The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1811-09-10

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Joseph WrigA,, lad OF N Y has been on
upard three years
George Reed. of Philadelphia. has been
on board 2 years. 1852.
David Weston, of Feil's Point, Baltimore,
has been on board q years.
List Of Impressed Seamen on board the
Centurion rece ving SHIP, az Halifax
dug, IS, 1911.
Benjamin Johnson, of n Y. pressed by the
sloop Of war ,A,alanta.
Nicholas CASTOR black man, has been on
board the Africa o. years.
Jabez Choate, of Bridgeport. Con super
cargo of Connecticut vessel
Our of the Frying Pan into the Fire.
The New Orleans Packet, which was
Kept in suspense in France under the Ber-
lin and Milan, or some other DEGREES; and
at length released with other American YES
sells, has been taken under the protection of
the British flag and carried into Halifax,
where we presume Sir WIN. SCOTS law is
IN full force and will carry into comrlete
execution his Majesty's gracious Intentions.
Boston Patriot.
External Comnerce.-It cannot & ought
not to be concealed. from our planters and
farmers, intelligent merchants long ago
paving realised it. that the foreign COM
merce ofthe United States must undergo
great and perhaps permanent reduction.
The Neutrality, once so highly respected
which, in period OF free trade, filled the
Golfers of the merchant, and rewarded the
tolls OF the planter and farmer. is row held
by both belligerents to be almost a crime
and is therefore shackled by one to the
utmost OF her power, and by the. other as
bar as her own views and interests permit.
It is in vain to look for a renovation of it in
hts pristine extent for the series of mea-
sprss by which it has been reduced, even
should they cease, will leave effects behind
Them which can never be. eradicated. The
Orders in Council, and DEGREES, and the
Municipal Regulations of the belgerents
with whom our commercial Intercourse was
most desirable, have taught their citizens
TO look to other sources for supplies o.
those articles which we were won't to fur
Sish.
these observations ere meant particu
larry to apply at this moment to the arti
Giles OF Cotton and Tobacco
France has heretofore afforded q mar
kst tor great part of the Cotton and To
Dacco produced in the u States which
1t is well known, scarcely now bring Suffi-
Client in England, our only unrestrlcted ex-
Port vent, to defray the freight and char
ees. But in France, the policy other EN-
Peror has restricted the use of all foreign
growth OF these articles, with view to en-
courage their production in the Provinces
Under his control. The importation of To
bacCo into France is almost entirely prohi-
b:ted, one fifteenth only OF that consumed
being allowed to be of foreign Importation.
Should this restriction be eX ended to Hell
land and the Hansetowns (Which is said
90 be expeCled) there will scarcely remain
market tor any portion OF the Tobacco
produced in the Southern states,
The article 1 Cotton is known to be a
mere drug in England and from the hea-
W duties imposed in France, together with
the risk and insurance against he orders
In Council, 1t can scarcely be shipped with.
put loss TO the continent Even shuuId
THE orders in council be revoke d, Of which
we see no probability, the effect of the re
str'ctions for four years past has been, as
we before observed, TO open other sources
ct supply TO such an extent that they will
ereiong, II they do not already, exclude all
cotton, except the very first qualities, of
American growth. Much cotton is now
grown in Italy and Naples, and imported
from the Levant, not indeed of as good
quality as ours, but good enough to an
swer most OF the manufactures, and TO SUI
percede the necessity OF admitting ours
Our Rtce tools said TO be much less in
demand in France than heretofore. being
superseded by that grown in Piedmont
:. In short, the present state of commerce
Ss such that scarcely any prudent merchant
Will risk an adventure 10 Europe Every
t3n"s, indeed, impressiveIy points to the
policy OF establishing within ourselves mar
K for our own productions and this OBJ
q is rapidly accomplishing without the "a
ge"cy ofthe government. No artificial en-
enlargement, we believe, will be necessary
to secure to our manufactures, and conse.
quently to our internal demand for the raw
materials, as rapid an extension as is per-
LfaPS desirable,--7rNat. Int.
A paragraph is going the rounds of the
opposition prints, which originated in pa
per called The Federal kef1ubhcan, intim a.
ting that Cours of Enquiry was about to be
beldin New York on the conduct OF Com
medore Rogers IN chastising the Little Belt,
IN comhiaEce zVifh a demdrd Of mr. Foster.
Il is tue thaj a COURT of Enquiry has been
called and is nov sitting, out IL is NOT true
that lis convoCation arose from any requisite
on on the part of MIR. Foster. The Court
. called IN consequence of renewed &
very earnest. request to that effect from
Commodore Rodgers, and not from the in
terferente of any foreign minister in the af-
fairs OF cur Navy Department as the Fe-
deral Republican would have its readers be-
Beve. Wat LIT.
PHILADELPHIA, September D.
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