Star.
London, England, 1812-09-21 00:00:00

FROM THE AMERICAN PAPERS.

44 Halifax, Nova Scotia, Anent 25.
44 From 30 to 40 sail of prizes, with property to
the amount of two or three thousand pounds, are now
in the harbours, but none of them have been sold, nor
u ill they be till the King's proclamation of distrihu-
ti..n is received. Our trade suffers much from priva.
.teers, but we are iii`hupes their run will soon be
ok er. re it twenty sail of them having been captured
by our squadron,"
The 1 llowine extract of a letter on the subject of
the WO', from Mr. Adams, formerly President of the
United States, to E. Watson, Esq. inserted in the
National Intelligencer

" Quincy, July 6, 1812.
" To your allusion to the war I have nothing to'
say but that it is with surprise that I hear it pronoun-
ced not only by newspapers but by persons in autho-
rity, ecclesiastical and civil, and political and mili-
tary, that it is an unjust and unnecessary war; that
the declaration of it was altogether unexpected.
44 How it is possible that a social or moral creature
tan say that the war is unjust is to me utterly incom-
prehensible.
" How it can be said to he unnecessary is very
mysterious. I have thi,ught it both just and ueces-
spry fes five tr six years. 1
4, Hose it can be said to be unexpected is another
vionder ; I have expected it more than five-and-twenty
years, and h,.ve had great reason to be thankful that
it has been postponed so long. I saw such a spirit
in tl e British Islands when I resided in France and
Holland, and in England itself, that I expected an-
other war much sooner than it has happened. I was
so impressed with the idea, that I expressed to Lord
Lansdowne, (formerly Lord Shelburne), an appre-
hension that his Lordship would live long enough to
)e obliged to make, and that I should live long
enough yr-see another peace made between Great Bit-
lain and the United States of „America. His Lord-
ship did not lire 20 make the peace, and I shall not
probably live to see k : but I have lived to see the
war that must be followed by a peace, if the war is-
not eternal.
" Our agricultural societies may not be so much
regarded, but the great interest of agriculture will
not be diminished by the war. Manufactures will be
ofromoted.

THE EVENING STAR.

LONDON.

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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 21.
tr. MATnew.—}l•liclay at the Stock Exchange.

We have received letters and papers from New.
'York to the 14th, and from Washington to the 9th
tilt. We are not surprised to find from these, that
.the repeal of the Orders in Council, ample and un.
conditional as it was, has not satisfied the dema-
gogues of America. • The American Government 1
has now thrown off the mask even of moderation,
which its Members have assumed in their negocia-
tions with this country, and has made common cause
with France in her attempt to subjugate the world.
The tone of the " National Intelligencer," the organ
of Mr. MADISON'S Government, previous to.the arri-
val in America of the formal repeal of the Orders in
Conncil, was moderate if not pacific, but now that
Great Britain has receded from her high and com-
manding attitude as mistress of the seas and dictator
of the maritime law of nations, America, like an
• ungiateful and malignant minion, turns upon her
Beeefactor, and demands still further concessions
....the American flag is now to secure " all that
stils under its" This is precisely the language
of the French Government—" Free ships make free
rods," has been eternally echoed in our ears, sicce
the .commenconent of the war ; and but 'yesterday
, We were told by France, that the Treaty of Utrecht
was the line of -demarcation of our maritime rights.
This is bold language to utter to a nation whose
seamen have successively beaten every power in
iEur. pe into a confession of their superiority—a na-
tion whose fleet, have annihilated, in succession, those
. of Spain, Hollai.d, France, Russia, and Denmark.
OUT maritime superiority is, in fact, part of the law
-Of nations.— It has been the right of the conqueror,
since men associated together in civilisation, to give
laws to the conquered ; and is Great Britain to be
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