Portland gazette and Maine advertiser. (Portland, Me.) 1805-1818, 1806-09-29

Oeen VICTORIOUS In OS. OomingO, mOlt
Of our troops there were defined
for the American continent, to invade
according to circumstances, either
the Spanilh colonies on the Terra
Fsyma, or the States of the American
Commonwealth. The nnforeleen
rupture with your country pofponed a
plan which is far from being laid a
fide.
lou may perhaps think thar, Gnce
we fold Louihana, we have no footing
in America that can threaten the
peace or independence Of ths United
States but may not the fame die
tates that procured US at Madrid the
acquiGticn Of New Orleans alto make
us matters of Spaniih Florida and
do you believe it improbable that the
prefent Disagreement between Ameri-
ca and Spain are kept up BY our in
trigues and by our future views /?
Would not word from us fertile in
an infant, at Madrid, the differences
as we'll as the frontiers, Of the con-
tending parties in America And
does it not ieem to be the regular
and fyftematic plan of our govern
nent to provoke the retaliation of the
Americans, and to fhow our difregard
of neutrality, and rights of indepen-
dance and, that we infult them,
only because we deipife them. and
despite them only becaufe we do not
apprehend their refensment1
have heard the late American
rinifter here afert, that the Anieri-
can veiIels captured by our CRITTERS
and condemned ;by our tribunals,
only during the lat war, amounted
to above FIVE hundred and their
cargoes (all Anaerican property, to
one hundred and fifty millions Of
livers, 6.ooo, eool. Some few days
ago, I faw printed lift, presented by
the American Conful to our minilter
of the marine department., claiming
one hundred and twelve American
hips, captured in the Wet Indies,
and OH the. coat of America, within
rhefe laft two years: the cargoes Of
which have all been conhfcated, and
mott of the crews fill continued
prifoneTs az Martinico, at Gauda-
loupe, or Cayenne. Behdes these,
fixty-Gx American fhips, after being
plundcred, in part, of their cargoes at
fea by our privateers, had been re-
leaCed and their claims for property
thus loft, or damage done, amounted
TO one million three hundred thou
fand liver, s4'oool
You nun have read the proclamation
of our governors in the Welt-Indies,
and therefore remember that one
dated at Gaudaloupe, and another
dated at the city of San Domingo,
both declare, without farther ceremo-
ny, all American and other neutral
fhips and cargoes good and lawful
prizes, when coming from or des-
tined to any port in the IIland Of
St. Domingo T; becaufe Bono bayte' 8
)ub5si7S fbers zvsYe IN fate ofyebeiiion.
What would thefe ph;lanthropifts,
who twelve years ago wrote 70 many
libels againit your minilters, for
their pretended fyffcm Of famine,
have faid, had they, infead Of prohlb-
iting the carrying Of northumberland
provifions to the pests of France,
thus extended their orders without
determination or diitin6tion How
would the neutral Americans, and
the neutral Danes, and their then
allies, rbilssfber5 and jacobins Of al
colours and clates, have complained
and acclaimed againit the tyranss of
the feas againif the enemies or hu-
mainly, liberty and equality. Have
not the negroes now as much as our
Jacobins bad in 1893, right 70 call
upon all thofe tender-hearted fchem-
ers, dupes or impoffors, to inscreft
humanity in their favour I But, as
far as know, no friends Of liberty
have yet written a line il favor Of
thefe oPpreded and injured men.
whose former 1avery was never
doubtful, ana who therefore had more
rcason to rife againit their tylants,
and to attempt 70 fhake off their