The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1808-07-19

sUoct 200 hhds that have long had on hand.
svery we'll: but as things now are. know.
mot how to sell it at any price, unless your
.embargo should continue year or up
wards, and in that time the scarcity Of Vir
sginia might force the manufacturers to
make use of a few Marylands. York and
James Rivers are worth z lid. q 8d.-little
demand.
Il have not lately heard from Holland ::
but as no tobacco can so there, presume
prices by this time are up to IS a est. and
will be much higher, if your embargo con-
tinues.
Il am surprized to see by your newspa-
'pers the Clamours against the embargo
Suppose for a moment it was taken off. that
would not improve your situation in the
smallest degree, unless the British orders
in council and the French DEGREES were al
so removed. BY the orders in council all
.yonr produce must come here, or be liable
to capture and condemnation. But sup
nose all was to come safe here, it would
ln pay the freight and ether charges OF
hportation, so that the whole cost would
e total loss to the shipper-this is clear
and certain-not speculation-and would
apply almost to every Kind of your produce
Cotton would be the best article but even.
that would net little or nothing Would 1t
mot then be better for your produce to pc
irish in America and serve as manure for
.your lands, than to export it to perish i'll
Europe, altcT dOSiitS 10 yodS ioSS ny pay =
ing freight, insurance; Md other charges!
England, Scotland, and Ireland, do not con-
sumo more than one sixth part of your pro-
duce C If the whole was obliged to come
here, this one-sixth would sell for almost
nothing, and the other 5-6ths would be
total sacrifice. This is true state of the
scase. The measure of your embargo is
wise, just and prudent, and ought not to be
raised until all your political differences
.are settled in Europe
1t is so natural that one man should feel
gratitude for the endeavors of ahothcr to e.
levate him in the public estimation, that
there must be some cause, shocking and alb
horrent to the feelings of our nature. for
stunning the author of such efforts as the
greatest plague. Ashamed of his applause,
disguised with his egotism, turning with an
ger from the man, Gov. Clinton disclaims
all connexion with Mr. Cheetham. Mar. De
Witt Clinton has expressly declared that he
does not countenance him. What regard then
is to be paid to his babbling in favor of the
vice president who spurns his officious friend
ship! I speak with confidence, with deci-
sion, with an intimate knowledge of the fact.
when say, that Mr. De Witt Clinton has
declared the conduct of the editor of the CT
tizen to be incorporate and worthy of all
condemnation. And I am well assured that
the Mayor of New York will not deny the
fact. l cali upon Mr. Chsetham to contra
&c.. July -. &.
The Secretary Of fhs Many has left tnis
city for Baltimore, and the Secretary ii
Mar for Portland.
Mr. Erskine, the British minister, arri-
yed in this city ON Monday.
Major SWANy having resigned his APP
puiIItIuent as fay-mas,er or the army of the
United States, ROBERT BRENT his sue
Cessor entered upon the duties Of that Office
on the LIST inst to whom Communications for
the Department may hereafter be address
ed.
1t is not often that we find occasion to NO
tce any thing contained in tile Washington
Federalist; not, from any dearth of misrep-
resentation of that print, but from the arti-
Giles of this character usually carrying on the
fate Of them their own i'cfutatiOn. But that
paper on Saturday, in giving Mr.: Lewis as
authority for the declaration of Bonaparte,
that lie 7vould no longer suffer as 10 remain
neutral, calls for the most marked contra
diction, which, from the information we
have received, we are justified in giving it
We have seen Mr.. Lewis, and it is on his
authority that we make the contradiction.
We likewise offer the following statement
relative to the treatment of the Usage oil
the same authority; statement which has
become the more necessary from he hume
rous wilfu falshoods with which the federal
prints TEEN.
On the arrival of the Usage at L'Orient,
she was arrested by the custom-house Off
GERS, conformally TO their general instruct
ons, in consequence Of having been spoken
by British vessel. Mr.. Lewis immcdi-
ately proceeded to Paris, and there without
difficulty obtained her recognition as ma
tonal vessel and release.
On her arrival at Falmouth the British
Excise officer seized her and took out her
naval stores, in virtue Of an alledged infrac-
ton OF the revenue laws, which prohibits
ftiuate ships from entering with more than
prescribed quantity of them. Represen-
taton was forthwith made to the govern
ment at London, and Mr.. Canning's order
obtained for her release, the restoration Of
the stores, and her treatment as a national
vessel
Thus it appears that the treatment in
both countries not substantially diffe-
rent; and that such difference as does exist
shews the conduct of the English subaltern
officers to have been more aggravated than
that Of the French. 1t is however suffic;-
ent for our satisfaction, that both govern
ments on complaint promptly intcrposea TO