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cower. There is So nun who fccfa more indignation", at her mtd- tblbd ^ r$m& on our lawful Com- merce, than I do. ilu; the cjuef- ticm returns, where ihall wc find :j remedy? lanfwer, mt l.i the : r:)u ji cf Canada- I will fuppcfe vdur army marched, Upper Can- .-.da taken3 you arrive at the waib .urt^uebec, and you fliouldbe de¬ feated, thut at lead is poflible. "Mow then are you nTuated ? Reg- onir-,". ;;: is ;.:■ this n>r ? CoiV U'W.r.h a price lor me. I hsrc honoris a fefcucnt ca^ of war, tVadlnsj ane huiutred milHons uf no ifl«JnatUffl«f going there; •& wfcy did you cot go- to v or af tie debt, %ocr foiriu are hirfi, tins w have h in my power to retire tarft Violation cfyofir rights?Pre. • - K."» < r VV "(1 i ! • people wiii be cooied clown. Sir, Iain atraid that we are about to fill . 1 .' utar troops in your rear—Canadi¬ ans la your front— Indians on your vvingi—where, or how, will 3 ■%' you perrorm a retreat r You can- . hot go forward, and you cannot O ' 4 'get back ; and, if voucould, mull not your enemy crofe the line into foundation of our happy over n men t. Sir, I will ftatc another cafe. Your 50,000 men in Canada, and five or fix fliips of the line, with live'or fix tiioufand troops on board, about to land at the Floii- das, Amelia Iflaiid, or F6ffi.fi pans of Georgia. How would you re¬ pel them ? Draw back your troops and march them to the fouth ? Be¬ fore you could do that, one of the ilates might be overrun and plun¬ dered. Let us turn our eyes to to have h in my power to retire thii her, would be poor coniblation to me, after looilrig every thing thai h near and dear to me k my conf ituents.—Sir, we have adder magiitratc, and I have lull confi¬ dence in him. He is chofen by a population of icvcn millions of people. He has afked or recom¬ mended ten thoufand. That num¬ ber I will vote for, and not high¬ er at this time. Thefe ihort ob¬ servations I have conkdered it as mv duty to make. the then {lands the fituatioii of our f own Provinces, Nevv-Hanipfhire, your territory ? Will they refpect Europe, k fee what is tranMccm;r line from your example f I low there by way of contralL The French emperor with feventy mil¬ lions of people, rich in rofourcc-, Vermont,'New-York, & the whole with a confiderable naval force, U •range of our North Well Frontier abfolute dictator—Has he, with a.l from Quebec to the Miffiffippi ? Sir, it is painful in the extreme, for me to fay thefe things, k I do it with reluctance \—-but in my conlcien.ee I conceive it to be my imperious duty to warn my coun¬ trymen to look at confeouences^ A Sketch of Mr. Shefcfs Speech, on the bill" for raffing an additional military forte*' "He thought lie had fufliciently fhewn that there was no pBjcct for the war ; but if there is, he afked, where arid what are your means ? This is agreed to be a commercial his force, been able to cauie Eivj- coutroverfy. Are your means ad- * * 4 4 land to repeal her paper bldckadh equate? It is laid, although you or orders in council ? On the oil., cannot compel the revocation of er hand, has Great Britain, with th.e aid. of the Northern power1., been able to fubdue France? Haa her oth the orders in council, yet we can vitally injure her in Canada, and Provin CCS* But, it is contended, that there is no medium between war & igno¬ minious fubmiilion. I think far otherwise. I am no fubmiffion man j nor have I ever been fo in the revolutionary war ;: 1 think I am not fo now. I oppofed then with the greatcft energy I was maf- tcr or, and 1 would do fo at this time ; but here the question re- rums, what is proper ? Not, in my opinion, the meafures we are •.bout to adopt. If my enemy cuts my linger, am 1, in order to fhew my fplrit, to plunge a dag¬ ger into my bofom ? No; Sir, I am no fueli fel{--murderer. Ad¬ here to the meafures that are pro* pofedj and you deftroy our coun¬ try. I cannot have the moil dif- ir.nt exocciatiou, that they will procure the thing contended for ; nor can I believe, that it can enter into til? head of any member of this honorable committee, that it No, hr, there muii be lome- thin-3 hollow fo-mcwhere. Where; I cannot tell. You are to have an will army of officers—not men. Some¬ thing as it was in the revolutiona¬ ry war. Some of the fetes, at par, ticular times, had hardly as many men, as to make waiters for the officers, to ride behind them about the country. I do not compare thofc times with- the prefent, or what we are now about. Sir, it is an eafy thine: to iliow our valor & ipirit in this gilded hall ; but take my word for it, that live years ex- penfive war will cool that ipirit. At one time, we take the Canadas with a few men, in a Angle cam¬ paign, and, at another, we hear of live years protracted war ! Five years of protracted war ? Spend¬ ing thirty or fay twenty millions per annum ? For what ? The lib¬ erty of exporting without inter- ruption our furplus produce (which is our neutral right)—granted ;— but will not war prevent that ex¬ port and operate as an embargo ? Where or how will vou export da- Ting the continuance of the war ? We now export to the amount of many millions, and import fo as to have ten or twelve millions rc- • Where or what will be L;: by our prt« y /fpnu o nue. your revenue in time of your war- embargo five years. Your people n that Situation cannot pay a di¬ rect tax.—Your army to feed and 4 ■Ct'hs, the people wiilirgin to tf> flic, by her fupcrior naval flrenglh, been able to make France repeal her decrees r No—and will you, whilli ihe poiieffes twelve million; of population, with a naval fores which governs the leas, reduce her to our terms by inch force as we poilefs. No, fir, the thing is pre- pollerous. Her intcrcit mult make her relinquilh, ik I trult that will, if we act wifely.—Submiflion — Submiffion is the word, that is to work us up to a phrenzy. Hov.- have we fubnutted ? Have we no: contended for our rights by nc-.ro- tiation thefe live years pan < What fight )\i\'c we reliiHjulflied ? Noru-. —Has Hie fald we hive demanded any unjuft thins:? No, fir, her an- fwer is, tiiat, in her diltrelled con- iliel, i\\e cannot. The embargo .^c ncn-intercourie are now called fubmiilion. Did they not bring Great Britain, to,form an arrange¬ ment, acknowledging our rijrht^. through the medium of JVlr.ih"- Ikine ; and do we not know he had power lb to-do ? They have impreued our fea- men, and they muft be releafxl. Well, and how is that to be done I By taking Canada, vateers. And if there is war, there will be ifehtinff, h v> lulfc thev arc ftrongeil at lea, the prcfumption is that they take more than we. Sir, let me ftate, that, for 10 years pail, deduct' all your tofles, and then we have received more for our pro¬ duce than we mould have done, had Europe been in peace, and we had enjoyed all our rights.—An¬ other queftton ftrikes inc. Your enemy is in the North—-Themer¬ chant of Georgetown or Alexan¬ dria has 1000 barrels of beef, pork or flour. As foon as there is war, the price of provilions will be dou¬ ble in Europe. He clears out for N. York. So foon as he is out, he is blown off, your enemy fed, the price of rations doubled. You will have to pay as hiirh for every ration, as it will command abroad. The Honorable Sneaker has crone far indeed in his zeal for rights. He has laid, that he did not fun- pofe, that we fhould not reeeiv jury from the enemy. Let them, laid he, lav N. York in allies, Phi- ladelphia, Bolton, nay, let them o- vcrrun the whole country Ea(t of the Allegany, U liberty would re¬ tire to the Weft, and live & ftour- ifh there. It may be fo ; but it i; 'e in- er American The iirit. qucftion is, can you ret the men :—1 Indicate not to fav, you cannot. Fatnotiirn is out of the queftion.' The bill on your table Uiews you do not count upon it, conlidering the bounty in money and land which you offer. He there was no fuch patriotifm in this country—no fuch folly as to enJIft into an army to attack for¬ eign pohefiions. But it is laid, the publick Ibirit is now hisrh for war, and by oppofing this meafure we gre naralizin<*. i■ Ri••, *.r**i **£&* "• hoped . > 1 culate as to the publick ipirit and opinion. Ci Will any gentleman deny, that the caufes for a war in 1797 were not as Lfreat ssa&afi: Fraiiceas they are now. She not only depreda¬ ted upon your property and refu- fed compeniat:on,but ihe, with in- ftilts, rejecled your minifters, and infaniouUy propoled and even in- fifted you fliould pay her a hc-avv tribute, before file would attend to your juft complaints-. Sir, there has been a defect of reafoning throu^Tiiout the whole of this bu- r 1 hei *c is a new afoect in humane affairs throughout Europe* In the prefent lituation of the world A we can't expect neutral rights-will be refpectedo- The defect is this, that we fuppofe that if we frown our enemy mult fall. It is with nations as it is with individuals— prudence dictates that we ihould not give way to our feelings at the O ex-pence cf our judgments. The ftate of the civilized world is now fuch, that the rights of neutrals will come in conflict with the bel¬ ligerents.—In former wars, the greateft part cf nations were neu¬ trals, and were therefore united. Belligerents were then afraid to at- tack the rights of neutrals. A re- gard was then paid to public law. The rights of neutrals are now no more rdpoacd j and it is in vain to expect to have them refpeeled, although you procure a revocation ot French cdiers, or Britifli orders i j 1 L ( ) XI14 Cli ■ • Either tell vour citizens to go to war at their own hazard, or if \ ou are determined to be the friend of the one and the ememvof the ol'h- er, ielect the one w bo can do you the leait harm. dence prevented you. Sir,prudencc :s the lirlt qualification of a ilates- man. It has been laid, at fuch a time as this, we ought not toccn- fult expediency.— He who docs not look to the confequences of acts, is unwoithyoftheconiider.ee of the people. In protecting hon¬ our, it is like every thing elfe, to be regulated by prudence. ' If? af. ter fpending ic\cn years in the ex¬ penditure of blood and treafure we do not get rid oi the orders in council, and yourelinquifn thepur- luit, will it not be worfe ?.Sir, if you do not bend to circumitanccs, circumltances \\ ill not bend to vou. in paying tribute to the Algeriiies and other Barbary powers, vou have yielded to circumltances. In- ft cad of purcbafing of the French Emperor what we were entitled to by the hiws of nations, why did \ om tiGl go to war to compel the revo¬ cation of her edicts ? becaufe pru¬ dence dictated to the contrary. We have heard a great deal faid a- bout volunteering. When I look around upon this Jioufe, I can fee many who would be officers, but none Wio woiiidbe willing to be privates," You may get ibiv^ va- gabonds who are willing to be 0 > go minions to officers : but vou can c get farmer's, or fanner's fons, who are eafy & happy at home. c* No Nation can fuccelsfullv sjo into a foreign war, who are not prepared at the time of refolving upon it.—You have a commenta¬ ry on your table from theSecreta- have no blankets, no coats, or cloa- thing, to protect your men from the inclemencies of theieafon. Un- lefs, indeed, it is your idea to $ into Canada in dog-days, & iini; your work fo as to return before cold weather, into a more genial climate. " He did not believe, with fofne others, that the Canadians will flock to your Itandard. Who are they t Many of them went from thefe itates, and becaufe they liked the country, or government bet¬ ter than the one' they leit. You cannot expecf any them. You muft reafon refpeci: ing men as they are, not upon the virtues of men. Suppofe your force goes to Canada, your enemy will foon bring it back to the fca- ports. Are your fea-ports & towns to be burnt ? Canada, Nova Sco¬ tia, and the frozen regions of the North, will be a poor exchange for them. Are your fmall fortifica¬ tions capable of withftanding the Britifli fleet ? Remember Copen- You muft not calculate on the forbearance and humanity of your enemy. She will do you the moft harm (he can. Before vou get to Canada, vou will be o- bilged to recall your troops.—Al¬ ibi? J live bevend the Alkmm mowi- tains9 and am XalluMv? io the re* tiling froin .barren. O t:wrk cf Mr. C:av~] there equally Jc- eitrc iriih ether G-jnfLrnai^ and al- :/•/ l-'e.rty may there remain ; r<v, at a member of our csmmon country, I cannot eonfeni io reltiiqu'tjh the lib¬ erty of ihe rejL v* Mr. She Hey very forcibly hn- prclled tlie Republican doctrine, refpecting the danger to our lib- crties nroni (landing armies, lie then obferved upoii the remote for (ommerce. do not rfveupthir- danger in tliis eountrv in co-opc- 4,< 4........:i!!,.___ J K+n ^ M! .• 7 i\ t ^r if ) on t:;n to wiii ty two im,nons .or ttvo mmions. rating v/ith Bonaparte, \\'c are, laid, fie, about waging war againft « people, flrufrgling fci thr nvc- •There i always in pi r/atc and public GOiitu'"-b a tbn to ;":;. }{