Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1812-06-04

! right of the Iparatlme war; that ". Britain
| in particular, shall forego the advantages O
her naval superiority, and allow the CONNER
cial property, as we'll as the produce and ma.
hufactu es of France, and her contederates, to
pass the ocean in security, whilst the subjects
Of Great Britain are to be in effect prescribed
from all commercial intercourse with other
nations and the produce and manufactures
Of these realms are to be excluded from eve
Try country in the world, to which the arms or
the influence of the enemy can extend.
"Such are the demands to which the Bril-
fish government is summoned to submit--to
the abandonment Of its most ancient, essential
and undoubted maratime rights. Such is tie
code by which France hopes, under the cover
of a neutral flag to render her commerce I'M
assallable by sea; whilst she proceeds to IN
wade or to incorporate with her own dominic
ons all states that hesitate to sacrifice their
national interests at her command, and in abb
dication of their Just rights, to adopt code,
by whichthey are required to exclude, under
The mask of municipal regulation, whatever
is British from their dominions.
I" The pretsxt for these extravagant de-
nands is that Some OF these principles were
adopted b. voluntary compact in the treaty OF
Utrecht as if a treaty once existing between
two particular countries founded on special
Il d reciprocal considerations, binding only on
The contracting parties, anil which In the last
.reaty OF peace between the same powers, had
not been. revived, were to be regarded as de-
claratory Of he public law of nations.
alt is needless for his royal highness to de-
monstrate the injustice Of such pretenslons
He might otherwise appeal to the practice OF
France herself, in this and in former wars,
md to her own established codes of maratime
Jaw F; ii is sufficient thJt these new demands
Of the enemy form wide departure from
those conditions on which the %llegcd repeal
OF the French DEGREES was accepted by Anne
RIGA {; and upon which alone, enormously as
5nming that repeal to be comp etc, America
has claimed a revocation of the British Or
,!ers in Council.
:" His Royll Highness. upon review OF all
these circumstances, feels persuaded, that so
soon as this formal declaration, by the govern
ment Of France, of its undated adherence to
the principles and provisions Of the Berlin and
Milan DEGREES. shell be made known in Anne
RIGA, the government Of the United States, &C
tuated not less by a sense of Justice 10 Great
Britain, than By what is due to its own dignity,
will BE disposed 10 recall those mearures OF
hostile, exclusion, which, undera misconcep-
'on Of the real views and conduct of the
French Government, America has exclusive
ly applied to the commerce and ships of war
Of Grcat Biitain.
10 &ccs crate result so advantageous to
The true interests of both countries, and so
conducive to the re-establishment of perfect
friendship between them and to give deci-
siye proof of ii RoyalHighness's disposition to
perform the engagements Of his Majesty 5
Government, ~ revoking the Orders in Coun-
Gil, whenever the French DEGREES shall be ac-
tually and unconditionullv repealed; his Row
u H'ghness the Prince Regent has beer this
day please, In the name and on the behalf Of
us Majesty, and by and with the advice of
E is MaJesty's Privy Council, to order and de-
clare:
{" Tat if at any time hereafter the Berlin
and Milan decress shall, by some authentic
act OF the French Government, publicly pro-
'nulgated, be expressly and Internationally
repealed then and from thenceforth, the Or
~ 49, coaliIp vi lllC III lldy vi iOOI
and the Order in Council of the 26th day of
April l8o9, SHALL without any further order
be, and the same hereby are declared from
thencetorth to be wholly and absolutely re-
voked and further, that the full benefit of
this Order shall be extended to any ship OF
vessel captured subsequent to such authentic
&C. OF repeal Of theFrench DEGREES, although,
antecedent to such repeal such ship or vessel
shall have commenced, and shall be In the
prosecution of voyage, which, under the said
Orders in Council, or one ofthem, would have
subjected her to capture and condemnation /;
and the claimant of any ship or cargo which
shall be captured at any time subse quent to
such authentic act ofrepeal by the French Go
vernment, shall, without any further order or
declaration on the part of his Majesty's Co
vernment on this subject, be at liberty to give
in evidence in the Hiph Court of Admiralty