Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1809-06-16

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Mr.. Jay, came forward to America.
The President received the treaty ear
| ly in March, 1895. No objection to
it being promulgated, and the Senate
being. called to receive it for rat,iicati
on, there was every reason 10 presume
that it was sofar agreeable to the Pre-
sident, that h would offer it without
objection, to that body, as indeed, he
afterwards did. Such being the ap-
pearance of things in the beginning o.
March, it may be fairly presumed that
the British government relied in MAJ :,
, 1.-TWO months after the call of the SEN
ate) with firm confidence that the trea-
ty would be ratified before any thing,
England might then do, could be
known in America. In this state OF
things, the New ORDERs of the Brit
ish Councii in May, 1895, for carryiu.,
in our provision vessels, were insidi
ously, ungratefully, aud cruelty issued.
In consequence Of this, the President
made an Immediate stand, and caused
it to be made known to the British mi
mister, that he would not ratify the trea
ty while those orders continued in
|, force. The British minister here sug.
gested the advice of ~ rcookias then,
far time ! to give factitiols mo-
ment of their non. existence for the ra-
LITIGATION. He audaciously propose /
that they should then be renewed.
Tits impossible to- describe the afro
~ xy Of rhyc cnnI,,ct IT, L
and daring HIGHWAY ROBBERY loses
some Of its guilt in comparison, be-
cause there the danger may be calcula-
ted, and measures of protection may
DC taken, but here, even suspicion is
banished by friendly assurances, pre-
caution is believed to be unnecessary,
and III this moment of faith and un-
guarded reliance, the hand Of perGdv
invisibly fixes its grasp, and you be-
come victim, when YOU surely ex-
pected to be regarded as friend. If
Great Britain should again pursue this
nefarious scheme, we trust that it will
eternally DESTROY the British faction in
this country, and that if any person
should lift his voice to extenuate her
enormity, that he will be regarded as
fixed figure for the hand of scorn to
point at. But why do we express a
doubt What other motive can actu.
! ate Great Britain, what other object
can she have in view? Ifshe ncverin.
tended to rescind her orders of coun-
Gil, why did she make the proposition,
and induce US to suspend our non-in-
tercourse, the preservation of our sea-
men, property, &c Our property now
floating on th= high seas is incalcula.
BILE, and her orders are still la exist
ence, to be carried into the most rigid
execution. She pretends to say that
1t the vessels are unapprised OF the ex.
Istence of these orders, which orcourse
they will be, as thew sailed fro their
ports under the assurances of frieod
ship, they will be warned to disconti-
nue. their voyage or 60 into some Bril-
fish port. In either case, the mischief
Il the merchant will be considerable.
Whether his cargo returns home. or
goes into British port, where it is
probable he will not make enough to
pay costs aud charges.
OUTRAGE.
AS We have uniiormly deprecated edo
ing evil that good may conceive canno,
but abhor transgresson of law ON pre-.
tence of obtaining justice. The attack on
the Chesapeake, or the msrder of Pierce
by the British, was not greatly superior in
atrocity to the act, committed by a party
of our troops in Upper Canada. The ac
count is extracted from a Montreal paper
of May ~.
Bennett deserves punishment bur, az we
have never had spirit to drag British osfen-
dsrs TO punish nent for violating our laws.
we fear it would look like pusillanim,tv'
to give up one OF our officers to the Bri
tish.
The good anil royal fsderalists how will
they act' Hivpy defended Brit, for the
outrage on n Chesdpsake, oI the plea of
British deserJers beng on board, they can
not now condemn Benuet, without running
INTO an ineXtricable dilemma. I,utbe r
Martin, alias the honest politician, ali q
Astolphus' having written book in defente
OF the attack on the Chesapeake, LAYING
the blame on our own government, mast
now defend Capt.in Bennett unless the
sagacious gentleman should discover bv
dint OF vast law-learning, thai :, crime a.