Portland gazette and Maine advertiser., 1813-03-08

US to 9ln MN, IL we Old nor 90 IL
voluntarily. Mr.. Jefferlon was al'o-
gether dilpofed to become a party to
that ifupendous fcheme of tyranny St
opprellion, but he had not the hardi-
hood to do it openly He knew that
the great body of the refledng PEG
pie in this country. particularly in the
middle and eaitern States, abhor, a
bove all earthly evils, an alliance with
that all desouring power aud, OF
conrfe, that an open & direct attempt
to form fuch an alliance, would hurl
him from his throne I, was, there
fore, much more iafe for his popu-
larity. and certainly much more cen
genial to his difpoiition. to do that
by cunning, which he dare not accom-
pliih by fair. undisguiled means
Hence the Uniting from a partial
non importation to an embargo /; and
from an embargo to non in,ereourie
I - and from that to general non-im
porta,ion and. laRly, from the whole
20 open war with greai Britain This
lait meafure has, to good degree, fat
is6rd the delires of our Imperial &
Poyalmaiter tic has at length con
def ended to revoke, as to as, bis de-
cree, which he aflerted through his
Miniiter, ihould be Gone in 1910;
and which was not done, merely be-
oauf- We did not reach the point Of
hcfility with Great Britain, which
he demanded
The Bfitilh Orders in Cour Gil were
laid in confequence of the French
Berlin and Milan DEGREES Our gov
eminent have incefAntly quarelled
with the former they meanly fu5-
mitted to the latter
1 heRambouillet decree was thegrea.
t # & mott prohigate outrage on neu
trail rights that was ever perpetrated.
1t vas moreover, marked with a de-
gree of treacherous fraud, that is pc
cuiar to the man from whom it or.
iginated. Under is operation, our
merchants were robbed of their prop
erty to the amount, as has been com.
monty eftima,ed, Of at leaft of twen-
ty millions of dollars. No compen
fation has been madc-nonc has ev.
en- been promifcd On The 9Th of
July, 1910. the Secretary of State
wrote to MIR. Armirong, then our
ambailador to France, in the follow
ing words -" As las been hrye.gere
Faffd to yoa, a jdtisfdaoyy proUiEi1n Tor
'ejiernlg The property, Lateb Grpyjfd q
Jerzed' lalluding to the fixtures under
the Rambouillet decree byfbs order,
c. at tic mfance. stffbe French govern
mcnt, mgf be e2nbmed 7pitb vie7c 10
a non-iwercowce Nth Great Britain :
/lcb a condition being an iadilbentable ev
idenes o the juf twp.k Of France f9-
7rH'd5 The Unite3 States" SO far from
Jueb p,o0yfon having been eembined
7pitb The reteai ef The Eencb saifs,
notice was given TO our government,
by the French minilter. Serrurisr, be-
fore the elfablifhment of the non.in
tercourie, that it was BIS matter fix.
e. determination sot 70 ,ffoe that pyob-
1ty his determination was ea,ly
communicated to MIR Madifon. lie
has never thought proper to tranf.
NIT it 20 Songreis ; but with it in his
knowledge and pontilion. and in the
face of his own folemn declaration to
The contrary,t as above quoted, he
fuffered the non intercourse TO be e
tabliiEed with Great Britain and
the property fried mder The Rambou
ihst decree is Jill in the hands AT the
Ivencb.
The eagernefs with which Mr..
Madifon caught hold of the declara
ton in the Duke Of Cadore's letter Of
the 9Th of Auguf, SO refpeaing
the repeal o. the French DEGREES the
following 1T of Nov. his iiluing his
Proclamation on the I'd OF that month,
declaring that 10 be faa, of which he
had no evidence, and which has face
been proved by the MOT concluiive
evidence TO be taJt-viz. that thole
DEGREES were repealed on the 1T of
November, i8Io-is among the mott
itriking proofs of Mr. Madfon's fub-
ferviency to France. Had he EVEN
fhewed a tolerable deoree of fn;,;,