The National Register. — London, England, 1811-03-03 00:00:00

136 THE NATIONAL REGISTER. same time robbed them of their property. To theft, lie added mockery. He audaciously told them that they were dead to all sense of T'same, and that his chief, if not his sole motive Lis confiscating their ships and cargoes was to awaken proper feelings in their hearts. Who would not have thought that such conduct and language would have opened the eyes of the Arne- T.:cell Government ? They were scaled with volun tary blindness. Although France had been the real aggressor, and by declaring the British islands in a state of blockade, had compelled us to issue Orders, which however they might militate against usage, were no infringement of justice, some of the leading peliticiaes in the United states ad opted her views, and laid to our charge the losses which their trade suseained. Their misrepresentations gained credit in the minds of men irritated by disappointed hopes and impaired fortunes, who only wanted an obiect against whom they might vent the bitter ness of their hearts. Strengthened by the designing and the discontented, the French party stunned Congress by the loudness of their clamours, and every thing portended a deduation of war against this country. Such a step would have proved a signal for the total ruin of the Americans as a com mercial people, and would have thrown them back v.-hole centuries is the scale of national prosperity and power. The pride, rather than the penetration of their Government warded off the threatening danger. '1 he events which had overturned the ancient po litical fabric of Europe like Weights which by sink ing one scale cause the other to ascend, had raised the United States to a pitch of unusual but empty self-importance. They looked at"tlie old world and saw its might divided into two contending empires. 'to neutral power remained, willing or strong enough to interfere, and by its mediation to check the devastations of war, or by its co-operation to render the conclusion of hostilities speedy and deci s;ve. • On the one side despotism appeared armed ksrith the whole force of the Continent ; oa the other, stood die spirit of freedom wielding the sceptre of the waves and breathing defiance. Distant spec t eters of the tremendous conflict, the Government of the United States fancied that they had become its sole umpire's, and on the shores of the new world held suspended the fate of the old. To declare themselves for either party, when for tune itself remained undecided, would not only :gh dignity which they had tem to the danger of espous weakest part, and afterwards .ante of the conqueror. The e world could not voluntarily allies to one of • the warring empires. They remained deaf to the voice of parties, and to give mankind a pledge of the im. partiality with which they fulfilled the duties of their important office, issued the Non-intercourse Act, which .bore with equal severity, if the epithet severe may be applied to a negative measure, on each of the contending powers. More secret mo. tives may also have induced them to take that step. They may, in they excess of their pride, have ima. gined that the time was come when the new world should obtain that political ascendancy which the old had so long possessed ; and that they wcr e the instruments employed by Providence to effect this great revolution. They perhaps expected, that, deprived- of their assistance and co-operation, Europe mmt see its most powerful States withe: and sink into the dotage of political exist ence, or reduced to court their favour. Such hopes - or expectations, however, have beeo ,disappointed. The broad sliadoW of the Bri tish flag continues to darken every subject wave, and the vast . empire raised by ambi. tion on the Continent has not yet crumbled into dust. Conscious, but only after years of com. mercial stagnation had elapsed, of tile. mistaken nature of their policy, and humbled bin the marked disregard with which their threats were treated by the two grand European Powers, the American Geverment at last repealed their boasted act, and substituted tnesures, which have led them pro. gressively into the arms of France, and the impe. licy of which will form the subject of a future Dis quisition. On Monday last Government received dispatches from Lord Wellington, which were published in the London Gazette of Tuesday evening. On Monday the Royal Hunt was renewed for t:.e first time since the indisposition of his Majesty. The Most Noble Marquis Cornwallis, the Master of the King's stag hounds, gave orders for a deer to be in readiness for the day's diversion at nine o'clock, at which time a remarkably fine deer started at South Hill Park, with a numerous field of gentlemen sportsmen. At first, being started from the cart, he shewed great sport, by running with much swiftness through the enclosure by Warkingham, leaving Benfrelot to the left by the Black Birds, taking to the right towards the forest, where he ran with great speed near Bag shot, making a double back towards Suning Hill, Where he made for Windsor Great Park, taking a leap in by Sand Pit Gate, and ran amongst a herd of deer : they al( set off full speed from him except one, which joined L d him in the chace, till he came to the double gate in i; the Long Walk, where he leaped over and left thy' other to his pursuers, which was •at length taken iii a large ditch near the bottom of the Long Walk, after an excellent run for near three hours. • During the chace, a number of the sportsm en were obliged 1 to relinquish their pursuit, owing to their hors . ' ktlorl;ity,•; tip, the grc)111) , ,I 1 , - 7,,, •!:,, f-r : r: , :: , yoli. --,-.• 4 . ,:,.. 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