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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 24, 180 F.

, Never was there a Produtaion which more de-
served the serious examination of Englishmen than
JEFFERSON'S Speech, as it so fully deveropes the real
sentiments, and real intentions of Mr. JEFFERSON'S.
Government. The leading Paragraph we particu-
larly advert to, which, though penned with the
must jesuitical and studied Ambiguity, betrays deci,
sive marks of the most deliberate hostility against
Great Britain,

" The inarruaions to our Ministers with respe& to
" the different Belligerents were necessarily modified
with a reference to their different circumstances,
and to the conditions annexed by law to the Exe-
" cutiVe Power of Suspension requiring a degree of
" security from Commerce which would not result
" from a repeal of the Decrees of France. Instead
" of a pledge, therefore, for the Suspension of, the
" Embargo as to her in case of such a• repeal it was
" presumed that a sufficient inducement might
.be
" found in other considerations, and particularly in
°" the change produced by a compliance with our
"just demands by one Belligerent, and a refusal by
" the other, in the relations of this other and the
" United States. To Great Britain, whose power
" on the ocean is so ascendant, it was deemed not
" inconsistent with that condition to state explicitly,
" that on her rescinding her Orders relative to the
" commerce of the United States, their Trade
" would_ be opened with her, and remain shut to
" her Enemy, in case of his failure tc, rescind his
" Decrees also."

Let us now examine what this curious paragraph
conveys when developed of its obscurity, and stated
in plain language :

First—lt assumes, most falsely and unfairly, that
our Orders of Council were issued against America,
and not against France; not from the necessity of
retaliation against Fiance, but as an unnecessary at-
tack on American Commerce.

Secondly—Although the French Decrees preced-
ed the British Orders in Council, and ,occasioned
those Crders, Mr. JEFFERSON doq not, as he was
bound to do by every principle of equity, call upon
France. to rescind her Decrees in the first instance :
but he sends out a double set of instructions, and
holds out to France, that if she tepeals her Decrees,
and we do_not repeal our Order's in Council, she
will " change her relations with us,v that is,
declare War against us; whilst he holds out
to us, 'that if we repeal our Orders in Council,
and France does not rescind her Decrees, he will
only open American trade to us, and merely 'keep
up the embargo against France. - In other words,
he states, that if we do not comply with his demands,
he will join France in the war—if we. do comply
with his demands, be will continue,in friendship
with France. For the keeping up, nominally, the
Etn,bargo against France, and permitting 'Ameri-
cans to clear out for all parts of the world, would ,be
"Inerely substituting an illicit trade for an open trade;
and whilst the prices on the Continent are so high,
that the safe arrival of one cargo will pay the costs of
three, the Americans would still continue to supply
the French Islands with manufaeThres and provisions,
and France with West Indian commodities. Thus
France wowd enjoy the benefit and triumph of her
Decrees, Great Britain would be deprived of the
rights at.d power of retaliation, and the opening of
American ports to all the world would give Arne-
,
rica'the benefit of an illicit trade with France, Eu-
rope, and French Cplonies, whilst England remained
excluded.' Such is what Mr. JEFFERSON calls a can-
did and liberal experiment.

The opinion of the House of Representatives of

America, upon the Question of the Repeal of the
'Embargo, was to be taken on the 14th of Novem-

ber ; but we are inclined to think that Mr. JEFFER-
SON has Secured a Majority. As a specimen of the
freedom with which the American Journals speak
of the President and of the Embargo, we Nye se-
leded the following article. from New York Papers :