The Rhode Island Republican

It is wonderful, and must astonish the world, that in most of our naval engagements with the British we are not only successful, but that our success is attended with such little loss on our part, and such a great one on the part of the enemy. As in former actions, so in the late one between the Wasp and the Avon, the conquest was not only easily but cheaply achieved, our loss being but two killed and one wounded; while the loss of the enemy, from their own accounts, was above forty killed and wounded, or more than ten times as great a loss as ours. What a vast disparity is here! Well may we exclaim with the Poet--

"The haughty flag of England,
That wav'd a thousand years,
Is stripped of its proud laurels,
Which on our flag appears:
Our stars have crown'd the Eagle,
And our stripes have lashed the foe,
As they sweep o'er the deep,
Where the stormy tempests blow."

Trenton True American.