The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-02-16 00:00:00

IMPORTANT, NEWS FROM CANADA.

EVACUATION OF NAVY ISLAND -DISBANDING OF THE REBELS.

(From the New lark American al i he 20th.)
Ti northern rn.ril arrived at a late hour last night, bringing
the Albany papers of yesterday morning, and Buffalo of Mori-
da v last.

It witihe seen by the annexed intelligence that the patriots
have evacuated Navy Island and diTeised. The caution be-•
lonAug to the state and the United States have been returned,
and are under the care of Colonel Ayres of the tnititiastatiuued
on Grand Island.

(From the. Buffalo Star Extra, Jan, 15)

THE CANNON BELONGING TO THE St' ATKS SOOKENOERED-

THE PATI:101' ARMY DISPERSKIL

By express this morning we Irani' that duriog the night the
patriot army retreated from Navy Island—after having con-
veyed the cannon helougin, to the state and the United States
to Grand Island, and left than under Inc care of Colonel Ayres,
of the militia.

(From the Br Palo Commercial Advertiser of Monday Evening.)
Seldosber, Monday Morning, Jan. 13, 1838.
Navy [stand was evarnatedl.ist Itte cannon belong
ing to the United States have been returned, and are lying at
St.! dosser.

Thus far the despatch of our correspondent. We give below
such additional information as we h lye subsevently learned.
It is believed that the larger portion of Van lteusselier's men
have landed on the adjacent parts of Grand island. having pre-
viously sent across the htus,kets, behtugiu4 to the stale,
'which were committed to the custody of Col. Ayres. The fur-
ther movements of the disbandedforce.aie left to conjecture.
Our messenger passed Schlosser, from the Falls, at hall-past
eight. As he approached TOMlWanda, the Barcelona steamer
was putting on steam at Whitehaven; but when he arrived up-
p,isite she hail left, but in what dilec•timi he could not $ el:.
A boat from the Canada side. lay out in the liver oppisite
Navy island early this morning, on her oars, apparently iecon-
u“itering. for about tiff an hour.

Two schooners, with British Hags inv were lying about one
mile bel,w Waterloo. which wereobserred by the s, nines oelow
Black I{o,•k to litre in tile their way up (toll ty.i,iw early this
mu wog. Another is t)itiv, at, Waterloo. They are Uatioutit-
edly those which have been at Black Creek, just wince t:hip-
peata, for a week or more. The object of their new position
can only be surmised.

Two o'clock, p.m.
GivernorMarcy and General Sent% who came up trout the
Fails last evening, left in extra cars, accompanied by General
Wool, about half post twelve to-day, for Black Hock, and will,
perhaps, proceed to Grand Island. Tao companies of artillery,
with two field-piece-,. also left here for quarter.
This step, we understand, is in clinsequente of intelligence
that do armed British schooner (probab.y one of those allude l
to above) is It tog in our. waters, down the river, with hostile io-
telitions_ towards the steam-boat Barcelona, or any craft that
may he employed in aid of the Navy Islanders.
While writing- the above, several discharges of cannon hale
been heard front that direction. A •gentleman, just arrived,
says that the schooners alluded to have been firing et, he sup-
poses, either the Baiceluna, or squads of disbanded Navy
Islanders.

K.N., TO THE HON. COL. A. N. PA ACNA B.

• {Correspondence of the Daily Commercial Adrertiaer.)
Niagara Fails, 6untlay, 9 ;Lir.. Jdll. 1,1.
Gentlemen,—Your expiess has just and I hasten to
communicate the movements of the last 2-1 hours.
The terrible cannonading of Friday night did—as I have been
assured by Majors Chase anal Lawton, and Colunel Freeland,
of Navy Island—tin darn we whatever.
Yesterday warning, Ceienel Aaree, commandant at Grand
Island. wishing to send 4 deSpatrh to the cot 1111 l andlot at Chip-
rit, and 1 being no whit-disinclined to go, procured a bin; e,
s,-I.:eteil lour stout tel and went across the river, opposite
the American hart asks. A large number or men crowded
round as we .approacited the shore, ;and my oarsmen expected
malting less than to be fired:l4mo, but instead of that, we were
courftously received by he ',thee. s. We were, to be sure, sur-
rounded by two .boat, but whether to cut off our retreat or not
I could- not tell. I inquired far tiea•l ipi.trtei ae.t was told
that I should filet the to,uanandaut three mires doss u the river,
at Chippewa.
My men were taken care of. and treated very handsomely,
whale I jumped into one el their barges with Colonel M`Donaid,
8.A., and LieutenAnt Ehnsley, U.N.. arid rowed along the
Canada share towards Ceippewa, in lull view of the batteries en
Navy Island, and also those in Canada. I saw the tllett muster-
tug round their gnats, and hurt-taug this way and that, and what
we expected soon occurred. Tee opened a tire upon us from
THE FOLLOWING ARE THE AFFIDAVITS REFERED TO IN col—
the island, with muskets anal titles, and kept up a peppeling
discharge till we were out of their reach a' Chippewa. 'lbis was In At NA lI'S cotrukseoNoke.ck.
elegant sport, and the officers, far any greater comfort, told ane UPper Canada, district of Niagara. to wit :—Silvanus Fearns
Wrigley, late or the township of Dumfries, al the district of
that the balls frerieentiv went into the bank and houses beyend
us. The bullets struck, round occasionally, and one or two labourer, depeseth and saitb, that ha is a British sub.
nearly in my range, • Col. 111•Dou,,Id, however, with a polite- ./ecl, that he enlisted with Charles thincombe, and joined ham
tress which does Iron infinite credit, offered to place himself be- in the London district ; that after Duncembe's Meal were dis-
tween tuna and the guns, which offer, of course, 1 could not persed, lie went with Alfred Luce, another oh Dialconthe's men,
accept. down to Chippewa, and caused the Niagara riverttotjitiieinlit-hwee
in
Upon arriving at Chippewa, to my great surprise, I was in- patriots, that he was on board the stea•boat Caroline with
troduced to Col. M`Nati, who hats neither resigeed nor has he the said Alfred Luce, on their way :o Navy Island, at
been superseded, yet, as far as I could learn, as you will see she was captured—that he believes the said Luce was killed in
by the documents, with copies of which I was politely, favoured the engagement—that he understood the boat to be the property
of the patriots—that on the same day she was captured she had
utilised by Celeuel Ayres, whose 13,isintaiitV and kindness has much
me. I returned by a back read, as Col Al• Nab told taken a six-pounder to the istund front bolt Schlosser on the
the °dicers I had no p.ttlicufarinterest in being shot by the guns American shore, with provisions and oihea necessaries for
on Navy •1 suspect another atel Trite as strong a rea- Mackenzie's army—that the flag they had on bleat! wasa British
son was their unwilliuguesi that 1 should suspect their batteries flag—that deponent saw the cannon put on beard—that the
on shere. i cannon, as he uuders,ood, was the property of the Culled Stat

J. ELMSLEY, Lieut. Royal Navy.
The Hon. Colonel A. 51.avnab, etc.

COPY OF A LKTTER FROM W. LOCKWOOD, ESQ., FIRST LIEU-
TENANT OF TOE: ST. CATHEItINK'S TltuoP OF CAVALRY, TO
TliK tioN. coLoNkl. MACNAI3, &e.
Str,-1 have the honour to inform you that this morning at
eight Web k, about 20 men appeared on Gland Island (two
miles below Black Crevi: j constructing a bridge across a ravine,
anti i% heti they saw a patty of men on the Canada shore watch-
ing their loovetlieWS, they fired a voile) of nitisketly towards
them ; after having completid their work they left two men tin
!liiefol the
the bridge and retired towards the lower part of the island-1
have the honour to be, sit, your most obedient servant,
To the Wit LIAM LOCK woof).
unr:ttiraLbieleutc. oulthAeidScti.),Zeh,:iriiiintic:a's,,,Lireormo4i cavalry,
Forces of Upper Canada. Chippewa, Dec. '2.9, 1837.

es
—and that when the boats approached the steatn-tioat, a rifle
I .-ouverseil with several officers, and gather as follows :
was flied at them from the steam-boat—that he than ran for-
'lhey are anxious to avoid a wet with this country; they are
ward to the front of the steam-boat, when he was made primmer.
'nor • an in is t.i h the oar auloortties- cut oti supplies with the
island; and they groan dreadreadfully about the cost and trouble SILVANUs FaAttNs Witicia.kr.
The only fire-locks deponent saw on board, were muskets
thee hay.- been put to. They will not attempt the island by
assault, bat expect to drive the patriots—pirates they call them and rifles. Si LVA N l'S FEA RAS W BIG thy.
—from toe island by their shells, rockets, and artiderv. Col. j Sworn before me al Chippewa, this 30th December, 1837.
M Donald told me that they could not have kitleti less than 30 WILLIAM 11 AMILTON AlkititurT, J. P.
to 40 on Friday night. Others set it higher. lie said that, --
with the exception of those Wotintiel o Upper Canada, district of Niagara, to wit : —George Nolop,n board the Carobue none :
of the village of Bi ant ford in the district of Gene, yeoman oe•
had been ki led on that site. Every oilier account makes the
poseth anti with, that he is a British sulject —that on the '2Bth
loss much greater. Last (might stow-110 or 4U shells were thrown
onthwent ness to e United States—
at Navy Island, but not m n ore that, three or four lodged upon of this
that onm arrivi,ng,h r
at Fort Scoverhlon busi
osser in the Codth ed States, he was
it, and these del no injury. i
taken prisoner by a body of armed men, who said they were
He'll' ning in Grand Island, we were hailed from Navy Island, '
citizens of the United States; that he was vat under guard and
but the wool blowup., havl +lid not hear. The guns were 'Datum- d
in a detained for shout 21 4,,urs ; that lie, this deponent, repeatedly
au as met, nod,. want sent Out, under the co moment, and levelled, and we expected it 01(d : nitan. riomm, or mme linerateu, mit was roldluy triel,;(iard that [Rey will' ill
n atsuithil at Slapilr
Law- "
, tot y .go;, that while he was a prisid.er at
ton, to inletcept us—when he found we were friends—not cue- • not let any damned
Ellie.; I mean. ills crew cheered, and rowed back again. , Fort Schlosser, he saw a six-pounder, belonging, as the guard
informed him, to the Uni!ed States, taken front the fort, put on
Governor Marey, General Scott, the Ciammssary-general, '
board the steam-boat Caroline, sod taken to Nary I%l4nd—that
and other ',trivial, are•here. and I hare conversed with them,
but ascertained nothils,,,, of the movements. Something, stn_
while he was a prisoner he heard the men belonging to the boat
portant Is ceriainly (.11 tile tspix, but what, ti tilt
must
iieveii,p,,. state that the boat beninged to the patriots, and that she was to
be employed in takiug stores, guns. and other nevessalies to
lo consequence of the numberof volunteers 011 Navy Island,
the qu.sriers are -so erowd,el they have no room to sieep, and Navy Island, for the use of the patriot army—that while de-
are consequently getting discouteuted. If possible, every man I'olll4ll was a prisoner s-oile armed men value up to the tavern
will gn Mtn Canada.
where he was, and said i hat the lures had gut the boat—that
1 saw several 18 and 21-pound shot lodged upon grand Island . the men Wined out and tired urn! the pei sons (hei called tortes
that deponent heard from his guard that there' were about
crown mark upon lar in. also a piece of shed. The sentries
s!towed me were several shot hid struck. They have even thirty armed men on board the boat —th it duritn, the confusion
w neat user their heads while on duly, be made his escape—that when the 111.,11 of the Coat went dew n
In regard to the OW rage alluded to, in firing upon the boat. I to man her, they inarched in regular order—that in the guard-
am informed that alit was 'hilted by time sentry when coming room,
in the tavern were lie Was confined, there was a cask filled
with six-pound shot, and tau tasks of grape and canister, and
in shine, and ordered to lay ti,. She refused. They threatened
the men beliingitig to the steam boat said that said shot ban
to fire if she did nut. She told them to go to hilt—tire and be
—! and the fired, Lieut.: Einistey told me he was steering been take') out of the drsellal at 1301r110,11114 was 10 be Sell( 10
the liatroes—that one of the crew told the deponent atter the
at the time, and (hat one of the bat's ',truck the t udder head
and p m‘serl bet wren his arm aunt his tautly. As to the li pug sit'ain-imat hail her') taken, that he was sew; yon the deck whet,
the attack was made, sod demanded thecouniersigh several tones
upon toe bat ge, I. presume the necessary affidavits eau be taken.
Perhaps IL was ..alccidemo,,,.... front the attacking pa ( ty, but they did not give it.
[ uo,uinvuts enclosed.] I Gsoil6 s: Not.or•
r c„,„ . i 1 Sworn before me at Chippewa,' this 20th (lay of Dec 1537.
FROM coI.ONEE. IRA AVER, ,1811-1. KEG,, 471 H BitlG, N. Y ' Cuisautius I( Y K EliT, J.P.
miL,,,,,,. u S. BARRACKS, GUAM) ISLAND, JANI• 13- 1838'
Sur,—For severa, (lays past cannon-balls and melts have teen
thrown from the batteries on the Canadian frontier upon Gaud
lan nd, within the terittories of the United States. This was
particularly the-case last night or this inoinieg, when several
shots nete received, and two or iimre shells burst upon the
island, and in the vicinity of the. Aim-riven barracks. Our
I,ar,le has also been fired upon, when bearing the American
11 ig.

Upper Canada, Disfrict of Niagara, to w:t :—Luke Walker,
Of the city of Buffalo, in the state of New York, in the United
States of Ante:lea, labourer, niaketh oath and sat; ti that he was
on board the steam boat Caroline last night when she Was cap-
lured; that there were about thirt% armed men on Ewald; that
the said boat, as he understood, aas the property of the patriots
in Navy Island; she had been employed during Ine day in taking
Provisions and dotes to the island; that deponent was in the
cabin Il mg down wheit he heard ill.. watch on the deck crp out,
" llurra boys, here comes he enentv ;" that he heard the captain
say to the met'. "Sleep well to night, for we shall nave haul
work sit it to-morrow; there are many gentlemen coming from
Rochester, and we shall have to take them over.''
his
• LUKE >. WALKER.
m irk.
Sworn before me at Chi
explained to Mtn, this 30th December, .8...7.
i'P'vra, first havrg. been fully read and
American opan 20.)
ttAltittAiit, Alkiittryr,
HIGAN FRONTIER. _
m (pFo 7:74 the BF:1:1.7711
TIEor m

I write to apprise you of these eiretan%tances, and, whether
they ha, e taken pipe by accident or design, to remonstrate
the careiez.sness 111 the moe rase, and the wanton viola-
tion of nati u 1 tient I city in he other.
Ilopiog to receive such au ansivet as will prevent the neces-
sity to ,tuy unpleasant colientunteattuhs to American authori-
ties, [ have toe honor lobe, &y,

lAA AYER,
4Sth Regt., 47th Brigade N. Y. M.
Hon, A. N. Macna!o, comuel commanding her
Brttaunic Alajesty's forces it Chippewa.
(chr.y.)
Filpit„,HON. A.., N. MACNAB, .001.0NEI. CoMMANDING CHIP-
..
i'kWA, Ti) Col.. tHAv AYER,•,GRAND ISLAND.
"1"a'l Tiarters. Coitioewa...lan. 13.
L...00r
..,4,.s.uo;,.(efige the receipt of your
appiisi6g hies .•` that for several ita‘s past
-cittition-bsJis .cud shells have been thrown trout the batteries on
the Canaddin frontlet upon Gram! Island," and that •• in one
iiistanee your barge has been tiled upon, when bearing the
Aloe' lean- flag."
Wiih regal,' to the cannon-halls or Ards from our, batteries
reachi..g %our frontier, it is quite possible that this may occa-
sionally nave been the case. but 1 can assure you that it is alto-
gether the cff.ct of accident, and that not one shot or shell has
reached your shore by design. You must he aware of the diffi-
culty (from the'simation of Navy bland, and the position ofour
batteries) of keeping .•tir shot and shell always a ithin our
territory, but you may rely
.upou mv best endeavours to it so:
and I sincerely trust 'that accident has occurred on Grand
island in consequence Of Some of ourshot having occastoually
reached it.

The folloaing letter' front a source or t,etir;;;;;le clability
at D-truit,,touveys the particu ars of impottant events which
have jtett transitired in that quarter, in reference to the revolt
in Canada. NVe have here the developetnent of plans which
have been heretofore to easiunally hinted at in the accounts that'
have reached tai front Buffalo,
DEThoIT, JAN. 7, 1838.—Our city for the. last three days has
been in great rouru.ititi, to cons-quence of the, extensive plans
Canada by certain refugees and others having been
di,covered.

Nothing of the movement was known save that meetings had
been twin and resolutions passed, but tt ass thought the matter
would stop there. It has turned out diffeteutly, rot on Thurs-
day night all the arias in • our city arsenal were secretly taken
away ; on the same clay four hundred stand were (peak seized
at Alooroe, and on the succeeding night our jail was roimbed of
all the arms and fixed ammunition a hich bad been deposited
there for sate keeping.
The next mourning a vessel with about 800 stand and about
100 men, depatteit Iron our wharves for B Blanc—a- British
island, distant .19 miles hence, and opposite Ma Wren, at the
• .sere aISO
to be made upon our city piivrtier ualgazine at Dearborn, which
were frustrated by a guard being despatched flow the city iu
time.

With respell to your complarint of our firing upon one of
vour barges, bearing ihe Aawrteati flag. I have (oily to say that
this is the first time such -a report rids reached ire, and I am
quire convinced that upon traitilly Sou win mitt it t% holly in-
correct. It may l"""bi% be R,,1 lip as a sort of set off to the
fluurage-commitied by a pArty of Well under your immediate
command, and directly under the American ilig, by firing upon
Lieut. EltliNl, II s,• while Peacefully sounding tire tiger, and
I shallr n obliged
tii i
s sr t r Y' m m
di to stake the communication to
your object, Which von mention in your
letter to me, as I desire nothimt sd much as a full investigation
%, a it wit r totlit :e hs
iip,
of the charges you have Preterred.—l have the honour to be,
sir, your obedient fru:nide servant,
ALLAN N. Al ACNA B. Gilunvi Cominandinsr.
Colonel Ira Ayer. 48th Itegt , 47i h Brigade N. York Alilitia.

Besides these daring operations, supplies have been purchased
and sent to Bois Blanc subscription papers cit ciliated, and
noun containing WOU names—commissions from Navy Island
tendered and accepted—enrolments of about seven hundied
men made in the dlr.rent counties on the river—regular drills
held—and, to cap the climax, a Sutherlartd hoot New.
York, is hough expected wi h a force from Cieveland, to arrive
at Gibraltar, 16 miles hence—the point of rendezvous—and to
take command of all the forces.

(FrOm the Albany Evening Jou,nai.)
Tu THURLOW WEED, FSQ.

As Bois Blanc overlooks Mdldren, and has ut,;on it the to
mains of au (0.1 breast work, the patriots desivi making it a
depot, and intend, after leaving thereon a ;Nat'l, to attack Mal-
den, proceed to Sandwich and London, and effect a junction
wish Nlackenzie, at Hatiiitt.in, Upper Canada.
Governor Mason issued his proclam ttion three or four days
ago. but it w.ts disregarded. Yesterday the U. S. district at.
tortley despatched it steamboat with the mar,lial and p 05.... after
the schooner. hat they were defied and threatened with the cot,
tents of an eighteen pounder if they approached nearer limit
halting distance..

Dear sir,—Heavy firing havingbeen heard here for four
hours Imo, great anxiety has hero felt to reference to the ex-
pected liatt.e at, 'S,avy Islau,i. 1 he,cais have just come up, by
which we learn that the royalists commenced a irellt,.,„l„ns
fire upon the island from the main shore, at one o'clock this
atiertwn. * They have 16 pieres itt "tiilet and several utortarb,
all of which are in the ini.sf liberation. '1 he force is
about 4.000 militia, 200 regulars, and 280 Indians. the latter
musty' arrived last night in canoes. from above. With these,
and the assistance of the steam-boat Tha.nes and their schooner,
lying at litack Creek, tut) miles almve the island it is ~,,roed
'hey will attack the patriots to night. and kintua what rnal
Ire the result. A great loss of iife will ensile at ili rate, a, the
patriots are pretty cell prepared, and the island it.Plf is
impregnable. 'nue patriot force is about 1);0x1 to 1210, as near as
can learn, and more determined set (,)* lIIPII, fir goad or
evil. were probably never congregated. They have a'so
pieces of artillery, awl are well supplied ',Aida 5111.111 antis awl
munitions of war. We are, of course, waiting with intense
anxiety to hear from Iheot.

Our enizens held a public meeting and passed resolutions pri.
pressing their disapprobation of the putouts' measures, and or-
ga niz,,d a guard Ott WO men fur the protection or the town,
which was then without any arms save those i•f our volunteer
turn!, and liable to he plumh•red of its shires lt) the Firth tuts, or
tired on ity the rovalists uu the opposite Side of the river.
Upon the re..orn of the marshal, a requisition for arms was
made upon General Brady, U. S. A.. which is as granted. Arms
from Dust horn were brought in, and an enrolment of 2tl) citi-
z," made, to seir• the scliminet it found within our jurisuiction,
We think, boos ever, she has reached her point of desiinalion
ere this.

The patriots have a large body of men at Gibraltar, destined
to ro,perate II the vessel alluded lii, and t0..m,.n0w nwri,
in!! uiav expect the grand mi.(' to be wade upon the (lA% 1.1
f u:dem.

(From the New Y iok Amelican of the 18th.)

POST C II IP?.

One o'clock.

The voiltn`rrfmail has just arrived.
Frilt' the liiiatier it is staled. that.on the niuht t,Pthe J.911h.
iit.ttial there' lAA% real:v a Iteap-tifl, at anti aii
Nave i-lanti." Three iitindr, oaiiited 1,3 a listeti..l
Part if the 13.} ittitiah r, giu ent bast arrived 11111160 e rbe inland '
:rletter from theskishiud rep..,rt5.,131)0.44114i4 .Vot :eight or ten
4oirnaea,

• (Feßtn th,. Thlghto Commerrial firerVser, JUL,n 16 )
T64E PA Tttliirr A 1431 Y DIN BA N1)101.-1.11E' I{ ItCEI...NA.—
N,kl)l last the so/ disant witrttit ar;,, .1) Na“
..vartiatcd ih it iff.,iiinti.e.4l.,ing iu their hm.s to Guituf
-iiieurierrd thrit arms In Ili United Stale.. atchorilies,
(11,14.uijr4 thrir t“fir,F; 'll.O. no, U. t,, the slat.,
itetr,4e4frqed,iu a svuw tu Schlusier, and uu thr way, with all

Ou the saute night an express came up. front Schlosser with
intormatiou that Mr. Vail li,osse,,ier and his utulaws had
landed .onour shorts, and were wait:long toward 4 Black Hock,
with the supposed design of crotisiug thence into Canada.
General Scott and the governor immediately proceeded to
Black Rick, where the militia force was soon assembled. it
turned out to he a false alArna.

;All Buffalo, civil and military, and all classes, vied with each
other ►n attention to General Scott and ihe governor, who had
reviewed the militia cm•ps in service there.

(From the New York American of Jan. 15 )
From the Niagara frontier there are accounts to Tuesday
eveling. All re►nained in stain quo, and the idea seemed to
pr••vail in Milo that the Intention to attack 1,7,tv) Island had
been ►eliuquished, not withstandiag cannon were trained for a
mile and a nail upon the river, so as to Lear upon N.ivy Island,
as it to cover an attack.

(From the Bola() Commercial Advertiser of Friday )
Wm. Lyon Alackenzwarrived in this city last eveurt►g, and
put up at the American note:. lle came, it is said, to provide
an asylum for his wife, who has hitherto refused to leave him.
While here, or on his way up, he was arrested by the U. S.
marshal, ou the charge of raising au armed force in this state,
for the invasion of a country with which we are at peace.
:Messrs. T. T. S' erwood, It. T. Brow'', and P. Dorshelmer
promptly offered to become his bait, which was accepted, and he
was liberated. The amount of the oda ooud is 5,0i0 dollars.

COPY OF A LETTER FROM THE HUN. A. N. Af ACNAB COLONEL
CoMMANDING, To Col. HE HUN. JUN AS JONES, A D.C.

Headquarters, Chippewa, lire. 30, 1837.
Saturday morning, Three o'clock.
Sir.--1 have the honour to report for the information of his
excellency, the lieutenant-governor, that having received posi-
tive information, that the pirates and rebels at Navy Island had
purchased a steam-boat, called the Caroline, to facilitate their
intended invasion of this country—and being confirmed in me
information yesterday by the boat (which sailed under British
colours) appeal ink.; at the islauul, I determined upon critticg her
out; anal having sent Ce.pt. Drew, of the roved nay), he. in the
most gadant manner, with a crew iir volutit.ers (who.e names
I shall hereaft,r ) performed this dangerous service.
which Was hdiolsoole'y etl eted. In eimseqn-nce of the henry
current, it was found to tie imp •ssible to get the vessel ovor to
this plae,-, and it %Ties, titer fore. necessary to set her ou tire.
tier colours are in my possesston.—i have the honour to be, sir,
)our obedient servant,

A. N. M ACNA B. C.. 1. Commanding.
P.S. We have two or three wuunded—etud the pirates about
the saute cumber killed. A. N. AIACNAB.

COPY OF A LETTER FROM THE HON. JOHN ELMSLEY, LIEUT.

Cni,pewd, Lie., La, 1837, Eight,
Sir,—l have the honour to iniprin you, that I have just le-
turned from the neighbourhood of Navy Island, to which point
I oripeeedeil at day bleak with my soy-glass to inspect the posi-
tion of the rebel frces.

Soon ether my arrival there I perceived our eight-oared gig
just rounding the northern extremity of Navy Island. She had
been all round the island, and was tired at from all parts of it,
with round shot, canister, and grape, and musketry.
On our coming abreast at Fort Schlosser, I distinctly saw
two discharges of heavy ordnance Rout a point ou the main
shore on the American side, not far hum ILe fort.
As soon as our boat hail passed, the tiring ceased.
I have deemed it no more than Inv duty to call sour attention
to this fact, to the troth of which I am prepared to make affi-
davit whenever called upon.— I have the honour to be, sir, your
obedient servant, _