The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1815-03-15

be So" says jonathan, hut rnen, how comes
the 6esf of your sailors TO desert from your
service, TO come into mine l"--" No, no -
rejoins John hastily, g don't mean the besf
men l mean tha, they fight more Sesi,evofe-
ly than those we have ON board, because tho
rascals know that if they arc taken they will
be hanged"-" o ie Johnny," rejoins Jon
athan, I" do you think that Englishmcn will
fight better from dread of the gaii0ws, than
from love of their King and their glorious
Constitution Z" Mo-" says Jonn, :" said
. no such thing-you have got heavier shof,
and stronger towder, and more guns, aud
more mra"-" Indeed Johnny" says iona.
than, why, | am sure you nay enough for
your ships, shots guns, men aud powder.
Your navy and ordnance last year, cost you
twenty-five millions sterling, which is more
than lvenfy times as much as ours is 10 cost
US nert year, though we are buildings fleets
and forming dock.ysrds, besides defending,
lakes and all, three thousand miles ot sea
coast" WE'LL" says John, ready TO burst
with anger " whs, is that to you, what l nay?
I will pay ii, if Like TO psy IT," Oh dear!"
says Jonathan, dom, be angry old friend !
have not the less, objection 10 ysar faying;
onIy, hope shall no, hear coy more of
your grumbllng about the PROPERTY 7ar"-
" You are saucy scoundrel," says JOAN,
foan,irg with rage ; I" You deserve good
dtubbing. YOU Yankee dog, and you will ger
IL yet--and, a, any rate, IT 1 pay taxes, IN
make you pay taxes 90. II l am miserable
myself, IN make you unhappy, il | can"
II is to this modification, my lord, tha, you
hayc to ascribc the attacks of the newspapers
on the Naval Administration, which really
appears TO me to have done more in Canada
ihsn could have been expected at their hands.
You see tha, the Opposition here are sup
ported by the country, who will blame you,
blame Sir George Provost, blame our pow
dor, SHOT, ships, gon locks blame any per-
son or thing /; blame and exccratc all the
WORLD, rather than acknowledge that the Re-
pubhcans ate, gun 10 gun, and man TO man,
our m7s'crs ahon rhe sea. Far be II from NE
10 censu,e reluctance 10 como 10 such an
acknowledge ment. The reluctance arises
& ON love oil one of the best professions OF
ones coontry namely, j, fame 10 deeds Of
arms. Bot then, 1t is manifest, that this pa
triotic feeling, II not subjected 10 reason and
enlightened views,may be productive OF great
injustice towards commanders, or ministers,
or both aud may expose the nation TO great
: and lasting mi.ery. The Opposition are
feeding this feeiing--They ascTibc every iai.
lure to you and your colleagues and they
studiousiy keep out OF sight the real cause OF
those ialurcs-Tn.y justify the war on our
part they ian the Game they excite false
hopes of iutatc success they say TO the peo.
pie, we have failed hitherto from the fault OF
the Ministry and, thereby, they cause it 10
be believed, that better may be done for the
,~a al ~h. in nm.
l,ical and aaval systems and, in dung so,
they do, IL. my opinion, as great an injury as
they can possibly do to the country.
Next 10 the Ministry comes Sir George
Provost. Mr. Homer did not know which
was 10 blanc, tho Ministry or the Colonial
Governor. The 1eet had been beat and cap
tured, and Mr.. Horncr was sure that it must
have been owing to something other than The
feet itself, or at least its commanders. II
never could be thar fault. Men who fought
two hours and twenty minutes within u lew
yards Of the mouths Of the opposing cannon,
whose vessels had not mast or any thing
standing TO which sail coGld be fastened
Such men could not be in ./anH. They fought
fnost braveiy. They were overfoavored
They lost their feet, bot ungra,cful is the
county, and base the man, who insinuaics
that they ought TO have done more They
could do no more. 1t they had continued "a
fight, they must have been all blown TO pieces
without the power OF resistance. No It was
not the fault of the officers Of our fect; It was
the fault Of the Yankees, for being SO strong
in body, so agile, so dextcrous, and so deter
mined. Mr.. Homer should have made mo
,ion agsinst them. Suppose he were, mex
time, to make motion for hroseennng them
If we could get a, them in that way, II wouie
soon bcnumb their faculties.
"Aye," say the people about Portsmouth
and Gosporf," !" it is time an enquiry was made
it is a shame that SIR George Provost IS no
brought home aud punished" can assur'
your IordshipjthAt this is their language; sn'
they will be quite outrageous, when they fln'
that he is not 10 be published bat, on the con
trary, Is to remain where he is. There Is ~
one hcresbouts who does not thlEk that oi
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