The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1808-10-18
WASHINGTON, October 19.

WAsnINeTo ON, October 1s.
The following is another most important
and powerful attestation to the wisdom of
tho Embargo, and forcibly manifests the
light in which that measure is vie - ed bv the
most respectable and best informed men 1t
a distance from the political passions which
here discolor every thing. Mr.. Murdoch Is
anative OF the state of MARYLAND, where he
was educated, and spent considerable pnr-
tion OF his life in the esteem of his fellow
Citizens. During the war, he served With
high reputation i'll our army and has since
| established himself in mercantile life in
LondoH. where he ranks among the most
opulent and respectable merchants. We
| add, that his politics, when he resided liz
the United States, were federal
Extract eta letter. from W1ILLLfNJNUR
DOCK, Is?. msrehant, London.
LONDON, Gath July, 1903.
"With regard to your E.l.bargo, tlinS
it wise measure, and IL it should be per-.
| severed in, it will he the means OF preser-
wing peace and saving America from ruin;
whereas, if it sheuld he takehoff before the
Orders in Council and French DEGREES are
! amulet, America will suffer, and in tho
end be ruined, aud will furnish an example
ever after for any foreign nation to lay any
! restriction they please your commerce..
| II it is right and lawful for thistcountrv 10
compel bv her Orders in Council all vou1
| produce TO come here to perish for want of
. market, and moreover to tax one of your
principal articles Sd. per ID. before it can
be rc-cxported--I mean Cotton if this is to
be submitted to, it would lie far better for
ycu to become coonists again. / ask any
| one on YOUR side who is opposed to the En-
barge, &c point out to me the difference be-
tween'a foreign nation compelling all your
produce to come to our market, there to tax
it before it can be re exported, or to go over
to America and collect the tax before it can
be exportede There is difference in the
mode, but none in the principle. If one ar
tic,e is liable to be taxed, every other, by the
SANG rule, is equally So
1t cannot be denied that every country
has right to regulate her own commerce,
and lay what duties she choOses,: but she
has no right to order the produce of another
country into her own ports, and then to tax
It before it can go to a foreign market. The
j French DEGREES are equally +. rnicious and
Objectionable in principle as the Orders in
Cousci, and both ought to be resisted with
great frmness." .....Nat. Int.
What will the apologists ofthe British go
veriment now say to the dispatches brought
by the ST. MichaePs, since that government
has deprived them Of its only ground OF JUS
tihcation We say, the ahoiogists ofthe
British goveynmcnt, for there is no apollo
gy made, or attempted to be made by the
friends of the administration for the .nea-
sures of France. They, true co the inter-
ests of their own country, condemn the mea-
sures OF both governments. The Embargo,
winch is their measure, inpartially operates
on both. Indeed, according 10 the atlnissi-
, on Of British psrtizans both sides Of the
water, lis risor is most feltby France.
What, then, We repeat, will the apologists
: OF the British government now say?
They have justified the British orders sole-
" on fAe ground IF refaiia,ion. Not from
any dread Of the power of France, to en-
force her AloCkading DEGREES but from the
aiiedged acqu:cacence of orr government !;
that is, because our government or.,.-.ed to
take any measure or resistance What mea-
sure of resistances Immediate war against
France No one has been hardy enough to
contend FOR that Commercial REGULATIONS
tina, refused all commercial interc ourse with
her while her unjust DEGREES rcmai .!ed in
force? This is the very measure offered by
our government TO Brit ain. TO be taken in
case she rescuds her Orders. Resc.ud yonr
Orders, and we will remove the Enbargo
50 far as it regards you, while we viii con-
tinue it so far as it regards France, until
she revokes lier DEGREES IF France still
persists in her DEGREES, W. will have no
trade with her ; and if she rescinds them,
'i'' "'iNiO u tNC w III DC ItSlO'e 10 It's WON
ted freedom, and every ground on yonr part
= for your Orders will be taken away. Can
, any thing be clearer!
= Bnt the British government has refused to
= accept our proaer We say rcfIsed, for a
delay of justice is q denial of it. She knows
now keenly we feel tie condition in which
her iniquitous Orders and those of France
= have placed us she knows the ind spation
with which her scheme Of tribute has been
received by us. She knows that pacific
temper cannot, amidst accommodating wrongs,
endure forever. She knows that America
has spirit, which size has once caamitous-
. y felt, and may woet,!iiy feel again. What
thcn can she mean by thus rejecting the fair
proposition rendered her9 Can she mean
s any thing else than one of two things; to
/ drive us into war, or to- force us into an alb
'ece Submission to her tribute II her OBJ
" Ject were to do us justice, and TO allow the
harmony OF the two nations to be restored
without violation of the most essential az
tribute of sovereignty, the exclusive right
: OF taxing ourselves, would she not be con-
tented with an entire removal of all the
unjust restrictions imposed Upon our com.
- merce, thereby taking away every pretex;
" t1r retaliation, or with nearly the whole oi
: orr trade, pursurd c'i a footing Of fair reel
] iprncity. provided FRANCE persisted in he,