The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1812-04-17
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MINISTERIAL CONFESSIONS. -
!, ORDERS IN COUNCIL.-No.I L.
An important fact is now disclosed to the
American People.--At the time when the
Orders in Couacil were enacted, it was
said, by way Of excuse, that they were
merely retaliatory of the DEGREES of France,
and intended to rotor on the enemy the e.
wills of his own Notwithstanding the
facf, it was commended On the, other side,
that it yielded no justification but the fact
itself was denied and the true spirit of
those Orders was shown to be, not so much
to operate against Francois in favor Of En-
gland, not to create a pressure upon the e.
ncmy, but to benefit their own commerce
| at the erfence of neutral rights; the rights
of the American People.
This fact is now placed beyond a doubt,
by the Parliamentary Debates of the Sd OF
March,, on Mr.. Brougham's notion A
few extracts from which will suffice to
prove this position, as we'll as to point out
the sort of commercial morality which is
preached up and acted on by the Ministers
OF Britain.
Mr.. Bromgham charges the O. in c. with
sacrificing every thing else 1" 70 the swell
ling out the entries of customs
Board of Trade y Says. The Hon. Gen
tleman had NOT been correct in calling
hem system of retaliation /; they were
rather a sy stem of self defence-a plan to
prevent the whole trade of the world from
being snatched from U.S.
Mr.. Stefhens boasts, that under their
" operation, our trade had very much in
creased instead of diminished" was not
prepared to dispense with licenses, and " to
4, ot1,< 80
.. in Che asks, if these "Orders are done
array, and the Americans are allowed to
carry the sugars of Ccba into France, and
the manufacturers of Germany into S Anne
| RIGA, hoSv the commerce of this country
| (EngIand) could stand in comf,ettion with
that of America" 81
| Mr.. Canning declares, that sat the pc.
riod when they issued, he understood then
to be edicts retaliatory on the measures O
the enemy but now they were not So
Is they we're defensive of our own com
merce ;" and Mr.. G. enquiries how the,
could be justified, b" if they were to be con.
sidercd as commercial measures, destined tc
protect and defend the commerce of thi.
country, while they inflicted the severes
| wounds on neutrals?
i Mr.. PerciDai, the plain spoken truth-tell
ing candid Prime Minister, declares indeed
thai they are Tetaliatory, but gives us an en-
Oh the teTm-iIc j
was &C meant in the following way; That a
France had said, by her blockade that W,
should not trade with any hart of the world
we had said that no other fart should trad
with her"-but not, that zve (the English
were to refrain from trading with her, if VIZ
Thought proper. In plain English, they re
taliate nominally upon the French, and sub
stantially upon neutrals-like the bruiser
who LOCKS towards one person, and levels al
his blows at another. We will take sucf
care of our own trade, says the conciiiatorl
minister, as to let no one, but ourselves
trade with the enemy.
Such is the hreccht of rninisters-and wha
is their Practice !? During the last year
there were $4,000 licenses issued to British
merchants for the benefit of British trade
7vhite every .dmerican, that was bound t,
the French ports from those of his own coun
try,rwas seized and condemned by Sir w
Scott-that independent Judge, whom "Olt
Rose" has the inipndence to assert :s g.
fohnlar in America as he is in England" -
Will the American people submit to so IA
grant an aggression so abominable FRAUD
upon whole nations by which, rs Mr.. Can
ming ayers. all the evils fall on the neutra!s
and not on the enemy when in fact, tina
enemy was relieved from the pressure by
trade with G.. Britain, conducted tliroug!
the medium Of icenses ?''--Shali we sub
mt Shall we be chedted as we'll as insult
cd out OF cur rights ut is impossible.