The New Hampshire Gazette

This little insignificant sloop has insultingly entered the harbour of Charleston in defiance of the proclamation of the President. The public will recollect that this sloop was in company with the Cambrian at Sandy Hook, when Mr. Pierce was killed by a cannon shot from the Cambrian. It was on this occasion that the President of the United States issued his proclamation, forbidding those two vessels to enter any of the waters of the United States, or to be supplied with water or provisions, or to have any communication with the land.

If it be asked, why has this fresh insult been offered, the answer is easy, because there was not force to prevent it. The proclamation of the President has not been seconded by the necessary provisions for carrying it into effect.

Had the proposal for building two hundred gun-boats (each carrying at least a 24 pounder) been agreed to by Congress, neither the Driver sloop nor any other vessel of war dared have entered the waters of the United States without permission. But as to fortifications, a vessel of war cares nothing about them. She can always keep out of the reach of their guns, or with a brisk wind and tide can run past them in a few minutes.

[N.Y. Public Advertiser.]

The British sloop of war Driver sailed from Charleston on Monday the 11 instant. The captain got a supply of water from Sullivan's Island, and provisions from an English Guineaman in the harbor.