The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-11-20 00:00:00

NOVEMBER 20, 1 535

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inons. We hope, and indeed it is expected, that Sir

ROBERT PEEL will, on the first ley of the next session,
give notice of a motion on the subject. This, we say, is
Cleaily the duty of Sir ROBERT PEEL, and in his.hands
ire are content to leave it for the present.

Every body asks, " When is the war about the dollars
to begin ?" We wish we could answer the question, be-
ing4articillarly interested in whatever may have a ten-
dency to make the liberals of-France and the'republi-
tans of North America better acquainted with each other.
We perceive that the Charge 4'.ljraires of the United
States has left, or is about to leave, Paris. He demand-
ed his passports mote than a week ago, and obtained
them on the day he demanded thetn. His French coun-
terpart, resident at Washington, has been ordered by the
french government to scrape his shoes at the door of
'General JACKSON for the last time, and return to the cen-
tre of civilization with all convenient speed. What can
tali this mean ?

• Mean! Why it means the dollars, to be sure—the
four or five millions of dollars which France confesses
'she owes to the United States, but which the French
Chambers refuse to pay until General JACKSON shall
make an apology for having demanded payment in a rude
and ungentlemanlike manner. The general refuses to
apologise—he does not know what the word apology
means—like a bear as he is, he has not been taught that
civility costs nothing ; for he seems determined to send
all the imperishable oak of the republic to the bottom of
the sea, swallow his own weight of cold iron, and ride on
an aligator all the -way from the Mississippi to Havre,
rather than abate one single cent of his claim, or utter a
soft word to obtain the stipulated full sack of dollars!

• It is, we confess, a very entertaining sort of a quarrel,
and is worth any sum of money in these dull times.
But how is it to end ? France, having been menaced in
the first instance, tried.hard to extricate herself from a dif-
ficulty, which wounded the national pride, in the easiest
manner possible. She exacted no humiliating terms
from JONATHAN ; but the latter is resolved not to be
conciliated. On the contrary the menacing and bullying
System is continued. The dun presses for his money,
and exhibits a large pistol buttoned under his coat. First
the ambassador. is ordered home, and a 'smart frigate,
with the striped bunting flying, dashes into the peaceful
waters of the Seine to carry hial away. This having had
no effect upon the well-secured treasufy chest of Paris,.
the charge d'affaires is recalled; so that at this moment
the United States have actually no diplomatic represen-
tativeln France.

In other countries this mutual interchange of ostenta-
tious incivility is considered a prognostic of war. If
General JACKSON stood alone. in the matter, the affair
would soon be ended. But it cannot be denied that the
general is extremely popular in his own country. He is
the idol of the most numerous, and, consequently, the
most savage portion of the.deniocraey ; and, in any rash
act he may venture upon, he is sure to be supported by
the preponderance of voices in a free country, where all
Alen have equal rights—ovith this difference, that the
" respectable citizen" who has money is allowed to buy,
sell, and hang the citizen who has no money.
In this state of things we have no doubt but that. Mr.
JACKSON will be enabled to prevail upon congress, in the
spring of nextyear, to pass a non-intercourse act, and
thereby put.a stop to all direct trade and traffic between
France and the United States. We see enough to con-
vince us that France will.not now pay the money without
receiving a very full, ample, and humiliating apology.
A few simple words, of little or no meaning; might have
sufficed before the recall of the Arnerican minister and
deptiq% The threat, however, haS been followed up
in an insulting manner—,in a bullying manner—in so
haughty and marked a manner that no man can mistake
4, and no Frenchman avoid feeling it most acutely.% The
dollars, therefore,- will not be paid-77-a non-intercourse
act must follow.

New what is a non-intercourse act? Let us-talk over
this coolly. It is, as we, have said above, d-itispension
of trade between the two nations. Frena ships will not.
ber:iillowed to enter the ports of the United States, and
the ships of the United States will not be permitted to
eriterthe ports of France. • All this. is-plairx,sailing,ruiti
no act of hostility committed. But suppose an)imerican
vessel---a re&pine liner, for instance-7-by stress of Rea-
titer or by accident, should be_ driven rather suspiciously
Oar the coast of France : the chances are, she would be
captured. It is easy to condemn a ship under the_ pre,
tett of being engaged in. some contraband trade. Pa-
pers proving the reverse are of little avail in sucherner-
gancies when the one party is anxious to pick a serious
quarrel with the other. In the same way a French ves-
sel might be foUnd invitingly near the American coast—
she would he taken to a dead .certainty. In 'Other of
these cases war would be inevitable.

But there are other ways of corning into hostile colli-
sion.
4 non-intercourse act would not be worth a piece
of wastepaper unless the respective governments are
prepared to maintain it by force of arms. On the sea-
boards of France, and the. United States there will have
to be ships-of war upon the look-out, and cruising along
shore in all direotions. -Suppose then the Chippawow,
o(Bekton, NOAH Shoo s, commander, a' hero who has
whipped his seventeen hundred brace of tiger cats, is
bound to -Liverpool- with ai valuable cargo of long sass.
The current and a terrific-down-setting wester sends him
smashing slick into the Pay...Of Biscay. In that bay is
kicking about the Celeste- French frigate, of sixtytuns,
commanded-by M.-IEOI'OI.D DR TONANT, an immense
fire-eater, fond of glwry, and, although half sea-sick,
burning for-fame. What then ? 'He signalises the
Cha'ppawato to lay to. NoeRS-Nooxs minds it not. He
firs a 'gun. The C7appau2aw. runs up, additional canvas,
and tries tolOntsail the Ce/este. It won't do. A thirty-
two pounder strikes her amidships, kills the-second mate,
two pigs in -the long boat, wounds a " respectable citi-
zen" who is a Oasseager,:arid.veiy nearly demolishes Cap-
taib SNOOKS hirnSelf.— He-goes on nevertheless. A third
shot carties away his main-topmast, and a fourth-disables
his Helder. In short Captain SNOOKS is compelled to lay
to, tint mightily offended, and in a tremendously bad
humour.

M, TONANT sends his heat with is lieutenant to board the
ChTpliaicaw, which having done, he demands her papers,
professes to read and understand them, throws them upon
the floor, and arrogantly demands to know what right an
American ship had to come so near to the coast of France.
SNOOKS answers like a free citizen. The lieutenant ad-
vises him to. talk less and be more respectful, and inti-
mates to him that, for..the sake of the well known be-
nignity of France, he forgives him for this 'his first of-
fendF, bid warns him that if he should dare to repeat
such-insolence and impertinence, be will most assuredly
Send him and his fir planks to sing Yankee doodle" in
the coral caves of the ocean.

Captain NOAH SNOOKS, as the reader may imagine,
Would be unutterably and niagarationally incensed at
thislieatment. He comesi to Liverpool boiling. He
discharges his cargo—takes in some rotten muslins, some
sorted notions hi the shape of Birmingham' pots, a few
cases of rnothveaten woollens, a mile of cast iron for the
Alleghany.railway,-and is off to. New York, speechless,
because wired like a bottle of soda water. He has a•ra-
pid Passage—crosses the Atlantic in " no titne"—and
run; full sail, fearless of pilot or newspaper boats, slick
up to 17th slip, bottom of Nostrum-street, quay 57t1), • In
the 'city of New York. Next day fifteen despatches are
sent off express to Washington. SNOOKS is closeted with
the initthorities for nixie hours. The Whole city 'knows of
the insult—the grotis and unpardonable insult offered to
the national flag in the person of the commander of the
Chippatraw. But we stop here, and simply aSk, would
not.xetaliation be the 'emit ?--would not reprisals be in-
stantly made ?—would the accidental insult, and, the,
" mOrdir" of- aatfen not be good grpundsfor going to'
ware

NciAall levity apart, these are the, unavoidable ten=
dencies and natural effects in practise of anon intercourse
act. The naval commanders of the United States are
quitit as liable to plunge into the rash error which we
have only hypothetically ascribed to a Frenchman. Let
such_ an act be only passed, the Americans being the ag-
gressors, and peace it will be impossible to maintain:
Pass such an act, citizens, if you please, but . if you do;
there is no sensible man' in England whO Woold