Star.
London, England, 1814-01-05 00:00:00

FROM LAST NIGHT'S GAZETTE.,

COIANIAL DEPARtMENT.

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• 11)OWNING-STREET, JANUARY 4.
A Dispatch, of which the following is a copy, has
been this morning received by Earl Bathurst, his
Majesty's Principal Secretasy► of State for the Colo-
nies, from Lieutenant Geneiiiil Sir .George Prevost,
Baronet s. •
MT Lain—,

Head Quarters, La Chine, Nov. 15, 1813.
14or-General Wilkinson left Grena-
rn tte 30th}, nisirstn
with ten thousand men, in smalln cra t and bureaux,
and proceeded down the St. Lawrence, in.order to
co-operate with Major-General Hampton in the in-
vasion of Lower Canada, and for the avowed pur-
pose of taking tip his winter-quarters at Montreal.
Having on the 31st halted, a few miles below Gra-
velly Point, on the south side of the river. his position
was on the following day reconnoitred, and after-
wards cannonaded by a division of gust-boats, under
the command of Captain Mulcaster of the Royal
Navy.
By keeping close to his own shore, the enemy-arri-
ved, on the 6th instant, within six milts of the port
of Prescott, which he endeavoured to pass unobser-
ved, during the night •of the 7th ; but the vigilance
of Lieutenant-Colonel Pearson who- commands there
• frustrated his attempt, and the American armada
was obliged to sustain a heavy and destructive can-
nonade during the vehole of that operation, t. •
Having anticipated the possibility of tforitenerican
Government sending its whole concentrated force
fl'onn Lake Ontario towards this-part of his Majesty's
tesoitory, I had ordered a corps of observation, con-
sisting of the remains of the 49th regiment, 2d batta•
lion of the 89th regiment, and three companies of
voltigeurs, with a division of gun-boats, the whole
to be placed under the command of Lieutenant-Co-
, lonel Morrison of the 89th regiment, to follow the
movements of Major-General Wilkinson's artny, as
soon as they should be ascertained to point towards
this quarter.
I have now the satisfaction of transmitting to your
Lordship a copy of a report made by Lieutenant-
Colonel Morrison to Major-General De. Rottenberg,
containing the details of an attack upon the corps of
obseivation placed under his command, by a part of
the American force under Brigadier-General Boyd,
amounting to near four thousand men, which termi-
nated in the complete.repulse and defeat of the ene-
my, with very considerable loss upwards. of one
hundred prisoners, together with a field-piece, re-
mained in our possession; and as I understand that
More than one hundred were found dead on the add,
their total loss, in :dna, wounded, and prisoners,
could not be less than SOO men.
The consequence of ,this gallant affair, which re.
Sects SOCh high credit OP all the officers and men en.
gaged in it, and particularly op Lieutenant. Colonel
Morrison, for the skill and judgment manifested by
him in his choice of position, and for the coolness
and intrepidity with which he. maintained it, has
been, that the enemy, disheartened by their losses
and ill success, re-embarked the whole of their forces
on the 13th, and crossed to St. Regis and Salmon
River, on their own shore, not leaving a man in our
territory, excepting such as were prisoners.
It is yet uncertain whether General Wilkinson
to prosecute his original intention of proceed.
his small craft and boats from flallnon River
ontreal, or to unite his troops with those under
r,General Hampton, and attempt to advance
the province by the Chateauguay or Neitown
Major-Genet* Hampton bps received posir
orders to recite the position which be
toned on the CUteauguay River, when b re-
ited to Matti:burg, isnmediatriy afte; the disgrace-
defeat he lately experleaml INA the state of the

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