Star.
London, England, 1807-10-27 00:00:00

MONTREAL, AUGUST 27.

Vigorous preparations are making throughout this
province, in expeetation of an attack from the States.
On a' eview of the militia, this m'rning, the Com-
manding Officer harangued them in French, and in.
formed them that as war was expected between Eng-
land and the United States, it Was the with of his
Majetly, that the People of Canada thould be in
readiners ; it was !herefore ordered,

. That every sth man of the militia be immediately
fele4led, and equipped at the expence of Government.
SEPT. 7.—The review of the Englifh Militia was
not certainly the let's orderly nor decorous I,r having
been deferred until Wedneiday the ad inliant. At
five o'clock in the afternoon, the fira battalion, com-
manded by Colonel Gray, affernbled on the Champ
de Mars. They appeared with much advantage;
the officers were dretfed in a regular uniform, and
the men muttered very arong.
During the laft ten days, a levy of one•fifth of tke
militiamen between the age of t 8 and 3o has been
effeaed, nearly throughout the whole province. The
zeal which has been manifelted on this occafion will
dO laaing honour to the province of Lower Canada.
—Ths force raifed is eftimated at about ; a.OOO men.
It can always be fupported by the militia of the point
attacked, and by further detachments from more
diftant parts of the province, if neceffary. The
whole, when added to the ►egular troops, and put
into activity, by the plwerful means of Great Bri-
tain, will be fully adequate to oppofe any force that
can be brought again ft us.

as to fay, that he has avowedly been in the confidence
of Talleyrand this fume time patt.

The folloning is an extra& of a letter from an of-
ficer in the 98th regiment, Rationed at Halifax, to
his friends near Kelfit, dated the I Sth of September :
" You will be furprifed to hear, that we are under orders to
embark for o,ltelsec, and exiled to he en beard the tranfportt pro-
vided for us, together with another regiment Rationed here, the
Newfoundland Feneibles, in two or three days at 'melt. Our
heavy baggage's put on board frhooners. The order arrived by a
frigate only laft Saturday. and we have been in a Rate of bottle
and conflation ever Once. It is rather late in the tcafun, and we
shall probably have a tedious and Rormy palfage through the Gulf,
and up the river St. Laurence.
" There appears to be little ilooht American war—and
it is fuppofed that Canada will be the firft object of attack; if,
however, we may trust the information of an old Roman Catholic
priett, now refident here, who lived for many year in Canada,
there is very little profpedt of their fueceeding. He rays, that the
Indians of Upper Canada are molt numerous and warlike, and Co
great is their deteltation of the raniic:, that they will maCacre
every man of them who invades their country. They are alto
our good allies. It is a moll unpleafant bufhiefs that we &cold
go to war with America ; but. they have hawed with great arro-
gance ; their Prelident, ike too quay of the Monarch; of Eu-
rope, is the tool of talleyrand."
We !earp from the Virginia Papers, that the hofli-
lity of the Savages of North America towards the
people of the United States it more formidable than
is generally fuppofed ; and it is believed that they
will commence warlike operation*, uninfluenced by
the ref .lutions of this country. A letter from Fort
Michilimakinak, dated towards the end of July, ob-
raves, that revere' of the tribes feem fully determined
on war. A very extraordinary and carious talk was
circulated among' them during the lalt winter,
which has produced a wonderful aka on their minds.
Some defigning perfoa came amongft them, under
the aflumed character of Monitore, or their prophet,
and- polkaed fuch Tway over them, that he 'has form-
ed an extenfive combination of all the different tribes
South of the Ohio, and Eat of the Mil ltl ppi. The
policy of the impoftor, who is evidently prepating
them for war, is the pretext of relloring to the
Aborigines their former independence, and to the
favage character its ancient energy. Tnis fyfiem is
fo artfully interwoven wits their ancient fuperflitions
and modern prejudices, that they embrace it with a
religious enthutiafm, as coming directly from the
Qxsair SPIRIT.
In the STAR a few days ago we gave the filbflance
of the curious Talk above alluded to, and which %ill
be found to contain fomething like the feeds of the
commotions now railed againft the Americans by
their uncivilized neighbours.