The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1808-08-30
sTWE ENQUIRER.
RICHMOND, AUGUST So Sc, 1868 1868.
IMPORTANT STATE PAPER.

ambiguity about 1t. Every thing Is fair and
ABOVE board. The injustice of the British
government is here written in sun-beams 1t
avows professions SO hostile to neutral rights,
and so e1hressty aimed at the rights of these
United States, that no honorable or patriotic
American can deliberate one moment about
submission.-Such an acqu,escence would be
the basest abandonment fo our own rights,
and damnable treason to the HERITAGE of
our osterity.
Hitherto, tho language of Great Britain
has been deceitful, because it has been dis
guised. Her usurpations have been couched
In the Sly, dtffomatic ingenuity of general
terms 1t was well understood BY every
man, who had the least discefnment in po-
htical matters, that her netarious orders were
specially directed against the commerce of
the U States; that it was To interdict the
trade OF this great commercial rival or to
distress her enemy through the Introduction
OF tins extensive trade, that Pitt and Cah-
ming, Hawkesbury and Melville have sue
Cessiveiy laid their shoulders to the diplo-
matte wheel. 1t was seen bv every man
that her restrictive orders of last November
could have no other bearings or tendency
Tor where was the neutral flag upon the o.
cean, against which it would have been worth
the iabour of the British government to have
waged war of eXtermination. Even the
i''i'Sh'''iS nag W tiDptni)crH MAJ vanished
from the seas. What morc had been consecra-
ted by European warfare or diplomacy, but
the Mahomedan flag of Constantnople, or
the piratical Crescent of the States of Bar
barry But though these facts were under
stood by all the world, vet they were not ex-
pressed in the official documents of G.. Bri-
tain. Ii was not SO stated OH the face of the
record. The verbs of commercial restric-
ton were general and vague. 1t was against
every neutral nation, that her November
Orders were directed. 1t was against e" any
vessel or the cargo of ana vessel, belonging
to any country" that violated the blockade
of Europe, that the thunders of confscation
were to be hurled. But in the document now
before us, this diplomatic guise is boldly
thrown of, The United States is the only
nation against whom these encroachments
are protessedly directed. 1t is against their
vessels, that the rapaCity of the Britith CRUZ
serS is now to be oStenSi6iy, as by their No
vembcr Ordersit has .,eaii. been directed.
These meditatcd Entertainments, are how
ever, but parts of the same system links in
the same series of insolent Injustice, which
has hitherto aCthated her conduct towards us
Her netariouG orders of last November, are,
1t seems, 100 light and ienient for our rebel
hearts. The narrow circle of action, which
she has allowed us, is too large forso0th for
her own interests or our deserts The chain
by which she has tethered us to the stake,
must be shortened little more. Those light
and enIent measures, which size has impo-
sed upon us, must be frightened little fur
ther.-lt seems, that America does not vet
surficlently know its place - that we vet
talk too big" and are yet tao "insolent."*
We mast be chastened and beat by blows in
TO little more submission. We enjoy too
much commerce at present, to please she spi-.
IN 10 irxr aud
commerce is too beneficial to her enemy, and
too injurious to her own shipping and colo
MES, not to provoke her deadliest vengeance.
We have done ma one act Of 7v1'ong to exas-
perate the British nation. We have done
nothing which justihes her embracing us
within tire grasp OF Her oSscnSi3Ic system of
retaiiGhi0n uton her enen7u No. 1t was
sufficient that the United States were bros
perinS III peace and in profitable trade with
the whole world, to draw down uron our own
heads the thunders OF her vindictive ;ealou-
sF.
Let the opponents of the embargo look to
these things. What an admirable recompense
does Great BRIAN promise us for a sus-
pension OF this measured What excellent
encouragement to the Boston Junto, to pe1se-
we're IN their efforts, for IT'S final repeal g.
Britain, 1T seems, has "a new Rod i'll pick e"
for her hayward child The suspension of
the Embargo, is so far frora softcning her
! austerity, and inducing a suspension of her
Orders in Council, that it. is only calculated
| to excite her vindictve ngeniiity anew. The
! moment in which I'll suspended, she is pre-
pared TO lay new restrictions on our Com
merce At that very moment, she is prepa-
red to give new range to her Orders in
Council "in the event of discontinuaRce of
the Embargo, she is to sweep off every YES
of trade. with the Fret,ci, cio 10
the West-lndies.
The British orders Of last Novem. thought
proper to exempt from her system of block
ade, our Commerce, direct to ports or pla-
ces III the colonies of hIS>maicsty's enemies
and from those colonies direct" to the ports
OF our own country, " or to some free port in
his maJestv's colonies in such cases and with
such articles as it may be lawful to import
into such free port" 1t seems now. howe
vcr, tina! the British are ready to repent or
these excessive lberalities extended to or
trade. They are greater than we arc entitled
TO. And Great Britain, who never gives up
long to another nation what She is emitted to
exact, is about TO retract her Simultaneous
concessions All the "musty, worm eaten''t
maXims Of the law Of nations are exploded.
The force OF British cannon has refuted the
CannUns Of PuHenAorf and Nattei Every
| thing is right which Great Britain is able 10
effect by her naval might. She has not only
| excluded tvs from tho trade of Europe, ex-
cept under British icence and taxation but