The Sun.
London, England, 1808-11-24 00:00:00

RENIAREIS BY GEN. EATON.

. . .
" In the address of the inhabitants of the town
of Boston to the President of the Unitei States,
and now offered in this town for concurrence, we
see r.othing unconstitutioual nor disrespeafal. Its
objet, if attainable, is essentially important to the
commercial and agricultural interests of this country;
and not less necessary to our revenue.
,Indeed the
distress and misery occasioned among all clas,es of
our fellow-citizens by the Embargo, this negative
measure of coercion, are of themseives sufficient to
justify this appeal for relief. .
. "It is hardly necessary at this,. moment,
.minutely
to investigate the causes or :the motives m inch in-
duced the Embargo. AdMit, what cannot be de-
nied, that the interdiaions upon our comirierce by
Belligerents, ift hey could have been enfOrced, would
have nearly excluded us from the ocean—that by
both parties we have been outraged—plundered and
insulted by both—and against both had sufficient
cause of war; it does not follow, from any thing
that appears.to us, that the position we have taken
to meet these aggressions has produced any relaxa-
.tion of the restraints imposed on us as a neutn 1
nation, por amelioration of our sufferings.
, -
" A season, as it relates to commerce, has elapsed,
since the imposition of the Embargo; the experi-
ment - -
has neither procured "us natipwl honour, mt...
tional security, nor domestic, tranquillity : on tl;e..
contrary, in a national and domestic point of view,
we safer. from this measure e‘ery disaster incident
1 to war, except aanal invasion, without any of the
1 possible advautages of war., , For, though we see
not or. our phins garments rolled in blood, we see
our sea7b,-)ard deserted by a hardy race of our na.7
tura' defenders, whom starvation his compelled to
seek foreign service ; to die. ingloriously, and unla:
mented.Though we see, not the ' devastation of
plundering armies, we feel our wealth diminishing to
a death-bed consumption 'for want of aaion—corn-
merce annihilated—industry discouraged--the. heart
yf enterprize broken—and a species ofiazaroni be.
ginning to crowd our porches with no other claim
on our, charity than, wcint of employm.-nt! And
though we dp not indeed weep the misfortunes
of our, flag for defeated squadrons and armies, we
blush its 7 fallen glory, as the efreas of a pusillani=
mods speculation on events, much more dishonour-
able than manly defeat.
" It is believed no real American will deny that

both France and England have given us sufficient
provocation to war. Not to mention the captures,
detentions, condemnations, burnings, and sinkings
of our ships and merchandize by det r2es of Napo-
leon the .First ;. not to mention his insole! c at our
Court; I4s fraudulent sale to, honest purchasers of

the. unl•ounded Lortisiana, and
.his subsequent inter-
ference in behalf of the claims of Spain to the very
territory he sold us, should have been enough to
raise the resentment of this whole nation. That
transa6tion always reminds one of an upstart who
once offered our Saviour all the kingdoms of the
earth on condition of his homage—the Devil was
rebuked2—Buonaparte succeeded better with a sub-

jed. Both had an equal right to the kingdom they
•proposed to barter for homage.,
But all the violations of our rights, on the part
of the Corsican, are silently and tamely endured,
and'the edge of resentment, under his patronage, is
solely pointed to England. It can no longer be con-
cealed, that the embargo was intended for the Bri-
tish nation, and for her alone; else why do her ships
of war continue to be excluded from our ports, and
those of her enemy admitted to indulgences which
are denied to our own citizens ? It is believed that
the Embargo was contemplated as a war measure;
and meant, by sortie leading charaders of our ad•
ministration, to produce that effeEt. Indeed I do not
hesitate to assert, that war with England has been
a matter of calculation with the Chief Magistrate of the
United States. :Else why have all his Messengers
left their Dispatches id; France; and to amuse our
confidence, gone in blank to England ? Else why
do we. see so many posts;of trust and honour filled
with avowed enemies to England, and devoted
friends of an Usurper ? . • .
" But such an event under existing circumstances,
would prove ruinous to our country. Allied, as
England now is, with Spain and Portugal the whole
boundary line of these United States, both by sea,
and land, comprising a circumference' of more than
four thousand miles, would become an enemy fron-

• aitt h.ts never yit crsdecr.ll,citlillina to kis:—
(!i,cont,nded sublyck of fhat territory, the jeal-
..:\ ,choice spirits on the waters of the
-the restiesi tiotamed sons of Forest,
and the-13110,h Provinces of Caugcla .would all co-
`operate again,t that borier.: what blrrier-can
sve. oppoieto theru iu defence of that seaioti of tiJe
Union ? ,

•

Come to.our Atlantic sea-boa:—What. 'Lye
we, to defend our connnetcial towns and cities, the

seats of our wealth, and resources of our-revenue,
ljainst the coMbidect navies of Great Britain and her
allies ? Will our gun-boats and mud batteries do
it i—Tl.e notion is ridiCulous. Can Buonaparte do
Ec.ry body knows that he cannot float a
Frenchtnan across the Atlantic, except in disguise stf'
a mandarin ? A great statesman and philosopher
would recommend, asylum in mountains. But the
dwellings, like -the habits of New England, are
too fixed for mountain retreats. Our altars and
tire-sides we cannot abandon for caves and grottos:
If neither the policy nor the energy'of the meaf
sures of Administration can proteet us at borne,
where shall we look for proteetion? Shall we cede
ourselves to France by alliance with her Tyrant ?
We commit • national suicide, and die an ignomi-
riiiltli political death. We have the fate of half
to admonish is against such a dependence.
Bnonaparte, like Judas, kisses to betray. The only
possible benefit resulting tram his good graces would
be O,thnly in from the " tempestuous sea Of li'nerty,"
r . ,
• and SeCtirdy groan-led in the dry-Clock of despotism.
"Our Inipetial and Royal Ally would graCiouslY
stgnify to us his paternal solicitude for oar safety by
cleating hi'S well-belated nephew Doh Jerome Pat-
.
terson NapolCon King of these States: and hisfaith,
Jul unit irld3ty General and Plin;pntentiary Tarreau,
Lieutenant and Rhient of the 'Kingdom during th,.
of his said nephew. Our Goverdors of States
would be provided traria his general staft Are Arne-
rice:. soon prepared for this political annihilation
artd:valuntary transmigraCtim into rept des !Not yet—
..
- Let us b? loosed from the shackles which depress the
Batton ; pdt on our armour; and let tls, like Spaniards,
resist the histre and the fraud of a blood-stained sriii
of tiptoe. To support this position, must we take
the hand of England ? The:; would our catastrophe'
be as certain ; though we may linger out somewhat
longer a disgraceful existence.. Both these nations
Lave an itching paltp for this country. They have
Contended for it even in its discovery, even when a'
forest: the oldest soldier and the youngest student
among us know this. But if at 3 period when
wild attunprOddelive, it was an object of contest,
bow much more so now when it might produce to
a conqueror or a seducer a revenue or a contribu-
tion 'of 30 millions a year. Againat the lust of con-
quest 'and. the pride of empire do we expeet national
justice w defend us? The term, alas ! is no longer
ie be found in the libraries of Courts ! Can meek-
ave us ? When have We known a tyrant lift
his foot fronrthe neck of a voluntary slave ? :•
it is on the arm of God and the use of our own means
this nation must rely for the recovery of its
lights and for the maintainance of our independ-
int.se, Under that Almighty' proteetion we must
stand by our own strength, for there is no instance
Of a country receiving foreign proteetion who were
not ultimately reduced to vassalage. Alliances have
generally ended in the same way the very instant
a
prePonderanee'of 'power and advantage has fallen
into either scale.

" The great events now agitat:ng in the Eastern
Continent, may, and it would seem, 'must so com-
pletely occupy the Warring rivals of Europe, that their
'itari.ce, would be turned from the United States for
a time; and great advantages, if improved, thence-
-results to our commercial enterprize. Lift the Em-
bargo, and le.ve commerce to shift for and
-in. spite of Imperial Decrees,we have a vast field open
for the - display of this enterprize. We have the
British ports every where, Su edeq and Norway,
the Whole coast of Portugal and Spain, the Islands of
Minorca, Majorca, the whole of the Turkish coast df
the Mediterranean,-exceptAlgiers, the entire\Vestern
and Southern coast of Africa, the borders of the Red
Sea, India and China, Madeira, Tenerifle, and the
Azores, most of the rich Islands of the West Indies,
the Spanish and Portuguese coast of South America,
the whole American coast of the Pacific Ocean.—
And what is more important to us, our own coast
and our own fisheries, comprising more than four-
fifths of the- commercial roasts of the four Conti-
nents, and productive islands of the seas. Shall we
forego all the advantages ytinch could be derived
from these sources of wealth from dread of the de-
' crees.otian adventurer, who has grown potent from
incident, and whom the justice of Heaven may soon
throw back to impotence,on his native island of rocks
and steirilliy ? A mighty man of valour, who dares
not send a bomb-ketch
.to sea, through the dread of
his enemy Such humility is too degrading to the
feelings of brave men and honest Americans. (