The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1815-04-05

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them ;'(h) the second mission was approved
when it was known and it remains Tor the
British government to explain, upon any es-
tablshed principles of morality and Justice,
the essential difference between ordering the
offensive acts TO be done and reaping the
fruits of those acts, without either expressly
or tacitly condemning them.
Again These hostile attempts upon the
peace and union of the United States, prece-
ding the declaration of war, have beer
followedb by similar Vaccinations, subsequent
to that event. The governor general of the
Canadas has endeavored, occasionally. in
his proclamations and general orders, to dis
suade the militia of the U. States from the
performance of the duty which they owed to
their injured country and the efforts at
Quebec and Halifax, to kindle the flame of
civil war, have been as incessant, as they have
been insidious and abortive. Nay. the gov
ernor of the Island of Barbados, totally for
getful IF the boasted article of the British
magma charta, in favor of foreign merchants,
found within the British dominions, upon the
breaking out of hostilities, resolved that ev-
ry American merchant, within his jurisdic-
ton at the declaration of war, should ar once
be treated as prisoner OF war; because every
citizen of the United States was enrolled in
the militia because the militia of the Uni
ted States,were required to serve their coun-
try, beyond the limits of the state to which
they particularly belonged /; and because the
militia " of all the states, which had accetcd
to this measure, were in the view of sir Geo.
Beckwith, acting as French conscrip-
tion." ()
Again: Nor was this course of conduct
confined to the colonial authorities. On The
26th of October, 1912, the British govern
ment issued an order in council, autborizinp
the governors of the British West-In,lia Is.
lands, to grant licenses to American vessels
for the importation and expectation of GER
tain articles enumerated in the order. bpt
in the instructions which accompanied the
order, it was expressly provided, that
whatever importations were proposed IN
be made from the United States of America
should be by licences, confined to thu, ports
in the eastern states exclusively unless there
was reason to suppose, that the object of the
order would not be fulfilled, if licenses were
not granted, for importations from the other
ports in the u. S." j)
The president of the United States has not
hesitated to place Before the nation, with ex-
pressions of just indignation, 4" the policy
OF Great Britain thus proclaimed to the world
introducing into her modes Of warfare.
system equally distinguished by the deform
ity of IT'S features, and the depravity of ire
character; and having for its object, to dis
solve the ties of allegiance, and the senti
ments of loyalty, in the adversary nation &
to seduce &c separate its component parts, the
one from the other."N)
9. Great Britain has violated the 1aws nc
humanity and honor, by seeking alliances.
in the prosecution of the war, with sayaees.
pirates, and slaves.
The British agency, ~ exciting I'll the indians.
at all times, to commit hostilites upon the
frontier of the United States, is too notorious.
to admit OF a direct and general denial. 1t
has sometimes, however, been said, that such
conduct was unauthorized by the British 90
vernment and the prince regent, seizng the
single instance, of an intimation alledeed to
be given, on the part of sir James Craig, 90
vernon of the Canadas, that an attack was
meditated by the Indians, has affirmed, that
4" the charge of exciting the Indians to often
sive measures against the United States, was
void of foundation that before the war be-
s. =. policy the ulost opposite had been uni
formly pursued and that proof of this was
rendered by Mr.. Foster to the American 90
vernment." o. But is it not known in Europe
as well as in America, that the British North
west Company maintain a constant inter
course of trade and council with the Indians
that their interests are often in direct COLI
sion with the interests of the inhabitants of
the United States, and that by means of the
inimical dispositions, and the active agencies
of the company, (seen, understood, and ia
city sanctioned by the local authorities of Ca
Dada) all the evils of an Indian war NAV be
shed upon the United States, without the au-
thority Of formal order, eInanating immedi-
ately from the British government? Hence,
the American government, in answer to the
eyasive protestations of the British minister.
residing at Washington, frankly communica-
ted the evidence OF British agency, which
had been received at different periods since
the year 1907 /; and observed, {" that whate-
vermay have been the disposition of the Bril-
fish government, the conduct Of its subordi-
nate agents had tended to excite the hostility
of the IHdian tribes towards the u. States
and that in estimating the comparative evil
dence on the subject, it was impossible not to
recollect the communication lately made,
respecting the conduct of Sir James Craig.
in another important transaction 1.-THE en-
ployment of Mr.. Henry, as an accredited a.
gent, to ALLEVIATE and detsch the citizens of a
particular section of the union, from their 60
vernment,) which it appeared, was approved
by Lord Liverpool" (m)
The proof, however, that the British agents
and military officers we're guilty OF the
charge thus exhibited, becomes conclusive.
when, subsequent to the communication
which was made to the British minister, the
defeat and flight of gen. Proctor's army, on
the of placed in the possession ofthe
American commander, the correspondence
and papers Of the British officers. Selected
II ,ts,