Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political — Alexandria [Va.], 1810-03-07 00:00:00, page 3

ltmlc os regulating this business; and un
der : treaty, the last clsss of oﬀenders, par
ticuiarly, wax.!d meet with that punish
ment, which their conduct merited. But
without any treaty between the two nations:
sivhztt right have we to expect satisfaction
for injuries of this nature ; eschially when
me take particular care to demand it in the ss
'Mt ungracious and oﬀensive manner pos
." Mr. ]cssermfl reign waa such an in
cat'imable blessing to the nation, how hap
vpcns it that in this cssential particular, our
.situation has grown worse and wan:. ever
She: he came into office} lt cannot be
denied, that he had the irpptsi-eument of
cclmcn much in his-miod; His behove
]ence as vel! as that of his bosom frien
!hﬂdcu and : number of his back-wo'ds
faith. who lit it: Congren ;: representa
sisi'ﬂ (W- Kentuciy, Temsuc, ,ctOhio,
Hipny of whom, pmhnblyj'mek up
\I vem'lssin their. lives; dun theifssessyusso
paid on the navy yard at th'ugwssn:
'Ihcn out: pliant ffipm have [[in-o M'*
silfzsilnbdly-Mil lnsitll-ghn becsin o_--._
nations exist. We speak the same lan- 1
page, resembie each other in eomplexion j
and features, and in many respects are so ctl
much alike, that we might easily pass for
ihbabitantsoi the same country. This ss
circumstance has probably caused many
mistake, where no mischief was intended. :
ltisss bcy'ond—s question, thats multitude of 'ss
stands have beenpractised in this country, ss
in giving she: 'certiicates to foreigntn. ;
(swine them to be nsiatives. As far as j
this fact has occasioned improper impress- ss
hent). the fault is our own. There auin
she British navy, as in all other estabiish
ments ofso extensive s nature, men of
proud, tuubuient, and ot-erbearing disposi
tions. Men of this character, it is alto
gether probable, have imprssesscd our ces
mm, without troubiing themselves to en- -
But, let the conduct of the British be
a wicked as the heart can with, it untill re
maim to bcsi them: what we have puted in
the case, by the aid of Mr. ]essenon'a pre
cidency. There it certainly more clamou
on this lubject now, thou there was filteen
years ago; and what it the reuon ? Sure
ly it vnaOt ariac from un imprond out.
of thingt in our political assain.
The disputes which existed between thil
country and Great Britain, at the time
Ih-ss-n the constitution wss adopted, lasted
nnzi' the ratification os ]ay's treaty. From
that'time. until that treaty expired, we had \
nosrrious jsrrings. With respect to the ]
impressing os seamen, it undoubtedly had ]
happened from time to time. And prohs- (
bly it ever will happen. as itsimg as the tw' !
quire, whether they were American of
British subjects. A treaty is the only
tnze .Sme .] m: Country- -We will. in
(11: Kext ﬂeet, (We, Will! isle Mim'
Am experiencrdcny bengft in its ﬂrfkn
srbtiam. by the change of it: admiuiatra
tim ? ' .
Our principal forcign tonnex'tom, have
for misty years. been almbn exclusitely
with Great Britain and France. Indeed,
it may almost be said,.that there are no
other powcn in'l'lnropc, but thou ; for al
though there m other vitious in name, they
bavsie but little claim to any other character
then of dependent pkov'mcn on either the
Britioh or the Frencfi. Let the Question
ugﬂn be asked—Hm we been in a better
duuuion. n it mpscts our relutions with
th! two great miihg power. of Europe,
since. "Mr. ]essﬀcnon came into the sin:
mgietram chair than we frere before!
jihlc ?
nere
?
-'si ,]num hit, niucsm
" _\hegirbihtmm>n
lo ct
ec—
!
the rsiaek a a Simon wþk JW
men; but derne how. nother, nodtiq'
good deemen out of it. :: h Foþihkct, ."
inded, is Mr. ]:Eesiuonsihnd Madended
to xcept Mr. jey's trenty, when the Bri
tish Qsered to' renew it, we ehonld have
been on a good ground, at lent, as we
were under generd Wuhihgton. But a
] he did m, but on the eosintrary, tesueedpl
long as he in in ofiee, to pike my trea
ty with the British government, our aﬀairi
have continuity been on the wtong conne
—our seemen are imprened, and we have
no hold on that government for redreu. —
* At the ume tim e,_ we uke every penible
mode to irritate and hanm the British
government, and if they dom: lubmit to_
it with the meekness of lambe, we' politcly
cbnrge them with fraud ct and perﬂdy, lnsid
" Ir're :ln'pc man. make free goode,"
laye Mr. ]efi'enon. And thin he uid sorss
eight years, as often as he could get asi.
chance to talk. Nothing than of thin. d_osse
trine, in it: utmoetlatitude, would ntiefy
hie philoeophy. And what wn the remit?
He did all he tould to meke every thing
ibend to hit own vegariee , but efter all, G.
' Britain, not dispeeed to cut her own
thrnctt, ** ba: hitherto rescued, and etill
doth refuse," to yield the point. Now, if
we ehould admit, jbr the cal: gf argument,
that thie' to . delightsui theory* , the eaquiry
will immediately arise, are we in a way to
realize it? It will puzzle wieer helde
than Mr. ]eﬀersnn'e, or Mr. Madilon'e, or
even eeeretary Robert Smith. Esq. to prove
the asirmcive of'thie question. So far
from having advanced towards the evtab
; lishmeut of the principle, we have con
E atantly been receding from it. Grent Bri
) tain feels more and mare, the absolute im
} [ortauce of maintaining it, for the take of
! her own preservation; and it the same
; time she has diecernment enough to see,
that our phiianthropie adminietratiou, hue
had : covert inclination to lend their feeble
_ and to the power osFranee' to order to hum
' ble, and pro'etrate the British na'tissdn; si aldct
seeing this. the will not fail to resentit.
However much it may amuse us, to be the
dttpea os ]cssenonian h) pocriey, sre may
rt-iy upon it, that it comes with no charm
to a nation struggling for resistauee against
& world in arms.
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s
)
Lmﬂyþ. ,wssymssd um ,thezmrchw
-lative to jumn in the etlte of New York.
Resened to :" committee of the whole -on
Thunday next.
Mr. Van Home reported a hill twmake :
uhlic read in the eounty of Wuhington,
Liquid of Coiumliia. This bill wn tend
twice-lnd onlered to be engroned for I
third reading to-morrow.
On motion of Mr. sifppee. the convey
hill, which he reported utrrday, wll
nkelulp in committee'of e whoie—Mr
Pun- in the chair. . _
Mr-mell me in fever "of the bill ge
deuounce them at the'woret of tynnte.
Touon, Here}: (.
A reportol the poet master genereI-n
opecting the laleriu of clerk: in his office.
for the year1809, mn read and ordered to
begin'edo
r. Eppu fron: the committee of way
and meane, reported :: bill making appro
priations for carrying into eﬀect certain la
dian trenties. Read, twice lad resemd to
a committee of the wholeuhoule on Thun
day.
Isr. Emmm from the.committee to whom
the subject wn rescued, reported : hill re
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES._
[ Taien for the Alexandria Gazatte.)
The house proceeded in the discussion
of the resolution untilalate hour, when
the question on the remlution was taken
and carried—Ayu GO—Noee 47. A com
mittee wed appointed to bring inn bill :
greeahly to the resolution, and the house
ndjoumed.
Cong-rgss (ﬀ t/zc United State;.
Monon March s.
[coxcwozu]
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[Con- Hirrar.
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o'annessþe , _ ss fi—
He_imi-jled>n'u_ci9 . si , ss.
'si'tcllpt to proueqeur . '
nunsideti afforded "lot w "7 ss.
tying 'm our knel- (or I:" ,- eg-nig dun
to the Ram ssbr eink the.. si
_Mr.£ .nzd then um ne. ny of
resinin'g ! e orders lndsideqreqct sun;.
end Bo but by dclsin the
right o ' bench. In order to . chid
go a not to violate the love osuatisiom.
we must make "our wench and came. en-'
tirely Amerinm and navigltt field by
Amerlcen citizene, so that the bfusilctffiu
ss lhould havectno prelexc to .anrcb either fof
ss enemies or their property, or for auh'ectl
He declared me: the object of the bnl wa
5 to resist l-yforcethe order. ib council of
Great Britain and the decrees of France
Mr. Gold nued that the bill now under
consideration, involvcd siprineiplee 01] im
; pomnt to the eommereial interest: of the
[O. 8. The bill den!" to the be!]irermh
' nntion ; end is t e honornble member from,
ss Virginin (Mr, Ep et) een carry into fleet
> -- The right of nemh appear: to be pretty
ss well tettled, and it inn well eettled, that
: into trentysi-stipulation for that purpose with
)
Vattel, page 839, it to the same eﬀed'
it has been {said that this bill will pro
duce that resiatance to the order: & deeme!
of the belligeremo which they renpectively
' require. to etempt out commence from the
Iﬀeuliltory eﬀect: of thou orden. ] can
hardly think the'belligerente den he me.
l lied with this reuoning. Each alledges
- the other 'to be the aggrenor, end upon till!
principle ] cannot percein how they will be
"time:! with : mentum openting Nun?
! and alike upon both,, withontreprd to the
int in sluit.
b l{er Mumscrd )pou jn (nor of the
] .
Mr. ch up obmcved that a a great nu
tiomlqumion wn invoked in the bill..
he withed time stir considering the tub
jcgt. He therefore moved that the con
mtttee rise and report progren. _
Mr. Dan:: wished to know what ferce-tt
wan intended to put in thin bill- It had
been declaredthat we meant to reeistsib'f
wished to know the .utent of that remt-si
ancc- ,
'Mr. L' es -said -he would sstlh tho
question o the gentleman from Confecti
cut into eerioue consideration. but m th.
me'ln time he Lauld ukthc gehtlemu
il'othet queltion :_ dhetcth'er. we sikes- IOU !. s
i-eeist, or whether vesi were tomdovh, ad
siuifssisssiB-fsiwct'f rd-.si he
' ss' r. ,lpohl wwo , '
.ssMsiMo-fmn-L. dﬂkd-Gm
this provieion of t e bill, without involving
the United Statee in war; he will deserve
well of his country. The hononble mem- si
her ltntee, that the pretext for .eeetch in so
ditcover mmy'c good: on board the nett
trnl venel ; end to take away thin pretext,
he provided by the bill, that the cuttom
house officer thall .enmine and, exclude
enemy't goods end contnband from edmis- si
tion on board of reuels under this act. and
thereby eetobtith the fact, that all il'right
and according to the law of nation:- But
eir, there in one enentiel error in thit the
ory. in assuming that the neutral ltao a right .
to cctablielt a tribunal or prmn'be Me evi
dencefer accermining :: neutral corn and
ncurral declinatian ; in not considering that
there are two partie: to the WOHM. the
neutrni on one side and the ,belligrrent on
the other. If. by a'projsseet of the kind "00
tained in this bill, : neutral could eludc the
right of tearch,nothing could be more easy,
and, in former wan,thin constant bone of
contention would have been readily remov
ed, instead of producing no much difficulty
and troub'ie.
th: rigktq'omrcb, nnd hence . ve ? dil
cult quettton it ruented for our termi
the belligerent to erempt him from the exsi
ercise of thin right. The principlee onothtl
subject dre'toctbe found not only in_ none:.
writers but in those of other countries.
Marshall on ]naurance, page: 312, 818.
and 314, laye down the following rnlcs.
Iupported by authorities: " That t e right
Of Viliting and searching merchant nhvps
upon the high seu, whatever be the ship.
whatever be the corgon, whatever be the
dcatinatinn, is an incontestibleright of th
lawfully commiubned oruizen o! a-belh- si
gcrent nation." _
-** That the authority of the sovereign of
the neutral country being interposed tn 80?
mannerof mere force, cnnot legally vary
the right! of the beili mal cruiZcr."
" That the penalty or, the violent coo
travention of thin right, in the conhtmton
of the property so withheld from "mation
and search."
sit , VLM si, ii.:ngﬂlﬂ .. "'-.ssx m' i, __
'- 51" Mpmiey un " ct sssi 7) ' -ct ;,ctss' ',
jet,- "1(M.M,W ;} r!> ! {34
hone- muy be nen. si ' Pgctz—ijf _
; Mm 7 --. v.. . M * -,
- Public Salc. =. '
ol'er the rcmoinder of their Stork c ouW
ol labia. gentlemen: and children! SlsiK
at reduced puiccs. Any penon wichingssc,
purchno n qu mity can bell applied Rectum
ssnev 70! to"!!! enquire at the Tunica JM ssi
(
bund- JSOO bunch. laying at Dido!
Fhllsi'so 'zfor tull! esnmqlno
Livemore, Piclsimm and Dz'm ; !!
savor of the amm- m-m c-f chew ..
Means. Mncon and Risk awdlctsift' '- '_'_.,_.
mummeou, (he qunmm WII _ "
. en god nma—erl the.- hou -
ss bill ." tent to the Senate! '
A30173—N0u 42. - - .ct! .. .
The question wan shop pull . "
Icommiuee of conference "
a commince of that wu up - -
Adjoumusi - : -<' -.'ssss-:
three mouthe the purchaser giving e good -
approved endoned note.
T Mitp ss'
dfwmfsfnnch. to'usi '- ctsissict:
ced through the Mind"! ' si." si -'="
:Zhle': but {I die object mild ;
'scm be thought the nbject onlfizsisifi
sinsi mercy mmrsicomdmfidpq . WM si 15? ,,
si— !. fm (! no nb' ecuoncothqwctf'
ofthe commune. 'nct- commitwss
reported progrcu and bed have go þyss
if
A me usage na rebeived srssouctn them
niting that (her adhere to their _
lLL be sold, at public salt, on Tliul'zsisiq - "
day the ath imt et three o'Efodksio,
LOl of GROU\D between Pdncsie- .vsi'
Duke streete, lrorling on Alfred liked, .40
sect, and running back 50 leet "Um- lsiNsi
on the prentice: two new lram'e bookes. end; ,
very good kitchen. [eating . meant lotosi'l- si
m: subscriber ha- . few wctsuffifi
MAC'si-lNES on hand. made out of
the best aeasoned white pine plant. ' , -
He has also one (list. and three rood or
draftsilreamres, for me or .irej onshe um,:
reasonable terms. 90 per day for hssom anﬂ
gig; and 4: Gd per dny for e horse. Apply
(0 -
'Wm. C. NeWton,
Opposite Union Tavern, Prince-lt.
March 7 drf
N 0 '1' l 0 E.
THE aubsrrib'n. intending in : shot]
mue to cloud their busincu in Alenodd'
yunofngo Wnollo good none, nu'uhex-ss'
wound and home sin am-ct Albusiu 'mmss -
]acob Hsiasssi __
West End, March 7. ,
For Sale or 8 i.;ct'ss."
.l Two non BRICK' ctssnp .ct
N Duke Men with every: _
buikfinge belonging" to it si ,
may be had the Both. ul Apnl. oehoforg-ct pour
quired. 'f—'
seetin front. It will be mld on : erect;,oe .-ct
March 7. sigsio si ._ , ;
For Sale, . Tfﬂss ;; sisifsi-zfi _
Two elegantyoung HoNtH-sv _
Fl good paremuss 'e ulm (pllsisiiﬂl "ons 91
them acustomcd to the zigiztste other
to the nddle. Both are in peMÞ'JWk I:,
lbrchfl. ; urjw,
"si
a ? R F 3 A GiE-Rjct
.; lum; _ -_. -
We]! spend and ne y nen
and tolerable order. Enquire of;}osilpfissodgf
kin. at the lndian Queen taverm No ths,
Denis n') Mr. Macon'e In". nd Þ'ss
inteda committee of consonant? - __ "!
uoc proceeded to consider the " '4
from th &nﬂuo . 'si '
After come drbnte. in which if! ; sisisi
well .an !: ( OM' HF L. uimun as "good! all
' . For Salcsifsctf
Am quantity of nice Bctksi
Fcbrusiory 27 . Jed
For Salc, Freigsiu o} Lhaner.
VctObsiCfaw
DunelWClean
MMMWWMN "&
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(Obe'gi'C'OCOM-nd —_
apn-cmnmi- -' —'3 '
JWUJY
Mll'Ch 70 . , ' 21. '
A um, 'Nncno MuMANuss-bo'uizs ' "
FOR BALE, '
Hawkins Alden. sisiss ..
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