The Rhode-Island Republican — Newport, R.I., 1810-02-07 00:00:00, page 2

3 am now to prove that mo favourable change
mur foreign relations can be expected, other
The necessity of wupporting this po-z::‘:m
such a 9 gur own snergy nay e.
Dot be seefl Y (Aose Who regard the present
sture of iilßgy with complacence #t least, if
o vl domimbiohe moders Solomos,
whose Oph ,? 'SR the north, but who with
their ot Srom .. Tonningen, have onat
brought the wisdomy that wus asgociated with
the ancient tride—the smallest amount of
that precious article in their invoices, would
have taught them the vgnity of this feeble re
murca-:!(h in vain that, we turn our eyes
from the Immense extent of country, which
we are ddep to-approach, snd fix them
!iithr bt ::” t?o few ll'l'ouu spots where
our ve s permitted for s moment to
3; whﬂo 1 am whiing, w?:m ‘deprived
- e¥en of this wretched consolatipn-mthe pow.
efs of ‘the north ure, one after the otber, joine
the general confederacy-=their ports are
| ively closng on our commeres, and it
| nat impraobuble, that the sanie paper which
mzu this %uu. m&uumnco & general
pckade of Evrope.~=We may theh skulk &
mong the Moors of the Mediterranean in
search of a markév=wor Wftéf muking the cir
;@h of Europe, from Constuntinaple to St.
etersburgh, looking in vain for a port,where.
the English Orders or the French Decrees
are not in bl'c::-our -‘ihip'o may, if they ‘es:
Cape capture; be perinittet! to enter thé port”
of Liverpool, to sell their cargoes to ptuhe-
English at their own price—ynd furnish by
impressment their a:u of men; to the navy*
that # fights the battles of the world.”
. &m are m‘ lible“.”' '\"to‘ar‘e not suf
this tb.a‘lt' all possible situations, and
¢ N political optimism to think
uaz ﬁ:lqu. with seme anxiety the enq
&y into vobaliiiiy of its continuance.
If we judge of the Future from the
it Suy ARSrTION may He-expected, 1y
nol for' the buswwr. - Theit measntes with res.
Pectgadeutrais, present a series of unprinci
| cid of violence and frauds—interrapted
23t Iy true ow the side of France, by some in
lovvils, ‘m:“c"' a sense of justice seems
w 77».?1‘ minated; Bt on the part of |
#&ﬂhﬂh*dw roTessive restrictions
vl ot o Gomied i of b
’ nyc t scarg ' a 4 1
m"’.c . d’..".h P 3 ! -l M‘.’”
ol Engriad digee e irying Tnee. |
* "Pue wm. pr '
r‘&nﬁ*“«d»mw:‘:;
SRR
oy ree 8 bit st o
o Tl e e ; g V.O i
oty e |
surep-of retaliation ageinst both ?1f ee, X will
joig him. Hi speaka ol -mmm
;&d»mo‘ri.:‘fuﬂ | "h"ﬂ“ “':“f
of Marque «ad Reprisul by sea r‘
e both sations lust ‘winter *lf so, we
m‘ bave voted together. But this il
tomports with declarations of men in high
office at that time, that'we had no cause of
war.with England, and that we should unfurl
the Republican banners against France. If
‘ e cannot contend with other. pations npon
the ocean, et us be indepcndent upon our
own soil ; for our temporising mhu als
~-.qz:‘im -populurity to the Minis
try, I will venture to assert that no war
that could at this time be waged aguinst us
wouid he more calamitous than the pressure
wo huvefelt lor several years from the rival
powers of Europe. And when we recollect
the disastrous consequences of thie revolution
to Gpeatsßrituin, it is presumable no Minister
“would carry om & war againet us six woith, if
We were to war it also,
The same member er. Pone.r) mention
ed that one President (meaning. Mr. Adums)
had been ruined by resolutions of approbation
and ‘that the leaders expected -vacancies for
thuir applatise; As that member is better ac
?'!dntcd with those times ¢nd the sentiments
those of whom he speaks, I shall not con
* tradict hism 3 und as 1 am a friend o the pre.
sent Chief Magiswate, 1 shull regolicct his ad
vice, which'J hope has originated from a fear
that Wxtﬁ lpplihd“,'ould ruin the
g"“m P . 9? ﬁ, part, lif, ‘ ’hwld
ave been ud well satisfled 10 have expressed
these sentiments on any other resolution
wiich would have involved our foreign rela
tions. | showld bave been as well pleased to
bave expressed these sentiments on a resolu
tian to send Mvr, Jackson home and recul Mr.
Pinkuney. L 8
It bas been said, that it would require
weans perhaps to effect the object of this re
golution, and that we should huve to talk of
loans, &¢. it will not require meuns uniess
Great Britiin should make it a pretext for
further injuries, If that should be the case,
and if we ;must surrender opy freedom, or
Yote means to maintain it, alghough we might
be naked, hungary and ;npongylm 1 \.vogld
poi hesitateto cnoese between slavery and
death. And if it were necessary on such an
ocgasion; and I had talents, 1 would invoke
the stages as sisters united by long suffering
semented with blood—l would revive the
: vy -of former friendship by invoking
g. W&m peinting to the glo
ous achieve! of our ancestors-wand
produce the , of UNtoN by a ricital of
3 WIS .. : .
3 liscal Piscel ny,
% 00l 14 el 4 - o M .
THE NATIONAL STANDARD. '
A e R T
0 THr. PEOFLE.
PFrom the Avrorg.
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* A memorable instance in the hisiory of Jay's
treaty—by that instrument the Orders injurious to
our trade were supposed to be abrggatede=by the
Lime it was supposed u England to hive been ratified
n A.la'iu. the provisien Order of May 1798 wad is
't Drake’s letter to the Genoese. .
¢ T bad inserted un epithet in this blank which
‘ have been deemed harsho= “ My. Juckson
‘ obieyed his instructions.” | have o doubt of
“it—=But when e action is detestable, is the valunia.
ﬂmmm&u&e ncip.l ¢ e has
also M for his h\:ih:lew ln:haﬂour.h:
'g'd wu?tx"m * inatrarctions™ for the
. ‘ ek scoument. . The o
massacre of Si. Bartholomews; yet the noble Crilton
in not thedess admirrd for lﬂv‘;tl;l to disobey
them L 33 induigence ta the aétu. peEpet lors
of pabjick erimos wauld ot Yeast evahareisy th. on.
trivorw of thm ia the ohaioe of theer ineirumonis.
But if ber uniform course of conduct fail
: ?‘tpin\mh, at least let us believe the expli
declarations of Britain, as to the treat
ment; we have to expect, it will certainly be
not more favourable than she prumises. If
Mpr. Jackson could have il)ducp's our cabinet
to I“D the c.,l'ﬁﬁrﬂ'a of their nwn i"ﬁf'nY’ b’
‘acknowledging, that they had frauduleotly in
duced Mr. Erskine mkq 40 v uthorised
{ stipulation.~lf be could ‘Kave made us sur
render all our neutral righis, and accept thz
odious conditions in n%ud to the uttetienmicni
for the attack on the Chesapeake—ihicie is
little feuson to doubt that a treaty miy, bt have
been formed on this basis.—=But when he dise
covered that the indecorous language he had
used, and in which he was no doubt instructs
-etl to persevere, must byeak off the negocia
tion, the then began to recede from ground
which he had formerly maintsined ; to aban
don conditions on which he had before insis
ted, and to equivocate on the verbal commun
ications he had before mude~=he did this with
the,obvious view of persuuding the Awerican
pooglo that punctilie, not sué s enee, had made
the breach between the twe nationgseshe wish
ed to hide as many of the offensive feutures
of Lis proposals us was possisle, and by an af
focted earnesnéss to Tenew the negociation,
and a display of moderation in his terms, to
furnish the apologists of Britain with wea
t'pom against their oWit government.
. _Yet with this object munilestly in view,
' which must have induced him to display the
' piost acceptable terms in bis power to offer,
let us hear his language, and from I judge
- what.we have to expect. The points of dis
cussion were—sthe aggressions on our new--
tra] vights—sthe qffair {as it is mildly called)
“ of the Chesapeake-—and the impressment of
our seamen—with the two first were necessu
xily involved the disavowal of Mr. Erekine's
.arrangement : after a sullon silence on this
important pointy we have at {ength s reluctans:
ungracious statement of the reasons for that
faithless act.. They were firet: stated to be
simply ¢ because the instructions were ot
complied with.” What wete these instruc
tions ! That the Ordecs in Council were not
only to be revaked on our formal agreement
to relinquish the, colouial trade and to pecmit |
the British navy iv enforce our laws—being
advised that the nation wouid not subwmit to -
these degrading terms, he was inlvced, as | ‘
*&.uid. to put the fuilure of iis negocis- ‘
governmeni~lo ke ohe we sre an_cxcellent
customer, to the other o “omﬁ rival,
And us they have altern. tely prevaiied in the
cabinet, sume slight Suciuations hive been
perceived in their conduct towirds ‘us. -But
from the time of the Rumh:;oxﬂom
1798) to the duy, E has tev
(er cu)ud to m ber. vight of ‘making
peutral commerce subservient to her politi
cal views or mercantile speculations—and
and continual acts of vioience, bave been the
practical commentaty on the theory of her
text. Sometimes indeed the feur of losing
our market, of ‘the pressure of misfortune,
huve induced a short* suspeusion, or a slight
variety in ﬁoar-nlwchmv—wc have
been {odulgod with the change of a proclam
ation for an Order in' Council, and gratified
by. the substiution of a general: Liockade
for additonal instructions ;” ull ‘the varis
tions hiave been plaged on these several ine
struments for our amusement—but the bur
then of the song is ever the same, it was first
chaunted to the unoffending umuck of
Genoa by Druke, and has since sung
con strepitu, by his worthy compeer at Co
penhagen, with an accompaniment of Bruish
Cannon, and Cengreve rockets, of dying
groans and the shrieks of femal despair——und
in the peaceable swreets, ou the lofty spiies of
.a friendly city, it was written in characters of
fire and of blood, thut % NO SEUTRALS wiLy
'BE SUFFERRED 3y xnvoaLave.”t I coniess
tOO, iawever illiteaw it may seew, that 1 per
ceive np evidence of a favourable change in
the character of the minister who has been
employed.—When they reflect that an 2ssaoe
_im was chosen to pronounce this sentcnce to
the Genoese, what have the Americaus to au
“l:'er from the selection of an ~—— -y } Wbe
the messenger of peace to them. « But Eng.
land wiil pot treat us as she has done the
Dunes—=with them she had no connectign,
with us she has the closest of all ties, a com
munity of munners, of language, of laws, a
comunon interest, and a mest uncoOMMon mu
ternul tenderness.” Yes, no doubt the last
of these circuipstances will induce her o
look back with pleasure to the period of our,
revolution——the remembrance of her gener
als defeated, her armies captured, her arms
disgraced, must endear us greatly to her gov
ernment-=she must view with secret pride
our increase in population and wealth, and it
is quité natural that sihe should foster the
commerce and promote the prosperity ot so
promising & child. Ridiculous as these con
sideratiors are, they yet have weight with
some men of full age, when repeated by the
half fledged fustian ambassadours from Man
;l:»tnr, or the brazen envoys from Birming
m.
P e
|E on another point—for this purps¥e he
¥ war 8 Nlr _ :
of Mr. Ly becavae it not comtain
three w‘ﬂ:",,‘. ~which ong had Leen com
‘ﬂl:l;whh,' und the other two wére, a 5 he
sélf says, perfectly immateriab=Jor fear, -
| howaver, that our government in their desire
10 preserve mm induced to take
_advadtage of the adm y close with ‘him
]on ground, and forget his insult—=he takes
‘care to repeat it in this letter und at the same
time to tell us- it is unquomxim
that belore the Orders in Council con re
} voked, their object must be obtained i some
other vh.” What was their object ? In
tevins,. the interdiction of all kind of com
meree between us and the enemies of Britain,
that is to say, ull the rest of Evrope——in pirdes
tice, the monopoly of thut trade o those very
enemees by Brituin herself, =
On the second point he is equally explicit,
in the same letter we are told that the reason
why Mr. Erskine was disavowed on this sub
ject, was because he had deviated from his '
Instructicns in “ not recording in the official
document signed here, the revocation of the
President’s proclamation, as well as the twe
reserves specified in his (Mr. Jackson’s) let
ter of the 27th.” These rescrves were :
Ist. That His Majesty after restoring the
men, tuken from the Chesapeake, should
- have a right-to clzim the discharge of ‘such
of them as should be proved w 0 be either
nu/ural born subjects of His Majesty or descr
ters trom bis service, ‘
2d. That the Tarvities of mo person of the
"MVC dﬂdm, Who '“ M’ thO\lld be
entitled to zny provision. :
‘Here then you are placed, my fellow-citi
2#“, in 3 sityation to answer l:{ ﬁnt enquiry
~ W hat probability there is of a favourable
change in our foreign relations 3
One of the belligerents here tells us expli
citly the manner g which she is determin
ed 1o treat us—‘¢ It is unguestionably true,
she says, that you shall trade with no, other
pation but with me, and with me only under
such restrictions, and on the payment of such
duties, as I shall cheose to impose.—l will
carry to may enemies those very supplies on
. which I forbid you to deal, that 1 may shew
to the world that 1 cannot ¢ condescend io bar
ter objects of mational policy and aignity for
fherndassion to trade with another country,” and
“ to econvince Eupthe and America that from
whatever countries munly reststance is banish
ed, it ia atill to be found in the sovereign of the
British empive and the hearts of his subjecte.”’
What can be expected from a nation that ap
plies such language to such conduct—<that
meanly monopolizes a sneaking peddling,
smugling trade, with her own enemies, and
| calls it the support of “ national digni*y”’ and
“ honourable manly resistance.” To sup
pose that our cabinet op our country could be
| imposed on by this rhodoniontade, as an' adai
tional insult to our understundings ; the lan- 1
gupe it speaks to our inferest let the mer
chante tcil. Dut'if thuse gentlemen should be
happy enough to find matter for cousolation
“in the fuir prospects here offered to vur trade
~-let us see how the account stands on the
‘other items : . -
A frigute of the United Stated is, ordere?
on a distant and important service==unsuspi
-cious of attack, and consequently unprepared
for defence, she sails to perform it ; from the
sanctuary of the same port she is accompani
ed by a British vessel of svperiour force~—
after an imulting demand, a murderous, a
cowardly attack, is made-—-pumbers of our
unrcsisl.\nﬁ countrymen are massacred,others
are carried off, of whom one has suffered an
ignominious death, and the survivours are still
detained and forced into the service of the
aggressours, The vessei by which this ex
‘ploit ‘was performed quietly returns to her
“station in our harbours, and a proclamation
prohibiting this abuse of our hospitelity is in
solently disregarded——this is wbat in the
courtly language of diplomacy, is called the
affair of the Chesapeakc~—iat the time, it was
known by its true npme, and the vour MuR
DER, the COWAKDLY AGGRESSION, excited
an indiguation that was with difficulty sup
pressed.—Your minister was instructed that
~ % this enormity was not a subject of discus
sion"=«that * a formal disavewal of the deed
and restoration of the sesmen, were things of
~course und indespensible”—=that ¢ all negoci
#tion on other points shouid be suspended nn
til sutisfaction should be pledged for this''—
and that * if satisfaction should be refused,
he should tuke measures to hasten home all
Amepican vessels,” 10 provide aguirist the
event of a war, which was in that case con
:d‘"‘ as unavoidable, the natiop was eleetin
ed br the strok ~ and pronounced uneuive
:l_ly ts determination to wash out the insuls
the blood of the aggressours,
. After sending one minisier 1o arrange (A
&fur, who cume without powers, alter dis:-
vowing the arrangeément made by auother,
third is now sent, who has the hardihood to
think that we can now ‘patiently hear the con
diticns on which atonement is to be made.
First. We are to apologize for baving darcu
to exciude His Majesty’s ships fromh tiese
shores they had polluted with the bioo! of
our countrymen, and we wust record this
miean dieeitction of principle in the act of ar
rangement. \ o
" Secondly. The survivoirs of those' whom
slauginer, the gibbet, ar the scourage of their
‘ 'fﬂl\tt_hu spu'a‘, shail be graciously restor
ed o ut-J-pv'oQ;.l:d we'll only promise to re
‘Jelivet thom the aext memment, when they:
shiuli be dersunded as natural horn subjects of
Hie muy, or deseriers from his service, )
‘w.N dl worn subjects !* Every Ameri
“can who fought for your independence—
avery NMuglishmon, who lins settled here -'tm':-
e . a 8
v Ses Mp Leksra'e leetes &0y A i4W
4 ' N" lm "o v ® !
MEN of sound und uncortupted principles
-will supporytheir governinent against Oreign
- insult “and’ ‘contetopt. Freuchery is as” fes
“niote frem their minds, as' sedition and usure
' pation are dear to othérs.” A& the first would'
visk all, to vindicute und” ‘support the ‘rights,
_ dignities, and liberties of their country=—thg
latter seek alt opporturfities to'émbarrass, de
- grade, and betray it. - When such abundorned *
- and licentious churdcters vule, they misrepre
sent facts by falsebood, support them with
obstinacy, ahd prove them by implication end
' inuen ios-~<buf they shrink by Investigation.
- It taught her (says Mr. PorrEß, medning
Great Britain,) /he imbecility of our own gove
" ernment to carry ir’ (meaning the etnbargd'
law) rigidly into. execution ; and it taught
her the value of her flssessions in America,
and that she could do without us, and that pur
swufferipgs were greater than hers, . | *
That om}embﬂ"go taught Great Britain one
_thing is seif-evident, and that is, thie strength
‘of 4 bold and insolent Btitish party, e‘x_iStinx
in the bosom of the country. Dare the most
Dare they deny it 7' What eould the Legis
‘lature of Massachusetts, that #ot<ded of ‘wedi
' tion, mean, by passing these ipfamous and :
treasonable ‘resolves ! And who, w' intimi
date and embarrass the gave nment, ordered
a day of mock-thunksgiving, -not'only to de="
ride the administration; but: te.invite foreign
insult and putrage, uqurpigﬁthe, majesty of
cop’s ‘RELIGION for the' vilest purposes..<
‘Recall to your recollection ye patriotick titi
zens of America, those rebellivus gnd im
pious Legislative acts of the Assembly of
Connecticut, that ouwweighs all others, and
stands without a parallel for perfidity, and s¢ -
(dition, and disloyalty upon the records of any
publick body whatever. <~~~ + - T -
~ This Stete, cogging & biind and fawning
imitation of other States; rose like a mouse
in power, proclainied sitcilir’ resolves, that
dumned to eternai infamy ler respect for pub
lick luw==professed patriotism, ‘and afdnulfed °
thereby, that solemn oath mede by them
selves,.to support the laws of their country.
The time will ‘come, when tears of blood"
‘when 21l wis hush'd in sieen, bt the tygers
and woe s of faction, seeking’ thuir prei)
be'd seerct med g 0 excite the people in'o
00 _murmurs «nd sedition, w resise the obh
cers of government i executing the law,
Dereby encoutsging villainye=that . viliaius
mizhrexupc unpunished ! A hY,
Al yprons from one souree the sovirce of
smpu ity dis JFection aud dicloyalty—uc in
bibad .sow oo thetmims wt the annubing vha
Constiongion of the Union,en slaving the stutesy.
and apen the rem ining vesti ces of Libery
erec: despotisw, !‘tr nny and e i!’l't L 4
P Ihe Stw and 1 e Gusieeimmucives angl
- The embargo laws would have been re
spected and enforced, had it not been for
treucherous designing Americans. ' Who
taught and instricted the swindiers and spec
uk:tors to evade the penalty of the law ?
Who taught that renagudo from Africa to in
sult the revenue officers, and to treat with
ndign.pt céntempt, and arrogant presumpe
]{ionf tue goMnnmp:m and the laws ' Who
countenanced and applauded the riotous pro
ceedings ‘st - Wiekford, “and &t Providence,
who' to wnpounce 10 the world their putriot
isiny and Jove of decorum, dil;_played a great .
character in effigy upon “the Bridge, accoin- °
panied by the efliyy of a Cgptain of a river
boat 7 Who ordered & town-ineeting at Lis
villy to be held at Southkimgstown, to de="
ununce the government, und to réuder weuk'
and suspicivus the administration ! Whe
excited v:rious towns iu this State to peti
tion the Gencral Asséwmbly to address the
general government in language to insait and
degrade ! Who, «t nidnight cooclave,
must inevitably spunge “them from their re
cords. The peopie will no longcr be duped
und “ betrayed by an “iusidious faithiess fac
tion. ' N 3
to' enjoy ' escriptius—and
the at e ‘the hlovd of your
Coun o st b-lw&.by surrendering
::ww wh;:s y:‘htq do“:h’;: fuith
fince even of wrmm himself. “De
for protecuion, alling in ableg~ -
serters from {u servite ! insolence Gne
qualled, unparalleled effrontery ! lobuman,
insulting irony ! The goverbiment which bad
‘the audacity 1@ propose ‘this condition to ours
had been officially wid that these Mm*
Men were mative Amevicans, that they had
been impreseed into the British service, vhat™
‘they had escaped and taken refuge under the
fag of their coutiy ~~And they have now,
(I want a word to' express their unblushing
audscityy) (o propose—that we shall call this
escape a dercrtion, thet we shzll ‘mesrly re..
cover our feHow-citizens, and afier umu't_z’
them with a view of their native shore, and
marentary freedom from sloveryy treachem
ously deliver them to the vengeznce of theif
oppressonrs ; that we shall mark our own
front with the brand of dishonougy and pur
chase nominal reparation’ by voluntary degia
dation und eternal infamy: A
These'ure the terins that are - offered you,
my countrymen ! Are you prepared 1o ace -
cert ‘them ! Do they present the prospect of
a favouryble change? ‘Or do- yeu blush ut
hiving Heard, and feel degraded in think~
ing, thht?cfen-’thetn'emy go\ﬂd Mv: sup-«
posed you tkpuble’ of recci them
. 5 M drieme v ﬂ.’VINDEK.
- FOR THE RHODE-ISL.AND REPUBLICAN.
. REVIEW
Qf the Speech of the Hom. Evlsza R:PorTRR;
in'the Houae of Representatives of the Unite
ed States, on the subject g Mr. Giles's
Resolution, aﬁ/nroi&‘l*_fyw Conduet. of the
Execvtive, ~ - = F R e N '