Star.
London, England, 1814-10-10 00:00:00

!PI prisoaers, were Mb:tined to parole.

si Twelve vessels were captured and brought away—nine
destroyed.

• The British loss consists of one seaman killed, and Captain
Gest, *1 the 29th regiment, with seven privates, wounded.—
The enemy's loss is not ascertained; but more than so wounded
were found in the woods. Seventeen guns were ►rought away,
with a proportionate quantity of ammunition.

" Bear-Admiral GILIP/ITZ also sends an account of the sur-
render of the fort of Machias and a neighbouring county to a
force under Captain Pwa.caa, of the Tondos, and Liestenan-
Colonel PILKINGTON, the inhabitants offering to refrain front
hostilities, and to place themselves under British protection."
The whole military force employed on this occa-
sion did not much exceed 2000 men, and of these
only 400 were engaged in effecting, in co-operation
with the naval force, the principal object of the Ex-
pedition. The Penobscot river is about 80 miles
south-west of the Passamaquoddy, which formed the
late barrier between the United States and our pro-
vince of New Brunswick. As we bad already oc-
cupied the islands at the mouth of the Passama-
quaddy, it was determined to push our next attack
as far as the Penobscot; the more especially as ad-
vices were received, that the John Adams frigate had
taken refuge, by running 27 miles up the latter river
to Hamden, where she had landed her guns, and lay
under their protection. On the 26th of August, there-
fore, a combined sea and land force, under the com-
mand of Rear-Admiral GRIFFITH and Lieutenant-
General Sir J. C. SHERBROOKE, set sail from Halifax
with this destination. On the Ist September the Ex-
pedition reached the town and fort of Castine, built
en a peninsula on the eastern side of the Penobscet.
..--The officer commanding this fort, having blown
up the magazine, and fled with the regulars compo.
sing its garrison, and the militia assembled there
having dispersed on the landing of Our troops, Cas-
tine was immediately occupied by the British General,
who dispatched a regiment to secure the town of Bel-
fast, on the western bank, whilst a body of 700 picked
men, supported by the boats- of the expedition, as-
cended the river towards Hamden. In the evening
of the 2d this party made good their landing, at Ball's
Head Cove, about three miles from Hamden. Here
they bivouacqued during the night in an incessant
rain ; notwithstanding which, on the following morn.
ing, they pushed on to attack an enemy double their
numbers, and strongly posted in front of the town,
with rising grounds on both his flanks, strengthened
with cannon. Our brave fellows charged up the bill,
and got possession of the guns, while some rockets
from one of our boats completed the confusion of the
enemy. Before the boats got within good grape-shot
of the battery, thrown up to cover the John Adams,
the Americ-.':a abandoned its defence, and set fire to
the frigate, 11.
, Zh 341 veas totally destroyed ; whilst those
"I.
who were st: neii-At the other guns ran away with
equal.precipillipn the "Moment our troops ascended
the hill. .
The pursuit continued as far as the town of Bangor,
where some of the inhabitants who had not fought,
but pretended to fight at Hamden, threw off their
military character, and as magistrates, select men, &c.
made an unconditional surrender of the town ; shortly
after which the American General BLAKE, with 191
• others, surrendered, and were admitted to their parole.
k During these operations, another body of 7011 British

were aurae(' tlp the astern bank of the rivet, about
18 miles, to Buckston; but the destruction of the
frigate, and the dispersion of the enemy's troops in
this quarter, being fully effected, the British force was
withdrawn from Bangor, Belfast, and Buckston, to
Canine, where the headquarters of Sir ISHERBROOKE
remained on the 18th ult. the date of his dispatches.
The only Fort between the Penobscot and the Passa-
maquoddy is that of Machias, which was originally
intonded to have been first attacked ; but that the
necessity of taking or destroying the John Adams,
rendered the attempt on Hamden preferable.
This object, however, being attained, no time was
lost in dispatching another body of troops against
Machias, where they landed without opposition on
the 10th ultimo, and after a most fatiguing night-
march took possession of the fort without loss. This
capture was followed by the capitulation of the Ame-
rican General BREWER, commanding the troops in
that neighbourhood, who, considering the situation of
the country between the Penobscot and Passama-
quoddy rivers to be such as to preclude the hope of
adequate protection by the United States, engaged,
in the name of himself and his troops, not to serve
against his Majesty or his allies during the present war.

MORE GOOD NEWS FROM AMERICA.
CAPTURE or PLATTSBURGH-SACKET'S

HARBOUR ATTACKED.

Our successes against the Americans follow each
other with such rapidity, that we have scarcely
breathing time to announce them. The MARINER
armed brig arrived at Falmouth on Friday night
from Quebec, after a passage of '27 days. Three)
British Officers were landed from her, and one of
them, Captain MACONOCIIIE, immediately proceeded
to London, with Dispatches of the highest imrort-
ante. They state, that Plattsburgh surrendered to
the British forces under Sir GEORG!! PIeRVOST on the
7th ultimo, after a slight resistance, in which an in-
considerable loss was sustained on oar part. Prepa-
rations were making for an immediate attack on
Sackett's Harbour. The troops destined for this
service are placed under the command of General
KEMP; an Officer of distinguished ability.
The ship of the line which was building is launched,
and is nearly ready for sea ; three hundred and fifty
able seamen have proceeded up the Lake for the pur-
pose of forming a part of her crew. She is a re-
markably fine ship, carrying 102 guns, and has re-
ceived the name of the Ontario. Engagements were
daily expected to take place, both on Lake Erie and
Lake Champlain. The intelligence of the capture
of Washington had reached Canada before Captain
Maooxocitit sailed. The British forces were anxious
to follow up the blow which had been given, and it
may be fairly presumed, that the enemy's naval force
on the Lakes, has, ere this, received as humiliating
a chastisement as their choice troops have experienced
on land. In fact, the probabilities now are, that
Sacket's Harboer and its nest of American Hornets,
have by this time shared the fate of Washington.
The following is an Extract of a Letter from a
military friend on this interesting subject :

" QUEBEC, SEPTEMBER 10.

46 The British troops have attacked and destroyed
the American town of Plattsburgh, on Lake Cham.
plain, after sustaining some trifling loss. The enemy
are now shut up in their fart there, and operations
will be commenced against them immediately.
,g The Mariner dispatch vessel sails with dispatches
from Quebec on the 11th September for England.
44 The English Mail for the month of July, from',
Falmouth, has arrived at Halifax, and the Mail for
Quebec is expected at the latter place on the 20th
September.
64 Accounts of the destruction of the enemy's Ca-
pital of Washington reached Quebec and Montreal
on the 3d September, and afoided the highest sates.
faction, and is considered as a proper retaliation for
the shameful conduct of the Americans in Upper
Canada."

Paris Papers of Wednesday and Thursdaf arrived
to-day. Their contents are chiefly remarkable for the
continuation of a strain of vulgar abuse and low cla-
mour against this country, in which our glorious
achievements at Washington are the ostensible causes
of complaint. It is easy to discover, however, that
hostility to England, and jealousy of our grandeur,
and the just pre-eminence of oil: councils and national
character in swaying the destinies of Europe, com-
pose the ingredients of the •' poisotesti chalice" which
the French now present to our lips. It well becomes
the incendiaries of Madrid, Vienna, Berlin and Fiam-
burgh, and, last of all, of Moscow—and the avowed
and regular? y-trained assassins of the defenceless and
unarmed inhabitants of Europe, for the last ifteen
years, to talk se England of the conflagration of the
ginger bread Palaces, pasteboard Capitols and Card-
houses, constructed by the renegadoes from all reli-
gions and from all countries assembled in the wilds
of Virginia.
But there is a fellow-feeling in all these lamenta-
tations : Frenchmen (we mean par mallow Botbs.
soors's breed of Frenchmen) owe a debt of grati-
tude to the Heroes of Washington for the small di-,
version they made in favour of their master; but how
lame and impotent are their conclusions ! unhappily
for the genius of the French Press, not a single act
even of rudeness or incivility to any unarmed indi-
vidual of Washington is recorded: no starving babes,
d no heaps of murdered parents, aid groupes of fe-

males shivering tinder the lash of a French drummer,'
as at Hamburgh, meet the eye of the Historian who
describes the vengeance inflicted upon the wicked
Government of America : and it is precisely here
that the French are disappointed.
They liken our British Generals to ATTILA and
GENSARIC.— Why go so far back for examples, wise-
acres? Why not give us the names of DAvousr, of
VANDANII4I4 of MAssetra ? —in short, why not repeat
the names of the Marshals of France, when the feats
of ATTILA and Gal:seam are called to our recollec-
tion ? We are ashamed of arguing down such foul
libellers of our country. To be falsely calumniated
by honourable men, is at all times painful, but to be
aspersed by men who have so long been the cowardly
slaves and sycophants of BONA,ARTZ would be into-
lerable and humiliating, if we did not possess the glo-
rious faculty, which we now proudly exercise, of thus
noticing the malignant overflowing: of their chagrin
and disappointment.
To soothe the unpleasant feelings occasioned by
these mischievous ravings, we turn with pleasure to
the proceedings of the Chamber of Deputies ; we say
with pleasure, because they are occupied in securing
the tranquillity of Europe, by making France an in-
dustrious, agricultural, and commerical country.—
Thus we find them continually suggesting projects for
the better diffusion of learning and the amelioration
of their manufactures. On Tuesday they received fa-
vourably some propositions for extending the free mi-
litary schools beyond the pale of the noble:re, and for
the further improvement of their iron manufactures.
The KING has adopted all their suggestions on the
latter subject.
PARIS, OCTOBER 6.

The report is ervoneoas that the Duke and Duchess
of Orleans had demanded the expulsion of the gaming
tables, and women of the town from the Pahis Royal.
All the private letters from Vienna state, that there
have been several private conferences among the
Austrian, Russian, Prussian, and English Plenipoten-
tiaries, but that the most profound secrecy is main-
tained as to their objects.
The German Journals are far from speaking of the
situation of France in the same way with the English.
The Gazette of Berlin, in giving an account of the
diszrioution of the colours among the National Guards
has been pleased to repeat these words of the King :
" Let the enemy come when he may; but he will not
come, for we have now none but friends around us."
'The Gazette of Vienna observes, truly, that the dis-
course delivered to the Chamber of Peers by Prince
Talleyrand, gives an advantageous idea of the state
of our finances, and that it has made a very favoura-
ble impression. We have some reason to think that
the English Journalists take their fancies for realities.
The King of Bavaria has renewed all the edicts
against secret societies, whose views are unknown to
the Government. These measures do not apply to
Freemasonry.
66 The English General who took Washington, de-
stroyed the public buildings. We may oppose to this
barbarity, unworthy of civilized nations, the conduct
of one of our Generals. Let us call to remembrance
the letter which the King of Prussia wote, a month
ago, to the Marechal de Camp Dufresne, who had
commanded at Stettin—" You conducted yourself
like a brave soldier," said the Monarch to him ;
44 besides, you never abused your authority over the
inhabitants of Stettin, for you knew how to unite
humanity with btavery." General Dufresne had
caused a block-house to be constructed around the
beautiful statue of the Great Frederick, placed upon
the Parade of the City of Stettin, to preserve it in the
event of a bombardment."—Journal de Parr._

" We receive every day details respecting the hor-
rible catastrophe which has annihilated one of the
finest cities in the world. How could a nation emi-
nently civilised, conduct itself at Washington with as
much barbarity as the whole banditti of Attila and
Genseric ? Is not this act of atrocious vengeance
crime against all humanity? Robespierre, who, se-
conded by his execrable accomplices, the Committee
of Public Safety, burnt the towns of La Vendee, or-
dered the massacres of Toulon and Bedoia, and de-
molished the city of Lyons, is devoted to the execra-
tion of ages. The Revolutionary Vandals, who de-
vastated France in 1793, and took a ferocious plea-
sure in destroying or mutilating the monuments of
the arts, were men taken from the lowest ranks of
society, wretched Sans Culottes, agitated by all the
fury of the Revolution. But that from the bosom
of one of the most enlightened nations of the world
there should go forth a military chief, who without
fanaticism, without any extraordinary motive of ven-
geance, without any of thsse violent passions which
disturb the understanding, should have imitated the
fury of the most savage hordes, should have carried
fire and sword into the heart of a city whose riches
and beauty formed one of the most valuable monu-
ments of the progress of arts and of human industry ;
that he should have made war, not upon his enemies,
but upon columns of temples, public edifices and
palaces; that he should have devastated for the plea-
sure of devastating; who can contemplate all this
without grief and indignation ? During twenty years,
Europe has groaned under the horrors to which the
frightful genius of revolution has given birth. Eng-
land was justly indignant at these excesses, and now,
'Then sentiments of humanity have reanimated all
hearts, it is she that renews in America these scenes
of carnage and desolation. If she believes that such
conduct will [lighten her enemies and conquer them
by terror, she deceives herself. Injustice and barba-
rity revolt still more than they affright. They com-
municate to the soul an unknown energy, they raise
the spirit of even the most pacific, and produce bold
and desperate determinations which secure the safety
and independence of nations."—tiezette Universe!.
MADRID, SEPTEMBER 26.
Twenty-six persons were arrested last night in this
capital. The Marquis De Tolosa, the Canon Ma-
tiina, Member of the Academy, Doctor Lugue, one
of the Court Physicians, foreigners domicibated in
Spain, French, Italians, Germans, &c. are amongst
the number of these individuals, who have been con-
ducted to a public prison. Some of them were, it is
sa►d, of the party of the Cortes, and otisers ire accused
of Freemasonry !