The Statesman.
London, England, 1815-01-16 00:00:00

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'IIIE STATESMAN.

NAVA L I NTE L LIG ENCE. ANECDOTE DE .......-.-.--
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TO MR. JOHN CARTWRIGHT.
----mota.-- 1 THE GREAT' EAR.I. OF CHATHAM.
DEAL, Jao.-15.-Sailed yesterday the East India ; --olle. THE INFLEXIBLE ENEMY OF TYRANNY, ON THE
flee', , owi,ting of the following ships:-Inglis,' --ww--
In the year 1777, in the 70th year of his age, and PEACE BETWEEN ENGIJAND AND AbIERICA.
F.cs...c, !Mold Scott, Charles Grant, Vansittart, and within a few months of his death, the American war •
Draft SIR,-43eare I proceed to the proposed
Mai q..is Camden, to Portsmouth.-Came down was ragingin all its (*try. The King's Speech, de.
the Lonwee Fe- liveredsubject of this letter, I think it right just to notice
that I have, in addressing you now, omitted the ad!
1.,,,,, roe :liver, and sailed to-day,the month of November that year, became
dition of Esq. at the endof ruil,e, for Bombay ; and the Chapman, for Sierra subject to severe animadversion. On this occasion
Leece. fro rortsntoullt. Also sailed, for Portsmouth, Lordj Ce it 4THAM, though full of infirmities, attended your name. It is be-
come high time for us, and all those who think as we
tie l'ha•aix frigate. iii his place, and on-the barbarity of associating the do, to partake, in no, degree whatever, in this sort
Ea rosue:rit, J sK. 13.-Arrived yesterday his Ma- ruthless ' Indians with the British arms, electrified the of foolery, especially when we are • • writing, or speak-
ing, upon the subject of a peace, which has been
• 'ship Th •
i.“ 4) 3 ems, from a cruise ; Princess Eliza- H ' Rouse, with the following animated strictures :-
,',„/1 packet, with a Mail from Lisbon, Hi eleven days." 4 But, my
en
.Lords, who is the Mail, that, in addi- made with a nation,
A, ~ n: iived the Nario Lialto, from Amelia Island.-. lion to the disgraces. and mischiefs of the war, whose Chief Magistrate never
has pretends to any title above that of " fellow-citizen,"
which he shares in common with all the people of the '
a Iraqi Cris day his Majesty's sill!) Their, on a cruise; dared to authorise and associate to our arms, the
Lis alajest; 's ship Sheldrakc .4,lditto; Cl • , r
b I
!motor, wit ii a Mail for Gibraltar and 'Salta; Lady into civilized alliace the wild inhabitants of the
vernment he has been placed by the uiioug i
of his' fellow-citizens." t votes
Irtlington packet, with a Mail from Halifux ; Wal- woods? To delegate to the merciless Indian the defence
sir/given packet, with a Mail for Jamaica ; and the of disputed rights, and to wage the horrors of his bar- In my former Letter I stated, as clearly as I was
Sandicich packet, with a Mail for the Brazils. ! barous war against ' our brethren. Hay Lords, these able consistent with brevity, the real cause of the
PLYMOUTH, Jae. 14.-Arrived the Emperor enormities cry aloud for redress and punishment.- I war; and also the real causes of its continuance
after the European peace. I shall now endeavour
Alerander, Hart from Sunderland ; and his Majesty's But my Lords,t his barbarous measure has been defend-
to state clearly the real causes of the ; d ship Nheldrake, from Falmouth.-Sailed his Majesty's ed, not only on the principles of policy and eeces- peace an •
ships elchafes nod Rolla, with a fleet under convoy, sity, but also on those of morality-for it is perfectly then we shall come to those consequences, which, I
for Bourdeaux. . allowable, says Lord SUFFOLK, to use all the means think, we shall find to be of the utmost importance
Ilasswicir, Js'. 15.-Arrived the Henry Free- which Goo and nature have put into our hands. I to tire cause of freedom all over the world.
ling packet, with a Mail from Holland ; and the am astonished, lam shocked, to hear such principles ' The peace has been produced by various causes.
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G error's Friend, '.Mitchell,with a general cargo, confessed-to hear them avowed in this House, or "%Viten Napoleon had been put down, this country
from Leith to Leghorn, in a leaky state. ,in this country. Sly Lards, I did not intend to was drunk with exultation. The war with America
:s1 sun V -- ic, JAN. 15..Ariived, at two o'clock encroach so much on
your attention-but I cannot was generally looked upon as the mere sport of a
.
this afternoon, the BraaJmirt packet, from Ostend, ' repress my indignation-1 feel myself impelled to ' month or two. Our newspapers published reports ,
,
whiz!' place she only left at fire this morning. , speak. My Lords, we are called upon as Mem-
of speeches, or pretended speeches (for it is the
The Lady Prevost, from Lisbon to Newfound- hers of this House, as men, as Christians, to same thing in effect), in which the orators scoffed at
land, is retaken by the Nimrod sloop of war, and , protest ?eeriest such horrible barbarity!-" That the idea of our havine any trouble in subduing a peo.
carried into Halifax 16th ult. ; Goo am! nature hare put into our hands !" What Pies with two or three thousand miles of sea-coast,
The Flora, Holm, from Copenhagen to St. Tho. ; ideas of Goo and nature that Noble Lord may defended by raw militia, and by 46 half a dozen fir
mass, was lost near Calais Ist lust.; cargo landed. I entertain I know net; but I know, that such frigates, with bits of striped bunting at their mast
.heads." This phrase will be long remembered. One'
detestable principles are equally abhorrent to
.
religion and humanity. What! to attribute the
/NTH .1 CT or A LETTER, DATED ROUEN, JAN% 7, 1815.
I wrote you a few days ago of our arrival ger?, sacred sanction of God and nature to the mas- ' fore called the Reformers, " a low and degraded !
'where we intended to remain for some time, but you sacres of the Indian scalping-knife! to the can- crew," having amongst them " no honourable dis.
Unctions;" and he expressed his pleasure, that they
tribal savage, torturing, murdering, devouring,
no doubt will be surprised at my having altered my as he said, fighting on the side of our enemy.
Intention at present, owing to-the treatment the &kg. drinking the blood of his mangled victims ! Such ; were,
fish now meet with. I am sorry to say that on notions shock every precept of morality, every i They were, in his eyes, so contemptible, that he
Christmas-even solemn Mass was performed at twelve j feeling of humanity, every sentiment of honour. i was glad we had them for enemies, and especially,
o'clock at night in the cathedral of Notre Dame, to These abominable principles, and this more abomin- ass in their chastisement, republicanism would be
nbioh every person who was able resorted, and j able avowal of them, demand the most decisive indig- humbled in the dust, if not wholly destroyed. '
aelongst the rest; fortunately I left my wife at our nation. I call upon that Right Reverend, and this : Such were the sentiments of the greater part of
'origins, for on returning home with another gen- most learned Bench, to vindicate the religion of their ' the nation, at the time when the Kings and Potentates
tleman, we were followed to a narrow part of the • Gun, to support the justice of their country. I call of Germany paid us a visit, arid when the 64 Bits of
Rue de Ilituroisne, where a set of fellows attacked i upon the Lords to interpose the unsullied sanctity ' Striped Bunting" were seen reversed under the
us, apparently about thirty in number : I expected iof their laws-upon the Judges to interpose the pu.' !Lard Hag on the Serpentine River. There had,
flat ee should have been murdered as we were se- , rity of their ermine, to save us from this pollution. ! indeed occurred, before that time, events, which,
rarau.ly surrounded, and closely held by some of I call upon the honour of yoUr Lordships, to re- i one would have hoped, would have checked this con- '
verence the dignity of your ancestors, and to main- ' temptuous way of thinking. The defeat and capture
SI.:(1 party, whilst others of them beat us with sticks
and urnirrellas. In this alarming situation I called tain your, own. I call upon the spirit and humanity :of the Guerriere, the Macedonian, the Java, the
to ..-oy comp:mires to atterent, if possible, to beat his of my country to vindicate the national character I I Peacock, arid divers other smaller ships of war, by -
wry through those who were surrounding him and invoke the genius of the Constitution ! From the that Republic,w hose very name we affected to despise,
run for it. At this time 1 nude a desperate effort tapestry that adorns these walls-the immortal might have been expected to create a doubt, at least, of
to effect RN() my escape, and koacked two of them ancestor of this Noble Lord frowns with in; our power to annihilate the Republic in any very short
dents; having thus disengaged myself I took to my dignation at the disgrace of his country. In space of time. But the nation had been cheated here,
I.aels, but was closely followed for some distance vain did he defend the liberty, and establish the too, by the corrupt press,
,who persuaded them
and ebliged to keep up a running fight with my rel. ;i,,,. of Britain against the tyranny of Rome, : that all these losses arose from causes other than
pursuers. however, at last, I very providentially if these worse than Popish cruelties and in- those of the skill and valour of the Republicans.
escaped, as well as my companion, but not without
!quisitorial horrors are endured among us. To send -At one time, it was superior numbers ; at
-
having both received several severe bruises about forth the merciless cannibal thirsting for blood !_ another, heavier metal ; at another, our own
our heads and bodies. The practice, lam truly against whom ? Your Protestant brethren-to lay seamen inveigled into the Republican ships.-
sorry to mid, now is, to select some person who can waste their country, to desolate their dwellings, and This delusion was kept up for two years, until the
speak a little English, who awaits by himself at some to extirpate their race end name, by the aid ineursion in the Chesapeake seemed to have closed the
dark corner until you are about to pass him, whets and lust:mentality of these horrible savages ! scene; and, you will bear in mind, that, at that
he very politely accosts you, ' how do you do, I be- --Spain can no longer boast pre-eminence in time, it was the almost universal opinion, that our
tierce you are English.' The natural reply, of course,
barbarity.- --Sire armed herself with blood-hounds Regent would soon send out his Viceroy to Wash-
is, 4 yes ;' when he instantly knocks you down, if to extirpate tire wretched natives of Mexico; ington City. 1
more ruthless, loose those brutal warriors !thet was even at this very moment, however, that
possible, and is in a moment joined by Iris confede- we,
against our countrymen in America, endeared to us tide began to turn. The gallant little army of
rates. The night after we were attacked every Eng.
by every tie that can sanctify humanity. I solemnly Republicans, on the Niagara frontier, had before
Tishman was way-laid as they m ere returning from Ihe
call upon your Lordships, and upon every order of ' proved, at Chippewa, that the y were made of the,.
English Coffee-houses, analin one of those encoun-
men in the State, to stamp upon this infamous pro- same stuff that composed their ancestors ; and, at
tors a hat belonging to one of• the gang was left be-
cedure, the indelible stigma of the public abhorrence. Fort Erie, they now gave a second most signal proof
bind, which has been traced to him-in consequence
of which the Police base been applied to for his ape More particularly I call upon the venerable Prelates of the same kind. While these never-surpassed acts of
prehension ; but it is much feared that little redress of our religion, to do away this iniquity ; let them devotion to country were performing on the borders of
perform a lustration to purify their country from this Lakes Ontario and Erie, Lake Champlain exhibited
will be had here, for since that time every English-
deep and deadly sits. My Lords, I am old and a spectacle, which struck with wonder all the Con.
man has been obliged to be escorted home to his
weak, and at present am unable to say more; fluent of Europe, and which, in fact, astounded
lodgings by a military guard. And, I am sorry to
add, that at present there appears no safety Isere, but my feelings and indignation were too strong every man of sense here, who had before clamoured
to have allowed me to say less. I could not have for the war. It is true, that this was only a repe-
which, if not put a slop to, will oblige, not mily us,
slept this night in-my bed, nor even reposed my head tition of the SCAMP, exhibited the year before on '
but every English family to leave."
upon my pillow, without giving vent to my stedfast . Lake Erie, where, with an inferior number of men
Boa ens.-Cartof fightimcr has come tn town to challen&vc
abhorrence of such enormous and preposterous prin. and guns, the Republican Commodore Perry had ,
azaiti, or to talk r some good man. Such beaten and actually captured, the whole of our fleet
are the maineuvres practisev'd
by these sparring gen- ciPles'"
-- under Commodore Barclay ; but, ell eyes were at
try, is lidse gives ce/ot to their names if they get such
published, awl enables them to levy contributions OLD BAILEY. that time fixed on the Continent of Europe. she'
expected fall of Napoleon, and the real victories
in the country.- Dutch Sate threw up his hat to SATURDAY, JAN. 14. •
over him, made the loss on Lake Erie (a less of im-
fight the Biker again at a month's notice, for frig or' This day, Thomas Harrison was arraigned an a charge'' of
ihaviing forged the iudoriement of Edward toghlan, on a Illof manse importance, as is now seen) to be thought ,
a hundred of hit ol:a mono!, at a sparring-match 1
Hunt,rialrir i.rasisir'rapuornstli.nrnemoeW°lll.„"la":reanoilisenrisentwillsiodneerraeutrorsewir: nothing of. Oar great object then was, Napoleon. I
for CropOe's benefit, during the last neek!!!Rim once subdued, the Republic, it was thought,
' A Be svi: BuTeirre.-a. &ring attempt at rob- of the said bill. When put into the letter of enclosure, it had
would he done for in a trice. 'lco suppose, that she
bevy and murder was node o.i W et? nesday night last, ; noAt lhcek,Tieut E. L",Tsr,,d,,lf ttru, ollointes and Co. deposed,would be able to stand against us, for-any length of
in the neighbourhood of Itecomb, Somerset, but` the Prisoner, run the qilli of Noyem. tier last. ca to teir liiilt--
ing-hott.e,ai.d respit,ted to have the said bill ; on which de- time, appeared, to most men, perfectly ridiculous.
whirls was frustrated by toe deterrni:•et! courage greater part of the nation thought that it was
of the person who was sto;leed. As W. monis, ' l!ton7ffittirehe.'liVeed. Iti;i.i vtiiilig-reii!utteo ra:lier.ai.reldt ot4-ederitrihsadonebvr-it•on goiven to . Afar
along our army who had pot down Napoleon. Indeed,
butcher, was riding to Bitcomh, two tilen rushed , out, lii,n no Mr. limit's, in Cita-It-lane, as there was soot orison- -
dneernsttattirog rip•-pe,rtingcni.ed brill ; Pr.tsle!
from
he accordingly the Commander of them was called, 44 the conqueror
from the wood adjoining the roa-I near BatcombFrance ;" and,, it was said, that a part of the
Lodge, and on dematoline his money or his name of Edward'
C) oitgrhiu'a the eindec,o7see„ itf„rr „Int„i:inlietr 171 ofdtrse- of
Conquerors of France, sent to America, would, in
. life, he descended from his horse, and imme- : coo? ted Ilse same, and stated, that be himself resided in Liver-
a few months, 44 reduce" the country.
diately attacked his assailants ; the first he ! P.:).'is.vo witnesses were then called on behalf of Harrison, one of A part of them were, accordingly, sent thither ;
knocked down, and jumped on his body two or whom was his miter, who stated, that the, were present when
and now we are going to view their exploits against
three times, so as to completely disable him ; the ' tdhaetioPnriosfouseeariaarbio, ietnaloartlrediceptahcoause for theaccommo-
Liverpool, hod the bill, and ac- the Republicans on the borders of Lake Champlain.
second, who was found cooing the horse's bridle, wally gave cogieligarPr the money for it. Verdict—Not Guilty.' • • - ,
Ihe Governor-General of Canada, Sir George Pre-
•when third '
he soon brouht to the ground also , aCharles Weller solood charged with having robbed the Moo-
goath •il coach
_or 'i ' ' b. -
=oat. plysce.,.ciontintri
unliigffithlk-notes and bills , 9 . vost having ieceiveal the reinforcements from
villain appeared with a cutlass, and commenced a
mouth
the amma.ountof f tober, 1813, It ranee, invaded the Republic at the head of 14,000
spirited attack on the butcher-who, notwithstand- the property of the hankers there, which was directed, in the
men with five Nlajor-Getterals under him, four
.thinkers in town, and 1 •
the severe wounds and bruises he received, cou. first instancy, to Messrs. Down and Co.
reg addressed, under cover, to Mr. Pothergill, at Messrs. Slice and troops of Dragoons, four companies of Royal Artil-
sageously beat him off, mounted Isis horse, and re- Co.'s, merchants. Laurence•Potilluey-hill, Cannon-street. The ter), e brigade of Rocketeers one brigade of
on. ,
particulars of this cane have already been laid ()ensue the pub- .
• turned home. ,
, tic. lie 14:16 found Guilty of Grand Larceny, the capital part Royal Sappers and Miners. The first object was to
ConN.Excasicoe, JAN. 16.-There was a mid supply of
of the charge ha •
vingbeen done away with, i
dislodge the Republjcans• from Fort Moreau, near
Wheat this morning, and a brisk demand Or fine samples at King, who was lately brought up from Birmingham, under the town of Plattsburgh, on the edge of the Lake,
last M,ncd'u','s prices.-Barley 2s. cheape:..-Oats go off freely a charge of being the person Who attempted to rob the' house
at Friday's prices.-P.a:Jnd Beans are 2s. lower, „
„ of the lion. Miss Broderick, arid was wounded in making his, *boot fifteen miles within the boundary line of the
Wheat Viaglish) 4O 62 Beans - ' Republic. Its this fort were 1 500 Republican re-
Ditto (Foreign) 4O 70 Old ditto - „„- ready well known. The only novel trait in the trial was the ' , 9
and no more, and 6,000 volunteers and mi.
Rye 34 '36 Tick do. 26 rrn remarkable ease and confidence with width the Prisoner cross.. go',"
Pirley 26 30 Old sees -„ '-'0 -,,, examined the witnesses in the prosecutim. Ile did this with an 1 litia from the States of Vermont and New , York,
New ditto
malt A . 66 70 Fine ditto - - twivever, idemilied, and proved to he, to the 'Misfire ion of the
White Peas 4O 44 i Poland do. .... ...... 20 24 Jury, the man who burglarinusly entered Miss Broderick's plished citizen, named Macomb, a Brigadier-General,
New ditto .... - - Feed ditto 16 22 house, and was vomit-41, as, has been stated. and. ;
pronounced ,in the Republicau service. While Sir George Pre-
Ditto Bolters 44 48 Fine Flour ....- ....h5 tin
„ stature, an apparently Guilty accordingly. The Prisoner is a man of uncommon -
vast attacked the fort by land, Commodore
5.1 au d tly of lino eerie. ' I
Grey Peas 39 34 Seconds ..... • •••• i Downie, with his fleet, was to attack it by Water.
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SMITH FIF.LH lIIARKET.-.lsta. 16. 1 Money must be had, and soon too ; and that is! -The attack, on both side., commenced at the
Ti' an; the Offal, per moue of tIM I to the Lottery saute time; the land army met, as far at it went,
Matt risea. Od. t,. fis et. frseAr
Bret ... 51. Od. to 64. 04. 1 Head of Grade this day 18&1 the reason' all prudent people rusrh r
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188) Offices. TWO of 20,0001. and IWO of 10,0001. with a very gallant resistance, though it behaved, on
. s
Veal ... 7s. Od. to Its. 4/.1. I Sheep
100 are allurements a man must have firm nerves to re• its part, with equal gallantry ; and Mr. Macomb
Ptak ... 64. 01. V- is. 04. I Calves
Lomb ...fn. 0.1. to 0". Od. I Ples
i NESDAY-" there's the rub." First-drawn above forms so greatly superior, if the attack by water had
HAY-MARKET.
Hay
Cower
/ printed iu letters of GOLD. I publican Commodore Macdonovgh, though his force
Straw

was inferior to ours, and has been an stated i•t the
official dispatch of Sir George Prevost himself, not
only defeated our fleet, but captured the whole of
the ships, one of which was rd. JO grins, while the
largest of the Republican ships was of no more thee
26 guus! The Governor-Gooeral, seeing the fate
of the fleet, knowing that the taking of the fort
after that wou!d only lead to n speody re!reat frocr
it, and fearing the consequences of au ailed( on hi;
way back to Canada, raked the siege, awl hasteurd
back towards Montreal with oil iatagienble speed,
pursued by the little Itepuh:icau or nry„ and leaving
behind him, as the Repairlicans stnto, imraltsse quan-
tities of stores, amietruitior, kc. hesidos groat
numbers of prisoners nod deserters. They erne hails
exaggerated in these their accounts, lit the Canads
Newspapers stated that 150 of car men deserted
and, which is a thing never to be forgotten, our Mi-
nisters hare never iii tip! Gatrite Sir Geo.
Prevost's account of his memorable retreat, 0-mug's
they have published his dispitches relating to all the
movements of the army before and after that retreat.
This blow did, in fact, decide the question of war,
or peace. There was much Morateripg &rout it here;
it was affected to treat the thing li fitly ; the 7'imes,
and other venal !.ewspapers, represented it as a mere
trilling occurrence, which u °old soon be over balanced
by sweeping victories on our rut. Cut upon the
back of this came the brilliant success of the Repub-
licans in repulsing our squadi on, and buroieg one of
our ships before Fort Mobi!!e, in the Gulph of
Mexico ; and thus, while we had to vaunt of our
predatory adventures rtgainst the city of Washiegton,
the town of Alexandria nod the villag7!s of French.
town and Stonington,fte fame of the Republican
arms, by land as well as sea, sounded in every ear,
and glowed in every heart, along tits whole extent of
the 1600 miles which lie between Canada and the
Mexican Gulph.
_ _

In Europe these events prohced a proo.l-
- sensation. These who wished to see a check
given to the all-predominant naval power of Eng.
land, rejoiced at them ; and every where they ex-
cited and called forth admiration of the Republicans.
There had been, during the struggle on the Con.
tinent, no leisure to contemplate the Trans-Atlantic
contest; but it now became an object of universal
attention ; and Europeit so long accustomed to re-
gard English naval invincibility, when the force on both
sides were equal, or nearly equal, as a thing re-
ceived and universally admitted, was surprised be.
yond expression at the undeniable proof of the con-
trary. The world was now called on to witness the
combat between England and America single.
handed. The former was at the summit of power
and glory ; she had captured or destroyed almost all
the naval force in Europe; those Powers who had
any nasal force left were her Allies, and were re.
ceiving subsidies from her; she had an army of re-
gulars of '200,000 men, gushed with victory ; she
had just marched part of this army through the
heart of France herself ; she had a thousand ships
of war afloat, commanded by men who never dreamt
of defeat. This Was the Power that now waged war,
single-handed, against the only Republic, the only
Commonwealth, remaining in the world. The friends
of freedom, who were not well acqnainted with
America, had been trembling for her. They did not
seem to entertain any hopes of her escape. They
thnught it scarcely possible, that she should, with
her densocratical Government and her handful of art
army, without offizers and without stores, resist
England even for a year..aingle-handed ; and they
saw no Power able if willing, or willing if able, to
lend the Republic the smallest degree of assistance.
But when the battles of Lake Champlain were an-
nounced ; and when it was seen by the President's
Message to Iris fellow-citizens of the Congress, that
the Republican Government marched on with a fire:
step, and had resolved not to yeild one single point
to our menaces, or our attacks, a very different view
of the contest arose. The English nation, which had
been exulting in the idea of giving the Yankeys " a
drubbing," began to think, that the undertaking WRY
not so very easy to execute; and seeing no prospect
of an end to the war and its expences, they began to
cry out for the • abolition of the greatest of those
taxes, the existence of which depended on the dura-
tion a the tour.

In the meanwhile, the Ministers, previous to their
knowledge of the battles of Chippewa, Fort Erie,
Plattsburgh, Lake Champlain, and Fort Mobille, hail
put forward, at Ghent, were high pretentions. They
had proposed, as a SINE QUA NON, the expulsion
of the Republicans from a considerable ,portion of
their territory, in behalf of the savages in alliance
with us; they had demanded, though not as a sine
qua non, the surrender of the Lakes to onr Kin;,
even with the prohibition to the Americans to Prete:
fortifications on the borders which. wOuld remain te.
them; they had demanded a line of communication,.
between Quebec and our territories east of the
Penobscot, through the territories of the Republic.
The American Negoeiators declined any discussion
of these conditions, until they should receive in-
structions from their Government ; alleging, and
very justly, that this was the first time that any such
grounds of war, or dispute, had been mentioned by
us.
These den‘ds having been transmittetrto the Pre-
sident, he, ra stead of listening to them, laid then
before the Congress, with an expression of his indig-
nation at them ; and in this feeling he appeared only
to have anticipated his fellow-citizens throughout the
country, with the exception of a handful of aristo-
cratical intriguers in the State of Massachesetts.
New and vigorouslihasures were adopted for prose-
eating the war. tie Congress hastened on Bills for
raising and paying toldlers and sailors ; for molting
the militia more efficient ; for expediting the builditte
of ships ; erecting fortifications ; providing floating
batteries. In short, it was now clearly seen, that
the Gevernment•of the Renublic was equal to a time
of war as well as to a time of peace; that we had tn.
carry on a contest, at 3000 miles distance, feistiest
a brave, free, and great station ; and that the aristo-
cratical faction, on. whom some men had depended
for aid, were sneaking off into pitiful subterfuges,
afraid any longer to show a hankering after our
cause.

In this state of things; with this prospect befor
them, the Ministers wisely resolved to almndon their
demands, and to make peace, leasing things as they
stood before the war. The Opposition, who ha
pledged themselves to the support of the war upo:►