The Sun.
London, England, 1812-10-09 00:00:00

AMERICAN SQUADRON.

We with pleasure announce the safe arrival in
this port, on Monday, of the United States spin-
droll, commanded by COnmodore•Rodgeri, which
sailed from New York time 21st of June, on
cruise. The squadion, composed of the President,
of 44 gnus, bearing Conimodorenodgers'S flag ;
the United States, 44,, bearing Commodore Deca-
tur's'flag ; Congress 3f1;: Captain Smith ; Hornet
16,
.Captain. Lawrenee; and brig Argus 16, Capt.
Sinclair ; came into harbour in a handsome style.
'The squadron had been seventy days at sea; dur-
ing• which time they hart been nearly to the chops
of the English Channel, along the coast of France,
Spain', and Portugal ; to within 10 leagues of the
,rock of Lisbon.; to the vicinity of the Western
,Islands.; and back by the banks and coast of
Nova Scotia to/Boston ;, dnring which they did
not see a single British. National vessel, except
the Belyidera, with whom the President had a run-
ning fight, of. sonic hones. They had captured
seven ,English merchantmen, two of which they•
burnt, and sent the other five for American ports,
none of which, a,r we-have learnt, have been for-
tunate enizugh to arrive.

GENERAL ORDER.

• Head-quarters, Montreal, Aug. 31; 181,2
It is with real regret that his Excellency the
Governor-General anti Commander of the Forces
announces to the troops under his coin mand and
to the public, the failure of an important arrange-
ment lately entered into between Major-General
Dearborn, Commander-in-Chief of
,the Forces of
the United States of America, and himself for a
sospcnsion of active hostilities, and which his
Excellency had hoped might have ultimately ter-
Mitieed,in an amicable 'settlement' orthe differ-
ences subsisting between the 'two countries.
Captain Pinkney, Aid-tle,canip toGeneralDear-.
born,.arrived at nine o'clock last night, being the
bearer of dispatches front the Commander-in-
Chief of the American Forces,' with the informa-
tion that the PreSident of the United States of
America had, not thought proper to authorize a
continuance of the provisional meastirea; entered
into by his Excellency and General Dearborn,
through the Adjutant-General, Col. Baynes ; and
that, consequently; the armistice was to cease in
.lOtir days ' froth the time of the communication
reaching Montreal;and the posts;at Kingston and
Fiirt George. At the sante 'time that ' his
Excellency cannot but lament so unlooked-
for a decision upon the friendly proposition
made by him, through General Dearborn, to the
-Government of the United States, he trusts it Will
be matter of high satisfaction to his Majesty's sub-
jects in this province to knoW, that he has Used
all the means in his power to prevent a further
increase of the breach Sribsisting between Great
Britain and America, and f.a Ward off from -these
peovinces the calamities of war with which they
are threatened. In the same spirit aif - concilia-
tioh which haS uniformly influenced his Majesty's
MiniSters in their late negociations with the GO-
.vernment of the United States, his Excellency:
availed himself of the earliest opportunity of tom-
municating to the Commander in Chief of the'
American Forces the dispatches he had received
'from Mr: Fosterot Halifax, containing the inter-.
' tions of his Majesty's Government respecting the
repeal of the Orders in Council; and as his Excel-
leney could not doubt but that 'this conciliatory
measure remOving the alleged principal ground of
difference between Great Britain and America, and
which had been transmitted to the Government of
the United States through Mr. Baker, late Secre-
tary of Legation at Washington, would be met by
a' similar disposition on their part, he submitted to
General Dearborn the propriety of a suspension
olhoStilities until the determination of the Presi-
dent should be made known upon 'the snbject.-;--i
T.he ready acquiescence of that Officer in thispro-
posal, excepting as. far as it related to Gen: Hull,
who was acting under the immediate orders of the
exectitive Government of America, and the orders
,ipirnediately issued by him,' strongly manifested
ilits friendly disposition on the occasion, and led to
la-reasonable \expectation that his Government
would not fail to approve of his conduct, and
to confirm the armistice ht. had entered into
In this expectation his Excellency has been dis-
appointed, -and the American Government, 'by
refusing to continue the suspension-of hostilities;
.though.with _ the „certain evidence before them-of
, the actual repeal of the Ordersiin Council, has
proclaimed, in language not to be misuaderstood.
that other objects, independent. of those, held out
,to the. American people as the ground of the war,
lav-ere originally in their contemplation. That the
,conquest of the—Canadas, either for the purpbse
of extending their own territories, or of gratify-,
• .ing their desire of annoying and embarrassing
Great,Britain, _wa .s one amongst other-4 of these,
._

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`of-iietiientinOt be doubted: The invasion of the
Uprkt Provinee,•titterta.ken so immediately after
the declaration of: war, shews -in the strongest
ihannt- how fully they had prepared theniselves
for that event, and how highly they had flattered
themselves" with finding it an easy tonquest,
from the supposed .weakness of the force op-
posed to''them, and the spirit of disaffection
which they had previously endeavolired to excite
annangs4.l its inhabitants. Foiled as they have
been in this attempt by the brave and united ef-
forts of the regular forces, militia, and Indians of
fliat-Provineei•under the command cif their diotin-
.olledicadeOlietr whole army, fruit its Gene-
Zaptared, 'and -their only Teinaining fortress
and post in the adjoining territory Wrested froM
then,- it is not to be doubted but that the. Ame-
,'rican Government will keenly-feel this dislippoint-
merit of their hopes, and conseipiently endeavour
to avail themselves of the surrender of Detroit,
to term it an invasion of their 'country, and to
make it.aground for calling. upon the Militia to
'march to the frontiers for the-conquest of the ca-
nadas. A pretext-so weak and unfounded, though
it may deceive some, it will not tail to be received
in its proper light by others ; and it will be im—
mediately perceived' by those who will give them-
selves the trouble to reflect upon' the subject, that
the pursuit of an invading army into their own
territory is but a . natural consequence of the
first invasion and capture of the place, to which
-they may retire for safety,—a measure indispensa-,
bly necessary for the security and protection of
the country 'origholly.attaCked., . •
tinder 'ail.. these Tiremnstanecs, so strongly 1117
tliCatiVe of the moderation; forbearance, and true
spirit otconcillat ion iniiiiifeSted on the part of hiS
Majestys (--iiveriiment,, towards the United States
cif..Arnerica„an.4l Of their 'determined hostility to
Great I3ritaiii,bis F.,,..celleney the Commander (it
the Forces ti ts, that-the:troops, 'regulars and
militia, under his command, as well as. all his Ma-
jesty's other'subjects in this'part of his ,thiminions,
animiited with sentiments of just indignation at
the extra-ordinary. .pretensions of the enemy, and
their unwarrantable_ views of conquest upon the
Canadas, will he prepared to repel With firmness,
and with that invincible spirit and true 'British
courage which has so 'glorioiisly mani:ested itself
in Upper Canada, in the total defeat and cap-
ture of the iavading foe, any • farther
_attempt
the .enemy' may .have the temer4'to
his Excelleney loOlcs with confidence, .under the
protection of Divine Providence, to the confirmed
.discipline. of his Majesty's troops, and to the zeal,
loyalty, and courage of all descriptions of per-
sons in these Provinces, as a certain pledge of the
same glorious result.
EDWARD BAYNES, Adj.-Gen.

FROM ITIIE NOVA SCOTIA ROYAL GAZETTE OF

SEPT. 10.
(CIRCULAR.)
SIR,: Treasury Department, Aug. 26.
The en-Importation Act being still in force,
must in every respect he carried into effect. It
is your duty to seiie and libel 'British merchan-
disc, in. whatever manner, and' by whomsoever
it may be brought or sent into the United ,States,'
with the exception' of property captured train the
enemy, the importation of which is permitted by
the 14th section of the Act concerning letters of
marviie, prizes, and prize goods. In the cases
which, from peculiar circumstances, may be enti-
tled to relief, this can be granted only by a special
Act of Congress, or upon application for a re-
mission of the forfeiture iu the manner prescribed
by law.
I have the honour to be, &c.
ALBERT GALLATIIS,
Collector of the Customs.