Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1811-02-27

iessts TO expect lIk. ne Cniud STAT.
case Great Bri. ain shcu!d emit ,o,,,h
This act is the revival Of the ncn 49,
course law against England, F,a,s '''' +
main.ug e::rmp, i,om ii, as well A. r re-
the provisions OF the subs'Quee. law. , n""
monty csi!ed the non Intercourse ac,
If it is too plain upon he face Of -.
mentioned law Go " hch The l.r.~ '"'s
pressy rrfers) 20 escape the mos, n, cl;, a.
and unski!Ini observer, that this 800. ',
could not by any industry or chance +. y,
eomplshed before the ding ,ixsd IT, -
cessation Of The French DEGREES. or US
for considerable tine af,erwa,d !,
tainly cannot BIZ allowable to assume d..
the revival was required bv the l.r.r
(whatessr was the obirc, Of she wri,sr -.
his government to prrctds the cesar,
And, If this was not required. it &c ;n~os
trovertable thar the cessation would, he -.
term Of the letter, take place on The ..
pointed day, whether any of III. .ys,,.
disjunetively specified had interviewed .,
not.
he trst step towards revival OF II.
on-IntercoMsr agains. England would BIZ
the proclamation of The President. ira,
France had SO revoked or modified her ?.
diets as that they crasrd 10 viJ!ate the nru.
ral commerce of the United States. BIZ,
The letter Of Monsieur Chsmpssny lsf. the
DEGREES as it found them up TO the fire, &c
November, and consequently ub 10 t5ct
ddy it could not, for any thing contained
IN that letter, be said that the ripn,s o,
American comMercc were no longer n.
fr'nged by them. 4 psosp- ctive 0rocl,.
nation, tia. they zrouLI cease {, y;s,,,s
those rights, might perhaps b. issued bar
it could scarcely have any SUBSTANTIAL one.
ratios, either 10 favor of France or 20 INC
prejudice Of England, un,il ,ii= eooco ~
VIII: h il LOOKED had arrived.
Let it be admitted however thar al, ,hv-
seal and lrgal obs acts to tie i.sn,,o l..
fare the first of Nav3mGer, Of DrocIams,
ton. to take feet Immediately, were ON,
of the way. Haw would such. a proc-rd.
ing fulfil If itself tbs rxpeclsrio, thar ~.
U.urd States would, Jsfoye h.r f,,t If
NaSen,ber, . cause their rights to be r..
.pec,ed by The English" IN the m,dr
pointed out in the .e,ter, namely by m. -.
force men, OF the non intercourse law ~.
procIamation, would WORK M dir.n G., i'm.
mediate cons quence against ENGLAND.
Three months from IT'S date mus, ,aas
way before the non intercourse law ce.H
revive against h'r ; and when i, did so, III.
revival could not b. the Effect of the pro,
clam alton, bot OF the continued sdh-r.,,.
of England 70 her obnoxious system. Tbus
even If proclamation r.Fettusl fron ;,e d,,.
had bern issued by the prs siJen, o, n. do-
when the French declaration Of r.n.a, can.
to the hands of the American m;n;s,,, 2,
Paris, the intercourse between the u. S,o,-.
and Great Britain would On the Isl ef NJ
vemhrr have remain~d in the same eo,d.
t'nu in which il was found in Augu,r. A.
all this was well understood by r.. oov.,r-
mint OF France. The conclusion is. tb., i,.
minister protesting too 10 have the Amer.
caa law before him, and to rxo.,, ,,l.,
what was conformnbAe 7rYh ,hot au did
nor Intend to require rhe revival Of the
n.,ntrrcnurse a2aiHs, England =. a con.
dlt'on to be performed before the 1s,of
November.
Its worthy Of remark, as Introductory
to another view oe this subject, that evrn
they, VINO conclude that the repeal Of 'he
French DEGREES hos failed. gre MT awkward
to ascr'be 70 'hr Frrnch declaration pnr.
pose utterly inconsistent with that conci,..
sion.
They suppose the porDos- to have been
to affect the existing relations between A.
merica and England, by ,h= cnly meaos
which the declaration states, the &C., f
non intercourse. And i, IS certain .ha,,
unless England should abandon particular
paris OF her systsm, this zcas he ,-su. -
'owedy in view, aud meant TO be accom-.
plishsd.
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