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

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AIdRRICAN PART? ivatisNi.
(Extra" Nis a ifew;lferft P.poe of thi of Mese
" Upon Cobbett's return to Great Britain," said •
The Amor,. ". be commenced in abase of his 44
friends the tries of this ci: y, witty whom be associ-
ated, and from whose clutrad-r and intimacy be
farmed his criterion of the grn-ral eines of the
American pub!'e. We have long warned the Went':
ists wha are Americana that the British spy —*a
would, on his return to Ins employers, follow the
same infamous conduct. We have always a•to.
hired every thing of baseness, hylincri;y, and impts. ,
dente, to t`,a, rtritish scoundrel --t. but are sera
ledge the', whatever was that oiininn. his rift° itvey
has exceeded ail Gar limits. Not contest; in&
Waiting for t,'.4 return to the panJertioniam of St.
James, the poimphlet called rife riArl•
It is hit produclion, and we believe it is) has cons
tneneed with an impudence which Cobbert would
have been ashamed of—to calumniate all ;he feting
merchants of the United States, as the mo.t aerie.
cipled scoundrels, who lust for commercial prof td
the extintion of every pu'Aic virtue, and as a enrol
to the nation. NVe polnish some eitrads trim it,
and leave our farm ors and meetanics to jo !ge if,
they an perceive any synvtouss of ?et Pea* V,
?sash.
and associates were tortes, isfie•
monarchy federalists. and as every Watts. nuking.
nately for federalism, shetters hims .11 ender their
wings. brands the whole body of Ameficeln
der a list s with the tory priticiple, with which lm
,stiratlT associated at Nror Y ,tit.
We are surpriseJ that Ma) 'r JAukswilsou— out
defended this infamous attack on the Moak Merl
chants s which attack is only made bokaore .;tat ino
deralists united in the detestation of the eturbert
committed on board the Cheirymirie Prom tarifa,
or tory papers no defence of the patriotism of OW.
merchants coal hate been 'spaded ' • for . the*
papets advocate the vet), principles fob which—,' .
abuses, so unjtutly. every man gong fouler thecae. ,
of federalist. These tory papers hold not the idea;
that, because foreign commerce might meet with
some interruption, every insult, piracy, and murder,
i. to be submitted to froin BI itaiG: that soy oppoei•
tion to the mut der of our seamen is injfarious to the
cause of the British tyrant ! In tad, that wet otight
to submit to every restrilion on oar coninernwe find
return to the state of vassalage to the British aro*
and spies who crowd our coßee-houses."
EXTRACTS.
" Yet it was in this very class of mess, (the lede-
r-114n) Bettain and her cause had the greatest no*.
ber of pretended frientls. and Bonaparte and Fiance
the greatest number of seeming enemies. Torre
was hardly one of them who would not accompons
a British peslitici.fn through the whole roiled* id h$
principles, argumaits, opinions, and assertions. and
cordially ring the changes upon tllern all till he came
to the point of the covering trade. Then every
thing were a new aspect—then the whole artillera
of the

once
gall ..gainst these _ ___.._ demagogues. .
vile game they were playing upon the people, in
inflaming them against Eritain, that country which
you have ten th•.uand times ais-ttsd. and just!)
dawned, to be the saviour of he ciVilized world,
from French bondage and jacobinian You car
now play into the h.nds of Fiance. Y.:O "an lee
calmly and deliberately. and with more good will
that you would throw a cast off wore out coat ta
a pauper, throw off from you, as if it were a her
den, all tecolleaion of the gratitude due to Gres
Britain for her sixteen years tough contest for *h
prate Linn of mankind against the worst despotism
that the human sate has ever panted beneath. Ha
j tcobinism, or has French tyranny clanked its ns
tare. or have you yours ? Alas ! I tear wither,
Jacobinism and Napoleon are just the same as whet
you inveighed against them, and so are you. Cie
curnstances alone ate altered.
it Whet men give themselves up to the sway ci
circumstances, and not of ptineiples, their opisioni
may oscillate as often as the pendulum of a clock—
their conduit fluauate with every Hue and reflux a
the sea, and yet they themselves temain the same
when any bad passion gets dominion over the hear
of a man the sense of all things worthy is extin
guirhed. Of all the passions, avarice is the greater
monopolizer of the heart of man ; it thinks that i
has nothing, if it has not the whole man. bodl
soul, intelleEt, and all. In that unfathomable abys
all is Lignites!. It ought to have known it before-
but now I kno*, and I assert, that no two thing
can be io their nature more opposite than the trade
d: sec, and tke bureau of the statesman. Nev
should the poitafet.ilie of the latter tcuch the eau
ter of the former. They can healthfully exist on
in different regiow—thc; must breathe only in o
plane atmosplieres. Not gore unfit for the pu
and virtuous joys of the youthful nuptial bed. a
age and ugliness. decrepitude, disease. the Rot
serpigo. and the rheum, than commerce for the
fairs of state, or avarice to play the ardent pectic
part. The systematic regulated selfishness,
gendered by those banes of the soul, are into
patible with that nohle self-devotion which 611 s I
patriot's bosom *. and keeps him at any, and
every raomei t of his existence. in readiness to heir
• CsaAssst is not 5h.5.`1“401% alissted to tam
t Ike red A AMAMI!, wilethes iiimieseas et 1e.14 altee

of the counting-haute was turned epos ,Great BrJ
taitlL.then every trace of the ruin of tGe world by
Napoleon. of danger, cf jxcobinism, of the rostra*
tion of the liberty apd independence of the natint4
of the world beneath the feet et France, of pablia
spirit, order, and patri,silons, good gcreseimenit!..
religiou—even of Christianity uself, whiolLariias
so deeply impressed on my gentigusan's sidig
fore, were irotetaxly
.evaied from the Pkttii
brain, over veh!ctrThat4 Inlnvedlrely
bags and bank ibises, town houses asd anent,
hnuses, coaches and gigs. and cotillions ailjigp,
and madam and my daughters, w4ll a whole eavali
c4de of bandboxes from Mrs. Toole's and Mrs.
Bouchard's; Dupurt's bills for capering. mid Jaeki
snsi's fir the piano-forte. with s•lk hangings, arid
Turkey carpets, and God knows what of
taste, Shakespeare, and the musical giaints64,U
then comes his honest and isgaeiosts obsereation.:—.
• Why, 'tis true, Sir, as you ay; I wish Er gland
could get the better of Bonapare ; but with regard
to that there trade (the covering) are have a right.'
" And yOu, Federalists, you—Oh shams opoll
you! You join them in this clamour. You who
once poured forth from all your pens rivulets of
gall against these deinneraric demagogues, tot the