Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1812-07-08

! and injuries have been sustaihcd' ti'es wv
~ntitlet toredress.-But though the measure
az injury cannot affect the right OF repatriation J
| il ourht not to be disregardcd by wise aa-
| ton in its attempt to procure atonemens' " .
resort to the last extremity.
Without stopping upon this most solemn
occasion, to notice the lnsinuatons ana asse'-
lions so lavishly made, of a plot to dlsmemoef
1.-The Union, by the employment OF secret g
missaries, and the attempts to excite Indian
lbostilities. insinuations and assertions wholly
unsupported by proof, and which 1allllsh con
elusive evidence of a want OF more @h'po'tallF'
reasons; we may consider the Causes assign
ed by government for this appeal to arms 70
| be, in substance.
First-The impressment of American sea-
men.
Secondly-The principles Of blockade, I'M
puted TO the British government, by winch
ports rot actually invested may be considered
as subject to blockade.
Thirdly, and principally-The orders IN
council.
! In regard TO the impressmcnt OF our sea-
men, the British government have ut no perl
cd pretended to the:s right of taking them,
knowing them to be such. They claim the
fright of visiting neutral ships IN search OF
their own subjects and IN The exercise OF IT,
labases, though TO much less extent than the
lpeoplc have been led to believe, have been
praCtised But the conclusive remark upon
| this subject is, that MIR. Monroe, now Secre-
tary of State, and Mr.. Pinkney, the present
Attorney General, had made all arrangement
with the British government, Tor the protec-
| ton of our Seamen, which IN their judgment
| would have been perfectly competent to that
object. But this arrangement, President Jet
ferson, evidently and fatally determines to
preserve every source OF irritation, refused
to confirm. Since that period the British go
vernment has always protested willingness
to enter upon new Arrange ments-their minis
ter has lately explicitly offered to obtain the
restoration OF every American seaman, upon
being furnished with list of them. We
cannot but add, that the senate OF this com
nonwcallh has refused to concur with the
House in the means of procuring from every
town list of their impressed citizens, the
Qumber of which we have reason TO believe
would appear quite inconsiderable in compari
son with the exaggerated allegations of oul
administration, as well as with those who by
| this act of their own government, are H0Tv &C.
hosed to CAPTURE and TO confinement III prison
ships.
Upon the question of constructive 5l0ckades
separate from the orders in coancil, which
rest on special circumstances, there can be Nc
pretence for controversy, involving the ne.
| cessity of war. The British government has
| declared in " official communication" that to
constitute blockade "p2rtlcular ports must
be actually invested, and previous warning
given to vessels bound to them not to enter.
To this definition it is understood that the a
merican government assents. But it Is al.
lodged that Great Britain violates her protes-
sed limitation of this right of blockade, by he,
orders in council, which are, in effect, a con-
structive blockade of France, and her dep~n.
denotes.
1t is far from the disposition of your repre-
sen,atiyes to investigate the reasons advanced
by Great Britain in defence of this measure
| which her present administration5conS { s.
sential 10 the maintenance Of her independence
But We may confidently appeal to your gool
sense, for confirmation OF the solemn ruth
that war against Great Britain alone, at the
| moment she declares her Orders IN Councl
repealed, whenever revocation OF the French
DEGREES shall have effect, is measure stamp.
ed with Partially and injustice. BY the oPe'
ration fthese orders our commerce IS exclud
ed from the ports of France and her Deepen
| denotes. But were they repealed, the NUM-
cipa regulations, heavy duties and other null
tlpned embarrassments IN those ports, Wou!t
pe obstacles TO that commerce, not less etfec
! tual than the British edicts. Thus to obtair
tue rlgat to traffic with France, which woulc
not be worth pursuing, we renounce a part
cipation IL a lucrative commerce, with the
rest fthe world. Toindemnify the merchan
for his partial losses his whole property Is ex
posed to capture. To secure retrlbution to-
occasional depredations, and individual out
rage upon solitary vessels BY British crulzer
the entire navigation ofthe country and you
hrove Seamen will fall a nrtsy TO their ieetS