The National Register.
London, England, 1809-10-29 00:00:00

Sumo of them breathe the greatest violence and indecency :.
and if they ca.itain the sentiments of the majority of the
AtTeiican people, it must be confessed that the citizens of
fhe United States combine with the vices of the old, the-
Savawe , manners of the new world. The person of an
•Aeiliassador has been, from time • innmlnorial, sacred ;
'end. the slightest insult offered, -by word oe .action, Nvr.s
otioidered, by• the unanimous assent of, civilised shit;,
Nobelium!: an "outrage, as to justify the severest .retalinf...
tion on the part of the nation, whose representative. was
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insulted. The most. atrocious tyrants, and the rudest .
nation;:, have observed the laws of nations in this .re.:.;
speet ; it was reserved for those
.transatlantic citizens to
contemn and violate, these long established forms.. Our '
forbearance has rendered that.people insolent. The equa-
tiamity of our Government has induced them to assume
the language and tsirestures of bullies, Put they would not -
dak-e employ a similar tone and menace against Tuet-eau,
the French .Ambassador; nor would his' Government. allow
them to pass with impunity. They complain, forsooth !.
of an infringement of treaties—they, who arc vet capabe, •
Of obieriing the' simplest regulations adopted' by Statels
pretending to the rudeststate of cis ilization. If Mr.Jacxso N
has been insulted in the mariner alluded to in the liallintoi e
Whig, and the insult remains unnoticed and unpunished
by the Government
.of the United States, our Ambassador
s iould be instantly recalled ; for it were madness to think
of establishing amicable relations with such a people ! This
is not a season to sanction the slightest dereliction from the
dignity of our national character; and the Americans
are not the people who should be permitted to outrage the
feel rigs• or the rights of this country. A praise-worthy
desire of .conciliating difterenus, and re-establishing the.
former commercial relations, is not to be realized by weak-
ness, or meanness, on our part.; for past experience might
convince any dispassionate observer, that the arrogance
of America rose in proportion to the moderation of
our executive. Conciliation, like every other virtue, has
its due boundary, beyond whichi it becomes a vice. t
the citizens of the United States are so regardless of their
own interests and 'dignity ; and so forgetful of the re-
lative- strtrigth of the two countries, as to impute our
moderation to pusilauitnity, and to treat it as such.,-Well,
they should be convinced of their error; and as they
seem to have such an enormous appetite for fighting, they
certainty deserve to be indulged with a hearty meal of that
description. A surfeit might sicken them and be here.,
after the means of curing diem, of their preactit intemper-
ance. It is the grossest mistake in politics to carry equa-
nimity too far ; and we strongly reprobat.. the idea of sacri-
ficing dignity to interest; or conceding to arrogance, the -
minutest, the least important of our pretensions.

No official confirmation of the treaty concluded. at
Vienna, on the 3d inst. has been yet received. I)utch Pa-
pers to the ISth were'receiyed yesterday ; but they do not
contain a corroboration of the previous account. A pri,
vate.letter even states, that the Burgomaster at. Amster-
dam, who-published the intelligence, was imposed upon;
and that peace is more-distant than ever. This silence is
certainly not easy folio explained ; . but it, by •no means,
dissipates our apprehensions. it is, probably, no more
than a manoeuvre of the Corsican, who is desirous of
identifying with his return to Paris the enthusiasm.which
the first publication of so advantageous a treaty may excite.
We still reta;n our opinion neon this subject; and whatever
how s the sal( uce of the German papers, and the-want of
officialsommuliication may have raised, are inifortimiitely
destroyed by the intelligence 'transmitted to us by our
Deal and Dover correspondents. They state that the dis-
charges of artillery, and a general illumination, were ob-
served on the opposite coasts, on Saturday night. If our
wishes could invalidate the account, we would certainly
speculate in opposition to these demonstrations;' but the;,
we are afraid, remove everp.doubt on the subject.