The Sun.
London, England, 1814-12-14 00:00:00

Ai‘igirMAN PAPERS

(Selo k Evening Post, 0ct.144.

Import-uit,
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• • f true.—The folovvillg APRS ens
:%:19rsed oil Ore' WAY bin of tlit.7 SoUthern Mail,
"-,..'which arrived this mornioo.; : ..

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Philadelphia, Oct. 23,11zi1f-p4st 10 o'clOck
-.'!" The passengers in .the stage 'this morning
from Baltimore report, that General Drummond's
army captured by General Izardls."
.The above news, we learn by passengers in the
stage from Philadelphia, was contained in a letter
from Emettsburgh (Penn.) to. a gentleman of re-
spectabil4y in Baltimore. The letter writer stat-
ed,,that the Express mail from Buffalo to Was,h-
ington City had just arrived ihere, and brought
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the information as above stated.
Extract of a Letter, dated Petcrshurgh, Virginia, Oct. 18.

. General Pegram and suite left here yesterday
to take the command of 5000 men, on their way
from this State for the defence of Washington anti
Baltimore. They will be encamped at to
be ready to act as circumstances may require."
BOSTON, OcT. 22.—Letters from Newport men-
tion, that fears were entertained there of a visit
frOm the British' in the Chesapeake. We have
some reports on this subject wluch,we‘do not cre-
dit The Board. of War of this State have pur-
chased about 30 of•tbe 24-pounders lately brought
into Salem.

BALTIMORE, OCT. :122.7-The -only article of
news in the New York _Mercantile Advertiser of
Thi-S(l*y last is the following .
• ~.A..passenger in' the' steam boat states, as a
report, that Fort George has been taken by Gen,
Izard's army, with its garrison, consisting of 300
men:- The main body of the enemy had
evacuated

PESCENT•ON THE BAHAstAs.,—Extract of a let-
ter,• dated at:, Amelia Island, Oct. By an
artival,here yesterday,- in "six 'days from Nassau,
we learn, that the privateer Midas, Capt. Thom-
pson, ,had appeared 'off Harbour Island, landed her
crew, and burned o'r plundered 27 houses. it was
asserted at Nassau' that they had taken 750 doub-
loons from one per-son, (a Mr. Barnard) ; and,
that they assigned, as a reason for their proceed-,
ings, that it was in retaliation. for the destruction
of the American t'apital.• The Midas sailed from
Savannah a few weeks Since."

NEw YORK, OCT. 21:—Governor Tompkins
ha.d issued'orderS for all the. Militia Officers who
are absent from their posts immediately to join
their respective regiments. His Excellency was
to leave Albany yesterdaylor:this city, - and intend-
ed on-his way to' visit the Connecticut sea coast.
The :steam-boat furnishes no authentic intelli-
gence,from the northern or western frontier.—
Frfim the latter-there is - a rumour that General
harfl had joined Gen. Brown above Chippawa ;
that the two armies thus united were on their way
to Chippawa and Queenston ; -antl that the main
army of the 'enemy had. retired towards Burling-
ton, leaving- at 'these stations a garrison of 2 or
300 u-i.

prnit the Sat'ahilah ReiiubliCan, Oct. 12.]

Be Watchful—The Committee of Vigilance for
thiplaCe has This 'moment received intelligence
from a respectable and 'authentic source, that the
Commodore of the British squadron, now off our
coast, has expressed a positive detertnination to
throw rilekets into our city, Arrangements are
making rin hoard for that purpose.
The Commotiore'says-he will come up, and re,
;urn with the ebb ticke. The force at present
-eff,corsists of one frigate and three sloops of war.
One,of the sloop's was close in with the' Bar this
morning at. 1. o'clock. - •

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