The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1812-06-16

leXactions which were TO have enriched her
funds, depreciation, continually increasing,
impairs the wealth of the state & that OF in
dNidua,s.
When the DEGREES of your majesty APP
peared, the whole continent foresaw that
such would be the result if they received
their entire execution but, as much as Eu-
rope was accustomed to see your underta-
, kings crowned with success, they were at a
loss to conceive by what prodigies your
majesty would realise the great designs
which have been rapidly accomplished
Armed with all your power, nothing could
| turn your majesty from your object. Hol-
land, the Henseatic cities, the coasts which
lie sbetween the Zuyderzee and the Bal
| tic, were to be united TO France, sub
| iect to the same administration and the
same regulations the immediate and inev-
table consequence of the legislation of the
English government. Considerations of no
kind were able to balance, III The mind of
your majesty, the first interest of your en-
pirc.
| l will not stop to recapitulatc the advan-
tages of this Important resolution. After
| fifteen months, that is TO say, after the Sen
| satus Consuitum 81 re-union, the DEGREES of
| Your majesty press with all their weight
upon England. She flattered herself to in
wade the commerce OK the world, and her
own commerce became mere stock Job
|
carried on but by means Of twenty thousand
licences issued every year. Forced to obey
the law of necessity, she thereby renounced
her navigati0n act, the original foundation
of her power. She aSpired 10 the univer-
sal dominic OF thc seas, aud navigation is
interdicted &c her resssis; repulsed fom all
the ports ot the continent, she wished to en-
rich her fumes .sh The tributes that Eu-
rope was to pay md Europe has withdrawn
mi w fro ,t.rip iu,
but likewise from the tributes which it paid
to her industry: her manufacturing cities
have become deserted /; distress has sue
Ceeded to prosperity until then increasing
the alarming disappearance of specie and
the absolute privaton of business, daily in
terfupt the. public tranquility. Such, for
England, are the results of her imprudent
. attempts. She thence learns, and she will
every day learn more fully, that there is nc
safety for her but in a return to Justice and
to the principles of the law of nations, and
that she viii not be able to participate in the
benefits of the neutrality of ports, unless she
will suffer neutrals to profit of the neutrality
of their flag, But until then, & as long as the
, British orders in councils are not revoked, s.
the principles of the treaty of Utrecht in rela
tionto neutrals put in force, the DEGREES o.
Berlin & Milan ought TO subsist for the pow
ers who suffer their flag to be dcnatonalized
. Inc ports Of the continent ought to be open
ed neither to denationalized flags nor t
, English merchandise.
= 1t cannot be concealed, that to maint all
: beyond the reach of attack this great svs
: TEN, it is necessary that your majest,
J., should employ the powerful means which
= belong TO your empire, and find in your sub
= Eects that assistance which you have neve
S asked in vain all the disposabe forces @
=, France must be directed whithersoever tn,
English flag and flags denationalized, o.
: conveyed by English vessels of war; NAV
wish to enter, A particular army, exclu
sively charged with guarding our vas
= coasts, our maritime arsenals, and TIM
triple row OF fortresses which cover on
J. frontiers, ought to answer to your majest
for the security of the territory coniided t
! its valor and its fidelity it will restore :
h their high destiny those brave men accus
toned to fight and to conquer under tn
e eyes of your majesty for the defence of poll
O teal rights, and the exterior security of tn
o empire. Even the dehotS of corps will n
s longer be Invested from the usual destinati
on of keeping up the numbers and tn,
: strength of your active armies. The force
= OF your majesty will be thus constantly
n maintained OIL the most formidable footing
S and the French territory, protected by
i permanent establishment, which is recon
mended by the interest, the policy, and dig
$ nifty of the empire, will find itself in a situa
= ton which will make it more deserving O
! the title of inviolable and sacred.
'. Ii is long time since the actual govern
ment OF GreatBritain proclaimed perpetua
n war, frghtful project which the most un
: bridled ambition would not have dared t
= torU, and which a presumptuous boastin
could only have avowed; fiightful projec
c which might, however, be realized, j
= France could hope for nothing but engage
ment without guarantee, of an uncertain
: length, and even more disastrous than wal
d Peace, sire, which your majesty, in tn
y midst of your great power, has so often of
e Ifercd to your enemies, will crown your glo
G rious labors, if England, excluded with per
tea from ali fhe staaeses o@9ff Ssg aaa esePera
a she has violated, consents at length to ente
O upon the principles which form the basis @
= European society, to acknowledge the Law
/, of nations, and the rights consecrated By
the treaty of utrecht
d In the mean time, the French peop
b must remain in arms honor commands it
the interest, the rights, the independence o
o the nations engaged in the same cause, ant
2 al oracle still more certain, which has of
D ten been pronounced by your majesty
makes it an imperious and sacred law"
f Mr.. Monroe TO Mr.. Foster.
Department of State, June Sd, 1912.
SIR-In the letter of May 30th which
had the honor to receive from you on the IS
, instant, perceive difference i'm a DarticuIa,