Portland Gazette, And Maine Advertiser

FROM THE PALLADIUM.

" Perpetual Embargo, or Free Trade."

This, the Chronicle says, must be the toast. We say there is a " free trade" now to all the world except France—where it is hazardous to go, because when arrived there we are treated as enemies—witness the condemnation of all American property now in France. The amount of which is said to be placed in the Treasury to wait the issue of the negociations. If Mr. Jefferson obeys the command to take sides with Bonaparte, it is promised to be restored. We fear Mr. Jefferson has yet stronger inducements to take sides with France, and will use every art to effect it. We notice that his paper at Washington is now preparing us for it.

If Honestus would have the Embargo last till England repeals her Orders in Council, it may last long enough to satisfy even Honestus—as letters received by the Mary state expressly, that so much has our conduct disgusted them, and so little do they regard our Embargo, that it is now even doubtful whether they will not keep up a wand blockade of France, even though the decrees of Bonaparte should be repealed, which, however, there is not the slightest reason to expect. Are we then to ruin ourselves in the vain hope of coercing Great Britain by our Embargo? If we think this scheme folly and madness, let us exert ourselves to send men to represent us in Congress who do not coincide with the politics of the Chronicle.