up to his protection, or returned home peaceably, resolving to stand neutral, in the contest.--Large bodies of the savage tribes offered their services to Gen. Hull, previous to his leaving Detroit, but he informed them that he was not authorised to accept them, and wished them to remain silent spectators, and not engage on either side; but this was not their choice-they immediately crossed over to Malden, where they were accepted, and put into service by the British; which circumstance contributed largely to overthrow Gen. Hull, as will be seen by the official account of his capitulation.

HULL'S VICTORY.

Com. Hull to the Secretary of the Navy.

U. S. F. Constitution, off Boston, Aug. 30, 1812. SIR-I have the honor to inform you, that on the 10th instant, at 2 P. M. being in latitude 41, 42, longitude 55, 48, with the Constitution, under my command, a sail was discovered from the mast head bearing E. by S. or E. S. E. but at such a distance we could not tell what she was. All sail was instantly made in chase, and soon found we came up with her. At 3 P. M. could plainly see that she was a ship on the starboard tack, under easy sail, close on a wind; at half past 3 P. M. made her out to be a frigate; continued the chase until we were within about three miles, when I ordered the light sails taken in, the courses hauled. up, and the ship cleared for action. At this time the chase had backed his main-topsail, waiting for us to come down. As soon as the Constitution was ready for action, I bore down with an intention to bring him to close action immediately; but on our coming within gun-shot she gave us a broadside, and filed away, and wore, giving us a broadside on the other tack, but without effect; her shot falling short. She continued wearing and manevreing for about three quarters of an hour, to get a raking position, but finding she could not, she bore up, and run under her topsails and gib, with the wind on the quarter. Immediately made sail to bring the ship up with her, and 5 minutes before six, P. M. being alongside within half pistol shot, we commenced a heavy fire from all our guns, double shotted with round and grape, and so well directed were they, and so warmly kept up, that in 15 minutes his mizen-mast went

by the board, and his main yard in the slings, and the hull, rigging, and sails, very much torn to pieces. The fire was kept up with equal warmth for 15 minutes longer, when his main-mast and fore-mast went, taking with them every spar, excepting the bowsprit: on seemg this we ceased firing, so that in 30 minutes after we got fairly alongside the enemy, she surrendered, and had not a spar standing, and her hull, below and above water, so shattered, that a few more broadsides must have carried her down.

After informing you that so fine a ship as the Guerriere, commanded by an able and experienced officer, had been totally dismasted, and otherwise cut to pieces, so as to make her not worth towing into port, in the short space of 30 minutes, you ean have no doubt of the gallantry and good conduct of the officers and ship's company I have the honor to command; it only remains, therefore, for me to assure you, that they all fought with great bravery; and it gives me great pleasure to say, that from the smallest boy in the ship to the oldest seamen, not a look of fear was seen. They all went into action, giving three cheers and requested to be laid along side the enemy.

I have the honor to be, &c.

AMERICAN LOSS.

ISAAC HULL.

Kilied 7-wounded 7.

BRITISH LOSS.

Killed 15-wounded 62-missing 24.*

ORDERS IN COUNCIL REVOKED. At the Court at Carlton House, the 23d day of June, present, his royal highness, the prince regent in council.

Whereas his royal highness, the prince regent was pleased to declare, in the name and on behalf of his majesty, on the 21st of April, 1812, That if at any time hereafter, the Berlin and Milan Decrees shall by some authentic act of the French government, publicly promulgated, be absolutely and unconditionally repealed, then, and from thence, the Örder in Council of the 7th of January, 1807, and the Order in Council of the 26th of April, 1809, shall without any further order, be, and the same are hereby declared from thenceforth to be wholly and absolutely revoked.'

* Supposed to have gone overboard with the masts.

And whereas the charge d'affairs of the U. States of America, resident at this Court, did, on the 21st day of May last, transmit to lord viscount Castlereagh, one of his majesty's principal secretaries, a copy of a certain instrument, then for the first time communicated to this Court, purporting to be a Decree passed by the government of France, on the 28th of April, 1811, by which the Decrees of Berlin and Milan are declared to be definitely no longer in force in regard to American vessels :

And whereas his royal highness. the prince regent, although he cannot consider the tenor of said instrument as satisfying the conditions set forth in the said Order of the 21st of April last, upon which the said Orders were to cease and determine, is nevertheless disposed, on his part, to take such measures as may tend to re-establish the intercourse between neutral and belligerent nations, upon its accustomed principles, his royal highness, the prince regent, in the name and on the behalf of his majesty, is therefore pleased, by and with the advice of his majesty's privyouncil, to order and deciare, and it is hereby ordered and declared, that the Order in Council bearing date the 7th day of January, 1807, and the Order in Council bearing date the 26th day of April, 1809, be revoked, so far as may regard American vessels and their cargoes, being American property, from the 1st day of August next.

But whereas by certain acts of the government of the U. States of America, all British armed vessels are excluded from the harbors and waters of the said U. States, the armed vessels of France being permitted to enter therein, and the commercial intercourse between G Britain and the said U. States is interdicted, the commercial intercourse between France and the said U. States having been restored his royal highness, the prince regent is pleased hereby further to declare, in the name and on the behalf of his majesty, that if the government of the said U. States shall not as soon as may be. after this order shall have been duly notified by his majesty's minister in America to the said government, revoke or cause to be revoked the said acts, this present Order shall in that case, after clear notice signi fied by his majesty's minister in America, to the said gov ernment, be thenceforth null and of no effect.

It is further ordered and declared, that all American vessels and their cargoes, being American property, that shall have been captured subsequently to the 28th of May last, for a breach of the aforesaid Orders in Council alone, and. which shall not have been actually condemned before the date of this Order, and that all ships and cargoes as aforesaid, that shall henceforth be captured under the said Orders, prior to the 1st day of August next, shall not be proceeded against to condemuation, until further orders, but shall, in the event of this Order not becoming null and of no effect, in the case aforesaid, be forthwith liberated and restored, subject to such reasonable expences on the part of the captors, as shall have been justly incurred.

Provided that nothing in the Order contained respecting the revocation of the Orders herein mentioned, shall be taken to revive wholly, or in part, the Orders in Council of the 11th of November, 1807, or any other Order not herein mentioned, or to deprive parties of any legal remedy to which they may be entitled, under the Order in Council, of the 21st of April, 1812.

His royal highness, the prince regent is hereby pleased further to declare, in the name and on the behalf of his majesty, that nothing in the present Order contained shall be understood to preclude his royal highness, the prince regent, if circumstances shall so require, from restoring, after reasonable notice, the Orders of the 7th of January, 1807, and the 26th of April, 1809, or any part thereof, to their full effect, or from taking such other measures of retaliation against the enemy, as may appear to his royal highness to be just and necessary.

And the right honorable the lords commissioners of his majesty's treasury, his majesty's principal secretaries of state, the lords commissioners of the Admiralty and the Judge of the high Court of Admiralty, and the Judge of the Court of Vice Admiralty, are to take the necessary measures herein, as to them may respectively appertain.

Gen. Hull to the Secretary of War.

MONTREAL, Sept. 8th, 1812. SIR-The inclosed dispatch was prepared on my arrivai ai Fort George, and it was my intention to have forwarded it from that place by Major Witherell, of the

Michigan volunteers. I made application to the commanding officer at that post, and was refused; he staung that he was not authorised, and Gen. Brock was then at York. We were immediately embarked for this place, and Major Witherell obtained liberty at Kingston to go home on parole.

This is the first opportunity I have had to forward the dispatches.

The fourth U. States' regiment is destined for Quebec, with a part of the first. The whole consist of a little over three hundred.

Sir Gerorge Prevost, without any request on my part, has offered to take my parole, and permit me to proceed to the States.

Lieut. Anderson, of the eighth regiment, is the bearer of my dispatches. He was formerly a Lieut. in the Artillery, and resigned his commission on account of being appointed Marshal of the Territory of Michigan. During the campaign he has had a command in the Artillery; and I recommend him to you as a valuable officer.

He is particularly acquainted with the state of things previous, and at the time when the capitulation took place. He will be able to give you correct information on any points, about which you may think proper to enquire.

I am, very respectfully, &c.
WILLIAM HULL.

DISPATCH.

Fort George, August 26, 1812. SIR-Inclosed are the articles of capitulation, by which the Fort of Detroit has been surrendered to Major-General Brock, commanding his Britannic Majesty's forces in Upper Canada, and by which the troops have become prisoners of war. My situation at present forbids me from detailing the particular causes which have led to this unfortunate event. I will, however, generally observe, that after the surrender of Michilimackinac, almost every tribe and nation of Indians, excepting a part of the Miamies and Delawares, north from beyond Lake Superior, west from beyond the Mississippi, south from the Ohio and Wabash, and east from every part of Upper Canada, and from all the intermediate country, joined in open hostility under the British standard, against the army I commanded, contrary to the most solemn