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'. k AH ,.t , T. -tV:;"'-''-3?Q0V.?H publishing1 your distress t You were then o bliged lo submit tmcessity The Ariieri cans have 'availed themseTvesof , the critical situation in which you wereplaced. Tlicy have qfferejj to, lend you again Weir assistance their industry and their flag, but on condition ihat yoiTill 'spare a little thtirf 16ve f that they shalliio'lOnOTrJbp obliged to p-o.tp you tft trpd Upon thf cmcifix; ("fyand that they shall J receive at leak a moderateshiire in y'iur pro; - hts. All that is arranged cmicabh &m ve now see yoa united for the purcme of obtain ing the booty, until yoii shall quarrel about the' division. . ' , ' : k The same day, a neiy order of council de termines the conditionsinder which the U. States may trade Vith'othe nations.'" - i Always the tone of masters, everrwhen ypu haverjeed of the assi stance lotners; buttbia is an old and bad custom among yon ; and surely, 'should there not be somethi con cealed'? . : , .; "It ts. decided jhat thepbrts of France and Holland, and their colonies,' plantations and dependencies ; lbs ports of Italy to the norih Orbitello and Passaro y the port of Barcelo na, the bay of Roses, in Spain, the coast of Biscay from St. , Andero to Fontarabia, shall b; considered as beiug in a state of the most rigorQUslockade. y :' ' In fact to open to jhe Amerians all the ports of the globe indiscriminately, to pewit them to goto those 'belonging to. pi 'under the control of. France, after having yourselves raised the ohstucles vhich prevejled thum, .would not that be throwing off th: mask too openly ? In saying to the Americans : go, increase and multiply every where, you!rV it not havejbeen -avowing the 'perfect J.armony which.is establisbd between you arid them, and exposing them to 'receive amongst u a very cold reception, tosay the least; (for u .niop arid harmony , betwchi you and them, must naturally produce quite contrary effects between them and us.) Iiojv, then were you tc,dray h-om fhtir flag all the aid which you niust have expected from it ? Va3 it not 'no- consequences which, that arrangement f-cessary in order to have ti appearance of not oeing, io speak vulgarly, nana ana glove win: th'em, to put Eoriie restrictions to your kini ness to cause the American conimevcCto bv considered as still opp ref t ed in srnrie' re spects, in order Uat her vessels escaped v ith-' out much trouble, from your pvetended- vigi lance, from your ridiculous l iockvide, might be received among ue and our lriends .with. open arms, &nd as viclins escaped from jour cupidit ? , .' liy reliectinjf on it a little, thii suspicion ap pears to me to acquire a considcrabis; degree of weight. The new .-.rcier of council' vas mads on l1:e same day that yon- revoked' the othtr.. -Hv could the American 'negcciinor, w:ien de manding, when obtaining the revoction of the old orders, have acknowledged the lepaiify"of the new, if it had not beeu tacitly Agreed .,tj .thRC vvvMivia fasti SECOND LETTER. - r Wlowing LeXter is tle othef that, I Id on Saturday, was mistaken, I nviiie that tli6 second letter Was writ. ..after the news of the arrangement be Mr Smith and Mr. Erskine.", The U F it I tue r,ew vrucr in uwuuiii ui me prik vrhicn ine writer, binguiany cuuuu 4 lO U'- K ' -urtrnent between Jlie Bfitish govem .JMr. PiHckney, . -X., '' v ;. , I. i,tter is Written "with lessr ability and ifffi less interesi man uro innci . iouiu .jjsfe the twru wnien is prormsca in Ythis. but Which will r;ot probably ap 'a least not at present,' wehould be put Lesion of a key to unlock, completely, Uretsot me rrencn vaomei in respect scouotry. r rom an attentive perusal ot isbefore us, however, I think we shall Lit this important conclusion: that no Lmeot can be made with France, which m for basis, a rupture with i. n t (he clamour nov echoing from one 4 press to another all through the toun- Baptist to iveriu,- lor war win rn But it all wortt do, good folks ; Mr. L JLatmntr . rl CrM lirit h ' i -1 OIJ IS nOl UIJV31.1 IUI a WIJ OHU ns. the people would, not now support nit. and he knows it. But to the Letter. Dml'letterto Monsieur Le Comte de V arrangement concluded between the fans ana xne iiigwsiu . lliicot intra murqs fuccatur et extra. my first letter, Monsieur Le' Comte, I rati my sentiments of the raising of the Uiu the United States. 1 considered insure as extremely javo.rau'e toano icommercej or rather as its flank of i, J believe I. have demonstrated to you Mil of. that assertion.; but I had only. it say a few wocd respecting the ar ntnt concluded between the two coun and to call your attention to the disas . . . - . .. ' iuti to us. I he Morning jhronxcle 5tliMayTns io6t given us some details it fubject, and I there find the most con. ipcoQfr of fevery thing that 1 neixJaiyed btglance. '.'' '. ' : . ' ier jou nor I, nor any person in the itjrec acquainted with what passes in k tlie character cf the people, the par- arjf debatef , thei Rtrattgems of minis JxpretewJed eomhatsuf parties, always tjaagreftjng on: every thing wbich tendh pecuniary interest of . the nation ; no si say, would be the dupe f.4he pre iquarrel which that Joumal. styling iu paiinisterial, appear des-iioiis td have :s authors of the awangejnjmtiii ques- lieyerthtlcss tlje trap is so welF Iai"d, tntion to mislead the general opm!0n"6t so '.manifest itwith'so, much arjpa DuojiBness confesses its fi'arsrkst all JhoUng the in'tereit of yours, and we fi all aoon; ee that he ! was before hand sufficiehlly sure- oC tht approbation .f his gqvrn'nWnti It dejend upon the French government to change the effect of all these n)tasuves, and perhaps to .turn them agai nst ourselves. The commerce ot the Uhited'State" tends towards tlw jwti- 6frFrance. It vir readily enter Ihemi-itficuJing pif rigorous orders and our vin piecautlons. ' The rneichanyi of that na tion vjH know very well toW td elude'tijc pro hibitions which we appear' q impose, since they elude even those oiv their' own govern ' h"enuV-- '-V'- '"-?':' '";' . "Yes certainly, it all depends upon the French government,' nndpu laiow very little of it, if youthink it will be your dupe. It be "longs not to us to anticipate 'the intentions of that vast and profound genius, which has al ready-withd'raw.hr a great pah of the world from your pcrnfcio'as influence ; but you may expect every thirjg from him, , except what would favor your monopoly, and confirm in your hand the sceptre which he means to break' in pieces 'We mj - here remark how nuich every thing t flat I have said above re , specting the hidden nienning of your blockade acquires force and ceitainty by wfcat you say here, and how much you fear lest the Ame ricans should not find access to our ports -'What a misfortune it would in fact be to you ! What a loss to Knglandi What a lemble blow to your commerce if the produce of ther 16 Indies habid freely enter' tlie ports of France and 'her allies I no, ine French gov eniment lias too rnuch rva'scti to be 'saiisfied with you,to piay you so -perfidious a trick. Vessels ot that natirju entered our ports, at &5res. which the English government xtaken, should be turned against itself ; many people, well disposed in othei p regard every thing said by the Morn- Wi as gospel,-and believe that ai! !is just been done is in the highest degrrY (i us, that I have thought it my 'uiitca,sk openly tmsmtserable-Tjug-nd point. out the rejb intention of- the journalist, andf iose who have di- tni purpose I have only to put in the someerv siinnle rcflerfionr, nn the masoning with which lie accompanies V'all your doubts will be speeddy re- Ftt minte were.' -. . ';.r;is, -, - '' -- ' " iiON DO V. M ftv j"0a the iftth of April the. orders in J of the 1 1 th November, 1 807, of the -tne same month, of the 18th Decem- and ISthT March.; 1809. 'relative to pierce and nltif atifHi of the ) States , raitna annullTd.' .v. ' finance and the advakitages of yopr .Kvuuueu; aiter navmg mamtarneu til naw, notwithstariditifg -'um versa) confess - that -Very iitipericus mo "e hecessarv to make Vou renounce Pt these motive are cot very diffi jvwe. Alter having given loose 'to Joii i ; after having attempted to car j?rTL?m of monopolj-, alone', tmaid :"5t nisg'uise, vou have soon fcltltrat 'ar fQ,. renounce the chimerical 7!'? Exiled liom the greater part oi J1' of Europe,', and from that of lertdepvivetl of your ancientaux-. Of - a vent for voiir raaimfactures. Tfm' tn Ylistriliiite vrmnd ths im- perf.us of your merchandizes of eve ' IJow were you to answer the Jts of your planters and raanufactu ""yf .wbre you to appease your indis- ianners, whon their.pteches were a - norfli-Mlarlir ripisiiivfl ff t,wl.v.w...7 twen you and him, that the la'iwr should only be' pro forma, as in "fact it is ; fur- you know as well as we, that your wHole: navy united, would nut be sufcient to guard -such uti e teat of coaat 1 This -order, in short, if you bud" the-intention-to 'cause it to be txcr uttd, it if would he executed, would inot"be contrary to your dearefct interests, would it not deprive you ol thernost considerable .roStkets of the. continent I Add toJ all this Jhe singular pre caution of; declaring publicly that you would not give licenses to trade with blockaded ports. Nothing more is wanting tb;convi!ice us tliat L your new order in ccuncil ha j a secret end in view, and that ehd is no dther than to pro cure to your factors, a more free entrance in to bur ports, by pretending to interdict it. " Although iE'be as yet very uncertain whe ther this arrangement is the result ol an a grcement madAviih the goveiTicient of the U. States, and.althcugh the- American Minis ter Mr Pinckneyhas not yet given(6itthis formal assent, jhe partisans of the-Mirdstry proclaim that reiftluwith inuch. emphasis. By not tincasy on that head, ahd let the par tizatis of the ministry enjoy irumph' which you heartily kriake. Nothing isless. uncer tain i than jtheassent-of Mr. Pinckney. fie :hasgiven; it with joy,"' .believing l,at he" prti motes the interest of his own couittry in pro- (b) This alludes to a ceremony which it is said the Dutch are'-pbligcd to bnclergo, h'c'fore theycan be admitted into the -ports -of Japan." The .Japanese .will .'have no intercourse with Christians, for which reasons the Putch deny their religion, and as a proofof their sincerity, tread upon the Crucifix. P-d.';i J . And you,. Americans, will, you pride yourseWes upon your independence recovered by . the abolition' of tlie orders in, council ?t If there 'were connivance between you and them, would you' suffer tliem to forhif you to .approach ant immense exU-nt of coast ? Would you have subscrilied an arrangeaient at the eiy moment when this new decree was issueu ? VVould you Ime submitted to f4his new rig-r; of search and capture f vould ; where the quotations begin and j you have renounced" our mq&t incontestable rpn. - .' :. . ; , ; , j rights I - ", . -;';SV, the very moment when. we learned that the bill which forbade allcc'inmtice with England was sanclic;u.d by iheXonjjrcss." -. Think you that .we have heei ignorant, and" caff there eist niore evident proofs of the at tachment of htse ' pre'tt-pded neutrals and of the partiality of their government in your .fa vor ? Is it '.conceivable lirat in making us the same oifevs, the same pronisesr. the SMiie menaces as to you,Nthc . -wunld so arly have cTac hen v because 'your fiag hot being re." ccived ia her port 'ouCArxibti-U traijs act -youv' affairs through other agents; is was qonejast yearfand.wd! le lofie again, if Rus- ia cof.seiit toluiiiish yoa with naval itorcs -to attack her fleets another ports, v v ' h present smteof.thingSjlie Ameli- cans may communicate with the greater part: , of the ports of Spain and Fbrt5ral.M -r ; , iJtuc me jnsurgems pi .-hpaui and. ncr " colonies, hke yours, have need of provisions, aiTd you yourselves have none to spare ne U blateav, and ytt.how mauy press larms have we not oh the side of thai dom, .The other portoftheJahio iL -'interdicted, and there is not oyie of ihm-ht-whicl ourvesseIs are received.?' v " Because you foresee that Vou will ere lone Jose the alliance -cf Sweden : - because, tlie soynd is about to be shut either willingly (or ' fy? by fprcc, as Trieste boubtless already is i fee- T, cause you'ttrant . active 'a-fjentiiAvheiever ioa 3 cannot act yourselves; The rtaT motive of .this arrangement is to facihtate the neV loan which the Chancelj. lor of the 'pxchequcrvhasjust announced at the bank and On f tic exthge. The loan, iC is said, will be iU liaore .considerable than those of former' ytm The ex per.ee s. only of the army for the present year, are W meiiled near three millions. This a'uemen- . . , lation ot expenpe is' frightful, aVd time ihtnx the fiublit revevueiLwiniahea in a still greater firofioriion . j the custom" and the excise which are the pvincijuilbrfmehef if it suff er every day ?nore uhJ ttrt ffojq t'U ' -tagnati'Hofcom me ret:. At last we have joii; Habtmus vconfiten tena rtum. YouStant a ccnsiderable loan. The custbars and tlie, excise your principal brancles, of revenue stiffer every day more and , more ijrotri the aiagnanon of iom$ncfcc. You confess that the u'.easu es v.hich France had, Ukeo. were beginning to pi notice thdrelVect. A' lUlle longer, iid they . ivqajd Iive fcecu followed by consequences th; most liisastr(;c$ to you. . Mitsiei s ;vf ..both the Irldies, thosi prejudged the quetU-:n in your favor ? Can it f possessions-wte about to become a re hur hence forth be doubted bu: tlct the anansre nieht has been mad in Anierica itstlf, be tw.en the Ei(li$h or Federal party and the 'autibr'wed agents of r:i.i;Uu..- I Would Ame ricAn ships have dep u ted lor toudon tnd ex posed themselves to nil the rigour of the for mer ordvi-i . in . council, if-tht y hrnbtTbiTr certain of their (as yt,t tr.cit) re vocation ? Did they coiTdescend tr cmyiire whether- France approved , th scandalous recewal of hue t cot;rse, tus uianiVt el iiblaiion of the blockade in vtiilcl: we Imd placed the Briiish Islands? And why, if the intention. of iVe Americans liadceti upiifht and pure, did they not ixt;e fieely lo Ine ports ol" Fiance iJ-dliuJiand ai well as to Eiyf(id ? Vv hat f i.ieaus lhii d.s trtisi or. the cue 'hand Uu;s confidence on tbc other s iitt us fear e covetous--end iogciiio ' I i n den to you. The .nations of Europe WtrC on the pqint of being at last'fi'tfcd fiVnrycmr ty-"-ranr.y, and tfcs most dislaiir nution, '".V'ho t:-1 iiuilaud their p-ible example, Cchjfd Tcss found, in the inciase of itsputjpuhtion, sof. ' industry, of its t.gricuhurg.; an ' aiprJ-ASfcal Jh- :vcry- thing from a people io.u i, UiO obsei ve with fflf our .ncveasing 'tnibarfasMnent. j-nd apprOStdn ing-fiistreis,- wi.hut.veTYoi-lihhcoinbats without a navy. Ilicy are learning to get iii tp their own bunds a commerce protected bv the most llourishfi'g navy, ?nd an hui'icJi td years of riaVtd vLtoncs. They pre sept llit. selves rrocestly and pacifically where we pre sent ourselves with pride: they find every where a favorable reception Avhen they cle clare ' theinscives our rivals: they would he repulsed if the"y wefw;considered only as" oujg factors." . ' '' .V ' '; ' - -' Doubtless its because yqu fear every thin fro ra such a people," that '"you optn to them your ports ; it is Tor' your own ruin that you sell to them annually from two hundred and fifty "to three hundred ftrilti of manufactur ed Jicles, wbich they cannbt pay jou'for but by selling themselves to other nations, the piodiice of your coloiiiejj ; il js to'TUin you that they brmyou naval stores of which you have need to keep up your flournishir.fr navy. This is the riyalship which you pretend to drwl, which ought to prevent lis froth look ing upon the AWricaris'sus y our factors, nd insure to' them our good wili. Risum tcnea- s. ' : ': ' ' .'.. - : The blockade which it -is wished should be respected by the Anicrieais' 'is of such an exiciit iht it may oe looked upbn as impossf--hie to be 'enforced." ' - ' - . . , . Who knows it better ithan your miiutry, and why then have the tajutnsuch a measure if it is rA to .deceive uso order that your friends may nter oyr ports- more freely, un- -.der Ihe mantle cl Vival rliiandfippressioti.t , aW hy are not the nii u.l'iusia includ ed, when, that govei iimeivf manifests against us unnniity' Bl.Ways incrcisiug, anjd when ours has lost all hope of moTlifyi w it." , A fine.questron 1 because ycu have occasion to sell your producl'iwns to Russia, and to niir- f Think you that i we (have forgotten" both the false neutral papers fJBricated in Eni'laiidi and the false certificates of origin which were sold in the North and iu iioiiahd at tvtlouis a piece."-''; .' , - ' '. .' '' -jcncrrfef some momentary r,aci ihco;1-1'"1)'' t necessary for you to extricate ytJiirser ' 'alwjtya I . tht alanninc-; crisis, to regain a'r'Acaucar.y in ; ufaiutfes, iD 'rc-open the clianivgls v' ' vey to ou the ti t asures oi the two cn'S Tal snatch ftcm'iither.naiioos' the meao' :t$,' V-e ;, Ipnging tUir sofferirigs, ahd to. reader .c;Aca.''.-: twenty yvarsof;o:.bats and of triumphs you tnd your . ifces. AH" this, you h'avee-c ; fecter,by youv.; amicable arrcngement, , Your , coipnmce mil Vevjve i the coffers of your '": cus'vcrius ahd your excise will be replenished ; your Ioaii' will be promptly filled tfp. Jle it ' to you are under great oblipliohs to; these '." who render ypu o signal a service ; tuTat least expect hot that France ajid her alliiiH : ' deign to contribute to itfl' - . ; '' l huch, Monsieur .'.Le Comte, are the replies ? f which -mij:bj be inade'to the English journal "f ist; or rah6r'jto.ithe-A-ieca'nrUe coalKion which has just begn fotthed against us. : Th - ministers of thatiation are Certainly pot iil the wrong t sing victory, and as for us, we . cannot but see, witirhfui-uueasincsSv the " English' commerce, that au(!acioU3 Proteus .. ' aftnot todching the .earth, rise up'deTa- "t pother form, and escape all our a-tacks. ); Had . I not i eason to say to you, in kiy first letterT---that in the present state of things, all mari- v ; time 'and colonial . c.QBmrcc,; perroitted- pp suffered on the'fconlinent of liuiope, canhot but tum to the adVantdgeif Engh-nd and her exhausttdr6nah.ces; t!:at nretnded nMlirJ will necess'iiiily be theinost powerful auxiliai. ries ot" the : English commerce ; that Erancei and her allies jmjss be ;poa their guard, and frustrate jby ll.irfirmrieiiSiiffi coniary o trlelrrue jcifcreRta. '' -' : f Examue..&hd"iV.-exainiiwi: ihe qyestlon jn. every pi4it .ofyview, andVsee if it can he an s veered in any'othir manner ; If there be, on our part, any possible tolerance, whichSvilinot in its resu It, conuibuterto jlhe Sd vaji'ta'ge -oi' cpr mortal eeuii?s f examine whether in Hit interior of. the continent, under whatever 1 forms, the productions. of the two Indies do hetalway s proceed fromJnglaiui j weiher, in short-the proBeedi do not go h?to her coffers, whether her fortune ;s nOt Tirtrndedupop those accumulated prof eerJs, and whetiier she ran ver.be compelled to i makeJtH ace,- if she finds -atftorfj ui and h?r otiier enemies, the meane ol piViongm tne war. t ."r- .. h t Already the Amerioan fiagfinats on every:- -.-j SSa. ri tilllil has bet-n lot.' Their ari. ;,-fp'ii? f T . .- ' - 'WIT ing the gTbund.cn the right avid on tii h.X " ! .1 'Two ves5ik of that nation have emared4 entter.Toiriagenrand the Danish gov An:TVt has thou gh- -t its dutylto sequester until the powerful Arbiter o( the- Continent shall hiruuli scule. ' ' J t
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