Berkeley and Jefferson intelligencer. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va.) 1802-1810, 1808-04-08

from the President.
To the Senate and House Of Rrpresent0-
nvcs efihe United States.
Believing that the confidence and uni
on of our fellow citizens, at the present
crisis, will be still further confirmed by
the publication Of the letter Of Mr..
Champagny to Gen. Armstrong, and
that Of NJ. Erskine to the Secretary Of
State. communicated with my message
Of the 3oth ult. and therefore thatit may
be useful to except them from the conf.
Dental character Of the other documents
accompany ing that message, ! leave to
the consideration Of Congress IS the expo.
dieucy Of making them public.
$780, Til JEFFERSON.
April. 1903. +
On motion Of Mr.. Giles the following
letters were ordered to be printed.
Washington, February 23d, 1908.
SIR,
have the honor to transmit to you
the copies of certain orders OF Council
which his majesty has thought proper to
issue in consequence Of the hostile cor.
duct Of France towards the navigation
aud commerce Of Great Britain and of
Lneutral states.
His majesty has been induced hither.
to to iorbear recurring to measures Of
this nature by the expectation that the
governments Of the neutral states, who
have been the objects Of the French De-
crees, would have been awakened to a
Just sense Of what they owe to their in.
tereses aud own rights, and would have
interposed with effect, either to prevent
the execution Of the French DEGREES, or
to procure their abrogation.
But his majesty having been disap-
pointed IN this just expectation, and per-
ceiviug that the neutral nations, SO far
from opposing any effectual resistance,
have submitted to whatever regulations
france MAJ, have prescribed for giving
effect to her DEGREES, can no longer re-
frain from having recours to such mea-
sure$ as by retorting on the enemy the
in~eoF&eniences and evils produced BY
his Injustice aud violence, may afford
the enkS remaining chance Of putting an
end to 4 syatrm, the perseverance in
which j. not more Injurious to his ma.
irs.y's dominions than to nations not par
ties to the war between Great Britain
and France.
The principle, upon which his maies.
" finds himself compelled 10 proceed,
would justify a complete and unqualified
retaliation on his part Of the system an
nounced and acted upon BY France, in
respect to his NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.: and
his majesty might, therefore, have de-
clared in a state of rigorous and unmiti.
gated blockade, ALI the coasts and colo.
MES of France and her allies. Such a
measure, the maritime power of Great
Britain would have enabled his majesty
70 enforce nor would those nations.
which haze acquiesced, without effectu.
al remoustrance. in the French decree
Of blockade, have derived any right
from the perfect execution Of q CORES.
pondiug determinations or the part of
his majesty. o complain Of his maiesty's
enforcing that measure, which the me
my has executed impertectly, only from
The want of the means of execution.
His majesty however actuated by tbs
same sentiments Of moderation by which
his maiesty's conduct has been uniform
" governed, has, been DESTROYS Of allie
WAITING, as much as possible, the ,incon.
v~sniences necessarily brought upon leu
tral nations by = state aEfaAgs 70 unfa-
vourable to the esmmereialintercouse of
The world ; and has therefore a~nxiously
considered what .modi6cafions it wsuid
be practicable to apply to sks principle
upon which he is conpsiled 70 act, which
would not. at the same tme that they
might aEoEd relief Rou the pressure Of
that principle upon neutral or friendly
nations, impede Or enfeeble its operati-
on upon the enemy.
In pursuance Of this desire, the order
in Co,ncii. which, If il had ended with