The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1812-11-27
DISPUTE WITH AMERICA.
From Coebet,'s Ueekb itesistsr.


fnrbear any further demonstrates with ysu thereon
aud to Leave fisle TO be the teacher iSut, the In
teliigcnce ARRIVES, from America snsc the date oi
that letter, las msde Inc depart roiu that ION,
aud has induced me to make one more eiort TO
convince you that, without furthur in the,
way OF consolation, peace with America is hut like
j. 10 be restored.
The very <ay on which my last letter was print
ing (Frdsy last) marked by the promnig stion
Of tdings from America, that the congress had re-.
Uofed the deciard:foa s Tpdy, and that the Ameri-
general in Canada had entered INTO 0r,nis-
tic for 50 days; and that bo,n these had taken
place III consequence ut the revocation of our or
ders in council tew hours were sufficient tn dis.
xipte these fasehoods, fabricated, doubt for the
purpose OF deccing the people OF this thi,x
ing'' country The deception would last, in all
human probability, for only few days but at the
end oil those days, new tssehooa would be inven-
ted * the old one lest in that. This faehood, how
ever, does not appear to have lived even As hours
for the very day after its promnga brought
forth the contradiction brought forth the COM
plete proof OF fabrication. Surely, SIR the people
OF America must despise us! They must despise,
or, &. least, pity, nation who made the sport
of such vile literary inipostors base hirelings, who
prostitute the press to all the purposes hostile to
truth aud freedom.
The authentic Intelligence received from Ameri-
ca appears to be, IN substance, this-that the Amer
lean government has received Intelligence of the
repeal OF orders IN council, hut, that it is by no
means satisfied herewith, and means to demand q
redres. of all its aedged grievances, before it LAYS
down its arms.
Did not tel! you so, sir, in my very last letter
Did I not say, that America would now demand
" ird.nnitJ for the past a.d secRritytor the ju-
tire" wished to guard your royal highness a.
sains deception, and I, for that purpose, entered
into an argument to show that ought not to ex.
peet America to make peace with us upon ha-
wing barely ceased to commit what she asserted to
be a violation of her rights.
l. therefore. have, think, some claim to atten-
ton IRON your royal highness, especially have
al nlors told you, that the repeal OF our orders
would not, alone, be sufficient. When the repeal
took place, upon the death Of Mr.. Perceval, and
when Mr.. PonSonby and MIR. Brougham re-
ported to he making pledges to support a.
gainst America, if that repeal did not satisfy her ;
at that time at that important moment, when
Cancellation might have been rendered complete ;
even then, without moments delay, l told your
royal hignness, that the repeal of the orders would
not, of itself, be enough and as will be seen by the
passage taken for my motto, most earnestly be-
sous t you to put stop, OF your accord, to the
improvement oipersons on board OF American ships
II this had been done, sir it this measure, so
strongly recommended by me, had been adopted
then, " should now have seen our ports crowded
with American ships To take away our manufac-
,ures, Instead Of hearing OF hundreds of American
privateers cruizing against our commerce.
The Courier and Times newspapers, two of the
most corrupt in England, make certain remarks
upon the paragraph which have quoted from the
American demi-official print as these remarks
embrace assertions and notions that false, it is
necessary, at least, it may be useful to put the
matters OF which they treat i'll FAIR light.
The Courier has this paragraph" Here, then
is an open asowa ,hat nothing will satisfy the A.
nercan government but the abandonment Of the
rIFht OF search, and the acknowledgment of the
principle, that free ships make free goods. Perish
The idea IT peace, II IL is only 10 be made such
terms. Yet this the American government calls
sc an anxious desire to accommodate all differences
upon the most reasonable conditions :"
The Times says---'' la this phiiippic, redress is
not only claimed for the supposed wrongs inflicted
by this country, but it is declared that the &" a.
nierican flag IN future secure all til az sails
under it, This is adopting III its fullest extent, the
language OF BDnaparte, that free ships make free
goods Ifthat principle be maintained by the A
Inercen government, and supported 10y the Amcri-
can Legislature, see ne slightest prospect of
= speedy ter'oination of hos uities."
Thus then, these good hirelings are for war, ra-
ther, than give up what they call the " right of
search. They are hardly so stupid as not to know
ment of tie right IF search, in the usual sense of
those words they must know, that, as far to
search SLIPS at Cor rather tn Visi' theml has
been sanctioned by the usage OF nations, the Amer
leans are ready submit to it; but, sir this right
of search is very different indeed from that Of
which these good hired writer's are speaking.
There is right of search. or OF visit, acknowi
edged by all the nations of Europe.-When nation
Is ut war, she claims the right Of visiting all neutral
merchant ships at sea, i'll order 10 that they do
not visit her enemy by carrying warlike stores or
.oops for him (; and, If she find them thus taking |
part will, her enemy if she find them thus trans
them as, indeed, se has just cause for doing, see
ing that they are, III fact, engaged in the against
her. And the right Of visiting them, to whe- |
ther they be thus transgressing, has been, by us,
called the right Of search. We have contended |
for and have, for time past, been able to
maintain, extension OF this right TO the goods Of
an eneaily found in a neutral ship; though it is to
be observed, that ally, Russia, and ally,
Sweden, AS well Denmark, and Holland, in all
times have comtended against this right, Bat, hat
have these to do with the searching oil which Amer
leans complain They complain, not that VIC
seize cOntrabaud Of war board their vessels not
that we confiscate ships or cargoes where there
arc enemy's troops or enemys goods; but, that
we Stop their vessels upon the high seas, and that
there we tdke OUT 0f them gvhafever persons 7ve
b!e0se--Tbis is what they complained Of and, the
act is perfectly notorious, that have in this way
taken many thousands Of persons out of American
ships carrying their trade quietly from part
OF the world TO another. II is notorious, that many
of the persons thus seized were citizens and native
Americans -shit they have been taken on board of |
our ships of war; that they have been kept
there cor years that they have been taken to
ali parts ot the world that many Of them
have been wounded, many have lest their limbs, |
and iaany killed. IN q service which they abhOrred,
beng COM PEELED 10 light against those with whom
zbey lad no quarrel.
There is no map Of any consideration. who will |
,eopt TO say, that this is right. 1, aust of neoes
s:ty have crested deep rooted i'll will agsinsi in
America, where the sea-farinr people not q |
class Of iSdiyduals who have neither bouse nor
bone, and whose state is desperate. A vesse, in |
America. often manned by people NIL living in the
same village and, the impressment, the banisl, |
1nent, the destruction Of one, must be felt by the
oie, aud BY the whole Of the neiglbourhood also.
II ..ncc the heart burnngs IN America against En- |