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'';1 RALEICH.'N.C.. -PtJBLlSrfED (wEEKtV) BYVCAS AND; A.iHUBQYLAN V.; ....,.-) Vol. 15; THURSDAY, MARCH 14,-181 1 v i--jn-Xk, - vW:; . UJv. -. appeared in the English, prints, , is probable that questions mayw hereafter arse, between the America, and British governments on. the suSjecl of blockades. On recurring to the documents Communicated to congress on the 23d December! 1C8, we find the following letter from Mr. Mer ry to Mr. Madison, explanatory , of the British ;d6itrirte:on that topic- It embraces, we, believe, the' nrlncioles. cordially admitted by the ' United StatesfTeyond. which they hay never advanced ; any preensionsi mm wmraij w nwi.ii, .v ed (ireit-pr'uain will set up notfew rule; JXr Mr. Merry's letter is dattd oa the 4th ) April, 1 80 1 . stt relat es to wine, complaints; en the part FOREIGN KFLATfONS. '.' ybe following .'ce of thePresWent's JProcJa niitiori is from 'the " tendon. Cojm'cr, ;wluc.b , jj the administration pper. ;.?f We do,not htfort remember i have .'seort'his article, although r, thft' paper froW - which H ; extracted I as .ir' liack as the 1 2 th i)ember.7lrbfl Lediftr& It has been murrreu by Some that the rroolai quence of Bonaparte's pretende rerocafibiifoT tb Berlin ana iiuan uecrees, is a proot oia.,na tile disposition towards tbU cintry.Tha'4 Pre-ifnent may nave sucn a .msposjtinn, iwd va& Brf disposed Wdeny x but it is argued fet ih ness, and prewperitv of millions of his own subjects doubtless he idoc ytie-piU. seilft6eirn'dvMlH and 6thi destroyed. With these facts so pal- a hot iroii, and cement our (ricndshlp blafcinjff j pahle and' io. plain,, staring Us in the face, we us under the fostering cawipf bis royal mastr l hni thft rnnstimmate follv tohelieve the wick, .'oiilv reouirinc of "ua.in hinmi to ,irtH.nrr ?J edness to afftct totbelieve that it is in our power to soothe, this.'erocious monsterto stop the .force of th!s.pYfirtij.mi!ig tortent,' which threatens to sweep aiy-the liberties of tne worfd, by a pon intercounie Jirtd restrictive measures against Bri tain. Nayi so iiifatuated are we that not only are bur eye Sf' Hoodwinked that ve cannot ?ee but our sense appear looe'so Denymoea inai we can hoi JttU . iNot content; with burning our ships and merchant ziuprn the octan-?jpitk txecMttttg his e had no rtKer iholcle ammoi) ; tfw0nder iear b of May last, rrhtive to the conrmeircialin. Estate, InformW him,' that the lords;of tti'adml Milt had aentotoers to cornmoapre nooa, noi to considei; any piocaqe or uiojse uianu wn ing- unless in . respect, , to (par,t?cjujar jportswnicli lerrobrse het'wec t' the : United Scales- and.. OrVt Britain arm r rancii, ..pmvines -Mat tj ca fi ther Gfent Britain or FtanCe shU, before ti, 3d of March next, so revoke or n'oUFy hei edicts, as that they shrjlt cease to violate the neutral tohf-jhefce-bftS United States which fact" the Pteri iml oflhr Vmted S'itat shall drchre by Proclamn fair. awl if tfie oth-r. nation'- haU not within thretl) may be actually ijiyested, and then pot; 16 capture tesssls bound to'.9jucH.79rsImi.iMie'.:h pre"viously have! been warned not to enter them.'' This, then,, is the '.principle; of blockade' from TBfhich we infer from the American official paper jhonths thrivaftrr no revoke or modify her edirL-America meat) to contend. What those cir- oflnaiona that we are id;ut .honour or energy, .nd woise than the colonist-, of Jamaica, to' cap the climax if robbciyv pt rhjy arid insult, tlie Rarabouillet decree ytm issued and more than twenty , millions of property btlP?'ng to our silly and unsuspect inij citizens, who hiKd violated no law, and who tohcdve,d the laws of hospitality , & the principles of justice and good faith were a sufficient security lor them ; i his property ivas sed and couis j In like mam er, then the' 3d, 4th,' 5t.h, 6thv7th cumstances were which induced the govcrnmtnt in 1804 to limit and narrow for a time the princi nle of blockadeT Ve know not' But America must not tke.it for granted tlat because we do not in particular cases cnuse to go tne wnoie lengtn ot a 19th, loth, and J8thr.strtions of the aci En titled " An act to intiM-dict the commercial inter, (onrse between the United St urs and Great Brii tain and France and their dependencies, and for of ther purposes," shall Trim and after the .expira- Jjprincipte ?nd a t right, that therefore we aoandqn lion ofth'ree month's from the date of theprocla- ;the principle and the right. To a principle so mation aforesaid, be revived and have full. foce narrow and limited as that to which: we have ind effect- so fr as relates v, the nation thu$ refiwjalludtrd, the British government never, will con ing or neglecnng- to revoke or modily her edicts; sent. The doctrine which England has rnaintam- in the nunnet afoi'esaid."' -if -ed anr! acted upon has never exceeded the limi. The French Co'-ernnent hvine notified toltationi Dresdrib&d by all writers upon international General Armstrong that, the Berlin and .Milan iTaw.-: prance, on the other hand, has essentially Decrees were to belrevoked fiom the first of No- yunvbe", ,the Preident, it is tontt-ndedt had nbl hher alternative than that of issuing the proclsr aation which, he Has isuel. Be it soWe have I no disnositioni to Q'larrel with Ameiica for renew. m W irttercniwse with tfjance.- If she choose tO tnist to' Bonaparte s wprd, and on the- faittv'o' h' declaration. t;athis fkrKh and Milan deuces itfAif w heffiM! h iht- tintri decrees he eeases tb.vkjlul ttfcargnrral aoserc 'Ber tJnUedSUtesJand htther Hfiee tire -liedicWiYrt'taled,;' by which fhe . com UKrce of the United States, is and will continue b be a much vioLjed as it was by these decrees. America may 5al.vf ' j ahe- pleases, interdict all tomraercicl interwirse with., us ; fche may refuse to henelf the bfhefifs ca? rying on tTade with us. and we shall have no right to consider that as a ground jbf war.' As to ouf Orders in Cuuncil they are re voketl, of coarw, whenever the repeal of the French 0ecrees shall liaVe actually taken ifocf If -America, iri conseqnence , of the Presi Kent's Fioclamation, trade France, and find that that repeal h9.sactutty taken place, then we can have nonobjection .to declare to the American bwernment, that'the Orders which we were IwmpeUed by 'those. Decrees to adopt, cease to be in. ftjrce. ?t is probable i'houch we sbeak with- I oat any ofFiciol information, .that even now they may ttejsp..ronriihrri as !hat-Veyels recently cap deviated from these limi'atipns in her practice. whilst she his greatly narrowed them in htr offi cial communications. Thus, in the Berlin decree, Napolean declares all England in a 'MoieJaf block ade, when not a French ship of war floated tipon the ocean and yet in a communication of ih UukeofCadoreto Gen. Armstrong, it is serious. )y a'mrmed, that a place to be strictly blockaded m m - ' - f ' . . .... iretevokcd send her, snipwitlv American, provi must be invested both by u (and und sea," A Iuucc iiiKi ins poifs, "c tuiit- intve iki ngui. io com ainV U V. for Jher to decide whether. aherwUf hlac4 confidence ih,a man, who Jitter yet keptjns midst these contradictory doctrines,. Great Bri tain will never allow, on the one hand, that she has exceeded in practice the admitted definition of how with. heJror,;n-y"8w;-tJ9e?rit!. for . beti,VpIockade by etiebrated. civilians, or, on. the atherj tc; revocauon ; pi wiesoune i- rencH4erpreianon PK rtgorous mvesiment t Hired, as violating the OS-ders of Coimcil, may not condemned.' jThis opinion ve are induced 'oenttrtain by a";qrcumstance that is said to have occurred yesterday. " A -case arising .out of onecf uKse captures was yrsterday brought on fcrrad- pnicationin the High Court of Admiralty,., where, upon Sir VY cott stayed piocecdings, with the knowledge probably of sortie"" modi ficajtion'crTe" N of the Orders being in the contemplation of w-uovemtnent;".. . - Chus, then, we have given it as our-o'pijnior. Jnat we hare t no right to juarrel with ''America. wcause she hat. renewed her intercourse withl nances or because she may not chuse to have a intercourse with us-Uut here we stop." We "OHinqeea nave a right to complain il she make ueii i party with 1-ranee to eulorce-certain pnncipjesf which France is. desirous of enforcing "Ubli Trt.Chamnaii'nv'fi hifpf in onpral Afhretrong, "datVd the 6th of August, announcing iwencied revocation ot the Berlin and Milan ttes, he. adds, " it being' ulidersiood, that, in Sequence of this dclaratioh: the Enp-lUh sKill ke their-orders in council, and renounce the VJ Principles of blockade which they have attemfit imbluh s oi" that the; United States Confer. I? the act ( May 18 10) jvhich you have just "mmunicated, shall cause their rights to be res- Pcctedlythe English." :, ,; - : . .' - fr y ?e? priociplcs, as they are Called by the ii ' ! ministert America, , we trust, does not con' . herself ' bound to attempt to make . us re . Undoubtedly in Mr. Pinkney's letter of tiv Aug; to '.Marquis, Weliesley, n fiedin the pretendrd chargfcs and consequent con duct against her, for violating principles which on ly under the French construction could be admit ttd to be gemiine or sound. ... . rR0 THE PHILADKLPHM CA2ETTE. VVe will not term the following I tier merely' intereeting, because we deem it highly imfior , tat : and we'may be permitted to add, as evi dence of its importance, that it is written, not ' By an habitual oppoe'r of the present admins tration, but by a gentleman," who on more than one occasion has Voted with the miru'atry -Yhc a circumstances it unfolds though lamentable, we apprehend are too true- ' c . IVavhngton, Feb. )7lh, 18U. The "senate have been occupied during the whole ofthe past vveekon the bill to renew the charter of the. Bank of' the 'United" States. No filstinn hat vet ren f,n if -r-yjrrt litre be a decision foa. 'day or two .to come, as rhere aie several members yet to speak; against it, and peiiaps sone in favour, of it. It is believed tint the votes iji Senate will be exactly equal, so that the casting vote of the Vice President must decide tndepe.ndencer and . become one of bis Utod.TCJ 4 I penUeocieS. , NothihgNihort ofthis can or t'MWiSU usiy mm . vv naiM mance ot which he now curiry ? A simple non it would tre the extreme ot to lr to; aoboose iti tne; pledge; for. the pejtor ' holds our roDertir fa - jt) ratcrcoarsr with' tlnglirid I mi: ' st a.:ojCly 'MtnMtiy -f UukwgbeisW4 comintrrfaitysrem When all th is dohti' f-.i i No he will, doubtless, luaikt uimrv an zrmf-A vU4 tance against tier, and teri'tfiatVeWinnedwi end w have engaged inar Wjth tilaH&v " j shall we. be diri:ci4 icv ,qhiWi;Mu&ik ';iKrcliai&)l great and 'Ufa Irupjoly' sue for thresioritio of otrr ' v&t:-$ i i , j", ou an uc iuiu limi, ii wti oeen appuea tflrrrT the great service in Avhich we-arei att.tffetsfki:C and that as the cause is torom6n, it is iramateriaf by whom, the means is applied j anil fnatead-pf il rtfund,we shall no doubt be Called upon to lurresh,' '..-"rw ' tunher contributions : ; r " . ;. ; u .;; ' v ' You will hardly believe that tjiere are" Ififien hf1 arc for nrooflmir in-nur rttrirHv cvivm. cated without a pretext. Thus rob'j&d. insulted, England in the preseittirtiauoii ;c4.flairsv''tillide';-..4 and abused, we passed tht act of the first, .of May ! the pretext that we haveiveri t .pledge to lVanc '-,K last, telling the author of these wrongs that "he "vfehich we are bound in honour to Kilfid.iYjrti ' -would cease to jiluiMter us and repeal his BetTui.V'th is theifact. The brother-m law1 of ibe ife-HT:: and Milan dccie we 'would have no intercourse sWnt has within two days tleclared, in fny .pte z4' with Britain. . fsence-v(hat we wre bound to go on and lu'lfil.ttit; ; . Hc sawat ohce that we were ready to entanr! part of tW contract ; adding, that Bonaparte: wa ' gle ourselves in the meshes of his 'wily., fwlicyonly holdisour proiierty ..untir-sw.thatey-; and spread his nst accordingly. All at once we did do it, and tyould then eive ' itUp. ; You ca were told, that , his majesty loves the Ameri Tbetter conceive thSh J can describe my feelings oa JK Ji cans,' and that " the promotion of their piospin- the occasion. -Itl did lW- replyjinth as much' 's; ty enters into his views," ,.' that "the decrees of , peiity as the -disgraceful obseiTtions merittd, it berlin at'd hm were revoked, and should cease to operate, on- the first of November." This de cliration soothtd the pride and gratified the feel ings of our administration. They wtre so .si mple i to -believe; bis professions, and and to flatter . I- " . I " I 1 t'S.1 . I . .' uicmscivcs incu iney uaa nu upoi uie true course as t:ot out of any respect for the auri&I of them ' , but owing to the particular place iri ivhicnr,,.': were uttered. When acA sentiments come ftML " what have We to expect f v " , sucn a sojree, wnat nave we to expect " The French minister, Serruiier, arrived "heVfi on-Thursday last.- On Friday he fcnH tnkraii- of policy at lt, and in 'order' to" shew our full view with the Secretary of State, arid VettertfaV confidence in Ins promise, the president, without .with the President Nothing has -yet transfred waiting for cicial and unequivocal information with respect to his mission. A rejJort, '1 toov 'bit the decrfes were revoked and had ceased to not upon what-aurhority," has been circulated that"'7 : violate our piutrality, as the; law under which her he is instructed to demand; that we shalr exttnd Acted require stepped beyond the line of his du-!our non intercourse to Cadiz and Lisbon. lliiaisv This actfour administration have ascertained' his nasttr'a 5 wishes tlreir friends will begin 'lolwlndu . t. . . H I.Mntat'M.lflLl J! I. . . . 1 ! - ed- as to Viola'e our neutral commerce. pi the 'Prescient lulled the unsuspecting; mer chant? lntasvVriiy, and induced many to trust mucH J5t '':she.initpria,lct.t.avebeen juiti Uhnir repvrty tes iRore wiilrin the grasp ot .the then know what we have to expect.- Whilst mj fearare-Btrorig that 'were' doomed to'trit the disdraceful roadof.supserviency to FrahceitV entertain a faint hope, which I am willins to ehe! by the Hambouiilct robbery, the president touched Irish, that there is still a portion of American fliJr the subject very gently, gravely telling us that ing and patriotism unextinguished in the brecsts universal 1lundtrer. Iest the sensibility oi Con gress should be excited, and their tempers rufikd the procedure arose " from a misconception of our laws,, and a misapplication of the law of rer prisals,'' implying, thereby that upon suitable ap plication the property would be restored. " Thus were we gliding gently n, prepar ing, to gO'beyond our promise in the act of the first of May, by cnactintr additional and severe . ' l i ' . . . of the majority, which may induce them toi halt in the downward path in which they . haveieta travelling, and by a manly" tXjrt ion. regain th American grotind-ftom which they have been art. fully led. Iv have some times Itared that as th President has committed himself by Issuing hi proclamation, and knows not hoy to get clear of restrictions in aid ofthe non intercourse act, when the difficulty without acknowledginjr his error, that- our course was arrested by the communtcatipn probably they Would take no step, but adjocrny fronivMr. Russell, ouKJITarge des affairs, inform- leaving things as they aref. However if the-maiority' ';" iiig-us ina- me uecrees were conunuea m lorce ao noi snr in me Dullness m me course ot two op alter the hrSt of November, thus giving the lie to three dayS, an atltn pl uill be made by the mtnbr Napoleon's assurance, and to theProctamationof the President const quent ipon It The adminis iration and iherr'friends w'.re astotmded- Thev lound themselves c. uitt in the trap which had been bai'ed -for them- ai.di;new 'hot how to get out The lrradful idt-a of acknowledging ati er ror and of a rttiog .de .movement, -appalled them. After taking some time to colkci their scattered andbevviUkrad senses it was 'fecorecied that the it -andlie is helivtd to entertain' constitutional : proclaaiiin had not reached Paris when 'Mr. scrunles, which -wilt induce1 him focfote agains it. I KusM l'sue-pa ch came awaV. This great discove riuis you see the chances are against the bank e-iry tended much to : lla) thtir panic. It was con vtn in the Senate, If it should pass that body teivel bat this verification of the pledge ofthe and come again before us, I sct cely t hink' itTfirst tT May this 'spontaneous proof of confidence can.e .goLJlhroug the promise of the Great Emperor, would so fer &iilvme in opinion and think there is a chn Isoon rS made known to him. insnh him whh ity to sWetp away the last vestiee of our foolibh and disgraceful non-hirercoui se Whether it thall succeed or not, it will place (lie responsibility where l .nesenew principles f he mei'ely informs his I ail( ,t tnt If- tnm" .mnllt Vlvif Vl MUnoailnn "indent upon analdgous, or in execiitidn of .!.!o!low.ofeourse. siderable change in favour of the bank. I bflieve there are several who repent their votes, and re gret that they have committed themselves upon aiieubj ect i -but the y-a re so- com pi etely-en tram - rneled by party and influenced by pride of opini oii, that I vefy much doubt whether they ran as-: sume magnanimity enough to acknowledge their error and change, their votes. Party prejudice, violence, arid folly have matked their victim ; and the sacrifice must be made, whatever it nay cost the country. Whilst such is our eloomy. ptrospect within, our exterior relations assume a fearful aspect. T hat Napoleon has us in his toils is beyond a douht:-It remains to be seen, and a few days mUst'determine whether we yet possess a sufficient degree of spirit and independence to destroy the shackles ; or, halving lost the gene rous spirit of freemen, "have become base enough to act as the servile tools ofthe" fell destroyer of the. liberties of mankind. - The course we have been and are still pursuingevinces a want of wis dom, a short sightedness, or a want of publicvir-i tue, whtcmstriiiy astonishipg and painful to -behold. What ipan, viewing the course.which Bonaparte has pursued, can for a mdment doubt that, his object ts universal o tain is in the way, and presents the only obstacle. To bumble Ther and effect hei overthrow, every js .emark in the American papers great wT -! UP&1 our TesttvringTniSerir tonfcallel !n American official paper, the-;Jvia yer, we'ind the following article : l1 i certam paragraphs whichhave rece be exerted, every other, consideration must give way." . To this Object the 'ereat continental 6ys temJends all its powers. For this ehd the conv merce of the continent is annihilated, Jlritish jrher- eCjnal confidence in us, and induce an immediate 8upenViQn of the decrees and a delivery of our proH.rty to its rightful owners." "Btttfrot....spJ-T.he, iiawk'jdoefTh'ot release his prey when once en closed.w uhin his talons. His m.sjeSty understood his business .'better, determined to keep the plun der, and yet make it si.' -ervien't his further iew9 upon us, he tells the council, of prizes to suspend further ..proceedings upon ait-seizures un der the decrees, dating from the. first of Nov. and directs the property to be held only in a state of sequestration until February, when the Americana having Ju'Jilled ' their ill dge of resisting the British orders and blockoaea, the property is not to be con demned but given up to its rightful owners. Tha the law pf the first of May and the President's proclamation, are mere pledges of something fur ther, and though my decrees are not revoked yet I will hold you to your promise of resistance a gainst England and keep the property as a pledge tor us penormar.ee t his to be sure looks very tuspicious ando'ir administratio nahof friends thfiir are agaiii in check. "T'-'-' ',. '--' ' Whilst brooding over the awkwardnef s of their situation,, and seeking for some means ofextricat. inj. themselves fr6m'-;their.:roma,'.tiew83.s-bi ought that' !:a neWTFrench minister has arrived at Norfolk, cud ison'his way to this city. , A sign means, nmst beniadc use of, ievery power Tnustt&foy waa'at bnee visible upon the countenances, :ettUy-chandize is burned the i jieace comfort, happi-sra so lately overspread With gloom. A ray pf hope Alice more beams upon the benighted imaginations of the .Corsican's dupes They Catter themselves he comes empowtred to heaf the wounds and ce ment the friendship of the two ountriei And it coght to be, and justity the nanonty; to their mucn aDusea country.. . . , , m'' ' - : r.;... Some authentiCjftartieulars respecting the tarty Ife of BONAPARTE. Bonaparte at a vet y "early .period, of life, had run a career of fame and splendor, which;fvwi attain though living to a very advanced age, arfd while yetreen in jears he is jboary in le novvn. ;' : ; r ' -.. The general, and not unnatural eagerness of mankind to become acquainted with, every partic. ular Which has contributed to the forming tha character of one w ho has sustained, and still sus tains such a conspicuous part on the crand thea- : tre oflthe-worldjiafr according to the usual course" ot humeri events, led to publications without nuni her. .-;. '; ;..";;'. - . .. 'A In their endeavors to depreciatr the character of him, the people of this country have not teen sparing of their reflections, as they, conceive them'i,'y' upon the lownessofhib origin ; sine even asserU-v' mg i.uai nis laincr was a ouicncri; ins rooiLer a i ': washerwoman,' and that he himself commenced 5 his military career .as a common soldier in tl e v ranks Some of these narrators, go still further, 8c ccm osscii me i lriitn mpe'tr 10 nave ueen so I totally without education, that to .this moment he,--.". ? cannot write lialfa dozen lines, , Without,. at !reist, ? j as niahy 'faults ui grammar and orthography, ' V'j , , On the paternal side' nt is descended from one ;;'. of the ' most rahcient and illustrious famines in Florence, while it was a republic ; the civil dia- J"'."" sentions Vvhich prt vailed in the city during Jhis period, occasioned manf- f the noble lumilivv . or, at least, branches f them, to'emigrate fn-m " time to time, among wh'ctfi was'the-iJonap'arte ftpiily 4 frora,which the empeiwapSTean is dscsodtd .-'i wnep tnerlslandol Corsica i became, subject to - France, the- ti.habilai.t -were , clas' like tfc . ' French, pLthrecrdets t :the Kohles' a?d p&Rffr and the mmonalty ; and every-third yec'r a de., ? ; pytychosen from each order, was to repair .to paV,; ris, "and pay homage in .the name of all his conn-', . ' trymen to their new. monarch. On one of those. " 4 occasions, Carolo Bonaparte, the Jafher ct K- - polcpn, whose; prcfuiakjawai the law,- vf&l that. V; -.----!.-- ;.. . ,;. ;(-, t .' . . . 4 ml y.v7
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