Portland gazette and Maine advertiser., 1809-04-10

liter at the court of France? The
very letters we have, refer to others
which mutt contain important infor.
marion. Why this concealment :
Sir, being denied the drea and clear
evidence in the pofleilion of our gov
eminent, we mutt depend on fueh IN
formation as we Can find. This muit
be my apology for fome of the cir.
cunnitances which | fhail fate in the
courfe of my remarks !; circumftan-
crs to which ihould not have been
under the neceillty of referring, if all
the correspondence, official and pri-
yate, had been laid before US. Such
as was not proper tc be made pub
lie might have been fent confden-
TALLY, as is frequently done. 1t
ought TO be known before we deter.
mine on committing the peace Of
the nation.
Before ! proceed to general re-
marks, will notice fomc few OF the
details Of the bill or which how
ever | ihal be very concife, as the
whole is radically wrong, and inca
pablo OF amendment. This is the
iirlt attempt in legiia,ion to have a
partial embargo en- the fame fert. l
know il is not mutual to have par
tial embargo, that is an embargo on
particular port, or certain ports.
But that all the ports fhould be en-
bargoed and not embargoed at the
fame time is novelty, is what can.
not uudcriland. The very nature Of
an embargo is TO coniine vefiels in
port and how can yeGels be conf
ned and not confined by the fame
aet ? the gentlemen who prepared
this ! were NOT 70 wanting in
knowledge in the affairs of lsgiila-
Jon as not 10 underitand this buff
nefs perfectly. The only poilible
ufe there can be in keeping alive the
embargo act, the supplementary en-
barge acts, and the enforcing itatute,
is to avail the ntelves Of the military
force and of the odious aud opprei-
Eve provifons contained in them,
and aid in the execution Of this mea-
fure, without mourning the unpopu-
larity which might be attached to
the reenaaing of like proviIions in
this bill. The fact is, however, that
all rhe provilions IN tlole various
acts for carrying them into effect,
70 far as regards France or England,
or their colonies or dependencies,
are virtually adopted by this bill.
To convince the Senate that the
fuferings of our people are real and
! not Imaginary, will fate one piece
of information from New-Haven, ON
which may be placed the fulleit reli-
anoe. During the preient inclem-
eli; ieafon, hundreds of applicants
for admittsnce into the poor-houfe
have been denied. In ordinary
times tue poor-houfe would accom-
modate three times the number in it.
Always I'LL now it has been more
:han sufficient 10 accommodate all
chat were under the neceii,y Of 60
| ing 70 it. In addition to the provi-
hon made by the town, and the va.
| rious charitable focieties, refort has
been bad to the rafting of money by
fubfcriptions, to purchafe wood and
provifions, to prevent people from
pcrifhing with cold and hunger
point of fufering this to which we
we're never reduced under all the
preflure of the revolutionary war |;
though in that Anne our little town
fufFered much, and was once lacked
and plundered by Britifh army.
This, for the moment,was diltreiIing,
but the ufual occupations of its in
habitants, a fure fource for the fup-
ply Of their wants, not being taken
away, they were foon able to pro-
cure for themfelves the necefaries
and many Of the comforts of life.
Sir, it is no pleafant fpeaacle to be-
hold, Aouriihing little town, where,
though wealth did not abound, a
competency, derived from honeit in
duhry, made every man happy, re-