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VENINGAit. LONDON. ~..._ , AY, ,AUGU&T 21. THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK, ,-.4511it5571 58-.-for opg. Ste for Ce. 9of f—Bank Stock Eonds Is. 116.—Loog Awn. I si 7-Iseks •• 3s. dis.—Do. Old.) 3s. ss. pre. AMERICA. perfectly correct yesterday, in cautioning 'ainst the inference attempted to be for' commercial purposes,--that... tained an hostile attitude, even I our Orders in Council was made:, eminent. We now repeat, that no was communicated to the Amert f rhea Mr. rOjTER came away. It the GLEANER did arrive- Mr. FOiTER left that port; .and !diately forwarded her dispatches to a Secretary at Halifax to wait lot American government ; which )urse • have .been received from We. ,Forrati cattle away.- :His arrital therefore, ie froN Is consequence of any the Repts' "theiatention to `repeal this is not all : v •— • ;any out the formal revocation of I reit.- She sailed . frortr Eogla'nd on . the Orders in Council' were not the ; afid the that certain changes.* the tritish Cabinet *ere about•toAtake ie above, we received New Ydr Papers to the 9th July, from fa, length, thlt Deport of the oreign Relations, upon which the de was founded. It is a document of Inaimuch as it 'shews the strong made by the PRESIDENT'S party souse of Representatives to the 1 of hostility against this cottntry. line the monstrous and outrage ted by Modern France, and sug. the Corsican Despot to Mr. MA. medium of JOEL BARLow, a fit worthless Chief Magistrates as MADI- with an this outcry at the seat of . distraction on the subject of war public opinion. The Governor of I issued a proclamation for a day of ~ to avert the horrors of war; and that State new openly threaten to rnion. ermont has also publicly re** war, and even Congress have Session, the final laying on of the , view, no doubt, to temporise prom Great Britain arrives, which know it does, to a complete re: in Council, will no doubt effect a in the American Councils ? so fir as Great Britain is concerned. If it does not, then shall we be the first to call upon our rulers to let fall the gieat axe of war upon the shoulders of the misled and thoughtless Ameri cans, and the voice of the people of Great Britain, we have no doubt, will be unanimous on the occasion. AMERICAN STATE PAPER. The Committee onForeignßelations to whom was referred the Message of the President of the United States of the Ist of June, 1812, Report, 04 That after the experience which the United States have had of the great injustice of the British Ga.:em inent towards them, exampled by so many acts of violence and oppression, it will be more difficult to jurtify to the impartial world their patient forbear ance, than the measures to which it has become neces sary to resort, to avenge the wrongs, and vindicate the rights and honour of the nation. Your Commit tee are happy to observe, on a dispassionate review Of the conduct of the United States, thee they see in it for censure. . no cause . gg If a long forbearance tinder injuries ought ever to be considered a • virtue in any nation. it is_one which peculiarly, becomes the United States. .No people ever had,stronger motives to cherish peace— pone have ever cherished it with greater sincerity itnd zeal. " But the period has 'l4ifinrrived When the United States must support their character and station among the nations of the earth, or submit to the most shame ful degradation. Forbearance has ceased to be a virtue. War on the one side and peace on the other, is a situation as ruinous as it is disgraceful. The mad ambition, the lust of power, and commercial avarice of Great Britain, arrogating to herself:the complete dominion of the ocean, .and exercising over it an unbounded, and lawless tyranny, have left to neutral nations an alternati4e only, between the base *render of their rights,. and a manly vidication of amt. Hafpily for the thtited States, their destiny, ' millier the aid of kiaaver,,ii in their hands. The grids is fornidatite only bt.their love of peace.' As ; noon as it becomes a doty toselinguisb that situation, danger disappears. They have suffered nt este nto , they have mewed no insults, howevalgreat, roe Vitich the/ cannot obtain sedtess. " m op t h an seven yoke hen elapsed, since this cemin saceawist of this system `of hostile aggression 1 feyibe illeitisiCoversinvent, on the rights and inter. . efts tithe Unitelk-Staies. TM =beer of its co imenceznent was loot less - hcstile, than the spirit irlei N which it bas bees pinaeratted. The United Scam loom traz.El FRIDA of stoCKS apera. Rad. sigt....o *ear Ct.73+-4 - fai 0 skti pre.—sorts Sick. lAD& (30.) is. 3 I We were perf ect l y r Readers against awn in the City I merica had mint ter the repeal of o mown to her. Covert ch circumstance w an Government wia indeed, true that t x the day before r. FOSTER imrnedia ew York, leaving it e answer of the uld not, of course ington when Mr. 1 London, tbarafor etermination Of the cent to tti . irtfofnl he Orders In CO4 LEANER did not ca he Orders in Counci e 19th of June; tl nally revoked whit arried out an inch* ouncils of the lace. . . • While writing- the Ad other Americar hick we give, at 1 Committee of Foreig .claration of war was great importance, It and unfair exertions to work up the Hi highest possible pitch It breathes in every .airs principles adopt( Bested; no doubt, by AZiow, through the r agent for such worth ator and BONAPA RTIS• In the mean time, v Government, much cl prevails in the publ Massachasets has int fast and supplication, the Federalists of tit( secede from the Unit . Every town in Ver strated against the wi layed, until next Se! War Taxes, with a lantil an ultimatum fr if it amounts, as we peal of the Orders.in complete revolution i .• Rritain is et have no doubt, will be unanimous on the occasion. AMERICAN STATE PAPER. "The Committee onForeignßelations to whams referred the Message of the President of the 'EMI ; Stun of the Ist of June, 1812, Report, " That after the experience which the United Su have had of the great injustice of the British Goorei =lent towards them, exampled by so many acts violence and oppression, it will be more difficult justify to the impartial world their patient forbe once, than the measures to.which it has become neci sary to resort, to avenge the wrongs, and vindic the rights and honour of the nation. Your Comm tee are happy to observe on a dispassionate revii Of the conduct of the United States, that they set it no cause for censure. " If a long forbearance under injuries ought ei to be considered a •virtue in any nation, it is which peculiarly, becomes the United States. .1 people ever had ,sconger motives to cherish peace sone have ever cherished it with greater :ince s t.; aod zeal. " But the period has ,arrive Unit SiAi • d When the 'States must support their character and station anvil 'the nations of the earth, or submit to the most than ' ful degradation. Forbearance has ceased to be virtue. War on the one side and peace on the oth, is a situation as ruinous as it is disgraceful. T triad ambition, the lust of power, and commerc avarice of Great Britain, arrogating to. herself .t complete dominion of the ocean, and exercising os it an unbounded, and lawless tyranny, have left • 4eutral nations an alternati* only, between the bi surrender of their rights,. itrtd a manly vidication thew. Hapily for the Obited States, their aestir coder the aid of Hasver,,il in their hands. T cr i s is i s formidable only ht.-their love of peace.' ‘i soon as it becomes a duty totelinguish that sitoatk danger disappears. They have suffered tit "soul they have mewed no insults, hoeeverlpeat, Vitich the, cannot obtain sedtets. „ m oo t han seven yea's* here elapsed, .sine I cenu nnecanannt of this system `of hostile . oggressi , by the illsitish•Governavra4 on the rights and ins; aft of dm UniefikStaies. TM manner its cot lbencezneat was hot less - hestile, than the spkit labia it has Imes pioser.sted. The United Sta have invariably done every thing in their lowa to cognised by Great Britain _hersdfr, no blockade is • would eecur preserve the relations of Mendship with great Bri- lawful, unless it ba sustained by the apislication of . A n exempt i on twin. • Of this disposition they gave a distinguished an adequate force, and that an adequate force was m ain t hi s , proot at the moment when they were made the vie. applied to this blockade, in its full extent, ought not p a h a , , time of an opposite policy. The wrongs of the last to be pretended. Whether Great Britain Wks able( waste of war had not been forgotten at the commencement of to maintain, legally, so extensive a blockade, cond..: a our , the present one. They warned us of dangers, against dering the wat in which sllt is engaged, requiring ;i n k s an d which it was sought to provide. As early as the such extensive naval operations, is a question which ' text o f pear 1804, the Minister of the United States at , it is not necessary at this time to examine. I Nee, British , London was instructed, to invite the British Govern- "lt is sufficient to be known, that such force was coast , to . ment to enter into a negociatiOn on all the points on not applied, and this is evident from the terms of the effect to which it.collision might arisebetween the two coup, blockade itself, by which, comparatively, ap inconsi. , aid harbours tries, in the course of the war, and io propose to it 1 . operable portion of the coast only was declared to be in ded. an arrangement of their claims on fair and reasonablo ! a state of strict and rigorous blockade. The objection . nest , , conditions. The invitation was accepted. A nevi. ito the measure is not diminished by that circumstance. ! an i mate 4, ' nation had commenced and was depending, and ilf the force was not applied, the blockade was an . : encroached nothing had occurred to excite a doubt that it would , lawful from whatever cause the failure might pro. carr i e d i not terminate to the satisfaction of both the parties. ceed. The belligerent who institutes the blocks& :4 0ne ot h er It was at this time, and under these circumstances, cannot absolve itself from the obligation to apply r press i on. that an attack was made, by surprise, on an impor. the force saner any pretext whatever. For a bells- L a Th e tant branch of the American commerce, which affec- gereut to relax a blockade, which it could not main- ' di gnat i on tied every part of the United States, and involved tarn, it would be a refinement in injustice not less in. p rocur i ng many of their citizens in ruin. suiting to the understanding than repugnant to the unauthorised _. them to the favour of their Government. 44 The commerce on which this attack was so un- law of nations. To claim merit for the mitigation expectedly made, was between the United States of an evil, *bids the party either had not the power, ! red by active measures to excite against us t h elin‘ " Whether the British Government has eotttr 1 and the colonies of France, Spain, and the other lorI or found it inconvenient to inflict, would be a ElfW c op enemies of Great Britain. A commerce just in mode of encroaching on neutral rights.—Your com- lily of the savage tribes on our frontier s , y our i s i s . itself—sanctioned by the example of Great Britain in mitts* think it just to remark that this act of the Bri- mittee are not disposed to occupy much t i me regard to the trade with her own colonies—sanc- tish government does not appear to have been adopted vestigating. Certain indications of general l w o „„• timidd by it. solemn act between the two Govern. in the tense in which it has been since construed. On I may supply the place of authentic ' menu in the list war.; and sanctioned by the prac. consideration of all the circumstances attending the though these have not been wanting to the tice of the British Government in the present war, measure, and particularly the character of the distin- 1 fact in some instances. It is known that a t h" more than two years having elapsed, without any in. guished statesman who announced it, we are per- ;of British hostility towards the United S t serr feence with it. suaded that it was conceived in a spirit of conciliation ' never failed to p r oduce corresponding sympt ___ + 4 The injtistice of this attack could only be equal. led by the absurdity of . the pretext alledged fur It was pretended by the British Government, that in case of war, her enemy had no right to n:odify its colonial regulations, so as to-mitigate the calamities of war to the inhabitants of its colonies. This pre tension, peculiar to Great Britain, is utterly incompa tible with' the right of sovereignty, in every indepen. dent state. If we recur to the well-established and universally 'admitted law of nations, we shall find do sanction to it, in that venerable code. The sove reignty of every state is co-extensive with its domi. nions, and cannot be abrogated, or curtailed in its rights, as to any part, except by conquest. Neutral nations have aright to trade to every port of either belligerent, which is not legally blockaded—and in all articles which are not contraband of war. Such is the absurdity of this pretension, that your Commit tee are aware, especially after the able manner in which it has been heretofore refuted, and exposed, that they would offer an insult to the understanding of the House, if they enlarged on it, and if any thing could add to the high sense of the injustice of the British Government in the transaction, it would be the contrast which her conduct exhibits in regard to this trade, and in regard to a similar trade by neu— trals with her own colonies. It is known to the world, that Great Britain regulates her own trade, in war and in peace, at home and in her colonies, as she finds for her interestu-that in war she relaxes the restraints 'of her colonial system in favour of the colonies, and that it never was suggested that she had not a right 'to do it—or that a neutral in taking advantage of the :relaxation violated a belligerent right of her enemy —but with Great Britain every thing is lawful. It is only in a trade with her enemies that the United States can do wrong. With them all trade is unlawful. 44 In the year 1795 an attack was made by the Bri tish Government on the same branch of our neutral trade, which had nearly involved the.two countries in war. That difference, however, was amicably ac commodated. The pretention was withte awn, and reparation made to the United States for the losses which they had suffered by it. It was fair to infer from that arrangement, that the commerce was deemed by the British Government lawful, and that k would not be again disturbed. **l Had the British Government been resolved tt and intended to lead to an accommodation of all dif ferences between the United States and Great Bri tain. His death disappointed that hope, and the act has since become applicable to other purposes. It has been made by his successors a pretext for that vast system of usurpation, which has so long oppressed and harassed our commerce. " The next act of the British Government which claims our attention is the Orders of Council of Ja nuary 7, 1807, by which neutral powers are prohi bited trading from one port to another of France or her allies, or any other country with which Great Britain might not freely trade. By this Order the ,pretention of England, heretofore claimed by every .other power, to prohibit neutrals disposing of parts of their cargoes at different ports of the same enemy, is revived and with vast accumulation of injury. -Every enemy, however great the number or distant from each other, is considered one, and the like trade even with powers at peace with England, who from .motives of policy had excluded or restrained her 'commerce, was also prohibited. In this act the Bri tish Government evidently disclaimed all regard for neutral rights. Aware that the measures au thorised by it could find no pretext in any belligerent right, none was urged. To prohibit the sale of our produce, consisting of innocent articles, at any port of a belligerent. not blockaded, to consider every bel ligerent as one, and subject neutrals to the same re trains with all, as W there was but one, were bold ext. croaehments. But to restrain or in any manner in. terfere with our commerce with neutral nations with whom Great Britain was at peace, and against whom she had no justifiable cause of war, for the sole Yea. son, that they restrained or excluded from their ports her commerce, was utterly incompatible with the pa. cifie relations subsisting between the two countries- - 44 WeLproceed to bring into view the British Orders in Council of November 1 Ith, 1807, which super. ceded every other order, and consummated that system of hostility on the commerce of the United States which has been since so steadily pursued. By this order all France and her allies, and every other country at war with Great Britain, or with which she was not at war, from which the British flag was excluded, and all the colenies of her enemies, were subjected to the same restrictions as if they were ac tually blockaded in the most strict and - among those tribes. " It is also well known that on all such mat* abundant supplies of the crdinary munitims d so t have been afforded by the agents of British Now dal companies, and even from British garristes, wherewith they were enabled to commence thee ete, tern of savage warfare on oar frontiers, which his been at all times indiscriminate in its effect, on ip ages, sexes, and conditions, and so revoking to ha. manity. Your Crindnittee would be much gratified, if they could close here the details of British wrongs, but rt is their duty to recite another act of still greater malignity, than any of those which ham hem already brought to your view. " The attempt to dismember our Was admen throw our excellent Constitution, by a malt Idiia s the object of which was to foment discourages,. excite insurrection against the constituted aminekeg. and laws of the nation, as 1 tidy disclosed by to agent employed in it, affords A full proof that there is no bound to the hostility of the British Goma. ment towards the United States.no act, hovel's, unjustifiable, which it would not commit to scam. plish their ruin. This attempt excites the grqua horror from the consideration that it was made the United States and Great Britain were at peace, and an amicable negotiation was depending betimes them for the accommodation of their difereoces through public ministers, regularly authorised fertile purpose% " The United States have beheld, with =um pled forbearance, this continued series of hostile e,. croachments on their rights and interests, in Owings that, yielding to the force of friendly remonstrates, often repeated, the British Government might Welt a more just policy towards them; but that hoes so longer Exists. They have also weighed impartially the reasons which have been urged by the liriath Go vernment in vindication of these encroachments, and found in them neither justification nor apology. "The British government has alledged in Tido cation elf the orders in council that they wen is. sorted to as a retaliation on France, for similar eg. gressions committed by her on cur neutral v* with the British dominions. But bow has &it plea been supeorted ? Tile dates of British rod French aggressions are well knomn to the world. co contellf this trade with neutrals, it was due to the character of the British nation that the decision should be made known to the Government of the United States. The existence of a negotiation which had been invited by our Government, for the purpose of preventing differences by an amicable arrangement of their respective pretentions, gave a strong claim to the notification, while it afforded the fairest op portunity for it. But a very different policy ani. mated the then Cabinet of England.—The liberal confidence and friendly overtures of the United States were taken advantage of to ensnare them.— Steady to its purpose and inflexibly hostile to this country, the British Government calmly looked *for ward to the moment, when it might give the most deadly wound to our interests. A trade just in itself, which was secured by so many strong and sacred pledges, was considered safe. Our citizens with heir usual industry and enterprise, had embarked in it a vast proportion of their shipping, and of their capital, which were at sea, under no other protection than the law of -nations, and the confidence which they re posed in the justice and friendship of the British sta tion. At this period the unexpected blow was - Ten, _ swivel. strict al rigorous I Their origin and progress have been marked with manner, and all trade in articles the produce and ma- ! too wide and destructive a waste of the property nufacture of the said countries and colonies, and the of our fellow-citizens, to have been forgotten. The vessels engaged in it were subjected to capture and , Decree of Berlin of November List, 1800, was . the • condemnation as lawful prize. To this order certain fi rst aggression of France in the foment war. Et** exceptions were made which we forbear to notice,' teen months ha 4 thea elapsed, after the attack made because they were not adopted from neutr a l ri g h ts , ' b y Great Britain on our neutral trade, with th eme but were dictated by policy to promote the commerce lonies of France and her allies, and sit months from of England, and so far as they related to neintal the date of the Proclamation of May 18013. E'm powers, were said to emanate from the clemency of on the 7th January 18Q7, the date of the first the British Government. tish Order in Council, so short a term had elapsed, " It would be superfluous in your Committee to after the Berlin decree, that it was hardly possible state, that by this Order the British Government de. that the intelligence of k should have reached the Glared direct and positive war against the United , United States. A retaliation which is m produce States. The dominion of the ocean was completely I its- effect, by operating on a neutral powte. ,fibl usurped by it, all commerce forbidd e n, and e v er y fl ag not to be resorted to, till the neutral bad justifie d l giriven from it or subjected to capture and c on d e m- i b y a cu l pa bl e acqu i escence i n t h e un l aw f u l ate nation, which did not subserve the policy of the B r i- t h e ot h er b e lli gerent . I t oug h t to be delayed an__°_, tish Government by paying it a tribu t e an d sa ili ng a f t er suf fi cient t i me h a d b een al l owe d to t h e neut ral under its sanction. From this period the United to remonstrate against the measure compiainsdeft States have incurred the heaviest losses and most to receive an answer, and to act on it, which bad not mortifying humiliations. They have borne the cola- been done in the present instance; and when the °edit_ mities of a war without retorting them o n i ts aut h ors . o f N ovem b er I Ith was isased, it is .well know° tha t "So far your Committee has presented to the view a Minister of France had. declared to a Minister Pb' of the House tfie - dons which ha- been Paris, that it est .3 given. Many of our vessels were seized, carried into rut . and condemned by a tribunal, which, while it pro. fesses to respect the law of nations, obeys the man dates of its own government. Hundreds of °then vessels were driven from the ocean, and the trade it- self in a great measure suppressed. aggresst , ._ _Ave , com mitted under the authority of the British Government on the commerce of the United States. 4. We will now proceed to other wrongs which have been still more severely felt. Among these is the impressment of our seamen—a practice which has ham unceasingly maintained by Great Britain in the which she nipotentiary IA the United States at „ - - - not intended that the Decree of Berlin shesid appli to the United States, 14 It is equally well knwn that no Americo vessel had been condemned under it, or seizure been made► with which the British Qovernment was acquainted. The facts prove t h at t h e u n eastues of •, The effect produced by this attack on the lawful commerce of the United States was such as might have been expected from a virtuous, independent and highly injured people. But one sentiment per vaded the whole American nation. No local inte rests were regarded—no sordid motives felt. With out looking to the parts which suffered most, the in. vision of our rights Wks considered a common cause. and from one extremity of our Union to the other, WAS heard the voice of an united people, calling on their Government to avenge their wrongs, and vin dicate the rights and honour of the conntry. GA F ro m this period the British Government has on in a continued encroachment on the rights wars to .ich has been a party since our rerolu tion. Your Committee cannot convey in adequate terms the deep sense they entertain of the injustice and oppression of this proceeding. Under the pretest of impressing British seamen, our fellow-citi ze ns art i seized in British ports, on the high seas, and in every other quarter to which the British power extends, are • taken on board British men of war, and compelled to serve there as British subjects. 4 , In this mode our cititens are wantonly snatched from their country and their families, deprived of their liberty, and doomed to an ignominious and sla vish bondage, compelled to fight the battles of a fo count- and often • purr incontestibly, France, hoWever unjustifiable, in themselves, were nothing more than a pretext tor those of Logland• — And of the insutficieng of that pretext. enwie ___,. have already been afforded, by the British GOO' taint itself, and is the most impressive form. " It Is *unification of the wrongs of one yeem that the like weft committed by another; sk ought the f if me i to }save been urged by at " as it eoingt oo proof of its love of joteieb of its , or even of its eourelr• is more worthy the Gowernmeat of a Ven t IP Lion to relieve than to assail the injured. Ner_ : 011 : a repetition of the wrongs by another power ger' wounded honour of the IP gone Is. „ reign 'try, to p ensh in them. and interest of the United States, disregarding iii its flag has given them no protection--it has been un eogrse, in many instances, obligations which have teasingly violated and our vessels exposed to danger heretofore been held sacred by civilized nations. Iby the loss of the men taken from them. Yotte Cons. 6 ' In Mel, 1806, the whole coast of the Continent, mince need pot remark that untie the practice is from the I,.;be to Brest inclusive, was declared to be continued, is is impossible for the United States to its a state of blockade. By this act, the well.esta- consider themselves an independent nation. ETV, blished principles of the law of nations. principles new case is a new proof their degradation. which have served for a ges . as vides, and fi xed the 46 I t s continuance is the more unjustifiable Us. boundary between th e r ights of belligerents and new. tense the United States have repeatedly proposed mils, were violated. By the law of nations, ags re to the. 1360611 Goma= sa arraarnent TrbiS the iidlated right; or loked Pte. [After enumerating various (apposed acts of Committed by Great Jaritain agaust • sited States, the Report concludes thus " Relying on the patriotism of the nation ode!: fsdently trusting that the Loaner Hosts mile= us to battle in a righteous caws and crown CW with success—your Committee recotomeads _ Nadi= appeal to aroma? . . secure to tt in the eoatrot# of Its emption of the citinens of the United & ft his degrading oppresion and their gag fia t e h. is all that they have sought. riles inl et of oar trade and equally ingawful • seamen, have been much aggrava by tl e ad indignities attending them. Under the p ro , blockading the harbours of France and her ritish squadrons have been stationed on o p to watch and annoy our own trade. To Ei ti to the blockade of European ports, th e mu wholes of the United States have been bie c i a . In executing these orders of the British Gem ent . or in obeying the spirit which was known ti to it, the commanders of these squadrons bo o Icbed on our ju risdiction, seizes! our vessel:am into effect i mpressment within our limit; a y )then acts of great injustice, violence and e t m. 'he United States have seen, with mingled inn and surprise, that these acts, inste a d ing to the perpetrators the punishment du e to ' 'tinned crimes, have not failed to recome uez d 'ft thp fwnur 14 " th•i,