Western Sun, Volume 4, Number 8, Vincennes, Knox County, 23 November 1811 — Page 4

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hv;; rfjc i:;:ivtal Intelligencer cj October 2J. We have received the London Courier, uf jailv couriered as the miuiUcrial print, ot tin; 71I1 ot September, from which we extract the following article : ' Dupuicvi;h sir.cridL t A cabinet council was held yeflcrday in pre fence of the prince recent, at which we underhand, it was determined to have immediate recourfo to the ' meafures of which the American government was warned by mr. Fofler a meafure of retaliation. When Bonaparte iifued his paper notice, declaring his decree repealed, the A merican "overnmenr nave us to the 2d ot tail February tp revoke our orders in council that is, three months polterior to the time when Bonaparte laid his decrees fhould be no longer in force. In the interval he took occaiion, more than once to declare jhat the Berlin and JSJilan decrees were the fundamen tal laws of the empire, and none of the American veffcls or cargoes fcized by Bonaparte, which ought in virtue of the prornifed revocation of his decrees, to have been reflored, were reHorcd, or indeed have been reflored to the prefenr moment. - Jt was named then for us to. prefs this upon the American govrernment, and to defire evidence from them, Hhat the decrees vvere repealed. To this, "the

only reply the American government could

or would make, was, that Bonaparte had declared his decrees repealed, and that they were bound to believe his declaration. The rejoinder to this on our part was irrefragable, that if a declaration is not acled upon, we are hound to confider it null and void, and to fnape our conduct as if it had never been iffued ; of courfe we declined revoking our orders in council. The American government then adopted the meafure of a non importation or non huercourfe act. Still we acted with forbearance ; and though they recalled the American minhier, we lent mr. Fofler. It might have been thought that this was Ihewing a fpirir of conciliation, and that the American government, who had received undoubted proof of the delufive condudt ot Bonapirte, would tread back their Heps with, reipcci to us. The blockade of 1806 no longer ifood in the way of adjufiment. This the American government have lately confelled. But we ft ill adhere to our orders in council, becaufe we found Uonaparte adheres to hie decrees. Give us but the proof that he has abandon ed them, and our orders in council arc no longer in force. But this nroof you cannot give, and your own fecretary of foreign affait s has openly declared (fee mr. Smith's pamphlet ) that the decrees have not been actually revoked, and that the mode only, and not the meafure has undergone an alteration. T he fidl thing mr. Smith did after the arrival Oi jhe Ftcnch envoy extraordinary, Surrurier (lre mr. Smith's p.unphet pge 14) was to propofb to the prehdent to put the following anKMw other qucfiions to him. " Were the lies lin and Milan decrees revo ked in whole or m part on the full of November, or h.ive they ar any time poilci ior to th it day hern io revoked ? Or have you in ftructions from your government to give to thir. government ar.y alfurancc or explanation in relation to th-M evocation or modification ot the decrees : 1 lU (jue'.ilon mr. Madifon would no: fuller to be put ; the reafon is obvious. But it is

enough for our purpofe to fhew that mr. S. j the American fecretary tor foreign affairs, felt that they were not revoked. With all

this evidence therefore, were we to revoke our orders in council Why what an imbe

cility and abfurdity (hould we have been guilty J of. You do not believe yourfelves that the French decrees are repealed, and yet you call j

upon us toacl as if they were repealed. Our courfe now was clear, diliinct and defined. You, the American government, cannot furnilh us with evidence that the French electees are repealed, we cannot thetore revoke our orders in council. And we call upon you to return to that (late or impartiality towards belligerents, which is the duty of a neutral France having Ihovvn that her revokation was a mere deluhon, we expect you will repeal that meafure of non importation which places us in a lefs favorable fituation than'France is quo ad you. If you do not, we mutt have re courfe to a mealure of retaliation. The American government is not difpofe.l to comply with our demand it is therefore determined upon that we lhall retaliateThe above explanation may not bedeem ed an unneceirary preliminary to what we have to announcethat an order of council is underftood to have been figned yefterday, prohibiting American velfels from entering Britifli ports, except Tuch as are laden with flour and wheat, and providing-that they lhall carry baclcjjtgoes confiding of the produce of this co?rftry or its colonies." Since receiving the above, New. York papers have cameo hand containing extracts from London prints to the 25th September. From the New York Gazette we copy the following: M Some of the London papers of the 4th and 5th dated, that an order iu cuuiii.il was figned axcabiuet meeting on the preced ing Friday prohibiting Amei ican veflels from entering Britilh ports, except fuch as were laden with flour and wheat, and providing that they fhould carry back cargoes of the produce of England. 1 his report occafioned confiderable agitation, and (tocks declined but the miniftenal papers of the 8th con -tradicl the above ftatement, and fay the report of retaliatory meafures againft the United States is abfolutely falfe." Our readers will combine thefe diredlly contradictory articles and take them at their current value. Not being able ourfelves to conjecture from any publications the iirkifh prints exhibit, what courfe that government is about to purfue, we wave all remark for the prefent on the above moft curious farrago from the Courier. If any thing however, is to be argued from thefe repeated annuncia tions of meafures, and fubfequent retractions of their aflertions by minitterial prints; a? in the cafe of fir Jofcph Yorke's fquadron, and the prefent cafe of the meafures of retaliation it is, that the cabinet of Great Britain is. as ofcillatinnr and indecifivc in 'determining on its policy relative to us, as ir has Jhcwn itielf alluming and abftird in its pretenfions, whenever its interefls have come in collifion with thofc of neutrals. There will not be wanting thofe who will believe, and with much rcalon too, that the order in council fo accurately defcribed in t!ie Courier might have been iflued at the time alledgcd, and this hinc thrown out in the

Courier to feel the public pulfe on the occafiou ; and that the immediate reduction of the price of (locks, exhibiting the popular feeling to be entirelv oppofed to the meafure, tlip council may have thot proper to revoke their order almott asJbon as it was iflucd. The ediror of the London Courier, fpeakiug of the ilylc of the American Journalifis calls it bastard cnojish.' This (ort oi reproach is rather furprifing, when it is confidercd that the Englifli were the

(cholarsot the Americans during the revoluiionary war. We taught' them orthography at Bunker's Hill, etymology at sararogy, syntax at Yorktqwn If they will come to school again, we can put them thro the dead languages. Virg. Argus. scoujiNG y At the fuperior court of Baldwin county, which fat aC Milledgeville laft week, a mrs, Palmer, who feems to have been rather glib of the tongue, was indidted, tried, convicted and in purfuance of the fentence of the courc was puniflied, being publicly ducked in the Oconee for fcolding! This is, we believe, the firtt inttance of the kind that ever occurred in this flafe and numerous fpeclatprs attended the execution of the lentence. Whether the rights of fcolding will be confidercd as infringed in this cafeor whether the 'unruly mem-, ber' will be boupd 'by it to its future good behavior, cannot now be known for the benefit of thofe particularly intercllcd we fhould like to fee the cafe ably fupporfedAugusta Herald. The model of mr. Wait's new invented Printing prefs; is completed, and has received the approbation of all who have beheld it. The blacking of the types, and the printing ne performed by c lenders, which with the tympan, frifket, occ. are all operated by machinery, to which motion may be given by a horfe, by (learn or by water. The fame power can work levera! prcflTcs. The only attention neecflary is that of a bd to each prefs, to place and remove the flieets. The apparatus on a fcale for hufmefsis expected to be completed iu a few weeks, Boz paper.

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