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ment was eolispelled to issue the Decree of the 4th ' of refusing to listen to the voice of justice, rse asaiii
of August, 1811. A certain number of French snake it plead on your behalf. The treaty of Utrecht
prisoners in England have since followed the exam- against which you have contended, is now your so
n!
pie that was set them, and our Government did guard. You have at length
not think proper punish them, having observed i taken one retrograde step,
you have revoked the orders of 1807 and 9, but the
to
that the British Government had done nothing of iu thandeep-thinkingyoanyother men,
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who in,
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64 As to the Baylen prisoners' they ainiamstory_lbs
from a detention contrary to
the kind.
only escaped ! will remark that the Orders in Council havechangni
all the laws of war, ' the aspect of the world, that it would have butt
and those who had been taken in Spain only acted ' much better for you to have lost a great number of
in the same manner, as a much more considerable I battles, and a large proportion of your colonies, thas
number of Spanish prisoners had done in France.-- , to have published the Orders in Council, which have
There is a very simple method of putting an end ; produced the union of Holland and the Han •
to those disagreeable discussions, that is, to have I Towns, the great changes which have taken place in
recourse to a mutual exchange of those persons who Europe and the Continental system.
have escaped, man for man. When such an ex-1 46 Yet you now revoke your Orders in Coupe),
change shall have been carried into effect, France , they no longer form a part of your laws—.and the
will have still a right to demand many English; Continental system remains immoveable—ign
or
prisoners. Of this circumstance Lord Castlereagh ias you • are of the situation of Continental affairs...
affects to be ignorant, and the English Gowan- I You have mistaken times.
ment, not chusing to admit the fact, will not adopt 1 64 The Orders in Council would have served yoet
se easy a method of remedying conduct so dis- in 1785, they would have produced you immense ad.
honourable. e.
i vantages without much inconvenience
You might
4C For a similar reason, they will not reply to the ' have, with impunity, held the language of the wolf
proposal which has been made them, to adopt mutual In the fable, but at present the most suitiblz lan.
measures to prevent its recurrence. They were well guage you can use is that of justice. If you act upcn
aware that a distinction would lee made between the principles adapted to the interests of the most power,
prisoners of the Baylen capitulation and the others ful, you only accelerate your ruin, and promote the
who had escaped. ; prosperity of your enemies.
gg But why should not all those questions be con- " Justice requires that you should return to the
eluded by a return at once to good faith, and by a principles which regulated the ciadoctof neutrals with
consent to a general and simultaneous exchange, as respect to belligerent powers, at the close .of the last
`Stbove•mentioned ? I century ; and at the beginning of the prtsent war.
gg If England really wishes for an exchange, let I gg Your, interest enjoins it, the season when unjust
her consent to a cartel on this basis. Let a Member : and arbitrary measures might have been useful to yea
of the Commons sign it for France, and it will be , has passed never to return."
ratified, or let a Minister declare to Parliament, that' FROM TIIE JOURNAL DE PAM&

he adopts the principles here laid dovrn, And a French
Commissary will immediately pmceed to Dover to
carry it into effect."—( /11cruieur, ilugust 1).
NOTE IN THE GAZETTE DE FRANCE, Or THE FIRST
INST. ON EXTRACTS FROST EN GLISII NEWSPAPIIIIE
RELATING TO lit e REVOCATION OF THE ORDRES
IN COUNCIL
64 Here, indeed, we have a revocation of the
Order of 1807 and 1809, from the Ist of .1111 y, but
the Orders of 1806 have not been revoked, that is
to say, the Orders which sanction the right of a
paper blockade, those in which a place Is declared to
be in a state of blockade, not because it is actually
so, but because it carries on a commerce injurious to,
English manufactures. Now, so long as those Or-
ders remain tsprevoked, you will have done nothing,
and you will be prohibited from ingress to the Con-
tinent.
44 Vessels coming directly to France with neutral
cargoes will •be rectiv,ed ; vessels coming from Lou-
don with English cargoes will be confiscated.
44 We do not admit of any species of blockade,
but that defined by the treaty of Utrecht, that is, the
blockading of a place in the situation in which Flush-
ing was placed, and the mouths of the Scheldt,
during the expedition of 1809, and which, sur-
rounded by land and sea, is in
_danger of being
taken; but the application of a paper blockade'
to any other point of the coast of the Empire,
necessarily . induces a paper blockade of the Bri-
tish Isles.
" in fact, unless the right of blockade, as esta-
blished by, the treaty of Utrecht, were aeknow-
ledged; and the Orders of 1806 revoked, what
would be the revocation of the Orders of 1807 and
1-809 We should find, to-morrew or next day, ;
England declaring in a state of blockade the coast '
of the French Empire, and merely permitt ng neu-
trals to have some cne point of communication with
the coast of the Mediterranean, or with one point
in the Baltic.
" No, no ! this can never be. Times have
changed. The injustice and violence of the mea-
sures you have adopted, have authorised the adop-
tion of similar measures by France. It is the ne-
cessity you produced for their adoption, which has
formed the Great Empire. The time has gone by
when you could do what you pleased ss ith the Con-
tinent and the Continent would do nothing to you.
This time will never return, no more than the reign
of weak and dissipated monarchs.
41 After every declaraeion of war, your travellers
and merchants shall be arrested on the Continent, if
you should capture on sea the mariners, passengers,
and merchants you may find in merchant vessels.—
If you blockade on commercial speculation ; if you
apply to a part of the empire the principle of a
paper blockade, which yGu have adopted, and not
to it real blockade, the British Isles, and your other
possessions, shall be subjected also to paper blockade.
If you adopt strong measures, we shall adopt
stronger—force of arms shall be opposed to force of.
arms—legislative rigour to legislative rigour. This
is the only method by which we can avoid being
made your dupes—the only method to conquer you,
or at least to compel you to be just. You have more
need of the commerce of the Continent, than the
Continent has need of your's. You have more need
of America than she has of you ; inasmuch as the
merchant has more need of the consumer, than the
consumer has of him.
4v If I cannot clothe myself in velvet, I will use
cloth. If I cannot have cotton stockings, I will wear
thread. There is the tale of the consumer. But the
merchant, who had founded the well-being of his fa-
mily on the wants of the consumer, is under the ne-
cessity of selling. If you cease to sell, where will
you procure means of defraying your national expen-
diture ? Nevertheless, commerce is, no doubt, ne-
cessary to the Continent; he who would oppose ob-
stacles to the progress of industry, would be words,
of a barbarous age rather than of the present. Dif-
ferent climes have different productions—exchange,
and reciprocal accommodation, beget wealth. Let
commerce, then, be re-established, but let it be so
upon just and legitimate grounds—let the nations
contend with each other, but let not an arbitrary spi-
rit of industry be supported by force.
If,' said Lord Chatham, • we acted justly to-
wards prance, par prosperity could not be of four
and twenty hour duration.' When Lord Chatham
spoke thus, he might have been in the right—but if
he was now living, he would talk differently. The
circumstances were then in your favour —you were
Lords of the Ocean, as you still are—but France was
without influence on the Continent. While you pres-
sed upon her with unjust principles of •

a 'Whilst events proceed in the North of Europe
with :itch rapidity, that though attention is alai) s ta.
tided, yet is never satiated ; whilst Poland resembles
a nation of children, under the flags of its august
bl.:l.:tor,_the people of another continent take chit
s:i.irc in that great movement which agitates tae
ull de world, and is to fir its destiny. Spanish atine.
rica endeavours to take its rank among independent
nations; and the United States, wciried cf the cons.
mercial tytannv of EngLnd, draw from t! .e scabbard
the sword of Viashington, which has once already
humbled British pride.
The efforts of America excite a great interest in
those who recollect with what insulting haateer they
have been treated by the English Government, which
always considered them as revolted coli.nies. The
probable consequence: of this new war will be to give
a mortal blow to that system of monopoly which
England for two centuries so obstinately, pursued;
and which becomes weaker in pripixirtion as it be.
comes more extended, because it tit contrary to the
natural rights and prosperity of other nations.
a On casting one's eyes over the at, of Nord;
America, it is immediately perceived that the Eng.
'Ash still possess vast possessions on the contiver, the
most important parts of which are Canada and Nova
Scotia. Masters of Canada, they command the nevi.
Ration of the river St. Lawrence, from Montreal to
Quebec. This river is navigable for laic Ibips,
which transport either to England or the English A►
titles articles of the first necessity. The misgatiss
of these rivers is protected brthe maritime statical(
Halifax, considered as the capital of Nova Scoria.
64 This is not the only advantage which the Yap
lish draw from die possession of Canada. It ASA r
them the means of eluding the Non.intercourse Laws
passed by the American Congress. From Montreal
to St. Jan's, the distance by land is very ioconside.
table ; therefore this town has become an eiereiiit for
English goods, which, by Lake Champlain, are
easily introduced into the States of Vermont and
hew York.
g 4 War once commenced between the United States
and England, the latter will quickly be deprived of
all these advantages which feed her pride and cupi-
dity. The Americans have only to give to the in.
habitants on the frontiers of Canada liberty to invade
that country, and it will soon be delivered from the
English .dominion. Vermont State alone has fre.
quendy offered, at its own expellee, to conquer Ca.
nada, whose frontiers are open on all sides, and which
has for its defence only a few English regiments, and
a militia more dangerous than useful, because a na-
tional antipathy still exists in all its force between the
French and their rulers.
Quebec is a strong place, but the events of the
war in which the brave Montcalm perished, prove .
that it cannot long exist after the remainder of the
province is conquered. If it cannot be taken by
main force, it may easily be reduced by famine, oat-
ticolarly during the winter, by cutting off all the
communications by means of which its garrison re.
ceives subsistence.
a It is probable the Americans will strike the 6nt
blow in this part of 'hi Continent, and that conside-
rations so simple will not escape their sagacity.
64 The effects of the conquest of Canada can alone
be appreciated by those who thoroughly understand
that country, and the resources whiCh England (Sr
some years has drawn from it. From that time, the •
station at Halifax would become an useless expels*. •
and the British Antilles, which receive the principal
part of their supplies from Canada, would be el•
posed to famine, and of course fall into the hands of
r. that nation which could feed them. An important
debouche is cut off from English merchandise ; the
London capitalists interested in the fur trade would-
be deprived of their incomes, perhaps of their cap'.
tal ; and fresh bankruptcies would shake public as•
.
dit and private fortunes.
The English Government, ever faithful to its in. •
cendiary policy, bad raised the savages against the
United States, in the hope that this new war would
have diverted the attenticn of the American" or
made them fear a rupture with great Britain. This
hope has been deceived. The Savages, .orthy Al-
lies of the British Ministers, have been defeated by
the army of the United States; and I know not what
Prophet, (raised up by the Cabinet of St. James's')
who came at an unfavourable time, has been hanged.
Enlightened men have discovered in this system core
ruption a la Pin; and the indignation against gag'
land has arisen to the highest pitch,"
L'ORIENT, JULY 24.
The Jersey privateer the Mascarade, of 14 Or
and 40 men, was captured at her anchorage in gory
heron bay on the 19th instant by the goletto the le•
this Th•

Legislation,
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you enriched Holland, Hamburg, and Venice.
'rho aatwe ;Wags is 99w laiDst yokil iajtcAd

legraph, and yesterday brought into . port.
Einglisbegraiu wu dangerously wool*. • •," •