Portland gazette and Maine advertiser., 1809-12-04

I
government of the fame. he isas
5slousi : to every nation. without
exception hey ate the com
mon property and domain OF all
nankleI.
i" Confident With tbs doctrine,
merchant vedtls, belonging to indi-
Y duaIs may pats by inheritance to
PEI tons who never expoled ihemielves
10 be mate plifoners Of war. In all
her conqaeIts France has coniidered
facrcd, private property, depollted
in the warchoufes o. the yanquilhed
State, and luch have had the complete
difpoial Of matters CT trade, and at
this moment conveys by land OF mer-
| chandize, aud Especially cottons, are
paling through The French army
and Auitria, TO proceed to The deiti-
nation commerce directs. Il France
had fsised the monopoly OF the teas,
the would have accumulated III her
tcrrisory ali the products of the earth,
aud ihc would have obtained immeas-
urable wealth. AL
{" Undoubtedly, if England had
the dominion Of land, which ihe has
acquired Oh the ocean, her asqniil-
ticns w. ,la have oeen equally enor-
nous. ohe would, as in the, times
OF barbariTln, have iold the conquer
ed, and 6iltributed them as ilaves
throughout her land The avayice
Of trade would have Afforded every
! thing. ana this government of an EN-
Iieht-ned nation, which has brought
the acts of civilization to perfe6tion,
would have given the earlieit initan-
&C; Of the return of the favagc ages.
That government is fully impref'
fed with the injn!tice ct its naval
code. But what has thar govern
ment to do with juiiice, which only
inquiries for profit :
{" When France lEall have efab
lilhed her naval power, which, with
the extent Of her COATS and her popu-
lalion, will be foon accomplished, then
will the Emperor reduce thefe princi-
Piles 10 practice, and apply his man
date TO render it universal. The
right, or rather the ufurpation of
blockadlns rivers and COATS by pro-
clamation, is palpably contrary to
reaion and equity. "A right cannot
politely fprius from the will of an in
tereited party, but mutt always be
founded on the natural relation of
things. a place is not properly
blookaded to prevent the introduc.
ton OF alIiaance, by which the fur
render of the place might be protrac-
red and then we have only the
right to prevent neutral ihips from
entering the port when place is thus
1ircunli,anced, and the poileiIion of
i, is matter Of doubt between the
beie GERS and .le beiieged On this
is grounded The right TO prevent neu-
lrais from entering the place.
q" The sovereignty and indepen-
dence of its nag, ike the fever eight,
and independence of its territory are
the properly OF every neutral. A
fate rnay transfer i,lelf to another
fate II may deltroy the ar chives of
its independence. and pats from
Prince to prince, but the right Of foy-
ereisrity is indivilible and unalena.
bic no one can renounce II.
England has placed France in
ita,c OF blockade. The Emperor
has, il his decree of Berlin, declared
me Britilh Hands in a Rate of block
ade. The hrl of thelc regulations
forbid neutral vcilcls to proceed TO
France the iecqnd prohibited their
entering EngIilh harbours.
" England has, by her Orders of
Council of the nth of November,
1907, levied al inpott on neutral
lhips, and opli ,es them to enter its
ports 5efore they fail to France. BY
The decree of The 18th OF December,
of the fame year. the Emperor has
decreed, that ali iuch lhips be dena-
tionalized, which had entered Epglhh
por.s, or fubmittcd to be fearched.
in order to ward off the incon-
venicnees with which this fate of
things threatened her commerce, A
merica laid an Embargo in all her
harbours aud although France