The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1808-07-26
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An attempt has been made to impute this
stoppage of the trade with America, not TO
our Orders in Council, bit to the Americas
embargo and non importation act and now
entreat the attention of the house, while en-
dearol TO show that there is no reason what
ever for inputiay this failure to the Ameri-
can embargo. Tie evidence of Mr. Martin
inpages 40, so, SO and 81, was directed Co
this purpose .Arer having explained that
the orders for the spring shipments were ge-
morally as good as finished before the r,ida.c
Of January eachyycar. 1t is only necessary
for me to state, that the news of the embar-
go did not reach those parts of the country
likely to be affected by it before the middle
of january so that the orders for the last
spring shipment could never have been
touched by it. Mr.. Martin states, that il was
previous TO the goth OF the month of Janua-
ry, that all shipments ought to have been
prepared, or orders given, and that the de-
talcatiou for the last shipment had entirely
taken place before that dare That de-
falcatiou amounted nearly to the whole ex-
tent; and he leaves you to draw the infer
encc, that 1T could have been owing solely to
the Orders in Council. This gent ienan ha-
wing visited the town of Birmingham since
the Orders i'll Council had been issued, and
having inquired how the shipments there
had been affected by them. he found they
were doing nothing and meant TO do nothin 2
III regard to spring shipments He was at
Birmingham fortnight before the 26th of
Iannai,: when he !;istt heard OF the a meri
can embargo, and of Consequence, long be-
fore it cou'd lie known in Warwick shire Mr..
Oxley tells you that from !fty hands whom
he formerly employed, he was under the ne
cessity of reducing his number, and now on
" employed nine or ten +; and 1t teriv had re-
ami S0.src f..NIn tue Iva, ~,'...z
folr. He ads, that such was the case with
all his acquaintance and neighbors in the
same employment; III short, that business
was at stand; that nothing could be done
tor the American market; and that no pre-
parations fer shipments ol'd be made, which
otherwise ought and wnuid have i,een made
previous to the 25th Of January. The same
gentleman also informs YOU that this branch
OF trade was entirely suspended, although the
American embargo was hen utterly un-
known in that part of the country and iii at
! the whole work in the West riding, for The
foreiEn markets. at a dead stand The ies-
tm'ny % M james Palmer informs Won
IN instead ~ paving to his workmen 2Ook
| per week, he was under the necessity OF re-
dudlng 1t to 50t ftom Not ember. thouch he
only learnt the news of the embargo in Janu-
ary With this short statement Of that part of
the case, lea it tn you. sir, 70 answer the
question, whetherit lie possible, b. reason or
ingenu't'', on even by assertion, (Which has
been -a'much more lavishly use: .han any
Thing else on the other sidsI to con;,nnd the
effects OF the American measures and our
OwD.
L would appear, sir, that without any evil
dcnce 1T al. one simple consideration is c.
ncugt TO show in what manner the Orders in
Council, crossing, as Mr.. Bell ap.lv express
edit, the French DEGREES, must have ruined
our commerce with forcign parts, not ONLY in
terrupting our trade with America, but also
cutting Off that great cOntrdband trade
which used formerly to be Carried On thro'
the Americans between us and our enemies,
sottening the hardships of war, and making
them fall as lightly upon US as on the enemy,
on us to whom trade Is every thing, as Oil
him who. having little or none of his own.
was most deeply interested in surrendering
his share, could he but hhpe thereby to take
from us ours. What does the French decree
enact! That no neutral vessels shall enter
the ports of France which have cleared out
from AN English port. Now, let us suppose
your Orders in Council had never been tho't
OF, and that this decree had been left to IFS
tate; an American vessel sailing from this
country, say from Yarmouth, arrives, saw at
bordeaux. She is asked where she came
from But do you suppose that the captain,
the american captain, would say he came
from Yarmouth? Can we believe that the
captain would tell truth which he knew
crust have ruined him Would captain in
that situation be so scrupuous in telling tile
truth, because French project chose to ask
the question for the purpose Of seizing his
ship and cargo. (Here there 7OGs sumo mur-
nn''. on the ministerial aide 1T ME house
Sir, am taking the very view Of the Amerf-
can character which the authors of the Or
ders IN Council are the first to support. l
am only presumng that the neutral hag may
/ be guilty of covering some commercial frauds.
l repeat 1t, the American captain would
speedily have found out or created some way
OF making the worthy project not quite so
sharp M his enquiries so unwilling to be de-
lceived. He would have landed his cargo with
the same facility as formerly, both during
the whole OF last war, and during the pre-
sent, up to the period of these DEGREES. But
1t isa very different thing indeed, when there
are English Orders in Council, declaring
that no American shall sail directly from A.
merica to any port in Europe, but shall come
mere hrst, and then continue the voyage -
Wow, the French project need not even put
the question, whence do you come! He
knows that the captain Of the American YES
sci D7nsf have come from Yarmouth or SON c
other British port and were it possible fcr
any one captain to s.eceive him, another A.
lmsTICeu rayfoiy, xu,s,lI H., .s..,.s..l