The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1852-04-28

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i than the miserable pretext offered BY Dir.
John Quincy Adams, in his famous Chinese
Lecture.
A DUTCH FRlGATE In OUR WATERS.
elearn from the Washington papers that
the Prince Of Orange, a splendid Dutch frigate'
carrying sixty guns, after lying some days at
Annapolis, Md. sailed on Sunday last for the
North. Her officers were very DESTROYS TO car
~ her up to Washington, but her draught was
so heavy as TO forbid the undertaking. Her
Captain, however, who rejoces in the eupho-
NOUS name of Bill De Vroe, accompanied by
several officers, visited the capital, and was in
troduced TO the President, as well as to the Sc
cretares OF State and the Navy. They also
paid visit to the capital, and were introduced
TO many members Of both Houses. OF course
they did not leave the city without visiting the
Navy Yard, where they were treated with great
distinction by the officers stationed there
They expressed themselves highly gratifed
with their visit and its results will, no doubt,
be productive of the best feelings between the
two countries.
The next point at which the Prince OF Orange
will touch, we presume, will be the city Of
New York. We doubt very much whether a
Dutch Man Of War has entered that port since
the days of Wouter Van Twiller, or, at least,
since the DAYS of the Dutch supremacy in New
Amsterdam, which lasted long after the death
of that renowned warrior and statesman. At
that day Holland was far different from what
she is now. Her navy had made her almost
first rate power-a short time after, she disputed
the empire of the seas with England. and at one
time seemed on the point of obtaining it. The az
rogant boast of Van Trompe, who tied broom
TO his masthead, in token of his determination
to sweep the English Channel of all enemies,
is still remembered, both in Holland and Eng
land, and the latter has not forgotten that the
Dutch were the last foreign enemies, whose
guns were distinctly heard in the city of Lon
don. This, however, was nearly two hundred
years ago, and since that time, the Dutch,
though always brave seamen, and alone, with
the exception of ours, capable of meeting the
English on the water with any prospect Of sue
cess, have had no Van Trompe or De Ruyter.
They seem to have gradually declined, so far
as naval matters are concerned, until our revo-
lutionary war, when taking sides with us, their
fleet was furiously assaiIed off the Dogger
Banks by superior force, under the command
of the British Rear-Admiral Parker. The bat
tie was one of the longest, bloodiest. and most
obstinate on record, and il was drawn battle
after all. English courage and skill could not
prevail over the stubborn bulldog resolution
of the Dutch, and Parker complaining that the
Admiralty had given him a feet of ver3 indffer
ent ships, and offering this as an excuse for his
want of success, threw up his command in
great ill-humor, and could not be prevailed
upon to resume it. His complaints may or may
not have been we'll founded but we are dis
posed to suspect that the true secret of his ILL
success, lay in the fact of his having me, his
match.
Since that time, however, at the battle of
Camperdown, in 1897, the Dutch fleet was so
completely annihilated by Admiral Duncan,
that we suspected it would never rally. We
are truly glad to see that a nation, once so for
mldable On the ocean, and justly so, is again
assuming the position to which the qualities of
her seamen entitle her.
If Captain DeVroe be much acquainted with
the early history of this country as connected
with his own, he cannot but indulge in some
singular reflections, when he enters the har-
Dor of "New Amsterdam" That port, selected
with unerring sagacity by his countrymen, has
justified their judgment in degree of which
it is impossible they could ever have dreamed
They delivered it over to the English a mere
village; the English delivered it to us smart
town of fifteen or twenty thousand inhabitants,
and under the auspices of this great republic,
ithas grown in seventy years to FIVE hundred
thousand. In twenty years, it will have as
large population as Paris has now, and in less
than century will reach the limit to which
London has already assembled.
~ The latest of the penny tribe which has
come forth to illumine the city of Petersburg,
is already most interesting prattler. 1t is in
deed showing such signs ofsmartness as to ex-
cite the anxiety of those who are nearest and
dearest to it. The "Duke of Gloster" said
$50 wise, so young, they say do ne'er live
long," However, we shall hope for the BEST
1t is not to blame for its smartness that it inhe-
rlts from its progenitor. fit only falls heir to
some OF the industry and tact that distng pushes
Its source, it may safely tread the path of its
Industrious predecessor" We trust it will
continue the pride of the family.