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. t-- - ' V. . of the Ir.-tli between the colony ar.d the mo ther country," against the Americans, VtUe vear 1793. They foundsd it upon the ground, "mid the single ground, that the trade.not hav inf 'been lawful in time of peace, and bcirij- j granted only on account of lbs inability of their enemies to carry, it on themselves., was for thai reason only unlawful. ' If ibis doctrine was founded in Law, then the trade betw een America itself and those colonies, '-having been .unlawful in lime of peuce, was equally illegal in turn war. But at no moment have they: dared to start tliis';-odeou idea, though on principles equally tenable. A few captures only wire .mads, before our treaty with Q. iJrilain, and fur these few, ample compensa tion has been Wade by Great-liritain, thU3 .implicitly rccoguiaing the injustice of theprin- ciple. ... :, " V . The residue in another number. '...." An AmekicXm. 1 Seconp Addkkss TO THIi .BRITISH NATION, f; Permit me to resume the history of the nroceedinirs of vour Courts in relation to the question of the trade with the Colonies of your enemies, and indulge" me to hope that it will excite a blush in ihe countenance of every honest Briton. During the whole, of the war of 1733, and the greater part of the existing one, this principle wa either suffer ed to lie dormant, or when brought into ex ercise in a few cases, it was construed -to ex. tend only to cases of direct intercourse be tween the Colony of the enemy and the mo- . ther Country. The -rig At of the Americans to trade with the Colonies, to transport the produce of those colonies to America, and from thence to Europe was explicitly s uiclion- edby a long series of decrees, cither never annealed from, or at least never reverted or even doubted. Sir VViliiim Scott, the most intelligent Judge, that Uoc'.or's Commons has ever produced, sanctioned this rifht in a variety of.cases, out of which I will cite tfyc. Polly, Lasky", m which that learneu omcer declared, " that Vie unainj me gooas m - America, and securing the duties, was not sufficient t break the. continuity of the voy aire, and to render of cour.s the rexporta- timi of the goods lawful, hi did not know what circumstances would sulnce. In every case therefore n here the goods had been landed, Sir William bcolt ordered the restsratioii of them. Willitbc pretended, lliat Sir William Scott, an eminent practitioner in Doctors Commons I . f .... l,..nHnnto C t . . . niinpi jiji ' I'lriy years, iiiumiu i una jiniwf pie of the L'r.wof Nations? or will it be con tended that I'oreijrn Nations are bound to ad wit a principle of doubtful authority, of which the most cir dent man of Hie Aution most m teres'td to eten l belli'tfrcnt rights aahnt those of Neutrals, was ignorant after 40 years sliu v r Last year, the Court of Appeals consist ing of thTG rakers in the uy of the Crown, iii the c.v of th? I'.isex, Oriie, reversed the th-oi.ion nf Sir William Scott, and bid down t:ie iii'iiittraui rule, that the goods, though lauded in a neutral Country, are still liable to seizure if rc-ex ported ty the autre. person whv had imported then. Had these Gen tlemen ken'.ng a a Cuuit of Appeals disco vered with their -ujp-cope eyes,-some new planet, some new l.iit ia the science of the Law of Nations which justified sach a de pjilure from foruwr deci.ions? If they have, In them alatc ths book and page. Sir Wil. Lain Scott is. however, itiU ' irjnt of this Authority, hvtiU'c in the application of it to the ca of toe brig owned by Mmieurs J'.rad try of il .;o i, h; acknowledge!, his fftrmer contradictory opinions, but s.ys that ' w it is h'u doty to bow to higher iit1nr it'.cs' without igi.I:2 a aut;lc rr kr t.ii opinion 2vt.l jy the l)u;!i.r iri'jU.nV.. Tot iK-cisi'Mi, is the kin d fr hundreds of !i'!ti,;iy piiv.Ueti si.n-n, and ;;lcedy Com numlcr of Uu Howl Ssf to rpiiiM- wpMi our ili u-ncelrss Cof.imucC af. I hunt tl-tf ,.. p jrVi tf the -hanncl mrarmdl auaibe ah.pi . i.f uif irtuii.ue Cuiir min. 5Jt,ng as il was Lotkibii ti pit uii.e, tlt l! se sei zure vers the tJTUt tf a .iniph ls;iii n tf your Co i. t rcndcicd i.i the ordinary cosire, j tjtaui.iorit'd ani unin3.irn,l by the Cabi i iu' S'i lar.g the indijjiutioii tl thi Amen, ran (us bieft i i sime denue repressed. Jlwt tlij Ww p-mphkt issued by the (uicriim lit. or t least u;iHir i's anciiun, suj-p-nts those dii CMioiii, and ettn prtjms a:i extension ol '.Ihi.i, it is i.o lonr to be ifnu'ilct, ilul the irver cf the drcrec in the cam of the Km. () nc, was lb ffecl tf a ik-iiiif, if Caiiicf, ui I a part of a dch'icite y'eM i 'eii !c 1 esi'ur to frse til Ii icmunec lit: aUtan.at.f Neutrality, ti'Crp Mtcrnati'ct l!s Sir J. Tu ii ihto t li4.' endeavoured ti e a his. t iy of ihc ne anj pro,-,rcs of th.s m.-ir.i Lif'i ains.o",l H'- it tuincahtile more tt!f i nf.rnntik' n its charttlr r, this mUan drt'tr of " Britain inst Nr utrl Trade. J.tt mi I re n-iih a sursiian mji!r by the jiriu.u wri'rrs nprt il,- s'i jftt of ti.cuie c,i'i is. tti.t the An.rrican caniiot com jl.iti i f .t hin,r hid dee r.oticr, as the tk'iif t li't, Ort, Wit a S'!TitKM'sd' rr.Mi.t'tS thetn of the pilncipUs st up t trf-i itiito. This icminus one t f the i! 1 1 ffii-m, that tnry out i ft'tumtJl i , r.c Lu t but I Ithrte it is tht first time It ! rf :',,fI in this ii...i.cr lrletn . )i i it. What S the AmctiCiMi iiirtiltaiits a". ! ' ti ! l iniw t very t!rtUofi i f Doctor's C ifii,iii and this ta by asvrt f iy if t i.i ii i tSry are Jjvd. UmwH tlt . . '.tt ans art-t tn4es tJiv'..;.i;, I. vj,'i tNir i!!fftfH " (,(t .f tl, tflirjl .ff on t'.w d.i.uat cwJJI Lars Lju in America Iwphysical possibility, arid while the ArncricSnTwere aciang under the sanc- lished by ltobertson, and spread throughout the United States. "Is it credible m point ot fact, that the Americans would thus throw their property into tiie hands of the British cruiirs if th-;y had understood the nature and extent of the principles set up by Grant. - j Briiaiji ?' How much more noble would it have been in the Cabinet of your Country, if its real design was to hinder the state, ra- ther than to crush .the rising prosperity ot the United States, to have formally notmsd to our Government its intention to maintain this new- principle? . I he second doctrine advanced by your Ministry during the late and present war, is the right to declara a w.hole"country in a state of blockade, and this, "whether tffe're be ships constantly before the ports of that country oi' . jot. m This sort ot blockade, by proclama tion, is founded upon the perversion of a, very reasonable doctrine of the-law of nations, that when a town or castle is actually invested, that is to say, so surrounded that itsinhabitants . lwve no means ofgetting out, and while there is a hope of reducing the town or fortress-, it shall not be lawful for a neutral to enterinto the besieged or blockaded port, or to carry in any provisions to their assibtatice. It was reserved for Great-Britain to discover, that un der this very rational and limited doctrine, was comprised the right to declare all the ports of art enemy in a state of blockade, whe ther actually invested or not, and where there was neither a hope nor an intention of redu cing the port of the Country. Now there is another equally clear principle of the law of Nations, and that is that neutral nations may lawfully carry on their trade with either of the belligerent nations, without interruption. One of these two principles must then fall, for they cannot consist together. If abcl!i g jrentf nation has the right to declare a whole country in a state of blockade, whether actu ally blockided or not, or whether there $V hopes of reducing the place or not, then life right of Neutrals is entirely nugatory and may be expunged from the Code of Nations. But it may be said that Great-Britain keeps a fleet off the ports of her enemies which she declares blockaded. This may be partlV true, but this blockade u merely nominal ; it never has interrupted the intercourse of these port, witii me ouier ports ot me same Country ; nor is it done with the hpc ur inter.:ion of re ducing the place by famine, w hich is the es sence of the principle, ;-.rd upon snAiVA ulsue the right to exclude neutrals is fjnr.dcd.T This leads me to consider the wickedness alfd injustice of these principles, as practised by your government. .Thcsi interruptions to Neutrals ara not done or permitted with a view pf injuring the enemies, so much as with the design af aiding the commerce of Great-Bri- tain, or checking the growth of Nitittal na tion of whose nrosner'uv she U h-aloim. . I( t I s --- 1 hat this is the case, is manifest, because tionofthc same gnpds to herenemiti from her own ports that she prevents Neutrals from carrying. It is a fact well known, that American vessels bound to the Spanish colo nic" have been condemned in the Bahama, their cargoes purchased by British subjects, and shipped fir thoe very Spanish colonial, under a licence front Council with the king's own sign manual. This is not merely confined to that Jrade, but in Great-Britain itself, the cotnmr rce in the produce of Colonies U'perinUted from-the ports of fcnjland dircctlv to the ports of tl.e enemy. It is not therefore to injure their tnemy, it is nat t'i cut off his atipplies, that this te salary wirfarc is carried on oalisst Neutral com- j merer, it is simply toarrcgatc to hci'clf, to I- nMnopuliss the 4dv.v1t.1ge1 of a lucrative trade, and to i hetk the lo rapid growth t f a nation, whose prosprrily she dread. 1 hisba.c, ktlfish, and abonun.l.t pinti-ls is est licitly avowed Hi the fiufil f 1 1 v. hich "l.T-I ..iv;: , . . . . . v . : . " . .. iMi.uc.y uecii niuuneu, una wi.icil 1 kli.ii examine ia another number. A Amxiicax. (Tote tmtitutt.) ( Continue J frm tur lajl) No. 3. Nl POL EOS, by the grace ol God ani ihecoiidiiuiioni, emperor f the French iiul kii'gof Italy, tnall ihtfe who flull fe thefe prtfent, greeting t Ti e Ifitercfts of our people, ths honour efctr crown, and the trsnquility ct the km.hiisim 1-1 turope, requiring tint we tl.ou'dfccure in liable anddcfinitlyejnin. f er the lot of the peop'e tf Na'lcs tnl Si. cily. fillcuimo cur i-owtf by the liditof crruell, and making be fides a rut oi nc rrai ctrpire, e nave t'cciircd anJ do t'cclaie by ihefe prefenti 10 aci ki.owUdge for king cf Nsplei and Sicily, tur wcll-beloycd brother Jofeph Napoleon, prind e!elori.f Fiance. 1 hit tiown lhall tehrrcdiiary by otder cf ptiinogcr.itwre, In Ms male, k-gitirnste ind na'.aral dtfan. dir.ti. Hit fai J dcfcrndintt coming to le tXtind, which GodtoiMd. we Irttfndi.i i call la it mtt rtuh, lchimate an I rjtnrl ' .VtU.-fc. t 1 ... In drfaii't tf tHir male, Irtiin.t9 ml . Patufil tl.ih icn by nidcr tf piirtn gcrisuif, itfertlng in (.trfclvcr, If tur brolrr ( HnulJ baf ttrtt die in tin life-line iil. ' tjrt leaving any ma'e, l-giiimate and pi. final tbiVicn, the rig.t rf dtfipstlpj, l fmctrd n tit fU fnwft. a 1 rlrta tA rtd 1 ur 1-4 ulc m 1 f ttn..l'.ii (j it sn tU f. u I ttdti r.J, a.twtJirg a hi Cu'A wt?s rr. per for the intcrefls of our people and for the adyantage of the great fyltem which divine providence has deltined us to found-. We inflituie in the, faid kingdomof Naples and Sicily, fix great fiefs of the empire with the tittc of Duchies, and the fame advantages and prerogatives as thofe which are ihflituted in the' Venetian pro vinces united to our kingdom of Italy, to be, the laiddiichics and grand fiefs of the empire, in perpetuity, and the cafe hap pening, in cur nomination and in that of onr lucceilors. All the details 01 the laid fiefs are committed to the care of our faid-- . brother Jofeph Napoleon. . jv ej$jCirve toourle!veson trie laid king dom of Naples and Sicily, the difppfal of. a. mi 11 ion income, to oeoiiuibutcd to the generals, cfliceri and foldiers of our army wh6 -nave rendered the molUervice toihe country and tha throne, and whom' we lhall dehgnate 'tor tins purpole, under the exprefs condition of .not bring able, the laid generals, ''officers or loldiers, before the expiration or ten yenrs, to Icll or alie nate the faid incomes, but by our autho- rity. ... - The king of Naples fliall be in perpetu ity grand dignitary of the empire, under the title of Grand Elector, we refcrve, however when we Ihall judgc proper, to create the dignity ot Prince Vice Grand Eleftor. We intend that the crown of Naples and Sicily, which we place on the head of our brother Jofeph Njo!eor and his def. cendiints, lhall not prejudice in any man ner thdr right of fucceilion to the throne iif Funce. But it is equally our will that crown either of France or Italy or of Na. pics and Sicily, (hall never be united on the fame he id. - Given at our palace cf the-Tliutllerici, U13 30:11 March, iuoo. .(Signed) NAPOLEON. Seen by u? Arch Chancellor of Ev the Emperor, the Empire, The mutijlerfefy tj jUtt I Signed) ' (Signed) CAMiiACERUS. 'II. B. MAkET. .No. iv. This fettleythe duchiei of C'eves an I Berg, on urat, called prince Joachim, aiieiJy publiflicd. No. V. Grants the principality of GuafUil to the Princcfi Paulina, theem pcror's P.Her, under the title of princefs and duchefs of GuaftaUa. The prince Borghcfe, herhufban l, is to bear the title of prince and duks of Guaitalla ; il,e faJJ- prmcipaluy to be trimmitrcd, by order of primogeniture, to the male legitimate ami "natural, defcendrnts of the faid princess Paulii a, and jn default of the fam", the riqlit ot dtlpoahgor tne ptincipalHy of Gu aitalla is veded in the emperor of France. It being, however, unJctilooJ, that fliould the piince Corghefe fuivive his'confofi, he lhall nc-t ceafe fa enjoy, ncr'onallv. during his life, the faid prtncipjfiiy. INo. VI. Orari'Sto Marih.l Berihifr, mailer ot the euip-ror's lu:n, a,-1 ininif terofwar, the prircipaiity of Nenfrhatcl with the title ot prince and duke ot NTcuf. chatel. The f-id principiliiy o di.f.en.1 to his ma'e defcendamj, 'or in defedof e fare, the right of c'ifpofing cf he fsi. Otincijpaiity is yelled in the nperor of Frarrc. N. VII. Unite: th cpuntries of Midi and Carrara at.d the Gaibgnana ss far as the fuurcrsof the Serchw to the principality of Ducca. 1 hefe countries arca'T) united Into a duchy, grand fief of the empire. The Nspo'eun code, the f)flem ofcoinsge, f ihe emnire anJ the concordat aiccllabliihcd in il cm. NOR FOLK, June 30. This morn!.ng art Ucd the hufjllntltr, Capt Beirjm, iu 44 days from Liverpool, Capt. B. has favoiud us wiih Lofi.tan Pa pen from the hrfltathe nth nf May, and from cur mercantile fiierds we hive re ceived others of ennfemrnnritnut r?.tei, Thefe rarr, we are foiry to obferve. contiinrCihing new or impomnt t fuch ...m-. -. ....,1 ,...1. : t . iiivivi ai ( .ivu iTurmy UI OOIUC, Will be found in this day's paper. 1 nc rnai or i.oij mtiviue was proerc u lrf. ind was sttenrfed by li e moll ifillin. Kuiuicu cuaraucri 01 me nation, out Of a ...L.r.j k .1 t .1 ' . . . iule idopted on Wiis occahort, or rather arplicabletofimilar occslioni, It is nn pcimiuca 10 puviiiit let pioctcJirg cl the voan. Ti t Impcrtint fuljrOi bclcre ViU tiUftt ih Sht Limitelit Sill, D,m met Sill, ni Jmttiunintttttkrli Bill, If clatter bill wis rtad a free nil ilm in te Iloufe of Peers on iht6;h t,t May, ai.d ordered to be commhte I on trt 8th, Inthe couile if IN Vebstf, ihe Dub nt Monirole nbrcivej, that if wirhrJ thi bill lo be pflnorcif. w. amain llm 1 tfotlsiU.ru lor a moto ck f and Iniimna toircQion with tfe Urlicd !aitt wn lien rVfCflJr. Lord Ifavkrik fttM tie bill, is !,f wifhed m krew fat ittobeiitnbyAnfilcsff ctmtfrrri in rtr litr-r. , sod y(i,uwi Is UusJ is. got1atior..s It does not appear that ovp prohibitory bill had been received. We have given our ftles a carefulexami- nation, and do not find that any Ameri- can vcfle's have been lately fent into the B'ritifh ports. . A the papers which we have received are filent as to a rupture between Franc and Denmark, we mult difcredit that in- foruation received from the WeH-ln dies. .' .,':"'"" It appears that Admiral Linois bad not all his plunder on board when captured. , Our readers will obferve that Captain Whitby is fufpended in the commandof the Leander, bur -this has not been in confe- - qwenceLof his recent conduct, accounts of which had not , ireached London his re moval is nothing more than'what is cufto mary on Inch occafions. The Leander ., being intended for Admiral Berkeley Vflag lhip, he felcdts his own captain. There has been fo me feriotis mifunder- ftandind betwten the Porte and Rufiia, but it has terminated amicably, by a renewal of the treaties between thofe -powers. LONDON, May 9. Alluding to the firft report . from the commilfioners of military enquiry," Lord Henry Petty, in the houfc of commons yeftcrday, announced that arrangements had been made, which he hoped would en able him, before the and of the prefent fellionof Parliament, to have the public accounts of the country fully brought up : and as the prominent cviUto which his firft attention would be directed, namely, the'gScat defalcation in the department of the public officer in the military eflablifli menr, (the barrack department, to which the firft report of the military com riii don ers infertcd in the Courier of the 25th ult. relates,; would be completely met by that arrangement, he had only to allure the Iloufe, that as foon as the anar.gcment ik ou Id be completed, not a moment fliould be o9 in proceeding to tlje neccfTary mea fitrrs for recovering the very large balance which was due to the public in the quar ter to which he alluded. We give his majefly't minilters credit fur the promptitude with which they feem determined to apply a remedy to the evil. We hop: they will app'y it not only with promptitude, but with vigor and im partiality. At the fame time we trufl they will make fome arrangements by which thofe entiu fled with public money may be able to obtain a quietus for their accounts, as fc?ou as they have proved thofe accounts to be rtht, and dc'ivered 111 the proper documents and vouchers. It is known that at prefent a long period nuifl elapfe before the moll honed and up riht public accountant can obtain his quietus a circumtf ancc of cur.fiderable in. convenience to him in hi private affairs, and one winch may., and ptobably has, al. lo operated to tl.s injury of the public, in this way. Ihe know.edge that a man who has pat I in immcd a'cly all his balan. ccs and Hcn up his voucher, hai not been ab e for years to obtain quietut. may iu;;;ce ano.ncr accountant to ketp back his bal.r.ccs, not pcthapr with the diHiouefl intention of c'.elraudine the pub- line the pub lic, but w'nb the view ardlope of quick- eninp tbe examination of his accounts and j t'ie o"tainirg his Quietus. Here the public xui. in a 101s t y oeing Kent 10 long outot the money btlorgit g in ihem. Another mcafure, however, at'optcd by Minifler, is of a very different faturc from the one to which we have a'ltd:d. It is prcpofcJ that the fines leviefl tor ths pon caeci tion of the rrovifions t( the ad. diiionjl defuxe ii iiiall he refuted, - A gsinft the propofuion, Mr, Car.kes'i sr. gumems are fliong ai.d iirefiriible. It trn .'i in our opinion as s bounty upon want 01 exertion anc aciiruy. any lunire op priuion mil, as ine lau uxi, ojipoie lyU icmaiical'y every mcafure ot covernment. cxcuim as iney um lor ir.e lau iventy ytsrs that we were on the eve of ruin sn4 ifellriiclion. ind afTert, sgair.ft this or that a, that it isabtoluttly impcUble to b csrrle'l in'o ciecunon, ar.d muff be re r pealed they fhsli, at Is now prcpofed with nf. pedl to ihe dctence aA, be relcafc I from the pni!iic lowhUh the jr Lite rendcrej tlemfclves liable. IltsSwedifh mijtfl y, worthy cfbti great rcfllor Guniviu, bts follow r. I up bisae'ls cf lr,or and dccifion sgsinft PrutCa by a fruited drclataiion, In whUh 1 e t'efits Iht power, hi1A he dtptcUi the mcinprft sr.J t'uplicity cf.il.e coyrt ut IkiUn, lit tr.cis the conduct cf that court from pealed. 1 he ptiiilirrs miy beliete them, grid by Pfg'cdtirg to carry it Into execu. lion, may incur large penalties ami fines. in the btl cf that the act will be ri tie period ,f formation cf irn -o-s'iiionigslnfl the tfuipiiion ef Napoleon nunnipartf, In ihe laic sunk iiprn Swtdiih litxtpi In L-iicnbut?, M'ih fit put the lall fcal to the real fjRccacf it TuifTian cabinet, Tlla,naf !y 'Jaran will In at! f to. bsbdiiy be rofiGdcietl si s tcclaiaion of W If lik Vlt.lii. ftfwl iki.iiell flxm . . W . . ' 1 " vri". mizitl it isitr Swetliaia 1'
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