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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 |