Star.
London, England, 1814-09-28 00:00:00

THE EVENING STAit.

LO N DON.
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1814.
PRICE OF srocto THIS DAY AT TWELVE O'CLOCK:
Consols 62 3 64 —Conio's for account 6SO
5 per Cent. Navy 9511—thuniuni, 611 f 6 Ws.
Bonds 7s. pre —Exchequer Bills 41. dia. to par.

Full details of the cheering intelligence communi-
cated yesterday in Bulletins, respecting the Cant=
of \Vaunt:Gros, were published last night in the
Gazette Extramfinerr3f, which this day occupies so
large a portion of our columns.
Never was a more brilliant dash made, nor could
any enterprize have been crowned with more complete
success. The enterprise itself, however, splendid as
it is, and much as it enhances our military character,
is outweighed by the contemplation of that distribu•
tive justice which is often made manifest in the pn•
nishment inflicted on national transgressions.
That British soldiers, inured to war, and aims-
wined to Victory, and who had already torn ,so
many laurels from a bolder adversary, should defeat
American soldiers, is not surprising ; but that an op-
portunity should have so soon occurred of inflicting
a punishment so richly merited, upon an insidious
enemy, in his eery capital, was hardly to have been
expected. The rapidity of the movement is also
singular feature in the present event, as well as the
great superiority of the enemy, at least four to 01,e,
over the handful of heroes that performed such rr ,J:-
gies. The British army was landed ow the 19th Silt•
at the village of Benedict, on the right bank of the
Patuxent. On the 20th ultimo, it commenced
its xuareh ; on the 22d, bavitig advanced to within
sixteen miles of Washington, Rear-Admiral COCK.
BURN, co-operating with a naval torce, General Ress,
with admirable promptitude, seeing a favourable op-
portunity, immediately determined to make a dash
upon Washington. On the 24th, the enemy's .0 ,- VP
amounting to eight or nine thousand men, ...trong:y
posted at Bladensburg, were totally defeated, a;:d

ti e stmc evening our'troops entered Washington)
• —Her t'e CApital, inclncliag the B.nate-houte, And
the o itepresentat yes, the Arsenal. the Dick-
tne lii' asnry, the War Office, Presidtitt's
llttp.!-%1/4.41k, 4:3t-eat Bridge :terns% the
a frigate really ready for launching,'
:Ind a sloop of war, were demi-dyed. The abject of
c;pedstion being thus accomplished, •'ur army be.
licit-. to retire on the night of the 25th,snd on the 29th
..eturile.! to Ben:dict, where they re-embarked. It
5-1.1 th.tt the icltt.t.-r(m, with the troops, were about
to leave the Chesapeake, and proceed northward.

calamities and horrors of war thus caused
upon the population of the United States we cannot
but deplore ; but in Our best sympathies, let us not
f-eget that the most effectual mode to secuie to them
and to ottt :ayes the l lessings of peace, is the misttry
and wreichedness we are compelled to inflict ! For the
Lamentable results of the contest we are not responsi-
Let the people of the United States look to their
l'ausintsr, to their Senate, and their House of Re-
presentatives ! Let them arraign that perfidiaus sys-
tem of policy which endeavoured to persuade them
that the interests of BON APARTE and of their Govern-
ment were " one and indivisible," and that England,
who sought only to be their real friend, was their n
tural and inveterate enemy ! The grand events re-
cnried in the Gaztuo Extraordinary will, no doubt, be
attended with correspondent effects on the negocia-
tions at Ghent, at the -deliberations of the Grand
Congress of Vienna, and perhaps above all, on the
public mind at Paris, where no common feeling in
favour of America has been very recently manifested.

We have reeeited Boston and other American
raper► to the Ad of September. They are filled with
numerous details respecting the destruction of Wash-
ington ; all of which, as possessing much interesting
and, indeed, we may almost say entertaining matter,
we have given. Nothing but superiority of Numbers
compelted the Americans -to give way ! Happily
for the honour of the British Army, the Gazette
ixtraardinary, which graces our columns of today,
gives a direct contradiction to this assertion.

The New York Papers contain a variety of Pro.
clamations and Generai Orders, which we have nei.

ther room nor inclination to give. On the 29:h of
August, five days after the destruction of the capital,
and perhaps when thu British were within a few miles
of New York, the sagacious rulers of that city call
for the organization, for three months, of a regular
force of 2000 men, and remind the mifitia, dm it
their duty to learn the military exercise!—The infatu-
ation of MADISON'S faction is thus complete, and they
are driving their country to destruction as fast as its
eenmics can wish.

The inhabitants of Nantucket, without consulting
Mr. M.a.basoN, have made a compact with the BriLith
Commakders, by which they unatrimmly declare their
neutraity in the present contest, and stipulate for the
protection of the British in the Mean time.

In Baltimore all was alarm and trepidation, as
might well be expected ; but at Boston the inhabitants
look on with a placid indifference, which to MADISON
must be highly provoking.
Oa the side of Canada nothing has occurred since
the unEnccessful attempt of the British on Fort Erie.
The Americans say, that CuAtmert is blockading
Sir JAMES Yao, in Kingston. The following are the
most interesting articles in the American Papers