Martinsburgh gazette. [volume] (Martinsburgh, Va. [W. Va.]) 1810-1825, 1811-06-21

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two countries, and conveying to them IN
struc,ions as to the measures they are to a.
dept. The Action frigate carried the
dispatches to the Cape and to the East. In
dies. A cutter and brig sailed last week
with the dispatches to Halifax and the
st-Indies. 1t is said that some British
vessels have recently been detained IN the
American ports, under circumstances
which the honor of this country cannot
brook. Captures made by French cruz.
ers have been carried into American ports,
and their cargoes openly sold, and the enc.
my's ships of war, which have the liberty
of entering the harbors and waters of the
United States are able to watch English
merchantmen in the American ports, and
to put to sea after them and capture them.
Such are the reports in circulation.
War with America is her own seeking
and on her head be all the guilt and
shame oft. We have not provoked it,
unless. she considers it as a provocation
that we have met the DEGREES Of Bonaparte
by our retaliatory orders in council. She
might remain at peace without dishonor to
her character, and with advantage to her
commerce. If she links herself in unnatu-
raj alliance with France, if she prefer a
coalition with the enemy of the human
race, soon she will find her own bit.
terest enemy; if she chuse to act in CO.
operation and concert with him in his un.
hallowed projects against the peace and
freedom of the world, on her own head be
the crime and the punishment of so mon-
strous policy. Not that it comes upon
US unexpectedly-she allied herself in sen.
timent with Bonaparte when she viewed
with indifference his infamous invasion Of
Spain. Then what we're the feelings oil
America and in what characters will his.
tory record the unnatural conduct of the on.
ly republican people on earth, who claim
an exclusive privilege to hate and denounce
every act of rufian violence and every form
of arbitrary power. 1t certainly will not
kindle glow of emulation in the minds oil
the descendants of the present race, when
they shall be told of that unparalleled crime
an oblique notice was once taken by the A.
meriean government; that the people OF
America seemed to rejoice at the triumph
of the invader and frowned on the efforts
of his victims.
To associate America with him in the
war against us is the wish of Bonaparte
not because he thinks it will advance him
one step towards the subiugation of this
country, but because it xoiA feed his ha're1
and gluf his revenge againss america. Sh'
wi II find that he embraces but to stiae her
A war with England may indeed softer
his tone for time, but, as we have seer
exempli fed in the case of Austria ane
Prussia, it would not produce an oblivion
of past disgusts, nor contract his unmea
surable ambition, nor extirpate his deep
rooted hostility to trade and popular iusti
tutions.
when an attempt is to be made te
plunge America into the same abyss of ruir
which she has been assisting him to pre-
pare for others, she will as in the instance
of Prussia, be scornfully reproached and
relentlessly punished for her original neu
tralIty for the symptoms of discomfort Oh
indignation which she may have shewn un
der the yoke of his own CALLING amity fol
her very treachery to the cause she had a
bandoned in his favor, and which, as she
will be told, her fears alone tempted to be-
tray.
eff, after the warning voice of one o.
her wisest men, Mr.. Walsh; if after all
the irrefragable arguments he has advanc.
ed, and all the incontrovertible facts he
had laid before her Of the ruin of an ALI.
ance with France if, after all these, A
merica rush into the arms of France, W.
can only say, that the disasters, the /" lilac
of woes" that are in store for her, if the,
be not viewed with Joy and triumph, vii
cei tainly not produce, in any British breast
one sentiment Of commiseration."
NORFOLK, June $.