Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1815-04-12
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! know II is the fashion to consider whate .
yer IS announced in certain public prints
| as having the sanction of the government, !:
oue know also that ir is the case in n,er.
| ica. Gas Lord Whitworth told Bonaparte it
was here.) that If certain papers are fas
vored with an early communication Of
what the government sees fit to publish the
editors are not therefore restrained, from
inserting Their own opinions, or any articles;
and indeed have seen Instances in the
Ma. lnteiiigencer. or some extracts from
IN our own papers, OF regret, in the very
question OF hostility with us. that the go-
vernment was not disposed to go the length
the writers wished. Neither shall We con-
une ourselves to the efforts of the scrib-
piers IN our own government prints, to show
now much the converse of the true case has
neea held up to view |; though here we
should ind miserable eff" of Bonapare's
converted into an aIliance, and his assers
ffon that America would meet on his side
in congress for peace (Which on every o.
,ner occasion would be taken for evidence
OF the contrary set down for ysoshel.
Undoubtedly the more .d,gnified COURSE
tor both governments would be to dscou-
rage the holding ont such false lights,
wnere they can be supposed to enasate
from themselves. But in the case before
us, we shall show higher evidence of per.
verseHess than in the vulgar lies of ire
Times
Whoever viii give himself the trouble to
read the declaration ofAgoveraulent of the
list 81 April 1912 will find.that an Official
report OF the French Minister for fore On.
afalrs TO the Conservative Senate Of the
tenth OF March preceding, which has NJ. re-
ference Whatever TO America, but which
relates . TO Europe only and the Continent
OF Europe, and the conlineu al system. and
the continental ports, which are mentioned
thrice tnree lines IN the instrume nt, with !.
hut WORD OF America, or a word that can
De applied to her:" that this Instrument. 4
say, IS not o9ly so iortaousiy twisted, as to
lead the reader to believe that America ;s
contemplated in it !; but that, as il were tn
rlvet the'deception. hope Is EXPRESSED
that whsD tins act shall be made known,
IN America, the U. States viii be shereoy
induced to change their measures.
am confident, sir, that nine peoog out
OF ten might perhaps say ninety nine oae
OF hundred, that have read this declara..
uon winch recapituates three fretensious
OF france that we have been considerins-.
have from tins alone believed that Ameri-
ca was party with France in the assertion
OF tnep, and tits hard to tell whether il be.
the greater censure on those thar drew up
ehe declaration, that they believed 1t them
selves, or that they knew the contrary.
but, In order to be satisfied tbat Acleri-
ca was not included in the denubciatioas of
.he french report, we may be told that IL
is not sufficient to show tha, in is pese, a;
.enor the terms are applied to Europe on
iy; for the Ruler OF France denounces the
penalty OF the Berlin and Mia, de~
crees against all nations who shall suffer,
theif nag to be denationalized, II will be
wen therefore TO show that America was
exempt from thi curse of Northumberland
And thus it appears.
by Certain &C; of the governneu. of the
United States, of the first of Nav. 1s1o =
Judgment was denounced in the shane of
exclusion from their ports of the stins oe
ehat great oslhgerent OF the two WIG sl,DuId
continue his hostile DEGREES f. ,hres
months after the other shogid si,hd,,,y
them as respected the said United States
France acceded TO the prouosi inn nrds,i
the precise terms of the law the alterra
tipes OF which she repeated in her act ~
revocation viz. that either EogIaDd sho,,Id
also revoke her hostile edicts or that. &C.
e6'dnS to The ioqv jgst Communicated. N.
"'erlca should have her rig Is ysshs a4rG Ir
"hi perhaps be wisformation to some ~
your readers that this conditon, WINCH wos
AL that was required T. prevent the d,o,
VI NhC [AhCIlC II nrC. IS no
y Kept in the back ground in "a paper he
fore us bnt absolutely castrated in five q.
Their public documents Of the first imnor,
lance and IN each of them an int re3ce ;s
drawn from the mutilated copy matera,lv
different from that which the wordS az
length would give, viz. in the Ietters Of Mars
gus Wellesly to MIR Pinkney. Of Dec 90.
1910. and Feb. IL, 1911, in the judgments
OF SIR William Scott on the Fox and ON the
SniPe and in the declaration of govern-
ment OF the ninth of January, 1913, which
we snail have occasion TO notice again
shortly. And it requires no common stretch
OF charity to believe that the cnissiot ~
these important words in so mary instances
could be accidental; pecialiy when Il 10
perceived that without them the condition
OF 'le revocation was incomplete since
England did not revoke her DEGREES bnt
whenever this alternative is restored to the
eye, the deluSion vanishes. Moreover re-
ference to this act of the government of he
United States is reference TO one of the
ciearest evidences of the impartiality Of the
American government which it has beer,
most wickedly attempted to conceal and
deny III various instances for by this act
1t is shown that the same measure was
offered tous as to France audit can he
the less doubted that the same exclusion
would have been adopted against her had
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