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Monday, June 25, 1821, The Telegraph is published weekly IaC0Dt Ga.—Office on.Cherry Street, near I public Square. TERMS. I, , Y, ar . .... 93 00 * t0T _ IIC ADVASCE. BY MYRON BARTLET. _ . ■ 1 ■ 1 .. i. 1AW NOTICE.; undersigned have associated themselves in ~ 'he practice of LAW under the firm of Tracv & Butler. EDWARD D. TRACY. „ , ' DAVID B. BUTLER. Mecon, June 18———3d Volume 1 iSo. 35. mlisjshotwell *• co. i jut ttitittdptr beat Naney, and offer for Sale, lajO Keg* White Lead Kec* Spanish Brown 20 Kegs Venetian Red 500 Cation* Linseed Oil 300 Gallons Lamp Oil 200 Gallon* Tram Od 100 Gallons Spirits Turpentine Chalk. Whiting Brushes, &c. &e. 12 Barrels Plaister Paris J00 Reams Writing, Wrapping and Printing Paper 10,000 Lbs- Light Castings ’drugs'AND MEDICINES; ich with their previous Stock make n very large , „ ne ral assortment, worthy the notice of Mcr- inti Physicians and others who wish to purchase at w rates for .Cash. aeon. June lo 1 * * am >y* STONE <fc COIT, Hare just Received, by lalt Arrivals, 40 barrels Boston Rum 30 do northern Gin'. 7 hbds. do do a 100 barrels Whiskey 7 hbds. Sugar 40 barrels do 3 do Loaf Sugar 2 boxes lump do 60 bags prime green Coffee 30 barrels canal Flour 40 do Mackerel, No. 1,2 and 3 10 boxes Soap , 15 do Georgia and sperm. Candles 5 kegs Tobacco 30 reams Wrapping Paper 20 do Letter do 3 crates Crockery, assorted C kegs Dupont’s Powder, FFF , 25 bags Shot 20 kegs Nails, assorted 15000 lbs. Swedes Iron—500 lbs. Steel 4000 lbs. Castings—200 lmshe|s Suit fc;nac Brandy, Holland Gin, Jamaica Rum, Malaga ■ine. Pepper, Pimento, &r. &c. for sale lowfo.r h only. 25 npril 16 DR. A. JANES • Tenders his PROFESSIONAL SER- VICF.3 to the inhabitants of Macon and the adjacent country. He will be found at the La Fayette Hall, or at bis Office on Bridge-street, opposite the Darien Branch Bank. All abdications will be promptly attended, hpril 21—31 PTRIIE subscriber continues the Practice of Lew in e i ll . ll *P ,ac ®' In addition to the Counties in which he has heretofore practiced, he will attend the Supc- nor Courts in the Counties of Let, Muscogee, Troup and Coweta. 1 jan2 }tf JOHN P. BOOTH. FLUKEll & COLLINS 'AVF. removed their DRUG STORE to one of L the tenements in McDonald’s building, on Mnl- f street, where they will keep constnntly on hand, A General Assortment of DRUGS, MEDICINES, PAINTS, - Jirgeons’ Instruments, Glass Ware, Dye Stuffs, &c. All of which will be sold on accommodating «■ IQ jan 2 DRUGS & MEDICINES. ELLIS, SHOTWELL ft CO. hrFER for sale, a large and general asssortmoent P of |«CGS. FAMILY and PATE XT MEDICINES, P of which being selected by competent judges, ore leredwith confidence to the public, at Savannah prl- ti, orleis. Merchants, Physicians, Planters and others le requested tn call and examine forthcniseh-es. I AI«o on hand a large supply of PAINTS, OILS, it ASS, DYE WOODS, DYE STUFFS, & e. Sea. IMstoa, May 19—30, MACON CLOTHING STORE. t. FITCH ff CO. MERCHANT TAILORS, EEP constantly for sale, at their store on Mul- k berry street, A General Assortment DRY GOODS READYMADE CLOTHING; ^th will b« sold ss low as can bo bought In Savnn- a or Augusta; and they solicit tlicpatronsge,vf their “ er friends end customers and the public at large. . . TAILORING nedon is usual. Having the latej Muons and Workmen, Customer* ml thelr work done r in thoh^jdl I uw! e rty,e ' wi, h neatness and.de |Ve re tumour thanks for pasttajors, fironsgeefthe publiefor the fuSTe. tdi'ir. 0,1 hand ' 200 Pieces of PAPER It? nuf? t * rns ' whicii will bo sold Old dibit must be paid. 1 »Ro\asses, Sv\ga\*| IRON, WHISKEY,! The subscriber expects by boats Corsair and American Eagle, and will sell very low, If taken irom the wharf, h? casks TUoraaston LIME W’RIIE subscribers have settled themselves perma- nently at Macon, Bibb County, Gto g t/ and have united their professional interests under the firm of FOLHILL & COLE. They will practice 1AW in Bibb and the adjacent Counties. Oncof them may always be fnmul in town, their office is in Chapman's piazza, next to Judge Strong’s, corner of Mulberry end Fourth streets. ID* Satisfactory references can be given. JOHN G. POLHILL, CARL ETON B. COLE. Macon, April 2 tf 24 The Georgia Patriot, Southern Recorder ami Journal of Milledgeville,Chronicle and Consfitntionalist of Au gusta, and the Savannah papers will give the above 2 or 3 insertions, and forward their accounts for settle* ment ' DISSOLUTION. PTRIIE Copartnership of Hervit & Catmn, has has been dissolved this day, by mutual consent. Monticello, Ga. June 1, 1827—3tp—34 DR. BUCHANAN H AS located himself in Macon; where he may be found as a PRACTITIONER of MEDI- CINE. jnn 31 14 _ Rhode Island Lottery. E IGHT Prizes of 1,000 Dollars—many of $900; $800; $700, &c.&c. Tickets $2; Halves $1; Quarters 50 cents—Drawing will be received 9th inst. Connecticut State Lottery. Highest Prizes $16,000; $5,000; $4,000; $3,000 &c. &c. Tickets $5; Halves $2 50; Quarters $125 —Drawing will be received 12th inst.—Apply at BEERS' OFFiqE. Augusta, June 5——33 AND , , DRUGS. F LTIKER & COLLINS, Macon, Georgia, have just received, and keep constantly on band, a general assortment of DRUGS, MEDICINES, OILS, PAINTS, &c. among which aro Acid Nitric Cream Tartar Graduated Mens* do Sulphuric Carbon. Ammo* ures , do Muriatic nia Glass furniture as’d do Tartaric Cinnamon Hellebore Black do Prussic Cretapnt do White Aqua Fortis Elastic Catheters Hartshorn Arrow Root do Bouges Indigo, Spanish Ailmn ' .Ergot India Rubber Alcohol Extract Liquorice Iceland Moss Arsenic do Cicuta Isinglass Antimony do Gentian Ipecac AnniS Seed do Henbane Iron Carb. Balsam Copaiva Ether Jalap do Peru Flowers Benzoin James’ Powders do Tola do Sutpb. Juniper Berries Borax, refined Fox Glove Lignum Uuassia Burgundy Pitch FlaxSacd Lint, Patent Blue Vitriol Fennel do Litharge Bole Armen Fowler’s Solution Logwood Calomel Ginger Root Mauna Flake Castor do Powder Mnco Cantbaridcs Gum Aloes Bladder Corrosive SubU* do Ammonia Magnesia Alb. mate do Arabic do Calc. Cassia do Assafcetida Musk Clove* • do Benzoin Mustard ' Cochineal do .Catechu Columbo do Guaiac. Camomile flowers do Gamboge CatAway Sped do Copal Coriander do Kino Cubebs do Myrrh Copperas do Opium Canelln Alba do Scammony Casearilla do, Shellac Cowhage do Tragacanth Court Piaster ' do Camphor CastorOil Gentian Caustic Lunar Glass Funnels do Common-do Mortars Ointment of Can- Snuffs tharides Saffron Ointment, BlercU- Sassaparilla rial Savin intment, Basil* Saunders Red | icon S.ilts, Glauber [ntment, Citron do Epsom ' t isRnshSlta 12$0 #*** SALT w Hogsheads Mip.'fllolasses d° Minta cruz Sugar •8SS** M barrels Whiskey CO do Gin and Rum 10 casks Rice 20 barrels FLOUR Holland GIN Jamaica RUM, fee. -IN STORE— xTAA Lbs. IRON German Steel 1000 bushels SALT 10 boxes Salts Castings 86 barrels Whiskey Brandy and Gin Superfine.Flour Brown Sugar * r htr-*CnflP Loaf do Hlids. Mola-ses Bags Coffee j Kegs Tobacco ] Kep "Powder •\ ceding Hoes, Soap, Ac. er,/'* 0 ,r0R SiLI, OS RZAtONAILZ TERMS-— lei, A nevi boat COftSMR, ted to carry from 6 to 700 bales cotton. *8*y7 RALPH KING. Mortars Si Pestles assorted Nutmegs Galls . Nux Vomica - > Orange Peel Oil 'Almonds do Amber, red. do Annisecd do Cinnamon do Caraway do Cloves l do Juniper do Lavender do Lemon do Origanum .do Pennyroyal .do Peppermint do Petroleum do Rosemary do Spear Mint do Turpentine do Worm Seed Tartar Emetic Turmeric Terebinth Vcnet UvaUrsi Valerian larley r, Black Long Peruvian Bark Pimento Pink Root Spirits Hartshorn Phials assorted Plaster Adhesive do Nitre Window G'oss do Uoborans do Turpentine Glue Precipitate, Red do Wine, rect. Ivory Black do Wjiite do Lavender Hair Powder ' Phosphorus Com. Drop Lake Quicksilver Sponge Rhubarb Sulpb. Roll Resh. Yellow Squills Sulph. Zinc Soap, Castile do Potash do Siiuving do Quinine do Windsor Starch Sulphurate Anti* Storex, Liquid Sweet Oil mony Sugar of Lead. Super Carb. Soda PAINTS, &c. Red Lead Rose Pink Drop Lake Chrome Yellow Tcredeseana Spanish Brown Umber Blue Smalts Vermillion Venetian Red Copal Varnish Kings Yellow Japan do French do -Verdigris Black Lead ■!Prussian Bbn Durable Ink Wafers Pill Slabs . Tooth Brushes SmellingBottlcs Sand Paper' Filtering do I^mp Black Rotten Stone Pomice do Lamp Oil ' slust Viccmod AT TOE MACON CLOTHING STORE, A New Supply of SUMMER GOODS W HICH are fresh and new, (direct from New- York, consisting of Circassians V White Drilling Brown and silk Drilling India Levantines Gross de Naples and (lorentine Silk* White, brown and black Linen White and black Cravat*- Bolivar Cravats Stocks and Stiffeners’ Yelvet Florentine ) Buffand white Marseilles “* > VESTING Do. do. Valencia, (a new article) ) Webb's patent Suspenders . Super Uuea Hose Half Hose Black silk do. Russian Belts * Galloons*' v . Gentlemen’s leghorn Hats Boys' do. do. Silk Untfarcllas Tailors’ Trimmings, &c. &e. READY MADE CLOTHING. Frock COAT8 and COATEES Cassimere PANTALOONS White and brown drill do. , White, striped and brown do. do, •Silk drill do. . White and brown linen • do, • Crape and silk camblet do. f Pongee and bombazine do. Circassian and denmnrk satin do. Tom and Jerry striped do. Blue nankin do. Bangup cord and common striped do. Duck 'Browsers, &c. Valencia VE TS Striped do. Buff and white marseilles do. Plain and striped florentined). /. Velvet and common do. Circassian JACKF.TS White and brown linen do. Striped do.. Fine linen and cotton SHIRTS Bforning Gowns, &c. &c. The above enumeration of GOODS and CLOTH ING is of the latest importation and lest quality, and will be sold low for cash. TAILORING Carried on as usual. Having the latest Spring Fash ions, customers may depend on having their work done with neatness and despatch. N. B. Those indebted to the Subscribers ore once more invited to call and settle the same. L. FITCH & Co. Maean, May 14. EVENTS OF THE WAR OF 1812, Between the United States and G. Britain. U1JU „, „ This war was undertaken in defence of the modorqChauncey. commerce of the United States with France _ May 29.—Attack on Sackett’s Harbor, by and Spam, their colonies, and otiier nations at Sir George Provost, who tv^s repulsed by Gen- war With Groat Britain, whoso cruisers, contra- era l Brown at tiio head of n small body of re- ry lo the law of nations, had plundered Amcri- gukrs and the neighboring militia. In this at- can vessels on the high seas, under pretended *■“ the British lost about 150; the Americans blockades of the ports of those nations and co- 156* Ionics, and had impressed American soamon Juno l.— 1 The United States’ frig t’o Ciiesa* from on board of them. It was undertaken Peake captured by the British frigate Sh-mooni in delence, likewise, of our newly settled fron- The Chesapeake had 47 killed, 99 wounded; tiers, whose inhabitants were rinilv m'lc,.,,,.! the.Shannon 27lcillefl. ss il.„ihi.i...i n MARINE AND FIRE INSURANCE. WTJHF. Marine and Fire Insurants Bank of the State w. / Georgia will effect Insurance upon. Dwelling Houses. Ware Houses, and Buildings in general, Mer chandize, Household Furniture, Ships in port and their Cargoes. Also—against loss or damage by Inland Navigation in any part of Georgia and^Marine risks generally. fir / Terms of Insurance will be favorable and all claims liberally and promptly adjusted. Persons residing in the country can hare Insurance effected by addressing the President or Cashier and giving a description of the property to be insured. JOSEPH CUMMING, President. William W. Baker. Cashier. DIRECTORS. Ilezekiah Lord, , George Hall, J. P. Henry,- Elias Bliss, Charles IV. Rockwell, Charles A. Higgins. April 9 24 . To the Vubllc. F ROM the extensive circulation given to a malici ous and unfounded report, in regard to the con cern of the Alacon Bank in the recent failure of a re spectable Merchant In this City,—end to prevent confidence in any other falsehoods which may issue from the samoorany other source,—1 deem it my du ty to state, that the Bank of Macon is not, nor has not, been interested in that or any other failure; that the discounted paper held by the Bank is considered undoubted, and will, it is believed, be paid at matu rity, that the holders of the bills may rest, with en tire confidence, on the ability of the Bank to meet promptly all demands which can come against it, (for which purpose they have now in the vaults more spe cie than the amount of their Capital, besides Georgia and United States’ Bank notes;) that the notes arc current in this City, and have-always been promptly redeemed by the Bank at Macon. . G. B. LAMAR, President of the Hank of Maeon. Augusta, Ga. 21 st May, 1827 31 LAND FOR SALE. THF. subscriber, offers for sale his PLANTATION in Twiggs county, lying nine mile*below.Macon, onthe Owb gee river, on which there is n good Duel- lit g House, Gin House, and other necessa ry buildings, and about 100 acres ofclesred land, nil in good repair, the place is known to be one of the most eligible situations for a Practising Physician, in this section of the country, and would be sold low and on accommodating terms; or exchanged for good Lands inlbo counties of Bibb or Houston. ROBERT COLLINS. Macon, May 14—tf—29 PATENT MEDICINES, &c. Buis. Honey Opodeldoc Worm Lozenees Bateman's Drops <iodfrcy*aCordielHenry’s Cal.Map. British Oil Seidlitz Powders Turlington* BaU’m Eli* Peppermint Soda do Lee's Pill* Eye Water Fancy Essences Antique Oil Itch Ointment Lip £alve Milk of Rose* Wash Ball* Pomatum Roll Cologne Water Stoughton’s Bitters Also, n number of other articles; all of which they will sell low on accommodating terms. May M tf gD o SCI. FAS. F n n«w and approved form, handsomely execu ted, for sale at this *f&oe. aprii 30 VALUABLE TOWN PROPERTY, ' TO RZ SOLO A BAROAIX. V, The Subscriber’s LOT and IMPROVE- MENTS on Walnut street, between the two principal Cotton Wore Houses, an eligible stand for business. The Im provements consist of a substantial two story House, the lower part fitted up as a dry goods and grocery Store; the upper part divided into four large Rooms with a Balcony, as a dwelling house; at tached are a comfortable Kitchen, Ntgiv Room., Sta bles, Chair House, &c.—For terms, which will be made easy, to a good purchaser, apply onthe premis es to C. A A. tl’GREGOR. march 26——22 5t * NOTICE. T^TINE months after date, application will be made J.M to the honorable the Interior Court ol Monroe County, when sitting for Ordinary purposes, for leave to sell the Real Estate of Elijah Curry, deceased,for the benefit of the heirs of said deceased. 8HELMAN DURHAM, Guardian. jan 17 19m NINE MONTHS AFTER DATE, 4 PPLICATION will be made to the honorable, tSe Court of Ordinary, of Twiggs county, for leave fo tell the Real Estate of Charles Thompson, late of said county, deceased—for the benefit of the heirs of said estate. MARY THOMPSON, April 30 9m 27 Guardian. HISTORIC. “ * lutuiauvu mum will! * ' *j*vim.uaui uumutVy ui llld Iglli. 'fK" arms, etc. to carry on their murderous warfare, poake, were wounded, the two latter mortally, strict. ' Juno C.—Generals Chandler and Wm lct —Boston Patriot. 1812.' Jiio gutmod, after capturing four batiorics, foil into an iiuibuscado, and only 150 men out of SQO escaped. May 27.—Fort Goorgo captured by die A- mericani, undor General Dearborn and Com- Juno 18.—The Congress of tho United States declared war against Great Britain. July 12.—Canada invaded by Gbn. Hull. July 17.—The garrison of Mackinaw, who were ignorant of the declaration of hostilities, captured by a party of British and .Indians. tt ^ *8—The frigate Constitution, captain Hull, on her passage from Chesapeake Bay to New York, escaped from an English ship of the line and five frigatos, which had chased her sixty hours. August 8.—Gen. Hull relinquished tho plan of investing Fort Malden, and returned to De troit with his army. August 9.—A detachment under Lieut. Col. Miller attacked near Brownstown, Michigan, by a superior body of British and Indians, the latter commanded by 'Fi’cumsch, and repulsed, after a sanguinary conflict, in which tho Ame ricans lost fifty-fivo men, and tho enemy up wards of ono hundred. August 16.—Gen. Hull surrendered the ar my under his command to the British General Brock as prisoners of war. For this ho was tried by a court martial, and sentenced to be shot; which sentence was remitted by Presi dent Madison, in consideration of his revolu tionary services and of his advanced ago. August 17.—British sloop of war Alert cap tured by the frigete Essex, Capt. Porter. August 19.—The Constitution captured the Guerriere, in lat.51 42, N. Ion. 55 48 W. afer an action of 45 minutes. Tho Guerrioro ’-s loss Was 78 killed, wounded, and missing; the Con stitution had 7 killed and 7 wounded. Sept. 12.—Fort Wayne relieved by General Harrison, after a defence of 9 days against a numerous Indian force. Sept. 14.—Two detachments from Fort \\ ayne destroyed the Potawatomio (Indian) towns at Elk Hart, and tho Miami towns at the forks, of the Wabash. Sept. 16.—Fort Harrison, which had been invested on the 3d Sept, by a large body of In dians under the Prophet, relieved by Colonel Russel. Oct, 13.—Battle of Queenstown Heights, in which the British Gen. Brock was killed, Tho Americans remained masters of tho field after thgeo successive attacks, but tho British were strongly reinforced, and mado a fourth attack, which would also havo been repulsed, had not twelve hundred American volunteers refused to embark to assist tho regulars, and remained inactive spectators of their defeat and capture. Oct. 18.—Tho British sloop Of war Frolic, of 22 guns, captured in lat. 37 N. Ion. 65 W. -v., by tho Unitod States’ sloop of war Wasp, of frigate P.. 18 guns, capt. Jacob Jones, after an action of an action 43 minutes, The Frolic had 30 killed and 50 Tire ” wounded. Tho Wasp Sjtillod and 5\vounded. "At Both vessels wore mueffdisabiledfcqnd were. <urc captured a fe\y hours after by the British4ev- coc 1 only-four Poictiers. . mSc ,»} m Oct, 26.—The Btitin frigate Maco^jwlsh, sloop of war Roin of 49 guns, capture®!! lagW*N. lonTYo 30 d8brcap«H|* bym. United States’ sloop of W. by the frigate UriitciUpffes, Capr. Deca- war Wnsffflftho Scilly Isles bearing west, dis* tur, of 44 guns. Tho enpmylost 104; tho U- tant about forty longues, iiited Suites 12. -> July 3.—Fort E.iu occupied by a garrison . , ..iuder surprised by tho British Geueral Vin-cot, at Stoney Creek. The. two Generals were cap* tured, but tho enemy wore repulsed with great slaughter, and about one hundred taken prison ers. The Americans lost about 154 killed, wounded and missing; Juno 18.—'Tho;ownofSodu«, in tbostatoof New York, destroyed by tho British. June 22.—The British nvido an attack with threo thousand tnon on Cnnoy Island, prepa ratory to one on Norfolk, Va. but were repuls ed by about 480 Virginia militia and 150 sail ors and marines. The invaders lost about 200 killed and wounded, aud 40 doseriers. Tho Americans did not lose a man. Juno 25.—The village of Humpirin', Virgi nia, sacked and destroyed after an obstinato defence. August 1,—Fort Stephenson, Lower San dusky, Ohio, invested by General Proctor wi li 500 regulars and 700 Indimix. r riio garrison of 160 men, under the bravo Major Croghan, succeeded in repulsing them with a loss on tho part of the British of ISO men. August 14.—The United States sloop of war Argus, Capt. Allen, captured by tho Bri tish sloop of war Pelican, in S.. George’s chan nel. The Argus lost 6 killed and 17 wounded, 5 mortally; among tho latter was Captain Al len. Sopt. 4.—British brig Boxer captured bv the United States brig Enterprise, off Mao- Login Island, Maine; Cap*. Barrows, of the Enterprizo, wns mortally wounded. Captain Blythe, of tho Boxer, was also slain, Sopt 10.—Bailie on Lake Erie. The Bri- tish squadron of 2 ships, 1 brig, 2 schooners and 1 sloop, under commodore Barclay, car rying 63 guns, wns captured by the American squadron, under Commodore Perry, consisting of 3 brigs, 5 schooners aud 1 sluop. carrvimr 51 guns. n j b Oct. 5.—Battlo of the Thames, in which 600 British regulars were captured and 1200 Indians put to flight, by a part of the Ameri can army, under General Harrison. In this action the famous Indian warrior Tecumsch was killed. December 10.—Fort George evacuated, and tho village of Newark burnt by Gen. M’Clurc, of tho Now Yuik militia, which was retaliated by tho British in tho destruction of Buffalo, Lowistown, Manchester, nlid Youngstown. 1814. Jan. 22.—Gen. Jackson .defeated the Creeks at Tallapoosa. March 27.—The frigate Essex, Capt. Por- tor, cajitured iieuc^ Valparaiso by the British ,v ’ ' ' * tp of war Cherub, after and twenty minutes.— Rpervier cap- trip of war Poa- 'Capc Carnave* i uu vuiii.i- vw. Hum, mi me AtBincin, tution had 9 killed and 25 wounded; the Java under Gen. Brown, in which the British wore 60 killed and 120 wounded. driven back to thoir fort whence they had mado 1813i f - a sortie. ‘ January 22.—General Winchester attacked J uly 25.—Battle of Niagara, or BridgoWa- at Frcnchtown, on tho Rivor Raisin, Michigan, ter, which commenced on an eminence near by a"British array of 2100 men, under Colonel Lundy’s Lano, where tho British had planted Procior and Tecumsch, and after u hard fought nine pieces of artillery. The cannon were battle, surrendered his forco, consisting of 522 taken after much hard fighting, and threo dos- mon; 812 having been killed,'wounded or dis- pernio attempts nude by the British to recov* persed. Tho British lost 24 killed and 158 or them wero gall unly repulsed. The act on wounded. A great number of.tho prisoners lasted from half past five in 'lie afternoon until taken in this battle, and especially the wound- midnight. When the battle commenced the ed wero loft by CoL Proctor to the mercy of British force umounted to about 1600 men, and his Indian allies, notwithstanding the promises the American to 570; but by continual roin- of protection, and the remonstrances of Cen. fitfceaiODta on both side., the wliolo Briii-h Winchester, Tho savages burnt tho houses in which some of them were placed, and finding that others wero unable to join thoir march, they set them up for te-gzlj,.shooting and scalp ing them.’ Among these unfortunate" Sen were Col. Allen, Captains Woodfolk, M'Cracken, Hickman, and Hart. ' Feb. 24.—Tire British brig Peacock sunk by tho Hornet, after an action of 15 minutes, off Deniarara. April 2?.—Capture of York, Upper Cana da, by the Americans, under Gen. Pike, who was mortally wounded, and 260 of bis inoa ei ther killed or wounded, by the explosion of a magazine of powder, fired by order of the British General Sheaffe. Fifty of tho British were also killed by thu explosion. May 3.—Havre de Gruco, hi Maryland, pillaged and burnt by admiral Cockbutn. May 9.—Geueral Proctor, with about 1400 troops aud ail immense body of Indians, with drew from before Fort Meigs, whore he had besieged the American garrison, under Gener al Harrison, for 13 days. A detachment of Kentuckians, uadsr Co). Dudley, sent to relieve force engaged amounted to 5180, and .ho A mcrican to 2417. Tho Bri ish lost 878 inun; the Americans 851. It was in this butle, that the brave Colonel Miller answered to the pro position of General Ripley, to carry the ene my's baiterv with the twenty-first regiment, "I'll try, sir." August 9.—The British attacked and bom barded Stoniugton, but wero repulsed on tha 11th. August 24.—Battle of Bladensburg, and capture of Wush.ngton City. The public buildings at Washington aud sexeral private liV'isos burnt, by order of admiral Coekburn; and tho navy yard, a new frigato, and a sloop of war, destroyed by prdar of tne United Suites’ government. Sept. 1.—British sloop of war'Avon, disa bled by the Wasp, in a night battle. Threo oilier vessels coming np, the. Wwp did not take possession of her prize, WMc^tumk soda after hercrew were taken cot bjbfcer compan ion,. ^ -*• '•••’ • Castine-taken by the British^ odtOcJalmed, aa thoir tsiaiory, that port of Mtm between