The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1811-03-01

VI WAR; u WnlCu sue however, 0au always
a hearty dislike; and after having tried
oegociation in vain, she fell upon this expe
dent. She protested against the grounds of
Justification taken b, both parties; she de-
clared tina, both had viola ed her rights -
but, she, at last, determined TO submit, for
the present, while She endea, ored to pre-
vail upon one parry or the other give way
first, and to revoke thei, Orders or DEGREES.
After long and fruitless efforts i'm this way,
She passed, on the LIST OF May, 1910, an.
Act, which she expected would have the
effect desired. In this act 1t was provided,
that, it either Great B.itan or France
should, before the SIS Of March 1911 ST.
revoke or notify her edicts, that they
should cease. to violate the neutral COM
merce OF America, he fact should be de-.
clared by the President by Proclamation.
hr.in at then. If the ether n alton should no.
and he monihs from that time, revoke NJ
modify her edicts IN IKE manner, the NON
INTERcoURsE ACT should be repiOcd a.
Sainsf that nation. Thus things stood pre-
viously the sth of Angus 1910. on which
day the French minister tor flreign affairs
communicated officially to Mr. ARMSTRONG,
the American minister 1t Paris, that the
DEGREES of Berlin and Milan qrere re0oked,
and that from me frs, of yWovem5er, 1910,
they mould cease to be nforce, It being un-
derstood, that in consequence. of this. revo-
cation, tue English should revoke their or.
ders IN council, and renounce the nezu h,in-
ctfles yf blockade which they had attentiited
to establish Mr.. armstrong having com
municated his notica ion t. Mr.. Pjukney,
the American minister in London, The lat
ter wro'e on the 25th of August last to lord
WeHcstey. our Secretary of State for 70
reign affairs, informing HIM of what had
been done in France, and, at the same time
observed, that he took it for granted, that
the revocation of the British Orders in
Council would follow as a matter of course,
and that he hoped to be enabled to announce
to his government, that such re, ucation had
taken place. Lord Wellesley answered
that, whenever the repeal OF tn French de-
crees should have actually taken effect, and
the commerce of neut "a, nations should
have been restored 10 rhe condition in (Which
'f stood PREVIOUS TO rhe PRONUNCIATION of
those DEGREES. the king would have the high
est satisfaction in reinquishing system,
which the conduct of the enemy had COM
PEELED him 20 adopt. This answer does not
appear to have been relished much in Ame-
RIGA. 1t has reservation i'm il, which does
not seem topromisc full and uneQuivocal
revocation on our part, even when the
revocation OF the French DEGREES shall have
actually taken hiace; and we know, hat a
revocation did not take place in England -
The French notification having been com
municated to MIR. MADISON, the President
ofthe American states he issued his proc
iamation, agreeably to the above mentioned
act of congress passed ON the first of Nav.
1910, which proclamation. togethtr with
the circular letter OF the Secre tary of the
American Treasury, have just been recei
we'd, and they form the last document i'm he
which II In
OF the revocation of the French DEGREES. and
the notification thereof in America, several
ships have sailed from America TO, France.
and have met lat least, so il is said) with
the same treatment as they would have met
with IL those DEGREES had never been pass
ed; in short, that they have been received
, as neutrals carrying on a lawful commerce /:
have unladen their cargoes, and have sal ed
away unmolested in any manner whatever.
Others of them are said, IL our public pa
pers. to have been captured by our crui
GERS, and brought in for condemn alton. and
thatthey new azvait their fate, the admi
rally judge, SIR WILLIAM SCOTT, having
susfendef his decision on them. Thus,
then, when we have read the subjoined do
cuments, we have the case fairly before us ::
for, though there have been other orders in
Council, modifying, or in some respects al
teriDg the orders, here inserted STILL if the
latter mad never existed, those which are
here inserted would have produced the dis
pnte in its present shape.
We need not now agitate the question whe-
Their the making our orders in council was Just
or unjust, expedient or inexpedient; they we e
made, they have been enforced to this day i,
and the question for US now o decide upon
is sohefher they ought no1v 20 be revoked /?
My opinion is, thai they ought to be revo
ked, and indeed, that they ought to have
been revoked in Angust last upon the noti
hcatIon of the revocation OF the Berlin and
Milan DEGREES having been made to our
government The reasons upon which this
opinion is founded, will now state in as
short and clear manner as am able
just observing first tina, am viewin the
matter as matter of justice as a thing
wholly depending upon Particular contact,
and not at all as matter of hehcy or rene.
raj fTincihle. / always thought the orders
in Council just and wise also, az far as they
Event. They did not go so far as would
have extended them; nor were they bot
toned in true and sound principle, the
principle that SELDEN justified with the
pen, and that CROMWELL proclaimed from
the canDon's mouth hat principle, which,
when England can no longer maintain. and
openly act upon, she may as we'll at once
surrender her fleets and her backwards in
to the hands OF Napoleon. But the question
now before US, is altogether of a different
nature. II arises out OF a particular COM
pact or agreement, which, though not en-
bodied into singh instrument, with the an
pendages OF dates, signatures and seals, Is,
urNu 4.