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

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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 gew.nate to guide the operations of our
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 rrhealthy 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
11 erection, with that of the yard, had cost the American
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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."

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