off. Both armies left the field; but
the British resumed it that night to
take care of the wounded. These,
British and Americans, were indis-
criminately loaded into waggons and
taken to a house half a mile up the
lane. Eight hundred bodies were
heaped together and burnt in one
spot. Gen. Brown's horse was kill-
ed under him before the armies
came in close contact; and he re-
ceived two wounds, but continued to
command until the action ended.
Gen. Riall was taken prisoner in the
lane near where it intersects with
the road. An old house stands near
the height which is perforated with
hundreds of bullets. Next morning
when the American army resumed
the field, the whole ground was red
with blood. The number of the
British in this action was almost
twice that of the Americans; and
their loss in killed and wounded was
Never did men ac-
proportionate.
quit themselves with more honor
British
than did our little band.
subjects who were present or in the
vicinity now admit that their troops.
never before met with so obstinate
an enemy-an enemy who, to use
their own language, were so obdu-
rate as to fight even after they were

At half past four o'clock, P. M. of July 25, the Americans were seen advancing in the open plain almost directly against Niagara falls, when a tremendous cannonade commenced from the British artillery which was posted on the hill over which the lane that gives name to the battle passes. The British force was composed of 5000 of the best troops, commanded by Gen. Riall: being numerically superior to the Americans, he was able to extend his line, so as to attempt to flank. Gen. Scott repeatedly, charged at the head of his troops, before the reserve, consisting of Ripley's brigade and Porter's volunteers, was brought fully into action. The ground was obstinately contested until nine o'-beaten! Gen. Brown in his official clock in the evening, when General Brown, perceiving the great disadvantage he laboured under from the British cannon on the commanding eminence, ordered Col. Miller to storm the battery. This charge was successfully made by our intrepid soldier and his comrades-the enemy was driven from his battery, and the cannon taken. The battle continued in one unceasing blaze of fire until ten o'clock in the evening, The British, for the time, retired Gen. Drummond having, after the down the river towards Queenston, cannon were taken, come to the aid but recovering from the effects of of Riall with fresh troops. In the the battle of Lundy's Lane, and redarkness of the night friends were ceiving continued reinforcements, repeatedly mistaken for enemies; thought themselves sufficiently and it is said the British twice char-strong to commence offensive ope

report particularly noticed the brave and prudent conduct of Generals Scott and Ripley, and of Col. Miller and others. Near this ground, I met a British soldier driving a team, who had his arm shot off close to his body in this battle; Maj. Loanard, of the British army, resides near the spot, and carries a bullet in his hip which was received in this action.

ged on their own men. No one ratious. On the 15th August, the could tell how or why the battle left enemy under the command of Gen.

him with comparative kindness, only taking his money.

The assault was preceeded by a cannonade and bombardment, which begun on the morning of the 13th and continued in the day on that and the following day: it commenced at half past two on the morning of the 15th. The assailants were defeated, with the loss of 582 in killed, wounded and prisoners, exclusive of the two hundred supposed to have been killed in the water.

The enemy continued in the

Drummond attempted to storm Fort Erie. The assaultwas desperate, and the means for accomplishing it were great, and supposed to be ample. Fort Erie is situated at the foot of the Lake of that name near the commencement of Niagara river, and is about three miles accross the water from Buf falo. We crossed the water and viewed the ruins of the fort, the entrenchments behind which were the American lines, and the works which the enemy threw up in the woods about five hundred yards dis-neighbourhood of fort Erie,strengthtant. In the attack on the fort, the ing and extending his works, aided British were repeatedly repulsed, by reinforcements, sure of the ultiand as often returned to the charge: mate capture or destruction of the at length they carried a bastion and garrison. Their works were about entered the fort, Col. Drummond five hundred yards distant from the crying out as he entered, "Give the fort covered by a wood, and were dd yankees no quarters." Lieut. very strong, consisting of a breastM'Dougal, who commanded the work connecting their batteries, and bastion, was shot down after he de- of successive lines of entrenchments manded quarter. The bastion was, in their rear covering their batteries however, afterwards recovered with and enfilading each other; and the the greatest display of courage and whole obstructed by abattis, brush, exertion; and the wretch who gave and felled timber. His infantry was the order for no quarter was killed. formed into three brigades of about Col. Towson's artilery occupied the 1500 men each; one of which, with left of the American line, and from a strong detachment of artillery, ocit, in the darkness of the night, issu-cupied the works in front, while the ed a constant stream of the fire, pouring destruction on the assailants Col. Wood's artillery was on the right, and did execution on the enemy. The infantry occupied the centre. From the right to left, the distance is eighty to one hundred rods, extending to the water at both points. Once the assailants came up under the bank and attempted to enter the American lines by waiding through the water on the left flank near Towson's battery: here they were defeated, and more than two hundred are said to have been killed, the dead bodies floating down the stream. In the extreame darkness, a few Americans were taken prisoners, who were treated with great cruelty. Lieut. Fontaine fortunately, as he said, fell into the hands of the Indians, who treated

remainder were posted in the rear. The Americans had already suffered much from two of the enemy's batteries, and a third was about to be opened.

Gen. Brown, having recovered from his wounds, and resumed the active command, on the 17th September, directed the army to march at noon to the intended assault. The assaulting party marched out in three divisions: Brig. Gen. Davis of the New-York militia, commanded the left, Col. Gibson the right, and Col. Wood the centre, the whole under the general direction of Gen. Porter of the volunteers. The three first were killed while gallantly leading on their troops, and Gen. Porter was wounded. After the action had commenced, says Gen. Brown, "I hastened and

directed Gen. Miller to seize the moment and pierce the enemy's entrenchments between batteries No. 2 and 3. My orders were promptly and ably executed. Within 30 minutes after the first gun was fired, batteries No.2 and 3,of the enemy's line of entrenchments, and his two block, houses, were in our possession

giving way as the ball passed. The battle lasted more than two hours, and the entire force of ine British was brought up, consisting principally of regulars under the command of Lieut. Gen. Drummond. Gen. Gaines was the active commander of the Americans, although Gen. Brown as his superior, directed the

So satisfied was the

British general of his inability to contend, even aided by his veterans, against the raw soldiers that formed the American army, that he broke up his camp during the night of the 21st Sept. and retired to his entrenchments down the river about twenty miles behind the Chippewa river. The British loss exceeded, from the most probable account, 1000 men: the Americans lost, in killed, wounded, and missing 511. "Thus says Gen Brown, one thousand regulars, and an equal portion of militia, in one hour of close action, blasted the hopes of the enemy, destroyed the fruits of fifty days labor, and diminished his effective force one thousand men at least."

movements. Soon after battery No. 1 was abandoned by the british. The guns in each were spiked by us, or otherwise destroyed, and the magazine was blown up," Three of these pieces, captured and spiked on that occasion by the intrepid favorite of New-Hampshire, were long 24 pounders, we found lying on the ground, too large and unwieldy to be removed from the spot to be converted to other uses. From a view of the situation, I am convinced that this successful assault could be scarcely less creditable to the determined courage of Miller and those with him, than was the previous attack and capture of the British artillery at Lundy's Lane: there must have been fearful odds between the assailants and the assailed: the one marching up in open field exposed to a galling fire of cannon and musketry -the other covered completely by their breast works and the woods. Among the officers who assisted Gen. Mille in this perilous attack, was Lieut. Col. Upham, the present collector of the port of Portsmouth. General Ripley, who was engaged in another part of the field, was on this day shot through the neck, and taken up for dead. It would seem to be impossible that any man should receive such a wound and survive.

The smallest needle run through the neck in the same direction would have been fatal to life, as it must have pierced the principle veins of the neck. The escape with life can only be attributed to the flexibility of the veins, the exterior covering of which prevented the ball from entering, and the vein itself

The events which I have sketched may still be fresh in the recollection of many readers of the Patriot: but they are events too interesting to tire the patience by a repetition after the lapse of thirteen years. The scene of these battles is to me highly interesting.

From reading the detached accounts of them, before visiting the ground, I had formed but an imperfect opinion of them; and I do not know that I shall succeed in placing on paper my own present impressions so as to throw any additional light on the subject. Although the Americans were not successful in their attempt to drive the British from this important point from whence they had it constantly, in their power to assail our frontier set. tlements; yet they did succeed in these four important battles to establish a name for martial prowess and bravery, the recollection of which will remain to posterity.

the government, any farther, than saying a fortification is intended,— and which, if the same regard is had to strength, already displayed in the sea wall, it will be a wonderful battlement. Under the superintendance of Capt. Smith, whose good judgement has been exercised in the beginning, we may expect to see a fort in the outer harbour that will bid defiance to all the ships of war that ever sailed.

Gallup's island, the property of the present oce pant, is small, low, and productive. It resembles a well cultivated, farm, with suitable mowing lots &c. though the crumbling of the earth at the north sides, must convince the spectator that it will disappear in the course of another generation.

The funeral discourse on the death

virtical section, and hence there is a perpendicular bank facing the north, while the south and west, gradually slope to the edge. To the east, the tide has made some destruction, but it bears no proportion to the north. This peculiarity is obgeivable in all the islands which have soil. Towards the outer light house, the islands are almost barren ledges of rocks, having been washed of the earth, from time immemorial. It is on the north eastern sides, that the most danger is to be apprehended. Thompson's Island, lying between the castle and Moon Head, is secured by natural barriers, as the former receives and resists the force of the tide before it reaches Thonipson's; but Long Island, although defended in a measure by Rainsford, Gailup,George's and Lovel's Island, has lost considerable soil Specta- ticularize the other islands, and In our next paper we shall parcle Island, so called from its suppos-gether all the historical facts within ed resemblance to a pair of spectaour reach concerning them. cles, is sitting away by slow degrees, and nothing will prevent it. Georges' Island is the Key to the harbor, --commanding the open sea,--af- of JOHN ADAMS, pronounced before fording one of the best places for the Academy of Arts and Sciences, fortifications, of any among the on Monday last, by President Kirknumber. There is an elevation on land, is spoken of as a masterpiece the east and northeast, nearly fifty, of biographical history and classical feet above high water mark, in some eloquence. It is to be printed shortplaces, with an easy ascent towards ly we hope, that the public, generalthe south and southwest to the chan-ly, may be in posession of what must nel. This is the property of the be doubly interesting to them-a United States. Fifty two thousand sketch of the character of one of dollars have already been appropria-their most illustrious patriots and ted by Government for building a sages-drawn by the glowing pensea wall on the northeast. A trench cil of one of their most eminent was dug at the foot, below the low, scholars and divines. water mark, in which the foundation has been laid. This was made of i "The Soul of the Soldiery," one split stone, of great weight, and bolt-, ed together with copper. We have never seen any masonry that would compare with it, in point of strength and workmanship. On this, a second wa I is to be erected, equally formidable, on which the artillery is to be mounted. Not knowing exactly the plan to be pursued, we cannot give our readers the views of

of our most efficient and interesting military corps, paraded on Wednesday last, under Capt Cook for the purpose of celebrating their anniversa.y. It is known, that this company is composed of the Sargents of the different city corps, and of course it would be superfluous praise to speak of their precision and military correctuess.

On this