The Statesman.
London, England, 1814-11-28 00:00:00

BY 1114 MAJESTY'S PATENT.

ItOVAL AN'fl-ATTRITION COMPOq-
TION, iregtetsd of Tallow. Oil, or Grease, to pre-
mitt the Effects of Friedho in. Steam-Engines, Mleilitter% ,
Mills, Cat (loges., Coaches, liffolegons, Carts. drc. ; instead or
Copper for Sliiim' R 01,04116 ; Tar, Pareeline, mot Ser% ice.
by -114gis.z. or Serv;re for Cables; to preserve polished
Steel or Iron from rout ; Wood tic Wooden Buildings from the
Dry Rot ; and by the use of a hieb the Public save in all cases
Mt lets than Three Hundred per Cent; ezcitbive. of sacio,;
wear and Icor, time at.d labour.
Sold for the Patent. es, at No. 40. Charing-cross, near the Ad-
loiralt‘ . London ; awl. by their appokoceitt, at most Ship.eltriiiit.
Is, l*tint..m.ll,oksellets, Libraries, Sintioners, Druggists, Me-
ciiie Warchooses, Perfumers, Ironmongeri, Cutlets, t• oaci..
sonkers, innkeepers, COAU'II nod Waggon ()dices. Ottani! Colour
Sim p-. Saddlers, and Shopkeepers, in the tinned Kios,dion,
Ills Boxes, price 2, tid. ; .ss. tid. ; 10s. 6d.; it. Is. ; and 'ld. is.
each.
The smallest size Box contains a quantity sufficient to Prime
Ilffoor-o heel Carriage four times, vi jib s hick it will run up
Muds of SIX THOUSA N D MILES, and it wi.l answer to
fr Wile proportion for all other kinds of work. .

When a inter fogs obscure the face of day,
.A 1,41 oil crer&ou pines in deep decay ;
'lts then 'llse:lse destroys lanai's feeble Intro.,
And %oilib and lice its mantes prociaini !
DR. W EBSTIM'S ENGLISH MET DRINK.
It is now, when winter reigis, that the sudden ;Ind rapid
ehio•fe% of our variable climate ore severely test—w hen from
the siterrate damps s.nd coli!stif an Hig:ish atioespircre, even the
beitithy inhale dbeave at almost every breath ; and when, :
their f re, the feeble invalid is urgently required, by every
ins:ive of self lei:earl, tube constantly attehti‘e to the ke of
;teems adapted to arrest the 'pro revs of his •wasting malady,
arid ei:sure pei fe, t ,eenvery. For this salidnr% purpose the
•kw he..tde Vegetable Medicine, callel the ENGLISH DIET
DRINK tow, fir upwards of sixty years, and in every quarter
:ef the .o' c, hems bound the tuns, irirsistably efficacious of any
mem at preporailim ever yet discovered, in the following in-
"ratable di•o: clefs, viz.: in Cnewum Asthma., Dropsies,
In ail !tines of Fever. iu Nervous and Hypochoodri::c com-
plaints, in thotie tlisottlers peculiarly incident to the femole sez
in Sea and Land Scurvy, in 'S rophnla.and in the a hole immense
variety of ttiiiiider4 sprenging from debilitated habit.. from flu.
priverished, and from impure blood. 'rite DI ET DUNK is ex-
' " 'y Oman; to the Itoites 010 although a tuui.hMgt N powerful
in its operation, is yet IP,' • impie in:is essential properties, that it
!May be taken with sillily by a fern Ile in the last tooth of preg-
Paltry., or by an infant 'at the breast. Those whop wish f
more particular iiiforroation on Ihe character of the Diet Uri,' ,a
will au well to tomtit! Dr. Webster's eveellent anrk. on the
subject, price 55.; and also se Pamphlet, just pleillshed. Fire
contaitilog more than one hundred recent cuirs, in a Lust
varlet of thsotilrrs.
Sol.: wholesale sod retail by the sole Proprietors, E. Slee,
Co.tsnd 9Y, Bornugh, Southwark; and trod' by sock Agent.,
Messrs. Howard and Evans, Lout lane, Writ Sinittitield. All
letter. aid orders (post paid) well ~wet the earliest alleotinn--'
And is -old also, by ime at least. in every considerable Town
Lin the, Usited Kingdom_, anal by the following Venders in
Medicine in Looks's: E:•liotson,.Cbymist:arid Druggist, 106,
,Itstallab ; linltun's Medicinal Warehimse, front of the Royal
ixebante, ; Colesworthy, ehymi.t and Druggist,
141, Whitechapel ; Mounws%. Chymist, 24, Ghent Suriey
sheet, Mar kfriiii s road, on at Kenimigion-Crum ; Sanger Sure' is
!Len ), LW. od:ord.:here I Midgley. Chymist and Druggist,
41, S rauit ; HaJmr, Hod Co. Chymists, ire. 27, KiVirmekel ;
11'1 di SM. • kik born ; and bin:treas.. Perfu r, 86, Fleet-
meet: Half Pi..b, at 4s.—Pints, 7s. 641.—gassts, 14s.
,each,
tbity laclatled. • • •

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Foam rim LONDON GAZETTE, Nor. 4.4.1 , fiele, that tipt. 'DOWsrle•Asot arged, ettditlva tili.
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- . :. i hurried -into action betake alta %Via •iri wet etits*lst
... ~ • . CoL6NIAL DEPARTMENT.
;; • , ,tneet the enemy; -•, - -
Downing-street, Nov. 26. •
A respetch, of which Me following it 'a ropy, has been re..: ' 4 a°lllll4l° of opinion titan
111" 4411111iitha 1414 .
neeisidltY for our! sq6edron-giiing dice ittliemy.olo;
11+14nt Ltn from Sir Geeree Presesr.,liiirc•
ii dressed to tail Bulimia, one of hi. Si :jesty's Priatepal decided. idiratitagete! by- going IMO illeiriteriiiiiiiel '
even had! they beefs 'sdectstreficlili'dfrenP
Seamark, of male.: . .
Ifead•Quariers, Platisien:i..Brate.tif New ' gage them ;
Sept, It. 1814. • ~ , net in the'least have 'Waisted the entail in n=
. If/ LORD—Vpos the arrival of the reinforceaseets the 'batteriet ; -whereat lurid. our tet:crp4riet*; ' ,
frosisthe qaronne, I lost' no time In assembling ehteee • batteries 'first, it would .terVe tit riged -the iin‘Al.
brigades on the frontier of Lower Canada, estenditigs squadron to quit the bay and :giteo Oar* * AO'
from Ibe river Richelieu to the St. Lawrence ; -mid in i chance.
fori theirs into a dlvisititi, under the command :0U ' • I hie the honour lel*, ice,-;..-"'.
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MajigGeneral De Rut& tilturg, for the ptirposeof ear. ! (Signed) 3Ael PS Let'AS YEtei.
ryingilleseffect hisiitbyt l 'Ugliness the Prince Itegent'e, commodore ana ooaanarider-bsVbiers•
commands, whictibed been conveyed to 1116 by year • . • 7 '—'"' .
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Lordship, in your dispatch sof the 34. of June list; United Siete, ship S menal, Plattetierga pay,
Lake Chatinplah Sept, It , .
As.tite trOopsconcentrated and approached the lined : Sts,--The 130461 tat& of mtikitliyou acquainted
separatioplaatween thisprovinee aisd the UnitedStates,r, with theoircemstante• S attending the .capture at his'
the .Amerlain army abandoned its entrenched camp oii ' Majesty's squadron, yeaterdiy, by that' et thy Ate'
tht river Chazy, at Champlain.; a position I itatnedi. , ricatifo, strider CoMmodore .lii'Donottglt, it grieves 000
natelyiseieed,and occupied in force on the 3d Lust. The :to state,.becomes my duty to perform, from the "Vera'
reftowttig day the whole of the left division advanced to-be-lamented lose of '-nrit.tenethy and gallutit Ala.
to the village of Chazy, withowitneeting the least op. cer Captain Downie, who unfortunately fetreatlx in'
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positiontpm the enemy. On the sth, it hatted. within', the ACtion,
eight rtf 0ft...0 this place, having surmoonteclite a lb:To•vousettlienee of the eatheatiteltaititten"4 Itii4"
fieulties 'created by the obstructions in tl- ~. rot I, from Excelleney.Sir George Prevost for the co rittioe'
the felling of trees, and the removal of b idges. of the naval force on this Lake to attack that,Of the:
The nest day the ,division moved upon liiittsburgh, enemy, who were placed for the support of their'
in two columns, on parallel roads ; the right eotemn works at-Plattsburgh, which it was proposed Shotild
'led by Major-General Powers's brigade, supported by' be stormed by the troops, at the same moment the'_
four companies of light infantry, tied a
.detni.brl. , naval Rearm should commence iu the Bay ; every'
wade; under Major-General Robinson ; the left by ! possible exertion was used to accelerate the firma-
Major General Brisbane's brigade. . ! ment of the new ship, that the military movements
The enemy's militia, supported by his regulars,' might not be postponed at such an advanced
attempted to impede the adsance of the right co- season of the year, longer than was absolutely tie-
lumn, but they were driven before it front all their , cessary. .
positions, and the column entered Plattsburgh.— On the 3d instant, I was directed to proceed 'in
This rapid movement having. reversed the strong po. command of the flotilla of gun.beats to protect the
sition taken up by the enemy at Dead Creek, it, was I left flank. of our army advancing towerds Maus.
precipately abandoned by him, and his gun-boats ', burgh, and son the following day, after taking posses-
alone left to defend the ford, and to,prevent our re- ' aeon and paroling the militia of Isle la Motte, I,
storing the bridges, which had been imperfectly de- I caused a battery of three long eighteen-pounder gnns
stroyed, an inconvenience soon surmounted. . i to be constructed for this support of our' prisitioe
Here.! found the enemy in the occupation of an; abreast of Little Chazy, where the supplies for the
elevated ridge of laud, on the south branch of the', army were ordered to be landed.
Saranac,. crowned with three strong redoubts and ! The fleet came up on the Bth inst. but for want of
other field works, and block-houses armed-With . stores for the equipment of the guns, could not move
heavy ordnance, with their flotilla at anchor out of , forward until the 1 Itli ; .at day-light we weighed,
gun-shot from the shore, consisting of a ship, a brig, ! and at seven were in full view of the enemy's fleet,.
a achinsean; a sloop, and ten gun-boats. • 1 consisting of a ship, brig, schooner, ! and one
I immediately communicated • this circumstance • sloop, -moored in line, abreast of their encampment,
to Captain Downie, who had been recently appointed j With a division of five gan-!tones .on each limit ; at
to command the' vessels on Lake Cliatiplain, con- forty minutes past serer*, after the offiCrrs command,
listing of a ship, a brig, two sloops, and twelve hag vessels and the flottilia had received. their final
gun-boats; and requested his -co-opei mina' and in instructions as to the plat' of attack, we made sail in
the moan time !batteries were constructed for the guns j order of battle. Captain Downie had determined, on
brought from the rear. laying his ship athwart-hause of the enemy's, direct.
Ou the morning of the 11th, our flotilla was seen fug Lientettetteal-'Ghee, of the Chub, to support:
over the isthmus which joins Cuniherland-head with, me in the Linnet; in engaging the brig to the right,
the main land, steering for Plattsburgh Bay. I im- and Lieutenant Hicks, of the Finch, with the flotilla
mediately ordered that part of the brigade, under of gun-boats, to attack the schooner and sloop on
Major-General Robinson, which had been brought the left of the enemy's line.
forward, consisting of fonr light infantry companies, At • eight the enemy's gun-boats and smaller yes.
3d battalion 27th and 76,h regiments, and Major. sets commenced a heavy and galling fire on our Bile;
Genera! Powers's brigade, consisting of the 3d, at ten minutes after eight; the Confiatice having two .
sth, Ist battalion 27th and 58th regiments, to anchors shot' away from her larboard how, and the
force the ford of the Saranac, and advitice, pro- wind baffling, was obliged to anchor (though not in
Tided with scaling ladderv, to escalade the enemy's 1 the situation proposed) within two cables length of
works upon the heights ; this force was placed . her adversary ; the Linnet arid Chub soon after-
under,wards took their allotted stations, something short.
the command of Major-General Robinson.— 1
1 'f he batteries opened their lire the instant the ships ; of that distance, when the crews obi both sides cheer..
DEBILITY, &c. i
F NCOURAG ED by the uniform success at- , eogaged• • l ed, and commenced a spirited tied close action ; a.
:short lime, however, deprived me of the valuable
1 icadinr the. mg iiliar method of Treatment in the cure of ; It is new with deep concern I inform your Lord-
a few prevalent Complaints, which has been confirmed by the ;ship, hf`Ghee, who, from having
that, notwithstanding the intrepid valour with services of Lieutenant
experielie of many .1.;11 S, in a I trge and extensive practice—
which Capt. Downie led Isis flotilla into action, my ; • 1 !i , 31',
semible, sifiiii, of the happy elrects ressltieg ta the Public front 'drifted within the enemy's line, and was obliged-to
eledical ?len confining their attention to; certain rho of ths- ' most sanguine hopes of complete success 'were 110 t.
eases Nlessra. (LOSS nod CO. Members of the Royal Col- I low, 4, .
cals blasted, by a combination, as it op. • surrender.
iese et Surgeons in Landon, camisole to direct their studies lei &", `erwa
theist Disorders arising from a secret destroctive habit of in-; pourer! to US, of unfortunate events, to which naval I From the light airs and
,smoothness of the water,
considerate Yistiti, which not only occasion- a ouvernos train i warfare is pecisliartv exposed. Scarcely had his Ma. ! the fire on each side proved very destructive' from the
a Nervous Attectiop., but also eat,its on its votaries nil the I ,
wit, „f jest y 's, t roops forced a passage across the Sarattac,atiu !
.commencement
of the engagement, and With the ex•
euervating imbeeilitie, of old age. In that di.trestang
Debility or Delicieacs., whether the consequence of sorb bane- ascended the height on which stand the enemy's , ception of the brig, that of the enemy appeared
111 united against the Conliance. After two hours severe
ful habits, excessive drinking, long residence in lint climate'', work', when I had the extreme mortification to hear
or any other came, by witi: h the powers of the constituting
the shout of victory from the enemy's works, in conflict with our opponent, she cut her cable, run
become ethebled, as regularly educated Surgeons of Loudon, down, and took shelter between the ship and
they offer tt firm, safe, mid speedy restoration to sound and consequence of the British flag being lowered on
vigorous health, schooner which enabled us to direct our fire against
board the Confiance and Linnet ; and to see our
Where sto early application is made for the Cure vif a Cer- This un. i the division of the enemy's gun-boats, and 'ship, which
min Disorder, frequently contracted in n moment of iodide- gutt-baats seeking their safety •in flight.
ty, the eradication is generally completed ill the short space a: looked for event depriving me of the en.operation • bad so long annoyed us during our close engagement
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two days, and in the more advanced nod isiveterate sieges of
of the fleet, without which the further prosecution . with the brig, without an return on our part •; at
Venereal Infection, characterized by a variety of painful and this time the fire of the enemy's ship slackened con.
dinressing symptoms, a perseverance in their plan (without re- of the service was become impiacticable, I did not ,
straiut moire or exercise) will ensure to the riairuta permanent I hesitate to arrest the course of the troops advancing siderably, having several of her guns dismounted,
and radical cure. when she cut her cable and winded her larboard
The Diseases of the Urethra, ns fremsently .connected to the. attack, because the most complete success
with, ra' arising from the above Complaint, have not escaped I would have been unavailing, and the possession of : broadside to bear on the •Confiance, who, in vain,
their attention ;by an infullibleand improved plan, dicy rime*. I the enemy's works offered no advanta•-e to compen. ! endeavoured to effect the same operation ;at thirty.
Wed to remove obstinate Pieets and strictures, whether; —
recent or of long duration, without resorting to the painful I sate for the loss we must hare sustained in acquiring : three minutes after ten, I was much distressed to
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mid dangerous use of the Caustic flou4itr. Many howlers can be I possession of them. observe the Cenfiance had struck her colours. The
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adduced of very isseteriste.cases, of several years continuance. i .
having yiekkd to their method in a few days, after the cure bad i I have ordered the batteries to be dismantled, the whole attention of the etieniy's force then became
directed towards the Linnet; the shattered and dig.
been attempted by ()the,. Practitioners withma effects mid : guns withdrawn, and the baggage, with the wounded
abled state of the masts, sails, rigging, and yards,
gich has heeir the agreeable result of n p'actice of 14 years.' men who can he removed to be sent to the rear, in
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tiro the mode of treatment has not, in one single instance, ever ; . precluded the most distant hope of being able to
proved abortive, during which period many thousand persons : order that the troops may be sent to (;hazy' to-mor-
effect an tscape by cutting the cable, the result. of
of Both SexcS have experienced time enjoyment of having been row, and on the following day to Champlain, where
doing so, must in a few minutes have been, her
perfectly cured, after severe and injurious methods had been -.-• , . halt 0
i propose to tr tail I have ascertained the use the
persevered in in no purpose.
Messrs. Goys and Co. esulasierty professing the cure of these I enemy propose making of the naval ascendancy they drifting alongside the enemy's ceseels, close under
our lee ; but in the hope that' the flotilla of gun.
particular complaint-,,iii order that they mny not be marked , have acquired on Champlain.. I hive the honour to •
by a mistaken few, with the obloquy so justly attached to die :
traminait herewith * returns of the Ines sustained by boats who had abandoned the object assigned theta,
cerceive our wants and come to our assiitance,
ignorant empiric, think it but justice. to themselves to state.
that they have been properly educated mid initiated inm every the left division of this army its its advance to Plaits- would
branch of the profession (certificates of which, from various burgh, and in forcing a passage across.the river So- which would afford a reasonable prhepect of -being
hospitals, and leblil7ll/11ifth from the highest professional IMMO- itowed clear, I determined .to resist the then de.
iities, they have to couvinee any ecquirrr). o That ii, residemie , ranee.—l have the honour to be, &c.
in the warmer hemisphere of our eastern world,. newel! al on ; (ianc4l) GEORWL PREVOST; structive cannonading of ' the whole of the'ettemy's
other parts.- nebulae's them to nisei% that their researches ! Rishl flon. End Bathurst, fee. • ' fleet, and at the same time dispatched :LioutenKtit
having been cmiflimed to diseases already emotes:tied, they bold i • This Return was 'published in the Gitzetk of the 19th inst. oo is.
11. Drew to ascertain the state of the Conliance.—
ow a certainty of renovotion winch us nn), labour under the •
—..gmo—. .
' [At forty-6re minutes after ten, I was apprized of
debilitating egrets of a life passed under the tin rid zone. And Admiralty Office, N0v.26. .
further, thnt having had opportunities, in their profes•amvil ca., the irreparable loss she had sustained by the death
p ity, of roue* Mt intimate acquaintance with the eionslitu- 4, Copy of a Letter from Commiiihre Sir .I.lnaes Lucas Tea,
iinciial habits of seafaring persons, they offer to them the best , Cominander-irc Chief of his Majelty'S tliiie and vessels on, of her brave Commander (whose merits it would he
assurances of immedi deter ; that the notes resultiof from 'I the Lakes of C:inada, to John W ilson Cocker. Esti. tilted on !Presumption in me to extol), as welt as the great
their endeavours first induced them to quit am practice ...f the I beard .bis filaisflis ship fit: Lawrence, at Niagiton, 14th `slaughter
general practitioner; and they presume their piece iiiiii i ris con- 1 lb.plea.ber, Ihl4. which had taken race on board, and ob.
Ste,—l hive the honour to transmit, for the infor. serving from the mancouVl64,of the flotilla, that f
seism a fair groused for the unprecedented confidence with 1
which they have,. by rite public, hero so liberally honollsed, • • •i. ~,„,,„. • .on of
ts the Loods Commissioners of the Admiral. could enjoy no further expectation of relief', the
To he consulted at their house daily (personally, or by kites,
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with :secrecy, trelicecas ty, a copy of a letter fruiter Captain Printe.late Com. satiation of my gallant comrades„,setap had so nobly
poslaidid) by patients of either sex,
I inanderef his Majesty's brig Linnet. ,•.fooght,--and even now fast filibieby my side, de.
antossalle• andmi eo, strepoos,l3, goaverivativel,lFkmetostreop i
It appears to me, and 1 byre gold reason to be. mantled the surrender coT his Inajesty's brig entrusted
May .1, me.
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