Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1815-04-12

upon teose who have looked so deeply in>
to It. An instance Of this is to be found in
the debate of December l., 1912, i'm which
AN honorable and Learned gentleman. who.
made another mistake at the time. tells a
noble lord that she must have short me-
mory, ii he don't reco,iect chat the rcvern.
ment OF America had declared that they
expected the treaty OF Jtreot,t should be
considered the maritime law Of aatious."
ms was war in disguise, eatTenched be-
hird papers aud parchmcr.s, which the no.
be ford had not Thought ct TO penetrate /;
out nhe aAd, he uoa'a have searched them
III vain tor any eviieuce OF the fact insinua
ted by the honorable ard learned gentle
man Lilo might indeed have tcaad AN in
iiinssicn of the kim from some benigheed
wanaes'rer over the fields OF a ne wspaper !;
ne night have foapd an expression of the
ffute ot Bonaoarte to this effect, {uot unite
so strong evidence to the contrary as his
assertion would be ! but still evidence 10
the contrary9 Bus the noble lord. would
seek In vain for any declaration of the A
mericau government TO that effect
For optics sharp it aeeds, ween,
10 see what never can be SEEM
Now, Sir, we shall advance in our apollo.
BY for our SIS ereigh lord the people. by
showing that they might possibly have mis-
apprehendede the higher sources of autho.
rity, and you will think il extraordinare
and il would be 60, but for what Drecedes'
and what follows, that the FIRST document,
shall refer to, is one. in which the disa
vosvai OF Bonaparte's principles of mari.
time lawby the American government. is
ahecHy acknowledged By or osva. In the
iItn paragraph Ct our q, caration OF war,
(9th January. 1879 after enumerating the
r. All &c
claraion goes on to state that " one of them
is not founded in fact, whilst the others
even by che admission Of she american go.
pernment, are utterly groundiess in pom,
OF law Certainly Sir, in this naked form
1t would be hard to charge this extract with
ooiuscation or sophistry. But there is a
mist and confusion about the whcle para.
graph, which begins by charging, not the
u States. but France, with pre,exts tina,
the property OF private persons and goods
were not the object of legitimate hostility /;
and herein the q, estion of free ships. free
goods, is eaveloped in the more extended
protection that Bonaparte is pretended to
have Claimed for private property of every
kind. And then the expression eve,, Dy
the admission OF the American government
as though it we're an admission reluctant
iy wranS from them, who were otherwise
DESTROYS OF defending Boraparte's preten.
sions. me contrary u vti-t has so fialha5iy
dfl'ecrea. In short when 1t Is Considered
that all the parade of enumerating Bona.
parties innovaiieas. with which America
had nothing To- do in fact, would anpear.
from this clear acknowledgements. 10 be ITO
corceru of the United States, by minister's
own showing it is difficult TO imagine that
they made the acknowle dsment with apv
otner view than that of a retreat from the
charge OF misr presentation, if it should
happen 70 be made. while the public were
iSft under the false impression Of comb.
nation between France and The United
states, in order to keep alive The hostile
spirit winch was necessary to enable them
TO carry on the war. And the plaa has go
Tar succeeded that you may travel from
Dan TO Beersheba without finding a man
that knows or believes that Government
have made this acknowledgment. do as.
sure you, Sir, that Among numbers that /
have mentioned IT TO, have never met the
man that knew any thing about i. :--mauy
would not belieye it'll showed it to them
IN the Gazette and have met with some
ofresPectabie standing in society who would
save me the trouble of going into the next
ioou' 'or .ne gazette, by observing that they
would not believe it, ifthey saw it there.
~ "1S LOliiOuHuEu wa In DIS
SbIse OF not, cannot tell but Certainly is
he be right, Cove is wrong for
may challenge his pen, or even his tongue.
IL the house will pardon me, to show that
tue admission here spoken of is any new adj
mission since the LIST Of December, 1912.
IL remains to subjoin the concatenation of
authoritative documents which have pro
'facted the erroneous notions of the public,
subsequently To this confused acknowiede-
ment and here we shall only refer to the
speeches OF the Speaker and the Prince OF,
the sd OF July, 1918. and of the former ON
me 3Oth OF July, 1914, when it was ascer-
tanned that the veil drawn over this con-
fsssion had screened it from the public eve
The terms " maritime rights" mari
Time tights of the British Empire" the
maxims OF public law, and the maritime
rights of this empire" &c &c. which we
are to maintain against the Udited States.
nave been undoubtedly understood 20 refer TO
Ihose maritime rights ia which he, ha Green
considered as having joined France in Cd.
posing US not to the question of allegiance
winch IS uSicumqunus-~no confined to the
sea, and therefore not maritime.
lrhe remaining letters hereafter.1