The Statesman.
London, England, 1812-05-14 00:00:00

treason, and all the horrors of civil war." ' A. ou,
rinus detail Of the evidence of a Count DE CRILLON
by) accompaniedll';r to Am...eh:al was submitted
with the above itrport.

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termined bigotry and perverse obstinacy of Mitts.
ters, in measures the most pernicious, be stigna.
tised for the expre.sion of their sufferings?.
I Shall the cant of Ministerial men, that faction 4,
the idol to which every independent man bows, tg
submitted to I As we value the freedom of speech
as the ark of our political salvation, we hope rot.—
Yet we know that the sentiments of many sufferino
men are suppressed, from the Whams of the power.
ful charm of this reiterated charge. Bet the time of
exertion is now arrived. Ever" man who. suffers
irons the measures of Governing, and dens not
make his sufferings known, giddy writs them,
The most successful of all the delusive arguments k
favour of the Orders in Council, s the triumphant
exhibition of exports and imports to skew their
effect. But, if this argument is entitled to any
weight, it bears u much against them as in thei7
favour. Though the foreign fade increased during
the two first years of the Orders in Council, it ha;
fallen off the last year, Iseetatkone maim! What.
ever may be the declaration of Mr. Sreentx, "that
the trade of the country was prostrate and raised
by the Orders in -Council," these Orders had no
more effect in forcing British manufacture on the
Continent than an Order in Council of the King of
OTAHEITE. The increase was entirely owing to acci.
Idental causes. The intercourse with South America was
surely not produced by the Orders in Council, and this
market was opened during the first year of their opera.
! tion. The residue of the increase was in Russia and
I the Baltic, and surely the Orders in Council did not
I force those countries to receive British Manufac-
tures, otherwise they would receive them now. It
was the mandate of BONAPARTE that hermetically
sealed the ports of Prussia, which, in 1809 and
1810, were the grand depots of British Manufac-
tures. This fact cannot be too often mentioned or
too strongly insisted on. Neither ought the alarm.
Ng deficiency of twenty-one millions in our foreign
trade, three-eights of the whole foreign trade of the
namon, which is preyed by doretnents nest before
the House of Commons, to be concealed. It ought
justly to alarm every commercial man with the most
anxious feelings. But it is enquired, Will the repati
of the Orders in Council gestore our declining trait,
The deficiency is ten millions to the United States of
America, six millions to Europe, and five to South
America. It will unquestionably maws an annual
export of twelve millie-bs offinanufsctures, the sole
product of the labour and industry of the kingdom,

LONDON:
TRURSDAY, MAY It, 181/.

betters from Washington have reached us to the to the United States of America, as the Paanceret
sth ult. and Boston Papers to the 2d. The vessel is obliged, by law, to declare the Non-Importation
which sailed from Liverpool on the 28th February Act repealed on a revocation of the Orders in Coun.
last, with the late Ministerial arrangements, reached eil. Besides this important vent for our manatee.
America on the 30th March. She was only four tures, they will, with the restoration of neutral
days taking in her cargo, and then proceeded to Eu- trade, as they formerly have done, follow it through
rope. The letters from Washington state, that du. all the various channels in which it has been carried
ping the secret sitting in which the Embargo was de- on. A common argument in favour of the Conti.
(ermined on, war measures were arranged, to which nuance of the Orders In Council is, that, if repealed,
the first was only a necessary preparatory step, and the manufactures of the Continent would beesported
that the term of 90 days was agreed on for the con- to North and South Atnerie.:„ and supply the con.
tinuance of the Embargo, in order to allow sufficient somptien of our own,. But the most successful pe.
time for the Ultimatum of the Government of the riods of our commerce, have been thoie in which
United States to be sent to England, and for the an- commerce has beat most free. When every fo,
swer thereto to be returned. A Deputation, consist- reign port has been equally open to the menu.
ing of three Members, had been appointed to wait on factures of England, and the Continent, our trade
the British Government with this Ultimatum, at the has been meet successful. Our substantial ma.
head of which, it is said, is Mr. RUFUS KING. The nufactur:s have vier had the preference, and al.
taking possession of Amelia Island and other ports in ways will command it. Let it be remembered, that
Florida,. was necessary to give complata affect to the thet_istat it dais argument .is Illry meth Jai-
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Embargo. Bills were at a discount of 25 per cent. on nisbed by this important fact, that morn French
Englaud,as soon as it was known this measure was de- gdods are nom consumed in the limited States, ted-
terminedon.—A report that the Embargo would take withstanding our Orders in emnscil, thaw before their
place,having reached New York on the morning of the existence. But in all our examinations and discus.
2d, by express, in 36 hours, from Washington, it f sions of this subject,' thefr justice or injustice is alt-
. produced an inconceivable degree of commercial I solutely disregarded. This point seems to be entirely
' bustle. Not, less than 50 vessels commenced loading I abandoned in ascertaining whether it is for our in.
in the course of the day. Flour rose a dollar per terest. We really hope, for the sake of some de.
barrel, and freight advanced 201. per cent. At cency of national character, that the subject will be
1 Lisbon, according to our *deices of yesterday, the more discussed on this point, as it is an affair of some
price of American hour had risen in the expectation difficulty-to p'rsuade the Americans, that the Ordea
of such a proceeding. It will scarcely be believed) .in Council are necessary to distress our enemy, ellen
' but it is a fact ascertained by authentic documents,; we are ready to supply them, specink gratia, with
that within twelve months, 700,000 barrels of flour all they want, provided they will take it from us. •
i have been sent from the United States to the Polio- I Since writing the above, we ha'e received intent.
sula, the payment for which amounts to three millions gene@ from New York to the 7th of April, brought
sterling. In what manner Spain and Portugal will by the Tiber, which arrived at Liverpool on the
be supplied with the essential article of subsistence. (nth item lere Virptain of this vessel states, that
kinder the present circumstances, is a serious coast-
just about the time he sailed, a general Embargo
deration. ; was laid on.; and that acccunts from Washington, by
A report was made to Congress on the 19th March , exress, had been received, stating that the Nan-In-
ky the Committtee of Foreign Relations, to whom portodou jet tem about to be repealed.
the Petarnewe's Message, respecting lons 'tee', The fallowing :tie some extracts from the Ameri,
:had been, submitted, io which they state " that the I can Papers which have jot reached us:—
llansaotion presents to them conclusive eTtdolnia 1 NEW.VORK, Aran 6,
that the British Govoramont, Outing pewee, end the ' PIIIIPAIL4IIO7OI7OIII Sitltuats.—Vre state, on au.
most friendly professions, has been deliberately and thority which we do not doubt, that Commodore
•perfidleasly peerages measures to divide the United Kansans has received orders to prepare and man all
port,
SION itiut **Ye their oitipens in all the guilt of the beets belonging to the atnnel vessels now in