The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1808-12-06

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forced to surrender to the British, promon-
tory OF Africa or an Island Of the East-In-
dies, would be the worst oiall infatua,ions
Ill tnGn WAR cannot no7c be rcsOrted to-
II SUBMISSION would be the grave of our
honor aud perhaps % cur commercial rights,
To what bette: cxDe;iient can we As, than to
the embargo and the non-intercourse sys-
tenn p
You, Fellow Comtrymen of the East. VIII
saler by it-But you have too much virtue,
too rauch rcsoint,on too much OF the here
ctary spirit CT o,ir brave fore fathers, not to
rally round the constituted authorities of your
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{ No. three will aahear as 500, as hoasi6l.
FEDERAL aISREPREsETThTT oYs
We had occasion in our last paper to con-
tradict an assertion, in the .N1rf5ik Ledger,
respecting an 0Usd%rd "rnstake' of Mr..
h;adison.-Since writing that reply, VIC have
seen the same assertions repeated in the W
York ECeniHg Post, in the most gross and
obs.s:Ce terms. il is 10 longer mere mis-
fakc i'll Mr.. NJ. which many an honest man
may have been supposed to make without a
ny breach ct morality. But in the columns of
Mr. Coeman's paper. the mistake assumes
more serieus aspect. The expressions Of
" breach Ct Ueracitu,' and .'jaisrhood" meet
US ut every turn; and the nation is seriously
called upon to contemplate "an instance Of
a0Gndonca hroFiSacy, such as will call down
the eXecration OF America, and excite the
CONTEMPT end abhorrcnce Of Mankind."-
Let us pass over the emotions, which such
attacks fran such men uhon such men arc
calculated 70 excite in every honest bosom
and come az once to the point.-NVc JON issue
with this doughty l:night of the Goose- quill
We pledge on selves TO prove to the salts
IN
has not only shown the g:ossest Ignorance,
but what is worse, a direct connivance in the
most palpable and therefore 5vilfi4i msre-
Presentation.
What is the charge ? In 7vhat, has Mr..
Madison been guilty OF a "breach of vera
city," Let the accusing criminal speak for
himself: Mr. Mad. in the 10Th paragraph
ct his letter of last March, to Mr.. Erskine,
makes the following statement. i state, sir,
on uadeUiab!e authority, that the f,st in
stance, i'll which that decree Qmperial de-
cree f21st Now was huf ia force against
the neutral rights of the u. States was that
Of The Horizon, an American ship bound
from Great Britain to Lima, wrecked within
the territorial jurisdiction of France, but
condemned under an exposition of the decree
extending to the high seas its operation a.
gainst neu:rals' such is the assertion I
said IL 50a8 not true. And hogv does Mr..
Coleman prove this point 1.-THE following
is extracted from a letter addressed by the
highly respectable house Of Homburg and
Homburg, freres, to one of the first merchants
OF this city" This ettc.' is addressed from
Havre, 13th Sept. 1907, to John y. Murray,
OF New York, and states, that Capt. Hop
kins OF the brig Victory con entering Cher
bourg Roads went ON board of the French
trigate stationed there, tomakc the usual re-
port to its captain, who demanded if he had
not put i'll at any English port during MS pas
sage from America, and read to him the
imperial decree ofthe 21st November which
pronounces coniscation in case of a faise Dr.
claraHoi!-and that OH the 9th inst. upwards
os40o bags of Sugar being already III shore,
the Cnstom-House officers went on board,
and seized the ship and cargo, because the
captain had made d false report" 1t was
not until April 9th, 1903, that on This ground
! the Victory and cargo were Condemned UNI
der the Imperial Council OF Prizes
! In tins respect, therefore, the proof of
Mr.. Coleman obviously fails Mr.. Madson's
expression is, "hut in force p but jiusfiBg
in free or executing decree are very dit
tereht things from mere preliminary sci
sure OF a vessel.
But even admitting that mr. G. is rigbt
IN fhfS con}hsion OF different expressions
( let the seizure of 81 vessel be supposed to be
the same as her condemnation--the seizure of
tue ffctory, though it had happened several
Gays before the condepnatisn OF the Horizon
wil not avail him. For this purpose, the
seizure OF the one ought ID have been made
| on thc very same grounds with the condcm-
nation of the other-whertas it was made
on principles essentially different. The for
mer was made on the ground, that the Ber-
lin decree of Nov. 2lst, nal Il mun:cihai eff
! feet; thc]aticr or the ground, that i, extend
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