Star.
London, England, 1811-09-11 00:00:00

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• ':IkiEW YORK, JULY 30.
It will-be seen that our Government are ready to
give the most unequivocal assent to the doctrine of
the French dee; ees being rescinded; merely from the
" release of the few 4met ican vessels which have arri-
ved in France since the 2d of November last. They
are willing, in the height of their transports, to throw
sfierAselves immediately into the arms of the loving
Emperor, in return for his generous and magnani-
mous conduct towards this country. Away with all
suspicion—away with the least surmise that his
perial Highness is actuated by any other than the
most pure motives. They give the reins to delusioni
to•the most infatuated delusion, and rush with head-
long impetuosity down the Tartarian gulf which is
prepared for them. And can it be possible, we would
ask, that the people of this country are already so
ripe for ruin ? Can they, without reflection, without
pause, rest their faith on the honour of Bonaparte,
upon the flimsy assurance here held out ? •Do they
not remember, that, according to Mr. Madison's first
stipulation, all the American property was to have
been given up ; and that without the fulfilment of this
branch of the agreement the whole is no better than
• a cheat ? Do Mr. Madison and his cabinet, in their
hearts, feel satisfied with the faith of the Emperor ?
Do they not recollect it has pleased Napoleon to sus-
pend the execution of his promise for eight long
months, until he sees a favourable opportunity of em-
broiling us with England, by releasing a few vessels
which can be of no use to him ?
Notwithstanding the vaunting of the Government
Editor, the Decrees are not revoked—our Govern-
ment knows they are not revoked.
The following communication, which we have just
received, will serve to shew the opinions of those who
arc in France on this subject ;
The recent intelligence of the release of Ameri-
can vessels in France having excited a belief that the
BMin and Milan Decrees were revoked, we think it
proper to state, that in place of that circumstance fur-
nishing a proof of such revocation, it is a conclusive
evidence of their not being revoked ; for an intelli-
gent pas,,enger in the Matchless, informs, that this
release applied solely to vessels that had arrived in
France subsequent to the 2d of November, and that
had been provisionally sequestrated by a general
order, and against whom ne infringement of the De-
crees had been alledged : for they have all arrived di-
rect in France without having been boarded by British
cruizers, been in a British port, or infringed a single
feature of the Decrees ; and that, in consequence of
.their release, applications had been made also for the
• release of vessels that had been seized under the De-
crees, and which had been refused ; and particularly
in the case of the New Orleans packet, the agents for
which had made application for her release, or, in
other words, to cancel the bonds they had given, but
which had been refused ; and she was going• to pro-
eed to the United States without the bonds being so
cancelled."

'4N PAPERS.

NEW-YORK, AUGUST S.
The negociation with Mr. Foster is ended ; Presi-
dent Madison has left Washington, and retired to his
scat in Virginia ; and Congress is called by Procla-
mation to meet in November, until which time the
American people will be kept in the dark on the

calises of the rupture.
" This last attempt," says the able and independent
Editor of the Baltimore Federal Republican, on the
part of Great Britain, after so many had proved abor-
tive, to conciliate the Executive of the United States
has met the fate which every attentive observer of the
.policy by which it is permanently actuated, must
have foreseen. No terms, however reasonable, how-
ever humiliating, would attain the end in view. No
concessions would restore harmony with England,
but such as are inseparably connected as to time with
a peace between her and Bonaparte. We haveadopted
the "common cause," and begun by evidencing our
consent through an accession to the Continental sys-
tem, %ilia proscribes commerce with his enemy, and
we must not secede, however attainable our own ob-
jects have constantly been.
" The die is therefore cast, and war we must have,
unless our Executive shall again tread back its steps
after the example it afforded, when France resented
the first Non-Intercourse law— for it appears Mr. Fos-.
ter has given notice of the determination of his Go-1
vtrnment to retaliate the law of the last session, which ,
before the repeal of the French plundering decrees,
inflicts upon Great Britain the penalty of exclusion
for her ships and productions, whilst it authorises the
reception of French goods and vessels of every de- •
scription, privateers not even excepted, which are ex-1
elusively employed in the annoyance and destruction 1
, of our own trade as well as teat of Great Britain.
" We may judge how far the determination of the
British Government will be seconded by the support
mid concurrence of the Bt itish people, from the ge-
neral disgust and indignation with which Mr. Smith's
disciosuie respecting the corrupt French influence,
which predominates in the Cabinet at Washington,
has inflamed our own citizens.
" Our regret and alarm on this occasion are greatly ,
heightened, as will be those of all good men, when
we reflect that -Mr. Foster's mission as, according to
every probability, the last that can be made before
measures of hostility intervene.
" lire public have been confidently informed, that
this mission was an experiment, which was opposed
by the British Ministry, but they were over-ruled, to
Sati4 the Prir.ce of Wales of the reality of a temper
in our Government irreconcileable with amity, if it
existed, oi to bring about a reconciliation, if it were
practicalik. He has accordingly made the attempt
for himself—and the British packet carries out the
painful tidings, that we have preferred an alliance
with France, in the character of satellites and slaves.
This was the less to be expected ; as, by an admission
in the Government paper, it is placed beyond a doubt
that Mr, Foster's powers have enabled him to go in-
6iiitely farther towards effecting a pacification than
it was imagined his Government would have been in-
duced to authorise.
" The blockade of 1806 being removed, which has
been assumed as the foundation of the whole system, °
against commerce, there no longer remains a pretext
for the conOnuation of the French Decrees. Their
repeal, with the same formality of their original pro.
enulgation, must now be insisted upon. This, it
scams, it not the ground our impartial Executive
z. sans to take. Mr. Foster, is the first place, is re-