War of 1812 Bicentennial

Weekly Retrospect.

Paris papers to the 14th of June, Bourdeaux to the 20th, and London dates to the 19th of the same month, have been received by an arrival at the Eastward: by which it appears that our ministers, and the British commissioners must have left England for Ghent about the first of June.

12,000 British troops, under Sir Rowland Hill, it is said, had sailed from Bourdeaux for Quebec about the 6th of June; and that more were to follow.

The Definitive Treaty between France and the allied powers in Europe, signed at Paris the 30th of May, places France, in territorial jurisdiction, as she was in 1792, except Tobago and St. Lucia in the West-Indies, and the Isle of France and its dependencies in the East-Indies, all which are ceded to Great-Britain. In the establishments to be restored to France on the continent of India, France is bound not to raise any fortifications, nor to keep a larger number of troops than may be necessary for the aid of the police; and England allows France to enjoy in their possessions in India, the privileges of the most favored nations. France is reinstated in the right she had to fish on the Banks of Newfoundland, along the coast of Labradore, and in the Gulph of St. Lawrence. Other particulars might be mentioned, as well of France, as of the other nations concerned in this treaty, did our limits permit.

The war on the coast appears every day to be getting more serious. In the capture of Eastport the enemy have expressed their determination to hold it, as they say they consider the island on which it stands, within their boundary line. Three-fourths of the inhabitants it is said had taken the oath of allegiance to the British: the rest had leave to go away within a week.

The enemy, says an Alexandria paper, has burnt the jail and court house of Calvert county, Maryland, and has carried off 300 slaves, and were spreading terror through the adjacent country.

The last accounts from Virginia say, The enemy were going up the Potomac with a considerable force.

The U. S. brig of war Rattlesnake, capt. Renshaw, is taken by the Leander frigate; as is also the privateer Henry Gilder, of this port, and a valuable prize ship belonging to the Gen. Armstrong privateer, by the Niemen.

In pursuance of an order from the general government, the governor of this state has ordered this state's quota of 13,500 militia to be immediately organized and equipped, and held in readiness for actual service; and it is said that two encampments are to be immediately formed, one at Harlem heights and the other at Brooklyn heights, of 3,000 Militia, for the payment of which, the corporation of this city have appropriated 300,000 dollars.