The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1812-08-11
[Vol. 9--No. 81.

| oIuers themselves. T!ut 1t seemed 10 have
been the object of the other side To puzzle
'ne witnesses, by making them shew that
| they did not know the difference between
tne orders in council of different periods
he hrst and greatest difficulty produced
ny me orders in council was the American
| ioh-ihtefconrsc act; and he would contend
mat the repeal of the one must follow the
repeal OF the other. The right hon. gentle
man mad SAID the Witnesses were poor and
ihdiSent manufacturers, whom some tesign-
ing men had told their tlistresses were ow-
ing to the orders in council. Now. they had
examined eighty master mauufac turers.
each OF them employing from four to five
huhored hands these were not likely to be
very inuigent manutacturers.--rhese per-
IONS stated the uniform dis,resscs to which,
tnelr manufacturers are reduced few
Oh 1neta oeinS able now to employ a
Dove half their hands I; and those they did
employ, working at reduced wages. The
Importance OF the American market to MS
might be seen from the evidence for the
birmingham witnesses stated, that the GUAM.
tlty OF their manufactures which was sent to-
1t, was one third that at Wolverhampton.
one half; Sheffield, one half thepot,eries
one ealt Leeds, one third /; Rochdale, one
half Bury, one half; Manchester. one
third, and Leicester one third.-Thev ws.s
all OF opinion also, the stoppage of the Ame-
rlcah' market injured the home, trade by
throwing those who were formerly emploved
io' foreign markets into competition in the
home market.--Most of those witnesses had
some 1880 40, so, nay, even 100, 600 pounds
worth OF stock lying by Them. They had
discharged half their hands, and they told
the house that they only waited for the ter
mlnation OF the discussion, whether they
were to give full amploymens to all their
hands, CT discharge. the remainder fer want
OF work. He was convinced, that if the
government persisted in those orders, they
would very much neglect their duty if them
ana NOT take strong measures of precaution
inthe interim. For there are parts where
the masters had, by the greatest indulgence,
been able to keep their workmen in some
thing like order but even that would be no
! longer possible, it the house should reject
TINS notion If any one followed up the e.
violence, he would lind, that the parts of the
Country which were most distressed, were
also the most disturbed and the cause OF
tins distress would be the loss of the Ame-
rican market, From the evidence, it would
be seen that the west of England was not
much distressed. and there no disturbance
prevailed. In the metropolis too there was
no disturbance, because the bulk of the in
haoltants were. not OF the manufacturing
class. SO many of them being cut of en-
ploynent, and the rest having but halt work,
accsunted for the idle time spent in DISTURB
bances.-oDe would think, having dists
tressed population, obliged to be kept down
by an armed force, a population too, con-
siderinG the government ss the cause of
tnelr distresses, that all this would be mat
ter OF SERIOUS dclibcration to the government
IN its decision on this question. The Ameri.
can trade had every thing to recommend
1t 1t was safe trade. Of good payments,
ana was always increasing. Besides, it
furnished lis aoundantly with the articles of
w tod fhep A
est In the American trade lay among our
manufacturers and with respect to the
merchants III London, few or none in the pe-
tltion were American merchants; nor ire
deed was the sense of the merchants at-
tempted to be taken on the petition. 1t was
SAID that the trade to be injured by the re-
peal OF the orders III council was the trade
to Canada. Now. the whole of that AZ
mounted 10 00,000 while that to Ameris
Ca was 13 or 4 millions Decides, how lit,lc
OF this 9Doo00l. would be lost by the re-
peal OF these orders; in comparison OF that
Which wonid be gained by the trade to A. .
merica. The great point was, that if we
repealed our orders, France would send OUT
her manufactures, ard receive raw materi-
ais besides she would receive Gotten. coffee
and sugar froIa Cuba. Now he did not
think it liberal to our allies to make them
suffer as well as ourselves. It was a poll
ICY which we ought to be ashamed Of shew-
| ing.
But they ought first to have shewn that
Cuba does not now carry OF that very trade,
receiving linen and silk from France, and
the ports under her, ard giving sugar in
return. This he PROVED from the evidences
OF MIR. Manyatt, that in 1910 three Ameri-
cans came 10 Cuba with silk and linen iron,
lriest and from Tonmngen. With respect
to the French manufactures, there was no
doubt but that, il the trade were generally
open, they would, IN some things underseil
us Our policy was, therefore, a greediness
| OF having all TO ourselves. If any other
country had any advantage, we came with
en- act Of force 20 destroy that advantage
( But tho great object of a commercial coun-
/ try ought 20 be, to throw all things open.
and IL that was done, we must succeed be-
yond all others, particularly France, from
our commercial habits. from cur haviir such
capitals, and, above all, from the advanta-
ges OF free country. The invariable an
swer OF all the Witnesses was, that thew
were not afraid of the rivalry of any coun-
try in the Yorld, if they Fad only free
trade. This was point on which they an
spoke distinctly, and therefore lie Thought
there was no occasion 70 dread the combe-
tition OF little French manulactory. IL
was in the Brazils, from the habits Of the
lpeoplc. and not in America. hat we should
meet that competition; but, surely it would
not be teo much to ask tie court of Portugal