Star.
London, England, 1814-09-22 00:00:00

HARTFORD, AUGUST 10.

Eight o'Clock in the Evening.—An express his
Jost arrived here from Stonington : -he comes to the
Governor for ammunition, &c. the English having
commenced a* attack on that place at one o'clock
yesterday afternoon, and when the express came away
thi were trying to effect a landing, having three
times successively driven our troops from their guns.
It is serious times at New London and Stonington,
the British having 13 sail off those places, and there
is no doubt they are determined to have the frigates
at New London, or lay our co.ist in ashes.
The express left Stonington this afternoon, at one
o'clock, and the enemy were throwinr, shells into the
town, and two of our men were severely wounded by
the explosion of or.e of them.

BALI INIORF, AUGUST 6.

EXTRACT OF A LETTER TO A GENTLEMAN IN THIS CITY,

DATED PORT TOBACCO, AUG, 4.

"6 It is impossible for me to convey MT paper any
adequate information of our present condition.—
Having no competent regular or other force to pie-
vent it, the enemy have rendered this county (Charles)
St. Mary's and Calvert, the most unenviable mi.
deuce imaginable. A general destruction, by con:
flagration or capture, of the Tobacco of these coun-
ties; great havoc amongst stocks and negroes—vil-
!ages and farm-houses burnt; crops lost, &c. &c. we
have a frightful prospect of winter and starvation !
You may consider the great track of rich country com-
prising the Peninsula, bounded by the Potomac and
Chesapeake, below this—say a triangle, whose sides
are 50 miles long—as conquered by a barbarous foe.
A considerable portion of it is beginning to be ac-
tually abandoned, many families moving up north,
literally choaking the roads with hungry fugitives of
all colours and ages.
" Don't, 1 pray you, denounce us as cowards—for
how can a handful of militia oppose thousands of
regular. troops, and in a country as thickly set with
n:tvigable streams as the human frame s ith veins?
On two sides, the Chesapeake and Potomac, their
1:c tvy ships go above us ; while all through the cows-
ties ;ire rivers and creeks for their hundred barges.—
Above, fir above us, and in perfect safety at present,
gnvsrnmcnthlve a c-tmp of r‘Till.trs, under Ge-
nt r.4i Wi!:der. While these may ca.tbte our great
peop',e at Washington to enjoy repose o'nights, we,
the people, know net at what unhappy hour the dunes,
rf our dwellings, or the- flight of our wives and chil-
dren, may saint:" our aching eyes.
"O War!—thou art a bitter draught!"
EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM CIIAREEi COUNT; DATED
AVGMT 1.

sg The enemy on Saturday took possession of Chap-
tico, and carried off all the tobacco. Our force is
utterly. inadequate there to an-est their course. Curse
upon that wicici;d and corrupt executive, which most
disgracefully and inhumanly forgets the object of its
creation, mid suffers all our labour and future pro-
spects in life to be destroyed by the invasion of an
enemy. Will our people submit to see themselves
reduced to beggary ? Let them meet and tell the
President of the United States, if no aid is afforded,
that they, will take every measure, not prohibited by
law, to save them from want and their children from
beggary. Will the people of the U►:ited States believe
that a strong regular force has been, for the last three
weeks, within fifty miles of an enemy l.tying waste the
whole country, and that the Secretary of IVar hat
not, although repeatedly' solicited, ot dered on a soli-
tary individual to our assistance!? S'ich is the case.
—The whole 'militia of Charles county do hot ex•
teed nine hundred. The enemy had from 150!
to 2000 men. They seize on our tobacco, negiot•s,
and stock ; no farms are cultivated; the holders of
slaves are removing them to Washington comity—
the houses in the interior are crowded with the effects
of the inhabitants on the water courses, and very
many families during the night retired to the woods
for security. An universal apprehension of ruin exists,
mind although the.encmy shall withdraw his forces, a
Janine for the r.czt Tear mast be our misfortune.—

Thum is nut all individual abaft,: to orwhatever po-
litics, but pronounces cones upon Madison and
Armstrong.'

PORT OF

IN, JULY as.

Arrived the Haytian schooner,Cosusepolite, Cordi,
twelve days from Lance de Neau, (a port near Je-
remie ) Hayti, with salt and oil. She was bound to
Amelia Island, but was obliged to put in here in con-
sequence of the late blow. By this arrival we learn
that there were several American armed vessels in
the Haytian ports.
Two large American privateer schooners had lately
an engagement with a British sloop of war, with
money on board, but were beat off, and the sloop of
war afterwards arrived at Port-au-Prince very much
cut up.
It was reported that the privateer schooner Deca-
tur, of this port, was at Carthagena about six weeks
since.

AUGUST I.—On Saturday last sailed from this
port, on hor sixth cruize, the privateer schooner Saucy
Jack, Captain Chazel, with a crew of 130 picked
men. The value of the vessels and property cap-
tured and destroyed by this privateer alone exceeds
nne million of dollars—amount of revenue to the
United States, 60,000 dollars.

There were seven square-rigged vessels under neu-
tral flags off St. Mary's River on the 2Sd ult. bound
to Amelia Island.
NEW LONDON, JULY 10.

At eight o'clock last evening, after this paper was
put to press (the New London (iasate) an express ar-
rived at General Cushing's head-quarters from Sm.
nington, with information that two frigates and 2
brig had arrived is that harbour, and demanded the
surrender of the town, or that it should be laid in
ashes ; to which demand alit answer WAS given, that
the inhabitants would defend their fire-sides with their
lives.

At the request of General Cushing, General Wil-
liams ordered out the flth and 30th regiments for the
defence of that town. Cengreve rockets were fired
on shore during the night without injury, and this
moinilig, at sun-rise, a cannonade conamenced, and
still continues (at six o'clock).
The militia bare collected in such force as to pre-
vent a landing; but we fear the place will be nearly
destroyed, as the enemy ate lying within half gun-
shot, and our only defence is two long 18-pounders.
The cxpcdition is commanded by Com. Hardy.
Stonington is a post town and port in New Lon.
don county, Connecticut, 14. miles E. by 8. of New
London city. The harbour sets up from the Sound,
opposite to Fisher's Islands The town is separattd
from Rhode Island by the E. I:ne of the State ; here
are two or three places of public worship ; and the
number of inhabitants 7 or 8,000.
SACKETT'S HARBOUR, AUGUST 1.
Early this morning the fleet under Commodore
Chauncey, who was convalescent, left this harbour,
consisting of ten sail in all, and sailed into Lake
Ontario.

The Quebec and Montreal Papers all intimate that
their squadron is not sufficiently strong to meet ours
on the Lake.

HERKIMER, AUGUST 2.

An officer of the army has arrived here direct from
Fort Erie, who informs that General Ripley had re-
ceived a summons to surrender Iron: the British Cirn-
mander, and that two hours only were allowed to re-
turn an answer. This we doubt.