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.til fit 11 ' iU .If. BI'M Ml f rtl -TUESDAY, JULY 22,. 1806. ; , -f ...1.... , , i l" ,' A ...if. tm.. 498. V4 .e5V d, that Neu pore than he enters-, into of interest, 'mk'ges of ions, as lie I! h chesDcr. that us tncrchat.ti or the Planters in t then, it is to s fmm destnit. !J farce America TCi TtIR ItRlT.TfilV M'SSTtrtM .A EaraplMJia Jfittlr- appeared frd erne Fpytjressei, aajd jto be. writes unfr th eXPUr Mintxy, an whicfrom, th oti(Uejn.oi; it in the journals toted to, youAdmtnatior), mist. etlfe countenanced by ihem s Far e it'fJi "me tolipputp rW WhWdh, the infanfliich attaches to Jk Author and upper terff this: trork, 'Mankind are seldom corrupt H pro fligatelrf gai'naassesV " A waywaTishoH sighteaypeffidiows policy Way dWgrJ a Ca-' BomposeqM a uw lisdividualslit Tare indeed are the examples of wholelations Riving way to the debasing in 8ltenJif set--fish dishonourable, and disgracefuLnjives.. ,-,1 IjlMStorjr of the political ctliiti of all Nationshad taught us, that interest consi derations too often entered into tHiscui. ioiisof (flWneta. and decided the fat of Em pires. , Still there had been always served some regard for those moral princip which ought (o form'the basis 6f the inter- irse of Nations and amidst all the strugl of am bition or avarice, every Sovereign h hitheiv to endeavoured to -cloak his desia under ic apecious appearance ot just cd Hence -inodern history scarcely furnishtfs I an' ex ample of a war, -which' has not hJ preced ed by manifestoes, in which jb Justice of the war on the part of the assajfu Iws been attempted to be supported. Ivvh reserved for your Ministry in the beg umg of the 19th Century to offer the fin xampl of a shameless avowaljof a cont It for jus tice, and of a determination tcTlguIate its . , ' t;aiii ciuicriu us. own rights or the rights pf Neutral Itions, but yx wic eiinpie measure ol its sunlsed.itj im "gniorjr, ana i oeneve it will pnl. its falla cious interests. The most bjtter , aspersions (your ene tnies have been miu rnmn.ln iu-.i-c toous confessions if your frie. No Na tion had conceived against 'youKlinistry o pinions so unfavourable. Nat had ascri bed to them, sentiments io Principled as this Ministerial Agent has d i to avow, i Leavin? as amenable vraA thf Ot rt!rht k-vinrtn 4. k. .....llL L.. it trals ha 1 a!ren.-iy Submitted lV ceuiii miinuui on th paint, a cool, asr i ifjmius cdculiti ana ircU3 ol the rights anc Neutrals and independent f would of a specuhtbn in Sud or Coffee as a mere nucstion ff enf!irv. in - I ,-w--;, ... ,1111.11 the amount to be gained wjto be coolly weighed against the quantitii be hazard ed or lost. It is upon this iund of txpe diexj ahne that one can meelhis atrocious enemy, became he has not ijned to give us a single argument to pr that Great Britain had a right to exu.nler principles ajrairm the Neutral tnfficJ Setting out therefore opon th basis, ill it is a mere question of plunder and pt which your Government is now agitatii you will still uiTer me to throw r.l! ac-le, to show yst plundef ay be in one side nf hn Ki lhi rnly argument of k moment ad tsnced -'iow that it is thcvm! of Grtat- rnm to s:ukf o-T the sfkles of justice, public f4iii and morality, i lat the Neutrals (that is, the Amt ricanvi r the ab tRienJtj) bring the produtlf their enemy's wtuitics 10 maraet so r they undersell the W,r. Great-riritsin, and tlnu r laeir Ciribcc Islands, preserve the Cat ihee I t'nn, that Orcat-n ifm "to a wr. And hiffiur loon r?fiMCn, thr iliMrf which prevailed in t'.e Csrih tslmdi I yesr, when the Ameri-ai trd was oilfr one moment u;?rndH ? 1 ; . ' I i supply your hi ail wfh ! ,e i i,;tl.f life, without the aid f the Un; 1 SutJ There is not an Mind m tw V?f.lndif jut deprecates the idea tf a wir whh the Kited States. Dut a war ith the f.'.tiud l.tes will not be the consequence, ye-i sar.i l ytt found your, elves on the ttmjti JJf r!M natuttif and on the tint of iivenuo (I). , As to the first, h ma avirou, that yoo know little of (he Arr.rrlrtrJhtrietrp. an4 miiiq oi inetr if m;rr if VOU SUDDOta tha n. espocd ti your rtpfy will deter thim that before your crtiifs can pet advices of the war, a lre pk of their vessels will be at home, ecd you feu find from this mo tntnt they will be Jtremely careful how , t'Ut MIC ICO- I pie r America aj loo, that they have ) cffcnlvt at wdl as ifensive fnesns, and the ! ripenenrt tT an tUt ftsts war with you las tiueht them, t ft m a com est of mtn f if you chuiffc resort to it, they rt the adrsnts of y J with all your TOO ships f war. If in ih, Jr f iff j, poor, mfst r a!fi uaproriJed, wfi tolf simtn iaf ynut ministerial wrlter.--Have yoo so soon, forgQftJn-"'th'ii,;origin-,of her last . war MWypnh 'Tt'Wav'WA'to', vindicate wrongs ari"m juries which sjiea'd received- t 'war simply Jo ward off thdse' with whiclt she war tVe'ateTted.--It wa& HOt'tb get rid of tobnoxi- ous taxes, wmcn yotr naa already repealed, b"!itttj cfcliger you toi teriovihec for ever, jro'or claim to )mppse themIf then l;SOd,00y poor," 'divided' Cot6riisf s,";: Vith unexampled courage braved 'dlone 'tiii 'sbme years yoiir rage, for the sake om attaining an abstvact principle of right, when th'Ve'maming sen tlments of loyalty and filread W your power were fn , the scale against them, what 'w"ilf r.QOO.Ooy of 'fi-ee Vit IzeWsV' Inflamed by vth(f mosf itrocTous Violations 5 of their nattbni vights, detidsf ? Wilfthty tamely' submit " without a struggle to laws as humiliating as,1 if ' vantjiiishtd, .the'cOnuerer could impose ?, ' t the commsiiccmeni of the American war Wovt'oifght you Klon'e, single-handed, Vvhen " Jouliad ho other ertemy to contend with ; and it was not until alter vv,e had " vanquished) And captured one of your armies that France even protiised us succour. ' Yet it is preteiided, inaiaca moment wnen every maritime n. t ion oi lurope l they cohkl. strike" a Jei bto toircOTa: ! -Ivia- ii-ij It .ilvl..'.I.IMrttK all thA articles of foreign produce ajcheaper rate; tanyoU had them yourselvattould they . Wow, do, With an increased pitat 5 timea.J greater 'than at that period, p. 80.000 'sea.-; rtvettj with a' swll ixef marine', .and ' wit thV capacl ty to iequjpb ;hi ps ftSi" lne ih-phVyear for the.derfe o'nhftir sea cVast. 'Recollect that the Jerican coast not the coast of;MockadC2J inat'for;.:; mortth it is hot possibfe'Watch, their har, bpuV's, and that during thatfriod their hardy Keam'en, accustoraed'to. thl dangers, would seek their entry to their as , Let it be fe c(otlected too tljat ypui' cilian ( possessions" which produce you morean I million per annui, would not again fin vain attacked by them. - .Seven mill of people rich, pi'OV.ided with every artinecesiary to war, united'under one Govciyent, are not to be compared with one, l,5P,00 poor eohnistsy divided between loyaltjid liberty, and to tatlr onprovided with thfnplements of war., r Massachusetts' alonpn -bring into the; nei i in mrec uays 5t),uiuitnjiiucu muuia, j armed and ea'iinned. tf capable of doins I 8ervir.ejr,i liUih,. Vnlkcers of St. James's. t ion otKu rone is against you, we dare not 1ut-hardv Yeoman-, customed to labburJk eJKer ,ne n?lu Wltn '0u- No 1 1 P,e 01 the Duke of t icm-uriiiin, )ur 111 1 msiry uicuiseivcs go and hardships, such Northumberland sa I s sucn neroes as s'jrroi ratoga. ,;,New-Iingl :n as. Bunkershill,. and led Burgoyne at Sa- counts at present 100,003 men actualizing arms " But we are said to divided 1 We are so, as to internal poiiticsput as ;o resistance, to foreign insults we hp but one sentiment, Mr. Jefferson bearsfte "national sword, and if it be once drawtn defence of biir com- -jnerciaL rights, "hiinternal political ene- imes will bo - the"t to support him. Resides, a man ri should notice: our in ternal divisions aian obstacle to a contest with Great-Britai knows nothing f your internal politics. He should knnv, that the majority wh support Mr. Jefferson have always be violently anii-liritantiic. It is the party oipsed to Mr. Jetl'ei ion who are the most lar Jy concerned h trade, who vs ill ba the moisllected by these meures, who have alrea lcalled loudly upon the Go vernment to rJess their injuries, and who are ready to sti- their hvs and fortunes in support of theina'ional ri ;hts. We mre theulnitcd on tnis question, and Great-lkitain i soon see, that a Nation who as feeble Coloiti dared ahntfor 3 years) to brave Jier poJrs, will not long bc-ilale to avenge their irired rights against a Govern ment, who injdeience of every sacred prin ciple, shotild renly attack them. But it is s.p we have not much revenue. To be sure frs are not so burdened and crushed witlltaxes as the people of Great Britain ; bti Nation is not rich in propor. tiou to her revenue, but in proportion to her capacity to sisc thsm. Let us examine our comprativJ strength. First, Grcot-Biitain has 1 4.00' Ki3 of subjects. We hsve T.OOO.O'K) citizens. Her national debt is 2,200,000,0 Oof Uollar,ouf sis 80,0O0,000,or in other w ds hers is 14 times greater than ours hi pr ortion to numbers. Her exports are about c mble th1 amount of ours, though ous are aiferent as hers were at the begin ning of ouf war with her, We have n.ore than half tie number of tons of shipping that she has oi l nvre than lu!f the number of seamen. Our ordinary revenue Is about 10, 000,000 and her ordirarj revenue is but about 7 O.OOO.GdO do. In other word neither her revenue exports, shipping nr any thing e!e is in as great a ratio to her debt as uurs is to our de!. We are therefore richer. W have mi direct tax nor any ttciieot any na ture sicver. Let us tax ourselves (and we should d' it cheerfully, to preserve our rights) as much as the British tax themselves, and we can support a war against her fur half a century. We can take Canada, Nov Scotia and starve her West-India Islands. A Autaicav . (I) The English Government has in the same manner, ever calculsted upon reducing France by means cf her intestine divisions and the exhaustion of her revenue, la March 1T95, Loan At'cxtaao declared in the House of Lords, that the Committee of Public Safe ty in France had expended more in tv mmh than the whole amount of the National. Diit or Ewciaxo t From this his Lordship boldly concluded, that it was witttj imhotiibU Tor France to hold out hut a single ytar lor irer against the powerful arms (ihjrt is, the Long Pit) of England. la the same spirit of toriqvtring tht mxrtd hj talttilatian, Siaj tasacia U'lviaRots has publihed (or thest ten yeara put, under the sanction of the British Government rn successive Psm. phlcts la prove triihmuUoUr, that France nmt perish the fear after by her Finances. (Ikt Atgut.) (2) We apprehend tht Author may be mis tske n here t the American coatt may be easi ly blockaded at any wther, ha PruUmsucn, (Utm.) s Fsvits Atsiiti TO Tilt BRITISH NATION. America wilt not 59 u wit witk not 1)eliev this Nonsence. They know war will bs the inevitable consequence of the pro posed measures. It is only to allay the.feais ofrour manufacturers,; and your merchants interested in the American commerce," that these pretensions 'ofour timidity and submis sion arc hcld'up.' ' ' "' The real question then, is reduced to this, is awa; -,h the United States pe(crable to an honest licy? to an indulgence to this Niffitfal N ion, to exercise its lawful rights, the rights which God and Nature have assu red to all Nations? What benefit could G. Britain derive from a war which will balance the eternal infamy attached to its injustice. ? ' America is not the country most congenial to British laurels. 'The climate is too warm, and however verdant they may be at the mo ment of transplantation, they uiwiys fade Scarcely an heroe in your arnties, who'ga thcrrdlaurcls in your plains or on our mouii t .in, whoilii! not see them Wither at Sarato ga, or within the walls cf Vorkto'wn. ".. It is to be pre.Omed therefore we shall hear no more of landed expeditier.s. 1 much doubt whether jour maritime ad vantages, for which alone you undertake the war will be much greater. It is a fact, per hips not generally known to you, that the 'Sateof Massachusetts al ne took i iOO ofyour siips during the colonial war. Massachusetts then possessed but 30,000 inhabitants and about 100,000 U-ns of ship jing. She How pnseses 5C0,r00 inhabi tants, and 350,000 torn of shi j.ii.g. , The United States could. then equip, du ring the whole war, but three or four frigates. Their present establishment consists of ten stout f.igatet, and thty have the means of quipping and manning in 4 month Su more, il exigencies shoul.t require it. The plan of blockading 1600niles of sea coast by liiiat, would beComa impoihle, and the American commerce would still li ,vtl yours n'.'twi'.hstaitdtngyour hostility. Ikit ths loss u'itai;jcd by jour Mdr.ufattu. rers in'cis.r n, frfn witfc lyoo in your esti. mate of the conuqiences. . What! then if all the porta of F.uicpe and-America are shut to you, your ptoductioiti will utill find their way without injury toyi.u.intoevcry country of the Globe! Admitting, fjr a moment this ab surddiKtriiic, do you count for nothing, the shock whicii will b given to your mnnufac lurmg towns by the first effects rf the stop- paget JJo you estimate as of no moment the bankruptcies of Cspitalists.and the groans tf the pour dep ived of thtii daily bread I Do you consider as rf little importance tho uspension of all remittance-, from the Uni ted State f Will 30,000,C03 of dollars sud denly wiihdraa 11 fro.n ihe usus! supplies ol yonr ina ii,f,n '.utni j shops produce no sensa tion? If Hie An. ' iran have not patriotism crcue,ho f. rcco wholly the use of your ma- I nufatturrs, which, I insist, are not nrcnu'j 10 mem, is 10 ae nopea they have sumcicnt to luspend importaiions, till the existing two yean stock which thr y always keep, be consumed. But you raise ilculate grossly the spirit of the American Fertile in sunposin 1 thev can not forego the luxuries you send them There issi ariUU which America iropoits from you width she cannot manufacture. Nay, there is not one which sh does not, or has hot at some period or other, manufactu red. The two t,rcai staple attUles tiecesisry in America are woollen and cotton goods lessening these, she can forego all others. America can raise wool enough for her own consumption any ytar she ideates. And tou know, that her cotton has become a dm in your market. She has already established woolen and cot ton msnufactorirs, and slit il In poisessian t."a! your m:chaniim ncccsiary to render them profitable. All your reasoning in favour ofyour manu factures, is predicated upoo the Idea that vpu csn undersell Mhtr Nations, and ihtrtfor 0t lt.f will buy of sou hut you forrrt, that a wir, fofunj a tittuitsti Uidf(nd la vicuscu njuca, ciiiiwutcs llic yrico vt yvxiv manufactures, and ffers a premium to slo fneatic industry Iri the, late' 'war, 'British Goods in America sold at three for one upon the cost; and are you1 foolish enough to be lieve that' we'eannot manufacture "at a cheaper rate'tnaw that?-' 1 ' We have now three times the number of rhhabitaniyjan'd ftVe:tjmea the capital wa had in that wars 'and how can these objects bar .riore prbntably employed than in manufactu ring; "woolen Cloths, tvhen'yo'urs will cost, ua rhret hundtfed per ceiit above themapufactui rfo'g price? - : ' ;' -:.-r. Besid, dO' yOu:reokon for nothing the; tupplies we 'car, draw" fiHm Europe ? Franco xyow furnishes-Us marty articles, and' among' ' ofhe' fnot a few woolen1 cloth. Germany suppl us with many linen good and Ita ly wit , ilks. The commerce of tbeae Coun tries u. ' flourish by lhe increased demand . which we should make upon them, and, I repeat it, it not inthe power of Great-Britain, though' her ships cover the Ocean, to prevent the enterprising sailors of America from navigating the Atlantic. , ..' If immense fleets have been able to elude the. vigilance of your squadrons, and traverse the Ocean for months without encountering; your fleets, how easy is it for single, detach ed, fast-sailint' vessels to carry on a iure and profitable commerce ? RecolIec.t 6nce for all, , that America lies on the only road to the Antilles and Cavibbees, and that your com merce is a thousand times mare exposed to iler strokes than hers is to yours. ;, But this ministerial writer, has the effron tery to say, that America would have too much honor t,q confiscate the British property, 1 existing in private credits and public con- tracts. " ' ---- - - -v- " , ' .What ! a Nation sets up the claims of ho nor who avowedly makes waron a calculation of profit. Who, acknowledging implicitly that she has r.o cause even of discontent with, the other Nation, avows that she must fight her, because it is more for her pecuniary in terest than to be at peace Can such a Na tion pretend to claim prole'ction from the ho nor, the sense of justice of the other ? A way with such ridiculous appeals to princip pies which you have been the first to despise America, jealous of her good faith, would have been the last to enter into so shameful a .contest? but she will also be the first to fol low an cxampla which your perfidy willbava rendered necessary to her safety. To all your futureJoises in trade to the loss of your national character, you must therefore add the total loss of 30,000,000 of dollars due from citizens of the United States, and 45,00,0,000 due from the Government of thr U. States to,your suhjects." The appeal is now about to be mad to Europe, to the world. If by a timely dis missal of those who have rjiven thete perni cious counsels you prove that you are rot the partakers in their unjustifiable and per fidious views, it is possible that you may pre serve your station In the opinion nf other Na tions but if, setting at defiance every prin ciple hhherto held sacred, if avow ing that you know no other rule but your interest no o ther law but your power, you make a w ntors attack on the commerce of the United States, you will soon learn that what 1 have predic ted is more than mere prophecy. ' You will reap in the distress of your ma nufactures, the ruin of your commerce, and in the execration of both hemespherct the re wards which such unprincipled conduct will M such a tasi most richly merit. . An Asttarca. NKW-YOUK, June 2J. Kessru Lcnj tf Turner The enterpriser of Gen. Miranda in my ship Leander, having excited considerable interest and attention in the public mind, which has for tome lima past been deceived br various ridiculous and unfounded rutnours, I think it preper to give fublkitytothe following extract of a letter have just received from a gentleman of re spectabitity on board the Iinder, the correct ness of which may be relied on. Your very humble servant, SAMUEL G.OGDEN. ZiXtKt ehtttttr dated Grenada, illh Maj,' rem a gentleman en Uard tht Ltandert 10 Samuel (7. Ogden. We left Jacnuemel on the 97th of March, arrived at the Island of Aruba on the f th of April, where, after taking in sufficient water, we sailed on the iSth of April, aod being off tht Main on the 27th near Porto Cavello, we felt in with a Spanish brig cf 20 guns and schooner of 14 , by both of which we were attacked, and had en action of half an hour, but no apparent damage done on either side. lIocvtr,during the contest, wc were so un- t. m - charttrtd at Jarquemtl, on board r which vessels werf about, 3 men. This circum stance was cccatioacd by those schooner! falling to leeward, and our not Wing able to stp rate tht brid from the sch'r, in which case we certainly should have saved our litU conn V, " Ifowtvtr, to remedy this eH, wt lro ' mcdiattty dctctmlacd logota Tiix.idad, to TlnLeanJsr'i force la ITr.Ine pjusirri,
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