The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1808-06-07

sci that is not going 10 herown ports, except
to the barren coasts of Sweden: and France
forbids every vessel that has touched at En-
gland entering !!;c. ports the
continent, AZ the risk OF seizure.
At this point we may make f7po suppositi-
2ns. Eisher the British power on the sea is
extensive enough to carry the British orders
inte complete execution, to catch every vessel
oouhc 20 the continent, and OF Course to sub
Ject them TO such risk of capture, as to COM
pei ali these vessels to pass thro' her ports /;
or the risk scoxla not be so great in pro
portion to the nigh prices in the continental
markets, but that some of our vessels some
times be bound to the continent.-Nei-
ther OF these suppositions would perhaps ma
teraHy vary the extent and profits Of our
trade.
1t is yet best to examine the effect of5oth sup
positions.-The first superstition comes first
under consideration because it more dis
tinctly shews what would be the naked and
natural effects of the British Orders in Coun-
Gil separately from all calculations OF COM
mercial risk and insurance. This view has
certainly this advantage that even if it
should not be strictly correct, if it does not
shew the precise pecuniary losses, which
we shall really sustain by Submission, it will
display the natural tendencies of these or
ders. This view may not be altogether cor
rect in the money scales; but it is at least
important in the eye of national honor. As
that principle is not so easily satisfied as the
mercenary spirit of money, it will perhaps
hereafter enquire of us, when we come to
that part of the discussion, NOT how much we
may actually suffer by the British orders,
but how much encroae hment on our rights
those orders are naturally calculated to pro-
duce.
The first SUPP 2sition however, is precisely the
same with the admission of the Fcderalists
on this very point. They have generally con-
coded that the marine power of Britain is ex-
tensive enough to drive all our trade into her
nets; and that all our vessels must go direct
ly to her ports. p. B. Key, whose speech
against the embargo is the text of the fedc-
raj argument, has most explicitly assumed
this position He has pronounced the French
decree a mere "brutnm .fuime;, ;" while
he has abandoned every atom of that trade,
which the British orders have interdicted.-
Surprising then that our trade to the con-
tinent is completely shut out, by the French
decree, while the ports of Britain are COM
pletelv ote,, ITO it, it will be easy to give
some sketch Of the retrenchment and losses
occasloned by the British Orders of Coun
Gil
LIST. All trade TO the continent, except TO
Sweden, is cut off; because every thing
which poes too Britain: is interdicted from
thence tothe continent.
BY the official Report of our Exports to
other countries from 3oth Sept. 1906, to Oct
1907, IT appears that the aggregate Of our
Exports during that period were in dollars,
Domestic Foreign Total
Produce. Produce,
48,6o9, 592 59,643,55S 1oS,543,150
Of this sum the following items are inter
dictcd by the British Orders
To Russia, 1850 36o,S67 Assay
To Sweden, S8,5o7 So, SOY
To Norway&
Denmark, 572,fj0 S36.46S LAOS,
To Holland, 3,o98 ,234 fS,096,I60 16,1S4,394
Hamburg, &C. 912,225 S,24S,057 3,160.282
To France, 2.7l6,14 lO,215.61S 1S,O3l,8l9
To Spain, l,18l.231 3,546,9O7 4,725,158
To Portugal, 829,S15 1919 e8S486
To ilaly, 250,257 5,499,?22 5,749,979
To Trieste & A
driatic ports, G3,263 567,9e2 591.255
To Turkey, 4,52o 424,855 429,375
70 Barb. states 1858 34,964 43,342
To Europe &C.
nera)ly- de-
signation, S1,505 4l,l9l 1885