The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1806-01-16 00:00:00

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IiOtTOW, DSC. 13.
Capin. Brogan% own:minder of the French
pelOateer Creek. which lately captured the 111 iush
ship IsMer, off Charleston, has a:tempted to ivali-
date the nosount of dee taking of that vessel, pub-
lished in the Charleston Papers, but certainly with-
out success. A Brittilt ship of War has, sailed in
quest of the Greek; and as the Cantaiis has very
good informatics where to tail in with her, it may
be presumed that Captain Bturnatt may sane
have to account for his condnd to the British Com-
mander.
new rose. DEC. 10.
Cast Lucks?, arrived at Alexandra., from Cape
Francois, says. .' that three days benne he sailed,
a brut belnr.ging to one of the Briti..h hi !ales,
cruising
e of there, came in, and the Purser in-
him, that a brig, of fnurteen guns, from
GrmOreri, supposed to be the Or.oo, of Baltimore.
had fallen in with two French privateers in the
Caicos passage. and, after a desperate engagement,
had been captured, and every person on board mas-
sacred."
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A 'RIFF VIFW Of THE RELATION! RT.TwREN
T:11 UNtI'ILL) STATES ASU FOKEIGN NATIONS
[From ali American Papei.j
In many of the papers, which are supposed most
io the co.ifidence of the administration, we have re-
marked within a few weeks an uncommon degree of
invedivengainst Great Britain. French and Spanish
aggressions are bpried in profound silence ; and if
only those plyrs were published, it would he pre-
sumed that Great Britain alone was the only nation
against whom we had any cause of complaint. The
injustice of the Spanish government in refusing to
fulfil its solemn engagements, the countenance
which the government affords to the it.jastice of
' Spain, the piracies of both nations, and t!se murder
(liner citizens, are all consigned to oblivion, in order
that the whole national indignation maybe eolleeted
and tunas? against Great Britain. 'Doman ri•lent,
tla most immoral, and we do think the mo.. impo-
litic, measures are recommended. In some o those
which we have taw recommended, more zeal than
dissection is discoverable.
Ammer/the measures which claim attention, is them
of sequestration. Without expressing the abhorrence
which the bare mention of such a measure excites, it
would be well to amen how far itenuld heisted.
gkea as a measure af polity. and to ascertain what
would be the mabahle resuk of such a prelacy. It is
presumed that no see is so chimerical as to suppose
that such a measure would net be retaliated bj all
the means which Great Britain weld use. Those
ohs tuft of sequestration appear to consider things
as dwy were. and not as they are. The tins. has
been, when a sequestration of debts would have been
a measure operating against that country only. This
ems at a time when we -dew/sided upon British capi.
aslit emir. Since that time, the United.Staets haver
become warm ! her citineas de not. epau
British capital; the numerous banking
she increased and increasing indastry and • '
ef ear ;Wows, favoured by the late and piwlut
• sear, have changed the relative situation eft Great
Britain and the States. We are not lonia.
of Ism commercially. than we are politi-
c .el y. is very tree, that our merchants do derimit
• C'leakier from British capitals, but them
catsnot be considered as debts. teit%
• made os property placed under the ins se.
%dent. and subj-• to the comroul, of the British lbw-
than?. It is well worth a calculation, to ascertain
the amount if property which is daily passing to
',trope, ander these circumstances, and then to
ems:der what would be the result, if Great Britain
• was to retaliate ? -
• The result would be, that the property would fall
. into she heeds of the British merchant, and the
• goalies he den;ed ; or, in mercantile lasguagesoks
1: hills drawn upon the property would be Mumma.
We think that every man must percifee the evident
' distindlion between advances made on property, and.
. debts coatrafted upon the poisonsl responsibility of
the debtor ; et is chiefly in the former way that the
, Citizens of the United States are aided by British
• capitals.
' Extensive credits for goods imported direftly from
t • Britain. are not so common as heretofore, and it is
' ' aettenusual tor the dry-gee-i merchant to remit for
gatilf, and sometimes for the whole, of his goods,
they are shipped. Those who are inde-
f. • t. Lad their account in this mode, as the very
i .. =counts which they are allowed for prompt
r parllfillieform a handsome profit.
! *oda, ft, un the great increase of capital in the
trailed Styes, and finial Britain being at war and
ti, at peace, we have at all times in their ports,
• ma oft the way to them, many hundred sail of see.
,4s, all of obic:s would be lost. Again, we have at
1 f all lion -ii an iiririse,lar property at:at and unprea' ,
-+ sedled in the Last and west Indies, and in Europe, 1
•" . /one 0 :rd or t..• ...if of whist' would be lost..
• : What then can we prir•ni.c ourselves by a segues-
* • tra. sun, wiser. we have more to lose than to gain ?
, • We can see nothing which such a measure would
1 ; r isluce, except national disgrace, and individual ,
i 'lain.
I. A nether favourite measure is M., iater,verse, by '
•which means, we are to starve the manaradurers is
Swope, and the Colones in theWest.lndies. If men
' • will rejetfl the experience of the past. ar.d the pro.
• bahility of rite future, it is in vain to eel/tend.
1" '• -Were we not seven years at war with Britain ? yet
Pet . ler Colcnies were not starved, nor her manufaftures
Os '• • stuiaed. This, like the other measure, would do the •
: .greatest injury to us. Our produce would find its
' Sway to neutral i•Luids, hone whence it would be
' tarried to British islands, and the British rnanufac.
twee, and the prodedions of the islands, wntild
. fiord their way here by the same Cleans. *I he etre&
would be, as opetating on the islands, that our pro.
duce wr.ul.l reach diem, at an increased price. Our
produce would depend, for its value, on the enter.
;trite of finerners, the freights on our frodublions
would Le tr .iiiit ned to °tilers; an./ the indu.try
sad enterprise of our meichants suspended. The
ere!! of rriell•OreS rii,st are-Cols ulat-sf to burley cos-
h I rice heteeen t'.e racial:tam of 'Brinks and the
V.it.eiNizert4 he appr .ciated by every man of
..gam.elkcirwietlete. 'lle pr;ce of our p.o-
----ase circumstrnees, and it is
neatest operations toe aid
country ati.n.i. and Use

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