The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — London, England, 1810-01-12 00:00:00

..- tlhlq &mewl t• 434011eee of the ruitei gtetee, at• liner twit to mins dt my Military Officer under t h e asubonty uf the Urked StMes, commanding kim to provide foe and affirm the departure detach Ambassador, Minister, or other pompom offending as affiresaid, taking doe precast- Mous to avoid improper or unnecessary violence in executing ctcliwortaat. • DVC. 7. • The following Resolutiooti, moved by Mr. Van Horn. were ordered to he on the table:— t. Resolved, That the Committee of Commerce and Ma nafeetures be instructed to inquire into the expcdwney of prohihitiog tW exportation from porla or places, under the jurisdiction of the Veiled States, of any article of the areeth, premise; or manufacture of the United States, except io ships or vessels owned and wholly navigated by citixeus of the Veiled States. 4. Remitted. That the same Committee he instructed to Umpire into the expediency of preliatittug the exportation, fluid poets or places ruder the jurisdiction of the raked Maws, is ships or vesNels belosting to the Uoited State", of any @Aide which is sot of the growth, produce, or ssaunfartare of the United States. . . a. Resulted, That thit ume Committee be instructed to impure into the expediency at layiNg an additional diseri• taiiistiag daty is favour of ships and urs,rls turned and awriptod by claims' of the United States. I Resolved. That the same Committee be instructed to inquire is% the expedites" at prohibiting American ships lima vessels from earrytag articles the growth, prod•irc, Or inastsfarture army foreigu country, frau cue furore port or plate to soother frareige port or place. . S. Resolved; That the same Committee he instructed to imquire lotto t►e wspediracy of imodifyimg ut repealing the Mee slime/ drawback. TO FRANCIS JAMES JACKSON, ESQ. 11Z-Altsaisavos. 'MOIR HU EEitaxlllo ■AJEITT, TO.' THE lONISED STATES IR aYEiICA. Sta—ln the first moments of that perturbation, from which the most accomplished diplomatist can act at all times be exempt, and into which eves a person of your experience may be excused for. felling, on the sudden occurrence of a crisis so un expected and embarrassing, as your late discomfi ture, you were indiscreet enough to allege the cOostitutional liberty of the press in this country, a charge against the Executive Government, which your complaint implies that department might correct. You should have recollected, that when as Ambassador is most disconcerted, heought to appear the least disturbed; that, by the law a the lead, the Executive cannot interfere with the peels, and that, when the First Consul of France, with whestonnals you have such especial reason for Wag familiar, laid a similar grievance before the British Ministry, he was told that the courts of jots bee were the only means known to the law for polishing such *fences, that Peltier was convicted bk a jury, and sentenced by my Lord Ellen borough, Oct by Mr. Addington or the King.— Thee things you should have known ; for they would have saved you the mortification, which every also, particularly the Envoy Extraordinary mu! Pl•nip•tentiary front • mighty kingdom, ought to feel, when he so far forgets himself and **station, as to be betrayed into undignified and tasavailing querulousness. It a tee true that the _press id this country is deplorably licentious : and though you were egre. &lady incorreci when you made this circumstance • resod of official complaint to the Executive, yet all temperate Au ericam must deprecate the scow; dilate calumaies that are daily poured forth upon your Nation, miaeion, ant pence. But it is not the freedoms the press bas taken with your name, that have made it odious in America. That you may nit return impressed with a belief, in which it is to be lamented you came among us,. that party is the only index to opiuiou in the United States, *tribe certain violent newspapers are the orgais of the !nutmeats of the great body of sober and re torting people. I take the liberty of addressing yea in the language that is almost universally held, relative to this controversy, by those • native and posing Americans, who, with natural and decided preference for the English nation, are at the same time alive to the rignts of their own ; and always and alike indignant at all foreign aggressions what ever. It may, perhaps. notwithstanding your pa triotic seal, somewhat assuage your disappointment, to know, that, by this respectable class, your in staseliiims ate more bleated than.your conduct ; and it is highly proper that you should lie apprised of the independent and honourable motives wh:ch gove-n them in this juncture. Year *Domination created some suspicion awl torch clamour. Peremptorily refusing to ratify the terms proposed by one Minister, after they had been aelepted end effectuated on our part. recalling and disgracing dent Minister. and appointing anot;-er, who had been /tied to treat with fleets at his heels, were not indications of a very friendly disposition on the part of England. Notwithstanding these omens, the mass of the American nation prepared to accredit you as one of the most dtstimrui.hed members of that corr. which, in the States of Eu rope, is m regulisrly trained. formed, amid distributed, a, irinies and navie.—aware that pm were set reek. iii; from the & w h o - ice o f a most nett eel& dilly at Copenhagen, lon hoping that your employment on several such exigesicies wits rather in the course of your vocation than optional, and that the fame of sniffs aehimeneents preceding yon here. would have the effect rather to softeu than ag,:ravate your tone, and, with en honest condolence, inviting that you were selected fur your-superior talents it.o veteran skill, awl coining to oegocinto, of not to creitlisde an secommoilation. The Ainereso• are a simple. peat' ••le/Ilig.pearle. little %rued to dip!mnatie so. phi•try. Peace and plain-dealing are empliatieatly their policy, inasmuch as one is the source. the other the only safeguard of their prosperity.-i e Whatever, therefore, was declared Ivy a few mina. patent individuals, of the temlener awl hod faith upon which your ea:drawl sea gtounalei. the Government ; with a late majority of the coun try, were disposed to receive you with hospitality. and anxiously desirous that your terms might be tolerably amicatde, and your tone tolerably decent. With such terms cud such a tone there was a tem per to be satisfied : and it is notorious that the be lief was very general of your having entered upon discussions, which promised an arrangement. After indulging a few weeks k these flittering expecta tions, it was understood' with amazement, regret, ■nd indignation, that you came three thousand miles, with a magnificent appointmeut, without authority to adjust any point in dispute, and with orders to couch your communications in the most imperious auil offensive style of the new phrase ology of diplomatic correspondence. You came. as you have yourself declared to our Government, expressly to do nothing ; and in doing that nothing you assumed a tone of contempt and defiance.— Under such circumstances, you should not be sur prised that it is the sense of nine-tenths of the American people, that as your mission wag meant to be futile, and your larguage unbecoming, the Government consulted their dignity, and the dig nity of a nation, too long patient of outrage, when it deranged you from your functions; and discarded you its presence. But while such is the sente, and the decided and enthusiastic sense, of nearly all the people of this country, it is matter of the most painful regret with many of them, that the representative of a great and glorious empire, himself a man of talents and a fine gentleman, should have been obliged to incur the predicament, into which you have rather marched than fallen; which, notwitlistandiug the challenge of your letters, and the fair warning you received of its imminence, seems to have been u unexpected by you, as it certainly must be inauspi cious to the future relations of the two countries. You find American endurance may be tried too far. Unthinkingmen, who condemn in the mass, and calumniate wherever they condemn, do not distin guish between your constituents and their instru ment. They attach an odium to your name, which the more disveruing know you do not deserve. When Mr. Jefferson retired, it was said the main obstacle to an accommodation was removed. But they alto conceived such hopes, did Dot know Mr. Canning. Doubtless you were ordered to hold the front you did. Those rhetorical flourishes and polished invectives, with which your letters abound, are perfect imitations of Mr. Canoing's school, which has substituted such bulderdesA for the stately and respectable garb, in which, till his day, diplomacy, however hostile, was invariably clothed. When, besides the utter success of their enemies, the unfortunate people of Busked. in a short lapse of disaster, were deptived of Pitt, Fox, Nelson, Cornwallis, and Thurlow, fete seemed to have de clared against them—and almost ever since, dis traction, ignorance, and inalveniation, have pos sessed a cabinet; theretofore tilled with talents, in tegrity, and public spirit. One of the last struggles of the last of these administrations was to dispatch yon to this country, with instructions, which, it cannot be questioned, you hive rigidly conformed to. The result is what mutt have been desired, tho' it perhaps was scarcely expected by the King, your master, and his late Ministers. And you are toti high-spirited A man to blame the Americans, if, by every thing short of insult to your person, they stew their detestation of such insidious and das tardly measures. Your predecessor, Mr. Merry, an atrebilinso and maladroit old man, to whom it was said •1 r. Jef ferson had been ungracious, (at least • Mrs. Verry said so), was received in Philadelphia with a hospi tality, intended to compensate for the rudeness he complained of at Washington. Mr. Liston was a great favourite; and Mr. Erskine was always wel comed with a kindness much more than merely polite Yol are the tint British Minister from whom the hospitalities of Philadelphia have beeu withheld, and you are personally the beet entitled to diem. Y•ii must therefore ascribe the comparative isolation from society, in which you are suffered to live in this metropolis, notwithstanding the ele gance of your retinue and manners, to that feeling of tins.* flout indiguation against your employers, which the disclosure of your correspondence has aroused. Though you came fortified with letters of intro duction, and all the attrectioas calculated to make your company desirthie, yet you cannot but ap plaud this repulsii • nationality, however disagree able you may find its effects. We know how to separate Mr. Jackson from his instructions; hut his representative ha' cast so deep a shade over his pnvate character, that Americans of all parties, not caring to draw the dritinction, are reluctant to dis ruse thorn •avilities, which, but for the part it has been his rue to act, they would have been proud wail forward to /Airy,. After 1111gr . IIIC hen• a little longer, in • situation unwnrthr your rank and orcomplishinents, you will return to F'.• ;laud, with the sorry satisfaction of h eying preformed ■n odious service in the letter of your command. Unless you go to Algiers, Lipman, or Tomhuctoo, there is now no friendly power left in whose capital a conspicuous residence may snatch you from comparative insignificance in the environs of London. But, at all events, you will b.ive the satisfaction to find Mr. George ('anwing, e:io, with nn,tronger elaiins than a pretty genius, ibud the coi.vi:tt or) of faction, attempted to hold the reins which Pitt could hardly manage ; you will Bad hint fire snore in Ida proper place, not at the Privy Council Board, but at the desk of the_Anti•Jacobie, writing, pe ips. an aiditional canto to The Loves of the fraangks. You may assure him that his mission is fulfilled ; and 1111 t though his artillery failed of its effect on his ene mies, it answered, under your direction, at least the purpose of driving off his few remaining While Mr. Smith's share of the transaction was managed with calmness and perspicuity, you, in the full spirit of your instructions, were su perb, contemptuous, confused, insulting, and bel ligerent. The blunder you committed with re spect to the oral communications, and the pe tulance you gave Into, when you complained of the newspapers, and demanded your passports, were, to be sure, departures from the lofty line of your orders. But tlrey may be pardoned in con sideration of your excellence upon the whole. You certainly effected your rejection in a shorter time than almost any other diplomat could have attain ed that primary object. But you must tell that sophomore ip politics, to whom you owe the honours of your embassy, that dictation, however it may be come his haughty pen, is not adapted to conciliate a free and intelligent people, who had the hardi hood to send you home in disgrace for faithfully executing your commission. GANGANELLI. (Philadelphia Casette, Dec. 9.) STATE OF EUROPE, AT THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE YEAR ism (Continued kern oar Paper of Tuesday.) The more deeply we revolve in our minds the events of iBO3, and the state of Europe, in Janu ary 1810, the more forcibly are we impressed with a conviction, that if the complete subversion of the ancient order of things am yet be prevented ; in other words. if the revolutionary sceptre of Napo leon cam ever be broken from without, the deed must be 'effected from the resistance made in the South-West. We have twice beheld Austria bum bled and reduced to ask. or to accept, peace. in four Months ; Prussia Was overturned, to its foun dations, in abont,eight mouths. though contending under the same banner with Russia ; while 8008.. pane, standing on a raft,. in the midst of the Niemen, intimidated the successor of Peter the Great, and the Grandson of Catherine the Second, to such a degree, as to have, ever since, directed and governed the Russian Councils with as much despotism as he does those of Switzerland. On the contrary, beyond the Pyrenees, at the end of a year and a half, he has not subjected one-third of the Peninsula. There is. then, it would be vain to de ny, 4 ',Witold! will existing among the inhabitants of that country, ea wave priaciple of detestation to their invader, which, though it cannot supply the want of arms, finances, tactics, and a regul:r Government, can yet raise and recruit successive armies, defend, with desperate valour, their towns, and. at least. retard the conquest of their 'native soil. Here we witnessed any thiug similar in Bran denburgh, in Bohemia, in Hungary ; any where, except among the Tyrolese, whom ilirir Sovereign has abandoned to the rage of their opPreasor• ? Where else can we look for any oppasitios to the edicts of the Ruler of the Continent If there was any European State or Nation, from whom it might have been expected, Holland was peculiarly that country. Every sentiment, every habit, every recollection, ev -ry prejudice, and every motive, most, or ought to have led them to dread, and to resist, the r.volu:ia.sary yoke of France. To fall under the iron mace of a fierce. Italian usurper. sprung from the ashes of Robespierre, and of his accomplices; to be lost, swallowed up, and *ex tinguished as a people, by an order of this tyrant, coldly fulminated from hia Cabinet ; to be told that theircountry ought to form a portion of the French empire, ►ecause Holland is formed, like the Delta of the Nile, as cut alludes, by the rivers Manley Waal, cud Rhine:" How came it, that at the first sound of sa outrageous and unprovoked an act of territorial confiscation, every sweet, and every knife, throughout the seven United Provinces, was not drawn, or unsheathed ? The reason is simple.— There exists among the Dutch no mind—We mean, no love of freedom, no contempt of death, no attachment to their native soil, no indignation against their spoliators and tyrants. The soil is 'fide. They have already submitted to the base Government of a Corsican delegate, which, though mildly administered in his person, was not the less ignominious, and even precarious. Thry now no. dergo, with prostrate apathy, the hart transforma tion. or rather annihilation. Ninseguen, Due, Arnheirn, Breda, Bergeo-op-Zoom, Wil liaroshurg—all these might have shut their gates against the French, with far better means of de fence, than Valentia„ or Saragossa, or Gerona, pos sessed. Englund could, by her Beets and arnsies, have instantly co-operated with the insurgents.— Bonaparte might Lave been furnished with other occupatioa, than divorcing one wife and taking another. But, the hope is vain—Ti:ere are no Data.. This most degroding submis•ion of a whole peo ple is the more wonderful, when we consider the sublime spectacle which the Dutch exhibited to the %vial.' in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Ceti tunes. At no period of time, indetd, have the prui. Had* been statjeeted to a monartii, government, till *rise Corsican made them ar t , another, as sheep, skew years agn. The Burp, dish Princes, and their succebsurs, the Kings, governed them under the title Lf Courrio Holland. Even of Coat dignity, and prerogatives, the Dufch were so je.dous, th at never would raise their deliverer, Willisavth, 1.; Prince of Orange, to it, but contented ilieur,ch, with eleireing him to the Office of Stadthuid•r, When Philip the lid, a tyrant not less odio:i , , i4 placable, and sanguinary, than Napoleon, se,i *tiredly not less powerful, attempted, in 1514 0 reduce them to slavery; when he sent the dig pliued armies of Spain, under the Duke of Ai soother Masseno, to exterminate them; they as one man. The sieges of Leyden, of H. sad of Alkmaer, are not exceeded by thou- of. ragoasa and Gerona. After forty years of irarfi the Spaniards were driven •ut. Again, in 1.67 when Louis the 14th, with his powerful, burner s and highly-disciplined troops, over-ran Ha to the vet) , gates of Amsterdam ; while Charier du Ild. King of England, basely sold and betrayal them ; when nothing, except TIC uoconquerable skid, and freedors•s holy flow. could have extricated them from so foul and ons .whelasing a combination ; how did they act ? flay took up arms, on 1 finally expelled their iurak But they had then at their head • William, lin o(' of Omuge, who, when presaged. as, we know, 4 Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, the English Aa. bassador, to say what he could do in so desper a t e , criail ? replied, that "he could die in the lac dyke." In 1810, the same people, without eflurt, and almost without murmur, are extiagui•hed._ Such were the Romans under Seipio, sad the H o . mans under Honorius! I%lm we reflect on tie Dutch of the present day, we blush for humaum cure, and exclaim with Goldsmith-- • Gods! hoer midge their Belgic sires °fold r It is not from tlolland that we can hum. N u , efforts. Let as see whether the other Eurpp is states offer more Cheating ptospocts. We bare endeavoured to shells, and, we fear, that the conviction raulting from the facts shit; we have stated. is too deeply impressed upon ie f readers, that no bops can be entertained of then. suacitation of Europe by the efforts or energy st she Deitch. That country, once i.npelled by a generous a despair, seems now solely actuated by the feelings of sordid, pecuniary interest, sod bei.t duwu to the most tame, as well as opvrobrioas slavery. There Sri however, or rather, perhaps, we should say, there mar, a republic, of another cat and character, from whence independence could not be totally banished ; soil where, amidst tam, and rocks, sod precipices, the sacra.] Are aim. doin, still la arviving, might, at some auspiciooso mew, burst out, and consume its invaders. Vie allude to that country, " IVhere the tittsuk Sli.iss t►eir stormy =anion fret.), ♦nd force • churlish soil for smut) , breed." Holland, a marshy, unwholeaorne, and tame te. panse, gained out of the ocean, does not appea , is be the natural soil and .cradle of liberty, who his been aptly, and justly denominated, in all ages, a " inquntain Nymph." But, on the hit;hrst 111101. twits of the Alps, the glacims and fastnesses of those desolate regions seemed to present an inac cessible asylum. Ihe nature of the inlirlatssts was analogous, or assimilated, to the climate sad the soil. Of them, it might be truly asserted, " No prodott bore the banes ►ills afford, but man and steel, :be moldier and ►is word.' During successive centuries. the Switzer. had been the scourge of tyrants. In the darkness of the middle ages, when feudal tyranny, or snows nail violence, covered and oppreaaed Europe, these simple and hardy mountaineers vanquished and ex pelled. after repressed victories, gained by inlcnoe numbers, over disciplined armies, their original Misters and Sovereigns, the Austrian Fruce• The names of Gresler awl of Tell, like thou of Marrlonius. and of Leintidus, in antiquity, awakin, and will ever excite, recollections dear to hinnoi nature. After thus emaucipeting themselves fate the yoke of Austria, they wit less gloriously repelled the French, who attempted, under Louis XI e to reduce them anew to bondage. Fivally, when Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, undertook to overwhelm them a ith the prodigious means of every kind that he possessed, the memorable bottles of Grandtoon mod of Montt. followed by that of Nancy, confirmed their freedom, ou the ruin Reel extinction of the Burgundian Line. Who would have conceived, wise would have be lieved, that sue, a people, placed on such • Phi steal and moral eminence above the rest of mankind, could have been, in our times, reduced to the lerLe of the surrounding states ? Yet such is the LW. The happy ignorance, rusticity, and noble pocerl of the original mountaineers, insensibly g ale 1 " , under the attacks of refinement, luxury, and, un , ve all, of the Imre of gain. The French Itevolimoo. from 17149 to 1795, by bringing into SA it/Cr:ad / number of fugitives, who brought with tlitm vli;ett of every kind, appeared to the inhabitants. to tt r ' • new source of emolument arid wealth. Ihit, 't Directory," in 1797 and 1795, enteris'g their forces the cantons of Been and Zurich, 5"•.' carried their areas into tke smaller and inount.rinc,l cantons. Tillie, they found indeed, a sev ere Ja. . determiued resistance. Esen o piroo.l that roves?. slid felt by ti:e t‘tik ther Ceuri ilespc kaewil their kook 'adore end e Fren4 two n the C other zilleh 'miss ryrol ;real Pad 2 in re lots 1 :hlin he to bis to do Intim whist iture pew of tl kid SAP lICCS ° P e e taa tz pi Am of ( tioni kite pew regis it c atte ILA al,, phis ut I bigti fic4 Em ts yeti dole Am ban Spa of t of 3 Jig ! late It i