Alexandria gazette, commercial and political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1812-1817, 1813-01-07

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The President may recommend TO
Congress statute of this kind, it being
a necessary part of the basis of any flu
ture negotiation for peace, whatsoever
such negoeiation Shall be set on foot.
In any plan of a substitute which 6.
Britain may deem adequate for the right
she claims of taking her own subjects
out of American ships, there must be
reasonable assurance upon he face Of
the plan, that none Can be fouad in A.
merican ships, before she will relinQuish
her present practice.
Wi,seut some Legislative act, the en-
clusion cannot be effected, according to
the doctrines of these who administer
our government. To insert the plan in
a treaty as articles thereof, would re-
qure, as they think, the sanction of Con-
gyess afterwards, to carry 1t into execu.
ton.
2dly. A mission to London to consist
of ore or more commissioners plenipo-
tertiary to negotiate on the existing
differences, and to conclude treaty OF
peace, ought to be instituted forthwith.
Their powers should be complete in
substance AID ii form, but under such
instructions and limitations as the Prcsi-
dent shall deem necessary.
Suppose the attempt to be made in
this manner. Either it will be success
full or it wiiLfail. If the former, Ameri-
Ca gains Immediately all she could gain
by the longest and most fortunate war.
She gains all for which she went to war.
If it fails, America will be a united
people.
When a substitute reasonably ade-
quate to the purpose of rendering it
fruitless to search in American ships
for British subjects, shall be rejected by
the British government upon solemn
embassy (if unfortunately that should be
the CASEY there will be found no Ameri-
can who will not resist the practice of
British impressment in American ships,
on the high sca-a practice fraugl:t with
danger ts our ships by depriving them
of their mariners, = lille at sea, & fraught
with danger to the personal liberty Of A.
mericaH mariners, who, from similarity
of manners and habits and from same
ness of language, arc not easily to be
istinguishca from the British. ], is on
account of this difficulty to distinguish
between the mariners Of the two coun-
tries, that 1t is n,sfc necessary for -Amc-
RIGA thvn Tor any other nation to inss,
that the B'itish should reIinquish TIE
practice as to American ships, when
America Shall have adopted means CT
tcctaaily excluding British mariners
from the navigation of American Ships
1t is on this same account also, that G.
Britain, under a sense OF justice and hu-
mani.y, accompanied with good will.
ought the mere readily to relnguish the
practice Of impressment III En;crican
ships, when cffcctual means OF exclusion
of their subjects from our navigation
shall have been adopted and put in eX-
ecutioB.
In respect to the natura!ized citizens
the war ought not III justice to the Ame-
rican republic TO BE- continued merely
on ,heir account. /. is The law of their
native country that the natural allegiance
is unaliencblc without The consent of
parliament. In collision of claims re-
la.iyc 70 their services, The priar right
is to he adjudgcd the best. The coun.
Try CT their birth has prior and srpe-
risr claim, to the country Of their adop-
ton. Ii is the general rule Of nations,
that during ear 1t is not lawful TO emf
CRATE wi.ncus leave to foreign coun-
try. Sucn emigrants arc species OF
desvr;crs. Further-it is incompetent
for any state, by its own act, to deprive
another independent state of any II Its
rights touching its native c;tizens-and