The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1811-06-14
DISPUTE WITH .l4ERFPC re- ~

assumed a more unfavorable aspect, than
az any period of the dispute. Mr.. Pinkney;
from whose mission the restoration of ami
q between the countr,es was SO confidently
expected. is On the eve Of departure for
Paris; and it is no. affected to be conce al
ed. that dispatches have been transmitted
BY the Action frigate, to the Cape # Good
Hope, and our settlements in .he East In
dies, on the recent measures Of America
vi the Instructions issued by government,
Che public are ignorant--but ,Se necessity
OF a communication on this subject. justifies
an inference, that the confidence OF minis
tiers, IN the final result of the negotiation
with america,is now materially diminished.
That the government of America is SO in
sane as to provoke the hostility OF Great
Britain will not be believed, until there
shall exist actual evidence OF the fact,-
Were tbs United States dependent for DO
litical existence--as once was Holland---ori
external commerce, war is the natural
channel thr ugh which resentment would
be disPlayed--but To America, the suspense
on OF foreign commerce, however preiudi
cial in it, immediate effect mil inTaiGblu
Prove IN the remote consequences of that
measure, highly favorable 10 The i'm !.
SiroUemfnf, and independence of the cou,a
Try.
The Unsuitable thirst for foreign cor,
madiy actuated, under whatever circum-
Stances OF disadvantage-ha tor successive
ages immerged the civilized world in war
and desolatiob II, during period OF COM
merctai distress, the prudent individual
wisely saspends commercial operations
what name shall we term that species Of
insanity, which goads nations TO reduce
ehe alternative to the continuance of com
1nerce--or war That the mercantile &
sh'pping interests OF country of great ex-
port, must suffer in the suspension of COM
merce cannot be demed--bnt what diminu
ton ct suffering can be anticipated. bv the
anfuriated parizans of war from a resort
to that dreadful appeal? The foreign ira.
; Der, and the ship owner of America NAV
th'rst for predatory lucre. by privateering
1.-The policy of the government, and the
vindict've passions of the people, may he
shprpened by the prospect of Canadian
conquest, or the surprise of the sugar is
lands-bnt neither by privateerng. nor by
conquest can the happiness or the interests
OF America be promoted The loss, by a
suspension of commercial intercourse, tho
certain, is within the limits of human DOW.
or to calcnlate--but the calamitous conse
quences OF war who can estimate! For
what assignable motive of human policy
should America assume as a principle of
political action, that foreign commerce is
essential to the happiness and interest of
the people From what physical necessi-
sy do the North Americans visit the re.
Inotest parts of the earth, possessing, as
hoes America, IN her extended region. an
universally of productive power Already
has the SUI pension of commercial inter.
Course given a footing to manufactures,
schich by rehefif,on IF that sanitary mea
Snre, must Sive firm ROOF and establish
a,enf 10 some offhe most useful and neces-
$nry Productions Human labor, and inge
Saity. The growth o. Sleeps wool is RAJ
pidly increasing, and, by the introduction
OF the Merinos from Spain & Portugal-.pers
snittcd with solittle policy with this Country
There is reason for believing ,hat the
quality of Sleeps woofin America, & that
at no emote period will fully equal that
OF Great Britain. Whatever climate that
may prove most congenial with the growth
OF wool. will be found in America OF
Hemp, ha1, Cotton, and wool, the soil is so
a5nndantiy productive, that it were folly to
hope for perpetuation of the manufactp.
ring monopoly of Great Britain. The frs,
essays of mankind are necessarily rude 6,
imperfect, but the ultimate success OF A
merica in the attempt to clothe her people
With the produce of her own soil, and by
her own Industry, will be iajali6iy success.
}uf, it by perseverance in the system of
,non-nterconrse, the industry of an ingeni !.
Gus people possessing materials, is called
forth by the impefiohs necessity of total de.
privation. --ALfreG.
May /.
Gen. Cole blockades Badajos. Olivenca
has surrendered TO cur army Admiral
Berkeley writes, that the telegraph had, ON
the 18th, announced he SURF ender of that
place, and that its garrison had been march,
ed into Portugal pr, soners of war The dis
patches from the Admiral are of he Goth
---Trey add, tlat the fall of Oyenca would
aece e. ate that of Badajos, which was ex
peotsd IN few days.
Zafra is about 20 miles from Seville, and
Meguer, where Ballasteros is, and where
Blake was about to join him with force
from Cadiz, is not quite so far Marshal
Beresfurd was at Zglfra on the I7th, and
Bake was expected at Meguer about the
same time tn will then advance towards
Seville, as TO a central point between them
s;oult was there Mortier was advancing
tbither,l and probably Sebastian, IL he can
he pi eyailed upon o move would Join the M
unless which Sc ems not Improbable, they
give up all thoughts OF defending Seville
and rrtre north eastward. The following
has teen gwen Us as the force Of the con.
Vending armies;-
Marshal Beresford has an allied
British and Portuguese force Of %, 0O(
Ballasttros 10000