The Sun.
London, England, 1811-08-12 00:00:00

Wll-4 this respeA was the Pritlst; order nt the
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7th Jatinart• ;..1 81)7 ? -the 31st of December pre.
~ittig, our ii-goeint.Ori there were told that some
such ine"Olidel'innsPlithe'place it the United 'States'
tild'hot oppose':the unpin Decree.' Seven dlys.af-
t,,r, out cane the order,. forbidding to our,vess+els
the trade from one port 'ef Europe to another,. tints
r,:tr.Apetttvely rand' Insidiously, as will as contrary
to our neutral right's, inakiiig prey of all vessels then
our! .etr tttgo out before anowledge of the order could
crop; the Atlantic.
1.1'14,4 this proceeding, it is well known that
great numbers were- seized and sent into'.l3ritish
ports. It is true, that before-they were to be liable
to condemnation, a warning ;rider the Ors'er was to
be given j bin in many cases a return home was
equivalent to at total Liss, and in. all Cases the -great'
though partial loss, was the' etfett of the retroattive
and ensnaring, measure.,
Notwithstanding these extensive depredationi of
Great Britain, aggrtivated convideratiott that
they were thus retroipetliye inictimsnarteg, the ar..
rangement with „the British Minister Erskine, was
made without even bringinKtliem into the negneii:
tion tot the' repeat ofthe Orders' in Council, much
less making indemnity, for >then, a. pre-requiste,
which the law would nett in tad hake authreized.
lit the late arrangement for the re; cal ot. the
French- DeeteeS, indemnity fOr the retrospe6liVe
and
,In4idiouS- Nis:illations in France .wes'not- therefore
made a-Conditioti ; itwas no more than ,what ~both
law and impartiality requwed. In bringing the sub-
'jeCi into the negociatiOnoind pressing it in -the
mariner;' . have seerf:. it thine, the exec 'g
the strongela•pOncitof: zeal and exertion for
rights of Illy:nation and the ieteresus of the itier-
'chants ; and to make it a charge that more was not
done, More ev'en than the law justified, is as abiurd
as it is unjust.
.;In,lboking carefully over.the extracts of the two
letters of June 5 Iftid July 5, to General Artn,trOng
(which we should take .for granted were v, titter' by'
the Secrets*, hirrtielt if Mr. Smith' had not been
Secretary), , we perceive a struggle betwpen an
anxiety idex,tort from tne occasion an indemnity
t6i past yyrOngi.and a
,security agaiffs ttituTertYnik,
and irtetkt•tbr the lawea well to for the stiles of,
imPartialitylow.ards the two belligerents. • '
:MN Smith hose net given us the sequel of these
two-instructions to 'General Arnistynitg. .We may
irdppos'e, therefore, esfreially .troin this dattrof
latter, ‘x.inieli tviiceur: roost positive, in its .laiipage,
that ' they were not reek:wed. tri Atine to be used be-
fore the declaration of the repeal ol tie i'renCh
crees was model)), the Duke of, Cadore viii 'mite s`fh
of August... That deelaratton was endtrsioOd--ne
General -Armstrong, and by our executive, to'bo a.
compliance with the conditioni' of the ad of
rind.hitittig as an arrangenient on both Sides
and was it.to be set aside bectiese it did not provide
for the case of those retrospective ?
,To
havedone so would have contravened the law and
~44poliey,of Congress, wound set up' a rule in
tit arrangeinent wadi' France different from What
been Observed in ,the arrangetnent with Eng-
'land ; and it would hove led to the einbarrasSment
of obliging the exe.utive, in case tie British
fiiq)old be.desoroos et-opeMng,rtiree trade
with the United States. b}. rcpealing its orders,: to
tusks it a pre-reqUishe that 'Pica Bi'ttain,--idso should
.itidetnnify ter her tetinspedive spoliation*.
Mtich credit is claimed "lot the letter of Jet.e,
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to t b„.to • General -Armstrong, , prepared• by
Mr, 'Smith, but rejiictW by the- President, and re-
placed by a-, substitute dictated by: hims. it, *I, tits
belielVed.,tiot been.
swritiett by Mr.
South f, tint` it is; neverfireless, entitled to the
praise of being µell written, as a caliii aigutrietea7
tics communication. There are, however, 'particu-
lar passages -.and eqrea'Sliins. Which
siti4, help,to ac-
count ferns ,unfavt,urabla reception by Mr. Matti.
Ron. . 'rake' for extimpi • the folio-wi..g ' clad
France interdicted to our vessels alt the ports within
the sphere of her ihtfuence, and had' she given a
warning of equal durtdion with that 'given" by our
law,' there wnutd linveheen no cause of colnplaint
on the part of the United States." What no cause
of coniplann "rile United States, it ii.frue, could
not eottiplido of it as a violation of their neatral
rights and national sovereignty; obnoxious to the
resentment . of she ether belligerent k,but would it
be consistent, with friendship, with.'hoerality, -with
reciprocity; 'with the spirit of 'coalmen intercourse,
among
,Oompate this concession of 'Mr: Smith with
his-
letter to Gtineritl,Turreay, (equally prepared by this
wondertul statesman), in which stint' an -eitchision
of Our trade i s coin plitti ad of as essentially unfriendly,
as; eqblvalent even ty the two noaritimedecrees, and,
io4o.t.stittited.for them, ',as being " change of the
mode only, and not of the measure." And "ft is to
euttd, that all. the obieryationi in this let ter.were
required by the knit paragraph to be preseutedlekbe
'fetich Government.

But thelsest explanation -of nonfadoption of this
lei ter by the President, 1, its deficiency in the expres-
,ion of that "sensibility to the insults and injuries"
w Which it,telates,,iand which Mr. - &HMI . Asp; he
ter k, whenever it suits h'is..Purptiso-to insittua. !alba.
the Preiideht does not feel it. The letter substitutes
prolix argument for-tonlense andAligniAed animad-
version. The 'reader:host ter:oNa, too, ti,3l this
leiter was to folititv,the one that had just been pre
se ted the Fre nal -Government, by General rm -
strong, On the same'Subjea. It was of a.eharacter
to ihv spirit xit ins stridurtts whereas the
subititUte, diretted 'by the Pretridept, .adopted
the letter of Armstrong, and, :postponed farther
animadversions fill tarrber intelligence, daily :ex..
pe::,ted; login aid' in adapting them to the atc.tual.
'state tit things.
The last remark of Mr. Smith on this head; it too

frivolotts for .grave debate : it. is, that the Prv,ittont's
sunitituted pat graph was inteoded for .Mr.
stfo, g hill,sell; We all know, at Wait all ot th
that Ate in the habit of readit* printed docornent.,
brat this is the usuill nottrse.ll'he goVetnritetieribts
its 0,.v it sentiments into the hands of ifs thinisfer,
and leaves to, Lis diieretiott 'the Matt= ti,e
occasion proper for using them..
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[rhos much only do the Ametlean papers, yei
receive a, contain; 4m:tug gone through doily
the twcive divisions in MA, Sinhlia, pamphlet.l

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