The National Register. — London, England, 1808-02-14 00:00:00

11)0 possible that were he now to go to America, be would greatly alter his opinion of the Americans? ne has laboured with great assiduity during the considerable period in which our relations with the United States have been matter of public attention and an ‘irty In render the Americans at once contemptible and odious to the people of this country. He bas ascribed to them every vice and every meanness; while be has studied to persuade us that they hated this tuuntry, and what was still a greater crime, that they loved Ft ;owe. About proof 11 - . etibbett seldom troubles himself. We had all this in good rouud assertion. And unfortunately assertions with a great portion of mankind are fully as cogent A% proof. After abundant endeavours to make ns believe that the Ame ricans are a most ()thous rare, and Om they hunger and thirst for mischief to this countly, his nest object is to per-uade us. that they are very deleoceless, and may be easily trodden down in the dirt, in short, that sse may insult and abuse them, as we please, for they cannot injure us in return. There is somethine uncommonly illiberal in the strain of 11r. Cobbct's attacks upon the American? ; and there is SCalTdy mimic of his assertions that is not unfounded. In the first place, the Americans have virtues and vices very much like onrsely es. They are a shoot from our own stock, and they exhibit very di/millet marl,. of their affinity with the parent tree. They are a people of strimg and manly passions, 3$ K e ourselves are ; and we are sery apt to blame in them what we applaud in ourt•elves. 'I hey are a most industrious Slid enterprising people ; the peculiar a-pert which their virtues and vices ;14 ime , is the rilert untirely of the peculia rity of their situation. We are apt to designste them as a rapacious people ; but in every t ommtry, it here intiu-try is in ills infant' here caimital is extremely scarce and extremely N:nluable, titis appearance ill invariably be exhibited. As the scope for capital is more unimunded in America than any where else ; this cause operates there wt ith a force peculiarly great. But effects, exact!" similar, are experienced even in our West India Islands, though these arc both of limited extent, and *re fed with all time opulent capitals of our West India met.- Dierrh An ts, A s they arc a people too, nuisily agricultural, and thinly spread over this immeme surface, with few neeacions of social intercourse, they exhibit but little of the polished man ners of Luropean cities ; and a republican familiatity is fre quently affected, whieh is found highly offensive to .tich Eu ropeans as are enamoured with aristocratical distinctions and ceremonies. In the next place it is perfcctly untrue that the Americans are distinguished by an aversion to this country. The contrary is ineontrovertibly the fact. One of the chief sources af their pride is their descent from this country. It is commonly spoken o f among t h em b y t h e name of The Old ClintrN, a term, ex pe,•-sing at once the memory of their connexion, and their vene ration for the country of their fathers. Their laws, and even their forms of legislation, ac well as their fashions, customs, and manners, are all borrowed from us. It is undoubtedly true, that the restrictions which we hate imposed open neutral trade dur ing our present contest with France, have inflicted upon them the greatest hardships; and it was not timintural for them to com plain. 'They are, like ourselves, a blustering people ; and when thee hive to complain of another nation, they do it in a prettN They are at present, no doubt, very much provoked against this country ; but e‘en at present there is among them a large fund of esteem and good K ili toward this country, which only wants a favourable season to produce the happiest effects. There i- among them, as there is among us, two parties, one of -which is more repahliean than the other ;.and these two parties brand elle another ; the one w ith the epithet of the French part, and the other with that of the British. But the epithet of French is just as improiterl applied among them, as it was some Tt'ar , ago among us, to Mt,.. ox and his party. In the last place, the Americans are, by no means, as Mr. Cobbeit would have us believe, enemies entir , ly to b« despised. Tito . cannot conquer our fleets. or invade Ireland: but, as we 4o not agree with Mr. t obbett, that our commerce is our carte. we eatmot, in the pre.sent situation of the world contemplate. without I;vely emotion, the 11).4 of our intercourse with a na tion, that has for a number of sears taken off more goods of British produce anti manufacture, than the tv hole continent of Europe As this, hove ever, is a subject of va t itoporiance, we ill not trespuAs any further beyond our limits. We have, a! gel ',tiered up:ma the suluert. It wilt agaiu come 'we consideratiom. - THE NATIOtiAL REGISTER. FRANCE. e - G AMI RICA. F FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. , PA RIS, JAN. 16.—The Patritne, of 71 tatins, which left tin Chesapeake on the 16th of December, arri‘ed at the Ible o Aix on the Ith innt.—lly it we learn that !11r. :Moore, the Am bassador from England, had returned un the I.lth Of December The public papers announced that tin. Set a and Ifu•t of Re torescinatives had aseinttled w ithout an) exterior commonly:l film. It way said that the proposals un:de by England to re dress the gricvatices of the United States, were of a nature lot). ill received, and that every thing was for war with that country PORTUGIT,. nrcnre FOR CONF:! , C.ITING ILI. nnlTl5ll ' , nor:tart - IN FOR All goods, jewils, and silver, as well as mineable and lande property of any nature whatsoever, belonging to any individtri subject of Gribat Britain, foand in any territory of the Portu guew dominions, shall he confiscated. .111 goods of British manufacture, of any kind whatsoevet shall be also confiscated. It is expressly ordained, that any person, of whatever clan! who shall have in his possession any sum or goods belonging t subjects of tireat liriinin ehall appear and declare the •ame, i the conrse of three days, at the Secretary's Oilier, N-1. Lego \ appointed Commissary oft interim, ss hose residence is at No. 11, opposite the fountain of the Loretto ; and in the interior par of Portugal these declarations are to he made before th.. Magi, trate of the place. Any person who shall not make a true and exact declaratirn shall forfeit ten times the sum of the object so declared, and sila. receive besides corporal punishment, if the object should deser, such. Any goods or property which may have been any way COD ccaled by either Portuguese or French merchants, or those ( any other \ ation, shall be declared in the same manner under th like penalties. The Adniiiiistrator-General of tile Finances, and the ltegenc Council, are charged with the execution of this Mercy. Dated in the Palace of the General Quarters, Lisbon, the 51 of December. (Signed) Jr.ur. Tasurrit, I7.—The new Decrees and Orders of II French General Junot, have been regularly transmitted to ti Regency, and by them put into execution. The furniture of t British Assembly Room has been sold by Junot for OW. ste the lower apartments were immediately . afterii olds d reeled to be converted into stables : and the upper rooms, w hit are very elegantly constructed and furnished, were presented Beauharnois, who has taken up his residence then•. The sum of British property, which, by virtue of the Di cree of the sth of December, had been entered with Mons. I. goy, did not amount to 1.10.000 r. sterliior, and no etForts on tl part of the people were attempted to be mad., to increase t; amount. The seals had nut been raised from the doors. of tl Offices of Customs; but this is e y peeled, iwder the sup: intendance of officers, w ho had been charged to inquire into t. nature and value of the property . Such as should be found be in any mariner connected ti: h British subjects is to be conti cated as British proper( such as shall clearly appear to long to tye subjects of Portugal, is to be restored, and allow. to be sold for their benefit." Difultresost, mere!) ei our uttcutir • 0 1,4 4 1! • "I R WZ . . • FI ns, which left th. eel at the Ible o . Moore, the Am I.lilt of December and 11..u•e of Re ierior communica by Itit:land to re c of a nature In b. with that country ROMITY IN roa eahle and lande to any individua ory of the Portu kind whatsoever of whatever (las! ;spoils belonging t Aare the• •au►e, °lliac, M. Legoy knee is at \o. the interior par before thy• Magi, exact declaratint declared, and sila ject should &,m. wen any way COD hplltS, or those e manner under th , and the Regenr is Decree. •s, Lisbon, the 51 .1r Id Orders of 0 rratwinitied to tl 'he furniture of tl IMC.cli OP REPRESENT.ITVI7I. WAS IT GTON T) re. 2 —Mr. Newton (Va.) from the Cnr snittee of Commerce and Manufactures, reported a Bill Suppl mentary to the Act la) inz an Embargo, H hich was tss ice rea —The lotion ing is the Bill : A BILL, Supplernentarl to the Act, entitled ' an Act laying an Emha ffo an all Ship( and Vessels in the ports and harbours of t United Butt's,'' Sec. T. Pe it enacted by the Senate and Manse of Represent tive of the United States of America, in Congress assemble that during. the continuance Of the act to vilitch this act is so , plernct.tary, nu veßcel lireased for the coasting trade and fig hips engaged in the whale or other fisheries were e certcd iu the Committee us the Bill) / having oa board guo4