The Sun.
London, England, 1810-10-31 00:00:00

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Bon'ON, SEPT. 27.
The letter from the Duke de Cadore to General
Armstreog, s.tating.the repeal of the Decrees of Ber-
lin and Woe, highly important as it must be con
sidereal 'in a national view, must be contemplated
and weighed with great deliberation, as to its pro-
bable ultimate consequences.
' The first ides which strikes the reader upon a pe-
rusal of thiS' unexpeated determination of Napo-
'leon's is, that there appears 'no ostensible reason
for his 'cOrithia. It is evident the act of Congress
of the Ist ofMay, which,opens• the ports of Arne-
( rica to French
.Cotunierce, is emeielv a pretence ;
for the ports of Arnerca were perfeotly free to
France; 'at the time the Decrees wereenatied. But
if this particular a& of Congress had been. the true
reason .for the repeal, why . did not -Napoleon
proleioly and 'Without delay, aa upon the informa-
tion ? Why, truly, because lie was not " officially
notified" of the act. This want offfi ocial notifica-
: tioa; however, as to the ad ct the.ist of March, re-
moving the embargo, did not prevent
.him from en-
aCting the sequestration and
,sale of :American pro--
perty. in his dominions„in whatever place it could
be seized. No, •he claims such reprisals as matter
of right, andcommand, dbx his dignity. In seek-
, ing then for .tl'e ostensible, motives which have in-
auced him thus to repeal
.his decrees,; we need not
go hirther than the condemnation and sale of Ame-
rican property.
Napoleoe is-in great distress for funds to prose-
: cote the war in Spoin,,,and,pay his other expellees;
lie has seized thirty millions of American property,
its a right i,respeCting which the Puke of Cadore
remarks,. " it ,was. impossible to .make any compro-
mise," and also.thatet was the necessary result of
the eort-intercourse aCt of Congress. The conse-
quences 'of Ois.seizure are :too favourable to his
wants and resool:cee to induce him to relinquish the
money; but he is very 'willing to. grant the repeal
of his Berliti.and Milan decrees, as a salVo, for this
grievance, an uncrion, fur the
,w,0,u.0d..r.-he, has
itr-
'flicted upon our national hgnour iii the tirst iostance,
end upon our commercial prosperity in the second.
Great Britain, undoubtedly, .0 we may believe Mr.
Canning's correspondence with
.Mr. Pinckney, will
repeal her orders in .Council, which were the cot,-
sequences .of
,the,Frencli Decrees.; but here some
rnoolentous questions occur, narnely, " What Con-
6:leuce is to be placed in the pretiii,es of Yapeteion?
end what materials fOr further pieieneei and future
seizures ef ' property are contained in this very AO,
of -Repeal ?" Napoleon's preinises, in;eirity, and
justice, are mere tupio.pf thi-niizthout the
'World, and his ol.vn doiiiieiees in particular; hN
wilt no longer be restrained,' than it is his interest to
- with-hold she grasp, which
,is to, wreak still .geeater
venge mce open our wealth. He Will net want
plausible reasons for his con4e6l ; he can readily
discover them in this very ei:.4 of repeal._ He.de-
.dares to General Armstrong, that from the i,t of
NOi,ember next, the, Decrees of Berlin and Milan,
" will cewe to be in fOrce." So tar ail is well, but •
here comes the diffkurty ; " it being undersfc;d,"
(mark it well) " that in consetineoe.e of this
ration, the English shall revoke their Oiders in
Cemetc.l, and renounce the dew, principles' of
bloclorde, which they base attempted to esta-
blish." '

The first point involves no difficulty ; but what
are these new principles, which the, English have
attempted to establish ? Those upon which Napo-.
!eon founded the Decrees in question, in the pream-,
bie to ttiat Of Berlin, viz. the blo'ckade of a length
of coast, which Great Britain only a few months.
ago, to Mr. Pinckney, offiCially refused' to resign.
A here are no other principles respe&ing blockade,:
that we recoiled,' of which the French Government
have ever made any Complaint. If this is the doc-
trine on the relinquish;nent of which Napoleon
founds the revocation of his .13.!crtes; it- is clear his
revocation will become a nullity, since it requires of
Great Britain an eradication of the root, from which
the decrees originally sprang. What, will be the.
consequenCe which France will pretend .to draw
from a refusal of Great Britain to make this conces-
sion We find it in the fillowing idea of Cham-:
pagiiy, that the " Unite d States shall, conformably.
. to the act of May t, cause their rights to be respect-:
eq by, the,F,Liglish." In other words, the United!
States have pledged themselves to go to war with.
Great Britain. ...
But however Napoleon may flatter himself ,that.
he hascaught us in hiS snare of diplomacy, it is for-.
tonate'tlit the United StateS have in reality given
no such prdge. They will' festoie the system of
Non-inteiconise tvirh the, nation refusing to rescind.
her edits ; hut Napoleop the (Inference be-
tween. a,•:tu.ll war and a state of
'nomrintercourse is
_too. broad and apparent, ever to be suffered by
.the
Americans to be involved wider one and the same
meaning. That such as 'we have suggested may
be his hostile desigE4 wii li regard to. America, is -
apparent, we imagine, from an attentive contempla;
to Of this important letter ; %hid involves no
less Own the commercial prosperity, honour, and
dignity of AtneriCa, the primary interests of Great
Britain, and *the justice and integrity of th. French .
.Empercir,

MIDDLESEX SESSIO S.

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CLunicsNA r.LL, OCT. 30.
THfttATLNING aTTER.

James Teddeit was put to the. Bar upott,,a charge
of having sent to a (.3entlearran of the name of
Simon, a letter, the purport of which was to'extort
money frtili tiitu, ouster the threat of accusing him
ith. unnain ;!). propensities; unless, he should ad-
vance, t 4 file**Ntri her 'of the said letter (the prisoner)
a sum of money- to the amount of 5001.
The prosecutor who is a'ittost respectable Gentle-
man, 'and who retired frdni- business some years
a;o With a splendid fortune, having been an Aineri-
, C2lll merchant, residentln, Lc-111;ton upwards of forty
yeiri, and is-now SeOClity-seven years old, came for-