Portland gazette and Maine advertiser. (Portland, Me.) 1805-1818, 1812-08-17
Communicating.



Orders in Council, viii Immediately
be followed by peace with Great Bril-
lain. Let them not be deceived. 50
long as our present rulers continue IN
power We shall not have peace with
England, except o. terms disadvanta-
geous 10 her, 10 which we have suffi-
Gent reasons 10 think, she never will
submit. To effect this, the Jacobins
have plunged the country into an IN
inst. disastrous, and unnecessary war
4 war which must be supported by for
ced laws or enormous land taxes. To
ruin the republic is an easy thing for
democratic administration, but to raise
our government 10 the same degree OF
dignity, to have it as much respected,
Is ii was ia the days Washington, to
replace the country, in the same -four
ishing situation in which he LETT IL, viii
require greater philosopher than Mr..
Jefferson, and wiser man than Presi-
dent Madison.
II required years TO build the tenn
pie Of Diana at Ephesus, but Here's
tratus destroyed it in one night.
Exclusive Patriotism, says celebra-
ted writer, is the last refuge of a scoun-
drel. Would to God such patriotism
as now sways our national councils was
confined for a thousand years, in the
same cave 10 which the heir Of Mon
tecello fed in the time of our TevoIu-
ton.
The great bone Of contention, after
the Orders in Council are repealed, is
the impressment of our seamen, a
theme upon which the lacobins dwell
with peculiar delight; II is q bone they
gnaw without being weary; but it is a
viper gnawing Gle. They know that
Great Britain never can give up the
right of taking her seamen and long
continue nation; the inevitable con.
sequence to England of giving up this
right, SO long as our merchant ships af-
ford high wages would be, in short
time navy destitute of seamen, while
America would be oyerflowed with
English sailors. And without her navy,
how long could Great Britain exist
The Jacobins also know that in the ex.
ercise of this right some real Ameri.
cans are impressed, and that so long
as this continues, so long they shall be
able TO keep up the preiudiees, of the
ignorant against her, so long this will
serve for bone of contention" and
furnish plea for continuing the war
France as well as England claims the
services of her own subjects in time OF
war.-But why DO we want any for
eign seamen in our employ ? Ifthere is
any advantage in being an .6merIca,l
sailor In american employ, land that
there is, the great number Of foreign
seamen, constantly emigrating 10 this
country for employment, abundantIy
proves) let the American sailors enjoy
this privilege. Why should we give
it to foreigners (!
The impressment Of our seamen
cannot be the cause Of war. Great
Britain has offered to restore every re-
az American In her service She hes
offered TO make arrangements whereby
this evil might not only be remedied for
the present, but prevented for the FL.
ttIre. II American sailors suffer. IS L
not IN part the fault Of our govern
ment Livery merchant, every captain
OF vessel and every man in the least
acquainted With commercial affairs, We
~ well know that large part Of the
sailors in American en- ploy are foreign.
s with American projections the
blilsh know this as we'll IS ourselves.
MS Is The principal cause why Ameri
can projections are SO little respected by
British officer when SO many are held
by 1sagltsh & Irishmen to prove that they
are real american barn cifizens Far M
il from US to defend British outrage
we will not pretend to deny that some
Americans are unlustly impressed and
hardly used /; but that foreigners can
procure American projections, and that
our government do know i, j. an unde.
1lable fact here is not the leas,
doubt, that more than one half of the
t-57 American seamen, said 10 be i'm.
pressed by the British, tabout whom
every democratic paper from Maine 10
Georgia has made 50 much Eiss were
foreigners who had American protec.
TONS and that great proportion OF the
other half, either voluntarily enlisted il
the British service, or were compelled