The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1812-04-17
Vol. S--------No. ITO.


Octobe", 1871. In 1910, the exports Of
'rltish produce had been 81 millions In
ioli not = but about Is millions SO that
there was Il tail of ii millions and if the
otner quarter were to be included, with,s
ran III proportion, instead of II it would be
OF 10 ihiiiions OF British produce alone,
IN ofhciai value /; for in real Value il was 81
millions. This falling off did not look so
niuCh IKE discrepancy with the Gazette. Is
with the dlstresses of the country, and tho
petitions OF the manufacturers, as the cheer
ing Oh these Gentlemen might have led one
TO imagine Bur then, what did they say to
e inc year 1910! They said, .''True it Is that
mere IS a tall compared with that year but
theh there is no great fall compared with the
year 1905" Here again they were contya-
ulcteu by the documents; for there was only
a difference OF 2 millions between r,es4
years The fall compared with 1910. was
IL inlilinhs compared with 1909 g mi!li4
ons. linen they went back to 1908; and
mere he must remark, that if there was a
iaihhg Oft compared with that year. il would
prove railing OFT compared with the worst
year which had existed for a long fine -
which ne imagined would be Efficiently OBJ
Vious, when 1t was 'reCollectcd, that in the
year 1903, there had been falling off of rs
millions, compared with 1907. How. tben,
did the case stand upon the Documents In
iooo the export was 19 millions in 1917
10 millions, as he had already stated This
might, therefore, be considered as almost an,
unprecedented depression "a. ,5 =
before he had done with the years 1909
~ ne wished to shew, that these Custom
nouse returns were not altogether to be de-:
pended upon, when they spoke a ianp1,ape
opposite to the facts which he had mention.
ed'-the known distress. of the Manufacture,
ing Glasses, their petitions, and the Increase.
OF the number OF laupers In IeOS, there
hao Deen exported to >. America eight mills
ons beyond the exports Of 1907, to The same.
qearter; and the exports to the Continents,
or Europein 1909, had been IL millions he
'yond Those OF 1907. Such were the state.
.ments OH the face of the documents. Now
looking now unharmonious these statements
WERE with the facts to which hehad advert.
Gu, IL was not, perhaps very surprising, that
there Should be persons SO sceptically given.
as not to be. willing to pin their faith entlrely,
upon Mr' trvlng's books who, seeing the.
severe ana nnquestionabie distress which
prevailed IN the country, could not be per-
suaded but there must be. some foupdatio
toi inc complaints of the people; though it,
WiS"t appear inconsistent with Mr. Irvinp'S
hgures and who, therefore, might be apt
TO suspect, that this eX portation had been ef-.
fected to places where there were no mari
hets open to receive it that the large ex
Portatons to South America, had found NO
outlet III that country-and that the expors.
tation to the North of Europe had not found
corresponding sale. Ii such were their
.o'J1..oies, >i.cy. would naturally expert
Of goods FROM the s ,i,qiIEpe rs iii s6r2
ceeuing years. and they were in fact, so
borne out for i'll 1910, the imports were Ave
miillons, IRON South America, more tnan IN
Low ana from isnrope, sixteen miihonsI
exclusive OF West tnsiia produce. The ex.,
portation had been excessive,-no sufficient
Vent was found,- glut was the conseouerces.
and all tins sweiled the, iinportatiops Of
the nes1 year, In 1910, the experts were
o. millions, the imports "a millions and as
1T had been confessed III t The bank cooid
no. have supplied twelve millions in gold to
baiance tue account, 1t appeared that the
true cause OF the large exports in 1909 had
been what he stated. Ihe papers abounded
with statements of the same description.
WHICH must give very erroneous idea Of
the rea situation OF the country, uuless eZaA
mined and compared with facts which did
not appear OH the face OF them. He would
dismiss them now. however, with this onser-
Walton: that they were not at all to be de-
pended upon without parole examination,-
without an examination of Mr. Irving, and
the oihcers OF the custom house, as TO the,
facts connected with these entries and other
inforuaLion, without which these documents.
so much relied on, might, instead of the
orac!es OF truth, become the repositories Of
error. For instance, some goods, such as
"cSAiSho, NoltOuS, CSC' pau uuly on eXDOr-
tation; and a man, merely for the sake OF
raising his credit on Change, might enter fos.
expectation property to the amount of
lOO,0OOi. when. in reality lie did not export
TO the value Of 10000. This had, in fact,
been done, as lac was ready to prove if they,
agreed to his motion for a committee. (Hear.
hear
Now, having endeavoured to reconcile.
these papers with the petitions and distress
OF ctr manufacturers, depression to which
he had been led by the cheering of the gem
tiemcr opposite, he would resume his arg,i-
ment where he LETT off,--at the relaxation of
the principle of the Orders i'll Council in
1902. 1T this relaxation proved the greatest,
want OF confidence in their system, on the
part Of the ministers themselves; il it, in
fact, gave up entirely the ground on which
it was originally pretended these Orders
were founded; if it proved that all prospect
OF making BoDaparte relax his system by
ouch means was utterly vain; lie was now
prepared to shew, that every thing that hap
pened since chat relaxation, pointed out the
total futihty, with regard TO their professed
object, of all that remained Of this measure.
The liccnce system, as it had been called.
%as now the method Of expectation; nd
900 licences, granted in 1907 before the
Orders In Council, had, in 1910, been multi
piled tenfold. No less than 18, 600 licences
had been issited in that year. After stating