The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1812-02-18
FOREIGN.
Further Extracts Jromf the English Prints
LON D..1.

we lately took occasion to observe in ad-
verting TO the irritating disposition shewn
by the American government, that tue Bri-
tish orders iii council were not issued on the
principle OF expressing America, but TO re-
taliate upon Bonapartc for shutting the ports
ot the Continent against the Commerce OF
England, by our governments (through the
influence OF our Naval Power) Closing those
ports against all the world. We therefore arc
glad to lind from the Presidents Message to
Congress, that however he may understand
the Revocation OF the Berlin and Milan De-
crecs, the British Ministers in their nego-
Cations with America have put this bust
ness on Its true and proper footing. They
have argued that those DEGREES are nor re-
pealcd, because British Commerce is not SO
restored to such footing, as that the pro-
auctions and manufactures of this Country,
when owned by subjects of neutral states,
can be carried into ports shut against them
by those DEGREES of France, and they argue
rightly. 10 prove that those DEGREES are
repealed, America says, that her ships are
admitted into French ports, and allowed To
sail from them with freedom, and according
to the accustomed relations Of amity be-
tween the two countries, though they should
have been visited by British ships of war :;
granted, that this is the case, but how does
that alter the relations between France and
England? France closed her own ports, and
al' the ports OF other nations, under her in
iuencc, by those DEGREES, against the inn
portation of the Productions, the Manufac-
lures, and the Colonial Produce of Great
Britain, even when the same were owned by
subjects OF Neutral Nations; and Great
britain retaliated by her Theoretically seal
ing up those ports, by an actual Naval block
AIDE, against all tie world. If, therefore
America can satisfactorily prove, that her
subjects can carry into the ports of France,
or into the ports of other nations under her
influence. the Productions, the Manufac-
lures, and the Colonial Produce of Great
Britain, owned by them, and contraband of
war excepted, without a license from the
French government, then we will acknow-
ledge that the Berlin and Milan DEGREES
are fully and truly revoked, and that our
Orders in Council ought to fall TO the ground.
az And yet are the Federal prints still
hardy enough to deny, that @. b. does claim
-he privilege or Carrying her manufacture.
into French Ports, ere she will permit us to
carry our ozvn productions into the same
ports. Enquirer But that these Orders
shall cease TO have effect, because Bona
parte chuses to modify his DEGREES in favor
OF American Ships and Commerce ONLY, is
in the present state OF the relations between
France and Great Britain, monstrous pro-
position. How often has he declared that
those DEGREES form part of the Code Ma
noleon, and like the laws of the Modes and
Persians, shall never be altered.
December 10.
City add, css-Yesterday the Right Hon.
the Lord Mayor, the Aldermen, Sheriffs,
and Common Council of the city of London,
waited upon his Royal Highness the Prince
Regent, at York house, with the following
address, which was reid by the Recorder ::
10 His Royal Hi.hness the Prince of Wales,
Regent Of the United Kingdom of c. Bri-
tain and Ireland, the dutiful and loyal adj
dress OF the Lord Mayor, Aldermen and
Commons Of the city of London, in Com
mon Council assembled
Nay HhleaSe your Mghness,
We, the Lord Mayor, Aldermen and
Commons of the city of London, in Common
Council assembled, humbly approach your
Royal Highncss on behalf of ourselves and
inc community at large, with an earnest re-
quest, that your Royal Highness will be gra-
clously pleased to adopt such measures as,
with the advice OF the Most Honorable the
Privy Council, shall seem meet, for causing
suspension of the use of grain IN the distii-
ierles OF the United Kingdom such suspcn
SION appearing to us to be one CT the most
effectual means of preventing those serious
eVils which farther rise iii the price OF
to produce and we further humbly ber
leave tn express our confident hope, that,
well aware, as your Royal Highness, must
be, ot the causes of the present scanty
supply OF grain from foreign parts, and of
the great distress that may arise therefrom,
your Royal Highness, 10 whose justice and
humanity We shall not, we trust, appeal in
YAM VIII be 5raclously pleased to employ
al the means III your power by adopting
measures corresponding with your own Roy
al character and disposition to reopen to us,
II 1T he practicable, those channels Of inter-
course with foreign, and especially neutral
nations, which have heretofore been found
Sogencrally advantageous to his Majesty's
subjects, and 50 good a sccurity against those
dreadful calamities which are but too often
tie consequence OF a scarcity OF the ncces-
Saries of life.
10 7ohtch addreSs his RoyGi HghntSs 5gaS
pleased to return tic ./oiioqOiay 8iOSi gro-
ctOuS anST0er:
must always see with great concern the
pressure arising from deficiency in the
harvest
have directed such steps 70 be taken as
may tend to give the earliest effect to any
measures which may DC adopted by Paula
nent, Tor the purpose OF relieving the neon
venences or evils likely to result from such
deficiency and Whenever circumstances
shall make 1t practicable, nothing shall be-
wanting on my part TO Contribute towards
the es,oration OF commercial Intercourse
between tins country and other nations to the