The Sun.
London, England, 1808-08-27 00:00:00

EFFECTS OF THE EMBARGO.

Ir is now -about six months since the Embargo
,was laid. \V have been fold that this period of
tune would be sufficient to bring. the Naiions of Eu-
-rope to ;heir 'riot senses—that, after a-lapse of six
mom hs, they would-yield to our -claims; and the ob-
ject of the Embargo be accomplished.
What i the complexion of our last accounts from
Enrope ? Does ouriniormation from that quarter
iro a disposition either in France or Great 'Vi-
tal!, ro yield to our 'wishes ?.
From England we are informed there appears no
.to relax even . her Orders in Council,
flinch 1.-.-ss to 'give up hei pretensions to her v.:Amen
who. may be found navigatiis our Merchan men ;
nor does airy thing look like •her acceding to the
prin. Mi.. that free ships shall makefree"goods ;. in
other: words, that neutral flogs shall be perMitted
to corer her efiemys. property.: And. fin t herT what
ren•;ets the prospea .of • her.bt:tiug brought io these
terms ies.s promising.iso hat her stock of bread corn
:is sr.-wit, tlot very little or no advanc.witfritlre price is
said to have- taken place, nor is any expedeti, Unless
tire expo;:twion Of that .article .to.supply :her •Wcst
cokmlies, now- cut off. from intercourse with
Country, should .prOn'e a rise. ,
From littlice we are no. rmed, that the -Emperor
has -- coon,oa.ted the• Ane.a....;ri property. at, Liam-
burgh, and ordeted.it to i vvi,. bout eLet-rrr trial.
He has rna,-1. .no relaxati.ai h. his Berlin and
Decrces.; and further,. has even refused nem:is-ion
to the-Dispatch •Veslei:of our Government, sent ouq
last whit, r, to touch at a French port on her re-
turn from England.

Fro,n, these two great Powers there is therefore
nothing at presz•nt to warrant .the expeaation that
our Embargo, has as yet seriously afktted them—
'Although in some particulars both undoubtedly have
ex,'irrienced evils and infonveni,.nces from it.
From the We,Si India Islands we learn the•Em-
harp is seriously felt. Flour, at. Jamaica ilnd,other
British Islands, hits risen, to 25 and 30 dollors,:and
"other, provisions in proportion. In
,the Trench
Islands the pressure is still more serious, as might
have been expected, from the British .having the
command
.01 -the seas. Flour, at fvfartinique And
GUadalOtlpP", is 'at the
.eno'rmous price of to dollars
the barrcl, and other provisiOns equally hi&h. The
Spanish territories bordering on our S'outhern fron-
tier are s:ateako to be in extreme want of the ne-
cessaries of lite.'

. •
TilkuS far we haq tile::11-eas of the Embargo for
six months. Its pressure upon the West Indies is
:most severe.. Upon
,Europe. it does . not appear that
its effects are very corn'manding.
We must not b..... surprised if the continuance of
the Embargo does not raise the price of provisions in
the British; West Indies .mucli above the: present
standard sway, we must not be surprised if a reduc-
tion of the:,e prices should soon takeplace.rEugl44l
has the command of the ocean—supplies can. be Sent
from the mother couniryfrom her Canadian
pus-
sessions, and from the presSure_ of the times, • the .
plainers will be compelled to resort to the cultivation
.ot such 'of the necesaries of life as their lands will
.p! ()duce, 'and'every source of sustenance will be ex-
plored and re'orted to.

The Freiictri being almoSt totally cut off
from the Mother CFninry.by the supremacy of the
'British n,vy, Must experi4nce the ire-nest distress
from the embargo. Yet it is not certain" that 'even
1 these isLinds,..though totally cut otritron) the rest of
the world, are incipah!e of sustaining the present
population. '• We ktio-v that when first discovered
by the E,,ropeanadvQ,h! they were thickly in-
habited w,th Indians, who drew-their .sulisiience
fi om the soil; tud al!hough the ;present possess ors
would dohbtless sufter great hardships in
their accustomed tool for that Iwhi:;h. the isiaUls

may afford, yet prob.lbiv they may as' (he
-black pOpulation at titiiCS often has,
Iteu or fifteen years past, in their revolutionary stidg=
The. objets of the embargo, wh'en first recom-
ctnended by the President, w s by him declared to
be " the preservation of our ves,els and seamen
froth capture by foreign 'nations." 13nt-sethething
further thati this soon appeared to'. be had in view
by our rulers-,—it was an experiment-,--an experiment
to ascertain whether the world •could could not
do without us. A6ls in :addition to Acts fo,ll,ted,
till Writ only-our were prohibited the
-but our produce.—our beef, pork, fish, grain, and
-lumber, and every 'other sp,cies of produce were
prohibited -exoortation by land as well as. by
Had the Ore.iervation of our ships and-sea Men been
the only obje.l in vie.w; foreign vessel; might have
been perinitted,
.as lietetolore, to come' into our
ports and purchase our prOduce;. and, with this
the preseivation of . our ships and seamen

would have I;eeii completely eft6ed as now,
-When both our sen nien .anct our ships ar locked up
in our own territoiy.- The objeet, however, being
to aseettain; as before observed, 'whether the
eTecially Great Britain; could do without this
V‘. oti!d not do,. and so a general non-intercourse
plan v4a4 adopted,' So rat as it respe6tecl 'the selli.;g
of out own produce to foreigners, and the sailing of
dur own vessels to foreign ports.
The GRAND F.XrERIMENT has now been in opt-
ration al:out halt year. 17\itethet it 'is a wis:, or.
unwise scheme fiine :From what
we bear from Europe, it sect-lint has.not yet prp:
d iced the etf...l its projeetors calculated,TApon, .and
how•tnuth longer the experimerit must bil.cont-inued
in order to give it a full arid fair .chance success;
•seetnild qUite_doubttul. If, hoWever, i,t
.will
not (k) in six 'month's, perhaps it will in twelve—if
'not in one• year, may. be in two it will Succeed—
and if not in two, still there is a chance in three or
four, or a greater; length of tithe: As great ,national
it is presumed, are 'not lightly adopted,
nor atteMpted• Without q_ nature and se-
rious investigitionof all their bearings; co,se-quences
and results; so it is to be presurried they 'Will' not
be r:.;litlysalrindoried upnri-eyery irifliag discourage-.
ri,eui—as this would not Only indicate weakness in
our rulers, but evince An instability of character,
incapable even to carry theiroturvprojeds into ef-
tea. •'

Uhe.circurn4tance attends our presetit situation,
by which, it steals, that although our rulers might

h. ve calculated teat tiie world could not do without
us, yet they did- not 03.,1c1i expect we could do will-I-
-out the world. Accordingly, the, door for the im-
portation of foreign. good:,, in foreign vessels, was
left open. Foreign -vessels- arc 'permitted to bring in
foreign produce and Mailufaittres---but not to re:
Ceive our produce or manutaatires in Payment.---
The .exportatiOn of money not ;being. proMbited,
these foreigners are.. reduced, by the wise embaigo
system, to the hard necessity of taking off our gold
•
and silver,., or going without, their pay.
Too much money is certainly an evil in any obun-
try, therefore„the greatest simpleton in the com-
munity7cannot dispute .the wisdom of those .rulers
who duly provide proper drains for. the purpose of
taking off the surplus cash of the people; and some
suppose that: should the present embaigo, or nob-
selling' and all buying system,'cOntique, but a few
years longer, ther,e will beno just cause of complaint
that•we are over-burthened, as now, with gold and
silver money !

Ater all our vexation and losses by this embargo
experiment, it would really be mortifying should it
so turn out as to injure ourselves as much as it does
others,;=,--shotild it prove advantageous to the British
commerce, by withdrawing ours from the ocean—
should it encourage-the agriculture and fisheries of
their. American possessions, by giving them the mo-
nopoiy of the West India market—should it throw
into their hands the carrying trade of the world; now
that we have abandoned it—should it give them the
services of the greater part of those 50 or 60,000
seamen, lately employed in our vessels, • who must
now elsewhere seek their bread, and should it fi-
nally drain us of our gold and silver to pay. for their,
produce, while ours must either be consumed by
ourselves or rot on our hands. Should these uhfior-:
tanate Circumstances grow out of this grand experi-
ment—this "strong measure" of embargo and non-
intercourse; alas, for my. Country, when would it
reg;:iin its-late
.commercial, prosperity, and -retrieve
the'severeldsses it has sustained?