Winchester Gazette

From the Philadelphia Register.

Expatriation and its military consequences, as settled by the French Tribunals--Not satisfied with slapping President Madison in the face, by shewing that his Proclamation of Nov. 1810, respecting the revocation of the Berlin and Milan Decrees, was utterly false, Bonaparte has demolished the last remaining plea for the present ruinous war between the United States and Great Britain, by his mandate which dooms to inevitable death every subject of France, who shall be taken in the service of a foreign power.

The instance published in yesterday's Register, of the ignominious death indicted on Mr. Joseph Darguines, who was executed as a French subject, although a Lieutenant Colonel in the service of Spain, and a prisoner of war under the sanction of a capitulation, not only settles the question of making war for the purpose of giving protection to foreigners: but if adopted in its rigour by the British, must place every man, who came to the U. S. since the treaty of 1783, and who may be made prisoner of war, in the most deplorable situation. What measures Mr Madison will think proper to pursue in this dilemma, created by his friend the "super-eminent" Napoleon, must be referred to his own wisdom and that of his council of attributes, qualities and requisites--and he may call to his aid the foreigners, who have justified Turreau's letters. to assist in defending his master's decree on the right of expatriation, and bearing arms against their sovereign.