The National Register.
London, England, 1814-05-29 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTERti

port•, whien are to explie at the end of one year after a peace
with Great Britain, be prolonged to the end of two years after that
event : and that, in favour of our monied institutions, the exports
titni of specie be prohibited throughout the sante period.
4. March 31, 1814." tg JAMES MADISON."
The above Message was yesterday transmitted by the President
of the United States to both Houses of Congress.
W .ishington, April 1, 1814.
The following is an extraet of a letter froth Washington to

New Yu' k,dated Vashingtnn, April 7, in the evening.
"I send an express to New York with this letter that it may he in
sea-on to go by the Ciamirey.
" 114usc of Representatives have this day by a very great
majority, paSsed a Bill repealing the Embargo and Nbu-Importation
Laws, which Bid will pass the Senate in a day orctwo, by an unani-
mous vote, or nearly so. The free importation of British manufac-
tured goods will, afttr this week, be allowed into •all the ports
of the mired Slates, in neutral ships, °tract:omit of persons re,,itiing
ail neutral conntries.".

rx:pATRIATIoN AND CHANGE OF ALLECHANCF..
New-I-urea, Aram 9.—From the late deci,ions of the Supreme'
Court of the United States at the seat of Government, it would ap-
war than an American doctrine on this very irnpoi taut subject a!
length t. be established by authority in this country. The solitaiy
deci,idn of Juege Elsworth in Connecticut, and some less promi-
nent eases in Pennsylvania and other States, have not been suffici-
ent to determine the law of the land ; and it was therefore !Moth
to be desired. that the question might he brought directly before
the highest judicial tribunal of the cenntry for their conehtsive deter-
mination. The opportunity has arrived. as has been seemin'the
reports of prize causes decided by that Court at their present Session
I)t Washington.
On the Oaf of these causes, it seems to have been contended,
that a citizen could not divest billltitliefif his first allegiance, but was
fur ever bound in his duty, and entitled to the nattual privileges
and protee!ton of his native government. This doctrine is denied,
shod the right otdepatriation and naturalization in any threign coun-
try advdocrel and mainlaitied. On On: question the court was
divided, four members, Judges ‘Vashingten, Duvall, Todd, and
' Story, deciding in favour of naturalization; Judges Marshal and
Livingston against it ; and 'Judge Johnson declining to give his
opinion. A partial confittnation of the doctrine Inns also been
given by Mr. Pinkney, late Attorney-General, VOllO maintained that
our right to naturalize foreigners Oman protect them in all cases,
excepting within the dominions of their former Sovereign, where it
Ayoub' cease to operate, and the citizen became subject to his
original allegiance.
The re-establi,lnnent of this principle is of the first consequence.
As a practical illustration of the doctrine, the property of native
Americans dooticiliated iu England is lt ondcanned a. 4 British good,.
And it is of inoi e intereAt as a point of national or pnblic law.
The I,4llest judicial authority of the country having determined
the right of expatriation and naturalization, it is to be presumed the
question is aettled, at leist so far as respects American writers, who
are bound to re,pect the law of their native land. The practice of
every otbet nation, even while in theory they may occasionally
deny it, is also well known to be in favour of naturalization. And
the great bulk of those who have emigrated from Britain to this
country, having left their residence with the consent of their
hovel:Jiment, given at its custom-houses in time of peace, combo.
rates the claim to the I;,entral right of expatriation wile:sever the
',Wylie salt ty in time of war would not be endangered by yemoval.
'l4e %abject, however. as more immediately concerning us, is the
judicial vantirmation of the right of n•••ttrabzatiou in C;reign.
ts,,nraln.:, by the Supreme Court of the' Ui.ited States ; a right
disputA by controvermal K rim., made a party-qnestion by politicians.
bud at leogth settled (war hope nt least) by the judge% of the highest
American trionnal, known, oy waazever of lotal politics may remain
ottae:all to them, a% beiodzing to troth the great parties which
divi.e the evnuninty. It is no longer a repablican or federal
loctrine, but the proomm,etlititlicial opinion of the countrh and as
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