The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1809-01-12 00:00:00

team STATES.

SEItITL—ot c Lantz 9.
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BIT. Gnus from a Committee appointed in the
Senate, yesterday reported " A Bill rushing fur-
ther provisions for enforcing the Embargo.'
Accompanying the Bill, were the following let-
tar te, sad mower from, the Secretary of the Trea-
sury. The provisions of the Bill are generally cor-
respondent with the reminmendation* of the Se-
cretary.
Committee fbisetbat, Now. Is, tenet
DEAtt SIR—.-1 MD instructed by the Committee
appointed to cousider the several Embargo LILY",
&c. to request you to ley befone them, with as little
sielay me pooeible, such information as your depuit.
meat alfordi upon the following questions :...
Tass...triiat logeeeral woad b rust access% is prevent.
lag We tdolii4otr of ovules' of the ....era Embargo Laws ;
omit eefeeci4s-dmaeleenreece tlagreuf
Seemeascas of Me beic
aimoecateoces of the present 'ye-
t • be reasedied Ir *other 'modifications ; seed Whit 11166.
.illliiii•S wash brat *est f , .
if leaseJ, Sir, to acceptation:sneer ()fly high
. ' ties and regard.
• Pligatd) , W. B. GILL..
.14a. Aibert Gallatin. Secretory of the Tiesrcry.
Tremor, Depraieut, N.... Je, tem.
fin—lndisposition has low/elated au Ciifiler an-
swer to your letter of the 1.401 instant.
For better preventing coasting vessels regularly
cleared from violating the embargo, two measures

appear necessary
ire. That the nowast ditty 13o;ids should be increased.
it*. That neither capture, &Opus, et say other accident
elieviiii be ailkuitted .s.l a ptca, or begtven is evidence en trial.
.11y tilt lira regulatiou.the temptation of going to
a foreign port, is hopes that the profit on tie sale
of the cargo will indensoity for Ms forfeiture of
the penalty, will be done avraf. By the second,
every expectation of escaping the payment of the
. penalty, cadet trnudultat pi...tem:L.', will be 'limp.
rotated; and the power of ,rcinstfing the nenattira,
.as the few eases of kniavoi.lable accAent emith may
often, will remain WI heretofore, and us in other
,01204 with the Treinhur-
-4 the object of those two reg Illations will he to
• ;mho the nomd a ialriciesit and compie:e seen, ite,
Shag will born a tendency to relieve, in a co:wider-
*hie degree, the coasting trade. from the income-
OifrOCO reselling front detention's. The auffieiciwy
of the hoed will nil many doebtful case" remove
the ameseity of detaining the vowel% or what
Ililannota to the same' nof 'forming the owners that
MOM they reduce
the amount of their cargoes
tbir will be lisioisod.
I would vise es biait the propriety of piecing
smiler die oestrottl et the President, that power
Of 40mA= ested is At Collectors by • the Act of
52..... la April lume. That subject boo been a
°Poi" of effilllffeirre use &Scala. It has
. be11—...7 teoillerso practice. frees the establishment
af the Gamesman ef *h.! United states, Ngive
eisotamotiona to the Collectors respecting
mie pecatees of the. law., and which they were
booed to whey, a different erection
awed be estaltf by a legal Achim). This
ress • neesimery, is order to tame
Isom alliiitfU44lllll sod execution of elm laws.
th e peseilios me* ellioied to snakes the deceit.
ims te rest as the *sines of tact Collector, end
this lila a great diversity in
the ....=2 rim= should be executed.
All Ms beet Use dm Me be due to obviate thist
mai end the Pneihmt being withorised to decide
aegis leseactioas otateactecolo, the opportunity war
taken Widens the re of whet. so hie opi.
due, uhsald be a proper cause of detesstioo.—.
Tina however could be given only ee opinion, and
operate as a rerommendation, and not as an orde .
lk Of does it appear practicable to establish uni-
formity, and to prrvent. partiality, and either lax-
ity or ton great severity in practice, unless the pow-
er of prescribing general rules •in thin •respect, by
whieh the Collector* will be bound to abide, Le

rested in the President.
em aware that there is another mode of eva-
sion. by regular coasting vessels, which will not be
prevented by either of the ►receding pro►isions.
Either whilst in port, or on their way down our
rivers and bays, coasting vessels may receive arti-
cles not entered on their tuainfert, which they post
on board other vesrcls lying dff the coast for that

purpose.
i Net t is not perceived that any legal provision
coo prevent that infraction, nor that any whir re-
, seedy cub be found than the •.•igilarir e of the offi-
cers. Another general revelotion wall. however,
bt suggested. perhaps useful as a permanent mea-
sure, but which would. at all events, and limier ex-
isting circhnistaner%, gate edelitiohel security for
the observance of the law-. and afford smile relief
to OUT own seamen ; to wit, a prohibition to em-
ploy any aliens either as toaster. or part of the crew
of (my roasting vessel.
• it is still more difficult to guard a:Tani:it viola-
tions by vessels dep., twig without rle ininve. io
*two defiance of the laws. The following provi.
woos, on :induce. enosideration, appear the mt.,*
efficient that can he devised infractions,
which ittis the morn necessary to mitres., as they
may be daily expec:ed to increase, and threaten to
prostrate the law and government itself.
la. To forbid expressly, under pans of forfei-
ture (the -proofs! now being only implied!, the
is of any rased without the permission 1.1 .he
Collector, and %%Minot the bo:sil Inc a coa.ting
voyage being previously given ; authorising the Col-
&events to refuse permission, ' ,ss tier obit. t
OA of a 144111 e olotio4 nr voyage. I lie
great r of vessels now Leleti, :steal 111 a ~.ate of
r.reliness to insert, *hews tier necessity of this No-
v:ono. if there be eases, in which the indulgence
of etiwcerting va olds hen warehouses ought so be
granted, there will lw iin hardship, where the io-
tc.ition fair. to require a bond similar to that
given tOr a coasting voyage. And the Collectors
should like wise in such caws be expressly sloths-
vlsed to take such efficient preestuions as will put
it aunt of the power of such vessels to mil without
suirniug. •
4. lee order to present those fraudulent wiles of
vessels, by ohich ostensible owners of no respolisil.l-
- are substituted to those from shorn renaitiel
'night be. recovered, it is necessary to ;provide that
those owners of vessels, whose names appear on the
v-gister or license, should minium• to etr reputell as
*Kb, and liable to the peualties u, cue of iihfrae-
.

Gan et the levoe. see Ile weebtee • %ow 1611
have beer WWI, esireetleted. sad new papers
shall him boon regishuly ranted by the Collector
so the yistebroloe• end to way snob ion of pur-
chase,'" siallicbrot bead, that doe onsbilego *hall out
be infringed. to be priviesnly rogoired.
3. The power to sew nnessel deposits, now vest-
ed in the Collectors of &obits adjuceot to the ter-
I Morin of foreign notiessohoold, as well cuottio.
plated in the Bill perearby the House of Repre-
mutative% be 'Rustled to all the dibtriets.
. .

this is as arbitrary power, which uothissg but the
unremitted efforts in '.me place, to evade the law
can publicly juitify. cannot be denied ; awl it
should, like that of detentiou, be placeil under
the coutroul of the President. and be executed wily

in costfonuity with such gra;eral rules at lie would
prescribe-
4. Exclusively of the assistance which may to
derived from gun-boats. and from the urined vessels
of the United Suites. it would tw advisable to nu-