Portland gazette and Maine advertiser. (Portland, Me.) 1805-1818, 1807-09-21
E=traa5 from Engly6 papers,.

li'AibS lilN ICldldi " VIZ 4AhiNl' C'Ali
Government to ratify the late Treaty,
makes the following observations up
OF the fAbject :-" The ques5ion will
now therefore be to put, whether the
terrors If the N0n-mt9ytdfi5n oct,
7ubicb tqie5 tiace the I4tb a Decemberj
are fuffCient to induce Government
to yield more than has already been
yielded to this people. That que(-
ticn will be to be put to the m,rch-
ant, whether the naval force, the ba-
fis on which our contribution now
refS, is to b facrihced 70 the tenn
Porary convenience Of our COM
merce. Every patriotic man will re-
ply in the negative. Each will re-
collect that our naval force, now that
continental Europe i at the feet Of a
mercilefs Corqueror, it is all that we
can look to for fupport and thanks
10 that gracious Providence that has
70 often vouchlafed his protection 10
this envied iAard. it il a refource
whence ample fupplies may be jufly
expected This is period when an
urgent appeal mutt be made to the
feelings Ito their intereRs will not be
necehary) q every clafs Of hisMJes
tvs lubieCts. This appeal viii meet
with a fpoDfe worthy the iuhabi-
tants Of a nation, which firm and
well-grounded reliance on their abb
liy to exert themlelves cficaciouC-
", enables them to make. Hence
we have the ltrongef grounds to be-
lieve, that the attempts Of the Ameri-
can Government to obtain more ia
vourable terms, in Coulequence Of
The prefent fate Of Europe will be
unavaiIing
To America our Cond ICt has been
ConCiliating almoR to meannefs-
She has menaCed Us by acts, hold.
ing out the penalty Of death aEainf
our feamen if they d. fuch ana fl Il
acts ihe has patied non-imporrarion
laws lhc has f-nt back Treaty
which her negociators had figned
with this government-her Prels, her
Legislative hfemby. have teemed
with the mon violent irye6tives a.
gainit this country and now that
we eviuce determinatlon.;O pau(e in
our career Of f0fbearaDce,and engage
in war rather than fubmit to a (yf.
TEN Of iniult we arc told that we are
going to De guilty of a nsf ruin0uJ
FLY; that we are going to throw a.
way a fourth of our commerce. kven
fhQuld that be the cafe, there Il no
man, we believe, who will not FAY
that lofs ought to tie fubmitted to
rather than facrihce our national
character, and iutfer outltlves to be
iniuitcd with impunlty.-It may be
worth while, however, to thew that
that might not be the effect Of the
war. In the frit place, as the ex-
ternai commerce of America, con-
ftitutes more than nine tenths Of her
revenue, that fource Of fuppIy would
be nearly if not quite cut eff by the
war, and Europe would not be able
TO procure any colonial product, but
by Englifh lhiPs-1he carrying trade
Of Great Britain would be increafed,
as the fupplies to her colonies that
are furniihed in American veflels
would :hen be carried in Brihih vef-
fels, and the indicrir mate illue Of
licences to neutrals would then be
reirCted. The buildings of Britifh
fhipping, which has dccreafed fnCe
1893, from IIS,6oo tons to $4,000
would receive additional encourage
ment. Thoufands Of our feamen
now provided with certificates of
American Citizenllip, would return
to our fervice from the inability to
find employment under the ameri-
can flag; and the capture Of that
property of the enemy which is now
covered by the veil Of neutrality,
would reward The Gailantry of our
navy. But it may be fald we fhould
at one blow lofe our prefent exports
TO America, which amount TO fcven
millions per annum. Ii this lOfS
were abicldte it would BE- moftife-
rious confederation but it would in
fact be only relative-the true quef-
ton, as it has been faid, is, A." wheth-
er Great Rritain fhalI Iofe thofe eX-