Morning herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1837-1840, 1838-01-24


had important adviees from Chippewa. he Aas lot
fer that vicinity.
There is report that schooner up the lake With
lS0 Patriotsvcuneers and our pisces Of cannon mas
been captures BY detachment Of Macnaos WFces.
This wants confirmation.
For several heurs after the evacuation OF the isaho
the British kept up furious bombardng ans II 10 not
certain that they have yet dared TO land or penetrate
into Its recesses for fear some nine might spring or
some of the pirates be still in ambush; J,
It's impossible to get accurate Intelligence rom the
Western part Of the lake. after the close OF NAVIGATION
As the mails are brought round BY land rom Detroit,
Patriot news from the ntersr OF the province 10 out
of the question.
The military is still kept on the frontier, and Scott
is enstinR troops for three months. Several whole
companies have volunteered. This does not look
like peace.
Whether il is indeed true as has been asserted, and
as an officer Of the Patriot army told me, that for
week past they have been sending their arms IN boxes
up the lake TO Dankrk-that there the men are 10
rendezvous-that The STEAMBOATS, view England ana
Barcelona are TO take them from thence 10 some point
in the provincc-and that the leaders OF the expedl-
ton are in secret correspondence not only with the
volunteers from Ohio and Michigan, bat with Cana
landing is effected willjcin their Standard can tell
no more than you. Whatever is to be, will be- Let
il come The world is to be reformed-who cares
how II Is dene, or who does II. Suppose the men
engaged in this enterprise used up in the conflict
will society be the loser2 ! confess my profound
ignorance. Yours, respectfully.
All this excitement accompanied by querulous
and angry spirit obtains on the ether side, and in
quarter where we should not have looked for it to
wit, in the high Court of Parliament oftheprovnce of
Upper Canada. There the legal functionarles follow
in the suite of Colonel Macnab and the Govynor,
in the approval and justification of the outrage at
Schosser and if we trusted ts their view of the
case and their passionate state of feeling, our hopes
of the preservation of peace would be, indeed, but
small, and peace itself would be sufficiently precar
Gus depending upon the sanity of such violent agta
tors Blu: the ultima ratio is n.the hands of wiser and
dscreeter persons and if the former have ruled Up
per Canada in the tone and temper they have recent
ly displayed we are not all surprised the late in
/ surrection. The following are extracts from the
speech of the Attorney General at Toronto =
"ln mercy to themselves let the American people
consider the consequence Of a with England 10
their nation generally, and let the inhabitants of their
frontier towns IN particular, remember the little con-
troll that the British nations could exercise
the extrpated Indians of the west and the thousand
or more of the people of color who have fled from
land of slavery 10 freedom Ii is our earnest DESIRE
and we admit ii TO be interest as well as our duty
| to remain at peace with our nelghbors; but let them
remember that the horrors of war should Overtake
them and us; they alone will have been the cause of
it, and they alone will be responsible for the conse
quences In the canine we have the satisfaction
OF Knowing mat we are as well prepared
the onset as they are. = The
destruction of human life is TO be deplored but let
not the sin of splling the blood that has been shed
this most detestable of conflicts be cast on the loyal
people Of Upper Canada ihey are altogether gultless
and The mIseres that past are to be followed by
still greater and prolonged caamitles let Gov. Marcy
and his fellow citizens reflect and beware of the load
of gull that may yet be laid at their door for their
criminal disregard Of the most solemn obligations that
bind nations and communities together. II
these charges bc unfosnded let them be proved So by
recalling the citizens of the Republic from their unhal
lowed crusade against our liberties, our lives and
properties and let the open encouragement and sup
port that is now extended to the pirates on Navy
Island by the inhabitants Of Buffalo, OF Rochester
and other places, be put down promptly and efiecu-
ay-unl then, must regard them as the deadllest
foes human liberty, the encouragers and protectors
of felons and ourcasts; and let them be assured Of
this fact that much as the great mass OF the people
of this province have hitherto dsked their forms Of
government and institutions, that dislike has now in
creased to absolute hatred and that would be looked
upon as the deepest deg adaon to be united people
who have manifested such wantsR disregard Of the
| peace of their fellow mortals-such proneness 10
crime for the Accomplishment OF the most guilty pur-
poses, and such an ute: contempt for the laws of
| their own choosing.
| All this is very appropriately wound up by de-
mand upon this country for the expenses Incurred by
Mackenzie occupation of Navy Island, in the shape
Of indemnity, which the Queens first law officer IN
the colony enforces in these terms
The returns Of the number Of militia now employed
en- the frontier to repel the invaders from the
| New York, will show the vast expense to which The
government is made subject by the lawless aggres-
SION upon our territory, and enable US TO submit that
claim for indemnify FROM the United Staies sohich The
Imperial Government ,riu dssurediy demand and II
| necessary compel the payment Of III There never
| was Gaze in which such claim could be preferred
| with more perfect justice There is not new, neither
has there been for nearly month, a single rebel in
arms in this pro ,Ince except the armed force levied
on the American frontier, and headed by American
citizen, who have in time Of profound peace in.
vaded this country and established themselves our
shores in violation Of the most solemn treaties, and
in the presence of and unrestialned by the authorities
OF the republic. IL would be to submit tamely and
dishonoraby to open insult were the British govern
nent to forego the enforcement Of complete and am.
pie indemnity that this will be done, no doubt
whatever can be entertained.
The debate was closed by Captain Dunlop, who
enacted The par, of the Copper Csptsin on the
sion, and uttered some very complimentary phrase s
upon the people of the United States. Luckily the
question Of peace is wthn the control Of the Gov
ernor of Upper Canada its House of Assembly or the
Speaker Of that sssaeious and temperate body and
the supervision Of the former, and the check expert
cnced by the military speaker from Sir John Coborne
may, probably, bring all parties to their senses-a
contamination much wanted, and devoutly to be wish