The National Register. — London, England, 1812-01-05 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER. - 8 TO OUR SUBSCRIBERS AND THE I'UI:LIC. We sulaulit to the Public our first Paper for the current year. Hopeful that we have in good part realised the expectittions which we of late held out, we shall now leave our Subscribers to appreciate the pains and cost we have incurred. Not that we repine at either pains or cost. Our future exertions will increasingly evince thi:. M•••=1•10P1.110%, TBE NATIONAL REGIS ER. DPW!. el//,'•ft. Lnn)^l. SUNDAY, JANUARY 5, 1512. UNITED STATES. We have long since expressed our conviceon that the American Government had resolved on going to war with this country, and had only delayed an open rupture until it should have familiarised the people of the United States with the idea and propriety of such a contest. It was natural that a commercial nation should dread the approach of hostilities with a power who, by detaching a small portion of its nary, can sweep away 41 their vessels of war and trade from the surface of . the ocean,' We have pointed out, in various essays, the method employed by the official tools ef France, in America,' to produce the necessary changte in the public mind. In our remarks on the PRESIDEgT'S Speech at the commencement of the present Sessiortsof Congress, e obscrveii that he Seemed conscious to have neatly reached the end he had in view, and which he began to pursue more openly, and ant:ci rated a declaration .of war in the course of the ',recent y ar. We are now in possession of a document which adds a link to the chain of evidence which we have brought forward, of the hostile disposition of the Exe: u tive against us, and which rn;eht be deemed in itself a manifesto, only that it is not addressed to us. We mean the Report of the American Committee on that part of the PRESIDENT'S Message, which relates to foreign rel.: tions. That it should coincide exactly with Mr. MADISON'S views is not astonishing ; but that it liould assume such a bold tone of insult and menace., as to sure :55 in auda city even the denunciations of the . Pittstoeyr him self, is an instance of presnmption on the part of the Americans, which, compared . svith their real ieca pacity to fulfil their entry threats, would only create a smile at their blindness and folly, were it not hkelv to be followed by the bloodshed :yid devastations of n ar. Admiting the full repeal of the French Decrees, the Committee direct all the storm of their indignation against us, whet are representci as the sole plunderers of their trade, which we, pursue to the very mouths of their harbours." But not satisfied with this uniounded as,er tion, for although the British sfag may be descried from the American coasts, kis only wn the. masts of French privateers ; by which it is plirposely hoisted ; they avail themselves of . a . topioe . •the nature of which is to in flame the mind and feelings of the people, and which, annihilating the operatieeu of judgment, becomes a most powerful weapnrf in the . hands of . the designing. Regardless of our attention•td/he claims of their sailors, d ti - liberation, when it -turns out th:.t they have , ey.endeavour to kindle. rage i-g - exclamations -aud misrepree WIPPIMPIN JAN. 5. Their aim is so clearly announced in the ensuing ex. tracts from this Report, that further observations are for the present unnecessary. " To wrongs so daring In character, and so disgraceful in their execu tion, it is impossible that the people of the. United States should remain indifferent. NVe must now tamely and quietly submit, or we must re sist by those means which God has placed within our reach. 66 Your Committee would not cast a shale over the American name, by the expression of a doubt which branch of this alternative will be embraced. The occasion is now presented when the national character misunderstood and traduced for a tune by foreign and domestic enemies, •hould be vindicated. If ne have not rushed to the field of battle like the nations who are led by the mad amb.tion of a sing:e Chief, or the ava rice of a corrupted Court, it has not proceeded from a fear Or war but from our love of justice and humanity. That proud spirit of liberty arid independen:e which sustained cur fathers in the succes4ul assertion of their rights against foreign aggression is not yet sunk. the patriotic fire of the revolution still burns in the American breast with a holy and unextingishable flame, and will conduct this nation to those high destinies, which are nut less the reward of dignified moderation, than of exalted va. lour. But we have borne with injury until forbearance has ceased to be Ci virtue!. The sovereignty and independence of these States, purchased and sanctified by the blood of our fathers, from whom we received them, not for ourselves only, but as the inheritance of our posterity, are deliberately and systematically violat , d ; and the period has arrived, when, in the opinion of your Committee, it is the sacred duty of Con gress to call forth the patriotism and resources of the country. By the aid of these, and with the blessing of God, we confidently trust we shall be enabled to procure that redress which has been sought for by justice, by remonstrance, and ferbeamnce, in vain. Your Committee, reserving for a future report those ulterior mea sures, which in their opinion, ought to be pursued, would, a: this time, eat-m. 14 recommend, in t!ie words of the Pat:sin - ENT, " That the United States be immediately Fut into an armour and attitude de manded .by the cri.is, and corresponding with the national spirit and escfectation." Then follow some Resolutions. recommending the grant of whatever can enable the -PRESIDENT to carry on war. and their liheratiOn, when it turns out tii:.t tuey nave been impressed wrongly, they endeavour to kindle. rage . against us by the olicwing - ex c lamations a nd misrepre- vntationDidastigol,L ject :!-- bli . S . 66 • 1 . 0: A Ar a .... - .. 'q of ,• victims of livbaritv f , r iheo loss of (w AK •e ' : - *; O lrEaLO ,I ,Anieric;sr.s than lire) their Ilhertv . —/I; t h 111 -. • ' # - ) , i ~ .. l i t. v e , I),'l t ti ) e .e n hilclren. in it t7 tw p j riv u aii• r o . l ii ?l' Vro- l e t lai r": 4 of r.t o w4 : „. ... t. ei practice e of drowned fOrcizig :L tiu . 'r mariner: into the,iiriu. _.' - •ki 7". n_yf;the riga, of out flag.tarried 04' with uriakatied•il 'ail bevitrityt..; \ . -:-• *".:a 4. 1 .,„.... 5 " ~.._,* / • . • . _ - -- • - - _ .._ . , LOSS OF THE HERO. Paris Papers were yesterday received down to the 23 install!: An article dated Amsterdam, December 26, confirms the afflicting intelligence of the wteck of the Hero, of 74 guns, with IWO brigs, off the Texel, on the morning of Christmas-day, after a most dreadful night ! Captain N 7.11' NA M a nd all on board the Hero perished, except eight men, who were washed ashore. The Lieu tenants of the Hero, who were lost, were—Messrs. CHAS. HITCHINS, JO[I .111rrcliuLL, JoHN MEDwAY, JAMES WIL COX) and JOHN NORTON. The Captain of the Furet, the ererny's ship, declares, that he saw the Hero. and two brigs, perish without it being possible for hirh to assist them. Such was the violence of the gale in which the Hero was lost, that the Grasshopper, Captain FANSHAWE, beat clean over the wreck of the Hero, when she was taken ty , sscssion of by the enemy, and the crew .made prisoners of war. Both ve=sels had struck on the Haak Sand, near the i)lace where the Minotaur was, during last winter, lest. Our intellience adds, that the Texel "is I surrounded with wrecks !" GENERAL GIRARD. SUMP'', in a dispatch dated, Camp before Valencia, 2d December," states, that the operations against Va lencia are carrying on vigorously ; and it should seem that General GlitAttp instead of having shot himself, or being likely. to be put under arrest by his Emperor, BuoNA PArirv,'-according to some journalists, had partly rein stated hinisell in the favourable opinion of SouLT.— Spe4ing of. General and the Duke d'AttEmumto, gOULT,. b9wcver, greatly regrets the loss of those Officers, so mach distinguished for their valour and their merit." GIRARD gives his account 'of the affair. It is at least exculpatoi y,. if. not quite satisfactory. . I .1 JLie. r" -- I