The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1808-07-08


the country.
Donot YOU think that if manufactures were
once established in America, they would call
on their government for protecting duties 50
as to prevent almost entirely, foreign goods
being exported afterwards? | do: think *
would be almost impossible Co eradicate them
again.
Do not Won know that the population OF
America can employ itself more successful
iy i'll agriculture than in manufactured Not
under the circumstances before stated.
Ihomus lIuHei.
Did you over III the course OF Your extern
sive correspondence with the continent, hear
OF any American or other neutral vessel be-
ling condemned in the cnemy's ports untle..
tNN Berlin decree did not
DO you rocollcct, few weeks previous to
the issuing our orders in council, whether
the general purport of them was pretty ge-
morally the subject Of conversation The
nen s-papcrs were full of their remarks for
three weeks before the time they gave what
| they considered the outline.
24th MARCH, 1908.
,!osehh Garland.
Do you think that if the Americans were
| deprived of the means Of going to the CONT
nent at all, any other means that you know
exist for sending our fish to the continent [ do
not know any
l. Ii the Wcst-India islands were not supplied
from the United States of America, with fish,
would they not be supplied from New Found
land and the British provinces of North A.
mcrica? conceive not.
Suppose there was no fish caught in the
| American States, could they not be supplied
from Newfoundland & the British coloniess
l apprehcnd not.
| What are your reasons for that opinion?
| Very little fish, l apprehend, goes directly
| from Newfoundland to the West Indies I:
| There is very little intercourse between n.
| found'and and the Wcst-lniies the mcr-
chants concerned in the trade would not send
their ships there, because they would be I'M
der the necessity of having them returned
without any freight back they can takt.
very small quantity of produce of the West
Indies in return.
DO not YOU think that the circumstance of
this trade being carried on by the Americans
materially diminishes the value of that trade
to Great-Britain? l should rather conceive
the reverse.
/ VIII you state your reasons Because we
have no othermeans of carrying it on at pre-
sent, but through the medium Of America,
and If we are deprived of that means, the
whole of the quantity of fish caught in New
Foundland must come to England, and il il
came to England, it must remain here total
y iirsaicGbit.
HI''. .1brahani Mann, caHedin again.
What proportion Of the whole Of the trade
carried on with the u. States to the whole
o. Europe Is, III one shape or other, conccn-
tratcd III this country, and consequently be-
neicial to the commercial interests of this
country / conceive nine-tenths some per
sons are of opinion that it exceeds that. in
enc shape or other in assurances or remittan-
ces made here on american account
| WHAT are the data on which you draw that
conclusion General observation.
| Have you any accounts on which you state
that? No, have no positive data.
! Have you any accounts at all on which YOU
found chat No, it is general conjecture,
lccrtainiy, from the Conformation which have
obtained III the course Of business
! III the event Of such an interruption of the
intercourse between this country and the y
states, as shall produce an interruption to
/ tue Course " remiranCes, what, IN yoni. opi-
mon, would be the effect on the manufactu-
lring interests of this country? Bankruptcies
ana distress the most extensive.
On what data do you found that opinion !?
! iureiy from die knowledge conceive have
acquired of the trade, from having been in it
for II years past.
| Do you derive that knowledge from any
accounts which you can state /? No only
| from my own apprehension, that The privati-
ON Of the vast sum owing from America in
commercial debts to this country. will ne
| cessarily create that distress which / have
represented
! Is it possible to have any correct data uD-
on which to calculate a subject Of this ra
ture? conceive it to be altogether impossi
! bic.
| DO not you know, from your own know
! ledge of the American trade, that there are
very few operations out OF America to any
part Of the world, which arc not in some
way or other connected with this country.
either in insurance on remittance, or in some
other way That 10 the East-lndies is not
with the exception Of the Fast and West-Iu-
dies, / conceive thc European trade is con
centratcd in this country, or passes through
| this country.
William, EatA5oJr1e calcain again.
You stated last night, that if the whole of
t.io foreign trade Of liverpool were divided
into siXtesnths you con siGorcd iiyc-sixteenths
Of shat to be American ;doyou consider that
! in The present rcGaced state Of lie trade Of
Liverpool, the proportion is Only fve-six-
tecnths ] Ger ainly did oot intend nav an
swer to apply to the present s,ate OF the
trade Oh Liverpool, but 20 shat trade which
e5Is,ed twelve months ago. The trade 10
the United States, comprised bat iiNc-siv-
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