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July 5 tf
i MR. GROSVENOR’S SPEECH
ON
Mm. Webster** Resolutions
CONTINUED.
yr. Speaker—After the first of No
vember, after the official proclamation
of the President had, in the face ot the
world, pronounted the Berlin and Mi
Ian decrees repealed or modified, so as
no longer to violate the neutral com
merce of America* American vessels
were captured on the sea and seized in
France under these very decrees ; were
prosecuted under these very decrees. Sc
never released from the grasp of these
decrees, until late in the year 13 ! 1 ; and
even then, not released by virtue ot the
Duke of Cadore’s pretended letter of re
peal^ hut in consequence oi special or
ders of the emperor, founded on the act
of Marcl) 1811, which confirmed the
proclamation ol the president, and esta
blished a non importation act against
England. If this deposition be true all
doubt is at an end. For, fully, or pre
judice iuclt cannot believe, that those
■ vessels were seiz'd and held nearly a
year under decrees which were not in
existence. They cannot believe, that
the courts of Fi>r.ce could act upon and
enforce laws which a year before h .d
been repealed and extinguished by the
government. I will read to the house
one case selected a1* a fair specimen of
numerous others. It is the case of toe
New Oilcan's packet, detailed in a letter ,
from Mr. Russel to the Secretary of
Sta’e, dated the 9lh of June, Ibl K i hat
vessel arrived in France on the 3d ot
December, more than a month alter the
proclamation of the President had been
issued. Mr. Russel states, tl at “on
the 5th of December,the dilector of the
customs, at Bordeaux, seized her and
her cargo under the Milan decrees ot
the S3d of November, and 17ch of 11c- j
remlw*r. 1K<)7 cvnrvsslv set forth tor h‘i* i
* 'I /
vir.g come horn an English port, ami tor
having hcen visited by an English vessel
ot war ** The proclamation of the pre
sident arrived in France, and was reeelv- j
ed by Mr. Russel on the 13th ot the j
same month I la had on the 10th pre- |
sented n remonstrance against the pro- l
ceeding and kept back the proclamation
— For what purpose did he thus act ?—
To test the question, he says, whether
the French decrees were in truth re
voked To have used the proclamation
he says, “ would be nothing better than
absurdity and basely employing the de
claration ot the president, that the Ber
lin and Milan decree* had bem revoked
as the means ot obtaining their revoca
tion ** He therefore kept it back, to as
certain, “ whether the American/ go
vernment had been shuffled i,Mu. the
lead, where national honor and the law
required it to follow/* He thd keep
back the proclamation, and the question
was decided—his remonstrance was dis
regarded For he s v». that ’be pro
cess verbal issued after his renu i»st« j»cc
was presented, expressly dec) .*es tlvt j
the confiscation of tins prop*' ’y w;ia to j
be pursued before the imperial council 1
of piizes at Paris, according to the de- j
crecs of the 23d ot November and the j
17th of December, 1807, or in other j
words t tie decrees of Berlin and Milan.”
His remonstrances having effected no
thing, Mr. Russell did proceed, “ab
surdly and basely/* to use the proclama
tion. He communicated it to the french
government, on the 17th oi tee same
month, and he says from this ve*y l?th
of December “ all furt! -r proceedings
against the New Orleans *4 packet were
suspended ’*
These are the facts, and what is the
inference cl this honest and inaepenatni
minister. “ It appears, thei elorc, “ that
the remonstrance ot the 10th ot “ De
cember arrested the proceedings “ com
plaint d ot ” &c.
Now sir, it appears to wf, that a more
barefaced perversion ot tacts was never
admitted by any minister. '1 he remon
strance produced no effect whatever —
Until the 17th, when the proclamation
was presented, the 44 vessel was vigor
ously prosecuted.”—From that moment
all further proceedings against the New
Orleans packet were suspended.” 1 hat.
instrument alone, arrested “ the pro
ceedings complained of,” not only a
gainst the New Orleans packet, but all
other vessels which had been captured
alter the first of November. T his is cte- i
monstrated by an order issued by the j
Ftench government to the president ot
the council of prizes, on the 25th ot De
cember, exactly eight days after the
proclamation had been communicated
by Mr Russell—suffer me to read an
extract from that order.
*4 In consequence of this engagement
entered into by the government of the
United Slates to cause their rights to
be respected, his majesty orders, that all
the causes that may be pending in the
council of prize*, of captures of Ame
rican vessels, may after the 1st of Nov.
am! thfisethat may in future be brought
btU/re it, sha!! nut bt> judged according
to the principles of the* dtcites of Ber
lin and Milan—but that they shall remain
»u*pcmled; the vessels captured and
seized to remain only in a state of se
questration, until the 2d of February
next, the period at which the U. States
having fu{filled th‘e engagement to cause
their rights to be respected, the said
captures shall be declared null by the
council, and the American vessels re
stored, together with their cargoes, to
their proprietors.”
No language can add to the force of
this extract—-It Tecognizes the Berlin
and Milan decreet; aa existing against
America. In consequence of the “ e :
gagement contained in the proclamation,
it suspends all proceedings against »u»
vessels, and says, when that 44 engage
ment” shall be u Fulfilled’* the vessel*
shall be restored. That engagement
was fulfilled by the law of the 2d ot
March, 1811, which I have already stal
ed, confirmed the proclamation of the
president, and established a non-impor
tation act against England.
• On the 28th of April, 18U, the
French tyrant issued his repealing de
cree—-I will read it to the house :
[ Translation.]
Pai.ace ok St. Ci.oud.
28th of April, 1811.
A'afioleorty Eni/ieror oj the bvench^ iT'c.
On fhe report of our minister of f»r
eign relations:
Seeing by a law passed on the 2d of
M irch, 1811,-the congress of tha United
State* has ordered the execution of the
provision^ of the act of .non-intercourse,
which prohibits the vessels and mer
chandize of Great Britain, her colonies
and dependencies, from entering into
the ports of the U. States.
Considering that the *>id law is an act
of resistance, to the arbitrary preten
sions consecrated by the British orders
in council and, a f*trqrial refusal to ad
here to a svstem invading the independ
ence of neutral powers and o! their flag;
we have ordered and do decree as fol
lows :
The decrees of Berlin'^nnd Milan arc
definitively and u> date from the 1st No
vember lr.st, considered as not existing
in regard to American vessels.
(Signed) NAPOLEON.
By the emperor.
The minister secretary of str^e.
(Signed) The Count Daku.
This decree is in perfect conf rr iiv
to every act or proceeding i*l thehrench
government. it iuhihou me
mode bv the Duke of Cadorc, in his let
ter of the 5th August. America by the
proclamation, and by the law of March
18H b id resisted England ; and virtual
lv declared rear against her—she has ful
filled the conditions presented in that
letter, in consideration (f which the re
pealing decree of France was issued.—
.Whether that decree was issued at the
time it bears date, or whether by collu
sion with Mr. Barlow, it was antedated,
is of no importance—in either emo it
exhibits the true meaning ot a!i the acts
of F.tance which preceded it. It proves
the falsity of the President's proclama
tion—the fatal error of the law of Match
and demonstrates that the American
President was the dupe of the tyrant,
that “he was shuffled into the lead
where national honor and la"- required
tlmt he should follow.
A have said if the French repealing
decrees had been inedc known to the
Cong**,.**, to the American people, and
to England, in the spring of 1311, it
would have’ prevented the present dis
astrous war—permit me now to prove it.
Front the date of the Presidcrt's procla
mation, clown to the very declaration of
war, our government t .ok the ground
that the French decrees were in truth
repealed, by the letter of the Duke lie
Cadorc, on the 5th of August preceding
_and upon this basis demanJed the re
vacation of the British orders in council,
Britain, denying that Cadorc** letter
was any repeal or modification, demand
ed the instrument of repeal issued by the
Emperor as the only ground on which
ahe would revoke her oid^rs. Neither :
the French or the American govern*
n.n.., n..nln»/lnil I ! . •! r jit uV ft/ 1H /»»» t
was in existence—hut the latter govern
ment, deceived by the arch juggler, as
sumed the fact, and founded thereon
hostile proceedings against /England.—
If the dectee had been published, it
would have been impossible that the
vile deception could longer have been
cherished by either government, and
congress would have boen forced by
very shame, to have retraced their steps
—to have rescinded the proclamation,
to have repealed the law ot March, and
to have placed the country on the same
ground w hich she occupied in May
1810. wav with England could wot
then have followed—unless indeed the
administration had been prepared open
ly to ahnulon u\\ those principles of
“ natiwai honor, national independence,
national justice,” and national policy
which they hue! adopted in the session of
isoe.
Yes, sir, even though the British or
ders had remained unrepealed and un- i
modified, the publication of that decree
would have cut the “ gordian knot,” re
leased this country from the toils ot tIve
tyrant, and have averted, perhaps fore
ver, this unnatural war. But suppose
in this lam mistaken, yet, have we not
reason to believe, that if the French re
pealing decree had been known to Eng
land, she would have modified her or
ders in council, and continued peace
would have been the consequent
Surely it is preposterous to pretend, if
those orders had been revoked, that yet
war would have been declared 1 he
very revirse is proved, by all tbs acts
of our government. In the mes**ge of
the President at the commencement ot
the war session of congress, the “ or-.
tiers in council” are the burthen of the
complaint—impressment is' not even
mentioned. In all the correspondence
between the two governments, which
preceded the war, the “orders in coun
cil^ constitute the grwt topic of discus
sion.
In the correspondence which com
menced between Mr. Foster and Mr.
Monroe on the 30th ol May, 1813, end
continued almost daily down to the aery
declaration of war, the repeat of the or
ders in council was the only subject ot
discussion—and that alone was demand
ad, as a sine qua non to a restoration of
a ' friendly intercourse. Impressment,
though always a subject of difference.
between the two nations, had ncvcr.been
by our government, for a moment con
sidered as a sufficient cause of war.
Hence, in the arrangement with the
British minister, Erskine. not a word is
said, not a stipulation turtle on that sub
ject. Tlence, i < all the correspondence
which immediately preceded the war,
the subject of impressment is raiely if
ever mentioned—and hence, in this
house and the senate, the act declating
war passed upon the sole, but delusive
ground that France had modified or re
pealed her decrees, end that England
refused to revoke or modify Uer orders
Let me appeal to the members of this
house who voted tor the war, would they
have dared to have done that deed, upon
the subject of impressment alone ? T
am sure they would not—I speak not
from persona! knowledge—I speak from
oil that preceded, that accompanied and i
that followed that dreadful measure.—
The subject of impressment was never
swelled into that h (eou* form it now
wears; it never became u a dog of war,”
until when the orders in council were
revok'd and an armistice demanded by -
E ngland, it was dragged forward to re
pel the firm and and t» justify the admi
nistration for •{ wading deeper and deep
er in bl«o<*l ” But, let gentlemen on
this tlovr answer what they will, of this
lam certain*, the peopled this country
would ncvci have joined in the quixotic
expedition. The* rant of * free trade
and sailors rig is,” hcoul only in the
woods of the west, where no trade exists
« M .1 n !>n f/tim/l /v f i n 1 /1 n n t
Ci 141 * riy o'iii/' v w iwwi.»4y
have drowned the voice of commerce,
o! agriculture, of Justice and of peace.
Let gentlemen on this floor answer what
they may, I tell them they could not,
they durst not have plugged this nat'on
into war, if the British orders in council
had been repealed or modified . But
those orders would have been repealed
or modified, if the French decree had
not been concealed.
On this subject no doubt can exist.
And never was I more astonished, than
when l yesterday heard the hon. gentle
man from South Carolina, (Mr. Calhoun)
deny this position Upon what grounds
does he place this denial ?—First, upon
the IctterscfMi. Fester to Mr Monroe,
which preceded the war. Sir, that cor
rer-pondti.ee I have perused, and a more
singular, equivocal, weak and indistinct
correspondence I have never seen. It
i - undeniable that, in some paragraphs of
Foster’s letters, abstracted from the resi
due, something Fke ;‘he position of the
hon. gentleman may he found. Bu*. c
ven tnose, abstracted from the rest, u^c
declared by' Monroe himself) to be o
(jiiivocal. The whole correspondence
clr .rly prove*, that Mr. Foster.never in
tended to declare, St never did definitive
ly dech^e^ that if an authentic instru
ment, repealing the French decrees, so
far as thev violated the neutral com
merce of Antc ica, should be produced,
England would n >t revoke her orders in
a similar manner. On tin* contrary, he
throughout, disputed even the fiurtial rr
fiec.l of the Ft ench d; crocs ; and savs the
question whether England would re
voke as to America, was premature, and
cimiI’I ft}jr-iitci'il 1m tif, luirnnsp until
Ainsrira should /reduce an authentic in
strument of refieal.
Iu the l ist I ttcr which he wrote to
Mr. Monroe only four days before the
final passage of the ant, declaring w ar,
he avers that his preceding letters had
been misunderstood, anti misconstrued
and f.nnllj declares—*; I will now say,
that 1 feel entirely authorised to assure
you, that if you can at any lime, produce
a full and unconditional repeal of the
French decrees as you have a right to
demand it in your character of a neutral
nation, and that it be disengaged from a
ny connexion with the question concern
ing our maritime rights, we shall be
ready to meet you with a revocation of
the Orders in Council.”
However, then, in the course of Mr.
Foster’s letters, some paragraphs may
he selected, which, uncopncclcd with
what preceded and followed, might
prove the position of the hon. gentle
man, it is clear to me, that whenvictvcd
as a whole, they neither p'rave or sup
port it. I might demonstrate this, hy
wading paragraph by-paragraph, through
the whole correspondence. But this I
snail omit, both because\hc hon. gentle
man Iron* S. Carolina hr.s pieced blit
little reliance upon- the letters cf Mr.
Foster, and because, in truth and in fact,
they have but little bearing upon the
question. What is the question ? If
the Frcnch^repealiog decree of April,
1811, had been made known to England
I at its date, would she have revoked her
order? as related to America ? Mr. Fos
ter’s letters can weigh but little, be
cause at the very time they were will
ing, that decree was before the English
government, and that government tt-u*
then deciding the very question. Of
course, and most certainly, we are not
to look to the letters of Foster, to decide
the question, but to the acts of the go
i vernment itself. The gentlemrn from
South-Carolina, aware of this, ha9 resort
ed to sn act of the government—tv the
• -j v*.
declaration of the Prince Uegcr.f,isS^
the 21st of April, 1812. On that ^
he has planted himself With a viclefiCf ^
and in a manner but little becoming ^ "
situation on this floor, ana in languid
both improper and indtcoroi.s, he hat .
vowed, that in that paper U contai- -• .
express avowal) that il although Krtf . sM
should repeal or modify her decri es.
as that they should corse to violate
neutral commerce, the English Kf>v<.!,T$®l
mem zveuid not repeal or ntoday it>s0r'- v f
tiers in the 9< itir manner ”
[Here M. Bibb, then in the chair, ca'J.i .{
id Mr. G. to order. He staid it wasfli«£
orderly to apply the epithet “ iiKhrjP*^
rr<us,** to any gentleman on that f! ,or^ ^
Mr. CslhoiiH then rose and sa:rj, hr 3
should say nothing then—but would re.^.JS
plv to Mt G.J
Mr G.— I liave in my opinion describ. . *
cd 44 the language’* of the hon. gentle, jjhflj
man correctly. 1 have said no
than I /understood the hon. gentleman to^c|
admit in his explanation when called t0^
order b; a gentleman from New Jersey,m-?}
(Mr. Stockton)—But I bow to the
monition of the ctyair.
Speech to 'hr continued,
—•: -:‘r -
NEW-YOKE, July 6,
Yesterday arrived at this p#rt, the
cartel ship. Magnet, (’overdale, 9 '
days from Bermuda with 187 pas- ;
seegers, bring all the Amerieun pri
soners at Bermuda—Atuong the pns
sengcr slure Captains Brigham, Fora
sytbe, Exley. Fearing, Dameron,
Atwood, Hart, Socth worth, Sand
ford and Taylor. The ships Gover
nor Strong, Emily and Holla, from
Virginia, had arrived at Bermuda,
tinder convoy of the Funton»e. The
Caledonia, from CharMon, and Eli
zabetli, from New-Orleans, both of r
New-York, wero still at Bermuda,
and others before reported. On Sa
turday last spoke a Swedish sloop
20 days from Jamaica for Bath; *
—informed that Americau produce
was pleuty on that Island.
BOSTON. July 3.
Arrived, ship Frederick Augus
tus. F.hired, 8 days from Halifax, in
ballast. Spoke nothing and saw no
cruizers. No vessels had been sent
in since the Porcupine. She wae
chased upwards of 100 bourn by the
Valiant 7 4. and Acasta frigate, be
fore they captured her—was out 40
days from Bayonne for Boston, with
a verv valuable cargo. Sailed in
company with the La Hogue 74
hound on a cruise in Boston Bay, as
was said. Passengers, Lieutenant
Wm. C. Cox; Surgeon B. C. Ed
gar; Chaplain Sami. Livermore;
Surgeon's Mate Wm. Swift,•Mid
shipmen Win. A. Weaver, Win.
Berry, and Francis Nicholas, and 56
seamen, of the late Chesapeake fri
gate, and 16 others of different ves
sels sent into Halifax—4o(u! 76.
The officers inform us that the pri
vateer Young Teazer, Capt. Dobson,
of New-York, bad declared all Ha
lifax in a state of blockade ; and that
Capt. Dobson bad sent in a chal
lenge to Capt. Clijipel of the La
Hogue. 7i. Two di.ys before, the
Young Teazer was chased into Ha
lifax Py the Sir John Sherbroke.—
When inside the Light House, she
hoisted English colon; over Ameri
can, and was chased oetuly up <o the
forte, when the Sir «T. Sherbroke
supposing her to he a prize* hove
about and stood to sea again on her
cruise—immediately after her being
out of sight, the Young Teazel* down
English and up American colors,
stood out again and went to sea with
out any molestation. There had
been no late arrival at Halifax from
England; and Halifax papers to the
2jth have been received, but they
contain nothing new of consequence.
Richard Hoffman, a wounded sea
man of the. Chesapeake, died the lit
inst. on his passage.
There were but 2 or 3 Halifax
papers received—were there any ex
tracts that would He of consequence
to you I would with pleasure copy
them—but there are none.
WASHINGTON CITY, July 8.
Copy of a letter from Mujor~Genrral
Dearboru to the Secretary at /far,
" dated, '
Hr ad Quarters,
Fort GVorjr, June 25t/i, 181®.
Sir—I hare ti c mortification of in
forming you of an unfortunate and un
accountable cvent which occurred rrs
terelay. On the 2:>d a< o cuing, L e nt.
Col. ilccrstlcr,. with 570 men, itiiaiury,
artillery, cuvaby and T-iflcir.cn, in due
proportion, was ordered to maroh by the
way of Qui-enslt n, In r place called the
Beaver D?n>s. on the high ground, a
bout 8 or 9 miles from Queenstown, to
attack and disperse a body of the enemy*
collected there for the purpose of pro
curing provisions and harassing those
inhabitants who are considered friendly
to the United States. Their force was
from the most direct information, com
posed of one company of the 104th regt.
above 80 strong; from 150to 2t>0 mili
tia, and from 50 to 60 Indians. At eight
r