The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1812-02-29
ENQUIRER-OFFI FEB. 90.

CANCELLATION! CANCELLATION
In the Speech of the Prince Regent
(Which we now lay in hrojtria persona before
our readers, )-he is pleased to express his
regret that various important subjects Of
difference with the government of the u. 5.
still remain unadjusted," although the diff
culties occasioned by the affair of the Che
sapeake have been finally removed-S1 he is
also pleased to add, that in the further
progress OF the discussions with the u S.,
he viii continue to employ such mecns of
| concsAatton as may be consistent with the
due maintenance OF the maritime and COM
mercial rights and interests of the British
Empire. We see nothing in this language
tocreatc hopes of a favorable change; it is
indeed merely calculated to excite our ap-
prehensons for the future If the Prince
Regent had told his Parliament: "Here
let us stop; we have given America suffici-
ent cause OF complaint; let us change our
p"iicy towards her, we might have formed
some expectations from his candor. But
when he menaces us with a continuance of
ms means of cancellation, can we but start
IN dismay at the idea of such a visitation p
we look back to the past, and we find little
out contumely and injury we look forward
to tie future, and the same spectacle of
course salutes our imagination. We enquire,
where are those boosted means of conciliati-
/
| Where are those &C tender mercies" which
his Royal Highness has been pleased to pro-
mise
Are they to be found In that long host of
injuries, which have shed gloom over our
negotiations since the peace of 1882 Is the
impressment of our citizens one of the boast
ed means reconciliation Was the plumber
OF our ships on the most frivolous pretexts in
tended to conciliate us Is the blockade of
on NUN, ttx< l. Al
lpeake-were the numberless outrages and
contumeles of her ships of war designed to
conciliate our feelings! Do they take us for
parcel OF hounds, the more docile and af-
fectlonatc, the more we are beaten and "a
bused?
Was it in the spirit of Cancellation, that F .
U. Jackson was deputed to- this Country 7
was 1T IN the same spirit, that he was kept
tor months in this country, after having gross
| " insulted us Was it cancellation to suffer
! the dignity of c.. Il. to be represented here
ice several months, by mere Charge DAT
fares to take no notice of the letters of our
minister lfinkney) for weeks and months to-
gether was II coneiliatory to send Mr..
roster with propositions which it were even
an insult to our common sense to offer Is
all our commerce with France interdicted
IN this most accommodating spirit And
what shall we say of the following extract
| hOhi tie laSt LONDON prints
:, n hst of american vessels condemned
IN plymouth, and Detained by British crui-
@ers from august 20, 1911, TO January 16,
lnSl2.---Bris Brutus, from Baltimore to
bordeaux Drummoiid, of Norfolk, ditto ;
Female, Cray, ditto Catharne Augusta
Center, from Nantz to New-York Eliza,
lryln, from Bordeaux to New-York scioo-
ner Matchlcss, Cathell, from New York to
bordeaux; Trojan, Fitch, from Baltimore
to bordeaux Jane, ditto Henry, of Bal
umore, from Bordeaux to baltimore Young
Caroline, OF New Orleans, from Bordeaux
to New. Orleaas Fly, from Havre TO Bris.
ttol, X. !. The schooner Purse, Of New
York, detained by the Nicmsn frisate, was
retaken by the master, second mate and
boy, from the prize-mastcr and nine men
~ the act ofdoing it, the prize-master was
shot"
| Ii this nc the coarse Of c6neiiqtioa which
?, the Prince Regent intends to continue, we
may indeed despair OF al, peace with Bri-
| tain :.
But these mcdns are also to be coussteu,
with the rights and interests Of the Empire ~
Ills X. Highness. is not so good as to tell us