will fird their way to Ncva,Scotia, rath-
er than 20 to work on the land.


Mr.. Smith tells you, " That Spain
will feel it more perhaps than any ma
lion, in the failure Of imported food,
not making enough within herself, and
in her populous and important colonies,
which depend wholly on us for the SUP
ply Of their daily wants" Mr. 5.
seems to have Forgotten that Spain has,
BY treaty, the free use Of the Niississip-
pi, and that our embargo cannot pre-
vent her subjects nni5ssing the river
he does not reflect THAI The purchasers
of the public lands, must have money
TO pay for them and that they will
carry their -four, their pork and their
bacon on those waters to vessel where
they can get Spanish dollars for them
how does be intend to stop this
course Of procedure? Does he intend
TO pass new laws, and set one militia
man to watch the others? | presume
this will not answer: the embargo, if
of long continuance, viii obIige the
opaniards to recommence thecarrying
trade on the Mississippi in this way
they may not only obtain supply for
their own colonies, but also for the
French islands.


am we'll asst red that the British
governors can grant permits to the
commanders of Spanish vessels 10 car
ry produce to any British ports, and
that these permits are respected am
not sure but in this way the British
will be supplied with cotton 50 that
although the embargo will probably be
destructive to those western people who
are now gone and going to New-Or-
leans with their produce it may e.
yenteally become a source OF wealth to
them. am not in the secret as to the
length ofits continuance, and believe
its advocates are not themselves agreed
CT that point I; some of them, ! know
wished il to be perpetual, others did
not, and some wished to have foreign
ers admitted to carry away American
produce. This part Of the subject has
been well handled by Mr. Smith


know my friend YOU viii feel IN
digilant when you reau lis assertion,
that the president had Better informa-
ton and better means Of knowledge
than he laid before congress lit Is
something Ike Ebelling the president
to say that he has called upon us 10 act
on a subject of the highest importance,
without giving US all the information
he possessed. If you want further
proof OF the incorrcctness Of the obscr-
vatlons before you, compare the two
last lines Of the performance. In the
tirst, he says, the embargo is the wish
OF all parties III the last, he tells you
i Was opposed by party spirit ~ real
" do not remember TO have seen pas
sive obedience more strenuously preach
I'd up in John Adams's days, than in
the hast paragraph Of this extraordina-
ry production.