Portland gazette and Maine advertiser. (Portland, Me.) 1805-1818, 1813-05-24
BALTTMORE.

| lot q lew months, and the alarm RI,
tinues, the injury will be almos, :.
great as any could be done by homt
ardment. He represents the STATE g
the town Us distressing, with cer,,;o
ty of difficulties increasing daiIy md
winds up in strain of pathetic des,,;.
exclaiming RErRIBUTIoN !-Rsrn,,
4 BUTTON!
We disagree with the Speculation.
of our correspondent, insomucb ,b,.
We think temporary intense sufr.,ins
will rebound 10 the great ultimate ooo9
OF the city. The great growth of Inv.
ury The prevalence of every sort of
vice and immortality the rapid intro.
duction OF the demoralizing, cornn,.
ing customs and manners of Eurone
and the complete ascendancy gsinedh,
the meanest mortals, the low born. M
wicked and the rab5le, require tie cbs,.
tening hand of affection, a scourpe !,
purify and preserve Baltimore Nh,
may be thrown back twenty years n
growth, but not in real beneficial i'm.
provemc1t. Before the fermenta,io,
Ceases, nearly all The dregs, the f.col.
ence and filth will be worked OF
The good citizens, and those whom ae
Fiction may reform, will remain tn
retrieve the long lost character
OF the place, and resuscira,e The
sunken spirit of the chastised ci,.
liens. In this light, the war viii
be eventually OF permanen, advantage
to Baltimore, as it will prove TO the ns.
ton at large, if ii continues andis yig-
orously waged on both sides for sig
months, or year longer. The bu-
mors in the national body are of the
most acrimonious kind, and severe fe.
yer and potent medicines are necessary
to kill lnem The pressure produced
by the war will have the same effect
upon this sentiments OF the people that
calomel has on bile, or the iiIe OF heay.
ell upon an unhealthy s,agnant amos.
phere. Though intended by the fall.
en- despCt Of Europe, and his pupps, !.
here, 10 be curse, Providence, in rs
goodness, will cause it 10 be blessing.
In a political point Of view, another
year will present the pbalanx OF Napo.
leoniles, who support the war, in The
same aspect that the grand army ofou
Imperial Ally has been exhibited in
Europe, defeated, dlsgraced, broken in.
to {, agments, rendered harmless. Let
the war continue, and the fate Of lis
supporters will be, mntatis mutandis
the fate that attended the invaders Of
Russia The two invasions took phase
al the same time, and ii is not worth
co"tending for, whether MIR. Madison
has gathered more laurels in Canada
than his master in Russia The bril-
liant achievements of the federal nsuy,
commanded IN every instance by .teder.
al officers, have saved the French Vice.
'oy. who ere this might otherwise have
been punished by bet aged and In
dignant people. Eeiter men in other
countries have paid the forfeit oflresch.
cry in less troublesome times, and with
half the proyocalion.
Our position is, tha, In the main
Baltimore will ultimately derive essen
lial benefit from the Consideration
which prevails, and the severe suffer.
inc produced by the blockade. As it
retributive justice pursued them with
measured and exact pace, the misera.
BILE inhabitants Of the besieged city are
pretty much in the same situation that
the defenders of liberty and the press
were in goal, except that with less real
cause for terror, their fears are an hun.
dred fold greater, and the commanders
and crews of "the Floating He!ls" OF
Britain are not so peilidious, ferocious
and cruel as the local authorities and
popu!ace OF Baltimore. Let Mont
gomery, 1--WE place the worst hrsD
Stricken, Johnson, and the petit Jury
of pejured puppies, that acquitted
Mumma, White, and the rest, be made
captive by admiral Warren, and though
their devotion to France, and hatred. Oh
England, mist make them folly as OBJ
noxious to the enemy as we were to
the ruling authorities OF Baltimore, we
will vouch for it, as prisoners they viii
be dealt with honorably, and none VIII
be murdered, Is possible, that the
I" Copenhagen Officers" aud mereenaiy
savage crew of " the Floating Hells oil
England" would be more human to an
American prisoner, than the monsters
before mentioned were to their own
countryman, who were made prisoners
by cspitulation while nobly defending
the dearest rights of frcemen The