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Liverpool, 10th June, 1814.
Since our letter of the 16th u!t. impor
tant changes have taken place in regard
to Commerce. Intelligence has been re
ceived here, of a Bill having passed the
House of Ueprefcntatives repealing the
Embargo and Non-Importation Laws ;
End a report is circulated, and generally
credited, that Sir George Prevoft hits pro
posed an Armistice to your Government;
on the other hand, Admiral Cochrane’s or
der “to extend the blockade to ail the un-
UUckaded ports of the United States lias
appeared. Though these me a lures are of
a contrary character, they have concurred
in reducing the value of American pro
duce here, partitulaily Cotton; the repeal
of the reftridYive measures furnilhing op
portunities for fending it to Amelia
whillt the relaxation of your Government
and the propolal of Sir George, combined
with the expected negotiations at Ghent,
throw more doubts over the continuance
of tlie war, than were previoully enter
tained : the manufacturers, as well as ma
ny others, calculate upon peace.
We annex the present quotations of
produce : a great redutyon would take
place iu mod of them in the event of
peace ; but the nearer we approach to
that date, of the more importance it be
comes to notice the circumltances, which
will probably prevent any permanent de
cline in Cotton. A conliderable decline
tnay take place at firll, which will he gov
trued, both in its extent and duration, by
the quantity ready at the time to be lent
out of the United States. If a peace
happen fome months before the next crop
is ready, tlie market will, we are persuaded,
(bon recover, believing, as we do, that the
pr, l’At dock in America is not considera
ble ; we have heard it dated as low as
Co, ooobags: if it take place at a later
period, and the nextrrop Ihould be large,
tlie decline tmry lie greater and lad long
er. The whole quedion necessarily reds
upon the relation, which may exist be
tw.en the demand and the supply. When
the demand for Goods and I'wisl is good,
and the supplies and prices arc regular, the
Hock of the mamifafturing didriids in this
neighborhood is est inflated to he ufirally
from 60 a 70,000 bags ; that of this place
from 80 a 100,000; t present the for.
jner is computed not to exceed 20,000,
and the lat'er not 40,000 bags. The
supplies expended during the remainder of
this year front all quarters, including
15, ocio bags from the United States, which
It is iupposed may arrive via. Amelia, are
calculated not to exceed 110,000 bags, of
Which tlie principal part will not weigh
tbnve 160 a 170 lbs. In admitting they
will amount to this, we are making the
*hoie year’s supply exceed that of 1813,
£7,000 bags, and of 18*1 and 1812,
30,000 bags. For fome time pad the de-.
mand for goods has been very dull, and the
manufacturers lu\e been luting at the pri-
Ces they have paid for the raw article, jet
the files of this place for tlie lad seventeen
weeks under every discouragement, aver
age 3500 bales per week ; when the trade
good, tlie fairs amount to nearly 6000
bags pel week. The above supply, how
ever, will only jud k ep pace with this di
mmidied coniuioption, and at the end of
the yrar the docks will not have received
*ny increase by importation ; whild,
s\ifor a long time pall, the docks of
the muiufaCYirng diftriiils will be grad
ually becoming less, though already so
much reduced. -Un this edimate wejiave
made no allowance for an export demand
for tlip raw article, though iu the lad
three weeks 5000 hags have been actually
exported from London, and 1000 were
brought here yederday for that purpose;
nos from the supplies have we deducted
any thing that may be fait dirrd to the
Continent from the Brazils, Spanilh Anu-r
----ica, Demcara, Btjbice, Surinam, and St.
Domingo, but have adumed that the whole
will come to this country', though we
might feiurely makt a deduction of fome
amount for what will thus receive ano
ther dellination. At the end of the year
therefore, tlitre is every proQx ct that the
docks in this country will be reduced
much lower th.iti tliey are at present ; and
ihould tlie demand for goods, &c. improve,
and the tales amount as formerly to 4500
or 6000 hags per week, there may be !
fcarct ly any Cotton left. So tar we are
supposing tlie continuance of the blockade
ol American ports: fliouid it be railed,
and a free export from America allowed,
either in conf luence of an armistice, or a
peace, a conliderable part of the cotton j
would be wanted for your mamitaftories,
and part would be lent to France and other 1
countries, and the remainder, which would
come to her, would not be fufficienr till
next crop to counterbalance tlie increased
demand that would bp cleared for it litre, ;
on the opening of Anieric-n m abets to
Britilh manufactures. The regular de
mand tor British Cotton Gooes on tlie
Continent, when the piefent (hgnation,
cauled bv circuinlWmces adverted to in our
lail, ceases, will of itfelf conliderably in
crease tlie consumption of Cotton, and
when joined to an American demand, mult
caule a continuance of this fcaicity, till a
more extensive cultivation of the article
in America, th in has exifled for the last ,
three years, reftnres'the equilibrium be
tween tlie commmption ana the supply.
In this view we have not c dculated upon
receiving any quantity from tlie Ealt-In
dies: the trials made by the Company
have been unfuccefsfol, and the lad fleet
did not and that prrereding on- *
ly ’SOO bags. Since we lad wrote, the
importation of.Britiih'Cotton m.unit.niture j
iuw trance has btxu prohibited. It Ms
- ’ . . -irf £
caufedmuchdisappoiiitnient,asthe firft reg- J
ulatioiis of the new Government permit
ted iu In the definitive treaty however .
which has been ligned, it is pointeJly dat
ed to be the intention of both Govern- i
meins reciprocally to adopt immediately
such Commercial arrangements as may ‘
suit tlie mtereds of each nation; and
Iwyice it is expected that a Commercial
Treaty is on the tapis, and that, like that of
1786, it will dipulate for the admiflimof
Cotton Goods,-under such a duty as may
protect the French, without excluding the
British manufacture. If this expectation
is realized, the demand for the raw arti- j
cle in this country will be materially in
creased by it. At present the imports- 1
tion of Cotton by neutrals, as you will
doubtless recollect, is permitted by the
43d,Geo. 111. chap. 153 puffedoll the !2t!i
Augull, 1803, until lix months after the
ratification of a definitive treaty of peace.
If this act be not renewed, it may become
a quedion, whether the importation be le
gal after the expiration of lix mouths, it
certainly did nut contemplate an Ameri
can war, and a conltruciion that w ll in
clude it will depend upon the di polition
exiding at tlie time. The affu.nption by
Ferdinand of the old practices of the j
Spanilh Monarchy may also lead to an
immediate enforcement of tnr Colonial
Svfteni, which would conliderably impede,
if not entirely put an end to the traue by ‘
Neutrals.
The Bill for the regulation of the iin- 1
portalion us Lorn has been thrown oi*t* r nf
the House of Commons, and cannot Je
brought torward agaurtill tl\e next
of Parliament. There pi maps never were |
so many petitions prelented agamfl any
me.iurt ; but being a favorite one of land
ed iutcre’d, it will, it is expected, be at- :
tempted again in fome form. A Bill to
allow the free export of Corn was moved
for leparatcly, ana will be doubtkTs carri
ed, bung the only alteration that will
t ,ke place this lelfion. The prices are
liich a. Bill to allow the importation, and |
there have been several arrivals t!iis week
from the lower ports of the Baltic.
Coffee has improved, but it is very dull
in the Continental markets, and heavy |
supplies of it and Sugar are Ihortly expedf- 1
td, when a fuitlier reduction of the latter’
is looked for.
PRICES.
Colton, Sta-f<!*<?, 3’ 3/ a 3/ lid peril.
Mew-Orleanj, *3025
i Ten no tee, none
Up/ind. t 1 at 1
Tehacco, jame 1 River o 7 a 2 o
Tot muc„ o 7 a > 9
Rapcahunnoe, O 7 a 1 o
Maryland, o 7 a 1 3
fine Yellow do, .1 (rat o
Stemmed, t oat 8
Turpentine,#</od, *6 • a 28 o per curt.
Quercitron, aoo o a 00
Rice, r ew, > - ,
o/ t > .56 * aSB o per cwt.
Duty on Rice — 201 o 1-38 per ewe.
THE SINKING FUND.
From a London Paper.
Whatever claims may be laid by others •
to the original principle on which the pre
sent Sinking Fund waseltablifhed; whatev
er pther nearly similar fvßems may have
been propoled, it is impolfibie to deny to j
Mr, Pitt, at lead tlx great and venerable i
merit of having analysed, selected and a
dopted nearly all the bed features of the
many different plans which had, at various
times, been lubinittcd to his or to tlie pub
lic judgment, by their several authors.
And whatever objections maj be bro’t
in argument againd the beneficial effects of !
a Sinking Fund, by tliofe who aflert that
it is of no avail, whild we are borrowing
with one hand to liquidate with the other,
they mud he wretched calculators, misera
ble arithmeticians, who edimate on such
mid iken principles, as not to didinguilh
that the sum borrowed is at simple intered
only, whild the linking Fund is opeiating
at a compound rate againd it.
To make this obvious, it is only fieceffa
ry to date thecafe of a nation; which ow.
ing a capital dock debt of lix hundred mil
lions iu different funds; and poUelfing a
Sinking Fund of fifteen millions pt r annum,
is plunged into a war, which lhall lad four
teen years, and lhall exceed in exptnfc the
public income bv so muchasniay render it
lieceffafy to borrow orraife in fome extra
ordinary inode, a like annual sum of fif
teen millions during the whole term of
warfare. We will like'yife afliime that
the three per cents, are at an average price
of sixty during tjie whole term; that the
rate of intered is also averaged at five per 1
cent, on money ; and that every part of 1
the debt already in exidence, or to be cre
ated during the war, is accompanied bv a
Sinking Fund of one third of the rate of
intered.
It is clear that, under these affumptinns,
the legillature of a country so lituated, has
an option of either applying their exiding
Sinking Fund to make up the deficit, and
thereby tqualifing the income and the ex
penditure; or of continuing tlie invariable
appropriation of the Sinking Fund, as ori
ginally intended, to redeem the exiding
debt, and borrowing annual loans to the
fame amount. At fird light it may appear
the tame thing, but in the eye of the po
litical arithmetician, there will be a strik
ing difference. The total sum to be paid
for annual loans, intered, and finking fund ,
to accompany them, at tlie rates above
mentioned, will Ik three hundred and fif
ties millions; that is to lay, fourteen an
nual loans of fifteen millions each, amount
ing together to two hundred and ten mil
lions; and one million per annum lor in
tered and linking fund on each loan for the
different terms, increasing progrelfively
from one„to fourteen years, making one
hundrrd and five millions more; or, as a
bove dated, a total of three hundred and I
fifteen uidlwut; wluvb wval would mfo |
be the sum, the railing of which, either by
loans or taxes, would be avoided by tlie
diverlion of the Sinking Fund. At what
expense that foving would be made will
loon be seen by adverting to the operations
of this fund, if not turned alide from its
proper channel. It is proper here, howev
er, to observe, that the two hundred and
ten millions borrowed, if inveded in tbree
per cents, at sixty, will have created an
additional dock debt of three hundred and
fit'cy millions, at which lad mentioned rate,
credit is accordingly given for it in the fub
ftqurnt part of this companion.
A Sinking Fund ot fifteen millions per
annum, ifiued quarterly, to the persons ap
pointed to superintend the liquidation of
the National Debt, and purchaling three
ptr ceuts. at sixty,. would, every quarter
of a year, make an accumulation equal to
one-c>ghtieth part of its lad quarterly ag
gregate, in addition to the tiiree millions
and a quarter dfued as the fourth part of
the original fifteen millions: the combin
ed effects ot all which, at quarterly com
pound intered, will, at the'end of 14 years
am unit- to a.total redemption of five hun
dred and eight millions of three per cents.
In addition to which, we mud also take
tlie effect of the fatre operation on that
part of tlie annual charge of one million,
that is to lay, one fourth part thereof,
which is appropriated to t|e redemption *of
the new loans, and which mud be added
hcie to the general linking fund, as the
whole ot thole loans and their accompany
ing charges are placed againd it oil the
oilier fide of this comparative datement.—-
This lad being a quarterly lffue of lixty
two thou land and five hundred pounds up
on each loan, with its corresponding accu
mulation ot one-eightieth part to the ag
gregate of every preceding quarter, will,
on the fame principle, have redeemed fifty
fix millions more in the fourteen years; at
the end of which, the whole redemption
will amount to about five hundred and iix
tj-iour millions of three per cents, by
which sum the capital of the National
Debt will have been reduced.
Ihe gain to the public, in either case,
may, therefore, be thus dated: if the fink
ing fund he applied to the service of the
year, the capital dock debt will remain
Ration ary at lix hundred millions, as at the
commencement of the war, neither being
iifcreafed nor dmiinilhcd. So also will
tlie finking fund at fifteen millions, and no
njew taxes will be nectlTary during the
vfliole period.
I If, on the contrary, the finking fund be
continued to its original appropriation, two
bJndred millions mud be railed by loans,
a id consequently the capital of the nation
aldebt increased by lo much; which in-
in tiiree percents, atlixty, willcre
atf an addition of three hundred and fifty
millions of dock Capital, and one million of
neW taxes mild be railed every year for
eaih foccelfive loan, arising to fourteen
millions in the whole; and amounting to
ons hundred and five millions paid by the
public during tlie whole period: the ability
to (Jo which inuft always lie a main point for
coiifideration in toe decision ofthe govern
ment. I’liefe are the dilad vantages ot the
funding fydem ; to counterbalance which
are a redemption of five hundred and lix
ty-four millions of drock—thereby leaving
the unredeemed dock debt at only J three
hundred and eighty fix millions at the ter
mination of the war; and therefore less by
two hundred and fourteen millions than it
was at tlie commmcement of fourteen
years of war expenditure. And the fink
ing fund, which, at the beginning of the
period, was onl v fit teen millions per annum,
is now increased to thirtr-five millions, or
more than doubled. This augmented fund
will now be at the option of the legiflx
ture ; either to apply the whole to tlie ex
tinction of the remaining debt, which it
will effect in iomething less than nine
years, at five per cent, not quite nine and
an lialf at lour per cent, or about nine
andtlireeqiiarters .it three per cent, or
they may relieve the public at onre from
thirty millions of taxes, by reducing the
finking fund to five millions; which will,
extinguilh the remaining debt in something
less than 33 years at five per cent, in 36
years at four per rent, and in about 41
years at three per cen% Or they miy
take any intermediate point in the scale
which may be mod suitable to theexilling
circumltances and future profpt &sos tlie
kingdom.
Upon this comparative fiatement, and I
am certain that it is both a clear and a cor
rect one, of the counterbalancing circum
ltances of tlie two fyllems, it is evident
how greatly the comparison is in favor of
the invariable application of the finking
fund to its original purpoft; always as
suming, however, the ability of the nation
to iurnifl) the nectlTary means foi continu
ing such a fyltem. YVe have, fortunately,
the power of producing practical proof of
Inch ability by bringing the case home yo
this country, where the exertions have
been fb much greater, and continued for a
period so much longer, than tliofe already
Bated. And where, during a warfare of
more than twenty years, far exceeding in
expense every limit that has been touched
upon in the preceding fiatement, the means
for furnilhing these extraordinary expen
ditures has been invariably provided up to
the lafi year, without any interruption
whatever to the rapidly increasing opera
tions of the Sinking Fund; which in one
year (1808) a&ually exceeded in redemp
tion by upwards of one million tlie addi
tional debt created in that year.
| 600 Millions at the commencement,
130 Ditto New Stock created.
450 Ditto ‘• oral Debt.
364 Ditto Redeemed during war.
38s Ditto Remaining unredeemed.
214 Ditto Left at termination than at com.
picuctmuit* |
NEW-YORK, Aug. 22.
The Works on Brooklyn and Har
lem Heights, are progressing with a ra
pidity which has no example in our bifto
ry, and in a very few days will be com
pleted. The “ Patriot Sons of Erin,” to
the number of 1200, gave their day’s Cer
vices on Saturday. Our readers will per
ceive, from the great number of notices
publilhed. daily, that the fire which has
been kindled on the alter of Patriotilm
Continues to burn with undiniinifhed luftre.
On Saturday afternoon several uniform
companies of the 4000 dratted militia
crossed the Eafi River in the fieam boat
Nassau, and encamped near the Fort 011
Brooklyn Heights. On their arrival they
were met by the “ Patriot Sons of Erin,”
returning from tour of voluntary du
ty, who received with hearty cheers this
fine-looking body of yeoman icldiery.
Not lels than from 8 to 10,000 soldiers
and tailors are encamped in the works e
retted for our defence ; and upwards ot
20,000 more are ready to co-operate Ihould
their services be required. New-York is
riling in the majefiy of her greatness, and
may bid a proud defiance to any power of
the enemy.
MORE TROOPS ARRIVED.
Yesterday afternoon, five Hoops came
down the North River full of Yeoman
Soldiers, and proceeded to the Navy-Yard,
where they debarked and marched to the
encampment near Fort Green, Brooklyn
Heights.
We underfiand from good authority,
that orders were lent several days finte, to
our commanding officer at Buffalo, to call
out all the militia between that place and
Utica; if he Ihould deem it neccffaiy.
CoNOHEVE Rockets.—These rockets, j
about which so much has been laid, and :
which are certainly calculated to do a great
deal of injury, have been found to be not
quite so difficult of composition as was at
firll imagined. Some of these rockets calf
on the banks of the Patuxent, have been
found and decomposed ; and their compo
nent parts al’certained by a medical gentle
man at the Navy-Yard of this city, to be
nitre, fulphur, turpentine, and antimony.
Fie has formed iome ot this composition
which upon expei iment, is found to burn
with as much cohltaucy and violence as
the real Congreve. Should government
be dii’pofed to adapt these infiruments of
defiru&ion, they can have all the appara
tus and matter prepared by gentlemen in
the neighborhood of the Navy-Yard; and >
as thev are calculated to do great inis- ;
chief to fleets, &c. we hope the iubjeil !
will be taken into confuTration.
[Petersburg Intel .
Ey Tuesday’s Mail.
RICHMOND, (Va.) Augufi 31.
Capitulation of Fort Warburton and
Alexandria. j
We had fome hopes that the dilgrace
of our country would cease with the disas
ters at Waihington.—But the cup was
not yet full. Fort Warburton was ‘‘rffi
gracefully surrendered” and Alexandria
at discretion” to the Britilh lquadron
that went up the Poioniac—-and after the
British forces had rt treated from the City
of Waihington. The dil'grace of these j
lafi tranfadtions, opens a-lielh the wounds
of every pure American bosom.
That a tore, which wasguaided by fome
of tlie fineft artillery in the world, and
guarding the city of Waihington on the
Water’s fide, Ihould have llmck the Ameri
can flag in disgrace, is one ot those events
which we could not have supposed it polfi.
ble to happen after the infamous surrender
of Detroit, it is ulelefs to conceal the
truth—it is idle to expeft to carry on a
war by rose-water—-where cowardice or
treat heir ltrikes the flag of the nation, the
matter must be proved, and examples, must
beset. If Hull had been consigned to the
fate which the court-martial in its jufiice
had awarded him, we Ihould not perhaps
have had occalion to blufli for the disgrace
at Warburton. The offender mult answer
for such conduifl with his head.
In wlrat terms can weexprefs our indig
nation against the condu& of tlie citizens
of Alexandria ? ‘Franks be to Almighty
Godl that this degraded town no longer
forms a pari of the state of Virginia /
We would scorn to live in the fame fiate
with men who would stoop to kiss the feet
of a Britilh officer, and throw theinfelves
upon his diferetion :—To beg their lioufes
at his hand*, to solicit the mercy of the
enemy, is such a meanness that none but
men deeply contaminated by Britilh Influ
ence would have endured. Let the ene
my have come ; let hint have glutted his
cupidity by seizing every thing he could
lay his hands on; but let n# American
compromise for tlie falvatlon of his lioufes
by the lacrifice ot heuor. If they were
unable to have made any effectual resist
ance, they mufi submit—but they might
at lead have said, “ Thou must take rt if
thou choofeft; but 1 will not give it unto
thee. We will enter into no compromile
with the enemies of our country.” How
contemptible does the Committee of Vig
ilance of Alexandria stand in comparison
with the inflexible and brave men of Ston
nington!
Sooner than fee this city submit to Ihsre
the fate of Alexandria, we would fee it
wrapt in flames. No, fellow citizens, lull
not yourselves to fleepbv the idea that the
enemy would spare your private property,
if you were cowardly enough to surrender
the city. If any man be paralizedby this
reflexion, let him be allured he is mistaken.
I am sure you are all with few, very few
exceptions indeed, devoted to this coun
try—that you would bravely fight and
bravely die in her defence; that you would
not lacrifice her honor to prclerve your
houfe*. But if any of you werefo depos
ed, the brave yeomanry, whom we lee a
round us, would not permit it.
Though they may not own one inch of
land in this, they have a stake here, as fa.
cred as you have. This land is a part of
Virginia—here is theircapital: on tnema
jeftic pillars of the State-house, their pride,
thtir liberty, their honor rest. Should we
be disposed to abandon tlie temple, they
will not permit it. We call upon them to
recolltcl tlie holy caule, which brings
them hither—that it is not r cr lioufts,
our private property, which draw them
hither, so much as the honor and fafety of
the lute.— If any of fliouid be disposed
to compromile our country for ourproper
ty, tlie ions ofthe foil will not pernfit the
dilgrace.— l’hey will guard the chsf-ackr
of the State, though it fliouid lay this city
in allies. They will meet the enemy at
die beach; they will llruggle til) the lali;
and if any chance of futceis remains, they
will even then, fight him from street to
street; raiie breatt-works of Cotton and
Tobacco; and never yield the corned,un
til every effort proves unavailing.—The
enemy may bum our city for this pertina
cious oppolition—but the fate of war ni.iy
require us to rifle the conicquence. YVe
may fail, though we have no fears of it—.
| but if we do, we may lay with Francis the
First; “ Every thing is 101 l but our honor.”
At lead it will be said, “These have not
lhared the disgrace of Alexandria.”
Alexandria, Augufi 26.
“The Britilh army are dill in VVafhing
ton. On YVednefday it attacked our army
at Bladenlburg, defeated it and took the
artillery. On the evening of that day it
took pofftlfion of the city . At BP. M.
the navy-yayd was set on fire by order ot
our government. At 9 the Britilh fired
tlie Capital, and at midnight the Prelidtnt’s
house. Yesterday the magazine exploded,
and Foxall’s foutidary was deilroyed, ei
tner by our fide or the other. The great
bridge was set on fire at one end by our peo
ple, and the mher was blown up by them.
Our army havt retired into Montgomery
county, Maryland, adjoin.ng the Dillrict,
where the militia are marching trom all
diiedious. It is said the Britilh army are
endeavoring to draw on an action, and for
that purpose, evince an intention of ad
vancing from the city. Private property
has hitherto been relpe&td, and the mod
rigid dicipline observed. The enemy can
not now crol's the Potomac, lo tar we are
pretty fafe, but there are fix frigates com
ing up, and we have every tiling to appre
hend from the plundering fyltem
have pursued elfewhtre. The militia at
Bladenlburg behaved ihamefuHy, with the
excepti nos the Baltimore cav-lr/ and
fome fine regiments, and the artillery un
der Barney, who was wounded. This bat
tle Ihovved our men an example difficult
to be imitated. 1 lie Bntifh marched up
to the cannon’s mouth with fixed bayonets
and measured dtp, although every difeharge
made complete lanes through them. 1 lity
fired not a’nnriket. What have we not
to dread from this state of difeiphne, w hen
contralted with ours ? The enemy w
hear amount to 11,000, commanded by
major, gen. Ross. Admiral Cockburn
was with him, and 1500 teamen. Lord
Fiili is not arrived but expected.”
TO THE GOVERNOR.
1 Extraci of a letter jrom\Dumfries, da*
ted litb August.
i “The adtion near Bladenlburg lafled
only a few minutes—when the militia rtm,
and the enemy, without firing a gun, mov
ed up and took poflelfion of the 4 pieces
of artillery under command of that excel
lent officer, Barney, who difeharged them
several times btfore they were taken : he
is said to be wounded and a pri font r.—•
Tire only troops that made any resistance
were thpfe under Barney, and a company
from Georgetown,— l’he Navy-Yard was
burnt by order of the Secretary of the. Na
vy.—'The Capitol and War-Office were
destroyed—a private house was dtftroyed ;
the reason afligned was, that two of their
• men were killed and two wounded, and the
j 1101 fe of Gen. Hols killed under him by
I persons firing from the house. Gen. Win
der retreated thro’ the city and George
town, and has taken a pofuion on tlie high
bank of that place—our loss about 50, the
enemy about the fame.
| “ The main body of the enemy, after
arriving near the city fell back upon Bla
| denlbug. The Mayor of George town
| was informed, that their orders were not
. to injure private property —that it” vvjould
be refpefttd, as would the persons of indi
viduals not in arms, uplefs they were fired
on from private houses.”
j ExtraS l from a letter , from the *ame,
same date, at Occoquatn.
j “A trooper who left YVaftiington Jail
evening, informs me, that the Enemy have
j left the City—that the capitol is not blown
; up, but injured much in the columns and
1 cornice* The Prelident’s house greatly
j injured—the walls, however, are (lauding*
Fie adds, the Prelident returned to YVflh
ington lafi evening. Alexandria furreu
dered to the squadron in the Potomac.—
The trooper also informed me, that Col,
Leval took 150 of the enemy on their re
treat—he law sor fix of the piifoners.**
”
To the Editor of the Enquirer—dated
“ On the march to Alexandria 1
or the city , Aug. 28, 1814. |
“ Col. Green this moment writes from Al*
exandria, 9 o’clock, a. m. that the Tour*
had surrendered at diferetion : that the tnf
my were above the Fort, which had lliam^
; fully surrendered : that die enemv had
; evacuated tire cty ; am! ft-neral Winder*
j under the itrpHfiton tti;,; Jet y.„.c for