Portland gazette and Maine advertiser. (Portland, Me.) 1805-1818, 1809-03-06


ting it. I wish my countrymen woaid exam
me things for The msekes, and not trust SO
much as they do 10 their decelying oracles
From the foregoing extracts will make my
conclusions, siIaple, plain, aud presume,
Hnconiroyertible, and leave fhe reader TO
ay how many 'rew titles to respect the
Government will derive from q full exsinin-
atom of this subject
I therefore make these conclusions
| That our government has demanded ol
Great Britain repeal of her orders in coun.
Gil on the ground upon which they existed
at first, and upon 70 other--L extracts l IS.
That as an 'inducement' to this repeal,
our President has said, your orders beng
ltebealed, (that is, being first done) intend
to suspend the embargo, lextracts & q
but Congress when they meet might take a
freak by bask stair hint and do the thing
over again
That the embargo in its ensction was
contemporaneous with the British orders,
AMI thar Mr.. Pinckaey considered its pre-
caut,"i to be principally to save our proper
ty from French aggression-lextract 5.
That the embargo, adopted without the
knowlc,!g &c OF the British orders, WAS
mere precautionary measure, and therefore
the offer of It's repeal could not De consider
ed an 'overture' to procure the repeal of
the orders in council, which were a bellige-
rent measure extracts 3 K S.
That the offer of an Intention to suspend
the embargo was coupled with nothing
else-wiih no kind of proposal for settling
other difficulties existing between the two
countries-lextract A
That .his generous ofier,' as it is termed
by 2yrapias. was nothing but mere jsco-
bnic, jesuitical trick TO blind the eyes OF the
people of the United. States.
What inducement could the suspension of
a municipal law be TO cause the repeal OF
belhg .rent edict r-rhis proposal was
no more or less than to say to g eat Britain,
YOU cease to retaliatc upon youf enemy the
evils Of his own injustice and We will re-
move stone from our own door. Mr.
P.uctney says in this letter 10 Mr.. Canning,
that compliance With his offer, will not be
concession to the United States, but that,
TO France, indeed, 1t might be concessions
Remember, reader, that demand Of the
reresl of the British orders was made ~
Mr.. Piacfney, and nothing bat an 'induce-
ment' 10 that repeal offered, and that in
duce ment arose from a mere assurance
that an : in ention' existed in our President
to place the two countries III the situation
the we e in b. fore the orders and embar-
80 were Is usd care not now to speak
OF the demand itself; all l wish is that
things should stand on their own bottoms.
Another extract. II it is merely in
tended Gas doubt not it is) THAT is, in Mr.
Cans;ng's letter. to say that did not make,
or declare m, intention to make, my over
ture in writing. before had sndeavoured 70
PROPOSE far it, by personal explanations, sneh
a reception, as felt it deserved, and before
/ could ascertain Sphas shape it would be
most proper to give TO It, or how 1t woulu
be me, by this government. nothing can be
more correct
It appears astonishing 10 me, when
view the situation Of the two countries, and
squirt at the 'bepehfs' that would resdlt
from return to mutual Kindness that a
proposal, explicit in every view as this was,
should require two or three months time to
ascertain what shape TO give TO it, and TO
feel out how il would be met when in
fact, it was, as it is pretended to be eyentu-
ally made let IL be met as ii would. Be-
sides, al their first interview, 18th June,
[ex,rac, l Mr. Pinctney had told Mr.. Can.
mng explicitly that, the substance of what
he then suggested was from his govern
ment, and that was. that the orders in coun-
Gil being repealed as to the United States,
the embargo was intended to be suspended
as to Great Britain Now why was two
months taken up in unnecessary personal
explanations, before the proposal could be
made in such a manner as To obtain an an
swer. Did Mr.. P,nctny suppose he could
caiole ana deceive the court of St. James, as
Bonapar,e had done the Sage OF MontceI-
To- his master MIR. Hactncy had his lines
drawn, he was butted and bounded, and
wish for the benefit of my country, his in
structions' could come before the public
He did not, in my belief, dare to make his
offer formally ill he had hint from some
hundred or two miles channel-wise though
he ought to have had eyes enough to have
seen aiorehana what the fate Of such an
offer would be.
J Another extract. your orders and our
embargo should be rescinded in the manner
suggested, our commercial Intercourse
would be Immediately revived
Did not Mr. Pnclrey know--had he not
8 told Mr.. caaring-and does not all the world
know, That If The orders in council of No
vember, and the embargo were rcscinded,
the two countries would, in relation to each
other, be exactly in the commercial stua-
ton in which they were supposed to be by
our government whom the embargo was re-
commended by the President and adopted
BY Congress, And what security would the
British government have had that some
measure equally 'coercve' would not be
resorted to immediately again by the United
States, If she had complied with Mr. Pinck-
ne,'s proposal speak this, because be.
lleve that none but feasible ground ought
ever To be taken by a government that
wishes reputation and respect.
do not wish to defend the British gov
ernment; care for no foreign power in
any light further than my country's interest