The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1811-06-14

Il is likely that Napoleon will take good care'
THAT the breach between US and America shall
he will .heretere NO. e.il cs.sr!;Tr :-::s :.s
wishes Of America in making such regulations
in favor of their commerce shall satisfy them,
provided they adhere to their non intercourse srith
ns. which, nave limited III my last number,
is not at VII inconsistent with the views of their
government, nor in the present altered state OF
things, with the permanent interests OF their
country. The consequence of this will natural
iy be state of things between us & America
Gerry little short Of uar but, do not tnink it
will reach thar point for, it the American gov
ernment were disposed for war which they
not, the people are not so disposed and there
the people pass for something. They have no
sfhing to gain by war,and war brings taxes, which
they will not bear they do not want, md they
will not have, loans and contracts and jobs with
out end-Ihere are no part of them but have
some property there are no set OF men who
nave weight enough to carry measures against
the people in general tor the private emolument
of themselves and families In short, there are.
m America, no set OF men, to whom is a
rich harvest. Therefore, think they will not,
1t they can possibly avoid it, go to war |; and, it
Napoleon insist upon thar, he will, think, miss
ms mark. But, as far as hostility to CONF
,,lerce will go, he will have the Americans with
him and, It'll to be expected, that they will
Tesortto the seizure on debts due to'the British
subjects in order to compensate those Ameri.
cans, who have sustained injuries under our or
Gers IN council There is, see, an account Or
usred 10 be laid before Congress of the amount
ofsuch injuries and, the Americans always
nave about ten or fjfeen millions of the money Of
our merchants 4 manufacturers in their hands,
there will be ample means of Compensation
The justice or injustice of such a measure we
are not now ENDURING into. We are merely con.
occurring what may be the fact and the consc
Iuences, which consequences would, doubtless,
De extremely distressing To many worthy per-
aons IN this country, who have sent to America,
and who can recover nothing from what has a.
risen out OF the seizure of American vessels and
goods. In short, such measure would be,
nthe present state of things, deadly blow to
the manufacturers and merchants here & per
maps, tor that very reason it may be adopted, es-
Peciaiiy 1t insisted upon by the. emperor of
Frsnce-What are we to do thenl Repeal the
orders in Council } That, think we shall not
do for, il it were done, what a commerce.
would be instantly thrown open with France.
Holland, and the Hans-Towns, all now in the
stem'nions OF France shall be told, that our
promise requ'resit. So, indeed, it does and,
therefore, we ought to do it but, if we do not
substitute something else instead OF the orders
an council, we shall be here with our ware-hou.
SEES bursting, while the commerce of the CONT
nent and OF America would be free as air & the
ships OF America would touch in England
and Ireland Tor the mere purpose Of taking in
tdysoes Of manufacturers and their tools.
Lord wellesley talks of tn commerce of the
Cord being put in its former stare, before the
orders in council are repealed. Alas if that
Ss tue sole condition, those orders are like the
Jaws OF the Meaies ana Persians, for never will
he see the commerce OF the world restored to its
tormeF state. I'VE have long had laws and we
have thenyet. r The eonfscation OF foreign FOODS.
Napoleon has now made milar laws and (
che orders arr to exist, 'tll he repeal these laws
and leave ours in force, leave the reader to
guess how long it is likely to ne before our Or
ders will be repealed.-I, has been acknowledge
ed, IN parliament, that Napoleon's restrictions
nave occasloned. great part Of our commercial
distress Indeed, all the world know it and
ihs being known, is it to be supposed, that the
system which has produced it will not be per
severed in 1t would be folly far greater than
that has yet seized hold Of us to suppose any
such thing-I is quite useless to talk about tn {
Iato OF nations, which is, and always has been,
the lazc S1pe1 BY the Srongest, or in one word
ptwer /; sheer bare.fac. d power-Where there
Ispe a'o,ter; where there is no power to decide
oetqrten fhe HIg1nts what nonsense is ii to talk
OF !as' Bonapartc takes the Hans Towns and
We 'ook the Danish fleet. Bonaparte HIS taken
Holland, and we received the Dutch feet from
tie Stakeholder. The question is, what is es-
Pedient to be done and what can be done -
~ We repeal our orders in council & give up The
piper 6ioceade" as the Americans call it, we
shall, for sometime longer, have an intercourse
and commerce with America. though that com
ihcrCc must, from tle causes stated my last,
iiaily diminish
But to balance against this, the commerce of
Holland and the Hans Towns and of France
will all be carried on under the America flag,
and, those articles of prime nee -sity in manu-
factures, the cotton, the indigo, and all other,
raw materials that are not suanted in England
owing TO the commercial system adopted upon
4be continent, will, of course, go to the CONT
nent. where, for want of supply of goods from
England, manufactures will gro W up, and will,
in very short time cut off the commercial con-
nect;on for ewes between England and the con-
tIncnt-It is fine talking, then, about restor-
sng The commerce Of the world to its former
state F" nothing short of the total, and almost in
giant cyerthsow of Napoleon effect this
The Americans say to us : 3" Come the French
have evoked their DEGREES and now revoke
your orders, as you promised us you would
"Ayc,' says lord Wellesley +" so we will, when
ever the repeal Of the French DEGREES shall have
actually taken piaee."-Well, but there is some.
ching more "And the commerce of neural no
tors shall have been restored to the condition
IL (Which IT steod previously tothe Iyoxnaiyafio
- those DEGREES. This is new. THIS was not
mentioned before. Now we know that before
che issuing Of those decrees-American vessels
could take in goods in the Thames and carry then;
10 any port tn the Continent. without the risk of
the vessels or the goods being seized; and we
know extremely well that thar cannot nozr be done
Napoleon having passed DEGREES, like some OF
our revenue avs for confscating all goods ma
nufectured in Encland and all colon, al N, ,d,