Portland Gazette, And Maine Advertiser

Portland, Monday, March 12, 1810.

We can this week present our readers with some small intelligence from Europe, by the arrival of the British packet, Eliza, from Falmouth. She brings London dates to Jan. 13. It appears that the news of Mr. Jackson's insult had reached England, but was not expected to produce any warlike effects towards us, if we may judge of the disposition of the British government by the single assertion of the Times, an anti-ministerial paper. From this paper only, the most important extracts are made. That the intention of our government in their conduct to Mr. Jackson, was manifestly to create disturbance with England and to please the Emperor of France, cannot be denied; but whether this hostile disposition and insult on our part, has excited any resentment in the British government, we have yet to learn. We cannot give any credit to this information, because the mere opinion of one editor, and of one too, whose sentiments do not coincide with those of his own government, cannot be taken as a proof of the determinate sentiments of the ministry of England.

By the doings of the Canadian Legislature, we can perceive the fallacy of our government's views in coercing the British Provinces. By a report of a committee, it appears that "the province is now in a state to defray all the expenses of the government." This they have never before been able to do.