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THE NOKTHERff STAR. SATURDAY, JANUARY 13, 1838.
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MORE NHWS ^ fROM CIMDA :
The Moriang Chronicle of "Wednesday contains extracts from . ' Asftrinn papers tip to the 19 th and 20 £ h of / December , from which we select the following informatioa : — > Dr . Wooi ^ RED Nbison is taken . The St . Meats Messenger also siys : — " A centkemaaoT this Tillage arrived in townon ^ Ioutiay , ? . X-, direct from Yamaha . He say / that the aptfaariiies are proceeding , wida great vigilance in making arrests in St . Cesaire and its vicinity , ' and a stale ef-the utmost consternation prevails among the inhabitants ; that be saw a gentleman at St . CeSare , direct from Montreal ^ who informed him that on Friday last twenty trf the prisoners , who iafi "been arrested on a charge of high treason , were -arraigned "before the Court Martial , at Montreal , ^ acd that eleven of the number were condemned
tn be shot at four o ' cloci m the afternoon ot that £ ay . " The Papers of Pa . PiSE . vc , which bare been seized , are raid to implicate deeply . Mr . Jo . Hpli Home and Mr . BoebucL ( From the Buffalo Commercial advertiser , Dec . 12 . ) Public Meeting of the Friends of Canada . —Last evening , much the largest public meeting we ever saw in Buffalo assembled at the theatrethe use of which , had been generously
, proffered by Mr . Dean . Every foot of the house , from the orchestra to the roof , was literally crammed -with people—the . pit was full—the . boxes were iull—the galleries were full—the lobbies were foilthe street was fall—and hundreds were -obliged to go away without being able to gain admittance / The stage was set with the appropriate , scene of a Eoman Forum—a fine military band occupied the wrhestra , and played patriotic airs while the house jras filling . .
It had been announced that Dr . Kolph would be present ; but at the time of opening the meeting he had not appeared . The committee sail expected him , and said he was on his way as fast as horses could bring him . ; . It was expected that the officers of the former meeting would preside at this , but from some cause 01 other , they did not make theiT appearance The venerable Dr . Chspin was called to the chair . Be made a few remarks on the object of the meeting .
"Gentlemen , " said he we have met on an important occasion . Our neighbours on the north are at war , fighting for liberty . We have met to ¦ express our sympathies and good wishes . But , fellow-citizens , we must act with wisdom , prudence , and discretion ^ we sympathize with the oppressed , and it is highly proper we should Ho so ; ; bcf , as I said before , and have said on a former occasion , let prudence and wisdom characterize all our proceedings . I ^ et us act as honourable , hitch-minded men should act , ia view of the delicate position in which we are placed , with a country en one side resisting ¦ oppression , and enlisting al ) our warm and holy sympathies in its favour , and , on the other , a powerful nation , with which we are at peace , and towards which we are bound to act according to the . most iriendlv treaties .
"I have one word more to say , " he continued ; ** I have now men under my protection , at " my house , on whose Me a price is set , and whom I am bound to protect . " : " Who are they ?" " One of them ' is William L . Mackenzie . " . The whole vast assembly burst into a thunder of applause . Never saw we such a scene— -never heard we such a shout of exultation ' . Such . enthusiasm is honourable to the feeling * of our citizens . It was not Mackenzie who called forth such electrical feelinjj . A few months ago he might have come among ns and excited little interest . He comes now ' as the champion and martvr of liberty . A price is set on his life by the agents of transatlantic power . That . circumstance alone is enough to call out all the feeling of an American assembly .
* 'Fellow citizens , "' continued the veteran , " his life is in oar power , he has thrown himself upon our protection—will you protect him ? " ' * ' We will I—we will I Bring him out ' . ' ' " Gentlemen , he is too fitigued ^ -too sickj to come here to-night ; but to-morrow night be shall address j"ou . ( Cheers . ) I am an old man , but at the hazard of my life will I protect those who throw themselves upon mv hospitality . If any mean scoundrels , "for the sake " of tie reward of 4 , 000 dollar ? , which" is
offered for him , should undertake to get him , they must first walk over me . I am rather old to Sght , but I have got a good bo-arie knife ( here he showed cne of verv respectable dimensions , which was greeted with three cheers . ) ]? sow we must act with prudence and discretion . I want six strong , brave young men , as good sons as God has got ainong . u . * , to go to my honse to-night , for fear of any attempt -on the T > art of the lovalists . '"' "A hundred r " - - - iC , I want only six—who'll go ? " '
" I—I—I , " was heard all over the house ; and a dozen sprang upon the stage . Mr . Stow was loudly called upon . lie said "'It had been expected that other ? far more competent than himself would be there to address them , and he hoped they would yet have a hearing . [ They shall , thev shall I ] It was proper they should :- Shall-we refuse them what was granted by a corrupt court to Franklin , when they come upon the same errand ? [ No . ] Tbev come here , as he went to the court of France , for sympathy and assistance . Gentlemen ,
I envy cot the heart that does not sympathize warmry ia this cause . Far be it from me to uphold a violation of treaty ; by ? o doing we should follow the example of Great Britain in thewars of the Peninsula—the taking of Copenhagen—the attack of the Turkish fleet at Navarino . [ Cheers . ] _ We ¦ w ill go no further than it is proper for us to go—than it is our dury to go . [ Cheers . ] It was . not likely that this countrv , after fulfilling her treaties for half a century , would now , for the first time ^ break them .
"Our feelings are natural—it is natural we should express , them . On this spot where I now stand- ¦ when , in the mimic scene , tyranny is displayed , you are filled with involuntary emotions of hate—when freedom triumphs over oppression , yonr enthusiasm bursts forth in load huzzas . Will you show less ¦ feelinn when such scenes are acted before vou in reality ? " [ Cheers . ] Mr . Srow moved an adjournment to this evening , "Previous to the motion being put , it was moved that the Address of the Sons of Liberty be read . 3 Ir . Edward H . Thomson was unanimously called "npnn to . read it . It was warmly applauded , _ approved , and recommended to be printed in the papers of this citv . -
After giving three cheers for M ^ Kenzie—three for Papineau—three for Rolph and others—the assembly left the house . They then formed a- procession , and marched to music through the streets ts the residence of Dr . Chapin , and gave three cheers for M'ELenzie and his worthy host " . To-night the theatre will again be crowded , . and " we shall learn why M'Kenzie left hi * co-patriots at this critical juncture , and what he thinks of the present * prospects of his parry . His escape through the royal lines was a hazardous one in the extreme . He was in disruise , and
slept two nights in haystacks . Being clothed ¦ very poorly , and mounted on a good charger , he was apprehended as a horse-thief . He was armed , but did not wish to shoot the sheriff ; so , to aseer ^ tain his sentiments , he commenced talking politics . "The officer expressed himself warmly in favour ^> f 3 Ir . M'Kenzie , upon which he avowed himself , but ¦ was not able to convince him , until he showed him his tibtt ^ p marked on his linen , upon which he was at once aided to escape . It is said that before be had got across the river , a party of horsemea in pursuit appeared on the opposite bank .
( From tie Kingston Chronicle . ) The adjourned meeting of the citizens of Buffalo vzs held on the 12 th inst ., at the Theatre . It T ? ras thronged by an enthusiastic . and excited mnltitude . Mr . Tillinghast was called to the chair , and after a few introductory remarks , he led forth Mr . ii'Kenzie , the leader of the agitators in the Upper Province , who was received with repeated , cheers . ** . M'Xenzie , says The Buffalo Commercial Advertiser , " is a lirdeScotchman , five feet fiveinches , with
a big head and sandy whiskers , bearing some slight resemblance to Martin Tan Bnren . He spoke &r an hour , in a plain matter-of-fact style , with an occasional dash of humour , but with no attempt at eloquence . As the speech of Mr . M'Kenzie , as ¦ we find it reported in The Advertiser ,, appears to present a condensed summary of the causes and prospects of the insurrection , we copy it at length , confident that we can give nothing which will he lead with greater interest at the present moment ,- '
To prove the . justice of the cause , he took the declaration of independence — went through- it article by article , and stated that , m every particular , the Canadas had fhe same grievances , and in jBome cases , thai they were eveli more onerous . . He spoke of the Government of Great Britain as good at home , but uniformly bad abroad—of laws Hi * "fe in tSajroTinee , repealed at Xondon afterbeing ax years w-apsratJMj—of the enormous salaries of
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their pnbue officer *—of taxation without the consent of the taxed—of the British monopoly of the trade of St . Lawrence—of packed juries , and packed legislature—of a . perpetual Senate , the creatures of the Governor—of supporting church establishments with which the people have no sympathy—of the want of esfcication , and the sequestration by the government officers of the funds raised for that purpose—of colleges endowed by the King of France turned into British barracks—of the London Company's land monopoly—of the repeated . overwhelming majorities chosen by the people in the Lower House , whose reform acts were uniformly set aside and vetoed , when 80 to 8—of his own repeated expulsion from the House , and his being elected Mayor of Toronto in consequence—of the frequent and large petitions sent to the home government , but uniformly disregarded .
He said that the recent unfortunate rising was in consequence of a mistake in the time specified in one of their despatches . They were organized , acting in concert with the people of the lower provinces , running almost daily expresses—despatches have been sent to the different towns who had joined in the league , but one of them , by accident Or design , was written " Tuesday" instead of " Thursday . " They came on Tuesday , and made a forced march to the neighbourhood of Toronto , expecting to meet the citizens of the whole province . They were too weak to attempt the town that night—the go % eminent tookfthe alarm—the munitions of war
were placed in the hands of the retainers of the executive—and the opportunity was lost . They had a . slight skirmish , in which some three , or four lost their lives—and being destitute of arms , were obliged to retreat . Parties were coming in in every direction , with bold hearts and strong hands , but they were unarmed , and there were no arms to give them . Why ? There are not probably 300 muskets in the upper province , except those in the hands of the government . Anns and gunpowder are , and have long been , contraband . They have nothing but pitchforks to oppose bavonets . :
He described the death of Colonel Moodie , who was shot by a sentinel endeavouring to escape , after he hadfirst fired on the soldier . He spoke of the interest of the . United States in the freedom of the provinces , the navigation of the St . Lawrence , the north-eastern boundary question , the trade of the upper province , its wheat , its timber , and its millions of acre 3 of the best land in North America , and especially of the interest of Buffalo , in the present struggle . ' They had little to contend with—a few thousand men wculd do the business in a hurry . There were no British troops—none but the pensioners of the government , and a few of the old Tory brood , who still adhered to the princip les for which their fathers 3 ed from the States to this province .
There is , he said , no probability of England's debating the question . In her former struggles she had lost money , honour , men , and been shamefully defeated . He bad watched the progress of seventt-en successful revolutions : he did not believe that of Canada would be an exception . He had by chance seen some despatches from government officers in the lower provinces , which got into his camp instead of going into the postoffice . One of them , to the Commandant at Niagara , said they were all rebels below , and made inquiries in regard to the upper province , recommending , moreover , that t = pies should be sent to Buffalo , as they apprehended danger from this quarter . - ~ He said he was not the principal man ; he acted in an humble capacity ; there were leaders abler than hiinealf .
Thirty-five hundred had come to them—they had no arms to give them—they were obliged to 1 : 0 home . They wanted arms—the }* waded powderthey wanted orJnance—they wanted blankets . Of those assembled in the neighbourhood of Toronto there » ere but two hundred armed . Would they be successful ? He could not tell . They depended on the same overruling Povrer that guiued our fathers and protected the life of Washington . The battle was not to the strong ; he trusted that God would strike for the oppressed . England could hardly spare troops or money to carry on a foreign war . It takes 30 , 000 bayonets to keep Ireland quiet ; those who make war in England are tax-payers—they would hardly take monev out of their pockets to oppress their
countrymen . Mr . " . M'Kenzie was listened to attentively throughout , and frequently interrupted with bursts of applause . At the end he was greeted vita prolonged cheering .
" ESCAPE OF T . S . BROWN . " TO THE EDITORS OF THE NEW YORK DAILY EXPRESS . " One bricatle of British IirriiicVWes ban been driven back ignomimcusly from St . Denis , a second brigade had retreated , to use the fashionable word , from St . Charles to the safe baracks of Montreal , when a third brigade was directed on St . Denis , and had arrived at "St . Ours , nine miles distant . " — : — and myself saw that , there beir . ii r . o riving elsewhere , we were drawing the whole force of the government to our devoted district , and that , though vre micht maintain ourselves in force , still we ihust retreat , and draw the enemy after u ? , whereby the
ihirstliies- * of European rase for American blood would be satiatej in the murder of crey-kaired sires and smiling infants ; not to mention the destruction of property , to intimidate other countries from iinitaiing our example . We therefore told our men to go home quietly for the present , and to be in readiness to assemble at the first signal . For ourselves , a free pardon to all had been offered , upon condi . ion of our beiDir delivered into the hands of government , and we felt an ambition to become the vicarious sacrifice for tht political offences of the county ef Richelieu . We also imagined that the august representative of the ruling petticoat of Britain might , in his araour for an interview vriih two individuals who
had caused him so much disquiet , ofier a price for our heads that would render them , a marketable commodity . With these considerations we determined on visiuar the Stales . On Friday evening , the l * t of December , and myself left St . Denis , accompanied by five others , who considered emigratioii expedient . We rode all night in carts , and arrived next morning about day-light at St . Cesaire , where-we were pushing on towards the townships bordering on the lines , when a man informed us that we were going into the geule du hup ( the wolf ' s throat ) , that guards were stationed along the road to intercept gentlemen moving on especial business , and that it would be necessarv to go through the woods , with
the passes of which he was acquainted . After breakfa . stirj > r we crossed to the right of the northern bank of the liamaska river , tiud continued walking until nightfall , when we found ourselves in a tremendous windfall , the trees crossed in every direction , through which we forced ourselves , like small fish through a salmon net , until we arrived at a swamp , when darkness prevented our going onward . The proximity of some huts prevented our making a fire To compensate for the absence , of sleep during the forty hours , I hs . d the consolation of getting my back wra u ? t a tree with my knees drawn up to keep my ftetoutnfthewater , which refreshing posture was disturbed about two o ' clock it the moraine bv
a violent rain which lasted rill morning . At daylight our inarch was resumed . The outer world was fair and beautiful , but in the forest the constant dripping from the trees was like a shower bath from an ice-house . A Canadian forest is not like a Vermont Wood , where you move between majestic trees and tread upon the dry elastic leaves , the accumulation of ages . No , the damp , low soil throws the roots of trees to the surface , and every wind overthrows them in every direction , whilp small brush crows up in every little opening thus created . Your course is a continued , climbing over fallen logs or stciinmijig through a thickset hedge of brushwood , with the expedition of a fly through
a saucer of honey . Underneath the ground is - spongy , leaving water in every footstep . One haif the surface is covered with little pools , which being slightly frozen , kept one in constant tremour between hope and fear , and alternate changes of joy and sorrow , as his feet sunk or remained firm upon the treacherous surface . Onward we packed tul night , when choosing a dry spot , we kindled a fire , collected hemlock branches for our beds , dried our clothes , and passed a comfortable night . For food we had during the day found a few small turnips , which the owner appeared to have left on the field for the gleaners , after the precept of Levitical law . For drink , the swamp pools furnished abundance , that we drank according to custom of
the Jews m the days of . the Judges , whereby I perceived that we were not men fit for war ,. for none * lapped with their tongues . ' On MonSay early we reached the skirt of the wood , when what Was our horror in discovering that we had got into the throat of a still stronger wolf than the one we had left behind . . We were in fact close upon the Tory Tillage of Granby , where a guard appeared stationed . Our guide , like Natty Bumpo , deceived by the clearings , had lost his way . Eeturning to the woods we discovered the northern branch ef the Yamaska river , when —— who is of a Kentuckian frame , dashed into the water , and fording across wanted us to follow him . By comparing . the water-line upon his l-o 3 v bv a ' sect 5 i > n of corresponding leieht
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ujKmofitrowh , we iiOT - thiEilt-: ibe . vi ^ ennirat ' ; VHth ourselves would approach too nearly , the sub-marine , and therefore listened to our guide ' s insinuation that there was a better place lower down . By moving to this place we lost sight of entirely , and , upon reaching it , our guide , upon pretence of looking / a UttWfurther , deserted us for ever , — was gone , and we were deserted by our guide . My companions , five Canadians , tired of wandering in the woods , determined upon returning to the French , settlements ; but I informed them that I must go to the States wherever they might go ; and upon coming near log-house , I decided upon going towards it , instead of making one of those
everlasting turns into the woods to avoid it , such as we had practised for three days . My companions / remonstrated in vain . They turned into the woods , and I towards the house , and thus I found myeelf alonei . I neglected to mention that fortunately finding a potatoe patch , we regaled ourselves the second time upon the raw vegetable . Before leaving St . Denis , I had lamed one of my feet , and a fall from a horse at St . Charles having nearly broken one of my ribs , my side was much inflamed . On approaching the cabin , I found the only inmate an Irishwoman * Her husband was absent for several days—probably , however , hid under some . neighbouring log , Her voice was for peace . She bad nothing eatable but
p otatoes , which she charitably ottered to boil but , as she mentioned there was a Yankee living a mile farther down , declining her civility , I proceeded towards his clearing . On coming to the house how grateful to my ears was the sharp voice of the wife , scolding her children . It was a Yankee voice ! Upon entering the dwelling , which was composed of one room , without a chimney , but with a tremendous pile of wood burning upon a hearth , the smoke from whence escaped through a hole in the roof , I asked for some milk . The lady , eyeing me suspiciously , guessed she had none—" the children had eat it all up . " I had , however , hardly felt the grateful influence of the blazing fire , when a howl of milk
with bread accompaniments was on the table , and instantaneously the frying-pan was hissing upon the coals with pork . Oh , woman ! whether in the palace or the log hut , in spite of your vagaries , how universally does the spontaneous impulse of compassion gild . your character whenever or wherever a case of distress is presented to you . / The husband soon arrived , dark and suspicious ; but upon learning that I was like a Vunnonter , and a republican , thin g * went smoothly . I was quite ignorant of Canada affairs , but spoke learnedly of pine trees and swamp lands . There were nine children in the family . A little girl pertly remarked , there were " plenty of children , but nothing to pntori ' em . "
In summer , the absence of neighbours , to make uncharitable remarks , made clothes of little consequence , and in winter they could stay in the house . The squatter was , however , an industrious man , who will one day have a good farm , for the big boys , split long shingles all the evening , to use for boards in covering a barn , while the father shaved them . I slept among the children , who knotted up like a nest of eels ; bnt how would you expect children bred in the woods to know the points of compass to abed ? On Tuesday morning , after eating a hearty breakfast , I- crossed the branch of the - ' -Yamaska- in a canoe . Three miles walk through , the woods brought me to the s < iuth branch , up which I walked
untill found another canoe in a clearing , when I was ferried over by a Canadian woman . Proceeding until three o ' clock , I reached the clear , cultivated country , and laying down in a poiut of woods , slept until dark . - My lameness had y becqme insufferable ; but I walked briskly along the roud to the lines , passing a bridge while they were ' ehtmging guard , to the subsequent -chagrin of the guardians , who heard of it in the morning . At midnight fntigne compelled me to resort to a couch of hemlock boughs in the woods until daylight , when I continued , my Toute to within two miles of Durham village , when I struck into the woods to ^ ain the Stanbridgu roR-. l . I inquired for milk at a lojrhous . e—they had
none ; but the owner started to inform the village of my pre . -c . -nee , and was 'informed he would have made his fortune by catching me . For four long hours I trudged before I found bread and milk , and great was my sorrow to learn I had only gained fiftyjrods in distance . The truth irf , one of iny-legs having become useless ; , my supporters had performed the action of a pair of dividers , one log standing still while the other walked round it . Refreshed , 1 continued my route till late in the afternoon , wheu 1 passed a " large clearing , on which were five cultivated farms . Inquiring at ^ the last one for a good road leading five miles through the forest , 1 ' entered it boldly , fired ' mv carbine , as though nauk-- was mv
object , and laid down till d : uk . With the best disposition in the world , I . couM go no farther . The leg that had been dn ^' ired all day , not . onl y refused to be dragged longer , but the other which had so patiently endured . the . toil-would-drag ft no longer . With such mutinous members , I could only return to one of the houses and make out as good a story as I could devise . As I approached I met the owner , to-. whom I said , ¦ ' 1 was goin < r through the woods , but it looks so much like snow , I will-wait until rooming . '" . Hi * looked an in . srant in my face and exclaimed , " B—— , I know you ; but here are four friends of yours , and you arc safe ; I have ju .-t come from the Flat , rhey are all after
you ; eld Cupler was fixing his old gun , I loUl the d d old cuss it wouldn ' t ^ o oft " , but hu swore he'd shoot you if he see'd you ; 1 Jartn-i t . ' ike vou into i : iy bouse , so you rnu . se come into the Lam . ' A council of the four " frituds"' was c : i ! L-d . They could devise no means of escape , except walking immediately through the woods to the lines . This , 1 modestly informed them , was impracticable ,, unless they could furnish me with , a new pair of legs . Coverlids and a supper were then brought , and I was hid for two nights and one day under a hay-mow , by which time the swelling of my limb had nearly subsided . My danger was not over , for the women , considering the secret of ni \'
hiding-place too weighty for their weak abilities , had called upon their neighbours to help them to keep it . I accordingly removed for one day to another barn , when my . limbs becoming renovated , and a young man having offered as a guide , I again set out on Friday evening , last . . JSjiowingthat I was watched in every direction , we passed through the woods , and at a great distance from the road , { the snow was rather unpleasantly deep , ) , to avoid observation , and happily succeeded in reach- , ing Charley ' s , in Berkshire ,- ( Vt . ) before morning . HaviDg left- St . Denis with a determination of
getting to" the States in safety , nobody ever hailed the land of freedom with more exultation . On Saturday I moved to the southward . The first Montreal paper I saw contained , sure ¦ enough , a reward for my head , and that of — . We certainly have precedence on the list , but I don't like the classification , and consider the valuation far , below my own estimate . Poor Lord Gqsford must , however , be pardoned . We had , by our prueeedin . es ,. already caused so much expense to the little Queen ' s treasury , that we most charitably supposed he could not afford more .
( From t . ' ie Nexc York Evening Herald . ) The disastrous route of the Patriots on their way from Swaiiton , to join their companions in arnis in Lower Canada , is thus related by one of thcm . ih a letter to a gentleman in Albany . He , of course , puts the lest face he can on the affair . We : should imagine that Mr . Boucbette , the editor , had better make up bis mind to his inevitable doom , for the Government will assuredly make an example of'hirn j in preference to what they will look upon as- fiis misguided followers : — ¦ ¦¦ <¦
"A body of Canadians to the number of fort }' , who had been adjourning here for some time ; -left this placea few da } 'S ago to pass by Highgate into their own country , with some arms , and ammunition with which the liberality of some private citizens bad furnished them . About a mil ' e and a . half at the other side of the line they were fired on by a party of about 500- ( some say 600 ) Tories or Royalists , who lay in ambush for them along the j ? l'irfof the woods . The Canadians bore the fire bravely , which they at once returned , killing ten men of the
opposite party . The loss of the Canadians consists in one killed , ( a French lad of seventeen years of age , ) six wounded and one prisoner ; Mr . Bouchette , editor of the Qiielec Liberul , yiha had his leg broken in the engagement , strayed into the hands of the enemy . The Canadians retreated , fearing another ambush , and left behind them two small pieces of cannon and a quantity ef ammunition . With the exception of Mr . Bouchette , all the wounded Canadians were safely removed from the field bv their friends .
" Bouchette has , I am informed , been cruelty treated by the Missisquoi Royalists . They tied a rope round his neck , and dragged him through tfyg streets of the village in triumph . They ; afterwards tied him , along , with a Dr . Kimber , from Quambly , , who had been also taken prisoner on his way to this place , in a waggon , and sent him to the Isle aux Noix , and thence to Montreal . The Royalists at Missisquoi positively refused to stanch Mr . Bouchette ' s wonnd ; whether it was dressed even at Isle aux Noix is not yet known . The ill-treatment of this gentleman has caused much excitement hereabout " All the postmasters of this neighbourhood have received copies of proclamations offering 4 , 000
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dollars for / Papineau , and 2 , 000 / dollars for variouB other patriots . ; A meeting of our people is to he held to-morrowr eveningj to sympathise with the Canadians , anil . to protest loudly- ' 'again '« tjihese ' piio !~ clamation 8 , which-they- 'Jopfi ^ upon / as ' an insult on their ^ morality and honour ; The greatest excitement prevails all along here . " % . ¦' : , j ' ¦; / x ; Rumour says that Mr . Piipineau / was in Maine , and / other patriot leaders in Vermont orjftew Hampshire . We certainly shall not regret if they are safely withihour territory . ( FronL \ the ^ Monirctdy : Transcri pty a Government ¦ ( Journal . ) ;
PARTIpULARS OF DR . NELSON'S CAPTURE . Scarcely had the cavalcade resumed its progressit could not have reached the St . Aiitoine suburb— - when an hurra ! .. ' was heard in the direction •' ¦ -of the cathedra ^ and vre Had presently the satistaction to learn that another . ' par £ y oi the noble men of Missisquoi had arrived in our city , bringing with them , as prisoners , Drs . Wpolfred Nelson , of St ^ Denishotoriety . and Valois of Pointe Claire . Thepr isoner is indebted , for his capture to four men of Colonel KnowHon's Militia ,, who discovered the two prisoners in the woods by the light of the fire they had lighted . No . resistance was offered . 'An Indian , who was their guide , had a gun with bu n ¦ ¦; but he was asleep in a barn at soine / distance . The Ilev . Mr * Seller accompanied , Dr . Nelson to Montreal ,. / . / ' . ; : '' : ¦ .
We held some conversation with Nelson in the prison ;; his appearance was ghastly , for he had suffered inueh * , b \ it lie / displayed , a collectedness and a composure of mind truly surpr ising . It appears that himself , Dr * Kimber , Papineau , Brown , audO'Callaghan , all took their departure together ^ arid continued together for some time , when the difficulties they encountered induced them to . separate , and shift each for himself . Dr . / Nelson . when taken , had been nine days hi the woods , without any other
protection from the climatethan a capot he had on . lie thought that both Piipineau and O'Oallaghan had been taken ^ ami expected to have heard they were ; both , there before him . He says that ( . lie rewards offered leave no room , to doubt they are apprehended . He speaks of himself as " an -infatuated man , " attd wonders how lie could undertake to oppose the British- tJoverivment ^ " winch , ' as be says , " was powerful enough to crush Buonaparte . " He now sees the revolt in its true light , and speaks of the whole undertaking as madness . " :
( Froiria letter in . the Neu > 'YorkMorning Herald . ) " The supply of the markets is beginning to fail , and 1 have no doubt we shall suffer severely in this particular during th » winter . We are dependent altogether upon ) the . country people fdr provisionsupon the habitans , the eastern township people , and those across the line . Tha large meat and . fish come from your side , and the lesser necessaries of life . are supplied-by ourownruralpoyulation . If they should be tampered with , there will be emiJty bellies here .
and " -the . ' . ¦ Canadians ... will suffer accordingly . I remember about four years ago an attempt was made by the Papineau party id break the Montreal bank , by getting the market people to refuse its uote >; It was in vain tuatthe notes of that institution , the most solvent . on the continent , were tendered ; the old women mid market hueki-ters refused any thing but their darliiig French crowns coined ' before th « conquest and / concession , ; this . continued for several market . days ' , < u >< t dire was the grumbling arid serious theinconvtjuienbe occasioned by it . " ' " ; ¦ ¦
( From tltc Montreal Gazette , Dec . 9 . Pierre Ainiot , of Vvreheres , fur whom a reward of £ 100 lias 1 > uen 9 fl ' orod , was arrested last night in his own house by a btulirfV / iiained . Luizelle , and lodged in gaol . . This morning Alpliohse Cauviii t . of'this city , ; late colonel of the rebel army at St . Denis , upon whose / apprehension a similar prenriuni had been set , and -six other prisoners , wore brought to town in . tlie' Varenes steamer , from Soivl , in charge of the viilttiiteeT cavalry , who accompanied Colonel ( i ore ' s Si'cyml expedition . j Yesterday Liuiis . Frechette , of L-Acadie , utcusod of high ti'eiuriui-, vus brought in by a party of the - 2-Lth . and St . John ' s Volunteers .
( From the Quebec Mercury ^ Dec . 12 . ) Br . . Kiuibur arid J { . S . M . Bouchette were both taken by the Missisquoi militia , aud were on the Sth in ^ t . irately lodged -. la St . John ' s . ( iagnon is dt'ad ofhis wounds ; Cti . te escaped . We have just heard from another quarter ' that the { jowrimr of the State of Vermont 'lias , it-sued a proclamation , ordering the rebels to leave the state , und 1 ms allowed them five dsvys to t : ikt > . their departure . So much for American sympathy ! 'Ihe . ' New York Herald , of Bi ^ einber 20 , which has news from . Montreal of "December 13 , and from Quebec of the t ) th , ' says :- — " For the present the war is over . Tile Movi . treal papers are - amusing themselves -with the rumour . s , errura , and blunders of the United States' papers . " ¦// ..
Tlie Albany Argus , had the following paragraph : — _ , ; " Every thing' indicates that the revolutionary struggle in the ( J-auad ;< s— -prctvpitatvi - >\ s it v . inAnui > t edly wiis hy the governnient attempt to secure and silence cfertdin popular leaders , before any plan or materiel for . a forcible resi . stance had been matured or provided- ^ has in a measure spent 'itself , at least lor the present ; and that the PatrioLv , forced into a rupture , without / arms , munitions , organization , military leaders , or discipluw , and with Vm wellappointed , well-paid , well-ot ' iicered , and- , welldrilled government , troops—r ' tiicir ' -Wadiiig ' . men and only advisers ( civilians all , we believe ) proscribed and driven into exile , with a price set upon their hiads , and ; hireling-, bloodhound * : md sjiies at Caeir hedy—must bide their time . Such , it appears' to us , is the aspect of thelatest inluUi ^ cncv i ' rom the Xcrth : ' ' . . ; . • ¦ .- " _ ¦; .
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FLOGGING IN THE ARMY , We did hope , and had reason to suppose , that the practice of flogging in the army was virtually , if not actually , abolished . Many , very many laws , hostile-to public liberty , and under . which individuals have suffered , now remain a dead letter upon the statute . book , rendered obsolete , —though not repealed , —by the strong expression of public opinion . In the list of old customs , opinion has also made ravages , and in no respect more efficaciousl y , than with regard to' the system of soldiec-floggitig .
We shall not enter upon the oft-used arguments about the actual benefit or injurj- rendered to the " service , " ' hy the practice of thus torturing , branding , and . degrading men , with whom pride and selfrespect are necessary qualin ' catious . We are not called upon to produce argumerits against a system , the very continuance of which , in any shape , ! proves it to be inoperative , in producing the anticipated result ; r ^ -but we are about to state ikc . te , startliug facts—facts the more important
because only accidentally ¦ discovered—facts which , if we mistake not , will strike ' every person with this one consideration , at least , that so loiig as soldiers are to be flogged , so long is publication . of the act , the punishment , and its amount , / indispensable / In common law ^ individuals are puiiished not more in Tespect to the crime , than , with reference tof the examp le ; So with flogging . If discipline is the saine throughout the army , an example made in the 15 th Hussars , or any other regiment , should be communicated to the whole armyjbut , so far from such
as line of conduct being pursued , in order to add disgrace to torture , the fellow-soldier isstrictly prohibited from mentioning to his comrade ' the , subject of his
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punishment ; ; Hence a very great difficulty exists as respects information upon the question . / VVe , faowever , have been ver ^ fortunate in learning \ vhat was not intended to pass the prisoa-house . "We shall briefly state those facts which have come to our knowledge , and allow the public to judge for themselves . If we should not be quite accurate in all the minutiie of detail , we pledge
ourselves to the general correctness of the statement . About the beginning of the month of June last , : two troops of the 15 th Hussars were stationed at Leeds , and from that period to the 24 th of November , hot less than six individuals of those two trpops have suffered corporal punishment . Within a period of little more than five months , the following persons ; have been flogged within the Barracks of Leeds ; : — ¦¦ . "' . .,. -. .
On the 31 st of August , Burton , a private of the loth Hussars , was flogged for striking a sergeant , the sergeant having first struck BtrBTQN , and otherwise ill-treated him . Bijrton received 100 lashes . On the 23 rd of September , Rovland was flogged for taking a plain saddle from one of his officers ; he received 100 lashes . If Royland had stolen the saddle from a civilian , he would have been tried at common law . On the 14 th of November , Hyatt received 109 lashes , for breaking out of Barracks when under confinement . v
On the 24 th of November , Joha Canovan received 100 lashes for non-performance of duty at Bradford . Two other individuals , whose names we have not yet learned , have also been flogged Within the period stated . ¦ From this statement of facts , it will be seen that in less than six months , six soldiers have been flogged in two troops . Taking this as a reasonaole average of punishment throughput the regiment , we must come to the conclusion that , in eight troops , ninety-six men have been flogged within the year . We do not exactly know the strength of ea '
troop , but it will be found ,, by the aboA-e scale , that the flogging must have been administered in the proportion of one in fouT , or one in five men . This fact becomes the more appalling when we state ., upon the authority of . a respectable non-commissioned officer , that the prcv sent qommanding officer , at Leeds is beloved by hismen , and looked upon as a most kind and humane officer . We state this to strengthen the just supposition that , in regiments under the command of severe commanding officers , the punishments in the same period of time exceeded those administered to the men of the 15 th . We have not done with the
subject , neither shall we weaken facts by any further comment . We at presorit leave the subject in the hands of Sir W . Molesworth , as Member for Leeds ; and of the London Weekly Dispatch , ^ as the paper most consistent in the reprobation of soldier flogging .
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GLASGOW COTTON SPINNERS . In consequence of the order of court , prohibiting the publication of any portion of the evidence on the trial of the Glasgow Cotton Spinners , we are still unable to furnish our readers with any information on this important subject , further than the fact , that the charge of murder ag ; rinst the four prisoners , who were of the Committee of the Cotton Spinners , h ^ s been struck out of the ¦ indictment ; altogether a great number of witnesses have been examined for the Crown , and if , of the
" sack' ' we may judge from the " sample" we can have little doubt , of the . influence which the proffered reward of £ & ) 0—proffered for the conviction of the prisoner , —has had upon the wicnesses . The following anecdote , narrated by Dr . Taylor ., will illustrate .. our meaning . On Friday last , a witness , after having giveu his direct testimony " with great firmness ar ; d precision , was in the act of
undergoing a cross-examination , when he hesitated ' , —corrected himself—' contradicted himself , —trembled , —grew pule , —shrieked , —and fell apparently lifeless on the Uoor . When he recovered he was again phoed in the witness-box , and to every subsequent question proposed by the Counsel , he replied with a wi ! d look , and an uneasy gesture , . while in agony , and . with uplifted hands he' exelajrned , / " my god , mv cun , he ' s cominci !! he ' s . coming' !"
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XiEKDS . Leeds Cloth Markets . —In the Coloured and White Cloth Halls , there has been a fair average demand Ibr all descriptions of manufactured goods , considering the season of the year . In the warehouses they are very busily employed . Tallow .- ^ The price of this article , in Leeds , is 4 s . Gd . per stone , with a brisk demand . Robbing Lodgings . —On Monday , Mary Boyd was charged at the Court House , with stealing two pillows , the property of John Bean . She had pledged them , and they were afterwards found and identified . The prisoner also admitted having taken the articles , She was fined 40 s , and costs , and . in default of payment committed for fourteen days to Waken * eld House of Correction .
Illegal Pawning .- —On Saturday , Thomas Marshall vras brought up , at the Court House , charged with having pawned a bible , the property of his brother , who resides at the North Hall , near Leeds , The book was found at the broker ' s by the prosecutor , and identified . He was lined £ 4 10 s . and costs , and in default of payment , committed for three months to Wakefield House of Correction . StEALiNG Sideboards . —On Saturday , George
Eddison , of Hunslet , was charged , at the Court House , with stealing two sideboards , belonging to a cart , the property of William Stephenson , on the Tuesday previous . It appeared that on the following day the articles were found at a wheelwright ' s shop in that town , where the prisoner had taken a cartto repair , and the . sideboards in question were ordered to be used for that purpose . They have since been identified , and the prisoner was committed for trial to Wakefield House of
Correction . , " ¦ . : ' Stealing a Pint . —Ou Monday , John Priestley was charged , at the Conrt House , with having stolen , on Saturday night , one silver plated pint , the propert ) - of John Wainwright , landlord of the i ire aud Calder public-house , in Leeds / It appeared that he was met upon the bridge by . some of the watchmen , who suspected him , and took him in charge . On searching his person the pint was found , and was identified by the prosecutor . He was committed for trial to Wakefield House of Correction . .
Assaults . —On Monday , Ilichard Pollard , John Middleton , and Itichard Fozzard , were charged at the Court House with . having assaulted the watchmen , in the execution of their duty . Thev were fined 40 s . each . —On Tuesday , Joseph Eastwood arid John Eastwood , father and son , were charged with having violently assaulted the police , the former by presenting a pistol , and the . latter ; armed himself with a besom , for the purpose of preventing the police from going on board , a vessel , when on duty . The elder prisoner was fined 40 s ,, and ordered to find two sureties in £ 10 eachy to keep the peace for six months ; and the youiiger was fined 20 s . and costs . ; ¦
Washing ( and Wringing Machines . — ¦ — Among all the applications of machinery we find least fault of all with that which displaces the labour of females and children ; and therefore We have great pleasure in referring ; our reader ? to an adveriisemeat in a-nother part of the paper of Wilkihson ' s valuable machine for lessening , if not obviating the necessity for , the severest manual labour , which females have to perform . Many respectable families in Leeds and the neighbourhood having tried these machines , speak very highly of them . ^• Magic . —We are requested to direct the attention of our ' readers to the advertisement of the " Great Magician " inserted in our first page . Mr . Anderson promises much amusement to those who choose to spend an hour with him at the Commercial Buildings : ~
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RADIGAL DINNER irVT LEEDS .
Oh ^ ^ Tuesday ^ ^ evening last , a public dinnerVwas given at the Victoria . Hotel , by ^ the Members of the Leeds Working Men's -Association , in aid « f the objects for which the public meeting ( held / the previous evening in the : Commercial / Buildings ^ had been convened . The several gentlemen who had ; been invited to , and attended , that meeting , were also present at thedinner , Long before the time appointed , the large room of the hotel wag completely filled , and upwards of one hundred
persons were obliged to return to their homes without being able to join in at the festive board . This mismanagement arose from the fact of the host having stated that he could dine 300 person *; when the fact was , he could not find accommodation for more than 200 .- Some ; confusion was the necessary consequence . This , however , soon subi sided , on admitting into the room , ^ after ^ inner ^ as many as could possibly be crammed in , to witness the . after-proceedings . ; / ¦ : / : /
The attendance of the Holbeck Temperanc Band must riot be oyerlobked . With a disinterestedness which does them great credit , these gentlemen rendered their gratuitous assistance , and greatlj enlivened the festivities of the evening . In connection with this we feel compelled also to notice the fact , of their having , been grossly and wantonly insulted by the mercenary landlord , who could hot afford to find them glasses to drink water out of . When will working inen have self-respect enough to provide against the recurrence of these indignities ^ by building halls of their own in which , they < riiight hold their meetings unmolestedly . /
Mr . G , White , a member of the Working Men ' s Association was in the chair . Hecommeneed the speaking-business of the evening with a few preparatory remarksj and then gave---. . " The People : may they soon enjoy those poetical and social rights which their utility deserves , and their birthright demands . " ; : ; ¦ / . Mr ; Buchanan , a working man from Huddersfield , ro « e to Speak to the toast . He paid many
compliments to the people , described them as the legitimate source of all power , all weath , and all law—as those by whose means the luxuries of thegreat , and the comforts of the humble , were alikeprovided . He deplored the oppression to which they were subjected , but hoped , the day was not far distant when their freedom would be sealed and their triumph sure . His speech was a . specimen of superior eloquence , andivas loudly applaudedby the meetingV- ¦ " // . / , - ' --. - .- / : / , ;/'/;/ ¦/ . ¦ - ¦ . ¦
Mr . Robert Martin ,. after an excellent and appropriate speech , in which he commented oh the . consistency and patriotism of Mr . Crawford ' s political career , presented that gentleman with the follow ^ irig address , expressive of the estimation in which the working men of Leeds held him and his etfbrtson behalf of the people . / : ' /;• . ¦'
TO SHARMAN CRAWFORD , ESQUIEE . Sin , —As a deputation of the Working Men of Leeds , we are desired by our fellow operatives to thank you , for the : manly stand you have made oa . behalf- of real justice to the people , as jvell of Ire-• hiiid as of England and Scotland . Sir , as you have admirably stated , ' . real justice to Ireland , ' ¦' : is justice to us . We repel with ihdigiiation the calumuy , that we the Radicals of England are careless : about the w oil being of the people of Ireland . / We seize- with gladness the opportunity , of your presence , as the friend of above twoinilUohs of starving . Irishmen , to assure our oppressed , brethreii , that we as ardentlydesire good goveniinent for them , as we do for
ourselves . Ivor some time past the Radicals of England ^ have refused to join in the mock cry of " Justice to Irolaiid , " because we found it was confined to tke promotion of the welfare of a few , and the utter neglect of the very e . viteuce qf the many . ' It istrue that we refused to be the miserable tools of a party which has no sympathies for the staning millions- ^ -which seeks to deny meu . even the small miserable iheans they , now possess of preventing their -wages being reduced to starvation point , by combining to keep up the value of oUr labour ^ asthose who employ us combine to reduce it to thelowest possible standard . It . is true we have refused to join a silly cry for justice when . ' the men who raised it , declared that above two millions of our
brethren in Ireland must starve lest any provision for them should affect the interests of a few wealthy liuidlords . But how sir , that you , a wealthy landlord yourself , have come amongst us , and raised the standard of real justice to the people of Ireland as wellas to our own land , we the Radicals ) of Englitiid shall convince our fellow men across the channel that our most ardent wish is to unite with you and every real friend of justice , in promotiug the well being of the millions , iii both countries ; aud in ensuring to every unwilling idler that subsitauce wrhich , as you have so eloquently declared , is the first filiargi-. oii tlie . land , althoughpretended ^ Radicals wish it to be .. exempted- wholly , fromcoutributiiig to support the meu who are born on it . ¦
In tlie name of tlie Radicals of England , ; we tHank you for all your magiianimous efforts oil behalf of Justice to .-the working millions . We feelthat , likeour friend O'Connor , you are braving calumny in inaiiitamiug out ; : cause , and be assuredthat to our li ' ttest . Jife we shall remember ^ with gladness the day ohwluch Sliarniau Crawford came forward amongst us ; to enable the Radicals of England to shew that Witli Ue . iid , heart , and hand , they are ready , at all times , to aid the true friend of Ireland in doing real jiistice to tlie brave , generous , and excellent people of ¦
" The first llower of the earth The first gem . of the sea . " ; .-. With every feeling of esteem arid respect which are demanded by your noble and generous sympatliiejs for the oppressed classes , . " ¦ ' .. H ' eare , Sir , : . ;'' ; .. Your faithful friends , . Mr ; PiTKETHLEY , of Huddersfield , begged , as a delegate from a town which could not have the honour of a visit from Mr . Crawford , to append his name to that address on behalf of the wbrking men ofHuddersfield . , ; . / , . ' - .. _ . ' . ¦ , / ; ¦ ' . ; - Dr . Eletcheb , begged to be permitted the same favour on behalf of the men of Bury ;
Mr . Crabtree stated that he should be in danger , if he returned to Barnsley ; Without prefer ing a similar claim on behalf of the workirie men of that town . / /•; , ' .. X H . Beaumont , Esq . begged to affix his name , on behalf , and in the name btV the Working Men ' s Association of Newcastle ; and various other places in the North of EDgland . : . ^ /^ Dr . Taylor must not omit to have the Radical * of Scotland included ; in the phalanx . The men of Scotland knew , and rightly estimated , Mr : Crawford as the friend of his kind ; and on behalf of the . working men of that kingdom , he begged ^ to be allo % ved to subscribe the addresi . The ReV . Mr . Wrr . T . nf Wull onJJ U ^ ___ i . « : _ t ..
felt with his friend on the left ( Mr ; Grabtree ) , tha ' t be should be in danger of forfeiting a cop ' siderable share of the confidence and good opiiiiqn of ^ the working men of Hull ; if he omitted to request that they , too ^ mi ght he included in the meed of approbation . He had had no opportunity of consulting with tem on the natter immediately in bandv but he ^ knew so well their views and ; sentiments on the subjects on which he bad had the honour ib be edited by Mr . Crawford on the preceding Evening : rnd h e . ajso knevr / so ^ well the estimation Sn : which they held that worthy and excellent gentlemak that he-felt it to be his / duty to request / that he might be allowed , on their behalf , to affix his signatureto he-address . ¦ / -
'/ ' Mr . FeABGTJS O'Connor then rose ; and said that as different sections of the country had , throngh their repreHentatives , testified their concurrence in the- o {> imons of his excellent friend , expressed by the . working men of Leeds , and the gratitude which was due to him from the country—he must now vzgto-nmte the whole in one lump , and on behalf of all the Radical Associations of the United Kingdoni , to affix ^ his signature to that address . . Mr ; ^ Sharman Crawfobp rose to acknow--ledge the complimeut paid him by the members of the . Working Men ' s Association . / He ielt over-\ vnelmed by their kindnessbut he would not
waste-, their timab y any expressoins of gratitude , but would direct their attention inore immediately to the course of : policy adopted by the Whigs In reference to that country . First it was necessary : that ^ they should know what bad been the course of policy adopted by the Whigs in reference to Ireland . ^ econdlyVit was necessary for them ; to know this , because it was evidently intended that all thajt had been done in reference to Ireland wa ? a mere experiment ' which would ultimately be tried / upon England . ( Hear . 1 I he first measure of the Whigs to which he would ter
rc , was the Tithe question . It was well known thatjt bill was brought into the House of Common * > Ylhe Whigs relative to Redistribution of tithes . — lhe first ^ neasureoa that head provided that-threetenths : of the tithes should be given to , the landords , five tenths to the ; clergy and ont-tenth to the people ; yes , one-tenth to the people . ( Sname ; ahame . ) But Aat bill did pols ^ : one ^ oed ^ qualitv ^^ P fe ^ ^ hoQ of sdnecwes in ^ the Churcir lhe ; Wbigs knew very ^ well that they « 6 uld hot carry it ; jiut for the sake of their popularity th « y hndintroduced it , knowing it would be ^ rejected by the House of Peers . It was rejected ; and the next step was to abandon that clause which abolished j-inecures , and introduce it without that provision .
The Noktherff Star. Saturday, January 13, 1838.
THE NOKTHERff STAR . SATURDAY , JANUARY 13 , 1838 .
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