Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1808-11-09

|, THIS DAY at 70 o'clocS. the
President of the United States
communicated By Mr.. Coles his
Secretary, the foJlo1vsng MES
SAGE to both hoales ct Con-
tgYeSs.
To TIE Senate and House Of Representatives
o. Tie United g,Rtes.
IT would h,Te been source, fellow-
citizens, Of much qualification, if our last
communications from Europe had enabled
meto inform you, tllat the helligerent nati-
ons, whose disregard. Of neutral Tighrs hes
been so destructive TO our commerce, had
become awakened 10 the duty and true po-
hey Of revok ng their unrishteous edicts.
That no means might be omitted to produce
this salutaiy effect, lost 10 time in avail
ing myself of the act .authcur;sing susp-n-
sion, Ia whole or il part, Of the several en-
barge laws. Our ministers at London ard
Paris were instructed to explain 70 the re-
spective governments there, onr disposition
to exercise the authority in such .aatlner as
would withdraw tie pretext or which the
aggressions were originally founded, and O.
pen the way for a renewal OF that CONNER
cial intercourse which it was aliedged On all
Ssides had been reuctantly ohsrructac. rs
zach OF those governments had pledged its
,reaciness to concur IN renouhclng mea-
a'ire which reached is adversary through
Ilie incontestable rights Of nc,rTals oHly, end
Us the measure had been asslaaed by each
Us retaliation for IN asserted acquissceace
ID the agsTessiona Of the OH Er, it was res-
spaably expected that the ctcasion would
have been seized by both forI evincing the
sincerity OF their professions, had for restor-
ihg to the commerce ot the United States
j 5 legitimate freedom. Gne instructions
tP ourministers wiei respect b the different
b Eiligerents were necessarily sF oa.fed with
a f@fere nee tc .heir diGerent circumstances,
and TO the condition annexed BY lawt the
executive power Of auspensidn requiring q
degree OF security TO Our commerce winch
would not result from repeal Of the de-
clees OF France. Instead Ola pledge there
for. Of suspension ofthe embargo as 20 her
in case of scch repeal, it was presumed that
sufficient inducement might be found IN
other considerations, and particularly III the
change produced by compliance with cur
Just demands by one belligesent, and a re-
tusal BY the ether, in the relations Between
this Other and the Il. States. TO Great
Britain, whose power on the ocean is SO as
cendant, it was deemed not inconsistent
with that condition, to state explicitly, that
on her resembling her orders If relation to
the q. States their trade would be opened
with her, and remain shut to her enemy, in
case Of his failure to resclnd his DEGREES also.
From France no answer has been received,
nor any indication that the requisite change
in her DEGREES is contemplated. The favor
able reception Of the proposition to Great
Britain was the less to be doubted as her
orders Of council had not only beenrefcl1.ed
for their vindication to an acquiescence on
the part of the u. States no longer tobe pre-
tended, but as the. arrangement proposed,
whilst it resisted the illegal decreesot France
involved moreover substantially, the pre-
else advantages professedly aimed al by the
British orders. The arrangement has ne
vertheless been rejected.
This candid and liberal experiment
having thus failed, and no other event
having occurred on which a suspense
on Of the embargo by the executive was au-