The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1811-01-10


board the Chesapeake frigate--the seizure. i'm
pr'sonment, and the hanging in cool blood of o.
Tiers OF the crew OF that vessel--the impress
ment and imprisonment of thousands Of our sea.
men-the introduction ofou neutral commerce
with whole nations with whom we are at peace
are surely no essenfsd. injuries No; they are
mere trif1es--nay, in the opinion of the Esses
.1unfo, they are rather to he considered as bene-
hts, because IL as mother Britain csho cOnfers them
on her andeseySing children.
with respect to the priority of aggression on
our commerce by Great Britain and France, there
could be no other doubt about the matter, than
whether IN the same year, the month of May
prece des the mont OF November; for on the
10th of May, 1906, Great Britain issued her or
ders n council, declaring the who'll coast from
the Elbe to Brest in a state of blockade and ii
was not until the 2tst Of November in the same
ear, that Fl ance issued the Berlin Decree
The order ofcouncil of Mays, 1906, was thr ,wn
into the shape by the November orders of 1907.
and therefore it was supposed by m ny not to ex-
ist. Indeed, even Mr. Pinkney had Inferred that
1t did not exist, until the Marquis Wellesley. Ia
king ecisl care that no part of the indienities
offered by Great Britain 10 the United States
should be unknown to the world, informed him
that 1T did exist---that it was the founda.
ton ut the British blockading system, and that
e Interior order in council of January and No
vember of 1907, were but auxiliaries to put it in
to operation. In fact. all the subsequent blocka.
o'ng orders are but wheels to this grand restric-
tive system, monopoly ofcommeroe. Their o.
Peration can be suspended at pleasure and others
substituted, so that it would be absurdity in the
extreme to suppose that the revocation of those
minor orders had changed the &c British system {"
we have always deemed it most unfortunate
Tor this country, any orders in council issued
oy Great Britain, Interior to the order of Nav
1870, should have drawn the attention of our mi
MISTER IN London from the nonstrous edct which
was the origin OF all our difficulties with France
ana the other nations on the continent of E .rope
a'u mas caused all the representations of our pro
perty. 1t was that which produced the Berlin
q cree, and in truth, as has been stated by Wei.
lesley, IT was the foundation ofthe British svs-
"m-t was the root of the epiL-and should have
oeen made specifically the basis of negotiation
In all discussions at the court of London' nm the
SUBJECT OF orders in council IF Mr.. Pinknev.
instead of infrrring that the order of NAV, 1906
was not IN existence, had kept it in view. and
noe 1t the basis OF negotiation the real p;ews of
% would have long since been unfolded.-
E"ok az the preamble of this illegitimate bocka-
u"R oroer' and see the object of il Was it issued
VI retaliation for France having issued DEGREES a.
ganst the commerce of the United states -
surely not for France had then issued no de-
'refs or edicts against our commerce, of which
s'e complained, or had cause to complain. No
DIV " as issued in retaliation for ssthe new and
extraordinary measures, of restriction adopted
Nv me enemy against the commerce" of Gyea,
Britain. VI ''e"'
tbs Is the language of the proclamstion-an and
the o"lted states, free, sovereign, and indepen.
dent nation. having no quarrel with France or
with Holland, or any nationin Europe, re to be
oeh'eo all intercourse with those countries. h--
cause the enemies of Great Britain have laid ne ~
and extraordinary restrictions against the G m.
merce of Great Britain, with whom they are
wsr-Here then we plainly see the cause ofthe
order in council of Nav, 1906 II was not Issued
in retaliation for the edicts Of France ON our neu
tra' commerce, but for restrictions on Br;t;,6
commerce and because the ene,n;es of Great Rr;
ta,n exercised their national rights, as Great BIZ
tam had done herself In restricting and annoyinp
the commerce of her enemy by retaIiatory edcts'
that the United States were to be deprived of
their rights to the navigation of the ocean tn
our reInonstrances against this outrage on our ~.
dependence and liberty, what was the repIv Of
Great Britain We have issued our bIocka-
ding orders in retaliation for the French edicts
and we shall continue them" so long as Americs
permits France to continue her edicts. The e.
diets OF F'ance against what +" why against the
commerce Of Great Britoin"-Plainer language
could not have been used 10 sbew that unless the
United States became a partyin the war, to force
France to abandon her new and extraordinary
restrictions against British commerce, Great Bri-
tam would suffer the u. s. to have no commerce
with any part Of the world, where the exercise
OF It initiated against her interest, or rather in
deed, where it did not subserve its views ofcom-
mercial aggrandizement In the tumble ofthe va
rious orders in council, & for want of clear
understanding Of the matter BY our mini
ster in London, a great many persons
have got 1T into their heads that IL was
the removal Of the French edicts a~r' ~ n.
1nericGn or neutral commerce only, that G. B. re-
CURED before she repealed her orders in council
but the truth is, that breofouslv TO the existence
ot the Berlin decree. when France had in exis-
tencc no edicts affecting the commerce of neu-
trails, r B. required, The resistance nv neutrals
OF the French edicts. which edicts were restric-
tive only on British commerce. as the price ofre-
pealing her blockade Of Nav 1906
The business is now brought tn the test the
DEGREES OF Berlin and Milan are repe aied md 4
Wellesley has declared the Order in Council of
Nav, 1906, to he the mother Of the IIock aiding
system, from which all Subsequent orders ema-
mated, that order must he repealed as well as
the others, or else are Just where we start, Il
four wears ago. We are in good truth either re-
quireA to go to war with France, to force her to
abandon her restrictions on British commerce or
surrender our own. If TIE British government
had intended to renounce her bIo-kadfng system,
on the peal of the BtTin and Milan decyees thcv
could have bad difficulty in declaring their Or
ders in council, to have ceased conterporana-
ousy with the expiration of the operation OF the
French DEGREES But England has all nj once be-
come the champioR Of neutral commcrce-
" When the commerce Of neutrals shall have
been restored 10 the situation in which IL stood
previously to the Berlin and Milan DEGREES, -
then viii Great-Britain repeal her orders in
Council.
Verify, Great-Britain has all at once become