The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1808-07-05
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shall be enabled to form some Judgment OF the CT
feet produced on the disposition of foreign go
vernmcnts by the Embargo. II is manifest, from
the intelligence received from England, that hi
thcrto it has been considered in that country rs
likely to be but of fugitive duration. Having
themselves frequently resorted to 4 similar mea-
sure from motives totally different from those
which produced it in this country, they have SUI
periiciay given IL both to its nature and t,ira
uon "A like character with their ordinary cmbar-
goes. They do not appear at all to have real;s-
ed the. probability, or even possibility of its pro.
traction to an equal period with their own orders.
The rise OF Congress, with the passage of the
enforcing supplementary acts, and the act vesting
IN the President the power 10 remove it, will u
lone present the to their minds in its tr,te
coors. Congress rose on the Doth April, and in
formation % this event may be expected to have
reached England about the LIST OF June. Allow
ing fortnight for dcliberation, and six weeks for
passage across the ocean, we may calculate up
on obtaining, some Interesting information about
the beginning of August.
Will this information be such as we wish
Will it restore the amicable relations of the Unit
ed States with foreign powers?
We confess that we are not sanguine on tbs
point. We have our hopes that it may be so, but
our disappointment will not be excessive, If a diff.
fsrent effect shall be produced.
That the ultimate sense of the British nation
provided we do not shrink from the duties imposI
ed upon us, will overturn the prevailing system,
and Will do us justice, we entertain no doubt !;
but it is absolutely impossible to decide when this
will take place. Such is the extreme pressure
of the enemies of Britain upon her, so singular
and unprecedented is her situation, and so una.
vailing haze all her previous arrangements been
IN producing the benefits calculated from them,
that we ought not to be surprised. at the excite
ment OF a spirit OF desperate infatuation il, that
country, spirit resolved on trying a completely
new plan, and on stretching vigor to it's utmost
extent. Who knows, says the advocate of this
system, what may turnup! Despair may throw
the die, but fortune may crown it with victory.
There is good reason to believe, from recent adj
vices from England, that the orders are there IA
tier peculiar. Experience only will remove this
deluson. The West-India planters, the enemies
OF American institutions, and the merchants ge-
morally who are jealous of our commercial rival Y,
are probably prepared to make great sacrifices
before they will consent to abandon their forlorn
hope, and to retracc the rash steps they have in
duced their government to take. And such is
the vast opulence of the merchants of England,
that there can be no doubt of their ability make
great sacrifices there can be as little doubt Of
iiiaeIIsIpty OF ayarice and power to the con-
sequent wide spread calamities of the lower or
ders OF society. Exclusively consulting their
own interests, it will be only when the distresses
OF the lower classes shall materially inure them,
that they will relax.
Under this uncertainty with regard to the flu
ture, we are reioiced to perceive fellow c:t;
zens generally throughout the union pursuing
course OF conduct, which will equally promote
the.r SOLD interests, whether foreign relati-
ons become more troubled, or shall be restored to
their usual tranquility 1t is certain that if we
are permanently deprived of that commerce
which can alone enable us TO part with sur
pins prodccts Il: & foreign market, must find
succedaneum IN manufactures and internal i'm
proyements and it is equally clear, that even on
the return OF an undisturbed trade, this progress
in the cultivation of our internal resources would
notwithstanding, be OF vast benefit.
Who, too, will Say whether the zeal with
which, under the present pressure, manufac-
lures are pursued, may not be the most effectual
means of moving England to a sense of her own
interests, by convincmgh her that we cannot only
do without her fabrics, but that we shall find a
greater PROFIT i'll our manufacturing Establishments
than in the trade that enables us to part with our
surplus agricultural products?
BY an official statement of the exports from G.
britain TO The United States america, IL ap-
pears that they amount to the annual sum of for
tY-cight millions of dollars, of which thirty
millions consists of woolIens and cotton goods
OF cotton we have the most abundant supply
within ourselves and if there be not a suffcien-
cy OF WOOL the jealous attention paid the rails
ing and improvement ofsheep will III the course
OF few years render us equally independent
Our ability to cultivate this resource to a sure
proht, and so TO afford the best and finest wool
is unequivocaily established. All then that is
wanting is tile general establishment of manufac-
tories; and these are progressing with incOnceiv-
able rapi,;ty. At no period ofour existance, have
such numerous and united efforts been made
and all that have been made on liberal scale
have been crowned with success.
In the New-England states, thousands Of res
pecctable manufactures are in active operation.
In Philadelphia, besides arespectable public
establishment, great number of private flourish
ing manufactures of cotton have been establish
ed.
In Baltimore company, with million, is or.
ganized
In Petersburg twenty-five thousand dollars
have been subscribed in day.
In Richmond, under the most intelligent and
patriotic auspices, capital of halfa million is to
be engaged in this object
In short, the patriotic flame appears TO be fed
throughout the whole union, by all inexhaustible
fuel
Already it is computed that at least five MILL
Of dollars have heen derc.e 20
i'll the last six months capital competent TO the
furnishing manufactured articles to the amount
Of at least ten millions. so
Britain, seeing what is already done, will anti
cipate what will happen if she persist in her in
justice she will see that, five years hence, we
shall not need tenth part of the manufactured
goods we now receive from her.
In one of our papers Of last week, we sta
ted that tbe coee cf tLe chin rtiva I, a a NOT