The Statesman.
London, England, 1810-07-11 00:00:00

AMERICAN PAPERS.. -
.• , . 'CIRCULAR. •
" Triaitiry Department, May 14, itlia.
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gin,-You will herewith receive' a printed
copy of an Act congernieti the Commercial Inter.
course between the United States and'areat Bri:
tain and France, and their DePenilencici, aria fot
other. purposes. a
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The .instructions formally given respecting
the execution of provisions of i similar nottok,'-be.
ing applicable to the two first sections of the-Act,
it is only necessary toObserie, that the "ectlitsioll
from the }Nrhours or waters under thelkrisdic:
lion of the I.Joiteti States, embraces (tabled only
tO the exception, made by the Act) every descrip.
Bon of British or French armed. vessels, Whether
public Of private, and whether siding with 'or ivith..
Out * commission, authorising 'the capture of vet.
isetu... .4.
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'Ail Other reitrictions on.the tom• inereial In.
7tereotirse %with trance or Great Britain, not pre.
Kota/ repealed, have expired on the Ist Instant.
64 _I am,' &c. ' - . -•
- - -;;ltlened) “rai..ttEß,T GALLATIR."
•Attic Yottit, Jutts t.-Mr, Jackson xsiitieft
Minister) left thia City on Saturday afternoon last,
in lhoeisperiMeof ; arrived at Hudson on MentlaY
rentaig,. uod oe ihe following morning prOCiteded
Hato the interior- for Nor thampton(Mttssachesets),
r.-We learn that the-latert account,Odin France.
In .the hands of GoVernment, are of the ntosit
gloomy complexion. - Mr. .ArnistrOag ceiteinlY
returns; desiring Mr. Hosed, Charge d'Affeires.
At new. Minister. is temirig oat,. but Go4cidttient
itAloiltitprizt(l of his übpct. . . • :
reost.TtlF. NATION At I STELLIGEIIIefIi, Ma* 92.,
. The infrtrmation recently received li•om Franca
i is of inch a complexion as to give increased inter,
oat to the arrival of Op John Adam:. By hero
is. probable ,that a fuller, perhaps, a coneltisiiro
. indication of the temper of the French Govern. •
ment will be receives. We shall then, ptobably, •
t be enabled to decide whether, bad as the exiting
state of 'll,oo'l,lth her is, the prospect is not that
I they will gray instead-of better ; And wl4
(her the time is not-at hand when every American
vessel entering the ports of the Continent of Europe
will bemandeinned ?' whether; In fact, 'any trade
hr the, Continent can 'be carried on with safety ?
We would nut .wisp, to paint the dangers of the
Comtpereial World in eai•iNerating colours; but
it is a truth, which wither can nor ought to its
' disguised, that the whole foreign horiton border;
, , with *ingers. The nemernus private letters re.
: I eeived from every part of Europe, under edntretil
of Ratx64--iirtu. v...irraittirli re I he. ton. 4• a the official
elocowents in “ur. last. paper; and are comment*.
ries which cannot h.! mistaken, otistlie note of the
Dec _ tic Cadore. Our vessels are every where
leized, not by the municipal authority, br eon,
formality to, the usual forma of judicial proceed.
ings, but by the strong arm of military pchTer :
nut in detail, -but in mass. •. A general condemns.
lion follows, and by one tremendous sweep, in 41.1
lions are carried into the public Coffers. In many
nods all this was done, not merely without nu.
tire, but in direct .violation of saletini assurance;
of protettion ; and from Denmark, imfortiinele
Denmark !•st e are threatened with the lawless de.
predations of a swarm of privateers. '
Such are the outrages committed on our rights;
which, it wniild seem; jl-,w from the mandate, of •
the French' Goirnment, contemporaneous with
the noteof the Disc de Cadore. What proSpect
quire is of being released from them may be best
ascertained from the torte itself. This paper, it
will be observed, is nit light or hasty expos'.
titre of the sentiment of the •FrenCli Govern,
mot. It purports tO he a • 'written • answer
given to tli4 verbal Overtures of oat Minister.--
" Thit the President of the United Stales. may •
1 the better know the friendly lair:lotion' of franca
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towards the United States, and her favaittable die.
inisiiione to American commerce." It it coast'.
fluently written to prevent• hit:mistakes, acid wu
Might per ha ps add, to silencoll Witt' of any change
for the better. .
•" If, then," says the Notri after going int ty
some 1,08111, " the Atioister .of America can cuter
ints• an rugagenten't -Oat the American vessels Kill
not sitinnit to the Orders in Conned of Novi:Aber
It3o7,:awor to any decree Of blockade, finless the
blockade shoull•be real, the Undersigned is an.
thoriaed to con -Hide every species of convention
tenilinA to renew the- Treaty,-of Commerce with-
America, and in which all tip measures proper to
emisoliklate the cotninerce and the prospetiry of the
Americana shall- be proaitted foe.? •
The only construction -that cen be pet upon,
this language is, that if• Americs willractually make
war upon England, France with entOke -a treaty'
with "her. For, France knows that, short of
,going to war, se have done every thing to resist
the British •Clrders.iti• • Conned, and proclamation
blotitades ;I that stir have imposed- an, embargo,.
passed a anit.intereourse Irw, and prohilMett- Eng.
.lisp /gifted vessels from entering out waters; 'and
that we have offered to her to coritirose the two latt
prehibitions, on far as- May affected 'England, if
she would rescind her edic!s;wtore than this cooly'
not have been dune, onle4s..we' had actually-matte •
war on England. This, then, is-the end Ite n hich
France 1141118 Still Ole • her sir* pet non for. res.
reefing our rights. And iteeause ksc do notlake
this step at her dictation, we are reproached with
a want of 44 jest p•)litical views of honour and
of ettergy,'!, .I'.llo hlooti Ahat was spilt in it.
ehieviiig °or liberties is called tip in judgment
against its, end we are told, that we " eught.ci.
they to tear to pi;:ces tic act of our independence,