The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1807-10-02 00:00:00

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of conduit for all. To give our full co•opera-
ro the measures of the Executive. we should ab.
n from any ad of violence or injury. this might
tcrease the animosity which the occasion has so

liy etched.
Toe Proclamation of the President. almost/ other

ircomstances, is remarkable fee its dignified Inn-
teration. No hush refer:bon is made on the
British nation, the President disclaims a belief that
the government of that country will justify VI aa so
atrocious. In this ,vay an appeal is made to the
raids and honour of the British nation at large. as
well as their Government. and. we may add, to the
whole world. It is. we think, impossible for any
refloating person not to approve of the condua of
,he President in this particular. It would have
been as abstird a, 'von-ritieal, for the Executive to
is • r"treh• eparatTon oeenciat;no, and. at the
same time to have loaded the nation and govern.
mr t with reproaches and vblaqtsy, that would not
sus.. ,sated tiuw:xer wrong the original aft
might have been.
The President's Proclamation contains an hc..
eourable and digniSed appeal to the people, as well
:o the government of England, Nothing could
have been more judicious ; it will we doubt not in-
&ace a powerful movement in the people of Eng-
land, who, with a voice that cannot be resisted, will
in.,rt on the government rendering ns justice; but
should we be mistaken, and the Ministers of England
resolve on war. the advantages of a party in our fa-
vour in England. must be well appreciate,' by those
who remember our revolutionary war. Our fathers
ad.fressed the whole British nation, in terms so im-
pressive, that a powerful party was created in our
favour, and it has been much questioned whether
our battles were better contended on the American
plair.s, or in Sc. Stephen's chaps!.
There may be some who imagine that the voice
of the people is wholly disregarded in Eagl an d ; than
which there is nothing less true; among other in-
stance, we would cite the force of public sentiment,
in ohliging the King and Ministers to acknowledge
our country independent. The party formed origi.
nal!y in our favour, seized every occasion which was
prt,ent t by ill success in the course of the war. to
demonstrate its imfrolicy, and finally that party tri-
umphed, and peace was the result.
It the British Government should sanaion the
condua of Admiral Berkeley, or refuse es punish
biro, war must be the consequence ; and surely no
nation could ever go to war on more honourable
and lost grounds than ours will. It depends very
much on ourselves. to determine the sentiment
with which that war shall be prosecuted against
as.—Frnm twitives of interest there must and will
be a powerful party in England opposed to a war
with America ; and who, if it takes place, will
seize every occasion to terminate is, provided that
we, on our parts, do not make demands which the
honour. and perhaps the existence of that country
canrot cristiply with. There is a material distinction
between a war undertaken in defence of our own ho-
moat and independence, and that which is undertaken
for the purpose of destroying another nation ; of
the former character, we hope, will be every war
in which America shall engage. With justice and
honour. then. ranged on our side, el: enemy
must respect as, the more so when interest aids the
sentiments of sloped. Among those whom we are
to account as our advocates, are the great and for-
midable mannfaanring interest, all the merchants
e. gaged in American commerce, the West India
merchants and planters, and a portion of the pru-
dent and liberal of idl cl f men. We ask
then is it policy in ns to deprive ourselves of such
aids ? Surely not.
With sentiments such as there, we have thought that
the inveaire with which the what British nation has
been loaded by many of the public meet i and
some of the public prints,was neither just, as api.licd
to the Adl:oir nation. or wise on our part. If the sett-
time .ts expre.ed by the meetings and in the papers
we allude to, betaken as the public sense of America,
the conclusion will be, that it is not the particular
outrage cnmmitteli on our flag, and the impress-
ment of our seamen, that have excited our reams-
ment ; but that these circumstances are seized to ex-
po/6s our general sentiments of hostility and abhor-
rence. The people of a nation who are stigmatised
With the epithets of pirates, murderess, assass'tis,
&e. must have long been the ohjeas of detestation,
and AS such ought to be eat'rpated. Viewing the
subjeft iu this light, instead of our making friends
to our 81111:0 in El3land, we aaually invite the
lst.le Auks' to rise in arms against us. Seeeiter is
roede,fe.t:ter in re. Intemperate abuse, violence, and
inversive, cannot aid a bad cause. they may injure a
good one. That there are assassins, pirates, Sm. of the
Brithis nation, we have too many abundant proofs
- nation of bar b..rians,
'meet denies. It is not
-ms of reproach and
'e it els but we feel for
tharofter. The duties

of as Editor o: a Newspaper necessarily cause him
to peruse the papers of hi, own and those of other
estuaries, by whiz]) he acquires a mote accurate
knowledge of tbe style in which those of his own
country and foreign journals are conduCted, than
any other class in the community.
The French journal: rarely contain any gross
abuse of the English nation, though they examine
us policy with the utmost severity of criticism.—
limo ate a few of the English papers that deal out
much coarse abuse on the Francis nation, and purti-
euhirly •aa its present Chi-t, but they are not classed
among the respeaahle papers. Candour obliges us
to confess that the American newspapers are unri-
valled in asperity. Cnbhett, (who we are sorry to
acknowledge was patronized by federalists), carried
personal invellive beyond any extent before known ;
he left us, but his pernicious example remained be-
hind; he attempted the same plan in his own coun-
try, and contempt and insignificance, as an Editor,
were the rewards of his efforts.—After this digres-
sion, we return to our su!ljedt—By a calm and iig.
nified coarse, let us command the respell of the
world, including the nation we may contend with
in a few words, let our maxim be, mender in mode,
red foriihr in re.

A more apt, and, to our feelings, a more accept-
able illustration of what we have advanced does not
offer, than that which is presented by the condun of
the citizens of Norfolk on the late occasion. By a
happy union of firmness and moderation, the citizens
of this place have acquired the approbation and re-
spei of all parts of the Union. The same condo!!
will always be produllive of the same effelt.

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