Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1810-11-07
From, the National htelkgeacer.

. eolicitudc which it has tor some time pasF
felt. 1t announces the important tact, ON
c;a,iv ascertained, that the edicts OF France
violating the neutral commerce OF the Y,
States have been SO revoked as TO cease 70
have effect" and, in virtue OF the unqlail-
fed directions of an act Of Congress, de-
clares all existing restrictions on the COM
m cree and vessels of France and her de-
Tendencies removed. AS, however, no re-.
striction exists, wilhregard to France, ex-
cent the exclusion of her. armed vessels
from our ports. the principal feet produced
willie in our favor by the revocation OF her
decrets, by which we shall be permitted 10
carry on our trade without any other an
noyance from her than is authorised by the
established laws and usages CT nations It
is scarcely necessary TO remark, that the
President, in this proclamation, has strictly
and literally pursued the track marked out
by CONGRESS, having merely discharged
ministerial trust. A treble stand has, IN,
deed, been made by a few warm partlsans,
who have commended, .fat, SO long as the
French government retained the sequester.
ed property of our merchants, she evnced
an indisposition TO cease to violate 'he
neutral commerce of the u. States" But
admitting the fact, and concurrlng fully IN
,he sentiment tina, while she does retain that
property she continues 10 commit Migrant
Injustice, does II prove, IN the very race OF
solemn official declaration, that she VIII
not hereafter change her course, when she
exp!ctIy says that she will! ne SEIZURE
and sequestraton of our properly al hough
ii is highly rspretenslbie, and vii unques-
,ionabiy presents solemn point OF d'scussion
on oar part, were long anterior TO the de-
clara,ion revokiug her edic's; and these
very acts, so aagrantly in violation OF our
neutral commerce, arr those among others,
which bv her declaration she pledges her
self to cease committing. II, after her de-
claralioo, she had continued TO seize and
sequrster our properly, a correct SUSPICION
would have been excited. and i! nigh we'll
have been DOUBTED, whethc. she would have
carried her promise into effect. But she is
not charged with any such conduct. Il has
moreover been seen, that the terms OF the
actof Congress are broad and imperative;
looking entirely to the future, and not clog.
ging any arrangements, calculated to secure
a respect for our rights hereafter, by any
past conduct, however a,roc,ous. On this
head, therefore, the President, being vest
ed with no discretion. could exercise none.
There is another question, one perfectly
distinct. which it may remain hereafter to
settle with the French government. BY
her r. Sending her sdicts and Our withdraw
inp our restrictions, the question OF seques-
tered property is not put to rest II will
still remain in It's full force, and our claims
on her Justice and honor viii be undated.
May they not, indeed, be strengthened
The circular Of the secretary of the trea-
surv discloses the next step taken in this in
sersstne concern. 1t declares the state of
things which viii three months hence exist
with regard to Cheat Britain, in case she
/" shall not have revoked or modlfiec. in like
manner her edicts violating the neutral com
merce of the United States" according to
the same act Of Congress, which prohibits
(" both the entrance OF British vessels Of
every description ineo the harbors and wa
tiers Oft United States, and the importa,
ton into the United States of any articles
the growth, produce or manufacture Of the
dominions, colonies and dependencies OF
Great Britain, and Of any articles whatever
brought from the said domlnons, colonies
and dependencies"
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