Star.
London, England, 1814-10-15 00:00:00

PHILADELPHIA, AUGUST so.

We understand that several Banks of this city have
resolved to suspend the payment of specie for the pre.
sent, and that the reason for this measure will speedily
be given to the public.
In the exertions of self-defence, Mr. Madison and
bis great men will be neglected and despised. If any
of them retain their places, it will be owing to their
talents sad virtues, not to their follies, infamy, or
treachery to their country's prosperity. Mr. Jeffer•
son may cry for union, who first sowed dissensions,
while proclaiming that we were all federalists, all re.
publicans. He may rejoice at the downfal of Napo-
leon, and yet weep for his own confusion. This age
will vindicate moral politics, and every political'
scoundrel must pay them reverence.
FROM THE

LADELPHIA TRUE AMERICAN,
SEPTEMBER S.

Last night's Southern Stage brought nothing from
our Correspondent at Baltimore. We kayo the fol-
kowing verbal communication from a passenger in the
Pilot :—On Sattirday last the British forces in the
Potomac took Fort Warburton by storm, after an en-
gagenwat of two hours, and took possession of Alex-
andria, 18 miles below Washington. A party of Bri.
tish straggler:, amounting to 200, bad been made
prisoners by a detachment under Colonel Cooke.
BOSTON, SEPTEMBER S. _ _

Whatever success may attend our Commissioners
et Ghent, there is a moral certainty of immediate de-
feat at home. Before a cessation of hostilities can be
concluded abroad, the superiority of British forces in
Canada will repel every invasion from American
troops, and retaliate all our success and burning with
interest. Such a state of thirgs will prob..bly produce
defeats and desertions among the American armies to
an alarming degree. Our frontiers will be defence-
*Op and in turn, by entirely esposoi to invasion:

Where may not 20,000 lithlsh veterans march, un-
less repelled by ;kite troops ?—and what Can &ate
trolis Ito at first, bat retreat until reinforced by num-
bers adequate to repel the invader ? Did Mr. Ma-
dison at the commencement of this war wish all
this? Did he foresee unanimity which invasion and
defeats would produce, when unanimity should be
our only defence ? Were confusion and desolation
necessity to divert the attention from the causes of
this war to its consequences? Wonderful Statesman!

To-day we have received Paris Papers of Wednes.
day. They enable us to confirm a report which was
stated in the Continental Journals a few days since,
namely, that the Saxon Generals and other Officers
ho were base enough to sign a remonstrance to the
CO..:I,'SS, in tavoui of the miserable creature whom
they call their Sovereign, have been sent to Torgau.
The benefit of the great revolutions which have re-
cently taken place in Europe would be lost to poste-
rity, and the manes of the brave men who fell in the
great battle of Leipsic would be unavenged, if such
a reptile was allowed to strut in the trappings of
royalty, and elbow such heroes as ALEXANDER and
FREDERICK at the various Courts of Europe.
The Allied Sovereigns cannot, therefore, be the real
benefactors of the Saxons, 'intil they give them a So-
' vereign better entitled to their respect, and better qua-
lified to reign over a virtuous and brave people, as
they certainly have uniformly proved themselves.—
Let BONAPARTE give the hoary traitor to his country
an indemnity in Elba ; but let him not be permitted
to shew his guilty countenance among the legitimate
Sovereigns of Europe.
From die condition of BONAPARTE'S King of
Saxony, the transition is natural and easy to that of
the King of NAPLES, who came from the workshop
of the same artist. The Paris Papers now before us,
anticipate his immediate downfil, and truly there
have been reports verified of far less probability in
their origin. The Emperor of AUSTRIA is by no
means disposed to fav,,ur his pretensions : indeed
how should he ? Even BERNADOTTE himself sits but
insecurely in his n!.,v, chair of state : hi: desertion of
13amm,nnTE took place several years before that of
Auaar, and the benefits he thereby conferred upon
mankind -were proportionably great. It was in the
hour of distress and ruin that JOACHIM deserted Bo-
NAPARTE this an additional claim upon the pro.
tection of the Allied Sovereigns, or the reverse ?
EUGENE BEAUHARNOIS, on the contrary, acted to his
worthless and unnatural father-in-law, the part of a
Gentleman and a good soldier, and has met with cor-
responding sentiments of respect.