The Sun.
London, England, 1812-07-10 00:00:00

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—TittmsnAy.

The House was: stuninoned to the Hodse of
-I'gex,l, :heir return the Speaker declared
" ^:,t had been given'..,l47
idis.-!;Aill to a iTn.i_tzL wt of ,Public apa Ri4iate
for which, see our Report of .the proceedings
the Lords.'

Sir S. Ro...gitLy poitponed the further !corvi-
&ration of the Report of the Dwhequer Reme4-
brancer's Bill till Monday next. •
The-London Prison and the Ntoodelds
Improve-thent Bill, were read a third time and
l'assed.
The' General lnclositre .Bill went through a
Committee, the report of which was ordered to
be rcceiNied to-morrow.

The Local Tokens Bill was read a third time
and passed.
The CHANCE,LLOi of the EXCHECIUER brought
up the Appropriation Bill, which was read a fr:,t
time, and ordered to be read a second time to-
morrow.

The CHANCtLLOR of the EXCHEQUER brought
tip a-Bil.l to permit goods to be removed froin one
Warehouse to another, in bonding ports :the Bilk
was read a-first time, and a Second reading was
ordered f6r to-morrow.

-Mr. WitikaTos- brought up a Bill to permit the
exportation of certain articles to the Isle of Man,
which was read a first time, and ordered to be read
a second time to-morrow..

~. The Scotch Stipends .Bll.lwas read a third time
and,passed, -
-The Smuggling Prevention Bill was read a se.-
egad tiine., an ordered to go through a Commit-
tee.on Monday next. - . .

The Coffee hill was read a second time) and or-
dered.tO.go through a Commitee on Monday-next.
The Commercial,Exchequer Bills Bill was, read
a third time and passed. •
• The Life Annuities Bill. went thrOugh a Com-
mittee, the Report of which was ordered to be re-
ceived to-moKrow.

The Report .of a Committee on the. Army
Prize-money. Bill was brought up and agreed to,
and the -Bill ordered to be read a- third time to-
morrow.

Sir, J. GaAnAm brought up the new Mamire
Carriage Bill, which was read a first time, and
ordered to be read a. second time to-morrow.
I. ' Mr. .to,
bro9-ht up th,e Report of the
Coiriiiiifte-e.of Supply, the Resolutions of which
-we-agreed-to: -
SLiff..',KtrawoN.roke to read to the House his Fi-
nancial :Resolutions, atnt stated, that since .the
new modelling of the Finances no measure bad
been adopted-o#-Which he. could disapprove ; but
he thought- if the resolutions which he- intended to
suggest were adopted, they would be of great be-
nefit ; he, however, would defer submitting them
ti; the consideration of the HOUse till Wednesday
ilex. •

The CHANCELLOR of the Excgclituzit.said; that
on Wednesday.next he should move a set of coun-
ter-resolutions to those of the Hon. Baronet,
which- he' would subniit-to the House ; in the
mean time—he moved an adjournment of the de
bate, which vas agreed to.
The House thii Adjourned.

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soytm QUtS DICERS FAL!,:'M .tvntAT ?

LONDO'N,
FRIDAY, JULY 10, 1812.

.
We yesterday announced to our Readers, in a
Second Edition, the iMportant fact of the arrival
of French Papers, containing a Document which
is equivalent to, if it be not actually, a Deelara-
i
ton of War by BUONAPARTE against the - Em-
peror of RUSSIA. The Document to which
we allude is a report of 'the French Minister
for Foreign Affairs, stating the causes which
justify BUONAPARTE in declaring War, and
it boldly avows his determination to
_direct the
Councils of every other Continental Statcy and to
consider the slightest disobedience of his orders as
a justifiable cause' of war. The French Minister
of Foreign Affairs does not corntilain of any ag-
gression on the part of Russia. against France, but
the Emperor of RUSSIA having had the. hardi-
hood to make some commercial regulations, which
were not quite in unison with the plans of BUONA-
I'ARTE, the offence, it seems, can only be expiated
by the slaughter of some thousand human beings.
It is stated, and we think with great probability,
that the Emperor of Russia has offered to make
very considerable sacrifices in the hope of avert-
ing a war : he made a proposition which appears
to us hardly consistent with the dignity. of an
dependent Sovereign, viz. to lay a duty of
twenty-five percent. on the importation of Bri.
tish raerehandize ; but even this concession would
not satisfy BUONAPARTE ; he not only exacted
implicit submission, but insisted upon send.
ing French officers to all the Russian ports to see
that his orders were obeyed ! There can now be
no doubt that hostilities ha-re commenced, and if
the Russian Generals will but protract the con-
test, instead of risking the issue of the war up-
on a battle or two, we shall not be much in pain
for the result. The offers which BUONAPARTE
made to BERNADOTTE SheVe the importance
.which he attached to the assistance of Sweden.
The offer is stated to have been all Finland, in-
cluding Petersburg-13, Pomerania, Mecklenburgh,
and a subsidy of 20,000,000 franks per annum.
These magnificent bffors'were refused by TiEasTA...
vorrz, who knew very well.- ;'
_`.;Lied, he would not
ccssful, he would not be wiliiru i ,_srforni his

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promise.

The following article is extracied from the Lis-
bon Gazette'of the 20th June :---

We have received an account that General
;IhxJ► had been betrayed by two renegado
Spaniards. Lodging one night in Peroles, the
house in which he was in was surrounded by 1::0
French dragoons, and he owed his escape to his
personal valour, and that of the few solders who
were in the house. The traitors were the next
day hanged.

In Catalonia, Mono and Gen. SARSTIELD have
routed the.Freneh, causing them a loss of 1000
men. GAYAN, in Arraon, had entered Cala-
tayud, arid made 120-French prisoners.
The army of Murcia, on the 3d had advanced
upin Baza, and the Count de MONTIGO had en-
tered Almeira. There are al4o account's of some
.•
actions by.MARQUINEZ, but so vaguely discrlaed,
that we cannot distinguish whether they are dif-'
ferent, or parts of those already described. Such
is the summary of the accounts from Cadiz te► the
12th inst.

The eapfain of an Arne:kiln vessel arrived at
Liverpool states., that in lat. 40. N. long. 53. W.
he fell in with the Marengo French privateer, who
14.fermed him that they captured five sail of Eng-
lish West.indiamen. lie also states, that in lat.,
52 long 41, spoke the English ship Fame, forty
days from Demerara, bound to -Liverpool, all
well.

We have continued our extracts from the Ame-
rican Papers. The intelligence they contain would,
under any other circumstances, be most important;
but as all these violent proceedings, in Congress
took place before any account of the concessions

which Great tritain was disposed to make could
reach America, it is, very likely that these
violent measures may not be persevered in. We
cannot, however, avoid stating that the conduct
of the ,inerican Government has not been such as
to justify us in being very sanguine in our expec-
tations upon this subject ; but it is one upon
which we do not think it expedient at present to
enlarge ; we shall, therefore, content ourselves
with saying, that we shall rejoice to end that we
have been mistaken in our opinion.

Tat following oftcLA Bulletn of the Dispatches,
wbich were yesterday .recelve;l fiOnt Lord WEL-
IANG-zoN, e_ppeared only in apart of our impre..sion
yote.rday, we therefore repeat. it :
WAR DEPARTM.r.T, JULY. 9, 1812.
Dispatches have been received from the tarl of
WELLINGT6:4, dated Salamanca, 18th June. .

The Allied. Army i•ros3ed the Agueda ,upon the
13th June, and arrived near Salamanca on the
16th. The enemy "showed some troops in:front,
of the town; but upon the advancing of :our ca-
Valry, they retreated across the Tormes, and eva7,
cuated Salamanta,,leaving about 800 men in some
forts constructed upon the ruin of some ,college,
and convents. • .

The Allies entered the city, but Lord -WEL..
LINGTON had `found it necessary to break ground
against the fortified posts still held by the enemy.
'the 6th division, un'er Major-General CLINTON',
was charged with the reduction of these paits,
and the batteries were expected to open against
them on the 19th.

M.tamoN-r's army was retiring to the Douro
and it was imagined he meant to take up a po-
sition behind that liver, between Tamoro ant
Toro..

In tstramadura, Major-General SLADE'S bri-
gade of cavalry (3d Pravon Guards and' Royal
Dragoons) having fallen in with two French re-
giments of dragoons, under General L'ALLEmANrI,
near Llera. charged and broke the enemy's line ;
but having pursued with Out sufficient caution or
order, a body, kept by the enemy in reserve, fell
upon the British before they could form, and re-
took nearly all the prisoners General SL kilt: had
made, killing and wounding 20 or; 30 of his dra-
goons, and taking prisoners two Lieutenants and
above one hundred men.-

P. S.—The Dispatches received at the Foreign
Office froni Mr. STUART contain intelligence from
Estramadura of a later date.
On the 13th June there was a skirmish of ca-
valry near Llerena, in which Lieutenant STRE-
ICUWITZ made prisoners 25 French dragoons and
one officer.

It appears that the forces under Marshal SOULT
and General DROVET having collected, had moved
forward to Lierena and Santa Olalla, in conse-
quence of which Sir ROWLAND BILL had called
in all his detached troops, and had assembled
the whole of his army at Albuera, where he was
joined on the 18th by four Portuguese regiments
from Baclajoz, and by the Spanish troops under
the CONDE DE PENNE VILLEMAR. General
advanced posts were at Ssiata Martha.

WINDSOR, JULY 9 —The KING is now ,consi-
dcred in a similar state to that which he was in
previous to his violent attack on Monday evening.
Yesterday afternoon the QUEEN, Prineesse ,Atr-
GITSTA, ELIZABETH, and MARY, took an airing to
Princess ELIZABETH'S Cottage, at Old Windsor,
where they walked in the pleasure ground, drank
tea, &c. and were joined by the Princesses SOPHIA
and CHARLOTTE of WALES, who had rode in the
latter's phaeton, drawn by four greys, through the
Great Park, Bishop's Gate, Englefield Green,-and
Egham, and at half past eight returned to the
Castle. TJlis morning the Princesses took their
usual airing, attended by Lord RIVERS, Lady
POULET, Generals MANNiId and GARTH, Colonel
TAYLOR, &C.

. General. PHILLIPON, late Governor of Bada-
joz, who so dishonourably bloke his parole, has,
we understand, been taken.

On Wednesday the PRINCE REGENT visited the
Duke Of CLARENCE, who is indisposed, at Bushy
Park.

Yesterday a Court of Common Council was
held at Guildhall, • which was fully. attended.—
The Lord Mayor- laid before the Court a letter
from Mr. Cooper, Solicitor to
.the Customs,. of-
fering to purchase the Gun Tavern, at Billings-
gate of the. City, for the purpose of erecting a new
Custom-house, which was read and referred to the
CoMmittee of• City Lands, to examine and report.
Mr. Remembrancer presented a Report relative to
the Bill now pending in Parliament, for erecting
Prisons in Red Cross-street, which was -read.
Also the Blackfriars Bridge Act, which was re 4
ferred to the Committee of General. PurposeS to
carry into execution. The sum of Mt. was voted -
in. aid of the funds 'of the Vaccine institution.
The Committee of City Lands reported.
,against
the making of any additional -Court in the Old
Bailey, for the trial of .prisoners charged with cri-
minal offences, which was agreed to.
Several paragraphs have appeared inthe public
prints as to the differences between Mr. KEMBL,E
and the other Proprietors of Covent-Garden Thea-
tre ; bat whatever the grounds of those differences
may he, it can hardly be considered as liberal or
jnst to atttack him while he is absent and un-
acquainted with the charges that are, brought.
against him. • '

Arabian Harses.—Pouir horses, and a young
filly, belonging to the late Mr. MANEsTY, sold on
Monday last for 15601. ; a single horse,. one of
the above number, produced the extraordinary
price of 720 guineas.
Wednesday morning, a little before one o'clock,
a hoy, lying off the Custom-house Quay, was
boarded by a gang of robbers, who seized the
Custom-house officers, bound them hands and fact,
presented a blunderbuss to them, and threatened
instant death if they made any noise or resistance;
moved the hoy off to a floating buoy, and robbed
the vessel of silk, from Italy, to the amount of
now. and had made off clear with it by half-past
one o'clock. The officers- were released by their
railing for assistance.

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Jut .1" 8.--Arrived t Triflorioui
mad of war frOM the Mediterranean, and is ander
; the iil rricz,, TIAN-NATI, from London*
Sampson, PARKER, from Gloneester4 Perseverance,
SEARLE, and the May Flower, EDWARDS, from
Vales; and the .Nepiti:2C, CORNER, from .Stm-
derland.

The. French man of war Rico of 8' guns,
from "the' Mediterranean, prize to his Majesty's
Tie.toriol“, is just (Four P.M.) arrived in
Cawsand Bay, under iviarantine.-
The Coroner's Inquest Sat yesterday on the bo-
dies' of "2,lr,"llyNt and his two infant daughters,
and, after a patient and impartial investigation of
saverai hours, they in the evening returned their
verdict, " that Mr. HYNE, at the time he per-
petrated the horrid act, was labouring under a
tit of mental 4erangement. The Jury were most
respectable, being composed of gentlemen and
merchants of this -01,1711. AIM IIYNE stated to
be in a fair way of recovery.

DOVER, JULY 9.---Paris and other Papers up to
sth instant, were received.here. to-day, but their
contents arc of little importance, were it not for
the declaration of BUONAPARTE of the circum-
.stances and sentiments which have kit to the war
With R.ussia ; they Cso contain the treaty of al-
liance entered into between the French Ruler and
the Emperor of Austria and King of Prussia.
Some very heavy firing during the whole of yes-
terday w,ts heard on the French coast at intervals.
Three French Officers, who had broken their
parole of hon Our, and who were supposed to be
'lent.-colonel JULES HUBERT, Captain P. L.
PRETOST, 'and" Lieutenant HIEUG GAUTHIER,
wore last night brought here under an escort front
Polkstone, where they were apprehended in a hay-
loft belonging to the George public-house.

When the last express left the French coast,
information had been received there, that accounts
had reached the capital, of hostilities , baween
France. and Russia having actually commenced.
As a farther proof of the good unterstanding be-
tween the British Government and that of Sweden,
a respectable house in the City hag been per-
mitted to contract with the Swedish Government
for clothing for 60,000 men.;' and we are assured,
that either a part ar the 60 whole of ,000 uniforms.
have been shipped for Sweden. .
In a Letter from Stockholm, it is 'reported that
an old performer on the prize-fighting stage of
Europe is about to make his. re-appearance—Gen.
Moreau, whoSe former intimacy and friendship
with Buonaparte are well known, it is asserted,
has been invited to Sweden by the CROWN PRINCE,
and is expected to take the command of some part
'of the Swedish Army, in the event of an actual
rupture with France. Whether this be mere
port, we leave our Readers to decide.

HAYMARKET THEATRE.—A new. Farce was re,-
presented on Wednesday night at this Theatre,
entitled The Child of Chance.. 'lt is written upon
the usual plan of modern Farces, and abounds, of
course, with extravagant anttimprobable incidents
and situations, but they are. rendered very divert-
ing by the Performers, consisting of the chief
comic strength of the company. It was some-
what roughly handled .by the audience, and
strangely so, considering that many " Farces.
still spore extravagant have been tolerated, but
was repeated last night, with some curtailments,
and received throughout with great applause.
MLINDEN, MATHEWS, JONES, TERRY, KENT, and
Mrs. GIBBS, sppported it with admirable spirit.

.T. Elul, Contractor with Governmerit for the
Sniall Lottery of 10,000 Tickets, to lie all. Drawn
on the Bth September, in grateful acknowledge-
mentto his Friends and the Public in general for
the very liberal support helAs always experienced,
begs leave to present them (in addition to the nu,
merons Capitals the Scheme contain) with Eight
Extra Benefits of-Packets-of Tickets, which (it is
a curious fact) are so arranged; that a Blank can
gain &.50,000.--Tickets and Shares are Selling at
Bisn's Offices, 4,. Cornhill, and 9,'Charing-cross
London, and by his Agents in the Country, 'there
Schemes may be had gratis, with the:Numbers of
the Tickets to be sealed' up in the Packets; and
lodged at the Bank of England.
The PRINCE REo.ENT will review the 18th Re
ginientofLight Llussars,(Marquis ofloGilEDA'S)
OD Tuesday next, on Hounsloni Heath.

The 2d 13attalion of the gallant 42d Regiment
is arrived. at Portsinouth•from the Peninsula on
on 'their way to Scotland to recruit. •

SMITHFIELD m_ARK7r, JULY 10.

. This day's Market had a short supply of the dif-
ferent kinds of Cattle ; Beef, , Mutton, Veal,
Lamb, and Pork, sold at last prices ; and the
trade for the inost part. was' somewhat flat.; the
stiles. in Abe-flay-market were. rather dull, Clover
has fallen in price,. Hay has .got up in price,
Straw obtained last price :—The following prices
and numbers are a correct statement :---
To sink the Offal, per Stone of Bib. •
Beef, 54. 4d. to 6s. 4d. Mutton, Se. 6(1. to Gs. 6d: Veal,
6s. 6d. to 7c. 6d. Lamb, 61. oa. to 7s. Bd. Pork, 54.0 d. to 6s. sd.
Beasts, .580 ; Sheep and Lamns, 6,890. Calves, Ha. Pigs,
290.

SMITHFIELD HAYMARKET.
• Hay, 41. los. to GI. Gs. Straw, 21. Ws. to al: 3s. Clover, 51.
Os. toil. ss.

. CORN EXCHANGE, JULY 8:--We have this day
some further arrivals a. Wheat, and the remain-
ing :supplies fully adequate to the demand; the
trade heavy sale, and last prices hardty maintain-
ed S the same maybe -observed in :Barley and Malt ;
fine Ware about 104 i. find 1055.,per quarter;
peas but little fluctuation; Beans of the two sorts
keep their price ; Oats arc again here in tolerable
supply, and sales thereof alsO"named at little va-
riation ; Flour at late prices:

Wheat - - 965. 138 s, 1553.
Fine ditto - 1503. IGOs.
Rye
- - - 705..
Malt - - 9:34. 100 s.
White Pekie (boil.) 788. 84s.
Grey ditto - - - 735. 78s.
Beaus - z 765. 80s.

Tick Beans - - 725. 78s.
Oats - - - - 535. 563. 535,
Poland ditto - - 595. els.
Potatue ditto - 655. 645.
Rape Seed - - - 701. 761.
Fine Flour - -115 s. ,120 s.
Seconds - - - 11113. 115 s.

E C N . S'FArl'E PAPERS.

(LAID R.210E-F: 6ONGIIZSS ON FRIDAY LAST,)

"To the Sezmie and Hcune.of IleiireBOntatives of the UPitea,

'S tat ds.

I tranniit, for the inforrmition Of Congress/
Copies of a Correspundence of the Minister Pleni-
potentiary. of Great Britain; N''rith the Secretail
of State.

June 4, 1.,!2.

JAM 3 MADIOI4'.

• ,M}l•l.'O5l.ER To MR. MpNROt.
Washington,
,May 30, 1812.
Sin,----Notwithstanding the discouraging nature
of the conversation which I. had the honour to
have with you a few days since at your Office, and
the circumstance of your continued silence, in re-
gard to two letters from me, 7furnishing additional
proof of the existence of the French Decrees;
nevertheless, there does now appear such clear
and, convincing evidence in the Report of the Duke
of Bassano, dated tilt: 10th of MarCh of the'pre
sent year, -of those;Deerees having not only never
been rescinded, but of their being recently extelid-
ed and aggravated in th:i. republication of they
contained in that inStriiiient; that I cannot but
imagine it will seen, most important to the Presi-
dent, that it should,be communicated to Congreffs
without delay, -in the .present interesting crisis of
their deliberations ; 00(1; therefore, hasten to •

fulfil the instructions of my Government, in lay-
ing before the Government of the United •States,
the enclosed.llMorilTur, of the 1611 of last March,
in which is contained that ItTort,-as it %Vas made
to the Ruler of France,. and communicated to the
Conservative Senate. . •

This Report confirms, if any thing were want:-
ing to confirm, in the most unequivocal mamn
the repeated assertions of Great Britain,-- that the
Berlin and Milan Decrees hare never. been re-
voked, however some partial and insidious re-
laxations of them, may have been made in a few
instances, as .an .encouragement to America to
adopt a system beneficial to .'France and injurious
to Great Britain, while the conditions on which
alone it has been declared, that those Decrees wilt
ever be revoked arc here explained and aniplifiel
in a manner to, leave us no hope of Baonaparte
having any. disposition to, renounce the systern 01
injustite which he has pursued, so as to Make it
possible for Great Britain to give up the defensive
measures she has been obliged to resort
need not remind you, Sir, how often it has ja
vain been urged by Great Britain, that a copy of
the instrument should be produced by which the
ReCrees of Buonaparte were said to be repealed ;
and how inneh it has been - desired that Artterice
should explicitly' state; that she did not adopt the
conditions on which: the repeal Was okiered.

It is now, manifest that there was never' more
than it conditional offer of repeal made by France.,
which we had a right to complain that America
should have asked us to recognise \as absolute, and
whiCh, if accePted in its extent by America, v,-oalrr•
only have formed fresh matter of complaint, and
a new grOund for declining her demands.
America mush feel that it is impossible for
Great Britain to rescind her Orders in Council"
whilst the French Decrees are officially declared
to. remain in force agrist all nations not sub-
scribing to the new maritime code promulgutel
in thOse Decrees, and also without something;
more explicit on the part of America, with re-
gard to her understanding as to the conditions an-
nexed by France to the repeal of these, decrees.
For, after what has passed, unless a full and satis-.
factory explanation be made on these points,'
Great Britain cannot relinquish her retaliatory
sytera against France, without implying her con-
sent to the admissibility of the conditions in ques-
tion.

Thee observations will, I am sure, appear suffi-
ciently obvious to,you, Sir, on:Perusing the en-
closed piper, .
It will be at once acknowledge:l,: that this pa-
per IN a republication of,the.Berlin. and Milan De-
crees in a mare aggravate&form, accomnani:-:.-d
it is with an extension of all the obnoxious doc-
trinet which-attend. those Decrees, intlanied by -a
declaration that Bonaparte; has . annexed to
France,eyery independent State ,in. his neighbour-
hood which had elud.etl them;. and that he. was
proceetling against all other , maritime ports *-01
Europe, On
_the pretence that his system could not
be permanent and complete, so long .as they, le—
tained theii• liberty with regard to,it. •
The.Outrageons,princ:ple here avowed connects
itself obViOusly- With• the proposition too much.
countenanced\ by America,. that continental
syStem of nuonaparte, as far as it operates to. the
confiscation or neutral property on shore, -oil the
ground of such property being British produce ut
matufaCture„ is a .there municipal regulation which.
neutral or belligerent ndtions have no right to re-
sent, because it dues not violate any. principle .01
the law of nations,

His unnecessary to recur to the various argu-
inents by which it has been shown -that this sys-
tein does uot. partake of the character of munici-
pal regulation, which neutral of belligerent na-
tions have no right to resent;hecause it does not
violate. any principle 'of the 'law of nations ;. but
that it is a inere war measure, directed with the
most hostile spirit, against Great Britain ; and ja
order to extend this system on the . principle of
municipal regulation, all the rights of independent
neutral nations are to
,be violated, their territories
to be seized without any other cause of war what-
ever, .but, that they may be incorporated with the
French nation; and thence becoming subject to.
her rights of domini4n, receive the continental
system as a municipal regulation of France, and
thus the mere 'possibility of noncompliance with
the whole of .the system is made the ground for
the occupation. or invasion, the incorporation or
extension of every State where the French arms
can reach.

Great Britain cannot believe that America win
not feel a just indignation a the full developement
of such a system, which, indeed, Buonapiate has
partially opened before, and has in the instances of
the Hanseatic towns of Portugal and other countrie4
carried into complete execution; but which he bas
never completely unfolded io all
its extent until'the present- moment.; and in what in insulting
and preposterous shape does be now attempt ta,
bring forward and promulg4te this code which he
is to force upon all nations ! He .assumes tl2
treaty of Vtrecht to be in force, and to. be a lass',

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" rnon „P. ! be•c:nie it snits '
./.,'T've-,i-wn-; at moment, ween the play
i; driven the ocean, to revive the.
(I.°"'"rine‘of " free ships rivo-,:ng f. ee goods," be
as recourse to a treaty nti longer in force, in
stich a stinuration existed—a treaty which,'
1)7 his -Own express refusal at Amiens to renew
anY of the '.ancient treaties, was not then re-
l'ived as even binding on Great Britain and
rance, betiv-tn whom ,alone, as patties- •to it,
and only while they were at peace with each
other, Could it ever have had any legaleffect ; yet
even this treaty is too -narrow a basis for his pre-
sent pretensions' since be cannot find it in his
for limiting maritime blockades to fortresses
.a.c,tually invested, besieged, and likely to be
d-l'en ; no provision of any description having
tu
eeo made in that treaty either for defining dr re-
tulattng blockaies.
Surely, at such an instant, America will not
Urge Great Britain to abandon or to soften any
Precautionary, any retaliatory rights against such
Power. The British Government not only: feels
elf imperiously bound to defend them, as they
respect Great Britain, with all vigour, belt to call
Pon every nation to 'resist such exorbitant pre-
If Great Britain, at such a moment, were to re-
-4 x heders in Council against France, would
re-
nt allr oOr
ther nati have reason to
tun common causeons was abandoned ?complain that
America must feel that Buonaparte is not act-
lig' as, indeed, he never has acted, with any
"Tiv of establishing principles of real freedom,
veth respect to navigation ; hut -is merely endea-
14ring to cloak his determination, if possible, to
just Creat Britsin, by novel demands, and re-
ted theories of maritime 'law ; and America
itie
Aui't: see that Buonaparte's object is to exclude
t 1: 4'sh entnnierce from every coast and port on
tie Continent ; and that in pursuit of this object,
ina-41131ing on the rights of independent States, he
b sithingiv proclaims his 'determination. to effect it
direct invasion of those independent States,
14),‘Ieli he insultingly terms a guarantee; thus
O'ing the most solemn and sacred terms in the
ttlv of nations synoninious with usurpation of
tifrritory
.and extinction of independence. ..Ame=
•poa must see, that as the States hitherto in his
wer have been seized on to guarantee his
.sys 7
/:111. 3.be is now proceeding- destroy whatever
teitlains of independence in other neutral States,
ti-"lake that guarantee complete. From his want
v,aP°lver to pass- the Atlantic with his armies (a
dent °f Power to which the United States are in-
Ig 'en to the naval superiority of Great Britain),
AtlisYstem of a guaranteeing force may fail as to
erica ; but as he cannot - hope to shut Ameri-
klll, Ports -against Great Britain, by occupancy
invasion, he hopes to effect his purposes by
ills.ll,a.gement and fraud, and to accomplish that by
lh.l'ions relaxation, which he cannot accomplish
n Power.. . •
Great Britain, he feels, is only to be' ruined 'by
11,:liding her from every pert in the world;- he
forges' therefor-, to shut every port in Europe by
h,,ce, and every port in America by manage-
lie pretends to conciliate Ame:ica by ap-
jsLSC her conduct, and a partial relaxation of
p, system in her favour. He accompanies the
aril -Ilse of repealing his Decrees with conditions,
trusts America will not disavow, and
which
Qhe knows tireat Britaiii-miist reject; know -
Pree4t the same time that the relaxation of his De.
to, will.be of little use to Anierica, without a
thin'e'Pontling relaxation by Great Blatain, he
tic, every obstacle against concession to Ame-
h Great. Britain, making her perseverance
to t hot er retaliatory system snore than ever essential
'er honour and-existence. And surely it will
e,
liat; 'cane the notice, or fail to excite the indig-
k4l°4 of- the 'American- Government, that the,
meanf France, 'by taking the new ground now
d, has retracted the -concession which
iq erica supnosed' hilt. to' have 'made. He has
4(4 ns,istently 'and contemptuously withdrawn
It tier the ground upolywhich she has taken
- a
,°stile attitude against Great Britain; since
4 Peal. of our Orders -in Council ; and even
Lo nationun of our rights of blockade, would
.I°i)ger saftice to, obtain a repeal of the Berlin
1.1
an Decrees.
that 414 .IVAjesty's Government cannot but hope
nierica, considering all the •extravagant pre-
set.forth by-the Ruler of France, in the
the e of Bassano's Report,' and at the same time
itii,Jesolution to 'march his armies into all States;
kittenlie ports of which the English flag is ad-
ret
will acknowledge, that this doctrine and
ttit.r
autL constitute a ',complete aimibilation of
Nat,,Y, and that- she is boimd,.'as a
.neutral
tAthens hht`' to disavow and resist them. -Every StagecluieSees in this Report must adt upon the
dered Pie, that neutral and enemy are to be consi-
tf Henceforward as- the same in the language'
l •
a French law of nations, and Great Britain
Nta tigtit to consider that every nation who re-
l'ltin,,tt° admit her- -flag upon the principle as-
-41-ie-Iqtt ' admits and recognises the doctrine of the
tvati not now trouble you, Sir, with many ob-
bth relative to the blockade of )lay 1806,
lock legality of that blockade,- assuming the
its liksa(:ing• force to have been sufficient to enforce
t witterb, not
, been questioned by you.
~"1-t (3.41 merely remark, that it was impossi.
'44 ,r,e4t Britain should receive otherwise, than
t'atti `"e utmost jealousy the unexpected de-
Intk oride by America for the repeal of the
ilr'iN4die' as well as the OrderS in Council,
ik 114 .t appeared- to be made ,subslquent to,
'llll '4 consequence' of, one of the conditions
,:}141(4-ciaparte's,pretended repeal of his'Decrees,
condition --was renouncing What he calls-
and 141ew principles-of blockade ;" that the de-
„t\v-, ;" the part of America was additional and
sufliciently proved by a reference to the
1.11). re of Air* Pinkney, as well as from the
1 •
kte AV 11Ch -Mr. Erskine had arranged the
b~nheil with America relative to the Orders iu
, In that arrangement nothing was
o)tric. forward with regard to this blockade..
Yltl, Woul
‘4o4t. , d have been contented at that time
%,4're old
reference_ to it. It certainly is not
. .
;L"(14 tll4,lt'eva.nee or, an injustice now, than it
(1.4 • Vv7liv then is the renunciation of that
atle in
y , si,tetl upon now, if it was not neces-
-4Y at,4l.‘n'4..t upon it then.? - It is difficult 'to find
%er but by reference-to.subsequent cona

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manications between France and America, and a
di4osition in Ainerica to countenance France in
requiring the 'disavowal of this blockade and the
principles upon which it rested, as the condition
sine qua non of the repeal, of ,the Berlin and Milan
Dec-ces'. It seems to have become an object with
America only, because it was prescribed as a con-
dition to France.
On this blockade, and the principles and rights
upon which' it was founded, Buonaparte appears
to rest; the justification of all his measures for
abOlishing neutrality, and for the invasion of
every State which is not ready with him to wage
-a war of extermination against the commerce of
Great Britain.
America, therefore, no doubt, 'saw the necessity
of demanding its remniciation,, but she will now
see that it. is in reality vain either Tor America or
Great. Britain to' expect an "actual repeal of ,the
French Decrees, until Great Britain renounces :
First, the basis, viz.' the blockade of 1806.; on
which Buoimparte has been pleased to found
theM ; next, the right of retaliation, as subse-
quently acted uportin the Orders in Council; fur-
ther, till she is ready to receive the Treaty .of
Utrecht, interpreted and applied by the Duke of
Bassano's Report as the universal law of nations;
and finally, till she abjures all the principles, of
maritime law which support her established rights,
now more than aver essential to her existence as a
nation.

' Great -Britain feels confident that America never
can Maintain, or ultimately sanction, such preten-
sions, and his Royal liikhness,the,Prince Regent
entertains the strongest hope that this last pro
ceeding of France will strip her measures of every
remnant of disguise, and that America, in justice
to what she owes to the law of nations and to her
own honour as a neutral State, will instantly with-
draw her countenance from the outrageous system
of the French Government, and cease 'to support
by hostile measures against British commerce the
enormous fabric of usurpation .and tyranny which
France has endeavoured to exhibit to the world as
tlae law of nations.
:America cannot now contend that the Orders

in Council exceed in spirit of retaliation what is
demanded by the Decrees; the principles, or the
usurpations of Buonaparte. The United States
Government must .at last be convinced that the
partial relaxations of ,those Decrees in favour of
America have been insidiously adopted by France
for the mere purposes of inducing her to cloSe her
ports agtinst Great Britain, which 'France 'can-
not effect herself by force, and she must admit
that if Great Britain were now to repeal her Or-
ders in Council against France, it would be gra-
tuitously allowing to France the commerce of
Anierica and all the benefits derivable from her
flag as an additional instrument for the annoy-
ance of Great Britain, and that at a moment when
every State is threatened with destruction or really
destroyed for merely supporting their own right
to trade with Great Britain.

I am commanded, Sir, to express, on the part
of his -Royal Highness the Prince Regent, that
while his Royal Highness entertains the most sin-
cere desire to conciliate AmeriCa, he yet can never
concede that the blockade of May 1806 could
justly be made the foundation, as it avowedly has
been, for thßD•wrees of Buoneparte 5 and farther
that the British Government must ever consider
the 'principles on which that blockdde rested (ac-
companied as it •was, by an adequate blockading
force) to have been strictly consonant to the es-
tablished law of nations, and a legitimate instance
of theractice which it recognises.
Secondly, That Great Britain must continue to
reject the other spurious doctrines promulgated
by France in the Duke of -Bassin-10's iteport, as
binding upon all nations. She cannot admit, as
a true declaration of public law, that free ships
make free goods, nor the converse of that pro-
position, that enemy's ships destroy the character
of neutral property in-the cargo--she cannot con-
sent •by the adoption of such a principle to deliver
absolutely the commerce of France from the pres-
sure of the naval power of Great Britain, and by .
-the abuse of the neutral flag to allow her enemy
to obtain, without the expense of sustaining a
navy', for the trade and property. of French •snh-
jects a degree of freedom age security which-even
the'commerce of her own. subjects cannot find
under the protection of the British.navy.
She cannot admit as a prinejpie of public law,
that a maritime blockade can alone be legally ap •
plied to fortresseS actually invested by land, as
well as by sea, which is the plain meaning or con
sequence of the Duke of BaSSO-I,lO'S definition.
She cannot admit as a Principle of public 'law,
that arms and military stores are alone contra=
band of war, and that shin timber and naval stores
are excluded from that description. Neither can
she admit without retaliation that the mere fact of
commercial intercourse with British ports and sub-
jects should be made a crime in all nationsi and
that the Armies and DecreeS of France should he

directed to enforce. a principle so new and un-
heard of in war.

Great Britain feels that to relinquish, her just
measures of self-defetce and'retaliation, would be

to surrender the best means of her own preserva-
tion and rights, and with them the rights of other
nations, so long asTranee maintains and acts upon
such principles.
I am commanded ti) represent to the Govern-
ment of America, that'Great Britain feelS herself
entitled to erect from them an unreserved and
candid disclaimer of the .rights. of
.France to im-.
pose on her and on the world the maritime Code..
which ?;,as been thus promulgated,
.and to the pe7
of which America is herself declared, to be
liable if she fails to sub.mit herself to its exac-
tions : America cannot., for her own character,
any longer temporise on this subject, or delay
coming to a distinct eiplanation with Yrance as
well as with. Great Britain, if she wishes,to clear,

herself from the imputation oi being an abettor
of such injustice.

_
, America, as the case now stands ~.has not a re-
.
tence for claiming kqin Great Britain a repeal of
her Orders in Council. She must 'recollect that
. _ _

the British Government never for a moment coun-

tenaneed the idea that the repeal of those Orders
could depend upon any partial or additional repeal
of the Decrees of France. What she always
avowed was, her readiness ta rescind her th.::ders

- -
in Council, as soon as France rescinded absolutely
and unconditionally her Decrees. She, could not

entsr, into any, other eugagenicnt without the
injustice to her allies as E eil as the PCII-
- nations in general, Much less could she do so,
if any Spec,ial. exception was to be granted by
Frieenpon conditioir utterly subversive Of the
irliportant and hidisputable maritiine rights
of the
,British -Empire. ,
- America has.now,a proceeding forced upon her
by-t7riiUcc, on which, witl.:out surrendering Aliy'
of principles which she may deem it nerds.:
-sary for her Own honour and security to maintain,
she may separate herself fret 7.1 theo violence and in-
justice of the energy. She we 3 not only to her-
self W 'do so ; but she is entitled to resent that
-course of conduct on the part of France, which is
the only impediment to her obtaining what "she
desires at the hamls of Great Britain, namely, the
repeal of the Orders in Council. •
I am authorized to renew to the American Go-
vernment the assurance of his .oval Highness's
anxious desire to meet the wishes Of AmeriCa
on this point, whenever the conduct of the enemy
will kiatify'him in so doing.
Whilst America can nersuade her3df, however
erroneously, that the Berlin and Milan Decrees
had been actually and totally repealed aad that
the 'execution of the engagement made on that
condition by the British ,G4vernrnent had been de-
dined, she might-tit:Tin' it justifiable, as a conse-
gnence of such a persuasion; to treat the interest
and commerce of 'France with preference a'nd'
friendship, and those of Great Britain with hosti-,
lity; but this delusion. is at end ; America now
finds the French Decrees not only in full force,
but pointed with augmented hostility against •
Great Britain. . Will the Government of the
United States declare, that the measure now
take by France is that repeal of the obnoxious
Decrees, which America expected would lead to
the repeal of the British Orders in Council ?
Will the American Government, unless upOn the
principle of denying. our retniiatory right of
,blfiekade, -oder arty imaginable enzumstances de-
clare, that--tbere is at this moment, a. ,grouN up-
on which the repeal of our Orders, in conn-cil can
be pressed upon us; or, that the 'repeal should.._.
now be warranted upon any other ground than
au express abdication of the right. itself, which
America well knows, whatever may be oar desire
.to conciliate, is a concession which the British
Government ,cannot and will, not make.

If this be true, for what purpose can she perse-1
vcre in her hostile attitude towards Great Britain,
and her friendly one towards France ? Do the
American Government Teally wish to aid France
in her attempt to subjugate Great Bvitain ? Does.
America expect that. Great Britain, contending
against France, will, at the instance of America,
disarm herself, and submit to the • mercy of the
opponent ? If both these questions. are answer-..
edn the negative, upon what ground can she for
a moment longer continue the hostile measures
against us ? The American Non-Intercourse Act
was framed upon the express principle of conti-
nuing in force against the Po-a-er, whether France
or Great Britain, that should refuse to repeal its
respective laws, of Which America thought her-
self entitled to complain ;_ but the repeal contera-
. plated by that act was a bona fide repeal, and not
a repeal upon au inadmissible condition an!
America can never be justified in continuing t,
reSentagainst, us that failure of relief, which :4
alone attributed to • the insidious: policy of the
cnemy,'that has, for the purpose of embarrassing.
the discussions, interwoven the.. question of the
Decrees, with thc exaction of. a relinquishment
of almost the whole 'systein of ctur•Maritiine
It is not for the British Governirrentto. dictate
to that of America what ought to be the "measure
of her just indignation against the Ruler of France,
forliaving originated and persevered in a system
of lawless violence, to the subversion of neutral
rights, which being necessarily retaliated by Great
Britain, has exposed America, with other neu-
tral StateS, to losses which the British Govern-
ment has never ceased most sincerely to deplbrea
Auierica must judge for herself, how much the
original injostice. of France tocia.-..rds her has been
aggravated: by the fraudulent professions of relin-.
qutshing her Decrees, by the step adopted to
mislead America, in order to embark her in niea-
snres which, we trust, akie hexer vra,uldha7c taken
if she could have foreseen what has now happen-
ed a and ultimately,' by threatening America with
Iter'vengeance as a denationalised State,- if she-
does not submit to be: the instrument of her designs •
against Great Britain.
' These are considerations *for Am'eric'a to weigh ;
but what we are entitled to claim at her hands as
an act, not less of policy than justice, is that
she should cease to treat Great Britain as an ene-
my. The Prince Regent_ does not desire retro-
specting, when.the interests of two countries •so
naturally 'connected by ininnerable ties are con-
cerned. It is more consonant to_ his Royal High-
ness's sentiments to contribute to the restoration

of har ninny and friendly intercourse, than to in-
quire why it has been interrupted. Feeling that
nothing has been' omitted on his part to relieve
America from the inconveniences to which a novel

system of warfare on the part of France unfortu-
nately continues to expose her ; and that the pre-
sent unfriendly relations, which to their inc:
that prejudice -snbsist between the. two countries,
have grown out .of a misconception the part of
America both of the conduct and purpose of
France : his Royal Highness considers himself
entitled to call upon America to resume her rela-'
tions of amity With Great Britain., 111.4r-sing so
.she will best provide for the interest of her own
people ; and 1 am authorised to assure the Ame-
rican Goyernment, that although his Royal High-
ness, acting in the name and on ,the behalf of his
111ajesty, can never suffer the fundamental maxims
of the British Monarchy, in matters of mal'itime
right, as consonant to the recognized law-of na-
tions, to be prejudiced in his haas, his Royal
Highness will be ready at all Imes to concert with
America, as to their exercise; and so as to regu-
late their application, and to combine, as far as
maY be, the interests of America with the .objects
,of effectually retaliating upon France the measures
of her own injustice.
I will now terminate this letter by assuring
you, Sir, as I can with perfect truth-, that the
most cordial and sincere desire animates the Conn-

eils of Great Britain to conciliate America, as far
as ,may be consistent 17ith the -principles of on.
which the preservation of the power and inde-

pencletice of the British itlcnarchy, is held essen-
tially to depend, and which cannot be abandoned
without throwing her helpless and disarmed-into
the presence of her adversail.
I h^ re the honour to be,
(Slped) At:G. J. F;;57`2.11.
James Munroe, Secretary of -State.

[Here follows a translation of tiv: Tteort of
the 2ilinister of Foreign Relations to the Con-
servative Senate, in the sittinff of the 10th of
March, 181a.]

1,401,T1t0Z TO MR. FOSTER

11.,,:partment of State, Jun 33; 1131 Q.
the letter of May 20til; which I had the
honour to receive from you of the Ist instant, I
perceive a difference in a particular passage 6f it
from a passage an the slme subject, in tEe dis-
patch from Lord Castlereagh to you, whicl: yot
were so good as to communicate to me entire, as
appi2lirs from the tenor bf the letter to have been
intended by your Government. The passage in
your letter to which I allude is as follows :
" AMerica, as the case now stands, has not
a pretence for claiming- from Great Britain a re-
peal of her Orders in Council. She must recollect that
the British Government Sever for a moment coun-
tenanced the idea that the repeal of thOse Orders
could depend.tipon any partial-or co.ialitional re-
peal
of the Decrees of France. Wilat she als.,,ays
avowed Was her readiness to rescind her Orders
in Council as icon as France rescinded abso-
lutely and, unconditionally her Decrees. She could
not enter into any other engagement without the
grossest injustice to her allies as well as neutral
nations in general much less coz.ld she do so if
any special exception W:t.3 to be granted by France
upon -conditions utterly subversive to the most
important and indisputable maritime rights of the:
British empire."

According to the tenor of the ditinatch of Lord
Castiereag-h to you, my recolicc-Con is, that ia
stating the condition on which the Orders in
Council were to be repealed, in relation to the
United States, it vas f:pecified, that the Decrees
141...Ferlin<lad 114.1ilan must be repealed singly and
speLdly in rrin.tiOn to the United States, but
repetled, also as to all cth.er neutral nations, and
that in no extent. of a, repeal of the Decrees,
had Government ewr.pLetlztd'itself.to
repeal tue Orders in Council.

However susceptible the passage in your letter
may be of a construction re6oneilable with the
import of the dispach from Lord Castlereagh, yet '
as at similar phraseology of our Government on
other occasions has had corstrriction less exten-
sive, and as it is inmortant, in every respect, that
there should be no miSunderstandinfk, or possi-
bility of error, you will excuse me for re.questiug
that you' will hava..th.e goodness to infform me
whether, in any circumstane, my recollection
the import of this passage in Lord- Castlereagh's '-
dispatch is inaccurate. •
1 have the honour to .be, &c. -
(Sighed) JAXES -IqONBO2.