Portland gazette and Maine advertiser., 1813-09-27
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Ssasonq5Le Reflections.

N the maaagement OF the business
of private lie Il Is most necessary part
Of knowledge, to Know both the real
and relative worth of things: And Il
holds equally good IN managing pubic
affairs. As a private man IN the prac-
ice of exchanging MS GOLD for pebbles,
pound for pound, ought 10 be sent 70
fthe lunalic hospital SO, and indeed
much more, should a commission OF
Iunaey D. passed upon civil rulers who
bar.er away the wealth, and even the
ives OF The people under THEN care tor
= thing OF 10 value.
Atd yet this has been done By the
rulers OF America and that upon a
mos extensive scale. Already great
many million dollars Of the United
States money has been spent IN iosg
and fruitless series of attempts TO con-
quer Canada. Already much AmeFi.
San blood has been wasted upon that
object and YET the object, il attained,
would be woTth--noghlng The
great body q the people of the I
States would be neither richer, nor sat
sr, nor happier, tor The acquisition OF
Canada though i might III the Poek-
els OF spectators, and multiply loaScs
and fishes 10 the dependents on exscu-
tive bounty.
Again, The ultimate object, or rather,
what Is pretended 70 DC the ultimate
object Of the pfesen; struggle, Is equal
~ insignificant n point OF real worth.
Were the Brush government to be
coerced iat- consent that the Amsri-
can fig should protect BRUSH seamen,
Il would &c no gain 10 cur own seamen,
but rather a manifest aud fatal injury
Tor they would Be supplan,ed IN their
Occupation by hords OF runaways, BriI-
ish and Irish Thousands and scores
OF thousands Of alien scions wonld &c
sngrafted on the American stock ID the
impoysrishm=n, and ruin OF the natural
branches.
30 would the matter stand, If the Oh
iects aforementioned were altain4ble
but they are NOT a,tainable- No man
OF good sense and good Information ex-
poets, now, that Canada will be con-
quercd By the American arms. Nor
does any man Of this description, to
Whatsoever political parry belonging.
sob--ly expect that Great Britain viii
grant on compassion, any better terms
OF settlement, than she would have
granted, voluntarily, years ago. Al
ter seven years war; after expen-
ding hundreds o. millions; after losing
many thousands of lives after drink
ing the cup Of misery to the very dtegs
no better commercial treaty would
be obtained. thsa might have been oo-
tanned By Mr. King, had he been per
united to proceed, Or than actually was
obtained oy Messrs. Monsoe aud PIn~-
new.
How then Is the present state Of
things t. be accounted FOR Can Il be,
that ne understandings Of the prssi
dent and his counseilors are so d4rken
e. as not TO perceive tia, this war prom.
Ives 10 equivalent tor the miseries SUIT
fired by iti No, they are not 80 blind
And ~hy did they reject the repeated
otf.rs Of IN .rmistise Way did they
decline improving the fortunate occs-
sion Of the repeal Of tae British orders
in council By tsSIns = correspondents
step toward ffisndly .sttlemen, Why
Va Mr.. Canliin, French subject, a
native oflhe dOminiors Of the Emperor
CT France, sent TO Russia to treat Of
iPesce with England, v hsn il was known
that Admiral Warren, IN cur owe
neighbourhood, had lull powers 10 O
psn and conclude 4 negotiation Tor that
pu pose Why have the presidents
communications 10 congress, ~ wei as
his osn paper, the National Intelligent
Ger, been fraught with bitter Inyeciives
agains, England, even since The iabrica
ton OF the pretended Embassy tor a
peace With her. Why Is every thing
YET done, on The part OF our administra
ton thar Can be done, 10 enfame the
feelings Of the public, sad, Of course, 70
render the war inserminable And,
more than all the rest, WIZ does the
Moni:eur oil Paris, IN speaking OF the
proposed congress of Europe, place the
Uni.ed states in the very front Of the
Gkles CT France
| How eaa all this be accounted for,
unless on the horrible supposIlion that
the arch-homicide, who sleeps Europe
in blood, has spread the pavilion Of his
throne upon the banks Of the Potomac /!