The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1809-08-04
HIGHLY INTERESTING COMMERCE.
AL INFORMATION

We have been favored with the following
extract Of letter from Hamburg, dated
May 19, 1909, from house OF the highest
responsibility, to their friends in this city.
The information it communicates is of a
most pleasing nature.
"Atter long interruption to Cur inter-
course with your country, the American flag
has again been displayed in this neighbor-
hood Three vessels from Baltimore have
arrived at Tonningen and I1ussum (; and al
though it is to be expected that more wiki
follow, their cargoes will be sold great adj
vantage. Ii is SO long since We have been
Cut offirom our regular supplies, that all the
old stocks are almost entirely consumed and
1t Will require very great importatiOns tore
place them even in small degree. Doubts
have existed as to the admission of Ameri-
Can ships in Danish ports--It is, however,
with great pleasure we can state to you. that
no difficulty has been made to their discharg-
ing and should even the hostility of the
French Emperor to American commerce,
prevent the goods coming fl ON your country
from passing the lines of the French Dou
anes Custom houses J sales can be effected
at Altoona and elsewhere, out of these lines, so
that the property can never come within the
reach of these DEGREES.
"Ihe accounts. you TO doubt have received,
of the many restrictions which have been
iUII9Ostu on TIC tTdue VI tIlc COItiHCUt, are
well calculated to deter houses with Won,
from making any shipments to this neigh
borhood, asyou cannot be acquainted with
the exact extent of the danger, OF the man
ner in which it can be avoided. Since the
resembling Of the British orders of 18th No
vember, your vessels can trade to this river
and to Danish ports with perfect security
but as French custom-house is established
here, we recommend to you not to- expose any
property to their grasp, by direct shipment
tn this place. until the French Emperor has
pronounced his intentions with regard to that
trade. The Danish ports Of Tonniugen and
Hussum offer more security, whence, with
trfling additional expencc, goods will find
the way into the continental markets, with
out any risk whatever. The only question
therefore which remains, is with regard to
the admission of your ships into the Danish
ports this question is decided in the afiir-
native; and if we suppose possibility of
this determination being changed by the in
reference Of the French, it will operate 10
further than directing such ships away from
their ports and if nothing better offers,
they will find sale at Heligoland, a small
Island OF our river, e. ,m whence good deal
Of contraband is carrying ON with the coast.
" All ports, south of the Weser. have been
declared in state Of blockade. Their whole
wants must be drawn from such supplies as
may reach US from your country, and we have
every reason to expect brisk demand, at
high prices, for the cargocs that may reach
us and although an over abundant impor-
tation may depress our present prices, we
re Of opinion they will continue sufficiently
gigli amply to reward those who may ;.dyen-
ure this way aud we feel ourselves justi-
hedin encouraging you to make sor'e 49,