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THE REPUBLICAN.
Tu&day, February 7, 1815.
BY FREDERICK S. FELL,
"... OH T|l I AT, HEAR TBE XXCBAXOE.
PRINTED THREE TIMES A WEEK.
At Sex Dauuiper annum, in advance.
From Cob be It's Regiottrief October J9, IB 14,
AMERICAN WAR.
' 1 kin, from the first,' expressed nay appro-,
hcottons at to th* end •< tola war. I used
Ibd~utmost ef my endeavors'to fli+vent it.—
Whilst shut up in a prison, out of which, at
tha end of two long years, I went with the pay
ing of a thousand pounds t* the ziho. for
> had the Indiscretion to write about the
Bagging cf English local miftia meo, at the
town of Ely, in E ngland, and atout the pre
sence of Hanoverian troops upon that ^cation
'—while so shut op, the, grea'cM object rt my
afTirts trail <o present this ill feted war. the
seed, of which I saw sown, and the ms urity
«f which 1 saw pushed on by ; hoso maign^r..
end foul wrotetes, the writers ot the T>me»
' *nd..Cau-ler.;irew«papers. This was the Wl*
'in which I etnpfoyrdf rry days ard.years of ini
'Pleaiapit., My fffrt. wero' eh in rain. 1'
fain did 1 shrw the falsehood of the state.
(Dqnta, andthe dosirtr.es on .which the war
Whoopers proceeded—in vain did I appeal to
• Oie icaion, and jus ice, a< d e*tt» to the fnrer-
: ’ ■ tut of a pc pie, Befoded into » *oi» of furor
. jSffdui* AtbwlckY jA< laa*. the war took place,
~ ,*ad ths «I SRrsce which we suffered at sea,
• completed the madnns d the narior,’who
seemed, to have no other feeling than that of
" >«mollification and revenge. What! should
A (he-'people , be suffered lo lire I should they be
‘ suffered to exist in the world who htd detest
ed and csp'urd a British frigate t rhnuld ih»«%
who had .caused "|he Br^jsti fl g to be Muled
. dotA nor’be exTOrmirired! Throppointnen ;
■'' asto'itshment j fot'yl The ratioc was tnid,
'1* Rule RritamdaZ, the constant call of the
*■' ‘ boasting rcbble it places ot public resort, wta
.no longer called for with such esgernefes and
“' . Wai heaid with less rapture. The heroes in
bine ant) buff carded their heads leisfofy.
Their Voices, teemed to fccofeembru faint,
and tbalr port lew tpajestic. They teemed to
n .feel,is men of honor ssoold upon sudhancccs-
eion. In .show, we ell felt shat a new era had
tafteh.{dice IntMjnavalannslaof tbeworid.
. Still, howeter, : ihe dread of the power of
* 1 ; N»P'.feon restrained many from a’wish to see
; r us embarked lo w war folr. the cort) test nf Ante
yicai. Bat,he.wa» scarcely subdued by the
.combined effort! of all Europe, when this
Y whole ‘nation called , aloud lor Wat, a war of
punishment, against the American state's.—
19i ‘ Add, ft WM openly declared in the most pc.
cuter of our newspapers, that we ought neset
to sheath tho swbrd, ’I'll sse had subjugated
the ata'ea/dr,* tft least, subverted their form of
'I c government. The pernicious example ot the
existence of • republic, founded on e revolution
» 1 ■ n Jea* - dptenly deciated to bo incoeaisteot wib
>-, tn'e safety of our government. I’ wa«. besides,
distinctly alledged that now, now, nose, or nev
..trywas tbs timetp;ptevent America from ev-
’ ‘or baring a nary. The deco«slty of des-rcy-
’f* fng her means of basing a navy h» rince been
repeatedly urged. It has been; ata'cd and re
bated, that cur easal power must soon come
»o an end unlaw we now destroy this -ep; b
tie root and bronch. The defeat and capture
of our ifeet.and the defeat of our army op and
near Lake Champlain, (of which 1 shall speak
more particularly horeafie-) base not at aII sof.
tened the language of %e nnh’ra prints. Tho
times newspaper', of 'hr 9ih m«r. calls it “ a
lamentable 1 evil to the Citiliepd would
by which appej’ation tber wi ns always <neuo
r ‘ xisolt bovXBiniEHTs The writer then
add/ s ** Next to <he annihilation ol the b e
military despotism in Europe, *he subroraiqa
of that system of. fiaudand malignity, f rich
ronstliU'CS the ttho e policy of the whole Jef
fersonlah school, was an event to bed-vont-
ly wished by eyer y man in ait her hemisphere
who regards rational liberty, or the honorable
iri-eroourte of nations. B was an e*eny to
' ’’ which we should have bent, And ye» must be d
:‘Y all 'our energies. The American government
' mutt ie ditfdaetd or it ta-U.to&ner orlater
fitant Uo ftpitened dogger in lit hea> I 4/ the fur-
- . vrtf *fo’e‘” Sooner or laier L you see 1 1 he
{Mhtlemait looks ini a fuurity. Be doea not
. •. contepted with
I when h\ addition, die thought of our defeated
and captured frigates coasts athwart the mind,
the ineome tax is forgotten, sad ttengeaoee,
war, and Mood. is the cry.
I now proceed to notice more particularly
the event*, which have reached oor knowledge
since the date nt my last article upon the mU*
ject. The fUundcring cf Alexandria appear,
to have been most vuccevsful oi our enterprises.
The American papers giro our people great
credit for thrir talen‘ a*, the emptying of o/iofu,
and the embarkation of their contents, at which
to do our army and navy (esp.ciallf the lat
ter) hut bare justice, we seem to. hire : beep
uncomm-inly adroit. It seems, howeaer, that
the squadron,.which had the plunder aboard,
had but a narrow escape in decern’leg. the Che-
sapeake s but, plunder there was, and n good
deal of i* ( and mere catf be little doqbt,* that
the success and profit of the enterprise wtH
act as great encouragements to future under-
undertakings of 2 similar description; the only
‘•hertfamlUeo in Balthnore,*’ f<nnl in (art
ground defence of their City ? lVowgreatt r cent
rage, rarre desperata devotion to country,. vrt
witpeasedB^n “t the battle of Ch:pp|iwa and
•at Pori firiti How comes It th"» during thr Ja*>
campaign we h,ve ls,t m or * <dR^*rs and men.
out of twenty thousand-employed, than.we etep
lost in the European w.ir out of one him
dred'thousaad.' From what feeling *ai it ih t
:Mr. Madisoncalied as we are told he has, Mr.
Rufus •King'io his counsels, And frem what
militia, wherewith to makw face agrihat IMffa
n-l.ish troops, commanded by four major gw-
nersls and air. George P evost, a ganeral of
Icog cxpwiience ai d of g-eat repuiatwHU.
he Iskc' we -sy, tliat the Am«tic»na had a
f»ur- A more hari ,we.' Sufifiuie '' bet had I I
do not Admit .bo. bet.; hut tLfifioJt they had.
A fourth i How long is it sit'ce we thought a
fourth too much f Eva y .cna knows, shat sir
___ ;RoberttCahier was dlsg^ need for rot pursuing!,;
feeling la it tha Mr. King has accepted of the douhie h s bice. We a>e become aery idee
' eattukttoro- «f fotce. •• We shall soon hear, I
The Morhing'Chroniclec that camelien of
thi* war, now , toasts that it forrtrid union
against u*. Tt never foretold it. It always
urged out the war. It called and it-was. the
first t* call, thr humings.of Washington a most
gallant dash* However, it is now clear that
we hare eomfilettly united the whole conn'ry.
TJie Somharding of Stoningion. in Msss4chu
iiitii and the ftlterulefiny ]of. Alexandria.-.iti
in si avtcznjifc «aw«iiiirK wc mneu*
That is to say. We met with 2 .defeat. .Yfot ip •’MidiaoorfifttaKen aptitwitfrr A/mfotUtK do-
thh Held: bat shat Isnrthing to the purpose. ft n c ec | fits country ; and .we abatt-now- see,
\Vs. matched wd sailcdwgamst the town^with ihay amoogst those whom we thought, oor
all etir forces, by sea ud land, and wg.wero , ore shall find the mast rgsolutc ene-
compelled to rrtnwt wkhout doing any thin* f ^ OT . stontagSTand Alexandria- wHl he con.
against that town,. The town Is sale; xiid, (taatly toforo evefy American’s eyre. I »U.
oeasi Mail 9a thie awnaditinM hua Anilwr! itaih LA _A n .-‘.Y«
the war-end,as tbb .exprdhton has .
all • the world will * agree, that America -has
defeated os W« may be sore of this* and.
*-irr» lrrr, we^nnt*-eariry cwyhei-war, ..til} we
havr-sohdu 'd. tm*tfe*|3r, we-mbit make up
ehr minds to the reputation of haying been de
feated by that republic A pretty aeripM al-
tenaative ; but it ivane which mast and will
fxistj and of this we shall be«. me. ir v re and
more aerolite every day. and particularly if
we attend to what foreigners say opon the sub.
ject., . ■ - . '• l"
. The expedition of onr troops and fleet
against Pa-,am quoddy and the Penooscott; Is
ol a nature *o 'rilling as hardly /o„,be . worthy
of notice. That territory is no mere important
in Amrricft lhah she Isle ot 8ky is -la .Grciit
R-ifiio, It is a.conquest, aad so would the ’ •“
l ie of Sky be by an American privatre^.—
W hat > figure does this coriquest make In the
Cac-ttr! What a‘grand Sfifhir it appear* to
b-1 But did a ttohsaodth^part of the people
|nn,. W ilmlngton BB.
Yorx, Boston, thntfthey hsVe heard of They
haw* been led to .believe thM U»e city of.Wnsh.
ington-is |0 Atnorica vcjbat Xtmdon ii to Eng
'xrsys ■mil opptSe'd to the war, and to thi- mode.
of warfare espeeSaWy . I knew tt wcuW p-odurc
that which It has produced^ I knew it would
Bonder the breach too wide ever to be heeled
again. 1 knew that tt: would produce either
tha.total noiij'igntion- of, Aai-iiua. ..which I
thought impossible, oy our final defeaf Ini the
eves of the worldjjrKh the nl'eyirr const quence
of seeing America a most formidable naval
power, which .the recent events on 'he border^'
of Canada seem but too nA'nifc: .to portend
{ th quite surprising to what nn vxtBrt this na‘
Ion haa been, and still is deluded, with tryarfl
to Arorriro. and to thomature *':d t flirt of,this
war. .It I* only fifteen day*' sg thet the Cbu
rler newspaper contained the following, pant
f-
stk.
supp so, hit we ought alwrys to keep aloof,
.unleys v»e can count the guns, and know, that
we have a superiority. Fifteen thousand men,
seven of them from the army ot “ ibe conquer
or of France !” And these d-ew off from the
ptesenct'ol 7500 YahkeeVB whom they srore
abiUMO give a go'd drubbing l Wbv, It will
n>^te such a noise in ihe nerid I It will mske
-uch • a bu* j it Bill - sitcund ‘ honest John
BtriV^ wko- wa% ot ly tha last market day,
c: #*gmg his glass and bropgirg sbou’ seodmg
out o viceroy. The vholefleet ! What—att l
Our little ones and all { Allot one fell snoop !
It wHl make J bnny Bull scratch bis noddle in
search of-brains. The chuckling of honest.
John at >he burning of Wa-hirgton. the plun
dering of Alexandria, ‘and tiomba<ding of
S oninittoo- w-h be cha ged into grumbling I .re
af-a’d. But come. Johttny, vnu nun not grumble
You were for the war.. It a your war. The
mitirs'rr* are no: to blame. You instated upon
ehaVtir'ng and bumhVtcg. ihe An eiirar-. ^
You would b've Mr. R].-dinr dtfotrd Y-u
isid he had «.7-<f tji’h Hzftolron. You s-ld
what was fa'se, J.hur.yj but tha L no nuf'.r;
You ral'cd .upon the mini.-te*s to depose himv
This I will, always say. and can, a< any litre
prove against yob. The. consequence* of this
v'«tory of the Amer^ans must to very im-
po' tar t f'Jr George PrevfHt is blamed, at.d
indeed abused, while 'he t ffieers of the fleet,
the defeated and captured fleet, are compli
mented to the ftkiss. When will this folly
cea<c ? When shall we re.i»e to be so basely
•unjust l Wbaf would bate been said of sir
1 George if be had had bis army blown into ilia
‘ airr or cut to pieces.
f Here Cobbett a-'gues H f some length taprJve
that sir George Prevosl acted jud riosi/y in
drawing off his army from before Plattsburgh,
^fnmto’yiggoi. . „ _
ti sad taken New Loadon, and destroyed the city
of Baltimore. Be h thefe event, are prebaVe, bar
there ere noertivalefroa America.ht.cr dan 'he last
defpatche- from Admiral Cocbrare. detail at, (he id
of left month;' 'Bwt at the wind haa jtto , fair for
Cone days, we benrly expect * fresh wriviL If malt
briny newt of great imnertarce—in'el’fgerce from
Canada—oootb*r.attiek apon Port Erie— aoetber can v
fond^ w t^ri’^ifrfoVro Fronce. Nothing ronfy* 1 twdilj**^** 19 ” **' ht - ,hm
%?. ssstrrt j
$X5tfSSSSSS%rZK“wl!.«• ? ,r- M ~ y
hot remain their to erect a new *over«ment,| ^ (nt „Ju>on [hi. Ufo
Wo to a few batl.Hr.g- and then aifahertandwerdnot indlfpofed to a ter. inf ion-from
aw American privateer were to | th( «>wftrtee No arrival Horn Ament* »u ever
rot firfc tna fow fishing iiot* ( rtv the coast of expe^ wich m , re impa-iente. .. .
Wale* should wp fook oporw .t as a very hrtl w.-Js .he ani* I has take? place, The fm
l.ant aff.tr i Yet thj* Washington ertrrprhe arr i„t K.V ..tr.o
was, by the Moroir* Chronicle, .deemed tlit
mus t gdUant dash of the war I In the “ dc>!
raonsfratim” as admiral Coeb'snr, culls
it, against Baltimore, general Ross Was kilird;
and seme of. rug paper* call 'hi*' foul phtg
<r TheftUom. , ‘ says one of them, took aim
»l the ealiatu Ross from behind some brush iocod."
Well a"d what then ? D 1 no' our t-cop* *boot
fnm heh'ntf nvapats, and wells, irn3 wofks of
ait drna ? And do We suppose 'h»' the Ame-
rlcans w II not make use of a bush when it
comes ip 'heir v»*y ? If Chi. crying tone be
to be ’ndu’ped in, we .shall, f. fe«v.' c r y our eyes
out before the w.r its over. We have sent
ear bombs, arid rockets, ritd .rlfl -s,'and ad
tnm* of mean* of d-»"ur»kw ; our ■ writers
blame our minld'ero for nci rendhtg'he means
of finrek’n^ down rown* fast enough, *pd
shall we *h»ne pror Jo nhan^11 he avail him-
ve'f of a hush, a-d of Ma skill at 'hitting •
ms*k f Oe»<*ra' Row burol ttolr president’s
hon-c. a-d a Yankee«Aof genets! Ross, thite
are'hinge wh'.-h nv vi»r.| ! y occur; *od, how
ever t»e may Ivrren' the drath nf an v-flrepr, we
man re^ec' tbs' an invaded people w<H shoot at
the*' irv-drrs ent« «v the former are ready to
receive the la ter as friends.
EfTereT nroeerd to notice the late *fWr on
Xml near, take Chamsfa'n thare are seme re-J
mi'ki to to tortnwrrf on certain characteristic
facts which hive leaked out* and. on certain
paragraphs fo our n-wvoapers. . The Amrri-
cans are uceh-ed of cowardice /for having re-
trented h«fore Inferior combers sad taken .Itrto
t-rin BU'imore. Why way this eowar/lice?
The ma : n ebret w*s to«Mmd that’gryat hnd
■rxh eitr;~ The second was to annihilate -nur
army and naval force To make a long stand
in the bprn coiintiy, with raw/tronhs, against
discipline'’ aeldiec*. was not the way ti» effect
pro:fend; lhat.ffe should be contented with Jto ’
. maktoff ,-tW Aflrirfcina' give;up the points of* v > te(T ^ fof Times
dispute* does not evenhmt at any term* .newMcper, a few days age* remarking pq the
of peace. He plainly says, that we frtust are-j certard'cc of the Americans.- contracted with
rgtnttrumemoofAmerica t that is to aay^th^A'Aitrryof ovanar jtfl>ipix]U,'cbforve«f.-
dfifiTniHu‘arid nature ; subjugate the \ that the enute was. vtot-rAeo-lisdro) teeftnO ol
country k rectlfttita it; repossea It. Nctv -ftatrioUtvr: thatthey eared nothing about the
toindrtheW^itrint* dap« find fault wW| mViYfnv.ww-tlJlAu
b °"' ,0 P** 1 .* Te ° * ritg. andthev rrmplsJned that wr forced na-
|». txri'tojfe at '.at,buroiogs aod ptoaderm^. tive Americans in o our service. Th*. feet h
notorious to nil th world. 'JThls feet is record
ed in nuf ewn -ffietal document?. This feet
make* a'part of noqoeatienable history.' Ano
ther feet has. fiat torn recorded by. this same
Times new Daprr. namely, that two. of our-se;-
men were hanged on hoard the fleet bt the
Che-apcnke, for attempting to -desert to the
enemy.. It is also stated, in the -ame paper,.
('. 4th October) that about rents, hundred andfif
ty of etir siklirrs deserted on the retreat from
Platt sburi*. Now. Jet this empty boaster pro-
dnee ns ins'aners like these, on the side of the
Americans if he aao—and if be cannot,, let
him .'knowledge hitnielf ts be either a delat
ed fool or a deluding knave, But ha* Jonathan
shown no seal for his country? What wav that
act ol svlt deration which induced a man to
-expose hit property to Cerfiin, and himself to
orobable destruction; by. shooting'at general
Ro-s and killing his horse under him, in the
city ot Washington, after the town was in pos-
oi onr troops ? By what feeling was the'
They find ft id', tb« mere tnisshief hts ntx
keen dooe. '“ V .L" ' ; T.
Thus then, we see what the nation regards
. as the subject of.the war. I %oy the nation.
I because the Morning Chronicle, which is the
organ of the opposition, is just as bluer against
‘ America, as are the Times and the Courier
The truth is, that the only opposition, as to
the W.ir, will arise out rf our failures. The op
position will only biahe the minsters for not
having tir.mt more, ships; plundered mere
towns, and done more mischief. Thire i>, in
deed, a sot tot dread of the length of the war.
People are a little disappointed, that Mr
• -Madison is not iyet deposed j that the states
'have not separated; thnt our sons of noble
: — ----famdio--no* yet wanted lo go out ss gover
..nors ond ■capuuns sen-r.il t. Penm'lvirui,
New-York, Massachusett', Virginfe, kc. fee
- that it will require' another campaign to briny
the delude,1 .American* to their sente« . that
(and here h the pinch) die fncame tax will to . | „ |
wanted another year, and that another loan man actuated who exposed his life for the rake
of killing g neral Rtai, and who most hove
been almost alone, since he was hidden behind
seme brushwood ? To. what ire we to impate
..must bo road*: Bat, •• what is one more year
ef expense at the end ot t wenty two year* r
wrar ? And then it will give ns such fasttn
peace and security Thes is fear /mshedt and the capture ol two hundred youxg men of the
p-.tieotly expected arrival haa t'ken placer
New L'mdnn has hot been snack' d. The at-
tick or Baltimore has failed. General Ross
l<4 killed. Admiral Cochrane haa arrived a*
Halifax for the winter, with the plunder of
Afox^ndria. The 'effect upon the 1 , iwh di pr
the American people hav been such a» t-* untie
even Mr. Ktrfp*lth Mr. Madison, whn" yet
(W»«‘ B *’i>t**‘dent." No row aMark hs^ bean
made' on F-rt R'tt,. hut .'he army of germ- ai
Izard, at PlattsbU'gh has been attacked by.
oor .commander in chief, wih the “ Welling,
ton her-es" order him, with the f* conquer
or* of France” under him, white the Ameri
can flee' was- r'lacbedhy out’s ;haad net qi ly
have ba'h attseks failed but'wc have expertan-,
ced a more' complete defeat than* as fer a «
1 can recollect, we ever before exnerieneed,
the pnrob'e tlfe-r of jhe Hrider. only excepted.
Thinking Johriny B'il! I You, whb wee -so
•eager, to ptve.'he Y ' k;es a drubbing-^-you,
sfho were to-' fqll ql fight that oolbing but atm
..liter wo’r skduld ippease-yoU-iP *y cap ycii
•ell tus how it is thai our ntlnhter*, who lave
g : *en its such exad accounts tbonf >he S' gal-
fant dishes” ot Washington afid Alexandria,
and who have published such loads of dis
patches aod proclamations about the cotqceJ
of the Penr>bs<a»t tcrriiorv,. not < ij nl Impnpu*
larinn to. the parish of St. Martin’s an the
Fields ; can yob teH me how if happened that
this minlrtr* haa not reiripei. er at leait tote
hot published, 'he account ot .the land and wa
tar halites ai Pla tsfeng, and on Lake Cham-
plain, ’though we have sir George Prevosi’s
general order, Issued alter the battle, aMfr
t hough ■ we'b"*e notheroui extracts from 'Cana
ria papers, dared many days la»er *bsn->the
ria’epf tto otc!er l Cannot yoo tell meihit,
thinking Johnny Bull I. yoo who, when you
heard of the-capture of Washington City, were
foe sending out a viceroy, to the America*
stater) Too, who called the ATokrieans cow
erdly-dcgs, and hailed tha prospect ef i speedy
release frbwr: the insbms naw eed - the pav-
mett of'he na'iorulrfeb* by the sale offends,
and by taxes raised in America f Welt,, then,
in waiting patiently for tbfi oitfc>al sccnnm,
ten must content ourselves with what 'he news
papers ifell us they have extracted from th%
papers of Canada. Letters extracted from the
American papers tnske oor loss dreadful io.
deed. •' General Mscomb, the American com-
murder, is represented to-have writ'en fo hi*
father, at &ew Yo- V, tellirg him that be bad
killed or token 30Ct) of our army, and that be
expected to destioy one half of it. Our news
papers said that tbit mas false. They also said
that ft was false that we had anything iikee
frigate nn Lake Champlain, though it now
appears that we had e »Mp acta- lly. meumh-g
32 gui», and that the hugest of she Amort
cap vessels was ratgd 2fl guns, and carrfed, as
we say, 30 gups. But let us take, for the pre
sent, the accoontof theCtmsd* papers, and look
with impatience, but frith becoming humility,
to his tJtajcs'y’s minis'ers for funher i n for nr. a-
t'on. Thus, then, speak the Canadian prin-
tet*; thus spesh the bitterest enemies .of Ame
rica j j - .'
f*J2Jre follow coflhms extract* from the Ca
nadian print's, ieith the ,[ evict of the wounded'
in full detail. 7 ] • '-7.^ - ' ' " 7 *
Thus, then, according to our own accounts,
the Ametlcana tod hot 1.SPt tegulata and 40&0
of the'bartdtsg of Washington City, I met sir
fl-nig- Prevost’s wsggon, between Pvrt-m'mth
Hyv
and Hy-tot. The carter was whist ing alvng
hy the ride of some nice fat hor es. I rouln not
helm ot>serving to my son how touch happier
t il* felfow was than his m sster, who had to
S'jvern Gankliins and fight Atnsric.m-. It Is
“|*ET* Urttjliont the "hirsts of Toulouse,"
forming part pi.his artoy. “Th.- hen.** of
•‘qi’lcusc” are said ‘to have r^mmurated
against, the retreat. They are aaid 10 have
expressed a;desire to storm the fort. h'ir*Jl
George Prevost would; I dare say, h:iv ( . hern' 11
o’the.wme mind, ifhehad had rehsun to sup
pose, that one half of the people fcithin, were,
ai Uie people of Toulouse were, ready to join
him' Bdt'be fr'dl know the xomrtry. Hc,:j
kuew, that he had to *-t into the tort Ihrough'i j
t.rjyer ni bland.‘U: had just seen the fate of {
cur f. -rt; ind he kn-w, .is “ the h. m •, , f Tap-
t..i. »»- L-. 1 • t. x-. it.:*.,.- l’a-- v
Ihe American papers, coming from «ntbority,!
and accoifijrantcd ky an scr.ouut <>t killrd and
waundedjn tpe naval battle on the lake that?
ff&r fl-et had'98 giinv >intl 1,050 mrn. while thst
to America' hjd hat fiffguns and 820 men— ur
Il*et wa J all‘token bpt the gun bo n, carrying 1 '
sixttep Mnsiipmgst'hem all. And y> t *he *»*•
v*l people air* p’aiied. white air 'Genrg= i're
yost is censured Whence arises this ir)os
llcy i Whence thl« security of the navy f-rrr
;>ll censare; and even 1 from all criticism ? D<
;/e leel th:-.t to ccn-ure a.iy par' of it is tn dis
cover to the world that i* is, not s'way, intaublf .
D > we suppose, thM. io d t'.errering r ur fear* nf iff J
ioferi- rity,in poiutiof quuity, to ihr of Am- iic 11
we shall make the world perceive the lament:'
bte fact ? Are we, fools enough to hr.pe th
the hUto'y of thi* batt'e can be hidden fro
Franye a d 'he rest ofFarope) why, the
this; justice? Why not blame the nstal pa
of the furcex, if bferce must fall acmawhe'r*'
l sae .no necesaSty for its fallir.g any sshe el’
my part. We tod 84 men killed,.srd 1;
wounded, which ahewa tbit there was sor
fighting. We had double the number.kill'
a*d woutided that Junathan had, whxb she
ha Jonathan was the mo>e able bodied and
tive of tbq two. A letter was, s little wl
age, published as ft arm one oi our etfiefers in •
Cberape>kebayi*ay'pgths‘ J ; >r»hsn mu tc
look pretty sharply about hi*. It appt,
f ora -the result of the bitiie, tost J nit '
does lock . p«etly sharply , stout him
Now, then, let os heir whateffca' this cy
has hid upon tha.Times new Pape:'. wF
only a few weeks ago, intii cd an it, that*
American yr^cn:ment must be displaced,
the AmeiMT'a were cowards, that they c*
nothing stout ibeir count:y, and that the a
Would socn divide, a< d come over, one r *
time, tn the parent count: j. New let usi*
what this- torch bearer of the war, this tv-
pet office aod sword, provoker to ever
of violenct and cruelty—let us bear wb
cow hat to aay; he who has, far three
past, bean urging the government on t«
disaatroue contest.,.' .' •' tf • "
*' Halil ax papers to the Oth instant, •
Ym k to the 22a ultimo, and Boston to the
have been received. There is no disset*“
that the popular cntcry in Canada agair ‘
George Prevost’s conduct on occasion 1
fete operations against Plattsburgh, i
general and very loud;* We cannot f
to determine on the talents of this rff ett
the wisdom of hi* plans—but- at
«oi the suggestions which we made at
early period of tbe campaign and regret^
ugly that one of enr moat expcrienctd |
from Spain was jtor sent at once, flush
victory from the5 ld« efTouteose, tot
ef the'United States. Ws* it beneath tot
nt lord Hiilr or even of .she dike Wei!
Fatal prejudice! To despite, so irrUa_
qfter *U. nit to subdue our adversarie.
worst and weskrsl ot all policy. Nnw * 1
reduced ourselves 10 yhh flUemnxs, ( e