Washington, May 14.
The
evening before the last an unsuccessful effort was made by some incendiary to
set fire to one of the old frigates lying at the navy yard in this city, and
thus, to burn up the new frigate building near to the old one. The attempt was doubtless that of a British
partisan, since it is difficult to conceive a motive on the part of any other
person for committing so at[]rocious an act and you well know that the British
cabinet employs incendiaries and agents in every quarter of the world, to
effect by their plots and intrigues, what it cannot do by an open course of
policy, the aggrandizement of England and English commerce, and the depression
of other nations in their march to greatness.[1]
[American
[1] Baltimore
Patriot & Evening Advertiser.; Date: 05-16-1814; Volume: 3; Issue: 115;
Page: [2]; Location: Baltimore, Maryland.
Transcribed by John peter Thompson, May 18th, 2013.
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