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STAR•OFFICE, THREE ©'CLOCK.
The following official statement Of this gratif7itii
event, has been WI instant issued b Crovernmedt :
" V 4 unclAinZ thill Gentili DON, at Guernsey,
has recitecill letter 6016 an officer at Passage, slated
the 11th, which statg, that on the day before Three
Regiments, Four Thlitisand strong, had come oirei
from the etteniy. Stipulating to be sent td deisnahr
and that Loki WILLLINGTON hid iiinnuncieil
Bayonne ; lad that all supplies by the River to
the Town were eat off."

• • AMERICAN PAPERS.
e ban this day received Boston Pa-pets to the
litth Nofiember and Halifax to the 20th.
- In theta Papers *e have the ,Aatterican official
Ittiattent of the akdon with General Paoeroa. This
'dneument, signed by General Haattpdx, is very pro'.
'lii, occupying upwards of three columns. The Ame-
*tans, who acknowledge theniselvet to have bees
illperior in numbers to the British, claim a decitive
'victory; but the particulart ire so diffuse, that we
can 'make little of them. la fact, the result is biiii
impetfectly detailed: Ile dispatch Says t
I left the army before an official return of. the;
prisoners; or that of the killed and wounded, was
made out, It was, however, ascertained that the for-
mer athdrints to six hundred and one regulars,' in:
tuding twenty-five Officers. Our loss is seven killeck
'd twenty-two wounded, five, of whom hate sings,
died. Of the British troops twelve were trilled, and
twenty-two wounded. The Inclians suffered most—
thirty-three of them having been found upon the.
ground besides those killed on the retreat.
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6, On the day of the action, six pieces of bras* re•
tillery were taken, and two iron '24-pounders thelay
before. Several others were discOveteci in the ricer'
and can be easily procured."
We are happy to add; that it is confintred by the
American statement that General Peocroa, with
part of his small corps, escaped..A postscript sayst,
ff General Paocron escaped by the fleetness of h
, horses, escorted by forty Dragoons, and A number of
mounted Indians." , I
In the same Papet we find the 'followieg Gemeti
' Orders :
' - " • Head Vuarteri, Montreal, October ii. '
" His Excellency the Governer General and Corn.
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Minder of the Fortes; having transmitted to his Ma-
jesty's Government, a letter from Major General
Dearborn; itiltiUg that the American Commissary at
I Prisoners in London had made it known to. his app.
veintnerit, that 23 soldiers of the lit; nth, and 13th
regiments of United states infantry; made prisoneri,
had been sen; to England and belt in dose confinea
ment as flritiah subjects, and. tbat Major General
neat:born had received instrdctiOns from his Governs
ment; to put into close exifitiement 23 British soil
tilers, to be kept as hdstiges for the safe-keepiiat and.'
testoradon in exchtilige of the soldiers of the esti..
ted States, who had been sent as above stated .
England 1 11l obedience to wich instructions he had
put t*tf4l;.y4hree British soldiers ihto close con.
finetnent, to be kept as hostages ; and the persons re-
feited to in Major-General Dearborn's letter, being
soldiers serving in the American army, taken priscP•
ners at Queenstown, who had declared themselvts to
be British born subjects, and were held in couod, iil
England, there to unJrgo a legal trial. ' ... - ' • •
44 Hit Excellency the Commander of the total
has received the itotitnands of his Royal Highness
the Prince Itegerit; through the Right Honottrable
i.the Earl Bathutsi, Secretary of State, to lose 116 time
in communitating to Major-General Dearborn, that
he has transmitted the Copy of his Letter, and that
he is in consequence instructed, distinctly to state to
Major-General Dearborn, that his Excellency has re,
ceived the commands of his Royal Highness the
I Prince Regent,
.fOrtfiwjth to put in close eonfinemeni
46 American 'Officers and Non-Commissioned Offi-
cers, to be held as hostages for the safe keeping of
the twenty-three British soldiers stated to have been
I Wit in close confinement by the AmeriCan Govern-
ment.

service.

• And he is at the same time to apprise him, that
if any of the said British soldiers shall suffer deiith
by reason that the soldiers now under confinement in.

England have been found guilty, and that the known
law, not only of Great Britain; but of every
pendent State in similar circumst.inces, has been in
consequence executed, he has been instructed to se.
lect, out of the American Officers and non-com-
missioned officers put into confinement, as many
as may double the number of British soldiers who
shall have been so unwarrantably put to death, and
cause such Officers and non-•commissioned officers to
suffer death imtnediately. •
" And his Excellency is further instructed to no-
tify to Majoi-General Dearborn, that the-Comman-
ders of his Majesty's armies and fleets on the Coasts

of America, have received instructions to prosecute
the war with unmitigated severity against all cities;
towns and villages belonging to the United States.


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gifid itgahlot the inl ititunts therao4 if, Ow this
cOrbnuniication shall brititt 'been only made to Major-
Getteral Dearborn, .atlltl a reetsonable time given If r -
its being trant;iiitted the American dovernmem,
that Government she ;unhappily dot be detet9id
froM poiting to death any of the soldiers who now
are', or who May hereafter be , kept as hostages ft r
the Ptirposei stated in the letter Willa Major-General .
Dearborn. . .
' " Hit Excellency-tht tberirniiider of die vorceso
in ankiiincing to ale kroopS ill command, 'al his
Royal Higliness the trincc Regent, is confident tbat .
they ant fie!
.sensible of illie paternal solislqicle which
his Royal Highness has tainted for the protection of
the person and honour of the British Soldiers, thus ,
grossly outraged, in ConteMpt of justice; humanity,
and the law of nations, in the persotit of 23 soldieii
,Placed in close confinement, as hostage* for an tqual
ntmiber of traitors, who have bettli guilty of the basil
and unnatural crime of raising their parricidal arms
against that country which gave them tab, and
Who have been delivered over for legal trial, to the
just Liwi of their offended country. . .
di The British soldier will feel thit . unprincipled
outrage, added to the galling insults 'and cruel barba.-
rides that are daily wantonly infliCiad on many of
his untortunite comrades, Who have fallen into the
'enemy's hands, as additinual mini* to excite his de-
termined resolution never to relign his liberty but irith
his life, to a foe so regardless of all sense of hoKour,
justice, and the rights of war. . (Signed)
" EDWARD BavNrr, Adj. Oen. Brig N. Arrieitra." .
The followinvis Sir Joint B. WARREN'S Declara-
tion on the Vigaroaa mea.snie of blockading slit Ame-
rican Harbour's : •
SY TUE RIGHT kok. STD JON* 30/18AllE WADDRI4, BART.
hc.S. ADMIRAL OE TUC SLUT* &C. &C.
A PROCLAMATION,
walnut:. Dart: 26T1 or mow, 1815.
" %%peas hit SloyalliTehnees the Palm: t lit meat kw awed
his pleasure to tie signiabd to the %Wm Hanourable the ',or&
Commissioners of the Admiralty, ts.dirett that I should institute
a strict and rigorous frocks& al ebe Perts and Hat hours of New
fork, Charleston, Port-Royal, Savannah, iind the liver Mis-
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sbsippi, Ur the licked States of Atnetka, had thaintasn and e,
force the same mmording to Ike mates of irfat in similar cues
And illtswiee; that the Ministers of Natitha Powers should be
duly notified, that an the Pleasure* adthodsed by the law of
nations, will be adopted and clocked, wills respect to all a
w ttimis
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hkh Map attempt to violate the said Blikkade.
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" I d hereby require and direct you, to pay the wemalF. tit
sard and attention to his Royal Highdels te Prinee Rapier
Se
as before mentioned, and by every meant in Our
rimer, to maintain ind enforce the Sant strict and rirrbui
blockade of the -rite of New York, Charleston; Port-Royal,
Savannah, and of the River Missikappi, in the United Stites Of
America, misseckiigly; and in pursuance of tbe: flowers la me
illstal, I do further declait from the Ist of Stlstember, lite,
Sadie odtkts from the Albemarle and Patutie? • Sounds, eon.
flitted by MUMS lissitestkel with the port Of N'orfulk, the putts '
It Ileaufort Mid Ocraeocite, Norfolk, Carolled', Cape Feet Rivir, • •
and sismisotesm, soot, Caronna, and Sdaltury an Daka In
-GsPorsia, in a state otstrift and risordos Sickish.... "
" (Hien tiodei My hand, en bugnil ..s'3 lia jr.tel ibrp.liks
bothiesok Chempeafte, Ist Sefti. Ili a.
(steed) " }efts BORLASI WARRIM:I
“ To the Cothillindlng Moot Of his Majesiy'l slips, se."
• Comesoalrfalita " Pareplieu:' '

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- , 'Mt ARMY. . •
week six Eoiliplete troops off' the o.d itusiara •
lof the King'S Gerniiin Legion tinieheri from Ips-
iech for Harwich to embark for Holland. The men
were in high and the horses in iery fide cdb;
ditian:. ..;„ •
The Elyilehian to Hollanil is to be on a hater
scale th.iti WI. at• first intended. In addition t 6 the
;mops tohiCh have sailed from the Downs and Yar.-
montb, under General .Sir Tnomis GliAliAbi and
Major-General Otsas, the 30th and 81st regiments
at Jersey, and the 21st and 78th teginsenti tau North
, Britain, will proceed immediately to that destination.
Captain Scittieurtaa and Captain Pilaf, of the
Engineeri.ot the King's Germah are or=
deted to Hairnver.

Th6.4oateeii for
othe iiiovisititial Militia, now in
ryo‘port, are wader orders w thArch for Co!chester.
,there to be Armed into battalions for immediate

ATAVAL INTELLIGtAtE. .
LLOYD'SIiaI-put iS o'clock.
is The Congress Ameridan frigate has taken a large
home Ward-bound ship from China, after an engage-
ment of half an hour, and was seen with her in cotn-

pany off the Azores."
FALmot yff; Dict MIIPR 21.
Arrived the Princess Elizabeth packet, with I mail
from Lisbon, in yix days ; Osborne packet, from the
Leeward Islands, with a mail in six weeks. Sailed
his Majesty's ship R.! ettr, with a cnovoy for the
Dostosi;--Wind W. frcth breezes and clear weather.
PLYMOUTH, DECEMBER 22.
Altived the Eweretta, BEaysoN, from Quebec,
qes of the Etuamos's convoys. Sailed the MALI K,
741 to the West Ward.
POuTsMOUTH, btermtp.R 23.
Arrived his Majesty's ship Pon:trans frOM
Dropt down to 3t. Helen's Ili: Majesty's ship Veit.
RABLE, Admiral DUMAN, bound to the Leevraid
Islands. '['he British Hors), Ocean, Ariadue, and
Sir J. -B. WARKEN's transport, kre feleased kohl
quarantine.—A rtivcd several ships from Lisbon-..-
sailed 9th inst. under convoy of the Posmria, frem
Whoth..the, parted about 60 leagues to tbt:Westward
t f the Land's End, with the ships bound to Cork.
DEAL, DECEMBER 22.
Arriied the Renwtrld sloop of war, with a cbnvoy
from the Mediterranean, Which are- sailed for the
River; and hit Majesty's %hip RoLLA, froth the Bal•
tic, last fro ha Hoseley Bay. Sailed tht Elphinstone, •
Neptue, and Scaleby Cistle East Indiamen, for Ports.
mouth. Came down from the River, the Mangles
East Indian's*, and remaiol,....Wind

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