Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1808-07-26
aIsranDrta DaiIp Dasetta,
COMMERCIAL 81 POLITICAL.

From the Gazette Of the Uaitsd Sfates.]
French DEGREES 81 BRIrIsH ORDERS,
The deceptions which have been practised
BY friends of the administration, in re-
gard to the French DEGREES against neutral
commerce and the British orders IN council,
have rendered it important to call the atteT-
ton of the public to the subject, and to ex-
pcse the Misrepresentation OF those whose
svs.ematic Objects to palIiate the outragss
OF. one Of the belligerent powers s to agsggra-
!. 8 vate those Of the other. 70 ask the parti-
s sans Of France and of tllsssaeinaiEstration to
correct the misreprese ntations would be USE
). less and idle: but we do hope that aA tie
eaifors Of papers who wish the people to be
CORRECTLY informed of the nature of our TO-
4. ign relations, and Of the read causes OF
our embarrassment ond degradation, will
I lend lis their aid, at this eventtul period, IN
correcting the false Impressions which have
been extensively made by cunning misre-
presentations.
Iris every day asserted in the govern
,aent papers, and has at length come to be
very generally believed, even BIZ men who
wish for correct information, that Bona
!. nalIe's Berlin decree remaiaeda dead letter,
anti it guas stimfsls cd mo o'sd actlosty
sbv tie British orders IN coatsc7k--.h9t trevi-
suS to those orders 1t zukas aezs,. attended to
e:cec,sted against the y. sSfafes.
pei ,The last Washington Monitor anoficiai
ngpir of the cabinet, says:
.s09p 81 The Berlin decree was never Carried IN.
20 xffsct against neutrals Gas has been proved
w British merchants strictly examined at
yae bar of the house OF Commons before
Aies EngEsh orders Of ,ccancI were issued
November last; and, indeed Napoleon
ronld.not have executed that decree against
the Americans, who were the principal neu-
stral, without rishing war with Us, which
X wasfar from being his desire then to pro-
Hoke.s
NEIr. Brougham, IN eminent counsellor,
Nho appeared before the British house Of
.Commons in Support of certain petitions
against the orders In council, declared:
g z hat there is not only no evidence Of
hose measures 1.-THE French DEGREES aav-
~ been enforced, but every argument and
estsys;,,ss sh4, power Of she sssaay To urge
Fem in some respects, and IL others. to
Aow that he had no desire TO tlo Sc. hose
ew DEGREES Of the enemy have been nothing
sat so much waste paper; IN other words,
sxhey ai-c a repetition OF the ancient, uslpro-
fable, and vap;d gasconade OF the French
government. These DEGREES had not, and
\ could not, have any etfsct, hns to evince to-
1.-The world taat Bonaparte had some desires
which be could not grsEfr.
Mr.. Barring, respectable and web inform
\ ed as he IS, has ilnprudenty sentured to
assert, in his palnphlst, that It IS $ q ,aotori
oass fact ssfkat no condemnation Of an A0se-
,ieaa vessel hal eeey takeal piece 2 under the
Berlin decree, previous to the publication
Iof the British orders.
Several witnesses examined at the bar OF
the BRUSH house of commons testified the
same thing.
o. Mr.. Wilson C. Nicholas, the leading
i ministerial member IN the house Of repre-
tsentatiyos OF the United Sta.cs, from the
hate of Virginia, IN circular letter to his
Constituents, holds The same lsas,ua and
Every democratic paper In the L. States
hss so hong aad 50 uniformly represented
the exerntion OF Bonaparte's decree against
lus. retaliating measure occasional by the
sBritish orders, that many honest and wen
informed men, staggered by such numerous
assertions, have been induced TO give up the
soait, and to acknowledge, that tho France
) the aggressor al zu0rds, our commerce
sreally undisturbed. and our rights an
barred until the British orders induced
French emperor 20 enforce his decree
&ast us, contrary 70 his original inten-
sfHe whole of this Is GROSS delus;pn.