The Mississippi Creole. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1841-1851, 1842-04-16

against all the world-against France /
herself There 10 lesson in this pro
foundly instructive. If the rights OF neu.
trails were not deeply implicated, ask
why America should resist I? Yes she
does resist, even 10 the risk of POSSIBLE
ity, nay, a probability of . war"
In the course of the same debate M
Guizot said
but the United States have in their
present resistance to the claims of visit.
a reason, which NJ. Theirs has not reco-
Iected England claims, in The vessels Of
the United States, a right of impress
ment Engla nd maintains Il at, where.
for any reason whatever, she has the
right to examine an American ship, she
has the right to seek for English desert
ers, to take them and send them to Eng
land. She does not claim to enter the
Anne rican vessels with this special object.
No, she does not go so far but she con
tends that whenever she enters an Amer
lean ship, for any purpose whatever, she
can exercise the right of impress sment
upon all the English sailors she may find
abroad
"Here is the great motive of the ener-
getic resistance Of the Americans to the
English right of entry, under whatever
form and under whatever pretext it is
presented, and in my opinion the Ameri-
cans are right. If the English claimed
to come to seek English sailors on board
French vessels, certainly we should re-
sist like the Americans"
1t is said that every newspaper in Paris
except one-a religious journal -upholds
the American Government in its course
of resistance.
The correspondent of the New York
Express says:
The action of the French Chamber,
partially stimulated by Mr.. Cass, who,
the London Times says. "has been very
busy" employing sail the machinery Of
intrigue to enlist France amongst the
protectors Of the infamous commerce. -
has been most opportune. Great Britain
had wanted the Five great Powers. I'm
der the stimulation of suppressing the
Slave Trade, TO form treaty, the effect
of which would have been to give her
the lead, in what she most wants, the
right Of search in American vessels
France, on one of these Powers. opens
/ her eyes to the real object of Great Bri.
tain. and has not yet concluded TO ratify
the Treaty, in which step, no doubt she
will be followed anon by some, if not al
the other powers, who have no desire tc
play into the hands of Great Britain a
the expense of the United States.
1t is worthy of note that portion o
the English press are beginning to doub
, of the propriety of the British assump
tons. The London Spectator, one 0
, the abIest English journals, goes SO ia
as to contend that the clam set up b,
, Lords Palmerston and Aberdeen is un
f tenable and ought to be abandoned. Tn
Spectator denies that the question Shouts
: be considered merely with reference I
the slave trade, and says that the repug
nance Of the Americans arises, very nai
urally and Justly in a great measure
from the exceedingly possib extensio
n Of the search 10 British seamen. Tn
81 Spectator cites Martens--a high cont
mental authority on International law
against the claim, where he says thu
the protection of the simple fag--''I
r simple paviIon neurre"-can only be di
e regarded in time Of war and clearI
Al defines the right Of vistatl> Of beLLi!
2. erent light excus veIy.