The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1809-05-09
THE ENQUIRER.
RICRlNoND, My 9, 1899
"Lefavfilon neutTe couUre la ncrchandi " %
FREE SHIPS MAKE FREE GOODS

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The Editors Of the Baltimore {. Federnl
Republican" have deigned TO notice our re
marks ON the late negotiation. These stric-
lures are, however, on too contracted a scale
to deserve reply. Let these gentlemen
come out .tairiy ana fully with their animal
versions-and we will join issue with them
We have no objections to measure weapons
with them. With truth and Justice on our
side, we have no fears of an encounter with
querruious garrnlity and impotent INJECT
t,ve--ln the mean time, we cali upon then,
TO lay their hands upon that part of Mr.. Roses
correspondence, which declines making a
due repatriation for the attack on the Chesa-
peake, because OF the inequality existing in
our ports between the French and British ma
yies.
For the present, we beg leave to return the
compliment which these gentlemen have so
politely paid us in these days, Retaliation
seems to be the only law among belligerents
we shall not address these heroes by any
hard names" We shall only use arguments
against them. We shallnot denominate them
political quacks-tho' perhaps we may prove
them to be such. We may teach them at
least enc lesson which may be somewhat IN
structive to those, who pretend to teach The
fu6hc-Let Messrs. Evermore and Hanson
hereafter think before they write. Let them
to set themselves up as the oracles "a those
laws.
In one of their last papers, they take the
following position:
. The maritime rights whic. Great Britain
CLAIMS To exercise, were always held as clearly
derived from the law ot nations by every state in
Europe, until the time # the med neuraiity i'm
1882. At that period the empress of Russia. a
mong other equally unfounded pretensions. in
sisted on introducing into the code of public
maritime laws, that the neutral Gag should pro
tect the property OF an enemy. This pretension
Z; Britain resisted with effect, and the principle
winch she maintains was afterwards solemnly ac-
knowiedSed by all the parties to the armed
Eeutality, by the treaty Of Petersburg 1901"
L The Editor OF the n. Y. American Citi
IN, completely concurs in this idea. The
hhtcal apostate OF New YOrk-whose trim
'nnss and whose treacheries have wiped
o1 every sentiment OF gratitude which his
| opposition OF Burr's trimmings and treache
rls would have deseryGd-the miserable
Hoe, who was attempting to undermine the
ADMINISTRATION, at the very moment when he
prof'ssed reverence for it; whose glozing
PreSi has lately attempted to defeat the
eiectpn OF the republicans of n. York, by
Persu'ding the adohted republicans to with
ara" rom the polls, from some mistaken
impression of their being Intentionally ex.
cludedIrom Office by the native born repub
llcans--will soon be unmasked in all his
uetormly. This man too has been ignorant
enough 10 assert that the principle of the
men'TdS lfaS coUerfng enemy hrohcrty
forms npart either of the code of the law,
or OF the customs of nations" and that nor
writer Oh the law of nations Acknowledges"
it.
We shall prove these gentlemen to be mis-
taken.
They will find the history of this princi-
pie IN the celebrated pamphlet of SchlegeI.
professor of law in the University of Coycn
hagen, on Neutral Rights" THey will
ma that IN the 18th and 18th centuries. the
rec states OF Italy, and some cities of Cata-
Lorna and Arragon, were almost the exclu-
slve sovereigns of the maritime trade of the
south, as the Hanse towns were of the North
OF Europe. In the 18th and 18th centuries
they formed that celebrated code. II Cousol
tofo del Mare, which provided that g neu-
tral cargo should be safe on board the shin
OF an enemy; but that enemy's propertv
round on board neutral vessel. should he
deemed lawful prize, saving only the right
OF the freight agreed on from the captor to
the neutral owner OF the ship" In the 14,h
ana 18TH Centuries almost all the treaties
were made according to these principles.
From the middle Of the 18th. things nm
derwent a considerable change The i)utch
at that time the carriers Of all Europe found
tn's principie al war with their prosperi-
Y Ihey. principally established the rule
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n q, Tree ships make free goods and from
''"' '''"S almost to this. the great body of