Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1812-06-10
The mark OF
EIIZH. E. BOWMAN.

One IF II. Nj. justices Of The feace for me
county Of Southamtfon
ua RUSSELL TO THE EARL OF LIVERPOOL.
London, 2lst Feb. 1912.
NV Lord have the honor TO inform your
lor1ship that the u. States sloop Hornet let
Caves on the 18th of this month. The state
mat of this fact does away, presume, the
necessity Of a more particular reply to your
Iordship's note of Yesterday, concerning WI
H., pnyman. a eear.,ar, hoard tha= shiP
80 az nave the honor, &c. sc.
4 (Siencd) IONA. RUSSELL.
The most noble the Earl Of
Lfvcrtool.
Ertrqct Of a letter from mr.. Russell 10 the
Secretary Of State, dated
LoMDoN, March a, 1912.
Many American vessels which had for
considerable time been wind bound in the
ports OF this county, were at length released
on the 29th ut. by an eastcrly wind, and took
their departure for the United States. BY
some of those vessels, particularly " the
Friends" you Will have received many letters
from ne and you will have learnt, as nearly
as it was in my power to inform you, what in
your letter of the Sth of January you desire
TO know-namely, "thc precise situation OF
our affairs with England
Since ny letters of the 10Th and 22d ut.
which, trust, will have extinguished all ex-
pectation of any change here, the motion OF
Lord I.ansdowne, on the 29.b Of February,
and that Of Mr.. Brougham Yesterday, has been
sUseraiIy DEBATED IN the respective houses Of
parliament. | attended the discussions Oh
IL,
the inflexible determination Of the present
ministry to persevere in the orders III council
without modification or relaxation, the decla-
ratioHs Of the leading members of administra-
ton on these occasions must place it beyond
the possibility OF doubt. In both houses these
leaders expressed disposition to forbear to
canvass, in the present state of our relations,
the conduct of The United States towards
England, as it could not be done with
out reproaching her in manner to increase
the actual irritation, and to do away what Lord
Bathurst stated to be the feeble hopes OF pre-
venting war
"In the house Of commons, Mr.. Rose viz
tualIy confessed, that the orders in council
were maintained to promote the trade of Eng
land at the expcnce Of neutrals, and as mea-
sure of commercial rivalry with the United
States When Mr.. Canning inyeighed against
this new Che must have meant newly acknow
ledged) ground of defending these orders, and
commended that they could be justified only on
the principle of retaliation on which they were
ayowedly instituted, and that they were In
tended to produce the effects OF an actual
blockade, and liable to all the incidents OF such
blockade--that is, that they were meant only
10 distress the snemy--and that Great Britain
had 10 right to defeat this operation by an in
tercourse with that enemy which she denied
to neutraIs, Mr.. Perc;Tal replied, /" that the
orders were still supported on the principle
of retaliation, but that this very principle in
volved the license trade for as France, BY
her DEGREES, had said that no nation should
trade with her which traded with England
England retorted, that no country should
trade with France but through England. He
asserted that neither the partial nor even the
total repeal of the Berlis and Milan DEGREES,
as they related to America, or to any other ma
ton, or all other nations, could form any claim
on the British government while the continent
tai system, so called, continued in operation.
lie denied that this system, or any part Of the
Berlin and Milan DEGREES were merely mani
cfal. They had not been adopted in time Of
peace with view to informal regulation, but
in time of war with hostile purpose to-
wards England. Every clause and particle
of them were to be considered Of nature en-
trely belligefent, and as such requiring re-
sistance, and authorising retaliation on the
part of Great Britain 1t Was idle and absurd
to suppose that Great Britain was bound, r
acting on the principles of retaliation in these
times, to return exactly, and in form, Hkt
yzr like, and to choose the object and ia