Portland gazette and Maine advertiser. (Portland, Me.) 1805-1818, 1813-12-06

mitase suf abufe IN exercliing this
riehl have occurred (which as tar as
| can learn are corrected when prov
ed fat down. AFTER looking as deep
as a pls.a farmer c'uld do into the
queltior, gave my RAINS why |
was oppoie1 to the ihedding one
drop OF our true native blood, OF fpen.
ding even one million of dollars, in.
itead of forty Millions year, in
luch cauic NV realons were,
L never could fee why nations
ought nor 10 be IS honeif towards
one another as men in their private
dealings Nov if my neighbours inn
of his bound apprentice, runs away,
The h1V allows him 10 enter my farm,
and even my bssfs, and take him a.
way, 1t he takes ihelter there, and al
lows him moreover to fue me for
damages, II | harb 'ur him. Now
neyer could fee any good reafon why
Britain ihouId not take her own fail
ors out OF our merchant ihips, when
her very exiltence depends upon her
failors being kept at home. II we
were in the fame Gualion, we fh7uld
NOT like it much. | reckon, if we
were prevented from taking our fca.
men, who had runaway from our
country in time of danger.
q My iecond reafon asainif con
tinuing the war on account of the
impreisnent Of Britiih iailors is, that
| flnd that Great Britain. 6 years ago,
Offer d to place this matter on fuch
footing as appeared 10 eur minliters,
Metirs. Monroe and Pinckney, TO be
both boaowatle and aavaafdgesuJ to
the United States ] learn that one
of rbele men is now our Secretary of
state, and the other our Attorney.
General, and cannot perceive why
the people hould not be fatished
with what was, 6Iered 10 advantd-
geous and banOma eis TO two grea, and
learned men OF Nr. jaadiEn's party.
| cannot fee that there can be any
jultlce i'll continuing war, when
iush bnour4ble and a4i0antagesm off
crs have been made and may now be
obtained.
3. I find ALTO upon examination.
that the number OF ieamen taken is by
no means 70 great as has been repre-
tented 4; and thar in the lifts OF them
that have been publiihed. names are
frequently repeated five timeS, and
very often indeed three times and
twice that many others that were
bona fRe Americans have voluntarily
engaged to ferve on board Brltilh
fhips, thereby deferting their own
country, like the Britiih failors who
have come to this that a great ma.
ny ct the number were foreigners,
with falfe American projections &
that by tar greater numbers of real
Americans, that had been ,aken have
been delivered up, on Its being pro
we'd they were real Americans.
When | look round in my neighbour
hood, | cannot hear of a Jingle per.
fon ever having been impreiled aud
| invite all honeit farmers to make
the fame inquiry. Tread alto the o.
ther day the depoGiion of William
Gay, who | am told is the greatelt
merchant in the United States, who
Is moreover Dem ,crat, and tup.
porter of Air Madifon, & he fwears,
! that although he has been in b lineis
from forty to fifty years, and has for
the lait i or 20 years employed up.
on an average, three hundred Seamen,
he has had only t&o MN impreilcd
by the Brtilh, and fbres by the French
and that the two impre9ed by the
Biitiih efeaped very foon after.
, From all thele circumitaDces, | think
my brother farmers will be ready 20
conoiuoe, that on this fubject there
has been "much cry bat little ,po3i"
a. think it important for US in
the country, who are liable to be mis-
led ioI want of information, to en-
quire whether we lhali noe probably
lore more than we ihall gain, even if
Great britain ihould agree, that our
ihip, fhal protec; her feamen againit
her feArch and impeachment.
This will be certain lofs TO her 81