The National Register.
London, England, 1813-05-09 00:00:00

UNITED STATES.

The American Papers which arrived on Friday, by way of
Lisbon, to the 21st March, have brought a copy of the cor-
respondence that passed last year between Mr. JOEL BARLOW
and the French Minister respecting the repeal of the French
Decrees. In the following letter, Mr. BA R LOW seems to ac-
knowledge, that the revocation, as far as it regarded the
United States, bad been carried into effect, although not
formally announced, ever since November, 1810. But the
next extract will show, that he also suspected the Decree
of the toth of April, 1811, to have been antedated to meet
the Pfi INCE ltEGr•.NT's declaration. Of this, little doubt
can be entertained ; but as the Duke of BASSANO asserts,
that it had been transmitted to the former American Am•
bassador, General ARMSTRONG, this Gentleman is bound to
clear the fact, in order to repel the charge which his silence
must cause to be brought against him, of having concealed
that document for the purpose of kindling an American war.

EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM JOEL BARLOW, ESQ. TO THE DUKE
OF HASSAN°, DATED PARIS, M AY 1, 181%
In the note I had the honour to address your Excellency on the
10th of November last, the spirit of the English Government was
so tar noticed as to anticipate the fact now proved by experience,
that its Orders in Council, violating the rights of neutrals, would
not he revoked. The declaration of the PRINCE REGENT Of the
Ist of April has placed the fact beyond all gnestion. In doing t(ris,
he has repeated the assertion so often advanced by his Ministers and
Judges that the decrees of France, of a similar character, are like-
wise unrevoked.
Yon will notice that he finds a new argument for his conclusions,
in your Excellency's late Report to the Emperor conce)timg neutral
rights, in which you avoid taking notice of any repeal of modifica-
tion of these decrees, or of their non-application to the United
States. We know that they do not apply to the United States,
because we do not suffer our flag to be denationalixed in the man-
ner evidently contemplated by the EMPEROR in the rule he meant
to establish ; hut it would have been well it your Excellency bad
noticed their non-application to the United States, since his Afgjes,
ty had uniformly done it in his decisions of prize causes since Noma-
Ger 1810.
It is much to be desired that theFrenchGovernment would now make
and publish an authentic act, declaring the Berlin and Milan decrees
as relative to the United States, to have ceased in November, 1819,
declaring that they have not been applied in any, instance since that
time, and that they shall not be applied in future.
The case is so simple, the demand so just, and the necessity so
urgent,. that I cannot withhold my confidence in the prompt and
complete success of my proposition.
EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM MR. BARLOW TO MR. MONROE,
DATED PARIS, MAY 1!, 1813.
When the Duke first produced to me the Decree of the 10th of
April, 1811, I made no comment on the strange manner in Avhich
it had been so long concealed from me, and probably from you.
I only asked him if that Decree had- been published : lee said Bop
but declared it had been communicated to my predecessor here,
and likewise sent to Mr. SERRURIER, %%it!' orders tocommunicate
it to you. I assured him it was not among the archives of this le-
i gation, that I never before had heard of; and since he had con-
,l scnted to answer my note, I desired him to send to me in that otra-