Portland gazette and Maine advertiser. (Portland, Me.) 1805-1818, 1806-12-22


conciliate, had the consuinmate folly to pass
an Act which could be considered by Great
Britain as nothing less than an attempt 20
fighten her into concessions. II was JusIiy
derided by every statesman as measure &
qoially impolitc, il-timed and ridiculous
Ii was from the first foreseen that It could
end in nothing good, and probably wou'o
terminate in both injury and disgrace
What was foreseen has happened IL Is
fifteen DAYS since the Non Importation act
went into operation several rargoes nave
been seized by the Collector and are sun
held: others have been refused entries
merchants have experienced serious neon
veniences and losses. all which has been eel
ebrated at Philadelphia by feasts and bon
fires, and now the President appears and ur-
Ees its instant repeal, " as mark OF CANDID
disposition on our part, and Of confidence III
the temper and views of the English. Thus
We have acted the part Of bully and OF
course bastard, by taking ground which
we had not spirit to maintain, and receding
RON i at the first appearance Of resistance
But why must Mr. Jefferson be always
scting the F4yce2 Why is an inportant com
munication, more 50 than any one he has
made, reserved for an Afterpiece? Why
did it not make part of his Message The
Message was delivered on Monday, and on
ly four and twenty hours afterwards follows
the recommendation to SUSPEND the Act, in
order 10 let negotiations 20 on. Surely Mr..
Jefferson must have known, long before
Congress met, that no negotiation could
ever so on with any prospect Of a success
tul issue while such an obstacle stood d.
rectly IL the way But Mr.. Jefferson knew,
(and we blush while we give the eXplana-
tom that the Message would gain univer-
sal publicity be spread by the newspapers
into all the parts Of the country, and be read
and commented on By every man in it while
any subsequent, brief communication, tho
It could not be concealed Che last session
had taught him that) would receive but a
comparatively partial circulation This is
ike all the suggestions Of that habitual cum
ming which has marked Mr.. JefferSon's ac-
tons through lie, and which the culliblity
OF the multitude has 50 long permitted to
pass for true wisdom. To the same temper
and disposition is it owing, that he Row re-
commendS only " temporary suspension Of |
The ACT" instead of repeal, Whether a |
= suspension wiz satisfy Great Britain 80 !
that she viii resume and 60 on with negoci- |
aoon, II may take four months to ascertain, |
and should it not, still further national hu- |
initiation and disgrace is to be incurred By !
our being compelled, at last, to repeal the |
act altogether
Diminishing, for the present, this view Of |
the subject, let us contemplate the conduct
Of our exalted Executive in another point
Of light.
It's now about sixteen years since Mr..
Jefferson began to accuse General Wash
ington, General Hamilton, and other dis
tinguiShed leaders Of the federal parts, with
having been seduced by England mod |
ern Dellah who had cut off their hair, &c.
and so much was his delicacy shocked at
the affair that he declared IL would give him
a fever only to be obliged 70 name the apos-
tates And We believe it has been always
understood from that time to this, that his
aversion to the lady has been unmitigated.
We have supposed he would no sooner
touch her then he would run his fingers in
to barrel of pitch the filthy drab. All at
once however, it would now seem that he !
has been clossetted with her during the
best part OF the summer, and though it is
not permitted to mortals to know exactly
what passed during those soft moments, vet
we are agreeably relieved from all appre- |
tensions on his account, by the information
that things are proceeding in g a spirit Of !
friendship and accommodation which prom
ises result Of mutual advantage and that
there is probability that in future, matters
may be 50 managed as to place our harmo-
ny on stable grounds" This, It must be
confessed, looks little towards marriage,
or at least towards one of those 50 arrange
ments Of mutual consent and convenience
which are sometimes entered into between
two parties. And to tell the truth, we have
long been prepared, strange as it may seem,
TO expect such an event Should the inst,Uc-
lions to Citizen Mitnroe more than tzpo rearS
ago, come 70 light it will be seen that we are
not without some grounds for such an ex-
Pectation.
And here, gentle readers, we for the pre-
sent leave Mr. Jefferson & Miss Britain,
hoping that marks of candid disposition
on one SIDE may meet with suitable return
Of confidence" and tenderness on the 9TH
er. Nor do we see any thing IN the way to
prevent this = arrangement provided both
are sincerely disposed TO come into it. At
the same time we are compelled to remark,