The Statesman.
London, England, 1814-10-25 00:00:00

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......a., stating, that& hot
eat* wklt our pickets onlhe 4th,
.....rattor Wilcox was killed, and 70 of big '
_ ~.ter in adroi to .will t ~,,,, 2 lave ii • etosbat.
_... yea 'll llioiron, 32rr. 30.-Our accounts from Erie are
find expressed in, a letter I 0.. ...lied to yes this to .tiept. 10. Between 3 and 4000 militia had
11161114110.4 bet all.Lbasetbseed slow * coweemod lewitsered to cross to Fort Erie; 1500 had got
my prejudices to liiotily important °penile**, being thief d'y. The remainder were to follow
performed in the dark. • owning.
Too much was required from DcWatteeliket nee -46 expedition of troops from the interior o.
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Iment, so situated, and deprived, ea lam told . 'Maine into the province of New Brunswick would noised all a pug the waters. of the Chesapeake,
sr.•- • were, of their tints. The attempt lief' ' 111 ' 'obit- et compel 'tie itiiiish 'to &Oudot) extent indicting the most serious private ilia,
t, • • Total - 106 giu'L costly experiment, and its rasetteill be.sevetely felt. nobstot,4lii 'defend their eels 'colony, or to pa- and under cirtunistinceeitiiiirTeelifed the .
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44411. is %mod, wouarial. lAs you have fad ea tinsel:kb, orders shall be given ebb them fit their temerity If they contiouedto re- that revenge and cupidity, rather than the •
mat
OP ilore9hlP ' '4' 380 50 60
Mx. ;"‘..'4.- °: •- -: 'li 180 -10 • SO i for that regimettf.4osPreeeed• to Yee with** delay ; lain Asankais. Expeditions from Vermont, &c. motives that should client...the hostility of h.'
a 40,
II had Wash& do p7th for that service, is being Ade Canada, may be expected, if .the enemy does not , minded foe, led to stitbisi•ttacitettation. The km
sole (410wler - 11 •43 6 10 bet the numbers of the altogether abpndon•his tensions of the United States., destruoticinlif die; hanki4f2ierimitiOne toil --
1:„ck • .• , . a 40 8 10 !we of- a .hardiee'.descriPtioe i , city
?:keen chea.bolits it •. SW 2 PlehahlY iii.nk 901 h will probably make them equally Nadel to yell. SEPT. S 4. The Preeldent's Message at the Extra is another sit which corgteili saritr'into vivo
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1 When. this regiment, together with Op oth lied *d, Meeting of Congress had not been received in In the wars of modern %Wok, no example, of
th's
' 'poet ..: 93 . 105(1 24 "2 • ..
New York on Wedenday evening, from which' it kind, even smangnations the most hostile; timid,
. _ _e munAnats'strue-* but t
. ' a,.... .ski of th I, he sinking Mate of the shall have joined-you, you will, I . have no *lit,
iacce vrssels remitted tee wksittonce of thoisca,in oor genie% Is ..e) be enabled to efface the recollection spf youtslate dise may be concluded that it inn not delivered on Tees- ether, can, be traced. la the reurse of unotin
that sot beiokahle to take positivism of IMO, they were a . ,
peers,
and. to affect the expulsion of the enemy from day. We shall, probably, receive it an the course of pastlabe canitala pi'. the'principai Powers of diets;
to save themselves by died. ' • :4i '''.% • •
Ithe province. The information brought to me bp this day. .1. r
dant tit' hurope have been conquered mid oecapaa
see
tions.4!lAelt. Killetliosevi4•• obla'or Come, of .tlio state of forwardness of the '. The Papers contain no important news. • The alternately. by•lhe victorious armies of each'otai,2
• -ear-mesa, ship - . .
96.. Oa ' ' 16 111 J. .
$7. •,..,, marine preparation at Kiegstona hipot flattering to British fleet in the Chesapeake was, at the last date, and 'no instance of such wanton and unjustifialig
litegie. brig •
f' i• a • ? •my expectation, of regainlag,theassiet.asuendency Os near Poplar Island, 30 miles from Annapolis. There destruction has been seen. We must
. Ticowleroa.i. schooner 7
7 ' -zit -31 i • . I.l.ake Ontario letieeego hack to dits
:trite, strew - lNkulteriorApeasations'deelall Was Ond frigate at anchor in the Delaware Bay, and taut and, barbarous ages to find a parallel for silt'
:Tea •,luts.ls .815 - 16 3bo
L 4-..... • l the season, • ,
_ Another off the entrance of the bay. • of which I complain.
• Total 86 8?0
_, 49 7 1 They do not even promise to be se far advanced It was verbally reported at New York
.by the Although these acts of desolation invited, if' 'r
• ms• British Matters killed were Commodore Downie alit hili
as to enable theaquadron to afford relief to ;be right steam-boat, that Gen. hard had left Sackett's liar- I did not impose on' he Government, the n 4... ,
aausivo.at. an. 'the American Officers killed were lambi.
,ilirilioll-br the transport of troops, ,stores,"
and pro. beer with his army, for the head of the Lake. 'This retaliation, yet In no instance has it been autkirrisd,
Venable turd ';iistisbitry, the latter of %loom was knocked Mier-
board, andine Bend, and !•lailinr.Mrister Carter. ' visions before. the beginning of October.. Vacillatiog ere do not credit. The burning of --the village .of Newark, •lis unii
• Tar &kirk °Ricers *aim are Capt. Pring, and six or eight
Lieutenants. 'rile wirrigded here been rifete4, add sit byits .communications on• the subject white I harereitebted. - . We have received a letter from a Gentleman. at Canada, posterior44s the steely -aistrages ibetssaliT
Itairvesiel to the Lk' Num-Null. • i. -from Sir James Yeo, are calculated to confirm Mojer , casting, in which he informs tn. that all• was quietst aerated, Was not executed on that- prineivie„.,
' ICoore's report : it is therefore a matter of,seriotts th'at place, and that all resistance to the British east ivillage of Newtrk adjoined' Fort Georgesio
• INTERCEPT6O I.ETTF.III. consideration how the right divisitin is to- be fed, of the Penobscot had ceased. Deputations from the , destruction was .juatified by the officer who seam
The following letters were interceptLd on their wry
without resorting to extraordinary measure*. ! -severel towns were daily coming in to ;signify to the !it on the ground that it beelin necessarye in
'from Montreal to:Maga:re, by a detachment of our 1
After correctly ascertaiiiieg the extent of your re-1 British Commanders their assent to the terms
.which I military operations thorn. Wbe .act, however,
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.army t-e- - .. • ' • sources for that object, you will consider the subject I were. proposed to the inhabitants of that tract of '; diaavowed by .the Govermoepc, ..,Ties lion-ling 144
COPY 07 A LETTER FROM SIR GEORGE PREVOST TO
well, and propose what you think will procure the
,:country. No excesses hen bald eommittell.atrate-.lleols place at Long Point .11rippetistitorised
• LIEUTEMANT•eIiNERAti DRUMMbSD.
oc required relief-4n affording it, you may rely open ' tine, except such as arts sierviidably consaltesh 1p 09ternmptt, and the coed of the oificessiV
Is.sirteasrters, 114ortreel, An....,
?,, the incessant exertions- of every department of the 'Alm presence of an army..'.: .I.* • • - • •'..• '''.l.` ed to the, investigation of a finery tribunal. l
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DEAR tittri,--1 base the honour te. acknowledge the
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, army, to perforth whatever is practicable. In al- EXTRACT OP A LETTER PROM flAtilFITIf 1144UPWint, 'via Darning of at: irivie-s, committed ny stelae
receipt of yen official letters of the 16th
. and 16th, lotting. MaorsGeneral Kempt 4 . Ah. se*Mitiond at 1. DATED Bari. li, ltil4. , , -4-- f ' :the officer. who !coin mended lit that quitter was
with their euclosures, :encl.& pirate ono of the* 17th •J . . ~ .
i Kingston, I have given you an able inteletnit in an!: 'One or 'two vessels 'are On Mai Sky up the St. 'mimed without a total for net-peerentieg it.;
'richest. officer of excellent
_judgment_ and much riptiefenee.s— I Lawrence, or have already arrived at' Kingston, in . 1 am ;commended. by, the Peesideut distil.
I do meet deeply, regret the ;sequel of the gallant
Ue his arrival there Major-General Stovitr will join ' a raft, which was. put together at Johnitowo, and ; state, Oft itsolittlecomports svitkesay orders
possession two f
•*"l"Pdale which put, igt*- y 441 e - ! 'have been isued to the ,military at. Ad maw ‘
see (inquiet sctiooners.„ You appear to have been in- i
*sod to use the attack of fort Erie by a de- °• Y.-
our disabled frorw York, •it• would greatly re- i Raiment reeds to put together. ; •
ijaatideii of Oa Onited,Stotea, es .11 does with
, hive you,. and they .wealdbe tabeeh better care of in •We ire in doubt a; .to 'the point or object efi „Inliablished iititilinown IldimiwiltfLor the keiet
weieeee-teeir-the-4111.4L the aliTit of emulation fsoniumer. ..
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,espedillaralriseideat. , hoUtever.,
~..41tat; rye is: 00,1i11.. Paff;l:6"rititikiie4 syitisfiVilhialf. ip'peiti poi
produced hy that daringlechievement. If the object . fgaWillgate .4'. foot. It is my belief, that this division intend throw-.!;aeopted. The. Government owes it to itself, te .
bad beep accomplisited,••ssennity of the operations . -7'. ••.' . -b• ~ il: Irirl !mgault. ,
.., _ .:, obedient servant, leg themselves in" the rear of the British army at ..prineiptee ehielsit -has ever held sacred,. to diewi
to attain it would baresikeen equally excited; and it. •
.(glged) (ii oil pgEpoST. [Niagara, as they probably do 'not think' themselel Ss justly chargeable,to it, any such - wanton, at'
.is not in reproach .of its failure that I observe tot - , . .
• siren enough for Kingston. If Drummond's ant i;and unjustifiable warfare. ~..,,, .
you, that sight attacks made- with heavy troops, an, ItAutAti 06. I.—The interce_pted letters which! by this means be captured, at the head of the Lake,l; Whatever unauthorie,edireeplarity may have ii
in my oldafon, very objectionablelpriucipally boollilltio rwe have copied from American Papers, give us 'a ' d lettßrown andlaard form a }unction, and make a committed by any of its tritoilic it would hart.*
chance, And ,not skill, too frequently decide.lho '.
rr- . 'clear view of the plans our Commander-in-Chief in; ' .
: descent upon Kingston before the new ship is readyll.4eady, 'ailing on these prineipies of sat ii
contest, %id .that, at night, difficulties and damps, •-too
.. ded to pursue—which, indeed, he, bas pursued; .1
.'think there would be a chance of success, and this is .steinef•Obilgation to &sun* " d/Al!
2 , aas flinr as
are. ever magnified, particularly when they preaNt "andi which have proved unsuccessful. No wonder • ;
the Only•one on which I can reasonably make calm- , procticelsle, to repair. But in the plan of detoheis
themselves unexpected, awl in the latter case the.botrtheydepended on chance, and commenced before the • •
• Odious modals!. can only be done while we have the ; warier* which your letter so explicitly-mikes gaei
disciplined corps are placed oaly on a lever with raw..
/issue of a battle on Lake Champlain eras ascertain- v . '• •
, khadetidency on the Lake. The Oneida is in port, . and which Is
.attempted to be excused on a Oki
.and uninformed soldiers.
_. .. ..•. ted ; having lost the day by water, a. diegraceful re-, sic divested of her aratament—her cannon are _utterly groundleis, the President perceives a spirits
It is to .be inferiel from Lieutenant•Golonel treat by land was the natural consequence. We : -
laded on board. the gun-boats—she will probably •deeplreoted hostility, which, without the evideneti
Fisher's Report and your statement, thet the right . have before had the mortification to regret his haw- ' in° _—..., ..
act hanoiter as a transport. lAuch facts, he could mot hare believed esitted,or leell
column was not sufficiently prepared for the ob. • ing trusted to miracles to feed his detached brigades; .. .-. , . . , I have bean carried to such an elttiremity. '
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:Varies it bad to surmount in attaining the point 4 'and now find General Drummond's army depending ' - •
EDP; Of A LlTtalt FROM TICE-ADMIRAL COettIANE i'-• ' For thes reparation of injuries,Cifsergpipi
the attack, othereise neither hesitation nor coq- solely os•-tbat contingency : solely, perhaps, we TO - : MR. MONROE
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.. • . fliitir may be not sanctioned by tititketirii(
gtertmtion avoid lure resulted when they presented', ought agile sa • his and. his soldiers' *tour win . ' gliallisieso'sligill Ore ToOmn. to tee Pctalitarlify
, fitch the naval or nsitittry fortes of el' . * t
themselsis.. I must acknowledge that I feel awe...tame flea * " 2 i nesireto eta* esietaiailirti pasha,. : - River, Autust M. itg.t.
Itensire you hare rather yielded to • than approved &RCP from Sir James Teo, as gallant a •CtByacter as Srii,--naving heed called on• by the Governor. :..
I have committed against the other, this Mena
• meat will always be ready to enter into rear:visa
th., eagerness of the right division to increase its. the British navy boasts of, though for ince (and '. 'General of the Canadas to aid him •in carrying into
•arrangements. I •t is presumed that your Gifterro
fame before you were sufficiently prepared and suf. ' that, we are siniti,' unjustly) accused of “ vacillat- ' effect measures of retaliation against the inhtibitants,ll..,... • •
'fielentlYikeng., four skill and excellent judgment •
iiig•communiCatiims." • • lof the United States, for the wanton destruction
w i neitner expecs nor propose any which ..:.
i ciprocal.
will. profit by eteerieuee in your future oPerationot 1 Fortune seems tired' of -favouring ut.in Canada— , coMmitted by • their Anti)? in Upper Canada, it has , .. ... • • ••s• •.
'by 'g'uerding• you against public opinion, however • she offered us Sickett's Harbour, but we disclaimed . become imperiously my duty, h Id
conformably with the' A e i ~
Son your Government aallefil 40 a lyttna of
sourivan so coetrary to the views and practice of
• de/sweet's, when. It would. sacrifice your well:earned • bet proffered kindness—she gave us the means of su. I nature. of the Goninor4eneral's application, to. u
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• reputaileir, and the hotfoot and safetyof
the arm" ; periority on. all the lakes in that country—this, too, i hese to the wise force ender my commend, an order - •
.! the United. States, so revolting to humanity, and rs-
a• • pugnapt, to the sentimentsand Usages of the'
civilised
placed under yourrosinianti; , ° was rejected, end it was thought better to put Great' to destroy and ,lay waste such -towns add districts .. ;il. . .
Ii worn, 'mist it will.be seen with the deepest regret,
_. ('sincerely hope the ctudear with which I have Britain to 100,0001. 'epee& at home, to send frames ' upon the coast as may be found assailable. :' mist'. '- it and will be met 'with a determination awl
• disclosed nil sentiments on oar last operations will' of ships to Quebec which will never reach their des- I. had hoped that this contest. would have ter;
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be to you -their best Opology..
.They stow from a ; tiontioo, than to gratify a builder on the spot with •'* sonstancy becoming a free people, contending in a
minted, without my being obliged to .resort .to 'fey . . -
eiverce otrpollutill-by any towline*, feelings. • tonethousand pounds more than those who were not 1 verities which are contrary to int cause for their essential rights, and their deafest
the usages •of citilitedl . , • •
• Tbe• 37th is ordered •to Kingston, from whence ' judges thought the work worth. warfare; and as' it has been with extreme reluctance nterests.
I have, the Aonour to fie; with great considerafial
Genersittivin es* deslred tb nod oti the 97th, or i In the Chesapeake we have bad what is called a end concerh that I' have foetid myself compelled to. • •
. .Sir , year num& obedient humble weird,
Y bur other covet you may have demanded. Major- 'tt demoniteation".;.—this we did not want, convinced I adopt this system of devastation, I shall be equally - 9 • '-.
GPlAlkirdetipt, with" the remainder of the reserves ' before that every thing practicable bees accoseeitotified it the conduct. 44,tlie Executive of '' ` - (Stalled)
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Will now follow. •My views in sending Out Officer - pushed, and trusts with cupid..pc...W.oA fatten 'Yelled States Will ' ' Vire•Athe. Sir A.
. . . of his Dritantric
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The whole of our force on the Lake) Independent pain the a onyx. f mind yom P
of the captured British ships,... forte. dill"
slip Saratoga, Commodore 01,Damogh •. 45 guns! beetl:lr es
Brig Sorprhe, Man er and Commaleat Seeley 40 , po!it yif V • p thIV .
Schooner Ticaoderogn. do. Catisila ''' • ' 1. ! Cid aid of .'
in a .1 itio the
%loop Prebie, Liantenant gam,, ' • -
Po.. maargamerv, bid% it 4s. . 7 ' i
1%. Prosidest. liaster•vaitenr. - 10
Sly new Now (tallies I the flaPagleall. Viper, Nettle,
Hofer, 1121Inica. sod itlimpeech woanting a 34 sod
a that 10 prouder. ... . • 10
4" fi'llikee NIL 1, 9. & 11la ton 'former
mosatlng mock a long 9, tia.'M Wan emit a
lois tilleitader - . - 4

wised
or'atoned, I refer, as mere immediately eituletio
b the subject of your letter, to the wanton deie,
ion that was committed at Havre-de-Calmly"'
.George.TownFearlyiirthe seeicatei-1•813,.:k4
tillages were burnt cm d 'Oa *aged br the total forces 4
Groat Britain, to—the ruia-of their it [tanned ilitai.
tants, wii;isaw wiihisionlirliiiiirilistlifeylpii,fit
no protection to their, pftipeily from thel,tos of co.
Doriflitt he same stay:ll4F scenesCfi!trasion sod 41_
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the nut

sat noT

to Kingston wilt be developed to you by the Ad.

leg
movements of that little army—we havb bad altoa
44 -" Canada: in the Cbelopeskr

_ authorise
coidipgs, by Making reparation to . suftering'in.
'hiblients of Upper Canada; .thereby manifesting/

my st.ylog such ig
the -

rir
the 1

.jutant:Gonerel. •
I hare the hen* te'lie,'dear Sir, your faithful
' bumble surveil,

demonstration irons in -AO
our troops are too fern, to Canada too manimalem
we know better how to handle them—it is 0110 thing
to row a wherry, another to work a 74.
Even adepts it► the difficult art of lying may some.;
times over-reach themselves. A verb, k.ngthy Ape,

that \if the destructive measures pursued by theit
irmy were ever sanctiooed, they will no loom
permitted by the Goveroineut.
I have the honour to be, Sir, with much 0;14
Mention, your most obetliestimmble servant,

GEORGI: PREVOST.

COPT OP A vir INTSRCIP,TsO ;ATM /RON ADJUTANT.

44N1i.241. 11.4 OITA TO LINUT..GIiNERAS, DRUMMOND.
iliceres awl co. tid I.)
gill-trossrart.' Nlfiat,cril, Aulost is, 13.14.
• • FIR,--I am commanded by. his Excellency the
'.Commander of the farces 'to inform you, the 31th -
▪ lregitnnt will commence its•march tadmorrow morn- -
• litg for Kingoton ; on which point it is his Eacel.
• lency's intention to direct the other corps composing
• the brigade under orders of Mijor-General Kempti
• If the nasal equipment is in that state of forward.•
mess to sanction the undertaking the attacking, or

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riCan account of theactiost oa 'Ake Champlain men.
tions, that only firemen (of witch two wore wound-
ed) survived on board the UsiloOkr sloop; yet, when
it afterwards became tiemosea* to sake a superiority
on our side, this circomstanee Wiped the recollec-
tion of the Federalists ( who have theexclusive manage-
ment of water-lies, and the democrats have of land-
Mies); for the number of killed sad mounded on
board the Grander is an at rialtos; erkiek; with
*s three sot...brews, who wove Got 'kart, maker bet

sled (Sic ) ALEXANDER COCHRA-NE,'
inee.Admieni mod Commander hi Chief uniii Briars*
- Majesty's *hips, sod yew!' arm the North Aine6faa
Sloth*.
Boa. J. Mame, Seesetary of State, &e. Washiagtoo.
COPT OF A LICSTISI• lISIOss MR. MONROSI TO SIR
ALKITANDIta COCHRANE, TIcE-ADMIRAL, &C.
Department of Suite, Sept. 6, 1814.
sllll,—l have had the honour to receive your letter
of the Isoo of August, stating, that having been
ialied ow the Governor-General of the Canadas,

siege of Sackett's Harbour, in ibich the

soieli!soo!of mos vilauoss, Is. of

mist be he prepared fully to co-operate before the 1 allotted to ter, in coesed•oesiberej eat ieraiiiiaer
advanced state of the season renders such an opera. enemy!
tion hazardous and difficult, it is his Eicellency's I Muck as we admire the laconic hi letter-writing,
wish to.avail himself of the local information and We'shonld have been better pleased with Commodore
talents of Major-General Kempt, by employing him M'Donough, had he informed as by whose earigy
'as the senior Major-General on that service, and ; means, exclusive of his own, be was allowed to
with that•view his Excellency mould-approve Major- achieve a victory " so contrary to his expectation
General Sterile& proceeding to the Right arision, and all human - Hi ,khour
wiieu relieved, and leaving to General Kermit to of the aid
in'ke the necessary preparatory arrangements for dressing the
thi.i arduous and important service. lighting tbe '
Sho•old it, however, as his Excellency is apprehen.
thus s--
sive, p*reve to be th'e case, that the delay in the natal] :44 Thal
preparation! may frustrate his views an AaciLett'sller. ; Pedeldeoce,
hour, he gill trosts our squadron will be able to last year, a
ttlke the Lake with a superiority that will enable him ! unexpected'
completely to relieve all the wants' of the right MO. Sackett's
sion, and not only to secure effectually ode' Own 'up as lost,
frontier, but to scour.that of the enemy, delft:a-y.14 110-siKsibt::
' his depots and means of annoyance, and on this of sending
he-would propose to employ the force to be large bodies,
collected at Kingston.—l have the honour to be, Sir, lives in' pett!
'sour most obedient servant,, t pettedly ngt
• _ (Sigoed) E. BAYNES, Adj.-Gene. Forces. on bike
• hive ackei
toPY OP TTRCEPTUD LETTER PROM'S'S O. PRE-, War
ROST TO .I.IEUTO.OOII. DRUMMONO.--(PRIVATS.) NOVA.*
fieltd-quUters, Montreal. Aug- 9fi. ISM
• Di,. %a St R,—Mbjor Coore has 'this inotneut deli- We stoi
lered to me your letter of the 16th. - 1 view with jilt been