The Arkansas advocate., 1830-08-11

and thought that my gallant brothers
 might be serd, on a nominal equality, to cope wish such fearful odds of material
 against them. It is like the combat of
 the cuirassier with a naked though not
 more active dragoon. l include nSt
 here the consideration of number or
 weight ofmetal; in the latter indeed, ]
 believe they have themselves discover
 ed that the due preportion has been ex- .ceeded. It may be true that ships of this description are very unfit for the services required upon our home sta ten; but it is to be hoped that such of ours as may be destined for the Ameri- canshores will bemore powerful oftheir respective classes thanany wehaye hith- erto launched; for, although our late
 razee frigates may be fully adequate to
 the old "Constitution,o or our Canopus
 models to such as the C Franklin" nei-
 ther one nor the other could fairly com
 pete with the rivals that few weeks
 could produce. to each respectively from
 under.the building sheds that at present
 contain them. Actions of fleets in con-
 fined seas would produce very differ
 ent results, were such large ships em-
 ployed; history attests it; but the At
 Iantic will be the theatre in the western
 hemisphere, and squadrons are the most numerous orders that are likely tobe op-
 posed to each other for years to come.
 ssI wish we'll to brother Jonathan; l admire him greatly upon many points owing to personal observation; l dislike
 the feeling of any hostile calculation either on his part or ours--considering him as near relation, and knowing that tie truest wisdom would induce him and his elder brother to walk arm in arm through life, but how easily will motives of fancied self interest sever the bonds of even family union! l would therefore have mutual respect insured by physical means, which could not but contribute to render that union more lasting"
 This species of boasting and brow beating (we allude to the remarks of the reviewer and not of the letter writerA} is nothing new with Johnny 1t was tried just before the last war, when in fact the American navy was considered beneath contempt. But John had to pay dearly for his whistle, for instead of sssweeping every Amesi- can craft carrying gun, of the seas,' he had bis own fleets swept from two of the northern lakes-three heavy fri- gates, and various smaller men of war, besides I700 merchant vessels, either sunk, burnt or captured. We think, after this signal disparity of results, compared with the forces employed this proud pre-eminence of the Ameri- can navy, after a three years war with the ssmistress of the oeean'-it becomes Johnny to be pretty ns,,ns. Cur navy, t is true, is small compared with his, put it can muster, on short notice, a lozen ships of the line in addition to the 1 orce In existence during the last war, snd its officers have received their pre- motion, not because they happened to be ''descended from high houses,'' but because they have shown themselves heroes in actual service. Whenever Johnny shall come in contact again with the American navy, (which we hope will be far remote) we think we can promise him he will become acquainted with more Decaturs, Perrys, Hulls, Me Donoughs, &c. At all events we can tell him, as Col. Miller did his superior officer just before carrying battery at the point ofthe bayonet, ,"We'll try, sir.
 Mir. Burke says, there are two cap-l ital faults in the law with relation to civil debts. One is that every man is presumed solvent. A presumption, in innumerabie cases, directly against truth. Therefore the debtor is order ed, on a supposition of ability and fraud, to be coerced his liberty until he makes payment. By this means, in all cases in civil insolvency, without a par don from his creditor, he is to be im- prisoned for life-and thus miserable invention of artificial science, operates to change a civil into crim- inal judgment, and to scourge misfor- tune or indiscretion with a punish ment which the law does not intlict on the greatest crimes.
 TT Eie next fault is, that the illifiictiing of that punishment is moi on inc opin-