Portland Gazette, And Maine Advertiser

DIALOGUE

Between a Federalist and a Democrat.

Fed. Well Sir, do your party intend to declare war against Great Britain, or provoke her, by dismissing her minister and insulting her government, to declare war against us?

Dem. Yes, Sir ; and I wish Great Britain was sunk in the ocean, and all her navy blown into atoms. We'll teach her to instruct Copenhagen Jackson to tell Mr. Smith he lied!

Fed. You surely have not read the published correspondence, since you make so unsupported an assertion.

Dem. Do you mean to insult me, sir? Did not Jackson tell Mr Smith that Mr. Erskine showed him his instructions, and that he (Mr. Smith) substituted others as an equivalent ? Did not Mr. Smith say he never saw them; and is not this, telling Mr. Smith he lied.

Fed. Now, sir, I perceive your mistake. Mr Smith admits that the expressions of Mr. Jackson to which you allude, made no part of the offence. The offence was an insinuation conveyed to Mr. Smith of a knowledge on his part, that Mr. Erskine was restricted to those very instructions, which Mr. Smith acknowledges he knew and commented upon. Now, this insult, thus defined by Mr. Smith, I defy you or any one of your party, to prove from the printed documents.

Dem. I don't care! I hate Great Britain ; and I thank God I know but little about those nice meanings in the correspondence.

Fed. What, then you thank God for your ignorance, do you?

Dem. (in a rage.) Yea, Sir, I do; what then?

Fed. Why then, you have a great deal to be thankful for.—Boston Gaz.