94] ANNUAL REGISTER, 1812. 



ready prepared to make the sacri- 

 fice which the voice of the country 

 rendered inevitable. 



On June 2;3rd, there appeared in 

 the Gazette a declaration from the 

 Prince Regent, absolutely and un- 

 equivocally revoking the orders in 

 council as far as they regarded 

 American vessels ; with the provi- 

 so, that if after the notification of 

 this revocation by our minister in 

 America, the government of the 

 United States do not revoke their 

 interdictory acts against British 

 commerce, the same, after due no- 

 tice, shall be null and of no effect. 



Mr. Brougham, on this occur- 

 rence, declared the full satisfaction 

 of himself and his friends with the 

 frank and manly conduct of go- 



vernment in the mode it had 

 adopted ; and both sides of the 

 house seemed happy in the pros- 

 pect of the amicable intercourse 

 which this proceeding would re- 

 store between the two countries. 

 We cannot, however, refrain from 

 expressing our astonishment, that 

 during the debates there appeared 

 so little consciousness that the 

 question of repealing or continuing 

 the orders in council, was a real 

 question of peace or war with 

 America ; and that deferring the 

 decision so Ions: 



b' 



was rendering 



it altogether unimportant. In fact, 

 before the news of the repeal 

 reached the United States, they 

 were actually at luar with Great 

 Britain ! 



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