Portland Gazette, And Maine Advertiser

PHILADELPHIA, SEPT. 9. Passengers in the Baltimore Packet stage of last night say that the enemy's vessels had passed all the batteries, and that Com. Rodgers, Porter, and Perry, with their brave comrades had arrived at Baltimore.

The National Intelligencer, after commenting at large on the glorious victory obtained by General Brown, Says, "Rejoice, therefore, people of America! that war has been declared."

This fairly out-herods Herod himself. -At this time of day, after all the ills without any sweetening mixture of benefit, or hope of benefit that the government paper should urge the people of America to rejoice, that war has been declared, is an evidence of more shameless impudence than we were prepared to expect even from that quarter. No man in his senses expects that better terms of peace can be had, than might have been had before the commencement of the war; and, therefore, while our losses will have been immense, our gains will be nothing.

Rejoice that war has been declared!

See the distressed condition of the seacoast, and of a large portion of the frontier. See the thousands of slain, whose blood have watered the plains of Canada. See the innumerable multitudes of ruined families. See the whole country impoverished, and loaded with an enormous debt that will hang as a millstone upon posterity.

Rejoice that the war has been declared!

Recollect, what would have been the condition of this country had war not been declared: a condition of peace, free trade, and a general prosperity.

With all these facts in clear view, the people are exhorted by a dependant and tool of the cabinet, not to excuse the rash and headlong act of declaring war, but to laud it. It is adding the grossest insult to irreparable and immeasurable injuries.

Conn Courant