Star. — 1813-12-22 (London, England)

MAS. s re. of the 23d, after the capitulation took place, .1 hot, t 1 cert these circuit.. , nen not contribute ;}ti they shewed a it mind the sr, the / , hinder it, is a fact, the unhappy re than all the . of the English •Aoldiecto the dead bodies the list The itrnen remained  tzpc~d' ~~;  the prey of wild the greatest re titriitor•• - . of religion.--g . • etilstless,- the t.- My-is very coniemptihle, which is teat.- alternative. of con fessiug that its sayege,Allies-would not pasieti4 it to pay thela* ,d.u. ties to the dead. The Coutiedoners have nothrinAble to discover what effect such bartrariies .liifreproduced on the military and civil authoilleeof the frontier, but the choice of an Indian tOpitt, to adorn the hall of :he Legislative Body of Vpr Canada, gives ground to conjecture it. *4 ,- e-Coinmittee have considered it as their duty to *limit 'to the House the proofs of the atrocities cornsidittdjat Hampton, though it has been since they ttaft4oAsiake their report. Tsk,birbarous acts may reasonably be consi. dere Aleepatural consequence of the example given by the, , of the naval force on our coast. The4ll. - ' turpitude continues to increase, and the soltifitt*:prepared for the most abominable reds, by teftriNalblowed to commit smaller excesses with impunW.qt must excite isidignation, though uot surprise, ibUt troops who have been led, by the examplibf their titters, to plunder the property, and to burn the houiles o'f unarmed citizens, should be. guilty of violence and murder. But for every violation of the laws of humanity, our enemies and, or fabticate, an excuse, ' --_-.-:, 1... •• , .• ' ... The wounded prisoners on the Northern frontiees were massacred by the Savages, the sick put to death, the ivbinth insulted at Hampton—were so by foreign troops in the pay of Great Britain. These pretexts (if we admit their truth) are as disgraceful as the conduct which is forced to have recourse to them.— Honour and magnanimity impose it as a law, not only to forbid the soldier to commit these crimes, but to do the utmost to present the commission of them. If in such a case the soldier, in contempt ot discipline, commits an act of violence on any individual, whom he ought to protect, the eiemplary punishment of the offender alone can te-establish the honour of the nation to whom he belongs. It will be seen by the documents, if the English officers behaved in this affair like men of honour, and whether the national character has been avenged in this manner. The groans and the cries of the innocent victims of t hellish immodesty at Hampton, were heard by the American prisoners ; but they were too weak to reach the ears and to disturb the repose of the English officers, whose duty as men it was to protect the worrien whom the chance of war had put into their power.- The Commissioners will not insist on this shameful subject. Human language has no terms strong enough to express the emotions Which the exa. mination of the documents, proving these horrible facts, has excited in them ; anti they rejoice that the American people consider them as forged. For the ;rowels of human nature, they deeply regret that their truth is too clearly tonfirrned. In the correspondence of the Commander of the English and American forces, there are phrases which are equivalent to an express declaration of the facts of which we have spoken abode. As such atrocities, instead of inspiring terror, as ..he enemy had doubtless imagined, can only produce a contrary effect on the minds of our fellow-citizens, the Committee submits to the consideration of the .House the following Resolution :  Resolved--That the President a the United States be reques.ted to collect and to !Ay before the House, during the continuaStun of the war, the proofs of all the infracticnis of the enemy of .he Lives of mit in use among civWzed nations.