, 1864-06-03
THE BRITISH PR1YATEER
GEORGIA..
What the London Star Says about 1t.

= From the London Star May 14.1
When an evil. tempered mischierous wasp
after much buzzing and stiug1pg, imprisons
himself in a susar-baBiD, it is questionable
turc and practices demand bis extinction.
We have heard, indeed, qfa paturallst who
makes a h re provision Of ftreacls for the pur-
pose OF attracting wasps, and OF inducing
them to build their curious cupola-shaped
nests within his Wfndo w-panes. But he no
doubt 1isArms them by his kindness, and
leaves AZ little motive as excuse for the en-
plo1ment of their barbs. Here, however, is
a hornet Of the oeean-a very monster OF Ter
winged pAundeses-a hawk that has made
much slaughter among uuarmed birds,-
here Ia this pestIlent ruflian safe within our
net; We have but to pull the string, and he
Will Fever again trouble any living thing;
but we refuse. In plain words, the Georgia
the peaceful shipping Of our Auserican friends
and kinme.. With few strokes of the
pen, few clicks OF fthe telegraph needles, We
can put an end to her career Of xapine; but
the Government declines to interfere; and it
the Georgia captures no more United States
merchantmen, 1t will be because that mag
nt6cent marine has been swept off the seas.
prirateer-an armed vessel carrying the com
mission Of belligerent Power, or acting un.
der letters of marQue; ate Is Bitih IN evsYH.
thing but her fog. The Attorney General
gravely objects to her being called d British
pirate, as a agratultous dishonour to our coun-
try. But orr own reticence and self1sh splr.
It cannot blind the judgment of the world
on plain facts- Delicacy In the 1sc Of words
Is Of little advantage when the ideas to be ex-
pressed are themselves shameful In the Inst
degree. The well-known; truth is that the
Georgia is B,7tish built, and Bctih manned,
that She WAS mxde and equipped In British
port, owned By British merchant, twice
manned by British crew, and Is living de-
lance Of British Law. TIL the Attorney
General can contradict these dishonourable
fncts nothing Is gnlned By the discussion Of
q dishonourable degradation. No one in all
the world would suppose that the British
Government or nation i8 responsible for the
piracies Of the Georgia, bnt she is nevesthc~
fees blot upon the British name. Every
argument Of Justice and good faith, of hon
our aud Of prudence, binds US to
make the utmost reparatfon In our
power to the American Government and peo-
pie. When the largest allowance has been
nude for the force Of legal pleas-when we
have exhausted, as the Attorney-Ge General did
last night, the apologies that may be drawn
from american jusists and precedenta-when
we have said ali that can be said In defence
Of our motives and in extenuatfon, Of our
misnnnaI ement-it yet remains unhappily
and indi6putably true that enormous mis-
chitf has been wrought by vessels Of War i1le-
gal1y built and equipped in British ports.
Mr. Golden declares that q commercial MI
rim valued at from tlcenty to thirty millions We +
lug hat been II tu1uy AMI aiake7. The number
OF the ships captured Or transferred in fear Of
captuse-the amount OF property destroyed
at tea or wasted by the rise In the rate OF fn-
enrance--hears ont thi+ startling declaration.
Ithas even come to pass that the Al ,bama
and Georgia lind their trade Improbable !;
they have made desert On the &1kn: they
do not now meet with one United States ship
where the vessels bearing that dag used to
be counted by the hundred The wolves are
becoming lean and hungry through hAvlng
emptisd The pasture. II nothing owing to
the r deral States for tles. heavy losses and
indfgnities A1e the merchants Of New
YORK and Boston to be expected to besi