Gazette Of The United States And Daily Evening Advertiser

From the Baltimore Advertiser
Keep it up, my brave heroic fellows! Sing to the old tune, and lay it on thick! Mr. Jay, it seems, has opened his mission (as some think) like a man of sense, put things in a train of peaceable adjustment, and got Lord Grenville to say "that his majesty will be anxious that justice should at all events be done, and will readily enter into the discussion of the measures to be adopted, and the principles to be established for that purpose." Wrong by G-d! Every step in the business wrong! Wrong to have sent Mr. Jay at all! Wrong for Mr. Jay to have suffered himself to be first presented to the king of G. Britain, and then to the Queen, thereby demeaning the Republican character, by giving countenance to such fooleries! Wrong for him to have stated our demands with energy, and required justice with mildness! On the contrary he should have landed at Dover, brought over the Governor, travelled slowly to London, sowing as he went revolutionary seeds, joined the opposition against government, boldly placed himself at the head of a Club, and threatened the Executive with an appeal to the people, or as the case might be, to the Parliament. This, my lads, would have been pluck, would have been serving the country to some purpose, would have terrified the king, made the nobles—themselves, & shewn the world that our minister was a true Republican! Keep it up, I say my lads! for tho' I have been a little worsted at Fort-Pitt. you may still rely upon.

TOM THE TINKER.