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Show VOL. 1. uriit ‘down. It ap- ()0 1).} the gen. himself fell within pistol shot of the : perfectly apprised tps to cross; and it American troops. The superiority in numbers of the British and their Indian allies induced the American officers to hold a Consultation, at which they were disposed to (lispute‘the ground they held, but a note was received .ound in the pock et is killed, from air , informing of the i to cross, the time from gen. Van Reiisselaer, informing; them he ypeetcd, and the ir is said to be in the could afford them no assistance, and that he would cover their retreat at the battery at l'ort- isselacr. .lth regiment, wh o Grey, and furnish boats to re-cross the ri-ver; and finding by col. Stranalian that the militia would no longer act, a retreat was resolved ceeoded in taking' us, has arrived in upon. Thcy retreated in good order Without I'riwnrrs. 'teuultirs 35:6, militia 5'78, be- sides officers, numbers not estimated. Of the killed, there are no i'etiirns,and opi- nions are so various on this point,thatit is extremely difficult to fix: on any probable number. Uiir lo:-.s probably exceeds too, and that of the enemy much the same number. \‘v'e cannot learn that any of our olliecrs The corpse of general Brock, and colonel h'l‘l)oiialu, were conveyed to Newark, and iii- terred, near the fort, with martial honors. Gen. B. was 58 years ofage, a real gentleman, but to their extreme mortification, not a boat was there to receive them, nor did any arrive. and one of the best, generals iii the British Sth regiment, coniiidcr the command After remaining in this extremely painful .-.i- \Ve understand that some of our trOops in tuation about a quarter of an hour, this little reerossinsr the river brought over 8 or 1!) prisoners, among whom was an Indian chief. cross the Niagara e 13th inst. which day, under a very of grape and nuts who, it appears. ground, and aekowledged, after the surrender, three boats with tained Lieut. (Iol. the they had never fought with such brave men. They treated their prisoners with tenderness and respect, and allowed them as much merit as brave men could desire. The number of American troop); killed amounted to not more than 60, and about 100 were wounded. The ‘apid curi'eii' point of landing; Lie's boat touched to the ground left number of prisoners, including the wounded, disaster not more amounted to about You. But the victorious enemy, though generous and tender to those who by the fortune of wahad fallen into their power, imposed no restraint upon their Indian allies from strippingand scalping the dying and the slain that remained upon the field of battle. Capt. ()wdlvio himself saw the. lifeless body ofensigu Morris stripped even of his shirt, and the skull of one who had been wounded, was seen cloven by a d a landing. Those .indcr a heavy fire. out of the battery, I by a bank, upoit i‘e was a provinces. battery, triietive. to oflicers ' this battery, and lit bank, Col. Van and likewise Capt. n, Capt. "'ool, and 'allcaii and Ensign tl. Van Reiisselaer, "red the troops to led by Capt. Ogil'il, {though wound.ieiit. Carr, Lieut. 'iLtlilI'tiollS, T‘illslgl) .indolpli and Lieut. ouiited the heights, i'nediately charged, e gained complete pt about six hours. Len of the militia. possession of the li‘.Illlitliii§ to about. down the river from Black-Rock to Selilosser, loaded with flour and whiskey, tlic Britiin opened their batteries upon the. boat, and lived upwards of St) rounds of grape shot at her while passing,r from Sipiaiv-lsland to the. head of Grand-Island, most of which struck the 'sails or some part of the boat. Thert: were about 30 men on board the boat, and only or» of them was wounded. The only thing; that saved the men from being: either killed and wounded was this: whenever they discerned the smoke of the cannon. they rt sorted to the fashionable mode of /tro:;/ru/ttge‘ tbt inselves in the boat. ['0 a brave enemy. (Layinga, was a much merit. Tl;< noti-coininissioned officer of The Cargo of tho Caledonia, which has been esti- "tried at the eastward at lint/tot) is not now iated higher than 8 or 10 thousand dollars. The immense packs of beaver, riiiiskrat, Eti- with which it was said the ('aledoiiia was laden, pt-nvi ~i to be nothing more than deer, lieiir and {inf/2min skins This property we understand, is now liable to seizure by the otlir-ers of the customs, in (7t)l|Ht'(‘tlIt‘H(‘(‘ of not having; l)((‘ll re- ported to that department. At any rate it must be libelled and sold by tho marshal ofthe district of {if‘fl‘s'fci and to Niagara town and fort on the 01 t‘ 1', is Six miles. The country is peculiar- the state of New-York, before any distribution of the prize mn be made. On Friday las .-ii express arriwd from Leanistnn, bringing the .ccouii‘ of an :ti‘llli‘tllt‘t:, eoiivlutled at Lewiston on 'l'tiesday last, "‘llif'li exp ted on the Monday succewliiigg, at 4 o't‘lotd; l' \1. This armistice, we. iy h‘Hil under the heights and the roads fine understand, was requested by tli- for Iiitll‘(2lilllj§. bury the troops killt d on the ].l:li. A force migglit ll]:‘.l‘(‘.ll from fort George to the "91.55"" Iii an hour and an half, or two British, inoi'dt i' to .ioiii-s. it‘llilli.i()l"l!ltt\'f'1lll‘g 1.9, \\ hieli remained iIi the hold from the heights on the British side, which are highest and more iiielining down the stream. Ii fair aiid open view of the river and country below presents. ' of the Adams, whieh was burned last \\t ek near C(l hi' titti. Biotih. ()ftlie regulars 62 were wounded, '9 since klow, who was tit iortly after which. 7-w?" v-‘r it wk: "kill 'i by a dead, 6 dangerous. gerous. Of the militia 20, 9 dan- Anion},r the passengers were David Bili'd and bill!- hal Conant, merchants, Otis l)unliani, from Mat kiiiztw, l'hilip Leciiyer, clerk to the contracto. , and four other persons. When they left Detl'o t, the British had re moved eyei'y article of public pl'tipt‘l‘ly that. could be found in the country. All the, artillery and other min by the British and carried a" ay, in order to increase the ii .niber of guns taken. The Indians had been very trottblesoiiie iii and about. Metro t; they had plundered many houses in the eoin'itry, and taken every horse they on ild lind in the neighborhood of Detroit; but: before they left there, the Indians hearing that gen. Harrison's army were coming; to Detroit, they gene, rally returned to Hal ion or went to their homes in the wilder‘. 53. No Indian murders had been llt'lll"l of at or near Detroit. The British oilicers had iii every instance, treated Ai‘iierieaii prisoners and otliet Americans well. Just before Mr. iaird left. Malden, it was currently believed theie, that, the army of gen Harrison w‘er‘: at the, Miami .apid ., 8 or (NU!) strong, advancing upon Detroit; in hieli place it is expected will be evacuated by the lir tish whenever danger is nitfli. (ten. Van liens tclaer ari ived in this village on Sunday last, from the encampment at he tiston, 'ni expecn tation of [it"ttfiilh" the governor, who was expected to have arrived here, aeeoiiipanird by commodore Uhatiir eev. .___._. St. Louis, Se/it. 2-"). The following account of the attack on Fort. Hills Vue, was handed to us by a friend who was at the post (llll'lllt;llic siege. The position is one of the anSL ineligible on the Mimissippi fora place of defence: r. .u,. from an eminence their parade ground could be swept by small arms, and it is almost surrounded by eliasins to within ten oi twcl‘. e steps oftlie pickets and block-houses, from whence the Indians threw upwards or 500 pieces of burning timber on the roof; of the houses; and when the attack coin iiieii':e(l there was no spot about the fort that did not emit. a continued sht ('t of iirt. from ggiiiis, fiery arrows and l)l'l\li(li~.,'.lltll oid not afford the brave fellows within an op» portunity of doing;- much ('X{‘( .ition, except now and then knocking); oiei- such red l'.; as had the iiiipiidencc to peep oi er the bat int. . Lieuteiiaiits Hamilton and V. ‘ntpt-Js‘ have done themselves iiili:.h credit in the dtft lltlt. of the post committed to their care. ()n Satu day, a flu-,5 Cittiit‘ over from I'orl I-lrie, iii- l‘ia: Indians were )thc wood. its and tlirir war;on the tnilitia,thttt la line in zone thoff only 224‘; incii, remained. l'i'etrutnii of British re» Furl/1w, from [/16 111972110 Gazer/e. contractor, A. l'orter, esq. and a few other articles. The. wounded man. Thomas .‘vlor- ggaii, lying;r with his elbow above the. railing; of the boat, received a grape. shot in the elbow limb being; much shattered. an ai'iipiitat ion took place next morning. lli: survived the wound about 30 hours. lle was from the county of about ildlftl mile in width. ofii ipiielg current and full ofwhirlpools. l'roni these two places to NeWai‘k on 1')" one side, where stands fort me reinforcement. ed his landing, and lg; iii the whole-to rseded (lopt. ()lelit r \\ hi i. tla llriment ll't;ll] l'oi‘ts On Monday last week, the British came over to Squaw-Island and captured two American boats, one of which was loaded with cannon balls. ()n the same day, while a boat was passing; Our informant saw the funeral of General Brock. The guns at Fort Niagara were fired duringr the ceremony as a mark of respect due wards Lake. Erie. Qiieenston is nearly opposite, and the river the purpose ofeoiivt‘fliit,r from Detroit their :toel: of mercantile goods; the books and papers of the army fenders of one of the gates of the fort, \iere duj.)r up joint, which came. out of the shoulder. pend in width from thence to the. present falls of Niagara, nine or ten miles above. and which run across the river Niagara ii :arly at rirr'it angles, running; from near Lake Ontario ner Ellen, a cartel, 1] days from Detroit. She was chartered by It. H. Jones and David llaird, erq. for ed useless, and which had been planted as gate de~ Il'ar Eveiils at Black-Rock. tomaliaw k. LEWISTHWX, the Head-Quarters of our Northern army, is situated at the foot of the large range of mountainsorheipdds which ex- FRONT DETROIT. iiitioiis of war had been previously removed; even the old cannon which had been burst, spiked and Nude!"- The enemy consisted of a part of the 49th regiment, who, with gen. Brock, had signalized themselves in Egypt, and from their valor were called the iiiviiicibles. lefore this they had never been known to give an inch of British, \Vt‘l't' killed on board the brit,r .\daiiis after LillU grounded, on the day of her capture. On Friday last :eriv'v, (1 off Buffalo (3r4.-el;,tlir-. sehoo» the loss of a man, to the margin of the river; hand surrendered to about five times their number. it has been ascertained that, major Uritishee, late commandant at Fort llrieI together with 3‘71 or :30 were killed above the rank of captain, and but few were wounded. the following par- t .300 militia, co matlilk‘l', received ()l‘< tier lately broirght up from ScliloSser are mounted on otir batteries. On Sunday evening, lieut \\'atts went on board with a iiiimbt r of men, and brought an ay another long,r 12. (v the/1i". lC. formingr our gener- l, that they should eonsider an at. Ezpiaw Island, as an infringement if the ai'iiiistit‘e, and would fll't upon our troops should they come lli‘iil‘lllt: hulk. .‘.:i answer, \vt understand, was returned,stat,ing, that ("zl'lultlt‘l'itltt‘ the pz'npi‘l'ly our own, no attention would be paid to their ii-quest. The flag; return- ed, and the moment it landed, they fired two iruiis of grape at our troops on board the. liulli,v.liir‘h howevi r did no diuiizig‘i; in the t'l'll"~,tt of the night (zap? f). Uliapiii, wiih a party of sold (is and marines went on board and ti rtk out, an eh want-dong; I ‘ p'iuiidei' from )3 notintheruiir; of the ship, hit 3: 10,1] ther r. 7t:i ATTACK UN FORT lillldd‘i ‘v'bl‘i. (‘un the dill inst. at half past 1'. ti: garrison was :ittert'tl by a party of \V. ' .eba. goes, the number not precisely ' noun, lint supposed to be iipwaids of 11"»), l‘oi'ttiiiatel 3. there was only one soldier out of the garrison (John Cox," who f.,il a victim to the scalping; knife. 1‘1 constant firing}; on both sides new, kept up until dark; eiiily next iiioi‘iiiiigg tl_("i. toiiiiiieiieeil ti'raiii, and about 7 o'clock they :‘iit‘: A, l fire to Mr. Graham's. boat and TC!.'[Cil'lSZ'.". ‘5»: 3,. |
