The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1812-02-18

A"' -'iS 'LlS s.lll CESSIS OF the SrOWll
arc concerned, on condition Of making COM
pensation to the seiZing officer.
FROM THE LONDON COURIER.
Thursday Dec. 10.
The City went up with their AC..ress
yesterday, praying for Suspension of the
use ut Grain i'll the Distillerios, and hoping,
that as his Royal Highness must be, &" well
aware OF the causes Of the present scant,
supply OF grain from foreign parts, he will
De graclou&y pleased to employ all the
iaeans III his power to reopen, if it be prac-
ticable, those channels of intercourse with
foreign, and especially neutral nations, which
have hitherto been found SO generally ad-
vantageous.'
Undoubtedly his Royal Highness is aware
OF the causes OF scanty supplies from foreign
parts-he is aware that his Ministers have
no CONTROL over thcm-that the measures
1hey haVc adopted were measures strictly
OF defence, the necessity for which was i'm
posed upon them by the offensive DEGREES of
the enemy, in which DEGREES America, the
only neutral nation, either tacitly acquiesc-
ed or freely and slowly opposed The CT
~ desire, though they do not say so direct
~, that the Orders in Council should be re-
peaied, and the usual channels of foreign in
tcrcoarse re-opened. No persons would be
but there must be two parties to the con-
tract, and the City of London have not in
formed us how we are TO compel one of
them to execute it. They do not assert
(and we are glad that they have not repeat
ed the language of the Americans and her
advocates i'll :his coantry} that Bopaparte
has really repealed one of his DEGREES
against US, or that the Berlin and Milan e.
olcts are not IN as much force as they were
when they were first issued. 10 repeal our
oruerS IN Council, therefore, would not bring
US olt nearer the desired re-establishment
OF commercial intercourse with foreign ma
tons ; & OF this his Roy aI Highness seems per
tectly convinced. He assures the CITY of on
don, "thatnothing shall he wanting on his part
to contribute towards the restoration. when
ever circumstances shall make it practical
Die, or In other words, whenever Bona
parte, by really repeating his DEGREES, shall
prove to us, that he is himself DESTROYS of
such restoration. But he must set the ex
ample OF relaxation because he set the ex-
ample OF severity. The initiative must pro
ceed from nm, and those who argue other
wise, attempting topersuade the people that
our Orders i'll Council are the causes of com
mercial distress, and that their repeal
would remove it, practise scanc!alous de-
fusion upon the Country.
PLYMOUTH, Dec. %.
Arrived here on Su lay, the slooD En-
terprlze, belonging TO this port, from Co.
runna, which place she left on Saturday the
18th inst: she brought several American
passengers from the Unicorn frigate, which
snip took them out of an American schr.
called the Jane, which she detained on her
passage from Baltimore to Bordeaux, and
which arrived here . few days since.
On CntnrIa.y l.. NJ
Charged with the management Of the affairs
OF the u. States at PARIS, and now named
to similar situation at London, set out for.
England. The day before his departure, he
was entertained at dinner at Grighlon's
Motel, by an assemblage of his prIrci
pal fellow citizens at present in Paris, to the
number OF sixty. MIR. Barlow, ambassador
from the Y. States, M De La Fayette, and
several other distinguished personages we're
rivited, and honOred the company with their
presence. The chair was filled by Mr.. De-
VcrcuX, OF Baltimore, who, IN the name
OF the company, took occasion TO address
Mr. kusseI, and " expressed to him the
sentiments OF high Consideration and SIN
cere esteem Tor him, with which those who
composed the assembly were penetrated
Happily, thei regret Tor his departure was
diminished by ne qualification Of finding
nm nominated TO the same important iunc-
tionS at London, which he had so uroperly
inlhiled here, iii as much as their country
would thus continue still to enjoy the benz:
TIT OF his zeal and talents. They could not,
moreover, but he filed with hope and con
hdcnce, Oh seeing their interests in the
hands of all ambassador, all whose acts had
Dccn devoted to the service of their COIN
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