wit afixt^ptn'm ra7 tnrnti . : .... pubusiied wehklt 1 allmaxd h.ill tuesday july 52 so lvmm x m 498 says your ministerial writer — hare you so soon forgotten the origin of her last war with you ? it was not to vindicate wrongs and injuries which she had received — it war simply to ward oft those with which she was threatened — it was not to get rid of obnoxi ous taxes which you hud already repealed b'tit to oblige you to renounce for erer your claim to impose them — if then 1,500.000 poor divided colonists with unexampled courage braved alone for some years your r,ii r e for the sake of maintaining an abstract principle of right when tire remaining sen timerits o r loyalty and dread of your power were ii the scale a^ainsi them vrhfct will 7,000,0 of fre citizens inflamed by the most a'tror.ious ln|;itlons of their nations rights decide ? will they tamely submit without a struggle to laws as humiliating as rf vanquished the conquever could impose at tin commencement of tl-.c american war j wu fdhght you clorib single-hvinded when i jouiiad no oilier enemy to contend with ; and ' ii v?ij not until after vc had vanquished and ! captured one of your armies that france tven i promised us suctour yet it is pretended thatat a moment when every maritime na tion of kurone is against you we ciare not diter the field with you no people of great-b ita'm your ministry themselves do ; not believe this n'onsence they know war j will be the inevitable r.onsequenca of the pro posed measures it is only to allay the.feats j ofrour manufacturers and your merchants i interested in the american commerce that these pretensions ofotir timidity and submis ! ii'jn ;;!••: held lip j i'i'.e real question t lien is reduced to this i a tv i the l!nite<l states preferable to in honest licy to an indulgence to this jvj'itral n ion to exercise its lawful rights the rights which god and nature have assu red to all nations ? what benefit could g line derive from a war which will balance tlie eternal infamy attached tq its injustice ? america is not the country most congenial to british laurels l'he climate is loo warm j and however verdant they may be at the mo ji incut 6f transplnntatifin they uiwoys fade scarcely an heroe in your armies who ga thereel l.uircn in yi.ur plains or on our mouu tuins wboiliii not see them wither ut sarato ga or within ihe svallsof vorktowh i they could strike a dteb blo yw com merr.e could supply themsely with all the 1 articles of foreign produce afcheaper rate tlianyouhad them youfielvwatcbuldthey 9 irow do with an increuied p ita l 5 time greater than at that period a 30.000 iea " t incii with a smalt kit exeef marine and j with the capacity to equjpp sliips of t!)e line in one year for the delic of their sea \ ' coast recollect that the ierican coast is not the coast of biockad/c 2 .)* lhat for c | months it is nut possible tifalch their har | boii'-s and t.'iat during ihu^'iod their hardy | eain::n accustomed to th dangert would j sf«-k their entry t their n h et ll ue re " " i collected too il>at ypur c*li n possessions which produce you morepn ' millidh pc annum w;:ul ! not again • in v ii attacked by them seven mi hip of people rich j i provided with c-.-cfv artijfnecesiary to war united under one goverlent are not to 1st ' do'mpared with one 1,5«00 poor colonists \ divided between loyaltwd liberty and to i " tnity onprovided with tmnptvntetits of wafi | mussachusetu alon/an bring into the i fiel'j in three days ss.o'dwciplintd militia ; j armed an : equipped & capable of d«>in j service di.i vuf ihe voltcers of st james's ' but hardy ycomin , cuitomed to labour : and hardships such £» as the duke of n'.>rthutiil)i.'rland saw^l liunkershill and such heroe as s'jr rowed burgoyne at sa ) ratoga new-englaj counts at prettent i 100,000 men ac'.inll\«aring arms biit we arc said to divided ! — we are so j as to internal politicsput as to r<ssi*i.inct to | f)reign insults we hp but one sentiment — mi 1 . jefferson bearsne national sword and , if it he once drawrf defence of our com ; mercial rights his internal politiciil en :, iimes will bo llie/!"st to support him j besides a man vm should notirr our in j 1 ternal divisions ;•,*)!! obstacle to a c intest with great-britaii knows nothing f your ; intetnal polities he should know that th majority whf support mr jefferson have always bef violently aini-h tuni.ic ;■ it is the party owsed to mr jeifoi n vho ' are the most lardy concerned in trade w ■ j will be the mosfftected by these measures ! w!io hava alrea 1 tailed loudly upon the go j vernment to ru/ess their injuries and no are rt.-a<l in stx their lives nd fortunes in support of iheutational ri hts we nre the united on this question and great-llrit tin ll soon si o tii.it i nation ho 1 as feeble colons dared 7jh for 3 years to i ijr.ivt hsr poll's will not long be itate to j avenge llieir iiuretl vi.^-iiis ugainita govern rnent wlio inueience of every bacred prin [' j cjpje siioid penly attack them jjut it is s.d we have not much revenue i to b 4ni-l'iivi nvi not so burdened and crushed witljtuxea as the people of g:ti.t britain ; buft nation is not rich in pvopor ] lion to licr rvtiiucs but in proportion to her capacity to uivj ihem let us examine our i comparativi utrength first greanblitain i has u,00(p00 of subjects we have : r.ooo.ooo * citizens her national debt is : 2,200,coo,ok)of uollars.ouisis 80,000,000,0v '! in other welds hers is 14 limes greater than j ourg in proportion to numbers her exports iir about couble the nmount of ours though | ou'-i arc asbreat as hers were at the begin i king of out war with her we have ruore j than half tic number of tons of shipping that j she has old more than half the dumber of j seamen our ordinary revenue is about lo oiio.ooo ahd her ordinary revenue is but about ro,ooo,oqo do in other words neither her i reventic—txport^i shipping nor any thi:i el»a j is in a greui u ratio to her clobt as ours is to our deb we are therefore richer we have no direct tax nor any excise ol any na ture soever let us tax ourselves and we j should do it cheerful , to preserve our rights ' as much as he british tax themselves and we can support a war against her for half a century we ran take canada nova scotia and starve her west-india islands i an american i . l)the english government hns in the ' same manner ever calculated upon reducing ' france by means of her intestine division and the exhaustion of her revenue in march ) 1795 loud auckland declared in the house j of lords that the committee of public s fe : ly in france had expended more in two mouths than the whole amount of the national dkut or england ! from this his lordship boldly concluded that it was utterly impossible , for trance to hold out but a single year ion ij ger against the powerful arms thj<t is the j ljng purst of england in the same spirit ii of conquering the world by calculation sir • faadcif d'ivkrkois has published for these i ten years past under the sanction of the british government ttn successive l'sm | phlets to prove arithmetically that 1 ranee must perish l!ie year after by her finances the argut.j 2 we apprehend the author mny be mis taken here : the amtriran coast may be easi ly blockaded as any other ly a proclamation fow«th abiiiu to the british nation " america will not go tu war with us | creased risques enhances the price of youi manufactures and oilers a premium to tlo fnestic industry in the late war british goods in america sold at three for one upon the cost ; and arc you foolish enough to be lieve that we cannot manufacture at a cheaper rate than that we have now three times the number of inhabitant am five times the capital we had i in that war and how can them objects bo mure profitably employed than in manufactu ring woolen cloths when yours will cost us three hundred per cent above ilic manufactu ring price ( beside do you recvon for nothing the applies we can draw from europe ? l-'runce now furnishes «•* ninny articles mid among othi not a few woolen clolhst germany supp \ us wit many linen goods and ita ly wit lk the commerce of these coun tries w . . ' flourish by the increased demand which we should make upon them and i repeat id it i not in the power of great-bri tain though her ship cover the ocean to prevent the enterprising sailoti of america from navigating the ailrtniic if immense fleets have been able to elude the vigilance of your squadrons and traverse the ocean for months without encountering your fleets how easy is it for single detach ed fist-sailing vessels to cany on a sure and profitable commerce ? recollect once for all that america lies on the only road lo the antilles and cavibbees and that your com merce is a thousand units in re exposed to her strokes than heps is to yours but this ministerial writer has the effron tery to say tint america would have too much honor to confiscate the uritish property existing in prirate credits i.nd public con tracts yhat ! a nation set up the claims of ho nor who avowedly makes win on a calculation of profit who acknowledging implicitly that she has no cause even of discontent with the other nation avows that she must fitjht her because it is more for her pecuniary in terest than to be at peace can such a na tion pretend to claim protection from tliu ho nor the sense of justice tit the other a way with such ridiculous appeals to princi ples which you have been the hrbt to despise america jealous of her good faith would have been liie hist to entur into so shameful a contest but she will also he the fust to fol low an example which your perfidy will have rendered necessary to her safety to all your future losses in trade to tho lnss of jrour national character you must therefore add tiie total loss of 30,000,000 of dollars due from citizens of the united states mui t.5,0')o,ooo due from the government of the u slates to your uif'jects the appeal is now about to be mp.ile to europe to the world if by a timely dis missal of those who have given these perni cious counsels you prove that you ore rot the partakers in their unjustifiable and per fictions views it is possible that you may pre serve your station in the opinion of other na tions — but if setting at defiance every prin ciple hfthcrto held sacred if avowing that you know no other rule but your in'erest — no o ther law but your power you m^ke a wanton attack on the commerce of the united states you will boon learn that what i have predic ted is more than mere prophecy you will reap in ui distress of your ma nufaclures the ruin of your commerce and in the execration of both heniespheres the re wards which such unprincipled conduct will in such a cj most richly merit an americax new-york june 25 messrs lang w turner the enterprise otciu-.i miranda in my ship leander having excited considerable interest and attention in the public mind which has for some tune past been deceived by various ridiculous mid unfounded rumours 1 think it proper to j»ive publicity to the following extract of a letter i have jiitt receive i from a gentleman of re spectability on board the leander the correct ness of which may be relied on your very humble servant samuel g ogdem f.xtract of a ittier dated grenada utih ma frcia a gtntleman on ioard the ltandt;r i s.imuel (»'. ogdttti " we left jacnuemel on the 27th nl march arrived at the island of aruba on the 9th of april where after taking in sulticie nt water we sailed on t lie lsth of april and being oft the main on the 2"ih near i'orto cavello we tell in with a spanish bri;c of 20 puns and a schooner i 1 i ;• by both of which we were attacked and had an action of half an hour but no apparent damage done on either side however during the contest we were so un fortunate as t lose wf schooners we had chartered at jacquemel on board of whi ii vessels were about 60 men this circum stance was occasioned by tho^e schooners falling lo leeward am our not l-'-inp able to teperate the brig from the sch'r in which cmc we certaiiil should have saved our little convoy • " however to ftnedy this csil we im mediately determined to go to trinidad to • the leanjer's forte ia it nine pouodcrti it is to be pre'iitmed iherefore we shall i hear no more of landed expeditions i much doubt whctlitr your maritime tul tbiituges for which alone you undertake the | war will in much greater u is a fact per i inps not generally known to you that the jj state of massachusetts al w took i 100 of/our i sm;>s during the colonial war massachusetts then possessed but 30\oco i inhabitants atul about 100,000 tms of ship ' in she now possesses soo,coo inhabi \ tjnts and 350,000 tons of shipping i the united states could then equip du ring the whole wer hut three or four frignte their present csiabl'iahment consists of ten siout frigates and they have the means of equipping c;nd mannirtg in 4 months 5u more j il .• sigencies siloul i require it the plan of blockading 1600 mileb of coast l>y frigates won't become impossible and the american commerce would still fi vr.l yours not with itaiiding your hostility but th loss sustained by your munufactu rers enters n thing with yon in your esti ; mate of the conscquencesi what ! then if all | the port of europe ond america are shut to you your pvoductions will still qnd their wuy without injury toyou,intoevery country of the ; globe admitting for a moment tliis r 1 surd dot time o you count for nothing the shock which will bo given to your munufttc | luring towns by the lirst effects of t!ie stop j page do you estimate as of no moment j the bankruptcies of capitalists and the groans j of the poor deprived of thcii daily bread do you consider as of little importance the suspension of all remittance from the uni ted statei vv ii 30,000,000 of dollars sud denly withdrawn from the usual supplies of ! y matiii ■ { shops produce no scusa ! tionf it ttie an icam have nut putriutism ei ough to forego wholly the use of yum ma nufactures which i insist are not necessary to them it ii to be hoped they have sufficient to suspend importations till the existing two year stock which they always keep be consumed i from a paris paper 1ki*d adduis to thb british nation a pamphlet has lately appeared fr<i one f your presses said to be written uni tha ai\ctioij of your ministry and whic/from the notice t«ken,of it in the journals poled to your administration must at lit be countenanced by them far be it fih me toiinputeroa whole nation the infanjvhich attache to the author and lupporterff this work mankind are seldom corrupt jd pro fiigate in great masses a way war/short sighted perfidious policy maydrsgrjn ca binet composed f i f-w individuilsjit raw indeed are the maniples of whotefations riving way to the debusing mfliien*>f set fish dithonourabls.an.l din^racelul riives the history of the political rclutil of all nations had taught us that inierest consi deration too often entered into tl ilisrin sioiu of cabinets and decided ilie liof l'.m pires still tliere had been always served some regard for those moral princiu which ought to form the basis of the inter irse of nations and amidst all the string >!' am bitioi»or avarice every sovereign h/hither to endeavoured to cloak his desii under the specious appearance of putlcd hence modern history scarcely furn'ishqs | an ex ample of a war which has not fc?j preced ed by manifestoes in which bjustice o the war on the part of the assuiu/has been attempted to be supported wvl reserved for your ministry i p lne begjuim of hie 19th century to offer the lirs ixample of a shameless avowal of a outfit for jus tice and of a determination tpigulate iis conduct not by n regard eithetfa its own rights or the rights of neutral lions but by the simple measure of its suplsed its im aginary and i believe it will pnj its falla cious interests the mo«t bitter aspersion i your ene mies have been mild coniparcfo the infa mous concisions of your frie no xa tion had conceived against youmiimtry o pinio so unfavourable noi had ascri bed to hem sentiments so l/irincipled as this ministerial agent has disf to avow leaving as w ite.ub!e grtuk the question of right knowing m he welttd that neu trals had rireidy sub i ted tltaore than he could iiiiinui on th point i en'.ei into ao 1 an i'lfamoui cilculaliloi interest an-l treats ot tha rights anclrmleges of neutrals and independent lfion as he would of a speculation i;i sudor coffee as a mere rjuestion of expedfey in which the amount to be gained w/to bs coolly weight against the quantitjli he hazard ed or lost it u up in this jund of expe d::.icy a:jn lint one can meelhis atrocious enemy because he has not igned to give us a single argument to prfthat great britain had a right to ex ■ nler principles against the neutral traffic setting out therefore upon the basis tl it is a mere juesiion of plunder and pi which your government is now agitntii you will st i:i uber tiio to throw u fewlvas into the scale to show that plundeiiay be in one sioe of the balance and rl profit in tha other t . / i he nnly argument offc moment ad vanced t , ow that it is thsfferni of great jjritain to uk off the ilkles of justice public fail n:v morality i-jiat the neutrals that is the americans r they alone are intended bring the producif their enemy's colonies to market so mjh cheaper tli.it they undersell the wsvf-bia merchants of great hi itiin and tlui ri the i'lautcrs in their caribee islands is then it is to preserve the caribee hills from destruc ti-rn that greanbhtafn wild force america i.ito i war and have ur ministry so s-.on forgo n the dtitrj which prevailed in tv <•.,;;!,,. !.|, n |, i j eari w|)en tl?e american trade was onlfnr one moment sll \> j " ■! 1 i : sll'i supply your hi ai ' i "'"' - rt.iiif li.'c without the aid nf ., on«»-:1 statj there is not an island in tha weimndifbut deprecates the idea of a war with thefcited states nut a war ivith the r.'.iitcd fetes will not be the consequence you say id you found your selves on the extended j defenceless n.ititrcof their commerce — on theiyittestint divisions anil en the stati of rt#t*venue 1 , as to the lirst jet ni'j asvurirou that you know little of the americanfharacter md very little of their temper tfrards great-britain if you suppose the pr*rty they have at sea exposed i > your rapdty will deter them from asserting their rifts they know well tiitt before your cruis's can yet advices of the war a large l of tlieir ves-jels will be at home and you ill find from this mo ment tliry will be retnely careful how they begin new em^rizes ' but the peo ) e of america kai too that they have ' offensive m well as ensive means anj the ! experience of an ti t ytai war with you has t.iu k l)t them t|t in a contest of men plunder if you chuse ) resort to it they have ! ihe advantage of yoi with all your tv>0 shios f war if in the v r of 1775 poor miacr fcle unprovijed yr only it 000 icamen but you miscalculate grossly the spirit of the american people in supposing they can not forego the luxuries you send them i there isnotom article which america imports from you which she cannot manufacture nay there is not one which she dues not or has not at some period or other manufactu red the t»vo great staple articles necessary in america are woollen and cotton goods possessing these she can forego all others america can raise wool enough for her own consumption any year she pleases and you know that her cotton has become a drug in your market she has already established woolen and cotton manufactories and the is in possession o.'all your mechanism nec^ssury to render then profitable all your reasoning in favour of your manu factures is predicated upon the idea that you can undersell other nations and therefore tbat they will buy of you — but you forget tliut a war forcing a circuitous tridf,aad la