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. 1 - ' AND - ;..! ' J '--'--7 1- , . ..... - . ..; . 1 - . Lj 'North-Carolina State Gazette. . - ' l if ' " '.! . . , l ' ' Oar utbc pUaa of fairdcllfhtful rcet 7 f v, -T- '. ' 5 .. '; Uiwarpfcy part raje, to Uvt like Brother. -s , ' . ' . " s, ' V " T" xr L- 1 THURSDAY, NOVEMBER-2,. I809r. , ; " w ' ' -m'silfc ; ' " . , ! ' . . ; : .. : : : . ... .. " -- - - .L v v -1 ' ; ; v PORCUPINE OF GHliAT-BBirAIX. , iItTT (who w formerly the printtr of j Calls T vWM . nL i . i ..K.K wa tV.fl fcv U the Torick high-toned I ' o! ihU country) has Uttly md iS. Utter to the Kinzo, Enf Und, e. nmbAtinc the coiwiuct of hi Mi- "700 account of the manner in vbich 7 the nretent War Jpltut the French Emperor. ' Tbe central opinion in JElngland . u. ihi Fnncc is in a mtaera- (V3T ,,v' T , Katc that the people arc starving tzi as to commerce, mere cf it K nC on in lhc dominions. of Na nolcon. han upon any of lhc Ulets in c Tham , about Windsor or Hamp ton Court. This too, I conclude to be the Pinion of your Majesty ; because, i I before otjserred, your information is io such matters, must be derived om your servants, and those senranfs yroTc, by their express declarations, $4 4-.J1 as by their conduct, that such is their Tiew of the situation of the Em-p-rrcf France. As to whether the sub ucis of Napoleon like or dislike his go umroenr, or whether they be better or tr-n? off now than they were under their former sovereigns ; these are ques tions which we can discuss to no profit, because we possess no facts whereon to icason but u ih repaid to the com- mtrce of France, ana mat son 01 cora mcrce which is only valuable, I possess, from the b.-st possible source, quite a sufficiency cf facts to shew, that upon thit subject at least, this has been the xncsx deceived of nations, and your Ma- irs.y the roost deceived of sovereigns. Ihe srt ot commerce to wnicn 1 a!!ud.-, is what we in England call the coastintr trade ; but in the. dominions of Nupoicon, or countries under his sway, it is to be considered as much more im portant than it is with us. There is no debt thit the trade between London and the Coal Mines is of a million times jixre value to England than all her fo nign commerce put togcthei ; but, if s cast our eyes over the map of Eu rcpe, we shall fee, that the coasting Lide cf Napoleon embrace a variety of d raites ; and teat a immune commu nication between his several countries nuvt bc, not only of vast benefit to him, bet, in srue cases, necessary to the ex igence of the people Some of these countries must supply the others with-J corn. Without the od and the wine, a J :he s lks and the cotton, thfcsc coun tries might exist ; but the soutnrin CuuU doi in many cases possibly exist Tr.but the r.cceswries of life ftom the tvih 1 and of carryings on this com t:rct there are no means other than liiot- uf j maritiont nature The oxtcni cf this commerce in the cc!iniik;ns of Napoleon, is srarcely t be c.il.cd by ihoie who arc noi acquaint ei iki:h the facts. Along the coast ol Naples, Tuscany, Genoa and Piedmont : tvm ttc southern provinces of France aaJ M jrscillri, through Cette, and the gi-.'.v: caual cf Louis XIV. to lJordeaux, ditnet along the Atla .tic coast of T- 1 . f . .... fnce. toe wnuie 01 the coast ot ilol i-r.'i, anil in:o the Elbe ; in short, from O.t Ual icto the southern coast ol raly, a iihecoonuics arc connected by a chain cf couiiaerciil intercourse as complete, perhaps, as ever existed in the world, lad as advantageous a it is extmsive. This commerce is, by your Majesty' tmrants, $p ken cf under the degrading appclla-.ion of a mere cjjin trade ;n bat thi is precisely that trdc which is mUj advantageous to a nation. If EnJi:,d were cut off from all commu n cr.ion with foreign naticns,she would, h ptjint of strength and happiness, suf f:r nothing at all. But cut off the com n;u?.tcatki between London and the Mines, the inhabitants of London racst perish or disperse. There are sc-cr-l branches cf bur coasting trade, of a of importance, not, indeed, ap- FJr.ng nearly to, this, but slill of Vf-tcr importance to us, than all our 'ygn commerce put together. If, for vncc, only one year's interruption rc to uke place in the exchange of far timber between Cumberland, 1 .he oa- pan, and Hampshire and ex on the other part, the woods of Jfctse la ter counties must be burnt to Wthc people from perishing : where a ty the exchange now going on, these x. are preserved, the people have x-f n plenty, and that fud, after having ipvni comfort in that capacity, becomes talaable manure for the land. One year-j intcrrupUan -of this exchange, 4 do Laglica more harm than could be dene by the sinking of all foreign countries to the Wtom of the ea. This I is. however, only one instance out of and, without any thing more being said, it must, I think, be as clear as. the sun at noon-day, that if the enemy were able to put a Stop to our coasting trade, it might at once be asserted, that he had it in his power to reduce us 10 his own terms, be they what th y might It is not then worth the while pf your Majesty's servants it is not worth the while of those who are entrusted with the conducting of the war, to in quire what is the extent of the coasting trade of the French Empire, and to in form themselves as to the means of de stroying, "or, at least, interrupting that trade ? To attack, or to oppose Napo leon in Spain, Naples, Sicily, Sweden, Denmark, Hasover or in the liast or West-Indies, is what it would he fran enemy tn attack us in Nova-Scoth, Ca nada, or in any of our colonics where, though a defeat might produce mortifi cation, it would not seriously affect us in our comforts, or in the sources f cur national strength. We should ..1 egret the loss of Canada, perhaps, or of a W. India Island, but the loss, like that of a child out of 9 numcous family, would not be felt in our aftYirs. Wc h'Hild still be as rich and as strong as before ; but cut off the me?ns of sending coin and timber, and Iron, andcoal along our cbas:, from one part of the kingdom to the other, and the distress is instantly felt. In fact, the different parts of the Kingdom can no more disperse with the coasting trade, than the tarmer can dispense with the aidoi the blacksmith and the wheel wright. 44 This, it will, perhaps, be said, is not the case with the countries under the dominion of NapoK on. But will it theo be asserted, that those countries, tho extending almost across the whole of the European Continent, and including such a variety of climates, are neverthe less, so circumstanced as to be able to exist, and contentedly too, without any commerce with each other ; that b to say witlrmt any exchange of natural productions, or of manufactures ? The truth is, ihat the commt rcc between the several parts of this vast empire i so reatlhat convoys of eighty, a hundred, and even of two hundred sail, are fre quently seen, and by .your Majesty's fleet tx, carrying on this trade in per fect security. These consist chiefly of luggers, or zebecs, of a light cfraughtof w tier, from 80 to 120 tons burthen, and are navigated by a proportionate num biT of seamen. There are employed in this commerce, from the river A Bor deaux alone, thirty thru thousand sca nt and upwards. The couiis of the Mediterranean teem with this com merce; Its ports, harbours ind bays, swarm xtUh vessels; and, at no ;iinc was the commerce so great between France and Italy on the one sidr, and between Francs and Holland end the Norih, on the other side, as it is at this moment, while your Majesty's servants ere boast- ine. that thrr have a navy that scours the ocean, and that 44 England engros ses the commence of the world." 44 While they amu'.e themcelv. , and the nation, with this empty vaunting, lhc commeice of France, and her vas sal s'atcs. carried on almost within the r ach of the naked eye ot our Admirals, far exceeds, in the means of contribut ing towards national strength, the com merce, of England anl of all her allies. The general persuasion here is, that all the people under the sway of France, are suffering from causes aluost simi lar to those which affect the inhabitants of a besieged town ; that the people of the North can get no wine r oil, and that Ihose of the South can get no com ; 1 that there are no materials to make goods of any sort, and that ali i decay and m'uery, and that, surety t the poor, j beggared, pinched Pppi? must, surely they must soon br pushed to despera tion ; must revolt, and must tearNapo I on and his government to morsels. This has been the expectation for years, in like manner as, for years b:fore, Mr. Pitt and the foreign pensioner Sir Fran cis D'lvernois kept alive the constant expectation, that France would become a bankrupt and would,tiren be compel led to submit to her enemies.. As the nadon ,was deceived then, so it is decei ved now ; and so, I greatly fear, it will continue to be deceived, until a know ledge and belief of the truth will come too late. One thing, indeed, has stag gered many of even th credulous part of the n alien ; and that the fact of France being able still to renew her squadrons c her maritime expeditions. For this astpnishmg power of creating a maritime force is altogether Incomnati blc with Mib assertions of your Majesty's servants respecting the ruined state of the commerce of- France. The com merce of France being 44 annihilated" we cann jt help wondering that the ports of Brest and Rocijfort should be con tinually sending forth their squadrons ; we cannot help being surprised and somtWhatrVexed at feeing a squadron of. ten or twelve ail of the line come out of the pons of France in the space of a few months after rc. have been con gratulated upon the destruction of ht last c f the enemy's ships. The fleet in Basque Roads is said by one of your jtitfjestys servants to have been worth several millions of pounds sterling, and that the Calcutta alone was worth six hundred thousand pound, .being full of military and naval stores. To haw clTected rne destruction of the whole of this fleet would have been a subject ol geat joj; to have etf'-ctep the des rruction of part of it. was a subject of joy ; out, in our haste to express such joy, we torgot to ask, how all these stores came to be found in the port of Kochetort so many years aueV we had 44 so completely annihilated the com merce of France' agreeably to ifie ten thousand times repeated assurances of your Mejesty's servants. The fact is, that not only from the Elbe and the Scheldt are the pons of France sup it . pnea, py ine means 01 tne coasting trade, with an abundance of naval stores, but also from that part of Spam lying near the Atlantic coast ; whence they receive iron, pitch, tar, rosin, and ship timber of vari u s sorts, and in vast quan tities, at a rate much cheaper traan some of these articles can possibly be bro't to the arsenals at Portsmouth, and Ply mouth." Cobbett dilutes on the immense tax es insensibly drawn from this source ; but 44 great (says he) as are the finan cial advantages of this commerce, Na poleon derives from it the still greater advantages attending such a nursery of seamen. It has oecn most clearly pro ved, over and over again, that for our navy, the nursery is our coasting trade. There requires, therefore, nothing more 10 satisfy us, that from a coasting trade such as I have described, the advantage to Napoleon is so great as to excite well-erounded alarm in the mind of every rt fl-ciing Englishman. It is from this copious source that the Emperor of France has drawn those hundreds of thousands of seamen with whom Jie has manned his fleets and squadrons for ma ny years past, and which fleets and :quadrons, though always hitherlo de feated, and in m-my instances captured and destioyed, by the superior skill and Vilour of your Majesty's fleets, ans wer the terrible purpose of causing us to keep up a force, by land as well as sea, so immense, so disproportionate to our population 8c our pecuniary means, that the country is stripped of its youth and its vigour the fields are left to be tilled by the poor and the decrepid and the taxes are so general and so hea vy, and the anticipations upon them so great that Hope, which alleviates all other bv.vhens, here refuses her sus taining hand. Year after year, we not only see the tax.s and tax-gatherers increase ; Ave not only feel their imme diate pressure, but we see mortgaged, deeper and deeper, the very seeds of property ; we see taken from us, fof the purposes of current expence, that which v s held out to us as the ure pledge of permanent relief. Could we once be sure that it was out of the power of Napoleon to send a fleet to sea, how different would be our situation ! Bui this "assurance we can never have, so iong as he? has the command of the sea men necessarily employed in such a commerce." 44 i'he Parliament has recently been told, in your Majesty's name, (says he) that the aid you are giving to the ene- mie of France upon the Continent of Europe, is given with a vietii.tj keeping Napolionjrom our.ownjhoru. Thetx pressions are somewhat different, but this is the substance, this is the real meaning of the words. In what way, I should like to ask of your Majesty's ser vants, their subsidies to the enemies of France upon the Continent are to keep Napoleon from our shores r rs at .by I iving him employment on the conti nent I That ot course musr kee( him from our shores a while ; but tlicposst bjJity at least is, thit Jby all' thV means we can contrive, by ail the wars we can excite and by all the treasure we can squander, he cannot, tor any. long time be thus employed ; and consequently, when he cap no longer be so employed, we, upon the very principle on which this aid i given. to his enemies, must be in imminent danger. Therefore, by our present system of defence, by our pre sent explicit avowal, if Napoleon succeed in subduing all his enemies upon the continent .4 we have very little hope of being able to. resist him." 44 When .bne looks at the navy of England ; at a quarter of a million of people whom in various wys it em. ploys ; at the 15 . or 17 millions of mo ney (a fifth part, I believe, of the rental 1 the whole kingdom) that it, annually costs : when one looks at this wonderful power, this mass of means this focus of the fertility of pur soil and of the indus- ry, ingenuity valour, and patriotism of he nation : when one contemplates all ibis, and reads the history of the war for cverd years past, one cannqt help be- ttjg struck with the disparity between the means and the effects For what purpose are, all this- preparation and all he sucrihces which it occasions ? What does this immense navv accomDlish ? If, for many years past, all the prizes and all the mischief it has done the ene my were estimated, they would not a- mount to enough to pay the expense of finding the navv in water." Cobbett promises in another letter, to shew that the com i ercc of France may be destroyed and of course that her vast . ans ot creatine' a-naval force. . , may be cut off. The real causes of the infliciency of our navy in this respect, (says he) will be found to lie much deep- I m er man is generally imaginea,and wnere I am sure your Majesty does not sus pect ; because, supported as your Ma jesty would be, by the unauimous voice of the people, you possess the power of removing for ever the most mischievous of those causes. The war ubon the continent may prove very embarrassing to Napoleon ; it may produce his oveis throw ; but it may produce exactly. con trary eflects ; it may not only relieve him from1 all those embarrassments which he has hitherto experienced, but may end in the complete Overthrow of every thing that calls itself our friend. lhis accomplished as far as relates to the East, how quickly wi4 the wings of revenge, united with those of ambition, bear him to the South t And if he once obtains possession of the whofe of the coasts of Portugal and Spain, what if we persevere, in ojr present mode of wariaref is to prevent him from sittings quietly down, and seeing lis exhausH ourselves, wear ourselves out, torment ourselves with continual alaim, while his dominions have only to support. a flotil la at Boulogne and an army of England, at an expence, perhaps not greater than that which w,e are put to for the mamte- nance or our local militia r wnere, then, should we look for an end of our danger ? There never more, while tha; state of things lasted, could be peace u nited with safety for England." In conclusion, he says, M hitherto there has always been some ground for hope,' or the people have at least ima gined . such gromd. But if Austria should fall-4and if, which would be the almost certaip consequence,the Southern f eninsula should tollow, where then, it the means of suddenly forming a navy be still suffered to exist in France, will be our ground of hope ? The gloom of despair will pervade, and roust pervade the political horizon to submission a lone we look fir f-ny alleviation tf our burthens,and though the thought will at first be accompanied with horror, to that submission we shallj in time, fash ion our minds." From the JafUtTial Intelligencer. HATRED fo'ENGLAND: The Renub!I3n party, and the admi nistration itseif, have beh charged with cherishing me criminal passion 01 inve terate1 hatred to England and the ac cusation has been expended by malig nant men so as to identify with that i magincd1 hatred an inextinguishable de sire for the destruction ;of the British nation. Indeed, there are individuals who have been presumptuous enough to aver, that .so fervent are these Anti liritannic affections, that the government of the United' Slates has' been willinjfto commit the peace and prosperity of the country (6 1 he fortune of war, . by a bel ligerent 1; ague with France, in orders I insure the, extermination of the came.Sc Dowprnfn.nriloin. t 5 The charge is true neither inVormtior l in substance. The wildest crithusiasia of -the most extravagant politicians 01 the Republican, party has pevej trant cended the-reasonable bounds whch ter initiated tjie wishes and hopeprthe il lustrious Fox and the enlightened Lord Erskine, and which limit the expecta tions and views of virtuous and philosCjf phical Englishmen. The temper of se veral of our public writers may hurry them into the Use of . inflammatory phrasos, but their arguments extend no farther than to a demonstration of tho u propriety of a Parliamentary reform, 8c the renovation and purification of the British Monarchy; And surely, the ex pression of a wish to thatjeffect isia Strict conformity with the most . rational spirit of humanity.1 Connected , as. wei - ,i are wnn mepeppie 01 jcngiano, uy inc most interesting ties, how-is impossible' for us to avoid feeling, and feeling acute .. . 1 Lout t i . a. 1 .... Jy, for their own oppressed, 'egraded anu ioriorn situation 1 jtiappy unojerour mild furm of government, we should bet j kindkss and cruel, were we not actuated' by; a. benevolent sympathy for their ab- . j?ct condition and unhappy sufferings. If there be Americans whose'sublunated imaginations mislead their iudglnents into an approving admiration of Britisfi l r-r-- i . navai giory, wnicn is iounaea upon inei; wretchedness of Jjie mdfss of indiisitriciis 1 '1 I 11 ' , .1- : T population, they cannot be animated by the' holy geniusj c philanthrophy, r.oV justifiied by the precious doctrines of the Christian Gospel. The candid pbi tion of the community j will decide; whe ther the Republicans, .hadVocate the amelioration of grievances for the BH tish subjects, are greater,enemles to t he English name and nation, than Uhose politicians who recommend the adopti on of the Bfitish Ministerial system ih 1 the .United States. t ' .( But the administration has not sanc tioned the ideas in relation to the Bri 'Uh government, which the latitude gi ven to the freedom of-the, press in this rntintrir h nefmitfi-fl Rpnnhlipan wpI.' - j r ----r - w 1 icrs iu cucuss ana uisseminaic. f vjur rulers know too well what i due to; theirf own dignity and to the- independence of foreign nations, to permit themselves ta interfere either directly, with the theo ry or practice of the British constitution,..; however anomalous it maj be in it structure or corrupt in its general ope raiiptn - When Ergflh Ministers have -manifested an equivocating disposition. 6r demonstrated a perfidious demorali zing to the good faith which ought to exist among nations, it is natural that 1 the American administration, governed I aau 13 iij lite uici Jiiiicipics iiu- bity, should peraive wjth a sentiment of profound regret, that lhc fate of EngV land was corhmitied.to the guidance! of men who sport with her.! honor and sully, her fame. That regret is embittered by the thought that the'peace & friind- ship of two nations, naturally and essen tially qualified for reciprocal friendship,' !) is endangered by the levity of tempora ry expedients, and the separation "Of their useful communion prolonged by preten ces which engender difSderice and uh-, necessarily procrastinate the4 return -oj genuine harmony. !,' ' Sensations like these are as beneficiaf to Gieat-Britain as the ;tJnited Stated T-'.hey arc proofs of sincerity, vrhiclj properly understood, are invaluable j.- and, if England were goerned by minds of a wise forecast would be met tiid ac- knowledgcd with corresponding fidelity and ardor. " .'.!.' V"'v":": t' . ' " From these considerations, calmly weighed, it may he concluded, with fair ness, that with respect to Gat-Britain,7 American writers have only exercised iheir constitutional privilege cf invest! gati n g and denouiicing the " errors arid corruption pf bad gby4Wmto.vh!lst" our admistration cornes itself "la il legitimate prerogatives, in requirirrgthe ' observance of establkhed maxims-ahd the fulfilment of solemn cont actsi,. n ' REGULUSr ? ' 111 H A -House & Lot An FayctiwHlttret . .: . FOR SALE. ; w U x , - f X elreVUle. Street, in JlaligSt; arprefea? occupied by Oi ver JlTiras, Uacter.-aind S- rauel Pearson, Tailor,1 will be sold oivreasona hie Terms, and Dosssession eiven immrtintl It wtrald be very suitable for xj&fcX&nt&Utti- a small Family, as it is as ood a tcif basioess' as ap in the Cui . - -VAV:". A liberal chase ments Credit mi bejtWen fcrtheJciy.- . ''. Jit. .rv--V V-.-'V'H'.-.v-.--! t. -r r T.' ! ( t 1 it Erf '; it 8 6. 1 jV-i V-i: 1 .1. 4 .1 n M n. ! . r. i 'Vi -. 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