The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1806-02-21

and the tear OF being fufpeeted of irrefoIution
and iDconhitency, it is not difficult to predict
that theie papers will exhibit zeal, a viru-
ence, and perfecutng fpirit, to which even
tue papers OF Pennsylvania during the late c on
teited election had never reached.
| RELATIONS TO GRsAT-BeIrArS.-T
is atrongrei-mhlance between .here relations AS
| they were in the year 'S4 and as they are at
prcient. At the former period, we complain.
ed of the enormous outrages committed by the
| Britiih armed vei1els and crufers en- our trade.
| IN coniequence ofthe famous order of council
dated Nov. 1893 of the encroachments made
by the governments of Canada upon the Anne.
rican territory, and the indifpoiition of the
court of London tn deliver up the forts upon
the great lakes, cnnfrmablv to the treaty of
's3. AT the preient time, our complaints are
not 'eis founded III truth, and their encroach.
ments not better founded in iuitce They
nave b'ockaded our harbours, imprencd 5000
American 'eamen into their fervce, and are
letting up doctrines unknown to the law of ma
ti"ns, q ditavowedevenb by their own presidents.
to annihiiate our colonial trade. But though
our grievances are the fame as they were dn.
ring the year '94, our policy it may be conf
IDENTIFY predicted, will be widely difiniar and
the redrets obtained infinitely more valuable.
Upon this Jingle experiment, are we willing
% reit the comparative advantages of the laff
and the prefent administration. Let the iiTue
decide between them
Should the refut be more fortunate I'm the
| prefent than in the former cafe, il mutt not
be attributed to the prefent melanc holy prof
pect"of Great-Britain, with regard to the war
OF Europe. Thefe events will no doubt have
their effea upon our fnbGfing relations {;
bat It is an effect, not exclu6vely confined to
i'd
"a, the fame disappointment upon the con-
tinent was calculated to prefcrbe the fame re.
taxation of their meafi,res: and the wel-in-
formed Bellham has not failed to obferve that
the reception of MIR. Jay at the court of
London was at the firlt cool and revolving
hut III proportion as the allied armies reeeded,
| 1t was remarked that the negotiation advanc-
| ed.''
| Let us then revert to the policy of the fed
| eral administration, while vet ez,en in its bud,
unmodified bv the preindces which the Brit
in treaty and other federal meafures after
wards created. At that time, the fame ret,ic-
lions upon Britiih commerce were advocated
bF the republican party, as have been lately
propoted. Mr.. MadiCon's celebrated refoluti-
ons, which like Mr.. Nicholfon's now before
cnngrefs, were intended not to prohibit the in
tereonrf between this country and C. Britain,
not to prohibit altogether the importation of
'rltiih productions, but the inbortatiou of Eome
or them, were fortunate enough TO pats the
Houte Of ReDrefent 'tives, but were unfortunate
ly rejected in the Senate. 1t was the eating
vote of the Vice-Prefd-nt, MIR. Adams, which
gave them their death blow.
Let us only tuppofe, however, that this
meature had heen adopted is it altogether
Iimpoihble 70 fav, what would have been the
rciut! When the American war commenced,
when for the frf time the BritiCh had felt the
miichisvous consequences OF f./bendinp their
trade with America, we faw the merchants of
London, Briftoi, G!aieow, &c. prefenting their
pehtions again't the war, and thofe petitions
conhened to "the committee of obIivion' for
no other reaion than becaufe the nation was
ruled by minifry, too pafIionate TO confut
ITS real intcrefts, or too fronglv imprefIcd with
the belief, that the right of taxing America
concerned the very fovereigntv and unity of the
empire. Towards the cofe of that war, we
Ia" that the argument of the minifter, that
commerce and politics were matters totally diff
| tinct = had no longer the force which II orr
gina''y claimed; we faw the manufacturing
ano mercantile intereft again caufing its COM
p'a'nts t" be heard, and contributing 70 reform
the poLitfe5 of the Cabinet. In fact fiIch is the
great dependence of Great Britain upon Anne
RIGA for the faIe of the great G,rnlns Of her
nonnfdFHreJ and her carrying trade. that its
infpenFon for Jingle month would bring up
on her lois which at no time and much ,eGs
AZ A time ike The treeqi, could fl,e withtand.
ne manufacturers and the merchants would
make themfe'ves heard and in cafe where
10 many opPoinc interefs did not operate as
tneY did on commencing the American war.
the Intereft OF commerce qvouH controul the
meafnrcs of the government. such would nro-
badly have been the refult in ',4. II has been
rated by Mr.. Irving, and we have heard the
lame acc omit from Others, who were then in
LONDON, that when Mr.. Madiron's reffria;ve
REGULATIONS had reached England, the m erchants
and manufacturers of the capital were hrurt
WIN 4 conformation, which was about N vent
itieif IN the fronref petitions TO the throne
Az tne tr1dng and manufacturing cities wonld
nave initiated the example and not 4 doub,
Wa entertained, that Great Britain vouId have
zone us lutice, even without the necefTitv Of
carving our refriGtive meaGlres into sEs9
MIR. Adams, however. ffruck this exDedient ~,
redreiS out Of our hands, and Mr.. Law was fen,
on new negotiation 10 the court of I,ondon
And how did III this hnfele end what migb
~ hc1cfts did this federal policy purcb, fe
keadrr hudv the Brifib trr4fy trace the
mchiefs which it's execution and influence
nave produced and you are then competent
to anfwer The qucfion.
The federal administration was therefore
wrong IN fzUo rtCDpC1s. II wac vv-,,o :, r. A