The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1841-10-15 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

ANOTHER ATROCIOUS INVASION OF THE AMERICAN SOIL BY THE CUT-THROAT BRITISH SOLDIERY.—By a letter from Alburgh we learn that another atrocious invasion of our territory has been perpetrated by our amiable neighbours, the British. On Sunday night last, a party of twelve British soldiers, fully armed, crossed over into Alburgh, Vt., from Canada, in three waggons. They then proceeded to the house of Mr. Brown, which is situated four miles this side of the lines, who is brother-in-law of Colonel Grogan, one of the political refugees of 1838, and who has resided upon this side ever since. This was about midnight. The brave band of British midnight assassins then stealthily entered the house with bayonets fixed. A portion of them proceeded to the bedroom of Mr. and Mrs. Brown, and with bayonets at their throats threatened them with instant death in case they made the least noise. The others went to the bed where Col. Grogan was sleeping, seized, gagged and bound him hand and foot, thrust a bayonet through his leg, another into his side, and in this horrible state, nearly -destitute of clothing, he was hurried into a wagon and driven off into Canada. These are the circumstances of this infernal affair, from a source entitled to the fullest confidence. Colonel Grogan is an American, but for a few years preceding the outbreak of 1837, he resided on Caldwell's Manor, some two or three miles from Alburgh, on the Canadian side. An enthusiastic republican, he early in the contest became an object of suspicion and hatred to the loyalist cut throats of Canada. In the winter of 1838, the British soldiery surrounded his house, drove his helpless wife and children to this side of the lines, on foot, through the inclemency of a Canadian winter, burned his house, and plundered and laid waste his property, to the amount of upwards of 6,1►00 dols. They will now complete their vengeance by murdering him on the testimony of some perjured scoundrels, such as British gold never fails to procure. The people now have some of the fruits of Mr. Webster's truckling subserviency to English insolency. The murderer M`Leod, who boasted that he assisted to massacre unarmed American citizens, came voluntarily into the State against whose peace and dignity the atrocious crime was committed, and boasted of his participation it. He was arrested like any other criminal, and ordered to trial before the State Courts. The British Minister demanded his release. Mr. Webster, our federal British Secretary of State, is very sorry his power cannot reach the case. If the matter was left to him, he said he would take the greatest pleasure in surrendering up this wholesale murderer of American citizens. What further license can the British ruffians ask, than is thus given them by our Secretary of State, for any deed of murder, or kidnapping, which their hellish passions may prompt them to commit. The Canada Tories very well know the powers that he will never trouble them.  If this alleged outrage took place at all, there are not the slightest grounds for supposing it was committed with the sanction of the British authorities. The account is written in a tone of exaggeration which leads us to have some doubts of its truth, but that British magistrates connived at it is utterly absurd and improbable. We can afford to bear the abuse of the angry loco focos much better than they will bear the chastisement our arms will inflict upon them in a cer tain contingency. The New Era of the 27th contains the names of the jury who were to try M‘Leod, and who, it says, are all good men, candid, and intelligent. The money market was brisker, and prices generally improved. A large amount of specie was received on the 26th.  The question of the corn trade was becoming very interesting to the state. The Herald states that the Canadas must be our first resource, as that country is capable of becoming an immense grain-growing one with proper encouragement. Mr. Adams, of the firm of Scatchard and Adams, printers, New York, had been brutally murdered. A person of the name of J. C. Colt had been arrested on suspicion of being the murderer.