The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1812-10-29
MISCELLANY.
PROM rAK NATIONAL ,srrlL1sKsern
REVIEW

REVIEW
o. THE ADDRESS OF THE MEMBERS COM
Pricing TEE MINORITY OF THE HOUSE
OF RErREsENrATivEs OF THE CONGRESS
OF THE UNITED STATES.
Corelnded.
j otter no apology Tor France. She has
wronged Us, aud must do Us right But il
GAS nor escaped observation, that many Of her
seizures ot vessels and merchandise under
our Nag were british properly. British mer-
ehShts, pros1rating their former lofty charac.
Ter OF probny, ioaged our papers anG our pass
ports, and every here rendered our fiay su..
pteIec. GeDoatk, who hsa at one time TAX
en- no many oi oor vessels, under pre,ext OF
ih'ti being English, did not, after the urriyui
oi hr' Er'lng, who was enabled accurately
10 olSelminatc between the false and the
true, condemn single real Amer lean. Mr..
crVhgs hnal return, communicated by the
rresotnI, VIII Justify the assertion In cf-
iect, the pesJuries una frauds OF the BRUSH
placed our commerce IN the ports OF Europe
IN the situation ct u yir,uous woman surroun-
ded by persons of i'll fame, and 1t has su uifer-
ed iiom the bad company /, has been found
IN. Dehauched herself, q. Bitsin has de-
oauchcd our flag, and has cndesyored to screen
her own vices by crying out tha, American
virtue Was violated by Frenchmeh. Like
Mrs. Waters, in Tom Jones, the Bti,ish
have always roared out rahe and murder !!
whenever they have been detected in their
rog0ery.
do not attempt TO disguise, that vessels
claiming 10 be Americans, were seized bv
France after the Freneh DEGREES had been
der rcI baY
meni l have introduced, shows tha, there
have been in all for,y-hve. Most OF these,
however, II not the whole, have been liberut-
ed, as will appear by the letters Of Mr.. Rus
sci and Mr. Barlow. This is the 4" numerous
list Said Cat page % Of the Addressers) to
exist IN the cihce of the Secretary of State"
IL Is, admit, too numerous but why do
tho hddresscrs conceal, tha, many of them
were suspected, If not proved, 10 be in colu-
sion with the English If, however, forty
tee vessels detained, and subsequently relea-
sed, create such indignation in the breasts Of
the pamphleieers, why do they doze over the
one hundred and .Ely eisAi American vessels
captured, during the same period, by the
asritish : IL France bau never fcvoked her
DEGREES at all, the prepondcrancs Of injury
would st,ll be .fve 10 one on the aide oi G.
Britain
We fight, not for what Frahce has given
rs, bur for what Great Britain has taken a.
way. We fight Tor spoils,ons committed
upon nint ha'drtd and seventeen Of our mcr.
Ghanimcn for the thousands of our sesmen
'ha, nave bern imprc cssca ; for the rights of
trade, which are guaranteed by the law OF ma
lions /; ano tor sectafi,y against future ropinc.
III oiay be said, that ceptutes have, indeed,
been n,adc oi nine hundred and seventeen Of
our merchant vessels, but the greater part OF
them have been restored. To such obiec-
ions, reply, look az Me fsf, which will be
printed, and you will find that from the delays
OF justice, the circuity Of appeals, and tho
breaking up Of voyages, the release o. ac.
qnitini of vessels, was little less, TO the own.
CIR than condennation AS an example Of
the practical effect Of n restoration OH appeal,
take the following extract from the lists in
question. 1t is the official minute made op-
posite TO the capture Of an American vessel
ihas was condemned in the Courts below
" Irs7ne.ied an APPEAL, blu, in consequence Of
the death Of The captain OF the p,iva,eer. the bank
ruptcy OF tie owners the coiusion of the regisrary
OF the ,ce-ldmiraity court, and the death Of the
ihtter before new prososs could resch him, nothing
Putting France out Of the question, do no,
the wrongs inflicted upon US by Great Britain
Justify war Almos, all the leading federal
characters agree tina, they do. Do, then, the
wrongs by France lessen the wrongs by Eng
land, and make jus,liSble war unjus'i6yolel
! answer, No The wrongs by France will,
], is true, il not eventually redressed, justify
another war. Policy, and the prospect Of a
returning scuse o, right, dictate, for the pre-
sent, however, pacific posture with respect
to the French empire. We make war for
American rights, and not for French inter
csts.
With regard to mo's effective preparation
for war, before declaration of 1t which is
the grodnd assumed by Mr.. Bayard in his
speech, in suppor, of his motion, on the 9th