The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1812-06-09
THE ENQUIRER.
RICHMOND, JUNE 0. 1919,
THE ULTIMATUM OR, .DECLARA-
TON OF WAR AGAINST THE
COMMERCE OF THE us.


at Westminster, April 2lst, Just reaches us
in the nick of time-lf any Thing can cl:nch
the nail; IT any thingcan dissipatc the slightest
shadow OF doubt which had hung around us,
II any thing was necessary to satisfy us how
VAN was all hope OF justice from g. Britain,
and how essential is War to wrest it from
her, it is the high toned paper now before
US. The dispatches of Mr.. Foster, and the
Speeches of MIR. Perceval OIL the floor of
Parliament, had, indeed, removed all our
scrupies; they had set forth such conditions
OF the repeal OF the Orders in Council, as were
sufilclent to close the door of negotiation
but the Prince Regent now comes forth in
his own character, and by Declaration as
solemn as 1t Is public, puts an authentic
seal upon their wild and imperious re1uisi-
tons. ,,,.
We are a. some loss to know WHY. this
Paper is at this moment ushered into light ::
unies 1t be TO attempt to dilide the Ameri-
can People, to whom it is, OH the very face
OF IT. addressed; by giving handle to the
trends OF &. B., to repeat what they'hav SO
often SAID, that she is anxious to do us JUS
tice, and to rescind her Orders in Council.
as soon as the French DEGREES we're re-
scinded as to us.--lf this be her intention
she has not altogether failed in her object !;
some OF her prints here have already Caught
| inc Ialt ; and we are already told, in all
that solemn cant which hyhocyisy knows SO
J well now to assume, " that the .. in C.. are
icondftfomaHy re Ooksd: and that 1t is not
impossible but this conditional revocation
may have some effect at Washington
we shall prove, in the course of these re-
marks, that these conditions are such as the
". >. are bound to reject that thew are
such even as the federal oppositionists
have refused to admit /; and that they are
| such as leave us no other chance of redress
than the sword.
What are the Prince Regents terms p
That the q. in G.. shall wholly and abso-
lutely cease, whenever the French DEGREES
shall, by some authentic act of the French
Government fubHciy PROMULGATED, he abso-
lufety and unconditionaHy repealed
men, they are to have full force and virtue
'galnst us, laying waste our commerce, &
ravasing our ships and carsoes.
Thus TWO things are set forth as the
conditions OF the repeal Of the .. in C.-lst
An authentic act, Publicly promulgated, en-
the part OF FranCe-and I'd. An absolute &
nncondiHonai, and as the Regent elsewhere
terms it, All erfHcit g formal repeal of the
French Decrees.-But say that neither
u. b. nor the U. 5. have right to claim
eifher of these things at the hands of the
French Government.
FIRST--aS 10 tie authentic net hub/;cI,,
Its enough for us, if France declares in
a formal note to our Minister the repeal of
ner DEGREES. Such WAS the note of NJ .
ChamDagny otthe 5th August, 1910. Was
1T not authentic enoughi 1t was in the
hahd-7V'Tfing of her Minister for Fereign
Relations; the very same officer on Who's.
c01ctaf report the Regent himself lays such
stress as " removing all doubts" as to the
intentions ofhis government If, therefore his
m fhaaN -
TIC declaration of the views of his goDsrn-
nrnf, his note must be so in the other.-
AND was not this note sufficiently formal Z
Ii was thr ugh the c6icial organ on both side $
IRON the French Minister of Foreign Al
airs to. the Minister Plenipotentiary of the
y. S.-lf then it wasauthenfic enough, and
'"Jorn', what more does the Prince Regent
require = Why--that it should be :. hub
aciy promulgated" And was it not So with
the note OF M. Champagny 1t was pro-
mulsated in the most public possible man
ner at Paris; in the Moniteur, as much the;
oticial paper of the French Government as
the London Gazette is of the Prince Regent
-7Saln--Is this 1,ezu MODE of declaring The
repeal OF public ediCts Very far freIn 1T
Tor the experience of all Europe is in its IA
Vor' 1t is very often the course of G.. Bril-
tain herself. Numerous cases might he CT.
ted In which she has done the same thing IN
the form OF Notes addressed to the Foreig 4,
Ministers at her Court, Her Secretary of
State tor Foreign Affairs simply writes a
note stating that such * such blockade is
TO be imposed, and such an Order of Coun-
Gu Is TO De put on or taken off, and the
WORK is done. In what way was the sweep
ing blockade OF May, 1906, from Brest to
the Elbe, laid on? by d bare note from MIR.
FOX to Mr.. Monroe. Yet if ali American
VeSsel, seIZed In CONFIRMATION of this block
ade, were to plead that tie notification was
not sufficiently formal or authentic, we very
shrewdly suspect that Sir William Scott
would but laugh at the objection. r..I
II then the note of the French Minigter
was an authentic one, 1nblicly promulgated.
and is such one as q. B.. herself is IN the
habit OF using; if, moreover; il is the very
same shape which tue repeal of her own Or
,oers III Council assumed, when the President
accepted OF Mr.. Efskine's arrangement
we ask again, what MORE ought the Re-
gent t. require But DOES he ask MORE ,
lie does, indeed /; and it is this add;kionoI
something, which lie has no right to ask at
our hands, and which the Federal Gentle
men themselves will be the first to confess
Is condition which they will never submit
to-
The Prince Regent asks His-.Not mer.-
~ note addressed to our ozvn Minister. <
declaring the repeal of the French DEGREES
as to America, but a " Decree" as the Re-
gent terms it, publicly promulgated to the
v mole world. And way does he ask this
nat every neural in the world NAV avail
Itself OF the promulgated rebeal nc IveU &c