Portland gazette and Maine advertiser., 1806-10-13

comes from the highen heaven Of
invention, were more than a match
for any PoEr LAUREAT Of them All,
in venaiity. You may indeed be
iald to have converted thcUnion into
nation of prefers who hobble il out
with very common fubftitutes For the
poetical republics. For knowledge,
invention, malice for wit, and for
harmonious numbers an abundance
of epithets of that precious kind,
which originally fprung from the
fans. cullottcrie of Paris. Without
ever approaching or perhaps 20 much
as knowing the name Of, Parnahus,
or tipping one folitary drop from the
Pierian fprine, a holt of citizens -
officers or candidates for office col
le6ors, furveyors, potmafters, gov
srnors, Eaeritfs, bailitfs and watch-
men, touched, not in the head by the
mufe, bur in the PALM By the magis
:rate, have in half fiutter, half race,
like the oitrich, contrived to rife to
profaic Invention in fnpport Of your
meafures iinging your praife, and
fwallowing the d7HeewS of the fate
Thofc as they nUsntsd you into Office,
and invented pretexts for yoSr milf
conduct while there, will now in0sat
caufes for the danger you have
brought upon the country and in
ftri6t conformity to their inventive
habits, will produce any but the true
ones. They, ingenious fouls, once
found out that yotir temporiGng con-
dud was the way to iniure refped
and peace 10 this country-now,
that contempt and war are dafhed in
It's face, they will find out that, not
your temporiiing condua, but the
reproaches of your political adverfa-
ries, and their exho-tations to you TO
arm the country, have been the caufe.
Tley will Gay that it was not your
timidry which tempted, nor your
oUeyfgbf of Miranda that emerged, but
the infalts offered to your friend Bon
aparte by the Federal prints, which
angered Spain and France into war.
And il is likely that, with no lefs
truth and modeity, they will, by and
by, FAY that it was,your haired and
the infulting language of yourfelf,
your legiiature, and your agents Of
the prefs to Great Britain which In
induced her to afford you, rs proba-
bly, The will protection from your
friend the Corhcan. This farce how
ever, draws near to an end the lour
of Indignation, and the ineer of In
effAble fcorn fit upon the public brow.
The de!uGon IS almoit over, and the
firft lhot that is fired on our Weitern
| poheiions, will be the fignaI for rem
! ding in pieces thar veil of article by
| which the true character Of your ad-
| miniftratiop has been concealed from
the psbllc.
believe, ST., | only repeat the uni-
! versal opinion of mankind pofu-
| late which has never been controver-
ted, when fay that between nations
as between individuals, the very beit
iecurity for peace, II tromptitade and
capacity far 40ar while on the other
hand T0iaiy not only excites con-
tempt, but encourages encroachment,
and f5iicitt attacks. individuals be-
ing under ne Responsibility to others,
may, without a1y harm, pleafc their
fancy by imploring the jciice which
they have a right to demand But the
chief executive magiftrate Of a eoun-
try, who, cbeyitbiag hit farcief, or ihiv-
ering under his fears lnpp3cofes for
his country tha julfice which ihe has
right to demand, and, but for his
impolicy, would have the power TO
enforce preyaricaies with bis duty.
proitratcs bis country's honour, and
if war enfues (which is mott likely
is not only cuipsble of war, by neg
Letting the legitimate natural means
of avoiding it, [preperatlon] but
ieands in the fentence of having ag-
gravated the evils of war, with the
di[grace of duplication defPifed, and
the ignominy of humiliatlon.rejetted
with difdain. rpryH
While | thus addrefs you. Sir, |
own that, different from my language
TO MIR. Randolph, fpeak not prof