For some years past, the want of enemies on the ocean, and our brilliant battles by land, so eclipsed the laurels gathered at Camperdown, the Nile, and Trafalgar, that our navy was almost forgotten. At the conclusion, however, of a twenty years' war, a specimen of fides punica kindled the national feelings, and gave to our wooden Avails an opportunity of proving themselves ? quales ab incepto. ...
