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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1-8 12.
No. 830.
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Political.
From ihe London Courier of Decembers
The Speech of the American President, which
xtc received too lata1 yesterday afternoon to insert
more than a sketch in part of our impression is
tijlr a oneas. We expected- Not a document can
issue from the mind and cabinet of Mr. Madison,
that does not bear the stamp and seal of indiscrim
inate attachment to France and invariable dislike
of Great Britain. These feelings pervade and
influence the whole policy of his Government.
And while they lead him to palliate all the ag
gressions of one Power, induce him to exaggerate
and inflame all the acts of the other. What but
. dch feeling, ooold have made hina 'attempt to
draw such a distinction between different periods
and parts of the conduct of r ranee towards A
merica, , He tells m first, that there have been
successive confirmations of the repeal of the French
decrees, and that these induced him to hope
we should repeal our orders in council Most
willingly we reply, bit show us that these con&V
ihalions do not, consist merely in promises & State
Papers, -butjare furnished by solid and open deeds
thit cannot be mistaken. We see you, Amen
cu, ' wanting to make us the dope both of vou and
France, and desir'nig us to give you a substantial
benefit in return for a mere paper assurance that
France has repealed her decreet. ... Everyday fur
nislie, us with ocular demonstration that these tie
crtes are 9'iU the policy of Bonaparte's" Empire,
and ytt, you compliin of ui becafise-we will not,
btf such ideois as to abandon that System which
he and yo ir coimiviiig wi;h him forced us to
fiiaDiisn. U')e not every vessel tna reacne
juvji pvn uiuiji ;u iivu vvniui i.. v
(the vexations and robbery to which you are yet
x3osed in the French ports' ?True. savs Mr.
tMadison,-Bonaparte has ma le an ungrateful re
lurn far our iistice and fairness. He will not re
pair the other wrongs done or us, to restore the
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ges, that we cannot detect the poverty and imp.
tence of it f America is a neutral power, and
. belligerent seises and condemns her property, tin
kler no matter what edicts, and yet the president
-ier. and yet her neutral character and rights are
vlL'-. ii Mrl 1 1 But these violations are
mIiumii ane u ircaicw wi
w.nmitted, nottnderthe Berlin and Milan edicts,
ut under others I Allowing, for the sake of ar
rument, that there is some force in this arKument,
M-,r..on rti.iRt nermit us to reminrt him,
t M- Madisan mu -
immense amount oi property nc nas bcixcu auu .thtf trench decrees ere lepeuied, because tJtwa
Condemned- But these acts were committed un-l p tiie American government they ari ret
der edicts which do not affect our neutral rela. I ptajd, and they communicate that ihform'auoi to
tionsand therefore do hot enter into questions;, moW We, who have not much faith h Bana
tetween the ,U- States and other belHerent.,, 'papteg assurfncei look to his actioni, and Gni that
Is it possible ! does Mr. Madison mn st riously ( ve8St5 have ben seized under the Berlin and Mi.
to make use of such a paltry argument does heian Htcrees,v since November 1. Aye, but says
think we have been educated in tme of his c die- km. Monroe we have received fresh proofs that
, that one
of the Uc geraTof the Berlin and Mi
1 S tKmrnerce of,he United
10 Hi
lan decrees, was that
niA restored to the fooling on which
ouw oc rcsioreu w .. . . c..-
n State wi
at was before tltey were impocu. ...
SSrinSTmr' rrovc?thaVl. is so-.
J,DdraX thTcOTdit on, which were to accom-
E7 StaeaWl hate been fulfilled-
rJ?J!b5to repealed ofxourse.
VLtSSU Htill conceive, as One
KSuSStaat thoseWc.are
of our own secjeuriepaiu, hniVl.Vl.r
he B-rtin , and Milan edicts may have varied their
frtSgiWr name, they still continued
.. -...nfi lw m existence, j - --
influence thepolcy ot ue
powcrsi, " . .
1 MSB V ?
duct nas neen u.c '-r"tiMaMHn
?f F.1 ' 0 nought that :
ly out of sight, one wouia u . bMjU
Fnu.r..r- . .ft- hcr mer.
then seizing ner Frwi' ''". jv?..itl.
- Kf. would have rousea me
,wellcd the tone o. ncr vm - ;
. . . c i. t,:. nnntrv. that ne wouju
-ffiw5?.- Bafno-" hehas reason to
! Mi twmefuture indefinite peri
tie dissatisfied i ana atiomc mvu h
d that dissauslacuoo mac
jtestricUon, upon sports. fronvFance
Tne
! 'MiSvtetm and the
it prominent upon toe Rln.ham.
i I. Momi is aiiriouit" ! "-i ... . " -
orders to that it i, against
so studiously kept, Dac&.) auu
enntmit nOfinilUCS i"'J .
:,i s.hititv and common sense w - -
rl V :i,:;r.nd caowrethe first American
KQador. to attack ana capiunc
. . ;.u it",, thu, uve oriiiau hj
frigate ahcfcU in with--- l"
puoiahe, any aggression upon
is true, ,ejT restric3ns to , orders in council, iti.mcumbent on hcr
t 'fl by indUpat.bl.vWentc, hatthe;o...
??he nece.s live measure, the French decrees, are repealed
- ? elI?I,SS tnm Francer But how different and this she has not and cannot prove.
Jmpwtation from Mce Gf the Conduct The adjustment of the aff.dr of the Chesapeake
V!t in iC0Mm m'htseem to open a fairer prospect of an amicu
fLrTnTEn bleettlement of other points thanks yet been
heconduttof tf .u,,, heW mit. Bul ,et pur readers confer the man-
the works ofdefence, and the military means of the
state. The vast navy of the United States kas;
recciTcu inc imponini nuuiuuii ui n irigaic w
guard the coast. Now; the yery circumstance of
the coast and harbors of a power which lias so
contemptible a naval force being Unmolested by
us, is a proof that we have used our naval superi
ority with exemplary moderation and forbearance.
It has been remarked that the present speech
resembles in many parts, (he speech of last year,
.nd that the pontics of America are remarkably
stationary. Every man must bear witness to the
truth of this remark. America fluctuates between
her incTinatlqhs and her apprehensions. She
seems always to standi trembling and hesitating oa
the slipper)' Verge ofa war ; and to be incessantly
tossed about at the merer of every event 2 a con.
dili'vn which-W all others, most directly tends to
patsy the spirit and destroy the confidence of a
nation, in aRUhe evils which can befal a people,
in a government without any fixed principles or
phn. No description ot rulers can be as perni
cious as that trfoe of vulgar politicians, whose
measures are governed or dictated by accident
wh.s? schemes art perpetually fluctuating,' and
Who live from day to day and from hour to hour,
ai'.ated by every blaUt of wind, and bome away
by every current. '
frdm the Courier of Decetkier 2t.
( We h-4ve this day published all the documents
accompanying the Ammerican presrdent's mes-
saire. ihose r- la'ine to theorders in couttcil exf.eot-
C(i. whfch, to be sure, are the most voluminous.
rj, wYl seem strange to our readers, the main
e3-;?0,n, jyin, vithin so small a compass, vi. whe-
!ther -he B.rlm and Milan decrees are repealed or
no', f nut tne nmtrican governmeni involve me
discussion uf that question with other points not
immediately connected with it, and arc, as tsuai,
to use a word peculiar to their dictionary, reinrk
able lengthy in their diplomalick coi respond'. ce.
Thev wish us alwavs to take it for eranted, that
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they are repealed, because four or five of oarves.
s ls have been lately released. To which Mr Fos
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ter rejoihs," that X)n seizure of American ahips
br Francs since Nov. I, and the positive decjara-i
: positive oeciara-
renh esc aec tees;
pro
rTf itiVn r i niied n tenet
a us w -
than the restoration oi nve orai .--i
pably given up for fallacious purposes, is a
proof
or their revocation.' .
The perusal of the American state paper rela
tive to. these orders in codnr.il, convinces us mor.
IT sheouttht tohaVt partially between th.
joemnts - atair estimate ofthe circumstance,
.nd, if i, will plee better, of the , wrong, of e eh
and a conduct jeguiaica V '.
. . r. . ' j u ....,Vrrf . hut t is what Amen-
" . . . hun,u ITTheoriiers hrcoun
wron ,,po ,he United State,.
they could not he justified- by tb conduct of the
cnmy , hut the wroirg h di.ect only fiomjrance,
the Jiginal .iW. Our orders do not coo-
template the Ud id States ; the. look only at the
enemy, and they arr against h-m not meaaurc.
r - ' W ..ir defence. . America suffer
ut licmiu.., ----
lrom lhem incidentally, by a nue
difect stocke ; a AJ.ff
bv a rtfl'jctcd and not a
ven in maucc or
When she col!
rr Zr . to rescind our defensive mea
-r- :
utrtv. ha U .ffiontine, in which our pro
au'aVe enrtained. TNy
Zt. . i the lane
Waved.
Whose fault was u l 1 he aci was uwuwh.
mmmtas soon as it
w. -- - . - .
n . -menl lhat wished to mix the o
-vmencan eovcniiucm - -- -
,hcr points of difference, with it, and not to adjust
lhat poTn separately. , .
..., -.J Tr ,k. i.ntU Reh remains to be set'
5. A.t he shall transmit the result of the
coutt of inquiry on Rodgers, to h,s f'urnem.
,u w;n receive in return the result of the exam.
1 .... c.,. rr rh. trm nut.
v. -nH fhii
hi, own statement, while common sense,
ft.mnrA witt alloc on the sic
.:n ii Um nn ihf Hide of the
H - k M ,;h;,..ir that ghe
t h a art il i i i wiia ait uki waa - -
W, and whether tney visu u ..u. . j.
w mntehd. that the Un'ted
unirieiiQiy iki . i.
states, not being at war with any power, have no
Ihnogive chase to armed ship?, orto suppose
of American pol'cy. .She contends that West
Floridaformed part of Louisiana, which she bought
rrancc. . duv rrauce naa uo ngni to sell and the
.negotiation carried on by the United. States at Par
is, for Hon da, was throughout a series of hiimil
ation and disgrace. But what is the defence set
up by America for seizing East Florida ? That
Spain owes htr money for spoliations ori hetVonv
merce. Bnl has Spain refused all satisfaction?
No, it is acknowledged that she Admitted the in.
juries done, and was not indisposed to entet into
a negotiation respecting them. , But delay Ins ta
ken place Why ? Because Spairi is inlamously in
vaded by Bonaparte, and her whole attention en
grossed n Ending the means of resisting the iuVk.
dr And itfhk .iat of affairs, America,
the friend tffre e,n 'the tot of tyrdnntf, takes ad
vantages, to wrtst her territories from her ! Ah
eternal blot this, and indeed the whole conduct or
the United Stated relative to Spa'm will be in the
American annals. 'How will an American (feel
when investigating the history of the invasion of
Spain, he shall inquire, wha on that occasion,
was the conduct of his ances'ors, the only fepub.
lican people then on earth, and who claim almost
an exclusive privilege to hate and to denounce ev
try act of ruffian violence, and every form of ar
bitrary power. It certainly will not kindle a glow
of emulation in his mind, when he shall be told
that of this'unparalleled crime, a oblique notice
was once taken by the American administration:
jtnat the people of that country seemed to rfjoice
at the conduct, of the invader, frowned on the ef
forts of his, victim, and took at' vantage of their dis
tress to despoil and rob them ! 1
Frcm the Boston Centinel. .
SPECULATIONS J
On the debate in eongretti on the interning subject
of a Itrttith war.
To the Hon.. Felix Grundy, the honorable Daniel
Shcff;y, and the honorable Hugh PJ"eson, three
f the m st independent democratic 4r rcpcbli-
can members of congress. S
Gentlemen, . )fj . j
The independence wnich yon have stvtally dis
played in the latedtbates on the expediency of a
British war, emboldens me to address yu. I am,
gentlemen, like yourselves, an independent citi
zen, connected wth no profession, having in view
nothing but the maintenance of the honor .pf'theJ
United tvates. It appears evident to me, that You
are actuated, PT tne same jionorable teelings, and
dopyoa
en wholly from
continue the non.imcrcourse, or to
Ail Mtprnati of war. vet it has arisen wholly
the mistake '.nto which you have been led by the
cursory examination of the documents submitted
to you by the president; and I feel convinced thai
if you could be satisfitd that France has been
wholly perfidious in her late offers to repeal her
.'.e.-rres. too would all of vou concurin the opini
ion, that upon such offvrs, so perfidiously violated
no pledge could be possibly tounoea ; nu iui
however honest politicians might concur in the o
ninion.that both the belligerent, are in pari delic
tu in equal Uull, still that there is no new rcun
tot routing the resentment of the nation against
fireat Britain exclusively
It is no reproach to you, gentlemen, coming as
you all do, from states not especjiaiiy commercial
o nresume that vou have no immediate and per
sonal Vnowledjre of the true state of our relations
with France, and that you derive all y our iniorjua-
tipd from the very imperfect document, which it
has pleased Mr. Madison to lay before cohgress.
It shall be my business, in the present essay to
disclose to you one caeeout of a gteat number,
which goes to prove that the trencn aecrecs are
still in full force against our trade, and I rely on
our natriotismlandisoirit, that you will cause a full
enouirv to be had into these cases, runwn Fu.
pose I shall send to each of you a copy of this es
sav. Let it not be said gentlemen, that an anony
mous writer is undeserving oi your nicunu,,.-
Farts, imnnrtant facts touchine our loreign reia-
tinnn. ran never be beneath the attention of wise
and treat, statesmen, let thf quarter from which
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mey come oc ever s uumui.
It mav4w oremised ihnt If the French Berlin
anrt Milan deorees ere still in full force, we have no
further or additional cause of complaint against
Great Britafoiihan we had ,in the year lff07, 'and
surely if such should turn out to be the fact, there
is no reason why we should favor'the views of
Tp statesmen like you, gentlemen, it would be
needless to observe, that whether we form, a direct
-n.i nnn ,l!ian i with France, or whether we at
tack her enemy by commercial restrictions or. by
arms, we as effectually subserve ami promote ner
views, as if we openly etitereu imo an amaucc wui
her.- -J
The case which I shall select among many o
thers,(four of which met the same fate on th
,.'mi dT-hv the same means ; to wit, the persO,
nl rlct-ree oflhe emDerof,) is that of the brig Ca
fhrtni. of RSston. camain Ockineton ; both vesse
and cargo owned by John Parker, esqT a citlcen o!
RrtUrm.and bv other citizens of the United States
and of why vessel Mr. Ephraira Thayer, junior
I shall not, gentlemen, rely on the declarations
nf the concerned, tor wnom i nave mc ihK
respect, but shall confine myself tb the official de
clarations and process verbal of the French go
vernment, which Mt. Madison, tl noiyou, geniw
men,,will treat with respect
You will observe that the last coAimunicationi
to congress are dated the I $th Joty ; but the pre.
sident must have been in November, in nojes'ioft
of the outragetAis and perfidious dec Won of the
tmperoror the fOth of September, to wrfioh fstu ll
hereafter allude : ;or else Mr. Russell, wlio.krieV
all the facts, has bei'ciV guilty of a most IrroM rie
gleet. ' , - . :
The .Judgment and process Verbal, or record, f ' ,
the case of the American brio- Catherine. -imwA
the 10th of September, 1810, 'ten moi hi f-'ep
Mr. MadisOn'J proclamation stating the decrees
repealed, and re'eites as follows i
That the French p'ivateer, Jeun Adolphbs, da -the
S-l of May, 1811, six months after th- pr- !
tclHie.! repeal of the. berM nd Milan 'dem-Wj '
captured on the htgses the Vessel 'called th V.'a
tharme,."DavidX)ckmgton, master, bbuttd to $v
Ferei-sborgh, laden with coffte, sugar, cocoa, iiya
wodd, and cotton, on the ground that nan of ih
same Were the produce of French and Soanisn rd.
hnies, and that the "rest of the cargo was prohit
bited by his imperial majestv'fc decrees."
'I he process vernal then declares, that the vessel
departed from fli8ton.) on the ICth of April. Isio,
and that the goods were chkfly of the $TOih (Jf
Batavia, a Dtltch port that the vessel belonged to
Americans ; that the cargo was firt destin-.d for
(Uottenbur, a ijwedihh port or lor such other
poft of the ilaltic whtie it would be most advan
taeous to sell the said cargo ; that on her pnsv
she had been taken by a Danish priva'crry a id uf
ter hating been detained ten months and five days '
she had been liberated byv those 4 friends to ntu
ral rights' the Danes, ai.dlifter proceeding up the
Baltic, she had been visited hy nine Danish x-i
teers, and had ten once hailed in L'.nglish by a
vessel winch oid not hoard her : thai she remain
ed eight days in Gjtttnburg, where lard an En
glial! packttboat armed .with five or six gu.,s, but ;
which did not board her j that on comiur out of
Gat enburg she saw at a distance a g-eat immbc-r
of vesseh, but she did not approach them so near
as to ascertain the nation to which they belonged ;
that she was never visited by any ship;, that two
martners who were interrogated confirmed these
facts , that the supercarco also confii med tlnm
The council of, prizes at Paris ha vine noticed all
the above facts, ad J no others, electee) ..s fallows t-
Considering that vhe anchoring at G iUenbunr
isjrfhe Catherine, where there was an Fnelish
packet boat armed is a procf ihat the expedition,
from Boston ten months before i which consist
almost wholly of colonial produce, is in the ene
my's tritkde and interest, and moreover there U no
ffitlor the enemy u U oc
mericati Bag was only a mask, and I il
because tlie A-
that thtreforo
the corrfiscation is a, matter of no difficulty. ' ,
Now I request youi gentlemen, to pause befortt
you proceed one step further in your legislative
meaaurea, and examineithis case. It was deciOed-
at Paris, tfter, as I shall shew yoo, an ap;.licatioa
from our public agent. It assumes as the suppo
sed caUse ol condemnation :
1st. The having on board colomal or Bntishi
goods not bound to a French, but a neutral port.
2d. The having bten in the same port with
British packet boat, but not boarded. - I
3d. -The having hetn hailed by a vessel the: of
ficers bf which spoke the English language-, but
not boarded by her. .
It is not even alleged that shSe. came fully with
in the Berlin or Milan decrees, put she was can
demned because there was a tuacicn of her haw
'inn-Vi.fn within them. ----.
This is the whole case s I ne anginai r rencn.
document is before me. and I will forward it to ei
ther of you, if you'wtsh it as a lotndatioh tor a
motion to enquire into the state of ftcts, or rathe
an attesed copy of the prottst oeiofour consufc, ;
Mr. Warden, and condemnation you Vift find in
the department of state. It is your soKmn duty1 ,
so to enquire. You ought not to.iei me nation 09
deceived on so important a subject. N
It this had been a single case, or it xneix ns-a .
n6t beeri?many cases of this kind . I am too rJwic'ts
of a 'statesman, to contend that the partic'r
wrong done to individuals by an unjust tribu?M t -unknown
to its government, is cause of seriom
complaint against such government ; but gcr.tlw .
men, there have been many cases oi mi ayin i
the emperor, on appeal, has connrmea mo m,.
cisions, In September last, ten toontW ater
alleged, repeal ol his . decrees, not on me gvou
simply of a violation of his decrees, but of a V s.
picion of an intent to violate mem. mu w s
ihem an extension far more dangerous andiniv ri-
ous than the decrees themselves. ''
These facts I shall, prove, tjrst, py a protean ne
fore David Baillie Warden, eRq. consul gfctV eral
and agent for prizes lor tne vnueu Diaies n ra-
lis ; and 2diy, py tetters irom ujc auycivuig j ui
the above named vessel- , , , '
1st. By the protest, dated beptetmer j 8 u,
it Bppeavs, that the aforesaid brig Catharlr.e ne
ver took tonvoy, never was uaivi,i:jr uuum.
shipbfwar ; that The-'supercirgo ap;TRed to Jcv
nalhan KussU, esquire -our n iam.e, on-
the I lth' June ; that Mr. lliibstU appxed to td
FrcTrtirvetiinTenTin'hchiiiroT that vesstTlirut
of thrtexrthers ; .that he was led to expect a f?
t able decision! thiU he applied a second time, and
was informed they had allKbeeri condemned ou tiwr
10th cf September last.
Has not Mr. Russell stated these facts toPrcM
dent Madison ? If so, were they not known j.rt
or to his message ?, . 'Were these faclv not mafr.
rial to the question whether the decrees wer" or
were noV-repealed I What were tip sdlfga!er.-a:.
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