Portland gazette and Maine advertiser., 1807-04-27

lions whom they proposed to attack.
or this purpose, French emissaries
ave every where set up the cry Of
heace i! heace /! and the more imminent
The danger, the louder their clsmonrs.
The destruction Of the Anne ican.
navy may be attributed 10 Frenea in
nuence in our councils. Mr.. Jefferson
gaye the signal, the whole party ebey-
ed it with cagerness and promptifude
and the National Intelligencer, Mr.
Jeferson's paper, is daily pouring
fourth its anathema against military
marine. But what said Mr.. Jefferson
before his jaunt to France, relative to a
navy?
"a small naval force is sufficient for us,
and small one Is necessary. What this should
be, | will not undertake to say. Suppose
the million Of dollars, or 300,OOo pounds,
which Virginia could annually spare with
out distress, to be applied to the creating a
navy. A single years contribution would
build, equip, man, and send to sea, a force
which should carry 500 guns. The rest Of
the confederacy exerting themselves IN the
same proportion, would equiP in the same
time, 500 guns more SO that one years
contributions would set up navy of 1880
guns. The British ships of the line average
SO guns their frigates SO. 1,s00 guns
then, would form a fee< Of 80 ships, IS of
which might be of the line, and - frigates.
Allowing men, the British average, for
every gun, their annual expense, including
subsistence, cloathing, pay, and ordinary
repairs, would be about 1880 dollars for eve-
ry gun, or g, ,304, 600 dollars for the whole.
| state this only as one years possible exer-
ton, without deciding whether more or less
than years exertion should be thAs APP
Piled"
Notes on Virginia. gkey XXIIl.
Again, in the same chapter:
"The actual habits of our cOuntrymen
attach them to commerce.-They viii exer-
else it for themselves s.--War, then, will some-
times be our lot.-A land army would be
useless for offence, and nor the least nor. SAT-
est instrument Of defence. For either If
these purposes the sea il the field on which
We should meet an European enemy :-on
that element It is necessary that we should
possess some power.
These are the sentiments now main,
tanned by every real American patriot,
but have been deserted by Mr.. Jeffer-
son since his mission to France. Since
his accession to power, Mr.. Jefferson
and his party, BY gun-boat and drydock
contrivances, have nearly effected the
annihilation Of the American navy,
which had become respectable under
the Federal administration. Now we
are told to rely implicitly on the justice
and friendship of other nations; and
military marine is deprecated as the
greatest of all possible evils.
What can be the cause of this change
in opinion ! the same cause which
has made France great military ma
ton, at the same time paralysed the
military efforts of every other nation
The same cause that operated to leave
all the Prussian fortresses in defence
less situation, and paved the way for
French successes In Europe, has opera
ted In America since the Grand Con-
spiracy. Therefore we have no navy,
and therefore the agents Of France are
employing every mean to render the
country defcnCeless, that we may fall
an easy prey to the jacobin power
which has already overrun the fairest
part of the civilized world.
A further evidence that Mr.. Jeffer-
son has altered his tenets in conformity
to the principles of the Jacobin sect,
may be found iE his late avowed hos
tllity to commerce. When he wrote
his Notes on Virginia, his sentiments
appeared to be those of a rational man
on the snbIect. He went so far as to
say that it were best that our work
shops should remain in Europe, and
our wants supplied by commerce. His
subsequent hostility toscommence is a
matter of public aotoriety. But it is
not so well known that it was part of
the plan of the grand constructors, 10
a'tzhflate commere. We may, howev-
er, not only see il developed in the
writings Of the pretended philosophers,
whose works contain the principles of
the sect, but we find it at this day in
the language and conduct of Bona
parte.
Thus in late interview between
Bonaparte and the deputies from Ham
burgh, we find the same ideas which
were inculcated by the plotters in the
antiGSociaI coperiracv
When these deputies represented to
Bonaparte that thirty houses had failed
in HambuIgh in consequence of some
violent measures he had taken to in
Jure the commerce of Great Britain,