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 wcre
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
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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 sportsmen were obliged
1 to relinquish their pursuit, owing to their hors.'
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