Star.
London, England, 1812-01-04 00:00:00

olde parties ;a4neivlicether true or 1,
no Around of justification; s
,United States thus unexpectedly and violt...
14 the two greatest Powers in Europe, wits,
their citizens and property. from the ocean pm",
cherishing the blessings of peace, although tint.
Justified •• would have fully war, sought len
la in appeal to the justice and snaglianimiOut
' nts.. When this appeal had failed of
which was dpe to its moderation, other mash,
founded on the same pacific policy, but apply
to the interests, ;netted of the justice of the MS.
were resorted to. Stich was the character
the
sew-intercourse and net lii sse
• invited the return of both Powers to their'
' ewe of amicable relations, by offering tom
ad adrantages to the bne who shorild fret revobik
4bostile edicts, and imposing restrictions On thi 1
Rance, it length; availing herself of the *Seri 1
_ equally to her and her enemy, by the Non.inis
• tion Law of May, 1810, announcing the reptaw.
Ilse first of the, following November, of theDecreoe
• glrlin and Milan : and it affords a subject of zi.,
fs
Nietoogratulation to be informed, through the offio
ilia stens of the Government, that those Decree,
fais polar at legit as our rights are concerned, reellt
alijeactically at an old.
At was Confidently expected, that. this act on the
hbf France; would have been immediateltfol;
ied by a revocation on the part of Great Britain-
of lb' Weis in Council. lf our reliance oft her
jbody had
,bean iihpaired by the wr.-ingS she had in.
; yet When the had 'plighted her faith to the
,odd, that the sole motive of her aggfession on nese
seal commerce was to be found in 'the Berlin and
wan Decrees, We looked forivard to the extinction
'lithos, Decrees as the period when the freedorit of
the seas would be again restored. .. ,
In this reasonable expectition we have, howeverb ,
I:cdisappointed. A year has elafsed since the '
Decrees were rescinded ; and yet Great Bri-
lehh instead of retracting /sari farm that cotirte etf ;
*c-slerjastifiable attack on neutral rights, in which shitl
1 retested to be only the reluctant follower of France,
, [ , len advanced with boldei and continually increasing
'glide% To, the categorical demands lately made by
4se Government for the repeal of tier Orders in ,
=ill, she has affected to deny the practical er-
a the French Decrees ; and she has, more-
/m, advanced a new and unexpected demand, in-
' in hostility the Orders themselves., She has
, through her accredited Minister at this place,
•Moshe repeal- of the Orders in CoUnCil Must be pre.
....notonly by the practical abandonment of the
'Dam of Berlin and Milan, so far as they infringe
thannond" rights of the United States; but by the
etiesi on the part of France, of the whole of
brislings of commercial ritarfare against Great Bfl.
Woof which those Dcereei original!, fanned a p!irtl '1
T. listen Is understood to ton Fist in a course of
mom adopted by France and the other poweri
eat the Continent subject to or in alliance with her,
dealsted to prevent the introduction into their terriz
twin tithe products and manufactures of Great
iltilia' tnd gee colonies, and to annihilate her trade
OM them. However hostile these reibldtions•thay
by en the part of France towafds Great Britain, or
beriever sensibly the latter may feel their effects; hey
, *iite,leverthelesi? tai be regarded iiMy as the exp-ks
eats of Oise enemy against anottiet 1 for which the
United States, es a neutral power, can in no respect
be reagrle they are, too, in enact conformity
with which Gitat Britain has herself adopted
and acted Ppm in time of peace as well as war; and
it is not to be prestuned that France would, yield to
the unauthorised demand of America what she seems
I , to have considered as ate of ttse most powerful en-
.gities of the present war.
•
,Soeh aye the pretensions upon whicis Great Britain
*ands 01€ violation of the maritime rights of the
linked States—pretensions not theoretical merely„
but followed up by a :desolating war ttpOif Our un-
:: er
ted corn e ships of
soil United
and State,
LT
with the products of our
ur
.navigated tiy Our own citizens, and peaceably phi:
. suing a lawful trade, are seized on our own enamel
at the very mouths of our haibours, condemned are
1 coehscated:
. four Committee are not, however, of that Mot'
. , worship is at the shrine of a caletdating avaritef
while we are laying befori Tat the just ecitis.
1141 M of our merchants against the plunder of their
3‘;;11 and Cirgoesi we cannot refrain front mimic/flit
tto the justice tad, humanity of our country, the un.il
'hap') Case of our impressed seamen. Ahhough the
sof they victims of barbarity for' the loss of
atshould he dearer td the Americans than life,
:n
liberty—although the tries of their' wives and
Children, in the privation of protectors and parents,
bares of late, been drowned fn the louder clamosni
it the toss of property : yet is thu practice' of torch*
. ter niarfners into the British naly, in violation of this
si of Ca l
severity;
outi flag, carried on with unabated ett
It it be duty to encourage fhe lite
._,.,
. Fern:nate commerce. of this country, by sicced.
rag the property of the merchant;indeed; *
team% as We and liberty ere.ove estimable rhan
tips and 'beds, so much More intpressive is the duty
to.shield the persons 'of oui Seamen; whose bard omit
k• • Rest services are employed, equally with those of
tint merchants, in advancing, under the Mantle of 14s
fairs? the interests' of their country.
lie AM up, in a Word, the great causes of( coin.
'plaint agafitst Great Britain, your Committee need
say—that the United
cien Statetisihats
eac.;stbiseee rtiegon strnd
.lendeili die
is the tonntion and actnowledged highway 6f
lotions, for the pUrposes of transporting, in their own
vessels, the pio&ltts Of their own soil, and the acquit..
Moos of their industry, to a market in toss ports of
friendly nations; and to brit* home. in return, such'
''erodes as Weir rieCessities or convenience may re.
• cble . , always regarding the rights of belligerents, as
ciellnisd by the established laws of nations. Giest
m • of - caps

• amt defiance . this inconftstible fight,
fora eArt Attitiicatt *mei boind to; or returning
Trail, a post where ber commerce is not favoured f
.enarrei 06 seamen; and, in, siiitc' of our reMQn-
litrances, pekieiereiA thee* aggriXl6ll-
- sn daring in Character, and so disßer-
fa
their execution, it is inspossiblp that the to
le the Ifti:esmi rwmmin