Star.
London, England, 1812-12-15 00:00:00

THE EVENING STAR.

LONDON.
TIIEBDAY, DECEMBER 15.


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Ai length we have tt ip Our itowet td tar before
our Readers a copy of the Message of the President
of America, delivered to Congress at the opening of
die Session: It reached this country by the way of
Lisbon, having been conveyed from Philadelphia to
that port by I licensed vessel.
As we stated yesterday, this document is another
indication that an inveterate spirit of hostility to-
wards this cotantry Is deep rooted in the minds bt
thOilkiiho tOtnpose the American executive. It is
by no means a manly or dignified composilion, suck
as might have been expected to issue from the en-
lightened Chief of a great and independent Nation:
But to Mr. President MADISON, and the rabble who
men him for their leader, these are denominations
Which can never applys
He begins sith congratulating:4st nation on being
good hea*h! the totripliments of
,tbc lease* Aitsc
folloer—suchatithe defeat of Genera Hcrit.*.andate
ho less disgraceful affair of Geneeel Ransses.Ates—
General •HA uslsoN, however, the kabitis; datur
resiitssere rem—has now a large Militia force under ,
him, and a few regdigis. So far we have sib beta-
sion to be alarmed. The dispatches of their deffated
Generals have made tit fully acquainted with the
base semi-metal of which diet* same Militia are cow
pounded ; and as for the free regulars, we must pi",
sume, that with such coadjutors, they will comities to.
think discretion the better part of valour.
1. The capture of the Guerrieri.; as might be expected,
is spoken of in the language of triumphs Here we
must confess there is some ground for feeling sore ;
for it has conjured up the phantom of an American
Navy to frighten the tenants of the nursery, and will
tend more than any other circumstance to procrasti-
nate the war. The hopes which the Americans have
built upon their nail', in a contest with Great Bri-
tain, must be destroyed ere we can hope for a per,
manent peace—they must, in fact, be beat into sub,.
mission; and, while they have a single frigate or a
gun-boat capable of floating, they will never acknow-
ledge the superiority of the British flag. It is, in-
deed; highly ridiculoas to hear America talk of ma.
aititne rights. • What means has the of enforcing
them ?
' Mr. Mninaostassureihis Constituents, that he will
.acquire a. navitsismiority, no the Lake* next season.
Here again we, Is Im-implied:threat of conciotted
hostitalial bus all .440kue Milikat beadle removed
by his concluding paragraphs . He jppepb to the
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far their assistance to enable him to carry on
a war, which, he most impudently asserts, is neither
founded on ambition nor vain-glory, but on a deter.
urination to Vindicate, what he is pleased to term
.4' national rights," What these national rights Are,
We are not pl.tinly told ; and it is from this strong
mark of duplicity and cunning that we are enabled
to fill up the outline of character ivith which the p.o.
ceedings of the American Government have long
since furnished us. The hypocritical mask of the
MArISON faction is now thtown off. The repeal of
the Orders in Council hat nut allayed thtir animosi.
ties : and to their claims of national rights, they
have never yet given (and we may venture to add
they never will)