of officers and men missing and made prisoners. I such be the marks of a victory gained over the Americans, I wonder what will be the marks of a defeat, if, unhappily, we should chance to experi ence a defeat? At any rate, taking the matter in the most favourable light, what a bloody battle this must have been! To be sure that is a consideration of little weight with the enemies of freedom, who would gladly see half England put to death, if they could thereby have their desire of exterminating freedom in America gratified. But this is not all. The battle has not merely been bloody, but it has afforded a proof of the deterned courage of the American army, and leads us to believe, that if we persevere, the contest will be long as well as bloody; and it is the length of the contest that we have to fear.The malignant wise man, who writes in the Times newspaper, expresses great sorrow that the "heroes of Toulouse" were not arrived in Canada previous to the late victory. But what could they have done more than to render the success of our arms complete ?" And this, we are told, was the case without their assistance.

The same writer, in the same paper, complains of the sovereign of Holland for sending an ambassador to Mr. Madison; and observes, that, if he had waited a few months, he might have been spared the humiliation of sending an embassy to Mr. Madison and his set. Hence it would appear that this wise man gives our fleets and armies but " a few months" to conquer America. It was thus that the same sort of men talked in the memorable times of Burgoyne and Cornwallis. But, in those times, America had not a population of two millions; she had no government; the greater part of her sea-ports were in our hands; we had a fourth

part of the people for us; and the rest were without money, and almost without clothing and arms. I shall not deny that we may, by the expenditure of two or three hundred millions of money, do the Americans a great deal of mischief. I dare say that we shall burn some of their towns, and drive some thousands of women and children back from the coast. But, in the mean while, America will be building and sending out ships; she will be gaining experience in the art and practice of war; she will be pushing on her domestic trade and manufactures; she will be harrassing our commerce to death; and our taxes will be increasing, and annual loans must still be made. It is provoking, to be sure, but it really is so; that we must leave the Americans in the enjoyment of their real liberty; in the enjoyment of freedom, which is no sham; must be content to see their country the asylum of all those in Europe who will not brook oppression; we must be content to see America an example to every people, who are impatient under despotism, or (dreadful alternative!) we must be content to pay all our present taxes, and to have new ones added to them! Nay, after having, for several years, made these new sacrifices in the cause of "regular government, social order, and our holy religion," it may, possibly, happen, at last, that America, will remain unhurt; that, having been compelled to learn the art of war, she may be come more formidable than ever; and that, in the end, her fleets, in the space of ten years, may dspute with ours that trident, which we now clain as our exclusive property. Already do we hear persons, who were so eager for giving the "yank:es a hearty drubbing;" ask why this is not dore?They are already impatient for the conclusion, be

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fore the beginning has well taken place. They ask why the heroes of Toulouse were not at the late victory? How unreasonable this is! Just as if the government could convey them in a balloon! Besides, were those heroes to have no time for repose? Were they to be set on the moment they had been taken off? The government, to do it justice, have lost no time. They have sent out men as fast as they could get them ready. But it requires time to transport men, and guns, and horses, and oats, and hay, and straw, to America ; to say nothing about bread, and beef, and pork, and butter, and peas, and rice. Nay, we see that they had to send out the timbers for ships to Canada, where, one would have supposed, there was wood enough, at any rate. If we were to get possession of New-York I should not be at all surprised to hear that the ministers were sending fuel thither for the cooking of the men's victuals. This is very different from what was seen in Portugal, Spain, and France. We shall find no partizans in America ; and especially shall we find nobody to take up arms in our cause. All must go from this country. It is a war of enormous expense; and we must expect to pay that expense. If it comes to a close in seven years, I shall think that we have very good luck. The troops who are going out now, and vho have been held in readiness to go out for so Ang a time, will hardly be able to pull a trigger bfore next June. By that time the Americans will have half a million of men, and FREE men too, in arns, and who is to subdue half a million of men, armd for the defence of their freedom and their homes? how did the people of France as long as the sound of freedom cheered their hearts, drive back, hunt, and lash their invaders. And, have

the Americans less courage, or less activity, than the French? How silly is it, then, to expect to conquer America in "a few months!"-It is a little strange that the government have published no extraordinary gazette, giving an account of the great "victory," of which we have been speaking. They are not, in general, backward in doing justice to our winners of victories. But it is useless to say much about it. Time will unfold the truth; and, according to all appearance, we shall have time enough to learn all about the events, as well as the effects, of the war against the republicans of America. It is strange, that we have no account of the exact numbers of the prisoners that we ourselves have made. If any officers had been taken by us, would they not have been named? And if we have taken no officers, while the Americans have taken so many of ours, what manner of victory is this?

FROM COBBETT'S REGISTER OF OCTOBER 29, 1814.

American War.-I have, from the first, expressed my apprehensions as to the end of this war. I used the utmost of my endeavours to prevent it. While shut up in a prison, out of which, at the end of two long years, I went, with the paying of a thousand pounds TO THE KING, for having had the indiscretion to write about the flogging of English local militiamen, at the town of Ely, in England, and about the presence of Hanoverian troops upon that occasion; while so shut up, the greatest object of my efforts was to prevent this ill-fated war, the seeds of which I saw sown, and the maturity of which I saw pushed on by those malignant and foul wretches, the writers of the Times and Courier newspapers. This was the way in which I employed my days and years of imprisonment-My efforts were all in vain. In vain did I show the falsehood of the statements and the doctrines on which the war whoopers proceeded, in vain did I appeal to the reason, and justice, and even to the interest of a people, deluded into a sort of furor against America. At last, the war took place, and the disgrace which we suffered at sea, completed the madness of the nation, who seemed to have no other feeling than that of mortification and revenge. What! should the people be suffered to live? Should they be suffered to exist in the

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