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rt ■ itr j the country are proslr-ttd, ai the
pnt, !),• tear, or by avtnce.
This Knibnrxo v.ill not serve the American
people. But i wiU ti ll you whom it may serve i
it will ti.r f the French Emperor. Hit inter
est isi apparent. 1: operates cm his enemy tv
dur. iua; our produc- to he r tnemitu. But
v ;!,er< i t the American interest ? Coercion on
Great Bri'ain to not pretended. If war with
this power be really its purpose, then much
of *h.s Veiy property ouirnt to be (rot out of
the country, ft is m.eles and must perish if
it remain hi it. And the resources of the
country and its ability tor war arc augmented
Li - the* whole : mount of the returns, tviliicli
its uuie would produce.
In evert poult of vie.tr, I look on this nieu-
ire as a’ cruel abandonment of our national
light*! as impolitici as deceptive) us cal
i elated to impress on the American people an
idea that it is your intention to maintain com
mercial rights which, its true effect, io, to
abandon.—Here is unotlier effect which it is
i .1: ul.it: dto prodiit ■, and which of all others
o ight a< a crisis of this kind to ho avoided.—
lit ndenev m it b- to n.ise a jealosy be
tween the South ru a'ui the Eastern and Mid
d a Stites. The fiour and ,produce of the
h iiitl ern Slates hav had during the whole
tv.nter an op m trad • and tree market. Those
of tb Middle and I’,, .tern fitftrs have been
restrained by ciim.dt and. winter. Nature is
iur.t opining for out relief, and the palsying
li .ml of government is now to be extended,
to give a deidh blow to our hopes, la it by a
course of policy of tl is kind that, you intend
to i oncdi.de affection, or excite confidence?
Will it not ha a.iid, that, vnur own products
bring sold, you were indifferent what became
of ours ?
l/ t me not be understood as objecting to
ti.is Embargo, at a preparation for war j al
though even, as such, its utility i3 dubious.
1 object to it, because it. is not a progress to
wards honorable w-r,but is a subterfuge from
tid.l question. If we must perish, let us per
ish by any hand except our own. Any fate is
better titan self-slaughter.
E.elract es a liter from CADIZ, 34 th
Feb, 131.2. to a Gentleman in Boston
My dear Sir. —The concerns of this
country have essentially changed since
I was here Inst—utthal time the Span
iards were confident of their own re
•onrees —repelling the efforts ol‘ the
English to coalesce with them in any
shape, civil or military—caballing for
offices; making laws for districts not
in their possession; and in short, ev erv
labor, except in™ the necessary one of
checking the enemy. This system has
sine:’ that time, perished in its own
weakness; on its ruins has been esta
blished, an administration, that pro
mises all that can he promised, and
should it fail, it must he from a change
in She character* of its members, or
sura’mast unforeseen frustration oft heir
plans. The hea lof it [whose name
li vs been often repeated in America] in
the stead of tnrpe/f i Blakv. is O’Don*
, -1,, the defender of Cntidoiu', und the
Oliver of (he must vigorous operations
during the war. His character is that
ei* a man of unblemished honor, of ac
tivity and p-.tiiii-u*’ boldness. It was
,t and i nper to family pride, by attempt*
ing lu sweep away the ntimbrrof titled,
cpauleted vag bonds, vvlio infest nil
(•luces of safely, and hold the commis
sions of o file res with requisites of pri
nt's. His decree ordered all those
who could not he received in regiments,
to he formed into a corps ofhonor to be
always in the hottest us candi
dates for promotion and patrons to
others. Those who delayed to enrol
themselves forfeited their commissions
and are rendered liable to be pressed
into the ranks of privates. Adjoined
t* him us seconds, are the Duke of In
fantodo, late ambassador to London,
and two others whose names are not
known the other side the w ater.
The positive advantage of this
change is the substitution of practical
men in the place es theorists, men who
discard national vanity in the outset,
and chose rather to insure their liberty
by leaning to the British, than forego
it by a precarious dependence on their
owu means, its immediate conse
quence has been the hipping off of many
useless appendages that hung to the old
system and oppressed it.
It Ims repressed the wrangling of
the Cortes in their discussion on the a*
doptiou of a Constitution by reminding
them, that it is advisable to get. the
country before they enact law For it.
Hitherto their efforts have been prin
cipally military, leaving tor more
tranquil moment*, what ever may ro
le, te to the civil department—instead
of thrusting their troops prematurely
into the held, they rather, when possi
ble, withdraw them, in order by pre
vious preparation to insure their use
fulness w hen their services may be re
quired. Fur this last purpose of pre
paration, they have sanctioned the es
tablishment of depots [n3 in Portugal]
under British guidance. They have
constituted P illusion s, Captain Gen
eral of Andalusia, with a force gradu
ally increasing from drafts of the pea
santry, who are placed in (lie depots
before mention: 1. uor allowed to join
their corps until they arc disciplined
and prononneed effective—The former
prevailing propensity ibr larye armies,
lijisheeii repulsed by renewed cruntrn*
noees give to .'he Guerilas, such as
’ • ha Eirpeeinada and others who at a
slight expence to their own country,
*-aug about the enemy, and, as if in
-tiibb, are known only by the fatal
consequences of their approach. The
military in fact, in every direction hav e
imbibed JYkw life from the vigor of the
hand that governs them. The spirit
of the nation is kept alive by gallant
occasional effort*of Alina Empecimida
and others, and more than all. in u
large scale, by Ballusleros, who lately,
by a vigorous decent on Grenada, obli
grd an enemy of superior force to take
refuge within the walls of Malaga, and
who is daily adding to the hopes of nil
his countrymen, that he may be the IV
lagi of their ag* 1 .
The British are withdrawing from
that negative warfare they hare hither
to conducted, and appear to be forming
a most splendid project, which if it ar
rives at maturity, will compel the
French to evacuate the larger portions
of Andalusia and Fstremadnra, and
leave free the whole north-western
part of the Peninsula. By the capture
of Ciudad Rodrigo and the investment
ofßadajos, [which military men say
most soon fall] it is presumed and not
denied, that Lord Wellington’s policy
is to push his force in a parallel [or
nearly] with Ciudad Rodrigo and liu
dajos, as you will see hv the map, in
cluding Xeres and Seville, until its ex
tremity reaches Gibraltar, or some dis
trict iii the rear of Cadiz, the siege of
which will necessarily he raised,
should sueh an operation take effect.
To oppose this the French Mar
shals have only their own talents and
the famished force at present under
their command, no new enneripts, hav
ing been sent into tlie country, and
their excessive exertions preventing
them from enrolling the Spaniards.
On the taking of Ciudad Rodrigo,
Lord Wellington gave the key* of the
eity to Castanos the former governor
from whom it was taken,telling him em
phatically that what he had lost, the
British, at the expence of a profusion
of blood, restored to him with one re
quest, that Ciudad Rodrigo should pay
its allegiance to Ferdinand, or its gov
ernor be buried under its ruins.
Marshal Houll has lately come from
Seville, to the camp before this eity, to
review his half starved follower*.
The city and garrison of Cadiz are un
der the guidance of the British, and
their salety may be deemed equal to
that of Gibraltar.
From the Trenton Federalist.
Mb. Printer,
We think it may useful to the advo
cates of Embargoes, Non-Intercourse,
and War measures, to know what the
farmers, and suhstantional yeomary of
the country, think of these thing*.
When intelligence arrived at Had
donfiekl; [a part of the county ever
known for correct principles, the most
respectable agiicultural gentlemen met
at the lintel of Thomas Denny, with
countenances expressive of lively sor
row’ and indignation, at the folly and
madness of our rulers ;and the moie
effectually to express their feelings,
they dressed a Sheaf of \\ heat in
Grape, with thirteen streamers of the
like sable line: the sheaf was elevated
on the top of the market-house, when
an appropriate oration was delivered by
Mr..!. E. to the surronudingmultitude,
after which a solemn and affecting
song [called the death of Washington j
was sung by S. M. 1). and the assem
bled multitude, amounting at least to
one thousand persons. Never were our
feelings more sensibly affected. The
past, the present, and the prospect of
future degradation, all rushed upon the
mind; the tender sensibilities were all
awakened ; the father deprecating the
ruin of bis beloved country, and the
consequent unhappiness of his poste
rity.
“ Remembrance wakVl with all her busy train,
“ SwclTd at the breast and turned the past to
pain.
Never vvasj there a more heart-felt
sympathy expressed, than upon this oc
casion. Every one felt the irreparable
loss of our Washington ; they consi
dered the v essel of state conducted by
an unskilful pilot, upon the shoals of a
foreign coast and ready to be seized by
ati insidious enemy, whose grasp is
death.
After (bis expression of their disap
probation of public measures, the sheaf
w as sot on lire: w hen, in sober sadness,
tbe company returned to their several
farms. PUBLICOLA.
lladdonfidd, New-Jersey. April 11.
FEDERAL ADDRESS.
In Committee — Allan’.April 13, 131d.
Fellow-Citizens !—At this inte
resting crisis, we recommend to your
suffrages the list es eanditates here
with presen'ed to you. This is a sea
son of serious reflection to us all: let
ns arm ourselves with fortitude l'cr the
occasion; throw oil the trammels of
paity; discard t.'.e prejudices by
which we l ave been enchained, anil
act with a single view to the public
good. 1
Vi hen no danger threatened us,
when no suffering had reached us, it
was then comparatively a matter of
little moment, how rrreat were our po
litieai dissentions and feuds. But now
the scene is reversed. We havi l'or
years been hastening, with striae* in
calculable, to that precipice, from
which our ruin could be viewed, ami
vve now stand upon it* extreme*! verge.
Let us pause, then, before we take the
Haul, fatal plunge.
It would he a painful task to re
count to you the pernicious errors
which have been committed; to tell
vnu of the solemn warnings which
have been faithfully and affectionately
given. Nor do wC mean to excite
party animosity or to stigmatize those
who are the uutliors of the sufferings
of our common country. But vve
would, if’ possible,rouse you to a true
sense of the calamities which have be
fallen us, and to the still greater suf
ferings which we dread. We would,
before it be too lute, call upon you to
arrest the progress of our ruin, and
stay the hand of destruction.
in the midst of peace and plenty,
the smiles of heaven having blessed
our lend with the richest hopes to the
farmer, the merchant, and every class
of citizens, w e are suddenly arrested
in our course, by the arm of a pernici
ous administration.—An EMBARGO
is laid, and we now hear nothing hut
the din of arms. Why has this cala
mity been permitted to fall upon us at
this moment alone? Had the Embargo
been laid a little sooner , we might
have been in some measure prepared
for the blow. Had it been a little la
ter, we should have avoided it.
Fellow-Citizens ! Our . spirits
fail, and our hearts sicken within us.
when vve view the black cloud, full of
fury and destruction, that seems to
hang over us. Are we blind that we
cannot see ; are we deaf that vve can
not hear: are all our senses sealed
against the solemn warnings of our
ruin ?
M by is this baleful curse, an embar
go. permitted again to visit this happy
land ? Our rulers tell us that it is a
preparation for tear uith Fit"lend.’
It is so; and it is upon that question
that the good people of this state are
to decide at the ensuing election.—
Congress lias been sitting since No
vember, but nothing has been done l'or
the real protection of the country.
Not a tow n has been fortified, nor tin
effort made for an efficient naval force.
If a war be necessary, why is not the
evil day postponed, till we are, in some
sort, prepared to meet its horrors? If
it be necessary,it was and is still more
now the duty of the government to
commence a system of faithful prepa
ration, and to carry thut system on.
till the country is ready to meet the
blow. We know the enemy that we
ore to engage —we have felt her power
and what have we to expect iVuni her
clemency? In one week, she might so
desolate our sea-board tliat our cities
could only be discovered by their ruin*.
If war he commenced, there will be no
escape from its burthens. The taxes
which congress has laid—the stamp
tax— the land tax— the excises,odi
ous as they have been, must and ought
to he submitted to; duty will require
it; patriotism will demand it—and
what American will withhold his por
tion of the general contribution, for
the defence and protection of Lis coun
try? These are not false alarms.
What some may now think fancy, a
few weeks may render fact.
One of the dreadful evils of our con
dition is, the miserable uncertainly of
our fate. He who talked of war or
embargo two months ago, was consi
dered an idle dreamer. During the
whole winter our commercial men
have been making purchases to an
immense amount, and not an indivi
dual entertained a fear of that bank
ruptcy and ruin which now awaits
them. The obvious cause of this evil
is, a want of energy and system in our
rulers; they have not the courage to
look the danger in the face, nor the abi
lity to avert it.
What a scene of humiliation and
disgrace does our country present! A
government trusted without confidence
—upheld, yet despised, contemned, and
ridiculed, by men of all descriptions;
and this through the accursed spirit of
party. As to any influence upon the
national councils, this great, populous
and rich state, is a mere cypher; let
it he known by every man of the state
of New-York, from the oeean to the
lakes, that every democratic member of
Congress from Ibis state, except Mr.
German, Air. Tracy and Mr. Stow,
voted for the embargo. It would be in
finitely mere desirable to have no re
presentation in Congi ess, than such an
one a9 the majority now is, men who
seem to have lost all remembrance of
tbe interests of their constituents, and
all pity for oar sufferings.
I el low-Citizens I— Thera is one
more opportunity left, for rescuing
ourselves from the impending evils—
the administration will net ‘be com
pelled to retreat from its measures,
n the yeomanry of the country are
true to their interests, in the elec
tion i which aie now at hand. For
this purpose, men of all classes must
shake off the dcadning apathy that
i upon iL.m ; they must be made to
feel and to act, as though their highest
concerns were at stake. They must
tell the government, in a voice deep
and loud, that if the embargo is in
tended for any other object Ilian as a
preparation for war, that (hen, it is
nothing better than a wicked act of
self-murder. That if war be intended
we are in no state oi’ protection
against the calamities that will attend
it. That it will he a war, the fruits
of which, after expending millions of
treasure and the best blood of our
country, must be ruin and disgrace ;
and its only acquisition the petty,
rold and inhospitable provinces of
Canada and Nova Beotia. Are vve
willing to sacrifice our comfort and
tranquility, to sweat and toil and bleed
for sueh a recompense?
Fellow-Citizens ! The men whom
we present for your suffrages, will, if
elected, prove true to their trusts and
contribute their exertions for the safe
ty, honor and prosperity of the coun
try.
Aft A*. Van Rensselaer, Ch'm.
Samuel Van Vechten, See’ry.
For the American Patriot.
THE REVIEW. Xo. 2.
AMBI LION properly controlled
and directed is a noble passion: it is
equally dangerous when unlicenced,
and contemptible when prostituted to
soruid views and personal aggrandise
ment. The one, elevates the soul, ani
mates the feelings, and invigorates the
mind with a consciousness of rectitude i
the other, is regardless of the means
or the consequences, provided its inor
dinate desires are satisfied, and its de
ficiency of principle is only equalled
by it3 destructive impetuosity—t he last,
degenerates into cunning,and with tbe
most debased desires, is destitute of
the spirit or boldness to advance and
seize its object, or the candor or integ
rity honest ly to pursue it. Among the
antients Cincinnutus, am! among the
moderns V ashixgtox illustrate in a
very happy manner the first species of
Ambition, whose pride and glory it was
to be useful to their country—a Crcsar
in a past age, or a Buonaparte in the
present evince the feebleness of prin*
eiple as a barrier to their passions, an 1
paint in sanguinary colors the horror,
the misery and anguish, resulting from
an unprincipled gratification of de
sires, not cheeked by reason—nor ame
liorated by humanity—and the records
of antiquity will unfold a Nero, while
the annals of the present times will
produce a Jefferson, who aptly deli
neate the third degenerate species of
Ambition for they both arrived to power
by the most unworthy arts, and both
were characterised by the same dupli
city—the one fiddled when Rome was
burning, the other exulted at the pros
pect of starving fifteen millions of En.
glishmen.
1 have been induced to make this com
parison not to prove by any detail of
his character, that the illustrious Wasn
inotok is worthy of the eminent titles
of Great and Good, for no man dares
doubt it; neither that Buonaparte is a
sanguinary aud relentles tyrant, for all
Europe, [exceptingone gallant nation,]
and our own commerce and seamen,
weep rivers of tears at his savage eru -
eity and perfidious piracy—but to il
lustrate by a brief examination and
sketch of the policy of Jefferson, so
servilely adhered to by Madison, that
it is destructive ami should lie speedilv
abandoned, was adopted to flatter and
secure popularity and to gratify a gro
velling ambition and unworthy desires.
It was always a favorite object with
Mr. Jefferson, to lie considered a Phi
losopher, and had he confined himself
to the speculations of the closet, and to
the theories and phantarses of the brain,
he might have deeended the tide of life
in a happy obscurity—but vv lien he pre
sumed to enter the political world es
pecially after the affair of Carter's
mountain, and carried with him vision
ary notions; when the crucible, the
microscope, and the cobweb creation,
are abandoned for the flattering distinc
tion of political eminence—when to se
cure this, duplicity, cunning and de
ceit are unreservedly practised—then
must the gaudy tinsel be torn from off”
him, and that mountebank glare, which
hid from view a false, u ruinous and
degrading policy be forthwith dissipat
ed.
According to Air. Jefferson’s own
confession when elected, the country
was “ in the full tide of succesful ex
periment,” experienced wisdom had
raised the n&tiouul character to an high
and honorable grade, and it nourishing
commerce was nurtured by wise regu
lat ions, and protected by a small but
famous navy, this tide was divested
from its accustomed channels, the na
tinnal character sunk to a degrading
lev el, our commerce destroyed and the
navy dismantled, in order to exemplify
specious but delusive promises, and re
alise a depraved hostility and violent
opposition, which disregarded every
thing sacred and trod upon every thin
valuable.
When the most ample means were
within his reach, and the establishment
was already recommended and adopt
ed, then to dismantle and cripple our
Navy, merely to exhibit an hypocriti
cal regard for economy, was encourag
ing and confirming prejudices, which
may eventually prove fatal to the Union.
This step, how ever, gratified his vani
ty, by securing his popularity among
the undiscerningmany, which was far
ther aided by the repeal of the internal
taxes aud that on salt. When the es
sential interest of the country came in
competition with the views of aggran
disement and faction, it was in (his. as
since that time, unhesitatingly aban
doned.
Ihe experience of every commer
cial nation proves that a naval force is
indispensably necessary for the deft nee
and protection of Commerce, and af
fords the most correct means to resent
the insulted honor of a flag, w hen tramp,
led upon and violated: the resources of
our own country facilitate the acquisi
tion o. sueh a force to almost any size
to suffer these resources, then, to lie
dormant, and pudliammously to shrink
from the contest, and abandon the na
tional honor and commerce to insult
and depredations, are features of a po_
licy derogatory to the ebaraeter o!
America—like a fog from a pestilent i A
marsh, it arises, sheds a heavy ami
mi k *f*Jyioftw <m i r our pro^p-■ jr. >■; •
name, & will continue its delitcrioiis < f
feets unless the Rim of Federalism ap
pears in her splendor and dissipates
these noisome vapors vvhii hhave thrown
into a torpor the great body of the peo
ple. ‘I he establishment of a navy A
I rue economy, the want of (!•• lavish
prefasioa. Shall the highest attributes
of national character be placed in .
petition vvitn a few millions of do!lai - ?
shall an enlightened and great nation
permit pecuniary considerations to in
terfere with the protection their com
merce, their rights, their honor de
mand? shall a sordid love of office
pollute the bosoms of those placed at
Ihe head of affairs, when the sordid and
true interests of their country eYI
aloud upon their patriotism !* Anion;;
the nations of antiquity and modern
times, a Navy has been uniformly an
attendant upon Commerce, aud Athens,
Carthage, Venice, and Holland attain
ed the summit of greatness hv their
maritime strength, while our own un
fortunate situation illustrates the con
sequences of being without one. The
wealth it produces, the industry it ex
cites, the internal improvements it oc
casions, and the stimulous it gives to
enterprize, of consequence, ‘.be en
hanced value it imprints upon evirr
species of national prosperity, refute-,
the creeping and debased idea that
Commerce cannot support a navy: if
(he revenue derived from Commerce
does not precisely defray its expeaces,
where are its various profits? Where
is the inviolable preservation of‘hr
nation's flag, its character and !:• .. .r
which are inestimable? I am sue rft •
ed the magnanimity of the Ameri; n
people does not compel an cypres- iim
of their indignation at the economical
professions of deceitful or prejudiced
men, and scorn their truly contracted
and pitiful policy.
As the European rations of thrino't
insignificant character can alone ir
punished for insolence or hostility by
means of a naval force, to neglect th-s