The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1808-07-26

have this immense navy to back them.--
I" such Orders are not waste paper like our
" good Berlin decree. ] know they are en-
forced. Know you cannot evade them
Thus would the French project assure HIM
self that the American captain could not by
possibility have come over direct FROM the
United States, and this assurance would ne
cessarily become stronger and stronger eve
! ny time that an American attempted to Inn
pose upon the worthy magistrate. Is it not
therefore. self-evident, that the Orders in
fCouncil, known as they have been, by every
{ French project, in every port of France, in
Ieycry port under the influence of France,
! from Hamburger TO Brest, and from Brest to
Carthageua, nay, to Constantinople, and an
dcrstood to be vigorously executed by us
must have fully enabled those functionaries
! to do through you, what they could not pos
sibly without Your aid have done; to seize
the american cargoes, and conhscate them
and the vessels under the Berlin and other
DEGREES? Sir, this short and summary view
OF the measure, even without the aid of the
statement SO satisfactorily set forthin Che e.
videncc before you, will, trust, prove suff-
GENTLY decisive to entitle me TO ieaTe this
branch Of the argument without one further
/ comment, and to affirm that / haze COM
plctclv demonstrated proposition at first
sight rather paradoXical that England has,
/ by her own measures, effectualiy, strictly,
| vigorously, countersigned the enemy's edict.
| The house will do me the justice to recol-
tlect, that Ihave uniformly been treating this
question as it has been made out by the e.
violence at your bar, and have abstained
rom stating any Argument unless grounded
upon the superstition that the Americans &C
qpicsccd III the Orders in Council. l have
indeed large case before me, were l dis
nOSaH of thoi,.
I resisting our measures, and to prove how
much more likely they are to persist in their
embargo than acquiesce in Your DEGREES, by
calling witnesses To show what the effects
! Of that embargo would be upon oar trade:
But have uniformly proceeded upon the
supposition that the embargo is TO he revo-
keti, and that the Americans have acquies-
ced in your DEGREES; say, have stuck to
the proof of this proposition, that if that en-
barge were revoked tomorrow, and the Or
ders IN Council still continued. IL force, III :;
mast be the means of running the commerce
OF the country Now, j am to show you
+! more distinctly how merchants arc affected
by that embargo, and how by the Orders
iii ff>0riTiciii, independent OF and contrasted
with the embargo. / am. to set forth to you
their approximations upon this supposition,
70 point out now it affects them in their
mercantile transactions, and consequently
to show YOU in the strictest possible mode,
what effect your own measures alone will
have on the trade Of the country The e.
Evidence of Mr. Bell, in pages 81 and SIS, is
what particularly request the house may
attend to on this point put the case to
that gentleman Suppose tie American en-
barge were removed as to the continent
but not as to this country, and the Orders
in Council to be revoked; and then asked
whether hl, would rec,Ipne biS pxportc RI A
.nerica? MIR. Bell, one Of the greatest expor-
ter to America in this country, & partner
! Of the largest Virginia house in London.
states in answer, that he certainly would be-
gin again to export in such case to America,
/ & to greater extent than fthe embargo were
removed as 10 this country, and continued
as to the continent. On his being asked his
reason for saying so. he states, that he con-
! ceises the Americans could not pay us for
more than one-third of the manufactured
goods exported from this country without
the market of the continent as we consume
very little of their produce ourselves. On
being asked he had written to his Cores
! pondents in America, respecting the ship
nents OF the American produce Co be sent
to this country, he SAYS that he has. To
what effect has he written. He has desir-
ed that If America should think proper not
outstanding those Ordcrsi in Council to con-
tinue her trade with this country, his Cor
respondents should nevertheless suspend for
the present all business. The reasons he
states are, that the produce they would send
in return would not NET any thing at ALL
He conceivcs that he must even get him
self into debt by paying the necessary char
ges. Mr.. Bell has been asked, what would
he do supPo.hg the embargo was wholly re-
moved, and the Orders in Council continued !;
he answers, that he might ship in the ex-
psctation that the embargo would be taken
of but he still desires his correspondents
or customers to be ruled in their conduct
solely by looking at the Orders in Council.
Never mind the embargo. 'sayshe, don't
look TO any American o. french decree,
" but SO long as you zee our government per-
" sst in those Ordersu Council, donoth,ng,
" stir not a step, wnie they continue in force
&" it is these thai iuoiest us, these that rem
" der all traffic impossible, although the A
mericans should be reconCjle1 to us, all-
&" ed to us, although they should become fond
" OF this Country" The rea .0n for this be-
ing asked, it was repeated as formerly it
was the very reason which have so often
> urged to you this night In page SIS, Mr.
Bell was again questioned, but more par
ticularly to this effect You .old the house
" that you we're great shipper Of goods tc
" America, and were paid partly by CON
" signments Of American produce, and part
ely by remittdnces of bills to the continent
10 America. r~Cct,ps. ,Nuy cupnoe~ tl,,