Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1809-06-07

commerce is the removal OF lae uoh-iill-
aDortation act. and the admission OF British
vessels. nothing What has Mr.. Canning
aruesa you in ~retaraa The orders IA coun-
scil-and what were they woroa to fsina e.
Not a straw.
8SEsir. mse are g2oteo haRes aah atscUsslon
of the conduct off,tae present administration,
and it asao lie blended& adcntihed wsth the
sc.sndnca aof the last---Which i very much
nepreeate. because 1 see netting but a rAosr
STRIKING difference between the two--Nne
must take into view the situation OF tae Two
countries. Great Raitain and America at
the tiase the first session OF the s9th Q
prcss commenced, in the beginning ct the
Wganser OF 1906, s~fnatenhapy year OF sch!sEa'
Mere those orders then in force wtsaca RAG.
Caanfag has ~wiitttedrawns No, s1rs What
was thea the danguageof gentlemen IN this
house? That Something gaaust be done---and
6haf unhappy opinion that something must
be done. that some medicine must be taken,
has destroyed many a patient, political as
we'll as indavidual--that something turned
out TO be the old non-iaiportation act. After
that, the disease, instead Of yielding TO the
remedy, only became exasperated by its----
Scratching more mast be done. What was
sflat, sirs The embargo, When that was
laid, was the existence Of the British or
ders in council knowns 1t was not--.ard /
take the opportunity of saying SO here, be-
cause l see 1t has been asserted IN the Brit
ash Parliament, by s gentleman of the FIRST
respectabllity for talents and character, that
they were known here. They were not, as
was in my opinion unequivocally demon
strated On Saturday night the Attn and Sun
day the 18th December iast---although that
debate has been suppressed. say they
were not. The embargo was laid on the
receipt of the documents expressing ihe
determination of the French governmeA \
enforce the Berlin decree and the copyaM
the proclamation of the king of England,
which last was cut out Of a newspaper. 4
again repeat what I said and repeated that
night, ~unknowing whether it will go to the
public or not, that in my opinion the presl-
dent of the United States acted with per-
feet propriety in sending US that newspaper
information !; that though it was unoflclal,
it was proper to have been laid before TINS
house as a guide to its d~ecision7--and It IS
an irrefragabie proof, the president having
sent us that paper, that he did not possess
information official or unofficial on the sub
iect of the orders IN council when he re-
commended and we received the PROPOSE
ton of the embargo. 1t cannot be gotten
over, unless gentlemen are willing to ad-
nit, which /, t0tiS viri6us, deny, that the
president Of the L. S. was deficient IN ms
duty, or that the newspapers OF this place
have earlier and more correct Information
on the subject of our foreign relations than
our government. | say that by a recurrence
to that message of the president OF the u.
States, it will be found that there was no
knowledge III the cabinet of the existence OF
these orders IN council---for althoughye re-
ceived the British proclamation, we did not
receive any information of those orders IN
council, though / presume that something
might have been apprehended without dis
tinctly knowing what it was. The non-lm-
portation act was passed previous to the or
ders in council, and consequently did not
grow out of them and the embargo, tho'
posterior, was recommended and received
by this house before they were known either
to the president or to this house, as the
journal and a~oomparison Of that file OF the
National Intelligencer brought into this
house ON a former occasion will shew. The
non-importation and embargo acts weEe.-
They no longer exist---the one no longer
exists at all; the other no longer exists as
to Great Britain---and the removal OF these
distractions was the alledged and true rea-
son of the revocation of the orders in coun
Gil which were not moving considerations to
nassipr the. n~on-importation act or LAYING