The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1805-10-25

indies and North hnierica. We could live extreme
| ly well without them. They hav. rot Jingle ar
tice To lend 6u, what We c,u,d want with the
greaiea convenience. The only commodity which
was ever pretended; to be neceary from that quar-
ter, Ter our eoEunpsion, is fugar; aud OF the guam
sity uied in this country, he well informed, thar
nn, more than one-iixth part came from tine Ritiih
Well indies. On the other hand, we had frequently
been obliged 10 keep them from tarving Ii ever
there w;S cafe, where country could diiate tn
another, 1t was that iit mentioned and vet the
gentleman from Seuth+carona hsd mentioned as a
frazer, that we admitted fend proviGons into
the ports of the Bri,i,i Wea-lndies This E,ssr If
reduced 10 plain language, and addreed by the plan
the Weit-nGcs, to the citizens ofts country
would run thus" we will agree rot 10 Farce s4,jIes
we Will lend you orr rum, which you can do very
well without, and for which can find market no
whr-c ellie. But we will reierve to ourfelves the
right o. transporting, both the and the other, in
our own bottoms, AMI upon terms" Theie
ATE the marks of that discriminating fapsr which the
gentleman alluded This favor exits only in the
latu,e book, and tina, by chance. BY the oid fyi-
tenn of colonial laws, country whatever, except
Britih colony, could lend her preduEs to the Br,rh
Wet India inands.
| This law with regard To- North America had never
been reverted, tina, IS it had never been thought
worth while put her into the Ii Il Of prohibited coun-
tries, becue in a other part of the world could
lfupply the wants OF the Bri.ih WeA-ndies. He OBJ
ervcd that the reourcs o! the revenues of Britain
were extremely ilrained. when compared with the
| rciourccs of the United States.
In Britain every perlon an average paid forty
hilings iterhng per head of taxes, Whit in the u
mted States the average was not than fix DILL
ngs fering; and as the price of abour wa. twice
las high in America as in Britain, and as cons,uentlv
the citizens OF this country twice as able to
that Xix billings, this in reality reduces the tax Z. one
hall, or three ihi'lings Rerng or in other words.
Anfriea had but t5ie.rb part NJ the burthen to
bear, which at prefent loaded England
That country has likewife a large pnfs,-s5 sABt.
She is alto involved in dreadful and runoss war
and the method which Che is forced to einrloy fer
raing money to maintain it, is The feed-bed for f,
ture We have likewife take into the account
that the population of this country is advancing with
rapid frides, while that of England is ttarionary.
| There may be gentlemen who viii tell US that by
adopting the Propofed n.ealure, fhoud irjure the
public revenue collected from hefe imports and ,hey
will ak how ihall the deficiency be replaced
r 1t one country does not fiPply another will
Our country 10 able to import in proportion to her
exports. SupPoie all the Britih manufactures with
held from our ports, he alarmed at the con-
iequence. She does not herfeif Iuanufataure more
thar onehalf of what li- exported to US nor does
he conuine more than one-fourth of what fhe takes
from US -fourths, coofequently of our pro-
duce would fupply fund fuificent to replace the
failure in the revenue. The proportions will no.
effect Spain and Portugal. They fend US almoH no
manufactures of any kind. The argument therefore
OF revenue, allowing it its full weight cannot be con-
fdered as OF fuihcient confrquance to prevent orr
adopting meafure. fer eaablilhng our national cha
racter and PROPERTY.
Spain carries in her own bottoms only oae.Gx-
teenth, and Portugal onefeventeenth part Of the tom
mage OF their trade with North-America Their no.
hey is to let other countries carry for them Thew
have not like Britain navigation aa. The gentle
man from South-Carolina employed a very Rranee
argument yefterday, for reconcing US to the treat
ment which we get from Britain. That if fhe uied
US, a. well The did other COUNTRIES we had no rea
ION to complain, let that ufage be what it would
But admitting this as an argument, the fati was not
true, tor before the Prefent war; fhe entered into
ieparate treaty with France for the mutual inter-
change of manufactures, and the had ALTO, Gnce the
year 1898, been in treaty of the fame kind with
Portugal, although fhe has never yer condecended
to enter into commercial treaty with the United
States. She has treated America, much worfe than
Portugal In fact there is eiVizea eorntry in bo
7Uera zObsre Amf,ao vris Jaeb tad Treatment.
az in Byitnn.
| To prohibit Britih manufactures from entering
country, was nothing new. Th. he underftood to
! be the cafe, both in Denmark aud Sweden
The gentleman who ipoke yelterday had adopted
Hyle of reafonng which was certainly very GRANGE
and would have weigh. with very few He faid
that ii France behaved lavorably u.s. it wa. no me-
ritz as The did 10 to every body and that if Britain
uied us i'll, he ikewe did 70 to every body and we
therefore ought to bear it patiently The gentleman
was wrong both in his faSs and his interences Bril-
tain did not behave 70 badly feveral other nations
as ihe does to Witch regard to France, which
the gentleman had formerly attempted TO reprefsn,
as igfOas it appeared froan the Preiidents eiIaee
to the houie of Representatives that he for one was
OF very different opinion. In that rneaace, he had
oberved that till very lately, France had upon eve
ry location manefed friendly dilpoiition to Ane
RIGA. But laid MIR. Maiifon, " britain leaves no
room for compliments of this lSuG." As to France.
the member from South Carolina had taken for his
,p'eb the period of the old gove,ncs. He lad refer
red TO fbaf as the only (f'iisi ord.r of.6i.gs
Mr.. Madifon was of another opinion. He viewed
the diipofton of tho preient governnlen, as more
likely to be permanent. hope, added he, that the
order OF things previous to the revolution, will rear
| return However ion,e gentlemen may view the
Preient government of France as fugitive thing.
am convinced that the difpoton Of i, will not be 70
esrtain as they apPrehend and hope that return
OF the old lyifem will for be uncertain"
Here Mr.. Madifon entered into more particular
detail OF the tms of the produce of the United States
exported ioto the French and Britifh dominons and
oil the In1po9s demanded by thele nations refpeliye
". rs to Britain, there is Handing prohibition A.
CAN'T the Importation of wheat aud -four into that
COUNTY, uutil they rife TO fch bih ,,r;re rho, IL;