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Richmond, bound for Philadelphia, all well i cargo, plug tobacco and cotton, consigned to supercargo on board, for sales and remittance. Saw no imne edments to navigation on the southern coast. Also arrived, after a long and tedi ous passage, one five horse waggon, from Augusta, cargo, cotton, consigned to order—Had the ^ood fortune to es cape the vigilance of admiral Cock Lurn and his cruisers. Saw a number of enemies to commerce on the passage hat received no injury. A waggon from Plymouth was spo ken with ou the Weymouth turnpike, with a cargo of wine, &.c. on Saturday night Uth inst, at 7 orclock, standing to the northward, supposed to be bound to Boston—blowing fresh, ami very <lu*ty, could not ascertain how Im-g oat, or where bound. A waggon has ads > been spoken 21- hours from .Vow York, hound tu Boston, commanded oy eapt. Cony. RICHMOND, Sept. :??. \ '. nun A. i • hm:ti7 *t.— fin 1 rums have ‘u- a prodigious swell, and raised the sire.i>n of Janus River to .m unusual and a •lurming height. We are concerned ti state, that on Mon.i.-y night, m consequence of some defect, i rendered its 1 nidation incapa r,': ot -esis; mg the gradual .p of the waters, the I ifij and rieevn round {Ridding, erecting 1'1 *d.. f.if hit / fora Slot t’o.i'-v*, Mrl denly gave \v *y amt was laid complete!\ i i ru ins. flic K..nc liad ascend t! to nearly one hundred feet in height; and being on thy-bank of the river near the budge, Legan to form a .striding ••!>}• ct it. the landscape, U interesting ornament to the citv. We are happy to’team that no lives were lost on the occasion; but from the midnight 1 »ur at w.lieh the accident happened, and the t.r.i:der.ng crash with which so huge and lofty a mass of Brick-Work descended, the ne.gh borhooti armmd were thrown into some con sternation. Neither the mind nor the resour ces of the Proprietor, however, will feed the shock much, we believe and we expect, during ti... rn xt season, to see timed dice rising a-mn £.nd hue Antaius, strengthened by the Ji.ll. t , - Compiler. It is supposed, that 50,000 persons attended the funeral of Captain Law rence and Lieut. Ludlow in New York, the greatest a* sent hi age of persons ever witnessed in that place on any occasion. A letter from Fort Meigs to a gen tleman at Annapolis s%yn "Hr Bri tish have just finished a vessel of 25 guns at Malden.” This vessel, if not destroyed by the enemy themselves, has no doubt before this fallen into the Hands of Commodore I'erry. BOSTON, Sept. 20. Me understand, from a gentleman from the eastward, that the officers of the Boxer who were amusing themselves »n shooting pigeons on shore, during the action with the Enterprise, have since surrendered themselves. Our in formant adds also that they gave pre cisely the same account of the force of the Boxer as tho other officers, and without communication with tliem.-^ rriip officers were a Major in the land service, the Surgeon * i'the Boxer, and two Mid ship men. From t. e Seat of Y\ nr* iWJFFALOF. Sept. 14. \Vc learn from gentlemen recently from Fort Niagara, that General Wil liams had leit tort George, a few da^s since, to lake a command at another post—rsickett’s Harbor.] And that Gen. \\ illiimoii i~ last recovering front an indisposition with which he has l een e.\ ji t; <ed since he arrived at Fort George. Before Coir. Chnuncev got out of Niagara Hirer, ou<> ofthe British schoo >J‘*rs captured an old schr. about a mile oil Fort Nic. gura. Wc understand, from good authori ty, that the Fever, which has been pre valent in this quarter for a month past, rages in some districts in Canada, to ai: alarming degree ; and w hat renders ii more distressing, but little medical u..: can be obtained. Sickness, it is also staled, prevails among the British Croons. Deserters contiau~ to come in from Bi iiish army* It appcurs, trom several sources, that the I niians base all Ie*t the British army in the neigh borhood of Port Iseorge. It i, suppos ed that they have gone to joiu Ueuerul Proctor at Malden. NEW YD UK, f»-pt 2*. The Steam Boat, which arrived ves tenlay from Albany, brought nothing new from the frontiers, excepting u re port that Commodore Chuuncev had returned to Saeket's Harbor, and that Sir James L. Yi o had got into Kings tun* \Vre learn from a gentleman from London, which place he left on Mon day last, that the sailors who deserted from the Acasla frigate, stated to seve ral gentlemen on their arrival at New London, that the shot from the flotilla of gun boats under i uni. Lewis, cut a way the main top bowling of the '.cas ta, and considerably daiyag-d th • -ails aud rigging—that one sfiot stru k the maintopmast of the sloop of war Ata lanta, and took out a large sphuier. EXTHACT OF A LETT HR. Albany, Sept. 21. The last night s mail brought us news that the two fleets were safe in puri—the British at Kingston and Chauncey at .Socket's Harbor. The battle which has been so much talked of, was a trifling running fight, in which neither pariy received any injury of consequence. Only a single man on board of our fleet was injured—and that was by a splinter. '1 he movements to the north indicate something important from that quarter, but the number of troops under Hampton is too small for auy thing like an irruption into Cana* da—unless it should he against small post, llt-pori says Prescott is tc be attacked, and that Hampton is pro • bably now at St. Ucsi3,onlue M. Law - rence. I lie militia which by the late order, were to rendezvous at Burlington in aid ol Hampton, and to garrison the different posts on the Lake, do no! much fcxceed 600—they were calculat ed for 1800 at least. EXTRACT OF A LETTER. bucket's Harbor, S’cpt. 14. *s Anxious to give you the earlie;: information, I have detained tlio ex press to the last moment. The La dy of the Lake,” a pilot boat schooner, lias just arrived from the fleet, which °u ihe loth and 11th inst. chased the British fieet from Niagara to South Bay, a harbor near the Bay of Quinta, on the Canadian side.—They had a running light of many hours, but at ve • ry long shot. The British escaped by superior sailing, and endeavoring to gain Kingston ; from which however our squadron cut them off. and novy blockades them in South Bay. We* lost two >r three men wr-unded, and ouj snips received some damage. The W nit and Jioy.il i?(.oi-»e received, it is sa<d, considerable damage in their hnils. As soon as tire wind come.s round to the eastward* our squadrou witi be able to gel inio the harbor where the enemy are So in a day or two we shall near of a battle* which* frorn th-*ir j)(> ition, must be very decisive. Continuation of b'oRElU*Y *YEIVS. FROM SPAIN. Extract of a letter dated Lisbon, Jiug» 8, received by the ship Clara, 37 days from St. UbeSi at Newport. On tlu- 2dth ult. Lord Wellington attack ed St. S.-.bastiuns by storm, and was repulsed with considerable loss, and on the 28th he had a severe engagement with the French army under Soult.—The French were beaten oft the field,and kft between 5 and 6000 dead. The siege of St. Sebastians continues, and it was expected to have fallen before this day. Tbe blockade ct Paitipt-luna was continued. It ic expected will be starved into a surrender.” RECENT OPERATIONS OF THE FRENCH ARMIES. Translated from Paris Papers for the •V. Y. •Mercantile .advertiser. Letter from the Governor of Moddm to the Major General. Monrcijr, June 12, 1813. Mr I .on n—I arrived here in the evening of the 3d cf February, and the place was shut up in the morning of the 5th. The want of food obliged us for three months t« make daily sor ties, in which it was necessary to charge the advanced posts of the enemy, and we were al ways successful without hardly loosing any of our men, whilst this little waif are would con stantly lose many to Hr: Russians. We were deficient of fresh meat; in order to supply ourselves, we brought in or thc lath of March, all the cattle we could f,.id in the small town ofNowidword and its neighborhood. The enemy left us undisturbed until the night of the Tth to the 8th'June, when, 1. ving established three batteries of howitzers, fo the Dimber of 12 to Jif they threw into the place