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NOVEL AMUSEMENTS FOR EASTER-MONDAY.
NEW THEATRE,. •
TOTTENHAM-STREET, Torrarlin M-CI4.IRT-RerAtl.
ON EASTER-MONDAY, and 'eliery.• Evening
during the Week,• will be presented a New ,Grand
D.l7llr.lrreakDa4rirEamt,rrll.ralfalleilViS.
The Piece ripens witn a Vim of the Silver Lake, Procession
and Dance of Faries Nymphs, Sylphs, tee. The Fah* 'bt the
Lake eaters in a Gralsd Car draws by Swans. A Banquet. Scc.
To which will he added, a New Barletta Interlude called
QUARTER DAY ; or, Wito P4v4,:rl4lEr?
.
Ti Conclude with the last New' Comic Patiloin'tne, tailed
LITTLE RED RIDING-HOOD.
la which will be displayed a Grand View of St. Patin Church,
and Lotd Mayor's Shew by Water.
j~ttle Red RldingtHood, (afterwards Columbine) Mrs. Wybrow.
tolb• opened at half past Bee, to begin at half past six.
&get; 4s. Pit V. Gallery:ls. Second price at half past right.

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.0. example happens to be before mei and may therefore be -accomplished before the time fixed for the swim- I not be &Splayed en seizing asollonotwable oinope.
AR Ebe mentioned. The partial recal, or modification, of tints of the French decrees, or even fro. a considerable hulty of discharging it for ever.
EATRE,AS TER
the English blockade of theyorts and places of Spain time aftereaeds ; it certainly cannot be allowallie to \ llt is not unnatural to imagine that it will be cue
orrENII/1111-01) fmm Gijon-'to the French territory. (itself known to, assume that this revival was required by the letter i cbarged with pleasure when it is considered, that,
,4DAY, and 'e'S my Government only through a circular notification (whatever was the object of the writer it his GOVOTTI- f hiving never been effectual as an instrument of hos-
e] tie presented aNe to me, recited afterwards in the London Gazette) was ment) to precede-the cessation.- And if this Was net Itility, rt cannot now lay claim to those other mere.
.v. from a popular Tale, r.deciared to the American and other Governments in required, it is incontrovertible that the' cessation 1. niendations for which it may have heretofore beea
.t.I'THE FORTY 'l' exactly the same mode. , would, by the term of the letter, take place on the' Mixed. The Orders in Council [of November] have
vim a Vlaw of the Silver I .
; t tfinsk(it demonstrable that the terms in which the appointed day, whether any of the events disjunee `pissed through some important changes ; but they
es Nymphs, Sylphs, &c. Ti
.;bead Car drawn by Swans. . rerich revocation teas announced arc just as free from lively specified had intervened or not. iit five been steady, as long as it was poseble, to the
on be added, a New Burletta lot welt founded objection as the manner. The first step towards the revival of the non-inter-' pprpnee which first impressed upon them a character
fER DAY ; or, Wiso Peet' ' Your Lordship's view of them is entirely unknown course against England would be thoproclaviration'ontot to be mistaken. . ... ~
.lude with the last New' Conde Panto' to me, but lam not ignorant that there are those in the President, that France had so revolted or modifiO4
eel • In their*original plan they comprehended tint only
LITTLE RED RIDING-HO this country, who, professing to have examined them her-edicts, that they ceased to violate the neutral France- and such allied or dependent Powers as had
zli will be displayed a Grand View of St. with care, and having certainly examined them with commerce of the United States. But the letter of• adopted'the edict of Berlin, hut such other nations as
and Lord Mayor's Sbew by Water
.1e Red Rl.
opened Columbine) , jealciusy. maintain that the revocation of the Ist of -Mons. Champagny left the decrees as it found them' had merely excluded from their ports the commercial
-boors to'bo opened at half past fire, to begin November was made to depend by the obvious mean- up to the Ist of November; and. consequently, up to flag of Englind. This prodigious expansion nt the
&sits 4s. Pit sr. Gallery-is, Second price at 1
.' ing to those terms, upon a condition precedent, which that day it could not, for any thing contained in Ott system was far beyond any intelligiele standard of
_ e has not been fulfilled, namely the revocation by Great ',letter, be said that the rights of the American corn- retaliation ; but it soon appeared that neutrals rn;rtit
GIBRALTAR PAPERS. •• . Britain of her Orders in Council, including such , coerce were no longer infringed by them. A pro- be permitted to traffic, under certain restrictions, with
---e - blockading orders as France complains of as illegal, 1 spective proclamation, that they would cease to violate all these different nations, provided they would ~ny.
GIBRALTAR, MARCH as. - If this were ev 't admitted to be so, lam yet.to ;hose rights, might perhaps be issued ; but it could mit, with a dependence truly colonial, to carry cia
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•-k 04 the 16th, the Montague arrived with the con- kerni upon what ground ofjusticethe British Govern.: scarcely have any substantial operation, either ha fa- their trade thrnugh British ports, and to pay such du-
; eny from Malta for England, which will sail in a few ment. could decline to meet, by a simile'. act on `its your of Frence, or to the prejudice of England, until tics as the British Government-should thee( tit to on.
* 'days. On the same dey also arrived Abe Princess pare,. an advance, thus made to it by its adversarrias ' the epoch to which it had looked had arrived. i pose, and such charges as 'British agents and other
Elizabeth packet from Malta, in 2+-days. passage... :the face oT the world, towards a. co-operation in the, , Let it be admitted, however, that all physical and "staijects might be costnt to make.
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E:ght French frigetes have made their escape out. great' work of restoring the liberty of the ocean, so for legal obstacles to the isseing. before the Ist of No. I The United Stat abstained frosts this traffic, in
of- Toulon .to different parts of the Mediterreaean.-so meter); as respects the Orders in Council of 1807 and, Wernher, of a proclamation, to elite effect immediately, which they could for embark without dishonour; and
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Our fleet, consisting of 18 sail of the line, was athlis 180% and such bloCkades as resemble them. It sie ere out of the way. How would such a proceeding'inlBo the system shrunk to narrower dimensions,
norca a few days ago. ' : . - nothec.essary, however, to take this view of the twee; ulfil of itself the expectation that the United States' endtook the eppeareece of an ahorlute prohibition of
Mersey O.—Medina and Veger have 'been.re-oc- tion, for the French revocation turns on no donstireetei would, before theist of November, a cause their righte rill commercial Intercourse with Frame:Holland, and
cupied by the enemy,. and in cenesqueece thescouts Precedent, is absolute, pretest, and unequivocal.' oto terbe respected by the English," in the mode pointed the kingdom of Italy. -
munication by laud with die Isla de Leon has, g 3 • What constructioo of the :document which declarer hoot by the letter, namely, by the enforcement of theef: ; The prohibition, was, alasolate in ,appearance, bat
been cut off. , •"
• - - that revocation might be made by determined suselNoeentercourse Law? The proclamation would work npLia fact.. It .had lost something of former mn.
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ALGEZIRAS, *ARCH ee. . 0.0. oo picion and eistresh I have no wish, andam not herundeeno direct or immediate consequence against England. rence, but nothing of former pliancy ; and in the
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General the Monies de Coinpigni has secinead, to enctu form Such interpreters would not be satisfied i Three months from its date must pass away befoe. event was sopn to yield to the demands of one trade,
General Lapena in the corinnand.of 44SpanliAttaY by any oforords, and would be likely tO dray:, the Nonsintercourse Law could revive against her; while it preheiited every other—cotorouled and relax.
"et environs of Cadiz. *. ' • ''. the same conclusion from perfect explicitness and '.and when it did so, the revival would not be the ef- ed and mangled by licences, it did nett, after a brief
studied obscurity. It is enough fur me that the fair ! feet of the proclamation, but of the continued ad re. ; exhibition of impaitial sternness, affect to " distress
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and natural and necessary import of the paper at: ; rence of England to her obnoxious system. Thus,; the enemy" by the occlusion of his ports, when the
fords no colour for the interpretation I am about to even if a proclamation, effectual from its date, had commerce of England Could advantageously find its
examine. been issued by the rresident on the day when the way to them—at lengthohowever, this convenience
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The Freeleh declaration, rs that the decrees of Betel French declaration of repeal came to the hands of the seems to be enjoyed no dourer; and clan Orders its
lin and Milan are revoked, and that from the Ist of American Minister at Paris, the intercourse between Council may apparently be now considered (if indeed
November they will cease to have any effect," is pre.' the United States' and great Britain would, on the they ought not always to have heavyass
te As
cision itself ; but they are followed by these words— I Ist of November, have remained in the same condi- affeeting England with a loss as hat which
" bier entendie qu'en consequence de cette declare-, ton in which it was found in August. As all this they inflict on those whose-rights they violated. In
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tip les Anglais revoqueront leur errets de Conseil, et was well understood by the Government , • such r -it be too much to expect the cre-
eenonceront aux nouveaux principes de blocus qu'ilsl the conclusion is, that its Minister, professing ;y yet be hoped that the evidence
lint Yalu etablir, ou bien que les Etats Unis, confer-' have the American law before him, and te of the French repeal need not
anent a Paste que vous venez de communiquer,-; only what was conformable with that law,
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tont respecter leitrs droits par les Anglais." I intend to require the revival of the Non-intescotrrse satisfactory. It is, however, as
of arch a case will admit ; as a
• If these words state any condition, they state two,! against England as a condition to be performed . show.
the first depending upon Great Britain, the last upon : fore-the Ist of November. :casion it is no paradox to say, that
the United States • and, as they are put an the dig-, It is worthy of remark, as introductory ,e is itself evidence. That certain
junction, it would' be extravagant to hold that the view of this subject, that even they who force is proved by the absence of.
nonperformance of one of them is equivalent to the, the repeal of the French decrees has fent appear if they were in force.—
nonperformance of both. I shall take for granted.;lbackward to ascribe to the French decimate ,cats betcohjectured to hive led
therefore, that the arguments against my construction, pose utterly inconsistent with that conclusion. Edicts, invites us to the full exe-
of the Duke of Cadore's letter must be moulded into' They suppose the purpose to have been ' 1 and no motive can be imagined
a new form. It must deal with two conditions in.' the existing relations between America course-these considerations are alone
' Of one ; and, considering them equally as con, by the only means which the declaration
ose- And it is certain is known that American vessels,
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' AMERICA:
The folloviing paragtiph from an American Paper
states, thatihe Arlierican Bank has lost its Charter :
' 4, 'I4ATPONAL SULCIDZ.
FEB. 2.5.—0 n Wednesday night last, between
the hours of five ainFsix, in the Chamber of the Se-
nate of the United States? the question for the renew.
ifs of the United States' Bank Charter was decided.
On the question lot striking oat the first section of
the Bill, the votes were 17 to 17--and George Clin-
ton, the Vice-President of-the United States, gave ,
the casting vote against the Bank, thus casting the;
country into an abyss of ruin. How long will party
spirit continue to-sport with the dearest interests of thi
country !
" A letter from Albany, of the 25th ult. to the
Editor of The Columbian says, 6 The Bill incorporatini
the Stockholders of the Union Bank, in the City of
New.-York, hus passed both Housesof the Legislature,"
NO. M.—MR. PINIKNEir TO LORD wau.ssurt- •
MY LORD, Great Cumberland Place, Dec.l9.
' contained in yuur

In compliance with the request yo,
mote of the 6th inst. I proceed to recapitulate in this
letter (with some variations, however) the statements
and remarks which I had the honour to make-in the

stead _
ditions precedent, to be performed (disjunctively) t.
fore the day limited for the operative commencemem
of the French repeal, must maintain, that if neither
c them should he performed before that day,the de-

Act of Non-intercourse. __
England should abandon particular parts
tem, this was the result' avowedly* in view" aaineati;
to be accomplished.
there - ' rif

to England; have, before the f.rst
_ ,ember, . visited by French privateers and
stied to-pass, upon the foundation of the prospc:-
kopeal-of the decree of Berlin, and thepmximi:y



conference of the ale respecting the revocation of the Of e ...,_ , _ 2
.revoked, ' I ,_-_, ,'
French Decrees, as connected with a changeeif
.fiiys gists Were not to be and consequently that,l But e count be no hope _such a result without eteee
• ~, , ; al neithee of them has been.so performed, the decrees I
tern here on the subject of neutral rights. a previous effectual relinquishtnebetif the Frencirt‘etee el the dey when it would become an actuafone.
Your Lordship need not be told, that I should have . are stile-in force. I areas. A case could not otherwise be made ici exist If there are not even stronger facts to chew that tee
been happy to offer at a moth earlier moment every if this hypethssis of previous conditions, thus redtt.las the Doke of Casiore was aware) for such an epic= decree of Milan is also withdrawn,yonr Lordship can
explanation in my power on matters of such Ligke vow. teed to the only shape it elm assume, be proved' to be of the American law. To pass the law beferi be at .no loss• for the reason. It cannot be prase
cern to the rights and commerce of my conntry, insOund, my construction is at once establishedelethe revocation of the edicts *as impossible. With del', teat an American vesseeis practically held by France
and the futuie cbaracter of its fareigo relatieneefl hod ante it is only upon that hypotlicsie that any doubteleve in his hands it would have been miraculous moot to be denationalises' .by British violation, because
been made te sinderstend that explanation was desired. can be raised against the exact and perspicuous assure irence not to know that it was the exact reeerse dethie e your cruisers visit only po oaptare, and compel the
My written communications of August and Novem.• enees that the decrees were actually repealed, and' Which his paper must propose. • He wotsld deisiveititief vessel visited to terminate her 'voyage, not in France,
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her were concise, but they were not intended tobe in. that the repeal would become effectual on the Ist 'of 'knowledge, not from that particular law only, but but in England. • You will not ask for the issue of
etrfficient. They furieshed evidence which I thotight November. Thiehypothesis is proved to be unsoined 'from the whole tenour and spirit of American pro. an experiment which 'ourselves intercept, nor coin.
co:inclusive, and abitained from laboured up
an hy the following cansideretions : 1 ceedings, in that painful and anomalous dilemma, in ,plaie that you have_ not received evidence, which is
because I deemed it euperfluous. , I hete,taken up an It has clearly no foundation in the phraseology ofewhich Great Britain and France, agreeing in nothing 'not obtained because you have rendered it impossible.
opinion v.e.icb I abandoeed reluctantly and late, that the Paper, which dote not contain a syllable to put ' else, had recently combined to place the maritime ie.. The *este' which formed the subject of my note of
the British Government would,be eageissto folleyethe any condition before the repeal. The repeal is re:. terests of America. He would collect from these pro. the Bth instant, and-another, more recently seized a%
to do of France, in tecalfing, as it, had professed presented as a step already taken, to have effect one treedings, that, while those conflicting powers cone. a .prise, would ,• if they had been suffered, as they
to in promulgating that extraordinary system of clay vecified. Certain consequences are indeed des trued to rival each other in their aggression on neutral ought, to resume their vuyages after having bees
maritime annoyance, which in 1807 presented teneutral eleeed to be expected from this proceeding ; but rele:riglits, the Government of the United States would-=stopped and examined by 'English cruisers, have fur.
teade in almost all its directions the hopeleee aftertae 44 is givee. either exprestly or by implication, with; leppose itself impartially to both. The French De. niched on that point unanswerable proof ; and I have
;eve of inactivity or confiscation ; which cien,siiiireciet
lin-which thee ate to happen. it is not sa
id—
Mid fclaration, then, had either no meaning at all, or ie reason to know, that precise offers have been made eta
as a subject to be regulated, like ehe trade of the eetendit que les Aeglois auront revoque," ice. p buti meant to announce to General Armstrong a positive. the British Government to put a practical test toe
United Kingdoms, by the statutes of the British Par. e' tine les An leis revoqueront," etc. indefinitely iSe revocation of the French Edicts. ~ disposition of France' in this respect, and that se
'lament, and undertook to bend and' fashion it by ttt time. I should not fatigue your Lordship by pursuing' offers have been refused. Your cruizers, however,
every variety of expedient to all the purposes and even • The notion of condition precedent is, therefore, .it'o farther a pc•iat so plain and simple. I shall, there- have not been able to visit all American vessels boon
the caprices of Great Britain. I had no idea that the say the least of it, perfectly gratuitous ; but it is also fore, merely add to what I have already said on deal to France ; and it is understand Aiat such as have
remnant bf that system, productive of no conceivable ebsend. It drives us to the conclusion, that 'a pelpa. of the subject, that the strong and unqualifiede arrived have been received with friendship,
advantage to England, and deservedly odious for its ble and notorious impossibility was intended to bei commonication from General Armstrong to me, mete+, . I cannot quit this last question witheut entering my
theory acrd desuuctire effects to others, could snrvive Prescribed as a condition, in a paper which they who I tioned in the commencement of this letter, and COT- protest against the pretension of the British a ...oyern.
Be public declaration of France that the edicts of think it was meant to deceive must admit was meant robnrated by subsequent conetnunications, (one of ment tospostpone the justice which it owes to my Go-
Berlin and Milan were revoked. , to be plausible. which I now lay before you) may, perhaps, without vernment and country,
for the tardy investigation el
Instructed at he• by your Lordship's reseal a palpable and notorious impossibility that any great effort of courtesy, be allowed to contsio! consequences. I ant not aisle to coneeehend upon
continued silence, and ala
rmedlae for
prolierty Of nay the United States shoeld, before tee Ist of Novena,
that " authentic intelligence" which your Lordship is What the pretension rests, nor to what limits the in.
feilow.citizens, now more than ever exposed hey inseber, execute any condition, no matter what the nael in seasech of. He could scarcely have been free frotoe vestigation can be subjected. If it were even admits
erroneous confidence to the ruinous operation okate. tune of it, the performance of which was -to folloviee doubt, if the occasion was calculated to suggest ir1......4: red that France was more emphatically bound to res
British or ders, I was prepering to support my general the escertained failure of a condition, to beeeecutefftid, it he had actually doubted, would herdly have! peal her almost nominal decrees than Great Britain to
representations by detailed remonstrance, when term be "Gteat Britain at any tinie before'the smile lit diet spoken to me with the confidence of conviction. • reveal her substantial Orders (which will not be ad•
ceived the honour of your note of the 4th ineesatese November. That the act expected from the Unitie , Wooly remains to speak of the practical -effect of -witted), what more can reasonably be required by tee
the conference which ensued, I troubled your• leced. States was to be consequent upon the failure a the'. the, French repeal. And here your Lordship must • latter than has been done by the former t The decrees
ship with a verbal communication of which' the fol.: other, is apparent. It is algrapparenwthatepnkfig4nffer me to renting 14 thili the orders of England are officially declared by the Governnsentof Praise to
• lowing is 'nearly the substance : ineerpretation, which would make the act of reoesel of 1807 did not wait -forth. -pre' ctical effect of the be repealed ; they were ineffeettial, as A material r
/ The doubts which appear to stand in the way ofethe 'Britain a condition precedent to the French tee - e Berlin Decree, nor linger; till the obscurity in which judite to England before !ere decliretion, and meg 1:8
recal of the British Orders in Council (tinder WIWI. consequently precedent to the Ist of Novesubkree the meaning of that Decree was supposed to be in- ineffectual since. Ihere is,finnefore, nothing of sub'
denomination I include certain orders of blockade of (when the repeal was, if ever, to take effect), tepaie solved should be cleared. away by time or explana- stance for this dilatory emssßiTe which if once begun
a kindred principle and spirit) must. refer to the. Man. condition could not be said to have failed before: etjon. They came promptly after the Decree itself, "nay be protritted without end, or at least until the
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per, or the terms, or the practical effect of the alleged whole period from the sth of August to the Ist :i while it was not only arribiguous but inoperative, and hien for just and prudent decision has passed. Butt
repeal of the decrees of France. . November had elapsed. .
~ e raised 'upon an idle proh,ibition, and a yet more idle ,if there were room to aPpeeliend that the repealed &-
That the manner of the proceeding is satisfactory Bat if Great Britain had the whole time within, declaration, which France had not attempted to en. trees Might havesomeoperatiori in case the Olden in
to the Braise Government cannot be questioned; since. which to elect the course which she would pursue, force, and was notoriously incapable otentorcing, a Council were Withdrawn, still, as there is no suede)
it is precisely that whiete, in itsown numerous orders for what opportunity would be left to the United States; vest scheme of (repression won the seas, more decttuc. and formidable peril
to which Great Britain cote,' 14
establishing, modifying, or removing blockades and (equally hound upon this idea of conditions precedent tive.of all the acknowledged rights of peaceful states exposed by that operation, there can be no reason fir
other maritime obstructions, are usually preclaimee ito act exit' part within the same period) to become than history can parallel. 'this retaliation, as it was declining coact at oncesupoe the declaration of franco,
to neutral states and merchants. acquaintee with that election, and to decide upon and. called, Was so rapid, that it was felt before the injury . and to leave it to the future to try its sincerity, it diet
.
The French repeal was officially notified on the take their own course in consequence; to salt nothing which was said to have provoked it ; and yet that in- sincerity be suspected.
fish of Atigust'to the Minister Psenieeeetrtiare of the of the tr ansmission of bltCh intelligence of it to Etre, jury, such as it was', was eireceded by the practical . I have thus disclosed to your Lordship, with that
ejeired,etates at Paris, by the French Minister cf fe, roPe as would be indispensable to the efficacy of the assertion no the part of Great Britain, of new and frankness which the times demind, my views of s
feign affairs, as I Wad, the honour to inform your conditional revocation ? 1. . a armiug principles of public law, in the notification subject deeply intetesting to our respective countries.
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Lordship in my letter chile 'lath of the same month, This general view would alone be suffisient to die. of the blockade of May, 1806, and in the judicial de- The part which Great Britain may act on this (cc '-
which not only gave' the import, but as the enclosed !credit the arbitrary construction under consideration, eisicms of the year before. To uphold the retaliatory sioe cannot fail to have important and lasting cone,
copy will their) adopted ' the words of GAM:rel. 4-r.m..t.)%4 it will he more completely exposed by an expla- (riders, every thing 'was presumed with a surprising euences, and I can only wish that they may be gaol
strong's statement to me of the tepour aneleereseessof nation of the !secure of the act, which the letter pro- facility. Not only was an impotent, unexecuted, and By giving up her Orders in Council, and the block-
that notice. j, saes to expect'front the United States, in case Great equivocal menace presumed to be an active scourge : asks to which my letter of the 21st of September rc•
On the -9th of August, the notification- opoemeral seeritain should omit to revoke: This act is the rose.. •of the commerce ef neutral nations, but the acieufes- ' lates, she has nothing to lose in character or strergth.
i-val of the Norl-MtenclUrr Law against England." once of those nations was presumed against the By adhering terthem she will not only be unjust W
Armstrong was published in the MoniteuretWffieial
France temaining exempt from it, as Well as from plainest evidence of facts.
journal of tee French Government, as the •icC.ole that .. embers, but unjust to hostile
formal &du-Aesop; i the provisions ofehe subsequent law, commonly cal-. , The alacrity with which all this was done can nee i I have the honour to be,
Government, and thus became a .. ,: firer be remembered without regret and astonishment ; ration, my Lord, your Lordssiveipth's
Matta public pledge to all who had an interest in the fad the Non-intercourse Act. -
rn suer of it. • Now, it is too plain upon the face of the last men- but our regret -and astonishment must encrease, if, big servant, • (Signed) wm. ride t.t•
It would be a waste of time to Particulerize tbe !,tioned law, (to which the letter eleressly refers,) to after some earsy have been given to the pernicious in- The most Noble the Marquis Wellesley, &c.
iltaMerous instances of enalessoua.precticesinEngland escape the tiscestenegligent and unskilful ob4erver, uoratiOn which these.presumptions were to introduce [There is another letter from Mr. Pinkney, of ri.
~ which-Ibis course is. GothAesaaaad.......tan. a avast Lisa' this revival could not by any iaclastr7 or chance and support, something like the ea
alacrity sho)))d} camper seN tmheoshtiogbhedestiecnotnhuerre:
• to Mr. Smith, but not imiortant.]

Its an tnis -Lucy 111111‘.1. t•Ki ....,,a. ..
.nt of France, . such circumstance, if
essing not to dulity of 1807, it may
nd to expect i of the practical effect
law, did not i be.eery strong to be s
m-intescourse i i fr 4. c* a s the nature c
terforrned be- r fesrservations will
1 On such an occasic
wy to another i the want of evidence
conclude that decrees are not in for
tiled, are not such facts as would
aration a pun. Every inosive which
losion. ; to-the repeal of the I
been to affect ; .cation of that repeal
and England, lie; a different course
on states—the sonclusive. ..
tain that unless .. But further, it is
irts of her sys-, bound turd-est:cal' to
ew. and meant rof NOvembert been 1