Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1808-03-29

! lures exported annually to the US. is estl-
mailed to exceed ten millions sterling, and the
demand has been for some time past rapidly
increasing to the great advantage of the ma
nufacturers.
This increasing demand your nlemorialists
humbly conceive proceeds from the following
causes
The growing population of the wealth of
the United States, creating a greatly increas-
ed consumption, which necessarily requires
ansadequate supply and from the CONNER
ciI enterprise OF the people of that country
constantly discovering new and remote mar
kets for our manufactures imported by them
for transportation, and which thus find their
way into distant channels for consumption,
where they were before unknown, and also M
to the colonies ofthe enemy were to which
this country as a belligerent has not access.
That il is estimated that SUM exceeding,
tz1etue millions sterling is now owing. from IN
diyiduals in the Unitea States, to merchants
and manufacturers of the United Kingdom !;
which property, there Is too much reason TO
apprehend, would for an indefinite time al
least, be diverted from its regular channelsby
the distractions which a state Of hostility viii
naturally and inevitably present to its just ap-
preparation, in the event Of a hostile determi-
nation Oh the part OF the American govern
ment. Such a result your nemoralsts fear
wculd be productive OF more cytel.siye and
general distress in this country than it is in
their power TO describe, and greatly augment
that already felt in the manufacturing districts
III the north, owing to the suspension OF the
demand for the American market following SO
closely the priSation OF the trade with the
European continent.
That whilst yoar ncnotialists disclaim any
intention OF interference III tie PoLlcy OF the,
measures OF government; they feel DESTROYS
CT adyertlng amongst tie. many important
consequences OF rupture with the United
States to the disadvantage which would ac-
crue to the commercial interests at large
from being deprived OF trading through the
only NEUTRAL medium now,leh them, and
the general Inconvenience and partial distress,
which must be experienced by his ma;esty's
subjects in the West India islands m case CT
such war taking place and on the other
hand to the advantage Of preserving the Ame-
rican market open TO our access Tor timber
and naval stores and also to the benehtwhich
this country might, in the present state OF
Europe, derive from America, as GRANARY,
should period CT scarcity recllr, and good
understanding be preserved.
That your nenloFialists consider it -afa -,
duty which fhas 1'oto MS isiaJcS
rvs Government, to their constituents, ana 70
risc.nsclves, 10 pfTerrteir opinion, that II t1e
late orders Of council be acted upon as they
now stand, without any modification las they
refer to articles the growth Of the Y. Statesl
il will tend to produce in the minds OF the
government and Of the people OF fhe United
States feeling OF determined hostility to this
country;d in as much as obliging American
vessels, laden wholly with the produce OF
their soil, to enter into our ports and to take
out clearance from thence, viii be received
as a novel and vexatious interference IN the
innocent commerce of an independent and
neutral nation: aud in the event OF the Anne
rican government not being induced at onceto
resort to acts Of direct hostility, (which is
most to be apprehended) your menaollalists
fear it will Immediately adopt restrictive COM
mercial regulations In retaliation, which viii,
In effect, be productive Of complete suspen-
sion of all mercantile intercourse betweenthe
two countries, ana operate 2S an inconvenience
little short eli a state Of actual warfare.
Your memoria!ists, therefore, with the
greatest Difference, submit to his maiesty's
government the propriety and expectancy Of
so far revising and modifying the above men
toned orders in council, as to take Of the re-
stricdons to which articles, the produce ofthe
soil of the y. S. are thereby subjected, and to
allow American built vessels laden entirely
with such prodGce mot being contraband Of
wary to proceed without molestation to their
destined ports, such ports not being in state
Of actual blochade.
With such modification, your rnemorialists
would entertain sanguine hopes that the rela-
tons Of peace and commercial intercourse
with America might be preserved: without
it, they would apprehend the most serious e
wis