Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1838-11-16

uedi are " thursday, anu ITOU SSueDeC
to Mondsy night. On Tuesday, de.
tachment Of the Gath Regiment met with
some opposition from the rebels at Cote
st. Pierre, but they succeeded in disper
sing their opponents, and burned six hou>
scs. On Thursday Mr. Craig of the Roy>
al Regiment, who was the bearer of des-
patches 10 Henryville, narrowly escaped
party formed to take him prisoner.
A warrant was on Monday issued for the
apprehension of an individual at Point
aux Trembles, few miles from Mon
treal, but the constables were unable to
execute it, as the Canadians were all
armed. On Sunday morning the Cana
dams at Longueil destroyed all the ca
noes on the beach, and cut off the rud-
ders of the horse boat, to prevent any
communication between Montreal and the
south of the St. Lawrence.
Sir John Colborne has sent to the
Lower Provinces for additional troops.
An order has been issued under Martial
! Law, declaring that two candles must be
placed in the second story Of every house
in the city of Montreal, between the hours
of sunset and midnight.
The printing press and types of the
Montreal Express, little paper pub
lished in that city for the last two or three
weeks, lave been seized by the govern
ment.
On Wednesday morning, int diligence
reached Montreal that Mr.. John M'Don-
nell, advocate of that city, had been cap
tured nearly opposite to Three Rivers
endeavounng to raise the habitans in that
part of the country. Some loyalists took
him prisoner, and delivered him up to the
regiment Of Guards stationed at Three
Rivers. On his person we've found some
papers addressed to him as Major Gen.
eral of the Patriot Army, and tricolor-
ed flag YVES found in his possession. He
was brought up 10 Montreal the same
day. When he landed, handcuffed to
another prisoner, and under guard Of
soldiers, the crowd groaned and shouted
and yelled, and while on his way to the
old gaol, along the beach SO far as the
New Market, he was pelted with stones
and mud, was spat upon on the face, and
insulted in every possible way. twas
with extraordinary difficulty that the more
highly excited portion of the crowd was
restrained from laying violent hands on
him, and securing his punishment on the
spot g. the feeling that he would certain
ly be tried summarily by martial law, and
Immediately thereafter hanged, alone
saved him from the Infatuated populace;
on reaching the barracks, his guards per.
ceved that he was likely to be sacrificed
to the fury ofthe populace, and he was
very properly taken no farther.
The Herald describes him as gentle.
man of "a prepossessing appearance and Of
very gentemanly manners. As an advo.
cate he had very good practice at the
Montreal Bar. The Patriots had some
thirty prisoners, some of them men Of
note, at Beauharnois. According to the
Herald they "do not suffer any income
"nience beyond the detention"
J A correspondent of the Herald writing
, from St. Ours, on the Richlieu River
, states the number of Patriots at that place
e to be from seven to eight hundred, ant
that they are in possession Of about I
hundred and fifty American muskets, in
dependant of the arms owned by the hab
itans, and those who had no musket
), were armed with long spears or pixies.
4, The number of arrests and commitment
Il to prison at Montreal amounted on Thurs
e day 10 1870.
i No mail from Upper Canada had bee'
received at Montreal for six or eigh
, days. Sentinel.