Portland gazette and Maine advertiser. (Portland, Me.) 1805-1818, 1812-08-03

lers nor the French Emperor oonGd-
cred for four years a. a violation of
the Laws Of Nations, and which Mr..
Munroe then our Miniler at London,
thought to Be relaxation Of the gen.
eral lyilem, and made in fpirit Of
Cancellation towards this Govern
ment.
Bscaufe in the opinion of
this town, thoie v have adminiit-
cred this government lnce Jeferfon
came into Office have h,anifelted an
unwarrantablc partiality to France,
and an iuyetsrate hatred TO Great
Britain-in as much as they have
been cold, fpnitlefs and dead towards
the enormities of France, while they
have fhewn the mott acute fenhbili-
ty with reipect TO, and have magni-
fed the injuries inflicted BY Great
Britain. They have tamely fulfered
the French rulers to declare war for
this Country, to throw into our teeth
the mott vile and reproachlui Ian
guage, TO call US Nation without
character, without honor, without iulf
political views, and no better than a
colony of Jamaica Planters--to feize
and fequcfsr Millions Of our proper
ty, by his Rambouilet decree, which
had entered the ports of France under
the pIightet faith Of the Emperor
and then to allure US that not one
cent of all tina; will ever be reitored-
To plumber fink and burn our veflels
on the high feas, by virtue of his Der
lin and Milan DEGREES, long after Mr..
Madil0n had declared them TO have
been repealed, and long after Con
greGS had pahed non-intercourfe law
againt Great Britain, bottomed onthe
iupPofed repeal, which to our lofs
and di!honor, we find to be falfe in
fact AT the mandate of the French
Minilter TerTcsu our rulers have pro- |
hibited the trade to ST Domingo,
a trade Juai6able BY the laws Of Ma
tons and profitable to our citizens.
They have refufed 10 receive a Min
liter from the Spaniih Patriots, Ma
zion frugging for independence aud
exiltencs againlf the mo& abomina-
bic uiurpation, who was inlfructed
to offer US indemnify for al the fpo-
iations Of Spain on our commerce,
and this under the fimfy pretext that
the Governments Of Spain was unfet- !
tied, while at the fame moment, the
Prehdent nominated to the Senate a
Minifer to Jofsph Bonaparte, the u
furper Of the Spanilh Throne-They
have Paiied embargoes non-importa-
lions and non-iutercour(e laws, which
perfectly coincide with the views of
the Tyrant Of Europa in eftablifhing
his continental fyitem-and to COM
plete The climax, hey have fufered !
our citizens to be beaten, imprifoned !
and lhot BY the command of Napole-
on. without uttering = complaint |
While Oh the other hand they have
declared that more than tx thoul- /!
and of our ieamen are imprefsed on |
board Of Britiih vefels, when we
have the itrongef realons to believe
that the inprelsments do not amount |
70 one Gxth Of that number: elfe why
did the Senate Of this Commonwealth
at the lait felton, refule TO make an
inquiry into the fact? They have
diitorted language to find ont infult
where none exilted, and Mr.. Madi-
fon was weak or wicked enough, toI
inlert a paragraph in the arrangement
made with Mr.. Erfkine, which he as
a hatesman, ought to have known
would have prevented its rati6ca-
tion.
SIKH UggfHabt, becaufe the
burden Of the War will fall almoft
exclufvely, on the commercial fec
ton Of the Uuion thar lection which
has ever fnce the organization Of our
government furnifhed tx sighths Of
the revenue.
UiHecagdgy, becaufe, if our admin
filtration had negotiated with 2 defgn
to peace, and not been fwayed BY
French influence, we might now
have an honorable, and profitable