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ceased ; Brevet
Dickens;Maor Cornelius Mau to be Lieutenant Co.
lonel, vise s Second Captain Thomas Roberts to be
Captain, vice Mann; First Lieutenant George Gipps to be Se-
end Captain, vice R °bens ; First Lieutenant Illailip Barry to
be Secoud Captain, vice Barrington, &ceased.

AMERICAN PAPERS.

WASHINGTON, SEPTEMBER 8.
From the battery under Commodore Perry, at In-
dian Head, we yesterdaylearut that the enemy passed
it on the morning of the day before, having received
but little injury from our battery, which was too light
and weak to dispute his passage with effect. Our loss
was only one man wounded, and that was in the re-
treat from the shore.
At Indian Head, as well as at the White House,
the enemy expended a great quantity of ammunition
in firing random shot and shells on shore, and in the
woods, to disperse the militia, Etc. after the cannonade
from our little batteries had been silenced.
The following account of the manner in which the
enemy moved down the river, is forwarded us by a
friend who witnessed it from the Maryland shore :
46 The British squadron (assembled at Mr. Mar-
shall's Point and a little below Mount Vernon) be-
gan to move downwards about two (Mock on Mon-
(ey at the pitch of high tide, and a most favourable
fresh wend at N. E. The preceding ship was the
Commodore, in the Seahorse frigate of 38 guns, with
the first division of the prize craft, firing but a few
guns towards the Virginia shote, and the high bluff
of Belvoir; the fort previously, and at the same time
constantly and spiritedly annoying them with their
shot. The Euryalus frigate, of $6 guns, went next,
and distinguished herself for the most active firing of
any of the fleet. Those two vessels, after passing the
bluff, hauled up in the wind nearer to the Maryland
shore, and continued their firing, particularly the
Euryalus, which then became heath:lost, until all the,,
fleet had passed close in below the Fort, the channel
there being deep and close in under. the cliff.
66 The third was the Etna Bomb, the Rocket-ship,
and after them the Manly armed brig of 14 guns,
which had passed up the river and joined the lower
squadron in the evening of the .Ist inst. after receiving
some shot (four in number, one of which passed
through her) from the Bluff battery, after those went
in succession the remaining prizes, the Meteor Bomb,
and lastly the Devastation ; none of the Bombs ap-
pearing to fire as they passed the battery on the
heights : the result was not known.
46 A fire-ship with a party under Commodore
Rodgers, could not overtake the rear of the fleet in
titre for full effect, they being peculiarly favoured by
a most favourable wind to carry them through the
lower reach of the channel. It was on fire an" went
seemingly in good direction for the Euryalus frigate,
but grounded on the Point.
" From six o'clock till dark a firing of heavy can-
non from below was heard, and supposed to be from
Indian Head, ten or twelve miles below the Belvoir
Bluff. Some shot hit the Seahorse, and her mtzen-
top-sail was seen to fall on the deck as she passed the
Point."

WASHINGTON, SEPTEMBER 9.
it is stated in some of the Papers, we observe, that
the Congressional Library was saved. We are sorry
to c • ntradtct t:lis statement. The Vandals destroyed
without renicr.-.e this collvion cf valuable and scarce
books, the loss of which is ii reparable. If his incen-
diary hand were not to be arrested by the monument
of art exhibited in the south wing of the Capitol, it
could not be expected the enemy would respect whit
none but heathens or barbarians ever before wantonly
destroyed—a public repository of history, science,
and law. We are sorry to learn also that Elias B.
Caldwell, Esq. lost the whole cf his valuable law
'library, which was in the same building. The papers
and books of the Senate were all saved,. and all the
material.papers of the House of Ittpresentatives.
• BOSTON, SEPTEMBER 'l6.

IMPEACHMENT or MR. MADISON.—WIIat will the
.action who have so long misruled our unfortunate
country cio next? Let ut see how they stand, and
guess what they will do, since they find that all the
fai, -minded and honest are, forsaking them.
The war was commenced for these reasons.—First,
To gratify ancient hatred against Great Britain, and
to assist the French in subduing the English. Se-
condly, To give that tone and strength to the Madi-
sonian.r,vernment, which might naturally be expect.
cd to arise out of a state of war. Thirdly, To silence
those men who had opposed the Jeffersonian and Ma.
disonian course of policy, and to command their
wealth for the purpose of keeping them still. Fourth.
ly, to take the chances of the events which might
arise out of this new state of things, and from the
noise, excitement and acclamation of successful war,
probably to establish, by the help of arms, a govern-
ment not unlike that of Bonaparte. Fifthly, To sa-
tisfy the people as to all the expenses and sacrifices
which might arise, by conquering the Caoadas, and
snaking a great outcry as to our gains and glory.
Now it unfortunately turas out, that this war,
Sellich was pretended to be waged to protect seamen
and commerce has nearly annihilated both. Canada
IA not taken and never will be. The English nation
has not become bankrupt and has not fallen before,
our ally in fact, Bonaparte. But he and his power
are fallen for ever ; and the English are the most
powerful and effective nation, for their numbers, on
the earth. Instead of having General Hull quietly
domesticated iq Little York—General Dearborn in
Montreal, and General Wilkinson in Quebec—we

lave nobody within Canada, after two years fighting
and an hundred millions of expense, except the de-
tachment of the army that. are bravely defending
themselves at Erie.
Ent on the sea board, and in the rivers of the Uni-
ted States which conduct to the capitals of the seve-
ral States, the-enemy are in groat and threatening
force. Public credit is at an end. No confidence is
placed in the national administration, even by their
warmest partizans. A portion of our territory is
taken away, and quietly possessed by the enemy. In
short, Mr. Jefferson and Mr. Madison have, in ten
years, completely ruined the resources, and the go-
vernment, and the character, and blasted the pro-
spects of this once happy and flourishing nation. It
is plain that Mr. Madison ap &Obis political adhe-
rents know this, and know that the country never can
recover from these calamities, while he and his friends
remain in power.
Will they, then, voluntarily give up the power ?
Will Mt. Madison and the " super-ecnintnt" Mr.
q.a.ry resign ? No.—What, then, must be done