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the dole of the day Bonaparte put himfglf at the head of his guards, and made a vigorous attack; but the British guards met, overthrew and completely routed the choicest troops of the enemy Ihe Earl said that no doubt re mained bom the etfe&s of this vie tory that’ the Allies would obtain the object of the contest. Marshal BiOcher, on the 16th fell from his horse, and was confined to his bed When he heard the Duke of Wei lir.gton was attacked on the 18th, and he immediately rose and placed his army in motion-and himifelfat its head, to revenge the loss by his army on the preceding day, when no quarter was given by the ene my. V. Conformably to a tneffage from the Prince Regent, was unanimous ly voted that the House would concur in granting an additional provision to the Duke of Welling ton The grant last year was 500,- 0001. I he additional sum voted to the Duke of Wellington is 200,000!. Ir. the House of Commons the motion for thanks was made by Lord Caftlereagh. He remarked that the allies had been neceffiated to dirtribute their troops with re ference to the means of subsist ence. He complimented Bona parte greatly for his military talents, and the troops under his immediate command, which were the molt complete and efficient corps belong ing to France—and which he eiti mated at 130,000 to 146,000 — ccnipofed of thole who had return ed from the prisons of the allied powers, and those veterans who had survived former battles. He cha racterized Napoleon as the greatest captain in the word, except the leader of the British army. The allied army under the duke Wellington notwithstanding its achievments, was, with the excep tion of the British, a green army, not having opportunity to fee ser vice. Deducing the 25,000 men* who under Prince Frederick of Grange, were in Weft-Flanders, and many other detachments, the whole army under the Dudke of Wellington was not 60,000. Lord C. asserted that the French had been obliged to leave behind, half if not more, of their artillery ; but it was impossible for him to state what their loss in men a mounted to. The thanks of the commons were given in the fame terms and per sons as those ot the lords—and fol- Ipwed by a similar vote as to a grant to the Duke of Wellington^ From the London Courier. ” London , June 24. The French after they were routed retired in the greatest confu fion—they threw down their arms by whole regiments. The Prussian cavalry gave them no rest, pursu ing them the whole night. All the roads were choaked with the dying and the dead, with cannon, a S& a g e > & c * Bonaparte’s car riage, plate, correspondence, fell into our hands. The loss in killed and wounded is estimated at 40,- 000. The number of cannon ta ken exceeds 300. The French Imperial Guard is said to have been nearly destroyed. On ail fidcs was seen a total dis regard of personal danger. The waders were mingled in the heat of • ‘e fray like the meanest soldier. “’e duke of Wellington was in close conVerfation with Lord Ux bridge, when the latter received the ball in his knee. His Lord (hip had been throughout the day foremoft in danger find glory.— Marshal Blucher, it is said, was for fome moments a prisoner. As to ’Bonapar te he was more than once inebfed among the British troops, aqd difeintangled as it were JJ>y mi racle. Never before (fays the British commander) was I obliged to take such pains for victory, and never before was I so nigh being beaten, as on the 18th of Jdne. Miscellaneous Articles. IMPORT ANT^POSTSCRIPT. * WE stop the PRESS to announce the arrival of the brig Venus, captain Thompson, from Naples, at Baltimore. On the 26th of June, capt. T. boarded the British brig Mandunal , and was in formed, that on the 19th that vessel had been boarded by one of the schooners of our squadron in the Mediterranean, oft Cape Palos— the boarding officer said, that the day before (the 18th) an Algerine frigate of 44 guns, and 600 men, had surrendered to one of our brigs and a schooner , after a fight of three hours, with the loss of 125 killed and wounded; among the former, the commander in chief of the Algerine forces That on the fame day an Algerine man of war brig was chafed alhore by three of our schooners, which was, after a boat aCtion of half an hour, aban doned by her crew, and taken pof feflion of. The frigate and brig were ordered for Carthagena. There were 80 of the prifoneisin double irons, on board ofthefehr. that boarded the Mandunal. On the 28th, apt. Phompfon spoke two other vessels that con firmed the account of the capture of the frigate and brig, as dated a - that there is no doubt of the faCt. ‘This is thefirst instalment of the tribute to Algiers. Niles * Register . To the Editors of the Enquirer. Washington. August 4. “ Mr. Crawford’ has arrived in this city, and I am informed by a gentleman who was with him yes terday, that Messrs. Gallatin and Adams have commenced an indi rect negociation with the British government on the fubjeCl of a commercial treaty; that impress ment and the East and Weft India trade, appear to be points upon which no determination can be im mediately made, nor, probably un til after the opening of the cam paign by the allies; and that Mr. (jallatin ranks very high in Europe as a diplomatist of the firft order.” THE INDIANS. An express arrived at General Jackson’s head quarters on Mon day last, bringing dispatches from Govs. Clarke, Edwards, &c. com missioners appointed to negociate with the Indians residing upon the Miffiflippi and its waters. ‘ The dis patches bro’t leave strong grounds to suppose that we (hall again be compelled to wage war against those savages. They were invited to attend the council at Portage des Sieus: on the 6th instant, but few attended—several of the tribes did not fend a single man 5 nor were they expeCled to do so. The prin cipal part of those who did attend, were the moft infignificant and contemptible of the Sauks and Fox es of Rock river, whole principal warriors and chiefs were left be hind, to cherish it is supposed, hos tility towards our government. — War parties of those tribes had re cently started for our frontiers. The Kicapoos are a’fo supposed to be associated with the tribes of Rock river, and participate in their un friendly disposition towards our go vernment. More murders are said to have been committed by them since the restoration of peace, than during the late war. It is the opin ion of the commiflioners, that the exertion of the military power of our government will be necessary to secure peace. Nashville Whig. North Western Indians. It is with pleasure we observe that vigorous measures are taking to finifh the anglo-savage war on our frontiers. A St. -Louis paper fays, that Gen. Jackson has received orders for a northern campaign, and that the rangers are again to be embodied. Colonel Miller is encamped with about 500 men at Portage de Sioux. The regiment of riflemen under lieutenat-colonel Hamilton , is imme diately to be organized, and to march to Praire du Chien , under the orders of General Jackson. Niles’ Register. Some satisfaction. A southern paper fays—the late commander of the Cyane, cap. Gordon Falcon (captured by the Constitution) was the firft lieutenant of the British ship Leopard, at the time of her at tack on the Chesapeake, in 1807 ; and was the officer who boarded that ship, demanded the muster roll, and took from her the men. Ibid. The West. Lord Sheffield, who, if I mistake not, is now nicknamed the earl of Liverpool declared that the weftem parts of the U States never could become commercial. Let his lordship take a map and trace the course of the rivers from New-Orleans to Brownsville , and then read the following from a late newspaper published at the latter called the Brownsville Telegraph: “ Arrived at this port [port, my lord— port !]on Monday last, the steamboat Enterprise, Shrieve, of Bridgeport, from New-Orleans, in ballast, having difeharged her car go at Pittfburg. She is the firft steamboat that ever made the voy age to the mouth of the Miffiflippi and back. She made the voyage from New-Orleans to this port in 54 days, twenty days of which were employed in loading and un loading freight at different towns on the Miffiflippi and Ohio; so that she was only 34 days in active service, in making her voyage, which our readers will remember muft.be performed against power ful currents, and is towards of two thousand two hundred miles in length. Ibid. ARRIVAL OFTHE HORNET. New-Tcrk, July 3 1 . Yesterday arrived at this port, tlie United States sloop of war Hor net, capt. Biddle, from a cruise to the eastward of the Cape of Good Hope, and last from St. Salvadore. On the 28th of April, in lat. 38, long. 33, to the eastward of the Cape of Good Hope the Hornet and Peacock in company, were fallen in with by a British 74 gun ship, who gave chafe to the Hornet for 7 hours, during which time capt. Eiddle threw over board all his guns but one, cables, anchors, boats, provisions, {hot, 6cc. and es caped, after receiving several shot. The Peacock continued on her course. The Hornet has not made any captures since the Penguin. We are happy to learn, that the gallant capt. Biddle, has recoveied j from his wounds, and that his firft ’ lieutenant (Connor) is doing well. The Hornet put into St. Salva dore for supplies and failed for home on the 20th of June. Poole, a farmer of Bingden, has lately found, while digging in his field, a chest of gold coin worth 20,000/. The benefits at Covent Garden Theatre, have been as follows • Miss O’Neil’s 650 pounds, Mr. Jones’s 600, Mr. Young’s 590, Miss Foote’s 500, Mr. Emery’s 500, Mr. Incledon’s 400, Mr, and ‘ Mrs. Liston’s 400, and Miss Ste phens’s 800. It will be recollected that a pound is more that 4 dollars. Bank of England. The notes of the Bank of Eng land in circulation are upwards of one hundred millions of dollars. —'The annual tax on which is more than four hundred thousand dollars.— But the bank has hitherto paid un der an old coinpromife, (when its issues were small compared with the present,) but about one hundred thousand dollars The fubjeCt has however, recently caught the at tention of Parliament. Anew bargain has just been made with the bank. It is to pay 3,500/. on every 1,000,000 in bills issued. 1 The Mutual Fire Insurance So ciety of Virginia, has auvertifed for sale at auftion, 50,000 dollars worth of United States stock, part of their capital, to enable it tp make good its late losses by the fire jac Petersburg. Congenial Spirits. —Lord Gower in the British parliament faid—“Let the Americans fit talking about their natural rights, their divine | rights, and such stuff ; we will fend them over a few regiments of grenadiers to assist their consulta tions.” Col. Grant said, that ** withfive regiments he could march through all America.’* Mr. Otis, in the parliament of Massachusetts said—“ It is in the power of the enemy to doom us— We told you not to touch the Bri. tish lion —the New-Eng!and states can put down the national govern ment any moment they choose—l He trusted that the nonsense of re taliation, and the vvorfe than non sense of impressment and sailor’s rights, was about to be abandoned forever.” Lord Gower, Col. Grant, & Mr. Otis were mistaken!!! Mirabih • didu. Lord Wellington’s dispatch, es pecially the part relating to the attack made on him at Hougomont on the 18th, is so obscure that a , reader must have more than a pair of magnifying spectacles to perceive it clearly. 1 his confufion was not without cause—but his confeffion towards the close is not so dark. His lame report agrees with his crippled state. i Columbia's.