Star.
London, England, 1814-02-10 00:00:00

QUEBEC, DECEMBER H. _

Private letters from Upper Canada, dated at York,
the 2d of December, mention the loss of part of the
enemy's squadron on lake Ontario. One large vessel
is said to be on shore at Grier's Farm-yard, with her
sides knocked in ; one large vessel wrecked off the
light-house at Niagara, supposed to be the Madison,
with her rigging above water ; one missing, said.to
be sunk, with General Harrison and some troops on
board. The schosaer,Lasly of the Lake is stranded
between the Ten and Twelve Mile Creek, on our side
of the Lake ; one other vessel ashore below the Ame-
rican Fort. The loss of the Madison and the Lady
of the Lake are mentioned as beyond a:doubt.

NARRATIVE OF THE LOSS OF THE PERSIAN SLOOP
OF WAR, CAPTAIN C. BERTRAM.
WRITTIN NY A iltaliON ON BOARD.

“ We sailed from Port au Prince, St. Domingo,
whither we had been with a convoy, on the 15th of
June, 1813, and after passing through the Bahama
passage, and making a stretch for Barbadoes, struck
on the rocky shoal, so well known by the name of the
Silver Keys, on the 26th, at ten minutes past five
p. m. the water at the time being quite smooth. The
man at the mast head had just called out •” rocks
ahead," but before any precaution could be taken this
ship was stuck fast.
•, The Silver Keys must be laid down in the Charts
too far to the southward, or a very strong current,
must have been running to that point with which we
were not acquainted ; for at mid-day we were, by
good observation, 40 miles to,the southward of them
and to the eastward of them by the reckoning. and
also by good lunar observations taken two days be-
fore. The sloop. at the time she struck, had not run
more than from five to six leagues at S.E. by S. at
the rate of three or four knots.

Great exertions were made to get of the rock
by starting the water, throwing the guns overboard,
and cutting the anchors away from the bows, which
succeeded, but in floating off, her stern ran on ano-
therthi
rock and stuck fast- In order to lighten e
vess4 in this alarming state, the boats were got ontr
the spars on the booms, sweeps, and every other
movable that could be got it, were. thrown over-1
board, Four pumps were kept doing, and men with
ht4et, employed i 4 bai inyg at the fore hatchway,

and fore scuttle, all at the sometime, but without
effect, as the water increased on us very fast. Night
coming on, and the water appearing dirty (a symp-
tom of bad weather) we made preparations for the
worst by making a strong raft to save the ship's corms
piny on, and the first necessaries. About seven
o'clock the sloop gradually settled by the stern, and
the carpenter reporting five feet water in the WA.
the Captain ordered into the two cutters and jolly
boat, as many of the ship's company as could stow.
One cutter was placed under the direction of Mr.
Morris, second Lieutenant; the other under Mr. Ni-
cholls, the Master, and the jolly boat directed by
Mr. Woolvin, the Gunner. They were ordered tia
remain close to the vessel, to be ready to come oil
board should any favourable circumstance occur.
sAt half-past nine finding her stilt going ouwn at
the stem, Captain Bertram directed Lieut. IY‘c
take the remainder of the ship's company, twenty-Eve*
• in number, on the raft, and to veer it by a hawser to
the leeward of the sloop, till morning. At forty
mi-
nutes after one on the 27th, the Captain ordered hilt

gig alongside, to take him in, having lost all hope of
saving the vessel. She went down at fifteen minutes
after two, and shortly after fell over on the larboard
side, having slipped off the rock, and sunk in about
seven fathoms water.

'" The raft during the niglit having carried away
the hawser and drifted far to leeward, the jolly-boat
was ordered to attend it. At- daylight the two cut-
ters and gig bore up for* the raft, leaving the sloop
with her tops above water. On joining, Lieut. Price
informed the Captain that all its lashings were r.carle
cut through by being among the rocks, that several of
the men had nearly been washed off during the eight,
and that it was insufficient to carry them.
" As the only alternative, either to save part or :1:e
whole of the ship's company, should the weather re-
main moderate, the Captain directed the cutters aad
;oily-boat to take the men off the raft in equal pro-
portions, and at the same time he received four addls
tiorial men into the gig. 'ln order to lighten the bags,
the little the people had saved was thrown overboard.
with part of the bread and water.
gg We were now 25 leagues from the nearest part
of St. Domingo, the worst passage in the West Ir.,
dies, through the Mona passage, with a Cross sea and
the wind freshing from the Eastward: The two cut.
-tors had on board 87 men, the jolly boat Si 2, and the
-gig 14, in all 123 persons, and i‘strong sea running,
we commenced ow voyage tinder very unpromising
circumstances ; indeed we were in so much danger
on the afternoon of this day that we were obliged to
throw overboard the remaining part of our brad and
water. These-circuMStances are scarcely credible to
any but eye-witnesses or those whoSe misfortune it
has been to tike part in similar' scenes The saving
of the ship's company is to be attributed to the calm
state of the weather, and the great exert ohs of the
officers and men, in keeping the boats free of water
Shipped, and in steering before the sea. Every man
behaved with a regularity not always to be found on
such occasions, for when the little cl ahea they nad
saved, and their only subsistence, the bread and w der,
' were ordered to be thrown overboard, they did it
without a murmur, and each vied with the other to
cbcy the command.
rr. Before dark we had a glimpse of the land, but
not aufficient to make it out ; in consequence we hove
the heads of the boats to sea all night, which paved
stormy, with a quantity of rain._ In the morning of
the 28th, we made the land, and put into a little.bay
between Old Cape Francaise and Cape Cabroon.
where nothing could be procured but brakish water,
found.in the holes of the rocks, and a few lirapetaon
them. The people were in a bad state from having
been two days and two nights without refreshments,
and sitting in the boats without the power of stretch.
ing out their legs or arms for want of room. A fire
was kindled to keep off the insects, before which we
dried our clothes, and went to sleep. In the =tiling
of the '29th, wept across the bay to a house ealle4
Margante, were well received, and the Captain pur-
chased for us some beef and plantain*. Here We
were informed that we possibly might procure ships
at Porto Plata to carry us to St. Thomas's, whither
Captain Bertram purposed going.,
" We set off fur this place under a pilot on the
30th, and in order to 'Hitt n the boats, the Captain
walked along shore with a party of the ship's corn.
pany ; but afterthaving walked about SO miles :sod
swam across several ravers, they were worn out, and
the boats hauled up in a itmal hay called Scotts bay,
an awning formed of the sails of the boats, and the
whole went to rest. We here found five large turtles
that had been turned asp by the inhabitants, one of
which messed the ant:At ship's company, At days
light next morning we resumed ut*r journey in
similar manner to the preceding day, and arrived at
Porto Plata about eleven o'clock, where we found
good accommodation. There were no vessels here
fit to take us to our destination, and Lieut. Price,
with a few men,- was dispatched in a small boat Sor
Turk's Island, to procure some there.
44 On the 10th July he returned again.with the Go►
vernmeut schooner' Swift, and- a sloop which he had
hired. After having laid in a stock of wood and
water, we all sailed in those vessels on the 13th in the
evening. The sloop arrived at -St. Tnomas'a on the
'23d, having parted company floor the Swift llbe day
before. The men on board the. hornier were in a
sickly state ; the Surgeon died soon after the anther
was cast, and had toe vessel reinaincd at sea tS hours
longer many more must shared a similar fate.
The Swift did not arrive until three days alter, the
people oa board her atso eery sickly. The whole
ship's company were, as they arrived, sent on board
his Majesty's ship Vautour; and from di-ice to the
hospital, where the gunner and three men died, criL:
on board the Vautour, on her p.tssage to the Sainte!,
arid several others afterwards in the hospital at
Antigua."

•
.SPIRITED VOLUNTEERING FOR CANADA.-911 Sa-
turday night a bit *as scut off. 'rim) Plym.)iith
Yard to the Admiralty, of the thipwri .hts who have
volunteered for Canada. The wishes of.Governmenc
had no sooner been madelnown to the artificers than
numbers pressed forward, to give in their nameh.
and tate list forwarded on Saturday night Contains thi
nail** of 930 young men, none 4,f them exceeding
Su years of 'age, and the flower of the workmen of
Plymouth Yard. It is said that Government have
determined on sending 1000 shipwrights, for the pur-
posini building, such iillUMba Ot V epelS On the Isles
as aball cleciiiely secure to us &eh:sovereignty.

DUTCH PAPERS.

Battk, WitrAtti A.
.
The main fOrce of the Allies CS hosi at West W 4161
where the head-quit-tett of 'General Bulow mw
present established. General -Borsteleir isat lissen4
'it with 3000 men, and at Gib& tgundart the
rte is equal'. We have a great Many sick in Chti
Ice, but they • are principayy Frenth, being the
..gied taken in the late action.
Lettets received a few days since froin West We
State, -that an offer has been made by the inhabii,
tis of Ghent, Bruges, and Bressels, to admit the
!Ft. if they would send-a fitce sufficient to proteet
iu against the French.
There have been greet movements of troops in the
:tion of Antwerp, and today it is expected a
ale will be fought; the distance is about '2O miles.
icdonald has certainly retreated ; he was a few
s ago at Tirlensont, and now marches upon.
Tlemont. • General Kleist, of the army of Bin.
crossed the Rhine on the 12th, and marched,
ra Namur, to co-operate with Bulow, and form his'
r. An agent assures us that Bonaparte's resources
quite prostrate, and the people quite indiffgent.
has no wood for guns, nor horses for any thing;
rganization of the levy en masse, nor a competent
any where to face the Allies. We cannot be
weeks without great results. The Allies act
much prudence. Some English artillery have
entered, we suppose, to reinforce the troops near
The roads all the way through Holland
re been crowded with convoys of provisions and
,powder. We are only now coming among the.
ies. This is the first place where we have expe-
:ed military precautions, on passing the draw.
iges and entering the [Own. It is, wf believe,
of the strongest places in Europe ; we passed, in
terißg, three lines of fortifications, with double
tches, &c. If the POssians move, forward, we
'1 be 13russels to-morrow.

BREDA, JANUARY 30.
The passage over the Bees Bosch was a very great
;city to us ; the ice, which only a few hours before
one solid sheet of 100 square miles, was by the
. of the S. W. Wind dislocated, and driven about
every direction. We were in an ice-boat, some-
• in the water and sometimes on the ice ; yet
, a famous wind and an able skipper, we made
miles in 49 minutes. General Bulow left this
in the morning for West Wesel on his road to
where it is said the Prussians have already
. It is curious tei meet in the same coffee.
soldiers of all the Northern Nations some with
that would be no indifferent cover to the fox,
with heads of hair as luxuriant as brambles in
There is however something very sublime in
allthese fierce nations united together by a
sentiment of resistance to despotism. They
keen gamblers, and seem to possess prodigious
itiei of money, chiefly in Napoleons, and which
stake in great heaps on the table. It is wonder-
see the great agility of the Cossacks, with their
feet pikes, their horses are small, and they go

DORT, JANUARY 30.
In half an hour we proceed to Breda, where Bu,
"s head-quarters still are, but whence they will ad-
i-day towards Brussels, where we hope to enter
Englishmen. At Ghent there has been a
le revolution, aud 180 G horsemen already or-
to scour the country. The tide of revolu-
in Brabant seems' to be rising every where, and
ing in the same direction in powerful co-operation
the Allies. All the publications in Brabant are
in the name of the Prince of. Orange, which
as if the Allies had conceded the ten provinces
Ind: We are in hourly expectation of news. A
,sition was made at three o'clock for 800 horses
carry sheik to the army. It is supposed a battle
fought near Liers, on the road to Brussels.
, are making here for the wounded, -Mtin-
sieur- arrived on the 27th at the Ha _qt.e. -
It is codfidently reported that Gorctrm has surren-
dered, but is not to be ueliveied up to the besiegers
tit the 15th; the garrison to be prisoners of war.
VZILONA, 'JAN UARY IS.
. The qtrantity of snow that has fallen in this part of
the.cartnn.has compelled the: different corps to re,
tire: The Aitstrians have planted themselves, on the
yoke side of the Po, while the Neapolitan troops
have been quartered in Bologna. The principal body
bf the 'enemy is posted at Ravenna, and Trion is
herd as as advanced stittint. It seems probable that
the;Neapolitan troops will not begin to act until the
icing takes in person the command.

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:' THE EVENING STAR.

LONDON.

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Yesterday we, had the. alltisfactien, in a Second
cl4ion) to announce the ,oecnpition by The Allies of
the important places of Br ells, Bruges, and Ghent.
Srussells was taken posßession of on the Ist, Bruges
4h the 2d, and Ghent on the 4th instant, as stated in
Liters from Ostend, dated on the 6th. The same
iccounts add, that the garrison of Ostend 'consists of
nO men only, and that the. Municipal Authorities
I..ad left the place ittoonstrenation. The French Ge.
ittal MAtsom, to whom the ptotection or the above-
mentioned places was confided, had fallen back upon
Tourney with 20,000 men, and Antwerp was so ef-
fectually surrounded, that the Allies' considered
themselves at perfect liberty to' leave It In their rear:
It is cenflckmtly stated in Holland, that General Sir
THn.MAS GaILHAMIS army Is that to be transferred'
to the South .ciF Prance to reinforce Lord WlLLlNG-
tot—the deriterante of Holland bcidg bow beyond
all doubt.
Dunkirk is reptesented at being equally Raked and
defenceless with Ostend, ail the guns-in both places

having beets sent oft to the ()raid Army in the in.
tetior of France. Ws mar, thericie, riPect to hear

1, Where the I
t ()resent es tabli
out wit:i 3000
OT:e is equal.
.14: but they
~ended taken i
LetteLs receiv
I state, that at
.itants of Ghent
if they w
em against tht
There have bi
7Tcction of Ar
,attle will be is
lacelonald has
.ays ago at 1
'harlemont.
her, crossed th
poll Namur, to
eft, An agent
,re quite prostr
e has no woo(
o organization
•rmy any when
any weeks wi
,ith much pruc
ust entered, we
ntPerp. Thi
Lave been crow
• unpowder.
• units. This i
fenced inilitar.
'ridges and en
ne of the stroll
ntering, three
• itches, &c.
ball be in Wu:
The passage
tevelty to us;
• as one solid t
, ect of the S.
ii every directi
lots in the
oing a tamot
.te miles in 2
in the
russets, where
nand. It is
. soldiers o
• .5 that NV(
ncl all with he
'menus. Then
• tg allthest
canton main
keen gam
oantitie a of LI
• ey stake in g
to see the p
Leven feet pill
'ke madmen.
In half an
tow's heacku
k ance to-day t
first, Eisgl
Ompitte re*c
.:anised to sc
;.in Braba
ayting in chi
with the Alli
inade. in the
ooks as if tilt
ix:Holland: V
rettnintion %VI
to carry shell
has been fouj
Preptrationi