The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1809-05-17

! The operation Of the Embargo, and the
failure of the English arms in Spain, have re.
stored to America her commercial intercourse
with England. May this propitious event be
speedily followed by the restitution ofa good
understanding with France, and the rest ofthe
world. We shall then have abundant cause
to hail with joyous akclsnlstions tho admiRis-
trations of JEFFERSON and Ma ,IsoN, and the
happy effects of which they have been pro-
ductive.
We will ask any American, whether .ff-
teen months Embargo" with all its attendant,
horrors, real and imaginary, is not preferable
to war, the duration of which 1t would be
impossible to calculate awar, which might
deluge our country for series of years
Whether an embargo, to save the property
and lives of our people, and to expedite the
settlement of differences, is not much prefer
able to war, either with France or England
Whether the American Government did not
make the most prudent choice, when, by the
intemperance of contending powers, they were
reduced to three alternatives !--Let the rea-
sonable part of the opposition take view Of
the conduct of the Administration, and ask
themselves if they could have pointed out
better course. Caromiele.l
-@A
Duke fYork, and Mrs c2arke.--WilIiann
Goblet, in his political Register of February
ls, makes the following remarks upon this
subject -
Now is the time for the people to ask the
reviewers of Sir Francis Burdett, whether he
was SO very much to blame, when he told the
electors Of Westminster, that mo good waste
be expected, till we could " tear out the leaves
OF the acenrsed Red Book" Go.onel French.
and Colonel Knight, and Capt. Donavan; and
Capt. Sanden,and Mr. Dowler, and the rest of
the numerous petticcat patroniscd crew, are
are all to be found in that Red Book, the leaves
OF which, he wished 70 tear out, His voice
Will, trust, now be heard by those who were
before misled If, indeed, there could be any
such. trust that now, the venal dcclaimcrs
about " Jacobinism,' will no longer be able
to blind the understanding Of any man how
ever simple that man may be. The man.
who now affects to believe, that q deep root
ed system of corruption does not prevail,
must be an arrant knave |; and of course.
none but an arrant knave will affect to believe
that reform of that system, and a specdy
one too, is not only necessary to the prescrva-
ton of the throne, as well as of the remaining
liberties of the people. But, in the mean time,
and, indeed as necessarily conducive to this
reform, let the people bear in mind, that it is
their money that has been sported with; that
it wasnot Colonel Frcnch's money, nor Mr..
Dowler's money, that the duke of York's kcpt
mistress took, and that was expended upon
her footmen, chariots, musicians, singers
ers, dancers, parasites, pimps and bawds, but
IN the end the money Of the feohle. This is
. the important truth for Them to keen in view.
Let every father of a family consider how
much less, from this cause, he will have tn
bequeath his children. When those, who for
rncrly lived in afflucncc from the rent of their
estates, reflect how they have been OBLIGED
to dismiss servant after servant sell horse
after horse abridge pot after pot of the ale
that formerly gladdencd the heart of the COM
er aye, and to cut down tree after tree, and
to sell acre after acre let ali such persons,
when with aching heart, they SO reflect, think
OF Mrs. Clarke, and the services of plate, and
the wine glasses, at a guinea peice, and the
rafting carriages, and the laced footmen and
the musicians, and the singing boys, and the
players and the dancers, and the pimps, and
the bawds in Gloucester place and let eyerv
mind in the kingdom be fixed upon the scene
described by Miss Taylor, every tonge repeat
and every tingle atthc words, /" Hoqv obss
French beAape TO DayAng 2'' Darling How
many widowed mother has had to pronounce
that word over a child, driven from beneath
her roof by the penury produced by these and
similar corruptions Look into families, once
respectable in point of fortune, and you find
them consisting ofa crowd Of helpless females
unable to work and ashamed to beg the sons
all forced away, for. want of the means pos
sessed by their father to seek subsistence
from patronage, to get back again some small
portion of what their father had paid in taxes,