Portland gazette and Maine advertiser. (Portland, Me.) 1805-1818, 1814-09-19

trv is fruitful OF ,etources 1t doounds
in men of talents Why ihouid n not ?
Call these men TO manage these reiour
ces, and ali the hotts OF Europe cannot
endanger our inds pendencc.
1t is not we, the people, who have done
this thug 1t is James Madaon, James
Monroe and John Armitrong.
But az this time reitraln the expref-
iien of that indignation which throbS IN
every American boiom. l proPole in
nv next humber to record the t.ory of
this Calamity, becaoie few months or
even weeks will dni5lve fome OF the iea-
lures which mars il to DC the peculiar
offspring OF .he aog n.itfa,ioIl.
GEORGETOWN, SEPT 7.-Hnotber FdH
uye.- The neaiures which the lnteiligen-
Ger informed the public few days ago,
q0srs put in train OF execution, the ef-
feet Of which would loon be teen, have
proved complete abortion. Alter Arm
ftrong oifgraced bmJeB. and was IN fart
diim,iled from ieIvlce, we were told that
Col. Monroe would retrieve our oharac-
tcr-that he wac all that an American
could wifi, and was this, that, and the
other, In lhort, no body was like Col.
Monroe. He was accordingly appointed
+" commander in chief OF the troops in
the vicinity OF the diitrict'-he was invef.
ted with the iupreme direction OF the
war department., 10 far as Armitrorg did
not fill hold on he called to his aid our
naval heroes, Perry, Porter & Rodgers,
who were iupported by picked band Of
gallant ieamcn, and clouds OF militia, and
NOT man dare doubl tor three days patt,
that Col. Monroe had "put in train
of execution meafures' that would enfure
the capture of Com. Gordon's fquadron,
or at any rate prevent his paaagc down
the Potomac unlefs he was itrongy rein.
forced. Every thing favoured Col. Nom
roe's ente,priie. The britlih were becai,
med four days, all hearts had been united
in one common deiirc and effort to pun
ilh the Britiih commander tor the cruel
terms he had impoied upon Alex andria,
in taking advantage of the blowing up
of Fort Warbu,ton.' But the enterprise
has failed, totally failed, for the want q
guns, gun carriages, and anauniti2n. The
people of America will not believe it, Eu
rope will not believe it, that a battery
planted 10 miles from the feat of govern
ment, after two years war, could not be
iupplied vit6 one Gszen ea,ulsn. There
were men enough ten, twenty times over,
but there was deficiency in the munis
lions OF war.
PHiLADELPHIA, SEPT. 9. Pahengers
in the Baltimore Expedition itagc OF latt
night itate that the enemy's veilels had
paiicd all the batteries, and that Com.
Rodgers, Porter. aud Perry, with ,heir
brave comrades had arrived at Baltimore.
The National intelligence, after commenting q,
lasEe on the gio,'o~ v.et0'y obtained by Genesal
Brown, lays, "Rej0iss tts,y"s, fssP1s # dmo"s!
fbss ba, bees sssiased."
Thi, fairly out -herods Hsrod himlelf.
AT this time OF gay, after all the ills
without any fweeten,ng mixture of BEN
eht, or hope of beneht that the gov
srnmentspaper thould urge the people of
America to rejoice, thai war mas been
declared, is an evidence of more shame.
less inlpudencc than we were prepared
to expect even from that quarter. No
man III his ienfes expects that better terms
of peace can be had, than might have
been had before the commencement Of
the war; and, therefore, while our lo(s-
IS will have been immenie, our gains
will be nothing.
Rejoice that war has been declaIed
See The diitrelt condition of the feacoalt,
and OF large portion OF the frontier.
See the thousands of slain, whole blood
have watered the plains of Canada. See
the innumerable multitudes Of ruined
families. See the whole country impov-
erilhed, and loaded with an enormous
debt that will hang as miilitone upon
polterity.
Rejoice that the war has been decIar-
ed Kccollecr, what would have been
the condition Of this country had war
not been declared condition OF peace,