The Rhode-Island Republican — Newport, R.I., 1810-01-24 00:00:00, page 2

-~ Will.it be said that [ have misrepresented
Jucisdn ! Have I, either us to the circum
.#stnges v the inferences . Does he pot ase
(. #ume that till then our goverament had not
complagned of the disavowal I Dges he not
- #sswine that the conditions prescribed to Erse
nine wele cornmunicated to our government !
. Dgcs he' not 9ssume that the arrangeiment
. lawule way one substituted by Swmith in lien of
the one that EErskine was suthorized t 0 make !
Docs he not infer from thg absence of com
. pixint phat Mre. Sprith musy have thought it
‘unveasuaable to ct:tlplain on --accon‘nt of tii;
‘dm‘!‘” ‘m‘ bQ‘n‘ such ‘“ cond ’w lea
¢ disavowal ?‘D&é “he ot Tnfar from thiss
absence of complaint, an admission thet these -
» circumestances justified: disavowal. - 1f T have
. takenp his circumstances and his ioferences,
itis annu'izl whether 1 have taken his lan
‘umum | my owp ; for it is the mean
-117 only. thatis matesial {a this argument.
_ That ] v substentiilly corvect, that § have
. thus a 2 ﬂta correet view of this.subject,
¥ wppeud o the following extracts from the
istters of Mr, Sinith and Mr. Jackson of the.
oth and 11th of Oct. being the entire passa
ges on this paint 3 let shag be read. .
Baotraityfrom My 87ith% Lelter of October
i ! 9y 1809, o -
An uhnpmur. a 8 to the revocation of the British
O:ders in Council, as well ps to aw‘d‘um :
odt o Uve ewse of the Attack ol the Chesa ,
&\c. has been made in due M%:é‘h( Jovern.
P e e e A
cal ol
o/ tis Brivg Majesty. Akl after it had been
i fihfully tarticy into eßecution gn, the part of this
& rvernunenty A Drdes i ‘ed_rendering its
e ) N '\_\‘ ML *W "xt
",""-'}i" RIS pespe h@;b:. :
TVTGRIRIEY - ST X o . suvow
& oy . £, end ‘Q’::ﬁ"h‘“ln
© T I euch o state of thingy, “eonl 1 be -
.q.b“.wm more -
Smith, understood Mr. Erskine had instruc
gions which were not cotamunicated, und
which would warrant the arrangement. But
whether it was that Mr. Jackson did not be
lieve Mr. Smith, or that he'did not perceive
-how it impuired- the force of his premises, it
is clear he considers it as not affecting his
statement——for he mentions it' only to shew
that he was aware of the circumstance, dnd
to obviato any inference from it to the preja
dice .of his conciusion. . His rensoning for
this purposc is illogical and even absurd ; but
that to appears not to be sensible of, for it is
advenced with an air of great confidences
When we pecollect that Jacksoo’s drift was
to shew that 1t wus not incumbent on the
Kin; his mustery to assign any reasons for
the disavowale—when to prove this we find
him «ssuining these circumstances, but par
ticularly when we observe the Q’n&nmces
waich he deduces from tliese circumstances,
is it possible to doubt the insult ? is is possi.
ble to shut our eyes tg his plain palpable
moaning, that our governuient had such a
- knowladge, and acted such » part io the trans
action us. precluded.all right of complaining
of e result ? O
| { Continued,) bt
My, Jackson indeed, after finishing his de
duction. «s’he calls it, mentions one ciredin
stance. which if credited by him, ought to
huave vonvinced him 'that h{s,premim had
_fuiled, and that his inferences therefore were
not mplxmcd. This circumstance is—«that
Mry Smith had informed him that he, Mr.
the people weil uffected and cncmtng‘[& ter
pursue (he Wil and eadure its celamlies ¢
or is there poverty and dejection 7 ° -
Tuers has heen more of this trannuilivy
an’l gontentiacnt, and fswer riots, insurrec
tions, and seditons, throughout the whole
wary andd 10 the perviods of its greatest dis
teess, than there was for seven years before
the war broke sut, in those parts that 1 £
best acquaimed with, As to subsistence,
thigre never wis or will be any dificulty.—
There never was any real want of any thing
but war'ike stores ant! cloathing for the army,
and sult and rum both for the army and the
people 5 but they live such plentiful impor
t.tions of these articies now, that there is 'no
want, excepting of blankets, cloathing and
warltke stores t’o: the army. - -
The taxes are rising very high, but there
never will be more lail on than the people
¢ bear, because the Representutives’ who
iny them, rax-themselves and their neigh-
Lours in exact proportiony=The taxes indeed
fail bhewviest -upon the rieh, and the higher
clusses of people.
The earth prodices grain and meat in a
bundance for the consumption of the people
gr the support of the army, aud for exporta
-onn. R v
The people ate mare universally; well af:
fected and oneguraged to pursue ‘the war,
tuan are the people of Lngland, France, or
Bpiiy, as fer as T can judyge. iy,
. A= 1o poverty, there ia hardly a beggar in
the Lommtry, ~=Ac 0 dejectipn’f A never uw,
even at the (ime of our greatest danger dnd
p arplcaﬁy, $0 much ol it as appears ’in Eng
-I.nd, or France, upon the iutelligence of «
disastvous event, :
Refeotions on the Proceedings of our Go
v nent with JFackson, the British
Manseer. =~ = I
The greatest source of grief anc affliction,
is the :uctagionh of the [ .per money ; but
this, although it occasions wnhappiness, has
no viclent or fatul effects. \
I have the honour to be, ke.
JOHN ADAMS,
Mr. Kalkaen,
Political Piscellany.
“For the REPUBLICAN.
The Freoch Empervur bus issued a mow de
cree o prevent the intruduction of colonial
prodmceinto his dominiohs. Anyattempted to
~be-ourried through e linee of ‘the: cuetom -
Soxper 16 10 De scized and coufiscuted.
Mr. Evskine’s instructions :--and adds, « So.
fac from the terms which be was actuslly in
duced to accept having been contemplated in
that fnstruction, he himselfl states that the
were substituted by ’.:’,t.. in licu of thuse ocl
: propased.” . Tbus.giving more e
;g.‘gmm explicit form to this charge
"then he had doune before.” 00l
by Mr, Jackson himseif, that Mr. Erskine had
no other insiructions. That they huad waited
to be apprized of the grounds of the disavow
al before they preferred a complaint in form ;
und remlndcz him, that in theirconferences
they bad intimated repeatedly that the disa
vowal was matter of complaint. This repre
sentation is made by My, Smith, in his tetter
of the 19th Oct. This mild course K. HOC
FgY Y " 4
» ’ - - ) ' .:‘ -Au"
wiersly prosedied Lg the o iuary yesrmebel 2 10.fhe
WA PPOlmed party, Ul 4 poonpl ad eXplicnt ex
mﬁ&b' whe new funcoonary, of &hg”fgwwelof
refgual on the part of his govarment w abide
by un meztw wfmaw’.y ade it LT il
by a substitution of otber proposiions, -'3
Ezxtract from Mr, Jackson’s Letter of Ocrober
S b oyeocs e
You state, sir, very unily, ah axranpgement had
been made bmn‘ aml Mr. Faskine, and that
His Majesty thp{lgt proper to disavow the ar.
rungement, -
- 1 have, here iw the outset, to regret the loss of the
advantuges of veibal intercourse with you, 441 shjould
have availed myself of it 10 enquire whether by your
stutement, it w{wg yt:r intcntion 1o complain ofv the
disavowal itsclf, or oM total want of explananon of
it, or of the civeumstunce of that exphination not
having been ‘made through me. 1 observe that in
the recards of this mission there is no trage of 4
compliant, on the part of the United States, of his
M:lesty having disavowed the uct of his Minister,
You have not in the conferences we have hitherto
heid, distinetly anmounrced wny such compluing, and 1
have seen, with pleasure, in tiis’ forbearanec, on yoar
part, an instance of that candour, whiek I doubt not
will prevail in all our communications. in as much as
you could rot but have thought it uaregsonable to
complain of the disavowal of an sect, done under
such circumstunces, #8 cowld enly lead W the conse
quences that have actually foliowed, ~
It was net known when 1 left Eogland, whether
Mr. Brskine hud, aceording to the liberty allowed
bin, communicated 4o vou in sxtenso his origunal : ine
structions. It now appeart be did not. Buwr, in re
verting to Jis efficidl correspondence, and purticulury to
« despotch addressed on the 20th of Jpril te His Mra-
Jeaty’s Secretary of State for Foreign Afuirs, T find that
he there siutes, that he bod submitied o wevr cona’dera
tion, the three cunditions specificr! in these instructions,
as the growund work of an arransemen’, which accord
ingr te information received from he country, it was
thoueht in Englond might be mode, with a ﬁroopect f
great mutual advantage. - Mr. Erskine then veporia
verbatim et sexdatim yerr obeer vations upen ecch of the
three conditions, wJﬂ the reasons which maduced vov (o
think that others might be subgtituted i liru of them.
It sy have been concluded between you that these
Jatter were an equivalent for the original condit jons ;
but the very act of subst.tution svidently shews that
those orizinal conditions were, in fac!, very extlicitly
commnicated to you, and by you of course laid before
the Prevident ‘for his consideration. T need hardly
add, that the difference between these conditions and’
those contained in the arrangement of the 18:h and
19th April, is sufficiently obvious w require no eluci.
dation ; nor need 1 draw the conclusion, which [
consider aw admitted by all übsence of complaint, on the
part of the JAmerican government, viz, that under guch
circumotances, His Majesty had s undeubted and
incontrovertible right to disavow the wet of his
Minister. 1 must here allude to a supposition,
which you have wore than once mentioned to wme,
and by which, if it had any the -Ii:-hmt foundation,
this right might perhaps in some ¢'£<;e have been
mbd. You huve informed me thet you under
jood that Mr. Erskine had two sets of instructioms,
by which to r¢gulute Lis conduct; and that upon
one of them, which had not been communicated
either to you or to the publick, was to be rested the
Justificetion of the tlins finally agreed upon between
you and him. Tt smy Juty, sisy solewnly to deelire
o you, and, through vou, to the Presidcnt, that the
despatch from My, Cuamming to M 1 Erskine, which
you have made the hisis of an :fficial correspor
dence with the latter Ministen, -and which was read’
by the former to the Américan Minister in London,
is the only despatch, oy which the conditions were
prescribed to Mr, Erskite for the conclusion of an
arpangement with ths eountry en the matter to
which it relates. y
fully warranted by them in making the ar
rangement, and that it would be performed
on the part of England. . That they had re
ceived no information of that, till it was given
It must have cost the sensibility of our gov
ernment a severe strugyie to brook the inso
lence of Jackson's ictter. Patriotism, how
over; tciwmphed over persopal feeiing, and
thelr resentments were sacrificed to the pub
lick good. There was a hope, though a faint
gz.dw. the minister might be reclaimed to
ecency, und the negociations be conducted to
mf‘ulunbh end. This chunce our excel«
wit President ‘wus umwilling shoudd be lost
t 6 his country. Accordingly our government
took the mild course of reasoning the case
with him~of correcting Lis errour, by shew
ing he had been mistaken as to the facis——as
suring him solemnly that they did not knaw
that the conditions contained in the Despatch
of January, were the only conditions on which
Erskine was a\uh?riud to make an arrsage«
ment. and that, i thej had known that cir
cumstance, tbc_{v would not have made any ar
rangement. hat they had the strongest
teaspns, that could be derived from the mast
solemn. and repeated assurances of Mr, Ers
kine himwalf at the timne, for believing that
he had other instructions, and thut he was
the expected and desived eTect. 1t did not
induce Jackson to saften the offensive ground
he. had before taken, He even'pretends to
derive from this letter of Smith informa
tiop bf that ground, He says in his answer
of the 234 gtt. “ These instructions I now
understand, by vour lerter, as well as from the
obvious deduction which I took the liberty of
making in mineof the 11th insi. were at that,
time in.anbstance made known to you.” He
will idsist thag, Mr. Sinith was possessed of
[T be continued.]
. “The position o our publick affirs justifies
an wdividual in eftering ﬁh'\'ﬁb- to the
people. Cn e.dingry occasions tl :is a priv
.ilege irequenty übused ; gu this, it is a duty
Ffew wiil chuse mwfor‘n—-oo meny plausi
ble ebjections eccur 10 any ‘plan whicn inuy
be proposed, that the herd of writers find it
eusier 10 opposc the messures, that are pui
' sued, tham to puint out any which ouglit 1o be
adopred, e . "
As an, anonymous wiiter, the mun .who
now addresses you, cals have no other intlu
ence, than that which results from bis wrgu
ments, nor does he wish to insiunate that' of
ficial station would, if he were known, entitle
him to more ; and to rermove ervoneous im
pressions, which might be created by the
charzcter of the paper he has choscn, he
thinks it proper to declare that the simple
quality-of citizen, unconnected with govern
nient, either by office or expectation, is all he
can elaim. : :
the sou, toa long.debased by the degrading
pufsuit of wealth, or idly exerted in the nev
er ending conflicts of party~—it was to state
fairly the question, and bid you chagse between,
_the infamy of bying a precarious commerce
by subjpission to their insuits, «ng the glory
of sustuining that reputation which yoo re
agived by your inlant struggles for freedont';
batween the folly of supposing that acyties
cence would secure you from further.inpuriss
and the wisdom of averting them by m .aly
resistmce. To rést here would be just as
dignified as the conduct of ap individwal who,
without the spirit that nnnmu insult, or
comends aguiost injustice, shouid satisfy bim
sell with proclaiminy how ofich bis neme
bren dishonoured, his bed defiled, or kis b::
seceived the chastiseinent of a cowurd. -
Your presidgnt bas act-d with dignity and
Rrmncss, but hechas acted to limle pu
- if he is enubled to do nething Lut nndoxtm
insolent envoy, or to add another prociama
wion to the former ineffiient list. The rest
wepends -(:& your representatives—yet, were
‘m:.g ens, I should not prupose immedi
e war.——Subsequeat nwubers will det.il the
" Americans ! your situation®is serious, but
not alarming. It demauds-the exercise of
reflection, which if not disiurbed by vain ter
rours, will leud to no disheartening resuit:
Brouglitto a point, where it is dimhcult to re
main, dangerous to advaiice, and infamous to
recede, we patines—to o certain- degree it is
necessary we should. Nor do 1 wonder at
the present caution of these who were loud
in their campluints of lesser injuriess s
wirle remjonstrances, and dppe:ls to publick
justice were thought sufiicient to deter our
engmies, they were properly resorted to as |
probably the best und certainly the cheapest
and most humane means of defence. But
the experiment has been tiied, until we, onr
selves, begin to be weary of the repetition.—
We now (rather late I confess) discover, that
in state logick, the conclusion rarely follows
the premiscs ; that reasoning is but a poor
defence against power, and thatin the uni
versity of nations, those wio fight, not those
who reason best, receive the prizes of victory
and independence. Yet do not think I mean
to blame that scrupuivus regard to publick
fuithy, which bus hitherto characterized our
intercource with other natons : God forhid,
neither his divine protection nor that encrov
which is derived from a consciousness of
right, can b xpected where this isdisregar
ded. Butth - nensations.of his providence
have orduine A virtwous, in order to
premil: mu «,~Justice, therelore,
and modera: 't be maintamned, with
out the asspcint .ok fortitude and courage
It is therefore- 1 deprecate that tranquil
spirit, which content with having demeonstrai
ed the injustice of a foreign nation, pursues
no meusures to assert the dignity of our own,
or tg procure that indemmty wnd security o
which she is entitled, that querulous spirit
which complains in the corners of our coifec
houses, or creeps through the colums of «
whinnivg . editpre=~-that bombastick spirl:
phich anhipates 4 town meeting speech, and
and sometimes boldly thunders in the tul)-ore
tor’s address at a barbecuc— ¢ Weil | we
have got the better of Logiund in this cop
troversy ! “ God be praised, but where # Oh,
we have completely put them in the wroug :
our cabinet has shewn conclusively thut ihey
have been guilty of ill faith, of unprovokead
viclenge, of rebbery, of murder, and moreov
er when satisfaction was demgnded, they ad
ded insult to injury, and impudently required
that the first acknawledgement should conie
from us.” And what then ! honest, but sim
ple citizen ! what then ¢ truly you have prov
ed, what all the world Enew betore, that your
hospitality had been abused, your shores in
vaded, your commerce pillaged, your coun
trymen butchered, and that the perpetrators
of these injuries had amused you with d pre
tended compact, till their purposes were an
swered, then impudently“taking off the mask
laughed at your creduiity, and sndeavoured
to bully you into a formal surrender of your
rights, as the price of their precarious, their
fatal Iriebdship. Why did your executive
publish this long list o{ injurics and insults ?
was 3t that, by sitling down caliiy wnder,
them, we should merit « repetition of the of
fence—=was it to make the world admire an
example of forbearance so rarely seen as gens
erally to be mistuken for. pusilicnimous fear?
Nol it was to prepar¢ you for those comse
quences, which if we hinve any regare either
foy enr sufety or reputaticn, are lg_grviuble—-g_
was to call into a‘Ed)tTn‘ thost noble fedlii P
“ MILIIONS Fisi LLPEDCE—DUT
CTNCYT ONE CENT FOR TRIGOTE”
’hq‘mreu whica, | think, ought to be pursu-
THE NATIONAL STANDARD.
—— -
No. 1. - -
"Amevicens, exemine yotnselves ! doiyou
cbserve any reits of resemliince 2 1f they
strike you, cons! ler them vielly und mark e
consequences to- which they led ; they were
successively, loss of hopour, imattenton to
‘pubiick defence, a. regisunce enfeebled by
discoid in the hour of dinger, un impotent
struggle in the pamx‘{ism of despainr and fi
nal ANNIHILATION. Their conmry has been
swept by the besom of deéstrucion, and while
the palaces of her warlike rival stilf'command
the adwiration of the world, a solitery travel
‘ler searches among the sunds for some doubt
ful vestige of the grand, the wealthy, the com
mercial Carthage. : ‘
Of the Speech of the H‘o;l Evisua R.Porvree,
in the Huouge of Representatives of the Unit
ed Statcs, on the subjcct of Mr. Giica's
Resolurion, appreving the Conduct of the
- Exervtive. g YL
X + 3 1
ed—sl,. woy meons of antac! snd defence,
wonen the o] pedl 10 w:ms becomes inevitable
i endesvour 1o form scme probable cou
jecware of the resuit. - e
In the meon tine let these who dislike the .
spirit of this address ponder over the follow -
wyg picture of a people who like us, thought
commerce whe greatest good, snd gold the
only riches of a nution—wlo iike us covered
the seas with their mercontiic Aeets—and like
us=—God avert the onien ! gave in o ithe fatal
delusion that the deudiy batred of a rival
could be deprecated Ly submission.
The Carthegenivns, (scys the bistorian
descuil.ing the lust period of their existence)
“uwoke touew sentiioents of honour, they
reviied the spirit of their own commonweultk,’
ever reatly 1o barter nuticnal cheracier for
profit, to purchase sufety with shumelul con
cessions, aid 1o remove present dubger Ly
giving np whit is Ihe oNEY #BCURITY OF Na-
TIoNS, agalnst ary dinger, the rvEPUTATION
OF YuBIR Vicolk wnd \he BONCUR OF THEIR
axxs.”
IN the present crisis, when the whole po
litico! muchine is in motion, frequent Mstan
ces of noveity oceur. The real charucter of
neen, invested with publick functions, spite of
all their eflorts will be developed. 'No long
er zbic under the mask of hypuocrisy, to im
pose on the credulity of one description of
persons, or the enlightened judgment of ane
other——their bold assertions of Cisinterested
ness uind patriotism, gencrally are proved to
be no betler, than em°pt! declamation,and the
compiexion of times bring them forth, in the
pure native colours of truth. The conduct
ol such men, who with insolent effrontec:y
and unpurailed prefligacy huve not hesitated
to preicr a total ioss of reputation, w a deri- |
liction of the power and emoluwent of office
—who have prefered the insidious smiles
end rewards -of a corrupt party, to the hop
ourable gratification of & just and deserved
popultity; demands the stigma’ of general
abLerence und univie sal deteéstation. i
The stupid aputhy and indifference of the
people encaurage (iese tricks, and it is ow
ing to their negligence that itis be: ome so
prevaient. The pcople are responsible for
ail the evil thut may result j==but 1o rcture
to tie purposed object of our injuiries.
Mr. PoTTER savs, % 1i ‘apprcars that Mr.
Lrskine communicated what he honestly un
derstood to be thé meaning and intention of
our adminietration to Mr. Canning, who then
trancmitted to him the desfatch of the 23d of
Jauwary, containing those (hree profosiiions
whick he jfad supposed would be accefitable
here, and would form the basts of a treaty.”
If un uccurate «nd precise mreuning of Mr.
Porler cun be siftedifrom a verbosity of wors,
it is this—=Mr. Erskifie communicated to the
British Cabinet the three propositions’ con
tained in Mr. Canning’s despatchiof the 284
of Junuary, as ii they originated with: cur
government ; if 86, nothing can he niore er
roncous and uptrue ; and where Mr. PorIER
obtsined his information from which o druw
bis conciusion Ly, we leave 1o himselt—e
periiaps a Pickering may inforns us.
Goverpment bus ‘never denied, but thut
they were willing to repeal the embargo und
gon intercourse luwsts regarded Great Brit
ain, provided they repealed their Orders in
Councily I¢aving the embargo snd uéninter
comvee in cfieraifouogainisat France and g
ather powers whieh adopt'or act under hev
deerees—And our government were eleo’
willing &y treaty, i{mking it a condivon
of a vepeal, and coffecting it with, the Gr
ders in Cowch, to reiinguish the colonial
tradde from an enemy’s eolony dircet ro the
mother countri—ibnt the @ nericun govern
ment never proposed, inbmated, or consent
ed (it being the creature of Mr. Cansing's
brain) to abundon all trade directly or indi.
Tectly with an enemy’s colony. Owur.coni
nerce in suclh a case, would be annihilated
our révenue destroyedesmnd the Ameiii . n
people deprived of the 'comforts as weil as
the necessarvics of life. 5
“Relative to the third properition, that
Greut Brituin slould enforce our luws by her
navy, should be charyed apon our gowra
mengy evinces a mind destunte of @J:n
<void of trutheiietermined to stigmatice
withent a knowieldge of ficts——and sccusing
without - the r tof proof. Owiting oup
degradation. and loss. of n.tlowsl soverriyary
by our complaisant ac uicsence.we wre old 19
assert the eharge is wniounded, und cannot be
supported by he most distant shoduw of ¢vi.
dence. Mr. Fresiioe under deote ol Xuguse
Earth felt the wound, and Nature from Rer seat,
Sighing through ali her worke; gave sigus ¢f weoe,
Ti.at all wcs lost. v g
FOR THE RHODE-ISLAND REPUBLICAN.
REVIEW
No. 11.
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