The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1809-02-10

S''DuhSttNi Wfuh oi trtn1ng Would
be almost an equally disgraceful ~relinuuish-
ment O. our rights neutrality-suspicious..
But what imparts a new gloom TO this me-
lancholy picture, is this-our trade would
almost altogether be carried on under Bri-
tish license and capital. The trade to G..
tr'tain would be open to us-but she con.
snnles but = smtn proportion of our produc-
tons. Most of these would be a mere drug.
II they were confined to her markets. She
consumes, for instance, only Id. 600 hogs
heads OF our tcbacco-tIe remaining Il, 600
Srt sent 70 the continent. If then the mar
k@ts OF the continent are not oDen to us.
eur with c.. Britain will be of
comparatively inconsidcyablc N..lue. RoYy
SuiH aifs 6ranch Mrn 5e car7fed eng
osuppositions here present themselves
either Bonaparte wili let our vessels into the
continental ports o. he will not.
Ii he does, what then? There is an
Agent from Ncw-Ycrk in this City, who is
si'd 10 have laid out 10000 in ToDacco
Hoy are his merchants to get their Tobacco
into the Continent
lfthey charter American vessels, and send
them directly to the Continent, they are
goal mir to the Hritish-If they aye se..s
10 q. IL. FIRST, and thence to the Continent,
their touching at Engtanl makes Them good
frizc on the Continent. A Jew NAV hass
- htPS utAS bNlltS'A iICClCGS-<lC.v Is Iris
alternative TO DC avoided! III mis- wav-and
let the Congress of the us. take it serious
ly ir,o their consideration.
Iii believed that the licenses. under the
late ordersi in council have been issued in &.
britain b. the board ii trade, to vessels in r.
Ports. i.ut may not these licenses be issucd
tn British merchants AT a Certain .sti
tariff OF duties, perhaps tor a certain gross
summary net th-Se papers be sent over to
their factors III the y. STATES TO be placed on
board OF our vessels, ciarteredfor a IL p to tho
continent, and frcighted with American pro i,
duce? The use OF these licenses is obvious.-
They are charm ageimst the &. navy. They
are more than asuO ,tItIte for the e1hcnce IF
arslnS. Taese licences may HerhaD, BE
made to run tor a certain length OF time.+
And eventually perhaps The British gOvera-
mcnt may have their agents in tais colntry to
sell them for the benefit OF The Excheuner.
And then what g%lori0us DAYS, wien PUNE
"a Bond and ,he British consuls shall be In
dued with The power of Acealg!ng American
commerce.
1t ism this way, sir, according to my OBI
Mon. that most oi our trade 5OiH be earned
on. The Brush capitalists viii become oar
Pa incipai exporters. The honest American
merchant Will bejostled oat OF his b~irthright;
/ wuiie the dishonest one viii be anxiulIs 10
1909 N"O - .H4i ptOhS(Sioi III DiS
majesty. Most OF the profits OF our trade
viii be cast into the lap of q. B-And what
makes the thing worse. is this, that While
zUe have bee. undergoing many privations
Tor the last II months, the British dierchant
comes In. srccuiatcS on most Of our produce
locked up by the embargp. and banqucts uu-
on the dlstresScs Which we have eXDerienced.
1t would be well If the removal If the en-
barge "fortlwith" would enable our uer-
chants, as Mr.. Randolph proposes, to fore
stall the merchants of Canada-but the mis-
fortune is, 1T would in great measure merolv
enable the d. merchants having factors IL \.
York, &c. to anticipate those, who had agents
in Montreal.
Sir, it is by this nefarious process, that the
corruption OF the British government wouid
shoot more widely among us-steai in upon
the most secret recesscs of our tradc-aud
threaten to 0ngulph the virtue OF our rner-
chants in its destructive vortex.-f7ere arm
ing, therefore, would be am5mission to Bri-
tlSh encroachnent and to mercantile mpo-
sition.
Even this runs. on the supposition, that
Bonaparte VIII open the ports of the CONT
nent to us. But is his certain Mn he
permit our trade on such terms! What is
already the spirit ofthc 3ayonnc decree ? All
that We Know Of it, is contained, in the fol-
lowing extract from Mr.. Madison's recent
Report:
Eatract Of q ritter from Gen. A,mstrong
10 The Secretary u S.a5r, daIed Paris,
23d .Hhrii, 1908:
"Orders were gwen on the 18th instant.
and received yesterday at the imperial Gus
tom house here, "toseize all American vcs-
sells now in the ports OF France, or milicn
may come into them hereafter"
"Postscript-April 25th, 1905. have
this moment received Che f3liowing explana-
ton Of The above mentioned order, VIZ. That
1t directs the seizure of vessels coming into
ports Of France aSicr is own date, because
10 vessel Of ihc United States can now ua-
vigate the seas. without infracting a law of
the said states, and thus furnishing = pre-
, sumption that thev Go 80 on British account.
or in British Connection.
NoTE -Che above extracts contain the
only authentic information, received at the
department Of state, relative to the Peyonne
decree.
May not this decree provide for such =
case, as have already contcmplated-mav
it not only extend 10 the continuance or ne
embargo--but 80 its repeal, if it be unaccooI-
panied by actual resistance 10 Great Britain
In this case, What an immense reduction IN
the profits Of our trade !!
Let us then dismiss these .enporising ex.
ped.ents. Give Letters Of Marque and Re