Keowee Courier

The French Journals on the British Outrages.—The Paris Constitutionnel describes the difficulty which has arisen between Great Britain and the United States on the subject of the right of search, and concludes that both nations are in the wrong—England, because she seeks to "exercise a control over the other navies of the world:" the United States, because they "offer a plausible motive for the interference of which they complain, by engaging in transactions condemned by morality."

"The state of things," says the above journal, "is certainly embarrassing. Were the other nations to be raised from the position of simple spectators to that of judges, would they not condemn both parties? For England has sought to raise an excess of power into right, while the United States, who justly claim the independence of their flag, abuse that sacred principle by tolerating the slave trade."

The Paris Patrie says that France does not now keep her ships on the African coast to catch slavers, but to prevent British ships-of-war meddling with French vessels. It declares such an attempt as watching the coast of Cuba as frivolous and vexatious.

The French perhaps forget that they are themselves now buying from the native princes on the coast of Africa their prisoners of war, (made prisoners for the purpose,) and carrying them into Africa as "apprentices," or in other words, that they are themselves carrying on a species of slave trade for the benefit of their unhealthy colony.