Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1812-06-17
MR.. RANDOLPH'S SPEECH
CONTINUED.

MIR. Randolph said he would proceed in his
argument without deviating to the right or to
she lett, and he would endeavor to suppress
every teelDG which the question was SO we'll
calculated to excite. "The vessel according.
ly arrived in the Garonne on the 18th of No
vember, but did not reach Bordeaux until the
Sd of December. On the 5th Of this month
the director ofMe customs seized the New
Orleans packet and her cargo, under the Mi
Ian DEGREES of the Esd Noven Der and 18th
December SOY, expressly set forth, 70 hav-
ing come from ar English port and having
been visited Ivy British vessel ofwar." I..us
this vessel having voluntarily entered French
port on the faith of the repeal Of tho DEGREES
was seized under them. These facts con-
tinucS Mr.. Russell, having been stated TO me
by the supcrcargo, or the Anne lean vice.
consul at Bordeaux, and the principal one,
that Of the seizure under tile Hlilan DEGREES
being established by the troces ver6c!, put
into my hands by one of the Consignees OF the
cargo, conceived it to be my duty no to
suffer the transaction to pass unnotieed." his
Process 0erbal is neither more nor less an
the libel in the admiralty court drawn by The
law officer of the French government, agree.
ab]y to the laws OF the empire. Whit should
we say 20 libel of vessel by the district at.
torney Of the United States, or her seizure by
the custom house officers, under an act Of coz
gress which had been repealed The whols
of this correspondence proves unequivoca!Y
that neither the custom house officers, tie
courts CT law nor the French cru!zers, not
even the nubAc ships of war had ever receiV.
ed notice from their government of the repeal
of the Berlin and Milan DEGREES. This last
fact is further substantiated by the rernon'
STRANGE OF MIR. Barlow to the duke of Bassano
of the 18th of March, 1912, in the case OF she
{" vessels CAPTURED and burn by his imperial
and royal lnaiesty's ships Medusa & Nymph
It should be recollected that all the DEGREES
of the French emperor are given strictly u
charge to certain public functonaries, who aio
directed to put them in force. The only al'
thorities to whom the repeal of these DEGREES
was to be rule Of action; the cguzerS conF'
and officers Of the customs remained pro,
foundry ignorant of the fact 1t IS to DC iouDA
| no where but in the proclamation OF the IiV
sdent Of the United States, of the I'd OF n" &
yember, 1910. To have waited for the y
ceipt of this proclamation (says Mr. RusseD}
in order to make use of il for the lioerau0p"
the New Orleans Packet, appeared to no
preposterous and unworthy course OF proeSsIL 4,
ing; and to be nothing better than aDst1ps
and basely employing the declaration OF ~ &
president, that the Berlin and Milan dec
had been revoked, as the means Of ob'a'""s
their revocation They weec ti!en %,
voked, or surely our minister would not s's .
in need Of any means for o6taining tneH ~ El
cation. Proofs multiply CD proofs ,a<
6 The custom house officers Of bo,o.t III
commenced unlading the New Orleans - en-, nd
On the 10th December and comPie''e. ,td 81
work On the 2oth, as appears By the'''