Star.
London, England, 1813-09-07 00:00:00

NEW YORK, JULY at.

orders from your Excellency, have consented, at the
solicitation of the Mayor and Common Council of
the town, to wait until we can hear from you. For
this purpose, *the. Gentleman who will hand you this
waits on you. We hope you will permit these com-
panies to remain here and in the neighbourhood of
the Potomac. We have a sufficient quantity of pow-
der. These companies have rifles. If you permit
them to remain, according to our wishes, some ball
. and powder,horns will be wanting. Be so good as
forward your ansater by the bearer as speedily as pos.
sible.—Very.respectfully, your obedient servant,
(Signed) Gm. FRENCH, Mayor.
• ' Should your Excellency determine that we are
to remain here, you will have the goodness to order
on tents, powder, ball, &c. ; indeed, we have nothing
with us but good men and good rifles.
(Signed)- 6 Itnecar C. BURWELL, Captain.
g JAMES SOMERS, Captain. •
• C. CATLETT, Lieut. Commandant.
' P.S. An express has this moment arrived, sta-
ting that the enemy Was within a few miles of Poto-
mac Creek.—Four o'clock.

EXTRACT OF A LETTRR FROM.WASHINOTON, RECTUM
AT NEW YORK, DATED JULY 17. •

41 The reports of the movements of the enemy in
the Potomac are. numerous and various& It appears
from the whole, that they are ten miles below Port
Tobacco, or about sixty by water below this, slowly
progressing 'upwards. The militia are increasing,
and advancing towards them as they approach. The
Maryland militia watch them within the Chesapeake,
below Annapolis.
44 P.S. A party of the British landed in barges as
high up as Wanjemog, less than 40 miles below this
city by land ; but :they were repulsed by the militia
of that place, with the loss on'our part of a Captain
killed and a Surgeon wounded."'

General Armstrong, the Secretary at War, arrived
in this city yesterday, op his say to the Northern
frontier.

SPANISH AND PORTUGUESE PAPERS.

LETTER FROM THE DUKE OF CIUDAD RODRIGO,

TO HIS EXCELLENCY DON I. 7.01111111 R DE CASTANOS.

1‘ Hesd Quarters, Kingston, July IS,

“ GENERAL ORDER.

His ExcellenCy the Commander of the Forces has
received a dispatch from Major-General de Rotten.
burg, reporting a successful attack upon the enemy's
post and dock.yard at Black Rock, at daybreak, on
the Morning of the Ilth instant, by • detachments of
the King's. and }lst IZegintents,4ogether with Lieu-
tenant Fitzgibbon's party of the 49th, and about 40
militia, the whole amounting to' 10 men, under the
command of Lieutenant-Colonel Bishopp.
" The enemy's' position *as carried by a spirited
attack, without the ioss of a single man. Several
large bows laden with stores and provisions and three
field.pieces, a 12 and two 6 pounders were brought
away ; a vessel and the naval storehouses have been
burnt. Unfortunately, before theevacuation of the port
was completed, a strong reinforcement of the enemy,
aided ny Indians, pressed upon the small detachment,
by which Captain Saunders, of the 41st, and 15 men
were killed, and Lieutenant-Colonel Bishopp, Lieut.
Montpesson of the 41st, add 15 rank and file wounded
--the wounded were brought overt Lieutenant Co-
lonel Bishopp has received three wounds, severe, but
poi considered dangerous.
• " By his Excellency's command,
" EDWARD BAYNES, Adj.-General."
ity Is, Four u'Clock.
.—About sunrise in
rorn Fredericksburg,
id the following

rely 15, Two o'Clock.

K MOST= EXCELLENT SlR—lhave had the honour to
receive your Excellency's dispatch, dated the 27th,
inclosing the Redactor General of that day, which con-
tains a dispatch from the Minister at War, stating,
that you have been called upon to fill the place of
Councillor of State, on which account .you can no
longer remain at the head of the Fourth Army, which
the Government have confided to your Excellency.
I had already received 'notice of thlt disposition,
though not on the part of the Minister at War, nor
on the part of the Government, and was absolutely
ignorant of the motive.
6' Whatever, that may be, I cannot but lament a
disposition which deprives me of the very useful as-
sistance of your Excellency, and the nation of your
services against the common enemy, at the very mo-
ment when they may be 'most important against the
common enemy. I agree with your Excellency, that
the manner in which this disposition has been made,
and the reason assi: rried for it, is as injurious to the
reputation of your Excellency, as prejidicial to the
good of the service, though I am convinced that if
the Regency had been informed of all the circum-
stances, it is much too just purposely to detract from
the honour of a person who has merited so well of
the public, without first consulting him, and too pa- ,
triottc to deprive the nation of the services of your
Excellency,,at such a time.
46 I think, then, that justice requires that I should
avail myself of this opportunity, to inform your Ex-
cellency what I mean to represent to the Minister at
War, for the information of Government, which is,
that, in reality, only a small part of the army was
embodied, and that it was necessary to preserve sepa-
rate the different divisions which compose ill for a
variety of reasons, some relative to situation, and
others to the regulations of finance, which it is neces-
sary to enter into, but with which the Governmen: is
well acquainted, and that in that case your Excellency
would be out of your place by potting yourself at
head of any of the corps of the Fourth Army. But
without doubt it has been forgotten that your Excel-
lency, besides being General in Chief of the Fourth
Army, is Captaln General at the same time of Estre-
madura, Old Castile, Galicia, and other provinces,
and that there is an obligation on your Excellency,
which is absolutely necessary for the good of the
service; that yourExcellency should take the meat
sures proper to re-establish the Spanish Authorities
in the villages and districts which the enemy succes-
sively evacuated in consequence of the operations of
. the army. This was the plan
.of conduct for your
Excellency, on which we had agreed. before passing
. the Agueda, in May last, and which your Excel-
lency has constantly followed- since we -separated in
Salamanca. _

,ceiyed this morning
►mraanslant of King
t, consisting of seve-1
miler vessels, are in
opposite the Hones-
volunteers, is gone
ing. The militia of
expresses are sent
icelit counties.

the 57th regiment,
their march to Rich-
Excellency. They
Somers, and

to remain here till it
lofty means to take.
p the rireir or to land
Ms orto Make all ar-
il develope. •

in! S°l7-1.°1”, under

•
66 lam convinced, that considetingthe importance
of the services rendered by your Excellency to the
Government and the army daring this campaign, and
the manner in'which, through the whole of it, Gene-
ral Pon Pedro Agustin Giron 'has commanded the
army of Galicia, the person of your Excellency could
not be more advantageously employed than where it
bas been, and that if Government had adverted
to the necessity of discharging the obligations of Cap-
tain General,' by establishing order in so many pro-
vinces during the rapid advance of the army, it
would not have permitted the reputation.of your Ex-
cellency to have been disparaged, from whatever
motive, by removing your Excellency from the com-
mand of the army, and calling yon to the office of
Councillor of State.—God preserve your Excellency
man years. (Signed) WIMLINGTON,
" Duke of Ciudad Rodrigo.
66 Head-quarters, Monreal, June 30, 18!S."
MADRID, AUGUST 23.

ORDER. OF TUE MARQUIS OF Wet! Hfurow !Mt ALL TIM
A LI.IED TROOPSt BSER VIRG Wig STRICTEST DISCIPLINE.
" It having come to the knowledge of his Excel-
lency the- Generalin-Chief Duke of Ciudad Rodrigo,
that various excesses have been committed by soldiers
of his army, who have in the march been left behind
by their corps, to the prejudice of discipline, and re-
putation of the same army ; I ant charged to inform
.youf Excellency, in order that, as Commander-Ge-
neral of this Kingdom, you may make it known to
all the authorities, that any individual of the army,
whether English, Ycrtuguese, or Spaniard, who shall
be found committing any excess, shall be instantly dis-
armed, and ta*,:n.-apd conducted bound, with.twt,
or three witness!' of OS messes he may have com-
mitted.

ts His EsfellecY PkeiviF chars rf? IPform

We huge justaketlreceirSvet StriMaintelligencae from Dresrleo'
dated August V. The Emperor was in excellent
health, and all his Majesty's operations had been
erovrned with the most brilliant success. The mul-
tiplied movements of the army alone have retarded
the publication of an official Bulletin, which is ex-
pected every moment: •
PARIS, SEPTEMBER 1.
reah army pursued its advantages, and that the9ther intelligence from Germany adds, that the
n
The militaef events which follow each other with t,
rapidity, not
_allowing a detailed relation, we are remains of the Russian and Prussian armies were
authorised, while expecting them, to publish the fol- completely beaten at Jauer, by General Count Lau.
lowing letter, addressed by his Excellency the Duke riStoll. The enemy's loss it estimated at 7000 killed
of Bassano, Minister for Foreign Affairs, to his Se- upon the field of battle. Our loss has been tr•fling.—
rene Highness the Prince Archchancellor of the Ern- All ttie corgs engaged in this action distinguished
pine
themselves bf their bravery and firmness.
46 Moraimaxetie—l had the honour to write your -
Excellency yesterday, the 26th, and to announce to AUGSBURG, NUGUSr 24.
your Serene Highness, that the Russian, Prussian,
. frontjers Genetut. Wrede has arrived upon our extreme
;his and Austrian armies had marched to attack Dresden, uoopsAre full of ardour and observe a
under the eyes of their Sovereigns, and that they had strict discipline.
I The 'news from ' the Tyrol announces, that the
been repulsed at all points.
66 You will easily comprehend that the Emperor Prince Viceroy is advancing into Illyria.
is occupied in such a manner, that it is impassible at I AUGUST 28... The French Legation, which re.
this moment to give a detailed account of all the
ined Vienna after
through
terd
tCciungth hereneN,46;ocnneeling to
depar.
events which have taken place. lure, has just as
64 Hostilities commenced on the 17th; his Majesty Paris. General Coma Wrede is still in his position
entered Bohemia on the 19th, occupying the prin- on the Inn, On the 22d be whin in person to Sill.
cipal debouches at RamboUrg and Gabel, having Bourg. •
marched his troops within twelve leagues of Prague. I I • VIENNA, AUGUST is.
" On the 21st he was in Silesia beating the flux. '• Many trqops arCpmeeeding.to Bohemia. General
lime; bas been earned to Prague, to take the nom.
sian and Prussian Armies of Generals Sacken, L. • •
-•• ;nand of the °-
artillery-- of reserve. • The regiments f
geron, and Blucher, and forcing the fine p 0..: . • - •
artillery in The neighbourhood of Vienna, are daily
sitions of the Bober, whilst the enemy still believed
.
his Majesty in the depths of Silesia : be left a pout ,ex ereked in. Ills Pliins of Simmering.
ful army there under the orders of the Duke of Ta. Anima 21,According to intelligence from
Prague, Field Marshal the Prince of Schwattaen-
rentum, made his guards march ten leagues day, -s head-quarters xenon the 17th at Mattock.—
and arrived at Dresden,,for some days threatened by berg'
. His Excellency from thence addressed au Order of
an imminent attack. . •
44 His Majesty entered the town at .nine In the the Day so his army.
morning, and immediately made his dispositions., HAMBURGH, AUGUST U.
44 At three in the afternoon, the Russian; Pius- Mleishal the Prince of Eckmnhl, on the 284 inst.
sian and Austrian armies, commanded tay ".Generals established his head-quarters at Schwerin.
Wittgenstein, Kleist and Schwarszenberg, -deployed'
AUGuer 27.—The army continues to advance.
1.50,000 men, marching against the town. AU the General Loisson, with his division, has marched opoa
attacks were repulsed by the old and young guards I Wismar.
1
alone, who covered themselves with glory. The 7241.NKPOILT, AUGUST 7.
enemy left 4000 killed at the foot of our redoubts. The Austrian Legation has lefeStuttgardt. The
We have caked 2000 men, a flag, and several pieces ; Cavalry General Baron Heller, commanding the
of cannon. I Austrian Army of the Interior, arrived at Glagen-
furth on the 7th inst. After having reviewed the
4. This morning, at four o'clock, the Emperor
was upon the gronnd ; the rain fellnn torrents; Mar.l
troops he set out for Oberstyer.
I shals the Dukes of Ragusa and Belluno passed the The Duke of Berlin returned from Strelitz to
bridge with their corps. At eight o'clock our attack Berlin, he only stopped some hours in the latter
town, and then departed for head-quarters.
•
commenced by a brisk cannonade. The enemy's
Avousr 27.1-Marshal the Duke of Castiglione's
extreme left was commanded by the Austrian Ge-
nerals Ignace, Giulay and Klenau, and separated ccrps daily receive reinforcements.
AUGUST 28.—The following is the latest intelli.
from the reminder (if the army by the valley of
;
Plauen. The Emperor ordered it to be attacked by genre received from the army
" The Russians an Prussians thought to surprise
the Marshal the Duke of Belluno, and by General
the French army by attacking it on the 16th, before
Latour Mauburg's cavalry under the orders of the
King of Naples. i the day 6zed for the renew 4 of hostilities I they '
' were every where repulsed.
66 We reckon among the trophies ef this day
I 64 On the lath, the General of Brigade Zueeket
15,000 men, among whom are Field Marshal Lieut. 1
with three Italian regiments, covered themselves with
Metzko, two Generals of Brigade, many superior
glory at the battle of Lahn. The Italian troops
officers, 20 pieces of cannon, and 10 flags,
charged the Russians with the utmost intrepidity.
e Dm ing this time, General Vandamme, who had
dehtotched by Konigstein, seized upon the heights s, 04 the 19th, the Allies passed the Bober at
Zobten, and attacked General Lauriston's advanced
of I', rim, marched on both sides the Peterswalde
nd rendered himself master of the debouches %Posts at Siebeniehen.
.The French had but three
fell back to Golberg; but General
front Bole miss, beating 15,000 men who presented; which
advanced upon the
Lanrisicnienemy. A. very brisk
themselves before him, and made a good number of
affair took-place, in which three French brigades vie
isoners.
64 At this moment all the roads of Peterswalde gclrouslY repulsed * eltelny by ; charge with the
-
and Freyberg are intersected. The 'Russians and bayonet.
he
Prussians came by the road of Peterswalde, and the 64 T same day. the 19th; Albert's division of
Austrians by that t f Freyberg, the Prince of Moskwa's corps was attacked by Gel.
46 if the enemy's army, which is numerous, as it: neral Satken, who was repulsed.
is composed of the Russian and Prussian corps, and 44 On the 20th the Emperor arrived upon the line
all the Austrian Army, determines to retreat, it will of operations, and ordered it to march %i on the toe-
necessarily suffer considerable losses ; if it remains my. The Prince of Moskwa attacked Gen. Sicken
there will be very decisive events to-morrow. jat Worn, before Benslau, and put him to route,-
4, Since the affairs at Tilrn the french army never Gen. Sebastiani made a very fine charge of cavalry.
experienced worse weather, and more incessant rain. General Lauriston passed the Bober, Maison's
The Emperor has been exposed to it all day ; he is lion drove the enemy from his positions, and purged
this moment retiring. The numerous columns of him beyond Goldberg. Ilia troops fled on all sides.
prisoners, pieces of cannon, and flags which have He lost in those different battles from 15 to 18,000
been taken, are traversing the town. The inhabi- men, killed, wounded, or prisoners."
tants evince the most lively joy at the sight of these I DRESDEN, ApcusT is.
j trophies. I The fortifications which surround both parts of
44 The Duke of Reggio was to be on the 25d or this town are almost finished ; they have been axe-
24th at Berlin. • ; ruled according to the plan of French engineer;.
II The Duke of Tarentum drove the remains of
RATISBON, AUGUST 23.
the army from Silesia upon Breslau. According to private intelligence on the WO:,
It is not a Bulletin which I address to your Se- there were in Prague 40,000 Russian and Austriaa
rene Highness, but I thought it my duty to give you troops.
this important intelligence, his Majesty not haying
time to write ; he is very well.
64 One circumstance will excite universal indigna-
tion, the Ex-General Moreau is with the enemy's ar-
my, in the suite of the EmperorOf Russia, as a Privy
Councillor. He has thus thrown off the mask, which
for some fears hos not concealed him from intellif
gent persons. I cannot yet, Monseigneur, send your
Serene Highness the docements relative to the Au.
strian declaration of war; in the midst of those events
which succeed each other, I have not found a mo.
mesa to lay them before the Emperor. I am, kc.
(Signed) 44 The Duke of BASIAI4O.
Dreidea, August 27, IRIS, ,is P..,.
I'. S. Our losses are inconsiderable, the affairs
of yesterday and t9-day hay? cost us no person of
f 70:".

your Excellency, in order to be made holm to the
same authorities, that any Portuguese or Any which
may be met in the roads or other parts, without an,
Officer, and who has not a pasiport, be immediately
taken, and likewise conducted to their head-quarters.
—Huart9 July 1. ALAVA."
Te Mr. D. Z. &pox and Mee."

FRF.NCff P4l P

BAYREUTH, AUGLTST Li.

A patrole, partly Cossacks and partly Austrian
hussars, arrived unexpectedly yesterday at noon by
the Egra road at Gefrees, six leagues from our town,
They allowed the post chariot to pass without stop.
ping it, which left this place for Hoff; after having
refreshed the hopes they set out for Bayreuth ; but
scarcely were they a quarter of a league from Gefrec;
when they were joined by an Austrian hussar. They
immediately marched by the side of Gefrees towel&
Hoff, in the environs of which town they found a
detachment of French hussars. The csrriage with
the mail has returned here.
Another patrole, composed, as is believed, of the
Blepkensiein hussars, which was at Sandeu In POI"
!qif, passed !eirtt.ith yesterday.

atuea ny juu,,,,,„ isyca3..“ ut.u.a "IV DI.
by which Captain Saunders, of the 41
west killed, and Lieutenant-Colonel
Montpesson of the 41st, attl 15 rank a
—the wounded were brctight over.
lunel Bishopp has received three wou:
not considered dangerous.
66 By his Excellency's corn
. • EDWA ltD BAYNES,
" Frithy, July 1;
0 ALARM IN FREDERICKsBuitc.—Z
the morning, an express arrived from
and put into the Governor's hand ail
DISPATCH :
Fredericksburg, July
at sin—From information receive
by express from the Colonel Comm.
George County, the British Fleet, cr
Tel ft ;gates at,d a number of smalle
the Potom:ic, and lay last night opp
ferry. Captain Green, with his vul
twer to the Potomac this morning.
thp town are now under arms, and e,
to info! n the officers in the adjacent
6 Tl-ate c.•nvattics, from
here a few hours ago, on thei
Mond, under orders front your Er
are commanded by Captains Burw
Wikers( n.
4 We wish these companies to re
is isceriainctl what c nurse the enem)
V.!Lether Pe means to proceed up ill,
1 t•is tc.tces int a view to plon.ler, oI
t,.Jck on till, town, a few days will di
•
The tathcers eofv.manding these C.
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4 rer Ceiu. shut —5 per et. 871.--Ouns. sif a pr.
Dahl' Lg. Anna. —Exch. BWs par, 41. pt.
•
Tilis planing a Mail arrived frond Cornalli. +he
printed Journals received by this eenvoyance are coin-
paratively unimportant, adding utilhing to what we
were before informed of by Lord WILLI.DICIToN'S
du-
patches published in the last Gteutle.
We have great ;Millie in stating, that the latest I
tlispAtchei front Field Marshal the Marquis of Wu,
moves represent the army titsder his command as
teing more healthy thin bk had ever known them in
. the field'. .tVithin the last week 400 Portuguese sol-
diers; and 800Britkis, had rejoingitheirreginsentsfrom
the hospitals in tear ;mod indeed;{' coneludes his
Lordships may say. there is ad sickness in the
Artily:" , I.
The 764 i, 841 th, and ilSth &smelt% hksl arrived
at. Patiages from England and Ireland, together with
detachmenti to a large ainount belonging to the rtgi:
pests already in the Peninsidel
At length deb have reteivkdirdm Trance something
like its' Intelligible attotint of recent events on the
banks of the Elbe and Bober. Paris Papett to the 4th
atiived yesterday afternoon, and we loit no time in
giving a sketch of their emend to thk Public in a
Seeistul Edition. The Intelligent:4 thils contemn'.
eated to the world, it UM authenticated in the usual
poirpousfOrds of 2. Bulletin or a report to the EMPILEsS
Queen and Regent,it it nevertheliss official In every
inane of the tttict—nay, we have no doubt that Bo-
:414111Z actually revised or dictated; it he did not
with his own hand draw up the statement put forth
*with the signathre of the Duke of BAssnxiN The first'
sentence of the report contains what we have no doubt'
is a falsehnod. at I had the honour to write your
Excellency," lays the Duke of BASS AWO, *esierclity;
the 266, to announce that the Russian, Prussian, and
Austrian armies had marched to *attack Dresden;
&c."—Why is this letter not given ?—lt was proba-
bly never in ilistenee—again we Ate cautioned
against belittitig this to be a Bulletin.—" This is not
a Bulletin." We ate told, 41 his Majesty has not
time to write, btu he k very Well."
But let us proceed to the details of military opera-
tions, such as they aid. On the 17th, hostilities re;
commenced : His Majesty entered 13oliernia on the
19th, and pushed on his troops towards Prague. He
thought to surprise the Allied Aimies, but they me-
ditated a similar attack at the same moment upon
his own position at Dre'sd'en. His success upon the
Bober is belt darkly alluded to—his attention is sud:
Only called off to the Elbe; and he marches with his
Guards upon Dresden, at the rate of ten leagues a
day. He entered the Saxon capital do the morning'
Of the 26th, and at three o'clock a combined Rusiian,
Prussian; add Austiiad army, 150,000 strong; under
Generals.WlTOrtirtklN, KLEIiT, and SCHii/ART ZEN-
de;:sloyed against the tOwn. Their onset must
have been ditiaciftil, if we are to helieite the Prenci:
Statements t 4000 of the Allies were killed at the
foot of the redoubts, and 2000 were taken prisoners.
Night closed Upon these transactions in the morn-
ing, by four o'ClOcki'Bousrativz was staid upon the
gratifri, althotigh the tid fell in torrents. The
Dukes of ittousi and BILY.LDNO (ManssoUT and
Vicroa) passed the bridge of Dresden with their
corps, and a brisk cannonade commenced. The
French say they were the assailed% and that the ene-
my's eatreine Itfi reds cbiriposed entirely di Austrian
troop's: It was attotini by it combined force .under
the orders el the Kin of NAPLIS. If tile Austtians
were hemay why not tell tut so ?—But they were Ant
defeated—for Bonestadve *mulls ib bread= in the
eventrig,teeinning 13;000 Men as part of the trolthiu
of the day, bdt wheikver these Were killed, wounded,
or prisoners, we know not. While all this was trans-
acting, General VANDAMSIE seized the heights of
?irna; and retideted hitnself Master of the deboiiches

or Bohemia. Here we have a singular acknow-
iedgerhem: homtricars bad alriady beaten the Allies
at Roiisburg. and Gabel, and driven them from their
fine positions on the Sober; leaving a .powerfnl
army there tuidei the Duke of TAREN
NO* Perna is in the high road to the Bober ; it was
the road which BONAPARTE took when he left Dres-
den for Silesia, a few days before—strange then that
VANDAMME'S services should be required in that very
direction where all waS Safe. The fact is, BONAPARTE
11 as been unrnersifully beaten—so distracted that he
toul'd not *rite a Bulletin. Nearly surrounded at
l'cruay iitd forced to retreat upon Dresden—first,
from the Bober ; and subsequently after crossing the
bridge at rhesdea to make a desperate attack upon
the Allies on the 27th.
Re was foiled, we bait no doubi, at every point :

4' if the Allied Armies, which are numerous, retreat,
'they must stiffer considerable loss—ff they remain,
(your if is a great peacemaker) decisive events will
take place to-anOrroti l'
But the above are not the dhly instances in which
the campaign has been deteloped with great rapidity.
The Duke df Rzodto (Oilmen) was to be at Berlin
ion the 2sd di !Ulu BONAPARTE, no doilbt, thought
that he Wbuiti hate been at Pragite tob by a teitain

.s
•
day I bat sew we do not kikiet Mid safe at Dresdai4
Irteed, a defeat in the bf Berlin must ass'
teisasily. oiciasinn a retkeat tth.sthinel lOr
ha (win& havb yet to sneounter.the army, tie
ciot... Pilaus, and a repulse in that quartet will
overturn,aii their specidations.

.

Bots*,a* or Int Irmo itill regard uts as the
principal speaker is the khilip, has announced the
arrival of General MOttiAti is Europe, and With a sar-
donic grin calls him a Privy bonncillor totheErnperut
of RUSSIA. BoWAPAIITE has no doubt Mt the effects
of his councili in Wont of the ibdoubts of Drb'ideis.
The operations detailed in the extracts frois the
Fiench Papers which follow, are of initior importabce.
We are sick of being told kbal the combined armies
were repulsed at all points, aid of the fin 6 chaygei
of cavalry which the FrenCh Made itpoi chili. We
mar fairly take leave by asserting that Boiciristiic
his dcine nothing as yet to bdask oh

ie noticed yesterday the rumoured. capture of the
late British fiigate, the Maceditisit. official cone
timation of this evert has been received ; and the
reported scene of action, the Chesipeatte, is considered
against it a we treat it, therefore, as a mere report!.
igitt we think it right to restate to bee Readers a fait
which we eiclusiiely cominithieated someivetki age
tiPcili the authority of a Cottelpoadent at Lisbon; viz.
that the Macedoilian and another AtiieriOis frigate
had sent a challenge tb his Majesty's ship RAIIILIES;
the resdlt of which; though no 6ngagetitEnt ensued,
was the lois to the Aineticani of the aitehbrage which
they then Occupikd. It will be also In the recollection
of out. Readers, that the Rnetpiti Sias in company
with two British - frigates, whichi according to the
tertni of the combat, iemeted a sufficient diitifice
froni the intended scene of action.

Since wilting the foregoing we have 'received the
Nova Scotia Gazqtte of the llth Augpii, which men-
tions the arrival of his Majesty's shiisNano' at
Halifax on the preceding day froin d cruise—but not
one word of the Macedonian. The stated recaptUrt;
therefore, of that frigate, tinnot be arse.