The National Register.
London, England, 1812-01-05 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

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TO OUR SUBSCRIBERS AND THE I'UI:LIC.
We sulaulit to the Public our first Paper for the current year. Hopeful
that we have in good part realised the expectittions which we of late
held out, we shall now leave our Subscribers to appreciate the pains
and cost we have incurred. Not that we repine at either pains or
cost. Our future exertions will increasingly evince thi:.
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SUNDAY, JANUARY 5, 1512.

UNITED STATES.

We have long since expressed our conviceon that the
American Government had resolved on going to war with
this country, and had only delayed an open rupture until
it should have familiarised the people of the United
States with the idea and propriety of such a contest. It
was natural that a commercial nation should dread the
approach of hostilities with a power who, by detaching
a small portion of its nary, can sweep away 41 their
vessels of war and trade from the surface of.the ocean,' We
have pointed out, in various essays, the method employed
by the official tools ef France, in America,' to produce the
necessary changte in the public mind. In our remarks
on the PRESIDEgT'S Speech at the commencement of the
present Sessiortsof Congress, e obscrveii that he Seemed
conscious to have neatly reached the end he had in view,
and which he began to pursue more openly, and ant:ci-
rated a declaration
.of war in the course of the ',recent
y ar. We are now in possession of a document which
adds a link to the chain of evidence which we have
brought forward, of the hostile disposition of the Exe: u-
tive against us, and which rn;eht be deemed in itself a
manifesto, only that it is not addressed to us. We mean
the Report of the American Committee on that part of
the PRESIDENT'S Message, which relates to foreign rel.: tions.
That it should coincide exactly with Mr. MADISON'S views
is not astonishing ; but that it liould assume such a
bold tone of insult and menace., as to sure :55 in auda-
city even the denunciations of the. Pittstoeyr him-
self, is an instance of presnmption on the part of
the Americans, which, compared
.svith their real ieca-
pacity to fulfil their entry threats, would only create a
smile at their blindness and folly, were it not hkelv to
be followed by the bloodshed :yid devastations of n ar.
Admiting the full repeal of the French Decrees, the
Committee direct all the storm of their indignation
against us, whet are representci as the sole plunderers of
their trade, which we, pursue to the very mouths of their
harbours." But not satisfied with this uniounded as,er-
tion, for although the British sfag may be descried from
the American coasts, kis only wn the. masts of French
privateers; by which it is plirposely hoisted ; they avail
themselves of
.a. topioe. •the nature of which is to in-
flame the mind and feelings of the people, and which,
annihilating the operatieeu of judgment, becomes a
most powerful weapnrf in the
.hands of. the designing.
Regardless of our attention•td/he claims of their sailors,
d ti- liberation, when it -turns out th:.t they have
,ey.endeavour to kindle. rage
i-g-exclamations -aud misrepree

WIPPIMPIN

JAN. 5.

Their aim is so clearly announced in the ensuing ex.
tracts from this Report, that further observations are for
the present unnecessary.
" To wrongs so daring In character, and so disgraceful in their execu-
tion, it is impossible that the people of the. United States should remain
indifferent. NVe must now tamely and quietly submit, or we must re-
sist by those means which God has placed within our reach.
66 Your Committee would not cast a shale over the American name,
by the expression of a doubt which branch of this alternative will be
embraced. The occasion is now presented when the national character
misunderstood and traduced for a tune by foreign and domestic enemies,
•hould be vindicated. If ne have not rushed to the field of battle like the
nations who are led by the mad amb.tion of a sing:e Chief, or the ava-
rice of a corrupted Court, it has not proceeded from a fear Or war but
from our love of justice and humanity. That proud spirit of liberty arid
independen:e which sustained cur fathers in the succes4ul assertion of
their rights against foreign aggression is not yet sunk. the patriotic
fire of the revolution still burns in the American breast with a holy and
unextingishable flame, and will conduct this nation to those high destinies,
which are nut less the reward of dignified moderation, than of exalted va.

lour.
But we have borne with injury until forbearance has ceased to be Ci
virtue!. The sovereignty and independence of these States, purchased
and sanctified by the blood of our fathers, from whom we received
them, not for ourselves only, but as the inheritance of our posterity, are
deliberately and systematically violat, d ; and the period has arrived,
when, in the opinion of your Committee, it is the sacred duty of Con-
gress to call forth the patriotism and resources of the country. By the
aid of these, and with the blessing of God, we confidently trust we
shall be enabled to procure that redress which has been sought for by
justice, by remonstrance, and ferbeamnce, in vain.
Your Committee, reserving for a future report those ulterior mea-
sures, which in their opinion, ought to be pursued, would, a: this
time, eat-m. 14 recommend, in t!ie words of the Pat:sin-ENT, " That the
United States be immediately Fut into an armour and attitude de-
manded .by the cri.is, and corresponding with the national spirit and
escfectation."
Then follow some Resolutions. recommending the
grant of whatever can enable the -PRESIDENT to carry
on war.

and their liheratiOn, when it turns out tii:.t tuey nave
been impressed wrongly, they endeavour to kindle. rage
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against us by the olicwing-exc
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