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promises, and in short, that we have not revoked or softened the rigor of any part of our orders. It has in a word been shown, that while they, in consequence of the remonstrances of America, have ceased to violate her neutral rights, we persevere in such violation. The pretext for this was, at first, that the emperor Napoleon, though he said he had revoked his decrees, had not done it, and meant not to do it. This, may it please your royal high- ness, was, it appears to me, a very strange kind of language to use to- wards other powers. It was treating the American government as a sort of political idebt. It was telling it that it did not understand the interests of America, and that it was unworthy to be entrusted with power. And it was saying to the emperor of France, that he was to be regarded as shut out of the pale of sovereigns ; that he. was on no account to be believed ; that no faith, was to be given to the oflicial communication of his ministers, or of any persons treating ia his name. Thus, then, the door against peace, a- gainst exchange of prisoners, against a softening of the rigors of war in any way or in any degree, was forever bar- red ; and the termination of war was, in fact, made to depend upon the death of Napoleon. But this pretext could not last long ; for the decrees were actually revoked ; the revocation went into effect; and those decrees arc now wholly dead as to any violation of the neutral rights of America. It was therefore neces- sary to urge some new objections to the revocation of our orders in coun- cil ; and it is now said, that Mr. Fos- ter has demanded, that as a condition of the revocation of our orders in coun- cil, the French shall revoke all the commercial regulations which they have adopted since the orders in coun- cil were issued ; that is to say, that Napoleon, shall give up what he calls the continental system, & admit Eng- lish goods into the continent of Europe. I do not say, may it please your roy- al highness, that Mr. Foster has been instructed to make such a demand : I state the proposition as I find it des- cribed in our own public prints ; but this I can have no.hesitation in saying, that a proposition so replete with proof of having flowed from impudence and ignorance the most consummate is not to be found in the history of the diplo- macy of the universe. The govern- ment of America can have no right whatever to interfere with the internal regulations, of the French empire or of any other country ; and the continen- tal system, as it is called, consists merely of internal regulations. These regulations have nothing at all to do with the rights of neutrals ; thej- do not violate in any degree any of those rights ; and therefore America cannot, without setting even common sense at defiance, be called upon to demand an abandonment of that sj-stem. But, sir, perm;t me to stop here, & to examine a little into what that sys- tem really is. h forbids the importa- tion into the empire of Napoleon and »he states of his allies any article being the manufacture or produce of Eng- land or her colonies. This, in a few words, is the continental system. And your royal highness certainly need not be reminded, that it is a system which has been very exactly copied from the commercial code of England herself. Your royal highness's ministers and many members of Parliament have spoken of this system as the effect of vindictiveness on the part of Napole- on ; as the effect of a mad despotism, which threatens Europe with a return of the barbarous ages ; but I see no- thing in this system that has not long made a part of our own system. It is notorious that the goods manufactured in France are prohibited in England ; it is notorious that French wine and brandy arc forbidden to be brought hither ; in short, it is notorious that no article being the manufacture or produce of France is permitted to be brought into England ; and that sei- zure, confiscation, fine, imprisonment and ruin attend all those who act in in- fraction of this our commercial code. This being the case, it docs seem to require an uncommon portion of im- pudence or of self conceit to demand of the Americans to cause the conti- nental system to be abandoned as a condition upon which we are willing to cease to violate their rights. But it has been said that Napoleon enforces his system with so much rigor and barbarity. This does not at all alter the state of the case between us and America, who has no power, and if she had the power, who has no right to in- terfere with his internal regulations. Yet, sir, it is not amiss to enquire a little into the fact of this alledged bar- barity of Napoleon. All rulers are content with accomplishing their ob- ject ; and in this case it would not be his interest to inflict greater penalties than the accomplishment of his object required. Our own laws against smuggling are not the mildest in the world ; and we have seen them har- dened by degrees, till they answered the purpose that the government had in view. We have been (old, indeed, that Napoleon punishes oftvnees a- gainst his commercial code with enor- mous fines, with imprisonment, and we have heard of instances where he has resorted to the punishment of death. These severities have been made the subject of most grievous complaints against him here; they have bro't down upon him reproaches the most bitter; tiny hive been cited as proofs indubitable of the intolerable despotism under which his people groan. But, sir, I have confidence enough iuyoyr justice and magnanim- ity to remind you, that there is nothing which his commercial code inflicts ; that there is nothing in any of the pun- ishments that even rumor has convey- ed to our ears ; no, nothing in any of these surpassing the severity; nay, nothing in them equalling in severity, the punishments provided for in the commercial code of England, having for their object, towards France, pre- cisely that in view which the continen- tal system has in view towards Eng- land; namely, her embarrassment, and finally her overthrow. Li support of this assertion I could cite many passages in our statute book ; but I allude particularly to that which was passed in the month of May, 1793, at the breaking out of the war against the republicans of France. That act which appears to have been drawn up by the present lord chancel- lor, makes it high treason, and pun- ishes with death, and also with for- feiture of estates, all those persons re- siding or being in Great Britain, who shall have any hand whatever, either directly or indirectly, in selling any goods (mentioned in the said act) to the French government, or to any body residing in French territories. This act punishes in the same awful man- ner, any one who bhall send a bank note.- to any one residing in the French territory, or shall have any hand in the most distant manner in causing such notes to be sent. It punishes in the same manner any person residing or being in Great Britain who shall have any hand in purchasing any real pro- perty in any country under the domin- ion of France ; and it extends its ven- geance to all those who in the most distant manner shall have any hand in such transaction. This act is the 27! h chap, of the 3Jd year of the reign of\ George the 3d ; and I have never sren and never heard of any act or edict that dealt out death and destruction wiih so liberal hand. It w»s said at the time, by the pre- sent lord chancellor, and by the great- er part of those men who compose your royal highness's ministry, that this act, terrible as it was, was de- manded by the safety of the nation. This Mr. Fox denied, and he strenu- ously labored to prevt-nt the passing of an act so severe. I hhall offer no opin- ion upon this matter ; but it is certain that the code of Napoleon is not, be- cause it cannot, be more terribly se- vere than this act ; and this being the case, common decency ought to re- strain those who justified this act from uttering reproaches against the author of the continental code. Our govern- ment then said that the act of 1793 was necessary in order to crush the revolution that had reared its head in France, and that was extending its principles over Europe. They justi- fied the act upon the ground of its ne- cessity. So does Napoleon his code. He says that that code is necessary to protect the continent against the mari- time despotism and the intrigues of England. His accusations against us may be false, but he is only retorting upon our accusations against Franre ; and between two such powers there is nobody to judge. In truth our gov- ernment passed its act of 17!P3, be- cause it had the will and the power to pass and to enforce it ; Napoleon has established fiis continental s3 - stem, be- cause, he also has the will and the pow- er. It is to the judgment of the world that the matter must be left, and I be- stch your royal highness to consider, that the world will judge of our con- duct according to the evidence which it has to judge from, and that that judgment will leave wholly out of view our interests and our Immoss. (To be continued. J PLATTSUURGH, , DECEMBER 27, 1811. BULLETIN EXTRA. It. Q. November 29, 1811. The w •• between our vigilant cus- tom-house officers and British goods is prosecuted with spirit and warmth. A few days since a strong squadron of Rum riflemen capitulated. And yes- terday they obtained a victory over a corps commanded by gen. Broadcloth, although he was covered by some flunking parties of Salt-Fish. The enemy was well concealed by hogs- heads; but after a struggle surrender- ed. A few of gen. Broadcloth's corps endeavored to escape through an auc- tion-office, but were discovered by our foragers and sharp shooters, and bro't in. In these grand uffaiis we suffered not even a scratch—but the booty ta- ken by our god'of'war men is estima- ted at about 30,000 dollars. Boston Centinel. OGDENSBURGII, NOT. 5. THE GALE. The weather has been unusually tempestuous this autumn. On Sun- day the 20th of October, it blew a tre- mendous gale, from the south-west, which it was feared would have been attended with very calamitous conse- quences to the craft plying on Lnke Ontario, and the neighboring waters. We are happy to learn those fears have not been realized to any great extent, though some blight casualties have occurred. Oiie of the Ogdensburgh vessels, the schooner Collector, capt. Dixan, on her passage from Oowego hither, was on that day, with the loss of some of her deck load, obliged to put into Socket's Harbor, where parting a ca- ble, she was driven among breakers situate at the base of some high and perpendicular ro^Ls, into a very dan- gerous position. The injury sustain- ed however, we understand, was trivi- al ; but to the prompt and gallant ex- ertions of captain Wolsey, and oilier?, it may, under providence, be Curly attributed, that it ujsnot more serious. By means of ladders, pl.iccd against the shrouds from the n;i'k<», she was boarded, and soon placed in .safety. In noticing 'lie iiui.lriit, ivt art au- thorised, and reqin •.•••(! In- the more immediately concr.m 1 , Mi y,p., Jo- seph Kosseel, and C\>. of this place, thus publicly, to tender di ii best ac- knowledgments lo'.;'!>i :n Wi Key, the officers and crew, if tin- U. Sr.ites* BrigOnekla ; to Mr. Win. V.ujghan, and the other inhahit.inrs of S.u.ka'a Harbor, for the very batulvmc assis- tance, so kindly given, in rcs< wing the schooner and creir from their perilous situation.— TALLADIVM. We learn that letters from Vin- cennes announce the return to that place of the U. States' troops and vol- unteers who were present at the late engagement near the Prophet's town. It is not understood that the Indians made the least attempt to impede their return. Indeed their complete dispersion, and the loss they encoun- tered on the field of battle,' probably put it out of their power. A letter from an officer in Colonel Boyd's regiment of reguUrs, states that the officers and men, lolunlecrs as well as regulars, display d gieat bravery and determined courage. The loss of the regular troops is said to have been, including the wounded that have died since the battle, about U0 killed and 57 wounded.— Nat. Intel/. From St. Louis, we have informa- tion thac attempts are making by the Indian Prophet and his allies to stir up the western and nurthern Iwli.ins to acts of hostilities again.it the U. S.jitcs; and we are told from another quarter that the emihsarirs of the Pi optic nre even at work umoiig the Ch. nik cs, Chactaws, Chkkesi'ws ami (.recks : with whom some difficulties have ari- sen on account of our opening n road through their country.—Plebeian. Aaron Burr is said to have landed in England, from an American cartel bound from the Text! to Boston. QJ-JlTTEXTIOJf ! The Ojfiecr8 belonging to Major THO- MAS MILLER'S Uqdm-nl, 'will Ren- Aexmans at the Ujsiosr-C'onrBB-IIofsB, in the Village of Vlultsburs;h, on the t>nen- leenlh day of January next, at ten o'clock in the forenoon. By order of Major TllOfi. MILLER, Vommcuidu.nl. ISAAC C. l'LATT, Ai'jutnnt. Insolvent Notices. 1 BY order of Caleb Nichols ciqu'r-, mitTtoncr, &c in and for the c u Clinton—NOTICE is hereby (.•iven th.; creditors of ASAHSL M'.MI, f Champlain, in said Coun'y if Ct nton. ^a IfiCulrent delitiir, to fiirw csi.lt f jay rl-ry have, before the did C m «i(Ti >ncr, ,it his olfice in ihe t> «rn of PU ISM. J>!I, < n t.'.e seventh day of IVljrch next, at o (,'• ;.,i-k in the aftcrnoo-i of that <iay, why jn jili^, . merit cf ihe (,n i InfoUcm's clU'r Ifcouut t, o e be made, and he be duclnrged puiluant to the aft in such case male and provided. Dated December 24th, i8U. 38 By order of the hon. Caleb N'CKOIJ, -i<j. Cummisiioner, Sec. in »nd fur the eouniy of Clinton—NOTICE i« hereby given lo ill thecrediton of ALLEN SMITH.»n infolvent debtor, to fbew caufe it »ny tbey hive, before (he (aid Comroijjioner. >t bi» office in Platli- burgh, in fjid County, on the leventb H»y of March next, at ten o'clock in (he forenoon, why to asfignment of the did Inlolvrm't eftite fhould not be made, sod he be di.'chtrg- ed purfuaru to the iii in fucb ctfe made and provided. Dated Dccembtr 21, 1811. gS WHEREAS Abigail H. my wifr, has Mndufted herself in a very improper mm- ner and absconded from my bed & b-urd Notice is hereby given that I am resolved to pay no ticbti of her contti&mg after tbia Fer», December *c,
