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IXTEACT of A LETTER FROM SACKETT'S RARSOUtto
DATED SEPT. 13, 18,14.
" One or two new vessels are on their way Sp the
St. Lawrence, or have already arrived at Kingston,
iu a raft, which was put together at Johnstown, and
consists cf all their timber, spars, apparel and arma-
ment ready to put together.
44 We are in doubt as to the point or object of the
expedition—it is evident, however, that one hon foot;
It is my belief that this division intend throwing
themselves in the rear of the British army at Niagara,
as they probably do not think themselves strong
enough for Kingston. If Drummond's army by this
means be captured, at the head of the Lake, and
Brown and Izard form a junction, and make a descent
upon Kingston before the new ship is ready, I think
there would be a chance of success, and this is the
only •one on which I can reasonably make calcula-
dons, and this can only he done while we have the
ascendancy on the Lake. The Oneida is in port, and
divested of her armament—her cannon are mounted
on board the gun-boats—she will probably act bete-
after as a transport."

• 1,,0 NOON.

MONDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1814.
PRICE OF I'OCKS THIS DAY Al' TWELVE O'CLOCK :
ktduceil 64 —4 per Cent. SI ft.... 5 per Cm. Miry 10613
6111301 s 6 acenunti 651 66---Orna. Y die..
Bank t.txtg Ann; titl 16 1- a.—Bon4s 14s. I.ss.pr.
Etche.pier Bats 41. Fran.

This morning we received New York Papers to the
22i, and Boston to the '2 1i ult. also HaEtas Papers,
of so late a date as the sth instant.

The former do not contain the Pncstnexr's.speech
on opening Congress, which, however, was daily ex-
pected.

BOSTON, SEPTEMBEIt 24.
The President's Message at the extra meeting of
Congress had not been received at New York on
Wednesday evening, from which it may be concluded
that it was not delivered on Tuesday. We shall pro.
bably receive it in the course of the day.

• The tate affair at Lake Champieht occupies a con-.
siderable portion of these papers. As might b: expec t •
ed, the enemy in his official statement—indeed in all
the accounts—loudly triumphs at his success; and it
must be allowed, not without at least the app?arance
of reason.—He boasts of expelling and capturing
those heroes who had conquered in Portugal, in Spain,
in France—in every quarter in which they had taken
the field in Europe and in Asia—of having defeated,
with a force of only 30J0 brave Americans, a Briiish
veteran force many times their number:—and, alas!
the fact is unhappily but too true.
We shall not be so unjust as to fir a stigma on any
person or persons, or condemn any before they have
been proved guilty ; but prima facie, it is n. t probable
that such a discomfiture cLuld have t ilzn place with-
out some cul.pa.ble error in either the concoction or
execution of the expedition, or of the previous arrange-
ments : and it is impossible, in the nature of things,
that an enquiry can he delayed.

NOVA-SCOTIA HERALD OFFICE, OCTOBER 9,
FOUR O'CLOCK.
We stop the press to announce, that a letter has
just been received from an officer of our army, datca
Fort Erie, 6th instant, stating th:u a hot rencontre
had taken place with our pickets on the 4th, in which
the traitor Wilcox was killed, and 70 of his party
put hors de combat."

MONTREAL, SEPTEMBER 17.
We understand that our new ship was safely launch
ed on Saturday at Kingston.
During the last week several parties of American
prisoners have arrived from Upper Canada, and yes-
terday sixteen of those taken on the late Plattsborg
expedition were brought to town—the remainder, b?-
tween two and three hundred, we understand, are
expected here this day and to-morrow.
HALIFAX, OCTOBER 1.
' The intercepted letters which we have copied from
American pipers, give us a clear view of the pla:as
our Commander in Chief intended to pursue—which
indeed, he has pursued, and which have proved un-
successful—so wonder ; they depended on
and commenced before the issue of a hattl,i o Lak
Champlain was ascertained ; having lost the day fy
water, a disgraceful retreat by land was the natural
consequence. We have before had the mortification
to regret his having trusted to miracles to feed his
tacked Brigades, and now find General Drumrnond's
army depending solely on that contingency—solely,
perhaps, we ought.not tosay ; his and his soldiers va-
lour will yet End resources ; and we also calculate
en assistunce,.frorn Sir James Yeo, as gallant a cha-
racter as the British Navy boasts.of, though for once
LaDoLdwa,.we are sure, unjustly ).accused.of
~ vsccil-
latin
Ftioune seem* tired of . favouring us in Canada—
; she offered us Alackett's Harbour, but we disclaimed
her proffered kindniss—she gave us the means of su-
periority on all the Lakes in that country —th's too
was rejected. and it was.thouy,ht better to put Great
Britain to £loo.oooexpence at 'pane, to send Iranies
of ships to Quebrc, which will never reach their ties-
tinatieo, tiwi to gratify a builder on the spot with one
thousand pounds more than those who were not judges
;thought the work worth. •

Our limits do not allow us this day to lay before
our Readei s a 1 age portion of the observations to
which these evens have given occasion in the Hali-
la Papers ; but they are loud in their complaints,
?:or do thel use tiny disguise in die censures which
they level (perhaps unjustly) at the Commander-in-
Ch i •

Whitever may haqe been the caws, or wherever
lie bi;:me mAy attach, our interests in that quarter

itavc been brought into a most critical situation
such a situation as requires some prompt measures at
home. Matters are too pressing to he left to airy re-
rnetir which Sir GEORGE PUEVOST mei have It tAt'
power to apply.—Some of the brave soldiers of the
. .
Peninsula are alrrady in Canada. They are fretting
and rrpining at the disgrace of luring obliged to r -
treat before American militia, perhaps the most con.
rempuble military force upon the face of the earth,
Let the;r old Commander be instantly sent our,
wi!!, powers similar to those which he exercised with
sq much judgment in Spain..-let him take the com.
mand, and affairs will soon present a very different
aspect from what they now do in Canada.
It may also he well to deliberate before any more
of the. 2d battalions be reduced. First conquer your
elleniy, and tEen disband your troops.
The Halifax Papers contain a proclamation, by Sir
GEOIIGE Pitrvosr, prohibiting the exportation, from
Lower Canada, during the war, of provisions of every
dscriptioa, efc..rpt to the fishing settlements of La.
bradore and Newfoundland.

In the Chesapeake we have had what h called a
" demonstration"—this we did not want, convinced
before that every thing practkable had been acconi,
plished, and trusting. with confidence to the future,
movements of that • little army-we have had also al
".demonstration" from Canada—the result is hz the
Chesapeake our troops are too few, in Canada too.
many, unless we know better how to htndle them—
it is one thing to row a wherry, another to work a 74.
Even adepts in the difficult art of lying, may some.
times over-reach themselves;• A very lengthy Ame-
rican account of the action,on Lake Champlain, men-
tions, that only five men (of which two were wounded)
survived on hoard the Growler sloop j yet, whet; it
afterwards became necessary to make a superiority on
our side, this circumstance escaped the recollection
of the federalists (who have the exclushe manage-
ment of seater-lies, as the democrats have of hum/-
ones-0 for the number of killed and wounded on
board she Growler, is: given ist
the three iurvivop, who were nut hurt., makes. her
complement of men aline:ten, incteady of Foul v, as al-
lotted to her, in round numbers, by. our scripsloiu
enemy

This Morning we received Paris Papers of Thurs-
day, but they contain little of interest.
Mails from atalburgh and Holland have also
arrived to-day—they convey but little intelligence of,
interest.

On Saturday Mr. CANNWG had an audience of the
PItINCE Reot.sr at Carlton House, and took leave of
his ltcyal Highness previous to. his departure for.
Lisbon.
The PRIVIt RsGENT, attended by General BLoott.;
Mato, lett town on Saturday evening, for Brighton.
Dowager Lady MaLvit.LE is arrived in the Isk
Wight, whtre she will remain until the wind. is fairy
for his Majesty's shipTIBER, to take her teißourdeater.
A Letter from Ghent, dated °etcher •17, sari
" We know nothing of the Congress in this torn.,
except that the Plenipotentiaries of the two lowersi
receive from time to time dispatches, and exchange.
diplomatic notes, but the conteats of boat the dis-
patches and notes are hidden from the public in ius•l
penetrable sect eq. The American negociators are,
upon the point of making a tour to Brussels and.
Antwerp, as well as the other cmsidrrable cities cf
Belgians, to view all that is remarkable in them."
On Wednesday theslirra sloop of war, Captain
Forts-run, arrived at Yortsmoutli from the Mdi
near, latt from Lisbon- Admiral Ft use waslyiro

4,a:• ••....- - ..J• - g. 01- _lying
Muc,l as we admire the laconic in letter-writing, at Algesiras, in the Etizaarrii, of 7 t guns, with the
vie should have been better pleased with Commodore ..P.lllll.ton and SPARROW SLOOPS, on the .23d ult. She'
Millonough, had he informed us by whose eartk& did not touch at Gibraltar. And on Thursday ten •
means, exclusive of his own, he was allowed to achieve transportkarrkved from various parts of the
tai int,tbp 19th ult.
Mediter-
a victory 44 so contrary to his expectation ranean. They sailed from Gibra
and all bu-
under. cativo of the Crocus, andj todched at Lisbon,
man probability." Had he, without telling us of the 1 where they fiy seventeen ',days. 'The Cachrt went
aid he received from that BEING, who, in dres,ing the . past with the remainder of Ilifinvoy forth' Dotvns.
cemmodon.'s wounded finger, as in fighting the bat- Vv CAM happy.to state, dug thimeis 'lota:sick men in
tics of nations, alike interferes, written tl..tist any of tLessliips. , None 4,tlie
,ships Kw riltit.Me-
-44 diterrane4ut Will return ho"me until 410 hfirOatylfe•
.That beneOtcpt haus', which_ (acting under Dr- hived by others from Eligland. ' i
trirqt ranll.lowit:c4 vnexpectodiy forced: ulton us, this Me. Macy=Arnt 'uslialerr fioni-T-nAf. tibitidulbr
lime last year, a whole British acct on Lake E: ie— England, arrived at St. Liticils, the V.itii August.