Portland Gazette, And Maine Advertiser

Commodore O. H. Perry, gloriously following the example of those tory federalists Hull, Decatur, Jones, Bainbridge, Biddle, Burrows, &c. &c. has played off another federal trick. He has achieved an exploit which, in courage, conduct, and brilliancy, is not excelled in the naval history of our country. His official dispatch too brightens the glory of his deeds. No paltry gasconade is to be found in his modest, unvarnished narrative. The recollection of himself seems to have been almost effaced by the stronger recollection of the heroic deeds of his fellow soldiers; and, in the midst of victory, the wounded enemy shares his sympathy!! Such is the generosity, such the humanity which characterize the truly brave man.—U. S. Gazette.

The Democratic Press complains most bitterly against the Federalist for not helping the war along, and attributes the languor and miserable success which have attended it to their indifference or opposition. But we would ask the ingrate editor of that paper, who captured the Guerriere? who captured the Java? who took the Frolic? who took the Macedonian? who captured the Peacock? who took the Boxer? who has achieved the late brilliant affair on Lake Erie? and if there are any other victories, who has gained them? He must answer to all these questions, a Federalist, a Federalist, all Federalists—decided and unequivocal—Now let him recount the heroick deeds of his democratic Hull and Smyth, and Porter, and Chandler, and Dearborn, and Morgan Lewis, &c. tell us honest colonel what have they done, individually or collectively, but disgrace the country? If defeat helps the war along, democracy has the exclusive honour of supporting it, but if it depends on victory the Federalists have done every thing. "So help me God" (we might say, if we were at liberty to use a favorite profane phrase of the colonel when he is very anxious to be believed) there is not a democrat in the navy, as far as we know, who has achieved any thing; but—n—defeat or disgrace. To be conquered or to shun the foe is their characteristic.

Ibid.

PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 27.

The following is a copy of a hand bill received here from Charleston.

Charleston Courier Extra.

EIGHTH NAVAL VICTORY

SUNDAY MORNING Sept. 19.

We have the satisfaction of announcing to the public that the United States sloop of war Argus, is in the offing, with the British sloop of war Barbadoes, her prize, in company, taken after a desperate engagement of fifteen minutes, carried by boarding.

Capt. Allen of the Argus, has just come up, and we have conversed with a midshipman, who states that he was taken off Halifax, but it was deemed expedient to proceed to this place for the purpose of escaping the British blockading squadron. He also states that the Captain of the Barbadoes (R. P. Davies) was killed, and the vessel commanded the most part of the action by the 1st Lieutenant Savage.

British loss, 97 killed and wounded.

American loss, 12 killed & wounded.

In giving place to the above hand bill, it is our pride to record another victory, achieved by one of our infant navy over an enemy whose undoubted bravery but adds to the laurels of the victors. Blind must he be who does not see in the bold, honorable & successful exploits of our Countrymen on the ocean, and on the lakes, the germ that is one day to ascend proudly to the skies, and render this nation the greatest maritime power on the globe. Nor is it possible for all the jealous, envious, little party politicians of the south and the west to extinguish or repress the naval spirit which has gone forth, and which alone has thus far sustained the honor of the country in this disastrous war: and but for which the nation itself, not the administration alone, would have been overwhelmed with disgrace, & humiliation in the eyes of all Europe. The late splendid & all important victory of Com. Perry on Lake Erie, will, I trust, produce a revolution in the opinions of the people of the west, and convince them of the folly of expending or rather wasting the resources of the country on raising armies to carry on the war by land for the purpose of acquiring additional territory which we do not want, and which, after all, we probably shall not acquire, but which, if we should, will cost more than it is worth to any power, and which, it is very certain, we shall restore at peace. What man is there in the United States, be his politics what they may who will not readily admit, that if the policy recommended by Washington and Hamilton had been adopted, and one ship of the line had been built yearly, with a proportion of frigates, and the millions hitherto squandered on providing land forces, had been applied to an increase of this naval armament, as the federalist advised, who, will not allow, I ask