The Statesman.
London, England, 1814-11-21 00:00:00

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mina Stovitt, who 'strived at my head-quarters. few
hours hefcre the attack, for theassistance I received
from him.
I cannot suffichintly appreciate the valuable essist-
ince which I have received from Colonef Myers, ,De:.
phty Qoarter-Master.Geneval, and hieut-Colotiel
Harvey, ,Ropey Adjutant-General, during Ow re-
sew service, and which have been of the more im-
/torta'oce, as, from my.own state of health of late
(in consequence of my wound),, I have not been Able
to use those active,personai,ezertions which I other-
wise might.
I avail myself of this opporttinity of again espre9S-
ing my sevete concern at the loss which this.division
of the army sustained, by the accident which de-
prived it of the service* of MujoryGeitelal Cbaratt,
from whose energ) and lON, lassch.Wis justly to be

NAMES or ciretes:no KILLED.
'Oh root-R. fl, Patterson.
Font—Lieutennut Karsten.
Dc Wattesille's Regiment—Lieutenant Pe'Lich° ly.
• WSVVDFD.
Royal Scot toi—LieutenantpColnael J. Gordon, severely 1 Lieu-
tenant J. autiledgc, i•ince dead.
61b riot—Lieutenant Andress, *Severely,
Font—Lietitenaut Lowry, severely.
82d Funt—Captalu J. M. Wright, since dead; Captain F..
Marshal, slightly; Lieutenants, 11. Pigott. W. IllaYtin, and
R. Latham, severely; Lieutenant G. Harman, slightly;
.En-
sign C. langroird, since dead.
ns Wattryille's Regiment—Lieutenant-Colonel Fischer, severe-
ly; Contain Illatelliolzer, severely ; Lieutenant Origins,
preerely ; Lletneurult Steiger,. slightly; Lieutenant La Piere,
severely. •
Still-1.: eutenare-Colonel Thomas Pearson, Inspecting Field
(Meer, severely,
•
Sin Foot—Captain- Bradbridge,• Lii•ntemant F.dlign
klatthewson.
De Watteville's Regiment—Major He Villatte, Major IVint r,
Anandediitispitasas Zekender, Ifeeken, and Steiger; Lieu-
tenant Ds ilerr,y, Lieuteliant Het ken, v•uuuded ; Adjutant
Mailset, Alsittani-Su geou Corked.

expected. . . .
To Major Glegg, Assieht,nt Adjutant-Genteel ; to
Captains Chambers and' Powell,. Deputy Assistants Extract ein Letter from Sir G. Ptevost, to Earl 'Badmen,
Quarter-Master-General '; to Cipplinefoster , -Mill- Weed:aratemartees, etoteleat, October 4. •
, tsry Secretary ; Lieet.Xolortel Thageetneet, Protein- i bare. the bonour tn transmit to your Lordship
cid Aid-de-Camp ; and to Lieut. Nesfield,, Bfith ree theinclosed ,extract
.ef a letter I have just received
-
giment, Acting AidAerCamp, whir hate rehdeted, from Lleuteataatt- eneral Drummond:— . . ,
me every assistaticein•sheir reepective eqoatletnt,-ry Errarcetiiekenfavfle, e'er fromiiltneten:r 11.0enerol Drummed to Ms
1 Fir George. lrre%ovt, dated
beat /irk now Wolves are (hie .; the -am .iikaiwitis
.Dnriet ileattalaterteri, Falls,of Niagara, Sept. il.
eke to Major D'Attoo, Brigade Major, witifilte eight l'he troOpi fell back 'at eight-o'clock meant even..
.division, for his uniform correctness, teal, atxrit- :hag pf the2tat, tO'lbit position alluded to in my let-
teeniest so his ditty. :.- ' • ter of:• •thtt-diteeand bieosteeked fact he nigh t. u tut er
. To. LieueeColtmel Campbell, of the:6th regiment,a torrents .or. vain. Soo after day-light on the 22d,
lam also mach indebted, as well in his 0100! ‘nt‘ the enemy discovered our movements, and pushed
eine easelieg officer of that elicellent *Pt, stvill out his pickets posted on the plain opposite Black
that of senior officer .1)t the reserve of tbii division. Rock, and immediately retreated, after exchanging
Colonel Fischer, of De Watteville's•regimerkt, and a few shots, without attempting to molest them.—
'Lleol,-Col e tie!
.ogiltrie, of ther King's are entitled- to dewing waited until two o'clock (as Well for the pur-
my thanks. ' ..
The zeal Arad egerllons of Major'Phillot, corn ventured out, as of giving time for the movement of
mieding the-Royal Artillery; Captains Walker altd.. all incumbrances behind the Blacle-Creek), [ ordered
' Sibine, and theofficers and nten:o/ that cnipi, hate' the troops to retire -across ,Frenchman's Creek, and
~ been unremitting, and Merit eiery comineisdatiOn.e—, the bridge over that creek'tO be destroyed. ' A ca-
likre reason to he pleased with the activity and ae,_ll:, tally piquet was left to watch this bridge; and the
wbkh lelejor Lisle, end ill. officers and men of the ! -troops then proceeded to take up their cantonments.
eqoadrert •of the:loth light-drig'oons, bate l'afafrta- The *Medea( the movements has this. dav been corol-
la' displayed.. •• • - l pleted ; and the troops are now in comfortable guar-
.,
• The enemy, it is de* ascertained, trade the wile ' ten, where it is- my inteution ti!iiiie them a few
with. Ms 1r hole forte, 'which,. iniiuding the militia days' repose. ‘•
volunteers hy'Veldelehe hai lately been joined, could 1 . . .
Wit cretelet-• of less than 35913.4.Ab0ut 200 gri-1 tThis Gazette also contains a dispatch from Lieu-
sewn fell ?tali attr Muth; and Icannot estimate the ! tetiantXolentel .11I'Douall to Lieutenant-General
erteatre loivin killed aelectunded at less' than that : DrunsmOnd, dated August 14, giving an account of
i
tiember. • i the repulse of an attack made by the Americans at
The &eerily!' state of the roack and of the WPA. Mackinac.] . .
thee.; It hating 'jiourect with Vain `almost Incessantly [ • • j
for the . last ten dam renders every Movement of • ' alichillantekhote, Sept. 7.
ordnance or heavy storet-iiteedinily difficult:--i Sta,•--I have the honour to report to you the par-
By great exertions the commanding artillery officer Jiculars of the capture of the United States schooners
had succeeded in moving the battery guns and .snor- Scorpion and Tigress,- by a detachment from this
tars, .with. their stores, etc. toe/aids the Chippewa, garrison, under the command of Lieut. Worsley, of
to
.which place I meaa•to withdraw them for the pee.; . the Royal Nitvy;.atermyself. VI Obedience Co your
'Nett: . , •. i orders we left Michilimaikinact on the evening of
_ -... came hefore Fort Erie, S. pt. 19, 1814. ' the lit in.t. in four boatsi one of which was mantled
Ssa,—l hare the honour to report to you, that by seamen titular Lieut. Worsley, the-other by., a.,
theenemy.attacked, on the 17th in the afternoon, at detachment' of the. Royal Newfoundland regiment
three o'clock, our position before Fort Erie, the under myself,. Likitenants Armstrong and Kaden-
second brigade, under Colonel Fischer, composed burst. 'We arrived near the Detour about sun-set
of the Sth and De Watteville's regiments, being on on the -following day, but nothing was attempted
duty. . I that night, as the enemy's position had not been rocs
Under cover of a heavy fire of his artillery from ' redly ascertained. The troops remained the whole.
Fort Erie, and muck favoured by the nature of the „pf the 3d instant concealed amongst the roads, and
ground, -and also by .the state of the weather, the. shout six o'clock that evening embarked and began
rain falling in torrents at . the moment of his ap- to move towards the enemy. We had to row about sie .
proach, the enemy succeeded in turning the right of miles, during which the most perfect order and-silente 1
en line of picquets without being perceived, and reigned. - The Ireliaas which- accompanied na.frotti ,
with a very considerable force attacked both the Nlachinac were left about three mftes in our rear sj
picquets, and support its their tacks and rear ; at the about nip(' o'clock at night we discerned the enemy, !
same time another of the enemy's columns attacked and had approached to within pne hundred yards of
in front the picquets between No. 2 and No. 3 bat- theta before they *hailed us: on receiving no answer,
teries, and having succeeded in penetrating b y No. 4 . they opened a smart are span as both, of musketry
piquet, part of his force turned to his left, and and from the 24-pounder i all opposition, however,
thereby surrounded oar right, and got almost ink- was in rain, for in the course of -fire minutes the
mediate possession of No. 3 battery. The enemy i enemy's , vessel ;was beirded and carried by Lieu-
then directed his attacks with a very superior force.; tenants Worsley and Armstrong On the starboard
towards No. 2 battery, but the obstinate resistance :side, and my Witt • nod Lieutenant Radenhurst \on
made by the picquets, under every. possible disadvan- the larboard, •She proved' to be- the Tigress,' com-
tage, delayed considerably his getting possession of ' mended by Sailiiii Master Champlin, 'mounting one
No. 2 battery, in which, however, he at last suce-liong e4-pointrier, end with a email-1.0001.0t 30 men.'
seeded. _ _ __• •_ the defence of this 'easel *did credit to her officers,

As soon as the alarru was given, the Ist, brigade, who were all severely wounded. • She three resets
being best for support, composed of the
.Royal . wounded, and three miasing, stipposertholaire been
Scots, the Bld, and 9th regiments, under Lieut.-Col. i killed and thrown immediately overboard. Oarless
Gordon, received orders to march forward ; and else iis tee seamen kilted, andleveril mildletti and sea-
the light demi-brigade, under Lieutenant-Colonel Men slightly wounded.
Pearson ; the 6th regiment remaining in reserve, un- On the morning of the 4th instant the prisoners
der Lieut.-Colonel Campbell. From the Concession- were sent in a boat to MaCkinac under a guard, and
road, the Royal Scots, wi(k the 89th as support, . we prepared tonttaek. the ether schooner, which we
moved by the new road, and met the enemy near the' ertdenstood was anchored fifteen miles further down;
block-house, on the right of Nu. 3 battery, whom : the position of the Tigress was not altered, and the
they engaged, and by their steady and intrepid con- . better 'to carry on the deception, the American'
duct checked his further progress. The Std regi- pendant wag kept flying. On the sth instant, we
ment and three companies of the 4th regiment were discerned the enemy's.sehooder beating up to us ; the
detached to the leftt in order to support Nos. 1 and soldiers I directed to 'keep below, or to lie down on
2 batteries; the enemy having at that time posses- the deck, to avoid beingseen;•every thing succeeded
sion of No. 2 battery, and still pushing forward to .our wish, the enemy came to_anehoe alma itwo
seven companies of the B'2d, under Maj. Proctor.) and miles ?tom us in the night, and is the day dawned!
the three companies of the 6th, under Maj. Taylor, • on the 6th *instant, we-slipped our cable, and rant
received directions to oppose the enemy's forces, and . down under our jib and fciresail ; -efeiy thing *as 101
immediately charged them with the most intrepid . well massaged by Lieut. 'Worsley, that we, were.'
bravery, driving them hack across our intrench- within ten yards of the enemy before they discusered
went!, and also from No. 2 battery, thereby pre- us; it as then too late; for in the course, of five
Venting their destroying it, or damaging its guns in a minutes her deck was covered with our men, and the
considerable degree; Lieut.-Colonel Pearson, with British nag hoisted over the American. Shhprtsved
the Glengarry light infantry, under Lieut.-Cot. Bat- • to-be the Scorpion, comminded by Lieut. Turner,
tercby, pushed forward by the centre road, attacked ; of the United States navy, carrying •one long 24.
and carried with great gallantry the new intreneb- , pounder in her hold, with a complement 0r32 men.
ment then in full possession of the enemy. 1 She had two men killed, and two . *evaded. I
The enemy being thus repulsed at every point, Wes enclose a return of Oir 'killed and -wounded, and
forced to retire with precipitation to their works,' am happy to say that the latter are but slight.
leaving prisoners and a number of their wounded aril To the admirable good conduct and management
our hands. By five o'clock the entrenchments wens 1. of Lieutenant Worsley, of the Royal Navy, the
again occupied, and the line of picquets established' success is to be in a great measure attributed ; but I
as it had been previous'to the enemy's attack. i must assure you, that every Officer and man did his
I have the honour to inclose a return of casual- duty.-1 *have the honour tit be, &c.
ties, and the report of the officer commanding the ; (signed) . • • A. 11. BULGER. Lieutenant
isc•
Royal Artillery, respecting the damage done to the Royal liewCoundlene Reg.
'lDeetall .. -- • .
ordnance and the batteries, Lieut.-Colonel Al
s, during the time they were /
in thtenemy's possession.--I have, &c.
L. DE WATT#V I LLE, Major-General.

Return or killed pod wounded of the temp% employed In the
capture of the United Stater vehnoarrs Scorpion and TiArers,
on the 3d nod 61b SePletnher:
Royal Artillery-,I rank and file, wounded.
Royal Newfoundiund Regiment —1 Lieutenant, 6 rank and
file, wounded. ..a
Officer wounded-.l.ittut. Bulger, slightly,
N. B. Three seamen 'killed.

Return of Casualties of the Right Division of the Army, io
action with the enemy, Comp before Fart Erie,"Septernber

17, 1814. .
General Total-1 Captain, 4 Lieutt nano, 7 serjesats, 105
rank and tile, killed.
Lieutenant-Colonels, 9 Captains. 10 Lletfirmlner; 1 Ensign,
1.9 serjraots, 1 druanitee, 117 tank and 61e. wounded.
2 Nfniors 4 Captniol, 3 Lieutenants. 2 Ensign). l Adjutant,
1 Assisting:Surgeon, 21 sirjeanti, V. drummers, '2BO lank aad
4e, wising.

[The Gazitteaso gives au account of the capture,
afters chase of 11 hours, by hisrdsjesty's ship *A-
way, Capt. 'Brine, op, the .lith July, of the United

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.1414E"STAtERMAN

St*" brig of war sq*lal,ol. .guns and 137 men.
During the chest thisolp~,opverboard ail her
guns, boats, agfliuskorMi%4ll,4

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.• :' • 'rA*l R• itia he lAN s. • •
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Wir.lo4ei olype 19. 1814, _ ,
I Reil- f- 1' "
Roya mt-uf o Horse mou4s, Cornet Lord William, Pitt '',
Lennox to be Lieutenant; lby iltfrchase, site Bardeti; Who
retires. •
. . .• . .
Robert James Harrison, gettL'lo bi Cbrne4; by pirchase, Abel
Lord Lennox. . ... .. :..et i.,•!• .."4 7 1" I‘l-1
sth Regintp,nt of Demo" GmeWls, Lie's. hut maker, from':
littlfzpay of the Rekiment; to'be 1.1E41 '' frilciti Pittittin,
. .
who exchanges, receiving the ditiereneepi:t _ler, t, 4r' i
7th Regiment of Light Drugonnx; Cornet Edwafd Aar, Peter*.
to be Lltutuwaist, without purchase, 4iiiitlitddlalit,'lolo Ve-
tires. ' ,_ • i .: ' • .
Stb Ditta."RdbileVeterinary- Surgeon. Nortriii; tali of Me' 'De-
' pie, 'Weyietsetb, to be 'Veterinary-Surplus, 'Kee Novato,
who resigns.
• 14th Ditto. '
Tip be Lieutenants, by purchase- Cornet llon. C 0,14, ,Peires,
-ske'Ctnit, promoted In the 60th Foots and Cornet S.• J.
Charlton, vice Pellets, promoted in the let Life B'ard's.
''n be Veterinary-Surgeon-Acting Veterinary-Surgeoh --,-
Black, vice Thompsdn,.placed upon half-pay.. .
.. -...

19th Ditto. -
To be COrnets—Charles John Peshall, Gent. by purchase, vire
Wrey,,promoted .; and Henry Georges, Gent, without pur-
chase.
93d Ditto, Assiltant-Stirgeon D. Henderson, from the 42d Foot,
• to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Atouat, appointed to the £stb
•• Light Dragoons.
Sd Regiment of Foot.
Tobe Lieutenants—Ensign William Pennefeatber, withorit par-
% OW* ; I.:Reign Robert Fitzgibbon, without purchase ; and
Fri-le, Robert; limes, by purchase, vice hist:rotten, pra-
t/sated;

• 14th Ditto.
To he Captains of Companies, without purchase—Lieut. and:
Adjutant William Bette ; Lieut. Henry Hill.; Capt. Chas.
Stanhope. from the 4th Garrison Battalion ; Lieut. Christian
Wilson, from the 48th Foot; and Lieut. J. L. White, front
the 30th boot, vice Coote, promoted.
To lie Lieutenants, without purcbase—Ensigo C. F. HOIROIIe
vice Maxwell, promoted ; Ensig ; n E. Gylford, vice Betts;
Ensign Patrick 111ackie, vice Hill -EaJames
sign .Grarit%
Ensign J. C. 0. Dickens; Ensign J. C. lambie ; Second
Lieutenant George Baldwin, from tbe3tt Ceylon Regiment;
and Ensign Orlando Felias.,froto dis22tb Heft..
To be Ensigns, without-.purchase—A,. Cooper, Gent. vice
Holmes ; James Bowlby, ; John Powell
Mathews, Gent. vice Mackie; Stacpooie,
Gent; vice Grant ; Gentleman Cadet . Foreman Mor-
den, from the Royal Military College; vice Dickens; and
Richard Birt Holmes, vice Latubie.
!4th Ditto. Lieut. Thomas Dowling, from the 87th Foot, to be
Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Grindley, promoted., ••
29th Ditto.
To he Lieutenants, without purchase—Ensigh Richard Mune,.
vice Birmingham, promoted ; and Ensign Stephen Gibbous,
vice Stanilope, promoted in the 4th Garrison Battalion. ,
To be Ensign—Henry Wild, Gent. vice Gibbons.
31st Ditto, Lieut. Francis Kearney, from the 103 d Foot, to be
Lientenant, trice Crumpe, who exchanges.
39tbDitto, Hospital-Assistant William Bromet to be Assistant-
' Surgeon, vice Knox, appointed to the 9th Light Dragoons.
440th Ditto,*Bmvet-Major Arthur R. ileyland to be Major,
I without purchase, vice Balfour, placed on half-pay.
Lieut. Thomas D. Franklyn to be Captain of a Company, vice
"fleyland.
153 d •Ditto, En.ign Andrew Browne to be Lieutenant, vice Hun-
ter, deceased.
56th Ditto, George Wyse, Gent. to be Ensign, by pnrchase,
vice Irving, promoted..
69th Ditto, Lieut. William 11. West to be Captain of a Com-
pany, vice M•Mahoo, deceased.
Ensign J. Stewart to be Lieutenant, vice West.
To be Ensigns—George Sinion Harcourt Ainslie, Gent. vice
Stewart; and George Roniden. Gent. without purchase. vice
: . Lockwood,. who resigns.
77* Ditto,.biontenant John V. George to be Captain of a
Company. vice Patersuu promoted in the York Cheaters.
Flair William; Place to be Lienteuant, vice George.
Edward Jenkinti,Gent;to he Ensign, vire Place.
90titeaseds Ditto, Ensign Joan Orde to be Lieutenant, vice Well, de-
• • c.
?liable George White, Gent, to he Ensign, vice Orde.
100th Ditto, Assisainc-Surgenn David MsLotighlin, fromthe Gist
•• Foot, to se Assistant Surgeoh.
*lOlO Ditto, Fosien K illinin F. Putnam to be Lieutenant, with.
s„. out pnrelmse, vice Rochfort, alto resigns. ' ' " •
Alexander James Moorti;ad, Gent, to be Ensign, tice Putnam.
103 d. Ditto, Lieutenant Bernard Crumpe, from the 31st Foot, to
F. be Lieutenant, rice Kearney, who exchangei..
Royal African Corps.
, To he Lieutenants, without purchase—Ensigns James :Unclean,
vice Thomson. deceased; James K ingsley, vice Beecher, de-
ceased; and Jonathan Woods.
To be Ensigns—William Everett, Gent, vice Maclean ; and C.
Tidmarsh, Gent, vice Kingsley.
York Chassenrs, Ensign A. L. Gray to be Lieutenant, withiinit
; purchase, vice Douglas, appointed to the Bourbon Regiment'.
Gentleman Cadet James Robert Disney, from the Royal Milk
tat* College, to be Ensign, vice Gray.
Ist Ceylon lieginsent, Assistant-Surgeon Abraham White, from
the 66th Foot, tote Surgeon, vice Marshall, promoted on
the Staff. -
24 Ditto,-Second Lieutenant Samuel Rind to be First Limit
tenant, without purchase, vice Jones, cashiered.
' Alexander Murray Hay, Gent. to be Second Lieutenant, slot
Rind.
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Garrison Battalion, Lieutenant E. W. Drewe, from the 27th.
Foot, to be Captain of a Company, vice Stanhope, appointed
to the 14th Foot.
.otb Royal Veteran Battalion, Captain Alexander Skene, front
the Biqa] African Corps, to be Captain of a Company, sic,
Tuner, placed no the Retired List.
Quarter-Muter Peret Wilson, from the 50th Foot, to be Liam
tenant, vice llopkins, deceased.
BItEY ET.
Colonel Edmund V eilly Cope, on the half-pay of the late
Feucibles, to be Major-General in the Army.
STA FF.
Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Waller, from the 103 d Foots
to be Permanent Assistant-Quarter-Master-General and Ma-.
jor, vice Bell, appointed Deputy Otiarter-Ma,ter-General to
the Forces serving under the command of Major-General Sir'
Edward Pakenham.

• MEMORANDUM.
The under-mentioned Officers are superseded, being absent with-
out leaves viz.:
. ,
•
4fith Foot, Ensign George Stepney. • •
Stith Foot, Lieutenant Charles, CampbelL • • . • n
Lieutenant Thomas Dowling. of the.telth Pohl.killo'resigned,
as stated in the Gazette of the litb:Oetober.. 11t3; is, rernstatett
in his rank.
The exchanges between Brevet Major Thornton, of the ilst
Light Dragoons, and Captain Lloyd, of the 10th Light Oran
goons, and between [Aeon:ma:it Lord Getrge Lennox, of the 9th
Light Dragootic and Lientenant P.versfietd. of the 10th Light
Drnetionti, as stated in the Gazette of the 1.:t6 instant, e hav not
taken place. r t.7s 31
The appointment of Hugh Moises. Gent. to he Ellsigllekt,thtt
the 46th Font, as stated in the Gazette of '2oth November 9 •41112.
has not taken.place. • - . -.:41