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FROM THE AURORA.
i WHO’S THE FOOL NOW ?
v.*‘ The obnoxious orders or council
,vC h indeed recalled — abrogated*—
P:> iPunica Jules) defun£t.
irf The halcyon days arrived with
Mr. Oakley, and, to the aftonifh
ment cf all who are difpcfed to look
forward, this golden age iafbed for
ex?it!y thirty nine days, eleven
hours, be Tides Tome fraftions of min
utes and feconds !
But after this aftonifhing reign of
tranquility, when every free neutral
nation was permitted to go, (for
the afordaid thirty-nine days, &c)
—yea, to pafs upon the ocean un
moiftted—when the golden age
was as it were by a miracle, literally
and morally realized-—and therein
realizing all the dreams of the tenth
congrels, and verifying all the pro
found conceptions of that amazing
ftarefman, politician, and natural
philofopher, John Randolph, efq.
as r ea!ly as the philofcpher'suniver
fal noftrum —lo ! behold there is a
new fet of orders in council—and a
new batch of blockades by procla
mation.
THE TENTH OF JUNE.
It feerr.s there are to be rejoic
ings and <jining3, and drinkings, and
mailings, this day in various parts
of the United States, and the pro
feiled object of thefe rejoicings is
** the renewal of a friendly inter
*( courfe with Great Britain.”
It is rather inaufpicioiis to this
propoled rejoicing, that the Pacific
lhould have arrived To apropos —and
brought fuch untoward tidings!
Tidings which go to demonftrate
only how muck we have been plun
dered and inful ted, how eafy we can
overlook the wrong* we have buf
fered, and lay up a large ftore fo cre
dulity, upon which we are not long
buffered to repofc, before our pacif
ic dozings are diflurbed, and we are
half awakened to our folly by the
ihouts of laughter and contempt
which the plunderers and the depre
dators make at their caroufals j we
l ife, rub our eyes, and they followup
the meafure cf derifion with another
drop of delufion and, we again re
cline upon the pillow, to be awake
ned by blow s upon our pofleriors.
We refer our readers to the cf
fay of the fenfible and upright
writer of the article under the figna
ture cf Mentor, in this days Au
rora, (This effay fhall appear in the
Public Advcrtifer to morrow)
which has been in our hands feveral
days, for an expofuion of the falfe
policy purfued towards a nation
which has injured, and will whene
ver it Toils her convenience or her
cunning always injure us.
Her inveteracy againft us, we
venture to predift, will be more in
fidicus that ever it has been, from
the very confcioufnefs that we pof
ief;> in the Chinefe policy , full and
competent means, whenever the
nation choofe to adopt them, to
bring her to the verge of ruin, and
to the necefiity of abandoning her
infolence.
It would be a matter of fair re
joicing indeed, were the policy of
the Britifli government towards the
United States fincerely liberal and
juft; E would be a matter of joy
if uui pacific clurader infured to
us the good will or even the hondl
condud, of a nation which is fo
largely dependent on us for her
wealth, and the means even of her
txiftence. But hew are we treated
even now ?
Our infant manufactories are de
ftroyec! by her incendiaries.
Our markets are glutted with ar
ticles to be fold under firft coil,
the objed of which is to undermine
and dtflroy the growing means of
our national induftry.
Our fhips in remote Teas are cap
tured.
Proclamations of heif colonial
governors hold forth encourage
ment for the importation of ouc
produdions into their colonies, in
Britijh fhips only, while our congrefs
is trifling away its time in rapid
declamations and mouthing* abouc
the babv-like projects of a fidriy
and irritable imagination.
The exploded motions of poliri
cal economy of the laft century are
given as argument on the floor of
congrefs, inoppofition to the poli
cy of domeftic induftry, which the
difeoveries of the latter rge, in la
bor fawing machinery and chemift
ry, have difarrayed of all thofe hor
rors which fixty years ago rendered
the fyflem of manufacture a fyftem
of deftru&ion ; but which at this
day, and in this country, would be
more folid fecurity for our peace
and independence than navies or
armies, or even orators ; —here
there is too much idlenefs and its
concomitant vices, growitg up in
every town and village ; here do
meftfc manufactures inftead of de
ftroying life, would faveit ; inftead
of generating difeafe would avert it,
and the ignorance which too gene
rally prevails through fo many
parts of our country, would by the
union of fchools with manufaftur
ing inftnutions, redeem ignorance
as weli as lazinefs ; and repay foci
ety with ufefui members where now
there are nuifances ; and diffufe
knowledge where now through the
pocking negleft of the legiflators on
the union and the fates, there are
neither fchools nor bounties to en
courage them; and ignorance i$
growing fo frft upon us, that from
this caufe alone ruin may be ap
prehended.
What caufe is there for rejoicing
on this tenth of June ?
Is it forgotten that a negotiation
for an adjuftment of differences had
been propofed—have ws not nego
tiated over and over with Great
Britain.
The negotiation now, as in 1794
cn our parr, will be to obtain re
drefs for wrongs 5 rtftitution for
plunder.
What reftitution did we obtain
in 1794 ?
In lieu cf redrefs, we obtained
an eftablifhment of irjuftice by trea
ty. And are we to expert better
now ?
We cannot conceive the caufe—
indeed it is difgufting to reflect up
on fa&S'—in contraft 1
On the fide of the Britijh.
A vaft variety of articles which
go into commerc, cannot be carried
in an American fhip into a Britifh
port; others are wholly prohibit
ed ; others the duties are fo excef
five as to amount to a prohibition ;
American fhips are fubjeCted to e
normous port and cuftom-houfe du
ties ; and the export of Britifh
commodities is faddled with duties
equally exceflive, and a tax upon all
who take them.
On the fide of the United States.
Our exports pay no duty, we
lay no tax upon our trade, nor make
foreign nations pay more than the
market price, the foreigner and the
citizen can go into our market and
purchafe and export the commo
dities of the country at the fame
prices; no foreign article is pro
hibited in our port j nor has our
congrefs condcfcended even to pro
tect its own country genius and in
dtiftry, by a protecting duty equri
to the exigency ; our fhips are not
permitted to carry on commerce
with Britifh colonies —wild- their
fhips are permitted to enter our
ports.
In 1793 we were robbed and
plundered —and we got in return a
treaty which fhackled our com
merce and convu! fed the nation.
In 1807 our waters were invaded
-—our flag inlulced —our fovereignty
contemned—our citizens murdered
—and to fiiiifh the climax of info
lence, from on board our nation
al fhip of war, hanged under a ralfe
name—and what have we got in re-
apology ! —And now on
this very fine tenth day of June
(for the weather has been as cloudy
and difmal during the whole fpring,
as if Heaven icfelf were cfFcnded
with our fatuity !) It is faid Tome
fifty or an hundred in different
houfes and places are about to cele
brate this— APOLOCT.
If our fhips now at Tea efcape the
be tom of rieftroCtion, it will be in
deed furprifir.g to us; for the new
orders of the Britifli council appear
to us only as anew fignal for naval
plunder.
Is this a fubjedl of rejoicing or
mourning—We fhaliknow more in
fix months.
Was a nation ever fo fcurviiy
tricked ?
Wa3 the legiflature or the peo
ple of any nation chat has hitherto
exifted, treated with fuch infamous
levity ?
We were forced from our embar
go, by a Pickering panic /
We were forced into a condition
al nonintercourfe, by way of excufe,
for being panic Jlruck.
And we are tricked —literally as
a black legs would trick a greenhorn
im of our non-intercourfe—by a
lore of an apology !
Robbery, imprefTment, laws of
nations, murder, outrage, national
fovereignty, are all abaMdoned—/cr
an apology .
FOR THE GEORGIA EXPRESS.
Strange as it mayJeem to an impar
tial fpectator, it is neverthelefs true,
that while a number of party-men,
andJhortfighted politicians are endea
voring to extol the honefb, frank and
candid manner in which our adminij
tration have met the pacific overtures
of the Britifh government, even beyond
tbejufl bounds of applauje and appro
bation, there are others who are de
claiming againfi the fame and vocife
rating thekeeneft Jarcafms, andmojl
acrimonious inveftives againfi the pre •
cipitate meafures of our government .
There are but few, indeed, who feem to
adopt a jufi medium between the par
ties. But this is nevertbelefs the courfe
which every real friend to his country
ought to purfue.—To applaud and ex
tol a Tingle aft of the adminifiration
beyond the vjual bounds of praifi,
appears to carty with it Jometbing
ndiculoufiy fuperfiuous, or radically
malicious. But modern demagogues
are ufually aftuated by dark, interefl
ed and finijler views as well in the
voice of praife as of blame, as well
when they applaud as when they re
proach. If it is the intention of thofe
who extol the conduft of our prefent
Executive, to lejfen the refpeft due to
his predecefjor,/ucb intention is doubly
malicious, as in (fieft, it would
defignaie the prefent Executive as the
pafiive unapproved conduftor and ve
hicle of odium againfi the objeft of
their malice. When at the fame time
on a fair, candid and impartial invef
tigaiion, it will appear that nether the
prefent nor former Executive , can be
the objeft of blame , on this account,
nor that of any extraordinary decreg )
of applaufe. Becaufe, on examination
it will be found, and every accurai e l
politician rnuft well remember , thet
every fair, bonejt and honorable at.
tempt were made, under the admixifi I
tration of Air . Jeff erf on to brings
bout a pacific and amicable negveia.
tion with the belligerent poweis c j\
Europe. It is true that ibofe effort. l!
were not crowned with Juccefs; and,
therefore, fay the malicious, not en.
titled to our approbation and applaufe
But they mufl know that from the
time of the affair of the Chefcpcake
until nearly the clofe of the adminifi
tration off Mr. Jefferfon , the tenth
gent fiate of politics in Europe were
fuch as to preclude the mofi difiant
profpeft of pacific overtures to our 1
government on the part of either of the .
belligerent powers. The very inte- \
r effing affairs of Spain occupied the\i
attention of the cabinets of St. Cloud
and St. James. As early as the af
fair of the Cbefapeake, and even an
terior to that event, the convulfions cf
Spain then in embryo , became the meji
interefling vbjefts cf political contem
plation, andfoon after, of the warlike
enterprize of the two rival nations,
France and England , During the
period of fufpenfe and doubt as to the
fuccefs of the war in Spain, nor until
viftory fhculd declare in favor cf
France, could it have been anticipa- j
ted that either of the contending pow
ers Jhould have made pacific overtures I
to our government. It will, perhaps,i
be readily admitted by modern negociA
ators, that national inter eft is beemf
the ofienfiblefubfiiiute for national ho
nor, and that the latter has not only
become unpopular in national councils, j
but has been forbidden its former a
gency on diplomatic rr.rociations . In
cafe the arms of Great Britain had
been fuccejsful in Spain fie would net
have condefcended to make overtures
of friendly and pacific terms to our
adminifiration. Could fie have taken
poffefiion of Spain, or have re-ejiab-
Tifijed the ancient government, fist
would not only have acquired a pow
erful ally againfi her great adverjary ,
but fie would have become immediately
pcffeffed of all thefe refources in Span
tjh America, of which her adverjary
would have been, and is, inf aft, de
prived. Napoleon has conquered.
Spain in Europe, but has loft the im
rnenfe inter effing refources fid wing
from the poffefiion of Spanijh America.
England has loft her pretenfions to old
Spain, but is in a manner, completely
in poffefiion of the wealth of Per u and
Mexico. So Jo on as thefe mighty e*
vents were announced to the world
by the fate of war in Europe, it be
came the policy of the Brif jh cabinet
to attach to her interefl the friendfhip
and alliance of a great and powerful
nation, wbefe proximity to the pro
vinces of Mexico might fecure her in
fluence, and in a meafure guarantee
her pretenfions againfi the intrigues as
well as the depredations of Napoleon.
It is always good national policy, to
form friendfitps and alliances as near
the feat of vjar or objeft of contention
as circumfiances will permit. Had
England neglefted the favorable op
portunity of making advances of com
promife on her part, to our govern
ment, France would probably have a
vailed kcrfelf of the cccaficn, and in
fuch event, England would have loft
her influence and interefl in Mexico.
It feems that this mufi have ben
the file caufe of the proposition on the
part of England to repeater refiind
the orders in council.—She was the
aggreffor.—The decrees of France,
were only intended to place that go-\
vernment on an equal footing with}
England with refpeft to the cowwer(tl
of neutrals.—No real ecu]' es ■
the Situation of SpamJJj s > z |
