The enquirer — Richmond, Va., 1810-02-10 00:00:00, page 1

(Cj* Publishnl Ay Thomas Ritchie, nearly op
posite the Globe Tavern, Richmond, Virginia.
CONDITIONS:—Five dollars a year, to
be paid annually in advance. Those who wish to
be considered as annual subscribers, must hereafter
d< sitnt.ite it at the time of subscribing, otherwise
their papes will be discontinued at the expiration
of the first year.
NOTICE to all whom it may concern, that in
tending shortly to remove from hence, I
have resigned the office of Agent and Treasurer
to the commissioners of the l.oitcrv, for the ben
ctit of the College of William & Mary, in this ci
ty
KO: GREEK HOW.
Williamsburg, Feh. 6. 4w
New-encland rum, &c. &.<•_ as a
OTIS offers for sale, adjoining the Bell
Tavern,
20 hhJs. New-Englanil l^um,
10 do. Antigua and W. 1. do.
30 bbls. Apple- Brandy.
A few Boxes Candles of a very superior quali
ty—with a general assortment of Groceries by
whole-sale and retail, which will be sold low for
ca di or approved credit.
February 8. 2'Tf
THE f our Tracts of LaND lately advertised
by the subscribers for sale at Fluvanna Ja
nuary court last, not having been sold in conse
quence of the badness of the weather, will cer
tainly b* sold to the highest bidder, for cash, on
the fourth Monday in this month, at Fluvanna
courthouse, it being court day.
JOHN QUARLES,
Only acting Executor of Duncan Me Lauchlan.
DAVID ltOSS,
The surviving partusr as to his right.
February 8. wSwif
LAND FOR SALE—Thai valuable Tract o*
LAND laying in Amherst county, common
ly known by the name of Gordon’s Quarter, situ
ated near the Tobacco row mountain, containing
eleven hundred acres, is now ottered for sale on
liberal terms. The quality of this land is said to
Lc equal to any tract in that county.
Tiie terms will be known by making applica
tion to either of the. subscribers in Petersburg,
or to Mr. Samuel Irvin of L.ynchburgli, who w ill
shew the premises or give such description of
hem as will satisfy any person desirous of pur
chasing.
JOHN WILDER,
JOHN BELL.
Petersburg, January 4. \v3m
r|''LN DOLLARS REWARD.—Strayed or
A stolen near the market house in Rich
mond, on tlie night of the 29ll| inst. ( January,)
* likely dalle bay waggon Lorse, eight years
old, about live feet high, is in good order,.and
tlie hair a litlle rubbed .off vvi’U the traces. I
vvdl give a reward often d liars to any person,
that will deliver said hor^e to Mr Samuel tVhite
ot Richmond, or n> inc in the County of Cum
berland. Whosoever wilt deliver lhe the thief,
(it stolen,) ior punishment, shall receive a re
ward of l>b dollars.
N. B. He ia blind in the right eye, and a noted
scar cn the lull rump.
NATHu. LANCASTER.
FA. 1. w4i^{
I^OIt SALE—'1 wo hundred and fifty one acres
of* LAND lying in the county ol Middlesex,
within one and a half miles of Urbanna. This
Land will be sold mi the first Monday in March
next, on the premises, on a credit of twelve
months, by virtue of an act ol the General rvs
senility in that Casa made and provided. Bond
with approved security will be required from the
purchaser, payable to the overseer* of the pom
or their successors.
February 6. w3w^J
FROM T111£ SO TOH PATRIOT.
S P I R IT O F T H E N A T ION!
PR OC EE DINGS
f.r THE
KEA'NEBLCK COUATY MEET JAG.
PREAMBLE.
ALTHOUGH in a peaceful state of a na
tion, its i ights respected, its commerce un
molested, its prosperity flowing on an equa
ble current, and scarcely a murmur heard,
it might be the decorous part in citizens,
enjoying such bltsoings, quietly to act in
thuir private stations, manifesting their sa
tislaction of public men and measures, by
the audit, though c.ijircnaivc language ol
an undeviating obedience to wise mulsaluta
ry laws: yet at a time ot impending dan
gev or approaching Calamity—when much
i * to be feared from the power and arts of
open and latent L cs, and all the principles
Loretofore held sacred, are wantonly v.da
ted by me proud oppressors of the earth,
glorying in their strength and spurning at
justice—when the pidee of their fotbeurance
>nd nt a tributary commerce is the,surren
der of the esseii'ial atttibiites of nhtioiinl
sovereignty and independence, and every
friendly advance on ihc par; of the aggrieved
is met with a fmbidding countenance on the
part of the aggressor—when, notwit hstan
ding the all-importance of union, to the glo
ry and felicity of the country, and the "im
perious evil to men of uU parties to temper
resentments, to sacrifice partial interests
» n til? -dtar of general good, ar.d to aid tlie
governiiK vt in repelling insolence and r. na
city, there exi ***. in the bosom of the nation
an uhpiring J'uiuioAy goaded by wounded
pnde and disappointed C'-nbilion, bent on
mischief-labouring, with a!! its power
and influence, to inline suspicions and jea
lousies, into the the public mind, to alienate
the people tro,,i their rulers, nnd by the
vilest calumnies, to bring the we-est inea
sores and the ablest statesmen, and the most
illustrious patriots of flu* age, into disrespect
~ '—and, when, from anirnosl'ies, clamours,
nnd dissentious, threatening n their aspect,
nations hostile in their attitude, at e embol
dened to add repeated insults to reiterated
i (juries-a soiemn duty from the mo.nen
t sis crisis, is devolved on t*u: citizens who
love their country, tn whom the ble sings of
l«ws, of liberty, of honor, and of indepen
deuce are still dear, occasionally to assemble
together with a view to encourage r,ic/i
other's hearts 1st to s I ■ngthen each o'h< r's
hands, to give ^forcible expression (if their
( iiliments, to unite their councils and ener
gics with their country men of correspondent
feelings, ii, u;Ucr to d-fvat the nefarious
designs of their enemies, and sacredly to
plodge themselves tothecoss i ituted a g -
thokitiks, to support them in the free
exercise of their legitimate powers-that
the benefits of the federal compact may he
extended to generations yet unborn, and the
privileges, civil and religious now enjoyed
by the nation, transmitted to the latest pos
terity with undiminished lustre.
Influenced by such considerations. Sc with
such objects in view, the republican oi
Ti7. kns of Kennebec, at a respectable meet
ing from various parts of theeountv, holden
January 10th, at the house of Mr. Robinson,
in Ilallowell, upon mature deliberation, do
pass the following Resolutions :
Resolved, In the spirit and in the words
of the father of this country | the illustri
ous Washington, wnose memory vi
revne—whose maxims are engraven on
the tablets of our hearts, and whose
language we are proud to ouote
That the civil constitution of our country,
“ the offspring of our choice, uninfluenced
and unawed, adopted upon full investigation
and mature deliberati<*-i, completely free in
its principles, in the distribution of its pow
ers uniting security with energy, and con
taining within itself provision for its own a
mendinent, has a just claim to our confi
dence and our support. Resfiect for its
authority, compliance with its laws, aci/ui
esevnee in its measures, are duties enjoined
by the fundamental maxims of true liber
ty”
Resolved' That the Federal Government
ia predicated on the principle that all of its
constituent members are bound to yield an
unreserved obedience to its w;U constitu
tionally expressed; and that a refusal on
the part of any- particular slates to carry
into effect its lawful decrees, is a high mis
demeanor tinctured with treason, inasmuch
as it ..trikes at the roc* of the most essen
tial principles of the sacred compart en
tered into by the several states of the un
ion.
Resolved, That, as the sovereignty of the
United States is in the whole people, and
cannot be exercised but by their proper or
gan, the CONSTITUTED AUTHORITIES, all
claims ot minor portions of the community
to wall in question the constitutionality of
the laws of the union, with the. view to hr
furnished with a specious pretext to resist
them, are not founded in any rights guaran
teed to individuals or retained by the states ;
but are unwarrantable assumptions ofpow
t-i, savouring oi scuuion ami insurrection,
landing to anarchy and confusion, and to a
scries ot the most deploi able evils.
Resolved, That at the adoption of the Fe
deral Constitution, and during the whole
tevm the government was administered by
federalists, their doctrine uniformly was
——“ That tue real danger which threaten
ed the republic was to he looked for in the
undue ascendancy of the states-that the
substantial powers and extensive means of
influence retained by the local sovereign
tie*, furnished them with weapons of ag
gression which were not easily to be rcsis
ted-and that it behoved those who were
anxious for the happiness of their country
to guard the equilibrium established in the
constitution, by preserving unimpaired, all
the legitimate powers of the union."
[•S'ce Marshall's ldfe if ll ushington.~\
Resolved, That subsequent proceedings of
this su..ie political party-their insidious
reports, their high toned remonstrances,
their irfuminatory resolve1-their elabo
rate ai.empls to call forth aad embody the
jealousies of individual states and to set
the whole hosts of In kw England prejudice
in battle array against the union-toge
ther with their joint efforts to create a
southern con f EU b u Ac i' as lord para
mount exacting f ully from the nation, and
to render the general government, like a
polish king, a mere pageant of state, having
a form, but without the power of u sux>e
reign-are in direct opposition to all tfic
ideas which they heretofore professed toen
tertain, plainly contradict all the sentiments
which they formerly avowed, involve gross
incoiisistcncu of'character marked with un
common tuipillule, and furnish proof more
substantial than presumptive, that theyaie
unprincipled, at war in their hearts with
the civil institutions of their country, and
secretly striving to level with the ground
that very federal edifice, which, for
year*-, they feigned an an x iety to establish,
by detaching from it the very pillars on
which it is supported.
Resolved, That, among the circumstanoes
which have a tendency to create attach
mentsnnd t<facilitate an influence aie lobe
included literary ass editions and corres
pondencies, an easy transmission of thought
by meant of identity f language-simi
larity of institutions and oflaws, mercantile
dependencies and lucrative agencies, con
sanguinity, habitual fondness for the land
which contains the sepulchres of fathers,
and to which a present generation may be
indebted lor their wealth, their education,
or their birth.
j\ct>oivcuf i hat as the above circnnistan
cesr.an have but a fcelile cff* ct in favor of a
"V nation exc -pt Britain, the real danger
ot an undue ascendancy is to be apprehend
<*d from tiiis rjunricr-and that the charge,
*o often repeated, that the American go
vernment an t large portions of the people
are moved bv a French influence, is ground
less, £on truly to ret a sou and probability,
J'uiae, illiberal and C'dumnlout.
It caul tied, That a priin..j>;d cause which
serves to prolong the embarrassments un
• ter which trade labors, find to c.tlay that
justice to which our country, by reason and
the laws cf nations, is entitled, ia the en
couragement held out, by afioatute citizmt
anti men oj alien mindt, to the haughty mis
tress of the ocean, to persevere in her sv .
tern of aggression——sympathising in hei
fictitiousd.stress, creating for her an ttnfu*
eing necessity, junif higher firrfldiou* con
duct, considering her nr “ fighting lor her
own rights and liberties and for every dis
tressed p< epic* it earth,” though tjeerciting
ar. unheard of t/runtr/ on the teat, ami
aiding the cau^e t.fl ihe blood stained IV
ISItIoN —contending that, llimign she
has aimed a deadly blow a our Commerce,
seized the prop i ly of rmr merchants, tm ccd
numbers of our maiiucu into her service,
murdered ia*v i turn* on cor own w„tcn..
insulted our flag, and is endeavoring bv her
arts and emissaries, to divide and conquer
our country, “ she has done tts no essential
injury”—and, imbibing her resentments,
imperatively advising to a dissolution ot* all
connection with her rival, and to “ un
KURl, TH E R K PUBLIC AN BANK fcK AGAINST
THK I M P It RIAL STANDARD.”
Resolved, That “ sucli sympathy and
passionate attachment for the favorite nati
t:on,” as opening •• avenues to foreign in
fluence in innumerable ways,” cannot but
be “ particula: ly alarming to the truly en
lightened and independent patriot,” ad mom*
islicd by the winning voter of that sage
and hero, who bring dead, yet sfieaketh
the i m m out a l WASiiisoron_“Hownia.
ny opportunities do they uHord to tamper
with domestic factions, to practise the arts
of seduction, to mislead public opinion, to
influence or awe the public councils! Hitch
attachment of a small or weak, towards a
great and/Powerful nation, dooms the for
mer to be the satt-llite qf the latter'’
Resolved. That tile British cabinet, in
certain transactions and negotiations, has
indicated sticii strong and uncyuivocal
symptoms of punic kaith as to have for
feited somewhat ot its title to the good opini
on of the civilized world—and that the Mi
nister ot that nation near the United States,
hostile in views, indecorous in language,
lias betrayed in his conduct and correspond
encies, an insolence and spirit ot intrigue,
disgraceful even to the power which sent,
as well as affront1 ve to that which received
him, meriung the high displeasure of the
American government and people.
Resolved, As the opinion of this meeting,
that the Government of the United States,
guided by an enlightened and liberal policy,
as well as the generous maxims of justice
and humanity, lias not erased' to manifest
its love of peace, or its invincible desire to
cultivate harmony and honorable friendship
w iih all nations.
Resold d, As the opinion of this meeting,
that, judging from the language and con
duct of the belligerent powers, out country
lias nothing to hope from their justice or
magnanimity—that the preservation of our
safety and bf our rights depends on our abi
lity and determination to defend them—and
that, as much as the American people love
peace, ij the storm of war threatens, they
(.can view its approaches with a steady eve,
and are prepared to meet it, when it bursts,
with a firm and manly countenance.
i\L9QLvcu% i nat, a:s a statesman pre-cmi
nently endowed, in common with our on.
ligb/ened and fiatriolic fellow citizens, we
sincerely rejoiced in the elevation of James
M adison, late Secretary of State, to the
Presidency of the United States-that his
conduct since his elevation to that office,
has been such as to. strengthen the exalted
opinion entertained ot his talents and vir
tues-that, iu his wisdom and firmness,
liis patriotism and integrity, the public have
tlie surest presages of national honor and fe
licity-and that no efforts shall lie want
ing on our part to render his administration
formidable to our enemies, glorious to him
self and prosperous and happy to the pteo
l>lc\
Resolved, That in recurring to the firo
minen: events of the late administkati
on. (guided and animated by that bright
ornament to his country, the /Jiiloso/i/iic
benefcint Jefkkrsom.) insci/iienl abuses
reformed, the public finances managed with
economy, the national debt diminished, the
ci edit of the country enhanced, sources of
revenue relinquished, the liberty of consci
ence and of s/ieech sacredly regarded, cap
tives in barbarous (limes eleased from
chains, sawages ot the w ilderness exchang
ing their ferocious habits for the milder arts
ot peace, an immense mercantile capital
secured from the lawless hand of depredati
on, numbers of valuable enterprising sea
men preserved from cruel impressrtient and
hard bondage, the rights of commerce de
ieiidcd with a force of argument which all
the di/i/omatic skill of the enemy has not
been aWle to gainsay or resist, a whole conn
try, pleasant and fertile, added to the re
public without the effusion of blood, and,
during a period of peculiar difficulties and
inline lit danger, cur land saved from the
horrors and devastations of war-hi recur
ring to thc.>e events, we cannot but indulge
the emotions of admiration, gratitude and
joy.
i/iu, »H»i,asourauacnment tome
government of our choice is in full glow, we
will still continue to support, with unahatmg
ardor, the administration and the taws, and
co-operate with the n;en whom we have se
lected to rule, at the expend- of our blood if
,treasure, in \ indicating our nation’s insulted
honor and injured rights, and in carrying
our beloved country through perilous con
junctures, to the brightening scenes o. peace,
prosperity and glory.
Voted, That this meeting are sincerely
di'pos-d to unite their councils and influ
ence with their virtuous fellow citizens, to
bring forward into public notice, and to
raise to offices of honor and trust, men of
known abilities and patriotism, distinguish
ed for moral worth and intellectual endow
ments, attached to the civil institutions of
their country, and friendlj lo the laws of
the general government.
Voted, That this meeting reflect with
grief and the most painful apprehensions,
on the countenance yiven to the violation or
evasion of the laws of the country. Jsx
ampiesnf insubordination and disobedience,
ever infectious, are d.ubhj so, when tncy
proceed from the great and wealthy, men
of acknowledged influent e and reputed piety.
CKis after class, among the Uss-infr.nm <1
anti more obscure citizens, fond of imitating
their superiors, each claiming for itself, al
tor the example given, the right of ques.
tinning the justico, the utility and tire con
stitutionality of laws—-rind <1. riding the qu> s
ti< n, not according to reason and the dictates
nl equity, but arcotdmg to passion, preju
thee, humor, convenience, or the nan >;t*
views of private interest, a. state of disor
der nius, *'iisur, at the thought of which
I the viituoiis sensibilities of the patriot re
coil-and at the prus|K*ct of which, evert
per> a who has either property, bf« re
putation tn itr-e, c •nnot hut tiembic! All
the. barriers which la .vs had erected, weak
cucd by su&h a mode of thinking and act
0
ing, sanctioned l»y the learned and injluen
hal. of society, and all the dikes and mounds
which morality had established as sale
guards to property, and fir the security of
public peace and well-being, thus bi t ken
up and destroyed, a torrent of licentiousness
will rise and swell, and unconhned by any
constraint, sweep every thing before it into
one indiscriminate ruin!!
/ oted, 1 hat as it comports neither with
the puntv nor benignity of the republican
..character to render roiling for raHitvs,
this meeting will not condescend, whatever
abuse or scurrility may be aimed by the
political adversary, or by the witlings and
merry-andrews of the opponent party, to
answer a fool according to his folly ; IJut
j be contented with opposing truth to fals
I hood-sound reasoning to sophistry—deco
I rows language to illiberal sarcasm-when
reviled, reviling not again-employing
honorable means for the attainment ot noble
ends, and in a series of honest and patriotic
el forts—c ..nmit themselves and their cause
unto him who judge th righteously.
looted, unanimously, to accept the prece
ding Preamble and lies' lutions. and that
the same be signed-by the Chairman and
Secretary of this meeting, and forwarded to
the Editors of the Boston Patriot and East
ern Argus for publication.
, Coled, That this meeting be adjourned,
next to beheld at Col. Sherwirt’sin Water
Ville, on Tuesday, 20th February next, and
that the Secretary be directed to notify the
republicans of Somerset county of said ad
ijuotnmeiH, and invite them to attend said
meelin g.
NATHAN WESTON, Chairman.
Robert C. Yose, Sec'ry.
Nk.w-York, January 31.
The British packet Princess Elizabeth,
after being detained from day t<> day, by ad
verse winds and ice, sailed yesterday at 7
o’clock ; but as the wind was light on her
sailing, anil southerly in the evening, the
chance is, that she did not get to sea.
;FltOM THE SALF.M GAZETTE.
(The following curious article we fiml in the
Globe, (an anti-ministerial paper,) of the
24th November. It is there put upon the
footing of an important state paper. Should
any ot our readers deem it a spurious
production, siill it may not lie uninterest
iog as a speculation upon American af
fairs. J
Letter from General Champagny to His
Excellency the Count of --, on
repealing 'the act ('1 Embargo by the
Congress of the Ur.ittd States :
Your Excellency asks my opinion on the
raising ot the embargo, that has t xisted mot e
than a year past in the United States. I an
swer, and do not hesitate to sav, that this
measure is a master-piece ; it is cue of the
most dexterous combi nations that e\ cr came
out of the British cabinet. It will be easy
• or me to demonstrate to s our Excellency,
i he shutting of the Sound and of Trieste,
becoming every d .y more inevitable, the
English merchants were about to iiml them
selves deprived ot till communication with
the continent, toto divoaos or be JDrittznnoa.
The vast prohibitory system, so wisely con
evived by the genius that governs Fiance,
was about to receive its entire execution.
Over stocked with the merchandize of the
two Indies, without any possible vent, their
manufactures discarded from the immense
continent, (of America,) as well as ours, En
gland was really going to receive the price
of her insatiable avarice, and to sink under
the weight of her usutped riches. What
was necessary so save her frotr thiscrisis, to
aid her to transport to every point of the
globe, where her own Ilag could not go, the
enormous quantities « f merchandize of eve
ry kind, heaped upon the banks of the
Thames * The succour of a people cs.ienii.
aiiy adventurers, active, ambitions, posses
sing an immense mercantile marine, navi
gating at a small expence, knowing howto
penetrate any where, not shrinking from any
danger to satisfy an equal thirst of gold'.
This succour she has just obtained, by the
raising of the American embargo. The last
letters from America assert, that this mea
sure was carried almost by open force by
the federal party, that is to sav, the Engliah
fiurly. It is well known, that two thirds, at
least, of the American commerce is carried
on with English capital and tor English ac
count ; lienee it results, that the vast ex
tent which this sell called American com
mcrce is going to take, must definitely turn
to the advantage of the English commerce,
which w«s on the brink of destruction. Who
then can be the dupe of that impartiality
Congress affects to observe in this act’? The
smal.est shop-boy of Lot,don would not sufle r
himself to be thus imposed upon.
* uumaim ih illrKiC vl A I illli C HIHl
I England, t hat one and the other respect their
flag, and they threaten to shut their ports to
either that should violate their neutrality, fcc
even to declare war; hut above all, as France
i.-> about to lose the last of her possessions in
the West Indies, the Aniencnn people well
, know that there was nothing to fear from
her, & that, in keeping at a distance from our
coasts in Europe, we cannot touch their ves
sel l, whereas l . iglaml, mistress of the neigh
bouring seasot the U. b ate*, can strike a
senisblc biow when she please-. It was then
necessary to appear neutral, to And means of
satisfying England, wi hout appiariag to
submit to hei tyrannical pretensions--and
hcie i * whathas been thought o», & already
put in practice, according to the tnoslauthen
tick infoimati n last received.
()ri the sn'lin; of the packet boat, the
Mentor, of New York, more than 100 ves
sc I s were loading. 01 had sailed, for Holland,
where they well knew they would not lie re
ccived, and where they had no in'ention of
going; already several have arrived in
England, in defiance of the law of congress,
and notwithstanding the bond and security
given, not to approach the English coast,
f hey get them elves taken by the first Eng
lis’n ves.-al they meet with, piovt* afterwards
mat the property is English, are released,
at !, with a good process Veibal of ihtt cap
tain, they avoid the penalty incurred. They
pay iii England the doty fixed by tncor
, utis in council, and g«j whetc they pi-.a><.
i Hut tliis particular simulation dues not suf
fice tor all the combinations of commerce in
general; they have found other means of
giving it the greatest possible latitude. The
American vtsseD go, and there are many
on their way to Madeira, which is to be con.
i side red as neutral, and which will become a
■ vast depot; there they land their produce,
i the English will bring them theirs, end they
| will barter with each other the merchan
dise ot the two worlds. It will he the same
at St. Bartholomews, and in all the island*
which call themselves neuter. The Eng
lisli manufactures will be accompanied with
: Swedish ordcrman certificates of origin,
j and will enter, without difficulty on the
continent of America. From these different
i places ot deposit the Americans will imm.
; date North and South America with F.ng
lidi productions; they will come and fill at
the ports ot Europe, where they are allowed
to enter, and there will be a complete F.i g.
1 lish monopoly re established with the peo
pl-., by Which they will be enabled to facts
I the expenses during a century to conic of a
I w;i*‘ winch she alone maintains, and which
| she has so much interest to prolong, without
the raising the embargo. How could Eng*
; hmd have made to subsist, for any time all
lu r colonies and conquests ? How could the
Spanish colonies prolong their disobedience
to the laws of their sovereign? How could
the unfortunate island of St. Domingo main
tain ilscll against the fury of parties which
tears it to pieces? I! »w, in fine, without
the numberless succours, of every kind,
which ate going to be carried to them,
c°uld the revolting provinces in the South of
Spain resist so long the forces employed to
reduce them ? Thus, sir, on whatever side
you view the question of raisfng the embar
go, it is one of the greatest victories that
England ever gained for her commerce, one
ot the most fatal measures to the system a
[ dopted by the moderator of the Continent of
Europe, which was on the point of receiving
the fruits of so many privations and sacrifi
ces, and which perhaps is going to be lost
forever.
1 o console us for this destructive re sol u
tioii, the U. S. are good enough to permit th»
importation of some wines and brandies.
What a compensation ! Now, it will take
twenty cargoes of those articles to pay for
one of colonial produce, and all the gold of
F ranee will soon run away by torients, as ii
d;d, not lor.g since, when the Americans
came into our ports by hundreds! Besides,
who does not know, that they give a decided,
preference to tne wines of IvLideii a, of Spain
and Portugal, as having more body ; and to
tlic brandies of Catalonia, as being i heaper !
And, mot cover, not content to consume it
themselves, they will hawk it a. out the
no. th of Europe-, to the great prejudice of
out s, for which we found a considerable vent
by land.
They will sell us tobacco; but does it suit
us to lot perish a new branch of agriculture,
w liicli is making daily the greatest progress,
and tires us tiom a buriliensome foreign
tribute? Cotton loo ; but cannot the Levant
furnish ns with enough, & take in exchange
the rich, productions of our manufactures?
Sugars andcoh' e; where can they get it
■ 0i their.sd/ea, it not liom the possessions
ot England nr of her coi quests? Will titty
have tile eflront^iy to oiiug us the pioduce
of our own colonies, now become the prey
of our enemies ? This would be too much ?
What care we for those costly superfluities,
the consumption of which is of so much in
jury to our own soil i It our epicures can
not do without, our privateers wilt not let
them want.
Many more reflections, sir, might have
been added to what 1 have just said, but let
us confine ourstdves to this, i tie Americans,
tolerated by us as neutrals, will do us still’
greater injury, with regard to the exporta.
ti.m of our grain. They can carry theirs
much cheaper to all the people that consume
ouvs: and being at equal price, and even
higher, wi 1 always bo preferred by the En
glish. 'I he. wili bring it to Spain and Por
tugal, and deprive us of the last vent that
still ren ained to our southern departments.
Ail that has been said until now, relates not
only to France, but to the countries subject
to her influence, or under her dominion, and
from which may be drawn this exact and
melancholy consequence; that all maritime
commerce or colonial, admitted or tolerated
on the continent of Europe, will always turn
to ’.he advantage of the English people, and
wiil furnish them with the means of prolong
ing the war: that the Americans about m
ijccoinc the most powerful auxiliaries to
this commerce, and that the veil under which
they pretend to disguise it, will give a new
energy : 1 hat it is tire greatest interest of
France and of her allies, to defeat, by all
possible means, that odious connivance be
tween the people v*ho call themselves our
friends, and the eternal enemies of our repose
and of our prosperity. D. <j.
i was on me point ot forwarding my letter ^
when I learned from a good source, that all
is now tinaliy arranged between England
and the United States, and avoiding to
news of the 29th April, to reciprocal saris,
faction. This open and frank step of the
Un.tnd Stales is at least more decent than
that at first adopted. They have agteed
with the English not to come to France,
Holland or Italy ; and to take from the fault
(admire the precaution)! A new order hf
council ol the 29th April last, declares those
countries in a rigorous state of blockade!
! All the ports of the United S-atrs open, as
formerly, to the English commerce. Thu
is excellent! It remains to be known, whe
ther these happy combinations will not be
rendered ufeiessby him whoso well knows
how to have Ins orders extent' M Will he
suffer all ti e countries about France to be
inundated with English goods, which could
fraudulently be introduced into his empire?
Whether t' e frontiers of Germany or Swit
zerland will not be as rigorously shut as
these of Holland-whether any of our al
lies will n )t join in the total exclusion of a
fl g which has become so Suspicious_
whether precaution* will not l»e doubled
ami carried to toe greatest pitch of seven’,
tv—— w. ether we must not learn, definitive,
ly to do w ilhoul sou e fucticion » eng 'g.ueeiit*
ind thereby prevrnt one or two million*
more of men Irnm perishing as victims t*
English moi- p ly ami Awtucau enj ioity f
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