Liberty advocate. [volume] (Liberty, Miss.) 1835-1866, 1842-01-08


HIGHLY IMPORTANT FROM THE
NORTH EASTERN BOUNDARY
ACTUAL HOSTILlTlES--SHARP
ENGAGEMENT AND REPULSE OF
| THE BRITISH TROOPS.
We stop the press to announce the lol-
lowing painful intelligence, for the re-
tecipt Of which we are indebted to Adams
le>press. Most ardently do we pray that
it may prove incorrect; out i comes N q
shape scarcely 10 be questioned, though
lit may be exaggerated in its details
Boston Daily Nail Ofice,l
Dec A, IL o'clock,
We have Just received the following
letter through the Post Office. We do not
know the writer, and cannot youch Tor
the truth Of his statements. We give 1t
as it comes TO US.
A fight at Fish Rirer bet'ceen The An1er.-
can troops stationed there, and The BRIT
t ash
have Just arrived post haste from the
7 United States Barracks at Fish river,
where are stationed one company OF troops
]. belonging to the first regiment OF u D Ar
: tiery, under Capt. Kennedy.
Ii had been at this fort but short
4 time, il being q new one, and was taken
S possession Of by the Unithd States troops
at the same lime the fort called Fort FAR
y field was, and it was thought that the
/ small force would prove sufficient for all
: purposes.
!. Ii is nv painful duty to inform you OF
The contrary, and to state that the British
/ are determined to drive our men from
what they are pleased to call the disputed
d territory. The new Lieutenant Governor
Of the Province Of New Brunsw"h has
instructions to this effect, and ne seems
determined to execute them at all haz-
ards. ,
On the morning Of the 9th otNovem-
Der, Captain Kennedy commanding at
Fish river, received note from an lndl
- yidual calling himself Major Stockburton
- of her Maiesty's Royal 68th regiment
-; ordering him 10 abandon the post within
twenty-lo hour RS, and repair to the part
of the country heretofore under the Juris-
.diclion Of the uaitea States,
:, Capt. X. returned an answer refusing
49, peremptoriy to leave his post until or.
~ dered 10 do so by the power which placed
- him there The British Major replied
= that he should take immediate measures
! TO remove him peaceably, if he could,
80 forcbly if he must.
= Accordingly on the afternoon oil the
~ same day, placing himself at the head OF
90 a battalion Of troops, which were IN the
town of Madawaska, and recently from
70 a fort at Temiscoula Lake, ne proceeded
nv 10 carry his threat into execution.
~ When his men were in few hundred
~ wards of the American encampment they
n' we're discovered by the sentinels, and or>
~ dered 10 halt, which refusing to DO inc
VI troops were paraded, their muskeis load
un ed with ball cartridges, and they were or
-: dered to remain silent till the intention OF
49,. the enemy was made known, which was
w. H. soon done by the discharge OF musket'
~, az the ball from which passing thro' Capt
~ Billings left hand.
H. L. CAPT. K. then ordered his men TO lire
III which they did, killing or woundlng some
-" half a dozen. The British then retreats
1. ed some hundred yards, loaded, as is sup
~. posed, and again advanced, discharged
~ ~ their .nuskets without doing any mischief
in "a our men being protected by their log house
an or fort.
M after this discharge they advanced il
- double quick time, our men reservng tnei
for fire until they were in two or three ROD
an, OF the fort, when they fired upon them
killing and wounding some twenty OF
thirty.
The British scattered in confusion an
49,, ran some one way and some another
save one officer who yain!y endeavored t
rallv them, who was shot. They return
ed from whence they came. Our com
ourt nanv lost one man killed, and four wound
IN ed. one supposed MORALLY. This act 2
'eIe British aggression in time oil peace call
~ loud for satisfaction.
w The company Of troops stationed
80 Fort Fairfield, or probably at Fish rive
We We, before this, and Col. Pierce, who com
' har mands at Houston, has two companies
~. ~ that fort. Tho greatest excitement pr
AZ wills throughout the Arostook countr
ced and nothing it is feared, can now restra
q the people in that region from taking ST.
ner nal vengeance upon the enemy
IL The news spread like wild fire in 30:
ach ton--conslernatio is depicted IN ever
= q countenance The affair was so entlrel
mo unexpected that one is horror stricken
og v The government must now take hold
owd earnest.
no Uncle Sam won't sec his own troop
law cul down, and his flag iusultcd with IN
,ace punity. | have written ibis as can
q from Bangor 10 Boston, not stopping Ion
Ibis enough TO breathe hardly, and amo
in beat out.
:ou :" FRIDAY Sd, 6 P. NJ.
and lust arrived in Boston shall be in Ne
$50 vi on tho murray Would pive yu