Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1809-06-07
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AS Sic gnysician, an spite of1aisaaselto"
saws In of MoIiere's best comedies, S' C
ssxape 9onst .as-the Gaing wholly cevers-
ed. we are likely . be on good terms
with Engaand, ynauggs the bestexertaons CT
some Of our politicians Txade with Great
Bsataia * uashack1ed-ber ships are aGaea1t-
sea-Srade sish France Is forbidden; and
French ships excluded, as far as / can be
Gone by o1pw Now, IN the name OF oon2-
raon sense, What more could Mr. Canu'ng
himself want, than to produce this very
striking and sudden change IN the relations
Between the SsNo countries For g long
time previous, il was the ships OF England
that were excluded, while those OF her adj
vegsaries were admitted. And we know
thae we could not have touched her IN a
more Jealous point than inner navy Things
are now reversed-we have d~exterously
shufled the non-importation act out OF che
pack. renewed trade with her, admitted her
ships. and excluded those OF France. And
what. / ask this house, has the British MI
mister given us in requital Tor this change
ofour position in relation TO him and his IL
val belligerent The revocation OF the or
ders in eouncil-tias is the mighty boom
For, with respect to his offer in relation to
satisfaction for the attack on the Chesa-
peake, he made that offer to Mr. Monroe
spontaneously, on the spur Of the occasion,
and there IS not q doubt in my mind but
that we had nothing Go Go but receive it at
that time, provided the Instructions OF our
- -zse4;ox-- III Ssn. - aaOsrr 81 q
abut perchance, sir, if he had received it,
eve might have been at this day discussing
hRsmessage, and not the message of ano-
ther President. All that Mr.. Canning has
1given this countrv is a reiteration OF his Of
!. fer to make reparation for the affair OF the
Chesapeake, and his Withdrawal Of Che or
ders in council and to what did they a.
mount? SO @ as you, by your own law
cut of your trade with France, he agrees
TO revoke the orders interfering with it,
Mr.. Canning might as well have withdrawn
blank paper. They had nothing left to ope-
rate upon. The body upon which they
were to operate was destroyed by nj own
act. TO Wit, the trade of France. And sir,
while l compliment the present state of
things. and the conduct on the part of cur
government which has led to it, ] cannot
saw that we have greatly owe reached Mr..
Canning in this bargain, in making an ex-
change of the old Ron-imsovtatlon act
with the admission Of English, and exelU-
sion of French ships and trade, FOR the Or
ders in council. Mr.. Canning obtained as
good a bargain out OF US as he could have
expected to obtain and those gentlemen
who speak of his having heretofore had it
in his power to have done the same, did not
take into calculation the material difference
between the situation In which we now
stand, and the situation In which we before
stood to say nothing at all Of Great-Bri-
tain2s having taken a stand against the en-
barge, having declared that she had nothing
to offer in exchange fer it that we might
keep it as long as we pleased. If she had
acceptedcur offer, as before stated, the
old n-on-importation law would have been
Al operation, her ships of war would have
been excluded, whilst those of France were
admitted. NoCo, the non-importation act
rs not IN force, her ships are permitted to
enter our waters, and those Of France ex-
Cluded. And what has this sarcastic minis
ter of Great Britain given us ia exchange
The. orders IN council, which had complete
lyceasedt to operate by the cutting of the
trade between us and France. Let me state
this argunene in a shape most favorable to
ourselves, and least SC so the British go
vernnent. ( speak as TO argument for,
as toJrlendship between nations, there is no
friendship In trade. We ought TO get the
best bargain out of them that we could. and
1t was the duty of their munster to get the
hest out OF Us. a throw CIT Of view