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

fhey were to blame, If ony body was, for tEeir
defeats. Sir George Pscvoss will neser suffer
himself TO be regarded as the cause of these
caiamities and disgraccs and l am very suro
that the Ministry. having the power, will not
neglect the means Of justifyipg themselves
So that al, this stir will oaIy tend to make tho
modification Of the navy .. .rester thar: it nov
Is; the prejudiecs of the nation viii only re-
ccive the greater shock and the world will
only have completer proof of those very fac,s
which we are so anxious TO disguise or dis
figure.
Il was observed during the debate, that
though cur ships OF war we're quite sufficiently
provided with the means OF " combating an
ordinary foe, they ought TO have been fitted
out In an cxtraor dinary way TO combat suth q
foe as me Americans :" But, suppose tho
Admiralty not to have fitted them out Ia Tho
extraordinary! Were they 10 blame for that
Was ihcro man ia the country who did not
aishise the American navyl Was there .
public writer besides myself, who did not
doom that navy to destruction in a month =
Did not all parties exceedingly relish the de.
scriplior, given 10 very august assembly, Of
"half dozen of fir frigatcs, with 6ifs Of Atihs
ed bunting al tthcir mas,-hcals !" Did not tho
Guerriere sail up and down the American
coast, with her name written on her flag, chala
longing those FIR friga,es Did not the WI hoo
nation, with one voice exciaim at the affair of
tho Lizzie Ben, " only let Rooms come wih.
in reaeh Of one of our JriSafes ?" If, then
such was the opinion Of the whole nation, OF
all men.of all parties with what jos,icc Is
the Board of Admiralty blamed for not Think
ing otherwise for no, sending out the means
OF combating an extraordinary sort of foe
for not issuing privilege to our frigatcs to
run away from one Of thosef FIR, built thiuga
with a bif Of sfrined bunting at ifs mast.hcadF ?
Il has always been the misfortune Of Erga
land that her rulers and her people hdvc
spoken and have Thought confen.hsuontiy Of
the Americans. Your lordshp and / wetd
boys, aud, indeed, not born, or at least, was
not, when our King first was involved in q
quarrel With the Americans. But almost Az
long as can remember any thing, I can re-
member that this contempt was expressed i'm
,hc songs and sayings Of che cloi hoppers IA
mongW whom I was born and bred in doing
which we conducted down 10 the earth thar
we dclvcd the sentiments OF the squircs and
lords. The result of the formct war, while it
enlightened nobody, added to the vindictiscs
ncss Of hundreds ofthousands; SO ihst we hayo
entered into this war with oil our old stock Of
cor. To think that the Amcricau RcpubId
is to be great hosvsr, Is insupporiable.
Some men, in order 10 keep her down, ih
their language, and at the Same time, not uso
harsh expressions, observe that she 10 only
another farr Of ourselves They wish her 10
| be thought, il not dependent upoa Us, still 10
| be sort Of younger child Of our family, CONS
ing In after Ireland, Jamaica, Ge.--------I mde
a very worthy Scots gentle man, month or
| two ago, who wished that some man Of ability
would propose a scheme that he had, and wilh~
| out which, he said, re neper should hare heote
| again. /" Well sir," said H." and pray what 10
Y your scheme I" Why" said he," il Is very
simnie. Il is to form an UNION with tho
I American States" IL vas rainins---and I
| wanted TO get on so that had not time To-
ascertain what sorf OF Union he meant. This
| gentleman, however, was remarkably mcdcf<
ate in his vicws.-1Thc far greater part Of thS
| nation expect absolute Colonial submission
| and, if our fleets and armies should not finally
succeed in bringing a Property Tax from
America into his Msjesty's Exchcqucf, the
far greater par, Of the people will be most
1grievoosly disappointed. SO that this eonfenfe
| Of the Yankees has given your lordship and
your colleagues good deal 10 do, IN order TO
satisfy the hopes and expectations which havo
been excited, and which, assure you, are
confidently entertained.
OF the effects Of this eontemhf know
nobody however, who have 60 much reason
to repep, rs the officers Of his Majesty's navy4
If they had triumphed, it would only have
been over half q dozen OF fir frigates, with
6ifs Of bunting at fheir ma1 hsads. They
we're sure 10 gAin no reputation 10 the contest;
and, If they scrc defeated, what was their
lot, The wors, Of IL is they themselves did,
10 some measure, contribute TO their own Ill
fate for Of all men living, none spoke OF
poor Jooathsn" with so much contempt-
To read their letters, Or the LETT
tcrs which our newspaper people pret:ndcd
| 10 have received from them, ., the ontcN oi
the war, one would have thought that they