The Statesman.
London, England, 1812-07-30 00:00:00

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• • • have mile to remora them- ; “ 'BIWA cream have been ill the Practice also of violating the invaifaile professioas of this Gower meet. A eriedation ap-
e nnfederation, and
or the •
Net . • an, tarmacs!, in the melts ef the Fatitil!di Illrenis ' the"riglits and the peace of our coasts. They hoc
over and peered to be laid for a sintere and lasting recemilifidas. Thee
eta' saarvilaretansiera of the Pettish Mailmen. Was at for me ,
• harms oar entering anti departing commerce. To the most in- prospect, however, quickly vanished. Thew ade proceeding:
la-
th 'as l• • as, than T--t Hawn. Correa) .
asses /0 Pra 1 3 _yesterday (Bentley), at eleven in the !veryng pretentious they have added lawless aniceedings hi our was disavowed by.the British Government, widleat any expla-
a tet".„, I a received Ole Corps PilitewooLigas in the harbours ; and have wantonly Spilt American blogd withid nation which caold at that time repress the belielf, that the disc-
. loaanale. -Afteirmitla. telie(n)aceiterhermaal
jarsjesttylsrereipanimreattoo
utheer .. theivineinary of our territorial jarisdictioa.—The peinciplesand vowel proceeded from a 'spirit of hostility to- the connwereial
veleta , rules enforced by that Nation, when a neutral Nation, agahnt rights and prosperity of tae United States. AO it has- time
Irs:j"-emei
int al
leer is a dra'wing-room, at which were
*Pr 111" Ill: - .iedi.o fi'M been prmented at Court The Fetlock armed vessels of Belligerents hovering near her tents, and dim come into proof; that et the very moment when the public Mini-
at eir a : ,75. p a coreinandad by Capt. Costa, isas jest ars terbing am commerce, are well knows, What called on, se- stet was holding the language of friendship, and inspired me-
agar; a aa'' ',et :cast. to feta touted
das,"' 'ils - rak sib hit wear
,no enemy's ship loafed with •
committed by her own vessels, her Government has bestowed on changed, a secret agent of his Government was employed in in-
aas'aa lid !'
el for Palermo. Oita gun-boats belongg to oar
Ifaaare-'"llletacked. af •w den e, in the waten o Agra. their commanders additional f homer and confidence, trigues, batting for their Mame a subversion of our Governmeal,
111_2 ia. ao OKI WI frigate, a brig. and another large .shilt of I " Under pretended blockades, without the presence of anade- and a dianemberment of our happy union.
raa -A arable combat envied, of the particulars ot wmali we. quote force, and sometimes *about the practicability of apply- "In reviewing the conduct of Great Britain towards the
ads al at5,,,,,,,t, tee know, however, Mat after an action ot
in one commerce has been plundered ithe United States, attention is necessarily draws to the warfare
o every sea; our
sill• el Mt st hick the lire rued aninterrnpted, the four • g a our
tesa,--,a, .uatit.fd ss itis elory mut advamage the honour of his , great maples of oar country have been cut of from their legiti- just renewed by the savages on one Of our extensive frontier, ;
aseTaLa amine au mfinitelv consider force (sad that Me , mate markets; and a destructive blow ahned at our agricultural a warfare which Is known to spare neither age nor sex, and ta
,„ealel. aere obliged to retire with considerable loss. ' sad maritime interests. In aggravation of these predatory loco- be distinguished by features peculiarly shocking to !amenity.
-- lure., they have been considered as is force from the dates of It is diffioult to account for the activity and combinations which
their notification; a retrospective effect being thus added, as have for some time been developing themselves among the tribes
alimbeen done in other important cases, to the unlawfulness of in constant intercourse with British traders and garrisons, with-
'the course pursued. And to render the outrage the more signal, out connecting their hostility with that influence ; and without
I thaw mock blockades have been reiterated and enforced in the recollecting the authenticated examples of such interpositions'
lare of official communications from the British Government, heretofore furnished by the tracers and agents of that Govern-
declaring, as the true dednitino of a legal blockade, ' that par- meat.
wow ports ro
bot be actually nvested, and prevents warning " Such is the spectacle of injuries and indignities which have
Veen to vessels bound to them, net to en
been heaped on our country ; and such the crisis which its nor:-
ampkd forbearance and conciliatory, efforts have not been atle
" Not content with these occasional miatedients for laying
are our neutral trade, the Ca
binet of Britain resorted, to avert. It might at least have been expected, that ao eulight-
'at length, to the sweeping system of blockades, under the name ened nation, if less urged by moral obligations, or invited by
ot Orders in Council, which has been moulded ani managed as faieedly dispositions on the part of the United States, would
might besteuit its political views, its commercial jealousies, or have found in its true interests alone a sufficient matte to re-
the avidity of British cruizers. spat their rights and their tranquillity on the high seas; That an
" To our renionstram es against the complicated and transom- enlarged policy would have favoured the free and general cant-
lation of commerce, in which the British nation is at all times
dant injustice of this innovation, the first reply was that the
Orders were reluctantly adopted by Great Britain as a necessary interested, and which in times of war is the best alleviation of
retaliation on Decrees of her enemy proebaasaa a general black_ Its calamities to herself, en well as the other Belligerents ; and
ade of the British Isles, at same when the naval force of that there especially that the British Cabinet would not, for the
enemy dared not to issue from his own ports. She was reminded i sake of a precarious and surreptitious Intercourse with hostile.
without elect, tact bee den prior blockades, unsupported by 1 markets, have persevered in a course of measures which neces-
me adequate naval force actually applied and continued, were a sarily put at hazard the invaluable market of a great and grow-
bar to teis plat ; tau executed Edicts against millions of our ing country, disposed to cultivate the mutual advantages of an
active commerce.
property could not be retaliatisn on Edicts confessedly impossi-
ble to
rte executed ; that re•aliation, to be just, should fall on „Other councils heve prevailed. Our moderation 'and con-
the party setting the gnilty example, not on ant,
innocent party, ciliation have had no other effect than to encourage perseve-
which was not even chargeable, with an acquiescence in it. ranee, anti to enlarge pretensions. We behold our seafaring
e Whet; deprived of this flimsy veil fur a prohibition of our citizens still the daily victims of lawless violence committed on
trade with Great Britain, her Cabinet, instead of a correspond- the great and common highway of nations, eves within sight of
IMg repeal of a practical discontinuance of its Orders, formally the country which owes them protection. We behold our yes-
avowed a determination to persist in them agaiust the United i sels, freighted wait the products of our soil and industry, be re-
States, until the markets of her enemy should be laid open to I turning with the honed proceeds of them, wrested from their
&latish products; thus asserting ter obligation on a neutral 1 lawful doeinatines, confiscated by prize courts no longer the
or-
Power to reqeire one belligerent to encourage, by its internal ! game( piablie law, but the instruments of arbitrary edicts; and
regulations, the traie of another belligerent ; contradicting her I their unfortunate crews dispersed and Inst. or forced or in-
awn practice towards all nations in peace as well as in war; ! veiled in British ports into British fleets 1 whilst argument*
and betraying the insincerity of those professions which incul- ' are employed in support of Meese aggressions, which have ao
sued a belief, that, having resorted to her Orders with regret, foundation but iu a principle equally supporting a claim to re-
' she was anxious to find an occasion for putting an end to them. 1 getate our external commerce its all cases whatsoever. We be-
she
Abandoning still more all respect for the Deland tights of ' held, in fine, on the side of Great Britain a state of war agate*
lise 'United States, and fur its own consistency, the British CIO. I the United States ; and on the side of the United State. a dale
verement now demands as pre-requisites to a repeal of its Or- II of peace towards Great Britain.
den, as they relate to the Ueited States, that a formality should " Sabether the United States shall continue passive under
be observed in the repeal of the French Decrees no wise aces- , these progressive usurpations, and these accumulating wrongs;
vary to their termination, nor exemplified by Britishusage; s
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! or, opposing force to force in defence of their natural rights,
dial the French repeal, besides includieg that portion of the i shall commit a just cause into the hands of the Almighty tHs-
Decrees Which operates within a territorial jurisdiction as well , poser of events; avoiding all connections which might entangle
as that whicb operates on the high seas agaiost the commerce of : It in the contests or views of other powers, and preserving a cos-
ta. United States, should not be a simple special repeal in ruler stant readiness to concur in an honourable re-establishment of
lion to the United States, fiat should be extended to Whatever i Peace and friendship, is a solemn question, which the constitu.
other neutral nations unconnected with them may be affected by I tion wisely confides to the Legislative Department of the Go-
thuse Decrees. " vernment. In recommending it to their early deliberations, I
,
6' And, as an additional Insult, they are called on for a formal am happy in the assurance that the decision will be worthy the
disavowal of conditions and pretensions advanced by the French . enlightened and patriotic councils of a virtuous, a free, and a
Government, for which the United States are so far fru.n basing powerful nation.
been thernselyrs responsible MM. in official explanat loos, wlsick i 6. Having
_presented this view of the relations of the United
have been published to the world, and in a correspondence of 7 States with Great Britain, and of the solemn alternative growing
the American stinateraat rando„. with the British minister ; out of them, t proceed to remark, that the communications last
for Foreign Affairs, such a responsibility was explicitly and ewe made to Congress on the subject of our relations with France,
phatirally disclaimed. a will have shown that since the revocation of her Decrees, as they
" It has become indeed sufficiently certain that the commerce i violated the neutral :iglus of the United States, her Government
of the United States i 3 to be sacrificed, not u interfering with 1 has authorised illegal capture.. by its privateer' and public ships,
belligerent rights of Great Britain, not as tinplating the alias ;,and that other outrages tune been practneti on our vessels and
of their enemies, which she herself supplies; but as interfering • our citizens. It will have been seen also, taut no indemnity had
been provided, or satisfactorily pledged, for the extensive spo-
with the monopoly which she covets for her own commerce mut '
liations committee under the violent and retrospective order of
navigatioe. She carries on a use against the lawful ccinmerce ,
the French Government against the property of our citizens,
of &friend, that she may the better carry on a commerce with'
an enemy, a commerce polluted by the forgeries and perj „its, I seized a ithin the jurisdiction of France.
6' I Abstain at this tine from recommending to the sensidera-
which are for the most part the only passports by which it can
succeed. lion of Congress definitive s measures with respect to that nation,
in theexpecmtion, that the result of unclosed discussions be-
" Ansions to make every experiment sheet of the last resort
tavern our Minister Plenipotentiary at Paris and the French
of haered nations, the United States have withheld from Great
Britain. under successive modifications, the benefits of a free in- I Government, will speedily enable Congress to decide with
terrourse with their market, the loss of which could not but out- greater advantage, on the course due to the rights, the interests,
the honour, of our country.
" Washington, June 1, 1812. " JAalEa MADISON."
weigh the profits accruing from bee restrim ions df our commerce '
with other nations. And to entitle tbose experiments to the mere
favourable consideration, they were to framed as to enable her 1 An Act, declarina War between the United Kingdom of Great
--...- • a to place her adversary under thee:elusive operation of them,.— i Britain and Ireland. and the Dependencies thereof, and the
WASHINGTON, Anis*, Four o'Clock, r. w. To these appeals her Government has been cella!" italvaitliet et' United States of America, and their Territories.
The iejeortion of secrecy was aboutomeour ago removedarota !if wilting to makesacritices of every sort, rather thee yield to t " Be it enacted, by the Senate and House a Representatives
the tollowiug Message and Act:— the claims of justice, or renounce the errors of a false pride.— 1 of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That
MESSAGE • Nay, so far were the attempts carried to overcome the attach- War be, and the same is hereby declared 'to exist between tie
wear marl awn ROUsE or asuntzszsereetvai or Tan meet of the lest' isb Cabinet to Its unjust edicts, that it received ' United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and the Dimes.'
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UNITED STATES. i every encouragement, within the competeacy of the Executive ' denies thereof, and the United Slates of America, and their ter-
" I communicate to Congress certain documents, being a con- i Branch of oar Governmenate expect that arepeal of them would : Monies; and that the President of the United States be,and
he
donation of these heretofore laid before them, on the subject of he followed by a war between the United States and Fnuice, is hereby authorised to use the whole Lad and Naval Forces of
air at in with Great Britain. i unless the French edicts should also be repealed. Even this coin-' the United States to carry the sate into elect; and to issue to
" Without g m •
g beyond the renewal, in ISO, of the war in manication, although silencing for ever the plea of a disposition : printes armed vemekor the united States, Comodssioas or Let-
wadi e •
vest demi' Is engaged, and omitting unrepaired wrongs 1 la the United States to acquiesce in those edicts, originally the - ten or marque and General Reprisal, in such form as he shall
V inferior magnitude, the conduct of her Government presents a sole plea for them, received no attention. ' think proper, and under the Seal of ate United States, against
series of Asti beetileto the United States as an iiidependeat and I "If no other proof existed of a Predetermination of the Bris : the Vessels, floods and EtTeete of the Government of the said
nation. irutral n
i that Governante against a repeal of Its Orders, it might be faun& ' Hailed Hiligdose of Great Britain sad Ireland, and the Subjects
Nudists s -- have been in thateintioned practice* visa in the correspoadence of the Minister Plenipotentiary of the . thereof, •
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' ' JAMES. MADISON."

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United States, at London, and the Add* Secretary for Poovisit ! 4, Jane 18, 181 V—Approved. ---
Affairs, in 1810, os the question, whether the blockade of May
180 S, was considered as in force or as not In force. It bad been I In conaequenee of the American Government ha,-
ascertained that the Fusels Government, which urged this ' .
tug resolved upou hostilities, the Council of Lialifilt
blockader the ground of its decree, was willing, is the erect .
have issued the following .
of its removal, to' repeal that decreed which being followed ',
by alternate repeals of the other offensive edicts, t 410.. t PROCLAMAT
'TIONENZRAL allt JOSS COMPS
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aboliih the whole system on both sides. This inviting omit- sv wts• ETCILLTECT LIZOTRNAN
! Iniaity for accomplishing an ohject ,o important to the United ' ssonsectoast, amain OS Tau. 111',TT SOSOORAILL ORDER OP
States, end professed so ones to be the desire of both tbe het- • THE "Ts; Li Erre/cwt. -*ovation Anti contusion* sir States,
ligerents, was made known to the British Government. As t eitar I.ll_
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that Government admits that an actual application at an ode. I A".„._ .__"l/Plur'"Dsvccir"' '''''' "Le' "`"
gnaw force is necessary so the exigence of , 1,...) blockade,' 64 WOW= the Governmeot of dig United States of AMMON
e-R.- Act of Coogan's, an the 18tIld,ay If June last, We declared

..cootedged laws of wisr, s
tu.-ed prJpert., to he adjudged, Abboud a innentirgion
,*fore a competent tribunal, 'HeW dispashe
fairer trial, race the sacred right. ar=llllll. '111,1111114_,,,
place of such trial, these rights are butt :fA rw. °"*lrrerY
petty coetaander. - v iai i •
" The practice, .hosee, el so far fresolllbllolZikilbil
Je" alone, that under the pretext of StreWittli &met (hot'
sands of American chives*, under the isfegasr4 of inthlit /AIM
lad of their notional lag, have bees toes from theft eosstry,
and from every thing dear to them g have bees *spa on bawd
Nips of war of a foreign station, and ores* pate &estrus..
titles of their 'line, - bel eatilli 401/4411galit

and it was notorious, that if such a force had ;vet been ap: 'by the - - -----_ -
plied, its long discontinuance had annulled,- the blockade in ' War alga/m't il- United Kill". at Great Saudarkal lreland;
question, there could be no solliclent el4iredwi as *aim", and it le eepedidat that Ms' Bet.shitid be made as public am
Great Britain m a foram' revocation of it ;mg Am wohlowthts, persible In tilt Prestisier modei My gerarnment,, I bave, there-
objection to a declaration oft he fart that the hisreleilledlddis 1 I.l4l4Abeeght Ikt..by and with the advice and consents(ltis Ma.
exist.. The decimation would knee 'beets eetoutahommiZ letkiel Cassel. to issue tbis -Proelainatlie le eerier .to asks
avowed priacipirs .td hiseisadevaad wwww hime • . Its•Watbe said Declaration, that bis Majesty's subjects brie*
Abased Sea to demised frees Braise, the pledged I able 'ibis notice,• may rowers tbraweivos accordingly. •
-domes; attar With memos. th•whkih ea., ;he way would bar 4- '46 Given ander say Hand aid Seal, at Arms, it Illidtfair,
-been oportedfew a general rqtidil of the belligereni eiljaimt . ttio ant of Jids.lBl4 la the fal year of bit --,
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withoes loco", ja.widch 'Op the United States. wield . hive grailh - " J. C. SHERIMIOILE,
51;gwo justified enrolee their measures exclualitay •sigaisit -

discipt to . %am
ow deadly climes, to risk their U mei ilial. d de& es-
tors, mid to be die 110140.6111110,1"1"allr" die"
of their ono beetlielh;
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be so prompt to as,'
Run lave in
Awl that no primal
Positions, sad -
the Britt* Governmell
the United States/
be rejected, UV
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oetatthe bleethile, ernAttetare it, sow-existence, wor joenoltlts
now.oxistritittlO laterred sod aimed by the Americas Ple-
aivihohhity.-0o Ortcosisafiviy reprewatiosiethe Modred* to