The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1808-12-02


ting her naval dominion.
AS to calculations on the harvest, all cal
culations or this sort must be idle in the eX
IRENE. Gentlemen must be very little ac-
qaainted with the situation OF that country to
ehtertam them for a moment Mr.J,. said
that he found by advices from, Great Britain
that Am. flour after 9 months embargo was
selling at as. per barrel BY th,. prohibit
ing OF trade TO the continent sugar and moias-
ses RAD become 4 mere drugin e Is. The CO.
ionlal interest alarmed atthis had applied 10
parliament fora bill 20 substitute sugar * mo-
lasses in the place OF grain for distilerics, C
mus insure a double beneG:. This had been
opposed by the landed interest on the ground
that tile introduction into the market of SO
great Quantity OF grain as had former
~ been used in manufacturers, would
reduce its price 50 much thai it would not
compensate the farmer for his labor: Ii had
obtained however, Thus it mirhe be seen
that-they would Dft starve lireat britain
1t might possibly De suggested that the
raising the embargo would operate ms ad
vantage TO the United States as resDected
Spain aud Portugal; that this commerce
might be considered inconsiderable, and as
a trade that would be uniustly prosecuted as
respected the different portions OF the union.
SPAN & PORTUGAL were not grain countries.
cut produced wines, fruits, &c. depenl;np.
on other countries, amcngst which were the
United States, for grain. In their present 81
tuation they could get it better from the
United States, than els where. In Sn,in and
foitugat, as in other Catholic Countries. at
certain seasons Of the year, their religious
creed babe them to abstain from the use of
iieSn, Tor Which they in general substituted
i'sh. ms would Cote from the Northern
country and the flour from the middle and
oouthern portion OF the union. Ii was there
lore apparent that no Commerce could be bro
secuted which would benefit the DeopIe of the
U.States so equally And the commerce TO
those countries consumed about twenty milii-
ons OF our exports.
ne effects OF this measure on ourselves
gentlemen could best state, as they occurred
wlthin the immediate circle of their own
knowledge. So far as he had seen. nv. l.
said 1t was measure fraught with mischief.
breaking down the spirit of the peop,c in
stead OF preserving it, inviting FOREIGN az
erosion instead of re1elling it /; bearing hard
on the commercial and navigating interest
ana exciting opposition which might be at
tehued with disastrous consequences. The
human mind was such, that without an abso-
iu'e convection OF good to result from an OBJ
pfessiVe measure, the people would not bear
IL. Xou Will perceive their disaffection in
memorials first, said MIR. l.. in public meet
'ngs next, lie gislative resolutions next
until the spark Of disaffection is fan
ned INTO flame which may spread wide
devastation around, and overturn the liber-
tieS OF the Country. 1t had not vet come To
TINS pitch and he hoped it would not. He be-
ileved that there was one mode of preventing
H. and that was by the removal OF the en-
barge. For this as we'll as MANY other rea-
sons ne felt anxious that the resolution on the
table should prevail, and this oppressive
measure be removed.
a motion was now made for adjournment
and negativcd
Mr.. 3n'ith (Md.) said he was not prepar-
Ed to so as largely into the subject as il me-
ifsed, having neither documents nor papers
before him. He would therefore ONLY take
short view of it in his way and enieayor
20 rebut n part of the argument of the GEN
tleman from Massachusetts, and perhaps to
notice some OF the observations OF the cea-
teman nom Connecticut. He perfectly a.
greco with the latter gentleman that this sgb-
ject ought to be taken up with Goodness.
and with temper, and he could have wish. i
mat the gentleman from Connecticut would
nave been candid enough to pursue that course
which he had laid down for others. Had he
done it,! No. In the course OF the discuss;-
ON, the gentleman had charged it upon some
one, he knew not whom, that there was a
disposition to break down commerce for the
purpose or erecting manufactures on its ruins.
II TINS was the disposition of those who
mad advocated the embargo, Mr. S. said, he
was not one to so with them, and perfectly
corresPonded with the gentleman in sayinf-
that such a plan would be extremely iniuri1
Gus that possibly it could not BIZ enforced Ia,
the =. States and that if it could, merchants
would conceive themselves highly aegrieyel
by 1t. But the gentlemarfs idea had no fol,,-
dation SIR. 5. said he had before seen II in
newspapers, but had considered it a mere g.
iectioneering trick that nothing like com
mon sense or reason was meant by il. and
no body believed it. The gentleman surely
did not throw out this suggestion by way 6f
harmcni2ing; for nothing could he more cal
cuiated 30 create heat
The gentleman last up, throughout his ar
gument, had gone upon the ground that it is
the embargo which has prevented all our
commerce that, if the embargo were re-
moved, We might pursue it in the same
manner as if the commerce cf the whale
world was open to us. III the gentlemen
could have saeWn this, he wo,(ld have go,c
with him heart and hand but it did not an
pear to him thai, were the embargo tax en-
OF tomorrow, any commerce of moment
could be pursued. Mr.. 5. said he was not
Certain that It might nor be a wiys, measure r.
take OH the embargo bitt he ,,,sa c..a,: