The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1808-07-22


country now exports to America three times
as much as She imports from thence
Having zone through this essential mart os
the subject, sir. at much greater length than
could have wished, have, just to ask the
House this one question, are you willing to
continue exporting to America, twelve mil
lions and half of British produce and manu-
facture, or are you not? if you are, how are
you to be paid for iti 1t is evident that you
only receive four millions direct from Ame-
RIGA; therefore there are no less than eigh.
millions wanting, and America. we all know,
can only pay you by trading with the conti-
nent. Ii you wish to cut up that trade by
the roots, you commit that old solecism OF
power, as my lord Bacon so we'll calls it
you wish to command the end but YOU re-
fuse to submit TO the means. You desire to
trade with the United States of America
but you desire. at the same time to lcp Off
,hsir trade with the enemy, as You call it,
which is in other words looping off the We
ry commerce which YOU carry on with
your enemy, in spite of the war, and in.spte
OF himself, by which you we're getting eight
millions sterling each year by which you
were enabled to continue a trading nation =
You are destroying the only means by which
America can pay that enormous amount to
you. She must have the opportunity, not
only of taking your goods, but of exporting
her own, in order topay you She must not
only export her own goods, she must also re-
export yours with them, in order that you
may still send them to your enemy, notwith-
standing the hostiltics you are engaged in ;
notwithstanding the deere es he is threatening
Your trade with. So stands the matter in
argument, or ifyou will in theory. and Inow
invite this Hoosc to say, whether it is posi-
Die tor them to conceive anv thing more pre-
k1,,,, q.
has been adduced at your bar, to show that
this is also the matter of fact, from the &C
tual history of our trade with America.
he witnesses most LARGELY engaged in
this commerce, told you repeatedly, (and it
was so uniformly stated by each of them, in
answer to the same questioa, that it is unnc-
cessary for me to quote from the testimony
OF them all, )they all concutrcd in telling YOU
that they received remittlnces in payment
OF goods sent to Ametica from merchants
acting as bankers for Americans in this coun-
try Besides this, we have called those ban
kcrs to your bar, and have asked them how
they came to be possessed Of their remittan-
ces. They have toldvou that they have two
ways of receiving the funds drawn upon by
cur manufactures that they get part, and
but a small part, in gods, directly from the
United States, and another part, which is by
raj IN greatest part 4; from i:u-
rope, by bills arising from the sale of Anne
rlcan preance on the coitinent, made pava-
Bile to manufacturers andexDorters ofmanu-
iactured goods here. MI Bell has stated
these remittances as. forming two parts in
three OF the whole account Mr. 4lennie
has told-you that they are tcns;,nes mere ha;,
he receives in the direct way from America
land Mr.. Mann states them & three parts
IN five. They have said, tsay with these
flrnHS cnr,,.. lima "
favor OF the manufacturers in thin country.
and at other times balance accounts Mith the
United States. AID being asked whether
they only accepted those bills in consequence
or the remlttances i'll their hands they said.
they freely accepted such bills trusting to
the continuance OF the trade by which they
had formerly received payment and for the
majority OF their correspondents, they al
ways accepted bills, whether they had goods
already in their hands or not when they knew
consignments continued to be made as before
to the continent
Now. SIT, apply to the English DEGREES.
those tests---the amount Of remittances and
the Willingness of merchants 20 accept bills.
which you have already applied to the exc
cution of the Berlin decree. and then tell me
what you think is the effect Of the Orders in
Council upon our foreign trade. You will
hndit the very contrary of that which might
have been expected by the sanguine proiec-
tors OF the new system. Applicable to this
subject, you will find among others, the very
distinct testimony Of MIR. Glennie, in pa
ges "a, % and 81. This gentleman told YOU
AS formerly observed, that the year after
the Berlin decree, so far from having recei-
we'd less from the continent on American ac-
count, he had received onc-fifth more than in
any former year. How much then did he
receive since the Orders in Council. Com
pare the months January and February.
1907, with the same months in 1903, and
this will be the test of the effect of the Or
ders in Council upon his trade He answers.
THAT III the months Of January and February
1907, the anC"-. Of the remittances he re-
ccived was about O3 ,OOo1. In consequence of
those boasted measures Of wisdom and viror
which were to bring all the trade of Ameri
ca with the continent through Your ports, one
would suppose he should have received 200.
OOOl IN the same period of the su5scuuenf
year No such thing. He received only 81.
C0Of! Does he expect even this pitlance in
the next two months. Far from it. He tells
You this is the last he shall receive it is tic
arrears or balance Of the former accounts.
and nonew one can be opened. Such then is
the effect Of the Orders IN Council upon nv.
Glennie'straffic he receives instead Of Io3.
O0ck the sum OF $4,000. and In the next two
noGthS, he cannot receive .. shilling In G.
very CTnSS-vue Sftptn tEnt 4. l..