Star.
London, England, 1814-11-02 00:00:00

FROM SACKETT'S HARBOUR.

We have accounts from Sackett's Harbour to the
20th. Commodore Chauncey's fleet came into that
port on the 17th; on the 18th and 19th, detachments
of General Izard's army were embarked on board his
vessels, and it was expected the fleet would sail on the
20th, on an expedition ; but whether for an attack
on Kingston, or to land the troops at the head (i the
Lake, T9r the purpose of falling on General Drum-

Mond's rear, was very properly not made public.
Lieutenant Colonel Bellinger ha been ordered by
Governor Tonikins to draft a regiment of Militia
from Albany county, New York, and march them
to Sisckett's Harbour.

HALIFAX, OCTOBER 6.

Arrived his Majesty's brig Calliope, three days
from Canso; sloop Morgiana, Captain Scott, with
the ship Five Sisters, brig Susan, schooners Margaret,
Jane, and Eliza, from the West Indies, via Bermuda,
12 days from the latter place. A large ship in the
above convoy, with a cargo of rum and sugar, be.
lorging to St. Thomas's, foundered at sea after
leaving Bermuda; crew saved.
Comma 7.-Arrived his Majesty's ship Nymph,
Captain Enworth, sit days from Boston Bay ; ship
Severn, and brigs Rifleman and .jaseur, from the
Chesapeake. His Majesty's ship Leander, now off
Boston, has, we understand sent in a challenge to the
Constitution frigate. -

THE EVENING.STAIL

LONDON.

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Yesterday we had the good fortune to present onr
Readers with a copy of the American President's
Message to Congress. Today we are enabled to
maintain our superiority over our contemporaries by
copious and interesting extracts from the same Papers
by which the Message was conveyed : the latter con-
sist of the official reports of a Commodore Mae;
on whom the service devolved of burning the naval
yard at Washington, and the reports of Commodore
PERRY and Captain PORTtR, two heroes who set off
with a motley groupe of soldiers and sailors on the
Quixotic enterprise of intercepting the British on their
way down the Potomac after the affairs of Washing.
ton and Alexandria.

TINGEVS report is remarkable in one or two re•

spects ; it expressly charges various acts of wanton
plunder and devastation upon the Americans them-
selves, and is silent with respect to any misbehaviour
she The former, in fact, took full posses-

tioti of what
stemaitted of the public property after
depatutre o the Britislie And desisted from their pil.
feting only upon the advance of a regular American
•
force against them. Commodore TINGEY was much
annoyed in burning the arsenals by deputations
of men, women, and children, to represent the danger
to the whole city from such a step ; indeed it was the
absence of the wind only which saved it, and the Ame-
ricans themselves would thus have been the Attilas
and Genserics who destroyed " the monuments of
the arts." With respect to the Naval Yard, there-
fore, the British only completed what the Americans
themselves began. About one hundred barrels of
gunpowder, an old gun-brig, and a cargo of damaged
provisions, were nearly all the public property which
e.ical,ed destruction.

Next in order we have the narratives of PERRY
and PORTER, who were entrusted (in concert with
Romans, the American Jumus CJESAR, but whose
exploits on this occasion are not yet recorded) with
the " destruction" of the British Squadron on its
passage down the River. PERRY is laconic in his
communication—he fairly tells us that the fire of the
British was so heavy, that he found it advisable " to
retire a short distance in the rear"—that is to say, he
became alarmed lest these marauders should land a
party of Seamen and Marines, and add a few Ame-
rican prisoners to the trophies they had already
gained. PORTER was not more successful : ha too
found it advisable " to retire behind a hill, and to be
in readiness to charge the enemy if he should land
to spike our guns !"
When they passed down, and PORTER was out of
all further danger, this pitiful fellow came out from
his hiding place, and-finished that part of the drama
with which he was entrusted, precisely as we should
have conjectured, even if we had not his own evi-
dence—" I sent a Torpedo after them." adds this
blockhead, with an air of triumph !
Not the least interesting of our extracts from the
American' Papers is the eloquent article entitled the
Crisis, which appears under the head of Boston.—
While it draws a most forcible picture of the true state
of America, we are happy to say that it affords no
illustration whatever of the gloomy prognostications
held forth, and eagerly caught at, among the wicked
abettors of the American Government on this side of
the Atlantic. We see no evidence whatever for in-
stance that the just and moderate reprisals inflicted at
Washington have united all parties in America
against us, and, with the exception of the effusions of
one Paris Journalist, we have seen no symptoms of
the "indignation of the civilized part of Europe."
We recommend the perusal of this Boston article
ro all those who calculate upon American unanimity
while MADISON and his faction are in power. It is
also a most excellent antidote against the diffusion of
any mistaken ideas which the President's Message
may make upon the unwary.
We confess we see nothing but hostility in this ad-
ditional Manifesto in support of a bad cause:—he
gives us no reason to hope for Peace being concluded
in America, where only, fir the honour of Great
Britain, it can now be finally arranged. He directs
the whole attention of his constituents to Europe, as
if it was from thence that the Olive Branch was to
proceed : the illusions of Nourjahad were nothing to
the delusions in which this wretched and profligate
Statesman wishes to lead his countrymen.
In the gloomy recesses of his own bad mind he
calculates upon the support of some of the Continen-
tal Powers—perhaps he thinks that GALLATIN and
BAYARD are patching up a maritime confederacy at
Vienna—in the mean time he flounders on and talks
of continuing the war without a dollar in the trea-
sury ! It requires, in short, a strenuous exercise of
patience to follow this perfidious and slippery candi-
date for eternal infamy through all his windings and
shuillings : our Readers will perceive that he now
renounces all claims of America on the score of im-
pressment, and attempts to sneak out of the charge
of inconsistency, by-saying, that the circumstances of
Europe arc so changed as to render his persisting in
these claims unnecessary.
Now with what grace can he meet those Ameri-
cans who believe that he went to war expressly for
the honour of their flag, and have accordingly sup-
ported him with vigour ? To this description of his
followers he held out, that it was degrading that their
ships of war should be forcibly visited and searched
for British Traitors s a remonstrance by diplomatic
Agents, he contended, was all the redress to which
Great Britain was entitled by the code of nations.
To a generous and enlightened mind there was
something like fairness in this argument, and but for
the eventful struggle in which Great Britain was en-
gaged, which imperiously demanded the assistance of
every human being born upon her soil, and justified her
resorting to her maritime superiority to keep herself
and all Europe from being swallowed up by France;
but far these reasons, we say, the partizans of Ame-
rica, in Europe, would have been numerous and re-
spectable.
What must we think then of the man who goes to
war for the maintenance of a principle bearing the
semblance of right and justice, and meanly departs
from it because, forsooth, the circumstances of Europe
so longer render its enforcement necessary. In
plain terms, this pitiful fellow now reduces the Arne-
-vim flag and all its laurels to a level with the bit
of tawdry bunting which denotes the cock boats of
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