"the United States will look to and settle themselves. The high character of the American people, is a suf "ficient pledge to the world that they will not fail to "settle it on conditions which they have a right to "claim." Is that all, said Boston? all, replied the Squire. Well, continued the speaker, a short horse is soon curried. And pray let me ask, is not a loss of property as distressing to a man when taken by B, as when it is occasioned by A? and is freedom less dear, or slavery more tolerable, in the dungeons of Nap, than in the ships of Bull? Have you counted the cost of this contest? are your seaports and harbors in a state of security and prepared for an attack? Have you an army raised sufficient to carry your threats into execution and obtain the redress you claim ?-Had you resisted the encroachments of Nap on your trade at first, as you ought, these Blockades and orders would never have existed. Bull in reclaiming deserters to whom you have too often given shelter, and too frequently enticed from their duty, has some times taken your In doing this, he claims no other right than every other independent nation has ever recognized and practised on. That in the exercise of this right abusees have frequently happened I do not deny. It is, and ever has been a grievance since our first organization as a political family. But to make war, to oblige your enemy to renounce this claim, is the height of folly and stupidity. Few indeed are the cases in which a natural born subject can absolve his allegiance. The case in question is not one. Even the right of expatriation of which we hear so much, in its most plausible features, grows out of the refinement of civil society, and does not exist in the individual as an abstract and independ

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ent privilege. For instance, a subject of one of the German States emigrates to this country; his prince reclaims him; we resist the claim, because the emigrant has become a member of our society, and because the yielding him would interfere with our municipal regulations; but not because we have any natural right to his services or because we are under any abstarct obligation to receive and protect all that fly to our shores. The individual was invested primarily, with no power to make a contract with us, or we with him. Hence a very important distinction becomes evident. We ought to protect all emigrants who settle among us permanently, but the privilege of birthright can never be conferred but by the mutual consent of the sovereigns, inasmuch as to one belongs the privilege to release, to the other, to receive. Therefore our local jurisdiction on land is total and exclusive; but on the water, only partial and relative. The one embraces the entire interests of a single community; the other, the rights of a variety of communities to which all nations are parties. The first territory we possess in fee simple, while in the other we are but tenants in common.-In the first case the integrity of our local and municipal jurisdiction protects the emigrant, in the latter, we are not invested with that jurisdiction; of course, birth or the mutual conset of the parties interested, is requisite to consecrate and insure protection. With regard to the charge of his having armed the savages against us, he has already disavowed having any concern in it. It is brought forward merely to increase the size of the budget. But the charge of his having sent a spy among us, to sow the seeds of disaffection, is the most ridiculous of all, and I am confident it is only brought forward at this.

time to rouse your passions, my Leige Uncle, agains your Adversary, and to excite your prejudice agains me and my family, and perhaps also to cover the dis grace of being swindled out of 50,000 Dollars.

I have only to add as a last and I fear unavailing duty that unless you refrain from listening to the sug gestions of this profligate and abandoned woman, you are undone. Jacques and she put their heads together and resolve what tales to tell you, and you believe every thing, not because one syllable is true, but because you are told to believe it; you believe not from probability, but by the square foot, yard or acre, whatever is offered you. Now mind what I tell you, Bull will never yield his principles of Blockade or orders, until you have properly resisted Nap's decrees which were the cause of them. He will never give up the right of search, until you have sunk his last ship, and the last square foot of his Island. Again, were you the maritime power, and John Bull the complainant, you would never give up this right, it is the right of every independent nation. You would not dare give it up. And if the exercise of it is less useful to us than to him, this difference results merely from the different circumstances in which the two nations are placed. You say that the principles of your government, make it your duty to offer an asylum. to the oppressed of all nations. Whence did you derive the authority to constitute a code of principles of paramount authority to the principles of national law and the rights of other nations? It is a maxim in law “that you shall so use your own property as not to injure that of your Neighbor." You may go to war five, ten, or twenty years, my word for it, you will leave off where

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Begin, or worse in point of attaining any of the objects you contend for.

As might be expected this phillippic of the impudent Yankee was not at all relished by either of the highminded auditors. Uncle Sam with a careless, indifferent and self sufficient air, turned and walked away, while the Squire, who had been ready to burst with rage, tendered him the homage of his profound contempt.

We must now pay a visit to the valiant Field marshal Count Scratch-off. We left him in the dominions of John Bull, amusing himself with his proclamation, and halting his army at Sandwich, recruiting them by occasional excursions in the owl-pastures adjoining. On hearing the news of this invasion, Uncle Sam's wife began to set her cap for the government of a new territory, and her gallants were heard to make large swaggering bets that Count Scratch-off would be in Quebec within three weeks, and it is even said that several applications were made for the office of Governor of Canada. Adventurers were flocking from all quarters, in eager expectation of having a good slice out of the rounds of the Bull, and although there were not many who coveted the job of knocking the Bull down, yet multitudes were ready to assist in skinning and cutting him up for market. Among the most renowned and valiant of those who offer their knives, horses, and sacred honor, on this interesting occasion,. was Admiral Tom-us-off, Chief Steward of Stoffles Land, sometimes called the pretty Knight of the fiddle, from his assiduity and attention to the Ladies; after this however, he acquired the name of Swagger master General to Uncle Sam, from the great zeal he displayed in driving out his tenants to protect

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the frontier, while he kept his own sleek, sweet se self out of the reach of danger.

Mean time, our valiant adventurer having settled

himself at Sandwich, seemed to be content with the proclamation he had issued, by which he evinced an evident partiality to the ink-shedding instead of the blood-shedding system.

Here he remained about a month, when finding the stupid inhabitants of the Snowfields, so dilatory about accepting the blessings of Liberty and safety, that with the most nettlesome indignation and precipitate activity, he pulled up stakes and recrossed over to the territories of Uncle Sam.

This, or some other cause equally forcible and cogent, so roused the ire of the churlish mhabitants of these desolate regions, that they crawled out from under their snow banks, put themselves under the command of one Master Brooks, a most daring fellow, who not having the spirit of forbearance in his mind, nor the fear of gunpowder and proclamations before his nose, followed the Field marshal over, foot to heel, and without shedding a drop of blood, took him and all his company prisoners, being, as it appeared, determined not to part with their company at any rate. This happened on the 14th day of the 8th Month.

The intelligence of these events reached the ears of Uncle Sam, and mild and temperate as he was, threw him into a paroxism of anger. He sometimes was half resolved to abandon the project of giving the boorish Bullites the blessings of Liberty. But the first Frost month after his Honor's wrath being a little abated, he collected another company, made up partly of the servants of his own family, and partly of the sons of Stof