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London, England, 1812-03-04 00:00:00

rate Was 19s a ton ; at-plaesent if way §6s. to utt.
derstood also that at Hull, a place the most likely
to be affe6led, there was not a sil) which was
not either actually employed, or abo,ut to be taken
lips In this respe6t too, the trade wit the Spa-
nish and-Portuguese Settlements in South America
*otlld be more advantageous to' this country than
the trade with the United States, only from a 7th to
a 23d part of which was carried on in British ship-
Ping. When the commercial treaty of 1797 was
"ncluded -with America, it was on the footing of
reciprocal advantage. By that treaty it was provided
re
the duties-in each country upon the insorta.
trout from the other should be diminished l 0 per
"at. upon the existing duties. No sooner how-
ever, was this treaty concluded, than America
doubled, her duties, which amounted to nearly a pro-
teribition of British g 0,4.14. By trading with the
and Portuguese Seolements in South Arne-
this country would get navigation, and it would
gee mercantile profits. Nothing could be more
clear than the disadvantageous situation in which
Orders Britain would h lye been placed, but for the
utirders in Council.—France would then have had
'e benefit of that trade from which we should
`lave been excluded. She would have amply fur-
"ished herself trim America with all that she
irequirede with raw materials for l:er manu-
ac'n'esr and particularly wi h cotton, for the
Importation of . which she` had recently shewn
the greatest- anxiety. What had been the origin of
the Orders in Council ? France sat 1 that there
513"01,1 be no trade to England. Our answer was
I(ean answer which we had the power to enforce),
j'at nothing should go to France that did not come
°III her to Eng-land -We had a right to siy to
Lt-I,ral powers, 'hat if they tolerated a reeulation
uric' of .ininiicA to our cotniner-
c;a.l triterests, they must tolerate a regulation on our
tart ,itl defence of those interests. Nothing hostile
-a, iii;-tiara towards America. On the eontrara.
.
teel'e,i). de,' le,. attention ;red kindness %vas slie‘.vit
;o"T by Gnat Britain. The condeet of Frarce
sw•
arils A. ieet ;' was directly the reverse,. Not
C tent w th the Berlin Decree, she proceeded to
„lo Ainerieae property at sea, and then issued the
t. Decree, which suhjeeted to confiscation
Nit' at vessels that permitted themselves to be
:relied.- It has bean said, that the French P--
ees had been revoked; but on no foundation. In
rejece;,t prize cause,, on a vessel called the Catherina
ugns.ta, it was allowtd that t'se Berlin and Midi]
b etrees 1),,d not been rescinded. An Ameticati
1,
In ballast, from Charlestown, had also been
Islarl.red in-to (Aais ; and no longer ago than Novem-
er last, the Capiain and o'a ner presented a pet itien
i° Congress, praying their interposition, and :dreg-
eptig that the vessel so captured was taken On the sole
:7ciu„und Of a supposed- iitfraetion of the Bea lin and
lap pool Decre,..s., But the He-use was told, that there
been ne eenderrmatiens in France ueder t'iese
e.e
1,„ -tees. Of this he could not spt.-ak ; but no one
eu-atlid deny that there had been sequestrations to a
thHclerabie amount. It eretty neatly the same
letr,)g. Every syllable v. lido the Han. Gentleman
ee"instered on the su senatheect ii4pers, was
ci} Cable to the period before the Orders ie Coon-
at'd the Trade Licenses were issued ; and
tee- ,Would sate, wit' out fear of coetredietieii, z-bat
-iatterhaaverii much. checked- -erje•-y and fraud
Betbre the Liceeses :.ere issued, tt
necessary-tor ere Captain of 'a ship to lake au
oath
at the Castem.heilye, reltrive. to the
.size of
is ship and the number of his o.en. This wa, tiis-
f?rftinued, and he knew of no ooh substituted.
°all those shocking perjuries e'hich were formerly
t'luent in Doetors'Commoes, I;:ere was no teinp-
Lat,itm• • He had inquired paroCularly into the sub-
' Jes 4-1, and he was assured, by Masters of neutral yes- .
ls, that they were not upon to mate any
zefidavits on the o her side: of tee water-. Udder
ti
esecircutnstanees, was it lair fur the Hon. Gen-
ell'an to conic down and bland the national dia. t4.6ter With the inapt-nation A 53sternatic perjury ?
abolished
the Orders in Council and the Licenses
tatrlished, when indeed the country would return to
ct system of neutethiation under which perjuries
trere formerly- so frequent. Reverting-to the dis-
%e-es Of the-manufacturers, lreexpressed his per-
-seelsino ,tat great arts had been used to make the
jelling individuals believe that their evils originated
e, Me Orders in Council. Those persons had
frtailily borne their distresses with a patience arid
se aittitude which entitled their present complaints
eibtine most indulgent attention ; but it was impal-
itere to convince him that the greater part of the
th ivid6als who put their names to a petition against
the Orders in Council were at all aware of the mode
wewhich those Odors operated,; and of this he
• les assured; th tt I heir sufferings would be materi-
t iricreaed were those Orders rescinded. He then
scel°k a view of the exports of the- current year,
sie 'eh, however. depressed, he contended, still con-
tiLerThlyexeeeded what had been their amount in
eleYears 1803 and 1804. From this circumstance
eb thought he had aright to' assert that the
statements which had been made with
ePea to. the present state of the country, were in
,P,eal measure without foundation. The.country
C4ld. hot be'ruined while such a comparison could
: made. Would it be contended that Englatid
Qt s net a great country in 1803 and 1804 That
("at period she was such, had never yet been
dented; and• what grounds, then, could there befor
asserting that she was ruined now, because her
ittta, •,-(16 was depressed ? since, though it was not what
" oßd.been, her exports still exceeded. considerably
what they were in. the years he had named. The
ilOnourable and Learned Gentleman had said, that
ti,"e goods exported in the year t&O9 had not-been
a`'le to find a Market. There he was obliged to
tautraditi him.. He would tell him, that they did
find a market ; and yet more, that our goods con-
Potted to find a market till the month of March,.
in 1810. Under the headof Imports, he presumed
he: need:not inform the, Honourable Gentleman•
that the produce of our colonies and fisheries was
4acluded. This stated, however,
,it would be
Eeen, that, our exports, compared with our imports,
did not determine the balance of trade. With re-
seed to. what had been said of the excessive issues
of Bank paper in England, he had to say, that our
sank notes had increased within the last two months
by the exchange at Hamburgh, from 10 to 15 per
Cent. e and he had no doubt, if things continued as
favourable as at present they appeared, that a still
-6e f
ake arthe
Prlac iapid improvement •in the exchange. would
"b te_ . Is. ,