The documents from our correspondent at Vincennes, relating principally to the affair of Tippacanoe, have been receiv ed. We are as yet, however, in possession of no materials to enable us to weave the story of the life of him who commanded on that occasion. To this point we particularly solicit our correspondent's attention. To his own pen we should be much pleased to be indebted for the biographical narrative of his friend.

To our amiable and much esteemed correspondent at Frankford, we offer our thanks for the sketch she has obligingly sent us of the situation and defence of Fort Sandusky. The readers of the Port Folin shall be gratified with a view of that celebrated spot. We are sorry to be troublesome, but feel assured that she will find in her own goodness an apology for the request we have further to make-that she will furnish us, by the earliest opportunity, with a likeness of the gallant young warrior by whom the defence of Sandusky was achieved.

We have on our files and shall notice hereafter several other communications which have recently come to hand.

M'DONOUGH AND M'COMB.

However adverse we are in sentiment, abstractly considered, to scenes of desolation and fields of havoc, and however much we prefer the calm and even tenor of peace to the most splendid and successful career in war-however highly we estimate the arts, which cherish the life, and ameliorate the character of man, over those that waste his blood and vitiate his moral nature, yet still, engaged as we are in hostilities with a daring and powerful foe, we should feel ourselves unworthy of the naine and birthright of an American, were we to remain silent in relation to achievements, which immortalize our heroes and cover with glory the arms of our country. Not to rejoice in the event of a victory would argue a culpable apathy and ingratitude to Heaven for the favour conferred; and not to bestow praises on gallantry and good conduct would be injustice to those who fight our battles. By their valour and skill at Plattsburgh and on

lake Champlain, M'Donough and M'Comb have acquired a well founded claim to rank in the estimation and affections of their country, with Perry and Decatur, Brown and Scott, and our other distinguished chieftains and warriors, who by land and water, have gained for themselves unfading chaplets of glory. In the page of history recorded honours shall brighten around their names, and exhibit them as beacon-lights to animate and direct the career of those who may be intent on military or naval renown.

We offer to our fellow citizens our hearty congratulations on the brilliant and momentous events, which have recently occurred both in the north and in the south. We hail these successes with the liveliest joy our heart can feel, as the day-star of the return of happier times. We are persuaded we do not estimate them too highly in believing, that, while they aid in giving us character and respectability as a people, they will contribute not a little to procure for us the only legitimate object of war, a secure, an honourable, and a lasting peace. It is there fore that we speak of them with sentiments of gratitude to Heaven, and of admiration and praise towards the gallant spirits by whom they have been achieved. May a perfect reciprocity prevail between our country and these her high minded sons! may her choicest honours bloom and thicken around their brows, while they defend and honour her in the hour of battle!

We had made, as we felt assured, the necessary arrangements to have a correct and elegantly engraved likeness of Mr. Wilson to accompany the biographical sketch of him, which we herein present to the readers of the Port Folio. But circumstances over which we had no control have frustrated our intention. Our arrangements, however, are still in operation, and the likeness shall appear in a future number. We, in the mean time, insert, as the best substitute we have to offer, a picturesque specimen of American Scenery-a distant view of the Highlands c. the river Hudson.

It is painful to us, in no small degree, to be obliged to offer his apology; but we flatter ourselves that these troublous imcs, which wrest from the artist the engraver and the pencil, and place in his hand the sword and the musket, will serve as

our excuse.

LETTER FROM ENGLAND.-FOR THE PORT FOLIO.

Tadcaster; Bradford; village of Eland; Sheffield, and its manufactures; with observations on the state of the manufacturers generally; Mr. Montgomery, the poet.

HAVING taken a seat on the top of the coach for Leeds, I travelled over a country less hilly and broken than any part of Yorkshire I had seen; and soon passed through Tadcaster. This is a small but very ancient place, and is still only in the rank of villages. Its situation is nearly in the centre of the county, on the south of the river Wharf, which empties into the Ouse. A good stone bridge has been erected above the junction.

The Calcaria of the ancient Romans is supposed to have been built on the present site of Tadcaster, and that there was a settlement of these people here, is evident from the number of coins which have been found. It is certain that Tadcaster is erected on the Roman military way, that runs through Helensford.

I observed on this road, several highly cultivated and beautiful seats; on one of which, the property of Mr. Fox, there is a considerable forest, from amidst which a handsome pillar reared its head above the summit of the loftiest trees.