Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1814-09-03

La greater resistance, although he was per
tectiy satisfied, that a. successful resistanc,
Icould not have been made, with the force II
the neighborhood of Washington, since. ifal
had been brought together before the action
fwoald not have been so lar sSas that op.
posed to him, and our force was principaiIy
militia, and that of the enemy all regulars
and picked men.
FURTHER PARTICULARS. =.
The following is furnished the editors Of the Pa.
battle. ~. ga =. =
The British left Biadensburs Thursday night: nv
the road to the Patuxent, carrying with theu, as
many OF their wounded ss l9 horses could drag in
wagons, caSfs and carr;nges. They left SS woun.
desi behind and so men to take care OF them y.
mong the former were two Colonies and q Major.
The last died few hours af,cr. IL Is supptsed
their loss in killed and wounded, amounted to 500
The held and road Ia front OF Commodore Barney's
battery was streu'd with dead men and horses
None but Officers being on the latter, their loss
must have been severe. Before he Commodore
ordered retreat, his horse.,yas shot under him.
he was himself wonAesl with several Of his officers
and aen, and the enemy had surrounded his brave
land, having driven his right aank, (cemposed Of
rrgulars) from their post, and thereby got in his
rear. Gen. Ross acknowledged his FIRE to have
been Tremendous, aud that his first gun laid ten Of
his men in the dust. str
their carrying each from so cartridges up-
wards. They however were so loaded with
their ammunition, knapsacks, &c and were
so overpowered by their rapid march, that
MANY fell dead in the road As they pas
sod through Biadensbnrg their mouths were
open gasping for breath, and their officers
were driving them forward with their
swords and espontoohs Twelve were hu,
ried in one field, that had not q wound. 4
Com. Barney's wound will be tedious, but
is not dangerous. He has been removed to
his residence on Elkridge. Captain Miller
OF the marines. was badly wounded in the
arm, whilst only supporting the Commo
dore's left. Many of his men as well as the
brave fiotilla boys were killed and wounded.
"A deserter which was in the battle, states
that Colonel Thornton of the 85th regiment.
was shot from his horse "a grey) early in
the battle that Major Wood, Of the Goth
fell shortly after, and that he believed from
3 to 400 have deserted from the enemy.
When we remarked in our paper of yes.
tercay, that private property, had in gen
eras been scrupulausly respected by the en-.
envy during his late incursio6, we spoke
what we believed, from hasty survey and
perhaps without satisfactory enquiry
Greaterrespect was certainly paid to pris
vate property than has usually been exhi. ,
bited by the enemy in his maranding par.
ties. No houses were half as much plum.
desed by the enemy as by the knavish
wretches about the town who profted of the
general distress. There were, however.
several private buildings wantonly destroy :
ed; ard some of those persons who remain .
ed IN the city were scandalausly maltrea
ted. Among the private buildings de
stroyeds Wa,tke dwelling house owned and
occupied by Mr. Robert SewaII Formerly
rented by MIR Gal tin } from behind which
gun had been fired at General Ross,
VIII Oh killed the horse he rode; the houses
built for General Washington, OH the brow
OF Capitol hill. the large hotel belonging to
Daniel Carroll Of DudD. aud others. recent
ly occupied by MIR. Tomsins n, the rope
wolks OF Tenen Rinsgold. Heath aud Co -
! and John Chalmers, were destroyed by fire,
without any pretence being assigned there-
for. that we know OF.
Cockburn was quite mountebank in the
city, exhibiting in the streets gross Ieyity
of manner. displaying sundry articles Of
trifing value Of which he had robbed the
Presidents house, and repeating many of
the coarse Jests and vulgar slang of the
Federal Rebnblican respecting the chief
magistrate * others, in strain Of eioquence
which could only have been acquired by a
constant perusal Of that disgrace to the
Country.
The magazine at Greenleafs Point was
destroyed (partialIy only) and the guns
spiked on Thursday, In q dry we'll be-
longing to the barracks our soldiers had
thrown many barrels for coAcealment. Ar.
ter exploding the magazine, the British sol
ders threw casually into this well one or
two OF their matches. which communicated
to the powder deposited there. The effect
was terrific Every one of his soldiers near,
was blown into eternity, many at greater
distance wounded, and the excavation re
mains an evidence of the great force of this
explosion.
The enemy retreated from the city with
so great precipitation as 20 leave half his
wounded behind him. amounting to more
than an hundred, among whom are Col.
and MeJnr. The force of the enemy is
differen represented by deSerters and pris
soners b ut the best informed make the
force destined for the city to have been
from four to five thousand well appointed
and active men, infantry, artillery, rock.
eteers &c. &c.
The enemy did not bury their dead ex.
cept those in the immediate vicinity
of their camp. The rest, in number near 9
hundred, we're buried by committee of cur
own citizens sent out for the purpose.
After the action, on the retreat, Major
Morgan, of Winchester. tainted from ia
tigue. X expired in few hours afterwa rds
We again caution our readers again, giv
ing too much credit to all the rumors which
are widely and industriously circulated.
generally from erroneous information, but
sometimes we are convinced from less par
donable causes. in relation to the battle
at Bladensborg.
Iustes hcuevcr ,sr,,,:-a, a.. a.