Kings, with whom those Republicans Same Date,-A message from Mr. make rather free. October 4. Unbounded praises on the fleet and army at Lake Champlain. An official report from General Macomb of our army, which marched against him to Plattsburgh, as follows: “A list of the principal officers of the British army, and an exhibit of the several regiments "and corps under the command of Lieutenant. "General Sir Geo. Prevost at the siege of "Plattsburgh. "Lieutenant General Sir George Prevost, "commander in chief. "Major-General de Rottenburgh, second in "command. "Major-General Robertson, commanding first "brigade. "Major-General Powers, commanding second "brigade. "brigade. Tompkins, Governor of the State of New York, giving a detail of about 40,000 militia called out by that State into actual service. A recommendation to form companies of Cadets, one of which was already supported at the expence of a private patriotic individual. He recommends also the establishment of a great cannon-foundry in the interior. 66 Oct. 5. [A MOST MEMORABLE DAY.] "The Washington, SEVENTY "FOUR GUN SHIP, was launched at "Portsmouth, in superb style, at half-past "12 o'clock. No accident occurred. The spectators were very numerous."Portsmouth, my Lord, there is in New Hampshire as well as in Old Hampshire. ---It is Greek meeting Greek, let folks say what they will! This is the first of their "Major-General Brisbane, commanding third ships of the line. There are three more getting forward. They may all be out at sea before next May, with frigates and smaller vessels in their suite. Pray, my Lord, do your best to put an end to this war. It will, as I always said, create a formidable navy. Let the Americans have peace. The war makes them pay taxes, to be sure; but it makes us pay taxes too, and in a much greater proportion.—Qbserve, too, that this ship is launched in our favourite Eastern States! In one of those States which we expected to separate from the Union! It is amongst the "non-combatants" that this first ship of the line is launched. "Major-General Baynes, adjutant-general. "Sir Sidney Beckwith, quarter-master gen. "Col. Hughes, chief engineer. "Major Sinclair, commanding officer of ar"tillery. "Lieut. Col. Tryall, assistant adjut.-gen. "Capt. Burke, deputy asst. adjut.-gen. "Col. Murray, assistant quar.-master-gen. Major Montgomery, do. do. 66 Capt. Davis, dep. ass. quar.-master-gen. List of the Regiments and Corps. "4 Troops 19th light dragoons "4 Companies royal artillery "1 Brigade of rocketeers "1 Brigade royal sappers and miners 300 400 25 75 "1st Brigade-27th regt. 1st battalion 300 900 1000 Same date.-New York Gazette."The Philadelphia papers of yesterday, "which we last evening received by the "quick stages, contain the subsequent "articles.We have seen a letter from "Philadelphia, stating, that a report pre"vailed there all the morning of Monday "that the famous Wm. Cobbett had ar"rived in that city, and put up at the of"fice of the Democratic Press. Whether "the report is correct or not, we are "unable to determine, but it is a fact, that "the democratic Press of Monday evening contains an address to the public, of "three columns, under the signature of "William Cobbett." You see, my Lord, that, in spite of their alarms, they can hoar in that country as well as in this. Indeed, my Lord, I was n there. The Noblesse of Massachussetts were cleverly -2800 hoaxed. hoaxed. They are fas beming the laugh'ng-stock of the whole country. 14,000 There is no reliance to le placed upon Government in the prosecution of the war. This project will, according to all appearance, be blown into air, and will have no other effect, than that of bringing its authors into utter disgrace. It is curious enough to hear this Legislature complain of us for treating their country as roughly as the rest of the States. They call us an enemy, who attacks, without discrimination, those who were against the war as well as those who were for it. Thus they have thrown off the mask. They did it at a very unlucky time; for, in ten daya after they had done it, out came the dispatches, which appear to have silenced all the enemies of the war. This set-off disappointed the would-be Noblesse, who, when in power, railed against faction; called the opposition to Mr. Adams atheists; passed Sedition Bills; raised, and kept on foot, a standing army in time of peace; this set are not to be relied on by us. It was amongst these very men, that the Revolution began. They will do what they can to regain their lost power and consequence; they will say any thing; but they are never to be relied on. If they saw, that we were Same date. Report of the Finances state, that the gross revenue for 1815, is to be 22,435,000 dollars; a little more than two thirds of our POOR RATES ALONE! What a beggarly nation this America must be, my Lord! And yet the labourers in Philadelphia cat meat! Meat, did I say? Why, they eat fowls, and geese, and turkeys! They talk of great exertions, and are only going to raise 22,435,000 dollars, 5,609,777 pounds, upon seven or eight millions of people, while we raise more than 80,000,000 of pounds upon about ten millions of people, including paupers, army, navy, and all! This is their great, their gigantic effort, is it? But, then, it must be observed, that the people do a vast deal of their own ac-likely to have power to make them little cord. They turn out and work and fight Seigneurs over the people; and if their without pay. As at New York, where priests, the most greedy of all mankiad, even the school-boys are working at the saw that we were in a state to make the different fortifications; and, as at Balti-people give them a good share of their more, where the city was defended, and our attack repelled, by the citizens themselves. The Bostonians, our friends, too, say that they are ready for us, and that they bid us defiance. Same date.-Letters from Commodore Chauncey indicate, that he is in little fear of our BIG SHIP. Same date.-The freedom of the city of New York presented to Commodore Perry. Oct. 18.-News that the Americans had broken up the pirates at Barataria, captured all their ships, and taken 200,000 dollars in booty.-Account of the repulse of our expedition against Mobille.-Great praises bestowed on the defenders of that fort, who are said to have proved to the world, that Americans are fit for war in all earnings; if such were the fair prospect, I do not say, that they might not be tempted to an open rebellion against their general Government. But while there is any doubt, they will never take a decided parts and, therefore, I again beseech your Lordship to place no reliance upon those men. -It is little H. G. OTIS, who signs this report of the Massachusetts Legislature. I have heard of A CERTAIN CORRESPONDENCE of this little Serene Highness man. Poor little fribble! A Yankee Republican would beat an 21my of such men with a broom-stick. Besides, you see, my Lord, that their friendship depends upon our forbearance. We must not touch their State: if we do they will fight us. If, indeed, they would receive our ships into Boston harbour; take an army into their State; send us all sorts of supplies to Bermuda and Halifax, then there would be good ground for sparing them. But to spare them on recount of their railing against Mr. Madison, and their canting about our being "the bulwark of their religion," is to be cheated 66 | So ours. by a set of the most cunning hypocrites that "she was a 74 in disguise," it that ever existed. They say, in their re- become a bye-word in the Republ port,"We are resolved to defend our States. Another ground of apology country against the incursions of an been very much ridiculed; namely, th enemy, who has not discriminated be- the Americans have won their battles wit "tween those who have anriously sought our scamen. This has been constantly as peace, and those who have wantonly pro-serted here by our foolish writers, not per"oked the war." Thus, you see, they ceiving that it was the very worst apology expected to lie quiet and unmolested, while that could possibly be offered. For, if the the other States were attacked! This would, fact were so, it would follow, that our men indeed, be a pretty mode of carrying on fought better on board of the Yankee ships war! We should thus leave the most vul- than on board of our own ships; or, that nerable parts unassailed. Portsmouth is the best of our men preferred the American in New England. We were not to attack service to our own; or, that the American that place, of course, though there is now officers were more able or more brave than One of these conclusions must be a 74 gun ship launched against us. that these friends of ours are likely to be drawn from such a fact. So that these of amazing benefit to us. This is the apologists for our defeats have really been great error of the war. We have, I fear, the most cruel censors; have greatly agplaced reliance upon this little Noblesse, gravated the pain which the nation felt which reliance has, at one and the same upon the occasion.Yet, disgraceful as time, encouraged us to make propositions it is, the notion has prevailed; and the and restrained our arms, till the Eastern Times newspaper treats us to the following States are quite ready for defence. And anecdote, relative to the cause of our yet they would still carry on the force of failure, our defeat, our disgrace," as friend hip towards us, at once to deceive they call it, on Lake Champlain :-"When us and to vex the general Government. Captain Pring, the second in command But, my Lord, as was our case in the" in the unfortunate affair on Lake Chamfirst French war, it is to their victories, "plain, went on board the American comand especially their naval victories, that "mander-in-chief's ship to deliver up his the Americans owe the present popularity "sword, he observed a man who treated of the war. These have been so decisive; "him very disdainfully; and wishing to so striking; so wonderful; so far beyond "learn the cause, he was told by the Comall calculation, that the nation, who claim"mander that the individual was an Engthem, must be proud, unless we suppose "lishman, late boatswain of the British them to be different from all other nations. sloop of war Alert, and to this man's "skill and exertions the American ComThese victories are the more agreeable, be"modore confessed he was PRINCIcause the people of America have always looked at our naval power with dread." PALLY indebted for the success of that Some time after the capture of the Java" day."—I wonder where the Times newsand her destruction, an American editor, paper got this anccdote. Or, rather, I having collected together the several pa- wonder how the fool came to think of pubragraphs and speeches, published upon the lishing such a falsehood. What, then, he subject in England, re-published them is really to allow, I suppose, that one Engunder the head of " Wailing and gnashing|lish boatswain has more skill than all the "of teeth," and added a set of remarks, enough to make the blood of almost any Englishman boil but mine, which, having so long been boiling over a hotter fire, could receive no additional heat from these strictures. All our apologies about the size of their ships; the number of their guns; the weight of their metal; the number of their men; all these have been the subject of the most cutting and cruel irony, levelled against "the Mother Coun"try." And, as to Captain Carden's description of the frigate by which he was captured in the Macedonian; namely, 66 English officers on board our fleet! But men; men deserted from the English army. army. 66 "Bona, of Baltimore, by H. B. M. ship of war Laurestinus; Robert Bond, a native of New York, taken by 11. B. M. ship Marlborough ; Samuel Wright, a native of Connecticut, attached to the United "States' navy, taken in the United States' "brig Viper, by H. B. M. frigate Narcis"sus; Jacob Anderson, a native of Massa"chusetts, taken in the Albert, of Baltimore, by H. B. M. ship Marlborough; "Pleasant Scott, (man of colour) a native My Lord, I have, from before the be-" of Virginia, taken by II. B. M. ship ginning of this war, been deeply impressed "Marlborough; Thos. M'Keezy, (man of with the opinion, that we should be the "colour) of Philadelphia, taken in the Dart cause of creating a great Naval Power on" of Philadelphia; being prisoners on the other side of the Atlantic. Say whatboard of H. B. M. ship Goree, lying at men will, the real force of a ship depends" the island of Bermuda, and finding our upon her men. How came the Peacock "fare very hard, being on very short alto be sent to the bottom in fifteen minutes" lowance of indifferent provisions, and it by a vessel of rather inferior size and "being reported there, that there was to metal? The Americans are active above" be no exchange of prisoners, resolutely all men in the world. They are enterpriz-" determined to hazard our lives for our ing above all men. They are, as a mass, "freedom the first opportunity; therefore better informed. and more acute than any "on Wednesday morning, April 21st, other people. They are more hardy than "eleven prisoners were ordered into the any other people. They are more sober" Corce's launch, to get fresh water, when than any other people amongst northern "the above named persons went into the nations. They have less of bodily disease "beat, with two other prisoners, names than any other people. Their education is "unknown to us, under the guard of two such as to give every individual great con- "soldiers of the 102d regiment, and the fidence in himself, and a high opinion of "boatswain of the ship Gorce-proceeded his own importance. Such are the materials" to St. Catharine's tank, there filled six of which an American crew is composed." casks with water; on our return the word The acts, which have been performed by “Washington was given, it being our signal American prisoners of war, in several in-" for an attempt to escape. We immediately stances, are really of a character savour- "disarmed the soldiers and teck possession ing of romance. We have nothing in his-❝ of the boat; and then within reach of tory, nor upon the stage, nor in our chival- "two forts, namely St. Catharine's and rous books which come up to these acts.-- Paget forts, and within gun-shot of the I will trouble your Lordship with an ac- "Junon frigate, the sloop of war Nimrod, count of one of them, from an American "and another sloop of war name unknown paper, which account is worth a thousand to us, boarded H. B. M. schooner Beressays upon such a subject. You will," muda, she having five men on board, of from this account, sce what Americans are" the following description: a king's pilot, capable of performing, and will cease to wonder at their naval successes.-You see how lightly they themselves treat such adventures. A YANKEE TRICK; OR 66 the captain and three hands: they made CC an ineffectual resistance, we soon com"pelled them to retrest under deck, took possession, cut all ler cables and moor"ings, made sail, and pushed out of an un"known channel, after turning off the 66 An escape from a British Prison-Ship."boat with only two cars, two soldiers, "We, the following named persons, "and the boatswain of the Goree. The "citizens of the United States of America," Bermuda being in the habit of laying viz. Samuel G. Parker, a native of "buoys in the channel, had five of them on "Boston, taken by II. B. M. ship Marl-" board, which we supposed would weigh "borough Thomas W. Nelson, a native "two tous each, hove four of them over"of New York; John H. T. Estes, a na- "board; not knowing the trim of the "tive of Virginia; and John Harman, a "vessel, reserved one of the buoys until we "native of Pennsylvania, taken in the sch. "should discover it; the sails that were ; ii "last, no gun-powder, and an azumith, on board were fore-sail, main-sail and "jib, the flying jib we set as a studden "sail, the gaft topsails as a flying jib boom," of battle ship." Now, my Lord, is there any thing like "there being neither topmast, jib, nor any spare spars on board, we made spars of this upon record, with regard to any other But there are many instances of "our oars by lashing them together. We nation? "found it necessary to have a form of or- such acts performed by Americans. They And yet are there "der on board, therefore Sam. G. Parker frequently happen. "was unanimously elected master; we left men, who have the folly to believe, that it "Bermuda at eleven o'clock, a. m. with a would be impossible for the Americans to "moderate breeze from the southward; at gain a victory without the aid of English Must not a fleet, manned with "one, p. m. heard the alarm gun fire-- seamen ! "two, p. m. saw a sail in chase of us, sup- such men, be a formidable object? And, "posed it to be the brig Nimrod; at sun if the war continue long, what reason have we to hope, that we shall not, on the Ocean "set we observed she gained on us fast, we "then steering E. N. E.; at dark, sup- as well as on the Lakes, have to face such posing she could not see us, jibed ship, a fleet? I am aware, that it is now too "and steered W. by N.; about eight, p.m. late to prevent the Republicans from having "saw her lights, when she passed about a considerable fleet. If peace were made "one mile astern of us, at three, a. m. by to-morrow, they would build their 74's and They have had a proof of "moon light, saw a brig about two miles to their frigates. “windward of us, we bore away and she the necessity of a respectable naval force "after us--she kept way with us until even for the purposes of mere defence. "about 8 a. m. the 22d, when we launched They have had a taste of glory. They "the fifth buoy and found this the trim of will now, in any case, be a naval power. "the vessel; by 10, a. m. ran her out of But the progress of this power will be "sight. We now examined and found we greatly quickened by a continuation of the less peace "were at sea without any book, chart, or war; while, on the other hand, that conti66 any instruments, save a compass, with nuation will, day by day, render "forty gallons of fresh water, and ten likely to restore the former relationships of "days provisions. Nothing material pass-the two countries. "ed during the passage, except that we 66 were several times chased, and met with a gale of wind in the gulph, which com"pelled us to lay too about sixty hours, "until the 28th of April, when we made "the land bearing N. W.; as we drew "near, discovered it to be Cape May; saw a line of battle ship in the channel, two vessels endeavouring to cut us off up “the bay, and a pilot boat in chase of us; we suspecting them to be roguishly in"clined made as fast as possible to land, "and within pistol shot of the pilot boat "Pennsylvania, she being full of armed "Englishmen, beached the vessel, and "jumped ashore at Cape May-having no 26 66 66 sage arms ourselves, were obliged to. aban"don the vessel to the five prisoners and "the Pennsylvania, after an anxious pasof seven days and six hours.-The "schooner Bermuda is a fine Bermudian "built vessel, coppered to the bends, and "her sails new was launched in June, "1812; is about 90 tons burthen; bad on "board a smith's forge, calculated for a "man of war, with bellows, anvil, &c. one "long six-pounder in the hold, dismounted, a quantity of shot and pig iron for bal It is said, that, if we make peace now, without regaining what we have lost in naval reputation, we shall retire from the contest disgraced. I will not dispute that point; but, if we retire from the contest in a year or two hence, without recovering what we have lost, what will then be our situation? I beg your Lordship well to consider this question; for, in comparison with this, what are to us all the arrangements of the Congress of Vienna? What, compared with this, are the ques tions relating to the parcelling out of Germany; the distribution of its petty sovereignties; the allotment of its towns, fields, and population? What is it to us to have destroyed the naval arsenals of Antwerp, if a navy is to rise up in the American Republic? To have left the Emperor Napoleon master of all the Continent of Europe would not have been so dangerous to us as would be the existence of a considerable navy in America; for that navy, having France with it, would put our naval superiority, and even our safety at home, in imminent danger. There can be no doubt, that France will, whenever she has the opportunity, side with the Republie |