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

The Attention OF readtts 40 ti,c address IN tn
Minister, Jackso', will be rewarded by its perusal
We insert Il fer three good reasons because it
| written in style hardly :nferiour to Jesus, i
I contains sound reason and manly American sent
ments, and it comes from Federal Paper On
these grounds We cheeriully recommend Il.
IN Y. Colum.1
| TO FRANCIS LINES JACKSON, ESQ
Er-fmb6ssedsaw from Uis britannica pfajesfy % th
United States IF .1merico.
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In the first moments OF that perturbation
from which the most accomplished diplomat.
list cannot at all times be exempt, and into
which even person Of your experience, may
| he excused for falling, on the sudden occur
renee OF crisisso unexpected and embarrass.
ing as your late discontinue, you were jndis-
erect enough to allcgc the constitutional lib
erty of the press in this county, as charge
against the executive government, which
yvur complaint implies that department might
correct. You sls)uld have recollected that
when an Ambassadour is most disconnected,
he ought to appear the least disturbed; that
blythe law Of the land the executive cannot
interfere with the press, and that when the
first Consul of France, with those annals you
have such special reason for being familiar,
laid similar grievance before the British
Ministry, ne was told that the courts Of JUS
dce were the only mems known TO the law
furnishing such offences, that Peltier was
convicted by a jury and sentenced by my
Lord Peterborough, not by Mr.. Addington,
or the King. These things you should have
known for they would have saved you the
morsihcation, which every man, and particu-
larIy the Envoy Extraordinary and Plenlpo-
tenti"ry from Mighty Kingdom, ought to
feel, when he SO far forgets himself and his
station, as to be betrayed ints undigni6ed and
unavaiing querulousness.
1t is too true that the press in this country
is deplorobly licentious and though you
were egregiously incorrect when you made
this circumstance ground of official COM
plant to the executive, yet all temperate A.
merlcsns must deprecats the scandaIons ca
lumnies, that are daily poured forth upon
your nation, mission and person. But it is
not the freedoms the press has taken with
your name, that have made il odious in A.
merlca. That you may not return impressed
with belief, in which it Is 10 be lamented
you came amongst us, that party is the only
index to opinion in the United States, or that
certain violent newspapers are the organs Of
the sentiments of the great body Of sober
and rejecting people, take the liberty Of adj
dressing you in the language that is almost
universally held, relative to this controversy.
by those native and genuine Americans, who,
with natural and decided preference for the
English nation, are at the same time alive to
to the rights of their own and always and
alike indignant at all foreign aggressions
whatever. 1t may perhaps, Notwithstanding
your patriotick zeal, somewhat assuage your
disappointment, to know that by this respec-
table class, your instructions are more blam-
ed than your conduct and it is highly prop
er that you should be .appriscd of the inde-
pendent and hohourabe motives which gov
ern them in this juncture. !.
Your nomination created some suspicion
and much Glamour. .Peremptoriy refusing
to ratify the terms proposed by one minister,
after they had been accepted and cfiectuated
on our part, recalling and disgracing that
minister, and appointing another who had
been used to treat with fleets at his heels,
were not indications of very friendly dispo-
sition on the part of England. Notwithstand-
ing these omens, the mass of the American
nation prepared to accredit you as one of the
most distinguished members OF the corps
which, in the States OF. Europe, is as regular
iy trained, formed and distributed as armies
and navies-aware that you were yet reeking
from the discharge of most detestable duty
at Copenhagen, but hoping that your employ
ment on several such exigencies,> was rather
the course Of your vocation than optional, and
that the fame of such achievements preced-
ing you here, would have the effect rather to
soften than aggravate your tone--and with an
honest confidence trusting that you were Sc
lected for your superiour talents and veteran
skill, and coming to negotiate, if not to con-
clude an accommodation. The Americans
arc simple, peace.loving people, little ver-
sed in diplomatick ssphistry. Peace and
plain dealing are emphatically their policy,
inasmuch as one is the source, the other the
only safeguard Of their prosperity. Whatcv-,
er therefore was declared by few unimpor-
tant individuals of the insolcnce and bad faith
upon which your embassy was grounded, the
government, with a large majority of the