The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1836-11-23
No vssuge of the strife was there.

were lost.
When the particulars of the action were
! reported to the governor, he Immediately
) made Elliot Captain, and gave him a
f cross of honor. The petty officers and
crew have been rewarded, and the families
of the killed will be provided for by the Ma
nilla government.
The disparity of force in this action is
amazing: one boat and 43 men opposed to
26 boats and upwards of thousand men !!
and those men were Malays, renegadoes,
and plrates-a race and kind of men whose
ferocry and desperate determination are
unequallrd. This is an instance of what
leading, a master mind can do for all the
credit of fighting the action is due to Elliot |;
and although his gallant Talagese bravely
seconded him, had he fallen can there be
doubt of the different resultl
Ieriaa Impertinencc.--It is not LONG
since that one of the Texion privateers,
which we call and consider pirates, over
hauled New York merchant ship, whilst
on her peaceful voyage to New Orleans,
and examined her papers, with all the self
Importance and assurance of a European
three decker, towards merchant shin of
nation acknowledging the right of search.
And now we learn from the New Orleans
Standard of the 3rd instant, that another of
these Texian pirates called the Tom Boy
boarded the American schooner Louisiana
on the llth of October! The schoone,
luckily escaped unplundered, but the Tex
ian captain informed her that he had taken
the Mexican schooner Mentor, prize, and
had seut her into Galveston. He moreover
announced the momentous Intelligence that (
he, the redoubtable Texan, Capt. Hoyt,
commanding prlvateer of eighty tons,
mounting two six Founders, and manned |
by crew of seventeen jail birds and mig
ger hoy, had declared the ports of Tanpco
and Vera Crnz, and the Mexican coast in
general, in a state of blockade He fur
ther announced that he actually fired his
two guns at the fort of Tampico, to prove
that the blockade was no joke, but sheared
off on seeing some hundreds Of the inhabi-
tants were about to take il more seriously
than he could wish.
Supremacy ridiculous, as all this is, we
really think that the U. S. Government
should not so far relax from its dignity as
TO suffer any vessel sailing under onr ma
tional flag to be iusuited be any other what
ever. A similar insult, lately offered by a
French ship to one of our merchantmen, is
about 10 be carefully investigated but be-
cause good deal of cant has been written
about Texian liberty, we must not allow
her the liberty ofsinsultng us with impuni-
ty. ". Y. Era.
Steam communication w,th England
The Journal of commerce states that a
new steam engine has been invented in
the state Of New York, which viii require
only one sixth as much coal as those now
IN use, and at the same time possesses equal
power The same paper remarks that We
have arrived very nearly To the point of
time, when the crossing of the Atlantic by
steam, will he undertaken as a regular busi-
ness. The year 1887 will witness the at
Tempt Steam ships for this purpose are .
now building in New York, Liverpool and G
Bristol. The raising of the stern frame of t
the last mentioned vessel was deemed an ,
event of SO great importance in Bristol,
hat it was greeted by salutes of artillery,
and " three times three cheers" from the
multitude of beholders. Her keel is TO be
longer than that of any steam vessel or ship
Of war hitherto built in the United Kingdom,
and she is to he driven by power equal
to that of 400 horses. At the Bristol dinner
On the occasion just alluded to, Mr.. Guppy
said, We contemplate that the intercourse
between this port aud New York. between
his Kingdom and America, by this vessel,
and by others belonging to the Company,
will be conducted in n manner never I'LL
he present time imagined to be possible"
The silk culture in our country NAV no
onger be regarded as the pas,me Of ladies', :
who, having nothing else to do, have en-
1loyed their time in raising silk worms,
md in winding and reeling the products of
heir industry, The preparation ofthis val
liable article is becoming rapidly a regular
branch OF manufacture, employing large
capital and returning to those who have EN-.
parked in it, a handsome profit for their
money and labour. There is at Dedham,I
that land of enterprise and
industry, factory which drives sixteen hum
1red Spindles and employs one hundred
females, who turn out two thousand dollars
worth Of silk every week. With a climate
adapted to the growth Of the food for this
'alubIe operdtivr, and wen suited for its ex-
stance. we can see no good reason why
'ur country should remain tributary to other
nations for its beautiful and useful product
Millions have gone, year after year, to pay
or the stuffs fabricated by foreign industry,
which might have been kept at home to
yreat advantage, and we hope that the day I
s not far distant when Americans will no
onger expend their money in supporting
he laborers Of other countries. Silk, in
is raw as well as prepared state, may soon
'e sent abroad as one Of the staple COM 1
nodties of our commerce, and 30 far from )
icing drain upon our wealth, will be =
powerful mean of increasing it, Why may ;
"a prt Ha.n,.n -. r ii d.