Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1807-12-24

infer what they will do.
Congress is doing has done "a DEED
WITHOUT A NAME = / mean that cam
not find name for it, although the reader
may. It's resolving, or it has resolved, NEI-
& TIER TO FIGHT NOR no LET ITsALoNE. /
will.explain my meaning in few words, and
in the ex PLANTATION the reader will perceive that
unless England 6 Copenhagenso us, We shall
neither have peace nor war, for congress has
SO determined.
On the supposision that the kings procla-
NATION was all indirect refusal of Just repa-
ration for the national ndignity committedby
the Leopard, and that forms the basis Of Mr..
Roses mission, / was last Friday of opinion
that congress, celebrating with closed doors,
had assumed Warllke attitude, or one which
England might choose to make cause ofWar;
but subsequent event has satisfied me that
such athought was not within the walls of the
national legislature, and as / am a lover of
peace, and sincerely wish foritif it can be had
upon honorable terms, the discovery of my
mistake affords me great consolation.
am now going TO show as clearly as a ne
gatiye of the kind can be shown, that congress
( is apprized of the resoiu ion of the cabinet of
England on our complaints, and that they have
determined neither to fight nor to let it a.
lone.
The presidents dispatches by the Revenge
were received by our ministers in London in
August, and In the course of month, re-
preservation grounded upon them, was pre-
scented to the proper department The ca5i-
net of England had therefore before it an emu
meration of our complaints, and specifcati-
on of the redress claimed by the United States.
During the month OF September, and until a
bout the 10th Of Octoser, no answer was
made. For five weeks, therefore, the cabi-
Get maturey, no doubt, reflected ON our COM
plants and the redress required (; and at or
about the end of that time, gave our minis
tiers their ultimattlrn on their instructions -
The date of Mr.. Munroe's dispatches to our
executive, is the 10th Of October, and pre-
sumo that they were made up the moment
the decision Of the British cabinet was known.
With this decision, let us bear in mind ano-
Their.
The kings proclamation, which openly de-
cides upon the principal sources of our COM
plants, was published In London October the
10th; SIC days after the date of Mr.. Munroc's
dispatches.
Now think we may take it for granted
that the proclamation was we'll considered.
and matured 10 the cabinet before il was
issued, and that ten or twelve days would
not be roo long for that deliberate coDsi.
derasion which il required, and no doub,
received. From these fssts infer another,
namely. tina, when the cabinet communi-
Gated tier ul,imasumto our ministers, they
also mentioned :he proclamation they were.
about to issue TO the world. the principles
it should contain. and the practices i,
would enforce. MIR, Monroe's dispatches,
if CONJECTURE rightly, stated all thar we.
know and more than We know of the pro-
cisnasion
Mr.. Munyoe's dispatches, dated sOcto-
Der 10, were received the 5.h inst: on the
9Th the heads of departments were COP.
vened, and delibera'ed on them the whole
Of the day. On the 9Th, The president
communicated to The house of representa-.
tives, confdenhoRy, the contents of the
Dispatches During the wholeof the 9Th,
and the greater par. Of the 9Th, congress,
thus made acquainted with the uitimasum
Of the British government and The con-
tents Of the kings proclamation delbera.ed
upon the messagc with closed doors.
And what, having. a view Of the whole
ground," has congress done /? Declared
war? No. Laid en- embargo? No, and
we are therefore to conclude that 10 the
estimation of congress neither the one nor
the other was necessary. What thea has
congress done Any thing for peace -
No. Any thing for war? No, and yet
il has done something: it has done what
under all the circumstances cannot but
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