The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1809-05-05

letter & a sounds The effects of this dec,cs.
were also provenby the returns laidSbefors
the house by the Inspector general of customs;
nom which it appears that within forty DAYS
previous toissuing the Orders in Council, no
fewer than sixty five vessels in our ports had
aPphtd tor permission to roland their car
gees. Alter this had been SO fully and COM
pletely proven. he could not help being sur
priced at the false assertion of Il periodical
WORK devoted to opinions of Gentlemen ON the
otier SIDE, which went forth uncontradcted,
ana produced in America feelings hostile to
luis country Name, name, from Lord II.
cry - %as = The i.orti Suspected
the Edinburgh Review to which he alluded
winch without attending to facts or evidence.
spread Its Gallician poisons in manner so
prcsumptuous that those friends of ENGLAND
ia America who could not be better inform
Ell, were imposed upon to believe, that such
statements could not have been made with
cut some foundation in truth. He then read
from the Edinburgh Review pas sayes in
whch, IN direct contradiction to the true state
OF the Case 1t was asserted that "no advance
II, insurance had taken place in this country
IN consequence OF the Berlin decree and that
Tue uecree itself was not Carried into execu-
Won 'iii alter tue orders in council % conclu-
u'"E from these premises that the preamble
10 the orders IN Council was fallacious i'm al
VITA that injustice and oppression which We
charged on others, and for tho miseries en-
SUNG tron the blockade Of one quarter of tile
world. =,
The hon. Gentleman, in YARN terms rel
Prooated conduct so disgraceful to Britons, &C
sentiments SO false and just as men-Re
theh auverted IN severe language on the con-
e e'n Oh Sehtiemen on the other side, who,
following the bold and flagicicus example OF
the profligate enslaver of Europe, and in
their account of facts went to the Anti
Podes OF truth. This was a course new even
10 the opposition OF this country, and contra
ry to the British character, and had never
been resor;ed to till the present case, whei
they gave the hint to America of what was
raise namely, that our commerce had suf-
tered nothing from the Berlin decree, whereas
IL hau destroyed oar commerce entirely, save
what has been rescued from its operation by
.he orders IN Council. He lamented that the
non: gentleman had not looked little to facts
as TINS would have saved him from the gross
mis-Statement of the Edinburgh Review,
anu giving the authority of member of the
Dritish mouse OF commons in aid of the argu-
ments OF the American democratic party
Having established this position. that orr
trade was destroyed before the orders in
council were issued, there was an end Of all
the honorable gentieman's prophecies, and
merce with what it was previous to the de-
cree; but with what it was three months pre-
vious to the orders in council; by which we
would md. that all we enjoyed sprung from
these orders.
He entered into train of reasoning, to
shew. that If was not the orders III count /.
which necessarily destroyed our intercourse
with America; on the contrary, they encou-
ragged 1t and it was only prevented by the
American non-importation act, which existed
before they were issued, and the embargo
which took place Immediately after. By
Ieading extracts from the examination of
WIZ. lngles and others, he made it appear
that the execution of the Berlin Decree, uu-
less counterbalanccd by our Orders, would
nave utterly ruined our trade, and contenGed.
that resembling these Orders, without sub
stitute for them, would now have similar
elect; rather than submit to which he would
with all his objections to that measure, meet
:. war with America, which certainly could
not do us greater injury. He commented Oh
the use the Hon. Member had made of the
word Fictitious, which he disapproved of,
and could not afford with hisn to France.
what ne called peace, in which she could
re-establlsh her marine from Norway to the
Straits of Gibraltar, and as it were build q
bridge from Calais to Dover. He expressed
his surprise at the opinion expressed by the
flohoraole gentleman, that the conduct of
| this country towards America was radically
wrong, and defended it on the broad grounds
| of self-defenCe and the law of nations. He
joined IN the eulogy pronounced ON DR. Law
| renee (whose loss as public or private man
was deplored by all that knew him), who he
was sure would not have gone the length
which the honorable gentleman did The
gentleman then went into a justification of
our measures, on the ground. that they were
consonant TO the law of nations, which he
supportedby precedent of the conduct of
the States General of Spain, in the reign of
Philip Cd and Sd, and Henry the 4th of France.
where measure, much stronger than this
OF Great Britain, and on far less provocation,
had been adopted by the Dutch, and acknow
le1ged by every Maritime State in Europe.
He then characterized the conduct of Bona
parte in declaring G. Britain in state of
blockade, as exceeding in presumption, any
thing that had ever been done by the most
naughty monarch of the most arrogant ma
ton of the earth, and warranting our coun-
tervailing Decree, which America never
could have found fault with, were she not
encouraged in her claims by debates like the.
present i'll the British Parliament.
On these opinions, propagated and main
tanned in this country, he demonstrated the
I'll eift cts, and recommended to Mr. White
bread not to allow his liberfv m corr,, IL