Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1815-02-15
VIRGINIA ARGUS.
RICHMOND, FEnRUARy Is. Isls
NEyv.O2LEANs SAVED,
AND
JAcKsow's TRIUMPH CONFLICTS F.!

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has.v notice >f This joyful event. We now
Ss"e tHe p'ees,,~e of D-e1en,iug orr Read
ea-e r,-re crp'ors and nar,icuiar ACCOUNT,
or t''e retreat Of the enemy, anil the final
ahsn1on'ren' Of the objects oftheir Ester.
nrise. Nothing we have ever met with in
ancient or mode m his,o~v. Affords a ,aralIeI
to this glorious display oe native, untu.orei
American firmness and hcroism. Never
have the British arms sustained so direful
reverse, nor ever did undiscinlned troops
show more COO, and determined vaior, than
our Southern and Western Militia nave
ev'ncef. IN the ardunus struggle which they
have hal tn encounter We look with as
constituent at the defence made 5Y General
Jackson, with troops So hastily drawn to-
ge'h~r. against an army so long Injured To
service. so well Disciplined. and led on by
officers who were the favorites of yelling
trn e TIE boast IF the British army. The
whole eo,sipen. of Europe will resound with
admiration and applause of the heroic
| bravery displayed bv the American Militia
in defence Of their soil.
Had the aruiy OF Gen. Jackson consisted
of regular troops, the enemy would have
been as much annoved in their retreat. as
they were mo7ued dczvn in their a.taci,.-
| Rut as the great object of saving New ;.
| Orleans had been accomplished, and encug';
| had been done m cover the American arms
with imperishable renown, General u ckson
was too wise to expose his raw troops IN
the open field, with an enemy who had Jus.
riven the most signal proof of undaunted
bravery. and who wcn'd have rejoced in
an opportunity to di7D'ay his superiority in
tactics. over the untu'ored ysomanry of
\ the country.
| X NAV be said. that the army Of Gene
| raj Jackson. re nforced as it had been bv
She Kentucky Militia, was sufficiently nu-
merous to have detached larre BODY of
| light troops 20 harrass the retiring foe,
| without impairing the strength necessary
for the protection of the city. But, perhaps,
the jutlicious conduct OF such detachment
was not TO he relied upon, 81 whatever their
success might have been, it would not have
! been effected without the loss of some val
liable lives /; whereas the true glory of the
proceeding victory. consisted in its being
! achieved without losing one in a thousand
| Of our men
What the British na,inn will think of the
war, when this news reaches them. it NAV
be difficplt TO determine r. is the opinion of
many, however. tina. it will incline them
stIon-ly towards peace Indeed. we fld
| by the interesting news received from Eng.
land, by the arrival of the Privateer Har-
| py at Salem, that there were strong symp
toms of dissatisfaction, both with the hrir
| cities on which Ministers we're proionping
the contest, and with me title sacceas thai
| attended their arms. Ii is by no means i'm
| Probable, then, that when the discontinue
| and immense loss of their best ,roops AT
| New Orleans shall be known in England
the clamer of the fGanufocmrers for peace
with America, will be considerably increas-
ed, and the British Ministers may avail
| themselves of it, as a pretexs for putting an
end to a Contest, which proves so much
| more sanguinary than they expected StiH
we think this result Uery uncertain, for if
| we reflect how proud and naughty people
they are. and what immense resources they
possess for carrying on the war, we have
! reason TO believe that the desire OF revenge,
anc the consciousness of their power, will
prompt them to return with added fury,
| and redouhied vigor, to the attack
BIT II we be true TO ourselves we have
no GAUGE to dread all the power with which
Great Britain can arm herself for our de.
| struction Except in that disgraced section
of the Urioa, over which the ambition and
cunning Of the Massachusetts faction pre-
| sides. martial and heroic spirit is rapidly
rising, and has already diffused itself thro'
our Country. Our militia. behind their en-
| trenchments, defv hosts of the enemy to dis
| ioUSe t.ten our regular trOoDS, after being
trained by such officers as Gems Scott and
Brown, become eager to encounter the best
British veterans in the field and our sea-
men on the Lakes and the Ocean. the boast
ed element of British proves, meet The enes
my and make them our's.
Extract Of q letter from Member of
Congress 10 me keeher Of tie CoGee>
House, dated
WASHINGTON, Feb. II.
The NewOrleans Express Mail has
this moment arrived have seen a letter
| from an intelligent officer there, On the
night If the goth JAM the British, with great
secrecy and precipitation, abandoned their
Camp below New Orleans. They left 16
/ pieces of cannon. and 20 of their worst
wounded cases, with Two surgeons ; recon.
! rneuding the wounded to Jackson's hunani.
ty as prisoners. Gen GIBBS was dead of
his wounds. They left Fort St. Philips on
the 17th, after bombarding the place nine
days, throwing upwards Of 1000 shells into
and near the f rt, with no great effect
They lay four weeks 5 miles below New.
Orleans-during that time they admit a
] loss of $500 men--The American loss dus
I ri0g the time die not exceed very little, if
any, loo in killed and wounded. An ex.
change of prisoners, a. far as theirs would
go, took place two days before their depar-
ture."