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Norfolk Gazette And Publick Ledger
Norfolk, Virginia
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Liverpool commentary on His Majesty's proclamation relinquishing the right of search, causing confusion among ministerial writers; new naval instructions for English seamen on foreign ships; hopes that it, plus Admiral Berkeley's recall, will settle disputes with America and lead to a treaty.
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His majesty's proclamation, relinquishing the right of search in various cases, has thrown the ministerial writers into a sad dilemma. They have toiled for some time past to establish an absurd and unjust theory, and to give to the humid exhalations of their own brains a "local habitation and a name;" but his majesty has dissolved the spell, and the Babel builders and their works are thrown into confusion together. Henceforth the commanders of our ships of war, having received positive information of English seamen serving on board foreign ships of war, are to require of the captains or commanders of the same, to release them, but not to insist on it.-- We trust this measure, added to the recall of admiral Berkeley, will have a happy tendency to settle the dispute between this country and America, and, we hope, is the prelude to a treaty which will unite the two nations in the closest bands of amity.
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Liverpool
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October 24.
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His majesty's proclamation relinquishes the right of search in various cases, throwing ministerial writers into confusion after promoting an unjust theory. Commanders of ships of war must request release of English seamen on foreign ships but not insist. Combined with recall of admiral Berkeley, expected to settle dispute with America and prelude a treaty of amity.