Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1804-03-14

10 be fa5i.a Of great pea(are 70 any one who
lovcs If, or regsrds its welfare. Such happy
fate OF things thou.d not oaly not be broken in
upon, bus on the contrary Kept entire and in-
proved as much as poiIoL4. He who woald en-
,d.avor to break in upon il, or TO ioAame anew
the fulfilling exafperanon OF the public mind
againa E lgland BY details Of partial encroach..
ments aud irritating caiualties, may lelicitatc
himfe!f Oh his bcing th. enemy OF G Britain,
but cannot well fasser himlelf with being a
true frienl TO America. If he loves tt. latter,
and difcesns things 10 their true afpeft, he will
fee thar TO embroil her with England will b., as
The old f4y,ng is, /" 10 cat off bis noi1 to be
regeaeed Of his face Iris becaulc We, thirk
fabett OF fomc captures which have lately betn
made by the Brith cruizers, and the COME.
qaences that followed thofe captures; from which
We n4ttcr ourl-lves it will appear tia, whatever
tn. tranfattons de(erve, there is
nothing in them than can be confdered as at all
xatjsaGl, whether respecting the futf:rers or the
sgg. el,rs. There rs in the levera Cafes CON-
plication of circumstances which when properly
unravelled viii make good what we fay. To
defend or juRify the aggrefh ons II they be iafly
aated, which we do not at prefcnt lee reaion to
doubt, would be as bad as is would be unjuR TO
transfer the odium of the deed from the aggref.
ior TO the nation he belonged to at large. The
people of France not to be charged with the
murders and plunder and villairies Of Rocham
beau at ST. Domingo.
The fatelnent OF captain Oakford, which, ex.
ciuhye of our private opinion Of his honor and
yeracty, We think bears on The face Of it ftfong
Indications of cifcumtantial fncerity leans hca.
Wy weight upon the judge at Halifax. How far
that Judge might be bound by the lawsuit evil
dance, as they are laid down for the guidance of
courts of law, we Cannot pretend to say. If
what the negro told captain Oakford was true and
fit was madoapparent to the judge that Mallory
had before perjnrsd himlef, the captain of the
Britifh vedcl lis highly .ondemnble; and we do
not fee, lawyers perhaps may, how the judge
could except the evidence of either the negro, or
Mllony; particularly as it was aained with per.
fdy to their employer. However without enter
ing into that subject, and supposng il not to have
occurred at all there is sufficient evidence in the
conduct of the British courts at home & again in
the affair OF the Martha Crawey, Clts The Char
hFan head intbis days AaUtrtiIerJ & the conduct
of the Judge at Antigua, TO war ant something
more ti.an suspicion that those who have hitherto
been employed by Great Britain as Admiralty
1iudges in their distant colonies, have had dspo-
sition to further the rapacity and cover The
injustice of the British crnzers. But the very e.
violence we have of this, becomes the direct excul-
patton of the government, laws, and courts at
home of Great Britain. FORT is from their une-
auivocal disapprobation and reversal Of the Co.
lonial judges DEGREES, that the injuftce OF the
latter is proclaimed. Il appears 100, that those
infances of judicial fraud have been too numerous
,o.allow Of ,hc.charitable suPposition that they
we're committed in error.
Indeed, according, to the account given by
Captain Tate, it appears thar the judge at An
tigua had the prefumpticn 70 impeach the deci-
,lions of the Lords OF Appeal at home in England
+" He thought them wrong" No d5abt "a did
75e eabtors-But fortunately, fuch, dtcifons snd
fuch decidcrs, have not feathers weight in the
eve of the Btitiih deciders at home, when thrown
into the fcale againG juficc. The colonial
Judge againff whom iach faying could be Prov
ed cafe, ought to be called home, inquiition
made into his motives and realons, and partcu
laIy into his poflible connection and feeling with
the caprors, and tevcrc punihment inflicted upon
him. In cafes where fach wrong is done to indi-
yiduals, ana fuch danger of breeding diacmper-
ed blood between two nations is incurred, re-
cousfe houldbe had TO Ggnal, exemplary and
infan; cafigaiion.
Wehavs often expi 3ssed Our adherence
Of the principle OF privateering. Nothing
bur exiirpatioo can etfsefually cure it. No
human prujsnce eau make provisional laws to
render il tolcrable. The ruin it has brought
on families is inealculable; and, speaking Of
il abseratiedly, nothing can be good, wise,