Portland gazette and Maine advertiser. (Portland, Me.) 1805-1818, 1808-06-27

halt>thou rome and no farther. IF any lner.
~ dared to intrude-the clarion ar war was
founded from hill 70 hill--the fgnsls were
givsn-and hundreds of men might aiTemble,
and compel the officer to make rapid re-
treat Indeed no officer could latterly be found
hardy enough to undertake to execute pro-
ceis among them. Such was the order of things
there perhaps it was not much better in
KsHze5er.
Under our late administration, eur trade
hounihed. To 10 State is commerce Of more
importance than to Notwithstanding
her COATS extensively along the ocean-a-
bounding in nav:gabIe rivers and convenient
harbours; 6tuated 70 near the afhing banks
If we were Indifferent 10 commerce, We ihould
be political fuicides. II is impoiIibe we can
neglect the means which evidently lead to ma
tional grandeur, and proftrate ourfelves in
contented poverty. Ii we had tried every
proper means of avertng the calamity if we
had oontended, like LEoNrDAs at the gap of
Zlermq9JEr, and our Rruggleswere Intellectual,
Il would be proper for US TO bear our difalters
with manly fortitude. But to fhrink from our
rights, at the fri difficulties, was difgraceful.
To tecEre our commercial rights, was one
principal reafcn fer the acceflon of this State
10 the Federal Contribution. And now it feens
We are 70 be altogether excluded from the O.
cean. But iome perions inquire, how the
prelent evils were to be avoided /! The Ma
tional Government might have made a treaty
with England. Our EEvoys concluded trea-
~, which they thought tolerably good but
the Preddent chofe to fend il back abruptly,
without conlulting the Senate, who had part
Of the treaty-making power. This was one
iource of Misunderstanding and irritation.
Next, az to the affair Of the CBsEaseake. The |
hrlt information of that affair received in En- !
gland, by the Britifh government, was COM |
* unicated to our Ambafadors voluntarily, |
with expreiiions Of regret, and promife of |
Inyeltigation and reparation, Our Ambafa- I
doris anfwereG in conciliatory terms, and ex-
nrehed an opinion that this bHlinels fhould be |
kept diitinct from all other matters in nego- |
citation. About month afterwards, the En- I
voys received their Instructions from our gov 4
eminent, and were therein directed to rzife
this unfortunate affair with points before in .
dlpute, the mon difficult of adiullment q .
And theie infru6tions perhaps prevented
fettlement then. Upon which the Britih gov
eminent concluded to fend an Envoy Extra
ordinary to the Uzhed States, for the fpecial 4
purpofe Of giving iatsfaGtion. MIR. RosE ar
rived at Warrington, where the political cards
were ihufIled for fone time, but at length his
million failed, by our Governments adhering
to point Of etiquette.
Il is undoubtedly for the mutual iHterelt Of 4
Great Britain and America to have good un-
derllanding with each other. This ought to
be hncerely cultivated If we had fettled with
EHgLaHa, as we ought to have done, moft Of
our commerce would now remain undiffurb-
ed: If Frame chole TO refent oar prefuming
TO ietrle with England, we could not help il.
The iniur2nce in contequezce of the French
rilks, would not amount to more than s per
cent. which none of our citizens would feel.
Our principal difficulties now ariflng from
blockades, have been caufed by the Berlin de-
cree. The gentleman from Nezu- GSoztejler,
improperly alcribes the blame to ENGLAND
The Britifh long ablfained from the idea Of
blocksding all the ports of a nation Only
one ioltary inftance, which exilted twelve
years iince, can be quoted, and this had been
almof forgotten by the worId-when Frame,
without being able to venture man.of-Svar
to be eatiOnaiy any where bur IN her own
ports, declared all the ports Of Great Britain
and her Colonies in fate of Blockade Orr
ihIPs are detained IN French ports, or burnt
by French fhips on the ocean but we are
not informed what aeps our Minilter at Paris
has taken in consequence IF fuch abominabe
aggrefions.
Mr.. THATcHER cenfured the condud of
the Prelident, in claiming for hiHlfelf, and del
egsting TO State Governors, the power of fay
ing who ihould import flour and who Gould
not. He remarked On the exprefhon, eneu4iet,
ufed by fome gentlemen, when fPeaking Of the
fubje6ts of foreign nation. and contended
thar none fhould be pronounced 20 in parla-
mentary debate, except fuch as belonged 10 a
nation with whom we were actually at war.
He declared himlef in favour of Navy, and
wifhed that the money which had been ap.
to the purchafe of LOpifaaa, (al-
though we had not YET got the territory we
thought we had bought) had been appropri-
ated to the augmentation OF our Naval Eaab-
lifhment.
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