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CLASSICAL JOURNAL.

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NUMBER XVI. of
THE CLASSICAL JOURNAL,
CONTAINING:

Origin of the Druids.
Account of the Wahabis.
Pontes quos 'facitus in tradendis rebus ante se gestls
videatur sequutus ,psincis indicat 3. H. L. Bileiertstto.
This is reprinted from a scarce tract in folio. 1795.
Etymology of " Peor."
Platonic. Use of , as expialned by B. Ste-
phew, Ruhnken, Vaickenaer, and Le Clerc.
Heuniannus De Summo Bono.
Arabian Anecdote.
CAItiRINA HOSILRiCA, 'MSS et Odyssea, a Rhapsewilo-
ruin Interpolationibus repurgata, et in pristlnam fur-
snam, quatenus recuperanda ease, taus ex veterum
monumentorum fide et auctoritate, quam ex antiqui
sermonis Indole ac Ratione, redacta; cum Notis ac
Prolegomenis, ,diligenter inquiritur, opera et studio
RISARDI PAYNE KNIGRT. Edit. 2d.
This Edition, with many additions, is printed exclusively in
the CLASS. Joua.—A copy of, the first edition, of which only 50
were printed, was lately sold by auction for above X 7.
IX. On the Republication of Castell's /Ethiopic Lexicon.
X. On the Repetition of certain Words; applied to the
• Illustration of English, Latin, and Greek Writers,
and of the New l'estament: •
XI. On a Verse of /Eschylus.
XII. Heliodorus born a Christian; and not a Pagan.
XIII. Remarks on •Racine.
XIV. An Attempt to determine the Controversy about the
Construction of Macte, and the Etynsology of Elul-
dem. ,

11.
111.

IV.
V.

VI.
VII.
VIII.

XV. Notarum Romanaium ac Literarum tingularam tom-
pentiiique scriptioma in antiquis cociicibus et monu•
metal. obvii interpretatio, ex variis auctOribus col-
ic cta ;—Notz Jude, a Magone cotlectz.
The Number Seven.

XVII. Study of the Christian Fathers.
XVIII. An Essay on the Hebrew Points, and on the Integrity
of the Hebrew Text.
Xi L 'On Dr. Hales's Chronology.
XX. Boothroyd's Edition of the Hebrew Bible.
XXI. 'Question relative to the German Translation of Jose-
.. phus.
XXII. Winchester Engliih Prize Poem—Prometheus Des-
,

motes.
XXIII. Latin Poem.
XXIV. Fragment of Longue--with Latin translation.'
7,..XV. Renaults on Sir W. Drummond's " Essay concerni
the Shield of Achilles."
..XXVL Prologus in Adelphos, Fabulam ab alumni. Reg. Salsa
Weems. actam A. D. 1813. .Eptlogus.
Abatessee of Public -choole, No.
aratvut. Mashaseripta. Classical, Biblical, and Biblico-Orlental,
No. 111. Bibliography, &c.
lEXIX. Account of the Classical Works sold at Dr. Gusset's
' Sale, with the Prices. and occasionally the Purchasers.
XIX. Index to Vols. VII. and VIII.
Besides a variety of other Classical and Biblical Csiticlua; also
Reviews of several Classical Works, &c.

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bable, the American army man soon be compelled,
by the severity of the season, to go into winter-quar-
ters, and to abandon all thoughts of the conquest, 01.1
Canada for this campaign.
I have also the honour of transmitting to your
Lordship copy of a letter, with its enclosures therein
referred to, addressed to Major-General de Rotten-
burg by Lieutenant-Colonel Morrison, in which you
will see a further proof of the vigilance and activity of
that officer, in executing the duty with which he has
been entrusted ; and I have the further pleasure to
repOrt to your Lordship, that a thirteen-inch iron,
and a ten-inch brass mortar, wish their stores, and a
large supply of provisions, deposited by the American
army at Ogdensburg, have been brought away front
thence by Captain Mulcaster, of the navy, and landed
at Prescott.

I have again witnessed, with peculiar satisfaction,
the loyalty and active zeal with which all classes
have been animated in their endeavour to oppose the
threatened invasion of the enemy, and which I have
great pleasure in reporting to your Lordship.
I have the honour to be, &c.
(Signed)• • GEORGE PREVOST.

Chrlsder's.-Wittiatnsberg; Upper Canada, Nev.4e.
SIR—I have the heartfelt gratification to report
the brilliant and galhint conduct of the detachment
from the centre division of the army, as yesterday
displayed in repulsing and defeating a division of the
enemy's force, consisting of two brigades of infantry
and a regiment of cavalry, amounting to between
three and four thousand men, who moved forward,
about two o'clock in the afternoon; from Christler's-
Point, and attacked our advance, which gradually
fell back to the position selected for chc_detachment
to occupy ; the right resting on the river, and the
left on a pine wood, exhibiting a front of.about wires
hundred yards.
The ground being open, the troops were thus dis-
posed ; the flank companies of the 49th regiment,
the detachment of the Canadian Fencibles • with one
field piece, under Lieutenant-Colonel Pearson on the
right, a little advanced on the road ; three compa-
nies of the 89th regiment, under Captain Barnes,
with a gun, formed in echelon with the advance on
,its left supporting it. The. 49th..and 89th, thrown
more to the rear with a gun, formed. ;he main body
and reserve, extending. to the woods on the left,
which were occupied by the voltigeurs undcr Major
Herriot, and the Indians under Lieut. Anderson. ~
At about half-past two the action became general,
when the enemy endeavoured, by moving forward a
brigadn from his right, to turn our left, but was re;
pulsed by the 89th, forming in potence with the 49th,
and both corps moving forward, occasionally firing
by platoons. His efforts were next directed agiinst
our right, and to repulse this movement the 49th
took ground in that direction in echelion, followed
•by the 89th ; when within half musket shot-the line
was formed, under a heavy but irregular fire from
• The 49th was then .directed to charge tho gun
posted opposite to ours, but it became necessary,
when within a short distance of it, to check the for-
ward movement, in consequence of a charge from
their cavalry on the right, lest they should wheel
about and fall upon their rear ; but they were receiv.
ed in so gallant a manner by On companies of the
89th, under Captain Barnes: and the well directed
fire of the artillery, that they quickly retreated, and
by. an immediate charge from those companies one
gun was gained. •
The enemy immediately concentrated their force
to check our advance, but such was the steady coon-'
tenance and well directed fire of the troops and artil-
lery, that about half-past four they gave way at all
points from an exceeding strong position, endeavour-
ing by their light infantry to cover their retreat, who
were soon driven away by a judicious movement
madeby Lieutenant-Colonel Pearson. The detach-
ment for the night, occupied the ground from which
-the enemy had been driven, and are now moving
forward in pursuit.
I regret to find our lois in killed and wounded has
been so considerable, but trust a most essential ser-
vice has been rendered to the country, as the whole
of the enemy's infantry, after the action, precipitately
retired to their own shores.
It is now my grateful duty to point out to your
HOnour the benefit the service has received from the
abiljty, judgment, and active exertions of Lieutenant
Colonel Harvey, the Deputy Adjutant• General, for
sparing whom to accompany the detachment, I must
again publicly express my acknowledgments. To
the cordial co-operation and exertions of Lieutenant-
Colonel Pearson, commanding the detachment from
Prescott, Lieutenant-Colonel Prenderleath, of the
49th, Major Clifford, of the 89th, Major Herriot, of '
`the Voltigeurs, and Captain Jackson, of the Royal
'Artillery, combined with the gallantry of the troops,'
our great success may be attributed. Every man did
his duty, and I believe I cannot more strongly speak
'their merits than in mentioning, that our small force
did not exceed 800 rank and file.
To Captains Davies and Skinner of the Quartetn
master-General's department, I am under the greatest
Am, assistance T have received froth
them ; their zeal and activity has .been unremitting.
Lieutenant Hagerman, of the militia, has also, fir'
his services, deserved my public acknowledgments,
as also Lieutenant Anderson, of the Indian depart-
ment. As the prisoners are •hourly bringing in, I
am unable to furnish your honour with a correct re-
turn of them, but upwards of 100 are in our posses-
sion ; neither of the ordnance stores taken, as the
whole have not yet been collected.

•
I have the honour to be, &c.
(Signed) J. W. MORRISON, Lieut. Col. 89th,
Commanding Corps of Observation.
RETURN OF WOUNDED, AND MissiNG,
Rayal Artillery-2 rank and fik wounded.
Anal Artillery Dri*Aol74, rank and 6k wounded.
,*sirs #oot—i Captain, I" drummer, 3 rank and Ale, killed; 5
'ilFbeltems, 3 Saimaa, 34, rank and wouuded.
Poo :,-1. drummer, 4 rank and filer kilted ; Captain,
lied. emu, 57 rank and file, woonlled.
49th Poot,tork Cotnpan7-..a rank and file killed; tubakarns
11 rank file, wounded; 6 rank and Se goling.
canadko Feneiblps,.4**A.,* Mlle idlled S subalterns. 44
TN*
.1.424 Mr, woundad.

KILLsa.
49th Foot—Captain Nairne.
WOUNDED.
49th Foot—Lieutenant Jones, dangerously; Lieutenant Bartley,
severely, not dangerously; Lieutenant Claes, left leg ampu-
tated; Lieutenant Morton, severely, not dangerously; Lieu-
tenant Richmond, slightly.
89th Foot—Captain Browne, severely, not dangerously; Ensign
Leaden, sHghtly.
49th Foot, Flank Company—Lieutenant Holland, severely.
Canadian Fencibles--Lieutenant Delorimlere, dangerously, since
dead ; Ensign Armstrong, dangerously.

Williamsburg, Upper Canada, November 11.
SIR—I have the honour to inclose a copy of the
akteement entered into by Captain Mttkaster, of doe
:Rdyil Navy, and myself, w►th two of` the principal
ittlubir.ants of Hamilton, in the State of New York.
—Having understood, when passing that place, that
public property was deposited there, and being in-
formed
,byi.ieutenant•Colonel Pearson that his Ex-
cellency the Commander of the forces bad directed a
small force to act against that village, we considered
it our duty, as we possessed the means, to fulfil the
intentions of his Excellency ; but not having suffi-
cient conveyance, or time, to bring the property
away, and as it appeared that it principally belonged
to merchants at Kingston, we deemed the enclosed
terms best to propose.
I also inclose herewith a copy of Major-General
Wilkinson's proclamation. •
I have the honour to be &c.

(Signed) .•
J =amain;
Lt.-Col. 89th Reg. command* Corr of 14108ervation.
Major-General De Rottenharg. • .
(cory.)
.Wo do hereby promise, on our respectire words
and bgnour, .tO deliver on. the opposite side of the
river, at the house of Jacob Wager, if a flag should
beFermitted to land, all the public property of the
United States, if any should he found here ; also all
property belonging to his Britannic Majesty's Go-
vernment, and the individuals thereof, now deposited
in the house of Charles Richards. It being expressly
understood that the property and persons of the in-
habitants of the village have been spared in conside-
ration of the preceding arrangement. And we do
hereby further pledge our honours, that the boats
shall also be delivered, which belong either to the
Government of the United States, or to his Britannic
Majesty's Government.
- And we do further admit, th.at int the non-compli-
ance with these conditions, the village be subject to
be destroyed. (Signed)
DAVID A. OODEN.
ALEXANDER RICHA nDs.
W. H. MIA:CASTER, Capt. Royal
Navy, commanding flotilla.
J. W. MonatsoN, Lieut.-Col. 89th
Regiment, commanding Corps
of Observation.
Hamilton, November 10, 1819.

filen follows a copy'of General Wilkinson's Proclamatiou to
the imlibm.isiennta eNF ..h;.h h,• alr•asay srpPlri.ti in tibe
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AMERICAN PAPERS.

EVENTS OF THE WAR.
PLATTSBURGH, OCTOBER 29.

A letter from Erie of the 25th inst. says—" Most
part of the fleet have been here, and passed on to
nuffaloe, carrying between 1,500 and 2,000 land
:krces, who are destined for the army under Genera
Wilkinson.
% Commodore Perry, it is
a frigate.
41 thave been favoured by an agent of the con-
tractors, who left Detroit on the 18th inst. with the
number of Indians who have made peace with the
United States, and whO have been furnished with
provisions at Detroit, since our troops have taken
possession of that country. ,It is probable many
women and children are included.

-understood, is to have

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Pottawatnies -
•
Miamies, Eel river Miantits, and Weants 942
, b ::40
Kiekapoos - • - 323
..
• Tawas, and Chippeways . - 920
Wyandots - • , - 400

Total, --3419
• 0 The whole of the foregoing have been sentoff to
!their different villages, and as they cannot after this
lbe supplied with ammunition by the British, we may
expect to have peace on our frontiers.--{Delusive
.expectation].—Of those who followed the N. W.
Army, now 'remaining at Detroit, there are—

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Senecas - 75
Wyandots • - 31
Shawanees - - - 35
Delman-a - • '- SO
Total . . —l7l
gg There have been near 500 altogether attached to
the N. W. Army.
" Tt is certain that Tecumseh was killed in the ac-
tion ; his body was viewed by many of the British
Officers, who all acknowledge it."

NEW-YORK (BUFFALO), OCTOBER 26.
The prisoners taken by General Harrison have been
sent to Chillicothe ; among them was Colonel War-
tunby, who, we understand, blames General Proctor
for ma making a stand at Malden. Provisions were
exceedingly scarce; the Indians and British army had
consumed every thing.
We learn from an officer ofahe army, that Brig*:
dier-General Cass is appointed Governor of Michigan
territory, tiro tem/sore, and commands at Malden and.
Sandwich. His head-quarters at Detroit.
FROM THE PLATTSBURGH NORTIORN HRRALIV OCT. 26.
The conscripts lately ordersd out by Governor
Tompkins, and who had joined General Hampton,
in Chateauguay, have returned to Plattsburgh. They
were sent back by the General, in consequence of
their refusing to cross the lines when thearmy marched
into Canada. About twenty-five of them volunteered,
the rest, availing themselves of their constitutional
privileges, declined going, and are accordingly dis-
charged and sent hinne, with all the curses of Demo-
cracy on their heads,

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PASSAGES MAIL

PASSAGES, DECEMBER V.
It is reported here, that the Marquis of Wellington
is about to remove his head-quarters to Ustaritz, (a
town situated about ten miles to the southward of
Bayonne), for which purpose, several divisions of
Spaniards have received orders to move forwards..
We have not heard that any affair of importance has
occurred between the two hostile armies subsequent
to that of the 13th, in which British valour was so

conspicuous.
VIT TORIA, DECEMBER et.
They write from San Fernando (Isle de Leon),
that it had been determined the Government should
leave that city on the 16th, for Madrid. It appears
that it will make three halts on the journey one at
Carmona, another in Ecije, and the third 111 MAWR-
nAres. With whit pleasure will good Spatni %rds
toee-
the Government proceed towards the centre of Spain!.
Heroic people 1 grand people i to you it belongs to'
crown the-work whit h you yourielvcs began.

SOUTH AMERICA.
By a Manuscript Journal, which bas been received
from Vera Cruz, and which contains intelligence
from the Ist of March 'to the end of July, we learn,
that the war is continued with great fury in-that quar-
ter of the world, notwithstanding the advantages of
which several Spanish Papers boast. The Journal,
though written by *suelone partizen of the Spanish
Government, discloses the following fa4il2
“ All the towns in th environs of Vera Cruz have
been burnt by the Europeans, and among the rest
Old Vera Cruz, the first :ettlement of the conquerors,
has been reduced to-Itshes. Medellin, which was the
second town they 'built, has shared, the same fate.
Though the troops found in the latter place only
women and..children, they, notwithstanding, deli.
vered it up to the flames, setting fire to it in tour dif-
ferent places, and having afterwards learned that
some houses remained standing, they marched again
from Vera Cruz to complete the destruction.

,g Cruz left Guadalaxara to decimate anoiher tov-r,
and immediately an insurrection broke out in the cite
whence he had departed, the population of Which is
6u,000. He returned, and in July had seized hnct
executed eighty-six of the inhabitants, and the punish-
ments were still going on.
" The same system is pursued in the interior pro-
vinces as in Mexico. The Constitution and the Li-
berty of the Press experience the fate whica is to be,
expected where a military GovemmLnt subsists. The
4th of July was appointed at Vera CI ux for the paro-
chial enumeration of electors for the Deputies to the
Cortes, when the election was made by only thirty.
individuals, with the approbation of the Governor l",

DUTGII PAPERS.
BANKS OF THE SCHELDT, DECEMBER 29.

Intelligence obtained (rem four
.credible persons,
who by different means have escaped from Antwerp
on the 20th, 22d, and 23d of this month, states that
the land force in that city was composed of a guard
of lancers and one complete regiment of guard yagers.
Further,' of the troops obtained from all the adjacent
depots, such as Ryssel, Valenciennes. And Brussels--
Also about three or four hundred douaniers, and the
118th regiment of infantry. composed of boys of the
last conscription, who are both unfit and onwilling to
perform duty. When the late attack was made upon
Breda, we learn that all the troops in Antwerp, ex-
cepting the guards, lancers, and yagers, had refused
to join in the enterprize, unless they were allowed the
emolument of a general pillage. The Cornmaudant
having assented to• their terms, they agreed to en gage
in the affair, and being disappointed of their principal
object, they committed depredations upon the unfor.
tunate inhabitants of Haage, Rysbergen, and, as they
report, Great Zundert.
WILLIAM-IMAM, DECEMBER ss.
PRI VATZ LETTER.)
" We are peculiarly favoured here by the weather:
This most convenient port and harbour is as open as
in Midsummer ;.though at this season, in most years,
it is rendered unapproachable by ice axed or floating.
We therefore duly receive reinforcements from Eng.
land ;—troops, stores, and cannon are continually
landing, and passing on to the frontiers. Our posi..
tion is as follows s—Opr out-posts extend as far as
within cannon shot of Bergen.op•zoom, which fortress
is only masked 'on the North-East. Headiuirters at
Toolen, and from thence to Williamstadt. Our army
is stationed in good quarters at Steinbergen, Clun•
dest, and Severn Bergen. The garrison of William-
stadt consists of the 56th, rad, and 63d R:gimerts,
and some Artillery ; but what rernents -compose
the rest I have as yet no authentic information. The
enemy still holds Gorcum (in which he is closely
blockaded), and Crevecour and Bois-le-Due. The
Prussians, under Bulow, are at Thiel and Bommel ;
and the Dutch division and Cossacks occupy Grrtru.
denburgh and Breda. Close to the latter the enemy
make excursions : he drove in our posts the other
night on Severnbergen, but with them came in a
number of Dutch conscripts. The Cossacks do not
cease to carry confusion and panic into the enemy's
quarters. The enemy also reconnoitres our positions
from Walcheren to Beveland, but there • about 500
prisoners have been taken; in one of his•posts, has
not been a single shot fired in anger, nor a drop of
blood spilled between us and them on this frontier as
yet. The people here and throughout Brabant are
more French than in any part of Holland. They
have been well 'rested by the enemy.
" General Skerret has had a severe hart by big
horse's falling on him in making a recostorio::n:vgernoca.sspidyaro;i:..
near Breda. Sir Thomas Gultam was here yester.
nd
lled
day ; be is indefatigable. He tires all his Aides-de.
.Camp, he actually rides 70 miles a day.
" The Hereditary Prince of Orange arrived here
yesterday—visited the army at bead-quarters, and
returned here to-day. He was received with un-.
feigned delight. The town was illuminated, and fire-
works were played of, and the boys and girls (die
latter of whom ate extremely pretty) paraded the
streets all night, singing loyal songs.
" The Prince travelled in a country vehicle like
our old-fashioned one-horse chaises. He was accorn.
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i operestaons, that uilleas ()alma' Wilkifts4,lo-a. .::',. eli rank and file misehlg.r. -rfi..,,,
few daft succeed;" in. foram the positiodi 1 ragitiop
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and file *landed. -‘ \A ......4
caused to be occupied' -., e 'Rapids of the C 9.
,I •—i Iturior =ad, .0 w milting' ( 'ill
de Lac, 'and on-the Bea ~.—.2,ois Channel, which Tatal-1 Captain, 2 drum ' raak and Ma/ • I
re no reason to expect hstatif do, or that he can , Captain, 9 Subalterns, 6. 131 sipkandile, wound-4
e his way into the province by either of the other . al; 12 rank and Me mi
is I have mentioned, which I think very impro- NAUZI or OFFICKRII K AND WOUNDED.
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