Portland gazette and Maine advertiser. (Portland, Me.) 1805-1818, 1815-02-06

During the late memorable debates N
| Congress, the advocates al this horid meas.
ure have more than once attempted 10 shield
their enorfnons guilt by quoting the prac-
tice Of Great Britain. | lay before you, sir,
passage 81 an eloquent aad able historian.
which will show yoc 10 what light ths Ev-|
glish view eonscrhsion.
BRITISH CONSUMPTION.
| !. Anothcr fill.r says Belsham, .'wss intro.
daesd INTO the House Of Commons, 10 compel
he several parishes. throughout England, 10
4 furnish the army certain c0mplsmenl Of men,
Dut this being rrgarded, ~ TIhEs MoaE vIcI.
lLAWr AND IRALogs TRAN The PRESENT, as =
COW Of wiz. wAs p.ac.icsd N France aid 9th
| cr des, Duck gover.menys, and inconsistent with
1.-The coNsT ruTt and Liberty If English.
men, i. was UsAhfMousLy rejected"
lines more vigilanl and jealous than
the present !'-Unanimously rejected !"-
The English gosernmeal, in times when
vigilance slunlbcrsd, aud jealousy was re-
Taxed, yet unanimously ejecteda conscrlp-
lion bill, IS inconsistent with the cons.ila
ton and liberty Vi Epglisnmen. But the
American government, while our fields are
vet scarcely bleachcd from the blood chat
was paid tor our liberties, determine 10 fill
their asmles by force :--are forging chains
tor our tree citizens, and are determined 10
convert them inlo soldiers Let the man who
-suggested this plan to ex.inguish eur liber
Tics, be covered with iniAmy-let the men
who have lifted tLelr voices and given their
woes in its iavour, be marked, as enemies
10 their country
The bill ALLUDED to by Belshsm, in the
above cited Passage, Was inn oducs q II The
reign oil Qusen Ann, whtn she was the la
yolite OF Tie. people-when Marlborough
was the idol Of the British nation, commar
ding tile allied srmiss in Germany, and a
few weeks before the famous battle Of Bisn
helm: ard may add, engaged ina war
more popular and more imltorfarS and cosase-
quentiot 20 England, than any one since, I'LL
lie late war wath France, and the pgertnl
war with this unhappy county.
NEw YonK, JAN 90.
Fatal <ccident.-On Saturday night last,
about half past 10 o'clock, at Napp,nger's
creek, Mr. David Morrison, aged 81 and
Mr. Mead, young man, were killed by
being run over by stage, 10 which they
were travelling, with number oil other ship
carpenters, 10 'oackt;t's Halbor The stage
stating from iavern,lhcle4ding lines slipped
from the divers hand, and he jumped iiom
The seat 10 recover them. he hersss iuD-
ming SO fss, that he could not oslrlake and
secure thtm Messis Morrison and Mead,
mpt<d 10 grs out and seize the srelns !;
when the wheel lun over Mr.. Mead and
Ibruized him SO that he died in airw hours
alter, and AIR Morrison being eni.ngled by
his. coat, or by some o,he means drawn
under the wheel, WIS crushed in The head,
and killed on he spot. Inc stage Jun hall
= mile before it was stopped BY one Of tbs
other passengers, When they returned and
found their unto innate companions.
In the company were the father IN law
and two brothers in law Of Mr. Morrison,
who was lately from Bath ii Massachusetts,
1 where he has Ieil three children, to feel and
monrn with (sscond) vile il this CITY -
another stage loaded with the SAME kind u
passengers coming up dliec,i! alter lie
acrldcih, The hoiscs started on seeing Nj
Mead struggling in The read, run eff ant
| ossrset the carriage, but happily without
injury 10 the persons Ii il.
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