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Debt, Commissions for Interrogatories, Warrants of Appraisement, ’ Marriage Licences, &c. &e. B.T Any kind of Blanks can be furnished at short notice. April, 181 L WEDDED LOVE. The following lines are inexpressibly lender. They arc addressed to a young wife to her des ponding htisba ;.l: Come, rouse il.ee, dearest! ’tienot well To let thy spirit brood Thus darkly o’er the c.ue.-s that swell Liu’s current to a Hood ; As brooks and torrents, rive -, all Increase the gulf in which they fall; Guch thoughts, by ga'b’ring up tbe rills Os lessor grief, spread real ills ; And, with lhe> gloomy h ides, conceal The landmarks hope would still reveal. Crnic, rouse dice low I 1 know thy mu and, And would its strength awaken , ; Proud, gifted, noble, ardent, kind— Strange thou should':.', be thus shaken! ■ But rouse afresh c.n h energy, ! And he wo it Heaven intended thee ; t'hiow from t ; v thoughts this we iy oo ■/> , j And prove thy spirit lirmly great, ii ould net ......... below The angry storms of earthly wo. Fell woil 1 know thy generous sou!, Winch warms thee into iife ; Each spring which can iis powers control, Familiar to thy wife : For deern’st thou she could stoop to bind Her fate unto a common mind ! The Eagle-like ambition, nurse I I From childhood in her he :rt, had first Consumed with its Promethean llame The shrine that sunk her so to shame. Then rouse thee, dearest, from the dream That fetters now thy powers ! Shake ft't hi.; gloom ! Hope sheds a beam To gild each cloud that lowers ; And though, at pro.-cin, seems so far The wished-for goal, the guiding star With peaceful ray would light thee on, Until its bound be won ; That quenchless ray, then’ll eve r prove, A fond, undying Wedded Love! IIIST A Li. From the Knickerbocker, for July. THE BATTLE OF NEW-ORLEANS. The English had determined at tin early period to obtain possession ofNew Orleans, and their Danish descents in the Chesa peake were merely feints to divert attention from the main object. The plan was ex cellent. A defenceless coast, an unforti ti:d town ; a total want of munitions of all I kinds ; disaffected negro slaves ; a populu ! tion halfFiencli, and half Spanish ; every circumstance seemed favorable ; and they already exulted, when considering tho val ue of the prize which was to be obtained so easily. The great market of the Missis j sippi vV Ohio va!i< _v .s u a ; within their rt aeh; I and animated by their success at Washing : ton, they regarded the expedition rather as ’ a promenade militaire, in quest of “beauty and booty,” than as an invasion in which plunder was to be bought with blood. Ru mors of their intentions had already reached Louisiana, and excited much alarm and a shiftless desire to do something for and fence. Lafittr, the smuggler, whom the British attempted to buy over, warned the authorities repeatedly of the approaching danger ; and though a foreigner, a pirate, and an outlaw, offered to servo with all his band against tho enemies of America.— Vet little was accomplished ; the govern ment, as remiss here as eh- where, had pro vided neither arms nor ammunition. K ver, a frigate of small draft, and stim and , tin i!> :ui> tl. a'. . . maim and unfinish il, despite tho earnest solicitation of Commo dore Patterson. Nothin:, was ready ex cept the General— Andrew Jackson. Ills military talents were fully equal to tho oc casion. In various expeditions against the Creeks, he had already evinced that iron energy, indomitable perseverance, and ceaseless activity, so necessary to a com manding officer. lie was the general for an emergency. Not one of the wavering, but a man who would keep his ob ject us steadily before him, as the mariner his port, and trample down and crush without re morse whomever barred the path. A char acter indispensable in a chief, for in war especially, success is the only thing worth consideration. On the 2d of December, 1814, General Jackson arrived in Ncw-Orleans, on his re turn from Pensacola. The city was in great confusion. Committees of all kinds were disputing, quarrelling, and more de sirous to fight each other than tho enemy. • His appearance restored tranquility, for lie had that strength about him on which men in danger willingly rely. The General lost no time in tardy deliberations. Mar tial law was proclaimed ; the writ of habe as corpus suspended ; free men of color I and prisoners enrolled; the Baratarians welcomed to the ranks ; and every point which ho thought menaced by tho attack, visited and fortified. On the 14th, news came of the capture of the six gun-boats, on lake Borgue, the only protection of the coast in the absence of the unfinished frig ate. The invaders were at the door, and men knew that the hour of trial had ar rived. ’ Some ragged fishermen, wl;n earned a WASHINGTON, (WIVjKUS COUNTY, OA.O AUCHJNT 5, ISB i. j miserable livelihood on tho shores of the 1 lake, went over to the British, and advised j them to land at the Bayou Catalina, one of \ the thousand creeks which intersect the j swamps of Louisiana. The Bayou was well olios n, for the Mississippi at this point was not more than six miles distant from the lake. On the 10th of December the army was conveyed in boats to Pine Island ‘a miserable swamp not only devoid ot all human habitations, but bare oven of trees and shrubs.’* On this waste they rc j maim and five days, suffering all the hard ! ships ofan exposure to cold and rain. Ma jny of tho black troops, unaccustomed to ! change of climate, fell asleep beside their i fires, and expired. On the 22d,the avant i guard, consist ng of sixteen hundred im n, I under th< command of General Keane, was ; | rc-embarlsed, and rowed to the Bayou, a j distance of sixty miles, without even an aw- j uing to protect them aglll.nst the show erst which fell during the night. Bouity comlort was forgotton it) the certainty of success; and when the boats took the ground under the high roi d-covcred banks of tile Bayou, the troops leaped ashore with alacrity, and pushed forward through the j swamp, where the cypress and tho conquer- j er':; Intis I grew side bv side in bound! ■■ j j-. music;., to Villeivs plantation, on the j j 1, ft bat'l; of the Mi: i.-sippi. • litis ittr every tiling bad gol'iO ‘... 11.— j A quick march of ton miles over a level road would have placed the prize within j their grasp. Col. Tho: ntoii, the second in command, earn: ally press’ and an immediate j advance ; sixteen hundred men, lie main ! tallied, were fully adequate to the task of j surprising an unfortified city : and no time I was to be lost in delays, fur tho escape of j several prisoners would soon announce their arrival to the Americans, and prepare them | for defence. Gen. Keane, however, thought | it safer to wait for the second detachment, I and to reserve the advance for the next day. ; Consequently the order was passed bivou i ac. ‘I he troops in high spirits, piled their j arms, lighted their fires, and dispersed in r .-rkftih cf Provisions, fully impressed that j “as tho Americans had never fiA dared to attack, there was no great probability oi their doing so on the present occasion/ The following proclamation was posted in different places along ihe high road : “Louisianians !—remain quiet in your houses: your slaves shall be preserved to you, and your property respected. We make war only against Americans.” All other hostile demonstrations were reserved for the morrow. One Roy, who had contrived to escape from the English, arrived in New Orleans at noon of the same day, and announced the disembarkation of the troops. General Jackson immediately despatched a party to reconnoitre the enemy. Before two hours had elapsed, the scouts came in, a night at tack was planned, and orders issued to ihe corps who were to take part in it. The armed schooner, Caioliue, was directed to drop down the river, and to take up a posi tion abreast of the enemy’s camp. About seven o’clock the Carolina came leisurely to an anchor before the levee. So great was ilia security of the British that th< y were gathered in crowds upon the bank, watt king with an idle curiosity the manceu vers of the vessel, which they took for an ordinary coaster. Sudd nly the trumpet was heard from her decks:—“Give them this, for the honor of America !”—and th darkness of the winter ov ning was lighted up by the flash of her broadside, as she poured a shower of grape, anil round shot among the astonished Englishmen. More than one hundred were killed before they recovered from their panic. The sur vivors crouched behind the levee for pro tection ; and here they lay an hour, listen ing in silence “to the battering of grape shot among their huts, and to the shrieks and groans of those who lay woundr and Ic- A discharge from the picquets on the light summoud them from their shelter.— Two thousand Americans, led on by Gen. Jackson, in person, liau forced th ir way into ill. camp, and were bearing all before them. In the obscurity of the night, the ranks were broken ; Americans and Eng lish mingled tog’ tlior, legit qne drum rir. Everyman fought for himself alone, as in the old Homeric conflicts. Musket and pistol were laid aside for sword and bayo net, and the western rifle wielded with both hands like a war-club. After two hours of tuu and fighting, the English were rein forced by the second detachment from the ships and succeeded in beating oft* th ■ at tack. General Jackson withdrew his men anJ the enemy retreated once more to the welcome shelter of the levee. In this af fair the British lost four hundred in killed wounded, and taken ; the Americans two hundred and fifty. Theprisonerscaptured by Keane, consisted almost entirely of law yers. The members of the bar ofNew Or leans had enrolled themselves in a volun teer corps; and accompanied General Jackson in this expedition. They were entrapped by the English and seized to a man. Jackson’s measures were as well plan ned as prompt ; and the employment of the j schooner in particular, merits all praise.— j This vessel alone kept the enemy chained j to their position for three days. During this all precious interval, the famous em bankment of cotton bales on Rodriguez Ca na! was commenced, which was destined twice to foil every effort of the invaders, •Subaltern in America. f British Officer. British Officer. 1 1> U B LI S fi EI) EVE R V TIIU RSD A V MORN 1X G . and to give tho death blow to all their hopes j of conquest. The whole of the next day the British re mained beneath the hank, suffering the ex tremes of cold and hunger : as soon howe ver, us it was dark, the army filed arid took up a position on the right, out of reach oftlie ('iirolii)u’s guns. By giving her broadside a great elevation, the schooner succeeded in throwing shot among them, causing great annoyance, though little execution. On the 25ih,Sir Edward Faokenham ar rival in camp, and assumed the command. The next day a battery of ten guns was c rected on the bank, and a fire of hot shot opened on the Carolina. The second hall took effect, and in fifteen minutes she was abandoned by her crew, with the loss of only one killed and six wounded. On the 28th, the British Army, under the command of General Gillie ami Keane, advanced in t u-o columns about three miles u !t!! l!:ry fame in sc. Id of tin. American troops posted behind the unfinished breast work. The left column on the liver was instantly greeted with a tremendous fire ’ i rum the guns of the frigate Louisiana and | those already mounted on the lines. Scarce | j a bullet passed over or fell short of its mark, j but all striking full in the midst of our j j ranks, occasioned terrible havoc.”* Tile ‘ j column was soon forced by the carnage to ; deploy into lines of battalions, and finally to j halt and lie down in the ditches which in j tersected the plantation. On tho right the attack might have succeeded, had it been energetically directed, for tho works were unfinished, and only a few guns mounted ; but tin; loss suffered by tho left division was so great as to induce the commanding offi cer to order a halt. In the ditches they re mained until late in the afternoon, when the different regiments filed off, man by man, amid shouts and showers of balls from the American lines. A few guns which had been directed against the Louisiana, were carried oft’ by hand, by a party of sail ors. The loss which the enemy suffered in this affair is astonishing; the more so when compared with the trifling injury they caused their antagonists. Only ten men wore killed within the lines, and hut one wounded on board of the frii/am vv !;// guns fired eight hundred balls during tho engagement. The same disproportion is , remarkable throughout the invasion. Ma ny a gallant Briton laid his hones beneath tho cypresses of Louisiana. Gen. Packenham did not. return to his old position, but encamped on the battle ground on the 23d of December ; his outposts e.x tended in some places to within three hun dred yards of the American lines. Find ing the works so well defended, lie dot’ r mined to consider them as a regular fortifi cation, and to breach them. The 28th, 29th, 30th, and 31st, were employed in bringing heavy guns from the fleet. The labor and hardships incurred in tbe trans portation of twenty-four pounders by hand through a quaking morass, can scarcely be conceived. Throughout tiiis period, the position of the British was any tiling but en viable. The scarcity of provisions had re duced them to half allowance, and driven j them to still their hunger with the sugar they found on the plantations. As they ha I no tents, they were forced to sleep up j oil the ground ; and Louisiana in Decem- I her, is not exactly the spot one would se lect for passing the night alfresco. Even the enjoyment of the damp earth was denied them. The Americans did not grant them a moment’s repose. From the day of their landing they had been engaged in one con tinued battle. Beside the shot that were constantly thrown among them from guns greatly elevated on the lines, the American artillerymen would advance with a few lii Id-pieces within range, fire half a dozen I rounds, and retreat so rapidlv is to L-lil pursuit, whi! ’ l ends men lurked a ie picquets, and shot down tho senti ik is. The English had a great dread of tho Tennesseeans, whom they denominated Dirty Shirts,” from the color of their hun ting-frocks. These night excursions were very popular among the “Dirty Shirts;” they termed them hunting parties. One of these worthies is said to have killed and stripped three sentinels on the same spot in one evening, and to have made his escape into camp with the booty. This system of warfare, although much inveighed against I by English writers, we think both justifia- j Lie and wise. When armies meet on for eign ground to decide some state question, about which they may be supposed to know little and to care less, we can understand that a kind of chivalric understanding should exist between combatants. Such wars arc but duels on a large scale, and the courtesy which directs antagonists in affairs of honor ought certainly to be exercised. T'iie case is far otherwise with invaders.— j Then a man fights for his native soil ; for his family and friends ; for his possessions, which would be plundered ; for his home, which would be ransacked and destroyed. He considers his foes in the light of house breakers, and every man slain, one enemy less, and very justly. This system, too, succeeded admirably in a military point of view, by harassing and discouraging the j English. The repulses they had met w ith, j the incessant labor and constant excitement I ill which they were kept by die cver-rccur ’ ring attacks, had disheartened the troops, and made them heartily sick of the expe dition. On the night of the 31st of December. ■ Packenham’s men were employed in erect- i ing batteries for thirty heavy guns. The 1 ! * Maj. Latours War. | work was accomplished before dawn. The sun rose behind clouds, and for some time S the mist was so thick that the American lines could not be distinguished. At eight o’clock the white tents of the camp became visible, and the cannonade commenced.— The tire was principally directed against M’Carty’s chateau, which was occupied by Jackson as his head-quarters. Although the house was pierced through and through repeatedly, the staff escaped without a wound. The American batteries respond ed feebly at first, but gradually grew bris ker, and at length surpassed the British both in rapidity and precision. The ene my hud rolled hogsheads of sugar into the parapet of his battery, under the impression that it would he as effectual as sand in deadening the force oftlie hulls ; but it pro ved otherwise, foi* ihe sh t ( rash ! through the casks as it they had born empty, dis mounting tho guns and killing the gunners. Cotton bales, on the contrary, proved a much better defence ; and although some of them were rather rud; ly knocked about by the twenty-four pound shot, but little ex ecution wa- don; among the Louisianians. At three o’clock the lire oftlie English had slackened very much ; and while the A ; inoricans, reserving a few • uns to return their feeble salutes, directed the remainder against the infantry, w Im consequi ntly re tired in precipitation, leaving many dead on the field. Soon after, the enemy ceased firing altogether, and abandoning his guns Jackson’s loss did not exceed fifty in killed and wounded. The Americans had good reason to be e luted by their success. That thirty pieces of cannon should be silenced by fifteen, on ly five of which were of equal calibre, was tar more encouraging to the invaded than any advantage they had yet obtained.— | Satisfied with the result oftlie affair, they • made no attempt to carry off the guns, i which were accordingly removed by the ■ English, with much labor, on the ensuing night. Five, however, were ultimately left behind. Once more frustrated in Ins hopes, Sir ; lid ward Packenham changed his plan of ! attack. It was now determined dial a body : of troops should cross the river, and that an j advance should be made on both banks ai j once. A canal two miles in length bv six j feet in breadth was commenced, in order lo ■ convey the boats from the Bayou to the riv ! er. It would seem never to have occurred to the General that, ships’ boats could he pushed on rollers over land in half the time it would take to dig such a canal. Mean time tho work was continued, and complet ed on the evening of the seventh. Jackson had not been idle during these o days. The Rodriguez brrast-work was now raised to the ordinary altitude, covered by a ditcli, and fifteen guns placed at prop er distances along the line ; and moreover a batteiy mounting eighteen guns had been erected on tho other side of the river, so os completely to enfilade the English bivouac. No precaution was omitted nor labor spar ed to strengthen the position and to har rassthe enemy. Major-General Lambert’s arrival with two regim nts had ineieas. and die British army to nine thousand effective men. The Americans, although rated at twenty-five thousand by tho “ British Offi cer,” mustered hut four thousand men on tiie lilies. Fascines and scaling-ladders had been prepared by the invaders for the troops on tho left bank, who were to ad vance at the sound of Thornton’s guns on the opposite side. The Louisianians were fully apprized of the approaching attack by the activity and turmoil they bad remark ed in the enemy’s camp, and were ready at all points to encounter it. On the Bth of January took place the last i dcspfrte off f the Br ? i.-di to obtain pos . ,1 ot the prize they had been taught to deem so easy. General Keane with twelve hundred men was to make a sham attack on the river bank, while General Gibbs, with the main body, was to storm the works on tho right, in die direction of batteries six and seven. Fascines and scaling ladders were entrust ed to die Forty-Fourth Regiment, and suc cess was considered certain. Jackson, on the other hand, lay snugly entrenched be hind his embankment of mud and cotton bales, his left appuye on tho swamp, his | right on the Mississippi. General Coffee I i.mi the Tennesseeans occupied the extreme left oftlie line, and the batteries were serv ed by the United States artillerists and mi litiamen, except No. 2, which was entrust ed to the crew of the late Carolina, and No. 3, commanded by privateer captains and served by Ijafitte’s men. The attack was to have taken place be fore sun-rise, but owing to the caving in of the canal, tbe army did not arrive within musket range until dawn. They were re ceived by a well-directed volley, which threw them into disorder ; but they soon rallied, and were advancing steadily to the assault, when Packenham discovered that the Forty-Fourth Regiment had come into the field without the fascines and ladders. Colonel Mullens was ordered to return for them, but losing all command of himself, forsook liis men. Packenham immediately despatched an aid to bring them up. This officer found them in the great: stconfusion. The General, upon hearing this, placed himself at their head, and ordered the col umn to press on at double quick time.— I Twice they charged, exposed to a murder ! ous fire of musk try and cannon, which j mowed them down by ranks. The- deeds | of the thirty-two pounders are especially I (ominrmoi'ated : “One single discharge, says (lie ■ Subaltern.’’ “served to swep n . .i . Ei AS*S* I L, j* iit Hr. the centre of the attacking force into eter nity.” The officers exerted themselves to the utmost to rally their men. but all ef forts were useless. Two or three hundred gained the ditch, and endeavored lo climb the parapet, but the soft earth gave way beneath their fact, and only seventy suc ceeded in the attempt, all of whom wore c•; lured. The death of Sir Kdw aid Pack eniiam, who fell like a bravo man at the head of the Forty-Fourth, and Iho mortal wound received by Goti. Gibbs, completed tho universal dismay. The column turn ed and fled. Oil the river the advance of Gen. Keane’s detachment stormed an un finished battery occupied by a rifle corps : instead of supporting his men, and entering the lines at that point, Gen. Keane march ed with liis column acros- the plain to the aid of the main body. .Such a movement only served to increase tic confusion. Hi ; troops caught the gi neral panic, and K ane himself was borne, desperately wounded, from the. field. M untime the brave band that had taken the battery, unsupported by their friends, and unable lo retreat, perish ed to a man, by (lie rifles of the Louisian ians. tin the light bank. ('oloti’ I Thornton carried all before him; drove tiie Ameri cans from two entrenched positions ; and | was in full pa. ait, when a m ssengcr brought the news of the disaster of the main j army, and the order for an immediate re-* treat, which he effected without opposition. It appears evident, from all statements ot this affair, and from Jackson s address, that, j the conduct of the militia on the right hank I formed a striking contrast to the bravery ol ih” troops on the Rodriguez Canal Here the carnage had been awful. “A i space of ground extending from the ditch oftlie American lines to that on which the j enemy drew up his troops, two hundred and fifty yards in length by about two hundred in breadth, was litcial'y coven and with men, either dead or severely wounded.” At j least three thousand bravo fellows lay j stretched upon the plain, and all wearing j the British uniform ; lor the \in i ican loss did not exceed twenty-five men in killed and wounded. Gen. Lambert, on whom the command had devolved, abandoned all hopes of tak ing New Orleans. A quick and safe re j treat was the only object aimed at. Dur ! ing his preparations lie was harassed as be | fore by the Americans, hut nothing serious | was attempted. The British were still too powerful to be driven to despair. Matters I remained thus until the 17th, when the pri | soners were exchanged’ on both sides; on 1 the 19th, everv Englishman had vanished. The war was now virtually ended. The details of Lambert’s skilful retreat; the 9 days bombardment of the fort at Plaque mines ; t lie taking of Fort Bo wye r ; the disputes concerning negro slaves; the tri umphal entry of General Jackson, and the ! usual address, s and illuminations ; and fi , nully, the ratification of peace, followed ; hard upon each o.hi r, and have little bcar ! ing on the great feat of arms we wished to i commemorate. On the 23d of December, j nine thousand English soldiers, who had j served with success in Europe, lauded on j the territory oftlie Union. One month af j ter, the survivors, worn out, baffled, dis i heartened, their two commanders slam, ! were re-embarking at the same place, lcav j ing three thousand gallant comrades to I moulder beneath the cypresses of Louisi i ana. There is scarcely an instance in modern history, perhaps none, in which men, unaided by contagion, have repelled an attack with so little injury to themselves and such fearful slaughter to their oppo nents. To Jackson belongs the honor oftlie vi tory. The promptitude with which lie i planned the attack of the 23d, the skill dis played in liis dispositions, and tho energy with which they were carried out on that eventful night, saved New Orleans from destruction. The next morning the British would have blown his force to the winds, and have seized the city as easily as they had anticipated. But awed by the bold ness of a foe they had hitherto despised, and held in check by tho guns oftlie Carolina, they gave the Americans time to complete the famous breast-work, before which, us before all altar of Liberty; Dngtami's 0:- vest and best were sacrificed. W’e owe Andrew Jackson a long debt ot gratitude, not only for having repelled an invasion, tho results of which might have boin most disastrous, but also lor having proved to Great Britain, (what hitherto she had maintained to he problematical,) that the American militia could and would fight, if skilfully commanded. Years after, the General finds himself at . the head of the nation lie defended, and makes more enemies by a word than ho had ever beaten oil’ with liis sword. Perhaps he possessed too little of the pliability of his emblematic tree fora statesman, and would better have left the China closet of politics to one who had less of the headstrong and headlong bull in his nature. But posteri ty will decide on this also. Our business with him was as commanding officer at New Orleans on the Bth of January, 1815; a day on which lie earned liis title to a seat at Washington’s right hand. FR. FLANEUR. -1 Evasive Ansioer. —Well, Pat, did von present that bill for payment, which 1 gave you this morning 1 I os, your honor. V\ ell, what was the gentleman’s answer? Evasive, your lienor. Evasive ! what do you mean ? M by, your honor, he said he'd he and 1 it lie would piiv it. [VOi I ME XXVI.
