The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1808-08-05

such measure on England France indcm'
miying the neutrals, was) agreeable to the
known law of nations. But the qDestion is
--Tyhat f,rodaced this refaGatine me0 sisre Of
/ fhe French Government? The answer is.
England: she is the committcr of the origi-
nal aggressions on neutrals and the cause OF
the defensive oscillations of France. =
in June, 1898, England, provoking the con.
ticuance of such measures of France, and a
vowing it to be in execution of her March
treaty with Russia, issued her June orders of
council, to stop all cargoes of provisions
bound in neutral vessels to France. 1t was
done to defeat the French struggles for Ii
berty, and American independent trade and
navigation. She had before stopped other,
nentrals. England vaunting in that .'supe-
riority at sea" which her Russian treaty
gave, and which has aggravated the rage OF
her enemies. and bent upon the monopoly Of
commerce, put forth these orders Of June,
| 1898. To complete the deliberate sins a.
gainst neutrals and against her befGgersnt
adversary, Britain secured AN indemnify re
| her ministers for any orders of council, how
ever contrary to the law ofnatons, the COM
mon law of England or the parliamentary
statutes. The 25th section of thes English act
| of the 18th of June, 1898, indemniiies their
ministers for every possible violation OF neu
trial rights and trade, under orders of coun-
! I'll iHQ every poSShDiC NlotdliOl- VI tHc
usages of war among belligerents under those
orders. The constitution of England was
thus acknowledgements order to des-
troy her enemy, who is pretended to be an
aggressor on such Il lawIess and deSpotic
enemy, by much later decree of Novem-
| Der, 1907. In this attempt to DESTROY an en-
Gmy, neutrals are attempted to be deprived
during the whole war, of all the protection
| Of the law Of nations-the i0zv Of morQLs-
! The base vote of a Tudor parliament, that
an executive proclamation of the king of
| England could repeal its acts, was to be re-
allied as to u.s. would be, if we suffered
it. Americans Never so to sea on such mean
conditions. Probe now to the bottom this
aFiLri OH your i,onui-your intcrcsts-vour
| ndependence-The heart sickens with in
dignant agjtations, when the insolent and
pernicious perpetrator Of such gross aggres-
sions, basely insults our wrongs by pretcn-
ding to right of retaliation. Ills time for
these things to end
The autumr of 1898, exhibited one more
gross violation of neutral rights by the Bril-
fish government All neutral supplies for
the French colonies even of innocent goods
destined to unblockaded ports to which we
could trade by the French peace tie
OF August, 1884, were directed TO be seized
by the secret .rder of the British ling il
council of the 9th November, 1898 and all
French colonial produce, though neutral
property, even in the vessels of the allies of
England, warning with France, weres so au-
thorised to be seized by the same orders in
council Mad and dcspotic Britain it's by
such acts, repeated often till the summer of
1906, that you brought rpon yourself and
upon the neutral world the Berlin decree
of the 18th November 1906 Your subse-
quent acts of 1907, have brought on the Mil
Ian and Bayonne DEGREES, and the Americana
states, too effectuaily enlarged by these
interruptions of neutral trade through your
aggressions and the retaEiations Of your Toes |
are rendered forcibly country Of Sgricuk
ture and ianufactRres alone.
| Americans, consider for yourselves the
historical truths here offered to your view
ask yourselves, whether France, i'll peace
ever arrested your commerce with England
| against French laws, as England did by
you and France in 1892? Ask yourselves,
whether it is proved on such authority as
| that of Hamilton, that France in 1895 form
ed the project of Remembering your coun-
| try, as Britain did Ask yourselves. whether
France, in 1898, agreed with Russia to ag-
| 5reSs upon you in Il manner ureXampled,
by engaging to deprive you of all commerce
with England?
It's very true that France has made ma
ny severe DEGREES, deeply affecting neutral
trade. Heaven knows, that we do not mean
to countenance France in any wrong but
England has unfortunately pressed upon your
consideration the doctrine Of retaliation up
on belligerents, and The right of one power
at war to draw from neutrals those benefits,
which the other belligerent habitually takes,
and which the neutral is unwilling or una
bic to prevent. This CHATTER is delicate in
the eItreDte. IT'S filter for men in power
correctly to consider, than for me to discuss
in this place. IT'S enc, however, which con-
science may mt eUade, nor Prudence over
look. IT'S a time to examine and consider
81! ti"tiis, and 20 act firmly ny the rule of
right. The 7orong door must be brought 70
a hrofer course, or the Plough aud tie hoe,
the G1i7H and Me loom zoiH be our sale en-
ioymcnts.-Commerco is suspended till
Britain returns to the law of nations-the
lar of morals. Till then England and Al
gers-Scotland and Tunis--the united i'm
!perial Kingdoms of the British isles and the
Ipiratica states of wrctched BarbarY must
occupy the main. IT'S your government,
who have made this miserable condition OF
the Commercial world 1t cannot be conceal
.ed---Itcannot be denied England has made
a Tophet of the ocean. She has destroyed
! the trade of the world by her attempts to
monopolize the whole. She owes her great
ness to the import of materials she can no
longer procure By her interdicted trade--to