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'• I'iu ask use Cie rcasous whi..ll led a few of the
F. Iler .bbta to vote for Nlocon's Bill. Was it br-
ie
ia,ie they snipes:, ed the Administration of being
Irrs • •eal to BA eon, tl-asi at the time of con-
sea t tog to, Giter% Lila) its, eaulations eel taitily
oil. B-eause v ss. se It Rs patient i.e the
+ts en. of French sisiustive, perfidy and multition,
thine s yr" ?—Nbt at all. Theis why ? Ilecutiae we
he ieY d. iii the Aryl place, that this Bill did nut
origuiset with the Waisparty ; taut with men. whose
übjeet it was, to pr. .serve peace, however they
might linen 'becn des:ties/11, or intimidated into the
• y I,ort .1 the war-prorttking It lik/hUllollll of
ii it pri.i b..causs., in our jadmiteut. with
9.61.1 ii.I)IeVVI. 1114 11114Cill Might ICIVe 6/114.4,111t.4* it
iii not. in its openatioa, assiist• the views of
:ct.. This is easily demonstrated. The uhject
nr N spoleass is universal sloasinind. The truly power
•,, it Ic of pr..veutiug it is England ; the only
:is..sistr, h. r -11,• slcs,rsisituts sof that navy
tias refute, th.• 1114 wish ut the Freuels Eutprior.
Ile c t hole to distiuy it by force. Still
it mus• be destroyed, ur that poi firm of the
earth. which iv si•pursited frosts Coutioental Eu•
tope. m sty preserve its liberty and issilep.mslsitcr.--
There is but owe arsy piss:46le. Beit,.h priiapt rty
will, aWe it cunti.ines, support and keep sip the
71:1Vy. To that prosperity commerce is easeutsal.
Thersfure, sass Napulsoii, if I cast destroy she
....motets:a of DiStaio, 1 shall destroy the source
Coat winch her navy deriver its nourishment and
stsea,ith. Iles war ti. of course, egainst all co:u-
nit:cis, from which the possemor of the obstructing
navy derives advantage. Accordingly. the hist
thitig lie does, in every place he conquers, is, to get
Ilrisisli commerce prohibited under the most severe
p: nattier. Other nation* have been forced to become
the instrumento of his policy, because they were still-
dued. Othis his adopted it, as if it wished to he eub-
Aitd,stratiAely enough, net a he Americans,
peculiar iisitsve, as is, unfortunately. but too na-
tural, to British agiti earimi, and nailer& in fotaated by
pitrtyoind 'vilified by slcsof to their leaders, hate
ass. rated to this as If odungering, or, mute prcperly,
sO4-detstroyiag 'sulky, on account of the ocio-anal
rasionen of some intemperate Officers in the ISit-
t;sli navy. Ai, if our sometimes suffering from
them was a soirsciesit mesas fur ruotiini4 the ri-k
of losing our Stidepentlence, as a nation. 'II e
snliargn was a measure, just mu, h as com-
ported with bri toparte'a policy ; because it
was calculated, by dimi.sislimg the commerce,
to diminish the resources of England— and b 0 to
weaken the strength of her navy. It semi repealed
by the non-sistercsmrse act. This last act vas not
intended to Jo England good. In the result, i raw.
ere', it did. But it dump not injure France. linked.
it is now, umniig men of all parties, tigleed, that
it hurts uotostiy Litt ourselves. 1 gise you thi. to
shew, that as, tis one r 311.... these wiu! men of ui•re,
whets forced to ahasidins one system. fell upon

witotlier. productive of coliscquencrs prec.se:y.the I I
rester.e, of what they intended—so now,
fatted Se" alaindon that en her, it does no: mamully
that the tkird nostrum will so. k more to
'their gosh than did the second—and fur this very
palpslar reason : tlict net, htr cll.l, like the
r• :t ftossi clmie, or pulley, but eat h use
diernos c.,mprcn;st bt.tWel.l these. frail imperious
twe.-siaty. 'fhey pruis this law, (if they have
any Ingrid in it at all not because they lake it, but
beeitti.e they die nut knna shot else au do. Ltd
next p sr, %heir it shall be found, that tile
spas rn now proposed, is, in rtuefice, as ruin.
c deice as it. ',fedi:eel...ors. I sin iii hopes, pu-
litictil quackery will Iwgiti to get out of fishion.'
In the mean time, let these precioas statesmen
Lase .• rope enomei." T::t: bill that (you tell 1.11)
it a good hill. 'Luc. Then, way sirmill I
vote for it tier-ans.: it. is nut so bail as the noinitr.
tercuurse lan ; Maslow:it w it t. iu preetit e less in.
jor:ous to tatirclitit--.-Wid equally indilfercia tor
Client Iki,aim flu, should the hater ntulilte? I
s.by then se shall only Le liroukit back to a non-
jive, rour-e -tate win. mud then, if cur je-op:e
Tint bevti to open thou ep Ito the lolly of these ex-
to rime-nal resarictioas, they Ks ii‘t be Mind indeed !
If they can continue to thick sell of the llTlVer'll
kcowled4e of the road, who, of eta tritious junriwy,
Shall set thein noon at the same place. where he
tinik them tin, it is not iiiticicinattcr sled bectain s
of them. If we bad at the: ptcouit mosient no self.
impuvernlitog system of commercial restrictions;
or we could hope to get rid of that s inch we bust.;
I should i.e against this Bill. 1 would not, in
a case, give my assent to tau. evil. I stay ev I; be-
cause, it way do sonic harm, and can do no good
to us. but we have% in operation. a greater r%ii
and, since that cannot be entirely rem. veil, I will
OirltalllllT 10 make it as small as I eau. I would
nut start to go as fur as this hill got s. But lem
sissy glad to get so far back. I would not consent
to or.ginate so great an evil us this bill : but I au.
very glad to be ahle to &mind:di the existing evil
SO much as this bill duos. Under the Nots.lntri-
conrse-Act, the exportation of our produce, being
eircuaous, is subjected to the expense of double
fi eight, double in.uraufre, and dada'.
This expense is borne exchisively by the farmer,—
The hill graciously permits a direct exportation ;
of course, one-half exectly of the rx ise now in.
• eurred will be saved. I represent 4 i!,.O•lify of lar-
pa,rA, and I um bound, if I csnunt do I bruit .slI the
good I nisi', to assist w diminishing thane nffrp.
togs as much as I can. You percent., therefore, 1
sun not for the Lill, Iterunie living'. if f•
becalme it is not so bail as tae law we have. I was
if ;al clot the expedition originally ; but that it rio
poison why I should not usast in the retreat now. I
disap, wove of so slow a Mama ; loft that is no sea.
▪ /shy I shanld reline to retreat at all.; le;uig
vrty 'tip back is si point gained. But 1 taw
• think the Bill oil pass. It is, to he sure, Patter
in it. Lingo fge t., lEoglaod, but nothing mote, for it
lit'n11111.• two kart It permits a fr. r is.trtcOurir. Oink
We nay sell her our productions, awl we
Si' 4(1 /On hors. I. i• a [torrid abandonment of the
1110.otatt'eMS embargo-oolicy, which ma le wur uttn•
-4'l" "la ""*".• iur l!t• porposr of undermining
evreloatly,. &rt..) tug the Briti.h liar.. Ii
Watt.% oar relator.. *lib Fratweexacily on the 144-
W0u,.1. nod America ufte.t, to
if, ;duce the Orders in t..oft.f I
.tu ciptute
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the little trade whirdi may venture to France. It
forbids theitmon tithe') eft Fie: n products, except
f. Nal Femme. The direct trade the Bet.sh
will net let its curry on—the indirect one we our-
selves pralithit. It eta ds the disgrace of permit.
(tug the B iti.h to euferee out leas; it leaves theist
at liberty to act upon their own, which ainuesta to
the saute thing in substance. Cart you derbe
system of tron-intercouese with rriltlee, so likely
tll he eitfor. ed ? Why' did Mr. Canning desire
perinission to enforce our sou-iidervourso with
France ? Becatio., said ,he, whatever your law
may be, when you, -;tiles get our, they will go where
-they pleas:, uo less tlo•re be soluelonly ready to stop
them. Vont law will be ineffectual. for there will
he nol.rely to enforce it. If we are not to aid,
yeu may as well have no such law. Well theft—
what i, it to them, though we. have not a bon-in-
teticourse law with France, if they may act as if
we had one ? This part of it, then, they will
like, because, upon the great point, the orders
in toward. it yields them every Vititg. Why
theu should they retaliate ? (letting all of sub-
stmier. do you think they will he angry, because of
the form in which it is brought shout ? Lo you
relish the oyster or turtle less, on account of the
rough shell.) Toe 1..11 is upon the face of it lin-
' porde': io its ope: anon it affects only France.—
Moreover. it is not a maim al but a neutral meat-
sore; since it is to continue on longer than the so-
mselotalked•of *dicta eta ; and these can continue
only during the war. The Embargo was, on the
face it, also itopArtial. But it operated exelu.
sively upon England. Yet she did not proceed to
extremities on account of that: why then should
she on accoeut of this ? The Nen-iotercourse Act
prohibited the importation of British manufactures;
and yet so much was she gratified with the equality
produced by that, so far from tusking earon account
of it, theta induced her to resume negociation. Will
then the inequality, operating in her favour, offend
her now ? I grant you, the monopolising clause ie
yen- foolish ; and, by itself, it would be a little
provoking in us, in a state of peace. to sac, by law,
expressly, all navigation between us and England
shall be corned oo exclusively io American hot-
toms : even in the actual po‘ture of things, it ie.
foolish, because the old system did, by taxing high.
foreign tonnage and imports in foreign bottoms,
produce the P fleet, professed to be the object of
this part of the Bill. But allowing that it is fool.
ish to attempt to bring about by offensive means
the sloe result which may as certainly be proe
duced by the employment of minus, not offene
sire, and therefore not sup jest to retaliation,
and consequent defeat ; suit this part of the,
B I is of course foolish sad indiscr.et ; stall it
wo ild be just as foolish in Great Britain lo
be offended about it. Upon the whole, them-
fore, thorgh I do perce:ve in this bill some- .
thing to piovoke Great Britain ; it is nevertheless.
ao unimportant, that the sensation it may produce,
tC produced at all, will be but momentary. All"
the rest is as she would have it. Now—think you,
this great and wi,e A ',biotin ation of ours wilt stif-
fer such a 1131.1 to !lasi into a law ? Can you be.
lieve the. as CllOllOl provocation in it, to reo.
der it at:, epinlee to 'them ? If you do, then yott
must lieueve, that Tire Aaron% The Whig. and
The Argos, do not speak their feelings. Pal it by
the side of the bullying Resolutions, and do they
match ? Cel. Ti out, of Georgia, and Mr. Muratori),
of our city, bare already stemmed that. The two
filings are no more twins than a cliesnut-burr snd
au eye-stone. DJ you believe that the Resolutions
were brought forward with a view to provoke war?
If you do, then do you believe the Adiniuntration
will let out all our shipping, just in time to have the
net spiting; over it P—Would they, with their eyes
open, su!lect themselves to be execrated for so
much folly ? The fill will not pass before they
from England—before they knn« how their
lust dose has worked. That the dismission of Mr.
J.wksou, and the panage of the Resolutions, were,
by the very etuiniug wire-workers, intended to
umke Great Brit declare, or commence wer, ou
yt it already believe. And to suppose that her
Milos ry will not be aware of that, is to suppose,
that they do not see as far into the mill-stone as
throe who pick it. And to gratify our people by
giving them the very thing they seek, would be
such consummate folly, as men of nothing more than
common sea se., could not be guilty of. But a snore
impoiteot consideration is. that. by commencing
war, she would throw us in the arms of France,
and .41 give that poser a footing on this continent,
which might enable her to subject, not only us, hut
tl.e Spanish part of it also, to her yoke; and so
in ice her • smith formidable enemy. Foi,o,land
will, therefore, not declare war awiinst ns ; and ()Jr
people will not hazard the loss of power, by de-
eniriiig it against her. The doses of provocation
may Ise repeated. ad isfileitent, but they will not
'operate. Our own country alone will be the suf-
ferer; and it will continue to he sr., unless the
coots, of policy he changed—end that can only be
brought about by a change of Rulers. But, at the
wi.r.l, suppose G Britain should retell ite—
Woos, wilt thee be our inzospects ? Will not the
nation Iv- I,y that time so disgusted with the idle
and frivolous o.mo-clients of mirehievons imbecility,
that th-v will force the Administration to set se-
rionsty shout making a treaty with Great Britain.
For sooner or later it must be apparent to all men,
that the went of such a treaty is the principal cause
of OW tires lit strange haul unprosperous condition,
altiouillh that made by Mr. Jay was most indus-
triously viicii.nl, Yet it in a fact—and one which
cannot be too oft. n repelled to those who ate
flat, r..,.t ro..ligh to he willing to learn wisdom
fr Xpri tents7-•-it is a feet, that °or prosperity
cont.:tied to increase during the ten rules of the
em.tinice of that tri-aq, and declined immediately
upon it. 0, pine
Twelve priors sic. I shook' have had no roh-
jectimi to a ve, , ert.at redaction of the British wiry;
siilvaigh 0.16 as she truth) her howler peen •
renders a strung nary initispesseehlq to her moiety.—
Serf traitors; onogaatar; awl I •ris against the
foe loin of the a-mis" now. The freedom of the
liens I Was ever such a terrible 'proposition couched
in such captivit.ng terms? What.4oes it moan
—The destraction of, the British miry. Suppose
that efloetell! Are the sees free, ;hen i To wham
To as If Napoleon plea..., they we; else ore.
We rannol spread a. yard of eau. as ti, the gale, if
lie *abide it. "fts whom then are the seas made
five? To Cie universe) Conqueror! and to hint

atone! Suppose the whole mi•iitarY forte of 80U2.•
parte tit the &peril of Logland, would our
denim:mos feel safe? I am sure I should oot.
Ilow then is the case altered, it Cie navy of
England is in the !rinds of Napoleon? Or
(which is the sane thing) if the sea he free to
su that he may go where he pleases? What is the
difference between giliog the military to the naval,
Rai the naval to the m:fitary power? What man,
iii whose veins runs the high current of American
610.4 ; whose heart heats strop,( with the love oir
liberty and itelependeuce. l.ut must wi-h to keep
No poleon, the• terrible destroyer of all free states,
the peculiar deadly enemy 44 all republic's—roe
inch must the usurper eter be; whose Throne is
placed on the tomb-stogie of the' liberties of his
own country—what At even but must pray
'devoutly, that the pestilence of his ambition may
be contioed, at least, to the contisiest of Europe?
And by what other means east we hopes° do that
than the British noiy ? Aye, say our sapient
gentry, but does not that eavy commit
? Grant it : what then ? Is that a reete
son, why we should endanger our itidepeu-
deuce ? Who would not sill • for a while to a
partial inconvenience, rather than subject himself
to total ruin ? If we must. stiffer, let is rather be
temporarily on the ocean, than everlastingly iii
our country, in our houses, and at our tiresufrs.
It is not the time to attempt to weaken the British
navy. It forms too powerful a safeguard to our
independence ; while it is itself incapable of assail-
ing it.—Would Bonaparte, who desire. to subdue
all nations, wish to have this navy destioyed ?
Then we ought not. Does he pant for the freedom
of the seas ? Well, then, may that freedom be a
terror to the citizens of these States !—Tle• fieedoin
of the seas!—How captivating! But there is a
deadly 4. asp in the basket of figs."—There is
poison in the cup

FROM SATURDAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE.

MILITARY PROMOTIONS.

Ina-Office, April 7, I 8 10.
STAFF.

George Jenkins, Clerk, late Chaplain of Brigade at Walche-
ren, to be a Chaplain to the Forces.
Samuel Briscall. Clerk, late Chaplain of Brigade in Portugal,
to be a Chaplain to the Forces
To "114 Conminaries-Generai to the area.
Assistaut•Commissary John Drake.
Assistant-Commissary John Thomas Humphreys.