The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1809-04-25
THE ENQUIRER.
RICHMOND, APRfL q. 1859
THE LATE NEGocIArIoN.

MS uay, we lay before our readers the
correspondence between the British Minis
Chesdheake and the Orders of Council; ac-
companied by the Proclamation of the Presi-
dent of the U. States. These papers will
expose the miserable affectation which has
been displayed by the federalists, in ascri-
bing the Non Intercourse law to a partiality
tor France and an hostility towards England.
This miserable cant has been choruSed by
the federal prints; adopted by the grave
and reverend legislature of Massassachu-
sets; and even found it's way into one or
two of the London prints. The British mi
nisfry kneSv better. Reason teaches, and
experience will prove, that This act. by pla-
cling France on the same terms with England.
has levclled all distinctions between Injuries,
and given England advantages to which her
superior aggressions did not entitlc her.
Let-the reader mark, that what we have
yessei n. is. perhaps only a small part of the
diplomatic transactions at Washington.
Strange is the ground which is taken by
the Federalists on this important transact
OH.
VIII it be believed! Now, these mess
have the unblushing effrontery to lay claim
To all the merit which they attach to
this ncgociation-rhey idly contend, that
without their exertions, the Republicans
Britain-N is false. The Republicans were
anxious to keep the peace Of the country, in
spite OF the multiplied provocations of G..
britain. They would have continued the
eni6argo, until the session i'm May-when
they wouid have adopted more efficient
means to resist the aggressions of Europe.
And who are they, that lay claim to this
merit? They WHO are stamped OIL the re-
cords OF our country as the willing slaves of
British eppression--they who opposed the
embargo, "tooth and naiP'-they who would
nor haze taken a STEP to assert our rights
VINO not only resisted all the energetic mca-
sures or the republican party, but who
would not propose any of their own-they,
who would have kissed the rod and sunk
silently into submission. 1t is clear as the
iight OF the meridian sun, that If the policy
OF these men had been pursued the or
ders of council would have remained for an
indefinite period. The British government
would have had no inducement to put an end
TO our wrongs. AS their orders in council
would nave been received zuithous me .ieast
TeSisfdnce-as quietly as any municipal re
gulation, which did not at all affect our
rghts-they would have had no interest to
terminate their injustice. Such would have
o .'a. the effect OF the magnanimous course,
which these federalists would have taken to
crafty the passions of Old England, and as
sert the rights of the United States.
AS to the first of the two points which en-
tered into the negotiation how stands the
case!
Mr. Rese refusedto state the terms of re-
Paration, untii the Proclamation was re-
voked; G.. B. has now receded from this
s Quad; she has spontaneously rendered us
terms, although the exclusion of her public
ships continues. This PREPARATION too is I'M
conditional. The exclusion of her armed
ships not only remains, but the removal of
&c Is not even made one of the conditions of
the repatriation. We have obtained the surren-
der OF the seamen, an avowed abandonment
OF the principle in question. an avow ed,
though mock punishment of the offending
oince:: This part of the PREPARATION is the
chiy incomplete thing in the adjustment Of
the affair OF the Chesapeake. We had right
todc"and, that 'the guilty officer experience
an exemplary punishment We shall ever
be .nbject to maritime insult, until some Sc
rlous example OF this sort is displayed But
alter all the trials of the British navy on
such occasions, they are little more than mock
solemnities
The course of the negotiation, which has
oeeH terminated respecting the orders OF
council, was previously marked out bv the
last Congress in their Non Intercourse law
Mr. Madison has only exercised those pow
erS, ard obeyed these behests which are ex-
pounded by the 18th section of that law.
rs 10 the orders in conncit--Great Bri.
tam has flown from the high and naughty
ground which she formerly took. From the
strong language employed by her ministry,
ono would have thought it as probable that
Mount Atlas should have vanished into "thin
arr. as that they would have rescinded their
letahafory orders before the repeal of the
french DEGREES. Mr.. Canning solemnlv as
sured MIR PiDkney in his letter of September
-, 1903, that certain considerations COM
pc led his majesty to adhere to the principles
on which the orders in council OF 9TH of ia
nnary ;'nd 18th Nov are founded, so Ions. as
france adheres TO that system, by which
his majeaty's retaiiatory measures were oc.
casioned and justified" Lord Melville
avowed in the III. of Commons on the 18th
last February, that "Lord Howick had t,.o-
lferfy observed that he could not rescjnd the
orders IN council until these edicfs 7yere
Irepoked; and he added, as fifty. that under
other circumstances to abandon the order in
council would be to resign the best hrincikles
81 orr maritime rights" Nothing is said
by these ministcrs--not whisper has ever
been raised by any of them about any other
condition, on which the abyogation of their
orders was to be made, than HreUiots repeal
OF the French edicts. This 7yas TO be me
only condition Of their destruction. And
yet his malesty's ministers do not blush now
to come forward to cant about "the favora-
Die ohange in the relations of his majesty