...confirmation of the Destruction of the British fleet on lake Champlain and the consequent retreat of Sir George Prevost—His general orders dated at Odelltown 13. September are published. The Montreal and Quebec letters are in the querulous and plaintive style—John shakes his head at this second annihilation upon the lakes, and so to quiet him they have printed a comparative statement of the...
...Macombe’s is too long—Macombe says that Prevost’s army was 14000 strong, and that he himself had not more than 1500 regulars effective and 2500 volunteers and militia—The complains from Montreal, Quebec and Halifax, against Prevost are violent, and there is a mere howling of mingled rage and lamentation at the disastrous issue of the Campaign—One General was said to be under arrest,...
...Lake Ontario was totally destroyed, and Commodore Chauncey a prisoner—Beasley in his Letter to Mr Russell says that the real report from Liverpool, was directly the reverse—namely—That there had arrived there a vessel, which sailed from Quebec, on the 10th: of October—that the account had at that time been received there, that the
A vessel arrived from New-York at La Rochelle brought a false Report that Drummond and his army were taken—But the Liffey frigate has reached England having sailed from Quebec on the 10th: of November—Sacket’s Harbour and Chauncey’s fleet had not
...Halifax 22. November, and has arrived in England—She brings Reports that General Drummond had defeated the Americans, but apparently nothing later from Montreal and Quebec than had previously been brought by the Liffey. There are also arrivals from Chesapeake Bay, from Bermuda and from Jamaica—They all indicate that Cochrane is gone with a powerful expedition against Florida and Louisiana...
...the threat in the Courier, I strongly doubt—They have as yet no information from America, decisive as to the issue of the campaign—The Antelope arrived on the 15th: instt: at Portsmouth, from Quebec, whence she sailed the 14th: of October.—She brings dispatches from Sir George Prevost, of 9. October, and confirms the Report which had some days ago been received from Halifax, of a...