The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1806-02-15

m tie pro'ecntiou OF that trade, together wsh their
cargoes, whether French neutral. Theie conden,-
nations, however proceeded upon peculiar grounds.
In the ieven years war, France did throw open to
to neutrals the traffic of her coloncs She cabli.h
ed no free ports IN the eal in the wen, with which
foreign veiels could b. admitted TO trad. either ge-
morally, or occaiionaliy as iueh. Her firi pra aiee
was fimF.y to grant fpeciai licences to particular
reur',l vciicls, principally Dutch, and commonly
chartered by Frenchnien, TO make under the uiual
retrieons particular trading voyages to the colonies
rhee licences furniied tn Britiih courts with PEE
eular reaicn for condemning veiiels falling under
them, viz. that they became in virtue Of them the
adopted orna,urazed v.ieis of France" As.oonasit
was known that this effc& imputed tn theie H.
cences they were dfcon,inued pretended 70 be f.
bu. the diicontinuGnce, whether real or iuppoied
produced no change in the conduct Of Great Britain;
for neutral vslels employed in this trade, Were cap
,ured and condemned as before, The grounds up
OH which they continued to be 70 captured and con-
denned may bea he co!le6ted From, the reainrs ub-
Joined 70 the printed cafes in the prize cauies decided
by the high court of admiralty I'm which fir Tho
mas Salibury at that time preded) and by the lords
commiihoners ofappeal i'll 1857 ardl769.
In the cafe OF the Ancrics, (Which Dutch
Grip, bound frcm Saint Domingo to Holland, with
the produce Of ,hae iland be.ongng to Frence fub-
jests, by whom the veiIa had been chartered) the
reaicn iia,ed in the printed cafe, is, that the hip
muf be lookd upon as French fhip Coming from
ST. Dominso) FOR by the laws of France, foreign
hip can trade to the French Weft Indies.
In the cafe of the fbp, the reafon (aigned by Sir
George Hays and and Mr.. Pratt afterwards lord
Can,den) is, q for that the Ihip (though once the
properly o. Dutchmen) being employed in carrying
proviiions to, and go DDS fran, French CO.
lony, thereby become French iiip, and, as luch,
was iuifly condemned.
Its obvious tina, the reafon ncafe Of the America,
proceeds upon Proclamation, tht, the trade vas,
by the itauding laws of France even up that mo.
n,ent, confined to French Clips any Iips found en-
rloyed in it, muf be French fhip. The reainn in
the o,l'er cafe, does rel sVon this idle pre:,mp.
ton, but takes another grouil for it oates, that by
reaton OF the trade, in whic .te vciel employed,
The became French veiei. I is n,anfet that this
is no other than the hrG idea & adoption, or natura
lizasion, accommodated 10 the change attempted to
be introduced into the ae of tngs b. the actual or
pretended diiconnuance of til fpecia licences What
then is the amouet os the do6ne of the feven years
war, in the utu,of extent whch it is po!Iibe to al
cribe to 1t lis i'll !ubfane', more than this
that,as France did not at any period Of that war, a.
handen or IN any degree iuPfd, the principle of
lonal monopoly, or tie fyite, ariiing out of it, oe,-
trail veiiel, found in the pr.ecuton of the trade,
which, according to tat principle, and that fyileu,,
iii contnuingin force, coul only be French trade,
and open to French vei'es ether became or was ie
gliiy to be prefun'ed be, French velIe Il, cam
not be necenary to how. tht ibis doctrine differs ef
centrally from the principle of the pretent day But
even nj were othsrwte, tie practice of that war;
whatiohver might be, was ioubedly Contrary
that OF TN: war OF as contracted with il. will
not BE- confdrred by thoie who have at all attended
TO ms mitoFy OF teie two periods, entitled any
peculiar vcnerati,r
The ELECTS of that pr,dise were almon whollv
contined to the Dutch, who had rendered them
'eives extremely obnoxious Great Britain, by
the feh and puii'aninous policy, as it was laIlely
called, which enabled them during the feven wears
war, to profit of the troubles of the ref of
Europe In the war Of l744, the neutrality
ct the Dutch, while it ;optinued, had in it no.
thing Of con,P!aifance to france. They furnfhed
from the commencement 'f hoaiIities, on aecoun, Of
the Pragnatic function, fnccars TO the confederates
declared openly, after tine, in favor of the queen
OF hungary, and finally deter mined upon, and pre-
pared Tor war, by Tea and lind. Great Britain, of
courie, had no inducement, IN that war; to hunt af
ter any hottie principle, BY Inc operation of which
the trade Of the Dutch nigh, be halrafed or the adj
vanages OF their nestral polion, while Iaaed de
feated.
(7O6e eontinued.J