The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1810-10-23
CITE Guguirsr.
RICHMOND. OCTOBER IS. 1910,
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to you, Sir, that the DEGREES of Berlin & Milan
are revoked, and that from the date If the Ist of
Nov. they will cease to have their effect" Upon
TINS Mr.. Pinkney POUNDS enquiry, whether
the British Orders Will not cease, ofcourSe.
The Marquis replies. without dste) that his
M sVs rs wiling as eOer, to aband IN the sys-
TEN /''ced upon him, whenever the enc nv should
re,r'ct ms principles and that the British will
rehnqIsh their system. .. whenever the repeal
OF the French DEGREES shall have actually taken
ehec', AMP the Commerce OF neut, az nations shall
have been restored 10 the condition in which il
STOOD previously to the PRONUNCIATION of those de.
| crees."
! The first clause is plain one, because II is
sSeeJc-the last is generai--it opens u wide field
| OF disputaiion, and furnishes cover enough for
the bresch of her engagement
what IS neutral commerce ?-hy- There's
the rub The British may affect to have ore idea
of It-and we have anotller-They NAV say.,hat
bonsparte has ne right 10 shut THEM out Of
the Continent that if we submit to il
they will shut rs out-that if he blocks mn
the North, &c against lnEM, by his troops,
they will block him up and consequent.
| iy Us out, by their ships of war--.rheir
ministerial prints have recently assumed this We
| ry grnnnd-thelr ministers and their writers took
1T IN 1906 previously to the PRONUNCIATION of the
Berlin Decree.
! Whatled to that Decree THE British Or
ders OF May, 1906 biockading from Elbe to
! Brest.-And what says MIR Fox, as the ground
OF them That his majesty had taken into con.
| slderatlon the new and extraordinary means resor-
| ted TO by the Enemy, for the purpose of dist,es.
sing The commerce of his subjects"-What says
tine Author of War in Disguise, on the Cd of the
same month The same thing And what
! says Mr.. Ersk!ue to the Sec OF State, on 25tb
June, 1907 9-That they &c have Judged il exre
dent to re'estsblish the most rigorous blockade
at the entrances OF the Rivers Ems, Weser and
Elbe Inclusive, consequence OF the present tosi-
tion OF the enemy upon the continent, which en-.
abies hun to command the Navisation of those
| rivers"
| Ii the British are TO post their ships az the
porls themselves; if they make real not pa.
per blockade; if they do. as the British Com.
rnissioners in the Note of Dec il, 1906, say,
| they have always done, " never declare any
ports TO be in state of blockade, without al
lotnng 10 that object force sufficient to make
the entrance into them sufficiently dangerous
Why 1t is fair enough-it is their right, and we
| must submit. r.
! But they have never done so-their state M.
pers contradict it--their writer's and their own
Acts assert the pretension of placard block
| ade.
In word, the pledge of Wellesley is hollow,
If they assume the same ground, at this time,
which they did in 1906 u if lst They claim right
of blockading US out OF the Continent, because
BonaParte blocks THEM out Aud 81 they ex
erclse this pretenson by paper, and not by
ships
Let us not then dream too much of their
Justice--Mr. p. may demand of The M w what
| he means BY neural co1xnerce-he ought to do
1t, fnStanter Time will dissipate all doubts
In the mean while, what wonderful anomalies
do we see, in commerce What extraordinary
revolutions
In 'e3 Britain pretends to stsrve France----in
1910, France presents her eSuberant udder to the
! fam shed mouths 81 ;ne Brit .sh.
H. 1908, Britain denies even Jesuit's Bark to
The sick enemy-two years after, the same enc
my nour'shes her with bread
In 1909, Britain orofesses to stint her enemy,
IN every branch OF commerce-eyen neutrals shall
not trade With HMM 1910 she begs the use Of
French licences, and drives itade for herself
In 1910, the beiligetents trade together while
neursis are generally excluded.
We shall Sive large extracts .tron. this PAM.
ohlet IN next with answers ar the time
FROM THE NATIONAL INTELL1GENcER
EXTRA OF OCTOBER 20.
LONDON.
Sir.
Lord Wellesley sent me, Yesterday,
his answer to my note of the 25th ult. res
pecting the Berlin and Milan DEGREES.
hasten TO transmit copy of it. A copy
shall be sent without delay to Gen. Arm
strong.
have the honor to be, &c.
= =" WIN. PINKNEY.
For. Robert Smith sc. &c &c.
- ''E (copY.)
H7r. Pinknev's Letter TO Lord IVeHesleg.
GREAT CUMsERLAND PLACE,
August IS, 1910
Ny Lord, 4"
have the honor to state to your
Lordship, that Ihave received from Gene
raj Armstrong, Minister Plenipotentiary of
the United States at Paris, a letter, bear
ing date the 9th instant, in which he informs
me, that the government of France has re
voked the DEGREES of Berlin and Milan and
that he has received written and official
notice of that fact, in the following words /:
" Je Snis autor,se a Uou6 deeiafcr mon
8ieur. que les DecrefS de Berlin ef de nj
Tan Sont reOogHeS, e. gu a dater du en-.
.NoDem6re lis eeSseront d'aUoir LeRr eE-
/et."
take for granted. that the revocation of
the British Orders in Council of January
and November, 1907, and April, 1909 and
Of all other orders dependent upon, analo
gous to, or in execution of them, will follow
of COURSE; and shall hope TO be enabled
by your Lordship, with as little delay as
possible, TO announce to my government,
that such revocation has taken place.
have the honor TO be,
With high consideration,
My Lord,
Your Lordship's most obedient hum