[48] Cobbett’s Debates (Feb. 17, 1809), xii. 776.
[49] The Morning Post, Nov. 12, 1807.
[50] The Morning Post, Jan. 13, 1808.
[51] Monroe to Madison, Aug. 4, 1807; State Papers, iii. 186.
[52] Orders in Council; or, An Examination of the Justice, Legality, and Policy of the New System, etc. (London, 1808), p. 61.
[53] Brougham to Lord Howick, Nov. 7, 1807; Brougham’s Memoirs, i. 386.
[54] Brougham to Lord Howick, Nov. 7, 1807; Brougham’s Memoirs, i. 383.
[55] The Morning Post, Oct. 23, 1807.
CHAPTER IV.
The Orders in Council of Nov. 11, 1807, gave an impulse so energetic to the history of the United States; they worked so effectually to drive America into a new path, and to break the power and blot out the memory of Virginia and Massachusetts principles,—that every detail of their history was important. Englishmen were little likely to dwell on acts of which even at the time England was at heart ashamed, and which she afterward remembered with astonishment. To Americans alone the statesmanship of Spencer Perceval and George Canning was a matter of so much interest as to deserve study.