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_believe that ever cud an instrument or document
was before opposed ; aid, therefore, I Cant„(
• prebend that he can conceive himself tautued in the
present instance. But it is not to for nee priecinlet
that .I will apply my observations; I may allu le to
their present professions, that they wish every in-s.
sure of Government to be s;•1i and sif ht.
Let us see how sincere the present elinisters are in
t i-ir professions. I trust, hit, that I hay • said
itongh to show the necessity of the yroduition of
he paper ia question ; hut I do the. the necessity of
entering into the consideration of th • ohj eft its which
it refers, not that I mu .t at pr • It sciify the
Horse that they must acquiesce to f:1-
I am to stiggesi, but to sari-:y rh to that
my o.lj-et is not that of idle c: n ,se y, nor, is
any degree, wanton and ridicolothi. I have nl
views but those arising from the 111114,0.0 to and irn•
portante of the sithject, johies: to a c one scion ;hat
there ate serious wounds for epprehendiog that t
measures, int••nded to be adapted by than Order et
Council, have not been sn usefully Applied as fr.
rher consideration might have suggested. In the
view of the subject, I must necessarily call the attern
tion of the House to the Order of Councd itself. It
recites, "that the French Government, in isolation
of the triages of war, have prohibited the commerce
of all neutral nations with His Majesty's dimi.tioci,
and have declared us in a state of blockade ; list
such a conduct on the part of our enemy would
give His Majesty a right of retaliation J1441..5t the
commerce of France ; that His Majesty feels him-
self hound, by a due regard to the interests of
his people, not to suffer such viu:ence, whhout
taking some measures to retort the evils of their
own injustice; and it :diet wards states, that oo
neutral vessel shall be suffered to trade from ea* of
the enemy's ports to ancther," &:. lam not din
posed to dispute the right of His ;Majesty to reta.
lime; but where is a duet avowal of the principle
which binds nations as to neutrals? it is imposshee
to suppose that any nation is to be cmis•rained by a
law, which their enemy refuses to esthete to, or ab-
solutely renounces. I apprehend, that, in thia.cann
where there is a direct avowal that our enemy wilt
not be bound by the law of nations, n e are justified
in adopting, to the fullest went, a similar coacua.
If it be true, then, that we hay: a rig .5 to rendote,
the only question is, whether it be expedient and
politic to d 3 so, and to what extent ? Tice x.
pediency and policy of the retaliation, I think, ere
already sufficiently admitted is Inc Order of
Council; and, therefore, the only point that re-
mails is relative to the exteut 1 coaceive that we
have a right to go to any extent within riot to
which the enemy have gone. In considering this
question, it is necessary to understand what our
objet ought to be, and I think there can be no
doubt that there ought to be two obj.h!ts ; namely,
that we should retaliate in such a manner as may
produce the best means of counteracting the sect
effects intended by the enemy's decree as to our
commerce, and make them feel most the evil at ish.g
from their own conduft, or, in the language in the
decree itself, " The effntLs of their own violence.
and the evils of their own injustice." if such
be one of the objects its view, I will vesture
to assert. confidently to assert, that the portion of
trade which Government have selected, is the very
worst adapted for that principle being applied.
If mischievous effects are to result from their De-
cree, our first object ought to be. to make it as
little inconvenient as possible. No man will doubt,
that notwithstanding this Decree of the French, as
t our commerce, English manufactures may still
find their way to the Continent, but at a dearer priee.
in consequence of the inconvenience, hazard, embar-
rassment, and difficulty, by which they must be elm-
veyed. There must be som..thing to coaateroa-
lance the risk of capture and confiscation, to %slids
that Decree will subject our com.inedities. This
articles will, by such additional eaeence, be alatost
excluded from the Continental markets ; and it
does appear to me. that no man can look to this
Order of Council for the necessary redress. in
regard to this first object. Now let us look to the
other object in view, that of making the enemy
feel the evils of his own injustice. To do that. I
apprehend, that the trade that ought to be selected,
on which to apply our prohibition, should be one
which is most easy to prohibit laid interrupt, and at
the same time, most prejudicial to the country
with whom we are at variance. Neither of these
measures are to be attained by the plait proposed
in the Order of Council alluded to. 1 would arc
this question, is the coasting trade that species of
trade which we can most easily interrupt by our
marine establishment ? Is it out possible for them to
carry their vessels under the pi-me:bon of batteries, or
get into ports occasionally to hide themselves thins
our fleets? There certainly is a greater probaoiitty
of their escaping us, when they are engiged in that
coasting trade, than if they were coming from
more distant countries. Is the interruption of the
coasting trade that which is attended with the
greatest injury to our enemy? Most certainly nut.
—lt would certainly be desirable not to al-
low that trade to remain motel:tested ; but it
ought not to be the chief, the only objet, set our
attention. If we could prevent the cemm 'dims
from at all arriving upon their shores, certainly that
should be our principal aim, and the moist cif . Musts
means of cumin:radial; the miscinevntts mita of
t wig. Decree upon our trade.l beg to be u deratood,
that I do not mean to say. that it Is for m • to suggest
what would be the wisest in idit of effithog that re-
tabittitiat in the most complete manner ; ail that
wish to say is, that at is sxceestoto sloubi nil whe-
ther the mode already Adopted ts t ie roost eireaual,
and that it is the:Mote worthy ot consideration.-4
I for my part nolit that is ought to have bees
Against tile ire portaion of the produce of the Colo-
gnes of Fn ince and Spain to the wish .en or Europe.
that we ought to have turned our attention to.
ibis wools have comprehended all the objects
which this country can possibly havb in view.—
SileiinlJ we nor suce •ed is effeutsally ptcy that
more nerneiva trade, at least we ‘11,111.1 be able
to render it much sr. es peritaus, to enflame the
price of insuraree, stud tn. lefty give to our own
commodities a better caaace of obtsimng a market
spore the Continent Vie hlohlt Iford seemed to
think that this vestron could not be +segued,
without earning into the tree y with America ; I
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