The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1815-06-28
N0isreItanp.
from The Naeisnal AleIhgeHcsT.
MASSACRE AT DARTMOOR.

and entitled TO protection from the boosted
laws of England, are not ye, sufficiently
known to enable US TO form Just estimate
of its cnormity We do not yet know PRE-
cisely what was the conduct OF the Americans
which brought On this massacre. Enough Is
known, however, 10 mark II with every lea
ture Of cowardly and malignant barbarlty
1t i. known that not single English solder
was hurt in the attempt TO quell this iormi-
dabic instruction consequently tho prison.
ers were all unarmed, Tor we know, by expe-
rience, that with arms 10 their hands Ameri-
cans are not 30 easey subdued. No danger
was then to be apprehendcd from their resis-
tance, and it was therefor, an act OF cowardly,
wanton, Inexcusible barbarity, perpretated by
armed soldiers on men without arms, and In
prison. The other day, when two or three
English rioters were shot in the streets OF
London the gentle Mr.. Robinson, OF Corn
Law memory, shed tears in the House OF
Commons, TO the great edihcation OF that or
derly assembly, which shouted " hear hear
hear :" almost as loudly as they do at ono OF
my Lord Cas,lereagh's pump handle speech
es" On this brilliant occasion, when nearly
hundred defencoless prisoners were butcher
cd in cool blood, we dare say Mr.. Robinson,
thought it a mighty clever thing, and thinking
Johnny Bull no doubt, reJoiced, exuoef fanliy,
at such decisive proof oi the superiority oil
British valor. We should not be surprised
to see i, quoted in Parliament as an offset a.
against the affair at New. Orleans.
One circumstance in ihis .D.ssacre ought
not to be overlooked. II appears that tie de-
fenceless Americans were not only shot, by
these valiant soldiers, but stabbed three,
four, aye five times, and that, too, in the
back. IL proves, that these valiant Yelling
toniars having, we suppose, clearly ascertain
cd that the American prisoners were without
arms, went boldly in among them like butch
crs, tucked up their slccvs, and stabbed, and
cut, and hacked and sashcd away, even after
all resistance had ceased, il, indeed, any had
been made. They stabbed William Blake
three times in the back. This poor fellow
haa,:. .rpv.s, been discharged nom The
Repulse .nan Of war, where he had been
slave for God knows how many years, remain
dcd TO prison as an Ame tican, aud stabbed IN
his beck three times, because be, perhaps, as
sisted to hang Reuben o. Beaslcy in efagy-
that is, reader hanging wooden image, or
thing Of stuffed straw, aud calling it by his
name. Forthis the renowned Capt. Shorthand
went in among them, to expostulatc, doubt
practsed by British officers towards the Yam.
KEGS, when their ho4per and il is said that a
pistol was snapped in his face. How came a
prisoner with arms But it is useless to ask
this question there is falsehood on every
face of it, and even il it we're true, II would be
no justification Of the scene that followed
Brave Englshman This was much plea
santer work than you had at Chippewa,
Bridgewatcr and Erie, or even at New, Or
leans. Here you had no awkward American
bayonets and broadswords--on Browne or
Scots, of Brookes, or Aspinwais TO cool
your invinciblc vaior, and your gloup4s aehle
we'd the only victory you gained over Amer
cans since the declaration of war. Shorthand
it seems, was the name Of the gallant com
mandcr of this invincible troop Of dsylight as.
saSsins, and without doubt this name Will soon
appear in the list of koigh,s companions OF
the most noble order Of the Bath, immed ediate-
ly under those of Captain Hope, the notorious
Cock5urn, and many other famous conquer
ors.
1. i,-ought i,-ean it be wondered at, if,
after the experience Of Englands conduct
towards this ill-used country-aiter all our
experience Of her stern unrslcnting arrogance
and pcrsecu,ion--and above all, after this new
outrage, can 1t be wondered at, if the Amcri-
cans should hate the English And is 1t
not to be wondered a, the English and Fedc-
raj newspapers have the in,olerablc insolenco
to charge this hatred upon NC as a crime
Have not tho English vilifiod Us through the
world! Has not the government succeeded
in exciting among them spirit of invctera.e
hostility which in its operation leads to to-
tai disregard Of all the common courtcsics
essential to politcness, and renders their war;
fare against this country disgrace to the
civilized world Have they not, while hypo-
critically voting two thousand pounds, to build
church in Que quarter Of the world j. ap.
propriated forty thousand dollars to keep up
bloody Pagan Temple in another quarter II
and robbed Christian temples in q third I