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LONDON:
MONDAY, JANUARY 10, 1842.

The strong language used by Mr. STEVENSON,
which we quoted on Saturday, and the almost
equally strong language of the American PRE-
SIDENT'S Message, preclude the possibility of
supposing that the United States will submit to
our clai.o of visiting their vessels. At the same
time, the language used by Lord PALMER-
STON, and adhered to in substance by Lord
ABERDEEN in his letter to Mr. STEVENSON, pre-
cludes the possibility of supposing that England
can, without dishonour, recede from her claim
to examine any American vessels, which her
naval officers may deem liable to suspicion. Lord
ABERDEEN said—

" It has been the invariable practice of the British
navy, and, as the undersigned believes, of all the navies in
the world, to ascertain by visit the realnationality of mer-
chant vessels met with on the high seas, if there be good
reason to apprehend their illegal character. In certain la-
titudes, and for a particular object, the vessels are vi-
sited not as American, but either as British vessels
engaged in an unlawful traffic, and carrying the flag of
the United States for a criminal purjose, or as be-
longing to States which have by treaties conceded
to
Great Britain the right of search, and which right it
is attempted to defeat by fraudulently bearing the flag
of the Union; or, finally, they are visited as piratical
outlaws, possessing no claim to any flag or nationality
whatever.

The Noble Lord then proceeds to discuss the
possibility of Mr. STEVENSON maintaining that
England ought to allow her own subjects, or the
subjects of other States with which she has con-
cluded treaties to defeat her laws, and asserts,
that " unless Mr. STEVENSON can maintain
these propositions the whole fabric of his
argument falls to the ground." England,
therefore, is resolved- to maintain, as the
Times positively asserts, the right of visiting
every ship showing American colours, in certain
latitudes, which the officers of her MAJESTY'S
ships may regard with suspicion, and of making
the captain of that ship prove her nationality,
and prove that she is navigated according to the
laws of the United States. The United States
is equally resolved to resist the exercise of that
right, and the conflicting views of the statesmen
of the two countries threaten such serious con-
sequences that we must again revert to the

subject.
This question involves a war between the two
countries, by which the industrious people ahine,
as is well known, suffer, and of which they pay
ail the penalties. Statesmen and military ►nen
who urge it on, and naval captains who implicate
the country by their intemperate zeal, '110..)' gain
honour and glory by conducting it or carrying it
on; and they never have such strong motives as
the industrious classes for avoiding the cala-
mities of war. The people, then, must exa-
mine this question, and must express all op►ci►on
whether or not they will sanction a war with the

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