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tire Instead oF demanding redress for
the most flagrant wrongs and injuries,
snivels out a whining epistle, seeking
to steal a strained construction that
may enable him to urve a color of good
intentions^)!- honAt purposes to the
won nef.tr iotas gy#em of oppression.
II Mr. Pinsny had the icimga ^f
* a free man, ww must be his sens«ti
\ ouh on fiudiijpu stippfcness treated
^\with disd,tinAnd\old in a tone of in
^Tsolent cont^ipt, &at his inferences
\were all apsurd atm the conclusions
which inf^site of common sense he
had forced from the declarations of
the British minister, were in every
particular, unwarrantable and untile.
Can we be surprized that being thus
represented at London, with the de
sertion of duty and patriotism exh ibit- I
ed by the tenth congress, and by the
Massachusetts legislature, with such
ignorance or wickedness in the moit
celebrated state or the union as to hare
its government calling out an armed
force to put down the laws of the land;
' how can we hope for respect, for any
thing but injury and contempt abroad,
when the nation is thus degraded by
its own fun&onaries.SWhsn we see
an emissary ^scardefi from the seat
of government\or Ws audacious mis
behavior, travelllncprom Dan to Ber
shflba, finds sycjfhants and slaves,
rT» t0 thcplnl off his hoofs. To
tnUniat Faneup hall\rhich resounded
wilt the paupitic exaltations of A
nteTicans tapir ms again&the tyrant of
Great Bajffain ; to see tbat hallowed
Hall prastituted to purpoMs as abject
and incompatible with honor or virtue
as ever were contrived by the most
corrupt courtieis of the most corrupt
Courts.
Such conduct at home, corresponds
in humiliation, with the tone and man
ners of the minister at London. Re
spect, much less justice, can never be
_c__ r . I
va^vv.i.cv.1 Hum puwci, iium sucn i
minister, or such measures.
Contrast these things with the con- ;
duct which has been pursued, the feel
mgs displayed, the sentiments uttered,
and the language and conduct «f our ,
■minister at Paris. Thera no right is
lost sight of—no wrong suffered to
sleep —no injury or^njustic# uncom*
plained of. VThe lole of the Ameri
can minister is thy of a minister
£bf Rome or GreJce, in the proudest
^periods of thcMglory and indepen
■klence. We seeflm strained inferences,
Vp° unworthy sj#ofHumcy ; he tells the
minister of tWconc^|eror of Europe,
that he has Wen unj^it, that he has
violated not^ierely the law of nations,
hut has acted contrary to the very prin
ciples he had himself held forth; he
tells him, your emperor has held forth
the promise of protection to neutrals,
but here you have violated that pro
mise given to America ; your emper
or ba$ declared that submission to the
orders in council of Engbnti, would
he cause of confiscation, but America
has resisted those orders, by various
modes of law anti policy; and yet
your emperor seizes our ships, and
s'-lla, and appropriates the amount to
his private uses ; not only this, but
vdur emperor, who holds himself up
for ths? defender of neutral commerce,
becomes its oppressor, by ordering its
seizure and confiscation in the ports
t>f bis allies.
c- l l_...__ ,» >
uumi sc* iiiv tunc vii main i UCD5 dUU
T.^nar of our minister at Prvrit j h»»
not go to sheep sheering to utter
on the honor and characte^of A
a, ror to commute injures and
ges the most atrociouA' in the
i fling of rhetorical, flourishes,
which had the sad characteristic of be
ing in every point of view the opposite
of truth and to he repugnant to every
principle of prudence that ought to
have guided a minister at 4he court of
an oppressor, withholding reparation
for unheard of and unmitigated wrongs.
'1 he correspondence of gen. Arm
strong must he a serious commentary
on those publications and artifices,
with vhich so many wretches have as
s;<ilt d the public on the score of French
influence. Mr, Jefferson and Mr.
M ftdison have been constantly arcus-j
td of “subserviency to France*’—of
being under M French influence.**—
f ^..l»en. Armstrong was assailad by a host
of wretches who sold their oaths to
A 1*rvish speculators, and of whom gen.
Ai Kstrong had procured the release
\^irot| prisons, into which they had
1 bea^ committed for violations of law ;
tnc general had been attacked by these
miscreants, and by their fellow mis
er* aot Coleman, ol New-York, as sa
' crificing the fights of his country to
French influence. But here we see
* no forted inferences, no abject court
} ing of the hand that *p. rn«d and op
pressed; lure we see the man worthy
; to represent a Iree state, acting up to
the dignity of his station, anti putting
I one ol the ablest men io Europe in the
worst'd the argument.
It is not easy to imagine to what
will now fly, who have constantly la
bored to impose a belief upon the pub
lic mind, that the British orders in
were only retaliating measures.
I hykpiitt correspondence places the
que^ion on narrow grounds. We
have now the facts authenticated in
the most formal manner. Mr. Arm- I
strong calls oh the duke of Cadore to
know what conditions the Berlin de
cr«e ’would be revoked upon. The
ansv^lr of the French minister is clear
an^L«flFphcit. %t The only condition
required w.ill be the previous revoca
tion by thfe British government, of her
blockades of France, or pan of France
(such as that from the Kibe to Brest,
«c.) of a date anterior to the Berlin
decree.”
This is the frank and explicit an
Bvrer; let England repeal her paper
blockades, which preceded and were
the cause of the Berlin decree, and the
Berlin decree shall he also repealed.
There is no subterfuge, no difficulty,
no ambiguity in this. The orders of
council to which he refers as antece
dent, was particularly that of the 16th
id ay, 1&06 ; the Berlin decree was is
sued in the November following.
Here we have the question settled
between the American minister and
the Fa^nch minister, and had the Bri
ish Arernment been seriously dispo
sed A render us justice or to do any
thing^A tyrannize over the commerce
of the World, lord Wellesley might, by
barely disavowing the existence of
those blockades w hich gave rise to the
Berlin decree, have put an end to the
question at once.
But it was not to be expected from
the justice or policy of Great Britain,
and it raquired a man as feeble minded
as Mr. Pinkney, to expect it, much
less to seek it in a manner so abject.
General Armstong directly ciispatch
•« this answer to Mr Pinkney, who af
ter palavering and powowing with the
great nabob, about a subject which
there is not a man who can read could
have the least donbt about; afterlearn
ing the fact from the lips of lord Wel
lesley, he returns home, and writes him
a letter asking the same question. ;
A question which he not merely un
derstood already, but which the per
son addressed had d eviously answer
ed in personal discourse. He asks^.
“ Whether any, and if any, what block
ades of France instituted by G. Bri- !
“tain during the present war and be„
“ fore the 1st of January 1807, are now
“ in .force ?”
Here the qdestion determines by its
answer the principal fact, so long ridi
culously disputed as to th® priority of
the British orders of council, while it
detunes also, that these orders of
coumK hav* continued And still conti
nue in force, and this too after the so
lemn declaration of Mr. Erskine to the
contrary.
. But “ my lord Wellesley** soon
clears up the honest doubts of Mr.
Pinkney, by declaring in these words, j
“ 1 he coasts, rivers, and ports from !
“ the Elbe to Brest inclusive, were no-1
“ tified to be under blockade [N. B.;
this took place during the administrati-1
on of lord Grenville and Claries J.
t^oxj “cn the 16th May, 1806, and
“ these restrictions were afterwards
comprehended in the orders of coun
“ cil ot the 7th January, 1807, which
“ order is still in force.”
This 51 in nV*.«11cA !. _.
plicit and clear to plain common men.
It *13 said that “ ambassadors should
“ b« all ears and eyes,” what shall we
say to Mr Pinknoy, who could not
understand the words “ were notified
“ to be blockade on the 16 h May,
“ and afterwards comprehended in o
“ t^«^dcrs, which are still in foice.”
M^Plnkaey answer* and says, “ I
infer your answer that it is not in
force,” although lord Wellesley tx
prcsc’y says it is, and that it is even
comprehended in another subsequent
ly issued.
But not content with “inferring,”
what perhaps no other man on earth
could conceive to be a reasonable infer
ence ; he either endeavors to provide
a quibble for lord Wellesley or for
bim»elf; by insinuating for him, that
although “ it be still in force,” yet that
i s being in force now “rests altoge
ther” on the subsequent order of coun
cil which comprehends it.
Not content with this, hut “ full of
wise laws and modern inferences,”
Mr. Pinkney must infer again ; and
this inference is as notoriously con
trary^hi. own knowledge, as to the
knowv\re of the man who could not
but*j»itv|jjm when addressed by him ;
Mr PiiJkney again says-—
“ I in|pr also,” (it he had inferred
again it would have been like-wise)!
“ I infer also, either” (here is an in
ference with two horns, no wonder it
ended in a dilemma) '• I infer also ei
“ iher, that no other blockade of France
“was instituted by Great Britain du,
“ring the period above mentioned,”
(that is before the 1st of January 1907,)
** *)ia* ^ *®7 other was irtstitutcd
during that period, it is not now in
“f®rc«” - y
HucLa proud maftbeen seeking for
opporMtitics fofdJif a century, to es- I
tablislJthis own (Jnsequence upon the |
humiliV^ion ot a#>ttaer intrinsically as ■
good as himself su\ a man could not j
have found am^ccas'iSm to raise him
self and prostrate the otiieriuthe most
humiliating''condition, more effectual
than this occasion afforded to the os
tentatious nabob, and enemy of repub
lics, to cower above the ministerol the
Atnerican republic ! It is disgusting
to lAk and reflect upon it.
meastern nabob did not lose his
advaarage, he very laconically tells Mr
Pinkney, not merely that the blockade
which he had supposed to reai altoge
ther on a subsequent order it^jSfrch it
was comprehended, had nevXbeen
withdrawn, but with the prigoi^til^erU
ness which has been already exempli
fied by Rose and Jackson ^ ^VJ&hing
ton, he undertakes to exhibkMt inac
curacy of Mr Pinkney’s i*ilef|nces &
he gives to boot the demon%(*ation ;
which leaves Mr Pinkney the choice
of either pissing for a servile syco
phant or a fool. Hear what Welles
ley savs in reply—
“ '*"hc blockade of May 1806, has
never been withdrawn, it cannot there
fore be accura'elv stated, that it rests
*itog^her on the otder of January
1807,^t being expressed that one was
cmn^xAended in he other.”
Mnjjnkney appears to have trans
la ed the word comprehend, by the
idea of excluding or cut ring out; but
the nnbob was determined that the
“ king’s English,” should be “ accu
rately stated,” and that comprehend
should be unde fStonrl runfrn*•!* tit « I
inference, as meaning re mined, kept, ;
within the meaning and intent of ab
solute blockade.
But not content with exposing the
incorrectness of Mr Pinkney’s first,in
ference, he falls without mercy upon
his second, and tells Mr Pinkney, by
stating a fact, that there was another
blockade, although Mr. P. had infer
rrd there wa3 no other instituted be
tween the 16th May, 1806, and the
7th J muary, 1807, that is to say, the
blockade of Venice of the 27 h July,
1806, which is also still in force.
There is one more particular in this
correspondence. Although Mr P:nk
ney had received the answer of mar
quis Wellesley, dated' the 2d March,
and wrote again on the 7th March his
inferences ; yet he addresses a letter
to General Armstrong of the 23d
March, wherein he declares, he is not
able to send General Armstrong the
result of his application concerning
British blockades, prior to the Berlin
decree, although he had been three
weeks in possession of this answer of
Wellesley, of the 2d March, complete
ly putting the point out of dispute, as
to the existence of the blockade of 16th
M-y, 1806^ it being again re-enforced
and re-strengthened, by the decree of
ftl^January, 1807, and of its being
stili^\orce. 6
To it appears in the sight of an
odious juggle ; whether the ridiculous
enormity of the correspondence itself j
the shallo wness of understanding dis
played in it; or the period of the saiL
mg of the John Adams for France,
emu suer uaic oi vv cuesicy s last letter, 1
are considered ; for it will he observed
the John Adams reached France on
the 2#'.h March; Wellesley’s letter is
dated the 26th, the very day she sail
ed. * ‘
This business, or we are much mis
taken, will hereafter call for some iur
ther investigation.
»10X THE same*
MORE WARNINGS.
We published many months ago bar.
it warnings, to thore who were rushing
into the vortex of European commerce;
it was not our fault that the warnings
were not effectual ; the mercantile class
is somewhat like the British government,
they believe nothing but what is said by
those they pay, and as those they pay atu.
dy more to picas* than displease them ;
they never hear of the evil that threatens
until it haa been accompanied by the cala
mity.
We now give them another warning,
we state it not upon light grouuds, that
there is no probability of escaping the
continental system in any port of the
north of Europe any more than the south ;
counts Bcrnstorff and Romanxoff, who
were “both disposed to friendiy inteseourse
with the United States, have drcla ed that
ihe system will be carried into effect* with*
out regard to any minor considerations.
Count Romanxoff declared to ihe Arise
rienn minister at Petersburg, that there
was no p »wer or influence in existence
com* tm to change or mitigate tho ge. (
neralteration of ihe continental system
thro 4.^jout the whole coast of Europe.
C’oiiW Bornstotff, stated that tbe dispo
sitions of the Danish government had been
already rendered nugatbrv by the enor.
mous abuse of our Hag by the British ;
and the ntmusar of American vessels
which had been made subservient to rte
commercial cunning of England j that the
existence of Denmark as a state depend,
edjjo^i enforcing the yitem.
llQli&d has already suffered an excisi.
on |w«nuiorjr for not enforcing it ; and
its fuTure^xistence depends on the inScx.
ib|e execuion of :t.
! hose who calculate, therefore. Upon
any relaxation, may find the calculation to
be of loss instead of,profit. I, is time that
our merchants think of caring what they
hare gained ; their avarice and indifTer.
tnce to national character, has contribut
ed considerably to the unfortunate circam.
stance^ in which we are now placid —
1 he embargo would notsa,is!y them, and
now they have the purchase of their cu
pidity. General confiscation awaits every
Hag that enters the ports ol Europe. The
iJfV%fhief h” avowed his determinati.
OIV r*ndon evcry idea of commerce
wit\ AW, and with not h as wall as sou h
America. This is the basis of his over,
(uses to England for a peace.
France offers to Great. Britain tb aban.
don all claims to colonial possessions, and
o exclusive commerce wi.h South Ame.
rica t *nd to coionnrl possessions and com.
merce wi'h A^ia ; end to commercial
connexions or treaties with Nor'h Ame.
flea, as the basis of n peace with Great.
Btitain.
One oT the best informed Americans
now in Europe, thinks it probable that
Great-Britain will accept these terms of
compromise ; as the .basis of a treaty,
leaving both parlies fn future to pursue
their commerce unmolested where it
d,es not countervail those overtures.
. New Yoak. June 16*
extract of n letter from an American gen
tleman at Havre, dated April 17th, to a
gentleman in this city.
11 li,e John Adams frigate you Will
probably receive dUpaches from Mr
Armstrong. Poor man, lie can do nothing
here. He despairs, and will leave this
country in a few days. What will your
government do? The conduit of the
AV^0,rernm^* *• unaccountable It
may\MllPen that Napoleon will suffer
some vessels fiom the U, Sin es tu come
in, and make great Voyages. Don’t trust
him-»]f he does, it will be done merely
to induce many to came in, that he may
nab them. It is said he has passed a de.
cree au horising the confisca.ion and sale
of ail American propei iy in the ports un
der his contiout; but this is no', generally
eceived as a tail. It strikes me hat he,
from motives of policy, will yet appear
»o hesitate^ while he has something of
more importance in view Depend upon
it. you can expeif no ail ol jus.ice from
him while you are on good terms with Eng
land. Rather than do you an aif of jus
tiee, he would keep down the clamor of
his subje&s by extending the licence
trade; by which means he can ge, _ e
wants through G. B. and in exchange his
grain, oil, wine, brandy, kc. for though he
is Xt war with England, he hates America
more than his open enemy. Send no
property this way—.What can your new
must send hundreda of cruixera up the
Baltic, al n' oti cour .e in the Medi
terranean, kc- ar.d capture, sink or burn
every .vessel haviDg on boatd a French
licence.'*
New-YorK| JulfE i9.
Extract of a Letter to the Editors from a
Gentleman At Washington dated June
15.
“ Observing it to be stated in various
public prints^ that thrre is a prehabilily,
or Intention, of calling Congress, 1 can as*
sure you that no such intention exists.**,
that.'on the contrnrv. there is almost a
certainty, should running further occur,
that Congress will sun convene before »ke
constitutional period.
'fhe'wo Spanish gentlemen, Don Juan
V. Volibar and Don Jesrph Yvern, said to
be charged with cuminr.nicatlons from
Caraccas to this government, left the city
this morning for Philadelphia, where thev
will reside for the present. They were,
It is understood, clothed with no official
character—and, no government having
been constituted there, could bring with
'hemAxU-iters of ciedene*. They were !
treatdlTwV) the greatest politeness by the I
of6c.ec#of Wir government, but cou.d not
be received*!! any official character being I
charg- d with no documents exhibiting I
them as representatives 01 a government
or nation. They were, however, assured
of the most friendly wishes towards them
he. *
4* Supposing the above may be of some
use to you, ad ept it as mtormation which
may be fully relied on,” Mer. Adv.
mmrnmm
LATEST FROM TONNINGEtf.
Capt. Berry, of the ship Lydia, sailed
from lonningen on the 8th of May, and I
informs us, that no seizures of /American ■
property had recently taken place there_j
Lhat it was repened just beiore he sailed,
that permission was granted for the expor.
tanonoMMerchmdiie. from Tonnineen, to
tlanriHn^itd Altona. ,>lK
FaoflWea ViaoiMtA. Pat«iot.
We are indebted to the politeness of a
biend for the f llowirw- Extras'* of Lei.
ters from respectable Houses in London |
lately received, and dated ttth aid
30 h Apiil, 13 lO.
44 If the intercourse bad remained open I
between this country and America, th
price of tobacco would before this have
been 3d and 4d. It was impossible for I
auy one to have foreseta the political u |
[ vctltl that have taken pT*e- »nri if tfer
could, there t. at no nt$on 10 expect high
prices for tobacco.
“ The greater price* r-iH.jp-d from .pied
speculation, undrr hi) impre -ion that war
would tnsuc, and not liom the nun mic^.
course laws. Suppose for a moment the
non.inUicourse laws we>e to corvmue lor
ever.no man in his senses ould ouagtnu
the orices of tobacco wfiuld be above* rd
0 Per because at these prices ic
could be brought here circuitously with
1 etl ex ra cha>ge* on it,
lheie is ano her disagterable c:rcurria
- stance with tegnrd to insut once—Tne
picouum one day is often 40 and 50 pe
cent higher than ano1 her ; accotding to
' caprice or itimots of captures.**
** lOih, Markets of Tobacco are low
and languid—prices at present are quoted
lor tobacco 4d 10 8d—nominal, co lon 14d
to 184 Flour 48 to 60s..but only sales for
thebrst super hash sorts, and only now
and (ben a hh^Br tobacco can he
sold f;r im rue mate use: V^ien att’ymtr *
res.riil.ons art^emoved, and those in L'.u*
ropecontirue.^Mces of a'l you* products
w‘%jj|®Nr,7 low and parucularly lobatco,
bec^se nearly all must come he»£, and
here tUiere it not can umpticn for one
filth r^your Quantity, Nearly all th*
continental ports are shut, to the exclu.
Sion of this country. VVuh your belief
then, tha ihe non intercourse will be ie*
moved heluie your Cong'css rises, you
have afited very discreetly in determining
not to meddle with tobacco, and indeed
in any event it would be unsafe <0 tpecu
lat« in this ai tide at almost any reduced
price, for I am confident that a va^t deal
will not pay charges. Great changes hov/
ever may lake place on the Comment »nd
give a new turn to thing,, but »o the
m dst of so much uncertainty no prudent
man will risk much.
PiilLA.DM.pniA, June 22.
The report of the d I>, i, that Mr
Pinkney is *• much pleased with the
British cli nate, that he means to re
main in that country—so that the sto
ry of his being recalled, is not likej&to
be realized literally »—Aurora. ,'lfe*
. :
By ^hat strange fatality was it that
».he intekcsts of American merchant*
or any American interest*, should be
committed to Joy, a tpry who fled with
the British from Boston, and who has
followed the business of a London ex
change broker ever since ; vet such was
the man, sent to Copenhagen (while
Denmark was at war with England,)
to take charge ot American interests ;
a mswof whom it can be proved, that
he. liAKred in London -t the house of
• illranrn, Timothy Pickering’s ne
phew, this same Joy declared that
1 England haa a right to tax American
commerce! Yet it was Mr Pinkney
who sent this man to Denmark.
Aurora.
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Drawn in the Union College
I.ptt^cv, No. 1, to the thirty-ninth’s
i • ^ Jx ravv*n8b may be seen hy'iho-e
inte^ed by calling at this ofli^e,-^
where *they can examine fer them
selves.
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well ma-ie fellow, about 5 feet 3 inrhes hi^i -1
a scat under the left arm, nearly the middle srf
h-s bedy—a near nearly under the left bu^by_ 7
j thc *c»r •*» >he body he Rot in takiog when ru.i /
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! f expe& lie was enrri d eff by some villain, mi4
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