Alexandria gazette, commercial and political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1812-1817, 1813-03-09

Extract Of letter from Joel Barlow,
ESQ. to the Secretary Of STATE,
dated PARIS, May 2, 1912.
al have the honor to enclose here
with the copy of my note otyesterday to
the duke of Bassano. The importance
of the objects and the urgency OF the oe'
casion hope will Justify the solicitude
with which l have pressed the ProP.osl-
tons.
The result, as far as it may be known
within few days, shall lie transmitted BY
the Wasp. The Hornet sailed from
Cherbourg the 26th April, with orders
to land a messenger in England with
my dispatches for Mr.. Russell, but net
to wait a return from London"
Enclosed in Mr.. Barlow's letter OF May
2, 1912, to the Secretary of State.
Extract Of q letter from Joel Barlow,
Esq. to the Duke Of Bassano,
dated PARIS, LIST May 1912.
In the note had the, honor to address
your excellcucy on the 10th November
last, the spirit Of the English go vern-
ment was so far noticed as to anticipate
tho fact now proved by experience, that
its orders in council violating the rights
of neutrals, would not be revoked. The
declaration of the Prince Regent of the
2lst of April, has placed that fact beyond
all question. In doisg this he has re-
peated the assertion so often advanced
by his ministers and judges that the de-
crees of France of similar character
are likewise unrevoked.
You will notice that he finds new
argument for this conclusion in your
excellency's late report to the Empe'
ror concerning neutral rights, in which
you avoid taking notice of any repeal
or modification Of these DEGREES, or OF
their nor. application to the U. States.
We know indeed that they do not apply
| to the United States, because We do rot
suffer our flag to be denationallzed IN
the manner evidently contemplated by
the Emperor in the rule he meant 70
establish. But it would have been we'll
| if your excellency had neticcd their non.
application to the u. States, since his
majesty has uniformly done it in his de-
| cisions of prize causes since November
1910.
/" 1t is much to be desired that the
Freneh government would now make
and publish an authentic act, declaring
the Berlin and Milan decrses, as reia.
tive to the United States, to have ceas-
ed in November 1910, declaring that
they have not been applied in any in
stance, since that time, and that they
shall not be SO applied in future
" The case is so simple, the demand
| so Just, and the necessity so urgent,
that cannot withhold my confidence in
| the prompt and complete success of my
proposition"
| Extract efs letter from Mr.. Barlow to
| Mr., Monroe, s--.
| dated PARIS, 18th May, 1912.
I" After the date of my letter, ofwhich
l have the honor to enclose you copy,
l found from pretty sharp converse.
ton with the duke of Bassano, that there
was singular reluctance to answering
nv note Of the LIST of May. Some traces
of that reluctance you will perceive in
the answer which finally came, of which
COPY is here enclosed. This though
dated the 10th, did not come to me till
last evening. consider the commune
cation to be so important in the present
| crisis Of our affairs with England that
I despatch the Wasp Immediately, to
carry it to Mr.. Russell, with orders to
return with his answer as soon as posi-.
BILE.
lam confident that the President will
approve the motive of my solicitude IN
this affair, and the earnest manner in
which pressed the minister with it as
soon as my knowledge of the declaration
of the Prince Regent enabled me to use
the argument that belonged to the sub
ject. When in the conversation above
alluded to, the Duke First produced to
me the decree Of the 2sth of April 1911,
I made no comment on the strange man
ner in which it had been so long con-
cealed from me, and probably from you,
| only asked him if that decree had been
published. He said, no, but declared it
had been communicated to my predeces-
sor here, and likewise sent to MIR. Sc
rurier, with orders to communicate it
to you. Iassured him it was not among
the archives of this legation that l ne
yer before had heard oft; and since he
had consented to answer my note, l de-
sired him to send to me in that Official
manner copy Of that decree. and ola
ny other documents that might prove to
the incredulous OF my country (not to
me) that the decees of Berlin and Milan
were in good faith and unconditiopaily
repealed with regard to the United
States, BE then promised me he would