The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1810-06-19
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THE DESPATCHES.


Il We have reached another STAGE i'm OH,
political affairs. The dispatches by the
John Adams CONVINCE us, how little we have
to expect Under present circumstances, fro1
the beiiigerents; and how much we are t.
rest upon our own resources and resolution.
Let us review these Dispatches
Those from. the most noble MARQUIS, -
are but OF piece with the uniform Conduct
Of his Court towards us. The past scene is
not chequered by ore bright beam of concili
aIion or of justice. The whole hi story o!
British acts towards us is but history of
insults and wrongs-its pages are filed with
limpressments and murders and blockades,
with pluudered trade and violated rights
Strip the MarQuis's letters of their verbage
and hypocrisy and the plain English of
them amounts to this, "You have nothing TO
expect from US. We shall not recede from
the ground which we have taken AS long
as we have party in your country tomarch
with us at all events and as long as your go
vernment succumbs to our orders they shall
remain in all their vigor. "a proportion as
you give US ground, we shall press upon ou
Our pertInacity will keep pace wi til your
imbecility."
| The British Cabinet, it seems, rejects the
very fair frcjet, which has been submitted
to them viz. TO take off the Orders and De 4.
crees, In the order in which they have been
laid on. They refuse TO say that the Order
of May, 1906. is no ionger in force al,bo'
they do it under a full persuasion. that a
" declaration to that effect would be followed
by the recall of the Berlin decree" The
Order of May, is merged, tits said in that
OF January; yet they will not confess, that
the order of May is itself no longer in exis
tence
But the Blockade has never been formal
!y withdrawn aud is that any reason.
why they should not now make declaration
! that this blockade is now and for ever with
drawn 1.-The bubbles and equivocatisns of
the Marquis irresistibly prove, that all heir
past professions have been dictated by hpoc
| ricy & that they have no sort of disposition 10
do us justice but whilst we feel this con-
victior, we are astonshed at the courtly ci
Witty and placid Indifference of the Ameri
can minister. The man, who represents the
rights OF the u. >. at such a crisis, and be
fore such court, should have head to see,
and heart to feel, the slightest assault upon
these rights--he should not only be penetra.
ted with conviction of the value of the
trust deposited in his hands, but of the ra
pacity ofthe government, with which he has
to deal. lie should know how to speak, as
well as to think. The soft and siIken phra
ses OF "my Lord" and " most noble Mar.
quis, should not completely take the place
OF the hrm language oftruth-nor should the
professions OF a British court completely ban
'sh from his mind manly sense of the
wrongs Of his insuted country--But in
truth, the air of ST. James's, seems to have
kfrozen up the soul of MIR Pinkney.
I The dispatches from France are not more
cheering. he continent is, as it were, seal
ed against us The ports of France, Spain
and Italy have been lions dens to devour us.
| ohun = Prussia and Denmark" Where
ever the influence of France reaches, there
ruin or danger awaits US. She is determined
ts make every exertIon to- enforce her con,
nercial system. She win screw it up, if
she can, to the' sticking place" The mil
tfary has taken the place Of the nnunicihak
authorities--and troops are pouring round
the mouths of the rivers to subdue the last
Yestiges of British trade
II these regulations had been fairly pro-
mulgated, before hey had been put INTO tx
lecution, zpe should have had no cause to
complain. They were municipal REGULATE
ons; and what could we say against them ?
Had brance even placed these arrange
ments on the very ground, on which she now
processes TO justify her considerations of our
property, we should have had no right to com
am. She has undoubtedly the right to
adopt sHch reprisal for our N5n-Inter-
Course Act-if we shut her vessels from our
own ports, she has fright to shut ours from
her ports.-This with her, is question of
expediency, not of fright.
But she has done more then this
She has not only sealed her ports agains,
us, but all the vessels that were in them
She has put her rules into execution, PREV.
Gus to their PRONUNCIATION. Without the
least warning to our merchants; she has
closed her nets around them. EI nos. fitctC
laws have been in all ages the instrument.
OF abuse, and the just subjects of deprecati
ION. But here is a law, not known, not pro.
INDICATED, but locked up in the bosom of the
Emperor, until it is drawn forth to suit the
occasion.
+ If France had merely sequestered these
vessels, until she could have sifted our own
bona fde property from British property
the case would have been essentially differ.
ent. Our flag has been prostituted to Bri
fish smugglers--Ye had taken no steps L
prevent it---~-and we deserved TO have hat
our property detained for inspection 6. proof
But this is not the case here--every thina
is indiscriE nately swept of. Cur proper
ty is conf8cated condemned for the lie
neht of the fsc"--In Italy and Spain, de
posted in the " caisse privee"-imperia
flriUafe chest. 100 American ships, accor.
dig TO our mihister,are within his majesty
possession, or that of his Allies" as have
been condemned from Spain, to the eslima
ted sum OF 8 500. 0O0.-30 have been confis
Gated in Naples.
This step was as silent as it was unex