The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1812-09-18
GENERAL ORDER.

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the Governor General and Commander Of
the forces, announces to the troops under
his command, and to the public the failure
OF an important arrangement lately enter
ed into between, Major General Dearborn,
Commander in Chief of the forces of the
United States of America and himself, for
| a suspension of active hostilities s. " hch his
eXcelency had hoped might have ultimate
ly terminated in an amicable settlement of
the differences subsisting between the two
countries.
Captain Pinkney, Abide Camp to Gene
| raj Dearborn, arrived at nine o'clock last
night, being the bearer of dispatches from
the Commander in chief of the American
| forces, with the information that the Presi-
dent OF the United States of America had
not thought proper to authorize a continu-
anCe OF the provisional measures entered
into by his exCellency and General Dear
born, through the Adjutant Gen. Colone!
Baynes, and that consequently the armis-
tee was to cease i'll four days from the time
, OF the communication reaching Montreal,
and the Posts at Kingston and Fort George
AT the same time that his Excellen-
cy cannot but lament SO unlocked for a de-
cision upon the friendly proposition made
by him, through General Dearborn, to the
Government of the United States, he trusts
1t Will be natter of high satisfaction to all
his MaJesty's subjects in this province to
know that he has used all the means in his
power to prevent a further increase Of the
breach subsisting between Great Britain
and America, and to ward off from these
provinces the Calamites of war, with which
they are threatened. In the same spirit of
Cancellation which has uniformly influenced
his maJesty's ministers i'll their late ncgoci-
atoms with the government CT the United
| StateS. his eYCeliPDCV aVaIlPd him self o4
the earliest opportunity of communicating
to the Commander lii chief of the Ameri-
can forces, the dispatches he had received
from Mr.Foster, at Halifax, containing til
intentions CT his maj esty's government res
| pectihg the repeal If he Orders in Coun
Gil and as his excellency could not doubt
but that this conciliatory measure reno
| wing the alledged principal ground of dill
| terence between Great Britain and Ameri
ca and which had been transmit ted to the
government of the United States, through
Mr.. Baker, late Secretary of legation at
Washington, would be met by a similar
disposition OH their part, he submitted to
General Dearborn the propriety Of sus-
pension OF hostlities until the determiiatj-
ON OF the President should be made known
upon the subject. The ready acquiescence
OF that officer lii this PROPOSAL, excepting as
tar as it related to General Hull, 7vho zoQs
acting under me Immediate orders Of TIE
erecuftUe government Of america, u,id
me orders immediatcty issued ty him,
strongly manifested his friendly disposition
Oh the OCCASION, and led 10 Il reasonable
| expectation that,his government would not
| Iali to approve OF his Conduct, and to con-
| firm the Arnistice he had entered into
In this expectation his excellency has been
| disappointed, and the American gn e'nme /
10y refusing TO continue The Sus, ension 4
| hOstilities though with the certain evidence
| before them of the actual peal Of he Or-
| ders IN Council, has proclaimed in langua pc
II 1t o be mi understood, that other objects
independent cf those held out to he Allcri-
can people as the grounds of the war, were
originally in their contemplate n. That
the conquest Of the Canadas, either for the
| purpose Uf extending their own territories,
rof gratifying their desire of ANNOYING and
embarrassing Great Britain was one a
| mongst others of these objects, cannot be
dOubted.--The invasion of the upper Pro-
vince undertaken so immediately after the
declaration of war, shcws, In the strongest
| manner how fully they had prepared them
selves tor that event, and how highly they
had battered themselves with finding it an
easy conquest, from the supposed weakness
| Of the force opposed to them, and the spirit
OF disaffection which they had previously
endeavored to excite amongst its inhgbi
Itants-Foiled as they have been in this at
tempt blythe brave and united efforts of the
Regular Forces, Militia and Indians of that
Province, under the command of their dis
tinguished leader, their whole Army with
its General captured. and their only re
manning Fortress and Post in the adjoining
Territory wrested from them, it is not to be
doubted but that the American Govern
meut will keeply feel this n
their hopes, aad consequently eEdeayourto