The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1811-06-18

FAITH i1 NxwrknH Nofz4.-sThc
public are Cautioned agaiifss fraud in
these Notes, which we believe is extensive
~ practised; and as the genuine Signatures
are preserved. some caution is necessar, /.
-lhe manner Of conducting this fraud
may De understood by the following cxpla-
! nasion: - ~ = = -
reader must remark. that the figure 5
and 10. are placed ON the right and left
sides OF the Two and Ten Dollar Notes. re.
spectively. The notes being cut in tw o. the
inquire 2 rs rubbed. or rather pinched of
both parts of the note. BY joining the Jour
paris. the notes appear like two Ten Dol
lar Notes. having the figures 10 rubbed off
IN ne place upon each note. The notes
join tolerably well. excepting the word
Ten in the body of the note. When that
part OF the note. IN which is the word
TWO, is used, the letters Two" are rub
bed out, and is much easier of detection
than when the other parts of the notes are
used. The part of the note where the
word Two" is on the margin is also torn
of. We hope this description will enable
! the fraud to be detected; but the safest way
is to take no ten Dollar note which has been
cut.--Ledger.
Departed this life on Wedne sday evening
last, IN the 81 h year of her age. Mrs E.
LIZA O'CoNNoR. consort of Mr. Iames
| CConnor, Editor of the Norfolk Herald.
| WAsHIkGroN. June Is.
Much has been said on the subject of an
address said to have been delivered bv the
Emperor OF France to his Chamber of c M
merce and recently published in this coun-
Try HIS authenticity is doubted by some
Ill Is probable some such speech was de-
| livered before his Chamber of Commerce.
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secrecy. and the nature of whose d,scussi-
ons can, only pc known through the medium
or individual me mbers, who may give BODY
! and form to the conversations winch The
Emperor at times Familiarity holds with III.
Such communications, being freoucntlv
committed TO writing from memory. must
often be inaccurate. hut, admit that the
speech be perfectly genuine,,it is a matter
IN winch we are NOT concerned. we have
nothing to do with his speeches o his Off !.
GERS or contidants, any more than he has
with the pr vate conversations of the Presi-
dent OF the United States with his Secreta-
ries or other officers of government. 1t is
not to such chitchat as this, but to his acts
thai we must loek for his disposition to
wards the u. s.
! We cannot let this opportunity escape OF
I noticing the Confusion of ideas which exist,
: on the subject of the revocation of the
Berlin and Milan DEGREES For any thir. o.
We yet know. the Emperor o. France has
c 'nplied with his engagement to renesI
the DEGREES of Berlin and Milan. so far 40
they respect the United States. When we
intimate this, We are asked, by friends and.
toes, Re he not confiscate our vessels with
colonial produce, &c,t This we freely
aoml. he mas done, In a most vexa iious and
unPrncip.ed name but still he has COM
pied with che letter at our iaw, SO as nor
I only 10 have justified the Executive of the
oni ed States In lssuingS b. proclamation
whicn mas inierdicted che importation of
BRUSH goods but, as far as the Berlin
and Milan DEGREES are involved, so as tn
warrant the present state OF our CONNER.
clal regulations The law OF May Isl. 1910
was imperative, and admitted but OF one
Construction; ITS inJunctions were rigorousIy
ana promptly executed. But, il is said.
the Berlin and Milan DEGREES are not annul.
led |Fei'her are rhey we reply, so lar as
we Know. erceff az relotesfo the U States.
which was all required by our law at the
hands OF France. i'll order to entite her to
the exclusive privilege she now enjoys in
our ports. Moreover she has done ali that
was necessary for her do, to enable us to
demand of G Britain, on her own principles
and admissions, the revocation of her edicts
of like character
The municipal regulations of France, as
10 commerce IN nerSSsor;s, her seizures of
our vessels.an the subsequent retention of
them, however offensive. a,psliusty so. 20 us,
have not the most distant coasrcion with
the Berlin and Milan DEGREES. which inyol-
we'd merely the abstract principe OF block
ade >by declarations on paper, of which W
had so great cause to complain a. one of
the great community of nations and parti
culatly as, being The only neural We were
the exclusive sufferers by it. Each of the
greai beiiigerents sulemniy declared that its
edicts of this descrip ion were dependant on
those ofthe other for their existence Wuu
the sole view of inducing one or. The other
to recede, OF testing the verify o. the pro
fessions, and thus removing the key s,one
of the whole fabric of paper bockades, Con
gress passed the law OF Mayl 1910, France
availed herself of it, and has, to the best of
our knowledge, complied with the lie ter of
our law G.. Britain by refusing to follow the
example, has not only wifuIly caused the
exclusion of her productions from. our ports,
but has conclusiveiy demonstrated the fallacy
OF the pretences on which alone she vlndi-
Gated her violation of neutral rights. This
is true statement of the case, which nei-
Their argument or sophistry can invalidate.
Whatever reasonable ground of dissatisfac.
ton we may have at the unfriendiy conduc,
France manifests toward us in her own por,s,
she has right to do as she pleases there
her conduct in that regard involves no limo.
vation on national law; il concerns ms alone.