. Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ... he British commissioners declared thatwhile their country would not relinquish theright of search and impressment, strict orderswould be issued to their naval commandersto use the right with caution and moder-ation. The British government itself wassincerely desirous of conciliating the United $16 FROM THE REVOLUTION TO THE CIVIL WAR. States, but its naval commanders, temptedby the weakness of the American navy, paidno attention to its orders and conductedth
. Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ... he British commissioners declared thatwhile their country would not relinquish theright of search and impressment, strict orderswould be issued to their naval commandersto use the right with caution and moder-ation. The British government itself wassincerely desirous of conciliating the United $16 FROM THE REVOLUTION TO THE CIVIL WAR. States, but its naval commanders, temptedby the weakness of the American navy, paidno attention to its orders and conductedthemselves with haughty insolence towardsAmerican vessels, seizing and searchingthem, and forcing men from their decks withthe same activity as before, and rarely miss-ing an occasion to insult the flag of the upon an act which threw the relations be-tween the two countries into a more hope-less state than ever. The United Statesfrigate Chesapeake, 38, under the com-mand of Commodore Barron, was about tosail for a European station. Strict orderswere issued to her officers not to enlist anyBritish subject, knowing him to be such ; but. OFFICERS OF THE CHESAPEAKE SURRENDERING THEIR SWORDS. republic. Meanwhile the commissionersconcluded a treaty for ten years between theUnited States and Great Britain. It was onthe whole more advantageous than Jaystreaty, but the president was not satisfiedwith it, and assumed the responsibility ofrejecting it, in the spring of 1807, withoutsubmitting it to the Senate. A British naval commander now ventured it was said that four of her crew were desert-ers from the British frigate British war vessels were lying in thv^Chesapeake Bay, and one of these, the Leopard, a fifty-gun frigate, put to sea afew hours before the Chesapeake latter vessel sailed before she was fulJ^ready for sea, and the work of getting tneship in order was still in progress, when she ADMINISTRATIONS OF was hailed off the capes by the Leopard,under the
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