The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1810-02-01
NO. IS.

mas been said and gentlemen have not an
s"ered 1t, that Great Britain has certairiy
the Power OF laying a discriminating duty
| on all articles imported from this country -.
suppose discriminating duty of ten per
cent. were laid--what would be the opera
tlon Tit! 1t would give decided aclvan-
tage to the Britisl shipping, aud would also
give 'hcm an opportunity to deprive US OF
the harryiug trade
Bu: the gentleman saws there is q rcpuIa
sion IN the bill which viii uounteract that
viz. that you shall not import from any porc
any thing else but the growth or manufac-
ture OF The country where it may lie situated.
do not conceive with the gentleman f.orn
Rhode Island (Mr. Potte0 that this will
produce either a ncn-intercourse or emhar-
SO, TOR do not believe, while vessel sails
on the ocean that Great Britain will be de-
priVel OF our manufactures, or we oftheirs.
Hut we may be made to pay dearer for he's
manufactures, and that will be the only ef-
rect OF Ii. 1t will increase the smuggling of
goods; Tor 1t is impossible for the art of man
To prevent the running of goods into this
Country, where the premiums sufficient to
pay the risk. lfyou put on so or 60 or 100
per cent, premium on the advanced prices
1t VIII but be an additional motiveto evade
your laws; and while they have vessels to
navigate the ocean, and people oply them,
ana whist there are ports and harbers in
humeraoie on the Continent of the u States,
and islands at proper distances. il is limos
slote but this should be the case. In addi-
ton to them too, look at the islands along the
whole extent of the coast of Canada. Hyou
make aa attempt to prevent direct import
atlon, II Will cost more than the whole re-
venue OF thu United States, to keep people
to guard the; avenues to it on the St. Law
renee, Lake Ontario, and the uthcr Lakes.
Il viii be Impossible to prevent smuggling.
ne only way to prevent it, as the great
William Pitt did, is by taking off the duty
and thus reducing the bounty to smugclers.
now, as to the carrying trade, suppose we
make a regulation, that our produce should
no' be carried directly TO England but in A.
mercan bottoms. Are the ports of England
the only ports through which our produce
could get to that countryi
we have heard great dea! of talk about
Amelia island--that is the very place to
which our produce would be carried But
Amelia island is not the only place /; there
IS Madeira, Tenneriffe, Fayal. Cadiz and
other places for dehOts--and our produce
would so in this roundabout way with lou-
BILE freight, which would ultimately come
ont OF the pockets of the planter. What is
now the situation of cotton, tobacco and such
articles They are law in price, because
the non intercourse act prevents them from
going directly to market--and we are now
this state of things. IT, sir, Great Britain
would sit still tamely and not retaliate when
she has mears IN her power, all this wonId
operate very we'll But can gentlemen sup
pose that would be the case! IL i, this that
deprecate. AN against every part of the
bill except the two first sections, and that
which repeals the non-intercourse. Every
gentleman who has spoken is in favor Of the
TWO ilrsc sections, anc have heard no one
AGAINST Ruf | have No i'm
barrass our commerce by these shac King
regulations; and therefore hope this section.
as we'll as several others connected with IL
Will be stricken OFT
Mr. RHEA CT.) said he was opposed tn
striking out the fifth section of the bin. "A.
observed that it did not appear very neces-
sary IN TINS case to speak of the EMBARGO
ana non intercourse laws; the embargo had
passed away, and the non intercourse. if at
any time it had any effect, it 81 not consi-
dered to have any effect intended To bring
INTO view at this time, consideration OF those
things which prevented the effect Of the
embargo or of the non intercourse laws. will
not he conCiliatory subject, and il does NOT
now appear very necessary to contemDlate
what the effects of the embargo or of the
non-iniercourse would have been. if these
several laws had i'll their operation been
supported by The pure principles of patrio.
The non intercourse law hath not had tho
effect intended, and the existing state of
things under that law imperiouslv requires
he adoption of some other measures. An
arranse ment between the United States and
Great ri ain hath been made, and the st;
pu!ations OF that arrangement have. ON inc
part OF the United States, been with good
faith performed Great Britain disavowed
that arrangement, recalled Mr.. ErskiDe. e
sent another minister plcnipot entiary to the
UnIted States and the conduct of that new
minister compelled the Executive govern
ment to refuse to receive any further COM
munica,ions from him. These events nre-
sent additional reasons for the adoption of
measures different from those now existing.
The United States have heretofore desired
TO be and remain neutral the principle of
neutrality as respects Great Britain and
France, Is retainedin this bill, aud the 4th
and 9Th sections of the bill, contain proyis;-
ons rci~tiye to commerce with these two ma
tons and their dependencies. The EonrIh
section confines that commerce to the shine
and vessels OF citizens Of the United States
----~and the fifth section contains provisions
Tor regulating and directing the mode of con-
quoting That commerce. Commerce win
nations, other than those Of Great Britain
and france, and their dependencies. is nor
affected by this bill, except III this, that the
products and manufactures of Great Brit.;n
aud OF France. and Of their respective de-
tendencies, are prohibited to be Unmarried