Star.
London, England, 1812-10-10 00:00:00

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GENERAL ORDER.
Head-quarters, Montreal, Ausist 33, 1111 L
It is with real regret that his Excellency the Goa
vernor-General and Commander of the Forces an-
nounces to the troops under his command, and to
the public, the failure of an important arrangement,
lately entered into between Major-General Dearborn,
Commander-in-Chief of the Forces of the United
States of America, and himself, for a suspensiqn of
active hostilities, and which his Excellency had hoped
might have ultimately terminated in an amicable set-
tlement of the differences subsisting between the two
countries.
Captain Pinckney, Aide-cle-Camp to General Dear-
born, arrived at nine o'clock List night, being the
bearer of dispatches from the Commander-in-Chief
of the American Forces, with the information, that
the President of the United States of America had
not thought proper to authorise a continuance of the
provisional measures entered into by his Excellency
and General Dearborn, through the Adjutant-Gene-
ral, Colonel Baynes, and that consequently the ar-
mistice was to cease in four days from the time of the
communication reaching Montreal, and the posts at
Kingston and Fort George. At the same time that
his Excellency cannot but lament so unlooked fcr
decision upon the friendly disposition made by him,
through General Dearborn, to the Government of
the United States, he trusts that it will be matter of
high satisfaction to all his Majesty's subjects in this
province to know, that her has, used all the means in
his power to prevent a further increase of the breach
subsisting between Great Britain and America, and
to ward off from these provinces the calamities of
war with which they are threatened. In the same
spirit of conciliation *ltich has uniformly influenced
his Majesty's Ministers in their late negotiations with
the Government of the United States, his Excellency
availed himself of the earliest opportunity of commie.
!skating to the Commander in Chief of the American
Force, the di patches he had received from Mr. Foss
ter, at Halifax, containing the intentions of his Ma.
jesty's Government respecting the Repeal of the Or-
ders in Council ; and his Excellency could not doubt
but that this couciliatory measure removing the al-
leged principal ground of difference between Great
Britain and America, and which had been transmit-
ted to the Government of the United States throtigli
Mr. Baker, late Secretary of Legation at Washing.
ton, would be met'by a similar disposition on their
part, he submitted to General Dearborn the propriety
of a suspension of hostilities until the determination
of the President should be made known upon the
subject. 'Thezeady acquiescence of that Officer in
this proposal, excepting as far as related to General
Hull, who was acting under the immediate orders
of the Executive Government of America, and the
orders immediately issued by him, strongly maths
tested hi . friendly disposition on the occasion, and
led to a reasonable expectation that his Government
would not fail to approve his conduct, and to confirm
the armistice he had entered intered into. In this
expectation his Excellency has been disappointed—.
and the American Government, by refusing to con-
. gigue the suspension of hostilities, though with the
certain evidence before them of the actual Repeal of
the Orders in Council, has proclaimed in language
not to be misunderstood, that other objects, inde-
pendent of those held out to the American people,
as the ground of the war, were originally in their
contemplation. That the conquest of the Canadas,
either for the purpose of extending their own Let rito.
ries, or of gratifying their desire of annoying Great
Britain, was one amongst others of those objects, can-
not be doubted.
The invasion of the Upper Province undertaken so
immediately after the declaration of war, shows in
the strongest manner how fully they bad prepared
themselves for that event, and how highly they had
flattered themselves with finding it au easy conquest,
from the supposed weakness of the force ot.posed to
them, and the spirit of disaffection which they had
previously endeavoured to excite amongst its inhabis
rants. Foiled as they have been in this attempt by
the brave and united efforts of the regular force, Mili-
tia, and Indians of that Province, under the command
of their distinguished leader, their whole army, with
its General captured, and their only remaining for-
tress and post in the adjoining territory wrested from
them, it is not to be doubted but that the American
Government will, keenly feel this disappointment,
and consequently endeavour to avail themselves of
the surrender of Detroit. to term it an invasion of their
country, and to make it a ground for calling upon
the Militia to march to the frontiers for the conquest
of the Canadas. A pretext so weak and unfounded,
though it may deceive some, it will not fail to be re-
ceived in its proper light by others, and it will be
:Immediately perceived by those who will give them-
selves to reflect upon the subject, that the pursuit of
an invading army, into their own territory, is but a
natural consequence of the first invasion and capture
of the place to which they may retire for safety, a
measure indispensably necessary for the security and
protection of the country originally attacked.
Under all these circumstances, so strongly indica-
tive of the moderation, forbearance, and true spirit
of conciliation manifested on the part of his Ma-
jesty's Government towards the .United States of
America, and of their determined hostility to Great
Britain, his Excellency the Commander of the forces
trusts that the troops (regulars and militia)th under
his command, as well as ail his Majesty's oer sub.
jects in this part of his dominions, animated with sen-
timents of just indignation at the extraordinary Fe-
tensions of the enemy, and their unwarrantable views
of conquest upon the Canadas, will be prepared to
repel with firmness, and with that invincible spirit
and true British courage which has so gloriously ma-
nifested itself in Upper Canada, in the total defeat
and capture of the invading foe, any farther attempt
the enemy may have the temerity to make; his Ex-
cellency looks with confidence, under the protection
of Diem Pnoseezece, to the confirmed discipline
of his Majesty's troops, and to the zeal, loyalty, and
courage of all descriptions of persons in these Pro-
vinces, as a certain presage of the same glorious re-.
suit. (Signed) EDWARD EATNIBI Adj.-Gen.
The Boston letters speak in terms of the keenest
reproachnep hew,
Aitteceived h i
with peculiar cettncton, and had been
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PA3ODY ON'if TO BE, OR NOT TO BE."
To daft& si'srsrsit ;tad —4 sat is the question :

Whether, ediasill a seat in Parliament,
Twere best IS Mute some Borcugh vendible,
Or take up arm* for a contested County,
And by nppooing gain it ?—To stead—to eanvsss•—
Nay, more, to be returned—and sty We frank—
Escape art ens—make laws—and have such rights
As senators are heirs to—'tis a prisilege
Most proudly to be used. Tn stand•—to a'wass-e- •
Perchance th' election lose; aye, there's the rub--
For in a long protracted poll what sums are spent,
When by some tick Or compromise
We are thrown oat l Twerd best to weigh it well--
For who would bear the squibs of party wit—
Tit' [snaking mob, the poor man's Contumely—
The turncoat's perfidy—the law's delay—
The insolence of office—and the spurns
That cringing wealth e'en of the pot-boiler takes—.
When he might do the State snore real service
As a mere country justice? Who'd gripe hands,
And quaff, and sweat whole nights with drunken Clubs,
But that the thought of something after chair'
A pension'd place, which to his steady friends
. No Minister denies—spurs an ambition—
. And makes us rather rise to combat ill,
Tban lose all chance to gain-that bubble, gloty ?
Thus interest doth make Members of us all;
And thus the spirit of the Constitution
Is so debased with sordid views of pen; .
That Orators of greatest power in the Haute,
With this defect; in motloos turn aside
The public weal—and lose the name of Patriots

The following lines, in a parody on the old song of
Yankee Doodle, may be applied, with great effect, to
General HULL, and 44 his brave eompaniocs in arms,"
on their return from their g, ever to be remembered"
Canadian expedition 4

" Brother Ephraim sold his cow,
And bought him a commission ;
And now he's gone to Canada,
7o fight for the nation.
" Brother Ephraim he's come back,
Prov'd an arrant coward;
Afraid to fight the enemy.
A fear IlleD Xi IDLYOUR.D:'

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A Gentleman from the Sister Kingdom called in
yesterday at a Lottery Office in Cornhill, and de-
sired the Clerk to shew him some TWINS. 14 Sir,:'
replied the Clerk, n My master has three children,
but none of them are Twins."—" I want none of
your Master's children." rejoins the Hibernian, but
it is the children of Dame Fortune I am looking
after ; therefore hand me over two Tickets of one
Number, that I may gain ii 40,000 on Tuesday the
20th."
On Tuesday last, Mr. Buckeridge, of Bankside,
caught, in the,Thames, an eel, of a most wonderful
size. It measured four feet eight inches in length,
' - and was three inches and a half in diameter at the
gills. The oldest inhabitant of the banks of that
River has no recollection of a fish of that species
having ever been caught in it of such stupendous size.
On Tuesday morning last, one of the men em-
ployed in the quarries excavating in John-street, Ply-
mouth Dock, was most dreadfully injured by the pre-
mature explosion of powder. He was in the act of
firing the hole drilled in the rock, when the touch-
paper having been prepared too szrorg, the powder
exploded, threw the ue ortunate man with great vio-
lence against a mass of stones at some distance, frac-
tured his skull, and a-stone of nearly NOlbs. weight
falling on him, his right thigh and hip were shock-
ingly bruised. There are, however, hopes of his sur- 1
/riving this deplorable event.
, ,• On Friday a shocking circumstance took place on I
;board the Sampson prison-ship, lying at Gillingham.
• One of the prisoners in that ship, an Italian, stabbed
' two of the Marines doing duty on board, one of whom
is since dead, and the other it is thought cannot re-
cover. The offender was secured.
Last week John Fauset, Jate quarrier at Gilcom-
_ ston, and Mary Storey his wife, who have been in
Aberdeen jail for some time past, on suspicion of be-
ing concerned in the making and uttering of base
shostey, were, on their own petition, banished by the
filseriff from the county of Aberdeen, for the space of
14 years, under the usual certification.
.., . )11•iday se'nuight Mr. Burke, who was discharged
fet# custody that day se'nnight, by giving bail, on
thirges prefetred on oath by Mr. Philip Brohan,
of Limerick, with having tendered to him resolutions
' of a seditious nature, was committed to the city jail
of Limerick, to abide his trial at the next assizes.
1 Friday morning the 2d inst. about eight o'clock,
as Mr. J. LIiTI.F., of Ballyspellan, in the county :f
Kilkenny, was on his way to the fair of Conchal, he
was attacked by two men, each armed with a case of
pistols, within a mile of his house, one of whom fired
at him and lodged the contents of a pistol in his shoul-
der; the other then fired, and lodged a ball in his
horse's thigh. On' elarming the people near, the
rubbers precipitately fled. Mr Little was immedi-
ately removed to town, the ball was extracted from
his shoulder, and he is Li a fair way of recovery.
Woanne-STREET.—Two girls, between 16 and 17,
who had been taken in at the Asylum for the Desti-
tute in Hackney-road, were- brought up for exami-
nation, charged with running away and robbing the
house of various articles of wearing apparel, of which '
. they had pawned the greater part in different parts
-of the town. The Master of the Institution attended
-to prove Ihe articles stolen, which were found upon
,'them, besides those which they had pawned, consis-
-oting of gowns, petticoats, &c. of the value of several
'Woods. They were sentenced to pay 12s. each, over
and above the value of the goods, or to be imprisoned
three months in the House of Correction.
- - D. Reardon, a little ragged boy, about 12 years
.:Old, vr{s charged with stealing a pair of boots from a
-iihapaalia-'. s door, of the name of Gibbon, in Worships
!-Otreet. He was taken immediately after, with the
• bOota in his possession. He was fully committed.
talnet decent looking man, about 80 years of age,
was,'clOrteed by his nephew, a plumber in Horton,
with robbing him of 91bs. of sheet-lead. The father
:Ifthe proroutor,:the brother of the defendant, stated,
lk.that she 'proivrty was taken with the brother's know-
. AS*, and left with the defendant's landlord, for 2s.
erhtohhe awed for rent. The witness severely repro-
bated the conduct ofi his son in .briughtg forward this
complaint, which the Magistrate discharged.
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