Willis J. Abbot

Capitolo 23

For England the hospitality of France met him with a new hit to American
affairs. The work was not neutral, she said. France had been forced
his/her war concession. His/her people you/they were starving because the vigilance of
British cruisers had driven French cruisers from the seas and nothing food
you/he/she could have cared. To allow American to furnish food for French
clearly colonies would be to suppress the effect of a change the good job of the British military harbor.
Evidently food was smuggling of war. Then every man-of-war English both
orderly to grab French good on ship whatever funds;  to forfeit
cargoes of wheat, corn, or fish they limited for French harbors as smuggling, and
particularly to board all the American merchantmen and to scrutinize the crews
for sailors English-been born. The second injunction was respected with particular
zeal, so that the National Department had the evidence that to a duration, in 1806,
there were so many how much 6000 American sailors that serve unwillingly in the
He/she Marinates military British.

France, in the meantime retaliation looked for on England to the expense of the
American. The United States, says the French government, it is a sovereign
nation. If it doesn't protect his/her vases against unwarrantable English
aggressions that it is because the Americans are secretly in league with the
British. France doesn't recognize difference among his/her enemies. Then it is
orderly that any American vase that submitted to visit and search
from a vase English or paid quotas in an I bring British, it stopped being
neutral, and it became subject to capture from French. The effect of these
orders and deliberations were simply that any American ship with which it fell in a
English or French man-of-war or pirate, or it was forced from stress of
proud to look for refuge in an I bring English or French, it was lost to her
owners. The times were ill-mannered, evidence was to manufacture effortless captains,
judges of admiralty it was rapacious they were complaisant, and American commerce
it was rich prey. French Western Indies demolished an easy loot to the English,