The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1812-06-09

or bcsieged, in the presumption of their be.
ing taken len frcvention a. ere kris1 and
into which merchant ship canBot enter
without danger.
BY these and other demands, the enemy
IN tact requires, that g. Britain and all CT
viized nations, shall renounce at his arbitra-
| ry pleasure the ordinary and indisputable
rights OF maritime law ; that Great Bri-
tain, in particular, shall forego the advanta-
ges other naval superiority, and allow the
commercial property, as we'll as the produce
ana manufactures Of France, and her con
lfederates,sto pass the ocean in security,
whilst the subjects of Great Britain are to
be i'll effect prescribed from all commercial
| intercourse with other nations and the pro-
duce and manufactures of these realms are
| to be excluded from every country in the
world, to which the arms or the influence of
the enemy can extend.
Such are the demands to which the Bri-
fish Government is summoned to submit
TO the abandonment of its most ancient, es-
sential, and undoubted maritime rights
Such is the code by which France hopes,
under the cover of neutral flag, to RENDER
her Commerce unassailable by sea ; whilst
she proceeds to invade or to incorporate with
her own dominlons all States that hesitate
to sacrifice their national interests at her
command, and, in abdication of their Just
rights. to adopt n code, by which they are
required to exclude, under the mask of mu-
nicipal regulation, whatever is British, from
their dominions.
The preteXt for these extravagant de-
mands is, that some of these principles were
adopted by voluntary compact in the treaty
OF Utrecht; as if treaty once existing be-
tween two particular. countries, founded on
Especial and reciprocal considerations, bind
ing only on the contracting parties, and
which in the last treaty of peace between
the same powers, had not been revived, were
to be regarded as declaratory Of the public
law of nations.
Sits needless for his Royal Highness to
demonstrate the injustice of such pretensi-
ons. lie might otherwise appeal to the prac-
tice OF France herself, in this and in former
wars, and to her own established codes of
maritime law tits sufficient that these new
demands Of the enemy form a wide depar-
ture from those conditions on which the al
legged repeal of the French DEGREES was &C
icepted by America and upon which alone
tremendously assuming that repeal to be com
Iplete, America has claimed q revocation of
the British Orders in Council
4" His Royal Highness, upon n review of
all these circumstances, feels persuaded,
that so soon as this formal declaration by the
government OF Frame, of it's unabateA adhe-
rance to the principles and provisions Of the
Berlin and Milan DEGREES, Shall be made
known in Hmerica, the government of the
United States, actuated not less by Il sense
of justice to Great Britain, than by what
is due to its own dignity, will be disposed to
recall those measures of hostile exclusion
which, under misconcepti0n OF the real
views and conduct of the French govern
ment, America has exclusively applied TO
the commerce and ships of war OF Great
Britain.
10 accelerate a result so advantageous
to the true interests of both countries, and
so conducive to the establishment of per
feet friendship between them (; and to Give
a decisive proof of His Royal Highness' dis
position to perform the engagements of His
Majesty's government, by reYoking the Or
ders IN Council, whenever the French De-
crees shall be actually and unconditionall2
repealed: His Royal Highness the Prince
Regent has been this day pleased, in the
name and on the behalf Of His Majesty, and
by and with the advice of His Maiesty's
Privy Council, to order and declare =
That if at any time hereafter the Berlin
and Milan DEGREES shall, by some authentic
act OF the French government publicly pro-
mulgated, be expressly and Internationally
repeated; then and from thenceforth, the
VI ~ III COtuiIh vi lut vi Gay OF January
1907, and the Orders in Council of the 2eth
day OF April 1909, shall, without any further
order, be, and the same hereby are declared
from henceforth, to be wholly and absolutely
revoked and Their that the full benefit
OF this Order shall be extended to any shin
or vessel captured subsequent to such au-
thentic act of repeal of the French Decrees
although antecedent to such repeal, such
ship or vessel shall have commenced. and
shall be in the prosecution Of a voyage,
which, under the said Orders. in Council. or
one ofthem, would have subjected her to cap
ture and condemnation (; and the claimant of
any ship or cargo which shall be captured al
any time subsequent to such authentic act
OF repeal by the French Government, shall,
without any further order or declaration OF,
the part Of his Majesty's Government on
this subject, be at liberty to give in evidence
in tie High Court of Admiralty or anv
Court OF Vice Admiralty, before which such
snip or vessel, or its cargo, shall be brought
tcr adjudication, that such repeal by the
French Government had been By such au-
thentic act promulgated prior to such cap
ture and upon proof thereof, the VOYAGE
shall be deemed and taken to have been as
lawful, as if the said Orders in Cuuncil had
never been made saving nevertheless 70 the
captors, such protection and indemnity as
they may be equitaby entitled to, in the
Judgment Of the said Court, by reason of
their ignorance or uncertainty as to the re-
peal OF the French DEGREES, or of the recor
milton OF such repeal by his Maes.y's GO
ernment, at the time Of such capture