Show france and the exercise of the flight of bearch the missouri icon of may 28 says say it will be recollected that accordi according fig to a rumor from washington count sar es had emphatically declared that the I 1 reach french government torild assert the right of search of american vessels As tending it n the same d direction and lending countenance to the belief that the french minister did not perhaps speak inconsiderably we are ai e pointed to the following statement by the london correspondent of the new york coni com mercial A report is current that france has bar notified to england that all suspicious english vessels will nill be searched by the french cruisers for articles contraband of war var it does not appear however how ev er that it rests on any authority the practice pra clice would have to be put in in force against amen can call vessels and the united states slates government would it is is to be assumed make objections but the declaration actually made by Sar is is explained as follows follos in the Wa washington dispatch of the times I 1 have the highest authority for saying that the reported co conversation of af de Sar with the hon mr S of N york and another gentleman well known know n in in washington on the right of search has been seriously misunderstood or mistaken the conversation was positively informal and t the he observation of al de Sar Sani yes were vere simply to this effect that the war would doubtless open a wider field for american shipping in the mediterranean but that our shippers must be careful not to forget that I 1 the he doctrine now established and principally in in consequence of the 1 tion lion of france that the neutral flag i shall cover the goods does not at all in invalidate the necessary privilege of searching c for articles contraband ot war our vessels may carry all sorts of cargoes to the adriatic but they must not run the risk of concealing munitions of war these remarks were the merest matter of course the really important bearing III of the turkish ministers lanu language age being the intimation which it it threw throve out 0 of f tl the e now complete good understanding cr between the great maritime trie powers on the general quest question 0 n of the right of search in fact M D de e rast last diplomatic plo matic an act at washington as I 1 have reason to believe was the conclusion of ill the e negotiations nations which have resulted resol ted in in an entire acquiescence by england in in the french and Aire Arne rican rican mews of this matter france arid and the united states having occupied one ground upon the question prom from the first english journalists and orators have denied that england ell has abandoned anything in in rega regard rd to her pretended right of search but they have been misled by filse false notions of national vanity england did claim the right to to stop and search vessels on the high seas in time of war and on suspicions of piracy as a right her pretension was that if in in exercising this right she did injustice that if after searching a ship she found on board neither british sailors to be impressed nor contraband goods nor slaving ac coutre ments she had yet 5 et done no wrong and could be pressed for no rec reclamations laina this pretension she maintained as lung long as she had the power to enforce it she has yielded it now to the opposition of the great powers which more than divide with her the empire of the seas goods contraband of war will of course as al always Nays be liable to seizure by billig bilag erent powers but the search for them will w ill be made at the risk of the party parly searching |