Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1809-06-16

roiiS iiSt VI iiiS majesty tluSS, tIla'
we shall be placed in the same state
of amity in relation to France In
which we are in relation to Grea,
Britain in which we were five years
ago, and from which we have, for
reasons which gentlemen no doub,
are prepared to give, so wantonly
strayed After all our friskings a. 1
curvetings, we have come back to
the same point. All my fear is, sir,
lest the cure be not complete--lest
some political wizard should disco
yer that, inasmuchas in 1905, prior
to the existence Of the orders i'm
council, we stood in need of the
.non-importation act, and as in 1907
8, prior to knowledge of the or
,ders in council, we stood in need OF
an embargo, for the same reasons
we now stand in need of some 9TH
er substitute-not the same, sir ;
for | undertake to say that we never
shall have another embargo without
limitation of time--it was indeed a
horse medicine, but it has worked
a complete cure.---Realiy, sir, if we
could have been brought to believe
lin 1866, that we could do rs
well without non importation az
we can now; in 1913, that we
could have dispensed with the en-
barge as well as we can now-and
more especially, if we could have
been brought to accept the treaty
negotiated by our commissioners al
London, which treaty, to say the
worst of it, that its enemies ever
pretended to alledge, was only def
Gent as containing no express stipu-
lation on the subject of impress
ment, and redundant as containing
this note by way of rider, the OBJ
Iject of which ! have espl,ilsedto I'M
house, and which has been accom-.
plished already, by undoing the
non intercourse, withdrawing the
prohibition Of our waters to British
SHIPS, and repeating the old non i'm
p ortation act-if we had consented
at this time to accept the treaty, we
should not only have saved our.
selves the price of the embargo
how many hundred millions our Sc.
cretary of the treasury himself
great financier and able calcula
tor as he is, cannot tell / do no
believe he could come within al
hundred-but have avoided Other
disagreeable consequences.
Yes, sir; as to the note attached
to that treaty, the object of that ha.
been attained. The state of the two
countries is materially changed fos
the better, as it regards England
and for the worse as it respect.
France. We should then have hac
the colonial trade placed in mos
eligible situation-our East Indi;
trade placed on better basis thar
our commissioners were instructed
to have it placed upon, viz. on til,
footing of the most favored nation
For, if Great Britain be, as we hav,
heard, at war with Sweden, what ar,
the terms on which the most favor
ed nation is admitted No term
at all. The terms obtained there
fore were unquestionably better thar
the footing Of the most favored ma
ton. We should also have had al
(excellent stipulation as to the sea
line +; but above all a practical ar
rangement Of the great question o
impressment. 1t now remains t.
be seen whether we shall get bette
terms, in relation to impressmen
than that informal understanding
Ii now remains to be seen whethe
we shall obtain better terms from
the Portland and Canning admins
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