Portland gazette and Maine advertiser., 1808-12-05

and win mee> due punishment. Tut i IS
highly improper to give transactions Of this
kind 4 false coioring, and endeayor 10 impose
onthe public mind.
- ocGotrSctgCSfG c.
We this day publish Mr. Madison's "a
NOUS letter to Mr.. Erskine, the British
minis,erinabe United States. 10 subscribe
% the whole tenor Of this production Of our
secretary, would at once be to acknowledge
ourselves pzens Of France, and the hum
bic vsssals os the tyrant Bonaparte. We
should certainly join in every proper and eff
fectuaI mean to obtain an exemption from
the wrongs and injuries we experience from
Great Britain, but we, cannot see how ti'is
object as 10 be secured by such communica-
tiy,s as Mr.. Madison's letter. The arch
Talleyrand himself could not have aPologi-
zed for Bonapsrte's DEGREES in better
manner than Mr. III. has. The Secretary
says, dat France had never acted in regard
tothe commerce ofthe u. S. Under tie Ber-
In decree, til the case Of The Horizon ;
when in fact, months before thai, cur YES
sells and property were detained at Ant
werp. The truth is, our government adoP-
ted no cfectual measures 70 ward OF the
approaching ruin with which the DEGREES OF
Bonaparte threatened our commerce. Their
partially or folly induced them to believe
that France could DO no wrong. TIft cdr
Tor ofthe N. York Evening Post remarks,
SCI cannot permit this letter to pass thro'
my press without entering along with il my
feeble protest against the iRsidious. deceitful
CLOSES it aims 20 throw over the atrocities
Of France. In all that relates TO the execu-
ton of her Berlin decree, there is not ouly
an attempt to colour, but I am sorry to be o.
bHged to add, a guilty design to misrepre :
sent. II IS tot tEe, that the Horizon was
tie first case in which the decree. was, exc
cuted for American ships had before that
been seized at Antwerp, and are still de-
tanned there under it. It's not hue that the
French government ever gave cur minister
any explanations at Paris, that The French
decree would BOT be put in force against the
United States. And i demand of Mr.. Mad.
ison, how he dare to say this, with the fol-
lowing document staring him in the face
Letter from the grand fudge, apiaistey Of
justice, TO the iDlb-riat attorney general FIR
the council Of prizes
"HAR1s, IS September, 1907.
(TransIstion.)
" l have submitted % his majesty the
emperor and king the doubts raised by his
cNceilency the minister Of marine and COLO
mes, on the extent Of certain dispositions III
the imperial decree Of the 2lst November,
1906, which has declared the British isles
IN q state Of blockade. The following are
lis maJesty's intentions On the points ia
question
1st. May vessels Of Wa, by virtue OF the
imperial decree of the 21st Nov. last, seize
on board neutral vessels either English pro-
perry, OF even all merchandise proceeding
from the English manufactures or terri
tory
Ansgeer. His majesty has intimated that
as he did not think proper TO express any
exception in bis decree, there IS no y, ound
far making any IN ITS execution, in reL4fios to
any Ssh0msoeger."
(Signed) RECNIER.
Mr.. Madison, in his letter to Cen
Armstrong, in May SOY, says, "there
are 1lroof8 that the West-India priva-
teers have, uHder color Of the edEcfs,
tFrench Berlin decree COMMITTED
DEPREnATIoNs, which will constitute
Just claims Of redress from the French
Government 2"
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