The Statesman.
London, England, 1810-09-14 00:00:00

" Yours, &e.
RITRACT FROM TUE AMERICAN LETTER,.

• vs You may be fully assured that a perfect onderstanding
gbh/Isis between our Government and that of France, and that
measures will be takeo accordingly ; indeed it has been roundly
dated, that the project Inn long since received the sanctioo of
both p::rties, and that our Government only waits intelligence
from Lenin-, to take that stand which, I much fear, will end
in the destruction of oar Federal Constitution. We have
ouch foreign trade, but it is a losing cone en ; anti I ant grieved
to add, that t:te War Part., is daily gaining new accessions of
strengta. Your Orders in Conned, your inipres,n3ell, your
Violating tae liberty of our waters, abuve all, your new
syrteli of blockade, furbOde no good."
The following is the paragraph alluded to s--e
rROM THE NEW yon.w EVENING POST, AUG. 8.
" FO•tElOm A vs. t tas,—Froin the lime accounts from Eu-
rope it at. pears tact Hale is nu looter a hope that our affairs
with foreign powers nut be settled by isegociation. We must
now 6it down :and aCWoliti ledge Lai we mean to submit to every
Indlgstity which can be wooed upon to, or we must gird on
the . ord, and defeud nur3elyea. We must prepare fur war,
or for subjugation ; there i, uo avoiding it. Meautiess
elicit' us nu Ringer. The public amid ought to be prepared fur
energetic nsemitirtii. Tuey lino or resorted to. And should
&anther aet4i.in of Congress pass over in contriving tbueb and
perfuriniag tiotito,;, the country wib be nearly tuilied. It will
Ile al:2oa Wu late to think, of basin the nation."
There is some di:tactics.: between the writer of
the paragraph, and that of the letter : yet it is not
Material, for they both plainly tend to show that
the Americans du nut expect any accommodation
with England. And, indeed, how can they ?
NVltat cuuciliatory counsels have our Ministers
adopted towards tite United States? What insult
bare they their heed,, or their Lean, from
sstferi.tg to America ?—l.upressing her emotion ;
violating, and grossly, the liberty of the American
Wateis ; insultitsg the American Flag; firing into
American ships of war ; sending successive A mbassa-
dors with olive branches, which they meant to strip of
all their verdure; sending Ambassadors to make apo-
logies which were andisgui,ed insults ; sending niesi
Isithout sank, and without etharAtict, to be the
messengers of their peevish Counsels—these have
been part, and only part, of the wrongs and
uuuds inflicted by our Alinisters on America!
And is this to be borne here? have we ;to
Interest its it ? Ilave those who have to pay
the taxes, and have no no interest in the
conciliation or breacli with America ? flare those
ho have to pay the poor rules, no share its
the debate—whether labouring mechanics shall
get their bread, and the bread of their wives and
children, by industry, makiug ilium well. fed and
honest, or shall eat their bread in the workhouge,
with iutL.sess in their hands and vice in their hearts ?.
Have those mechanics no interest its the settling of
the question ? Ali G•al ! they not only feel they
have, but they grin with rage when their pitting
children, involuntarily and uneuusciotsly, put the •
question to theta ! Yes, basest of Miiiisters, hear
the truth, and be appalled ! The mechanic grins with
Page at your conduct tokard America---exce;it when
Ise consciously smiles with hopes of vengeance And
what was, or is, the furtive of your policy. towards.'
America ? What were Jos to get by it ? or what
to lose lay conciliating her ? What to get, bat
that sati,fying of mean and malignant passions,
which gratification is the delight of little minds?
11 hat else could you get ? But that • Was
enough fur you ! You can hazard every po.
jiiicel evil to gratify poor passions I You cam
bear any political evil for this enjoyment !
You can hazard the loss of IRELAND, to
pain and disappointment on the CATHOLICS You
catrbuzard las:Lamp, to torture her with a Unioul
You can h3ard IRELAND, to revenge yourselves on
the Press', And you can bear with the loss of
ASSF.P.ICAP Como:ace, to soothe the pining regret
with which you lost AHEIfICA IIiftSELF/,—lt WAS
that soothing, which you could nut bear to part with,
that pita had to lose by conciliating America. No-
thing on earth beside, had you to lose, or could you
lose, .by the_wise policy of conciliating America!
IST,ithittg honour of the nation, of the Eng-
lish netitisi, 3filabwootti hire saved by it ! It is dig.
atg la coact*, when there is strength to defcad a
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