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V 'Sf7-': Lj thai .thereiident refused to grant his request ; the blame will rest wholly on 'Ihe tieutrah 'VVheth- the; freudent, in the hope, by aome ijacky tliu;,' yi . i 1 . -r ,. f 11 1; I ' . 1 I ' a- Z ...J.Jv- , ..J.M.t:.H Kofi Onrf than t tMbA kia r,DMA..u A . . 1 ' t n-:., ... i viak nntf t a tnAfniiArt a- tna iAmmnnnr'a rnnnnrr. i -r iic- i::irr iiiurnr r f j i iTifir-ii win. inr iiiriiiir i ii i inivtiiic licit aiiu ij.jx.ii llv v iikl.i iua ai-tiio rv i u ?lCKEEttK6' ADDRESS STATES. u Having givn you a correct vievr oi tne em and exhibited such facts and circumstances J i ..j'...vlw,t,.toii ' itiar"Si uras not re. Drove ucyyuiiuvuuw" vi LSmcndwd hy Mr," Jefferson and under his mHu- 1. . naed Into1 a taw. foi the caused he assign J but really as a measure u wu nu L-. and mtii ii h, Pwer of k Grcai Bri fabiect next m courst & Nprutnter. u.u:.'r vf tVii irYeirr. ' n fnnlisll and al)- Wtd,3 to ourselv.es U tvas mischievous, must bt KStpontd, while A "present to your consideration Tkt Projected War &th Great-Britain. I ' Our tukrV have, made frequent and ample, pn linns .of Ihth tmt'artialitu towards the tw6 great yfeerentt,' v France-: wid" Great Britain ; and to Mating 'our neutral richts, and affected ' to d'u Dbraved This, 'indeed, has uot been said In that newspa per under the hand of the President, or of the Secretary of the Navy ; because there is a possi btlity that hereafter it may be convenient to say that the editor made' ihe publication without au? ihiity. Certain it is, that although near a month has elapsed, we have heard of no inquiry. I 'take it for granted there will be none ; for if faithfully conducted, the commodore, for his own justifica tion, 'frould be obliged; to produce . his orders ; which-might ofEcially expose the Executive to (ICS Of WW. ,4; -i"' ;- " ' ' ' ihe acr bX lhas J 'at tHne ot universal peace, ii vessels oi, ine Sdn or pi ciuereni canons were iu.nreci uu the high seas, and hail each Other, asking their names) and of what nation; they were,- or any o thet' tivil questions, no one will assert that either ispbligtd to answer. The not answering may be an eyidence ofchuilishness ; but the refusal to answerwould not authorise the firing of a single shpt Just as if two citisenl meeting in the JiigH Way, -and onfe civilly accosting the other, is passed wet their measures "for redress equally against without an answer anri unnoticed, no one would both. -But 1 have snewn tne uisenooa oi mis pre- ijusuiy lue lorracr in using hi jiisiui ma mic- J Wilt vJi ULai itl ti, iiw tvau saw uvuuilul merited ii4'kij9n. fi I4i uS,? for a inomeni consideryth W on. The embargo, particularly, so wen co iDcided with the views of the French Emperor as tometbls entirejpprobation. His mioister the jjuke de padore, jn his letter of August 5, 18 10, to Gen. Armstrong, says, 44 "the Emperor applaud- id the embargo; But without reciting the nume foas instances, iN'hlch I haVe observed attendance in Comires3 lor the last 8 should originally a'.tach to. commodore Rodgers or to the President and, Secretary of the navy, or to' all of them, wilf depend on ihe i orders given to the'eommbdore v required the chase of a vBjitisl rrae4 ifesSC) Jt: hot doubt. Uniesfuriahed.vvrit posil ye lev dence, I shall ot K' inClinfd to belieViilat com modore' Rodgersacicd in tj.9-itbiiitc orders ; arid the -dei'a4PC wtfatft' Wek :ia-oif the. Vv&&titfti nlunt) for;which :ht nafiort is responsible ahd for1 width, an erfilanalkn and satiilactiuU tvill be de. mndedand by aur governments. X rti S ?.d ...The grounds on which: J have formed and expressed this Opinion and why" satisfaction will be refused, will be given in my -next address. , ' f ' . timothy - picketing; t ; ' . no. xvii. t - : : Fetlov) Citizens, . ; " ' .- . . , In my last address I gave an Account of the engagement between the American frigate President, commodore Rodgers, commander, and tne-' British sloop of War- Little Beit, captain Bine:- - . .. . . . . uie uumc- uoaru. aiiu o &cai.u, ami cvcmuuiiy iu auat&) isiimintui ui nrat piui.uiug3 ungiui during an ! accrues' to the vessel at war -because they have"1 unquestionably, in the orders of the Supr vpiri KiiHd rio-ht tn r-urinif thn nf pnemv. I"nr wifhiiilr ' ExtrutiVe nowtr of the United States.' frr w tbich it would take too much time to collect and j these rights, a naval war, would be useless or ra- they consequently are responsiweof which I jiraf witnessed t only a repetition of hard word?, Uff (iere walggeiing of buIlieST-with abundant in politeness. But When a nation is engaged in war. and sends out its armed vessels to, cruize ! ham, commander i and thereasons on which on the sea, the common highway of nations, then I pronounced the,, proceedings on the part of the the right to chase, to hail, to require answer, to ' American trigate unlawful, and an act of war. I board, and lo search, and eventually to attack, also remarked, that those proceedings originated, renie which an ther itcould not exist. The neutral armed vessel on I explanation wul be itquifed and for which, satis. the contrary, seeing her nation is at peaCf wilf faction will, by the British government, be de all other nations, possesses nortc of these rights I manded, and by our government ttfused. I am now to exhibit-the grounds ot this opinion, and particularly why satisfaction being demanded will be refused. 1 again take up the official report of commodore Rodgers. His reasoning at the instant the ac tion commenced, by a shot '(as he states) from the. Little Belt, is not a little singular, and re quires particular notice, a3 indicative of the tenv psr in which his ordets were conceived and exe cuted. " When the first shot was fired (says the commodore)' being" under 'an impression that it might possibly have proceeded from accident, and wiihou; .the orders of her commander, I had de termined,, at the moment, to fire only a single ardent in their their lust form and color of the manifest '':p4jitf:bi''it rulers in favour of France ; I assume it as a notorious fact, demrons- trsti'd hv their creneral course of conduct. With r because not necessary to anv ot ' the objects ot Iht multhiplied 'proofs of .siich paniality-before j neutrality and peace ; on the contrary she is tne when 1 saw our rulers shutting their eyes bound to avoidevery hostile act, except in her to the greatest enormities, to the most atrocious J own deience when unj-jstly-attacked. Whenshe jets ot piracy,. ra?ery ana swinanng pracmeovoy meets a oeiugercnt arni",c vessel, u is ner uuty n dviri'ar F.rfii,eporv ao-ainat mvlfellow citizens : l it he demandfd. to make known her neutral char hile alt the actl of Great "Britain of which' they Oter, to prevent the shedding of innocent blood, femplained were monstrously aggravated ind.(Us- and the evils of wac hasarded by a vtfuh?.l to aw torleo, inoruerio aiarm ana irritate meptopie a 'sw?r. s neuirai, sne nas no evil or mconvcni- gainst the ony poWef which stood between us and ' ence to apprehend by making htr neutrality jabjccMon ana slavery to ! ranee ; 1 was JAQ Jti0wn.;phe. has no -right to chase, -to hail and in- lyftehend ttwsts their design toinvojvelhe Unit- i$isi. upon an answer, to board and to search, be WStates in a war with Oreat Britain. But having ;cause she has no right .to make a capture. ; The American ' frigate, U a. . hnvinc- none of thtsc 'W&Bii4'"! WinriM-fciaf withouf auy "soli rations ' for such1 a waj knowing also that tfie character, Treasury was empty; and that ...with their mis 'reason for nmdant rlgbfc2is r -jsponsible for all tiie evils consequent j shot hi return but tiiz ,nmediate repetition of A pre ! oh "the chast? und the coiieeiu.netu 'her neutral the previous ju'i provoked outrage iaduced me to pty-; ana inai wun ineir mis reason tor civini;: cnase-t and it iie had not ano. . . "I - ... . " . . . . .:. . ... r - ' . - ' chievous interruptions and restrictions ot -com- ther resting on special orders from our Executive, Sterce, the ' public revenues were constantly di-1 henust be personally ' responsible for the blood ninished knowing furtherlheir utter drpad of that has been spilt. The chasing of the British imposing new taxes which would hazard or destroy vessel being an unlawful .act, the filling of her their popularity ; and believing that a large ad"di-cieri'"a8 the 'direct cpnsequence' of that uclau lul lion to the old taxegr consisting wholly of duties act, is murder. And the Commodores' .con- on goods imported, by the temptation it would science would be ill at ease, but :or the orders' offer to smuggling, might rather lessen' 'than in-. from his government which he conceived himself ; crease i the actual receipts of revenue ; knowing, bound to executed ; tnoreoyer the disposition of the people of the Unit- By his own official report, it appears, that com" iH tesV Rodgers, on the 16th May,, 25 n.inuits tideratiops J have, for a good-Jvhile past, been 1 past noon, discovered a sail, when he was himst ! cjsposedlo.ueiieve our rulers were really as wu-tipwrris ot 40 m les from Cape Henry ; on-l ilu: vessel whose sail he discovered in the cast; from his mast head, must have been manj fniles father distant from our coast ; that, the vessel was standing towards him with a press of sail : that at jjrt pro-- thendisi tinguishable fiom 1m frigate's deck) and her mak'me sienals, shewed her to he n mnn n" wr and to'' compel "VhTs successor Jo-borrow several ; that fifteen minutes afterwards, . the-"Commodore miUions.ot, dollars, for the ordinary payments and .hoisted his colohrs : when the other vessel,- fin Commodore Rodgers asstgr.s hut. one ! believe that the ipsult wao premeditated, and that are the endeavours of "captaib Biu'ghn durin j more that six hours yiirining tet;awa fiom thfS i 'Q President, an evidence lo tjie, cpmnrtHiorcJmirtd'. j 11IUI lite v of acduirini pense of violating aag .Vfhe'onr)ol6r(? .says thAt v?hen the first: - ' ihypmghd 4htrVp ttpq -f."srr''ial.cllh'e Hft,i ws kX.igWni'ir tfetl.ftVe:. iIVm!; kiiotiH jpgfepi&t& n$ ill HoW'-ihJrtrRdhe" i ling as the people were averse, to engage in any wary even with, G. Britain5 In the actual state of Ui'mes. I have even considered it fortunate that the ' absurd principle Mr Jefferson, that the public . rttmrtfrought nat tfrJ niCHiecauae 'g,vu(ccmT Jplf-past orie o'clock, the symmetry or ju'jt tatiqnof money'mighi jtmft t7ieaU'oirioot&lar yorUom) of her upper sails (which were 'the w literal y exeiuDluiea ; he hayincr so manacr- M bur public affairs as to empty the treasury, ex Iier.ces of fove r nme nt ; Biit a late occurrence, the hostile act of Com modore Rodgers, in -his rencounter with a Bri tish sItod of war. has led rhe into a new train of ing her signals not answered, changed her course, andstood to. the southwards Now we come to commodore Rodger's assjern- ed reasons tor giving chase, " Being desirous of thought. This- rencouhter having; excited much Isfieaking herr and ascertaining what she tvas, I now yoiu. bcnbiDiiiiy, ana oeijig, Jin my view, preg maae sail in chace ;'' and he continued the chate until hlteen or twenty minutes' past' -eight-when tiant with serious consequences, no other subject Amards such'Sriimeftliate consideration. - , 5, The meeting ofthje'. American frigate Freaidefit, foramanded by commoi'ore Rodgers with the Bri- 'sn sloop of war ffttfe Rtiiy commanded by capt Jingham, was d(ubtlesV accidental ; but the tumstantes ujide which y the frigate" sailed, as nenuonea in tne government paper at Washmg- tonv.&jhe.fatts-;staUd by comroodore R. himself, fcVis'omcial letter to the Secretary of the iNivy, ,ave no room to doubt that his conchict was the 're nit of nrieviohs orders fmm trie ; Exfrniiv. i in migth'Brinh-frigate-Kfrn'e ot lufic befiirev had imhressed an American At I Jen, fiom oneofpur coasting vessels. Commodore Korrs says he wasJbr Tlcagoesrom'thar Fft ot oarcoast called Cape Uenryr-when a sail --v. .wiauvsrcii in -.1 1,1.1c jnv , nai. ii,;; trave uer "'se, ana continued it tor more than six hours, Before he Ame up' ith hei ; the; vessel;chased, U that Cime e'rideavourincr to make her escane i'fnr escane ?ough the commodore, could not see her so clear V tojudge what was her sie, it is plain she Aw the .vastly siiDe'rior size of her dursiier.'nr shfi oiild not have Kin from herThese and some. "iiier, circumstances, which may after Wards le,vno ( ticcd, prove ;satis;fttCorilyy;that' this , unwarranted Uiaae was in execution of previous brders i, wirh: t ut Which Commodore Rodgers, as commanding Mwra armed jA'woulut not have feltrhimielf justified mmakiri -it,- The same government ; confijaia this conclusion ; ' for the commol - :;-;.,.:i:' 'i: ; ;-;;-,: v belne distant from TO to 100 vards. s,ava the rnm modftre, u I hailed, what shifi is that ? to this eri quiry no answer was given, but I was hailed by her commander, and asked what tJtifi h that HavmgskedlieJfirstquestion, (continues the Com'nittdoreJ I of course (jousiderd ifnyseltepti. tied t6 the first answer. After a oause of fifteen or twenty seconds, I Reiterated my first inquiry of wjof. ttmp ?s mai f jma oetore 1 ..had time to take the trumpet ;frrii my mouth' was answered hy a snou a snor, was returned . trom the Ame without trderai though just asjie was on the point of giving ah order to fire ashot? inireturn. And from our adversary being at the time ignorant of our real force as-1 was of his, he thought this, perhaps,- a favourable opportunity of 'acquiring promotion, although at the expence of violating jur neutrality and insulting our flag. Here i must take leave to ask a few questions. As the .commodore's impression was. that the first shot from the Little Belt might "have proceeded from accident, and he was within speaking iHs lance, why, instead of first asking an explanation, did he determine to return even a single shot ? Was it. the part, of j commander possessing (as he says of himself lei doubt not truly but he had rs which he.loVJiidlumseli bound to obey) 1 an humane, and generous heart, determined not lo hpi'd a drop of blood unnecessarily," to return a shot which might spill the blood of more than one manT when a declaration of his neutral character, which it was his duly to have mat'ei wbuld have pitvented the spilling of a single drop, and all the serious consequences which ensued, and the still more 'serious 'in prospect? Why did the commo dore think the firing of the first gun " an unpnx Bingham to unagine the Commodore's ship to be a neutral I After having been hard chased by her for more than si's hours ; and after seeing her, when within acile and a half, taking theprecau tiori to git the wcathe't guage the position to wind ward the' most, advantageous, lor action, which fthe commodore ta'vs) the commander of the chase (captain Bingham) from his manocuvresdu ring half ah hdurt-enpearedanxiousto prevent j in a word, after, observing the commodore's move ments and condntt, during six hours and a half, UTbe precisely those ofan enemy j after hailing what shin is that r to ascertain whether she was a friend or a foe, and the c6roaodore. had refused to answer; what other possible conclusion could captain Bingham form, than that the-i;omf modore's fricate was an enemy? -And bv.' what o ----- - i- : - 3- ' I rule of-war, or of common sense; can.the ; firing of a ftirtt at an enrwiyibe pronounced " an un provo ked outrage?" : And why," because under such circumstances, the firine was repeatedi should the masrx:omnTenceu-the ctionfwhteh-tcrminatedncomnaodore heligv&.the mtult was firemcdita nwuig-anoJKnnnding apoutJ5Qmen -of the r.rew 0f the British vesseU; Such is substan&illv Cor.-imo. dore Rodger's account of the chacearid thje'dc I have already noticed the richts "of an armed vessel of a nation at war, on the high seas. ; She has a. right i? "tharf because she is. authorizrt'd to; capture the; vessels of her enemy. She has a right to hail nd Jo rcauirt an. anmoe, thdt she ma avoid the attacking of a friend or tf o neu tral If an answer be' Vefilsed. she has a .ViB-httrT Consider the 'vessel hailed as her' enernw nA' consequVatly:to' attack and take her if he can,- or tqqetena himseli and prevent ythe; capture .of his own vessel.'. i Riit. l ' r.nit nAn.r .u.-.'"'i.ru-rr belohg to lan atmedt-vesser of a neutral nation. promotion h-.bfer-jutk," ii wc an Aiuivn, vihh, i.vi ui. iJiuvu ivi to hiai own ? jhe:.iiU c.ejotihv judge more correctlyin his ojlvn; and not' expect an admiral flag for . nddling"' the lie ship Xi'vfc Belt, and killing and wounding thirty of her crew. , But how are wettoaccounV for tuch strange ideaV of captain Bingham A-natives, for hismuckjgaiii J jr ing in a momenit? -.sessi-of-tji-omo. V dore's mind? Hedeclar s u sio3 nor .prejudice bid ipfsfviiii affair t . and ' yet; he conceited' that CtptouiiigKain, - v though necessarily taking' him ' fa)w;piefavi ' A tended, by. attacking him, " to Violate the nibiral-' ' ity ano, msuu tne nagioi insr yrtiifa- ws, q After the action was .over : aftcveftiodore , had made such havock amon'ff the cretyrof the Utile Belt, he ac-ain hailed, V What Wip is iSat V and then " learned for the first tiitfe, that,4f wa 1 a ship of lus Britannic Majesty's;' Buthatt tbe x commodore no misgivings, no previous sugpfcibns-"' as to the national character bf thehip hepuniUfd f If he had supposed her to" be Ffetif h or anA I a .iu. -Lwibtn n,t.K ' f ff ' IueriCaU auijp' aiiu iiuni. uuiti liwpuit uiuit,- , were to have been expected, to be off our ''cpast)' would lie have given either a hard chase ofsix or;: ; seven hours, purely to gratify fe innocent 'cwn.' osity to speak her and" atf(rtain jvriqt$e,ito1:' s V hy should the thought have entered into - his -head that the ship he had pursued and coine up' ' with, meant, by the firing of a, shot, to viplat,eth$ neutralify arid insult the .flag of the. United State -unless he believed her to bel-B'HtUli ;Vessel of , ' w,ar.' Surely; neither the commodore nor any ot his political friends would entertain at) idea that' a public ship of our loving friend the French empeC ror would violate' the neutrality . of the' United ' States; or viivsult their fiaf esptc ' 'ws''aiWtrdH io-n-d,aK asn--irl'ports ; It is true indeed, that tin cinperoif had told our '. " rulers that they were a miserable packv-1 men T ; without just political views, without honour, with out energy and the unresenjjng, abject sub- ; mission with which :?they have bdrnc this gross and outrageous reproach, proves that the emperor knew well their character, and that his signally contemptuous language was riot hiisapf&ed. But stilly this did riot Violate our; neutrality, nor insult -the dignity of ouF flag. Th? connodore states that " previously he had reaSpn tci fiel incensed at the repeated outragei"c6mmitted on pur jflag by the British ships ol war ;" and I very much fear that the readers of lu3 own official report of , . Ihis rencountfer with the;Brltiali i ship -Little Bejt, -; will be" constraint modcre himself did not, that during the whole of this affair, he tilt, that (in pursuance of his orders) 7h 4 he was chasing and .fighting British ship of war, . I and thus avenging the outrages'. at rwiiicii he : had been previously incensed and that strongly impressed wittj-'thli... idea, ffiiugh net kiinaelj awata y. of it. the comriipdore thought that captain Bing ham likewise knew, or was strongly. . .impressed.; with the idea, ihat the ship at which he fired he- .. ; fon tdihe United States ; without: fvmch im4 pressioil capt.; Bipgharii could not have intended'; to yiolate their neutrality and insult . their flag. If the commodore's own statement vrill admit, of an interpretation different front that I have given, 'I '' ctftti he iervatJDv ' tofsee it- BuUetAis look-ii little further, and consider.1 his reason for, giving-' chaser V- ' 'PT- r )-;-: i4- -rffl ;':-:u4 Let it, be fecblleted "that jyhen btolsledv;! the Little Bellas iriany miles d discerned only from the.' comiriorc's nuisi-ha.f,f4 and stending towarcui , oimriu. yucj nj5nic);,li grf?'"; And why should the commoddre imagine that captain Bingham began the attack under thF idea ' that it was. a favorable opportunity bf ac . quiring promotion byviolating our neutrality and insulting our fTag," when captain Bingham must necessarily have believed the commodore's frigate, to 'be Vza'pneihy- P by should captain Bingham4e required to see, Uie American sjars jri the . Presi dent' flag," when theTcommodore stktes'that hti had never beep able to see the distinctive n ational marks inthe dag of the JJttle Beit P-But al though the commodore could hot see the size and force of xht JLit tie; Belt, rit js certain thatiaptain BinghacrTsaw cleatly the; formidably; tuperior sixe and force'of the commodore's shipor t vould not have run from htrv v For tlus reason, .frhen standing towardser --that about an hour aftcrj wards, her upper sails were stmguish able fi bni the commodore' aecB 4iwnen. Tjue, maae signals, Wtncn not oeiiig aiiavrcicu xjr uiui, vuft.iiji , y her course and Stood to thVVrith ward. Thep,,'; says the commodore, beng desirous bf speaking'1 ,f her, and ascertaining what she; aSJ:nov mad vf ail4n-ehac-AudArj l we areto beheve, it wbiild it seemj thahierely from curiosty,' lo ffieak aa-es-. sel at great distance from him, on l)teligh ei Xrfrxxrtearneraiae HIIU n i ' . . ed, t heopimodore gave her a six or sevtn hourr chf.ee, and(5ailed:many miles -out of his course I. ;'j for the ' tittle Beltat-'omeHifttm from our coast, ran to" the i:T);wYlw commodore gave her chasr anr-oun. accorflti ii to the government paper, v rie.wsoereurovpy! to sea immediately trom nwiapuiKw .whM,n;!i h"is former station.! supped ati-v oiKciui? ' ing along the coast a$.fore J eua'rding: 6pJtwpfim''Mis&ctW frvnv: uolaiiif j iv.- ivy,.,' -.-.h, ".- v: Ti?i''':."i '"is. " '. '.-'w..'4" n ' by foreign "crpistrs. Ther commodore,:-comv;-'g , cernirigr the'.veel inightferoarK.s i.nar v r svmmetry '. of her; sailld ,h;i!dng SiU: shewed- hcr.'td.tft'. afman' oT:"j6r;&iT.O

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