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PRICE 8d. this matter in a true, and, to the public, en- | by our troops on the left bank, every Ameritirely new, light; and, beyond all question, to can, whose bosom glows with the love of his substantiate the facts, that the general result country, must learn with pain the contrast of the combinations of the British leader was exhibited in what took place on the right, the eminently successful,-and that, if the advan-consequences of which were likely to have tages he had secured had been followed up, been so disastrous, that even now my mind after his lamented fall and irreparable loss to shudders at the recollection of that moment, the army, General Jackson must have been when, seeing our troops on the right bank fall compelled to abandon his position, and to re-back in disorder, while the enemy was rapidly sign to us the possession of New Orleans. advancing towards the efty, all of us, who were at Jackson's lines, were suddenly hurried from the transporting joy of victory to the fear of shortly seeing all its advantages wrested from our grasp." Before, however, the irrefragable proofs alluded to are produced, it is necessary to bear in mind, that, according to the plan of attack for the 8th of January, a corps was to cross over to the right bank of the Mississippi, so as to reach and carry the enemy's works there a little before day-break, that being the period fixed on for the assault of the American lines on the left bank of the river, which were ordered to be attacked in three columns, supported by a strong reserve. And it is likewise proper to call the reader's attention to the fact, that the heavy loss sustained by us in the latter attack was, as stated by the author, mainly attributable to the misconduct and disobedience of the officer commanding the battalion, whose duty it was to carry the fascines, &c. After the unanswerable testimony contained in the two preceding documents, it may be considered unnecessary, perhaps, to add the following extract from the Life of General Jackson, by his aide-de-camp, Major Reid. The Campaigns of the British Army at Washgton and New Orleans, in the Years 1814-15. By the Author of the "Subaltern." 3d edition, corrected and revised. mo. pp. 387. London, 1828. J. Murray. ATVIEW of this volume, so justly a favourite, mly with the army, but with the general e, in the last Number of the Quarterly te, has reminded us of a duty which we ved to its very popular author. But after it run the gauntlet of the whole class of milireaders, and been so fully discussed by vers in periodicals of every kind, we Fardly venture to produce any thing new mbject, were we not enabled to present tement, which we flatter ourselves will a deep interest, especially among the "The heartfelt joy at the glorious victory on to whose exploits it relates, and achieved on our side of the river was clouded more perfect and accurate view of the by the disaster witnessed on the other. A al event that occurred during the war, position was gained that secured to the enemy as hitherto met the public eye, either on advantages the most important, and whence on the other side of the Atlantic. they might annoy our whole line on the left Yes who have treated on military events bank. But for the precaution of Commodore mazeded in throwing so great a degree Paterson, in spiking his guns and destroying et on what they relate, as the author his ammunition, it would have been in the ected in his account of the American In redeeming the pledge we have just power of Colonel Thornton to have completely ; but it is greatly to be lamented, given, we now submit to the reader the fol- enfiladed, and rendered it altogether untendid not, in a work obtaining so ex-lowing decisive extract from General Jackson's able.† The a drculation, enter more fully into all despatch :opportunity thus afforded of regaining a posi-mstances influencing the unhappy ter- Simultaneously with his advance upon my tion, on which, in a great measure, depended of the New Orleans expedition; as, lines, he had thrown over in his boats a con- the safety of those on the opposite shore, was had been the case, he could not have siderable force to the other side of the river. accepted of with an avidity its importance to have led every soldier to the convic- These, having landed, were hardy enough to merited." that Sir Edward Pakenham, under the advance against the works of General Morgan; Thus have we irresistibly demonstrated, on and unprecedented combination of dif- and, what is strange and difficult to account the overwhelming evidence of our enemies, indident to the position in which he for, at the very moment when their entire that Sir Edward Pakenham fell, not, as has the troops on his assuming the com-discomfiture was looked for with a confidence been usually supposed, after an utter and dishad yet completely succeeded, notwith- approaching to certainty, the Kentucky re-astrous defeat, but at the very moment when the heavy loss sustained on the left inforcements, in whom so much reliance had the arms of victory were extended towards the Mississippi, in rendering the posi- been placed, ingloriously fled, drawing after him. And that if, on grounds upon which the enemy utterly untenable; and had them, by their example, the remainder of the our present limits do not permit us to enter, it aid the basis of the fullest, the most forces; and thus yielding to the enemy that were deemed advisable, after the death of the , and most immediate success. To most formidable position. The batteries, which lamented commander of the forces, to relin. which strong, and, perhaps to some, had rendered me for so many days the most quish our "most fortunate and commanding d assertions, we will adduce the in- important service, though bravely defended, attitude," not the remotest blame can, by le evidence of General Jackson him- were, of course, now abandoned,not, how- possibility, on that account, attach to his me his public despatch; and of the ever, until the guns were spiked. This unfor- mory. chief engineer, in his official ac-tunate rout had totally changed the aspect of ished of the operations. affairs. The enemy now occupied a position ely acquainted, as we are, with the from which they might annoy us without hasard, ordinary concatenation of untoward and by means of which they might have been which occurred to render unavailing able to defeat, in a great measure, the effects of tions plan of attack and operation of our success on this side the river. af January, we deeply regret that our permit us to enter into those rpossession, which are calculated explain and to make apparent all tances which led to the unfortuof the expedition, and thereby to ample justice to the memory of most accomplished soldiers that d the profession of arms. But to enable the military reader to judge more fairly on the subject, we would only add, that, at the moment of this abandonment of our vantage, ground, we had an effective force of 6,400 men (besides the 40th regiment, which was then hourly expected); I need not tell you with how much eagerness and eight heavy guns, out of the sixteen capI immediately regained possession of the posi-tured on the right bank, had been turned tion he had thus happily quitted." upon the reverse, and in enfilade of the enemy's General Jackson's above frank and ample lines; while our armed boats, then floating in admissions are fully supported by the American chief engineer, who says "After having perused with pleasing sensations the recital of the brilliant defence made Before we withdrew from the right bank, we had ugh our space does not admit of unspiked eight of the guns with the greatest case (as the that which our feelings would dic-spike generally flew out on the first attempt), and there it in sufficient to enable us to place spiking of the whole.. is no doubt but success would have attended the un the Mississippi (the entire command of which river, for an extent of five miles, we had just succeeded in acquiring), could have rendered us the most important co-operating aid towards In the preceding note it has been already stated, that eight of the guns had been unsplked by us, and that there was no doubt of our succeeding with the whole. Thus, therefore, according to the above authority, the American lines were altogether untenable." 4 boy #fuqd : macks, there was e wats tree upset or super lies at the becam --- asif, swampy, and crvers the climate, I never t place under heaven : make summer and winter in t the daytime we were sco we were frozen. Who otice about the boats' b - sen a man has been bitten the job. The Nathans played se men; but it was all up with ae boats got alongside; and, sl acis, pistols, tomahawks, and pikes, as, as they grappled up the side, th ught quarter in surrender. Afte es, we landed the troopers at the es, not far from the Mississippi. ever see the Indians of this country, are a kind of copper-coloured vagal ins as hard as tanned leather; nurs, feathers, and blankets, a as with whatever they could find to sus as to their women, Wad, though ave sparkling black eyes, I would no in one of them with a pair of nasty, dirty, drable-tailed, swashy-l LAWS! I never was so out of concei eticoat, though their covering scarce serves that name. They travel toget The trees, and would sleep in swamps. It bunting-party that came to us. lead shots with the bow and arrow, and SUBping knives by their sides; but fo g- hearts. I know not what they are made apney Jumped at the tick of a watch, Jig uncers made one of their kings drunk ; wwed, yelled, and roared like a ma ewares he said was the war-cry. But aps on with the dismals I have to tel Sanner. Our sogers had scarcely taken wrth on the banks of the river, filed the aua the darkening, and began to ya şi peosin grub, when softly comes a brave uí" V 8 king down with the stream, and messmate, my shipmate for years past,~~Tom, | It is and has been our constant wish to mig went with a shower of Salamanca ¦ self in the stern-sheets of our boat, and had up inquiries into subjects of utility and import. tiem, to make another reckoning [rot into the broad part of the lake, on our way ance to our fellow creatures with the more di. 91 a battery was thrown up abreast į towards the fleet by nightfall ; but none of the j versiñed themes of polite literature and amuse, te vonuria, and at daybreak our artillerymen į smali craft stationed to receive the boats were ment: thus we recently called public attention vand um well they could bore holes at water. in sight, as the weather was thick and misty.to the abominable muisance which, under the tes, and the craft went no more back to Presently the fog was blown away by a strong | name of prize water, supplies liquid filth to the Another squad of then arrived, and | breeze, which, before the first watch was over, inhabitants of London; and we now take up a os gueral, who took the command. † freshened into a gale right in our teeth, ac- question of no less humane concernment, and one ve perparatinas were made; but as we¦ companied by drifting rain. Soon we were wet upon which, in like manner, the wisdom of re, the Yankees gained strength. But and weary, and began to lag at our ours; not parliament is at this period employed. ve us to emer, Gunner,atand facing me freshened, you may be mare, Wad, by the There are indeed few subiects of a deeper and sang arms stretched out. The broad groaning of the poor wounded fellows near more affecting interest than insanity; and all * to, ang like a sluice post the end of us, lying flat on their backs, and covered over inquiries and labours, the tendency of which is "e'i hand towards mine, as I am hold. with a drenched sal. We were at last corn-either to diminish its frequency or to møgest *1 en the other side of the river is a pelled to pull towards the swampy shores for the best means of alleviating its horrors, are per towards your nose, which smooth water, and there let go our grapuel. entitled to the most serious consideration of the he centre of the Yankee lines. Your None of us were in a humour for talk ; and country. d, and in a swampy wood, thicker and more, as the boat jerked in the short seas, throwing In his Introduction, Sir Andrew Halliday ới than a jurgie, and not less fordable the spray over her bows, we sat silent, cld, | says that it is tow Incontrovertit ly established, the river, with a battery at the edge, cramped, and wet, watching for daylight. 1(t) at madness proceeds in all cases from some by wrack, a canal runs athwart to the river, never went through such a night in all my real tangitide bontily complaint; that it can be be a sus canal in a strong earthen fence, horn days, Gunner. I sat aft, close by Tom treated according to the known rules of prae. # “ni, au thơe un 4, with cotton bags, behind Smith ; he did not speak. We heard nothing|tion; made amenable to the ordinary discipline vas we the Nashans. My arms are the but the sweep and rustle of the waves, and the of the apothecary's shop; and often more easily lagu kam: they are not so long or strong plush, plash, plash, of the big drop of rain, j removed than les troportant diseases that have ko's and we are just out of shot of each that now fell on and about us, The midd'e effected a temporary badgement in the hamati Next my right hand are some hat. watch came; Smith groaned heavily. * five frame. He observes, that the remote cuvines of In we threw up with casas of sugar, which me your hand,' said he, and he raised himself j insanity may be as numerous and complicated I got at read er thats sarad, though they are on his wounded arm ; · Tom,' said he again, as the pamions of the wil, or the Invines or ona shakes in rainy weather. A good be kind to my poor mother; give her my malades of the body are known to be undefined * and my left land is a canal we cut pay and my watch-here, here, here-bid and comintless; at that the proxin v'e cause, De frees to the river, for the boats to go bad-bod-God bless her! He then sank onlor, in fact, the disease itself, will always be Avet. Weil, Grunner, bel-id us, the night the plank, and his cold and wet hand fell away found to arise from a deranged or d seated We car buttə, in front of each other: the from mine. Daylight came ; the boat shipped i state of the structure of the brain; and that, da, con bandu plaving Yankee Doodle; and so much water that one man was kept com.) whether it proceed from deranged organs or sh, vac sure the King! Well, I say, follow stantly haling. Town Smith was dead. The diseased structure, the mind, quả mind, is ***@darking, and rousing the boats young officer, noble fellow as he was, looked 'ne ther injured nor in paired ; but, not having bug can thush into the river all night at him. • Poor soul!" said he, * he's gone' the means of making shelf known, or of giving me. Now, imup alxaurd the boats at daylight, we must bury him-prepare a few dimbie, lits ideas form and utterance, ex ept through pla a verte of wigere and marines, land them headed shots. Stand up, men-pull off your, the medium of instruments no longer fit for ↑ the dam wide, pull up aking-shore......see the hats ;" and, as the rain and wind whistled wild the purpose...we discover, in proportion to the • maken to clomid sek at a rocket flving about our heads in this dark and dreary morn. degree of that unfitiems, more or less of the -**- then mark the flashes glimmering ing, he said, * Commit his body to the deep; phenomena which const túte madi eur Mg the last w he is the roiling sounds of God be merciful to his soul !" "Oh, Gunner he masonry had fram, hårrag of the cannon; had you seets the look of agony of the pour or man, Wad ... strain your eves, limbiess souls that lay next to him, when the kot se merry have gained the Yankee lines, corpse was plunged into the water, you would Una mn I did. Look, now, at a never have forgotten it! Will you believe it, ** qu: boat sinabing towards us; hear Wad ? some of their wounds fairly putrefied · E. -hark the troops !' and yon 'before we got them to the fleet; and many and @sgth of our mugs. Back many a brave fellow & ed on the way, and was ala ere “zame whiɔ were killed in taking | thrown overboard. My heart hied to see the It was aŭ mp, the trips with poor legless men lying bleeding in the stera. | *** det liten, ent up at a precious rate, I sheets of the heats, and the rain pelting upor ed like beroes to the ditch, few them; and then for the broil - ₫ sun's rays an, to Mid many were left there. The the litter freezing rights. Men are men, a': rbetad their fence, worked the world over, Gunter, and have their turn a The details in the early prt of the vul.me them at every crack, till they tof good and bad hick; bet those who know are estimang but we can give only a very they say it was a gallant sight nothing but victory, know nothing of war, rew of the principal facts. In this count y new generals, who saw the day Wad. I never were a pen-jacket till I had the first act of parlament that was passed examp in front with their heen thorem,gh hy waked, and was often ahon ng on the sheet was in 1774; and although their men ; but it was sor. in my car where there was no rullock, toli tr the itafe, of it has king been ANEY. falk, w-timit be ing able to and experience, ist prøverted my fuster, in 17111 ad, it is at, 1 the only law by wi the nigh the tence among their told me what I evriu do. England has nothing losses are Lorried and regn tated in Englar 4 was the fortune of war, Wat; to fear from the Yankees, now all the nation's and Wales. In i razer at was passed, of the earth put together, in the way of fight, faith mong the mac strates of the several sanatio that's certain; she has stond it out agaitlium to erect an ima them al', and will stand it mat aguill." ! The body of the work may be considered as being divided into two parts. The first part contains a brief but 13 tervet g history of what has been done for the benett of the insane la mich countries as, during the devotion of five. and-twenty years to the wil eet, Br. Andrew has had an opportunity of vatrg kotuarif, or from which he has received offerai and an. the Le information; and t'e recrud part Tedy punts ont what in his op nam, rom kina to be done, and partuularly in E-g'and, for the safe custody & mane treatment, atud jirugarr care, of al, such be'; es un foroth at of the !, mad. galand Wales are evet poned havo (gered Having established the important facts with the assertion of which we set out, we must now conclude, by once more recommending this work as instructive to the military, and as highly interesting and amusing to the general, reader. And we cannot resist adding, that no writer of the present day approaches the author in his graphic and entertaining delineation of military events. The Night Watch; or Tales of the Sea. 2 vols. 12mo. London, 1828. H. Colburn. As pieces of invention, done up with the skill of book-making, we can perhaps say little in praise of these Tales of the Sea; but as furnishing many vigorous sketches of naval manners and feelings, we have had considerable pleasure in perusing them. They purport to give the life of an officer; and, as every thing must have a beginning, they set out with his birth, we mean his being born, and not his birth after he is borne on the ship's books,-go through his education, describe his friends in the country, and at a fit age send him to sea. As these particulars, however, are neither so novel to us nor so characteristic as the parts which relate to the adventures in naval service, we shall go at once to where the stories of the captain, master, boatswain, doctor, and a prisoner of war, afford various entertainment to the reader. Our first extract paints a Dutch traveller, who had seen London, and between whom and an Englishman the following conversation takes place : the accomplishment of the certain success that | patriot-England expects every man to do of critical penetration. It happens, that among the combinations of the gallant Sir Edward his duty' flew at the Victory's mast-head. his other services in the north, south, east, and Pakenham had placed within the grasp of the Instantly an enthusiastic murmur of approba- west, he is on the expedition against New British arms. tion spread from ship to ship, from deck to Orleans; and as that calamitous action is a deck, from gun to gun, from man to man. A subject of discussion in this Number of our few straggling shot hissing through the air in- Journal, we do not think we can better illusdicated the near approach of the fleets, and a trate these volumes than by adding a sailor's loud, long-drawn fire of heavy cannon soon view of it, which, though dressed in sea-lingo, shewed the lee division breaking the dark con- and appearing in a work of this class, we have cave line of the enemy. "Bravo! Colling-every reason to believe to be extremely correct wood!' was in every heart, and there was but in its details. one common soul in the fleet. Many a valiant "But now comes that infernal affair, New heart beat high with expectation, which was Orleans, Gunner: a more horrid business was doomed never to survive another day. Many never gone through by man or beast. May an eye gazed that moment on the instruments be you don't know Lake Borgne? and yet it of death, which in a few short hours were to is no lake, for it opens out into the Gulf of close it for ever. The ships passed on to their Mexico. It is a very shoal navigation, so that stations, the battle became general, loud peals we had often seventy miles to go in open boats, of cannon roared thoughout the line, fire loaded with sogers; and buckled and belted as they gleamed on the ocean, and the air was filled were with knapsacks, there was no swimming with the thick fumes of sulphur. The very for it when the boats were upset or sunk, and masts shook in their sockets, the sails trem- many a poor trooper lies at the bottom there. bled, and the affrighted wind breathed low. The shores are low, swampy, and covered with The stately ships which so lately sailed gaily reeds; and for the climate, I never thought forth, now presented the mangled appearance there was such a place under heaven ;—a place of wreck, giving evidence of the deadly strife where you have summer and winter in twenty. that was at work, till ship grappled with ship, four hours. In the daytime we were scorched: and man with man. The day advanced, crash in the night we were frozen. Who would succeeding crash of the falling masts, till have thought of ice about the boats' bows ir amidst the groans of the dying, and the loud a place so near the West Indies, Gunner i huzzas of the victors, the great struggle was The black regiments had no more notion o decided in favour of England, and her flag Jack frost than bite 'im no see 'im.' They waved triumphant over the deep:- but her died like rotten sheep. Many a weary pul hero had fallen. Nelson, the father of his and sail I've had up and down that inferna men, the patriot of his country, was no more. hole, which I wish I may never see again. 1 Peace be to his ashes, and honour to his name! is fit for nothing but snakes, alligators, and The dark clouds which had been gathering Yankees-begging the Jonathans' pardons fo over the devoted spot during the bloody con- knotting them together; but stinctions are tention, now began to roll wild and porten- somehow or other, levelled in war-time, an You have been in London ? Ya!' re-tously. The storm arose, and many a shat- specially when a man has been bitten, as plied Meinherr to this interrogatory assertion. tered and unmanageable hulk became the coffin have, by both; and, moreover, a little blin And what do you think of St. Paul's?' I do alike of the living and the dead, and numbers from being half-melted and frozen over an not moach see in it.' 'Westminster Abbey, of the conquerors and the conquered were im- over again. Our first work was to clear th then? Sufficiently well.' Did you see the mersed in the same watery grave. That joy lake of a squad of gun-boats; and they wer Thames, the bridges, and the myriads of ves- of battle in the field of death,' produced by the accordinglye bevelled in a trice by the boats sels of all nations that are in the port of Lon- loud shouts of victory, still thrilled in the heart the fleet, though many a man went to Davy don?' I do tink dere is little water vary in of Morland, when he was called upon to en-locker in the job. The Nathan's played thei de river.''Did you see Covent Garden and dure more mournful scenes among the mangled part like men; but it was all up with ther Drury Lane theatres, and the Opera-house, forms which met his view, as he descended when the boats got alongside; and, slashin and the brilliant company assembled there ? from the blood-stained decks to the cockpit, muskets, pistols, tomahawks, and pikes, at ou • Ya, but de stage is small vary.' 'Were you where amputations were still performing. The at any large parties at the west end of the hearty greeting of messmates was followed by town ?" Oh, ya! hot vary, full vary, tired most painful feelings, at their first meal after vary.' And what do you think of the En- the battle. In the mess to which Morland be glish women? Not moach. Oh, ho! I wish longed, there were three vacant places where my wife was here!'" was poor Harry? whose cheerful mirth had been wont to set the table in a roar.' Where was Frank? and There is a brief but spirited sketch of the glorious battle of Trafalgar. fellows, as they grappled up the side, they a last sought quarter in surrender. After thi business, we landed the troopers at the side a creek, not far from the Mississippi. Di you ever see the Indians of this country, Wad They are a kind of copper-coloured vagabond: with skins as hard as tanned leather; rigge but the inquiring out in furs, feathers, and blankets, and be "Daylight of the 21st of October, 1805, dis- tongue was stopped by that solemn and heart- dizened with whatever they could find to shin played the signal for the enemy's fleet. Let appealing silence, which but too well told the But as to their women, Wad, though the that day never be forgotten! The almost mournful tale. The young heroes were have sparkling black eyes, I would not hav calmness that prevailed in the morning, and shrouded in the flag of their country; and touched one of them with a pair of tong harbingered the battle, seemed but to render when, with the rest of the fallen brave, their the nasty, dirty, drable-tailed, swashy-lookin the deadly strife more conspicuous. As the bodies were committed to the deep, many a squaws! I never was so out of conceit of British fleet was wafted by gentle winds to- tear was observed to trickle down the sun- petticoat, though their covering scarcely d wards their powerful enemy, the preparations burnt furrows of the sailors' cheeks, as the serves that name. They travel together for battle evinced every man to be in earnest. blue waves broke over the remains of their tribes, and would sleep in swamps. It was The cabin bulkheads on each deck were cleared departed shipmates." hunting-party that came to us. They a away, and displayed long, level, unbroken bat- There are some portions of these volumes dead shots with the bow and arrow, and car teries, tended by their gallant and rejoicing which are addressed to matters hardly worth scalping-knives by their sides; but for the crews. Fire-buckets, match-tubs, shot-racks, a record; a newspaper kept by the young-hearts, I know not what they are made of, f powder-boxes, and wads, were arranged in their sters on board a man of war, and an attempt they jumped at the tick of a watch. proper places; arm-chests lay open, and pikes, at point in mingling their dialogues, in acting officers made one of their kings drunk; and 1 pistols, and cutlasses, gleamed in every direc- a play, with the proceedings on deck when giving howled, yelled, and roared like a mad bu tion. The tompions were taken out of the orders, &c. are examples of this. The best which he said was the war-cry. But I mu muzzles, and there was a loud creaking of the quality in the Tales of the Watch perhaps is, go on with the dismals I have to tell yo gun-carriages, as the officers examined that that they evidently do not belong to the Gunner. Our sogers had scarcely taken up every thing was in fighting order. All was world of fiction. The Master's changeable birth on the banks of the river, filed their arı now ready; the fleets were closing. There career is, no doubt, a true history; and the in the darkening, and began to yaffle sor was a dead silence till the signal of the great! Boatswain's might be sworn to by any person grub, when softly comes a brace of Yank TI |