Portland gazette and Maine advertiser. (Portland, Me.) 1805-1818, 1809-04-17

has not that been found to be
meafure in persea union with tn,
wifhes, feelings and views of Bona
parts /? It is in vain to deny it, h.
has been too explicit in his declara
tions on that fubjeet to leave doubt
Nay, Or, what he has faid, taken in
| connexion with other known facts
has gone far TO excite in the mind.
of the people, IN one portion of thi.
union, Guipicion, and ihould not
be incorrect if | lhould FAY more than
Eypiein, that there was some jfret
mieyiandiag. Here let me remark
tina: | do not mean to aocufe the ad.
miniifration of any thing inconiiltent
with our rights as an independent
nation for as fuch we have right
not only to cooperate but 10 form
an alliance with France. If our ad-
niniltration believe, as know ma
ny do believe, that it would be a
wife policy, fhould we not have
cauf: to fear they would adopt tina.
courfe ? 1t is becaufe ! believe fuch
policy would be un1uys, would be
rumeps to the nation, thatI with to
avoid every thing tina. looks that
way.
have faid that what the Emperor
of France, OF which is the fame thing,
what his confidential miniiters have
faid, taken in connexion with other
matters known TO Us, has excited
lufpicion, that there was an UNDER
itanding between our administration
and France, in relation to the En-
barge. ! will now enumcrate fome
of the circumttances. During the
laa fefiion Of Congrefs, letters were
received from the continent of Eu-
rope, bringing information, from a
refre6table fource, that on the fall
ing Of the United States armed fchr.
Revenge, from France, with Doctor
Bullus, and defpatches; our miniiter
there wrote TO Holland, COMMUNE
eating information, that the arrival
OF the Revenge in the United States
would be Immediately followed by a
general Embargo; and urging the
merchants to hatten the departure of
their veGels !; under an apprehension,
as fupPofe, that the embargo might
induce declaration of war on the
part of Great Britain. This intelli-
gence, | am credibly informed, has
been confirmed BY perfon not long
Gnce in this city, who ftates, that
he was in Holland at the the time,
and was well acquainted with the
fact The Revenge arrived, and the
sS.r memorable Embargo was laid.
able TO anfwer it I: How way 4 sSHHioSf
in France unlefs there had been
fome previous communication and
understanding on that fubject that
fuch an Embargo would he laid, at
a time when fuch a thing was not
fufpected by the people of the Uni
ted States That the Emperor ex-
peeled policy of the nature OF the
Embargo to be adopted in the uni-
ted States, 10 manifeit from another
cireamitance. After the Embargo
began to operate on the inhabitants
of Guadaloupe, to induce them to
be patient under their fufferings, the
three chief officers there, members
of Bonaparte's legion of honour, IL
fucd their proclamation on the Ait
of March, 1885, in the name OF the
Empepor of the French, in which,
referring to our Embargo. they fay
+" That the rigour of theie meaiures
is new proof of the faithfulnefs OF
this power (the United States to its
farmer jrimdtbip with the French
Empire of its attachment to the
general intersas of Europe, which are
likewife its ozvn, as one of the great
means of acceleratins a maritime
peace, by the impoflibility which it
prefents to the esmnar enemy, OF ac-
curing the means TO continue the
war" This proclamation mutt have
been iilucd in confequence of orders
and inliruaions from the Emperor
for his officers do not aet in his name
without orders; and thofe orders
mutt have been inued in confe-
quence of his previous knowledge
that an Embargo was to be laid be-
caure there was rot time, after the