The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1806-09-30
PROM Il PARIS PAPER.
TO THE BRITISH NATION.

TO THE BRITISH NATION.
Arrogant as your government has often fhewn it.
ieIf in moments offueeefs proud and donneerine as
is the character Of your civil and military officers to-
wards unarmed and defenceefs nations have too
much philanthropy to attribute 70 the mafs of any
rationshe vices Of its administration. 7 will Gill de-
light to believe that there exits in the Britii nation
afurd OF juttire and humanity, ready avenge the
injured and threatened rights Of peaceful and impair
tisl neutrality In making appeal to your fenfe
of equity, am fill aware that enter into an I'M
proniing career. The application is made to one Of
the colset, againf Of the mof influential prnci-
pies OF human aeaoDI National glory, cupidity, pa
triotdm and iefslove will be all invoked to combat
your reafon your enfs of ultce. Still supported by
truth, and animated by hrong fenfe of unmerted
injury, come boldly to the combat, and if there yet
ferls in Britih bofoms more love of honor than of
money, more regard to reputation than wealth-lnore
teiPeet Tor juttice than patton for Nomination. fall
mot make NY rse,i .= -:;7... &c. ~
During the whole eourfe of the late and prefer,
wars IT is we'll known to all Europe, and to no part
It better than ysuelurs, that the conduit of your
efn'zers, and OF your courts of admiralty has been
marked by an uninterrupted ferries of violations of
neutral rights So long theie nfraaions were ref
trained within fuch bounds, that upon authentical
calculations neutral nations thought it cheaper to ub-
1nit to njufce rather than incur the expenoe, and
rnques OF the process neeeilary to redreis 70 long
nave they unlimited to it as to inevitable evil
BUT nereating infoence and accumulated injury have
fully proved the wiidsn of the ancient MAXIM " o.
~ frT7sipftT," and have compelled us to adopt the
ientinei't OF an elegant writer of your own sounry,
that nation who weigh its buyE againR it's rigbf,
will III the end be iurc to lofe 5sb."
In the early part Of the late war, America made
hand, and 1t was feeble one againf your gigantic
maritime Pretentions and 100000 pounds hrrlinp
paid by you to her citizens, while it j, recorded
proof oil the injulce Of your fezures, had perhap.
the double and unfortunate ee Ct of lulling her into
feeury, and of expofng her in defencele. Gate to
the ttorm which appears be now ready to burt up
on her head.
Within few months paf, your cru;zers and your
obcdent tribunals have overleaped the feeble bouuda
ries which feffe ofjuificc had hitherto oppoied to
rapaety, and the purlieas of Doctors Commons would
lead ftranger to believe, that America, and not
France, was the ohe& of Your vengeance Aware
of the jua indignation of brave and loyal people
your nl'niitry are endeavoring etey thernf. Ives
p",u tvtpeii ana, oy rouing the avarice and the
resentment oil the nation, TO throw the refponlbty
from their own fhoulders upon thoie of the people
4 pamphlet, we learn, has lately appeared under mi
ni.teial anction, attempting uaify their unprinci-
pied and unexannPed aggrelions, and preparing the
public mind for what they know will be the efTea Of
their perseverance, an open war.
Will you lend patient ear to Granger while he
examines one or two of the principles advanced bv
your courts fyliug themielves courts of ufie<-and
in the fecond place, while he offers brief reply to
tore OF the ideas (Sto be advanced In the mnifle-
rial pamphlet in favor Of a war with America.
Although from the nature of the cafe there can be
iefs precifIou and certainty in deufng oueGon, up
on the law ofnatons than upon tIo}e of mniri,a az.
tbdrity, foaed upon DEGREES or latutes vet rhs com
mon confetti OF all the nations of Europe to adop,
certain principles, as laid down By certain able com
entatoTs on thefe laws, and the introduction of ,bele
writer's, as authorities in the courts of admiralty fecp
TO have furui!hed fold BATS on which to rem our
oPiy'ens on any guef.ion which may arifc between
coD2iGing nations.
~ Great-R Britain peeqlly has no right to controver.
the prineipleslsid down by thefe writers. becasle
h,e has uniformly received Them as authorities in her
courts, and has always made fem the BATS of her
claims on other nations, in her judicial and dplo.
s,stic relations. IF on the other hand there exied
uch commen.ators,nor any poitive conventions be-
tween nations, it'll the force and obligation Of e laws
of natfons, founded on the n'mutabls principle, of
lutee and morality, would be equally great but ia
This latter cafe we could only have recourfe 10 the
principles of natural law fuggeaed and deduced nv
impartial reafon. Ietus examine the two great mo-
deTn, novd doctrines advanced, and attempted to lie
enforced by O. Britain, by either Of theIe aapdards
And, srf to her interdietion of the C9sgioi, H.,
sf1fy HiysS7ty isdye7y. @. Britain contends fha,
peutrals 10 time OF mall not carry on trade h.
tween me cooiieso i her enemy and the mother cort-
cry, which was not lawful in time Of peace, ALTHOUGH
thc trade be, bona fde neutral neural
riik, and for neutral profit.
On villa, authority Is this extsuive and inpor,,n,
principle founded IL there Jingle dielum in pdf-
fendorf-n Crotus-or Yattel which juliies il 51sit
fupported by any convention explicit or implied made
between any nations Of Europe Have there been arv
images IN psa wars deeilops Of any courts Of adrni
rally, which eonrtenance it
To all ihele que lions we can boldly reply. Nes,,
Not ieGtineDt Ike this can be found in any writer
nor has any nation but G.. Britain yet dared 70 offer
fqch az atront to the rights Of independent rati-
ems.
On the contrary, no principle can bemore. clearly
icttied than that neutras may freely carry ON Their
commerce with belligerenf naiors with the finole,
7efH Afaed exceptions of not giguc relsf to an ;s
S9f aud Slsefeasfey or 6yir1f, and pinot lvppying
the enemy with things aPf0iagizg 10 zey, to which
hssbeen applied the srptllator Of soahabaaA
his privilege nf Dearas s even carried fo tina,
neutral uatons have The Ugh, 70 upply freely ore Of
fhe [3xsrsst Datois with ivei.tnasf If .say, pro.
v.dsd ~ uIOal commerce in time Of peace eoned IN
faFP'yng iufh articles. Never did tie queaon, sbe.
der tie 0afe was futh one as was allowed by the
ie5gsren, nation in tine 81 peace, applied to any O.
ekrT 'sas eosUsssrd articles, srls in any sngs ;R-