The Statesman.
London, England, 1812-09-11 00:00:00

" On Monday, the 6th July, General Bull arrived
with his army at Detroit. Saturday night, July 11,
be crossed over to Sandwich, on the Canada shore,
16 miles from Malden, with 2000 men, and took
possession of it without bloodshed, which place be
was, by the last advises, fortifying.
66 The British have collected all their forces at
Malden, where it appears, they are determined to
wake a stand. They have 250 regular troops, 700
militia, and about 400 Indians. The country about
Malden it in the greatest state of alarm and distress
possible; all the men of that region, have been drove
int, the garrison at Malden ; and a great proportion
of them at the point of the bayonet.
" The British are engaged in putting all their must
valuable effects on board of their vessels, prepared
to go down the Lake; provided they should be drove
to extremes.
" The Indians are waiting to see the event of the
contest before they take a stand. And nothing is to
be feared in this quarter, unless General Hull be
beaten."

NEWS FROM DETROIT.
Extract of a Letter from a Gentleman at Detroit,
to his friend in Pittsburgh, dated July 19, 1812:
" On Thursday afternoon last the first blood was
drawn in this quarter in the " unprofitable contest" I
In which we are now engaged. About 300 men were
sent that day to reconnoitre the country between this
and Malden, when, after crossing a small river,
about five miles from the latter place, a party of Bri-
gOriph regulars and Indians were discovered, amount-
jag, it is said, to about two hundred men. Our
'party Immediately commenced a fire upon them; the
others soon took to their heels, and continued a
running fire for some time, and got nff with the loss
of two men wounded, one of whom is since dead.
It is reported that eight or ten others were wounded
who were carried off. Our 'men kept the ground
all that night, and returned to camp opposite this
place the next day. Last night about .500 others
were sent to the same place, and this morning firing
las been heard from thence, and we are in expecta-
tion of news every moment. The greater part of the
army has moved off to their support this morning.—
The British have destroyed the bridge over the small
river, and the Charlotte, of 16 gun=, lies out op-
posite to it to prevent our men from rebuilding it.—
The reason the whole army has net marched down
several days ago was their waiting for the finishing
of gun-carriages."
DITARTMENT OF STATE. Jute' 7._

" British subjects within the United States are
requested foi this ith to report to the Marshals (or to the persons
to be appointed by them) of the respective states or territories,
within which they may reside, their names, their age, the time
they have been In the United States, the persons composing their
families, the places of their residence, and their occupations or
pursuits ; and whether, and at what time, they have made the !
application to the courts required by law, as preparatory to
their naturalization t and the Marshals, resctively, are to
Duke to the Department of State, returns of pe
all such British
subjects, with the above circumstances annexed to their names."
'NEW-YORK, JULY 16.—The papers by the mails
for the last fortnight are filled with resolutions of
town meetings, &c. against the late war measure of
Congress. At a meeting of the Citizens of Lower
Delaware Ward, in the City of Philadelphia, the
10th inst. the following amongst other resolutions,
was adopted :
Resolved. That as the present men now is power have, in
our trpiniou, justly forfeited our confidence, amt believing that
she !lien that made this war are not calculated to make an ho-'
Pourable peace. it becomes our duty, as men determined at all
hasards to be free, to use every honourable and constitudossal
exertion to remove the present rulers, and to place others In
their situations in *hum we can have sufficient confidence as to
believe that they will, free from selfish motives, protect our li-
berty' our property, our lives, and all that it swirl to the true
letterand weaning of our constitution."
The inhabitants of Ilampshi re, Massachusetts, met
in Convention, and adopted several resolutions on the
impolicy of the war ; also a Memorial to the Presi-
dent of the United States, praying him to put an
immediate end to the war, and to send Envoys Ex-
traordinary to negociate a treaty with England.
PROM TUE NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER.

WASHINGTON CITY, JULY 16.—As the sloop of
war Witsp, lately arrived, left Cowes early in June,
and Cherburgh shortly before, she must have brought

the latest advices from both countries.

We do not pretend to a precise knowledge of the
-state of our affairs with France at the time the Wasp
sailed, but have understood that no satisfactory ar-
rangement had been made respecting spoliations, or
our commercial intercourse with that country. It is
said, that the Decree of April 28, 1811, lately pub.
lisped in our Gazette, declaring the final repeal of
the Berlin and Milan Decrees as to the United States,
is an authentic document; but whether it was adopt-
ed at the time of its date or lately, and antedated,

Is unknown. If the first was the case, we cannot
conceive why it was not sooner published. If the
second, we are at a loss for a reason for its having
been antedated. Be this as it may, it appears, that,
being the kind of document which the British Go-
vernment required, it has deprived it of all pretext for
continuing the Orders in Council.
It is understood that the Emperor, before leaving
Paris to join his Army in the North, had authorized
the Duke D'Alberg to continue the negociation with
hlr. Barlow.