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'-' The dispalchet by, the Osage, altW they '
liavp inspired us, with no hope of an amelio
.ration of the policy of foreign powers to
wards the United; States,' enable us, never
theless,' to understand more clearly the true ?
jiatur f our. Own , situation,' as well as the
Jirobable views of France and Great-Britain
, ytitK regard to this country. , , , -
France and her a)',ies at this moment have
little .or no external commerce ; nor, in
side- To relax Iris decrees villi irpsvil to lck In niching from a slate of peace into a
the United States whiUt the order of Cii eat. statjjj.f W;)f rate hoii!ities. . y '
Britain are in existence, could be tf no pos-, The French emperor may learn hereafter.
sible service to France, whilst it would lie -; that it is cjf nome importance to be ort good
of immense benefit' to . her rnenvr Nor
woild it suit the' views: of Nupoleonr jast,
now to declare was against to'; lor in a war
with the Americans he has nothing to gain t
but it it, his interest to embroil us with G.
Britain ; for then he would have in (is en ac
tive friend and still enjoy all the advantages
ever the British which he does at present. ;:.
Hits view ot the case designates at once
terms w Hulls : And a lor lire at Britain she
nil! understand 1 hopc.it may not bo too late
for her) that she has woefully missed a figure ,
and that her ministry have been the dupe oC
n few men in tliis counti y who are themselves1 .
deluded by a monstrous deceptia visits in po-'
Jiiir.9. Europe may rely upon the fact, that-.,
six months have 'familiarised men's minds t
the embargo;' and that it is becoming more 1
the cause.of 'that mongrel kind of conduct .JLl!laIJerv ri4T m ,10t tl,e h"hitor
"Which Bonaparte observes towards us. ' The pi'siing my ounrymen ; but I will venture-
truth, isTtradc of that kind -so essential to. " Information by the Osap-e. induces a belief y rat?h of them ; that all attempts
' them as it Is to Great-Britain. Agriculture
nd internal traffic, constitute the basis of
. ult their financial systems. ' ller.ee, foreign
; , trader with them, is not a primary considcr-T
, at ion in their fiscal, arrangements. '.' It is at,
; all times the effect of a war between Great
OBritain and France, that the; exterior, com-"
amerce of the latter is cut up. and destroyed
.during the "continuance of the -war,. And
X otonly can it be annihilated with respect -lo"
French bottoms : but whenever Creat-
to violate the laws oina-
that h is disposed still further to aeeravat to induce them to level all endeavors to sub
the United States,- not to a war with himself "vert the government, to divide the union, op .
if he can help it ; hut it is very tertain, that to force upon them a president against their , , i
at ihit time he twidJ thowe hostilities Kith A own inclinations,' wilj be by them resisted
menctt in prejfetic! to annulling hit decrees, wlh.unbounded indignation ana at the pent,,
because his grpjt "Interest conists in adhtr- of their lives. ' ,
ing to them as long as he can induce the Eng- '
tiali to persist in 'the rigid execution of their '" -. It now ascertained with" precision, tint,
orders of council, . ' 1 ' the Embargo has been prolonged by the im-.
Great-Britain, on the other hand, relies proper conduct of Mr, Pickering and those
upon commerce for the amltnnce-;f h.r f n'4 And an adherence to it until a.
government and ':ts expensive nppertdages. amiable adjustment ot our cliiierences take
Uritain chooses
lions, f inlnnging apon neutral rights,' ;rhc facility of ruisins- loans denends nnnn place with the beilij-ticnl powers, ho longer
Jiey immese naval fores enables her to pre 1 Jhat, source and, in truth, her whole ays nMf matter of palir-y. has become a mea-s-ent
all intercourse between France and m- vtenf of revenue. drrYctlr or imlirectlv, is bot- ""'!'t: of inicient to the ration. "When
tipns who take no part lathe war. "It must tomedunon it. She cannot eiist with snlen. known that ep-ctntion are entertained
cor tor any long period ot, time without an rtai-nrusm mai uie Americans win
extensive and flourishine'lradc-Deludet' bv "turn ir.auige nts against their own govem-
a fallacious "view of things, and believing vncnr, that oup eonstit:Ln may be subvert
' that the continent of Europe either could not . "hd that by a continuance of the ordert
or would not do without large supplies of council the British ministry can compel
colonial produce and British manufactures,
even if it had to accept them by vessels di
rect from England ; she rashly promulgated.
and acted upon her orders of council, -and
thereby rendered our Hug obnoxious in all
the ports of fcurope, whosa sovereigns are
Jbe recollected that Great-Diiiain is not vul
' aaarable ta the French, power by any direct
' medium except that of a aavyt and this
.Trance has not got. The business of France,
therefore,' 'wil, to find jut sorais ' indirtct
anode pf reaching and injuring her antago-
j just, v In all their European wars, down to
,; : she year 1807, the British had been enabled
...ly. coalitions, subsidies,- and otherwise, to .,
Jceep open a channel on the continent of Eu
' xojie, through which they could pour in their''
f manufactures and producer and . were thus
i ' enabled to support the war by the proGts of
a trade carried on during the war in their ,
own or in neutral Vessels, even with their
enemies; for, tne goods once introduced on '
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the people ot the United Mates to choose a
president contrary to thtir own wishes, what
remains to be done but to persist in the em
Largo, (even were in.otan act of tht most
prpfound and cohbiimmate policy.) in order
the cub;net ot bt. James that
to cnuvince t.ie
hostile to G. Britain; and by doing so efec-1luc,, expectations will not be fulfilled? Thr
tually stagnated her own tnde, which hiid montns ago tue embargo in an pruoauimy,
hefore been briskly carried on, noitIii.taiid- oufd hac been raised, had it not been for
ingthewarin a circuitous and lawful Bianner, n howlings uf the T.jsex Junto and the
lv our bottoms. ' . r.nzettes devoted to tiicir views. Diitresktd
the continent would readily fiwd their way in- : Thus situated, the British mintiter Would tyi 'btir own orders of .council, terribly
to every quarter uunapane ar aoa icu me-f
evil to himself; but. at tht 1 same time, was
wire, of hit incapacity effectually to ob-
; struct it, unless he could by a deep and well
laid stratagem, induce! the British "govern-.
mentuT!consciouly to co-operate 'with him. .
The Berlip decree for which English orders
liad previously furnished ample pretext, was .
an viptrimnt that has certainly fulfilled
" more than the French emperor's most ardent
peUtibn. That decree was never csr
ried tntoe8ct against neutral (as has been
proved by British rnerchants strictly cxaroin
ed at the bar of the house of commons) bo
fore the English- orders of council were is
sued in November lat ; and indeed, Npo-
Jeon could not have executed that decrea a
rsinst the American,, who were the princi
pal neutraU without risking a war with u,
which it was fr. from heinj his.dcsire then ;
to provoke f liiconstruing Bnntpartu's in-'.
ttfjwjon, and excited by theunccasinf clamors ...
of lheAVeU India planters, the Eusliah mi-,
ristry, tnder.,the influence of the right ho
norsble Spencer Perceval, chuncellof of the
, exchequer, induced his msjeity to pass those
fatal .decreet, which' complexly threw tht
. commercial -world upon a new axis. 11 1
think! can prov, air (says Mr Broughnm,
' apeaking to th'm point) that, we ourselves,
. ilinded and alarmed by the empty mensccs
ot the enemy, which we bad often before ex .
perieneed to be ineffectual, terrified by viin
fearj which we could not describe, and ,
juiog from the, very uncertainty of the dail
. nets in which we were, that soma evil ,w
- impending, wknenol what,ountcrsiciV
' ed all the decrees of the enemy; backe
their futile threats with our solid ordersi
. xirrleOhenv triumphantly Into executiok
' by our. all powerful navy, and reduced f.
commerce of the country to that state,
that pitch of degradation, to which he, otT
(...i.Htrriirm. had wished, but In tln
Rludiy remove all diicultiei to a proper and e(1 4t the pmptxl btfofe Ibem, the rer-
pacific undcrstnndine which exist between : 1 ministry were .about to yield 10 the de.
Hie U. States and G. Britain, were it not mfof justice, and withdraw their odious
- for certain expectations entertained ''upon' Janovatibtie wport malitime law s when the
their part. They hve been persuaded horn3 fi!Ct Kir""ering of that baleful spirit of mif-:
.the writings and conduct of particular per- . representation fcf .the depositions pf the peo-
" sous among us, that the people of this conn- T'e l this country teacbed England, and in
try would not submit to the embargo, .that fll!n the Hruislt tnliistry to wait the ful
they would revolt; that there was a proba-fi,mnt f I)19 ml deluding prophtcjr.
' tility that the government, matf be subvei ltd, Vsttty .aentwnce of .Mr. ' Pickering's "letter j .
nr that a division of. ih unioii miitht be ef. evty paragraph againU' the measure, from
fcted, if the cabinet of St. '.James' would the dy it was enacted to the preient liine
only adhere pertinsciously 'to its measures t1"" a tendency to rivet the embargo upon
and that, at all events the pr rtevcrance of G. the ' country more lirndy. liut, " Good
" Ilriuin ji her unfriendlv conduct to Ameri.c,Bl,,'0 oVevil."-,' Another Englishman-
c could not fait of nroducin the most s.' is'' T ' know better how to estimate the
. Jutary effect for.Enghnd in the approatbin-j
presidential "election. This opinion f the
Briihh ministry is grounded upon the pub
licatifMis in the opiJosiiion prints and upon
Mr,' PUkering's letter in pJrticulaf. There
" is alnrt jjood rtaidn to believe that ltlters
lave been sent to the ministehal party in
England by persons in his country, advising
them to yield nolbini? to the present Aineri
tun administration, and fluttering them with
the hope that radical change of politics must
Ue the consequence on this side of the wak-r.
:-- In these circumstances ' tho course f con
duct to be pursued by the people of the-U
Mates is as lucid as a ray f light. On ti
promises and predictions of the other Pick
crinps; and, growing wise uy experiment,
wi!l learn thai the M JctTersophtn policy" is
not injurious to G. Britain, only when the
policy c' llntuin is inimical to her own in
UTtbts. ;. ' " Monitor
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Who U. Timothy PirkeringJ If he was
litije Icisjllwn a.trjitor during the revolution, ,
what epithet shall we bestow on his conduct
now, wlun every faculty of his soul is fous
cd Rnd put in motion i effect an overthrow
tf the , present i admioistratioh, and4 w(th it '
the republican ir.siitn'ior.s of our country? ,
If ha is not a Critiuhinartizan, why did lis
t hand wa ftr -presented with an enemy, "'' in his faroona letter to governor Sul
If we choose so to consider it. France cares
very little for our friendship, it it tt gn!s
lierseni but values our enmity as u relates
to G. Britaic 1' whilst the latter estimates bur
amity as essential to hervital Jntettstr,: "bur of every American
in lh expectation nf revolution iiranng our
cilixeni in her.fuVor, rejects the olive-bramh
that wo have so often presented to her. A.
trainst France it beeornes lis to assert our
dignity; ar'n't F.ngtand to maintain our
unity," our independence, and our character
as a free people. The aggravations of France
liysn, to mention the subject of the British
orders of council of Nov. 1807? And if Je
is a Bllish psrtiiKn, dots he not deserve a
Iisllcrf YKS will be the spontaneous reply
Tet. Jnt. '
AMERICAN HEMP.
,lthl. bv those decrees, to reduce it; end '
are woundin? tn'btir inuc of national hn
to which, by no oiner eari.oiy vowcr wu
our own, could be have succesucn m rw
nor; time pf the British insulting and de-
rPiinRecrctJry of the Navy will receive uo
til the 1st November next, proposals for
furnishing wa'rr rotted Hemp of the gnwth
of the United States, lo be delivered at Ports
mouth, K.l 1. Boston, New.London, New-
York, Phildlphi, New-Castle, Baltimore,
' 1fi g It. --The pcace-of TH,- asd t he
aure of the Psnisli flset, in fact shut Brijsh
bottom out from the continent, and tlire
ws no other means of intercourse, genial
ly speaking,' than by American vesteU
The obnoxious ordert of council restn-led
'' tht Utter from' proceeding to the porti of
Trance or of those powers dependent omd
In alliance wit!, hart this brought thennhn
' decree into full plsy, "
. ai.ll more severe by thstof Mdani asd the
ivviss or hit
3 - sa . i
Kr.QtnKo every Mbit passion i onr nature, N)fofkt Wilming'on, N.C.Charlcston, S.C.
tiecsnseit nresunncs tmon nni want nf furo.-'L' : ,,- ? ,"-. , . ; . - -
, ,t1fTificnt navy, ant -vnthout incurring 0e
recemry and ertnous exprnceot one, be
. lias pticeJ-"" comtnerr of En;:fnil h a
...t' ion the mont humilitting, and by sin-p-ilardunncif
of appreheniion on tho psrt
of the Brttjsb ministry, hetm'taith tvi'e d
in mukixj tht Dritith nay sht tht tnlritimt
' IcititiiiJ Ffentt, , - ;
I'roui inch 4 sit jatioii we look in vain for
Uapolcon .to dislodge himulf. Me ees vtry
fcUinly that. Jhe bititcry'adiar.tkp cn hit
tuflu asn virtuous principles. .We its a
peacestle nation; 'we must therefore pre
aerve a pacific posture as long as it is ltnMr,
ctmiistrnt with out interests and rights. We
are alsj a gallant nation, we mast therefore
snake war whtn penre is no longer reaiona
ableor to be tolerat'!, : Io any event, the
embafgois a wise measure If we refrain
from war, it acts at a girth which binds our
most vkImsIIc resources to the couiitrf . It
m 1.n f ( t.,liUtr! nnan lU rnrmv. I r
tone, he
It el me want or tir inciiy eiiic.. n
make war, the 'emhavf i is one of those mid-'
dlr mesMlres which breaks the tlresi'ful
' The reidcrmsy recollect the initinctiont
Issued in April Ukt to English ships of war,
not to mok'st American vessels fuund at ca
without ie quliir tjeurances," ke They ie
no dovbl frsmrd to enrouram Insurrection
tere, and To' assist ti e Pickering Jvnitoiuf
they have produced ne tlltct
S4viiirj!i, Georgia, and New-Oritaiift.
' For well V'jttr rotted and well cleaned A
merican Hemp, tha Secretary of the Navy it
dispoied to allow a liberal price beyond tha
usual price of such Hemp when Vw rottotl.
.Any jierson trsftsmitling proposals fur fur
nishing a supply of.-ar rotted Hemp will
bepk'asedto sule the piice per tmitha,
place whereand the t;,.tie when it would l
delivered. , '
' 2'ay Department,
' 3J Jj 1103.
TO Kir. NT- -
hntf price during the Emharff,
rT',VVO be and convenient wre!ioufe
tnd I wit (lics in an excellent fitua
tion at the bottom i.f Princei Street.
I'l'ireflion the florei immediately
and ol I he waulioufcs flirt of May An.
V'y ' ANDREW SCOTT.
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