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From Col>bctt\s IVet&fj Regislerp
AMERIC.H,
An nrticje Which appeared in t)ie
Time* pewspaper of Monday last,
makes rift regret exceedingly that
the regent did not answer tsht part
of the Uy * address which expresses
about that 4, *a period is put to the ra
tttgei bf war ; and % that we may
henceforth participate in the advan
tages of a f : endly anil uninterrupted
intercourse with all the nations of.thfA
wo: id;’ I regret thsft his royal high
ness did not speak to and echo this
&etUimvnt, because the article above
alluded to, states that there is to be a
Stipulation in the definitive treaty of
peace . by which tic allied powers tx.
France lire to bind themselves not to in
terfere in the ‘war which Kngland may
*ir;,r ■ firr.’ on ayaijist the U . States of
Ameikab This article is published
as tiaffcl X and as having been pub
*• It is doubtless whol
ly /.X though'it is very .difficult to
r’.. un for mils being published ill
the ri.pitVJ- ot the Austrian govern
’ inprdfVoJitre intelligence ot this sort
tie cm s rPtonlikely to be fabricated.
Perh.j*p> the Times newspaper which
has cried loudly for no peace
with Madison, and has open
ly proposed to detach part of the
states from the confederation, has
fabricated the article itself - by way
of feeling the public pulse. He tins as
it may the idea exists , &■ the promul
gation of it must have u very bad ef
fect ; for though it’is impossible to
believe that the prince regent would
propose any such stipulation, there
can be no doubt but the very men
tion of it in our public prints will
tend to make the Americans more
exasperated than they were before.
The effect of this mischievous article
would have been, by anticipation,
completely destroyed by a single
word from the regent, echoing the
wish tor universal peace expressed
by the people of London. 1 am
aware, that his royal highness by a
speedy adjustment ot all differences
with America, which indeed, do
them stiver away by the existence of
peace in Europe, will greatly disap
point the feeders on war and the cne
lilies of freedom. # \s to the former
they might be satisfied with profits
equal to the profits of war , but tjuy
latter nothing short of The; extermi
nation of the very name of republic
will ever satisfy. They see, in the
existence of the republic of America,
danger little short of what they saw
in tile republic of Franee-—They see
in it a receptacle for the oppressed
and enterprising of all nations. They
set in it an example of freedom, mo
rality, arid happiness, the bare tho’t
of which puts them to the torture.
If they could consolidate all the peo
ple of America into one carcase, they
Would, having an atm sufficiently
strong, end arm sufficiently long, cut
their throat at- a single gash. Such
men, if mert we ought to call such
monsters, talk with delight of the
sending’ f’ lord Wei ting ton's unoto
the Winded States ; they revel in the
idea of burning'the cities and towns,
the mills and manufactories of that
country ; at the Very least They talk
‘ of sot cing Mr. Madison from his seat,
and new-moddeUing the government.
They endeavor to excite all the hos
tile passions here.—They are always
ripping up our defeated and captured
frigates, without appearing to recol
lect th at\v e, at an y rat e defeated & took -
imbdrigUttfrcrtk the Americans* Why
then urge us to revenge. Can any
revenge that we can take do away
these pages of history, any moi^.
than the dethronement of Napoleon
can do away the history of the bat
tles of AusterliU, Jena and Eylau l
At other times they tell us of the dan-,
ger which as manufacturers, we have
to apprehend from America, who is
now, m her turn, becoming an expor
b ter of vfollcn and of cation goods.
And why’should not they export
woollens and cottons as well as we ?
What N reason js there, that they 1
should not become a commercial
nation as well as We or the Dutch ?
These latter- used to have, exclusive
; lv, the making of goods for the Por
tuguese and Spaniards ; but tor my
part, 1 sec no harm that would arise
from iwil the Americans, who have
such abundance of wood, were to
supply this article to all the Cat ho
le countries ci Europe, as doubtless
therowiU now be a gieat call for it,
’ seeing the Pope (to the great joy of
, this prQtestanti&bUtitityj is no.w res--
toied to ins See. But, in spite of
the justice and reasonableness of*
tliesti sentiments, they do not, and
M ill not, prevail among the raanu
&c turns in England, who look
with jealousy hnd hatred towards
America ; and perceiving no way of
arresting her astonishing progress ip
the mai>ufacturifig line, than that of
Tearing her to pieces by • war, they
viil be at WShr with her at any ex
peuce, and at ahy risk. The .ship
owneis know well, that they have no
chhocc in -a fair with the
Americans... 4 hey know that the ]at
. ttr can bu.hq sail and tarry at half
the price necessary to English ships. ’
■ffHtf. mercantile marine will,’ breed
ships of war. This is an*pbject qf
terror to them who look forward, add I
are unable to support the idea of tin- J
gknd ever, at any time, becoming |
the second maritime nation in the
world, as in twenty years’ time she.,
must, unless the growth cf Ameri
can naval power can be checked.
When we look back to what Ameri
ca was in the year 1784, that is thir
ty years ago, and see what progress
she has made and how that progress
has gone on increasing in its velocity,
it is impossible i>ot to perceive, that
‘unless she receives some very severe
check, she must be equal, at least, to
England in naval power, in the course
often years.—This opinion is gene
ral with those who reflect upon the
subject; and therefore it is not as
tonishing that some, even good men,,
who do not hate freedom in the ab
stract, should be anxious to see her
growth checked, either by demolish
ing her towns, her ships, her means
of strength “of all sorts; or by divi- ’
ding her states. There are those
too, who, looking at the fearful mag
nitude of our debt, and in despair of
seeing it reducing by any system of
economy, have an idea that it would
be as well to venture upon a war of
conquest with America, in order to
obtain the means to pay off part at
least of this deb*. They see in that
boundless country lands to sell, and
a great population to tax. They im
agine they will And means as bound
less as the debt itself j and, mad as
the Motion of a war upon such
grounds may seem to the Americans
they may be assured that there are
numerous persons in England who
entertain it. Then, think of the de
lightful prospect which seventeen or
eighteen provinces hold out to the
shunters after plabes ! Such cargoes
of governors, commanders in chief,
staffs, port admirals and officers, cus
tom house and excise people, attor
neys and solicitors general, judges,
doctors, proctors, paymasters, com
missaries, and, though last not least,
bishops, priestsvmd deacons. Only
think of this and wonder not, that
rthtre are persons who wish for the
recolonizaticn of-America.
But as tiic subjects of dispute with
that country cease of themselves with
the war in Europe, let us hope, that
all these wil'd notions will be. soon
dissipated by the regent’s ministers,
who will, doubtless, lose, now, not a
moment in giving real peace to the
nation. I must confess, however,
that I should like to see the ugly
paragraph, to which I liavs alluded
plainly contradicted by Something
like official authority. It appeared in
Times newspapers of the 2d of May
in the following words : The treaty
,of Chaumbnt is published in the same
print of the same day,” from the Vi
enna Gazette ; and, after the treaty,
there follows, as also taken from the
Vienna paper, this paragraph—- u It is
affirmed, that besides the conventions
which England has concluded with
the other allied powers, it has also
made a secret agreement relative to
North America . By this agreement
England has procured from all the
other European powers the assurance
that after the re-establishment of
peace in> Europe, none of them will
interfere in the dispute . between his
Britannic majesty and North America ,
and France is also to engage, in the
peace to be concluded, to subscribe to
the same conditions A This, as the
reader will* observe wpll, was first
published at Vienna on 9th of
Apiil, and accompanied the publica
tion of‘the.-treaty of Chaumont. If
the paragraph be hot a fabrication
here, it is very strange indeed, it be
ing well known that at Vienna,: the
press is under a rigid inspection and
control. Why any such stipulation
Its this 1 What nited was there of any,
seeing that we have now ho dispute
with America, the very subjects of
dispute having ceased to exist with
the war in Europe. .The dispute
related to the taking of people out ofi
American ships upotv the high seas
upon the ground of being English
subjects, and also to the extent of the
right of blockade and other matters
touching neutrals durtnfe wttn Peace
with all nations, of course takes away
the very subjects of dispute ; and,
WHY, therefore, should England
have made a Secret agreement in or
der to prevent anvef the other powers,
France included from taking part in
this dispute, w after fke re-cstablish
roent of peace in Europe ?” If I could
believe, us yet I in the exis
tence of such an agreement, I should
begin to fear, that the regent and >
his ministers were bent upon, a war
of recolonizing, or at least of devasta
tion in the United States ; that th'ey
had listened to the suggestions of
those who, for the several reasons
that 1 have stated, desire the desmic
k tion or tho, conquest of these states,,
and that we were doomeU now to be
engaged in a most expensive and
bloody war, wi*ii| all the rest of Eu
rope enjoyed profound peace ; That
the lime Was yet not to arrive wHfeiv
our burdens’
when guineas,tt> return, “and
and when We were, before Vr 1
died to say that our country was liv
ing in friendship with all the world.
If this war were to be resolved on by
government,/which God it
must be confessed, that there would
not be wanting the ready means of
carrying it deadly effect.—
We have-more soldiers, more ships,
more horses, arms and ammu
nition ; more in short, of all the in
struments than we know,
what to do with. Ouf army is well
disciplined; abundantly > supplied
with good officers ; brave in its na
ture ; accustomed to victory 1 Our
“navy in the same state. The Euro
pean war has ended so suddenly, and
was upon so large a scale that there
/are provisions and stores in hand
more than sufficient, perhaps, for a
year’s war in America* The under
taking, therefore, would be by.jfH6
means chimerical ; though in the ewrf,
I think it would fail* If such a war,
and for the purpose urged in our
public'prints, should be entered on,
it is probable that the German Le
gion, being sublets of our king,
might be amongfu the troops sent
out. This is no contemptible army
of itself; horse, artillery, engineers ;
well appointed, provided and
commanded. In short, there will
be no difficulty in sending out an
army of 50 or 80 thousand men, be
sides sailors and marines. To pre
vent their landing would be impossi
ble; and, it is hardly necessary to
say, that the whole of the ships of the
states, and aU the maritime .towns,
must fall upon the approach of only
a fourth part of such an army ; un
less the Americans should, previous
to its landing, be cured of their self
confidence, 8c lay by the plough for
a win ley for the use of the musket.
I trust in the justice of his royal
highness, the regent, for the rejection
of such a project; but if it w<*re to
be adopted, 1 know it would be popu
lar ; and I also see, as every man
must, that the powers of Europe, if
inclined to aid America,- are unabls
to do it* They have, all put together,
not fleets enough to face six English
men of war. The maritime strength
of the whole world now centres in
these islands. The Americans, I
hear, rely upon the friendship of
Russia. Alas ! what have they to
offer the emperor of Russia in return
for his friendship ?. This is nonsense.
—The emperor of Russia has other
objects of his attention ; and, besides
if we really were to give credit to the
article from; Vienna, that point is
settled at once. So that if this war
were to be resolved on, it would soon
be seen, that the politics of the fed
eralists, as they are called, have been
wrong from the beginning ; and tfiat
Mr. Madison, so often accused of
being the tool of Napoleon, will have
to remind his antagonists, that if A
mericain good earnest had taken the
side of France a few years ago, she?
would not now in all probability have
to tremble, least the advice of the
Times news-paper should be acted
upon. Luckily for the power of En
gland, and for the family of Burbon,
Mr, Madison and his party’ kept
aloof from Napoleon for the sake of
a political principle, united with the
fear of being reproached with ■plun
ging their country into a war on the
side of a despot and a conqueror.—
But, it /would, ifvthe Times* project
were adopted, become evident to all
the world, that such policy had been
the ruin of the United States. I
repeat, however, my confident hope
That the regent and his ministers are
too just and-Joo moderate in their views
to listen for one moment, to any
such.ambitious and sanguinary pro
ject, against which it is my duty to
endeavor to guard them, as I know
that there will not be wanting num
bers through the press and other
wise to urge its adoption.
The whole world besides does not’
perhaps, contain so many dreadful
enemies of freedom as England alone.
It is here alone where we see it re
commended to keep the allied ar
mies longer m France ; it’ is here
alone where we hear it said, and see
it promulgated, that Napoleon ought
to be hanged with his code of laws
about his neck ; it is here alone
where we see publications recommen
ded to the king of France to punish
the late republicans.; it is here alone
where the press openly expresses its
dread of the king of France being too
lenient. This description of persons
will never .be at ‘heart’s ease, while
the people ot America are free, and
while America is a receptacle for the
oppressed. And, indeed upon their
principle, they are right. If they
will insist upon regarding the result
of the war in Europe as valuable on
ly on the accounts of its having des
troyed republicanism in Europe,they
arrf*perfcctly consistent in urging a
war against,America, and even a war
of re-colonization ; for, imless that
.object be%ccompli =hed ; unless the
cradle of the’revoluiiop become also
its grave, little or nothing has b£e;i
gained over ifee principle of republic
agism.• .■
America now holding out her
Tl| manufacturers, as wtdl as cuUi|
rators of the soil c£ftnot, i r s *c remain
what she is, fail to attract prodigious
numbers of Europeans,_qf ail nations,
to her prolific ami happy shores.—
discontent at the changes which have
taken place ; despair of ever
seeing that-" Which they before had*
hopes of living to see., shame to
main on the spot where their hopes
have been baffled, and their endeav
ors frustrated—‘unsurmoun'table ha
tred of powers to which they are
compelled to submit, and tp the sup
. port of \yhich they are compelled to
contribute—the weight oftaxation—
the spirit of enterprise-—the hope oi
bettering their lot ifrSdl these will, if
America be at peace, and the road
free, and clear, carry hundreds of
thousands of Europeans to her shores-
Arlizans manufacturers 61 jjff des
criptions, and especially of the most
clever and most entefauffsipg men.
The augmentation of her population
will be hastened—her maritime, and
all other means will’
it will be not at all to see
her, in ten years m a situation to send
forth fifty ships"of the line, manned
and commanded as well as our own.
I confess, that this will be the natural
consequence of leaving her what she
’ now is\ and that,-in any war, as ten
years hence, she will be able almost
to dictate to us both the time and
conditions of peace, there
limit to our growth of power, and
none her’s. But, for all this, I am
decidedly for leaving her to herself*
- Her states may divide of themselves.
That will make her comparatively
weak—whereas by a war we should
unite*them much closer than they
now arq. We may, too, Jail in the
object of the war. After expending’
two or three hundred millions of mo
ney, we may be compelled to make
peace with her as an Independent
Republic ; having greatly weakened
ourselves by the attempt to subdue
C h er * r arnished our own military re
putation, fixed her fame forever in
thfc minds of men, and what,,„ in the .
eyes of some persons, would be Worse
than all the rest established upon a
rock, never to be shaken* the princi
ples of freedom and of republican
government. I have ‘ thus taken a
rather extensive view of this subject
—but to those who are for a war with
America, in order, as the Times calls
it, to finish the good work so happily
begun in France] ''it thight have been
sufficient to observe, in a very few
- words, that our choice lies between
these two things—either to suffer
America to remain the nurse of free
dom, the receptacle of the oppressed
of all nations, an example of liberty,
security and happiness,3 enjoyed un
der an elective government, without
hereditary rights or established
church—or, to continue to pay the
property tax, and to see our debt
yearly increased byf loans. Which
of the two you may take I ready
cannot* pretend to say—and so upon
this subject, I must wait patiently
the result of your profound cogita
tions.
Since writing the above the follow
ing important Declaration from our
admiralty has come to hand. The
Americans will, I daresay, not think
it altogether a joke. *
(The declaration alluded ‘to was
published in this paper of the \4>th
ultimo which renders its insertion here
unnecessary .
Thus then, we have it explicitly
declared, that th6re4s to be u AN
AMERICAN WAR.” Now, we
shall see, then, whether our minis
ters are to be talked out of their
views whatever those views may be.
The grounds of the,war, on the part
of America, wliere. the invasion, as
they insisted, of their neutral rights.
The peace in Europe, I should have
thought put an end to the dispute,
it being impossible that neutral rights
.should apy longer be claimed.” But
it seems, that I was deceived ; I
must confess; that the cry for war
with America is general in this coun
try, now that we have no other pow
ers to fight with, and the resentment
.of no one to Tear. From America
we learn the most surprising fact,
that a law has actually been passed
to 4£*event the importation of either
woollen dr cotton, goods from any
part of the .world ! Thus are eight
millions of people, who only fourteen
years ago, had not a coat or gown that
was not carried from England, able
to supply themselves ; and must, of
course be, in a short time, able to ex
port those commodities, and at a
much cheaptr rate than wp
blycan. Even ten years a<yv, Adrer
ica did not profess to'grow atepth
part of the wool sufficient for making
her woolens. What a wohderfui
increase of meaffs ? To whsfc must
such a country arrive in another ten
ycarsy if left a>.she is ! Bu*. my few
is, that even here will be fqci nd ? some
pcrsc’tS; a cause to uudfe them *»iah
to’* war. i
- ‘ A . . •* V f-* T *■. “ -V
official.,
\ k u. Cob Thc*. or A cccmack in
l Urerioths Qowervm of Virgin,?, dwed
1 Vine 2d, s'we* that on the eytcm-5 >•* the
20th & Br. rsh bar#.; i.sc.aveied esm the
Qgotp at TV aus
F ‘ . ‘• ..
I
—-she provefi to he the ct ‘ter rtfftik
Albino, the boat ; her «.rf v, a Coy#
swain and 10 Oarsmen, who stated th? th*V
had been «-m to the. I stairs mm
stakes for the battery, had landed a ieulenfnt
and then deserted :</ Arr.er»car camp»
fb*- I*♦ purchased ih ~» *
ds complete for 50 V ;„tQr the x .se of 1 *
eg**. The deserter were furiur.hee w«*l. a,
certificate from the C !. al ,dVer oft
ately for Baltimore. They are voting and hah*
men, apparentft bt v. set \W na
tives of England dr Sfotlar.dexCt a one black
man who is a Spaniard.
The deposition of these men are before,
rhey%itc, in substance?, thr.t they are'from
the Albion ship, 74 guns, but mounting # B3c*
.beating the flag of Hear. Admiral CockWirn*
ildw lying *u Tangier Island—that the crew*
there are very sickly with the flux, the wao
being brackish and bgd ; that they had bt<
for two months on §bort allowance of foo..
but had lately obtained a supply from Bermtt
*f* —that ?hc fort at Tangier had only three
sides! sUft 250 ] arcl* long, mounting.
•T 8 24 Ibers. and about to mount. 18 24 ibersf
just arrived** the Endyrniun , that it is to lw>
the H of the Com mantle j; in Ghief—,th a *
gardens are laid our in the Island, vigefafele*
of all kinds growing ; a hospital to .to vVin
100 sick, a Church 1! and 20 h uses built and
laid out in into streets H 'hat in the *•*•**,
ment at I’ungmeagiie 1 of rh.e A'bi < ■
was killed, 2 died ot\heir wou r)s arid o r.tj r „
woundeti ; Midshipman PjdiS>r. a* >5-'*at *a,
vortte in -.he ship, v. Ko -via#til ■ • •;
service and re<i r:i Iv me, (1 u.; * u “
of vOCKM, aVe.ru ) was alco-.w k and .wf
of his wounds ; that it .v.* •• • ‘• . :
part, we must have in;: 1. . i<
ed, out of the many with v’-o-n’ ?> ;c • no".
Sed they were eng •- * . a , *
Tangier* wereth? Albht\fT . ~-a : n *j.
44 s— ar the Canes sh * A\a> a raWrA • n ,L
rying 44 rtv New Poim Cotr.fdr th
da, 40, ware : —and ’hat die Dragu;.
the Loire and Narcissus frigates, Jasseur hrite,
and St. Lawrence scher. were blockading*
Com. Barney. v
Enquirer*
jsociißANK arrived:
Extract of a letter from Norfolk, to fr
gent lemon in this-city dut-'d July 12J
Admiral COCHRANE arrived
last nijrht with six sail, and we ai*
loolung momently for the transport*#-
It is generally believed here.no* b f
all parties that we shall have tt
brush.”
; • *’ Richmond Compiler,
FEMALE PATRIOTISM.
T-lie late anniversary of cur National Indta*
•peftdence w2s Celebrated I>y the LADIES .fr
Cambridge, (s. c.) and its vicinity, by dining
together. At the table we are told “ Patriot
tism by unanimous consent presided and Wis
and Mirth Were the Vice Presidents} an<|
tne at ter noon was spent in a manner as agreajj/
able a- the occasion was honorable * ■
,1 Charleston City Gazettit
FJIOM DLTROIT.
The express maii armed last evening froA
Detroit, and brought letter? to the Editor, 3*
Vfhrch.the follow ing art; extracts.
, Detroit, June 26, 1814. 1
f In a few days several of our vessels
lyir.;, in the fiver, together withsome
j,w*ill set out for MackliYaW. I venture to
diet, that this place will meet with an lndias
attack in the Course of the summer.*
. ‘/V *• Same date*
J * YouliCji.doubt have been informed that ofc
the 11th ult. a party of regulars were sene tor
the Rapids of St. Clair, for'the purpose o&
building a fort ; and that thpv have been sub
sequently re in fore °d by 5( 0 bhio militia,
Well! the fort is nearly Complete In a very
commanding situation, and has been namett
after the gentleman who superintended its
formation viz, Capt. Gratiot, Col. Crogha*
has just returned from a visit paid it.
* The intended expedition to Mackinaw hWi
gome time past, occuipied the conversation o#
the people here. All I can inform you is that
the .whole fleet is expected to go—that Col.
Croghan will command the expedition—and
t hat in 7 or 8 all will probably be in read
iness for a move. The Niagara. Lawrence*
and Scorpion are here; the Caladonia Sc Ohio
have been here, and have returned to Erie.*
i 1
Savannah. July 9. i
By a gentleman, from Amelia, who reacm*
ed this city last evening we are informed that
a brig arrived, on Tuesday thq 14th inst. at
Amelia Island, in 7 days passage from Havan
na. She ;bfings the news, that a packet had
arr ived from Cadiz, the day before she sailed*
with the official intelligence that Ferdinand
refused to ratify thC new constitution oC
Spain, and had seized thirty of influential
members of the Cortes an(i imprisoned them,
declaring to the Spanish people that Jie would
reign free and independent, as hia ancestor*
had done. Considerable, agitation existed i»
Madrid. ’ ■ ‘
We further understand/that the governor
of St. Augustine, had received official intelli
gence from .the Governor general of Havanna,
of the events in Spain* and was about abolish
ing the Constitution and adopting the e«4
Government. m
Republican •.
AMERICAN PRIVATEERiNG
Is suppressed in Europe, we fnay presume*
from the accounts of the treatment of them
by the ‘allies and their dependencies,
saw the fate of the General Armstrong, of
this port in yesterday’s paper* Going int*
Dunkirk, hitherto,a friendly port, under the
faith and protection of the laws of .nation*
and right of hospitality, she is seized by the
French, and her officers andcrew imprisoned.
Th is is a sample of the effects of the change
in France upon Next we heard of tne
Prince Os Neufchattel a vessel fitted out of
France by the Americans. A London pap®r
■ of May 2. says she was chased by the AchiU
les “J.ito Cherbourg on Saturday, the 23d
utt‘ sfend We ‘ir.dcrstAhd pur riv fpervh there
employed tnernselves in p-CVen .
ting her from tweaking the peace of the
agfekaniysrl ip furore'; oat her guns,
he'r and a prize which sho
had sent into port 4 h /
Suppose riit OHv<ir were seized, by way if IF
ref aw*.: ion fox the Afustrong. vvh? out-cry
wottld be saiacdavair.st the act*
*Cfilumbi-ajfa-' .
Thear ke arefrtt* 1
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