The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1860-07-13
British Forhearance.


Among the extracts which we yesterday
made from the bullying article of the London
Times, Ia the following: 1.-THE United States
have repeatedly done 10 this country things
which no other country in the world would
have ventured on with impuni,y." In the
same spirit Lord GREY tells us that we are
indebted to the compassionate forbearance OF
john BULL alone. for not having long ago re-
ceived copdign punishment as the Just re"afo
of numerous transgressions against 'he org
nifty of that sublime individual. We Know nos
how to reconcile these statements win 'he
peated assaults of BiaeiHood upon Lore
MxRsToN for his alleged disposition 10 N'
and make mischief in every eo""''
which Great Britain sustaiEs any oip
relations whatever, and more esPeeiai'y 1"
thi. IL however, 1t be true mat ufea' iisaih
ba. manifested unusual forbearance towards
ms, we pray 10 be sufficiently thankful Tor the
favor at the same time that we feel very much
ai.nosed to ascribe our immunity from castiga-
ton 70 something very different from any SEN
timent resembling compassion. 1t is certain,
at least that when We were weak and few in
number we experienced no such tender con-
sideration at her hands. What are the facts OF
the case
Between the year 1S03, when the French
the war broke out afresh, after the ie-
verish truce Of Anxious, to the year 1872,
when the war with America began, the
British and French bellgerents, by means of
Orders In Council, and Imperial DEGREES, con-
trived 10 plumber American Merchants TO the
tune of Sl00,O000oo. The government OF
Louis PHILIPPE made restitution to 4 GER
tain extent, but the government of Great
Britain, as far as we know, has never yet re-
rnIS nf Arl-
can merchants were ruined by this atrocious
system Of spoiation. Others, pursuing their
spectators into the English Courts of Admi-
raity, found IL impossible TO obtain redress
The great English Admiralty Judge, Sir
WILLIAM SCoTT, when an attempt was made
TO show that the Orders in Council were a
violation of the principles OF international
law, and that consequently captures Of Eeu-
trail property made in pursuance of them
could not be legal, promptly put down the
plea alleging that it would be indecent TO call
in question the authority of those Orders
Nevertheless, a high English authority phil
MouR) alluded TO by Mr.. EVERETT In his re-
ply 10 Lord GREY, says that those Orders
were not only an infraction Of international
law, but were repugnant to the plainest prin-
ciples Of the Common Law OF England.
The compassionate consideration Of the
British government for our youth, ineXperi-
ence. and weakness, was equentIy manifest
ed in another way during the same period
The British fleet kindly undertook the office
of police in our waters without asking our
consent. probably from compassion for our
modesty which would not have allowed US TO
accent so great favor if distinctly offered
In the discharge of this self-imposed duty,
British cruisers were in the habit of over
hauling our vessels of every description, when
ever they put out of port, feeling DESTROYS, no
doubt, that no subject of King GEORGE should
impose himself upon our American Captains,
as genuine American seaman. This was
very considerata surely, and not less so was
the care which they took 10 remove under the
shadow of the lion, all persons answering
the description in question. Very fire.
ouently they afforded TO native born Ame-
rican sailors-men who had never resided
in any other Countrywide opportunity of
fighting and dying for the glory of King
GEORGE. They even carried this humane and
compassionate spirit so far as to cause one of
their ships -of-war TO fire upon one of ours
dillingham; woundiDg about thirty of her
crew: and when the latter had struck with
that consistency which ever the companion
of genuine philanthropy, five men were taken
from her. and two or three of them hung to
show the zeal of honest JOHN BULL for the
purgation of the American navy. 1t is true
that America made very nngrateful return
for these prodigious favors ~rue, she even
went TO war to prevent a con tinuance of them
But what of that America, we presume is
not the first country that ever smote bene-
factor.
Such was the wonderful zeal of Great Brit
ain for our welfare in the days of our weak
ness. It has not, it is true, been so conspicu-
Gus of late years But then ii should be re-
collected that we are now a nation thirty-two
millions strong, and that the majority in this
country-as was proved two years ago-will
brook no interference OF Mr. BULL with our
affairs under any pretext whatever. Has that
fact had nothing to do with the boosted mag
nanlmity of our ancient relative