The National Register.
London, England, 1812-03-01 00:00:00

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e looked for, they had only turned out to thebeeiefti.,ot the the, and
1- where we had aimed at uesttu . • a hi Odr acivero: ty, we bad only can-
!, tributed to his strength and aggiendisement. The iut:ciwre, indeed,
Was naturally calculated not to injure France, but America;- and,
41kotAgh America, ourselves. The expedient adopted to correct the
evil, too soon roanihet by granting liceoses to trade to Vrance and Hol-
land, was impolitic, ioittrious, and unjust in 'the eetrente; It went, to
the utmost extent, sloe t of declared ever of mercentile hoshii!), with
America, and, by. a most preposteroug contrivance, to augmeot the
power and resources of our declared and inveterate enemy, France:
he advantage resulting to Prince, by her connexion with Atnartca,di4
not exceed 500,0001.; and for so petty a consideration, so great an. ittinse
the was to be committed on the interests, and sogreat ap •outrage on
the national feelings, of ile only Power, at prescohexistlog, which could
properly be called neutral. tie knew that no less than 100,000 bales. of
cotton, and of cotton twist, were exported from elinterica to the Baltic
i and to Trieste. While she could afford thus to wort in eh large and
! new a measure that v4111;614 chuck of manufaetuve, she was not inat•;.
tentive to the looms which mielit keep it more peofnably at home, and
which already afforded a reaseeahlp expectation, that she should sormi
by Industry and ingenuity, urged oti by patrlotlem., be equal to her owl./
innply. Upon the subject of the licenses and their pernicious souse.
quences, his Lordship dwelt 'irneib,ly upon the nationalittjustice which
.they involved. One notable instance of the eeal with which some Jima
would avail themselveaof an imprei:er or iniquitouhpriyilege,he should
mention, 15,0e01. hed been oih.rod for a license to import brandy, ,:u h
presumption that such q license had been grant: d to another person:
His Lordship then called the attention of the Howie to 'the general
statement of Imports and Exports, which lay von their Table, Irani
which it would be found, that in three quarters of a year, there was a
defalcation of no less than ] 5 millions, and of 20 millions tor the .'holei
of the year 1811. Upon the Negotiation with America, he would touch.
as littid as possible.. He would not a9rin with America, th.a this; were;
try was actpated by rth
any hostile or uar dispi)sition 'towards her; and
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most earne:dy he deprecated the calamities of war. What Imo: he the
Iconsequence of one hundred elid tarty thousand seamen being e.,•li-,1 to
the strength of f rance, and no le•=s than tivo millions of tons iii shit-en* i
ii What the consequence in the Peniuspla, where a large perteureof the
}.habitants both of Spain and. Portugal, as well as our armies, arc r.tipe
1 .pihisi with food from' America, and who, in care that source' were
gripped, must be fed by this country ? Those ceesereuences must ,lie
evident to every Noble Lord who heard him, and could not rail to int.
press him with the clear necessity Of eeter;ng into a scrip is iequiry esel
,'. the sublect. His Lordship t:oncluttecl, by ne•eing for ."a Select Com-
ntittee, to consider the Cornmereial State of the C entry, the Chdere
'1 in Council, and the Licenses, and other .lhoes connected therewith,", •
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ILord BATUURsT said, he did not mean to follow the Noble Marquie
through the Various politheal al'usions in which he le ht halulgedliirashlf;
i but he would ask the Noble Marquis, whether it was his wish td. he 70
i the Order of ianuary, 1907, repealed: if so, he could inforin him thkt
Ole entertained a wish which, if carried into execution, could not bit
f.prove exceedingly detrimental to the ententhircihl prosperity pf this
t country. The principle etprin which-that Order was passed was t.- pre
vent neutrals frem interfering, in time bf war,. With the crenuterce .4
i the Belligerent Powers, in such a manlier as could' rentlerefihctual a,.
.sistance in one of them, to the material detriment of the other. The •
• Oyster of 1907 was a blockade by...nothication. The Noble Marhuis ha,i
said that there would be no oetiasiOn.for licenses *ere it tint for 'the
Orders in Coupcil; but the truth was, that the great bull: of liceniets
was to those ports not under estate of blockade; s: hick not by any
raeans'alfected by the Orders; of course this ohservatipn was entirely
-.vithout foundation. It heel been stated that these Order's; in conse-
quence of the vast number of foreign ships which they had occasioned 'hi
be employed in 13ritishcomm eve, were.heiyinktrioes to the navigation
of the countre; but if the greeter part of terepe was.pilieed under tahli
circamstancts as to excludt. from its ptira the 'British slineping, it evia
' necessary to have recourse to the shipping of other countries (Or thil
carrying on of this comieerce. In the year 18i.'6, when the.trade of title
' .country was considered in e highly rrasptioo _state; and to -whole 'Oe
the Bettie was open to its ceaonerce, the Cumber of ser,mhe ~.mpleyt4
e, is not more than 188,47 G. In leach atter` the winter. -ef this c nu-
'try had been excluded in a great reeachre front the Ealtic, the it 't
of seanien employed was nch less then 210.600. Here wes dear y It
increase of near 90,000; at a peried aidien our commerce, and the num-
ber of British seamen employed in it was cons...tiered by many personl tri
ht sutferint, in consequence of the Orders in Council. lit 'OO7, an .
Order had been issued by the Noble Loh.h opposite, end tie.ir friends:
That Order was much of the hihne nature a., the Order? of Which they
new compleintd, audits ostensihle object—aid lee believed it Ohild have
no other ohject in view;.;-was the incrha.,e of
.13iitith trade to those
commies then under the dcpiini: nof fret-ice; ant, ';ff woitid iby, uiatei
what other principle than the encouragorent'atid j-I•otecticin ot •I.lritish
cemmercewere the other Orders isseed, which had' .ieeehecome the
eletees i of so much hostility 11. in,.. the /o.lale Lord's on ea' qpposite side
Ey the.ot,:er of 18Q7, 'the (Any conaitioo
_required was a letitish desti-
nation, and if this Were provo.l,-th'e vessef yeas pertnitted ta proceed
without further molestation ; .bot in finite time after, frarn putiferot:?
repre4ent.4t WAS made to the Board of Trade, that Board thoughe.th ail-
-1 vis:lble to introduce some eiteratihis in ifc&rsesa It *as pot'right td f•t•:#
that the Orders were pthser! fur the purpose nf e.reliving • Fro:ce of ...q
t: ad... The Ish.,ble i:: e ...,-. r rat al the elite ts of Oahu; when he stetchs

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