Winchester gazette. [volume] (Winchester, Va.) 18??-1826, 1811-11-20

s. The injuries aud outrages which we
nave iuheied from France were greatly
aggravated BY their having been done "a
sainit the exprefs articles OF foIemn trea-
V-wheress, tor ieyeral years back there
hds been no treaty between the u. S. and
England. ~
As to the paltry prescnce that Bopapar,e
mas repeated his Berlin and Milan dec rees :;
ana oy TINS means has placed France upon
friendly footing with refpett to America,
IL Is mere moonihIne. 1t is true, thar
on the I'd OF November laR. there came
OUT a proclamation, beginning in theie
words
" l, ,ames Madifon, PRECEDENT of the
y: States, do hereby proclaim, that the
ediets OF France have been 70 revoked. as
mat they cedicd on the hrA day ofthc pre-.
lent month TO violate the neutral commerce
OF the U. States
Ii is ale true, that Congreis on the
mere authority ct this proc,a n ation. ensH.
ect laws OF amt, towards France, and hof.
tiilty towards England-laws ruinous to
,homands OF American citizens, and deep.
~ Injurious 10 the general interels of this
country. liz is moreover true thar ,hsfe
Pcfnicious laws have been in full fore. Al
along iinee, even up to the pre.ent da; -
On the other hand, it rs true that the
French Emperor has expressly contradict.
cd our Prehdent's proclamation, and ha,
poured coniemp; upon all the doings there.
on In his iieeeh 60 the Council OF Com.
merce at Paris lat March, he explicitly
declared as follows " The DEGREES OF
Berlin and Milan are fundamental laws OF
my empire"
Ii any authentic document, proving the
actual repeal of the Berlin and Milan de.
cree, could lave been found, it wond have
faved thoie American veifels and carqoes
which have been condemned lately by the
brITiih Court Of Admiralty. But no fuch
document exits and it is libel upon
b'ndpar'e TO Unfit upon it that he has re-
peeled his DEGREES, when he hinfelf poti
oVeiy lays that he neither has done nor will
do it.
Upon the whole, it would feem that the
provocations and injuries from France, have
been manifold greater than thole from En-
gland ali this we believe to be truth,
ana nothIag bar truth. But admitting
that both OF thofe nations had done us
equal wrong. and that we neceRsrily
mutt nave war "i'h one or the other
then the next thing 10 be conGdered,
is our own irreref. B lore we en to
war, we the Feople, who are to bear the
pfuht OF 1t, ihould lii down and count the
colt.
All men of good fenfe and honeft hearts,
throwing Aide prejudice and patton, ought
aeepiy to conilder ne Disadvantages & ad
vantaees which might probably accrue TO
the american public, from war with
Eng Land on the one hand, or with France
OH Tie othes.
Now every well informed perfon can fee
with half an eye, that war with England
would inevitably bring upon this couBtr,
very grestoiies & fufferings. We willn
however dilate on this fubjed, as we alrea-
dy have dlicufed it in lafe paper. On the
other psit, war with france in all pro-
babi'ity would rather diminilh tlan in
create the prefent embarraG meats of the A.
merican public. IN cafe OF war wirh
France, and during that war, an immenfe
commerce would be opened to our citixers;
Tree trade WIKI Great Britain, and all It's
dependencies on the American continent,
IN The Wet Indies, upon the coats of Af.
rica, and in the Eat Iidies trade, not
o"ly to Spain and Portugal, but 60 all the
Spaniih and Po,tuguefc settlements, both
IN the iiishds and upon the continent of a.
meFica. Nor would it be in the cover of
Bonapartc to hinder this trade, or 70 inter
rupt 1t In any comfortable degree. He
has aow no afy lum for his cruizeys, in the
Welt Indies he would then have none in
our ports. Our little navy, tho but the
remnant of what il once was, would be fuf.
:cien' to drive his ptivaleers from the A.
merican seas.
Wherefore there is too much reafon to
conclude that the good people IF this coun
try would not cordially unite in wseinp
a war with England under prefcnt cir.
cumltances aud tnat for the following
Tcaions:
/. 1t evidently has been avo:6abh, and
therefore unneceiIary.
Z. The provocalions and injuries from
England have not By any means equsncd,
IN number and magnitude, ,hoie from
France.
). A war with England would ilnpo
Verlih sad difref' this uotry extremely:
whereas war with France would I've like
thunder that i, roo diAant 70 do harm, aud
even would fst all the wheels OF bulincfs in
motion, by opening the door 10 var and
lucrative commerce.