Martinsburgh gazette. [volume] (Martinsburgh, Va. [W. Va.]) 1810-1825, 1811-02-01
ST. @a5stte.
Martinsburgh, Feb. 1.

as ~ ~ NNHNt W" -
examine the history of this government in relation to
foreign powers since the accession of Mr.. Jefferson
20 the presidency, cannot fail to be convinced of
| these truths
That there has been a fixed determination in our
cabinet not to settle amicably upon any terms the
Epoiats IN question between the United States and
kCreat-Britain, and thafss that determination exists at
the present moment
That it has been an object with our administration
to conjure up and to provoke causes of complaint a
gainst Great-Britain and to give to those that spring
out OF the relative situation OF the two countries and
have a READ existence, an artificial magnitude and
importance-that this object has been necessarily
pursued with no less earnestness than success
That the real differences between the u. States
and G~reat-Britain are Of so little consequence that
they conldTeyer jeopardize the peace of two nations
who desia 70 be upon friendly terms and whose
affairs were not managed by fools or knaves-
That upon all the points of difference real as well
as artificial, however right in the first instance, we
have contrived to get, and are now, in the 1groag-and
this without any reference to the pusnlanimity and
baseness Of urging our complaints upon Creat-Bri-
lain, at a time when she is literally fighting for exis-
Etence and when VI confessedly hold ours, Der enter
vie, during her life and no longer
That the conduct of Great Britain towards rs. i'm.
der extreme provocation, has been ever respectful.
undisguised and manly-That it has been her wish.
as 1t is OBVIOUSLY her interest, to be upon terms of
friendship with US. and that, with the exception of
a single instance in which her resentment, however
just got the better Of her good sense, she has uni
'0FnV sought our friendship and gone az far 70 OBJ
tam 1t as she could go without throwing away her
snieid and Barring her bosom to the poniard of Napo.
leon
ihNt III io25 when we were demanding from
SPan redress ior oairages that she had committed
ana shffrre5 rocas our I -sito4y @4id upon our trade,
the tyrant OF europe insultingly ordered US to desist
rom our Just complaints against spain, and that we
oid des'st, and dose, to this moment
ih@ Tue minister of Napoleon demanded Of our po.
vefnment to ihterdict the commercial intercourse ne
Nv cuzens with St Domingo, saying that his master
would NOT tolerate II" and that congress, at the re-
!aeSt OF the PRESIDENT, instantly passed a law aoreeas
bly, 10 his wishes
ina. IN 1906 the Emperor of France ,,nb,nsh;no,v
without deisning either before or since to say one
syllable to us by way OF notice. pail,ation or ano,oo,,
issued a decree anniiilating an entire treaty between
france and the I. States which he had signed Will
MS own hand-a treaty, Ito appeal to which, said
wi munster at Paris "would be an appeal to the
aesa"-So dead that both parties seem to concur IN
forgetting that it ever existed
ihae the Emperor Of France, without the previous
expression OF any complaint against the u States. and
certainly without the shadow of a pretext, s,,dden,v
seized some hundreds of American vessels in his
p0f's and athe ports of Spain and Holland-sold
~ SUI sher cargoes,-pocketed the proceeds to the
s"oo"' OF between twenty and thirty millions of dol.
'-ahd to prevent the sympathies Of Frenchmen
"o" oeing excited by the complaints Of the ere VS..
imprisoned them with an allowance of some twelve
us 'aoout oa) a day for their support
a III state of profound peace and without a
~ VI complaint to our government, French national
'"ps 0 u war have seized upon the high seas the un-
projected merchant.vesseis of the United States. and
Ai'ef laundering them of what was wanted and could
conveniently be taken on board, have set fire 10 the
remainder and burnt up vessels and cargoes--and that
"f, Nmaoison, IN a complaint that be directed to be
AAue 70 Napoleon upon this horrible vandalism, calls
- WIN commendable meekness, the : most distress
As OF all the modes by which belligerents iniure
neutrals"!-
" Napoleon in a solemn official note, presented
I0ur minister at Paris, plainly and uneqaivocally and
so many words, SAYS that we are a nation :. with.
de. S without honor and without policyo-And,
a. INNING that the insult should be in the face of
ar on world published the note in the Moniteur his
" PapeF,-that our President whose feelings
NJ. ~ acute IN the affair of Mr. Jackson the British
70 : as not to permit a charge of dishonor even
IMPLIED has not only foreborne to demand an
;f;. S. ana 70 order Gen, Armstrong to leave Paris
sils,oo refused, but has passed it over in perfect
mat for the purpose unquestionably of increasing
Franc ., corruption among us, the Emperor of
meroa : -.ely issued decree prohibiting any A
! SAIL esSeis from entering his ports unless thes
g ether from New-York or Charlottesville
~foDlef purpose. wifhouf hayinr revak-ed yhag da