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HOUSE of DELEGATES.
Friday, December -.
In the House of Delegates, on
Monday last, Mr.. Pope, (of
Powhatan,) from the Special
Committees appointed for that pur-
pose, mads the following RE.
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TEE Commistee 10 whom were
referred sundry resolutions, ..
mong other things, our Foreign
Relations, and the measures Of
the administration consequent
thereon, beg leave nov 70 report
on this branch Of the subject: :
e That the French Ediess and
British Orders Of Council, d.
though the immediate causes Of
the Embargo were NOT the 6rst
grievanees Of which We had to
complain against those nations:
they were the last links, only, Of
. long chain Of indignities and
expressions, which they had pre-.
viously conspired 10 cast upon Us.
Agreeing in nothing else, those
powers, seem to have agreed, as
least, in the point, Of heaping in.
suits aud injuries On the United
States, in total disregard Of the
relations of amity which subsis.
ted between Us, and in direct and
gross violation Of the best settled
principles of the Law OF Nations.
As 10 Great Britain, il seems
70 your committee, tha., ever.
since she was reluctantly, com.
PEELED 70 acknowledge our indie.
Pendencs, she has been pursuing
4 system Of measures calculated
to regain the ground which she
has lost; to bring US back to our
colonial subjecsion and Deepen.
dsnce on her, and thus to effect,
BY her policy, what she was una.
bic to accomplish by her arms.
Awaiting herself Of the identity
OF our Language she has extended
her laws Of iuipressment 70 Us ;
and, is If we were still her colo
MES, has forced " to contribute
to man her feets. At this mo.
ment, u least three thousand free
born American citizens, perhaps
many more, are mourning on
board the British feet, a hope
less separation from an the CON
nexionstlearest to their hearts !;
are pining and expiring in . cap.
tiyity worse than Algerine, be.
cause its immediate CONSCIOUSNESS
are to be involved in i war OF plum.
der against their own country,
and. in the end, too probably, In
. war against the lives Of their
eountrymcn. Great. Britain NOT
only refuses to release these men,
but she refuses to adopt any regu-
lation, whereby the outrage may
be prevented in future. On the
contrary, her board Of admiralty,
in answer % . propositionto this
effect, from alate minister Lord
Holland, has declared, that the
existence OF her navy depended
on the continuancc Of impress-
ments o heEetofore practised.-
Your committee see, in this. de-
elaration, the avoWal of . firm and
settlsd purpose. that %. long as
the United States shall speak the
same language, with 6. Britain,
they shall contribute to nourish
and support the British ileet, d.
though the power Of that Heet i
70 be turned sgainst themselves.
Your committee deem il an idle
anaridieulous mockerysso. vaunt
of the sovereignty and indepen.
dence of our country, while the
persons and liberty Of our eiti.
zens are insecure while . foreign
nation is permitted. at her plea.
suse, to come amongst Us, TO
seize on our eoIntrymen, and
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