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

THE NATIONAL REGISTER. Cur Sim Constitution, ann tatog. PUBLISHED AT NO. I I I NEWCASTLE-STREET, STRAND. NA. 349. suNn.Ay, ocToRER 9,181 i. Pnrrn 947, TO OUR SUBSCRIBERi AND THE PUBLIC. We this day present our Readers with a Map of America, Gratis, priuted on a separate het of paper. Should any Subscriber, by accident or otherwise, not receive• it, we beg they will refer to their respective New:•men, as no paper will be delivered from the Office without the Map. WAR IN AMERICA. What has been the result of American hostility ? As 1 long as it was carried on in disguise, it injured our trade without affording us an opportunity of securing ourselves by destroying the power of our enemy. Yet when it burst forth into open acts of aggression, and our forbearance was rewarded by a Declaration of War, there were many in this country %eh° thought we should have submitted to greater in sult. rather than have incurred the perils of a contest which . their imattination armed with unfounded terrors. What is now ' their opinion? Do they stil! fancy that our ruin will be the con .sequence of Mr. Madison's warlike efforts ? Or do they agree • with the prophetic sentiments expressed three years ago on the subject by one of our ablest Ministers, whose untimely and cruel end still fi'ls every feeling heart with regret ? At that tune, much to•the astonishment of certain politicians, who did not conceive that Great Britain should ever be able to resist the hostility of her emancipated colonies, Mr. Per ceval stated, " that the resources, the trade, and all that con• stituted the greatness of America, would be annihilated by a war with England?' This declAration was treated with derision when it was made ; but bow has it since been verified in ; every particular? What is become of the rmnerces of America? They were collected for the purpose of conquest, not defence. They formed a bolt, vainly deemed resistless, which the President stood ready to hurl at the Canadas to drive us from our !ast continen'al transatlantic possessions. The bolt has been thrown, and its fury is spent. It set a few village: in —names, but what was not expected by the political Thunderer, it kindled a blaze of patriotism and enthusiastic valour, which devoured all his means of hostility, and continues to survive them. Not only are the Canadas resetied frotn invasion and devastation, but Ame rica herself is invaded and struck, though with softened severity-, by the hand of retaliation. Where are the re sources on which she now can draw, not to renew her chi merical plans of foreign conquest, but to provide for lien Vol. Fa. No. CGC.2O, Own defence? She was building large igates and ships of the line, ti cope with our squadrons, and es-ahlish " her sailors' rights"' Yet, whose flag now flows nri her waters ? Who rules Abe shorts of the Chesa peake? Who commands the course of her most impor tant rivers, and through those arteries of her states, re:tches the walls of her most flourishing cities, and shake% over them the brand plucked from the smoking ruins of their capital ? Let the Map of the Seat of War which this d-ty ac companies our publication be consulted, and it will be seen bow many towns now temble at our ap. proach, how many rivers bear oar expeditions to the very heart of the land ! Let the situation of Washington he ttaerd through the windings of the Potowmac, about a timd , ed miles from the mouth of that river, and the courage and skill of the heroes who, as dauntless as irresistible. pene trated so far, and levelled the enemy's capital to the ground, will shine with encreased lustre. Let the eye then filoof the immense line of coast opened to our °petition-, and ac tually threatened by our arms. The immense Bey ot the Chesapeake is now our seat of action. Filled with our flying squadrons, now we may wreck our vengeance on New London, which report has already placed in our power. and in a few. hours Annapolis may yield to our summniai, whilst some days may bring our exi:editton up the Pa•at.seo to the very quays of Baltimore. Masters of those three cities, and our will is now almost sufficient to give us their posses sion, the northern parts of the Bay cease to offer any point of sufficient importance to repay the trouble of a visit, and our squadrons will shape their course to the South. Heist what a rich harvest awaits them ! I.et us hear what an A me 'icon Senator, General German, prophetiea!ly said on ths subject when the impolicv of the declaration of %var a.raiwt this country was discus:ed in Congiess? Cbarleston and Nor folk, as well as many - other places of less consequence, were, be maintained, exposed to marine Arai ks, and when we reach the city of New Yo.k." he added, (the nation's great emporium of trole) shall wp it in a state of se , :w ity ? No : unless the gr-orlo par' f o(:// f' i4ates are stationed titer e, in ;,id of f .rtifica. tions and gun•hows, it %sill fail a prey I) the it can be ascaileti by a small iket with every pcos pect of sticresg. '1 1 1:e ori!y resistAnce it would meet Kith, Nvotild be in passiwz Isiand, and peril:rrs few shuts from Bedlow's and Islands. The English