The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1815-08-02
Political.
Frsm CoBBET7'S REGISTER, June 3.
Letter to the Earl of Liverpool,
On fhe EoAReai efeets produced in An.erieo ey
The feace of Ghenr

foretold you would be, compelled to make
peace without Aun6king America, and, indeed.
without snbdIing her, or nearly subduipg her,
the result would be honorable 10 her, seeing
that she would, IN a war single handed agsins,
England have succeeded in defending herseis.
/, was clear, that when once the contest be-
came single ccn1taf, to defend herself must
be TO her triumph and TO US defeat. Ard, if
she came out of the war without any, even
the smallest concession, her triumph over US
must raise her greatly in the estimation of her
own people, and of all the world. She did
come out of the war in this way ; and the ma
tural consequences have followed.
do not know thar have before noticed
the fact In print, but it is now time that
should |; ! mean the curious fact relative to the
Proclamation Of heaee with America. We
know that peace with any power is usually
proclaimed by HERALDS, who, starting &C
81 James Palace, go into the City, with
grand dsplsy OF armorial ensigns, and accom-
panied BY troops in gay attire, and by bands
of martial music, stopping, from time to time,
to road the Kings procamation of the peace.
This was done at the Peace Of .dmeins aud ar
the Peace Of Paris. Indeed, IL is the aSRok
way in. which the cessaiion of war is pro-
claimed.
ca proclaimed There was no procession az
all there were nothing of the usual .cere-
mony. But the COURIER newspaper, and, 1
believe, that paper only, infoTmed the public,
that "heeee with .America 7vas proclaimed TO-
day, by reading the Proclamation, in the U.s.
UAL WAY, at the door Of The office al WhiIe-
haN." This was all, and, will be bound,
that even the people passing in the street did
not know what it was that was reading: This
is what the COURIER calls the usual way of
proclaiming peace There was no illumina-
tions; no firing Of guns no ringing of bells /,
no demonstration of Joy, in short, the country,
which had been so eager for the war, and SO
unanimous for its prosecution, seemed not &C
all TO regret, that it never knew the exact per-
iod when peace returned. 1t felt ashamed of
the result Of the var, and was glad to be told
nothing at all about it.
But, in America There the full force of
public feeling was made manitest.-Tbe
country resounded from New.Orleans 10 the
utmost borders Of the Lakes; from the orange
groves to the wheat lands, buried four feet
! deep in snow, was heard the voice OF Joy, the
| boast Of success, the shout Of victory, !, who
| had always felt anxions for the freedom OF
| America /, whose predictions have been SO
| completely fulfilled in the result Of this con-
| test; even cannot keep down oil feeling OF
| modification at these demonstrations Of Ii-
umph, related 10 the American prints now
before me. Even in me, the Englishman SO
far get, the better of all other feelings and
| consideration. What, then, must be the feel
ings of those, my Lord, svho urged on and
| goho prosecuted shos fatal avar !?
An American paper now before me, the
Boston Yankee" of the 9th of December
last, gives an account, copied from our Lon>
| don papers, Of our Jubilee last sum mer, when
sold BLucHER" was so squeezed and hngged,
and had his jaws sooastiy licked by the filthy
| women, who we're called "Ladies." This
Yankee calls il John Bulls great National
Jubilee )" and, assure you, the famous VIC
tory gained by the naval force Of England over
the American feet on the Serhenfine River
| is not forgotten But The editor Of the Yan-
| kee has made a mistake. He thought 1t was
| the Thames on which that memorable battle
was fought. Not so, good MIR. Yankee. Tho
| Serhensine River, as it is called, is little
winding lake in Hyde Park, about the width
| Of a large duck pond, and is fed by little
| stream, or rather gutter, and empties itself
by the means of another gutter at the other
end 1t was this quality of lake that made
the scene so very ohf.
| These arc mor,ifying recollec,ions, my
Lord, and do not know that they will DO
rendered less so to you By the addition OF the
reflection, that, ifyou had followed my advice.
there never would have been any ground for
| them.
The political effects in America of such
peace must. be wonderful. Indeed, they
evidently are so. The men who, in the New
England States, were forming open eombina .
tions against Mr.. Madison, arc, as told you
they would Be, covcncd with that sor, Of dis
| grace, that deep disgrace, which defeated
malice always brings upon its head. They
appear, from allJI can gather, to bave become
the butt Of ridicule, after having long been the