DBD DBI I SPILT IT ILL TPIT IL T PILI ITIL EL LST GT EST ETS L LIES STIL SEL IL EL pT STL TES LIT STL TLIL gb FSIS SLs TT SI IST SSSI GS ICD D PUBLISHED WEEKLY, BY ALEXANDER HAMILTON, BELLEFONTE, (Pa.) NEXT DOOR, SOUTH OF THE BANK. BCD IS STINT IT TO II ESL ATL IIE ITT TL dg SITIES slr > PIII INT SESH TI III IIS ADIT IISGE Sd TTT ETETT Tre Par af al a D CONDITIONS. The American Patriot shall be published every Saturday, and forwarded to subscri- bers by the earliest opportunities. The price is two dollars per annum, exelusive of postage ; one half to be paid at the time of subscribing, and the residue at the ex- piration of six months. Vo subscription shall be taken for less than a half year; nor shall any subscriber be at liberty to discontinue his paper until} all acrearaces are paid off. The failure of any subjepiger to notify a discontinuance of iis ger; will be © i A ence sent Py Those who subscribe but for six months, mus: pay the whole in advance ; otherwise they +4 be continued for the year. Adyertisements, not exceeding a square shal! be inserted three times tor one dol- lar, aud for every subsequent insertion, twenty five cents ; those of greater length. in roportien . © ——r— po wanes PuirappLruia. Monday evening, Sept. 12, A letter trom Capt. Rees of the Videttes, dated mount Bull, near Baltimore, Sept. 11. 2 o'clock, P. M. says ¢the enemy have made their appearance, and seem as if stan. ding for Baltimore. I see eight sali dis- tinctly, some of them very large. Three more large ve ssels and several small ones jast hove in sight.” 4 Gens Izard has marched from Lake Champlain for Niagara with the pri cipal part of his force, and the Briush army have entered our territory. A valuable prize has arrived at N. York, capt tured off the Western Islands by the "privateer Chasseur, of Baltimore. Com. Porter and Perry, with a number of marines, have arrived at Baltimore. The Fort at Prairie du Chicne, on the Mi 1581881 was taken by the British on the 20th August, after having been beseiged & caunonaded for two day S. The Corvette Adams has been blown up by Capt. Mo: vis, at Hamden (Main,) Pre- vious to blowing her up the whole crew had ‘Jeft the vessel, when Capt. Morris fired a "train, which led to the Magazine, jumped overboard, and swam ashore The Adams earried 24 guns and had lately returned from a cruize He apt ain Morris and his crew have ative d sate at Portland 1 The British official account of the Battle at Fort. Erie on the 15th ult. gives the fol- lowing as their loss killed, wounded an missing. = 1 Col. 1 Lieut. Col. | Major, 12 Captains, 15 Licut 4 Ensigns, 1 ad. jutant, 1 master, |} midshipman, 62 sera “geants, 7 drummers, and 799 rank and file — 1 “otal 9035. ficut. Gen. Sherbroke has issued his proclam ation stating it to be the intention ol the British commanders to take pos- session of the country lying between Penob- scot mver and Passamaqu addy Bay. The towns of Castine and Belfast ate already in posscssion of the British. "Their force is stated at from 3 to 7000. | Zines. ] Er WasmixeTon Crry, Sept. 8. From the battery under Com. Perry at Indian Head, we yesterday learnt, that the enemy passed it on the morning of the day before, haying received but little injury fi om our be HOLY, which was too light and weak to dispute his passage with effect om Our loss was only one man wounded, and that was in the retreat from shore. At Indian Head, as well as at the White House, the enemy cxpended a great quan- ity of ammut ition in firing random shot & shells on shore, and in the woods,to disperse the militia, &c afterthe cannonade from our little batteries had been silenced. Fourteen waggons full of our noble sea- men, the first surmounted with the well known standard of « Free trade and Sailors’ Klgits,” the whole preceeded by the Hero Valparaiso, and cheered by thew boat- waib’s whistle, passed through this City on y to Baltimore on Tuesday evening. Oi CIR TW SATURDAY, September 9. It is stated in some of the papers, we obs serve that the Congressional Library was saved. We are sorry to contradict this states ment. The Vandals destroyed without re- morse this collection of valuable and scarce books, the loss of which is irrepairable. If his incendiary hands were not to be ar- rested by the monument of art exhibited i the South Wing of the Capitol, it could or | be expected the enemy wouid respect, what/ none but Heathens or barbaviaus ever be fore wantonly destroyed, a Public Reposito- I Seience, & Law. € are sof ry to learn also that Elias B Caldwell, Esq. lost the whole of his valuable Law Libiaty, which was in the same building. The pa- pers and books of the Senate were all saved and all the material papers of the House [of Representatives. The Militiaef ' this District, who Nabe been ctapioyed in. a fatiguing service for two or three weeks pasty, ave re-enteiing the city from below,&nd will probably be soon permitted to return to their families and business. ) ‘The city is perfectly tranquil, and I bu- siness will ina day or two resume its. ordis nary course, The preparations for the accommoda- tion of Congress progress with rapidity, and will be completed betore the day on which Congr ess 1s to assemble. AIA LOSS OF THE CORVETTE AD AMS. tamden, Sept. 6 Saturday morning, 7'o'clock-—the British supposed to be 1000 strong landed between Frankfort and Hamden, two miles below the latter, and marched up to attack the U. S. ship Adams, with the co-operation of a- bout 30 barges by water. Captain Morris, having provided for her destruction, hadt, his men stationed at the guns on the wha to defend the ships agaiast the bar :es,while Lieut. Lewis and hismen, about 30 who had arrived from Castine, were posted on the hill to an 18 pounder supported by the mis litia, said to be 1300, under command of Gen. Blake—the British opened their fire at about three-fourths of a mile distance— the American artillery opened and cut them down in lanes, and gave considerable mo- mentary confusion—but the militia at this time, instead of a charge, immediately fled in ‘every direction—the light infantry com- panies present supported Lieut. Lewis as long as it was prudent to stand by their guns which were several times discharged, but being deserted by the others and powerful- ly opposed, they retreated and left the ground to the enemy. Capt. Morris and his men beat off the barges in the mean time, but finding the British possessed themselves of the hill, gave orders for his men 10 make good their retreat. Our ine formant adds * that he saw Lieut. Wads- worth half an hourafter the action, but the last he saw of the Captain he was on the wharf, but thinks he is sate. About half an hour atterthey had left the ship he heard the explosion. Lieut. Lewis is said to have bravely in this affair. The above is from the Portland Avgus of Thursday last. Gentiemen who arrived in town in the eastern mail stage on Thursday evening, (as far down as Bath) bring the pleasing information that Captain Moris. was safe,and at Portiand on Thursday mors - ing last, well. The militia were flocking to Camden, where 1000, it was said, had collected. Maj. Gen King was at Camden. The whole of the division was ordered out The expedition from Halifax for Penobscot consisted of the Spencer, Bulwark, and Dr agon, 74's ; Bacchante and Tenedos frig- ates ; Sylph and Peruvian sloops of war; and Picton schr. 3 with ten transports, having on board 3 or 4000 troops. The Bacchante was direct from the Mediterranean. Bost. Patriot, di From the Federal Republican, Sept. 2. ALEXANDRIA, A Lady whose tlusband was absent with conducted the military of Alexandria, expecting the fw SKEPTE MBER 234 1814. customary visit of search, had provided her- self with a [brace of pistols, and met the British officerfon his argival with tae follows ing address/:— Sir, my husband. is from The you, 1s all we pos- He who first attempts to deprive us of it, ‘shall 1” The Officer moment with a- home in the service of his country. property you see before | sess for the supportof our children. suffer death from my hanc viewed the heroine, for a mazement” replied, « madam, if the rus lers of your nation possessed half your spir- it, we should not have been here. Tadmirve your firmness,and pledge my honer that not a penny of your property shall be removed or injured.” Extract of a letter from Com. Chauncey, to the Secretary of the Navy, dated, On board the U. 8. ship Superior, off Kingston, Aug. 10, 1814 « I bave been duly honored with your letters of the 19th and 24th July. « I do assure you, sir, that I ‘have never been under any pledge to meet gen. Brown at the bead of the Lake ; but on the contra. ry. Wien we parted at Sacket’s Harbory I told him distinctly, that ¥ should not visit the head of the Lake, unless the enemy's fleet did. «1 can ascribe the intimation of general Brown that he expected the co-operation of the fleet to no other motive, than a cautious attempt to provide an apology, against any (Contingent disaster to which his army night be exposed. « But, sir, if any one will take the trouble to examine the topography of the Peninsu- ¢ la, (the scene of the general’s operations,) he will discover that this fleet could be of no more service to' general Brown, or his army, than it could to an army in Tenues- see, « General Brown has never been able to penetrate nearer to Lake Ontario, than to Queenstown, and the enemy is in possess- ion of all the intermediate country ; so that I could not even communicate with the ar- my, but by a cic uitous route of ¥0 or 80 miles. ¢ Admitting general Brown coukl have invested Fort George, the only service he could have derived from the fleet, would be our preventing the supplies of the ene- my {rom entering the Niagara river; for the water is so shallow that a large vessel could not approach within two miles of their works. « Gen. dant sufficient reasons for not expecting the Brown had therefore two aba co-operation of this fleet ; it was not pro. mised to him ; and was chimerical in itself « My fixed detertion has always been to seck a meeting with the enemy the mo- ment the fleet was ready, and to deprive him of an opology for not meeting me, I have sent four guns on shore from the Su- perior to reduce her armament in number to an equality with the Prince Regent's, yielding an advantage of their 58 pounders, The Mohawk mounts 2 guns less than the Princess Charlotte, and the Montreal and Pike and on separate ser- Niagara are eaqual to the Gen. T have vice, all the brigs; andam blockading his Madison. detached, four ships, with our for ships, in the hope that this may induce him to come out,” No. XXXI 3 am ad The following are the returns of the killed wounded and Missing, accompanying gen. Gainss letter of ihe 28th of Ana gust. In the action of the 15th Aug. I captain 1 subaltern, and 1% privates killed. 1 subaltern, 1 sergeant, 1 private dan» gerously wounded. \ I captain, 4 subalterns, 1 sergeant, 21 privates, severely wounded. 1 ono pri vatcs Sligitly wounded: , 1 lieut. 10 privates 1 MES OF OFFICERS. id Jieuts it- Watmouth , “wound It. Fountain missing, thrown from the Bastion. Infantry Artillery. Captain Wiliams} M<Donough, killed. ed severely dangerously. lieutenant Bushnell, severes ly, 23d regiment, lieut. Brown ditto, lieu~ tenant Belknap, ditto 4th rifle regiment, captain Birdsall, aceia dently wounded by one of his own soldie During the cannonade and bombardmrouty previous to the action, 1 sergeant, 1 corporal, 7 priv ates killed 1 subaltern, 2 sergeants, 2 corporals, 14 privates severcly wounded : I captain, 2 subalterns, 1 sergeant 1}, corporal, 12 privates slightly wounded OFFICERS WOUNDED. Artillery. Captain Biddle, lieutenant Zan. zinger, adjutant, lieut. Watmaugh Infantry, Lieutenant Patterson, 19th regiment. Kiiled, George Carryl, orderly to Gen: Gaines 25th infantry, — — We are happy to have it in ow power to state, that the President has conferred the following brevet commission$ for distine guished and meritorious services in the are my of the U. S- Brig. gen Gains, Aug. 15, major genes. ral. a Captain D. Ketchum. 25th infantry’ July 25th, wm ajor. 2d lieutenant E. B, Ronglipt, 20th’ ine fantry, July 25, 1st Hoot Ay Captain T. Biddle, jr. corps of artillery, August 15, major. Captain A. C. W. Fanuing, corps of ars tillery August 15, 1major. Captatn B. Birdsall, 4th rifle, August 15 major. 1st lieutenant N. N. Hall, 21st infantry, assistant inspector general, August 15th captain. Captain R Desha, 24th infantry August 4 majors ——rlD $ E——— letter from Mi Adams, dated Ghent, June 30, 1814. «1 arrived at Revel, and thence on the 12th May, and was detained by head winds and ice until the 25th May. I landed at Stockholm. I arrived at Got tenburgh on the 6th June. Mr. Russell arrived three days after. On the 14th June we embarked on board the John Adams for” the Texel—we had a passage of six days : land at the Helder, and came by land tare’ Amsterdam, the Hague, and Antwerp, to this city, where we arrived onthe 24, inst, Extract of a Three days after us arrived Mp Seyrrdangss the succeeding day Mr Clay—we are expecting Mr Gallatin. « The British Commissioners are Admi- ral Lord Gambier, Mr Adam and Mp Gouldsbourfi~—we expect them in the course of a few days, and shal then be rea dy to enter on the serious business of our mission. “« The Emperor Alexander passed thro” this city yesterday, on his return frond Eng Jand--but as he went through without st top- ping, 1 had pot the opportunity of being presented to nim. He is the Titus of the age, the delight of human kind,” Stif wrote from 19th regiment, ensign Cessna Lae i vy ¥
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