The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1810-01-31


outrage, when il der4nged you from your
functions, and discarded you Its presence
But while such is the sense, and the decid-
cd and enthusiasiick sense of nearly ali the
people OF this country, it is matter of the
most psipful,regret with many of them that
the representative of great and glorious
empire, himself man Of talents and fine
gentleman, should have been obliged to incur
the predicamcnt, into which you have rather
marched than fallen, which Notwithstanding
the challenge of your letters, and the fair
warning you received of its in,minence Seems
to have been as unexpected by you as it GER
tainly must be inauspicious to the future re-
lations Of the two countries You find A.
merican endurance may be tried too far.
Unthinking men, who condemn in the
mass and cafumniate whenever they condemn,
do not distinguish between your constituents
and their instrument They attach an odium
TO your name, which the more discerning
know you do not deserve When MIR. JefIer-
son retired it was said the main obstacle to
accommodate was removed. But they who
conceived such hopes did not know Mr. Can
ming. Doubtless you were ordered to hold
the front you did.--Those rhetorical flourish
cs and polished invectivcs, with which your
letters abound, are perfect limitations of Mr..
Canning's school, which has substituted such
balderdasir for. the stately and respectable
garb,in which, till this day, diplomacy, how
ever hostile, was invariably clothed. When
besides the utter success of their enemies,
the unfortunate people of England, ia short
lapse OF disaster, where deprived of Pitt, Fox,
Nelfon, CORVALLIS and Turlow, fate seemed
TO haye'declared against them, and almost
ever since, distraction, ignorance and malyer-
sation have possessed cabinet heretofore
hlled''with talents, integrity, and .publick
spirit One of the last struggles of the last
OF these administrations was to despatch you
to this country, with Instructions, which, it
cannot be questioned, you have rigidIy con-
formed to. The result is, what must have
been desired, though 1t perhaps was scarcely
expected by the king your master, and his
late ministers: And you are too high spirit
ed a man to blame the Americans, If by eycrv
thing short Of insult to your person they
shew their detestation OF such insidious and
dastardiy measures.
Your predecessour, Mr.. Merry, an atrabi-
larous and maIadroit old man, to whom. Il
was said Mr. Jefferson had been ungracous
Cat least, Mistress Merry said SOY was receiv-
eel IN Philadelphia with a hospitality intended
to compensate for the rudeness he complain.
ed OF at Washington. Mr.. Liston was q
great favourite, and Mr. Erskine was always
welcomed with a kindness much mere than
mesely polite. You are the first British Min
lister from whom the hospitalities of Phila.
delphh have been withheld, aAd you are,
personally, the best entitled to them. You
must, therefore, ascribe the comparative de-
ISOLATION from society in which you are suffer-
ed TO live in this metropolis, notwithstanding
the ciegafce of your retinLe, to that. feeling
OF UNANIMOUS indignation syainA your vms
ployers, which the disclosure Of your cores
pontence has reused Though you came
fortified with letters of introduction, and all
the attractions calculated to make your CONS
pany desirable, yet you cannot but applaud
this rcpuisive nationality, however disagrees-
bic you may find its effects. We know how
to seperate Mr.. Jackson from his instructions
but his representative has cast so deep
shade over his private character, that Ameri-
cans of all parties not caring to draw the dis
tinction, are reluctant to dispense those civil,
tiles, which but for the part which it has been
his cue to act, they would have been proud
and forward to shew. ws
After lingering here a little longer, in a
~'eue' Aou ~Ah"oituy !oui touh sabu dSSouiP PlSi-
ments, you will return to England, with the .
sorry satisfaction OF having performed sn ,
odious service in the letter OF your command.
Unless you go 10 Algiers, Tspahsn, or Tone
buctou, there is now no friendly power left,in
whose capital a conspicuous residence may
snatch you from comparative insignifeanee
in the environs of London. But at all events
you will have the satisfaction to find Mr..
George Canning, who, with no stronger
claims than petty genius and the consisten-
cy Of faction, attempted to hold the sreins
could hardly manage.--You will
find him once more in his proper place not J.
at the privy council board, but at the desk Of
the .Anti.Jacobin, writing, perhaps, an sddi-
tionsl .canto TO the love of the triangles. You
may assure him that his mission is fulfilled
land that though his artillery failed Of its ef-
fects on bis enemies, it answered under the
sfo~ sk< ~ <l.e.