The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1808-06-28
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embargo, be any inducements to you to shis
goods for American Certainly not should
not like to engage in it at ALL.
Have You written to your CORRESPONDENTS
In America, respecting shipments es. Amcri-
| can. produce to be sent to this country?
| have. : ~
To what effect have you written have
written, that, Should America think proper
notwithstanding those orders in council, to
continue to-trade with this country, TO sus
pend for the present all business.
Why did you give. tkat advice to your cor
respondent For the reasons have just
stated, that the produce they would send in
return, would not nett any thing at all I
conceive that should even set myself into
debt by paying the charges
Surprising the American embargo, which
at present forbids the eXportation from A.
merica to the continent and this country,
were removed as to this country, but not as
to the continent I! I could ship more if the
embargo was removed hetwixt America and
the continent, because consider the con-
sumption OF American produce greater on
the continent ttsa.s what il is here I m ght
therefore venture to ship more, because I
believe / could still have remittances from
the continent l have had some very late-
ly. .:
Do you conceive that not only the convey
even the. conveying goods of the w. India
colonies by the American ships, is necessary
to their paving tnr the manufactures of this
country / conceive it is absolutely necessa-'
ry.
You have stated, that you conceived, that
if these orders in Council should continue,
the glut would be SO great you would not
pay the freight; from Ihcnce do you draw
the opinion that these orders in council will
ant Ia
can produce, and those commodities which
generally are received through Amurica,
from the continent9 know Of no met.od
whatever of getting tobacco to ths continent
of Europe: there Has been shipped from the
q. S. annually rs GEO hogsheads England
consumes II or IS ,oGo annually only; the
rest have been sent to the continent, ar1:I:hs
proceeds RENTED TO England for the pay.
ment of bills; therefore calculate if those
Is 600 are thrown into tie English market,
and no outlet, the glut would be so great as
not to pay the freight
Why do you conceive there would be no
outlet At present nave not been ablesto,
discover any; the DEGREES Of the French, to-
gether with the orders in council, crcss
each ether and shut every thing up in the
place it stands; it appears to me impossible
to move. / cannot send a shilling's worth to
anv place.
10 you hpt oeHeNc THAT the wants OF the
continent, for such an article as tobacco.
will probably force the continent to receive
tobacco ever thro' the medium of this coun-
try am very much afraid it viii on the
contrary induce them to grow a sufficient
quantity for their own consumption
In point of fact, since the months of Sep
TENDER and October, have You from anv cir
cumstances or information whatever been
led to conclude that the ports os Holland
have been so completely shut against Ameri-
can ships as that you could not suffer them to
SO thithef | should never have hesitated to
send forward American ships as they arri-
we'd, had it not been for that order in council
if we had not enforced the register of tile
shipments, I should have continued 10 send
them on as usual, and have no doubt they
would have been admitted
ITO be conHnHsd.