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put to hire, Ix-cease it wet or.d, that a rise :it fret
two to three guintua hail taken Once lieu t, mil
voyage, es if the power oi the Freech nay- 11.
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considerable in the Atlatatie,u* to make a diff 4,.. la,
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neases, stated, that there is a rise every v • - de
• ear in rob. sequence of sea risk. the summer rate I,e) i., 0:
two to two and a halt; and that of the e Jut troy s: 1 i
three to three and a half per cent. But was e'' - li
au additional rise in the year after the Berlin d n i
4:ntirßreive:6t ;
wintersi ub utitiBU the iti
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se two
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jau soya,
a nart the le'flohteitlfrtte:luk.:ll,.e.l4: to
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premium. The news co
Liverpool so the 11 dr of December, let*, led , ere
the lath of that month, Mr. Madill had ''
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America
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car": Liverpool. *6'
per cent. Theu had the Berlin Decree raised t,,, arg
insurance? So fur from it, the premium ore e th e
very same voyage, as appears from the evide id.r-, was exactly the sum of three guineas per cent. in bsof
the year before. Upon being further queetiosse.
whether any rise did at all take pine, ? he au; as
. " some little rise was occasioned at first. after tic di
knowledge of the Berlin Decree cam.. to Livereted; err
but that was a teruporary one . anti he believed the an
premium would have been five guineas Per eta. le,
upon the some voyage outward-a." O the Isle,
of Fehmary, however, the insurance was erected
upon the same vessels at three guineas per cellg
for the winter premium, as appears, not only
from the evidence of Mr. Martin. but ideo frail
that of Mr. Shakespear Phillips, Mr. Alexander V
White, Mr. Henry Hinckley. and all the other brokers eh,. Lave been interrogated upon the vele
ject. It appears that west men were shrines! ti L
flint, and they took a little higher premium for he a:
miring to America; but, in less then a fortniglit or L
a week's time. the premium of insurance lambi.'
down to its fortiori rate of two, or two mull' kali, to l'
summer, and three. or them and a baifs in wiater; E
and. therefore. 1 eouclude, that this staternetit a 11
radically erre.- outs, howeter often repented, aid
with whatever confidence asserted; Chick teeds to el,
bear out that most incredible of all prokoraeolis, •
that the fears or alarms excited by the French navy al
in the Atlantic, in our 010 16111, as well as in era.
teals, oracle* difference at once of SO per cent. epee ti
the rate of insurance. This is proved to he
as radicaUr (elle, in point of fact, when these e
different rates of insure nee are inerstigaiel
it
and appealed- to, es it is reonstrously absurd,
when attempted to be stated and eilforted air C
argument. Nose, as to the other effect, if t
the Berlin Decree, which precludes venris a
with Brinell goods on board from entering a Cont.
nental poet, or which truodetutre them, when fuued •
any where to contain them, the evidence, mite the
point, although not equally distinct, stik trade a
favourably to sabstantiate my arguments. I have
no objection whatever to admit that there is a very c
considerable ditlereuee between that first lirasti •
of the Berlin decree, which attempted to interrupt a
the direct communication between this countly sad
America, and that part which requires no navy to u
enforce or to execute it, but which may be carried
into effect in the enesny's own eouutry, by tilling a
their ports with a coeds„ of Soldiers. It was eit,
Sir, to be expected, that this threat was so iiiespa-
hie of execution as the other, had the eiremy Inca
so disposed ; but I have only to refer to the evi-
dence of Mr. Bell, Mr. Grenoie, sad others, to
skew you that the enemy were not inclined to du ier
At Isast it appears that whatever Bonaparte arty
hare done in Frunce.y et in the ports of lio:lac ci, tv‘ 1
which our miumfaetures andicrue produce bad been i
for many years past iuttodireed to a great exteia, I
no *spa were taken• to enforce this Decree. lhe
evidence teridi thstiuetly to. prove that the pro..- r
limos of that Decree were not enlarged. The r.: ,
as to the insurance has evinced this, although, re. I I
said before, the sorrespondence has not been re
frequeot, and we have not been able to produce i
many sum., dYes, or transactions, upon thn i
point. The evidence, therefore. is not w
much multiplied upon this branch of the De-
I
cree as upon the fernier ; but that I
conceive not to be of much importance, when it
is cuusidered, that all the effects, as to postage, ic- i
mittunces, accepting of drafts, sod insurances, I
in so far as we have produced evidence thereupon. 1
by witnesses, who have bees cross-examined by tl e i
House, shew, that it is in tbe IMMO (Erection. Ti. 3 I
being the case, 1 am entitled to conclude. aed I. i
dismiss this subject of :he Berlin and other Di •
crees, with this one remark, that there is not only
no evidence of those measures having been c . I
forced, but every argument against the power ..I
the enemy to urge them, in 'erne respects; and ei i
others, to strew that he had no desire to do so.— I
The evidence of Isomer decrees never having belt,
executed, is entirely of the sure sort, and our va: i
experience affords u. every argument to *hew, fie,: i
they were i :capable of execution.• Our r see:- I
once, I save affnrds us evidence. that Nentrals ir e-. 1
of thems4ves, continue tea em& those [?nerve +, 44
long as you s oureelves facilitate that evasi.n. 1 e(
the facts brouzlit out by the testimony of the se-
tresses that have been examierel aril t re•lieN.v. I
mined, a cousibtent etattruent is made out, that I
those Decrees of the enemy have been intli:eg In.: 1
us so much waste paper ; or, Mother wont., r- - I
setnbling the ancient, spitities., and vapid s:-- :
coriade of the French nation. It drew. n. tt -. ,
thele Decrees had not, and could not hue- luAl r , i
effect, but to evince to the world that Burapti r
kid *sane desires which he could mot fulhl ; .as I
that with respect to injuriag this country, :I ••iy er. • .
of no strength or avail whatever, 'iota Is e mu-el,, • •
lent our aid to theut by our InVII ne it•IITI.,.
come, Sir, to the fatal pert of de: ease -r i fel tit 1
the Petitiens no:to ones& sour hide. I think I ,e,
prove, Nr, that we outer:here blinded and ali.rtoel
by the empty memo es of the enemy, e le. I, is --
rfil ttual, tersitled by lain fear:, w hi. is lie ....• •
niters we had oftt as before .vs • sirs era or hi . -
not ileeciihe. countersi.ried rel ll,e I 1.•(:t: • CI: TV'
PrIt'ITIV, so as to bark th• .r ex....4.tit.t.:1 1,3 Wl' tI J
rev e;fril a:e v. roil h-,v.. rr-ines.' II:- c se- .•!'s r. .1.
the con;oi t., that IV ,IC, or to II at lea, L" 1./:
Kradation. to whit :1 I e, COI' inteteroe e i,e,o; . ~.::-
sired by those 1)i, Nee to reere e at, oad su a
be no nilier est . ti- k Ir.- . r co 1.1.: 1-r• have auto • • •
S.-r, I am sicie ti• tall tire si:lr u.sea of the t.. , •••