Alexandria gazette, commercial and political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1812-1817, 1813-12-28
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III aDy suCa DdfufafZcu Ioret2nef .snaI
suffer any punishment as criminal, The
like punishmcnt, even unto death, shall
be inflicted on some other real British
subject ia cur pover--already a pro
gress towards tho shedding of human
blood has bees nade-3s persons to,
ken in arms whe are said to be British
saoiects nstursliEsd by America, have
been sept to England to stsnd their
tria, for ,reasoa, and % native British
subjects tasea in varare confined close
s,v. VIII, arc oarked out to be punished
/ here ia IKE manner ss the naeuralizsd
British subjects shall BE- punished there.
In consequence Of eur confinement Of
these 90 British subjects, they have
s,ufned 46 Bstirs Americans, and we
have on eur part confined IS native En-
vlisbmea.--In this awful suspense the
lives ofthese men are now plseed.
We pray you, Fellow Citizsns, ex-
anime the claim we are asserting, to
interfere between foreign nation and
its sshjects, ard to dissolve the Ties OF
the individual to his native county,
If the British tribunal shall find by the
evidence produced. that the prisoners
under trial tender the charge o treason
were nasSseI bora British subjects, and
were taken in arms within the province
of Csnada, or. on the high sea lighting
on the sii3, of America, and that they
had enaigrated during the present war
with France, by the knewn law Of Eng
land, their lives are forfeited. The plea
tba, they we're na,ursiized in America,
will rot avail for their acquittal, unless
il was with the express consent o. TIT
Parliaasut, or unless Grea, Britain
shall csncede that a British Subject MAY
be absolved from his ties TO bis country
by foreign soversiga.--Ths formef
has not been given, and the latter vii
not. cannot be conceded, and thus no
thins is to be expected but the death OF
,hsse unfortunate and mistaken meu.-
What then is to follew tae execution
Nv the mandate Of the President in coid
blood, OF ths twenty-three msrked gu,
British subjects. who have been await
ing in goal, the sentence OF the eria'i-
nal tribunal ia Engsand!
Does The law of man or of God per-
nit this bloody procedurei Does the
Law Of man permit ose nation to put 10.
death the subjects of another, because
that other in the administration OF 's
criminal Law, bss published with dea'f
some of its own native subjects with,
death, who were adopted and ms ursliz
Cd IN foreign country /! Does tst la"
Of man give to the adopting natien the
authority 10 in,espos. IN f'sor OF has -
deptsd subject, snch 'r"sns o. eoe''''''
upoo ,h.. osner independent nati'n IN e
very ching equal ,e itself !-Whas dee
the Law of God pronounce ON such
tra.saetien Thou sbslt do no murdc
what else but murder can be sseribed
Z. the execution which is prop sede,
the mandate ofthe President, OF toe %
prisoners selected for The purpose, Y -
shall be carried into effect! AL nae
tions will condemn the bloody and hor.
rid crime. France has ancisntly as well
n in the wear 1911, declared its law on
this subject, which Furnishes with dealt
any Frenchman, though natsrslized N
a foreign country, who shall be found
on the side of its sDemy.-lh he law o.
England and Of France, and ct oil Ea-
rope is the same, or this interesting to-
pie.--Iflbese men shall thus be dspriv-
cd of their lives, their blood will be on
the nation to the end Of time, the guilty
deed will be related with horror, and
the curse Of God pronounced sgsins'
those who shed mans blood may DC
expected to fall on our dsvossd cous-
try.
When will thi. war end Never while
America asserts and 6ghts for the doc !
triae, that British subject may De ma
turalized here under any circumstances