Portland gazette and Maine advertiser., 1814-10-24

lations of that nature for the fake of ef-
tablifhing permanent peace, and we fall
probably thew that if peace IS ever in
tended with Britain, it can only be pre-
ferved by Withdrawing all caufc of
jealoufy on the Wefern Frontier.
The(e points do not mean now to
diicuf5, but merely to fay, ihe does nor
claim the whole lakes. She leaves them
to US for all valuable purpofes, as alto all
the thores of them we occupied before.
Great Britain does not demand fur
render of the Bank hlhery, or any limita-
ton of il.
She fays fhe fhall not re.grant to US
ipecial privilege, to which we have no
pretenfon by laws OF nations or OF nature,
to fifth in her bays, rivers. or inlets, or
dry our flh on her flores, unlels we give
her an equivalent.
This was mere treaty right, mere
compact. We diho!ved the compact by
war. If realty was made to morrow
without revlving expressly the treaty of
1888, we ihould have no right whatever
to thefe bay hiheries 10 enable us to
hold them, ihe mutt grant them anew.
We cannot ak her after voluntarily re
nouncing the benefit by war, to giv1 us
that privilege which belongs excluGvely
to her without giving fome equivalent.
1t was not very important right to US
1t could not have endured many years
But whatever was its value, it was given
up by MIR. Madlon, and ne knew it when
he declared an offenGve war.
She does not demand our relinquifh.
ment OF the lnjia and china trade. We
mention this merly becauie there were
people mad enough in England to luggeit
iuoh a thought, aud others weak enough
III this country to believe it. When they
come to treaty OF commerce, the priv
ileees we may enjoy in her EaR India
Potefhons will be the price ihe will pay
US tor advantages in her trade with US.
If diiPoiition 20 reciprocity ihall prevail,
and | am periuaded it will depend on us
whether 1t does or not, the two countries
may have durable anu advantageous
peace and treaty of commerce.
am aimoit ATTAINED to mention anoth
er ridiculous report, which however had
its effect for twill be believed by half the
nation as fully as if it was true, that Great
Britain demanded we ihould dllmantle
our large ihips of war, ard never build
any thing larger than frigate. Although
iucn demand would nave dfgraced
England more than US, by Representing
her fears OF a nation which had but one
2ooth part OF her naval force, Yet there
were many weak perfons who were I'M
happy enough n believe it, and to get into
a Rage at this fpectre, begot by malice and
faiiehood. l am forty 60 mortity the au-
ihors OF this saIfcnood by laying that the
negotiators Go not ltem TO care whether
We build feventy faurs or cock boats. Ii
has not as yet become fubjcct OF diicul.
Gon
We iha!l now proceed to fee what is
demanded, and to coniider as we propoied
III the iecond place the diitlnctlon be-
tween what the Brniih government de-
mand as Indispensable, and what they
merely urge as convenient and plealant
and tending to peace, and as we'll caIcu-
lated to let off againh our pretenfions of
free fhips, free goods, and no blockades.
We fay no 6kckaAs, becaule it amounts to
that, as MIR. MadlfJn has declared by
proclamation that there is now no kqaI
blockade of the United States II! If 10,
there never can be.
There never was negotiation in which
the demands were not infinitely more
extravagant than what the parties intend.
ed to take. The ultimate, or fine qua
non demands, which TO explain to un-
learned readers) means thoie demands
upon which the parry intends to Unfit,
are always con6dered the true teR Of the
ipirit OF negotiation Sometimes the ui
PoDidl1is is the ulrimatum, that is he con.
d'tion in which the parties itand at the
time OF negotiation Ifthere, ever was
case In which it was to be feared that this
condition would be United on, this was
that case. Ne made the war, we made
1t by itealth, we fell on Britain un,w,res