Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1810-11-13

N"'"bS ~ 'hS DCSls duu. Can easily bring
permanent good from temporary evil.
WAsHINcron Cry, Nov. z.
The following extracts from the
London Courier aud Times, leading
ministerial prints, are decisive and
Sufficient reply to the arguments Of
those who attempt to explain away
the Snowledgement by the British
COVE hept in ! so4 of the true de fini-
ton blockade. Coming from such
Quarter, these extracts may be con-
sidsred as the language of the British
government. 1t will BE perceived thai
taey unquaiifeelly resign pretension
which their advocates in this county
are ofieiously volunteering 10 support
for them.
{" He [Bonaparte1 neither had, nor has, nor
we trus', ever will have. the means of investing
any huish pot, wh,tever, so that il cannot
Dc apProached without danger, which is the
ssrick and true definition cf a legal blockade to
wh,Sh neu sais ought 20 be constrained to submit,
and, to which. we ap2rehend, Great Britain has
now no objection to RETURN since the Berlin
decree, which forced her TO overlook these def.
nhe bounds. is rescinded"
Return 60 what? Why to the true
definition of blockade (actual Invest
ment) which it is explicitly declared
she had overlooked, since the Berlin
decree. Aud since the Berlin decree
onlys What was the proclaimed
blockade of the whole coast from Elbe
TO Brest, In May 1906? What was
the blockade of the coast from Ostend
towards Brest, averred in the SAME
order It blockade, to be already Gthat
is priorto the 10Th may) in existence !?
The acknowledgement of having dis
regarded the "true definition ofblock-
ade"' in her acts subsequent to Noven-
Der 1906, the date Of fhe Berlin de.
cree, applies equally to the acts which
gave rise to that decree. But our pur-
pose was to skew that G. Britain her
self does not attcmp: to defend her
violations of our rights by any other
rule than that of power, or, as she has
mIsnamed it, necessity. Listen still
further to the Courier
/" We cannot have before every port in Europe
susc'ent naval force to keep it in strict and
actual blockade, but we have the prepo nderance
on the ocean; and we adopt system of repri,aI
and retaliation founded on the strsest Justice :,
Every word ofthis extract is worthy
attention. 1t is again acknowledge d
! that they cannot (not merely that they
4! do no) actually enforce their nominal
blockades. But it seems they have
the Preponderance on the ocean! This
is toe master argument, brought In as
conclusive in favor of doing what is
mot denied to be violation of our
rights. But all this is supported only
on pretended retaliation Of the French
DEGREES. Even this pretence no lon
ger exists. BY the first extract we
see that they do not, like some of cur
Purblind editors, affect to doubt that
which is too obvious to be denied
They considered the DEGREES pealed
10 August. The ground being taken
from under British edicts,. they mus,
tail, unless determined spirit Of hos
tility to America & neutrality prompts
perseverance in them.
But" says the London Editor, in
a queruious tone. "Bonspsrte makes
use VI ms prePoouerance over the Eu.
ropean powers to exclude u.s." Well
and because the municipal DEGREES OF
the European powers exclude British
vessels and manufactures, are we tc
suiier If England has in fact any
| right to resent such an exclusion, II
the name OF common sense, let ne
revenge herself on her antagonist, aud
not on us. Let her not, feeling pow.
or and forgetting right, wreak the ven.
geance, due TO one whom she canno
injnte on tie FRS she meets.
4 BY the above extracts from prints
| known TO speak the language OF tn,
British ministry, it will be perceived
! that it is acknowledged
i 1. That actual Investment only car