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POLITICAL MISCELLANY.
Impressment
The following article is extracted
from the evening Post of TfcOT, and
Is a perfect contrast to What now
and iily appears in that abandoned
print. It contains as a lucid view
of the principles contended for b>
•the ptesent administration—princi
ples which ate inherent in thg nation
al sovereignty, and for ‘which they
ought to nail the colors tb the masi,
-and resolve to sink rather ; thah aban
don them. ‘ln £6xloing they would
be supported by the people. Ts w<
are not mistaken, this article
written by Mr. Kufus King. But
be the author who he may 1 , he has ex
hausted the whole merits of the con
troversy about impressment. VVitn
him we unite in saying, •* WhiJt*
we would prefer peace with hono
let Us spurn it if connected with un
equal or degrading Conditions.’*
It is for maintaining similar sen
timents that Mr. Oliver Wolcott
has been turned out of office of pre
sident of the Bank of America. Fo
this he has been proscribed—brand
ed as ah apostate from
and publicly insulted. On evil time v,
indeed, are we fallen—wheri neither
age, nor eminent services nor exal
ted Virtues, can preserve from per
secution their possessor—merely be
cause they happen to be coupled
with American principles. But, it
is in vain that a purseproud party
nave endeavored t 6 put down this
gentleman; He rises above their
malice—and, in proportion as he is
hated by them, will be beloved by
ois country. Totally unknown to
Us, except in his public character, we
feel for him nothing more than sym
pathy Which iS ekcited in honorable
minds by the of injured
worth; Nor are we animated by
any thing like a party attachment
for him. Mr; Wolcott is riot of
>Ur fiolitical seat—but his creed is,
of that liberal cast, that we are com
pelled to confide in his sincerity—
and, as respects our national rights,
his views are stfictly republican.—
Nor is there any reason for stispect
ing his motives as
by pursuing the conduct he has
done, he has sustained a certain loss,
without any prospect of gain or ad
vantage whatever;
National Advocate*
From the Evening Post*
As Shimefu! attempts are making to dis
honor the United State*, by misrepresenting
the nature of our controversy with Great Bri
tain respecting seamen, the following summa
ry observations may be acceptable to sonic of
your readers
The British navigation act passed in the
reign of Charles 2d, requites that the master
and three fourths of the mariners of British
ships shalf be British subjects.
But this fundamental regulatiori is by a
statute of the thirteenth of Geo 2d, limited to
periods of peace- During any war in which
Great B itaiu is engaged, it is sufficient that if
the crews of her ships are composed of one
fourth native nr even naturalized mariners
Provision is even made for allowing a less
proportion than fourth in certain cases.
But though during war, no more than one
fourth of the crews of British ships are re
quired to be native British or even natural
ized sujects, yet ~at all times the principle of
the navigation law are enforced in respect to
«* foreign vessels trading to Great Britain.**
Those principles require that the “ master
and three fourths of the mariners shall be Sub
jects of the countries to which the foreign
vessel shall belong 19 ,
By a permanent statute, «« all foreigners
who served in the merchant ships or priva
teers of Great Britain, are exempted from be
ing impressed into the King’s service, and fur
their security are entitled to protection from
she admiralty * Vide 13 Geo 3d. * ‘
Foreign seamen who serve faithfully for
tWo years duringwar on board any public or
even private British ships, are by law deemed
“ natural bom subjects of Great Britain.**
Vide 13, Geo. 3d.
It will then be seen, what naturalizing sea
men and granting protections for the purpose
of detaching them from their natural allegi
ance are not as they, have been called « Amer
ican inventions.**
The impressment of seamen is contrary to
thegemiKnf the English law, a.id no such
rigtu 11 a» ever been vested by statute, though
us eaiyehce at common law may be inferred
from several statutes, hairing the exercise of
ATHENS', THURSDAY JUNE 16, 1814.
impressment. Seamen above $5 or under 18
■ ears of age, apprentices, ferrymen and fisher*
men. and a 1 ! persons of whatever age for two
ears after first going to are exempted
and entitled to protection No law (unless
‘••e has been recently enacted) haseVer exis
-rd f>r com;>eUing deserters to return to ser
vice except onl>oa£l ‘he kings ships. Brit*
vh sailors who have ever ,signed articles to
•erve in British merchants* ships', cannot be
compelled to a specific performance of their
•: infracts, and are only liable to . confinement
for a short time as a punishment for desertion
\ deserter from a foreign ship cannot be tr
rented in England on return to hit duty. <\ny
seaman may leave his service in a private ves
sel at any rime and enter on board a kings*
ship, without forfeiting bis wages or being
deemed a dcsener.
There is nothing in the British statures or
public regulations which coijg ‘nances the im
pressment of seamen from .oe Bri ish vessels
»n he high seas, knd no such r-.gh in respec
o foreign vessels is recognized by the law of
nations
rrom this representation, it ik evident that i
the British have no right to proclaim of our
laws, which, on the subject in Question, are
more liberal hail their own i nor ought any
modifies tion <if therh to be expected but Sole
ly on the ground of reciprocal benefit*
Phe former administration iffered th<* Brit
ish government a stipula - ion for the mu r ual
g iara itc-e ‘f all deserters > n condition that
rite} wo*d abstain fr< m imp* sbfnent* f>t>m <>ur
vessels on the high seas H the present ad
ministration haye made a rimiar offer, they
Va,ve done enough ; more ought hot to be con
■eded many event. A government which will
ior project the personal liberty if its subjects
i unworthy of support. ;
There is something inexpressibly disgusting
in the attempt now making to deceive the peo
pie by epresen ing this as a con oversy for
“he protection of British mutineers and desert
ers nothing more liberal was perhaps to be
pxpeced from certain mercenary minions of
British influence among us. (Let it be kept in
mind that this is from the Evening Post! !1)
hut / v tr»ericans ought to be ashamed rs such
base & unf u de l suggestion. On this 4 ques
on the', can find no room to hesitate wheth
er they shall support the cause of their country
to recommend k submission to . Hri'ish in
justice because our administration has submit
ted to French and punish injustice will be to
establish a principle which must in a few
years, deprive us of every Vestige of rights,
and place us humble slaves at the feet of some j
Usurper; No! While we would prefer peace
with honor let us spurn it if connected with
unequal or degrading conditions. Let us say
as the proud spirited Romans—- We wi I not
dispute about the qualifications of a master—
we will have no master.*’ .
CAMILLVS.
ERENCH NEWS.
PftOCLiMVIION
of rat crown prince or sw^oen*
Hanobcr y Feb . 6.
His royal highneis the Crown
Prince of Sweden has addressed the
following proclamation to the French
nation :
u Frenchmen 1 It is riot a stranger
who addresses you, but a man who
is bound by the dearest feelings to
your happy cduntry. To you he
owes his first fanie ; ydu have Seen
him defend your cause while it was
noble and just; you have seen hint
shed his blood with joy for his coun
try, when you fought for it; you
have seen him make all your wishes,
all your hopes, his own, and dkert
himself td make the French name
beloved even m the countries to
which he conducted his victorious
banners.
“ Frenchmen \ What has become *
of your inn umerable armies ? What
of your military glory ? Wnere are
those legions which were your pride; ■
and which seemed to secure your i
prosperity forever ? What Courge ■
nas carried them off? All are sunk
into a dreadful abyss. Ten years a- “
go your frontiers seemed to bid de
fiance to they are inva- ■
d*d—Europe admired you then—see ’
what you are How- When your eyes
overlook the globe; they can scarcely
discover a single friendly people, and ■
every where they meet with ooun*
tries which are the graves of thous
ands of Frenchmen. Jt
“Who is the author 6T so ifjqmy e 4
vils ? a idan who is not a Frenchman
by birth—by what ill fate is he be
come your master and scourge ? The
commencement ot his military career
was marked by a bloody scene in the
walls of Paris ; then you had to re
proach him with the death of lorty
thousand brave men, whom he meant
to sacrifice m anoihar part of tap
globe to his purpose of becoming
Emperor of the East. Deceived in
his nope, he left his army, and while
he s uttered his comrades to perish
in the burning deserts of Lydia, he
himself in ofder-to return to France,
violated the law of quarantine wmen
St Louis had observed*
“ Unnappily so many acts of vi
olence Were rewarded with the con
sular dignity, and soon |Uer the im
perial purple.
* Alter he had attained the su
fpreme power, he promised France
eternal repose, and Europe peace-
You believed him. What has he
done to fulfil yoUr hope ? Broken e
very treaty, as soon as he itn >de it.—
This pence maker of the world has
carried death and desolation into
Spain, and made you the Instilment
of its destruction.
. u You have seen how he sowed
the seeds of discord between the
father and son- how he then appear
ed in Bayonne as mediator, pi caus
ing in the face of Europe to allay the
quarrel which he himself had inflam
ed , and how often alledging the pe
ternal dignity and the respect due to
grey hairs, he fobbed both of thtir
dignity sending the one to pmon and
the other t 6 exile.
“ Europe Was Still silent Stupified
by so thany horrors, hut so far was
the patience of the princes and
people from satisfying the itrn ]
Whose yoke yon bear, that his hnnbi
t oil steals Only to be encrealed by
it. We saw him annihilate his own 1
Upon his allies iS upon |
ml enemieb'; tear one of his brothers
from the throne which he hud him*
self created ; rob another of part of
he dominions which he had given
him. We Saw how he made the in*
copdrUtion, the overthrow of one
country, follow that 6f another, and
in his convulsive rage rob Europe of
the last Illusion of a durable state,
With vi hfch it seethed t 6 console itse f
* At last he Was at the goal When
he left his dominions to lead the
French seven hundred leagues from
their country, and by ibis gigantic
enter prize realised all shat is “elated
of the conqueVors of antiquity. At
this period of adversity; when the
dawn of freedc m arose upon Europe ,
what did you think of him whd, al
ter Such Varicus rhiseriv Sand suffer
ings, Which he nad brought Upon the
finest army, left it ili the abyss of
desirueli oh, in o Whicu ife had plung- ,
‘cd it ? What did you say of the gend
er ii who thus betrayed his unhappy ■
solmers, and abandoned them lh
immense deserts of snow without
food, without clothing, without a
guide i
“Behold heft; the miserable re
mains oi art arniy. but lately so fine;
stretched out upon the ice, perishing
by the three-ibld death of cold, fam
ine and wounds \ bee the author of
all the sufferings of these Wretches;
renounce every sentiment of pity;
thinking only, oh his flight, he yet
Ventures to appear before you to de
mand f> dm you heW exfettions, nfcW
IcVies Os troOps.
‘ He ha& obtained btit too many;
v Again have two hundred thousand
Frenchmen perished', to drench with
their bldbd, the sbil of Gehnany
whose inhabitants loved the French
arid did hot resolve upon reVerige
until after thirteen years of ill treat
ment and disgrace; Divine justice
has baffled the last efforts of expiring
tyranny. The painful sacrifices you
have agaih made haVe not been able
to stop the progress of your rtiisfor
tilnes.
h Npw, Frehchmetl, Germany i&
free ; but Napoleon driven back to
the natural boundaries of yodr em
pire, will require froiti you new sa
crifices. To obtain them he Will tell
you that the allies intend to divide
France, and he who wished to bring
under his yoke all nations from Na
ples to Stock holm* from Lisbon to
Moscow, will talk to you of the
boundless ambition of his adversaries.
But yous reason will teach Who is
the author of the war ; whether it
IS he who without Emission carries
war to all countries and nations, or
those who have only repelled a hosi
tile attack and pursued the aggrel
sor.
“ The allies will not divide France.
They,desire it to be independent it*
self, and acknowledge the indepen
dence of all other nations. They
offer it peace ; they demand it be
cause the world requires, arid be
cause they make it their glory to end
the miseries of the world, Thejr
ask peace,Universally desired, they
demand it of the armies of the na
tion, exhausted in its population,
loaded with taxes, wounded in its
noblest feelings—robbed of its chil
dren, whose industry is fettered, and
who, since Napoleon has governed
it, has neither peace for the present
nor security for the future.”
•* Frenchmen l look around you—
the abyss # still open—the hand
which plunges into it is still lifted.
Shall it throw the last of you in i
Will you permit the whole popula
tion of your country to perish i
And do you njn perceive that- ridtn*
I io& can Letter the ui&tfftMfi in an
wk
&■> xrm
whorti fate has buried over you ? In
the wide circumference of the beau
tiful, once h *ppy France where ,is
the than Who enjoys his fivc'om, his
life, and whom the command> «>f
Napoleon have Wot leachtd ? Com
pel hitti then to conclude the peace
Which is required from you.
* v •» On the other hand, should the
dreadful evils which redlt from &
tyrannical goveihmetU prevent the
French people ahtl its arWiits f»n'Wk
declaring for peace, the allies must
lament that they cattnot reach the,
oppressor of 1 raVc'e, bVn through a
people Whnfti they esteem and evert
Chert theiv . motto will be—War
with the Corsican, inviolaoilit v of
territory, peace *pd friendship wurt
delivered France.*’
PROCLAM ATI ■)N IN THE
... MAME OF I'HE KINO.
The “Duke. D* Angbde me to the F’ cnch
Army.
. Soldi kr $ I—l aM al rived—l ant
in France—in that,France o dear
to me !—1 come to b'rtak your fet
ters ; I come so lib fold the white
standard— That spotl'esi standard;
which your lathetolliwed ,with
transport—really tumid it brave
Frenchmen*, and let us ail mu»ch td
the overthrow of tyranny*.
tienerals, Officers and soldiers,
who- shall Vange yourselves s under
the ancient bander of the Lilly;
in the hame of the King, my usicle,
who has charged me “to mate known
to you his paternal intcii ions, [
guarantee your rank, your pav; vour
rewards proportioned to the fidelity
Os your services.
French soldiers, it is the grandson
of Henry IV. it is the husband of a
Princess Whose miseru sa e Unequal
led, but wiiosi- wisiK-s are lot tue
good of France ; it is a Pi ince;. for
getting liis afflictions, as tus King
has don£,tb thirty only of yours, who
comes to thtou hittvseif into your
arms.,
Soldiers iny hopes are not deceiv
ed ; Fam the son oli your Kings;
and you are Frenchmtn.
LOUIS ANTOINE.
S , y• • » . |
. By order of hiS foval Highness,
Count EFIENNL DE lIAMAS;
St. Jean dt Lux , i \tn Feb,
Boston, May 16.
hems of Neivs by the Ida,
AtcoUrits from Paris, subsequent
tb its belrig In possession of t ie \|J
lies; said that the most perlcct or
der Was perserved and private propj
brty strittly respfetted.
About 30 tk)o of the Nat oh 4
Guard Were at Paris, at the time
Gen; BlUcher marched against it;
blit refused io oppose him, saving
the Empress and Court had deserted
them; ,
. The National Guard at Paris con
tinued to do duty with the allied
forces, after they bfltered that city;
—The defences of Paris previous td
its capture Wife very feeble.
, There had been no mail at Rochelle
from Paris frir several days; but sta-,
ge£ had comb from tHe vicinity of
that city dnd brought passengers*
who fled from it as the allit* Were
entering;
Soult and S\itbet Had form
ed a junction. In tHe ldst defeat df
the former a great ridfliber of Fteribh
officers Were killed, including three
generals, one belonging td Bor
deaux. -
It is Said that Soillt’si forcb was
inferior to Lord and
was surrounded, bdt the re mams of
his army ctit their way thrdiigh and
escaped. Soult and niS troops were
much praised by the British for the
bravery they displayed;
British and Portuguese troops
were known to hate advanced up
wards of 8t) miles bn the road fr iu
Bordeaux to RocHefort, taking p s
session of the intermediate place ■
The men hf War at Rochefort and
bfeen moved up the river and t ir
crews taken to assist in the deft e
of the place, it was reported hut
the siege Was commenced.
Bordeaux was surrendered to Louis
Xv 111; and the white flag alone was
exhibited. *The Duke of Augou
leme was there, and frequently at
tended at the i heatie. wnerc tie
was received with acclamations, and
his box dressed With Bourdon co
lors
Lord Wellington had not entered
Bordeaux, on account it was said,
t*i a wound he had received in one
oi hi* knees, uy a iuu«r»tt b*M* iauiO
USt ACUOU*
