Portland Gazette, And Maine Advertiser

THE AMERICAN FLAG.

We are informed by an highly reputable gentleman, who arrived in the John Adams frigate, that whilst he was at Havre, a brisk and constant trade was carried on between that port and Great Britain, with licenses, and principally under the American flag. This scandalous degradation submitted to by men, who, according to the denunciation of Mr. Madison, are "unworthy the name of Americans," would loudly call for Mr. M'Kim's denationalization, but we suppose that both will retract their furious zeal since their friend Napoleon has discovered that he can be benefited by the system.

As soon as Mr. Adams shall have completed his labour at St. Petersburg as extra tide waiter, to his imperial majesty Alexander, at the salary of nine thousand dollars a year, he might as well be sent to London, to continue his profession under the auspices of the king of the united kingdoms, where he would find sufficient employment in exposing the abominable usurpations of our flag by the French, to introduce their wheat, wine, brandies and frippery. It is however feared that Bonaparte would take it amiss, and it is almost certain that the British government would not tolerate his prying into contrivances, which would not be permitted by their own tide waiters, if it were not beneficial. Alexander's submission to the appointment by our government, of a pimp in the mode in which his officers complied with Bonaparte's requisitions, against the interest and wishes of his subjects and himself, is a most degrading proof of his own humiliation, as well as of our own.—Federal Republican.