The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1808-06-28
EUROPE.
Extracts from evidence on the British or
ders, deiiUerea before the English PART

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| { Shakesfeoy- Phifhs' evidence conclnGcd
Is not great part of the cotton employ
cd IN your manufacture the product of tn;
United States of America The greater
part.
Had you diminished your trade to the u
States of America in Consequence of the
French decree in 1906 No.
You have stated that you have diminish
ed your orders for goods to be sent to A
merica. Has the price of those goods de-
clined in Lancashire? Very greatly indeed
| When YOU spoke of the rates OF Insurance
did you mean the rates of insurance on YES
sells bound from England to America ?
did.
Is this reluctance to ship, since the orders
OF council, also common to your neighbors in
Manchester; is it a general thing believe
universal; know the great najoriry OF hou-
ses there will not ship a single package,
! Have you not known several instances
when reduction in the prices ofthose goods
you are speaking of, have been as great as
| at presente I never knew the price of goods
! so low as at present.
Mr.. George Palmer.
| Can you state the particulars of the ex-
tent to which your house does business? We
| have shipped in the course of the last three
years, in one article alone, which is British
printed and dyed cotton, 1898, 2e7 running
yards.
Can YOU give this house anv idea of the
total value Of goods exported by you to A
merica9 1t rather exceeds, probably, on an
average, 500 000l. sterling year.
! Ii the American embargo were removed
! and the orders in Council were to continue
in force, y at present, would your house
continue to ship as formerly to America
| BY no means.
! Have you shipped as formerly to Ameri-
ca, since the orders of council? We have
not shipped or pnrch sed che single piece OF
j goods.
Suppose the orders in council were revo
ked, would you resume your shipments TO
I Americaf Yes, if they were revoked, we
should re-commence our shipments.
Suppose the orders in coancil were reve-
ked, and suppose the embargo in America
were still to continue, would you resume
your former shipments to Anne RIGA? We
should not be able TO obtain our remittances for
our goods, and therefore could not resume
our shipments to any extent
Suppose the orders in council were at an
end tomorrow, what would YOU do in ship
ping goods to America ? should recon-
mence our shipments to the full extent, IN
der the expectation that the embargo in A.
merica would be taken off / apprehend l
might have been misunderstood in my All
swer to that before that is my idea.
Although you had not heard of the Amer
lean embargo being taken off, yet if you
heard that the orders in council were taken
off, in this country would you resume your
shipments? Yes, l would, under the impress
sion that the embargo would be taken off.
/ i think you stated that the house YOU re-
present have exported goods to the amount
of 300,000i. per annum? Yes, we have
! When did that expectation decrease We
have not shipped or purchased a piece oil
| goods, since the orders in council.
Do you not suppose that the American
embargo, which you state has deferred You
from shipping, may have deferred other hou
ses from shipping9 1t is the orders in council
have deferred us from shipping.
.Merander Giennic
| You have received from the continent re-
mittanCes on American account to the a.
mount of half a million sterling in the year
We have.
Do you believe there is any house in this
country which receives remittances to an
equal or greater amount than the house YOU
are engaged in? Yes, believe there are
houses in London; there certainly is one
house in London, member of this honor
able house who receives much more than
we do.
Are you aware of the articles which fur
Inish the funds from whence those remittaD-
ces from the continent are NADER Chiefly
sugar and coffee.
/ think you say that American vessels
going direct from this country to the enc
mics ports we're stopped Yes, have I'M
derstooG so.
At what period did that begin caiiio;
answer that with any precision.
|, Was that before the orders in council
Yes, believe that such thing took place
soon after the decree of the 21st of Novem-
Der, 1906, but all that were stopped in that
way were soon afterwards released, thougf
they were known to come from this country
Mr.. HiiHam Bell
Do you export manufactures on your owr
Speculation to America' Never
Suppose the American embargo were re.
!. moved, and the orders in council still to con
tinue in force, would you export to America
Certainly not.
State your reason-Because I conceive
they could not pay us who do not Consume
a sufficient quantity Of American produce e
. pay for more than onc-third Of the manufac
tured goods exported from this country {,
that; without the market of the continent
{ they would never be able to pay us.
Then ] am to understand, that if the EN-
= barge were taken off, if the orders in coun