Star.
London, England, 1812-10-19 00:00:00

AfinfitlCA.

The campaign in Upper C.anada closed with the i
urtender of General Mutt's . rmy ; but according to
titers from St. John's, that on the banks of the St.
1 awrcnce was only on the point of commencing.—
, 'I he Americans seent.dedrous of retrieving their late
'!disaster in Upper Canada.
1 FA TRACT OF A LETTER enou ST. JOHN'S, OF SM. 12.
. .. Intelligence has been received here front Quebec,
I That the American General DLARRORN, who Leis for
'needy three months past been assembling a very large
military force at Albany, the equipment of which has
been greatly retarded,isahout to commence operations,
and endeavour to efface the disgrace the arms of the
United States had 'sustained. His army was estima: ;
I teJ at 3floco men 11 He was expected to advance
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! ors flie Int i ns,, ant. To oppose him, all the &epos*.
bre tegnlar and nshitia force had been marched from
' Qriebee and Montreal, and conveyed across the St:
Lawrence to the British lines. General Parra. com-
manded on the lines. The Indians, Elated by their
lucceit in Upper Canada, have offered to furnish an i
aitinliary force of 30(X) men.
14 1U greatest ha moray prevails between. the Go-'
bernor and the Legislature of Canada. All the Bills
providing for the safety of the Colony were passed
mid: the utmost dispatch and unanimity. The Le-
gislatere ha'e not only granted £12,000 yearly, to de-
ftay the expenCe of WOO ballotted militia (one half of
whom are always to be on duty), but likewise provi-
ded,
it that, in case of invasion, and after the Gover-
nor shall have issued his Proclamation, prohibiting
the departure of any of his Majesty's subjects, Mote
k'ho :ha leave the country Mall ietcur thqtaniviment of per-
petual banishment; and the confiscation of Char property,
which shall be applied to the relief of such of the mi.
litia as may hate suffered during the Was."
EXTRACT FROM A PRIVATE LETTER, DATED BOSTON,
REPTEMbER 1 tie
66 Ft is generally believed in this Country that the
news of the repeal of the British Orders in Council
have greatly embarrassed our Executive ; who nei-
ther
expected nor wished for such a concession ; and
who are certainly indisposed to accommodation, with-
out such further concessions as might be deemed in-
jurious
to your maritime rights. At the same time,
on account of the elections, they deem it prudent to I
feign great moderation, and hold out expectations of
peace, which, as the result has provad, ate not likely
to be realised. The organ of the Government, the
National Intelligencer; after observing a profound
silence for some time on the subject of the repeal of
the Ordets, makes h) a late number, the fol!owing.
flimsy and partial remarks, which have been copied
into some of the federal pi inn:
46 The British Govvrninent repe,al their decrees
upon condition the intercourse between the two coun-
tries is restored. Should our Admieistration agree
to this, the immediate and inevitable consequence
would be the withdrawal by France of the decree re=
pealing those of Berlin and Milan, and their re-estab-
lishment in full force on account of the consideration
fur the repeal failing 16 exist: • This would leave us
- exactly where we were four er five years ago, and the
ceremonies of retaliation would be gone over again.
It is.plain, therefore, that the repeal is an unmeaning
change of the game; which, without producing per-
manent peace with England, unless she mould disa-
voiv the present system of blockade, of search and im.
ressmenti *mild plunge us into a war with France."
k From the lo atioxal Ihtelligeacer of Sept. 2.)
EXTRACTS FROM A MEMORIAL,
Addressed to the President of the United States, by mere than
ISO° of the hthabilants eche minty of Rockingham, in Ntw
Hampshire, on the sth day of August, 1812 :
a We have witnessed, with sincere and deep regret,
a system of phliey pursued by the General Govern;
ment, from the embargo of 1807, to the present time,
`tending most obviously, in our view, to the destrac-
j tion of the commerce of these States.
“The alarm excited in our minds by the favourite
l • and long continued 16 Restrictive System," is raised
i stillhigher by the late declaration of war against
• Great Britain ;—an event which, we believe, in the
present defenceless circumstances of the country, will
be productive of evils of incalcul .hle magnitude.
64 The impressment of our seaman, which forms
the most plausible and popular of the alledged causes
of war, we believe to have been the subject of great
I misrepresentation. The number of these cases have
been extravagantly exaggerated. Every enquiry on
the subject strengthens our conviction, that the re-
I puted nuthber bears little relation to the true num-
ber.—We are among those to whom instances of im-
s pressmen!, if they did actually exist to any consider-
able extent, must be known ;.,--yet me cannot find
them out. Some of the Members of this Meeting
I have beeii constantly employed in commercial pur-
suits, and have had ships on the ocean from the
peace of 1783, until the ocean became unnavigable,
; -as to us, by the embargo of 1807; and yet during
I all that time have never suffered the loss of one na-
tive America:( seaman by impressment. Other Mem-
sitirs of this Meeting 'have, as masters of vessels, long
i Inhabited, as it were, on the roeac, and have been
c,misited hundreds of times by British ships of war,.
and never bad anAmerican seaman taken from them
hy impressment.
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66 ifscs Many of our seafaring fellow citizens were
actolly in bandit* they must have been taken. ftom
}the inhabitants of the Atlantic coast. They would be
from among. our brethren, soils, relations, and friends.
" It is a ell worthy *of notice, that the greatest ap-
parent feeling on this subject of imeressments, and
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14e g:earesccii.-positiOn to wage war On that account,
rare entertained by the Representatives of those States
'which ha--

:Mtatilisy inigfit liit; ate earri,ge fo; 'Were .art Lye no seamen at all of their own ; while 7. _ house... ~-. .. —on; at Moss, near Rip-
soil* down Darrington Hill, T..lVillinsi+ni-teposi...
!hose sections of the community, in which more than . penden, was entered last week by ten men, disguised
isoy, foil frohi ilk. horse he was riding, and was AA. t'..r2e-lourths of the mariners of the United States and armed, who, after feasting and carousing, and
' fattnnatelY OW. 'have thuir • homes, are, by' great majorities, against threatening the inmates, robhed it of MO.
'll%is&Yl, girl, id:tont-12 years old,' fell from A 'that war, mpg the professed objects Nof which, the : Since the last Assizes, no fewer than 43 felons have
-rtivii'ilikittdithirsivindosv in Bevis ' Marks, St. Mary.' release of itupt essed seamen forms so principal a been comnutteed to York castle for various crimes,
• ' Ask; ind,iittri' derful to 41ate, xi thane rivet vi nt 'seri y. figitre. . out of which number 33 are charged with committing
material injury';-:--fortenately for her, a swing 'ltad "It is well known that England pretends to no ' divers offences against the public peace, in the Nest
been erected, for the amuseme it of a child, on which 'right of impressing our seamen. She insists only Riding, and alit> denominate themselves Luddites ;
she alighted*.wliich. cunsequently broke her fall. She .flint she has'a tight to the service of her own sub- six for forgery, three for 1 rape, and one for the mur
bid gorse eatt Weteann window. ' •' • i itottlt,:in tine of war; even' though found serving on der of a child. .
An 11,4atioEfte ciieuired on the*h of SepteMberi.in. 'board merchant ships of other nations. This claim At the close of the Huntingdon Election on Tues.
the nejghbourhOcid •of 'ValeneOve, Switintland.. 'A :we suppose to be neither unfounded nor novel. It is day, the usual festivity took place, which terminated
part of-the eastern chain of. the Fnurches, which had recognized by, the public law of Europe, and of the in a melancholy accident 1 a man of the name of
-}x:6340 bra-stye' am'flutt 'ran' at the bas-,: sud- . civilized world. Writers of the highest ' authority P!TTITT, a glOeer, from Kintbolton, in descending
d6nTy feb.st'ith a'terrific 'noise. cAl•ott t •30 cottages ,raintain, that the 'right belongs' In all nations. For from the dining-room. at the Fountain Inn, happening
were buried beneath the rubs, and' 12 of their inmates the-same reason; sarthey.; that the father of a family to miss a step, tell a the bottom of the stairs, and.frAc-
'killed. may demand the atd of less children to defend himself Lured his skull so dreadfully that he died instantly.

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