Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1812-06-19

So ,ipe blow altH Su az Ss . sN , $500
raC, I'VE Interests. In aggrayation of these
, ,'.,n measures they have been constd-
'freu@sS = force from tho dates OF their notl-
|fs S a. = retrospective effect being thus adj
fca'0n os heen done In other important ca
ea' - he unlawfulness ofthe course pursu-
IT, ID 20 render the outrage the more sig
~. 80 mock bIockades have been relte-
Fal' SnJ enforced in the face of official COM
fl'sI zion. 80; from the British government,
ElU nag as the true definition OF legal
TsS 'sads I. that particular ports must beac-
Pl0, =. Invested, and previous warning giyen
49, Aaes.eIs bound to them, not to enter.
= Az, content with these occasional expedl-
Cor having waste our neutral trade, the ca
F la, oe Greal Britain resorted, at length, TO
l's .,ssenine system of blockades, under the
8. of the Orders in Councll, which has
! moulded and managed, as might best
:. 10 nolitical views, its commercial jea-
.;ss or the ayidily of British cruisers
OS w. our remonstfanccs against the compli-
.,a,l and tlanscendant injustice ofthis inno-
,,;on.,bc first reply WAS that the orders were
S,c,satly adopted by Great Britain as ne
's ..sarv retaliation on DEGREES of her enemy
soslo;ming a general blockade Of the British
i,lss. Al a time when the naval force of that
., daretlnot to issue from his own ports.
Sbs was reminded, without effect, that her
o,yn nriior blockade, unsupported by an ade-
onate naval force. actually applied and CONT
5ped. were bar to this plea: that executed
,dcts against .nilliens Of our property could
-, be retaliation on edicts centessedly lmpos-
,;ble to be executed that retaliation, to be
INST should fall on the party setting the gull
. " example, not on al innocent party, which
VAS not even chargeable with an acquiescence
in it
When deprived oFthis Himsy veil for pro-
Ibition Of our trade with hsr enemy, by the
rspeal of his prohibition Of our trade with G.
Britain, her cabinet, instead of correspond
mg repeal or a practical .discontinuance of It's
orders, formally avowed determination to
persist in them against the United States, un-
+ iltse markets Of her enemy should be laid
Open TO British products; thas asserting an
obligation on neutral power to require one
belligercnt 10 encourage, by its internal re-
guations, the trade of another belligerent;
eontradcting her practice towards all ma
lions in peace as we'll as in war and betray
ing the inslAcerity of those professions which
|inculcated belief that, having resorted to
her orders with regret, she was anxious to
6ndan oceasion for putting an end to them.
Abandonipg still more all respect for the
neutral rights of the United States, and for its
own consistency, the British government now
demands as prerequisites to a repeal OF Its or
aers, as they relate to the United States, that
a formality should be observed In the repeal
Of the French DEGREES nowise necessary to
Meir termination, nor exempihed by British
Usage ana that the French repeal, besides In
Guiding that portion Of the DEGREES which ope-
rates within territorial jurisdiction as well
as that which operates on the high seas a.
gaihst the commerce Of the United States,
should not be single special repeal in rela-
ton to the United States, but should be ex-
tended 10 whatever other neutral nations an
connected with them may be affected by those
decrees And as an additional insult, they
are called ontora formal diSaYowal of condi-
ton and precautions advanced by the French
government, for which the United States are
50 tn from having made themselves respon-
Nbe, that, in Official explanations, which have
sSeR Published 10 the world, and in cores
pondence, of the American minister at Lon
ton with the British Minister for Foreign At
hlrs' such a responsibility was explicitly and
snlphatically disclaimed.
Ii has become indeed sufficiently certain
that the commerce OF the United States is to
oe sacrificed, not as interfering with the bel
Nserent rights of Great Britain, not as sup
pFlns the wants Of her enemies, which she
0erSeit supplies; but as interfering with the
monopoly which she covets for her own COM
merce and navigation. She carries on war
against the lawful commerce of friend, that
sue may the better carry on a commerce with
~ enemy, a commerce polluted by the forge
res and perjuries which are for the most part
0e only passports by which it can succeed.
: ANXIOUS to make every experiment short
" the last resort ofinjured nations, the Unit
81 otates have withheld from Great Britain,