The Statesman.
London, England, 1814-11-18 00:00:00

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THE STATESMAN ti,.

LONDON:
FRIDAY, NOVENSIR Is, 11114. .

'The situation of our Mirth American peueisietall
*ill not admit of disguise any longer. Thi, fib;,l
that the Canada. are in danger of being separated.
from this country is now apparent beyond t power',
of Ministerial art to hide the unwelcome truth. We'
are put in possession of some additional information
ou this most important subject, by private advices
from Canada and the United States, tna late date,',
to -which we shall advert ; and in confirmation of
" the alarming confusion and dismay," which tmeto.,l
so widely prevail in these valuable possessions,
shall per ticolarly 'direct attention to the information
which is added to the aneouncement of the arrival,
of Major-General Swain from Halifax, which
sus sutvjoin from a Paper of this morning. The par-
ticulars of the sews brought by General S. has Dot
bean unwed to transpire officially, but we are told
it is adodtted by Ministers to be " very bad." We
dare say it is, and we sluteW wouderif they allowed
ns to know much about it; for it is assuredly sot the
most creditable to their foresight, sot "highly sw:
tidactery," es the Bulletin which they weroimbemst
to ackosswisdee yesterday said. The details se the,
civestastanixes attending the disaster at Plattsburgh
giros km the article to which we are alluding, am-
ply codes the statements in the communication
which we yesterday laid before our readers—.
they are melancholy, and painful to contempla-
tion in she highest degree; but we are too well
acquainted with the original causes of this failure
to believe that poor Sir GEORGE PREVOST is the au.
thor of all the mischief. It is in vain to tell ns that
" all tanks of people, civil and military, in Canada,
are clamorous against this unfortunate General."—
Any one who is acquainted with the causes of Sic
Jona Mooaa's melancholy retreat in Spain, I
and the manner in which the Navy Board have
sepplied the mesas of nasal seems* in America, will
be et no leecto awns& for Sir Genius* Pasvon's
iltnation.eses..Who haows not that the disalitscdon
of, the pimple of Canada extends farther than to our
military Cammander in that quarter, is little ac-
quainted with the real sentiments of the Canadians.
When we beard of the exeeetkns in Spring last, for
treasonable practices, we thought that all was
trot right in -.the salads el - those loyal and
near neighbours of • a Republican State ; and
we are now persuaded, from the information in
our possession, that Sir Cameos Pay/ores appro.,
bensions and concern foi his safety, arose from the
accounts he bad received of the disposition of the
voplee whom he bad been sent to defend. If it
should be proved that this is really the state of-
Canada, and that Sir Geottnz Palrorr " bad tea.
fan to be alarmed even for the military posts," his I
reluctance to advance and leave these exposed, will
admit of a solution more honourable to him than
the riser's at .present in circulation. How comes
it, that instead of venting useless clamour, the peo-
ple of Canada do not take up arms like their
American neighbours and repel the invaders?
—Those who are threatening the subjugation
of their territory, are as raw and undisciplined le-
vies as themselves would he. There are no im-
mense armies marching from all parts of the United
Sates against them—at most, it is only 5000 her-
dere's thst ha' e down to arms at the prospect of
their country being about to be laid o este by an aunty'
commis,ionea to use fire and sword for their exter..l
mination--it is only a few half-armed,.
miltia that are threatening invasion in re-
turn. Will it be believed, that if there were not I
more grounds for apprehension, that 12,000 British
veterans would retire to the ;trooped hell* leaving
their sick and stores, and provisions behind them? If '
the people of Canada themselves were as unanimous
in the defence of their provinces as the gabs-.I
bitants of the adjoining Republican States are la
the defence of theirs, there would be little ems.
sioa for our Peninsular heroes; but we suspect
these are mere necessary to keep the Canadians
themselves down, than to stem the torrent of Ames.
'ken invasion. This is a subject uposs which we
should like to hear Sir Glottal Parton's seotiments
explicitly expreseed, bat it is probable that what.*
his official accounts may my, we shall not he 'mad,
much the wiser by such parts of hie dispatches as may
relate to it. A little time,- however, may make IN
possibly Otis as wise as them Ministers who ham
now such a lemon of experiesee before them..
•In the mean time, It Seim " every thing
on the expetted battle IS take Ontario.",
•
this is the MIN and the Canedisa Clergywal enet.
the usual preyeetAlle the OMNI
theogis we hem 111111 k le mach mutant** in she
slalom. of British Oilmen as in they prayers
of the Canalise PAM, ...we must my, our afairs In'
that quarter have coin* tat a ea' ilitoh, Ind the
three experienced Admiralewhe presidiorer the new
tied Interests and glory of the country, with the