Portland gazette and Maine advertiser., 1813-02-01

ttatSiS WOua "a PSiiNhSS pioifN,S"S
times, and our farmers and lumber
men would find good and ready
mar ket for whatever they might have
to difpofe of. Still, by policy as
myfterious as it is ruinous, the peo-
pie Of the United States, more par
ticuiarly thofe OF New England, land
we fee no porfpea of its being other
wlfe) are doomed to iuffer under
/" 7 hings as they are" when they
ought to enjoy" Things as they might
be-"
II (nguiar CONTRACT Once on a
time Napoleon Bonaparte opened
his ports and the ports of his allies
to the American comm cree, and in
vited il thither. When he had en-.
trapped as great number of Ameri
can hips and cargoes as he could poi.
Gbly get together at once, he fPrung
his trap he fcized them at one
fweep. and applied the avails, amount
ing to Eve0tcen millions dollars, to his
own ufe. At the fame time there
was not only common peace and tel
lowlhip between the taid Napoleon
Bonaparte and the government OF the
United States, bur there was between
them alto an exp,els treaty OF COM
merce and fricndihip.
SO much for our friends now for
our eneniies.-Sundry merchants OF
@. Britain happened to owe iundry
merchants OF the u States, the good
ly FUN OF twenty million of do .ars
Aud at the moment when they, the
Americans, had loaded and were
loading their lhips with Bntlih goods,
articles of prime neceiiity at home, TO
the full amount of the twenty mill
ion dollars due them ar tins very
moment, tidlngs were received by the
Britith government, shat America
had declared war agarnlt it, and vas
plundcring the Britiih commerce,
wherefoever found. Yet not~ithitan-
ding this, notwithstanding the car
goes confiitcd of articles OF priac
neceiIity for US in our fate of war
fare, the iaid Britiih government per
miited the faid Americans TO bring
away the whole amount oi the TWEEN
ty millions worth of property; aud
not only permitted them, but lent
them their aid .--t.0nn. Ceurdnt.
AGeicb # two great cbaraffrS.-in
the month of November 1872 1t be-
ing the fourth year ct the reign OF
lanes the Gieat "a year, that will
ever be dittinguiihed in the Ameri.
can annals--Altxander Smyth, one OF
the numerous branches Of the Van
Bl1dtley family, brigadier Genera, *
commander In Chief OF the army OF
the centre, put forth a war proclima
non, The found whereof has gone out
to the ends OF The earth.
Next Peter Is Porter, of war fcaii
memory, Brigadier General of the
fald army of the centre, and contract
or or deputy contractor Tor the fame,
endorfed the faid war proclamation by
pronourcing it to be 4" an eloquent
appeal" and by certifying under his
own hand, that the faid Alexander
Smyth was "an able and experienced
officer"
Next the faid Alexa der Smyth,
by document written aud publiihed,
and Gg ed with his own hand, broad
iy hinied that the iaid Peter Is Porter,
in his capacity Of provder for the ar
my, was no be'ter han he fhould be.
Next the faid Peter B Porter, to
all the good people, and to his fel
low patriots in particular, iendeth
greeting, and informeth them that the
self fame Alexander omyth Is a c91o-
ard, aud that every one who .la7v
him mutt have been impreit, that a
. ny military attempt, under fucb a lea
der, mutt. in all human probability
prove disgraceiul
Next the faid Alexander Smyth &
the faid Peter b Porter, meet toserh-
err by appointment, look one another
ltoutly in the face and a report of
plaols is heard, and the imell OF
fmoke is perceived.
Laitly, " the band of reconcilia.
ton IA ofeted and received :" each