Portland Gazette, And Maine Advertiser

A Wish undisguised.—There is no Jacobin paper in the Union, which publishes its wishes and opinions in so undisguised and bold a tone, as the Baltimore Whig. Witness the following extract from that paper of Monday last :

"THE SORT OF HEAD."

"Mr. Percival, now at the head of the English ministry, is worthy of his Station—rather deficient in ability and wholly destitute of honor, he has been remarkable as the abject instrument of a corrupt court party. As we wish an end of the infernal government of England, we are glad to behold incapacity and wickedness leading it to swift destruction. Canning, Castlereagh & Co will be appropriately succeeded by Perceval, Wellesley and Dundas, junior. Of the Percevals an amusing and interesting notice is taken in Plymley's letters, on the subject of the catholic question, written by Sheridan."

No doubt it is, in part, this wish that has prompted those editors, as well as others of the same stamp, in their attempts to rouse the people of this country into a war with Great Britain.—To gratify their private wishes and their malignant passions, they would plunge the United States into a ruinous and exterminating contest.—They would sacrifice everything dear to us, our national interest, happiness and honor, for the malicious pleasure of aiding in the overthrow of a foreign government.

Are these the sentiments of Americans?—Are men who avow such sentiments, Americans by birth or by feelings? No they are of foreign growth; and, what ought to be viewed as deeply alarming to all real Americans, they have brought with them passions and principles hostile to the Constitution, the freedom and glory of our country.

But, it is not merely hatred to one foreign nation, which prompts these unprincipled wretches to the part they are acting on our political theatre. Another, and perhaps the principal excitement, is an unbounded love for a military despot. Read the following from a late number of the Philadelphia "Democratic Press."

"No longer can the most distant nations of the earth, look with indifference on the march of the Eagle of France. Whether they will resist and be devoured, or cower under its wings for protection, is a question which they must all determine."

Such, Fellow-citizens, is the language of men who are countenanced and supported by your bounty. While they talk loudly of national independence and national rights, they call on you to surrender both without a struggle. They counsel you to cower under the wings of French eagles for protection.—Against the devices of such men, be ever on your guard. However they may disguise their feelings as regards this country, they are in fact hostile to your constitution and your independence.—They are attached only to that cause which threatens to annihilate the last remnant of freedom, and to bind down the nations of the world in painful and perpetual servitude.