Star.
London, England, 1814-12-05 00:00:00

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PITItACT OF A I.ltrrittt PROM IioNTIMAL, NOV. S.
" You are probably acquainted with the nature of
the position on the Chippewa, to which General
Dromrnond fell back.. General Izard, with 2000
men, joined the American army, under Gen. Brown,
about the 12th of October. As the right division,
under General Drummond, was known to be in great
want of provisions and much 'reduced by sickness,
great anxiety was felt for its situation, particularly as
our fleet was not expected to take the Lake until the
15th. On that very day (and the day before the
fleet, with the new ship, sailed•from Kingston,) the
American army advanced with a great display of
force, drove in our piquets and posts on Street's Creek,
came up in front of our line on the Chippawa, and
cannonaded ineffectually the whole day, and at night
oared again behind Street's Creek. They remained
quiet during the 16th, 17th, and 18th : on the 19th
they again advanced in our front, as if determined to
force the tete-du-pint on the Chippawa; but when
they approached, they were met by a force from our
lines that checked and repelled them : they then push-
ed a body of men up the right bank of the Chippewa,
with a view of turning our right above the ravine;
but General Drummond detached a force, under Co.
lontl Myers, up the left bankovhich met the Ame-
ricans in the woods, and after some smart skirmishing,
in which they lost 30 men, and we none, they fell
back on the main body.
" About this time it is probable the enemy got
sight of our fleet, which had left Kingston on the
16th; for the whole of their 'army retreated with
great precipitation on that and the following day,
having previously destroyed a large quantity of wheat
and heavy baggage, which they were in tco great a
haste to carry away. Such, indeed, was the rapidity
of their retreat, that their own people an the other
side of the river appear not to have been aware of the
movement; for a large boat, laden with provisions
for a brigade, came over after their retreat to a posi-
tion they had occupied, and fell into our hands. The
fleet, atter landing five companies of the 90th regi-
ment, and a quantity of provisions brought from
Kingston, returned to that place on the 23d. It
sailed again on the Ist for the head, of the Lake,
ith the 37th regiment, recruits for the 6th and 82d,
and a brigade of artillery. We shall be anxious to
hear of their safe arrival, as this season is boisterous,
and on Lake Ontario particularly dangerous. The
new ship works remarkably well, and is considered
as fine a ship as any in the British Navy.
•g It is a thing that must appear singular to all,
aid pmiuous to the supersitious, that on her first
mite she was struck by a thunderbolt, her top-gal.
Tant.:4l-st Shivered, and her main-mast much injured.
The. Prince Regent was also struck, and a man killed
on board. The Amerfcan fleet retired into Sackett's
Harbour oat the 11th tilt. When the enemy retreated
from before Chippewa part of their force crossed the
river; and the remainder at the date of the last ac-
countawere posted in Fort Erie, and upon the sur-
rounding ground which our army took up during the
blockade. The pars that crossed the river was about
2000, under General Brown, who have since arrived
*1 Sackett's Harbour for the relief of that place. It
its reported, that there is souse difference between him
and General hard, who is left with such reduced
numbers as Fort Erie, that great hopes are entertained
qt General Drummond being enabled to drive him
from thence upon the arrival of the reinforcements
which were on board the fleet. There are accounts
lion" Michilimackinac to the 19th of October, at
_sy:h• time. one brigade of canoes had an ived with
derision:, stores, and A reinforcement of troops, and
Another was close at hand.. Great advantage had
been derived from the captured schooners."

THE EVENING STAR.

LONDON.

MONDAY, DECZMBE R 5, 1814.

• YtticE Of STOCKS THKI'DAY AT TWELVE O'CLOCK:
Wanted 631141-4 per Cent. Slti-5 per Cent. Navy shut
Consols suet--fer account, 86'1 67i—Omnium di..
Long Ann.. 16}—India Bonds 174 id.. pre.
Eichtquer Bills Is. to si. prem.

. From the Paris and Brussels Papers received since
oar last, it appears that the faze of Saxony is not yet
decided. The Chronicle of the C:tegress states, that Lord
CASTLEREAGH has presented a note in favour of
Saxony; and the King of SAXONY has published a
Proclamation protesting against spoliation, arid de-
Ciaring he will. accept of no compensation. The
ease of Saxony deserves great cor.sideration. It can-
not be denied that the King lent all the facilities in his
pawer to promote to schemes of BONAPAILTE bUt,.n
the other hand,were not all the States of the Continent
dragooned into similar acquiescence ? and is Knot no.
. talons, that the Allies were much indebted for theyic-
tory of Leipsic to the Saxon army which joined them?
• Is itinspossible to find any other means to punish the
• , !ting_than that of depriving his people of their inde-
pendence ? Our own opinion is, that Europe will be
rendered much safer by having a great number of
small States, than by having them all consolidated

into three or four great Empires ; nor do we think it
would require much argument to prove that, so far
as concerns this country, were selfish considerations
allowed to have any weight, our comparative im
Tlal:ance in the scale will stand higher under the first
u:,::1 it can under the latter system.

Most of our Readers will recollect, that a few years

Jim, (in March, 18100 the Marquis WELLPSLEY,
then Minister for Foreign Affairs, employed a fo-
reigner, calling himself the Baron de KOLLI, to pro-
ceed to VAlensay, where FraDINAND, the present
King of Spain, was then confined, by order of BONA..
PARTE• The object of this mission was to prevail
upon his bls.restr to.proceed with him privately to
England iii the first instance, and afterwards to
Spain; and a British squadron, under Admiral Coctt-
110112 i ** ordered to eruize off the coast of Nor-

mandy, to take the Royal Fugitive on board. The

Baron do KouLt was furnished with a letter from our

gracious Sovereign to FERDINAgIII and other clocu-
ments, besides jewels and presents of the value of
from ten to fifteen thousand pounds.
Shortly after the Baron's departure from London,
there appeared in the Moniteur an account of thesei-

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sure in the Park of Valencay, of a person calling

himself the Baron de Kow, who was detected

in attempting to commence a traitorous intercourse

with the Ex-Royal Family of Spain ; and every

one who knew any thing of the regime of BoNA.

PARTE, concluded that Komi was instantly rut to

death! Will it be believed that the whole story, as
related in the Moniteur, is a fabrication ?
Baron de Kottt is still alive, and is now in this
country—he is furnished with ample documents to

support the account which he gives of himself and of
his mission—his history is curious in the extreme : and

did we not live in an age of wonders, would be
scarcely credible.
On quitting London, it appears that KoLLI imme-
diately proceeded to Paris, via Qttiberon : in the
French capital he spent a few days, making arrange_

ments and purchasing riding horses of great beauty
and value with which to proceed to Valencay, it

having been agreed that FERDINAND should be conduc-
ted by him to the coast of Normandy on horseback,

without any other attendants. While exercising the
horses in the Palk of Vincennes previous to his de-

parture, Kow was arrested by an order from thr
Minister of Police : he was instantly conveyed to the
dungeons of Vincennes, and all his papers and valua•

bles were seized.

When taken before SAVARV, the Minister of Police,
and his myrmidons, he was called upon to give up
the names of his accomplices (if he had any) at Paris
or at Valencay : to these demands, as he informs us,
he replied with the indignation of a man of honour,
faithful to his trust : he was accordingly remanded
to his dungeon, which he never quitted until the resto-
ration of the Bourbons in April last. It remains to be
explained how the Moniteur stated that he had been
seized at Valensay ; and here we have another of the
thousand instances of the fraud, falsehood, and de-
ception practised under BONAPARTE'S Government,
which has justly rendered his name, and the names
of all his minions, execrable, in recula seculorum.
A person of the name of RICHARD was procured
at the price of 12,000 francs to assume the name of
the Baron de Kow, and to proceed toValencay with
all that person's credentials: if FERDINANS listened to
his scheme, and if it appeared that he had Leen previously ,
made acquainted with the object of KoLLI's mission,
RICHARD'S instructions directed him to get the names
of all the persons connected with the plot, and to
convey FERDINAND straight to the Castle of Vin-
cennes, on the pretext that he was carrying him to
the Coast of Normandy for embarkation !

RICHARD proceeded on his hopeful mission ; the
Governor of Valengay, FERDINAND'S gaoler, gave
him abundanee'of opportunities of conversini; with
his prisoner; but DON ANTONIO ( FERDINAND'S uncle),
probably suspecting that all was not right, and cal-
culating upon the weak state of his nephew's intel-
lects, most rigidly prevented all private interccurse
between him and the pretended Baron de KOLLI :
the latter was, therefore, recalled to Paris re infra,: :
to SAVARY he returned the credentials and jewels, QC.
and received the stipulated reward. The fircnitree
immediately published the fabricated statement to
which we have alluded.
The real Baron de Kow in the mean time re-
mained a close prisoner until April last, and wLen
set at liberty, lie presented a Memorial to FLUDIN AND
VII. stating that he had risked his life for him, but
to which, as might be expected, he received no an-
swer : he then applied to Louts XVIII. praying the
restoration of the jewels, &c. as his personal property :
to this with beconiing dignity and honour his MA-
JESTY replied, that the consent of the British Govern-
ment must be first obtained, and here the matter rests
for the present. In the mean time the truth of the
Baron de Kora.' is certified by SAVARY, Duke of
Rovigo, RICHARD who personated the Baron at Va-1
lencay, &c. &c.
The fabricated documents published in the Motaleur
on this singular subject were given in the STAR of
Monday, the 7th of May, 1810. We boldly stated
our doubts of their authenticity at the time.

We received some Hamburgh Papers this morn-
ing : they contain the following article from Vienna :

VIENNA, MAY 18.

Saxe Weimar is to be greatly increased on the left,
bank of the Elbe. Austria will receive four circles
in Poland. We hear that the fate of Genoa is de-
cided, and that it is to he incorporated with Sardinia.
The first plan to separate the territory from the city,
to give the former to Sardinia and let the city remain
a free Republic, would have been a half measure in-
jurious to the Genoese themselves, as the richest cid-
*efts chiefly supported their dignity by the possession
'iof their estates in the Genoese territory.
It was evident that Sardinia, which, for the wel-
fare of Italy, is equally connected by ties of friend-
slip with all the great Powers, must be indemnified
for its losses in Savoy, and would be so at the Con-
gress.