Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1811-09-18
NEW BEDFORD. September 6.


port, owned by Aessrs Weston Rowland,
Humphrey Hathaway Jireh Swift. jr.
and Capt. Snow. all OF this town aud fsa-
tire .amsrican citizens. with cargo OF
.gmerican prodaes wholly owned by the
owners OF the ship, consisting Oh tobacco,
Rice. Cotton aa;i Haywood. and part OF
which Was taken in here and the remain
der at the Southwark, sailing from
Charleston. 6. C.. about the Goth Febru-
AIRY last bonRd 70 ST. Petersburg. On the
18th April last she was taken ~ a Da
nisi priyaieer, carried into Copenhagen,
aad after detention OF FIVE days. was
liberated and proceeded on her voyage.
About the tSt oil June last, she was cap
tured by French pFivateer and carried
igto Dantz;c. where her cargo was imme-
diately discharged and her provisions,
and stores. &c. taken on board the priva-
teerto fit her for another cruize. The
people we're turned aa shore without any
thug TO eat or drink, and were preserved
from extreme distress ana iaHlislling, by
the charitable assistance Of some friends
Of Captain Snow at Hamburger and St.
Petersburgh. -Four OF the sailors. viz.
Seti Randall. Robert Leslie, Thomas
Best and Joseph Vaughan. were IMPRESS
ED and marched TO Antwerp.-}he ship
and cargo were valued at about S60,000
and were mostly insured at a premium Of
90 PER cent.
Are then the Berlin and Milan DEGREES
10 .
sweriag. The controversy on this sub
ject In our papers is altogether destitute
Of Importance. The question ought to
be, has France SO revoked or modified aii
heI. et;cts. OF whatever character or de
nomination, as they have ceased to Ui0tGts
our neafraE commerce? This is the cues
ton contaminated by the act OF congress
ce Nav iSiG. II ia fact the DEGREES OF
Berlin AMI Milan are revoked with re
gard 10 as, still if others oil coequai AMI
co-extensive efficiency are adopted i'll tiseir
place, then France has not complied Ell
ther with the letter or the spirit CT our
law. As was correctly observed by the
la!e secretary OfState. - ifiOr the reyOs
ed DEGREES, miaicipai laws. producing
the same e0E.merciai effect, have been
substituted, The mode only aud not the
ana,sure." the name ana not the thing,
has undergone al alteration" Will
our Executive reeegniZe the right OF
France TO extend the efficiency and ope-
ration Of her municipGt ittsoS over tie O.
cean? hid Congress consider the mere
adoption 81 nee Rasae. FOR the edlets OF
France, !, sufficient n,oiliicaS ION OF them
10 authorize the President to issue his
proelamatiOn. declaring that they had
=. ceased 20 violate oar neutral commerce.
Whatever naaY have been Tie views OF the
President ana Congress ;t the time the
law was enacted, IL see::,S that they are
now ready to cOn2eGe aai nave in fact
conceded. that the mere alteration Of the
pa.le from DEGREES 10 EiaR.ctpai tues. is
ifer6l colsp!iuRce With the acquisitions OF
their act.
Uiidei. what pretence the Hercules and
innamerabie other American vessels con-
tiaae TO be eaDtarei By Preach privateers
does net fully appear, Perhaps they are
eaptuYed on the nigh seas. as General
Armstrong asserted Oh i0,mei' occasion,
.swithout othe? offence than that of be-
longing to the United States, or other a
biology than is to be found in the enlanc-
ed safety of tie perpetrator." But that
there are some etiicts or DEGREES. either
political or mnaicipal, (and il IS inmate
rial which, authorizing these innumera-
bic and u2rem;ste;i oStra@es and violations
OF our neutral rights, cannot for NO
meat be doubted AMI so long as this.con
iinues TO be the case, oar aoa-intercourse
with England is not on!y ruiaoas TO oar
commerce, bat i;asrant departure from
eur neutral character.
[Ntse Bedford sHsrcHrg.