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V©L. III.)
ATHENS, GEORGIA i PRINTED BY ALEXANDER MCDONNELL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER io, 1810.
From the National intelligencer .
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Aware of the fituation in which
G. Britain would be placed in rela
tion to the United States by a revo
cation of the French decrees, and
apprehenfive that fhe may be put
too manifeftly in the wrong, at
tempts have been made by the fed
eral prints to produce an imprdfion
that a bare repeal by G. Britain of
her orders in Council would com
prehend fueh a modm-ation of her
unlawful edifts as would come with
in the meaning of the aft of Con
grefs of May iaft. Ali ght confi
dera ion will (hew that this irnpref
fion is founded in error.
The aft of Congrefs requires
::h a revocation or modification of
aeir eriifts by the belligerents as
that they {hail ceafe to violate the
neutral commerce of the U. Seates.
If we give credit to the letter of the
duke of Cador, as extrafted from
the Bririfh papers, fuch a revocati
on by France will have taken place
on the ift of theenfuing month, as
is contemplated by our aft. If in
the fame manner the Britifh govern
ment does not, within three months
thereafter, revoke its edifts violating
the neutral commerce of the Unit
ed the non-intercourfc aft
will probably be revived as to that
nation. Will the revocation of the
Orders in Council be fuch a mod fi
cation of the Britifh edifts as that
they will cede to violate the neutral
commerce of the United States? By
no means, we reply. The Britifh
violations of our neutral commerce
have not been confined to her or
ders i council. To place her on
luch a footing in relation to our neu
tral commerce, as would authorife
the Executive to iflue his procla
mation declaring the faftef her ha
ving fo modified her edifts as that
they have ceafed to violate the neu
tral commerce of the ty. States,
and of courfe of oar neutral com
merce, it appears to us that Ihe
might even be required totally to
abandon that praftice before the
pravifions of the aft of May laft
could be confidered as complied
with.
But the federal prints argue that
Great-Britain never will yield the
principle of blockade by
mation, which they pronounce to
be a part of the old maritime law.
They item afraid left the leaft mea
fure of juft ice fhould be dealt to
the United States by Greac-Britain;
and really, in their zeal for her ad
herence to injuftice, overleap the
barriers of truth, and trample fafts
under foot with the greatefl ind.ffis
rence. They have undertaken,
trufting to the ignorance or (hort
memories of their readers, to ftate
that the United States have never
protected againft the principle of
paper blockades. We affirm, on
ti e contrary, that the U. S, have
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MANY SHALL RUN TO AND FRO, AND KNOWLEDGE SHALL IS INCREASED.*’
never ceafed to contend for the true
definition of blockade, the legiti
macy of which was in 1804 offici
ally acknowledged by the Britifh
government, and the violation of it
declared to be a grievance. And is
this acknowledged grievance that
which the federal editors declare G.
Britain never will abandon ? Are
her own cfficial afts, difciaimirg
the principle, held of no account ?
Or is the new lchocl of public law,
one of whole prominent features is
a total difrtgard of neutral r ghts,
more to their tails ? Let them give
general publicity to the official do
cument which wc publ.fhed a week
ago—let them apprize their read
ers that the Britifh government in
1804, through their minifterMr.
Merry, has denied the legality of
any blockade, unlefs in rtlpeft to
particular ports aftua’ly inverted,
even in which cafe vt fills bound to
luch ports ought not, they ac
knowledge, to be captured until
previotfiy warned not to enter
them i let the people know that a
violation of this plain principle was
acknowledged to be a grievtrice of
which the U-.ited States r.ad a right
to complain. This fimple docu
ment, and it is but one of a boft of
fluLbufn fafts, feiefteden account
of its peculiar application, has put
to roui ail the forces of thole prints,
which had as oiual at rayed thern
fdves in oppofitien to American
rights, and on the fide of European
dominion. They have not, with
but one or two exceptions that we
have feen, republifhed it, and it is
probable that they will nor, and for
the btft of reafons, that it falfifies
the uniform ttnor of rheir dTertions.
It ought *t here to pals unnoticed
that thefe editors muft wilfully have
abetted injuftice and encouraged
the inftruments of it, for they could
not but know of this dccifion of the
Britifh government in 1804, which
has been fubfequently dilregarded
in praftice.
We apprehend that if it fhall ap
pear, when the cfficial accounts
fhail be received, that the aft of
France is a bona fide tranfaftion, ac
cording to our law Great Britain
muft revoke her edifts, under what
ever name, violating our neutral
commerce, or by the operation of
the law we are placed in a ftate of
non-intercourfe with her.
There is but little doubt but G.
Britain will revoke her orders in
council, ifiued fubfequent to the
French decrees j but that is not
enough. Every violation of neutral
right is not an order in council, but
it is not therefore the itfs a viola
tion. If by a pertinacity in adher
ing to her infractions of national law
and neutral rights, fhe is placed in
a ftate of non-intercourfe with us,
it will be her own aft, deliberately
performed, with the law of the U*
nued State* before hci—a lav/ irre-
vocable too, becaufe it will have
been afted under in relation to one
of the belligerents, and could not be
repealed without fuch a breach of
good faith as the United States will
not be guilty of, whatever example
may have been fet by other na
tions.
Wafoingten City, OShber 12.
The following letters are we ua
derftand, duplicates j and to the
hurry in copying muft be attributed
the circurnftance of the letter from
Mr. Pinkney to Mr. Smith, and
thac from the Marquis Welle flay,
to Mr. Pinkney, appearing without
dates :
London,
Sir,
Lord Welle fiey font me,
yefterday, his anfwer to my note of
the 25th ult. refpcftsng the Berlin
and Malan decrees.
I haften to tranfmit a copy of it.
A copy fhall be fine without delay
to General Armftrong.
I have the honor to be, &c.
Wm. PINKNEY.
H&n, Robt, Smith, &c. &c, (Ac,
(copy).
Mr. Pinkney's letter to Lord IVelleJley.
Great Cumberland Place,
Auguft 2s, xSio.
My Lord,
I have the honor to ftate to your
Lordlhip that I have received from
General Armftrong, Minifter Plen
ipotentiary of the United States at
Paris, a letter, bearing date the 6th
inftant, in which he informs me that
the government of France has re
voked the decrees of Berlin and
Milan, and that he has received a
written and ( fficial notice of thac
faft, in the following words Je
fuis autorije a veus declarer , monfteur ,
que les Decrets de Berlin et de Milan
/out revenues, et qu’ a dater du 1 er.
Novcmkre Us cefferout d'avoir leur
ejfet."*
I take for granted that the revo
cation of the Britifh Orders in
Council of January and November
1807, end April 1809, and of all
other orders dependent upon, ana
logous to, or in execution of them,
will follow cf courfe; ar.d I fhall
hope to be enabled by your Lord
fhtp, with as little delay aspoffible,
£0 announce to my government that
luch revocation has taken place.
I have the honor to be, with
high confederation, My Lord,
Your Lordfhip’s moft obedient
humble fervant.
(Signed) Wm. PINKNEY,
ike moft noble
The Marquis IVelleJley , (Ac. Ac.
(copy.)
Lord Wellejley tet Mr, Pinkney .
Sir,
I have the honor to acknowl
edge the receipt of your letter un
der date the 25th inftant.
(Nd. 125.
On the 23d of February, 1809,
his Majefty’s minifter in America
declared to the government of tne
United States “ his majrfty’s ear
neft dtfire to fee the commerce of
the world reftored to thac freedom
which is neceflary for its profeerity,
and his readinefs to abandon the
fyftem, which had been forced upon
him, whenever the enemy fhculd
retraft the principles which had ren
dered itneceflary.”
I am commanded by his majefty
to repeat that declaration, and to
afiure you that whenever the repeal
of the French decrees fhall have
aftually taken effeft, ar and the com
merce of neutral nations fhall have
been rtftored to th-; condition in
whkh it flood previeufly to the
promulgation of thofe and crees, his
rsaj tty will feci the higheft fatisfac
tiun in relinqpifhirg a l’yftem, which
the conduft of the enemy compelled
him to adopt.
I have the honor to be, with ihe
h ; gheft confiderarionj fir, your moft
obedient ar.d humble fervant.
(Signed) WELLESLEY.
* u lam authorijed to declare to
you, fir, that the Decrees of Berlin and
of Milan are revoked, and that at the
date of thefirji of November they will
ceafe to have their effeft.”
NOTICE.
THAT after the expiration of
nine months from the date hereof,
application will be made to the
honorable Inferior court of Greene
county for leave to fell a traft of
land lying in Oglethorpe county,
on the waters of Little Falling
creek, adjoining George Willis’s
land, containing three hundred and
ninety-fix acres acres, it being the
eal eft i te of Nancy Cox Thrafher,
deceafed—to be fold for the benefit
of the heirs and creditors of faid
deceafed.
ISAAC THRASHER,
Adminiftrator.
March 22, 1810.
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NOTICE.
NINE months after date appli
cation will be made to the hono
rable the Inferior court of Clark
county, for leave to fell a part of a
traft of land with a fmall improve
ment, (the quantity of acres net
yet afeertained) on the Oconee ri
ver, adjoining William Strong, fen.
and others—to be fold for the bene
fit of the heirs and creditors of
Thomas Britton, deceafed,
WILLIAM EDWARDS,
GEORGE FARRAR,
Executors,
May 7, 1810.
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