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TFIZ NATIONAL. LNTILLIGINCER 26].
LOAN ON 7,600,000 DOLLARB.—On Saturday last,
being the day fixed for receiving proposals for the
loan of 7,500,000 dollars, authorised by an act of
the last session of Congress, proposals for more than
twelve millions and a half of-dollars were offered to
the Secretary of the Treasury. The loan was taken
at 88 dollars- 85 cents in money, for one hundred-
dollars in stock, bearing an interest of six per cent.
The privilege of prompt payment fOr the latter in-
stalments not being given to the lenders in this loan,
a measure which subjects the Treasury to pay inte-
rest on the money before it is wanted, the terms are
one per cent. better to the Government than those on
which the loan of sixteen millions was contracted for
six months since.
BOSTON, OCTOBER 7.

[tam ism Boma WLICKLIidESSENGER].
We have been expecting, for several days. last
great news from Lake Ontario ; but, to oar mortifi-
cation, nothing has transpired from that quarter, or-
from General Harrison, who w,e expected to hear
was either at Fort Malden or Detroit, since Comma.
dore Perry had opened a passage to the valiant sons
of Kentucky. •
The war, Sa far as it is a war of conquest, must
be now near its crisis. What is to be donein Canada,
must be done. quickly. The campaign is nearly at
an encl,and svitb it will end the army of 20,000 years'
men. Ihe remainder of the army, it is well known,
must be much diminished by desertion, disasters,
and death. This diminution, we presume, will be
great& than can be supplied by new recruits. We
are assured from every quarter, that the service has
become exceedingly unpopular ; that in many places'
where recruiting has been attempted, not a man can
be procured ; that particularly the district of Maine
will furnish very few more men ; and that the year's
men are almost unanimously so sick of the service,
that the will not be induced to enlist anew. If these
be the facts, and our belief of them is founded upon
much observation and enquiry, our land conquests
will terminate with the present campaign. We cannot
expect that our Generals will be able to accomplish,
with a part of their force, what they have not been
able to accomplish with the whole.
The latest intelligence from the North Western
army is contained in a letter from Commodore Perry,
dated September 24, in which he states, that 1,200
troops were on the day preceding transported to an
island about four leagues from Malden, and that the
same number would be transported by the squadron
on the day of the date of his letter. Malden, of
course, was not at that time taken by our forces.
A later from this army, dat"d September 10,
states, that the whole force is between eight and ten
thousand effective men ; and adds, « Harrison says
he will have Malden in a week." The English force
at Malden is said to be about nine hundred, and the
Indians three thousand.

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FRENCH PAPERS.

RASMT. NOVEMBER 5. "
The accotint.'titai Prince Poniatowski had not pe-
tished is not cookoied: we are now assured that the
body of this Prime Was found in the river Elster, and
interred at Leipsic with military honours.