Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1808-06-24
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oWeuen, denmark and Norway, Holland
| Hamburg, Bremen, and other Hanse
owns, French European ports, PORTUGAL
AMI Italy, amounted TO above for,y.rnur
millions of dollars. This portion of trade.
! like the former, is unconnec ed w.iha SUD.
ply OF British wants, our direct trade 10
that nation fully supplying her wants,
Adding these sums together, we have an
aggregate sum of sixty-two nj ons Of
dsiiars.
| BY the same document, it appears
that our whole eSporlatioBs FOR the same
period, amounted 10 one hundred aud
eight millions.
Ii follows that the British o, ders com.
| pseteiy enforced, inhibii the carrying On
| OF slxiy.twO millions out OF one hundrsp
and eight millions OF our usual trade
as we'll our imporiatioBs as expectations.
This will appear from two consiaera,i-
ons. If we are prohibited from export.
ing our goods, the means of importing
| 'oreign goods to a like amount are taken
from US One is the effect OF the other.
These sixty-two millions Of ex;kits may
now go to England But, for what pnr.
pose For her consumption 4? She does
not want them to the value Of a cent
| 4
| continent refuse to receive them THROUGH
England; and Mr.. Barring, the most intel
ligent foreign writer drawn forth by the
CRISIS, laughs at the idea OF being able TO
force these commodities into the CONT.
mental market and asserts that smuggling,
carried to its most eagitious leng hs,
would nos be successful In one case in
ten
I,
Further; our, exports to Great Britain
and her dependencies amount 10 8 nil
lions of dollars, What portion e these
are again exported from Englandi For to
TO tins extent, would the demand OF Bri.
tam be diminished for our exports, when
herselfprohIbued from expo, ting the sur.
Plus 10 the continent. Ofthis, some idea
may be formed, by the relation which the
imOuot OF our export Of domestic articles
10 Britain bears 10 the whole amount ex
ported, aud by view of the principal ar.
Icles exported. The whole amount OF
hose exported is forty-eight millions, of
which twenIy-eight go TO England.
lhs principal articles exported are /:
MILLIONS.
Fish in value, 4. &
| Wood and naval stores,
| Provisions, II
Tobacco,
| Cotton, IA
Without entering into minute details,
there can be no doubt but that of twenty
eight millions exported to Great Britain
ten millions at least arc re.exported.
These ten millions, added TO The FORE
going sxty.two, make a total of seventy.
Iwo millions, amounting to just two thirds
Of the whole usual trade of The United
STATES.
Is 1t then conceivable that an exertion
oil arbitrary force, thai, destroyed two
thirds OF our trade, * subjected the residue
to caprlclous regulation, would have be .
'bmntedto nl'vidCa iy by cur merchants
Would they not have considered war 2
the lesser evil, and have demanded it :
, Would they not have claimed The priyi-
lege OF arming their vessels, and pursuing
their enterprise wherever their power
could have opened to them market {
They most assursdly woald and this ar.
ming would have been war.
: IL appears, therefore, that whatever
: view is taken OF this subject; whether
} national honor or individual interest is
E made the arbiter - war would have ensucd,
but tar the embargo.
d AN AMERICAN WING.