The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1809-08-18

| >o.""aSS anu hST ConQueStS! How %Onsd the
unhappy Island of 81. Domingo have. been
able to feel the fury of the parties who lace
rate 1t! How, in short, without the hume.
rous supplies OF every kind which are about
10 be carried to them, would the revolteG
provinces IN the south of Spain have long
resisted the force employedto reduce them
| to submission
thus, sir, upon whatever side we look
upon the question, the raising of the embar-
go Is one or the greatest victories which En.
gland ever gained in behalf of her COM
merce one ot the most destructive mea.
sures TO the system adopted by the modera-
ton OF the European continent, which was
ac 'ehsth OH the point of gathering the fruits
Vi SO many priVauons and sacrifices, and
"hlCa Is, perhaps, about to lose them for
| ever. ~
lo console us for a resolution so disastrous
10 u.s. the United States are pleased to oiiei.
US the entry into their ports, of some wines
ana orandy---.What compensation
would, at present, require twenty car
goes OF those articles to pay for single one
OF colonial produce, and all the gold of
france would quickly flow in torrents, az at
.ie e'he' not long since, when the Anne ricans
arrived by hundreds in our ports.
VINO KNOWS not that they give marked
preference to the wines of Madeira of Spain
ana Portugal, as being more spirituous TO
| the brandies OF Catalonia, as being cheaper;
ana that not Content with Consuming them
themselves, they will carry them to the
hor'h OF Europe, to the great prejudice of
our own, which have already found there bv
land a very active export?
| hey will sell us ,obacco-but will it suie
US suffer new branch of agriculture to
Per'sh' which is daily making amongst us
| sue greatest progress, and which frees US
from an enormous tribute to foreigners,
CotechS-but cannot the Levant furnish us
WIN sufficient quantity, and receive in ex.
lures?
sugars ard Coffees-whence can they now
| obtain them, 1t it be not from the possessions
of England or her conuuests. And will they
lmpudentiy bring US the produce of our own
Coiohies, which have become the prev of our
| cneNiiest hat would be too much Besides,
WHAT neeu have we OF those too expensive
opportunities, the consumption of which does
SD much injury to the products of our own
aSrCu'turef If our Sybarites cannot abso-
iu,Gy 90 without them, Will our privateers
! suffer them to want.
we might, sir, add many other reflections
10 tnose which I have just made-but let us
cohhne ourselves to this one. The Ameri
cans tolerated by US, as neutrals. will do still
greater injury with respect to tine exporta-
| 'ioh or our corn. They can Garry theirs to
',iuch better advantage to ali the countries
mat Consume ours-Their corn. at the same
ana even at higher price, will always be
preierred by the English. They will carry
10 opain, to Portugal and will deprive US
a'Su Vi the last market hich yet remained
10 tne Southern provinces.
All that we have hitherto said applies mn,
oaiy to France, but to all the countries sub
Jsct to her controul.
we may then draw the Just and disagreed
bic conclusion,
nat all maritime and colonial commerce
aiio"ed or tolerated upon the continent of
Europe, wiz always turn to the advantage of
the English nation, and will furnish it with
means toprolong the war;
nat the Americans are becoming their
o1. po" eriul auXiliaries III that commerce,
a''u '"at the veil under which they pretend
to disguise it. will give it q new enc rev:
nat 1t is in the highest degree the inte-
rest OF France and her allies 70 DESTROY bv
an possible methods, this odious connivance
"et"ech nation who stiles herself orr friend
ana the eternal enemy OF our reposc and
prosperity.
(oigned) D.
+. .. had just finished my letter. when
learned from an authentic sonrc,. th,,
eseiy .nihS is dntca6ly..and defmtively ar
aanseu between England and the U. States
anu as IL Is said in the London papers of the
~''h vi April, TO mutual satisfaction.
r, ms frank and open proceeding of the
| Ohiteu states, Is at least more decent than
those which they had at first adopted They
are now under an engagement with England
not To come TO France nor to Holland. nor tn
ieaiy, and TO take from them even the ;ncli-
NATION 10 do so (aimire the precaution.) a
new order OF Council of the 29th of Anril
iast' puts all those places i'm state of riyo-
rous blockade. Al the ports of the IT (
are now open, as formerly, to the English
commerce. This is well--it remains to be
known whether these fortunate arrange
'hehtS VIII not be deranged, whether he who
1a, cause what he declares to be executed
W'ii suffer all the countries which surround
france to be inundated with English ner-
chandize, Which would be frauduIen,Iv in
troduced into the interior of his em,,;rs .
whe'her the frontiers of Germany & Switzer-
Iahd VIII no. be shut as vigorously as those of
itoilahd against every thing proceeding from
ING pretended American commerce; whether
all the allies will not ma Ike Common cause ,v,tb
us for the absolute exclusion of a too susn;-
clous nag; whether the precautions will no,
oe redoublcd and carried to the last excess
OF severity whether in short we must MOI,
learn to reiinquish altogether some factitious
eiJoyments In order to prevent one mr. t,vo
millions OF men from perishine victims rs
English monopoly and of the cupidity of their
accomplices. n
PHILADELPHIA, .fupusk g.