The National Register. — London, England, 1814-10-09 00:00:00

140 ships might place themselves abreast of the works at the upper end of the city, which he had no doubt, two sevenl fours would he able to silence in twenty minutes or half an hour. The result would most probably. be, that the city would be set on fire, or a contribution extorted from its inhabitants." Rhode island would be found in an equally defenceless state. llere are J directions given in tape American g e w .nate to guide the operations of ou r C.iiiitnanders. There k no doubt but they will profit , • by theirs. Since the richest commercial town in the Unlted States lies at our mercy, and its distance from the seat of on, last entcrpi ise is nut so cousidelable as long to delay our visit, we may soon hope to hear that it has sur rcihoed, and if not occupied by our troops, has redeemed its freedom by pas ing that heavy contribulion which, ever since the beginning of the war, it must have been in con stant expectation of being called upon to furnish. Should, as' rt h s been stated, the U rr healthy season drive our troops flout their seats of triumph in the Chesapeake, they may rcf:esh themselves on the shores of the Delaware. Dover aid Newcastle will offer them an agreeable shelter, and per hal s Ph ladelphia herself, like IVashington, may find she has relied too confidently on the length of inland naviga tion necessary to reach her wealthy stores. ANT such a rea iew of what we have already efrected, and what is still in our power to do, can it still be made a question whether America have lost " her re sources, her trade, and all that constitutes her great ness ?" Der trade has followed her resources. Der priva teers still keep the sea, but her merchantmen rot in her barbf:urs, or ate burnt at our approach. tier ships of war experience a similar fate, and even the seat of her fondly antic ipated greatness, her capital, has bowed beneath file conTieror's yoke, and has seen all the monumen , s cf her pr de !educed to a heap of ashes. Such are the results of Aineric an hostility ! Such the fruits of Mr. lkladison's war like propensities and poiitioal isdom ! The boundary line of the United States having lately been the subject of g , eat animadversion, we give it ai follows : By a hue drawn from the north-west of Nova S , 'cntia to the River St. Lawrence, thence through the middle of the Lakes On:atio, Elie; Huron, Lake Superior, Rain Lake, or Long Lake, and Lake of the Woods ; thence due west to the River Mississippi, following the Nvater communication floor Lake to Lake : thence by a line drawn through the middle of the River Mississippi to Si degrees north la titude, then due East along the parallel of 31 degrees to the middle of the River Apalachicola, or Catalionce ; Cience. along this river north , Aatd to its junction with the flint River; then directly eastward to the head of St. Mary Elver, and down the middle of it to the Atlantic Ocean. The eastern boundary includes all the islands within twenty corn St. Nary River to Nova Scotia, t;tbin the limits of Nova Scotia. ,shington is situated on a beautiful 2 miles distant from the President's !s to which the main road leads. In asechled, and it, the back was a OCT. 9. temporary rotund° that served as a house of representatives, The Portraits of the King and - Queen of France. of an ino , mense size, were in the Senate loom. They were presented to the United States after their declaration of independence. The loss sustained at INaslsing!on turns out upon minute investigation to be greater than was at first imagined. It is ascertained that inunediwely prior to the unexpected arrival of our troops, the navv• yat d was in most complet, order, and j filled with all kind of . naval stores ; the store- houses were 1 well bbilt, and iniedeled 'to have been fire-proof This 1 1 erection, with that of the yard, had cost the American j 1 Government not less than one million sterling. .There were immense quantities of all sorts of timber, oak plank, masts, &c. Scc. Of live oak and cedar, dive was sufficient to build six of men of war ; and in one single erar ehouse sheet copper of different thicknesses. which was rolled in England, and had been purchased by the American Govel nmeat previous to the present war for full 300,0101. 'Of canvas there was a stock sufficient to supply at least a seven year's war ; hemp and cordage were also in great abundance, as were pitch, tar, oils, and paints, and all other requisites for finishing ship. Close at hand was the only cannon founder) . in the Unitcd States, with great numbers Of cannon, anchors, tire. ready made. The General from whose inspection and report these particulars were minutely ascertained, is a professional judge of the value of this arsenal and its contents, the loss of NVllidi to the American Government he estimates altogether at Three Millions Sterling. The chief naval constructor at this !'!ace was, we are ashamed to say, a native of Cornwall, named For. The Oracle, a BruveLs paper of the 27th tilt. gives the fol lowing dramatic critique :—Yesterday the English players gave at the Park Theatre a representation of the tragedy of Hamlet. Mr. and Mrs. Kemble performed the principal parts, which attracted a brilliant and numerous audience. Hitherto we had only known in our theatre the Hamlet of M. Ducis, an ingenious thoueli somewhat feeble imitatien of the English piece; now, however, u e have seen the tra gedy of the die i,ie Shakespeate in all its beauty. and I will dare to add in all its deformity. The ghost of Hamlet's fe,- tiler quits the teg,ions of the dead four or five times to stalk solemnly on the stage ; this ghost who is a little garrulous, gives his son a long history of his assassination. 1f all spirits are equally feed of talking, assuredly the other woi Id is not the abode of silence. ilamlel is successively a fool and a madman ; the Court of Denmark assembles, and a comedy is played before it ; the grave-diggers then snake their ap pearance, dig a grave ; bring us the skulls, and utter buf fooneries worthy of a puppet show ; this strange scene is terminated by an ietermeet. These blemishes belong, however, to the al:;e, when the Lneli,ll roet wrote ; but by how many beauties, which Shakespeare owtd only. to it's genius, has he redeemed them ? Scenes the most I.e,trte ending pathos,—poetry the most energetic and expressive ; such are the rata its ‘vhich the ju,tly admire in this poet. Mr. Emilie, ill H ilL'ct , dHJav cd his fine tragic talents : he particularly excelled in the soliloquy, and in the scenes with the Ghost and his hi The last scene of the piece, however, which is eminently ttagical. was in some degree disturbed by a singular accident : a large bat inPdc its way into the theatre, and by its ill-omened presence alarmed the ladies who filled the boxes ; this bed of darkness flew about every where, and even cat ried its irreverance so far as to settle on the heads of the actors who wet eat the moment expiring on the stage. Thus this sorry bat gave to the death of the Prince of Denmark an air of gaiety a little misplaced." leagues of tie coast, ft bulocliqo P ' s ilti, islandi vv. ,f, out Q W'as r"; 4 4e i f-. 1't .. ,...-i- 11 i - : - ; ~-i.,:' /e rk ' - -P' ... 1 ... ‘ : - . 111 rTsw • .:le.cr . „ 4 - ie" . 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