The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1808-12-24 00:00:00

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" FQ VIE SENATN: AND 1101:'•E OF 11111PRESISTA-
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" 1t mould have beets a sourer; Fellow
of lima' gratilieation, if our Lust iioutmotsiestibug
from Euriye hail flighted me to informs you,?that
the Y.,elligerent NatioNs, whose di .regard of neutral
right has :meta s<i deptrictivn te, wit I oullturree, 114 d
awakened to the duty and the Noiiv am-
oult iturilsiituutissosh.ets. That .tp many
ousiated to mason this sulotury curet, 1
tor self -of the Act nuttiori,- •

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rim -usperivicas, in vr7leis; so: in port, u$ several.
Einkaugo 1,..aw..4. Our Niaibires atLouslou
Paris were, iiturineteci to explain to the respect;va
Gorernaien:s there, our arispusittoa to ir:ercise the
au'ltority Initialer as. would witltdrum the
pretext cou %thief* tae uggrisisiour -sere origitailly
fouusled, and open the way 1.4 a reneisol of that •
commercial iiitercoure. 111111:11 it was alleged...mall •
sides, had lota reluctantly olistrucWds As mieli
of them Gllorentinents hati pletl•Aed its resalineos to

COMICW/11111110b1111C1ItX a measure, which feat!' lied its
adversary through the inconte.tible rights of nt u-
trait; .ad as the measure iind 4:lWttll tiwAtintil
by easitaaa reta:latiou fur an atm:etc:l acquiescence
in the 'nes of the other, it was reasonably
ext lea the ix-ea:ion would have been seized
by 0,,14 for evincing Vie rificerity of their pro&e..
siurqawl for restono,„..• to the Lluited States as.le-
gitainiele freadout. The iustruttions to our Mims.
ter., with respect to the ditierent eriligetru.., were
aecesearily nro.tiried with II reference to throe dater.
eon esrunassatan,:es. and to the t axed, by
law ii. dream/en tire power of bliFlirsaniots, reqUilittg
alegree of asesirity to our coininercr; which would
riot result from a repeal of the. ,Icertes of Freewill—
InAtead of a p'adee, therefore, fora aturpensitial of
the embargo, us to bar, In case of ',ugh a repeal, it
was presumed that a sulficient iaducersent Initht
be found in other conaiderutirrns, and partiewfarly

%he ti.inys proiliica by a comvhsnee with our
pit asmatubs, by one Coettagurant, and a reful,al by
thtl-other, it the relattorn betweii this other rod
the United States. To Great Britain, almsr power
an-thi• Ocean it so ascendent, it war deemed net in.

consisteut with that rontittion, to state, explicitly,
that on het rescinding her Ordeve in relation so the
saistrinowsistasl the kJ ni tetentt44s,llift r trade sronlif Ise
op.estitt with her, and reate.tott +bat to her e1t..4)01. its
cave of his failure to reseltid ins decrees also, Prinit
Fumes- no answer has bten received, nor any iddi-
• Antos that -the requisite change in hrr decter, is
camentplated. The &tameable eeeetw.on ofAtha'
pluposition to Great Britain was the lest no he
dutkirted, to. :ter Orders of Connell had dot ojily
-been referred fur their vindication .n an itenntev-
cence, on the part of the (lowed S:nte•„' no birilrer
to be greteto-kti; but as the strainceite:nt pmpotied.
r whilst-it resisted the illegal decree-. of 1. rance, in-
volved, moreover, substantially the ?Tecate 'dein-
tagest professedly atrned at by the British Orden.--
t he has, nevertheless, been rejected.
'.Thos candid and liberal experiment having
thus failed, and no other event having, .teenrrorl-en
which a stirpere.:oti of the Etnhargo th 6 lE,tecu-
tire was authorised, it necessarily woilains in the
extent originally given to it. We have theastisfat-
tion, however, to reflect, that in return for the,p.
vations imposed by the tueteaire, told which our
fellow-rititens in general have borne with pint iotiriu,
it has had th's important effects of saving our. tho-
riners, and our eSt‘t mercantile property, ar well as
of aflivrding torte for prdseenting the ciefenvive en 4
provesionat measnres ratted fur by the occation. It
has demonstrated t.s foreign nations the moderation
41141 whirl' rover:, our Councils, and to our
lint...as the ti-eessely of unittag inoupport of the
laws and rights of their (-gantry; and hat thus
long frostrated those asurpatioss ao,l spoliatiettas
which, if resisted, involved war; if imiavitted to,
stteriticed a vital principle of oar national indepen-
dence:

" Under a coon/silence of the belligerent mi.o.
sures, which, id defiance of lass which ereasecrate
the rights of neutrals„ nversprrod the eccnn sit It
danger,' it will rest with the wisdom of CotiAress to
decide on the course best adapted to such a stun of'
thiugs ; and bringing with them. as airy no, from
eireft pert of the kwon, the sentitueittis of our con-
'thus:ebony confidence is tit rengthested thatt,i u form-
ing this decision, they will, with an unerring regard
to the esseutial rights and interests of the nation,
weigh and compare the painful alternatives oat of
which a choice is to be made. Nor should Ido
justice to the virtues which, on other actrions. have
marked the character of our fellos-eitibrus, if i did
not cherish nn equal contideuee that the altenuitive
chosen, whatever it may lw, will be uttincraistecl with
all the fortitude mid patriotism which the crises
ought to %%tare.
TIIP cbscuntents crititaining the cor-crpoti./.ent Is
nit the ..tiliret of the fort edicts AAsi.:at our
eolunrcet, with the instructions giecii to nor i••
Ulster, at London and Pans, are now laid before
you.
" The comenoniettinn made to Cisagersi at tbeir
lu-t explained the posture in who It the
(.to.e of tit, sliscsionotis, veto* to Ow sttheit by a
iinteh sl.to of tsar on the tivite tapeol ,•ft a