The Sun.
London, England, 1808-04-26 00:00:00

itghlOVATllO lIF A LTIL

T T has been too frequently the suhjed of just and
A.- general reprobation, that men destitute of the elements.of
the medical art have ofieN,l themselves as candidates for
public pat tomes in the p tot'ession of pliyite. For the purpose
01 doing j ,J§!.14.4.: to the re*ult at our.stui ties and experience, lnd
to prevent i.n, tti.)in being Classed ativang those empitiesawhose .
imprudent rretensions hive, unfortunately for society, ludo
too favourably rtt:eivecl, A.ve be.; leave to sunnrit to the liberal
and enintliterwri a faithful state:nent of our pursuits and ac.
quiremeats. A ftei havi4 real vL:I .. rA;,:t.tr tatxtical caeca.
Lion ani the pupils of 'Messrs. Grintbl and Bliturd, whose
kitutes and practice we cai.:ltilly ativeido.i, as piofesiors and
surgeotts of the' Lotulori tlospital • we enterei ourselves us
Sturicura irr that justly celehrated s.:10,1 for medical ayquire-
omit, tire ;tops' College of Edinburgh, and were instructed
in the dlifi:rent branches of anatOnly, authors, the theory and
praelica of..physio, cheinitnry, initivv&ry, h9tariv, kc: Stc:,
by these eminent professors, Drs. Nlouto, G reAory;: Iliac{:,
Hamilton, Duncan and Rutherford, I'.'e tense. we shail not
be iltan.mtl presurripttious in saying that .'sir piOtit;ienc,y and
acquiroinetrfs are nut intonsideratde. Ilivir .., r.r a•long series.
of years made Verierral CoMplairits, and ih.. various diseases
of Debility; the par tielliar on.reetof our Au. 1!,:... :,i3O practice,.
it will, we Wipe, be-allowed that We have a.iluired superior
knowledge of their treatment, and cure.. In shgh t and receot,
cases ot infeelion a perfeet re.establijihnieni is. couo,ted in
the otort period Lf two days ; and in those of the utmost, in.
veteracy, where other practitioners have failed of success, a.
proper perseverance iit• our plan ot treatment enettres to the'
patient a safe and radical 'cure. s .
Amidstehe Melancholy variety of disorders Which are the
elibds of a hahitlong and frost unhappily pursued .by the •
youth of both sears, there are none more alarming or more
distressing than those deficiencies and debilities which fre-
quently prevent or embitterthe matrimonial state. To such.
persons n must be a consolation to know that.l they may now;
• by a new and infallible mode of treatinent, be restored to that
greatest ot all human blessings, a strong, manly, and vigor-
ous constitution. In all cases of debility, from .vvlritever
e.auseatising, as Weil as in every species of very:teat iriti..ctio:t.
wa may be consulted by patients of either sex with the Area.
est secrecy and honour. ~ liours4Consultation :it Jiurrie iroui
ten totluee, and float 6 in thc evening till to at tight.
Patients' in the country are requested to state r he.particti .
tars of their case, age, arid general habit oftlying, Its. 1,4 c. in.
closing a remittance for advice and medicines, Allen the same,
will be given, or se T
start to any part 'of.the kingdom. o'enstire,
that secrecy so essential to our tu;derraking, the poeta,te Tit
letters may be added to the account for medicines:. •
CURRIE anti Co. Stitgeons, No. to,. flaiton..-ganlan.
CI" Messrs. Currie and Co. have Curtitii: at••.i iront th
above respectable Professors of Lond;n: and Edylbuighe ~i
the, diligenee, skill, and humanity, with which tha'y i.::
((gaited the .flatus as4locit them during the tune they ..t.
4 waded thcir Extturft itcputtici. - , .

INTEPESTIIVg PAPER,

ELATIVZ TO
CREAT BRITAIN AND AMERICA.

Letter from the lion. TIMOTHY PICKIRINO, Saleol, of
the United States, from the state of 10,is,:iolinsetts,
hibiting to his „Constituents a view of the illuminant danger
of an unnecessary intl ruinaike W ir; addressed io Ris Ex..
celleney lAstas S v AN, Governor of "the said State.

• City of 1111s4dnvp, Fei..l6, tiIDS.
Sue-4n the even current. of ordinary times; an
Aldve..ss from a Steiety in CongresS to his Constie
tuents might be 'dispensed with. In jock times,
the proceedings 'of the Executive and ...Lcgislature of
the United Strres, 'exhibited in their public iias,
might be ittifficietit. But ,the present singular cone
dition 'of opr country, when it Ltit iiitcre,itaig
.
conceros, verept up 'in myitery, excite euiversat _
alarm, requires rile to be no lonOr Silent. Perhaps
.1 ant liable to censure, at suoill a crisis, for not
sooner presenting to you and ' them such a '.taw of
our national arriTirs as my official situation lia placed •
in my power. I.nove ailare,s it to you, Sir, as the
prover ()ream of conununicaeoe to the Legi4attiQ.
The attairunz;nt of truth is ever desirable : ' and I
cannot permit myself to doubt; the, ther-staietnent I
new make most be acceptable to ail who 11,u e an ae
gene), in directing the atfairs, mei who are :i.larciiatis
of the interests of 'our Commonwealth, v.r ;itch so
materially depend on the measures_of the Gokern-
'bent. of the nation. At the same 111 1 am aware
of thP jealousy with winch, in these uhhippy days .
a party disseotions„ my communic.itions insy, ,If'.
some of my constituents, be-received.—Of this I will '
not Complain ; while I earnestly wish the saute jea-
lousy to he extended towards all public nit..p. , Yet
I may claim some share of attention and, credit ;
that share which is due to the man whn- defies
the world to point,' in the whale course of -a long
add pnbiic tile, at one instance of" deception, ; at a
single departure from truth. .
The Embargo demands the first notice. For per.
haps no aeli.ot the • National Government hils ever
produced so much solicitude, or spread such univer-
sal alarm. Because ell naturally conclude, that a ince-
sure pregnant with' incalculable toisclat to all Cla•:Se.,
Of our fellow-citizens, Would not have been plopos-
ed 4 the Presideet, and adopted by Congress, but
fur causes' deeply atteleing the interests and suety of
the Nation. . It unfit have beep utider the influence ,
of this opinion that the Let isleiive (3euies of some
, States have exptv:led-their approbation of .tlicEme
• bargri, either ,:xplicitly or by, imphcation. •
The folto.oiks -',were all ilie* Piper.; laid by the . _.
rresititto bei'ore .Congreis,'es the grounds of thsi-
embaruo :' " ' . .
• I. The Proclamation of the'Kine of Great firitain
requiring the return of his subjects, ihe ,eamen es-
, pecially, from fereign contitries, tc, uid, in this hour
of ei,euliar danger-, in the defence of their own.
But it being an ichnowtedged principle, that every
, nation has a right eta the service Of its.Subjeas in
time of war, that' Piochunte ion coulil not I.:mrhish i
the slightest ground for an embargo.. . • ,
2. The Ertraie of a Leiter froth the Grand indge
,Rsolmu, to the French Attorney 'General far the
Council' of Prizes. This contained .a partial 'Aer-
. pretation of the Imperial Decree of 'Nevember 21,
itloo. This Dceive,itideed, and'interpretatien, pre-
sent flagrant violations of. our neutral rights, and.of a'
the existing treaty between the United "Settes end
France; but still the exeCution of that Decree could
not (from the small agmber of French Cruizers)
extensively interrupt our trade. Tbese•two Papers
. were pitiblic, , . . .
- 3:The Letter' from our Minister,. Mr.. ARM:
STROtio, to Mr. CHAMPONY, the FrencliMinistai
fur Foreign Alieira : and, ..
.
. 4. Mr. C tt Am PAt, NV's Atiswer. Both these ought, •
in form or sobsiance, also to have be.en [wide public.
The latter would have furnished to our nation some
idea of `the views and expedations of France. But -
-both were withdrawn 14 the Piesident• to be dvixf•
sited among other „Executive secrets ; while neither
presented any new ground to justify an embargo. . .•
In the Senate, these papers were referred to 8.
Colninittee. The Committee nuiatly reported -.a .
. Bill for Inking an Embargo, agreeably to the Pycsi-
deues proposal. L This was read a first, a second,
and a third time, and passed-andall in the short
compass of-four hours l A litde time was repeatedly
asked to obtain further information, and to consider , '
irmeasure .01 stich Moment-a such universal con-
Icern': IlUt these requests were denied'. We were
• hurried into the passage of the 13111, as if there was
danger of its being rejeeled if we were ell.m.ved time
i to obtain further. infortnatiob, end deliberately con-
, sitter the Subjea. For fo that time our VesSels were
freely sailing on foreign voyages; and in a national,'
point of view, tbe depattere of hall a dozen or a
doi:n more, tihile,we were inquiring into the rte,
cessity or.eveJiency of the Embargo, was of little
moment. Or it' the dmw,er to our vessels, seamen,
and therchandize, !Lid I;eun so extretne, as not to
' admit of one d;ty's delay, ought not that extreme '
danger to,have be.enetOibited to Congress is The
. Constitution, whiCh requires.,the President '' :to givsi
to Congress information Of the state of the,Union,”
certainly meant, not partial bur, complete. Informa-
tion °wale subject of a -communication, so tar as
he Poti!r\-ssed it. . And when it eujuitiS Win, 4.'10 re-,
~Cornmend to their coniideratiou s;:ph,,,lrtileeitanty,rpist
hass.
-recommendations
ailitiolyuldiiiiiiel:Lolgac,...o.neterl;4llsaryth6saned.
eisleleirotu should
1,,,
bottow...l, on 'i(orintition covtivutietged, ,
not oil facii 711;ih:,-,./d., .3 Lid , I QC ked up in the Exe-
cutive Cabinet. 1 lad the public safety been air
stab" or ..at' .4ro:1:. I,:blic 'good been presented to
our view, ,but Nvlii( li ~vould be lost by a toootent's
'l delay, thei:e.wool,t '.factl,Tt'en Smile i4i,&of.y for dis..!
• 1- 4,atch thou ~li II t) Ile I or ...4:kow; with* due iiiii,roza-
-1 t I ; ' In t • . , - . - ~i ,t
public without a
1 titi.,:tri.li
..I.ut,st.brtittrittit.itt:itmoepap,;::..i.,:tti;jl)l4.4...ti. to me... hen, as
1 'Mattleilillt ilititiN,, WittvAlt a le&iiintat4.4 ()Vied. ilsmets

Abe cepeni Vor what II the ernbargo
laid?' And I chalt,enge any nian,,not in-t be secrets of
the Execuliveyto tell. I l,„pow; Sir, that the President
said tile papers above-.n»ntiorted" sbewed-that great
and nicteastng ttnigers threatened onr vesNels, -our'
sols:L1 it, `..;9.•1 nor i" but I also know that'
t hey 'er,h;l::lz,.:,l no new danere7i ; none of which our
mercl‘vos and geamen' hod not been well apprized.
The 131-itiAt Proc.V.lmation. had runny days before been
tr.ll):i,'.cd in ih!!.N?w:,papos (tiff copy laid hefore•us
!,t; Pic,i,l en t been cut on of a Newspaper), owl
subolarke, if tot the words, of rtsGstzt's
Yet they had excited little concero among
inc. chants and seamen, the . pres;:rvation of. whose
pc! sons and property w 4 the prof4iedobjea of the
Prc,;itivnt' vccommendatiOn of an embargo. The

want of foreign goods and inanufa4lures% and the ;
other evils incident to a state of war ; and ruin, by
the lose. of our liberty and iedependence. k'er, if
with the. aid of -our arms, Great Britain here' sub=
clued—frona that moment, though flattered perhaps
with the name of Allies, we should become tine
,provinces of Frau Ce. This is. a result se- obvious,
that I must crave your pardon for noticing it. Some
advocates of executive measures admit it. They'
acknowledge thatthe.rZavy .of'-Great.. Britain is. our
shield.against the overwhelming power of France.
Why then do. they persist itt 'a course:of conduct
tending to a rupture with Great Britain itbe
believed, that it is }principally;. or ',solely, to procure
inviolability to the Merchant of the United
StateS ? In other words,:!to protect an seamen', British
subjets, as Well as our citizens,'on board our Mer-
chant Vessels ? It is a lad, that this has been made
the greatest obstacle to an'amicable settlement with
Great Britain'. Yet, I repeat it, it is perfectly well
known, that she desires to obtain only her own subs
jets ; and that American citizens, impressed by
mistake, are delivered up on duly .authenticated
proof. The evil we complain of arises from the
impossibility of always distinguishing the persons of
two/ nations, who, a few years shit e, .were one
people,, who exhibit the. same manners, speak
the same Ilanguage, and possess similar features.
13nt seeing that we seldom hear complaints in the
great navigating. States, how happens 'there to be
such extreme sympathy far American seamen at
Washington ? Especially in Gentlemen from the
interior States,
,which have .no seamen, or from
those of Atlantic States, whose native seamen bear
a very small, proportion to those of New England ?
in fat, the causes of complaint are much fewer
than are pretended. They rarely occur in the. Slates
whose seamen are chiefly natives. The first tner-,
chant in the United States, in answering my late in-
quiry about British impressments, says, " Since the
Chesapeake affair, we have had no cause ofcotpplaint.
I cannot find one single instance where they have,
taken one man out -of a Merchapt Vessel. I have
had more that twenty Vessels arrived in,that
without one instance of a man being taken, by them.
Three Swedes were taken out by a Frepeh 'Frigate.
I have made inquiry of all the Masters that have ar-
rived in this:vicinity, and cannot find any complaint
against the British cruizers.
Can Gentlemen of known hoitility to foreign com-
merce in our own Vcsiels-i=4ho are .ovele willing to
annihilate it—(and such there are)---,can these Gen-
tlemen plead the cause of our .seamen because they
%ally wish to prot,eet them .? Can those desire to
protest ourseamen,' who, by ,laying an unnecessary
Embargo, expose them by thousands 'to Starve,or
beg One Gentleman has said. (and
.believe does
not. stand alone), . that .soorier than admit the prin-
ciple that Great-Britain had .a right to take 'her own
subjeds froth our tnerchant vessels, he would aban-
don commerce altogether ! To-what will every man
in New England, and of the other navigating States,
ascribe such a sentiment sentiment Which, to
prevent the temporary losS -of five men, 'by impress,
would reduce fifty thousand to beggary ! But for
the Embargo, thousands depending on the ordinary
operations 'Yof commerce would now be etuployed.
Broil under the restraints of the Orders of the Bri-

Mere/11111S a0:1 Seailleti could accurately esiTinate the
d,lngcrs of continuing their. commercial operations;
dan...:ers indeed, the actual premiunis of
in:iv:Edna; were a 's:lii,fa6tion. Those premiums had
ve,ty,little increased : 14y the British PreclamatioAknot-
kcetit. : and by the Tel-elicit Decree so little as not
to Stop commercial enterprizes. The great numbers
ofNesNehkmdingor leaded, and relined tor sea ; the
twrtionS evclN whete made, on the first rumour of
the enibargo, to dispatch them, demonstrated the Pre-
. ‘dent's dangers to he imaginary,.-to ,have been as-
.unA. Or if great and real dangers, unknown to
• commercial men, were impending, or sure to fall,
how desirable was it to haVe it iyficially declared and
°published l'hits would have produced a voluntary
eeibargo, and prevented every complaint. Besides,
the hanger~ clearly defined and understood, the pUb-
lie. mind wonld not have been disquieted with ima,
ginfily fears, the more tormenting, because uncer-
tain. •

It is true that a considerable number of Vessels
were collected itt oor pelts, and many held in sus-
pense ; not, however, from any 'new. danuers which
appeared, bat from the mysterious: condlel, .of our
Officers after the attack on the Chesapeake; and
from the painful apprehension that the coarse the
e 4 ;dent was pursuing would terminate in war. The
Notioyth/ htdligencer (usually considered as the
Executive Newspaper) gave the alarm ; and it was
echoed through the United'States. War, probable or
inevitable War, was the constant theme at the news-
papers and of the conversations, as reported, of
persons snpposed. to be best informed of Executive
deigns. . Yet :laid this din..of :war, no adequate
preparationi were stro rpokitig to meet it, The or-
der to detach a huntirect thousand militia to fight
the British navy (for there w4s, no appearance of an'
enemy in any other shape), was so completely ab.
shrd, a., to cr.cite with - men of common Sense no
ollie.r emotion th3n tidiculC. Not the shadow of
.a
reason, tlitt. ctadd operate on the Mind of a man of
cominon understanding,.; can be 00i-et: in its jc.sti-
fieatiotf. The refirial of the British Officers to
rerciVe the FrigateCliesape‘ike as a prize,, when
t(mil,!red by her ComarandQr, is 'a demonstration
that t altac!: upon her vas exclusively for the
perpose :of laking their deserters; and . not 'iti-
,tended as, the comMentement of -a weir between
'the two nations. The President' knew that
.the
Lritiih had no invading army to limapn our shores ;
end the detached Militia' would' be *less, ,ex-
co,,t, against land force. Why then was thls_order
for nritia even cf. the case, and
the ailtvil state rif t kings, authorise the inference, that
its immediate, if not its only objeet, was to increase
pnblie alarm, to ae,gravate the public resentment
abrinst Great Britain, to excite a war pulse; and
iTS-the bright of 'this artificial fpver of the public
mind, which was to be made known in Great Britain,
to renew the demands on her Government ; in
'poor expeetation of extorting, in that state of
thingi, concessions of points which she had always
i.:.tisidercd.4s her rights, and which at all times, and
tilder all circumstances,, she had uniformly refused
to relinquish. The result of the subsequent Negb-
t4ition at tendon has'shewn how Otterly, unfounded

WWI the president's eXpeClation, how p-erfeelly use-
' less all this bluster of War. While nu well-informed
man doubted that the British. Government would
make suitable reparation for the attack on the
Ohesepegke ; the President himself, in his Proclama-
lion, had placed the, atiltir on that footing. A rup-
, ttite between the tWo'Nations, said he, " is equally
opposed/to the interests of both, 0 it is to assurances
of the ,most friendly dispositions on the part of the
British aoyernmerit, it) 'the midst of which thii out-
rap,e was committen. In this light the subjea can-
tiot bttt present ittAl to that Government, and
vt.renatlin the motives to an honourable reparation
wi.ich has been done." And it is
ttcm that such• reparation might have
t)eett ' promptly'ObtainA ;u London, had the Presi-
tiletit's instritetion3 to Ilt;' Altintoe' been coot-

p..otble h .adjuStinent. He was re-
r, „
this stngte transient
o (MC adjusted Wil3 for ever
...C.:1;11,"Cli011. with another claim, of
to catty the least, of double
} L,L" exemption from linpressment of
seamen i'ound on AineriCan Merchant
To remedy ilk' cvi! arising froth its, eicer-
WhiCh our eltizens were sometimes
. attention of cur Government, under
. b..trl been earnestly erigaged ;
;Ji t,., yet been contrived:
. , the truth, will question
• • • , Inc Government to adopt
tinent that 'NM secure to'Great Britain the
,( her own sidjeCO, .And now, when the
:nripled situation Df tli't coun:ry (len alone to
.rnaintain'theFonfliet Frpnce and her numerous
&pendent t3tates.--lc it alone wiilvit.ind the power
which mon:ices the of t4:%vorld) remkred
the rid of all her'subjeEts more than ever ncedful;
there was no reasonable ground expea that she
,Would yield the right to-take them when found on
board the. nierclinut 'ves,sels of any nation. Thus to
insist on her y'lehlin tl:is point,- and inseparably to"
conne4t it with the alfair Of the Chesapeake, was
tantalum:int to a determination not to negotiate at all.
I write, Sir, with freedom, l'Olr THE incTS ARE
Tirn PERILVOS, 'l'o ALLOW THOSE WHO Allit PLACED

IN HIGH AND I:CSP.ONSIBI.E 81111,STIONS 1O BE sl•
II
LVT 11E5131ttiC1)., :rite peace and. S3f,,ty of our
Co9ntry are suspended on a thread. The sours.
Ivo have seen korsued' leads on to war—to a war
,With Great Brioin —a war a,bsoluteiy. without neces-
sity---a war, which, whether. disastrotii or success-
ful, must brit% misery and ruin tcrbe United States
to6ery, by the destration of our navigation • and
ommerce (perhoUs &soot our fairest sea-port towns
wad the los of markets for .otir produce, the

-denee, the Vxectitive may !procure the adoption of
measures which may overwhelm us With ruin,'_ as, i
surely as if"-he had an- army at his heels. :,43y false
policy, or by inordinate fears, our Country may be
betrayed and subjugated to-France, as surely as by
.
. corruption. I trust, Sir,hat no one who knows
'me will charge it to vanity when I say that I have'
some knowledge of public men and public affairs ;
and on that knowledge, and with solemnity, I de- !
clare to you, that I have-no confidence in the wisdeM
or correklness of our public measures; that our
Country is in imminent danger; that it is essential
to the public safety that the blind confidence
, rulers • should cease ; that the State Legislafures
should know the fads and reasons on which import-
ant
general laws are founded;' and especially that
those States whose farms are on the Ocean, and whose
harvests are gathered in every sea,,should immediately
and serioilsly. consider how to preserve Them. In ail
the branches of Government commercial informa-
tion is wanting ; andin this desert" called a city.
that want cannot 'be supplied. Nothing hut the
sense of the Commercial States, clearly and em-
phatically expressed, will save them from ruin. •
Are our thousands of Ships and Vase's to rot in
harbours ? Are our sixty thousand seamen tend fish-
ermen to be deprived of employment, and, with
their families, reduced to want and beggary ? Are
outs hundreds of thousands of farmers to be com-
pelled to suffer their millions of surplus produce to
perish on their hands ; that the President may make
tin experiment on 'our patience and fortitude; and
an the towering pride, the boundless ambition, and
unyielding perseverance of the Conqueror of Eu-
rope ?
Sir,, I have reason to believe that the President
contemplates the continuance.of the Embargo until
the French Emperor repeals his Decrees, violating
as Well his Treaty with the United States as every
neutral right ; and until Britain thereupOn'recalts
her retaliating Orders !-;-,By that time we may have
neither Ships nor Seamen : and that is precisely
the, point to which some men wish to reduce us.—
' To see the improvidnce- of this project (io call
it by no harsher Tine), and without adverting to
ulterior views, let us look back to former years.
Not Withstanding the well founded complaints of
some individuals, and the murmurs of othersl not-
withstanding the frequent executive declarations of
maritime aggressions committed .by Great Britain ;
notwithstanding the outrageous_Decrees of France
and Spain, and the wanton Spoliations prat:Used and
executed by their cruizers and tribunals, of which
we,sometimes hiar a faint whisper ;—the commerce'
• of the United States has hitherto prospered beyond
all example. Our citizens have accumulated wealth ;
and the public revenue,, annually inereasing,•has
been the President's annual boast.
The fads demonstrate, that though Great within,
with her thousand ships of war, could havealestrop-
ed our commerce, she has really done it no essential
injury : and that the other belligerents bere4ofore re.
strained by some regard to National Law, and limit?
wed by the small number of their cruizers,
,have not
inflicted upon it any deep wound.- Yet in this full
tide of our success; our conunerce is suddenly ar-*
rested :an alarM of war is raised fearful appreben-
-1 sions are excited: the merchants in particular,

fish- Governmeut retalieting-the French Itniserial 1)e-.# thrown into a state of consternation, are advised, by
crew, very large portions of the world retname open a voluntary embargo, to keep their vessels at home.
to the commerce of the United States. We may And what Is the cause of this-mighty hut mischicv-
yet pursue our trade with the British dominions, is Otis alarm ? We know it in' its whole ekteTtf; It
'every part of the globe ; with Akio, with Chita- was ati unthorised attack of a British naval officer
and with the Colonies of France, .Spain, and Hui- on the American Frigate Chesapeake, to search: for
lend. And,, let tne, ask, • whether, in the Midst of and take some deserters known to have been receiv-
a profound peace, Whenehe Powers or Europe., pos- eel on board, who had been often demanded, and as,
sessing Colonies, would, as formerly, confine the i often refused to be delivered' up. As was. expeaed
trade with them to their own bottoms, or admit US,. by all considerate men, and by 'the President himself
as foreigners, only under greataimitatioua, we conk( (as I havebefore observed), the British GovernMenti
enjoy comnaerce much more extensive: than is on the first information of the unfortunate event
practicable at this moment, if the Etobarge were (ancl,without waiting tor an application) disavowed.
not in the way ??Why then should it be continued ? the act of its otlicer—disclanned the principle of
Why,' rather, was
,it ever laid Cae those be legis:' searching National armed vessels—and declared its
tirnate reasons for the Embargo, which are concealed readiness to make suitable reparation, us soots as the.
from Congress, at the moment whets they are re- state of the case should be fully known. • •
quired to impose it ? Are the reasons to be found in Under such eircumstances, who can justify this,
the dispatches from Paris? These have'been moved • alarm of war ? An alarm which greatly disquiet-'
tor; and the motion was quashed by tlt advocates eel the public mind, and. occasioned an intertup-
for time Einbargre IVhy are these- dispatchers with. i lion. of commerce extremely, injurious to our mer-
• held by the Executive ? Why, when all clasmees of i chants and seat:llan citizens.
citizens anxiously* inquire "Yur what-is the Embargo I will close this long letter.by stating all the-exist-
laid ?" is a satisfattory answer denied.? Why is ing pretences-714 there are no causes for a war with
nor Congress • made• acquainted with the actual Great. Britain. -
situation of . the United States ip relation to i 1. The British ships of war, agreeably to right ,
France ?, Why, in this dangerous crisis, are Mr.. claimed and exercised for ages=-•-a right claimed end
Armstrong's letters to the Secretery of State absutute- 'exercised during the whole of the administration of
ly withheld, so that n line of them catinot be eeett ? Weenteeeou, of ADAms, and ot‘feeesesosts-aesThe •
Did they contain•noitiformatioirof the demands and - tinue to take: some of the British seamen found on
Intentions of the French Emperor ? Did the Ile- board of our merchant vessels, and. with them a
vents.sail frail England to France, and there wait •,stnall number of ours, fmm. the imposisibility of al-
. three or • rwlr weeks for dispatches el no import- ways distinguishing ..Englislimen from citizens of
-since ? so, why,: regardless of the public aolt.'. the. United States. ,Oti ibis point our Government
cituJe., thsir contents so carefully concealed? well know that Great -Britain Is. perfe6lly willing-to.'
If really ueimportate, what harm -can, arise from adept any arrangeinent that can be devised, which
Cotelling seeses and the Nation-ogicially thaethey • will secures- to her service the seamen who are het
contain- notiliug of moement to the sitt.ty, the Oien. set:jet:is; and at the &nue time exempt ours
berry, th:.! honour, -or theinterests of the United , from iinpressinent.
States ? Oo the contrary, are they te e104e4. 4.)tked • 2. The merchant vessels of France,. Spain and
up
,becaese tlwy will nut bear. the light ? Would Holland, being driven frotn.thc ocean, or destroyed,
their dii;:lcoure rouse the spirit of the people, still . the cemineree of those countries With one aneiher, !
slumbering in'blind confidence in the, Iftecutive ?.; rind with their colOnics, could no longer 'oe carried
Has rho Freocie buiperoi declared. that he will have on by themselves. Here the vessels of neitral na-
no Neutrals ? beeequired that our pertselike them cane in to tlieir aids and carried on nearly the
those of his vassal Siete in Euilipe, be Arts cgqinst whole of the, commerce of those nations. With their
British CoinmerceP Is the Embargo a subaitate—a : seamen thus liberated from the merchant-'service,
milder iiirm of compliant:a with that matslissitenand, : those nationseite the present, aili preceding. wars,
which, if eehibited iii its neked and insulting-as- were enabled to Irian their Ships of War; and the
pea, • the American spirit might yet resent.? Are .Neutral Vessels and seamen supplying, their places,
we still to be kept proteundly 'ignorant ef the tiecla7 I>44,me infaa,„though• not in name, auxiliaries. cf
rations and avowed designs of the, French Emperor, war, The commerce of those nations, without One
although, these'Maysirike at oUr.ltberty led armed Ship on the sea appropriated
,for us prcitea-e
pendeuce ?- Atmde in the mean 'time,' are we; by a., titer, was iu&ncL I thus to be se=cured unde=r Neutral
thousand irritatiQZlS, hfcherishites prejudices, and , Flees; While the Merchant Vessels of Great Britain,
by exciting fresh resentments, to isZerawn gradually with its numerous armed Ships to guard themewere.
'into avieir with Great Britain ? Why, amidst' the exposed to occasional capthres. SUch a course of
extreme anxiety of the public mind., is it 'still to be ,'.things Greatilriidin :has resisted, not in time present
kept on the rack of fearful eXpeatatiotieby the Pre- ; only, but in former wars ; at least as far back as that
sident's portentous silence • respeeting IrisFreud* 4of 1756. And she has claimed and. maintained a
Dispatches ? Itt this concealment . there is cameger, right to.impose; on this commerce some limits and
In this conceahuent roust be wrapt up the real cause restraints ; because it was a commerce which was
-of the Embargo. On any other supposition it is ;' denied by those Nations to Neutrals in time of
inexplicable. ' peace ; because it was a commerce of iinmeuse va-
I fun alarmed, Sir, at this perilous state of things ; 1 ass to the suleets of her enemies; and because it
I cannot repress my suspicions, for forbear thus to filled their treasuries with money to enable them to
exhibit toyou the grounds on which they rest:The carry on their wins with Great Britain.
,people are advised to repose implicit confidence ea
3. The third nod only remeining pretence for tear
the National Government ,• in that unbhotitteicicratin: with Great Britain, is the unfortunate affair of the
fis nce lies our danger. Armed With Chesapeake: whicli Lin ring been alteadyastated and
le