The Rhode Island Republican

By the following remarks from the London Times, a high ministerial paper, the excessive chagrin of the British at the Guerriere affair, is very perceptible. The gloom cast over high and honorable minds at that event, will not be removed when they hear of the brilliant victories over the well appointed frigate Macedonian, and the sloop of war Frolic.—Boston Chron.

From the London Times.

We have been accused of sentiments unworthy Englishmen, because we described what we saw and felt on occasion of the capture of the Guerriere. We witnessed the gloom which that event cast over high and honorable minds; we participated in the vexation and regret: and it is the first time that we have ever heard that the striking of the English flag on the high seas to any thing like an equal force, should be regarded by Englishmen with complacency or satisfaction. If it be a fault to cherish amongst our countrymen, that chastity of honor which feels a stain like a wound; if it be an error to consider the reputation of our navy as tenderly and delicately alive to reproach, that fault, that error, we are likely often to commit; and we cannot but consider the sophistry, which would render us insensible to the dishonor of our flag, as peculiarly noxious in the present conjuncture. It is not merely that an English frigate has been taken, after what we are free to call a hard fought action resistance; but this it has been taken by a new enemy, an enemy unaccustomed to such triumph, and likely to be rendered insolent and confident by them. He must be a weak politician, who does not see how important the first triumph is in giving a tone and character to the war. Never before, in the history of the world, did an English frigate strike to an American; and though we cannot say that Capt. Dacres, under all circumstances, is punishable for this act, yet we do say, there are Commanders in the English navy, who would a thousand times rather have gone down with their colors flying, than have set their brother sailors so fatal an example.