The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1811-08-14


lie has brought some very important inelli-
gcnce to government. Not less than II Eng
ish vessels, he says, lately arrived at Calsis,
laden with gold, oil the current coin Of this
country.
FOX--Ju DCMgxT RESUMED.
Sir VIM. Scott--As the claimants have fail
cd To produce any evidence OF the proyocaliOn
Of the French dccrces and have nothing to
offer as the foundation Of demand Tor fur
Their time, must confirm To what declared
on former day, and proceed 10 make the
decree elfec,ua | should certainly have
been extremely glad to have received any au-
thcntick information tending 10 shew that the
DEGREES OF France, 10 which these Orders III
Council are retaliatory, had been revoked I;
and IL was upon suggestion afforded on the
partof the claimunts, that dispatches had
been very recently received from Paris by
the American Minister in this county, by
which the fact might be ascertained, that the
court on the former dGy deferred his final
ludgmcnt,--I would have been unwilling 10
proceed TO the condemnation OF these ves-
sells, without giving the proprietors the OPP
postunity Of shelving that the French de-
crees, OH which cur Orders IN Councii arc
founded, had been revoked. Boz they admit
that they have no such evidence 10 produce /;
the property Of the ships and cargocs IS daily
dc,crioraIing a,sd it is my duty to delay no
longer The ludsiucnt which As called ior on
the part oI the captors.
From cverg thing that must have prece-
ded. and fron every thing tha; must have fol-
lowed the revocation OF the French dccrecs,
ii such revocation had taken place, lsN l
am justified in pronouccing that no such C.
ven! has ever occurred. The only document
referred to on behalf Of the cAin,ants IS the
letter OF the person sitting timeei Due dc
Galore That letter is nothing more than a
conditional revocation il contains an litcrna-
tive proposed---either that Great Britain sh@il
not only reyoi.c her Orders ~ CoonciL but
likewise renounce her principles oi Blockade,
principles founded upsn tue auciont ana es-
tabished laws OF nation, or thu Ane'lca
shall cause her neutral rights 20 be respected
III other words, that she shall join france IN
acompuse confederation against tais coaAtry
1t is quite impossible tnat In q land should re-
monaco ncr principles OF blockade TO adopt
the new tangled principles ct the irench
government, which are absolute novelties IN
tue law of nations and hope II IS equally
impossible that America shonld lend herself
In hostile attempt 10 compel tbs country TO
renou,cc those principles on which 1t has ac-
ted IN perfect conformity TO anticnt practice
AMI the known law OF nations upon the more
demand OF the person holding the govern
mcnt of France. The casns iederds there
fore, if il may be SO called, does not exist
the conditions OH which alone France holds
on prospect of rctrac,ing the DEGREES, nci-
Tier are nor can &c fulfilled Looking at the
question therefore, priori, it camp! be pre-
sumed that the revocation has passed. On
the o;hcr hand, what must have followed il
such had been the lact Why, that the a
mcrican minister in this couttry must have
been in possession OF most decisive evidence
upon the subject, for l cannot but suppose
that tho first step Of the American minister
al Paris would have been to apprize the A.
merican Minister at this Court, oil SO mo-
mentous circumstance with view to pro-
tect tho American ships and car5ocs which
had been brought in under the British Orders
in Council
Ii no such Information has been received
by him, there never WAS Case IN which the
rule = De non apparentbds etncn en-. .icntl-
bus cadeW est ratio" can more satisfactorily
apply For IL isquite impossible that such !
revocation can have taken place without be-
Ing attended with II clear demonstratiooo
evidence that such was the Fact.
l ana therefore upon every view oi the
cascs olsopinson that the French desrees are
not at this momcn, revoked. But II by
any Possibility 1t can have happened that any
actual revocation has taken place against tne
manifest import OF the only pubhck French
Declaraton referred TO, and withou, having
been yet Communicated To the Americao
m,ister IN TINS country, who was SO moeh
concerned 10 know it, for the benefit OF the
persons Tor whose protection 1t must nave
been principally meant the parties Will have
the advantage Of The fact, il they can shcw
upon appeal that those decrees have been
revoked at i time and in manner thar could
Justly 90 applied to the determination OF
these causes revoked at period which would