Portland gazette and Maine advertiser. (Portland, Me.) 1805-1818, 1811-03-25

rs c,aritA 10 American l.p
coal1 v'f' any y rim ror;. aad even
nor coating trade vae ilbiecied &c
E-ear veYsrion. Iiis Meiei1y ty his
Faysnne Z cree, declared thar every
American VEIL which violated our
embargo ihnuld be lawful prize.
This law IL e acted as Lord Para
rAoun, OF this 6cf Of his Empire, for
which Jodcrf,n and Maiilon rem.
der him homage
So we Zee in the hrlt inaapce we
were treated worie han his Majelty's
other nearer dominions.
Lately lis Maieay has ordered
The fsizure and buruing Of ali Bri-
,ilh goods to uboncever belonging.
This is executed fnply on the Eu
ropean continera the party lcoies
OH BIS gods
Bur when his Majsfty ordered
vicerov Ma6ilon to conform TO this
older. he is not con,anied with the
cat and her Kin, he iniiits upon
hanging his American fubjects, and
demanding 40 lhillings for the OK
renfr OF il. In other soids he de-
lnands the 4ob0ir property, and PEN
alv Of iky. titnsJ Its value be-
ides
We challenge and invite any Of
bis Maieity's servants or douaniers to
deny this comparifon, or TO thew a
nv intsnce in which his European
iuhiects iuffcr as much as his Amer
,ran.--StilI we have been as kyai and
l.5u1Tve as the belt of them We
have given up all our property which
he has been pleafed mott GRACEFULLY
10 feize, without Jingle refractory
p1urmur or complaint.
So monflrous is the Non Inter
eourfe Act, thar not one man in ten
,bouiand ever believed it would pats
into a law Ii did pats. The Mer-
chants who are the victims of it, af-
ter they read the Infamous act, be-
lieved il impofbIe that il ever fhould
be executed. They fagacionsly ak
CO, do you fuppofe the government
mean to put this law 10 force They
had the weaknels 10 believe that the
needy patriots who had Offices given
them, that they might prey upon
The people whom they had betrayed,
would forego the certainty of max
ing immenfc eftates, to p!eate TIE IN
duilrious and opulent, whole worth
they evinctd, and Whole vir,uc- re-
fetfed odism on their vices. The
vsilcls arrive, thcir navigators in pro-
found ignorance Of any law for con-
hfcating the property. The vefels
aud cargoes arc inHantly fcizcd.
Bonds are given. The kind and
nerciful officers of the revenue,
sather than have the property lie at
their riik, and intent On keeping the
fuffsrers quiet, are diipofcd TO per-
mir the original owner to have the
curodv OF his goods, on receiving
fccurity 10 twice or three times the
amount, that they fhall touch the
caih in few months. The mer-
chants Till undertake to ilattcr them
felves thar their property will not be
condemned. Some bsie and interSt-
ted democrats allure them 10 -Men
who few days ago thanked God
thar this ACT was to be under the tslr
authority of the Judge, that no fool
lib iury could interfere, and OF courie
there was no chance for thole who
were plundercd Of their property to
get clear. notwithstanding no con-
gelss will meet until next winter,
1t is confidently repor,~d congreis
will reltore the goods ieized. Can
men be 10 weak and follih as 10
dream, that they who would pats 70
oPprelive and tyranical a law, with
out the fmallett apology. will facri-
fee all the fruits of their wicked
refs 10 thcfe who have not ipirit e
noueh to Euggeit that harm Is iuten-
ded them, and who until iiripped Of
their property and confined in pri-
ion for life, Will never believe the
government is IN earnelt, or that
their mof virulenr and deadly enc
mics, viii keep them from cent Of
Fat property, which they 10 good
naturedly iurrendcr. without even
wry countenance. The government