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-- • n mo w& at length, to the artepittg system o f ruti ka d t w, under the name of Orders in Council, bids has been moulded and managed as might best peg its po litical views, its toMittercial jealousies, or tbs Av idity of British croizert. 1 . 0 our r emonstrances against the complkated od edant injustice of this innovation, the first y Was t hat the orders were reluctantly adopted f ol b Britain as a necessary retaliation on decrees ~ Got / t oy proclaiming a general blmckade of the (Ogre n tip Isles, at a time when the naval force of that y dived not to issue from his own ports. She was w ithout effect, that her own prior blockades, renuoui os___arced by an adequate naval force actually ap p an d cotinued, were a bar to this plea ; that eze mw a ce s against millions of our property could iot be re taliation on edicts confessedly impossible to be executed ; that retaliation, to be just, should fall ot h e p a rty setting the guilty example, not on an in ram pa rty, which was not even chargeable with as acq uiescence in it. • when deprived of this flimsy veil for a prohibi fo of our trade with Great Britain, her Cabinet, bo a of a coriesponding repeal of a practical dis csboance of its orders, formally avowed a determi. s o to persist in them against the United States, o pi the markets of her enemy should be laid open o l t itith product' ; thus asserting no obligation on so ma power to require one belligerent to encou sge,b7 its internal regulations, the trade of another blimirat ; contradicting her own practice towards isdos in peace as well as io war ; and betraying iikitheesity of those professions which inculcated MK that, having resorted to her orders with re gal, she was anxious to find an occasion for putting aN rod to them, - irAbandoning still more all respect for tho neutral tights of the United States, and for its own consis tency, the British Government now demands as pre. requisites to a repeal of its orders, as they relate to the United States, that a formality, should be °b end in the repeal of the French decrees no wise lemury to their termination, nor exemplified by British usage; and that the French re peal, beide% in dading that portion of the decrees which operates "Ohs a territorial jurisdiction as well as that which operates on the high seas against the cc rime Ile of the United States, should not be a single special re peal is Mission to the United States, but should be wended to *Weyer other neutral nations tureen toed with thefts may be affected by those decrees. " And as in additional insult, they are called on ke a focal disavowal of conditions and pretensions armed by the French government, fir which the IhiteiStates are so far from having been themselves reeponsillte dm), in official explanations, which have tem published to the wend, and in a correspondence tl the American Minister at London with the &kis!, Saister for Foreign Affairs, such a responsibil ty vssexPlicitly and emphatically disclaimed.' 16 It has become indeed sofficiently certain that the commerce of the United States is to he sacrificed, not o interfering with belligerent rights cfGreatßritain, totes supplyirg the wants of their enen,es, which As herself supplies; but as interfering w ith the n o uopoly which she covets for her own commerce and mrigation. Sbe carries on a war against the lawful commerce of a friend, that she may the better carry ou a commerce with an enemy, a comtherce polluted by the forgeries and perjuries which are for the most Put the only passports by which it can succeed. " Anxious to make every experiment short of the last resort of injured nations, the United States have *Wield from Great Britain, under successive modi. legions, the benefits of a free intercourse with their market; the loss of which could not but outweigh the.profits accruing from her restrictions ( f our corn. totree with other nations. And to entitle those ex- Pctiments to the more &rout able consideration, they were to framed as to enable her to place her adver sity coder the exclusive operation of them. To these 4 PPetat her Governznent has been equally inflexible, as ifirilling to make sacrifices of every sot t, rather than yield to the claims cf justice, or renounce the errors tf a false pride. Nay, so far were the attempts tarried to overcome the attachment of the British Cabinet to its unjust edicts, that it received every encouragement, within the competency c f the execu tive branch of our Government ; to expect that a *al of them would be followed by a war between tba United States and France, unless the French edicts should also be repealed. Even this conamuni eati9ot although silencing fer ever the plea of a dis position in the United States to acquiesce in those edicts, originally the scle plea to them, received no :Mention. sere and lasting reconciliation. The prospect, lirnv ever, quickly vanished. The whole proceeding was disavowed by the British Government without any ex planation which could at that time repress the that the disavowal proceeded from a spirit of hostility , to the commercial t ights.tnd prosperity of the United States. And it has since come into proof, that at the very moment when the public Minister was holding the language of ft iend hip, and inspired confidence in the sincerity of the negociation with which he was charged, a secret agent of his government was em ployed in intrigues, having for their t.bject a stahver ,ion of our Government, and a, dismembertmnt of our happy union. In reviewing the conduct of Great Britnin to wards the United States, our attention is necessarily drawn to the warfare just renewed by the savages cm nne of our extensive frontiers; a warfare that is known to spare neither age nor sex, and to be distinguished by features peculiarly shocking to humanity. It is .ifficult to account for the activity and combinations which have for some time been developing themsclve_ among the tribes in constant intercourse with British traders and garrisons, without correcting hosti ;ity with that infinerce ; and without reco;lcct;ng the authenticated examples of such interpositions hcreto. fore fin n;slfed by the office! s and agents of that g' - 0 vernennt. " If no other proof existed of a predetermination ef the British Government against a repeal of its Or. *Tit it might be found in the correspondence of the Kanter Plenipotentiary of the United States at Lail" and the British Secretary for Foreign Affairs 1 810. on the question whether the blockade of illty,'lBo6, was considered as is force or as not in keco. It had been ascertained that the French Go vernment, Which urged this blockade as the ground slits Decree, was willing, in the event of its removal, to repeal that Decree ; which being followed by al ternate repeals of the other offensive edicts, might ilbolish the whole system on both sides. This invi. 'leg opportunity for accomplishing an object so im portant to the United States, and professed so often lo be the desire of both the belligerents, arm made IcittnithLD the tritish detetallititt. As Alt Co tangle it in the h onfests CA' Vie* of Other toiverii 'tient admits that an actual application of an ade. and preserving a constant readiness to concur in an quate force is necessary tti the existetke of a legal honourable re.esttblishment of peace and friendship, blockade, and it was matorions, that if such a force is a Solemn question, which the Constitution +wisely had ever been applied, its long diScbtuinuance had confides to the Legislative Department of the Go annulled the blockade in question, there could be no vernmenr. In recommending it to their early deli sufficient objection oti the part of Great Britain to a berations, I am happy in the assurance that the deci formal revocation of it : and no imaginable objection sion will be worthy the enlightened and patriotic 1 to a declaration of the fact that the blockade did not councils of a Virtuous, a free, and a powerful nations exist. The declaration would hate been consistent i " Having presented this view of the relations of the with her avowed principles of blockade, and would United Statbs with Great Britain, and of the solemn al- • have enabled the United States to demand from ternative growing out of them, I proceed to remark France the pledged repeal of her Decrees ; either with that the communications last made to Congress on the success, in which case the way would have been subjectofourrelationswith France,will have shewn that opened for a general repeal of the belligerent edicts ; since the relocation of her decrees as they violated the or without success, in which case the United States neutral rights of the United States, her government has would have Leen justified in turning their measures authorised illegal captures by its privateers and public exclusively against France. The British Government ships, and that other outrages have been practised would, however, neither rescind the blockade, nor de. on our vessels and on our citizens. It will have been dare its non-existence nor permit its non-existence to seen, also, that no indemnity had been provided, or be inferred and affirmed by the American Plenipo. , satisfactorily pledged, for the extensive spoilations tentiary--On the contrary, by rep r e sent in g the bloc- ; committed under the violent and-retrospective order I kale to be comprehended in the O r ders in Council, of the French government aga i nst t h e propert y o f our i • the United States were compelled so to regard it in citizens seized within the ju r isdi c ti on o f F rance . their subsequent proceedings. 4‘ I abstain at this time from recommending to the i " There was a period when a favourable change consideration of Congress definitive measures with ; respect to that nation, in the ex p e ct at i on , t h a t th e in the policy of the. British cabinet was justly consi.,!er. result of uncllsed discussio ns b etween our Mi n i ster ed as established. The Mini s ter Plenipotev.tiary of 1 : Tlenipotentiary at Paris and th e F renc h government his Britannic Majesty here proposed an adjustment of the differences more immediately endangering t h e trill speedily enable Con g re ss to d ec id e w i t h g r eater harmony of the two countries. The proposition was advantage, on the course due to th e r i g h ts , t h e inte accepted with a promptitude and cordial:ty, cc rres- rests, the honour of our country. " JAMES MADISON." ponding with the invariable professions of this govern. " AV ACT, DF.CLARING WAR BETWEEN rue UNITED ment. A foundation appeared to be laid for a sin- Ktvorsisi OF ORE IT EIHLf AIN AND IRELAND, AND TIIE DEPENDENCIES 'mentor, AND THE UNITED sa•Ams or AMEUICA, AND THEIR TERRITORIES " Be it enacted, by the Senate and House of Re present:uives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, that War be and the same is hereby declared to exist between the United King dom of Great Britain and Ireland, and the Depen dencies thereof, and the United States of America, alid their Territories ; and that the President of the United States be and he is Vereby authorised to use the whole Land and Naval Ferces of the United States to carry the same into effect ; and to issue to ivato armed vessels cf the United States, Commis sions or Letters of Matque and General Reprisal, in such fr.rrn as Le shall think proper, and under the Seal of the United Gtates, against the Vessels, Goods, and Effects of the Government of the said United ! Kingdom of Great Britain. and Ireland, and the sub jects thereof.--JusE IS, 1312—Arrrovia). 1 " JANIE•i MADISON.' NOVA SCOTIA. The eonowing Proclamation has been issued by ),is Ezeelleney Lieutenant-General Sir JOHN COAI'L SHEHOROOKL, Lirntcnant•Gevernor, and Comm:ol der-in-Chief of Nova Seo;i:: and its Dependence, : " Whereas the Goyernmert of the (hilted States of America, hy an Act of Congress on the 18. h slay of June bet, has declateA ' War apinst the United Kingdom of Great Btit:tio and Ireland, I.tril it is estpt diem that this Act should hr made as public u pwoitib, in the Provirce uneer mY Guys rnotert, I have !bere t fore thought fit, by and %ids tie advice and c-ment of Itis Nis* ' jes'y's Couttei, to issue this Proclamation, in order to make I known tie sai.: Declaration, that his Map sty's Subjects, havirg this Notice, may govern themselves acuerdingly. " Such is the spectacle of injuries and indignities which have been heaped on our vault: y ; and such the crisis which its unexampled for be:stance and con ciliatory efforts have not been able to avert. I: might at least have been exFected, that an enlibbtened na tion, if less urged by moral obligations, cr invited by friendly disprssaions on the part of the United States, would have found in.its true interests alone a sufficient motive to respect their rights and their tranquillity on the high seas; that an enlarged policy. would have favoured the free and general circulation of com.l Lieutenant-General \VINYARD is to proceed to merce, in which the British nation is at all times in- Scotland iminuediately, in order to take the command terested, and which in times of war is the best allevia- there during the absenct e; Lord CATHCART, as Am bassador to Russia. tion of its calamities to het self, as well as the other The Brevet which was reported would take place belligerents; and more especially that the British Ca- on the PR/NCE REGENT'S Birth-day, is not now ex binet would not, for the sake cfa precarious and stir- pected till the Ist of January next.- reptitious intercourse with hostile markets, have per- , Letters from Seville, dated the Bth instant, de severed in a course of measures which necessarily put• scribe pathetically the miserable state of that citt . at hazard the invaluable market of a great and grow- The most considerable inhabitants are in want• of ing country, disposed to cultivate the mutual ads: , t' , e common necessaries of life. Not a piece of an- . t ver or copper money is to be found in the loges of an active commerce. either s'l place, and although the harvest is abundant, it is " Other Councils have prevailed. Our modern- , not collected, because the proprietors have - .1., miner tion and conciliation have had no other effect than to ; with which to remunerate the labourer. Letters were yesterday received by a vessel direct encourage perseverance, and to enlarge pretensions . from Lima, dated as late as the 10th of Mstrcln— We behold our seafaring citizens still the daily vie- ! Through this channel we learn that tne valuable pro tims of lawless violence committed on the great and ,- vince of Guanca had revolted from the Spanish Go common highway of nations, even within sight of the i vernment, and that a Declaration had been published country which owes them protection. We behold by the malcontents. in which they renounce for ever our vessels freighted with the products of our soil and all subjection to the mother-country, and assert their perpetual independence. industry, or returning with the honest proceeds of i Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the them, wrested from their lawful destinations, confis- . East India-House, when Captain W. HAY was sworn I cared by prize-courts no longer the organs of public into the command of the ship Inglis, consigned to I law, but the instruments of arbitrary edicts ; and their i Bengal and China. unfortunate crews dispersed and lost, or forced or in- Yesterday a ballot was taken at the East India veigled in British ports into British fleets; whilst House, for a Director in the room of Row/ Wm- MAILS, Esq. deceased. arguments are employed in support of these aggres-• At six o'clock the glasses were finally closed and siens, which have no other foundation but in a pelt - ' delivered to the scrutineers, who, at nine o'clock, re , ctple equally supporting a claim to regulate our ex- ported the number to be—For ROBERT CLERK, Esq. ternal commerce in all cases whatsoever. 1014, — JOHN Mo ants, Esq. 885.—Whereupon Roamer 46 We behold, in fine, on the side of Great Bri- CLERK ) Esq. was declared duly elected. r EAST-INDIA STOtt...-LAd . IRS and tain, a state of war against the United States—and, G. 4 n tol THE e n ? IT°llPie 1" very° "o distinguished. P support with which you on the side of the United States, a state of peace to- lave honoured me, in the Election that has just dosed, can, foe my most grateful acknowledgments; and I off e r them with feel. wards Great Britain. logs fur which it is daficuk to find adequate es p rexcions. Of the 44 Whether the United States shall continue passive high value i,f the favourable opink 13 which that support implies, and of the importance of the situation in which it has placed me, under these pangressive usurpations and these accu- I trust I have a just sense; and it will be my endeavour to evince it mulating wrongs; or, opposing force to force in de- by a diligent application to those diades which your favcur at on,* hinds and encourages me to perform; andwith the truest regard,as well as fidelity to your interests. I have the honour to *main, fence of their natural rights, shall commit a just with the greatest respect, Ladles and Gentlemen, your very fai t h. cause into the hands of the ALMIGHTY Demons% of Mbliged EVENTS ; avoiding all connections which might ett- p r aud am July humble *errant, ROUST Comas .— East Indiaso, •ucestoolCa: Twelve sail of American vessels, with their Car goes, were condemned this morning by Sir WILLIAM Scorr, Judge of the Admiralty Court. I. SP,CoNto tDITION: FROR OGATION OF ?ARLfAMENT. This da) , , at three o'Clotk, both Houses of Perlis. inent having issembled, the LCiRD CHANCILLOR took his seat on the Woolsack, in the House of Lords; when the Usher of the Black Rod having been sent to summon' the House of Commons, the SmEaR, with a numerous retinue of Members appeared at the tar The Speeth from his Loyal Highness the Pfueca REGENT, was then read by the LORD CuAwcitt.t.on, and the Parliament was thereupon prorogued till the 10th of November nett, Hy Cotnmission: THE SPEECH. ig My Lords and Gentlemen ) " In terminating the business of the Session, his Royal Highness has to express his deep concern end sorrow at the continuance of the King's lamented indisposition. 4 1 While his Royal Highness also inrets the fn• terruption in the public business, in consequence of an event which his Royal Highness must ever de. plore, he has to notice the zeal and assiduity with which you have discharged your arduous dudes as deserving his warmest acknowledgements. " His Royal Highness has to express his thanks for the assistance you have given him, by which he has been enabled to continue in a vigorous manner his co-operation with the brave and loyal nations of the Peninsula. His Royal Highness tordially parti. cipates in your expression Idf to inks for the gallantry I and zeal displayed by Sail WELLINGTOV and Cie brave Army under his command in the capture of Ciudad Rodrigo and Badajoz. 46 His Royal_ Highness confidently trusts that the conspicuous talents of Earl Wewearon, combined with the unabated zeal of the inhabitants of Spain and Portugal, Will ultimately produce a termination of the contest, consistent with the ben interests 4* Europe. The renewal of the war in the North of Europe, affords additional proofs of the little reliance that can be plitcei upon treaties blitaim:d even by the most abject subm:ssion to the usurpation and tyranny of the French Government. " His Royal Highness hopes, therefore, that 'yf will enable llim tb afford to Russia, in her present contec►, that co-operation which may be ,consistent with the engagements of his Royal Highness to other Powers, His Royal Highness views, with regret, tin hostile attitude assumed by America towards this $ country. His Royal Highness is not without hopes, however, that relations of peace and amity between the two nations will be restored—But, if Aineriest . shall rersrvere in her unwarrant ih't pretensions, 114 Roy:tl Highness fully relies in receiving that assistance from the liberality and wisdom of Parlia ment, which will enable him to maintain the dignity and best interests of the Empire. " Gendetneu of the Muse of Commons, si His Royal Highneth, while he expresses his thanks for the liberal supplies which you have voted for the services of the year, laments the necessity for imposing additional burdens ; but he trusts that their-application, in the prosecution of the present contest, will be attended with the happiest results. 6 , My Lords and Gentlemen, " His Royal Highness deeply htments the &ter. bances that have taken pLice in some of aie manes facturing districts; but his Royal Highness setnow.. ledges his deep sense of the diligence with which you have investigated the causes. 44 His Royal Highness also highly approves of *el salutary measures which you have adopted in nrdei to prevent the increase of these disturbances, and to bring the offenders to justice. , 4 My Lords and Gentlemen—His Royal High., ness trusts, clut on your return to your several Counties, you will inculcate obedience to the Lars, and• a due regard to that admirable Constitutioe upon whicb the glary and the happiness of the Est. pire have so long and so successfully depended." FALMOUTH, JULY 27. No arrivals. Sailed a few coasters. still remain.—Wind variable. PLYMOUTH, JULY U. Arrived the ACHATES sloop of war, from a cruis from the Westward. Sailed the SCYLLA sloop war, on a cruize.—Wind W. PORTSMOUTH, JULY O. free Arrived his Majesty's ships INDEFATIGABLE, Plymouth ; and the MISSELTOE I from the Downs. Sailed the DERMOT, on a cruize.—Wind N.W. DEAL, JULY 29. 1 Arrived his Majesty's ships ASIA and Exarnairr. from Portsmouth. The former has sailed to join the fleet off flushing. The outward bound remains. SHEERNESS, JULY Re. The convoy for Gottenburgh sailed to-day, undeti the protection of his Majesty's ship Actium. The next will probably sail about the 12th of August. YARMOUTH, JULY it. Arrived yesterday evening, the FURIOUS gnn.bripp. and CRETAN sloop of war , from the Downs ; and this morning the Funtous sailed to join the fleet in the Baltic. Sailed, with French prisoners on board. the STARLING, Lieutenant NAPIER, for the 1k1( re. 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