The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1809-11-24 00:00:00

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has one Tie t;;:telity,
candour, end honour, foie
Mr. Erskine, and another sort kir Lord Cartle•
resgh. About tens time, last year, we recellecti
that the commercial world was duped by the
strongest assurances of a prompt a tjustnient of ell
our differences With Ariarrica. If, after reading
'Champagne's letter, they continue to he gtillt-rl by
similar visions, then they must consider the Ft.. .such
Ruler to be almost an great in council as Mr. Per..
ceval, and as glorious in the field as—Lord -r-1
Chatham'? The very hope of intercourse with -
America must soon he at an end ; hut, even is this •:%:-);-:
event, we do nut despair of the kingdom, if 11Tra
Perceral should have penitence enough $0 Make it 4
waited kitigdolli.
LETTe.t snow Ntil•L CHAMPAGNE, TO HIP triettL-
•Agaey coop? or —, itv ING Of Tile •CP
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1, lIIIMA/1,414. -111 TAM 41PONOREVs Of Tilt uerrad
staves.
" Paris, May to, isoq.
Tom Excellency sib my opinion, on the nista: of Its
Eiribairo, that has existed more than a year past to the
United States. I swats, and do not hesitate to say, that
Hint oicusure is a masterpiece, it is one of the most dextrose
combinations that ever Caine out of the British Cabinet; it
well ha emy fur me to demonstrate to your Excellency. The
altotring of the Sound and of Trieste, becoming every day
ems inevitable, the English Merchants were shoat to find
tbemselvei deprived of all conmenuicatiou with the Continents
isle do on orb, Brit tan 402. The vast prohibitive system, so
wisely conceived by the genius that governs France, wee
about to receive its entire execution. Overstocked with the
meichandiase of the two Indies, without auy possible vent„
their nianufactores discarded bum the immense market of the
Continent (America), as well as ours, Eioglauil was really
going to receive the price of her isimitMhle avarice, soil to
stoic under the weight of her usurped riches. What was nea
cessary to sate bra from this mists, to aid her to trmsport to
every pointlif the globe, when her own dug coahl nut go,
the enormous quaatities of merrhandise, of every hied,
limped up c7'ti the banks of the Thames, the stmenor elfs
people essentially adventurers, attire, andsitioas, poesessipg
an immense mercantile marine, Relaxant/gat assail CYPellar,
.knotraue how to penetrate any where, wet shrioking from say
daupa to sat.Afy an equal third of ;add ? This succour she
Las jaat übtaiuel, by the raisiug of the America's rapirineri.
The last hitters from America assert, that this measure as.
carriedulninit by open force, by the federal party, that is to
say the Fer!iril P.4+ ty. It is well known, that two.iiiirga pt
least of the Anscrietti emelt:este is Caroled on with English
capital and for EN;:lkil account; hence it results, that the
Wait meteor which this self's-ailed Americas Commerce is
going to take, must deltuitively turn to the advantage of thje
English Commerce, which was on the brink of dmtructipp.
Who then eau be the dupe of that impartiality, Coogrma
affects to obse.ve is ties act? Tha mealiest shop.hoyof
London, w ould not suffer himself to he tines imposed aped.
" The Sallie demand is made of France and England, that
one and the other respect their flag, am! threaten to abet
their ports to either that sh.,old violate their neutrality, and
reel, to declare war; hut, above all, as France is about to lore
the last Of her posicssious, is the West Indies, the American
people, well know, there was minting to fear from her, and
that, to keeping at a distance from oar coasts, in Europe, we
canuutsouch their vessels; whereat, England, mistress of the
neighbouring seas of the Visited States, can strike a sensible
blow when she pleases; it was thee necessary to appear lies-
to find means of satisfying Engtund, w ithout appearing
•to stibnite to her tyrannical pretensintis; and here is what Ism
been thought of, end already put into practice, according to
the most authentic information, just received. On the sarl-
lag the packet-boat, the Mentor, of New York, more thee
too vessels, were loading, or sailed, for Holland, where they
well know they would not be received, and tiairre they ha:! No
I,tentiws gei..g; already, several have arrived in Eugland,
la defiance of the Law of Congress, and inewitintaudieg the
bond sit security given, nut to ',sumach the English coast,
they get themselves taken by the first English they meet
I with, prove afterwards, that the property is English, are re-
leased, and with a good process-verbal of the Captain, they
avoid the penalty incurred. They pay in Eoglaiid the duty
Smithy the Orders in Contteil, and go where they please; bat
this particular simulation does nut suffice for all the coma
biustions of commerce, in general; they have found other
i means of giving it the greatest possible latitude. The Ammo
can %fusels Ito, and there are many on their way to the ',laud
of Madeira, which is to be einct.d,ared is neuter, and which
will become a vast &Tat ; there they land their prodnee,
the English will loin; them theirs, suit they will barter with
each ether the tuerchandee of the two worlds. It will be
the smote at St Bartholomew's, surd in all the Islands ,vhieli
call themselves neuter. The English inaeuractares will be
accompanied with Swedish or German certificates, of migio,
and will enter, withoot didieulty, on the Continent of dine-
rica. From these different places of drposit, the Americana
letß hassurfate North and Smith Arneiica with English. pro-
. deekiees; they will come and fill all the poets in En. ope,
.eliessibey are allowed to enter, sod there wall's, a complete
Rogllalt mooopolv re.establialled with the people, by which
Ara ail be able to face the expenses, during a ceatary to
'Moue, of • war, which she alwie maintains, and which aim
basso much interest to prolong, without the raising of the
Embargo. How could England have mule soloist, for taty
time, all her columes and conquests ? How could the Spaniels
Colunica prolong their disobedience, to the laws of their non
Sovereign ? How could the unfortunate island of St. Donssitgo
istaintaiii itself against the fait y of parties, wlsi-h tears it to
pieces ? How, ill fine,' without the numberless suceonts„
Or every kind, that are going to be carried to them, could the
revolted provinces in the South of Spam resist Inge the fumes
employed to reduce them ? Thus, Sir, co whatever aids you
view the qiiestion of . aiding the einbargo, it is use of the
greatest victories that England ever gained for itrr cent.
ilatrel,tiOf of OW most fatal measures teethe system wdoytudi
by thsiesderator of the Continent of Europe, which was nis
• aberprabt of receiving the frojts of so many privations/mud
.esamilistee, sod which, perhaps, is going to be lost for ever.
" To consists us foe this destructive resubitlee, the
ettlitatii States arc good enough to *emit the intypitatiou of
•snail wines and lhaudies. %That s compensation! NO., it
MU take twenty cargoes of those arteries to Kt fat eat el

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