Menacing Hostility of the English Government and Press towards the United States.
--The New York Herald, of Friday last, has an editorial with the above caption, of which the following is the conclusion:
‘
We learn by this arrival that
Kingston, in Canada, is to be made a naval as well as a military station, and that a naval force is to be stationed on the lakes.
Does this look like neutrality?
We further learn that the
English Government has sent out reinforcements to her already immense fleet upon our coast, numbering some thirty ships--two of them ships of the line, 90 guns; several of them frigates, and most of them armed with the powerful
Armstrong cannon.
The whole number of guns is now about 500--a force, considering the quality of the ships and armament, more than sufficient to break the blockade in every port, and sink our whole fleet.
Thanks to the imbecility of the Navy Department at
Washington.
Then there is the powerful French squadron here, which we are assured will co-operate with the
English, because the exports of
France in wine and other articles have fallen off more than one-half, in consequence of the interruption of the
American trade by the war, and because, without the tobacco which French agents are now buying up in
Virginia, the whole financial system of the
French Government would be deranged — a vast proportion of its income being derived from the duty on that article.
We are informed by Lord Palmerston's organ that a perfect understanding on the subject has been arrived at as to the combined action of the two Governments towards that of
America, and that ‘"this co-operation is to be prosecuted on both sea and land."’ Yet we do not believe the
Emperor of the
French will take any step hostile or injurious to us, unless the
English Government leads the way. Should
England enter upon such a dangerous career, she will rue the day that her rulers have committed her to a deadly struggle with this young giant Republic.
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