a day which the inhabitants of Upper
Canada can never forget, and the reC.ollection of
which cannot but nerve their arms' when again
opposed to their vindictive fOe.. On the night of
.that :lay, the Americau troops ,under Brigadier-
General M'Clurc, being about to eNacaate Fort
George, which they could no longer.,rctain, by
• an act of. inhumanity disgraceful to themselves
and'w the nation to whirl' they belong, • set fire
,to upwards,of 150 houses, composing the bcatn
villege of Newark, and burned theni to the.

leaving withont coverinz or shelter those
innocent, unfortunate, and distressed inhabi-
tonts," whom that Officer, by his Proclamation,
11:4d Previously -engaged to nroteet.
His Excellency Ivotild have ill consulted the
!,unour of his country, -and the jwtire due to his
Majesty's injured and insulted subjects, had he
permitted an act -of such needless cruelty to pass
Unpunished, or had he failed to, visit, whenever
the opportunity arrived, upon the inhabitants of
the neighbouring American frontier, the cala-
mities thus iniicted Upon those of our own.
The opportunity has occurred, and a full.mea-
sore of retaliation has taken place, such as it is
hoped will teach the enemy to respect, in future,
the laws of war, and recall him to a sense of what
fi due to himself as well as to us.

In the further proseCution of the contest to
which so extraordinary a character has been given,
his Excellency must be guided by the course of
conduct which the enemy shall hereafter pursue.
Lamenting, as his Excellency sloes, the necessity
imposed upon him of retaliating upon the subjects
"of America the miseries inflicted on the inhabi-
tants of Newark, it is not his intention to pursue
further a system of warfare so revolting to his
own feelings, and so little congenial to the Bri-
*tish character, unless
.the future measures of the
enemy should compel him again to resort to it.
To those possessions of the enemy along the
whole line of• frontier which have hitherto re-
mained undisturbed, and which are now within
his ,Excellency's ,reach, and at the mercy of the
troops under his command, his Excellency has
determined to extend the same forbearance, and
the sante freedom front rapine and plunder, which
they have hitherto experienced ; and from this de-
termination the future conduct of the American
Government shall alone induce his Excellency to
'depart.
The inhabitants of these Provinces will in the
mann time be prepared to resist, with firmness
and courage, whatever attempts the resentment
of the enemy, arising from tlieir disgracr, and
their merited sufferings, may lead.them to make,
well assured that they will
.be powerfully assisted
at all points by the troeps under his,Excellency's
command, and that prompt and signal vengeance
will -be taken for 'every fresh departure by the
enemy from that system of warfare which ought
alone to subsist between enlightened and civilized
nations.
Given under my hand and seal at arms at tauebac,,
this 12th day of Jan. 1 Fl 4.
GEORGE PREVOST.

By his Excellency's command,
E. B. BIALSTON.

HALIFAX, FEB. 2. =Captain Cochrane, Aid-de-
Camp to his Excellency Sic George Prevost, ar-
rived here from Quebec on -Monday evening. He
is the hearer of dispatches for England, and we
understand takes his departure from hence to-
morrow, in his Majesty's biig Raleigh.—Quebec
Papers to the 13th ult. were received by Captain
Cochrane ; we have copied from them some very
interesting accounts of the successful operations
of the British at Black Rock and Buffalo, and
-also a Proclamation, or Address, of his Excellency
the Governor-General to the Inhabitants of the
British Provinces, relative to the destruction of
Newark, &c. by the Americans.
BOSTON, JAN. 9.—At New-York the report is,
that the meeting between the Macedonian and
Statira is arranged ; and that Comniodore Deca-
tur has wrote to the Secretary of the Navy for
leavc to meet the Endymion.
JAN. 25.—The Secretary of the Navy,• it is said,
will shortly make a Report upon the expediency
-of employing- small fast-sailing vessels to annoy
the commerce of the enemy.
The American privateer Grand Turk • arrived
from Salem the 19th ult. from a cruize, during
which she male the following captures
Wolf's Cove,' from Quebec for London ; General Kemp,
from ditto for Liverpool ; Trial, from Prince Edward Island
for ditto ; Mineral, from Pictou for dreznock; Grace, from
-Lisbon for fit. John's, Newfoundland ; and the schooner Re-
becca, frdin hence for Bermuda.

'EXTRACT 01? A LETTER FROM SACKETT'S KARBOUR,

JAN. 13.

" We have every probable reason to 'expect,
-and I have not the least doubt of an attack here
during die winter. Report says the enemy are
making every necessary preparation for that pur-
pose at Kingston. A short time since several de-
tached companies of troops, amounting to about
600, were marched from this place to French
Mills, leaving it nearly destitute of troops ; there
remain at the Harbour only about 700 or so of
'Harrison's men. Our fleet' is moored to the best
advantage, but at best they can operate only as
batteries." _ _ _•_ _

Another letter states, that Mr. Eckford was
there, and had about 400 shipcarpenters at work,
and that all the forces were employed in cutting
and dra'ing timber, and erecting block-houses.
Commodore Chauncey is proceeding from Wash-
ington to Sackett's Harbour.
The post at Four Corners• consists of only 750
men. .

A British piequet at Odletown has been surpris-
ed, and a sujeant-major anti eight men taken
prisonerF. The British Major Goodhue, one,
and a bugleman, have been taken at Chm-
plain. The Major says he came out with a flag of
truce, but lost it.