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on to your excellency. This minutQ. besides
the descriptions in the body of the licences,
trill contain a specification of the packages
of all the articles of merchandize composing
' the cargo of the vessel.
4 The same day that the vessel sets sail,
the military commandants must apprize
me thereof, and also notify the same to
your excellency. The military cotnman
dants will thus continue to notify ihe de
parture of every vessel sailing from any of
those ports.
The destination of the vessels will be for
Dunkirk, mites, ae.d Bordeaux.
5. For every licence there must be paid 1
nt the port of departure, audio the treasury
of the customs, the sum of 60 francs for each
ton of the burthen of the vessels for which
the licences shall have been granted.
6. The vessels provided with licences may
proceed direct to their port of destination in
France without being liable to be ques
tioned for having been visited by English
men of war or privateers. They may even
land in a port of England the whole, or such
part as they may think proper, of iheircar
go, without being questioned for having
touched in England.
7. These vessels will be admitted into the
ports of France, either in ballast, or with
such articles of the merchandize of the
nonh asare useful to the marine ; and also
w th the productions of the soil nt Germany
and P. land petiniued to be imported into
France con forming nevertheless to the laws,
tariffs, and regulations relative to the French
customs.
R. Licenced vessels entering the ports
of F ranee above mentioned, may load in
.return, wines, brandies, merchandize of
French manufacture, and all other pro
ductions of the soil or industry of Fiance ;
grain and flour .of every description except
ed.
9 Each licence will he in force onlv for a
single voyage, including the going and return
jug. Or: die re-arrival at the port of depar
lute, a fresh licence may be obtained on the
same conditions.
10 1 he master of any vessel inclined to
sail from the pons of Hamburgh. Bremen
and Lnbeck, with a cargo, consisting exclu
sively of all other merchandize, of timber,
spars, hemp and other articles of the north,
proper for the service of the French marine,
may apply to the directors of the customs m
the ports of France, respecting the disposal
bf his cargo.
11. 1 lie laws relative to the embargo must
be republished, and put in full force in the
three ports before mentioned.
SICILIAN GENEROSITY.
Uaken Jrom the Reports of the Loridbh
Humane Society.
Two of his Sicilian majesty’s gallies he
ing on a cruise, pursued and took an Alge
rine vessel ot 20 guns, and 100 men ; the
prize "as sent to Naples, ami whilst lying
under guard at the Mole, a young gentle
man, thtn bathing, was seized with the
cramp and immediately sunk, in the pre
Jience of numbers, who did not attempt any
thing for his relief. One of the Algerine
sailors, who was standing on tlie gunwale of
the prize, instantly jumped inro the water
ahd having laid hold of rhe body in its vise,
tied one end of the handkerchief round the
Shoulder, the other end of which he fastened
to his own, and swam with it to shore.—■—
The drowned person was recovered by pro
per applications ; and the Marquis de Pal
luchi whose son was thus preserved, being
introduced to the king, threw himself on his
knees and requested the liberty of the gal
lant Algerine.
" Hts Sicilian majesty’s reply was truly no
ble, “ Your request, sir, said he, is both rea
sonable and humane; the Moor is yours,
Sind you may dispose of him as you please.
The remainder of the crew are mine, and
by the laws of war perpetual slave*, but
they are free from this moment. Ten right
eous men would have saved Sodom from the
wrath of the Almighty, and shall not one
gallant and humane man, who has risked
his life for an enemy, and re.ioted to me
so valuable a subject, merit the pardon of a
few companions ?” Next day an order was
published for their release, and they denar
ted amidst the acclamations ol the popu
lace.
Constantinople July 14.
The Mufti has sent all lus plate to the
mint, in imitation of the grand seignior and
grand vizier. A contribution of 3.000,000
of piasters has been imposed on the Greeks,
Armenians and Jews, residing in Turkey.
At the entrance of the Suraglio four horse
tails are placed, as a sign that the grand
fckignior is going to take the field.
TURKS AN1) RUSSIANS.
St. Petersburg, July 25
The supplement of the Court (i.tz- tte, of
this <lnv c -mains the foil -wing intelligence
respecting the engagement with the Grand
Vis';- r.
“ On the 1 l'h o1 June, old style, the Com
mandcr in riiiet of the forces on the. othei
side «d the Danube, attacked with the army
under his Command the troops of the Grand
Vizisr, who were encamped on the heights ot
Schumla After an obstinate resistance, the
enemy were driven from the woods and
heights, and compelled to retire under the
walls of the fortress, with the loss of 3 stand
of colors. The right wing of our army p i*
sensed itself of a height covered with a
thick brake of briars, which being close to
the Turkish entrenchments seri nisiy mena
ced them. The l inks did not dcsi** until
the approach of nighi from their efforts to
regain 'his height.
“On the I3lll of June, the Turks made a
new attack upon the heigh with the great
er part ot their force. Li. General Lewis
formed a grand hollow square on the right,
and posted »he troops under Adjutant Gene
ral Prince Teubczkoi, in two hollow squares
on the left. 1 he enemy Consumed the. whole
of the day in repeated and desp'rate effort*
to break our square on the left, incessantly
supporting his troops with fresh reinforce
ments, and the fire on both sides w *s tre
mendous ; but the victorious troops of his
Imperial Majesty frustrated all those tf
forts witli distinguished gallantry, defeat
iug the enemy and compelling him to retire
within his entrenchments with considerable
loss
“The centge and left Wing of our army,
which c old undertake nothing of impor
tance against the Turkish entrenchments,
which w. re strongly fortified, made various
rtioVrir.en » in advance, occasionally firing
with their artillery upon the town as they I
proceed'd; but nothing could divert the tn
cmy from his attack-, upon our right wing.
About 3 t’c’—ck In the. afternoon, u body of
Turkish cavalry, nearly 5000 strong, rushed
out of the fortress, and a part of them charg
ed our left wing in from, while the rest en
deavored to turn it ; but by the well di„
reeled fire of our artillery, and a sue.,
ccssful charge of our cavalry, they were
tw ice defeated, and driven back upon Schutn
la. .
“ Our loss amounts to 1000 men, and to
the regret of the whole army we have a
mong them lost the highly esteemed and
experienced Popondopolo, who fell on the
first day by a cannon ball. Tlie loss of
the enemy must have been uncommonly
great.
“ On the loth of June, Muj. Gen. Z;?yewf
jnirsuant to orders from the commander in
Chi -f, had to change the position of the
! troops belonging to lus detachment, to watch,
| not only VVarna, but also the coasts of the
[HlackSeu, uj»on which three oT the enemy's
vessels of war had arrived. Tnis move,
ment could not be concealed from the ene_
my. Six thousand of them made u saiiv
from the fortress and furiously attacked our
troops, who, however, instantly to ,k up ad
vantageous positions on the heights, and re
ceived the enemy wuh the greatest bravery
This hard fought action lasted from three in
the morning until 11 o’clock ; |,Ht after the |
failure of all their an arks, with ^rCat loss. !
the remains of tlie Turkish hordes V-took !
themselves to flight, in which they again suf
fered a very considerable loss from our cav
airy, who pursued them, and a l>ri^k fire
from the fortress, by which they endeavor
ed to prevent the approach of our troops”
without any consideration for the safety of
their own. Our loss is not yet ascertained •
but thanks to the Almighty, it is not great.
The loss of the enemy in killed was immense,
almost the whole field of battle being cover’
ltd with their dead bodies.
O.t the 1Bih of June, Lt. Gen. Lewis, after
a few skirmishes, took possession of the town
ot Oshum, on the road from Schumla to Tie
now a.
‘• On the 21st, Lt Gen. Woinow, and
Major_Gett. Count Strognow were ordered
to fall upon a body of 2000 cavalry, who had
.come out of the fortress to forage. They
executed their orders with the most distin
I guish- d ability and intrepidity. The ene
i my abandoned the forage they had collect
jed, and fled with the loss of 200 killed, and
3 officers, and 100 rank and file made pri
soners. *
On the 22d June, the General of Infan ry,
Count Kamenskoi, took post wuh the conis
under his command, on the road leading
from Schumla to Constantinople, by the wav
ot lscheiekawa.
“ Major G'*n. Count Suhoto, who passed
the Danube on the 5th of June, and effected
a junction with the Servians, commenced his
operations in the most successful manner &
on the 15th gained possession of the fortress
of Persa Palanka.”
[‘‘It is not difficult to perceive, (says the
London Cohner) through the disguise of this
< ftic.al narrative, that - he Russians suffered
most severely in these incessant attacks.
1 he final advantage however, must be ac
knowledged to be on their side, if it be
true that the) have got into the rear ot the
position at Schumla, and placed themselves
between the Grand \izier and Andriano
Pie- 1_
^omeattc.
TROM THE DKMOCKATIC PRESS.
IS ENGLAND IN A SITUATION
1 o withold Justice from the United States
with safely to herself?
Do not her errors and misconduct aid and
instruct us i
The condition of the fiaficr medium of the
British kingdoms, demands the utmost at_
tention ot our government and people_A
report of a committee of the British House
of Commons has been recently published,
trom which it appears, that the prices of
both gold and silver In their bank notes
and paper, was 15 per cent, above the mint
prices in the month of December 1808._
It also appears from a speech of the Mar
qitis of Lansdown (their fate financier) in
the House of Lords, that an uncommonly
large issue of paper took place in the year
following, that is in the last year, 1309.-_
The difficulty of procuring £. 125 000 ster
ling for the Walchereu expedition, has been
publickly stated, as constituting an obstruc
non to the plan of that favorite operation._
It is stated by sir Philip Francis, an able
member of the British h.use of commons,
hat the circulating paper of the pubiic and
private banks of*Tr« at Britain and Ireland
(wuh a sum of circulating Indi i bonds)
make at this time a floating paper medium
of 557,300,000 dollars. The ordinary cir
-n I a ting specie of the Bri isti kingdoms, has
been estimated at about 110 millions of do!
l.irs. It appears probable therefore tint
since the year 1797, when the bank of Enr
land was first authorised against law by an
arbitrary ‘ order in council” to pay only in
lie.r own paper, the deposits of foreign and
native persons or governments, the British
ftufier medium has encreased so as to a.
mount to five ti int'9 < he amount of their specie
medium. Jt is easy to. perceive, that all
the exports from Great Britain and Ireland
to tins country must have been kept 15 or
20 per cent, higher bv this circumstance,
than they would have been, if there had
been none of this vast sum of circulating
paper °
It isimportant to remember that, Sir Phi.,
•ip Francis also states, ihe funded end un*
funded debts of Great Bri ain and Ireland
to amount in 1810 to *. 916,382,7.5.1 s'erlmir,
equal to 4.072 844 242 dollars, ot which there
is always a partial use or circulation.su
pei ceding the necessity of the bank paper
and coins.
In procuring the manufactured supplies
of this country fiom Great Britain, these
hundreds of millions of paper are us d and
charged to us as sterling specie. The Bri
tish agents and merchants, and our impor
teis, consider lie prices as. in good effjc
tive motiey and charge advances upon them
ih our money as such. It is plain, that the
consumers in this country suffer hy such ar
tificial prices: and it is also plain that Bri
tidi manufactures, by thus coming out
dearer than formerly, and clearer than they
would do, if paid for in coin, give a eon side
deruble advantage to our manufacturers.
II we consider that the funded and unfun’
ded debt ol the British kingdoms, the pub
lie and private bank notes and the India"
notes or bonds, amount to one thousand and
t >rty one. millions, eight hundred thousand
pound* sterling, we must consider the pub
lie system of that country, in a hazardous
and uncertain s*ate. It appears from a ic
c*. nt speech of Earl Gray (lately Howick)
that the publrc tx^entes iiuve been crcreas*
ed within a few years from sixteen millions i
to eighty five millions sterling, of nc'irlj 380 !
millions of dollars, exclusively of the church
(lues and poor rates, which will carry the
public burdens considerably beyond four
hundred millions of dollars per annum.
With all this pressure, it is agreed by the
inus and outs on the floors of the two houses
of parliament, that they c nn.it but I. ok for
a continuance of the war and of the vv-.r ex
pences. The committee of die commons re
port decidedly, that the> cannot venture to
enforce specie payments by the public banks
in less than two years; and by the private
Banks not so soon.
I* appears from a sp-ech f f the Earl of
Liverpool, of tho inn*, and item a public i
tion tile Marquis of Lanstlown. of <he ows,
that no material diminution of their vast
exfirnces can be made by any reforms or
retrenchment*.
A new and troublesome fermentation is
arising in Ireland, grounded on a discontent
with the act of Union ; and tending to se
nous exertions for its repeal and dissolution
as pernicious The emancipation of the Ca -
• holies is a subject of continual feeling and
discussion. ,
The appropriations of money for the Bri.
tiah navy and for navy ordinance exceed one
hundred million of dollars, and from a com
parison of the amount of their trade with
onc. fourth of that sum as a charge on trade
appears that Great Britain has nearly ef
fected a. monopoly of the maritime coni
inerce ot the maritime world, the nation
does not make a dollar of profi by that law
less and odious monopoly. This suggestion
will appear, on Mie stil>te$t examination,
to be founded ;n truth; and he (act is hum
bly conceived to present to e-tr government
and country a most serious and most impor
taut subject o consideration. I' proves' tlie
wisdom of not entering into the abyss of mo
dern naval cxpences and into the riliimus
| career of modern warfare for a temporary
and unprofitable commerce. So unsound a
state ot trade has jeopardized the exclnn
gesof London Liverpool. Glasgow and iVtih
lin, with so stupendous u navi/ at their
back. 1 hey have lost monev bv the long
continued violations of neutral rights Un
happily too, they have perverted their g.w *
eminent, where a nominal civil list of 950,
000/. Sterling is accompanied by royal Drci s
ol the admiralty of 11,000.000/. as is affirm
ed in Parliament and not denied* by the
ministry.
I'- requires stcadv efforts, even in wise Sc
good me >, to preserve their equanimity in
times like these. To survey the erroneous
systems of foreign nations, their dangers and
their evils, though they must excite our com
passion tor the sufferers, may contribute to
preserve the desirable sobriety of our own
hearts and understandings
I he form, the nature and the extent of
nur public force of United America, which
under Id oven, is the sole assurer of our
peace liberty and safety, constitute always,
and particular!! now. an bject of the first
temporal importance-an object indeed of
manifest and indispensable necessity. We
may examine our situation without fear.—
The U S ates have preferred to husband
their financial resources If theref mc we
should be impelled into war, we have be
fore us absolutely untouched the whole
field of taxation, the whole list of prece
dtn'ed contributions, except the import
tonnage and post office duties_To know
the magnitude and aggregate value of those
untouched resources, who have only te pe_
l ruse the list of public taxes in Britain,
' Fiance. Holland, Russia, Germany and Ita
ly. Instead of exhausting those vast and
diversified resources, we have left the mo
nies in the hands of our citizens to improve
& invigorate our country audits affairs, like
the precious waters of Heaven.
In regard to existing incumbrances, which
might impede our exertions in war, we may
compare the best known public debt in Su
rope, (that of the United kingdom of Great
Bi itain and Ireland) with our own. Our
public debt may be setdownat seventy mil
lions of dollars and that of the British king.,
doms is full four thousand one hundred mil
lions of dollars. The proportion is seven
for the American to four hundred and ten
for the British and Irish debt.
Our militia system is the mode of cWfence
| best adapted to these times. Although Bri
tain. Spain and Portugal have carefully re„
frained from arming the whole body of the
Spanish and Portuguese nations vet parti
ally armed as they have been,'the wars of
I ranee against the old go\ ernments of Spain
and Portugal are said already to have cost
France 250,000 men. Neither the Spani.
ards nor Portuguese are yet subdued _
j What would have been the consequence to
France, if the British, Spanish and Portu
guese governments had consented to place
arms in the hands of every fiee male able to
bear arms in Spain and Portugal > The an
swer to this question is a good answer to an
enquiry into the nature of the militia system
of the United States. It is an instructive
commentary upon the plan of arming the
whole body of our miliria. We do well to
remember, that instead of crossing the Pv
renees from France into Spain and Portugal,
an army from Europe would have to trans
port every thing across the wide Atlantic
Instead of the sfi-.rt run over tire channel
from Calais to D ver, men, horses, artillerv
and supplies must be conveyed over a broad
and uncertain ocean.
1 he prosperity of this country is promoted
in an immense and incalculable degree by a
few measures which are in regular and ac
tive operation, and which cannot be preven
ted by any foreign power.
lsi. i he establishment of manufactures
of our own produce in interior situations,
and in private families, and by means of sa
ving labor, such as machinery, tire and
steam.
*‘‘v- T formation or construction of
tui npike ronds, canals, wharves, docks, light
houses and other things useful in the opera
tioos of industry.
o !!>. 1 fie clearing of land and consequent
rapid increase of the field of actual cultiva
tion & production in this great landed coun
try.
4 lily. The recruiting of our militia at
my by the annual addition of 70.00D native
men able tobear arms to tbs free white able
bodied men of the United States, andLy rr.a
ny others
5ihly. The decrease of foreign influence
on the Indian tribes, and he firm establish
ment of our character as to humanity, jus.
tice, friendship and power in their minds Sz
hearts.
(3th. The constant diffusion of our colored
population, weakening their force, and the
universal attention to arms, which their ex
istence has produced in the people and gov- :
* ficc lord Vochrync's S/ierch oj id*! -r9.
non.
ernments in.the slave country, a* the sure
means of internal peace anti order,
7th. I he generous prices of our produce,
occasioned by the demand of »he. \m -rican I
manufacturers of 150 millions nf dollars worth
of domestic goods and by the (turn and of 50
millions of dollars worth for exportation :
also the demand of a great, and incicasing
home consumption.
$Jh- The introduction from abroad of
breeding animals of peculiar value, such as
lie Merino Sheep, the Arabian horses and
the Spanish asses; and of the foreign im
provements in agriculture and the arts.
9th. The diffusion of useiul knowledge bv
means of book's, schools, newspapers * and
■■••.grimes : auu
10 hlv. Piie universal employment of our
males & improved education of our females
:n books, manufactures, and other bust
ness.
JLTRISCOLA.
New Steam Boat* for Lake Champlain.
We are happy to hear that Messrs. Liv.
ingston and Fulton, are making preparations
to build two Steam Boats on Lake Cham
plain, which arc to be finished in a s'yle su
pcrior to those on the North Kiver. both in
t ieir machinery and interior arrangements
i Ins entei prize will establish an elegant
communication between New Yak and
Montreal. A capital of S 50 000 is to be
raised by subscription, and theie is little
d.ni >t that the profits will amply pav the
[ stockholders, for the present boat on the lake,
although badly organized and with such
[ wretched acomm. nations as may be cossi
(len d an imposition m the public, will at least
clear 9000 dollars this year. This boat bt
mg an exact imitation of the Nm-h Rivet
; le.nn boat, and a violation of Mr. Fulton’s
| patent, a suit has been commenced to st0p
bei. and thereby render justice to the paten
tee ; and to the public, b, establishing a more
co min odious and complete conveyance_
I N. 1. Public yidv
Washington, Oc\ 24
Aware of thb siturion in which G. K.
would be placed in relation to the U. S by
a revocation of the French decrees and a-)'
prehenstv* .hat die may be pm too u.anf
tes v m the wrong, at.cmp s have been
made by the federal prints to predu c ; n
impression '.hat a bare repeal by G H.
ner Orders in CouncH would con*ore> e d
such a modification of her unlawful edicts «s
vvauld come wi'hin the meaning of the ac of
L' .ngress ofAIay last. A .slight consideration
er~!irheW hat ,h,S ,mPress»dn is founded in
I he act of Congress requires suih a rev
ocation or m .dification nfitlieir edicts by the
belligerents as that they shall c« ase to via
late the neutral commerce of the U S If
we give credit to the letter of the duke ol
Cadore, as - xtrae'ed i.om the British papers,
such a ievocation by France will have taken
place on the 1st of the ensuing month as :s
contemplated by our act. If i„ ti,e ' Kt..„e
m inner the B.itish government does not
within three months thereafter, revoke its
ed cts violating the neutral commerce of the
U b the non .intercourse act will probably
be . evived as to that nation. Will the revo
cation of the Orders in Council be such a
modification of the British edic s as that
they will cea-e to violate the neutral com
-Vm rCi>°- lhe U S • »y n° mean , we reply"
tlie British violations of our neutral c "n 1
rnerce have not been confined to her orders
«n Council. To place her on such a foo inr
in ielation to our i.eutral commerce, a'-,
would authorise he Executive to iss e his
I proclamation declaring the tact of her iiav
mg so modified her edicts as that they have
I lc Vi°,ate the neutral commerce* of
| the U. S. she must revoke her blockading
proclamations, which she has herself declar
ed to be illegal ; and as the impressment of
our seamen is a vio ation of the maritime
rights ol he U. S and cl course of our neu
tral commerce, it appears to us iha<- she"
might even be required totally to abandon
tlini practice before • he provisions of the
ac. ol M iy last co .Id be considered as c <m
plied wi h
i Bul :he federal prims argue that G 15
; never will yield the principle .f blockade b«
proclamation, which they prunnui ce in b a
part a: the ori maritime law. I'lmy seem a
jtrasd lest 'he lea.st measure of justice should
| be dealt to the U. 5. b> G. Br. air.; 3c real
jiy,in their zeal tor her adherence to inius
jtice overle p the barrier- of truth and iriim
i pie lacts under loot wuli the greatest .n.l.t
■ leience. I hey have underts ken, trusting :o
! tl,e 'fii'oraoce or short memories ol their
! readers, to state that .he U. S have nevei
jp.o.-esttd again,t the principle ot paper
blockades. VVe affirm on ;ht* contrary that
i', U' b* h*Ve never ceased to contend for
| the true d- fimtion of bio. k de, the leguima.
icy of which was in 1804 officially acknow.
ledge d by the B itisli govern men', and the
violation ol it declared to be a grievance.
A"?.IS l,1|s ack. iowledge.1 gi ievance th t
which the federal editors declare G Bri
tain neve, will abandoni Are l.erown offi
cial acts, disclaiming the principle, held of
no account * Or id the new school of public
law one ol whose prominent features is a
to-al disregard of neutral rights, more to
th.-ir taste. Let them give general publici
ty to the official document which we publish
e l a week ag --let them apprize their
readers that tin British government in 1804
through their minister M •. Merry, has de'
incd the legality 0f any blockade, unless in
respect to particular ports actually invested
even in which case vessels bound to such
ports . light not, they acknowledge to be cap.
turecl until previously warned not to enter
them ; let the people know that a violation
oi this p'aln principle wat acknowledged to
be a grievance of which the U. S had a
right to complain. This simple document,
and it is but one of a host of stubborn facts
selected on account of i's peculiar applica ion’
has put to route all the forces of t hose print '
wl cli had as u-ual arrayed themselves in op
position to American rights, «t on the side of
European domination. They have not, with
but one or 'wo exceptions that we have s.-tn
I republished it, and it improbable tint they
| will not, and for the host of reasons, that it
falsifies i he uniform tenor of their assertions.
| It ougut not here to pass unnoticed'hat th-se
l Cdttdrs must wilfully have ah-r ed inius ice
;an.l encouraged the instruments f,,r
jthey cnidd not but know of tins decision of
the British Government in 1804, which
has been subsequently disregarded in prac
Wc apprehend that if it sh ill nonear
wneu the officinI accounts shall h- rcce ved!
that the act of France is a bona file n.m-a
jtmn, according to o„r law (i. H. must re
j voke. her edicts, und-.-r wha ever nm.e, vi.,
| biting our neutral commerce, or by .he op:-'’
ratmj, of the law we are placed m a state et
^.on intercourse wittf h^r.
There is little doubt but C.. Rritam will
revoke bet^orders in Council issued sulne
quent to the French decree* ; but that is
not cn nigh Every violation >f neutral right
is not sn ordrr in council, h i' u is not there
loru the less «i violation. If by a pertinacity
in adhering to her infractions of national law
■.lid neutral rights, she is placed in a state of
non intercourse with us, it will be her own
act, deliberately performed, wiih the la\v
of the If. s before her-a law irrevocable
:oo, because it will have been acted*under in
relation to one ot the belligerents, and could
not he repealed without such a breach of
good faith as ths U. S. will not be guiltv of,
whatever example may have been set bv o
the.r nations — /*•»>_
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RICHMOND, OC TO HER 30. 181oT*
THE CRISIS.
No. I.
At present, every eye, is bent with anxie
ty, to Washington—Every tongue is eager in
enquiring, b “
"dent 1,6 l,lC COU,se of tbe Fresi
Whether he will exercise the powers-en
trusied to him by the Act of Congress >
VV'n ISSi,Je hi< Proclamation, declaring
the Revocation of the French Decrees >
For our own part, we shall answer with’
oht hesitation, that we have not a
,lesub>ect-'I'he course whfch
oe is about to trace, appears to us to be as
nrr!nH'S “ "/ “ °f nSht Nothing but
p cjudice could pm vert or ignorance ds
go.se tl.e 1 ruth ! \\vz Jacts arc so clear
a, L,IC‘ (,y which thev are to be wield 1
ed. is so explicit and decisive.
I here must be some new embarrassments
wh.ca we have not once dreamt of,—I
some, new obs teles thrown in the way. on
the part of France, to chanfteih.sn.itur.il
or itrof Events—Or the President of iheU
S. must have I *st thnt nice discernment
ot tnimlect, bv which he !,as ,;is.
tmsushed. if he refrains,from eSrciXr
Mose powers which are Vested in him by
the laws id his country. France assures
uH^iroin hen,in am head, from her buieni
ot Mtate hat on the i.„ of A ov all i.s anti
neu'iMl hdicls will .heir q,wratl "1
da cr du 1 -r Govern Are ils cesscrort
d avoir tcur H«* then can we
W- Jh I n f0r/,t'V P,,SiiWc
f,7 ll8-c’he powers of ’ he President duly
Mmj,sjrsrc,sea?ilowc,iawectii^
<> > the 2nd November will be issued the
long talked ot Proclamation, declaring
fh* revocation of the Berlin and M-lau
. <-iees, and leaving our statute to tak-*
Its C'-uvse .v it!a respect to Great Britain
as the rules of law may direct ?
N > course can ire clearer, or rr.are cer
tain ! A few words will suffice to dismiss
etrrv objection, t|mt can be star'ed
l ie statute provides that if either ot
ie bell-gereats “ sh ill so revoke or modify
ct; fts th;it stt-tll cease to violate
, S ^ commcrcc ot the United Stales
‘ ,le 1 re^tH\xnl\ declare this fact by Pro*
.‘ j Up ^"an tbt(re be.a doubt on this
heJ MinTrS1-CV*f? 1‘1,“<l5t d through
her Minister of To.e.gr, Relations, to the
on t'he'l'st of if ar,d Secret*
. November. The President is
Meu.fore bound to declare ihe fact. ’I'is
absurd to say, that nc faith is to be put in
the word ot Me french government-_be
cause a doctrine of this sort, would coroiilete
p cl,,se l,P *be door ol Communication with
France orG. B Rain. AH treaties couven
rndied arrT,5?e,nentS !'fany kind wou"d
be 1 idiculous, because tliey ail pre-sunn .se
a cert.un degree of faith between thereon
trac V’S Parties Beside?, this objection
would really come with a very ill J grace
r uTf T° ,"?5htl,e tlisP'^d 10 mak*
-- life F. dcr.msts were by far the great
*;rT"ih“siatt8 111 'hf case of Mr. Krskine’s
<!i long ment-and vet on that occasion
we had but the word of a Foreign Munster-’
in this, we have the pledge of the eovere
ment „ el -in tha, we ran Me Viifc
but dis Sv ,C inMS ’ W,,rt‘ n * on,y brnkmi,
jut uisav*-.nit ;» »i,« , f
»c u riiu hi the urc '.crii* the
word - 1 • hampagny may by broken, but his
P wers can sea cell bp disputed.
,, '}' y,.‘\ ‘',® b Connoisseurs, *'the
Ramonuillet Dee m Is not yet revoked”—
, ;,c ',‘,z is niiirijog ilirougu this city
Z i’lZZZT-.'S" «•* rresident*
1,1 p‘ 'V ‘ 1' ^solution to withhold '
is » r- clam it 1 m, until this decree has like
•r£r . bsccn '( to ‘ 'll-* tomb of tlie c.ipulers.”
I ii*1)"7. o k >ts rise from pert loquacity,
lnd prnpag-,red bv federal wishes —
I ne feder ! papers have also cauglit the
cm —the Daily (razette, a little Federal
P pe,- whicn circulates in Al x mdria. re.
pc. s th • non ensic .1 tale, dociares that
i o'lap-irte will not cease to violate our ncu
i-a. commerce until he revokes that decree
and re: to"’s the property-and with that
kind of impudent pertness, which attends
conceited ignorance assures us, that the
President himself is not so fully convinced
ol the propriety of issueing such procla
mation-that he will not dare to do it ”_
Due word, sirs, in reply to such n*n lensc
l rue it is, that the R. Decree was in one
respect a very unjust exercise of power a
gainst us—true it is, that France ought not
to have sequestered those bona fide Arne,
rican ships, which had entered tier ports
between May 1809. and March 1P10 (the
date of the decree)—nor any which had not
timely w,i-ning of the perils wtiich they en
conneered But mark' this Decree was
from the very start, an attack rather on our
national than our “ neutral” rights Be
side*. even though it had been an infraction
at the time of our neutral commerce, it is
nm now. nor will it hem futuro—for France
lias a right to declare the species of ves
sels which shall not visit hei ports_— uul
ftt rI,,s moment, we have at least fair no
tick of her R. Decree. The terms of the
ac ot Congress are explicit on this point_
“ 1 ,ev *hail cease to violate”—but will the
R Decree hereafter violate our righ^_
I he Act of Co'ig ess c * 1 • «* upon the Pccsi
dt of to lo k to • Security for the future **
and nor '* Indemnity for the Past" But
from this moment, is rtot the neutral com.
merce of the V. S ates. entirely safe from
•tt.v violation .y the R D Cree-even if ,t
had not been so from <tie beginning >
V V’r ffI G- Bri-ain, what is there,
her side of the question, to bar the Pro.
cm-it a lion > The Marquis Wellesley has
l7l5‘f,Sed »• m-eir. in tact, to the rrvoca.
mo:, of the 'filers in Council--he term
->1 Ins letter are sufficiently evaive. ancl
r> rfi >ant with alarming import. His assUr„
ances are clogged by a condition which puz
3 'he understanding—Where is the sage
w io w.ll take upon h»>M«elf to « .) e, what
vhu British cabinet really men-*i4lrs