TIM NATIONAL REGISTER. 616 THE VAR IN NORTH AMERICA. 'IDE BRITISH SUPERIOR ON LAKE, ONTARIO. TEXT RACTS PROM AMERMAN PAPOIS.] Alien .4,1v,` too. 17.—A friend has oldigingly favoured the Editor , of with the following intelligence, which comes from a sonrce eutelqd to the lidlust credit. Extract to a Letter from a Gentleman at Socket's Harbour, dated Art ! . 1:3.--" 'De fleet arrived here this onnning from Niigata, hying oblieed to put for provisions, and leaves the harbour to-night. On Soot Jae the British fleet hove in sieht • within view of N inputs, and bore down upon the American spordron ; 'when finding it pretty well prepared for action, they sheered off—evidertty having for their ob ct to detach some part of our squadron. Commodore Channcry iimtle !ail at the 1,e;,(1 of Lis squadron ; and Sir James Yet), thinking • Le c. old decoy the Pike, mantenvred frr this purptoe, but foiled ur succeeding to detach her from the fleet. They were within sight et each other constantly for three (lays--the American synadron endea voured to bring the enemy to action, who as assOltrourdy avoided it, and could 'choose their own time for fighting, as they were to wind ward. In this action they at length succeeded in cutting off two of our sehoto.ers, which were too slnw to ltecp up with the fleet ; tie con,- wilder of one, Mr. Lem, a gallant fellow, finding himself co oil from The squadron, laud his small hark atungside the IL itish Commo dore's ship and the 11• N al George; whe,e he tired thirty rounds of 18 and S'elbs. shot, until they litelailv blew him from the water-- tor I:e declared he never would strike, and went &min in that shim ti 'lle other •clicriner was captured. Two other schooneri of ihr Coition' itost t iu tie vale on Sunday eight, and out of nieety people. ou board only sotteen were picked ti o, after bring un b ur and teen toimees in the lA'att• r. Liort.e:.ains Wittier and Osgood were h.tf drowned. The Vet goes out to-nOit. prepaied fi,r a five week's cruise, aid (it 'ermined, if pessilde, to brO g the British fleet to action. !PAP enemy have a sni.ei hurt , , dtt.ady, nod are still deteummod not to risk an aeti• n until tio.ir pierce is increased by the vessel now buddinv at Klogston. " Toe Br fish Commodore's ship is slid to lia•Ye been so much in jure() by tLe fire of our r•cf ! aol:cr as to be oble : led to enter port to refit. Co.oriojore Cliamicey told me t , day, he could liAt as well without the schooners, which low: hven !“,t, as with them, for by their dni they prevent_ d his manueov:ing to advantage. The loss of our va usoi!e Odicets and ens nis mucii to he regretted. The army on the iii'-Kara are about to commence offensive operatic na." ONTARIO, Arc,. 17.—0 n Tuesd iv oizlit, the 104 instant, at about . eleven o'clock. the two ti;:ets crime contact when a runnin.: engage tricot ens. NI, Iwo la:urs and a Irdli iiirtinuance—the minting away. and the gallant Chauncey in lull pursuit. The loss of the BritiAl is not Irmo% ii. It was ryported sit Niagara on Wednesday, that we lord lost INO $111:111 vessels in the engagement, but it was gene rally diAserieved. Acct. AL—Fhc. Lies yie!d us nothin... , fresh. The American Onta rio squadron having amiss returned to port without a expecta tiim i s at end Irchr that (rater Our hopes now rest on Erie , n which C.nuroodure Perry was cruising, TUESDAY'S LONDON GAZETTE. At the Court at (:,n•lton House, the t.'oth of Septtniber, 181'3, pre. sent, his Ecyar Highness the Prince Regent in Connell. It is this day ordered b y his Royal Highness the Prince Regent, in the ewe and on Ge behalf of his , Maje‘ty, and by and with the advice of his Majest:%*, Privy Count ii , that hip Grace the Lord Arelibishop of Canterbury du s!repare the Form of Prayer and Th..s•ksgiviug to t 1 mighty God, for the abundant Harvest ; to be ter, ;•innediately ;Ott r the General Thanksgiving, on Sunday the 1(no of October apt ‘t, and to be continued until Sunday the 17th dov of the 5,11114' month incit•ive; and it is hereby ordered, that his Majt , %ty's Pt iotcr do forthwith print a competent number of the said Form of Prayer and Thanksgivitir; that the. same may be for hwiih .00t round and read as above • iiireeted, in the sevefal Cloy ehe. and Chapels tnrinighout these 1)3113 of the United King dom called England and Ireland. (Signed) C HET WYN D. o,:zette contains an Order for the Court's going into mourn. Swolay tbr the late Queen I)or.l4:er of Swedcn ; the mou lung r n he changed on Sunday ; the 17th and to be di3zon iitittei on Thursday, the . 4 21st. .• BA N KRIJ Pl'S. T. Stayner„ of Barking, Essex, tallow-chandler, to surrender, Oct. 11, at three, 12, at ten, and Nov. 16, at eleven, at Gaildhaq, Lundou. Attornies, Mr. Stanley, Billericay,' Essex ; and Messrs. Aubrey and Curtis, Tuok's-court, Cursitor-street. J. Pridliam, of Exeter, innkeeper, Oct. 8. 22, and Nov. 16, at eleven at the Elephon Inn, Exeter. Attoruies. Mr. Seaconibe, Exeter ; and Mr. Palmer, Barnard's inn, Holbryn. W. E. M. Von Do'rnik, of Well-street, Goodin .n's-fields, scrip. manufacturer, Oct. 9. 12, and Nov. 16, at twelve, at Guildhall. At. t 'rides, Messrs. Wilde and Knight, Castle-street, Falcon-square. S. Heath, of Shepton-Mallet, Somerset hire, cl 'bier, Oct. tO, at five, 'll, and Nov. 16, at eleven, at the Castle Inn, Bath. Attornicr, Mr, %Voltam!, Red Lion square, Landon ; and Mr..Messeister, Frome, S inerset, - J. Stevenson, of M:nrchester, tobacconist, Nov. 1, ?, and 16, at one, 't the Globe Ta% ern, Liver pool. A torn , es, Mr NV i Iliamson, Liverpool ; and Messrs. Kcarsey and Spurr Bisliopsgate-Wit hitt. J. F. Schroder, jun, of Crutched-friars. merchant, Oct 25, at one, ?6, at ten, and Nov. 16. at twelve. at Guil ihall. Anomie', Messrs. Greg•on, Dickson.acd Gregson, Angel-court, Throginorton-street I'. Gilvert, of Great Mary-le-bone- , trees, Sadler, Oct. 15, at of e, 26, at ten, and Drily. 10 at twelve, at Guildhall. Attorney, Mr. Hunt, rev-streer, Strand. 1' Cniapman, of Littlebury of Chesterford Mills, and of Strat. ford E-sex, intalman, Oct. 15 at one, 20, at ten, and Nov. 16, at twr Ice, at Guildhall. Attorney. Mr. Wilson, Alsip:l-court, Throgmov ton-street. A. Crave of Long-acre, plasterer, Oct 19, 30, owl Nov, 16. at eleven, at Guildhall. Anomie!, Messrs. Richardson and Miiter, New-inn. SATURDAY'S LONDON GAZETTE. A letter from Lifut. Hare, commanding his Itlaje- ty's schooner Bream, announces the capture pf the AineriCan private armed sloop Wasp, mounting two 6-pounders and :;.:3 men, aftcr a eliace of seven hours amt a half, without farther loss or dhina! , e than one man wounded on their p;irt. She is• quite new, had been out eighteen days, and captured nothing. BA N KRUPTS. J. llosloiry, of White Lion...street, Chelsea, eorn-chandler, to sur render Oct. 16, 23 awl Ntov. 20, at twelve, at Guildhall. Attorney, Mr. Mitchell, Fowkes's Buildings, Tower-ctreet. - C. Buchanan, of Woolwich, shoemaker, Oct. 16, 23. and Nov. 20, at twelve, at Guildhall. Attornies, Messrs. Jennings and Collier, eavey-street. Thornher, of Calm, Lancaster, cotton-manufacturer, Nov. 1 2, and '4O, at two at the Mosley arms, Blanchester. Attornies, Mr' Mackinson, Elm-court, Temple, London ; or Mr. Hamer, Man. chester.• _ _ C. Fielding., late of Newcastle.untler-Lyntc, Stafford, Innkeeper, Nov. 2 at tour, 3, and 20 at elevtn, at the Roebuck inn, Newcastle. on& r-Lynie. Attornies, Mckirs.T and R. Fenton ) Neu casle•uuder Lyme, and Mr. Balker, Fetter lane, Lontioa. • PROVINCIALS. EARTHQUAKE. —About a quarter past three o'clock in the after. noon of Friday, the '.24th ult. a shock of an earthquake was kit very gener..lly by the inhabitants of Stamford. and of the neighbouring towns and villages fom west to east. The noise, to those who were within doors at the time, resembled the falhng of fitrniture in upper rooms, and soul? persons were sensibleof motion from the agitation of the earth. At Ketton, tour miles west of Stamford, it excited considerable alarm ; and it was telt also at Uppingham, Onkliam, .Peterborough, De' ping, and must of the inter enedrate places. The duration of the shock was about two seconds, and the noise accom• panying it very loud. We regret to state, that another of those dreadful calamities, the blasting of a coalmine, occurred on 'Tuesday senniglit, at the Hall Pit, at Farfield, in the parish of Chester-le•streer. Upwards of SO . men and boys were killed. A most shocking murder was perpetrated on Wednesday se'n• night, on Mrs. Mary Watson, of Beck Hoirsef, near Griomere, Cumberland. Her throat had been cut, and she was nine!' bruised about her head. Her ,on was taken near Brathay Bridge, and ex amined at Ambleside, when the bloody knits eta. found about Idly. We understand the young luau has becu stimitime iu a deranged Mate of Mind. '• • OCT, 10.