Portland Gazette, And Maine Advertiser

From the Weekly Inspector.

In the National Intelligencer of the 10th inst. are "THOUGHTS on the subject of NAVAL power in the UNITED STATES of America; and on certain means of encouraging & protecting their commerce and manufactures."-No. I.

This is such a compound of something like intellect, and sheer madness, that it defies all analysis. We will, however, express our ideas on the subject, in fewer words than this man has sentences.

"In the first place, (he says in substance) a navy may destroy our liberties." So a man may cut his throat with a dull knife; therefore let us abolish the use of steel.

2. "Impressments arise from a naval establishment. The seaman may be torn from his family and forced to serve the public, without an adequate compensation,"

And are we obliged to adopt the bad, and reject the good of every establishment? A house may be burnt by culinary fire, or struck with lightning from heaven. Shall we then live in caves, and abolish the use of fire?

3. "A navy will sink the nation by its expenses."

Pray, was a man ever made poor by taking money from one pocket and putting it into another? I tell you, sir, the money expended in building a navy will not go out of the country.

4. "The navy of Great Britain is a splendid instrument of ruin."

Without a navy, however, the world would be a province of France, and the whole world at the feet of the most rapacious tyrant that ever disgraced humanity.

Without an American navy, we shall soon have no commerce; without a commerce, we shall have no revenue; without a revenue, no government.

Then huzza for the "rights of man," and "the cave of the mountain!"