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mark that the orders would have the effect
Of producing war with America replied.
6 Wigh regard to the effect which these or
ders wight nave OF our relations With Amen
ca, that was most important subject. Some
persotls apprehended that they might induce
America to go to war with US. lie trusted
not he believed not n no one would regret
snch an event more than himself. He was Tar
from entertaining the mistaken idea, that we
might redeem our own losses by the suherings
of America loss to america, was loss TO 6.
Britain. He wished to prevent war with a
1nerca for although the rnischlets winch A
lnerica would suffer by war, must hrst be telt
by her, they would eventually be felt by as
The prosperity of America was the prosperity
of Great Britain, and he was as anxious TO
preserve peace wIthAmeroa consistently With
the rights and interests of this country, rs any
man. AS he hoped that peace might be pre-
served, he believed that would be preserved;
for If any enligh cned view existed III Aine-
RIGA Of the principles of the measures Whlch
he had adopted, it was impossible that,thcy
could be the cause of war, It was Impossible
that the Americans could look at the orders Of
council, without perceiying IN them ;naay H.
stances OF caution not to lnjure SmeEca.~--
There were various exceptions In tIimun1lon
of the military effect OF those orders, Which
showed that we were DESTROYS Of doing as liz
tie injury to the United States as possible
The British government had been actuated by
no spirit of jealousy CT hostility against anne.
RIGA. They had merely done that which It
was their duty TO do, III consequence ct the
measures that had beeA adopted by the enemy
for the destruction Of the country.
The orders In council OF the / lth Novena-
Der, were founded upon the principle IS the
order OF council issued on the 9Th Oh January
last,which in its preamble declared ''that apch
attempts on the part Of the enemy his decree
Of blockadel would give his majesty an un-
questionable right Q! retaliation, ard would
warrant his majesty III enforcing the same
prohibition OF ali commerce Wlth france,
which that power had valnly hoped TO effect
against the commerce of his majesty's sub
iects." The preamble then goes on TO enforce
the necessity OF taking scme steps to restrain
the violence Of the enemy. he present ma
nisters acted precisely upon the principle LAID
down in the preamble. They did what the
late ministers enforced the justice and profess
cd their intention Of doing, In case their nlea-
sure ofretaliation did not bring the trench So
vernment,to d greater sense OF moderation. ~
did not bring the French government 70 any
such sense Theif violence and injustice H.
creased, and We adopted more tuii aba ample
measure of ret;diation-~and more iuil and
ample retaliation was even contemplated 10y
the late ministers, for in the debate upon Their
order, they replied,to some persons VINO had
OF
,iation, 6 that these gentlemen mlsconstrued
them, that the measure WIS not meant as
full and final retaliation. bat merely as an eN~
perimental one i; and that by the issue or that
expe riment would their future measures be
REGULATED" Here than we have the present
ministers pursuing The path and principle
which had been laid down by their prede-
cessors, and for doing SO they are by those
very predecessors attacked and censured. In
nineteen instances out of twenty, the country
will be very ready to allow that the present
ministers would deserve the severest censure
were they to follow the footsteps ofthe Late
though to be surenfrom the late the cehsure
would come with no great decree 81 consist
ency,
The points upon which the opposition at
tack the ministers for having adopted the
principle which they laid down, are that the /,
orders were Illegal, because they emanated
from the privy council, whose Iu'isaictlon IS
imited--that ministers should nave waited TO
enovire whether the Boosting decree Of block !
ade had ever been carried into etiect--thatihe
order Of council oft 9Th January was only
carving into effect the rule oil the war OF 1886 |
that that part ofthe order which related to
certificates OF origin, was not conformabie to
law--that it would have been prudent, while !
an important negotiation with America was
going on, to abstain frem any thing that might
Illustrate its object-that the refusal OF the
president Of the United States to ratlty the
I4.r .or- ~ r,,,naf that If had not been ratiGn