The Sun.
London, England, 1813-01-11 00:00:00

this proposition was.thcrcforc necessarily
Atti.:r this exriOsition of the eirAtinstances
which preceded, and which have followed the de-
clar3Lon of war by the United States, ,his Royal
Highness the,Pri,;ce Vegent, acting in :the Annie
and on the' behalf of his Majesty, feels himself
called ilea to de6lare the leading' principles, by
which the conduct of Great Britain has beep re-
giiiated ha the transactions connected with these

discussions.
His Royal Highness can never acknowledge
any blockade whatsoeliler to .be illegal, which
has been duly notified, and is supported by an.,,
adequate force, merely upon the ground of its ex—
tent, or because the ports, or coasts blockaded,,
are not at the same time investrd by land.
His 'Royal Highness can, never' admit, that
neutral trade With Great Britain, can be consti-
tuted a public crime, the commission of which can
expose the ships of any power whatever to be de-
nal ion'alized.
His Royal Highness can never. admit that
Great Britain can be debarred of it light of just
and pecessary retaliation, through fear of
eventually affecting the'interest of a neutral.
His Royal Highness can never admit, that in
the exercise of the undoubted and hitherto un-
disputed right of searching neutral merchant ves-
sels in time of war, the impressment of British
seamen, when found therein, can be deemed any
violation of a neutral flag. Neither can he ad-
mit, that the taking suck seamen from on board
Buell vessels can be considered by any Neutral
State as a hostile measure, or a justifiable cause
of war.

There is no right more cleatly established, than
the right Which a Sovereign has to the aiiegilnee
of his subjects, more especially in time of war.—
Their allegiance is no optional duty, which they
can dec;iine end resume at pleasure. It is 'a call
which they are bound to obey : it began, with their
birth, and can only terminate with their exist-
ence.
It's similarity of language and manners may
make the exercise of this right more liable to•par-
tial mistake, and occasional alMse, when practised
towards vessels of the United States, the same cir-
cumstances make it also a right, with the exercise
or whieh, in regard to such vessels, it is more dif-
ficult to dispense.
13ut if, to the practice of the United States, to
harbour British seamen, be added their assumed
right, to transfer the allegiance of BritiOisubjects,
and thus to cancel the jurisdiction of their
mate Sovereign, by acts of naturalization and cer-
tiliCates of citizenship, which they pretend to be
as valid out:of their own territory, as within it,
it is obvious that to abandon this ancient right
of Great Britain, and to admit these novel pre-
tensions of the. United States,
.would be to expose
to ,clanger the very foundlttion of our maritime
strength.
Without entering minutely into the other
to-
pica, which have been brought forward. by the
Clovernment of the United States, it may he pro-
per to remark,., that wbetever the Declaration of
the United States
,may have asserted, Great Bri-
tain never'did' demand, that they ;shout& force
British' marinfactures into France ; and she tor-
mally declared her willingness entirely to forego,
or Modify; ici concert with the United States, the
ititein',. by which a commercial intercourse with
t le enemy had been allowed under the protection
liceaces ; provided the United Stares would
act towards her, and- towards France with real
itupartiality.
The Government of Atrieriea, if the differences
between States arc not interminable, has as little
right to notice the affair of the thesapeak.
itge,rcsNion, in this instance, -Oil the part of 'V
1, ritisiOfficer was acknoWleged, his conduct wee
disapproved, and a reparation. was regularly ,te.n.
dered by Mr, 'Foster, on the part of his 'MaieStv,
end accepted by the Goverinnent of the United
,States.
It is not less unwarranted in its filinsiOn'to the
t. ission of Mr. Henry, 'a mission undertaken
without the authority, or even knowledge of his
Majesty's Government, and Which Mr. Poster
Was authorised formally and officially to dis,
W.
The charge of exciting the Indians to offensive
measures ugainst the United States, equally
void of foundation. Before the war began, a
policy the most opposite had been unilormly
seed, and proof of this WaS tendered by,Mr. Fos.
ter to the Anierican Government. •
Such are the causes ,of war Which have been
put foryvard by the Government of the United
Scates. Tut the real origin of the present contest
wilt be found in that spirit, whkli has long un-
happily ectuateil the Conncils of the United States :
their marked partiality in palliating and assisting
the aggrc,se,".: tyrionly of Franee ; their sptewa-
tic Cad.C4l,-011rti to entialne' their people
the jefensive measure.; of Great Britain ; their
ungenerous conduct towards Spain, the hit innate
ally of Great Britain ; their unworthy deserii till of
the cause of other neutralnations. ft is ihrinigh
the prevalence, of' such councils, America has
been associated with in poliey Finnee, and 'coin
-
witted in war .against Great Britain.
And muter svliat conduct on. time part dr France
has the Government ofthe United States thus lent
itselito the enemy ? The contemptuons viohition
of the Commercial 'Treaty of::the year I Silt), be-
tweea Fraece and the United States; die trot-
Oherouse•eizure of all American vessch; and
goes in every harbour sUbjeet to the eooteota of
the Crench rarius; the tyrannical principles:of the
Berth, and Milan Decrees,. mad ,the Confiscations
tinnier them ;'tire subsequent condemnations under
the Itainbouillet Decree, antedated, or ;concealed
to render it the more efictttal ; the French com-
mercial regulations-which reader the traffic:: of the
United States with; Ii ral)Ce altilOSt y the
buenhite of their inereltant ships at sea, lulig af;.er
the alleged repeal of the 'refiell ;Deerces—all
these, acts of violence on .the part of France pro-
dupe froal the t;overnment of. the United States,
wily such complalets its end in actleieseence, and
eubmission, or toe accompaiiied by .suggcotions
ter enabliee; lettuce to give the semblance of a
legal form to :her witrpmions, by converting them
trzv munieipel
This 41i.sposition of the Government of the

ri
I to
a complete subsdtvletleY to the
Ruler of Frtince—this hostile temper towards
Great Britain—are evident in -almost every page
of the official correspondence of the American
;with the French Government.
AgainA this comic, of conduct, the real, cause
.ofilie present war, the Prince Ree:ent solemnly
protests. 'Whilst contending- ag:linst France, in
defence not only of the liberties of, Great Britain,
but of the world, laic Royal highness was entitled
to look for a far diilerent result: Prina their cOtn-
..uton origin—from their common interest—from
their professed orinriples of- freedom and indepen-
dence, the United States were the last:poi.vt2r, in
which Great Britain could have expected to find
ii illin instrument, and abettor of Freud,
.7)
Tyranny.
Disappointed in this His jifs't expectation, the
Prince Regent tvill still pursue the policy which
the British Government has :so long and invari-
ably niaintained, in repelling injustice, and in
'supporting the, general rights of nations; and,
under the favnur of Providence, relying on the
t.ice of his cause, and the tried loyalty and firma
ness of the British nation, 'his Royal Highness
confidently limits forward to a successful issue to
the contest, in which .he has thus been compelled
most reluctantly to engage.
westnliater, January 0, 1813.