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succeeded in putting there to disvace it and distort the laWs.
of their country.
Such is the situation of the VnitCd States. The recent
•
accounts from thence lead us to believe that it.will lead.
speedily to a separation of the two divisions, unless Mr.
Madison consent to sign. the act of hi.: own degradation,
which Kill be tenthly(' to hitn. by the Congress, an assem-
tly that wps to meet at Hattfold in Connecticut last Mon-
slay. Its object will be to re-woad the Constitution ; re-
strain the representation of the Southern States, by um:hid-
ing that hither to allowed for the negrocs, and some at range.-
=eta respecting the establishment of territorial govern-
ments. To obtain the first object some responsibility will
b required on. the rut of the President and his Ministers—
at present there is noiic. The latter has been an immense
source of patronage to the administrarion, and of course of
influence and power, particularly as it led to the incorporation
-of new States, each of which blinging two Members into the
Senate, gave the Sonthein a most decided pteponderance
over the Eastern division.

Such we core rive ought to, and, indict!, such we appre-
hend will, be the object they have in view to obtain, whether
peace be made or wra Continue. If Mr. Marliotr and the
hot-headed detnocrats cry pecca•ci, it is possible the states
may remain united ; but, as we conceiv, their proflig,acv
is equal to their weakness, we believe they will not yield ;
but compel the Eastern divisions to separate, and no sooner
1: ill they I eceive a sufficient organization, than they will
s; ettli!v convince these Southern gentry that they are more
tit tri he govetned than to he governing,---Ilence we shall
not be surprizcd, nay we have strong grounds for believing
it, that the period is approaching when the union %%111 be
dislobcd. The Convention, the sittings of which com-
plea( ed on Monday, will tet minate usefully to their country
a,ld to mankind.

The Recruit sloop of war is arrived.from ilalifax, after an
amazinely quick passage of sixteen days, bringing papers
from thence to the 19111 ult. and from New Yolk to the loth
pf the sante montb. They contain little or no information
;dative to military or naval operation.; ; nor can any thing
pf importance occur for sonic time to come, the forces On
each side have gone into winter quarters, and the American
ttmilltia attached to General Brown's attny having been dis-
banded. It is of no small consideration to observe, that if
Vicrr has been a want of cordiality and co operation between
the kill military and eaval (:onituanders on the American
station, the same sottof bicker iogs ate to be found amongst
the officers of the 'United States. Commodore Chauncey,
it seems, bad taken exception at General Brown's letter -to
the Secretary at War ; Brown retorts, that Chauncey's di!a-
toriness or neglect rendered the advance of the army una
vailing, and, far limn enabling them to carry Kingston, as
might, he thinks, have been done, these causes left them in
a situation in which it would even be difficult to effect a re-
treat. The subsequent junction of Izard's force, however,
in wine measyre•relieved this difficulty, but it did not afford
the'least prospect of cutting oft' General Drummond. The
proceedings of Congress relate almost exclusively to the im-
mense augmentation of taxes which the Government has
found itself obliged to propose, and which seems to have
Leen cat tied by large majorities. The National Intellirracer
t)oastb that nearly the whole of the loan has been 41 cady Co-

DEC. 18.

Britiih face has again landed in the Chesapeake
about sixty miles below Baltimore, where. considerable alarm
has of course been excited. The account they plesent is as.
-follows :--a The enemy landed a considerable number of
troops OnTiigham's Island, at the mouth of the Choplank
• River, eastern shore, and commenced the erection of exten-
sive barracks; this is a more advanced osition, as well as a
better harbour than he had at Tangiers ; he is now within
sixty miles of Baltimore• Since the account of Saturday
the enemy has dispatc lied several sail fi om the above rendez-
vous across the Bay to Trac)'s Landing. At the Landing
%vele three ships, one- brig, and three sehloners. having
landed sufficient force to protect his seitinvo, they wae busy
in taking off. tobacco. Tracey's Landing is a post town on a
branch of Herring Bay, 13 miles below Annapolis. Later
accounts from head-quarters .say, that the enemy.. aftcr
making.soine advarces, had returned from the expedition io
llerriiig Bay."
The Americans, as well as ourselves, arc making great ex-
ertions to meet time tug of war, should hostilities continue;
the following statement of their naval preparations, receiv(d
by 'the last arrivals, speaks a volume : •
" At Port:muffin (New Hampshire), the United States ship 1:—
dependence was nearly ready fir sea. She is gated 713, and mongol
98 gnus--4.2-ponntlets on her lower deck, 42', on her main deck, 5 .*
and carronades on her gnarter-deck and forecastle, kith a coin-
pliment of UM men ; Commodore Rodgers is to command her.
" At philclelphia, the Onerriere, a new frigate, wai nearly
ready to sca. Sheinounts C 4 guns, :i7 pounders on her main deck,
ponsiders on her quarter deck, and a ca pounder on eqcli of her
gangways ; with a emnplimneut i f ti-tO uu At Boston, the Consti-
tution was ready for sea; and the Washington, of VO 4ittit, fitting
fur sea very tart.
" At New Turk, the President was ready forsea, and report says
has since sailed for the East Indies.
" At New 1,4.5u10n, the !Jolted States and Macedonian frigates
were dismantled, and the Hornet sloop %ties ready for sea."

We observe in the above recapitulation a 78•:2rta ship,
mounting Os heet,-7 giti;.F, and manned with 1000 seamen ;
and a
,frigate mounting fit heavy guns, and gimlet) with
640 seamen. This creates a new era in maritime slarl'ate,
and requires a correspondent change in our system.—The
N-Ison, the largest line-of-battle ship eye• built in England
is not an equal match fir the Independence. The greatct
weight of the Nelson's metal is 32-pounders ; the averago
only 23-pounders. The greatest weight of the Independence's
shot is GS-pounders ; the average 40-pounders. The Nel-
son's cm! lenient of mer, 87 5 of all sorts, able stamen,
ordinary, landstoen, boys, cooks, cook's mates, swabber';,
and sweepers. The Independence's compliment is lOW, all
picked able seamen.
Mr. King, one of the Members in the American Congtess
for Massachuset's, in a speech against the increaso of the
taxes, lately made a very severe but just critique upon the
measures of Mr. Madison, 'whom he compares to the j;.;(kal
obeying the commands of the Imperial beast of France, and
hoping to have a portion of the spoil thrown to him as the
reward of his abject baseness. Mr. King hints that New
England will keep her resources for her own occasions, and
contrasting the situation of that State now with her sittra,
lion when she was under the British Government, asks
" What was a Boston Putt Bill compared with a Genoa'
Embargo ? What a duty on a few unimportant articles,
compared with the taxes and oppressions which this Admi-
nistration have brought upon this people ? As much as I
abhor the tyranny any) oppression of a Grafton, a North, or
a Bute, and their Wieling associates in different Ministerics
in England, against this country, I would not do thcin the
injustice to compare them with a set of men and bieaslirts,
;Iwhich would disgrace them."

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