Portland gazette and Maine advertiser. (Portland, Me.) 1805-1818, 1810-01-15

hope the writer will 20 on, Iaboriuy n u
cation Every friend to the admin;e..~
ought, 10 my opinion, to encourage Ia,
pieces breathe an anti -American in,;, 1a
Americans will not fail properly 20 .a
ciate. ar"
At this time he is ignorant of the ,,r. \.
it 9th American people; he thips, NJ
daitArdly enough 10 iubmit TO the grcfrsa;n
iults. He IS ali ke Ignorant Of their true ,L'
acter as people of dlcernment, for N IL
the vanity 10 believe that his lcDhin,v
completely delude them he thinks them cors
ly as not 70 be able to perceive hat heis ,ds
eating NOT the cauie Of his country, bur 49,.
ITS foe--l may be wreng IA one parElcuisr y,
he may be advocating the caule Of bis ro,,a.s.
but that couotry us not Am"iea. Wilinglv -
Periuade myieIf that fbs 7rrrtey 10 NOT q, 49,
But why are iuch pieces admitted into an a.
erican prsls "a folnion of this oueo;a.
would excite unPleaiant and Indignant feeI;D..
II iorbear the enquiry.
That the Secretary of State is utt.riv;
capable OF the condua afcribed 10 him /.
this licentious writer, every one petfor.ly
known to him would readily admit. An
quaintance of many years with him has en-
Died me 10 form All accurate judgement =, !.
his character, and it is the perfect convifa;os
Of my mind that there lives not a man who.
his hyperion in purity of virtues or nobI.osr.
of ipirIt. No Of eg4oi rank snisiel,jL.
PriViIsgss, dary TO qH5901 biz fvobty. This AZ
man whole word this writer would perfn,d.
US 10 difcredit upon the afertions Of 4 fore;oo
er, whole interelf is not with us, but av,'oe
us-whofe bounden duty it was to endesyou,
10 gain every advantage Of US, in the adiua.
ment Of points, involving the intereR Of two
diftlnct and independent nations. The I'M.
ted States reprelented by Mr. SMITH, G,.u.
Britain by Mr.. JACKSON and will the peons
of the United States believe the agent Of H.
foreign country in preference to their own
No their patriotifm, their good fenle, their
pride will forbid the admiflou Of an idea I.
degrading
You want to know what Mr.. SMITH
thinks of thele pieces. He would indeed, b.
unfit for the ltation he holds, If he fufered
himfef to pay any ferrous attention to fush
hbelloEs attacks"
/ have already barred the comic Cure that
the above is written by the great Secretaryof
State, himfeIf, and yet fomehow, cannos
reit at the fancy, that il 10. One thing /, Ger.
tain, that that gentleman has honored thief.
numbers with particular flare of his very
ferrous attention" notwithstanding this denial
of IT, and he has made them the fubiect Of
his letters to certain correspondents in this
City. This fact I baSeta TO Ino1o,-One Of
theie correspondents, il would feem, does no,
hold them in 70 very little eltim4tion as il
here pretended for he writes TO Wel5isgf5s
10 e1Preis MS ferrous apprehension of the con.
iequences of fuch public expofure of the
administration and wifhes, moreover, to
know, If Mr.. SMITH does not feel fome ap-
Prehenfon toe He, however, is confoled
by the aiiurance that he need give himielf no
concern about the pieces in the EVsuizs Pef,
and that the Secretary weuId be very unfit
for a Secretary ifhe paid them any attention:
which is duly publifhed, for the encourage
ment of all good, launch friends to the caufe.
As 70 the iHsAniG1BLt ie)Snrafioa which il
contains, that Mr.. RoBERr SMITH would
vindicate his honor in a fuitable manner,
againft my attacks upon it, were il not for
my being his inferior in pout Of ysul-L
conteis hardly know how to receive it,
No man Gays Mr.. SAnrH) of sgEoI ,aaI, ~.
)S'tfdfd Iy f'iViisigr, dare, gg1Hioa Biz Srobi:y"
Equal rarI And what is ,asI in a republic :
This Mr.. SMITH, if we may believe his hilto-
ry' as given AS in highly refpeaale print,
PublifLed where he re6ded, was formerly an
obicure attorney at the P4ltiu.ye bar at
which he earned bis living, and at Ian acquir-
ed fortune, rather as Jew broker than
lawyer for he was allowed to hs the moe
ta0zUins one at fhaving note TO the tune Of 8
per cent. month, in all the place. At
length he got, God knows how, to be our
Secretary Of State forfooth, and ever and
anon the Jastds7V Finer f5rf5 IL barrorvct PHI
~Dge, and fruits aud perks, and who but he !
Does writer venture to examine Mr. Secre-
tary's public defpatehes for the benefit and
information of the community, he is gives to
uHderftand that if he was only of" equal rari"
with his Grace, his E1cellency would foon
call him out upon the turf and put eaden
bullet into his body notwithstanding the late
niihap of one Of the royal soyJGns" in Con-
grefs,
Since Inow find, then, that may do 70
with iatety, hiall proceed in my numbers Ill
the iubjecf fhall be eIhauited, and The true
character of Mr.. Smith and fore others il
place and power, ihal be perfectly underaOOd
by the good people of tbs country-after
which Pror ofe, if ftill in poaefIion Of whole
zones, to re arrange, revife, and correct them