Portland gazette and Maine advertiser. (Portland, Me.) 1805-1818, 1809-09-18
Ip tie Rails.

LE IDe spdNA.
We have feen letter which men.
items that. the French carry Ameri-
can von,els into st. Martins and St.
Euftatis, under the Berlin decree, &
ftnd their papers TO Guadalupe, for
condemnation. A gentleman from
thence confirms this account. The
condemnations are all Ia Francoiic.
An epfn admiralty court would be
novelty in French colony Pal
Extra7-dafed Wet6ingtsn, Sept. s.
i" This moment, Mr.. Jackfon with
his family and fuit, arrived in, this
city and laft. evening the Secretary
of State received from him a letter
announcing his intention Of arriving
at The feat Of Government this day,
and that he would improve the firit
opportunity OF Iequeiting an into
view, &c. The PreGdent is not ex-
peeled until the laft of this or the be-
ginning OF next month. "-Pab. Adv.
Mr.. Jackson has at length arrived--and
we do not learn, that he has IS yet deman.
ded our gun boats to be delivered up to the
British, nor that he has mistaken any of
the towns on the borders of the Chesapeake
bay for Copenhagen. At the same time,
| the country may not be perfectly secure.
When he gets to Washington, and sees our
armed vessels nicely buried in the mud of
the Eastern Branch, and the seat Of govern
ment without defence, who knows but that
he may order them all oil to old England,
and then, that he and Mr.. Eyskirs ro0c.her,
may lombard the city and lay it under con.
tribut,on. for the purpose Of paying off the
, British national debt. II is very doubtful
whether it will be safe for the liberties of
this country, to have any man come into it,
for at least hundred years to come, who
has ever been a, Copenhagen. Irish ostri-
| oi,m, like Irish potatoes, is the best in the
world, and alone ough, to be imported.
Con. Bfiyy~
Ubo are The real. friends TO their esnn.
fry f--is question of material import
at this moment. We will not under.
take TO answer it; but we will state
vino we believe TO be its enemies -
those whose. mouths are continually
filed with the imposing sounds of Lib
erty AMI Eqaality-but whose actions
are in direct opposition to every princi.
pie Of rational freedom |; who pirate "a
bout the freedom of the seas, and yet
advocate perpetual embargo, that shall
leave 20 our opponents the exclusive
privilege of navigating the ocean, and
reaping the benefits and emoIumenrs
which ought to accrue to their own
oountrymen. Those who uphold the
vile conduct OF a commanded in chief,
"a pensioner Of foreign government
who takes upon himself to overlcap the
bounds of judicial decisions. seize up.
OH defenceless citizens, and transport
them in chains across the ocean, to the
imminent hazard Of their lives, and the
vast detriment Of their fortunes. Those
who would pull down the sacred pillars
Of our. constitution, the Judiciary, and
setup in their places the outrageous
passions of an iafuriated mob those
who pretend TO be advocates of uniyer-
sal philanthropy, but who evidently re-
joice at the success Of the iyran. Of Eu
rope, whose gigantic power extends
from the Loir to the Danuoe, * whose
DEGREES have been, and at this moment
are, the chief cause of our unhappy
situation those who suffered treaty
to expire by its own limitation, & with
out the least effort to renew it, or form
a new one, under which our trade had
ilourished, and our country had increa-
sed in wealth and splendour 10 an un-
paraIleled extent--a treaty whic;, had
met the appreciation, and received the
signature OF our beloved WASHINGTON,
in despite of the efforts aud menaces of
the very men who wantonly opposed,
orwilfully threw obstacles In tile way
of its ratification those who, when
they found their efforts unayailing to
intimldate the father of his country,
traiterously set on foot whiskey in
surreetion, and wickedly instigatcd
their ignorant fellow citizens to rebell-
ion and revolt those who advocated
the conduct of an ignorant Governor,
who has mortally wounded the good
name, fame and reputation ef one of,he
principal states in the Union, by trai.
terously calling out the militia to re.
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