The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1810-12-08
10 The Editor Of TIE MAJ. hseHgencer

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some ingenious structures on the Presidents
late proclamation. / wish could with e.
quail propriety, say they were jus, i: for the
general decorum OF that paper entities it to
respect and am always sorry when am
Obliged to contradict a gentleman
The first remark of the Ledger is, that
the letter of the Duke of Cadore. announ
cling the revocation of the offensive rdicts.
is conditional and dictatoriai. Conditional,
grant, 1t is f.; because il is of the nature of
contract, and all contracts are condition
al ; that is, they pledge one party to per.
FORM Certain thing, on condition that the
other party perform another certain thing.
ne condition prescribed by the u States
In the act OF the Is, of Nav, which o5v
ates the dtr;ati0n (and DESTROYS the paral
leo attempt ed to be run between the note Of
lords Holland and Auckland affixed Ca the
FAMOUS rejected treaty. and the Duke of
Cadore' letter. inasmucp a. VIVA, we pro
posed ourselves. of our own mere motion
cannot with am kind o.. reason. be said to
have been dictated to u.s. Cadore in re
curing that the q States shall cause ,be,r
rights To be respected, says. expressly. that
tniS is to To- done con/orma6iy TO me act
% eFrst 9 May tast - Ia other words.
Comfortably to the conditions which the u
D mad prescribed 20 themselves The DE
Ciaration or repeal, then, had all the cer.
fanny necessary unless indeed, we he
lieve tha. we shall break aur part of the
contract The note from lords Holland and
auckland was quite different thing II
oid' III reality, dictate for it reserved a
power in his Britannia majesty In vioI.,,e
the whole treaty, if the u S did not make
an underlined resistance in a case where they
mad gwen no previous pledge TO resist, and
at time, TOO, when the necessity of res;s
tance was not apparent
Inc logic of the Ledger is a bubble. turn
ing upon grammatical sophisrD in RELATION
othe ast Of May and the duke of Cador.,s
letter. Cad res letter, by accepting tho
terms prop SGD in the act Of Nav, nuts the
conditions. as they respect the United States.
III Tie past tense the Ledger insists that
tney are IN the future tense, contends that if
Great britain tails to rescind her anti-neu.
trai cdicts, the United States must take cer-
tam measures against her; and. upon tb;s
supposed tuturity builds an alteynatipe.--
ne Ledger is totally mistaken: The Ane
ricah government has done what il yoInnta
riiy pledS q itself to do--ail that France 70
CURES conformably to hat pledge-the iran
Is set, 1t VIII close at the end of three mon he
from the date of the proclamation ard -
Urest Britain does not hasten To escape from
It, (upon the just Conditions offered to ber a.
wen as to France,) that will be her own
,aa., anu she may, like the fox, with all
hef cunning, happen to lose her tail
he second, and seemingly the last mimi
"nich the Ledger at .empts to pervert in Pc
iauon to this subject. is the detention rs
A'ner'oan property, unlaw.ully sequestered
In the ports ut France and her ,ii,.S -
tue Norfolk paper thinks Is a conkzn,tot;o,, as
the French edicts; and that, until ,bc nro
perry Is restored, there can be no ceood,;o,,
~ Me 0'ofefton OF neutral trade 10
.. ensl'eh tne observation, the Ledger cites
passage from letter OF Mr. Madison's 70
Mr. Rose on the affair of the ffieare Che
sapeake' wherein Mr.. Madison contends hat
sne ueteptioh OF the seamen forciby taken
from mat vessel is continuation of mo ao
gresSiOn. i mus remind fh;s N rFoll, IS
'hat THE CASE or THE HEsApEAYt
"a AFFAIR OF HONOR; that in AFFAIRS of
hohor satisfaction must be unconditional
ample, ana entire, or reconciliation cannon
De efectad. But the seizure of rnerrba,,t
Ships ana cargoes is an affair of PRopEprv
winch admits OF conditions, csicul.ti,,ne and
P"sterior adjustments. An affair of bonor
ehcluoes every notion of INTEREST bu,
properly and ali that relates 10 il irnuIiss
hothihS out interest, and therefore admits
VI proCfastihated arrange ments, ne gociafion
a"u management. An affair OF honor must
oe serted before any general adjustment os
differences can take place: An affair of 1rr,
Pcffy may be Included IN a general adjust
iheht, af'er preliminary s. eD has bean "a
keh' hese distinctions. founded in he ma
'ure OF things and IN the prevailing customs
Oh the world, destroy tie Comparison set mn
oy the Ledger between the case of the Chez
aPSake ana ina OF sequestered American
properly IN France. 1t does not follow thar
because the president did not insist on The
restoration oil the property as a preliminary
ne does not mean 70 insist on il hereartey,
Old the contrary, the Course he has pursued
ny opening the way TO a good under STANDING
win france, may be the very means IF re
covering 1t. This cannot the case u,,tb
az affair OF honor, waich. if Won t,ags ovsr
~ rie hrst instance you pass over forever
II france plays truant, il will be an act ~
Pefhuy' Tor winch the President IS no vyavs
account dOle Tor he was bound ~ issue ,hs
proclamation whenever the Conditions NJ rio
got OF the first of May were acceD,ed ~
eIther oeiiigerent nation that act reouire
no previous restoration OF property altho'
copy OF the duke of Cadore's letter an
1ounciny the sequestration was pubisned in
this country before the Congress that passed
the law had adjourned.
ne structures Of the Ledger NAV. bv =
thers' be carried iurther ON the spbiert rs
the SEIZURE OF American property in France
oy a renark that the decree an, ho,is,,e, ill.,.
sequestratlon was not Only hroe6sc,,z,s 49,,
retroshectiUe. This fact, which i ad,niS
ted gives to that decree an attractions lea
'ure bui' unhaPpiIy it is one, which in