Portland gazette and Maine advertiser. (Portland, Me.) 1805-1818, 1816-01-02
MR.. GALLACIN.


Our ambassador to France, is residing al
New York instead OF Paris. Mr. Gallatin
possesses sort OF ublquitv, and is capable
If iraI sacting all the business attached to
his Office, al the Court of s, Cloud, while
ne is himself in the United States, exciu
sivrly devoted TO his own pc, sonal concerns
Ii was not thus when the desllnies oil
France, were committed to the hands OF
Boaaparte. / hen there was nothing but
intrigue, and mystery, u silence. All that
,ye then kn.y OF the 'rencl Cabinet was o
u, in tie shape Of presidential recommsu I'd
lions to cons, ress, to adopt the system OF
Bon parties policy. 1t was said, that the
restrictive measures OF Messrs Madison
md Co. were to presume our rights on the
ocean, while the c ean, was burning oui
commerce at his leisure 10 persuade US,
bol The protection oi on, commerce con
Sisted in its destruction, that piracy was
perfectly legal, when perpet!ated by Bona
psrte that it was the du,y OF high minded
Americans to submit with patience TO the
insults Of man, who had publicly pro
bounced US, d. stitute of hoIor, TO declare
war at his bidding TO violate cons'itu-
ZION IN its most essential part, and to Change
every citizen into solder--to compel him
to forsake his wife and family at the sovef.
eign will and pleasure OF our petty despots
a, Washington, and to seek his death In the
" thrilling regions" of Canadian ice, were
points that called forth all the intellectual
resources oil tic cabinet. Bonaparle, WIS
to be consulted-his plans of policy, were
to be adopted. We were 10 be told IN the
mean time, that all this was r,rfec,ly &C
cording to the letter md split OF an A.
merican consti,ution-toat Washington
fought, and Warren bled, to assure to heir
ountrymen, the right Of having their com
merce burnt without resistance. We nay
therefore. we'll imagine that our Ministers
at the Court OF St. Cloud, bad at that time,
full employment. But since our admins
tra.ion, have abandoned the Cardinal points
OF their policy, the business Of the United
States, at the Cour, OF France, i, ems, can
be as well attended TO at NewYork, as at
Paris-We would here advise Mr.. Madi
sons plenipotentiary at the Court Of S..
Cloud, to attend his imperial and royal ma.
jesty at st Helena. Mr. Madison still be-
heves him the rightful sovereign, and it is
unmanly to neglect his old friend in his
adversely. We will cite his excsllency to
a case, which we think decisive Of this point.
He may remember, that when his friend
Bonaparte stole the crown of Spain, from
Ferdinand, Mr.. Jefferson could not decd.
the nice pon, Of political oasuistry TO whom
the crown belonged, whether to the legi,i-
mate monarch, or to the robber. On this
ground, he refused to acknowledge Ferdi
nands minister at our Count. Mr.. Madison,
we presume, has no doubt on this question,
as applied to France-he thinks clearly,
that Bonaparte is the only sovereign of
France, and to be consistent with himself,
cur minister plenipoten,iary at that court,
ought Immediately to be dispatched to ST..
Helena
We should think, that an arrangement
of this kind would ensure to Mr. Callatin,
in the de cline Of life, warm and comforta-
bic salary, to eliven his old age. In his
dign,fed retirement at st. He iena, he
would be able to study the character Of" the
greatest mortal in this mundane sphere" a
little in detail.
They would be able to ccms to a COM