Western Sun, Volume 6, Number 14, Vincennes, Knox County, 1 October 1814 — Page 1

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Each Centurt has it? fkculiar Mof. on doing Busivf.ss, and Men guided nor! by Custom than ex Reason, follow without Enquiry, the Manners which are prevalent in their own Time. Hun.

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SATURDAY, OCTOBER i, 1814.

BNO. N

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an attested

rucb outrcs, by the c&ntrafi of their own example, is they have b-cn ready to tlitrnii r.ate on rea' (Nial 1c conditio! the war itlclt. And wlierra:, the IV procei;ri: . ;id declared purjTijtVs, which exhibit a deliberate

inciules ot humamtv arci

THE v1:sr;H sun, rr . J . 1"! -v

Qrtnswm wtwkiw r i wo J i.";nrt;:7, atd! ill advance c NoTKt t liable at tlic en

f r Tv, i DOLLARS Fifty Cents- j the rulfs of cbilied wri'.nt, aid which r ; , . . . , j ! mud give to the exiiHnff War achtra&erof No Subscription xoiU be receive for a . , , n . j . i -r t i . r . y 'xtendpcl cevafta;. nn and barbarilmi at tne

very moment ci negotiatiotis tor prace, in ntinued until oil arrearages et c ! viteH b th? enemy rnmfelt leave no srofpeci of fafety to any thing within the reach of

his predatory and incenoiary operations but in a manly andnniverfal determination to

chaftife a' d expel the invadrr.

"'v, therefore, I - y4rr.ez Nfadifon, r're-

fthe U. Sdo ilTue this my procla-

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the hi vh fati facYion to Rate, that thrv hate iiail the pleaiure of cotivci Ci g With si grntie man ot re fpc6t ability, w ho U ft Baltimore yefterday morntne; at 10 o'tlotk. who ftatea

that lie law the Britiftl teffels i

JI'drr Vv a- thrrr tl

down the river at 9 o'lJc.!:. Jt Was laid tr.d believed that the enemy's land force was retreating- to North Point at the I me time. That vo rjenrra! a&ioa had taken place ! tiiat in the ikitmifhing on Mnndav

from North Point to Chincopin 1 1 ill , tla cl;ufett

Britifh Comm.-.nder in c 1; ii i ' v, r,z V ' ,:J .; ! tu:e of

Hampden Saturday niht. A battfe w is fought which I Red half an Imur. Thegreaefl la rm prevailed at Portland, fwo thoofsnd militia were to march in

J f.e public nail is not al

lowed by the enemy to pals ever the Ps nobfeot."

In conf q juence of 'events of a public 5c

alarrntiig nature,' the governor of Mafia

,as cAttd a meeting of the iep-iili

that the ikuifh were

ty cntrencnii

(

i. ' i. trw I

!vr", within a mile Sc a h .If of Chin"

Hiree times fjr r W I U'vlC i

yiti Dollar, and fwi nty-Tive Cents jfbr eueri after insertion. jT 699td unpleasant disputes, it is ra

f nested

Advertising c

they p

of

mat ion, exhorting ail ihe good pe j!e there

of. to unite their hearts snJ bands v giving t ii d to th sntn'if 'neans pod (Ted for th .". purpofe I enjoin it on al! ohicers, civil Sc military, to exert the- ifetves in executing

t arcs tiar !,r:'( .vt meat's are tj lc I t, . ,i a ... r.r; ',. i Cfiaigu rvnu mor cipcbfaity, i 1-m r i ntt -a. I hose sent pftthout such the officers commanding the refpeUvc mi directions will be continued until forbid litary diftrifts, to be vigilant si r alert id

w I

c I in Hill, which entrenf hn

bandoned of their ri'.vn

Itate on the 5th of Oil

er.

were 8-

By t;e!'.cra; order?, the militia ct M ilachufetta ar. ordered td be in readineffl to

march at a moment s wai:,::

cord h.a e-

o repel any

d the Britifli forre was believed to be ra

ppee.

ptcly retreating this mo

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hid V

)pcu no::"' jro, i-!-- t . - : r i. v I

Bfea than 2 or 3 killed j f I h :."jr officers, t!:e worthy i nicate,

Wm. L Donaldfon is the Only one known ders ; ! :o be killed. Cm. Rofs, as all the prifon- the fate

P A

rcury. snher 30, to commu

g to y nr rca-

inxmos as yon r. oft.

r gallant little army at for

LTl C

a;U n;i?l oe Ai l Lett rj

r?i!, ir bt l si paid, or taken cut of t'e , V. r

I r- f t

(d rested to tin

Ly the Prcsidenl cf the United S:.f e s of A mfrica, A PHOCl.F.MA l lON.

nrnviiimt Tir the drfmeff thtnr" lir the

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more cjv.c.umI accompli liment t whicn they ?re authorifed to cIi to the d fence oi expo fed ?r.J threatened places, portions oi the militia moft convenient thereto, wheth

er thrv he or b10 not parts or toe quotts de morning, t announi e to our an: 10

tached for the fertici of the U. S. nndci ders, the following hii hly intei; i-.

ers report, Was ki

nss tr.rown tne wnoie . rre or tne enemy into eon fuGoRa The B iti(h loTs in J uef t " day's ikirmtfhing is T. id to be f.-om 3 to 4C0 1 Tort, kiiieO ano wounuea rver1

n Tueloay, rhich ' Erie, I !. .vc tl ought proper to drop you 4

:ontinu?s to invefi the n inceuant n ' r i t ri

Vc fl ) the prefs

r q the

On an oceaon wi i h sppeals fo forcibly 10 the nroitnd reelings Sc patrijtiv devotion of the American people, none will forget wht they owe. to themfelvea ; what they owe to th( if country, ai.d the !" gh d flii : "

wh::'i swart it ; what to the crlory

by their fath srs, j.i eftabl penderce ct which is now

bv their 10 is, with the l

nt.

Whereas

y a luuden incur- j

(ion have futceeded m invading the capital rf the nation, defended at the morrent by 1 ypt Ufa numerous thau their own, and : i entirely of the nilitia ; during their y ITel ion of which, tho' for a Bugle da? I f , th wantonly deflroyeo! the public

c s havinir no relation in theii fiiucture I anci rei

1 ere nee :

An exprefs to the acting fccretnrv of wai m

trom m?

re nee that a t. ; betwe. n Sll t! v

under sreneral Sti

c tor I

1 Of :c oiijr

i . r c d c

COImIIi

n

in'if ?ined

d , mt n, sod a part 1 t the i-mn'v's foi

IlitlRfr 01 3 UU i-ii:', DllITl M I ,

me n -gin in iliti.4 ie mofl

covert i Erie, t,

iiicr

ut meuted firen rth

I With winch

itn braveiv .or a

t the time have hK(T:d them.

0 ' t he U.

for military annoyance ; fome of thefe edi. I In teflimony where f, I h3 ;e her fees being only eoftly monuments oi tafte my hand, and caufed z'c leal

v.a ol ti.e arl, an.n o'.ivcr deoOutories of StatfS to he aiRxed to the(e preicnts. 1 in frreat cotifutio

1 Done at the city of W idiin tton, t!tr 6rfl oe, it. Gen. Wi

day of September, on the yeai1 vf our

fufta nin

cotiuderal le timeagainft tliis fuperioi 1 uce, I to b cur brave fellows were ofderc-.: to retire, j rthr which they did in good order, bringing off with

tt.mv'. r

and other denohtor'Kj3 of

4 th- public auhi.'e.-, not only precious to the nati n as the rott&oiiats of it cTir;in and its early tratttiiCItons, but ittrreOiog to na lions, ss contributio i to the general flock of iii!Wicl inftru i.on 8c political ftiencc. Ani whereat, advantage has been taken rf th.e . lo of a fori, more i nmediitely ffuar t'.irtiV t'ne neighboti ig town t" AlexmsWia, pa t place the town within the range of a na- ! I ce. too long and too much in the b 1bit ofabufig it? fuperiority, whenever i: t an be applied, to require is thf llternative of n gen ril eoi lagration, an ondiilurbed plunder of private property, ?h.ich hss been rxecuti I a 1 p mrer peculiarly diftreffing ro the inhabitanti who had, intonfiderately 1 '.l themfi UeA on the hvicc and vncrol'. -y ijftheviaor. And whereas, i r eai by a dire A com tnunitation from tl e Britifli aaval cosnman 1 aalef on the Ameru i ation to be bis a-

,.,,,. tMlr- ( - . .. . ! t. r 1

1 is direction 4 in di Iroying t fvich town and diftricls i on

Lord, 1 B i i the U Stat By the Pref uc

1

e inuei

dence of

men were in . The stta k

l ep-iini

Dion

enemv ;

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JAMES MADISON. vrh' Is have rettrei

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secretary 01 Lt By Wednesdavs' ?Tui!.

tately. Giti. I in the attac :. . 1

to be A -

f the ( nemy h 1 ariivf t

M fy f the opii iop, th c H t (a part of which is ie will br evacuad, and n turned to act folcly on

letter tmni John O Adams, Ght nt, June 30, i s 1 4. a Re el, and wrote from 12th M y, and wva detained s and ire until the 20th MV

)'t reidmr on I he 6

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IM1

tee u m

trom the Copy of a the M u

rat tonal Intelt:

U i n b with much prt c :

) hav; u f . , J ; n W inder Loss the A:,

Of j Jo? :i

11 bl i I

Boston, September 8,

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SIR

14th September, 1814. ' we learn that a body t iiritilh trocps who j Gailatic had landed on this firffevof the Pei bfcot, j 11 Th m ii t? von. ' aroceeded to laul - n.Bl the I ime time '

that the enemy, after an Uufuccefful at. that the veffels dv ;':m(d infl the Adams I beprne, tempt both, by land r.nd water on tl is place, advanced. Cap'. Morris ; "ding the enemy 1 mall th

arrived tlsree d ys .ifrr. 0l ie, we embarked on bnsrd i for th Texel ; we I d ,t pf-

i afre oi nine days ; landed rr the II f.fcr, nd tiLme by laud through Amfterd m, he Hague and Aotwarp, to this iitv wlirr we arrived out r 24th ii fWi Three d ys pftcr .!3 arrived n r, B id, and the fuccefd'.n

e a:e all rxjieiti; g rur. eomn fT.rrw,rs ?re admU r. Adam and mr. Goldi

's ar I :iOLi

xpi C I

. to er. ter en u.

ppe a r t

! r i :

We

ccaH as I I fh ill

j ;co fom idrtbte to be efi

re r , w up

.1 , rr; pari to

the Adams, ar.d bavins tVi t all

t r r. f buuneti o.

'tit

ti tlaration, the infulting pre in retaliation for a wanton del mttted bv the air ! tl L . prr Canada, when it i rotor uedruCtton h3 been committe wi'hftandti -t th- tnultipocd o

nufly committed by the enemy, was not a thorifeil. and promptly mown to be fo ; that the 0 Statei I iv been as conftant their tr.ueavori :o rciiaiin the Csteury Kvi

t r - n f i 11. t r i ,

1 r. is men en tnore, aiccr lome i:n m; using naa ti;;s c..y yc'.ierusy, en nis return r w i

jrfe of the day. commenced wi !i ti e enemy, let f.ie to the land; but as he went tl o wthfut ppin-f I have the bopof to he. your obt. frvt. i train, t-y which tiie Dili was immediately I hid not tl.t opportunity of hircr prefcut-

irl, MG 1 !own up, and plunges) into tne steer, til I ed to him. id is the I itus cf the

11 The emperor Ah xarder piT:d thro

MeNROF,

Act'.ny Seer P. S. The r

He

gotng oown in

. i er

r good reaion to briicvc that cencr..! is mortally wrunded.

h I s ijfi feeo fwimn.mg tcv.rJ: the eafern

iich he u:

i e

ihf delight of b

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Britifli were fortifying at CetVins. i FRO'M NEW MEXICO.

i I..- i.er.:e ct t .e fVrtnu. hanws a Ii trr-r tran r-. m,ht r.r).

been removed to a place of fecofitg '' sdverttf-mrnt fi i C many inhabitants are removing their efTrs ! i an -rivy nf N-w M

ill- I h t tt- ' It..' ' : - ' N - t. th; .

'he editors an tor the lepublio p'Vr ( i 1 1 e G f

ins the fch

n J In a-u.un to the ibove the editors have j my v:h an overwl tUsTing force spfoacbtd I lowii g mfbimatiou icfpccting the move-